I based my post on what I read in Albert Speer's memoirs. (Speer was Hitler's favorite architect, and the Minister of Armaments for the second half of the war. He wrote the memoirs while doing time for war crimes.) He seemed convinced that they could have built a nuke if they hadn't been neglecting basic research during the 30s. That view was probably based on what Heisenberg told him; if the delay was actually due to Heisenberg's mistakes, then it's not surprising Heisenberg tried to put his own spin on it.
The Nazis also discouraged basic research into nuclear physics, which they considered, for some reason, a "Jewish" science. When they finally launched a nuclear bomb program (1940 or 41, I think), they realized that it would take them several years just to catch up to the Americans, and that by the time they had a working weapon, the war would probably be over.
This isn't about govt telling a business how to operate. This is about a client (which just happens to be a state govt) specifying certain features (in this case, interoperability) that they require in the products they purchase.
The trouble with buying European beer in the US is that you've no idea how long it's been around. It gets shipped by sea, then sits in some unventilated warehouse on the Jersey shore, then finally gets trucked over to my local retailer... All that traveling does not help the flavor. That's why most of the time I drink locally made stuff: Gennessee when I'm broke, Ithaca Flower Power or Saranac Pale Ale when I get paid, and either Wagner Sled Dog Stout or Ommegang when I'm celebrating.
If her customers are local namely those who are in walking distance of her store.. then why does she need a website at all.
Possibly true. But by the same token, why does Milka (the chocolate company) need a website at all? They sell their products in retail stores, not over the net. Their site serves absolutely no useful purpose.* Sometime in the 90s, the finest minds of the business world decided that a product needs to have a "web presence" in order to be taken seriously. It doesn't matter if anyone actually visits the site, or if the site generates any income - it's just a status symbol.
* I could be wrong about that. I didn't look around the site because 1) I don't speak German, and 2) that fucking rabbit was bugging the hell out of me.
This is Harvard Business School that we're talking about here. It's a post-grad program. I guess it's conceivable, but I don't think anybody ever got into HBS straight out of high school. (And if they did, then they probably have enough personal problems already.)
Anyway, it seems kind of irrelevant whether they're 18 or 28. If you were to ask me, I would have let this go - which is probably one of the many reasons why I don't work for Admissions at Harvard Business School.
While applicant of low pressure to a rooster might be an odd job description, who knows if these people exist, and how much pride they might take in their work?
"I was a cock-teaser for Roosterama. I used to enrage the bantams."
- Firesign Theater
In 2000, EVERYONE on Slashdot was saying the RIAA should sue individual downloaders, not Napster. Fast foward by four years, and that's exactly what they do. And Slashdotters, again, bitch.
Can you cite any specific examples of individuals who took both of those positions? "Everyone on Slashdot" is a meaningless designation.
Little if any functionality of most worms requires root privileges. They could run just fine as a user process.
This is the main problem with the standard Unix access control, which is based on the idea of users and groups. There are people working on systems that allow finer-grained control, like SE-Linux. Hopefully, by the time Linux is the default desktop platform, those experiments will have produced something useful.
What public good came of this disclosure? More generally, what public good comes from disclosing any business's trade secrets prematurely and thus damaging them
How was Apple damaged, exactly? I don't know the details of this particular case, but from my experience, they've crossed the line from protecting trade secrets to a pathological need to control information.
A few years ago, when they were working on their release of Java 1.4, I had to sign an NDA just to download the beta. The NDA prevented me from discussing anything about the beta, except on the designated mailing list. And because of secrecy concerns, there was no public archive of the list or even a FAQ page - so you had people coming in and asking the same questions over and over...
I managed not to violate the NDA - mainly because there was really nothing interesting that I learned from working with the beta. (Oooh! Look! There's an obscure bug in the AWT implementation! And the Apple geek said that it'll be fixed in the next beta release! Our master will pay well for this information! Ha ha ha!)
This had occured to me, but it won't compile if you catch ClassNotFoundException. The compiler complains because the exception is never explicitly thrown. Doesn't matter: if Class.forName(String) throws an exception, then it means that class is unavailable.
That won't work; it just tests whether you can create an instance of the object, but you still need the class around for when you do the load of the calling class
A class doesn't get loaded until you actually try to do something with that class. Try it yourself. Just loading another class that makes a reference to it isn't enough; otherwise, the JVM would have to load EVERYTHING in the classpath at startup time. (Come to think of it, is this behavior an official part of the language spec? I'll have to check.)
And I think this would be a little better:
Class x = Class.forName("XYZClass");
(It allows for the possibility that XYZClass doesn't have a public no-args constructor.)
the whole drive to the moon was Kennedy hoping to get some action just like Captain Kirk's.
Sorry, your dates are a little off. Captain Kirk didn't come along until the late 60s. When JFK was "un-elected" in Dallas, William Shatner was still making low-budget art movies in Esperanto.
I can't think of a single hardware device that will work with Linux but not Windows (though I'm sure some exist).
A couple of years ago, my employers bought a new XP box to replace their failing Win98 machine. They were also forced to replace a perfectly good inkjet printer, because there were no XP drivers available for it.
I don't recall the model - I think it was a Lexmark - but I do remember that there was a Linux driver available for it at the time. This isn't an isolated case; there's a whole community of geeks who write Linux drivers for obscure peripherals. There's no such equivalent in the Windows world. If you can't find a driver from your device's manufacturer, you're SOL. (I would have loved to move my employer to Linux, but they were dependent on a couple of Windows-only business apps.)
Incidentally, can somebody explain to me why printer support is generally such a hassle (on any OS)? Most printers pretty much perform the same job - why do you need a different driver for every damn model? Why can't there be some sort of standard interface, like for keyboards or monitors?
Yes, you're right. I realized after I posted that I misunderstood what you were describing. As far as I know, there's no way to make Safari do that (search the cache).
You mean like toilets that take your blood pressure and phones that play PacMan? Nobody's asking the important question here: do we really NEED all that shit? The problem with Americans is that they're not slacking off ENOUGH. Americans have been conditioned by generations of pervasive advertising to buy all the latest gadgets and all the latest clothes, then work two jobs to pay off their credit card debt. Few people consider the possibility that they might be happier if they buy LESS shiny crap.
I think you're over-simplifying a bit (some items have more than 2 options; each ballot probably has a unique ID and a timestamp; the records may have to be word-aligned, etc), but it's an excellent point. With today's hardware, a voting machine should have no problem storing 10,000 ballots. It's a ridiculously low requirement, in fact.
My guess is that the 3,000-vote model doesn't actually have any less storage space - it's just configured not to use the full amount of available space.
there were discussions on why it is ok to torture. The basic idea was that Muslums are allowed to torture others because they are Gods children, while others are not allowed to.
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seems to have caused problems with some of my Adium themes
Care to elaborate? Some of Adium's themes had problems before this update. Are you sure these are new problems?
Interesting stuff - I didn't know that.
I based my post on what I read in Albert Speer's memoirs. (Speer was Hitler's favorite architect, and the Minister of Armaments for the second half of the war. He wrote the memoirs while doing time for war crimes.) He seemed convinced that they could have built a nuke if they hadn't been neglecting basic research during the 30s. That view was probably based on what Heisenberg told him; if the delay was actually due to Heisenberg's mistakes, then it's not surprising Heisenberg tried to put his own spin on it.
The Nazis also discouraged basic research into nuclear physics, which they considered, for some reason, a "Jewish" science. When they finally launched a nuclear bomb program (1940 or 41, I think), they realized that it would take them several years just to catch up to the Americans, and that by the time they had a working weapon, the war would probably be over.
This isn't about govt telling a business how to operate. This is about a client (which just happens to be a state govt) specifying certain features (in this case, interoperability) that they require in the products they purchase.
This is the free market at work.
The trouble with buying European beer in the US is that you've no idea how long it's been around. It gets shipped by sea, then sits in some unventilated warehouse on the Jersey shore, then finally gets trucked over to my local retailer... All that traveling does not help the flavor. That's why most of the time I drink locally made stuff: Gennessee when I'm broke, Ithaca Flower Power or Saranac Pale Ale when I get paid, and either Wagner Sled Dog Stout or Ommegang when I'm celebrating.
If her customers are local namely those who are in walking distance of her store.. then why does she need a website at all.
Possibly true. But by the same token, why does Milka (the chocolate company) need a website at all? They sell their products in retail stores, not over the net. Their site serves absolutely no useful purpose.* Sometime in the 90s, the finest minds of the business world decided that a product needs to have a "web presence" in order to be taken seriously. It doesn't matter if anyone actually visits the site, or if the site generates any income - it's just a status symbol.
* I could be wrong about that. I didn't look around the site because 1) I don't speak German, and 2) that fucking rabbit was bugging the hell out of me.
But what's Microsoft getting in return, that's what I'd like to know...
I hear Clippy's on the short list for US Ambassador to the Vatican.
A "big huge can of gasoline" isn't required to start a fire; it just makes the process a lot more fun.
fresh out of high school 17-18 year olds
This is Harvard Business School that we're talking about here. It's a post-grad program. I guess it's conceivable, but I don't think anybody ever got into HBS straight out of high school. (And if they did, then they probably have enough personal problems already.)
Anyway, it seems kind of irrelevant whether they're 18 or 28. If you were to ask me, I would have let this go - which is probably one of the many reasons why I don't work for Admissions at Harvard Business School.
While applicant of low pressure to a rooster might be an odd job description, who knows if these people exist, and how much pride they might take in their work?
"I was a cock-teaser for Roosterama. I used to enrage the bantams."
- Firesign Theater
In 2000, EVERYONE on Slashdot was saying the RIAA should sue individual downloaders, not Napster.
Fast foward by four years, and that's exactly what they do. And Slashdotters, again, bitch.
Can you cite any specific examples of individuals who took both of those positions? "Everyone on Slashdot" is a meaningless designation.
Little if any functionality of most worms requires root privileges. They could run just fine as a user process.
This is the main problem with the standard Unix access control, which is based on the idea of users and groups. There are people working on systems that allow finer-grained control, like SE-Linux. Hopefully, by the time Linux is the default desktop platform, those experiments will have produced something useful.
What public good came of this disclosure? More generally, what public good comes from disclosing any business's trade secrets prematurely and thus damaging them
How was Apple damaged, exactly? I don't know the details of this particular case, but from my experience, they've crossed the line from protecting trade secrets to a pathological need to control information.
A few years ago, when they were working on their release of Java 1.4, I had to sign an NDA just to download the beta. The NDA prevented me from discussing anything about the beta, except on the designated mailing list. And because of secrecy concerns, there was no public archive of the list or even a FAQ page - so you had people coming in and asking the same questions over and over...
I managed not to violate the NDA - mainly because there was really nothing interesting that I learned from working with the beta. (Oooh! Look! There's an obscure bug in the AWT implementation! And the Apple geek said that it'll be fixed in the next beta release! Our master will pay well for this information! Ha ha ha!)
This had occured to me, but it won't compile if you catch ClassNotFoundException. The compiler complains because the exception is never explicitly thrown. Doesn't matter: if Class.forName(String) throws an exception, then it means that class is unavailable.
A class doesn't get loaded until you actually try to do something with that class. Try it yourself. Just loading another class that makes a reference to it isn't enough; otherwise, the JVM would have to load EVERYTHING in the classpath at startup time. (Come to think of it, is this behavior an official part of the language spec? I'll have to check.)
And I think this would be a little better:(It allows for the possibility that XYZClass doesn't have a public no-args constructor.)
the whole drive to the moon was Kennedy hoping to get some action just like Captain Kirk's.
Sorry, your dates are a little off. Captain Kirk didn't come along until the late 60s. When JFK was "un-elected" in Dallas, William Shatner was still making low-budget art movies in Esperanto.
Home users might find that this will be the first "computer" that does work correctly out of the box.
No, we've had those for a number of years now.
I can't think of a single hardware device that will work with Linux but not Windows (though I'm sure some exist).
A couple of years ago, my employers bought a new XP box to replace their failing Win98 machine. They were also forced to replace a perfectly good inkjet printer, because there were no XP drivers available for it.
I don't recall the model - I think it was a Lexmark - but I do remember that there was a Linux driver available for it at the time. This isn't an isolated case; there's a whole community of geeks who write Linux drivers for obscure peripherals. There's no such equivalent in the Windows world. If you can't find a driver from your device's manufacturer, you're SOL. (I would have loved to move my employer to Linux, but they were dependent on a couple of Windows-only business apps.)
Incidentally, can somebody explain to me why printer support is generally such a hassle (on any OS)? Most printers pretty much perform the same job - why do you need a different driver for every damn model? Why can't there be some sort of standard interface, like for keyboards or monitors?
Yes, you're right. I realized after I posted that I misunderstood what you were describing. As far as I know, there's no way to make Safari do that (search the cache).
Safari has that, too.
"Bookmarks" -> "Show All Bookmarks", select "History" on the left side, hit cmd-F.
You can't do a case-sensitive search, which is a minor drawback.
You mean like toilets that take your blood pressure and phones that play PacMan? Nobody's asking the important question here: do we really NEED all that shit? The problem with Americans is that they're not slacking off ENOUGH. Americans have been conditioned by generations of pervasive advertising to buy all the latest gadgets and all the latest clothes, then work two jobs to pay off their credit card debt. Few people consider the possibility that they might be happier if they buy LESS shiny crap.
applications such as Freenet are not working reliably under 1.5 JREs
Are you actually suggesting that Freenet "works reliably" under any other JREs?
I think you're over-simplifying a bit (some items have more than 2 options; each ballot probably has a unique ID and a timestamp; the records may have to be word-aligned, etc), but it's an excellent point. With today's hardware, a voting machine should have no problem storing 10,000 ballots. It's a ridiculously low requirement, in fact.
My guess is that the 3,000-vote model doesn't actually have any less storage space - it's just configured not to use the full amount of available space.
there were discussions on why it is ok to torture. The basic idea was that Muslums are allowed to torture others because they are Gods children, while others are not allowed to.
Thank God our own civilization has gotten past that.