Mod parent up. Those websites have a trove of resources and links to stores where you can buy parts you can assemble yourself, or drones you can buy preassembled.
As others have said, OP hasn't really given all the fine details, but this is the best starting place for him/her to learn more.
The new CEO is the old head of their services division and oversaw the PriceWaterhouseCoopers takeover in 2002. I think this means that in the coming years, IBM will make a lot more money with a lot less engineers, thanks to their lucrative services business.
If you ask me, it's just a matter of time before the slow death of the server group accelerates into high-speed PC/consumer business style death.
The reason for this is quite simple... Jesus was just another of the many prophets who existed in this era of Israel, an era of great political uncertainty in which the Judean countryside with filled with all sorts of roving bandits and revolutionaries (read Josephus for all the background). People who fit the general profile of Jesus were literally dime-a-dozen at that time, and public executions of these sorts of people was a pretty regular occurrence. The historians from that period and region were focused on the greater discourse of the time, namely the tenuous nature of the Roman vichy government that existed at the time, and the growing discontent and militancy of the Jews against oppressive Roman rule.
That being said, the Dead Sea Scrolls consist of material that is either older (the Torah) or more obscure than the mainstream events of the time, such as the documents related to the hermetical Essene sect of Jews (or some group similar to the Essenes).
In short, you're looking for historical evidence of Jesus' existence in a totally unrelated place. There isn't much direct evidence, really, except for his most immediate followers and the tradition that followed them. However, given what we do know about Jesus, one wouldn't expect historians from his time to mention him. Christianity, his teachings, and his death only became historically important much later on.
Um... I think by "easily upgrade" you mean "easily upgrade to any level sanctioned by your mobile carrier." For example, the Samsung Moment is stuck at version 1.5 right now until Sprint feels like letting its users upgrade to 1.6. The G1 I think is at 1.6 by now, but only after T-Mobile felt like issuing updates. Meanwhile the Droid is at 2.0 until Verizon feels like rolling 2.1, and the Nexus One is at 2.1, which is currently the latest version.
So... yeah, the article raises a good point. It also highlights one of the benefits of rooting your phone- the *real* open source community behind Android is the modders, which try their best to keep your phone at the highest level of Android the hardware can take. I think the Android OS has incredible potential at the end of the day to really be something special, but standardization may be one of its biggest roadblocks. The steadily loosening death-grip of the carriers needs to completely go away, though.
Have a read at this piece of work: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565
While hiding in plain sight has its value, not being able to hide anything can have plenty of harm to an innocent person, especially if they have no control of how their data is used or interpreted.
At around 10am, a comment on the same page linked by OP revealed what the parent has pointed out, and even linked to a GV forum post explaining as much.
Yeah, in theory they could scale this to more cities with more bacteria, but they'd probably have to build something like Mother Brain to scale to thousands... and "silicon" of course can currently handle that just fine.
Fine achievement though, despite the summary's smug sensationalism.
In my opinion, the fools are the ones who shell out $50+ per month for mostly crap TV, not to mention the additional premium you have to pay to get those channels in "HD"...
I second that. Nimda was the worst virus I've ever personally dealt with. At the time, I was a network admin in my university, and by the time I showed up to work that morning, our primary domain controller was full of millions of readme.txt.js files, half of the grad students workstations were infected, and a mob of angry students and professors were pounding at our door wondering where's the network.
Turns out, Nimda found its way into our network through a grad student's rogue unpatched IIS server. Once inside the network, it found every SMB share on the network and exploited a Windows flaw to get into each of those systems. It was impressive and scary to see quickly it wreaked its havoc, and how many different weaknesses it exploited to spread itself. It took us a couple of days to get everything back to normal, after being saved by tape backups.
While there may possibly exist some implementation of the summary's mentioned "XML/metadata, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture" in COBOL, I wouldn't consider it a key element to these technologies. It may be that perhaps many new technologies are required to work with existing mainframes running a whole mess of COBOL code, but COBOL itself is not a key contributing factor to the success of these technologies. If anything, a good implementation should use abstraction to make legacy technologies irrelevant and compatible with newer technologies.
I use Doxygen for C code, and it is really helpful. One of its most useful features is that it generates caller and callee graphs for all functions. You can also browse the code itself in the generated HTML pages, and the function calls are turned into links to the implementation. Data structures and file includes are also pictorially graphed for easy browsing.
If the system you need to understand has a really big undocumented architecture, then this presentation might be useful to you (there is a research paper, but it's not free yet). In it, the authors present a systematic method of extracting the underlying architecture of the Linux kernel.
The parent's post is a rambling tirade of unconnected concepts that have nothing to do with CmdrTaco's statement about Slashdot not crashing during the 9/11 attacks. I don't see why it got modded so highly...
I believe what CmdrTaco's referring to is that he is proud of the technical achievement of having kept the site from crashing despite the incredibly high volume of traffic, and of running one of the few sites that still provided any useful information at the time. Many other conventional news web sites buckled under the intense traffic, while Slashdot still worked on that day.
I agree that the U.S. government used 9/11 as an excuse to do some bad things later on, but during those attacks, most people here in the U.S. were mainly confused, scared, and panicked, largely due to the lack of information at the moment (I remember some people repeating farfetched rumors of nuclear attacks). I think CmdrTaco and his team should be very proud of this accomplishment because they overcame a huge technical challenge and provided an important public service at the moment.
Wow, I didn't think it would be possible to bring together so many things that Slashdot readers love to hate into one single post, but this article has almost done it:
- Microsoft
- Software Patents
- Censorship
Now, if only Microsoft could extend or apply this patent to automatically censor the topics "evolution" and "open source"...
I fully agree- C is a great first language to learn the basic elements of programming. Howvwer, I will say this: I think Visual Basic is a fun tool for complete newcomers that are just curious about what it's like to build computer programs. It's a useful tool to stimulate the interest of potential programmers who could go on to take a first programming course in C; it allows you to quickly create a tangible and visible program without requiring too much complexity and background knowledge, but still exposes you somewhat to the thought process of designing software. Frankly, I think it's kind of a fun tool to use, though I don't think I'd ever do anything too serious with it.
(I admit I haven't looked at the latest.NET iteration of VB, but I'm sure they haven't made it any harder to graphically create GUI elements and quickly customize them by modifying simple subroutines).
After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, I was very fortunate to have been noticed by a recruiter of a large software company and through him, I was hired into a software development job that I love so far and that I will stick with as long as I can. However, I do know very well that things don't often turn out as nicely. I have many friends, most about as qualified as I am, that did not have it so easy and spent a very long time going through interviews and much frustration to find a respectable job. What I have learned from what they went through and from being in a demanding software development job for a couple of years can be summed up in the following- never give up and never sell yourself short. Job searching is a very difficult and trying process, and it requires lots of self-confidence and patience. Aim for the highest position and try to get into the exact field you are most interested in (since you will probably be most successful there anyway) and be very forward and direct about it. Someone in a previous post mentioned that employers' decisions are most affected by the image you portray of yourself, and nothing portrays a stronger image than a high level of self-confidence and a strong love and enthusiasm for what you do. If you truly love what you do, try to maintain this attitude for as long as possible and try very hard not to be discouraged by initial failure. By following this, and by using anyone you may know in any capacity who is in any position to help you, your chances of landing a great job will dramatically increase. Things are tough right now, but keep your chin up!
Although it requires that you buy some hardware, you could consider getting a barcode reader and encoding your password into a barcode. Whenever you're asked for your password, just swipe your barcode (on whatever you printed your barcoded password to- paper, card, etc.) through the reader and you've entered the password. That way, you can carry your password around with you (in a safe manner, of course), most people won't know what it is, you can randomly generate any crazy password string and not have to worry about forgetting it, and everyone's happy! Just be sure to change your password and update your barcode every so often...
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We used to have keyboards like this in typing class when I was in grade school. That was like 12 years ago. Nothing new here.
They'll never do Google Maps in India. I recently went there and it turns out they're very paranoid about maps of their cities, especially those close to borders. Sometimes, detailed maps of any place are very hard to come by, and you can just forget about maps and satellite images of Delhi. Until the government of India takes a more modern approach towards maps, I don't see there being a Google Maps for India.
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Mod parent up. Those websites have a trove of resources and links to stores where you can buy parts you can assemble yourself, or drones you can buy preassembled.
As others have said, OP hasn't really given all the fine details, but this is the best starting place for him/her to learn more.
The new CEO is the old head of their services division and oversaw the PriceWaterhouseCoopers takeover in 2002. I think this means that in the coming years, IBM will make a lot more money with a lot less engineers, thanks to their lucrative services business.
If you ask me, it's just a matter of time before the slow death of the server group accelerates into high-speed PC/consumer business style death.
Hold that stock.
The reason for this is quite simple... Jesus was just another of the many prophets who existed in this era of Israel, an era of great political uncertainty in which the Judean countryside with filled with all sorts of roving bandits and revolutionaries (read Josephus for all the background). People who fit the general profile of Jesus were literally dime-a-dozen at that time, and public executions of these sorts of people was a pretty regular occurrence. The historians from that period and region were focused on the greater discourse of the time, namely the tenuous nature of the Roman vichy government that existed at the time, and the growing discontent and militancy of the Jews against oppressive Roman rule.
That being said, the Dead Sea Scrolls consist of material that is either older (the Torah) or more obscure than the mainstream events of the time, such as the documents related to the hermetical Essene sect of Jews (or some group similar to the Essenes).
In short, you're looking for historical evidence of Jesus' existence in a totally unrelated place. There isn't much direct evidence, really, except for his most immediate followers and the tradition that followed them. However, given what we do know about Jesus, one wouldn't expect historians from his time to mention him. Christianity, his teachings, and his death only became historically important much later on.
Now they can threaten to crash asteroids into the earth if we don't agree to cutting treasonous federal spending!
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html
The dictators may intimidate the two or three ISPs into shutting off the internet, but they can't shoot all the birds out of the sky!
This submission appears to be quite partisan and one-sided, as well as sparse on the facts and context.
You must be new here...
Um... I think by "easily upgrade" you mean "easily upgrade to any level sanctioned by your mobile carrier." For example, the Samsung Moment is stuck at version 1.5 right now until Sprint feels like letting its users upgrade to 1.6. The G1 I think is at 1.6 by now, but only after T-Mobile felt like issuing updates. Meanwhile the Droid is at 2.0 until Verizon feels like rolling 2.1, and the Nexus One is at 2.1, which is currently the latest version.
So... yeah, the article raises a good point. It also highlights one of the benefits of rooting your phone- the *real* open source community behind Android is the modders, which try their best to keep your phone at the highest level of Android the hardware can take. I think the Android OS has incredible potential at the end of the day to really be something special, but standardization may be one of its biggest roadblocks. The steadily loosening death-grip of the carriers needs to completely go away, though.
Have a read at this piece of work: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565 While hiding in plain sight has its value, not being able to hide anything can have plenty of harm to an innocent person, especially if they have no control of how their data is used or interpreted.
At around 10am, a comment on the same page linked by OP revealed what the parent has pointed out, and even linked to a GV forum post explaining as much.
And yet, at 5pm, Slashdot posts this as news...
Light up a spliff if you got 'em, those brain cells will grow back, dude
Yeah, in theory they could scale this to more cities with more bacteria, but they'd probably have to build something like Mother Brain to scale to thousands... and "silicon" of course can currently handle that just fine.
Fine achievement though, despite the summary's smug sensationalism.
Won't someone PLEASE think of the birds!!
In my opinion, the fools are the ones who shell out $50+ per month for mostly crap TV, not to mention the additional premium you have to pay to get those channels in "HD"...
OTA HD + Boxee is your friend...
I second that. Nimda was the worst virus I've ever personally dealt with. At the time, I was a network admin in my university, and by the time I showed up to work that morning, our primary domain controller was full of millions of readme.txt.js files, half of the grad students workstations were infected, and a mob of angry students and professors were pounding at our door wondering where's the network.
Turns out, Nimda found its way into our network through a grad student's rogue unpatched IIS server. Once inside the network, it found every SMB share on the network and exploited a Windows flaw to get into each of those systems. It was impressive and scary to see quickly it wreaked its havoc, and how many different weaknesses it exploited to spread itself. It took us a couple of days to get everything back to normal, after being saved by tape backups.
While there may possibly exist some implementation of the summary's mentioned "XML/metadata, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture" in COBOL, I wouldn't consider it a key element to these technologies. It may be that perhaps many new technologies are required to work with existing mainframes running a whole mess of COBOL code, but COBOL itself is not a key contributing factor to the success of these technologies. If anything, a good implementation should use abstraction to make legacy technologies irrelevant and compatible with newer technologies.
I use Doxygen for C code, and it is really helpful. One of its most useful features is that it generates caller and callee graphs for all functions. You can also browse the code itself in the generated HTML pages, and the function calls are turned into links to the implementation. Data structures and file includes are also pictorially graphed for easy browsing.
If the system you need to understand has a really big undocumented architecture, then this presentation might be useful to you (there is a research paper, but it's not free yet). In it, the authors present a systematic method of extracting the underlying architecture of the Linux kernel.
The parent's post is a rambling tirade of unconnected concepts that have nothing to do with CmdrTaco's statement about Slashdot not crashing during the 9/11 attacks. I don't see why it got modded so highly...
I believe what CmdrTaco's referring to is that he is proud of the technical achievement of having kept the site from crashing despite the incredibly high volume of traffic, and of running one of the few sites that still provided any useful information at the time. Many other conventional news web sites buckled under the intense traffic, while Slashdot still worked on that day.
I agree that the U.S. government used 9/11 as an excuse to do some bad things later on, but during those attacks, most people here in the U.S. were mainly confused, scared, and panicked, largely due to the lack of information at the moment (I remember some people repeating farfetched rumors of nuclear attacks). I think CmdrTaco and his team should be very proud of this accomplishment because they overcame a huge technical challenge and provided an important public service at the moment.
Open Source Business. That's a pretty novel idea for a business model. Maybe you should patent it.
Wow, I didn't think it would be possible to bring together so many things that Slashdot readers love to hate into one single post, but this article has almost done it:
...
- Microsoft
- Software Patents
- Censorship
Now, if only Microsoft could extend or apply this patent to automatically censor the topics "evolution" and "open source"
I fully agree- C is a great first language to learn the basic elements of programming. Howvwer, I will say this: I think Visual Basic is a fun tool for complete newcomers that are just curious about what it's like to build computer programs. It's a useful tool to stimulate the interest of potential programmers who could go on to take a first programming course in C; it allows you to quickly create a tangible and visible program without requiring too much complexity and background knowledge, but still exposes you somewhat to the thought process of designing software. Frankly, I think it's kind of a fun tool to use, though I don't think I'd ever do anything too serious with it. (I admit I haven't looked at the latest .NET iteration of VB, but I'm sure they haven't made it any harder to graphically create GUI elements and quickly customize them by modifying simple subroutines).
After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, I was very fortunate to have been noticed by a recruiter of a large software company and through him, I was hired into a software development job that I love so far and that I will stick with as long as I can. However, I do know very well that things don't often turn out as nicely. I have many friends, most about as qualified as I am, that did not have it so easy and spent a very long time going through interviews and much frustration to find a respectable job. What I have learned from what they went through and from being in a demanding software development job for a couple of years can be summed up in the following- never give up and never sell yourself short. Job searching is a very difficult and trying process, and it requires lots of self-confidence and patience. Aim for the highest position and try to get into the exact field you are most interested in (since you will probably be most successful there anyway) and be very forward and direct about it. Someone in a previous post mentioned that employers' decisions are most affected by the image you portray of yourself, and nothing portrays a stronger image than a high level of self-confidence and a strong love and enthusiasm for what you do. If you truly love what you do, try to maintain this attitude for as long as possible and try very hard not to be discouraged by initial failure. By following this, and by using anyone you may know in any capacity who is in any position to help you, your chances of landing a great job will dramatically increase. Things are tough right now, but keep your chin up!
Although it requires that you buy some hardware, you could consider getting a barcode reader and encoding your password into a barcode. Whenever you're asked for your password, just swipe your barcode (on whatever you printed your barcoded password to- paper, card, etc.) through the reader and you've entered the password. That way, you can carry your password around with you (in a safe manner, of course), most people won't know what it is, you can randomly generate any crazy password string and not have to worry about forgetting it, and everyone's happy! Just be sure to change your password and update your barcode every so often...
We used to have keyboards like this in typing class when I was in grade school. That was like 12 years ago. Nothing new here.
"can we expect Google Maps India next?"
They'll never do Google Maps in India. I recently went there and it turns out they're very paranoid about maps of their cities, especially those close to borders. Sometimes, detailed maps of any place are very hard to come by, and you can just forget about maps and satellite images of Delhi. Until the government of India takes a more modern approach towards maps, I don't see there being a Google Maps for India.
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