And BTW, why are you complaining about MSXML not generating CRLF? You DO realize CRLF is a Microsoft-ism and not "standard", right? So you're complaining about MSXML generating text files in a manner more in line with the way every other system does it.
Bzzt. Sorry! CRLF has been the network standard for a long time. Why do you think the network protocols like SMTP, FTP, etc all require CRLF in dialogues? I believe the newline character was introduced by Multics (and hence appeared in Unix). This is admittedly well before Microsoft was founded, but well into the late 1980s introductions to C and Unix included a discussion of the weird-ass "newline character" concept (along with other radical ideas like "calling a function to do I/O" (my favorite line in K&R)).
The network is big-endian and uses CRLF. That's just the way it is.
In the mid-80s you could buy a Teddy Ruxpin doll that took specially formatted tapes. These tapes had songs on one track, and had control information on the others. As teddy played the song, his mouth moved "in synch" with the words.
Check out eBay...you can still buy the doll and the tapes. And google will show you there are people with waay too much time who have decoded the control tapes!
Remember Teddy Ruxpin? He makes a pretty good mp3 player. Especially if you play Black Sabbath through him. Great fun for a 5-year-old, or a 35-year-old for that matter.
It would be cooler to reuse his electronics, but if anyone else wants to put Teddy under the knife they'll discover 1> his guts are almost all discrete components and 2> a good chunk of that is under a blob of epoxy.
In the end it was easier just to gut him and start over.
However, I just cannot understand why VOIP is not a communication medium, and why the FCC has to decide whether to impose rule on it or not. It's is another way to transfer voice right?
If you read the FCC decision you'll see this is how they approached the problem (although the 5 commissioners did not all agree as to the conclusion).
They decided that Pulver's service (which basically just helps two VOIP endpoints locate each other) is just an internet service, and is not a "telecommunications service." They didn't pick up the question as to whether VOIP/POTS services (like Vonage) are telecommunications services in the sense that the FCC and the states regulate.
Remember: a fancy camcorder that sits in its case is a waste of money.
If you plan to take it on vacation, size matters. A big camcorder with lots of features will go unused.
I have a Canon Elura. For various specs reasons I won't go into here, I chose it over the small Sony's. I've been very happy with it. The best part is that I can fit it into a (large, jacket) pocket and carry it around, so I have it with me on vacation. It's also a pretty good camcorder.
Do choose a camera that uses mini-DV. The MPEG cameras can only be used with special Windows software that comes with them, and don't take great video. The mini-DV format is as open as these things get, and you can edit the results in several different packages.
You do have tradoffs with these tiny things. The biggest is that you often get camera noise on the soundtrack. Because of the mechanics of the situation, that's hard to avoid without an external microphone.
Another good purchase I made was on a short(!) book on making videos with my camcorder and iMovie. Its section on using the camcorder (don't zoom, shoot a little introductory footage, etc) really made a difference -- without it I would have been just wasting tape since I wouldn't have wanted to view the result.
And finally, expect to make a 5-minute video from your full day of filming. That's just the way it is.
this represents the first leap beyond what the ordinary person could ever hope to use.
It's actually not a lot when you think of it in terms of video.
Disk consumption recipe:
Have kid
Take waay too many videos of every "cute" thing that said kid does
read raw footage into your computer
make copies and edit the copies into videos that will captivate the grandparents and bore your friends to tears
I think an hour of DV takes up about 13GB. 1TB (80 hours) of video sounds like a lot, but not when you've got half-finished projects (and their checkpoints) littering the disk.
A film company announcing that it will stop selling cameras is like a shipping company saying it's going to stop selling ships.
Actually, if you read the article again you'll see that Kodak made 50% of all the world's APS cameras. And while APS was never as big as 35MM, this is significant.
Can you please provide evidence of this claim?[that the FSF doesn't like copyrights]
I quote from the GNU manifesto:
The case of programs today is very different from that of books a hundred years ago.[...] a person who enforces a copyright is harming society as a whole both materially and spiritually; [...] a person should not do so regardless of whether the law enables him to.
I have elided some text to make my point clear, but check the original and you will see that I am not misquoting it.
Another poster correctly took me to task for overlooking the fact that the letter misrepresented Red Hat. Nevertheless I still feel the letter makes a false impression by juxtaposing true facts. I just overlooked a few judicious falsehoods!
It's true the FSF doesn't like copyright, though they use judo on it with the copyleft. It's true that if linux were to contain code that belongs to someone who didn't want it licensed under the GPL, then that would be wrong.
But as far as I know Red Hat doesn't oppose copyrights and as far as I know the global economy doesn't hang in the balance! Likewise it's interesting that he summarized Eldred -- interesting but irrelevent.
I don't think this silly letter will persuade anyone on either side.
They're still trying to connect with their 2400 baud modems.
Err, cute joke, but old modems were 110 baud (also speed of a teletype, i.e. TTY). Later 300 became popular, but really took off (so to speak) with 1200 baud. I think Hays' first modem was 300 baud.
I also remember using "split" modems which were asymmetric -- 1200 downstream and IIRC 150 upstream -- which prefigure today's ADSL.
Generally it's only totalitarian governments that require flag prayers/pledges. The US flag prayer is somewhat anomalous in this regard.
Personally I am not comfortable with my own child chanting this in the morning, in case he might actually mean it. It's a bit too redolent of the old Roman legionaries' oath: first to the standard, then the emperor, and only finally to the empire.
But if you slice the flag out, it's hard to object: "I pledge allegiance to the United States of America. One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." If you're not a visitor to the USA, could you legitimately object to that?
Regardless, it should truly be voluntary. After all, everyone has the right to their own opinion, and it would be un-American to prevent someone from objecting to the republic!
Right next to the big tunnel (well, the closest office building anyway) is the NAS group -- Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation. Their goal from their founding was to replace wind tunnels as much as possible with CFD (computational fluid dynamics).
It sounds like things are working out the way they were intended to. It's not that wind tunnels will completely disappear, but we'll be able to use them to cross-check portions of computational results.
And don't forget: wind tunnels can't test everything, even ones that can fit full-sized planes. So for many things computation is better than what would otherwise be possible.
To me, it seems the main reason of "banning cars" is to make the environment cleaner. But with these new fuel cell cars and electric/gas hybrids, cars will be emission free soon.
Ah, but one of the attractive things about cars 80 years ago was that cars made cities cleaner. No soot (like coal) and no horse crap. But we got used to that improvement and want to go further...even you! But why not go all the way and try to get rid of the car? That what these folks are trying to do.
I live downtown and so walk to work, eat, shop, etc. We do have cars, but put less than 4K miles/year in total on our cars.
Not everyone can make that choice, of course, but many more could make it than actually do.
Wonderful. With all of the controller electronics _and_ CPU on the display itself, the MPAA will be able to plug their "analog hole" as they've always wanted to. You won't be able to disable it. The display itself will be able to accept and authenticate "protected" input.
Oh well. I knew it had to happen someday.
VNS itself is screwed up. It's a cartel of newspapers and news services so they can cover lots of elections. Sounds good, right? But they normally only cover the "real candidates" -- so that a two-party race between a and a green will be reported as " candidate running unopposed."
This combination leads to skewed, pro-establishment news reporting.
So I wouldn't be surprised at all if they had a specification problem (as reported by the message from the guy who worked on it). It's completely consistent with the charter of the organization.
As other posters have noted, this isn't uncommon; Oracle comes immediately to mind, for example. But more surprising is Network Appliance's used equipment policy. You can resell your netapp equipment, but you can't transfer the license. Instead the buyer mustalso buy a new license...which coincidentally costs the same as a whole new machine!
And lets give our "Silly servants" some credit. A particular project I am currently working on had it's scope changed because the civil servants in the group refused to create and application that would collect identifying data! We must now create a version of our app that collects no identifying data and still be able to track individual cases for analysis.
Oh Canada! How smart.
Here in the ol' US of A, toll collection systems are always implemented in a way that offers user tracking. Discussion of anonymous techniques (e.g. stored-value "cash-like" systems) may occur in the press and academic ITS work, but I have never seen such a system officially considered.
Likewise, privacy laws here in California ("the strictest in the nation" so they tell me) are always riddled with so many loopholes that they might as well not exist.
What a relief to know that some government in North America truly worries about the privacy of its citizens.
as Apple's relationship with Motorola has grown strained and Apple looks to alternative chip makers.
Silly eWeek. Sure "Apple" has such a port -- "they'd" be dumb not to. It's not like they're a monolithic entity; any engineering organization worth its salt would have one in case management needed to move that way.
And as for Mot: Motorola semiconductor is for sale, and more importantly Motorola's original PowerPC license expired about a year ago. Jumping to another mfr is a good idea, and IBM's the only game in town.
Isn't this just some marketing hype for RedHat (nee cygnus) just taking the patches already incorporated into Apple's GCC, and putting them into their commercial GCC release?
I haven't worked for Cygnus for a few years, but I was one of the founders. Though some outsiders liked to say we just collected money for other people's work, we never did so. Instead we were paid for work we actually accomplished. And since many of the former Cygnus folks are still in place at RHAT, I seriously doubt that they'd change in this way.
The proof is in the pudding. If Cygnus folks weren't pulling our weight, would the other GCC developers have wanted to join us in launching egcs?
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The network is big-endian and uses CRLF. That's just the way it is.
...while I never knew he was a cartoon character!
In the mid-80s you could buy a Teddy Ruxpin doll that took specially formatted tapes. These tapes had songs on one track, and had control information on the others. As teddy played the song, his mouth moved "in synch" with the words.
Check out eBay...you can still buy the doll and the tapes. And google will show you there are people with waay too much time who have decoded the control tapes!
Remember Teddy Ruxpin? He makes a pretty good mp3 player. Especially if you play Black Sabbath through him. Great fun for a 5-year-old, or a 35-year-old for that matter.
It would be cooler to reuse his electronics, but if anyone else wants to put Teddy under the knife they'll discover 1> his guts are almost all discrete components and 2> a good chunk of that is under a blob of epoxy.
In the end it was easier just to gut him and start over.
They decided that Pulver's service (which basically just helps two VOIP endpoints locate each other) is just an internet service, and is not a "telecommunications service." They didn't pick up the question as to whether VOIP/POTS services (like Vonage) are telecommunications services in the sense that the FCC and the states regulate.
If you plan to take it on vacation, size matters. A big camcorder with lots of features will go unused.
I have a Canon Elura. For various specs reasons I won't go into here, I chose it over the small Sony's. I've been very happy with it. The best part is that I can fit it into a (large, jacket) pocket and carry it around, so I have it with me on vacation. It's also a pretty good camcorder.
Do choose a camera that uses mini-DV. The MPEG cameras can only be used with special Windows software that comes with them, and don't take great video. The mini-DV format is as open as these things get, and you can edit the results in several different packages.
You do have tradoffs with these tiny things. The biggest is that you often get camera noise on the soundtrack. Because of the mechanics of the situation, that's hard to avoid without an external microphone.
Another good purchase I made was on a short(!) book on making videos with my camcorder and iMovie. Its section on using the camcorder (don't zoom, shoot a little introductory footage, etc) really made a difference -- without it I would have been just wasting tape since I wouldn't have wanted to view the result.
And finally, expect to make a 5-minute video from your full day of filming. That's just the way it is.
Disk consumption recipe:
- Have kid
- Take waay too many videos of every "cute" thing that said kid does
- read raw footage into your computer
- make copies and edit the copies into videos that will captivate the grandparents and bore your friends to tears
I think an hour of DV takes up about 13GB. 1TB (80 hours) of video sounds like a lot, but not when you've got half-finished projects (and their checkpoints) littering the disk.Another poster correctly took me to task for overlooking the fact that the letter misrepresented Red Hat. Nevertheless I still feel the letter makes a false impression by juxtaposing true facts. I just overlooked a few judicious falsehoods!
But as far as I know Red Hat doesn't oppose copyrights and as far as I know the global economy doesn't hang in the balance! Likewise it's interesting that he summarized Eldred -- interesting but irrelevent.
I don't think this silly letter will persuade anyone on either side.
I also remember using "split" modems which were asymmetric -- 1200 downstream and IIRC 150 upstream -- which prefigure today's ADSL.
They shoved the Enterprise through a glove at mach 5? What _is_ the mach number of an article of clothing anyway?
Perhaps the Enterprise actually ran the gantlet.
Generally it's only totalitarian governments that require flag prayers/pledges. The US flag prayer is somewhat anomalous in this regard.
Personally I am not comfortable with my own child chanting this in the morning, in case he might actually mean it. It's a bit too redolent of the old Roman legionaries' oath: first to the standard, then the emperor, and only finally to the empire.
But if you slice the flag out, it's hard to object: "I pledge allegiance to the United States of America. One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." If you're not a visitor to the USA, could you legitimately object to that?
Regardless, it should truly be voluntary. After all, everyone has the right to their own opinion, and it would be un-American to prevent someone from objecting to the republic!
So I subscribed to The Economist as "Economist Reader".
My phone bill is in the name "Phone user" (this was a little harder, but worth it).
This makes it trivial to 1>ID junk mail 2> figure out whom to ask to get it stopped and 3> get bizarre looking junk mail.
Right next to the big tunnel (well, the closest office building anyway) is the NAS group -- Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation. Their goal from their founding was to replace wind tunnels as much as possible with CFD (computational fluid dynamics).
It sounds like things are working out the way they were intended to. It's not that wind tunnels will completely disappear, but we'll be able to use them to cross-check portions of computational results.
And don't forget: wind tunnels can't test everything, even ones that can fit full-sized planes. So for many things computation is better than what would otherwise be possible.
No, just lazy writing on my part. s/car/internal combustion engine/
I live downtown and so walk to work, eat, shop, etc. We do have cars, but put less than 4K miles/year in total on our cars.
Not everyone can make that choice, of course, but many more could make it than actually do.
NASA Ames was Cygnus's first customer back in 1989. Support for GCC, GDB and the binutils. I know, I signed the contract.
Most of the parts of NASA that aren't politicized are really very good. NASA will go for anything that really gets the job done.
Wonderful. With all of the controller electronics _and_ CPU on the display itself, the MPAA will be able to plug their "analog hole" as they've always wanted to. You won't be able to disable it. The display itself will be able to accept and authenticate "protected" input. Oh well. I knew it had to happen someday.
VNS itself is screwed up. It's a cartel of newspapers and news services so they can cover lots of elections. Sounds good, right? But they normally only cover the "real candidates" -- so that a two-party race between a and a green will be reported as " candidate running unopposed."
This combination leads to skewed, pro-establishment news reporting.
So I wouldn't be surprised at all if they had a specification problem (as reported by the message from the guy who worked on it). It's completely consistent with the charter of the organization.
As other posters have noted, this isn't uncommon; Oracle comes immediately to mind, for example.
But more surprising is Network Appliance's used equipment policy. You can resell your netapp equipment, but you can't transfer the license. Instead the buyer mustalso buy a new license...which coincidentally costs the same as a whole new machine!
Oh Canada! How smart.
Here in the ol' US of A, toll collection systems are always implemented in a way that offers user tracking. Discussion of anonymous techniques (e.g. stored-value "cash-like" systems) may occur in the press and academic ITS work, but I have never seen such a system officially considered.
Likewise, privacy laws here in California ("the strictest in the nation" so they tell me) are always riddled with so many loopholes that they might as well not exist.
What a relief to know that some government in North America truly worries about the privacy of its citizens.
Silly eWeek. Sure "Apple" has such a port -- "they'd" be dumb not to. It's not like they're a monolithic entity; any engineering organization worth its salt would have one in case management needed to move that way.
And as for Mot: Motorola semiconductor is for sale, and more importantly Motorola's original PowerPC license expired about a year ago. Jumping to another mfr is a good idea, and IBM's the only game in town.
This whole article is a "yes, but..."
This applies to the _reader_ of the page!
The proof is in the pudding. If Cygnus folks weren't pulling our weight, would the other GCC developers have wanted to join us in launching egcs?
Don't be silly, RAM didn't "Hold more." People are just a lot fatter these days.