Four years later, and the country is even MORE divided than before
Actually it's slightly less divided if you compare the popular vote percentages between 2004 and 2000. I've voted in 4 presidential elections now, and I've learned that every 4 years, people always seem divided. Go figure.
partisan hackery (Republicans are right, Democrats are wrong, no matter what)
And yet I read slashdot, and most people here are convinced that Bush is a blithering idiot who has not done one single thing right, in any aspect whatsoever, since he stole the election illegally in 2000. How's that for partisan hackery?
In a country like the United States that was founded on the principals of freedom, free exchange of ideas and diversity among other things, it is truly unbeliavable someone like Mr. Bush could ever become a president.
It's unbelievable to YOU. But apparently it's not unbelievable to the majority of Americans, which is what the electoral process is all about.
Everybody who votes, republican or democrat, feels the same way when their party's candidate loses. They can't believe that the other guy won. You're not expressing any new thoughts here, people on the other side felt the same way when Clinton got elected (how could this guy become president, etc). That's just the nature of politics.
I don't see how this is a bad thing. This just means that IE does not catch some of the malformed code people use to cause havoc on the net.
Let's turn it around... if it was IE that was crashing on bad HTML, and the other browsers simply ignored it, would you be making the same argument? IMO, the slashdot headline would then be "IE Crashes on simple malformed HTML."
How is it a bad thing when other browsers refuses to read that code. Isn't that a good thing? A good example is a compiler most compilers catch overflows and don't allow you to finish compiling.
NO, no, no, no!! It is a BAD thing, because at the very minimum it's a sign of non-existent exception handling. You should never get a runtime error from bad input. In some cases, you create an infinite loop-- is there any excuse for that? And considering the nature of the crashes (one of the links caused Firefox 1.0PR to die with a windows memory error, shutting down ALL instances of firefox) this means that some memory was accessed that shouldn't have been, which means that you could conceivably put executable code into memory simply by constructing the right "invalid" HTML. Lo and behold, you now have a buffer overflow exploit for Firefox. And we're telling all the IE users on Windows to switch to Firefox!
I'm a firefox user, and there's no way I'm switching back to IE, but this MUST be fixed. Now that it's well known, I'm sure there will be a patch for Firefox fairly soon, though I have a feeling the code changes will be somewhat involved.
Naming a robotic drummer after Neil Peart? The irony does not escape me
It does escape most people, until they listen to the tracks he plays on his tribute to Buddy Rich album. For the good of humanity, Neil needs to not attempt to play swing ever again.
Brief: Animusic is a bunch of animated music clips, where the animation is controlled by a MIDI file. Some great animation, and great music, in there.
It's also worth mentioning that there's a Real-Time version of Pipe Dream (from Animusic) on ATI's web site. It'll run on any ATI DirectX9 compatible card, probably not nVidia cards though. But you can also play the MPG which is nearly identical to the pre-rendered original Animusic version. And with the PEART article slashdotted, you might as well watch this instead.:-)
I think I would change careers if I ever had to write a statement like this:
SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERDETAILS C, CUSTOMERORDERS O WHERE CERTAINLY (O.ORDERID = 500) AND PERHAPS (C.CUSTTYPE = 4) AND JUST_SO_HAPPENS(O.CUSTID = C.CUSTID) AND (O.COMPLETEDATE MIGHT BE UNKNOWN OR O.STATUS IS NOT NECESSARILY 0) PLEASE ORDER BY O.ORDERNUMBER IF NOT TOO MUCH TROUBLE
That works as long as you are talking about only one point in time.
Say you have a "level $700" PC this year.
2 years from now, you buy a program that requires a "level $700" PC. Will your PC be able to run it?
So, you will have to constantly recalculate what level your PC is. Your "level $700" PC will turn into a "level $500" PC in 3 months, and in 2 years, it will be a "level donate-for-a-tax-writeoff" PC.
You'll need to have some sort of equation to determine your current computer level based on the level at the time of purchase, and the time elapsed since purchase, and... well that makes even AMD and Intel's new processor naming schemes seem like good ideas by comparison.
Since you're a major oil company here, providing us with gas that we're used to paying lots of dough for, when prices go down you make money by not lowering your prices proportionally or not lowering it very quickly.
Again, that sounds logical, but is there data to back this up? I know it sure seems like gas prices take a while to come back down, but "seems like" is not necessarily proof of anything. I've searched around for some data but I'm not even sure which data would actually be relevant... a simple chart of avg pump prices, crude oil prices, and profits over time?
that is not entirely true. Good example is that FDR created jobs during the Greate Depression by hiring.
This is true. But you know what REALLY ended the depression?
World War 2 did.
The manufacturing industry (in particular) got a huge kick in the pants due to the demand for the supplies that were required to equip a large enough military force to fight a war on two fronts. So there went the unemployment problem. Eligible men were generally sent off to war, so the women had to go to work in the factories in order for supply to keep up with demand.
The economy got going again, in a big way, though the cost was nearly 300,000 lives in the U.S. military alone.
Too bad the Iraq war isn't having such a favorable boost on the economy.
It is also no accident that oil prices, after stagnating for pretty much the entire Clinton years, started skyrocketing after Bush's election. It is his priority to keep gas prices high. For every cent in gas price hikes, the Oil industry makes millions of dollars.
Would you care to back that statement up, please? Perhaps using some financial data for a large American oil company?
Also, please explain how Bush was able to increase the per-barrel cost of crude oil, with an explanation as to how that would benefit him personally.
Nitrous used as a drug has been mentioned a lot, so I want to point out that only fire can use this oxygen. To your body, nitrous has no usable oxygen. If you breathe it in pure for too long with no outside source of oxygen, you will pass out/die.
Hmm, I've read about this on Slashdot before, and I'm pretty sure I've read about Modified Newtonian Dynamics before.
The gist is this: MOND is an alternative to the "dark matter" explanation. It makes a modification to newton's laws of motion, whereby gravitational strength. The equation F = ma is well known, but with MOND the gravitational inverse square law changes to an inverse linear law when the acceleration due to gravity falls below a critical value, which is very small (i.e. you get pretty far away from the source of gravity).
This explains most of the observed behavior that is currently explained by dark matter, including the rotation of galaxies which seem to defy newton's laws. Unfortunately, there's still no derived theoretical basis for MOND; as of now it's a rather arbitrary explanation with equations that just seem to work pretty well, and many physicists do not take MOND seriously. Then again, "dark matter" seems just as silly.
Thanks for replying and providing that link, I'll change my sig. I still think it's just as absurd with that different translation.
More to the point, I think given the muslim background of the translators, they tend to inject references to "God" in their speaking much more than Americans. It is quite possible that the original English phrase simply had a secular declaration of intent (such as "It was our duty to strike Al Qaeda, and it was our duty to strike Saddam.") The person who later recalled from memory what Bush had said, and translated it into Arabic when writing it down, may have simply added the references to "God" if that is common in their own language. The translator may assume that duty is derived from God even if Bush never said so.
I don't know for sure what Bush actually said, I'm just hypothesizing here.
So I'm just saying it's quite possible that Bush never mentioned anything about following divine orders, although people tend to use that quote to demonstrate a point: that Bush was following some sort of religious doctrine just like a Terrorist.
Besides, nowadays saying he "hit it" with Al Qaeda kinda has a different meaning!
Great now you'll have to include 60 MB of IDL code to run any program.
The.Net redistributable runtime is 23MB..NET is loved by managers who think they can dumb down their server side code so any H1-B can do it, that's about it.
Please explain how.Net is "dumbed down," I'm not quite sure what that is supposed to mean.
Nobody even uses.NET for desktop apps
Just because you haven't seen it for yourself doesn't mean that nobody is doing it. If anything it just demonstrates that you have had limited real-world experience in programming. You must still be in school.
Bush never said the quote you have in your sig-- "God inspired me to hit al Qaeda, and so I hit it. And I had the inspiration to hit Saddam, and so I hit him."
Writing a book with pictures in Word is extremely difficult. It randomly moves stuff around, changes fonts, and deletes sections of the code when you exceed somewhere around 2MB file size (or 10 pages...I'm not really sure about the limit).
That's odd, I haven't noticed any of that happening in the 180-page requirements document I'm using (which is chock full of pictures). Several people are editing this document and constantly moving stuff around, deleting things, adding new things, and nothing like you've described has been happening. Could it be version dependent? We're using office XP and Office 2000 (yes, even different versions of Word are editing this document with no ill effects).
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Four years later, and the country is even MORE divided than before
Actually it's slightly less divided if you compare the popular vote percentages between 2004 and 2000. I've voted in 4 presidential elections now, and I've learned that every 4 years, people always seem divided. Go figure.
partisan hackery (Republicans are right, Democrats are wrong, no matter what)
And yet I read slashdot, and most people here are convinced that Bush is a blithering idiot who has not done one single thing right, in any aspect whatsoever, since he stole the election illegally in 2000. How's that for partisan hackery?
In a country like the United States that was founded on the principals of freedom, free exchange of ideas and diversity among other things, it is truly unbeliavable someone like Mr. Bush could ever become a president.
It's unbelievable to YOU. But apparently it's not unbelievable to the majority of Americans, which is what the electoral process is all about.
Everybody who votes, republican or democrat, feels the same way when their party's candidate loses. They can't believe that the other guy won. You're not expressing any new thoughts here, people on the other side felt the same way when Clinton got elected (how could this guy become president, etc).
That's just the nature of politics.
I don't see how this is a bad thing. This just means that IE does not catch some of the malformed code people use to cause havoc on the net.
Let's turn it around... if it was IE that was crashing on bad HTML, and the other browsers simply ignored it, would you be making the same argument? IMO, the slashdot headline would then be "IE Crashes on simple malformed HTML."
How is it a bad thing when other browsers refuses to read that code. Isn't that a good thing? A good example is a compiler most compilers catch overflows and don't allow you to finish compiling.
NO, no, no, no!! It is a BAD thing, because at the very minimum it's a sign of non-existent exception handling. You should never get a runtime error from bad input. In some cases, you create an infinite loop-- is there any excuse for that?
And considering the nature of the crashes (one of the links caused Firefox 1.0PR to die with a windows memory error, shutting down ALL instances of firefox) this means that some memory was accessed that shouldn't have been, which means that you could conceivably put executable code into memory simply by constructing the right "invalid" HTML. Lo and behold, you now have a buffer overflow exploit for Firefox. And we're telling all the IE users on Windows to switch to Firefox!
I'm a firefox user, and there's no way I'm switching back to IE, but this MUST be fixed. Now that it's well known, I'm sure there will be a patch for Firefox fairly soon, though I have a feeling the code changes will be somewhat involved.
Naming a robotic drummer after Neil Peart? The irony does not escape me
It does escape most people, until they listen to the tracks he plays on his tribute to Buddy Rich album.
For the good of humanity, Neil needs to not attempt to play swing ever again.
Brief: Animusic is a bunch of animated music clips, where the animation is controlled by a MIDI file. Some great animation, and great music, in there.
:-)
It's also worth mentioning that there's a Real-Time version of Pipe Dream (from Animusic) on ATI's web site. It'll run on any ATI DirectX9 compatible card, probably not nVidia cards though.
But you can also play the MPG which is nearly identical to the pre-rendered original Animusic version. And with the PEART article slashdotted, you might as well watch this instead.
Probably named after Neil Peart, Drummer for Rush.
No. Surely it's just a coincidence.
And I thought people here don't like monopolies...
Google != monopoly, right now anyway.
A monopoly: when your forced to use the company's products because you are locked in and don't have much of a choice.
Google: you WANT to use the company's products because they make your life easier, work very well, and don't cost anything.
I think I would change careers if I ever had to write a statement like this:
SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERDETAILS C, CUSTOMERORDERS O WHERE CERTAINLY (O.ORDERID = 500) AND PERHAPS (C.CUSTTYPE = 4) AND JUST_SO_HAPPENS(O.CUSTID = C.CUSTID) AND (O.COMPLETEDATE MIGHT BE UNKNOWN OR O.STATUS IS NOT NECESSARILY 0) PLEASE ORDER BY O.ORDERNUMBER IF NOT TOO MUCH TROUBLE
It is impossible to host an ASP.NET site without paying microsoft. Even if you don't pay them for the SDK they still get their money.
I beg to differ.
Most people are too stupid to be told even the fisrt thing about security.
Since when is knowledge of computer security an indicator of one's intelligence?
That works as long as you are talking about only one point in time.
Say you have a "level $700" PC this year.
2 years from now, you buy a program that requires a "level $700" PC. Will your PC be able to run it?
So, you will have to constantly recalculate what level your PC is. Your "level $700" PC will turn into a "level $500" PC in 3 months, and in 2 years, it will be a "level donate-for-a-tax-writeoff" PC.
You'll need to have some sort of equation to determine your current computer level based on the level at the time of purchase, and the time elapsed since purchase, and... well that makes even AMD and Intel's new processor naming schemes seem like good ideas by comparison.
The level of polish and craftsmanship of open source software
You do know how Apache got its name, right?
Since you're a major oil company here, providing us with gas that we're used to paying lots of dough for, when prices go down you make money by not lowering your prices proportionally or not lowering it very quickly.
Again, that sounds logical, but is there data to back this up? I know it sure seems like gas prices take a while to come back down, but "seems like" is not necessarily proof of anything.
I've searched around for some data but I'm not even sure which data would actually be relevant... a simple chart of avg pump prices, crude oil prices, and profits over time?
that is not entirely true. Good example is that FDR created jobs during the Greate Depression by hiring.
This is true. But you know what REALLY ended the depression?
World War 2 did.
The manufacturing industry (in particular) got a huge kick in the pants due to the demand for the supplies that were required to equip a large enough military force to fight a war on two fronts. So there went the unemployment problem. Eligible men were generally sent off to war, so the women had to go to work in the factories in order for supply to keep up with demand.
The economy got going again, in a big way, though the cost was nearly 300,000 lives in the U.S. military alone.
Too bad the Iraq war isn't having such a favorable boost on the economy.
It is also no accident that oil prices, after stagnating for pretty much the entire Clinton years, started skyrocketing after Bush's election. It is his priority to keep gas prices high. For every cent in gas price hikes, the Oil industry makes millions of dollars.
Would you care to back that statement up, please?
Perhaps using some financial data for a large American oil company?
Also, please explain how Bush was able to increase the per-barrel cost of crude oil, with an explanation as to how that would benefit him personally.
yet had to ask me what that little * thingie was.
It's called an "asterisk," silly.
Nitrous used as a drug has been mentioned a lot, so I want to point out that only fire can use this oxygen. To your body, nitrous has no usable oxygen. If you breathe it in pure for too long with no outside source of oxygen, you will pass out/die.
At least you'll die happy.
In what units? That'd be the bullshit test for me. You can get any result you want by using some approximation and the proper units.
Any units you want.. acceleration is expressed in distance per time squared. Speed is distance per time, and the age of the universe is just time.
Just be sure to do the necessary unit conversions and you'll see that no matter what units you use, the values for a0 will all be equivalent.
23MB is massive? Are you posting into the future from the year 1995?
.Net based control panel.
That's smaller than the size of the driver package itself -- even the version WITHOUT the
It makes a modification to newton's laws of motion, whereby gravitational strength.
I can't even remember what I was trying to say with that sentence.
Hmm, I've read about this on Slashdot before, and I'm pretty sure I've read about Modified Newtonian Dynamics before.
The gist is this: MOND is an alternative to the "dark matter" explanation. It makes a modification to newton's laws of motion, whereby gravitational strength.
The equation F = ma is well known, but with MOND the gravitational inverse square law changes to an inverse linear law when the acceleration due to gravity falls below a critical value, which is very small (i.e. you get pretty far away from the source of gravity).
This explains most of the observed behavior that is currently explained by dark matter, including the rotation of galaxies which seem to defy newton's laws. Unfortunately, there's still no derived theoretical basis for MOND; as of now it's a rather arbitrary explanation with equations that just seem to work pretty well, and many physicists do not take MOND seriously. Then again, "dark matter" seems just as silly.
A more in-depth explanation is available here.
Interestingly, the MOND critical value for the acceleration (a0) turns out to be the speed of light divided by the age of the universe.
Thanks for replying and providing that link, I'll change my sig. I still think it's just as absurd with that different translation.
More to the point, I think given the muslim background of the translators, they tend to inject references to "God" in their speaking much more than Americans. It is quite possible that the original English phrase simply had a secular declaration of intent (such as "It was our duty to strike Al Qaeda, and it was our duty to strike Saddam.") The person who later recalled from memory what Bush had said, and translated it into Arabic when writing it down, may have simply added the references to "God" if that is common in their own language. The translator may assume that duty is derived from God even if Bush never said so.
I don't know for sure what Bush actually said, I'm just hypothesizing here.
So I'm just saying it's quite possible that Bush never mentioned anything about following divine orders, although people tend to use that quote to demonstrate a point: that Bush was following some sort of religious doctrine just like a Terrorist.
Besides, nowadays saying he "hit it" with Al Qaeda kinda has a different meaning!
Great now you'll have to include 60 MB of IDL code to run any program.
.Net redistributable runtime is 23MB. .NET is loved by managers who think they can dumb down their server side code so any H1-B can do it, that's about it.
.Net is "dumbed down," I'm not quite sure what that is supposed to mean.
.NET for desktop apps
.Net.
The
Please explain how
Nobody even uses
Just because you haven't seen it for yourself doesn't mean that nobody is doing it. If anything it just demonstrates that you have had limited real-world experience in programming.
You must still be in school.
Just one recent example, ATI's latest Catalyst Control Center is written on
Here is some clarification.
Writing a book with pictures in Word is extremely difficult. It randomly moves stuff around, changes fonts, and deletes sections of the code when you exceed somewhere around 2MB file size (or 10 pages...I'm not really sure about the limit).
That's odd, I haven't noticed any of that happening in the 180-page requirements document I'm using (which is chock full of pictures). Several people are editing this document and constantly moving stuff around, deleting things, adding new things, and nothing like you've described has been happening.
Could it be version dependent? We're using office XP and Office 2000 (yes, even different versions of Word are editing this document with no ill effects).
...a post consisting only of a single non-alphabetic character, getting modded to +5.
Truly we live in amazing times.