If you are looking for Ripley's believe it or not museums and similar cheese, pass Cleveland and head towards Niagra Falls (actually, Niagra Falls is pretty cool.. you should go there too!). I think Cleveland is a great example of "real" Midwest america and has lots to do if you look a little. There many world class museums if that's your thing on the east side in the University Circle area. Make sure to pass by the Weatherhead building on Case Universities campus designed by world renowned architect Frank Gehry. Cleveland also has one of the largest performing arts districts outside of New York... although that costs some $$$. A trip on the Goodtime down the Cuyahoga or on Lake Erie is pretty cool, but it may not be running in September. There are something like 13 operable Bridges in the flats that are a sight to be seen at night because they are all lit up. I wouldn't go thousands of miles out of your way, but one of the things you must do before you die is go to Cedar Point and if you will be that close, a trip to Cleveland is definitely worth it.
Near Dayton, Ohio... if you've ever seen the Discovery channel's series "wings", it's like that but in real life. Best of all, It was free when I went a few years ago!
The memory bus speeds seemingly leave Intel in the dust. Pair those chips with a nice SATA RAID storage solution and a really fast PCI bus and those should be some seriously fast machines. Do they have linux working on the G5 yet?
I really think the forces at work here are not conscious actions but are a product of human nature. We aren't captive to our nature like most animals, though... we can comprehend it and attempt to rise above it by altering our behavior. We create technology to make our lives easier. We set up governing systems with laws, checks and balances, and voting. As hard as we try to control it though, the hive mind is constantly at work breaking down these systems and returning us to our natural state. This is manifested as cycles of peace, fear, repression, rebellion, and rebuilding.
I know this is marked as funny, but I sense that the general consensus is that no punishment is too cruel for spammers here. Does an unmarked spam really warrant possible jail time? Unsolicited, unmarked ads for pornography that can potentially be seen by children is a big problem, but there are already decency laws on the books that could be used to prosecute these cases and hold the senders criminally liable.
Another problem I see is that this law cannot be enforced... the problem spammers will just move offshore and can't be prosecuted anyway. What this law *will* do is open up the possibility of someone that doesn't know any better getting jail time or a huge fine for an honest mistake.
They are money-taking machines. They can be set by the casino to pay back a percentage of the amount taken in (In Nevada, I think the minimum is 75%, but I've seen some that advertise 98.8%... usually downtown vegas) The trick is, this is over time so if you play at the right time, you can hit the machine in a winning streak. Whether you are going to win or lose is determined before you even put the coin in!
I've heard of embedding biometric technology to key a gun so it can only be fired by certain individual. I wonder if RFID would be a cheaper way to accompish this? The tag could be in your watch, and the gun could read it much like the GM RFID car keys work. Not as secure (you can take my watch) but may prevent some accidental firings and such.
I agree, in this case the privacy concerns are probably unfounded. The debate is healthy though, because by the time they try to tag your children at birth, it may be too late to stop it.
They may *HAVE* to diable tags after a purchase..
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Think about clothing, or wallets for example. If they didn't diable the tag after you purchase the item, what is to stop them from charging you again next time you visit the store? Also, this would wreak havoc on their inventory control. They would have no idea what is personal property and what is product! I'm guessing they won't go to that trouble though and only scan for the codes in close proximity.
None of your examples represent publicly available information. Sure, the companies you deal with know a lot about you, but the general public can't see your banking habits or your tax return. Just because you have to reveal information about yourself doesn't mean who you reveal it to has the right to distribute it on a whim. I go to the doctor, but he can't sell medical records, can he?
I'm sure Windows Media 9 has all sorts of DRM protections build in... This is their foot in the door, movie studios want to use it for distrubuting in digital because they dont have to worry about the files getting propagated all over the internet. After their used to that, it won't be long before this is the only format you can get your DVD's in...
Does anyone else think that a 1 million dollar prize is a little low for someone that can actually pull this off? Just given the value of the people's time, equipment, not to mention the cost of transporting the vehicle to LA and costs associated with the competition itself, anyone doing this for less than a $100,000 would have to be quite frugal.
Also, I didn't see anything about rights to the technology you develop.. does DARPA get that if you win, or do they have to negotiate seperate contracts with the teams they like?
Steve Maguire wrote an excellent book called "Debugging the Development Process" (Don't let the fact that it's from Microsoft Press sway you) There are some very un-XP type concepts, specifically I think he offers advice to *not* refactor code which might explain the size of the Windows code base. Anyway, his ideas on clearing the path for developers and letting them get into the zone are right on.
Now, if only I could keep from checking slashdot every hour, I would be all set!
Being just slightly disorganized, on-line banking has lifted the huge burden of keeping tabs on all those pesky bills that come throughout the month. This is definitely one "internet" related technology that has changed my life for the better.
Of course, many of the bills are for "internet" pr0n... things have a way of balancing out for me.
Just like movies are not just pictures on film... they are a "production"...
Video games nowadays are becoming much more complicated beasts and require much larger teams... they are much more a product of their process and much less a product of the talent creating them. If the process is broken, you get crap no matter how good the individual developers are. All is not lost, though... Hollywood uses the same model. I think we will see the video game equivalent of a "Director" emerge... someone who manages the process to create something of quality. I think companies like Blizzard already do this well (although their "Directors" are fairly anonymous, I'll bet they are there).
I don't think there is much to worry about... powder coating seems to be a similar thing, although the process of applying it is completely different, and powder coating is considered one of the toughest finishes out there. Powder coating is where they take a fine polymer powder, stick it to metal parts by applying a small electrical charge, and then baking the parts in an oven. The heat "sets" the powder and bonds it to the metal. I would imagine adhesion between this stuff and other plastics would be even better since they are more similar materials.
Also, I think you got a bum Saturn... I had a dark red 1994 and it looked nearly new when I finally got rid of it at 140K miles. It had lots of major scrapes and dings in it's life... never needed more than a little polishing to remove the worst. I think the base plastic was black on mine, though.
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I'm wondering, who actually validates their XML at runtime using XML schemas? We do, but most of our XML is used for configuration files where the overhead doesn't affect overall app performance too much (read once at the beginning). One issue we run into is the validation chain.. the XML document refers to it's schema (accessible via URL on the LAN hopefully) and those schemas refer to the "master" XSD schema. This is where we have had trouble, because we usually point it to the w3c master... if the internet is down, so is our app!
It's occurred to me maybe we are being too diligent in actually validating the schema itself, but I'm wondering what others think?
Like java... I think a likely evolution will be towards a single VM that runs all your programs instead of the one VM per app generally used now. More and more of the process switching and memory management will be built into the VM's probably to the point one day where java VM's become operating systems in their own right and only need the underlying OS for drivers to talk to the hardware.
Would a localized magnetic pulse disable them, for instance? I'm not so bothered by the tags themselves because there will almost certainly be a way to easily disable them once you have your goods at home... unless of course they apply the DMCA circumvention provisions to that too.
Hmm.. I don't claim to have read everything on this group's site (I'm mostly interested in the topic of corporate personhood), but their charter doesn't seem socialistic to me. I'm interested, what did you find socialistic? I'm being genuine here... I would not want to use this web site as a reference for the isssue of corporate personhood if in fact their remaining politial agenda is at odds with mine.
Today it's "corporate free speech"... will it be the "corporate right to keep and bear arms" tomorrow? I think another poster had it right, corporations exist to serve the public good. Since they are entities created by law, then all their rights come from the law, not from the constitution. Considering them "persons" under the constitution is ludicrous.
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If you are looking for Ripley's believe it or not museums and similar cheese, pass Cleveland and head towards Niagra Falls (actually, Niagra Falls is pretty cool.. you should go there too!). I think Cleveland is a great example of "real" Midwest america and has lots to do if you look a little. There many world class museums if that's your thing on the east side in the University Circle area. Make sure to pass by the Weatherhead building on Case Universities campus designed by world renowned architect Frank Gehry. Cleveland also has one of the largest performing arts districts outside of New York... although that costs some $$$. A trip on the Goodtime down the Cuyahoga or on Lake Erie is pretty cool, but it may not be running in September. There are something like 13 operable Bridges in the flats that are a sight to be seen at night because they are all lit up. I wouldn't go thousands of miles out of your way, but one of the things you must do before you die is go to Cedar Point and if you will be that close, a trip to Cleveland is definitely worth it.
Near Dayton, Ohio... if you've ever seen the Discovery channel's series "wings", it's like that but in real life. Best of all, It was free when I went a few years ago!
And while you're in Ohio, the Inventor's Hall of Fame in nearby Akron could be interesing too from a geek perspective.
The memory bus speeds seemingly leave Intel in the dust. Pair those chips with a nice SATA RAID storage solution and a really fast PCI bus and those should be some seriously fast machines. Do they have linux working on the G5 yet?
I really think the forces at work here are not conscious actions but are a product of human nature. We aren't captive to our nature like most animals, though... we can comprehend it and attempt to rise above it by altering our behavior. We create technology to make our lives easier. We set up governing systems with laws, checks and balances, and voting. As hard as we try to control it though, the hive mind is constantly at work breaking down these systems and returning us to our natural state. This is manifested as cycles of peace, fear, repression, rebellion, and rebuilding.
Another problem I see is that this law cannot be enforced... the problem spammers will just move offshore and can't be prosecuted anyway. What this law *will* do is open up the possibility of someone that doesn't know any better getting jail time or a huge fine for an honest mistake.
They are money-taking machines. They can be set by the casino to pay back a percentage of the amount taken in (In Nevada, I think the minimum is 75%, but I've seen some that advertise 98.8%... usually downtown vegas) The trick is, this is over time so if you play at the right time, you can hit the machine in a winning streak. Whether you are going to win or lose is determined before you even put the coin in!
I've heard of embedding biometric technology to key a gun so it can only be fired by certain individual. I wonder if RFID would be a cheaper way to accompish this? The tag could be in your watch, and the gun could read it much like the GM RFID car keys work. Not as secure (you can take my watch) but may prevent some accidental firings and such.
I agree, in this case the privacy concerns are probably unfounded. The debate is healthy though, because by the time they try to tag your children at birth, it may be too late to stop it.
Think about clothing, or wallets for example. If they didn't diable the tag after you purchase the item, what is to stop them from charging you again next time you visit the store? Also, this would wreak havoc on their inventory control. They would have no idea what is personal property and what is product! I'm guessing they won't go to that trouble though and only scan for the codes in close proximity.
Flashline is a company built around this idea. It's not integrated with CASE so to speak, but they are thinking along similar lines.
And they just got done going to the 5+4 zip code format in the U.S. Now, where did I put that book on COBOL?
None of your examples represent publicly available information. Sure, the companies you deal with know a lot about you, but the general public can't see your banking habits or your tax return. Just because you have to reveal information about yourself doesn't mean who you reveal it to has the right to distribute it on a whim. I go to the doctor, but he can't sell medical records, can he?
I'm sure Windows Media 9 has all sorts of DRM protections build in... This is their foot in the door, movie studios want to use it for distrubuting in digital because they dont have to worry about the files getting propagated all over the internet. After their used to that, it won't be long before this is the only format you can get your DVD's in...
Also, I didn't see anything about rights to the technology you develop.. does DARPA get that if you win, or do they have to negotiate seperate contracts with the teams they like?
Now, if only I could keep from checking slashdot every hour, I would be all set!
Of course, many of the bills are for "internet" pr0n... things have a way of balancing out for me.
Video games nowadays are becoming much more complicated beasts and require much larger teams... they are much more a product of their process and much less a product of the talent creating them. If the process is broken, you get crap no matter how good the individual developers are. All is not lost, though... Hollywood uses the same model. I think we will see the video game equivalent of a "Director" emerge... someone who manages the process to create something of quality. I think companies like Blizzard already do this well (although their "Directors" are fairly anonymous, I'll bet they are there).
And it takes care of that pesky ring around the collar?
Also, I think you got a bum Saturn... I had a dark red 1994 and it looked nearly new when I finally got rid of it at 140K miles. It had lots of major scrapes and dings in it's life... never needed more than a little polishing to remove the worst. I think the base plastic was black on mine, though.
It's occurred to me maybe we are being too diligent in actually validating the schema itself, but I'm wondering what others think?
Like java... I think a likely evolution will be towards a single VM that runs all your programs instead of the one VM per app generally used now. More and more of the process switching and memory management will be built into the VM's probably to the point one day where java VM's become operating systems in their own right and only need the underlying OS for drivers to talk to the hardware.
Would a localized magnetic pulse disable them, for instance? I'm not so bothered by the tags themselves because there will almost certainly be a way to easily disable them once you have your goods at home... unless of course they apply the DMCA circumvention provisions to that too.
Hmm.. I don't claim to have read everything on this group's site (I'm mostly interested in the topic of corporate personhood), but their charter doesn't seem socialistic to me. I'm interested, what did you find socialistic? I'm being genuine here... I would not want to use this web site as a reference for the isssue of corporate personhood if in fact their remaining politial agenda is at odds with mine.
Today it's "corporate free speech"... will it be the "corporate right to keep and bear arms" tomorrow? I think another poster had it right, corporations exist to serve the public good. Since they are entities created by law, then all their rights come from the law, not from the constitution. Considering them "persons" under the constitution is ludicrous.