Since it's Sony, why not add memory stick read/write capabilities to the dang thing? 128MB on something about the size (and tactile properties!) of the bubble gum they used to put in collectible cards. That would make it potentially useful (for reference, my 3.3Mpx camera stashes about 60 full-size jpgs on a 64 mb stick). Plus, it's non-volatile. The thing already looks huge, what's an extra 2 oz? =)
Don't make anything out of it.
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Lest anyone be accusing Red Hat of animosity towards KDE, note that RH's kernels are also behind the latest releases from Linus, and yet nobody... well, nobody worth listening to -- claims that RH has it in for Mr. Torvalds' little project. I think it's far more likely that RH just has a rigorous QA process with the aim of releasing no package before its time than that they hate KDE. By the way, when the update for security problems in a recent version of KDE came out, RH came out with them in a timely fashion. This (3.1) release has lots of new neat features, but it's not a security update. Perhaps they believe (rightly, IMO) that users can wait for shiny new objects.
Besides, have you looked at how many packages it takes to install KDE? Eeep! I suppose up2date can handle that. Of course, the upgradability issue is there with GNOME; and I can't recall off the top of my head when RH has offered a point-release update for GNOME that wasn't security-related [ that's a hedge -- I can't recall when they have release a point-release update for GNOME period ].
For those of you who absolutely must have the latest, then take a look in the "rawhide" directory of any RH mirror, e.g. this one.
Re:An intelligent reply? What gives??
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Smart guys, those parser builders. Not to mention that if *that* is your problem, you can pay a little performance penalty and give names to all those intermediate objects.
The 800/900 split was so that the US could drop its military into Europe and not mess up the European militray radios. So the Euro civ frequency is the same as the US military and the Euro mil frequency is the same as the US civ frequency. Its about the same for the 1800/1900 as well.
Cool. So when will we see French peacekeepers in Wichita? =)
Re:Merits of PHP compared to Perl?
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Read up on what you're talking about. mod_perl embeds a Perl interpreter into Apache. You can specify that a given Perl routine handle any of the phases of an Apache request, not just the content generating phase, which is the only place PHP can do anything. Basically, mod_perl gives you a running Perl instance in the background, not just during the individual request.
The site in question gets about 60-655K hits/day running in a 2x1.13GHz PIII/1GB RAM running Linux ( 2.4 series) with JDK 1.4 using an Apache front-end for SSL. We run Tomcat 4 and Cocoon 2, making judicious use of caching (we serve pre-transformed HTML pages generated from Docbook XML sources), but every page is dynamically generated.
Haven't yet seen anything that makes me think we'll need anything beefier in the near future.
I dunno, weapons... weapons are always tradeable, perhaps even more so should society collapse. Of course, one might have one's own use for such things in such an event.
Moreover, look up the name "Roger Ailes" and find out about his history. For the last 7 years, he's been running a certain little outfit for Rupert Murdoch.
And just because Williams and Liasson also work for NPR, don't think they're necessarily "liberals."
Even if you use an ide like Forte, it would probably be a good idea and head to the Ant page and see what is all about.
I do use an IDE like Forte and in fact it has *great* Ant integration and you can even install the Ant documentation so it's available from within the IDE.
As a matter of fact, all the IDEs I've tried recently for Java do in fact make efforts to integrate Ant. (Eclipse, IntelliJ, even... JDeveloper)
Also this "lack of sandboxing" displays an ignorance of, e.g. the Safe module.
This is not to detract from PHP's strides in various areas, but Perl has a few tricks up its sleeve and its performance whas at least comparable with PHP's.
But BillG can't just build hisself a robotic exoskeleton or giant robot, the Onion notwithstanding. Ol' Billy's money is tied up in Microsoft stock, and if he dumped loads of it to build such toys (even in secret!), the rest of it would quickly become worthless.
Not that it's a superpower, but it's a pretty cool characteristic to have.
Canadian Member of Parliament Peter Stoffer (NDP member for
Sackville-Musquodoboit Valley-Eastern Shore) introduced Bill C-234, an anti-child-pornography Bill.
First, they try to annex Frodo's hobbit-hole, then THIS!!!!!
Modern Post modernism (I can't believe I'm actually saying that) as advocated by Richard Rorty and his cohorts says that in the world there is no such thing as True/False.
Not quite. That doesn't distinguish "Modern Post modernism" (heh, good one =) from nihilism, or jejune relativism. Rorty would at least have to qualify as a sophisticated relativist =) He wouldn't, for example, deny that digital computers come down to 0's and 1's... of course, what he and his cohorts *would* say is pretty murky...
I happen to have a background in postmodern philosophy. Modernism is Cartesian Dualism: mind/body dichotomy of perspective. Postmodernism is anything that carefully and explicitly avoids any dependence on that idea.
Well, to be fair to these guys, that's what the term "postmodern" means in your mouth; and, as accounts go of that term, it's not so bad (although one could argue that Descartes' larger, lasting contribution that qualifies him as the demarcation between 'scholastic' and 'modern' philosophy is his promotion of 'efficient causation' (what contemporary folks call "causation") and utter failure to rely on 'final causation' (as in teleology)).
But part of the problem with the term "postmodern" is that it's used in so many ways that it is effectively meaningless outside of a particular context. I think these guys are basically playing around with that idea -- looking through the paper, they're mostly just having fun (maybe they get travel money for going to the conference).
He said disparaging things about Microsoft's witnesses after he had heard their testimony and read their depositions. This makes him "sound biased?"
A bias, in the pejorative sense, is a propensity to make a certain kind of judgment independently of the evidence. However, these guys LIED TO HIS FACE, repeatedly. So if he comes to the opinion that they are not trustworthy folks, he's not biased, he's making a judgment on the basis of the evidence.
Or, go ahead and call that "bias" if you like. But then it's no sin to be biased.
There are some tools (proprietary, unfortunately) that will convert from RTF to an XML format, which can be easily docbookified (upCast, at infinity-loop, is what we use, since we have a Tomcat environment).
As for producing docbook natively, the NetBeans java IDE has an XML module that is pretty slick. Good 'ol X?Emacs in PSGML mode is what I use to create and edit Docbook on the fly, it works really well (although the indentation engine is pretty flaky). Those are both open source.
Abiword supposedly can save in Docbook V 4.1.2 XML format, but its output filter leaves a lot to be desired the last time I checked. OpenOffice's native format is XML, so a set of XSL stylesheets is all that's needed to Docbookify it. We may be working on developing just such stuff over here.
Are you forgetting Casey Martin who won his case in the Supreme Court to have the USGA let him use a golf cart in professional tournaments PDF version of the SC's decision?
Well, yeah, you did plug Microsoft, and you neglected to mention my favourite part: you pay the basic license fee per Pentium (as in Pentium I)-class Intelish box you have, as well as for each PowerPC Mac box. That's whether or not you actually *have* Windows or Office running on those things.
You know, so you don't have to worry about them auditing every computer in your school, potentially finding one computer running MS software for which you don't have the documentation, thus resulting in your school having to pay for the audit.
They found another way to get paid for services they don't provide, and now that method being plugged on Slashdot. They're clever, ya gotta give 'em that.
Mind you, they might do something else if people quit using the software.
It's a little late for that, isn't it? Or haven't you seen the statistics on browser usage?
More to the point... if you simply don't use it and don't tell them why, you leave them guessing (snif... doesn't anybody like our themes? Is it the fact you have to download it while IE is already installed? Does it have stability problems on common user setups?). Unless you'd rather be seen as a black box, and enjoy setting up a guessing game for the Netscape developers, bitching and complaining is a good way to get them to change it.
I know it's not the Apache httpd, but I would have thought that if you were going to benchmark an XSLT suite, you'd be trying out Cocoon, which is an Apache project.
Any story on why you didn't get around to that? If you're going to run more of these, that would be a good one to use.
Or... maybe working for Microsoft doesn't guarantee absolute and total commitment to the superiority in every way of products that come from Microsoft!
You're absolutely right about the difference between JAXP and Xerces. But the point the reviewer was trying to make is that you can write your XML-handling code to use the JAXP interface, or you can write it to use Xerces classes directly, e.g.
import org.apache.xerces.SAXParser;
vs.
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
Presumably, it would be better to stick with one of these ways rather than mix them up. Since you can plug different parsers into JAXP, presumably you'd want to use those interfaces and (assuming each parser does the job at hand as well as the others available) who cares what the implementing classes are (or maybe you're distributing source and your underlying JAXP-compliant parser came out of Mountain View, but you wanted those open-source hippies to try your code out =)? Or, if you need to use goodies that only Xerces gives you (e.g. XMLSerializer, you might "go native" at least partially.
IIUC, in fact, Xerces is the underlying parser distributed with JDK 1.4 on at least some platforms.
Since I take it by your URL that you're "the" Matts of Axkit fame, can I ask why it is that Perl, a language I absotively love for many many uses, seems to lag a behind Java when it comes to XML -- in most instances, text -- processing? For example -- count the number of validating parsers available for Java and those available for Perl, and the respective maturity of the projects that are open source.
I've merely played with Axkit, and it was a while ago, and I work with Cocoon these days, so I might be well behind the times. I figure you're in a much better position to report on the respective merits, and go ahead and slant it in favor of the rubbish lister -- I'll listen =)
Am I smoking crack or am I missing the handier-dandier XML-based modules on CPAN?
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Since it's Sony, why not add memory stick read/write capabilities to the dang thing? 128MB on something about the size (and tactile properties!) of the bubble gum they used to put in collectible cards. That would make it potentially useful (for reference, my 3.3Mpx camera stashes about 60 full-size jpgs on a 64 mb stick). Plus, it's non-volatile. The thing already looks huge, what's an extra 2 oz? =)
Lest anyone be accusing Red Hat of animosity towards KDE, note that RH's kernels are also behind the latest releases from Linus, and yet nobody ... well, nobody worth listening to -- claims that RH has it in for Mr. Torvalds' little project. I think it's far more likely that RH just has a rigorous QA process with the aim of releasing no package before its time than that they hate KDE. By the way, when the update for security problems in a recent version of KDE came out, RH came out with them in a timely fashion. This (3.1) release has lots of new neat features, but it's not a security update. Perhaps they believe (rightly, IMO) that users can wait for shiny new objects.
Besides, have you looked at how many packages it takes to install KDE? Eeep! I suppose up2date can handle that. Of course, the upgradability issue is there with GNOME; and I can't recall off the top of my head when RH has offered a point-release update for GNOME that wasn't security-related [ that's a hedge -- I can't recall when they have release a point-release update for GNOME period ].
For those of you who absolutely must have the latest, then take a look in the "rawhide" directory of any RH mirror, e.g. this one.
Shouldn't that be :
?Smart guys, those parser builders. Not to mention that if *that* is your problem, you can pay a little performance penalty and give names to all those intermediate objects.
Cool. So when will we see French peacekeepers in Wichita? =)
Read up on what you're talking about. mod_perl embeds a Perl interpreter into Apache. You can specify that a given Perl routine handle any of the phases of an Apache request, not just the content generating phase, which is the only place PHP can do anything. Basically, mod_perl gives you a running Perl instance in the background, not just during the individual request.
That's 60-65K hits/day. that oughta learn me not to preview.
The site in question gets about 60-655K hits/day running in a 2x1.13GHz PIII/1GB RAM running Linux ( 2.4 series) with JDK 1.4 using an Apache front-end for SSL. We run Tomcat 4 and Cocoon 2, making judicious use of caching (we serve pre-transformed HTML pages generated from Docbook XML sources), but every page is dynamically generated. Haven't yet seen anything that makes me think we'll need anything beefier in the near future.
I dunno, weapons ... weapons are always tradeable, perhaps even more so should society collapse. Of course, one might have one's own use for such things in such an event.
Moreover, look up the name "Roger Ailes" and find out about his history. For the last 7 years, he's been running a certain little outfit for Rupert Murdoch.
And just because Williams and Liasson also work for NPR, don't think they're necessarily "liberals."
I do use an IDE like Forte and in fact it has *great* Ant integration and you can even install the Ant documentation so it's available from within the IDE.
As a matter of fact, all the IDEs I've tried recently for Java do in fact make efforts to integrate Ant. (Eclipse, IntelliJ, even ... JDeveloper)
Ever heard of Taint checking?
Also this "lack of sandboxing" displays an ignorance of, e.g. the Safe module.
This is not to detract from PHP's strides in various areas, but Perl has a few tricks up its sleeve and its performance whas at least comparable with PHP's.
But BillG can't just build hisself a robotic exoskeleton or giant robot, the Onion notwithstanding. Ol' Billy's money is tied up in Microsoft stock, and if he dumped loads of it to build such toys (even in secret!), the rest of it would quickly become worthless. Not that it's a superpower, but it's a pretty cool characteristic to have.
Obviously, you've never seen an angry penguin charging at you in excess of 100mph. You'd be a lot more careful if you had.
this should explain what you may not understand.
First, they try to annex Frodo's hobbit-hole, then THIS!!!!!
Not quite. That doesn't distinguish "Modern Post modernism" (heh, good one =) from nihilism, or jejune relativism. Rorty would at least have to qualify as a sophisticated relativist =) He wouldn't, for example, deny that digital computers come down to 0's and 1's ... of course, what he and his cohorts *would* say is pretty murky ...
Well, to be fair to these guys, that's what the term "postmodern" means in your mouth; and, as accounts go of that term, it's not so bad (although one could argue that Descartes' larger, lasting contribution that qualifies him as the demarcation between 'scholastic' and 'modern' philosophy is his promotion of 'efficient causation' (what contemporary folks call "causation") and utter failure to rely on 'final causation' (as in teleology)).
But part of the problem with the term "postmodern" is that it's used in so many ways that it is effectively meaningless outside of a particular context. I think these guys are basically playing around with that idea -- looking through the paper, they're mostly just having fun (maybe they get travel money for going to the conference).
He said disparaging things about Microsoft's witnesses after he had heard their testimony and read their depositions. This makes him "sound biased?"
A bias, in the pejorative sense, is a propensity to make a certain kind of judgment independently of the evidence. However, these guys LIED TO HIS FACE, repeatedly. So if he comes to the opinion that they are not trustworthy folks, he's not biased, he's making a judgment on the basis of the evidence.
Or, go ahead and call that "bias" if you like. But then it's no sin to be biased.
As for producing docbook natively, the NetBeans java IDE has an XML module that is pretty slick. Good 'ol X?Emacs in PSGML mode is what I use to create and edit Docbook on the fly, it works really well (although the indentation engine is pretty flaky). Those are both open source.
Abiword supposedly can save in Docbook V 4.1.2 XML format, but its output filter leaves a lot to be desired the last time I checked. OpenOffice's native format is XML, so a set of XSL stylesheets is all that's needed to Docbookify it. We may be working on developing just such stuff over here.
Are you forgetting Casey Martin who won his case in the Supreme Court to have the USGA let him use a golf cart in professional tournaments PDF version of the SC's decision?
Moral: be careful what you try to satirize.
Well, yeah, you did plug Microsoft, and you neglected to mention my favourite part: you pay the basic license fee per Pentium (as in Pentium I)-class Intelish box you have, as well as for each PowerPC Mac box. That's whether or not you actually *have* Windows or Office running on those things.
You know, so you don't have to worry about them auditing every computer in your school, potentially finding one computer running MS software for which you don't have the documentation, thus resulting in your school having to pay for the audit.
They found another way to get paid for services they don't provide, and now that method being plugged on Slashdot. They're clever, ya gotta give 'em that.
It's a little late for that, isn't it? Or haven't you seen the statistics on browser usage?
More to the point... if you simply don't use it and don't tell them why, you leave them guessing (snif ... doesn't anybody like our themes? Is it the fact you have to download it while IE is already installed? Does it have stability problems on common user setups?). Unless you'd rather be seen as a black box, and enjoy setting up a guessing game for the Netscape developers, bitching and complaining is a good way to get them to change it.
I know it's not the Apache httpd, but I would have thought that if you were going to benchmark an XSLT suite, you'd be trying out Cocoon, which is an Apache project.
Any story on why you didn't get around to that? If you're going to run more of these, that would be a good one to use.
Or ... maybe working for Microsoft doesn't guarantee absolute and total commitment to the superiority in every way of products that come from Microsoft!
Wow, that sure would shatter my world view.
You're absolutely right about the difference between JAXP and Xerces. But the point the reviewer was trying to make is that you can write your XML-handling code to use the JAXP interface, or you can write it to use Xerces classes directly, e.g.
import org.apache.xerces.SAXParser; vs. import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;Presumably, it would be better to stick with one of these ways rather than mix them up. Since you can plug different parsers into JAXP, presumably you'd want to use those interfaces and (assuming each parser does the job at hand as well as the others available) who cares what the implementing classes are (or maybe you're distributing source and your underlying JAXP-compliant parser came out of Mountain View, but you wanted those open-source hippies to try your code out =)? Or, if you need to use goodies that only Xerces gives you (e.g. XMLSerializer, you might "go native" at least partially.
IIUC, in fact, Xerces is the underlying parser distributed with JDK 1.4 on at least some platforms.
Since I take it by your URL that you're "the" Matts of Axkit fame, can I ask why it is that Perl, a language I absotively love for many many uses, seems to lag a behind Java when it comes to XML -- in most instances, text -- processing? For example -- count the number of validating parsers available for Java and those available for Perl, and the respective maturity of the projects that are open source.
I've merely played with Axkit, and it was a while ago, and I work with Cocoon these days, so I might be well behind the times. I figure you're in a much better position to report on the respective merits, and go ahead and slant it in favor of the rubbish lister -- I'll listen =)
Am I smoking crack or am I missing the handier-dandier XML-based modules on CPAN?