I thought I'd finally dropped my HandSpring one too many times and was afraid I'd have to buy another DragonBall (68k) model to hold me over until the ARM models arive. Palm and ARM are going to rock!
P.S. I just had to do a full reset to bring it back to life. Hot Sycn and I was goo to go (except for having to reload a password for my Bonsai Outliner)
I used to use FrameMaker until Adobe started busting engineers for making speaches. I last built an 800 page spec with FrameMaker that included timing diagrams, drawings, etc. Forget Word. Even with just the ASCII txt from the above document in outline above crashed it every time. FrameMaker was rock solid for the whole project with multiple authors, but I will never use allow it to be used here again after what they did to Sklyarov. Too bad, it did perform well. Evolve or go extinct Adobe.
LEO, Donald Knuth & Literate Programming
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Leo is a programmer's editor that represents a noweb or CWEB (literate) program as an outline. The combination of literate programming and outlining creates a powerful and enjoyable new way of programming.
Donald Knuth. "Literate Programming (1984)" in Literate Programming. CSLI, 1992, pg. 99. I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by considering programs to be works of literature. Hence, my title: "Literate Programming."
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
The practitioner of literate programming can be regarded as an essayist, whose main concern is with exposition and excellence of style. Such an author, with thesaurus in hand, chooses the names of variables carefully and explains what each variable means. He or she strives for a program that is comprehensible because its concepts have been introduced in an order that is best for human understanding, using a mixture of formal and informal methods that reinforce each other
Art. 13 Right to Privacy
1 All persons have the right to receive respect for their private and family life, home, and secrecy
of the mails and telecommunications.
2 All persons have the right to be protected against the abuse of personal data.
http://www.eda.admin.ch/washington_emb/e/home/le ga ff/swilaw/fconst.html
As an engineering manager I will NOT hire a person who has a single cert on their resume:
Those who can, do, Those that can't, teach. Those who can't teach, get cert'ed.
I don't mean to be overly crass, but I want to see some one with a degree (any degree). Honors or the like is great. If I had to choose I'll take some one from a "hard" field such as math physics, EE, chem, or even poly-sci as long as their program was rigorous. Any disciplined person with a good mind can pick-up programming. The cert just shows to me that that person has doubt about their abilities. Walk in, look me in the eye and tell me, y"es I CAN write that kernel in 4 months." Also, show me the work that you have done and that you can read, write and speak well. This last point is very important. If you can't communicate you are of far less value to a team and that is why a good liberal education is so very important.
-s
It's the strangest thing I've ever seen. M$ includes a copyright notice on a public patent application. These yoyos have no shame.
From the Patent:
COPYRIGHT NOTICE/PERMISSION
A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. The following notice applies to the software and data as described below and in the drawings hereto: Copyright.COPYRGT. 1998, Microsoft Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
If you look at their Spec sheet they don't have any analog input. The only to get things into this box seems to be via USB or ethernet. With the audio USB chips entering the market perhaps this is not such a big deal, tho a ADC would have been nice.
The Kantronics have micro-controllers in them as does the GPS. And I'm sure there are a few more embedded in other places like the power control. And even if you did these functions in ASICS that lack CPUs that doesn't mean those logic gates are any more immune radiation. It all depends on the IC process.
I'm writting an app that will use input from many differtn sources that I can not spec at this time so wtitting a DTD to allow any data base jocky to dump data into an XML seems like a simple answer to me. The user can debug their input, the data set sizes will fit in a PC's foot print and I can just bolt in Apache's Xercres parser to make sure the input is all accordign to Hoyle. This leaves me to work on the guts of my code not writing YAHP (Yet Another Half-debugged Parser)
As I recall there was a US supreme cout case around 1980? where San Diego had a law requiring an ID. Larson (Larson, Lawson?? not sure on spelling) was ordered to produce a card because he was WWB (Walking While Black) in an upscale neighborhood. He refused and was busted. The supremes tossed the case out.
One thing the average hacker could do is to communicate more with the Judges who make policy, and by this I mean the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), which really makes patent policy in the US. These Judges hear from patent owners all the time, but not from the public.
At the risk of sounding like a babe in the woods, How do I talk to a judge? Do I call up the clerk of the local US Court of Appeals and ask to take her honar out to lunch? Or do I have to sue Micro$oft to get face-time with a judge?
Forget the screen saver, just set the sleep mode timer to 5 min and put a yellow sticky on the screen that say, "Give your money to the GAP."
How many firms are booked into the same B.U. site?
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I assume that most firms just leased slots at some "disaster hotel" This work fine on paper, but what happens when everyone tries to access their slot? Have you checked on your disaster? Is simeone there? Most of these plans assume a threat on the level of a small fire in the computer room, not a large percentage of an industries data centers crushed.
All the Pilot has to to is open the valve and everyone is going to be teather to the air masks. And the O2 generators are only good for a few minutes to get the plane down below 10K ft. If the pilot stays high every ony is going to go to sleep very quickly. I assume that the pilots have larger O2 bottles?
If some one has a concise report of the damage to the WTC beyound the towers(which buildings, what damage, etc.) it would be of interest to those of use in the hinter lands
I can see many embedded folks who require a W*n compatable OS, but want better company to work with. Not just for price, but service. Often time an embedded product will be spected with a W*n requirement fro the customer to support some legacy application. I just released a project that runs in a DOS box under Win3.1 as an embedded system. I'll let you guess how much support we got from M$
By daughter had to use single use software to apply to med school. You are required to fill out a generic application using software yo ubuy from some med school assoc. This SW comes on disk, require you to answer all sorts of detailed questions using the worst UI I've ever seen, you then save your work back onto the disk and return the disk. The disk will only run once and will not allow you to save your work until the end. Pray for stable power. It take about 4 hours to go end to end on it. They never tell you to make a back-up of the disk before you start. Major Pain!!!
Create a corperation/partnership/sole prop., etc that buys your copy of Everquest, the sell the business. Everquest ner gets sold, just the business that owns the software.
Just sell the manuals for future MS product you buy. There must be plenty of folks who steel the SW and want the manuals. You should be able to legally (and simply on ebay) sell the manuals for what you would get for the depricated SW when you are finished with the SW (say, 3 year old OS is good for %10 of new and manuals for brand new OS might go for %10 ????)
Real communication is one person communicatiing with another. If I put a page up that touches another person then I have communicated. It only matter that yu drive massive trafic if you have a business plan that depends on it. Who cares if most of the traffic on the net is going to AOL to read gossip about this 15 minutes diva or sports jock. The fact that you and I can communicate is important and thus the net is relavent for our communication. If AOL & M$ run the business opertunities on the net into the ground, wll, so be it. I'll talk and listen to people who are thoughtfull and the net is still a good place to do that.
-Peace
Slashdot Mirror
I thought I'd finally dropped my HandSpring one too many times and was afraid I'd have to buy another DragonBall (68k) model to hold me over until the ARM models arive. Palm and ARM are going to rock!
P.S. I just had to do a full reset to bring it back to life. Hot Sycn and I was goo to go (except for having to reload a password for my Bonsai Outliner)
I used to use FrameMaker until Adobe started busting engineers for making speaches. I last built an 800 page spec with FrameMaker that included timing diagrams, drawings, etc.
Forget Word. Even with just the ASCII txt from the above document in outline above crashed it every time. FrameMaker was rock solid for the whole project with multiple authors, but I will never use allow it to be used here again after what they did to Sklyarov. Too bad, it did perform well.
Evolve or go extinct Adobe.
Leo is a programmer's editor that represents a noweb or CWEB (literate) program as an outline. The combination of literate programming and outlining creates a powerful and enjoyable new way of programming.
Donald Knuth. "Literate Programming (1984)" in Literate Programming. CSLI, 1992, pg. 99.
I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by considering programs to be works of literature. Hence, my title: "Literate Programming." Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. The practitioner of literate programming can be regarded as an essayist, whose main concern is with exposition and excellence of style. Such an author, with thesaurus in hand, chooses the names of variables carefully and explains what each variable means. He or she strives for a program that is comprehensible because its concepts have been introduced in an order that is best for human understanding, using a mixture of formal and informal methods that reinforce each other
Art. 13 Right to Privacy
e ga ff/swilaw/fconst.html
1 All persons have the right to receive respect for their private and family life, home, and secrecy
of the mails and telecommunications.
2 All persons have the right to be protected against the abuse of personal data.
http://www.eda.admin.ch/washington_emb/e/home/l
-s
Are you sure that there would have been an invasion on Japan? The Japanese were already in negotiations with the USSR when we dropped the bomb.
We (myself included) need spell checkers & grammer checkers built into our browsers to go over what we post.
As an engineering manager I will NOT hire a person who has a single cert on their resume:
Those who can, do, Those that can't, teach. Those who can't teach, get cert'ed.
I don't mean to be overly crass, but I want to see some one with a degree (any degree). Honors or the like is great. If I had to choose I'll take some one from a "hard" field such as math physics, EE, chem, or even poly-sci as long as their program was rigorous. Any disciplined person with a good mind can pick-up programming. The cert just shows to me that that person has doubt about their abilities. Walk in, look me in the eye and tell me, y"es I CAN write that kernel in 4 months." Also, show me the work that you have done and that you can read, write and speak well. This last point is very important. If you can't communicate you are of far less value to a team and that is why a good liberal education is so very important. -s
If they have to rename it make it Lindex. A combo of Window and Windex. It make windows clear. ;-)
From the Patent:
COPYRIGHT NOTICE/PERMISSION
A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. The following notice applies to the software and data as described below and in the drawings hereto: Copyright.COPYRGT. 1998, Microsoft Corporation, All Rights Reserved.
If you look at their Spec sheet they don't have any analog input. The only to get things into this box seems to be via USB or ethernet. With the audio USB chips entering the market perhaps this is not such a big deal, tho a ADC would have been nice.
The Kantronics have micro-controllers in them as does the GPS. And I'm sure there are a few more embedded in other places like the power control. And even if you did these functions in ASICS that lack CPUs that doesn't mean those logic gates are any more immune radiation. It all depends on the IC process.
I'm writting an app that will use input from many differtn sources that I can not spec at this time so wtitting a DTD to allow any data base jocky to dump data into an XML seems like a simple answer to me. The user can debug their input, the data set sizes will fit in a PC's foot print and I can just bolt in Apache's Xercres parser to make sure the input is all accordign to Hoyle. This leaves me to work on the guts of my code not writing YAHP (Yet Another Half-debugged Parser)
-peace
Send it via Fax, too. Make sure you have your return fax phone number and your address on the header so they know that you are from their district.
As I recall there was a US supreme cout case around 1980? where San Diego had a law requiring an ID. Larson (Larson, Lawson?? not sure on spelling) was ordered to produce a card because he was WWB (Walking While Black) in an upscale neighborhood. He refused and was busted. The supremes tossed the case out.
The HW companies need to step up and yell that this is going to strangle them. Hey you in the Valley, SPEAK UP!
One thing the average hacker could do is to communicate more with the Judges who make policy, and by this I mean the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), which really makes patent policy in the US. These Judges hear from patent owners all the time, but not from the public.
At the risk of sounding like a babe in the woods, How do I talk to a judge? Do I call up the clerk of the local US Court of Appeals and ask to take her honar out to lunch? Or do I have to sue Micro$oft to get face-time with a judge?
Forget the screen saver, just set the sleep mode timer to 5 min and put a yellow sticky on the screen that say, "Give your money to the GAP."
I assume that most firms just leased slots at some "disaster hotel" This work fine on paper, but what happens when everyone tries to access their slot? Have you checked on your disaster? Is simeone there? Most of these plans assume a threat on the level of a small fire in the computer room, not a large percentage of an industries data centers crushed.
All the Pilot has to to is open the valve and everyone is going to be teather to the air masks. And the O2 generators are only good for a few minutes to get the plane down below 10K ft. If the pilot stays high every ony is going to go to sleep very quickly. I assume that the pilots have larger O2 bottles?
If some one has a concise report of the damage to the WTC beyound the towers(which buildings, what damage, etc.) it would be of interest to those of use in the hinter lands
I can see many embedded folks who require a W*n compatable OS, but want better company to work with. Not just for price, but service. Often time an embedded product will be spected with a W*n requirement fro the customer to support some legacy application. I just released a project that runs in a DOS box under Win3.1 as an embedded system. I'll let you guess how much support we got from M$
By daughter had to use single use software to apply to med school. You are required to fill out a generic application using software yo ubuy from some med school assoc. This SW comes on disk, require you to answer all sorts of detailed questions using the worst UI I've ever seen, you then save your work back onto the disk and return the disk. The disk will only run once and will not allow you to save your work until the end. Pray for stable power. It take about 4 hours to go end to end on it. They never tell you to make a back-up of the disk before you start. Major Pain!!!
Create a corperation/partnership/sole prop., etc that buys your copy of Everquest, the sell the business. Everquest ner gets sold, just the business that owns the software.
Just sell the manuals for future MS product you buy. There must be plenty of folks who steel the SW and want the manuals. You should be able to legally (and simply on ebay) sell the manuals for what you would get for the depricated SW when you are finished with the SW (say, 3 year old OS is good for %10 of new and manuals for brand new OS might go for %10 ????)
Real communication is one person communicatiing with another. If I put a page up that touches another person then I have communicated. It only matter that yu drive massive trafic if you have a business plan that depends on it. Who cares if most of the traffic on the net is going to AOL to read gossip about this 15 minutes diva or sports jock. The fact that you and I can communicate is important and thus the net is relavent for our communication. If AOL & M$ run the business opertunities on the net into the ground, wll, so be it. I'll talk and listen to people who are thoughtfull and the net is still a good place to do that.
-Peace