2old2play is just another a game-site that exists since august 2005 (not really a long time ago); The article is written by its submitter and is an uninteresting read. I guess this article will give them well needed publicity.
Guess who posted this "news item"... (hint: it's the Beatles-Beatles guy)
I don't agree. The power is not necessarily in the hands of the people, but in the hands of the representatives they elect. And I think that this is a difference. It's pseudo-democracy.
Ppl elect their representatives because the representative has ideas, interests and views that closely match theirs on a maximum of topics.
If however -when voting a particular law- this representative has a strong opinion that only reflects 10% of his voters ideas, it's still HIS vote that counts. Worst case, he loses some of his voters in the next election. People can not fire their elected officials...
Look at the first election of Bush: a majority voted "Gore" and still (thanks to the representatives system) Bush won...
Imho, there is a difference between "res publica" and "demos kratein". Nowadays, as you state correctly, both terms are used as synonyms.
Res publica = matters of the people Demos kratein = rule through the people
So, in a "res publica", the state has to do what 's best for most of the people. This is easily done via ( democratically;-) ) elected representatives. Most countries that call themselves democratic (like the constitutional monarchies you were talking about) fit better in the "republic"-bucket.
In "demos kratein", the collective people decide themselves what the state will do. This means that no representatives are used in a democracy. Switzerland for example has a system of public referenda that would fit in the definition of "democracies". Everybody can vote in those referenda and the outcome is decisive.
=> I don't think there are any real democracies in the world right now... Correct me if I'm wrong.
With the present state of the art (in IT), I guess it would be possible to achieve a 100% democratic govt. But, as our elected representatives are probably not quite willing to have their jobs replaced by a couple of computers, I guess we will never get to that stage:-)
Personally, I like the head first series (head first java and head first EJB) a lot. Those books are entertaining and educating at the same time. An ideal Christmas present for yourself:-)
I adore the ingenuity (correct spelling?) of the hack but... I can't really find a problem this hack is a solution for.
As a way to distribute files, it's probably too slow. The pro's I see here: the file is not stored as one single file but it's stored as a distributed file (a set of Base-64 encoded clusters), making removal of the file hard. On the other hand, if one single segment drops out, the file will be destroyed (except if some redundancy exists, of which I did not find evidence).
If you want to send attachments in an e-mail, this is a very complicated way to do it. Every receiver must have the decoder program to re-assemble the file.
Moreover, if tinyURL builds in a check to see whether the submitted URL exists (not just some 404 page), the whole concept would probably break.
True. I remember using a toolset called PC Tools where you had a multitasking DOS-environment too. This toolset was indeed much lighter to run on an x86 than Windows was. But you didn't have those fancy screensavers.
-Couldn't is be a case of a syndrome we know now (achondroplasia) that disables some hormones that are needed to make the body grow? Or something similar? -E.g. Pygmy people are much smaller than most earthlings. Therefore, this particular finding could have been an individual of a small tribe where all members were offspring of a couple of very small individuals... Without being a new species or whatever. Hell, I'm more than 1 foot taller than my GF. And I can assure you we're the same species.
Ever thought about the actors in LOTR that played the hobbits? Those guys had very short stand-ins for some scenes. Those stand-ins were not hobbits or Flores people, they're just normal people talented with a very small body, making them an ideal stand-in for some fantasy movies.
Those guys really want to be on national geographic soon with their "scientific" article on "hobbits"
3 weeks ago, I have seen a broken Minolta Dimage X20 (one of the cheaper cameras in the list) and images that were taken with it. Its owner wanted me to take a look at it to see what was wrong (of course, I did not have a clue).
Highly exposed areas (like highlights on metallic objects) of the pictures had highly distorted colors (fluorescent green or pink). Moreover, if you would point the camera to a bright light source (for example a tube light), the cameras LCD would start displaying all kinds of weirdly distorted colors.
I'll have this guy know that his camera can be fixed for free... Thanks to/., I'll be the hero of the day;-)
This lens does not offer you the possibility to record a full 360 image... There is no data about what can be seen below and above the viewer. What they do is creating a spherical image, not just a doughnut (which is what your "funky lens" is capable of).
The recorded image can then be viewed (my guess is by a kind of VR goggles) allowing the viewer full viewing freedom.
Next time you say somebody is full of shit, make sure you're not mistaken yourself.
Airsoft bullets are indeed very dangerous when you get hit by one of them in your eye. Fridges however, are deadly if you get hit by one in your eye...
How big was their survey? The articles has no figures whatsoever that can convince me about the relevance of these figures. If you ask 20 people, there will be a much bigger chance to have those "unexpected" results than when you ask 20000 people.
If they don't mention the size of the survey, the only thing I can say is that this is just statistical bullshit.
This is a good idea as a basis to start from. I would suggest using web interfaces instead of VNC though.
I implemented a web-interface for a command line mp3-player (mpg123) a few years ago. My MP3's were stored on a (wired) samba file server, and I had only one (a very old P-166MMX - very silent) computer with nothing but a small HD, a sound card, a set of speakers and a small linux distro (your laptops would be more than sufficient).
The small computer ran an apache server with php and a few perl scripts; mpg123 and the command line mixer app (don't remember its name) were controlled through the web interface.
Through the simple web interface (took me a few days to create it), you could create and modify a playlist (using the songs it found in a mounted samba dir) and adjust the volume and the balance.
It was as unsecure as hell but it worked quite well until my hard disk crashed:-)
...is your uncle's third cousin. Don't make things too complicated, dude!
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We're talking about a very big carribean based consulting company here. Since offshore development centres have to comply to their globally defined methodologies, I guess they _are_ hiring experienced staff as well as new -out of school- blood. There is capacity to handle those 100 new programmers per day.
The figure (100 per day) might be very big at a first glance, but don't forget that there are 1 billion inhabitants in India. I think the same consulting firm we're both talking about can easily hire 6k people per year in the US (+-288M inhabitants). (In Belgium alone (1M inhabitants), i know more than 100 are hired per year)
In India however, we see 100 per day, which means a hire rate which is three times higher than the current rate in Belgium. And this is caused entirely by the success of the offshore development centres.
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It's not Bush's fault at all. But Kerry promised measures would be taken to counter offshoring (I don't know whether that would have been better, but since Bush won, more offshoring will be possible. Fact.)
PS: 365000 is 1000 per day. I said 100.
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I am talking programming "sweat shops" in India. The current rate is 100 new hires per day.
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Hotlines etc. are not outsourced as far as I know, but their computer system is/was implemented somewhere near Bombay (so offshore):-)
Government taxes well spent... (well err... At least it was cheap;-) )
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Offshore development apparently is a hot topic. From well-informed sources I know that certain IT integrators are making strategic investments in offshoring IT development and IT services to India, Mauritius islands, as well as near-shoring to Eastern European countries (Czech Republic in particular).
I think that this fact speaks for itself: offshore has more advantages than disadvantages for huge projects (Texas unemployment office, anyone?).
Since Bush won the elections, more and more people are dragged into the offshore development centres and apparently the code quality is not as bad as some people might think.
The consulting firm I work for actually hires 100 people PER DAY in India alone.
Like it or not, I guess we better start living with the fact that offshore will stay where it is.
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2old2play is just another a game-site that exists since august 2005 (not really a long time ago);
The article is written by its submitter and is an uninteresting read. I guess this article will give them well needed publicity.
Guess who posted this "news item"... (hint: it's the Beatles-Beatles guy)
I don't agree. The power is not necessarily in the hands of the people, but in the hands of the representatives they elect. And I think that this is a difference. It's pseudo-democracy.
Ppl elect their representatives because the representative has ideas, interests and views that closely match theirs on a maximum of topics.
If however -when voting a particular law- this representative has a strong opinion that only reflects 10% of his voters ideas, it's still HIS vote that counts. Worst case, he loses some of his voters in the next election. People can not fire their elected officials...
Look at the first election of Bush: a majority voted "Gore" and still (thanks to the representatives system) Bush won...
Imho, there is a difference between "res publica" and "demos kratein".
;-) ) elected representatives. Most countries that call themselves democratic (like the constitutional monarchies you were talking about) fit better in the "republic"-bucket.
:-)
Nowadays, as you state correctly, both terms are used as synonyms.
Res publica = matters of the people
Demos kratein = rule through the people
So, in a "res publica", the state has to do what 's best for most of the people. This is easily done via ( democratically
In "demos kratein", the collective people decide themselves what the state will do. This means that no representatives are used in a democracy. Switzerland for example has a system of public referenda that would fit in the definition of "democracies". Everybody can vote in those referenda and the outcome is decisive.
=> I don't think there are any real democracies in the world right now... Correct me if I'm wrong.
With the present state of the art (in IT), I guess it would be possible to achieve a 100% democratic govt. But, as our elected representatives are probably not quite willing to have their jobs replaced by a couple of computers, I guess we will never get to that stage
Cool! My new sig works! ;-)
Personally, I like the head first series (head first java and head first EJB) a lot. :-)
Those books are entertaining and educating at the same time. An ideal Christmas present for yourself
That's pretty much what I understood.
I adore the ingenuity (correct spelling?) of the hack but... I can't really find a problem this hack is a solution for.
As a way to distribute files, it's probably too slow. The pro's I see here: the file is not stored as one single file but it's stored as a distributed file (a set of Base-64 encoded clusters), making removal of the file hard. On the other hand, if one single segment drops out, the file will be destroyed (except if some redundancy exists, of which I did not find evidence).
If you want to send attachments in an e-mail, this is a very complicated way to do it. Every receiver must have the decoder program to re-assemble the file.
Moreover, if tinyURL builds in a check to see whether the submitted URL exists (not just some 404 page), the whole concept would probably break.
Anyways, very clever hack!
Even drunk airman know that the plural of airmen is airman!
True. I remember using a toolset called PC Tools where you had a multitasking DOS-environment too. This toolset was indeed much lighter to run on an x86 than Windows was. But you didn't have those fancy screensavers.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIntro.m spx
I wonder how many of you did use those first versions of Windows. From 3.1 on, it was quite common but before 3.1...
I too have large feet and there is hair on one of my toes. I'm not a hobbit!
More thoughts:
-Couldn't is be a case of a syndrome we know now (achondroplasia) that disables some hormones that are needed to make the body grow? Or something similar?
-E.g. Pygmy people are much smaller than most earthlings. Therefore, this particular finding could have been an individual of a small tribe where all members were offspring of a couple of very small individuals... Without being a new species or whatever. Hell, I'm more than 1 foot taller than my GF. And I can assure you we're the same species.
Ever thought about the actors in LOTR that played the hobbits? Those guys had very short stand-ins for some scenes. Those stand-ins were not hobbits or Flores people, they're just normal people talented with a very small body, making them an ideal stand-in for some fantasy movies.
Those guys really want to be on national geographic soon with their "scientific" article on "hobbits"
3 weeks ago, I have seen a broken Minolta Dimage X20 (one of the cheaper cameras in the list) and images that were taken with it. Its owner wanted me to take a look at it to see what was wrong (of course, I did not have a clue).
/., I'll be the hero of the day ;-)
Highly exposed areas (like highlights on metallic objects) of the pictures had highly distorted colors (fluorescent green or pink). Moreover, if you would point the camera to a bright light source (for example a tube light), the cameras LCD would start displaying all kinds of weirdly distorted colors.
I'll have this guy know that his camera can be fixed for free... Thanks to
This lens does not offer you the possibility to record a full 360 image... There is no data about what can be seen below and above the viewer. What they do is creating a spherical image, not just a doughnut (which is what your "funky lens" is capable of).
The recorded image can then be viewed (my guess is by a kind of VR goggles) allowing the viewer full viewing freedom.
Next time you say somebody is full of shit, make sure you're not mistaken yourself.
Reminds me of this silly joke I was told:
Airsoft bullets are indeed very dangerous when you get hit by one of them in your eye.
Fridges however, are deadly if you get hit by one in your eye...
Repeating things is funny. Repeating things is funny.
One million dollars
How big was their survey? The articles has no figures whatsoever that can convince me about the relevance of these figures. If you ask 20 people, there will be a much bigger chance to have those "unexpected" results than when you ask 20000 people.
If they don't mention the size of the survey, the only thing I can say is that this is just statistical bullshit.
This is a good idea as a basis to start from. I would suggest using web interfaces instead of VNC though.
:-)
I implemented a web-interface for a command line mp3-player (mpg123) a few years ago. My MP3's were stored on a (wired) samba file server, and I had only one (a very old P-166MMX - very silent) computer with nothing but a small HD, a sound card, a set of speakers and a small linux distro (your laptops would be more than sufficient).
The small computer ran an apache server with php and a few perl scripts; mpg123 and the command line mixer app (don't remember its name) were controlled through the web interface.
Through the simple web interface (took me a few days to create it), you could create and modify a playlist (using the songs it found in a mounted samba dir) and adjust the volume and the balance.
It was as unsecure as hell but it worked quite well until my hard disk crashed
...is your uncle's third cousin. Don't make things too complicated, dude!
We're talking about a very big carribean based consulting company here. Since offshore development centres have to comply to their globally defined methodologies, I guess they _are_ hiring experienced staff as well as new -out of school- blood. There is capacity to handle those 100 new programmers per day.
The figure (100 per day) might be very big at a first glance, but don't forget that there are 1 billion inhabitants in India. I think the same consulting firm we're both talking about can easily hire 6k people per year in the US (+-288M inhabitants). (In Belgium alone (1M inhabitants), i know more than 100 are hired per year)
In India however, we see 100 per day, which means a hire rate which is three times higher than the current rate in Belgium. And this is caused entirely by the success of the offshore development centres.
It's not Bush's fault at all. But Kerry promised measures would be taken to counter offshoring (I don't know whether that would have been better, but since Bush won, more offshoring will be possible. Fact.)
PS: 365000 is 1000 per day. I said 100.
I am talking programming "sweat shops" in India. The current rate is 100 new hires per day.
Hotlines etc. are not outsourced as far as I know, but their computer system is/was implemented somewhere near Bombay (so offshore) :-)
;-) )
Government taxes well spent... (well err... At least it was cheap
Offshore development apparently is a hot topic. From well-informed sources I know that certain IT integrators are making strategic investments in offshoring IT development and IT services to India, Mauritius islands, as well as near-shoring to Eastern European countries (Czech Republic in particular).
I think that this fact speaks for itself: offshore has more advantages than disadvantages for huge projects (Texas unemployment office, anyone?).
Since Bush won the elections, more and more people are dragged into the offshore development centres and apparently the code quality is not as bad as some people might think.
The consulting firm I work for actually hires 100 people PER DAY in India alone.
Like it or not, I guess we better start living with the fact that offshore will stay where it is.
From 4 to 8 billion pages... I guess they just indexed the google cache...