If it's at all like IBM's mainframe products, they've written to a standard interface which doesn't change a lot from version to version. And I would hope RedHat provides some backward compatibility between versions, too! Standard practice in the corporate world - prepare to go to version X+1, but have version X as a fallback position should flames spout out and the phone start to melt down. Therefore we expect enough compatibility between versions to be able to switch without breaking any applications (or else enough forewarning to rework the ones that will break). So, what I'm trying to say is that the OS distibution version shouldn't make that much difference.
We refuse those grocery 'value cards' for just this reason. But, really, sooner or later you use something for convenience (credit card, video rental card, whatever) and there you have it, a record of something you did. I don't like being tracked, either, but it's hard to do everything in cash. And so many people, especially the younger ones of us, want to travel with only the "basics" - cellphone, driver's license, debit and credit cards. Sometimes for the vainest reasons such as the wallet making ugly bulges in their fashion jeans. So, there's no stopping the tracking, all we can do is screw with it like the previous poster said - give them bogus data.
If you check, I think you'll find that Palm OS 5 doesn't run only on ARM devices, it supports ARM devices. That means that a licensee can compile (or buy pre-compiled, I'd guess) the Palm OS for an ARM device if that's what their particular handheld uses, but it doesn't mean they're abandoning the Dragonball support just yet.
Surely by now someone has tried to hack an.ogg player into a Rio-type device by replacing the code on ROM/Flash/whatever-it-is? Also, wasn't the RCA Lyra supposed to be upgradable to support new formats?
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Some of the most fun my son and I have had with these (yes, both geeks but he might not admit it yet): TBS was running a marathon Hercules movie bit, and they actually suggested in the ad turning off the sound and making up your own dialogue. It was a blast, so we did it with Dragnet too (picture Joe and Bill talking about how their prom date will be, and which one will be wearing a dress). Recommended with or without drinking, though usually the comments are wittier without the alcohol.
Why doesn't someone find out what kind of LCD/LCD controller are in the Gameboy (I've heard two names mentioned as manufacturers - Sharp and Mitsubishi), find that company's backlit model of the same combination, and put it in the GBA? I am not an LCD manufacturer (IANALCDM - a new one, instead of IANAL), but it only makes sense to me that many of the components used between a backlit and non-backlit controller/LCD setup would be the same, for manufacturing cost-effectiveness reasons. My not-so-educated guess leads me to believe that one could find the backlit equivalent, siphon some power from the GBA's circuitry and have a backlit GBA. The battery life would go down, but it seems GBA owners are more than ready to do that. Are there technical things I'm overlooking here? Is the GBA hardware so unique that there is no backlit model of the same LCD from that manufacturer?
"I wouldn't be suprised of a custom LED CPU meter is at least half the price of prebuilt ones."
I would't be surprised, either, since if the cost is anywhere from 50% of the price, to infinity, it satisfies your statement. Perhaps you meant to say you wouldn't be surprised if it was no more than or, even better less than half the price?
They constantly create security holes in there products which could allow terrorists to disrupt American business. And, as we all know "if you're not against the terrorists, you're with them". Therefore, MS should be prosecuted under anti-terrorism statutes for this - let's see if that works better than the anti-monopoly statutes.
I also don't think that donating a lot of terrorist-aiding computers to American schools is going to help them much, either.
That's what they always say - "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide". It completely misses the point. Constant surveillance of the populace is oen of the first steps in facism. Another is to define what is "wrong" to suit whatever the political needs are at the moment. And a third is to then arrest/harrass those who have done things "wrong" even if you have to retroactively invoke the new law by going back to old "evidence".
I have to point this out, though it may be well known. Debit cards do _not_ have the $50 limit on transaction liability for disputed transactions that credit cards do. This means, if in fact someone gets your debit card number from Amazon or whoever (i.e. if you are right in your doubts about their security) that you might lose a lot of money. With credit cards, your liability is limited to that fifty bucks.
Some time ago there was a question about what IBM could do to help the Linux community, since they are aggressively promoting Linux these days.
As a systems programmer for an OS/390 mainframe, I've used their System Maintenance Program/Extended for many years. This is a program that coordinates installation of software and fixes. One of the things it does is prevent installation if co-requisite requirements are not met. Of course, to do that it also maintains records of everything that is installed. This makes my life much much easier, believe me, so it occurred to me that maybe IBM could help the Linux community quite a bit by applying their experts in this area to the problem of managing software installation and maintenance on Linux.
Why not attach the cable to a swivel on the back of a pneumatic canister, put it in the pipe, and pressure behind it? Unless the pipe has lost too much integrity, you could use the old tech to install the new tech - which might be poetic in its way.
Use JES2FTP which takes reports from the spooler, converts to HTML (broken into pages) or PDF (your choice), and builds an index too if you want. These tools are great. Last time I saw them they were available at Data 21
For some reason your "batch reporting" and "hundreds of pages" ideas struck the ol' mainframe chord with me (which is the environment where I work). If I'm wrong, ignore this post.
To me, code is expressive simply because it expresses an idea, in the same way that an essay is considered expression.
Maybe that's too simple for legal definition, though?
You're not wasting time with all of these projects for media servers/clients. You're running a genetic algorithm to determine the best one, with 'fitness' determined by how many people end up using it or enhancing it.
Group-based projects work when there's a consensus about what the final result should be, but until then this pseudo-GA method works well.
I'm sure someone else has posted similarly by now (judging from the lag bring this page up at work today!) but we were in a similar situation at one time. We negotiated on-call compensation in the following manner:
$1/hour (Yes, that's one US dollar) for 5PM to 7AM on weeknights (Monday night through Friday morning). One-fourth of the base hourly rate for the job for weekend hours. Holidays to be paid 24 hours at the weekend rate (i.e. the holiday starts and ends at midnight). On most weeks, this means that I make 12*H+80 additional dollars when I'm on call. (H being my hourly rate, 12 being the 48 weekend hours that I get one fourth of my pay for, and 80 being hte number of hours at one dollar).
We rotate being on-call to prevent the burden being in one person all the time, but this requires a bit of cross-training for all concerned to handle the most probable issues and doesn't work at every outfit.If you get called when it's not your turn, you get paid at the overtime rate for any time you have to put in.
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I don't want to belittle the deaths or injuries of anyone, but the hype surrounding the school shootings, and the extreme reactions, are in some ways way out of line. I called my public library's reference desk (and if you haven't memorized the number, I recommend that you do so). According to statistics published for the 1997/1998 school year, there were 21,682 high schools and 14,754,000 high school students. I don't have available here the number of school shootings, but it would have to be 216 to have occurred for even 1% of high schools. And there would have to be 147,540 shooters for it to be even 1% of the students, and we know it is a much much smaller number than that!
I think, therefore, that reactions such as in Sean's case are unjustified. If they don't want him to say things like that, why don't they just tell him? I personally believe his First Amendment rights allow him to say it, but the courts lately seem to feel that schools can exist as sort of a "limited dictatorship" in which your rights are suspended, so I'm not going to argue that point; I just think that transferring him as the FIRST action is extreme.
and other flexible display technologies, how long before Britons make masks out of it, that present a pixellated or other warped image to the cameras?
Of course, latex masks are already available, but flexible displays are more on-topic for/.
In either case, imagine 1000s of people walking around with the face of the Queen Mum
Some here seem to feel that the PalmOS is better for its purpose than Linux, due to ease of use considerations or other considerations. The main problem that most see with it is that the OS is not open source. Therefore the question arises: why not develop an open source OS specifically oriented to handheld devices?
In my opinion, since a handheld is almost guaranteed to be a single-user device, there are areas in OS design that can be "lighter". I am undecided about the single-task versus multi-tasking issue, but things like the UI, file handling and access controls could possibly take advantage of the fact that only one person ever uses the system. Serialization and synchronization issues among programs are somewhat simplified, too.
Vtech has/had opened their VT-OS, releasing the source for developers and the like. Now that they've discontinued the Helio, perhaps they would put their OS in the public domain as a starting point for such a project...
CD-Rom I believe has a shelf life of around 10 years. Of course that assumes that you will have a drive and software capable of reading it then.
There is another technology, I believe called HD-ROM but I could be wrong, which actually laser-etches a disc made of nickel. It is intended for really long term storage but I don't remember the number of years
Mainframes and to a lesser extend minis had standardized on tape formats (reels, especially, had standard recording formats) and also on the "labels" written on the tapes to identify individual files. You could write an "IBM standard label" or "ANSI standard label" tape on one platform, transport it to another, and read it. The 2400-ft. reel of tape was the media standard, and usually they were recorded at one or another 9 track (1 track for parity) density- 800, 1600, or 6250 bytes per inch. This standardization drove the media cost and hardware cost downward. We need something like it again.
I saw your band with my son in Tallahassee sometime ago. I loved the countdown before you appeared on stage.. ending along the lines of 'you would be negative, too '... Would you ever consider recording that and/or making it available on the Net?
Coming from a mainframe environment here, but the lesson is a valid one. Once the operating system (MVS which became OS/390 which is becoming z/OS) implemented the Security Authorization Facility, all sorts of other software used it - and we benefitted from one common interface for controlling access lists. This was done in a non-proprietary way. The OS implements SAF in a way such that any vendor wanting to provide the software behind it, can, while the interfaces for programmers remain the same. We have competition, in security packages, from IBM and Computer Associates mainly; this helps keep things improving. Yet you can switch from one to the other without major impact to your apps - because the API for security is the same, and part of the OS. I think any enterprise-level OS ought to do something similar.
Why bother with decryption at all? Reprogram a different layer of the code playing the music - write a sound driver that also makes a copy of the bytes passed to it. No need to break into anything, you're just "logging" the data played over your sound card.
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If it's at all like IBM's mainframe products, they've written to a standard interface which doesn't change a lot from version to version. And I would hope RedHat provides some backward compatibility between versions, too! Standard practice in the corporate world - prepare to go to version X+1, but have version X as a fallback position should flames spout out and the phone start to melt down. Therefore we expect enough compatibility between versions to be able to switch without breaking any applications (or else enough forewarning to rework the ones that will break). So, what I'm trying to say is that the OS distibution version shouldn't make that much difference.
We refuse those grocery 'value cards' for just this reason. But, really, sooner or later you use something for convenience (credit card, video rental card, whatever) and there you have it, a record of something you did. I don't like being tracked, either, but it's hard to do everything in cash. And so many people, especially the younger ones of us, want to travel with only the "basics" - cellphone, driver's license, debit and credit cards. Sometimes for the vainest reasons such as the wallet making ugly bulges in their fashion jeans. So, there's no stopping the tracking, all we can do is screw with it like the previous poster said - give them bogus data.
If you check, I think you'll find that Palm OS 5 doesn't run only on ARM devices, it supports ARM devices. That means that a licensee can compile (or buy pre-compiled, I'd guess) the Palm OS for an ARM device if that's what their particular handheld uses, but it doesn't mean they're abandoning the Dragonball support just yet.
There's just not a usable decompression method.
Surely by now someone has tried to hack an .ogg player into a Rio-type device by replacing the code on ROM/Flash/whatever-it-is? Also, wasn't the RCA Lyra supposed to be upgradable to support new formats?
Some of the most fun my son and I have had with these (yes, both geeks but he might not admit it yet): TBS was running a marathon Hercules movie bit, and they actually suggested in the ad turning off the sound and making up your own dialogue. It was a blast, so we did it with Dragnet too (picture Joe and Bill talking about how their prom date will be, and which one will be wearing a dress). Recommended with or without drinking, though usually the comments are wittier without the alcohol.
Why doesn't someone find out what kind of LCD/LCD controller are in the Gameboy (I've heard two names mentioned as manufacturers - Sharp and Mitsubishi), find that company's backlit model of the same combination, and put it in the GBA? I am not an LCD manufacturer (IANALCDM - a new one, instead of IANAL), but it only makes sense to me that many of the components used between a backlit and non-backlit controller/LCD setup would be the same, for manufacturing cost-effectiveness reasons. My not-so-educated guess leads me to believe that one could find the backlit equivalent, siphon some power from the GBA's circuitry and have a backlit GBA. The battery life would go down, but it seems GBA owners are more than ready to do that. Are there technical things I'm overlooking here? Is the GBA hardware so unique that there is no backlit model of the same LCD from that manufacturer?
"I wouldn't be suprised of a custom LED CPU meter is at least half the price of prebuilt ones."
I would't be surprised, either, since if the cost is anywhere from 50% of the price, to infinity, it satisfies your statement. Perhaps you meant to say you wouldn't be surprised if it was no more than or, even better less than half the price?
They constantly create security holes in there products which could allow terrorists to disrupt American business. And, as we all know "if you're not against the terrorists, you're with them". Therefore, MS should be prosecuted under anti-terrorism statutes for this - let's see if that works better than the anti-monopoly statutes.
I also don't think that donating a lot of terrorist-aiding computers to American schools is going to help them much, either.
That's what they always say - "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide". It completely misses the point. Constant surveillance of the populace is oen of the first steps in facism. Another is to define what is "wrong" to suit whatever the political needs are at the moment. And a third is to then arrest/harrass those who have done things "wrong" even if you have to retroactively invoke the new law by going back to old "evidence".
I have to point this out, though it may be well known. Debit cards do _not_ have the $50 limit on transaction liability for disputed transactions that credit cards do. This means, if in fact someone gets your debit card number from Amazon or whoever (i.e. if you are right in your doubts about their security) that you might lose a lot of money. With credit cards, your liability is limited to that fifty bucks.
Some time ago there was a question about what IBM could do to help the Linux community, since they are aggressively promoting Linux these days. As a systems programmer for an OS/390 mainframe, I've used their System Maintenance Program/Extended for many years. This is a program that coordinates installation of software and fixes. One of the things it does is prevent installation if co-requisite requirements are not met. Of course, to do that it also maintains records of everything that is installed. This makes my life much much easier, believe me, so it occurred to me that maybe IBM could help the Linux community quite a bit by applying their experts in this area to the problem of managing software installation and maintenance on Linux.
Why not attach the cable to a swivel on the back of a pneumatic canister, put it in the pipe, and pressure behind it? Unless the pipe has lost too much integrity, you could use the old tech to install the new tech - which might be poetic in its way.
Use JES2FTP which takes reports from the spooler, converts to HTML (broken into pages) or PDF (your choice), and builds an index too if you want. These tools are great. Last time I saw them they were available at Data 21 For some reason your "batch reporting" and "hundreds of pages" ideas struck the ol' mainframe chord with me (which is the environment where I work). If I'm wrong, ignore this post.
To me, code is expressive simply because it expresses an idea, in the same way that an essay is considered expression. Maybe that's too simple for legal definition, though?
You're not wasting time with all of these projects for media servers/clients. You're running a genetic algorithm to determine the best one, with 'fitness' determined by how many people end up using it or enhancing it. Group-based projects work when there's a consensus about what the final result should be, but until then this pseudo-GA method works well.
I'm sure someone else has posted similarly by now (judging from the lag bring this page up at work today!) but we were in a similar situation at one time. We negotiated on-call compensation in the following manner: $1/hour (Yes, that's one US dollar) for 5PM to 7AM on weeknights (Monday night through Friday morning). One-fourth of the base hourly rate for the job for weekend hours. Holidays to be paid 24 hours at the weekend rate (i.e. the holiday starts and ends at midnight). On most weeks, this means that I make 12*H+80 additional dollars when I'm on call. (H being my hourly rate, 12 being the 48 weekend hours that I get one fourth of my pay for, and 80 being hte number of hours at one dollar). We rotate being on-call to prevent the burden being in one person all the time, but this requires a bit of cross-training for all concerned to handle the most probable issues and doesn't work at every outfit.If you get called when it's not your turn, you get paid at the overtime rate for any time you have to put in.
I don't want to belittle the deaths or injuries of anyone, but the hype surrounding the school shootings, and the extreme reactions, are in some ways way out of line. I called my public library's reference desk (and if you haven't memorized the number, I recommend that you do so). According to statistics published for the 1997/1998 school year, there were 21,682 high schools and 14,754,000 high school students. I don't have available here the number of school shootings, but it would have to be 216 to have occurred for even 1% of high schools. And there would have to be 147,540 shooters for it to be even 1% of the students, and we know it is a much much smaller number than that! I think, therefore, that reactions such as in Sean's case are unjustified. If they don't want him to say things like that, why don't they just tell him? I personally believe his First Amendment rights allow him to say it, but the courts lately seem to feel that schools can exist as sort of a "limited dictatorship" in which your rights are suspended, so I'm not going to argue that point; I just think that transferring him as the FIRST action is extreme.
and other flexible display technologies, how long before Britons make masks out of it, that present a pixellated or other warped image to the cameras? Of course, latex masks are already available, but flexible displays are more on-topic for /.
In either case, imagine 1000s of people walking around with the face of the Queen Mum
Some here seem to feel that the PalmOS is better for its purpose than Linux, due to ease of use considerations or other considerations. The main problem that most see with it is that the OS is not open source. Therefore the question arises: why not develop an open source OS specifically oriented to handheld devices? In my opinion, since a handheld is almost guaranteed to be a single-user device, there are areas in OS design that can be "lighter". I am undecided about the single-task versus multi-tasking issue, but things like the UI, file handling and access controls could possibly take advantage of the fact that only one person ever uses the system. Serialization and synchronization issues among programs are somewhat simplified, too. Vtech has/had opened their VT-OS, releasing the source for developers and the like. Now that they've discontinued the Helio, perhaps they would put their OS in the public domain as a starting point for such a project...
CD-Rom I believe has a shelf life of around 10 years. Of course that assumes that you will have a drive and software capable of reading it then. There is another technology, I believe called HD-ROM but I could be wrong, which actually laser-etches a disc made of nickel. It is intended for really long term storage but I don't remember the number of years
Mainframes and to a lesser extend minis had standardized on tape formats (reels, especially, had standard recording formats) and also on the "labels" written on the tapes to identify individual files. You could write an "IBM standard label" or "ANSI standard label" tape on one platform, transport it to another, and read it. The 2400-ft. reel of tape was the media standard, and usually they were recorded at one or another 9 track (1 track for parity) density- 800, 1600, or 6250 bytes per inch. This standardization drove the media cost and hardware cost downward. We need something like it again.
I saw your band with my son in Tallahassee sometime ago. I loved the countdown before you appeared on stage.. ending along the lines of 'you would be negative, too '... Would you ever consider recording that and/or making it available on the Net?
Coming from a mainframe environment here, but the lesson is a valid one. Once the operating system (MVS which became OS/390 which is becoming z/OS) implemented the Security Authorization Facility, all sorts of other software used it - and we benefitted from one common interface for controlling access lists. This was done in a non-proprietary way. The OS implements SAF in a way such that any vendor wanting to provide the software behind it, can, while the interfaces for programmers remain the same. We have competition, in security packages, from IBM and Computer Associates mainly; this helps keep things improving. Yet you can switch from one to the other without major impact to your apps - because the API for security is the same, and part of the OS. I think any enterprise-level OS ought to do something similar.
Why bother with decryption at all? Reprogram a different layer of the code playing the music - write a sound driver that also makes a copy of the bytes passed to it. No need to break into anything, you're just "logging" the data played over your sound card.