Discriminating against someone's age is like saying that a black person couldn't be better than a white person b/c of the skin color.
No, it's different. Skin color has no bearing on a person's maturity level. Age definitely does influence one's maturity level. I've known some 18 year olds who are more mature than some 30 or 40 year olds, but this is the exception to the "rule". Again, it should be judged on an individual basis. All things being equal, the older the person the greater likelihood of having in-depth experience, wisdom, and maturity.
Maybe in 8-16 years the above poster will realize that age really doesn't matter at all.
Let's not be naive now. Age does definitely matter. With age comes experience and wisdom that is lacking in a younger candidate. Of course, this must be judged on an individual basis for each person.
We clearly see some lines of code in the first Terminator. As my Computers for Business high school teacher pointed out, the Terminator was written in COBOL.
they also talk about people in vancouver's airport being stranded there since the blackout. . . Im pretty sure vancouver is in BC which is west canada and not affected by the blackout. But then again, I never really trust Drudge with much.
Air Canada services the entire country, so it's not surprising that if the main systems go down in Ontario the flights will be delayed in BC, assuming they all rely on those systems.
``The system is under attack from the virus, and we've had more problems with this particular virus this afternoon than any other previous virus in Ontario,'' said Terry Young, a spokesman for the Ontario's Independent Electricity Market Operator.
So basically they haven't yet learned how to block port 135 on their networks? And they refer to a worm as a virus. I'm glad I don't live in Ontario right about now.
What I keep wondering is how come there are no open source virus scanners?
Easily remedied. Start a new project on SourceForge, write some C or Perl or whatever code to interface with your MTA. Then go out and collect samples of every kind of virus you can get your hands on (estimated 60,000+ viruses and variants for Windows alone) and write rules to filter out those viruses, being sure that the rules you create don't generate false positives and block legitimate email. Afterwards, keep up to date on all the latest viruses which are released and write rules for those. Create a service where people can update their virus definitions automatically.
That's all there is to it. What? You don't have the time to do all that? Maybe that's one reason why there aren't any *good* open-source anti-virus packages out there.
Why this is I'm not sure, but it fits the reality that no one has ever touched a girl and lived to tell about it. We seem to have evolved not to be able to, instead spending our time stroking our keyboards and mice with love and affection.... and this is about the closest you'll ever get to a girl.
Those two posts were written during the same minute, at 11:23 exactly. Honestly, in a web full of geeks you think that only *one* person thought of the War Games reference?
Eventually, because of his reverse engineering, Ben Affleck gets arrested by the FBI -- but not after twenty minutes of gratuitous John Woo-style explosions, culminating in the hand grenade explosion which has an equivalent fireball as igniting twenty-five barrels of gasoline and highly combustible oil filled with iron and aluminum powder. His arrest seems to stem from the fact that he reverse engineered the wrong product and got tied up in court on a DMCA violation. Fast forward through five or ten minutes of boring courtroom dialogue with umpteen mentions of "circumvention of a device", and the judge hands down a stiff 25 year sentence to Affleck for violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Before he is carted off to prison, a cheesy love scene ensues between Affleck and Thurman. The lead editor hasn't yet decided whether to keep the prison love scene in the movie though. Anyway, it all wraps up with the credits rolling to a techno soundtrack with John Woo's name whored all over the credits.
The supplement is also notorious for creating an unpleasant odour in the vicinity of the taker.
In the vicinity of?? So, is this just to the right of the taker? Slightly in front of the taker? Why do they say "in the vicinity of"? Just state that it makes the person taking it smell!
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In other words, you mean this august website just linked to another website showing how some guy followed the instructions on how to put his case together ? Bwahahahaha. This place kills me. What's next ? An article in Finnish showing some guy installing a CD-ROM ?
No, it'll be an article in Swedish showing some geek assembling his new Ikea office desk using nothing but an Allen key, some duct tape, and a venti espresso.
Writing HTML isn't *programming*, it's *markup*. It's about as much programming as writing a check is and knowing where to put the number, the number spelled out, the payee, date, and signature.
If they go public, you may find this power being used to increase the shareholders' wealth, rather than in the highest standards of fairness as it is today.
If this happens, don't you think the SEC would bitch slap their asses back to last year? It's basically insider trading, though I'm not a securities lawyer. Increasing shareholders wealth means a long-term profitibility strategy. As soon as Google drops the ball, you can bet other search engines will pick up the slack.
Unless the end product is something very critical or very expensive, plant designers and control software writers tend to stick with well documented comodity hardware (Win32).
I hate to break it to you, but Win32 is a set of APIs, not hardware. Hardware is the Intel and clones x86 line, which is essentially a commodity. And that x86 hardware runs Windows (Win32), Linux, *BSD, QNX, etc. etc.
I'm not trying to troll, but when will mainstream applications (see: desktop computers, or at least universities) come around? Until we see anything, it's all theoretical, and all subject to just being vaporware.
Apollo produces its diamonds by CVD -- chemical vapor deposition. So, in a way, these new diamonds are literally vaporware.
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Besides, if it weren't for the US, you'd probably be spelling it '(das) Aroma' anyway.
And if it weren't for the US, we'd all be driving a BMW or Mercedes. Hey, wait a sec...!:)
He never said they were in a dictionary -- just that they are mistakes. Clearly, you don't expect to find mistakes in a dictionary, do you?
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Talk about a slow news day. McBride from SCO must have taken the day off. Since we are on the subject of stupid Euro-words, the one that erks me the most is "Centre". How on earth do you turn "Center" into "Centre"?
Actually, the word is derived from the French word "centre". British English spells it also "centre". How on earth did Americans turn "centre" into "center"?
My personal opinion is that Euro words are a plot by the French to subvert the English language.
Considering that the English language is a hack of various European languages you shouldn't be surprised that a huge portion of our language was borrowed from French. As for subverting English, if you removed all the "Euro words" you'd have nothing left but a handful of colloquialisms and various names.
However, Euro words helped us beat the Germans in WW II. Remember the WWII movie where the German spies impersonating US Soldiers asked for Petrol instead of Gas. Even though they spoke fluent english it revealed that they weren't Americans.
Okay, now I *know* you're an American -- your knowledge of history is derived purely from Hollywood movies!:)
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Damn, that's a fascinating article. Unfortunately, it doesn't include schematics. :)
Discriminating against someone's age is like saying that a black person couldn't be better than a white person b/c of the skin color.
No, it's different. Skin color has no bearing on a person's maturity level. Age definitely does influence one's maturity level. I've known some 18 year olds who are more mature than some 30 or 40 year olds, but this is the exception to the "rule". Again, it should be judged on an individual basis. All things being equal, the older the person the greater likelihood of having in-depth experience, wisdom, and maturity.
Maybe in 8-16 years the above poster will realize that age really doesn't matter at all.
Let's not be naive now. Age does definitely matter. With age comes experience and wisdom that is lacking in a younger candidate. Of course, this must be judged on an individual basis for each person.
We clearly see some lines of code in the first Terminator. As my Computers for Business high school teacher pointed out, the Terminator was written in COBOL.
It was partly cobol, but also some 6502 assembly listings from Nibble magazine (god, I loved that mag!).
Posted by timothy on Wed August 20, 02:42 PM
from the neither-factual-nor-new dept.
Hey, at least he didn't mark the story as archived this time! Is Timothy getting better? No, I didn't think so either.
they also talk about people in vancouver's airport being stranded there since the blackout. . . Im pretty sure vancouver is in BC which is west canada and not affected by the blackout. But then again, I never really trust Drudge with much.
Air Canada services the entire country, so it's not surprising that if the main systems go down in Ontario the flights will be delayed in BC, assuming they all rely on those systems.
Can't someone just right another worm to stop the worm stopping the worm?
Sure, but what happens when they left another worm?
What I keep wondering is how come there are no open source virus scanners?
Easily remedied. Start a new project on SourceForge, write some C or Perl or whatever code to interface with your MTA. Then go out and collect samples of every kind of virus you can get your hands on (estimated 60,000+ viruses and variants for Windows alone) and write rules to filter out those viruses, being sure that the rules you create don't generate false positives and block legitimate email. Afterwards, keep up to date on all the latest viruses which are released and write rules for those. Create a service where people can update their virus definitions automatically.
That's all there is to it. What? You don't have the time to do all that? Maybe that's one reason why there aren't any *good* open-source anti-virus packages out there.
someone just finished reading Seth Godin's Unleashing the Ideavirus and had too much time on their hands?
Why this is I'm not sure, but it fits the reality that no one has ever touched a girl and lived to tell about it. We seem to have evolved not to be able to, instead spending our time stroking our keyboards and mice with love and affection. ... and this is about the closest you'll ever get to a girl.
Those two posts were written during the same minute, at 11:23 exactly. Honestly, in a web full of geeks you think that only *one* person thought of the War Games reference?
Element 101: ??? is none other than: PROFIT!
Eventually, because of his reverse engineering, Ben Affleck gets arrested by the FBI -- but not after twenty minutes of gratuitous John Woo-style explosions, culminating in the hand grenade explosion which has an equivalent fireball as igniting twenty-five barrels of gasoline and highly combustible oil filled with iron and aluminum powder. His arrest seems to stem from the fact that he reverse engineered the wrong product and got tied up in court on a DMCA violation. Fast forward through five or ten minutes of boring courtroom dialogue with umpteen mentions of "circumvention of a device", and the judge hands down a stiff 25 year sentence to Affleck for violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Before he is carted off to prison, a cheesy love scene ensues between Affleck and Thurman. The lead editor hasn't yet decided whether to keep the prison love scene in the movie though. Anyway, it all wraps up with the credits rolling to a techno soundtrack with John Woo's name whored all over the credits.
Rating: 1.5 stars out of 5
In other words, you mean this august website just linked to another website showing how some guy followed the instructions on how to put his case together ? Bwahahahaha. This place kills me. What's next ? An article in Finnish showing some guy installing a CD-ROM ?
No, it'll be an article in Swedish showing some geek assembling his new Ikea office desk using nothing but an Allen key, some duct tape, and a venti espresso.
Writing HTML isn't *programming*, it's *markup*. It's about as much programming as writing a check is and knowing where to put the number, the number spelled out, the payee, date, and signature.
If they go public, you may find this power being used to increase the shareholders' wealth, rather than in the highest standards of fairness as it is today.
If this happens, don't you think the SEC would bitch slap their asses back to last year? It's basically insider trading, though I'm not a securities lawyer. Increasing shareholders wealth means a long-term profitibility strategy. As soon as Google drops the ball, you can bet other search engines will pick up the slack.
Simple: every other domain name was taken. And czxvb.com just didn't quite have the same ring to it.
Unless the end product is something very critical or very expensive, plant designers and control software writers tend to stick with well documented comodity hardware (Win32).
I hate to break it to you, but Win32 is a set of APIs, not hardware. Hardware is the Intel and clones x86 line, which is essentially a commodity. And that x86 hardware runs Windows (Win32), Linux, *BSD, QNX, etc. etc.
link to the article
I'm not trying to troll, but when will mainstream applications (see: desktop computers, or at least universities) come around? Until we see anything, it's all theoretical, and all subject to just being vaporware.
Apollo produces its diamonds by CVD -- chemical vapor deposition. So, in a way, these new diamonds are literally vaporware.
Besides, if it weren't for the US, you'd probably be spelling it '(das) Aroma' anyway.
:)
And if it weren't for the US, we'd all be driving a BMW or Mercedes. Hey, wait a sec...!
He never said they were in a dictionary -- just that they are mistakes. Clearly, you don't expect to find mistakes in a dictionary, do you?
Talk about a slow news day. McBride from SCO must have taken the day off. Since we are on the subject of stupid Euro-words, the one that erks me the most is "Centre". How on earth do you turn "Center" into "Centre"?
:)
Actually, the word is derived from the French word "centre". British English spells it also "centre". How on earth did Americans turn "centre" into "center"?
My personal opinion is that Euro words are a plot by the French to subvert the English language.
Considering that the English language is a hack of various European languages you shouldn't be surprised that a huge portion of our language was borrowed from French. As for subverting English, if you removed all the "Euro words" you'd have nothing left but a handful of colloquialisms and various names.
However, Euro words helped us beat the Germans in WW II. Remember the WWII movie where the German spies impersonating US Soldiers asked for Petrol instead of Gas. Even though they spoke fluent english it revealed that they weren't Americans.
Okay, now I *know* you're an American -- your knowledge of history is derived purely from Hollywood movies!