There are a few other businesses in the Bentonville area that would have sizeable IT depts. Sure, there aren't any big software firms that I know of, and there aren't pages and pages of want ads for programmers & engineers, but from what I've heard, it's a good place to live. The only thing that I wouldn't like about Wal-Mart is that apparently it's mandatory to be at work by 7:30am. I don't think I could handle that.
Sure, those once were big name Utah companies, but I don't think that their downfall had anything to do with the liquor laws. It had more to do with a certain criminal monopolist in Redmond.
That sounds a little like my college, and it was a state run school! All the dorms were single sex, and the women had to go though 2 or 3 sets of locked doors in order to get to their room. However, unlike what I've heard about UofU and BYU, women only made up about 25-30% of the population and of that amount, only a small percentage were what one would consider attractive. For example, my high school graduating class of 36 kids (rural school) had more attractive females than my entire college freshman class! At least at BYU, going out on dates is considered a common event. Most of my spare time was spent watching TV or playing around on my computer because there was nothing else to do (that is if you didn't want to destroy your brain cells at a bar). Come to think of it, that's pretty much what I still do now that I'm married. =)
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The couple of online diaries that I read aren't anything like that at all. Alan Cox's diary is mainly about the linux stuff that he's working on or some other project at home. His wife's diary can be down right hilarious at times (the recent mouse problem, why did Alan buy 5 alarm clocks off ebay, etc.). She sometimes has links to pages with pictures of the conferences that they attend.
The question then becomes what technology did MS obtain as a part of the initial investment? They could have also used it as an opportunity to try to steer it down a dead end path ala OS/2.
IMHO, the real reason they probably invested in Corel is to give the appearance that they still have competitors (they did the same thing with Apple) in the shrink wrapped office productivitiy market. But now that this move has raised the attention of the DOJ, they're dumping the stock. This will certainly cause Corel's stock to dive even further. It would be really funny, if that would cause the SEC to look into the situation and have multiple agencies trying to take them to court. Wishful thinking, I know, but it would be fun to watch.
This sort of thing is happening in the US too. There have been cases where a cargo ship ran into problems while trying to smuggle in people from Asia for prostitution/sweatshop labor and several people died. The same thing happens with Mexicans being shipped over the border in box cars. If they get locked in the box car too long, most will die from the heat. The twisted thing about both situations, these people have paid others to bring them over.
And I explained that many years ago, it was okay to actually own people.
Many years ago? There's slavery in Sudan right now! Not that it makes it ok, but the govt. there or the so-called civil rights leaders here apparently don't care.
Also, let him know that if he doesn't do well academically in school, he'll probably be working at McD's someday too. Whenever my kids complain about school being boring or hard, I tell them that they can slack off and not work on their schoolwork all they want. Then I tell them that as a result, they will probably only be able to get some crappy low paying job that is a lot of hard work and/or extremely boring. That usually changes their attitude and suddenly schoolwork isn't hard or boring anymore.
And I'm sure that those kids are going to spend a good chunk of the rest of the school year going through diversity training and tolerance classes because they didn't give the 'proper politically correct' response. All citizens must be properly brainwashed, don't ya know....
A friend of mine used a setup like this about 12 years ago to create videos with a Pixar image computer and a Sun Workstation. The VTR was connected to the Sun's serial port and the video input was from the Pixar. That's how he did his computer animation. Lots of fun stuff.
I use rxvt most of the time because it does take up less memory and the better scrollbar (useful if you are running X on an old M68K based Mac). However, I like the way that one can change the keyboard translations for xterm compared to rxvt (this is useful for emulating specialized terminals that are vt100 compatible w/ the exception of the function keys). With xterm, you can do put the following in your ~/.Xdefaults file:
and then run rxvt with the '-name STerm' parameter. However, this only works if rxvt has been compiled with KEYSYM_RESOURCE. On the systems that I have access to, this doesn't appear to be the case. I can certainly recompile and change that, but in some instances I can't.
You wouldn't have to have a phone line to the fridge or any other appliance. They would all be BlueTooth enabled. You would have to have something in your PC or broadband connector to bridge the home BlueTooth network to the internet. I wouldn't want any BlueTooth device being able to create an outbound IP connection without my concent, though.
Maybe, I missed something, but when I read the article, I didn't ready anything about them wanting it to work over a large range. The privacy issues get brought up when the marketing guys want to give you 'RF-CueCats' so you can look up product information (and they get your information) and/or scanners in internet enabled home appliances.
From a logistical standpoint, this sounds very cool. Like everything else, it turns to crap once marketing gets involved.
It's not like he's going to have it scanning things all the time. Besides, he's probably got to worry more about getting cancer from his cordless phone or microwave oven than the minute amount of radiation he's going to pick up when he scans the cargo.
These devices aren't going to be powerful enough to do 'Enemy of the State' type tracking. In the article it mentioned that the big reason that companies would jump on this is that it makes inventory control so much easier and they can control shrink. If a warehouse had scanners that would detect these tags at every exit, they would know exactly where it left. Sensors on their trucks would know exactly when and where the boxes were unloaded. At check out time at the store, you could just push your basket into a checkout reader and it would automatically give you the bill (ever see the commercial where it looks like the guy is shoplifting, and the security guard stops him to give him the receipt?). This would be a great way to end the long check out lines.
Where this steps over the line is when they start talking about this to the marketing guys. Then they start talking about devices similiar to the CueCat and how they could gain information on who's buying what, how much, etc. I would NOT want a reader automatically installed in the house or the household appliances. Especially if those were hooked to the internet. Having the option to install them for my own personal use, where only I can access the data, would be fine. The privacy problem there would involve having to look up the ids. Would the first 48 bits be generic (ie tied to the product) and the 2nd 48 bits be the serial number? If so, hopefully, an open CDDB like database containing only the 1st 48 bits would exist so that people could replicate small portions of on their own machines. The user could then periodically update their local database.
Sun's involvement in this (other than using it for their products) is in providing the servers that would be needed to run the Auto-ID centers. The amount of data to be transmitted from the manufacturers, cataloged and stored would be huge. Sun would like to make sure that it's on their servers and not someone else's.
At the heart of this scenario is a little device called a "radio frequency identification tag" - a silicon chip that boots up and transmits a signal when exposed to the energy field of a nearby reader.
These things don't start transmitting until someone scans them. Even then, it's verly low power. I have something very similar that is the area of a credit card and about 2-3mm thick. It's used as an ID badge at work. They don't do anything until they are scanned by a reader and then they transmit a weak signal back w/ the card's serial number. This is compared to a database of what doors that card can open and if it matches, the door unlocks and I walk in.
I can certainly understand why some companies would want to this in order to get a handle on inventory control and shrink. It would be great for them. I don't like the tracking and marketing aspects of it at all. I don't like junk mail (real or virtual), whether it's random or targeted. (After the lawyers, can we kill all the people in Marketing? =)
Cricket was originally written for WebTV Networks, Inc. It was subsequently publically released under the GNU General Public License. Without the full support of WebTV's management, Cricket would still be an internal tool.
I'm guessing that this was before M$ bought them out. Wow, I guess WebTV was useful for something besides getting grandmothers to use the internet! =) It would be great if more companies did this. Just about every place has their own in-house tools that were written to support some business function that couldn't be solved with existing Free or proprietary software.
Hmm..That's odd. Any notes that I have from college written 9+ years ago w/ a mechanical pencil are kinda faded. Some of the stuff that's gotten wet has no visible traces of graphite on it. I can still read my ink written notes, even if they got wet (provided that it didn't run too much). I easily erase the mech pencil writing too.
Your tolower code doesn't work. ORing a value with itself, produces itself (that and you are assigning ch[0] to be 'Z' in the if statement). This is probably what you wanted (assuming input is ASCII):
However, you wouldn't want to use the macro if it was evaluating a function or math expression, since that would get evaluated anytime (c) was actually used. The original mistake was probably due to your 4:45am posting w/o sleep. =)
I have a neptune washer and it's great. Not only is it quieter than a regular washer, it can hold a lot more clothes and has an energy usage rating 1/3rd that of a conventional clothes washer. It's well worth the $1K
Use the -i (install) switch instead of -U (upgrade). It will keep the old libraries on the machine instead of removing them, which is what upgrade will do.
Ok, so you can control KDE2 stuff via DCOP. What does that do for all the command line stuff that existed long before KDE was even conceived?
What about a system that provides a GUI for those command line tools, such as Kaptain (http://www.hszk.bme.hu/~tz124/kaptain/)? It's a Qt app that allows the user to set up scripts or grammars that define the CLI options. Kaptain builts the GUI and then fires off the CLI tool with the parameters that were set via the GUI. It seems to work ok. It currently just sends the stderr/stdout of the program to the shell where you ran the kaptain script. However, to fully take advantage of a GUI environment, it should pop up a window and display the output there (it may do that already, I've just started playing with it).
Didn't you know that the GM Suburban is the 'Texas Caddilac' and unoffical state car? They are status-mobiles and saying that about 95% have never left the pavement would probably be a good guess. They are for people who have more money than common sense.
I wonder how effective just throttling the engine back would be in slowing this thing down. A good percentage of the time, I don't use my brakes to slow down. I just down shift and let my foot off the gas pedal. Then at the last moment I push in the clutch and step on the brakes after the engine has slowed the car down most of the way. If a person was good enough, one could cut the engine and then kick the back wheel so it would be sliding sideways. Maybe they show how a person is to stop this thing in the quicktime movie at the company's web site?
If it did have brakes, I could just see someone jamming down on them too hard and end up going head over heels.
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There are a few other businesses in the Bentonville area that would have sizeable IT depts. Sure, there aren't any big software firms that I know of, and there aren't pages and pages of want ads for programmers & engineers, but from what I've heard, it's a good place to live. The only thing that I wouldn't like about Wal-Mart is that apparently it's mandatory to be at work by 7:30am. I don't think I could handle that.
Sure, those once were big name Utah companies, but I don't think that their downfall had anything to do with the liquor laws. It had more to do with a certain criminal monopolist in Redmond.
That sounds a little like my college, and it was a state run school! All the dorms were single sex, and the women had to go though 2 or 3 sets of locked doors in order to get to their room. However, unlike what I've heard about UofU and BYU, women only made up about 25-30% of the population and of that amount, only a small percentage were what one would consider attractive. For example, my high school graduating class of 36 kids (rural school) had more attractive females than my entire college freshman class! At least at BYU, going out on dates is considered a common event. Most of my spare time was spent watching TV or playing around on my computer because there was nothing else to do (that is if you didn't want to destroy your brain cells at a bar). Come to think of it, that's pretty much what I still do now that I'm married. =)
The couple of online diaries that I read aren't anything like that at all. Alan Cox's diary is mainly about the linux stuff that he's working on or some other project at home. His wife's diary can be down right hilarious at times (the recent mouse problem, why did Alan buy 5 alarm clocks off ebay, etc.). She sometimes has links to pages with pictures of the conferences that they attend.
The question then becomes what technology did MS obtain as a part of the initial investment? They could have also used it as an opportunity to try to steer it down a dead end path ala OS/2.
IMHO, the real reason they probably invested in Corel is to give the appearance that they still have competitors (they did the same thing with Apple) in the shrink wrapped office productivitiy market. But now that this move has raised the attention of the DOJ, they're dumping the stock. This will certainly cause Corel's stock to dive even further. It would be really funny, if that would cause the SEC to look into the situation and have multiple agencies trying to take them to court. Wishful thinking, I know, but it would be fun to watch.
This sort of thing is happening in the US too. There have been cases where a cargo ship ran into problems while trying to smuggle in people from Asia for prostitution/sweatshop labor and several people died. The same thing happens with Mexicans being shipped over the border in box cars. If they get locked in the box car too long, most will die from the heat. The twisted thing about both situations, these people have paid others to bring them over.
And I explained that many years ago, it was okay to actually own people.
Many years ago? There's slavery in Sudan right now! Not that it makes it ok, but the govt. there or the so-called civil rights leaders here apparently don't care.
Also, let him know that if he doesn't do well academically in school, he'll probably be working at McD's someday too. Whenever my kids complain about school being boring or hard, I tell them that they can slack off and not work on their schoolwork all they want. Then I tell them that as a result, they will probably only be able to get some crappy low paying job that is a lot of hard work and/or extremely boring. That usually changes their attitude and suddenly schoolwork isn't hard or boring anymore.
And I'm sure that those kids are going to spend a good chunk of the rest of the school year going through diversity training and tolerance classes because they didn't give the 'proper politically correct' response. All citizens must be properly brainwashed, don't ya know....
A friend of mine used a setup like this about 12 years ago to create videos with a Pixar image computer and a Sun Workstation. The VTR was connected to the Sun's serial port and the video input was from the Pixar. That's how he did his computer animation. Lots of fun stuff.
Do the doors make that little noise the ones in the original Star Trek did? Now that would be cool.
Nope. They just make a click.
I use rxvt most of the time because it does take up less memory and the better scrollbar (useful if you are running X on an old M68K based Mac). However, I like the way that one can change the keyboard translations for xterm compared to rxvt (this is useful for emulating specialized terminals that are vt100 compatible w/ the exception of the function keys). With xterm, you can do put the following in your ~/.Xdefaults file:
and then run xterm with the parameter "-name STerm" to enable them. With rxvt, you have to use the keysyms like the following: and then run rxvt with the '-name STerm' parameter. However, this only works if rxvt has been compiled with KEYSYM_RESOURCE. On the systems that I have access to, this doesn't appear to be the case. I can certainly recompile and change that, but in some instances I can't.You wouldn't have to have a phone line to the fridge or any other appliance. They would all be BlueTooth enabled. You would have to have something in your PC or broadband connector to bridge the home BlueTooth network to the internet. I wouldn't want any BlueTooth device being able to create an outbound IP connection without my concent, though.
Maybe, I missed something, but when I read the article, I didn't ready anything about them wanting it to work over a large range. The privacy issues get brought up when the marketing guys want to give you 'RF-CueCats' so you can look up product information (and they get your information) and/or scanners in internet enabled home appliances.
From a logistical standpoint, this sounds very cool. Like everything else, it turns to crap once marketing gets involved.
It's not like he's going to have it scanning things all the time. Besides, he's probably got to worry more about getting cancer from his cordless phone or microwave oven than the minute amount of radiation he's going to pick up when he scans the cargo.
These devices aren't going to be powerful enough to do 'Enemy of the State' type tracking. In the article it mentioned that the big reason that companies would jump on this is that it makes inventory control so much easier and they can control shrink. If a warehouse had scanners that would detect these tags at every exit, they would know exactly where it left. Sensors on their trucks would know exactly when and where the boxes were unloaded. At check out time at the store, you could just push your basket into a checkout reader and it would automatically give you the bill (ever see the commercial where it looks like the guy is shoplifting, and the security guard stops him to give him the receipt?). This would be a great way to end the long check out lines.
Where this steps over the line is when they start talking about this to the marketing guys. Then they start talking about devices similiar to the CueCat and how they could gain information on who's buying what, how much, etc. I would NOT want a reader automatically installed in the house or the household appliances. Especially if those were hooked to the internet. Having the option to install them for my own personal use, where only I can access the data, would be fine. The privacy problem there would involve having to look up the ids. Would the first 48 bits be generic (ie tied to the product) and the 2nd 48 bits be the serial number? If so, hopefully, an open CDDB like database containing only the 1st 48 bits would exist so that people could replicate small portions of on their own machines. The user could then periodically update their local database.
Sun's involvement in this (other than using it for their products) is in providing the servers that would be needed to run the Auto-ID centers. The amount of data to be transmitted from the manufacturers, cataloged and stored would be huge. Sun would like to make sure that it's on their servers and not someone else's.
From the article:
These things don't start transmitting until someone scans them. Even then, it's verly low power. I have something very similar that is the area of a credit card and about 2-3mm thick. It's used as an ID badge at work. They don't do anything until they are scanned by a reader and then they transmit a weak signal back w/ the card's serial number. This is compared to a database of what doors that card can open and if it matches, the door unlocks and I walk in.I can certainly understand why some companies would want to this in order to get a handle on inventory control and shrink. It would be great for them. I don't like the tracking and marketing aspects of it at all. I don't like junk mail (real or virtual), whether it's random or targeted. (After the lawyers, can we kill all the people in Marketing? =)
Cricket was originally written for WebTV Networks, Inc. It was subsequently publically released under the GNU General Public License. Without the full support of WebTV's management, Cricket would still be an internal tool.
I'm guessing that this was before M$ bought them out. Wow, I guess WebTV was useful for something besides getting grandmothers to use the internet! =) It would be great if more companies did this. Just about every place has their own in-house tools that were written to support some business function that couldn't be solved with existing Free or proprietary software.
Hmm..That's odd. Any notes that I have from college written 9+ years ago w/ a mechanical pencil are kinda faded. Some of the stuff that's gotten wet has no visible traces of graphite on it. I can still read my ink written notes, even if they got wet (provided that it didn't run too much). I easily erase the mech pencil writing too.
Your tolower code doesn't work. ORing a value with itself, produces itself (that and you are assigning ch[0] to be 'Z' in the if statement). This is probably what you wanted (assuming input is ASCII):
or as a macro:However, you wouldn't want to use the macro if it was evaluating a function or math expression, since that would get evaluated anytime (c) was actually used. The original mistake was probably due to your 4:45am posting w/o sleep. =)
I have a neptune washer and it's great. Not only is it quieter than a regular washer, it can hold a lot more clothes and has an energy usage rating 1/3rd that of a conventional clothes washer. It's well worth the $1K
Use the -i (install) switch instead of -U (upgrade). It will keep the old libraries on the machine instead of removing them, which is what upgrade will do.
Ok, so you can control KDE2 stuff via DCOP. What does that do for all the command line stuff that existed long before KDE was even conceived?
What about a system that provides a GUI for those command line tools, such as Kaptain (http://www.hszk.bme.hu/~tz124/kaptain/)? It's a Qt app that allows the user to set up scripts or grammars that define the CLI options. Kaptain builts the GUI and then fires off the CLI tool with the parameters that were set via the GUI. It seems to work ok. It currently just sends the stderr/stdout of the program to the shell where you ran the kaptain script. However, to fully take advantage of a GUI environment, it should pop up a window and display the output there (it may do that already, I've just started playing with it).
And there is a program that will convert Dia UML diagrams into code: http://dia2code.sourceforge.net/.
From the website:
FeaturesWhat isn't here yet
Didn't you know that the GM Suburban is the 'Texas Caddilac' and unoffical state car? They are status-mobiles and saying that about 95% have never left the pavement would probably be a good guess. They are for people who have more money than common sense.
I wonder how effective just throttling the engine back would be in slowing this thing down. A good percentage of the time, I don't use my brakes to slow down. I just down shift and let my foot off the gas pedal. Then at the last moment I push in the clutch and step on the brakes after the engine has slowed the car down most of the way. If a person was good enough, one could cut the engine and then kick the back wheel so it would be sliding sideways. Maybe they show how a person is to stop this thing in the quicktime movie at the company's web site?
If it did have brakes, I could just see someone jamming down on them too hard and end up going head over heels.