Besides, just because MS doesn't sell a PowerPC version of XP, doesn't mean it doesn't exist inside the company. Similarly, Apple is rumored to have MacOS on an Intel box, just in case they ever need it. (And yes, those rumors long predate the recent Apple/Intel talks.)
Key quotes: [Lucas] had a great idea about how Darth Vader became Darth Vader. It was a sophisticated idea, because it didn't involve one reason for the character's descent into evil, but a combination of factors...This is without doubt the best installment of the second trilogy,... [but] contains most of the faults of the second trilogy as well...The thing is, Lucas has a real story here, the progress of a young man who turns away from his own noble impulses to become the most evil man in the universe...but the movie omits the one scene it most needs to show -- the one in which Anakin commits an act of such evil that there's no turning back. It's the "Macbeth" moment, the scene this trilogy has been leading up to, the dive off the moral high board - - and Lucas just skips it.
First of all, Mac OS X 10.4 has been complete since March 28. So while it wasn't released until April 29, Mac OS X 10.4.1 has been in development for over six weeks.
If Apple is like most large development houses, 10.4.1 went into development well before 10.4 went gold. Typically you start work on the next release as soon as you go from development into test, and work on both paths simultaneously until the first track is released. Bugs that are known in the first track but not deemed severe may be delayed to the second track. Obviously bugs that are not known (shades of Donald Rumsfeld) don't get addressed until they are known.
this is more common in the industry than people realize.
It is also not new. Way back in the 70's, Control Data had CDC models that were essentially the same except for clock speed. The "low-cost" (can you say that w/r/t mainframes?) versions had the same logic, memory, etc., so if you wanted to upgrade, the service guy would just replace the clock module.
The Bible is not a single book, but a collection of many books. Which books were included in the Bible was determined by the Council of Nicea...
It seems amazing to me, but very few of the fundamentalists I've encountered know things like this. One would think, since they are so Bible-focused, that they'd be the most interested in it. In fact, it seems to be just the opposite. Not only do they typically not teach such things, they also oppose the textual analyses that have basically determined that there were four difference sources that were edited together to make up the Pentateuch, which Pauline letters he actually wrote, and so on.
Another point is DNA was also the one who added the idea to have a Trillian/Arthur romance.
I rather suspect that DNA didn't wake up one morning and mumble to himself, "Gadzooks, wouldn't H2G2 be so much better with a romantic angle?" Instead, he encountered an infinite number of studio execs carrying an infinite number of golf clubs who all told him, "Nope, nope, we could never do it without a romantic angle," so he put one in.
Just because DNA did it, doesn't mean he wanted to.
Why no Xwindows Support for Emacs? Mac OS X does not come with Xwindows, but it does come with emacs. So, by default, emacs is not built with Xwindows support. On Turing, we use xemacs for windowed, x-enabled emacs. You can find it in/usr/local/bin, which should now be in the default path on all head nodes.
Mac OS X does in fact come with Xwindows. It may be that the default version of emacs doesns't use it, but to say it's not there is simply wrong.
We'll keep this hammer behind our backs and we'll tell you we're not going to use it and most of the time we'll let you be, but every once in a while we're going to smack you down with this hammer, because you've crossed some invisible line that we've conveniently chosen not to define.
1) Mozilla (suite) is dead. Long live Firefox. 2) Gecko lives as the main development focus. 3) Mozilla (suite) will be born again as Seamonkey, but won't be high visibility.
From a development point of view, this may make sense. From a branding point of view, it seems odd. It appears that the Mozilla "brand" is being de-emphasized in favor of the individual component names. While Firefox is a memorable name, it seems like a loss not to take advantage of the Mozilla name recognition.
There is audio content out there on FM besides music. In the US, it's National Public Radio, primarily, outside the US, there's CBC, BBC, etc.
In the past, this has been my primary objection to the iPod (lack of FM), however, I'm starting to think I can get along without it, now that I've started to use Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba. I can programmatically capture the broadcasts I want, similar to how Tivo works, as long as there's a station that does an internet broadcast, and copy the MP3s to listen to later. Granted, I hear things a day late, but I"m not usually listening for breaking news.
From: korpela@albert.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: filename separator change in CP/M and MS-DOS Date: 7 Jul 1998 01:47:52 GMT >The legend runs something like this: > 1. The first version of MS-DOS was actually QDOS from Seattle Computer Works
There is much ongoing discussion as to whether it was ever called QDOS. There is a general consensus that at various times it was called 86-DOS and SCP-DOS. I belive the real name of the company whas Seattle Computer Products.
> 2. QDOS ("Quick & Dirty OS") was an unauthorized port of CP/M to x86. > CP/M ran on Z-80's.
There is little doubt that it was an unauthorized port. (In the US, at least) No authorization is required to reverse engineer a product. There is much debate about whether an of the "port" was accomplished by running a disassembly of CP/M through Intel's 8080->8086 assembly code converter. (This would be illegal in the US).
The typical (apocryphal) story is one of special key sequences that would bring up a Digital Research Incorporated copyright notice in early versions of DOS. (At this point, I've never seen a special key sequence that would bring up such a notice in any real CP/M version.)
BTW, the CP/M version in question was written to run on the Intel 8080 chip. The ability to run it on the Z-80 was a consequence of the Z-80 design, not vice versa.
> 3a. CP/M used "/" as the separator between components in pathnames
False
> 3b. alternative version: CP/M did not have directories, so did not need or > use any kind of slash as a pathname piece separator.
The alternative version (3b) is correct here. CP/M did not have directories other than numbered user areas. In CP/M the '/' character is for command switches, a trait it inherited from Digital Equipment Corp operating systems on which it was patterned.
> 4a. QDOS and hence MS-DOS used "\" as the pathname separator to disguise > the origin of the ripped-off software (unauthorized port from CP/M).
False, this is far too little to disguise the nearly identical APIs of CP/M and early versions of DOS.
> 4b. alternative version: CP/M and hence QDOS and MSDOS used "/" as an > option separator to commands, hence it was not available for use > as pathname separator.
Nope. The 8088 and 8086 were identical from a software point of view. Only difference was the pinout. The 8088 fetched 16 bits as two 8-bit reads, the 8086 read a 16-bit word.
First, the original poster didn't say whether it was recording for collection or for time-shifting. However, it shouldn't matter, because the District Court decision (which was the one appealed to the Supreme Court) found the following:
The District Court concluded that noncommercial home use recording of material broadcast over the public airwaves was a fair use of copyrighted works and did not constitute copyright infringement. It emphasized the fact that the material was broadcast free to the public at large, the noncommercial character of the use, and the private character of the activity conducted entirely within the home. Moreover, the court found that the purpose of this use served the public interest in increasing access to television programming, an interest that "is consistent with the First Amendment policy of providing the fullest possible access to information through the public airwaves. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Democratic National Committee, 412 U.S. 94, 102." Id., at 454. n8 Even when an entire copyrighted work was recorded, [p.426] the District Court regarded the copying as fair use "because there is no accompanying reduction in the market for 'plaintiff's original work.'"
Hello? Of course it's legal. It's exactly the same as betamax, i.e., time-shifting the materical for personal use.
Now you can't sell it, or re-distribute it, but that doesn't make it illegal. Possibly when the original poster was a kid, betamax hadn't been decided yet, but that still didn't make it illegal, just a grey area.
Exactly. It's so clearly a case of political expression that no self-respecting judge should have to even think about it.
The only reason it comes up is that legislators, who show-boat for re-election continue to try to win points with the political equivalent of the morality police. It's odd that the right-wing, which so often complains about being forced to be "politically correct" should want to force this form of correctness on everyone else.
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Besides, just because MS doesn't sell a PowerPC version of XP, doesn't mean it doesn't exist inside the company. Similarly, Apple is rumored to have MacOS on an Intel box, just in case they ever need it. (And yes, those rumors long predate the recent Apple/Intel talks.)
One of the more intelligent reviews I've seen so far was by Mick LaSalle of the SF Chronicle:
... [but] contains most of the faults of the second trilogy as well...The thing is, Lucas has a real story here, the progress of a young man who turns away from his own noble impulses to become the most evil man in the universe...but the movie omits the one scene it most needs to show -- the one in which Anakin commits an act of such evil that there's no turning back. It's the "Macbeth" moment, the scene this trilogy has been leading up to, the dive off the moral high board - - and Lucas just skips it.
Key quotes:
[Lucas] had a great idea about how Darth Vader became Darth Vader. It was a sophisticated idea, because it didn't involve one reason for the character's descent into evil, but a combination of factors...This is without doubt the best installment of the second trilogy,
First of all, Mac OS X 10.4 has been complete since March 28. So while it wasn't released until April 29, Mac OS X 10.4.1 has been in development for over six weeks.
If Apple is like most large development houses, 10.4.1 went into development well before 10.4 went gold. Typically you start work on the next release as soon as you go from development into test, and work on both paths simultaneously until the first track is released. Bugs that are known in the first track but not deemed severe may be delayed to the second track. Obviously bugs that are not known (shades of Donald Rumsfeld) don't get addressed until they are known.
OT: FYI, neither were in my original submission. which was a zombie reference rather than a musical reference.
2005-05-13 14:41:28 Broadcast Flag 2: Return from the Dead (Index,Media) (accepted)
this is more common in the industry than people realize.
It is also not new. Way back in the 70's, Control Data had CDC models that were essentially the same except for clock speed. The "low-cost" (can you say that w/r/t mainframes?) versions had the same logic, memory, etc., so if you wanted to upgrade, the service guy would just replace the clock module.
The Bible is not a single book, but a collection of many books. Which books were included in the Bible was determined by the Council of Nicea...
It seems amazing to me, but very few of the fundamentalists I've encountered know things like this. One would think, since they are so Bible-focused, that they'd be the most interested in it. In fact, it seems to be just the opposite. Not only do they typically not teach such things, they also oppose the textual analyses that have basically determined that there were four difference sources that were edited together to make up the Pentateuch, which Pauline letters he actually wrote, and so on.
Yes, I believe that. For one thing, you make compromises when you're in collaborative fields like film, especially when they are commercial.
If he didn't care about making a movie, why did he he spend almost two decades working to get one made?
Another point is DNA was also the one who added the idea to have a Trillian/Arthur romance.
I rather suspect that DNA didn't wake up one morning and mumble to himself, "Gadzooks, wouldn't H2G2 be so much better with a romantic angle?" Instead, he encountered an infinite number of studio execs carrying an infinite number of golf clubs who all told him, "Nope, nope, we could never do it without a romantic angle," so he put one in.
Just because DNA did it, doesn't mean he wanted to.
Um, it takes 60% to get a "passing" grade on Rotten Tomatoes. (0-59 splat, 60-100 tomato). So it's 2% away from being a rotten movie.
Not exactly a stellar reccommendation.
I was under the impression that the reason Sol has an asteroid belt was that the gravitational influence of Jupiter precluded planet formation there.
If this is true, (and is it?) does that imply an undiscovered large planet in that system?
If they haven't done anything, why are they considered one of the top gay- and lesbian- freindly companies in the US?
Best of both worlds. How about search, but only a search of the pages you've visited? No irrelevant results!
I use History Hound on the Mac, I'm sure there's something similar for Linux/Windows.
Why no Xwindows Support for Emacs? /usr/local/bin, which should now be in the default path on all head nodes.
Mac OS X does not come with Xwindows, but it does come with emacs. So, by default, emacs is not built with Xwindows support. On Turing, we use xemacs for windowed, x-enabled emacs. You can find it in
Mac OS X does in fact come with Xwindows. It may be that the default version of emacs doesns't use it, but to say it's not there is simply wrong.
"We just made that quote up"
-- theregister (Andrew Orlowski)
When the Xerox Star came out, it had icons because they had been proposed in a PhD thesis by David Smith.
In other words, psychological abuse.
We'll keep this hammer behind our backs and we'll tell you we're not going to use it and most of the time we'll let you be, but every once in a while we're going to smack you down with this hammer, because you've crossed some invisible line that we've conveniently chosen not to define.
I just can't listen to that CD anymore. The drumming is awful, the bass player is stoned and the rhythm guitar is seriously out of tune.
That and it's the same song, over and over.
As I read this:
1) Mozilla (suite) is dead. Long live Firefox.
2) Gecko lives as the main development focus.
3) Mozilla (suite) will be born again as Seamonkey, but won't be high visibility.
From a development point of view, this may make sense. From a branding point of view, it seems odd. It appears that the Mozilla "brand" is being de-emphasized in favor of the individual component names. While Firefox is a memorable name, it seems like a loss not to take advantage of the Mozilla name recognition.
There is audio content out there on FM besides music. In the US, it's National Public Radio, primarily, outside the US, there's CBC, BBC, etc.
In the past, this has been my primary objection to the iPod (lack of FM), however, I'm starting to think I can get along without it, now that I've started to use Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba. I can programmatically capture the broadcasts I want, similar to how Tivo works, as long as there's a station that does an internet broadcast, and copy the MP3s to listen to later. Granted, I hear things a day late, but I"m not usually listening for breaking news.
From: korpela@albert.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: filename separator change in CP/M and MS-DOS
Date: 7 Jul 1998 01:47:52 GMT
>The legend runs something like this:
> 1. The first version of MS-DOS was actually QDOS from Seattle Computer Works
There is much ongoing discussion as to whether it was ever called QDOS.
There is a general consensus that at various times it was called 86-DOS
and SCP-DOS. I belive the real name of the company whas Seattle Computer
Products.
> 2. QDOS ("Quick & Dirty OS") was an unauthorized port of CP/M to x86.
> CP/M ran on Z-80's.
There is little doubt that it was an unauthorized port. (In the US, at least)
No authorization is required to reverse engineer a product. There is much
debate about whether an of the "port" was accomplished by running a disassembly
of CP/M through Intel's 8080->8086 assembly code converter. (This would
be illegal in the US).
The typical (apocryphal) story is one of special key sequences that would
bring up a Digital Research Incorporated copyright notice in early versions
of DOS. (At this point, I've never seen a special key sequence that would
bring up such a notice in any real CP/M version.)
BTW, the CP/M version in question was written to run on the Intel 8080
chip. The ability to run it on the Z-80 was a consequence of the Z-80
design, not vice versa.
> 3a. CP/M used "/" as the separator between components in pathnames
False
> 3b. alternative version: CP/M did not have directories, so did not need or
> use any kind of slash as a pathname piece separator.
The alternative version (3b) is correct here. CP/M did not have directories
other than numbered user areas. In CP/M the '/' character is for command
switches, a trait it inherited from Digital Equipment Corp operating systems
on which it was patterned.
> 4a. QDOS and hence MS-DOS used "\" as the pathname separator to disguise
> the origin of the ripped-off software (unauthorized port from CP/M).
False, this is far too little to disguise the nearly identical APIs of
CP/M and early versions of DOS.
> 4b. alternative version: CP/M and hence QDOS and MSDOS used "/" as an
> option separator to commands, hence it was not available for use
> as pathname separator.
Correct.
Eric
MS rewrote it.
Nope. The 8088 and 8086 were identical from a software point of view. Only difference was the pinout. The 8088 fetched 16 bits as two 8-bit reads, the 8086 read a 16-bit word.
First, the original poster didn't say whether it was recording for collection or for time-shifting. However, it shouldn't matter, because the District Court decision (which was the one appealed to the Supreme Court) found the following:
The District Court concluded that noncommercial home use recording of material broadcast over the
public airwaves was a fair use of copyrighted works and did not constitute copyright infringement. It
emphasized the fact that the material was broadcast free to the public at large, the noncommercial
character of the use, and the private character of the activity conducted entirely within the home.
Moreover, the court found that the purpose of this use served the public interest in increasing access to
television programming, an interest that "is consistent with the First Amendment policy of providing the
fullest possible access to information through the public airwaves. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v.
Democratic National Committee, 412 U.S. 94, 102." Id., at 454. n8 Even when an entire copyrighted work
was recorded, [p.426] the District Court regarded the copying as fair use "because there is no
accompanying reduction in the market for 'plaintiff's original work.'"
Hello? Of course it's legal. It's exactly the same as betamax, i.e., time-shifting the materical for personal use.
Now you can't sell it, or re-distribute it, but that doesn't make it illegal. Possibly when the original poster was a kid, betamax hadn't been decided yet, but that still didn't make it illegal, just a grey area.
Exactly. It's so clearly a case of political expression that no self-respecting judge should have to even think about it.
The only reason it comes up is that legislators, who show-boat for re-election continue to try to win points with the political equivalent of the morality police. It's odd that the right-wing, which so often complains about being forced to be "politically correct" should want to force this form of correctness on everyone else.
Good call. It seemed unlikely to be sinister, but it just felt weird.
So why don't they give us both!