Re:Hunger in the RealWorld(tm)?
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"Many more than 10% of today's kids are quite hungry right this second."
And, like tribbles, if you feed them they will grow up unable to feed themselves, reporduce and you'll have many more hungry kids.
If we are to do anything, we need to teach them to feed themselves. All our problems would be reduced with a smaller population. We must stablize the world population or nature will do it for us.
We are the "red tide" of earth. Our own waste products will kill us but not before it kills most everthing else.
It isn't more useful than Java. It gives Java something to do!
XML is used to define the syntax of a data format. Someone must write some code to add the symantics (meaning).
Java has syntax and symantics. The syntax defines how you may put characters together into a file that the parser section of the Java "compiler" will accept as correct. For example that "a = a + 1;" is a correctly formed Java statement.
The symantics of this statement is given meaning in another part of the Java "compiler". It is this part that generates the byte codes that will cause the value stored in the variable "a" to be increased by one.
XML is used to define only the syntatical part of this duo. It is left as an execsize to the student to create the software to add the symantics. The fact that XML parser libraries are avaliable just makes the job a little easier, but there's still plenty to be done to have a complet and useful system.
Don't get caught up in the hype. XML is, IMHO, just another tool in our arsenal. Only use it if it makes sense.
XML is just SGML with a few esoteric, seldom used functions removed that make XML easier to parse. Also, XML permits "well formed" documents to be parsed without the need for a DTD.
You can use all the existing SGML tools to read and write XML as well.
In short, I think XML is more useful than SGML because it is simpler and a little more permisive.
It has come to my attention that you have issued a "cease and desist" letter to the author/publisher Madeline Sabol for the use of the phrase "You've Got Mail" in the title.
I thought you should know that there is a much more blatant usage of your phrase that is likely to cause much more confusion. It is vary likely to confuse users not only on the web but in video stores as well. After all if I go to Blcokbuster and rent "You've Got Mail" from Warner Brothers I would expect to see the story of AOL not the sad story of two spoiled yuppies in love.
It would only be fair that you issue a "cease and desist" letter to them as well. You must vigorously defend your trademark. In fact if you don't, won't that compromise your case against Sabol?
Please let me know if you have asked Warner Brothers to stop using your trademark? Inquiring minds want to know (tm National Inquirer).
The original slashdot article indicated that the data entered into this form would become part of some research, but the paragraph at the top indicates that Dr. Greenfield is just trolling for customers. This test is for people who already think they are already addicted. To quote from the first paragraph on the form, "Do you think you may be addicted to the Internet or to your computer? Is your spouse, friend or family telling you you spend too much time online? If you think you may have a problem with the Internet but are not sure, take our Virtual Addiction Test (VAT)." The test doesn't define if they include company intranet as being "on" the Internet or not. I earn my living creating applications on my companies intranet so I spend five or so hours a day dealing with it. Does that make me an addict? Well, if I were to fill out that test you could think I was. I don't want this kind of thing used by anti-Internet folks to try to regulate it so I didn't take it. (Just in case Dr. Greenfield is going to publish some stats based on this non-scientific collection of data.
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And, like tribbles, if you feed them they will grow up unable to feed themselves, reporduce and you'll have many more hungry kids.
If we are to do anything, we need to teach them to feed themselves. All our problems would be reduced with a smaller population. We must stablize the world population or nature will do it for us.
We are the "red tide" of earth. Our own waste products will kill us but not before it kills most everthing else.
It isn't more useful than Java. It gives Java something to do!
XML is used to define the syntax of a data format. Someone must write some code to add the symantics (meaning).
Java has syntax and symantics. The syntax defines how you may put characters together into a file that the parser section of the Java "compiler" will accept as correct. For example that "a = a + 1;" is a correctly formed Java statement.
The symantics of this statement is given meaning in another part of the Java "compiler". It is this part that generates the byte codes that will cause the value stored in the variable "a" to be increased by one.
XML is used to define only the syntatical part of this duo. It is left as an execsize to the student to create the software to add the symantics. The fact that XML parser libraries are avaliable just makes the job a little easier, but there's still plenty to be done to have a complet and useful system.
Don't get caught up in the hype. XML is, IMHO, just another tool in our arsenal. Only use it if it makes sense.
XML is just SGML with a few esoteric, seldom used functions removed that make XML easier to parse.
Also, XML permits "well formed" documents to be parsed without the need for a DTD.
You can use all the existing SGML tools to read and write XML as well.
In short, I think XML is more useful than SGML because it is simpler and a little more permisive.
Dear Sir,
It has come to my attention that you have issued a "cease and desist" letter to the author/publisher
Madeline Sabol for the use of the phrase "You've Got Mail" in the title.
I thought you should know that there is a much more blatant usage of your phrase that is likely to
cause much more confusion. It is vary likely to confuse users not only on the web but in video stores
as well. After all if I go to Blcokbuster and rent "You've Got Mail" from Warner Brothers I would
expect to see the story of AOL not the sad story of two spoiled yuppies in love.
It would only be fair that you issue a "cease and desist" letter to them as well. You must vigorously
defend your trademark. In fact if you don't, won't that compromise your case against Sabol?
Please let me know if you have asked Warner Brothers to stop using your trademark? Inquiring
minds want to know (tm National Inquirer).
Best regards,
Robert Shaver
rshaverNOSPAM@austin.rr.com
The original slashdot article indicated that the data entered into this form would become part of some research, but the paragraph at the top indicates that Dr. Greenfield is just trolling for customers. This test is for people who already think they are already addicted. To quote from the first paragraph on the form, "Do you think you may be addicted to the Internet or to your computer? Is your spouse, friend or family telling you you spend too much time online? If you think you may have a problem with the Internet but are not sure, take our Virtual Addiction Test (VAT)." The test doesn't define if they include company intranet as being "on" the Internet or not. I earn my living creating applications on my companies intranet so I spend five or so hours a day dealing with it. Does that make me an addict? Well, if I were to fill out that test you could think I was. I don't want this kind of thing used by anti-Internet folks to try to regulate it so I didn't take it. (Just in case Dr. Greenfield is going to publish some stats based on this non-scientific collection of data.