Because Omnibot is Gaelic for all-purpose penis. There aren't that many Gaelic speakers, but enough to make the product a laughing-stock.
glasgow's train tunnels
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Glasgow, Scotland, has some fairly neat disused train tunnels. Only trouble is, some of them open onto working lines, and meeting a train in the dark is, erm, interesting, I'm told.
Search for the milk crate gang if you want to find out about these works of art.
What's your source for wind farms altering weather patterns? I have never heard of such a thing, and I worked for many years in the wind energy industry.
Andrew Q. Morton's cusum technique
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Is this anything new? Rev. Andrew Morton developed the cusum technique described in the book in 1988, and it's been a widely accepted computational linguistic technique since then.
For more details, see Farringdon, Morton, Farringdon & Baker's book Analysing For Authorship, University of Wales Press 1996; ISBN: 0708313248.
How is one supposed to decide what is pornography without viewing it oneself? By viewing it, one immediately violates company policy or the law, and should (by that same policy) be dismissed.
It seems reasonable to this author that one can refuse, on the grounds that the company is expecting the sysadmin to view material that is either distasteful or illegal. No company can expect its employees to break the law to further company business.
It is too easy to get into casuistry, or specious arguments, here. There are legal definitions of what constitutes pornography, so the philosophical question "What is art?" may not apply here. But the corporation should be clear on where the boundaries of its rules and legal rules lie.
I'm not sure what to make of the article; there's not much substance to it.
I do know that Adobe will not port Acrobat 4 (the full package, distiller, etc) to Unix. There is a small chance that a Solaris port might appear, but only if Sun pays Adobe for it.
Adobe's idea for open source might have been revealed at a recent seminar in London. In it, Adobe representatives suggested that they'd be expecting people to license a 'standard' PDF generation library from Adobe, as they were concerned that it's possible to write a PDF that conforms to the specification in the manual, but that won't work with Adobe PDF tools. (For examples of this, apparently pdfTeX produces math output that occasionally won't render in Acrobat Reader 4.)
So they've basically conceded in public that PDF isn't the cure-all to the problems of bad PostScript. They might try to license their PDF generation library under some mutant community licence to get other people to do the hard work of porting the code, and Adobe to control the returns. Nice work if you can get it.
AT&T (was Olivetti) Research Labs in Cambridge used news broadcasts with simultaneous captions to train their voice mail search program. ISTR they found it the cheapest way of getting both text and speech.
...when I last cared about the colour of a computer. It was an ICL 2900 mainframe in bright orange ('Hot Tango'), and it was the one on which my Dad showed me the rudiments of programming. Maybe that's why I sometimes have an urge to yell "GROW UP!" at that kind of Mac user.
Unless you're Hans Rey, you mainly bike on weekends
Doesn't anyone else use a bike for commuting? Sheesh, it's not difficult, it's inexpensive, as quick as a car (often quicker) and sets you up for the day.
Don't know why anyone would want all that gadgetry on a bike, though. All it could to is add weight, rattle, fall off, get damaged in the rain, or get stolen. And eyes should be kept on the surroundings -- you'll run into them otherwise...
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you forgot the important middle bit to that pipeline:
strings stuff.doc | fmt -s | less
This at least makes it legible.
Because Omnibot is Gaelic for all-purpose penis. There aren't that many Gaelic speakers, but enough to make the product a laughing-stock.
Search for the milk crate gang if you want to find out about these works of art.
My bandwidth requirements are very small--perhaps a hundred 12-bit samples per second would do it
You call that small bandwidth? Only five years ago I was controlling a 24-turbine power station over a 1200 baud UUCP link -- and liked it!
What's your source for wind farms altering weather patterns? I have never heard of such a thing, and I worked for many years in the wind energy industry.
For more details, see Farringdon, Morton, Farringdon & Baker's book Analysing For Authorship, University of Wales Press 1996; ISBN: 0708313248.
How is one supposed to decide what is pornography without viewing it oneself? By viewing it, one immediately violates company policy or the law, and should (by that same policy) be dismissed.
It seems reasonable to this author that one can refuse, on the grounds that the company is expecting the sysadmin to view material that is either distasteful or illegal. No company can expect its employees to break the law to further company business.
It is too easy to get into casuistry, or specious arguments, here. There are legal definitions of what constitutes pornography, so the philosophical question "What is art?" may not apply here. But the corporation should be clear on where the boundaries of its rules and legal rules lie.
I'm not sure what to make of the article; there's not much substance to it.
I do know that Adobe will not port Acrobat 4 (the full package, distiller, etc) to Unix. There is a small chance that a Solaris port might appear, but only if Sun pays Adobe for it.
Adobe's idea for open source might have been revealed at a recent seminar in London. In it, Adobe representatives suggested that they'd be expecting people to license a 'standard' PDF generation library from Adobe, as they were concerned that it's possible to write a PDF that conforms to the specification in the manual, but that won't work with Adobe PDF tools. (For examples of this, apparently pdfTeX produces math output that occasionally won't render in Acrobat Reader 4.)
So they've basically conceded in public that PDF isn't the cure-all to the problems of bad PostScript. They might try to license their PDF generation library under some mutant community licence to get other people to do the hard work of porting the code, and Adobe to control the returns. Nice work if you can get it.
AT&T (was Olivetti) Research Labs in Cambridge used news broadcasts with simultaneous captions to train their voice mail search program. ISTR they found it the cheapest way of getting both text and speech.
Seems they've stolen our word for 'Fiscal Year 2000'. In my company, we're in F99 now, but will be in F00 from July 1st.
And they pronounce it 'Foo', too...
...when I last cared about the colour of a computer. It was an ICL 2900 mainframe in bright orange ('Hot Tango'), and it was the one on which my Dad showed me the rudiments of programming. Maybe that's why I sometimes have an urge to yell "GROW UP!" at that kind of Mac user.
Unless you're Hans Rey, you mainly bike on weekends
Doesn't anyone else use a bike for commuting? Sheesh, it's not difficult, it's inexpensive, as quick as a car (often quicker) and sets you up for the day.
Don't know why anyone would want all that gadgetry on a bike, though. All it could to is add weight, rattle, fall off, get damaged in the rain, or get stolen. And eyes should be kept on the surroundings -- you'll run into them otherwise...