For the trillion dollars we're going to dump into Iraq for what can only be passably rationalized as oil and energy security (the alternative: a shallow dream to one-up your dad), we could be making major strides in research and implementation of wind and solar farms, huge incentives toward energy efficient vehicles, subsidizing hybrid models of existing gasoline engines, algae-based biodiesel, the list goes on.
Oh, and I apologize to republicans everywhere, it's not that you're stupid.
Fundamentally, most military spending is as good for the economy as paying someone to dig a ditch and then fill it back in. The only payback we get from military spending is research and development that trickles back into the economy via things such as computer systems, aircraft, etc.
But that's not much. Most money is lost in weapons that are never used, or if they ARE used, blow up things that then we have to eventually pay to replace (see Iraq reconstruction). This is a massive inefficiency no matter how you add it up.
Right. That's why some people are complaining about Mercury and Dioxin pollution blowing over to the US from China. But I admittedly only heard this on NPR this morning, so I got squat for numbers, just like you.
This is completely false. There are fundamental mathematical limits to the amount you can compress data in a lossless format. In fact, each compression format ususally has overhead on the file to store the mapping data to decode/decompress it. That overhead+the compressed file is usually less than the original file, until you run the compressor once or twice. Then the file doesn't compress at all, and the compression record overhead actually increases the overall file size.
It's only for Java-land, but it automates huge swaths of AJAX overhead and allows you to directly call java classes (yes there is a security model controlling what can be invoked).
DWR handles:
- the xml http connection cross-browser
- "marshalls" between Java objects/parameters and JavaScript objects, including javascript mock-ups of Collections, beans, arrays, lists
- adds a bunch of useful JS utilities as well
Now, keeping state between the instantiation of objects is a bit of a pain, but still, this is as easy as it gets. For enterprise web apps, this is an enormously powerful tool. Enterprise web apps can enforce the use of a modern browser. People can stick their heads in the sand all they want, AJAX is here and its changing web development. AJAX is also forcing the web browsers to conform more since AJAX is so JS and CSS heavy. Until MS tries to destandardize it, but what's the difference in appraoches between XAML-IE and XUL-Mozilla? Both are/will be browser-specific. And that's why both will be limited outside of most web development.
Now, I don't want my endorsement of AJAX to bleed into the idiots marketspeaking about Web 2.0. That's a bunch of BS.
Our "defense" department is only minimally defensive. The fundamental design of our military is offensive and aggressive, built on the projection of power globally.
The primary example of this is the aircraft carrier and its associated air power elements, which allows the US to attack any target in the world within a week if not a day. This advantage subjugates any defenses of a target country.
ICBMs are likewise designed for intimidation and aggression. Whereas the soviet-era ICBM standoff was defense by mutual destruction, now our ICBMs threaten any country not armed with similar capability with instantaneous death.
Our long-range bomber fleet is likewise a power projection (offensive) unit, for the delivery of bombs over distances thousands of miles from our borders
Even ground forces have been reconfigured for maximum mobility, so that full effective ground combat can be waged anywhere in the world in the span of a month. This delay is considered acceptable since that provides a month for our air and sea forces to gain air superiority and soften any defenses.
The implicit reason for this is maintenance and coercion of our economic projects throughout the world, in order to sustain the resource consumption of America's economy. Our overconsumption leads to the reality that we must project power (via offensive threats) in order to "defend" our "security" (availability of resources)
This can only be concluded to mean we are an imperialistic aggressive country. Any pretensions to the contrary is strictly propaganda.
I recall playing with DOSbox and playing with the cycles. But it just didn't run very fast. DOSbox has numerous problems in other arenas as well. Perhaps the new dynamic recompiling engine they're supposedly working on will help...
Anyone know any combination of recent hardware (i.e. you can buy it new) that is fully compatible with DOS 7, DOS game devices, and DOS sound cards?
Most modern Mobos have integrated AC'97 sound that isn't DOS compatible. I bought a dos soundcard that supposedly had a dos compatibility Soundblaster emulator, but it didn't work.
I'm currently using an old laptop that has a port extender with all the good stuff. But I'd like a cheap box with a huge hard drive to do DOS games with.
Spare me with the DOSBox/VirtualPC/VMWare posts. Those can't run Master of Orion with sound at an acceptable speed on modern CPUS. ANyone got a NewEgg wishlist that will do what I'm talking about?
Must be slashdot:
- Uninformed comment near the top? check
- Pointless flamebait modded to Score 5? check
- Disingenuous and patently ridiculous to boot? check
- Complete ignorance to the turing equivalency to all languages? of course
Wow. I'm making a study. Apparently in french:
"Voulez-Vous Couchez Avec Moi?"
In English
It has come to the attention of my biological subsystems that I find you sexually fit and attractive, and thus would like to engage in procreative attempts in order to further the expansion of my genetic sequences in the Hobbesian environment we live in. Do you find such a query to be to your liking and predilection?
I winced at the first episode, it wasn't very good. Then I gave it a second chance a few weeks later. It was MUCH better. The Word totally saved that show.
Are you kidding me? Are you saying that Gates and Allen are lost warlock masters of Computer Science and programming languages.
You make it seem like Allen and Gates are Einstein and Newton, the ONLY people capable of writing a compiler/interpreter. PLEASE. As if they designed BASIC? Which is why it was on Apple ][s. This is not proof of "great men" theory of history. They just happened to be willing to write BASIC for it.
I mean, if MS hadn't been such bastards, we would have had a far better DOS from IBM or DR-DOS, and would have transitioned to OS/2 with true preemptive multitasking. Or we would have had NeXTs on the desktops, or a better clone of MacOS.
Back to the land of disingenous specious baseless arguments. No more of that here. What am I kidding? This is slashdot.
If you had an ounce of understanding of web architecture, you'd know that AJAX would actually alleviate those problems. You know (A)synchronously loading the ads via (J)avascript with an (A)PI that calls (X)ML data about the ads.
Fanboy dipshits like this will totally screw up any meaningful advancement of HTML 5, webforms 2, or the like. Probably some stupid underemployed californian with nothing better to do than get too many colonic cleansings, go to oxygen bars, and yogurtlates (that's doing pilates in a organic yogurt bath).
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Can't say the same about the cowards at the helm these days.
Considering she's 99% cyborg, how is GITS any different than other inside-a-robot animes? It's one of the underlying themes of the series.
Just like evangelion just uses the powerful imagery of mecha as a vehicle of introspection into human psychology.
For the trillion dollars we're going to dump into Iraq for what can only be passably rationalized as oil and energy security (the alternative: a shallow dream to one-up your dad), we could be making major strides in research and implementation of wind and solar farms, huge incentives toward energy efficient vehicles, subsidizing hybrid models of existing gasoline engines, algae-based biodiesel, the list goes on.
Oh, and I apologize to republicans everywhere, it's not that you're stupid.
You just don't care.
Fundamentally, most military spending is as good for the economy as paying someone to dig a ditch and then fill it back in. The only payback we get from military spending is research and development that trickles back into the economy via things such as computer systems, aircraft, etc.
But that's not much. Most money is lost in weapons that are never used, or if they ARE used, blow up things that then we have to eventually pay to replace (see Iraq reconstruction). This is a massive inefficiency no matter how you add it up.
Right. That's why some people are complaining about Mercury and Dioxin pollution blowing over to the US from China. But I admittedly only heard this on NPR this morning, so I got squat for numbers, just like you.
I know the holocaust/hitler is Godwin's law territory.
But if hundreds of millions to billions of people are famished or killed over this, then the holocaust isn't even in the same order of magnitude.
Given that possibility, lumping crass industry-sponsored devils-advocate anti-environmentalist pundits with holocaust deniers is pretty appropriate.
Unless of course you're on ostrich with its head in the ground denying Global Warming.
nuff said
Did this kid?
This is completely false. There are fundamental mathematical limits to the amount you can compress data in a lossless format. In fact, each compression format ususally has overhead on the file to store the mapping data to decode/decompress it. That overhead+the compressed file is usually less than the original file, until you run the compressor once or twice. Then the file doesn't compress at all, and the compression record overhead actually increases the overall file size.
I don't actually use that many beans, but I haven't noticed many problems. I'm using v1.1, what version were you using?
So said a wise man to me in the late 90s.
Haven't seen much else, so I'm guessing more fraud.
It's only for Java-land, but it automates huge swaths of AJAX overhead and allows you to directly call java classes (yes there is a security model controlling what can be invoked).
DWR handles:
- the xml http connection cross-browser
- "marshalls" between Java objects/parameters and JavaScript objects, including javascript mock-ups of Collections, beans, arrays, lists
- adds a bunch of useful JS utilities as well
Now, keeping state between the instantiation of objects is a bit of a pain, but still, this is as easy as it gets. For enterprise web apps, this is an enormously powerful tool. Enterprise web apps can enforce the use of a modern browser. People can stick their heads in the sand all they want, AJAX is here and its changing web development. AJAX is also forcing the web browsers to conform more since AJAX is so JS and CSS heavy. Until MS tries to destandardize it, but what's the difference in appraoches between XAML-IE and XUL-Mozilla? Both are/will be browser-specific. And that's why both will be limited outside of most web development.
Now, I don't want my endorsement of AJAX to bleed into the idiots marketspeaking about Web 2.0. That's a bunch of BS.
Unless I forgot, a single order of magnitude is 10x, not 1000x.
Peta = 1 000 Tera = 1 000 000 Giga = 1 000 000 000 Mega
A recreation of my thought process while reading the header:
Neat! A new mp3 player!
Cool! They're putting design effort into it!
Hey! Small and good battery life!
Microsoft? (cue skidding sound in background)
Next article.
Our "defense" department is only minimally defensive. The fundamental design of our military is offensive and aggressive, built on the projection of power globally.
The primary example of this is the aircraft carrier and its associated air power elements, which allows the US to attack any target in the world within a week if not a day. This advantage subjugates any defenses of a target country.
ICBMs are likewise designed for intimidation and aggression. Whereas the soviet-era ICBM standoff was defense by mutual destruction, now our ICBMs threaten any country not armed with similar capability with instantaneous death.
Our long-range bomber fleet is likewise a power projection (offensive) unit, for the delivery of bombs over distances thousands of miles from our borders
Even ground forces have been reconfigured for maximum mobility, so that full effective ground combat can be waged anywhere in the world in the span of a month. This delay is considered acceptable since that provides a month for our air and sea forces to gain air superiority and soften any defenses.
The implicit reason for this is maintenance and coercion of our economic projects throughout the world, in order to sustain the resource consumption of America's economy. Our overconsumption leads to the reality that we must project power (via offensive threats) in order to "defend" our "security" (availability of resources)
This can only be concluded to mean we are an imperialistic aggressive country. Any pretensions to the contrary is strictly propaganda.
I recall playing with DOSbox and playing with the cycles. But it just didn't run very fast. DOSbox has numerous problems in other arenas as well. Perhaps the new dynamic recompiling engine they're supposedly working on will help...
I'll give it another shot
Anyone know any combination of recent hardware (i.e. you can buy it new) that is fully compatible with DOS 7, DOS game devices, and DOS sound cards?
Most modern Mobos have integrated AC'97 sound that isn't DOS compatible. I bought a dos soundcard that supposedly had a dos compatibility Soundblaster emulator, but it didn't work.
I'm currently using an old laptop that has a port extender with all the good stuff. But I'd like a cheap box with a huge hard drive to do DOS games with.
Spare me with the DOSBox/VirtualPC/VMWare posts. Those can't run Master of Orion with sound at an acceptable speed on modern CPUS. ANyone got a NewEgg wishlist that will do what I'm talking about?
Not funny. Not. Funny. It's Not. Sorry.
I've seen offices so uniformly H-1B Indian that being Caucasian was a definite negative.
Hardware Device Content Protection. Downsamples to DVD. Bad. Bad. Bad. Do Not Buy.
Must be slashdot:
- Uninformed comment near the top? check
- Pointless flamebait modded to Score 5? check
- Disingenuous and patently ridiculous to boot? check
- Complete ignorance to the turing equivalency to all languages? of course
Wow. I'm making a study. Apparently in french:
"Voulez-Vous Couchez Avec Moi?"
In English
It has come to the attention of my biological subsystems that I find you sexually fit and attractive, and thus would like to engage in procreative attempts in order to further the expansion of my genetic sequences in the Hobbesian environment we live in. Do you find such a query to be to your liking and predilection?
I winced at the first episode, it wasn't very good. Then I gave it a second chance a few weeks later. It was MUCH better. The Word totally saved that show.
Are you kidding me? Are you saying that Gates and Allen are lost warlock masters of Computer Science and programming languages.
You make it seem like Allen and Gates are Einstein and Newton, the ONLY people capable of writing a compiler/interpreter. PLEASE. As if they designed BASIC? Which is why it was on Apple ][s. This is not proof of "great men" theory of history. They just happened to be willing to write BASIC for it.
I mean, if MS hadn't been such bastards, we would have had a far better DOS from IBM or DR-DOS, and would have transitioned to OS/2 with true preemptive multitasking. Or we would have had NeXTs on the desktops, or a better clone of MacOS.
Back to the land of disingenous specious baseless arguments. No more of that here. What am I kidding? This is slashdot.
If you had an ounce of understanding of web architecture, you'd know that AJAX would actually alleviate those problems. You know (A)synchronously loading the ads via (J)avascript with an (A)PI that calls (X)ML data about the ads.
In other words, you are a complete idiot.
Ballistic trajectory? Feng Shui? Unbeleivable.
Fanboy dipshits like this will totally screw up any meaningful advancement of HTML 5, webforms 2, or the like. Probably some stupid underemployed californian with nothing better to do than get too many colonic cleansings, go to oxygen bars, and yogurtlates (that's doing pilates in a organic yogurt bath).