"Those were never official. Two different systems didn't always agree on the definition of various characters in those encodings"
Thank you for making my point for me! You can't have a reliable roundtrip conversion, when you don't even have a reliable freaking one way conversion!
"making it hard to make an accurate universal translation table."
And there is no longer any translation table at all. The impetus for asians to use unicode has all but evaporated, the only people using unicode for asian data interchange is westerners. The asians have largely abandoned it, and it is hardly suprising given these problems.
"Also, Unicode doesn't consider the defintion of various Japanese standards its business."
And this has absolutely nothing to do with translation tables. Unicode isn't defining JIS or EUC.
For many language encodings the conversion to unicode is a one-way ticket, there is no roundtrip possible -- so you sometimes lose critical information about the characters.
It's also disappointing that unicode forum dropped their official JISUTF tables. There is no longer any official translation table for japanese encodings to unicode. It's the wild west for asian languages in unicode (ever wonder why no asian data systems use unicode?)
Ok yeah, but you knew who I meant, so no need to get pedantic.
Anyway. I can see how the book would appeal to young nerd types as they would strongly identify with Ender, the typical hazing of nerdy kids, etc. (before you object - yes, I was a "nerd" too)
I guess as one gets older they expect more depth in their scifi. I found Ender's Game rather shallow.
Blood Music - another hugo winner in the same year as Ender's Game - is much better.
Shannon's law is still safe from Townsend...
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...townsend didn't surpass it!
The "classic" limitation on analogue dialup modems was the quantization error introduced by the analogue to digital conversion on both ends.
However -- 56k depends on one end of the connection being DIGITAL. You're eliminating quant error on one side of the connection, thus you can get better downstream speeds. Upstream speeds, if you notice, are still limited to 33.6k due to quant error on the end user's modem.
There is no magic here. No laws are being surpassed or violated here. Shannon is still safe.
SCSI has parity checking, EIDE (UDMA) has CRC. SCSI drives (from the same manufacturer) use exactly the same physical mechanism as EIDE ones, but with different controller cards (or sometimes, just different firmware and different physical connector) SCSI and EIDE do exactly the same ECC mechanism and exactly the same reserved-bad-blocks mechanism.
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DVR-104 is the OEM version -- bare drive. The A04 is the retail box model with (useless) software bundle.
Works fine with Linux and dvdrtools.
...it's how you use it! =)
They have already been convicted of fraud, so they obviously didn't have that strong of a case...
"Those were never official. Two different systems didn't always agree on the definition of various characters in those encodings"
Thank you for making my point for me! You can't have a reliable roundtrip conversion, when you don't even have a reliable freaking one way conversion!
"making it hard to make an accurate universal translation table."
And there is no longer any translation table at all. The impetus for asians to use unicode has all but evaporated, the only people using unicode for asian data interchange is westerners. The asians have largely abandoned it, and it is hardly suprising given these problems.
"Also, Unicode doesn't consider the defintion of various Japanese standards its business."
And this has absolutely nothing to do with translation tables. Unicode isn't defining JIS or EUC.
The operating system of choice for terrorists worldwide appears to be Microsoft Windows .
All the captured computers from the taliban and terrorist cells are using Microsoft Windows
So using the same "logic" as the e Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Microsoft Windows is directly responsible for the events of 9/11.
For many language encodings the conversion to unicode is a one-way ticket, there is no roundtrip possible -- so you sometimes lose critical information about the characters.
It's also disappointing that unicode forum dropped their official JISUTF tables. There is no longer any official translation table for japanese encodings to unicode. It's the wild west for asian languages in unicode (ever wonder why no asian data systems use unicode?)
Not necessarily.
Unicode defines character code points, but doesn't specify their appearance.
There's nothing preventing an application from using lame fonts for glyphs, and in fact many do.
On average, unicode implementations vary from bad to utterly horrible.
"we've recently switched to using Unicode in our products."
...why?
Ok yeah, but you knew who I meant, so no need to get pedantic.
Anyway. I can see how the book would appeal to young nerd types as they would strongly identify with Ender, the typical hazing of nerdy kids, etc. (before you object - yes, I was a "nerd" too)
I guess as one gets older they expect more depth in their scifi. I found Ender's Game rather shallow.
Blood Music - another hugo winner in the same year as Ender's Game - is much better.
Please quote where I said either "Hate" or "Extrememly Dislike".
What exactly about it wasnt polite?
I want to see GP hulls, Puppeteers, Kzinti, etc. on the big screen!
I found Ender's Game characters uninspiring and predictable.
The ending was also a real cop-out, I was as disappointed with the conclusion of Ender's Game as I was with Asimov's 3001.
It wasn't that good of a book (it won a 1986 Hugo? Geez. Must have been a dry year), so I can't imagine it will be a terribly good movie.
Give us Larry Niven movies instead!
What complete bullshit. I have several names for you:
Richard Nixon
Josepy McCarthy
Ed Meese
Jesse Helms
Christian fundamentalism revolves around elitism.
That's why they can support the death penalty and oppose abortion.
It's why they feel justified in murdering doctors and bombing clinics.
Ignorant? I would disagree. More like mentally diseased.
Just beause the extremists are more vocal does not mean that they represent the views of all of us.
Then it's really a shame that your elected republican representatives are voting "pro-life".
It seems, pro-choice republicans are in the vast minority.
that won't beat retinal scans which also check for blood flow...
1) Patent examiners get paid some (low) base rate for examining a patent.
2) Patent examiners get paid a bonus for each case of prior art they find which invalidates the patent
3) Patent examiners get paid a bonus if they reject a clearly frivolous/and or obvious patent.
4) Patent applicants are fined for filing clearly fraudulent patents.
5) Repeat offenders of 4) are sentenced to prison terms.
nicely 404-compliant
...townsend didn't surpass it!
The "classic" limitation on analogue dialup modems was the quantization error introduced by the analogue to digital conversion on both ends.
However -- 56k depends on one end of the connection being DIGITAL . You're eliminating quant error on one side of the connection, thus you can get better downstream speeds. Upstream speeds, if you notice, are still limited to 33.6k due to quant error on the end user's modem.
There is no magic here. No laws are being surpassed or violated here. Shannon is still safe.
SCSI has parity checking, EIDE (UDMA) has CRC.
SCSI drives (from the same manufacturer) use exactly the same physical mechanism as EIDE ones, but with different controller cards (or sometimes, just different firmware and different physical connector)
SCSI and EIDE do exactly the same ECC mechanism and exactly the same reserved-bad-blocks mechanism.
customer goes to store, politely asks that best buy honor their binding-by-state-law contractual agreement.
best buy tries to weasel out of their binding-by-state-law obligation.
customer stands their legal ground.
best buy lies to the police to get customer arrested.
best buy lies to the police for a second time when confronted by the police with the fact they have no basis for charges.
best buy is later warned by the police to stop their behaviour.
...state and federal law do not agree with you.
the attorney general believes there is a case here.
... no matter how much best buy would like to think so.
True.
It was known as the "Williams Tube", designed by Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn in the 1940s