Tip: if you're having problems with an nVidia card under X, try playing with the
Option "NvAGP"
line in XF86Config. My card
crashed after a few seconds of openGL, until I set this to "2". Now it still crashes, but it takes more like half an hour than a few seconds.
I was at a party recently and I met a guy who had co-written a Dr. Who novel.
It's called 'The Book of the Still' and is to be released next year.
He told me that in the book, the characters are fighting for control of a book called 'The Book of the Still', which is the one unchangeble thing in time. The 'Book of the Still' in the story is also about characters fighting for control of the 'Book of the Still', and so on...
There are also a few more surprises in the book; it sounded pretty fascinating.
Please make sure you mention rip . I recently worked with the author of this project to make sure it has the capability to encode to ogg vorbis format.
Now all we need to do is reverse engineer the protocol, and then start making our own videos.
Imagine how cool this could be, you could make a music video, set up (say) 100 pages of pictures on a website, and have 'stereo' video productions.
Or maybe a video on the evils of the Cue corporation, with embedded links to sites describing how they cracked down on reverse engineering of the CueCat !
SOAP is a way of calling remote procedures using XML. Microsoft weren't the first with this - I believe Userland's XML/RPC predates it somewhat.
UDDI is Universal Description, Discovery and Integration. It uses XML to create 'a kind of yellow pages for businesses', and it's actually derived from a collaboration between Ariba, IBM, Microsoft, and 33 other companies.
In my job, I work with both NT and *nix servers, so the ability to WORA is vital, and I can vouch for the fact that java lives up to its promise in this area.
Also, using java, you're not tied to one company - yeah, Sun sets most of the standards (currently), but IBM, Borland, Apache and many other organisations are also involved.
As for SOAP, java can support that as well. I don't think SOAP is the be-all and end-all though, because it is designed to work over http and pass through firewalls. I can't see too many secure sites will be rushing to use it.
Granted, C# sounds very interesting but it seems waaaaay too Microsoft centric for my liking.
Microsoft is always talking about 'innovation' in their products. Can you name five M$ innovations which were not copied or stolen from rival products ?
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It should be worth it though. I was on holiday in Helsinki last summer, and quite by accident I happened upon a small sci-fi convention. Gaiman was one of the two (English) speakers, and he read a chapter from the book. I've been waiting to get my hands on it ever since.
Looks like the wait is nearly over !
Incidentally, the other speaker was Ken McCleod:-).
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Option "NvAGP"
line in XF86Config. My card crashed after a few seconds of openGL, until I set this to "2". Now it still crashes, but it takes more like half an hour than a few seconds.
Minesweeper : the movie
Solitaire part III.
Snake (featuring a giant anaconda attempting not to bite its tail)
Hunt the wumpus. This would be the worst game film ever made. You'd never even see the wumpus, just empty caves and a wumpus hunter.
Will pregnant mothers be sued under the DMCA for illegally reverse engineering encrypted music ?
Why bother with these stripped down, non standard protocols at all ??
It's called 'The Book of the Still' and is to be released next year.
He told me that in the book, the characters are fighting for control of a book called 'The Book of the Still', which is the one unchangeble thing in time. The 'Book of the Still' in the story is also about characters fighting for control of the 'Book of the Still', and so on...
There are also a few more surprises in the book; it sounded pretty fascinating.
There is also Borland's JBuilder, and Forte from Sun.
Imagine how cool this could be, you could make a music video, set up (say) 100 pages of pictures on a website, and have 'stereo' video productions.
Or maybe a video on the evils of the Cue corporation, with embedded links to sites describing how they cracked down on reverse engineering of the CueCat !
Mars's atmosphere is pretty thin, you'd have to make very very light airships. It'd be hard to make them strong enough to lift stuff.
Suck: mozilla is dead !!! Mozilla: no, suck is dead.
UDDI is Universal Description, Discovery and Integration. It uses XML to create 'a kind of yellow pages for businesses', and it's actually derived from a collaboration between Ariba, IBM, Microsoft, and 33 other companies.
So there !
Also, using java, you're not tied to one company - yeah, Sun sets most of the standards (currently), but IBM, Borland, Apache and many other organisations are also involved.
As for SOAP, java can support that as well. I don't think SOAP is the be-all and end-all though, because it is designed to work over http and pass through firewalls. I can't see too many secure sites will be rushing to use it.
Granted, C# sounds very interesting but it seems waaaaay too Microsoft centric for my liking.
They seem to be forgetting that the web is much more than just Windows desktop systems.
If you want your apps to work with Linux, mobile internet, console devices of the future etc, java is probably the way to go.
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Looks like the wait is nearly over !
Incidentally, the other speaker was Ken McCleod :-).
Damn, why do I never have moderator points when I *need* 'em ?