You stated that, "The period should appear within the quotation".
This was done originally because the metal blocks that typesetters used were expensive. Furthermore, a small period was easily damaged by scraping or denting. Since putting a . outside of the quotes would leave it exposed and more likely to be damaged, it was placed within the quotes.
Since, virtually NO media is typeset these days (using conventional methods), we no longer need to protect the . within the ".
Furthermore, it is clearer to put the punctuation that has nothing to do with the quotation, outside of the quotation.
Under Microsoft's new restrictions -- which prevent its built-in software from recording MP3 files at fidelity rates higher than 56 kilobits per second -- MP3 music "sounds like somebody in a phone booth underwater," says P.J. McNealy, an analyst who researches
Internet audio issues for Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn. (Existing versions of Microsoft's
audio software don't allow consumers to record music as MP3 files of any quality.)
I guess it doesn't count as using market share in one area as leverage to gain market share in the other area. Since the Fraunhofer Institut is not a large corporation and it isn't a US National organization, I'd say that it would have little chance in hell of fighting MS in court. MS could say that the 'German company is un-american and trying to stifle american innovation'.
If Fraunhofer were a US National company, then I'm sure that the anti-trust laws would prevent this type of behavior. Especially if MS somehow disabled or crippled the ability of other MP3 encoders to work under XP.
It's not the first time that a government has used a DoS attack as a form of censorship. Remember when we were attacking Kosovo? Many of the websites that the US Gov. put together to inform people within Kosovo of the U.S. version of the story were DoSed from somewhere within Kosovo.
You present an optimistic view of things, but I'm sticking to my original opinion... If the product has a high price elasticity, then the government will find a way or reason to tax it.
Finally, as the grammar nazi, I must add that it's an excise tax, not and excess tax.
I agree with you 100% ryancooley, but... ...all taxes on Gas will not apply to Alcohol. This statement is only true in the short term. In the long term, if it became a popular alternative to petrol, then it would be taxed. The government has a long history of taxing all products with a high price elasticity (i.e. you can increase the price, yet enough people still purchase the product so that you increase total profits). Things such as Cigarettes, alcohol, petrol, and luxury items all fit into this category, and as alcohol became a viable fuel source, it would too.
What about Gaim, Gnutella, or Gnapster? These projects have the advantage that they don't have many options/features. This means that the task would actually be possible to do for a class project. Bigger projects such as Mozilla and windows managers are complicated, have their own GUI libraries and if you aren't already a developer, good luck being able to come in and change the basic look-and-feel. Besides, I just want to see Mozilla 1.0, the last things that they need is somebody to change the interface for it.
Another suggestion is to work on the libraries. Sure you can do whatever you want to with a single application, but if you enhance the human-computer interface of, say, the gtk library, then you've made every gtk application better.
It's relatively easy to get those keys remapped to whatever you want. I had to do it for my Iopener. If you search for Iopener and keyboard, you might turn up something.
You said it best in your subject: What kind of enviroment is this?
ssh is an excellent application. I came from a university environment and started working in a large corporate environment. Sniffers would be easy to install in both. Universities such as mine have ethernet in most classrooms at every desk. My work has ethernet in every cubicle. What was it, that you said about people not being able to install sniffers?
I will admit that you have a valid point about sysadmins writing down passwords, or better yet, everybody accessing certain machines as root. On the other hand, I can only think of one environment where sniffers wouldn't be a concern. That is computer room with the entire network contained to the room.
I've shortcutted this articled and decided not to posted here.
Don't forget the generalized nature of UML. I work in Systems Engineering where we see plenty of box-and-arrow drawings. Most of them don't make any sense when you are unsure if they refer to Hardware or software. Do they refer to materials flow, data flow, network traffic, or parameter flow?
UML provides a standard which is very useful in these types of problems. I've always been a fan of very specific details at the cost of readability. In a complicated system, e.g. a f-18 jet's cockpit, you need to be specific. Lives are at stake.
Here's an alternative solution to what you suggest Matt:
Judging by your nickname, polymath69, you are probably mathematical in nature. The problems that you describe, brightness dimming over time Vs. power cycling breaks up very nicely into a linear separable partial differential equation. I know this because I've solved a similar problem for a harddrive (spin up/down Vs. spinning time). I'm fairly certain that the solution to the PDE is analytic and you will be able to find an exact solution, yielding an optimum amount of time to leave it on as opposed to turning it off. If it doesn't have an analytic solution, then you can use the linear simplex algorithm or find a solution using Galerkin's method. Each of these numerical techniques are fun and will converge to an optimal solution relatively quickly.
For further info, I recommend MacCluer's industrial mathematics book.
I found a link to step-by-step instructions as to how to overclock your G4 powerbook. Now you can have the 500MHz powerbook for the price of the 400MHz one.
hehe. The grammar nazi accidently released his secret identity because of a habit he is in when he ends an email message. Damn him for forgeting and including his name at the end of the post. Pray that no grammatically correct stalkers can now piece together where he lives and hunt him down. Pray for the grammar nazi!
Ben
Check out Freshmeat for what you seek. A search on 'help desk' brings up a page full of options, of which about 5 or so are what you seek. Of those 5, 3 of them version 1.0 or greater, so I think that they may be stable/robust enough for you to use.
Ben
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It's funny how the rest of the world likes to point out their differences from the United States and make it sound bad that we do things differently. I have a few comments about your post:
1. . The idea behind it is that the units, days, months, years, go in ascending order of magnitude. The US system, in all its wisdom, uses an apparantly random order. Ascending order seems backwards to me. When you name file versions by changing the date and you sort the files by name, then the files end up in some weird order. I name files using the descending order 01-04-01 (I guess today is a bad example).
The date format I use isn't mm-dd-yy because it's a random order. I use mm-dd-yy because that is what all of my coworkers, family, and clients use. I know that it bothers most people, but i _do_ live in the U.S. so I date things according to the way that the U.S. does it.
3. As far as your question goes, here's an answer: The US does it the way that they do because of what you said April, 02, 2001 -> 04-02-02. We didn't switch it back so that it would 'make more sense' in the same way that microsoft will never put the 'shut down' command anywhere but within the 'start' menu. People are just used to it.
By the way, mod me as a troll if you like, but Slashdot April Fool's addition sucks this year.
Yeah, you could tell in my post that I was almost serious to. I wasn't joking in any way. I was serious when I said that country music listeners don't have any front teeth.
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You stated that, "The period should appear within the quotation".
This was done originally because the metal blocks that typesetters used were expensive. Furthermore, a small period was easily damaged by scraping or denting. Since putting a . outside of the quotes would leave it exposed and more likely to be damaged, it was placed within the quotes.
Since, virtually NO media is typeset these days (using conventional methods), we no longer need to protect the . within the ".
Furthermore, it is clearer to put the punctuation that has nothing to do with the quotation, outside of the quotation.
If Fraunhofer were a US National company, then I'm sure that the anti-trust laws would prevent this type of behavior. Especially if MS somehow disabled or crippled the ability of other MP3 encoders to work under XP.
What if some of this hardware was to evolve into a self replicating machine?
I remember hearing about it on CNN.
Finally, as the grammar nazi, I must add that it's an excise tax, not and excess tax.
Who knows what other places we'll see advertising pop up in the future
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I agree with you 100% ryancooley, but...
...all taxes on Gas will not apply to Alcohol.
This statement is only true in the short term. In the long term, if it became a popular alternative to petrol, then it would be taxed. The government has a long history of taxing all products with a high price elasticity (i.e. you can increase the price, yet enough people still purchase the product so that you increase total profits). Things such as Cigarettes, alcohol, petrol, and luxury items all fit into this category, and as alcohol became a viable fuel source, it would too.
What about Gaim, Gnutella, or Gnapster? These projects have the advantage that they don't have many options/features. This means that the task would actually be possible to do for a class project. Bigger projects such as Mozilla and windows managers are complicated, have their own GUI libraries and if you aren't already a developer, good luck being able to come in and change the basic look-and-feel. Besides, I just want to see Mozilla 1.0, the last things that they need is somebody to change the interface for it.
Another suggestion is to work on the libraries. Sure you can do whatever you want to with a single application, but if you enhance the human-computer interface of, say, the gtk library, then you've made every gtk application better.
It's relatively easy to get those keys remapped to whatever you want. I had to do it for my Iopener. If you search for Iopener and keyboard, you might turn up something.
I'm not sure what the exact model and make of the laptop was, but Neal Stephenson might be able to tell you. Try sending Neal an email.
ssh is an excellent application. I came from a university environment and started working in a large corporate environment. Sniffers would be easy to install in both. Universities such as mine have ethernet in most classrooms at every desk. My work has ethernet in every cubicle. What was it, that you said about people not being able to install sniffers?
I will admit that you have a valid point about sysadmins writing down passwords, or better yet, everybody accessing certain machines as root. On the other hand, I can only think of one environment where sniffers wouldn't be a concern. That is computer room with the entire network contained to the room.
Spreadsheet - developed on the desktop PC, non-unix
Napster - developed for the home PC, non-unix
Instant messaging - non-unix, although some argue that this hasn't became a 'killer-app' yet.
I consider both of these to be innovative software developments.
good dog Carl
Don't forget the generalized nature of UML. I work in Systems Engineering where we see plenty of box-and-arrow drawings. Most of them don't make any sense when you are unsure if they refer to Hardware or software. Do they refer to materials flow, data flow, network traffic, or parameter flow?
UML provides a standard which is very useful in these types of problems. I've always been a fan of very specific details at the cost of readability. In a complicated system, e.g. a f-18 jet's cockpit, you need to be specific. Lives are at stake.
Which is scarier? MS is not being truthful about this situation or MS doesn't bother to check it's ToS agreements before it debut's new services?
Judging by your nickname, polymath69, you are probably mathematical in nature. The problems that you describe, brightness dimming over time Vs. power cycling breaks up very nicely into a linear separable partial differential equation. I know this because I've solved a similar problem for a harddrive (spin up/down Vs. spinning time). I'm fairly certain that the solution to the PDE is analytic and you will be able to find an exact solution, yielding an optimum amount of time to leave it on as opposed to turning it off. If it doesn't have an analytic solution, then you can use the linear simplex algorithm or find a solution using Galerkin's method. Each of these numerical techniques are fun and will converge to an optimal solution relatively quickly.
For further info, I recommend MacCluer's industrial mathematics book.
Here's the link
Did I just here you whisper that from outside my house window?
hehe. The grammar nazi accidently released his secret identity because of a habit he is in when he ends an email message. Damn him for forgeting and including his name at the end of the post. Pray that no grammatically correct stalkers can now piece together where he lives and hunt him down. Pray for the grammar nazi! Ben
Check out Freshmeat for what you seek. A search on 'help desk' brings up a page full of options, of which about 5 or so are what you seek. Of those 5, 3 of them version 1.0 or greater, so I think that they may be stable/robust enough for you to use. Ben
1. . The idea behind it is that the units, days, months, years, go in ascending order of magnitude. The US system, in all its wisdom, uses an apparantly random order.
Ascending order seems backwards to me. When you name file versions by changing the date and you sort the files by name, then the files end up in some weird order. I name files using the descending order 01-04-01 (I guess today is a bad example).
The date format I use isn't mm-dd-yy because it's a random order. I use mm-dd-yy because that is what all of my coworkers, family, and clients use. I know that it bothers most people, but i _do_ live in the U.S. so I date things according to the way that the U.S. does it.
3. As far as your question goes, here's an answer: The US does it the way that they do because of what you said April, 02, 2001 -> 04-02-02. We didn't switch it back so that it would 'make more sense' in the same way that microsoft will never put the 'shut down' command anywhere but within the 'start' menu. People are just used to it.
By the way, mod me as a troll if you like, but Slashdot April Fool's addition sucks this year.
At my MSU, the EE dept. had hunderds of Oscilliscopes from modern digital marvels to a tried and tested analog RCA WO-91A.
Good luck with your endeaveors.
That's the excuse that I used when the cops found my harvest of Mary Jane! Trust me, it doesn't hold up in court!
Sincerely
grammar nazi
You, can't tell when somethings a joke.
So True. grammar nazi