If you split open a cat5 that's lying around you can crack right into a unsecure, _wired_ network.
Yes, but you can easily solve that with physical security. And remember, if you don't have physical security, you don't have any security at all. You can't prevent your wireless packets from being evesdropped with physical security.
My favorite is Carmageddon. It's more of a driving destruction game. If you ever saw the movie "Death Race 2000", it's the same idea -- you get points for running people over and running into other cars. There are several multi-player games you can play -- a simple race, tag, fox and hens, most points. There are 3 releases. Carmageddon 3 (aka TDR 2000) may still be on store shelves, and I've seen the first 2 re-released into the bargain bin.
Muti-player is a blast -- the game play is great, so you won't notice if your graphics cards aren't the most modern.
As far as legal issues, I think you can play it directly from the CD. You can even make copies of the CD, as long as there is 1 original CD on the LAN.
So really, what is the difference between using a drug, say Ritalin, and another drug, like say marijuana? Granted, they have somewhat different effects, but they are both drugs. That's why they're both called drugs. Why do people make a distinction? Both change your behavior and personality in not so subtle ways. Why is it OK to constantly take the one, but not even occasionally use the other for a temporary pick-me-up? If you tell your child to stay away from drugs, but then treat their problems with the same type of drugs, they aren't going to have much trust in you. And they are going to have a strong tendency to treat their problems with drugs.
Please try to address the problem instead of treating the symptoms. Treating the symptoms with drugs is only going to cause more long-term problems.
When talking about semantic structured documents (like DocBook) it's true that WYSIWYG really doesn't have any meaning. But when someone asks for a WYSIWYG editor for such a document type, they really want something that shows a representation of the semantics. In other words, the tags themselves don't appear. Instead, the tags are used to apply (user-definable) stylesheets (usually CSS) to the document as you type. So you still have to deal with the underlying XML structure and tags, explicitly putting the tags where you want them. It's just that you get to deal with the tags as if they were styles in a word processor. So I wouldn't ever make something bold. Instead, I'd tag it as a new term, or emphasis, or a command, or whatever, and let the stylesheets make it bold, or bold and green, or a different font or background -- whatever helps me make the distinction in my head without having to specifically think about the tags.
Believe me, it's much easier to edit large amounts of DocBook without having all the tags mixed in. To me, it actually keeps the content separate from the presentation -- the tags are really just explaining how to format things, by giving things semantic meanings. Removing the tags from view lets me concentrate on the content. But the tags are still visible enough that I can add them when I change semantic contexts. (Typing in all the content and adding tags later tends to take almost twice as long.)
See my post on Morphon for a list of programs that support this way of editing XML.
The canonical list of DocBook editors is here. The best program I've seen for editing DocBook is Morphon. It does a really good job of styling tags with CSS in real-time so that you can edit the document with various tags, but see the output in a WYSIWYG-like way. There's also a tree view. Another good program is XMLmind's XXE XML Editor. Both are Java apps, so will work cross-platform. They both come with good DocBook configurations, and are primarily used for DocBook. They've got free evaluation copies, and are reasonably priced at $100-$200.
I also looked at ArborText and FrameMaker. They claimed to support DocBook, but they supply config files only for (much) older DocBook versions. I found the out-of-the-box support for docBook to be sorely lacking. It looked like it was possible to configure them for better support, but it would have taken many hours to do so.
XML Spy and XMetaL looked pretty good. I don't remember how well they did with DocBook, but they are geared more for data-oriented XML, whereas Morphon and XXE are more suited for document-oriented XML, such as DocBook.
The Kompany makes a really nice set of applications for the Zaurus. They've got a really nice email program currently in beta. It even does things like IMAP/SSL. The tKc applications are known to work just fine under OpenZaurus 3.0, although the OZ ROMs are not officially supported.
It should also be possible to save the email application that comes with the Zaurus to install on top of OZ. Better yet, just download Opie's mail app.
Uh, tic-tac-toe? Thats a pretty simple game. The mainframe in the movie War Games was able to figure it out. And that was some pretty old technology. (Of course, it was also able to figure out that global thermo-nuclear war is also always a draw if both players know how to play well.) Doesn't seem like it'd be that difficult to do in JavaScript. Hell, I've figured out the algorithm with pencil and paper.
We had a guy speak to our users group about their Open Source product called TIBET that takes JavaScript to its limits. They've implemented language constructs that the JavaScript designers were surprised by. Things like closures, a type system, multiple inheritence, and meta-classes. The whole system (about 1MB) is downloaded to the client system, and everything runs on the client system without having to pull down anything but data from the server. Very impressive.
What is really unfortunate is that, even if you somehow convince people to use this tool, once they discover that <citation> produces essentially the same formatting as <image_caption> (or whatever two tags), then they'll either use the two interchangeably for whatever, or they'll use one or the other exclusively for things that are unrelated to citations or captions.
I think that most documentation people can understand such distinctions. To drive the point home better, use different styles for each -- at least while they are editing. You can do this with the WYSIWYG editors such as Morphon -- just use a different color for each. Or you could create preview stylesheets out of the standard Norm Walsh templates.
I've never really heard the whole story about why the city and county are separate, and I've lived here all my life. I think it had something to do with the Civil War, although the date you mentioned seems a tad late for that.
I was thinking more West County as far as kids hanging out. The malls mostly, Northwest Plaza, Chesterfield. Then again, I suppose rich kids hang out around there because that's where most of the rich folks live. I'd agree with CWE, but I'm not so sure about South Grand.
Bonus points for knowing that the city is not part of the county. But honestly, do you think the city is a better place to run an arcade? There's not a lot of places in the city where kids (especially with lots of money) hang out. And the city makes it much harder to run a business. Not to mention the stupid 1% income tax for people who work *or* live in the city.
Excellent points. I agree that those are almost exactly the things I look for in a good manager. There's a lot of politics in my current position. So much that it was pissing me off so much that I was ready to quit. But the new manager does an incredible job of sheilding us from bull-shit. We just have to be sure to make him aware of the BS as soon as we run into it. When it comes time to get stuff we want, we have to sell it to him well enough so that he believes in it and he can sell it to his management.
The most frustrating thing in a job is not being given the chance to do your job well. It doesn't make any sense for management to be an obstacle to you doing your job, but I've seen a lot of it.
If your ideas are really good, sell them to your manager well enough so that he can sell it to his manager. If you made good enough points to support your argument, and if you have a decent manager, it will usually get sold to the highest level that needs to approve it. Of course, there will always be situations where you don't get what you want. And you may have ineffective management, in which case you should perhaps consider changing jobs.
I'm not sure how to deal with the situation where all the levels of management are there at the same time when you are selling it. The best advice I can give is to make sure you've sold it to your manager first (and a level or 2 up) before the formal presentation. The formal presentation should just be a formality to make everyone comfortable with the decisions they've already made.
The poster seems to have missed the moral of the story. The guest said that there were some studies done that showed that strong patents might actually slow scientific progress. The Wright brothers incident shows a good example of such. They also gave several examples of competitors agreeing (implicitly, explicitly, or being forced to) not to obtain or enforce patents, and the resultant explosion of technological advancement. Examples include the semiconductor industry in the 70s and 80s, the airplane business in the 50s and 60s, and the PC revolution of the 80s and 90s.
Why do you think that somebody else could do a better job describing your positive attributes than you could? Honestly, don't let anyone write your resume for you. Instead, have them assist you. Have them help you determine what order to put things in. (The most important stuff should be at the top -- whether that's experience, skills, or whatever.) Have them review it for grammar. Have them help you make it look good. But never let them write it for you. Otherwise, you'll end up with something that doesn't match the way you come across in the interview. I once caught a glimpse of my resume that a recruiter "revised" for me, and it was complete and utter nonsense.
Check out Samsung Contact. It used to be HP OpenMail. HP discontinued it, and Samsung bought it, because they were using it heavily internally. I think it does everything that Exchange does. There are a few nits with Outlook that make it look a little different than an Exchange server, but even those seem to be getting worked out. They're also fully standards-based.
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I'll be a monkey's uncle then.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
My favorite is Carmageddon. It's more of a driving destruction game. If you ever saw the movie "Death Race 2000", it's the same idea -- you get points for running people over and running into other cars. There are several multi-player games you can play -- a simple race, tag, fox and hens, most points. There are 3 releases. Carmageddon 3 (aka TDR 2000) may still be on store shelves, and I've seen the first 2 re-released into the bargain bin.
Muti-player is a blast -- the game play is great, so you won't notice if your graphics cards aren't the most modern.
As far as legal issues, I think you can play it directly from the CD. You can even make copies of the CD, as long as there is 1 original CD on the LAN.
Please try to address the problem instead of treating the symptoms. Treating the symptoms with drugs is only going to cause more long-term problems.
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Believe me, it's much easier to edit large amounts of DocBook without having all the tags mixed in. To me, it actually keeps the content separate from the presentation -- the tags are really just explaining how to format things, by giving things semantic meanings. Removing the tags from view lets me concentrate on the content. But the tags are still visible enough that I can add them when I change semantic contexts. (Typing in all the content and adding tags later tends to take almost twice as long.)
See my post on Morphon for a list of programs that support this way of editing XML.
I also looked at ArborText and FrameMaker. They claimed to support DocBook, but they supply config files only for (much) older DocBook versions. I found the out-of-the-box support for docBook to be sorely lacking. It looked like it was possible to configure them for better support, but it would have taken many hours to do so.
XML Spy and XMetaL looked pretty good. I don't remember how well they did with DocBook, but they are geared more for data-oriented XML, whereas Morphon and XXE are more suited for document-oriented XML, such as DocBook.
It should also be possible to save the email application that comes with the Zaurus to install on top of OZ. Better yet, just download Opie's mail app.
Uh, tic-tac-toe? Thats a pretty simple game. The mainframe in the movie War Games was able to figure it out. And that was some pretty old technology. (Of course, it was also able to figure out that global thermo-nuclear war is also always a draw if both players know how to play well.) Doesn't seem like it'd be that difficult to do in JavaScript. Hell, I've figured out the algorithm with pencil and paper.
We had a guy speak to our users group about their Open Source product called TIBET that takes JavaScript to its limits. They've implemented language constructs that the JavaScript designers were surprised by. Things like closures, a type system, multiple inheritence, and meta-classes. The whole system (about 1MB) is downloaded to the client system, and everything runs on the client system without having to pull down anything but data from the server. Very impressive.
Now that's *really* stupid! The guy wants to watch the game *as it happens*.
I think that most documentation people can understand such distinctions. To drive the point home better, use different styles for each -- at least while they are editing. You can do this with the WYSIWYG editors such as Morphon -- just use a different color for each. Or you could create preview stylesheets out of the standard Norm Walsh templates.
I'm just curious who's driving with this thing.
I've never really heard the whole story about why the city and county are separate, and I've lived here all my life. I think it had something to do with the Civil War, although the date you mentioned seems a tad late for that.
I was thinking more West County as far as kids hanging out. The malls mostly, Northwest Plaza, Chesterfield. Then again, I suppose rich kids hang out around there because that's where most of the rich folks live. I'd agree with CWE, but I'm not so sure about South Grand.
What was the original topic again?
Come on. Any child of the 70s knows that there are things that shrink when heated.
Bonus points for knowing that the city is not part of the county. But honestly, do you think the city is a better place to run an arcade? There's not a lot of places in the city where kids (especially with lots of money) hang out. And the city makes it much harder to run a business. Not to mention the stupid 1% income tax for people who work *or* live in the city.
Ha! The URL is incomplete -- it's not even a complete host name. And yet it gets modded up as informative.
No comments whatsoever, except complaining that the story sucks.
Excellent points. I agree that those are almost exactly the things I look for in a good manager. There's a lot of politics in my current position. So much that it was pissing me off so much that I was ready to quit. But the new manager does an incredible job of sheilding us from bull-shit. We just have to be sure to make him aware of the BS as soon as we run into it. When it comes time to get stuff we want, we have to sell it to him well enough so that he believes in it and he can sell it to his management.
The most frustrating thing in a job is not being given the chance to do your job well. It doesn't make any sense for management to be an obstacle to you doing your job, but I've seen a lot of it.
If your ideas are really good, sell them to your manager well enough so that he can sell it to his manager. If you made good enough points to support your argument, and if you have a decent manager, it will usually get sold to the highest level that needs to approve it. Of course, there will always be situations where you don't get what you want. And you may have ineffective management, in which case you should perhaps consider changing jobs.
I'm not sure how to deal with the situation where all the levels of management are there at the same time when you are selling it. The best advice I can give is to make sure you've sold it to your manager first (and a level or 2 up) before the formal presentation. The formal presentation should just be a formality to make everyone comfortable with the decisions they've already made.
The poster seems to have missed the moral of the story. The guest said that there were some studies done that showed that strong patents might actually slow scientific progress. The Wright brothers incident shows a good example of such. They also gave several examples of competitors agreeing (implicitly, explicitly, or being forced to) not to obtain or enforce patents, and the resultant explosion of technological advancement. Examples include the semiconductor industry in the 70s and 80s, the airplane business in the 50s and 60s, and the PC revolution of the 80s and 90s.
Why do you think that somebody else could do a better job describing your positive attributes than you could? Honestly, don't let anyone write your resume for you. Instead, have them assist you. Have them help you determine what order to put things in. (The most important stuff should be at the top -- whether that's experience, skills, or whatever.) Have them review it for grammar. Have them help you make it look good. But never let them write it for you. Otherwise, you'll end up with something that doesn't match the way you come across in the interview. I once caught a glimpse of my resume that a recruiter "revised" for me, and it was complete and utter nonsense.
Uh, so who told me not to go to the airport because it is dangerous? Who told me that they'd break my laptop at the airport?
You'd think someone had written a GPS applet for his handheld. ;)
I guess you'll have to put the GPS card in, figure out where you are, swap in the wireless card, and *then* browse the Internet. Easy, right?
Check out Samsung Contact. It used to be HP OpenMail. HP discontinued it, and Samsung bought it, because they were using it heavily internally. I think it does everything that Exchange does. There are a few nits with Outlook that make it look a little different than an Exchange server, but even those seem to be getting worked out. They're also fully standards-based.