On alt.religion.scientology we find this delay useful. In the Reed Slatkin affair (search Google if you want to know:^) Scientology frequently doctored web sites and pictures to remove some people and make them un-persons. (Stalin would have killed for this -- he killed for everything-else.)
But quick checking of the Google cache found undoctored copies of pages and the PhotoShop nature of the pictures.
I remember when Motorola's 8 it processors took a public relations hit when they clocked at half the speed of the 8080/Z80s. Of course they did more per cycle, but Joe Buyer wants to see a big number o the chip.
Big number, heh! 2 MHz vs. 4 MHz! At this rate the "RF" noise from the chips will be visible as a deep red glow.
You mean "run everything 15% bigger" don't you?:^) Like the old pinball machines that had an extra zero painted on to the end of the score to make players feel good. (I wonder if anything is connected to the right most LED digit on more recent machines, or if it's hardwired to zero?)
It reminds me of the program for MSDOS that would "increase" youur RAM or disk size by having MSDOS lie. Or disk formating programs for the Atari ST would write the the diskette had 99 tracks. (I'm not sure it was good for the drive to keep bumping into the end-stop after track 82 or so.)
That's how OLE/COM/DCOM/COM+/.NET (whatever MS is calling it today) is supposed to work, and if the extensions are DLLs, they run in-process.
And this was supposed to reduce the size of apps: you didn't have to include a graphics/GUI/spellchecker/etc in every program. Make them seperate modules, and all apps can use them as needed.
That was the idea anyway. But I notice that with VC++, as soon as you actually use one of the libraries, it loads a huge amount of code into your app to talk to that library. Now some compilers are better at stripping unused code, but the MFC GUI stuff so intertwined, everything gets pulled in! (And the size of those MFC DLLs!)
Borland does it a bit better -- the apps are large by default, but that's because the equivilent of MFC is included in each app for portability. You can group all the common functions needed by each app into a single library if you want to. (And use outside COM objects with no problems.)
I only use text with Linux, so haven't noticed any bloat yet, but I'm sure as soon as I start using large extension APIs the bloat will start.
Somehow we've got to stop the bloat caused by using extensions.
Mmm... Turbo Pascal 2: editor, compiler, run-time in 36k.
I had a quick look at it, and it looks pretty nice. The companies give away the software then charge for their central 800 number are interesting. I'd like the option of directly supporting voice modems, but I haven't looked at all the companies yet.
Of course it always comes down to how good the voice command recognition is. I found Microsoft Voice to be a little iffy, and you have to train it. I've got more computer horse power now, so maybe I'll give it a try again. (And most voice modems suck! My USR is 8 kHz. Go with high-end stuff like Dialogic if you can afford it.)
In most Microsoft EULAs, it states you can't give the software to nations or individuals involved in making atomic, bacteriological, or chemical weapons.
I sleep so much more comfortably knowing that Saddam isn't running a legal copy of Windows...
Heh, I was cleaning up my download dumping ground yesterday, and wiped the CueCat rogue software. I have too many tech-toys looking for a purpose as it is.:^)
Perhaps cataloging my books might be a use, but I know what books I have. What I really need is something to automatically catalog my VCR tapes. I must have almost two copies of each B5 episode. (Niche Product Alert!) Perhaps something could be done with the Closed Captioning info? Hopefully it wouuld be Open Closed Captioning software.
They didn't have to support the Linux user base -- they just had to not sue the people who did provide support. ("Argh.. must control.. +3 cell phone.. of lawyer.. summoning..") Their corporate culture obviously had a few defects in its DNA.
Odd really, lots of companies would be pleased if someone wrote software to support their product, especially if it didn't cost them a cent.
Look at LEGO, pleased as spiked punch! It only got sticky when legal trademark stuff got involved, and they were very polite about it.
The Cue-Cat failure doesn't puzzle me -- Amazon's continued survival, now that puzzles me!
Don't forget their god-given* right to hack into people's computer and remove anything they think is a copyright violation, and to mount DoS attacks as well.
That's okay, I think it's okay to shoot eBurglers.
* The god is this case is probably one of those Aztec ones involving heart surgery. (Well, it sort of looks like heart surgery -- from a distance.)
I'm thinking that the Co$ isn't exactly known for its adherence to legality in its pursuit of those it sees as enemies anyway. One suspects that they would hack into your computer with or without this law, and then do anything possible to avoid being caught and punished.
That's okay, I reserve the right to shoot eBurglers.
And 146.57.160.113 (University of Minnesota) is currently tempting me with his 30 minute check to see if I'm running kazaa.
As for Co$, been there, done that. Flakey Nutbar SP5.
What you need is a program for a voice card that drops random "Uh-huh", "Yeah", "Hmmm", and "Okay"s, especially when it detects a pause from other end.
Of course, it would need a top 10 list for longest stringing along of a caller.
I'm not sure what would have been worse: What the RIAA would have done with it, or what the Cthurch of $cientology would have done with it.
$cientology has already (ab)used the DMCA to hassle critics and their ISPs. (Including claiming copyright on things written by other people.) They know that it's easier to comply than mount a defence against an army of lawyers with unlimited funds. (Sounds like the RIAA, don't it?)
I shudder to think what Cof$ would have done with this piece of legal shite.
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On alt.religion.scientology we find this delay useful. In the Reed Slatkin affair (search Google if you want to know :^) Scientology frequently doctored web sites and pictures to remove some people and make them un-persons. (Stalin would have killed for this -- he killed for everything-else.)
But quick checking of the Google cache found undoctored copies of pages and the PhotoShop nature of the pictures.
So some latency delay isn't always a bad thing.
I remember when Motorola's 8 it processors took a public relations hit when they clocked at half the speed of the 8080/Z80s. Of course they did more per cycle, but Joe Buyer wants to see a big number o the chip.
Big number, heh! 2 MHz vs. 4 MHz! At this rate the "RF" noise from the chips will be visible as a deep red glow.
Well, ATI seems to have sacrificed quality for speed. What if Intel sacrificed reliablity for faster Windows benchmarks?
Hey! Wait a minute...
You mean "run everything 15% bigger" don't you? :^) Like the old pinball machines that had an extra zero painted on to the end of the score to make players feel good. (I wonder if anything is connected to the right most LED digit on more recent machines, or if it's hardwired to zero?)
"Our amps all go to eleven..." "And that's good?" "Yeah well see, it's one louder."
The scarey thing is that I worked for a company whose president actually used that as a slogan for a pep meeting. Oh my!
It reminds me of the program for MSDOS that would "increase" youur RAM or disk size by having MSDOS lie. Or disk formating programs for the Atari ST would write the the diskette had 99 tracks. (I'm not sure it was good for the drive to keep bumping into the end-stop after track 82 or so.)
And did they change the default passwords?
Gotta watch out for those Martian script-kiddies!
Maybe if we could get the people from JPL to sit down with guys from LEGO Mind-Storms over a few beers, we could work something out... :^)
I was wondering why the craft kept radioing back "Noo light waah!" every time it passed into Mars's shadow!
I want to hook VoiceXML up to the Zork game engine so I can play Zork, HHGTTG, etc by telephone.
:^)
Okay, it's a useless technical achivement, but think just of the zowie factor!
That's how OLE/COM/DCOM/COM+/.NET (whatever MS is calling it today) is supposed to work, and if the extensions are DLLs, they run in-process.
And this was supposed to reduce the size of apps: you didn't have to include a graphics/GUI/spellchecker/etc in every program. Make them seperate modules, and all apps can use them as needed.
That was the idea anyway. But I notice that with VC++, as soon as you actually use one of the libraries, it loads a huge amount of code into your app to talk to that library. Now some compilers are better at stripping unused code, but the MFC GUI stuff so intertwined, everything gets pulled in! (And the size of those MFC DLLs!)
Borland does it a bit better -- the apps are large by default, but that's because the equivilent of MFC is included in each app for portability. You can group all the common functions needed by each app into a single library if you want to. (And use outside COM objects with no problems.)
I only use text with Linux, so haven't noticed any bloat yet, but I'm sure as soon as I start using large extension APIs the bloat will start.
Somehow we've got to stop the bloat caused by using extensions.
Mmm... Turbo Pascal 2: editor, compiler, run-time in 36k.
Patents are death for the little guys, but just poker chips to the big guys.
They can just trade patent licences with each other, and stop any newcomer from upsetting the apple cart.
I don't want to think about the goat.sx posts. Shudder!
Yup, Adcritc has had a number of IBM's excellent Linux commercials for month.
"Where are the flying cars? I thought we are suppost to have flying cars..."
I had a quick look at it, and it looks pretty nice. The companies give away the software then charge for their central 800 number are interesting. I'd like the option of directly supporting voice modems, but I haven't looked at all the companies yet.
Of course it always comes down to how good the voice command recognition is. I found Microsoft Voice to be a little iffy, and you have to train it. I've got more computer horse power now, so maybe I'll give it a try again. (And most voice modems suck! My USR is 8 kHz. Go with high-end stuff like Dialogic if you can afford it.)
Nah, Mars is defended by the Fourth Galactic Invader Force and their Implant Stations. Elron Hubbard said so, so it must be true! :^)
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In most Microsoft EULAs, it states you can't give the software to nations or individuals involved in making atomic, bacteriological, or chemical weapons.
I sleep so much more comfortably knowing that Saddam isn't running a legal copy of Windows...
First the RIAA wanted to be able to legally hack into any machine that they thought had copyright violations, or at least commit a DoS attack.
Now Microsoft wants to label anyone who does something like that a terrorist.
Well, this should be interesting!
Heh, I was cleaning up my download dumping ground yesterday, and wiped the CueCat rogue software. I have too many tech-toys looking for a purpose as it is. :^)
Perhaps cataloging my books might be a use, but I know what books I have. What I really need is something to automatically catalog my VCR tapes. I must have almost two copies of each B5 episode. (Niche Product Alert!) Perhaps something could be done with the Closed Captioning info? Hopefully it wouuld be Open Closed Captioning software.
They didn't have to support the Linux user base -- they just had to not sue the people who did provide support. ("Argh .. must control .. +3 cell phone .. of lawyer .. summoning..") Their corporate culture obviously had a few defects in its DNA.
Odd really, lots of companies would be pleased if someone wrote software to support their product, especially if it didn't cost them a cent.
Look at LEGO, pleased as spiked punch! It only got sticky when legal trademark stuff got involved, and they were very polite about it.
The Cue-Cat failure doesn't puzzle me -- Amazon's continued survival, now that puzzles me!
Don't forget their god-given* right to hack into people's computer and remove anything they think is a copyright violation, and to mount DoS attacks as well.
That's okay, I think it's okay to shoot eBurglers.
* The god is this case is probably one of those Aztec ones involving heart surgery. (Well, it sort of looks like heart surgery -- from a distance.)
Quote: "I went, 'Holy Toledo! This is big.'"
Umm Dave, it only looks like a marital aid.
I'm thinking that the Co$ isn't exactly known for its adherence to legality in its pursuit of those it sees as enemies anyway. One suspects that they would hack into your computer with or without this law, and then do anything possible to avoid being caught and punished.
That's okay, I reserve the right to shoot eBurglers.
And 146.57.160.113 (University of Minnesota) is currently tempting me with his 30 minute check to see if I'm running kazaa.
As for Co$, been there, done that. Flakey Nutbar SP5.
What you need is a program for a voice card that drops random "Uh-huh", "Yeah", "Hmmm", and "Okay"s, especially when it detects a pause from other end.
Of course, it would need a top 10 list for longest stringing along of a caller.
I'm not sure what would have been worse: What the RIAA would have done with it, or what the Cthurch of $cientology would have done with it.
$cientology has already (ab)used the DMCA to hassle critics and their ISPs. (Including claiming copyright on things written by other people.) They know that it's easier to comply than mount a defence against an army of lawyers with unlimited funds. (Sounds like the RIAA, don't it?)
I shudder to think what Cof$ would have done with this piece of legal shite.