On my way to work from the west 'burbs to downtown Chicago a light rain was falling. Cloud cover was very low. Listening to the BBC on NPR a colorful report of a battle in Iraq when suddenly the entire sky went WHITE.
The whole thing BRIGHT WHITE!
Thinking it was a terrorist attack (everyone's first thought these days) I nearly pissed myself.
When nothing blew up I assumed it was a lightning. Thought it odd that I never heard thunder, until this morning when my sister asked if I had heard about the meteor!
It's not the users that are clueless it's the architecture.
The usual 'configure; make; make install' step should not exist! This is the single most awful thing about Linux. God help the user that has a dependency problem.
Binaries should just slide on in. At worst your install program should do any voodoo required.
Dark streaks on crater and valley walls may indicate that brackish water currently flows across the surface of Mars.
New images and analysis suggest the slopes around the Red Planet's largest extinct volcano, Olympus Mons, contain dark stains caused by brine flowing down hill.
The discovery indicates that the substantial underground ice deposits on Mars can sometimes melt and flow across the surface.
It is bound to increase speculation that life may exist near to the surface of the planet.
Dark streaks
According to researcher Tahirih Motazedian, of the University of Oregon, US, it is the first time that changes on Mars have been seen due to water.
She told BBC News Online that she had examined images of Mars taken at different times and had seen new streaks form within time intervals of months.
She speculates that geothermal activity driven by volcanic heat may be causing the melting of subsurface ice.
The water dissolves surrounding minerals to form a super-saline brine which, because it contains salts, can remain liquid at lower temperatures and pressures than pure water can.
When the brine trickles on to the surface, it flows downhill staining the surface.
"The streaks originate from distinct geologic horizons below the Martian surface, where the water-ice table has been intersected by crater and valley walls," she said.
'Dynamic fluid flow'
Significantly, the dark streaks are never overlain or cut by other features like craters or sand dunes, just as if they were made by water marking the surface.
"They passively overlay existing features except where they are forced to flow around obstacles," she said.
The dark streaks always begin upslope as a point and widen downslope, just like flowing water.
The streaks have the same dispersive patterns that liquid water has when it flows downhill, "highly indicative of dynamic fluid flow", says Tahirih Motazedian.
Images taken of the Mangala Valles region show that the dark streaks are being formed at the present time.
Two images taken a few months apart show new streaks have appeared.
"This demonstrates the existence of a currently active, short-term process of surface change on Mars," the researcher said.
"Obviously, you should only be concerned about losing your liberties if you're a terrorist (or similar dissident)."
Please God man, tell me you are not that naive!
Me, I'm scared to death of OUR government.
Break open your wallet kids and give to the ACLU. They are our only hope.
Bill
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1. Get a keyboard. I've had different PDA's since the first Palm. My tests show I'm 3x faster with the little keyboard (I can't do a little "v" in grafitti so save my life). I've read that Jot has even more keystrokes than Grafitti.
2. Palm OS is everywhere. If you want to use off-the-shelf apps from avantgo, etc get a Palm.
3. The smaller the better. Who cares how cool your xyz toy is if you need a backpack, dorkyass beltloop holster or little purse (like my buds with they Sonys) to carry the thing around with you?
4. If your goal is hacking, just like the desktop, get linux. If you want it to solve problems with a minimum of fuss go with Palm OS
5. Color is nice for pictures of family, etc. Greyscale is fine otherwise IMHO.
"Apple does provide information on how to make sure that open files are not edited while they are open. Why do so many applications fail to provide this security?"
From the provided link...
"Opening a file from classic Mac OS (pre Mac OS X) with fsWrPerm, fsRdWrPerm, or the default fsCurPerm, meant that any other application trying to open that same file with write access would not be able to do so. Usually an fsRdWrPerm error would be returned when other attempts were made to open the file for write access, though attempts to open such a file for read only access would succeed. This default behavior allows for one "writer" and multiple "readers" of the file.
Mac OS X's BSD subsystem does not enforce file read/write privileges in the same way as classic Mac OS. Opening a file for writing does not ensure other processes can not write to the same file. The default behavior of BSD allows for multiple "writers" to a single file. In the current implementation, all of the File Manager calls in Mac OS X call through to the underlying BSD file system. As a result, opening a file via PBHOpenDF, PBHOpenRF, PBHOpen, PBOpenFork, FSOpenFork, HOpen, etc. on a local volume and passing in a permissions value of fsCurPerm, fsWrPerm, or fsRdWrPerm does not guarantee exclusive file access on Mac OS X."
Ergo, this is a significant and recent change of direction for Mac developers.
Also the average coder, in my experience, does not think about multi-user issues until problems roll in from the field. Finally, established test suites would not have been testing for this.
A point to bitch about sure, but to be expected if you read your submitted background link.
Two years ago I left a $200k job to be unemployed. My daughter and I had to move to a different state to protect her from a felonious shitbird stalker. Five long months of unemployment later I got a job for ~1/3 of what I was making then.
We both laugh ourselves to sleep at night we are so happy.
In 1.5 years I will literally "move to Montana". To rebuild my cu$hion I intend to live in my Dad's basement for a year. When I do move to Montana like everyone else there I will work several angles to scratch out a living. There are no jobs in paradise for high-end geeks.
At 43 these decisions do not come lightly. I am starting now working my angles, and if I quit jerking off here at/. I can make it work.
How did the fallout from Bill Maher's infamous 9/11 comment effect you?
"In response to guest Dinesh D'Souza's assertion that people who are willing to die in service to their cause, whatever else they may be, are not "cowards," Maher said: "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly.".
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I was almost in a similar situation when my physco Ex's lawyer and the Judge double teamed me and tried to trick me into unsupervised visitation. Ex had long history of physical abuse of daughter and injuring herself of which they were both aware.
The legal system is NOT a Justice System. Certainly not for the male in a divorce or custody dispute.
...to be diagnosed so early and to have a parent so involved.
ADD & ADHD bring many blessings with the curses. Managed properly she can accentuate the former and mitigate the latter. She has been given a nice different way of looking at things, an insatiable curiosity, a superhuman focus on things that interest her and, another side benefit that often occurs with ADD, is the gift of great intelligence.
Before I was diagnosed I was a miserable SOB. With some education and the right meds, I now feel I am much, much better off than a "Normie".
The field of Mental Health is in its infancy. Science is learning so much, so fast about the brain that it is hard for anyone to keep up.
First, find some good books on the subject. Goggle web sites. Explore discussion groups (keeping in mind that whiners find the web while the ones handling their problems well are out enjoying themselves). You cannot know enough.
Second, find a good Doctor, a specialist in Attention Deficit. You are looking for someone that your daughter is very comfortable with and who is also up to date on the subject. You may have to "interview" 20 to find the one winner. There are many, uhh, sub-optimal people in the field.
Next I would find a good support group. She will gain a lot of insight to know other kids in the situation and how they handle things. You would also do well to find a group of parents that share your obvious interest in this issue.
Finally, there are a LOT of different meds out now and more are coming out every day. I am on Effexor XR to treat my ADD. This med was not out when I was diagnosed just eight years ago.
The message I want to leave with you is that this field is very much dynamic. You both have a lifelong learning process in front of you.
With your good attitude and some knowledge this can be a real blessing for you both!
In 1982 I was completely new to Unix. There were two cryptic manuals and really no books. Knowing a bit about other computers one day I typed in "help". Unix replied:
My sister and I are both contemplating CTS remedies and virtually everyone that we have met (anecdotal to be sure) who've had the surgury are worse off and wish they had made a differant choice.
Bottom line with all medical situations IMHO: Do your own research.
Know this. If you seek medical advice each doctor will recommend his speciality. It's whatever tool is handy. Surgeons think they can cure anything with a knife.
Do your own research by talking to actual patients. If you talk to a few people that have had CTS surgery you will soon be talked out it.
Look into ergonomic solutions, massage therapy, abstinence from computers (that or stop masturbating, your pick), exercise, etc.
The problem is that it is hard enough to write code that is capable of multiple threads to even fill up the instruction units in today's single processor systems.
Don't you run more than one program at a time on your machines? Unless I am gaming I run a minimum of three foreground apps and six or seven smaller background apps. If I had a decent MP system I could game in the forground and check my email, run a server and/or burn a CD in the background.
At work I have six or seven big apps running and who knows how many background apps.
Since you asked, I started writing C before there were books for it and CPUs only had one register. In fact, I once had to write an accounting system using '0's and 'L's because the '1' key was broken!
Here's what the requirements for the next, next gen FPS will be:
...same as last time but more.
After all, these are games of the same genre, not a solitare game being superceeded by a ERP package.
As to HW improvements allowing for a Content Creation API note that in his lecture JC stated his next engine will be written entirely in a high level language for the first time. Ergo, he is already introducing SW levels of abstraction that have been disdained in the past for performance reasons.
Don't just think out of the box, get out of the box and LIVE MAN!
Why not keep the API static as much as possible across engine releases? Divorcing the API from the engine would increase the shelf life of the content creation paradigm, if that is a goal.
The Quake IV engine would grow the paradigm for content creation previously created for Doom III. By enhancing as opposed to changing the API old content could easily be plugged into new engines. Ta Da! Instant upgrade for yesterday's game.
Will not the next generations of hardware support another SW layer if required?
This would serve to greatly reduce application development timeframes and costs, maximizing the amount of cool games in my hands (CFOs read "profits").
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thanks mattyohe
The whole thing BRIGHT WHITE!
Thinking it was a terrorist attack (everyone's first thought these days) I nearly pissed myself.
When nothing blew up I assumed it was a lightning. Thought it odd that I never heard thunder, until this morning when my sister asked if I had heard about the meteor!
Bill
The usual 'configure; make; make install' step should not exist! This is the single most awful thing about Linux. God help the user that has a dependency problem.
Binaries should just slide on in. At worst your install program should do any voodoo required.
Ready to be modded into oblivian now,
Bill (who started on V7 Unix thank you very much)
Bill
By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor
Dark streaks on crater and valley walls may indicate that brackish water currently flows across the surface of Mars.
New images and analysis suggest the slopes around the Red Planet's largest extinct volcano, Olympus Mons, contain dark stains caused by brine flowing down hill. The discovery indicates that the substantial underground ice deposits on Mars can sometimes melt and flow across the surface.
It is bound to increase speculation that life may exist near to the surface of the planet.
Dark streaks
According to researcher Tahirih Motazedian, of the University of Oregon, US, it is the first time that changes on Mars have been seen due to water. She told BBC News Online that she had examined images of Mars taken at different times and had seen new streaks form within time intervals of months. She speculates that geothermal activity driven by volcanic heat may be causing the melting of subsurface ice.
The water dissolves surrounding minerals to form a super-saline brine which, because it contains salts, can remain liquid at lower temperatures and pressures than pure water can. When the brine trickles on to the surface, it flows downhill staining the surface.
"The streaks originate from distinct geologic horizons below the Martian surface, where the water-ice table has been intersected by crater and valley walls," she said.
'Dynamic fluid flow'
Significantly, the dark streaks are never overlain or cut by other features like craters or sand dunes, just as if they were made by water marking the surface. "They passively overlay existing features except where they are forced to flow around obstacles," she said.
The dark streaks always begin upslope as a point and widen downslope, just like flowing water. The streaks have the same dispersive patterns that liquid water has when it flows downhill, "highly indicative of dynamic fluid flow", says Tahirih Motazedian.
Images taken of the Mangala Valles region show that the dark streaks are being formed at the present time. Two images taken a few months apart show new streaks have appeared.
"This demonstrates the existence of a currently active, short-term process of surface change on Mars," the researcher said.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/2 846897.stm
Please God man, tell me you are not that naive!
Me, I'm scared to death of OUR government.
Break open your wallet kids and give to the ACLU. They are our only hope.
Bill
1. Get a keyboard. I've had different PDA's since the first Palm. My tests show I'm 3x faster with the little keyboard (I can't do a little "v" in grafitti so save my life). I've read that Jot has even more keystrokes than Grafitti.
2. Palm OS is everywhere. If you want to use off-the-shelf apps from avantgo, etc get a Palm.
3. The smaller the better. Who cares how cool your xyz toy is if you need a backpack, dorkyass beltloop holster or little purse (like my buds with they Sonys) to carry the thing around with you?
4. If your goal is hacking, just like the desktop, get linux. If you want it to solve problems with a minimum of fuss go with Palm OS
5. Color is nice for pictures of family, etc. Greyscale is fine otherwise IMHO.
Cheers,
Bill
Anyone want to buy a Zaurus?
Bill
From the provided link...
"Opening a file from classic Mac OS (pre Mac OS X) with fsWrPerm, fsRdWrPerm, or the default fsCurPerm, meant that any other application trying to open that same file with write access would not be able to do so. Usually an fsRdWrPerm error would be returned when other attempts were made to open the file for write access, though attempts to open such a file for read only access would succeed. This default behavior allows for one "writer" and multiple "readers" of the file. Mac OS X's BSD subsystem does not enforce file read/write privileges in the same way as classic Mac OS. Opening a file for writing does not ensure other processes can not write to the same file. The default behavior of BSD allows for multiple "writers" to a single file. In the current implementation, all of the File Manager calls in Mac OS X call through to the underlying BSD file system. As a result, opening a file via PBHOpenDF, PBHOpenRF, PBHOpen, PBOpenFork, FSOpenFork, HOpen, etc. on a local volume and passing in a permissions value of fsCurPerm, fsWrPerm, or fsRdWrPerm does not guarantee exclusive file access on Mac OS X."
Ergo, this is a significant and recent change of direction for Mac developers.
Also the average coder, in my experience, does not think about multi-user issues until problems roll in from the field. Finally, established test suites would not have been testing for this.
A point to bitch about sure, but to be expected if you read your submitted background link.
Bill
How about you guys create a discussion group to toss your story ideas around in?
Bill
Since my early 80's Amiga I try to keep in mind the rule "it's so dang sexy but is it compatibile?"
Alas, technolust overwhelms my sensibility every time.
Cheers,
Bill
PS Where's a Pocket PC (or whatever they're called now) with a keyboard? I won't buy another PDA w/o a keyboard.
We both laugh ourselves to sleep at night we are so happy.
In 1.5 years I will literally "move to Montana". To rebuild my cu$hion I intend to live in my Dad's basement for a year. When I do move to Montana like everyone else there I will work several angles to scratch out a living. There are no jobs in paradise for high-end geeks.
At 43 these decisions do not come lightly. I am starting now working my angles, and if I quit jerking off here at /. I can make it work.
Wish me luck!
Bill
Dave,
How did the fallout from Bill Maher's infamous 9/11 comment effect you?
"In response to guest Dinesh D'Souza's assertion that people who are willing to die in service to their cause, whatever else they may be, are not "cowards," Maher said: "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly.".
Cheers!
Bill (a different one)
It is the behaivour of the politicians that is outragous here.
However, it will be the scientests that will be flogged and purstrings tighted.
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If not then work your forty. It is gonna be VERY hard for anyone to fire you because you *only* worked 40 hours a week.
WHere the crap are you anyway, Indonesia? Here in America it's damn hard to fire someone (course you could easily make the next round of layoffs).
I had a boss that used to say "There's 24 hours in a day!" And I would yell back at him "Yeah but You only pay me for 8!"
Jerry Bernstein. If you ever run into the fat bastard run.
Good luck. The times they are a changin'. Read Michal Moores new book "Stupid White Men".
Bill
I was almost in a similar situation when my physco Ex's lawyer and the Judge double teamed me and tried to trick me into unsupervised visitation. Ex had long history of physical abuse of daughter and injuring herself of which they were both aware.
The legal system is NOT a Justice System. Certainly not for the male in a divorce or custody dispute.
I will include you and Sabrina in my prayers.
Bill
ADD & ADHD bring many blessings with the curses. Managed properly she can accentuate the former and mitigate the latter. She has been given a nice different way of looking at things, an insatiable curiosity, a superhuman focus on things that interest her and, another side benefit that often occurs with ADD, is the gift of great intelligence.
Before I was diagnosed I was a miserable SOB. With some education and the right meds, I now feel I am much, much better off than a "Normie".
The field of Mental Health is in its infancy. Science is learning so much, so fast about the brain that it is hard for anyone to keep up.
First, find some good books on the subject. Goggle web sites. Explore discussion groups (keeping in mind that whiners find the web while the ones handling their problems well are out enjoying themselves). You cannot know enough.
Second, find a good Doctor, a specialist in Attention Deficit. You are looking for someone that your daughter is very comfortable with and who is also up to date on the subject. You may have to "interview" 20 to find the one winner. There are many, uhh, sub-optimal people in the field.
Next I would find a good support group. She will gain a lot of insight to know other kids in the situation and how they handle things. You would also do well to find a group of parents that share your obvious interest in this issue.
Finally, there are a LOT of different meds out now and more are coming out every day. I am on Effexor XR to treat my ADD. This med was not out when I was diagnosed just eight years ago.
The message I want to leave with you is that this field is very much dynamic. You both have a lifelong learning process in front of you.
With your good attitude and some knowledge this can be a real blessing for you both!
Cheers!
Bill
www.bamph.com
"The Lord helps those who help themselves"
A riot those old Bell Labs guys!
Cheers,
Bill
My sister and I are both contemplating CTS remedies and virtually everyone that we have met (anecdotal to be sure) who've had the surgury are worse off and wish they had made a differant choice.
Bottom line with all medical situations IMHO: Do your own research.
Cheers,
Bill
Know this. If you seek medical advice each doctor will recommend his speciality. It's whatever tool is handy. Surgeons think they can cure anything with a knife.
Do your own research by talking to actual patients. If you talk to a few people that have had CTS surgery you will soon be talked out it.
Look into ergonomic solutions, massage therapy, abstinence from computers (that or stop masturbating, your pick), exercise, etc.
Cheers,
Beal
Bruce Perens disclosed Thursday that he is planning to leave the company in order to become more politically active he said. So is he an activist putting his money where his mouth is or a holy martyr killed by the faceless corporation? You can't have it both ways. Hopefully Bruce was smart enough to get a good job first or that 2 year old kid might be getting hungry soon. It's a crappy market to be all principled and shit. Yeah your emperor has no clothes, mod me down again.
The problem is that it is hard enough to write code that is capable of multiple threads to even fill up the instruction units in today's single processor systems.
Don't you run more than one program at a time on your machines? Unless I am gaming I run a minimum of three foreground apps and six or seven smaller background apps. If I had a decent MP system I could game in the forground and check my email, run a server and/or burn a CD in the background.
At work I have six or seven big apps running and who knows how many background apps.
I need all the RAM and CPU cycles I can get.
Multitasking,
Bill
Since you asked, I started writing C before there were books for it and CPUs only had one register. In fact, I once had to write an accounting system using '0's and 'L's because the '1' key was broken!
Here's what the requirements for the next, next gen FPS will be:
...same as last time but more.
After all, these are games of the same genre, not a solitare game being superceeded by a ERP package.
As to HW improvements allowing for a Content Creation API note that in his lecture JC stated his next engine will be written entirely in a high level language for the first time. Ergo, he is already introducing SW levels of abstraction that have been disdained in the past for performance reasons.
Don't just think out of the box, get out of the box and LIVE MAN!
(:-{)} ,
Bill
I humbly submit...*
Why not keep the API static as much as possible across engine releases? Divorcing the API from the engine would increase the shelf life of the content creation paradigm, if that is a goal.
The Quake IV engine would grow the paradigm for content creation previously created for Doom III. By enhancing as opposed to changing the API old content could easily be plugged into new engines. Ta Da! Instant upgrade for yesterday's game.
Will not the next generations of hardware support another SW layer if required?
This would serve to greatly reduce application development timeframes and costs, maximizing the amount of cool games in my hands (CFOs read "profits").
Cheers,
Bill
* Yes I realize I should have stopped there.