The amount of energy coming from the sun and from the radioactive decay in the earth is pretty much the same as it is today, for say 100 Million years.
The sun's output is far from constant.
Either that, or global warming has gotten so bad on earth that is is actually causing the sun to be more active now than it has been in the past 1000 years!
Or perhaps it's the other way around... at any rate, it's just one more major variable to throw into the mix.
Particularly in a multi-user app (such as a web application) there has to be some engineering involved. It is possible to write functional, tight code, that may be beautiful to look at, but that also does not scale well when it's slammed with 10,000 users at once. Not only do you have to be smart in your coding, but you also have to know how to interpret load test results, use profiling tools, and other more engineer-ish things.
Often these load and performance metrics are part of the requirements, or at least they should be. To use the carpenter analogy, let's say the carpenter gets asked to build a custom piece of furniture that must be able to support the weight of a 100 gallon saltwater aquarium, while minimizing the weight of the furniture itself. He will be required to think like an engineer.
So, a true craftsman will also be smart in the engineering.
What is not so widely known is that it is ILLEGAL (in the USA) to:
a) BUY a PC b) BUY a copy of OSX c) Make "b" run on "a".
Technically, yes. OSX has upgrade pricing-- every copy of OSX sold is either bundled with a mac, or is sold to somebody who will be upgrading their existing Mac OS on their Mac. There's no such thing as a full standalone Mac OSX license; every boxed copy of the OS is, by definition, an upgrade for a prior version of the OS.
So, if you don't already own a legit copy of OSX (which is impossible if you don't own a Mac), then yes, it is illegal to buy and install an upgrade license to an operating system that you don't already have a license for.
After installing IE7, Trillian no longer loads that box.
Kind of funny how IE can break unrelated 3rd party apps, but I think there's probably some bad exception handling in Trillian here. If it's trying to use a new MSN messenger library, I'd expect the app to still load, perhaps without being able to connect to the MSN network.
Anybody else able to duplicate this? A couple other users have reported this behavior on the IE Blog.
The Terraserver stuff was around LONG before Google started offering satellit imagery. Microsoft most certainly did not copy that particular aspect from Google.
Specifically, Terraserver came online all the way back in 1998. At that time, it was the world's largest online database (accessible to the public at least) and it offered over a terabyte worth of data-- which was a pretty big database in 1998.
The site doesn't work of course, but you can see that it existed.
However, Terraserver (and MSN Virtual Earth) appears to be using the same satellite imagery as it did in 1998, for the most part. For some locations, terraserver lets you choose which satellite database to use, and I can compare my area between the early 80's and late 90's and see the effects of urban sprawl.
You can be a lot happier with simple things, like starting and quitting work every day at the same hours (instead of working insane overtime), having free weed...
I wonder what percentage of software developers that are on the clock are using OSS. I bet most of these developers are doing this stuff in their free time for zero pay.
I work in a java development shop.
All of our front-end web servers are apache. Most of our back end app servers are Tomcat (both are OSS)
We also have a very large scale enterprise portal web site in production, which uses a closed source application/portal server, but numerous open source components behind the scenes, for everything from database abstraction to content management.
There aren't many instances where we are actually modifying the open source components, we're mainly just using the jarfiles-- but the original question was regarding "using OSS" which we are clearly doing.
But we do our time tracking and bug tracking in an open source app which we have extensively modified to suit our needs.
I may be wrong but Im pretty sure the internet was invented in CERN which, the last time I checked was still in Europe.
You are thinking of the World Wide Web, which began as essentially one protol for using the internet (along with others such as SMTP, IRC, gopher, etc). WWW is a much more recent development, relatively speaking, compared with the internet.
The internet itself began as a U.S. Department of Defense project called ARPANET which was the world's first packet-switching network.
Oddly, the Internet Archive honours robots.txt, so if you don't want people to surf your archive, you can just post their robots.txt file and it will block everything, even into the past.
From TFA:
Web logs at Healthcare Advocates indicated that someone at Harding Earley, using the Wayback Machine, made hundreds of rapid-fire requests for the old versions of the Web site. In most cases, the robot.txt blocked the request. But in 92 instances, the suit states, it appears to have failed, allowing access to the archived pages.
So it appears that the basis of the lawsuit is that the robots.txt was NOT honored. The plaintiff claims that the robots.txt is a "contract" and that the wayback machine violated the contract by still allowing archived pages to be viewed in a limited number of attempts, for reasons unknown.
However, the TFA also does mention that honoring the robots.txt is strictly voluntary and does not constitute a contract.
I just realized I haven't tried booting off the USB drive, seems like that should work. It's still kind of a pain to find a windows98 system that is capable of making a bootable DOS removable drive. Unless there's some utility for XP that allows this? Off to google I go...
My swanky new Athlon64 box running Windoze XP needs a floppy because I still have to boot into friggin' DOS in order to flash my BIOS.
Even the newest motherboards require this. Some motherboards don't require a bootable floppy, because they have a utility built into BIOS that will read the new BIOS binary... off of the floppy in drive A:
Are there any motherboards that can read the updated BIOS image off of a USB drive?
Well it'll be at least $499 if you want to include the hardware required to run Tiger (still worth it, IMO). If Tiger only costs you $129, it means that you already have a Mac, and you aren't concerned with spyware to begin with.
That will all change if we will be able to install x86 Tiger on non-apple machines...
Consider great works of architecture... certainly, the simple task of building a bridge, or some building can result in the most straight-forward, brute-force application of a solution, but the results would not be as elegant or noteworthy..
I don't think building a bridge can be considered "simple" but that's not my point.
Expanding on the bridge / software analogy, a bridge would not be nearly as beautiful to look at if:
1) The load requirement was doubled halfway through the project 2) To pay for #1, you are asked to save money by building fewer support columns (which you've already constructed) 3) 12 months after construction begins, the specs change and you must now include train tracks 4) Near the end of the project: the customer just got new boats, and they won't fit under the bridge, can you make it a drawbridge? We can allow another 2 months for this last-minute addition...
As another Atlanta resident, I can confirm that driving the speed limit is wishful thinking most of the time. If I'm on I-285 in the afternoon, I consider it a relief to be able to finally shift into 2nd gear.
Many classical forms have become pompous, whiny and annoying to modern ears.
I believe this is because classical music is most often used in whiny and annoying contexts, so people seem to develop that association. It's unfortunate, but true.
I, for example, can't stand any Vivaldi, Haendel, Beethoven.
I definitely would NOT lump Beethoven in with Vivaldi and Handel. That just doesn't make any sense to me. The musical styles are completely different. Beethoven was the first composer to really break out of the "classical" mold and start playing with new textures, new instruments, new chord progressions, etc. He brought much more emotion into his music than Vivaldi and Handel, for whom composing was basically just a job. Beethoven's music is very complex and even today you can hear Beethoven influences in modern film scores (John Williams, etc). If you spend time studying the music and the scores, you realize what a musical genius Beethoven really was. He was a master of form above all else. But in order to appreciate the form, you have to listen to a complete symphony, all movements. This is why I'm annoyed by the fact that most people only know the cell phone ringer versions of a Beethoven symphony. By the way, I think I should mention Mozart. I believe he is overrated-- he was a genius for sure, but his music doesn't do anything for me. It seems to lack that vital connection to the listener.
Numbers from 1-10 in Japanese each have a reading associated with them (1=hi, 2=fu, 3=mi...) that makes it easier to form them into mnemonics than in English.
Actually English has that too. It sounds something like "wun," "tooh," "three"....
it includes sanity checking to make sure data are within reasonable ranges, and requiring additional confirmation (ranging from "Whoa, dude! That much?" to supervisor approval)
Those would need to be business rules that are defined in the requirements document. It should not be up to the developer to arbitrarily decide what should be the upper limit for the "reasonable range."
Microsoft is adding technology into Longhorn? For a moment, I thought it was another announcement of yet another technology being pulled from the house of cards called Longhorn. The next thing that they will be announcing is a Mactel version.
They were running out of technologies to drop from Longhorn. It only makes sense that they'd have to add in some new technologies in order to drop them later.
Don't panic. This gives the OSS community a couple of years to respond. Besides, this feature probably won't make it into the final release of Longhorn anyway.
Dell does sell computers with linux. Their servers, and the Precision workstations, are available with Windows XP or Redhat. I don't know why Linux isn't an option on the entry level models though.
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If it tastes the same, i would have zero problems with artificial meat.
What if somebody cultured meat from a human cell?
Who knows, maybe it tastes really good. But most people won't eat it just because it's too creepy.
The amount of energy coming from the sun and from the radioactive decay in the earth is pretty much the same as it is today, for say 100 Million years.
The sun's output is far from constant.
Either that, or global warming has gotten so bad on earth that is is actually causing the sun to be more active now than it has been in the past 1000 years!
Or perhaps it's the other way around... at any rate, it's just one more major variable to throw into the mix.
Particularly in a multi-user app (such as a web application) there has to be some engineering involved.
It is possible to write functional, tight code, that may be beautiful to look at, but that also does not scale well when it's slammed with 10,000 users at once.
Not only do you have to be smart in your coding, but you also have to know how to interpret load test results, use profiling tools, and other more engineer-ish things.
Often these load and performance metrics are part of the requirements, or at least they should be. To use the carpenter analogy, let's say the carpenter gets asked to build a custom piece of furniture that must be able to support the weight of a 100 gallon saltwater aquarium, while minimizing the weight of the furniture itself. He will be required to think like an engineer.
So, a true craftsman will also be smart in the engineering.
What is not so widely known is that it is ILLEGAL (in the USA) to:
a) BUY a PC
b) BUY a copy of OSX
c) Make "b" run on "a".
Technically, yes. OSX has upgrade pricing-- every copy of OSX sold is either bundled with a mac, or is sold to somebody who will be upgrading their existing Mac OS on their Mac. There's no such thing as a full standalone Mac OSX license; every boxed copy of the OS is, by definition, an upgrade for a prior version of the OS.
So, if you don't already own a legit copy of OSX (which is impossible if you don't own a Mac), then yes, it is illegal to buy and install an upgrade license to an operating system that you don't already have a license for.
After installing IE7, Trillian no longer loads that box.
Kind of funny how IE can break unrelated 3rd party apps, but I think there's probably some bad exception handling in Trillian here. If it's trying to use a new MSN messenger library, I'd expect the app to still load, perhaps without being able to connect to the MSN network.
Anybody else able to duplicate this? A couple other users have reported this behavior on the IE Blog.
The Terraserver stuff was around LONG before Google started offering satellit imagery. Microsoft most certainly did not copy that particular aspect from Google.
t erraserver.microsoft.com/
Specifically, Terraserver came online all the way back in 1998. At that time, it was the world's largest online database (accessible to the public at least) and it offered over a terabyte worth of data-- which was a pretty big database in 1998.
This is the earliest entry in the wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981111185028/http://
The site doesn't work of course, but you can see that it existed.
However, Terraserver (and MSN Virtual Earth) appears to be using the same satellite imagery as it did in 1998, for the most part. For some locations, terraserver lets you choose which satellite database to use, and I can compare my area between the early 80's and late 90's and see the effects of urban sprawl.
You can be a lot happier with simple things, like starting and quitting work every day
at the same hours (instead of working insane overtime), having free weed...
Word.
I wonder what percentage of software developers that are on the clock are using OSS. I bet most of these developers are doing this stuff in their free time for zero pay.
I work in a java development shop.
All of our front-end web servers are apache. Most of our back end app servers are Tomcat (both are OSS)
We also have a very large scale enterprise portal web site in production, which uses a closed source application/portal server, but numerous open source components behind the scenes, for everything from database abstraction to content management.
There aren't many instances where we are actually modifying the open source components, we're mainly just using the jarfiles-- but the original question was regarding "using OSS" which we are clearly doing.
But we do our time tracking and bug tracking in an open source app which we have extensively modified to suit our needs.
I may be wrong but Im pretty sure the internet was invented in CERN which, the last time I checked was still in Europe.
You are thinking of the World Wide Web, which began as essentially one protol for using the internet (along with others such as SMTP, IRC, gopher, etc). WWW is a much more recent development, relatively speaking, compared with the internet.
The internet itself began as a U.S. Department of Defense project called ARPANET which was the world's first packet-switching network.
From TFA:
So it appears that the basis of the lawsuit is that the robots.txt was NOT honored. The plaintiff claims that the robots.txt is a "contract" and that the wayback machine violated the contract by still allowing archived pages to be viewed in a limited number of attempts, for reasons unknown.
However, the TFA also does mention that honoring the robots.txt is strictly voluntary and does not constitute a contract.
I love responding to my own posts.
I just realized I haven't tried booting off the USB drive, seems like that should work. It's still kind of a pain to find a windows98 system that is capable of making a bootable DOS removable drive. Unless there's some utility for XP that allows this? Off to google I go...
My swanky new Athlon64 box running Windoze XP needs a floppy because I still have to boot into friggin' DOS in order to flash my BIOS.
Even the newest motherboards require this. Some motherboards don't require a bootable floppy, because they have a utility built into BIOS that will read the new BIOS binary... off of the floppy in drive A:
Are there any motherboards that can read the updated BIOS image off of a USB drive?
Well it'll be at least $499 if you want to include the hardware required to run Tiger (still worth it, IMO).
If Tiger only costs you $129, it means that you already have a Mac, and you aren't concerned with spyware to begin with.
That will all change if we will be able to install x86 Tiger on non-apple machines...
Consider great works of architecture... certainly, the simple task of building a bridge, or some building can result in the most straight-forward, brute-force application of a solution, but the results would not be as elegant or noteworthy..
I don't think building a bridge can be considered "simple" but that's not my point.
Expanding on the bridge / software analogy, a bridge would not be nearly as beautiful to look at if:
1) The load requirement was doubled halfway through the project
2) To pay for #1, you are asked to save money by building fewer support columns (which you've already constructed)
3) 12 months after construction begins, the specs change and you must now include train tracks
4) Near the end of the project: the customer just got new boats, and they won't fit under the bridge, can you make it a drawbridge? We can allow another 2 months for this last-minute addition...
As another Atlanta resident, I can confirm that driving the speed limit is wishful thinking most of the time. If I'm on I-285 in the afternoon, I consider it a relief to be able to finally shift into 2nd gear.
Many classical forms have become pompous, whiny and annoying to modern ears.
I believe this is because classical music is most often used in whiny and annoying contexts, so people seem to develop that association. It's unfortunate, but true.
I, for example, can't stand any Vivaldi, Haendel, Beethoven.
I definitely would NOT lump Beethoven in with Vivaldi and Handel. That just doesn't make any sense to me. The musical styles are completely different. Beethoven was the first composer to really break out of the "classical" mold and start playing with new textures, new instruments, new chord progressions, etc. He brought much more emotion into his music than Vivaldi and Handel, for whom composing was basically just a job.
Beethoven's music is very complex and even today you can hear Beethoven influences in modern film scores (John Williams, etc). If you spend time studying the music and the scores, you realize what a musical genius Beethoven really was. He was a master of form above all else. But in order to appreciate the form, you have to listen to a complete symphony, all movements. This is why I'm annoyed by the fact that most people only know the cell phone ringer versions of a Beethoven symphony.
By the way, I think I should mention Mozart. I believe he is overrated-- he was a genius for sure, but his music doesn't do anything for me. It seems to lack that vital connection to the listener.
I can't remember the rest. I was never any good at remembering mnemonics.
Numbers from 1-10 in Japanese each have a reading associated with them (1=hi, 2=fu, 3=mi...) that makes it easier to form them into mnemonics than in English.
Actually English has that too. It sounds something like "wun," "tooh," "three"....
it includes sanity checking to make sure data are within reasonable ranges, and requiring additional confirmation (ranging from "Whoa, dude! That much?" to supervisor approval)
Those would need to be business rules that are defined in the requirements document. It should not be up to the developer to arbitrarily decide what should be the upper limit for the "reasonable range."
Come on... even us ignorant off-worlders are smart enough to know that methane won't burn in the absence of oxygen.
Atlanta has them.
Also, after installing it, it seemed that 3D Buildings is turned off by default. Make sure that option is checked in the left-hand option pane.
Microsoft is adding technology into Longhorn? For a moment, I thought it was another announcement of yet another technology being pulled from the house of cards called Longhorn. The next thing that they will be announcing is a Mactel version.
They were running out of technologies to drop from Longhorn. It only makes sense that they'd have to add in some new technologies in order to drop them later.
This feature will be included in Longhorn.
Don't panic. This gives the OSS community a couple of years to respond. Besides, this feature probably won't make it into the final release of Longhorn anyway.
If it's resolution, well, check out The Gigapixel Project.
You do realize that the Gigapixel project uses a film camera, not a digital camera, right?
Read the FAQ on the site that you linked to. The images are exposed on large format film, and then scanned in with a high resolution scanner.
If he would sell OS X why wouldnt he sell Linux?
Dell does sell computers with linux. Their servers, and the Precision workstations, are available with Windows XP or Redhat. I don't know why Linux isn't an option on the entry level models though.