The resaons German was the language for cutting edge work in chemistry (and engineering) is that it was one of the few languages that easily allows new words to be added.
Here were talking about English as the world language but British English isn't the world language (it just started it), American English has because it accpets words more easily. Before I get flamed for this, is it a "tyre" or "tire" in places like Egypt?
Keep in mind that English isn't just one language but a collection of a bunch of languages from all over Europe. American English started out the same but is thowing in a buch of Mexican Spanish as a number of Asian and Middle east languages as well.
I'm in Australia. I speak the language just not the accent:-)
Any international airport where flights from the US, most of Europe and most of Asia fly into require the controlers to use English. They can use other languages as well but ICAO (the world avaion standards people) have declared English as the one and only language for international aviation.
Keep in mind that some languages (like French) don't even have offical words for some importaint avaion concepts.
the point I was tring to make is that you must put something inbetween thouse parts of Microsoft products taht give it the advantage. Force them to make publick all teh little extras Word knows about Excel so that a user could use Word Perfect with Excel or even Word Perfect with MS Word.
Please keep in mind that a bunch of thouse DLL's that MS office uses redoes major chunks of the windows API. Ever notice that Word can scroll the same speed forwards and backwards? What other program can do that? I haven't seen one (of course with todays computers, I'm not sure I would notice)
The only way to allow other companies to truly compete will be to break things like Word into a seperate company and Excel into another. Even the compiler divisions would need to be broken out by languages.
The only competitors to MS that are alive today are a result of the cash inflow from the tech stock get rich fast scheme which seems to be at the end of its rope. Now that these companies will have to compete and pay their employees from sales of products and not stocks most of them won't survive.
For thouse of us that are tring to nail spamers we know just how hard this can be sometimes. I suspect their attys will find a suspect or two and try to make a an example of them.
The reason the palm pilot can compete with WinCe is that Wince systems are so full of crud that they burn power for no reason. I like not having to worry about batterys for months at a time. If they want multimedia put in a second cpu and swtich off the fast one most unless its needed. Considering the only multi-media feature I would use is a tone dialer I wouldn't buy one of the new devices.
What I would like to see is a palm in a watch. That would be useful.
Thanks for reminind me to check my hotmail account.
Right now thogard@hotmail.com has 672 new messages. Man I must have a lot of friends. Oh wait its all special offers.
So it took me over 60 seconds to delete all that spam (without reading any messages becuase I don't use that mailbox) and the data transfer to do that only cost me AU$0.48
> You gain nothing by being rude to the caller. He/she is just someone making not much money, and will no power to make it stop. No, they have a moral obligation to society to get another job.
A friend that used to work in the trama ward at the local hospital used to tell the telemarkters that he was the one that would be putting them back together if they wrecked their car on the way home and he can do his job much better if he got some sleep.
Bell labs was funded by a 10% "research tax" on all income in the Bell Empire. Its management had no accountability to the groups that funded it and could choose to do any pure research they wanted to do. That resulted in so many cool things like the transistor and laser and thousands of other things. Bell labs was (is?) the second largest inventor in the world after NASA.
Most DNS tests don't compare your DNA, they basicly weigh each of your chromosones and get a graph of their relative weights and thats considered "proof".
> It's true that "universities tend to concentrate the best of the best and put them within talking distance of each other", but the brightess minds tend to be anti-social.
This is not what I have found. The smartest people I know are all quite social. They aren't social around morons but arround their peers is a diffreent thing. Maybe your focus is on too small of the little bit of the world you've had to deal with so far.
Its so cheap that all the men in one town in Australia are to be DNA tested to help solve a rape case. It turns out the someone admited doing it just after a DNA sample was taken.
This makes me wonder just where that DNA info is going and how well it will be tracked. I know labs can screw up (remember your chem lab assistant - they are now doing this for a real living).
I once had a drug test when I was considering working for GTE in Florida and I got a call from the lab saying they had got the names on the covers mixed up and if I wouldn't mind, they would send me a new cover that I could sign my name on and they would put it with my sample. Yea Right. With DNA the results will be absolute because everyone knows everyones DNA is different.
The.us domain is the only one more screwed up than.net and.org
There needs to be three new TLDs: .usa (so that the wrold wide.com stuff may be less attactvie and to add some reagonality that.us can't provide) .xxx (to give all these silly goverments material for new laws) .oz (which was the first country code for.au and is so much cooler)
All that 99.99% of cgi's need is simple way to parse the input which can be done in a very few lines of C that is about 1000 times faster than loading CGI-Lite. Sure I can use the "use CGI-Lite;" but the following works quite well:
$query=$ENV{QUERY_STRING}; read(STDIN, $query, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}) if ($ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'} > 0);
With everything else in perl why isn't this included. This single feature would save trillions of file opens every day. I don't need Include CGI if there was a decent cgisplit included.
There are already UHF sources like TV stations that disrupt the civil GPS signals. There are also a few spots where the interference from different sources just keep GPS from working. There's one somewhere on the east coast (PA/NY?) and a spot near St Louis (on the Ill side of the river) where GPS just doesn't work.
GPS does some interesting frequency hopping. If you can mess with that, 1W would be all it takes.
For what its worth the GPS signals are something like 20 dba below the background radiation noise level at the frequencies used so you could consider it always jammed anyway.
The only thing that will allow decent coverage in the bush to kill telstra as it is now and that isn't going to happen. Its big and bloated and its been a luxary tax to find the goverments general fund. The average profit last year is several thousand dollars per employed person in the country.
The one comment about DSL is kind of right. 2 mb DSL can be had at a price but so can dry copper pairs. An E1 install here is AU$1800 (US$1080) setup for the first 10 chanels of the 30. MCI is charging $150 if your within their service range (which is just the "down town" areas of Melbourne and Sydney). My local phone is hooked to the only exchange in Victoria that has an ADSL DSLAM and I can not get ADSL at all. I've got a cable modem (it uses Foxtel's cable and Telstra's service). It had a 100 mb cap on it when I signed up and a $.24/mb charge. Telstra is the only "major" isp that charges by the kilobyte of data transfered. They say its $.19/mb for ISDN but they prorate that. The phone charges for 128K ISDN is somethign like $260/mo.
The Aussie phone system is a copy of the worst of Europe. Most coper pairs are soldered and not crimped but they are starting to use thouse nice 3m connectors that don't induce noise and keep the connection from oxidising.
The only hope for telcom here is to sell off Telstra and then force the goverment to regulate it like a monopoly and like the its a nice tax collection department. Once that happens then the real profit margin can be found and then it can be taxed at a proper level to provide service in rural areas. What decent service in rural areas means will never include ADSL like services but should be able to provide decent wireless. Some of these areas are so far away from anythign else no one will care about high power radio systems since there isn't anything to interfere with.
Telstra claims its the cheapest phone company in the world. And it is if you don't use the phone at all.
While it would be cool to have a computer that would realy sizzle the real problem with beter/faster/hotter is that the heat has to go somewhere. I've got an old Sparc Tadpole 1 laptop. When its sleeping in charge mode it stays warm enough to for the cat to consider it a bed. When its running you can use the thing has a battery operated camp stove and I don't ever run it at full speed. It sounds like some of the new devices will need to come with a warning sticker "Warning Contents Hot -- Do not remove the lid"...oh wait thats just for coffee
I run one site that is accessed from all over the world and I can tell you that 90% aren't using a 4.0 broswer (its only about 1/3 and only thouse from well off countries) and looking at how long it takes to transfer the pages the connection between here and there is often way slower than 33k.
One in Four children in Australia have asthma... think what you are doing to kids health before you drive that short distance down the road
And one in 5 of thouse kids smoke too.
When I was doing some stat work for a asthma reseach project I found that 90% of all children with asthma were exposed to smoke at least onec a week. The inital surveys answered by their parents showed only about 10%. Thouse that weren't exposed to smoke had problems with either pets, molds, grasses or very rarely foods. I visted a few houses where kids had problems with chemicals. One house had a mould smell so bad I couldn't breath but one of the cleaners the mother used would set off the kids asthma within a few hours. When the kid was taken away from the envioment the cleaner didn't cause a problem.
So is rubber or diesel a problem for people with asthma? Maybe or maybe not. With any substance you can find someone somewhere that will be effect by it.
I've seen road trains on the highway in the Melbourne metro area. They are all right hand drive. I believe that Kenworth does make trucks here. From what I can tell the trucks here carry much weight than what would allowed in the US or Europe.
The rail network in Oz is the result of every state doing things its own way. There are aparently 12 different train guages uses here currently. Not bad for only 7 states. There is an attempt to bring all major rail to "standard guage" which I'm assuming is yet another standard.
To build a interstate class road between Melbourne and Adalade (the two closest major citys?) would cost something like $20 billion dollars.
As far as taxing the SUC (Sports Uility Cars), here they don't tax 4wd since there is a real need for them outside of the city and no one with any common sense would ever try to park one in the citys.
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The resaons German was the language for cutting edge work in chemistry (and engineering) is that it was one of the few languages that easily allows new words to be added.
:-)
Here were talking about English as the world language but British English isn't the world language (it just started it), American English has because it accpets words more easily. Before I get flamed for this, is it a "tyre" or "tire" in places like Egypt?
Keep in mind that English isn't just one language but a collection of a bunch of languages from all over Europe. American English started out the same but is thowing in a buch of Mexican Spanish as a number of Asian and Middle east languages as well.
I'm in Australia. I speak the language just not the accent
Any international airport where flights from the US, most of Europe and most of Asia fly into require the controlers to use English. They can use other languages as well but ICAO (the world avaion standards people) have declared English as the one and only language for international aviation.
Keep in mind that some languages (like French) don't even have offical words for some importaint avaion concepts.
Does anyone have a list of states?
I find it interesting that all the docs on the DOJ web site are in html and Word Perfect 5.1 format.
the point I was tring to make is that you must put something inbetween thouse parts of Microsoft products taht give it the advantage. Force them to make publick all teh little extras Word knows about Excel so that a user could use Word Perfect with Excel or even Word Perfect with MS Word.
Please keep in mind that a bunch of thouse DLL's that MS office uses redoes major chunks of the windows API. Ever notice that Word can scroll the same speed forwards and backwards? What other program can do that? I haven't seen one (of course with todays computers, I'm not sure I would notice)
The only way to allow other companies to truly compete will be to break things like Word into a seperate company and Excel into another. Even the compiler divisions would need to be broken out by languages.
The only competitors to MS that are alive today are a result of the cash inflow from the tech stock get rich fast scheme which seems to be at the end of its rope. Now that these companies will have to compete and pay their employees from sales of products and not stocks most of them won't survive.
For thouse of us that are tring to nail spamers we know just how hard this can be sometimes. I suspect their attys will find a suspect or two and try to make a an example of them.
Just what I want... more wasted cycles.
The reason the palm pilot can compete with WinCe is that Wince systems are so full of crud that they burn power for no reason. I like not having to worry about batterys for months at a time. If they want multimedia put in a second cpu and swtich off the fast one most unless its needed. Considering the only multi-media feature I would use is a tone dialer I wouldn't buy one of the new devices.
What I would like to see is a palm in a watch. That would be useful.
-tim
Thanks for reminind me to check my hotmail account.
Right now thogard@hotmail.com has 672 new
messages. Man I must have a lot of friends.
Oh wait its all special offers.
So it took me over 60 seconds to delete all that spam (without reading any messages becuase I don't use that mailbox) and the data transfer to do that only cost me AU$0.48
And most mailing list processors will change
user+company@site
to:
user@site
company@site
user+company@site
user+other@site
So you end up with serveral times as much junk.
> You gain nothing by being rude to the caller. He/she is just someone making not much money, and will no power to make it stop.
No, they have a moral obligation to society to get another job.
A friend that used to work in the trama ward at the local hospital used to tell the telemarkters that he was the one that would be putting them back together if they wrecked their car on the way home and he can do his job much better if he got some sleep.
Bell labs was funded by a 10% "research tax" on all income in the Bell Empire. Its management had no accountability to the groups that funded it and could choose to do any pure research they wanted to do. That resulted in so many cool things like the transistor and laser and thousands of other things. Bell labs was (is?) the second largest inventor in the world after NASA.
The last I heard, 8 men refused to take the test.
Most DNS tests don't compare your DNA, they basicly weigh each of your chromosones and get a graph of their relative weights and thats considered "proof".
> It's true that "universities tend to concentrate the best of the best and put them within talking distance of each other", but the brightess minds tend to be anti-social.
This is not what I have found. The smartest people I know are all quite social. They aren't social around morons but arround their peers is a diffreent thing. Maybe your focus is on too small of the little bit of the world you've had to deal with so far.
Its so cheap that all the men in one town in Australia are to be DNA tested to help solve a rape case. It turns out the someone admited doing it just after a DNA sample was taken.
This makes me wonder just where that DNA info is going and how well it will be tracked. I know labs can screw up (remember your chem lab assistant - they are now doing this for a real living).
I once had a drug test when I was considering working for GTE in Florida and I got a call from the lab saying they had got the names on the covers mixed up and if I wouldn't mind, they would send me a new cover that I could sign my name on and they would put it with my sample. Yea Right. With DNA the results will be absolute because everyone knows everyones DNA is different.
The .us domain is the only one more screwed up than .net and .org
.com stuff may be less attactvie and to add some reagonality that .us can't provide) .au and is so much cooler)
There needs to be three new TLDs:
.usa (so that the wrold wide
.xxx (to give all these silly goverments material for new laws)
.oz (which was the first country code for
All that 99.99% of cgi's need is simple way to parse the input which can be done in a very few lines of C that is about 1000 times faster than loading CGI-Lite.
/; /;
Sure I can use the "use CGI-Lite;" but the following works quite well:
$query=$ENV{QUERY_STRING};
read(STDIN, $query, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}) if ($ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'} > 0);
foreach (split(/&/,$query)) {
($name, $value) = split(/=/, $_);
$name =~ tr/+/
$value =~ tr/+/
$name =~ s/%([A-F0-9][A-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/gie;
$value =~ s/%([A-F0-9][A-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/gie;
$cgi{$name}=$value;
#print "$name = $value<br>\n";
}
So what does including something else get me that I need?
What I want in perl is a command like this:
%cig=cgisplit;
With everything else in perl why isn't this included. This single feature would save trillions of file opens every day. I don't need Include CGI if there was a decent cgisplit included.
There are already UHF sources like TV stations that disrupt the civil GPS signals.
There are also a few spots where the interference from different sources just keep GPS from working. There's one somewhere on the east coast (PA/NY?) and a spot near St Louis (on the Ill side of the river) where GPS just doesn't work.
GPS does some interesting frequency hopping. If you can mess with that, 1W would be all it takes.
For what its worth the GPS signals are something like 20 dba below the background radiation noise level at the frequencies used so you could consider it always jammed anyway.
The solution is simple. Pull their licese to use free software. As a copyright holder you can exclude some people from a standard licnese agreement.
Patent issues are civil issues, copyright (when more than 10 programs are involved) can be criminal -- thanks to the SBA (which Unisys helps fund)
The only thing that will allow decent coverage in the bush to kill telstra as it is now and that isn't going to happen. Its big and bloated and its been a luxary tax to find the goverments general fund. The average profit last year is several thousand dollars per employed person in the country.
The one comment about DSL is kind of right. 2 mb DSL can be had at a price but so can dry copper pairs. An E1 install here is AU$1800 (US$1080) setup for the first 10 chanels of the 30. MCI is charging $150 if your within their service range (which is just the "down town" areas of Melbourne and Sydney). My local phone is hooked to the only exchange in Victoria that has an ADSL DSLAM and I can not get ADSL at all. I've got a cable modem (it uses Foxtel's cable and Telstra's service). It had a 100 mb cap on it when I signed up and a $.24/mb charge. Telstra is the only "major" isp that charges by the kilobyte of data transfered. They say its $.19/mb for ISDN but they prorate that. The phone charges for 128K ISDN is somethign like $260/mo.
The Aussie phone system is a copy of the worst of Europe. Most coper pairs are soldered and not crimped but they are starting to use thouse nice 3m connectors that don't induce noise and keep the connection from oxidising.
The only hope for telcom here is to sell off Telstra and then force the goverment to regulate it like a monopoly and like the its a nice tax collection department. Once that happens then the real profit margin can be found and then it can be taxed at a proper level to provide service in rural areas. What decent service in rural areas means will never include ADSL like services but should be able to provide decent wireless. Some of these areas are so far away from anythign else no one will care about high power radio systems since there isn't anything to interfere with.
Telstra claims its the cheapest phone company in the world. And it is if you don't use the phone at all.
While it would be cool to have a computer that would realy sizzle the real problem with beter/faster/hotter is that the heat has to go somewhere. I've got an old Sparc Tadpole 1 laptop. When its sleeping in charge mode it stays warm enough to for the cat to consider it a bed. When its running you can use the thing has a battery operated camp stove and I don't ever run it at full speed. It sounds like some of the new devices will need to come with a warning sticker "Warning Contents Hot -- Do not remove the lid"...oh wait thats just for coffee
I run one site that is accessed from all over the world and I can tell you that 90% aren't using a 4.0 broswer (its only about 1/3 and only thouse from well off countries) and looking at how long it takes to transfer the pages the connection between here and there is often way slower than 33k.
This has happened with sendmail wu-ftp several years ago. It was released as a "new" version and it was even distributed from the wu-archive server.
One in Four children in Australia have asthma ... think what you are doing to kids health before you drive that short distance down the road
And one in 5 of thouse kids smoke too.
When I was doing some stat work for a asthma reseach project I found that 90% of all children with asthma were exposed to smoke at least onec a week. The inital surveys answered by their parents showed only about 10%. Thouse that weren't exposed to smoke had problems with either pets, molds, grasses or very rarely foods. I visted a few houses where kids had problems with chemicals. One house had a mould smell so bad I couldn't breath but one of the cleaners the mother used would set off the kids asthma within a few hours. When the kid was taken away from the envioment the cleaner didn't cause a problem.
So is rubber or diesel a problem for people with asthma? Maybe or maybe not. With any substance you can find someone somewhere that will be effect by it.
I've seen road trains on the highway in the Melbourne metro area. They are all right hand drive. I believe that Kenworth does make trucks here. From what I can tell the trucks here carry much weight than what would allowed in the US or Europe.
The rail network in Oz is the result of every state doing things its own way. There are aparently 12 different train guages uses here currently. Not bad for only 7 states. There is an attempt to bring all major rail to "standard guage" which I'm assuming is yet another standard.
To build a interstate class road between Melbourne and Adalade (the two closest major citys?) would cost something like $20 billion dollars.
As far as taxing the SUC (Sports Uility Cars), here they don't tax 4wd since there is a real need for them outside of the city and no one with any common sense would ever try to park one in the citys.