" However, you should know that you are in the minority; the vast majority of Christians have no problems reconciling their faith with obvious scientific fact."
I have a problem with people who think you can believe in evolution and Christanity. From the Christian view Adam and Eve are very key. They were created and sinned, later Jesus came to die for that and othere sins. If evolution occurred then there was no Adam and Eve and therefore Jesus didn't need to do anything. You just can't have it both ways. People need to understand what and why they believe things and face up to any contradictions.
I typically listen to music while coding and lyrics find there way into my source code. I used to put weird ramblings in my source just to freak out the other developers./* Its getting dark on the outer rim,insanity is startint to set in.... */. I've stopped doing that but many programmers put the personal touch on their code via comments.
The article use NASDAQ as an example of having to process terabytes of data on a daily basis and the data mining software can help filter things out. The software may be useful but NASDAQ does not process terabytes per day of incoming data. I work in the market data industry and we take exchange feeds from around the world including NASDAQ and we don't process close to that much. OPRA (options) have the most data per day and that is only in the order of tens of GB range.
"It prohibits anyone from disclosing trade secrets for economic benefit, and carries penalties in this case up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Although investigators acknowledge that Serebryany apparently didn't profit from the disclosures, the law bars giving away secrets for anyone else's economic benefit. "
Anybody remember thexder? That game was impossible.
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I agree. And the answers
1) The story started to take me somewhere but in the end it didn't.
2) I actually haven't finished that last half of the last episode (I don't care to either). I spent all that time wathcing all the episodes but I still didn't care what happened to anyone in the story.
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I was kinda thinking the same thing about the girl narrator, like it was actually an alien, perhaps it turns out to be the baby that concieved in the shed (although older cause I don't think alien babies can talk till they are older, they might beable to crawl up walls though).
Rueters is being sued for posting reports gathered from a website. Sure the website path was open, but the documents were not yet released publically. Since nothing on the site linked to this document the suing company claims Rueters hacked their site, even if it was just guessing a URL.
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First of all there is no way C is going away. Second C++ has the same problems, many times the C++ string library is not used because it is very inefficient, (very easy to see if you profile your code). It basically comes down to responsibility on the programmer's part. Many don't think about bounds checking, many trust themselves not to overrun their buffers or they think the extra checking is a performance hit not worth it. All of which are very bad practices. So even *if* C went away (which it won't) the problem is bad practices by the programmer, trying to change that isn't going to be easy.
Levitaion is very different than weight loss. You can float objects with magnets, but that does not mean that the object expierences weight loss. Also note that weight loss is different than mass loss. Weight = mass x gravity. Since the mass didn't change in the supposed experiment that would leave gravity to be modded, which is what is being claimed.
The labor dept. does not actively verify this. I worked for a company that cut its entire staff down to a handful of people. Of the people left the majoriy were not US citizens. This is illeagal, but it happened (is still). Just because the rule exists does not mean it is enforced.
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One of my all time favorites. Just print too many backspaces and cause the window's machine to croak. Always a crowd pleaser. And the funny thing is it still works today in NT/XP...
Good details here
The CD will not eject using normal methods and that the intentional corruption of the disc's session data could unpredictably affect the drive's firmware.
The article then says.
Firmware is a combination of hardware and software instructions that are permanently embedded in the hardware's controlling chips, such as with a computer's CD-ROM, and altering it could cause permanent damage.)
Right, cause you can really cause permanent damage to permanently embedded instructions . I think the real permanent damage would occur if you actually listened to Celine Dion's music.
"The WarCraft III beta works a little differently then previous Blizzard games. The CD-Key for WarCraft III performs exactly the same as previous games, but with one addition. Having validated the CD-Key, the Battle.net server will return an encrypted response to the client (challenge-response). Without this response the client will not function. Warforge surmounted this by creating a program that changed a single byte in one of WarCraft III's Dynamic Linked Libraries (DLL) so that the client no longer expected a response. "
First of all kudos to whoever figured that one byte out.
Second, isn't this the client then who is breaking the DMCA not bnetd?
I understand your point and his... its the framework not the langauge. The problem is that the J2EE and.NET framework do not solve all of the programming problems out there, especially in the low level system and the embedded world.
Also the power of different languages is in their implementation methods particularly procedular versus object model designs. Again one or even two frame works cannot solve all of the problems out there. If the author's piece is in the view of web services the I agree you will most likely be using J2EE or.NET.
The author obviously is not in the right industry if he thinks developers only will program in VB.NET, C# or Java. I suppose I shouldn't show up to work on monday for the job I got programming C, because once the word gets out I'm *sure* that C will only be found in a museum.
Lastnight on the local news a story was done on online prostitutes. The husband of one of the prostitutes blamed the internet for his wife becoming an internet escort girl instead of blaming his wife. Sounds like the same argument. I couldn't believe that guy. I understand the EFF is obviously doing for a different reason but it still seems like a red herring.
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" However, you should know that you are in the minority; the vast majority of Christians have no problems reconciling their faith with obvious scientific fact."
I have a problem with people who think you can believe in evolution and Christanity. From the Christian view Adam and Eve are very key. They were created and sinned, later Jesus came to die for that and othere sins. If evolution occurred then there was no Adam and Eve and therefore Jesus didn't need to do anything. You just can't have it both ways. People need to understand what and why they believe things and face up to any contradictions.
I typically listen to music while coding and lyrics find there way into my source code. I used to put weird ramblings in my source just to freak out the other developers. /* Its getting dark on the outer rim,insanity is startint to set in .... */. I've stopped doing that but many programmers put the personal touch on their code via comments.
The article use NASDAQ as an example of having to process terabytes of data on a daily basis and the data mining software can help filter things out. The software may be useful but NASDAQ does not process terabytes per day of incoming data. I work in the market data industry and we take exchange feeds from around the world including NASDAQ and we don't process close to that much. OPRA (options) have the most data per day and that is only in the order of tens of GB range.
"It prohibits anyone from disclosing trade secrets for economic benefit, and carries penalties in this case up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Although investigators acknowledge that Serebryany apparently didn't profit from the disclosures, the law bars giving away secrets for anyone else's economic benefit. "
Will the charges hold up under this act?
They were going to do that. They were going to pay $15k for a book, but decided to drop it. Which doesn't make any sense.
Anybody remember thexder? That game was impossible.
I agree. And the answers
1) The story started to take me somewhere but in the end it didn't.
2) I actually haven't finished that last half of the last episode (I don't care to either). I spent all that time wathcing all the episodes but I still didn't care what happened to anyone in the story.
They can pickup chicks too.
I was kinda thinking the same thing about the girl narrator, like it was actually an alien, perhaps it turns out to be the baby that concieved in the shed (although older cause I don't think alien babies can talk till they are older, they might beable to crawl up walls though).
After I read that it was a genitial disease and then the statement, a priest and a rabbi.... Isn't this dying to be made into a joke.
Rueters is being sued for posting reports gathered from a website. Sure the website path was open, but the documents were not yet released publically. Since nothing on the site linked to this document the suing company claims Rueters hacked their site, even if it was just guessing a URL.
First of all there is no way C is going away. Second C++ has the same problems, many times the C++ string library is not used because it is very inefficient, (very easy to see if you profile your code). It basically comes down to responsibility on the programmer's part. Many don't think about bounds checking, many trust themselves not to overrun their buffers or they think the extra checking is a performance hit not worth it. All of which are very bad practices. So even *if* C went away (which it won't) the problem is bad practices by the programmer, trying to change that isn't going to be easy.
2048 cpus in a 4U space, thats pretty cool.
Levitaion is very different than weight loss. You can float objects with magnets, but that does not mean that the object expierences weight loss. Also note that weight loss is different than mass loss. Weight = mass x gravity. Since the mass didn't change in the supposed experiment that would leave gravity to be modded, which is what is being claimed.
The labor dept. does not actively verify this. I worked for a company that cut its entire staff down to a handful of people. Of the people left the majoriy were not US citizens. This is illeagal, but it happened (is still). Just because the rule exists does not mean it is enforced.
One of my all time favorites. Just print too many backspaces and cause the window's machine to croak. Always a crowd pleaser. And the funny thing is it still works today in NT/XP ...
Good details here
The CD will not eject using normal methods and that the intentional corruption of the disc's session data could unpredictably affect the drive's firmware.
The article then says.
Firmware is a combination of hardware and software instructions that are permanently embedded in the hardware's controlling chips, such as with a computer's CD-ROM, and altering it could cause permanent damage.)
Right, cause you can really cause permanent damage to permanently embedded instructions . I think the real permanent damage would occur if you actually listened to Celine Dion's music.
I used to feel the same way, then I moved out of Wisconsin.
ZDNet is just trolling again. /. needs to stop posting these trolls/banner traffic for ZDNet. Move along.
"The WarCraft III beta works a little differently then previous Blizzard games. The CD-Key for WarCraft III performs exactly the same as previous games, but with one addition. Having validated the CD-Key, the Battle.net server will return an encrypted response to the client (challenge-response). Without this response the client will not function. Warforge surmounted this by creating a program that changed a single byte in one of WarCraft III's Dynamic Linked Libraries (DLL) so that the client no longer expected a response. "
First of all kudos to whoever figured that one byte out.
Second, isn't this the client then who is breaking the DMCA not bnetd?
I understand your point and his ... its the framework not the langauge. The problem is that the J2EE and .NET framework do not solve all of the programming problems out there, especially in the low level system and the embedded world.
.NET.
Also the power of different languages is in their implementation methods particularly procedular versus object model designs. Again one or even two frame works cannot solve all of the problems out there. If the author's piece is in the view of web services the I agree you will most likely be using J2EE or
Exactly right. Why do you think broadband prices haven't dropped and everybody doesn't have a T1 in there house.
The author obviously is not in the right industry if he thinks developers only will program in VB.NET, C# or Java. I suppose I shouldn't show up to work on monday for the job I got programming C, because once the word gets out I'm *sure* that C will only be found in a museum.
Lastnight on the local news a story was done on online prostitutes. The husband of one of the prostitutes blamed the internet for his wife becoming an internet escort girl instead of blaming his wife. Sounds like the same argument. I couldn't believe that guy. I understand the EFF is obviously doing for a different reason but it still seems like a red herring.
Um, ever heard of napster, bnet.org, theunderdog.org ....