Spider-Man 2 seems like the next step in the slow death of the career of Kirsten Dunst
OK, she's not Meryl Streep, but she doesn't have to be; Kirsten has tremendous sex appeal--which more than compensates for her somewhat mediocre performance in Spider-Man.
The biggest obstacle to using credit cards for micropayments is the cost of transaction processing
I wonder if the folks at Microsoft are considering Passport as a micropayment vehicle for subscription-based websites? Micropayments lower the threshold and do not require a big decision before users get their initial benefits: thus users will be encouraged to view more pages and spend more. Of course, there will almost certainly be discount schemes for frequent users of a site such that nobody would end up paying more than they would under a subscription plan.
Anything we do to improve software security must work without the programmer having to switch languages
I agree; it's not so much the language--or the tools--each developer on a project must be personally aware of vulnerabilities and exploits. Using "managed code" does not "secure" your projects. These days, a C programmer ignoring the dangers of gets(), for example, is incompetent and should not be trusted. It's not, as the article reads, "sloppy"... it's ignorance pure and simple.
Also, relying on tools like an updated gcc, gprof, or splint--helpful as they are--without experience and education in writing secure code... is asking for trouble also.
helping you (and "thousands of others") out with advice is, in my opinion, just as bad
Your attitude displays an astonishing lack of maturity--if you are good at your job, you will want mentor others and pass along your knowledge and skills.
If you are weak, perhaps that explains your concern about being replaced?
What kind of (part-time) work can you get as a college student to gain experience
Aside from simply applying for such positions, I would suggest you attend a Linux User's Group in your area. Along with expanding your knowlege and skills, a LUG connects you with relationships that might be helpful in finding part-time work. You'll also get a better feel for the local job market.
Machines are getting more and more like the rest of us
Uh, oh.
There are some human behaviors I'd rather robots not emulate, such as warring against each other, spamming, biting their fingernails, and forgetting to put the toilet seat down.
with one business reporting that 99.84 percent of all incoming mail is spam
They seem to have expended time/resources to perform such a precise calculation; perhaps it would have been better spent researching and implementing spam filters.
Europe has all kinds of different licensing and retail practices, and, from Sweden to Spain, an album often has different prices and staggered release dates. An Italian singer with a devoted following at home, for example, often doesn't have a distribution deal in Britain.
Part V, Extensibility, is for people who want to adapt PHP on the language level for their needs
This is an often-overlooked advantage in PHP: the ability to use php-embed to run embedded PHP within another application. For example, our company has created an HL7 HIPAA-accelerator in C/C++; we chose PHP as the embedded language in our product--by which users can create custom data transformations.
The reason? PHP is easy to use, loosely-typed (which is an advantage in our project), fast, and of course, free. It was a great decision.
They are united in their belief that open-source software like Linux could help their nation.
Of course, the absence of basic infrastructure (power, water, sewage) is a real obstacle to their goals; not to mention the monumental lack of security in many parts of the country.
Overall, however, a proliferation of F/OSS would be a positive step forward for Iraq, where proprietary software is very expensive. It would be interesting to find out what percentage of the population even owns a computer.
Internet companies should make sure that their equipment has been properly secured so spammers can't route their messages through them
I agree. Open relays, apparently not as common as they used to be, are still a huge source of the spam we intercept. I'd be in favor penalties for open relays (in theory), but how would that be effective, being that a lot of it originates from outside the US?
The recent decision by the Bush Administration to allow unlawful telephone wholesale rules to lapse and let stand the FCC's decision not to unbundle broadband is a positive step
As much as I disagree with the administration on many issues, last year's decision by the FCC to deregulate fiber networks was a positive step in the right direction. Loosening broadband rules will restore some competition in the industry; and we may see lowering prices for telephone and internet services.
However, although I look forward to fiber-to-the-curb, it'll be awhile, at least in my subdivision.
If you could create your perfect office how would it work?
I'm a fan of Joel Spolsky's writings (see Joel on Software), so I was fascinated to read about the office space he has designed at his company, Fog Creek Software.
I like what he's built here because the emphasis is not just on catering to developers, but providing an atmosphere where great coding can thrive.
I'm not a lawyer or biologist, but it may be interesting to compare this issue to what's going on in the software industry. There are some clear similarities between genetic code (the blueprint for lifeforms) and software code
I disagree. Genetic code is a mapping of biological cells used to translate RNA codons, and is representational of a natural reality. Software code implements programs or data for some purpose, but is creative. There is a fundamental difference between the two, IMO.
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We found a lot of spot to connect up to, some were really strong, some weak,
I suspect the SSID "dexter202" belongs either to a group of houseboats sharing a wireless
LAN, or to a pharmaceutical company.
...uses a hand's bone structure to make a wrist watch phone easier to manage and operate. Here's how it works: When a call arrives, the phone sends vibrations through the bones in the index finger. When the finger is slipped into the ear canal, those vibrations turn into voice
"No, I'm not flipping you off, my phone is ringing..."
..U.S. consumers, always behind the Old World in most things wireless, have been left out.
The mental image cracks me up. I can't imagine walking by someone talking with a finger in their ear and not chuckling to myself. Do people actually use this stuff?
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Spider-Man 2 seems like the next step in the slow death of the career of Kirsten Dunst
OK, she's not Meryl Streep, but she doesn't have to be; Kirsten has tremendous sex appeal--which more than compensates for her somewhat mediocre performance in Spider-Man.
Besides, I thought she was intense and believable in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
The biggest obstacle to using credit cards for micropayments is the cost of transaction processing
I wonder if the folks at Microsoft are considering Passport as a micropayment vehicle for subscription-based websites? Micropayments lower the threshold and do not require a big decision before users get their initial benefits: thus users will be encouraged to view more pages and spend more. Of course, there will almost certainly be discount schemes for frequent users of a site such that nobody would end up paying more than they would under a subscription plan.
Also, although a closed initative, the W3C Micropayments Working Group provides some interesting info.
Anything we do to improve software security must work without the programmer having to switch languages
I agree; it's not so much the language--or the tools--each developer on a project must be personally aware of vulnerabilities and exploits. Using "managed code" does not "secure" your projects. These days, a C programmer ignoring the dangers of gets(), for example, is incompetent and should not be trusted. It's not, as the article reads, "sloppy"... it's ignorance pure and simple.
Also, relying on tools like an updated gcc, gprof, or splint--helpful as they are--without experience and education in writing secure code... is asking for trouble also.
helping you (and "thousands of others") out with advice is, in my opinion, just as bad
Your attitude displays an astonishing lack of maturity--if you are good at your job, you will want mentor others and pass along your knowledge and skills.
If you are weak, perhaps that explains your concern about being replaced?
What kind of (part-time) work can you get as a college student to gain experience
Aside from simply applying for such positions, I would suggest you attend a Linux User's Group in your area. Along with expanding your knowlege and skills, a LUG connects you with relationships that might be helpful in finding part-time work. You'll also get a better feel for the local job market.
Machines are getting more and more like the rest of us
Uh, oh.
There are some human behaviors I'd rather robots not emulate, such as warring against each other, spamming, biting their fingernails, and forgetting to put the toilet seat down.
try crossing the George Washington Bridge
Lol.... you obviously have NO IDEA what the 520 bridge is.
Staring at Bill's house for an hour is torture.
with one business reporting that 99.84 percent of all incoming mail is spam
They seem to have expended time/resources to perform such a precise calculation; perhaps it would have been better spent researching and implementing spam filters.
42 percent say they found it less stressful fighting their way through rush-hour traffic than finding legitimate e-mails among the spam
Living in Seattle, they might think differently.
My only problem with them all is they're US based
The hapless Napster II is already in the UK.
Europe has all kinds of different licensing and retail practices, and, from Sweden to Spain, an album often has different prices and staggered release dates. An Italian singer with a devoted following at home, for example, often doesn't have a distribution deal in Britain.
Sure. One more thing, the zval integration is easy as pie, something like:
Forgive the poor code above, just the way I remember it... I'll email you the php-embed stuff I have in its entirety.
It's not really a mod, just a php_embed.c and php_embed.h which wrap up some TSRMLS functions, not much documentation on it, but a decent thread here.
Part V, Extensibility, is for people who want to adapt PHP on the language level for their needs
This is an often-overlooked advantage in PHP: the ability to use php-embed to run embedded PHP within another application. For example, our company has created an HL7 HIPAA-accelerator in C/C++; we chose PHP as the embedded language in our product--by which users can create custom data transformations.
The reason? PHP is easy to use, loosely-typed (which is an advantage in our project), fast, and of course, free. It was a great decision.
They are united in their belief that open-source software like Linux could help their nation.
Of course, the absence of basic infrastructure (power, water, sewage) is a real obstacle to their goals; not to mention the monumental lack of security in many parts of the country.
Overall, however, a proliferation of F/OSS would be a positive step forward for Iraq, where proprietary software is very expensive. It would be interesting to find out what percentage of the population even owns a computer.
Was it Patton or Macarthur who said
Interesting question. Apprently neither. The origins of the phrase are much older than I would have previously thought.
Internet companies should make sure that their equipment has been properly secured so spammers can't route their messages through them
I agree. Open relays, apparently not as common as they used to be, are still a huge source of the spam we intercept. I'd be in favor penalties for open relays (in theory), but how would that be effective, being that a lot of it originates from outside the US?
Bundling broadband is a travesty
I don't disagree. However, the FCC decision was aimed at not forcing service companies to unbundle broadband from their other offerings.
Where will this service be rolled out first?
Hard to say. TFA didn't really offer any specifics, although it looks like the UK will be at the top of the list.
From the SBC press release:
The recent decision by the Bush Administration to allow unlawful telephone wholesale rules to lapse and let stand the FCC's decision not to unbundle broadband is a positive step
As much as I disagree with the administration on many issues, last year's decision by the FCC to deregulate fiber networks was a positive step in the right direction. Loosening broadband rules will restore some competition in the industry; and we may see lowering prices for telephone and internet services.
However, although I look forward to fiber-to-the-curb, it'll be awhile, at least in my subdivision.
actually, fuckabilly, Minix was invented before Linux.
If you could create your perfect office how would it work?
I'm a fan of Joel Spolsky's writings (see Joel on Software), so I was fascinated to read about the office space he has designed at his company, Fog Creek Software.
I like what he's built here because the emphasis is not just on catering to developers, but providing an atmosphere where great coding can thrive.
name USS Abraham Lincoln
set cl_maxpackets 120
set rate 20000
set snaps 40
set cg_fov 80
I'm not a lawyer or biologist, but it may be interesting to compare this issue to what's going on in the software industry. There are some clear similarities between genetic code (the blueprint for lifeforms) and software code
I disagree. Genetic code is a mapping of biological cells used to translate RNA codons, and is representational of a natural reality. Software code implements programs or data for some purpose, but is creative. There is a fundamental difference between the two, IMO.
We found a lot of spot to connect up to, some were really strong, some weak,
I suspect the SSID "dexter202" belongs either to a group of houseboats sharing a wireless LAN, or to a pharmaceutical company.
...uses a hand's bone structure to make a wrist watch phone easier to manage and operate. Here's how it works: When a call arrives, the phone sends vibrations through the bones in the index finger. When the finger is slipped into the ear canal, those vibrations turn into voice
..U.S. consumers, always behind the Old World in most things wireless, have been left out.
"No, I'm not flipping you off, my phone is ringing..."
The mental image cracks me up. I can't imagine walking by someone talking with a finger in their ear and not chuckling to myself. Do people actually use this stuff?