Neither Yahoo nor MSN provide a View as HTML option for PDFs, it's really useful when you are not so sure if that's what you want and you dan't want to wait a hell of a time for Acrobat Reader to load. Or even worse, to download it and then open it with xpdf for every file that might have some spec about some transistor.
I really wish I could think good sentences half as fast as I type. I really wish I could think of good code one tenth as fast as I type.
If you really need to type much faster as to need to learn a new keyboard layout because you cannot keep up with your mind, then it's time to start thinking/reading what you are typing.
Yeah,every one should follow the open source model, that's why Linus Torvalds choose to work at Transmeta and why they did well for some time at least: Openess.
Only good things can happen from opening every thing about everybody to every one.
It would surely be a better world. Your wife will know about your affairs and you about hers; the government will know when you cheat on your taxes; you will not be able to amke a new product and launch it surprisingly because everybody will know what you are doing; your parents will know every time you get drunk and every time you decide not to answer the phone when they call you.
I just dont understand why they are charging a computer manufacturer a tax for copyright issues?
Copyright from whom? Who has the right to copy what? Integrated circuits?
If they want to charge a tax for digital music copying (which I believe is wrong), then they should charge it to the CD writer manufacturer, not the computer retailer.
It is equivalent to putting a tax on Toyota Motor Company because their cars come with CD players, and those CD's can have music the user did not paid for. You must charge the stereo maker and the digital meida distributor (if you want someone to pay), not the guys that paid for it because their buyer wanted it.
Anyway, I never saw the industries go down with CD burners, cassete recordes, or VCRs. As they were in those times, I think they are being paranoid now.
It's even worse that the kid tought a communist was a Nazi, when the German Nazi Government was definitely a capitalist one.
I would have expected older guys to think that commies are bad always, but not little Bobby.
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On my US imigration form there was a question with something like: "Have you ever been linked in any way to the Nazi Government of Germany or have participated in a genocide?"
Even though a dictionary may help you out. As with any language, the simplest, most entertaining, form of lerning it is by being in contact with it.
Read tech forums, write tech stuff in english, when you don't understand a word, then you can look for it in your english dictionary or use some translation tool like Altavista. By reading your post I can see that you know your english well, it shouldn't be that hard learning some new words.
I'm a mexican and that's whta has worked for me, you can't get as good IT literature in spanish as you can in english.
Words of advise: please don't think that writing some cryptinc message in 1337 or some other weird writing is cool hacker jargon, the best way to express yourself is te way more people can undestand you while expressing what you want more precisely.
I don't understand how a person makes a project GPL and then does not want to share (or just share at some times). Then this guy is not really thinking about helping his fellow programmers. Maybe he is just doing it for the recognition among hacker circles.
Anyway if I was doing the project in the view of making a project that would help me and my nerd friends, I wouldn't see why I wouldn't like to help another person.
It is not unethical and the changelog guy is the one who is wrong, not the guy who started this thread.
"The whole terrorism witchhunt has seen 1984 approach rapidly. This must be fought. If it happens anyway, at least I can sleep with a clear conscience, since I fought in the war..."
Couldn't agree more. I it really hurts loosing the free spirit that reigned on the past. We must bring it back.
I think IPv6 will give us back some of that freedom. I can't wait for the day an ISP here in Mexico uses IPv6 and I can put any kind of servers on my desktop, giving weird services that only I can think about to my friends.
Maybe not everybody will do it, but those that the goverment is trying to spy, the ones that will do bad things, will learn how to do it and will encrypt their emails. Therefore, using any PGP app will make the security move almost useless, unless the government wants to read the "I miss you mommy at my summer camp" emails.
One way that really does the trick is bringing the guy who you want to sell security to and show him, with his consent, how you are entering its network. A listing of the files in some servers will most probably do.
Also, some examples of a social engineering work on their company might amaze those skeptics who think it's just about investing big money on firewalls.
He has given 37% of his wealth to charity and has given more than a
1000% of what Warren Buffet, Michael Dell, Steve Ballmer, Paul Allen
and Larry Ellison together.
Many people here attack fundamentalism, specially religious, but it is very similar to their geek stuff fanatism.,
The hating Bill Gates stuff just because he runs his business and only tries to make money is somewhat similar to what those muslism-middle east-fundamentalist feel about the US.
I have already done the design of a 10sq nm chip which will let your store an unlimited amount of zeros or ones, and will sell it for only a big mac's price at the moment of the sale.
The only problem is that you might not get what you stored for every ocasion.
I don't think it'll matter to constumers, all RAM chips have a fault rate don't they?
I like the new Google groups much more than the old one.
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Fuck what everybody is saying. Work for yourself.
Believe in yourself. Work hard in starting a new business while you are still at school. There's much more to do than a new great internet idea (which, if you would know how to develop, then you ain't got good IT skills after all). You can, for example, create an information backup service company for small businesses. There's much more.
All you need is willingness to work hard, sleep little, and make money.
If you have a year until you graduate, then you'll know if you can rely on that business to pay your debt by the time you graduate. If you decide you can't make money on it, and you really did everything to start a business, that'll help much more in your CV than something like "I've worked as a part time software tester at a small software firm in Austin".
Here I am, the mexican from the third world country who will take your as programmer and my paisano will take your plumer's (malicious laghter).
There's your globalization. Americans finding out there are people willing to work more for a living than they are.
You shouldn't be that afraid my globaliphobic gringo friend, even though it is true that USA will loose its position of power over the world order, the world as a whole is moving to a better situation, specially because there will now be various spheres of power which will compensate and balance one another (US, EU, and China).
Now the US will not be able to do as they please over the world.
Finally, the day has come!! (malicious laughter continues)
Well, even though the sections in the brain which they tap are not exactly understood (or even the brain itself), and they cannot match the idea of moving a bar with a electrical impulse on an electrode, I think it will really help for persons to have some of those switches even if they have to do strange thing to activate them.
For example, a quadraplegic could operate a TV, suply his own medicine, his own food, and call an alarm if something happens, that could be really great for some people, you could leave your wheelchaired mother in for at least two hours to go to dinner with your wife even if you didn't find a nurse available at friday nigth.
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Neither Yahoo nor MSN provide a View as HTML option for PDFs, it's really useful when you are not so sure if that's what you want and you dan't want to wait a hell of a time for Acrobat Reader to load. Or even worse, to download it and then open it with xpdf for every file that might have some spec about some transistor.
I really wish I could think good sentences half as fast as I type. I really wish I could think of good code one tenth as fast as I type.
If you really need to type much faster as to need to learn a new keyboard layout because you cannot keep up with your mind, then it's time to start thinking/reading what you are typing.
> There is a difference in coding between:
>a. You go and learn THIS game
Learn how to play THIS game right? Learn this game. How it's played. the rules.
>b. Learn THAT game and tell me the rules
Learn how to play THAT game right? Learn that game. How it's played. the rules.
And then... tadatadatadaaaa... tell me the rules.
Seriously, it's the same fucking thing. I don't think outputting some logical rules are what these scientists are struggling at all.
Even though THAT game does seem harder to learn tan THIS game, maybe it's because its farther away =)
Yeah,every one should follow the open source model, that's why Linus Torvalds choose to work at Transmeta and why they did well for some time at least: Openess.
Only good things can happen from opening every thing about everybody to every one.
It would surely be a better world. Your wife will know about your affairs and you about hers; the government will know when you cheat on your taxes; you will not be able to amke a new product and launch it surprisingly because everybody will know what you are doing; your parents will know every time you get drunk and every time you decide not to answer the phone when they call you.
Sniff, sniff, I miss my Big Brother.
I just dont understand why they are charging a computer manufacturer a tax for copyright issues? Copyright from whom? Who has the right to copy what? Integrated circuits? If they want to charge a tax for digital music copying (which I believe is wrong), then they should charge it to the CD writer manufacturer, not the computer retailer. It is equivalent to putting a tax on Toyota Motor Company because their cars come with CD players, and those CD's can have music the user did not paid for. You must charge the stereo maker and the digital meida distributor (if you want someone to pay), not the guys that paid for it because their buyer wanted it. Anyway, I never saw the industries go down with CD burners, cassete recordes, or VCRs. As they were in those times, I think they are being paranoid now.
If you mine enough words from Websters Dictionary, you can say some interesting things
It's even worse that the kid tought a communist was a Nazi, when the German Nazi Government was definitely a capitalist one.
I would have expected older guys to think that commies are bad always, but not little Bobby.
----
On my US imigration form there was a question with something like: "Have you ever been linked in any way to the Nazi Government of Germany or have participated in a genocide?"
Even though a dictionary may help you out. As with any language, the simplest, most entertaining, form of lerning it is by being in contact with it. Read tech forums, write tech stuff in english, when you don't understand a word, then you can look for it in your english dictionary or use some translation tool like Altavista. By reading your post I can see that you know your english well, it shouldn't be that hard learning some new words. I'm a mexican and that's whta has worked for me, you can't get as good IT literature in spanish as you can in english. Words of advise: please don't think that writing some cryptinc message in 1337 or some other weird writing is cool hacker jargon, the best way to express yourself is te way more people can undestand you while expressing what you want more precisely.
I don't understand how a person makes a project GPL and then does not want to share (or just share at some times). Then this guy is not really thinking about helping his fellow programmers. Maybe he is just doing it for the recognition among hacker circles.
Anyway if I was doing the project in the view of making a project that would help me and my nerd friends, I wouldn't see why I wouldn't like to help another person.
It is not unethical and the changelog guy is the one who is wrong, not the guy who started this thread.
What did you do when he said that? Run some syntax analyzed minutes before he tries the compile or just destroy his hopes every day?
What about HSQL, a database engine written in Java that has beaten some C++ engines and IBM's Cloudscape? Stated here
Now that's a fast Java app isn't it?
"The whole terrorism witchhunt has seen 1984 approach rapidly. This must be fought. If it happens anyway, at least I can sleep with a clear conscience, since I fought in the war..."
Couldn't agree more. I it really hurts loosing the free spirit that reigned on the past. We must bring it back.
I think IPv6 will give us back some of that freedom. I can't wait for the day an ISP here in Mexico uses IPv6 and I can put any kind of servers on my desktop, giving weird services that only I can think about to my friends.
Maybe not everybody will do it, but those that the goverment is trying to spy, the ones that will do bad things, will learn how to do it and will encrypt their emails. Therefore, using any PGP app will make the security move almost useless, unless the government wants to read the "I miss you mommy at my summer camp" emails.
One way that really does the trick is bringing the guy who you want to sell security to and show him, with his consent, how you are entering its network. A listing of the files in some servers will most probably do.
Also, some examples of a social engineering work on their company might amaze those skeptics who think it's just about investing big money on firewalls.
Well, he is the biggest philanthropist in the world. Spending a billion dollars a year, mostly in vaccine research. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm
e c_1004gates.html
He has given 37% of his wealth to charity and has given more than a 1000% of what Warren Buffet, Michael Dell, Steve Ballmer, Paul Allen and Larry Ellison together.
Is that really not caring about anything else?
Here's a link to Forbes on the fact. http://www.forbes.com/philanthropy/2004/10/04/cz_
Many people here attack fundamentalism, specially religious, but it is very similar to their geek stuff fanatism.,
The hating Bill Gates stuff just because he runs his business and only tries to make money is somewhat similar to what those muslism-middle east-fundamentalist feel about the US.
Well if you could tell how many zeros it is holding, you can convert that value to binary and then use that value as data.
You put a zero of each zero you want to store, and you put a 1's complement of the bit value for each one you want to store.
I have already done the design of a 10sq nm chip which will let your store an unlimited amount of zeros or ones, and will sell it for only a big mac's price at the moment of the sale.
The only problem is that you might not get what you stored for every ocasion.
I don't think it'll matter to constumers, all RAM chips have a fault rate don't they?
I have created a machine which performs a large quantity of numerical computations.
A kid at Best Buy, 2004, raised in the IM generation
Excuse me father, could you buy me a machine that performs a large quantity of numerical computations, all my friends have one?
As a mexican, chat rooms, message boards, and reading from almost anything on the net has helped me a lot on my english.
Chat rooms are great for learning slang, 'cuz there ain't nobody teachin' u that at school.
I like the new Google groups much more than the old one.
Fuck what everybody is saying. Work for yourself.
Believe in yourself. Work hard in starting a new business while you are still at school. There's much more to do than a new great internet idea (which, if you would know how to develop, then you ain't got good IT skills after all). You can, for example, create an information backup service company for small businesses. There's much more.
All you need is willingness to work hard, sleep little, and make money.
If you have a year until you graduate, then you'll know if you can rely on that business to pay your debt by the time you graduate. If you decide you can't make money on it, and you really did everything to start a business, that'll help much more in your CV than something like "I've worked as a part time software tester at a small software firm in Austin".
Here I am, the mexican from the third world country who will take your as programmer and my paisano will take your plumer's (malicious laghter). There's your globalization. Americans finding out there are people willing to work more for a living than they are. You shouldn't be that afraid my globaliphobic gringo friend, even though it is true that USA will loose its position of power over the world order, the world as a whole is moving to a better situation, specially because there will now be various spheres of power which will compensate and balance one another (US, EU, and China). Now the US will not be able to do as they please over the world. Finally, the day has come!! (malicious laughter continues)
Well, even though the sections in the brain which they tap are not exactly understood (or even the brain itself), and they cannot match the idea of moving a bar with a electrical impulse on an electrode, I think it will really help for persons to have some of those switches even if they have to do strange thing to activate them. For example, a quadraplegic could operate a TV, suply his own medicine, his own food, and call an alarm if something happens, that could be really great for some people, you could leave your wheelchaired mother in for at least two hours to go to dinner with your wife even if you didn't find a nurse available at friday nigth.