Most of the slot machines in Vegas have moved to paper currency or printed tickets only, no coins. Payout is done by printing a bar code on a ticket, which can then be played in another machine, or paid out by inserting it into a "cash out" machine.
Kinda sucks to walk through a slots floor and have no more clink-clink. Everything's just video game type noises.
The solution, of course, is to use nuclear power to generate more portable fuels. When people realize the inherent relative safety of pebble bed reactors, and the way that fuels such as hydrogen are a storage facility and not an energy source, we'll be far better off.
Gotta wonder if Measure Map is less resource intensive on the back-end than their Urchin-based Google Analytics. Their stinginess with the Google Analytics accounts was a bit surprising, and I can't help but think that they underestimated the backend processing on that.
After all, if that's not the case, why would they have this as a separate product?
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
A lot of it can be seen with the 'truthiness' bit Colbert did.
It seems like there's been a disillusionment with science that creeped into American society sometime between the space race and the end of the cold war.
Maybe it was due to all of the things that were commonplace but harmful -- like asbestos. "They told us it was safe." Add in some litigation as a definite reason to assess and avoid blame, and some large conspiracies came about. Who could be trusted? Every few years, the conventional wisdom on what's bad for you to eat flips between blaming fat and carbohydrates. Some scientists say there's global warming, others say there isn't. What ever happened to acid rain as a "cause"? Politics and science played off each other so people became not only distrustful, but even unsure that ANYONE REALLY KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON.
Hell, sometimes I'm not clear on that fact. Everyone's got all kinds of corrupt motives. I'm obviously more comfortable when there's been independent verification... but when theoretical physicists come up with propositions that they admit can never be tested, it's a little too much of a leap of faith for me to keep segregated from religion in my book.
While I'm not a fan of discounting everything the man does, you have to admit that for him to present science awards is a bit like Microsoft handing out awards for open source development.
This isn't meant to debate the principles, or even take away from the work of those given the awards, but it's rather plain to see that the President has made himself worthy of ridicule when it comes to science.
Even if it's only symbolic, I'd rather see such things presented as national awards by noted scientists, perhaps with an appearance or a note from W congratulating the winners.
Well, he did ask for something for WORM-like access, so I don't think write concurrency would be an issue. Not to say that GoogleFS is appropriate, but multiple writers to the same file shouldn't be an issue, or could be worked around for the first write with a "staging" filesystem.
Were you one of those kids who, like me, would boot into CP/M and play "totally non-fun" for a while, trying to figure out why the hell anyone would care about it?
The result is that when you try to build a real system using one of the Unices, you quickly find that many of the utilities and libraries that you need are either hopelessly outdated, or totally unavailable
Which sort of real system are you talking about? One where you've compiled everything yourself? In commercial unices, you don't tend to have to do that. What you lose in flexibility, you also lose in complexity and maintenance work. I'm not going to tell you that any of them are the be-all end-all, but there are plenty of "real systems" running Solaris in production, for example, which have never compiled a line of code on the production system.
Methinks your idea of "real system" is a product of underexposure.
That much of communication is non-verbal is quite known. When it comes to business communication, it seems like the treacherous part of this is that so many people are using e-mail and IM for informal communication, and insert so much of our personality into our messages. They're simply not nearly as professional as letters were in the past.
Why wouldn't it be more like standardizing on torx vs. phillips head, or standard vs. metric?
We all know that monoculture can be bad. Besides platform uniformity, strict monoculture opens you up for enterprise-wide vulnerability, and even getting people with a similar, closed mindset. But it also provides for the ability to have a common dialogue with one another. It can be a shared jumping-off point. It keeps you from getting screwed when the one guy at the company who knew mindfuck leaves, and nobody else knows how to read his code.
There are costs and benefits to having, and to deviating from, a standard operating environment. Deviations should be allowed, but the deviations shouldn't be up to the developers, they should be weighed by management (who shouldn't be idiots), and risks and benefits weighed.
Business needs shouldn't be determined by developers. Developers tend to believe in nifty hacks. Code monkeys can love the elegance of using nuance in their code, but there's also a reason that they're not in charge. And it's not just because managers are stupid. Processes may be tedious. They may even be a reason for a developer to hate his job, which isn't good for productivity. Knowing 4 languages, and having the business be dependent upon him may be wonderful from his point of view. But having an employee dictate how things will be done can be destructive to the business. Particularly when he leaves the company for another job, and the new Java guy can't do shit with the Ruby and python.
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When I signed up, I was paying $34.95/mo for unlimited US/Canada. Twice they dropped the price on me, each time by $5.
They're considerably cheaper than the local cable company, Time Warner. I guess TW has two advantages -- bundling for price, and for making it a check-off. Personally, though, I move every year or two, and I prefer keeping it simple with a carrier-independent service.
I'd certainly not have had a problem with them keeping it at $29.95... I wonder how much that 16% drop in revenue per customer has affected their losses vs. the subscriber gain by being at a lower price point.
I still think that one of the biggest obstacles to VoIP is that they don't make it super-obvious how to use your normal in-house wiring with their service to make it indistinguishable from a handset/wiring perspective. That's what keeps people like my mother from considering it.
I've not really seen any reports of utility computing really being used on a regular basis. Is anyone actually using it on a regular basis? I can see how something like the Sun Grid would be used for special projects, but I'm not convinced that general-purpose utility computing is suitable for most companies in their ongoing operations.
That's not to say that virtualization isn't happening, and that it wouldn't also be useful for utility computing... but the real world examples I hear about aren't related.
The question is wholly one of whether or not they can parse the page content. There's no question that they can parse the content of their mail and chat clients, server-side.
AdSense on your site requires that the Mediapartners Googlebot be able to retrieve your page, parse it, and deliver relevant ads. If you're doing real-time content changes and there's tons of Javascript in the page, the challenge to figure out what anyone's talking about isn't worth the fight.
Bitching about it being a monopoly is whining.
They can do what they need server-side when it's on their servers. Google, on their own services, don't do the Javascript includes, the ads are part of the page.
Trademark law requires that you defend your trademark to maintain it. That's not the case with copyright or patents.
As well, the point is to put a barrier to businesses which abuse the name. This isn't an attempt to stop people from talking about BitTorrent without a fee, or use BitTorrent without a fee.
So they think that it sucks to think you're going to fail unless it makes you anxious enough to study.
How do they get to making that leap when the study they did didn't afford people an opportunity to prepare in a way that they'd be able to perform better?
That whole thing sounded like they were taking what they learned -- the concept that if you think you can't, you can't -- and appended to it their own thoughts, unrelated to the study, to make people feel better.
and the theft of an estimated $1.9 billion worth of data on rocket engines from NASA computers
While I usually keep out of the argument of whether or not copying data is theft or not in the piracy debate, how do you value the data at $1.9 billion if it's government data?
I'm all for funding NASA quite nicely, but were they going to sell their data? Shouldn't the information fruits of NASA's labor belong to the people of the nation that paid for it?
DRM asserts the rights of the content creator. Legislators need to spend a bit of time concerning themselves with the rights of the consumer who has licensed/bought the materials.
I'd really like to see some more resources dedicated in the initial granting process rather than simply cheer the decisions to review. Allowing someone to patent an unoriginal idea contradicts the notion of promoting the useful arts which the Constitution provides for.
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Most of the slot machines in Vegas have moved to paper currency or printed tickets only, no coins. Payout is done by printing a bar code on a ticket, which can then be played in another machine, or paid out by inserting it into a "cash out" machine.
Kinda sucks to walk through a slots floor and have no more clink-clink. Everything's just video game type noises.
The solution, of course, is to use nuclear power to generate more portable fuels. When people realize the inherent relative safety of pebble bed reactors, and the way that fuels such as hydrogen are a storage facility and not an energy source, we'll be far better off.
Gotta wonder if Measure Map is less resource intensive on the back-end than their Urchin-based Google Analytics. Their stinginess with the Google Analytics accounts was a bit surprising, and I can't help but think that they underestimated the backend processing on that.
After all, if that's not the case, why would they have this as a separate product?
Sad to hear SleeyCat is going away. They have some cool stuff.
:)
There's always hope that Sleepycat folk will pull a Justin Frankel and be a pain in the ass.
I think he may have asked when he'd get to -funroll-loops and they gave him a slinky to straighten.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Sometimes, dissolving bonds is necessary.
A lot of it can be seen with the 'truthiness' bit Colbert did.
It seems like there's been a disillusionment with science that creeped into American society sometime between the space race and the end of the cold war.
Maybe it was due to all of the things that were commonplace but harmful -- like asbestos. "They told us it was safe." Add in some litigation as a definite reason to assess and avoid blame, and some large conspiracies came about. Who could be trusted? Every few years, the conventional wisdom on what's bad for you to eat flips between blaming fat and carbohydrates. Some scientists say there's global warming, others say there isn't. What ever happened to acid rain as a "cause"? Politics and science played off each other so people became not only distrustful, but even unsure that ANYONE REALLY KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON.
Hell, sometimes I'm not clear on that fact. Everyone's got all kinds of corrupt motives. I'm obviously more comfortable when there's been independent verification... but when theoretical physicists come up with propositions that they admit can never be tested, it's a little too much of a leap of faith for me to keep segregated from religion in my book.
While I'm not a fan of discounting everything the man does, you have to admit that for him to present science awards is a bit like Microsoft handing out awards for open source development.
This isn't meant to debate the principles, or even take away from the work of those given the awards, but it's rather plain to see that the President has made himself worthy of ridicule when it comes to science.
Even if it's only symbolic, I'd rather see such things presented as national awards by noted scientists, perhaps with an appearance or a note from W congratulating the winners.
Well, he did ask for something for WORM-like access, so I don't think write concurrency would be an issue. Not to say that GoogleFS is appropriate, but multiple writers to the same file shouldn't be an issue, or could be worked around for the first write with a "staging" filesystem.
Were you one of those kids who, like me, would boot into CP/M and play "totally non-fun" for a while, trying to figure out why the hell anyone would care about it?
The result is that when you try to build a real system using one of the Unices, you quickly find that many of the utilities and libraries that you need are either hopelessly outdated, or totally unavailable
Which sort of real system are you talking about? One where you've compiled everything yourself? In commercial unices, you don't tend to have to do that. What you lose in flexibility, you also lose in complexity and maintenance work. I'm not going to tell you that any of them are the be-all end-all, but there are plenty of "real systems" running Solaris in production, for example, which have never compiled a line of code on the production system.
Methinks your idea of "real system" is a product of underexposure.
That much of communication is non-verbal is quite known. When it comes to business communication, it seems like the treacherous part of this is that so many people are using e-mail and IM for informal communication, and insert so much of our personality into our messages. They're simply not nearly as professional as letters were in the past.
So... 34000 Japanese killed themselves in 2003, and last year less than 100 people committed suicide as part of suicide clubs.
1 in 340, or 0.3 percent of suicides are accounted for by this?
People like to be horrified by the idea, but resources would be far better focused in pretty much any other way than worrying about this.
Why wouldn't it be more like standardizing on torx vs. phillips head, or standard vs. metric?
We all know that monoculture can be bad. Besides platform uniformity, strict monoculture opens you up for enterprise-wide vulnerability, and even getting people with a similar, closed mindset. But it also provides for the ability to have a common dialogue with one another. It can be a shared jumping-off point. It keeps you from getting screwed when the one guy at the company who knew mindfuck leaves, and nobody else knows how to read his code.
There are costs and benefits to having, and to deviating from, a standard operating environment. Deviations should be allowed, but the deviations shouldn't be up to the developers, they should be weighed by management (who shouldn't be idiots), and risks and benefits weighed.
Business needs shouldn't be determined by developers. Developers tend to believe in nifty hacks. Code monkeys can love the elegance of using nuance in their code, but there's also a reason that they're not in charge. And it's not just because managers are stupid. Processes may be tedious. They may even be a reason for a developer to hate his job, which isn't good for productivity. Knowing 4 languages, and having the business be dependent upon him may be wonderful from his point of view. But having an employee dictate how things will be done can be destructive to the business. Particularly when he leaves the company for another job, and the new Java guy can't do shit with the Ruby and python.
When I signed up, I was paying $34.95/mo for unlimited US/Canada. Twice they dropped the price on me, each time by $5.
They're considerably cheaper than the local cable company, Time Warner. I guess TW has two advantages -- bundling for price, and for making it a check-off. Personally, though, I move every year or two, and I prefer keeping it simple with a carrier-independent service.
I'd certainly not have had a problem with them keeping it at $29.95... I wonder how much that 16% drop in revenue per customer has affected their losses vs. the subscriber gain by being at a lower price point.
I still think that one of the biggest obstacles to VoIP is that they don't make it super-obvious how to use your normal in-house wiring with their service to make it indistinguishable from a handset/wiring perspective. That's what keeps people like my mother from considering it.
Wouldn't it be relatively cheap to duplicate the rovers we've already sent to Mars and get more definitive answers about composition?
I've not really seen any reports of utility computing really being used on a regular basis. Is anyone actually using it on a regular basis? I can see how something like the Sun Grid would be used for special projects, but I'm not convinced that general-purpose utility computing is suitable for most companies in their ongoing operations.
That's not to say that virtualization isn't happening, and that it wouldn't also be useful for utility computing... but the real world examples I hear about aren't related.
The question is wholly one of whether or not they can parse the page content. There's no question that they can parse the content of their mail and chat clients, server-side.
AdSense on your site requires that the Mediapartners Googlebot be able to retrieve your page, parse it, and deliver relevant ads. If you're doing real-time content changes and there's tons of Javascript in the page, the challenge to figure out what anyone's talking about isn't worth the fight.
Bitching about it being a monopoly is whining.
They can do what they need server-side when it's on their servers. Google, on their own services, don't do the Javascript includes, the ads are part of the page.
Trademark law requires that you defend your trademark to maintain it. That's not the case with copyright or patents.
As well, the point is to put a barrier to businesses which abuse the name. This isn't an attempt to stop people from talking about BitTorrent without a fee, or use BitTorrent without a fee.
I don't understand your WTF.
It was to increase the bidding between the Catholic Church and Michael Jackson.
So they think that it sucks to think you're going to fail unless it makes you anxious enough to study.
How do they get to making that leap when the study they did didn't afford people an opportunity to prepare in a way that they'd be able to perform better?
That whole thing sounded like they were taking what they learned -- the concept that if you think you can't, you can't -- and appended to it their own thoughts, unrelated to the study, to make people feel better.
And think how many more people, having done that, are at least in some way a little more protected from becoming a spam zombie.
and the theft of an estimated $1.9 billion worth of data on rocket engines from NASA computers
While I usually keep out of the argument of whether or not copying data is theft or not in the piracy debate, how do you value the data at $1.9 billion if it's government data?
I'm all for funding NASA quite nicely, but were they going to sell their data? Shouldn't the information fruits of NASA's labor belong to the people of the nation that paid for it?
DRM asserts the rights of the content creator. Legislators need to spend a bit of time concerning themselves with the rights of the consumer who has licensed/bought the materials.
I'd really like to see some more resources dedicated in the initial granting process rather than simply cheer the decisions to review. Allowing someone to patent an unoriginal idea contradicts the notion of promoting the useful arts which the Constitution provides for.