So if the factory alarm on my car didn't prevent a car thief from stealing my car, are you saying we should fine the owner and/or the manufacturer, instead of just finding/prosecuting the car thief?
Of course, the manufucaturer calls it a theft detterent system, and does not make any claims to actually prevent a theft from taking place. Just as I'm sure, (at least I hope), the OS vendors make no such claims as, "Our OS will never get hacked", etc...
Now if the car alarm caught fire, and killed the owner thats a different story. Likewise, if the OS cause the processor to burst into flames, igniting the gasoline that KrappyKewl uses in its liquid cooler unit, causing an explosion sending shrapnel of the depleted uranium used in the casing everywhere, I'm sure you'll see some government action really quick.
A gang of thugs has been plaguing the city as of late, breaking into houses and stealing millions of dollars worth of property. The city responded by levying fines to all the property owners who failed to properly lock down their homes, which allowed for the gang of thugs to easily wreak havoc in subdivision after subdivision.
I've still had problems with the same JVM. I used Sun's JVM for Linux and for Windows. Same version even. On windows, the component traps mouse events. Under linux, the form did. It's these little quirks that irritated me.
Other than that, I really haven't had that many problems I guess...
I still found the C# code to run smoother/faster then the Java port of the same code tho. I also like the network interfaces of the.net libraries better than Java's. Probably because I like how the raw APIs are exposed in.net.
The only real thing that irritated me about Java, (tho I think they fixed it in 1.4), is that when you try to grab the current IP address from the hostname of the local machine, Java cached the entries, such that if your ip address changed, you would never know about it, because it would return the old one.
I also thought the XML libraries provided by.net were simpler to use. At least the SAX parser was. I had to write my own wrappers for the JAXP SAX parser, just to make the APIs a little more friendly/intuitive.
But either way, I like both languages equally well. Perhaps I lean a little more to C#, but only because I prefer the delegate method of handling events, vs the whole inner-class thing. But its just personal choice I suppose.
It would be nice if.net supported a concept similar to jars though, as its nice to be able to load resources into the jar file, and access them from inside your code.
I work in a lab. A while back, we did a useability(sp?) study on user interfaces.
We were trying to figure out why text messaging on phones is such a hit in Japan, and yet everyone over here thinks its rather clumsy.
The study basically pointed out, that to say something like, "I love you", requires you to "type" a lot of characters to convey that message. Using Kanji, one or two characters will suffice. I should've known, (being married to a chinese person), but after I thought about it, it makes a lot of sense. I have flashbacks of watching old chinese movies, and seeing the characters say a few characters, and the english subtitles would be a paragraph long.... And conversly watching english movies, and the guy rambles on-and-on, and the subtitles contains a handful of chinese characters...
They turned off the part that added error. But the third stream is still encrypted. It is this third stream that allows the reciever to calculate and compensate for the distortion caused by the earth's atmosphere...
On the Washington side of the border, you'll see Oregonians sitting in their cars waiting for an attendent to pump their gas, realizeing their are none. Sometimes, they honk their horns too:p
Likewise, on the oregon side of the OR/CA border, you'll see californians pumping their own gas, and a gas attendend will come screaming from the office yelling, "You can't do that!"
I don't know where they hire some of their attendents tho. One time, I pulled into a gas station,and the attendent was smoking a cigarette:o
This paticular radio station isn't owned by ClearChannel. It's probably one of the few over here (Portland) that isn't. I have called them up before and been placed on the air, and they do local publicity stunts all the time, like free gas and such.
And I know they really have IM, because they advertise their handles all the time.
I do understand that a lot of radio is pre-recorded entertainment, but that is why I switched stations... The radio station I listen to now, constantly rips on the other channels and how the so called hosts usually are clueless about Portland. Usually by pointing out mispronounciations of local rivers/landmarks with indian names. Hell the guys on this morning show pretty much all used to work for the other station, so they used to constantly rip on why it sucks to work for ClearChannel....
Something with a very similar effect could be implemented with low tech. A radio station could have a telephone line to accept requests manually, and then such forward looking free thinking radio stations could actually play what people are asking for.
Over here, the morning show on the radio is always logged into Yahoo IM, MSN IM, and AOL IM. They actually accept requests this way as well. Though I'm never in front of a computer when listening to the morning show, but they always talk about it...
perhaps he just wanted her to come over to his place so he could have her download/serve music, so when the RIAA tries to sue him, he can say it was a 12 year old girl...
I suppose. I work with various people/groups that are all over the world. So I'm pretty much fscked no matter what time I try to set meetings. I go in to work at 10 and leave at 7, mostly because of traffic issues.
Even if our work-schedules were aligned it wouldn't matter. Cause I can never find a conference room on short-order, nor can I find a time-slot when everyone is free. To make up for this, I often end up with phone-teleconferences at the oddest hours, ie 11 - midnight, etc etc. Nothing like trying to have a conference call with people from Japan, Europe, and USA all at the same time....
implies: (according to www.m-w.com), necessary consequence.
If A could be true but B is not true, than A is not implying B in that case, which would invalidate the statement A implies B.
Proper usage of the word 'implies' would be something like: A square implies a rectangle.
A necessary consequence of a square is that it is a rectangle. But this doesn't mean that all rectangles must be squares. But this also doesn't mean that not all squares are rectangles.
So A implies B is neither: "B only if A" "A is a sufficient condition for B"
When I was in Seattle on business, the hotel had free wireless internet. I noticed the apartment across the street was REALLY close to the hotel I was at. If I lived there, you can bet your @ss I would run a server 24/7:)
I turned down a job offer there, because a single occupancy apartment at the time as $1400 a month. If I wanted a fridge it was an extra $40 a month. If I wanted a parking permit, an extra $17 a month. And it wasn't exactly a "nice" apartment either.
$900 for a studio doesn't sound too bad, (I guess). In downtown LA, my friend's studio was like $1600 a month. And it didn't even have a kitchen, it had one of those "kitchenettes". He moved out when he "lost" his snake... It crawled out of the aquariumand and disappeared somewhere:-o
We have a bunch of these in our labs. We've had these for almost a year now... Notice its a few inches smaller as well... The PIII and PII versions are much smaller as well, as we have those in our labs too. Cool little buggers...
This is not like private property or a parking stall, where you shouldn't be in the first place. This is more like a business.
think of it this way:
Its 2pm on a monday afternoon. you walk down the street, and walk passed a 7-11. All the lights are on, and the door is unlocked. So you walk in. If you were closed, you shouldve said so, and locked the door.
The reason its more like this, is because there are public APs. How do you differentiate public APs from private APs? If you put a web server on the internet, how do you know you aren't allowed to use it, unless you secure it?
That's like me buying out the BedMart at the local mall, to use as my personal relaxation place, and getting pissed and arresting everyone that comes in, because its my "residence", not a store anymore. How were the "patrons" supposed to know this wasn't a store anymore?
especially considering XP connects to wide open networks by default.
Besides, given that most people don't bother to change the SSID, I could've tried to connect to my own AP, but dammit, your AP was physically closer, so the signal strength was greater, and connected to it instead:)
Also, I've heard many times, when asking people about their AP so I can connect to it, they tell me something like, "its the wide open one"... Gee, thats real specific. I can see 5 of them:p
This is not like you leaving your door unlocked, and me coming in.
In order to get an IP address you have to ask for it. The DHCP server said "ok". In order to fetch documents, you have to ask for them. If the samba server and/or web server obliges, then its your problem not mine. If your DHCP server gave me an IP address, thats your problem not mine. If your DNS server resolved these host names for me, thats your problem not mine. And if you don't lock down your AP, how am I supposed to know you didn't want me to be able to access your network? How do I differentiate your AP from the public hotspot AP across the hall?
This is more like I came to your door, and rang the door bell. Then you open the door. I ask if you have anything to eat, and you invite me into your backyard for a bbq. The next day you call the cops, and have me arrested because I ate your food.
Similarly, its like if I bumped into you on the street, and asked if you could spare any money, and you give me a ben franklin. Then proceed down to the police dept and have me arrested for robbing you. You gave me the money... You didn't have to.
Well, I'm sorry sir. We're going to have to allow Bob Squatter to build a condo on your back 40 because by not verifying that your land was secured, you gave up all right to it.
Actually. If your neighbor builds a fence to seperate your property from his, but decides to build it on YOUR property, you have seven years to notify your neighbor, otherwise, that part of your property is now legally his. I know, because it happened to my parents.
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According to a research at an English University, people who insist on being paid under the table do so to avoid paying taxes.
So if the factory alarm on my car didn't prevent a car thief from stealing my car, are you saying we should fine the owner and/or the manufacturer, instead of just finding/prosecuting the car thief?
Of course, the manufucaturer calls it a theft detterent system, and does not make any claims to actually prevent a theft from taking place. Just as I'm sure, (at least I hope), the OS vendors make no such claims as, "Our OS will never get hacked", etc...
Now if the car alarm caught fire, and killed the owner thats a different story. Likewise, if the OS cause the processor to burst into flames, igniting the gasoline that KrappyKewl uses in its liquid cooler unit, causing an explosion sending shrapnel of the depleted uranium used in the casing everywhere, I'm sure you'll see some government action really quick.
A gang of thugs has been plaguing the city as of late, breaking into houses and stealing millions of dollars worth of property. The city responded by levying fines to all the property owners who failed to properly lock down their homes, which allowed for the gang of thugs to easily wreak havoc in subdivision after subdivision.
I've still had problems with the same JVM. I used Sun's JVM for Linux and for Windows. Same version even. On windows, the component traps mouse events. Under linux, the form did. It's these little quirks that irritated me.
.net libraries better than Java's. Probably because I like how the raw APIs are exposed in .net.
.net were simpler to use. At least the SAX parser was. I had to write my own wrappers for the JAXP SAX parser, just to make the APIs a little more friendly/intuitive.
.net supported a concept similar to jars though, as its nice to be able to load resources into the jar file, and access them from inside your code.
Other than that, I really haven't had that many problems I guess...
I still found the C# code to run smoother/faster then the Java port of the same code tho. I also like the network interfaces of the
The only real thing that irritated me about Java, (tho I think they fixed it in 1.4), is that when you try to grab the current IP address from the hostname of the local machine, Java cached the entries, such that if your ip address changed, you would never know about it, because it would return the old one.
I also thought the XML libraries provided by
But either way, I like both languages equally well. Perhaps I lean a little more to C#, but only because I prefer the delegate method of handling events, vs the whole inner-class thing. But its just personal choice I suppose.
It would be nice if
I work in a lab. A while back, we did a useability(sp?) study on user interfaces.
We were trying to figure out why text messaging on phones is such a hit in Japan, and yet everyone over here thinks its rather clumsy.
The study basically pointed out, that to say something like, "I love you", requires you to "type" a lot of characters to convey that message. Using Kanji, one or two characters will suffice. I should've known, (being married to a chinese person), but after I thought about it, it makes a lot of sense. I have flashbacks of watching old chinese movies, and seeing the characters say a few characters, and the english subtitles would be a paragraph long.... And conversly watching english movies, and the guy rambles on-and-on, and the subtitles contains a handful of chinese characters...
I hope the spammers don't use this information to trick the anti-spam filters!!!!!
IIRC, when I was living in CA, I remember reading that sharing a lane with a motorcycle was legal...
They turned off the part that added error. But the third stream is still encrypted. It is this third stream that allows the reciever to calculate and compensate for the distortion caused by the earth's atmosphere...
On the Washington side of the border, you'll see Oregonians sitting in their cars waiting for an attendent to pump their gas, realizeing their are none. Sometimes, they honk their horns too :p
,and the attendent was smoking a cigarette :o
Likewise, on the oregon side of the OR/CA border, you'll see californians pumping their own gas, and a gas attendend will come screaming from the office yelling, "You can't do that!"
I don't know where they hire some of their attendents tho. One time, I pulled into a gas station
Not to mention it can fit between traffic in a jam,
:)
Too bad this is illegal in Oregon
This paticular radio station isn't owned by ClearChannel. It's probably one of the few over here (Portland) that isn't. I have called them up before and been placed on the air, and they do local publicity stunts all the time, like free gas and such.
And I know they really have IM, because they advertise their handles all the time.
I do understand that a lot of radio is pre-recorded entertainment, but that is why I switched stations... The radio station I listen to now, constantly rips on the other channels and how the so called hosts usually are clueless about Portland. Usually by pointing out mispronounciations of local rivers/landmarks with indian names. Hell the guys on this morning show pretty much all used to work for the other station, so they used to constantly rip on why it sucks to work for ClearChannel....
Something with a very similar effect could be implemented with low tech. A radio station could have a telephone line to accept requests manually, and then such forward looking free thinking radio stations could actually play what people are asking for.
Over here, the morning show on the radio is always logged into Yahoo IM, MSN IM, and AOL IM. They actually accept requests this way as well. Though I'm never in front of a computer when listening to the morning show, but they always talk about it...
perhaps he just wanted her to come over to his place so he could have her download/serve music, so when the RIAA tries to sue him, he can say it was a 12 year old girl...
I suppose. I work with various people/groups that are all over the world. So I'm pretty much fscked no matter what time I try to set meetings. I go in to work at 10 and leave at 7, mostly because of traffic issues.
:p
Even if our work-schedules were aligned it wouldn't matter. Cause I can never find a conference room on short-order, nor can I find a time-slot when everyone is free. To make up for this, I often end up with phone-teleconferences at the oddest hours, ie 11 - midnight, etc etc. Nothing like trying to have a conference call with people from Japan, Europe, and USA all at the same time....
This is why e-mail is so great
Its late, and I wasn't thinking straight. I reread your post, and you are correct. Time for me to go to bed :p
Perhaps the other poster meant "B if A", instead of "B only if A"
And before anybody chimes in that they are the same:
If that were the case there would be no such thing as IFF (If and only If)
implies: (according to www.m-w.com), necessary consequence.
If A could be true but B is not true, than A is not implying B in that case, which would invalidate the statement A implies B.
Proper usage of the word 'implies' would be something like: A square implies a rectangle.
A necessary consequence of a square is that it is a rectangle. But this doesn't mean that all rectangles must be squares. But this also doesn't mean that not all squares are rectangles.
So A implies B is neither:
"B only if A"
"A is a sufficient condition for B"
When I was in Seattle on business, the hotel had free wireless internet. I noticed the apartment across the street was REALLY close to the hotel I was at. If I lived there, you can bet your @ss I would run a server 24/7 :)
;)
Maybe its time to get a cantenna
But maybe this cramped room has a nice closet, like Bender's!
I turned down a job offer there, because a single occupancy apartment at the time as $1400 a month. If I wanted a fridge it was an extra $40 a month. If I wanted a parking permit, an extra $17 a month. And it wasn't exactly a "nice" apartment either.
:-o
$900 for a studio doesn't sound too bad, (I guess). In downtown LA, my friend's studio was like $1600 a month. And it didn't even have a kitchen, it had one of those "kitchenettes". He moved out when he "lost" his snake... It crawled out of the aquariumand and disappeared somewhere
We have a bunch of these in our labs. We've had these for almost a year now... Notice its a few inches smaller as well... The PIII and PII versions are much smaller as well, as we have those in our labs too. Cool little buggers...
This is not like private property or a parking stall, where you shouldn't be in the first place. This is more like a business.
think of it this way:
Its 2pm on a monday afternoon. you walk down the street, and walk passed a 7-11. All the lights are on, and the door is unlocked. So you walk in. If you were closed, you shouldve said so, and locked the door.
The reason its more like this, is because there are public APs. How do you differentiate public APs from private APs? If you put a web server on the internet, how do you know you aren't allowed to use it, unless you secure it?
That's like me buying out the BedMart at the local mall, to use as my personal relaxation place, and getting pissed and arresting everyone that comes in, because its my "residence", not a store anymore. How were the "patrons" supposed to know this wasn't a store anymore?
especially considering XP connects to wide open networks by default.
:)
:p
Besides, given that most people don't bother to change the SSID, I could've tried to connect to my own AP, but dammit, your AP was physically closer, so the signal strength was greater, and connected to it instead
Also, I've heard many times, when asking people about their AP so I can connect to it, they tell me something like, "its the wide open one"... Gee, thats real specific. I can see 5 of them
This is not like you leaving your door unlocked, and me coming in.
In order to get an IP address you have to ask for it. The DHCP server said "ok". In order to fetch documents, you have to ask for them. If the samba server and/or web server obliges, then its your problem not mine. If your DHCP server gave me an IP address, thats your problem not mine. If your DNS server resolved these host names for me, thats your problem not mine. And if you don't lock down your AP, how am I supposed to know you didn't want me to be able to access your network? How do I differentiate your AP from the public hotspot AP across the hall?
This is more like I came to your door, and rang the door bell. Then you open the door. I ask if you have anything to eat, and you invite me into your backyard for a bbq. The next day you call the cops, and have me arrested because I ate your food.
Similarly, its like if I bumped into you on the street, and asked if you could spare any money, and you give me a ben franklin. Then proceed down to the police dept and have me arrested for robbing you. You gave me the money... You didn't have to.
Well, I'm sorry sir. We're going to have to allow Bob Squatter to build a condo on your back 40 because by not verifying that your land was secured, you gave up all right to it.
Actually. If your neighbor builds a fence to seperate your property from his, but decides to build it on YOUR property, you have seven years to notify your neighbor, otherwise, that part of your property is now legally his. I know, because it happened to my parents.