Speed of lunar creep away from Earth: 1.6 inches / year
Are we certain that that is (and will remain) a constant? If gravitational attraction drops to the square of the distance, then won't that rate accelerate as the Moon moves further away? Hmmm, I actually have a calculator handy, too bad I've got a data integration meeting in fifteen minutes...
And here I agreed that the Mac community was too complacent. I was hoping that this would be a rather benign wake-up call (given that it wasn't an exploit seen in the wild, and the hats were taking proper precautions to prevent it from becoming so). And now we see that they were just trying to leverage their exploit to make a (valid, but now diluted) point.
Heh. My favorite threat was "Fix it! Or I'll have your liver, lights and login on the altar come midnight!"
Note that this was said to me, not by me. I had to invoke the Forgotten Ones (and Zeroes) to save my persistent soul, but it all worked out fine in the end.
I was going to say... Although they had the first good LVM I ever saw, working with AIX has always made me feel I was in a foreign country or something. Things were always just a little bit different, and when I say "things" I mean everything.
It's just too bad IBM makes such kick-ass hardware, otherwise AIX would have died a natural death long ago.
Anyone who doesn't want to be connected should consider the possibility that their life in civilized society is both wasted and causing them emotional problems;
Anyone who wants to be continuously connected should consider the fact that they're a sad bastard with no real life, probably no real friends, and should consider getting treatment for thier emotional problems and joining civilized society where people still converse face-to-face and enjoy activities which have absolutly nothing to do with the Internet, wireless communication, or even electricity in many cases.
Right here: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=1018 8. Sure, it's probably not a real 1TB drive, but it's in an external box and plugs into a USB port, so what's the difference between it and a single-drive solution? For most people, probably none at all.
Anybody know if a USB 2.0 drive is fast enough to keep up with video playback? If so, then I may have to pick one of these up for the HTPC...
On a side note, I would never sell "extra" licenses to an OS.
Actually, there was a pretty good business being done on (ISTR) Windows 2000 licenses on eBay. Something about companies having standardized on Win2K, but either couldn't get or didn't want to pay MS for the licenses after XP came out (or their site license had expired), so people who were upgrading to XP were selling their Win2K licenses.
Don't count on it. My company's first commercial Java project had a memory leak that didn't show up until you ran several million rows through it (you know, like a real customer would do, not like we did during testing...). GC didn't save us[1], it probably won't save you.
[1] Half a day spent with JProbe enabled me to find the leak, as well as a solid dozen or so optimizations that improved our execution performance by a solid 15%. Moral: a good tool can pay for itself very quickly. If you need one, get it.
But the Mac Quadras were cheaper still, and offered equivalent if not better performance. I took my Quadra 700 over to a friend's house and we compared it to his NeXT cube (one of the second gen), and it felt a lot faster, due to its use of QuickDraw rather than DPS. NeXT didn't have any DPS-accellerated video hardware, so scrolling a window was much slower.
Should any Arab country hold unbiased elections, the Islamists will win by a large margin. Then what? Will you support the killing of a billion people?
We won't have to. If the situation in Iraq is any indication, they'll be too busy killing each other. Seriously, if there was a revolution in Jordan, the first thing they'd do would be to raid the armories and attack Syria. The Ottoman empire set this whole thing in motion, and the US is just the latest foreign power to wear the "Infidel Meddler" hat.
You've got a point about the support the US gives to Israel, though....
I've got a Logitech Mouseman wireless trackball, and it takes a new battery every 4-5 months. Buy a standard 4-pack of AAs and I'm set for a couple of years. Actually, in the new job, they have AAs in the supply cabinet, so I don't even have to do that.
Maybe mice just take more power? My trackball's optical, but I really can't imagine that a couple of rotary encoders really take that much more power than a single optical pickup.
Dell is stating that they will be introducing AMD-based servers "by the end of the year" in their first-quarter financial statement. Should make for great stocking-stuffers for all those little corps this Xmas!
Dunno, seems to me that all you'd need to do would be to break the steering lock, then replace the ECU chip with a cable to a laptop running generic Ford engine management software (who cares how well it runs, as long as you can get it moving). I'm sure there are some "tuner setups" for Mustangs, at least, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was something specifically for the Navigator. Yeah, it's non-trivial, but these guys got a few grand worth of parts out of just one vehicle; amortize the cost of stealing a laptop ($0) and jacking some software ($0) across several thefts and go immediately to step 4: PROFIT!!1!
ISTR the NuBus had this capability. Cards had the drivers on them, and they identified themselves to the bus, so when scanning the bus for hardware you just got "graphics card in slot N". They all presented the same API, with bus NAKs or soemthing if the software requested a mode the card didn't support.
This, of course, made changing features a bitch, since you couldn't tell the software that you had eight hardware shaders instead of one, because there wasn't space in the API data structure for that...
Web sites != programming. Any halfway-decent "visual" sort of person can dig up some scripts and templates and come up with a decent web site. People who are good at cranking out code tend to display mass suckage when designing web sites. Likewise, many web designers will sweat blood over a ten-line Javascript function. The two aren't mutually exclusive, but there isn't a lot of overlap between good web designers and good programmers.
I didn't have any problems moving my IDE drive or my PCI graphics card from my Pentium Pro to my P-II when I made that switch. Then I upgraded the graphics card because the new board supported AGP. Then I got a new case and PS. It's not all that hard, you just have to not expect the latest whizz-bang stuff.
Of course, then I chucked it all and plunked down the cash for a 2.2GHz Opteron with SATA drives and PCI-X graphics. No, none of my old hardware transferred over (except my keyboard, monitor and mouse), but now I have a complete "other" system to tinker with (or give to someone else).
If you're up to speed with a basic web framework (e.g. Struts), doing the basic development for a site like that would take a day or so (less if you have a previous project you can cannibalize). That's all the programming; fighting with the designer to lock down the design and codify the CSS and make it all look pretty will take another week (at least!). Seriously, though, if you have a good designer who can mock stuff up in HTML and write the CSS, a couple of weeks should be plenty of time. That doesn't include round-trips with the client when they have new ideas based on what you show them originally, and it doesn't include end-to-end testing and integration with any of their existing systems (inventory / product catalog / sales).
From what I've seen, professional web site development proceeds at the client's pace, regardless of the language used. Yeah, you can bang out a prototype faster in some technologies, but 80% of the time is spent reworking the site to comply with changing specifications, and it's really a wash whether it's faster to add or move a form field with PHP, Perl, Ruby or Java. If you're doing "proper" development (separating presentation and logic, using CSS to define look-and-feel, writing modular code), change costs are largely invariant across technologies for simple sites (like the one you pointed out).
In the page, I can't think of much, unless you're doing some AJAX-y stuff and want to keep the DOM in memory so you can manipulate/transform it. If you're trying to be scalable, though, you're probably not doing much client-side, the bulk of your work is going to be done on the server, and that's where OOP really helps out. I think Java actually suffers from a surfeit of web frameworks (I've seen "analysis paralysis" set in when teams try to evaluate a few to figure out which is "the best one"), but they're pretty handy once you know one. Common objects would be the HTTP request/response, a hash table for session variables, you'll probably have some kind of form object (assuming you're writing a web app and not a web site), and if you're serious about scalability you'll have some kind of template class for handing your boilerplate and generating the actual web page you return to the user.
I cringe when I think about who that directly benefits and who gets next to nothing.
Hey, if somebody beat up the bully who was stealing your lunch money and took his bike, iPod and cell phone and left you whatever you could scavenge from his backpack, would you really mind? He got his, and you got something, and he won't be bothering anyone anymore.
the judge ruled that 'if the government has been truthful in its disclosures, divulging information on AT&T's role in the scandal should not cause any harm to national security.'
Hmmmm, remarkably similar to "If you're innocent, you have nothing to worry about". And where have we heard that before?
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And here I agreed that the Mac community was too complacent. I was hoping that this would be a rather benign wake-up call (given that it wasn't an exploit seen in the wild, and the hats were taking proper precautions to prevent it from becoming so). And now we see that they were just trying to leverage their exploit to make a (valid, but now diluted) point.
Heh. My favorite threat was "Fix it! Or I'll have your liver, lights and login on the altar come midnight!"
Note that this was said to me, not by me. I had to invoke the Forgotten Ones (and Zeroes) to save my persistent soul, but it all worked out fine in the end.
I was going to say... Although they had the first good LVM I ever saw, working with AIX has always made me feel I was in a foreign country or something. Things were always just a little bit different, and when I say "things" I mean everything.
It's just too bad IBM makes such kick-ass hardware, otherwise AIX would have died a natural death long ago.
Anyone who wants to be continuously connected should consider the fact that they're a sad bastard with no real life, probably no real friends, and should consider getting treatment for thier emotional problems and joining civilized society where people still converse face-to-face and enjoy activities which have absolutly nothing to do with the Internet, wireless communication, or even electricity in many cases.
Right here: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=1018 8. Sure, it's probably not a real 1TB drive, but it's in an external box and plugs into a USB port, so what's the difference between it and a single-drive solution? For most people, probably none at all.
Anybody know if a USB 2.0 drive is fast enough to keep up with video playback? If so, then I may have to pick one of these up for the HTPC...
Don't count on it. My company's first commercial Java project had a memory leak that didn't show up until you ran several million rows through it (you know, like a real customer would do, not like we did during testing...). GC didn't save us[1], it probably won't save you.
[1] Half a day spent with JProbe enabled me to find the leak, as well as a solid dozen or so optimizations that improved our execution performance by a solid 15%. Moral: a good tool can pay for itself very quickly. If you need one, get it.
But the Mac Quadras were cheaper still, and offered equivalent if not better performance. I took my Quadra 700 over to a friend's house and we compared it to his NeXT cube (one of the second gen), and it felt a lot faster, due to its use of QuickDraw rather than DPS. NeXT didn't have any DPS-accellerated video hardware, so scrolling a window was much slower.
What, you've never had a sea monkey enema? They're the latest thing in the spa world! Weekly World News just had an article on it...
You've got a point about the support the US gives to Israel, though....
I'm still waiting for a viable 64-bit version of Windows XP fer cryin' out loud, and don't get me started on SLI...
FTFY...
(As a Solaris 10 user, I couldn't let that one slide. Well, OK, I could, I just chose not to.)
I've got a Logitech Mouseman wireless trackball, and it takes a new battery every 4-5 months. Buy a standard 4-pack of AAs and I'm set for a couple of years. Actually, in the new job, they have AAs in the supply cabinet, so I don't even have to do that.
Maybe mice just take more power? My trackball's optical, but I really can't imagine that a couple of rotary encoders really take that much more power than a single optical pickup.
Dell is stating that they will be introducing AMD-based servers "by the end of the year" in their first-quarter financial statement. Should make for great stocking-stuffers for all those little corps this Xmas!
My impression was that ACS was built using mostly stored procedures. Kind of hard to abstract away your execution environment...
Dunno, seems to me that all you'd need to do would be to break the steering lock, then replace the ECU chip with a cable to a laptop running generic Ford engine management software (who cares how well it runs, as long as you can get it moving). I'm sure there are some "tuner setups" for Mustangs, at least, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was something specifically for the Navigator. Yeah, it's non-trivial, but these guys got a few grand worth of parts out of just one vehicle; amortize the cost of stealing a laptop ($0) and jacking some software ($0) across several thefts and go immediately to step 4: PROFIT!!1!
ISTR the NuBus had this capability. Cards had the drivers on them, and they identified themselves to the bus, so when scanning the bus for hardware you just got "graphics card in slot N". They all presented the same API, with bus NAKs or soemthing if the software requested a mode the card didn't support.
This, of course, made changing features a bitch, since you couldn't tell the software that you had eight hardware shaders instead of one, because there wasn't space in the API data structure for that...
Web sites != programming. Any halfway-decent "visual" sort of person can dig up some scripts and templates and come up with a decent web site. People who are good at cranking out code tend to display mass suckage when designing web sites. Likewise, many web designers will sweat blood over a ten-line Javascript function. The two aren't mutually exclusive, but there isn't a lot of overlap between good web designers and good programmers.
I didn't have any problems moving my IDE drive or my PCI graphics card from my Pentium Pro to my P-II when I made that switch. Then I upgraded the graphics card because the new board supported AGP. Then I got a new case and PS. It's not all that hard, you just have to not expect the latest whizz-bang stuff.
Of course, then I chucked it all and plunked down the cash for a 2.2GHz Opteron with SATA drives and PCI-X graphics. No, none of my old hardware transferred over (except my keyboard, monitor and mouse), but now I have a complete "other" system to tinker with (or give to someone else).
If you're up to speed with a basic web framework (e.g. Struts), doing the basic development for a site like that would take a day or so (less if you have a previous project you can cannibalize). That's all the programming; fighting with the designer to lock down the design and codify the CSS and make it all look pretty will take another week (at least!). Seriously, though, if you have a good designer who can mock stuff up in HTML and write the CSS, a couple of weeks should be plenty of time. That doesn't include round-trips with the client when they have new ideas based on what you show them originally, and it doesn't include end-to-end testing and integration with any of their existing systems (inventory / product catalog / sales).
From what I've seen, professional web site development proceeds at the client's pace, regardless of the language used. Yeah, you can bang out a prototype faster in some technologies, but 80% of the time is spent reworking the site to comply with changing specifications, and it's really a wash whether it's faster to add or move a form field with PHP, Perl, Ruby or Java. If you're doing "proper" development (separating presentation and logic, using CSS to define look-and-feel, writing modular code), change costs are largely invariant across technologies for simple sites (like the one you pointed out).
In the page, I can't think of much, unless you're doing some AJAX-y stuff and want to keep the DOM in memory so you can manipulate/transform it. If you're trying to be scalable, though, you're probably not doing much client-side, the bulk of your work is going to be done on the server, and that's where OOP really helps out. I think Java actually suffers from a surfeit of web frameworks (I've seen "analysis paralysis" set in when teams try to evaluate a few to figure out which is "the best one"), but they're pretty handy once you know one. Common objects would be the HTTP request/response, a hash table for session variables, you'll probably have some kind of form object (assuming you're writing a web app and not a web site), and if you're serious about scalability you'll have some kind of template class for handing your boilerplate and generating the actual web page you return to the user.
Hmmmm, remarkably similar to "If you're innocent, you have nothing to worry about". And where have we heard that before?
...which was cancelled for non-technical but not-so-mysterious reasons?