Correct me if Im wrong, but CMU is in Pittsburg....
and they're complaining of a "brain drain" there? I would be interested if you have any details on this "brain drain." I don't live in PA, but have family there (who aren't stoopid, by chance) and am just curious to the aspects that you refer to.
while not a new concept, it is nice to see such "main stream" (ok, maybe has been main stream) acts looking into a new approach. When I bought the Airdrawndagger CD, I knew that the man-like was on to something. Carlie May's Chill Out Album is at least using new marketing approaches to keep the fans off of soul seek and in the record stores.
the only cookie that I have seen from google.com is if you go into the prefs and set some form of user specific setting (ie: open links in new window, language specific searching, etc). This is so that it can keep track of what you have set and keep it for you the next time you visit. Makes sense to me.
Of course, I have no idea what they are doing behind the scenes, but making these allegations with (at best) weak evidence doesn't seem like a cause for concern to me.
"Our primary level of comfort comes from the fact that we have the best choice for developers and others. When given the choice, we're confident people will choose ours"
such a modest bunch of lads. I bet their mommies think that they are the best and tell them that every night.
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According to this (news.com story - not "com.com") it is going to be hard to ignore them.
The main criteria were to find a seismically-stable, deep underground site.
It's near a fault line (YM lies just between the cluster in CA and the cluster in Utah - closer the the CA cluster IIRC). I guess that in politics, 50% is good enough.
Im sure the government also took into consideration the fact that the test site is essentially a nuclear wasteland for the most part anyway since this area was where the majority of the US nuclear bomb testing occurred up until about 10 years ago. Im not saying this is the Right Thing (hell, I live in Vegas...ok, Henderson, but it's close) but the gov't mentality seems to be "well, it worked before, why not do it again now?"
As far as technologies are concerned - I have noticed that the front page of Google is surprisingly simple. I understand that Goole wants to be a search engine first, but are the technologies that you use, or have implemented to help crunch the page sizes? How much, if any, of these technologies originate in-house and how often do you rely on outside sources for your technologies?
I know that one of my sources for music was (yeah yeah, don't laugh) the Essential Mix on R1. Here in the states there isn't a lot of publicity for dance music (and no, Im not talking Brittney Spears here). Sure you can go to the clubs, but you are going to get dizzy trying to follow the turntables as they're spinning:)
It really is unfortunate, because the only way that I heard the E-mixes was by downloading the sets when I could find them. A lot of great music is getting lost to the people here in the states because of the RIAA and their selfishness. And I don't even want to hear that crap that people say "oh, but the American DJs and producers are just as good." BOLLOCKS to that, I say - bollocks. Best dance music in the world is coming out of Europe right now (ok, Mr Hawtin is Canadian) and the US can't even touch it.
I need to submit this before I really start working myself up over the RIAA...
That is because polygraphs work by intimidation. The machine is material, you could be hooked up to a microwave if it created an occassional reaction. It is how the interrogation is performed that causes the desired results - whether those results are the truth or are what the interrogator is looking for, the inquisition goes on until the desired results are acheived. Polygraph is a psychological stress test, not a measure of guilt or innocence, as anyone who has ever had one will attest to.
Or instead of throttling them down, you install a logging proxy and show them that you know exactly what they are doing and when they do it. Print out a monthly report and post it in the teacher's lounge.
If information wants to be free, then let their peers handle any wrong-doing amongst the staff by giving them all the information that you can.
I hear that - I don't know about the rest of the state, but I know that said law is no longer true in Vegas. It really wouldn't surprise me if it was still true in the resot of the state since there really is nothing to nevada save Reno and Vegas (some people argue that we need Carson City, but seriously....)
Vegas isn't run by the mob anymore, just Italian guy with funny nicknames. Oh, and our mayor wasn't a mob lawyer either. Nope, nothing to see here. Keep looking that way towards the bright blinking lights and pay our taxe.... er, um I mean fund out monorai... shit, I mean take a gamble and win a million.
Now I remember why I didn't become a tour guide here in town
Despite the obsession with religion in this country, I have a feeling that if a certain 2000 year old long haired hippy dude visited America again and starting spouting off about "eyes of needles" One word, clueless.
you are correct in your earlier assumption that you have to set all of the elements in the tag to invisible. I did something similar using resizing tables to hide / show a navigation bar for a site and noticed that Moz didn't work as expected. You have to call all of the elements that you wish to show/hide that are contained if they are block elements (me thinks).
For example if you have a table with 2 <TD> tags and you want to shrink the left td to 0 and grow the right tag to 100% - you have to resize both. If you resize one in IE the other responds by adjusting, but in Moz you have to address both. It is annoying, but if you think in terms of all of the elements that are being affected it will help you realize this a little better. Just a different way of thinking. Also, changing both of the tags works in both browsers.
Yeah, it's easier to do in IE, but there are side-effects / undesirable results of things like that. At least with Mozilla it forces you to think about what you are actually trying to do before it will let you do it.
so you are going to imply that the infant had no prior experience with gravity? That would effectively mean that the infant never observed anything being attracted in any way shape or form towards the earth. This does not imply that the infant understands WHY gravity exists, or how it even works, but it understands the consequences and has observed the effects of gravity. Now if the article had said "a baby that was raised in zero-gravity and had never had any experience with gravity was placed on a glass table and grew fearful of falling" I might be more convinced, but the mind understands and learns and adapts VERY quickly.
You are discrediting the power of the brain to learn by assuming that the infant doens't understand falling simply because it has never fell.
While I was trying to decide if this post was a troll or just someone who hadn't had their morning cup of coffe, I came up with a thought. Since this person is so upset about slashdot and their lack of value, what about a "pay-per-post" system. Have a system set up where a user can buy impressions in the form of posts instead of page views. This would effectively weed out a lot of the crap flooders, and (at least in theory) raise the signal to noise ratio. I think that it would also force people to think before they post. I don't know, it's just a thought - not a well formed one at that. I can see some problems with this the mose obvious being the/. crowd is naturally going to scream "consumerist bastard, you want to shut out those who have no money!!!!" It is a comprimise, there has to be some barrier of entry, and money is a common barrier between most of the people of the world.
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Ok, I am a programmer and I have written some RPC functions / services / insertBuzzWordHere for some of my employers. The thing that I fail to see is the fundamental difference between P2P and (as the author calls them) RPCish services, like HTTP.
I understand the complaint that RPCish services lacks a suffecient TTL to really make them an application, but is P2P really nothing more than a RPC with a TTL->infunity? Or is there something else that Im not seeing here.
It seems to me that having a function on node A that calls an RPC function on node B, then B returns the results at its leisure with an RPC call to node A. This could feesibly use RPC to acheive a P2P-style connection. Is there something like this already? From what I hear, this seems to be what SOAP covers, but I have never investigated this. Any thoughts, rants, info would help out. Thanx.
Dr Dobbs Journal ran an article (not available online - only the source of the program) here
It described what the author called a "parasitic computer." The function was rather trivial and has no real benifit, but the premise was that by passing three numbers to a web server your could check to see if the sum of two of them were equal to the thrid by using the checksum of the results. The article went on to explain that this was more of a proof of concept, and that later down the road you could see some more neat-o-rific hacks similar in style to this that took advantage of remote functionalities on host computers while other clients were the parasites. Interesting article and very cool thoughts on the future of ideas like this if you get a chance to get a dead tree copy of the issue.
as far as Im concerned, if anyone deserves to get fucked it's the labels. Think about it - they are the ones who are responsible for paying the artists - and they aren't. They are a huge conglomorate (sp?) and their primary interest is in looking out for themselves. Plus by fucking over the labels you can effectively get rid of the artist that they "manufacture" (Brittney, n'sync, BS Boys et al). You are left with people who want to make music, and get paid for it. You can get rid of the people who want to make money, so they make music.
The only way for the artists to stand a chance against such an inbred monster as the MPAA or any largeish record label is for them to stand together, not have a bunch of disparate lawsuits that only create trivial damage at best. They need a knock out punch by flexing their collective muscles.
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Correct me if Im wrong, but CMU is in Pittsburg....
and they're complaining of a "brain drain" there? I would be interested if you have any details on this "brain drain." I don't live in PA, but have family there (who aren't stoopid, by chance) and am just curious to the aspects that you refer to.
while not a new concept, it is nice to see such "main stream" (ok, maybe has been main stream) acts looking into a new approach. When I bought the Airdrawndagger CD, I knew that the man-like was on to something. Carlie May's Chill Out Album is at least using new marketing approaches to keep the fans off of soul seek and in the record stores.
my fault, I failed to notice that I had "accept all cookies from this domain" set in Konqueror so I was never prompted to accept a cookie.
the only cookie that I have seen from google.com is if you go into the prefs and set some form of user specific setting (ie: open links in new window, language specific searching, etc). This is so that it can keep track of what you have set and keep it for you the next time you visit. Makes sense to me.
Of course, I have no idea what they are doing behind the scenes, but making these allegations with (at best) weak evidence doesn't seem like a cause for concern to me.
"Our primary level of comfort comes from the fact that we have the best choice for developers and others. When given the choice, we're confident people will choose ours"
such a modest bunch of lads. I bet their mommies think that they are the best and tell them that every night.
According to this (news.com story - not "com.com") it is going to be hard to ignore them.
The main criteria were to find a seismically-stable, deep underground site.
It's near a fault line (YM lies just between the cluster in CA and the cluster in Utah - closer the the CA cluster IIRC). I guess that in politics, 50% is good enough.
Im sure the government also took into consideration the fact that the test site is essentially a nuclear wasteland for the most part anyway since this area was where the majority of the US nuclear bomb testing occurred up until about 10 years ago. Im not saying this is the Right Thing (hell, I live in Vegas...ok, Henderson, but it's close) but the gov't mentality seems to be "well, it worked before, why not do it again now?"
As far as technologies are concerned - I have noticed that the front page of Google is surprisingly simple. I understand that Goole wants to be a search engine first, but are the technologies that you use, or have implemented to help crunch the page sizes? How much, if any, of these technologies originate in-house and how often do you rely on outside sources for your technologies?
I know that one of my sources for music was (yeah yeah, don't laugh) the Essential Mix on R1. Here in the states there isn't a lot of publicity for dance music (and no, Im not talking Brittney Spears here). Sure you can go to the clubs, but you are going to get dizzy trying to follow the turntables as they're spinning :)
It really is unfortunate, because the only way that I heard the E-mixes was by downloading the sets when I could find them. A lot of great music is getting lost to the people here in the states because of the RIAA and their selfishness. And I don't even want to hear that crap that people say "oh, but the American DJs and producers are just as good." BOLLOCKS to that, I say - bollocks. Best dance music in the world is coming out of Europe right now (ok, Mr Hawtin is Canadian) and the US can't even touch it.
I need to submit this before I really start working myself up over the RIAA...
Then again, why would I want any one company to control my home security, television, stereo, and toaster?
crestron - nuff said
That is because polygraphs work by intimidation. The machine is material, you could be hooked up to a microwave if it created an occassional reaction. It is how the interrogation is performed that causes the desired results - whether those results are the truth or are what the interrogator is looking for, the inquisition goes on until the desired results are acheived. Polygraph is a psychological stress test, not a measure of guilt or innocence, as anyone who has ever had one will attest to.
Or instead of throttling them down, you install a logging proxy and show them that you know exactly what they are doing and when they do it. Print out a monthly report and post it in the teacher's lounge.
If information wants to be free, then let their peers handle any wrong-doing amongst the staff by giving them all the information that you can.
I hear that - I don't know about the rest of the state, but I know that said law is no longer true in Vegas. It really wouldn't surprise me if it was still true in the resot of the state since there really is nothing to nevada save Reno and Vegas (some people argue that we need Carson City, but seriously....)
rule 2 is no longer true in Clark County, where LV is located. It was abolished about 5 years ago, if I remember correctly.
Vegas isn't run by the mob anymore, just Italian guy with funny nicknames. Oh, and our mayor wasn't a mob lawyer either. Nope, nothing to see here. Keep looking that way towards the bright blinking lights and pay our taxe.... er, um I mean fund out monorai... shit, I mean take a gamble and win a million.
Now I remember why I didn't become a tour guide here in town
exactly :)
Despite the obsession with religion in this country, I have a feeling that if a certain 2000 year old long haired hippy dude visited America again and starting spouting off about "eyes of needles"
One word, clueless.
one more word. Mormon.
you are correct in your earlier assumption that you have to set all of the elements in the tag to invisible. I did something similar using resizing tables to hide / show a navigation bar for a site and noticed that Moz didn't work as expected. You have to call all of the elements that you wish to show/hide that are contained if they are block elements (me thinks).
For example if you have a table with 2 <TD> tags and you want to shrink the left td to 0 and grow the right tag to 100% - you have to resize both. If you resize one in IE the other responds by adjusting, but in Moz you have to address both. It is annoying, but if you think in terms of all of the elements that are being affected it will help you realize this a little better. Just a different way of thinking. Also, changing both of the tags works in both browsers.
Yeah, it's easier to do in IE, but there are side-effects / undesirable results of things like that. At least with Mozilla it forces you to think about what you are actually trying to do before it will let you do it.
so you are going to imply that the infant had no prior experience with gravity? That would effectively mean that the infant never observed anything being attracted in any way shape or form towards the earth. This does not imply that the infant understands WHY gravity exists, or how it even works, but it understands the consequences and has observed the effects of gravity. Now if the article had said "a baby that was raised in zero-gravity and had never had any experience with gravity was placed on a glass table and grew fearful of falling" I might be more convinced, but the mind understands and learns and adapts VERY quickly.
You are discrediting the power of the brain to learn by assuming that the infant doens't understand falling simply because it has never fell.
While I was trying to decide if this post was a troll or just someone who hadn't had their morning cup of coffe, I came up with a thought. Since this person is so upset about slashdot and their lack of value, what about a "pay-per-post" system. Have a system set up where a user can buy impressions in the form of posts instead of page views. This would effectively weed out a lot of the crap flooders, and (at least in theory) raise the signal to noise ratio. I think that it would also force people to think before they post. I don't know, it's just a thought - not a well formed one at that. I can see some problems with this the mose obvious being the /. crowd is naturally going to scream "consumerist bastard, you want to shut out those who have no money!!!!" It is a comprimise, there has to be some barrier of entry, and money is a common barrier between most of the people of the world.
Ok, I am a programmer and I have written some RPC functions / services / insertBuzzWordHere for some of my employers. The thing that I fail to see is the fundamental difference between P2P and (as the author calls them) RPCish services, like HTTP.
I understand the complaint that RPCish services lacks a suffecient TTL to really make them an application, but is P2P really nothing more than a RPC with a TTL->infunity? Or is there something else that Im not seeing here.
It seems to me that having a function on node A that calls an RPC function on node B, then B returns the results at its leisure with an RPC call to node A. This could feesibly use RPC to acheive a P2P-style connection. Is there something like this already? From what I hear, this seems to be what SOAP covers, but I have never investigated this. Any thoughts, rants, info would help out. Thanx.
Dr Dobbs Journal ran an article (not available online - only the source of the program) here
It described what the author called a "parasitic computer." The function was rather trivial and has no real benifit, but the premise was that by passing three numbers to a web server your could check to see if the sum of two of them were equal to the thrid by using the checksum of the results. The article went on to explain that this was more of a proof of concept, and that later down the road you could see some more neat-o-rific hacks similar in style to this that took advantage of remote functionalities on host computers while other clients were the parasites. Interesting article and very cool thoughts on the future of ideas like this if you get a chance to get a dead tree copy of the issue.
sorry, that should be RIAA not MPAA - wrong inbred monster
(me runs to coffee pot for quick fix)
as far as Im concerned, if anyone deserves to get fucked it's the labels. Think about it - they are the ones who are responsible for paying the artists - and they aren't. They are a huge conglomorate (sp?) and their primary interest is in looking out for themselves. Plus by fucking over the labels you can effectively get rid of the artist that they "manufacture" (Brittney, n'sync, BS Boys et al). You are left with people who want to make music, and get paid for it. You can get rid of the people who want to make money, so they make music.
The only way for the artists to stand a chance against such an inbred monster as the MPAA or any largeish record label is for them to stand together, not have a bunch of disparate lawsuits that only create trivial damage at best. They need a knock out punch by flexing their collective muscles.