i can't believe noone has made an xbox-powered vacuum cleaner yet...
I was going to that, dude, but I figured it would really suck...
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I'm across the lake in Seattle, and I get both BBC(A) and CBC, plus PBS rebroadcasts of BBC World News,
i.e. non-US originated material.
Yes, one can get this sort of thing on TV even on teh Eastside, but I prefer radio news, and used to prefer it in the UK as well. I didn't own a TV or have regular acces to one for the last three years I lived in the UK, and didn't miss it. Pretty much the only thing I watch on TV is The Simpsons, King of the Hill and South Park.
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I have to laugh if you think there's a large difference between the American news and British news.
I certainly do think so: I have listened a lot to both US and UK news, plus when I used to live in Portugal and France I listened to news in both of those countries too (in French and Portuguese respectively, i.e.not for English speakers), and the coverage was for more comprehensive than the parochial and superficial US news.
Experience tells me that the news is more comprehensive, and when there is coverage of matters unfavourable the incumbent government, and aggressive and intrusive questioning of ministers and officials, my senses tell me that there is not a systemic pro-government bias to the BBC.
International news *is* available in the US...
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We have no BBC or CBC here
I am an expat Brit living in Redmond, WA, and before I got broadband the lack of news here used to drive me CRAZY. I just didn't understand how people could be so incurious about the rest of the world, and how crap and banal is what little news there is which mentioned anything outside western Washington, or, Bog forbid, the USA. Hell, we don't even get any news from Vancouver or Portland most weeks!
Anyway, enough ranting: I just wanted to say that I preserved my sanity by going to the BBC radio web site where there is a round-the-clock stream of virtually all the BBC's radio output. For news in English, Radio 4 is probably best, though the World Service is also excellent, and also available in (currently) 43 languages.
VHS macrovision is popular precisely because it's undetectable in how it alters visual quality. You'll hear lots of complaints by people who are unable to copy videos correctly, but you'll never hear a complaint by anyone about how macrovision has degraded their signal -- it hasn't.
That is as maybe, for video. However, the ears are FAR more sensitive to dynamic content than are the eyes, and therefore watermarking schemes and the like have a *much* higher barrier to acceptance than does Macrovision...
Digital's relational database (RDB) was sold to oracle hence Oracle RDB
That's correct. But I was talking about Oracle server, NOT Rdb.
We used to run Rdb when it was a DEC product, but migrated to Oracle 7 Server when Oracle purchased Rdb as Oracle clearly wanted Rdb dead (their pricing showed that). However, Oracle Server still runs very nicely on Alpha/OpenVMS.
It seemed like there was only a short period of time where Alpha was cost effective compared to Intel, the rest of the time up until maybe three years ago, Alpha was often simply a heck of a lot faster and that performance was only needed in niche markets compared to today's desktop market.
But the cost effectiveness which you are talking about doesn't appear to factor in stability. Alpha machines running OpenVMS were rock, absolutely rock solid. We had a machine running Oracle on OpenVMS/Alpha that was not rebooted for three years, and never once showed ua a single problem. It just ran and ran and rad, and it ran FAST, too. I for one will miss the low admin burden of those Alpha/OpenVMS/Oracle boxes...
Out of curiosity - how differrent is this practice from that of most open-source companies? [...] Now making it so you can only get service from my company on that code, well, that's the difference between the definition of free now ain't it.
The difference is that the source is *open*. Anybody with the technical knowledge and the business acumen can sell the service. They are not required to go to a specific individual or organisation...
Small side-note: Nobels have no category for Mathematics; but i think recently (last few decades) a separate foundation set up one for math with comparable awards. Something about Nobel (the dude) hating mathematicians because (unsure) his gf was seduced away by one, or some such (please correct me if anyone knows the straightdope)
I am only quoting here, but Henry Petroski, the well-known populariser of engineering (The Pencil, To Engineer is Human, &c.) states in one of his books that the Nobel prizes were originally intended for progress in engineering applications of the recipient sciences, not for pure scientific advances.
Of course, he is very likely to be biased, but he does make a good case to my mind in whichever book he propounds his theory.
Wake up and smell the Orc sweat. The name didn't privide any guarantees until the Hollywood (yes, Jackson is Hollywood) got hold of it. Now, I'm surpised we haven't seen any Orca-Colas yet (pace "Bored Of The Rings). Tolkien's name is like putting Harrison Ford in a movie...
Tolkien's name on the cover is likely to make the translation a bestseller.
I find this sad. What would be more praiseworthy would be if what was to make it a bestseller were the fact that somebody might be interested in another side to Tolkien. However, I suspect that this will be a huge bestseller that few purchasers will take the real time and effort required to understand in the context of Tolkien's major influences, and specifically Anglo-Saxon literature.
My guess is n copies bought, n/10 copies read through.
This will be wonderful. He had already translated Pearl and Sir Orfeo, two Middle English pieces before he died, plus Sir Gawain and The Green Knight. These are very different pieces though, much more lyrical and romantic. Perhaps the best known translation he did which will compare with this is of a fragment (about 100 lines) of an Anglo Saxon piece called "The Death of Beorthelm". He wrote a sequel, The Homecoming of Beortnoth Beorthelms' Son, as well.
I am interested to see how his Beowulf will compare with Seamus Heaney's truly masterful work, published a couple of years ago. However, given that Heaney is a poet, and Tolkien was a philologist, I sha'n't be surprised if they differ widely...
This paper isn't a thesis paper for pete's sake! It isn't a dissertation! It's OBVIOUSLY a lark. He's a fan of Buffy, and he decided to engage his brain and see what he could conclude about the Buffy-verse. It's a hoot, relax people.
But! all the best research is done when people have a personal itch to scratch. That's what makes this so engaging...
Otherwise, it we may be hearing "cheap Linux crap!" as often as our racist forefathers used to say "cheap Japanese crap!"
The relevant part being used to say.
People used to say that you couldn't install Linux unless you were an expert hacker. People used to say that Linux would never have a workable desktop. People used to say lots of things. However, nowadays one hears the wonderful sounds of a lot of such unwisely spoken words being eaten.
In addition to which, the Indian subcontinent has a lot of incredibly smart and motivated IT professionals, who - and this is very important - are used to a collaborative working environment, and pulling together to make things happen: far more so than the Western hemisphere. My money says that if anybody will make this work, it will be the Indians. Smart people will be keeping an eye on their progress: even smarter people will be learning from it.
This could be a potentially huge boost for the credibility of a widely distributed Linux infrastructure which can be made to serve a very immature computing market. I drink heartily to its success...
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Everybody knows this is nonsense: it's only two bits, 1 and 0, but moving very , very fast!
For example, let's say such a clause was added to Apache.
Then the military would have to use another kind of helicopter...
2 million years eh?
Just time for another bath! Pass me the sponge, would you?
Frank Abate, an American editor for the Oxford English Dictionary, points out, however, that you can't claim proprietary rights to a verb."
:-)
Where else would you get somebody called Abate offering advice about a cease-and-desist letter
i can't believe noone has made an xbox-powered vacuum cleaner yet...
I was going to that, dude, but I figured it would really suck...
I'm across the lake in Seattle, and I get both BBC(A) and CBC, plus PBS rebroadcasts of BBC World News,
i.e. non-US originated material.
Yes, one can get this sort of thing on TV even on teh Eastside, but I prefer radio news, and used to prefer it in the UK as well. I didn't own a TV or have regular acces to one for the last three years I lived in the UK, and didn't miss it. Pretty much the only thing I watch on TV is The Simpsons, King of the Hill and South Park.
I have to laugh if you think there's a large difference between the American news and British news.
I certainly do think so: I have listened a lot to both US and UK news, plus when I used to live in Portugal and France I listened to news in both of those countries too (in French and Portuguese respectively, i.e.not for English speakers), and the coverage was for more comprehensive than the parochial and superficial US news.
Experience tells me that the news is more comprehensive, and when there is coverage of matters unfavourable the incumbent government, and aggressive and intrusive questioning of ministers and officials, my senses tell me that there is not a systemic pro-government bias to the BBC.
We have no BBC or CBC here
I am an expat Brit living in Redmond, WA, and before I got broadband the lack of news here used to drive me CRAZY. I just didn't understand how people could be so incurious about the rest of the world, and how crap and banal is what little news there is which mentioned anything outside western Washington, or, Bog forbid, the USA. Hell, we don't even get any news from Vancouver or Portland most weeks!
Anyway, enough ranting: I just wanted to say that I preserved my sanity by going to the BBC radio web site where there is a round-the-clock stream of virtually all the BBC's radio output. For news in English, Radio 4 is probably best, though the World Service is also excellent, and also available in (currently) 43 languages.
I'm telling you... it would work.
But the metamphetamine you need to power them comes from non-renewable sources...
VHS macrovision is popular precisely because it's undetectable in how it alters visual quality. You'll hear lots of complaints by people who are unable to copy videos correctly, but you'll never hear a complaint by anyone about how macrovision has degraded their signal -- it hasn't.
That is as maybe, for video. However, the ears are FAR more sensitive to dynamic content than are the eyes, and therefore watermarking schemes and the like have a *much* higher barrier to acceptance than does Macrovision...
How do you spell: "Lying scak of shit?" D A R L Mc B R I D E
Err, shouldn't that be: D R A L Mc B R I D E>
Digital's relational database (RDB) was sold to oracle hence Oracle RDB
That's correct. But I was talking about Oracle server, NOT Rdb.
We used to run Rdb when it was a DEC product, but migrated to Oracle 7 Server when Oracle purchased Rdb as Oracle clearly wanted Rdb dead (their pricing showed that). However, Oracle Server still runs very nicely on Alpha/OpenVMS.
It seemed like there was only a short period of time where Alpha was cost effective compared to Intel, the rest of the time up until maybe three years ago, Alpha was often simply a heck of a lot faster and that performance was only needed in niche markets compared to today's desktop market.
But the cost effectiveness which you are talking about doesn't appear to factor in stability. Alpha machines running OpenVMS were rock, absolutely rock solid. We had a machine running Oracle on OpenVMS/Alpha that was not rebooted for three years, and never once showed ua a single problem. It just ran and ran and rad, and it ran FAST, too. I for one will miss the low admin burden of those Alpha/OpenVMS/Oracle boxes...
Out of curiosity - how differrent is this practice from that of most open-source companies? [...] Now making it so you can only get service from my company on that code, well, that's the difference between the definition of free now ain't it.
The difference is that the source is *open*. Anybody with the technical knowledge and the business acumen can sell the service. They are not required to go to a specific individual or organisation...
Surely it'll be pretty damn' easy to /. a mobile phone? Multiprocessor Nokias, anybody???
Small side-note: Nobels have no category for Mathematics; but i think recently (last few decades) a separate foundation set up one for math with comparable awards. Something about Nobel (the dude) hating mathematicians because (unsure) his gf was seduced away by one, or some such (please correct me if anyone knows the straightdope)
I am only quoting here, but Henry Petroski, the well-known populariser of engineering (The Pencil, To Engineer is Human, &c.) states in one of his books that the Nobel prizes were originally intended for progress in engineering applications of the recipient sciences, not for pure scientific advances.
Of course, he is very likely to be biased, but he does make a good case to my mind in whichever book he propounds his theory.
JRRT's name doesn't provide any guarantees
Wake up and smell the Orc sweat. The name didn't privide any guarantees until the Hollywood (yes, Jackson is Hollywood) got hold of it. Now, I'm surpised we haven't seen any Orca-Colas yet (pace "Bored Of The Rings). Tolkien's name is like putting Harrison Ford in a movie...
From the report:
Tolkien's name on the cover is likely to make the translation a bestseller.
I find this sad. What would be more praiseworthy would be if what was to make it a bestseller were the fact that somebody might be interested in another side to Tolkien. However, I suspect that this will be a huge bestseller that few purchasers will take the real time and effort required to understand in the context of Tolkien's major influences, and specifically Anglo-Saxon literature.
My guess is n copies bought, n/10 copies read through.
Of course, I am just an 3l33tist...
This will be wonderful. He had already translated Pearl and Sir Orfeo, two Middle English pieces before he died, plus Sir Gawain and The Green Knight. These are very different pieces though, much more lyrical and romantic. Perhaps the best known translation he did which will compare with this is of a fragment (about 100 lines) of an Anglo Saxon piece called "The Death of Beorthelm". He wrote a sequel, The Homecoming of Beortnoth Beorthelms' Son, as well.
I am interested to see how his Beowulf will compare with Seamus Heaney's truly masterful work, published a couple of years ago. However, given that Heaney is a poet, and Tolkien was a philologist, I sha'n't be surprised if they differ widely...
that the MPAA was suing three-hundred and twenty one different studios?
Yes. What's more, the first question that sprang into my mind was "is that really 321 studios, or just 148 very fast ones?"
If I wanted Red Hat Linux with some ugly-ass icons, I'd... well I guess I'd make some ugly-ass icons
You should ask for your money back!
My Red Hat came with an ugly-ass desktop called Bluecurve!!!
...but transcendentals require an infinite number of terms.
Not if you use other transcendentals. IIRC, e^(-i*pi)=1.
This paper isn't a thesis paper for pete's sake! It isn't a dissertation! It's OBVIOUSLY a lark. He's a fan of Buffy, and he decided to engage his brain and see what he could conclude about the Buffy-verse. It's a hoot, relax people.
But! all the best research is done when people have a personal itch to scratch. That's what makes this so engaging...
I understand from a post a ways down that the University is currently having financial difficulties.
Did anybody see the Dean beforehand sneaking round with a can of petrol?
Otherwise, it we may be hearing "cheap Linux crap!" as often as our racist forefathers used to say "cheap Japanese crap!"
The relevant part being used to say.
People used to say that you couldn't install Linux unless you were an expert hacker. People used to say that Linux would never have a workable desktop. People used to say lots of things. However, nowadays one hears the wonderful sounds of a lot of such unwisely spoken words being eaten.
In addition to which, the Indian subcontinent has a lot of incredibly smart and motivated IT professionals, who - and this is very important - are used to a collaborative working environment, and pulling together to make things happen: far more so than the Western hemisphere. My money says that if anybody will make this work, it will be the Indians. Smart people will be keeping an eye on their progress: even smarter people will be learning from it.
This could be a potentially huge boost for the credibility of a widely distributed Linux infrastructure which can be made to serve a very immature computing market. I drink heartily to its success...