How much input do you personally have into the scripts, in particular the TV shows (Xena, Hercules, Jack, etc)? Obviously you're in a masterclass of comedy timing and expressions, but are the words simply repeated from the Raimis' scripts or do you get to write them too?
A CS degree is not just a way into *yawn* programming for some company or sysadmining looking after morons and their computers. It is knowlege that can be applied across the board to a myriad of fields of research, either academic or commercial.
The same applies to non CS degrees in the CS field - my (postgrad) degree is in Medieval French, but I'm working with computers in order to create electronic editions of medieval manuscripts; using XML with a search engine to enable people to search texts, descriptions of archives, descriptions of museum items, libraries etc. Find something else that interests you and you can say that you love, and apply your IT knowledge and skills to it.
WF makes Mozilla look like linux - development is just plain glacial.
My experience with WF, then Altima, bears this out I'm afraid. I was working fairly steadily on a cross genre, Free (as in Open Content Licence) RPG system which could be used for the server. I was told by numerous people to -stop- working on it so quickly as there wasn't any server to code the RPG system into yet. Uhhh....
After getting repeatedly abused on the development IRC server, asking the Ops to do something about it and getting told to screw off, I packed up my system and left. This is why they ask for new blood - to replace the disillusioned folks who leave after being abused by 13yo skript kiddiez who think because they've a high frag count they know what a MMORPG should be.
On Reasonableness: So far we've decided that we do not have a good mechanism within W3C for assessing or defining reasonableness.
And on Non Discriminatory: So, I don't have an answer to that question yet, but it will be answered by the time we propose another draft policy.
As they don't have a way of assessing Reasonable -or- Non Discriminatoryness (is that a word?), how can they even consider the Non RF track? There's Standards that are Open and Royalty Free, and then there's some things that we can't really define.
Or you use the best of both worlds - a database system like Cheshire which parses XML into a flat RDBMS (in this case the open Berkeley DB3). Cheshire is Free, as in almost. (Not-for-profit licence from UCB)
We use Cheshire for serving large documents which you can search based on the indexes built at database load time. While in theory you may want to search on arbitrary XML paths, 99% of the time what you really want is a simple named search. (author, title, subject, keyword, full text etcetc.) so by reducing the XML into a flat format you don't lose any significant functionality. 99.99% of people would be confused by searching on a 'tag' or 'XPATH' -- they have a concept in mind of what they're looking for, and how you represent that in your underlying data is irrelevant to them, as it should be.
Same as University of Liverpool. The adverts here at least are for dotcoms... notably ebay.co.uk. The screensavers are on the NT/Win2K network, so all machines that connect to this get to share the fun. The adverts are full screen, but the background is still configurable when using the computer.
Someone said that screensavers kick in when no one is using the machine.... imagine a computer lab with glass doors full of flashing Buy at EBay! screens... People walking past In The Corridor are affected by the glow, let alone actually at the machine.
Note that 'student computers' means university owned computers available to students, -not- the students personal machines. Also not staff machines installed with Linux;)
Obviously for such things as flat databases XML is perhaps not the best solution, but XML can and should be used for storing data such as marked up full text documents (TEI) or descriptions of Archives or Museum objects (EAD/Spectrum) XML is most definitely not only a transport.
The XML in the database provided is awful, and demonstrates why XML needs to be thought out in advance rather than generated directly from a database. For example, no encapsulation of individual projects, just a single layer of tags from beginning of the document to the end.
-- Azaroth
Consider that listening devices are not legal. This is simply an extension of it into visual devices. Excellent that they did make the right decision though. (for once)
-- Azaroth
Slashdot Mirror
Hail to the King! :)
-- Azaroth
A CS degree is not just a way into *yawn* programming for some company or sysadmining looking after morons and their computers. It is knowlege that can be applied across the board to a myriad of fields of research, either academic or commercial.
The same applies to non CS degrees in the CS field - my (postgrad) degree is in Medieval French, but I'm working with computers in order to create electronic editions of medieval manuscripts; using XML with a search engine to enable people to search texts, descriptions of archives, descriptions of museum items, libraries etc. Find something else that interests you and you can say that you love, and apply your IT knowledge and skills to it.
-- Azaroth
WF makes Mozilla look like linux - development is just plain glacial.
My experience with WF, then Altima, bears this out I'm afraid. I was working fairly steadily on a cross genre, Free (as in Open Content Licence) RPG system which could be used for the server. I was told by numerous people to -stop- working on it so quickly as there wasn't any server to code the RPG system into yet. Uhhh....
After getting repeatedly abused on the development IRC server, asking the Ops to do something about it and getting told to screw off, I packed up my system and left. This is why they ask for new blood - to replace the disillusioned folks who leave after being abused by 13yo skript kiddiez who think because they've a high frag count they know what a MMORPG should be.
Latest version of the system is:
http://www.o-r-g.org/~azaroth/system
-- Azaroth
So far we've decided that we do not have a good mechanism within W3C for assessing or defining reasonableness.
And on Non Discriminatory:
So, I don't have an answer to that question yet, but it will be answered by the time we propose another draft policy.
As they don't have a way of assessing Reasonable -or- Non Discriminatoryness (is that a word?), how can they even consider the Non RF track? There's Standards that are Open and Royalty Free, and then there's some things that we can't really define.
Anyone for OpenW3C.org ?
--Azaroth
Or you use the best of both worlds - a database system like Cheshire which parses XML into a flat RDBMS (in this case the open Berkeley DB3). Cheshire is Free, as in almost. (Not-for-profit licence from UCB)
We use Cheshire for serving large documents which you can search based on the indexes built at database load time. While in theory you may want to search on arbitrary XML paths, 99% of the time what you really want is a simple named search. (author, title, subject, keyword, full text etcetc.) so by reducing the XML into a flat format you don't lose any significant functionality. 99.99% of people would be confused by searching on a 'tag' or 'XPATH' -- they have a concept in mind of what they're looking for, and how you represent that in your underlying data is irrelevant to them, as it should be.
-- Azaroth
Someone said that screensavers kick in when no one is using the machine.... imagine a computer lab with glass doors full of flashing Buy at EBay! screens... People walking past In The Corridor are affected by the glow, let alone actually at the machine.
Note that 'student computers' means university owned computers available to students, -not- the students personal machines. Also not staff machines installed with Linux
-- Azaroth
http://www.o-r-g.org/~cheshire/osd/osd.tgz
Also, a search engine (Cheshire2) running over the XML with a Very simple interface/display is available at:
http://www.o-r-g.org/~cheshire/osd/
Enjoy =)
-- Azaroth
Obviously for such things as flat databases XML is perhaps not the best solution, but XML can and should be used for storing data such as marked up full text documents (TEI) or descriptions of Archives or Museum objects (EAD/Spectrum) XML is most definitely not only a transport. The XML in the database provided is awful, and demonstrates why XML needs to be thought out in advance rather than generated directly from a database. For example, no encapsulation of individual projects, just a single layer of tags from beginning of the document to the end. -- Azaroth
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in /var/www/lib/auth.php on line 4
Anyone have a mirror? -- Azaroth
-- Azaroth
Consider that listening devices are not legal. This is simply an extension of it into visual devices. Excellent that they did make the right decision though. (for once)
-- Azaroth
Just because a page doesn't contain the © symbol doesn't make it not copyright. The copyright statement is simply a reminder that it is under copyright and is not necessary to be present for the copyright to be enforcable.
As others, I feel that an opt in method is appropriate.
-- Azaroth
DeCSS ;)
If 2600 can be sued for linking, so can Microsoft.
-- Azaroth