I think that games should be catered equally to men and women. For example, Tecmo's "Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball" featured topless male players right out of the box! Why did it have to take a group of concerned volunteers to develop a patch that made the game fair?
"Playa tha last few years, I've noticed thiznat a surprisingly large gangsta of native English speaka, who is otherwise very technically competent, seem ta lack strong English skills aww nah. Mostly, this seems ta manifest itself as frontin' degrees of pizzy ho-slappin' n grammar fo' sho': 'definatizzles instead of 'def'; 'should of' instead of 'should have'; n I even see tha names of products n companies misspelled from tizzle ta time . Yippie yo, you can't see my flow. It baffles me thiznat a culture so obsessed wit technical knowledge n accuracy can demonstrate such shawty attention ta detail W-H-to-tha-izzen it comes ta communicat'n that knowledge wit bitch n it baffles me even mizzle tizzle many thugz become enraged wizzle you attempt ta H-to-tha-izzelp them correct n learn fizzle they mistakes mah nizzle. Do nigga n geeks jizzle not care `bout weed-smokin' effectively? Do tizzle not realize tizzle a mediocre command of written English makes them appear less intelligent? Am I miss'n sum-m sum-m here?""
Roland, when you copy and paste the HTML from somebody else's web site, at least move the images to your server. You're stealing other sites' content, other sites' bandwidth and giving them none of the ad revenue they could potentially realize if Slashdot linked directly to the original source!
Over the past few years I've seen the popularity of web logs grow faster than the mold in my fridge. I really get a kick out of four year crazes. Don't get me wrong, I think that web logs are profoundly important and here to stay. But right now web logs are experiencing the hype of a four year craze. Hear me out.
My first experience with the World Wide Web was circa 1993. On the weekends my father would take me into work and plop me down in front of a Silicon Graphics workstation while he accomplished work worthy of a weekend visit. I'm proud that my first web experience involved Mosaic, and when it went live a year later, Yahoo. I can't imagine what it would be like for a child's first experience with the web to involve Internet Explorer. That must be like learning how to drive on a Pinto. I digress.
Back in the day, when the workstations weren't in use, they ran this thing called a "screensaver" to keep the monitors from suffering burn-in. Specifically, they ran a screensaver named PointCast. Pointcast LogoPointCast was a program that featured Push technology. Basically, with Push technology, servers would send data to the client rather than clients requesting it from the server. Hot damn and hallelujah, push technology was going to change the world! I mean, can you imagine it!?!?! Push instead of Pull! Ingenius! Not since Columbus discovered the world is round... blah blah blah.
PointCast pushed stock quotes, news and weather to the computers that subscribed to it. I never really understood PointCast. I mean, if it ran when the computer was idle, then who was there to read the stocks, news and weather? I want my stocks, news and weather when I'm sitting at the computer thank you very much. These silly problems didn't matter back in the early to mid-nineties because PointCast's graphics were stunning (for the time) and there weren't that many choices for a screensaver if you didn't like flying toasters.
Somehow the enthusiasm for PointCast's pretty graphics translated into euphoria for Push technology. Of course Push has a place, but after about four years the hype behind Push technology gave way to the common sense benefits of Pull. Push is in use today, but its perceived importance settled down to a realistic level. I guess you could say that gravity pulled Push back to Earth.
In the late nineties, portals were king. If you didn't have a portal then why were you even bothering with the web? For those of you not aware, portals are aggregate web sites that pull together content (such as stock, news and weather) all into a convenient, customizable web page. Every search engine turned itself into a portal, with Lycos and Yahoo being the biggest that I can remember. The word Portal became synonymous with the web. Eventually the good people at Google showed that congested portals could be slayed by a clean interface tied to a fast search engine. Of course portals are still around today. For example, some of my current work uses IBM WebSphere Portal. But again, after about four years of hype, their perceived importance has settled down to a realistic level.
Over the last couple of years web logs have become all the rage. In fact, web logs have become so popular that I think they deserve a shorter name. I suggest we start calling them "blogs" for short. Blog. I think it's kind of catchy, what do you think?
Anyway, blogs have become all the rage.Trent Lott Unlike with push and portals, blogs actually have some power to their punch. In fact, Howard Dean almost lost to George W. Bush instead of to John Kerry thanks to the grassroots effort largely organized through his blog. Trent Lott would probably still be in office today if it weren't for the power of bloggers and their blogs. Blogs transfer the power of the press from the mighty publisher to the puny peon. Powerful stuff.
I'm a corporate trainer who teaches a lot of server-side Java classes (Servlets/JSP/EJB/etc). I've found it necessary to spend a little bit of time comparing Java and the J2EE platform to "competing" technologies such as.NET, PHP, Ruby on Rails, etc.
It's okay to spend 95% of the class using PHP, but be sure to include a discussion of how PHP compares to alternative technologies. Knowing how to use a technology can be equally important as knowing where the technology fits into the "big picture."
At my blog, I wrote an article that explains why I think blogs are a four year craze.
From the blog,
"Over the past few years I've seen the popularity of web logs grow faster than the mold in my fridge. I really get a kick out of four year crazes. Don't get me wrong, I think that web logs are profoundly important and here to stay. But right now web logs are experiencing the hype of a four year craze. Hear me out.
My first experience with the World Wide Web was circa 1993. On the weekends my father would take me into work and plop me down in front of a Silicon Graphics workstation while he accomplished work worthy of a weekend visit. I'm proud that my first web experience involved Mosaic, and when it went live a year later, Yahoo. I can't imagine what it would be like for a child's first experience with the web to involve Internet Explorer. That must be like learning how to drive on a Pinto. I digress...."
When a security hole is discovered, how much accountability rests with the developer(s) responsible for the hole/bug? Have serious holes led to programmers being fired? Is there any sort of incentive for building bug-scarce code?
My company recently made the decision that all new desktop computers purchased would be from Apple. Although the average Mac is more expensive than the average PC, the (current) lack of spyware and other PC related problems will probably pay for itself in the first few months.
I can say with 100% certainty that the switch to Apples was made because of the IPods. The IPods got the company owners into Apple's Pittsburgh store and the rest is history. Apple's retail employees do a very good job of introducing customers and potential customers to their other product lines. I've never been more impressed by floor-level retail salespeople... and apparently neither were the company owners.
Don't be so near-minded. Twenty years from now we might be laughing at statements like this as we download data over fiber-optic cables faster than current hard drive seek/read times.
Just because somebody knows that a ridiculous bill will never become a law (or whatever the equivalent Canadian process is) doesn't mean that it shouldn't be written about. In fact, I would say that pointing them out in the press is part of what prevents them from passing.
How many outrageous laws are on the books today that slipped by unnoticed? We hear about them all the time.
Now, I will agree that articles that discuss these ridiculous laws should put the focus on the idiot lawmakers trying to pass them. Any article that tries to scare its readers into thinking the potential regulation has a legitimate shot of passing is being simply sensationalist.
Companies that really know that they're looking for won't just ask for Java experience... they'll ask for things such as "J2EE","Struts","Applets" or another specific use of Java.
Also, I've been using sites like Monster.com for a while to gauge technology popularity in various cities. Living in Pittsburgh, I noticed that there seemed to be a lot of Java offerings but not as many offerings for C#. Moster.com confirmed this:
Totally offtopic, but your joke made me think of another I heard somewhere.
A guy goes to the doctor about a problem he's having. After a thorough examination, the doctor says to the patient, "I have good news and I have bad news."
"Well doc, let me hear the good news first.", says the patient.
To which the doctor responds, "Well, the good news is, we're going to name a disease after you!"
It's interesting how the definition of "open source" has changed over the last few years. It used to be that I only ever heard "open source" associated with software. After all, software is built from source code.
It seems like the phrase "open source" is being confused with the similar, but different, "free to use", "free speech" or "freedom of expression." We hear about open source journalism, open source biology, open source research and even open source beer.
I'm not saying that this is a bad thing... I'm just making an observation. It makes me wonder if in twenty years from now, when new countries are writing their constitutions, will they guarantee their citizens "open source rights?"
As much as I like to poke fun at Microsoft, I don't see anything wrong with this job posting.
Performing a prior art search requires 95% technology knowledge and 5% patent knowledge. The little patent knowledge their employees will need I'm sure they'll learn on the job. Come on, we've all sold ourselves during job interviews as being "fast learners."
In my opinion, this is just a silly reason to ridicule Microsoft.
Don't confuse the issues here. The issue at hand is scientists being told to lie.
Of course most of us would not be willing to give up our home or modern amenities. This, however, does not make it right to alter scientific findings to make development possible.
It would be better for politicians and society to come to a consensus that it's okay to kill natural habitats to make room for human homes. Brutal honesty is better than ignorance by deceit.
From my understanding, corpse theft (or illegal corpse purchasing) often occurs on a piecemeal basis. In other words, one company or university might only need eyeballs while another focuses on the other organs such as the heart or brain. Would they put RFID tags in all these different parts?
Also, despite the really small size of the world's tiniest RFID tags, these tags can still be viewed with the naked eye. If I illegaly purchased a brain, and I had autopsy tools at my disposal, it would seem like a trivial task to remove the chip inside.
Wouldn't it be much more efficient to maintain a DNA database of donated bodies? This way if a fraternity gets caught with a pair of stolen eyeballs they can run a DNA test to see where it possibly originated.
Of course, I don't suggest they keep a DNA database on alive schoolchildren. Only when they're dead and unable to protest.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Why does O'Reilly have a picture of a fox on the front of the book? Don't they know that Firefox is not a fox?
I think that games should be catered equally to men and women. For example, Tecmo's "Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball" featured topless male players right out of the box! Why did it have to take a group of concerned volunteers to develop a patch that made the game fair?
Or, as Snoop Dogg might be wondering,
"Playa tha last few years, I've noticed thiznat a surprisingly large gangsta of native English speaka, who is otherwise very technically competent, seem ta lack strong English skills aww nah. Mostly, this seems ta manifest itself as frontin' degrees of pizzy ho-slappin' n grammar fo' sho': 'definatizzles instead of 'def'; 'should of' instead of 'should have'; n I even see tha names of products n companies misspelled from tizzle ta time . Yippie yo, you can't see my flow. It baffles me thiznat a culture so obsessed wit technical knowledge n accuracy can demonstrate such shawty attention ta detail W-H-to-tha-izzen it comes ta communicat'n that knowledge wit bitch n it baffles me even mizzle tizzle many thugz become enraged wizzle you attempt ta H-to-tha-izzelp them correct n learn fizzle they mistakes mah nizzle. Do nigga n geeks jizzle not care `bout weed-smokin' effectively? Do tizzle not realize tizzle a mediocre command of written English makes them appear less intelligent? Am I miss'n sum-m sum-m here?""
Did anybody else notice that the image on Roland's home page is being hosted at Cornell.edu? The image in question is http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June05/Spivey_ env.jpg
Roland, when you copy and paste the HTML from somebody else's web site, at least move the images to your server. You're stealing other sites' content, other sites' bandwidth and giving them none of the ad revenue they could potentially realize if Slashdot linked directly to the original source!
at the University of Pittsburgh' Safar Center for Resuscitation Research web site.
They provide a little more information on their suspended animation page.
...10 percent of UK web sites are hosted at the domain http://www.msn.co.uk./
Taken from my blog at: www.michaelrighi.com:
Over the past few years I've seen the popularity of web logs grow faster than the mold in my fridge. I really get a kick out of four year crazes. Don't get me wrong, I think that web logs are profoundly important and here to stay. But right now web logs are experiencing the hype of a four year craze. Hear me out.
My first experience with the World Wide Web was circa 1993. On the weekends my father would take me into work and plop me down in front of a Silicon Graphics workstation while he accomplished work worthy of a weekend visit. I'm proud that my first web experience involved Mosaic, and when it went live a year later, Yahoo. I can't imagine what it would be like for a child's first experience with the web to involve Internet Explorer. That must be like learning how to drive on a Pinto. I digress.
Back in the day, when the workstations weren't in use, they ran this thing called a "screensaver" to keep the monitors from suffering burn-in. Specifically, they ran a screensaver named PointCast. Pointcast LogoPointCast was a program that featured Push technology. Basically, with Push technology, servers would send data to the client rather than clients requesting it from the server. Hot damn and hallelujah, push technology was going to change the world! I mean, can you imagine it!?!?! Push instead of Pull! Ingenius! Not since Columbus discovered the world is round... blah blah blah.
PointCast pushed stock quotes, news and weather to the computers that subscribed to it. I never really understood PointCast. I mean, if it ran when the computer was idle, then who was there to read the stocks, news and weather? I want my stocks, news and weather when I'm sitting at the computer thank you very much. These silly problems didn't matter back in the early to mid-nineties because PointCast's graphics were stunning (for the time) and there weren't that many choices for a screensaver if you didn't like flying toasters.
Somehow the enthusiasm for PointCast's pretty graphics translated into euphoria for Push technology. Of course Push has a place, but after about four years the hype behind Push technology gave way to the common sense benefits of Pull. Push is in use today, but its perceived importance settled down to a realistic level. I guess you could say that gravity pulled Push back to Earth.
In the late nineties, portals were king. If you didn't have a portal then why were you even bothering with the web? For those of you not aware, portals are aggregate web sites that pull together content (such as stock, news and weather) all into a convenient, customizable web page. Every search engine turned itself into a portal, with Lycos and Yahoo being the biggest that I can remember. The word Portal became synonymous with the web. Eventually the good people at Google showed that congested portals could be slayed by a clean interface tied to a fast search engine. Of course portals are still around today. For example, some of my current work uses IBM WebSphere Portal. But again, after about four years of hype, their perceived importance has settled down to a realistic level.
Over the last couple of years web logs have become all the rage. In fact, web logs have become so popular that I think they deserve a shorter name. I suggest we start calling them "blogs" for short. Blog. I think it's kind of catchy, what do you think?
Anyway, blogs have become all the rage.Trent Lott Unlike with push and portals, blogs actually have some power to their punch. In fact, Howard Dean almost lost to George W. Bush instead of to John Kerry thanks to the grassroots effort largely organized through his blog. Trent Lott would probably still be in office today if it weren't for the power of bloggers and their blogs. Blogs transfer the power of the press from the mighty publisher to the puny peon. Powerful stuff.
But wait a second, didn't HTML and the World Wide
This would be like marketing Cochlear implants to people who are deaf on audio cassettes!
It's okay to spend 95% of the class using PHP, but be sure to include a discussion of how PHP compares to alternative technologies. Knowing how to use a technology can be equally important as knowing where the technology fits into the "big picture."
Explain things like:
Database Options
- MySQL (open source, usually free)
- Oracle (powerful, but expensive)
- SQL Server (buggy, less expensive)
Server Side Scripting- PHP
- Java Server Pages (Requires J2EE)
- Active Server Pages (Requires
.NET)
Server Side FrameworksWhen a security hole is discovered, how much accountability rests with the developer(s) responsible for the hole/bug? Have serious holes led to programmers being fired? Is there any sort of incentive for building bug-scarce code?
I can't believe Slashdot wants us to learn how a virus spreads by encouraging us to download an MSI executable off the home page!
That would be like me going to the doctor and having him ask me if I know how HIV is spread and then asking me to take my pants off.
My company recently made the decision that all new desktop computers purchased would be from Apple. Although the average Mac is more expensive than the average PC, the (current) lack of spyware and other PC related problems will probably pay for itself in the first few months.
I can say with 100% certainty that the switch to Apples was made because of the IPods. The IPods got the company owners into Apple's Pittsburgh store and the rest is history. Apple's retail employees do a very good job of introducing customers and potential customers to their other product lines. I've never been more impressed by floor-level retail salespeople... and apparently neither were the company owners.
Don't be so near-minded. Twenty years from now we might be laughing at statements like this as we download data over fiber-optic cables faster than current hard drive seek/read times.
Just because somebody knows that a ridiculous bill will never become a law (or whatever the equivalent Canadian process is) doesn't mean that it shouldn't be written about. In fact, I would say that pointing them out in the press is part of what prevents them from passing.
How many outrageous laws are on the books today that slipped by unnoticed? We hear about them all the time.
Now, I will agree that articles that discuss these ridiculous laws should put the focus on the idiot lawmakers trying to pass them. Any article that tries to scare its readers into thinking the potential regulation has a legitimate shot of passing is being simply sensationalist.
Companies that really know that they're looking for won't just ask for Java experience... they'll ask for things such as "J2EE","Struts","Applets" or another specific use of Java.
;-)
Also, I've been using sites like Monster.com for a while to gauge technology popularity in various cities. Living in Pittsburgh, I noticed that there seemed to be a lot of Java offerings but not as many offerings for C#. Moster.com confirmed this:
(Under the "Computer Software" category)
Pittsburgh
Java: 145 postings
C#: 9 postings
Seattle
Java: 99 postings
C#: 49 positings
Now, I wonder why Seattle would be so much more into C# than Pittsburgh? Hmm....
If you're looking at moving to a new city, you can use these job sites to see how popular one technology is versus another. This can be very useful.
Working Link
...at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Also, the University of Pittsburgh has a movie of the monkey moving it's arm.
For more information, visit the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurobiology Motorlab
Totally offtopic, but your joke made me think of another I heard somewhere.
A guy goes to the doctor about a problem he's having. After a thorough examination, the doctor says to the patient, "I have good news and I have bad news."
"Well doc, let me hear the good news first.", says the patient.
To which the doctor responds, "Well, the good news is, we're going to name a disease after you!"
...let's hope they don't find a worm inside.
Or even worse, half a worm.
(I know, I know, corny old joke... but I just couldn't resist!)
It's interesting how the definition of "open source" has changed over the last few years. It used to be that I only ever heard "open source" associated with software. After all, software is built from source code.
It seems like the phrase "open source" is being confused with the similar, but different, "free to use", "free speech" or "freedom of expression." We hear about open source journalism, open source biology, open source research and even open source beer.
I'm not saying that this is a bad thing... I'm just making an observation. It makes me wonder if in twenty years from now, when new countries are writing their constitutions, will they guarantee their citizens "open source rights?"
As much as I like to poke fun at Microsoft, I don't see anything wrong with this job posting.
Performing a prior art search requires 95% technology knowledge and 5% patent knowledge. The little patent knowledge their employees will need I'm sure they'll learn on the job. Come on, we've all sold ourselves during job interviews as being "fast learners."
In my opinion, this is just a silly reason to ridicule Microsoft.
Don't confuse the issues here. The issue at hand is scientists being told to lie.
Of course most of us would not be willing to give up our home or modern amenities. This, however, does not make it right to alter scientific findings to make development possible.
It would be better for politicians and society to come to a consensus that it's okay to kill natural habitats to make room for human homes. Brutal honesty is better than ignorance by deceit.
From my understanding, corpse theft (or illegal corpse purchasing) often occurs on a piecemeal basis. In other words, one company or university might only need eyeballs while another focuses on the other organs such as the heart or brain. Would they put RFID tags in all these different parts?
:-)
Also, despite the really small size of the world's tiniest RFID tags, these tags can still be viewed with the naked eye. If I illegaly purchased a brain, and I had autopsy tools at my disposal, it would seem like a trivial task to remove the chip inside.
Wouldn't it be much more efficient to maintain a DNA database of donated bodies? This way if a fraternity gets caught with a pair of stolen eyeballs they can run a DNA test to see where it possibly originated.
Of course, I don't suggest they keep a DNA database on alive schoolchildren. Only when they're dead and unable to protest.
That's because they gave out the wrong link. What they really meant to say was, "Symantec recommends you immediately patch your software."