It describes among other things how the hardliners on both sides want to increase tension. There seems to be a history of the Chinese making very hasty accusations (without knowing facts) which then cannot be taken back without losing face.
What strikes me most is how little factual information we have. Nonetheless everybody seems to have an opinion...
IMHO, using a wheel mouse to navigate and check out large numbers of pages / lists speeds up things immensely - at least for me. Having the Back button of the browser (and other apps like the Acrobat Reader) on the wheel (when it is pushed like a button) also helps. My image viewer understands the wheel mouse and is good for sighting large numbers of images.
I say that as someone who knows his accelerator keys very well - I still use them, but the mouse isn't for beginners only. However, apps must make sure that they can be used without a mouse.
The comparison of mice and keyboards isn't fair anyway because you shouldn't do the same things with both. There are jobs that require the shell exclusively, and vice versa (image editing). So, no simple answer here...
Who says that you will have to use JNI? The only thing that I ever needed (highly anecdotal!) was a function to return the amount of free diskspace for a directory. Fortunately, there is a library that covers many operating systems (JConfig).
Some links to compilers and virtual machines can be found here. The BSDi JDK is supposed to work with FreeBSD in the future, according to this news item.
I provide other people's content, but most of it is not illegaly provided. It's free software, shareware, Project Gutenberg files (my contribution was to rename them from their cryptic 8-letters-and-digits name to something one can find like Dafoe - Robinson Crueso.txt) and tons of scientifc papers (again, renaming them is crucial). Best thing is, I've seen 'my' files being shared by the folks who downloaded them. So, at least there, the system works.
OTOH, sharing large files currently is not a good idea. Modem users will try to leech them and I'm not up that long. That might be solved by clients that require a minimum bandwidth for certain files. Also, I want to have "upload slots" available for the small files I share. Typically, all of the upload slots I provide are filled with uploads of larger files so that nobody will be able to get through to the 10 KB files.
There should also be an automatic ban of people who hammer me with requests.
It's been announced in Germany over and over again, for years now, by different companies. It never worked out. So, I'll remain sceptical until I see it in widespread use.
Last night (must have been around 9:00 pm EST), there was a report about the NSA. CNN was even allowed inside, someone in charge was interviewed (they're doing this to improve their image).
I think that show was hosted by Jonathan Mann (sp?), so maybe it was Insight. Don't have time to look it up on the CNN homepage, but if there's a rerun, watch it!
I'd like to see my Swing app with the Aqua Look and Feel. Is it right that one is only allowed to use it under Mac OS X (although it should be simple to use it anywhere else)? Is there a place where I can download the necessary classes? I don't want to distribute my code, just take a look at it.
The name of the magazine is Der Spiegel (not Speigel). It would have been nice if the official's statement would have gotten a bit more space in the Wired article. A name would have been nice, as well. BTW, it was also doubted in the article that the statements reflect the real position of the government towards MS products.
I still don't understand why any closed-source products are used in sensitive areas, be it in Germany or elsewhere. To create a somewhat secure environment, good admins are required anyway. They don't need any funky GUIs, so why not pick one of the free Unices?
Given the time it takes for Gnutella searches to return (10-30 secs on average), I like to type in a few key words and let it go. All searches are presented in their seperate tabs.
I hope nobody is still using Gnutella 0.56? It's BAD for the network! Update to something new, please...
Actually, it's German law that forbids display of Nazi era symbols like swastikas etc. The goverment (and whoever else is responsible for executing it, like the people who evaluate games) is just following it. Not sure if those laws make sense (that has been discussed before, over and over again), if they restrict freedom of speech too much, but they're not unique to Germany. The French have similar laws, as an example.
The article is not so much about speech recognition (as some other comments have mentioned). It deals with the possibilities of being able to label speakers, storing data of all kinds of sources in a database and being able to detect previous statements of a person. So, this is more about the intelligent combination of various existing techniques (including speech recognition and machine translation).
Personally, I think this has been done before to a certain degree, the resources available to the CIA (and their counterparts) are just becoming incredibly huge. Given the increasing amount of traffic that is generated by Internet users, they're probably pretty happy about that.
On the terrorists who are being mentioned all the time in that article: they're probably using encryption technology anyway, so I'm not sure if the really dangerous people will be caught with that system.
The German link is about the Swiss RIAA counterpart asking a site owner (1) to remove some MP3 files, (2) to pay ~ USD 500 and to (3) add a note that the site was closed by them.
However, the files are raw text and contain the string "aetsch", which means "gotcha" / "serves you right" / "see". So someone had them on...
At present KDE and Gnome both have a somewhat beta-ish feel to them, but this would quickly disappear if there was only one desktop environment.
I think experience has shown that, for better or worse, throwing more resources (people etc.) at a project doesn't necessarily solve its problems. Same here. I also had the opinion that two huge projects both pursuing the same goals would be a waste, but I think that the "competition" has helped increase the quality of both Gnome and KDE. They make sure that certain features are available, because the others have them already. They study each other's code to improve their own (not everybody, but some). Variety _is_ good!
I'm not enough into this to know whether the efforts to make both projects more compatible to each other, share certain file formats / configurations etc. really worked out. That would be a step into the right direction.
However, whether a single desktop environment would be good or not, I think there's not a chance in hell that one of the groups will drop development to join the other.
But Java avoids a lot of the problems older languages like C have to solve with #ifdefs by providing (1) standardized primitive types and (2) a standard library that behaves the same everywhere, be it under Irix, Tru64, Linux, Windows, OS/390 or EPOC.
Example: An int is always signed, always 32 bits. The Java Language Specifiication thus is a very important document for any Java programmer. Answers 20 percent of all questions in Java newsgroups;-)
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My fault. I should read /. in chronological order... ;-(
As of today, Google makes its complete set of Usenet of messages available (since 1995, over a terabyte of data).
If you can read German, the following article in German news magazine Der Spiegel might be interesting. It's pretty neutral and very insightful, IMHO: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,127191,00.htm l.
It describes among other things how the hardliners on both sides want to increase tension. There seems to be a history of the Chinese making very hasty accusations (without knowing facts) which then cannot be taken back without losing face.
What strikes me most is how little factual information we have. Nonetheless everybody seems to have an opinion...
IMHO, using a wheel mouse to navigate and check out large numbers of pages / lists speeds up things immensely - at least for me. Having the Back button of the browser (and other apps like the Acrobat Reader) on the wheel (when it is pushed like a button) also helps. My image viewer understands the wheel mouse and is good for sighting large numbers of images.
I say that as someone who knows his accelerator keys very well - I still use them, but the mouse isn't for beginners only. However, apps must make sure that they can be used without a mouse.
The comparison of mice and keyboards isn't fair anyway because you shouldn't do the same things with both. There are jobs that require the shell exclusively, and vice versa (image editing). So, no simple answer here...
File only has methods to get the size of a single file or list the set of files in a directory.
But if it worked for you, please tell me how you did it!
Who says that you will have to use JNI? The only thing that I ever needed (highly anecdotal!) was a function to return the amount of free diskspace for a directory. Fortunately, there is a library that covers many operating systems (JConfig).
Some links to compilers and virtual machines can be found here. The BSDi JDK is supposed to work with FreeBSD in the future, according to this news item.
Without one you cannot download the paper... The description sounds interesting, though.
I provide other people's content, but most of it is not illegaly provided. It's free software, shareware, Project Gutenberg files (my contribution was to rename them from their cryptic 8-letters-and-digits name to something one can find like Dafoe - Robinson Crueso.txt) and tons of scientifc papers (again, renaming them is crucial). Best thing is, I've seen 'my' files being shared by the folks who downloaded them. So, at least there, the system works.
OTOH, sharing large files currently is not a good idea. Modem users will try to leech them and I'm not up that long. That might be solved by clients that require a minimum bandwidth for certain files. Also, I want to have "upload slots" available for the small files I share. Typically, all of the upload slots I provide are filled with uploads of larger files so that nobody will be able to get through to the 10 KB files.
There should also be an automatic ban of people who hammer me with requests.
It's been announced in Germany over and over again, for years now, by different companies. It never worked out. So, I'll remain sceptical until I see it in widespread use.
If you understand German, read the related Heise newsticker announcement.
Last night (must have been around 9:00 pm EST), there was a report about the NSA. CNN was even allowed inside, someone in charge was interviewed (they're doing this to improve their image).
I think that show was hosted by Jonathan Mann (sp?), so maybe it was Insight. Don't have time to look it up on the CNN homepage, but if there's a rerun, watch it!
I'd like to see my Swing app with the Aqua Look and Feel. Is it right that one is only allowed to use it under Mac OS X (although it should be simple to use it anywhere else)? Is there a place where I can download the necessary classes? I don't want to distribute my code, just take a look at it.
The name of the magazine is Der Spiegel (not Speigel). It would have been nice if the official's statement would have gotten a bit more space in the Wired article. A name would have been nice, as well. BTW, it was also doubted in the article that the statements reflect the real position of the government towards MS products.
I still don't understand why any closed-source products are used in sensitive areas, be it in Germany or elsewhere. To create a somewhat secure environment, good admins are required anyway. They don't need any funky GUIs, so why not pick one of the free Unices?
The last four bytes of a gzip file contain the uncompressed size of the stored file. Unfortunately, the page seems to be /.ted, so I can't check that.
Given the time it takes for Gnutella searches to return (10-30 secs on average), I like to type in a few key words and let it go. All searches are presented in their seperate tabs.
I hope nobody is still using Gnutella 0.56? It's BAD for the network! Update to something new, please...
Actually, it's German law that forbids display of Nazi era symbols like swastikas etc. The goverment (and whoever else is responsible for executing it, like the people who evaluate games) is just following it. Not sure if those laws make sense (that has been discussed before, over and over again), if they restrict freedom of speech too much, but they're not unique to Germany. The French have similar laws, as an example.
The article is not so much about speech recognition (as some other comments have mentioned). It deals with the possibilities of being able to label speakers, storing data of all kinds of sources in a database and being able to detect previous statements of a person. So, this is more about the intelligent combination of various existing techniques (including speech recognition and machine translation).
Personally, I think this has been done before to a certain degree, the resources available to the CIA (and their counterparts) are just becoming incredibly huge. Given the increasing amount of traffic that is generated by Internet users, they're probably pretty happy about that.
On the terrorists who are being mentioned all the time in that article: they're probably using encryption technology anyway, so I'm not sure if the really dangerous people will be caught with that system.
Some native compilers for Linux should be here.
The German link is about the Swiss RIAA counterpart asking a site owner (1) to remove some MP3 files, (2) to pay ~ USD 500 and to (3) add a note that the site was closed by them.
However, the files are raw text and contain the string "aetsch", which means "gotcha" / "serves you right" / "see". So someone had them on...
An overview map can be found here.
Suppose YOU had a time machine and got stuck in some medieval time. Would you survive more than a day?
For those of you who don't know it already, Timeline by Michael Crichton is about that subject. It's worth a read, IMHO.
It was John Carmack. He has posted on /. on various occasions before. Also see this list of names of prominent /. users.
At present KDE and Gnome both have a somewhat beta-ish feel to them, but this would quickly disappear if there was only one desktop environment.
I think experience has shown that, for better or worse, throwing more resources (people etc.) at a project doesn't necessarily solve its problems. Same here. I also had the opinion that two huge projects both pursuing the same goals would be a waste, but I think that the "competition" has helped increase the quality of both Gnome and KDE. They make sure that certain features are available, because the others have them already. They study each other's code to improve their own (not everybody, but some). Variety _is_ good!
I'm not enough into this to know whether the efforts to make both projects more compatible to each other, share certain file formats / configurations etc. really worked out. That would be a step into the right direction.
However, whether a single desktop environment would be good or not, I think there's not a chance in hell that one of the groups will drop development to join the other.
Same in German.
I admit it's highly subjective ;-)
;-)
But Java avoids a lot of the problems older languages like C have to solve with #ifdefs by providing (1) standardized primitive types and (2) a standard library that behaves the same everywhere, be it under Irix, Tru64, Linux, Windows, OS/390 or EPOC.
Example: An int is always signed, always 32 bits. The Java Language Specifiication thus is a very important document for any Java programmer. Answers 20 percent of all questions in Java newsgroups