And it was not until March 1995, that CERN handed over the control of the web to the WWW Consortium run by MIT and INRIA (France). It was only at this point that the Internet was first available for outside use by non-academics.
WTF!? The 'internet' was available for outside use long before that. Intel.com was registered in 1989. There are other uses of the internet besides 'the web'. Like, I donno, email... Also, before the web, people used things like IRC, email, gopher, telnet, ftp, and Usenet (around since the mid-80s).
and not only that, mosaic wasn't the first web browser, it was just the first 'good' one. HTML and hypertext had been around (but in limited use) since 1989.
I'm not saying that this guy isn't full of shit. I'm just saying that you are as well.
Such as watching DVD movies on operating systems with no DVD playing software. Where as spamming is always a pain in the butt.
Or copying DVDs for medium level piracy, which is a huge 'pain in the butt' for movie companies. All of that Spam software could have a legitimate purpose as well. The most obvious one would be to purchase it an attempt to figure out how to counter it.
You have to figure out how to get past all the filters and stuff. I do think he was ripped off by the spam software people, I doubt it would be that hard to write.
In my town we have a mirrored setup, 4th street and south 4th. That way we can expand all that we want too. I once lost control on south 4th and dove over the median, the other lane, and down a hill, while spinning around. And then drove through a fence.
I doubt that's true. For one thing, a new immigrant's English ability should improve drastically while they're in collage. For another thing, I doubt there is a very high correlation between spelling and intelligence/problem solving. The only reason I can spell well today is that I have a separate version of each hard-to-spell word in my head and think of that when I write, for example 'article' is pronounced 'ar-ti-claey' in my head, intuition is pronounced 'in-to-it-teeon', etc.
Does anyone else find the idea of essay questions on the SAT at least, idiotic?
I mean, without a keyboard and a spellchecker I'm nothing! My handwriting is absolutely terrible. But none of that matters in collage, since papers will be turned in after being typed on a computer. And even if a grader isn't going to look at those things specifically, they'll still be affected by them, as well as whether or not they agree with the essay. Not to mention the fact that it's going to be insanely expensive to grade these things. They'll need about 1,500 graders each grading 1,500 papers. Can you imagine grading that many boring essays about random subjects? My brain would just go numb. The only fair way to do it would be to have each essay graded by a diverse group of graders, and then average the score. But that would cost even more per test. Or perhaps they could figure out some way to grade essays by a computer. Teach a neural net the properties of a good essay and see what it comes up with.
As to BEGIN and END -- I have coded with C (pre-ansi) on machines whose keyboards didn't have '{' and '}'. I had to construct an include file to define BEGIN and END with a binary editor. But it worked.
You could also haved used '<%' and '%>' rather then going through all that trouble....
One thing I remember about win32 programming back in the day, was the insanely nested if statements (for example, in example programs) You had like all these blocks of code like
How many people actually USE the "platform independence" of Java? Seriously, I'm curious
Well, it's nice to be able to run one binary on any box I can get my hands on. I've always been able to do that with java so I'm not sure exactly what you mean. It's nice to be able to run the same code on my desktop running windows and a server running Linux. I suppose I could run the same OS on all my crap, though.
It's interesting the problem they were having with unboxing. Right now a null pointer would return a int value of zero, rather then throwing an error.
Actually, I think that's a bad idea, since you wouldn't be able to tell a zero you put in a collection with one that you didn't. Personally I'd like to see this as an option, somewhere. perhaps as a parameter to Integer, so you could do Integer<0> or Integer<null> to chose the behavior of the class. The problem there is that it's not obvious what a parameter to integer would do. Although I suppose you could use an if statement.
Personally, I wished they would have thought up a more interesting way to do generics then the C++ model. I wonder if this is going to give us the full range and power of C++ templates in java.
Could it possibly be that we've just gotten soft, and started to take space flight for granted (which would be good in it's own way)? Is it just that the fucking baby-boomers have no spine?
Dude, are you saying people should risk their lives to do stupid little experiments with ant farms and shit? Come on.
There's nothing wrong with taking a breather and trying to minimize risk. It's obvious these shuttle people are totally incompetent.
CS is a branch of mathematics. I'd be hesitant to call it a 'science' because it only deals with man made things. Although CS can reveal 'fundamental' truths, it's mostly done through mathematical profs. There's also very little 'experimentation' going compared to physics, biology, sociology.
When I was a kid we had to haul each bit up and down a mountain in the snow! 1's were represented by cinderblocks and 0s were represented by catching tuberculosis!
Well, the obvious meaning would be that the CPU would not be able to run through all the data on the hard drive in any reasonable amount of time. Like, if you filled it up with video, you wouldn't be able to play it all before you died (or something). Another possibility would be overflow.
If you have a signed 2's compliment integer, and it is incremented past the max value, the number will 'loop' around and become negative. An example of this, actually, is a little uptime program I write back when I had a win98 box. It get's the number of milliseconds since the computer's been booted as a 32 bit integer. Right now, the output of that program is (on my windows 200 box)
D:\WINNT>uptime -20days, -15hours, -16minutes and -32seconds (-1782992778 milliseconds total)
The computer was booted on 4/9/2003 8:27:48 PM
It's also worth considering that you have to burn 4x more energy to move something from A to B twice as fast. Power dissipation in CPUs scales linearly with clock speed.
Uh, no you don't. You'd need to use 4x as much energy to accelerate something in a straight line, but because when something is rotating the acceleration is perpendicular to the motion, the net energy loss is zero. In other words, once something is spinning you can keep it spinning forever. Not counting friction.
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And it was not until March 1995, that CERN handed over the control of the web to the WWW Consortium run by MIT and INRIA (France). It was only at this point that the Internet was first available for outside use by non-academics.
WTF!? The 'internet' was available for outside use long before that. Intel.com was registered in 1989. There are other uses of the internet besides 'the web'. Like, I donno, email... Also, before the web, people used things like IRC, email, gopher, telnet, ftp, and Usenet (around since the mid-80s).
and not only that, mosaic wasn't the first web browser, it was just the first 'good' one. HTML and hypertext had been around (but in limited use) since 1989.
I'm not saying that this guy isn't full of shit. I'm just saying that you are as well.
If you're implying some denial of service attack, I don't really think you're any better than they are.
I take it you oppose the jailing of kidnappers?
Domain name: mousehousestudios.com Hrm, who'sing for his design studio's addres gives us:
Registrant Contact:
mousehouse interactive
Duncan Shiels David Danowski
(danks@europa.com)
503.289.2536
FAX: none
7709 N. Denver Ave.
Portland, OR 97217
US
When I did a whois on defibworld.com (using whois.enom.com) it didn't come up with anything.
Such as watching DVD movies on operating systems with no DVD playing software. Where as spamming is always a pain in the butt.
Or copying DVDs for medium level piracy, which is a huge 'pain in the butt' for movie companies. All of that Spam software could have a legitimate purpose as well. The most obvious one would be to purchase it an attempt to figure out how to counter it.
You have to figure out how to get past all the filters and stuff. I do think he was ripped off by the spam software people, I doubt it would be that hard to write.
Cisco has a system for using ethernet over regular phone wire up to 5k feet with 5-15mbps performace
In my town we have a mirrored setup, 4th street and south 4th. That way we can expand all that we want too. I once lost control on south 4th and dove over the median, the other lane, and down a hill, while spinning around. And then drove through a fence.
I doubt that's true. For one thing, a new immigrant's English ability should improve drastically while they're in collage. For another thing, I doubt there is a very high correlation between spelling and intelligence/problem solving. The only reason I can spell well today is that I have a separate version of each hard-to-spell word in my head and think of that when I write, for example 'article' is pronounced 'ar-ti-claey' in my head, intuition is pronounced 'in-to-it-teeon', etc.
That and I use a spellchecker with everything.
But bush is a complete moron. Certanly lacking in the humility catagory if not the 'leadership/interpersonal' skills catagory.
Does anyone else find the idea of essay questions on the SAT at least, idiotic?
I mean, without a keyboard and a spellchecker I'm nothing! My handwriting is absolutely terrible. But none of that matters in collage, since papers will be turned in after being typed on a computer. And even if a grader isn't going to look at those things specifically, they'll still be affected by them, as well as whether or not they agree with the essay. Not to mention the fact that it's going to be insanely expensive to grade these things. They'll need about 1,500 graders each grading 1,500 papers. Can you imagine grading that many boring essays about random subjects? My brain would just go numb. The only fair way to do it would be to have each essay graded by a diverse group of graders, and then average the score. But that would cost even more per test. Or perhaps they could figure out some way to grade essays by a computer. Teach a neural net the properties of a good essay and see what it comes up with.
Or they could just not do it...
It's not about stopping people who are fleeing the cops, it's about stopping the cops when they are chasing you.
How ironic.
This is exactly what the new Java enums do. You just get to type a lot less and you can use them in case statements.
As to BEGIN and END -- I have coded with C (pre-ansi) on machines whose keyboards didn't have '{' and '}'. I had to construct an include file to define BEGIN and END with a binary editor. But it worked.
You could also haved used '<%' and '%>' rather then going through all that trouble....
One thing I remember about win32 programming back in the day, was the insanely nested if statements (for example, in example programs) You had like all these blocks of code like
if(doOneThing(lpfSomething){ if(doAnotherThing(lpfSomething){ if....
And so on, it was just a huge amount of wasted code, and if you added error handling for each condition made it huge.
Exceptions are so much nicer...
How many people actually USE the "platform independence" of Java? Seriously, I'm curious
Well, it's nice to be able to run one binary on any box I can get my hands on. I've always been able to do that with java so I'm not sure exactly what you mean. It's nice to be able to run the same code on my desktop running windows and a server running Linux. I suppose I could run the same OS on all my crap, though.
It's interesting the problem they were having with unboxing. Right now a null pointer would return a int value of zero, rather then throwing an error.
Actually, I think that's a bad idea, since you wouldn't be able to tell a zero you put in a collection with one that you didn't. Personally I'd like to see this as an option, somewhere. perhaps as a parameter to Integer, so you could do Integer<0> or Integer<null> to chose the behavior of the class. The problem there is that it's not obvious what a parameter to integer would do. Although I suppose you could use an if statement.
Personally, I wished they would have thought up a more interesting way to do generics then the C++ model. I wonder if this is going to give us the full range and power of C++ templates in java.
He forged a signature. The man commited fraud. I say throw him in jail.
Could it possibly be that we've just gotten soft, and started to take space flight for granted (which would be good in it's own way)? Is it just that the fucking baby-boomers have no spine?
Dude, are you saying people should risk their lives to do stupid little experiments with ant farms and shit? Come on.
There's nothing wrong with taking a breather and trying to minimize risk. It's obvious these shuttle people are totally incompetent.
CS is a branch of mathematics. I'd be hesitant to call it a 'science' because it only deals with man made things. Although CS can reveal 'fundamental' truths, it's mostly done through mathematical profs. There's also very little 'experimentation' going compared to physics, biology, sociology.
CS certainly doesn't use the scientific method.
When I was a kid we had to haul each bit up and down a mountain in the snow! 1's were represented by cinderblocks and 0s were represented by catching tuberculosis!
Well, the obvious meaning would be that the CPU would not be able to run through all the data on the hard drive in any reasonable amount of time. Like, if you filled it up with video, you wouldn't be able to play it all before you died (or something). Another possibility would be overflow.
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If you have a signed 2's compliment integer, and it is incremented past the max value, the number will 'loop' around and become negative. An example of this, actually, is a little uptime program I write back when I had a win98 box. It get's the number of milliseconds since the computer's been booted as a 32 bit integer. Right now, the output of that program is (on my windows 200 box)
D:\WINNT>uptime
-20days, -15hours, -16minutes and -32seconds (-1782992778 milliseconds total)
The computer was booted on 4/9/2003 8:27:48 PM
(yet, weirdly it calculates the date correctly
It's also worth considering that you have to burn 4x more energy to move something from A to B twice as fast. Power dissipation in CPUs scales linearly with clock speed.
Uh, no you don't. You'd need to use 4x as much energy to accelerate something in a straight line, but because when something is rotating the acceleration is perpendicular to the motion, the net energy loss is zero. In other words, once something is spinning you can keep it spinning forever. Not counting friction.
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In other words, if you could print it before the DMCA was passed, you can print it after the DMCA is passed
Why should a book on hacking the xbox be any different?
It's not. The problem is that the people running slashdot, as well as most of the posters, are idiots.