Well, in Ohio, it seems like certain municipalities have elections multiple times a year. The reason? School funding. It is based on property taxes, which was ruled unconstitutional many times for various reasons. Couple that with shifting the burden back to the local systems. People continually vote down the levies, so some municipalities have a second or even a third election in the same year on the exact same issue. Even that's not enough. When voters approve one levy, the school is back the next year for more money. Such a vicious cycle.
Well, a lot from our view. Our application is not a typical web application. It is specifically targeting Internet Explorer to solve issues in a specific industry. That was a business decision that I personally did not support, but that's where the chips fell. Anyway, our company buys into their premium support and vendor programs, which have been good so far. However, when we found out about the release, the primary concern was not whether our application looked right, but what extended features were broken because of the changes in security. The behavior of ActiveX controls, the ability to upload and download files, programmatic access to the Windows clipboard (as we know now) were our concern. Since we could not get a gold copy of IE7, we had to guess (and assume) that settings for the security zones in RC1 were going to be unchanged for the gold release. This placed an enormous amount of risk on our part because if IE7 is installed and our subscribed customers have problems, we lose revenue. Simple as that. Now, my point was that we paid Microsoft for this premium support and got burned, IMO. We have been lucky because the release of IE7 was download only. That buys us some time, but come November 1, I expect a flood of customer support calls coming through.
I recently received an HP Pavillion dv9000 laptop to replace my E-machines M6805 under Best-Buy's lemon policy. When I bought the E-machines laptop, I purchased a Samsonite laptop carrier that fit the 17-in screen of the M6805. When I got the replacement, I took the laptop home to discover that the HP dv9000 was almost an inch and a half wider than the M6805. According to the spec of the dv9000 at Best Buy, the width of the laptop is 18 3/8 inches. So I decided today to go back to Best Buy to see if they had a wider laptop carrier. No go. The widest carriers that Best Buy even sold were around 16 1/2 inches wide. Even the Best Buy associate recommended going to a luggage outlet to find a compatible carrier. Talk about inpractical.:-)
Installed our fixes last night after spending the past week testing. Microsoft could not even get us an advanced copy. We had to use RC1. So much for their "Platinum OEM Program". Thanks for taking our money, Microsoft.
I sat there, silently for about 2 minutes. Just as the interviewer was going to say something, I stand up. I looked at the board, and I doodled some mathmatical equations it, then erased it. I acted like I was actually doing some thinking, like cupping my hands together with my index fingers touching my bottom lip. Stuff like that. This went on for about another 10 minutes or so. Then, the interviewer interrupts me...
Interviewer: Um, I need to go to lunch, do you have an answer or do you give up? Me: Oh, I had an answer 10 minutes ago. I just wanted to test you to see how long you are willing to wait for an answer. Anyway, the answer is 42.
The interviewer snickered and ended the interview session. I was made an offer that day, but I turned it down. I ended up not liking the company.
But wait! If you happen to get HDTV over the air, you may be able to get The Tube Music Network. I accidentially discovered it when I got my HDTV (WUAB-DT 28.2 in Cleveland). It plays music videos and nothing but music videos. It now has become my favorite local station. According to their site, it was created by Les Garland, the co-founder of MTV and VH1.
What's other single piece of software allows you to edit text, check email, read newsgroups, web browse, play games, make your coffee and do you laundry? Excel...pfft. Whatever.
Could it possibly be AJAXWorld Magazine??? Considering that an "anonyomous reader" writes this summary, maybe they indulged some shameless self-promotion using little popular web sites like/.
eh, I could be wrong, tho. I just sick of hearing the word AJAX. By my 5 years (yes, 5 years) in this mashed up set of technologies we now call AJAX, I learned that it's no silver bullet. Bandwidth is the number one issue, because AJAX can suck your bandwidth dry if done wrong. Passing XML back and forth sucks just as bad, because you have to tear-apart, process, and reguritate. Quirky clients, especially ones that have proxies and pop-up blockers, is the bane of any application that uses AJAX. Geez, I am giving myself a headache.
Yeah, but. They don't make it easy to hack the box and put fixes or
enhancements of GPLed software on the box. Tivo went overboard, and locked down the entire box when
they could have done the following alternative...
I think that they must do this considering an FCC ruling made in 2004 that allows TiVo to share their recording to up to 10 other units. Well, how exactly would TiVo be able to comply with that ruling and satisfy the requirements of the GPL? Locking down the box was the obvious choice.
Twice, government shutdown, or threat of one, convinced the GOP congress to rework the budget to reduce deficit/produce surplus.
Ahh I remember it like it was yesterday. Christmas 1995 was the greatest three weeks of my life. All of the nit-picking and bickering to fulfill self-serving political adgendas made my day back then. I got free vacation time and retro-pay. Those were the days.;-)
As a KSU drunken sports fan (live like 5 minutes away), I can reveal the "real reason" why the athletic department banned facebook.
Being the sports geniuses that they are, the athletic department came up with some simple logic: "Players don't need no stinking Facebooks! They should be studying their playbooks! Duh!"
at engineers at UBC have developed a single occupancy vehicle that achieves a ridiculous 3145 MPG!
This is just beggin' for a bunch of punchlines:
"This car may not get any chicks, but hey, at least someone will have one heck of a solitary road trip!"
"The good news, we can get great mileage; the bad news, we look like we are driving a giant dildo. Who's driving this thing? Is it the Ambiguously Gay Duo?"
"The car get 3145 MPG, but goes only 5 MPH. At this rate, my grandma get better mileage."
"The competition called for conservative driving habits, I'd be disqualified. I won't give up my cell phone, blasting the radio and sipping my grande non-dairy double-latte."
"I heard that this car had a 54 CC engine. Nothing say cool like pushing your hunk of junk up that hill."
Hoax or not: IMO, I do not think SCO should be allow to distribute Linux again, ever. I think it's fair to say that since SCO tried to declare the GPL invalid, they do not accept the terms of the license. Therefore, according to the GPL, section 5, they have no permission to modify nor distribute the work.
Additionally, I would hope that all GPL copyright holders explicitly revoke SCO's license to distribute of their GPL software, not just Linux. Let the devil squirm and die.
This is about the only statement you got 100% right. Lisp is interactive and it is a plus, IMO. It's nice that a drops back to a REPL when condition (execptions in Java/C++) is signaled. I can query the environment state, inspect variables, or provide restarts. But, it does not have to be.
2. Therefore, Lisp is interpreted.
Not necessarily. Most Common Lisp implementations can either interpret their code or have their code compiled.
3. Therefore, Lisp uses non-native code.
Most Common Lisp implementations can be compiled into native fast-loading files (FAS) or byte code. Some implementation can even create stand-alone executables.
4. Therefore, Lisp runs in a virtual machine.
Not really. Common Lisp run in an environment and executes either native code or byte code, depending on the implementation. CLISP is the only major Common Lisp implementation that I know of that does not compile to native code. Hey, it was good enough for Paul Graham when developing Viaweb. I was even shocked by that.
5. Therefore, Lisp is incapable of direct memory addressing or interrupt handling.
(Digging for Arrowheads) Pip: OOH! OOH! I think I found one!!
(Cartman has hold of the other end.) Cartman: No, I found it!
(Cartman and Pip hold the large arrowhead by opposite ends.) Pip: Oh, I do believe I found it first. Cartman: No, I did! Pip: Oh, dear... Cartman: Well, guess we'll have to Roshambo for it. Pip: What do you mean? Cartman: Well, first I kick you in the nuts as hard as I can. Then you kick ME in the nuts as hard as YOU can. And we keep going back and forth until somebody falls. Last one standing gets the arrowhead. Pip: Oh, my. Well, I suppose if I must... Cartman: Okay, ready? I'll go first.
(Cartman takes a step and hauls off, kicking Pip square in the balls. Pip immediately turns blue and falls to the ground coughing. Cartman looks pleased. After Pip stops coughing, he finally manages to speak.) Pip: Well, I guess you win. Cartman: Oh, I don't care, you can have the stupid arrowhead. I don't want it.
(Cartman tosses the arrowhead down to Pip, who is still lying painfully in the dirt.)
95% of developers see relational databases simply as a means for a persistent data store, but that's not what it was designed to do.
As a developer, I could not agree with you more! Using a database is a real pain in the a$$ for developers. We have to embed an entire complex, cryptic language in our programs so that we can get simple data. We have to create a heirarchy of object-relational mappings just to be able to use the data effectively. DBA's want us to use stored procedures to abstract, but these SP's end up containing complex business logic that make it very difficult to refactor. Geez, it just makes me want to put everything in flat-files!
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Well, in Ohio, it seems like certain municipalities have elections multiple times a year. The reason? School funding. It is based on property taxes, which was ruled unconstitutional many times for various reasons. Couple that with shifting the burden back to the local systems. People continually vote down the levies, so some municipalities have a second or even a third election in the same year on the exact same issue. Even that's not enough. When voters approve one levy, the school is back the next year for more money. Such a vicious cycle.
Well, a lot from our view. Our application is not a typical web application. It is specifically targeting Internet Explorer to solve issues in a specific industry. That was a business decision that I personally did not support, but that's where the chips fell. Anyway, our company buys into their premium support and vendor programs, which have been good so far. However, when we found out about the release, the primary concern was not whether our application looked right, but what extended features were broken because of the changes in security. The behavior of ActiveX controls, the ability to upload and download files, programmatic access to the Windows clipboard (as we know now) were our concern. Since we could not get a gold copy of IE7, we had to guess (and assume) that settings for the security zones in RC1 were going to be unchanged for the gold release. This placed an enormous amount of risk on our part because if IE7 is installed and our subscribed customers have problems, we lose revenue. Simple as that. Now, my point was that we paid Microsoft for this premium support and got burned, IMO. We have been lucky because the release of IE7 was download only. That buys us some time, but come November 1, I expect a flood of customer support calls coming through.
I recently received an HP Pavillion dv9000 laptop to replace my E-machines M6805 under Best-Buy's lemon policy. When I bought the E-machines laptop, I purchased a Samsonite laptop carrier that fit the 17-in screen of the M6805. When I got the replacement, I took the laptop home to discover that the HP dv9000 was almost an inch and a half wider than the M6805. According to the spec of the dv9000 at Best Buy, the width of the laptop is 18 3/8 inches. So I decided today to go back to Best Buy to see if they had a wider laptop carrier. No go. The widest carriers that Best Buy even sold were around 16 1/2 inches wide. Even the Best Buy associate recommended going to a luggage outlet to find a compatible carrier. Talk about inpractical. :-)
Installed our fixes last night after spending the past week testing. Microsoft could not even get us an advanced copy. We had to use RC1. So much for their "Platinum OEM Program". Thanks for taking our money, Microsoft.
Anybody remember that product placements are on the increase?
I had been interviewed by someone who asked me a barrage those "thinking" questions. The last one was like this one:
Interviewer: Which way is this bus facing?
I sat there, silently for about 2 minutes. Just as the interviewer was going to say something, I stand up. I looked at the board, and I doodled some mathmatical equations it, then erased it. I acted like I was actually doing some thinking, like cupping my hands together with my index fingers touching my bottom lip. Stuff like that. This went on for about another 10 minutes or so. Then, the interviewer interrupts me...
Interviewer: Um, I need to go to lunch, do you have an answer or do you give up?
Me: Oh, I had an answer 10 minutes ago. I just wanted to test you to see how long you are willing to wait for an answer. Anyway, the answer is 42.
The interviewer snickered and ended the interview session. I was made an offer that day, but I turned it down. I ended up not liking the company.
I read it more like "Someone was using Target advertising to censor a New York Times article."
But wait! If you happen to get HDTV over the air, you may be able to get The Tube Music Network. I accidentially discovered it when I got my HDTV (WUAB-DT 28.2 in Cleveland). It plays music videos and nothing but music videos. It now has become my favorite local station. According to their site, it was created by Les Garland, the co-founder of MTV and VH1.
Best part about it: it's free for me.
Look at the just the baseline platform support:
What's other single piece of software allows you to edit text, check email, read newsgroups, web browse, play games, make your coffee and do you laundry? Excel...pfft. Whatever.
What's Spreading "the AJAX Wildfire"?
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Could it possibly be AJAXWorld Magazine??? Considering that an "anonyomous reader" writes this summary, maybe they indulged some shameless self-promotion using little popular web sites like
eh, I could be wrong, tho. I just sick of hearing the word AJAX. By my 5 years (yes, 5 years) in this mashed up set of technologies we now call AJAX, I learned that it's no silver bullet. Bandwidth is the number one issue, because AJAX can suck your bandwidth dry if done wrong. Passing XML back and forth sucks just as bad, because you have to tear-apart, process, and reguritate. Quirky clients, especially ones that have proxies and pop-up blockers, is the bane of any application that uses AJAX. Geez, I am giving myself a headache.
Ahh I remember it like it was yesterday. Christmas 1995 was the greatest three weeks of my life. All of the nit-picking and bickering to fulfill self-serving political adgendas made my day back then. I got free vacation time and retro-pay. Those were the days.
Or just as bad: you can't play newly licensed copy of a game when the original CD gets trashed.
As a KSU drunken sports fan (live like 5 minutes away), I can reveal the "real reason" why the athletic department banned facebook.
Being the sports geniuses that they are, the athletic department came up with some simple logic: "Players don't need no stinking Facebooks! They should be studying their playbooks! Duh!"
BumpTop needs a virtual staircase, so I can watch one of my larger piles slither down like a slinky.
This is just beggin' for a bunch of punchlines:
Hoax or not: IMO, I do not think SCO should be allow to distribute Linux again, ever. I think it's fair to say that since SCO tried to declare the GPL invalid, they do not accept the terms of the license. Therefore, according to the GPL, section 5, they have no permission to modify nor distribute the work.
Additionally, I would hope that all GPL copyright holders explicitly revoke SCO's license to distribute of their GPL software, not just Linux. Let the devil squirm and die.
Just as I was looking at my RSS feeds, I see this story and this.
Aw crap, milk just squirted out of my nose. *snork* *snork*
Hmmm. My definition of interactive may be different from yours. Sorry for the confusion, though. But I think I agree with this statement.
1. Lisp is interactive.
This is about the only statement you got 100% right. Lisp is interactive and it is a plus, IMO. It's nice that a drops back to a REPL when condition (execptions in Java/C++) is signaled. I can query the environment state, inspect variables, or provide restarts. But, it does not have to be.
2. Therefore, Lisp is interpreted.
Not necessarily. Most Common Lisp implementations can either interpret their code or have their code compiled.
3. Therefore, Lisp uses non-native code.
Most Common Lisp implementations can be compiled into native fast-loading files (FAS) or byte code. Some implementation can even create stand-alone executables.
4. Therefore, Lisp runs in a virtual machine.
Not really. Common Lisp run in an environment and executes either native code or byte code, depending on the implementation. CLISP is the only major Common Lisp implementation that I know of that does not compile to native code. Hey, it was good enough for Paul Graham when developing Viaweb. I was even shocked by that.
5. Therefore, Lisp is incapable of direct memory addressing or interrupt handling.
Not sure. There are some people creating Lisp operating system, it might be possible, right?
6. Therefore, Lisp can't be used to create an operating system!
Hmmm. I guess creating a Lisp machine in hardware is not enough, huh?
I guess it's better than Dilbert security model.
Microsoft can talk to my computer? Wow. I did not even know my computer can speak FUD!
I can see it now....
(Digging for Arrowheads)
Pip: OOH! OOH! I think I found one!!
(Cartman has hold of the other end.)
Cartman: No, I found it!
(Cartman and Pip hold the large arrowhead by opposite ends.)
Pip: Oh, I do believe I found it first.
Cartman: No, I did!
Pip: Oh, dear...
Cartman: Well, guess we'll have to Roshambo for it.
Pip: What do you mean?
Cartman: Well, first I kick you in the nuts as hard as I can. Then you kick ME in the nuts as hard as YOU can. And we keep going back and forth until somebody falls. Last one standing gets the arrowhead.
Pip: Oh, my. Well, I suppose if I must...
Cartman: Okay, ready? I'll go first.
(Cartman takes a step and hauls off, kicking Pip square in the balls. Pip immediately turns blue and falls to the ground coughing. Cartman looks pleased. After Pip stops coughing, he finally manages to speak.)
Pip: Well, I guess you win.
Cartman: Oh, I don't care, you can have the stupid arrowhead. I don't want it.
(Cartman tosses the arrowhead down to Pip, who is still lying painfully in the dirt.)
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That would make court dramas interesting!
As a developer, I could not agree with you more! Using a database is a real pain in the a$$ for developers. We have to embed an entire complex, cryptic language in our programs so that we can get simple data. We have to create a heirarchy of object-relational mappings just to be able to use the data effectively. DBA's want us to use stored procedures to abstract, but these SP's end up containing complex business logic that make it very difficult to refactor. Geez, it just makes me want to put everything in flat-files!
RTP? It has the universities, decent weather, and good companies.