Are the critical extensions available? For me, that's Adblock, NoScript, and Flashblock. Flashblock works fine for me on beta3 at home. The install.rdf file says it works with 3.0.*, so you wouldn't even need to disable version checking.
Are they continuously releases security updates for betas the same way as the official released version? Or I'd have to wait patiently for the final release which is more than 2 months away? I would guess that there will be at least two release candidates between the last beta version and the final release.
I'd love to see that happen, just so I could laugh. For those who didn't know (which I would assume is all but maybe 5 other people around here), the Maine School of Law isn't actually at the University of Maine, which is in Orono, but at the University of Southern Maine, which is in Portland. Still the state university system, but the campuses are about 150 miles apart.
Twisted the words of Christianity in their movie "the zeitgeist"
For example they claim in that movie that Christianity copied belifes from other pagan religion such as the ressurection, virginal birth, baptism and other ideas..
The fact is that none of these pagan religion concepts existed before 100AD. There is no written historical account for these concepts before this time (such as mithras was born of a virgin, or osiris was ressurected). All pagan religions reference these concepts in written history after the birth of Christ.
Go a read Lee Strobels "The case for the real Jesus" chapter 4 for further clarification, and yes even atheists twist the historical truth for their own agenda.
Resurrection certainly wasn't invented by Christianity. Elijah resurrected people without a huge amount of fanfare.
Same with the bible, myths and nothing else. You haven't actually read the Torah, have you? It's at least 50% laws, with a fairly large part of the remainder being a reasonable, if very incomplete, record of Israelite history. The Books of Writings are also largely historical.
A typical SaaS provider has a few dozen to a few thousand servers running a few hundred to a few million instances of his software. Since typically a single server will run many instances of the software, parallelization will "just happen" for free.
If that's not massively parallel, I don't know what is Granted that my only experience with parallel programming was a class in college where the professor did number crunching in Fortran, I don't think a web server really qualifies as a "true" parallel system. A web server just has to send off requests from a queue into new processes/threads and let them go. There are no synchronization, locking, or communication issues to worry about. Threads in a web server might as well be entirely separate programs; they aren't the kind of repeated computation and aggregation that I normally associate with parallel processing.
Does the book, or any other reference explain why we need such an obtuse mechanism for parsing strings in the first place? Most of the things I read about people doing with regular expressions could be done with much more intuitive string handling methods that have been around since at least the 70s. There may be things that can be done with regex that couldn't be done with (for example) the "parse" statement in Rexx, but it would be a very small percentage of the examples I've seen. If a person is using a regular expression when they really only direct string parsing, that's the fault of the person, not regular expressions. The annoying details of finite state machines can be ignored if you're just using regular expressions in programming, but if you try to just use conditionals and substrings for all of your text parsing, eventually you'll have a case where you end up essentially writing your own finite state machine.
Actually, the worst part of being a software engineering student is that the demand for "software engineer" graduates is rapidly dropping in Western countries. Most of these jobs are being pushed overseas. The flipside of this is that CS and Business graduates are growing in demand as "thinkers" and "managers" rather than "implementers" are needed to keep offshored projects under control. "Thinkers" and "managers" are what college-educated software engineers are supposed to be. If you spend four years getting a computer science degree, you shouldn't be spending the rest of your career as a code monkey. The reason I still spend most of my days writing code is that I work for a small company where software isn't really the focus, so our department consists of one manager who barely ever gets to write code anymore, two full-time software engineers, and two co-ops. We normally get handed the functional requirements, but we do everything else from design to implementation.
My spelling and grammar tend to be very good (except for the inevitable error in this post). I would think most programmers should have excellent spelling and grammar. After all, in programming, if you make a spelling or syntax mistake, the program doesn't work correctly, and it seems to me like this mode of thinking should carry over to writing in natural languages as well.
it is commonplace to see students taking LA classes to pad their grades So you're saying that it wasn't very fair for me to finish my degree with 14 credits (out of 120-130 to graduate) of band, where all you have to do is show up to rehearsals and performances to get an A?
The difference is that for iTunes, Apple doesn't need Microsoft's permission, they just have to make the program and make it available. But does Microsoft need Sony's permission to sell a Blu-Ray drive for the XBox? My understanding is that Sony is a major member of the Blu-Ray group, but that they in no way own the Blu-Ray market. Can Sony stop Microsoft from going to Samsung and asking for a Blu-Ray drive that connects to the XBox?
I am not sure what the security or bug update procedure is, that is, whether or not packages found only in Remix will receive security and bug updates. So the "commercially" supported version is the same Kubuntu as usual, but Remix is for all of those people screaming about KDE 4. The KDE4 version will use the same repositories, so there won't be any packages found in only one version. KDE4 will be in the standard repositories (not sure if it'll be in main or universe), so you can install it from the KDE3 version of 8.04. The only difference between the two versions is which version of KDE is installed initially.
I'm sad that the FCC is gaining so much revenue from something they never should have owned in the first place. I may be mistaken, but isn't this kind of management of the spectrum exactly what the FCC was created for?
Keep in mind that learning SQL to pull data from existing databases and learning proper database design can be two very different things. Knowing all about normalization will help if you're writing queries, but it's absolutely critical if you're doing original database design.
There's also the issue that SQL is a rather poorly-followed standard. Different database systems implement slightly different variations of standard SQL. It's rather like knowing C, Perl, and PHP, or Java and C#; they're similar enough that the basic form looks the same, but there are a couple important differences that can catch you by surprise if you aren't careful.
It's very different from other programming languages That's because SQL generally isn't considered a programming language. Straight SQL (i.e. not PL/SQL) is not, to my knowledge, a Turing-complete language.
"No. We have to stay here, and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics - and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on: whether it happens in a hundred years, or a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold, and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us, it'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tsu, Einstein, Maruputo, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes - all of this. All of this was for nothing, unless we go to the stars."
And if you think any country's laws - including the USA's - can regulate the world-wide Internet, you're dreaming. All this law would accomplish is to cause the creation of anonymous blogging centers in countries with stricter privacy laws. Except this isn't the United States' law, it's a state representative in Kentucky. You don't have to leave the country, just the state. Of course, I don't see Kentucky being a major location for site hosting.
How can the universe be flat if spacetime is curved? If I remember correctly, the term "flat" can also refer to one of three possible so-called ends of the universe: expanding infinitely (open), reaching a maximum and then contracting again (closed), or reaching an equilibrium with no further expansion or contraction (flat). Wikipedia can give better information than my poor memory. I'm not sure if this is the usage of "flat" that would apply to this discussion.
If you don't know that you were the target of an improper phone tap, I agree. If you know or suspect that you have been phone-tapped, there's almost certainly going to be some evidence of it, especially if it's still in place. At that point, you could probably show some attorney what you've got, and best odds are that it is going to be enough to start something. At which point some part of the Executive (FBI, Attorney General's office) steps in and says, "We can't publicly talk about your evidence because it might compromise national security; if you talk about it, you'll be arrested." I believe that's what people are unhappy about.
I think the point being made is that you can't take effective legal action (civil or criminal) without evidence that you were the target of an improper phone tap, but you aren't allowed to acquire or share any such evidence, so you can't take any legal action.
Depends on where you look. Most of the code you see on tutorial sites is pretty bad, since it was probably written by a teenager with no real software engineering experience. The good PHP code is usually done by professional programmers and software engineers working for a company, where it isn't viewable by the general public.
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Actually, they do.... Under HIPAA, she cannot provide that information to the authorities. Doesn't doctor-patient confidentiality predate HIPAA?
I'd love to see that happen, just so I could laugh. For those who didn't know (which I would assume is all but maybe 5 other people around here), the Maine School of Law isn't actually at the University of Maine, which is in Orono, but at the University of Southern Maine, which is in Portland. Still the state university system, but the campuses are about 150 miles apart.
For example they claim in that movie that Christianity copied belifes from other pagan religion such as the ressurection, virginal birth, baptism and other ideas..
The fact is that none of these pagan religion concepts existed before 100AD. There is no written historical account for these concepts before this time (such as mithras was born of a virgin, or osiris was ressurected). All pagan religions reference these concepts in written history after the birth of Christ.
Go a read Lee Strobels "The case for the real Jesus" chapter 4 for further clarification, and yes even atheists twist the historical truth for their own agenda.
Resurrection certainly wasn't invented by Christianity. Elijah resurrected people without a huge amount of fanfare.
If that's not massively parallel, I don't know what is Granted that my only experience with parallel programming was a class in college where the professor did number crunching in Fortran, I don't think a web server really qualifies as a "true" parallel system. A web server just has to send off requests from a queue into new processes/threads and let them go. There are no synchronization, locking, or communication issues to worry about. Threads in a web server might as well be entirely separate programs; they aren't the kind of repeated computation and aggregation that I normally associate with parallel processing.
My spelling and grammar tend to be very good (except for the inevitable error in this post). I would think most programmers should have excellent spelling and grammar. After all, in programming, if you make a spelling or syntax mistake, the program doesn't work correctly, and it seems to me like this mode of thinking should carry over to writing in natural languages as well.
Keep in mind that learning SQL to pull data from existing databases and learning proper database design can be two very different things. Knowing all about normalization will help if you're writing queries, but it's absolutely critical if you're doing original database design.
There's also the issue that SQL is a rather poorly-followed standard. Different database systems implement slightly different variations of standard SQL. It's rather like knowing C, Perl, and PHP, or Java and C#; they're similar enough that the basic form looks the same, but there are a couple important differences that can catch you by surprise if you aren't careful.
"No. We have to stay here, and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics - and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on: whether it happens in a hundred years, or a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold, and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us, it'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tsu, Einstein, Maruputo, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes - all of this. All of this was for nothing, unless we go to the stars."
- Jeffery Sinclair, Babylon 5
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I think the point being made is that you can't take effective legal action (civil or criminal) without evidence that you were the target of an improper phone tap, but you aren't allowed to acquire or share any such evidence, so you can't take any legal action.
Depends on where you look. Most of the code you see on tutorial sites is pretty bad, since it was probably written by a teenager with no real software engineering experience. The good PHP code is usually done by professional programmers and software engineers working for a company, where it isn't viewable by the general public.