I also read DDJ and C/C++ users journal. But I've found DDJ hasn't had any meaty articles in ages.
In general, I agree about DDJ lacking meat, with the exception of the Ed Neisley articles. Although they generally don't have anything to do with anything I'm currently interested in (I haven't written for embedded systems in a decade), his articles are always entertaining, interesting, and thought provoking. I wish all programmer would read some of his stuff.
In 2002, a grand jury indicted InfoCom, and its owners on charges that they exported computer equipment to Libya and Syria and funneled money to a member of the Islamic extremist group Hamas.
In other news, the next installment in the Zork series has been delayed.
Disney's pretty experienced with compressed air, and it's used to drive nearly all of the animatronics. What I want to know is how they make their animatronics so quiet. Every other air-based animation I've seen has that tell-tale hiss from bleeding valves.
I work at Disneyland,... I do
crowd control for Fantasmic!
Shock! Crowd is not a Disney word.
Having been born in Anaheim and lived in Buena Park, I've never heard of neighbors complaining about the noise. The show is over by 9:15 or 9:30, and they don't do it on school nights. In fact, my grandparents lived there before Disneyland was built, and they never complained about the noise. There's always a spotting helicopter circling the part during the show, watching for flaming fallout. That probably makes more noise overall than the pyrotechnics.
Disney did have problems with the ground-level smoke flowing onto I-5 when the breeze didn't cooperate. I've been there a couple times when the show was stopped partway through because visibility on the freeway dropped too low. I've also been up front at Fantasmic when a women near me had an asthma attack induced by what her husband said was an allergy to sulpher.
Of course, it's better for the air quality, which is very important in California. Back in the early 1990s, there was only one warehouse in the area that was permitted to store the professional grade fireworks used in the Disney shows. Perhaps the reduced amount of black powder allows them more storage and delivery options.
As the Frequently Raised Objections list, the Overview, and several comments here have pointed out: to make mail lists work, the lists need to be added the receivers' whitelists. That seems like it would work. But what's to prevent spammers from simply forging From addresses for all of the most popular mailing lists?
The number of "Interesting" and "Insightful" comments from folks that obviously didn't RTFA is really infuriating. Makes finding the worthwhile comments harder to find. Kind of like looking for the ham that got misclassified as spam. I guess even human classifiers are flawed.
I think you're confusing his point. He doesn't say that you can't or shouldn't write portable code. His point is that it's not feasible for most development organizations to test for multiple platforms.
Open software, may be an exception to this, since, in some ways, the entire user base is the QA organization. Few for-profit ventures could afford a QA to developer ratio like that.
Yup, Mozilla supports multiple platforms, but it's not bug-for-bug identical across those platforms. I'm sure lots of the bugs I see with Mozilla on Windows XP don't exist when it's running on other platforms.
Heck, Win32 isn't even one platform. Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP. They are essentially six (very similar but still) different platforms. Can you afford 6x testing? If not, you pick your top two or three platforms and do some less-thorough checking on the rest, understanding that you'll miss bugs on those.
If I understand correctly, California has a law that requires a company to contact each customer that was affected by disclosure of information due to a security problem. I wonder what that'll cost AOL.
I'm also interested if the spammers the casino guy resold the list(s) to will also be prosecuted for purchasing stolen goods. At a minimum, they should be publicly identified.
Some of the cheaper DLP projectors use a clear segment in their color wheels in addition to red, green, and blue. This is done to get an overall brighter image at the expense of saturation. I suspect these projectors wouldn't look so good with a screen like this.
I suspect the screen will be expensive, so people spending that kind of money on the screen will have a "pure" RGB projector.
Does anybody know if LCDs and DLPs use exactly the same RGB primaries?
But if you could pulverize the projectile into dust, each of those particles would have a much lower terminal velocity and lose a lot of their energy to friction with the atmosphere. Do this far enough back, and it could make a significant difference.
The Forbes story is interesting, but, with regard to Audi, there is no mention as to whether the news report was accurate or inaccurate. And while the broadcast was detrimental to Audi, it does not even imply that "almost drove Audi out of business" as you state. Inconclusive evidence and exaggeration. Isn't that what you're accusing 60 Minutes of?
Sorry if I misunderstood you. Nothing the judge wrote suggested that conclusion to me. By not reading the policy, the plaintiffs had a lower expectation of privacy. That alone doesn't suggest (to me anyway) that the policy wouldn't be binding.
I recently bought a pair of walkie-talkies. Inside the package was a notice that to use the walkie-talkies requires a license from the FCC. Nowhere on the outside of the package was this listed. Furthermore, the FCC license (which costs more than the walkie-talkies themselves) limits who can use them and what types of topics can be communicated over them. I don't remember such restrictions when, thirty years ago, I saved my coins to by a set from Radio Shack.
It is astonishing that the judge seems to suggest that by not reading a contract, one is not bound to its terms!
If you read the actual finding, you'll see that the plaintiffs' failure to read the privacy policy wasn't really the basis of the ruling. The judge determined that the privacy policy didn't consitute a contract and, even if it had, the plaintiffs didn't show any damages as a result of the breech (breach?), which is necessary for to make a breech of contract claim.
The GAO report that surveyed government departments to find out how much data mining they're doing and planning is interesting. In particular, the appendix that lists which departments don't do or plan to do any data mining has a few notable inclusions:
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Bureau of the Census
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA!?)
U.S. Geological Survey
You'd expect some of those to have data mining as their primary function. Others are just hard to believe.
A byte is the smallest directly-addressable memory unit. For almost all modern processors, that's 8 bits. But that does not mean the definition is 8 bits. Nor has it been the generally universal size for as long as you claim.
Many standards, including some RFCs use the term octet to avoid any confusion with the byte size. TeX (before Knuth finally abandoned 7-bit ASCII) was written to be portable to machines of any byte size down to 6 bits. This was in the mid- to late-eighties, barely 20 years ago. Hell, my serial port drivers still let me send 7-bit bytes.
Does anyone know of a C compiler for which CHAR_BITS is something other than 8?
I think the most bastardized term is "word." I was taught that a word was the width of the address bus or the most natural integer size for the processor. Thus I'd expect a 16- and 32-bit processors to have different word sizes. I was late to the PC world. By the time I got there, it seemed word had come to mean 16 bits, regardless of the processor. I'm always careful to be explicit whenever there's the potential for confusion.
I took the Computer Science AP test in Pascal in 1985. I doubt that was the first year it was offered (although I was the first from my high school ever to take it). So Pascal has been used in this test for much longer than 10 years.
While I agree that those pursuing a CS degree should be more interested in a theory-based test rather than a programming-based one, it is useful for those going into other technical fields who need some programming experience that they can apply.
I got my Knuth check for finding a bug in his CWEB version. As I recall, when he adds FOREST to the vocabulary, he forgot to truncate it to five letters which makes look up impossible. It won't stop you from winning the game, since that's not an essential object.
That's one definition. Mirriam-Webster has a couple of others:
1 : an act of robbery on the high seas; also : an act resembling such robbery
2 : robbery on the high seas
3 : the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright
I'm tired of the "it's not piracy/theft" comments. Face it, the language has evolved. Copyright infringement is theft of the copyright holder's legal monopoly.
Google posts paid advertising links (on the sides and above normal search results) always using a different background color, and specifically noting that those results are "sponsored links".
Actually, Google ads no longer have a distinguishing background color.
They had a perfect opportunity to explain the origins of the Borg in the Enterprise series. In the first season, the crew came across an automated repair station that offered to fix Enterprise in exchange for something (plasma?). The repair tech was cool and from some unknown species. In actuality, the station kidnapped crew members and integrated ("assimilated") them into the computer. Seemed like a pretty good origin for the Borg.
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In general, I agree about DDJ lacking meat, with the exception of the Ed Neisley articles. Although they generally don't have anything to do with anything I'm currently interested in (I haven't written for embedded systems in a decade), his articles are always entertaining, interesting, and thought provoking. I wish all programmer would read some of his stuff.
In other news, the next installment in the Zork series has been delayed.
Disney's pretty experienced with compressed air, and it's used to drive nearly all of the animatronics. What I want to know is how they make their animatronics so quiet. Every other air-based animation I've seen has that tell-tale hiss from bleeding valves.
Shock! Crowd is not a Disney word.
Having been born in Anaheim and lived in Buena Park, I've never heard of neighbors complaining about the noise. The show is over by 9:15 or 9:30, and they don't do it on school nights. In fact, my grandparents lived there before Disneyland was built, and they never complained about the noise. There's always a spotting helicopter circling the part during the show, watching for flaming fallout. That probably makes more noise overall than the pyrotechnics.
Disney did have problems with the ground-level smoke flowing onto I-5 when the breeze didn't cooperate. I've been there a couple times when the show was stopped partway through because visibility on the freeway dropped too low. I've also been up front at Fantasmic when a women near me had an asthma attack induced by what her husband said was an allergy to sulpher.
Of course, it's better for the air quality, which is very important in California. Back in the early 1990s, there was only one warehouse in the area that was permitted to store the professional grade fireworks used in the Disney shows. Perhaps the reduced amount of black powder allows them more storage and delivery options.
As the Frequently Raised Objections list, the Overview, and several comments here have pointed out: to make mail lists work, the lists need to be added the receivers' whitelists. That seems like it would work. But what's to prevent spammers from simply forging From addresses for all of the most popular mailing lists?
The number of "Interesting" and "Insightful" comments from folks that obviously didn't RTFA is really infuriating. Makes finding the worthwhile comments harder to find. Kind of like looking for the ham that got misclassified as spam. I guess even human classifiers are flawed.
So does your company have a Personnel Department or a Human Resources Department? The latter is considered by many to be the more human-friendly term.
I think you're confusing his point. He doesn't say that you can't or shouldn't write portable code. His point is that it's not feasible for most development organizations to test for multiple platforms.
Open software, may be an exception to this, since, in some ways, the entire user base is the QA organization. Few for-profit ventures could afford a QA to developer ratio like that.
Yup, Mozilla supports multiple platforms, but it's not bug-for-bug identical across those platforms. I'm sure lots of the bugs I see with Mozilla on Windows XP don't exist when it's running on other platforms.
Heck, Win32 isn't even one platform. Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP. They are essentially six (very similar but still) different platforms. Can you afford 6x testing? If not, you pick your top two or three platforms and do some less-thorough checking on the rest, understanding that you'll miss bugs on those.
If I understand correctly, California has a law that requires a company to contact each customer that was affected by disclosure of information due to a security problem. I wonder what that'll cost AOL.
I'm also interested if the spammers the casino guy resold the list(s) to will also be prosecuted for purchasing stolen goods. At a minimum, they should be publicly identified.
Some of the cheaper DLP projectors use a clear segment in their color wheels in addition to red, green, and blue. This is done to get an overall brighter image at the expense of saturation. I suspect these projectors wouldn't look so good with a screen like this.
I suspect the screen will be expensive, so people spending that kind of money on the screen will have a "pure" RGB projector.
Does anybody know if LCDs and DLPs use exactly the same RGB primaries?
But if you could pulverize the projectile into dust, each of those particles would have a much lower terminal velocity and lose a lot of their energy to friction with the atmosphere. Do this far enough back, and it could make a significant difference.
My only point was that your assertions were not supported by the link you provided originally (the Forbes article).
The Forbes story is interesting, but, with regard to Audi, there is no mention as to whether the news report was accurate or inaccurate. And while the broadcast was detrimental to Audi, it does not even imply that "almost drove Audi out of business" as you state. Inconclusive evidence and exaggeration. Isn't that what you're accusing 60 Minutes of?
Sorry if I misunderstood you. Nothing the judge wrote suggested that conclusion to me. By not reading the policy, the plaintiffs had a lower expectation of privacy. That alone doesn't suggest (to me anyway) that the policy wouldn't be binding.
and BLISS, a DEC language used extensively on VMS
I recently bought a pair of walkie-talkies. Inside the package was a notice that to use the walkie-talkies requires a license from the FCC. Nowhere on the outside of the package was this listed. Furthermore, the FCC license (which costs more than the walkie-talkies themselves) limits who can use them and what types of topics can be communicated over them. I don't remember such restrictions when, thirty years ago, I saved my coins to by a set from Radio Shack.
If you read the actual finding, you'll see that the plaintiffs' failure to read the privacy policy wasn't really the basis of the ruling. The judge determined that the privacy policy didn't consitute a contract and, even if it had, the plaintiffs didn't show any damages as a result of the breech (breach?), which is necessary for to make a breech of contract claim.
The GAO report that surveyed government departments to find out how much data mining they're doing and planning is interesting. In particular, the appendix that lists which departments don't do or plan to do any data mining has a few notable inclusions:
You'd expect some of those to have data mining as their primary function. Others are just hard to believe.
"For over almost" ... Uh, right.
A byte is the smallest directly-addressable memory unit. For almost all modern processors, that's 8 bits. But that does not mean the definition is 8 bits. Nor has it been the generally universal size for as long as you claim.
Many standards, including some RFCs use the term octet to avoid any confusion with the byte size. TeX (before Knuth finally abandoned 7-bit ASCII) was written to be portable to machines of any byte size down to 6 bits. This was in the mid- to late-eighties, barely 20 years ago. Hell, my serial port drivers still let me send 7-bit bytes.
Does anyone know of a C compiler for which CHAR_BITS is something other than 8?
I think the most bastardized term is "word." I was taught that a word was the width of the address bus or the most natural integer size for the processor. Thus I'd expect a 16- and 32-bit processors to have different word sizes. I was late to the PC world. By the time I got there, it seemed word had come to mean 16 bits, regardless of the processor. I'm always careful to be explicit whenever there's the potential for confusion.
I took the Computer Science AP test in Pascal in 1985. I doubt that was the first year it was offered (although I was the first from my high school ever to take it). So Pascal has been used in this test for much longer than 10 years.
While I agree that those pursuing a CS degree should be more interested in a theory-based test rather than a programming-based one, it is useful for those going into other technical fields who need some programming experience that they can apply.
Copyright infringement is theft of the copyright holder's monopoly. :-)
I got my Knuth check for finding a bug in his CWEB version. As I recall, when he adds FOREST to the vocabulary, he forgot to truncate it to five letters which makes look up impossible. It won't stop you from winning the game, since that's not an essential object.
That's one definition. Mirriam-Webster has a couple of others:
I'm tired of the "it's not piracy/theft" comments. Face it, the language has evolved. Copyright infringement is theft of the copyright holder's legal monopoly.
Actually, Google ads no longer have a distinguishing background color.
They had a perfect opportunity to explain the origins of the Borg in the Enterprise series. In the first season, the crew came across an automated repair station that offered to fix Enterprise in exchange for something (plasma?). The repair tech was cool and from some unknown species. In actuality, the station kidnapped crew members and integrated ("assimilated") them into the computer. Seemed like a pretty good origin for the Borg.