Doing anything in Latex, in my opinion, is a good idea. Doing something as large as a Thesis in Latex is practically essential, escpecially if you want to edit in vi.
But, what is this talk of writing it in Postscript? Are you nuts? Have you ever scene Postscript? It was not built to be edited by hand by any means. Me thinks you are crazy.
..and the aggravated consumer will what? Trade in the 3Com PDA for a Handspring or Sony? Over $20?
I know several people who own several different models of Palms (III,V,and IIIc, for instance). They may also get one for their wife. This brings up to problems for Palm:
It is more than $20 for this individual. It may be as high as $80 if they want them all upgraded, and that's annoying.
This is definitely a repeat buyer. He's going to want the latest stuff. But, if he envisions having to pay an OS upgrade fee every few months, he might hold back or look for other options.
I'm surprised no one has asked this yet: How does this thing work? The press release held no valueable information, of course. It just kept saying "this will protect you copyrighted content on the Internet" over and over in different words.
Is it supposed to prevent you from copying information to it? Because that would make one darn useful removable drive, not being able to write to it. How would a program using the Media ID tell if what it's writing is "copyrighted material"?
Is it supposed to prevent you from copying information from it? Because that would make one darn useful removable drive, not being able to read from it. How would a program using Media ID tell if what's being read from the disk is "copyrighted material"?
I can imagine a scheme where a "specially certified application" could write data to the disk with information about how many times the data had been read, but that really doesn't have anything to do with an ID. How the heck does the ID help?
The only answer that I can think of is that all this ID and Copyright Protection BS is going to get in the way, and nothing else. And you know what? It will kill the format. These things will never become popular if people have to jump through hoops to use them.
Besides, how many Evil Pirates do you know swapping Copyrighted Material on Big Floppies? Give me a break. CD-Rs and the Internet, that's the tools of their trade.
Have you scene the sheer size of a LaserDisk? Can you imagine trying to put a drive that size in your computer? I doesn't matter whether someone wants a LaserDisk drive available or not. The fact is, you can't have one! It's too big!
I know you don't have a lot of time, but your comments are always very level-headed and insightful. Post some more, for Pete's (that's me) sake. If I had a moderator point or a cookie, I'd give it to you.
Engineers tend to have an emotional attachment to the code they've written, and they don't like criticism of their 'baby'.
I don't think you can make a blanket comment like that.
Are you talking about bugs? This isn't an accurate statement at all concerning bugs. When an engineer hears about a bug, his first reaction is not to deny it's existance, but to fix it. He (or She) want's his 'baby' to be perfect. That's my experience, at least.
Are you talking about major architectural changes? Certainly you shouldn't be asking for major changes if you aren't a major developer. You wouldn't know what you were talking about.
If the problem is that the developer is overworked and can't devote enough time to your particular fix, that's a different issue entirely. Don't make it sound like the developer doesn't want to fix bugs.
What the heck is wrong with orthogonal? It's not a fancy word or anything. It's a word with a very definite mathematical meaning which applies to the situation. According to www.m-w.com:
Orthogonal:... statistically independent
Sure, "independent" might work correctly, but it is quite vague and can mean many things in English. "Orthogonal" is exact. What's your problem with it?
I didn't see my favorite candidite for president in the battle. Why not? If anybody is out-spoken/motivated/extreme/crazy enough to be weilding a BFG9000, it's Nader. Better yet, you could have a mod where Nader has the chance to level all the heads of big corporations.
Did they actually finish that one? I read the one about IPv6 Number compression, and the Hamlet-making group of infinite monkeys on keyboards, but I thought the carrier pigeons was just a rumor. I couldn't find it. Could you point me to it?
points out how Word can sometimes be problematic when dealing with text export
can sometimes? I just finished reading the RFC, and I'm pretty sure that it was meant as a humourus post. If it wasn't, it darn well should be. The steps to get things working were so absurd. Printing to a text file and then running a modified version of CRLF? Give me a break.
Your rant about RMS was stupid, but I like your other two ideas./dev/web sounds interesting. I wish I knew more about devices and the kernel to consider it's implications.
The real worth of your post, however, is this idea with Python used to use VI as your browser. Perhaps you have the source of this work up somewhere?
Quoted from the letter sent to universities quoted from the article:
I believe that you can easily recognize the irony of encouraging your students to matriculate in the creative arts, while engaging in behavior which, if unchecked, will make it impossible for those students to earn an income from their future creative efforts.
The argument that most modern music isn't creative aside, let's ask ourselves a simple question:
How many music stars are college graduates?
Now, I admit that I'm not very up-to-date or hip with the latest music trends. But I've heard names talked about by friends and on the news (and at Burger King?). So, I'll run down the list of the names I know, and let's analyze them a bit.
Britney Spears - Not old enough to be going to college, and probably not going anyway.
Rick Martin - I'm guessing not.
Metallica - Pretty sure that's a no.
NSync - I highly doubt it.
Back Street Boys - See NSync.
Rob Zombie - Yeah, right.
Marilyn Manson - I can't imagine him finishing.
Any of the 5 or so rappers that have died lately - Even when they were alive, I don't think they were attending college.
Dr. Dre - Hmmm. He might become a nuclear physicist.
Alanis Morset - Studying to become a trial Lawyer, perhaps?
Ok, that's not an exhaustive list, just the people that I could think of at the top of my head. As far as I know, not one of them has graduated or even been to college. If I'm wrong on any account, let me know.
If you can think of any others (perhaps someone knows more about country music?), then add to the list. Let's see how affected college-graduate musicians would be affected by Napster
I hope the HTML in Slashdot ate your code a little, because I now that Python is very sensitive to tabbing and the format you hand it.
I tried looking at your code and translating it to Perl, but I can't for the life of me understand what the heck fj=j+j+p is supposed to do. It's inside a for statement, but that statement uses xj as its inner variable, and you don't ever use the variable xj. Why the heck would you want to add j, j, and p?
Well, it looks like your complaint about named paramaters was already explained by two other people. So, do you have any other examples of "barriers in the way of 'high-falutin' theory'"?
Actually, you could do that one of two ways, but probably not the way you did it:
$result = myfunc(subject => $first, day => $somevalue, other => "xyz");
or
$result = myfunc({subject => $first, day => $somevalue, other => "xyz"});
The first is good for simple passing, but the second is more flexible and efficient.
Actually, to be perfectly accurate, you could do it the way you first mentioned, but it would require you to use a prototype (which isn't such a bad idea, but maybe you should mention it).
I think what you are saying sets a bad precedence. You're saying that anytime a company thinks of an idea that might be breaking a law as based on an interpretation of the law from an army of lawyers from a very large comany that it competes with, that company should through the idea in the bit bucket. If all business followed this rule, we'd never ever have anything new.
Starting a new business is about thinking of new ideas, implementing those ideas, and taking risks. MP3.com's actions were in a huge gray zone. This was most assurdly not a black and white case. They took a risk, and tried to create something that they thought would be useful , fun, and perhaps make them money.
I think they were successful, and I think you're being a bit short-sighted to automatically write them off as idiots and crooks.
Flash Vos(TM) Super O/S Versions 1 & 2 will be able to support systems with multiple monitors, allowing the user to move between operating systems
by simply moving the mouse to another desktop.
So, let me get this straight. If I have 2 monitors, then I can move my mouse to the edge of the desktop ("off"), and my computer will reboot into another operating system on a different monitor?!?
I thought mouse-warping at the edge of the screen was annoying. But my computer rebooting? And they got a patent for this?
Ok, I will admit that the book had some good ideas in it, and was wearth a read. But all of the good ideas were historical, not scientfic. The science in Timeline is a joke!. I'm usually quite happy with how Crichton keeps technical details correct. That's why I like him (normally).
However, this book was poorly lacking in reality. It was the same old time-travel story (like that's never been done before) with a bunch of handwaving about quantum theory. If you know anything about quantum physics, you wouldn't laugh at this book, you'd be disgusted. I know I was.
Spinning triangular rods make people shrink so that they can fit into quantum foam and travel to another multiverse? Right.....
Here at ASU, we have a very simple answer to this problem. Write the code wherever you want. When you are done, upload it to the schools General server. Compile it there, and make sure it runs there.
Then, use a program in the professor's user directory to submit your code. Now you're done. It standardizes to a particular complier when you are done, but you can use any "environment" to write and test your code.
Actually, I'm using XML for the configuration file of my project, html2latex. Perl has this wonderful module called XML::Simple that takes an XML file as it's argument and returns a perl data structure that is basically a hash. This hash can have keys of refrences to arrays and hashes for nested XML stuff. It can also write such a data structure to a file.
This is really great for Perl because hashes and arrays are easy to use.
I've encountered a use for faster processers at my work: making maps. This actually includes two problems.
First, there is the map data. My job is to work on and improve that data. Guess what? When you choose an alteration on a large set of roads, it takes _forever_. When you want to render a whole state of roads in great detail, it takes _forever.
Second, there's making custom maps. A customer calls up and says "I want every location that is within 45 minutes driving distance from this location". Well, you probably guessed. It takes _forever_. With maps and similar problems, you start running up against exponential computation problems.
So, you asked, and I gave you a very specific example. The more general answer is probably non-3d workstations. Anything that reguires crunching through lots of numbers or databases.
<spoiler> By then, the Mule has ruined the Seldon Plan anyway, so they're couldn't be a real Seldon Crisis. Of course, that matters what part of the book you're in, doesn't it? <spoiler>
It's fun to think about things happening in history that will change the course of everything, though, isn't it?
There is a problem with the solution you present. In your example, you seem to assume that every one of the computer's possible actions will have equal weight, as if the computer will either think of a possibility or not. I do not think this is at all how Natural Language AI would have to work.
More likely, a phrase will result in a number of probabilities for a number of different possible meanings. For instance, if everything is nomalized to 1, the computer might give the finacial check option a value of.78, the chess option.35, and the constraint a value of.28. After those values are calculated, how many should the computer list? Should it be a flat number, such as 3? Should it be a threshold, such as.2 value? Should it just flat out list everything possible?
I suppose this problem is somewhat like how a spell-checker works, but orders of magnitude more messy. When a spell-checker doesn't list the option you want, you can type in your own. Can you do that with a Natural Language system? What happens when the computer has to ask 5 different questions (1 for each parameter) that each have 27 different possibilities? What happens when you want to tell it to do the same thing 30 times with 5 different questions with 27 different possibilites?
The idea is simple in theory, and perhaps partially attainable. But I think it mostly just won't happen. All of this "dialogue" with the computer would get too frustrating.
Slashdot Mirror
But, what is this talk of writing it in Postscript? Are you nuts? Have you ever scene Postscript? It was not built to be edited by hand by any means. Me thinks you are crazy.
Is it supposed to prevent you from copying information to it? Because that would make one darn useful removable drive, not being able to write to it. How would a program using the Media ID tell if what it's writing is "copyrighted material"?
Is it supposed to prevent you from copying information from it? Because that would make one darn useful removable drive, not being able to read from it. How would a program using Media ID tell if what's being read from the disk is "copyrighted material"?
I can imagine a scheme where a "specially certified application" could write data to the disk with information about how many times the data had been read, but that really doesn't have anything to do with an ID. How the heck does the ID help?
The only answer that I can think of is that all this ID and Copyright Protection BS is going to get in the way, and nothing else. And you know what? It will kill the format. These things will never become popular if people have to jump through hoops to use them.
Besides, how many Evil Pirates do you know swapping Copyrighted Material on Big Floppies? Give me a break. CD-Rs and the Internet, that's the tools of their trade.
Have you scene the sheer size of a LaserDisk? Can you imagine trying to put a drive that size in your computer? I doesn't matter whether someone wants a LaserDisk drive available or not. The fact is, you can't have one! It's too big!
I know you don't have a lot of time, but your comments are always very level-headed and insightful. Post some more, for Pete's (that's me) sake. If I had a moderator point or a cookie, I'd give it to you.
Are you talking about bugs? This isn't an accurate statement at all concerning bugs. When an engineer hears about a bug, his first reaction is not to deny it's existance, but to fix it. He (or She) want's his 'baby' to be perfect. That's my experience, at least.
Are you talking about major architectural changes? Certainly you shouldn't be asking for major changes if you aren't a major developer. You wouldn't know what you were talking about.
If the problem is that the developer is overworked and can't devote enough time to your particular fix, that's a different issue entirely. Don't make it sound like the developer doesn't want to fix bugs.
I didn't see my favorite candidite for president in the battle. Why not? If anybody is out-spoken/motivated/extreme/crazy enough to be weilding a BFG9000, it's Nader. Better yet, you could have a mod where Nader has the chance to level all the heads of big corporations.
Did they actually finish that one? I read the one about IPv6 Number compression, and the Hamlet-making group of infinite monkeys on keyboards, but I thought the carrier pigeons was just a rumor. I couldn't find it. Could you point me to it?
The real worth of your post, however, is this idea with Python used to use VI as your browser. Perhaps you have the source of this work up somewhere?
How many music stars are college graduates?
Now, I admit that I'm not very up-to-date or hip with the latest music trends. But I've heard names talked about by friends and on the news (and at Burger King?). So, I'll run down the list of the names I know, and let's analyze them a bit.
- Britney Spears - Not old enough to be going to college, and probably not going anyway.
- Rick Martin - I'm guessing not.
- Metallica - Pretty sure that's a no.
- NSync - I highly doubt it.
- Back Street Boys - See NSync.
- Rob Zombie - Yeah, right.
- Marilyn Manson - I can't imagine him finishing.
- Any of the 5 or so rappers that have died lately - Even when they were alive, I don't think they were attending college.
- Dr. Dre - Hmmm. He might become a nuclear physicist.
- Alanis Morset - Studying to become a trial Lawyer, perhaps?
Ok, that's not an exhaustive list, just the people that I could think of at the top of my head. As far as I know, not one of them has graduated or even been to college. If I'm wrong on any account, let me know.If you can think of any others (perhaps someone knows more about country music?), then add to the list. Let's see how affected college-graduate musicians would be affected by Napster
I tried looking at your code and translating it to Perl, but I can't for the life of me understand what the heck fj=j+j+p is supposed to do. It's inside a for statement, but that statement uses xj as its inner variable, and you don't ever use the variable xj. Why the heck would you want to add j, j, and p?
Well, it looks like your complaint about named paramaters was already explained by two other people. So, do you have any other examples of "barriers in the way of 'high-falutin' theory'"?
$result = myfunc(subject => $first, day => $somevalue, other => "xyz");
or
$result = myfunc({subject => $first, day => $somevalue, other => "xyz"});
The first is good for simple passing, but the second is more flexible and efficient.
Actually, to be perfectly accurate, you could do it the way you first mentioned, but it would require you to use a prototype (which isn't such a bad idea, but maybe you should mention it).
Starting a new business is about thinking of new ideas, implementing those ideas, and taking risks. MP3.com's actions were in a huge gray zone. This was most assurdly not a black and white case. They took a risk, and tried to create something that they thought would be useful , fun, and perhaps make them money.
I think they were successful, and I think you're being a bit short-sighted to automatically write them off as idiots and crooks.
I thought mouse-warping at the edge of the screen was annoying. But my computer rebooting? And they got a patent for this?
However, this book was poorly lacking in reality. It was the same old time-travel story (like that's never been done before) with a bunch of handwaving about quantum theory. If you know anything about quantum physics, you wouldn't laugh at this book, you'd be disgusted. I know I was.
Spinning triangular rods make people shrink so that they can fit into quantum foam and travel to another multiverse? Right.....
Here at ASU, we have a very simple answer to this problem. Write the code wherever you want. When you are done, upload it to the schools General server. Compile it there, and make sure it runs there.
Then, use a program in the professor's user directory to submit your code. Now you're done. It standardizes to a particular complier when you are done, but you can use any "environment" to write and test your code.
This is really great for Perl because hashes and arrays are easy to use.
I've encountered a use for faster processers at my work: making maps. This actually includes two problems.
First, there is the map data. My job is to work on and improve that data. Guess what? When you choose an alteration on a large set of roads, it takes _forever_. When you want to render a whole state of roads in great detail, it takes _forever.
Second, there's making custom maps. A customer calls up and says "I want every location that is within 45 minutes driving distance from this location". Well, you probably guessed. It takes _forever_. With maps and similar problems, you start running up against exponential computation problems.
So, you asked, and I gave you a very specific example. The more general answer is probably non-3d workstations. Anything that reguires crunching through lots of numbers or databases.
So where will the FTP and HTTPD homes be now?
"Document roots for Apache and anonymous FTP are removed from /home so it may be automounted. "
/home? I liked them in /home.
What the heck does that mean, exactly? Does anyone have any idea where the document roots will be, if they are not in
Bero, where are you?
<spoiler> By then, the Mule has ruined the Seldon Plan anyway, so they're couldn't be a real Seldon Crisis. Of course, that matters what part of the book you're in, doesn't it? <spoiler>
It's fun to think about things happening in history that will change the course of everything, though, isn't it?
There is a problem with the solution you present. In your example, you seem to assume that every one of the computer's possible actions will have equal weight, as if the computer will either think of a possibility or not. I do not think this is at all how Natural Language AI would have to work.
.78, the chess option .35, and the constraint a value of .28. .2 value? Should it just flat out list everything possible?
More likely, a phrase will result in a number of probabilities for a number of different possible meanings. For instance, if everything is nomalized to 1, the computer might give the finacial check option a value of
After those values are calculated, how many should the computer list? Should it be a flat number, such as 3? Should it be a threshold, such as
I suppose this problem is somewhat like how a spell-checker works, but orders of magnitude more messy. When a spell-checker doesn't list the option you want, you can type in your own. Can you do that with a Natural Language system? What happens when the computer has to ask 5 different questions (1 for each parameter) that each have 27 different possibilities? What happens when you want to tell it to do the same thing 30 times with 5 different questions with 27 different possibilites?
The idea is simple in theory, and perhaps partially attainable. But I think it mostly just won't happen. All of this "dialogue" with the computer would get too frustrating.