I've spent a bit of time looking at dotnet and seahash. My first impression was that Microsoft really didn't mind the taste of Java, nosiree, not at all.
It's obvious to anybody who's coded a bit of Java that Microsoft's time with it left a deep, lasting impression. Because the dotnet api is a virtual mirror of the Java API. seahash, likewise, seems to be the illegitimate child of Microsoft's having slept with Java.
So, no, not crap, just a cheap imitation. Bill doing what he does best: stand back while others actually innovate, then stamp out a windows-based replica, maybe give it away free steal the fruits of others' intellectual labors.
Maybe some people like to live out their lives in front of the little screen, but people need to get out once in a while!
Plus, there are *many* things that are better purchased in person, so you don't waste time and money with reordering, reshipping etc. Clothing and fresh groceries, to name two of the most common.
The expectation that the consuming public will eventually order everything online is a bit out of sync with the fact that much of the public can't afford to do it! And besides, that hype-othesis went down in the year 2000, with too many examples (oh, that sock puppet petfood site for one.)
Actually, it's "the Americas," plural, not singular, as it comprises the two continents, Central America, and certain Carribean islands.
Yes, all states in the Americas are of the Americas, but, so far as I know, the US is the only country that uses the word "America" in its name, "the United States of America." That being a wordy phrase to invoke each time you want to insult the bastards for whichever, you can, therefore, choose from among the following *shortened* versions of the country's name:
United States
US of A
USA
US
America
Yes, "America" is part of its name, so it is not improper to shorten it to that. Again, so far as I'm aware, there are no other countries that significantly place "America" in their official name.
Historically, the Americas have been looked to as a place that signifies the freedom to go and do whatever the fuck you want -pioneer spirit and all that. And, until recently, the United States of America had been looked upon as a shining example of that, what with jillions of immigrants moving there each year (until Ashcroft reared its ugly head.)
Finally, since they've been called "Americans" for so many years, and recently that term's taken on a certain derisive edge, who else of the Americas would want to be called that?
heh, from "suicide pact" to "slight increase in operational security of civilian government"? Well, paint me black and white! Will martial law make you happy?
FOIA is all that stands between opacity and accountability, in many departments of the US govt. Ashcroft began nailing the coffin lid shut on FOIA around the same time he nightmared up PATRIOT. Ashcroft has an unbroken record for refusing Congressional information requests about PATRIOT's implementation details.
If we had an accountable government, today we'd know some of the reasons why 9/11 happened in the first place. For example, why FAA didn't follow standing doctrine (in place since the 50's) and send up escort jets when four planes went off flight path is still a mystery. This hasn't been investigated by our govt, and journalists' requests for clarification have turned up little. Why haven't the decisionmakers for those flights' well-being been fired? (Yes, these assertions have details to back them up.)
Bottom line, the USA has always been under terrorist threat, and will continue to be so for the duration of its existence. 9/11 was more shocking than it was surprising. Not many people I knew expressed surprise that it happened, only that it had taken this long. So long as the US continues its policy of manipulating and mucking around in the affairs of other nations, it will continue to be under threat. When it learns to behave as a good global citizen, then it'll probably become a safer place.
You say "suicide pact" without offering any meaning or definition. That's every bit as fear-mongering and irresponsible as the current U.S. govt's actions have been of late.
Is it suicidal to want to know that the government is doing its job? Is an opaque government to be trusted? Will elected and appointed officials perform their duty to protect us? What if they slack off? Will we know before its too late?
It's called accountability. Our safety is dependent upon it.
Unaccountability is the not-too-secret wet-dream of conservatives and big business. Welcome to unaccountability legislated (Patriot Act and siblings) and decreed (Ashcroft's FOIA directives and Bush's executive orders.)
There is little disagreement Clinton became a slimey toad when he evaded the law over the Lweinsky/Jones affairs. He got impeached for his efforts, and one should hope that would satisfy his opponents, who originally were sniffing around the Whitewater deal.
The substance of Whitewater accusations and conspiracy, however, is virtually void next to what people have been accusing Bush & company of. And not without merit, as the ramifications of Bush's work are (or will be) manifold.
Okay, everybody, okay!!:-) Too much coffee I guess.
Irony kinda went out the window after 9/11, and sarcasm too. Ashcroft has actually threatened members of Congress and the press with prosecution under USA PATRIOT if they spoke against it. If that's not fascism, I don't know what is.
Obviously, you should only be concerned about losing your liberties if you're a terrorist (or similar dissident).
No, that's most definitely not the case. In the USA PATRIOT Act, the Attorney General and the President of the US are given the power to decide who is or isn't a terrorist. Not a court, not a judge, not the Congress. "Terrorist" is not defined. It's an unconstitutional power grab.
Dissidents are political creatures. Terrorists are criminals, not dissidents. I believe USA PATRIOT Act is an unconstitutional body of laws; therefore I am a dissident. Am I a terrorist? No, but the Attorney General has the power and privilege to decide that I am one.
These laws must be opposed. Because they are broad and unchecked, they can be applied to anybody for any reason, not just Usama or Saddam. It's how the RICO statutes got abused. Call your congresscritter today and tell em you want this law opposed, voted down.
all the string classes I use aren't any slower than C style strings - the extra overhead is code bloat from all the functions you don't use
Come again? functions you don't use have zero effect on the functions you *do* use, except in the overall size of the.exe or.dll file, which would affect memory management. But once the app's in memory and running, functions you're not using should have no effect on running code.
If web publishers believe a larger number of AOL'ers are visiting their site than actually do
Naah. Websites mostly use cookies to count unique visitors, then fall back to various other techniques using IP, UA, etc. After all the cookie-privacy hoopla, most users still surf with cookies enabled (based on my experiences webmistering a couple of large commercial sites.)
Try connecting a variable power supply to the battery terminals. Start at the lowest voltage available or known for hearing aid-type batteries. Step it up a notch at a time. Try Radio Shack, but I'm not sure the step resolution of their variable voltage battery-replacer power supplies will be small enough for you to experiment with.
Yes, and about 50 people are killed a year in all UK in all gun deaths, whereas the US gun death rate recently "declined" to reach its 30 year low point of over 30,000 gun deaths per year. Scaled for population, the US has over 50 times the gun deaths per capita than the UK.
The UK 'got rid of' hand guns a long time ago, not five years ago, don't know what you're basing that on. Might be an anmesty turn-in thing you read.
So, yes, a society in which handguns are eliminated will have much lower gun death rates.
User interfaces sometimes get downgraded when being confined to the limited set of GUI widgets available in HTML interfaces. At the very least, the roundtrip and render time required to regenerate a screen or page, even when only one item changes, is at best distracting to the user, and also wastes their time.
Where applications need to be broadly distributed, extranet and internet sites for example, HTTP/HTML can be appropriate. But for internal applications, for performance, convenience, sophistication of the UI, a compiled application running on your local desktop -and accessing a central server for shared data- is still gonna be best, imo.
So let's see... it's *legal* to possess devices that are designed to quickly kill another person. Some of these are designed to do it from a distance, as demonstrated over the past three weeks.
But it's going to be *illegal* to possess devices or code which might be used to usurp computing resources, damage file systems, etc.
Where are people's priorities? It's all about the bottom line.
How is it, that, of all medicines, vaccinations are (to its supporters) somehow without risk? That allergic reactions are unthinkable, and the notion of triggered immune disorders the very stuff of quacks and wingnuts?
As for searching the newsgroups, I have to just laugh. What an unbiased and peer-reviewed source!
When pharmeceutical firms and govt begin funding peer-reviewed research into adverse reactions, then hopefully we can all laugh with you. When knowledge replaces conjecture, we'll all be better off.
There is virtually no medicine without risk, even simple medications such as aspirin and its kind have adverse reactions. Immunizations contain not just the dead or partially dead bacterium or virus, but a whole host of other ingredients, including culturing material and mercury, some of what is suspected in producing adverse reactions.
Finally, there are few who don't acknowledge the benefits of vaccines to society. But thanks to their effectiveness, the risk of disease has been replaced by the risk of adverse reaction. That risk has been identified, but there's no way to protect an individual from it. That's the problem that's got to be solved, predicting when an individual will get sick from an immunization.
If you mean the US, and for only one year, then no.
Can you qualify that with actual information?
Working in a previous life as a software development manager at a major produce distributor, I can tell you the pipeline from farm to stomach is measured in days. Some stocks have maybe a season's buffer; for instance frozen orange juice and wheat. Corn gets stored, but the amount and duration varies from producer to distributer to processor.
The U.S. is more grasshopper than ant. Stockpiles are due to overproduction and market strategy rather than actual preparedness -they are not intentional stockpiles against production interruption. I expect there'd be widespread pandemonium, not just from 'perceived threat', but actual disruption of the entire supply chain that is feeding over 300,000,000 people in the U.S. alone.
What stockpile we do have will probably move quickly. It's very unclear just what percent the U.S.'s "stockpiled" food store is -is it a fraction of the daily, weekly, monthly or annual need? Hard to tell. I imagine the military would get by for a time, but your typical city person, being at the far end of the longer chains, will have a hard time getting their hands on supplies.
very powerful, c-style macros, record keystrokes, language-specific settings/formattings, all the power of emacs but with a friendly (yet not dumbed-down) interface.
will interface with command-line compilers, also integrates with many IDEs to be the source editor, and respond to the IDE commands etc.
Slashdot Mirror
I've spent a bit of time looking at dotnet and seahash. My first impression was that Microsoft really didn't mind the taste of Java, nosiree, not at all.
It's obvious to anybody who's coded a bit of Java that Microsoft's time with it left a deep, lasting impression. Because the dotnet api is a virtual mirror of the Java API. seahash, likewise, seems to be the illegitimate child of Microsoft's having slept with Java.
So, no, not crap, just a cheap imitation. Bill doing what he does best: stand back while others actually innovate, then stamp out a windows-based replica, maybe give it away free steal the fruits of others' intellectual labors.
Maybe some people like to live out their lives in front of the little screen, but people need to get out once in a while!
Plus, there are *many* things that are better purchased in person, so you don't waste time and money with reordering, reshipping etc. Clothing and fresh groceries, to name two of the most common.
The expectation that the consuming public will eventually order everything online is a bit out of sync with the fact that much of the public can't afford to do it! And besides, that hype-othesis went down in the year 2000, with too many examples (oh, that sock puppet petfood site for one.)
Yes, all states in the Americas are of the Americas, but, so far as I know, the US is the only country that uses the word "America" in its name, "the United States of America." That being a wordy phrase to invoke each time you want to insult the bastards for whichever, you can, therefore, choose from among the following *shortened* versions of the country's name:
United States
US of A
USA
US
America
Yes, "America" is part of its name, so it is not improper to shorten it to that. Again, so far as I'm aware, there are no other countries that significantly place "America" in their official name.
Historically, the Americas have been looked to as a place that signifies the freedom to go and do whatever the fuck you want -pioneer spirit and all that. And, until recently, the United States of America had been looked upon as a shining example of that, what with jillions of immigrants moving there each year (until Ashcroft reared its ugly head.)
Finally, since they've been called "Americans" for so many years, and recently that term's taken on a certain derisive edge, who else of the Americas would want to be called that?
"D'you think maybe we should start checking Urban Legends before approving stories?"
Am I the only person who noticed this story was republished from Weekly World News?? Yeesh!
heh, from "suicide pact" to "slight increase in operational security of civilian government"? Well, paint me black and white! Will martial law make you happy?
FOIA is all that stands between opacity and accountability, in many departments of the US govt. Ashcroft began nailing the coffin lid shut on FOIA around the same time he nightmared up PATRIOT. Ashcroft has an unbroken record for refusing Congressional information requests about PATRIOT's implementation details.
If we had an accountable government, today we'd know some of the reasons why 9/11 happened in the first place. For example, why FAA didn't follow standing doctrine (in place since the 50's) and send up escort jets when four planes went off flight path is still a mystery. This hasn't been investigated by our govt, and journalists' requests for clarification have turned up little. Why haven't the decisionmakers for those flights' well-being been fired? (Yes, these assertions have details to back them up.)
Bottom line, the USA has always been under terrorist threat, and will continue to be so for the duration of its existence. 9/11 was more shocking than it was surprising. Not many people I knew expressed surprise that it happened, only that it had taken this long. So long as the US continues its policy of manipulating and mucking around in the affairs of other nations, it will continue to be under threat. When it learns to behave as a good global citizen, then it'll probably become a safer place.
suicide pact
You say "suicide pact" without offering any meaning or definition. That's every bit as fear-mongering and irresponsible as the current U.S. govt's actions have been of late.
Is it suicidal to want to know that the government is doing its job? Is an opaque government to be trusted? Will elected and appointed officials perform their duty to protect us? What if they slack off? Will we know before its too late?
It's called accountability. Our safety is dependent upon it.
Unaccountability is the not-too-secret wet-dream of conservatives and big business. Welcome to unaccountability legislated (Patriot Act and siblings) and decreed (Ashcroft's FOIA directives and Bush's executive orders.)
A good, recent comparison of EJB containers and Java 2 servers is here--
i nherit5.html
2 8/isTomcatCrap.html
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/02/26/ejb
A comparison of Tomcat, Orion, Resin and Weblogic is here:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0107789/stories/2002/05/
Except the allegations about the land deals were never proven. Do you feel the same way about the plum deals GWB was given? Somehow I don't think so.
There is little disagreement Clinton became a slimey toad when he evaded the law over the Lweinsky/Jones affairs. He got impeached for his efforts, and one should hope that would satisfy his opponents, who originally were sniffing around the Whitewater deal.
The substance of Whitewater accusations and conspiracy, however, is virtually void next to what people have been accusing Bush & company of. And not without merit, as the ramifications of Bush's work are (or will be) manifold.
Okay, everybody, okay!! :-) Too much coffee I guess.
Irony kinda went out the window after 9/11, and sarcasm too. Ashcroft has actually threatened members of Congress and the press with prosecution under USA PATRIOT if they spoke against it. If that's not fascism, I don't know what is.
Obviously, you should only be concerned about losing your liberties if you're a terrorist (or similar dissident).
No, that's most definitely not the case. In the USA PATRIOT Act, the Attorney General and the President of the US are given the power to decide who is or isn't a terrorist. Not a court, not a judge, not the Congress. "Terrorist" is not defined. It's an unconstitutional power grab.
Dissidents are political creatures. Terrorists are criminals, not dissidents. I believe USA PATRIOT Act is an unconstitutional body of laws; therefore I am a dissident. Am I a terrorist? No, but the Attorney General has the power and privilege to decide that I am one.
These laws must be opposed. Because they are broad and unchecked, they can be applied to anybody for any reason, not just Usama or Saddam. It's how the RICO statutes got abused. Call your congresscritter today and tell em you want this law opposed, voted down.
The EFF has some analysis here.
all the string classes I use aren't any slower than C style strings - the extra overhead is code bloat from all the functions you don't use
.exe or .dll file, which would affect memory management. But once the app's in memory and running, functions you're not using should have no effect on running code.
Come again? functions you don't use have zero effect on the functions you *do* use, except in the overall size of the
If web publishers believe a larger number of AOL'ers are visiting their site than actually do
Naah. Websites mostly use cookies to count unique visitors, then fall back to various other techniques using IP, UA, etc. After all the cookie-privacy hoopla, most users still surf with cookies enabled (based on my experiences webmistering a couple of large commercial sites.)
is something I've used under OpenBSD for bandwidth throttling. Don't know if it compiles on OS X.
Other parts of the plant included huge CNC lathes that you could park a car under and a various injection molding tools/dies/machines. ...
/. free of grammatical errors for ~5 years.
Tours of manufacturing plants are definietly cool.
Keeping
What have you learned about grammar, nazi?
Try connecting a variable power supply to the battery terminals. Start at the lowest voltage available or known for hearing aid-type batteries. Step it up a notch at a time. Try Radio Shack, but I'm not sure the step resolution of their variable voltage battery-replacer power supplies will be small enough for you to experiment with.
Good luck.
violent crime rate has gone up by about 40%
Yes, and about 50 people are killed a year in all UK in all gun deaths, whereas the US gun death rate recently "declined" to reach its 30 year low point of over 30,000 gun deaths per year. Scaled for population, the US has over 50 times the gun deaths per capita than the UK.
The UK 'got rid of' hand guns a long time ago, not five years ago, don't know what you're basing that on. Might be an anmesty turn-in thing you read.
So, yes, a society in which handguns are eliminated will have much lower gun death rates.
User interfaces sometimes get downgraded when being confined to the limited set of GUI widgets available in HTML interfaces. At the very least, the roundtrip and render time required to regenerate a screen or page, even when only one item changes, is at best distracting to the user, and also wastes their time.
Where applications need to be broadly distributed, extranet and internet sites for example, HTTP/HTML can be appropriate. But for internal applications, for performance, convenience, sophistication of the UI, a compiled application running on your local desktop -and accessing a central server for shared data- is still gonna be best, imo.
So let's see... it's *legal* to possess devices that are designed to quickly kill another person. Some of these are designed to do it from a distance, as demonstrated over the past three weeks.
But it's going to be *illegal* to possess devices or code which might be used to usurp computing resources, damage file systems, etc.
Where are people's priorities? It's all about the bottom line.
What economic motives are there for vaccine makers to produce a product that could cause autism?
Indeed, what motive is there for an industry whose downside is not only recognized but economically protected by U.S. state and federal law? As of 1995, over $600 million dollars have been paid out to families of vaccine-damaged children.
How is it, that, of all medicines, vaccinations are (to its supporters) somehow without risk? That allergic reactions are unthinkable, and the notion of triggered immune disorders the very stuff of quacks and wingnuts?
As for searching the newsgroups, I have to just laugh. What an unbiased and peer-reviewed source!
When pharmeceutical firms and govt begin funding peer-reviewed research into adverse reactions, then hopefully we can all laugh with you. When knowledge replaces conjecture, we'll all be better off.
There is virtually no medicine without risk, even simple medications such as aspirin and its kind have adverse reactions. Immunizations contain not just the dead or partially dead bacterium or virus, but a whole host of other ingredients, including culturing material and mercury, some of what is suspected in producing adverse reactions.
Finally, there are few who don't acknowledge the benefits of vaccines to society. But thanks to their effectiveness, the risk of disease has been replaced by the risk of adverse reaction. That risk has been identified, but there's no way to protect an individual from it. That's the problem that's got to be solved, predicting when an individual will get sick from an immunization.
If you mean the US, and for only one year, then no.
Can you qualify that with actual information?
Working in a previous life as a software development manager at a major produce distributor, I can tell you the pipeline from farm to stomach is measured in days. Some stocks have maybe a season's buffer; for instance frozen orange juice and wheat. Corn gets stored, but the amount and duration varies from producer to distributer to processor.
The U.S. is more grasshopper than ant. Stockpiles are due to overproduction and market strategy rather than actual preparedness -they are not intentional stockpiles against production interruption. I expect there'd be widespread pandemonium, not just from 'perceived threat', but actual disruption of the entire supply chain that is feeding over 300,000,000 people in the U.S. alone.
What stockpile we do have will probably move quickly. It's very unclear just what percent the U.S.'s "stockpiled" food store is -is it a fraction of the daily, weekly, monthly or annual need? Hard to tell. I imagine the military would get by for a time, but your typical city person, being at the far end of the longer chains, will have a hard time getting their hands on supplies.
Then it becomes readable...
very powerful, c-style macros, record keystrokes, language-specific settings/formattings, all the power of emacs but with a friendly (yet not dumbed-down) interface.
will interface with command-line compilers, also integrates with many IDEs to be the source editor, and respond to the IDE commands etc.