Considering that he developed an entire language for which LOTR was intended as a showcase, plus bits of at least two others, I think "linguistic master" is appropriate. Or did you think he had a copy of the Oxford Elvish Dictionary to refer to?
The company I used to work for used PSINet as our ISP (via a 56k leased line; we hosted our own Web and Email) until 1996. I was always very happy with them in those days... they even did a great job handling my fumbling newbie requests for packet filtering changes on the router. After we left them (for PHB-type reasons), I heard through the grapevine that they had grown more quickly than they could handle, and service had really slipped. Now, they're fading to black. A shame, really....
Colleen M., if you should see this, you were great. Be well.
The full comment from the start of the article was:
Since its creation with the videocassette recorder 25 years ago, the modern consumer-electronics industry has changed surprisingly little. Apart from the personal computer (PC) and mobile telephone, which have both become industries in their own right, five new product categories have achieved mass acceptance: the video recorder, videogame consoles, CD players, answering machines and cordless phones.
You say you are using a non-Unix variant PC operating system; presumably, this would mean either OS/2 or BeOS. OS/2 comes with Boot Manager, which, while it would require an FDISK to install (and then consumes a primary partition), does an excellent job of switching you from Warp to Win9x/NT (Win2k has issues) and back. I believe BeOS came with Partition Magic and maybe System Commander to enable the same functionality.
Also, if you are using Warp, check with the folks at Serenity Systems to see what they have planned for DBCS BiDi support in eCommStation (their successor to OS/2). It's a full upgrade to eCS, but if you're sticking with OS/2, it's definitely worth looking into.
Computer Renaissance sells both used and new machines, and their franchisees have in-house repair shops. They operate in Canada as well... check the locator on the site.
My friends bought their machine new from the local CR shop, and haven't had any trouble with it. I will note that they put a "Warranty-void-if-removed" sticker on the case seam, so you may be concerned if you like to swap HW around. And, of course, they preinstall Windows. But if there's one in your area I think they're worth looking at.
If it is impossible to restrict the publication of exit polls until after all polls have closed, then we should do something better: enact uniform poll-closing times, at least in the lower 48 states, for Presidential elections. The concept is that polls close at:
9 Pm in the East,
8 Pm Central,
7 Pm Mountain,
7 Pm Pacific Daylight time, with Daylight Savings kept on for one or two extra weeks in that time zone for election years only.
One thing to keep in mind is that there are many communities in this country which not only do not have computerized offices, they do not have full-time staff! According to the Maine Municipal Association at http://www.memun.o rg/ resources/Public/HTML/Pen/government.htm, a strong plurality of Maine communities have a Town Meeting / Selectmen form of government, which is best described as "pure Athenian democracy and they elect three people to sign checks." Those on this board who want to live in an actual classic democracy should move up here and spend a March Saturday haggling with the neighbors over how many feet of hose the (volunteer, of course) Fire Department should be allowed to buy, at what cost and from whom.
Yes, reverse-hijacking the domains if they were legit protest sites would be abhorrent. However, those who read the original decision will find the following:
The previous domain dispute the guy was upset about was over guinnes.com, a typo domain;
He never had any sites up on the guinness-sucks domains he registered;
The Respondent (aka defendant) did not respond to the action he was served with;
Quoting the decision (Complainant is Guinness, the Registrar is CORE):
The Complainant submits that the Respondent is a wholesaler of Internet domain names (defined as someone who acquires multiple domain names with the intent to profit from them). The Respondent has registered approximately 3000 domain names, approximately 1400 of which are registered with the Registrar. In support of this statement, the Complainant has submitted a print-out, running to thirty one pages, of the results of a search which the Complainant caused to be carried out on the Registrar's WHOIS database for domain names with NIC handles allegedly associated with the Respondent.
Again quoting the decision:
The Complainant submits that there have been at least five ICANN decisions against the Respondent in which it has been found that he registered and used domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to famous trademarks in bad faith and without a legitimate business purpose viz. Hewlett-Packard Company v. Cupcake City, NAF Case No. FA0002000093562; Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. v. John Zuccarini et al., WIPO Case No. D2000-0330; Hewlett-Packard Company v. John Zuccarini, NAF Case No. FA00040000994454; Bama Rags, Inc. v. John Zuccarini d/b/a Cupcake Confidential, NAF Case No. 0003000094380 and Bama Rags, Inc. v. John Zuccarini, NAF Case No. 0003000094381.
This guy is a squatter who didn't even bother to contest the charges. Why should we cry for him?
Try splitting the clauses at "for" and "against", and it will make more sense. IOW, Any electronic surveillance involves balancing needs
for effective enforcement of the criminal laws and protection of national security against
threats of invasion of privacy.
I attended one of the World Tour stops, and here is what I was told:
BDE went into maintenance as of Delphi 5. It was originally written as an interface for single-platform Paradox files, and grew into what must have been a crufty mess. It will not be ported to Linux; MIDAS is the preferred DB-connectivity scheme under both Kylix and recent versions of Delphi / C++B. BDE will remain in maintenance mode for the foreseeable future to maintain backwards-compatibility with a zillion apps.
CLX is designed as a wrapper for both Qt and GTK. If you read the Borland Community site, there are papers there that describe Borland's POV as "We don't care what toolkit/desktop env/wm the user has on his / her system, and neither should you." Use CLX, and the Borland classlib will check to see what the user has available and present the app accordingly. Rev. 1 will work better with Qt than GTK, on the grounds that they had to start somewhere (and signed a contract with TrollTech). That contract also covers the development cost of using Qt for non-Open Source software, so long as you call CLX and not Qt directly.
The bosses at Borland have promised the staff that the "Inprise" name is going to go the way of Taligent and PeoplExpress.
It means "Convert all your OS/2 client-server apps to Web- or Java-based apps, and then convert the client OS (which has suddenly become irrelevant given a working JVM and Navigator) to SOMETHING OTHER THAN WARP." (Pleading, whining sound on that last bit courtesy of PHB's at IBM.)
OpenDoc was the application-component framework for the IBM-Apple alliance that was trying to slay the Wintel dragon, going back to the pre-Win95 days. The basic idea was: - The CHRP-based hardware, with Motorola on board building the PowerPC CPU's - A microkernel-based architecture (I think), with either Mac OS, AIX, or OS/2 running on top of it (customer's choice) - All the OS's having the System Object Model (SOM) as underlaying glue - The OpenDoc framework for application components ("parts")
The original deal with OpenDoc was that IBM would write it for AIX and OS/2, Apple would write it for the Mac, and Novell would be in charge of getting it out for Windows. Novell bailed around the same time that they sold WordPerfect to Corel, and IBM took over the Windows port. Then, things really began to unravel: - The OS/2 port to the PowerPC took forever and then some. By the time it was ready, Intel had caught up to the capabilities of the PowerPC chip, and IBM was ready to drop the whole PowerStation line from desktop production. Quite a few knowledgeable people feel that the OS/2 PowerPC Edition fiasco was what made IBM decide to pull the plug on Warp. - The Internet happened, and it made businesses think in terms of network-distributed applications rather than parts on a single machine. In conjunction with the OS/2 disaster, IBM decided to run with the JavaBean concept and abandon SOM and OpenDoc, which were OS-specific. - Apple, who were supposed to certify third-party CHRP models, pulled the plug on the Mac clones without ever certifying a single model as CHRP compliant.
The final boxed release of OS/2 Warp (v. 4) includes OpenDoc support as an installable option. The Mac boasts the only known full-featured OpenDoc application: Cyberdog. IBM makes the final OpenDoc 1.2 toolkit available here. They also make SOMObjects 3.0 available here. Both are unsupported, with vague promises of an eventual full-source code release that IBM could probably stand to be politely reminded of.
Here endeth the lesson. WARNING: it's late, and I might well be talking out my ass on some of the above story. This information is not intended to settle any wager of any type, and the author disclaims any and all responsibility for its misuse.
I believe that you are partially right. The way I read the Kickstart announcement, the event is for the commercial component developers who make aftermarket component sets. There are a lot of these, and they are a large part of the story of Delphi's success.
I don't know how familiar you are with the US, but if you want to stick to the Mother Road as much as possible, stop into your favorite online bookseller and get a copy of the "Route 66 Traveler's Guide and Roadside Companion", by Tom Snyder. It reproduces the original AAA (actually ACSC) Triptik maps, and tells where the road originally went, where it has been overlaid by the Interstates, etc. You will definitely need something like this, as the "Historic 66" markers aren't consistent.
Things to watch for:
There may be a remaining US-66 shield on an Interstate sign near Miami, OK. There were a couple of them in 1993 when I went through.
One of the all-time legendary US roadside attractions: The Thing, in Cochise AZ. Cheap to get in, falls into the category of "We're here, we might as well do it."
A Gecko ActiveX control has been produced, but I don't see it in the Win32 M13 distribution (I'm not sure why; I was hoping it would be there). However, it is intended as a swappable replacement for the IE control. While Netscape hasn't commented on the shape the eventual branded release will take, my guess is that they will use the themable XUL base that Mozilla has built, rather than revert to being a solid Windows app with an ActiveX renderer.
After I read the story, I went looking for items on the Hancock Tower problems (I live in New England and have been around the tower many times). There is a piece on Useless News that tells the similar story of the Citibank Building near-disaster, and it has a link to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe story on the averted collapse of the Hancock.
Using the above link, I was able to find a wealth of info on using ntldr to boot Linux, but I also want to have OS/2 on the machine. Does anyone know how to induce NT Loader to boot a Warp partition, as well as Linux?
One of the provisions in the agreement with ICANN and the Dept. of Commerce is that NSI will give up all rights to the InterNIC trademark and domain names. The internic.net domains will then become home to the root-server whois info for all the gTLD registrars, with a pointer to the original registrar for the organizational and contact records. As someone pointed out, though, the internic.tld domains are currently back to pointing to NSI. Maybe we can get the DOC to point ds.internic.net at Everything.
Slashdot Mirror
Considering that he developed an entire language for which LOTR was intended as a showcase, plus bits of at least two others, I think "linguistic master" is appropriate. Or did you think he had a copy of the Oxford Elvish Dictionary to refer to?
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The company I used to work for used PSINet as our ISP (via a 56k leased line; we hosted our own Web and Email) until 1996. I was always very happy with them in those days... they even did a great job handling my fumbling newbie requests for packet filtering changes on the router. After we left them (for PHB-type reasons), I heard through the grapevine that they had grown more quickly than they could handle, and service had really slipped. Now, they're fading to black. A shame, really....
Colleen M., if you should see this, you were great. Be well.
You say you are using a non-Unix variant PC operating system; presumably, this would mean either OS/2 or BeOS. OS/2 comes with Boot Manager, which, while it would require an FDISK to install (and then consumes a primary partition), does an excellent job of switching you from Warp to Win9x/NT (Win2k has issues) and back. I believe BeOS came with Partition Magic and maybe System Commander to enable the same functionality. Also, if you are using Warp, check with the folks at Serenity Systems to see what they have planned for DBCS BiDi support in eCommStation (their successor to OS/2). It's a full upgrade to eCS, but if you're sticking with OS/2, it's definitely worth looking into.
When I saw this, the first thing I thought of was, "Jobs is gonna sue."
Now, I think, "I hope he does, and I hope Foreman smacks him upside the head."
http://www.deja.com/corp/
Computer Renaissance sells both used and new machines, and their franchisees have in-house repair shops. They operate in Canada as well... check the locator on the site.
My friends bought their machine new from the local CR shop, and haven't had any trouble with it. I will note that they put a "Warranty-void-if-removed" sticker on the case seam, so you may be concerned if you like to swap HW around. And, of course, they preinstall Windows. But if there's one in your area I think they're worth looking at.
- The previous domain dispute the guy was upset about was over guinnes.com, a typo domain;
- He never had any sites up on the guinness-sucks domains he registered;
- The Respondent (aka defendant) did not respond to the action he was served with;
- Quoting the decision (Complainant is Guinness, the Registrar is CORE):
- Again quoting the decision:
This guy is a squatter who didn't even bother to contest the charges. Why should we cry for him?Try splitting the clauses at "for" and "against", and it will make more sense. IOW,
Any electronic surveillance involves balancing needs
for effective enforcement of the criminal laws and protection of national security
against threats of invasion of privacy.
The bullet lives on, at least as part of the hockey logo.
Besides, if memory serves me, doesn't the Alma Mater begin "Here's to old R...P...I"?
- Mark
Tutescrew victim 83-85
It's ah-MEE-ga.
It means "Convert all your OS/2 client-server apps to Web- or Java-based apps, and then convert the client OS (which has suddenly become irrelevant given a working JVM and Navigator) to SOMETHING OTHER THAN WARP." (Pleading, whining sound on that last bit courtesy of PHB's at IBM.)
- Mark
OpenDoc was the application-component framework for the IBM-Apple alliance that was trying to slay the Wintel dragon, going back to the pre-Win95 days. The basic idea was:
- The CHRP-based hardware, with Motorola on board building the PowerPC CPU's
- A microkernel-based architecture (I think), with either Mac OS, AIX, or OS/2 running on top of it (customer's choice)
- All the OS's having the System Object Model (SOM) as underlaying glue
- The OpenDoc framework for application components ("parts")
The original deal with OpenDoc was that IBM would write it for AIX and OS/2, Apple would write it for the Mac, and Novell would be in charge of getting it out for Windows. Novell bailed around the same time that they sold WordPerfect to Corel, and IBM took over the Windows port. Then, things really began to unravel:
- The OS/2 port to the PowerPC took forever and then some. By the time it was ready, Intel had caught up to the capabilities of the PowerPC chip, and IBM was ready to drop the whole PowerStation line from desktop production. Quite a few knowledgeable people feel that the OS/2 PowerPC Edition fiasco was what made IBM decide to pull the plug on Warp.
- The Internet happened, and it made businesses think in terms of network-distributed applications rather than parts on a single machine. In conjunction with the OS/2 disaster, IBM decided to run with the JavaBean concept and abandon SOM and OpenDoc, which were OS-specific.
- Apple, who were supposed to certify third-party CHRP models, pulled the plug on the Mac clones without ever certifying a single model as CHRP compliant.
The final boxed release of OS/2 Warp (v. 4) includes OpenDoc support as an installable option. The Mac boasts the only known full-featured OpenDoc application: Cyberdog. IBM makes the final OpenDoc 1.2 toolkit available here. They also make SOMObjects 3.0 available here. Both are unsupported, with vague promises of an eventual full-source code release that IBM could probably stand to be politely reminded of.
Here endeth the lesson. WARNING: it's late, and I might well be talking out my ass on some of the above story. This information is not intended to settle any wager of any type, and the author disclaims any and all responsibility for its misuse.
Notice the mention of "overhead" on the Plan 9 home page at http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9/. It's below the list of developers.
I believe that you are partially right. The way I read the Kickstart announcement, the event is for the commercial component developers who make aftermarket component sets. There are a lot of these, and they are a large part of the story of Delphi's success.
The Mozilla Public License does allow forking; that was one of the points jwz made repeatedly in the early part of the project. - Mark
Things to watch for:
- There may be a remaining US-66 shield on an Interstate sign near Miami, OK. There were a couple of them in 1993 when I went through.
- One of the all-time legendary US roadside attractions: The Thing, in Cochise AZ. Cheap to get in, falls into the category of "We're here, we might as well do it."
- Cadillac Ranch, outside Amarillo, of course.
Check out http://www.roadsideamerica.com if you want more.HTH,
Mark
A Gecko ActiveX control has been produced, but I don't see it in the Win32 M13 distribution (I'm not sure why; I was hoping it would be there). However, it is intended as a swappable replacement for the IE control. While Netscape hasn't commented on the shape the eventual branded release will take, my guess is that they will use the themable XUL base that Mozilla has built, rather than revert to being a solid Windows app with an ActiveX renderer.
Nice picture of the Slashdot booth at COMDEX at that link, BTW... read all the way down.
After I read the story, I went looking for items on the Hancock Tower problems (I live in New England and have been around the tower many times). There is a piece on Useless News that tells the similar story of the Citibank Building near-disaster, and it has a link to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe story on the averted collapse of the Hancock.
Using the above link, I was able to find a wealth of info on using ntldr to boot Linux, but I also want to have OS/2 on the machine. Does anyone know how to induce NT Loader to boot a Warp partition, as well as Linux?
The last bit should have read:
Maybe we can get the DOC to point ds.internic.net at Everything. < G >
One of the provisions in the agreement with ICANN and the Dept. of Commerce is that NSI will give up all rights to the InterNIC trademark and domain names. The internic.net domains will then become home to the root-server whois info for all the gTLD registrars, with a pointer to the original registrar for the organizational and contact records. As someone pointed out, though, the internic.tld domains are currently back to pointing to NSI. Maybe we can get the DOC to point ds.internic.net at Everything.