it doesn't even indicate what version of Windows the system he's talking about uses - there IS an embedded version of Windows available for such tasks, you know.
I presume you mean Windows CE?
I'm on a team that (among other things) makes BSPs for Windows CE. Did you know that every single driver in CE5 runs in user mode? Ayup. They're simple DLL files that device.exe launches and runs as threads. Just at a slightly higher priority than Pocket Word.
Think about that a moment.
The drivers crash just like programs too. They just...bail. Suddenly the device the DLL is providing an interface to is simply gone. They don't run in supervisor mode, so they are susceptible to every single thing that can crash a regular program.
They're starting to fix this in CE6, but naturally Microsoft's solution is...to do both!
In typical MS fashion, they are fixing a clusterfuck by mixing it with what they should have been doing in the first place, thereby making an even larger clusterfuck.
A lot of the time riders are done strictly for political maneuvering.
A bill is brought before the house that takes the entire budget for NASA and gives it to parks and recreation. Person in political party A attaches a rider to it that increases penalties for child pornographers.
Person in party B votes against disbanding NASA. Now Person A can claim - "Vote for me! I didn't vote down a bill to protect our children from pornographers!"
This is why I wish bills to be more concise. Pick a topic, make a bill, pass or don't pass it into law.
I would love it if the people in Congress had enough spine to simply stand up as one and say ENOUGH. We will automatically vote down anything too broad in scope, or loaded with riders.
It's a dream I have. I know. I stand a better chance of being struck by lightning while holding a winning lottery ticket. During a blue moon in a leap year. That's a prime number.
Vote against the bill, denying law enforcements precious tools (He didn't)
Why not vote against it?
Why not punish the people who draft bills that are too broad in scope or have insane riders on them and let them know that if they want laws passed they should learn to be concise? Or how about actually standing up for their constituents?
What the hell is wrong with the government working for the people it's supposed to represent for a freaking change?
Obama has clearly stated he is against granting the telecoms immunity; there's simply nothing yuo can do when OTHER blue dog democrats with cushy incumbent seats wantto retain their fat lobbyist paychecks and vote with their wallets.
WRONG. Yes there is. How about voting your conscience rather than rolling over and taking it up the tailpipe? This is supposed to be a leadership value?
Please don't think I'm a Republican when I type this, but if this is Obama's idea of "Change" - well, it looks like the same old same old to me.
Well, it's rare when it's this freaking blatant. But you do make a good point. For every time we get to actually see it, I'm sure ten more go zinging by in the night.
So speaking of blatant, have the Democrats given any sort of explanation at all why they've decided to give this administration a pass on this? What's their cover story on this one?
I already know the answer - "Because we're paid for." Of course they won't say that. It'd be the truth, which is like freaking Kryptonite to politicians. But I'd love to hear the excuse to cover.
It's not that they don't have the backbone to stand up to Bush. They have no wish to. Rare moments like these let you know who the real master is. Money. Money and the people/corporations who have large piles of it. Like gigantic telcos in this particular instance.
The whole two party noise machine is just there to dull the wits of the masses and make them think they can change things.
They can't.
Remember how happy the Democrats were when the Congress became 51% Democratic? How's that working out so far? Fat lot of good it did, wouldn't you say?
Face it - we're bought and paid for. You might as well vote for Mickey Mouse for all fucking the good it does.
Oh yeah, I like the idea of it. It's brilliant. And compared to the space shuttle it seems pretty affordable. But with needing exotic locations and the multibillion price tag, this project seems like something that you'd need to be a government to pull off. I don't see Virgin Galactic having this kind of clout.
It would have to be 2000km long. That would be a little bit pricey. And it would have to be built over the ocean because the momentum of the thing if it breaks would be equivalent to a nuke going off. I hate to go all George Carlin, but Not In My Back Yard.
'It's possible, given enough computing power, for computers to play "perfectly," where over a long enough match, the program cannot lose money," said associate professor Michael Bowling.'"
Impossible.
Here's why. Put four of these at the same table with no humans.
The dubious bit is that warning lights go off in my head every time someone mentions Al-Qaeda because usually it's someone trying to scare me for political reasons.
Yup, and the next question to ask is what are they trying to scare you away from?
The answer in this case is privacy. Al-Qaeda uses PGP! They'd like people to link those two things together if possible. If you're obeying the law you have nothing to hide! And so on.
So nobody would want those application built if Java didn't exist?
It is what it is. And that's what people are running today. When you look for a job you don't get to do it in an ideal world.
You might be better off using that time to network.
Well, I'm not looking at the moment. The cert is really just a door opener, should the time come. I'm not a only-on-paper engineer. I have other qualifications much bigger than a dippy cert that Sun hands out. So I'm not sweating it much.
It doesn't matter how super-zappo your favorite language is if it doesn't put food on the table. Your likes and dislikes don't figure into it when it comes to a job. See Maslow's hierarchy of needs for further clarification.
Go to Careerbuilder and look up Java jobs. And while you're there look up.NET (which is pretty much Microsoft's Java). The jobs run 60/40 in favor of.NET. But there's dozens of them. High paying, too.
I'm currently studying for my Java certification. Why? Because I love Java?
Nope. Because it's good to have something to fall back on. I'll get a.NET cert too, as icky as that sounds. I have a family and I have to think of them first.
Drilling there will change things, and not for the better. Period. An oil well is at the very least not as visually pleasing as what nature has put there.
The depth and degree to which we are going to screw things up depends on human fallibility and dumb luck. How much, and when. Will it merely be visual nuisances? Or will we have an inland Valdez type disaster? I can't predict the degree to which oil drilling will change things for the worse, but it will.
And on a personal note, quit being such a nit-picky douchebag.
Not the best example - my dad was a gearhead and told me never to do this. Here's why. He got to watch one fail pretty spectacularly once. Guy lived to tell about it though - sheer luck.
So yeah, I know not everything that has a hole drilled in it is automatically bad. I get where you were going with that. But Alaska probably isn't on that list.
Can you explain how you've come to the conclusion that drilling in Alaska is "guaranteed" to screw it up, or are you just making shit up? Sure thing, fella.
Drilling a bunch of holes in something is pretty much a working definition of screwing it up. Add into that the fact that fallible people are running the show and you pretty much have a "not if, but when" scenario.
Not you, nor anyone else can predict what the outcome of drilling in Alaska wold be, so both sides shooting off their idiot mouths with unsubstantiated predictions is ridiculous.
Of course I can't predict. "Pray for sunshine, plan for rain." Ever hear of that one?
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You can do what you want with Linux. Be pure. Or not.
Either way it's up to you.
But of course! They invented supervisor mode on a lark, simply because they like taking up die space with useless instructions.
it doesn't even indicate what version of Windows the system he's talking about uses - there IS an embedded version of Windows available for such tasks, you know.
I presume you mean Windows CE?
I'm on a team that (among other things) makes BSPs for Windows CE. Did you know that every single driver in CE5 runs in user mode? Ayup. They're simple DLL files that device.exe launches and runs as threads. Just at a slightly higher priority than Pocket Word.
Think about that a moment.
The drivers crash just like programs too. They just...bail. Suddenly the device the DLL is providing an interface to is simply gone. They don't run in supervisor mode, so they are susceptible to every single thing that can crash a regular program.
They're starting to fix this in CE6, but naturally Microsoft's solution is...to do both!
In typical MS fashion, they are fixing a clusterfuck by mixing it with what they should have been doing in the first place, thereby making an even larger clusterfuck.
A lot of the time riders are done strictly for political maneuvering.
A bill is brought before the house that takes the entire budget for NASA and gives it to parks and recreation. Person in political party A attaches a rider to it that increases penalties for child pornographers.
Person in party B votes against disbanding NASA. Now Person A can claim - "Vote for me! I didn't vote down a bill to protect our children from pornographers!"
This is why I wish bills to be more concise. Pick a topic, make a bill, pass or don't pass it into law.
I would love it if the people in Congress had enough spine to simply stand up as one and say ENOUGH. We will automatically vote down anything too broad in scope, or loaded with riders.
It's a dream I have. I know. I stand a better chance of being struck by lightning while holding a winning lottery ticket. During a blue moon in a leap year. That's a prime number.
Vote against the bill, denying law enforcements precious tools (He didn't)
Why not vote against it?
Why not punish the people who draft bills that are too broad in scope or have insane riders on them and let them know that if they want laws passed they should learn to be concise? Or how about actually standing up for their constituents?
What the hell is wrong with the government working for the people it's supposed to represent for a freaking change?
Obama has clearly stated he is against granting the telecoms immunity; there's simply nothing yuo can do when OTHER blue dog democrats with cushy incumbent seats wantto retain their fat lobbyist paychecks and vote with their wallets.
WRONG. Yes there is. How about voting your conscience rather than rolling over and taking it up the tailpipe? This is supposed to be a leadership value?
Please don't think I'm a Republican when I type this, but if this is Obama's idea of "Change" - well, it looks like the same old same old to me.
Well, it's rare when it's this freaking blatant. But you do make a good point. For every time we get to actually see it, I'm sure ten more go zinging by in the night.
So speaking of blatant, have the Democrats given any sort of explanation at all why they've decided to give this administration a pass on this? What's their cover story on this one?
I already know the answer - "Because we're paid for." Of course they won't say that. It'd be the truth, which is like freaking Kryptonite to politicians. But I'd love to hear the excuse to cover.
It's an illusion.
It's not that they don't have the backbone to stand up to Bush. They have no wish to. Rare moments like these let you know who the real master is. Money. Money and the people/corporations who have large piles of it. Like gigantic telcos in this particular instance.
The whole two party noise machine is just there to dull the wits of the masses and make them think they can change things.
They can't.
Remember how happy the Democrats were when the Congress became 51% Democratic? How's that working out so far? Fat lot of good it did, wouldn't you say?
Face it - we're bought and paid for. You might as well vote for Mickey Mouse for all fucking the good it does.
80 mph, not mpg. Damn typos.
The site is Flash, so I can't give you a direct link but check out the Triac.
80 mpg max, 100 mile range. Five hours to go from flat battery to full charge. And they're $20k - slightly cheaper than an A package Prius.
Oh yeah, I like the idea of it. It's brilliant. And compared to the space shuttle it seems pretty affordable. But with needing exotic locations and the multibillion price tag, this project seems like something that you'd need to be a government to pull off. I don't see Virgin Galactic having this kind of clout.
It's an interesting idea, but holy crap did you read the Wiki page on launch loops?
It would have to be 2000km long. That would be a little bit pricey. And it would have to be built over the ocean because the momentum of the thing if it breaks would be equivalent to a nuke going off. I hate to go all George Carlin, but Not In My Back Yard.
You told me to go back to the beginning, so I have.
'It's possible, given enough computing power, for computers to play "perfectly," where over a long enough match, the program cannot lose money," said associate professor Michael Bowling.'"
Impossible.
Here's why. Put four of these at the same table with no humans.
Someone will *have* to be the loser.
If you tried, you'd miss by 1/2.
...vanity plates were bad.
They have the code and the rights to Windows XP. Just make an application layer that runs WinXP stuff in a manner similar to how VMware Fusion does.
The dubious bit is that warning lights go off in my head every time someone mentions Al-Qaeda because usually it's someone trying to scare me for political reasons.
Yup, and the next question to ask is what are they trying to scare you away from?
The answer in this case is privacy. Al-Qaeda uses PGP! They'd like people to link those two things together if possible. If you're obeying the law you have nothing to hide! And so on.
Why the hell would you model an asteroid with some improbable shape like a cube?
Oh for fuck's sake.
I cannot predict the magnitude of the change. There is no contradiction.
You nit picky douchebag.
It is what it is. And that's what people are running today. When you look for a job you don't get to do it in an ideal world.
You might be better off using that time to network.Well, I'm not looking at the moment. The cert is really just a door opener, should the time come. I'm not a only-on-paper engineer. I have other qualifications much bigger than a dippy cert that Sun hands out. So I'm not sweating it much.
Can I get an amen?
It doesn't matter how super-zappo your favorite language is if it doesn't put food on the table. Your likes and dislikes don't figure into it when it comes to a job. See Maslow's hierarchy of needs for further clarification.
Go to Careerbuilder and look up Java jobs. And while you're there look up .NET (which is pretty much Microsoft's Java). The jobs run 60/40 in favor of .NET. But there's dozens of them. High paying, too.
I'm currently studying for my Java certification. Why? Because I love Java?
Nope. Because it's good to have something to fall back on. I'll get a .NET cert too, as icky as that sounds. I have a family and I have to think of them first.
Drilling there will change things, and not for the better. Period. An oil well is at the very least not as visually pleasing as what nature has put there.
The depth and degree to which we are going to screw things up depends on human fallibility and dumb luck. How much, and when. Will it merely be visual nuisances? Or will we have an inland Valdez type disaster? I can't predict the degree to which oil drilling will change things for the worse, but it will.
And on a personal note, quit being such a nit-picky douchebag.
Not the best example - my dad was a gearhead and told me never to do this. Here's why. He got to watch one fail pretty spectacularly once. Guy lived to tell about it though - sheer luck.
So yeah, I know not everything that has a hole drilled in it is automatically bad. I get where you were going with that. But Alaska probably isn't on that list.
Of course I can't predict. "Pray for sunshine, plan for rain." Ever hear of that one?
You're obviously not an engineer.
You're assuming that OPEC and other sellers won't decrease output to keep production (and therefore, prices) exactly where they are.
All drilling in Alaska is guaranteed to do is to screw up Alaska.