The only problem is US English, which look less and less like English... and is
more and more a combination of a few basic verbs and a word like in/out/off/on/over/under. Memorizing all the different meaning of those
combinations is a problem to foreigners.
I would have thought this would make it easier to pick things up - You learn what un/in/over/under etc mean, and then you learn the "few basic verbs" and you're well away.
Actually thinking about it, "newspeak" from George Orwell's 1984 springs to mind...
The main difference in comparing such things to Pioneer is the ongoing maintenance they get. As far as we know anyway, nothing has touched Pioneer 10 since it left this world. Most trains and ships that are of any age would have received some pretty major maintenance at some point during their lifes.
However, I'd rather be waiting for the Radiohead CD.
It was released on Tuesday in North America, been out since Monday in Europe. Some places, like Ireland and Japan, got in on the 27th September, and some places (Australia and that area) should have it, but are experiencing some distribution problems. Check your local store or CD Now or Amazon for example. Those crafty North Americans also get a limited edition CD with a hard back, children story style, book. If you wanna send one over to Ireland, let me know:)
"Karma whore, arrest this man, he talks off-topic, he buzzes like a fridge..."
You want to convert all your CDs to MP3s and inserting the CD into a drive is the LAST thing you want to do? So, instead, you want to buy a CD autochanger, set up autofeeding of the CDs, sort out software for it to work, just so you can convert both the CDs you own that are any good into MP3s?
Do you ever stop to consider that people like nVidia really don't give a shit about Linux. Outside of consoles, the PC running Windows is where the money is, and they would much rather wait until DX8 is out and about than go ahead and change their choice of API so the (relatively) tiny percentage of people running Linux desktops can play games instead of their dicks and Xterms.
There is a vast left-wing conspiracy of scientists fudging their data to raise these interesting questions in order to spark controversy enough to spur funding for a mission to Mars.
(Seriously, all they'd really have to do is talk to Bill Gates - Scientific American says that a manned mission to Mars would only take about $20 Billion, which would be significant, but easily doable for Bill)
The problem here being that Bill would insist on using his software, and finding astronauts to rely on that would be impossible!
Yes, it's legal. You are paying for a service, and in this case the service is cable modem access and cable TV together. That's the package, and that's what you agreed to pay for.
ActiveX/COM for use with Visual Basic, Active Server Pages, Delphi etc.
ANSI C
Class wrapper for ANSI C++
Java (via Java Native Interface, JNI), including servlets
Perl
Python
Tcl
Lastly, I looked through the site and didn't find any information on how this will be judged. Image quality alone? Or code quality? Or time to code? Anyone?
I'm hoping it'll be judged on image quality - Then I'll write a little codec which just stores the images without any compression - Huge files, original image quality, $50,000 in the bank...
I used to work at Mid-Kent Oncology Centre (Now Kent Cancer Centre) here in the UK about a year ago and they were developing ORTIS (Oncology Real-Time Information Service) using Tcl/Tk and MySQL (hopefully they've gone over to Oracle now though!). It was open-source and they were looking for people to help in the development of the software.
If anyone wants to contact them, either write to
Paul Studdart,
Kent Cancer Centre,
Maidstone DGH,
Maidstone,
Kent,
ME16 9QQ,
UK
or you could call him on +44 1622 729000 (Sorry, don't know about email addresses)
Tell him Carl Drinkwater mentioned it to you, and you'll have no problem getting information about it.
Alternatively, you could email me (de-spam protect the above email address!) for more details.
Tell me - Is package distribution becoming the normal way to distribution software? Forgive my ignorance, but I always go for the.tgz - I feel I know better what's going where if I do that. That said, I haven't really used packages since the early RedHat and I certainly haven't seen the newer package managers. What are the pros and cons of both methods?
How about demoing a MS app running in WINE - Not exactly flashy, but it will show people what it's capable of? Thinking about it though, it would perhaps be better to demonstrate a game or something - I think most peoples perception of Linux is of geeks using CLI's to work out Pi to 348390483 places:)
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<?
$Uppers = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
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The only problem is US English, which look less and less like English... and is more and more a combination of a few basic verbs and a word like in/out/off/on/over/under. Memorizing all the different meaning of those combinations is a problem to foreigners.
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I would have thought this would make it easier to pick things up - You learn what un/in/over/under etc mean, and then you learn the "few basic verbs" and you're well away.
Actually thinking about it, "newspeak" from George Orwell's 1984 springs to mind
The main difference in comparing such things to Pioneer is the ongoing maintenance they get. As far as we know anyway, nothing has touched Pioneer 10 since it left this world. Most trains and ships that are of any age would have received some pretty major maintenance at some point during their lifes.
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However, I'd rather be waiting for the Radiohead CD.
:)
..."
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It was released on Tuesday in North America, been out since Monday in Europe. Some places, like Ireland and Japan, got in on the 27th September, and some places (Australia and that area) should have it, but are experiencing some distribution problems. Check your local store or CD Now or Amazon for example. Those crafty North Americans also get a limited edition CD with a hard back, children story style, book. If you wanna send one over to Ireland, let me know
"Karma whore, arrest this man, he talks off-topic, he buzzes like a fridge
OK, OK, I'm a dick!
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Why the hell was this moderated down? It's a valid point.
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You want to convert all your CDs to MP3s and inserting the CD into a drive is the LAST thing you want to do? So, instead, you want to buy a CD autochanger, set up autofeeding of the CDs, sort out software for it to work, just so you can convert both the CDs you own that are any good into MP3s?
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You're the ultimate in geek, I salute you!
Oh please - I mean, Score: 3, Informative for pointing out that two links were broken - I mean, karma whore 'ho or what?
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Do you ever stop to consider that people like nVidia really don't give a shit about Linux. Outside of consoles, the PC running Windows is where the money is, and they would much rather wait until DX8 is out and about than go ahead and change their choice of API so the (relatively) tiny percentage of people running Linux desktops can play games instead of their dicks and Xterms.
.iMMersE
There is a vast left-wing conspiracy of scientists fudging their data to raise these interesting questions in order to spark controversy enough to spur funding for a mission to Mars.
.iMMersE
(Seriously, all they'd really have to do is talk to Bill Gates - Scientific American says that a manned mission to Mars would only take about $20 Billion, which would be significant, but easily doable for Bill)
The problem here being that Bill would insist on using his software, and finding astronauts to rely on that would be impossible!
Yes, it's legal. You are paying for a service, and in this case the service is cable modem access and cable TV together. That's the package, and that's what you agreed to pay for.
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This VFS is not real
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Good job they called it the virtual file system then, isn't it?
And the reserve has been met I notice. Interesting way of making a bit of money - Float on the eBay :)
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The f*cked was used for censorship - The actual site, and the logo on the site, says fucked.
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$269 for a 64Mb MP3 player? Better look at what thinkgeek has for us! a 6Gb personal jukebox ...
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... will allow you to generate PDFs from
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ActiveX/COM for use with Visual Basic, Active Server Pages, Delphi etc.
ANSI C
Class wrapper for ANSI C++
Java (via Java Native Interface, JNI), including servlets
Perl
Python
Tcl
There is also a pdflib extension to PHP.
You can find it here
I hope this helps.
Lastly, I looked through the site and didn't find any information on how this will be judged. Image quality alone? Or code quality? Or time to code? Anyone?
...
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I'm hoping it'll be judged on image quality - Then I'll write a little codec which just stores the images without any compression - Huge files, original image quality, $50,000 in the bank
I used to work at Mid-Kent Oncology Centre (Now Kent Cancer Centre) here in the UK about a year ago and they were developing ORTIS (Oncology Real-Time Information Service) using Tcl/Tk and MySQL (hopefully they've gone over to Oracle now though!). It was open-source and they were looking for people to help in the development of the software.
.iMMersE
If anyone wants to contact them, either write to
Paul Studdart,
Kent Cancer Centre,
Maidstone DGH,
Maidstone,
Kent,
ME16 9QQ, UK
or you could call him on +44 1622 729000 (Sorry, don't know about email addresses)
Tell him Carl Drinkwater mentioned it to you, and you'll have no problem getting information about it.
Alternatively, you could email me (de-spam protect the above email address!) for more details.
Tell me - Is package distribution becoming the normal way to distribution software? Forgive my ignorance, but I always go for the .tgz - I feel I know better what's going where if I do that. That said, I haven't really used packages since the early RedHat and I certainly haven't seen the newer package managers. What are the pros and cons of both methods?
.iMMersE
How about demoing a MS app running in WINE - Not exactly flashy, but it will show people what it's capable of? Thinking about it though, it would perhaps be better to demonstrate a game or something - I think most peoples perception of Linux is of geeks using CLI's to work out Pi to 348390483 places :)
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