Or they do not really have the time to fuck around with OpenBSD. Calling Ciso takes 10 minutes. If you can create, build, install and get to work a 486 with multiple Ethernet cards to build a SWITCH in 10 minute I will bow before you. Time = Money.
How does Sphinx and ViaVoice compare? I am seriously thinking of playing with these two thingies but I would like to have some kind of a opinion fro a serious user.
Could they? I don't know. I think that the main problemn here is that software is a difficult and complicated thing which we haven't really grasped with yet. Software is becoming liofe biological organisms and you don't get to sue God (or whatever deity) for buildingh you with exploits for viruses, worms and bacteria, do you.
I think Microsoft has a case when they claim that they did not have much of a choice because in the old days their software had to run on much slower computers and their systems simply evolved this way. And that they had to maintain backwards compatibility to survive. Can you imagine Microsoft stating in 1992 when networking became vry common that their OS will now change forever, pretty much nothing will run on it anymore because its not secure? Not bloody likely.
Unix always had the luxury of people recompiling everything from scratch and keeping up with the latest and greatest. When Linux hits the desktop that luxury will not be there anymore.
Liablility is a difficult thing in an extremely complex interconnected system.
Actually he got caught the day after his 18th Birthday and since he wrote the digital organism before it there was some debate about whether he is chargeable or not since he comitted the crime as a youth.
TA's Score also was a full symphonic recording that played off the CD. Stick your TA CD into your CD player one day. It plays, except for track 1.
Hardly anything your soundcard is going to produce.
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> I have yet to find a description of XML schema processing in terms of grammars and parsers.
You are seriously joking, yes? Read anything about RELAX NG for a start. Look at programs like relaxer and other Schema compiler compilers. RELAX NG was based on Tree Automata from day one.
Now Linux only should do the following and maybe it could begin to take the world asunder:
It needs a real Vector drawing program. Like illustrator or Freehand or Xara. There are a few candidates. Non of them are there yet.
And now for the rub. That program needs to integrate with Gimp. Well. For instance, Gimp need to be able to place vector images as a layer and actually remember that it is a vector image. Ie, you could drag and drop or copy/paste an vector image into a gimp image and the thing would STAY that way as a layer. So if the image rescales, the vector rescales too and does not lose resolution. IF you save the picture the things rescales.
If you paste a multi-layer image from Gimp as a bitmap object into your illustrator program (or into Scribus) the layers must remain layers with the same features.
And now the integration in Scribus: If you paste a combined vector-image file into scribus and rescale it (like, when you print, that rescales it) it should do the same. Same for layers. same for integreation to both directions.
A litany of other things. Gimp (and the vector program) needs a save-for-web feature like Photoshop does. ALL programs needs to be a) Scriptable (GIMP is at least good at this), preferrably with the same language and integrated object model (this Adobe stuff cannot quite do). b) Use the same colorspaces (and there are quite a few there. c) Be able to use spot colors and proper color handling. In all programs (PS cannot handle spots, illustrator can). d) Have functional layers (a layer that applies to filter to the stuff below it, such as brightness-contrast). e) And the UI. Gimp's UI is different. I do not think its all that bad (I like tear-off popups, to keep the filters up.) But there are complaints about it. At least changing it will help with adoption a bit. Perhaps using both styles would be cool. f) Integrated Vector tools for simple things (Like PS's rectangle and simple shapes. PS's UI in this case, frankly, sucks. But at least it has the feature and for many common things (Buttons, which are used a LOT) it works quite well. g) While we are on the subject of buttons, layer styles like the bevels and shadows are vey useful (PS Elements are better here, but not quite as fully features as PS. Easier to use though).
The Vector program must be able to a) use PS filters internally to filter the stuff below it. b) Have Illustrator's "Appearance" feature which is über cool. c) Do real serious Typesetting and use OpenType's features d) Handle MM fonts in an integrated way (No, I don't want to create a new font beforehand)
Indesign is probably the finest typesetting program there is. Scribus needs to at least support all the features of OpenType so that you produce good looking pages. Typesetting is a 700 year-old craft which is being raped by computers. For God's sake, everyone uses Arial for body text. Having really good typesetting tools which makes it easy to do quality typesetting would go a long way to remedy this. Indesign can do that.
In short, Linux needs to adopt a real vector format (EPS or SVG, but SVG is limited) and a real multi-layer vector-capable bitmap format. AND TOOL INTEGRATION. TOOL INTEGRATION. TOOL INTEGRATION.
Ok, the formats are sort-of there but the tools and libraries and integration are certainly not even close.
Btw, if you want to use real Image and publishing tools while staying in Unix use a Mac.
We are still digging out neolithic sites that are pretty old and while you cannot find any detail there are some things to discover. And we are 6 billion people, in those days there were perhaps a couple of million. So they simply left much less to discover since there were less of them.
The other thing is that an advanced civilisation requires lots of people to sustain itself. with 1 million people you simply cannot build a large civilisation of the same magnitude as ours.
Ok, that does not discount the idea that a couple of hundred Aliens visited the place and helped. But with a self sustaining civilisation there would have been SOMETHING to discover, even if it was just a simple screw.
If we destroy ourselves for the next 50000 years our descentdant archeaologists will find our detritus. Transistor radios. TV's. Silicon chips. Large factories. Machines. Mines. Bridges. Skyscrapers.
We have not found ANYTHING of that sort that predates us here on earth. Guess why. Maybe because they were not there?
Many (actually, all) of the Wireless LAN cards on Linux require a binary driver. There is a reason for this: A Wireless Lan Card is a radio transmitting device and falls under FCC rules.
The FCC has regulations about not allowing end users to change some of the parameters (which the chipset may allow) and therefore is pretty much ILLEGAL to have a source code driver for these cards because they are regulated devices.
For instance, some of the chips allow you to jack up the power beyond what the FCC allows. Which the binary driver does not, which is why the FCC allows the manufacturer to distribute the thing in the first place.
And the US is liberal in these matters. In Europe rules are usually stricter.
Voice input is (generally) not so useful but voice output tends to be quite nice.
Our server room has a speech synth (festival on Linux) with a simple shell scrtip "say x instead of echo x) that throws out warnings and events. As long as you don't do something like make the computer read all the log entries all the time it works very well to have a talking machine. We use it for things such as moitoring when specific machines are down and reminders about backups and some other events which happen about 5-10 times per day. That works very well.
That said, voice is useless for general purpose work the whole time but for commands which you only give once in a while it may be useful. I dream of an MP3 player which I can tell "play me that latest Alanis Morisett album") That would be truly cool.
One truly sweet thing I saw at the recent LinuxTag in Germany was a tablet computer that doubles as the screen for a desktop computer. Basically you have a normal-looking desktop setup with a keyboard and a mouse and a lcd screen standing on a stand, but then you take the screen off the stand and you have a tablet computer. Very nice.Unfortunately, handwriting recognition in Linux is apparently non-existing
> For Windows perhaps. But if you're going to > confine yourself to Windows, why bother with Java?
Get friggin real. I have an app that I wrote that uses JWS and it works out of the box, without any problems on Linux, MacOSX and Solaris. I develop on Linux and it just works on Wiondows.
And the really cool thing is the program installs on the client's desktop and when I publish it on our server, the desktop app automatically updates itself. On all of the above OS'es.
The key here is "long range". This is one thing that network amateurs always get confused. There is a hell of a difference between latency and bandwidth. TCP does not handle low latency networks all that well (it sucks over satellite, for example) TCP does handle high bandwidth very well, but if the latency is low (because of the "long range" and "millisecond delays" in your example) TCP is not optimal at all.
Basically with a low-latency network there is a lot of space in the pip for packets and TCP does not fill it up because the window is too small.
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Or they do not really have the time to fuck around with OpenBSD. Calling Ciso takes 10 minutes. If you can create, build, install and get to work a 486 with multiple Ethernet cards to build a SWITCH in 10 minute I will bow before you. Time = Money.
Geez man, thanks for the expansion my vocab. Always nice to learn something new!
How does Sphinx and ViaVoice compare? I am seriously thinking of playing with these two thingies but I would like to have some kind of a opinion fro a serious user.
Thanks.
Call them Samurai Clusters then
The country with the second largest military expenditure in the world (after the US)in $$ terms is...Japan. The fifth on that list in Germany.
Maybe I'm daft but when did a forest fire last cause a 2 km wide crater? What did they have in that forest??!!
Perhaps it was a nuclear explosion, but not one from a Korean nuclear explosive?
Could they? I don't know. I think that the main problemn here is that software is a difficult and complicated thing which we haven't really grasped with yet. Software is becoming liofe biological organisms and you don't get to sue God (or whatever deity) for buildingh you with exploits for viruses, worms and bacteria, do you.
I think Microsoft has a case when they claim that they did not have much of a choice because in the old days their software had to run on much slower computers and their systems simply evolved this way. And that they had to maintain backwards compatibility to survive. Can you imagine Microsoft stating in 1992 when networking became vry common that their OS will now change forever, pretty much nothing will run on it anymore because its not secure? Not bloody likely.
Unix always had the luxury of people recompiling everything from scratch and keeping up with the latest and greatest. When Linux hits the desktop that luxury will not be there anymore.
Liablility is a difficult thing in an extremely complex interconnected system.
Actually he got caught the day after his 18th Birthday and since he wrote the digital organism before it there was some debate about whether he is chargeable or not since he comitted the crime as a youth.
TA's Score also was a full symphonic recording that played off the CD. Stick your TA CD into your CD player one day. It plays, except for track 1.
Hardly anything your soundcard is going to produce.
> I have yet to find a description of XML schema processing in terms of grammars and parsers.
You are seriously joking, yes? Read anything about RELAX NG for a start. Look at programs like relaxer and other Schema compiler compilers. RELAX NG was based on Tree Automata from day one.
Get bloody real.
Now Linux only should do the following and maybe it could begin to take the world asunder:
It needs a real Vector drawing program. Like illustrator or Freehand or Xara. There are a few candidates. Non of them are there yet.
And now for the rub. That program needs to integrate with Gimp. Well. For instance, Gimp need to be able to place vector images as a layer and actually remember that it is a vector image. Ie, you could drag and drop or copy/paste an vector image into a gimp image and the thing would STAY that way as a layer. So if the image rescales, the vector rescales too and does not lose resolution. IF you save the picture the things rescales.
If you paste a multi-layer image from Gimp as a bitmap object into your illustrator program (or into Scribus) the layers must remain layers with the same features.
And now the integration in Scribus: If you paste a combined vector-image file into scribus and rescale it (like, when you print, that rescales it) it should do the same. Same for layers. same for integreation to both directions.
A litany of other things. Gimp (and the vector program) needs a save-for-web feature like Photoshop does. ALL programs needs to be
a) Scriptable (GIMP is at least good at this), preferrably with the same language and integrated object model (this Adobe stuff cannot quite do).
b) Use the same colorspaces (and there are quite a few there.
c) Be able to use spot colors and proper color handling. In all programs (PS cannot handle spots, illustrator can).
d) Have functional layers (a layer that applies to filter to the stuff below it, such as brightness-contrast).
e) And the UI. Gimp's UI is different. I do not think its all that bad (I like tear-off popups, to keep the filters up.) But there are complaints about it. At least changing it will help with adoption a bit. Perhaps using both styles would be cool.
f) Integrated Vector tools for simple things (Like PS's rectangle and simple shapes. PS's UI in this case, frankly, sucks. But at least it has the feature and for many common things (Buttons, which are used a LOT) it works quite well.
g) While we are on the subject of buttons, layer styles like the bevels and shadows are vey useful (PS Elements are better here, but not quite as fully features as PS. Easier to use though).
The Vector program must be able to
a) use PS filters internally to filter the stuff below it.
b) Have Illustrator's "Appearance" feature which is über cool.
c) Do real serious Typesetting and use OpenType's features
d) Handle MM fonts in an integrated way (No, I don't want to create a new font beforehand)
Indesign is probably the finest typesetting program there is. Scribus needs to at least support all the features of OpenType so that you produce good looking pages. Typesetting is a 700 year-old craft which is being raped by computers. For God's sake, everyone uses Arial for body text. Having really good typesetting tools which makes it easy to do quality typesetting would go a long way to remedy this. Indesign can do that.
In short, Linux needs to adopt a real vector format (EPS or SVG, but SVG is limited) and a real multi-layer vector-capable bitmap format. AND TOOL INTEGRATION. TOOL INTEGRATION. TOOL INTEGRATION.
Ok, the formats are sort-of there but the tools and libraries and integration are certainly not even close.
Btw, if you want to use real Image and publishing tools while staying in Unix use a Mac.
We are still digging out neolithic sites that are pretty old and while you cannot find any detail there are some things to discover. And we are 6 billion people, in those days there were perhaps a couple of million. So they simply left much less to discover since there were less of them.
The other thing is that an advanced civilisation requires lots of people to sustain itself. with 1 million people you simply cannot build a large civilisation of the same magnitude as ours.
Ok, that does not discount the idea that a couple of hundred Aliens visited the place and helped. But with a self sustaining civilisation there would have been SOMETHING to discover, even if it was just a simple screw.
If we destroy ourselves for the next 50000 years our descentdant archeaologists will find our detritus. Transistor radios. TV's. Silicon chips. Large factories. Machines. Mines. Bridges. Skyscrapers.
We have not found ANYTHING of that sort that predates us here on earth. Guess why. Maybe because they were not there?
Oh great, now I have to worry about redneck Bob dropping out of the sky because the copy made him fall on my roof.
Another example here: Wireless LAN cards.
Many (actually, all) of the Wireless LAN cards on Linux require a binary driver. There is a reason for this: A Wireless Lan Card is a radio transmitting device and falls under FCC rules.
The FCC has regulations about not allowing end users to change some of the parameters (which the chipset may allow) and therefore is pretty much ILLEGAL to have a source code driver for these cards because they are regulated devices.
For instance, some of the chips allow you to jack up the power beyond what the FCC allows. Which the binary driver does not, which is why the FCC allows the manufacturer to distribute the thing in the first place.
And the US is liberal in these matters. In Europe rules are usually stricter.
What do you think are the chances that some redneck is not going to take out that autopilot and replace it with a aftermarket hotrod conversion?
Hey you insensitive dork! Gnu Chess badly outclasses me! How am I supposed to feel now?
In WWII Erwin Rommel escaped at one point from a British advance with cooking oil because the British had destroyed his fuel supplies.
Voice input is (generally) not so useful but voice output tends to be quite nice.
Our server room has a speech synth (festival on Linux) with a simple shell scrtip "say x instead of echo x) that throws out warnings and events. As long as you don't do something like make the computer read all the log entries all the time it works very well to have a talking machine. We use it for things such as moitoring when specific machines are down and reminders about backups and some other events which happen about 5-10 times per day. That works very well.
That said, voice is useless for general purpose work the whole time but for commands which you only give once in a while it may be useful. I dream of an MP3 player which I can tell "play me that latest Alanis Morisett album") That would be truly cool.
One truly sweet thing I saw at the recent LinuxTag in Germany was a tablet computer that doubles as the screen for a desktop computer. Basically you have a normal-looking desktop setup with a keyboard and a mouse and a lcd screen standing on a stand, but then you take the screen off the stand and you have a tablet computer. Very nice.Unfortunately, handwriting recognition in Linux is apparently non-existing
> For Windows perhaps. But if you're going to > confine yourself to Windows, why bother with Java?
Get friggin real. I have an app that I wrote that uses JWS and it works out of the box, without any problems on Linux, MacOSX and Solaris. I develop on Linux and it just works on Wiondows.
And the really cool thing is the program installs on the client's desktop and when I publish it on our server, the desktop app automatically updates itself. On all of the above OS'es.
Ok, Ok i switched low and high... High = more time for packet to flow to other side, not high speed.
You know, lugging around a lead-acid car battery is not exactly portable...
The key here is "long range". This is one thing that network amateurs always get confused. There is a hell of a difference between latency and bandwidth. TCP does not handle low latency networks all that well (it sucks over satellite, for example) TCP does handle high bandwidth very well, but if the latency is low (because of the "long range" and "millisecond delays" in your example) TCP is not optimal at all.
Basically with a low-latency network there is a lot of space in the pip for packets and TCP does not fill it up because the window is too small.
This has nothing to do with speed.