Went to the screenshots page - it doesn't look anything like the Luna interface of XP. Mind you, it looks extremely similar to Windows 2000's interface,.
Well, I am a professional developer, and I have to say that CVS amongst the 'worst' of the source control systems I've used. That sounds incredibly critical, but I really don't mean it in a disrespectful sense. A need for a freely available, open source control system was there, and CVS filled and continues to fill it well. Better than SCCS and RCS ever did. Despite that however, its functionality is a little lacking compared to most commercial rivals.
Directory handling springs to mind, as does renaming files. Atomic commits too. As well, there's also the fact that you often end up editing the modules files directly - an end-user should never have to care about a program's internal storage of meta-data.
Now, I haven't used Subversion so I am unable to make a comparison. I understand it handles directory versioning better, but I'm not aware of the rest of the points I made. The directory handling alone is a huge plus however, so it's a project whose announcements I'm following closely.
First, you don't have to reference a DTD to produce valid XML. SAX/DOM parsers will work just fine on a document without a DTD.
You certainly do have to reference either a DTD or a schema. I'm aware that most parser implementations will operate on documents without them, but that doesn't make the original documents valid.
Hmm...Slashdot problems as well by the looks of things...
Anyway I've had one of these multiformat drives on order for a month now, and there's still no sign of stock. I've looked everywhere - no stock in the UK, and none I can find in the US. No-one has any delivery dates either - the retailer I've ordered from says his supplier won't even confirm a date, and they've already blown three of them.
All this makes me wonder if the device has been withdrawn for some technical reason. I'm aware there's been a BIOS update already, but it does seem odd that no shop anywhere can get hold of these drives. Even Sony's own online shop says end of January before shipping.
Merely offering a product that could violate copyrights was not enough to warrant a conviction, the jury instructions said.
...which is certainly a good thing. It means that offering a product which can beat protected CDs, for example, is legal. Only the act of using that product to violate copyright laws would be illegal.
As an iPod owner who rips CDs for personal use but doesn't download from P2P, that precedant puts a smile on my face.
Err....pre-emptive is exactly what MacOS wasn't. It used co-operative multitasking - you called the yield() function every so often to ensure that other processes had a decent slice of the action.
Of course, some would argue that the space station was a boondoogle to start with.
Would they? Who? And why?
I find it a little trite to dismiss the effort of the International Space Station with a quick phrase that has no backing. Reasons? Well then, suggest 'em!
Has anyone done a study to compare the various advertising models and their effectiveness?
In the UK they have, and believe the most cost-effective was said to be radio advertising.
Think about it - you're driving along or doing some other task, and the radio's on in the background. You're unlikely to switch station just because an advert came on, since the radio is not your primary focus at that moment. On the TV or the net however, you're concentrating on the screen and so you're more likely to be annoyed by distractions to that focus.
Apparently they didn't have a clue what you were saying either. Don't worry - I suggest we torment them with rounds of 'One tune to the sound of another' until they go away...
Cheers,
Ian
Mods: Take a look at the I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" site, and the mysteries of Mornington Crescent, not having a clue, one tune to the sound of another and all manner of oddities will be revealed.
Kids are not miniature adults. Parents really do have to protect them, or they're lousy parents. Your parents were almost certainly protecting you, and you weren't aware of it.
Absolutely. I'm a new parent (have an eleven month old daughter), and I'm already 'censoring' what appears on TV. Violent films are watched after she's gone in the cot, violent console games are similarly banished.
I remember one time where her mother and I had wound each other up so much over something so trivial that we eventually decided to tickle each other to death over it. As per normal, I grabbed her feet and started tickling, which had her laughing and squirming away. My then six-month old daughter turned round - she had been happily playing until that moment, but on seeing what was happening she immediately burst into tears thinking that mummy and daddy were fighting with each other. That kind of thing really disturbs young kids, as we've found out.
On the wider point - please don't knock this domain. It's an excellent idea, and still allows me as a parent to exercise judgement rather than having someone else's judgement forced on me by an arbitrary law (a la Australia). Perhaps I want to only allow my kids to look at that domain. Perhaps I don't. Who knows? Well, we, her parents, do. It's our responsibility to bring up our kids, and it should be us who gets to exercise our judgements in such matters. Anything that helps us understand what to expect should be nothing but welcome.
Hope you're still reading this thread - I used to work at MMC as well. Didn't join until after it had been spun out of the BBC though, and I worked on the i2i side of things.
I had no idea there was anyone there responsible for Domesday. It's ironic, because I was the person who submitted the original Slashdot thread about its plight.
I would imagine this data is skewed towards the mid and high-end income brackets, and also away from the older age brackets.
Given that the equipment you need to access the web is still fairly pricy, and also that the majority of people accessing it are still relatively young, I'd question the ability of this model to extrapolate to the wider world.
hrm, last time I checked, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, not George Orwell (1984, Animal Farm).
blush. Quite right.
And yes, I love Fahrenheit 451. The others I'm not familiar with - actually, I've been rather put off Ayn Rand, without having read a word, by the constant quoting of her. I'll probably look in a few years' time.
I've read the threads above and am struck by how little the past is being looked at. Sci-fi didn't start in the 1950s, there's a whole canon to look at before that.
War of the Worlds. A plot so far ahead of its time that the ending is still being copied. Ususally badly (V, Independence Day - although I believe that film to be satire for reasons I'll be happy to debate later). Or how about The Shape of Things To Come, which correctly predicated mechanised warfare. Perhaps you prefer The Time Machine, redone yet again on film in the last year or so. Or perhaps The Invisible Man, redone as Hollow Man. Maybe even The Island of Dr Moreux, which predicts human/animal hybrid experiments like Slashdot's human/mouse hybrid thread a couple of days ago. All of the HG Well's stuff was set in this universe, so it becomes that much more believable.
No? How about Jules Verne's undersea worlds. Or the book his publisher rejected as too depressing, in which he described light railways, telephones and fax machines. The name unfortunately eludes me.
No? How about Brave New World. George Orwell's excellent and entirely depressing book, though to my mind a bit ripped of from his namesake's Shape of Things To Come (George Orwell. Herbet George Wells. Hmmm).
Films. How about 1926's Metropolis, from Fritz Lang? The film without which Bladerunner simply wouldn't exist. The short story 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' probably would, but the short story and the film bear almost no resemblence to each other.
Need to look a bit further back than just the last few years. There's probably some visionary author writing before Wells that I've overlooked. If so, please tell me. I'd be interested to hear it.
The BBC certainly does not say "avoid Explorer". It quotes a certain Mr. Clover, and he says it should be avoided. It's the quoted opinion of the interviewee, not that of the corporation.
Why do people want to buy these? I just don't get it. I would much rather have a nice full tower case that is roomy enough for all my stuff
Space is a concern in many places. For example, since getting a new daughter my old study has become a nursery. All the kit had to be moved into the spare bedroom, and I really don't want that to have a ton of ugly looking kit with fans that scream like a jet.
I'm not a gamer (well, consoles but not PC) - I've been easily lasting on my dual Celeron 533s with a TNT2-based graphics card for the last few years. By the time I upgrade, all the CPU socket and memory standards have changed anyway so I effectivly replace everything except the DVD and possibly the hard drive. For my usage pattern, one of these does very nicely.
I'm waiting for the release of the nForce2-based version but barring a terrible review of that, I'm a Shuttle customer in waiting.
The SB51G is a really nice machine, and has the advantage of supporting the hyperthreading chips. However, for those of you not planning to add an AGP card and just stick with the built-in stuff, it might be worth hanging on for the Athlon-based SN41.
It's not the fact it's based on the Athlon that's the lure, though I imagine that's the case for some. It's more the fact it's based on the nForce2 chipset. Built-in dual monitor and Dolby 5.1 support, plus ATA-150 (I think - might be ATA-133).
Slashdot Mirror
Cheers,
Ian
Directory handling springs to mind, as does renaming files. Atomic commits too. As well, there's also the fact that you often end up editing the modules files directly - an end-user should never have to care about a program's internal storage of meta-data.
Now, I haven't used Subversion so I am unable to make a comparison. I understand it handles directory versioning better, but I'm not aware of the rest of the points I made. The directory handling alone is a huge plus however, so it's a project whose announcements I'm following closely.
Cheers,
Ian
No - you can have well-formed XML. You can't have valid XML.
Cheers,
Ian
You certainly do have to reference either a DTD or a schema. I'm aware that most parser implementations will operate on documents without them, but that doesn't make the original documents valid.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Anyway I've had one of these multiformat drives on order for a month now, and there's still no sign of stock. I've looked everywhere - no stock in the UK, and none I can find in the US. No-one has any delivery dates either - the retailer I've ordered from says his supplier won't even confirm a date, and they've already blown three of them.
All this makes me wonder if the device has been withdrawn for some technical reason. I'm aware there's been a BIOS update already, but it does seem odd that no shop anywhere can get hold of these drives. Even Sony's own online shop says end of January before shipping.
Has anyone heard anything?
Cheers,
Ian
As an iPod owner who rips CDs for personal use but doesn't download from P2P, that precedant puts a smile on my face.
Cheers,
Ian
About mid-1980s.
Cheers,
Ian
Err....pre-emptive is exactly what MacOS wasn't. It used co-operative multitasking - you called the yield() function every so often to ensure that other processes had a decent slice of the action.
Cheers,
Ian
Would they? Who? And why?
I find it a little trite to dismiss the effort of the International Space Station with a quick phrase that has no backing. Reasons? Well then, suggest 'em!
Cheers,
Ian
Depends on screen res. On my laptop running 1600x1200, it shows a quite a lot of the target page.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
(Raq 4 owner)
In the UK they have, and believe the most cost-effective was said to be radio advertising.
Think about it - you're driving along or doing some other task, and the radio's on in the background. You're unlikely to switch station just because an advert came on, since the radio is not your primary focus at that moment. On the TV or the net however, you're concentrating on the screen and so you're more likely to be annoyed by distractions to that focus.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Mods: Take a look at the I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" site, and the mysteries of Mornington Crescent, not having a clue, one tune to the sound of another and all manner of oddities will be revealed.
Absolutely. I'm a new parent (have an eleven month old daughter), and I'm already 'censoring' what appears on TV. Violent films are watched after she's gone in the cot, violent console games are similarly banished.
I remember one time where her mother and I had wound each other up so much over something so trivial that we eventually decided to tickle each other to death over it. As per normal, I grabbed her feet and started tickling, which had her laughing and squirming away. My then six-month old daughter turned round - she had been happily playing until that moment, but on seeing what was happening she immediately burst into tears thinking that mummy and daddy were fighting with each other. That kind of thing really disturbs young kids, as we've found out.
On the wider point - please don't knock this domain. It's an excellent idea, and still allows me as a parent to exercise judgement rather than having someone else's judgement forced on me by an arbitrary law (a la Australia). Perhaps I want to only allow my kids to look at that domain. Perhaps I don't. Who knows? Well, we, her parents, do. It's our responsibility to bring up our kids, and it should be us who gets to exercise our judgements in such matters. Anything that helps us understand what to expect should be nothing but welcome.
Cheers,
Ian
I had no idea there was anyone there responsible for Domesday. It's ironic, because I was the person who submitted the original Slashdot thread about its plight.
Cheers,
Ian
There is no way of compensating for inherently skewed data. You can, however, calculate the confidence interval of the data you have.
Cheers,
Ian
Given that the equipment you need to access the web is still fairly pricy, and also that the majority of people accessing it are still relatively young, I'd question the ability of this model to extrapolate to the wider world.
Cheers,
Ian
blush. Quite right.
And yes, I love Fahrenheit 451. The others I'm not familiar with - actually, I've been rather put off Ayn Rand, without having read a word, by the constant quoting of her. I'll probably look in a few years' time.
Cheers,
Ian
War of the Worlds. A plot so far ahead of its time that the ending is still being copied. Ususally badly (V, Independence Day - although I believe that film to be satire for reasons I'll be happy to debate later). Or how about The Shape of Things To Come, which correctly predicated mechanised warfare. Perhaps you prefer The Time Machine, redone yet again on film in the last year or so. Or perhaps The Invisible Man, redone as Hollow Man. Maybe even The Island of Dr Moreux, which predicts human/animal hybrid experiments like Slashdot's human/mouse hybrid thread a couple of days ago. All of the HG Well's stuff was set in this universe, so it becomes that much more believable.
No? How about Jules Verne's undersea worlds. Or the book his publisher rejected as too depressing, in which he described light railways, telephones and fax machines. The name unfortunately eludes me.
No? How about Brave New World. George Orwell's excellent and entirely depressing book, though to my mind a bit ripped of from his namesake's Shape of Things To Come (George Orwell. Herbet George Wells. Hmmm).
Films. How about 1926's Metropolis, from Fritz Lang? The film without which Bladerunner simply wouldn't exist. The short story 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' probably would, but the short story and the film bear almost no resemblence to each other.
Need to look a bit further back than just the last few years. There's probably some visionary author writing before Wells that I've overlooked. If so, please tell me. I'd be interested to hear it.
Cheers, Ian
No way, Jose...
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Space is a concern in many places. For example, since getting a new daughter my old study has become a nursery. All the kit had to be moved into the spare bedroom, and I really don't want that to have a ton of ugly looking kit with fans that scream like a jet.
I'm not a gamer (well, consoles but not PC) - I've been easily lasting on my dual Celeron 533s with a TNT2-based graphics card for the last few years. By the time I upgrade, all the CPU socket and memory standards have changed anyway so I effectivly replace everything except the DVD and possibly the hard drive. For my usage pattern, one of these does very nicely.
I'm waiting for the release of the nForce2-based version but barring a terrible review of that, I'm a Shuttle customer in waiting.
Cheers,
Ian
It's not the fact it's based on the Athlon that's the lure, though I imagine that's the case for some. It's more the fact it's based on the nForce2 chipset. Built-in dual monitor and Dolby 5.1 support, plus ATA-150 (I think - might be ATA-133).
Cheers,
Ian