Brewing - wine and beer are a good start. A fair amount of chemistry (and biology) involved when you think about it. Taking the alcohol content above 15% or so lets you play with even more toys.
Not to nitpick, but brewing is zymmurgy, not chemistry or biology.
He didn't say it cost less than $50. He said he spent less than $50.
Re:This year's once-in-a-lifetime event
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The next time Earth will pass through a thick part of the Tempel-Tuttle comet's tail will be in 2099. There will still be Leonid showers every year, just not as spectacular until then.
what it would sound like. Take the data on the CD, convert it to MP3 or OGG and then have a listen. While most of our "songs" would sound the same, I suppose some filters could be applied to record only the major differences. It might make for some interesting electronica.
I bought the 2-disc set on the 6th. Why? Because it had value to me. I wanted to see the film again, and it was worth the 20 bucks to me to own a copy of it.
When the 4-disc set comes out in November (or whenever), I'll decide if the extra content is worth whatever they're charging for it. If it is, I'll buy it. If it's not, I won't.
Why are veryone's knickers in a twist about this. It's a very simple equation.
Sprint was used for internal communications until 1968, when the FCC (Carter Phone Decision) allowed alternative to the Bell system. After that they parlayed it into a business.
How about 90's TV shows? The human/computer topic seemed to be limited to mobility. What about sight? A Geordi visor from ST:TNG would be a valuable invention and a really cool integration of computer technology with the human brain.
Why couldn't it be the PBXs at the hotels? Many of those hotels continue to have shady associations (though they've been mostly taken over by large media consortiums, the mob hasn't left Las Vegas.
It could be, if whatever group was behind this was able to get to every PBX in every hotel. Since it was reported that all hotel calls were being rerouted - and in the case of the bail bonds company, every payphone being rerouted, logic would dictate that the target of the reroutnig scam is the telco.
Of the five projects referred to in the post, one is a "flight planning tool" (whatever that is), three collect weather data, and one is a Linus port of a flight simulator. None of them are air traffic control projects.
They've provided an online wizard where you can choose the type of license and restrictions you want to put on your work
IANAL, but choosing licensing options from a menu sounds like a potentially dangerous idea. It may be possible that some restrictions may conflict with others, making it possible to breach whatever mix-and-match license options are offered.
If an author/artist/programmer wants a customized "sharing" license for their work, they'd be well advised to run it by a lawyer or stick with an existing license
I write telephony software. It's not the hacking of hotel telephone exchanges - it's the hacking of the swtiches at the telco. When you make a telephone call, the telco not only sends the ANI (caller id - phone number) it sends infodigits - a two-digit number identifying the type of phone from which you are calling - a residential phone, a hotel, payphone, prison, etc. It's very easy to program a switch to reroute calls to a particular DNIS based on infodigits so that if someone at a payphone calls 800-555-1234 the call goes through, but if someone from a hotel calls the same DNIS, it gets routed to a different DNIS, or goes to reorder. It's equally easy to create a conference on the switch, allowing a third party to "listen in" to call - explaining the appearance of one his competitor's "dancers" at a customer's hotel room.
This is what the plaintiff in the story is alleging - that Sprint's switches are being reprogrammed by uberhackers in the employ of the Mob or some other competing organizations.
Here is the list of digital theaters showing AotC. I'll be seeing it in Framingham, MA.
Re:Nothing more to see here. Move along.
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No offense taken. My point wasn't that experienced programmers shouldn't look for new and better ways to do things - if that were so, I'd still be typing "load foo, 8, 1" on my Vic 20.:-)
The tone of the review was "Gee whiz, even if you use Java, you can still get it wrong!" That sort of book is very well suited for new programmers. Showing them the wrong way to do something is often as valuable as showing them the right way. But recommending it for "hired codeslingers" seems a bit, well, inappropriate.
Nothing more to see here. Move along.
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Call me jaded, but do we really need another book explaining that it's possible to poorly design an OOP solution, or that not every problem can be solved with some implementation of an OOP tool - be it Java, C++, C# or B_Flat?
Quoth the reviewer:
If you're a hired codeslinger creating J2EE applications or servlets, then this is a good book for your shelf.
If you're a hired codeslinger creating J2EE applications, shouldn't you already know how to create a scalable application and whether or not Java beans/servlets is correct tool or methodology for the problem at hand? It seems that this book should be recommeded more for Java newbies (which is fine) than Java veterans.
<DISCLAIMER>I am not a Java programmer, but I am a grizzled veteran</DISCLAIMER>
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A search for "java + coffee" returned 4 results (one of them misleading because it's a java programming book edited by a guy named Coffee). A search "java + island" returned 15 results.
What does this mean?
Islands in the South Pacific are more popular than caffeinated beverages (unlikely)
Not that many coffee drinkers refer to coffee as "java" (more likely)
If users want to quote search statistics from Amazon for books on a particular topic, then Amazon needs a better search engine (bingo)
You'd think that Slashdot, with its pro-privacy stance, would realize that something like this IS an invasion of privacy.
An invasion of privacy on unencrypted data on a public network? And you're surprised? If you think that packets everywhere aren't being logged, sniffed, freeze-dried and reconstituted then you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the internet actually works.
If someone hacks my *private* network or illegally obtains my private encryption keys, then *that's* an invasion of my privacy.
Sending or receiving unencrypted packets is like sending a postcard: it's not sealed, and it's not illegal for the letter carrier to read it. Sending an encrypted packet is like sending a letter. It's illegal for the letter carrier to open it.
That was a consideration. Sun's decision to charge is based on research that showed enterprise users were not adopting StarOffice 5.2, the previous version of the product, in a significant way because they questioned Sun's commitment to a product it was giving away for free and which did not come with support and training.
not quite the same as openoffice
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According to this article, while OpenOffice shares the same code base as StarOffice, there are some features and functionality in the commercial product that aren't available in the free product - some fonts and some linguistic functionality is missing, as well as the manual and web-based training.
Users should decide whether or not that package of features is worth 75 bucks.
Of course, where OpenOffice is licensed under the GPL, those fonts and functions *could* be developed and distributed for free by another group. Hmm.. I smell another sourceforge project here.
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It's not rocket science. Um... never mind.
He didn't say it cost $50, he said he spent less than $50.
Brewing - wine and beer are a good start. A fair amount of chemistry (and biology) involved when you think about it. Taking the alcohol content above 15% or so lets you play with even more toys. Not to nitpick, but brewing is zymmurgy, not chemistry or biology.
He didn't say it cost less than $50. He said he spent less than $50.
The next time Earth will pass through a thick part of the Tempel-Tuttle comet's tail will be in 2099. There will still be Leonid showers every year, just not as spectacular until then.
that Slashdot editors didn't "squash" this story.
what it would sound like. Take the data on the CD, convert it to MP3 or OGG and then have a listen. While most of our "songs" would sound the same, I suppose some filters could be applied to record only the major differences. It might make for some interesting electronica.
But he mostly studied economic history, not business.
pot... kettle... black...
I bought the 2-disc set on the 6th. Why? Because it had value to me. I wanted to see the film again, and it was worth the 20 bucks to me to own a copy of it.
When the 4-disc set comes out in November (or whenever), I'll decide if the extra content is worth whatever they're charging for it. If it is, I'll buy it. If it's not, I won't.
Why are veryone's knickers in a twist about this. It's a very simple equation.
Sprint was used for internal communications until 1968, when the FCC (Carter Phone Decision) allowed alternative to the Bell system. After that they parlayed it into a business.
Don't fret. Stallman is very much into modelling
How about 90's TV shows? The human/computer topic seemed to be limited to mobility. What about sight? A Geordi visor from ST:TNG would be a valuable invention and a really cool integration of computer technology with the human brain.
If an author/artist/programmer wants a customized "sharing" license for their work, they'd be well advised to run it by a lawyer or stick with an existing license
This is what the plaintiff in the story is alleging - that Sprint's switches are being reprogrammed by uberhackers in the employ of the Mob or some other competing organizations.
Here is the list of digital theaters showing AotC. I'll be seeing it in Framingham, MA.
The tone of the review was "Gee whiz, even if you use Java, you can still get it wrong!" That sort of book is very well suited for new programmers. Showing them the wrong way to do something is often as valuable as showing them the right way. But recommending it for "hired codeslingers" seems a bit, well, inappropriate.
Quoth the reviewer:
If you're a hired codeslinger creating J2EE applications, shouldn't you already know how to create a scalable application and whether or not Java beans/servlets is correct tool or methodology for the problem at hand? It seems that this book should be recommeded more for Java newbies (which is fine) than Java veterans.<DISCLAIMER>I am not a Java programmer, but I am a grizzled veteran</DISCLAIMER>
What does this mean?
If someone hacks my *private* network or illegally obtains my private encryption keys, then *that's* an invasion of my privacy.
Sending or receiving unencrypted packets is like sending a postcard: it's not sealed, and it's not illegal for the letter carrier to read it. Sending an encrypted packet is like sending a letter. It's illegal for the letter carrier to open it.
Did *anyone* listen to the speech?
That was a consideration. Sun's decision to charge is based on research that showed enterprise users were not adopting StarOffice 5.2, the previous version of the product, in a significant way because they questioned Sun's commitment to a product it was giving away for free and which did not come with support and training.
Users should decide whether or not that package of features is worth 75 bucks.
Of course, where OpenOffice is licensed under the GPL, those fonts and functions *could* be developed and distributed for free by another group. Hmm.. I smell another sourceforge project here.