When I first got into programming in 1972, I never heard of a "Hello, World" program. In the 70s, I suspect it was more common to write a first program that printed out your name.
The first time I ever saw a "Hello, World" program was in the 1980s.
I spent a night in the hospital once when I was a kid because of a gas heater in the bathroom. It used up all the oxygen while I as taking a bath and I passed out.
I used to know an engineer who rigged up his plumbing system so that he could attach an air compressor to the lines and use that to clear the water out.
He even did that when at home when a hard freeze was expected.
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As we export more and more jobs, especially manufacturing, it is only natural that we are going to lose our place in science.
If you have little or no manufacturing, you won't need much engineering to support the manufacturing. The less engineering we have, the less need for science to drive that engineering.
In other words, by exporting our manufacturing, we are exporting everything that depends on it as well.
The net result is that it will be nearly impossible for us to regain over the next few hundred years what we lose over the next twenty years.
We've made short term monetary gain our ultimate god. Many generations of future Americans will pay for that.
'It looks to me at about the same level as I have a sensor on my garage door at the lower hinge... and the raccoons are eating it. So I think of the brainstorm of putting it on the upper hinge.'"
So you can interpret it to mean that the raccoons are eating the sensor. You can interpret it to mean that the raccoons are eating the lower hinge. Or you can even interpret that to mean that the raccoons are eating the garage door.
Since it is ambiguous, we can interpret it as we wish. I choose to interpret "it" as referring to the hinge. The sensor attracks them to the hinge. Move the sensor to the top hinge and the raccoons will have more trouble reaching the hinge.
I can see some really big reasons to do open source develoment.
First, instead of writing an application from scratch, you can use an application that already exists and modify it to fit your needs. Many, but not all, will be quite interested in contributing their modifications so that others can improve upon them.
Second, there are a lot fewer operating system development jobs out there than there are people who want to do operating systems development. The same is also true for a wide variety of applications software as well.
Open source gives them a chance to do that development they would like to do as part of a loose team in their free time. Without open source, they would need to develop their own operating sytem from scratch. By the time they would get many of the basics out of the way, most would not really go all that much further.
Third, an individual or a company can develop software and show a certain level of expertise in the process that can help them more easily land maintenance and consulting work. Obviously, their development would need to be in software that a large company would be interested in using.
Some changes are so ridiculous it's hard to see how people came up with them.
At one company, it was decided that we would use "3 space tabs".
I thought that was a really stupid rule and never went along with it. When I send a program to the printer, I expect it to print properly "as is" instead of having to use something else (Visual C++) to print it.
The guy that suggested using 3 space tabs went from to Microsoft when he left that company.
Not much of one. He just wants the RIAA to decide what is a "fair use" and what is not.
What I think they would really want is for everyone wanting something under the terms of "fair use" to apply to them for permission to use a portion of it.
In other words, the want to be able to veto the use before it occurs instead of deal with it afterwards.
They only want "fair use" when it benefits the major record labels.
In the right column, create an e-mail address that is missing the first letter or more of the actual e-mail address. Put the missing letters in the left column.
For example, if your e-mail address is "jack@example.com", "ja" would go in the left column and "ck@example.com" in the right column.
Then/dev/null any and all e-mail addressed to ck@example.com.
In the early 1980's, I worked for an eingineering company that tried an alternative.
After you entered your username, the logon program would look up your employee payroll records and ask you a random question from them. If you answered correctly, you would get logged on.
Sometimes it was easy. For example, it might ask your street address. You'd have to answer exactly as in the record, but that wasn't too difficult.
Often, the only way you could log in was to have a copy of your employee payroll records in front of you. For example, do you know to the penny how much withholding has been deducted from your pay this year? Or how much your total take home was last year?
The experiment didn't last too long before it went back to username / password.
I think you are the one missing something here. They are Iraqis, and they consider themselves Iraqis (I'm friends with one.). It's just that they consider themselves Sunni, Shia, Christians, and Kurds first, Iraqis second.
The clan comes first, even ahead of their religious faction.
The problem is that they have so many social obligations more important to them than national unity. Iraqis bravely went to the polls and waved their purple fingers, but they voted along sectarian lines. Appeals to their religion trumped appeals to the national interest. And as the beleaguered police in Amara saw last week, religion gets trumped by the most important obligation of all: the clan.
The deadly battle in Amara wasn't between Sunnis and Shiites, but between two Shiite clans that have feuded for generations. After one clan's militia destroyed police stations and took over half the city, the Iraqi Army did not ride to the rescue. Authorities regained control only after the clan leaders negotiated a truce.
When the U.S. invaded Iraq, American optimists invoked Germany and Japan as models for their democratization project, but Iraq didn't have the cultural cohesion or national identity of those countries. The shrewdest forecasts I heard came not from foreign policy experts but from anthropologists and sociologists who noted a crucial statistic: nearly half of Iraqis were married to their first or second cousins.
Unlike General Thurman and other Westerners, members of these tightly knit Iraqi clans don't look on society as a collection of individuals working for the common good of the nation. "In a modern state a citizen's allegiance is to the state, but theirs is to their clan and their tribe," Ihsan M. al-Hassan, a sociologist at the University of Baghdad, warned three years ago. "If one person in your clan does something wrong, you favor him anyway, and you expect others to treat their relatives the same way."
That is, of course, the magnetic poles, not the geographic poles around which the Earth spins.
People often get those confused. Some people who have heard of the north and south magnetic poles flipping think that the Earth is going to somehow magically flip over at that time as well.
There are some other scary things on the horizon such as the plan to require all livestock to be tracked.
Move any livestock off the premises or if it gets out on its own, you'll have 24 hours to notify the Federal government of that fact. That applies to just about anything including horses, cattle, chickens, goats, llamas, pigs, sheep,... .
Fail to notify them within 24 hours and they may fine you, jail you, and/or sieze the animals.
It's already being implemented now.
From what I understand, you already have to provide your name and address to purchase any kind of livestock feed.
All a lawyer is going to do is tell you to keep your mouth shut.
That would probably be the best course of action.
In many states, it is simply illegal to access a computer without authorization.
Even a simple port scan may be illegal if you haven't been authorized by the owner of the computer.
If you must tell them, do it anonymously and go on with your life. Let them have it fixed by their choice of experts who they trust. If they have any brains at all, they aren't going to pay you to fix it, anyway.
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My brother has a Nikon LS 9000 ED film scanner. He bought it for doing 70 mm film. Check it out.
When I first got into programming in 1972, I never heard of a "Hello, World" program. In the 70s, I suspect it was more common to write a first program that printed out your name.
The first time I ever saw a "Hello, World" program was in the 1980s.
I wonder when they originated.
I spent a night in the hospital once when I was a kid because of a gas heater in the bathroom. It used up all the oxygen while I as taking a bath and I passed out.
I used to know an engineer who rigged up his plumbing system so that he could attach an air compressor to the lines and use that to clear the water out.
He even did that when at home when a hard freeze was expected.
As we export more and more jobs, especially manufacturing, it is only natural that we are going to lose our place in science.
If you have little or no manufacturing, you won't need much engineering to support the manufacturing. The less engineering we have, the less need for science to drive that engineering.
In other words, by exporting our manufacturing, we are exporting everything that depends on it as well.
The net result is that it will be nearly impossible for us to regain over the next few hundred years what we lose over the next twenty years.
We've made short term monetary gain our ultimate god. Many generations of future Americans will pay for that.
There is a common term that refers to the process of dividing by zero to get a nullity. It's called a "stupidity".
Even if SCO drops everything, there is no reason for IBM to drop their counterclaims.
Actually, it is a somewhat ambiguous sentence:
So you can interpret it to mean that the raccoons are eating the sensor. You can interpret it to mean that the raccoons are eating the lower hinge. Or you can even interpret that to mean that the raccoons are eating the garage door.
Since it is ambiguous, we can interpret it as we wish. I choose to interpret "it" as referring to the hinge. The sensor attracks them to the hinge. Move the sensor to the top hinge and the raccoons will have more trouble reaching the hinge.
I'm wondering just what the hinge is made of if raccoons can eat it.
My first question is whether we'll see an increase in argyria.
Argyria is a non-health threatening medical condition resulting from the ingestion of silver that turns the skin greyish.
It would be great for Halloween, but not the rest of the year.
I can see some really big reasons to do open source develoment.
First, instead of writing an application from scratch, you can use an application that already exists and modify it to fit your needs. Many, but not all, will be quite interested in contributing their modifications so that others can improve upon them.
Second, there are a lot fewer operating system development jobs out there than there are people who want to do operating systems development. The same is also true for a wide variety of applications software as well.
Open source gives them a chance to do that development they would like to do as part of a loose team in their free time. Without open source, they would need to develop their own operating sytem from scratch. By the time they would get many of the basics out of the way, most would not really go all that much further.
Third, an individual or a company can develop software and show a certain level of expertise in the process that can help them more easily land maintenance and consulting work. Obviously, their development would need to be in software that a large company would be interested in using.
Some changes are so ridiculous it's hard to see how people came up with them.
At one company, it was decided that we would use "3 space tabs".
I thought that was a really stupid rule and never went along with it. When I send a program to the printer, I expect it to print properly "as is" instead of having to use something else (Visual C++) to print it.
The guy that suggested using 3 space tabs went from to Microsoft when he left that company.
If you are referring to laser pointers, those are typically 1-5 mW.
According to the article, this puts out 20 mW.
Not much of one. He just wants the RIAA to decide what is a "fair use" and what is not.
What I think they would really want is for everyone wanting something under the terms of "fair use" to apply to them for permission to use a portion of it.
In other words, the want to be able to veto the use before it occurs instead of deal with it afterwards.
They only want "fair use" when it benefits the major record labels.
You could use 2 columns.
/dev/null any and all e-mail addressed to ck@example.com.
In the right column, create an e-mail address that is missing the first letter or more of the actual e-mail address. Put the missing letters in the left column.
For example, if your e-mail address is "jack@example.com", "ja" would go in the left column and "ck@example.com" in the right column.
Then
Can you provide details?
Or are you talkig about Novell's employees?
In the early 1980's, I worked for an eingineering company that tried an alternative.
After you entered your username, the logon program would look up your employee payroll records and ask you a random question from them. If you answered correctly, you would get logged on.
Sometimes it was easy. For example, it might ask your street address. You'd have to answer exactly as in the record, but that wasn't too difficult.
Often, the only way you could log in was to have a copy of your employee payroll records in front of you. For example, do you know to the penny how much withholding has been deducted from your pay this year? Or how much your total take home was last year?
The experiment didn't last too long before it went back to username / password.
The clan comes first, even ahead of their religious faction.
From One Nation, Divisible:
That is, of course, the magnetic poles, not the geographic poles around which the Earth spins.
People often get those confused. Some people who have heard of the north and south magnetic poles flipping think that the Earth is going to somehow magically flip over at that time as well.
My precinct has about 30 to 40 voters. In general, nearly all of them vote.
The two times I tried switching to it with Opera on a SuSE Linux machine, I had to kill the task and start over.
There are some other scary things on the horizon such as the plan to require all livestock to be tracked.
... .
Move any livestock off the premises or if it gets out on its own, you'll have 24 hours to notify the Federal government of that fact. That applies to just about anything including horses, cattle, chickens, goats, llamas, pigs, sheep,
Fail to notify them within 24 hours and they may fine you, jail you, and/or sieze the animals.
It's already being implemented now.
From what I understand, you already have to provide your name and address to purchase any kind of livestock feed.
If you're still in college, check with the office that handles on-campus recruiting.
When I was graduating, I considered a number of jobs overseas.
There's also employers like the State Department with an abundance of overseas postings.
That would probably be the best course of action.
In many states, it is simply illegal to access a computer without authorization.
Even a simple port scan may be illegal if you haven't been authorized by the owner of the computer.
If you must tell them, do it anonymously and go on with your life. Let them have it fixed by their choice of experts who they trust. If they have any brains at all, they aren't going to pay you to fix it, anyway.
I think that the death rate from rabies in the U.S. sometimes reaches as many as 5 or 6 in any one year.
Compare that to India where the number is in the tens of thousands! That may explain why the word "rabies" comes from a Sanskrit word.