Scratch that. I got up this morning to find my AT&T@Home connection down. I'm online via a friend's dialup account now, and it seems that my email box is inaccessible as well. (Bit surprise.) The message on AT&T voicejail says they're going to have me on another system in 7 days.
I'm on AT&T@Home, it's 00:11 PST, and I'm still connected. http://help.broadband.att.com/ seems to be out to lunch, though. I can't tell whether it's down or just slashdotted.
If I remember correctly, PostgreSQL has a genetic query optimizer that kicks in when you run queries that are sufficiently complex. Does that count as a real application?
Are you sure about that? It seems to me that although the data is compressed, it has to be uncompressed for the software to use it. In other words, the compressed data must be read, decompressed, and then written in uncompressed form, before it can be used. I'm skeptical of performance gain claims.
Near the end, the Klingon high council member said something to the captain. When asked what he said, the translator replied, "you don't want to know." Does anyone here know Klingon? What did he say?
A while back, I was reading about Yamaha's VQF audio compression. It was similar to MP3 in utility, but managed to compress files smaller and preserve quality better. At the time, it was said that this tech was slated to be used as part of the MPEG4 audio spec. Is this true? Anyone have up-to-date references?
Can anyone tell me whether Red Hat 7's distribution of gcc 2.96 will be configured to use libstdc++-v3? Or whether libstdc++-v3 will be installed with the gcc RPMs at all?
Finally, Red Hat adopts a recent version of the compiler. And I believe the standard library v3 was recently rolled into that version of gcc, so we ought to have a good deal better C++ support.
Inventor of the Extra Life? I don't think so.
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I glanced at that interview, and it appears to completely overlook the fact that pinball games have granted extra balls and extra games for a very long time. WTF?
Not exactly an easter egg, but there is a program for the Commodore 64 that does something similar: It programs the 1541 floppy drive to play the tune for "Bicycle Built for Two" using a similar mechanical method.
Extra credit: Can anyone name the historical significance of this particular tune?
Re:Kinesis is the best keyboard I've ever used
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"I'm convinced my Kinesis keyboard has saved my career from RSI induced disability... it's so good I shelled out the $300 to buy one for home. OK, so it's a wierd layout that most folks can't deal with at first... but the hand strain you save is well worth the upfront training costs associated with the switchover."
I bought a Cherry split keyboard three years ago, when my RSI first hit. (The Cherry has the same layout as the Kinesis Maxim Adjustable, but doesn't seem to be available any more.) Since then, I believe my wrists have actually healed to some degree. I am *very* happy with it. (To be fair, I must mention that I started using a Cirque touchpad instead of a mouse at the same time.)
I disagree about the keyboard layout being difficult to get used to. (Perhaps that's true for folks who don't touch type.) The only two differences in layout are the split down the middle, and the insert/delete/home key group rearrangement. In the case of the latter, I think the rearrangement is very reasonable, and easy enough to adjust to.
I used to work for a publisher of reference material on CD-ROM, who sent customers an update of their CD every month. According to the software license, customers were supposed to mail their previous month's CD back to the company when they received the new one. Instead, some customers would sell their old CDs to colleagues.
At that time, there was some talk of physically self-destructing CDs, which would eliminate that particular problem. The same principle applies here. I'll bet publishers of subscription-based library updates will jump at this technology.
I wish these companies would wake up and smell the land fill. When I worked for that same company, I saw rooms (!) full of throw-away CDs. As far as I know, there was never any effort to recycle them. There is no excuse for that kind of waste.
I don't get it. Do they really claim to be worried about piracy? We're talking about four freaking gigs of data! It's far cheaper to buy the DVD than it is to buy storage for that much data. Is that economic fact likely to change in the next few years, before HDTV DVDs replace the current ones? Can't they just revise their security measures for the next iteration of the format?
I suppose they might be worried that bootleggers will rip the video from DVDs, and sell knock-offs in foreign markets. But heck, that will happen anyway. Do they really think that criminalizing the knowledge of their flawed security measures is going to prevent bootlegging?
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Can't it?
http://www.konqueror.org/embedded.html
"The U.S. auto industry and the U.S. oil industry are so tight that work has been slowed or delayed for decades on all-electric cars. "
Can you post some references that back up this claim?I'm not saying it's untrue, but I'd like to read up on the specifics.
Scratch that. I got up this morning to find my AT&T@Home connection down. I'm online via a friend's dialup account now, and it seems that my email box is inaccessible as well. (Bit surprise.) The message on AT&T voicejail says they're going to have me on another system in 7 days.
I'm on AT&T@Home, it's 00:11 PST, and I'm still connected. http://help.broadband.att.com/ seems to be out to lunch, though. I can't tell whether it's down or just slashdotted.
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If I remember correctly, PostgreSQL has a genetic query optimizer that kicks in when you run queries that are sufficiently complex. Does that count as a real application?
Are you sure about that? It seems to me that although the data is compressed, it has to be uncompressed for the software to use it. In other words, the compressed data must be read, decompressed, and then written in uncompressed form, before it can be used. I'm skeptical of performance gain claims.
O No! Now the aliens will be able to use them against us!
Near the end, the Klingon high council member said something to the captain. When asked what he said, the translator replied, "you don't want to know." Does anyone here know Klingon? What did he say?
A while back, I was reading about Yamaha's VQF audio compression. It was similar to MP3 in utility, but managed to compress files smaller and preserve quality better. At the time, it was said that this tech was slated to be used as part of the MPEG4 audio spec. Is this true? Anyone have up-to-date references?
Will Red Hat 7's distribution of gcc 2.96 be configured to use libstdc++-v3?
Will libstdc++-v3 will be installed with the gcc RPMs at all?
Can anyone tell me whether Red Hat 7's distribution of gcc 2.96 will be configured to use libstdc++-v3? Or whether libstdc++-v3 will be installed with the gcc RPMs at all?
And for those of us who are developers:
gcc 2.96!
Finally, Red Hat adopts a recent version of the compiler. And I believe the standard library v3 was recently rolled into that version of gcc, so we ought to have a good deal better C++ support.
I glanced at that interview, and it appears to completely overlook the fact that pinball games have granted extra balls and extra games for a very long time. WTF?
Hint: The significance predates MST3K and 2001.
Not exactly an easter egg, but there is a program for the Commodore 64 that does something similar: It programs the 1541 floppy drive to play the tune for "Bicycle Built for Two" using a similar mechanical method.
Extra credit: Can anyone name the historical significance of this particular tune?
"I'm convinced my Kinesis keyboard has saved my career from RSI induced disability... it's so good I shelled out the $300 to buy one for home. OK, so it's a wierd layout that most folks can't deal with at first... but the hand strain you save is well worth the upfront training costs associated with the switchover."
I bought a Cherry split keyboard three years ago, when my RSI first hit. (The Cherry has the same layout as the Kinesis Maxim Adjustable, but doesn't seem to be available any more.) Since then, I believe my wrists have actually healed to some degree. I am *very* happy with it. (To be fair, I must mention that I started using a Cirque touchpad instead of a mouse at the same time.)
I disagree about the keyboard layout being difficult to get used to. (Perhaps that's true for folks who don't touch type.) The only two differences in layout are the split down the middle, and the insert/delete/home key group rearrangement. In the case of the latter, I think the rearrangement is very reasonable, and easy enough to adjust to.
KinesisSafe Computing
I used to work for a publisher of reference material on CD-ROM, who sent customers an update of their CD every month. According to the software license, customers were supposed to mail their previous month's CD back to the company when they received the new one. Instead, some customers would sell their old CDs to colleagues.
At that time, there was some talk of physically self-destructing CDs, which would eliminate that particular problem. The same principle applies here. I'll bet publishers of subscription-based library updates will jump at this technology.
I wish these companies would wake up and smell the land fill. When I worked for that same company, I saw rooms (!) full of throw-away CDs. As far as I know, there was never any effort to recycle them. There is no excuse for that kind of waste.
I don't get it. Do they really claim to be worried about piracy? We're talking about four freaking gigs of data! It's far cheaper to buy the DVD than it is to buy storage for that much data. Is that economic fact likely to change in the next few years, before HDTV DVDs replace the current ones? Can't they just revise their security measures for the next iteration of the format?
I suppose they might be worried that bootleggers will rip the video from DVDs, and sell knock-offs in foreign markets. But heck, that will happen anyway. Do they really think that criminalizing the knowledge of their flawed security measures is going to prevent bootlegging?