I used Starz On-Demand download service almost two years ago. It was actually really good. The service did exactly what was advertised. The only problem, you can't cancel!
I look on their website. Nope. You can't cancel. I emailed them. They said call their 800#. I called the 800 number. They say OK. I watch my credit card, nope. Not calcelled. I emailed them again with the ref# and the previous email thread saying I wanted to cancel. They responded saying "Nope.". So, I wrote back and told them I would just do a chargeback of every charge. They said they would "Forward it to a supervisor". Guess what. Still not cancelled. I charged back every future one. Guess what? My credit card company told me to just cancel my card. Only problem? I pay for about 8 other things with that same card.
Why can't a credit card company just reject charges for one merchant for an account? These guys are a$$ 0's. As of today, I am still having to do charge-backs every month.
Part of the process for applying for a patent is that the patent is "Novelty And Non-Obviousness". Obviously we have all added Smilies to an e-mail subject to indicate things. In addition, we have added priority. Now, there is nothing "Obvious" about adding an emotion. In addition, it is not a novelty as we already flag e-mails. Having these two primary conditions obviously defunct, a company should be fined a serious amount of money for applying for a patent that is obvious not a novelty (an emotion is a different way to reflect a priority.:-! (OMG!) could be the same thing as "HIGH PRIOIRTY!" to two different people.), it is also obvious. Nobody should be able to add a modified header of an existing flag to an SMTP envelope and patent it.
The reality is that by forcing a "swipe" of a card through a reader, this enforces the act of choosing to provide the information. With RFID, you can read it from across the room given a good transmitter and a sensitive receiver. Why should we need to add a new layer when the old physical layer works just fine.
The new RFID does NOT save time. You can't just wave your wallet or purse over the weak reader (which is far weaker than a hacker would be using) if you had multiple cards. How would it tell it apart. You still end up having to take the card out. The difference is Mag Stripe (physical contact.. almost), or RFID, Radio Broadcast.
I'll take the Mag Stripe or the Smart Card chip (which required physical contact).
I was the Engineering Manager overseeing the conversion of a Sun C++ solution to Microsoft ASP solution. Project code name, "Locutus". IE, we were being assimilated by them, and no matter how much we got away from them, we could always hear them talking in our heads.
Have you heard of an MX? Let me explain this one to you then. Your ISP should act as an MX, or Mail Exchange for you. IF your connection goes down, the mail servers around the world would then try your ISP next (since you have multiple MX records). Then, when you connection is restored, the ISP's mail server (Sendmail, Qmail, the guy in the back room doing...umm... it involves online videos...) would send all the pending email in queue to you.
This is why Mail Exchanges were created. Unfortunately too many companies do not employ, nor are they offered a very good backup MX. Email delivery is VERY reliable, IF YOU HAVE A BACKUP MX!
So when do we start getting demerits for foul language? Perhaps we need to start learning how to use the three sea shells? And good news. We shall have dinner and dancing at... Taco Bell.
While each bit does double the protection, the biggest protection is knowing what algorytm somebody used.
If I was to encrypt a file once with 64bit, I would have 2^64. Now, if the intruding party did not know that I encrypted the file a second time, they would then have to try to brute force again with an additional 64 bits. Therefor, I would really have 2^64 * 2^64, or 2^4096. The file is absolutely useless unless both sets are compromised.
We are not talking about a single additional bit here. We are talking about two seperate uncompromised keys in a file format which is completely unknown! So it wouldn't just double the encryption cost, because frankly any encryption algorytm doesn't mean that if you encode a file once, and then encode it again, you can decode it by adding a single bit to the key. Duh. You have to completely decrypt the first encrypted byte set into the again encrypted format. Thus there is 64 bits of primary encryption, and 64 bits of additional encryption.
So, even if you brute forced the first 64 bits, you get to do it again, thus you are really trying to brute force 2^128. Although that assumes that both keys are at the extream ends of the brute force.
Preceding Wordpad, Wordstar, Wordperfect, word whatever the crap. There was VI. Why was VI important? It was one of the most major tools for editing under UNIX (which was #1). Without VI, how does a programmer edit one of the source code files? "ed" comes to mind. But, that's only a line editor. The introduction of the visual editor in 1976 changed everything! It completely revolutionized the way programmers do work.
Even today, I still write all of my HTML, Javascript, property files, etc, using VI. Talk about a program that COMPLETELY changed the computing, Unix is the framework, VI changed the game.
There would be no word processor without VI. WordPerfect, WordStart, etc, all based their design around vi's ability to move the cursor between words, lines, etc. The only difference, there was a key on the keyboard to state Insert or Overwrite. In VI, we were limited to 7-bit ASCII (And even before then, so it's predating me), that we need to "insert" ie, "i", or "append", ie "a" from where we were.
Does this mean that the horses will still be able to get through OK? I know that the poker chips clog it up right now, and that worries me because I keep having to put lotto balls down the tubes to clear them out. Arg!
Tapestry is also doing a lot of code generation in Java. You simply write your classes as abstract, create abstract bean members (getters/setters), or other annotated values, and it'll generate the underlying code.
This is great for rapid prototyping and getting your application to a usable point. Then, as you need to, just implement the members as needed. Many times you won't need to set things, because you'll be reading from an underlying object and then doing set's on all the properties, and doing get's to set the underlying object during a save.
It takes some getting use to. The jury is still out for me too.h
So let me get this straight. What you are suggesting is:
Pants: Ralph Lauren Jeans, Old Navy Carpenter Pants, and one set of Docker Shorts Shirts: Favorite White Developer Conference T-Shirt, Black Long Sleve F5 T-Shirt, One Polo shirt (For when you are interviewing) Shoes: One white Asics, One brown Timerlines, One pair Doc Martins
I knew I was fasionable.
Didn't Steve Balmer appoligize to the people at the Microsoft Visual Studio launch for wearing a suit? Very unlike him (it was press day, so, we'll forgive him.. NOT!)
If you look at the different psychological patterns (Thinking, Feeling, Intuition and Sensing), you will find that they may or may not be the same.
Yes, us coders often are very much thinkers and have good intuition. But, game playing requires an emense amount of feeling and sensing. These are completely offseting from one another.
PRogrammers are completely logical. Well, most of ys are. You want one to equal another. You are always "thinking" about what will happen next. You are assuming that your "Intuition" will predict what the other players are going to do.
Looking at poker, you play on pure percentages. There is a known chance of getting a known card. Perhaps programmers would do better, but, no. There is the bait and catch portion of the game which defies percentages. And we all know the good progammers do things because they are the most efficient. Well, except C/C++/C#/Java programmers. I'm talking about us ASM programmers.
The reality is that you have a compltely random chance of winning if both players have the same deck. YOu don't even know the opponents deck. So, it's even more random. The best you can do is pay lots and lots and lots of $$$ for an expensive deck. So, unlike poker, money controls the world.
Poker is more likely to be won by programmers. WOC games are more likely to be won by money and a little luck. The luck being the sequence the cards are revealed/played.
Take the private aircraft industry. There are more deadly accidents on the local Interstates than their are plane crashes (private aircraft). But, guess what takes the front page every time.
I really hate the fact that the government is stalling. I wonder if it's the human risk or the replacement cost of a shuttle which they are afraid off. Frankly, the crews will accept the risk. The public funds more costly exercises in modern weapons every day than a single shuttle costs. If it's the shuttle cost, they probably spent that redesigning the fuel tanks and wing sensors. We could have got another 100+ missions with our current shuttles and replaced them before the next major event at that rate.
But, I'll pull out my Agent Mulder hat. <Queue scary music...>
The reason that they are delaying replacing the shuttle is that they expect next-gen ramdrive type aircraft to be able to push a conventional aircraft into orbit, eliminating the need for more costly booster systems. With it on the verge of public display (5-10 years), lets patch the current system and spend the money where we can use it in the future.
Back when Microsoft first released an XML/XSLT AciveX Component ('98ish as well?), I personally implemented a dynamic Stock Portfolio using it.
Using Javascript for the browser language, it would download the XML for the users portfilio in XML, download another XML file for the stock quotes. Combine them together into one XML file, then it would download an XSLT stylesheet based upon the view that they wanted. All sorting was done in real-time via the XSLT on the uesr's computer. We then just downloaded a new XML file for the quotes every 5 minutes.
Unfortunately because we were a company that didn't want to commit to one browser only (Netscape 4 was still popular), the project was dropped and we never went back to it. But, it was impressive for that day and age non the less.
But the banks don't do that. Electronic transfers are just that. Humanless. Why, because it's dirt cheap and quick. Thus they don't actually validate checks any more. No signature, no microfilm, nothing. If BofA says that your account paid $143,000 for a check, your bank now says "Funs there? OK.. Here's you $$$". And you as the account owner have nothing to prove you didn't write the check. Thank the Republicans last year.
I guess you have never done many wire transfers. Now, there are two kinds. True "Wire Transfers" and "Electronics Transfers". The bank doesn't care. A wire transfer has to be originated from your bank, whereas an electronic transfer can be done from anywhere. The computer is like a Porn sight registration, all the fields validate, you must be looking for a good time.
I've transfered $30,000+ over the phone with nothing more than the last 4 digits of my SSN#. Yea, it's messed up.
I'm WAY MORE secure over the Internet with a credit card. Atleast there is a limit!
I used my fingertips on the old Nintendo square controllers... It let me kick ass at Pro Wrestling. But, the new controllers don't lend themselves very well to that style.
A neighbor kid (he wasn't too bright) always thought that the harder you pushed the button on Excite Bike that the faster you would go. He ended up breaking the controller one day by standing on it. Who the hell would have known that we have analog buttons now
If people complain about getting a sore thumb from a blackberry, we should make them play Halo2 all day and see how they feel!
How the hell did this become Insightful? We don't have an issue EVEN IF these mice somehow have human "like" brains (they won't have an IQ of 180, I promise you).
To say this is an issue is nothing more than saying "We shouldn't let mother nature help us to develop life". Yes, we can excel life. Yes, we can mutate it much faster. But, Apes and Monkeys are WAY beyond mice already. Should we kill them all?
The goal of an experiment like this is to determine what can and can not be developed. It will allow us to study human brain development, and diseases of the brain (Think Michael J Fox here). Even more so, this would lead us to developing stem cells which may treat human cancers after developing them in mice (And not in Humans as Bush is so convinced is wrong, even though he will need them in 10 years).
People put the "Brain" part with continence as one to one. This isn't the case. A human brain mass would NEVER fit into a mice brain. A dog in contience of the world. It whimpers (it's version of crying) when somebody is gone, it will chew up your stuff if you leave it alone. If you are worried about mice, then kill your dog and cats now.
But, don't worry. Bible Thumpers world wide will kill off the Ape because it's a spawn of the devil, being too much like us and able to learn sign language. OOooo.. We found intelligent life. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE
As you will be running in a VM environment, I'm assuming it's Java. I develop on a Windows box, check into source control, build on a Solaris box, and deploy to Linux machines for some of our systems. Fun! Well, it's really not that big of a deal. Two major complaints.
One of the things that you will find as you migrate around different OS's is the default character set. Sometimes it's UTF-8, other's is ISO sets. You may even be Kanji or some other one that you're not prepared for if you distribute your system externally. Most VM's have a way to force a character set. Always use this.
The other thing I find frustrating is that start/stop scripts for servers. Windows uses their own system, as does Solaris and Linux. But, in Linux, you may want to take advantage of some of the tools, like chkconfig. Also, where your VM's are installed, you normally have/usr/bin/java on some systems, or/opt/java/..blah.. or C:\java etc. No fun.
I think that this "First Post" is more "Troll" than offtopic. We are talking about the Comcast PVR vs. a Tivo. I have both. My Tivo went to with the kids and the ex. So, I thought I would try the Comcast PVR.
So far, I've had the following problems with the Comcast PVR:
Sound dies if you process the power button on the remote accident. You have to unplug the unit.
Program audio can get into "skipping", where it'll play a frame, then skip a frame, play a frame, skip a frame. Only way to fix is to change channels. Reweind/FF/Pause doesn't change anything.
Locks up in the middle programs for no reason. Changing channels somtimes fixes it. When watching programs, you have to start over most of the time.
Disk drive is noisy (lots of clicking), no sound insulation here like Tivo has.
Channel changing is slow. No write cache. Pure raw disk IO it sounds like for all programs.
Multiple tuner support is clunky and broken. It will tell you that you are recording on the current one when you change channels, but, are really recoding on the other tuner. It gets confused easilly.
TiVo must have a patent on the "predictive response" when you press play. I can always nail that start of my programs with Tivo, but, on the Comcast I overshoot everything.
The FF/RW functions don't have a way to decrease the speed. (IE, I KNOW this is the last commercial, don't go in 32x fast forward, go slower to 4x FF).
I have to say, I would have loved if TiVo was the Comcast PVR of choice. It's by far a better PVR system. But, re the post, I have to agree it's the nail in the coffin for them. I think the other nail is the intrusive advertising that they plan to do.
I'm not an expert. And frankly I was stuck at work today and couldn't answer this thread.
But, religous folk often associate the "Intelligence" as the unique factor between animals, plantlife, etc, as the difference as to why humans are unique.
The fact is, my dog cries when the kids leave. She is verbally upset (Besides chewing and pissing on the floor when she doesn't get to go with them). This obviously represents feelings. What do everyone say about relationships... "Oh, it's just chemical.. you really don't love him..." So what the @#$#@$ does my dog have?
This represents intelligence. She's VERY aware of the things around her. She lacks the abilty to tell us in "Human sounds" that she is upset. But, the chuch has corrupted minds for long enough to say that the lack of speach is what makes us "made" over every other creature.
She (my dog) has a tongue. She has teeth. Hell, she has a brain (And we see it functioning). She has lungs, a heart, a liver, hell, she's been fixed, and the male dogs have weeners. How much different is my dog from you and I, internally speaking? We all have four limbs. Our crap goes out between our legs. Our genetillia is between our legs right int he same spot. Hell, even a whale unloads out the back. In terms of an organ count, I think compared to an ammeba, she's on par with you and I.
My best friend's dad had a monkey (she died of old age recently, we all cried). Have you really sat and interacted with a monkey?? Let alone a chimp and or another species along the line? Listened to it try to talk to you (they do).. it's feelings.. it's hands.. It THINKS about what it's doing. Look at her when he's sick. Watch him get angry/upset. It's us!
Don't tell me we were created and all things are less. Live a little and don't live by what you are preached. Yes, we are more advanced, but, we are here out of luck, not because we were made to be better. We EVOLVED. OH SHIT! THAT WAS A BAD WORD! AND NOT SHIT!
Our government has somehow not figured out how to produce own own road system. Reguardless that it has determined that a road infrastructure is top piorority. Instead, lobyists (who have no special interest, and are not willing to give something special to those who listen, I promise) have figured out that a private enterprise can do it less.
Now lets think about this.. really. A private company has one purpose. Feeding the owner. That owner, needs to make a hefty profit. So... a publicly owned business can not possibly do it for less than a privately owned "For-TONS OF PROFIT-business"?
What is so messed up in our social structure that a private and/or public corporation can somehow do the public's work for less than the public itself can?
Forget monopolies... Turn back to public works. Infact, forget private companies doing the public works. If we hired the public works employees to do their own job, we would be better off.
But, no lobyist.. who's job is to buy off a politician would ever do that...
FUCK YOU lobyist.. You know that's your job.. You find a way to buy off a public representative in a way that you make it your own (or your putty ass company you represent your own.)
What happened to public roads. I forgot, they include vacations to Burmuda. So who fixes your shit when it has cracks and crumbles? Oh yea.. We do.. the tax payers.. the public.
Sha.. Like China's going to crack down on spamming any country other than a communist one.
My question is how can you be prosecuted in a completely different state from where the action took place. Wouldn't this have to be a federal case, and not a state one? There are federal fraud and CANSPAM laws that this would apply to.
The matrix equations for this complete patent were invented in 1843. It seems that applying this to an 8086 computer is what they are trying to say is unique about the patent.
Although I believe there are some books written in the 1970's (and referred to in the parent application) that refer to the fundamentals of computer graphics. I would bet money that they detail the matrix functions in one of those books. BTW, when did Microprose first start on FlightSim 1.0? Let alone any cad program used by Boeing or some other aviation/military firm.
From the Google answers:
So, to the shortcut. It turns out when all the dust settles that the
multiplication among rotations is isomorphic to multiplication of unit
quaternions. Quaternions, in case you've not seen them before, are a
kind of four-dimensional generalization of complex numbers. They were
"invented" by William Hamilton in 1843:
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I used Starz On-Demand download service almost two years ago. It was actually really good. The service did exactly what was advertised. The only problem, you can't cancel!
I look on their website. Nope. You can't cancel. I emailed them. They said call their 800#. I called the 800 number. They say OK. I watch my credit card, nope. Not calcelled. I emailed them again with the ref# and the previous email thread saying I wanted to cancel. They responded saying "Nope.". So, I wrote back and told them I would just do a chargeback of every charge. They said they would "Forward it to a supervisor". Guess what. Still not cancelled. I charged back every future one. Guess what? My credit card company told me to just cancel my card. Only problem? I pay for about 8 other things with that same card.
Why can't a credit card company just reject charges for one merchant for an account? These guys are a$$ 0's. As of today, I am still having to do charge-backs every month.
Part of the process for applying for a patent is that the patent is "Novelty And Non-Obviousness". Obviously we have all added Smilies to an e-mail subject to indicate things. In addition, we have added priority. Now, there is nothing "Obvious" about adding an emotion. In addition, it is not a novelty as we already flag e-mails. Having these two primary conditions obviously defunct, a company should be fined a serious amount of money for applying for a patent that is obvious not a novelty (an emotion is a different way to reflect a priority. :-! (OMG!) could be the same thing as "HIGH PRIOIRTY!" to two different people.), it is also obvious. Nobody should be able to add a modified header of an existing flag to an SMTP envelope and patent it.
The reality is that by forcing a "swipe" of a card through a reader, this enforces the act of choosing to provide the information. With RFID, you can read it from across the room given a good transmitter and a sensitive receiver. Why should we need to add a new layer when the old physical layer works just fine. The new RFID does NOT save time. You can't just wave your wallet or purse over the weak reader (which is far weaker than a hacker would be using) if you had multiple cards. How would it tell it apart. You still end up having to take the card out. The difference is Mag Stripe (physical contact.. almost), or RFID, Radio Broadcast. I'll take the Mag Stripe or the Smart Card chip (which required physical contact).
I still have cards that read:
Manager, Locutus Technology
I was the Engineering Manager overseeing the conversion of a Sun C++ solution to Microsoft ASP solution. Project code name, "Locutus". IE, we were being assimilated by them, and no matter how much we got away from them, we could always hear them talking in our heads.
The CEO of CNet stepped down today as well because of stock option problems.
Have you heard of an MX? Let me explain this one to you then. Your ISP should act as an MX, or Mail Exchange for you. IF your connection goes down, the mail servers around the world would then try your ISP next (since you have multiple MX records). Then, when you connection is restored, the ISP's mail server (Sendmail, Qmail, the guy in the back room doing.. .umm... it involves online videos...) would send all the pending email in queue to you.
This is why Mail Exchanges were created. Unfortunately too many companies do not employ, nor are they offered a very good backup MX. Email delivery is VERY reliable, IF YOU HAVE A BACKUP MX!
So when do we start getting demerits for foul language? Perhaps we need to start learning how to use the three sea shells? And good news. We shall have dinner and dancing at... Taco Bell.
Yes, I messed up on the ^4096. It's ^128, which is still really strong. I even corrected myself later, but, I forgot to change the top to the post!
While each bit does double the protection, the biggest protection is knowing what algorytm somebody used.
If I was to encrypt a file once with 64bit, I would have 2^64. Now, if the intruding party did not know that I encrypted the file a second time, they would then have to try to brute force again with an additional 64 bits. Therefor, I would really have 2^64 * 2^64, or 2^4096. The file is absolutely useless unless both sets are compromised.
We are not talking about a single additional bit here. We are talking about two seperate uncompromised keys in a file format which is completely unknown! So it wouldn't just double the encryption cost, because frankly any encryption algorytm doesn't mean that if you encode a file once, and then encode it again, you can decode it by adding a single bit to the key. Duh. You have to completely decrypt the first encrypted byte set into the again encrypted format. Thus there is 64 bits of primary encryption, and 64 bits of additional encryption.
So, even if you brute forced the first 64 bits, you get to do it again, thus you are really trying to brute force 2^128. Although that assumes that both keys are at the extream ends of the brute force.
Preceding Wordpad, Wordstar, Wordperfect, word whatever the crap. There was VI. Why was VI important? It was one of the most major tools for editing under UNIX (which was #1). Without VI, how does a programmer edit one of the source code files? "ed" comes to mind. But, that's only a line editor. The introduction of the visual editor in 1976 changed everything! It completely revolutionized the way programmers do work.
Even today, I still write all of my HTML, Javascript, property files, etc, using VI. Talk about a program that COMPLETELY changed the computing, Unix is the framework, VI changed the game.
There would be no word processor without VI. WordPerfect, WordStart, etc, all based their design around vi's ability to move the cursor between words, lines, etc. The only difference, there was a key on the keyboard to state Insert or Overwrite. In VI, we were limited to 7-bit ASCII (And even before then, so it's predating me), that we need to "insert" ie, "i", or "append", ie "a" from where we were.
How could we miss VI!?!?
Does this mean that the horses will still be able to get through OK? I know that the poker chips clog it up right now, and that worries me because I keep having to put lotto balls down the tubes to clear them out. Arg!
Tapestry is also doing a lot of code generation in Java. You simply write your classes as abstract, create abstract bean members (getters/setters), or other annotated values, and it'll generate the underlying code.
This is great for rapid prototyping and getting your application to a usable point. Then, as you need to, just implement the members as needed. Many times you won't need to set things, because you'll be reading from an underlying object and then doing set's on all the properties, and doing get's to set the underlying object during a save.
It takes some getting use to. The jury is still out for me too.h
So let me get this straight. What you are suggesting is:
Pants: Ralph Lauren Jeans, Old Navy Carpenter Pants, and one set of Docker Shorts
Shirts: Favorite White Developer Conference T-Shirt, Black Long Sleve F5 T-Shirt, One Polo shirt (For when you are interviewing)
Shoes: One white Asics, One brown Timerlines, One pair Doc Martins
I knew I was fasionable.
Didn't Steve Balmer appoligize to the people at the Microsoft Visual Studio launch for wearing a suit? Very unlike him (it was press day, so, we'll forgive him.. NOT!)
If you look at the different psychological patterns (Thinking, Feeling, Intuition and Sensing), you will find that they may or may not be the same.
Yes, us coders often are very much thinkers and have good intuition. But, game playing requires an emense amount of feeling and sensing. These are completely offseting from one another.
PRogrammers are completely logical. Well, most of ys are. You want one to equal another. You are always "thinking" about what will happen next. You are assuming that your "Intuition" will predict what the other players are going to do.
Looking at poker, you play on pure percentages. There is a known chance of getting a known card. Perhaps programmers would do better, but, no. There is the bait and catch portion of the game which defies percentages. And we all know the good progammers do things because they are the most efficient. Well, except C/C++/C#/Java programmers. I'm talking about us ASM programmers.
The reality is that you have a compltely random chance of winning if both players have the same deck. YOu don't even know the opponents deck. So, it's even more random. The best you can do is pay lots and lots and lots of $$$ for an expensive deck. So, unlike poker, money controls the world.
Poker is more likely to be won by programmers. WOC games are more likely to be won by money and a little luck. The luck being the sequence the cards are revealed/played.
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Take the private aircraft industry. There are more deadly accidents on the local Interstates than their are plane crashes (private aircraft). But, guess what takes the front page every time.
I really hate the fact that the government is stalling. I wonder if it's the human risk or the replacement cost of a shuttle which they are afraid off. Frankly, the crews will accept the risk. The public funds more costly exercises in modern weapons every day than a single shuttle costs. If it's the shuttle cost, they probably spent that redesigning the fuel tanks and wing sensors. We could have got another 100+ missions with our current shuttles and replaced them before the next major event at that rate.
But, I'll pull out my Agent Mulder hat. <Queue scary music...>
The reason that they are delaying replacing the shuttle is that they expect next-gen ramdrive type aircraft to be able to push a conventional aircraft into orbit, eliminating the need for more costly booster systems. With it on the verge of public display (5-10 years), lets patch the current system and spend the money where we can use it in the future.
Back when Microsoft first released an XML/XSLT AciveX Component ('98ish as well?), I personally implemented a dynamic Stock Portfolio using it.
Using Javascript for the browser language, it would download the XML for the users portfilio in XML, download another XML file for the stock quotes. Combine them together into one XML file, then it would download an XSLT stylesheet based upon the view that they wanted. All sorting was done in real-time via the XSLT on the uesr's computer. We then just downloaded a new XML file for the quotes every 5 minutes.
Unfortunately because we were a company that didn't want to commit to one browser only (Netscape 4 was still popular), the project was dropped and we never went back to it. But, it was impressive for that day and age non the less.
But the banks don't do that. Electronic transfers are just that. Humanless. Why, because it's dirt cheap and quick. Thus they don't actually validate checks any more. No signature, no microfilm, nothing. If BofA says that your account paid $143,000 for a check, your bank now says "Funs there? OK.. Here's you $$$". And you as the account owner have nothing to prove you didn't write the check. Thank the Republicans last year.
I guess you have never done many wire transfers. Now, there are two kinds. True "Wire Transfers" and "Electronics Transfers". The bank doesn't care. A wire transfer has to be originated from your bank, whereas an electronic transfer can be done from anywhere. The computer is like a Porn sight registration, all the fields validate, you must be looking for a good time.
I've transfered $30,000+ over the phone with nothing more than the last 4 digits of my SSN#. Yea, it's messed up.
I'm WAY MORE secure over the Internet with a credit card. Atleast there is a limit!
I used my fingertips on the old Nintendo square controllers... It let me kick ass at Pro Wrestling. But, the new controllers don't lend themselves very well to that style.
A neighbor kid (he wasn't too bright) always thought that the harder you pushed the button on Excite Bike that the faster you would go. He ended up breaking the controller one day by standing on it. Who the hell would have known that we have analog buttons now
If people complain about getting a sore thumb from a blackberry, we should make them play Halo2 all day and see how they feel!
How the hell did this become Insightful? We don't have an issue EVEN IF these mice somehow have human "like" brains (they won't have an IQ of 180, I promise you).
To say this is an issue is nothing more than saying "We shouldn't let mother nature help us to develop life". Yes, we can excel life. Yes, we can mutate it much faster. But, Apes and Monkeys are WAY beyond mice already. Should we kill them all?
The goal of an experiment like this is to determine what can and can not be developed. It will allow us to study human brain development, and diseases of the brain (Think Michael J Fox here). Even more so, this would lead us to developing stem cells which may treat human cancers after developing them in mice (And not in Humans as Bush is so convinced is wrong, even though he will need them in 10 years).
People put the "Brain" part with continence as one to one. This isn't the case. A human brain mass would NEVER fit into a mice brain. A dog in contience of the world. It whimpers (it's version of crying) when somebody is gone, it will chew up your stuff if you leave it alone. If you are worried about mice, then kill your dog and cats now.
But, don't worry. Bible Thumpers world wide will kill off the Ape because it's a spawn of the devil, being too much like us and able to learn sign language. OOooo.. We found intelligent life. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE
As you will be running in a VM environment, I'm assuming it's Java. I develop on a Windows box, check into source control, build on a Solaris box, and deploy to Linux machines for some of our systems. Fun! Well, it's really not that big of a deal. Two major complaints.
/usr/bin/java on some systems, or /opt/java/..blah.. or C:\java etc. No fun.
One of the things that you will find as you migrate around different OS's is the default character set. Sometimes it's UTF-8, other's is ISO sets. You may even be Kanji or some other one that you're not prepared for if you distribute your system externally. Most VM's have a way to force a character set. Always use this.
The other thing I find frustrating is that start/stop scripts for servers. Windows uses their own system, as does Solaris and Linux. But, in Linux, you may want to take advantage of some of the tools, like chkconfig. Also, where your VM's are installed, you normally have
- Sound dies if you process the power button on the remote accident. You have to unplug the unit.
- Program audio can get into "skipping", where it'll play a frame, then skip a frame, play a frame, skip a frame. Only way to fix is to change channels. Reweind/FF/Pause doesn't change anything.
- Locks up in the middle programs for no reason. Changing channels somtimes fixes it. When watching programs, you have to start over most of the time.
- Disk drive is noisy (lots of clicking), no sound insulation here like Tivo has.
- Channel changing is slow. No write cache. Pure raw disk IO it sounds like for all programs.
- Multiple tuner support is clunky and broken. It will tell you that you are recording on the current one when you change channels, but, are really recoding on the other tuner. It gets confused easilly.
- TiVo must have a patent on the "predictive response" when you press play. I can always nail that start of my programs with Tivo, but, on the Comcast I overshoot everything.
- The FF/RW functions don't have a way to decrease the speed. (IE, I KNOW this is the last commercial, don't go in 32x fast forward, go slower to 4x FF).
I have to say, I would have loved if TiVo was the Comcast PVR of choice. It's by far a better PVR system. But, re the post, I have to agree it's the nail in the coffin for them. I think the other nail is the intrusive advertising that they plan to do.I'm not an expert. And frankly I was stuck at work today and couldn't answer this thread.
But, religous folk often associate the "Intelligence" as the unique factor between animals, plantlife, etc, as the difference as to why humans are unique.
The fact is, my dog cries when the kids leave. She is verbally upset (Besides chewing and pissing on the floor when she doesn't get to go with them). This obviously represents feelings. What do everyone say about relationships... "Oh, it's just chemical.. you really don't love him..." So what the @#$#@$ does my dog have?
This represents intelligence. She's VERY aware of the things around her. She lacks the abilty to tell us in "Human sounds" that she is upset. But, the chuch has corrupted minds for long enough to say that the lack of speach is what makes us "made" over every other creature.
She (my dog) has a tongue. She has teeth. Hell, she has a brain (And we see it functioning). She has lungs, a heart, a liver, hell, she's been fixed, and the male dogs have weeners. How much different is my dog from you and I, internally speaking? We all have four limbs. Our crap goes out between our legs. Our genetillia is between our legs right int he same spot. Hell, even a whale unloads out the back. In terms of an organ count, I think compared to an ammeba, she's on par with you and I.
My best friend's dad had a monkey (she died of old age recently, we all cried). Have you really sat and interacted with a monkey?? Let alone a chimp and or another species along the line? Listened to it try to talk to you (they do).. it's feelings.. it's hands.. It THINKS about what it's doing. Look at her when he's sick. Watch him get angry/upset. It's us!
Don't tell me we were created and all things are less. Live a little and don't live by what you are preached. Yes, we are more advanced, but, we are here out of luck, not because we were made to be better. We EVOLVED. OH SHIT! THAT WAS A BAD WORD! AND NOT SHIT!
So lets look at our roads.
Our government has somehow not figured out how to produce own own road system. Reguardless that it has determined that a road infrastructure is top piorority. Instead, lobyists (who have no special interest, and are not willing to give something special to those who listen, I promise) have figured out that a private enterprise can do it less.
Now lets think about this.. really. A private company has one purpose. Feeding the owner. That owner, needs to make a hefty profit. So... a publicly owned business can not possibly do it for less than a privately owned "For-TONS OF PROFIT-business"?
What is so messed up in our social structure that a private and/or public corporation can somehow do the public's work for less than the public itself can?
Forget monopolies... Turn back to public works. Infact, forget private companies doing the public works. If we hired the public works employees to do their own job, we would be better off.
But, no lobyist.. who's job is to buy off a politician would ever do that...
FUCK YOU lobyist.. You know that's your job.. You find a way to buy off a public representative in a way that you make it your own (or your putty ass company you represent your own.)
What happened to public roads. I forgot, they include vacations to Burmuda. So who fixes your shit when it has cracks and crumbles? Oh yea.. We do.. the tax payers.. the public.
Sha.. Like China's going to crack down on spamming any country other than a communist one.
My question is how can you be prosecuted in a completely different state from where the action took place. Wouldn't this have to be a federal case, and not a state one? There are federal fraud and CANSPAM laws that this would apply to.
Although I believe there are some books written in the 1970's (and referred to in the parent application) that refer to the fundamentals of computer graphics. I would bet money that they detail the matrix functions in one of those books. BTW, when did Microprose first start on FlightSim 1.0? Let alone any cad program used by Boeing or some other aviation/military firm.
From the Google answers:
Sir William Rowan HamiltonGoogle Answers article on 3d Math