Yes, for mp3-sized data streams, or real-time systems, there would be a difference. But many interesting applications don't require that much bandwidth.
For embedded octet streams like that you use XML to carry the metadata and an xlink to the appropriate compressed format chunk of data. You don't, for pity sake, encode the whole stream in XML or ASN.1
Its already here. How many people really have time and money to give a stuff about dead tree journals.
Personally if exists on the web, I read it and reference it. If its only on dead trees I ignore it. Watching other working scientists / engineers I suspect this is becoming fairly common practice.
You think that's stupid? Try this one. I got this email from a twit calling himself Callisto the other day (cc'd to my ISP's postmaster)
Can I ask why you are playing around in my account???? This is an account
that I pay for, for private use and I don't appreciate people putting files
into my account.
What great sin had I commited?
I had sent an email to my wife and mistyped her address.
Give them unfettered access to the 'net. Then watch and guide. If they spend time on sex sites, guide them to sex worker rights sites. If they get involved in IRC, explain the hazards and guide. Never abdicate your parental responsibility to software.
Make sure they are aware of choices, that some do allow and some don't. Make sure they don't violate the choices of their friends parents. Guide them into seeing both points of view.
Parenting isn't easy. Its undoubtably the most difficult job on the planet. Be aware that child minds are incredibly good meme hosts. Seed with lots of interlocking high value memes. Cultivate your child's meme ecology rather than censor it into barreness.
You cannot weed a meme out of a childs mind, and you cannot keep it out forever. Your only hope is to seed it with the competing memes.
My current.sig was borrowed (slightly modified from the Java source code examples). I think its idiocy is nicely highlighted by humourous use....
This post is not designed or intended for use in on-line control of
aircraft, air traffic, aircraft navigation or aircraft communications; or in
the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear
facility.
The answer to any and every question relating to the copyright,
patents, legal issues of Bugroff licensed software is....
Sure, No problem. Don't worry, be happy. Now bugger
off.
All portions of this license are important..
"Sure, no problem." Gives you complete freedom. I mean
it. Utterly complete. A bit of a joke really. You have
complete freedom anyway.
"Don't worry, be happy." Apart from being good advice and a
good song, it also says:- No matter what anyone else says or
does, you still have complete freedom.
Now bugger off. The only way to get rid of pushy Jackals is
to ignore them and not feed them. The GPL is just begging
somebody to take it to court. Can't you just see it. Exactly
the same thing that happened when some twit (not Linus)
registered Linux as his own personal trademark. People got
upset, started a fund, and hired, off all ruddy things, a
Jackal to try and defend the chicken! Who really benefits from
this trademark / patent / copyright thing anyway? The
lawyers. Who made it up in the first place? The lawyers.
I find too much sleep a very Bad Thing. It slowly slides me into the blues.
The answer is to occasionally do curious and strange things 'till 'bout 3am to scratch the sleep pattern around a bit. Result:- I sleep better the rest of the week, I'm happier etc. etc.
To counter the effects of tiredness drink lots and lots and lots of water. Not coffee. Water. Lots of it. Chuck in a slight overdose of multivits as well.
The results give a feeling that linux is converging in the Cauchy sense.
ie. There is not much fat to trim left...
Therefore the next dramatic improvements if they are to come will not be from tweaking this part or that part of the kernel, but rather from implementing entirely new classes of functionality.
ie. Linux has arrived. It's settled down, time for it to start exploring as yet unimagined new things to do instead of new ways to do old things.
The future will be, umm, fun.
This post is not designed or intended for use in on-line control of
aircraft, air traffic, aircraft navigation or aircraft communications; or in
the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear
facility.
Somewhere north of where I live is a granite quarry. Sometimes on
the way home from work I see these huge lorries with a granite
block the size of a room on the back. About 3m by 4m by
2m.
I mean these things are huge. Solid. Massive. Weighs a helluva
lot more than a ton. A Solid immovable chunk of granite on the
move.
These things grab my imagination as sources of fun and
amusement....
Buy a book on sculpture, a hammer and a stone work chisel.
Advertise in the Sunday newspaper "The complete Teach Yourself
Sculpture kit, R100.00 contact...."
When victim orders kit, arrive with truck plus massive
granite block, roll video camera, knock on door and say, "Here
is your instruction manual, hammer and chisel... Where do want
the stone?"
If they temporise, get shirty and leave it on their
driveway.
Variants are possible...
In this country "funeral" schemes are quite popular. The
idea is as you approach your end, you invest a small monthly sum
with a funeral parlour. This prepays your funeral expenses,
removing the burden from your dependents. (And ensuring a
decent burial.)
Find some bod that is investing thusly....
Arrive one day with truck and stone saying you're from the
undertakers, here is his tombstone, where does he want to store
it?
If he temporises proceed as before...
For this one, your need the aid of a friendly Do It Yourself
building supply store...
When victim orders a load of gravel....
Appear at his door with block and hammer and chisel...
Modern art has been a great source of giggles for everyone for
decades...
Chisel an artists signature on the bottom right corner of
the block.
Deliver block really very close to, but
not quite blocking the doorway of a municipal or government
building. (Portly pillars of society must have to really squeeze
to get in...)
If anybody asks you what you're doing or orders you to desist,
tell them you were told to put the new sculpture here.
If they persist in their demands. Show them a neatly
printed paper ordering you to place the sculpture "Poetry in
Motion" at said location. Proceed with off-loading.
If the city fathers take legal steps against you, remove it
whilst moaning copiously to the local newspapers about being
"misunderstood", "unappreciated", "heathens", "actions were only
undertaken out of civic pride" etc.
Of course, the last joke should be, umm, "on me", I would love
one of these things as my tombstone for when I snuff it...
Inscribe block with the epitaph, 'Here lies John
Carter. "Excuse me if I don't get up."'
However, a tad of circuitry to detect passes-by during the
witching hours and a bit of sturdy hydraulics under the block could
supply some light entertainment for my descendents....
Nah! Too complicated. It would be better just to spread a
rumour that I was determined to "take it all with me" and was
buried with a huge treasure....
The activity of placing a number of booby traps around the
coffin, (stink bombs, luminous paint spray bombs, demon howlers,
goblin laugh bags, etc. etc.) could cheer my mourners immensely
while they prepare my grave for the treasure seekers...
Look up "karl marx" and "class war" to understand that there is no irony. Just something papa marx was muttering about for a century or two. Geeks tend to be a little confused as to which class they're in, so tend to shoot a tad wild, but no problem. Thats because "geeks" as a community have a class structure overlaid on them. Every commercial entity still remains "class structured". The names change, the war goes on. That is what you are seeing. Ho Hum. Next?
Tut. Tut. Still haven't worked out how the Bazaar works eh?
So there are errors in several of the major published Text and reference books.
Those errors are still there.
Nobody knows about them. Except perhaps the Author and one or two readers who have found them. The errors in the dead tree books are not going to go away.
In a "Bazaar", people can find out about the errors and fixed them and the next reader (that day) gets the fixed edition.
Slashdot Mirror
Whine! Slobber! Drool!
I suspect a lot of Americans may need a large whack of money handy before they can go home again...
Think of it as globalization of legal systems...
ps: Before you think of $50000 as a token amount, given the exchange rates and average salaries this is a HUGE slap in the face to all foreigners.
Personally if exists on the web, I read it and reference it. If its only on dead trees I ignore it. Watching other working scientists / engineers I suspect this is becoming fairly common practice.
What about that fetchmail exploit that went by the other day?
Are you "up to date" on your distributions security patches?
Have you read http://project.honeynet.org/
I think we linuxers are too complacent and will suffer one day...
TFlops not GFlops. Read the link.
All over the 'net. If you are ethical you contribute as you surf, by forums, by replies, by your own web page. That is the coin of the realm.
You pay for content with content.
They say if its useful to do code reviews, it should be useful to do them all the time. ie. Pair programming.
They claim to have evidence that it works better in the long run than anything else...
It seems a lot of people have already thought of that....
I had sent an email to my wife and mistyped her address.
Make sure they are aware of choices, that some do allow and some don't. Make sure they don't violate the choices of their friends parents. Guide them into seeing both points of view.
Parenting isn't easy. Its undoubtably the most difficult job on the planet. Be aware that child minds are incredibly good meme hosts. Seed with lots of interlocking high value memes. Cultivate your child's meme ecology rather than censor it into barreness.
You cannot weed a meme out of a childs mind, and you cannot keep it out forever. Your only hope is to seed it with the competing memes.
This post is not designed or intended for use in on-line control of aircraft, air traffic, aircraft navigation or aircraft communications; or in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility.
The "No problem Bugroff" license is as follows...
The answer to any and every question relating to the copyright, patents, legal issues of Bugroff licensed software is....
Sure, No problem. Don't worry, be happy. Now bugger off.
All portions of this license are important..
The XP way is to pick "fast" and "cheap".
In fact these are declared virtues in XP.
YAGNI - You Ain't Gonna Need It. Don't code any thing that you don't explicitly need _now_.
DTSTTW - Do The Simplest Thing That Works.
And then use "test-first" and "refactor mercilessly" to sneak the "good" bit in via the backdoor.
I find too much sleep a very Bad Thing. It slowly slides me into the blues.
The answer is to occasionally do curious and strange things 'till 'bout 3am to scratch the sleep pattern around a bit. Result :- I sleep better the rest of the week, I'm happier etc. etc.
To counter the effects of tiredness drink lots and lots and lots of water. Not coffee. Water. Lots of it. Chuck in a slight overdose of multivits as well.
ie. There is not much fat to trim left...
Therefore the next dramatic improvements if they are to come will not be from tweaking this part or that part of the kernel, but rather from implementing entirely new classes of functionality.
ie. Linux has arrived. It's settled down, time for it to start exploring as yet unimagined new things to do instead of new ways to do old things.
The future will be, umm, fun.
This post is not designed or intended for use in on-line control of aircraft, air traffic, aircraft navigation or aircraft communications; or in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility.
I mean these things are huge. Solid. Massive. Weighs a helluva lot more than a ton. A Solid immovable chunk of granite on the move.
These things grab my imagination as sources of fun and amusement....
Variants are possible...
For this one, your need the aid of a friendly Do It Yourself building supply store...
Modern art has been a great source of giggles for everyone for decades...
If the city fathers take legal steps against you, remove it whilst moaning copiously to the local newspapers about being "misunderstood", "unappreciated", "heathens", "actions were only undertaken out of civic pride" etc.
Of course, the last joke should be, umm, "on me", I would love one of these things as my tombstone for when I snuff it...
However, a tad of circuitry to detect passes-by during the witching hours and a bit of sturdy hydraulics under the block could supply some light entertainment for my descendents....
Nah! Too complicated. It would be better just to spread a rumour that I was determined to "take it all with me" and was buried with a huge treasure....
The activity of placing a number of booby traps around the coffin, (stink bombs, luminous paint spray bombs, demon howlers, goblin laugh bags, etc. etc.) could cheer my mourners immensely while they prepare my grave for the treasure seekers...
Look up "karl marx" and "class war" to understand that there is no irony. Just something papa marx was muttering about for a century or two. Geeks tend to be a little confused as to which class they're in, so tend to shoot a tad wild, but no problem. Thats because "geeks" as a community have a class structure overlaid on them. Every commercial entity still remains "class structured". The names change, the war goes on. That is what you are seeing. Ho Hum. Next?
Do you really honestly need to multithread or can you replace all or most threads by a "select" statement?
Then most of your strangest of bugs will vanish like the mist in the morn, and gdb will be a magic bullet against the rest.
Yes LaTeX2HTML is good. A kludge, but a good kludge none the less. However it remains a kludge.
So, the prequisite for something like this to gather steam is a MathML browser. Another killer reason to get the Moz Lizard.
Then there are structuring issues.
A mad sprawl as generated by a Wiki? Why not, Wiki's tend to self reorganised themselves.
Or a highly scholarly arrangement of committees and subcommittees etc. etc.
I think there is room for both...
Who will host it? Source Forge?
Please someone, start up the ultimate Free Math Site as a Wiki!
So there are errors in several of the major published Text and reference books.
Those errors are still there.
Nobody knows about them. Except perhaps the Author and one or two readers who have found them. The errors in the dead tree books are not going to go away.
In a "Bazaar", people can find out about the errors and fixed them and the next reader (that day) gets the fixed edition.