iPlanet Calendar Server, formerly Netscape Calendar Server, and SunOne Calendar Server before being renamed Sun Java System Calendar Server, uses LDAP for its authentication. (to be specific, the Netscape/iPlanet/SunOne/SunJava System Directory Server, or whatever they're calling it this week)
The calendar server uses LDAP not just for authentication, but also to store user's preferences. (as do sun's mail server and other products)
They'll think that you've been padding your estimates, and will start setting unrealistic time constraints (as the management in the original poster's question has been doing).
When you're dealing with management like what is described, if you manage to finish it in 3 days, you don't want to be seen as a miracle worker, or they'll start dumping you on multiple time-critical projects, each with timelines that are unrealistic if you were dedicated to them full time.
Do the good work, do a good job, but if you're dealing with idiot management, as was described, you'll want to make sure that you write some extra unit tests, and review the documentation a half dozen times for spelling errors, so you don't come in too far under your estimate.
Oh... and I'm speaking from experience. I had the same sort of situation as the original poster, and I asked for clarification as to whom I was supposed to be reporting to -- the answer I got back was 'any manager with an emergency'. I asked who defines what's an emergency, and asked if it was only (insert list of 38 managers in our division), or if it applied to the whole company.
If you're in that type of situation, get the hell out as soon as you can -- it's not worth the stress. Sure, it's nice to sit back and relax while you're collecting unemployment for a 'use of sarcasm' incident (it's a long story), but it's easier if you never let it get that far.
There was still one in one of the 'Play Places' in Rockville, MD, about a year or two ago.
They had the 4-screen thing, and they also had a smaller 2 screen one with games for the smaller tots.
(I don't normally stop at McDonalds, but I was with a friend, and we had his ~4yr old son with us, and he really wanted a 'play place'... but as I don't typically go to them, I have no idea if it's still there, or for how long it was there)
But you forget -- in some regions, traffic is a major issue. (eg, the Washington, DC metro area) -- if legislators can get get traffic issues cleaned up in an area that has major problems, it could mean an easy re-election for them.
If they're actually thinking about the general population, and not themselves, they'd be looking at the other benefits that something like this could provide --
Cheaper ways to estimate traffic growth, and determine where to allocate money for capacity improvements.
Faster detection of accidents, for improved emergency response.
The ability for the population to better plan their routes to work, resulting in a happer, more productive workforce.
The ability for trucking companies to better plan their routes, possibly making it more likely for them to route through the state (resulting in sales from diesel, food, lodging, etc)
Yes, there are potentially less-than-ethical reasons for wanting a system like this, but there are pleny of reasons why something like this is a benefit for the general population -- now, is the money for this project worthwhile? For all we know, it's being done because one of the politicians is getting kickbacks, and they're spending too much, as compared to other, more worthwhile projects for their state (in terms of Benefit/Cost Ratio or some other measure used to determine project viability)
(I didn't read the orginal article, so some of this may have already been covered. Of course, there wasn't a link to it, so everyone has an excuse this time. This might also show how much work some of the editors do to look at articles being linked to... as opposed to looking for articles that are controversial and/or don't hold up, to result in 'animated discussion')
Some of the problems with cash (in the US, at least)
Most banks have horrible hours, so many people use check-cashing services, or direct deposit + ATMs
ATMs only give out $20 bills -- which makes it a pain in the ass to carry any significant amount of money on you
ATMs have limits on how much you can withdraw at a time (~US$200-US$500, depending on the ATM).
Most ATMs try to hit you with a 'surcharge' every time you withdraw money, if it's not your local bank (and then your local bank hits you with a fee, too)... so you might have to pay US$4 extra to withdraw US$20
The largest US denomination is currently US$100 (but of course, to get it, you have to go to a bank when they're open) Which, with inflation, makes it bulky to carry more than about US$3000 on you. (useful for when you go to geekfest or similar)
When you buy stuff in cash, if you have to return the item, vendors are required to give you cash... which is a problem when they put larger bills in drop safes, so you get back $350 in US$5 and US$10 bills.
Many places that do small transactions won't take larger denomination bills (US$50 and US$100) (luckily, the 'U-Scan' lines in grocery stores will, which is where I go to break them)
People look at you like you're crazy when they find out you carry cash on you.
It makes it so you have to lie when you want to stiff the panhandler with the phrase, 'I don't carry cash'
Paying cash at a gas station means you have to go inside -- most US gas stations have credit card readers right at the pumps. (some take debit, too)
I'm sure there are probably other reasons, but those are the ones that I can think of (mostly because they're ones I've run into, because I prefer cash over credit.... but I still prefer credit over checks.
And I agree -- the term right up there with 'blog' as terms that need to go. (the only good thing about the term 'blog' is that it's close to 'bog', which seems to suggest the contents of them)
It's good to know the name of the head of the company.
It keeps you from replying to a message that says:
Memo from (someone)
(yes, that was the entire ASCII body of the email, although with a real name in it), with an MS Word document attached)
So, when you get one of those messages, you don't reply back with a snotty comment about how you don't know who the sender is, you don't know who the person who the memo's from, and you don't read MS Word attachments.
Of course, I quickly found out that the sender was the executive assistant to the president of the company, and the memo was from the president.
Typically, when you're dealing with peering, it's the amount of traffic that you're pushing on the other guy, because people on your network want to connect to places on their network. (or use your network to get to another network that you peer with)
So, when a mom & pop ISP connects to one of the big guys, there's very little of interest on their network as an endpoint, and they probably don't advertise better routes than the tier1 already has, so they have to pay for the priviledge to be connected.
Now, in the case of Cogent, if I remember my ISPs correctly (I've not worked for an ISP for 6 years now), they were PSI, which merged with a few other networks -- the problem was that the networks weren't well connected, and so they were accused of what was known as 'hot potato routing' -- trying to get the traffic off their network as quickly as possible, even if it wasn't the shortest number of hops to the destination.
Some ISPs will also pad the routes that they advertise, so that they basically tell other people 'we'll take our own traffic, but we don't want to route other people's traffic through us'. (or it may be that their internal networks are so badly interconnected, that it really a whole lot of hops -- I mean, what good does it do to advertize that you connect to the moon, if you're going to route everyone by way of Jupiter?)
I'm guessing that Level 1 was montioring the traffic flowing between themselves and Cogent, and noticed that something seemed significantly amiss, suggesting that Cogent was taking advantage of their services.
I don't know the specifics of this case, however. so this is all conjecture, based on 6+ year old knowledge of ISPs. (and well, I can't find what happened to Boardwatch, so I can't pull up nice maps of the big players)
Is this just another Internet Bubble? I'd have to say that I feel these services are a bit overvalued. Are blogs really a trend or just a fad?
There are plenty of good magazines out there, and there are plenty of crap. Likewise, there are plenty of good television shows, and plenty of crap. It stands to reason that there are bound to be a few sites with time ordered entries and comments about them (I refuse to use that 'b---' word), and with the low barrier to entry, there is going to be a whole lot of crap.
So, based on what I've defined that annoying word to be, let's restate your question:
Is this just another Internet Bubble? I'd have to say that I feel that Slashdot is a bit overvalued. Is Slashdot really a trend or just a fad?
Most identifiers are just for reference, but may not be intended for the type of indexing that you're expecting.
Consider the following situation:
A new worm is sighted
CERT's members agree it's a new worm, and assign it an identifier 'x'
Researchers deconstruct the worm, and determine that 'x' is actually derived from 'p'.
We now have two options -- change the identifier from 'x' to 'p.1' or leave some sort of note attached to 'x' that it's a derived from 'p'. (well, there's two other options -- don't try to identify them, or don't assign identifiers until all research is done, which defeats the whole purpose of building the system in the first place)
The list they're making is more like a glossary -- a flat list of items, as opposed to something which might have a concept of heirarchy. (but that's not to say that some other values in the descriptions can't be used to generate a heirarchy).
If you'd like an even worse example of selecting identifiers -- imagine if you found a worm 'y' that used the same code for vulnerability exploits as 'c', but carried the same payload as 'g'... is it 'c.1' or 'g.1' or 'c.g.1'?
Sequential identifiers may seem like a bad choice, but they're so much easier to maintain in the long run, and handle the heirarchy through some other field.
Yes. It's an offset of podcasting, commonly referred to as 'videocasting' or 'video podcast'.
iTunes already supports it. (well, it's just using RSS to link to video files, not audio files, which was all podcasting really was)
There are rumors that here may be updates to the iPod to allow it to play video, although I'd suspect at a major hit to battery life. (and well, more cycles on the batteries -> faster battery failure, which wouldn't be a good thing)
Nonetheless, he insists that "people tend to overestimate the individual inventor and underestimate the system that makes their inventions real."
So, if the system is important, they either have to bring the system to the telecommuter, or bring the employee to the system.
I find that a lot of my more create solutions aren't something that I come up with in a vaccuum, but come from talking to other people. (and it may just be that something that I say to them, explaining the nature of the problem, triggers me to think of a better solution, while othertimes, they ask questions to make me think of the problem differently)
Yes, it sucks to relocate, but I could see the need to want people to become part of the system.
The problem is -- if you have someone who does bad things with your copyright (for those without an imagination -- imagine GI Joe bootlegs being distributed w/ redubbed language to make it suggest that Americans victimize some racial groups), and you don't try to have them shut down (or to pay you a licensing fee), then you weaken your case for any issues that might come up in the future.
So, even though one instance might not seem worth worrying about, the next one might. If you get the person to pay a token licensing fee, then you might be covered for protecting your IP. (I'm not a lawyer, so I could be wrong on that last point)
Items like "research, development, demonstration, and other related activities in ground propulsion technologies as are provided for in sections 4 through 10 of the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976" don't necessarily have anything to do with "giant cans that explode out of one end in order to throw chunks of metal into orbit".
For those who read the article, the discussion was undergraduate engineering courses. It is significantly different from teaching middle school or high school, to which your comments might apply.
1. Pay teachers very well so they are in say the top 5% of all wage earners. This will attract the highly skilled and educated back into teaching.
Universities don't work like that. Money == Grants. Money != Students. There is little incentive for tenured professors to teach students, as it takes time away from they can write grant proposals, to get multimillion dollar grants. Think about it -- if you have someone doing consulting, they might make $200/hr. Is a college going to pay anywhere near that scale, and not charge rates where students are in debt for the rest of their life?
2. Send teachers to school during school holidays to further their own knowledge. Pay them for this. This ensures teachers are constantly updating their knowledge instead of driving taxi's during the school breaks.
College teachers sure as hell aren't driving taxis. They're writing grant proposals if they're tenured, or they're doing their other job (which may be that $200+/hr consulting, if they're an adjunct).
3. Don't let your local community decide what should be taught in schools. Curriculum should be decided by a national panel made up of leaders in each field of study. Education should be a national issue, not one decided based on local beliefs no matter how "intelligent" those beliefs are.
They don't decide. ABET certifies engineering curriculum. (I'd personally like to see a way for students to file grievences to ABET, but I doubt that will ever happen). Colleges in general are certified by large regions. In the case of where I live, it's handled by Middle States
4. Provide options for traineeships in traditional trades (e.g. electrical, plumbing etc) for the non-academic students. This will help remove disruptive elements from classes allowing those who want to study or have the aptitude to study to do so in peace. (not that you don't need to study to become a plumber and such, but I'm sure you all know what I mean)
Schools don't get to set their curriculum however they want... they have to get approved by Middle States or the like. There are some universities that focus on internships in engineering. Drexel and U of L come to mind.
5. Properly fund the schools and get rid of the Coke/Chip machines. I know the sugary drinks and food taste great, but they don't help you sit still and concentrate. (A new slogan perhaps?:)
Universities have money. At least enough for the amount of waste I've seen.
6. Ban the teaching of religion on any and all school grounds. AND ENFORCE IT!!! Religion has it's place in society, but not in schools!
Again -- that should only apply to public middle school/high schools. It has nothing to do with universities, where you can elect which classes you're taking. (even state schools might have a Jewish Studies program or the like. And let's not forget schools like CUA or BYU.
Oh -- and for the record, I'm currently in graduate school at a public university, and I got my undergrad from a private university (or more accurately, a real estate company who was obligated to teach classes), where I also worked for 7 years, and saw an amazing amount of graft. (and before someone claims this is libel, the fed agreed)
I tried the whole XHTML for a while, but it's not worth the headache to try to support it as a developer until you have better support from the browsers.
I'm not sure if this is a troll, or just someone without a background in material science. From what I remember from classes in engineering years ago, I think your assumptions are quite off base.
'Strength' is a measure of how much energy something can absorb. It is a factor of its environment, such as temperature (room temperature steel can absorb more energy before breaking than cold steel (brittle failure) or hot steel (elastic failure)). It does not, however, have anything to do with the ability to withstand extreme temperatures.
And I have no idea why you would think it wouldn't be travelling quickly. If the item were under tensile strain when it broke, you could have some serious problems (think : bull whip), with or without heat generated by air resistance.
I'm currently living in a 1400 sq. ft 3 bedroom house, and in many ways, and it in many ways, it seems smaller than the 500 sq ft studio where I lived in college (less closet space, if nothing else)
Part of it is thinking about things differently -- need books? Hit the library... then give them back when you're done. DVDs? Netflix is your friend.
What I can't understand is the 6x6 table -- 6x4, I can see... go shopping at IKEA or SCAN, as europeans are much more used to living in small spaces than americans (and by that, I mean those in North America, to include Canadians) If you need the large table for entertaining, try looking into a table that pulls out (I hate leaves, as you have to store them somewhere... although some store inside the table these days)
Remember to use vertical space -- I have a about 24 linear feet of shelving above my couch (3 8' 1x6's, and a few shelf brackets), which would probably hold 500+ dvds in cases... of course, you could transfer them to books, and it'd take a whole lot less space) You can also place a shelf about 18-24" from the ceiling in your bedroom, and place out of season clothes, or other infrequently used things there. A cabinet above the toilet can hold towels and toiletries.
Of course, I've also made furniture out of a reel-to-reel tape drive, a Wang mini computer, and an IBM terminal server, but those weren't particularly space saving, even if they were technology.
You probably want to read the first three chapters, then, which cover standardizing your formats and naming conventions, so that things are easier to follow.
And it's possible to obfuscate crap in any language -- the problem is that there are just so many bad programmers who have written Perl. I'm guessing there are equally bad Visual Basic programmers to Matt Wright, but they're just not as infamous, as they didn't decide to share out their inintended malware for people to learn from.
Some 'lock out after (x) attempt' implementations are rather stupid -- they only do it, if it's done in one session. (most of the ones I've dealt with in applications... OSes tend to be better, but even then it's a toss up)
When I'm trying to remember a password I've forgotten, as some of the systems I deal with lock after three failures, I'll try two passwords, disconnect, reconnect, try two more, etc.
Now, not all systems will allow this, but some of the bad implementations will let this go on for ever. (hopefully there's someone monitoring the logs, or you won't even notice if they're doing it slowly enough)
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iPlanet Calendar Server, formerly Netscape Calendar Server, and SunOne Calendar Server before being renamed Sun Java System Calendar Server, uses LDAP for its authentication. (to be specific, the Netscape/iPlanet/SunOne/SunJava System Directory Server, or whatever they're calling it this week)
The calendar server uses LDAP not just for authentication, but also to store user's preferences. (as do sun's mail server and other products)
They'll think that you've been padding your estimates, and will start setting unrealistic time constraints (as the management in the original poster's question has been doing).
... and I'm speaking from experience. I had the same sort of situation as the original poster, and I asked for clarification as to whom I was supposed to be reporting to -- the answer I got back was 'any manager with an emergency'. I asked who defines what's an emergency, and asked if it was only (insert list of 38 managers in our division), or if it applied to the whole company.
When you're dealing with management like what is described, if you manage to finish it in 3 days, you don't want to be seen as a miracle worker, or they'll start dumping you on multiple time-critical projects, each with timelines that are unrealistic if you were dedicated to them full time.
Do the good work, do a good job, but if you're dealing with idiot management, as was described, you'll want to make sure that you write some extra unit tests, and review the documentation a half dozen times for spelling errors, so you don't come in too far under your estimate.
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If you're in that type of situation, get the hell out as soon as you can -- it's not worth the stress. Sure, it's nice to sit back and relax while you're collecting unemployment for a 'use of sarcasm' incident (it's a long story), but it's easier if you never let it get that far.
The ITU submitted a proposal this year that leap seconds be abandoned.
And if it's tracking UTC, or as the article mentioned, local solar time, then it doesn't have to deal with stupid things like daylight savings time.
There was still one in one of the 'Play Places' in Rockville, MD, about a year or two ago.
... but as I don't typically go to them, I have no idea if it's still there, or for how long it was there)
They had the 4-screen thing, and they also had a smaller 2 screen one with games for the smaller tots.
(I don't normally stop at McDonalds, but I was with a friend, and we had his ~4yr old son with us, and he really wanted a 'play place'
It's spelled e-c-m-a-s-c-r-i-p-t, or even better, d-h-t-m-l.
And I agree-- 'ajax' is a marketing term. Even those guy who coined the phrase admitted it (see the Q/A at the bottom).
When an editor decides to rewrite the copy, it helps to make sure the meat is still there -- in this case, the actual link to the article.
So that other people don't have to waste time like I did, here are a few assorted articles on the topic (some are marked as specifically from the AP):
But you forget -- in some regions, traffic is a major issue. (eg, the Washington, DC metro area) -- if legislators can get get traffic issues cleaned up in an area that has major problems, it could mean an easy re-election for them.
If they're actually thinking about the general population, and not themselves, they'd be looking at the other benefits that something like this could provide --
Yes, there are potentially less-than-ethical reasons for wanting a system like this, but there are pleny of reasons why something like this is a benefit for the general population -- now, is the money for this project worthwhile? For all we know, it's being done because one of the politicians is getting kickbacks, and they're spending too much, as compared to other, more worthwhile projects for their state (in terms of Benefit/Cost Ratio or some other measure used to determine project viability)
(I didn't read the orginal article, so some of this may have already been covered. Of course, there wasn't a link to it, so everyone has an excuse this time. This might also show how much work some of the editors do to look at articles being linked to ... as opposed to looking for articles that are controversial and/or don't hold up, to result in 'animated discussion')
- Most banks have horrible hours, so many people use check-cashing services, or direct deposit + ATMs
- ATMs only give out $20 bills -- which makes it a pain in the ass to carry any significant amount of money on you
- ATMs have limits on how much you can withdraw at a time (~US$200-US$500, depending on the ATM).
- Most ATMs try to hit you with a 'surcharge' every time you withdraw money, if it's not your local bank (and then your local bank hits you with a fee, too)... so you might have to pay US$4 extra to withdraw US$20
- The largest US denomination is currently US$100 (but of course, to get it, you have to go to a bank when they're open) Which, with inflation, makes it bulky to carry more than about US$3000 on you. (useful for when you go to geekfest or similar)
- When you buy stuff in cash, if you have to return the item, vendors are required to give you cash
... which is a problem when they put larger bills in drop safes, so you get back $350 in US$5 and US$10 bills. - Many places that do small transactions won't take larger denomination bills (US$50 and US$100) (luckily, the 'U-Scan' lines in grocery stores will, which is where I go to break them)
- People look at you like you're crazy when they find out you carry cash on you.
- It makes it so you have to lie when you want to stiff the panhandler with the phrase, 'I don't carry cash'
- Paying cash at a gas station means you have to go inside -- most US gas stations have credit card readers right at the pumps. (some take debit, too)
I'm sure there are probably other reasons, but those are the ones that I can think of (mostly because they're ones I've run into, because I prefer cash over credit.If you want to be more specific --Adaptive Path, specifically by Jesse James Garrett:
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http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/a
(it's not worth linking to, and giving them hits for it, though)
And I agree -- the term right up there with 'blog' as terms that need to go. (the only good thing about the term 'blog' is that it's close to 'bog', which seems to suggest the contents of them)
It keeps you from replying to a message that says:(yes, that was the entire ASCII body of the email, although with a real name in it), with an MS Word document attached)
So, when you get one of those messages, you don't reply back with a snotty comment about how you don't know who the sender is, you don't know who the person who the memo's from, and you don't read MS Word attachments.
Of course, I quickly found out that the sender was the executive assistant to the president of the company, and the memo was from the president.
oops.
Typically, when you're dealing with peering, it's the amount of traffic that you're pushing on the other guy, because people on your network want to connect to places on their network. (or use your network to get to another network that you peer with)
So, when a mom & pop ISP connects to one of the big guys, there's very little of interest on their network as an endpoint, and they probably don't advertise better routes than the tier1 already has, so they have to pay for the priviledge to be connected.
Now, in the case of Cogent, if I remember my ISPs correctly (I've not worked for an ISP for 6 years now), they were PSI, which merged with a few other networks -- the problem was that the networks weren't well connected, and so they were accused of what was known as 'hot potato routing' -- trying to get the traffic off their network as quickly as possible, even if it wasn't the shortest number of hops to the destination.
Some ISPs will also pad the routes that they advertise, so that they basically tell other people 'we'll take our own traffic, but we don't want to route other people's traffic through us'. (or it may be that their internal networks are so badly interconnected, that it really a whole lot of hops -- I mean, what good does it do to advertize that you connect to the moon, if you're going to route everyone by way of Jupiter?)
I'm guessing that Level 1 was montioring the traffic flowing between themselves and Cogent, and noticed that something seemed significantly amiss, suggesting that Cogent was taking advantage of their services.
I don't know the specifics of this case, however. so this is all conjecture, based on 6+ year old knowledge of ISPs. (and well, I can't find what happened to Boardwatch, so I can't pull up nice maps of the big players)
There are plenty of good magazines out there, and there are plenty of crap. Likewise, there are plenty of good television shows, and plenty of crap. It stands to reason that there are bound to be a few sites with time ordered entries and comments about them (I refuse to use that 'b---' word), and with the low barrier to entry, there is going to be a whole lot of crap.
So, based on what I've defined that annoying word to be, let's restate your question:
(repeat for Robot Wisdom, Obscure Store, MetaFilter, Fark, News.com's editorials section, etc, etc, etc.)
Most identifiers are just for reference, but may not be intended for the type of indexing that you're expecting.
Consider the following situation:
We now have two options -- change the identifier from 'x' to 'p.1' or leave some sort of note attached to 'x' that it's a derived from 'p'. (well, there's two other options -- don't try to identify them, or don't assign identifiers until all research is done, which defeats the whole purpose of building the system in the first place)
The list they're making is more like a glossary -- a flat list of items, as opposed to something which might have a concept of heirarchy. (but that's not to say that some other values in the descriptions can't be used to generate a heirarchy).
If you'd like an even worse example of selecting identifiers -- imagine if you found a worm 'y' that used the same code for vulnerability exploits as 'c', but carried the same payload as 'g' ... is it 'c.1' or 'g.1' or 'c.g.1'?
Sequential identifiers may seem like a bad choice, but they're so much easier to maintain in the long run, and handle the heirarchy through some other field.
Yes. It's an offset of podcasting, commonly referred to as 'videocasting' or 'video podcast'.
iTunes already supports it. (well, it's just using RSS to link to video files, not audio files, which was all podcasting really was)
There are rumors that here may be updates to the iPod to allow it to play video, although I'd suspect at a major hit to battery life.
(and well, more cycles on the batteries -> faster battery failure, which wouldn't be a good thing)
I find that a lot of my more create solutions aren't something that I come up with in a vaccuum, but come from talking to other people. (and it may just be that something that I say to them, explaining the nature of the problem, triggers me to think of a better solution, while othertimes, they ask questions to make me think of the problem differently)
Yes, it sucks to relocate, but I could see the need to want people to become part of the system.
The problem is -- if you have someone who does bad things with your copyright (for those without an imagination -- imagine GI Joe bootlegs being distributed w/ redubbed language to make it suggest that Americans victimize some racial groups), and you don't try to have them shut down (or to pay you a licensing fee), then you weaken your case for any issues that might come up in the future.
So, even though one instance might not seem worth worrying about, the next one might. If you get the person to pay a token licensing fee, then you might be covered for protecting your IP. (I'm not a lawyer, so I could be wrong on that last point)
If you don't believe me, take a look at the actual charter, aka 'The National Aeronautics and Space Act'.
Items like "research, development, demonstration, and other related activities in ground propulsion technologies as are provided for in sections 4 through 10 of the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976" don't necessarily have anything to do with "giant cans that explode out of one end in order to throw chunks of metal into orbit".
Oh -- and for the record, I'm currently in graduate school at a public university, and I got my undergrad from a private university (or more accurately, a real estate company who was obligated to teach classes), where I also worked for 7 years, and saw an amazing amount of graft. (and before someone claims this is libel, the fed agreed)
Because then you have to put in special detection code, because IE doesn't support it.
You also don't have to deal with the differences between xhtml in text/html vs. xhtml in application/xhtml+xml. (see Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful)
I tried the whole XHTML for a while, but it's not worth the headache to try to support it as a developer until you have better support from the browsers.
I'm not sure if this is a troll, or just someone without a background in material science. From what I remember from classes in engineering years ago, I think your assumptions are quite off base.
'Strength' is a measure of how much energy something can absorb. It is a factor of its environment, such as temperature (room temperature steel can absorb more energy before breaking than cold steel (brittle failure) or hot steel (elastic failure)). It does not, however, have anything to do with the ability to withstand extreme temperatures.
And I have no idea why you would think it wouldn't be travelling quickly. If the item were under tensile strain when it broke, you could have some serious problems (think : bull whip), with or without heat generated by air resistance.
I'm currently living in a 1400 sq. ft 3 bedroom house, and in many ways, and it in many ways, it seems smaller than the 500 sq ft studio where I lived in college (less closet space, if nothing else)
... then give them back when you're done. DVDs? Netflix is your friend.
... go shopping at IKEA or SCAN, as europeans are much more used to living in small spaces than americans (and by that, I mean those in North America, to include Canadians) If you need the large table for entertaining, try looking into a table that pulls out (I hate leaves, as you have to store them somewhere ... although some store inside the table these days)
... of course, you could transfer them to books, and it'd take a whole lot less space) You can also place a shelf about 18-24" from the ceiling in your bedroom, and place out of season clothes, or other infrequently used things there. A cabinet above the toilet can hold towels and toiletries.
Part of it is thinking about things differently -- need books? Hit the library
What I can't understand is the 6x6 table -- 6x4, I can see
Remember to use vertical space -- I have a about 24 linear feet of shelving above my couch (3 8' 1x6's, and a few shelf brackets), which would probably hold 500+ dvds in cases
Of course, I've also made furniture out of a reel-to-reel tape drive, a Wang mini computer, and an IBM terminal server, but those weren't particularly space saving, even if they were technology.
You probably want to read the first three chapters, then, which cover standardizing your formats and naming conventions, so that things are easier to follow.
And it's possible to obfuscate crap in any language -- the problem is that there are just so many bad programmers who have written Perl. I'm guessing there are equally bad Visual Basic programmers to Matt Wright, but they're just not as infamous, as they didn't decide to share out their inintended malware for people to learn from.
Some 'lock out after (x) attempt' implementations are rather stupid -- they only do it, if it's done in one session. (most of the ones I've dealt with in applications ... OSes tend to be better, but even then it's a toss up)
When I'm trying to remember a password I've forgotten, as some of the systems I deal with lock after three failures, I'll try two passwords, disconnect, reconnect, try two more, etc.
Now, not all systems will allow this, but some of the bad implementations will let this go on for ever. (hopefully there's someone monitoring the logs, or you won't even notice if they're doing it slowly enough)
The parent may just shove them in, but there are companies who make pop out CD holder for a 5.25" bay.
MDI just showed a spot ... I have no idea why CNN thought that was a good picture.
EIT's in the middle of a bakeout, so you'll want to take a look at the SOHO/LASCO images, or GOES/SXI
See the NASA press release for more info.