So, now we not only have somewhat untrusted code from a party who profits from the spread of virii, but we've now had it repackaged by a completely untrested third party.
I'm being ungrateful, just pointing out the ever-increasing irony.
There is no solution--there are simply too many people. I've had a few deer around my last few houses and am quite glad. Any more and they would be quite annoying, but it's nice seeing big game in the 'hood.
If you really feel it necessary to hunt, let's open a hunting season for people--they are the only critter there are just to many of.
Uh, and wasps, but you've got to be pretty good to pick them off with a.22
Wasps are probably going to become the next giant predator due to us killing off all the other meat-eaters. They are going to be 8 inches in length and hunt in packs and nobody is going to be able to fuck with them.
It will. Have you ever noticed that in those displays in k-mart or target or wherever, thie x-box is almost always broken? The ps-2 is down about 50% of the time. I have yet to see a gamecube down.
Very cool. Thanks for the info, and sorry for the misinformation. It was assumptions based on how the thing works when I play pokemon. Not very scientific.
Ummm, no. You are wide of the point, I am not suggesting that I am being clean. I was not being sarcastic, I was being honest.
There is nothing you can do. Period. Don't bother recycling because there are REALLY thousands, tens of thousands, or maybe millions that won't.
You think if you don't buy a new computer it's going to cause 1,000,000 of your counterparts in India to not buy their first computer?
Perhaps you are just so used to sarcasm that you couldn't believe I was being honest. Believe it.
The only fix is a world-wide implementation of a population reduction plan about 5 times more severe than China's. People don't have the heart to do this themselves, so nature will do it for them.
Hunker down and enjoy your computer and SUV while you can, giving them up won't help a bit.
The ports are different and I kind of wonder if you could access them both at once anyway.
I think the thing that's going to suck is the GBA port is probably more adaptable, there are bunches of non-nintendo development kits for it and it's form factor would be perfect for adding external ports (USB? Memory stick?), yet when it boots up in that mode one of the screens always seems to be disabled (the GBA only had one screen).
Hopefully it's not either/or, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Keep at it guys! I'll buy your linux cart in a second if it has a music player and can hold 500K worth of music.
We are in an ice age (minor) headed out from a major one. If we were out of the ice age the polar caps would be gone and we would be using much more AC.
The weather is changing all the time. Does that mean it's beyond influence? Not even close.
If the US wanted to it would be absolutely trivial to bring an ice-age back. Hell, Microsoft could probably do it if they were in the mood. Just get enough fine dust into the atmosphere and the problem is solved.
Hell, some form of seeding that kept the entire planet cloudy for a few months would probably do it.
And continuing to do what we are doing now will do it just as well.
What's the solution? There is none. We're going down.
I don't care how much you conserve, how often you take the bus to work, how many winters you keep your heat down to 66, it's not going to help. There are too damn many people, and there is no way you're going to get a significant enough fraction of them to stop being greedy.
Everything you do, everything you wear, eat, etc. It's all causing pollution. and even if you live as cleanly as possibly, for each person like you there are thousands of people who you will never convince to look up from their big mac.
And just in case there aren't enough people working on screwing up the earth, we should start sending work over to India and China so we can raise their standard of living and get them all into SUVs, that'll speed things up.
That is incorrect. You have right of way if you are crossing legally. You are crossing legally unless you are crossing between two controlled intersections.
If you look left and there is a stopsign, then you look right and there is a light--go to one of them and cross, but otherwise you're fine.
Hmmm, this was 20 years ago. Don't take my word for it, look it up yourself, but this used to be true (I spent a lot of time in "Traffic School").
You could use such a wire to suspend a system of plates that would counter-revolve within your gigantic ring-shaped world to provide changing day and night zones.
A small ball on the tip of a strand repelled with a magnetic field would make a great sword/cutting tool.
Warnings for experimenters: Don't try to pick them up with your bare hands and watch out for sunflowers.
I'm afraid I don't know for sure, but they were originally planning for longhorn to use a database instead of a file system. I heard they dropped this, but it would make a completely different environment than links. The file would actually BE in both places at once because directories become tags.
Not only that, but you get the advantage that your tags no longer HAVE to be tree based, you can make them like your gMail tags--just create them on the fly and apply them to whatever files you like.
At first I thought it was a really stupid idea, but it actually fixes a BUNCH of issues I have with filesystems these days.
That's what we have now in states, for the most part a democracy. That's how prop 13 was passed in California, etc.
The/. mod system is different because people are forced to vote on comments, not issues, and therefore people are forced to point out insightful, informative, or funny points of the issue in order for the issue to get votes.
If someone tries to stack the system by posting a bunch of spam and having others vote on it then it will not help your cause.
It's not perfect, but our current government chosen by monkeys pushing buttons is obviously not working either.
It's almost a social commentary & evaluation system!
I keep my comment level set at 2: for the most part. I'm reading through here and realizing that I had trouble finding ANY anti-gay comments.
If you think about it, it makes perfect, beautiful sense. The/. mod system, by randomly choosing moderators and giving them limited power, has almost completely eliminated the always-present Very Vocal and Very Incorrect minority--giving them the volume they deserve.
If the minority was correct (or even had anything new to say), some moderators would find the comments thought-provoking (even if they didn't agree) and they would bubble to the top.
On top of that, If I am actually in a mood where I can enjoy reading and replying to the hate filled ranting of a bunch of parrots and trolls, I can reset my comment level lower and have at it--so there is nothing really lost.
First trick: Empathy. You have to understand your target audience and write to inform them and fulfill their needs. Don't try to appease every audience with the same document--engineers need to see a much different document than marketing.
Second trick: Brevity. Put NOTHING in there unless it communicates the design and is required by the target audience. Get rid of Cut & Paste boilerplate just as you would in your code.
I guess finally I'd have to say --be complete. If you find yourself saying "We'll work out the details of that later", it's going to be one of the more difficult parts of your project.
The problem is that these standards are difficult to quantify, so the most important point would be Hire a good architect. Look at design docs they have written and see how many questions you might have if you were implementing that project. Let them train the rest of your staff.
The difference between a typical programmer and a good architect is about the same difference as that between a house painter and a classic artist. Even if a group of house painters could paint the Sistine Chapel, they would have to have some pretty good instructions to follow--and they would be completely incapable of making those instructions themselves.
Well, for instance, my company makes QOS switches (not routers) that are meant to go into the house and assume that the northerly switch uses the same QoS protocol (which it generally does since we supply those too).
And I agree with what you said--I don't think QoS routers ARE at all useful (for home users) without matching hardware at the ISP, at least they weren't the last time I checked.
I think they are targetted at businesses who have QoS support throughout the company, but I'm not sure--that's why I asked.
Not everyone has asymetrical connections, so often upload is as important as download. The case that got me thinking was a small business with a T1 and a bunch of people who kept it full streaming music.
I understand what you are saying about delaying the data, but are you claming QOS routers will do this now? (My initial question was, in essence, has QOS become usable)
Umm, I'm guessing you've never used a portable player and iTunes.
Although I enjoy a 40gb device, I could go with a 500mb shuffle easily, every day when It plugs into my library, it refills with songs selected from a library of 50gb by a combination of quazi-random and my preferences. I'm not likely to listen to 500mb in a day.
The problem with the shuffle is that it doesn't seem to be very appropriate for podcasts, and that's how I use my iPod more often than not these days. If anyone has a positive experience with a shuffle and podcasts, please let me know--otherwise I'll have to go with a mini which seems like overkill. If I push it I guess it makes sense to use 1gb of "Today's music", and.5gb of podcasts.
Maybe 2 shuffles would be interesting--one for podcasts and one for music... hmm
QOS seems kind of useless to me in a home setup. Last time I checked you can't control what your provider is sending you.
Your router can obviously ensure that your precious northbound game bandwidth is being preserved, but how can it keep updating your status steadily if your wife is in the next room downloading all last weeks Days of our Lives episodes?
Has this changed and you can assume that providers will support some kind of QOS protocol now?
What you are forgetting is that computer technology is new and new terms must be created (or meanings redirected from existing words) to describe it. Just like your parent post described some words that were redirected to describe the operation of a car.
Your point that a reasonable person could be expected to understand that an oil change is necessary would not have applied when cars first started gaining mass acceptance (and I'm certian many people new to cars now don't always find it all that obvious either)
We need to give the new concepts and words time to circulate through society and stop trying to dumb everything down.
I saw a video the other day on how to dial a rotary phone. Some people probably learned from it. For others the knowledge had spread so far that someone else in the room could correct them.
Computer technology is probably somewhere in between "Video Required" and "Someone in the room knows the answer", but probably closer to the "Video Required" stage.
At slow generator speeds you aren't going to be able to take enough power out of the generator--even shorting the leads probably won't stop the car all that quickly when it's approaching a light at a walking pace.
The only way to stop it would be to gear it so that the generator is spinning much faster than normal as the car came to a stop.
This is different than a generator--they have lots of power at low speeds and don't need much gearing at all.
I don't understand this difference even though I am sure of it. Maybe some EE can explain?
By the way, if the only problem was the speed at which the batteries accepted a charge, a few massive capacitors would probably have worked (do caps have that much storage?)
They are called ATMs. I don't know why that hasn't come up constantly in this discussion--it's a perfect example and everyone is intimately familiar with the concepts.
I really really like the if(obj) syntax. It seems so "logically cleaner" than if(obj != null) to me.
It's the only thing I missed when I came to Java, but on the other hand, requiring that an if statement take a boolean has saved me trouble and never cost me anything, so I guess it's not worth it no matter how nice it feels.
Are you so used to the conservative attack politics that you can't understand a simple, good interview.
He also plays just as nicely with ultra-conservatives and pretty much everyone on his show. He has gone after some real jerks that are too dumb to allow to live, people whose points are so silly that they aren't worth a real discussion, but otherwise he is just what broadcasting should be.
Not only that but the audience is generally well behaved to any guests.
I'm guessing you haven't watched any other episodes and just decided to pipe up because...hmm, can't figure out why.
I think that even if EVERYONE who cares cut their, umm, emissions by, say, 30%, we would not even counter the growing emissions caused by countries coming into their industrial age.
Until the entire world (meaning the entire US) recognizes this as a serious threat to industry, nothing is going to happen.
So in thinking about it I've become more like Asimov in Foundation... It's going to happen--The climate WILL change, we WILL be screwed. All we can do is hope the climate change will come sooner so that we might recover more quickly.
Equate it to being beaten to within an inch of your life in one day or being beaten daily for months and kept near death. You would recover much more quickly your body hadn't had the sustained punishment.
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So, now we not only have somewhat untrusted code from a party who profits from the spread of virii, but we've now had it repackaged by a completely untrested third party.
I'm being ungrateful, just pointing out the ever-increasing irony.
Without a program like that Apple would have never gotten a foothold. All of a sudden people streaming out of schools started demanding MACs.
Training people, espically in college, on Linux is going to be about the only way to threaten MS. You bet they know it and will respond.
There is no solution--there are simply too many people. I've had a few deer around my last few houses and am quite glad. Any more and they would be quite annoying, but it's nice seeing big game in the 'hood.
.22
If you really feel it necessary to hunt, let's open a hunting season for people--they are the only critter there are just to many of.
Uh, and wasps, but you've got to be pretty good to pick them off with a
Wasps are probably going to become the next giant predator due to us killing off all the other meat-eaters. They are going to be 8 inches in length and hunt in packs and nobody is going to be able to fuck with them.
It will. Have you ever noticed that in those displays in k-mart or target or wherever, thie x-box is almost always broken? The ps-2 is down about 50% of the time. I have yet to see a gamecube down.
Very cool. Thanks for the info, and sorry for the misinformation. It was assumptions based on how the thing works when I play pokemon. Not very scientific.
Ummm, no. You are wide of the point, I am not suggesting that I am being clean. I was not being sarcastic, I was being honest.
There is nothing you can do. Period. Don't bother recycling because there are REALLY thousands, tens of thousands, or maybe millions that won't.
You think if you don't buy a new computer it's going to cause 1,000,000 of your counterparts in India to not buy their first computer?
Perhaps you are just so used to sarcasm that you couldn't believe I was being honest. Believe it.
The only fix is a world-wide implementation of a population reduction plan about 5 times more severe than China's. People don't have the heart to do this themselves, so nature will do it for them.
Hunker down and enjoy your computer and SUV while you can, giving them up won't help a bit.
The ports are different and I kind of wonder if you could access them both at once anyway.
I think the thing that's going to suck is the GBA port is probably more adaptable, there are bunches of non-nintendo development kits for it and it's form factor would be perfect for adding external ports (USB? Memory stick?), yet when it boots up in that mode one of the screens always seems to be disabled (the GBA only had one screen).
Hopefully it's not either/or, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Keep at it guys! I'll buy your linux cart in a second if it has a music player and can hold 500K worth of music.
I find this debate kind of strange.
We are in an ice age (minor) headed out from a major one. If we were out of the ice age the polar caps would be gone and we would be using much more AC.
The weather is changing all the time. Does that mean it's beyond influence? Not even close.
If the US wanted to it would be absolutely trivial to bring an ice-age back. Hell, Microsoft could probably do it if they were in the mood. Just get enough fine dust into the atmosphere and the problem is solved.
Hell, some form of seeding that kept the entire planet cloudy for a few months would probably do it.
And continuing to do what we are doing now will do it just as well.
What's the solution? There is none. We're going down.
I don't care how much you conserve, how often you take the bus to work, how many winters you keep your heat down to 66, it's not going to help. There are too damn many people, and there is no way you're going to get a significant enough fraction of them to stop being greedy.
Everything you do, everything you wear, eat, etc. It's all causing pollution. and even if you live as cleanly as possibly, for each person like you there are thousands of people who you will never convince to look up from their big mac.
And just in case there aren't enough people working on screwing up the earth, we should start sending work over to India and China so we can raise their standard of living and get them all into SUVs, that'll speed things up.
Invest in heating technology and long underwear.
That is incorrect. You have right of way if you are crossing legally. You are crossing legally unless you are crossing between two controlled intersections.
If you look left and there is a stopsign, then you look right and there is a light--go to one of them and cross, but otherwise you're fine.
Hmmm, this was 20 years ago. Don't take my word for it, look it up yourself, but this used to be true (I spent a lot of time in "Traffic School").
You could use such a wire to suspend a system of plates that would counter-revolve within your gigantic ring-shaped world to provide changing day and night zones.
A small ball on the tip of a strand repelled with a magnetic field would make a great sword/cutting tool.
Warnings for experimenters: Don't try to pick them up with your bare hands and watch out for sunflowers.
I'm afraid I don't know for sure, but they were originally planning for longhorn to use a database instead of a file system. I heard they dropped this, but it would make a completely different environment than links. The file would actually BE in both places at once because directories become tags.
Not only that, but you get the advantage that your tags no longer HAVE to be tree based, you can make them like your gMail tags--just create them on the fly and apply them to whatever files you like.
At first I thought it was a really stupid idea, but it actually fixes a BUNCH of issues I have with filesystems these days.
That's what we have now in states, for the most part a democracy. That's how prop 13 was passed in California, etc.
/. mod system is different because people are forced to vote on comments, not issues, and therefore people are forced to point out insightful, informative, or funny points of the issue in order for the issue to get votes.
The
If someone tries to stack the system by posting a bunch of spam and having others vote on it then it will not help your cause.
It's not perfect, but our current government chosen by monkeys pushing buttons is obviously not working either.
It's almost a social commentary & evaluation system!
/. mod system, by randomly choosing moderators and giving them limited power, has almost completely eliminated the always-present Very Vocal and Very Incorrect minority--giving them the volume they deserve.
I keep my comment level set at 2: for the most part. I'm reading through here and realizing that I had trouble finding ANY anti-gay comments.
If you think about it, it makes perfect, beautiful sense. The
If the minority was correct (or even had anything new to say), some moderators would find the comments thought-provoking (even if they didn't agree) and they would bubble to the top.
On top of that, If I am actually in a mood where I can enjoy reading and replying to the hate filled ranting of a bunch of parrots and trolls, I can reset my comment level lower and have at it--so there is nothing really lost.
This would make a nice model for public voting.
First trick: Empathy. You have to understand your target audience and write to inform them and fulfill their needs. Don't try to appease every audience with the same document--engineers need to see a much different document than marketing.
Second trick: Brevity. Put NOTHING in there unless it communicates the design and is required by the target audience. Get rid of Cut & Paste boilerplate just as you would in your code.
I guess finally I'd have to say --be complete. If you find yourself saying "We'll work out the details of that later", it's going to be one of the more difficult parts of your project.
The problem is that these standards are difficult to quantify, so the most important point would be Hire a good architect. Look at design docs they have written and see how many questions you might have if you were implementing that project. Let them train the rest of your staff.
The difference between a typical programmer and a good architect is about the same difference as that between a house painter and a classic artist. Even if a group of house painters could paint the Sistine Chapel, they would have to have some pretty good instructions to follow--and they would be completely incapable of making those instructions themselves.
Well, for instance, my company makes QOS switches (not routers) that are meant to go into the house and assume that the northerly switch uses the same QoS protocol (which it generally does since we supply those too).
And I agree with what you said--I don't think QoS routers ARE at all useful (for home users) without matching hardware at the ISP, at least they weren't the last time I checked.
I think they are targetted at businesses who have QoS support throughout the company, but I'm not sure--that's why I asked.
Not everyone has asymetrical connections, so often upload is as important as download. The case that got me thinking was a small business with a T1 and a bunch of people who kept it full streaming music.
I understand what you are saying about delaying the data, but are you claming QOS routers will do this now? (My initial question was, in essence, has QOS become usable)
Umm, I'm guessing you've never used a portable player and iTunes.
.5gb of podcasts.
Although I enjoy a 40gb device, I could go with a 500mb shuffle easily, every day when It plugs into my library, it refills with songs selected from a library of 50gb by a combination of quazi-random and my preferences. I'm not likely to listen to 500mb in a day.
The problem with the shuffle is that it doesn't seem to be very appropriate for podcasts, and that's how I use my iPod more often than not these days. If anyone has a positive experience with a shuffle and podcasts, please let me know--otherwise I'll have to go with a mini which seems like overkill. If I push it I guess it makes sense to use 1gb of "Today's music", and
Maybe 2 shuffles would be interesting--one for podcasts and one for music... hmm
QOS seems kind of useless to me in a home setup. Last time I checked you can't control what your provider is sending you.
Your router can obviously ensure that your precious northbound game bandwidth is being preserved, but how can it keep updating your status steadily if your wife is in the next room downloading all last weeks Days of our Lives episodes?
Has this changed and you can assume that providers will support some kind of QOS protocol now?
What you are forgetting is that computer technology is new and new terms must be created (or meanings redirected from existing words) to describe it. Just like your parent post described some words that were redirected to describe the operation of a car.
Your point that a reasonable person could be expected to understand that an oil change is necessary would not have applied when cars first started gaining mass acceptance (and I'm certian many people new to cars now don't always find it all that obvious either)
We need to give the new concepts and words time to circulate through society and stop trying to dumb everything down.
I saw a video the other day on how to dial a rotary phone. Some people probably learned from it. For others the knowledge had spread so far that someone else in the room could correct them.
Computer technology is probably somewhere in between "Video Required" and "Someone in the room knows the answer", but probably closer to the "Video Required" stage.
At slow generator speeds you aren't going to be able to take enough power out of the generator--even shorting the leads probably won't stop the car all that quickly when it's approaching a light at a walking pace.
The only way to stop it would be to gear it so that the generator is spinning much faster than normal as the car came to a stop.
This is different than a generator--they have lots of power at low speeds and don't need much gearing at all.
I don't understand this difference even though I am sure of it. Maybe some EE can explain?
By the way, if the only problem was the speed at which the batteries accepted a charge, a few massive capacitors would probably have worked (do caps have that much storage?)
And reference browsers that web pages could be checked against!
They are called ATMs. I don't know why that hasn't come up constantly in this discussion--it's a perfect example and everyone is intimately familiar with the concepts.
I really really like the if(obj) syntax. It seems so "logically cleaner" than if(obj != null) to me.
It's the only thing I missed when I came to Java, but on the other hand, requiring that an if statement take a boolean has saved me trouble and never cost me anything, so I guess it's not worth it no matter how nice it feels.
You must be new.
Are you so used to the conservative attack politics that you can't understand a simple, good interview.
He also plays just as nicely with ultra-conservatives and pretty much everyone on his show. He has gone after some real jerks that are too dumb to allow to live, people whose points are so silly that they aren't worth a real discussion, but otherwise he is just what broadcasting should be.
Not only that but the audience is generally well behaved to any guests.
I'm guessing you haven't watched any other episodes and just decided to pipe up because...hmm, can't figure out why.
I think that even if EVERYONE who cares cut their, umm, emissions by, say, 30%, we would not even counter the growing emissions caused by countries coming into their industrial age.
Until the entire world (meaning the entire US) recognizes this as a serious threat to industry, nothing is going to happen.
So in thinking about it I've become more like Asimov in Foundation... It's going to happen--The climate WILL change, we WILL be screwed. All we can do is hope the climate change will come sooner so that we might recover more quickly.
Equate it to being beaten to within an inch of your life in one day or being beaten daily for months and kept near death. You would recover much more quickly your body hadn't had the sustained punishment.