Perhaps care has to be taken not to promote Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Since this usually comes about when an animal eats it's own, and previously because they were feeding cow to cow. This time they may be feeding human to human, since the cows will contain human DNA?
Not that they plan to use the cows for human food, of course... but what if an accident happened, and somehoe they got nitroduced into general cow populations?
I know very little of this, but perhaps soneone in genetics can enlighten?
I really TRIED to find something that was deeply negative, but could not. I made the effort of reading through several sections of the bill.
If anyone could just give me the sections they have problems with, then we can talk again. I think the bill is fair for all parties, and lays the ground of lealising electronic (inter-)personal transactions. Another step toward a paperless society. I love freedom but hate anarchy... two sides of the same coin? perhaps...
I've read this petition (as well as the of some of the problems with the bill). It mainly talks about Accreditation authority restrictions. It does not say ANYTHING about handing over private keys.
I'll still have my private key and privately encrypted messages (but they won't be legally recognised). These will be as safe and ans private as a locked box was and still is. (The law about this is still the same to promote general anti-crime sentiments.
Finally I may be able to send electronically signed letters to my bank! Faxes are SOOOO outdated.
:)
I have also read most of the bill itself and
note that there are (still) some things that need to be scraped or wiped before we come into alignment with european standards.
(G)VIM is still the best generic editor by far in my opinion. It can edit huge files (I've corrected codec tags in 700Mb AVIs), it's fast, and it integrates quite well in the windows environment. And it's (totally) free.
Well, that depends on the type of editing you do. If it's coding, then VIM is the best - if not, then it's a toss-up.
Its syntax hilighting, code-folding and command-based editing modes make it ideal... and once you press 'i' and have the backspace=2 option set, it's basically the same as textpad32/notepad/ultraedit.
PS: VIM is NOT vi! vi was written for a different era. I prefer Emacs over vi, but not over VIM.
Also, I do prefer the native IDEs when I code in Delphi, Visual C++, Python (here I use Boa-constructor instead of (g)VIM)
Firstly, it should not take 2 competent computer literate (not to mention highly knowledgable) guys to install and configure a Linux box. The time it took us would have paid for Win2k in loss in income only.
Ignoring this, we forged ahead to do the "right thing". We got email and dial-up working with effort. (Next time this will be easier... the docs were misleading and out of date - I will not go into detail, it's besides the point)
It was all on a newly purchased PC, thus the hardware was pretty well supported.
Now after 2 weeks of harrowing use, we wiped Linux and installed Win2k.
Firstly I would like to state that it was not Linux at fault... RH7.3 was a pretty good installation. The problem was that the most important sites needing to be visited were IE specific... Netscape 6 did not work, neither did Mozilla, Konquerer, Opera etc.
It's a sad story... but it's true... IE is killing Linux. Where Games, Windows2000, MS Office has failed, IE will triumph.
This is probably just the windows update, and can be disabled.
If you are a paranoid individual, then try installing a firewall app... something like "AT Guard". Besides stopping windows from wasting your badwidth, it will also protect you from instruders, worms etc...
1) I am not a US citizen... I never paid for this game. Thus I do consider it free.
2) It was developed to aid the US forces in tactical learning... it is a cheap superior teaching aid. They only decided to give a bit back to the people who funded it!
3) It is a propoganda aid for poor silly countries like mine to make us think that the US may not be so bad after all...
Perl 6 is becoming another C++: still C, and not quite clean OO.
Rather have a properly OO designed language with a small lexical description do the OO job for you. That's what made Smalltalk so cool, and why Python is better than Perl in this regard.
Don't ge me wrong, perl is way cool. And one can program OO in any non OO language... just not legibly. (Add this to perls legibility tract-record and you have a winner!;) )
Totally silence is totally impossible. Background static (if detected) is non-reproducable.
Unless someone is deaf, of course, but will the RIAA sue deaf people? Hmm...
Besides, I'm sure your deity/belief of choice will cite Prior Art.
If I could patent 'white noise' by stating total random sound... then that would include all music ever made.
If someone wanted to copyright white noice (or total *cough* silence), then they would still be infringing on all music ever made, or all music ever made when the volume is set to zero.
Specifically I would like to offer customers solutions using Python. But if they want.NET integration, what do I tell them? It's not possible at all?
I'd prefer not to lie to customers.
If I could tell them that it's possible, at a price, that would be something! My customers would be prepared to pay! Not that they may ever need it once I get them their Zope/Python sites, mind you. I just want to leave them the option.
Firstly, what would I have to do (pay) to get.NET commercially for Linux (Python)?
Secondly, is it even possible to get.NET integration going in an effective manner? Are there tools/wrappers?
To reply to the person that replied to me and to whom you just replied:
I used to administer networks at up.ac.za from about 1993-1997 (or was at least involved in part) and helped put the.schools.za domians on the map in my free time. (Did this with a cool little Sun box in an abandoned tower... hehe)
I'm sure there are people who did have problems, and I would gladly read up on it if you can just point out the site detailing the chronicles.
If there isn't such a site, then perhaps the problem was not that big?
Under ICANN rules, the administration of a national domain can only be reassigned with the consent of ICANN, that country's government and its Internet community.
The governement is ignoring ICANN and our local internet community.
And what will they REALLY acomplish? It would be like a self administered DOS attack!
Where would all the needy poor people ever then hope to get their internet connection to check their stock prices with?
It's like removing toll booths and putting a tax on fish to pay for roads.
But who am I but a discriminated minority who has not had the 'benefit' of apartheid but now with the bill to pay. Such is life. I like Socialism better anyway, or at least the theory.
It would all be fair and stuff if South Africa actually owned the.za domain. Then you would have a valid point. (I'm not sure why you wanted your post to look like flamebait though... I moderated it up anyway since you made valid points.) But they don't AFAIK. And if they did, most people would just move over to.za.net. Besides, why take over an existing domain space? They could organise a new TLD! This is MORE in line with the democratic principles of the country... give people CHOICES.
Namespace.org had requested the participation of the government in the past, but to no avail. Now suddenly they want to administer. Why?
The problem is that the government is pretending to be a democracy.
The term described the way some people take a beutiful ganme and turn down all the settings. This enhances the frame rate, but more importantly makes objects simpler/easier to see, understand and kill.
Another effect this has is that it also disassociates the game word a little from real life, perhaps making it a bit less nauseating wrt. motion sickness.
"Just shoot the squarish-looking block"
I've never suffered from any form of motion sickness since I was 2 years old, so this is not a personal experience, just an idea.
I'd like to hear from people who do suffer what the following settings do for their malady:
/cg_picmip 20 (or higher) /r_textureMode cg_nearest (not sure of this command)
On some games (using Quake 3 as an example) it is possible to minimise or totally remove the 'bobbing' and 'weaving' effects of the game. There are also settings for extra visual features which can be disabled.
The problem will still be there, however, but only to a lesser degree, as it is the insconsistency between what the eye sees, and the ear feels. Which will still be prevelant.
One can also play around with refresh rates and field-of-view settings to lessen certain side-effects.
Apart from their products being way too expensive, USB is not a viable technology. As opposed to some serial standards which can go for kilometers, USB is limited to mere meters.
Ok, sure USB can transmit MUCH faster, but if you want to use this in most viable existing products, you don't need throughput, but quick turnaround times.
And USB repeaters/hubs don't cut it either, they are also way too expensive.
On the other hand, USB is quite a good standard. If there was only a product to do a USB to serial to USB translation... that would be great.
Actually I have found problems in other browsers (Opera 6.03 and Mozilla 1.0) where certain pages display partly the first time, and then displays diferently on a refresh...
This is not a sign of a different implementation of an HTML standard... It's just plain a bug. See this site for an example.
You have made a valid point, but said nothing that could convince me. Have you seen the IE codebase to make such an assumption? It would seem you are besing better on the fact that IE cannot (will not by MS) be split from the OS and that they do not want to give it away for free and that the source code is not open source. THESE are the reasons I would not want to use it either, but not reasons I would think it inferior anyway...
Also the fact that it has so many security flaws stem from feature overextension... something the other browsers lack. And even though you and I may not NEED these features, many people DO.
The quicker it get's adopted, the faster progress will be made in the power of these cars.
55 kW is not enough for me. My car has about 154 kW and that is not even enough.
One bonus about new technologies' power output is that it is more linear, which is better for performance and the longevity of the car!
I currently have a Porsche 911, and doubt a new card would outclass it. I'm quite sentimental that way... If only Porsche brought one out too... -grin-
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see "Tenebrae Quake". There is no real difference between the stories...
Perhaps care has to be taken not to promote Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Since this usually comes about when an animal eats it's own, and previously because they were feeding cow to cow. This time they may be feeding human to human, since the cows will contain human DNA?
Not that they plan to use the cows for human food, of course... but what if an accident happened, and somehoe they got nitroduced into general cow populations?
I know very little of this, but perhaps soneone in genetics can enlighten?
From what you said, you travel a lot. "The Ultimates" is for US only.
;)
Pity. Keep on searching.
I shall refrain from making apt derogatory comments regarding bars and picking up women. Iam an adult, after all.
Me.
Hear, hear.
... two sides of the same coin? perhaps...
:)
I really TRIED to find something that was deeply negative, but could not. I made the effort of reading through several sections of the bill.
If anyone could just give me the sections they have problems with, then we can talk again. I think the bill is fair for all parties, and lays the ground of lealising electronic (inter-)personal transactions. Another step toward a paperless society. I love freedom but hate anarchy
-shrug-
here
Could be worth a look.
(Used by some open source projects, that's where I saw it first...)
I've read this petition (as well as the of some of the problems with the bill). It mainly talks about Accreditation authority restrictions. It does not say ANYTHING about handing over private keys.
:)
I'll still have my private key and privately encrypted messages (but they won't be legally recognised). These will be as safe and ans private as a locked box was and still is. (The law about this is still the same to promote general anti-crime sentiments.
Finally I may be able to send electronically signed letters to my bank! Faxes are SOOOO outdated.
I have also read most of the bill itself and note that there are (still) some things that need to be scraped or wiped before we come into alignment with european standards.
(G)VIM is still the best generic editor by far in my opinion. It can edit huge files (I've corrected codec tags in 700Mb AVIs), it's fast, and it integrates quite well in the windows environment. And it's (totally) free.
Well, that depends on the type of editing you do. If it's coding, then VIM is the best - if not, then it's a toss-up.
Its syntax hilighting, code-folding and command-based editing modes make it ideal... and once you press 'i' and have the backspace=2 option set, it's basically the same as textpad32/notepad/ultraedit.
PS: VIM is NOT vi! vi was written for a different era. I prefer Emacs over vi, but not over VIM.
Also, I do prefer the native IDEs when I code in Delphi, Visual C++, Python (here I use Boa-constructor instead of (g)VIM)
Firstly, it should not take 2 competent computer literate (not to mention highly knowledgable) guys to install and configure a Linux box. The time it took us would have paid for Win2k in loss in income only.
Ignoring this, we forged ahead to do the "right thing". We got email and dial-up working with effort. (Next time this will be easier... the docs were misleading and out of date - I will not go into detail, it's besides the point)
It was all on a newly purchased PC, thus the hardware was pretty well supported.
Now after 2 weeks of harrowing use, we wiped Linux and installed Win2k.
Firstly I would like to state that it was not Linux at fault... RH7.3 was a pretty good installation. The problem was that the most important sites needing to be visited were IE specific... Netscape 6 did not work, neither did Mozilla, Konquerer, Opera etc.
It's a sad story... but it's true... IE is killing Linux. Where Games, Windows2000, MS Office has failed, IE will triumph.
-sigh-
This is probably just the windows update, and can be disabled.
If you are a paranoid individual, then try installing a firewall app... something like "AT Guard". Besides stopping windows from wasting your badwidth, it will also protect you from instruders, worms etc...
Silly person! ;-)
1) I am not a US citizen... I never paid for this game. Thus I do consider it free.
2) It was developed to aid the US forces in tactical learning... it is a cheap superior teaching aid. They only decided to give a bit back to the people who funded it!
3) It is a propoganda aid for poor silly countries like mine to make us think that the US may not be so bad after all...
Agreed.
;) )
OO in perl is clumsy.
Perl 6 is becoming another C++: still C, and not quite clean OO.
Rather have a properly OO designed language with a small lexical description do the OO job for you. That's what made Smalltalk so cool, and why Python is better than Perl in this regard.
Don't ge me wrong, perl is way cool. And one can program OO in any non OO language... just not legibly. (Add this to perls legibility tract-record and you have a winner!
My 0.01999999R
Totally silence is totally impossible. Background static (if detected) is non-reproducable.
Unless someone is deaf, of course, but will the RIAA sue deaf people? Hmm...
Besides, I'm sure your deity/belief of choice will cite Prior Art.
If I could patent 'white noise' by stating total random sound... then that would include all music ever made.
If someone wanted to copyright white noice (or total *cough* silence), then they would still be infringing on all music ever made, or all music ever made when the volume is set to zero.
In my opinion, this cannot be done.
But whadda I know anyway...
:)
Does anyone know how I can benefit from this?
.NET integration, what do I tell them? It's not possible at all?
.NET commercially for Linux (Python)?
.NET integration going in an effective manner? Are there tools/wrappers?
Specifically I would like to offer customers solutions using Python. But if they want
I'd prefer not to lie to customers.
If I could tell them that it's possible, at a price, that would be something! My customers would be prepared to pay! Not that they may ever need it once I get them their Zope/Python sites, mind you. I just want to leave them the option.
Firstly, what would I have to do (pay) to get
Secondly, is it even possible to get
Here and here are some screenshots of the Zope editing capabilities of an older version of Boa-constructor.
I would suggest looking at Boa constructor as a tool to manage Zope sites. It has "Sophisticated Zope object editing integration" made simple.
Give it a try! It also has superb debugging capabilities...
Agreed.
.schools.za domians on the map in my free time. (Did this with a cool little Sun box in an abandoned tower... hehe)
To reply to the person that replied to me and to whom you just replied:
I used to administer networks at up.ac.za from about 1993-1997 (or was at least involved in part) and helped put the
I'm sure there are people who did have problems, and I would gladly read up on it if you can just point out the site detailing the chronicles.
If there isn't such a site, then perhaps the problem was not that big?
South Africa is not in charge of this, ICANN is.
Under ICANN rules, the administration of a national domain can only be reassigned with the consent of ICANN, that country's government and its Internet community.
The governement is ignoring ICANN and our local internet community.
And what will they REALLY acomplish? It would be like a self administered DOS attack!
Where would all the needy poor people ever then hope to get their internet connection to check their stock prices with?
It's like removing toll booths and putting a tax on fish to pay for roads.
But who am I but a discriminated minority who has not had the 'benefit' of apartheid but now with the bill to pay. Such is life. I like Socialism better anyway, or at least the theory.
-shrug-
I don't really agree with you...
.za domain. Then you would have a valid point. (I'm not sure why you wanted your post to look like flamebait though... I moderated it up anyway since you made valid points.) But they don't AFAIK. And if they did, most people would just move over to .za.net.
It would all be fair and stuff if South Africa actually owned the
Besides, why take over an existing domain space? They could organise a new TLD! This is MORE in line with the democratic principles of the country... give people CHOICES.
Namespace.org had requested the participation of the government in the past, but to no avail. Now suddenly they want to administer. Why?
The problem is that the government is pretending to be a democracy.
The term described the way some people take a beutiful ganme and turn down all the settings. This enhances the frame rate, but more importantly makes objects simpler/easier to see, understand and kill.
Another effect this has is that it also disassociates the game word a little from real life, perhaps making it a bit less nauseating wrt. motion sickness.
"Just shoot the squarish-looking block"
I've never suffered from any form of motion sickness since I was 2 years old, so this is not a personal experience, just an idea.
I'd like to hear from people who do suffer what the following settings do for their malady:
/cg_picmip 20 (or higher)
/r_textureMode cg_nearest (not sure of this command)
On some games (using Quake 3 as an example) it is possible to minimise or totally remove the 'bobbing' and 'weaving' effects of the game. There are also settings for extra visual features which can be disabled.
like so:
seta cg_bobroll "0"
seta cg_bobpitch "0"
seta cg_bobup "0"
seta cg_runroll "0"
seta cg_runpitch "0"
The problem will still be there, however, but only to a lesser degree, as it is the insconsistency between what the eye sees, and the ear feels. Which will still be prevelant.
One can also play around with refresh rates and field-of-view settings to lessen certain side-effects.
Never mentioned RS232 as *the* serial standard.
USB has a couple of standards already, and none of them can go the distance.
As for speed/distance tradeoff... It's more like a throughput/latency/distance tradeoff. And I want low latency.
I was speaking of RS485, and although it's not standard on PCs, that's not the point anyway. The point is manufacturing costs.
Apart from their products being way too expensive, USB is not a viable technology. As opposed to some serial standards which can go for kilometers, USB is limited to mere meters.
Ok, sure USB can transmit MUCH faster, but if you want to use this in most viable existing products, you don't need throughput, but quick turnaround times.
And USB repeaters/hubs don't cut it either, they are also way too expensive.
On the other hand, USB is quite a good standard. If there was only a product to do a USB to serial to USB translation... that would be great.
Actually I have found problems in other browsers (Opera 6.03 and Mozilla 1.0) where certain pages display partly the first time, and then displays diferently on a refresh...
This is not a sign of a different implementation of an HTML standard... It's just plain a bug.
See this site for an example.
You have made a valid point, but said nothing that could convince me. Have you seen the IE codebase to make such an assumption? It would seem you are besing better on the fact that IE cannot (will not by MS) be split from the OS and that they do not want to give it away for free and that the source code is not open source. THESE are the reasons I would not want to use it either, but not reasons I would think it inferior anyway...
Also the fact that it has so many security flaws stem from feature overextension... something the other browsers lack. And even though you and I may not NEED these features, many people DO.
It's getting better, but it's not there yet.
The quicker it get's adopted, the faster progress will be made in the power of these cars.
55 kW is not enough for me. My car has about 154 kW and that is not even enough.
One bonus about new technologies' power output is that it is more linear, which is better for performance and the longevity of the car!
I currently have a Porsche 911, and doubt a new card would outclass it. I'm quite sentimental that way... If only Porsche brought one out too... -grin-