Have you tried going to http://www.google.com/ and Googling for guidance? It has been a source of much guidance for me. If you can't find it there, then you're SOL and it probably doesn't exist.
I was doing a search on my Google personalized homepage that has a RSS feed from Slashdot. For a second there, I read "Swarms of Microsofts Over Europe". Whew!
"eBay customer service did ONE thing for me when I contacted them about this. They confirmed that I was screwed."
That kind of response is actually very common when a company has no real competition or perceives of having no competition. Maybe this little shake-up will give them motivations to be more helpful.
I've been thinking about software architecture for a while now and it's even more important in the case of a framework. I realized from using my own architecture and seeing its own flaw that a design that flows naturally from the way a person thinks is usually easy to use and coherent. What I mean is that when I'm using some part of a framework (like.Net) and I need to do something new, I would often go online and research it really quick like searching for a node using XPath when using the XML parser class. I mind not know the name of the method/property or exactly how I can call it, but I guess that it is there because it ought to and seen like a common desire most other people would have. A counter-example would be.Net Datagrid. It's a datagrid so I expect it to be easy to use it to display data in row form. It is so tied into ADO.Net, however, that it is clunky to use for anything other than database data. On the other hand, I think their XML parser is fairly good as I've stated above. I didn't know right off which method would support search by XPath but it seems that they would and I was right. So for me #1 is the most important. I don't want to think about the framework nor remember every details. I want to design my project and be fairly confident that the framework will support what I do.
I'm keeping my eyes on SUNW. I've been eyeing that stock for a long time now. Sun has a lot of valuable assets. Their intellectual assets and knowledge are first class. I think some analysts don't understand the value of it and count Sun out too early. They also have a ton of cash that give them a lot of time and resources to develop a good long term strategy and take risks like this. It's not as incredible/stupid as it sounds. This shows confidence in their own product. What is $5000 to SUNW? Say they send them to 100 reviewers (probably less since we tend to concentrate on a few popular sites) who basically help them get the word out. Sun losts $5mil. That's drop in the bucket, less expensive than a Superbowl ad but with more credibility among those who count. Their return will be many times that cost. More importantly, once a relationship with a customer is established, more products will follow. It's getting the floor in the door that's tough. My company is a customer and their reps are very willing to work with you, unlike some other vendors.
Was there an article a while ago about complex decision are better made when sleeping? I can work in the future with my computer off and asleep at my desk. The future looks bright.
IANAL but the reasonable standard isn't something the judge simply made up on the spot as the OP seem to imply. It is actually a crucial part of our law and quite commonly used, especially in ngeligence cases.
Radio Shack: You got questions, we got blank stares...
I tried to get some parts for an oscillator once and the guy just looked at me like I was crazy. I thought in the back of my mind, "This is Radio Shack right....??"
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I have a project where I need to script or develop a way of scripting the login and download of certain web sites. A developer suggested looking into DOM for my project. I haven't found many books on DOM and none on using it to script interactions with a website. While this is not the subject of this book, do you think it can help me navigate my way to completing my project?
Thanks.
If anyone has a good idea on how to automatically (or mostly automatically) generate a script to login and download data from a website, please let me know. Thanks.
Just blame the media! Even controlling for some bias, etc., the media usually reports on what happens. The media may distort but it's usually a lot harder to do that when you don't give them a starting point.
"Our enemies have skilfully adapted to fighting wars in today's media age, but... our country has not," he said.
Mr Rumsfeld said al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremists were bombarding Muslims with negative images of the West, which had poisoned the public view of the US.
How is it possible for al-Qaeda to be so far ahead of us in PR when we have entire industries built on PR and marketing??? Or is it because we are in fact doing a shitty job? Pictures from Abu Ghraib weren't simply made up by the media. Someone in our leadership screwed up (notice how they sacked the soldiers but few officers) and the TRUTH go out. The truth will get out eventually.
The US must fight back by operating a more effective, 24-hour propaganda machine, or risk a "dangerous deficiency," he said.
No, the US must fight back by doing a better job instead of trying to distort the truth. We've already lost a ton of credibility when no WMDs were found. A propaganda machine isn't going to help. It's make people believe us even less and then we'll truly be in a "world of shit". Rumsfeld and our leadership need to get it through their heads that saying "2 + 2 = 5" a million times isn't going to change the fact. Face it, we're a foreign country in someone else's land. That's not going to make people happy. When things don't improve like we've promised and car bombs start going off, they're going to be pissed. Remember how ridiculous the Iraqi PR minister was when he try to tell everyone that Americans are being defeated as our tanks moved into Baghdad? That's how Rumsfeld is going to look when he get this PR machine going.
Finally, Greenland will be green again! That's a lot of unoccupied ocean front real estate. Taking orders now -- PayPal accepted. Given the current rate of global warming and ice melting, expect your property to be ready in roughly 10 years, contingent on any future treaties, political climate changes (including but not limited to a Ralph Nader victory), ephiphanies among our politicans, or acts of God(s).
Worse, sometimes they let prejudices and FUD interfere. I know of a company who refused to use AMD Opterons for a long time until their vendors told them about the performance gain (roughly 30% in some scenarios). If the information didn't come from some big name, they won't believe it, even when they could just go and do the testing/research themselves. I love how CDW boxes say "Buy with Confidence. We're a Fortune 500 company." I bet that actually works for most of their customers but I wonder if those people remember that Enron was a fortune 500 company too once.
We need an OSS project using this software to design the DNA of a hot-chick who finds Slashdotters and/or computer nerds irrestible and we will call it GIRL (GNU IRrestible Lover).
Preface: Not a networking expert or a graph theory researcher:
I read "Nexus" not too long ago. It talks about the study of networks and its results in various different fields. It wasn't as deep or detailed as I had hope but it mentioned a study where it was found that the Internet is really not a decentralized network but a hub and spoke network. It can survive numerous attacks in general but if even a small number of central hubs are taken down, connectivity suffers. Obviously that means it's even easier to spy on someone simply by monitoring these central hubs. On the other hand, it also means the Internet can be physically attacked and is less resilient than originally envisioned. So the Internet's ability to survive is linked to the number of ways for data to get from A to B. The more survivable, the less centralized, the harder it is to spy on someone.
IIRC, the book points out that the centralization occured because of the cost of laying down cables and the need to minimize the number of hops. Imagine the cost of linking up every node with fiber. Or the number of hops packets have to make if we were all connected just to our neighbors. There is however, an alternative to spoke and hub. You can achieve similar results with a network where most people are connected to their neighbors but there's a random sprinkling of long connections. So imagine a network where most people are simply connected to their neighbors but maybe 10% of those neighbors have connections to distant cities like NYC to LA and maybe another would have NYC to San Francisco or even medium hops from Dallas to Houston. Wireless technology means we can pretty soon connect to our neighbors. The other part of the equation would require people having these longer jumps. We've heard of record breaking WiFi transfers so it might be possible in the future for someone to work on easily deployable, affordable connections that can go a hundred miles or so. It also makes sense for the government to sponsor research on long distance wireless connections as the Katrina disaster demostrated such a need and as we depend more and more on the Internet for commerce. Who knows, they might already be working on this. WiMax's range is a hopeful sign.
A drawback to Psiphon is that the person behind the firewall has to be given a user name and password by the person offering up the computer. With this kind of setup, Mr. Villeneuve said, activists may end up working with specific dissidents and people in repressive countries may rely on relatives abroad to help them get connected. Canadians, with ties to every country in the world, are in a particularly good position to use such a system.
So what happens if the person who you gave access to does something illegal (child porn for example)? Does the host become responsible, legally and/or morally? Unlike a general, open, free for all access, this individual approach appears to shift more of the responsibility onto the host, who may not be in a good position to make such a judgment. The program apparently has some facilities for doing forensics on the traffic, which then shift even more of the responsibility onto the host. I guess when you're trying to fight a repressive regime, you should be prepared to take on some heavy responsibilities. Kudos to those who are willing to do so.
Jack Thompson is going to have a field day with this one. I'm very much against what he's doing but that doesn't stop the guy from spinning this out of control.
Unlikely. Since Japan is the biggest Buddhist country in the world, it's likely that they also believe that suicide will earn a ton of negative karma. That said, I really doubt religious believes are what drives that the difference. Rather, the difference is cultural. Eastern Asian countries have a collectivistic culture whereas Western countries have an individualistic culture. The individual is not valued as much and certainly never above the good of the group. Individuals try to contributed to the good of the group and is thus rewarded. Individual accomplishments in themselves are not as valued as it is in the West. Certainly, being a drag on the group is worse.
I'm coming from a Chinese point of view. Culturally, Japan and China probably have more common than with the West given their history (however divisive it may have been in the past). So I'm guessing that it works similarly in Japan as well. In my own family, we've had an older member of our extended family commit suicide because she was old, lonely, and don't want to be a burden to her family any more.
Re:Optimus, we hardly knew ye....
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Is he also going to die 15 minutes into his first full length presentation?
That... that's just harsh man. Why do you have to have make jokes about things like that you insensitive clod?! Is there nothing sacred any more?
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Have you tried going to http://www.google.com/ and Googling for guidance? It has been a source of much guidance for me. If you can't find it there, then you're SOL and it probably doesn't exist.
I was doing a search on my Google personalized homepage that has a RSS feed from Slashdot. For a second there, I read "Swarms of Microsofts Over Europe". Whew!
That kind of response is actually very common when a company has no real competition or perceives of having no competition. Maybe this little shake-up will give them motivations to be more helpful.
You can beat up an idiot in Europe? My God, you are advanced!
I've been thinking about software architecture for a while now and it's even more important in the case of a framework. I realized from using my own architecture and seeing its own flaw that a design that flows naturally from the way a person thinks is usually easy to use and coherent. What I mean is that when I'm using some part of a framework (like .Net) and I need to do something new, I would often go online and research it really quick like searching for a node using XPath when using the XML parser class. I mind not know the name of the method/property or exactly how I can call it, but I guess that it is there because it ought to and seen like a common desire most other people would have. A counter-example would be .Net Datagrid. It's a datagrid so I expect it to be easy to use it to display data in row form. It is so tied into ADO.Net, however, that it is clunky to use for anything other than database data. On the other hand, I think their XML parser is fairly good as I've stated above. I didn't know right off which method would support search by XPath but it seems that they would and I was right. So for me #1 is the most important. I don't want to think about the framework nor remember every details. I want to design my project and be fairly confident that the framework will support what I do.
Exactly what I need one of those machines for: arithmetic. Long day man...
I'm keeping my eyes on SUNW. I've been eyeing that stock for a long time now. Sun has a lot of valuable assets. Their intellectual assets and knowledge are first class. I think some analysts don't understand the value of it and count Sun out too early. They also have a ton of cash that give them a lot of time and resources to develop a good long term strategy and take risks like this. It's not as incredible/stupid as it sounds. This shows confidence in their own product. What is $5000 to SUNW? Say they send them to 100 reviewers (probably less since we tend to concentrate on a few popular sites) who basically help them get the word out. Sun losts $5mil. That's drop in the bucket, less expensive than a Superbowl ad but with more credibility among those who count. Their return will be many times that cost. More importantly, once a relationship with a customer is established, more products will follow. It's getting the floor in the door that's tough. My company is a customer and their reps are very willing to work with you, unlike some other vendors.
Hence forth, it shall be known as "Mega Jackpot!!!" (the ! is part of the name).
Was there an article a while ago about complex decision are better made when sleeping? I can work in the future with my computer off and asleep at my desk. The future looks bright.
IANAL but the reasonable standard isn't something the judge simply made up on the spot as the OP seem to imply. It is actually a crucial part of our law and quite commonly used, especially in ngeligence cases.
Well all of us nerds have waited decades already for sentient AI, manned interplanetary missions, fusion, and sex, what is another decade?
Cheap shot even by Slashdot standards, I know.
I tried to get some parts for an oscillator once and the guy just looked at me like I was crazy. I thought in the back of my mind, "This is Radio Shack right....??"
Thanks.
If anyone has a good idea on how to automatically (or mostly automatically) generate a script to login and download data from a website, please let me know. Thanks.
That's the bigger news: a Slashdotter with a girlfriend. Of course you posted as AC so there's no way for the council to verify this miracle.
"Our enemies have skilfully adapted to fighting wars in today's media age, but... our country has not," he said. Mr Rumsfeld said al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremists were bombarding Muslims with negative images of the West, which had poisoned the public view of the US.
How is it possible for al-Qaeda to be so far ahead of us in PR when we have entire industries built on PR and marketing??? Or is it because we are in fact doing a shitty job? Pictures from Abu Ghraib weren't simply made up by the media. Someone in our leadership screwed up (notice how they sacked the soldiers but few officers) and the TRUTH go out. The truth will get out eventually.
The US must fight back by operating a more effective, 24-hour propaganda machine, or risk a "dangerous deficiency," he said.
No, the US must fight back by doing a better job instead of trying to distort the truth. We've already lost a ton of credibility when no WMDs were found. A propaganda machine isn't going to help. It's make people believe us even less and then we'll truly be in a "world of shit". Rumsfeld and our leadership need to get it through their heads that saying "2 + 2 = 5" a million times isn't going to change the fact. Face it, we're a foreign country in someone else's land. That's not going to make people happy. When things don't improve like we've promised and car bombs start going off, they're going to be pissed. Remember how ridiculous the Iraqi PR minister was when he try to tell everyone that Americans are being defeated as our tanks moved into Baghdad? That's how Rumsfeld is going to look when he get this PR machine going.
I meant that entirely as a joke but that's pretty interesting. Why is the ice green???
Finally, Greenland will be green again! That's a lot of unoccupied ocean front real estate. Taking orders now -- PayPal accepted. Given the current rate of global warming and ice melting, expect your property to be ready in roughly 10 years, contingent on any future treaties, political climate changes (including but not limited to a Ralph Nader victory), ephiphanies among our politicans, or acts of God(s).
Worse, sometimes they let prejudices and FUD interfere. I know of a company who refused to use AMD Opterons for a long time until their vendors told them about the performance gain (roughly 30% in some scenarios). If the information didn't come from some big name, they won't believe it, even when they could just go and do the testing/research themselves. I love how CDW boxes say "Buy with Confidence. We're a Fortune 500 company." I bet that actually works for most of their customers but I wonder if those people remember that Enron was a fortune 500 company too once.
We need an OSS project using this software to design the DNA of a hot-chick who finds Slashdotters and/or computer nerds irrestible and we will call it GIRL (GNU IRrestible Lover).
I read "Nexus" not too long ago. It talks about the study of networks and its results in various different fields. It wasn't as deep or detailed as I had hope but it mentioned a study where it was found that the Internet is really not a decentralized network but a hub and spoke network. It can survive numerous attacks in general but if even a small number of central hubs are taken down, connectivity suffers. Obviously that means it's even easier to spy on someone simply by monitoring these central hubs. On the other hand, it also means the Internet can be physically attacked and is less resilient than originally envisioned. So the Internet's ability to survive is linked to the number of ways for data to get from A to B. The more survivable, the less centralized, the harder it is to spy on someone.
IIRC, the book points out that the centralization occured because of the cost of laying down cables and the need to minimize the number of hops. Imagine the cost of linking up every node with fiber. Or the number of hops packets have to make if we were all connected just to our neighbors. There is however, an alternative to spoke and hub. You can achieve similar results with a network where most people are connected to their neighbors but there's a random sprinkling of long connections. So imagine a network where most people are simply connected to their neighbors but maybe 10% of those neighbors have connections to distant cities like NYC to LA and maybe another would have NYC to San Francisco or even medium hops from Dallas to Houston. Wireless technology means we can pretty soon connect to our neighbors. The other part of the equation would require people having these longer jumps. We've heard of record breaking WiFi transfers so it might be possible in the future for someone to work on easily deployable, affordable connections that can go a hundred miles or so. It also makes sense for the government to sponsor research on long distance wireless connections as the Katrina disaster demostrated such a need and as we depend more and more on the Internet for commerce. Who knows, they might already be working on this. WiMax's range is a hopeful sign.
So what happens if the person who you gave access to does something illegal (child porn for example)? Does the host become responsible, legally and/or morally? Unlike a general, open, free for all access, this individual approach appears to shift more of the responsibility onto the host, who may not be in a good position to make such a judgment. The program apparently has some facilities for doing forensics on the traffic, which then shift even more of the responsibility onto the host. I guess when you're trying to fight a repressive regime, you should be prepared to take on some heavy responsibilities. Kudos to those who are willing to do so.
Jack Thompson is going to have a field day with this one. I'm very much against what he's doing but that doesn't stop the guy from spinning this out of control.
I'm coming from a Chinese point of view. Culturally, Japan and China probably have more common than with the West given their history (however divisive it may have been in the past). So I'm guessing that it works similarly in Japan as well. In my own family, we've had an older member of our extended family commit suicide because she was old, lonely, and don't want to be a burden to her family any more.
That... that's just harsh man. Why do you have to have make jokes about things like that you insensitive clod?! Is there nothing sacred any more?