Which is why the other language is Chinese. I remember hearing years ago that Chinese is very well suited for voice recognition due to the fact that it is a tonal language with a total set of only a few hundred distinct sounds. Not sure if this is true just for Mandarin or also Cantonese and the others.
Seems kind of a mixed bag. Two related things that were stated stood out to me though. First:
"The OS was even able to detect some new devices that aren't yet on the market when we simply plugged them in. And Windows XP installed the correct drivers, creating a true plug-and-play experience."
And second:
"And the 1.4-GHz Athlon scores were lower than expected. We suspect that there may have been a driver conflict between the Athlon system's AGP bus and Windows XP's default drivers."
So they can properly detect and provide drivers for external hardware that isn't yet even on the market, but they can't get a critical sub-system driver out for a piece of hardware that's been released for some time? As an Athlon owner it made me think anyway.
"A lot of webmasters still use Gif87 despite the fact that PNG is better in many ways."
The site I just got finished creating was using PNG files until we discovered that some of our users still have NS 4.08. It doesn't understang PNG, so we are back to GIFs.
Seems it will be a little while yet before PNG becomes more pervasive.
Subject basically says it. When you say 20 hour orbit, it means to me that it takes 20 hours for one revolution about the planet. Thus for a 2 hour orbit it would be moving 10x _faster_, not slower. Did you just get them reversed or what?
Just rolled out our new company web site for taking online loan applications and doing reporting using Tomcat, Velocity and JADOZoom for SQL access. We are (were!) an MS-only shop and my choices were looked upon with great suspicion at first. Not anymore! Bossman has been impressed with the quality of the tools and the cost. Even my die-hard cubemate, with whom I've gone round and round about MS, is starting to think there may be something to this open-source thing after all. Especially when I pointed out the Tomcat-user mailing list one day and read him an exchange between a couple of the developers and someone with a problem. You just don't get that level of interaction with commercial wares devs unless you are paying through the nose, if at all. Well, that's my 2 kopeks worth anyway!
There's a documentary film called the Panama Deception you should watch. Essentially, the 'useless Panamanian Army' had captured Noriega and was waiting for promised US assistance (sealing a couple of roads and securing an airfield I think) which never came and they were overrun and killed.
I am totally ashamed of the behavior of the US in Panama. It was a look good muscle-flex for Bush Sr, paid for in innocent blood. Now Bush Jr is going to repeat it in another country.
And we all sit back scratching our asses, sipping beer and wondering why the rest of the world hates us so much? They're just jealous...yeah, that's the ticket...
Precisely. I want to know who exactly we suppose will be signing the peace treaty, paying reparations, etc. I don't think we will get answers to these questions, and yet until we do, I do not consider this a 'war'.
Recently I started using a pen tablet, got totally hooked and use it for 99% of my pointer input now. I'd be interested to know how their system works with one for the same reason you mention with a touch screen. Once you use a tablet for a little while your brain figures out the aspect ratio and you can pull the pen out of the input field and put it back down somewhere else with decent accuracy. As a result the pointer disappears and reappears across the screen. Anyway, just one more wrinkle for them to iron heh...
"it is taking away modern-day money from some commercial releases."
So if I'm spending all day playing Galaga on MAME, and don't buy WunderGameX because of it, it should be illegal for me to play Galaga unless I buy the rom myself? And how exactly would whoever made Galaga be compensated should I obtain a ROM and use it 'legally', considering it's so old it would probably come from a non-working unit in a warehouse? Why should my choices be limited and the benefits of the electronic age be denied to me because of some corporations potential to profit by selling me something I clearly don't need anyway? Screw them. This whole 'potential sales' thing as an excuse to cripple the digital age is bullshit. If they don't want us using the software and A/V they're making today 20 years from now, they had better put in some kind of killer, uncrackable expiration. Aint gonna happen.
LEXX
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The difference is that MS was found to be a monopoly by the courts. Monopolies are not allowed to "grow"/"squash" the same ways a regular corp can. That said, I don't see this instance as particularly odious even if actually does fall under the category of product tying (which I'm not certain of).
Or is Caldera becoming about as irrelevant as a company can get? The thrust of their Linux strategy now seems to be, "Um yeah, it'll run great in our terminal software for Windows users." Also there is this gem:
"As the desktop becomes the browser, you will see Linux become the predominant platform on devices that connect to the Internet."
/em-foghorn That boy, I say, that boy needs to stay outta the sun for a while!
Care to substantiate that claim or are you just blowing smoke? What are you implying anyway? That MS is buying people/politicians off (wouldn't surprise me actually)? Taking out contracts on Sun personnel? Developing brain-washing devices to get back the mindshare they've lost? Better be something pretty magical considering that I work for the leader of the Global 500 and Java is well ingrained in our operations.
This is more true than many people realize. I am in the process of deploying a web app for my company and am using Tomcat to serve it. The way the very MS oriented networking guys are reacting to having to read docs and edit config files is amazing. You would think I had asked them to crawl through glass and modify the configs with their own blood. You can SEE what is going through there minds, "Where's the SETUP.EXE I click on? Where are the checkboxes and Next/Finish buttons? Why can't I just fake it for now and worry about the details later if/when it breaks?!"
To make learning how things work optional is obviously an MS goal. And a strategy that is guaranteed to succeed due to the average persons desire to gain maximal slack. I'll restate the obvious yet again by saying that Linux/Apache/otherbestOSS are doomed to marginal levels (IOW - Apache's share will continue to decline) of usage by the world at large, due purely to human laziness. UNLESS and until an easy-to-use and _knowledge-optional_ Linux/Apache/whatever comes out. We're talking pablum-dripping-fuzzy-bear-and-talking-flower easy here.
I kind of like the sound of it though. Knowledge-Optional Linux - The KO punch to MS!:) Oh, and KOL had better be able to run AOL too heh... Oh my!! BETTER PLAN!!! Get AOL to distribute a copy of KOL on their CD's (in return for an AOL icon on the desktop)! Automatically convert their 'office' files to StarOffice... World domination is within our grasp folks!!!!
All joking aside, (s)he who implemented KO Linux/Apache/whatever and it's ultra-anti-1337 interface would in fact be the most 1337 of them all...and likely have a nice FAT bank account out of the deal too.
I'm on 64... and I just noticed the exact same thing. I was running Gnotella until a few minutes ago so I don't know when this started. Tiny tells me I'm doing a steady 3.42Kbps in nothing but ARP traffic.
Dead on about resources. Also demonstrated during a NOVA
special on just this topic was how simple application of basic physical principles (that would have been known to the Egyptians), would have allowed them to use a 'sand removal' technique to pivot the obelisks into place with fair ease. There were two attempts with this method in the show, the first was small scale and so-so, the second large scale and great success. Wish the link above had more info about the show itself, but at least you can see when it might be playing next...
As an employee of a (non-direct) automotive loan company who just spend the last three months developing a web interface to our loan processing system for use by our dealers, I have to say that there is more to the CTFAI involvement than you might first imagine. Sensitive credit bureau data, important personal info, etc. are all involved in the loan process, even for just an inquiry. I'm glad to see that Nader is keeping up with the times. And yes, you would be surprised how many people will enter in all that sensitive info out of burning curiosity over just what the payment on -insert shiny new thing here- would be and whether or not they would qualify for a loan on it. Whether these good folks _should_ be protected from themselves or not is another matter.;)
WTF is a 'summer' movie and how exactly is one different from that of any other season? Pablum is not only allowed but expected? Sounds like you are parrotting some reviewer. You and the kid above who figured out that he has to 'disengage the logical part of his brain' to ensure movie enjoyment are exactly the kind of LCD that the US movie industry are pandering too. Watch a couple of decent import or indie US films and you may just remember what real cinema is capable of.
Apparently it bears pointing out once again that this is a key issue for companies doing business with the internet community. Someone at MS hasn't read the Cluetrain Manifesto yet! Some particular points from it:
11. People in networked markets have figured out that they get far better information and support from one another than from vendors. So much for corporate rhetoric about adding value to commoditized products.
12. There are no secrets. The networked market knows more than companies do about their own products. And whether the news is good or bad, they tell everyone.
25. Companies need to come down from their Ivory Towers and talk to the people with whom they hope to create relationships.
28. Most marketing programs are based on the fear that the market might see what's really going on inside the company.
30. Brand loyalty is the corporate version of going steady, but the breakup is inevitable and coming fast. Because they are networked, smart markets are able to renegotiate relationships with blinding speed.
There are many more they would do well to take into account as well, particularly down around #82...
Which is their other Achilles heel. They can't run on _anything_ but Intel based hardware (excluding PDAs and settops I suppose). What do you think their chances are at this point of getting their stuff to run on high-end IBM and Sun equipment? Guess why they are porting.NET to an open system? They are trying to make headway into the big-server arena but can't do it while tied to the x86 architecture. Thus,.NET is an escape valve that may still play out where their hardware aspirations have not yet (cf- problems with Unisys and the Microsoft Enterprise Server setup or whatever it was/is) and may not ever. This is a company trying to redefine itself in the midst of massive corporate and growing public hostility. Since they have never had to play nice, and may not be capable of it (organization-wide) now, it will take some skillful maneuvering to keep their $1B a month rolling in. (BTW- It's been pretty widely reported that the figures they report aren't necessarily a true reflection of reality.) Office re-sales...I mean upgrade sales, isn't saving them. The latest Netcraft report mentions that less than %25 of the Windows boxes it tallied serving pages are even W2K yet and now they want to sell everyone on XP? They _need_ to spend $1B on marketing to even have a chance. Things are far from dire for them, but the planets are reaching alignment...at least from the view in my backyard.
why most/.'ers will appear to have this point 'lost' on them, and it is because we were taught in high-school civics that "I'm not guilty, so why should I worry?" is a position of ignorance that lead down a path of erosion of rights for everyone in the name of/insert cause here/.
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Which is why the other language is Chinese. I remember hearing years ago that Chinese is very well suited for voice recognition due to the fact that it is a tonal language with a total set of only a few hundred distinct sounds. Not sure if this is true just for Mandarin or also Cantonese and the others.
LEXX
I did a word count after separating their two threads of dialog into different files and removing the leading names from their lines.
Final counts:
Torvalds - 1669
Rose - 456
Never let facts get in the way of looking stupid though...
LEXX
Three things spring to mind after reading your comment:
:)
Good thing the Egyptians didn't stand around worrying whether or not the pyramids could be built until some unforseen technological change came along
Necessity is the mother of invention
No matter where you go, there you are
So in answer to your two questions I would say, "yes" and "yes"!
LEXX
Found this on the eWeek site with a search on 'xp performance':
5 26a%253D16932,00.asp
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D25102%2
Seems kind of a mixed bag. Two related things that were stated stood out to me though. First:
"The OS was even able to detect some new devices that aren't yet on the market when we simply plugged them in. And Windows XP installed the correct drivers, creating a true plug-and-play experience."
And second:
"And the 1.4-GHz Athlon scores were lower than expected. We suspect that there may have been a driver conflict between the Athlon system's AGP bus and Windows XP's default drivers."
So they can properly detect and provide drivers for external hardware that isn't yet even on the market, but they can't get a critical sub-system driver out for a piece of hardware that's been released for some time? As an Athlon owner it made me think anyway.
LEXX
"A lot of webmasters still use Gif87 despite the fact that PNG is better in many ways."
The site I just got finished creating was using PNG files until we discovered that some of our users still have NS 4.08. It doesn't understang PNG, so we are back to GIFs.
Seems it will be a little while yet before PNG becomes more pervasive.
LEXX
Subject basically says it. When you say 20 hour orbit, it means to me that it takes 20 hours for one revolution about the planet. Thus for a 2 hour orbit it would be moving 10x _faster_, not slower. Did you just get them reversed or what?
LEXX
Just rolled out our new company web site for taking online loan applications and doing reporting using Tomcat, Velocity and JADOZoom for SQL access. We are (were!) an MS-only shop and my choices were looked upon with great suspicion at first. Not anymore! Bossman has been impressed with the quality of the tools and the cost. Even my die-hard cubemate, with whom I've gone round and round about MS, is starting to think there may be something to this open-source thing after all. Especially when I pointed out the Tomcat-user mailing list one day and read him an exchange between a couple of the developers and someone with a problem. You just don't get that level of interaction with commercial wares devs unless you are paying through the nose, if at all. Well, that's my 2 kopeks worth anyway!
LEXX
There's a documentary film called the Panama Deception you should watch. Essentially, the 'useless Panamanian Army' had captured Noriega and was waiting for promised US assistance (sealing a couple of roads and securing an airfield I think) which never came and they were overrun and killed.
I am totally ashamed of the behavior of the US in Panama. It was a look good muscle-flex for Bush Sr, paid for in innocent blood. Now Bush Jr is going to repeat it in another country.
And we all sit back scratching our asses, sipping beer and wondering why the rest of the world hates us so much? They're just jealous...yeah, that's the ticket...
Jesus wept.
LEXX
From what I've read on the Tomcat-user list, Tomcat does not do EJB and JBoss is the usual recommendation.
LEXX
Precisely. I want to know who exactly we suppose will be signing the peace treaty, paying reparations, etc. I don't think we will get answers to these questions, and yet until we do, I do not consider this a 'war'.
Like it matters though heh...
LEXX
Recently I started using a pen tablet, got totally hooked and use it for 99% of my pointer input now. I'd be interested to know how their system works with one for the same reason you mention with a touch screen. Once you use a tablet for a little while your brain figures out the aspect ratio and you can pull the pen out of the input field and put it back down somewhere else with decent accuracy. As a result the pointer disappears and reappears across the screen. Anyway, just one more wrinkle for them to iron heh...
LEXX
You are correct. It was by Muse Software, the same people who brought us one of the King Hell games of the time - the original Castle Wolfenstein!!
LEXX
There is none.
"it is taking away modern-day money from some commercial releases."
So if I'm spending all day playing Galaga on MAME, and don't buy WunderGameX because of it, it should be illegal for me to play Galaga unless I buy the rom myself? And how exactly would whoever made Galaga be compensated should I obtain a ROM and use it 'legally', considering it's so old it would probably come from a non-working unit in a warehouse? Why should my choices be limited and the benefits of the electronic age be denied to me because of some corporations potential to profit by selling me something I clearly don't need anyway? Screw them. This whole 'potential sales' thing as an excuse to cripple the digital age is bullshit. If they don't want us using the software and A/V they're making today 20 years from now, they had better put in some kind of killer, uncrackable expiration. Aint gonna happen.
LEXX
The difference is that MS was found to be a monopoly by the courts. Monopolies are not allowed to "grow"/"squash" the same ways a regular corp can. That said, I don't see this instance as particularly odious even if actually does fall under the category of product tying (which I'm not certain of).
LEXX
Or is Caldera becoming about as irrelevant as a company can get? The thrust of their Linux strategy now seems to be, "Um yeah, it'll run great in our terminal software for Windows users." Also there is this gem:
"As the desktop becomes the browser, you will see Linux become the predominant platform on devices that connect to the Internet."
/em-foghorn That boy, I say, that boy needs to stay outta the sun for a while!
LEXX
Care to substantiate that claim or are you just blowing smoke? What are you implying anyway? That MS is buying people/politicians off (wouldn't surprise me actually)? Taking out contracts on Sun personnel? Developing brain-washing devices to get back the mindshare they've lost? Better be something pretty magical considering that I work for the leader of the Global 500 and Java is well ingrained in our operations.
LEXX
This is more true than many people realize. I am in the process of deploying a web app for my company and am using Tomcat to serve it. The way the very MS oriented networking guys are reacting to having to read docs and edit config files is amazing. You would think I had asked them to crawl through glass and modify the configs with their own blood. You can SEE what is going through there minds, "Where's the SETUP.EXE I click on? Where are the checkboxes and Next/Finish buttons? Why can't I just fake it for now and worry about the details later if/when it breaks?!"
:) Oh, and KOL had better be able to run AOL too heh... Oh my!! BETTER PLAN!!! Get AOL to distribute a copy of KOL on their CD's (in return for an AOL icon on the desktop)! Automatically convert their 'office' files to StarOffice... World domination is within our grasp folks!!!!
To make learning how things work optional is obviously an MS goal. And a strategy that is guaranteed to succeed due to the average persons desire to gain maximal slack. I'll restate the obvious yet again by saying that Linux/Apache/otherbestOSS are doomed to marginal levels (IOW - Apache's share will continue to decline) of usage by the world at large, due purely to human laziness. UNLESS and until an easy-to-use and _knowledge-optional_ Linux/Apache/whatever comes out. We're talking pablum-dripping-fuzzy-bear-and-talking-flower easy here.
I kind of like the sound of it though. Knowledge-Optional Linux - The KO punch to MS!
All joking aside, (s)he who implemented KO Linux/Apache/whatever and it's ultra-anti-1337 interface would in fact be the most 1337 of them all...and likely have a nice FAT bank account out of the deal too.
LEXX
I'm on 64... and I just noticed the exact same thing. I was running Gnotella until a few minutes ago so I don't know when this started. Tiny tells me I'm doing a steady 3.42Kbps in nothing but ARP traffic.
LEXX
Dead on about resources. Also demonstrated during a NOVA special on just this topic was how simple application of basic physical principles (that would have been known to the Egyptians), would have allowed them to use a 'sand removal' technique to pivot the obelisks into place with fair ease. There were two attempts with this method in the show, the first was small scale and so-so, the second large scale and great success. Wish the link above had more info about the show itself, but at least you can see when it might be playing next...
LEXX
As an employee of a (non-direct) automotive loan company who just spend the last three months developing a web interface to our loan processing system for use by our dealers, I have to say that there is more to the CTFAI involvement than you might first imagine. Sensitive credit bureau data, important personal info, etc. are all involved in the loan process, even for just an inquiry. I'm glad to see that Nader is keeping up with the times. And yes, you would be surprised how many people will enter in all that sensitive info out of burning curiosity over just what the payment on -insert shiny new thing here- would be and whether or not they would qualify for a loan on it. Whether these good folks _should_ be protected from themselves or not is another matter. ;)
LEXX
WTF is a 'summer' movie and how exactly is one different from that of any other season? Pablum is not only allowed but expected? Sounds like you are parrotting some reviewer. You and the kid above who figured out that he has to 'disengage the logical part of his brain' to ensure movie enjoyment are exactly the kind of LCD that the US movie industry are pandering too. Watch a couple of decent import or indie US films and you may just remember what real cinema is capable of.
LEXX
Who loves film but HATES Hollywood.
Anyone save a copy of the memo? The site seems to have been taken down...
LEXX
"This incident went completely unsupported."
Apparently it bears pointing out once again that this is a key issue for companies doing business with the internet community. Someone at MS hasn't read the Cluetrain Manifesto yet! Some particular points from it:
11. People in networked markets have figured out that they get far better information and support from one another than from vendors. So much for corporate rhetoric about adding value to commoditized products.
12. There are no secrets. The networked market knows more than companies do about their own products. And whether the news is good or bad, they tell everyone.
25. Companies need to come down from their Ivory Towers and talk to the people with whom they hope to create relationships.
28. Most marketing programs are based on the fear that the market might see what's really going on inside the company.
30. Brand loyalty is the corporate version of going steady, but the breakup is inevitable and coming fast. Because they are networked, smart markets are able to renegotiate relationships with blinding speed.
There are many more they would do well to take into account as well, particularly down around #82...
LEXX
Which is their other Achilles heel. They can't run on _anything_ but Intel based hardware (excluding PDAs and settops I suppose). What do you think their chances are at this point of getting their stuff to run on high-end IBM and Sun equipment? Guess why they are porting .NET to an open system? They are trying to make headway into the big-server arena but can't do it while tied to the x86 architecture. Thus, .NET is an escape valve that may still play out where their hardware aspirations have not yet (cf- problems with Unisys and the Microsoft Enterprise Server setup or whatever it was/is) and may not ever. This is a company trying to redefine itself in the midst of massive corporate and growing public hostility. Since they have never had to play nice, and may not be capable of it (organization-wide) now, it will take some skillful maneuvering to keep their $1B a month rolling in. (BTW- It's been pretty widely reported that the figures they report aren't necessarily a true reflection of reality.) Office re-sales...I mean upgrade sales, isn't saving them. The latest Netcraft report mentions that less than %25 of the Windows boxes it tallied serving pages are even W2K yet and now they want to sell everyone on XP? They _need_ to spend $1B on marketing to even have a chance. Things are far from dire for them, but the planets are reaching alignment...at least from the view in my backyard.
LEXX
why most /.'ers will appear to have this point 'lost' on them, and it is because we were taught in high-school civics that "I'm not guilty, so why should I worry?" is a position of ignorance that lead down a path of erosion of rights for everyone in the name of /insert cause here/.
LEXX