http://www.newerthannow.com/SaveGas.html i tried that a while back, but never got to the point of going through all possible permutations, and just let the user randomize the number of their trips to list the total distance.
This is nothing new. Haven't you ever heard the expression, "That person looks suspicious"? People with ulterior motives often give something away with their expressions. It's not any new or even "totalitarian" for people to use the techniques of looking for those expressions as part of their process for detecting threats.
ruby goes to great lengths to give the programmer the abiltiy to dynamically add/remove functionality to instantiated objects(not classes like java). if you look around for some ruby implementations of common design patterns, you'll see the real power. Theres no need for a pattern like 'strategy' in ruby, stuff like that just works by passing blocks to methods. ruby is geared more towards the way the brain works, not the way the computer does. The ruby philosphy is that speed issues will work themselves out with time (let the people designing virtual machines worry about that), and it's probably better to put programmer freindliness first. ['ruby', 'php'] - ['php'] # this would equal ['ruby']... lots of cool stuff like that.
Industries that are hurting (film, music, anything else effected by file sharing), used to have a budgeted amount of money to spend on stuff that was interesting but had no really strong signs of a profitable return. Like any investment portfolio, speculation is where you make the most when something pays off, but loose until that 'win' comes along. That budget is one of the first things to go as people stop supporting the entertainment industry. Record labels, and movie companies can't afford to take a risk on anything (that falls outside an easy mainstream consumption) like that anymore, they're only option to survive is putting out another 'Scary Movie' or signing another crappy emo band with a pre-establish teenage following.
A friend of mine works at con edison, the company the supplies NYC power where everything is run underground. They have many issues with wires and pipes being corroded by different substances underground. For instance, salt.. Every time there is a snow storm and the streets need salting, a big part of the cost to the city is the extra repair that will soon be needed on the underground electric system...
i'll attest, while on the verge of invevsting in a dedicated server, i tried dreamhost a few months ago. after the first week, i moved all my websites there and life has been much easier since. they rule!
all the things java was supposed to be great for..
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all the things java was supposed to be great for, all the portability, consumer gadgets, smart coffee machines, etc. there's where Sun could really benefit most from open sourcing. There just isn't that much of a reason to use it on the net anymore, unless you work at a financial institution, the technology at large is just moving too slow. But when hobbyists can easily adopt java to connect the things around the house, that will be a big push forward for everyone. and open sourcing java only speeds up that barrier that keeps most java programmers working on desktops and servers...
yeah but school isn't everything.. i think most self taught software engineers would agree it wasn't a quick and easy process to learn everything it takes to be a hireable and productive person. And although a 4 CS degree is a great start, it's still only a start, learning the ins and outs of all the popular stuff can take quite some time.
yeah that is true, support all around is pretty crappy. with linspire you actually get their CNR service, which is the closest thing i've seen that could make linux ready for the masses. it's basically a portal to tons of open source projects with 'one click' download and installation. i think if there is one thing all the vendors need to agree on to get things moving faster it's software installation. a simple tool like that that could work regardless of what distrobution could really change a lot.
i think a big problem is a lack of people who could answer any questions on these machines. i bought a 500$ linspire laptop at walmart. the price was cheap enough and the CNR service was pretty cool so i figured, 'why not?'.. after playing around a bit i ended up selling it to a friend after i a got a new power book.. anyways, the amount of questions i got about that linspire machine (how can i set up my printer, why can't my kids use for school, etc..) was a headache enough.. i couldn't imagine a big box store that would be willing to deal with this type of feedback for one type of product.
i mean, if most of the people running botnets are young and doing it for the 'kool factor', doesn't this take away from that a bit? There are plenty of tools out there that are probably very easy to use, but once it really starts to get out that scanning ports and cracking systems is something any jerk can do with a GUI, maybe some of the 'show offs' might start declining the challenge...
I would think that with developing Vista, at some point you guys must have taken a look at how some of the linux and unix distros (especially Mac OSX) have dealt with similiar security issues... If so, how often does this happen, or is there any conscious effort to avoid asking yourselves that question...?
i went to go see this motorola/ipod phone at webster hall tonight in NY.. all in all, cool but very very sluggish.. all the demo booths had phones with roughly 5 or 6 albums on them, and just that alone drastically slowed down the display. plus they didn't have any instructions, or tell anyone that to get the phones to play music you had to disconnect them from their laptop stations, a very bad move. this place was full of music writers that couldn't get passed the "Do not Disconnect Screen" to make the thing do what it was actally supposed to do. But they did have free drinks, which put most people in a really good mood.. Also, a really cheasy speech by motorola's head of marketing. i'm sort of suprised Apple has gotten behind something so sluggish. in the time it takes to load up one song from the main screen, i can grab a real ipod from my other pocket and play whatever i want to hear. someday it might be a nice little gadget, but not now, not sure why either but definately not right now...
this is starting to look suspicious to me. This story is just plain stupid, but the last 5 or so months have been so loaded with bad publicity for google that it really seams impossible that all these people would start questioning them at the same time. I've seen my local news run stories on how google takes information from people's computers(reffering to IP addresses). And why this Microsoft comparison? that's nuts.. since when does success = evil? Microsoft truely does very shady stuff that everyone here is aware of. Google is company that's where it is because it's products are the best. And people seem to forget, google's search is probably the most unbiased approach you could take towards indexing all the crap out there. just seems very weird, all of this out of nowhere...
when 15-20% of their workers end up working for a company that's profits go back into US stock holders instead of back into their own economy? whether or not it's good for us, is making more poor people dependent on the US one of the unmentionable goals of offshoring?
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http://www.newerthannow.com/SaveGas.html i tried that a while back, but never got to the point of going through all possible permutations, and just let the user randomize the number of their trips to list the total distance.
This is nothing new. Haven't you ever heard the expression, "That person looks suspicious"? People with ulterior motives often give something away with their expressions. It's not any new or even "totalitarian" for people to use the techniques of looking for those expressions as part of their process for detecting threats.
flex is pretty cool stuff, can use to make widgets like this one from google finance, http://finance.google.com/finance?cid=983582, check out the middle slider.
ruby goes to great lengths to give the programmer the abiltiy to dynamically add/remove functionality to instantiated objects(not classes like java). if you look around for some ruby implementations of common design patterns, you'll see the real power. Theres no need for a pattern like 'strategy' in ruby, stuff like that just works by passing blocks to methods. ruby is geared more towards the way the brain works, not the way the computer does. The ruby philosphy is that speed issues will work themselves out with time (let the people designing virtual machines worry about that), and it's probably better to put programmer freindliness first. ['ruby', 'php'] - ['php'] # this would equal ['ruby']... lots of cool stuff like that.
there's much more to making the data portable then giving people the freedom to leave, it's just another reason to sign up in my opinion...
stocks are just pieces of paper, they have value based on their popularity, digital media could work the same way... http://newerthannow.com/blog/
Industries that are hurting (film, music, anything else effected by file sharing), used to have a budgeted amount of money to spend on stuff that was interesting but had no really strong signs of a profitable return. Like any investment portfolio, speculation is where you make the most when something pays off, but loose until that 'win' comes along. That budget is one of the first things to go as people stop supporting the entertainment industry. Record labels, and movie companies can't afford to take a risk on anything (that falls outside an easy mainstream consumption) like that anymore, they're only option to survive is putting out another 'Scary Movie' or signing another crappy emo band with a pre-establish teenage following.
A friend of mine works at con edison, the company the supplies NYC power where everything is run underground. They have many issues with wires and pipes being corroded by different substances underground. For instance, salt.. Every time there is a snow storm and the streets need salting, a big part of the cost to the city is the extra repair that will soon be needed on the underground electric system...
i'll attest, while on the verge of invevsting in a dedicated server, i tried dreamhost a few months ago. after the first week, i moved all my websites there and life has been much easier since. they rule!
im glad someone said that...
all the things java was supposed to be great for, all the portability, consumer gadgets, smart coffee machines, etc. there's where Sun could really benefit most from open sourcing. There just isn't that much of a reason to use it on the net anymore, unless you work at a financial institution, the technology at large is just moving too slow. But when hobbyists can easily adopt java to connect the things around the house, that will be a big push forward for everyone. and open sourcing java only speeds up that barrier that keeps most java programmers working on desktops and servers...
yeah but school isn't everything.. i think most self taught software engineers would agree it wasn't a quick and easy process to learn everything it takes to be a hireable and productive person. And although a 4 CS degree is a great start, it's still only a start, learning the ins and outs of all the popular stuff can take quite some time.
yeah that is true, support all around is pretty crappy. with linspire you actually get their CNR service, which is the closest thing i've seen that could make linux ready for the masses. it's basically a portal to tons of open source projects with 'one click' download and installation. i think if there is one thing all the vendors need to agree on to get things moving faster it's software installation. a simple tool like that that could work regardless of what distrobution could really change a lot.
i think a big problem is a lack of people who could answer any questions on these machines. i bought a 500$ linspire laptop at walmart. the price was cheap enough and the CNR service was pretty cool so i figured, 'why not?'.. after playing around a bit i ended up selling it to a friend after i a got a new power book.. anyways, the amount of questions i got about that linspire machine (how can i set up my printer, why can't my kids use for school, etc..) was a headache enough.. i couldn't imagine a big box store that would be willing to deal with this type of feedback for one type of product.
i mean, if most of the people running botnets are young and doing it for the 'kool factor', doesn't this take away from that a bit? There are plenty of tools out there that are probably very easy to use, but once it really starts to get out that scanning ports and cracking systems is something any jerk can do with a GUI, maybe some of the 'show offs' might start declining the challenge...
I would think that with developing Vista, at some point you guys must have taken a look at how some of the linux and unix distros (especially Mac OSX) have dealt with similiar security issues... If so, how often does this happen, or is there any conscious effort to avoid asking yourselves that question...?
i went to go see this motorola/ipod phone at webster hall tonight in NY.. all in all, cool but very very sluggish.. all the demo booths had phones with roughly 5 or 6 albums on them, and just that alone drastically slowed down the display. plus they didn't have any instructions, or tell anyone that to get the phones to play music you had to disconnect them from their laptop stations, a very bad move. this place was full of music writers that couldn't get passed the "Do not Disconnect Screen" to make the thing do what it was actally supposed to do. But they did have free drinks, which put most people in a really good mood.. Also, a really cheasy speech by motorola's head of marketing. i'm sort of suprised Apple has gotten behind something so sluggish. in the time it takes to load up one song from the main screen, i can grab a real ipod from my other pocket and play whatever i want to hear. someday it might be a nice little gadget, but not now, not sure why either but definately not right now...
this is starting to look suspicious to me. This story is just plain stupid, but the last 5 or so months have been so loaded with bad publicity for google that it really seams impossible that all these people would start questioning them at the same time. I've seen my local news run stories on how google takes information from people's computers(reffering to IP addresses). And why this Microsoft comparison? that's nuts.. since when does success = evil? Microsoft truely does very shady stuff that everyone here is aware of. Google is company that's where it is because it's products are the best. And people seem to forget, google's search is probably the most unbiased approach you could take towards indexing all the crap out there. just seems very weird, all of this out of nowhere...
when 15-20% of their workers end up working for a company that's profits go back into US stock holders instead of back into their own economy? whether or not it's good for us, is making more poor people dependent on the US one of the unmentionable goals of offshoring?