STSC CrossTalk - Agile Development: Weed or Wildflower? - Oct�2002
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THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 This is absolutely great! >100 short essays by some really smart people on a vast array of social and scientific problems. The best way to kill an entire day on the internet that I've seen since last years edition.
The Perils of JavaSchools - Joel on Software: "Still. CS is proofs (recursion), algorithms (recursion), languages (lambda calculus), operating systems (pointers), compilers (lambda calculus) -- and so the bottom line is that a JavaSchool that won't teach C and won't teach Scheme is not really teaching computer science, either. As useless as the concept of function currying may be to the real world, it's obviously a prereq for CS grad school. I can't understand why the professors on the curriculum committees at CS schools have allowed their programs to be dumbed down to the point where not only can't they produce working programmers, they can't even produce CS grad students who might get PhDs and compete for their jobs. Oh wait. Never mind. Maybe I do understand."
Link This Linux screensaver is from Nathalie Carrie and Arnaud Verhille, science teachers on Reunion Island, a French colony in the Indian Ocean. This screensaver comes equipped with 700MB of applications to help school children learn their math and physics. Linux screensaver for Windows "This Linux screensaver is from Nathalie Carrie and Arnaud Verhille, science teachers on Reunion Island, a French colony in the Indian Ocean. This screensaver comes equipped with 700MB of applications to help school children learn their math and physics.
View the Message Source in Outlook 2003 ***New to Outlook 2003*** Outlook doesn't have a View, Source option like you'll find in Outlook Express. It has View, Options which shows you the Internet header in a small text box. But it only includes the Internet header, not the full message source. Using Outlook 2003 you can view the header and source together, if you edit a registry key. This works on mail obtained from Internet mail transports, not Exchange server mailboxes. However, if you access the mailbox using an Internet transport, you'll see the full source. Open the registry editor and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\Mail right click on the right pane and choose new DWORD: Parameter: SaveAllMIMENotJustHeaders Value: 1 Note: This works only on new mail received after you create the registry key. You won't be able to see the source on messages already downloaded. "
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. - Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.
Metaphor, Morality, and Politics Liberals do not understand what unifies their own worldview and so are helpless to deal effectively with conservatism. Not only is there no unified liberal political structure, but there is no overall effective liberal rhetoric to counter the carefully constructed conservative rhetoric. Where conservatives have carefully coined terms and images and repeated them until they have entered the popular lexicon, liberals have not done the same. Liberals need to go beyond coalitions of interest groups to consciously construct a unified language and imagery to convey their worldview. This will not be easy, and they are 30 years behind.
Watch the language. While the one side talks about licenses with verbs like copy, distribute, play, share and perform, the other side talks about rights with verbs like own, protect, safeguard, protect, secure, authorize, buy, sell, infringe, pirate, infringe, and steal. link
DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) is the most scalable and powerful database in production today. DB2, VMware, and Novell SUSE have joined forces to bring you the experience of the data center right to your PC. With the DB2 for Linux images for VMware Workstation - you can quickly and easily deploy your own pre-configured DB2 database. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/linux/vmware/
I came here today because I believe that American democracy is in grave danger. It is no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse . I know that I am not the only one who feels that something has gone basically and badly wrong in the way America’s fabled “marketplace of ideas” now functions. http://waterthread.org/?page_id=192
In my mind the Space Shuttle and Space Station are not valuable efforts. It’s not what NASA should be doing. NASA is using technology from commercial enterprises, or very old technology from the 70’s to try and do space exploration. If they are going to be a real premier space agency, they need to be pushing it. They should be doing stuff which looks to us like science fiction… link
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Emacs P4 Integration Home Page: "P4-Windows Explorer Integration package (4KB) is also available (ins a rudimentary form) for those who would like to perform P4 operations by right-clicking on a file or a directory. The current version is 1.1. The format of the distribution is a gzipped-tar file (.tar.gz). "
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The Observer | International | Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina: "It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico."
You Can Use an IPod to Move Music Apple doesn't make it easy to employ your IPod to duplicate your music collection on both your work and home PCs, but you can do it. If you have a Windows machine, simply plug in your IPod, find it listed in Windows Explorer, and make sure your machine can view hidden files. Open the 'IPod_Control' folder and copy the 'My_Music' folder to your PC. Import those tracks into ITunes and put them in order there. Select Edit, Preferences, and choose the Advanced tab. Select a location for your music library by clicking the Change button, and then check Keep iTunes Music folder organized. Utilities such as the $15 IPodRip--available for PCs and Macs from The Little App Factory--can help automate this process."
Metadata Evolution Management in Your SOA @ SOA WEB SERVICES JOURNAL: "Doing all of the above correctly gives us the perfect solution to the life-cycle management of metadata-driven Web service development. In a nutshell, when metadata drives evolution, we manage the metadata evolution process by applying a model-driven methodology for exposing, standardizing, and federating the metadata."