I for one have no interest in such targeted advertising, and until they become ubiquitous I'll avoid any store that has these.
Can you imagine where this will go? Shelf notices that you're overweight and you picked up a candy bar? Screen says, "Are you sure you want to buy that?" This will work great until someone puts a sticker over the sensor bar.
"Otherwise, crashing from sufficient altitude is usually sufficient."
Except in the two cases where Iran claims to have captured our drones, presumably while they were flying.
I understand the safety concerns. I would argue that you have similar safety issues with ordinance as well, and there are well known ways of dealing with those.
One has to wonder why these machines don't have some form of self-destruct mechanism built in for situations where they are legitimately shot down or otherwise captured.
Or perhaps it's a nefarious CIA plot to sneak a Stuxnet-like virus into Iran's C&C infrastructure:
Tech 1: We have successfully downloaded the ROM from the drone into our systems. Allahu-Akbar!
Tech 2: Huh. Why have our radar and air defense systems suddenty gone off-line?
Amen times 100.
Our admins recently upgraded our Confluence install and now all I have access to is the WYSIWYG editor, and I hate it. I used to write a lot of longer documents in Emacs with Confluence wiki markup and then paste the text in when I was done... now that doesn't work so well. Editing any non-trivial document is a RPITA now.
And people wonder why I still work a lot on the command-line : I don't need someone else's thoughts on how I should work getting in my way.
P.S. Get off my lawn.
It's the second time a Dragon has berthed with the ISS and delivered cargo. The first one occurred earlier this year and was a "demonstration" mission showing that it was possible. This was the first "real" mission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COTS_Demo_Flight_2#Payload
Piers Anthony's Xanth series can be a lot of fun, especially the early ones. Eight may be a bit young for them though.
I'll second the suggestions of Narnia and The Hobbit (LotR is not engaging enough for the average 8 y/o IMHO).
Let's not beat around the bush! I say Microsoft has known USG agents working on the systems intentionally putting holes in the OS that can then be leveraged for zero-day attacks against other governments. Balmer is in cahoots I say! CAHOOTS!
And now that we've been paying AT&T for 4.5 years of unlimited service, they are taking it away because our devices made it easier to consume the data. [...] Now AT&T is calling foul? AT&T should either stop grandfathering the plan forward or leave us alone.
Amen. Are so many people grandfathered into the unlimited plans that they feel the need to throttle us? Really? Piss off.
...that both PRC (mainland China) and ROC (Taiwan) agree there is only one "China", but disagree over which government is legitimate.
Which is a great piece of political mental masturbation but of little use in reality, where there are separate governments and separate courts and separate financial institutions at play.
One undergraduate spending 12 weeks porting Darwin (!) to a new CPU architecture as part of their senior internship should not be used to infer anything about what Apple will be doing moving forward. Have people lost their minds?
This is the biggest non-story I've ever read. He could just as easily been doing this with *BSD or Linux or OpenVMS or whatever.
Honestly.
This is unfortunately just the way it is: some places do the Right Thing (for various meanings of Right Thing) and others do not. Now you'll know to ask about this kind of thing when you interview.:-)
I was working on a project at Spyglass in the late '90s that did this... it isn't a new idea. It just got pushed to the background when devices started getting more powerful and bandwidth increased.
I'm not sure I understand the point of this extension: compile time type safety for internal (i.e., compiled) queries against a full-text database. Seems like a nice POC that has really no use in real life.
The "rogue-like" moniker escapes me completely: is this some reference to database technology I'm not aware of? I just found it confusing.
I was just going to ask the question, but then it occurred to me that he may have been hearing the Chinooks that came in behind the original force... pretty hard to silence them.
That may be, but when my kids were born part of the paperwork I filled out at the hospital to get their birth certificates and names registered was a SSN form, and they had numbers before they were home from the hospital. You need the numbers to claim them on your tax forms.
Turbo Pascal dominated the PC programming space in the 80s. And the Apple LISA and original Macintosh were programmed in two languages: assembly or Pascal. Hell, the Mac Toolbox used Pascal calling conventions and you had to deal with "Pascal Strings" (the length of the string being the first byte) for years and years, even in other languages.
As another commenter said, "get off my lawn."
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I for one have no interest in such targeted advertising, and until they become ubiquitous I'll avoid any store that has these.
Can you imagine where this will go? Shelf notices that you're overweight and you picked up a candy bar? Screen says, "Are you sure you want to buy that?" This will work great until someone puts a sticker over the sensor bar.
Ha, if people think C is dangerous, then they should definitely switch to Forth.
Except in the two cases where Iran claims to have captured our drones, presumably while they were flying.
I understand the safety concerns. I would argue that you have similar safety issues with ordinance as well, and there are well known ways of dealing with those.
Or perhaps it's a nefarious CIA plot to sneak a Stuxnet-like virus into Iran's C&C infrastructure:
Tech 1: We have successfully downloaded the ROM from the drone into our systems. Allahu-Akbar!
Tech 2: Huh. Why have our radar and air defense systems suddenty gone off-line?
Amen times 100. Our admins recently upgraded our Confluence install and now all I have access to is the WYSIWYG editor, and I hate it. I used to write a lot of longer documents in Emacs with Confluence wiki markup and then paste the text in when I was done... now that doesn't work so well. Editing any non-trivial document is a RPITA now. And people wonder why I still work a lot on the command-line : I don't need someone else's thoughts on how I should work getting in my way. P.S. Get off my lawn.
It's the second time a Dragon has berthed with the ISS and delivered cargo. The first one occurred earlier this year and was a "demonstration" mission showing that it was possible. This was the first "real" mission. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COTS_Demo_Flight_2#Payload
Until she starts laughing...
Piers Anthony's Xanth series can be a lot of fun, especially the early ones. Eight may be a bit young for them though. I'll second the suggestions of Narnia and The Hobbit (LotR is not engaging enough for the average 8 y/o IMHO).
Let's not beat around the bush! I say Microsoft has known USG agents working on the systems intentionally putting holes in the OS that can then be leveraged for zero-day attacks against other governments. Balmer is in cahoots I say! CAHOOTS!
I did not mean to infer that you, or any of the creators of Julia, were making the comparison, and I hope it was taken as such.
C : GeneralPurposeProgramming :: Fortran : Numerical Computing
The title of the post is off, or misleading, or ignorant.
My wife suffers from insomnia and often reads in the middle of the night: having a light on her kindle would be a godsend.
Amen. Are so many people grandfathered into the unlimited plans that they feel the need to throttle us? Really? Piss off.
Indeed.
Which is a great piece of political mental masturbation but of little use in reality, where there are separate governments and separate courts and separate financial institutions at play.
In what way are they the same country?
One undergraduate spending 12 weeks porting Darwin (!) to a new CPU architecture as part of their senior internship should not be used to infer anything about what Apple will be doing moving forward. Have people lost their minds? This is the biggest non-story I've ever read. He could just as easily been doing this with *BSD or Linux or OpenVMS or whatever. Honestly.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2011-705.pdf
This is unfortunately just the way it is: some places do the Right Thing (for various meanings of Right Thing) and others do not. Now you'll know to ask about this kind of thing when you interview. :-)
It can be disabled with a single shot. It doesn't even need to be a particularly well placed shot.
I was working on a project at Spyglass in the late '90s that did this... it isn't a new idea. It just got pushed to the background when devices started getting more powerful and bandwidth increased.
I'm not sure I understand the point of this extension: compile time type safety for internal (i.e., compiled) queries against a full-text database. Seems like a nice POC that has really no use in real life. The "rogue-like" moniker escapes me completely: is this some reference to database technology I'm not aware of? I just found it confusing.
I was just going to ask the question, but then it occurred to me that he may have been hearing the Chinooks that came in behind the original force... pretty hard to silence them.
Hmmmm... today *is* Judgement Day... perhaps Skynet's first target is AWS's East-Coast data center. Coincidence? I think not.
That may be, but when my kids were born part of the paperwork I filled out at the hospital to get their birth certificates and names registered was a SSN form, and they had numbers before they were home from the hospital. You need the numbers to claim them on your tax forms.
Turbo Pascal dominated the PC programming space in the 80s. And the Apple LISA and original Macintosh were programmed in two languages: assembly or Pascal. Hell, the Mac Toolbox used Pascal calling conventions and you had to deal with "Pascal Strings" (the length of the string being the first byte) for years and years, even in other languages. As another commenter said, "get off my lawn."