There is a scholl of doctor Who continuity which goes for in-depth exhaustive analysis of past stories. However, one of the core features of Doctor Who to date has been that it consists of multi-part stories (usually 4 or 6 parts but up to 12 occasionally), at the end of which the Doctor and his travelling companion depart for a new destination and the reset switch is thrown. Knowing that the setting of Shalka is somewhat reminiscent of the early 1970's TV stories adds a certain rich piquancy for the long term fan, but with a new Doctor (Richard E Grant) introduced somewhere in the middle of his life here, he arrives into a strange and dangerous situation and proceeds to investigate and make things better: that's all you need. Absolutely no prior knowledge *needed*.
It's done in Flash, oddly, for the very reason you've posited - to make it available to the widest possible audience, *given the quality they wanted for this production*. MPG would have been very portable, but to allow the smoothness and image quality at full-screen, the file sizes would have excluded those of us not on broadband. With Flash there's less need to compromise between the neds of the 56k audience and the ADSL audience. Remember, the target audience is not geeks but people interested in a new Doctor Who adventure. Which potentially encompasses everyone in Britain over the age of 20 (able to remember when it was an almost universally watched kingpin of the Saturday Night primetime TV lineup for 26 years).
There are hints at the BBCi site that these animations may run at least until the new live-action series starts on BBC1 in 2005, and even beyond that.
Oh, I don't know. I thought the New Zealand meteorite scene was a little stiff, but basically a tributr to Spearhead From Space and the ubiquitous Pertwee-era yokels. Just one step up from Sam Seeley and the immortal Pigbin Josh.
After that, things just got better. The new Doctor's first contact with humans in the pub was glorious, then he turned on the charm and kindness, and back at the house he was definitely back into the swing. What I think I loved most was the way Paul Cornell managed to recreate the atmosphere of 1970's Who.
An alternative analogy might be the situation where someone (Mr 'Black Hat') breaks into your home with his gun (trojan) and shoots someone out of your bedroom window before sneaking away, leaving the gun behind. You'd be very heavily investigated, you'd need a pretty good alibi, but you wouldn't actually be culpable, even if your house was left unlocked with the windows open.
I wonder if they haven't subpoena'd Stallman so they can ask him questions about the spirit of the GPL, and the philosphy underlying it, then tell the court that it's obviously a conspiracy by godless hairy commies to destroy American Capitalism(tm) and hope that sways the jury to their advantage.
There was a reasonably interesting discussion at Groklaw as to whether invalidating the GPL might in some way lead to a lot of code being declared legally to be in the Public Domain, and thus exploitable. Cynical but it could work with a jury drawn from the right sort of community.
Indeed, it might be exceptionally good code, depending on how it implements the specification. It's not just the code that needs to be open-sourced if you're going to use electronic voting, but every details of the entire process which led eventually to the software and hardware in the voting booths.
Good code in the context of a free and fair election might not particularly resemble good code designed and built to ensure victory for candiate X or party Y.
As for trade secrets, there shouldn't be a single algorithm in there which isn't signed off by the agents of the electorate in an open and accountable process (although since we know there was an MDB in Diebold's system, we'd need to see code for Windows and Access to really, thoroughly audit even something as simple as counting, and that ain't going to happen, so OSS it really has to be, even though I'm personally happy to use Moft stuff). It's not just the loss of a paper-trail, it's the loss of something analogous to the way I can, at the moment (in the UK at least) attend the opening of the ballot boxes and the counting of the votes and see that it's being done to my satisfaction.
Given that most of "the war on terrorism" was set out in the Clarke plan commissioned by Clinton on the basis of the Hart-Rudman security analysis after the USS Cole attack, but not implemented as it would be unfair to saddle a brand new president with a war started only weeks before the election, but then put on the back-burner by the new administration, I think there might well have been an invasion of Afghanistan within days of a Gore administration assuming office. Clinton had already reshaped the US military into the awesome force Bush was able to unleash on Afghanistan.
The dot-com bubble would have burst regardless, but a different administraton might not have crippled America's steel users with massive illegal subsidies which are about to rebound in the form of an electorally-targetted trade war with WTO backing.
you can guarunteed [sic] that future versions will have virtual hardware tweaks that are Windows specific
That would make the product entirely useless to it's main user base amongst Windows users, since it would cease to be in any way useful for compatibility testing Windows software for every imaginable configuration of Windows (or DOS) OS and other Microsoft or third-party apps. So for example you can check that a new app will run OK on the XP machines in IT, and on the Win2k servers in the farm, and on the Win2k and Win98 despktops in Marketing and Planning and Sales and so forth. Before we had vPC we had a stack of machines in IT and Ghost images of most of the major configurations around the company, but there were more developers than image PCs and reverting to a saved.VHD file is a lot quicker than reimaging. As long as you've plenty of space for the VHDs you can checkpoint a series of installations very nicely. Since the vPC has it's own IP and emulated network adaptor, it's a great way to test a new server build.
More significantly, ignoring for a moment that it's illegal in the UK to advertise a car based on speed anyway, it would *not* be the fastest car, since no car is (legally) faster than 70mph anyway. Ignoring special cicumstances like track days, which simply aren't relevant to the general viewing audience, the fact is that, legally, in the UK, a 1.0 Micra is just as fast as an M5.
(2) Advertising is likely to be considered misleading if, for example, it contains a false statement, description, illustration or claim about a material fact or characteristic. Material characteristics include price, availability and performance. Any ambiguity which might give a misleading impression must be avoided.
(3) Even if everything stated is literally true, an advertisement may still mislead if it conceals significant facts or creates a false impression of relevant aspects of the product or service.
(4) Scientific terms or jargon, statistics and other technical information should not be used to make claims appear to have a scientific basis that they do not possess. Equally, statistics of limited validity must not be presented in such a way as to mislead, for instance by implying that they are universally true.
(5) An advertisement may be misleading even if it does not directly lead to financial loss or a misguided purchasing decision. The ITC may also regard an advertisement as misleading if, for example, it causes viewers to waste their time making enquiries, only to find that offers are unavailable or that there are important limitations. This could involve encouraging viewers to visit shops, or to make lengthy telephone calls (including freephone calls).
(6) When assessing whether an advertisement is misleading, the ITC considers the overall impression likely to be conveyed to a reasonable viewer. It does not consider the intentions of the advertiser, nor simply whether the advertising meets legal or other regulatory requirements.
Moreover, the 8 complaints don't lead to the ad being banned. The 8 complaints (the first complaint, actually) lead to the ad being investigated by the ITC. If the ad is then found to be out of compliance with the code of conduct, then the Investigation leads to the ad being banned.
If we assume that 'personal computer' can include systems aimed at gamers (and since we're talking about high-performance PC's I feel this is a reasonable inclusion), then the existence of the Alienware Roswell range appears to provide compelling evidence that it is possible to buy an off-the-shelf dual-processor desktop systems intended for domestic use. This is just one company which I happen to be aware of - I'd be astonished if they have this market segment to themselves.
Well what do you know. He is absolutely correct. To the extent that purchasing an additional interop layer for $99.00 and running it on top of the existing NT OS can be considered the exact same thing as 'running UNIX because you're running NT and they're the same thing', it's indisputable.
A fascinating observation. Would you care to elaborate - you may just have stumbled upon one of the most overwhelming misunderstandings in the history of computing.
Actually, I'm interested how an IBM acquisition would play in respect to Mono and the recent beta release of.net tools for the 'Stinger' release of DB2, hosting the.net Common Language Runtime on iSeries servers.
IBM has a HUGE staff of patent and copyright lawyers who are very capable. Hollywood's lawyers are focused in [...] the entertainment industry and their copyrights.
OTOH, they've opened up a second front with an enemy whose legal skills are massively focussed on the current state-of-the-art in 'intellectual property' law. These guys must have a very good grasp of ideas like 'derivative work'. IBM's gun points at the left temple, Hollywood's at the right...
As far as I can see, if they lose all their existing cases and by some sick miracle still survive, it's almost guaranteed that they'll sue the Supreme Court itself for an encore.
And it all ties in nicely with an earlier story on Groklaw which pointed out that what SCO are doing is the very thing which the RIAA describes as 'stealing'.
Anyone for a quick round of Celebrity Lobby Group Deathmatch?
tomV
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Exactly.
There is *one* language which uses the CLR to its full capacity, and it looks like this:
Every other.net language eventually boils down to MSIL, so long as you stay in the 'managed' world. If you don't, talking about exploiting the CLR isn't terribly relevant, and if you do, then as you've said, each language has its own strengths and weaknesses relative to eachother and to raw IL.
So what if it is flamebait. Bye bye karma but it's worth it.
You really are a very strong contender for the sickest most repulsive twat I've come across so far in 2003. What the fuck kind of twisted shithead mind would want to expose a child to goatse in the name of their petty OS-war. The only consolation, I suppose, is that with an attitude like that it's only a matter of time before someone does the decent things and beats you to a bloody whining pulp. Unless you're too pathetically cowardly to express an opinion quite that unpleasant in a forum other than this one.
If the renewal was by post, bear in mind that Nominet are here in Oxford, which was one of the hotspots in the postal strike, so the renewal could easily be caught in the backlog at the Oxpens sorting office.
the BBC radio series consisted of 12 half-hour episodes (and a Christmas special), titled from "fit the first" to "fit the twelfth" in homage to "The Hunting of the Snark".
If the plot of the YLE version matched the plot of the books then it wasn't a translation of the Radio Series, rather a fresh adaptation from the books. Basically, if it mentioned Hig Hurtenflurst, the Dolmansaxlil Shoe Corporation, the Shoe Event Horizon, the Bird People Of Brontitall, hundreds of cloned archaeologists named Lintilla, a thirteen mile high statue of Arthur Dent Throwing the Nutrimatic Cup and the Ruler Of The Univers and his cat, and small lemon-soaked paper napkins it was adapted from the Radio Series. If not, it was from the books.
...and the continuity knots between the end of the second radio series and the start of the third book will be a nightmare unless the beeb decides to simply ignore them (probably for the best). Let's see - are Arthur and Ford stuck on prehistoric Earth with the Golgafrinchans (book) or is Arthur on the Heart of Gold and Ford, with Zaphod, walking away from a largely unsatisfactory visit to the Ruler of The Galaxy and what it pleases him to think of as his cat (radio)? Will there ever be a supply of small, lemon-soaked paper napkins, for your comfort and convenience?
and went to see the play - but the less said about that the better
Oh I don't know, it was pretty fab night out for 12-year-old-me. I saw the Theatr Clwyd production, and they used a classic yellow Tonka toy bulldozer, adding a very special note to "Mr Dent, do you have any idea how much damage this bulldozer would suffer if I let it run you over?"
But I don't think there is much evidence that his being around protected against bad translations (i.e. play, TV show). A much greater pity is the absence of Peter Jones.
Hopefully John Lloyd will have a say, and HHGTTG was his baby too, so I trust him. But yes, for me it always was: "The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, starring Peter Jones as The Book". Everyone else was credited at the end, denoting their apparent lesser importance.
Towels can be harmful if swallowed in large quantities.
Peter Jones was brilliiant, granted, but there was nothing about his style or voice that made him inherently better for the role than dozens of other actors.
<cheeky>except for the long auditioning process which eventually failed to find someone with a sufficiently 'Peter Jones-y' voice, as DNa put it, so Adams and Lloyd hired Peter Jones, of course;-) </cheeky>
OTOH, on my sh!77y 56k dialup, it's only my extensive HOSTS file full of ad servers that makes most of the web usable at all - if every page took the full minute to load its ads, I'd never visit any of them at all. I pay for every second, and I'm not prepared to pay for ads for stuff aimed at US citizens. sorry, but I'm not.
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There is a scholl of doctor Who continuity which goes for in-depth exhaustive analysis of past stories. However, one of the core features of Doctor Who to date has been that it consists of multi-part stories (usually 4 or 6 parts but up to 12 occasionally), at the end of which the Doctor and his travelling companion depart for a new destination and the reset switch is thrown. Knowing that the setting of Shalka is somewhat reminiscent of the early 1970's TV stories adds a certain rich piquancy for the long term fan, but with a new Doctor (Richard E Grant) introduced somewhere in the middle of his life here, he arrives into a strange and dangerous situation and proceeds to investigate and make things better: that's all you need. Absolutely no prior knowledge *needed*.
Go on, it's fab.
It's done in Flash, oddly, for the very reason you've posited - to make it available to the widest possible audience, *given the quality they wanted for this production*. MPG would have been very portable, but to allow the smoothness and image quality at full-screen, the file sizes would have excluded those of us not on broadband. With Flash there's less need to compromise between the neds of the 56k audience and the ADSL audience. Remember, the target audience is not geeks but people interested in a new Doctor Who adventure. Which potentially encompasses everyone in Britain over the age of 20 (able to remember when it was an almost universally watched kingpin of the Saturday Night primetime TV lineup for 26 years).
There are hints at the BBCi site that these animations may run at least until the new live-action series starts on BBC1 in 2005, and even beyond that.
Oh, I don't know. I thought the New Zealand meteorite scene was a little stiff, but basically a tributr to Spearhead From Space and the ubiquitous Pertwee-era yokels. Just one step up from Sam Seeley and the immortal Pigbin Josh.
After that, things just got better. The new Doctor's first contact with humans in the pub was glorious, then he turned on the charm and kindness, and back at the house he was definitely back into the swing. What I think I loved most was the way Paul Cornell managed to recreate the atmosphere of 1970's Who.
An alternative analogy might be the situation where someone (Mr 'Black Hat') breaks into your home with his gun (trojan) and shoots someone out of your bedroom window before sneaking away, leaving the gun behind. You'd be very heavily investigated, you'd need a pretty good alibi, but you wouldn't actually be culpable, even if your house was left unlocked with the windows open.
I wonder if they haven't subpoena'd Stallman so they can ask him questions about the spirit of the GPL, and the philosphy underlying it, then tell the court that it's obviously a conspiracy by godless hairy commies to destroy American Capitalism(tm) and hope that sways the jury to their advantage.
There was a reasonably interesting discussion at Groklaw as to whether invalidating the GPL might in some way lead to a lot of code being declared legally to be in the Public Domain, and thus exploitable. Cynical but it could work with a jury drawn from the right sort of community.
It's not just bad code. It's suspicious code.
Indeed, it might be exceptionally good code, depending on how it implements the specification. It's not just the code that needs to be open-sourced if you're going to use electronic voting, but every details of the entire process which led eventually to the software and hardware in the voting booths.
Good code in the context of a free and fair election might not particularly resemble good code designed and built to ensure victory for candiate X or party Y.
As for trade secrets, there shouldn't be a single algorithm in there which isn't signed off by the agents of the electorate in an open and accountable process (although since we know there was an MDB in Diebold's system, we'd need to see code for Windows and Access to really, thoroughly audit even something as simple as counting, and that ain't going to happen, so OSS it really has to be, even though I'm personally happy to use Moft stuff). It's not just the loss of a paper-trail, it's the loss of something analogous to the way I can, at the moment (in the UK at least) attend the opening of the ballot boxes and the counting of the votes and see that it's being done to my satisfaction.
Given that most of "the war on terrorism" was set out in the Clarke plan commissioned by Clinton on the basis of the Hart-Rudman security analysis after the USS Cole attack, but not implemented as it would be unfair to saddle a brand new president with a war started only weeks before the election, but then put on the back-burner by the new administration, I think there might well have been an invasion of Afghanistan within days of a Gore administration assuming office. Clinton had already reshaped the US military into the awesome force Bush was able to unleash on Afghanistan.
The dot-com bubble would have burst regardless, but a different administraton might not have crippled America's steel users with massive illegal subsidies which are about to rebound in the form of an electorally-targetted trade war with WTO backing.
you can guarunteed [sic] that future versions will have virtual hardware tweaks that are Windows specific
.VHD file is a lot quicker than reimaging. As long as you've plenty of space for the VHDs you can checkpoint a series of installations very nicely. Since the vPC has it's own IP and emulated network adaptor, it's a great way to test a new server build.
That would make the product entirely useless to it's main user base amongst Windows users, since it would cease to be in any way useful for compatibility testing Windows software for every imaginable configuration of Windows (or DOS) OS and other Microsoft or third-party apps. So for example you can check that a new app will run OK on the XP machines in IT, and on the Win2k servers in the farm, and on the Win2k and Win98 despktops in Marketing and Planning and Sales and so forth. Before we had vPC we had a stack of machines in IT and Ghost images of most of the major configurations around the company, but there were more developers than image PCs and reverting to a saved
More significantly, ignoring for a moment that it's illegal in the UK to advertise a car based on speed anyway, it would *not* be the fastest car, since no car is (legally) faster than 70mph anyway. Ignoring special cicumstances like track days, which simply aren't relevant to the general viewing audience, the fact is that, legally, in the UK, a 1.0 Micra is just as fast as an M5.
Moreover, the 8 complaints don't lead to the ad being banned. The 8 complaints (the first complaint, actually) lead to the ad being investigated by the ITC. If the ad is then found to be out of compliance with the code of conduct, then the Investigation leads to the ad being banned.
If we assume that 'personal computer' can include systems aimed at gamers (and since we're talking about high-performance PC's I feel this is a reasonable inclusion), then the existence of the Alienware Roswell range appears to provide compelling evidence that it is possible to buy an off-the-shelf dual-processor desktop systems intended for domestic use. This is just one company which I happen to be aware of - I'd be astonished if they have this market segment to themselves.
Well what do you know. He is absolutely correct. To the extent that purchasing an additional interop layer for $99.00 and running it on top of the existing NT OS can be considered the exact same thing as 'running UNIX because you're running NT and they're the same thing', it's indisputable.
A fascinating observation. Would you care to elaborate - you may just have stumbled upon one of the most overwhelming misunderstandings in the history of computing.
if they do, Ximian is dead
.net tools for the 'Stinger' release of DB2, hosting the .net Common Language Runtime on iSeries servers.
Actually, I'm interested how an IBM acquisition would play in respect to Mono and the recent beta release of
IBM has a HUGE staff of patent and copyright lawyers who are very capable. Hollywood's lawyers are focused in [...] the entertainment industry and their copyrights.
OTOH, they've opened up a second front with an enemy whose legal skills are massively focussed on the current state-of-the-art in 'intellectual property' law. These guys must have a very good grasp of ideas like 'derivative work'. IBM's gun points at the left temple, Hollywood's at the right...
As far as I can see, if they lose all their existing cases and by some sick miracle still survive, it's almost guaranteed that they'll sue the Supreme Court itself for an encore.
And it all ties in nicely with an earlier story on Groklaw which pointed out that what SCO are doing is the very thing which the RI AA describes as 'stealing'.
Anyone for a quick round of Celebrity Lobby Group Deathmatch?
tomV
Exactly.
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.net language eventually boils down to MSIL, so long as you stay in the 'managed' world. If you don't, talking about exploiting the CLR isn't terribly relevant, and if you do, then as you've said, each language has its own strengths and weaknesses relative to eachother and to raw IL.
There is *one* language which uses the CLR to its full capacity, and it looks like this:
L_0000: nop
L_0001: ldstr "hello world"
L_0006: call Console.Write
L_000b: nop
L_000c: nop
L_000d: ret
Every other
So what if it is flamebait. Bye bye karma but it's worth it.
You really are a very strong contender for the sickest most repulsive twat I've come across so far in 2003. What the fuck kind of twisted shithead mind would want to expose a child to goatse in the name of their petty OS-war. The only consolation, I suppose, is that with an attitude like that it's only a matter of time before someone does the decent things and beats you to a bloody whining pulp. Unless you're too pathetically cowardly to express an opinion quite that unpleasant in a forum other than this one.
you stupid, stupid, stupid cunt.
If the renewal was by post, bear in mind that Nominet are here in Oxford, which was one of the hotspots in the postal strike, so the renewal could easily be caught in the backlog at the Oxpens sorting office.
the BBC radio series consisted of 12 half-hour episodes (and a Christmas special), titled from "fit the first" to "fit the twelfth" in homage to "The Hunting of the Snark".
If the plot of the YLE version matched the plot of the books then it wasn't a translation of the Radio Series, rather a fresh adaptation from the books. Basically, if it mentioned Hig Hurtenflurst, the Dolmansaxlil Shoe Corporation, the Shoe Event Horizon, the Bird People Of Brontitall, hundreds of cloned archaeologists named Lintilla, a thirteen mile high statue of Arthur Dent Throwing the Nutrimatic Cup and the Ruler Of The Univers and his cat, and small lemon-soaked paper napkins it was adapted from the Radio Series. If not, it was from the books.
...and the continuity knots between the end of the second radio series and the start of the third book will be a nightmare unless the beeb decides to simply ignore them (probably for the best). Let's see - are Arthur and Ford stuck on prehistoric Earth with the Golgafrinchans (book) or is Arthur on the Heart of Gold and Ford, with Zaphod, walking away from a largely unsatisfactory visit to the Ruler of The Galaxy and what it pleases him to think of as his cat (radio)? Will there ever be a supply of small, lemon-soaked paper napkins, for your comfort and convenience?
and went to see the play - but the less said about that the better
Oh I don't know, it was pretty fab night out for 12-year-old-me. I saw the Theatr Clwyd production, and they used a classic yellow Tonka toy bulldozer, adding a very special note to "Mr Dent, do you have any idea how much damage this bulldozer would suffer if I let it run you over?"
But I don't think there is much evidence that his being around protected against bad translations (i.e. play, TV show). A much greater pity is the absence of Peter Jones.
Hopefully John Lloyd will have a say, and HHGTTG was his baby too, so I trust him. But yes, for me it always was:
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, starring Peter Jones as The Book". Everyone else was credited at the end, denoting their apparent lesser importance.
Towels can be harmful if swallowed in large quantities.
Peter Jones was brilliiant, granted, but there was nothing about his style or voice that made him inherently better for the role than dozens of other actors.
;-) </cheeky>
<cheeky>except for the long auditioning process which eventually failed to find someone with a sufficiently 'Peter Jones-y' voice, as DNa put it, so Adams and Lloyd hired Peter Jones, of course
OTOH, on my sh!77y 56k dialup, it's only my extensive HOSTS file full of ad servers that makes most of the web usable at all - if every page took the full minute to load its ads, I'd never visit any of them at all. I pay for every second, and I'm not prepared to pay for ads for stuff aimed at US citizens. sorry, but I'm not.