A short, interesting read that makes sense and yet is something I'd never thought about. It'll give me extra incentive to pick up Python... but I sorta knew that I should work on being more than a Java / school-taught C++ person in the first place.
As has been implied, this should be broadened to all sorts of concepts... databases (PostGRE in addition to mySQL in addition to oracle), OSes (Windows nnnn in addition to UNIX in addition to Macs), etc. Heaven knows when I'll find time for being a better rounded programmer, but it should be a goal for all programming professionals. I'm sure this isn't the first time someone's given such advice.
There have been a couple reasons this has been brought up as a bad idea...
One is that aerogel and water don't typically mix... early generations of the stuff would dissolve in water. (This makes sense; aerogel is a solid formed from special dehydrated Jello, essentially.) One previously mentioned is that the insulation properties of aerogel are too good -- the heat you generate would never be lost outside, and you would suffocate or otherwise die a horrible death. Of course, houses aren't made of aerogel, so this wouldn't be a big problem as long as you had other materials.
I still have to think cost is a big issue, what with 2 cm circles 1 cm thick being $25.
First poster brought up good points about toxicity... I'll address the temperature question.
(sidenote: I guess there's a new geek test out on how to actually post to this story... the Read More link being wrong and everything...)
84 degrees actually is pretty comfortable for people in the south, especially if it's going to be a dry 84 degrees, which air conditioning can help with. This can be useful, if it's not as expensive as gold, and if it really works as advertised, for people living in dry climates (read: desert southwest) who don't want to run A/C bills through the roof.
That said, I recall that while a significant percentage of heat comes from solar energy through windows... when the house is sitting in a 110 degree plain, it may not be quite as good as first thought.
Interesting... a specific mention to Comcast when this very week I'm having a God-awful time setting up high-speed cable internet on my Powerbook, iMac, and ancient Dell laptop. After spending 3 hours on the phone with helpful, yet useless tech guys... I'm willing to try just about anything.
It's not that I can't get an IP address, though... it's that I can't make a secure connection to their #$@!@* registration server.
I guess this is the new/. alternative to dupes... posting about periodic, anticipated events that happen multiple times a year.:-)
In this new category: IE exploits, IE patches, Firefox point-point releases, and PHP flamewars. I'm sure there's plenty of other things that can belong in this category...
It's not so much light moving the water, as I understand the article... it took a couple reads, but from what I can see, it's possible to overcome the fact that water sticks to an almost-non-stick surface by using light to generate a "lotus leaf" effect in the surface beneath the water... which appears to make an already slick surface even slicker.
This effect itself isn't all that new... it's in all those stain-repellent pants that are being sold now. Being able to control the effect with light is.
[ ] You thought rm -rf / was a good idea the last time you had root access. [ ] You are the Random Production Script Runner Guy we were looking for for the past year. [ ] You slept with (my/the bosses'/someone else's six-year-old) daughter. [ ] Separating the employees into user groups "clowns", "idiots", and "doomed" was frowned upon by management. [X] There was a failed installation of Doom 3 on the webserver.
I'm not sure that link you provided said what you wanted it to say. In each of the data provided, the rate of fatal crashes per 100 million miles traveled was the same or greater than the U.S. average. Percentage of fatal crashes where alcohol was involved was also greater.
As for the population of Alaska... well, Anchorage clocks in at 260,283. Not bad, really, but I live in a metro area population of 7,000,000... so those figures cited above can be what is expected.
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Is a hacks book a good way to go about learning more about the insides of an OS (BSD) and how it works, or are there other books out there for this purpose? I know elementary UNIX (if you count Terminal OS X as UNIX) but I'm not sure if books like this are a good way to broaden the scope of what I know in the language, or just specific directions and instructions on how to get some things power users have always wanted to work... to work.
It's not in the article, but in the WWDC Jobs mentioned that, "It's encrypted, so the labels will like it".
After reading the article, I'm under the impression that even as a wireless bridge it supports 128-bit WEP, and as a wireless access point is also supports WPA. That way, when I'm transferring all my illegit MP3's between my Mac and other people's laptops, they'll be encrypted so that no one else can unlawfully eavesdrop on our file transfer.
Whoa there. You might not want to join James Dean's crew so quickly.
Ask first so you know if you'll get shot down or not before you get suspended. Things like this are what got my networking security buddy expelled from his high school. (Needless to say, he now earns quite a bit of money doing what he did then... although he did slightly illegal things then, he admits...).
Maybe you will be lucky and get professors that understand. Maybe the better thing to do is start your own high school Linux club and getting your own boxes, and partnering with your friendly network administrator, and getting these boxes on the web and prettied up knowing full well they'll be some of the most secure boxes on the network.
And if you can't get permission to go on the network? You can find one intelligent teacher to help sponsor a linux LAN. While you may not be able to hold sweet LAN parties, you can at least demonstrate the viability of Linux to anyone there.
Yeah... let me throw in that it's a businesses' natural tendency to play it safe -- and that if you played by the conservative estimates, I'm sure the Apple's internal figures would have the word "failure" printed all over it.
Relate this to the video game industry, which relies on creativity to spark sales (with caveats... Pikmin didn't exactly take off, while Pokemon did), and it's easy to see why gamers in general tend to shake their heads over the game industry's blight.
All right, running comments time.:-) Mandatory disclaimer that I own a PowerBook.
Apple's share of the U.S. PC industry has fallen from 4.2% in mid-2002 to 2.8% in the first quarter, says IDC.
Apple pundits will generally tell you this doesn't matter... and I'm inclined to say they have a point. Average life of my 3 PCs before this one was 4 years. I bought the PB expecting it to last 6. Time will tell.
Sure, Apple flogs low-grade eMacs to schools at bargain-basement prices -- but they have big, fat CRT monitors. Ugh.
I just took a trip to the Best Buy website (let's make the poor assumption that Apple and Best Buy have the same ideas about margins and profits)... yup. CRTs are still roughly $300 cheaper than LCDs. I spent 20 seconds there, I didn't check for the quality of the monitors.
You probably seen the terrific product designs such as well-known architect Michael Graves' line of stylish housewares -- offered a budget prices.
Offer a $200 bounty on a PC exchanged for a new iMac or iBook.
But I like my PC too. It's useful sometimes. For... games and stuff.
Why not offer all Mac buyers a try-and-buy program much like what some Apple resellers are offering to purchasers of high-end Xserve units.
I hear this Unix thing is unbreakable... what better way to test it than to feed it to the dogs that are the general public for free for a couple weeks!:D Realistically, I think their inventories might be a bit too short to do that.
Anyways, those are my first thoughts. At the very least the guy has some interesting ideas. I still think Apple feels they're fine with the niche they have. Reply at will.:)
Different browsers handle this URL differently, etc. etc. here's what I found.:-p
Safari -- Handles the URL correctly by trying to do a hosts lookup on "http". There is no "http", so the lookup fails and the user isn't redirected.
Camino -- Tries http as a server, then appends.com to it and redirects to http://www.http.com. Just a pop-up generating (I assume... I'm using Safari, and I don't want to find out) meta-search engine taking advantage of mistypes.
Slightly off topic, but I just had a bunch of free DOS (or FreeDOS, as it turns out) utilities save quite a bit of my time tonight, and reading this story reminded me of that experience.
Since our church uses three programs that don't run on Slackware, I had to replace it with Win 2k Professional, which is decently stable and fits our needs. Well, I had one XP boot disk that booted into Windows ME (shudder), no utilities, and no way to access two CD-ROM drives that I needed to install 2k from.
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Up here, it can be demonstrated that polka can also be just as harmful. Who stole the kishka?
As has been implied, this should be broadened to all sorts of concepts... databases (PostGRE in addition to mySQL in addition to oracle), OSes (Windows nnnn in addition to UNIX in addition to Macs), etc. Heaven knows when I'll find time for being a better rounded programmer, but it should be a goal for all programming professionals. I'm sure this isn't the first time someone's given such advice.
Did you keep the police car dashboard footage?
One is that aerogel and water don't typically mix... early generations of the stuff would dissolve in water. (This makes sense; aerogel is a solid formed from special dehydrated Jello, essentially.) One previously mentioned is that the insulation properties of aerogel are too good -- the heat you generate would never be lost outside, and you would suffocate or otherwise die a horrible death. Of course, houses aren't made of aerogel, so this wouldn't be a big problem as long as you had other materials.
I still have to think cost is a big issue, what with 2 cm circles 1 cm thick being $25.
(sidenote: I guess there's a new geek test out on how to actually post to this story... the Read More link being wrong and everything...)
84 degrees actually is pretty comfortable for people in the south, especially if it's going to be a dry 84 degrees, which air conditioning can help with. This can be useful, if it's not as expensive as gold, and if it really works as advertised, for people living in dry climates (read: desert southwest) who don't want to run A/C bills through the roof.
That said, I recall that while a significant percentage of heat comes from solar energy through windows... when the house is sitting in a 110 degree plain, it may not be quite as good as first thought.
It's not that I can't get an IP address, though... it's that I can't make a secure connection to their #$@!@* registration server.
In this new category: IE exploits, IE patches, Firefox point-point releases, and PHP flamewars. I'm sure there's plenty of other things that can belong in this category...
This effect itself isn't all that new... it's in all those stain-repellent pants that are being sold now. Being able to control the effect with light is.
...I think our next phones will have to look like this.
As for the population of Alaska... well, Anchorage clocks in at 260,283. Not bad, really, but I live in a metro area population of 7,000,000... so those figures cited above can be what is expected.
Is a hacks book a good way to go about learning more about the insides of an OS (BSD) and how it works, or are there other books out there for this purpose? I know elementary UNIX (if you count Terminal OS X as UNIX) but I'm not sure if books like this are a good way to broaden the scope of what I know in the language, or just specific directions and instructions on how to get some things power users have always wanted to work... to work.
No problem, what's your e-mail address? I can forward you ten examples of the results of this error...
After reading the article, I'm under the impression that even as a wireless bridge it supports 128-bit WEP, and as a wireless access point is also supports WPA. That way, when I'm transferring all my illegit MP3's between my Mac and other people's laptops, they'll be encrypted so that no one else can unlawfully eavesdrop on our file transfer.
Ask first so you know if you'll get shot down or not before you get suspended. Things like this are what got my networking security buddy expelled from his high school. (Needless to say, he now earns quite a bit of money doing what he did then... although he did slightly illegal things then, he admits...).
Maybe you will be lucky and get professors that understand. Maybe the better thing to do is start your own high school Linux club and getting your own boxes, and partnering with your friendly network administrator, and getting these boxes on the web and prettied up knowing full well they'll be some of the most secure boxes on the network.
And if you can't get permission to go on the network? You can find one intelligent teacher to help sponsor a linux LAN. While you may not be able to hold sweet LAN parties, you can at least demonstrate the viability of Linux to anyone there.
Relate this to the video game industry, which relies on creativity to spark sales (with caveats... Pikmin didn't exactly take off, while Pokemon did), and it's easy to see why gamers in general tend to shake their heads over the game industry's blight.
Wait, maybe I'm thinking of something else...
At roughly 2^32 + 1... but I can tell you right now, it'll be a while, $5 billion in cash or not, before they get to $4 trillion. :-)
I find that really hard to believe. I could never get more than 255!
And in a twist of fate, Microsoft announces Longhorn will release in 2014 on 6 DVDs!
Mod parent either +1 Funny, or -1 Crap, I just realized I'm a walking Nerd Alert... make it go away!
Apple's share of the U.S. PC industry has fallen from 4.2% in mid-2002 to 2.8% in the first quarter, says IDC.
Apple pundits will generally tell you this doesn't matter... and I'm inclined to say they have a point. Average life of my 3 PCs before this one was 4 years. I bought the PB expecting it to last 6. Time will tell.
Sure, Apple flogs low-grade eMacs to schools at bargain-basement prices -- but they have big, fat CRT monitors. Ugh.
I just took a trip to the Best Buy website (let's make the poor assumption that Apple and Best Buy have the same ideas about margins and profits)... yup. CRTs are still roughly $300 cheaper than LCDs. I spent 20 seconds there, I didn't check for the quality of the monitors.
You probably seen the terrific product designs such as well-known architect Michael Graves' line of stylish housewares -- offered a budget prices.
Note that this is not a generalization . :-)
Offer a $200 bounty on a PC exchanged for a new iMac or iBook.
But I like my PC too. It's useful sometimes. For... games and stuff.
Why not offer all Mac buyers a try-and-buy program much like what some Apple resellers are offering to purchasers of high-end Xserve units.
I hear this Unix thing is unbreakable... what better way to test it than to feed it to the dogs that are the general public for free for a couple weeks! :D Realistically, I think their inventories might be a bit too short to do that.
Anyways, those are my first thoughts. At the very least the guy has some interesting ideas. I still think Apple feels they're fine with the niche they have. Reply at will. :)
Different browsers handle this URL differently, etc. etc. here's what I found. :-p
Safari -- Handles the URL correctly by trying to do a hosts lookup on "http". There is no "http", so the lookup fails and the user isn't redirected.
Camino -- Tries http as a server, then appends .com to it and redirects to http://www.http.com. Just a pop-up generating (I assume... I'm using Safari, and I don't want to find out) meta-search engine taking advantage of mistypes.
Since our church uses three programs that don't run on Slackware, I had to replace it with Win 2k Professional, which is decently stable and fits our needs. Well, I had one XP boot disk that booted into Windows ME (shudder), no utilities, and no way to access two CD-ROM drives that I needed to install 2k from.
To the rescue? Nothing less than Free FDISK and a Win98SE floppy with generic IDE drivers.
One MySQL client and a Win 2k installation later, and everything looks on track. Who says you don't need DOS anymore? (ahem... Microsoft...)
Thanks for another rescue, folks at FreeDOS!
...Oh! So CDs are what I was shooting at!