I agree though, the naming of Java is consistently confusing. Should I upgrade from Java 2.. err.. J2SE.. err.. Java 1.3.1_08 to Java 5 or to Java 1.5 or indeed Java 1.5.0. Oh, and is J2EE 1.4 compatible with this new one?
>> if we have reason to believe someone is, say, hiding in a closet
Ok, I'm curious. a: Why would someone hide in a closet, and b: Do you really care that someone is hiding in a closet, and c: What would you do about someone in a closet anyway?
Unless of course you're talking about people being 'in the closet' in which case getting Security to help them 'come out of the closet' raises a whole new set of mental images..
It's so easy to secure any WiFi connection that I automatically interpret unsecured ones as an invitation to connect.
It's a bit like hosting a website on the Internet then complaining someone read your homepage.
My next-door neighbour has a wireless access point. If he doesn't want me to connect to it then he can either secure it, or stop broadcasting its availability across my property.
(In practice he's secured it, but also given me the access key. We get on fine. I'm too lazy to secure mine, so my wireless router is wide open to all and sundry.)
If you're unit testing using one of the xUnit frameworks, following best practices, then your unit tests will almost certainly catch
if (x = y)
type errors.
Not least of which is that if you're using best practice, you're writing a test that checks the logic when x == y and when x != y, and you're writing those tests before you even write the 'if' statement.
1984 is better as a book. X-Men is fantasy. Minority Report was, frankly, poorly executed.
Equilibrium was interesting, but less sci-fi and more of a political commentary. Oh, and some great action scenes.
So A Clockwork Orange is the only one of your list I'd even consider appropriate, and I'm not sure I'd classify that as being science fiction.
The big missing film, that meets the criteria of sci-fi, that implements a future you can believe in, that also carries a strong insightful commentary on that future, is Gattaca. I'd have had that in the top five on this list.
Chatting on muds is good for practising your typing, but for raw learning where the letters are and building in the muscle-memory needed for touch-typing you could do much worse than Angband (or Nethack if you prefer).
Every letter does something, shift-letter does something different; the game works as fast as you type so the quicker your typing the faster your gaming experience.
Of course, use the rogue-like keyset to keep all your fingers on the main part of the keyboard - people who move around with the number pad are just handicapping themselves..
I can assure you that any logical fallacy in my argument is indeed a failing on my own part, and indeed you're suggesting that I missed entirely the point of the original poster.
As I hadn't actually read the posts he himself was responding to I lacked the necessary context and was thus replying merely to his statements - clearly a mistake.
If my mother wants a vehicle for driving to work in, and someone suggests a delivery truck then I think it's pretty valid to point out the better suitability of a subcompact. So yeah, I guess I do also compare them.
A school doesn't _need_ a top-end laptop with 17" screen. They only need cheap crap commodity hardware. That's my point.
The size of rebate on a 17" powerbook (shiny, pretty, desirable as it is) is utterly irrelevant in the context.
Whether an iBook cart solution would be more appropriate would need greater understanding of the school and its needs - I've been stereotyping based on my own school and university experiences (where rooms full of computers are invariably also full of students using them).
>> Last week I bought a 17" Powerbook with Applecare for $2559.
Exactly how the hell does that compare favourably to a brand new desktop PC for $500? Maybe less due to buying in bulk..
Bear in mind the school are buying the box, not the monitor, they don't want/need something portable (in fact, nailing it to the desk may be necessary) and the desktop PC running Windows will run all their educational software easily.
Shit, I'm earning way above average salary and $2559 for a laptop is still a major outlay.
Shareware is not dead. One of my close friends has paid registrations for his shareware software equivalent to approximately 30% of the devices capable of running it.
Of course, his software is useful and cheap - always a wise combination.
Still, 30% market penetration is stunningly good. (Shame for him it's a small market). And demonstrates the flaw in your statemetn that shareware is dead.
Fact is, people tend to pay when they perceive they're receiving value. ~Cederic
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Actually, I rate top-quality graffiti as better art than you'll often find in galleries.
Take Banksy (check the website at http://www.banksy.co.uk/ ) - total vandalistic anti-socialism but at the same time valid social commentary, truely genius artistic vision and inspired execution.
What exactly does the tax breakdown add to the conversation? When buying petrol, I fill my car, hand over my debit card, and a certain amount of cash disappears from my bank account.
At the moment, that amount of cash is approximately 85p for each litre of fuel i put in my car.
Whether half of that is tax or not is completely and totally irrelevant.
If I use vegetable oil then it will be cheaper. If I move to the US it'll be cheaper. If I use vegetable oil and don't pay the excise duty then it will be considerably cheaper, but only until the Inland Revenue catch up with me.
~Cederic
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There's no point playing unless it's no-limits. Otherwise it is just boring maths.
Yeah, but Joe's a bit fucking stupid if he's sent that email from his work email account in the first place. Because you can bet BigCorp will be checking their email logs to find out who's been in contact with Jane Reporter as soon as that story breaks.
If he sends it from his yahoo account, then it'll be signed by Yahoo anyway, and who can prove who joesfakename@yahoo.com is?
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Fairies have wings, not tails.
I agree though, the naming of Java is consistently confusing. Should I upgrade from Java 2.. err.. J2SE.. err.. Java 1.3.1_08 to Java 5 or to Java 1.5 or indeed Java 1.5.0. Oh, and is J2EE 1.4 compatible with this new one?
It could be much simpler..
~Cederic
>> I felt evil when I had to tell a woman that she could not post a sign asking for help finding her runaway daughter
Is that because when you got home, you opened the door and yelled, "Honey, your mother's looking for you"?
Well done, you've picked out two reasons which are more than adequate to prevent it ever being implemented.
>> except for fun
What better reason could there be? Why do you think I'm connected to the 'net anyway?
>> GOT to be a line drawn between anonymity and the need to hold people accountable
Yes. And where I come from, that line is firmly set on the side of anonymity. I demand, I insist, I must be able to send anonymous email.
Admittedly I haven't, not since last using anon.penet.fi, but I'm talking about the ability..
Any solutions that prevent that aren't worth having.
~Cederic
Hmm. Thing is, there's pretty few words likely to appear high on the search list that I don't use verbally every day anyway.
Unless lots of people are searching for 'theocratic'. I don't use that one much.
~Cederic
Have you tried turning it into a Knoppix boot device? Does that work?
Which key (manufacturer, model) did you buy?
~Cederic uses
>> if we have reason to believe someone is, say, hiding in a closet
Ok, I'm curious. a: Why would someone hide in a closet, and b: Do you really care that someone is hiding in a closet, and c: What would you do about someone in a closet anyway?
Unless of course you're talking about people being 'in the closet' in which case getting Security to help them 'come out of the closet' raises a whole new set of mental images..
It's so easy to secure any WiFi connection that I automatically interpret unsecured ones as an invitation to connect.
It's a bit like hosting a website on the Internet then complaining someone read your homepage.
My next-door neighbour has a wireless access point. If he doesn't want me to connect to it then he can either secure it, or stop broadcasting its availability across my property.
(In practice he's secured it, but also given me the access key. We get on fine. I'm too lazy to secure mine, so my wireless router is wide open to all and sundry.)
~Cederic
If you're unit testing using one of the xUnit frameworks, following best practices, then your unit tests will almost certainly catch
if (x = y)
type errors.
Not least of which is that if you're using best practice, you're writing a test that checks the logic when x == y and when x != y, and you're writing those tests before you even write the 'if' statement.
~Cederic
So live in a country that provides basic healthcare.
I may bitch about the NHS, but getting ill doesn't cost any extra..
Shit, I was too busy ogling Uma to even notice that one
Even if it is blatant, it's still a very good film.
Yeah, but 2001 associated The Blue Danube with space craft docking.
Anybody that ever played Elite will forever love the film for that alone..
1984 is better as a book. X-Men is fantasy. Minority Report was, frankly, poorly executed.
Equilibrium was interesting, but less sci-fi and more of a political commentary. Oh, and some great action scenes.
So A Clockwork Orange is the only one of your list I'd even consider appropriate, and I'm not sure I'd classify that as being science fiction.
The big missing film, that meets the criteria of sci-fi, that implements a future you can believe in, that also carries a strong insightful commentary on that future, is Gattaca. I'd have had that in the top five on this list.
~Cederic
I preferred the rather more poetic
"If only you could see what I have seen with your eyes"
Chatting on muds is good for practising your typing, but for raw learning where the letters are and building in the muscle-memory needed for touch-typing you could do much worse than Angband (or Nethack if you prefer).
Every letter does something, shift-letter does something different; the game works as fast as you type so the quicker your typing the faster your gaming experience.
Of course, use the rogue-like keyset to keep all your fingers on the main part of the keyboard - people who move around with the number pad are just handicapping themselves..
~Ced
Ah, who teaches these debating terms to you all?
I can assure you that any logical fallacy in my argument is indeed a failing on my own part, and indeed you're suggesting that I missed entirely the point of the original poster.
As I hadn't actually read the posts he himself was responding to I lacked the necessary context and was thus replying merely to his statements - clearly a mistake.
I do apologise.
~Cederic
If my mother wants a vehicle for driving to work in, and someone suggests a delivery truck then I think it's pretty valid to point out the better suitability of a subcompact. So yeah, I guess I do also compare them.
A school doesn't _need_ a top-end laptop with 17" screen. They only need cheap crap commodity hardware. That's my point.
The size of rebate on a 17" powerbook (shiny, pretty, desirable as it is) is utterly irrelevant in the context.
Whether an iBook cart solution would be more appropriate would need greater understanding of the school and its needs - I've been stereotyping based on my own school and university experiences (where rooms full of computers are invariably also full of students using them).
~cederic
>> Last week I bought a 17" Powerbook with Applecare for $2559.
Exactly how the hell does that compare favourably to a brand new desktop PC for $500? Maybe less due to buying in bulk..
Bear in mind the school are buying the box, not the monitor, they don't want/need something portable (in fact, nailing it to the desk may be necessary) and the desktop PC running Windows will run all their educational software easily.
Shit, I'm earning way above average salary and $2559 for a laptop is still a major outlay.
~cederic
Shareware is not dead. One of my close friends has paid registrations for his shareware software equivalent to approximately 30% of the devices capable of running it.
Of course, his software is useful and cheap - always a wise combination.
Still, 30% market penetration is stunningly good. (Shame for him it's a small market). And demonstrates the flaw in your statemetn that shareware is dead.
Fact is, people tend to pay when they perceive they're receiving value.
~Cederic
Actually, I rate top-quality graffiti as better art than you'll often find in galleries.
Take Banksy (check the website at http://www.banksy.co.uk/ ) - total vandalistic anti-socialism but at the same time valid social commentary, truely genius artistic vision and inspired execution.
~Cederic is a fan.
Shrug, then whoever came up with the description 'peace' officer to include all the above was being ironic.
>> the peace officers on the scene.
You have an ironic way of spelling "police"
What exactly does the tax breakdown add to the conversation? When buying petrol, I fill my car, hand over my debit card, and a certain amount of cash disappears from my bank account.
At the moment, that amount of cash is approximately 85p for each litre of fuel i put in my car.
Whether half of that is tax or not is completely and totally irrelevant.
If I use vegetable oil then it will be cheaper. If I move to the US it'll be cheaper. If I use vegetable oil and don't pay the excise duty then it will be considerably cheaper, but only until the Inland Revenue catch up with me.
~Cederic
There's no point playing unless it's no-limits. Otherwise it is just boring maths.
I am British, and I'm not disappointed.
How much ABC / CBC / CNN / Fox content are you able to download, share, edit and use to create new content, legally?
Let's just hope they include some of the high quality content, not just the dross..
~ced
Yeah, but Joe's a bit fucking stupid if he's sent that email from his work email account in the first place. Because you can bet BigCorp will be checking their email logs to find out who's been in contact with Jane Reporter as soon as that story breaks.
If he sends it from his yahoo account, then it'll be signed by Yahoo anyway, and who can prove who joesfakename@yahoo.com is?
~ced