There is a company that uses the water itself to cut through a wall, which means that the fire is defeated as soon as you get inside without any unnecessary oxygen addition.
Since you only need one tool to get inside, rescue and extinguish this can save a lot of time and maybe lives. There might be cases where it's not the perfect tool so it cannot replace everything else, but for those cases it excels it have had a lot of success.
My call charges has been reduced for almost every bill the last years, yet the bills get larger because of the telephone company raised their monthly connection cost.
Going VoIP might finally slash that last cost, but in reality I'm using ADSL and still has to pay for the phone line even if I'm not making a single telephone call.
Bottom line, with internet connection and cellular phone connection costs are many times higher than ever before. Though I hope that this makes everyone more open for alternatives even though analysts predict that we will pay up much much more once they bring us pictures and video to our cellphones...
The fact that Microsoft gets themselves worthless patents doesn't mean we have to treat it as something that will have dire consequences for us, or any at all for that matter.
"Fact -- Prior art is not needed to bust any patent.
All you really have to do is show that the claims would have been reasonably obvious to any "practitioner in the field." That's all it takes."
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GIMP goes SVG
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And if you still want to use Mozilla and try out Adobe's SVG plugin it is now possible with the 6.0 beta plugin.
Since it don't install itself automatically you have to copy the files from some "shared files/adobe" directory to "Mozilla/plugins", just search for "NPSVG6.dll" and "NPSVG6.zip"
This would be a good day to launch more information about how DRM and hardware security extensions might protect your IP.
Eventually the security demands from companies and developers might form the first installation base of Palladium. Then consumers choices might not matter in the long run.
OS-news has a disappointing article about AMD64. In for example Gentoo most packages won't be marked as supporting 64 bits until proven otherwise, and until tested things will remain beta.
I think that your hope here is beta distributions that lets you test everything and iron out bugs rather than hoping for a tested distro containing nothing. Then at least there's hope that things are tried and tested, this is what betas are for.
Nforce3 and IDE drivers is a different matter since you cannot gain anything on a 64-bit platform if everything else is in 'just working' condition. If these are fixed then everything else can come out of beta in due time.
Actually, Microsoft don't make XSLT available to mortals. Upgrading IE to MSXML 4 isn't as easy as it could have been.
But since there are no differences at all in rendering XML to XHTML clientside or serverside this opens up a lot of possibilities with the right XSL templates. You wouldn't even need to have staroffice installed to print out a document or edit some typo and change the default font.
This could be as good as TeX as easy to read as plain text or at the same time obfuscated by an even worse syntax than TeX and transformed into unreadable code, but at least there are no need to mix in pearl or java to make it work...
Re:Damn you Neal Stephenson!
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Quicksilver
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But if you should pick any of them Quicksilver is the beginning cronologically. I have some doubts about opening the copy of Cryptonomicon lying on my desk, maybe I should wait for this one....
Well, I'm not installing downgrades of anything so I've kept away from Media Player 9 and the new DRM package. Whenever I need new functionality on my computer the absolutely last place I look is windows-update, they don't even have the much needed XML fixes for IE.
In Sweden a similar audio levy is extended from tapes to digital media around the new year. Low levies for CD-R and somewhat higher for CD-RW are extended on a megabyte basis to higher costs for DVD-R/RW but only to harddisks that are non-removable in dedicated audioplayers like the iPod.
Some have pointed to it's other uses as a PDA with calendar but they will probably not get away from a levy on about $20 for an iPod. I could accept this thing, at least it gives some moral support for copying music to your player. However for DVD-RW this tax will soon amount to more than half of the retail price which something that will haunt us forever even though the discs can be used for videos of your childrens birthday or backing up other types of data...
For every CD I buy a small amount is funneled to the music industry (no matter that I never burn any music), it's fair (alas incorrect) to assume that downloading music to these CD's is OK. Though I might have a problem with that nothing I'd ever listen to falls close to what the RIAAs figures says that I like. They just pay the wrong people.
There is a moral too, noone sane pays listprices for a CD anyway. Your kids can grow up to be consumers or to actually accomplish something.
I agree with you, though the question did not seem to be to learn everything about Java, but to learn to OOP programming in a good way.
Maybe a book more directly focused on OOP, datastructures or programming practises would be a better choice. Preferrably accompanied by a Java textbook of the kind that Eckel provides.
The key to this discussion isn't whether it is right or not to shut out independent clients or how much a sentence in a message is worth. This is a struggle from any big company to be able to keep customers in their own Private Garden with less choice where all money goes in one direction only.
There are analogies to electricity and telephones which started out as a free market but ended up in monopolies where you had only one choice. This was in the best interest of everyone at the time, but is still a major problem now when there are no real reason against several companies on the same physical network.
With the internet and mobile phones there are no such barriers stopping you from using, for example, your phone on another network. Instead there are a fenomenon called private gardens where you cannot use a "mobile phone" on the network, instead you get a crippled terminal usable only with one service provider.
This sounds OK when told by PR-people, new services can be introduced quickly and safely with less risk and you are free to choose the provider giving you the best complete package. In practice however this means that no services that are free or crosses the boundaries where you can no longer bill the customer can be allowed in your crippled phone (standard e-mail, independent answering machine, transferring of phone number to other device)
Microsoft might allow their service to be free, but only as long as they can dictate the means and make it an extension of their package - which you must buy to take advantage of all "new features". Anyone interested in just getting a message through or in the telephone example, have a conversation, should look for less expensive alternatives.
Anyone with a better link analyzing private gardens?
Good point, I will buy all the 42 volumes of Dragonball (eventually) but Todd McFairlanes Spawn just floated away from being a solid story and into everlasting dilution. If that weren't so obvious I might have holded out until the end.
seriously, this might give some hope that we can move on even after ADSL is upgraded to VDSL.
Though, the question that ought to be asked is what hi-bandwidth services they have in Japan that we don't get in the rest of the world (that brings in any money to the ISP that is...)
Well, since you're all mod'ed up now we normal mortals can make use of the "parent" link.
Eckel might be right that only the fittest survives but from all of the wrong reasons. They've been around to install an infrastructure and make sure that they can make the jobs of 15 other programmers themselves by scripting and adapting work already done. Maybe they got where they are by being supreme programmers, but the skills to maintain their positions are certainly on the level of "HTML-programmers"
Either that, or they weren't that skilled in the first place meaning that the market they are in is still waiting for the paradigm shift that will turn "programming knowledge" of useless interfaces into simple matters of fitting a solution to a type of problem.
Everyone buying ink in bottles keeping control of both quality and price should post their methods and experiences so we don't have to use this thread to whine about suspect business methods anymore.
The step from downloading it to actually get through more than 10 pages on a computer screen is very steep indeed. The one thing the normal book can't beat compared to the file is distribution.
I know I would have downloaded it if I were interested since it's sold out in all places I can get to. But then I would probably have bought it when it became available - downloadable teasers of the first two chapters is not such a bad idea anyway, I bought Orson Scott cards "Shadow puppets" after starting it on my computer.
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There is a company that uses the water itself to cut through a wall, which means that the fire is defeated as soon as you get inside without any unnecessary oxygen addition.
Since you only need one tool to get inside, rescue and extinguish this can save a lot of time and maybe lives. There might be cases where it's not the perfect tool so it cannot replace everything else, but for those cases it excels it have had a lot of success.
My call charges has been reduced for almost every bill the last years, yet the bills get larger because of the telephone company raised their monthly connection cost.
Going VoIP might finally slash that last cost, but in reality I'm using ADSL and still has to pay for the phone line even if I'm not making a single telephone call.
Bottom line, with internet connection and cellular phone connection costs are many times higher than ever before. Though I hope that this makes everyone more open for alternatives even though analysts predict that we will pay up much much more once they bring us pictures and video to our cellphones...
"some states require the trash to make it all the way to the curb or dumpster"
On no! We have a case of grand theft trash!
The fact that Microsoft gets themselves worthless patents doesn't mean we have to treat it as something that will have dire consequences for us, or any at all for that matter.
"Fact -- Prior art is not needed to bust any patent.
All you really have to do is show that the claims would have been reasonably obvious to any "practitioner in the field." That's all it takes."
Don Lancaster's Patent Avoicance Library
And if you still want to use Mozilla and try out Adobe's SVG plugin it is now possible with the 6.0 beta plugin.
Since it don't install itself automatically you have to copy the files from some "shared files/adobe" directory to "Mozilla/plugins", just search for "NPSVG6.dll" and "NPSVG6.zip"
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Actually, some USB products have been known to have better uses than what was originally intended...
This would be a good day to launch more information about how DRM and hardware security extensions might protect your IP.
Eventually the security demands from companies and developers might form the first installation base of Palladium. Then consumers choices might not matter in the long run.
OS-news has a disappointing article about AMD64. In for example Gentoo most packages won't be marked as supporting 64 bits until proven otherwise, and until tested things will remain beta.
I think that your hope here is beta distributions that lets you test everything and iron out bugs rather than hoping for a tested distro containing nothing. Then at least there's hope that things are tried and tested, this is what betas are for.
Nforce3 and IDE drivers is a different matter since you cannot gain anything on a 64-bit platform if everything else is in 'just working' condition. If these are fixed then everything else can come out of beta in due time.
Actually, Microsoft don't make XSLT available to mortals. Upgrading IE to MSXML 4 isn't as easy as it could have been.
But since there are no differences at all in rendering XML to XHTML clientside or serverside this opens up a lot of possibilities with the right XSL templates. You wouldn't even need to have staroffice installed to print out a document or edit some typo and change the default font.
This could be as good as TeX as easy to read as plain text or at the same time obfuscated by an even worse syntax than TeX and transformed into unreadable code, but at least there are no need to mix in pearl or java to make it work...
But if you should pick any of them Quicksilver is the beginning cronologically. I have some doubts about opening the copy of Cryptonomicon lying on my desk, maybe I should wait for this one....
Well, I'm not installing downgrades of anything so I've kept away from Media Player 9 and the new DRM package. Whenever I need new functionality on my computer the absolutely last place I look is windows-update, they don't even have the much needed XML fixes for IE.
Just a pipe through the heatsink will make your computer a perfect coffee machine.
"While making coffee [your prescott computer] will give you 25% more raw performance to be able to evaporate the water."
What a killer application...
In Sweden a similar audio levy is extended from tapes to digital media around the new year.
Low levies for CD-R and somewhat higher for CD-RW are extended on a megabyte basis to higher costs for DVD-R/RW but only to harddisks that are non-removable in dedicated audioplayers like the iPod.
Some have pointed to it's other uses as a PDA with calendar but they will probably not get away from a levy on about $20 for an iPod. I could accept this thing, at least it gives some moral support for copying music to your player. However for DVD-RW this tax will soon amount to more than half of the retail price which something that will haunt us forever even though the discs can be used for videos of your childrens birthday or backing up other types of data...
One mouse button too many I say,
you could just tap the mousepad to get the same effect...
Actually, Microsoft _has_ suspended IE updates.
Maybe they want us to see new IE features as features in some new version of windows in the future.
Anyhow, I'm all for standards and if this means that inline SVG will work rather than with embedded plugins it's all good.
For every CD I buy a small amount is funneled to the music industry (no matter that I never burn any music), it's fair (alas incorrect) to assume that downloading music to these CD's is OK. Though I might have a problem with that nothing I'd ever listen to falls close to what the RIAAs figures says that I like. They just pay the wrong people.
There is a moral too, noone sane pays listprices for a CD anyway. Your kids can grow up to be consumers or to actually accomplish something.
I agree with you, though the question did not seem to be to learn everything about Java, but to learn to OOP programming in a good way.
Maybe a book more directly focused on OOP, datastructures or programming practises would be a better choice. Preferrably accompanied by a Java textbook of the kind that Eckel provides.
The key to this discussion isn't whether it is right or not to shut out independent clients or how much a sentence in a message is worth. This is a struggle from any big company to be able to keep customers in their own Private Garden with less choice where all money goes in one direction only.
There are analogies to electricity and telephones which started out as a free market but ended up in monopolies where you had only one choice. This was in the best interest of everyone at the time, but is still a major problem now when there are no real reason against several companies on the same physical network.
With the internet and mobile phones there are no such barriers stopping you from using, for example, your phone on another network. Instead there are a fenomenon called private gardens where you cannot use a "mobile phone" on the network, instead you get a crippled terminal usable only with one service provider.
This sounds OK when told by PR-people, new services can be introduced quickly and safely with less risk and you are free to choose the provider giving you the best complete package. In practice however this means that no services that are free or crosses the boundaries where you can no longer bill the customer can be allowed in your crippled phone (standard e-mail, independent answering machine, transferring of phone number to other device)
Microsoft might allow their service to be free, but only as long as they can dictate the means and make it an extension of their package - which you must buy to take advantage of all "new features".
Anyone interested in just getting a message through or in the telephone example, have a conversation, should look for less expensive alternatives.
Anyone with a better link analyzing private gardens?
Good point, I will buy all the 42 volumes of Dragonball (eventually) but Todd McFairlanes Spawn just floated away from being a solid story and into everlasting dilution. If that weren't so obvious I might have holded out until the end.
seriously, this might give some hope that we can move on even after ADSL is upgraded to VDSL.
Though, the question that ought to be asked is what hi-bandwidth services they have in Japan that we don't get in the rest of the world (that brings in any money to the ISP that is...)
Well, since you're all mod'ed up now we normal mortals can make use of the "parent" link.
Eckel might be right that only the fittest survives but from all of the wrong reasons. They've been around to install an infrastructure and make sure that they can make the jobs of 15 other programmers themselves by scripting and adapting work already done. Maybe they got where they are by being supreme programmers, but the skills to maintain their positions are certainly on the level of "HTML-programmers"
Either that, or they weren't that skilled in the first place meaning that the market they are in is still waiting for the paradigm shift that will turn "programming knowledge" of useless interfaces into simple matters of fitting a solution to a type of problem.
Everyone buying ink in bottles keeping
control of both quality and price should
post their methods and experiences so
we don't have to use this thread to whine
about suspect business methods anymore.
"I bought too much beer, drank it all, and can't finish my quest!"
These people will have to restore a saved game, but it won't happen again.
It seems like this latest version can prohibit you from bad drinking habits. It must be a programmers dream to be able to correct buggy users.
The step from downloading it to actually get through more than 10 pages on a computer screen is very steep indeed. The one thing the normal book can't beat compared to the file is distribution.
I know I would have downloaded it if I were interested since it's sold out in all places I can get to. But then I would probably have bought it when it became available - downloadable teasers of the first two chapters is not such a bad idea anyway, I bought Orson Scott cards "Shadow puppets" after starting it on my computer.