The problem is that most Americans fall somewhere in the middle on the policital spectrum (or near the origin of your own two-axis spectrum), and both of the major parties cater to those Centrists by doing their best to appear Moderate/Centrist regardless of their actual agenda.
How do you plan to lead your party toward a more Moderate viewpoint, and thus toward political power?
RTFA: "The government contends its court arguments should be sealed from public view and heard before a judge outside the presence of Gilmore and his attorneys."
Mea culpa. I didn't read the article first, and I deserve the karma hit for it.
Still... How can EFF possibly counter the argument if it cannot hear it? One-sided debate is not in the spirit of the democratic process.
It's not "unknown", it's just "undone" before. It's been known that you could get a current by creating a temperature differentiation on both wires and nanotubes. It's just that nobody had ever tried to create a temperature difference through the Bernoulli Principle. Nobody did it before this guy, the guy deserves credit for it for thinking of it first, even though it seems so damn obvious to us now.
Think of it this way:
We knew about peanutbutter. We knew about chocolate. We knew they both taste good. But we didn't know they tasted so damn good together until they came out with Reese's Peanutbutter Cups. Thank you Mr. Reese, whomever you are.;)
It is exactly what they've mentioned: so simple nobody ever thought of it.
Seriously, the potential applications to this just for minute gas-flow sensing are astounding; if this were ever exploited for consumer energy..... I think the guy deserves a Nobel prize for it.
Heh. Yeah, it's actually possible to get work done on Windows ME. It's actually not as bad an OS as most people imply, but it does need tweaking occasionally. And the inevitable reboot.;)
Ok, so I started with this huge happy giggle when I saw this... exactly what I've been waiting for to fully switch to gmail. I love Gmail, but currently stick to Yahoo since Y!IM will let me know when I have new mail, and that's a feature I desperately need. I considered some of the third-party equivalants, like Pop Goes the Gmail, but they rely on hacking through the website and all it takes is a change from GMail to break them.
But then I noticed that it was for Win2k/XP/2k3 only. WTF? That's great for home, but at work (where I spend most of my time), I'm stuck on Windows ME!! So now this sucks as much as it rocks. I'm sad.
Personally, I wish Google had taken my suggestion to heart: password-protected RSS feeds of your email subjects. Then anybody could write a 3rd party notifier.
Well, for the most part, I agree. There are features in C# that are just unnecessary tack-ons. Most of those Java has actually picked up in 5.0 -- generics and autoboxing to name a few. One Java hasn't picked up (and one I hope Java *never* picks up, frankly) is delegates. I prefer Java's simpler interface-oriented means of generating callbacks.
In the case of properties syntax, I honestly prefer C#'s method. It's a much simpler means of organizing a property-oriented object (like a Bean).
.NET is actually a back handed compliment to Java. Java was so good that MicroSoft had to clone it. With Mono now at version 1.0, then perhaps C# is in a position to threaten Javas cross platform crown, although perhaps not without Windows Forms support.
Where C# is most threatening to Java, Windows Forms not as relevant: C# frankly makes Java look stupid with its properties syntax. Properties are like portions of the EJB properties specifications, only without all the silly get/set coding conventions... it's built right into the syntax and the engine takes care of mapping methods for you. This makes it easier to build and maintain COM/Bean like persistent property-bearing objects. *That* is where C# will beat Java. Alas that Java 1.5 -- er... Java 5.0 -- doesn't address this issue.
Only the true geeks (the ones who love the stuff) will stay with it even when it gets rocky.
TRUTH.
I consider myself a hardcore geek and I do have a BS/CS degree. And yet... perhaps I'm not that hardcore? I've been considering jumping ship for a career in politics.
"People's lives are at stake" seems to be a favorite sound-byte in the responses I've seen so far. Hell, even the autor of the story uses it.
But that very phrase is why delays make sense. It puts peoples' lives at stake to make an unauthorized patch -- if it breaks a critical system, people die. At the same time, not patching could produce a security hole, but the system has worked fine so far. So which is a greater risk? Patch a security hole that might not need plugging *yet*, at the risk of breaking a critical system and killing people, or leave the security hole open until the manufacturer authorizes a patch?
I suggest that the latter is the safest course of action.
I just finished replaying both Ultima 7 and Ultima 7.5 on my much more modern machine, thanks to Exult.
I'd say the Ultima series has aged very well. I had a blast replaying the game, and I was more immersed than I've been in a long time.
As for immersion... I'd have to give kudos to the Civ series... I still replay Civ II all the time, but Civ III has me so hooked my wife is ready to divorce me.
It's about time a patent was issued for something *valid* for a change.
If this were compared to most software patents, it would be a patent for the concept of using an automatic transmission gear-shifter, decades after nearly every car has an automatic transmission.
When I build my software applications I have the end-user in mind. Why is it too much to ask the same from Microsoft? Why is they could get away with it, where if I blamed it on the user, it could mean losing my job? You make no sense.
Microsoft builds *every* piece of software with the end-user in mind. That's their problem. That's why their stuff is so riddled with security holes: people asked for the convenience of not having to deal with certain things, MS obliged, and then the people got fucked by it.
I'd say that the problem MS has (other than a tendency to unfairly dominate the market) is that they are *too* reliant on the end-user. All too often with MS, it really *is* a feature and not a bug.
I welcome the feedback today. Getting informed is the only way I know to get better. The day we don't get heated feedback I'll be concerned.
He brings up an interesting point. How often to people give heated feedback to, for example, Mozilla/Firefox? I personally find the browser to slow and clunky in many ways, which is why I use IE and a popup blocker (Google Toolbar) rather than Mozilla, for sheer speed.
Which, frankly, sucks because there are so many features on Firefox that I like, but it's so slow that I can't use it for everyday browsing.
My question is this: Are we so anti-Microsoft that we'll settle for clunkier software without complaint, just because it's not made by Microsoft? Where is the hue and cry for a faster, more responsive Firefox? Why do we accept things without complaint just because we admire the politics of the developers?
Ok.... so tell me how this differs from, say, writing a re-usable function?
Honestly, I don't see how storing the code in the database is somehow better than storing the code in the system, other than that it reduces the code size of the actual system (at the expense of storing it elsewhere); you still have to write the code.
I'd like to second this. In fact, I'd have firsted it if you hadn't posted.
Strings are one of the most important aspects of programming; the number of complete, useful programs that have been written that didn't process or use a string in some way is close to zero.
A good programming language uses and processes strings in a speedy, efficient manner, and has a robust, easy to program means of doing so.
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One of the reasons 3rd parties often fail to obtain a significant portion of the vote is that they tend to take on extremist views. Your own party, for example, recommends extreme policies such as turning environmental protection over to corporations, and legalizing drugs.
The problem is that most Americans fall somewhere in the middle on the policital spectrum (or near the origin of your own two-axis spectrum), and both of the major parties cater to those Centrists by doing their best to appear Moderate/Centrist regardless of their actual agenda.
How do you plan to lead your party toward a more Moderate viewpoint, and thus toward political power?
Heh... it's kinda like when you miss the game and your favorite team loses. It's all your fault because you weren't there to cheer them on!
;)
YOU JINX!!! You broke Genesis! It was planet forbidden!!!!
Mea culpa. I didn't read the article first, and I deserve the karma hit for it.
Still... How can EFF possibly counter the argument if it cannot hear it? One-sided debate is not in the spirit of the democratic process.
... so they should just make it publicly available and face the consequences.
If the EFF *doesn't* hear the argument, then.... well, we've known we've had a problem with Big Brother, but it's just gotten a lot worse.
It's not "unknown", it's just "undone" before. It's been known that you could get a current by creating a temperature differentiation on both wires and nanotubes. It's just that nobody had ever tried to create a temperature difference through the Bernoulli Principle. Nobody did it before this guy, the guy deserves credit for it for thinking of it first, even though it seems so damn obvious to us now.
;)
Think of it this way:
We knew about peanutbutter. We knew about chocolate. We knew they both taste good. But we didn't know they tasted so damn good together until they came out with Reese's Peanutbutter Cups. Thank you Mr. Reese, whomever you are.
It is exactly what they've mentioned: so simple nobody ever thought of it.
Seriously, the potential applications to this just for minute gas-flow sensing are astounding; if this were ever exploited for consumer energy..... I think the guy deserves a Nobel prize for it.
I thought it was a tax on the bad a math?
Actually, it's quite impossible to install it on Windows ME -- the installer is OS aware.
I suppose I could install it on my XP box and copy the files and registry keys....
Heh. Yeah, it's actually possible to get work done on Windows ME. It's actually not as bad an OS as most people imply, but it does need tweaking occasionally. And the inevitable reboot. ;)
Ok, so I started with this huge happy giggle when I saw this... exactly what I've been waiting for to fully switch to gmail. I love Gmail, but currently stick to Yahoo since Y!IM will let me know when I have new mail, and that's a feature I desperately need. I considered some of the third-party equivalants, like Pop Goes the Gmail, but they rely on hacking through the website and all it takes is a change from GMail to break them.
But then I noticed that it was for Win2k/XP/2k3 only. WTF? That's great for home, but at work (where I spend most of my time), I'm stuck on Windows ME!! So now this sucks as much as it rocks. I'm sad.
Personally, I wish Google had taken my suggestion to heart: password-protected RSS feeds of your email subjects. Then anybody could write a 3rd party notifier.
Well, for the most part, I agree. There are features in C# that are just unnecessary tack-ons. Most of those Java has actually picked up in 5.0 -- generics and autoboxing to name a few. One Java hasn't picked up (and one I hope Java *never* picks up, frankly) is delegates. I prefer Java's simpler interface-oriented means of generating callbacks.
In the case of properties syntax, I honestly prefer C#'s method. It's a much simpler means of organizing a property-oriented object (like a Bean).
I consider myself a hardcore geek and I do have a BS/CS degree. And yet... perhaps I'm not that hardcore? I've been considering jumping ship for a career in politics.
Ain't the job market grand?
"People's lives are at stake" seems to be a favorite sound-byte in the responses I've seen so far. Hell, even the autor of the story uses it.
But that very phrase is why delays make sense. It puts peoples' lives at stake to make an unauthorized patch -- if it breaks a critical system, people die. At the same time, not patching could produce a security hole, but the system has worked fine so far. So which is a greater risk? Patch a security hole that might not need plugging *yet*, at the risk of breaking a critical system and killing people, or leave the security hole open until the manufacturer authorizes a patch?
I suggest that the latter is the safest course of action.
Anytime. I'm a game pimp, bra! ;)
I just finished replaying both Ultima 7 and Ultima 7.5 on my much more modern machine, thanks to Exult.
I'd say the Ultima series has aged very well. I had a blast replaying the game, and I was more immersed than I've been in a long time.
As for immersion... I'd have to give kudos to the Civ series... I still replay Civ II all the time, but Civ III has me so hooked my wife is ready to divorce me.
Seriously, I love good alliteration. Big kudos for a cool title.
Nice of you to post a direct link. Try here:
u blic2_demo.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_knightsrep
It's about time a patent was issued for something *valid* for a change.
If this were compared to most software patents, it would be a patent for the concept of using an automatic transmission gear-shifter, decades after nearly every car has an automatic transmission.
(that's StFU) if you're missing it.
Hmm... for some reason I *am* using .8. And also for some reason I thought I was using .9.1 I'll upgrade now and let you know how it goes.
I'd say that the problem MS has (other than a tendency to unfairly dominate the market) is that they are *too* reliant on the end-user. All too often with MS, it really *is* a feature and not a bug.
Which, frankly, sucks because there are so many features on Firefox that I like, but it's so slow that I can't use it for everyday browsing.
My question is this: Are we so anti-Microsoft that we'll settle for clunkier software without complaint, just because it's not made by Microsoft? Where is the hue and cry for a faster, more responsive Firefox? Why do we accept things without complaint just because we admire the politics of the developers?
Ok.... so tell me how this differs from, say, writing a re-usable function?
Honestly, I don't see how storing the code in the database is somehow better than storing the code in the system, other than that it reduces the code size of the actual system (at the expense of storing it elsewhere); you still have to write the code.
I'd like to second this. In fact, I'd have firsted it if you hadn't posted.
Strings are one of the most important aspects of programming; the number of complete, useful programs that have been written that didn't process or use a string in some way is close to zero.
A good programming language uses and processes strings in a speedy, efficient manner, and has a robust, easy to program means of doing so.