Of course. XML is mostly useful for sharing data outside the realm of one person. It's MUCH faster to store a C struct in binary form and reload it than parsing XML. No parsing.
I say we ban computers. That way we illiminate the problem.:)
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Ok, i'll reply to this. I'm proly being trolled:P
Conversion complexity, granted. It does take a bit of work. But would you recomend describing each record with individual lines? That's a bigger pain than ever. What XML gives isn't just a structure for your data, but a language to describe it. It also allows for non-2d data. By this, we can have people with subsets of data, with subsets of different types. This is great, as now we can have a language that describes data in a logical manner and be completely portable.
Conversion errors, please be more spefic. If you convert to a comma delimited format, you are screwd if you do it wrong. If you do it straight to binary, you have to worry about how many bits represent any given data. Why do you think that pack has so many different switches for converting data?
Just because you use XML doesn't mean you must store data in XML form. Hell, it's stupid if you have gigs of data to use XML to relate it all. DB's dont' use xml except for expression of data back to the user/software it talks to (if asked for).
If you are worried about bandwidth, on a simplistic level, gzip it. Yes, compress it. Hell, do a gzip stream which is supported by many browsers.
If your program plans on sharing data, you'll want to use XML. If you never want to share your data, fine use binary. It's not terrible. But once you wanna share it between two machines or processes, now you have to worry about deciphering the binary format. THat is.. unless you work by yourself and have documentation on everything.
So now you have to choose the lesser of two evils.
Don't put up wifi, causing your bandwidth to peak all the time. ISPs are depending on the fact that they can service more customers with a smaller line to keep prices down AND not have a bandwidth problem (in general).
Or pay your share, which you obviously don't want to do. Heck, we have meters for water, electricity, gas. What's wrong with actually keeping track of a resource that has limits to it?
Granted, good music will always be made, the music industry itself, the people who make the round thingies we listen to (records or cds) is less about getting the good music out there but the next sexy/outrageous thing out. Britney spears and Ozzy's little girl seem more about glam and wow and less about writing original music.
Considering most tele-marketers use auto-dialers, would it be so hard to grab the definitive list of area-code/extensions that are exclusively used for cellular phones and just apply that to their dial-out lists?
NY has so many phone customers, they had to start using 917 for landlines, which used to be only used for cell phones. Since then, I've gotten a few spam calls.
Dvd's have been around for what, about 4 years? Anyone find the back to the future dvd yet? No. But many other movies out of the past and present are coming to dvd. Music has been on cd for at least 10 years.
Now here's the clincher. Music now-a-days just sounds like carbon copies of everything. Remember bands like Bush, Motley Crue, Metallica (before they sold out), Rob Base, Run DMC and the likes? Today's day and age seems more of a rehash of everything that's already been done. Why buy crappy music much less rip it?
If linux has failed, you should prolly reboot and send any information on what processes were running, what your compile options and all to linus@linux.org
Unless the Archos does something that much better than iPod and has better marketing, iPod might have market share on mp3 players. If that is true, iPod support goes up, so does support and development. And the ball starts to roll..
Not to say that there won't be a killer product released by someone else. I'm just stating what I perceive to be the current state of affairs.:)
It will show the effects on the internal systems, such as lungs, heart and the likes. It will also show effects on things such as how the body holds together.
Strapping them down makes it easier to conclude certain things by excluding one factor that can skew things with such a small sample-set. Their own movement around the ship. If they are perfectly still with a constant g, taking it away might have some effects.
Imagine the chucklehead who exercises every-day, up in space, representing the human race in weightlessness. People can conclude the wrong things as he'll be what many humans might not be.. exercising chuckleheads.
Ah geez.. at least we know now that the world didn't explode by the end of the movie, and in fact, someone is flying a helicopter.. Thank taco for ruining the ending.
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Wouldn't that lead to cruelty to animals? Multicoloured flourecent cows? Yum. >P
Hey, my first XT was a 1000RL, you dont' be dissin' tandy. It had a CPU that was like 12 Mhz or something.
It'd be funny to see though. "Put the iPod down." *thunk*
Of course. XML is mostly useful for sharing data outside the realm of one person. It's MUCH faster to store a C struct in binary form and reload it than parsing XML. No parsing.
I say we ban computers. That way we illiminate the problem. :)
Ok, i'll reply to this. I'm proly being trolled :P
Conversion complexity, granted. It does take a bit of work. But would you recomend describing each record with individual lines? That's a bigger pain than ever. What XML gives isn't just a structure for your data, but a language to describe it. It also allows for non-2d data. By this, we can have people with subsets of data, with subsets of different types. This is great, as now we can have a language that describes data in a logical manner and be completely portable.
Conversion errors, please be more spefic. If you convert to a comma delimited format, you are screwd if you do it wrong. If you do it straight to binary, you have to worry about how many bits represent any given data. Why do you think that pack has so many different switches for converting data?
Just because you use XML doesn't mean you must store data in XML form. Hell, it's stupid if you have gigs of data to use XML to relate it all. DB's dont' use xml except for expression of data back to the user/software it talks to (if asked for).
If you are worried about bandwidth, on a simplistic level, gzip it. Yes, compress it. Hell, do a gzip stream which is supported by many browsers.
If your program plans on sharing data, you'll want to use XML. If you never want to share your data, fine use binary. It's not terrible. But once you wanna share it between two machines or processes, now you have to worry about deciphering the binary format. THat is.. unless you work by yourself and have documentation on everything.
So now you have to choose the lesser of two evils.
Don't put up wifi, causing your bandwidth to peak all the time. ISPs are depending on the fact that they can service more customers with a smaller line to keep prices down AND not have a bandwidth problem (in general).
Or pay your share, which you obviously don't want to do. Heck, we have meters for water, electricity, gas. What's wrong with actually keeping track of a resource that has limits to it?
"Hey baby, wann aplay with my joystick?"
:)
Sorry.. couldn't resist
Granted, good music will always be made, the music industry itself, the people who make the round thingies we listen to (records or cds) is less about getting the good music out there but the next sexy/outrageous thing out. Britney spears and Ozzy's little girl seem more about glam and wow and less about writing original music.
That's not totally true. Rap now is nothing like rap as it was in the 80's. Hell, disco and folk music is a rarity in today's music.
NY has so many phone customers, they had to start using 917 for landlines, which used to be only used for cell phones. Since then, I've gotten a few spam calls.
Point being, there are more in the realm of CD's than there are in DVD's.
Dvd's have been around for what, about 4 years? Anyone find the back to the future dvd yet? No. But many other movies out of the past and present are coming to dvd. Music has been on cd for at least 10 years.
Now here's the clincher. Music now-a-days just sounds like carbon copies of everything. Remember bands like Bush, Motley Crue, Metallica (before they sold out), Rob Base, Run DMC and the likes? Today's day and age seems more of a rehash of everything that's already been done. Why buy crappy music much less rip it?
Hit their search page,
h er eV301.cgi
http://www.securecomputing.com/cgi-bin/filter_w
and search for sourceforge.net. In the results, you can suggest a recomended they be removed from the list.
Hey, the blind aren't that bad at "visualizing" and drawing, but web designers they are not. Red on green? Ug. :)
If linux has failed, you should prolly reboot and send any information on what processes were running, what your compile options and all to linus@linux.org
Unless the Archos does something that much better than iPod and has better marketing, iPod might have market share on mp3 players. If that is true, iPod support goes up, so does support and development. And the ball starts to roll..
:)
Not to say that there won't be a killer product released by someone else. I'm just stating what I perceive to be the current state of affairs.
It will show the effects on the internal systems, such as lungs, heart and the likes. It will also show effects on things such as how the body holds together.
Strapping them down makes it easier to conclude certain things by excluding one factor that can skew things with such a small sample-set. Their own movement around the ship. If they are perfectly still with a constant g, taking it away might have some effects.
Imagine the chucklehead who exercises every-day, up in space, representing the human race in weightlessness. People can conclude the wrong things as he'll be what many humans might not be.. exercising chuckleheads.
What if there is one misconfigured router somewhere.. or some chucklehead in sprint wants to collect CC numbers, and they are an admin.
Not a nice feeling, now is it. It is a bit of paranoia.. but an once of prevention is worth a pound of cure..
The perfect revenge is to put up a website explaining your policies about requiring permission to sending you cookies to your browser.
Secondly, send a cease-and-decist letter to npr.org to stop setting cookies while you browse their site.
Maybe then they'll learn, that if you put information free to the public, without authentication, what the hell are they to expect?
That sorta depends... if you talk out of your ass.. you may need in installed htere in the first place :)
So the plural of spam is Monty Python?
Depends.. isn't one spam enough? Who would want two? Either the meat or the mail.
nono.. you misinterpreted it.. it's not "after" as in someone who is following someone else. it's after as in "gah! someone's tracking me!" ;)
Ah geez.. at least we know now that the world didn't explode by the end of the movie, and in fact, someone is flying a helicopter.. Thank taco for ruining the ending.