>> X Windows and Unix were never really designed
>> for handheld computers. (Yeah, windows wasn't
>> either, but Windows CE is only a little like
>> regular Windows.)
> WinCE has its share of problems, not the least
> of which is the fact that there's a fairly high
> bar to getting into developing for it. The
> simple fact that X's initial design wasn't for
> handhelds doesn't mean much. The iPAQ is a
> really powerful machine: more horsepower than
> the 5x86/133 I once used to run X.
This misses the point to some extent. Yes,
there's nothing wrong with X *per se* not being
designed for handhelds since current handhelds
are becoming powerful enough to cope with X.
However, the only user interfaces available under
X are designed for desktops and not for 4" screens
with stylus input--and that *is* a problem.
>> Castle of Cagliostro
>> There's a series of French novels about
>> Aresene Lupin, a master thief. This movie is
>> about his grandson, Lupin III, who's not
>> terribly serious but knows what he's doing.
>> This is the best of the Lupin movies, and the
>> director, Miyazaki is one of the best in
>> Japan. People always seem to like his movies.
> The main character's an uninteresting asshole,
> and the animation is only slightly better than
> Speed Racer. Yawn
I don't think you've seen Cagliostro; you've
likely seen some other bit of Lupin which isn't
nearly as good. Cagliostro is quite well animated
(the car chase scene near the beginning of the
film is simply amazing, especially for 1979) and
Lupin himself becomes a much more sympathetic
character in the hands of Miyazaki (who
is, among many other great films, responsible
for _Princess Mononoke_). I don't care for most
Lupin myself, but this is worth watching (and
just got re-released in the US sub and dub,
incidentally!)
> That's 1500N so you need at least 20 of those
> bad boys.
Well, you do if you plan on flying on pure
brute force of engine thrust alone. Put some
wings or other lifting surface on that lawn
chair and you could probably make do with half
that number, or less.
> Any legislation of this kind will only be able
> to restrict the use of systems purchased with
> federal money.
A nice thought, but untrue. While it is true
that the feds can't *directly* regulate stuff
that isn't bought with federal money, they *can*
say, "Regulate all your stuff this way or we cut
off *all* your federal money." They've done that
sort of thing before (where do you think the 55
MPH speed limit came from?). If you cannot live
without federal grants, the feds can dictate
any aspect of what you do, bound only very
loosely by various Constitution guarantees.
> Personally, I'm excited about Mozilla. Contrary > to this Sucky writer, I see strong planning > from the ground up: Cross platorm; extensable; > standards compliant; component-based; pretty > well documented...The Suck guy would rather > just have a browser that works. But for what > platform? With what level of compatability with > other products/standards?
I hate to break this to you, but if it's a browser that doesn't work, it doesn't help much that it's a highly-compatible high-functionality browser that doesn't work.
Ask yourself this question: *How does Napster stop the copying of copyrighted music over its servers without shutting down entirely?* And the answer is--*ding*--it can't! Music files don't come with little tags that say whether or not they're copyrighted. The order was tantamount to shutting down Napster entirely, because there was no other way to comply with it.
Carrying through the injunction would have forced Napster to shutdown for some long, indeterminate period, and most likely would have driven it out of business.
The injunction as it stands is very possible to enforce. It requires Napster to prevent trading in copyrighted materials. Napster says, "We can't do that! We can't differentiate between copy- righted and non-copyrighted material! The only way to stop trading in copyrighted material would be stop *all* trading!" The court then replies, "Well, if that's the only way you can think of to comply with the injunction, that's *your* problem..."
That's why everyone is treating this as a shutdown of Napster. Tendentious RIAA protests to the contrary, that is effectively what it is; the only way to comply with it is to shut down.
> Look, you don't have to get into details to get > the joke. It's no more realistic then the > parrot sketch. You wanna see what "samowar" > looks like?
There's nothing inherently unlikely about "samowar"--words starting with "s" are NATO standard for codenaming Russian surface-to- surface missiles, and some of them are pretty damned strange; for example, the SS-17 "SPANKER", the SS-15 "SCROOGE" and the SS-12 "SCALEBOARD". However, there's no Russian missile codenamed "SAMOWAR" that I can find--nor "SAMOVAR", either.
> You seem to believe in a Rousseau-like theory > of mankind: there are base animalistic urges > which the civilized man must control and > eventually overcome.
That's Hobbes ("Nasty, brutish and short" being his famous description of life without the constraints of civilization). Rousseau believed exactly the opposite--that people are born pure and good and society twists them into evil ("Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.")
Too chicken? Standards too high, more likely. The questions on that show are an embarassment to any true Jeopardy fan. And then they give you cheats on top of 'em.
You're missing the point. If you're any distance from an explosion, you are slammed around not by the explosion itself but by the shock wave in the surrounding air that carries the force of the explosion to you. Since there's no air in space, *how in the name of Roddenbury can you be bounced around by a distant explosion, no matter how big?*
> I guess the can't call it "Sextium", although > it might boost sales...
Sorry, you're mixing Latin and Greek. The successor to the "Pentium" would logically be the "Hexium"--which admittedly isn't as funny but does have its own possiblities. The "Sextium" would have to be the successor to the "Quintium".
The HTTP RFCs are a good example. This is what you MUST do: This is what you SHOULD do: This is what you CAN do (if you feel like it): This is what you MUST NOT do:
Pretty cut and dry, and rather effective (the web works, don't it?).
The question isn't whether it *works*, it is whether it is *trusted*. The Web works but is scarcely trusted. If the Washington DC Metro (subway) had brakes that worked as reliably as the web, I'd refuse to go to work in the mornings.
Three years ago, it certainly did. AIX's LVM has supported mirroring since V3. What it didn't support was mirroring and striping together. You could mirror, and you could stripe, but you couldn't do *both*. Since 4.3.3 came in last year, you *can* do both now.
Slashdot Mirror
Root for applications? Shame on you; you
should know better than that...
Chris Mattern
>> X Windows and Unix were never really designed
>> for handheld computers. (Yeah, windows wasn't
>> either, but Windows CE is only a little like
>> regular Windows.)
> WinCE has its share of problems, not the least
> of which is the fact that there's a fairly high
> bar to getting into developing for it. The
> simple fact that X's initial design wasn't for
> handhelds doesn't mean much. The iPAQ is a
> really powerful machine: more horsepower than
> the 5x86/133 I once used to run X.
This misses the point to some extent. Yes,
there's nothing wrong with X *per se* not being
designed for handhelds since current handhelds
are becoming powerful enough to cope with X.
However, the only user interfaces available under
X are designed for desktops and not for 4" screens
with stylus input--and that *is* a problem.
Chris Mattern
>> Castle of Cagliostro
>> There's a series of French novels about
>> Aresene Lupin, a master thief. This movie is
>> about his grandson, Lupin III, who's not
>> terribly serious but knows what he's doing.
>> This is the best of the Lupin movies, and the
>> director, Miyazaki is one of the best in
>> Japan. People always seem to like his movies.
> The main character's an uninteresting asshole,
> and the animation is only slightly better than
> Speed Racer. Yawn
I don't think you've seen Cagliostro; you've
likely seen some other bit of Lupin which isn't
nearly as good. Cagliostro is quite well animated
(the car chase scene near the beginning of the
film is simply amazing, especially for 1979) and
Lupin himself becomes a much more sympathetic
character in the hands of Miyazaki (who
is, among many other great films, responsible
for _Princess Mononoke_). I don't care for most
Lupin myself, but this is worth watching (and
just got re-released in the US sub and dub,
incidentally!)
Chris Mattern
> That's 1500N so you need at least 20 of those
> bad boys.
Well, you do if you plan on flying on pure
brute force of engine thrust alone. Put some
wings or other lifting surface on that lawn
chair and you could probably make do with half
that number, or less.
Chris Mattern
> Any legislation of this kind will only be able
> to restrict the use of systems purchased with
> federal money.
A nice thought, but untrue. While it is true
that the feds can't *directly* regulate stuff
that isn't bought with federal money, they *can*
say, "Regulate all your stuff this way or we cut
off *all* your federal money." They've done that
sort of thing before (where do you think the 55
MPH speed limit came from?). If you cannot live
without federal grants, the feds can dictate
any aspect of what you do, bound only very
loosely by various Constitution guarantees.
Chris Mattern
> Later that day, RMS was seen communicating with
> the mainframe leader of Cyberdyne, creators of
> SkyNet.
Sources close to RMS indicated that he has
scheduled a visit to Yoyodyne for next week...
Chris Mattern
> Personally, I'm excited about Mozilla. Contrary
> to this Sucky writer, I see strong planning
> from the ground up: Cross platorm; extensable;
> standards compliant; component-based; pretty
> well documented...The Suck guy would rather
> just have a browser that works. But for what
> platform? With what level of compatability with
> other products/standards?
I hate to break this to you, but if it's a
browser that doesn't work, it doesn't help much
that it's a highly-compatible high-functionality
browser that doesn't work.
Chris Mattern
Ask yourself this question: *How does Napster
stop the copying of copyrighted music over its
servers without shutting down entirely?* And
the answer is--*ding*--it can't! Music files
don't come with little tags that say whether
or not they're copyrighted. The order was
tantamount to shutting down Napster entirely,
because there was no other way to comply with it.
Carrying through the injunction would have forced
Napster to shutdown for some long, indeterminate
period, and most likely would have driven it out
of business.
Chris Mattern
The injunction as it stands is very possible to
enforce. It requires Napster to prevent trading
in copyrighted materials. Napster says, "We can't
do that! We can't differentiate between copy-
righted and non-copyrighted material! The only
way to stop trading in copyrighted material would
be stop *all* trading!" The court then replies,
"Well, if that's the only way you can think of
to comply with the injunction, that's *your*
problem..."
That's why everyone is treating this as a shutdown
of Napster. Tendentious RIAA protests to the
contrary, that is effectively what it is; the
only way to comply with it is to shut down.
Chris Mattern
> Look, you don't have to get into details to get
> the joke. It's no more realistic then the
> parrot sketch. You wanna see what "samowar"
> looks like?
There's nothing inherently unlikely about
"samowar"--words starting with "s" are NATO standard for codenaming Russian surface-to-
surface missiles, and some of them are pretty
damned strange; for example, the SS-17 "SPANKER",
the SS-15 "SCROOGE" and the SS-12 "SCALEBOARD".
However, there's no Russian missile codenamed
"SAMOWAR" that I can find--nor "SAMOVAR",
either.
Chris Mattern
> You seem to believe in a Rousseau-like theory
> of mankind: there are base animalistic urges
> which the civilized man must control and
> eventually overcome.
That's Hobbes ("Nasty, brutish and short"
being his famous description of life without
the constraints of civilization). Rousseau
believed exactly the opposite--that people are
born pure and good and society twists them into
evil ("Man is born free and everywhere he is in
chains.")
Chris Mattern
In fact, the magnet *does* sometimes win the
fight over the 2-ton hunk of iron. Ask anybody
who runs a junkyard.
Chris Mattern
Bottle-neck? Not my fault you never learned
touch-typing properly. A good typist can type
faster than he can speak.
Chris Mattern
Too chicken? Standards too high, more likely.
The questions on that show are an embarassment
to any true Jeopardy fan. And then they give you
cheats on top of 'em.
Chris Mattern
You're missing the point. If you're any distance
from an explosion, you are slammed around not by
the explosion itself but by the shock wave in the
surrounding air that carries the force of the
explosion to you. Since there's
no air in space, *how in the name of Roddenbury
can you be bounced around by a distant explosion,
no matter how big?*
Chris Mattern
> Just how many times are you going to tell :)
> people that?
What can I say, I get on a roll. I'll probably
let slide after this; no sense beating a
thoroughly dead horse...
Chris Mattern
> So what language are the ones you just
> described?...
Greek.
> And the "Pent" in Pentium wasn't supposed to
> be latin derivation?
"Pente"="five" in Greek. "Five" in Latin
is "quinque". Granted, -ium is a
Latin ending. To be really consistent, it
should have been the "Pention".
Chris Mattern
> I was looking forward sooo much to the release
> of the Sexium and Septium to follow...
Hexium. Heptium. You're welcome.
Chris Mattern
> Let's see, doesn't it go Pent, Sex, Sept, Oct,
> Non, Dec?...
Nope, you've slided over into Latin for most
of those. It goes:
Pent, Hex, Hept, Oct, Non, Dek (or Dec).
Chris Mattern
> I guess the can't call it "Sextium", although
> it might boost sales...
Sorry, you're mixing Latin and Greek. The
successor to the "Pentium" would logically be
the "Hexium"--which admittedly isn't as funny but
does have its own possiblities. The "Sextium"
would have to be the successor to the "Quintium".
Chris Mattern
> It could have Ewoks, you know.
Ewoks were irritatingly cute. Jar-Jar
was just irritating. Give me Ewoks any day.
Chris Mattern
> "Embraces emerging Web programming standards"
Embrace...
> "Extensive interoperability"
Extend...
Well, we all *know* what comes next, right?
Chris Mattern
> My god! Do they know what the key signature for
> that looks like?!? No WAY I'm playing in a key
> with 8 sharps.
Relax; it'll never be more than a minor
language, so there'll be only 4 sharps.
Chris Mattern
The HTTP RFCs are a good example.
This is what you MUST do:
This is what you SHOULD do:
This is what you CAN do (if you feel like it):
This is what you MUST NOT do:
Pretty cut and dry, and rather effective (the
web works, don't it?).
The question isn't whether it *works*, it is
whether it is *trusted*. The Web works but is
scarcely trusted. If the Washington DC Metro
(subway) had brakes that worked as reliably as
the web, I'd refuse to go to work in the mornings.
Chris Mattern
Three years ago, it certainly did. AIX's LVM
has supported mirroring since V3. What it
didn't support was mirroring and striping
together. You could mirror, and you could stripe,
but you couldn't do *both*. Since 4.3.3 came
in last year, you *can* do both now.
Chris Mattern