The military's job is to uphold and defend the constitution from threats foreign and domestic. I highlight that part, because yes, it's kind of forgotten by the military lately.
Your second fact, I have no issues with. Carry on, AC. Carry on.
I pretty much came here to say something along these lines. I think it's a GOOD thing to see the government wanting to leverage life hackers and Maker Faire specifically.
Sure, DARPA is mainly about weapons, but this would have been a great opportunity for Mitch to suggest and perhaps even influence the development of non-violent weapons and other defense-related research.
After all, DARPA used to be ARPA, and we wouldn't have the Internet, and by extrapolation, Maker Faire, without it.
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I've never had any formal education when it comes to computers (excepting classes for specific applications that the company pays us to learn). That said, I've been doing IT for over 18 years. The last 8-9 of it has been in a developer role (admittedly less-so in the past couple of years).
I taught myself (in no particular order) Basic, Lisp, C, C++, HTML(1-5), CSS, ASP (VB and now C#), UML, PERL, Python, Ruby, PHP, Lua, Java, Haskell and am currently learning Go.
Sure, not all of these would be considered programming language, but they're languages nonetheless. I agree with the GP completely, you CAN teach yourself languages. You can even teach yourself design principles and best coding practices.
Uh.. I've used both. I've found Python 3 to be far more useful for web development than Ruby (with or without Rails). Ruby is, for the most part, just another PERL-like language. Hell, it even uses "unless". And I've been web developing since before Python 2.0 - your comment about not having been around long enough is pretty arrogant.
The fact is, Ruby IS good for web development, but saying that it's better than Python is ridiculous. That's like saying PHP is a better version of HTML.
I've found many, many tasks that have been well-suited for Python. I've found one or two that Ruby worked better, and they were generating XML for xlst transforms from an Oracle database. I was honestly surprised it was faster than Python.
I suppose it breaks down to, really, using the best tool for the job. Ruby is alright, but there are far more web frameworks to choose from with Python, which should tell you something.
"an improvement over conventional systems for initializing static arrays by reducing the amount of code executed by the virtual machine to statically initialize an array,"
What the hell? How is this one patent-worthy? so wait, refactoring is patented?
If the ISP is cable or DSL, you can most-assuredly capture who had what IP and then capture when the lease was released / renewed -- IF you have your DHCP services setup correctly and are logging which customer has which leased device (or their own purchased device) activated on the network. You then correlate the MAC / device ID to the DHCP logs and you DO at least know which device (router, whatever) had that IP at that time. Still doesn't identify the specific person, but it's enough to send a letter.
You're dumb enough to want to be in the military. Your opinion is worth nothing. Now, go kill some brown people because the flag told you to do so.
Now that this no longer hurts my head to read, let's address this.
Discounting the Marines, most folks join the military (in the US, anyway) to pay for college / get a nice fat down-payment on a house. They do their 4-6 years, and they're done. Many of those also overlap with those who join out of a sense of duty to protect the Constitution and the *ideal* of their country, not the reality.
Now, whose opinion is worth less? The person who puts their life on the line by joining the military - regardless of their opinion of the current war / "police action", and successfully survives to become a civilian afterwards... OR.. the AC who spouts bullshit - poorly?
My roommate has a CS degree. He had to work off his loans doing "landscaping" (mowing lawns, trimming trees) for 6 years, never really saving anything, just basically overpaying on his loans. Now he's back in school, getting a degree in english for teaching. He already has prospects with that career path. He still has none with a CS degree because he couldn't find a job within 1 year of graduating.
I guess what I'm saying is, McDonald's is just an example, there's LOTS of people with technical degrees that are NOT working in their field.
The federal government can now come in, shut down your business, seize all of your stock, and seize your building.
I think you mean, the federal government can now shut down your business, as well as all of your suppliers, because one of them must have supplied the knock-off parts.
Good luck, Rob. I've not ever really addressed you directly, but watched from afar. You made something big, and that's all that matters, right?
I'll try to remember to add you on LinkedIn tonight. I'm pretty sure we'll be hiring all kind of positions in 3 months, and I'm pretty sure your resume would probably knock HR's socks off, here.
Usually I agree with you, alpha-num, but not completely this time. If you mean "they" as in "all scientists" then, yes, you'd be correct. There was, however, at least one scientist screaming "ICE AGE COMING!" in the 70s. I can't remember his name, but the media was listening to him, so there were probably a few others who agreed with his findings. I think he's since said that he misunderstood what the data were telling him, and that it was predicting global warming THEN an ice age. But yeah, semantics, I know.
All that said, remember that science is essentially guess work with some evidence backing the guess.
*looks up at the top of the webpage and notes the "News for nerds" logo.*
Yes, on slashdot we generally engage in technical discussion. Sufficiently technical anyways that redefining "satellite" to exclude things with wings just because we feel like it is very silly. If you can't handle this, then you should go back to digg.
With the first update that allowed installing games, I noticed a bit of a performance increase with Fable 2. With the latest updates that fixed some issues, it's a significant increase. Granted, I'm on a 360 Elite, which I understand may or may not have some minor hardware differences (I can't confirm this as most gaming sites are blocked here at work).
I will also note that Halo 3 specifically tells you to NOT install it on the hard drive as the progressive load features are optimized specifically for the game disc.
When my nephew was 3 or 4 (he's now getting ready for college in the fall), he was apparently stuffing video game tokens into my 3.5" floppy drive. I didn't know this. Over the course of a year, I'd have more and more problems with the drive, bad sectors, disks just not reading - but it would work just enough to lead me to believe it was just old disks going bad.
Then one day, I was replacing it with an internal zip drive. I pulled out the floppy drive, and when it went faceplate-down, four or five of those damned tokens fell out.
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HAHAHA /. got trolled harder than I've seen in a while.
Well played, Shalmendo.
The military's job is to uphold and defend the constitution from threats foreign and domestic. I highlight that part, because yes, it's kind of forgotten by the military lately.
Your second fact, I have no issues with. Carry on, AC. Carry on.
I pretty much came here to say something along these lines. I think it's a GOOD thing to see the government wanting to leverage life hackers and Maker Faire specifically.
Sure, DARPA is mainly about weapons, but this would have been a great opportunity for Mitch to suggest and perhaps even influence the development of non-violent weapons and other defense-related research.
After all, DARPA used to be ARPA, and we wouldn't have the Internet, and by extrapolation, Maker Faire, without it.
I've never had any formal education when it comes to computers (excepting classes for specific applications that the company pays us to learn). That said, I've been doing IT for over 18 years. The last 8-9 of it has been in a developer role (admittedly less-so in the past couple of years).
I taught myself (in no particular order) Basic, Lisp, C, C++, HTML(1-5), CSS, ASP (VB and now C#), UML, PERL, Python, Ruby, PHP, Lua, Java, Haskell and am currently learning Go.
Sure, not all of these would be considered programming language, but they're languages nonetheless. I agree with the GP completely, you CAN teach yourself languages. You can even teach yourself design principles and best coding practices.
fundamentally it is English that is the universal language of the Internet and thus, the world.
Uhm.. Normally, I'd agree with you, but.. how is this NOT flamebait? It may not have been intended as such, but it still IS.
Uh.. I've used both. I've found Python 3 to be far more useful for web development than Ruby (with or without Rails). Ruby is, for the most part, just another PERL-like language. Hell, it even uses "unless". And I've been web developing since before Python 2.0 - your comment about not having been around long enough is pretty arrogant.
The fact is, Ruby IS good for web development, but saying that it's better than Python is ridiculous. That's like saying PHP is a better version of HTML.
I've found many, many tasks that have been well-suited for Python. I've found one or two that Ruby worked better, and they were generating XML for xlst transforms from an Oracle database. I was honestly surprised it was faster than Python.
I suppose it breaks down to, really, using the best tool for the job. Ruby is alright, but there are far more web frameworks to choose from with Python, which should tell you something.
I'm not sure I've seen flirting on /. before.
"an improvement over conventional systems for initializing static arrays by reducing the amount of code executed by the virtual machine to statically initialize an array,"
What the hell? How is this one patent-worthy? so wait, refactoring is patented?
I still have the "Freedom Flag" on my blog from when all that went down. Never heard a word from anyone.
If the ISP is cable or DSL, you can most-assuredly capture who had what IP and then capture when the lease was released / renewed -- IF you have your DHCP services setup correctly and are logging which customer has which leased device (or their own purchased device) activated on the network. You then correlate the MAC / device ID to the DHCP logs and you DO at least know which device (router, whatever) had that IP at that time. Still doesn't identify the specific person, but it's enough to send a letter.
You're dumb enough to want to be in the military. Your opinion is worth nothing. Now, go kill some brown people because the flag told you to do so.
Now that this no longer hurts my head to read, let's address this.
Discounting the Marines, most folks join the military (in the US, anyway) to pay for college / get a nice fat down-payment on a house. They do their 4-6 years, and they're done. Many of those also overlap with those who join out of a sense of duty to protect the Constitution and the *ideal* of their country, not the reality.
Now, whose opinion is worth less? The person who puts their life on the line by joining the military - regardless of their opinion of the current war / "police action", and successfully survives to become a civilian afterwards... OR.. the AC who spouts bullshit - poorly?
Yes, if you were served and didn't appear. That "being served" part is the key. A cease & desist / threatening letter isn't a summons.
My roommate has a CS degree. He had to work off his loans doing "landscaping" (mowing lawns, trimming trees) for 6 years, never really saving anything, just basically overpaying on his loans. Now he's back in school, getting a degree in english for teaching. He already has prospects with that career path. He still has none with a CS degree because he couldn't find a job within 1 year of graduating.
I guess what I'm saying is, McDonald's is just an example, there's LOTS of people with technical degrees that are NOT working in their field.
The federal government can now come in, shut down your business, seize all of your stock, and seize your building.
I think you mean, the federal government can now shut down your business, as well as all of your suppliers, because one of them must have supplied the knock-off parts.
I think I just realized who you are. Minor Threat just recently (relatively, anyway) got his computer ban lifted.
Suddenly, I feel old.
Good luck, Rob. I've not ever really addressed you directly, but watched from afar. You made something big, and that's all that matters, right?
I'll try to remember to add you on LinkedIn tonight. I'm pretty sure we'll be hiring all kind of positions in 3 months, and I'm pretty sure your resume would probably knock HR's socks off, here.
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Michael
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sorry. I couldn't resist. please tell me that was on purpose.
Usually I agree with you, alpha-num, but not completely this time. If you mean "they" as in "all scientists" then, yes, you'd be correct. There was, however, at least one scientist screaming "ICE AGE COMING!" in the 70s. I can't remember his name, but the media was listening to him, so there were probably a few others who agreed with his findings. I think he's since said that he misunderstood what the data were telling him, and that it was predicting global warming THEN an ice age. But yeah, semantics, I know.
All that said, remember that science is essentially guess work with some evidence backing the guess.
*looks up at the top of the webpage and notes the "News for nerds" logo.*
Yes, on slashdot we generally engage in technical discussion. Sufficiently technical anyways that redefining "satellite" to exclude things with wings just because we feel like it is very silly. If you can't handle this, then you should go back to digg.
Hmm...
*looks at Sir_Lewk's user number*
*looks at Vellmont's user number*
Yep.
mention 5th element or printer cartridge costs yet?
Just wondering.
With the first update that allowed installing games, I noticed a bit of a performance increase with Fable 2. With the latest updates that fixed some issues, it's a significant increase. Granted, I'm on a 360 Elite, which I understand may or may not have some minor hardware differences (I can't confirm this as most gaming sites are blocked here at work).
I will also note that Halo 3 specifically tells you to NOT install it on the hard drive as the progressive load features are optimized specifically for the game disc.
When my nephew was 3 or 4 (he's now getting ready for college in the fall), he was apparently stuffing video game tokens into my 3.5" floppy drive. I didn't know this. Over the course of a year, I'd have more and more problems with the drive, bad sectors, disks just not reading - but it would work just enough to lead me to believe it was just old disks going bad.
Then one day, I was replacing it with an internal zip drive. I pulled out the floppy drive, and when it went faceplate-down, four or five of those damned tokens fell out.
Ah! Thanks for the info. I stand corrected. I expected (heh) more Expect for some reason.
I think the FreeNX version has a lot more C than Expect.
That and Python is a bit more modular than Expect -- not bashing (heh) Expect, it has its place.
Anonymity doesn't make you tougher, anon-tard.