The primatives/objects issue is pretty much moot right now for Java, as of 1.5, since it now supports automatic boxing/unboxing of primatives, just like C# does.
Please mod this up. This is -VERY- important to note. I believe what basically happened is that Math BEFORE 1.4 was ALWAYS strict. Adding a StrictMath class gave Sun the flexibility to specify that the core Math class could be 'not strict' and could be optimized. I wonder if anyone who has access to 1.5 beta versions could let us know if its Math class is 'fast'.
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Basically all your 'proof' amounts to is the following:
1) Israel spies on the US. This has never been a secret. Political and military allies regularly spy on each other. I don't believe Israel has ever made an attempt to deny such allegations. The US spies on much of Europe and the rest of the world through taps in communication systems.
2) Two people in Israel received some sort of warning about some sort of danger the day of the attack over an IM service that is popular in Israel. As a previous poster pointed out, there were about 10 potentially dangerous terrorist situations in Israel that day.
3) There was 1 Israeli in the WTC at the time of the attack. Israel has a population of about 6M. That's about 1/1000 of the world's population. Considering only a small fraction of Israelis are outside of Israel at any given time, one Israeli inside a building of about 15,000 seems about right.
4) There are unsubstantiated reports of a group of Isrealis high-5ing each other watching the attack happen. There could be all sorts of reasons for a small group of people to find joy in such a terrible situation. Very few of them point to the fact that these people helped plan these attacks.
I could probably cherry-pick a few articles from the mainstream media to make it look like the Canadian government planned the attacks. That wouldn't make me any better informed than you seem to be.
The biggest bonus I got from 2.6 was DMA with ATAPI commands finally works. Earlier kernels would not use DMA for ATAPI commands (read: CD/DVD burning commands) even if DMA was enabled for the IDE device. This effectively limited CD burning to the speed that PIO would work at, which was about 12x on my 900Mhz K7. It also ate up your entire CPU.
With 2.6, DMA works properly with ATAPI commands, at least when using the new ATAPI virtual SCSI bus (NOT the ide-scsi module!). To use the new virtual bus, use 'dev=ATAPI:0,0,0' in a cdrecord command. You may also need to use the latest alpha of cdrecord.
I can now burn 2 CDs at once (multiple burners), at 52x without my CPU load going over 0.2!
Of course, if you had the luxury of using REAL SCSI CD burners before, this won't make a lick of difference to you.:)
Many cities contract out some or all of their plowing to private operators or contracting firms. Same for road construction and most other services. This article is about contractors.
Remember that a real organ has a limited amount of air to work with. Yes, an organist can make a chord of 12 with 10 fingers and two feet, but if you are trying to pump a limited number of air through a massive amount of different air channels, how many of them do you think will actually resonate enough to make any noise?
Your webpage comes up pretty ugly in Opera with document CSS turned off.
Uhh... You're complaining that a web page looks ugly when you've turned of document CSS? Look... HTML wasn't (originally) and isn't (modern variants) designed to convey the layout of the page. It's supposed to structure the page. CSS we designed to lay out the page according to rules applied to the structure. It's also designed to fail 'gracefully' in the case of no CSS support. In this case, 'gracefully' means simply that you can read the contents of the page, but it isn't going to look pretty. It seems kinda silly to complain about the aesthetics of a page when you've essentially checked an option in your browser that means: "Ignore the author's intended document layout".
I was very disappointed when Apple failed to keep the network transparency of its windowing server when it moved from display-PS to display-PDF between Rhapsody (development version of OSX) and X 1.0. I had hopes they could leverage its roots when they released their Apple Remote Desktop product, but it appears it's not much more than a screen-scraper, a la VNC.
Basically, I can use RDP to the office and barely notice I'm across a network. VNC is painful in comparison. Even TightVNC, which is still much slower, as well as looking awful from the JPEG artifacts.
For most of my career (I'm a programmer) I've been doing work on contract for other companies, off-premises. While it gave me an incredible amount of freedom, I found myself having exactly the same problems as you do. I'd be in my apartment, working on my laptop. Hell, some days I'd not even bother getting out of bed to work. Eventually, this sort of lifestyle, along with a natural predisposition, lead to on and off bouts of depression.
My solution? I found a shared office. I've had two different ones, but both were within a few miles from my home. I've found that being around productive people keeps me focused and motivated. The second one I've found I'm actually not paying for. They give me space in their suite in exchange for some technical help, advice, and the occasional small program. In addition, I get the advice and guidance of the owner of the company who's suite it is, who's a fantastic fellow.
Some days I don't go in, but it certainly helps keep me on track. I have my own workstation there that I use only for work. I can log in using Terminal Services from home. (TS is probably the one thing that Win32 has over my Mac. The equivalents on the Mac (VNC, Timbuktu, Apple Remote Desktop) are extremely slow. Why is that?
So, my advice? Try to find a company with an office from somebody you know, or a company you've dealt with. Either rent some space from them, or try to trade services.
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That ad was never aired to the public. It was an 'internal' Microsoft ad, meant to be shown only within the company.
Apparently the American Chemical Society has a Postgresql database in use that's over a terabyte in size. I don't know if this is the largest one currently in use.
Also the largest commercial database is about 23Tb and runs on Oracle.
What these numbers don't say anything about, though, is how much of these databases are taken up by BLOBs, and how much is actual field data. Having most of your data in BLOBs is really just making your database a fancy file system, since BLOBs reside in a different part of the database, cannot be indexed (at least not like normal fields), cannot be used in SELECT statements, etc.
Actually, this is what Oracle has been trying to get companies to do for a few years now. Put EVERYTHING in the database.
For that matter, Microsoft plans to take this approach by actually placing the filesystem in the database in an upcoming Windows release.
Give me access to a 50 terabyte disc array and I'll gladly build you a 50 terabyte Postgres database.
Why is this relevant? The fact that anybody that HAD seen the source code to Interbase could exploit it was enough. This could include ex-employees and contractors. Would you be happy with Microsoft including a back-door to all their software as long as only they knew how to exploit it?
You can do this currently. I do this currently, as I remotely administer a Rackshack server. I don't know how you'd do it with grub, but with lilo, just use the -R command line option. It makes the lilo configuration change only for the next reboot. At next reboot, you're back to the original configuration.
Rackshack only offers RedHat, but I wanted a Debian server. So I resized the primary RedHat partition, installed Debian in the extra space, then set things up with lilo so that it would boot into RedHat by default, unless I used the -R command line option.
This allows me to do whatever I'd like with Debian, including upgrading kernels, but not be in danger of getting into trouble since by ordering a reboot it will go back to the factory-installed RedHat configuration.
It was a lot of trouble to set up in the first place, but it's worked wonderfully for about 2 years now.
When it comes to criminal manners, I believe it's standard to take a blood test for determining if you've been drinking or not. If the police want to investigate you, they're going to find out that you were at a pub/bar/club in any case.
Living in Vancouver, I think most of the problem is that most clubs do absolutely nothing to keep people from bringing weapons in. They're all anal about checking everybody's ID because they're worried about getting fined. They MUST ID you if you're under 25. The province sends in people under 25 to do compliance checks and if they don't get ID'ed, the place gets smacked with a huge fine. Yes, even though they're over the drinking age and legally allowed to be there. But checking for weapons? Only 1 place I can think that I've been has ever patted me down with a wand and no place that I go to has a metal detector.
Why? Well, perhaps the reason is simply financial. Breaking the liquor laws can get you fined and suspended for several weeks or months. Having a killing in your place only gets you closed down until the investigation is finished. It also gives you free press in the paper. (I had never heard of Loft Six before there was a killing there.)
I agree with another poster, though. If people cause trouble in your establishment, prosecute them! Don't just blackball them! I have major privacy concerns about this system and I am going to ask at the places I frequent most if they are among the places implementing it.
Yes, a double eight-inch cable would work fine... except that the original question was specifically about finding a recording device that would transfer digitally to his computer. This may seem like a trivial problem, until you have to your recorded audio file into an audio editing program, scrub through it and cut it into tracks.
And then you get the recorded data on the MiniDisc onto your computer how?
The link between all Sony-licensed MiniDisc players and computers (USB, usually) can only be used to transfer audio from the computer to the MiniDisc, not the other way around.
Because it's very simple for them to check the country of origin of any credit card. If the bank portion of the card doesn't match a US bank then, well... It's not a US credit card.
Also, many credit card merchants require an address check to make sure that the credit card matches its billing address.
Some don't, but since Apple is only licensed to sell the music in the US, you can be sure that they WILL be checking.
That fits with the last statistic that I read. Think about it for a moment. Mac owners generally keep their machines a bit more than twice as long as the average PC, hence, smaller market share in units sold, but more installed user base.
One of the tricks to long-distance events (I did a 40 mile/63.7K event last month) is 1) good socks, and 2) put stuff on your feet BEFORE they start to blister. The best stuff is the Dr. Scholls mole skin. You cover the areas prone to blister in it and it elimiates rubbing against your flesh.
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The primatives/objects issue is pretty much moot right now for Java, as of 1.5, since it now supports automatic boxing/unboxing of primatives, just like C# does.
There's one on Broadway, just East of Oak Street. It's attached to the Wendy's.
Please mod this up. This is -VERY- important to note. I believe what basically happened is that Math BEFORE 1.4 was ALWAYS strict. Adding a StrictMath class gave Sun the flexibility to specify that the core Math class could be 'not strict' and could be optimized. I wonder if anyone who has access to 1.5 beta versions could let us know if its Math class is 'fast'.
Basically all your 'proof' amounts to is the following:
1) Israel spies on the US. This has never been a secret. Political and military allies regularly spy on each other. I don't believe Israel has ever made an attempt to deny such allegations. The US spies on much of Europe and the rest of the world through taps in communication systems.
2) Two people in Israel received some sort of warning about some sort of danger the day of the attack over an IM service that is popular in Israel. As a previous poster pointed out, there were about 10 potentially dangerous terrorist situations in Israel that day.
3) There was 1 Israeli in the WTC at the time of the attack. Israel has a population of about 6M. That's about 1/1000 of the world's population. Considering only a small fraction of Israelis are outside of Israel at any given time, one Israeli inside a building of about 15,000 seems about right.
4) There are unsubstantiated reports of a group of Isrealis high-5ing each other watching the attack happen. There could be all sorts of reasons for a small group of people to find joy in such a terrible situation. Very few of them point to the fact that these people helped plan these attacks.
I could probably cherry-pick a few articles from the mainstream media to make it look like the Canadian government planned the attacks. That wouldn't make me any better informed than you seem to be.
The biggest bonus I got from 2.6 was DMA with ATAPI commands finally works. Earlier kernels would not use DMA for ATAPI commands (read: CD/DVD burning commands) even if DMA was enabled for the IDE device. This effectively limited CD burning to the speed that PIO would work at, which was about 12x on my 900Mhz K7. It also ate up your entire CPU.
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With 2.6, DMA works properly with ATAPI commands, at least when using the new ATAPI virtual SCSI bus (NOT the ide-scsi module!). To use the new virtual bus, use 'dev=ATAPI:0,0,0' in a cdrecord command. You may also need to use the latest alpha of cdrecord.
I can now burn 2 CDs at once (multiple burners), at 52x without my CPU load going over 0.2!
Of course, if you had the luxury of using REAL SCSI CD burners before, this won't make a lick of difference to you.
Many cities contract out some or all of their plowing to private operators or contracting firms. Same for road construction and most other services. This article is about contractors.
The trouble with the Nert they used is it wasn't rated for the (very low) temperature they were using and quickly turned into jelly.
Remember that a real organ has a limited amount of air to work with. Yes, an organist can make a chord of 12 with 10 fingers and two feet, but if you are trying to pump a limited number of air through a massive amount of different air channels, how many of them do you think will actually resonate enough to make any noise?
Your webpage comes up pretty ugly in Opera with document CSS turned off.
Uhh... You're complaining that a web page looks ugly when you've turned of document CSS? Look... HTML wasn't (originally) and isn't (modern variants) designed to convey the layout of the page. It's supposed to structure the page. CSS we designed to lay out the page according to rules applied to the structure. It's also designed to fail 'gracefully' in the case of no CSS support. In this case, 'gracefully' means simply that you can read the contents of the page, but it isn't going to look pretty. It seems kinda silly to complain about the aesthetics of a page when you've essentially checked an option in your browser that means: "Ignore the author's intended document layout".
I was very disappointed when Apple failed to keep the network transparency of its windowing server when it moved from display-PS to display-PDF between Rhapsody (development version of OSX) and X 1.0. I had hopes they could leverage its roots when they released their Apple Remote Desktop product, but it appears it's not much more than a screen-scraper, a la VNC.
Basically, I can use RDP to the office and barely notice I'm across a network. VNC is painful in comparison. Even TightVNC, which is still much slower, as well as looking awful from the JPEG artifacts.
For most of my career (I'm a programmer) I've been doing work on contract for other companies, off-premises. While it gave me an incredible amount of freedom, I found myself having exactly the same problems as you do. I'd be in my apartment, working on my laptop. Hell, some days I'd not even bother getting out of bed to work. Eventually, this sort of lifestyle, along with a natural predisposition, lead to on and off bouts of depression.
My solution? I found a shared office. I've had two different ones, but both were within a few miles from my home. I've found that being around productive people keeps me focused and motivated. The second one I've found I'm actually not paying for. They give me space in their suite in exchange for some technical help, advice, and the occasional small program. In addition, I get the advice and guidance of the owner of the company who's suite it is, who's a fantastic fellow.
Some days I don't go in, but it certainly helps keep me on track. I have my own workstation there that I use only for work. I can log in using Terminal Services from home. (TS is probably the one thing that Win32 has over my Mac. The equivalents on the Mac (VNC, Timbuktu, Apple Remote Desktop) are extremely slow. Why is that?
So, my advice? Try to find a company with an office from somebody you know, or a company you've dealt with. Either rent some space from them, or try to trade services.
That ad was never aired to the public. It was an 'internal' Microsoft ad, meant to be shown only within the company.
Apparently the American Chemical Society has a Postgresql database in use that's over a terabyte in size. I don't know if this is the largest one currently in use.
Also the largest commercial database is about 23Tb and runs on Oracle.
What these numbers don't say anything about, though, is how much of these databases are taken up by BLOBs, and how much is actual field data. Having most of your data in BLOBs is really just making your database a fancy file system, since BLOBs reside in a different part of the database, cannot be indexed (at least not like normal fields), cannot be used in SELECT statements, etc.
Actually, this is what Oracle has been trying to get companies to do for a few years now. Put EVERYTHING in the database.
For that matter, Microsoft plans to take this approach by actually placing the filesystem in the database in an upcoming Windows release.
Give me access to a 50 terabyte disc array and I'll gladly build you a 50 terabyte Postgres database.
Why is this relevant? The fact that anybody that HAD seen the source code to Interbase could exploit it was enough. This could include ex-employees and contractors. Would you be happy with Microsoft including a back-door to all their software as long as only they knew how to exploit it?
You can do this currently. I do this currently, as I remotely administer a Rackshack server. I don't know how you'd do it with grub, but with lilo, just use the -R command line option.
It makes the lilo configuration change only for the next reboot. At next reboot, you're back to the original configuration.
Rackshack only offers RedHat, but I wanted a Debian server. So I resized the primary RedHat partition, installed Debian in the extra space, then set things up with lilo so that it would boot into RedHat by default, unless I used the -R command line option.
This allows me to do whatever I'd like with Debian, including upgrading kernels, but not be in danger of getting into trouble since by ordering a reboot it will go back to the factory-installed RedHat configuration.
It was a lot of trouble to set up in the first place, but it's worked wonderfully for about 2 years now.
When it comes to criminal manners, I believe it's standard to take a blood test for determining if you've been drinking or not. If the police want to investigate you, they're going to find out that you were at a pub/bar/club in any case.
Living in Vancouver, I think most of the problem is that most clubs do absolutely nothing to keep people from bringing weapons in. They're all anal about checking everybody's ID because they're worried about getting fined. They MUST ID you if you're under 25. The province sends in people under 25 to do compliance checks and if they don't get ID'ed, the place gets smacked with a huge fine. Yes, even though they're over the drinking age and legally allowed to be there. But checking for weapons? Only 1 place I can think that I've been has ever patted me down with a wand and no place that I go to has a metal detector.
Why? Well, perhaps the reason is simply financial. Breaking the liquor laws can get you fined and suspended for several weeks or months. Having a killing in your place only gets you closed down until the investigation is finished. It also gives you free press in the paper. (I had never heard of Loft Six before there was a killing there.)
I agree with another poster, though. If people cause trouble in your establishment, prosecute them! Don't just blackball them! I have major privacy concerns about this system and I am going to ask at the places I frequent most if they are among the places implementing it.
Minidiscs don't have SPDIF outputs. Only SPIDIF inputs.
Yes, a double eight-inch cable would work fine... except that the original question was specifically about finding a recording device that would transfer digitally to his computer. This may seem like a trivial problem, until you have to your recorded audio file into an audio editing program, scrub through it and cut it into tracks.
And then you get the recorded data on the MiniDisc onto your computer how?
The link between all Sony-licensed MiniDisc players and computers (USB, usually) can only be used to transfer audio from the computer to the MiniDisc, not the other way around.
Why? Who knows.
2x4 lumber actually starts off at 2x4, but some is lost in the cutting, Like 1/16" on either side, or something.
Basically, if you start with a 8"x8" piece of lumber and cut it lengthwise once, and widthwise 3 times, you end up with 8 2x4s.
It's accepted that builders understand this when they purchase lumber.
Because it's very simple for them to check the country of origin of any credit card. If the bank portion of the card doesn't match a US bank then, well... It's not a US credit card.
Also, many credit card merchants require an address check to make sure that the credit card matches its billing address.
Some don't, but since Apple is only licensed to sell the music in the US, you can be sure that they WILL be checking.
That fits with the last statistic that I read. Think about it for a moment. Mac owners generally keep their machines a bit more than twice as long as the average PC, hence, smaller market share in units sold, but more installed user base.
One of the tricks to long-distance events (I did a 40 mile/63.7K event last month) is 1) good socks, and 2) put stuff on your feet BEFORE they start to blister. The best stuff is the Dr. Scholls mole skin. You cover the areas prone to blister in it and it elimiates rubbing against your flesh.
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