Unfortunately, after a second edition in 1997 the book hasn't been updated.
And yet, it's still being used in the Department of Foreign Affairs as need-to-know material for our intranet site developers.
However, most of the n00bs here seem to read PHP and MySQL web development, by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson.
The Canadian government uses Java, XML, VB/VBA, SQL Server, and ASP, but SQL and PHP are the primary ones. I did ask around at web development and we did in fact order copies of the new book that you reviewed though. Cool, eh?
Nah, it was a good post... the last bit was a bit harsh-sounding but it's all good. There isn't much of a go-playing community where I'm from, outside of Chinatown. Hasn't really caught on in Ottawa. That being said, know a good freeware computer Go program?
ranked by zip code or by manually selecting your location from a list of counties and cities by statehere. Once you have specified your location, it brings up a list of all the providers in your region with user and expert reviews covering most if not all of the features you need.
mandatory MAC address registration/matching with IP numbers will be the end of anonymity on the web. OMG. It's almost as if... they're following the OSI 7-layer model! Ever heard of ARP or RARP?
lie in the way that the decisions are made and the differences in how they affect the playing field. The average game of Go actually lasts longer than the average chess game and is far older... For starters, Go in its pure form is played on a 19x19 board as supposed to an 8x8 board. Chess's famous plays, games and styles have all been archived, whereas Go's strategies are largely abstract and can only be learned by repeated play. The game only begins to take structure after 30 to 50 moves. According to this site, Go has approximately 10 to the 750th power of possible board positions. This makes it a very hard game for computers to learn. On the historical side, Go is a complex game that originated in China close to 4000 years ago and has remained constant to its' original form despite being introduced to many southeast Asian countries since.
Dude...
the Bush administration is going out of its' way to avoid racial profiling. And the Oklahoma bombing is completely different from Al-Qaeda's terrorist acts.
Timothy McVeigh believed himself to be a soldier fighting against an oppressive government... he had absolutely no interest in dying at the time of the bombing.
This is a vast difference from the mentality of suicide bombers, who sacrifice their own lives to destroy others. This form of terrorism is rooted in an extremist sect of the Islam religion. White Americans simply do not think that the sacrifice of their own life will lead to heaven... should they choose to kill, they try to do it in ways in which they will not be destroyed in.
This is why slightly over 100% of suicide bombers are of Middle Eastern descent.
Actually, the Department of Foreign Affairs, a minsitry in the Canadian government, does exactly what you are proposing. As an employee of their home loan program, I have filled out the paperwork to lend several of these file servers to local middle and high schools where they have a 3 year shelf life. This concept was implemented as of March 31st, 2002. Just thought it was cool one of our procedures was on slashdot lol
People have always been fairly spontaneous in nature. The concept of a flash crowd has been around for ages; the PCD manifestation of this being merely the most prominent today. Look at the good side of PCDs and their networks: they speed up communication between social and political groups immensely. Whether the end result is viewed as productive or not, the fact that the potential for speedy meetings and conversation anywhere is there is the essence of PCDs and a truly great thing. Of course there are downsides to them, such as the EM radiation's possibility of causing cancer... but this does not mean that PCDs are inherently bad. All things can be improved.
The internet couldn't possibly be used by the terrorists, as with the amount of porn on it in every domain their eyes would be seared by a picture of a naked woman before they could download any sort of plans for a bomb. With all the renamed files on P2P programs, Osama Bin Laden's buddies are more likely to download sorority sex kittens 5 than anything harmful.
If you go to SETI's website, the first heading you see reads Working together to continue the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Is it just me, or does cloaking the Earth's technology from worlds with possible life counterproductive to the very things that SETI stands for? This is ingenious technology, I am just confused as to why SETI of all organizations would propose it as it seems against their very nature.
This is true. I considered mentioning this... but the fact of the matter is that most everyday Americans need box cutters, knives and rat poison for legitimate reasons. The funding needed to investigate such petty things is ridiculous... let alone the time. If the terrorist threat is so large, surely we should spend more time investigating it rather than every Tom, Dick and Harry who needs to open a box, get rid of some rodents or cut up some fruit. Thanks for the input though, you're quite right.
By harvesting consumer data, the Federal Government not only encroaches on our fundamental rights and freedoms of privacy but is frittering away its' time and funds that could be spent on much more fruitful ventures. The last thing we need is to have our groceries screened for possible terrorist applications... I mean, why in God's name would there be something sold in a grocery store that would help Osama and his ilk?!?? This new move by the Bush Administration is in violation of our constitution and everything America stands for. Is this his best Gorbachev impression, or something? The fact is, this 'war on terror', if it is to be waged at all, should not target the American civilians who are funding it, let alone in such a redundant and violating way.
Juding from the description found in that article, I believe that it is possible to enhance old video to higher qualities. However, the quality of color sometimes cannot be enhanced no matter what. Unless one has access to the original film reel, it is unlikely that any sort of improvements could be made; video copies are utterly useless in this manner. Anything from before 1990 in VHS is much worse quality, case in point being the John Woo film A Better Tomorrow. The problem with these videos is that not only is the quality blurry, but the color blending is off and sometimes exceeds the lines it should, creating distorted images. I've seen this in a lot of older movies... I wonder if there's a way to correct this. At any rate this looks very promising indeed... it'd be cool to see some of the old classics in better quality.:)
If it's a new species, it's already the largest of its family. If not, it's a record breaker... the largest ever giant squid was 59.5ft (18m). So, either way, it's big news!
The average user does not appreciate the difference between flat panel and CRT screens. I believe Apple's strategy to be a prudent one...
Though many slashbots and computer enthusiasts will praise the flas-screen monitor, many are uncomfortable to fork that extra cash out for a more aesthetically pleasing monitor.
As you can see in this article, both have different pros and cons... but the average user is more likely to stick with the CRT monitor because of the cheaper pricing.
This is just another one of SONY's big bullshit lies that sound cool and sway many idiots to believe they have a killer project. As you remember, SONY initially was claiming the PS2 was capable of a 75 million polygon count on screen at 60fps. This ridiculous figure, backed up with CG "screenshots", took much of the wind out of Sega's sails with their dreamcast.
My fellow slashbots, the above theoretical statement by SONY is utter drivel and will never be realised.
Anyone have a clue as to how much technology like this would cost?
That's what I thought.
The theories "from Star Trek" are actually simply upscale versions of those explained in high school physics textbooks.
Of course it's a great theory... they would never put a sketchy one in a school textbook. Wait, Darwin's evolution theory.... Big Bang... sorry, scratch that last statement.
However, as we learn as early as middle school science, there is minimal friction in space because it is a vacuum.
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Unfortunately, after a second edition in 1997 the book hasn't been updated.
And yet, it's still being used in the Department of Foreign Affairs as need-to-know material for our intranet site developers.
However, most of the n00bs here seem to read PHP and MySQL web development, by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson.
The Canadian government uses Java, XML, VB/VBA, SQL Server, and ASP, but SQL and PHP are the primary ones.
I did ask around at web development and we did in fact order copies of the new book that you reviewed though. Cool, eh?
Nah, it was a good post... the last bit was a bit harsh-sounding but it's all good.
There isn't much of a go-playing community where I'm from, outside of Chinatown.
Hasn't really caught on in Ottawa. That being said, know a good freeware computer Go program?
ranked by zip code or by manually selecting your location from a list of counties and cities by statehere. Once you have specified your location, it brings up a list of all the providers in your region with user and expert reviews covering most if not all of the features you need.
mandatory MAC address registration/matching with IP numbers will be the end of anonymity on the web.
OMG. It's almost as if... they're following the OSI 7-layer model! Ever heard of ARP or RARP?
lie in the way that the decisions are made and the differences in how they affect the playing field. The average game of Go actually lasts longer than the average chess game and is far older...
For starters, Go in its pure form is played on a 19x19 board as supposed to an 8x8 board. Chess's famous plays, games and styles have all been archived, whereas Go's strategies are largely abstract and can only be learned by repeated play. The game only begins to take structure after 30 to 50 moves. According to this site, Go has approximately 10 to the 750th power of possible board positions. This makes it a very hard game for computers to learn.
On the historical side, Go is a complex game that originated in China close to 4000 years ago and has remained constant to its' original form despite being introduced to many southeast Asian countries since.
Dude...
the Bush administration is going out of its' way to avoid racial profiling. And the Oklahoma bombing is completely different from Al-Qaeda's terrorist acts.
Timothy McVeigh believed himself to be a soldier fighting against an oppressive government... he had absolutely no interest in dying at the time of the bombing.
This is a vast difference from the mentality of suicide bombers, who sacrifice their own lives to destroy others. This form of terrorism is rooted in an extremist sect of the Islam religion. White Americans simply do not think that the sacrifice of their own life will lead to heaven... should they choose to kill, they try to do it in ways in which they will not be destroyed in.
This is why slightly over 100% of suicide bombers are of Middle Eastern descent.
Actually, the Department of Foreign Affairs, a minsitry in the Canadian government, does exactly what you are proposing. As an employee of their home loan program, I have filled out the paperwork to lend several of these file servers to local middle and high schools where they have a 3 year shelf life.
This concept was implemented as of March 31st, 2002. Just thought it was cool one of our procedures was on slashdot lol
People have always been fairly spontaneous in nature. The concept of a flash crowd has been around for ages; the PCD manifestation of this being merely the most prominent today.
Look at the good side of PCDs and their networks: they speed up communication between social and political groups immensely. Whether the end result is viewed as productive or not, the fact that the potential for speedy meetings and conversation anywhere is there is the essence of PCDs and a truly great thing.
Of course there are downsides to them, such as the EM radiation's possibility of causing cancer... but this does not mean that PCDs are inherently bad. All things can be improved.
The internet couldn't possibly be used by the terrorists, as with the amount of porn on it in every domain their eyes would be seared by a picture of a naked woman before they could download any sort of plans for a bomb.
With all the renamed files on P2P programs, Osama Bin Laden's buddies are more likely to download sorority sex kittens 5 than anything harmful.
this smacks of this article wherein Representative Berman footed a bill for the MPAA and RIAA to be able to DoS possible pirates with impunity. Now they want to make it a felony to bypass DRM, an already restrictive protocol in itself. The widespread view is that such things as the DMCA are unconstitutional... the only way that these bills are being passed is by senators and representatives, who are supposed to stand for us (the everyday American), being bought out by the entertainment industry. For more information on DRM and related issues, check out the EFF... there's a lot of info there.
If you go to SETI's website, the first heading you see reads Working together to continue the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Is it just me, or does cloaking the Earth's technology from worlds with possible life counterproductive to the very things that SETI stands for?
This is ingenious technology, I am just confused as to why SETI of all organizations would propose it as it seems against their very nature.
This is true. I considered mentioning this... but the fact of the matter is that most everyday Americans need box cutters, knives and rat poison for legitimate reasons. The funding needed to investigate such petty things is ridiculous... let alone the time. If the terrorist threat is so large, surely we should spend more time investigating it rather than every Tom, Dick and Harry who needs to open a box, get rid of some rodents or cut up some fruit.
Thanks for the input though, you're quite right.
By harvesting consumer data, the Federal Government not only encroaches on our fundamental rights and freedoms of privacy but is frittering away its' time and funds that could be spent on much more fruitful ventures. The last thing we need is to have our groceries screened for possible terrorist applications... I mean, why in God's name would there be something sold in a grocery store that would help Osama and his ilk?!??
This new move by the Bush Administration is in violation of our constitution and everything America stands for. Is this his best Gorbachev impression, or something?
The fact is, this 'war on terror', if it is to be waged at all, should not target the American civilians who are funding it, let alone in such a redundant and violating way.
Juding from the description found in that article, I believe that it is possible to enhance old video to higher qualities. However, the quality of color sometimes cannot be enhanced no matter what. Unless one has access to the original film reel, it is unlikely that any sort of improvements could be made; video copies are utterly useless in this manner. Anything from before 1990 in VHS is much worse quality, case in point being the John Woo film A Better Tomorrow. The problem with these videos is that not only is the quality blurry, but the color blending is off and sometimes exceeds the lines it should, creating distorted images. I've seen this in a lot of older movies... I wonder if there's a way to correct this. :)
At any rate this looks very promising indeed... it'd be cool to see some of the old classics in better quality.
If it's a new species, it's already the largest of its family. If not, it's a record breaker... the largest ever giant squid was 59.5ft (18m). So, either way, it's big news!
The average user does not appreciate the difference between flat panel and CRT screens. I believe Apple's strategy to be a prudent one...
Though many slashbots and computer enthusiasts will praise the flas-screen monitor, many are uncomfortable to fork that extra cash out for a more aesthetically pleasing monitor.
As you can see in this article, both have different pros and cons... but the average user is more likely to stick with the CRT monitor because of the cheaper pricing.
This is just another one of SONY's big bullshit lies that sound cool and sway many idiots to believe they have a killer project. As you remember, SONY initially was claiming the PS2 was capable of a 75 million polygon count on screen at 60fps. This ridiculous figure, backed up with CG "screenshots", took much of the wind out of Sega's sails with their dreamcast.
My fellow slashbots, the above theoretical statement by SONY is utter drivel and will never be realised.
Anyone have a clue as to how much technology like this would cost?
That's what I thought.
The theories "from Star Trek" are actually simply upscale versions of those explained in high school physics textbooks.
Of course it's a great theory... they would never put a sketchy one in a school textbook. Wait, Darwin's evolution theory.... Big Bang... sorry, scratch that last statement.
However, as we learn as early as middle school science, there is minimal friction in space because it is a vacuum.
The first recipient of this form of treatment was rumored to have changed his name to Tai-Ni Wang.