34 is a round number in base-34 notation. That's why it's so important to observe this anniversary, in case any non-geeks who happened to be misdirected to this page for some strange reason were wondering.
Not really - 10 in base 34 (34 in base 10) would be a round number.
34 in base 34 is 106 in base 10, 106(b10) would be a round number, 10, in base 106. It's also 20 in base 53 which is also round....
And they preyed upon creatures much larger than them (but probably not exclusively) - if you scale up from a raptor in the same ratio as cat to human you get a big animal. Do you think a raptor could disembowel something like a hippo? Remember raptors weren't man sized they were smaller. And hippos have skin thicker than raptor claws so it's reasonable that some dinos had skin at least as thick. It would make a good climbing surface though...
You could try a service like books24x7 - it doesn't look cheap at $399 a year for an 'ITPro' but I have a corporate sub at work which I can use at home. It's pretty good.
Then there's safari from o'reilly. which starts at $180 a year. The O'Reilly service is limited to the number of books you can have available at once and how often they can be changed. With books24x7 you have access to all the books at once. I don't know which has a better range - I suspect O'Reilly has a slightly better range but I like the flexibility of books24x7.
For instance, nearly every health guide will tell you that drinking lots of water (with the appropriate electrolytes) is good for your health. If the "If some is good, more is better" doctrine holds, it must be true that drowning is good for your health.
You may find it instructive to consider the difference between "drinking" and "breathing":-)
If Venuzuela is worried about their government web sites going down they can easily force all their ISPs to reroute all DNS requests to government websites to the appropriate servers.
Then how does someone in say, Chile access the web servers in Venezuela?
If the US pulls the plug on France that cuts off France from the rest of the net even if French citizens can still reach French sites. It wouldn't just affect the one country, which is part of the point.
Dell will only support the operating system that Dell installed on the PC.
If you 'upgrade' from XP Home to Pro, or to Vista (neever mind liux/bsd) they won't support it.
If you've upgraded your OS and a part dies they will wany you to run their diagnostics on the OS they intalled.
So no, they don't budget for more support because they won't give you any.
A blank is easier for Dell to support because they won't.
The bit that worries me in the new draft anti-terrorist legislation - apart from the three months internment of course is:
New offence of publishing, possessing or disseminating publications that indirectly incite terrorist acts or are likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing a terrorist act.
(quotation from The Grauniad.
This means the local WH Smiths could be prosecuted for selling a London A-Z or a copy of the SAS Urban Survival Handbook. Or a train timetable.
I suppose the next step is to require Student ID to buy Chemistry books? I don't see how it could be any more general.
I try to think of it terms of the "chain of users":
If A writes some software and passes it to B who makes changes and passes it to C then under the GPL C gets rights to all the source code, under the BSD C may only get the binary.
The BSD license may give 'more rights' to the 1st users to get it, but subsequent recipients may lose out. Under the GPL all users have the same rights, including those to changes/enhancements to the original codebase.
In my opinion the GPL is better for most uses, but the BSD certainly has its place. I can see no reason whatsoever for the likes of IBM to place their contributions under the BSD and give their comptetitors the ability to compete with them by developing it. With the GPL IBM don't lose out to a competitor as they
The difference between UK and US English that jars most with me is the use of "of a" when descibing something. An example being when saying that a puzzle wasn't difficult: UK: "That wasn't too hard a problem" US: "That wasn't too hard of a a problem"
I've never noticed any instance of the latter usage by anyone from the UK, whereas the former is infrequently used by US speakers. I don't know why this has arisen, nor which is the more ancient form but I do find the US usage (as I have labelled it) grating.
NB I have heard UK speakers say 'of a' in films when speaking lines written by US scriptwriters but I don't count that.
...the conclusion that Apple's answer is wrong (which is what you seem to be implying) can't be deduced from those postulates.
I agree that one cannot definitely conclude that Apple is wrong - but similarly one also cannot conclude that Apple is right either.
An interesting datum is of course the decision by Apple to sell a multi-button mouse...
My opinion is that multiple buttons are useful in many situations but these should not be required. One of my gripes with Windows is the difficulty of executing some operations without a mouse. IMNSHO a GUI should be usable solely with keystrokes - albeit at a possible performance hit.
You're missing the point... by shipping computers without two buttons, apple is strongly encouraging good UI design.
So why are Apple now shipping a multi-button mouse? (It may look like 1 button but it has multi-button functions - if it walks like a duck...)
The second button, then, will be programmed as an ADDITIONAL way to access frequently used functionality, and will be used as it should be - to supplement the interface for added efficiency, not to complicate it.
Even with the NT kernel, Win32 multitasking is said to be not as powerful as *n?x multitasking, and scheduling each additional process adds too much memory and CPU time.
Well, I doubt if it's much extra overhead given the number of services started by default, I normally kill a few. Anyway -
The Windows Task Scheduler is already running; why have both the Windows Task Scheduler and cron in RAM at once?
Exactly - just run cron. The Windows Task Scheduler can be switched off.
I use a combination of Cygwin, Windows Task Scheduler, cmd shell, and batch files to get the job done. It ain't pretty, but it works and it works well.
If you have CygWin why not use cron - and why use cmd? Not an attack, I'm just curious.
OK I see what you mean. The best you can do in Windows is probably to create one file type for each extension. A type may be able to map to more than one extension but it doesn't have to.
Anyway the GP said "Separate file name from file type" and because I'm so used to VM/CMS I automatically consider a file identifier to have three parts: name, type and mode - so if you have c:\foo.bar (on win) I map that to name = foo, type = bar and mode=c. (It would probably be foo bar c1 on VM/CMS of course).
Now creating one type per extension on windows isn't as easy as the old Mac OS way, admittedly, but personally I think the Resource Fork (where the meta data was stored) created more problems than it solved - at least as far as interacting with other OS and Java is concerned. (OK It's been a while but this is what I remember).
There are good things in Windows (and X/linux obviously) which coulc improve OS X - and most emphatically vice-versa.
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You mean Sun isn't a business?
I know they do some funny things but still...
Don't forget there's a port of Nethack for the PocketPC :-)
But I don't necessarily want to slow down if the light is green.
34 in base 34 is 106 in base 10, 106(b10) would be a round number, 10, in base 106. It's also 20 in base 53 which is also round....
You could try a service like books24x7 - it doesn't look cheap at $399 a year for an 'ITPro' but I have a corporate sub at work which I can use at home. It's pretty good.
Then there's safari from o'reilly. which starts at $180 a year. The O'Reilly service is limited to the number of books you can have available at once and how often they can be changed. With books24x7 you have access to all the books at once. I don't know which has a better range - I suspect O'Reilly has a slightly better range but I like the flexibility of books24x7.
If the US pulls the plug on France that cuts off France from the rest of the net even if French citizens can still reach French sites. It wouldn't just affect the one country, which is part of the point.
If you 'upgrade' from XP Home to Pro, or to Vista (neever mind liux/bsd) they won't support it.
If you've upgraded your OS and a part dies they will wany you to run their diagnostics on the OS they intalled.
So no, they don't budget for more support because they won't give you any.
A blank is easier for Dell to support because they won't.
I suppose the next step is to require Student ID to buy Chemistry books? I don't see how it could be any more general.
If A writes some software and passes it to B who makes changes and passes it to C then under the GPL C gets rights to all the source code, under the BSD C may only get the binary.
The BSD license may give 'more rights' to the 1st users to get it, but subsequent recipients may lose out. Under the GPL all users have the same rights, including those to changes/enhancements to the original codebase.
In my opinion the GPL is better for most uses, but the BSD certainly has its place. I can see no reason whatsoever for the likes of IBM to place their contributions under the BSD and give their comptetitors the ability to compete with them by developing it. With the GPL IBM don't lose out to a competitor as they
UK: "That wasn't too hard a problem"
US: "That wasn't too hard of a a problem"
I've never noticed any instance of the latter usage by anyone from the UK, whereas the former is infrequently used by US speakers. I don't know why this has arisen, nor which is the more ancient form but I do find the US usage (as I have labelled it) grating.
NB I have heard UK speakers say 'of a' in films when speaking lines written by US scriptwriters but I don't count that.
An interesting datum is of course the decision by Apple to sell a multi-button mouse...
My opinion is that multiple buttons are useful in many situations but these should not be required. One of my gripes with Windows is the difficulty of executing some operations without a mouse. IMNSHO a GUI should be usable solely with keystrokes - albeit at a possible performance hit.
So? They are shipping the mouse aren't they?
To quote H.L.Mencken: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
And GUI design is definitely a complex problem.
If SCOX bought Vista and MS settle with Vista that would re-fill SCOX war chest nicely. I'm sure IBM would appreciate some assets to acquire.
OK thanks, that was interesting. I sais it'd been a while.
It sounds from your description that the UTI is a close analogue to windows file type.
Anyway the GP said "Separate file name from file type" and because I'm so used to VM/CMS I automatically consider a file identifier to have three parts: name, type and mode - so if you have c:\foo.bar (on win) I map that to name = foo, type = bar and mode=c. (It would probably be foo bar c1 on VM/CMS of course).
Now creating one type per extension on windows isn't as easy as the old Mac OS way, admittedly, but personally I think the Resource Fork (where the meta data was stored) created more problems than it solved - at least as far as interacting with other OS and Java is concerned. (OK It's been a while but this is what I remember).
There are good things in Windows (and X/linux obviously) which coulc improve OS X - and most emphatically vice-versa.