They havn't opened the office document standards, they might just make then more parsable. You would still be breaking the law if you built a product with ability to parse an office document without paying a MS royalty.
Metadata standards such and DIG35 and EXIF are already in place for many image formats. How is this better or different? Microsoft already adds proprietary field to the metadata, how hard would it be to add your own metadata fields for encrypted data?
Since the earth a land surface of roughly 148,300,000 sq kilometers and the current human population ow the world in about
6,228,394,430equals about.02381 square kilometers or 0.009193041 Square Miles = 256287 Square Feet per person.
Take a tour around Cambodia for two weeks enjoying the culture while distribute Malaria drugs and mosquito to remote villaes along the way. I'll be there in this Janurary.
Would someone please give me alist of the top three or so screen readers? We have been working on 58 compliance but without an example of a screen reader it has bee very difficult.
Wonderfull name. Brings to mind a large building stuffed with pets from top to bottom. Hi-Lo's and Forklifts shuffling boxes of animals about. Over in the far rear corner is the "Scratch and Dent" bin full of great bargains.
Bevis and Butthead. It was hilarious untill that whole "Fire!Fire!Fire!" fiasco. It's like the writers had to suddenly insert some level of political correctness.
I'm sure it all started harmless enough. Need to test the aptitude of incomming students. Devise test. Make the test a prerequisite to apply for admittance. Next thing you know an entire industry forms to meet the demand. Prep tests, gouge sheets, seminars, etc.
What a phenominal load of crap. Lazy admissions departments would just rather plug numbers into a computer than actually learn about potential students. Standardized testing is a self-fulfilling prophesy - skim off the top ten percent for the top ten percent of schools. Of course its gonna look like a success. But then again, a hundred years ago it was all about advancing the knowledge of humanity. Now it's just a hole in a punchcard. What a horrible waste of resources. To think, there is probable some kid out there willing to work his ass off to push the knowledge envelope, but he'll never get the chance because Podunk Community College doesn't have decent research facilities and Ivy University won't even look at somone without a high score on the monkey test.
OK, if state roads need upkeep then pay for it with State taxes. If a roads primary purpose is to facilitate inter-state transportation then subsadize it with Federal tax.
The most cost effieient solution to the traffic problem, as seen in most cities, is an interstate BYPASS. BTW, part of this project included building the bypass. So, federal dollars paying to beautify Boston and make it more tourist friendly is nothing more than pork. Even PBS came to that conclusion.
U.S. Senator who ensured the passage of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987. This act included the federal funding for the Big Dig. President Ronald Reagan had vetoed this bill earlier that year. The senate voted to sustain this veto. Senator Kennedy allied with West Virginian Senator Robert Byrd to force a revote in the senate to override Reagan's veto. The revote was approved. At that point Kennedy and others put pressure on the deciding vote, namely, Senator Terry Sanford of N. Carolina. They threatened to pull tobacco subsidies to North Carolinian farmers. Under this pressure, Sen. Terry Sanford changed his vote and the Big Dig bill became law in April of 1987.
If you are an American a decent chunk (>$13Bil) of FEDERAL tax dollars has gone to pay for the "Big Dig" boondoggle in Boston. If you are looking for a reason why the Federal Government should be neutered from anything that isn't Federal in nature, this is it. If you want to know what the future is for a Democratic Party run government, this is it.
SciTe is based on Scintilla, a free source code editing component. Among other nifty features like a Tabbed interface option, is has syntax higlighting for:
Ada Avenue C/C++/C# Eiffel HTML HTML with embedded JavaScript, VBScript, PHP and ASP IDL - both MSIDL and XPIDL INI, properties and similar Java JavaScript Lisp Lua Make Pascal Perl, but not all of the language Python Ruby SQL and PLSQL VB and VBScript XML
And that's still not the complete list. I use it every day.
I've read most of his books. Not because I find his books especially well written, but because I'm a Sci-Fi junkie. His characters tend to feel like cardboard propups. Not that I'm defending Lucas' crap either.
Why oh why can't Hollywood make decent Sci-Fi movies? Most of the sci-fi movies that get made are absolute torture to watch. I suspect it has to do with the fact that most decent movies today are made with relative shoestring budgets. Crap lie Star Wars and Star Trek and even Minority Report.
Another may be that the Directors involved in the production are too powerful and have too much control over everything. Does anyone believe Lucas was told the Romance scene was completely horrid? I can't beleive the actors managed to spout that tripe without barfing or laughing in Lucas' face.
Somehow I don't see the Holy Grail for Linux as some company porting an existing product. The Real Holy Grail for Linux will be developed for Linux and in Linux. Some say it's slready here and it's called Apache. I still think the killer client app is waiting to happen. I just don't know what it is. Considering the way the industry is going, it way be somthing to attract customers scared of DRM and wanting to share files securely.
I stated my question poorly. What I meant was that like the railroads, private companies were given a lot of assistance by the government. In many cased entire projects are funded with public money.Many under govenment contract. If this is the case with any of these hardened structures, shouldn't the public get somthing back?
Just a tip: If you have trouble booting LILO with a USB keyboard try enabling Legacy USB support in the BIOS. It worked for me on a Dell GX240 Optiplex when all I would get is a Keyboard failure notice. You may also have to turn off "halt on error".
Since AT&T/Bell used to be a monopoly, did the government help pay for and construct these sites? If so, how does a private company end up selling these?
I used the term "lives" to mean lifestyle and culture. Having lived in the mideast for several years and in the US most of my life I can say that our "lives" are different. Though we have much in common, Saudi culture felt more alien to me than any other place I've been to in my life. Not better or worse, just different.
And like it or not, most terrorist organizations couldn't estist withour some form of government "assistance" wherever they are. So I do point a finger at Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, etc for harboring terrorist groups. I would also point a finger at the US if I was aware of a similar attitude of the government towards a terrorist group. Caveat: My defenition of terrorism basically rules out septratists groups. I'm talking about countries who fail to police their people from harming people in another country.
I wonder if we'll ever get to the point where Americans are freelancing around the world using terrorist tactics against countries who support terrorism? Like float a boat intoLebanon and drive a bomb-packed motorcycle into the hotel where the terrorists hold regular meetings. You can bet if my children were harmed by one of these wacko groups I'd be looking for payback.
Having said all that, I do know that these wackos are in the minority in most of the countries they come from. I've had many Saudi and Bahraini friends who had no animosity for the USA. But they still preferred their own country and lives over our own.
A few years back I was serving on active duty in the US Navy. The ship I was on was in drydock for overhaul at the time. We were performing asbetos ripout on a large space so you had to suit up in a tyvek overall suit and breathe via a mask connected to an air supply via a hose. The connecot on the hose was called a quick-disconnect fitting. If you have ever used pressurized air tools you know what I'm talking about. To connect the hose you simply push a hale fitting into the female fitting. To disconnect you just have to lift a small spring-loaded collar and pull the fittings apart.
One night I was standing the6PM-Midnigh watch. On that particular watch you have to go to the command center (EOS -Enclosed Operating Station) and get your logs signed by the Officer on duty. This particular night when I went to go get my logs signed around 1150 PM. The Office asked me to stand in the EOS and wait for him to do a quick inspection of the engineering spaces.
As I waited all the other watchstanders gradually appeared at the EOS to get their logs signed. Naturall, with about ten people milling about in a small space a lot of conversations started up.
Normally most of the watchstanders in the EOS wear headphones to hear the communications in the engineering spaces. Since so many were talking aloud thay all had hung up their headphones with their earpieces pointed outward just in case someone called in.
Time really flew by and before we knew it the time was 12:30 AM and we hadn't heard from the watchofficer. One of the watchstanders picked up a phone and paged him on the loadspeaker through the engineering spaces. Nothing. No reply for almost five minutes. Worried, a coulple of watchstaders began to leave the EOS to look for him.
Suddenly we someone paged me personally via the phones. I picked up a handset to answer the call. I responded and the Officer said," Petty Officer, I'm calling because something rather embarrasing has happened and I know I can trust you to keep this quiet. I went down to the lower level to inspect the asbetos ripout area and hook up to this air thingy and can't seem to get it to disconnect."
The first thing that flashed through my head was that everone in the entire engineering room had just heard his "secret" because of the headphones hanging. Second, this guy has just spent 45 minuted trying to figure out how to disconnect a quick-disconnect fitting. I hit the floor laughing. Master's Degree in Engineering from an Ivy League School, several years of the best technical schooling the US Navy has to offer and this guy can't figure out a quick disconnect fitting.
Needless to say, by the time myself and everyone else recovered we managed to talk him through getting it disconnnected. He never did live that one down. Every newby watchstander would give him a smirk and a knowing look when they had to deal with him face-to-face. BTW,the guy also happened to be the biggest jerk I ever worked with- then or since.
When you see the lengths people are willing to go to to get ahold of the next episode of Sopranos you really have to wonder if these are signs of serious psychologocal addiction.
I know I watch too much TV and spend way too much money going to the movies and renting movies. Has anyone ever ready a study of the long term effects of video and video marketing?
Back to the point - With the number of people willing to sacrafice almost anything to get ahold of mp3Z and DVD Ripz I think the facts speak for themselves. The only rational conclusion is that we are addicted.
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Unless all you care about is how the fan looks and not how it performs.
They havn't opened the office document standards, they might just make then more parsable. You would still be breaking the law if you built a product with ability to parse an office document without paying a MS royalty.
Metadata standards such and DIG35 and EXIF are already in place for many image formats. How is this better or different? Microsoft already adds proprietary field to the metadata, how hard would it be to add your own metadata fields for encrypted data?
Since the earth a land surface of roughly 148,300,000 sq kilometers and the current human population ow the world in about 6,228,394,430equals about .02381 square kilometers or 0.009193041 Square Miles = 256287 Square Feet per person.
Take a tour around Cambodia for two weeks enjoying the culture while distribute Malaria drugs and mosquito to remote villaes along the way. I'll be there in this Janurary.
Would someone please give me alist of the top three or so screen readers? We have been working on 58 compliance but without an example of a screen reader it has bee very difficult.
Wonderfull name. Brings to mind a large building stuffed with pets from top to bottom. Hi-Lo's and Forklifts shuffling boxes of animals about. Over in the far rear corner is the "Scratch and Dent" bin full of great bargains.
Bevis and Butthead. It was hilarious untill that whole "Fire!Fire!Fire!" fiasco. It's like the writers had to suddenly insert some level of political correctness.
Not Another LCD Story. At least not until Wal Mart is selling them for $199.
What a phenominal load of crap. Lazy admissions departments would just rather plug numbers into a computer than actually learn about potential students. Standardized testing is a self-fulfilling prophesy - skim off the top ten percent for the top ten percent of schools. Of course its gonna look like a success. But then again, a hundred years ago it was all about advancing the knowledge of humanity. Now it's just a hole in a punchcard. What a horrible waste of resources. To think, there is probable some kid out there willing to work his ass off to push the knowledge envelope, but he'll never get the chance because Podunk Community College doesn't have decent research facilities and Ivy University won't even look at somone without a high score on the monkey test.
OK, if state roads need upkeep then pay for it with State taxes. If a roads primary purpose is to facilitate inter-state transportation then subsadize it with Federal tax.
The most cost effieient solution to the traffic problem, as seen in most cities, is an interstate BYPASS. BTW, part of this project included building the bypass. So, federal dollars paying to beautify Boston and make it more tourist friendly is nothing more than pork. Even PBS came to that conclusion.
Yeah, building a subsurface highway through downtown Boston was definetly for the convenience of Interstate travellers.
U.S. Senator who ensured the passage of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987. This act included the federal funding for the Big Dig. President Ronald Reagan had vetoed this bill earlier that year. The senate voted to sustain this veto. Senator Kennedy allied with West Virginian Senator Robert Byrd to force a revote in the senate to override Reagan's veto. The revote was approved. At that point Kennedy and others put pressure on the deciding vote, namely, Senator Terry Sanford of N. Carolina. They threatened to pull tobacco subsidies to North Carolinian farmers. Under this pressure, Sen. Terry Sanford changed his vote and the Big Dig bill became law in April of 1987.
If you are an American a decent chunk (>$13Bil) of FEDERAL tax dollars has gone to pay for the "Big Dig" boondoggle in Boston. If you are looking for a reason why the Federal Government should be neutered from anything that isn't Federal in nature, this is it. If you want to know what the future is for a Democratic Party run government, this is it.
I've read most of his books. Not because I find his books especially well written, but because I'm a Sci-Fi junkie. His characters tend to feel like cardboard propups. Not that I'm defending Lucas' crap either.
Why oh why can't Hollywood make decent Sci-Fi movies? Most of the sci-fi movies that get made are absolute torture to watch. I suspect it has to do with the fact that most decent movies today are made with relative shoestring budgets. Crap lie Star Wars and Star Trek and even Minority Report.
Another may be that the Directors involved in the production are too powerful and have too much control over everything. Does anyone believe Lucas was told the Romance scene was completely horrid? I can't beleive the actors managed to spout that tripe without barfing or laughing in Lucas' face.
Somehow I don't see the Holy Grail for Linux as some company porting an existing product. The Real Holy Grail for Linux will be developed for Linux and in Linux. Some say it's slready here and it's called Apache. I still think the killer client app is waiting to happen. I just don't know what it is. Considering the way the industry is going, it way be somthing to attract customers scared of DRM and wanting to share files securely.
I stated my question poorly. What I meant was that like the railroads, private companies were given a lot of assistance by the government. In many cased entire projects are funded with public money.Many under govenment contract. If this is the case with any of these hardened structures, shouldn't the public get somthing back?
Just a tip: If you have trouble booting LILO with a USB keyboard try enabling Legacy USB support in the BIOS. It worked for me on a Dell GX240 Optiplex when all I would get is a Keyboard failure notice. You may also have to turn off "halt on error".
Since AT&T/Bell used to be a monopoly, did the government help pay for and construct these sites? If so, how does a private company end up selling these?
I used the term "lives" to mean lifestyle and culture. Having lived in the mideast for several years and in the US most of my life I can say that our "lives" are different. Though we have much in common, Saudi culture felt more alien to me than any other place I've been to in my life. Not better or worse, just different.
And like it or not, most terrorist organizations couldn't estist withour some form of government "assistance" wherever they are. So I do point a finger at Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, etc for harboring terrorist groups. I would also point a finger at the US if I was aware of a similar attitude of the government towards a terrorist group. Caveat: My defenition of terrorism basically rules out septratists groups. I'm talking about countries who fail to police their people from harming people in another country.
Having said all that, I do know that these wackos are in the minority in most of the countries they come from. I've had many Saudi and Bahraini friends who had no animosity for the USA. But they still preferred their own country and lives over our own.
This has to do with an air connector.
,the guy also happened to be the biggest jerk I ever worked with- then or since.
A few years back I was serving on active duty in the US Navy. The ship I was on was in drydock for overhaul at the time. We were performing asbetos ripout on a large space so you had to suit up in a tyvek overall suit and breathe via a mask connected to an air supply via a hose. The connecot on the hose was called a quick-disconnect fitting. If you have ever used pressurized air tools you know what I'm talking about. To connect the hose you simply push a hale fitting into the female fitting. To disconnect you just have to lift a small spring-loaded collar and pull the fittings apart.
One night I was standing the6PM-Midnigh watch. On that particular watch you have to go to the command center (EOS -Enclosed Operating Station) and get your logs signed by the Officer on duty. This particular night when I went to go get my logs signed around 1150 PM. The Office asked me to stand in the EOS and wait for him to do a quick inspection of the engineering spaces.
As I waited all the other watchstanders gradually appeared at the EOS to get their logs signed. Naturall, with about ten people milling about in a small space a lot of conversations started up.
Normally most of the watchstanders in the EOS wear headphones to hear the communications in the engineering spaces. Since so many were talking aloud thay all had hung up their headphones with their earpieces pointed outward just in case someone called in.
Time really flew by and before we knew it the time was 12:30 AM and we hadn't heard from the watchofficer. One of the watchstanders picked up a phone and paged him on the loadspeaker through the engineering spaces. Nothing. No reply for almost five minutes. Worried, a coulple of watchstaders began to leave the EOS to look for him.
Suddenly we someone paged me personally via the phones. I picked up a handset to answer the call. I responded and the Officer said," Petty Officer, I'm calling because something rather embarrasing has happened and I know I can trust you to keep this quiet. I went down to the lower level to inspect the asbetos ripout area and hook up to this air thingy and can't seem to get it to disconnect."
The first thing that flashed through my head was that everone in the entire engineering room had just heard his "secret" because of the headphones hanging. Second, this guy has just spent 45 minuted trying to figure out how to disconnect a quick-disconnect fitting. I hit the floor laughing. Master's Degree in Engineering from an Ivy League School, several years of the best technical schooling the US Navy has to offer and this guy can't figure out a quick disconnect fitting.
Needless to say, by the time myself and everyone else recovered we managed to talk him through getting it disconnnected. He never did live that one down. Every newby watchstander would give him a smirk and a knowing look when they had to deal with him face-to-face. BTW
When you see the lengths people are willing to go to to get ahold of the next episode of Sopranos you really have to wonder if these are signs of serious psychologocal addiction.
I know I watch too much TV and spend way too much money going to the movies and renting movies. Has anyone ever ready a study of the long term effects of video and video marketing?
Back to the point - With the number of people willing to sacrafice almost anything to get ahold of mp3Z and DVD Ripz I think the facts speak for themselves. The only rational conclusion is that we are addicted.