I remember the first time I used lynx. It was incredibly confusing having the gopher menus scattered in amongst a whole lot of other text. It wasn't until Mosaic came out (actually it wasn't until the win32s support for OS/2 got good enough to run Mosaic, which was a couple of months later) that I actually got it.
"The public performance right is generally held to cover computer software, since software is considered a literary work under the Copyright Act. In addition, many software programs fall under the definition of an audio visual work. The application of the public performance right to software has not be fully developed, except that it is clear that a publicly available video game is controlled by this right." -
http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/scope.html
Plans to modify the GPL to cover "public performance" (not limited to "for profit"), have been around for a while. I think that is what you meant (although it is not exactly what you said). Public performance of a work is not allowed by default under standard copyright law, so strictly speaking it is not currently allowed by the GPL (though I think you would find it hard to find an author that would consider it enough of a violation to pursue; MySQL maybe, they seem to have an interpretation of the GPL that is so restrictive it is incompatible with itself).
The idea is that if you provide a web-service (for example) using GPLed software, then you should give the users of that web-service access to the source code. It is not an especially onerous restriction, and in keeping with the spirit of the current GPL.
It has to do with the law in Japan. Japanese law requires speed limitors on any road car capable of over 180km/h that is manufactured or sold in Japan. Germany has a similar law limiting cars to 250km/h, and other countries probably have such laws too.
In the case of cars, this is done for safety reasons, and fitting a mod-chip AFAIK is not illegal (in some countries it may be an illegal modification to bypass the speed restriction, but replacing the chip itself eg for better fuel economy is not a crime). I can't see Intel successfully claiming that they are limiting the speed of their chips for safety reasons, but I can see them invoking the DCMA.
I would be bitching if petrol (aka gasoline) was reformulated so it only worked in 2004 and later models of Ford Focus, and to do anything useful with any other type of car you had to use illegal backyard brewed petrol imported from China.
The US method of charging for calls to mobiles makes this a non-issue I think. IIRC, they pay the same price to call a mobile as a landline, and the mobile owner pays the rest (even on incoming calls).
Speed on the server is more important than speed on the desktop. If you don't believe me, compare the average load on a server (typically 10-20%) with the average load on a desktop (typically 1-2%). The reason not much focus is needed on J2EE performance is that J2EE gets all the J2SE performance improvements automatically, and the J2EE containers tend to be written with performance in mind (or noone would use them).
It is true that CPU time and power are cheap in a desktop environment, but in a server environment, good attention to performance can mean the difference between a $2000 off the shelf PC and a $50000 server farm to support those 200 concurrent users. As for using C, then the developer time vs CPU time argument comes in (very few developers could outperform a good JIT compiler by hand these days, and even the tiniest memory leaks in a long running server process are real killers).
You've clearly never tried it in the real world. All the textbook examples I've seen involve concatinating String constants. In the real world, you just don't do that. The whole reason you need to concatinate those strings is that you did not know at compile time what they were going to be. In that case, the best the compiler can do is use String.concat(). If more than one concatination is being done, a properly initialized StringBuffer will be faster.
The article also discusses how Linux is pushing...
Who is this mysterious "Linux"? I know of the OS kernel called Linux, but last I checked, it wasn't concerned about the marketplace for non-Windows OS's, it just worried about scheduling processes and providing abstracted interfaces to hardware.
Does the latest kernel print subliminal messages at boot time, saying "Delete me! Install Solaris for x86!!!"?
Many will remember the NT4 days and the ever-popular 111-1111111. Microsoft got smarter for Windows 2000, but not by much.
Yeah, for a while there, they were using 121-2121212
or 111-2222222 or something along those lines for their "internal testing" key (I think it was for Office, or Visual Studio or something). Not by much indeed.
... is that it is painful. There is almost never a good reason to go around renaming classes or methods. It is a pointless timewasting exercise that confuses your coworkers. The fact that modern IDEs like Eclipse make it easy is not a good thing.
Personally, I'd be looking at FOOD over both CDMA and GSM.
But really, what does Iraq use now? Do they really have no mobile network in place. If that is the case, W-CDMA seems to be the way networks are moving in Europe and Asia.
The UK DVD is an dubbed in English according to the cover. Everytime I see it on the sale racks I pick it up to see if they've released the original soundtrack version with subtitles yet to round out my Jeunet et Caro collection.
Brother is probably the least impressive of Kitano's work. But it is the only one where the bulk of the script is not in Japanese, so its more accessible. than his earlier movies. My personal favorite is Boiling Point. "Scene at the Sea" was pretty good too, and very different from his later work (no violence for a start), though you can definitely see bits of it in Boiling Point and Kikujiro.
It very definitely was satire. I was laughing all the way through. I wouldn't expect many Americans to get it though. For some reason Americans don't seem to be very good at laughing at themselves, and have some serious blinkers when it comes to the less desirable aspects of their culture.
wrist - omo
omo(i) [adj] - heavy; massive;
I imagine this thing is going to weigh a bit more than your average wristwatch if it has a usable battery life.
omo [n] - face
As in face of a watch.
omo [adj-na;n] - chief; main; principal; important;
Until everyone has one, this is going to be the most important thing on your wrist.
The following is the message I get with Mozilla 1.3 (Linux) with Flash 6 plugin installed....
We are sorry, but your browser is not supported by NYSE MarkeTrac Broadband. You may still use NYSE MarkeTrac Light and NYSE Order Flow.
Windows users may access NYSE MarkeTrac Broadband with Internet Explorer (4 and up) or Netscape (4.x.) We recommend that Macintosh users download Netscape (4.x). Your browser must have
the Flash 5 plug-in.
Click on the links provided to download a browser (first) and plug-in
(second). After completing the installation, return to the NYSE.com
homepage and re-enter NYSE MarkeTrac Broadband.
But speaking of oil. France gets most of their oil from Iraq and they are against the war. DO you think they are afraid of a disruption in their oil supply?
Q. Who buys Iraqi oil?
A. The United States tends to be the biggest importer of Iraqi crude, buying 366,000 barrels a day during December 2002. Iraq was the seventh-biggest supplier of U.S. crude imports that month, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Iraq's other customers include France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.
Last month, about two-thirds of Iraq's exports went to importers in North and South America. More than half of this amount ended up in the United States.
The buyers that deal directly with Iraq are often small, Russian-owned trading companies acting as middlemen. They ship the oil from Iraq to refiners and other users in importing countries.
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I remember the first time I used lynx. It was incredibly confusing having the gopher menus scattered in amongst a whole lot of other text. It wasn't until Mosaic came out (actually it wasn't until the win32s support for OS/2 got good enough to run Mosaic, which was a couple of months later) that I actually got it.
"The public performance right is generally held to cover computer software, since software is considered a literary work under the Copyright Act. In addition, many software programs fall under the definition of an audio visual work. The application of the public performance right to software has not be fully developed, except that it is clear that a publicly available video game is controlled by this right." - http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/scope.html
The idea is that if you provide a web-service (for example) using GPLed software, then you should give the users of that web-service access to the source code. It is not an especially onerous restriction, and in keeping with the spirit of the current GPL.
In the case of cars, this is done for safety reasons, and fitting a mod-chip AFAIK is not illegal (in some countries it may be an illegal modification to bypass the speed restriction, but replacing the chip itself eg for better fuel economy is not a crime). I can't see Intel successfully claiming that they are limiting the speed of their chips for safety reasons, but I can see them invoking the DCMA.
I would be bitching if petrol (aka gasoline) was reformulated so it only worked in 2004 and later models of Ford Focus, and to do anything useful with any other type of car you had to use illegal backyard brewed petrol imported from China.
The US method of charging for calls to mobiles makes this a non-issue I think. IIRC, they pay the same price to call a mobile as a landline, and the mobile owner pays the rest (even on incoming calls).
Speed on the server is more important than speed on the desktop. If you don't believe me, compare the average load on a server (typically 10-20%) with the average load on a desktop (typically 1-2%). The reason not much focus is needed on J2EE performance is that J2EE gets all the J2SE performance improvements automatically, and the J2EE containers tend to be written with performance in mind (or noone would use them).
It is true that CPU time and power are cheap in a desktop environment, but in a server environment, good attention to performance can mean the difference between a $2000 off the shelf PC and a $50000 server farm to support those 200 concurrent users. As for using C, then the developer time vs CPU time argument comes in (very few developers could outperform a good JIT compiler by hand these days, and even the tiniest memory leaks in a long running server process are real killers).
You've clearly never tried it in the real world. All the textbook examples I've seen involve concatinating String constants. In the real world, you just don't do that. The whole reason you need to concatinate those strings is that you did not know at compile time what they were going to be. In that case, the best the compiler can do is use String.concat(). If more than one concatination is being done, a properly initialized StringBuffer will be faster.
Who is this mysterious "Linux"? I know of the OS kernel called Linux, but last I checked, it wasn't concerned about the marketplace for non-Windows OS's, it just worried about scheduling processes and providing abstracted interfaces to hardware.
Does the latest kernel print subliminal messages at boot time, saying "Delete me! Install Solaris for x86!!!"?
Yeah, for a while there, they were using 121-2121212 or 111-2222222 or something along those lines for their "internal testing" key (I think it was for Office, or Visual Studio or something). Not by much indeed.
... is that it is painful. There is almost never a good reason to go around renaming classes or methods. It is a pointless timewasting exercise that confuses your coworkers. The fact that modern IDEs like Eclipse make it easy is not a good thing.
But really, what does Iraq use now? Do they really have no mobile network in place. If that is the case, W-CDMA seems to be the way networks are moving in Europe and Asia.
The UK DVD is an dubbed in English according to the cover. Everytime I see it on the sale racks I pick it up to see if they've released the original soundtrack version with subtitles yet to round out my Jeunet et Caro collection.
I'm up to the final scene right now.
Finally a reason why region coding is evil that works the OTHER way around.
I just realised how much I miss moviecritic (the domain seems to be owned by macromedia these days).
Night On Earth and Mystery Train are my favorites. Also anything my Wong Kar Wai, Kitano 'Beat' Takeshi and Atom Egoyan.
Try Dead Man for the prequel. "Stupid fucking white man."
All this talk about Takeshi just reminded me to keep an eye out for "Dolls", which got pulled from last year's London film festival for some reason.
Brother is probably the least impressive of Kitano's work. But it is the only one where the bulk of the script is not in Japanese, so its more accessible. than his earlier movies. My personal favorite is Boiling Point. "Scene at the Sea" was pretty good too, and very different from his later work (no violence for a start), though you can definitely see bits of it in Boiling Point and Kikujiro.
It very definitely was satire. I was laughing all the way through. I wouldn't expect many Americans to get it though. For some reason Americans don't seem to be very good at laughing at themselves, and have some serious blinkers when it comes to the less desirable aspects of their culture.
wrist - omo omo(i) [adj] - heavy; massive; I imagine this thing is going to weigh a bit more than your average wristwatch if it has a usable battery life. omo [n] - face As in face of a watch. omo [adj-na;n] - chief; main; principal; important; Until everyone has one, this is going to be the most important thing on your wrist.
But speaking of oil. France gets most of their oil from Iraq and they are against the war. DO you think they are afraid of a disruption in their oil supply? Q. Who buys Iraqi oil? A. The United States tends to be the biggest importer of Iraqi crude, buying 366,000 barrels a day during December 2002. Iraq was the seventh-biggest supplier of U.S. crude imports that month, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Iraq's other customers include France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. Last month, about two-thirds of Iraq's exports went to importers in North and South America. More than half of this amount ended up in the United States. The buyers that deal directly with Iraq are often small, Russian-owned trading companies acting as middlemen. They ship the oil from Iraq to refiners and other users in importing countries.