Can anybody find any info or posts about Ao Nang in the Krabi province of Thailand? I Googled, but could not find anything.
My wife and I were just there a couple of weeks ago before heading back to the states. Pretty scary when you realize that it could have been you or your loved one washed out to sea.
Actually, it is the flaws (to a degree) that make a diamond valuable. For instance, colored diamonds (e.g. pink) contain a flaw that give them color. A trained jewler can quickly tell the diffrence between "perfect" industrial diamonds and "flawed" ones. Really, the most valuable natural diamonds are the most perfect imperfect ones.
Am I the only one slightly impressed by some of the students in the article? Like Mr. Berkman who found at least six plus holes, one of which allows a user to take over via Samba? If somebody found that many serious holes in Windows software,./ would have a parade in their honor.
Instead of bitching about how it is not really *nix holes, congrats to the students. I would sure hire a grad who failed a course but had found some many flaws that the so called "hackers" that took plain vanilla CS courses either missed or didnt care about.
I associate the IBM brand with corporate frigidity, contractors, and outsourcing. I understand (and agree) that Thinkpad is a good line, but does anybody really get warm-fuzzies toward the IBM brand (as they do Apple)?
I agree on the GUI... I use eclipse for 90% of my development, but I often have Forte/Netbeans installed for Swing GUI editing.
They do have SWT editors, I think.
Well said, and I totally agree... and certainly, according to the article, this would possible! All that would be needed is a XSLT that inserts the FO tags in place of the formatting.
I totally agree. In fact, a single XSLT would likely be required to convert the XP-XML into the OASIS model, with or without formatting! Sounds much more interoperable than it was previously.
It would be nice if Microsoft used an open (OASIS) format, but it sure doesn't sound like people are locked into the format.
It does, also, seem useful for a lightweight client-side database. It could be used in tracking computations for statistical analysis or other mathematical applications. Shutting down and starting up the application would allow the users to pick up where they left off.
It also seems ideal for an event tracking system (say an "undo" log).
The system writes a command-based log system to disk with each transaction along with maintaining it in the RAM. If the system crashes, the API re-creates the previous state by reading through the logs.
I think that the system could be pretty damn useful in certain applications considering how fast and light it is... it takes up far less space than the average thin-JDBC driver.
....and, correct me if I am wrong, but aren't there already reports of Vancomicyn resistant strains of MRSA? There are a variety of other reports besides that one.
The issue is not only about patents and money. It is what happens when, after ten or twenty years, this monster-antibiotic saturates the market. What happens when every hospital in the world is using it to disinfect their rooms and their patients? What happens when it is available in a topical, over-the-counter, antibiotic cream that we can all use?
The answer is, without a doubt, another monster-bug that is resistant to this monster-antibiotic!
This cycle of creating a pill for everything that ails us needs to be addressed, or else we really will be seeing some scary shit in our lifetime.
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Genetic algorithms are generally based upon successive "generations" ("iterations", "repeats" whatever) where different portions of algorithms compete. The "winning" sections of algorithms advance further.
Swarms, though, are based on a very small set of unchanging ideas. Those simple ideas, when multiplied over thousands of organisms, takes on a whole (swarm) picture.
That being said, some swarm programs can be made genetic... those simple assumptions/ideas are pitted against one another.
"Wrong" grossly understates the complexity of Franklin's interaction with Watson/Crick. She was neither wrong nor right. She was doggedly neutral in assessing the structure of DNA.
Franklin was wrapped up in the notion that the structure of DNA could only be discovered through X-Ray diffraction, and not through using the modelling approach that Watson and Crick ascribed to.
Was was very, very, correct, however, when she discovered that DNA has two states: "zipped" and "unzipped". That served as a direct catalyst to Watson and Crick's break through. That would have gotten her the Nobel Prize, also, if she had survived long enough (it cannot be awarded posthumously).
So what does this accomplish that a chmod command or window's current file-sharing capabilities do not? Sounds like a weak marketing-based attempt to cover up their bigger security woes.
I'm really surprised that Road to Perdition was not nominated for best-pic. It may prove that that the release timing of the picture really is important for oscar noms.
Posted this month on DeveloperWorks
"MySQL is a powerful database for the price you pay for it (nothing), and many companies use MySQL to handle their data. The number is growing daily as companies with low budgets enter the Web market. The open source community has greeted MySQL with open arms. The documentation about this powerful database is abundant, and there are both Linux and Windows versions. "
The executives should take a look at their own site.
That's right, but JSP/servlets are a subset of the J2EE standard. The Tomcat is not J2EE compliant since it does not include so many of the other standard technologies, most notably EJBs. It is compliant to JSP/servlet standards.
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Thanks for the post, glad that you both got out okay.
Can anybody find any info or posts about Ao Nang in the Krabi province of Thailand? I Googled, but could not find anything. My wife and I were just there a couple of weeks ago before heading back to the states. Pretty scary when you realize that it could have been you or your loved one washed out to sea.
Actually, it is the flaws (to a degree) that make a diamond valuable. For instance, colored diamonds (e.g. pink) contain a flaw that give them color. A trained jewler can quickly tell the diffrence between "perfect" industrial diamonds and "flawed" ones. Really, the most valuable natural diamonds are the most perfect imperfect ones.
Am I the only one slightly impressed by some of the students in the article? Like Mr. Berkman who found at least six plus holes, one of which allows a user to take over via Samba? If somebody found that many serious holes in Windows software, ./ would have a parade in their honor.
Instead of bitching about how it is not really *nix holes, congrats to the students. I would sure hire a grad who failed a course but had found some many flaws that the so called "hackers" that took plain vanilla CS courses either missed or didnt care about.
They seem to have several different types of XML formats including RSS and XML in addition to SOAP.
SOAP, being XML, is available via http. Anything available in SOAP can be opened / viewed as XML in most browsers.
I associate the IBM brand with corporate frigidity, contractors, and outsourcing. I understand (and agree) that Thinkpad is a good line, but does anybody really get warm-fuzzies toward the IBM brand (as they do Apple)?
Has anybody that has used both HSQL and Cloudscape/Derby could offer a comparision? Just curious.
I agree on the GUI... I use eclipse for 90% of my development, but I often have Forte/Netbeans installed for Swing GUI editing. They do have SWT editors, I think.
Linksys Wireless Router supports IPSec. It costs about $70. Not the cheapest, I guess, but certainly less than $400.
Well said, and I totally agree... and certainly, according to the article, this would possible! All that would be needed is a XSLT that inserts the FO tags in place of the formatting.
It would be nice if Microsoft used an open (OASIS) format, but it sure doesn't sound like people are locked into the format.
"Men's sexuality, I think, is...a much more fluid thing than our society really permits it to be," says the author.
And when he has written about men's relationships, there have been questions about his own sexuality.
"The things you write about people," he responds, "people automatically assume you must have done."
It does, also, seem useful for a lightweight client-side database. It could be used in tracking computations for statistical analysis or other mathematical applications. Shutting down and starting up the application would allow the users to pick up where they left off.
It also seems ideal for an event tracking system (say an "undo" log).
I'm pretty sure that you're talking about Xindice or possibly Torque
The system writes a command-based log system to disk with each transaction along with maintaining it in the RAM. If the system crashes, the API re-creates the previous state by reading through the logs. I think that the system could be pretty damn useful in certain applications considering how fast and light it is... it takes up far less space than the average thin-JDBC driver.
....and, correct me if I am wrong, but aren't there already reports of Vancomicyn resistant strains of MRSA? There are a variety of other reports besides that one.
The issue is not only about patents and money. It is what happens when, after ten or twenty years, this monster-antibiotic saturates the market. What happens when every hospital in the world is using it to disinfect their rooms and their patients? What happens when it is available in a topical, over-the-counter, antibiotic cream that we can all use? The answer is, without a doubt, another monster-bug that is resistant to this monster-antibiotic! This cycle of creating a pill for everything that ails us needs to be addressed, or else we really will be seeing some scary shit in our lifetime.
Very well said, I totally agree.
Genetic algorithms are generally based upon successive "generations" ("iterations", "repeats" whatever) where different portions of algorithms compete. The "winning" sections of algorithms advance further. Swarms, though, are based on a very small set of unchanging ideas. Those simple ideas, when multiplied over thousands of organisms, takes on a whole (swarm) picture. That being said, some swarm programs can be made genetic... those simple assumptions/ideas are pitted against one another.
"Wrong" grossly understates the complexity of Franklin's interaction with Watson/Crick. She was neither wrong nor right. She was doggedly neutral in assessing the structure of DNA. Franklin was wrapped up in the notion that the structure of DNA could only be discovered through X-Ray diffraction, and not through using the modelling approach that Watson and Crick ascribed to. Was was very, very, correct, however, when she discovered that DNA has two states: "zipped" and "unzipped". That served as a direct catalyst to Watson and Crick's break through. That would have gotten her the Nobel Prize, also, if she had survived long enough (it cannot be awarded posthumously).
So what does this accomplish that a chmod command or window's current file-sharing capabilities do not? Sounds like a weak marketing-based attempt to cover up their bigger security woes.
I'm really surprised that Road to Perdition was not nominated for best-pic. It may prove that that the release timing of the picture really is important for oscar noms.
Posted this month on DeveloperWorks "MySQL is a powerful database for the price you pay for it (nothing), and many companies use MySQL to handle their data. The number is growing daily as companies with low budgets enter the Web market. The open source community has greeted MySQL with open arms. The documentation about this powerful database is abundant, and there are both Linux and Windows versions. " The executives should take a look at their own site.
That's right, but JSP/servlets are a subset of the J2EE standard. The Tomcat is not J2EE compliant since it does not include so many of the other standard technologies, most notably EJBs. It is compliant to JSP/servlet standards.