Soft drugs seem to be quite popular with the the CompSci's I attend university with - almost all will take a drink or 5, almost all are coffee/coke/jolt drinkers, and I'm sure that most would happily light up a joint with me.
However, push into hard drugs, and _all_ of the people I hang with recognize that permanent nasty damage occurs more quickly and easily as you move up the hardness factor - it doesn't take much coicane to make you hooked for life, which will then appreciably shorten your lifespan / ability to code:-)
However, move into the sub-culture, away from university grads, and you find people who (knew lots of them in high school) use E, copious quantities of weed, etc. etc. etc. and fractint / acidwarp (it was the mid 90s, none of us had heard of linux/BSD). Fortunately for my own mind, I try to stay away from stuff like that.
But a cup of coffee with brandy in it sure helps with the difficult coding problems - caffeine to make you alert, and alcohol makes your mind look at the problem in different ways.
And Techno has this novel qualty of being interesting to listen to (at least for me) and not interfering with my ability to type/code.
Actually, I'd like to also set JavaScript on/off for particlar sites. I believe that IE does something like this. Essentially I want JavaScript off by default, and then if a page barfs, I'll turn it on, but only for that IP/domain/whatever.
I tried all sorts of different media types for different purposes and have found:
My JVC deck hates FujiFilm, BASF, and no-name blue-greens (cyanoazine?). It is lukewarm to Kodak gold (100 year lifespan) (I have to eject and re-insert a disc every time I kill the power to the player). It loves Verbatim discs.
My girlfriend's personal JVC stereo is completely tempermental (sometimes it plays burns, sometimes it won't), but its quite a few years old, and the older players seem to only like traditional aluminum discs.
My suspicions are, however, that the combination of burner and media are what make the disc readable or non-readable by players. The trouble is, I haven't had an opportunity to test this empirically - every time I get an audio disc from a friend its always something different from what I have.
I'm fed up with this kind of KRAP. Maybe heavy abusers should get their IP addresses published on the 'I fucked with slashdot' list. They might be a little less interested in wasting my time and everyone else's who wants to legitimately read other people's opinions on slashdot.
Other thought: I want an option to ignore all posts by ACs.
No, stocks have always been valued at what their expected performance will be. In the case of VA, RedHat, Amazon, etc. expectations are that these companies will become huge profitable ventures within a very short period of time.
Weather you agree or not should determine weather you want to buy in, or short sell the stock.
But the best alternative, as mentioned above, is to turf all traffic to and from doubleclick.net at the firewall. (alternative for those without a firewall: set up a http server and set hosts table entry for *doubleclick.* to localhost (requests for doubleclick crap are redirected to your http server, which returns an error)).
Damn nested brackets - I hated Lots of Irritating and Silly Parentheses. It was the silliest language I have ever seen!
And for the rest of the world, they can wait for the consumer advocacy groups to make this practice illegal (if they can).
This is a pointless article by someone who doesn't have a clue about the market. Example:
There are 500 shares of sony stock @ $10.
If the stock splits then there are 1000 shares @ $5.
Either way, there is $5000 worth of sony stock in the market. If the first goes up by $2 to $12, then the second would go up to $6 - same percentage change - that's all the market cares about.
Obviously, this guy has never heard of market capitalization... (the total value of all the stock (not all stocks, just all the stock of a company) in the market at market price)
On a less mathematical level, but more relevant to reality:
Announcing a stock split usually indicates that a company expects large growth in the future - often people buy into stocks that split for this reason. (Please note that I do not own any sony stock, nor do I intend to purchase any in the near future) But announcing a split and not going anywhere is equally possible, if only to allow people to buy smaller amounts of your stock - if minimum purchase is 100 shares and the stock is at $300, a split might be wise to help out small investors.
My constitution (I'm Canadian) and the US constitution both say lots of things about what freedoms I / you are guaranteed - flight is not one of them!
Lots of people seem to be making mistakes as to the overinterpretation of their rights these days - the right to 'communication', the right to drive, the right to 'health care' (yes, I know its there in my constitution, it doesn't mean I believe it should be there), the right to fly, etc. The airlines / government has the ability, in deed, the duty, to protect its passengers from terrorism. That's what we're primarily talking about here - this sort of system probably won't find a comdom full of coicane in the large intestine.
Here's a nice scenario for everyone who hates this thing - someone smuggles a plastic gun / explosive device / whatever onto a plane that could have been detected by this machine, but for false civil liberties concerns, the machine wasn't used. How would you feel if your significant other / children / yourself was on that plane?
With all the conditionals, you almost end up with the Satisfiability problem (Cook, 1971) - 2^n possibilities to test. Thus, writing this sort of software not only requires CPA's, but excellent programmers and a fair whack of CPU time to test it.
There are a few things that free software is going to do first I think.
I saw some earlier concerns about the tracability of a particular printer... The watermark contains the serial number of the printer. Previous techniques of forensic science already allow us to identify printer makes and models, so the change in watermarking will not assist law enforcment at all (aside from possibly knowing which store the device was sold at), as long as you just don't fill out that product registration card...
Which no counterfeiter would do anyways.
So why bother at all? It will make printers more expensive, and the government thinks that they get a tool to assist them in enforcing the law, but doesn't really - other coroberative evidence will have to be collected to get near enough to the printer with the watermark to check, and then traditional forensic science techniques could be used.
London _reeks_. I'd been there twice during my visit to the UK, and always left (after only a few hours) with a stunning migrane. Note that I do not feel sick in the Bay Area or in other major US cities.
As far as working in Canada:
Top tax bracked kicks in at 80,000 Canadian (about 55,000 US) and takes 55%. Starting salaries for a CSC grad will be around 40,000 Canadian. Health care is paid for with your taxes, and is adequate, unless you have a slow growing cancer (takes months just to see an encologist). Gasoline costs 65 cents a litre (in British Columbia), but propane (for those willing to undergo a 2000 dollar retro-fit to their car) costs about 34 cents a litre.
Before you get totally turned off of Canada, there are three very important things that we don't have (that the US does):
Guns (gun laws are much more restrictive in Canada, thus, murder rates are much lower) (if nobody else has guns, why do I need one?)
Ghettos (they just don't happen here)
Gated Communities (who would need them if you don't have the other two?)
Oh yes, and the climate in BC causes you to age the least of anywhere on the planet (in California your face turns to leather from the sun) (in Edmonton your face freezes to your jacket)
I suppose the climate also applies to Redmond, but who would want to live there??
Netscape as a company was founded on the principle of 'giving away the razors to sell the razor blades' - they gave away the browser to interface to their line of server products. Of course its going to be buggy as all hell (we all know that, don't we:-( ).
We should applaud the Mozilla guys for not chickening out and redoing the whole mess from the ground up.
There, that's my two bits, and nobody else seemed to be saying it...
Nobody's mentioned the individualized nature of Solaris patches... And nobody bitches about the number of them either because Sun just gives you a nice patch cluster to install and away you go...
Of course, you can install them one by one if you want to...
But anyone who thinks that just installing a system and doesn't install ALL the security patches is going to get some nasty surprises.
A few million dollars in geigercounters for customs agents should be sufficient to detect suitcase bombs, shipping bombs, airplane bombs, etc.
"Uh Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to open this rather large lead-lined crate..."
And, honestly, its not like just anyone can build a suitcase sized nuclear device... The Russians said they built a whole pack and now a bunch are 'missing', but, in communist USSR, it was not uncommon to write that you had twice as many in inventory as what you had (of practically anything...) - but soon you'll be able to buy old Russian ICBMs at the local garage sale down the street if they don't do something about controlling the damn things.
And I still figure that some major center in the world is going to get nuked by 2010.
> The RAND Corporation's Netwar report, prepared > for the U.S. government, recommends that the > govt assists repressive governments in defending > themselves in struggles over their reputations, > and that repressive governments can do this with > a variety of dirty tricks and covert operations.
You obviously didn't read the summary... The whole point was that a repressive government was vulnerable to a netwar if and only if it is:
1. In a state of political flux 2. In the process of opening up political freedom 3. Requiring greater world participation in its economy.
Thus, only states which are becoming more liberalized, with greater personal freedoms and are starting to actually participate in the world economy and wish to benefit from international trade are vulnerable to this sort of attack.
Looks to me like the whole concept of a netwar is empowering a minority to harass a (silent?) majority. Hmmm...
So... A radical revolutionary group who wishes to overthrow a burgeoning democratic government starts a netwar and sets them back 10 years because there's so much apparent trouble in this country that nobody wants to do any business with them. Thus, even though it is the growth of freedom in such a country which provides the tools necessary to do public damage, and
Sun is a HARDWARE and SUPPORT company. True, they sell Solaris, at a loss. True, they sell lots of products under the Solstice banner, but usually they're just 3rd party products with Sun's Stamp of Approval. Java is merely a part of the strategy to continue to sell big servers - Java applets (whats' that? StarPortal did you say???) need to be served, and, in the size and scope that Sun is thinking in, (40 million users? (there's a convenient number...)) by the very servers they produce.
Honestly... Weather the software is open source or not won't matter to Sun. Its just that RIGHT NOW the available commercial software is better for the markets they look at (Koffice will be _great_ but its not there yet, and its not written in Java)
And the server-centric model is the right one... At least from a management perspective.
-- We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is Futile.
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Soft drugs seem to be quite popular with the the CompSci's I attend university with - almost all will take a drink or 5, almost all are coffee/coke/jolt drinkers, and I'm sure that most would happily light up a joint with me.
:-)
However, push into hard drugs, and _all_ of the people I hang with recognize that permanent nasty damage occurs more quickly and easily as you move up the hardness factor - it doesn't take much coicane to make you hooked for life, which will then appreciably shorten your lifespan / ability to code
However, move into the sub-culture, away from university grads, and you find people who (knew lots of them in high school) use E, copious quantities of weed, etc. etc. etc. and fractint / acidwarp (it was the mid 90s, none of us had heard of linux/BSD). Fortunately for my own mind, I try to stay away from stuff like that.
But a cup of coffee with brandy in it sure helps with the difficult coding problems - caffeine to make you alert, and alcohol makes your mind look at the problem in different ways.
And Techno has this novel qualty of being interesting to listen to (at least for me) and not interfering with my ability to type/code.
That's all I have to say.
I always thought that was Bill Clinton's thingy...
:-)
BWAHHAHAHAHA!
No, I don't care if my Karma goes down.
Actually, I'd like to also set JavaScript on/off for particlar sites. I believe that IE does something like this. Essentially I want JavaScript off by default, and then if a page barfs, I'll turn it on, but only for that IP/domain/whatever.
I tried all sorts of different media types for different purposes and have found:
My JVC deck hates FujiFilm, BASF, and no-name blue-greens (cyanoazine?). It is lukewarm to Kodak gold (100 year lifespan) (I have to eject and re-insert a disc every time I kill the power to the player). It loves Verbatim discs.
My girlfriend's personal JVC stereo is completely tempermental (sometimes it plays burns, sometimes it won't), but its quite a few years old, and the older players seem to only like traditional aluminum discs.
My suspicions are, however, that the combination of burner and media are what make the disc readable or non-readable by players. The trouble is, I haven't had an opportunity to test this empirically - every time I get an audio disc from a friend its always something different from what I have.
I'm fed up with this kind of KRAP. Maybe heavy abusers should get their IP addresses published on the 'I fucked with slashdot' list. They might be a little less interested in wasting my time and everyone else's who wants to legitimately read other people's opinions on slashdot.
Other thought: I want an option to ignore all posts by ACs.
That's all.
Security by Obscurity?
I thought we had already debunked this.
No, stocks have always been valued at what their expected performance will be. In the case of VA, RedHat, Amazon, etc. expectations are that these companies will become huge profitable ventures within a very short period of time.
Weather you agree or not should determine weather you want to buy in, or short sell the stock.
Crispin
Not with my cookie...
Maybe you'd like to offer yours up instead???
Or maybe we could steal Bill Gates'.
But the best alternative, as mentioned above, is to turf all traffic to and from doubleclick.net at the firewall. (alternative for those without a firewall: set up a http server and set hosts table entry for *doubleclick.* to localhost (requests for doubleclick crap are redirected to your http server, which returns an error)).
Damn nested brackets - I hated Lots of Irritating and Silly Parentheses. It was the silliest language I have ever seen!
And for the rest of the world, they can wait for the consumer advocacy groups to make this practice illegal (if they can).
Happy Surfing!
n time, consumes about 4n space (including the linked-list overhead).
cyano
Nobody seems to be posting anything of use - I think its this, I think its that.
Is there anyone out there that actually understands the current patent system and the actual proposed changes?
Please, do let us know.
And you don't need a damn proprietary (translate overpriced) amp to play it.
Cyano
This is a pointless article by someone who doesn't have a clue about the market. Example:
There are 500 shares of sony stock @ $10.
If the stock splits then there are 1000 shares @ $5.
Either way, there is $5000 worth of sony stock in the market. If the first goes up by $2 to $12, then the second would go up to $6 - same percentage change - that's all the market cares about.
Obviously, this guy has never heard of market capitalization... (the total value of all the stock (not all stocks, just all the stock of a company) in the market at market price)
On a less mathematical level, but more relevant to reality:
Announcing a stock split usually indicates that a company expects large growth in the future - often people buy into stocks that split for this reason. (Please note that I do not own any sony stock, nor do I intend to purchase any in the near future) But announcing a split and not going anywhere is equally possible, if only to allow people to buy smaller amounts of your stock - if minimum purchase is 100 shares and the stock is at $300, a split might be wise to help out small investors.
Cyano
Honestly!
My constitution (I'm Canadian) and the US constitution both say lots of things about what freedoms I / you are guaranteed - flight is not one of them!
Lots of people seem to be making mistakes as to the overinterpretation of their rights these days - the right to 'communication', the right to drive, the right to 'health care' (yes, I know its there in my constitution, it doesn't mean I believe it should be there), the right to fly, etc. The airlines / government has the ability, in deed, the duty, to protect its passengers from terrorism. That's what we're primarily talking about here - this sort of system probably won't find a comdom full of coicane in the large intestine.
Here's a nice scenario for everyone who hates this thing - someone smuggles a plastic gun / explosive device / whatever onto a plane that could have been detected by this machine, but for false civil liberties concerns, the machine wasn't used. How would you feel if your significant other / children / yourself was on that plane?
Cyano
With all the conditionals, you almost end up with the Satisfiability problem (Cook, 1971) - 2^n possibilities to test. Thus, writing this sort of software not only requires CPA's, but excellent programmers and a fair whack of CPU time to test it.
There are a few things that free software is going to do first I think.
I saw some earlier concerns about the tracability of a particular printer... The watermark contains the serial number of the printer. Previous techniques of forensic science already allow us to identify printer makes and models, so the change in watermarking will not assist law enforcment at all (aside from possibly knowing which store the device was sold at), as long as you just don't fill out that product registration card...
Which no counterfeiter would do anyways.
So why bother at all? It will make printers more expensive, and the government thinks that they get a tool to assist them in enforcing the law, but doesn't really - other coroberative evidence will have to be collected to get near enough to the printer with the watermark to check, and then traditional forensic science techniques could be used.
As a Canadian, I'd just like to add my input:
London _reeks_. I'd been there twice during my visit to the UK, and always left (after only a few hours) with a stunning migrane. Note that I do not feel sick in the Bay Area or in other major US cities.
As far as working in Canada:
Top tax bracked kicks in at 80,000 Canadian (about 55,000 US) and takes 55%. Starting salaries for a CSC grad will be around 40,000 Canadian. Health care is paid for with your taxes, and is adequate, unless you have a slow growing cancer (takes months just to see an encologist). Gasoline costs 65 cents a litre (in British Columbia), but propane (for those willing to undergo a 2000 dollar retro-fit to their car) costs about 34 cents a litre.
Before you get totally turned off of Canada, there are three very important things that we don't have (that the US does):
Guns (gun laws are much more restrictive in Canada, thus, murder rates are much lower)
(if nobody else has guns, why do I need one?)
Ghettos (they just don't happen here)
Gated Communities (who would need them if you don't have the other two?)
Oh yes, and the climate in BC causes you to age the least of anywhere on the planet (in California your face turns to leather from the sun) (in Edmonton your face freezes to your jacket)
I suppose the climate also applies to Redmond, but who would want to live there??
Netscape as a company was founded on the principle of 'giving away the razors to sell the razor blades' - they gave away the browser to interface to their line of server products. Of course its going to be buggy as all hell (we all know that, don't we :-( ).
We should applaud the Mozilla guys for not chickening out and redoing the whole mess from the ground up.
There, that's my two bits, and nobody else seemed to be saying it...
Nobody's mentioned the individualized nature of Solaris patches... And nobody bitches about the number of them either because Sun just gives you a nice patch cluster to install and away you go...
Of course, you can install them one by one if you want to...
But anyone who thinks that just installing a system and doesn't install ALL the security patches is going to get some nasty surprises.
Hey! Don't rear projection TVs use these things? That would explain why they're so terrible to look at from the sides...
A few million dollars in geigercounters for customs agents should be sufficient to detect suitcase bombs, shipping bombs, airplane bombs, etc.
"Uh Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to open this rather large lead-lined crate..."
And, honestly, its not like just anyone can build a suitcase sized nuclear device... The Russians said they built a whole pack and now a bunch are 'missing', but, in communist USSR, it was not uncommon to write that you had twice as many in inventory as what you had (of practically anything...) - but soon you'll be able to buy old Russian ICBMs at the local garage sale down the street if they don't do something about controlling the damn things.
And I still figure that some major center in the world is going to get nuked by 2010.
> The RAND Corporation's Netwar report, prepared
> for the U.S. government, recommends that the
> govt assists repressive governments in defending
> themselves in struggles over their reputations,
> and that repressive governments can do this with
> a variety of dirty tricks and covert operations.
You obviously didn't read the summary... The
whole point was that a repressive government was
vulnerable to a netwar if and only if it is:
1. In a state of political flux
2. In the process of opening up political freedom
3. Requiring greater world participation in its
economy.
Thus, only states which are becoming more
liberalized, with greater personal freedoms and
are starting to actually participate in the world
economy and wish to benefit from international
trade are vulnerable to this sort of attack.
Looks to me like the whole concept of a netwar is
empowering a minority to harass a (silent?)
majority. Hmmm...
So... A radical revolutionary group who wishes
to overthrow a burgeoning democratic government
starts a netwar and sets them back 10 years
because there's so much apparent trouble in this
country that nobody wants to do any business with
them. Thus, even though it is the growth of freedom in such a country which provides the
tools necessary to do public damage, and
Dude, your HotMail account says it ALL.
And I didn't say thin-clients were right for EVERYONE...
But for the a-technical masses, they're idea.
--
We are Microsoft. You will be Assimilated. Resistance is Futile.
Sun is a HARDWARE and SUPPORT company. True, they sell Solaris, at a loss. True, they sell lots of products under the Solstice banner, but usually they're just 3rd party products with Sun's Stamp of Approval. Java is merely a part of the strategy to continue to sell big servers - Java applets (whats' that? StarPortal did you say???) need to be served, and, in the size and scope that Sun is thinking in, (40 million users? (there's a convenient number...)) by the very servers they produce.
Honestly... Weather the software is open source or not won't matter to Sun. Its just that RIGHT NOW the available commercial software is better for the markets they look at (Koffice will be _great_ but its not there yet, and its not written in Java)
And the server-centric model is the right one... At least from a management perspective.
--
We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is Futile.
That sucks. Big time.
But I know what I like!