In the early days of Rome a real estate investor/ extortionist named Crassus used a team of firefighters in an effective scheme. There was no public firefighting service at that time, so when a building was on fire, Crassus and his team would show up with their water pump. Before fighting the fire, Crassus would make a very low offer on the building, and to neighboring building owners. If the owners refused, Crassus let the building burn and spread to neighboring buildings, and would later make an even lower offer. If the owner agreed to sell the property, the firefighters would try to put the fire out. Crassus became very wealthy with this scheme, owned a good portion of the city of Rome, bought his way into political office, and ruled Rome as Triumvirate with Pompey and Julius Caesar. As Triumvirate, the area he ruled was centered in Syria, and extended over a wide region. Envisioning riches beyond belief and military glory, Crassus led an expedition against the Parthian Empire, in which he was killed and his legion was wiped out.
You forget farm subsidies, electricity subsidies, social security, welfare, hospitals, schools, military, police, parks and various other government programs. At your wage you are not paying anywhere near your fair share, in fact, the government gives you money when you file your taxes (assuming your parents arent still claiming you). Thats ok though, we pay so that hopefully you will eventually make use of that college education, get a real job or even start your own. You certainly wont be able to support a family on your income, and most people eventually do that.
Some day you will look back at your minimum wage life and wonder how you survived (but still managed to post to slashdot).
7k a year is less than half minimum wage. I have no idea how you live.
Oh wait yes I do.. You either live in an extremely poor country or you live off your family or government support.
Most likely you live off the taxes of those of us 'spoiled' people who actually make a living for ourselves. Don't think your jealousy is going to make anyone feel guilty.
You far overestimate how much $2.5 million is. After taxes and the cut his church gets hes going to have somewhere around 1 million. That isn't enough to retire on.
The only indispensible requirement is that the lawmakers be ethical people, and that's easily achieved once you have a properly educated electorate. The people can be trusted to make the right decisions, once they understand the issues.
This has gotta be the funniest thing Ive heard all day. Ethical lawmakers, educated electorate, and people making the right decisions. Thats funny stuff right there. If it was all so easy it would have happened at least one time in the past. But no.. There have always been unethical lawmakers, uneducated electorate and most of all.. People make bad decisions all the time and even when they think they are making a good decision, there are people who would disagree.
Not to mention that what is the "right decision" is impossible to determine even in hindsight.. Hindsight may be 20/20 but even 20/20 cant read a sign from a mile away.
Yes, it will get 35mpg if you drive for less than 10 minutes on average or its an extremely cold/warm day (heater/ac) and you hit the brakes really hard so the batteries are useless. Then again, no car gets good mileage when you drive in that manner, you just dont have an up to the second reading telling you how bad your mileage is.
On the otherhand if you drive in the city 30 minute commutes or on long drives you should easily get 45-50 mpg, closer to 70 mpg if you are averaging about 35 mph in city traffic on a warm day. Hrmm.. that sounds a lot like how I (and everyone else) drives here in the city of smoggy angels. There are few mid size cars available in CA that even come close to the Prius for Los Angeles driving.
I know.. In fact I know far too much about how the prius works from all the message boards I frequent. I was trying to simplify the hybrid concept down to the basic idea conceived in the early 1900s.
The best site Ive found for explaining how the Toyota Prius works is John's presentation
By that arguement, all cars are solar powered because the run on gasoline which is refined from oil which was produced by physical processes on the remains of plant life that grew from the sun. Listing indirect power sources doesnt really add to the debate
Hybrids recapture energy that would otherwise be wasted as heat from braking. Its a basic concept that was conceived a long time ago but has not been viable. Recapturing braking energy is a worthwhile goal that is worth considering for any vehicle design.
For the record, Im on the waiting list for a Toyota Prius and I rented one from the dealershipe for a weekend. I got excellent gas mileage, typically 40-50mpg, but 60-70mpg when in stop and go driving around 25mph with engine warmed up (took the beach route home which is slow going some parts). This is extremely good for a midsized car, especially one with as many gadgets as the Prius has. The gadgets make the car great, the hybrid part is a bonus.
Not true! Hybrids generate their own electricity by running a generator instead of using brake pads to slow down the car. It is simple conservation of energy that would otherwise be wasted. This electricity is stored in a battery and used to run a motor that increases horse power slightly and increases torque greatly (Prius has nearly 300 low end torque which is unheard of for a v4). If you are like most people, you have no idea what torque is, so simply put, torque is the major component of acceleration and horse power is the major component of top speed. This torque also allows the use of a different type of engine that has very little low end torque but about 15% better fuel efficiency.
There is a cost of generating and storing this electricity, the weight of the batteries + motor + space to put these. Hybrids were not viable due to these issues until fairly recently. With the battery improvements over the last few years, the costs of generating and storing the electricity became less than the benefits.
Over the next few years, hybrids will become much more main stream. They increase torque, horse power and fuel efficiency for a cost of about $3000, and that cost is dropping. Hybrids will be used to increase performance, fuel efficiency or both. Importantly, they can be used with any type of engine and will be instrumental in hydrogen fuel cell based engines or other new engine types.
The question is wether you care about the success rate or the failure rate. When you are talking about success rates in the multiple 9s category (such as odds you will not die in a car crash on the way to work today), the only meaningful numbers to compare are the failure rates. Continuing the car example, if a suv rolls over 10 times as often as a sedan, wouldnt you say the sedan is 10 times better? Or would you say its.0001% better because roll overs are fairly infrequent.
So.0014 failure vs.00014 is a factor of 10.. you can either say the failure rate is 10% of a human, or a human fails 10 times as often as the computer.
If you catch balls that poorly, you arent going to be playing pro ball any time soon..
More realistically, if player A catches the ball 80% of the time and player B catches the ball 90% of the time, saying player A is twice as good as player B makes a lot more sense than saying player A is 12.5% better. Noone says Player A has half the error rate of player B, they just say twice as good.
Perhaps they mean that Human A is reading email intended for Human B and attempting to classify the email as spam or not spam. I wouldnt be surprised if a computer could do a better job at that sort of task. Besides Im sure Human B wouldnt want Human A reading that cyber sex chat log.
They already are. Its not like my miniature pincure is a big bad hyena now is it? And your tabby sure aint no tiger (or whatever the hell they started with).
I really dont see what the big deal is with glowing fish. Worst case you have to make sure the trout you eat doesnt glow in the dark before you cook it;)
If this review was a project elephant, the reviewer is hoping we all grope and pull at his big word penis. This thread is proof that even project elephant reviews practice self ejaculation.
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The Struts tag libraries are incredibly useful for any kind of html form based web app (aka. all of them). Remembering what the user last selected on a form takes a ton of horrible looking code if done with pure jsp or old school servlet/jsp model 2. Struts is also useful for automatically filling out your java bean with data from the http request, validating it according to your rules and sending it back to the input page if there are errors or processing it if there are not.
I will definitely agree that the learning curve for struts is quite steep and the number of files involved per user action is high (1 form bean, 1 action, 1 jsp, 1 xml config file, 1 property file, possibly 1 xml validation file) but there are some IDEs which help out in some cases. The problems are incredibly similar to most MVC frameworks. Using modular design leads to more complex code, its a fact of life.
Struts is certainly not the end all and be all but its better for medium to large projects than the alternatives I've looked at (caveat: I have not investigated JSF which someone mentioned)
No, lottery, alcohol and tobacco taxes are the worst because they hit hardest on those with the least income. I wont argue against alcohol and tobacco taxes because they are used to discourage people from using substances that can lessen their chances in life. State lotteries however are a huge tax, and the poorest people are the ones that buy the most tickets, hoping to make it big in one lucky chance.
You wouldnt have been labeled a troll if you had been wise and used good south park links to disguise your message. For example, your post could have been....
At what point does slashdot just go ahead and directly link each story to the Democratic Party's home page?
The main flaw in your arguement is that you believe industry will work together. The desires of bandwidth providers and the entertainment industry are directly opposed to each other. File sharing sells bandwidth. It is the killer application of broadband. Just pay your $40 a month and get all the music (and eventually movies) you could ever want for free! The broadband providers have to rely on word of mouth for this for legal reasons but would love to be able to go with the Apple rip/mix/burn (err pirate/burn?) slogan.
The recording industry has every sign of being a dying industry trying everything it can to milk out a few more years of profit before collapsing into a state noone would recognize. Suing individuals is a horrid idea that will not help sell their music.
As far as actually being able to keep bandwidth down, it is a horrible idea that will make the US fall farther behind the Asian markets in economic terms. If you have to kill the entertainment industry in order to allow people the bandwidth to do interesting things on the internet, so be it. The US will eventually have the bandwidth the Koreans enjoy, just hope for all our sakes that it doesnt take too long or we will lose our status as the economic powerhouse of the world.
Java applets are NOT slow. Poorly written java applets certainly are. There are poorly written, slow programs in many languages, not just java. In fact, Ive written both.
My first java applet at my current job is a horrid beast. Its a simple scrolling applet that polls a url to get updates. The scrolling part is absolutely horrible looking, but its my fault. Using sleep and moving a set ammount after each sleep will end up with jerky animation on anything except a real time OS.
My second java applet on the otherhand, is wonderful. It loads and parses huge data files, and builds up a visual representation of the data. See http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/ for the code I started from (side note, there is a horrible sort routine you will need to replace to get any kind of performance). It builds up huge tree structures in memory and lets you view any node in the tree by zooming in/out. Also included are advanced filtering capabilities, etc. Unfortunately, my company does not have a demo anywhere publicly accessable, but the applet is as fast as any visualization tool Ive used, faster than the competiton, but with more features and a more generic tool in general (see http://www.smartmoney.com/marketmap/ for the competition). And yes, im quite proud of my work;).
As far as IE, my biggest problem with it is that it allows "web designers" far too much leeway in what it accepts as html and javascript. Then I get stuck trying to fix this wonderful code to make it work on mozilla.. sigh
Attention other telemarketing companies. Due to this nice individual, we have a certain way to challenge this business damaging law. We simply have to sign everyone up for the DNC list in case no evil hacker does it!
We've got 2 options here: Black hat: Release a virus in to the wild that sets up a network, similar to a DDOS network. Then send a list of targets to one machine and have it split the list and send the majority of it to other servant machines it has infected, who split the list, etc. Then each machine registers its section of the phone list using free email accounts and spoofed ips.
White hat: Same as black hat except the client is downloaded by everyone who wants to support the telemarketing industry. The client would work like the seti@home client, getting lists of phone numbers in chunks to register.
Black hat is definitely the way to go since the whole idea is to not be traced so we can get the whole list thrown out in court!
So lets work together to develop this virus and sign everyone up for the do not call list! Thanks unfortunateson for the wonderful idea, we shall all call you to thank you and offer you wonderful free vacations to time shares and send emails about how to enlarge your penis.
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Yes.. 2000+ years ago..
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In the early days of Rome a real estate investor/ extortionist named Crassus used a team of firefighters in an effective scheme. There was no public firefighting service at that time, so when a building was on fire, Crassus and his team would show up with their water pump. Before fighting the fire, Crassus would make a very low offer on the building, and to neighboring building owners. If the owners refused, Crassus let the building burn and spread to neighboring buildings, and would later make an even lower offer. If the owner agreed to sell the property, the firefighters would try to put the fire out. Crassus became very wealthy with this scheme, owned a good portion of the city of Rome, bought his way into political office, and ruled Rome as Triumvirate with Pompey and Julius Caesar. As Triumvirate, the area he ruled was centered in Syria, and extended over a wide region. Envisioning riches beyond belief and military glory, Crassus led an expedition against the Parthian Empire, in which he was killed and his legion was wiped out.
Mod parent down as disinformative..
The Prius does not use any belt or cone system. That is the older CVT used in other cars many years ago.
The Prius uses a planetary gear set to transfer power around between its various inputs/outputs.
See this article for more details:
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/hybrid-car16.htm
You forget farm subsidies, electricity subsidies, social security, welfare, hospitals, schools, military, police, parks and various other government programs. At your wage you are not paying anywhere near your fair share, in fact, the government gives you money when you file your taxes (assuming your parents arent still claiming you). Thats ok though, we pay so that hopefully you will eventually make use of that college education, get a real job or even start your own. You certainly wont be able to support a family on your income, and most people eventually do that.
Some day you will look back at your minimum wage life and wonder how you survived (but still managed to post to slashdot).
7k a year is less than half minimum wage. I have no idea how you live.
Oh wait yes I do.. You either live in an extremely poor country or you live off your family or government support.
Most likely you live off the taxes of those of us 'spoiled' people who actually make a living for ourselves. Don't think your jealousy is going to make anyone feel guilty.
Ahh but it is also a homonym for "The quest for kin" which would be looking for people who are
akin adj.
2. Having a similar quality or character; analogous.
to Ken
You far overestimate how much $2.5 million is. After taxes and the cut his church gets hes going to have somewhere around 1 million. That isn't enough to retire on.
The only indispensible requirement is that the lawmakers be ethical people, and that's easily achieved once you have a properly educated electorate. The people can be trusted to make the right decisions, once they understand the issues.
This has gotta be the funniest thing Ive heard all day. Ethical lawmakers, educated electorate, and people making the right decisions. Thats funny stuff right there. If it was all so easy it would have happened at least one time in the past. But no.. There have always been unethical lawmakers, uneducated electorate and most of all.. People make bad decisions all the time and even when they think they are making a good decision, there are people who would disagree.
Not to mention that what is the "right decision" is impossible to determine even in hindsight.. Hindsight may be 20/20 but even 20/20 cant read a sign from a mile away.
Yes, it will get 35mpg if you drive for less than 10 minutes on average or its an extremely cold/warm day (heater/ac) and you hit the brakes really hard so the batteries are useless. Then again, no car gets good mileage when you drive in that manner, you just dont have an up to the second reading telling you how bad your mileage is.
On the otherhand if you drive in the city 30 minute commutes or on long drives you should easily get 45-50 mpg, closer to 70 mpg if you are averaging about 35 mph in city traffic on a warm day. Hrmm.. that sounds a lot like how I (and everyone else) drives here in the city of smoggy angels. There are few mid size cars available in CA that even come close to the Prius for Los Angeles driving.
Was your use of the slang "chintzy" intentional?
As in a spork is usually as cheap and worthless as the chinese chopstick?
The best site Ive found for explaining how the Toyota Prius works is John's presentation
By that arguement, all cars are solar powered because the run on gasoline which is refined from oil which was produced by physical processes on the remains of plant life that grew from the sun. Listing indirect power sources doesnt really add to the debate
Hybrids recapture energy that would otherwise be wasted as heat from braking. Its a basic concept that was conceived a long time ago but has not been viable. Recapturing braking energy is a worthwhile goal that is worth considering for any vehicle design.
For the record, Im on the waiting list for a Toyota Prius and I rented one from the dealershipe for a weekend. I got excellent gas mileage, typically 40-50mpg, but 60-70mpg when in stop and go driving around 25mph with engine warmed up (took the beach route home which is slow going some parts). This is extremely good for a midsized car, especially one with as many gadgets as the Prius has. The gadgets make the car great, the hybrid part is a bonus.
Not true! Hybrids generate their own electricity by running a generator instead of using brake pads to slow down the car. It is simple conservation of energy that would otherwise be wasted. This electricity is stored in a battery and used to run a motor that increases horse power slightly and increases torque greatly (Prius has nearly 300 low end torque which is unheard of for a v4). If you are like most people, you have no idea what torque is, so simply put, torque is the major component of acceleration and horse power is the major component of top speed. This torque also allows the use of a different type of engine that has very little low end torque but about 15% better fuel efficiency.
There is a cost of generating and storing this electricity, the weight of the batteries + motor + space to put these. Hybrids were not viable due to these issues until fairly recently. With the battery improvements over the last few years, the costs of generating and storing the electricity became less than the benefits.
Over the next few years, hybrids will become much more main stream. They increase torque, horse power and fuel efficiency for a cost of about $3000, and that cost is dropping. Hybrids will be used to increase performance, fuel efficiency or both. Importantly, they can be used with any type of engine and will be instrumental in hydrogen fuel cell based engines or other new engine types.
Apparently noones sarcasm detector is working properly today.
*knock knock* is this thing on?
The question is wether you care about the success rate or the failure rate. When you are talking about success rates in the multiple 9s category (such as odds you will not die in a car crash on the way to work today), the only meaningful numbers to compare are the failure rates. Continuing the car example, if a suv rolls over 10 times as often as a sedan, wouldnt you say the sedan is 10 times better? Or would you say its .0001% better because roll overs are fairly infrequent.
.0014 failure vs .00014 is a factor of 10.. you can either say the failure rate is 10% of a human, or a human fails 10 times as often as the computer.
So
If you catch balls that poorly, you arent going to be playing pro ball any time soon..
More realistically, if player A catches the ball 80% of the time and player B catches the ball 90% of the time, saying player A is twice as good as player B makes a lot more sense than saying player A is 12.5% better. Noone says Player A has half the error rate of player B, they just say twice as good.
Perhaps they mean that Human A is reading email intended for Human B and attempting to classify the email as spam or not spam. I wouldnt be surprised if a computer could do a better job at that sort of task. Besides Im sure Human B wouldnt want Human A reading that cyber sex chat log.
No, you are just bad at math .9984 = .0016 .99984 = .00016
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A factor of 10 in reduced error rates
160 errors per 10 thousand vs 16.
They already are. Its not like my miniature pincure is a big bad hyena now is it? And your tabby sure aint no tiger (or whatever the hell they started with).
;)
I really dont see what the big deal is with glowing fish. Worst case you have to make sure the trout you eat doesnt glow in the dark before you cook it
If this review was a project elephant, the reviewer is hoping we all grope and pull at his big word penis. This thread is proof that even project elephant reviews practice self ejaculation.
The Struts tag libraries are incredibly useful for any kind of html form based web app (aka. all of them). Remembering what the user last selected on a form takes a ton of horrible looking code if done with pure jsp or old school servlet/jsp model 2. Struts is also useful for automatically filling out your java bean with data from the http request, validating it according to your rules and sending it back to the input page if there are errors or processing it if there are not.
I will definitely agree that the learning curve for struts is quite steep and the number of files involved per user action is high (1 form bean, 1 action, 1 jsp, 1 xml config file, 1 property file, possibly 1 xml validation file) but there are some IDEs which help out in some cases. The problems are incredibly similar to most MVC frameworks. Using modular design leads to more complex code, its a fact of life.
Struts is certainly not the end all and be all but its better for medium to large projects than the alternatives I've looked at (caveat: I have not investigated JSF which someone mentioned)
No, lottery, alcohol and tobacco taxes are the worst because they hit hardest on those with the least income. I wont argue against alcohol and tobacco taxes because they are used to discourage people from using substances that can lessen their chances in life. State lotteries however are a huge tax, and the poorest people are the ones that buy the most tickets, hoping to make it big in one lucky chance.
Its really quite sad.
The main flaw in your arguement is that you believe industry will work together. The desires of bandwidth providers and the entertainment industry are directly opposed to each other. File sharing sells bandwidth. It is the killer application of broadband. Just pay your $40 a month and get all the music (and eventually movies) you could ever want for free! The broadband providers have to rely on word of mouth for this for legal reasons but would love to be able to go with the Apple rip/mix/burn (err pirate/burn?) slogan.
The recording industry has every sign of being a dying industry trying everything it can to milk out a few more years of profit before collapsing into a state noone would recognize. Suing individuals is a horrid idea that will not help sell their music.
As far as actually being able to keep bandwidth down, it is a horrible idea that will make the US fall farther behind the Asian markets in economic terms. If you have to kill the entertainment industry in order to allow people the bandwidth to do interesting things on the internet, so be it. The US will eventually have the bandwidth the Koreans enjoy, just hope for all our sakes that it doesnt take too long or we will lose our status as the economic powerhouse of the world.
Java applets are NOT slow. Poorly written java applets certainly are. There are poorly written, slow programs in many languages, not just java. In fact, Ive written both.
;).
My first java applet at my current job is a horrid beast. Its a simple scrolling applet that polls a url to get updates. The scrolling part is absolutely horrible looking, but its my fault. Using sleep and moving a set ammount after each sleep will end up with jerky animation on anything except a real time OS.
My second java applet on the otherhand, is wonderful. It loads and parses huge data files, and builds up a visual representation of the data. See http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/ for the code I started from (side note, there is a horrible sort routine you will need to replace to get any kind of performance). It builds up huge tree structures in memory and lets you view any node in the tree by zooming in/out. Also included are advanced filtering capabilities, etc. Unfortunately, my company does not have a demo anywhere publicly accessable, but the applet is as fast as any visualization tool Ive used, faster than the competiton, but with more features and a more generic tool in general (see http://www.smartmoney.com/marketmap/ for the competition). And yes, im quite proud of my work
As far as IE, my biggest problem with it is that it allows "web designers" far too much leeway in what it accepts as html and javascript. Then I get stuck trying to fix this wonderful code to make it work on mozilla.. sigh
Attention other telemarketing companies. Due to this nice individual, we have a certain way to challenge this business damaging law. We simply have to sign everyone up for the DNC list in case no evil hacker does it!
We've got 2 options here:
Black hat: Release a virus in to the wild that sets up a network, similar to a DDOS network. Then send a list of targets to one machine and have it split the list and send the majority of it to other servant machines it has infected, who split the list, etc. Then each machine registers its section of the phone list using free email accounts and spoofed ips.
White hat: Same as black hat except the client is downloaded by everyone who wants to support the telemarketing industry. The client would work like the seti@home client, getting lists of phone numbers in chunks to register.
Black hat is definitely the way to go since the whole idea is to not be traced so we can get the whole list thrown out in court!
So lets work together to develop this virus and sign everyone up for the do not call list! Thanks unfortunateson for the wonderful idea, we shall all call you to thank you and offer you wonderful free vacations to time shares and send emails about how to enlarge your penis.
Anonymous Telemarketer