"but in The Resurrection of God Incarnate (Oxford University Press, 2003) he shows that treating the evidence we have with the probability calculus (Bayesian theorem), we have yet another support."
"treating the evidence with probability calculus"??? You either have to be smoking, or you have to be looking for a smoking gun even to *start* on that journey. Looking for something that you assume is already there is *not* science.
"Many, MANY forms of christianity encourage the questioning of the divinity of Jesus - the hope is obviously that you'll ultimately agree, but many believe you don't have true faith unless you can truly question it, and still believe."
The hope? What I've seen, it's more like that you may question it playingly for some time, but not for real. If it starts to get too real, bad things are bound to happen. In some countries where people can afford to do without a god (in other words, lead a happy, rather certain life) there is some doubt allowed. But for many religious believers, this is not the case. In the higher echelons, even smaller doubts are - uh - not encouraged.
Anyway, if there is really one correct religion, then why are there so many of them? I mean, most believers even don't hear about the others their entire life. How is one to choose the real religion that way? Do they all go to hell, as many religions suggest? In my opinion, doubt and doctrine are the pillars of most religions. And doctrine might even be a bigger pillar than doubt.
Funny you would say that. I know of research in the Netherlands that uses neutered viri to put in gen-therapy. This is just now be used in (severily ill) human patients. Just like the advance of computers or the internet you should not expect things to change overnight. But it would be stupid to ignore the technology as well.
And this is where things go wrong. If the *alleged* infringement is as big and as widespread as MPEG4, the patent should be invalidated. It is otherwise impossible to create (open) standards. Open standards are the way to increase competition - I would consider them more important than open source. If everyone that creates a new MPEG4 device or creates (a copy of) software suddenly has to pay a license, the whole infrastructure is at risk.
Maybe there should be a sepperate way to deal with these issues. For important technologies, the patent office or other governmental structure should publish a "respond before this date or shutup forever" statement. Any patents that encumber the use of the technology are invalidated from that point in time. Because this is getting out of hand (or, more to the point, already is).
Probably just a dollar, euro or anything. Otherwise the other companies could point a finger to the open source software and say something like: "Hey, they didn't have to do anything, did not read anything about spyware etc. either. Bugger it, you are not defending your name and I am not stopping to use the name." Ok, it is does not feel like anything you would *like* to do but it is a practical solution. Maybe they could make it 20 dollars and send out a nice T-shirt stating: "I am a creator of bittorrent software" in return:)
What, *all* of them? I think the way Google tries to get things done is to get a few very good (well paid) talents working on a specific problem. If you've got the right people, you don't need a lot of them. It seems that they are trying to do the same for all their segments. Even as account manager for the Netherlands, you need at least a degree, be fluent in many languages and have a working record - besides wanting to move to Dublin.
But it was swallowed by the anti-spam measurements from Redmont, who are trying to uphold the October 2006 deadline set by Bill for removing all spam from the internet.
Well, there are people where obesity is largely because of a disease. But I would warn people to blame their obesity on a sickness without a clear diagnosis. It's a bit too easy to blame things on anything except yourself, especially if you're addicted to something. Same for genetics really. So I guess I agree, and I don't think your comments are particularly offensive either.
PS Even though I am not obese, I'm far from perfect, so I've got enough things to blame squarily on myself:)
Of course, a lot of child pornography is created (to clearly specify created, I am meaning the form of production that actually includes the child) to fullfill a certain demand. Downloading and especially buying child porn creates this demand. In my opinion, this is the same as buying a stolen car radio - actually worse, since the crime is of a much higher degree. So the user of childporno should be punished, and the sentence should depend on the factors of the use. I can think of the actual involvement (ranging up to placing an order for a newly made video, I suppose), if the person distributes the stuff himself, the amount of porn, etc. But the actual crime *IS* different, and I can hardly see any justice for calling this the creation of porn.
And then there are the practical issues. Just as with drugs, you cannot combat it by destroying the source. There will always be sources as long as there is demand. And, unfortunately, it is something that some people pay prodigious amounts of money for to get it. So from this standpoint, you will have to proscecute downloaders to the full extend. Also, practically speaking, the simple inclusion of a few child porn pictures on a hard drive should not be enough for proscecution. If they are clearly child porn and have been sorted on the drive than that is something different. Especially dubious is just looking at the cache of the web-browser, since popups can do big harm. But, as I understood from the article, that's far from the case here...
Some cards have less support than others in Linux. That's mostly due to driver support from the manufacturers. In most cases, there isn't any. And even if there is, a user has to escape from the GUI and install the video driver. Not the most convenient thing.
On the other hand, Linux does tend to give more information about hardware. For instance, it really helps if you can identify your card using the strings reported on the PCI bus. I've had to disassemble quite a few PC's just to get the label from the PCI card.
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Google makes extensive use of the Java platform. Large parts of popular Google products are written in Java. We also use Java in many internal systems and products under development.
Just rip all the keys off, dust off the insides (cotton sticks may be helpfull here, older dirt tends to be sticky). Dish-wash the keys (just the keys). Use some cleaning stuff for the keyboard itself.
Some additional tips:
- Make sure no water ever can get to the electronics. If it comes between the contact plates you're screwed, they rust like mad.
- Be very carefull to take off any key that makes a metalic sound if you click them. These constructs might be easy to break (especially the larger keys like [enter] and [space]
- Keys take some time to dry, since they are basically small cups turned over, and it is pretty difficult to dry the inside.
- Make sure you remember the place of each key. I know this is slashdot, so you would fail your nerd exam if you don't, but... Having a second keyboard might be a good idea otherwise.
Happy cleaning. And *don't eat* above your keyboard.
Dr Java has a shallow learning curve because it is simple. TOO simple. I would never use an IDE anymore that only does syntax coloring. All three main Java IDE's (IDEA, Eclipse and Netbeans) parse the text you type by default. This means you can easily see what's a local variable and what's a field. See if your application contains unreachable code, bad switches, bad expressions and of course on the fly refactorin.
Especially Netbeans will support additional code checks in the future (think checking if your regular expression or printf statements are valid (IF they can be checked). This is the future for source based IDE's. I would *never* use an IDE that does not keep an abstract syntax tree up to date in the background.
That said, Dr Java does seem to have an nice place to run test code in. I would love to see somthing better than "java (s)crap pages" in Eclipse. Say, a nice beanshell plugin that can also run in parallel with the debugger.
Eclipse is a pretty intuitive IDE. I have not an idea what you are talking about. Maybe that's because I've used it since 2.1, but I cannot see too many problematic parts. The only thing missinb by default is switching between tabs using the keyboard. I prefer to use ctrl-tab for this, as most Windows applications do. ctrl-F6 is used in other programs as well though, and you can pretty easily find/reprogram the keyboard shortcurt (fortunately).
You can now download the latest Eclipse 3.1.1 stable including "web" support. This means XML, HTML, schema's, application servers, WDSL, various levels of compliancies with servlet standards, and well, a lot more that I have not found the time to explore. It's 186 MB's big (ugh!).
Note that this is a pretty early "stable" release from the Eclipse Tools. So most things work, but they have not been smoothed out as best as they can do. Another problem is to keep the complexity out a bit. Eclipse does a fair job at this, but it might even perform better. I had some difficult time to set up the thing to do 2.3 version war files for instance, instead of 2.4.
Swing IS betten than SWT, but they do one thing wrong. Integration with the native OS. Eclipse has, at least superficially, a nice, consistent GUI with the native environment. Swing has become closer to this as well, but many applciations don't seem to default to the platform GUI (which is plain stupid) and every Swing application is making it's own choice, so even throughout Java applications, the look and feel is inconsistent. And the problem with emulation is that you are always running behind. They do try to solve this for Longhorn though.
Eclipse works very well within Windows, and pretty well within Linux and Mac, due to SWT. I've tried to program in SWT however, and although it is pretty simple to get something up and running, the design of the thing leaves much to be desired. I mean, color constants in the main SWT class? What year is this?
Eclipse works pretty well, and although it has grown to be a bit more difficult than before, it is still way more inuitive than most other IDE's. Check out the keyboard configuration, the setting up of your own formatting scheme, the keyword lookup in the configuration etc. And try a sample application first. It's not *that* hard. If you're on a fast machine, by all means switch on "Mark Occurences". You now know how to find it.
There are a few Open Source solutions to this problem. Not many, but they are there. OpenCA is one of them.
OpenCA is an OpenSSL based solution with a LDAP backing it all up, mostly written in perl. It might be more difficult to set it up, and hardware support in OpenSSL can be sketchy. But it is pretty active and you might want to take a look. There's also something called EJBCA (Enterprise Java Beans Certificate Authority), it relies on JCA and might be able to handle some hardware as well.
Problem is to get things certified. I don't think the Microsoft solution is certified either. If your interests are purely in-house, then certification is not such an issue and you should have a look at all of them. Microsofts solution is not that configurable or extensive, but it's pretty cheap compared to other CA software. If you're not certified, it might be difficult to get a generally accepted PKI provider to grant you a CA certificate.
Note that any kind of work in this area tends to be pretty hard until you get your basic PKI knowledge up to a certain standard. Prepare to boldly go where no-one has gone before.
Actually, it seems that the mayority on slashdot is behind Microsoft on such fundamental issues. Mostly in the line of: I don't mind it happening to them, but it is still evil. Obviously we love Toyota for having the guts to be the first to try to get these accepted in the market place.
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"but in The Resurrection of God Incarnate (Oxford University Press, 2003) he shows that treating the evidence we have with the probability calculus (Bayesian theorem), we have yet another support."
"treating the evidence with probability calculus"??? You either have to be smoking, or you have to be looking for a smoking gun even to *start* on that journey. Looking for something that you assume is already there is *not* science.
"Many, MANY forms of christianity encourage the questioning of the divinity of Jesus - the hope is obviously that you'll ultimately agree, but many believe you don't have true faith unless you can truly question it, and still believe."
The hope? What I've seen, it's more like that you may question it playingly for some time, but not for real. If it starts to get too real, bad things are bound to happen. In some countries where people can afford to do without a god (in other words, lead a happy, rather certain life) there is some doubt allowed. But for many religious believers, this is not the case. In the higher echelons, even smaller doubts are - uh - not encouraged.
Anyway, if there is really one correct religion, then why are there so many of them? I mean, most believers even don't hear about the others their entire life. How is one to choose the real religion that way? Do they all go to hell, as many religions suggest? In my opinion, doubt and doctrine are the pillars of most religions. And doctrine might even be a bigger pillar than doubt.
"Even Intel can't think they can trademark the word core and get away with it."
I would not put it past companies that can get away with trademarking the word "Intel" *and* sue the crap out of everyone using the same word...
Funny you would say that. I know of research in the Netherlands that uses neutered viri to put in gen-therapy. This is just now be used in (severily ill) human patients. Just like the advance of computers or the internet you should not expect things to change overnight. But it would be stupid to ignore the technology as well.
And this is where things go wrong. If the *alleged* infringement is as big and as widespread as MPEG4, the patent should be invalidated. It is otherwise impossible to create (open) standards. Open standards are the way to increase competition - I would consider them more important than open source. If everyone that creates a new MPEG4 device or creates (a copy of) software suddenly has to pay a license, the whole infrastructure is at risk.
Maybe there should be a sepperate way to deal with these issues. For important technologies, the patent office or other governmental structure should publish a "respond before this date or shutup forever" statement. Any patents that encumber the use of the technology are invalidated from that point in time. Because this is getting out of hand (or, more to the point, already is).
Rules of Movie Buying:
Rule 1: Don't buy it.
Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't buy it yet.
Probably just a dollar, euro or anything. Otherwise the other companies could point a finger to the open source software and say something like: "Hey, they didn't have to do anything, did not read anything about spyware etc. either. Bugger it, you are not defending your name and I am not stopping to use the name." Ok, it is does not feel like anything you would *like* to do but it is a practical solution. Maybe they could make it 20 dollars and send out a nice T-shirt stating: "I am a creator of bittorrent software" in return :)
3% a month? Imagine how much that is every year!
(sorry, must be the booze)
What, *all* of them? I think the way Google tries to get things done is to get a few very good (well paid) talents working on a specific problem. If you've got the right people, you don't need a lot of them. It seems that they are trying to do the same for all their segments. Even as account manager for the Netherlands, you need at least a degree, be fluent in many languages and have a working record - besides wanting to move to Dublin.
But it was swallowed by the anti-spam measurements from Redmont, who are trying to uphold the October 2006 deadline set by Bill for removing all spam from the internet.
Well, there are people where obesity is largely because of a disease. But I would warn people to blame their obesity on a sickness without a clear diagnosis. It's a bit too easy to blame things on anything except yourself, especially if you're addicted to something. Same for genetics really. So I guess I agree, and I don't think your comments are particularly offensive either.
:)
PS Even though I am not obese, I'm far from perfect, so I've got enough things to blame squarily on myself
Of course, a lot of child pornography is created (to clearly specify created, I am meaning the form of production that actually includes the child) to fullfill a certain demand. Downloading and especially buying child porn creates this demand. In my opinion, this is the same as buying a stolen car radio - actually worse, since the crime is of a much higher degree. So the user of childporno should be punished, and the sentence should depend on the factors of the use. I can think of the actual involvement (ranging up to placing an order for a newly made video, I suppose), if the person distributes the stuff himself, the amount of porn, etc. But the actual crime *IS* different, and I can hardly see any justice for calling this the creation of porn.
And then there are the practical issues. Just as with drugs, you cannot combat it by destroying the source. There will always be sources as long as there is demand. And, unfortunately, it is something that some people pay prodigious amounts of money for to get it. So from this standpoint, you will have to proscecute downloaders to the full extend. Also, practically speaking, the simple inclusion of a few child porn pictures on a hard drive should not be enough for proscecution. If they are clearly child porn and have been sorted on the drive than that is something different. Especially dubious is just looking at the cache of the web-browser, since popups can do big harm. But, as I understood from the article, that's far from the case here...
Some cards have less support than others in Linux. That's mostly due to driver support from the manufacturers. In most cases, there isn't any. And even if there is, a user has to escape from the GUI and install the video driver. Not the most convenient thing.
On the other hand, Linux does tend to give more information about hardware. For instance, it really helps if you can identify your card using the strings reported on the PCI bus. I've had to disassemble quite a few PC's just to get the label from the PCI card.
Ack (Ack-ack, aaack-ack-ack!)
Google makes extensive use of the Java platform. Large parts of popular Google products are written in Java. We also use Java in many internal systems and products under development.
2 SE/google/limoore.html
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J
So this proves that Java is important for Google. I don't know exactly *where* it is used, but it certainly *is* used.
Ook!
Yes. With all the frame issues and stuff, they were pretty bad as well. Not many adds, I concur, but not much commercial sites to browse either.
Jeez, if so many bacteria can be found on the keyboard, what about the mouse? Yuk!
Just rip all the keys off, dust off the insides (cotton sticks may be helpfull here, older dirt tends to be sticky). Dish-wash the keys (just the keys). Use some cleaning stuff for the keyboard itself.
Some additional tips:
- Make sure no water ever can get to the electronics. If it comes between the contact plates you're screwed, they rust like mad.
- Be very carefull to take off any key that makes a metalic sound if you click them. These constructs might be easy to break (especially the larger keys like [enter] and [space]
- Keys take some time to dry, since they are basically small cups turned over, and it is pretty difficult to dry the inside.
- Make sure you remember the place of each key. I know this is slashdot, so you would fail your nerd exam if you don't, but... Having a second keyboard might be a good idea otherwise.
Happy cleaning. And *don't eat* above your keyboard.
Dr Java has a shallow learning curve because it is simple. TOO simple. I would never use an IDE anymore that only does syntax coloring. All three main Java IDE's (IDEA, Eclipse and Netbeans) parse the text you type by default. This means you can easily see what's a local variable and what's a field. See if your application contains unreachable code, bad switches, bad expressions and of course on the fly refactorin.
Especially Netbeans will support additional code checks in the future (think checking if your regular expression or printf statements are valid (IF they can be checked). This is the future for source based IDE's. I would *never* use an IDE that does not keep an abstract syntax tree up to date in the background.
That said, Dr Java does seem to have an nice place to run test code in. I would love to see somthing better than "java (s)crap pages" in Eclipse. Say, a nice beanshell plugin that can also run in parallel with the debugger.
Eclipse is a pretty intuitive IDE. I have not an idea what you are talking about. Maybe that's because I've used it since 2.1, but I cannot see too many problematic parts. The only thing missinb by default is switching between tabs using the keyboard. I prefer to use ctrl-tab for this, as most Windows applications do. ctrl-F6 is used in other programs as well though, and you can pretty easily find/reprogram the keyboard shortcurt (fortunately).
You can now download the latest Eclipse 3.1.1 stable including "web" support. This means XML, HTML, schema's, application servers, WDSL, various levels of compliancies with servlet standards, and well, a lot more that I have not found the time to explore. It's 186 MB's big (ugh!).
Note that this is a pretty early "stable" release from the Eclipse Tools. So most things work, but they have not been smoothed out as best as they can do. Another problem is to keep the complexity out a bit. Eclipse does a fair job at this, but it might even perform better. I had some difficult time to set up the thing to do 2.3 version war files for instance, instead of 2.4.
Swing IS betten than SWT, but they do one thing wrong. Integration with the native OS. Eclipse has, at least superficially, a nice, consistent GUI with the native environment. Swing has become closer to this as well, but many applciations don't seem to default to the platform GUI (which is plain stupid) and every Swing application is making it's own choice, so even throughout Java applications, the look and feel is inconsistent. And the problem with emulation is that you are always running behind. They do try to solve this for Longhorn though.
Eclipse works very well within Windows, and pretty well within Linux and Mac, due to SWT. I've tried to program in SWT however, and although it is pretty simple to get something up and running, the design of the thing leaves much to be desired. I mean, color constants in the main SWT class? What year is this?
Eclipse works pretty well, and although it has grown to be a bit more difficult than before, it is still way more inuitive than most other IDE's. Check out the keyboard configuration, the setting up of your own formatting scheme, the keyword lookup in the configuration etc. And try a sample application first. It's not *that* hard. If you're on a fast machine, by all means switch on "Mark Occurences". You now know how to find it.
Happy coding!
There are a few Open Source solutions to this problem. Not many, but they are there. OpenCA is one of them.
OpenCA is an OpenSSL based solution with a LDAP backing it all up, mostly written in perl. It might be more difficult to set it up, and hardware support in OpenSSL can be sketchy. But it is pretty active and you might want to take a look. There's also something called EJBCA (Enterprise Java Beans Certificate Authority), it relies on JCA and might be able to handle some hardware as well.
Problem is to get things certified. I don't think the Microsoft solution is certified either. If your interests are purely in-house, then certification is not such an issue and you should have a look at all of them. Microsofts solution is not that configurable or extensive, but it's pretty cheap compared to other CA software. If you're not certified, it might be difficult to get a generally accepted PKI provider to grant you a CA certificate.
Note that any kind of work in this area tends to be pretty hard until you get your basic PKI knowledge up to a certain standard. Prepare to boldly go where no-one has gone before.
Actually, it seems that the mayority on slashdot is behind Microsoft on such fundamental issues. Mostly in the line of: I don't mind it happening to them, but it is still evil. Obviously we love Toyota for having the guts to be the first to try to get these accepted in the market place.