God I remember my high school IT setup. They had taken these Macs running OS8 and 9 (no memory protection, yay!) and loaded this ridiculous multi-user setup, so that whenever you logged on, it would copy all your files over.
When they first started, the file server had about 1.5 megs per students, and no quotas, so of course that filled up in about a week.
Then they got more hard drives, but if you had a lot of files it would take forever to log on. I was doing a video project and had about 100mb of files, it took 10 minutes to log on.
Finaly, one day the system crashed while logging on and left me with none of my files. Of course, when I logged back out, it 'synched' them and deleted everything. FUN. No backups either.
People who work IT in high schools are uniformly idiots. This is exacerbated by having a network full of immature people, many of whom are far more knowledgeable then the IT person.
I learned programming on my own, at home. I got my first computer in 1995 and I bought a copy of Turbo C++ to go with it and wrote win16 programs : ). I also taught myself basic, x86 assembler, javascript, and Java.
Computers no longer ship with an easy to use basic that gives instant results.
Why do people keep saying this? It's so idiotic. 100% of computers come with a browser, which can be programmed in javascript using a text editor. I think most kids probably learn to program that way these days.
They have a patent for not charging latefees. WTF? That's the most insane thing I've ever heard. I'm going to patent cars that don't use internal combustion engines or batteries and then sue everyone when they try to make a fuel cell car, or any car that uses another technology that hasn't been invented.
Brilliant.
Although, since I'm not charging late fees right now I suppose I'm violating netflix patent.
clearly indicate how Apple will be "bringing it" against Vista with Leopard. Apple is positioning Windows as the broken down, patched up, late again has-been with too many promises and too few benefits - but we'll do what Microsoft can't - get Windows running on new, nicer hardware in very little time. Apple makes Microsoft look like fools, especially by touting EFI and the fact that Windows STILL won't support it in Vista.
Apple just makes something up, and proclaims it's "Better" then the competition. The BIOS works fine, why change it just to be "Cool" and break 20 years of backwards compatability?
Think about how much technology advanced between 1935 and 1945. Compare that to the advancement between 1960 and 1970.
The problem, though is that we have nuclear weapons, so there's no reason to on-the ground wars at all.
Still, if the iraq war were to continue, I could imagine a million-strong robot army would actually help us put a dent in the insurgency, without taking the kinds of casualties that make the war so distastefull at home. Robot soldures could take risks that real soldures can't, so they could be a lot more careful in not killing civilians.
Plus, it would really demoralize the insurgency. They know they can scare us off if they keep killing soldures, but you can never kill enough robots.
How on earth can masturbation cause you to lose your job? I mean that's what were talking about here, masturbation with stimulous vs. masturbation without stimulous.
I used to be a Sony fan, I knew they were over-priced even, but I liked their style. I had a Sony digital camera and I loved it. But since their DRM thing, and the fact that they have to use memory sticks rather then SD sticks in their cameras has made me put them on the shit list with Nike. I just won't buy thier products.
God, this page practically has more words of ad-sense then then it does of content. And such vapid conclusions too.
Anyway, ugly websites do well, that's for sure. Cragslist, Fark, Slashdot. All of those are site that have been popular over the years. I doubt an ugly site could compete today...
here is her myspace profile. There's a pic of her munching pills (which are supposed to vitamin C) that she posted, so that one might be what turned employers off.
Simple solution: Educate your friend(s) on on-line privacy issues and teach them basic security skills like using http://gnupg.org/ to encrypt your e-mail while you are at it.
I've actually used this in a fictional story. The main character detects the root-kit by buying an identical machine, and then timing system calls. Certan emulated rootkits have different timing signatures, and she's able to figure out which one is running based on that, and then exploit holes in the virtual machine itself to disable it.
Well, what are you storing in your database? A simple hierarchy is captured pretty well with a standard, relational database with foreign keys. If you think of trees as a subset of graphs, and a relational database as a graph, you can see that any tree can be encoded as a relational database, you just need a table for every separate type of object.
Going further, you can also see that any and all graphs can be expressed as a relational database, just have a "node" table and an "edge" table. (and probably an attributes table for attributes of nodes and edges, to store your data).
In memory, you may end up with something much more complicated then a tree, with lots of back links and whatnot. That can't be encoded as a tree, but it can be encoded as a relational database.
(I'd love to see someone come up with a graph query language. Get ready for NP-complete queries!)
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Personally, I think relational databases are great. Not because they're 'the way data is' but because they require the programmer to actually sit down and *think* about the data they are saving, and make something that's comprehensible.
On the other hand, if they can just save whatever and have it persist, then you might end up with god knows what in your files. Different programs, and even worse: different versions of the same programs might not be able to read the tree properly.
On the other hand, yes, it would be much easier to write the code in the first place if you didn't have to write a DAL to convert your objects to queries and vice-versa.
That stuff sounds really interesting. Do you have links for some of the research? I've heard of hibernate, but not the JPA. Is that going to be part of the standard JRE? I hate having my code rely on goofy 3rd party add-ons.
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I'm so used to seeing fake obits on slashdot I have trouble taking this seriously. Crikey indeed.
A real nerd would have pluged the domain into netcraft. y2m.com is on a completly diffrent netblock then e-xpedient.com.
Stricker RB has 125 articles in Pubmed and a Long CV.
The only viral marketing campaign here is the one claming that the disease is just a viral marketing campaign!
That's absurd. Of course you can master a language. When you really good, the language doesn't even matter.
God I remember my high school IT setup. They had taken these Macs running OS8 and 9 (no memory protection, yay!) and loaded this ridiculous multi-user setup, so that whenever you logged on, it would copy all your files over.
When they first started, the file server had about 1.5 megs per students, and no quotas, so of course that filled up in about a week.
Then they got more hard drives, but if you had a lot of files it would take forever to log on. I was doing a video project and had about 100mb of files, it took 10 minutes to log on.
Finaly, one day the system crashed while logging on and left me with none of my files. Of course, when I logged back out, it 'synched' them and deleted everything. FUN. No backups either.
People who work IT in high schools are uniformly idiots. This is exacerbated by having a network full of immature people, many of whom are far more knowledgeable then the IT person.
I learned programming on my own, at home. I got my first computer in 1995 and I bought a copy of Turbo C++ to go with it and wrote win16 programs : ). I also taught myself basic, x86 assembler, javascript, and Java.
Computers no longer ship with an easy to use basic that gives instant results.
Why do people keep saying this? It's so idiotic. 100% of computers come with a browser, which can be programmed in javascript using a text editor. I think most kids probably learn to program that way these days.
They have a patent for not charging latefees. WTF? That's the most insane thing I've ever heard. I'm going to patent cars that don't use internal combustion engines or batteries and then sue everyone when they try to make a fuel cell car, or any car that uses another technology that hasn't been invented.
Brilliant.
Although, since I'm not charging late fees right now I suppose I'm violating netflix patent.
clearly indicate how Apple will be "bringing it" against Vista with Leopard. Apple is positioning Windows as the broken down, patched up, late again has-been with too many promises and too few benefits - but we'll do what Microsoft can't - get Windows running on new, nicer hardware in very little time. Apple makes Microsoft look like fools, especially by touting EFI and the fact that Windows STILL won't support it in Vista.
Apple just makes something up, and proclaims it's "Better" then the competition. The BIOS works fine, why change it just to be "Cool" and break 20 years of backwards compatability?
Think about how much technology advanced between 1935 and 1945. Compare that to the advancement between 1960 and 1970.
The problem, though is that we have nuclear weapons, so there's no reason to on-the ground wars at all.
Still, if the iraq war were to continue, I could imagine a million-strong robot army would actually help us put a dent in the insurgency, without taking the kinds of casualties that make the war so distastefull at home. Robot soldures could take risks that real soldures can't, so they could be a lot more careful in not killing civilians.
Plus, it would really demoralize the insurgency. They know they can scare us off if they keep killing soldures, but you can never kill enough robots.
How on earth can masturbation cause you to lose your job? I mean that's what were talking about here, masturbation with stimulous vs. masturbation without stimulous.
This 'addiction' stuff is nonsense.
Dosn't bose sell overprice crap?
I used to be a Sony fan, I knew they were over-priced even, but I liked their style. I had a Sony digital camera and I loved it. But since their DRM thing, and the fact that they have to use memory sticks rather then SD sticks in their cameras has made me put them on the shit list with Nike. I just won't buy thier products.
Ah well.
Who wrote this crap, Jon Katz?
I remember reading about this in Wired magazine a long time ago, some Russian guy claimed to have done it, and everyone dismissed him as a crackpot.
Each episode of the new starwars movies was supposed to be 'darker' then the last, and each one was ridiculous.
Still, if it means that someone else will be doing the directing, it will have to be an improvement.
God, this page practically has more words of ad-sense then then it does of content. And such vapid conclusions too.
Anyway, ugly websites do well, that's for sure. Cragslist, Fark, Slashdot. All of those are site that have been popular over the years. I doubt an ugly site could compete today...
If I were an employer, I'd be impressed, but also worried that you'd spend all day posting on the internet (much like I do :P)
here is her myspace profile. There's a pic of her munching pills (which are supposed to vitamin C) that she posted, so that one might be what turned employers off.
Simple solution: Educate your friend(s) on on-line privacy issues and teach them basic security skills like using http://gnupg.org/ to encrypt your e-mail while you are at it.
Uh, that dosn't sound very simple at all.
Like the AIDS virus or SARS? You'd think they would have spent the money already...
21st century Jewish (ashiknazi) exceptionalism is just as much psudoscience as Nazi eugenics programs and racial BS of the 20th and 19th century.
I remember people making fun of James Wagner Au about something a long-ass time ago.
I've actually used this in a fictional story. The main character detects the root-kit by buying an identical machine, and then timing system calls. Certan emulated rootkits have different timing signatures, and she's able to figure out which one is running based on that, and then exploit holes in the virtual machine itself to disable it.
Ouch.
There were linebrakes in that when I hit the "submit" button...
Well, what are you storing in your database? A simple hierarchy is captured pretty well with a standard, relational database with foreign keys. If you think of trees as a subset of graphs, and a relational database as a graph, you can see that any tree can be encoded as a relational database, you just need a table for every separate type of object. Going further, you can also see that any and all graphs can be expressed as a relational database, just have a "node" table and an "edge" table. (and probably an attributes table for attributes of nodes and edges, to store your data). In memory, you may end up with something much more complicated then a tree, with lots of back links and whatnot. That can't be encoded as a tree, but it can be encoded as a relational database. (I'd love to see someone come up with a graph query language. Get ready for NP-complete queries!) --- Personally, I think relational databases are great. Not because they're 'the way data is' but because they require the programmer to actually sit down and *think* about the data they are saving, and make something that's comprehensible. On the other hand, if they can just save whatever and have it persist, then you might end up with god knows what in your files. Different programs, and even worse: different versions of the same programs might not be able to read the tree properly. On the other hand, yes, it would be much easier to write the code in the first place if you didn't have to write a DAL to convert your objects to queries and vice-versa.
That stuff sounds really interesting. Do you have links for some of the research? I've heard of hibernate, but not the JPA. Is that going to be part of the standard JRE? I hate having my code rely on goofy 3rd party add-ons.