Link To an Amiga 1000. Notice the 3.5" floppy with eject button in 1985.:-)
I'm not sure I understand your point... if you mean that the Amiga had floppies with an eject button before Apple had motorized eject floppies, 1985 isn't early enough. The Mac came out in 1984. The Lisa came out in 1983. Both used motorized eject 3.5" drives.
This is just FUD from RMS. The real story is that if you contribute to CVS or other competors, you cannot use a free version of bitkeeper.
It's probably not even as bad as that... The relevant clause of the license says:
(c) Notwithstanding any other terms in this License, this License is not
available to You if You and/or your employer develop, produce, sell,
and/or resell a product which contains substantially similar capabili-
ties of the BitKeeper Software, or, in the reasonable opinion of Bit-
Mover, competes with the BitKeeper Software.
It could be argued that CVS doesn't contain substantial similar capabilities of BitKeeper; McVoy has repeatedly stated that CVS doesn't have many features he considers essential, which is the reason why he wrote BK in the first place. He even considers the way CVS/RCS stores its repository fundamentally broken. So while CVS is likely okay, what you can't do is contribute to one of the other source control systems that have (or plan to have) the same features as BK (subversion comes to mind).
Stallman is getting as good at this FUD business as IBM was... definitely a sharp fellow and a quick learner. Too bad he can't direct his talents towards something useful... Now McVoy's a major jerk, but at least he's contributing something useful.
That way I can copyright the Bible and *really* rake in the bucks.
Um, you can't go around copyrighting other peoples' stuff... the Bible is copyright (c) God, and you know He's gonna be majorly pissed when He catches you swiping His royalty checks.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I deducted points for "Taipei (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Americans left)." Unlike the Hong Kong/Brits and India/Brits from his previous posts, Taiwan has never been a US territory or possession. Next time, s/Americans/Japs/. However, he gets extra credit for mentioning "chou tofu"... that's some nasty-smelling stuff:) Tasty though:)
Looks like it's for real... Check the LBJ School's calendar of events...
11 Friday
9:00 - 10:30 "Music for Nothing and Your Files for Free? A Discussion about Internet file sharing on university campuses," G. Chapman (Bass Lecture Hall)
Seriously, in our lab tests, Cat 7 DID have some problems with a number of our servers
Maybe because there's no such thing as Cat7, despite what cable manufacturers might like you to believe? I could put crap on a string and call it Cat7 cable. Category 6 cable is the latest standard for twisted pair cable. While Category 7 may be in the works, it's just marketing for now.
And why did the first post get rated a "4" when it posted info from a NIC manual saying NOTHING of value about cables or comparisons?
It made it up to 5, actually, because it was both informative and insightful. If you want to run GigE, you'll be using NICs and switches. In which case, RTFM for the NICs and switches and they'll tell you what kind of cable to use. What do you mean his post said "NOTHING of value about cables or comparisons"? His post explicitly said Cat5e is what you need if you want to go with copper, but he would recommend fiber:
I would also say that fiber is a better backbone that Cu, and CAT 5e has always worked FINE with GigE - because that's what the fucking manual says.
Sounds like you were more interested in bitching about his post than actually reading what he had to say.
but I suppose it's always nice to have a first-hand confirmation from someone who's actually looked at the question.
And isn't a first-hand confirmation from the manufacturer of the network equipment you'll be using even better than that?
Hmm, do you have a Babwa Wawa (Barbera Walters) type of accent, where "r" sounds similar to "w"? (what type of accent is that anyways?)
Here's a description of where various parts of the mouth are positioned to make different sounds:
retroflex
In retroflex sounds, the tongue tip is curled up and back. Retroflexes
can be classed as apico-postalveolar, though not all apico-postalveolars
need to be curled backward enough to count as retroflex.
The closest sound to a retroflex that English has is [r]. For most North Americans, the tongue tip is curled
back in [r], though not as much as it is in languages that have
true retroflexes. Many other North Americans use what is called a
"bunched r" -- instead of curling their tongues back, they bunch the front
up and push it forward to form an approximant behind the alveolar ridge.
(Actually, the [r] is an upside down r, but since/. filters out unicode now, I can't put the right character in). I take it you do the "bunched r" thing? But even so, that requires tongue movement too.
Whereas Americans (typically) make the "r" sound with their lips
I can't figure out how it's even possible to make an "r" sound with one's lips... I make an "r" sound by curling my tongue back so the tip presses against the middle of my palate, then making some sort of noise with my vocal cords. My lips aren't particularly involved... they just stay open during the process.
Japanese "r" keeps the tongue flatter and taps the tip close to the front of the mouth, making it sound sort of like a soft "d". Check this page for a more complete explanation, plus sound samples.
Two vulnerabilities exist in the Compressed Folders function:
An unchecked buffer exists in the programs that handles the decompressing of files from a zipped file. A security vulnerability results because attempts to open a file with a specially malformed filename contained in a zipped file could possibly result in Windows Explorer failing, or in code of the attacker's choice being run.
The decompression function could place a file in a directory that was not the same as, or a child of, the target directory specified by the user as where the decompressed zip files should be placed. This could allow an attacker to put a file in a known location on the users system, such as placing a program in a startup directory
Re:No explanation != failure of Science != a mirac
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... covered with exploded baked potatoe.
... not blessing the potatoe with a cross.
Great story, Mr. Vice President!
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Now, what I really need is the William Gibson solution...just pull out the old eyes and replace 'em with Zeiss Ikons. But we can't do that yet...
You can't do exactly that yet, but you can pull out your old lenses and replace 'em with ones that focus at the right place if you really want to. Check out lens implants... it's pretty much cataract surgery, except without the cataracts:)
Yeah, same here... I've been wearing glasses for about 22 years now, and they don't bother me at all. Messing with contacts seems like a pain, and I'm too lazy to deal with cleaning/soaking/etc... Besides, people with glasses look smarter:)
I dunno what the 6 numbers are (haven't paid attention to my prescription in a while; I just give it to the people who make the glasses:), but prescriptions will have the spherical and cylindrical corrections for the left and right eyes (4 numbers), plus the angle for the cylindrical correction for each eye (2 more numbers). The spherical correction is how strongly you're nearsighted or farsighted, and the cylindrical correction is how much astigmatism you have. And the cylindrical axis angle is which way your astigmatism is aligned (see this page for a simple astigmatism test picture... if you have astigmatism, some of the lines in the spoke picture will be in focus while others aren't.)
The correction numbers are measured in diopters, which is 1 meter/focal length--higher numbers mean shorter focal lengths, or stronger correction. Negative numbers are negative focal length lenses (concave) and correct for nearsightedness, while positive numbers correct for farsightedness. -4.00 and -3.75 spherical would mean fairly strong nearsightedness in both eyes.
Lasik reshapes the lens itself. The thickness and shape of the lens.
No it doesn't. LASIK uses a laser to vaporize parts of the cornea, which causes the cornea to change shape before healing, just like with RK (I wouldn't say that either method "causes the eyeball to collapse in on itself" though). Read up for some more info on LASIK, as well as comparisons to RK and PRK.
There are no procedures to reshape the lens itself. You can, however, get your old lens removed and an artificial lens implanted. This is usually done to people with cataracts--my mom just had it done a few weeks ago, and she no longer needs glasses. Some people do get their lens replaced even when they don't have cataracts, but that seems a bit too extreme to me.
It was at the time that the companies wanted you to keep them on the grey/black checkerboard, even though they worked on almost any surface.
The old style optical mice from a decade ago that used an LED plus photodiode never worked on "almost any surface" for me, and I don't see how they could. They used the nonreflective grid on the reflective mousepad to determine which way the mouse was moving, using a method similar to the one used for optically-tracked balled mice. As the mouse moved over the grid, each dark/light transition would get interpreted as movement. If you didn't use the mouse on a surface that would provide a regular dark/light grid, it wouldn't work right. The closest I got was a pair of denim blue jeans, where the texture of the jeans was close enough to a grid that the mouse sort of worked, but it didn't work smoothly at all... certainly not well enough to be useful.
These new optical mice use a small CCD chip (or maybe it's a CMOS sensor, I don't know... small video camera in any case) to take pictures of the surface the mouse is on, and use fancy firmware to compare sequential pictures and determine which way the mouse is moving. This style of optical mouse was invented in 1999 (by Agilent).
Really, we're talking about NT/2000 Workstation/Professional here, not any form of NT Server. I can't believe that post is currently at 3.
P.S. The upcoming Windows.NET server will not install IIS by default--at least the Standard and Enterprise editions won't... I don't know what the Web server edition will do, but it'd be amusing if the web server edition didn't install a web server by default:)
No one goes around talking about their RIFFs or ASFs do they? You don't call a DivX movie an AVI, do you?
No one talks about RIFFs because nobody sees "RIFF." However, people certainly do talk about ASFs and AVIs. And likewise, since the popular file extension is.ogg, people are going to call the files OGGs.
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I'm not sure I understand your point... if you mean that the Amiga had floppies with an eject button before Apple had motorized eject floppies, 1985 isn't early enough. The Mac came out in 1984. The Lisa came out in 1983. Both used motorized eject 3.5" drives.
It's probably not even as bad as that... The relevant clause of the license says:
It could be argued that CVS doesn't contain substantial similar capabilities of BitKeeper; McVoy has repeatedly stated that CVS doesn't have many features he considers essential, which is the reason why he wrote BK in the first place. He even considers the way CVS/RCS stores its repository fundamentally broken. So while CVS is likely okay, what you can't do is contribute to one of the other source control systems that have (or plan to have) the same features as BK (subversion comes to mind).Stallman is getting as good at this FUD business as IBM was... definitely a sharp fellow and a quick learner. Too bad he can't direct his talents towards something useful... Now McVoy's a major jerk, but at least he's contributing something useful.
Um, you can't go around copyrighting other peoples' stuff... the Bible is copyright (c) God, and you know He's gonna be majorly pissed when He catches you swiping His royalty checks.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I deducted points for "Taipei (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Americans left)." Unlike the Hong Kong/Brits and India/Brits from his previous posts, Taiwan has never been a US territory or possession. Next time, s/Americans/Japs/. However, he gets extra credit for mentioning "chou tofu"... that's some nasty-smelling stuff :) Tasty though :)
<ProfessorCollins>I give it a B+</ProfessorCollins>
- Losers know their own.
- dreamfactory is a fucking loser.
Therefore you are also a fucking loser.Q.E.D.
Okay, I'll buy that.
11 Friday
9:00 - 10:30 "Music for Nothing and Your Files for Free? A Discussion about Internet file sharing on university campuses," G. Chapman (Bass Lecture Hall)
Maybe because there's no such thing as Cat7, despite what cable manufacturers might like you to believe? I could put crap on a string and call it Cat7 cable. Category 6 cable is the latest standard for twisted pair cable. While Category 7 may be in the works, it's just marketing for now.
And why did the first post get rated a "4" when it posted info from a NIC manual saying NOTHING of value about cables or comparisons?
It made it up to 5, actually, because it was both informative and insightful. If you want to run GigE, you'll be using NICs and switches. In which case, RTFM for the NICs and switches and they'll tell you what kind of cable to use. What do you mean his post said "NOTHING of value about cables or comparisons"? His post explicitly said Cat5e is what you need if you want to go with copper, but he would recommend fiber:
Sounds like you were more interested in bitching about his post than actually reading what he had to say.but I suppose it's always nice to have a first-hand confirmation from someone who's actually looked at the question.
And isn't a first-hand confirmation from the manufacturer of the network equipment you'll be using even better than that?
Here's a description of where various parts of the mouth are positioned to make different sounds:
(Actually, the [r] is an upside down r, but since /. filters out unicode now, I can't put the right character in). I take it you do the "bunched r" thing? But even so, that requires tongue movement too.
What happened to LoseNotLooseGuy?
I can't figure out how it's even possible to make an "r" sound with one's lips... I make an "r" sound by curling my tongue back so the tip presses against the middle of my palate, then making some sort of noise with my vocal cords. My lips aren't particularly involved... they just stay open during the process.
Japanese "r" keeps the tongue flatter and taps the tip close to the front of the mouth, making it sound sort of like a soft "d". Check this page for a more complete explanation, plus sound samples.
The Terrible Secret of Space, by The Laziest Men on Mars, of course. Even better is the Flash music video.
Unchecked Buffer in File Decompression Functions Could Lead to Code Execution (Q329048):
Two vulnerabilities exist in the Compressed Folders function:
... not blessing the potatoe with a cross.
Great story, Mr. Vice President!
Japan does have a Finnish parliament member though: Marutei Tsurunen (né Martti Turunen).
You can't do exactly that yet, but you can pull out your old lenses and replace 'em with ones that focus at the right place if you really want to. Check out lens implants... it's pretty much cataract surgery, except without the cataracts :)
Yeah, same here... I've been wearing glasses for about 22 years now, and they don't bother me at all. Messing with contacts seems like a pain, and I'm too lazy to deal with cleaning/soaking/etc... Besides, people with glasses look smarter :)
The correction numbers are measured in diopters, which is 1 meter/focal length--higher numbers mean shorter focal lengths, or stronger correction. Negative numbers are negative focal length lenses (concave) and correct for nearsightedness, while positive numbers correct for farsightedness. -4.00 and -3.75 spherical would mean fairly strong nearsightedness in both eyes.
No it doesn't. LASIK uses a laser to vaporize parts of the cornea, which causes the cornea to change shape before healing, just like with RK (I wouldn't say that either method "causes the eyeball to collapse in on itself" though). Read up for some more info on LASIK, as well as comparisons to RK and PRK.
There are no procedures to reshape the lens itself. You can, however, get your old lens removed and an artificial lens implanted. This is usually done to people with cataracts--my mom just had it done a few weeks ago, and she no longer needs glasses. Some people do get their lens replaced even when they don't have cataracts, but that seems a bit too extreme to me.
The old style optical mice from a decade ago that used an LED plus photodiode never worked on "almost any surface" for me, and I don't see how they could. They used the nonreflective grid on the reflective mousepad to determine which way the mouse was moving, using a method similar to the one used for optically-tracked balled mice. As the mouse moved over the grid, each dark/light transition would get interpreted as movement. If you didn't use the mouse on a surface that would provide a regular dark/light grid, it wouldn't work right. The closest I got was a pair of denim blue jeans, where the texture of the jeans was close enough to a grid that the mouse sort of worked, but it didn't work smoothly at all... certainly not well enough to be useful.
These new optical mice use a small CCD chip (or maybe it's a CMOS sensor, I don't know... small video camera in any case) to take pictures of the surface the mouse is on, and use fancy firmware to compare sequential pictures and determine which way the mouse is moving. This style of optical mouse was invented in 1999 (by Agilent).
As the title of the story says, it's a "MX700 Cordless Optical Mouse." From Logitech.
P.S. The upcoming Windows .NET server will not install IIS by default--at least the Standard and Enterprise editions won't... I don't know what the Web server edition will do, but it'd be amusing if the web server edition didn't install a web server by default :)
Been measured. Firewire is faster than USB2. Isn't that what BitGeek's been trying to tell you?
No one talks about RIFFs because nobody sees "RIFF." However, people certainly do talk about ASFs and AVIs. And likewise, since the popular file extension is .ogg, people are going to call the files OGGs.