I don't know of any good painting where the artist's signature is part of the beauty of the art form.
I don't think your analogy makes any sense. The only reason to put your name in a comment is if you know you're not doing a complete job and somebody may need to contact you for guidance later. Perhaps someone more experienced than me sees it another way?
Geez. Now I feel like I ought to AC, since me being all smart I want my name to go with my comment to show off how much sense I make. Maybe I'm just a stuffy hypocrite after all...
Was CERN Web 0.0? And would NCSA or Apache be considered 1.0?) Cross-referencing and searches existed in Gopher and WAIS.
"Dynamic HTML?" There were perl scripts for emedding msql queries (not MySQL - msql) into web pages long before anyone had imagined you'd be doing anything other than CGI and many years before HTML 3 came out. Indeed, if you want merely programmable web pages (not database-generated pages) then the mere existance of CGI is enough.
OK, CERN/NSCA, gopher and the www up to a few years ago was always based on page request->page response. There's a slight deviation in framesets, where a request on one part of the page can product a response in another part of the page. But still, each request is at the explicit click of a UI component.
It's a significant departure that a component of a web page makes its own request, processes the results, and then updates the appropriate data in the active web page in browser memory. I guess you could say this is like the blink tag, with branching logic and external data input. It is simply different from the model where anything that the javascript within the page could do was based on the information provided in the web response.
In your last point, I believe you're misunderstanding DHTML. Dynamic refers to the page object model being read-write (what I explained above), not the fact that the page isn't idempotent. That's I think referred to as a "dynamic page"; the response from the server could be different depending on details known or unknown to the client.
The Chinese aren't actually making an artificial sun, as the article would imply.
They are going to make a donut shaped chamber that will have a small amount of plasma reacting in it.
This won't create any conditions that would support a black hole. There are risks with fusion, but it's generally considered to be on the order of a melted fusion reactor and some very unhappy physicists and investors.
I'm hoping an expert can comment more specifically on human health risks associated with things most likely to go wrong with a fusion reactor.
Another thing to note about a fusion reaction is that pressure is required to keep it up. In the unfortunate event that the torus breaks open, the plasma will stop reacting.
Can a knowledgeable person comment about escaping neutrons, gamma rays and stuff in such an event? Could that lead to a nasty cloud of radioactive strontium or something similar to what we think of with "fission gone bad"?
The article you link to cites a lot of concerns over weapons material production, and the unreliability of the complex design of various breeder reactors.
Thanks for the link. I am not a lawyer, but I do know that United States consitutional law is not as simple as just reading the constitution and interpreting the words the way you understand them in everyday speech.
If you think it should be, please read the 1st amendment and then try to figure out how that provides for a citizen's right to have an abortion.
In short, I'm standing my ground here over this very minor point. Now you sort out your country.
Sorry if I've passed on wrong information, but I'm American, did pay attention in Government class in high school, and do remember executive orders like that. I made a quick check on the internet (http://www.thisnation.com/question/040.html) and confirmed what I'd remembered.
Now, your weird question: "Does a regulation written by an executive agency carry the same weight as a law passed by congress?"
I don't know what a regulation is, but I certainly hope not. I'm not sure why you think my opinion matters -- I'm a computer programmer for fuck's sake.
And your even weirder question: "How about George W. Bush's signing statements?"
Uhh, how about those, indeed? If it's true, (and it certainly sounds believable these days) I do not think they would change the laws as they are passed by congress.
The constitution of the United States allows for the President to create exective orders, which are laws that carry the same weight as laws passed by congress. I don't think there's any explicit constraint that the content of executive orders be supported by the constitution, although the Supreme Court can declare them unconstitutional later on.
and how is that a gadget? Traffic lights made of LEDs are used the same way as inacdescent by the end user. Saving energy doesn't make a safety device into a fun gadget.
Here are my C# gripes:
1) No concept of checked exceptions. True, this can be misused, but come on... that really should be part of the.NET runtime. Exception handling feels just a little bit pointless without it.
2) System.Diagnotics.Process can't get a handle from a Process to its parent Process. Lame!!
And while we're in the zone:
Java, wtf is up with supporting environment variables with Runtime.getEnv() and then breaking it? Listen, I'm cool with CLASSPATH but Dproperties suck. And the ultra-lame excuse? Mac OS 9 and below doesn't have environment variables, so it's not a universal concept.
Java doesn't run in a sandbox; the virtual machine is a process with access to all the system for the user it's running for.
Only stupid Java applets run in a sandbox... and they're designed to run in web browsers, where a sandbox actually makes sense. But this is a far cry from your C device drivers.
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I don't think your analogy makes any sense. The only reason to put your name in a comment is if you know you're not doing a complete job and somebody may need to contact you for guidance later. Perhaps someone more experienced than me sees it another way?
Geez. Now I feel like I ought to AC, since me being all smart I want my name to go with my comment to show off how much sense I make. Maybe I'm just a stuffy hypocrite after all...
Actually, it is { name, date of birth, social security number }. A credit card strategy analyst I shacked up with told me that.
(Now that's an alternate type of karma whoring)
I use a Vodafone branded Option 3G card; it connects at 384kbps in urban areas and costs £20/month for 200MB a month.
That's fast enough for home use IMO; I used to use a Ricochet for home service in San Francisco.
What stands in my way here is the pricing model. It's £1/MB after I reach my 200MB threshold.
Let's watch a movie of my baby being born. Hey wait, where are you going?
It's a significant departure that a component of a web page makes its own request, processes the results, and then updates the appropriate data in the active web page in browser memory. I guess you could say this is like the blink tag, with branching logic and external data input. It is simply different from the model where anything that the javascript within the page could do was based on the information provided in the web response.
In your last point, I believe you're misunderstanding DHTML. Dynamic refers to the page object model being read-write (what I explained above), not the fact that the page isn't idempotent. That's I think referred to as a "dynamic page"; the response from the server could be different depending on details known or unknown to the client.
When I rush into the office from walking outside, I'm always hot and strip off sweaters and open the windows for a bit.
Once I settle down obendiently at my assigned workstation for a few hours, I'm ready to put the sweater back on.
I think starting the day with a freezing building and gradually letting it warm up sounds nice.
The Chinese aren't actually making an artificial sun, as the article would imply.
They are going to make a donut shaped chamber that will have a small amount of plasma reacting in it.
This won't create any conditions that would support a black hole. There are risks with fusion, but it's generally considered to be on the order of a melted fusion reactor and some very unhappy physicists and investors.
I'm hoping an expert can comment more specifically on human health risks associated with things most likely to go wrong with a fusion reactor.
Another thing to note about a fusion reaction is that pressure is required to keep it up. In the unfortunate event that the torus breaks open, the plasma will stop reacting.
Can a knowledgeable person comment about escaping neutrons, gamma rays and stuff in such an event? Could that lead to a nasty cloud of radioactive strontium or something similar to what we think of with "fission gone bad"?
The Yuan exchange to the dollar is pegged by Chinese policy, so the value in Yuan probaby doesn't reflect simply to a value in USD.
In addition, this is an experimental reactor, not a production reactor. What good would building 100 of them do for anybody?
The article you link to cites a lot of concerns over weapons material production, and the unreliability of the complex design of various breeder reactors.
Thanks for the link. I am not a lawyer, but I do know that United States consitutional law is not as simple as just reading the constitution and interpreting the words the way you understand them in everyday speech.
If you think it should be, please read the 1st amendment and then try to figure out how that provides for a citizen's right to have an abortion.
In short, I'm standing my ground here over this very minor point. Now you sort out your country.
Sorry if I've passed on wrong information, but I'm American, did pay attention in Government class in high school, and do remember executive orders like that. I made a quick check on the internet (http://www.thisnation.com/question/040.html) and confirmed what I'd remembered. Now, your weird question: "Does a regulation written by an executive agency carry the same weight as a law passed by congress?" I don't know what a regulation is, but I certainly hope not. I'm not sure why you think my opinion matters -- I'm a computer programmer for fuck's sake. And your even weirder question: "How about George W. Bush's signing statements?" Uhh, how about those, indeed? If it's true, (and it certainly sounds believable these days) I do not think they would change the laws as they are passed by congress.
The constitution of the United States allows for the President to create exective orders, which are laws that carry the same weight as laws passed by congress. I don't think there's any explicit constraint that the content of executive orders be supported by the constitution, although the Supreme Court can declare them unconstitutional later on.
Yeah, RIGHT. I suppose next you're going to want to make rope out of marijuana.
and how is that a gadget? Traffic lights made of LEDs are used the same way as inacdescent by the end user. Saving energy doesn't make a safety device into a fun gadget.
What does "100% except for $1" mean?
(written from a $100 old powerbook, btw:-)
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Yeah, thank goodness non-Microsoft programs never change their user interfaces.
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I *hate* software that's not called "My whatever".
Here are my C# gripes: 1) No concept of checked exceptions. True, this can be misused, but come on... that really should be part of the .NET runtime. Exception handling feels just a little bit pointless without it.
2) System.Diagnotics.Process can't get a handle from a Process to its parent Process. Lame!!
And while we're in the zone:
Java, wtf is up with supporting environment variables with Runtime.getEnv() and then breaking it? Listen, I'm cool with CLASSPATH but Dproperties suck. And the ultra-lame excuse? Mac OS 9 and below doesn't have environment variables, so it's not a universal concept.
Are you saying that you would also call a spade a spade?
Java doesn't run in a sandbox; the virtual machine is a process with access to all the system for the user it's running for.
Only stupid Java applets run in a sandbox... and they're designed to run in web browsers, where a sandbox actually makes sense. But this is a far cry from your C device drivers.
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