So how should I price Hello World? I just wrote it in C.
Pfft. C is an old, non-buzzword compliant
language.
You need a scalable and object-oriented Hello World.
Write it in J2EE with a web front-end so
that the language can be easily changed.
Demonstrate that it scales linearly as
you add more and more high-end Sun boxes
to your cluster. Show that your
Hello World Application Server (HWAS) has
a high ROI and will carry my Enterprise
forward into the next decade, without leaving
me stranded.
You have to generate some excitement
about your HWAS! Put out a white paper
on a Hello World standard API and start
an industry consortium with a committee
to solidify the Hello World API, so that
whenever anybody hears of "Hello World",
they think of your company!
Yeah, I know, you want to plug in your
WiFi access point and all your computers
should just "work".
Can you explain to me how your access point
will magically know which computers within
range are "yours" as opposed to "your neighbours" without your intervention?
Many years ago, when people were still running stuff like W98, I set up my box to detect
breakin attempts and respond by stuff
like teardrop, land, ping-of-death, etc to
the offending IP. It would then log if
the offender became unpingable.
Most gratifying was one occasion when the
same guy tried rooting me four times
in a row, each time separated by
five minutes while he was presumably
rebooting.
PS: Yes I do think that turnabout is fair play,
and no I didn't get attacked by legions
of crackers afterwards.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to
give up her seat on the bus to a white man,
despite the law.
This set in wheels in motion to have
those segragation laws declared
unconstitutional in the USA.
It is your moral duty to refuse
to obey laws that you know are simply
wrong and immoral. It's called
"civil disobedience" and has has a pretty
decent track history of causing positive
change without too much bloodshed.
PS: Note that I'm not specifically saying
that this mp3 downloading ruckus falls in
that category. I'm just saying that
your affirmation that all laws need
to be obeyed is just not right.
Isn't sound quality better on the 2.4s, but range much shorter?
Sound quality has nothing to do with the
carrier frequency used. Consider broadcast FM;
it's at around 100 MHz, or 0.1 GHz, yet I'm
sure you'd admit it sounds quite a bit better
than your cordless phone does.
You are correct that higher bandwidth == higher fidelity, but my point is that bandwidth is
independent of the band you choose to use,
as long as the bandwidth is available on
that band. And it is on both 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.
There isn't any significant inherent
difference in range either (note, lurkers,
I said significant), but 2.4 GHz
phones tend to be lossier than 900 MHz phones.
That is, their power output tends to be lower
and their receive sensitive not as good
for stuff designed for the same money.
So, yeah, 900 MHz phones are pretty good.
The older 49 MHz phones are sucky in that
the inherent wavelength is over 6 meters,
and so their antennas are notoriously
inefficient. At 900 MHz, the wavelength
is just 30cm, making it really easy to build
efficient omnidirectional antennas,
and 2.4GHz doesn't really have much of an
advantage there.
When Toronto was getting its domed stadium,
there was a corporation set up to build and
run it, but of course tons of public money
ended up being used to get the monstrosity
complete.
Then the time came to pick a name for the
stadium. A popular suggestion, but one
that didn't end up winning was: the
CONdome.
MIR had a 2m ham packet station on it that
was commonly used as a digipeater.
That is, you sent it a 1200bps AX.25 packet
and it simply repeated it for you.
Because of heavy contention, it was mostly
"hello world" messages, but fun nevertheless.
I used it myself. MIR was so cool...
First of all, sorry, but I will take the opinion of
that opthamologist over yours, if you don't mind. She wears glasses, incidentally.
Clarity: Contacts cannot correct astigmatism
as well as lenses do, simply because they have
to be symmetrical. Ask any optometrist.
Only glasses can correct astigmatism, and
because astigmatism changes over time,
only glasses can keep up with the changes.
Lasik is a one-shot deal, and because the
surgery is noninteractive, it's a bit of hit and miss
how well it ends up correcting astigmatism.
Long term effects: You cannot beat glasses,
because your eyes never get touched.
As for Lasik, there is currently simply no
data at all on what problems it might cause
40 years later, because it hasn't been around that
long. Consider too that we don't even know what causes macular degeneration right now. I hope everything
works out for you, but since my cornea has NOT
been sliced open, folded back, internals
boiled off with a laser, cornead folded back
and left to rescar, it's not an issue for me.
You have to admit that long-term
Lasik side effects are simply unknown.
Headaches: if you've gotten headaches, your
prescription was simply screwed up. I once got
some glasses where I soon noticed that
the optic centre distance was wrong; my eyes
tended to wander off into double vision.
I brought them back and with no hesitation
they told the lab to grind a new set of lenses with
the centers done properly this time.
And the results were perfect.
Infection: yes, contacts will do that. That's exactly
why I said that high quality glasses are best.
You supported my posting with that point...
Night vision: the problem with Lasik is not sensitivity,
but rather what happens when something like
headlight shines into your eyes. The scarring
from the cornea reattaching means you get
loads of fogging and halo effects.
But enough from me.
Type lasik dangers into google and enjoy.
There are lots of people who have become
legally blind from Lasik.
I had my luggage pulled aside once because
the X-ray of a wind-up musical clock from
circa 1920 looked like a bomb.
In other words, lots of things can look
like a bomb. Whoopee.
On another occasion, I was actually
arrested at an airport because my keychain
had a 2 cm long cheap pistol pendant on it.
I am not kidding. This was many years
pre-9/11, btw. Those security guys are
basically bored, and stupid. Not a good
combination.
I second this. I talked to my opthamologist about
stuff like contacts, hard contacts, lasik, etc
but in the end she pointed out that custom
lenses give you all the clarity with none of the
dangers or drawbacks of contacts or surgery.
I am now 41 years old, and am starting to feel
if ever so slightly, the niggling annoyances of
age. And I've had surgery of various forms,
so I know exactly what that means:
If it's one thing I've learned, it's that no surgery
comes without a long-term cost.
So as for eyes, even if you don't touch them whatsoever
you are still at rist of eventual macular degeneration,
cataracts, and all sorts of other nastyness.
Given that, sizzling the corneas with lasers in
middle age
doesn't exactly seem like a smart long term plan.
And so, like my opthamologist, I am wearing
$400 glasses in titanium frames and I love it.
They're so light I can't feel them, they have
stunning clarity, my eyeballs love it, and my
odds of getting nasty blinding problems in
twenty years plummet.
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I agree; D3 is amazing. I never get motion sickness from it, but then I'm mostly immune
to seasickness too.
The problem with D3 is the really steep learning
curve. Just think of what's involved with
doing a semicircular strafe while also ascending
and accelerating towards the target: that's
five simultaneous axes right there, plus
you have to deal with the weapons selection
and firing of course.
Anyway, once learned, it's amazing with
what ease and grace one can dance about.
I even stopped getting lost while flying
upside down...
Truly an amzing, and underappreciated, game.
I still play it.
Sorry, but anyone that gets real DSL access, ie >= 750 upload, no PPPoE, a handful of static IPs, no restrictions on any kind of server (as long as it's not deemed abusive) is easily ~$60. You can keep your SBC "DSL" with its dynamic IPs and peer disconnects at regular intervals.
I currently have 800Kbps up, 3000Kbps
down with NO server restrictions, a static IP,
and no random disconnecting for
$28.25 CDN monthly ($21.59 USD currently).
This includes stuff like NNTP, www homesite,
and webmail access, although I never use the
latter two features since I run my own
http and smtp servers.
I'm in Toronto. If I were in some Inuit village
somewhere in the Yukon, I wouldn't have a
problem with $60CDN though, since most
everything there costs twice as much as
in Toronto anyway. The gas for running the
generator would probably be the bigger cost.
Btw it is pppoe, but so what? The overhead is teensy.
The Ka-band is already packed full of users,
including on satellite.
Radar detectors are deliberately stone deaf;
they only purpose is to detect high-powered
pulses mere kilometers away. Another Ka-band
satellite won't make any difference.
What about "rhythmic dancing?" People prancing
about with a pole with a long ribbon on it.
Or how about "beach volleyball", where they
strictly mandate that the gals have to wear
bikinis with no more than X area coverage?
The Olympics are already full of bizarre sports,
so at this point I don't think math would make
it any stranger. Personally, I rather wish they'd
go back to the original olympic
sports, which were strictly track-and-field stuff,
such as running, jumping, and throwing various
things (javelins, discs, shotput) as far as you can.
Those events test the very basics of athleticism.
If nothing else, it'd make it more watchable as
far as I'm concerned. I am absolutely fed up with
the bazillions of events, none of which can be
covered, and so all the networks show are the
2 minutes of the finals of the events in which
<country-you-live-in> happens to have
a participant. There's none of the exciting
competition and leadup and getting to know the
opponents; it's just the athlete from
<country-you-live-in> versus a bunch of
people you've never heard of from other countries,
and more often than not one of them wins, and
you're left thinking "gee it would have been nice
to see him/her in the leadup events"...
I was 7. I remember it vividly. I'm still waiting for
something that gripping to happen.
The only comparable event that happened since
was 9/11, which sucked. I remember the Vietnam
war and the daily death counts. I remember
Bhopal. I remember Skylab. I remember the Rwandan genocide. I remember MIR. I remember
Pol Pot. I remember the Hubble. I remember the mass starvation in Ethiopia. I remember the
Mars Viking probes in the 70s, with the daily mars weather
report at the local Science Centre, believing that
people will be living there within 30 years.
I'm now sitting here with a Gin & Tonic in my hand
wondering when the blazes something equally beautifully wonderful as the Moon Landing is
going to come along. I want it for my kids.
I don't want them to grow up with the local
baseball team winning as their most
riveting memory.
yet, we have an extreme leftist party called the NDP
If the NDP are "extreme left", then what exactly
does that make the
Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada?
Who, incidentally, have run a candidate in
my riding for as long as I can remember.
The NDP are about as leftwing as a centre
to mildly-left part in Europe.
It would seem that by US standards, anything
less than Atilla the Hun is "leftist"...
I got fed up with insanely priced inks,
printheads that clog, wasted printouts because
one of the damn colours ran out halfway through,
and printouts that dissolve when the tiniest
bit of moisture contacts them.
So I threw out my last POS inkjet printer years
ago, and got a real laserprinter (HP LaserJet 4000TN) instead. The pinnacle of b&w printing.
Fast. Stunning quality. Toner cartridges so
large that one will last me around 10 years
at my current rate of consumption.
And colour? If I want that, I put it on a floppy
and get it printed at the photoshop down the
street. 60c canadian (about 40c US) for
a 4x6 printed on real kodak
photo paper, by a real dye
sublimation printer that costs as much
as a fancy car.
Slashdot Mirror
At least that's what I always assumed spammers do to warm up in the morning.
Pfft. C is an old, non-buzzword compliant language.
You need a scalable and object-oriented Hello World. Write it in J2EE with a web front-end so that the language can be easily changed. Demonstrate that it scales linearly as you add more and more high-end Sun boxes to your cluster. Show that your Hello World Application Server (HWAS) has a high ROI and will carry my Enterprise forward into the next decade, without leaving me stranded.
You have to generate some excitement about your HWAS! Put out a white paper on a Hello World standard API and start an industry consortium with a committee to solidify the Hello World API, so that whenever anybody hears of "Hello World", they think of your company!
Damn, I'm so excited I can't wait!
Can you explain to me how your access point will magically know which computers within range are "yours" as opposed to "your neighbours" without your intervention?
"North of Buffalo", I said, figuring that he's more likely to know small US cities in his own state than the largest city in Canada.
"Uhhh..." he said.
"North of Lake Ontario", I said helpfully.
"Where's that?"
I gave up and told him "a ninety minute flight west and a bit north of you".
Canada is located in the state of Toronto. Sheesh!
On the other hand, someone who jumps in front of a car to save a kid is a Hero whether or not they get hit by the car. Strange.
Most gratifying was one occasion when the same guy tried rooting me four times in a row, each time separated by five minutes while he was presumably rebooting.
PS: Yes I do think that turnabout is fair play, and no I didn't get attacked by legions of crackers afterwards.
This set in wheels in motion to have those segragation laws declared unconstitutional in the USA.
It is your moral duty to refuse to obey laws that you know are simply wrong and immoral. It's called "civil disobedience" and has has a pretty decent track history of causing positive change without too much bloodshed.
PS: Note that I'm not specifically saying that this mp3 downloading ruckus falls in that category. I'm just saying that your affirmation that all laws need to be obeyed is just not right.
Sound quality has nothing to do with the carrier frequency used. Consider broadcast FM; it's at around 100 MHz, or 0.1 GHz, yet I'm sure you'd admit it sounds quite a bit better than your cordless phone does.
You are correct that higher bandwidth == higher fidelity, but my point is that bandwidth is independent of the band you choose to use, as long as the bandwidth is available on that band. And it is on both 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.
There isn't any significant inherent difference in range either (note, lurkers, I said significant), but 2.4 GHz phones tend to be lossier than 900 MHz phones. That is, their power output tends to be lower and their receive sensitive not as good for stuff designed for the same money.
So, yeah, 900 MHz phones are pretty good. The older 49 MHz phones are sucky in that the inherent wavelength is over 6 meters, and so their antennas are notoriously inefficient. At 900 MHz, the wavelength is just 30cm, making it really easy to build efficient omnidirectional antennas, and 2.4GHz doesn't really have much of an advantage there.
Then the time came to pick a name for the stadium. A popular suggestion, but one that didn't end up winning was: the CONdome.
Because of heavy contention, it was mostly "hello world" messages, but fun nevertheless. I used it myself. MIR was so cool...
Clarity: Contacts cannot correct astigmatism as well as lenses do, simply because they have to be symmetrical. Ask any optometrist.
Only glasses can correct astigmatism, and because astigmatism changes over time, only glasses can keep up with the changes. Lasik is a one-shot deal, and because the surgery is noninteractive, it's a bit of hit and miss how well it ends up correcting astigmatism.
Long term effects: You cannot beat glasses, because your eyes never get touched. As for Lasik, there is currently simply no data at all on what problems it might cause 40 years later, because it hasn't been around that long. Consider too that we don't even know what causes macular degeneration right now. I hope everything works out for you, but since my cornea has NOT been sliced open, folded back, internals boiled off with a laser, cornead folded back and left to rescar, it's not an issue for me.
You have to admit that long-term Lasik side effects are simply unknown.
Headaches: if you've gotten headaches, your prescription was simply screwed up. I once got some glasses where I soon noticed that the optic centre distance was wrong; my eyes tended to wander off into double vision. I brought them back and with no hesitation they told the lab to grind a new set of lenses with the centers done properly this time. And the results were perfect.
Infection: yes, contacts will do that. That's exactly why I said that high quality glasses are best. You supported my posting with that point...
Night vision: the problem with Lasik is not sensitivity, but rather what happens when something like headlight shines into your eyes. The scarring from the cornea reattaching means you get loads of fogging and halo effects.
But enough from me. Type lasik dangers into google and enjoy. There are lots of people who have become legally blind from Lasik.
On another occasion, I was actually arrested at an airport because my keychain had a 2 cm long cheap pistol pendant on it. I am not kidding. This was many years pre-9/11, btw. Those security guys are basically bored, and stupid. Not a good combination.
I am now 41 years old, and am starting to feel if ever so slightly, the niggling annoyances of age. And I've had surgery of various forms, so I know exactly what that means: If it's one thing I've learned, it's that no surgery comes without a long-term cost.
So as for eyes, even if you don't touch them whatsoever you are still at rist of eventual macular degeneration, cataracts, and all sorts of other nastyness. Given that, sizzling the corneas with lasers in middle age doesn't exactly seem like a smart long term plan.
And so, like my opthamologist, I am wearing $400 glasses in titanium frames and I love it. They're so light I can't feel them, they have stunning clarity, my eyeballs love it, and my odds of getting nasty blinding problems in twenty years plummet.
The problem with D3 is the really steep learning curve. Just think of what's involved with doing a semicircular strafe while also ascending and accelerating towards the target: that's five simultaneous axes right there, plus you have to deal with the weapons selection and firing of course.
Anyway, once learned, it's amazing with what ease and grace one can dance about. I even stopped getting lost while flying upside down...
Truly an amzing, and underappreciated, game. I still play it.
68000? You should be thankful it wasn't x86 assembler. Now THAT's nightmare material.
I prefer to call "D flat", myself...
I currently have 800Kbps up, 3000Kbps down with NO server restrictions, a static IP, and no random disconnecting for $28.25 CDN monthly ($21.59 USD currently).
This includes stuff like NNTP, www homesite, and webmail access, although I never use the latter two features since I run my own http and smtp servers.
I'm in Toronto. If I were in some Inuit village somewhere in the Yukon, I wouldn't have a problem with $60CDN though, since most everything there costs twice as much as in Toronto anyway. The gas for running the generator would probably be the bigger cost.
Btw it is pppoe, but so what? The overhead is teensy.
Radar detectors are deliberately stone deaf; they only purpose is to detect high-powered pulses mere kilometers away. Another Ka-band satellite won't make any difference.
Haven't you ever watched "Star Trek"?
The Olympics are already full of bizarre sports, so at this point I don't think math would make it any stranger. Personally, I rather wish they'd go back to the original olympic sports, which were strictly track-and-field stuff, such as running, jumping, and throwing various things (javelins, discs, shotput) as far as you can. Those events test the very basics of athleticism.
If nothing else, it'd make it more watchable as far as I'm concerned. I am absolutely fed up with the bazillions of events, none of which can be covered, and so all the networks show are the 2 minutes of the finals of the events in which <country-you-live-in> happens to have a participant. There's none of the exciting competition and leadup and getting to know the opponents; it's just the athlete from <country-you-live-in> versus a bunch of people you've never heard of from other countries, and more often than not one of them wins, and you're left thinking "gee it would have been nice to see him/her in the leadup events"...
The only comparable event that happened since was 9/11, which sucked. I remember the Vietnam war and the daily death counts. I remember Bhopal. I remember Skylab. I remember the Rwandan genocide. I remember MIR. I remember Pol Pot. I remember the Hubble. I remember the mass starvation in Ethiopia. I remember the Mars Viking probes in the 70s, with the daily mars weather report at the local Science Centre, believing that people will be living there within 30 years.
I'm now sitting here with a Gin & Tonic in my hand wondering when the blazes something equally beautifully wonderful as the Moon Landing is going to come along. I want it for my kids. I don't want them to grow up with the local baseball team winning as their most riveting memory.
If the NDP are "extreme left", then what exactly does that make the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada? Who, incidentally, have run a candidate in my riding for as long as I can remember.
The NDP are about as leftwing as a centre to mildly-left part in Europe.
It would seem that by US standards, anything less than Atilla the Hun is "leftist"...
So I threw out my last POS inkjet printer years ago, and got a real laserprinter (HP LaserJet 4000TN) instead. The pinnacle of b&w printing. Fast. Stunning quality. Toner cartridges so large that one will last me around 10 years at my current rate of consumption.
And colour? If I want that, I put it on a floppy and get it printed at the photoshop down the street. 60c canadian (about 40c US) for a 4x6 printed on real kodak photo paper, by a real dye sublimation printer that costs as much as a fancy car.
I know what you mean. My kidneys keep screaming "more beer! more beer!" and my poor brain simply has no choice but to comply.