What about bouldering? If I take say an 8 foot fall onto a pad, is it likely to mess it up? I'd be delighted to be able to drown out the crappy techno that they insist on playing at the gym. Would a flash-based player would be better for this particular case? I'd prefer to have the flexibility of the IPod
Agreed. I was just flipping through TTT a couple of days ago, and I came across the scene of Eomer and his Rohirrim surrounding Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas on the plains of Rohan. In the book, Aragorn flashes out Anduril and proclaims himself as Isildur's heir.
And for the first time, I thought to myself, "Man, that's a bit overdone."
A friend of mine has been working on games that use the X-Trafun BlueTooth cards for the GBA for over a year now. The fact that Motorola's doing it will certainly get more attention in the mainstream, but they are by no means the first to develop this technology.
Of course, X-Trafun's quite a small shop, so they haven't been able to market their product sufficiently to get much real attention. Unfortunately, although they were first, they're now going to be thoroughly stomped out of the market by the power of Motorola.
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Having been in the Bangalore area in the past year, I think I can safely say I could live comfortably there on less than $1000 US per year. $200 a month is a great salary in India; I was there building houses with Habitat for Humanity and the average day laborer's pay was less than $1.
Lots of different companies have tried this. Heck, Oracle has their OFS database-based filesystem, and it's just not all that exciting.
The most interesting thing I've seen in terms of filesystem technology lately is Reiser 4, which has been discussedhere before. It supports extensible metadata and filters but doesn't bog you down like a database can or break backwards compatibility.
Maybe the reason that your engineers are pessimistic about your projects is that they don't believe that the problems they're trying to solve are worthwhile to begin with?
Changing management techniques won't help if the engineers don't believe in the company's goals. Marketers or managers come up with problems that don't need solving, and then assign the engineers to solve them. Of course they're going to try to find negative or limiting facts about the project - they see it as a stupid idea and don't want to waste their time working on it.
One potential bright spot to this scheme is that it might make flexible speed limits possible for the first time.
As many others have pointed out, often static speed limits do not reflect safe speeds for the actual driving conditions. However, if the roadside sensors were equipped with sensors and software to monitor road conditions, traffic volume, average speed, etc. it would probably be possible to adjust the speed limit appropriately, which actually *could* improve safety overall.
The approach of storing metadata in the files works fine when you don't have to deal with issues of backwards-compatibility and extensible metadata standards.
I deal a lot with archival systems for satellite data. Massive number of data files are produced that must have metadata associated with them describing the state of the satellite at the time of data collection so that data values can be recomputed in the future if we discover that the calibration of the instruments was inexact. The data formats of the files that are coming from the satellites are not something we have control over, but we have to produce metadata that is applicable to them and somehow attach it to the files without imparing the ability of existing applications to read them. The current solutions involve horrible hacks involving metadata databases with references to filenames and directory structures. It would be much more efficient to simply have the metadata stored as an attribute of the file.
In a complex application, the amount of code that is required to go into scriptlets can quickly dwarf the amount of presentation layer stuff. I regularly have to deal with JSP files that are 3000+ lines of mangled Java, HTML and JavaScript that was written in this fashion by a consulting firm for the government. The application is supposed to be a powerful metadata management toolset for satellite datasets, but the way it was written has caused it to be so inflexible and difficult to change that it has basically had to be entirely rewritten in-house.
The real beauty of using MVC in a web application is flexibility. There's a lot of functionality that is common to numerous pages in most websites, and to avoid code duplication by using JSP includes has to be one of the messiest and most dangerous things I can think of. If multiple developers are working on the project you end up with all kinds of issues with names stepping on one another, unsatisfied dependencies, etc.
An MVC architecture is essential to any web application with any degree of complexity.
My thoughts exactly. Whoever wrote that post was thinking about the state of JSP's a few years ago.
These days, it seems like things change too fast in this industry to be able to even compare competing technologies effectively, because by the time you've fully learned and understood the capabilities of one system, the competing systems have advanced enough that catching up would take long enough to put you behind the times with the system you know!
Aren't there Beer-of-the-month clubs that do this? Granted, you're not renting your beer (hopefully) but since what you're really doing with Netflix is buying a temporary license to watch the movie in DVD format (right?) it seems rather similar to buying the temporary license to enjoy your beer.
The national speed limit was eliminated a few years ago. There are actually a few highways in Montana and Nevada that have no speed limits at all. Here in Colorado, all of our highways have a speed limit of 75, which is about all most cars will do well anyway (particularly in the mountains.)
Your suggestion reminds me a lot of mining law, and it's a good one.
If you stake a claim in most states, you're required to do a certain amount of work on that claim - surveying, sampling, etc. in order to maintain your claim. If you fail to do the work, you lose your rights to the claim. This system was instituted back in the gold-rush days to prevent people from just staking up all kinds of property and never doing anything with it. In the patent gold rush, we could certainly stand to learn a few lessons from our past.
I wonder if one could actually use historic mining law as precedent in a defense against offensive patents?
To get this right, they will have to figure out a way to make the antennas a bit more durable than the one in my current work passcard, at least. I once made the mistake of keeping it in my wallet and it delaminated and the antenna broke after being sat on for a few days - and I only weigh 150 pounds! I replaced the card, and the second one delaminated after accidentally being slept on on the couch.
The major problem with this implementation is that you can't use switch statements. At least with the code that I usually find myself working on, switch() is far cleaner to write and read than an endless number of if staements like
My grandmother's like that, and she's certainly never done psychedelics, or any other variety of drug (save for all the whacko antidepressants and stuff they've got her on these days.)
I'm not disputing that LSD could be a trigger for mental illness, but it's almost certainly not the cause. I'd keep watch over myself, as well, if I were you, as you age. Mental illness tends to run in families. I'm a little intimidated by that fact, myself - I've got manic depression on both sides.
Don't abolish the electoral college. But do pass a federal constitutional amendment requiring that the electors in any given state have their votes divided according to the popular vote.
No more of this "winner takes all" bullshit.
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I work a lot with geospatial databases and spatial queries, which you may want to check out. Unfortunately there isn't an open-source database with real geospatial support at present, but it is supposed to be included with MySQL 5, I think.
2. Were Hitler's goals to obliterate a threat, or to take over Europe and exterminate the Jews?
Hitler's goal was to accumulate as much power as possible. The Jews were a convenient minority he could use as the "them" in his nationalistic propaganda.
If you think Bush want's anything but a similar sort of absolute control, you haven't been paying attention.
Although I've taken a bunch of programming courses over the years (mostly after I graduated from college and was already a professional programmer) and appreciate what I learned from them, it is most assuredly NOT critical to have a degree in computer science to be a professional programmer.
I got my degree in geology, and picked up programming on the side while working as an undergraduate research assistant, writing data analysis software. When I graduated and the mining industry was in the crapper, it was natural for me to go to work as a programmer.
Judging from the computer science courses I've taken (university courses - the position I have allows me to take them for free, on work hours) and the CS graduates I've worked with, my skill set and learning have not been particularly limited by not getting a CS degree. Of course, most of the code that I write is meat-and-potatoes, database-backed client/server business apps rather than low-level device drivers and such, and if I wanted to fiddle with bits more intimately I probably would need more education. But it's certainly not necessary for what I'm doing now.
The main concern is that this will diminish the value of sex-related domain names in the other top-level domains. Also, the land rush that woud occur when the new domain was announced would be unbelievable, and how does the regulatory body pick who gets the prime domain names from the new TLD?
The only workable solution in your proposed instance would to be to require that all domain names in the new TLD are arbitrarily assigned character and number sequences, and that any existing sex-related site in one of the other TLD's must use HTTP redirects to move traffic to the adult TLD. That way browsers could still be configured to not accept any content from the adult TLD, but the value structure of porn-related domain names in the existing TLD's could be preserved.
I notice my dual-1GHZ P4 to be a bit slow, although I haven't upgraded to Jaguar yet. That is, it's just a tad slower to my 1.8GHZ machine running RedHat 7.2 at work, with most of my work being done in KDE.
I got the mac relatively recently and am still not completely used to it, so, my question is, is there a way to turn off a lot of the whiz-bang graphical stuff in Aqua? I really don't give a rat's ass about whether the Dock does its little expandy-smooshy bit.
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What about bouldering? If I take say an 8 foot fall onto a pad, is it likely to mess it up? I'd be delighted to be able to drown out the crappy techno that they insist on playing at the gym. Would a flash-based player would be better for this particular case? I'd prefer to have the flexibility of the IPod
And for the first time, I thought to myself, "Man, that's a bit overdone."
Of course, X-Trafun's quite a small shop, so they haven't been able to market their product sufficiently to get much real attention. Unfortunately, although they were first, they're now going to be thoroughly stomped out of the market by the power of Motorola.
Having been in the Bangalore area in the past year, I think I can safely say I could live comfortably there on less than $1000 US per year. $200 a month is a great salary in India; I was there building houses with Habitat for Humanity and the average day laborer's pay was less than $1.
Well, being a judge must be one, obviously.
The most interesting thing I've seen in terms of filesystem technology lately is Reiser 4, which has been discussed here before. It supports extensible metadata and filters but doesn't bog you down like a database can or break backwards compatibility.
Changing management techniques won't help if the engineers don't believe in the company's goals. Marketers or managers come up with problems that don't need solving, and then assign the engineers to solve them. Of course they're going to try to find negative or limiting facts about the project - they see it as a stupid idea and don't want to waste their time working on it.
As many others have pointed out, often static speed limits do not reflect safe speeds for the actual driving conditions. However, if the roadside sensors were equipped with sensors and software to monitor road conditions, traffic volume, average speed, etc. it would probably be possible to adjust the speed limit appropriately, which actually *could* improve safety overall.
I deal a lot with archival systems for satellite data. Massive number of data files are produced that must have metadata associated with them describing the state of the satellite at the time of data collection so that data values can be recomputed in the future if we discover that the calibration of the instruments was inexact. The data formats of the files that are coming from the satellites are not something we have control over, but we have to produce metadata that is applicable to them and somehow attach it to the files without imparing the ability of existing applications to read them. The current solutions involve horrible hacks involving metadata databases with references to filenames and directory structures. It would be much more efficient to simply have the metadata stored as an attribute of the file.
In a complex application, the amount of code that is required to go into scriptlets can quickly dwarf the amount of presentation layer stuff. I regularly have to deal with JSP files that are 3000+ lines of mangled Java, HTML and JavaScript that was written in this fashion by a consulting firm for the government. The application is supposed to be a powerful metadata management toolset for satellite datasets, but the way it was written has caused it to be so inflexible and difficult to change that it has basically had to be entirely rewritten in-house.
The real beauty of using MVC in a web application is flexibility. There's a lot of functionality that is common to numerous pages in most websites, and to avoid code duplication by using JSP includes has to be one of the messiest and most dangerous things I can think of. If multiple developers are working on the project you end up with all kinds of issues with names stepping on one another, unsatisfied dependencies, etc.
An MVC architecture is essential to any web application with any degree of complexity.
These days, it seems like things change too fast in this industry to be able to even compare competing technologies effectively, because by the time you've fully learned and understood the capabilities of one system, the competing systems have advanced enough that catching up would take long enough to put you behind the times with the system you know!
Aren't there Beer-of-the-month clubs that do this? Granted, you're not renting your beer (hopefully) but since what you're really doing with Netflix is buying a temporary license to watch the movie in DVD format (right?) it seems rather similar to buying the temporary license to enjoy your beer.
The national speed limit was eliminated a few years ago. There are actually a few highways in Montana and Nevada that have no speed limits at all. Here in Colorado, all of our highways have a speed limit of 75, which is about all most cars will do well anyway (particularly in the mountains.)
If you stake a claim in most states, you're required to do a certain amount of work on that claim - surveying, sampling, etc. in order to maintain your claim. If you fail to do the work, you lose your rights to the claim. This system was instituted back in the gold-rush days to prevent people from just staking up all kinds of property and never doing anything with it. In the patent gold rush, we could certainly stand to learn a few lessons from our past.
I wonder if one could actually use historic mining law as precedent in a defense against offensive patents?
What's so difficult about writing something like this in Java, so that Linux users can try it out?
To get this right, they will have to figure out a way to make the antennas a bit more durable than the one in my current work passcard, at least. I once made the mistake of keeping it in my wallet and it delaminated and the antenna broke after being sat on for a few days - and I only weigh 150 pounds! I replaced the card, and the second one delaminated after accidentally being slept on on the couch.
We'll finally be able to get a pair of those glasses that they sell in the back of hobby magazines... that actually work!
Of course, you'd need lots of incident X-rays for that. Damn this atmosphere and magnetic field!!!
if(c == Color.RED) {
...
...
}
}
else if (c == Color.BLUE) {
ad nauseum. When you have more than 5 or 6 enumerated values, this gets stupidly messy.
I'm not disputing that LSD could be a trigger for mental illness, but it's almost certainly not the cause. I'd keep watch over myself, as well, if I were you, as you age. Mental illness tends to run in families. I'm a little intimidated by that fact, myself - I've got manic depression on both sides.
No more of this "winner takes all" bullshit.
I work a lot with geospatial databases and spatial queries, which you may want to check out. Unfortunately there isn't an open-source database with real geospatial support at present, but it is supposed to be included with MySQL 5, I think.
Hitler's goal was to accumulate as much power as possible. The Jews were a convenient minority he could use as the "them" in his nationalistic propaganda.
If you think Bush want's anything but a similar sort of absolute control, you haven't been paying attention.
I got my degree in geology, and picked up programming on the side while working as an undergraduate research assistant, writing data analysis software. When I graduated and the mining industry was in the crapper, it was natural for me to go to work as a programmer.
Judging from the computer science courses I've taken (university courses - the position I have allows me to take them for free, on work hours) and the CS graduates I've worked with, my skill set and learning have not been particularly limited by not getting a CS degree. Of course, most of the code that I write is meat-and-potatoes, database-backed client/server business apps rather than low-level device drivers and such, and if I wanted to fiddle with bits more intimately I probably would need more education. But it's certainly not necessary for what I'm doing now.
The only workable solution in your proposed instance would to be to require that all domain names in the new TLD are arbitrarily assigned character and number sequences, and that any existing sex-related site in one of the other TLD's must use HTTP redirects to move traffic to the adult TLD. That way browsers could still be configured to not accept any content from the adult TLD, but the value structure of porn-related domain names in the existing TLD's could be preserved.
I got the mac relatively recently and am still not completely used to it, so, my question is, is there a way to turn off a lot of the whiz-bang graphical stuff in Aqua? I really don't give a rat's ass about whether the Dock does its little expandy-smooshy bit.