I would love to buy a hybrid or electric car, but liveing in Minnesota I have my doubts.
When it is -30 F the car battery can hardly power the starter to start the car. I can not imagine a battery powered car working very well. And without the combustion where would the heat come from -- more battery drain.
I am still waiting for a reduced emission car that would work for me.
Use Java to teach the things java is good at and force the students to use C and assembler when they take the "Architecture" class.
Both low and high level concepts should be tought before you get a degree.
I have been makeing a living with java for the last 5 years, the 7 years before that all in C and 680x0 assembler.
I think the low level work I have done lets me write better java. I have had some performance horse races with C++ fanatics that I work with and always come out ahead. Why? Not because Java is faster -- because my implimentaion of the contest challenge was better, which I direcly attribute to my "lower level" experience.
I love using java when it is appropriate. When to use a particular tools should also be taught. Who wants a one trick pony?
Cookies are simply a way of adding state to a stateless protocol. So for the most common example you could automatically remember your username to slashdot the next time you return.
Most good browsers will let you set them to only receive cookies from the host you are connecting to. And cookies should only get sent back to the host that they came from.
These "web bugs" allow a site to send information to a third party( eg Addvertiser, Government agency,... ) by causing another http request to be made. THis request, although it is for an invisible image, could have peramaters. These parameters could send all of the info that one site has collected about you to another. That third party site could then also send a cookie for its own use to your system.
If you want the new features of the 2.4 kernel and are aware of technical reasons not to upgrade from 6.2 you can probably build your own 2.4 kernel and run a RH6.2 install.
I just re-read my question. Sh*t that is the worst expression I have ever writen. If I saw that in some code that I wrote I would kick myself. But, as I was typeing it in english it sounded so normal.
Cash definatly is a barrier to this and they already try to discurage its use. Go to the bank and try to get $10,000 in cash. They will make you fill out special federal forms becuase you must be doing something illegal with it.
They want to track money. So they make it hard to get cash without filling out paperwork. This is also a byproduct of the "War on Drugs".
In the Minneapolis/St. Paul area of Minnesota our local PBS affiliate was kickin but. We had 5 channels of digital tv( we still do). But, when there were national high def shows we used to get those to. However since the local cable company can not handle the high def signal -- we get no more high def NOVA or anything else from the national PBS feed.
They sold out in order to be carried by time warner. As far as I am concerned they don't need any of my contribution $.
Why not tell china that if our plane had more of an x( pick a number ) percent course change over a y(pick a number ) time interval we will apologize. But, We need our plane/black box and pilots home to find that out.
Put the ball back in their court and if it was our plane then apologize if not tell them to kiss off.
Even if you forward a port for ssh it may not be enough. sshd tries to establish another connection on another port which is usually a privledged port( <1024 ). So for me to use ssh to go through a firewall( which filters all privledged ports ) I have to use the -P option with ssh.
When we first moved to the US I was picked on constantly because of my accent. I talked to my dad about it and he said "beat the shit out of the next kid who picks on you". I did and was not picked on again.
This happened in 7th grade and protected me from bullying until the 12th grade. Even 5 years later a group of guys were trying to get one of their friends to start a fight with me and he told them, "no way, remember what he did to that kid in junior high!"
Even if I would have lost that fight -- I would have earned some respect and the bullying would have stopped.
But, I think times are different now. Kids equate fear with respect. So you don't see one-on-one fair fights anymore. It is always about intimidation/fear, so you see weapons & groups of kids beating up one kid.
People say java is slow. I can write really fast Java code:-)
It really depends on how well you know the language and environment you are working with. If you pick up java and go to town it might be slow, same with perl, or C. As an example you are trying to change your C execution environment by using FastCGI. Has nothing to do with the language C but, the way that the client comunicates with that C code.
You need to come up with a good plan from front to back and then pick the language or languages that will make it happen.
I was not just refering to "coding" I was refering to the "art" of bringing a large project together and having an elegent result.
The "pure" since of a new sorting/indexing algorithm. Or some new compiler technology does not make for a good product. That is where the art comes in.
Even in Haskell( which is pretty cool ) someone who does not appreciate the art will write ugly unmaintainable code. Which will become the building block for an ugly unmaintainable project.
I am so tired of people acting as if systems/software development is a science, it is not. It is an art. Some people are great artists and some are not. Instead of spending time in "Computer Science" classes they should have "Code Art Appreciation" classes.
I have worked with so many academics that produce the worst implimentation. They think it is not important, but that is just a cover for the fact that they do not have the eye for elegent design/implimentation.
This is so silly. All they seem to be doing is encoding the content of some get query parameters in a non-existant directory structure.
I recently wrote some code that has a servlet draw a dynamic image. This image does not exist, but is chosen by a "fake" image name. Can I patent "An image url (IURL instead or PURL:-) ) that returns a session specific image for a each user session.
This is pathetic. What the hell do they think you are provided the PATH_INFO for anyway.
8VSB HDTV broadcasts have "Conditional Access" controls built into them already. Whether you think this is good or bad ethically it sucks technically.
Right now I do not get some of the stations in my area because my set top box for HDTV is one of the first to use the Conditional access info - it is buggy and the broadcasters also have buggy software.
All of the stations that do not set the Conditianal access info come in just fine though.
I was in a position where I was hiring C developers about 3 years ago. As a part of the interview I would ask them to write the library function strcpy(). Out of 10 People claiming to have 5 years of C coding experience about 3 could do this simple problem. I usually asked those 3 people to then do the same using pointer notation. That left about 2 out of 10 C developers who could write strcpy().
With that level of skill out there you have to be lucky to put together a good team.
The other thing that I think is a problem is that some of the slick new development environments allow developers to build things that are way beyond their skill level. So at first things look very good, but then in the end the the cracks start to show in the veneer.
The placement of the parties might have caused confusion. But, it is hard to avoid in a center puch ballot machine. If the county uses that type of machine they have probably used it for years. If that is the case people are either
a) Familar with the system and voting correctly
or
b) Voting wrong and have been for years only finding out now because things are so close
I worked for a time electronically laying out and printing ballots and we were by law required to pick placement at random. I am sure that they are required to do the same thing in Florida.
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I would love to buy a hybrid or electric car, but liveing in Minnesota I have my doubts.
When it is -30 F the car battery can hardly power the starter to start the car. I can not imagine a battery powered car working very well. And without the combustion where would the heat come from -- more battery drain.
I am still waiting for a reduced emission car that would work for me.
Use Java to teach the things java is good at and force the students to use C and assembler when they take the "Architecture" class.
Both low and high level concepts should be tought before you get a degree.
I have been makeing a living with java for the last 5 years, the 7 years before that all in C and 680x0 assembler.
I think the low level work I have done lets me write better java. I have had some performance horse races with C++ fanatics that I work with and always come out ahead. Why? Not because Java is faster -- because my implimentaion of the contest challenge was better, which I direcly attribute to my "lower level" experience.
I love using java when it is appropriate. When to use a particular tools should also be taught. Who wants a one trick pony?
You could, but if you were just trying to get arround the lack of cookies you could use get paramaters -- I just think that they are ugly.
6 2& var2=4365547245747
What looks better. Being at
http://www.mycoolsite.com
or
http://www.mycoolsite.com?var1=1233432556435543
But that still does not give you the persistance that a cookie does.
Cookies are simply a way of adding state to a stateless protocol. So for the most common example you could automatically remember your username to slashdot the next time you return.
... ) by causing another http request to be made. THis request, although it is for an invisible image, could have peramaters. These parameters could send all of the info that one site has collected about you to another. That third party site could then also send a cookie for its own use to your system.
Most good browsers will let you set them to only receive cookies from the host you are connecting to. And cookies should only get sent back to the host that they came from.
These "web bugs" allow a site to send information to a third party( eg Addvertiser, Government agency,
I hope this makes sense, I am not quite awake.
If you want the new features of the 2.4 kernel and are aware of technical reasons not to upgrade from 6.2 you can probably build your own 2.4 kernel and run a RH6.2 install.
I just re-read my question. Sh*t that is the worst expression I have ever writen. If I saw that in some code that I wrote I would kick myself. But, as I was typeing it in english it sounded so normal.
So can I not install the kgcc package if I only want to use 2.4.X kernels?
Does this take care of having to have kgcc to build the kernel?
Cash definatly is a barrier to this and they already try to discurage its use. Go to the bank and try to get $10,000 in cash. They will make you fill out special federal forms becuase you must be doing something illegal with it.
They want to track money. So they make it hard to get cash without filling out paperwork. This is also a byproduct of the "War on Drugs".
In the Minneapolis/St. Paul area of Minnesota our local PBS affiliate was kickin but. We had 5 channels of digital tv( we still do). But, when there were national high def shows we used to get those to. However since the local cable company can not handle the high def signal -- we get no more high def NOVA or anything else from the national PBS feed.
They sold out in order to be carried by time warner. As far as I am concerned they don't need any of my contribution $.
Why not tell china that if our plane had more of an x( pick a number ) percent course change over a y(pick a number ) time interval we will apologize. But, We need our plane/black box and pilots home to find that out.
Put the ball back in their court and if it was our plane then apologize if not tell them to kiss off.
Even if you forward a port for ssh it may not be enough. sshd tries to establish another connection on another port which is usually a privledged port( <1024 ). So for me to use ssh to go through a firewall( which filters all privledged ports ) I have to use the -P option with ssh.
Not British -- German.
I agree whole heartedly!!!
When we first moved to the US I was picked on constantly because of my accent. I talked to my dad about it and he said "beat the shit out of the next kid who picks on you". I did and was not picked on again.
This happened in 7th grade and protected me from bullying until the 12th grade. Even 5 years later a group of guys were trying to get one of their friends to start a fight with me and he told them, "no way, remember what he did to that kid in junior high!"
Even if I would have lost that fight -- I would have earned some respect and the bullying would have stopped.
But, I think times are different now. Kids equate fear with respect. So you don't see one-on-one fair fights anymore. It is always about intimidation/fear, so you see weapons & groups of kids beating up one kid.
I wonder if this would still work?
People say java is slow. I can write really fast Java code :-)
It really depends on how well you know the language and environment you are working with. If you pick up java and go to town it might be slow, same with perl, or C. As an example you are trying to change your C execution environment by using FastCGI. Has nothing to do with the language C but, the way that the client comunicates with that C code.
You need to come up with a good plan from front to back and then pick the language or languages that will make it happen.
export QT_XFT=1
I was not just refering to "coding" I was refering to the "art" of bringing a large project together and having an elegent result.
The "pure" since of a new sorting/indexing algorithm. Or some new compiler technology does not make for a good product. That is where the art comes in.
Even in Haskell( which is pretty cool ) someone who does not appreciate the art will write ugly unmaintainable code. Which will become the building block for an ugly unmaintainable project.
I am so tired of people acting as if systems/software development is a science, it is not. It is an art. Some people are great artists and some are not. Instead of spending time in "Computer Science" classes they should have "Code Art Appreciation" classes.
I have worked with so many academics that produce the worst implimentation. They think it is not important, but that is just a cover for the fact that they do not have the eye for elegent design/implimentation.
It is off by default you have to set an environmental variable to turn it on for QT.
I have always wanted a 16x10 monitor. But, the price of the LCD is just too high. Does someone make a reasonably priced 16x10 boring old monitor?
This is so silly. All they seem to be doing is encoding the content of some get query parameters in a non-existant directory structure.
:-) ) that returns a session specific image for a each user session.
I recently wrote some code that has a servlet draw a dynamic image. This image does not exist, but is chosen by a "fake" image name. Can I patent "An image url (IURL instead or PURL
This is pathetic. What the hell do they think you are provided the PATH_INFO for anyway.
8VSB HDTV broadcasts have "Conditional Access" controls built into them already. Whether you think this is good or bad ethically it sucks technically.
Right now I do not get some of the stations in my area because my set top box for HDTV is one of the first to use the Conditional access info - it is buggy and the broadcasters also have buggy software.
All of the stations that do not set the Conditianal access info come in just fine though.
I was in a position where I was hiring C developers about 3 years ago. As a part of the interview I would ask them to write the library function strcpy(). Out of 10 People claiming to have 5 years of C coding experience about 3 could do this simple problem. I usually asked those 3 people to then do the same using pointer notation. That left about 2 out of 10 C developers who could write strcpy().
With that level of skill out there you have to be lucky to put together a good team.
The other thing that I think is a problem is that some of the slick new development environments allow developers to build things that are way beyond their skill level. So at first things look very good, but then in the end the the cracks start to show in the veneer.
Someone else in this discussion said they were from palm baech and that the butterfly ballots had been used there for 30 years.
The placement of the parties might have caused confusion. But, it is hard to avoid in a center puch ballot machine. If the county uses that type of machine they have probably used it for years. If that is the case people are either
a) Familar with the system and voting correctly
or
b) Voting wrong and have been for years only finding out now because things are so close
I worked for a time electronically laying out and printing ballots and we were by law required to pick placement at random. I am sure that they are required to do the same thing in Florida.