But an incident like this can take down the whole company. Where is the justice in that?
IDRTA, but I believe it was the Company that issued the press release, not invidual people who happened to work for the company. One of the downsides that comes with the privilege of incorporation is the ability to do things *as an entity*. If "the Company" does something, then it's "the Company" that will suffer for it.
Nope. Because a majority of the People have decided to allow the people they place in charge discretion in a few specific areas.
A majority of people feel that it's important to keep the identities of people in witness relocation programs secret.
You don't like it, grab a bullhorn and convince the Rest of Us why we should change.
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I remember seeing something on TV a long time ago about some Japanese company that had done just that.
It placed solar collectors similar to those in the article on the roof and piped the sun down fiber optics into rooms. Cheap natural lighting even if you're in the middle of an office block.
You know, with the framework that Apple is setting up here, they could be the first computer/OS company to actually give us the long coveted e|33t Movie Computer Interface.
As Apple has no copy protection scheme in place, they are worried that they would loose massive amounts of money by just selling an OS to a crowd which has always viewed the OS as a freebie.
It's been said before, but remember that prior to System 7.1, all System updates were free (unless you wanted printed manuals.)
I still remember those glory days in Jr High when I'd walk into the local Apple Computer dealership with a box of Sony disks and walk out with System 7.0.1...
Apple, unlike MS, does not use a registration-key system or any other type of copy protection on their OS.
I think buying Jaguar in the store will atone for your current sin:)
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Shush =P
And just to repeat, in case people didn't see my follow-up post, I'm already using Perl to handle my screen-scraping. My question was if I should take the time to learn to get/parse the resulting HTML using LWP instead of using Lynx and regexp-ing the resulting source to death.
Atlas Shrugged: The book every haughty IB student seems to think encompasses the end-all and be-all of social philosophy.
I did like her play "On the Night of January 16th" though (er, if that's what it was called... I don't remember...).
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Actually, I do normally use Perl. I just dump the source to a string and then regexp to my heart's content.
Hmm.. guess I should take a closer look at it =)
Worth learning LWP instead of doing it manually?
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I've done a whoooole lot of screen-scraping working for a company that shall remain nameless:) and I've generally always used "lynx --source" or curl to download the file and parse/grep it manually.
Can anyone discuss if it's worth it to learn this module and convert HTML the "right" way? Does it provide more reliability, easy of use or deployment, or other spiffiness? Or is it just a bloated Perl module that slaps a layer of indirection onto what is sometimes a very simple task?
The fonts were posted under an EULA that allows them to be re-distributed in un-modified form. They are still available at http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/!!
That's correct. AFAICR, Apple had a similar issue when it first came out with the Macintosh back in 1984. Of course, the Mac was the first computer to accurately display fonts on screen (WYSIWYG) so it needed to be able to display fonts appropriately.
Adobe at the time had the rights to fonts like Times, Helvetica, and Courier.
Apple, since it didn't want to/couldn't license the proper fonts themselves, decided to come up with its own version of these fonts. Thus begat the infamous "city" fonts of Apple old: New York (substitute for Times), Geneva (substitute for Helvetica), and Monaco (substitute for Courier)
There was even an option in the print dialog box for a long time that would automatically substitute the "real" version of the font when printed (since the LaserWriters had Times/Helvetica/Courier pre-installed). This became a problem later on though when the TrueType/Type 1 wars occured. The fonts weren't identical, so the spacing when printed would be different than what was shown on screen.
I read a rumor that this was going to be the last of the ST:TNG movies, period. If that's the case, then that means there's likely not much of a chance for him to reprise his character ever again (baring temporal anomalies).
I believe in Phillip Jose Farmer's Riverworld Series first book To Your Scattered Bodies Go*, the populace eventually settles on Esperanto as a universal language.
If you're not familiar with it, it's a surreal sci-fi book involving the mass simultaneous resurrection of all 36 Billion people who have ever lived on Earth onto a strange world composed of one very long river valley.
Rather interesting concept story (though the last two books were horrible).
Just a shameless plug here for the Open Directory Project. Leaving aside occasional occurances of editor-fraud or editor-abuse (which are quickly tracked down by the meta-editors), this is the best way to determine a site's real value.
A human looking at the page to subjectively/objectively determine its value is something that can't be replaced by a spider and an AI program.
Yes, he's suggesting that the machines use Esperanto as the middle language.
I think it make's sense. Esperanto was pretty much designed exactly for that purpose.: a "middle ground" that would be (relatively) easy for any person who currently speaks any language to learn and use decently. The fact that it's longer and more cumbersome to use (and that there was no native populace using it) seems to have killed its use in the public domain, but a machine doesn't care about that.
May not be the most efficient -- like converting a C program to Turing-machine codes and then converting that back into a Pascal program -- but it's at least a valid approach given sufficient HW is thrown at it.
It might be possible to worm an argument to state that these qualities are still show a computer is merely a 'tool', but you're going to make it stretch far and thin. There comes a point where a user grows to see that computers+networks arne't so simple; this is probably when a user steps over the line into power-user territory.
tool - (n.) 2) a: something (as an instrument or apparatus) used in performing an operation or necessary in the practice of a vocation or profession <a scholar's books are his tools>, b: a means to an end <a book's cover can be a marketing tool>
Except for those of us involved in the computer (ie, tool-making) industry, I still maintain that a computer is a "tool" in the classical sense for most users. Those of us steeped into the manipulation of computers to do our bidding (ie, computer programmers. ie, "the magic makers") see and use computers as tools with which to create other tools. We devise new methods of communication, which can bring about societal change, etc... but that doesn't affect how users perceive the system.
For the user, AIM and email are "tools" to communicate, much like the telephone. We may go on and on about data mining and information retrieval, but the User sees an interface to better understand the stock market (or something). Again, tools to accomplish a task.
It's only programmers and those involved in the industry created revolving around computers that wax poetic about the abilities of it. The vast majority of users don't.
And to explain my comment about Apple, anyone who's familiar with Apple over time realizes that what Apple is great at is slowly exposing the possibilities of the computer as a "meta tool" to the end user, without forcing them to take a CS class first. HyperCard (1987) and AppleScript (1993) are two examples of ways Apple users can begin to gradually design and impliment workflow solutions ("tools") customized to what they need. Anyone who's familiar with iMovie and Final Cut Pro will see workflow similarities there as well.
The problem with *nix is that in order to begin organizing and implimenting your own solution, you generally need to learn a programming language first. Not especially forgiving, and not accessible to the general user. *nix users (as opposed to sysadmins) who have lives outside of computers may not discover the use of the machine as a meta-tool as easily as Apple's seem to.
And Windows; how can you organize your own workflow when you're not even supposed to know understand your disk heirarchy?
Restaurants typically sell only one soft-drink vendor line, such as Pepsi vs. Coke, in order to get the best pricing/terms on the deal. In part it's the volume that does this (if they sold both, each would sell at half the level, and they wouldn't get the biggest price break), and the salesman push to get an exclusive deal (he gets more commission).
That doesn't hold for all establishments though. My local 7-11 has fountains for both Pepsi and Coke products (though nicely segregated). I guess for them the increased business and "goodwill" from having both sets of products outweighs the cost-savings of signing to an exclusive deal.
Perhaps something for PC suppliers to take note of.
The thing that pisses me off most about this all is that there is genuine music and a legitimate format that I simply cannot get any anywhere else (and I live in the US's 6th largest city): eclectic radio.
GoGaGa.com was the greatest thing since sliced bread. With its completely kitschy (sp?) mix of World music, dance, reggae, spoken word, radio play snippets, radio play remixes, and anything else anyone happened to bring in, they truly re-defined the term "eclectic radio".
GoGaGa went under, but many of the personalities and behind-the-scenes folks tried to restart it at AirBubble.com. They were doing a great job, too -- until the royalty issue hit:(
Evil, evil, RIAA...
(That's a good link to keep up to date about the royalty fight, they're staying pretty on-top of it.)
Back in '92 I remember spending my Jr High lunches in the science room playing the Lunatic Fringe screensaver that came with More After Dark on the school's LC II's.
Those were the days...
Did that ever get released anywhere else, or was strictly a module only?
I remember pouring over a Feb '90 copy of MacUser (I think it was talking about new SyQuest removeable storage cartridges.) Waaaay in the back, APC was advertising a 1 GB drive for only $1995.
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But an incident like this can take down the whole company. Where is the justice in that?
IDRTA, but I believe it was the Company that issued the press release, not invidual people who happened to work for the company. One of the downsides that comes with the privilege of incorporation is the ability to do things *as an entity*. If "the Company" does something, then it's "the Company" that will suffer for it.
Nope. Because a majority of the People have decided to allow the people they place in charge discretion in a few specific areas.
A majority of people feel that it's important to keep the identities of people in witness relocation programs secret.
You don't like it, grab a bullhorn and convince the Rest of Us why we should change.
I remember seeing something on TV a long time ago about some Japanese company that had done just that.
It placed solar collectors similar to those in the article on the roof and piped the sun down fiber optics into rooms. Cheap natural lighting even if you're in the middle of an office block.
LOL! That's just what I was thinking.
You know, with the framework that Apple is setting up here, they could be the first computer/OS company to actually give us the long coveted e|33t Movie Computer Interface.
3d interfaces can't be too far off at all...
As Apple has no copy protection scheme in place, they are worried that they would loose massive amounts of money by just selling an OS to a crowd which has always viewed the OS as a freebie.
It's been said before, but remember that prior to System 7.1, all System updates were free (unless you wanted printed manuals.)
I still remember those glory days in Jr High when I'd walk into the local Apple Computer dealership with a box of Sony disks and walk out with System 7.0.1...
Uhh.. what do you think Windows is chasing?
Apple, unlike MS, does not use a registration-key system or any other type of copy protection on their OS.
I think buying Jaguar in the store will atone for your current sin
Shush =P
And just to repeat, in case people didn't see my follow-up post, I'm already using Perl to handle my screen-scraping. My question was if I should take the time to learn to get/parse the resulting HTML using LWP instead of using Lynx and regexp-ing the resulting source to death.
Atlas Shrugged: The book every haughty IB student seems to think encompasses the end-all and be-all of social philosophy.
I did like her play "On the Night of January 16th" though (er, if that's what it was called... I don't remember...).
Actually, I do normally use Perl. I just dump the source to a string and then regexp to my heart's content.
Hmm.. guess I should take a closer look at it =)
I've done a whoooole lot of screen-scraping working for a company that shall remain nameless
Can anyone discuss if it's worth it to learn this module and convert HTML the "right" way? Does it provide more reliability, easy of use or deployment, or other spiffiness? Or is it just a bloated Perl module that slaps a layer of indirection onto what is sometimes a very simple task?
I would but I've already posted =)
The fonts were posted under an EULA that allows them to be re-distributed in un-modified form. They are still available at http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/!!
That's correct. AFAICR, Apple had a similar issue when it first came out with the Macintosh back in 1984. Of course, the Mac was the first computer to accurately display fonts on screen (WYSIWYG) so it needed to be able to display fonts appropriately.
Adobe at the time had the rights to fonts like Times, Helvetica, and Courier.
Apple, since it didn't want to/couldn't license the proper fonts themselves, decided to come up with its own version of these fonts. Thus begat the infamous "city" fonts of Apple old: New York (substitute for Times), Geneva (substitute for Helvetica), and Monaco (substitute for Courier)
There was even an option in the print dialog box for a long time that would automatically substitute the "real" version of the font when printed (since the LaserWriters had Times/Helvetica/Courier pre-installed). This became a problem later on though when the TrueType/Type 1 wars occured. The fonts weren't identical, so the spacing when printed would be different than what was shown on screen.
And here's a general FAQ about typography: http://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_28.htm
I read a rumor that this was going to be the last of the ST:TNG movies, period. If that's the case, then that means there's likely not much of a chance for him to reprise his character ever again (baring temporal anomalies).
Hope that's not the case....
Uhhh... in anime, Tokyo gets destroyed every other day!
I feel sorry for Tokyo Tower in particular...
I believe in Phillip Jose Farmer's Riverworld Series first book To Your Scattered Bodies Go*, the populace eventually settles on Esperanto as a universal language.
If you're not familiar with it, it's a surreal sci-fi book involving the mass simultaneous resurrection of all 36 Billion people who have ever lived on Earth onto a strange world composed of one very long river valley.
Rather interesting concept story (though the last two books were horrible).
*Affil. link goes to a non-profit.
Just a shameless plug here for the Open Directory Project. Leaving aside occasional occurances of editor-fraud or editor-abuse (which are quickly tracked down by the meta-editors), this is the best way to determine a site's real value.
A human looking at the page to subjectively/objectively determine its value is something that can't be replaced by a spider and an AI program.
URL cloaking, hidden text, keyword tricks, etc... don't matter. =)
-jc
Aww yeah.... G3/233DT beige bay-be
At least it's got 480 MB of RAM, so things still seem surprisingly zippy.
Damn, I remember when that was next-to-top-of-the-line back ni Dec. '97.... *sigh*...
Yes, he's suggesting that the machines use Esperanto as the middle language.
I think it make's sense. Esperanto was pretty much designed exactly for that purpose.: a "middle ground" that would be (relatively) easy for any person who currently speaks any language to learn and use decently. The fact that it's longer and more cumbersome to use (and that there was no native populace using it) seems to have killed its use in the public domain, but a machine doesn't care about that.
May not be the most efficient -- like converting a C program to Turing-machine codes and then converting that back into a Pascal program -- but it's at least a valid approach given sufficient HW is thrown at it.
It might be possible to worm an argument to state that these qualities are still show a computer is merely a 'tool', but you're going to make it stretch far and thin. There comes a point where a user grows to see that computers+networks arne't so simple; this is probably when a user steps over the line into power-user territory.
Except for those of us involved in the computer (ie, tool-making) industry, I still maintain that a computer is a "tool" in the classical sense for most users. Those of us steeped into the manipulation of computers to do our bidding (ie, computer programmers. ie, "the magic makers") see and use computers as tools with which to create other tools. We devise new methods of communication, which can bring about societal change, etc... but that doesn't affect how users perceive the system.
For the user, AIM and email are "tools" to communicate, much like the telephone. We may go on and on about data mining and information retrieval, but the User sees an interface to better understand the stock market (or something). Again, tools to accomplish a task.
It's only programmers and those involved in the industry created revolving around computers that wax poetic about the abilities of it. The vast majority of users don't.
And to explain my comment about Apple, anyone who's familiar with Apple over time realizes that what Apple is great at is slowly exposing the possibilities of the computer as a "meta tool" to the end user, without forcing them to take a CS class first. HyperCard (1987) and AppleScript (1993) are two examples of ways Apple users can begin to gradually design and impliment workflow solutions ("tools") customized to what they need. Anyone who's familiar with iMovie and Final Cut Pro will see workflow similarities there as well.
The problem with *nix is that in order to begin organizing and implimenting your own solution, you generally need to learn a programming language first. Not especially forgiving, and not accessible to the general user. *nix users (as opposed to sysadmins) who have lives outside of computers may not discover the use of the machine as a meta-tool as easily as Apple's seem to.
And Windows; how can you organize your own workflow when you're not even supposed to know understand your disk heirarchy?
Restaurants typically sell only one soft-drink vendor line, such as Pepsi vs. Coke, in order to get the best pricing/terms on the deal. In part it's the volume that does this (if they sold both, each would sell at half the level, and they wouldn't get the biggest price break), and the salesman push to get an exclusive deal (he gets more commission).
That doesn't hold for all establishments though. My local 7-11 has fountains for both Pepsi and Coke products (though nicely segregated). I guess for them the increased business and "goodwill" from having both sets of products outweighs the cost-savings of signing to an exclusive deal.
Perhaps something for PC suppliers to take note of.
Actually, Apple File Exchange came with System 6 and would let you transfer a file off of an MS-DOS floppy. PITA to use, but it was Apple Software.
The thing that pisses me off most about this all is that there is genuine music and a legitimate format that I simply cannot get any anywhere else (and I live in the US's 6th largest city): eclectic radio.
GoGaGa.com was the greatest thing since sliced bread. With its completely kitschy (sp?) mix of World music, dance, reggae, spoken word, radio play snippets, radio play remixes, and anything else anyone happened to bring in, they truly re-defined the term "eclectic radio".
GoGaGa went under, but many of the personalities and behind-the-scenes folks tried to restart it at AirBubble.com. They were doing a great job, too -- until the royalty issue hit
Evil, evil, RIAA...
(That's a good link to keep up to date about the royalty fight, they're staying pretty on-top of it.)
Back in '92 I remember spending my Jr High lunches in the science room playing the Lunatic Fringe screensaver that came with More After Dark on the school's LC II's.
Those were the days...
Did that ever get released anywhere else, or was strictly a module only?
I remember pouring over a Feb '90 copy of MacUser (I think it was talking about new SyQuest removeable storage cartridges.) Waaaay in the back, APC was advertising a 1 GB drive for only $1995.