IBM is probably the only company that can actually make money selling Unix today, since they have the only version that is actually worth anything to an end user.
Sun might argue about that.
Re:Lets get this out of the way
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20 Years of Virii
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English isn't Latin -- there's nothing wrong with 'viruses'. There's no reason to out of our way to make English even more irregular than it already is -- particular when 'virii' wouldn't be correct Latin anyway (it would have to be 'virius', not 'virus', for 'virii' to work).
Bittorrent is written in Python. This means that if you download the source code, you'll actually be able to read it -- Python code can be understood by more than the person who originally wrote it.
7. As of the date of this submission, IBM has provided over one hundred thousand pages of production documents to SCO. IBM intends to continue rolling its production to SCO, despite the inadequate supplemental responses we have received from SCO.
I can just picture the trucks full of paper rolling toward SCO's lawyers...
4.2. Element and attribute names must be in lower case
XHTML documents must use lower case for all HTML element and attribute names. This difference is necessary because XML is case-sensitive e.g. <li> and <LI> are different tags.
The scans for all of the books proofed through Distributed Proofreaders are online. Also, if you find errors in a PG book, you're very welcome to submit corrections to it.
Have you looked at the source? It's invalid (no doctype, no charset), non-CSS (look at all the attributes on the table tags) and uses fixed pixel width tables. This sort of design hasn't been acceptable for *years*.
Re:More like give it a few years and 5MP cams
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Bubble Bursts for e-Books
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Nobody is going to scan a book on a flatbed scanner. It's just not convenient.
I've done over 200 on my flatbed scanner in the last six months, for processing through Distributed Proofreaders. Once you get into the flow, a decently sized octavo book can be done in less than an hour. Holinshed's Chronicles (my current project) is obviously taking a little longer:).
The very high-end overhead document scanners are effectively fixed digital cameras with groovy software, so there's no real reason why an enthusiast couldn't jury rig a home-made digital camera document scanner. 5MP still isn't enough, though, for anything serious. To scan an A4 page at 400DPI requires around 15MP, and you'd need even more to get a decent DPI on folio volumes like Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire.
Microsoft owns more of Apple than SCO owns of Trolltech.
Re:but try reading one word at a time
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Can You Raed Tihs?
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'meaningfulness-per-character'
I vaguely remember from a Royal Institute Christmas Lecture that Welsh is the most compressed of all Latin-based written languages.
English contains a lot of redundancy (we cn mk owrslvs undrstud prfctly wel bi mssng owt mst vwls and mkng th splng a lttl mor phonetc, fr exmpl), as well as (even worse in a way) letter-groups which are spelled the same but sound different -- 'slough' / 'rough' / 'through'.
I used to work somewhere which had fairly draconian password requirements (needs to include digits, can't be made up of real words, can't have more than two characters in a row the same), including changing passwords every month. I ended up picking a simple pattern on the keyboard ('qq1122qq'), and just moving the pattern along by one character each time I had to change it. I've yet to find a password system which rejects this password pattern sequence, despite its simplicity.
There's a fairly long-winded story, which boils down to this:
These prototypes had been rumoured to exist for a long time, but no-one had actually confirmed that they owned one. When Mr. Evans did announce that he owned one, there was enormous interest among ROM-collects and MAME programmers, who wanted to get their hands on the ROMs to 'preserve' the game for humanity (and, as a nice side-benefit, enable everyone to play them on their home computer). Scott said that he would be happy to sell them for $10,000, expecting that this would put the emulation horde off. However, a campaign started on emulation sites to raise the money, and Scott very quickly realised that they would actually reach the asking price, so he pulled the offer. Much muttering ensued.
Group freedom is just as valid as personal freedom. For the other end of the scale, see Singapore, which is a 'free' society in a very different way to the 'freedom' inflicted on the USA. The UK's a happy medium between the two.
Online gambling isn't illegal if you live in a country which believes in personal freedom, such as the UK. And being legal doesn't make it any less profitable.
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Sun might argue about that.
English isn't Latin -- there's nothing wrong with 'viruses'. There's no reason to out of our way to make English even more irregular than it already is -- particular when 'virii' wouldn't be correct Latin anyway (it would have to be 'virius', not 'virus', for 'virii' to work).
These Jaffas -- cake, or biscuit?
Bittorrent is written in Python. This means that if you download the source code, you'll actually be able to read it -- Python code can be understood by more than the person who originally wrote it.
... but three lefts do.
I can just picture the trucks full of paper rolling toward SCO's lawyers...
From here.
Go here if you feel like learning more about CoreWars -- it includes online 'hills', and archives of all submitted code fragments.
The scans for all of the books proofed through Distributed Proofreaders are online. Also, if you find errors in a PG book, you're very welcome to submit corrections to it.
Have you looked at the source? It's invalid (no doctype, no charset), non-CSS (look at all the attributes on the table tags) and uses fixed pixel width tables. This sort of design hasn't been acceptable for *years*.
However, being part owned by SCO,
Wrong.
I've done over 200 on my flatbed scanner in the last six months, for processing through Distributed Proofreaders. Once you get into the flow, a decently sized octavo book can be done in less than an hour. Holinshed's Chronicles (my current project) is obviously taking a little longer :).
The very high-end overhead document scanners are effectively fixed digital cameras with groovy software, so there's no real reason why an enthusiast couldn't jury rig a home-made digital camera document scanner. 5MP still isn't enough, though, for anything serious. To scan an A4 page at 400DPI requires around 15MP, and you'd need even more to get a decent DPI on folio volumes like Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire.
No, it isn't. It's *almost* a subset, but there are valid C programs which are not valid C++.
Microsoft owns more of Apple than SCO owns of Trolltech.
'meaningfulness-per-character'
I vaguely remember from a Royal Institute Christmas Lecture that Welsh is the most compressed of all Latin-based written languages.
English contains a lot of redundancy (we cn mk owrslvs undrstud prfctly wel bi mssng owt mst vwls and mkng th splng a lttl mor phonetc, fr exmpl), as well as (even worse in a way) letter-groups which are spelled the same but sound different -- 'slough' / 'rough' / 'through'.
Laugh all you want, it does happen in the car market. See Volkswagon Beetle vs. Volkswagon Golf.
And what does this fork give us over the original Knoppix distro, other than a senseless deviation into a second-rate pseudo-desktop environment?
USA Today? Do they think they can use this battery to topple an innocent left-wing government, or what?
I used to work somewhere which had fairly draconian password requirements (needs to include digits, can't be made up of real words, can't have more than two characters in a row the same), including changing passwords every month. I ended up picking a simple pattern on the keyboard ('qq1122qq'), and just moving the pattern along by one character each time I had to change it. I've yet to find a password system which rejects this password pattern sequence, despite its simplicity.
There's a fairly long-winded story, which boils down to this:
These prototypes had been rumoured to exist for a long time, but no-one had actually confirmed that they owned one. When Mr. Evans did announce that he owned one, there was enormous interest among ROM-collects and MAME programmers, who wanted to get their hands on the ROMs to 'preserve' the game for humanity (and, as a nice side-benefit, enable everyone to play them on their home computer). Scott said that he would be happy to sell them for $10,000, expecting that this would put the emulation horde off. However, a campaign started on emulation sites to raise the money, and Scott very quickly realised that they would actually reach the asking price, so he pulled the offer. Much muttering ensued.
Will you let me use 'virii' if I make sure that I always use 'virius' instead of 'virus'? 'Virius' sounds much cooler.
Sommat like:
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John, while Jane had had 'had', had had 'had had'. 'Had had' had had a better effect on the teacher.
You might be able to squeeze another had or two in there somewhere. There's a similar sentence involving 'and':
Level 1: This and that.
Level 2: The spaces between this and and and and and that are too small.
Level 3: The spaces between and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and are too small.
Level 4:
Now that is a *damn* fine article. Mod up, please.
Group freedom is just as valid as personal freedom. For the other end of the scale, see Singapore, which is a 'free' society in a very different way to the 'freedom' inflicted on the USA. The UK's a happy medium between the two.
Online gambling isn't illegal if you live in a country which believes in personal freedom, such as the UK. And being legal doesn't make it any less profitable.