Re:XML is NOT just text!
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XML and Perl
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· Score: 2, Insightful
you're doing it wrong.
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So, no, XML is not editable in emacs (or vi), grep-able, diff-able or understandable to the naked eye. Go and think about it again.
yes it is.. just because you claim that "you're doing it wrong," doesn't mean it's impossible.
xml is text just as much as html is.. are you going to tell me that html isn't editable in emacs or human-readable? how is html different from DocBook, for example?
and i know there are going to be a lot of posts saying "XML obviates Perl!"...
but i disagree. Perl absoulely RIPS through this stuff, unlike the Java stuff i've written. sometimes, there's nothing like some good, old-fashioned procedural code to munge one document into another.
the only problem i had was with UTF-8 stuff. perl really wasn't quite there until perl 5.8, and i'm having trouble finding installs of it on the machines i need to use it on at the university i work for.
speaking as someone who has "quit" around six times, each for months at a time, i know all too well that quitting is quite difficult. what finally worked for me was taking Zyban and then switching over to the patch, then slowly decreasing the patch's dose by cutting them up into successively smaller pieces.
my fear is that with this, people will treat it as sort of a "placebo cure," where weaning themselves of nicotine addiction will give them the impression that they're taking positive steps towards helping their situation, where in the long run, they have done little to address the most problematic aspects of their habit.
in short, i could see myself, a few years ago, starting to smoke these cigarettes, kicking nicotine addiction, but continuing to smoke these suckers for a while longer (and then probably starting back up on the real ones when i ran out).
With the Quest, nicotine dependency can for the first time be separated from the ritual. Once the addiction is addressed, smokers will have an easier time breaking the habit.
subject says it all... why don't we worry about weaning the cancer-causing part of the habit first? there are few side effects to a typical dosage of nicotine, but many to typical dosages of cigarette smoke (and attendant formaldahyde, ammonia, dioxine, urine, and whatever else they put into cigarettes).
with limited (read DRM-but-since-its-Apple-we-wont-call-it-DRM) capabilities.
uh... not really. they're just limiting the capability to streaming, and the scope to Rendezvous (zeroconf) networks, so it's a local area network thing.
DRM usually implies that a piece of "content" can have specific licensing restrictions that are enforced digitally on a granular basis (not across the board). there's nothing DRM about what apple's doing with iTunes at all...
for stereo to work, it would either have to be wider than the space between your ears, or it would have to rely on the sound reflecting off of the surrounding environment and back to your ears for you to distinguish stereo seperation. both are sort of unrealistic for a PDA.
i know i'm coming in way late here, but JYA pays for cryptome traffic out of pocket. it's his hobby (or mission, the point is that he doesn't get recompensated for it).
so don't lay waste to his site if you don't have an interest. it's coming straight out of his wallet.
OK, for one, this article totally glosses over Metroid Prime, which was an excellent game, and definitely had me a little freaked out and scared for Samus' mortality. not really a game aimed at preteens...
second, i kind of take offense at the idea that a game that doesn't drip with gore isn't aimed at adults. maybe i don't go for the garish motif of games like the Quake series. it's not because i'm unprepared to handle it; it's just that i think it's... tacky.
third, if you look at the general population of adults (not just adult gamers), i think kids are more likely to be able to wrap their minds around videogames than adults. it's sort of a stereotype, but it's true.. how many kids do you know that could wipe the floor with their parents and older relatives with any head-to-head game? so saying a game is "just aimed at kids" is sort of misunderstanding the situation a bit, imho.
while i'm at it, why don't i license the right to rob my house?
this whole platform presupposes that companies should have the ability to interrupt some people. what if we don't take that for granted? what if we presuppose that nobody should be interrupted at all?
There is a valve in the sewer line just up from the ejection pump that prevents poo from the sewer from flowing the wrong way and erupting from the toilets.
Unfortunately for these detection schemes (and the rest of us), one way to make a dirty "bomb" is to take a radioisotope of Cobalt and heat it until it's gaseous. that way, you don't have to deal with the whole messy dispersion aspect of dirty bombmaking, given that you survive being around making gaseous cobalt long enough to finish the process.
note that radioisotopes of cobalt arre easier to come by than you might think... such material is used to irradiate produce to make sure it's free from germs.
The last piece was set at 21:00 CET(Central European Time) by a Backstreet Boy. Jim somebody... Anyhow said piece started of over 90 minutes of an amazing domino avalanche show. It is one of the top hacking feats I've had the privilege to witness. This time Live on TV. I hope tapes (dvds) of it become available. They even had time delays of more than 5min each, built into the system to allow for advertising intermissions. Some parts of the installation didn't quite work, but overall it was worth seeing. The final tally came to 3847295 pieces fallen. It ended less than an hour ago and you should have seen it."
i'm not going to research this because i know categorically, it's impossible.
"one of the top hacking feats" can never be executed by a backstreet boy. it's just impossible.
Yea, I'm waiting for them to go into fast food. Give McDonald's a run for their money.
Just think, a free 2-day Serial Key to MS-Office with every BillyBurger sold!
or maybe they'll pull some sort of hailstorm "food rental" service. you'll have to log into passport to unlock your mouth, and then puke up your food if you don't pay the recurring fees.
I hope this puts flash out of bussines. It would be time for SVG to replace standard flash.
arg. everytime one of these stories comes up, i end up linking to this site.
SWF, Flash's file format, IS a free and open standard.
Re:Hauppauge supports OS X
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Review: EyeTV
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· Score: 2
right right... but i think they support 800x600 or whatever dvd resolution is, don't they?
there *has* to be something out there better than this, anyway.
Re:Hauppauge supports OS X
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Review: EyeTV
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· Score: 2
Hauppauge supports Mac OS X under their MyTV product line from their Eskape Labs division.
thanks! i was unaware of those products. but the PCI versions seem to be so much better, if only based on the resolutions... the WinTV PCI cards can take 1600x1200 stills!
Re:for the love of god
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Review: EyeTV
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actually hauppage cards have come BUNDLED with drivers since they were first offered for sale. It's amazing that people don't realize this, as it's hard to use them without.
oh, wiseguy, eh? thanks a bunch.
Oh, did you mean using hauppage cards under osx? I suppose it's theoretically possible, desktop Apple's have PCI slots now right? I guess it's merely a matter of interest - you have to have people with the need (don't have tivo/etc.) and the knowledge, who also have the time - many times the time cost far outweighs the cost of just buying the device.
yes, the pro macs have PCI. theoretically, there's open sourced drivers for linux or bsd out there somewhere, right? why can't those be hacked into os x? things like that have happened before.
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So, no, XML is not editable in emacs (or vi), grep-able, diff-able or understandable to the naked eye. Go and think about it again.
yes it is.. just because you claim that "you're doing it wrong," doesn't mean it's impossible.
xml is text just as much as html is.. are you going to tell me that html isn't editable in emacs or human-readable? how is html different from DocBook, for example?
and i know there are going to be a lot of posts saying "XML obviates Perl!"...
but i disagree. Perl absoulely RIPS through this stuff, unlike the Java stuff i've written. sometimes, there's nothing like some good, old-fashioned procedural code to munge one document into another.
the only problem i had was with UTF-8 stuff. perl really wasn't quite there until perl 5.8, and i'm having trouble finding installs of it on the machines i need to use it on at the university i work for.
my fear is that with this, people will treat it as sort of a "placebo cure," where weaning themselves of nicotine addiction will give them the impression that they're taking positive steps towards helping their situation, where in the long run, they have done little to address the most problematic aspects of their habit.
in short, i could see myself, a few years ago, starting to smoke these cigarettes, kicking nicotine addiction, but continuing to smoke these suckers for a while longer (and then probably starting back up on the real ones when i ran out).
subject says it all... why don't we worry about weaning the cancer-causing part of the habit first? there are few side effects to a typical dosage of nicotine, but many to typical dosages of cigarette smoke (and attendant formaldahyde, ammonia, dioxine, urine, and whatever else they put into cigarettes).
uh... not really. they're just limiting the capability to streaming, and the scope to Rendezvous (zeroconf) networks, so it's a local area network thing.
DRM usually implies that a piece of "content" can have specific licensing restrictions that are enforced digitally on a granular basis (not across the board). there's nothing DRM about what apple's doing with iTunes at all...
for stereo to work, it would either have to be wider than the space between your ears, or it would have to rely on the sound reflecting off of the surrounding environment and back to your ears for you to distinguish stereo seperation. both are sort of unrealistic for a PDA.
i know i'm coming in way late here, but JYA pays for cryptome traffic out of pocket. it's his hobby (or mission, the point is that he doesn't get recompensated for it).
so don't lay waste to his site if you don't have an interest. it's coming straight out of his wallet.
they own 30% of Samsung, IIRC.
heh. thanks for sticking up for me!
OK, for one, this article totally glosses over Metroid Prime, which was an excellent game, and definitely had me a little freaked out and scared for Samus' mortality. not really a game aimed at preteens...
second, i kind of take offense at the idea that a game that doesn't drip with gore isn't aimed at adults. maybe i don't go for the garish motif of games like the Quake series. it's not because i'm unprepared to handle it; it's just that i think it's... tacky.
third, if you look at the general population of adults (not just adult gamers), i think kids are more likely to be able to wrap their minds around videogames than adults. it's sort of a stereotype, but it's true.. how many kids do you know that could wipe the floor with their parents and older relatives with any head-to-head game? so saying a game is "just aimed at kids" is sort of misunderstanding the situation a bit, imho.
um, ok.
while i'm at it, why don't i license the right to rob my house?
this whole platform presupposes that companies should have the ability to interrupt some people. what if we don't take that for granted? what if we presuppose that nobody should be interrupted at all?
Unfortunately for these detection schemes (and the rest of us), one way to make a dirty "bomb" is to take a radioisotope of Cobalt and heat it until it's gaseous. that way, you don't have to deal with the whole messy dispersion aspect of dirty bombmaking, given that you survive being around making gaseous cobalt long enough to finish the process.
note that radioisotopes of cobalt arre easier to come by than you might think... such material is used to irradiate produce to make sure it's free from germs.
holy spoiler, batman! now people won't watch the later sequels to I, Robot!
well! i can fix that...
erm, what's your URL?
estes!
What'd he say?
What'd he say?
time to go back to TCP/IP Network Administration to learn how to decode this Slashdot article...
"one of the top hacking feats" can never be executed by a backstreet boy. it's just impossible.
SWF, Flash's file format, IS a free and open standard.
right right... but i think they support 800x600 or whatever dvd resolution is, don't they?
there *has* to be something out there better than this, anyway.
ok, i'm not mac os x savvy enough to know this, so i'll ask:
why hasn't someone written drivers for Hauppauge cards yet? they cost a fraction of the price of this product.