Edison's method of inventing generally meant creating any possible prototype and slowly working the bugs out. When working on the lightbulb, he sent people around the world to find any possible filimant, trying to find the best one that worked. Read Edison: A Life of Invention for more info.
From the article: "Is anyone doing math by hand any longer, I wonder? Do they miss the cerebral nourishment of solving equations?"
They all learned the math.. But half of the reason of learning some of it is to realize that doing it by hand isn't feasable anymore. I don't think it's fair to compare engineering then to engineering now. A better choice may be to redefine the word "engineer" and what it means to "engineer" something.
It seems that you're only reading what you want to see.. Read the next paragraph. Integration is critical to KDE's strengths. Hell, integration is critical to a decent desktop. You take that away, then what's the point of even including it?
Which bank site doesnt work well for you? Which job site?
Bugzilla is there for a reason, you know.. There's a thread trying to get CapitalOne's website working. Most companies are willing to help and are compliant. Some try really hard not to help (ie. CapitalOne)
You can still look this up via DNS, but it takes much, much longer.
Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly, but I think a script that does a dig on the domains would be a lot faster than manually looking each up in a whois.. Or the same amount of time as writing a script to run the whois. Someone please explain to me what I'm missing?
I just start typing and it seems to work for me using a Mozilla nightly build.. I wandered across this when I forgot to click on a text box and started typing.
Makes sense.. I knew of the issues with strcpy and strcat beforehand from my intro C classes. It's great that they told us to use strcpy (and ignore warnings, etc) when everything else I've read says not to.
I'm not a 1337 coder and don't pretend to be one so please excuse my ignorance.. What exactly is the exploit with sprintf? I've never used it but now you've sparked my curiosity.
Anyone have any links or posts describing the issue would be appreciated.
There's probably a bug or feature that you keep saying to yourself, "I'm sure someone else has noticed/wants this". Most likely someone has. Check out http://bugzilla.mozilla.org.
I'm sure it's almost safe to assume your bug/feature has already been reported.
You're confusing the issue at hand. Your quote: Doesn't really have to be an issue, if we aren't harming the individual the stem cells are harvested from, as is the case when they are taken from say a liposuction patient.
Article quote: The university scientists' eventual aim was to create an early stage human embryo from which stem cells could be harvested
It seems to me this thread is about harvesting embryos. You destroy the embryo in the process. You don't destroy the adult in the process of harvesting his/her fat.
"The hope is that, by enabling vehicles to transmit crash data instantly and by creating a central repository for the collection of that data, the system can improve experts' understanding of auto crashes and reduce accident-related fatalities."
That's assuming that any contest entries automatically become the property of Google.
From the contest page:
With regard to an entry you submit as part of the Contest, you grant Google a worldwide, perpetual, fully paid-up, non-exclusive license to make, sell, or use the technology related thereto, including but not limited to the software, algorithms, techniques, concepts, etc., associated with the entry.
(disclaimer: im just a undergrad CE student that had to take this physics class last quarter so i may be off in my terminology)
It's all about statistical mechanics and entropy.. as a system gets larger and larger, the more possible states it can be in, and the more likely some will and others wont exist.
For a few atoms, it can look like a bell curve, with possible states occurring everywhere... but move into a larger system and more states can exist and less states (ie. more likely one) really -do- exist. This is how all the air molecules in a room suddenly don't converge into one corner of the room.. It's just Not Likely. It's possible, but very very very very Not Likely.
Read "Six Ideas that Shaped Phsics" Unit T.. it goes into quite a lot of detail
A quick search on google came across this interview from April... Here's a quote from it:
The new book is not a Hitchhiker's book - there are already five of those - or a Dirk Gently book, but "it will be recognizable in style to anyone who knows those books." It also won't be The Salmon of Doubt.
"I abandoned [The Salmon of Doubt] about halfway through because I just thought it was getting too dull," Adams said. "Since then, I've now got lots and lots of different story lines waiting for me to turn them into books. One of them I shall apply the title Salmon of Doubt to, but I don't know which one yet."
Anyone know if the one being published was the "dull" book he never finished or another one?
Worse than Compaq? Geez.. When I lived in the dorms last year, there was a nice cross-section of computers among the 80 or so students in my building. Compaq laptops and desktops were notorious for just not wanting to work right. Random crashes all the time.. Random problems and come and go. I don't really have anything against them; I just never had much luck working with them..
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He joked about this at the Linux World Expo, SF. Some type of semi-exponential way of charging for it.. Let the first 25-50 be affordable and everything past that just get expensive. Why not?
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Edison's method of inventing generally meant creating any possible prototype and slowly working the bugs out. When working on the lightbulb, he sent people around the world to find any possible filimant, trying to find the best one that worked. Read Edison: A Life of Invention for more info.
From the article:
"Is anyone doing math by hand any longer, I wonder? Do they miss the cerebral nourishment of solving equations?"
They all learned the math.. But half of the reason of learning some of it is to realize that doing it by hand isn't feasable anymore. I don't think it's fair to compare engineering then to engineering now. A better choice may be to redefine the word "engineer" and what it means to "engineer" something.
It seems that you're only reading what you want to see.. Read the next paragraph. Integration is critical to KDE's strengths. Hell, integration is critical to a decent desktop. You take that away, then what's the point of even including it?
Bugzilla is there for a reason, you know.. There's a thread trying to get CapitalOne's website working. Most companies are willing to help and are compliant. Some try really hard not to help (ie. CapitalOne)
You can still look this up via DNS, but it takes much, much longer.
Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly, but I think a script that does a dig on the domains would be a lot faster than manually looking each up in a whois.. Or the same amount of time as writing a script to run the whois. Someone please explain to me what I'm missing?
my thoughts exactly.. Quick search on google comes across this page with *ooooh* pretty pictures.
I just start typing and it seems to work for me using a Mozilla nightly build.. I wandered across this when I forgot to click on a text box and started typing.
2. It's $9.95 a month for _radio_ -- hardly worth it.
What's the status of XM Radio nowadays?
Is is now safe to say that Microsoft's goal is to convert people from using C, C++, Java and VB to .NET?
Seems reasonable: get the competition using product.
Of course, the other solution is, do a Google search and avoid the whole issue.
Don't you mean "google dot com"?
Makes sense.. I knew of the issues with strcpy and strcat beforehand from my intro C classes. It's great that they told us to use strcpy (and ignore warnings, etc) when everything else I've read says not to.
I'm not a 1337 coder and don't pretend to be one so please excuse my ignorance.. What exactly is the exploit with sprintf? I've never used it but now you've sparked my curiosity.
Anyone have any links or posts describing the issue would be appreciated.
From the article: Technicians are advising victims to "hard nuke" their unit -- in other words to reset the machine by entering a new code.
What does that mean, exactly? How would entering any type of "new code" besides a software upgrade protect the box from being hit again?
There's probably a bug or feature that you keep saying to yourself, "I'm sure someone else has noticed/wants this". Most likely someone has. Check out http://bugzilla.mozilla.org.
I'm sure it's almost safe to assume your bug/feature has already been reported.
You're confusing the issue at hand. Your quote:
Doesn't really have to be an issue, if we aren't harming the individual the stem cells are harvested from, as is the case when they are taken from say a liposuction patient.
Article quote:
The university scientists' eventual aim was to create an early stage human embryo from which stem cells could be harvested
It seems to me this thread is about harvesting embryos. You destroy the embryo in the process. You don't destroy the adult in the process of harvesting his/her fat.
If you go to college, you'll understand more obscure jokes modded up as funny here on slashdot. Isn't that enough incentive?
I'm not -really- a karma whore... I just pretend I am sometimes.
What is ground effect, you ask? Karma Whore to the rescue!
From the company (might be slashdotted sooner or later)
A good site
More info, no pics.
'we need to cover bandwidth, hardware, and people costs. Profit would be nice, though.'
I'm probably wrong, but it seems to me that this method rarely results in even covering costs.
"The hope is that, by enabling vehicles to transmit crash data instantly and by creating a central repository for the collection of that data, the system can improve experts' understanding of auto crashes and reduce accident-related fatalities."
Did you even read the article?
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For true completeness.
That's assuming that any contest entries automatically become the property of Google.
From the contest page:
With regard to an entry you submit as part of the Contest, you grant Google a worldwide, perpetual, fully paid-up, non-exclusive license to make, sell, or use the technology related thereto, including but not limited to the software, algorithms, techniques, concepts, etc., associated with the entry.
So yup.
(disclaimer: im just a undergrad CE student that had to take this physics class last quarter so i may be off in my terminology)
It's all about statistical mechanics and entropy.. as a system gets larger and larger, the more possible states it can be in, and the more likely some will and others wont exist.
For a few atoms, it can look like a bell curve, with possible states occurring everywhere... but move into a larger system and more states can exist and less states (ie. more likely one) really -do- exist. This is how all the air molecules in a room suddenly don't converge into one corner of the room.. It's just Not Likely. It's possible, but very very very very Not Likely.
Read "Six Ideas that Shaped Phsics" Unit T.. it goes into quite a lot of detail
The new book is not a Hitchhiker's book - there are already five of those - or a Dirk Gently book, but "it will be recognizable in style to anyone who knows those books." It also won't be The Salmon of Doubt.
"I abandoned [The Salmon of Doubt] about halfway through because I just thought it was getting too dull," Adams said. "Since then, I've now got lots and lots of different story lines waiting for me to turn them into books. One of them I shall apply the title Salmon of Doubt to, but I don't know which one yet."
Anyone know if the one being published was the "dull" book he never finished or another one?
-Daniel
Worse than Compaq? Geez.. When I lived in the dorms last year, there was a nice cross-section of computers among the 80 or so students in my building. Compaq laptops and desktops were notorious for just not wanting to work right. Random crashes all the time.. Random problems and come and go. I don't really have anything against them; I just never had much luck working with them..
-Daniel
He joked about this at the Linux World Expo, SF. Some type of semi-exponential way of charging for it.. Let the first 25-50 be affordable and everything past that just get expensive. Why not?