"hand-stitching" is apparently the latest craze. You can get little kits for it - they make a useful present when all else fails:-)
When I went to visit my parents, I noticed that my mother was stitching a picture of Thomas The Tank engine and the piccy seemed a bit amateurish, sort of scanned in. "Oh, my friend scanned it in and made a pattern", she said. I could *not* convince her that this might be dodgy. Particularly as there seemed to be a whole group of them swapping patterns via email etc.
It would be nice if this worked with Macos X and apple-type file systems. SSH works well on Macos X and I could do with an alternative to webdav and netatalk. Yes, I know that there are "issues" with apple file resources, but I wish they would just *disappear into* the shell so I didn't have to worry about them:-)
I wonder, too, at this shallow profits. I think that Microsoft are trying to cut the OEMs out of the equation *completely*. Just like the Xbox. It wouldn't surprise me to see HP crapped on if this thing takes off - or, at the very least, cut-out of the next generation. I see M$ Hardware, fullstop.
There is now no legal basis for the RIAA to proceed. I believe the grokster case will open the flood-gates. What do we have here? Morpheus with a new version:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30474.htm l
Well I guess the problem with the posting is the analogy. Comparing genetic "code" to software implies that there's a writer - in this case "nature" - who is either "good" or "bad" in the works that it perpetrates. The aesthetic and/or moral values of "good" or "bad" don't exist in the evolutionary process, only what works. If a sequence works, then the sequence survives. If it doesn't it dies. Consider Linus when he talks of DRM and Linux: he wants Linux to survive so he won't object to DRM being inserted into Linux; he doesn't want Linux's chances of surving limited. OTOH, RMS is a moralist and an idealist. He doesn't want DRM in Linux - in fact, he sees Linux as a weapon *against* DRM. If he succeeds in pre-empting DRM from Linux, then he will have closed off a route of survivability for Linux - in evolutionary terms, a major no-no.
Of course, this pulls the analogy apart from the inside: no aesthetic or moral judgments, no writer-figure ghosting in the background. What we have is a an autonomous, self-organising system - a far more interesting prospect if you ask me.
Of course, calling it "spaghetti-code" enables you to insert that programmer-figure into the argument. All spaghetti-code needs re-factoring right? Tweaking to make it "right" make it work "better"? I dunno; the self-autonomous self-organising model has worked quite well up to now...and, lets face it, when has trying to make something "better" produced less bugs than you first started with? Particularly with something you barely understand in the first place and are desperately trying to portray with ill-thought out analogies.
someone *other* than the project creator takes over the maintenance/leadership of the project. It *must* be fun/love/etc if it gets to this stage, right?
Although of course, a really broad patent is a strategic device: it could have the force to stop dead any *potential* competitor in the area of coverage.
It's wierd, though, that they seem to be patenting the *namespace* of the language. (Is this a first?) If this is the case, then they really *are* trying to stop competitors trying to build clones of.NET.
Merchant ships tend not to worry about degaussing - not that much equipment to worry about.
Merchant ships carry a Magnetic compass as spare - this is balanced by 2 huge ferrous balls either side. Navigation is done by gyrocompass, radar and satellite navigation.
The standard way for modern ships to dock is to use self-tensioning winches. The wires on these reels haul in and out as the ship rises.
I can't see either of these proposed methods working well with a berth that has a large rise-and-fall. Also, merchant ships tend to rise and fall as cargo is shifted - this is a doddle with self-tensioning winches, but with ropes, you have to keep a constant watch. To allow for rise-and-fall, the system becomes more complex: a lot more prone to breakdown.
I also foresee problems trying to dock against one of these things. The ship will have to motionless - harder than you think with high-sided 28000 dwt ship running light trying to berth against a running tide. Something like those huge roro ships. I'd be interested in watching, for sure.
As to the magnetism in the ship - um, I don't know. My guess would be that it might affect the wear rates of the hull. Used over a period of time, these might - or might not - be benificial. A ship moving through water has a chemical reaction with the water - even given modern paint systems - and modern ships have sacrificial anodes which wear first (something called ionisation takes place - this is from memory; the last time I steppped on a ship was 20 years ago). What effect these huge coils will have over a large period of time is unknown.
I believe a magnetic docking system was described by Frank Herbert in "Dragon Beneath the Sea"
1. To hock your complete computer infrastructure to a single company. 2. To enhance a monopoly 3. A euphemism for being less than capable of chosing and maintaining a real infrastructure i.e. "They've gone completely Microsoft!!!" 4. Giving your shareholders profits now and forever to Microsoft. 5. Allowing BillG to become your sysadmin. 6. An unreasoning fondness for virii.
glad you mentioned Python because I see they've managed to copy some Python regexp features - particularly that of returning matches to an array and the multi-line stuff. The P6 inheritance syntax looks cleaner as well, and almost python-like as well...
On another troll note, that extra syntax and abbreiviations for the "rule engine" (is that anything like a python service? probably not...)- a whole new other World Of Pain to enter. Less is better, IMTO. At least we won't see the end of messages saying "have you tried perl -w?" It's a pity somebody didn't build a Perl with -w, use strict and limiting the scope of $_ *switched on as default*. This would get rid of most the frustration.
With Perl6 scavenging CPAN for functionality, CPAN6 should be a lot smaller (if One True CPAN is retained, there will be even more Chaos, and I had enough trying to install the Multitude of Modules to get SoapLite.pm installed).
Go ahead! Throw away your DVD's as well - don't forget - it was this bunch of clowns who screwed over the DVD standard to bring you "regional coding". They embedded an outdated business model - distributing films around the world at times they're supposed to control - in the standard. And they'll try and do the same to PC's,or anything else that gets in the way of their monopoly of what you want to watch, regardless that technology shapes the market to "on demand" browser mode.
The only good thing about the last Star Wars film was it's simultaneous opening in all major centers of the world. Now that's the way to do it in a global market.
Blair is a lawyer. Lawyers do not have feelings. He's admitted knowing nothing about "technical issues". He'd be scum of the earth except he wasn't a patents lawyer. He doesn't change things, he just asks a focus group. "What do you want today? Open software? Well,you shall have it...."
How this got out, I'll never know - unless it's the Civil Service trying to up the ante in their on-going skirmish with MS over paying less for their software.
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"hand-stitching" is apparently the latest craze. You can get little kits for it - they make a useful present when all else fails :-)
When I went to visit my parents, I noticed that my mother was stitching a picture of Thomas The Tank engine and the piccy seemed a bit amateurish, sort of scanned in. "Oh, my friend scanned it in and made a pattern", she said. I could *not* convince her that this might be dodgy. Particularly as there seemed to be a whole group of them swapping patterns via email etc.
h.
Sounds just the thing for a global empire.
h.
It would be nice if this worked with Macos X and apple-type file systems. SSH works well on Macos X and I could do with an alternative to webdav and netatalk. Yes, I know that there are "issues" with apple file resources, but I wish they would just *disappear into* the shell so I didn't have to worry about them :-)
ah well. I can dream.
h.
On the other side of the fence, it would be interesting to see if MSN got the boot from MS.
h.
I wonder, too, at this shallow profits. I think that Microsoft are trying to cut the OEMs out of the equation *completely*. Just like the Xbox. It wouldn't surprise me to see HP crapped on if this thing takes off - or, at the very least, cut-out of the next generation. I see M$ Hardware, fullstop.
h.
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,58676,00 .html
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There is now no legal basis for the RIAA to proceed. I believe the grokster case will open the flood-gates. What do we have here? Morpheus with a new version:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30474.ht
h.
Well I guess the problem with the posting is the analogy. Comparing genetic "code" to software implies that there's a writer - in this case "nature" - who is either "good" or "bad" in the works that it perpetrates. The aesthetic and/or moral values of "good" or "bad" don't exist in the evolutionary process, only what works. If a sequence works, then the sequence survives. If it doesn't it dies. Consider Linus when he talks of DRM and Linux: he wants Linux to survive so he won't object to DRM being inserted into Linux; he doesn't want Linux's chances of surving limited. OTOH, RMS is a moralist and an idealist. He doesn't want DRM in Linux - in fact, he sees Linux as a weapon *against* DRM. If he succeeds in pre-empting DRM from Linux, then he will have closed off a route of survivability for Linux - in evolutionary terms, a major no-no.
Of course, this pulls the analogy apart from the inside: no aesthetic or moral judgments, no writer-figure ghosting in the background. What we have is a an autonomous, self-organising system - a far more interesting prospect if you ask me.
Of course, calling it "spaghetti-code" enables you to insert that programmer-figure into the argument. All spaghetti-code needs re-factoring right? Tweaking to make it "right" make it work "better"? I dunno; the self-autonomous self-organising model has worked quite well up to now...and, lets face it, when has trying to make something "better" produced less bugs than you first started with? Particularly with something you barely understand in the first place and are desperately trying to portray with ill-thought out analogies.
h.
the corollary might be:
someone *other* than the project creator takes over the maintenance/leadership of the project. It *must* be fun/love/etc if it gets to this stage, right?
h.
The Australian Hacker, Australias Hackersaurus, is a *breed* of Hacker: fearless, wiley, strong, *big* on pain and scaling mountains.
But did anyone else notice in the article that MS are involed in *yet another* Standards Committee - NFSv4. Whoops, there goes another neighbourhood.
Hachete
trolling since 2001.
Have you tried the following?
S O-8859-1&q =alan+sondheim&btnG=Google+Search
http://epc.buffalo.edu/poetics/
(the buffalo poetics list is interesting)
or alan sondheim
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=I
or Trace
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk
beagly, beagly
sure, Admiral Asimov
Nowadays, he's only wanting Stardust Memories:
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& cf =info&intl=us
And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that we're apart
http://www.cox-internet.com/damor1/stardust.htm
or maybe this:
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1800121702
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no no no - we're bashing *mono* as well today...
.NET.
Although of course, a really broad patent is a strategic device: it could have the force to stop dead any *potential* competitor in the area of coverage.
It's wierd, though, that they seem to be patenting the *namespace* of the language. (Is this a first?) If this is the case, then they really *are* trying to stop competitors trying to build clones of
h
Merchant ships tend not to worry about degaussing - not that much equipment to worry about.
Merchant ships carry a Magnetic compass as spare - this is balanced by 2 huge ferrous balls either side. Navigation is done by gyrocompass, radar and satellite navigation.
The standard way for modern ships to dock is to use self-tensioning winches. The wires on these reels haul in and out as the ship rises.
I can't see either of these proposed methods working well with a berth that has a large rise-and-fall. Also, merchant ships tend to rise and fall as cargo is shifted - this is a doddle with self-tensioning winches, but with ropes, you have to keep a constant watch. To allow for rise-and-fall, the system becomes more complex: a lot more prone to breakdown.
I also foresee problems trying to dock against one of these things. The ship will have to motionless - harder than you think with high-sided 28000 dwt ship running light trying to berth against a running tide. Something like those huge roro ships. I'd be interested in watching, for sure.
As to the magnetism in the ship - um, I don't know. My guess would be that it might affect the wear rates of the hull. Used over a period of time, these might - or might not - be benificial. A ship moving through water has a chemical reaction with the water - even given modern paint systems - and modern ships have sacrificial anodes which wear first (something called ionisation takes place - this is from memory; the last time I steppped on a ship was 20 years ago). What effect these huge coils will have over a large period of time is unknown.
I believe a magnetic docking system was described by Frank Herbert in "Dragon Beneath the Sea"
there should be a tax on white paper, just in case I have to copy a part of a book for for my course...
If it's so damned trustworthy, why won't the TCPA consortium tell us who they are?
mm?
The Code *IS* the Design - think of Open Source dev as Really Aggressive Prototyping...
Buy a blank CD, burn some (suitable) tracks and send them *several* copies. A present or a *present*?
h.
To have new ideas means to proceed at risk. Why risk anything when you can:
1. Rely on yr back-catalog for continuing income.
2. Defend that back-catalog with the best lawyers and politicians money can buy.
Disney as a creative body are dead.
1. To hock your complete computer infrastructure to a single company.
2. To enhance a monopoly
3. A euphemism for being less than capable of chosing and maintaining a real infrastructure i.e. "They've gone completely Microsoft!!!"
4. Giving your shareholders profits now and forever to Microsoft.
5. Allowing BillG to become your sysadmin.
6. An unreasoning fondness for virii.
glad you mentioned Python because I see they've managed to copy some Python regexp features - particularly that of returning matches to an array and the multi-line stuff. The P6 inheritance syntax looks cleaner as well, and almost python-like as well...
On another troll note, that extra syntax and abbreiviations for the "rule engine" (is that anything like a python service? probably not...)- a whole new other World Of Pain to enter. Less is better, IMTO. At least we won't see the end of messages saying "have you tried perl -w?" It's a pity somebody didn't build a Perl with -w, use strict and limiting the scope of $_ *switched on as default*. This would get rid of most the frustration.
With Perl6 scavenging CPAN for functionality, CPAN6 should be a lot smaller (if One True CPAN is retained, there will be even more Chaos, and I had enough trying to install the Multitude of Modules to get SoapLite.pm installed).
grumble, grumble, grumble
hachete
born to troll
Go ahead! Throw away your DVD's as well - don't forget - it was this bunch of clowns who screwed over the DVD standard to bring you "regional coding". They embedded an outdated business model - distributing films around the world at times they're supposed to control - in the standard. And they'll try and do the same to PC's,or anything else that gets in the way of their monopoly of what you want to watch, regardless that technology shapes the market to "on demand" browser mode.
The only good thing about the last Star Wars film was it's simultaneous opening in all major centers of the world. Now that's the way to do it in a global market.
the other strategy is:
register a domain under some TLD's and some joker register's the name under the rest of the of TLD's a week later.
Blair is a lawyer. Lawyers do not have feelings. He's admitted knowing nothing about "technical issues". He'd be scum of the earth except he wasn't a patents lawyer. He doesn't change things, he just asks a focus group. "What do you want today? Open software? Well,you shall have it...."
How this got out, I'll never know - unless it's the Civil Service trying to up the ante in their on-going skirmish with MS over paying less for their software.
the Congress for Cultural Freedom was run by the CIA from 1950 till 1967/
See "Who paid the Piper", Frances Stoner Saunders.
Who said irony was dead?
h.
"The way to carry out good propaganda is never to appear to be carrying it out at all"
Richard Crossman.