We've had this in the phoenix area for quite a while now. It isn't fully implemented on all of our freeways, but ADOT (Arizona Dept. of Trans.) is working on upgrading the roadways to have sensors embedded in them (and running fiber along them all!) and wiring up dynamic road signs for traffic warnings. http://www.superstitionfreeway.com/webcam
A huge issue with NASA and our space program at this point is the lack of a long term vision for space.
Yes we have accomplished a lot. We have a reusable (though not as reliable as one would like) orbiter, a space station that continues to grow. In fact, it has been a matter of years since there were no humans in space at some point. All of this is great and grand, and I appreciate all that we have accomplished. Looking at the achievments of humans in the past 50 years is astounding.
However, we are at a point (and in my opinion we have been here for quite some time!) where we have no unified aim within our space program. We don't have a goal. i.e. "Let's get to Mars within the next 15 years" or "Let's establish a livable habitat on the moon within the next decade", etc. We are doing great research in space, and learning a great many things because of that. But without a vision that people can be rallied behind we can expect nothing less than the stagnancy that we are currently experiencing.
The space station is a great stepping stone to greater things. Let's set a vision of what those greater things are and move in that direction. And pray for a President and NASA leadership willing to spend money on that vision.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Yet in a time when most of your customers use IE, and this tag appears to work for now, what can you do besides encourage your users to use other browsers? More rhetorical of a question I suppose.
The only thing I ever used meta tags for (at least since the advent of Google as the search engine of choice for the majority of Web users) was for redirects. But that only works if browsers support the redirect and if the user doesn't press stop or back, etc. Thus for redirecting users I use PHP's HTTP header redirect and equivalent in ASP.
That said there is one meta tag that we all need:
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true"/>
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Those greeting cards that let you record a personal greeting to be played back to the recipient when they open the card.
"Sorry mom, I wanted to get you a personalized greeting card but the DRM chip added $25 to the cost of the card."
What area of the country are you in? I'm just curious because I use ATT Wireless in the Phoenix area and it's been nothing but perfect for me. In fact, a friend and I did a test a few weeks back and left our phones connected for over 7 hours =). I used to use Sprint PCS. There was no better day than when I cancelled that service.
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BTW - If you were trolling, it was a good one.
Yes, I was. Thank you.
I still think there are a lot of issues with Java, and personally I pretty much loathe it. A lot of that also has to do with my experience with it within my organization. Java isn't solving problems for us, it's creating them. I've used every version since 1.1 to some degree, and while performance has certainly improved, it's still not as fast as native code. I've used a lot of languages, and a lot of the little things Java does really annoy me.
And I'm not huge fan of Perl for that matter. I would never write an enterprise application in Perl. You'd have to be drunk or be part of the slashcode team to do that. =)
Java probably has its place like everything else, and it's definitely better than C#. And that place is probably in web application development. I still have my issues with syntax and the like. But in the end hey, use what you want. That's what being a programmer is about right? Using what you want and then telling everyone else they're stupid for doing the same. =)
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Good Lord! Have you used Java? Granted Perl can be a bit cryptic if you want, but at least Perl lets you do what you want! I can't do operator overloading in Java, because SUN DECIDED I'M TOO STUPID AND MIGHT SCREW IT UP. WELL THANK YOU SUN FOR SAVING ME FROM MYSELF! And don't get me started on the performance of any java implementation (sans the jikes compiler, which isn't really an implementation obviously). Perl lets you get the friggin job done, however you want. Just like any reasonably designed language should. Java tries to save the programmer from him/her self and ends up getting in the way of getting anything done. Transmeta has a better chance of delivering the world ubiquitous cross-platform applications than Java. And that's not saying much.
Certainly not people who want intelligent APIs (try converting a string to an int or vice-versa). Certainly not people who need to overload operators for the sake of code-readability (but sun can override them for their string class - nazis). Certainly not anyone who values performance. And certainly not anyone who isn't stuck in academia with their head up their butt. Java is on its way out, and I'm kickin it in the butt as it goes. Java Sucks!!
The comments that these technologies "are still a decade or so away" is likely a load of crap. Once companies see slimming profit margins and feel the pressure of shareholders, more research money and effort will be placed on getting new tech up and running. As long as companies are still trying to make money, product will still advance.
I think it would be great if/. created a Microsoft section. Just like the sections for books and bsd, everyone who seems to thrive on the latest news about MS could get their fix, while the rest of us who are freaking sick of hearing about how Joe Blow thinks his new copy of XP sold his birthright to his brother for the rights to a wma file can enjoy a less MS-centric news hour.
I took my introductory CS class in C/C++. The semester after I took my introductory class they changed the cirriculum to Java. I then took my digital design and assembly classes, so when I picked up with my general CS I was joined up with the students who had taken Java as their intro.
Well, just this past semester I had my programming languages class where we covered Lisp, Prolog and C/C++. And let me tell you, us C/C++ programmers were way more prepared for what hit us. We spent less time on assignments, did better on the tests with less study time, and in general understood better what was going on.
I definitely will agree that Java has a place. There are some great things about Java, and some really crappy things about Java.
I think the greatest danger I see in teaching Java as an intro language is that it removes the user too much from what is actually taking place in the computer when the application is running. Trying to explain to someone what overflow is when they don't even know what a heap is can be difficult. I would think that a Java based cirriculum could be made that also ensures students understand what's going on internally, and it is important to stay current with what's going on in the industry. But let's not cripple students early on, setting them up to fail later when they come face to face with memory management and the like.
Exactly. Let's be honest, this is fair. They own the patents on mp3, and in this country they have a right to charge licensing fees. They're only charging people who are making money off this, which is also fair. If one doesn't like this, then use a different format. But it's not like we're all going to be prosecuted for using our shoutcast servers or anything. Let's relax a bit.
Generally, responses to RFQs are free.... so I think it is time to start making up fake companies, and submit massive RFQs to PC builders. Each one slightly different, such that when the Microsoft Mafia comes after the fake company, we can determine who was the fink.
It doesn't matter at all if ICANN doesn't like me because I'm not a.org. It is simply stealing to take a domain from someone because ICANN decides they want to reinstate a policy they whoarked up in the first place. What about people who have spent thousands or millions on their enterprises? Now that will be money down the toilet. Please register your comments and let ICANN know that we don't want to lose our domains. I for one don't want to type www.slashdot.ws
I've been using a Maxtor 75G 7200RPM Drive for about 6 months now. I swear, you can't hear the drive. I've turned everything else off in the room and still the hum of the fan is the only thing you can hear.
I've been using it for the last week or so and I find it to be very useful. One especially nice feature is that it will highlight my seach words in the current document, so I can find what I am looking for on the page very quickly with a visual scan.
It's about time. In my metro area we recently went to a geographic split. I had wanted an overlay because I wanted to keep my phone number, but the stupid corporation commission down here didn't listen to businesses and residents and look at the data, and now we make 60% of our calls across area code lines.
Hopefully this will be the first step to personal ownership of one's phone number. I for one would like to be able to move to Holland and keep my phone number.
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We've had this in the phoenix area for quite a while now. It isn't fully implemented on all of our freeways, but ADOT (Arizona Dept. of Trans.) is working on upgrading the roadways to have sensors embedded in them (and running fiber along them all!) and wiring up dynamic road signs for traffic warnings. http://www.superstitionfreeway.com/webcam
A huge issue with NASA and our space program at this point is the lack of a long term vision for space.
Yes we have accomplished a lot. We have a reusable (though not as reliable as one would like) orbiter, a space station that continues to grow. In fact, it has been a matter of years since there were no humans in space at some point. All of this is great and grand, and I appreciate all that we have accomplished. Looking at the achievments of humans in the past 50 years is astounding.
However, we are at a point (and in my opinion we have been here for quite some time!) where we have no unified aim within our space program. We don't have a goal. i.e. "Let's get to Mars within the next 15 years" or "Let's establish a livable habitat on the moon within the next decade", etc. We are doing great research in space, and learning a great many things because of that. But without a vision that people can be rallied behind we can expect nothing less than the stagnancy that we are currently experiencing.
The space station is a great stepping stone to greater things. Let's set a vision of what those greater things are and move in that direction. And pray for a President and NASA leadership willing to spend money on that vision.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Yet in a time when most of your customers use IE, and this tag appears to work for now, what can you do besides encourage your users to use other browsers? More rhetorical of a question I suppose.
The only thing I ever used meta tags for (at least since the advent of Google as the search engine of choice for the majority of Web users) was for redirects. But that only works if browsers support the redirect and if the user doesn't press stop or back, etc. Thus for redirecting users I use PHP's HTTP header redirect and equivalent in ASP.
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That said there is one meta tag that we all need:
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true"
Those greeting cards that let you record a personal greeting to be played back to the recipient when they open the card.
"Sorry mom, I wanted to get you a personalized greeting card but the DRM chip added $25 to the cost of the card."
So where can I get the hydro/bass kit?
I can just see my co-worker driving around the office thumping his kit car through my cube.
Or how about the "hummer" kit so I can drive my car through the bath tub or a parking lot puddle?
And we definitely need a neon underglow kit for those late night office parties.
How long will it be before we have great DRM propganda like this:
http://jeff.whoark.org/images/drmpropaganda.jpg
What area of the country are you in? I'm just curious because I use ATT Wireless in the Phoenix area and it's been nothing but perfect for me. In fact, a friend and I did a test a few weeks back and left our phones connected for over 7 hours =). I used to use Sprint PCS. There was no better day than when I cancelled that service.
Yes, I was. Thank you.
I still think there are a lot of issues with Java, and personally I pretty much loathe it. A lot of that also has to do with my experience with it within my organization. Java isn't solving problems for us, it's creating them. I've used every version since 1.1 to some degree, and while performance has certainly improved, it's still not as fast as native code. I've used a lot of languages, and a lot of the little things Java does really annoy me.
And I'm not huge fan of Perl for that matter. I would never write an enterprise application in Perl. You'd have to be drunk or be part of the slashcode team to do that. =)
Java probably has its place like everything else, and it's definitely better than C#. And that place is probably in web application development. I still have my issues with syntax and the like. But in the end hey, use what you want. That's what being a programmer is about right? Using what you want and then telling everyone else they're stupid for doing the same. =)
Good Lord! Have you used Java? Granted Perl can be a bit cryptic if you want, but at least Perl lets you do what you want! I can't do operator overloading in Java, because SUN DECIDED I'M TOO STUPID AND MIGHT SCREW IT UP. WELL THANK YOU SUN FOR SAVING ME FROM MYSELF! And don't get me started on the performance of any java implementation (sans the jikes compiler, which isn't really an implementation obviously). Perl lets you get the friggin job done, however you want. Just like any reasonably designed language should. Java tries to save the programmer from him/her self and ends up getting in the way of getting anything done. Transmeta has a better chance of delivering the world ubiquitous cross-platform applications than Java. And that's not saying much.
Certainly not people who want intelligent APIs (try converting a string to an int or vice-versa). Certainly not people who need to overload operators for the sake of code-readability (but sun can override them for their string class - nazis). Certainly not anyone who values performance. And certainly not anyone who isn't stuck in academia with their head up their butt. Java is on its way out, and I'm kickin it in the butt as it goes. Java Sucks!!
Congratulations!
You might check RackShack.net. They offer a RAQ4i for 99/month. The rules are basically no DoSing, no Pr0n. I've been very satisfied with them.
The comments that these technologies "are still a decade or so away" is likely a load of crap. Once companies see slimming profit margins and feel the pressure of shareholders, more research money and effort will be placed on getting new tech up and running. As long as companies are still trying to make money, product will still advance.
I think it would be great if /. created a Microsoft section. Just like the sections for books and bsd, everyone who seems to thrive on the latest news about MS could get their fix, while the rest of us who are freaking sick of hearing about how Joe Blow thinks his new copy of XP sold his birthright to his brother for the rights to a wma file can enjoy a less MS-centric news hour.
Well, just this past semester I had my programming languages class where we covered Lisp, Prolog and C/C++. And let me tell you, us C/C++ programmers were way more prepared for what hit us. We spent less time on assignments, did better on the tests with less study time, and in general understood better what was going on.
I definitely will agree that Java has a place. There are some great things about Java, and some really crappy things about Java.
I think the greatest danger I see in teaching Java as an intro language is that it removes the user too much from what is actually taking place in the computer when the application is running. Trying to explain to someone what overflow is when they don't even know what a heap is can be difficult. I would think that a Java based cirriculum could be made that also ensures students understand what's going on internally, and it is important to stay current with what's going on in the industry. But let's not cripple students early on, setting them up to fail later when they come face to face with memory management and the like.
Exactly. Let's be honest, this is fair. They own the patents on mp3, and in this country they have a right to charge licensing fees. They're only charging people who are making money off this, which is also fair. If one doesn't like this, then use a different format. But it's not like we're all going to be prosecuted for using our shoutcast servers or anything. Let's relax a bit.
Generally, responses to RFQs are free.... so I think it is time to start making up fake companies, and submit massive RFQs to PC builders. Each one slightly different, such that when the Microsoft Mafia comes after the fake company, we can determine who was the fink.
Is it really that people are people ashamed of sex or are people ashamed of non-monogamous, fantasiacal sexual encounters, even if only imagined?
The annual really-cool-technology-that-doesn't-exist-and-make s-everyone-really-mad-because-they-fall-for-stupid -gags-athon. Isn't April 1 great?
It doesn't matter at all if ICANN doesn't like me because I'm not a .org. It is simply stealing to take a domain from someone because ICANN decides they want to reinstate a policy they whoarked up in the first place. What about people who have spent thousands or millions on their enterprises? Now that will be money down the toilet. Please register your comments and let ICANN know that we don't want to lose our domains. I for one don't want to type www.slashdot.ws
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I've been using a Maxtor 75G 7200RPM Drive for about 6 months now. I swear, you can't hear the drive. I've turned everything else off in the room and still the hum of the fan is the only thing you can hear.
I've been using it for the last week or so and I find it to be very useful. One especially nice feature is that it will highlight my seach words in the current document, so I can find what I am looking for on the page very quickly with a visual scan.
It's about time. In my metro area we recently went to a geographic split. I had wanted an overlay because I wanted to keep my phone number, but the stupid corporation commission down here didn't listen to businesses and residents and look at the data, and now we make 60% of our calls across area code lines.
Hopefully this will be the first step to personal ownership of one's phone number. I for one would like to be able to move to Holland and keep my phone number.