the oppressor is quite the same (even if it's called called an "industry association", rather than a "government").
Oh, PLEASE.
Would such protests work in American record stores, for instance?
Or a better form of protest -- if you loathe the RIAA's tactics, don't go to the record stores that support them! Spend your entertainment dollars on live music and independent artists instead.
I've seen first-hand people using font tags to make an error message red
You know, there's something to be said for the straightforwardness of the "Font. Color. Red. Do it." approach.
With CSS, the developer has to decide whether to set the color as an inline style, as a page-defined style, or as part of an external stylesheet. Whether to apply that style to an existing element containing the error message, or to wrap the error text in a new SPAN element. Whether the CSS style should be applied based on tag name, class, id -- maybe a convoluted combination of all three.
a tag that should almost never be used.
I don't understand on what you're basing that opinion on, as the BR tag is not deprecated in the HTML 4.x nor XHTML 1.x standards. Demanding a line break at a particular location is perfectly cromulent syntactic markup. (Actually, it's more of a suggestion than a demand; non-page-based devices will quietly ignore the tag, should anyone ever develop a practical non-page-based device for the web.)
What SHOULD never happen, I think, is for BR to be treated as a substitute for proper block-level delineation. If you're ending a paragraph and starting a new one, you should have two open P tags and two close P tags. Sticking two BR tags in a row in there instead isn't semantically correct, even if it is practically force of habit to those that grew up using typewriters.
If you can have a larger sample, why not use it? It's more accurate that way.
Because there's a point of diminishing returns.
If a 1-million-page sample gives you 85% accuracy, and a 2-million-page sample gives you 95% accuracy, it may be worth the extra time and effort to process the 2-million-page sample. But if reaching 96% accuracy requires you to process 1 BILLION pages, it's probably not worth the time or the effort.
I think the Universities understand that employers don't generally have the cognitive skills to understand whether an applicants is qualified for a particular job and must really on earned degrees from institutions to tell them if they should or in some cases even can hire somebody.
I think employers understand that the work skills required to complete a four-year degree program at a well-regarded university are at least as important as indicators of qualifications as a person's ability to leave a positive impression in a mere one-hour job interview.
The sorry fact though is that this has gone on long enough that there aren't very many differences between the two parties today.
This wouldn't be a bad thing, if the result was a moderate stance on most issues. Instead, though, we seem to get a fairly-extreme-left stance on some issues, and a fairly-extreme-right stance on other issues. And nobody ends up happy, because for everything the government does that one approves of, there's also something that one disapproves of.
I don't see the point in moving everything to the community. What happens when I relocate a few years from now - now I have to re-mold another community into my image. Great. No thanks.
If you're planning on relocating every few years, yeah, don't bother trying to influence your community. If you're not a part if it, then it's not really "yours". Most people, though, once they start a family and/or get a mortgage, plan to live in the same place for a long time, and stand to gain much from influencing the community they live in.
The fact is, alternative parties will never get a foothold in national politics unless they can gain footholds in state, county, and city politics first. Voters want reassurance that the candidate they vote for is capable of doing the job -- every Democrat or GOP candidate for president since Eisenhower has previously served in Congress or as a governor (and Ike was a War Hero, which 50 years ago was the third way to gain presidential legitimacy).
If a Green (for instance) candidate can get elected to city council, maybe one can get elected as mayor. If one can get elected as mayor, maybe one can be elected to state assembly. If one can get elected to state assembly, maybe one can get elected governor. If one can get elected governor, THEN maybe the party can get someone elected to federal government.
There are no shortcuts (unless you have name recognition).
I don't think TV and movie subtitling is going to be the primary application of this technology. Which is more cost-efficient to a typical TV station or film distributor -- buying one of IBM's big heavy translation computers and support to keep it running, or hiring a dozen bilingual humans to do translations the old-fashioned way?
I expect the spooks (CIA, NSA, etc.) to be the big customers, at least in the near-term. There's countless hours of recorded audio of terrorists or suspected terrorists talking to each other, and not enough time to translate them all by ear. Speech recognition, even if not flawless, will help the intelligence community separate the wheat from the chaff, freeing up time for the translators to work on the most critical cases instead of the mundane and the dead-ends.
...and your computer doesn't have a CDRW/DVDRW on it of some form or another? You haven't secretly set up an ssh tunnel to an outside computer?
*I* could find a way to move sensitive data off my workstation, sure. But the data I work with isn't exactly top secret.
In the case that it were, I would hope the IT directors at the company would be smart enough to lock my terminal down. No writable or bootable removable media. A secured OS and a user account with no permissions to install any software. Krazy glue in the USB ports.
It's possible to take reasonable precautions against sensitive data being compromised, and companies that fail to do so deserve full culpability.
And in large part, the growth of USENET drove "the Internet".
I disagree entirely.
It was the maturation of the World Wide Web, not USENET, that caused the Internet boom period of the mid and late 1990's.
Indeed as the "mainstream" Internet has grown, Usenet has become more and more marginalized.
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Honestly, I really don't see how this is such a bad thing. It is not commercial (pay) software.
I'm not sure I understand your argument. Are you saying that because Microsoft does not charge any money for Internet Explorer, that they should relinquish the right to choose who may have a copy of it and under what conditions?
SCSI was slowly dying from the original Power Macs in 1994 through the first iMac and Blue & White G3
During this time, IDE/ATA hard drives were rapidly getting cheaper and bigger, to the point where for a single-volume desktop computer, the benefits of SCSI were no longer worth the added cost. Of course, in the server market SCSI was and still is king.
With FireWire, it is *the* transport of choice, and usually the only transport, for all DV and HDV cameras, decks, and other video equipment, and is increasingly used on high end DTV and HDTV equipment and other high end audio/video equipment
I think it would be foolish of Apple to include a hi-speed Firewire port on their baseline hardware solely for the benefit of users who wish to interface their mid- to high-end A/V equipment to their Mac. If the interface is that important to a user, he or she can buy an add-on interface.
If I had one well-designed appliance that had the screen, a DVD transport, a VHS transport (yes, they are still used), and an integral digital satellite decoder, it could use far less power overall.
And would only sell to people with viewing habits like yours.
The opposite end of the spectrum -- going totally modular and having a discrete tuner box, DVD drive box, MPEG decoder box, audio amplifier box and so on -- would be even less likely to find market acceptance.
Personally I find the current state of consumer electronics pretty reasonable. Except for remote controls. Why everyone's still using infrared technology with each manufacturer using its own proprietary codes that vary even from model to model is beyond me. I can't wait for the industry to adopt Bluetooth (or something like it), and a True Universal command set so I can throw away my stack of remotes once and for all.
How about that computer in your office? Can you put your hand on your heart and say you always turn it off before you leave work at the end of the day?
No, I never do. (Though I do put it into sleep mode and turn off the display.)
Why not? Because if I shut everything down at the end of the day, I have to start everything back up and the beginning of the next day. It may cost more in electricity to keep the CPU idle but powered overnight, but being able to sit down in the morning and pick up my work right where I left off the night before means my productivity is much higher than otherwise.
An HP laserjet 4L I bought in 1995 -- it didn't have an off button. That bothered me so much I bought one of those undermonitor powerbars with switches on the front so I could turn the darn thing off.
I did the same thing to allow myself to power-off a Brother laser printer I bought around that same time with no off switch.
My plan backfired, though. Due to the design of the printer a (long) cool-off period was required after anything was printed on it. I got in the habit of killing power to it immediately after printing, the fans didn't blow, I ended up ruining the fuser and having to get it replaced.
Now granted, not all devices have this type of passive power consumption required. But it pays to keep in mind WHY an appliance designer may have opted to design a standby mode instead of a power on/off switch.
Offtopic - What amazes me as a Swede is that all Anglo-saxon countries I've been to build so incredibly flimsy and energy-inefficient houses. England, Australia, and from what I've heard, the US as well. I mean, you are rich countries, why build like third world?
First impressions count for a lot. It seems that more home buyers will go for the pristine white McMansion, with cathedral ceilings in each of its fifteen rooms and the least expensive building materials available, over a more modest, energy-efficient, sturdier but less eye-popping home with the same sale price.
Nevermind that the utility bills every month will be three times higher, or that the roof is going to develop a leak within ten years, or that within 100 years the white box estates will be demolished, rebuilt, demolished, and rebuilt again while the other home remains inhabitable the whole time. A house is a status symbol, and whomever has the biggest garage to park their leased Infiniti sedan in, wins.
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the oppressor is quite the same (even if it's called called an "industry association", rather than a "government").
Oh, PLEASE.
Would such protests work in American record stores, for instance?
Or a better form of protest -- if you loathe the RIAA's tactics, don't go to the record stores that support them! Spend your entertainment dollars on live music and independent artists instead.
I've seen first-hand people using font tags to make an error message red
You know, there's something to be said for the straightforwardness of the "Font. Color. Red. Do it." approach.
With CSS, the developer has to decide whether to set the color as an inline style, as a page-defined style, or as part of an external stylesheet. Whether to apply that style to an existing element containing the error message, or to wrap the error text in a new SPAN element. Whether the CSS style should be applied based on tag name, class, id -- maybe a convoluted combination of all three.
Font tags still Just Work.
a tag that should almost never be used. I don't understand on what you're basing that opinion on, as the BR tag is not deprecated in the HTML 4.x nor XHTML 1.x standards. Demanding a line break at a particular location is perfectly cromulent syntactic markup. (Actually, it's more of a suggestion than a demand; non-page-based devices will quietly ignore the tag, should anyone ever develop a practical non-page-based device for the web.) What SHOULD never happen, I think, is for BR to be treated as a substitute for proper block-level delineation. If you're ending a paragraph and starting a new one, you should have two open P tags and two close P tags. Sticking two BR tags in a row in there instead isn't semantically correct, even if it is practically force of habit to those that grew up using typewriters.
If you can have a larger sample, why not use it? It's more accurate that way.
Because there's a point of diminishing returns.
If a 1-million-page sample gives you 85% accuracy, and a 2-million-page sample gives you 95% accuracy, it may be worth the extra time and effort to process the 2-million-page sample. But if reaching 96% accuracy requires you to process 1 BILLION pages, it's probably not worth the time or the effort.
I think the Universities understand that employers don't generally have the cognitive skills to understand whether an applicants is qualified for a particular job and must really on earned degrees from institutions to tell them if they should or in some cases even can hire somebody.
I think employers understand that the work skills required to complete a four-year degree program at a well-regarded university are at least as important as indicators of qualifications as a person's ability to leave a positive impression in a mere one-hour job interview.
The sorry fact though is that this has gone on long enough that there aren't very many differences between the two parties today.
This wouldn't be a bad thing, if the result was a moderate stance on most issues. Instead, though, we seem to get a fairly-extreme-left stance on some issues, and a fairly-extreme-right stance on other issues. And nobody ends up happy, because for everything the government does that one approves of, there's also something that one disapproves of.
I don't see the point in moving everything to the community. What happens when I relocate a few years from now - now I have to re-mold another community into my image. Great. No thanks.
If you're planning on relocating every few years, yeah, don't bother trying to influence your community. If you're not a part if it, then it's not really "yours". Most people, though, once they start a family and/or get a mortgage, plan to live in the same place for a long time, and stand to gain much from influencing the community they live in.
The fact is, alternative parties will never get a foothold in national politics unless they can gain footholds in state, county, and city politics first. Voters want reassurance that the candidate they vote for is capable of doing the job -- every Democrat or GOP candidate for president since Eisenhower has previously served in Congress or as a governor (and Ike was a War Hero, which 50 years ago was the third way to gain presidential legitimacy).
If a Green (for instance) candidate can get elected to city council, maybe one can get elected as mayor. If one can get elected as mayor, maybe one can be elected to state assembly. If one can get elected to state assembly, maybe one can get elected governor. If one can get elected governor, THEN maybe the party can get someone elected to federal government.
There are no shortcuts (unless you have name recognition).
I don't think TV and movie subtitling is going to be the primary application of this technology. Which is more cost-efficient to a typical TV station or film distributor -- buying one of IBM's big heavy translation computers and support to keep it running, or hiring a dozen bilingual humans to do translations the old-fashioned way?
I expect the spooks (CIA, NSA, etc.) to be the big customers, at least in the near-term. There's countless hours of recorded audio of terrorists or suspected terrorists talking to each other, and not enough time to translate them all by ear. Speech recognition, even if not flawless, will help the intelligence community separate the wheat from the chaff, freeing up time for the translators to work on the most critical cases instead of the mundane and the dead-ends.
Didn't google used to stand for free information for all?
No, I'm pretty sure they've been a for-profit organization since inception.
Google's information philanthropy is not a gift to the world, it is a product.
Google has financial guns, which in many ways can be far more powerful than physical ones.
Maybe so, but they're still outgunned. The value of the company may be measured in billions, but China's economy is measured in trillions.
I believe that Capital Gains Tax is higher than Income Tax
OK. What about Google's payroll tax liability?
my other car is a cubical.
Do you mean like a Scion xB, or that it's been crushed into a compact form by powerful vises?
Wouldn't this be accessing files that you were not granted access to?
I think "possession is 9/10ths of the law" applies here, as does "finders keepers".
...and your computer doesn't have a CDRW/DVDRW on it of some form or another? You haven't secretly set up an ssh tunnel to an outside computer?
*I* could find a way to move sensitive data off my workstation, sure. But the data I work with isn't exactly top secret.
In the case that it were, I would hope the IT directors at the company would be smart enough to lock my terminal down. No writable or bootable removable media. A secured OS and a user account with no permissions to install any software. Krazy glue in the USB ports.
It's possible to take reasonable precautions against sensitive data being compromised, and companies that fail to do so deserve full culpability.
ampache can do this
kplaylist is a bit more lightweight
jinzora is a bloat beast, but a nice one at that
Not that "Oboe" is all that great a product name, but compared to the likes of these... yeesh.
And in large part, the growth of USENET drove "the Internet".
I disagree entirely.
It was the maturation of the World Wide Web, not USENET, that caused the Internet boom period of the mid and late 1990's.
Indeed as the "mainstream" Internet has grown, Usenet has become more and more marginalized.
Honestly, I really don't see how this is such a bad thing. It is not commercial (pay) software.
I'm not sure I understand your argument. Are you saying that because Microsoft does not charge any money for Internet Explorer, that they should relinquish the right to choose who may have a copy of it and under what conditions?
Perhaps I'm missing the point here, but aren't the end users paying for these pipes?
Actually, the users on BOTH ends are already paying for those pipes. Companies like Amazon and Google pay millions of dollars for their bandwidth.
SCSI was slowly dying from the original Power Macs in 1994 through the first iMac and Blue & White G3
During this time, IDE/ATA hard drives were rapidly getting cheaper and bigger, to the point where for a single-volume desktop computer, the benefits of SCSI were no longer worth the added cost. Of course, in the server market SCSI was and still is king.
With FireWire, it is *the* transport of choice, and usually the only transport, for all DV and HDV cameras, decks, and other video equipment, and is increasingly used on high end DTV and HDTV equipment and other high end audio/video equipment
I think it would be foolish of Apple to include a hi-speed Firewire port on their baseline hardware solely for the benefit of users who wish to interface their mid- to high-end A/V equipment to their Mac. If the interface is that important to a user, he or she can buy an add-on interface.
And now I pet my computer.
It doesn't happen to be a Commodore model of 1970's vintage, does it?
If I had one well-designed appliance that had the screen, a DVD transport, a VHS transport (yes, they are still used), and an integral digital satellite decoder, it could use far less power overall.
And would only sell to people with viewing habits like yours.
The opposite end of the spectrum -- going totally modular and having a discrete tuner box, DVD drive box, MPEG decoder box, audio amplifier box and so on -- would be even less likely to find market acceptance.
Personally I find the current state of consumer electronics pretty reasonable. Except for remote controls. Why everyone's still using infrared technology with each manufacturer using its own proprietary codes that vary even from model to model is beyond me. I can't wait for the industry to adopt Bluetooth (or something like it), and a True Universal command set so I can throw away my stack of remotes once and for all.
How about that computer in your office? Can you put your hand on your heart and say you always turn it off before you leave work at the end of the day?
No, I never do. (Though I do put it into sleep mode and turn off the display.)
Why not? Because if I shut everything down at the end of the day, I have to start everything back up and the beginning of the next day. It may cost more in electricity to keep the CPU idle but powered overnight, but being able to sit down in the morning and pick up my work right where I left off the night before means my productivity is much higher than otherwise.
An HP laserjet 4L I bought in 1995 -- it didn't have an off button. That bothered me so much I bought one of those undermonitor powerbars with switches on the front so I could turn the darn thing off.
I did the same thing to allow myself to power-off a Brother laser printer I bought around that same time with no off switch.
My plan backfired, though. Due to the design of the printer a (long) cool-off period was required after anything was printed on it. I got in the habit of killing power to it immediately after printing, the fans didn't blow, I ended up ruining the fuser and having to get it replaced.
Now granted, not all devices have this type of passive power consumption required. But it pays to keep in mind WHY an appliance designer may have opted to design a standby mode instead of a power on/off switch.
Offtopic - What amazes me as a Swede is that all Anglo-saxon countries I've been to build so incredibly flimsy and energy-inefficient houses. England, Australia, and from what I've heard, the US as well. I mean, you are rich countries, why build like third world?
First impressions count for a lot. It seems that more home buyers will go for the pristine white McMansion, with cathedral ceilings in each of its fifteen rooms and the least expensive building materials available, over a more modest, energy-efficient, sturdier but less eye-popping home with the same sale price.
Nevermind that the utility bills every month will be three times higher, or that the roof is going to develop a leak within ten years, or that within 100 years the white box estates will be demolished, rebuilt, demolished, and rebuilt again while the other home remains inhabitable the whole time. A house is a status symbol, and whomever has the biggest garage to park their leased Infiniti sedan in, wins.
It is pissing me off how long it is taking to get hand-optimised AMD64 routines for tight inner loops in various common algorithms.
Here, I wrote a highly-efficient 64-bit null loop for you in assembly:
: loop
JMP loop