As much as I want to like this kind of product, there is no way my company will let me write a document that can be read by google, the owners of each encountered router and the fine employees of the us government that can *legally* read by non US national data.
As much as Foogle makes me believe Sun's dream of a come back of centralized computing was only too early and poorly marketed, unless they offer a locally runnable copy of their fine software (Gmail, Writely, Spreadsheets), they will never get the corporate customer base.
In other words, no reasons to break chairs in Redmond.
Make it 5000+ songs and it still sucks. I wish it was possible to change the resolution of the scrolling. Once you are fully accelerated, it's very hard to brake the scrolling at the right stop, making it possible not to arrive at aa or zz.
Also, their fancy font spoils the resolution of the screen.
I did not say I worked on COBOL for 2 weeks, only that it takes 2 weeks to see its blatant limitations.
Also, you make the assumption COBOL code is bug free, which is far for true. In my COBOL days, most of the work consisted in finding failing exceptions on misguided spaghetti workaround to spaghetti bugs. Rest of the time was spent figuring out how to translate a structured programming concept into spaghetti code, or how to execute a 50 char select/join statement using pre-relational-database concepts.
The BO in COBOL is more like "Buffer Overflow" than like "Business Oriented". Matlab is arguably a better language for its purpose. C is probably better for buffer overflows, at least it's written all over in the manual. While more obscure, RPG on an AS/400 is probably more elegant and stable (speculation).
It's not like COBOL code nowadays is run on special purpose hardware with special binaries. It runs on Solaris or AIX systems. While throwing away everything at once may be risky, an evolutionary approach where a COBOL binary module is never adapted, always replaced, should always be considered. Only because normal people having to code in that horrible language want to die makes it a good reason. Once every recoded module is documented, it' feasible to reengineer the system, something that is impossible with the so called "self documenting [spaghetti] code".
You could say FORTRAN and COBOL are dead language but they are still used all over the place and there are more people who programing this stuff then you think
FORTRAN and especially COBOL are ugly languages. (I speak from experience. It takes about two weeks of COBOL experience to see its limitation.) The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense, like the old pedantic fart once said. The only reason it stays in business and doesn't die a forgotten, well earned death is that businesses who were able to afford them in the 50s (banks) still are rich enough to afford whores who will maintain that codebase. This is actually very misguided seeing how cheap it is to replace with standard j2ee for which there are about 1b developers.
I am not a constitutionalist, but is picking one in 10.000 law breakers an unconstitutional -because unusual- punishment ? Isn't it actually also cruel to anihilate someone's future (which is basically what you do when you fine them $1m or more) for copying some data ?
With this interpretation of the constitution, punishment on other crimes is still OK, because nearly all discovered crimes are punished, making the punishment usual, and arguably also not cruel, because there is no $1m damage.
Though I use the internet daily, I have no contact at all with any person with a Myspace account. I don't even see what myspace's pitch is all about ? Social networking ? like each account has a contact list or something ? Have I lived on a desert island or something ?
Don't know about the compression scheme in new formats, but theoretically the only lossy step in video compression is the quantization step. The system goes like
(A) video in space "time" domain =(a)=> sliced in 8x8 =(b)=> video in space freq domain ==> (B) quantized video in space freq domain ==> lossless entropy encoding
decompression goes like
lossless entropy decoding ==> quantized video in space freq domain ==> (C) somewhat degraded video in space "time" domain. This is the prtscreen image.
In theory if you run (a) and (b) on the degraded picture (C), the picture will be exactly like in (B). Unless you do further quantization TO REDUCE SIZE FURTHER, there is no picture degradation.
Now this was supposed to work with good ol'DVD's DCT/iDCT, but screengrabbing was silly when the plaintext was available. I don't know if this is still true for fancy schmancy HDDVD/BD.
Disclaimer: I wrote this text assuming there are no rounding faults.
If "Leopard" is really what it claims to be, i.e. fast and efficient in sharp contrast to slow and resource hungry Windows Vista, we certainly would see Apple's remarkable market share gain next year."
Linux already took that market years ago...oh wait.
Of course, it is also highly probable that they were drunk off their asses during the debate. Possibly the signing. Our early government had a tendency to work that way.
Not their fault, "born again christinity" was not invented by then.
In 2000, Mandrake was already "ready for the desktop user". Except for the drivers. And the ten different installs of equally useless kodometer + godometer + lodometer + xodometer. And the lack of a useable media player (hint to developers: having to go to/usr/tmp/mnt/whatever to just play an mp3 sucks). And no off-the-box jvm. And no games except tuxracer (off course, no accel off-the-box for a generic nvidia adapter). I could go on forever.
I just love linux as a web server, as a scripting environment, but it's just too unpolished and heavyweight for desktop use.
Why does something like this need a patent ? Going from mechanical, with mechanical interface safety to electronic, with RF interface is not an invention, let alone innovation, it's a fucking evolution any person with a clue working in a weapons company knows is bound to happen.
I'm actually getting afraid of Google. I'm trusting them for my mail account, which is already a lot, but also for my calendar, and one day I will obviously swap from flick to picasaweb for my pictures.
This raises the question: what happens if they go to a non-free model ? What if they go bankrupt ?
I'll stop hating Bill Gates when the "killing one excel window=kiling all excel instances" will stop existing. I'll stop hating Bill Gates when the copy-paste paradigm won't be broken in Excel. I'll stop hating Bill Gates when my fucking corporate laptop will stop saying "windows 2000 is too dumb to play DVDs" every time I want to play a DVD with VLC.
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As much as I want to like this kind of product, there is no way my company will let me write a document that can be read by google, the owners of each encountered router and the fine employees of the us government that can *legally* read by non US national data.
As much as Foogle makes me believe Sun's dream of a come back of centralized computing was only too early and poorly marketed, unless they offer a locally runnable copy of their fine software (Gmail, Writely, Spreadsheets), they will never get the corporate customer base.
In other words, no reasons to break chairs in Redmond.
Make it 5000+ songs and it still sucks. I wish it was possible to change the resolution of the scrolling. Once you are fully accelerated, it's very hard to brake the scrolling at the right stop, making it possible not to arrive at aa or zz.
Also, their fancy font spoils the resolution of the screen.
I did not say I worked on COBOL for 2 weeks, only that it takes 2 weeks to see its blatant limitations. Also, you make the assumption COBOL code is bug free, which is far for true. In my COBOL days, most of the work consisted in finding failing exceptions on misguided spaghetti workaround to spaghetti bugs. Rest of the time was spent figuring out how to translate a structured programming concept into spaghetti code, or how to execute a 50 char select/join statement using pre-relational-database concepts. The BO in COBOL is more like "Buffer Overflow" than like "Business Oriented". Matlab is arguably a better language for its purpose. C is probably better for buffer overflows, at least it's written all over in the manual. While more obscure, RPG on an AS/400 is probably more elegant and stable (speculation). It's not like COBOL code nowadays is run on special purpose hardware with special binaries. It runs on Solaris or AIX systems. While throwing away everything at once may be risky, an evolutionary approach where a COBOL binary module is never adapted, always replaced, should always be considered. Only because normal people having to code in that horrible language want to die makes it a good reason. Once every recoded module is documented, it' feasible to reengineer the system, something that is impossible with the so called "self documenting [spaghetti] code".
In the GPP, I mean constitutionalist as "constitution scholar".
I am not a constitutionalist, but is picking one in 10.000 law breakers an unconstitutional -because unusual- punishment ? Isn't it actually also cruel to anihilate someone's future (which is basically what you do when you fine them $1m or more) for copying some data ?
With this interpretation of the constitution, punishment on other crimes is still OK, because nearly all discovered crimes are punished, making the punishment usual, and arguably also not cruel, because there is no $1m damage.
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They want their flawed web search approach back
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so, what's hard about drowning fusile (as in fissile) fuel within the necessary amount of non fusile material ?
what is the point of a nucluear fusion that does not produce heat ?
And prior to that is was the megalith
Though I use the internet daily, I have no contact at all with any person with a Myspace account. I don't even see what myspace's pitch is all about ? Social networking ? like each account has a contact list or something ? Have I lived on a desert island or something ?
Tomania could do this for at least 5 years.
You seem quite knowledgeable about forsenics...
Don't know about the compression scheme in new formats, but theoretically the only lossy step in video compression is the quantization step. The system goes like
(A) video in space "time" domain =(a)=> sliced in 8x8 =(b)=> video in space freq domain ==> (B) quantized video in space freq domain ==> lossless entropy encoding
decompression goes like
lossless entropy decoding ==> quantized video in space freq domain ==> (C) somewhat degraded video in space "time" domain. This is the prtscreen image.
In theory if you run (a) and (b) on the degraded picture (C), the picture will be exactly like in (B). Unless you do further quantization TO REDUCE SIZE FURTHER, there is no picture degradation.
Now this was supposed to work with good ol'DVD's DCT/iDCT, but screengrabbing was silly when the plaintext was available. I don't know if this is still true for fancy schmancy HDDVD/BD.
Disclaimer: I wrote this text assuming there are no rounding faults.
Even if AOL were getting good, the first thing I would want to get rid of is an @aol.com address.
In 2000, Mandrake was already "ready for the desktop user". Except for the drivers. And the ten different installs of equally useless kodometer + godometer + lodometer + xodometer. And the lack of a useable media player (hint to developers: having to go to /usr/tmp/mnt/whatever to just play an mp3 sucks). And no off-the-box jvm. And no games except tuxracer (off course, no accel off-the-box for a generic nvidia adapter). I could go on forever.
I just love linux as a web server, as a scripting environment, but it's just too unpolished and heavyweight for desktop use.
Why does something like this need a patent ? Going from mechanical, with mechanical interface safety to electronic, with RF interface is not an invention, let alone innovation, it's a fucking evolution any person with a clue working in a weapons company knows is bound to happen.
I'm actually getting afraid of Google. I'm trusting them for my mail account, which is already a lot, but also for my calendar, and one day I will obviously swap from flick to picasaweb for my pictures.
This raises the question: what happens if they go to a non-free model ? What if they go bankrupt ?
We're talking aerospace here, you mean Nautical fucktons
I'll stop hating Bill Gates when the "killing one excel window=kiling all excel instances" will stop existing. I'll stop hating Bill Gates when the copy-paste paradigm won't be broken in Excel. I'll stop hating Bill Gates when my fucking corporate laptop will stop saying "windows 2000 is too dumb to play DVDs" every time I want to play a DVD with VLC.