It's not random if you have a DTD. Some formats may be more advantageous for various applications. Hence, web.dtd, lib.dtd, dev.dtd, , X.dtd etc, that are used by http.xml, ftp.xml, ld-so-conf.xml, usb.xml, pcmcia.xml, x-video.xml, x-sound.xml, etc.
I would never put all of this stuff in the same file--it would be too huge and unmanageble. Instead, I'd use a combination of directory structures and XML files...like/etc/dev/usb.xml, or/etc/x/video.xml. Then, if you wanted, you could have/etc/xml.xml that contained details about which files are stored where.
Imagine that...life forms having an impact on their environment. I wonder how many years of weather data the algae had before they finally realized they were oxygenating the atmosphere...
You have to make money somehow. They have a GPL'd version (YaST1) which isn't pretty, but it's functional. There's nothing revolutionary about YaST2...it's just easier to use. If you like that, then fork over $40 for the system. It's a lot better than the $300 you pay for a comparable version of Windows (as far as features go).
To me this statement is more about free (as in beer) than Free software.
I should probably clarify by saying "integrated" or "comprehensive" GUI tools. RedHat seems to follow the traditional Unix philosophy of atomic tools--each is its own separate entity. In YaST2 and Control Center you get more of a "Control Panel" interface where you have centralized control over all of your system settings.
RedHat has a tool for almost anything (i.e. printconf-gui)...they're just not as apparent to me, I suppose.
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SuSE prefers KDE, which is arguably more "window-esque" than Gnome, in terms of integration and user interface (Specifially DCOM, and applications such as Konqueror, KOffice, and KDevelop). Furthermore, RedHat lacks GUI tools such as YaST2 (SuSE) and Control Center (Mandrake).
And probably to be fair they picked the distro that you have to pay for (if you want the pretty install).
I've tried all three of the latest offerings from RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE. In terms of desktop use (not server use), RedHat is seriously lacking in comparion to the latter two, and SuSE is beating Mandrake by a narrow margin with all of its YaST2 modules (NIS, NFS, and LDAP setup wizards, especially).
It's new this year after 6 or 7 years of debate. I read the story about it yesterday, but I can't seem to find the link. It should be noted that the criteria for films being in placed in this category are pretty strict--they have to have a 7-day run Los Angeles and be 70 minutes or more in length, to name a few.
It's really hard to make that distinction nowadays. I've done a lot of thinking on the subject and you can't really put things in terms of liberal versus conservatism because in a lot of cases there's nothing left to be conservative about. A lot of people write off Free Software as Communism, yet there is a lot of fundamentalism and evangelism about the whole thing.
There are two sides to every issue, and they are rarely separated by such clean boundaries.
We need words that say distinctly "power in the hands of the people" and "power in the hands of the government." The words "Democratic" and "Oligarchic" would suffice, save that they have already been sufficiently misrepresented (at least in the case of the former) to hold little or no meaning in today's society.
Someone has to log into the switch, dump the AMA records for the last some-odd calls, and hunt for calls terminating at the number the law enforcement agency is using. Nowadays I imagine there are more sophisticated versions of this, but I can easily see how a sweaty, nervous switch tech would take 3 minutes to do this manually.
The phone company doesn't tap converstations, but they sure as hell have a database of which line called which number, when, and for how long
The two differ fundamentally. First, there is no centralized database of phone numbers. Each telco can only really identify its customer based on NPA and NXX (area code and prefix) and thus assign billing charges. Secondly, this is only used for billing and in cases where law enforcement agencies become involved. Lastly, the call traces that appear on telephone billing records don't contain any information regarding what the call was about, nor does it contain sensitive information such as passwords or credit card data.
Sun's J2SDK 1.4 JavaDoc is my favorite piece of documentation. It is an indexed, cross-referenced API reference covering every standard class. It has detailed method specifications and in most cases useful and relevant examples of what data is excepted by the methods and what output will be produced.
A dead-tree version would be great, provided it was full of accurate cross-indexes (pages numbers, etc). I would love something like this for C++.
The php.net documentation isn't half bad either.
Lastly, my one major gripe about books and references in general is their lack of examples, or the over-complication of examples. For instance, Sun's examples for threading all involve Swing, which accounts for 90% of the code. If you don't understand Swing, you're lost. A lot of little, simple, relevant examples and an explanation of what's happening would be great.
And this applies to more than just programming languages. I would have killed for something like this when I was learning Bind and OpenLDAP.
Make it comprehensive--full disclosure of APIs down to protected fields and methods, and examples, examples, examples. Make stuff easy to find, and make it worthwhile, and you've got my money.
One of our new employees mentioned that a friend of hers and her child had to wait 9 hours at the airport while her husband was "randomly" interrogated and searched. They weren't given an explanation. They were on their way to Disney World.
What if you were on your way to visit Rome and the Italian police decided it was prudent to detain you and your family? After all, we can't have people flying planes into the tower of Pisa.
Throwing every person in America in prison would keep planes from crashing into buildings. Are you sure that's what you want?
Do you honestly think that the majority of people using the alternative (Windows) will ever in their lives become aware of this particular event in the Free Software timeline, much less consider the ongoing social issues surrounding the movement, or care in the slightest?
...that there are no on-line posts or interviews along the lines of "When my kids went on a stabbing spree..."
I hate to sound harsh, but this isn't a major problem. Populations follow bell curves. You've got Bundy's and bin Laden's in the first standard deviation, gun- and knive-toting teenagers in the second. The rest of us are in the spectrum that ranges from telemarketers to downright saintly.
No, the world will never be perfect. No amount of law or religion is going to prevent people from finding new and exciting ways of pissing other people off.
Not everyone? True. My dad's been working with and as a government contractor for the last ten years or so. Really, he is the only one in the office that knows what he's doing. His role seems to be a consultant for his coworkers, his reports, and their reports. Now, being the government, they won't let him do the work himself, but he's been known to whisper in a few ears, so to speak.
And he hates it. It's the most frustrating, annoying, dead-end position to be in. Everyone realizes what he's worth, but they don't care, because nobody is going anywhere. Everyone knows you don't get fired or promoted in a government job, and it shows in the quality of people they hire.
Long story short, he's picked up a few books on Java and started updating his resume. It would be a good retirement-type job, but he's still far from that.
- Full Frontal (2002).... Gus
- Zoolander (2001).... J.P. Prewitt
- Evolution (2001).... Dr. Ira Kane
- Forbidden Zone: Red Shoe Diaries (2000) (V).... Jake Winters
... aka Zalman King's Forbidden Zone: Red Shoe Diaries (2000) (V) (USA: complete title)
... aka Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries 15: Forbidden Zone (2000) (V) (USA: series title)
- Girl on a Bike: Red Shoe Diaries (2000) (V).... Jake Winters
... aka Zalman King's Girl on a Bike: Red Shoe Diaries (2000) (V) (USA: complete title)
- Intimate Portrait: Minnie Driver (2000) (TV)
- Red Shoe Diaries 14: Luscious Lola (2000) (V).... Jake Winters
- Red Shoe Diaries 17: Swimming Naked (2000) (V).... Jake Winters
... aka Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries: Swimming Naked (2000) (V) (USA: video box title)
... aka Zalman King's Swimming Naked: Red Shoe Diaries (2000) (V) (USA: video title)
- Return to Me (2000).... Bob Rueland
Game: Red Shoe Diaries, The (2000) (V).... Jake Winters
... aka Zalman King's the Game: Red Shoe Diaries (2000) (V) (USA: complete title)
- 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, The (1999) (TV).... Fox Mulder
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler (1999) (TV).... Beverly's Sister
- X Files Game, The (1998) (VG).... Special Agent Fox Mulder
... aka X-Files, The (1998/II) (VG) (USA)
- X Files, The (1998).... Special Agent Fox Mulder
... aka Aux frontières du réel (1998) (Canada: French title)
... aka X-Files, The (1998) (USA: closing credits title)
- Inside the X Files (1997) (TV).... Fox Mulder/Himself
- Red Shoe Diaries: Temple of Flesh (1997) (V).... Jake
... aka Red Shoe Diaries 16: Temple of Flesh (1997) (V) (USA: series title)
- Playing God (1997).... Eugene Sands
... aka Playing Hero (1997)
- Red Shoe Diaries 13: Four on the Floor (1996) (V).... Jake
- Red Shoe Diaries 6: How I Met My Husband (1996) (V).... Jake
- Red Shoe Diaries: Slow Train (1996) (V).... Jake
- Secrets of the X Files, Part 2 (1996) (TV).... Fox Mulder
- Red Shoe Diaries 7: Burning Up (1995) (V).... Jake
... aka Zalman King's Burning Up Red Shoe Diaries (1995) (V) (USA: video box title)
- Red Shoe Diaries 8: Night of Abandon (1995) (V).... Jake
... aka Zalman King's Night of Abandoned (1995) (V) (USA: video box title)
- Secrets of the X Files, Part 1 (1995) (TV).... Fox Mulder
- Kalifornia (1993).... Brian Kessler
- Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick (1993) (V).... Jake
- Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica (1993) (V).... Jake
... aka Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries: Auto Erotica (1993) (V) (USA: video box title)
- Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass (1993) (V).... Jake
... aka Zalman King's Weekend Pass Red Shoe Diaries 5 (1993) (V) (USA: video box title)
- "X Files, The" (1993) TV Series.... Special Agent Fox Mulder (1993-2001)
... aka "X-Files, The" (1993) (USA)
- X-Files, The (1993) (TV).... Special Agent Fox Mulder
"Red Shoe Diaries" (1992) TV Series.... Jake
Chaplin (1992).... Rollie Totheroh
... aka Charlot (1992) (Italy)
- Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare (1992) (V).... Jake
- Venice/Venice (1992).... Dylan
- Red Shoe Diaries (1992) (TV).... Jake Winters
... aka Red Shoe Diaries the Movie (1992) (TV) (USA: video box title)
... aka Wild Orchid III: Red Shoe Diaries (1992) (TV)
- Baby Snatcher (1992) (TV).... David
- Beethoven (1992).... Brad
- Ruby (1992).... Officer Tippit
- Denial (1991).... John
... aka Loon (1991)
- Rapture, The (1991).... Randy
- Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991).... Bruce
- Julia Has Two Lovers (1991).... Daniel
... aka Julia tiene dos amantes (1991) (Argentina)
- Bad Influence (1990).... Club Goer #3
- New Year's Day (1989).... Billy
- Working Girl (1988).... Cyn's Engagement Party Guest
I'm taking my last handful of senior level classes and it's scary how many of my classmates still have no clue. They're in their senior year beg for group assignments because not one of them can get a program to compile on their own. I can only speculate as to how they've made it this far but quite frankly it worries me that this is possible. The work force in this area is being diluted with underqualified graduates.
I'm sure this says a lot for the quality of instruction at my university in particular, but I doubt I'm alone in this. I'm all for weeding out those who can't make it by on their own abilities. It's sad that the other students have to deal with this, much less the professors.
The problem is that things like video E-mail are what is commonly referred to as "value-added services" meaning "services that don't cost the provider anything but may be used as an excuse/incentive to increase prices for consumers."
For a one-time cost of less than $5000 a provider can set up an Enterprise Suse E-mail server and sell scheduling/calendaring, E-mail with IMAP and POP3, LDAP, hosting with PHP and SQL...and charge users an extra $150/mo. (worth an estimated "$500 value" or so) for it. Yay marketing. It's a huge money-maker, so it's not something they're going to just drop.
It's like cable...$19/mo. for channels you don't want to watch, or $39/mo. for the 2 that you do want to watch plus 40 others.
It'll never be as simple as a pipe and an IP address...those are the most costly things to provide.
Phillips announces that they won't license copy-protected CDs and it's a marketing ploy. Microsoft's ridiculous settlement offer is rejected and it's a legal strategy. Now granted, corporations are out to make money, but is there really cause to be this cynical?
You can't please everyone all of the time, but all I see here is an inability for anyone to please anyone any of the time. It's discouraging for me to see...imagine how these corporations will react.
Square announced plans for FF9 PC but I guess they never came through. Final Fantasy 8 PC was an embarrassment--I bought it and Septerra Core at the same time and I almost had more fun with SC (less lockups and I could actually move on the world map). And then there was patch after patch for AMD and Cyrix processors, Riva cards, and that Disc2 lockup that affected everybody. If they can't manage to capably port a Playstation 1 game to the PC then I have serious reservations about a Playstation 2 attempt (although the architectural similarities between the Playstation 2 and a PC may be more facilitating than its predecessor). Square has never had a great PC track record, and it looks to me like they've given up.
And then there's the economy. Computers bad, consoles good.
I used to be a die-hard PC-only gamer, but buying a Playstation 2 was the best investment I ever made--I'd take $300 odds that Working Designs never releases Lunar:SSSC PC anytime.
Business class services usually take priority over residential. This means that they usually have a lower density and that trouble reports are handled with a higher priority. Downtimes for business are usually a matter of hours compared to days for residential. So in this guy's particular case, I feel that business grade service is desirable for more than just secure transactions.
However.
Forcing residential users to upgrade to business grade service for no other reason than the ability to use encrypted communications is asinine.
We have this new programmer at work and she's trying to learn Linux (our defacto development standard). Rather than implement all of the convenience features (like making sure gnorpm runs as root when you double click an RPM) is a whole hell of a lot more complicated than opening a terminal and typing in su; rpm -i.
(I will say that Mandrake does an excellent job of doing this for you. RedHat could take a lesson from them)
Right now I'm at the point where I'm finally understanding all the little quirks of all of these interacting gnome/kde/X micro applications. But a lot of the time I use the console myself.
What exactly constitutes a lightweight language? Is it a scripting (interpreted) language? Or one that serves as a building block for other languages (a micro-language, so to speak)? Or is it merely any language that can be used for Rapid Application Development? I thought I caught a reference to Java in that article (used as a comparison), which I don't consider to be "lightweight" by any means, and I've heard people swear by Python as a full-blown development platform (I don't know anything about Python, so forgive me if I sound ignorant). It seems as if a lightweight language is basically one that is an open source work-in-progress.
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It's not random if you have a DTD. Some formats may be more advantageous for various applications. Hence, web.dtd, lib.dtd, dev.dtd, , X.dtd etc, that are used by http.xml, ftp.xml, ld-so-conf.xml, usb.xml, pcmcia.xml, x-video.xml, x-sound.xml, etc.
/etc/dev/usb.xml, or /etc/x/video.xml. Then, if you wanted, you could have /etc/xml.xml that contained details about which files are stored where.
I would never put all of this stuff in the same file--it would be too huge and unmanageble. Instead, I'd use a combination of directory structures and XML files...like
Imagine that...life forms having an impact on their environment. I wonder how many years of weather data the algae had before they finally realized they were oxygenating the atmosphere...
You have to make money somehow. They have a GPL'd version (YaST1) which isn't pretty, but it's functional. There's nothing revolutionary about YaST2...it's just easier to use. If you like that, then fork over $40 for the system. It's a lot better than the $300 you pay for a comparable version of Windows (as far as features go).
To me this statement is more about free (as in beer) than Free software.
I should probably clarify by saying "integrated" or "comprehensive" GUI tools. RedHat seems to follow the traditional Unix philosophy of atomic tools--each is its own separate entity. In YaST2 and Control Center you get more of a "Control Panel" interface where you have centralized control over all of your system settings.
RedHat has a tool for almost anything (i.e. printconf-gui)...they're just not as apparent to me, I suppose.
SuSE prefers KDE, which is arguably more "window-esque" than Gnome, in terms of integration and user interface (Specifially DCOM, and applications such as Konqueror, KOffice, and KDevelop). Furthermore, RedHat lacks GUI tools such as YaST2 (SuSE) and Control Center (Mandrake).
And probably to be fair they picked the distro that you have to pay for (if you want the pretty install).
I've tried all three of the latest offerings from RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE. In terms of desktop use (not server use), RedHat is seriously lacking in comparion to the latter two, and SuSE is beating Mandrake by a narrow margin with all of its YaST2 modules (NIS, NFS, and LDAP setup wizards, especially).
It's new this year after 6 or 7 years of debate. I read the story about it yesterday, but I can't seem to find the link. It should be noted that the criteria for films being in placed in this category are pretty strict--they have to have a 7-day run Los Angeles and be 70 minutes or more in length, to name a few.
It's really hard to make that distinction nowadays. I've done a lot of thinking on the subject and you can't really put things in terms of liberal versus conservatism because in a lot of cases there's nothing left to be conservative about. A lot of people write off Free Software as Communism, yet there is a lot of fundamentalism and evangelism about the whole thing.
There are two sides to every issue, and they are rarely separated by such clean boundaries.
We need words that say distinctly "power in the hands of the people" and "power in the hands of the government." The words "Democratic" and "Oligarchic" would suffice, save that they have already been sufficiently misrepresented (at least in the case of the former) to hold little or no meaning in today's society.
Someone has to log into the switch, dump the AMA records for the last some-odd calls, and hunt for calls terminating at the number the law enforcement agency is using. Nowadays I imagine there are more sophisticated versions of this, but I can easily see how a sweaty, nervous switch tech would take 3 minutes to do this manually.
The two differ fundamentally. First, there is no centralized database of phone numbers. Each telco can only really identify its customer based on NPA and NXX (area code and prefix) and thus assign billing charges. Secondly, this is only used for billing and in cases where law enforcement agencies become involved. Lastly, the call traces that appear on telephone billing records don't contain any information regarding what the call was about, nor does it contain sensitive information such as passwords or credit card data.
Comcast is really crossing the line, here.
Sun's J2SDK 1.4 JavaDoc is my favorite piece of documentation. It is an indexed, cross-referenced API reference covering every standard class. It has detailed method specifications and in most cases useful and relevant examples of what data is excepted by the methods and what output will be produced.
A dead-tree version would be great, provided it was full of accurate cross-indexes (pages numbers, etc). I would love something like this for C++.
The php.net documentation isn't half bad either.
Lastly, my one major gripe about books and references in general is their lack of examples, or the over-complication of examples. For instance, Sun's examples for threading all involve Swing, which accounts for 90% of the code. If you don't understand Swing, you're lost. A lot of little, simple, relevant examples and an explanation of what's happening would be great.
And this applies to more than just programming languages. I would have killed for something like this when I was learning Bind and OpenLDAP.
Make it comprehensive--full disclosure of APIs down to protected fields and methods, and examples, examples, examples. Make stuff easy to find, and make it worthwhile, and you've got my money.
Sounds like sage advice.
One of our new employees mentioned that a friend of hers and her child had to wait 9 hours at the airport while her husband was "randomly" interrogated and searched. They weren't given an explanation. They were on their way to Disney World.
What if you were on your way to visit Rome and the Italian police decided it was prudent to detain you and your family? After all, we can't have people flying planes into the tower of Pisa.
Throwing every person in America in prison would keep planes from crashing into buildings. Are you sure that's what you want?
Please, think before you speak.
Do you honestly think that the majority of people using the alternative (Windows) will ever in their lives become aware of this particular event in the Free Software timeline, much less consider the ongoing social issues surrounding the movement, or care in the slightest?
Really, all we're doing is talking to ourselves.
I thought it was funny.
...that there are no on-line posts or interviews along the lines of "When my kids went on a stabbing spree..."
I hate to sound harsh, but this isn't a major problem. Populations follow bell curves. You've got Bundy's and bin Laden's in the first standard deviation, gun- and knive-toting teenagers in the second. The rest of us are in the spectrum that ranges from telemarketers to downright saintly.
No, the world will never be perfect. No amount of law or religion is going to prevent people from finding new and exciting ways of pissing other people off.
Punish the innocent, mourn the guilty.
That could actually be perceived as a promotional website...
Not everyone? True. My dad's been working with and as a government contractor for the last ten years or so. Really, he is the only one in the office that knows what he's doing. His role seems to be a consultant for his coworkers, his reports, and their reports. Now, being the government, they won't let him do the work himself, but he's been known to whisper in a few ears, so to speak.
And he hates it. It's the most frustrating, annoying, dead-end position to be in. Everyone realizes what he's worth, but they don't care, because nobody is going anywhere. Everyone knows you don't get fired or promoted in a government job, and it shows in the quality of people they hire.
Long story short, he's picked up a few books on Java and started updating his resume. It would be a good retirement-type job, but he's still far from that.
From the illustrius IMDB:
.... Gus
.... J.P. Prewitt
.... Dr. Ira Kane
.... Jake Winters
.... Jake Winters
.... Jake Winters
.... Jake Winters
.... Bob Rueland
.... Jake Winters
.... Fox Mulder
.... Beverly's Sister
.... Special Agent Fox Mulder
.... Special Agent Fox Mulder
.... Fox Mulder/Himself
.... Jake
.... Eugene Sands
.... Jake
.... Jake
.... Jake
.... Fox Mulder
.... Jake
.... Jake
.... Fox Mulder
.... Brian Kessler
.... Jake
.... Jake
.... Jake
.... Special Agent Fox Mulder (1993-2001)
.... Special Agent Fox Mulder
.... Jake
.... Rollie Totheroh
.... Jake
.... Dylan
.... Jake Winters
.... David
.... Brad
.... Officer Tippit
.... John
.... Randy
.... Bruce
.... Daniel
.... Club Goer #3
.... Billy
.... Cyn's Engagement Party Guest
- Full Frontal (2002)
- Zoolander (2001)
- Evolution (2001)
- Forbidden Zone: Red Shoe Diaries (2000) (V)
... aka Zalman King's Forbidden Zone: Red Shoe Diaries (2000) (V) (USA: complete title)
... aka Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries 15: Forbidden Zone (2000) (V) (USA: series title)
- Girl on a Bike: Red Shoe Diaries (2000) (V)
... aka Zalman King's Girl on a Bike: Red Shoe Diaries (2000) (V) (USA: complete title)
- Intimate Portrait: Minnie Driver (2000) (TV)
- Red Shoe Diaries 14: Luscious Lola (2000) (V)
- Red Shoe Diaries 17: Swimming Naked (2000) (V)
... aka Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries: Swimming Naked (2000) (V) (USA: video box title)
... aka Zalman King's Swimming Naked: Red Shoe Diaries (2000) (V) (USA: video title)
- Return to Me (2000)
Game: Red Shoe Diaries, The (2000) (V)
... aka Zalman King's the Game: Red Shoe Diaries (2000) (V) (USA: complete title)
- 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, The (1999) (TV)
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler (1999) (TV)
- X Files Game, The (1998) (VG)
... aka X-Files, The (1998/II) (VG) (USA)
- X Files, The (1998)
... aka Aux frontières du réel (1998) (Canada: French title)
... aka X-Files, The (1998) (USA: closing credits title)
- Inside the X Files (1997) (TV)
- Red Shoe Diaries: Temple of Flesh (1997) (V)
... aka Red Shoe Diaries 16: Temple of Flesh (1997) (V) (USA: series title)
- Playing God (1997)
... aka Playing Hero (1997)
- Red Shoe Diaries 13: Four on the Floor (1996) (V)
- Red Shoe Diaries 6: How I Met My Husband (1996) (V)
- Red Shoe Diaries: Slow Train (1996) (V)
- Secrets of the X Files, Part 2 (1996) (TV)
- Red Shoe Diaries 7: Burning Up (1995) (V)
... aka Zalman King's Burning Up Red Shoe Diaries (1995) (V) (USA: video box title)
- Red Shoe Diaries 8: Night of Abandon (1995) (V)
... aka Zalman King's Night of Abandoned (1995) (V) (USA: video box title)
- Secrets of the X Files, Part 1 (1995) (TV)
- Kalifornia (1993)
- Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick (1993) (V)
- Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica (1993) (V)
... aka Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries: Auto Erotica (1993) (V) (USA: video box title)
- Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass (1993) (V)
... aka Zalman King's Weekend Pass Red Shoe Diaries 5 (1993) (V) (USA: video box title)
- "X Files, The" (1993) TV Series
... aka "X-Files, The" (1993) (USA)
- X-Files, The (1993) (TV)
"Red Shoe Diaries" (1992) TV Series
Chaplin (1992)
... aka Charlot (1992) (Italy)
- Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare (1992) (V)
- Venice/Venice (1992)
- Red Shoe Diaries (1992) (TV)
... aka Red Shoe Diaries the Movie (1992) (TV) (USA: video box title)
... aka Wild Orchid III: Red Shoe Diaries (1992) (TV)
- Baby Snatcher (1992) (TV)
- Beethoven (1992)
- Ruby (1992)
- Denial (1991)
... aka Loon (1991)
- Rapture, The (1991)
- Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
- Julia Has Two Lovers (1991)
... aka Julia tiene dos amantes (1991) (Argentina)
- Bad Influence (1990)
- New Year's Day (1989)
- Working Girl (1988)
BTW, what is "The Red Shoe Diaries"?
I'm taking my last handful of senior level classes and it's scary how many of my classmates still have no clue. They're in their senior year beg for group assignments because not one of them can get a program to compile on their own. I can only speculate as to how they've made it this far but quite frankly it worries me that this is possible. The work force in this area is being diluted with underqualified graduates.
I'm sure this says a lot for the quality of instruction at my university in particular, but I doubt I'm alone in this. I'm all for weeding out those who can't make it by on their own abilities. It's sad that the other students have to deal with this, much less the professors.
The problem is that things like video E-mail are what is commonly referred to as "value-added services" meaning "services that don't cost the provider anything but may be used as an excuse/incentive to increase prices for consumers."
For a one-time cost of less than $5000 a provider can set up an Enterprise Suse E-mail server and sell scheduling/calendaring, E-mail with IMAP and POP3, LDAP, hosting with PHP and SQL...and charge users an extra $150/mo. (worth an estimated "$500 value" or so) for it. Yay marketing. It's a huge money-maker, so it's not something they're going to just drop.
It's like cable...$19/mo. for channels you don't want to watch, or $39/mo. for the 2 that you do want to watch plus 40 others.
It'll never be as simple as a pipe and an IP address...those are the most costly things to provide.
Bitch bitch bitch.
Phillips announces that they won't license copy-protected CDs and it's a marketing ploy. Microsoft's ridiculous settlement offer is rejected and it's a legal strategy. Now granted, corporations are out to make money, but is there really cause to be this cynical?
You can't please everyone all of the time, but all I see here is an inability for anyone to please anyone any of the time. It's discouraging for me to see...imagine how these corporations will react.
Wrong. You don't have to be a citizen to have a drivers' license.
We have two immigrants working at my company who have had licenses in New Jersey, Texas, and now here in Florida.
Square announced plans for FF9 PC but I guess they never came through. Final Fantasy 8 PC was an embarrassment--I bought it and Septerra Core at the same time and I almost had more fun with SC (less lockups and I could actually move on the world map). And then there was patch after patch for AMD and Cyrix processors, Riva cards, and that Disc2 lockup that affected everybody. If they can't manage to capably port a Playstation 1 game to the PC then I have serious reservations about a Playstation 2 attempt (although the architectural similarities between the Playstation 2 and a PC may be more facilitating than its predecessor). Square has never had a great PC track record, and it looks to me like they've given up.
And then there's the economy. Computers bad, consoles good.
I used to be a die-hard PC-only gamer, but buying a Playstation 2 was the best investment I ever made--I'd take $300 odds that Working Designs never releases Lunar:SSSC PC anytime.
Business class services usually take priority over residential. This means that they usually have a lower density and that trouble reports are handled with a higher priority. Downtimes for business are usually a matter of hours compared to days for residential. So in this guy's particular case, I feel that business grade service is desirable for more than just secure transactions.
However.
Forcing residential users to upgrade to business grade service for no other reason than the ability to use encrypted communications is asinine.
We have this new programmer at work and she's trying to learn Linux (our defacto development standard). Rather than implement all of the convenience features (like making sure gnorpm runs as root when you double click an RPM) is a whole hell of a lot more complicated than opening a terminal and typing in su; rpm -i.
(I will say that Mandrake does an excellent job of doing this for you. RedHat could take a lesson from them)
Right now I'm at the point where I'm finally understanding all the little quirks of all of these interacting gnome/kde/X micro applications. But a lot of the time I use the console myself.
What exactly constitutes a lightweight language? Is it a scripting (interpreted) language? Or one that serves as a building block for other languages (a micro-language, so to speak)? Or is it merely any language that can be used for Rapid Application Development? I thought I caught a reference to Java in that article (used as a comparison), which I don't consider to be "lightweight" by any means, and I've heard people swear by Python as a full-blown development platform (I don't know anything about Python, so forgive me if I sound ignorant). It seems as if a lightweight language is basically one that is an open source work-in-progress.