*sarcasm* I think they'd sooner setup shop in the high school down the block than go to antarctica. They got this little problem of englishmetric conversions that need to be worked out first before they can get to Mars. */sarcasm*
That's fine. You've got to do that if you go to Canada, too. (we went metric over 20 years ago).
My worry about this mission is that it's going to renew the stereotype about Canadians living in igloos, ets. (among other things, they melt in the summer). `ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø`ø
One claim by one of the dinosaur != bird crowd really annoys me, though -
Jones says the sequence of bird-like dinosaurs appearing after the earliest known bird has never made sense to him. "It's like saying your grandmother was born after you died," he says
(corrected) No- It's more like specific species of ape appearing after the earliest known hominid." I.e., not a big problem.
It is a problem if that specific species is thought to have been a pre-hominid species. The bird-like reptiles are thought to have been predecessors to birds. That's what makes the timing problematic. --
Then again, if I was the original owner of the domain, I figure it would be a LOT cheaper to just pay NSI for the domain name up front. Just getting a lawyer to write a 'cease and desist' letter would be more expensive as paying for a year's domain registration.
You would never live to see the day that you got all your money back for the lawsuit. --
Linux, like the early internet, is a well organized anarchy. Stuff gets done when people get around to getting it done.
If Viro -- or anybody else, for that matter -- really gets out of hand, somebody else is always free to light their own torch and lead a ragtag team of developers out of (or into) the wilderness. It's never a wasted effort because, even if you 'fail', the better aspects of your work can be folded into the 'winning' fork.
If documentation is REALLY needed, hunt down someone who would be willing to work on it. If they do a good enough job, they'll probably be commissioned to write a book about it.
Live life on the edge and risk getting blown away, or huddle in with the masses where you'll be relatively safe, but you'll never feel the wind in your face. Either choice is fine. Both choices are yours.
Linus, Rizer, Viro, etc. simply chose the former path. So did Kennedy, Hitler, Ghandi and Gates. --
Last time I checked, press is supposed to represent the public, not the government.
Oh no.. Not in the least. The press are supposed to represent their own interests. The hope is that -- supposedle being closer to the people -- they'll reprepresent the people's interests as a side-effect. That having been said, if the people who own the newspapers are the same people who own the politicians, (cf. DECSS), all bets are off.
The press are the eyes and ears of the nation. When the eyes see, and the ears hear what the mind wants to see and hear, it's called 'delusion'.
-- Me 1979
I still remember back in the Iran hostage-taking. Being a Canadian, I had access to both US and foreign news reporting. I was brutally shocked by the US media's blatent twisting and even misrepresentation of events in Iran. No stone was unturned in the crusade to portray Iranians as hating the American people, anti-democratic and bombastic.
The end result of that crusase was that just about every moderate in or near the Iranian government was either executed, exiled (sometimes both) or (in the case of Ayatolla Khomeni -- yes, he was a moderate) isolated and neutralized.
Now, if President Carter had recieved accurate intelligence WRT Iran from the CIA, he might have been able to respond sanely, in spite of what was going through the press, but the head of the CIA (George Bush) was to busy getting ready to run for Vice President.
Sorry for the rant, but putting the CIA, Iran and the press in the same sentence gives me flashbacks --
I think that mogrify+bash may be your tool of choice:
#!/bin/bash for i in big/*.JPG ; do here=`basename $i` cp $i $here && mogrify -geometry 80x80 $here && echo -n OK $here" " || echo DEAD $here" " done ----------------- note the '&&' and '||' at the end of many of those lines -- It's the script I used to mogrify the wedding thumbnails. You'll need to modify the mogrify line to do your appropriate dirty work. `man mogrify` or 'mogrify -help'
I used a different shell script to generate the heart of the HTML, and then added the extra stuff with vi. (seriously quick & dirty). An exercise for the reader would be to add tables borders to the HTML. ---------------- #!/bin/bash for i in *JPG ; do short=`basename $i.JPG` echo '<A HREF="big/'$i'">'$i' </A>' done > index.html
With adds. By not collecting "any personal information from citizens" on the site itself, but allowing the collection of enough info on other sites that someone like double-click could create a pretty extensive and accurate profile info on you.
Says here that you were looking at welfare benefits last year. Are your finances any better this month?
You actually have 3 different prime suspects: The misus, the kids and the neighbour. Now, true -- the real killer has the least obvious motive (to an investigating cop). On the other hand -- if they doesn't go searching the kids' bedrooms they're not gonna find the tapes.
It'd pretty much be a crap shoot as to who gets nailed... If I remember it correctly, the two guns in the house are similar models. If they both get tossed, then it'd be hard for the wife to prove that it wasn't her gun that killed him (and I could see her tossing it in a panic). On the other hand, the boy's dad could just as easily just stand sit down on the sofa, mumbling
"Yeah, I did it. I had to. Now my son's safe. "
Of course, it'd matter a lot more if it was reality. --
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I've mogrified the images down to a somewhat weildly {583,666}x437 and created a simple thumbnails page.
If you're wondering about the size, it is 1/3 size for the larger images. It's also small enough to fit in my web allocation (on two differnt accounts).
If you're wondering about the two different sizes, it looks like they were using two different cameras with two different resolutions. --
Slashdot slashdots one of their own....
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It looks like Hemos's website is barely surviving the onslaught of voyeurs. I think it took a good 2-3 minutes just to get a directory listing...
Now I'm trying to suck an image across.. (oh, great! A picture of somebody's legs!)
I would suggest that you ignore the first image. --
Ok big shock. Extreme shortages around times when people are buying more, allowing for increased prices. Does this sound fishy to anyone else?
Eh, have you ever bothered to take a basic math/physics/marketing course? Shortages occur when demand outstrips supply. Presuming a flat supply (it's actually growing -- just slower than demand, right now), if demand drops you pretty much CAN'T have a (new) shortage. When demand climbs on an existing shortage, what few reserves there are (no matter WHAT their price) will be snapped up.
All I can say is that I'm happy that I bought my new processor board LAST month. --
As It Happens is definitely Canadian. I heard it on NPR when I was in California last month. They had 'skilfully' edited out all blatently Canadian references in the show.
In a slightly different Vein, CBC Radio has a few radio comedy dramas. One which comes to mind is Dead Dog Cafe They also had The Great Easterner. It was a WONDERFUL show. Unfortunately, they seem to have shut down this show recently (and the website is out of comish -- hopefully this is only temporary)
I mean, what can you say about a radio show where the central character is Moth of Ucker (pronounce it very carefully)?. --
Brazil had two completely different endings. (I'm just going to presume that you've seen at least one version).
In the (hollywood) producer's cut, our hero makes it out of the city and goes off with his love into a bright new future.
In the director's cut, that turns out to have been a terminal fantasy, generated as his (former friend) captor interrogates him into oblivion.
The producers cut (which, as I understand it, pretty much consists of cutting the very last scene) would probably end up feeling like serious deus-ex-machina to the discerning viewer. Actually, I would expect the reaction to be like: "Great movie, but WTF was it with that strange ending?" The director's cut -- while far more dark -- makes complete sense of the fantasy scene"
The critic's view of thing is that the Hollywood producers were far more interested in the 'happy' ending than they were with having the ending make any sense in what was otherwise a brilliantly dark movie.
............. I would actually say much the same thing of the ending to American Beauty. the "Gee, I'm almost happy that that macho coward blew my brains out" monologue almost made me sick. I would have been much happier with something like:
Well, I guess that it would be an understatement to say that the day didn't really end the way that I anticipated. At least he didn't catch me in the middle of jerking off.... By the way: If you're interested, after a 6 week trial, he got off on a temporary insanity plea. Not that it made much difference. 8 weeks later, he blew his own brains out in the local military cemetary.
Now, my daughter and her new husband live right next door to my widowed wife -- who took up with Mr. King until he dumped her for telling him that she was pregnant. Personally, I think that she should have just had an abortion and kept on bonking him. In any case, I guess that that's as close to a happy ending as I could have hoped for.
We're talking the purchasing types and the straight out of business school (25 years ago) CFOs who think that if they're not buying from a big company, "what will we do when the system crashes??? What happens if this company goes out of business???"
Everybody knows that computers crash all the time. I mean, just look at my desktop Windows box. It crashes twice a week, and I hardly do ANYTHING on it. -- and we buy that from DELL. Now you want me to buy our servers from some no-name animal-cracker company that figures that they can do better than Dell with an operating system that people give away?
Get real!.
For some people, blue screens are better than red ink -- even if the red ink is fictional. --
I think that Micro$oft's pronouncements had more to do with the recent speed of Linux's rise than Jackson's pronouncements did. One big thing that Linux got out of the court case was that Microsoft thought that it was to their advantage to tout Linux as a 'real contender'. For the PHB types this was something of a green flag.
If Miserosoft
themselves is touting this as a realistic -- even technically superior -- alternative to Windows, perhaps I should stop swatting at my techies everytime they tell me that Linux would solve this problem.
Chivalry does not mean refusing to take advantage of your opponents' blunders. --
The Wired article contians a reference to a guy with 600 workers of whom 20 have had problems. That comes to about 3% of their users (or ~2million affected customers).
ouch. Since when is the last time you trusted the PR group? --
they got round the UK patent restrictions through having the terminal as part of the invention,
Actually, that's the GOOD news. From my reading of this thing, it's really just a dedicated-hardware menu-driven information system. The hardware is an integral part of the patent. If you accept the dedicated hardware as integral to the patent then the web, as we know it -- pure software -- isn't referenced.
If you allow it to be software-only, it becomes menu-driven software. I have a hard time believing that that's not prior art (probably you could look to the Xerox STAR for examples of prior art in that context).
The system seems to give users a menu of choices, and the user then hits a key representing their choice -- which would then result in a new page of information coming up. The PILOT project (computer aided learning) at at the University of Alberta used this sort of technique as far back as 1976 (that's when I remember using it).
In either case, the patent doesn't apply. It's either got scads of prior art, or it references a haredware solution to a different kind of problem. --
What makes you think that this machine, with only two Linux-readable disks, only boots Linux? notice that the machine booted from sd*2*a.
IBM doesn't control the development of Linux, and doesn't know where Linux is going to be in a year's time when the power4 finally gets released. (like anybody does!). Their primary interest is probably to make sure that the kernel doesn't hork on some unexpected change in the processor design.
AIX, on the other hand, is IBM proprietary. If Big Blue doesn't have AIX running on that CPU by the time it comes out the door, their ass is gonna be grass. They don't have a legion of Open Source hackers to do their dirty work for them.
Then there's the AS/400 which is also capable of running on the PowerPC CPU.
Put a handfull of applications, multiple development sources and enough disks to test the I/O on each of those OS's and that stack of disks starts to look conservative. --
....Not to mention the fact that every time another chance to present evidence comes up, the DoJ has another handful of e-messages from BG re squashing PDAs or whatever is giving him nightmares that month....
The time for presenting evidence is pretty much over. It generally takes a good bit of work to be allowed to present additional evidence in an appeal court. The exception would be if they tried to claim that specific evidence should (not) have been allowed at trial... So in terms of nasty new evidence, Microsoft has very little to fear in the appeal.
On the other hand, If they manage to get Judge Penfield's order stayed, they have little to loose (whether or not they ultimately succeed) by going the long and winding road:
They ultimately loose, in which case they've gotten an N year free ride and possibly squashed a few more erstwhile competitors.
They ultimately win, in which case, not having had the restrictions of JP's original order, they've lost nothing more than a couple million dollars in legal fees (cheap insurance for a company the size of Microsoft.
Even if the interim measures hold, it's still better than having actually broken up the company any faster than absolutely necessary.
Money is like gravity -- The bigger you are... the faster you suck it in... the bigger you get. --
Uhm, because people will quite often talk a lot louder into a cell phone than they will to a person who is sitting next to them (he says rather sheepishly). --
Yup!! I remember being young (and ignorant) in the mid '70s. We were sitting on the tarmac waiting to be de-iced. I had a brand new AM transistor radio that I was using while we waited. I vaguely remember managing to find some local airport transmissions with it.
Then the stewardess came around looking for someone with a radio on. I remember that they even seemed to have the location pretty much pinned. Perhaps I was close to some particularly sensitive piece of equipment (or the plane's antenna).
In any case, the rule wasn't arbitrary back then (way before cell phones). --
I remember seeing Bump Mapping done in software back in 1992. I still have a video tape of the animation (each student group was allowed 450 frames on a write once video laserdisk. It was also quite interesting seeing what people could do to stretch out 450 unique frames). I'm actually impressed that it took this long for the concept to go from software to hardware. --
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My worry about this mission is that it's going to renew the stereotype about Canadians living in igloos, ets. (among other things, they melt in the summer).
`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø`ø
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You would never live to see the day that you got all your money back for the lawsuit.
--
Linux, like the early internet, is a well organized anarchy. Stuff gets done when people get around to getting it done.
If Viro -- or anybody else, for that matter -- really gets out of hand, somebody else is always free to light their own torch and lead a ragtag team of developers out of (or into) the wilderness. It's never a wasted effort because, even if you 'fail', the better aspects of your work can be folded into the 'winning' fork.
If documentation is REALLY needed, hunt down someone who would be willing to work on it. If they do a good enough job, they'll probably be commissioned to write a book about it.
Live life on the edge and risk getting blown away, or huddle in with the masses where you'll be relatively safe, but you'll never feel the wind in your face. Either choice is fine. Both choices are yours.
Linus, Rizer, Viro, etc. simply chose the former path. So did Kennedy, Hitler, Ghandi and Gates.
--
Oh no.. Not in the least. The press are supposed to represent their own interests. The hope is that -- supposedle being closer to the people -- they'll reprepresent the people's interests as a side-effect. That having been said, if the people who own the newspapers are the same people who own the politicians, (cf. DECSS), all bets are off.
I still remember back in the Iran hostage-taking. Being a Canadian, I had access to both US and foreign news reporting. I was brutally shocked by the US media's blatent twisting and even misrepresentation of events in Iran. No stone was unturned in the crusade to portray Iranians as hating the American people, anti-democratic and bombastic.The end result of that crusase was that just about every moderate in or near the Iranian government was either executed, exiled (sometimes both) or (in the case of Ayatolla Khomeni -- yes, he was a moderate) isolated and neutralized.
Now, if President Carter had recieved accurate intelligence WRT Iran from the CIA, he might have been able to respond sanely, in spite of what was going through the press, but the head of the CIA (George Bush) was to busy getting ready to run for Vice President.
Sorry for the rant, but putting the CIA, Iran and the press in the same sentence gives me flashbacks
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but I LOVE her pout in DSC_0278.JPG
Btw: Is her maid of honor spoken for? (Yeah, she's a bit too far away for my liking, but she is gorgeous.)
--
#!/bin/bash
for i in big/*.JPG ; do
here=`basename $i`
cp $i $here &&
mogrify -geometry 80x80 $here &&
echo -n OK $here" " ||
echo DEAD $here" "
done
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note the '&&' and '||' at the end of many of those lines -- It's the script I used to mogrify the wedding thumbnails. You'll need to modify the mogrify line to do your appropriate dirty work. `man mogrify` or 'mogrify -help'
I used a different shell script to generate the heart of the HTML, and then added the extra stuff with vi. (seriously quick & dirty). .JPG`
An exercise for the reader would be to add tables borders to the HTML.
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#!/bin/bash
for i in *JPG ; do
short=`basename $i
echo '<A HREF="big/'$i'">'$i' </A>'
done > index.html
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By not collecting "any personal information from citizens" on the site itself, but allowing the collection of enough info on other sites that someone like double-click could create a pretty extensive and accurate profile info on you.
--
It'd pretty much be a crap shoot as to who gets nailed... If I remember it correctly, the two guns in the house are similar models. If they both get tossed, then it'd be hard for the wife to prove that it wasn't her gun that killed him (and I could see her tossing it in a panic). On the other hand, the boy's dad could just as easily just stand sit down on the sofa, mumbling
Of course, it'd matter a lot more if it was reality.--
Done
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If you're wondering about the size, it is 1/3 size for the larger images. It's also small enough to fit in my web allocation (on two differnt accounts).
If you're wondering about the two different sizes, it looks like they were using two different cameras with two different resolutions.
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Now I'm trying to suck an image across.. (oh, great! A picture of somebody's legs!)
I would suggest that you ignore the first image.
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All I can say is that I'm happy that I bought my new processor board LAST month.
--
In a slightly different Vein, CBC Radio has a few radio comedy dramas. One which comes to mind is Dead Dog Cafe They also had The Great Easterner. It was a WONDERFUL show. Unfortunately, they seem to have shut down this show recently (and the website is out of comish -- hopefully this is only temporary)
I mean, what can you say about a radio show where the central character is Moth of Ucker (pronounce it very carefully)?.
--
In the (hollywood) producer's cut, our hero makes it out of the city and goes off with his love into a bright new future.
In the director's cut, that turns out to have been a terminal fantasy, generated as his (former friend) captor interrogates him into oblivion.
The producers cut (which, as I understand it, pretty much consists of cutting the very last scene) would probably end up feeling like serious deus-ex-machina to the discerning viewer. Actually, I would expect the reaction to be like: "Great movie, but WTF was it with that strange ending?" The director's cut -- while far more dark -- makes complete sense of the fantasy scene"
The critic's view of thing is that the Hollywood producers were far more interested in the 'happy' ending than they were with having the ending make any sense in what was otherwise a brilliantly dark movie.
............. I would actually say much the same thing of the ending to American Beauty. the "Gee, I'm almost happy that that macho coward blew my brains out" monologue almost made me sick. I would have been much happier with something like:--
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Which he didn't do.
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ouch. Since when is the last time you trusted the PR group?
--
Actually, that's the GOOD news. From my reading of this thing, it's really just a dedicated-hardware menu-driven information system. The hardware is an integral part of the patent. If you accept the dedicated hardware as integral to the patent then the web, as we know it -- pure software -- isn't referenced.
If you allow it to be software-only, it becomes menu-driven software. I have a hard time believing that that's not prior art (probably you could look to the Xerox STAR for examples of prior art in that context).
The system seems to give users a menu of choices, and the user then hits a key representing their choice -- which would then result in a new page of information coming up. The PILOT project (computer aided learning) at at the University of Alberta used this sort of technique as far back as 1976 (that's when I remember using it).
In either case, the patent doesn't apply. It's either got scads of prior art, or it references a haredware solution to a different kind of problem.
--
IBM doesn't control the development of Linux, and doesn't know where Linux is going to be in a year's time when the power4 finally gets released. (like anybody does!). Their primary interest is probably to make sure that the kernel doesn't hork on some unexpected change in the processor design.
AIX, on the other hand, is IBM proprietary. If Big Blue doesn't have AIX running on that CPU by the time it comes out the door, their ass is gonna be grass. They don't have a legion of Open Source hackers to do their dirty work for them.
Then there's the AS/400 which is also capable of running on the PowerPC CPU.
Put a handfull of applications, multiple development sources and enough disks to test the I/O on each of those OS's and that stack of disks starts to look conservative.
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The time for presenting evidence is pretty much over. It generally takes a good bit of work to be allowed to present additional evidence in an appeal court. The exception would be if they tried to claim that specific evidence should (not) have been allowed at trial... So in terms of nasty new evidence, Microsoft has very little to fear in the appeal.
On the other hand, If they manage to get Judge Penfield's order stayed, they have little to loose (whether or not they ultimately succeed) by going the long and winding road:
- They ultimately loose, in which case they've gotten an N year free ride and possibly squashed a few more erstwhile competitors.
- They ultimately win, in which case, not having had the restrictions of JP's original order, they've lost nothing more than a couple million dollars in legal fees (cheap insurance for a company the size of Microsoft.
Even if the interim measures hold, it's still better than having actually broken up the company any faster than absolutely necessary.Money is like gravity -- The bigger you are ... the faster you suck it in ... the bigger you get.
--
Uhm, because people will quite often talk a lot louder into a cell phone than they will to a person who is sitting next to them (he says rather sheepishly).
--
Then the stewardess came around looking for someone with a radio on. I remember that they even seemed to have the location pretty much pinned. Perhaps I was close to some particularly sensitive piece of equipment (or the plane's antenna).
In any case, the rule wasn't arbitrary back then (way before cell phones).
--
I remember seeing Bump Mapping done in software back in 1992. I still have a video tape of the animation (each student group was allowed 450 frames on a write once video laserdisk. It was also quite interesting seeing what people could do to stretch out 450 unique frames).
I'm actually impressed that it took this long for the concept to go from software to hardware.
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