This has actually been done, in Australia many years ago. The checks had bestial and anal references in them, nobody wanted to return the checks.
There is of course, no scam in this. It's purely legal.
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Wow, someone who understands exceptions. The only justification I can possibly see for the C# approach is that so few people really understand exception handling in Java, such as the example you have listed above. You catch the implementation specific exception, add context, and rethrow as an interface specific exception.
Prior to 1.4, we always had a base exception class that did the nesting for us, by overriding the printStackTrace() methods, and printing out both.
This is only good for radio because you can't track all frequencies easily, and post process. For TCP/IP, changing ports doesn't do anything to someone watching, you still see all the packets!
Yeah... I don't know what it is about windows and Java, but something doesn't sit right. When you kick up a lot of threads... especially ones that do I/O, the whole machine grinds to a halt. It's really quite obvious when compared with a Sun box. I rememver reading some time ago that the Windows scheduler boosts the priority 'by an unspecified amount for an unspecified length of time' of any thread doing IO. I suspect this behaviour (which is good for desktops) is sucky for Java, especially with its thread-blocking IO model.
I profiled our Java app on windows... only it ran like such a dog, ate memory, and killed the machine. So I ran the profiler on a sun blade (900MHz SPARC), and it ran like a champ. Ever since then, I have understood why people have Sun hardware.
The Saudis, at least the people in charge, are like the Taliban with gold Rolexes.
I'm astounded. You do acknowledge that what you are talking about is speculation. I can hardly complain about that. But to call that insightful is terribly terribly wrong.
This is definitely a case of those living in glass houses should not throw stones. This may be hard to realise, but those of us living in the western world but not the US note some huge similarities between the US and the middle eastern countries. For the first, they are both highly religious. For the second, their governments are highly religious. Do you believe that the religious nature of your society necessarily rubs off on you? Do you really? Do you then really think it rubs off on them?
Please remember that religious zealotry exists in many countries, and the US is one of them. This does in no way imply that every American is a religious zealot. Correctly so, many Americans strongly defend their country by saying that if someone wants to be highly religious they can be, and if they don't want to, they don't have to be. Freedom. It is absolutely a freedom that a number of countries (particularly non-western countries) do not have. But please do not try to imply that because you have seen some zealotry, it applies to everyone.
We hear stories of American religious zealots trying to stop the teaching of evolution in high school. Yet in the spirit of tolerance and non judgement, this does not make every American insane. Please afford other cultures the same respect.
Read the comments from the Americans in this thread, I suspect you should change your opinion. It's sickening the intolerance displayed here. Should be ashamed. The main thing to take out of this thread is that intolerance is rife throughout the geek community, despite their protestations of intellectual superiority.
It's an odd place, granted, but nothing like what I think most people expect. I went to the US later on, and was informed that Saudi Arabia was a third world country. This, of the world's largest oil exporter? Astounding. It seems to me that the amount of misunderstanding and assumption about Saudi Arabia was extra-ordinary.
I stayed in Jeddah, which is a city of around 3 million, as I recall, on the Red Sea.
It is also highly important not to judge a society by your own standards. Just as you would not judge your own society as it was 100 years ago by the values of today, do not expect to judge another society by modern western concepts of freedom and so forth. It's really important to be both tolerant and understanding... this is the only way that highly diverse cultures can possibly co-exist peacefully.
The nerds I met in Saudi Arabia, however were like most of the workforce there... foreign.
We have a geiger counter in the physics department here. We used to scare the new students by bringing it near them, or near their bananas (high in Potassium), and listen to the counter go ape-shit. Scared them a little bit:-)
This is the same in New Zealand. You must have a voice service through our monopoly Telecom, and to have DSL you must pay to Telecom as well as your ISP. Indeed, you pay more to Telecom than to your ISP.
I (used to) pay the equivalent of:
~25$US/month for voice (required for DSL)
~20$US for DSL to the Telecom provider for the privelge of using their copper lines for DSL
~14$US to the ISP.
All this, and you only get 128kb/sec symmetric bandwidth. It is considerably more expensive to get higher asymmetric speeds.
Since I really only use cellular services for voice, and Telecom are a pack of monopolistic prats and treat you like they are, I canned my service with them. Now I have no internet at home, but I can use my work one for whatever I want.
I can get 256kb/sec wireless internet access for around $45-50 US per month. I will do that if I get internet withdrawal symptoms.
Dialup here is cheap though, since after the required voice, you don't pay for local calls.
Have whatever program/DLL included with the digital device install program
There in lies the problem. Most cameras and the like don't need any digital device program. You install windows, you plug in your camera, and you copy the photos off. No drivers, no install CDs, no downloads, nothing.
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English DOES have genders.
Great, and now they get spammed up the Wazoo too now!
Do what I say, not what I do!
Heh, I went to school with Ben. To think, Ben vs. the world, huzzah!
There is of course, no scam in this. It's purely legal.
Prior to 1.4, we always had a base exception class that did the nesting for us, by overriding the printStackTrace() methods, and printing out both.
This is only good for radio because you can't track all frequencies easily, and post process. For TCP/IP, changing ports doesn't do anything to someone watching, you still see all the packets!
That it's mainstream, you can be pretty sure that it's not.
Oh the insanity. Won't someone please think of the children?
I hear one of the nerds had a +5 calculator of Jock destruction.
I contacted EMI after I couldn't play a copy protected CD on my computer. They told me to take it back and get a refund.
But pretty good, nonetheless. Can attach to any IE process (think: Outlook)
*sigh*
I profiled our Java app on windows... only it ran like such a dog, ate memory, and killed the machine. So I ran the profiler on a sun blade (900MHz SPARC), and it ran like a champ. Ever since then, I have understood why people have Sun hardware.
I'm astounded. You do acknowledge that what you are talking about is speculation. I can hardly complain about that. But to call that insightful is terribly terribly wrong.
This is definitely a case of those living in glass houses should not throw stones. This may be hard to realise, but those of us living in the western world but not the US note some huge similarities between the US and the middle eastern countries. For the first, they are both highly religious. For the second, their governments are highly religious. Do you believe that the religious nature of your society necessarily rubs off on you? Do you really? Do you then really think it rubs off on them?
Please remember that religious zealotry exists in many countries, and the US is one of them. This does in no way imply that every American is a religious zealot. Correctly so, many Americans strongly defend their country by saying that if someone wants to be highly religious they can be, and if they don't want to, they don't have to be. Freedom. It is absolutely a freedom that a number of countries (particularly non-western countries) do not have. But please do not try to imply that because you have seen some zealotry, it applies to everyone.
We hear stories of American religious zealots trying to stop the teaching of evolution in high school. Yet in the spirit of tolerance and non judgement, this does not make every American insane. Please afford other cultures the same respect.
Read the comments from the Americans in this thread, I suspect you should change your opinion. It's sickening the intolerance displayed here. Should be ashamed. The main thing to take out of this thread is that intolerance is rife throughout the geek community, despite their protestations of intellectual superiority.
I stayed in Jeddah, which is a city of around 3 million, as I recall, on the Red Sea.
It is also highly important not to judge a society by your own standards. Just as you would not judge your own society as it was 100 years ago by the values of today, do not expect to judge another society by modern western concepts of freedom and so forth. It's really important to be both tolerant and understanding... this is the only way that highly diverse cultures can possibly co-exist peacefully.
The nerds I met in Saudi Arabia, however were like most of the workforce there... foreign.
We have a geiger counter in the physics department here. We used to scare the new students by bringing it near them, or near their bananas (high in Potassium), and listen to the counter go ape-shit. Scared them a little bit :-)
I (used to) pay the equivalent of:
All this, and you only get 128kb/sec symmetric bandwidth. It is considerably more expensive to get higher asymmetric speeds.
Since I really only use cellular services for voice, and Telecom are a pack of monopolistic prats and treat you like they are, I canned my service with them. Now I have no internet at home, but I can use my work one for whatever I want.
I can get 256kb/sec wireless internet access for around $45-50 US per month. I will do that if I get internet withdrawal symptoms.
Dialup here is cheap though, since after the required voice, you don't pay for local calls.
If they we're swallows, you could tie it between them.
There in lies the problem. Most cameras and the like don't need any digital device program. You install windows, you plug in your camera, and you copy the photos off. No drivers, no install CDs, no downloads, nothing.
No problem, I'm in Auckland :-)
Man did you get Mad Karma from this topic.
We use bouncy castle. We just didn't tell the management. Really easy. :-). Works pretty well, too.
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