Todd English is probably the best known chef in Boston (now that Julia Child moved to California), where he's opened quite a few very popular restaurants, including Figs, Olives, and KingFish Hall.
In the past few years, he's been spreading his restaurants to New York and DC...
His restaurants varies from high-end pizza joints, and others dip into "fusion". (ugh.) He definitely makes some interesting stuff, though..
I know I'm going to catch a lot of flak for this, but this type in inter-device communication is what JINI is designed for.
There's a lot of marketing BS on the page, but the technology behind it is sound...
Yay. You can synchronize your phone book. What is really needed is a way for the phone to act as a modem for your other Bluetooth-enabled devices (laptop, iPaq, etc.)... Motorola's other phones can do this with a serial cable... I wonder if the 270 can with Bluetooth. This review does not imply that this is possible..
So, protest with your dollars. Capitalism is a beautiful thing. You always have the option of taking your money somewhere else. If they can squeeze more cash out of you because you're unwilling to do your own due dilligence, then too bad. If they want to charge you $500 more than some other vendor because you told them (or they somehow figured out) that you make more than $75k a year, go somewhere else. If enough customers balk at the practice of dynamic pricing, IBM/Compaq/Dell will end up losing money, so it will make more financial sense not to do it.
Look at auto sales, you get a different price for the exact same product from different dealers! GM's Saturn division is using this practice as a way to entice customers who don't want to deal with this.
[ Full disclosure: I work for a company that writes software to support "dynamic pricing" on web sites. ]
Render in Linux. Play in Windows.
on
Linux and Shrek
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Looks like the trailer is only in Quicktime and Windows Media... Are there any decent players for these formats under Linux?
Looks like the only way I'll see this on my Linux box is to render it myself. Anyone got a Beowulf cluster I can borrow?:^)
Software isn't like a building. You only build a building once, but software costs are spread over a HUGE number of people.
It costs you $1,000,000 to make properly engineered software? Fine -- I just need 100,000 people to pay $20, and you
make a millon dollars profit.
A million bucks doesn't get you much in the software world. You've got to hire project managers, programmers, architects, UI folks, QA people, support people, etc... Good software is very expensive; I work for a company that builds and supports software that we sell for millions of bucks at a time.
BUT -- I saw the top-o-the-line iPAQ the other day w/ the wireless modem add-on, and, frankly, I'm impressed.
First off, it's color & sleek (m505/Visor Prism matches it there), it's got a PCMCIA (or whatever they call it these
days) expansion module, which means the wireless modem can also work on my laptop
And you can run Linux/ARM on it, with XFree86. That plus a 1GB IBM Microdrive is a good thing.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
All it says is that Congress can't make such a
law. Congress didn't; the school can, and did.
Nomic is a game I invented in 1982. It's a game in which changing the rules is a move. The Initial Set of rules does
little more than regulate the rule-changing process.
I don't completely agree; XML doesn't really ship the semantics with the data any more
than any other structured format. The XML is just data; in the end, code determines how that data is used.
Yes, XML makes it easy to allow for positional
parameter independance, but if the parameter list
for a method changes, such as a name
change or an extra required parameter, you will have to modify your code to reflect this. (ie, recompile). To quote you, "This sucks".
SOAP definitely has potential, it just has a different set of features and restrictions
than RMI,COM,CORBA,etc.
Phew! My biggest fear about walking across the Kent State campus was walking around a dark corner and being accosted by metal-listening Starcraft players yelling "Die, terran scum!".
I can now breathe easier, thanks to that crack force of Kent State campus police!
Things like GTK and QT help lever programs away from the X server. Change just those and all the layers above will not
notice the difference.
Not all X applications use GTK or QT, or even toolkit libraries at all! Any "X-killer" will
have to accept connections from X clients. So
it will have to know the X Protocol, in addition
to any new "gee-whiz" features the "X-killer" has.
One reason people "get" OO after working with Java is that its standard class libraries were designed with polymorphism in mind. For example, many methods depend on an InputStream object as a parameter. But, since InputStream is abstract, you have to pass in a subclass. Where can you get an InputStream? Well, you can create a FileInputStream, call the openStream on a URL object, create a StringBufferInputStream from a String, get one from a Socket, etc. It's also much easier to create your own InputStream type than it is in C++, IMHO...
To replace X, one must subsume X.
on
GTK+ without X!
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As you mention, there is a ton of code written
for X. In order for Berlin, or any other "X-killers" to be successful, they will have to
be able to run X clients seamlessly; ie.
no special exec progam like:
3dfx' biggest mistake was buying STB, thereby alientating their very lucrative partnerships with
Diamond and Creative... They decided to sell the boards, not just the chips, and allowed nVidia to eat their lunch.
...and I lost a buttload of cash on TDFX because of it:^(
I really wish they didn't name XML
during the hypestorm of HTML. I mean, was XML really designed to be an eXtensible Markup Language? XML is almost never used to markup anything; it seems more of a structured data transfer language. I don't care if the book has a red cover and some dorkylooking"guru" on the cover, XML is not just "a better HTML".
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You know, if the U.S. were a civilized nation with good people, they wouldn't be such a damn bunch
of pricks and would actually not mind paying for the less fortunate, even if it meant they could not
afford the heated leather seats for their SUV. Oh well, too bad.
Exactly. And if the Libertarians get their way, you are free to do whatever you want to do with the money you save from not paying income tax, such as donating it to a cause that will help pay for the needs of the less fortunate.
you mean "with all the taxes you save from the rest of the LP platform, you can buy a package of services on the open market about half as good as what was available when everyone was pooled together. We've heard of economies of scale, but want no part in them".
Pray what magic is it that ensures that privately funded space exploration would be more efficient?
Smaller space-oriented enterprises will be forced to innovate and produce something that people want. Manufacturing and entertainment come to mind, as well as the potential for space tourism. Time and time again, it has been shown that projects given a governmental crutch fail misearably, due to corruption or mismanagement (I live in Boston, the Big Dig is a classic example of this.) If space proves to be profitable on any front (not just financially, but also academically), large companies with more resources will take notice, causing competition, and a healty market.
Oh yeh, and do email me if your party ever gets a coherent line on intellectual property and privacy regulation.
I don't want to sound like a shill for the LP, but at least their platform is spelled out for all to see, and their politicians are there to facilitate them, as opposed to the "flavor-of-the-week"-style politics of the GOP and Democrats..
Of course, there are more than two candidates in this election. The Libertarian party would like
to completely privatize space exploration, as seen at the Libertarian Party Platform: Space Exploration. With the taxes you save from the rest of the LP platform, you can donate as much as you like to any of these private space corporations. A privately funded space exploration corporation (could be a non-profit..) would likely be much more efficient...
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Todd English is probably the best known chef in Boston (now that Julia Child moved to California), where he's opened quite a few very popular restaurants, including Figs, Olives, and KingFish Hall.
In the past few years, he's been spreading his restaurants to New York and DC...
His restaurants varies from high-end pizza joints, and others dip into "fusion". (ugh.) He definitely makes some interesting stuff, though..
I know I'm going to catch a lot of flak for this, but this type in inter-device communication is what JINI is designed for.
There's a lot of marketing BS on the page, but the technology behind it is sound...
Slugs? Isn't that an archaic unit of measure? Surely you meant to ask for its mass in Newtons.
Newtons? Isn't that a unit of force? Surely you meant to ask for its mass in grams.
Turing's work saved countless thousands of lives, and was instrumental in developing the theories of modern mathematics and computer science.
But, that wasn't good enough for the British, who later killed him for being a homosexual..
Yay. You can synchronize your phone book. What is really needed is a way for the phone to act as a modem for your other Bluetooth-enabled devices (laptop, iPaq, etc.)... Motorola's other phones can do this with a serial cable... I wonder if the 270 can with Bluetooth. This review does not imply that this is possible..
Last time I checked, Legos didn't have color
sensors...
How about writing a script that gets called every X seconds that checks the load average, and turns swap (and hd power) on and off accordingly?
Look at auto sales, you get a different price for the exact same product from different dealers! GM's Saturn division is using this practice as a way to entice customers who don't want to deal with this.
[ Full disclosure: I work for a company that writes software to support "dynamic pricing" on web sites. ]
Looks like the only way I'll see this on my Linux box is to render it myself. Anyone got a Beowulf cluster I can borrow? :^)
A million bucks doesn't get you much in the software world. You've got to hire project managers, programmers, architects, UI folks, QA people, support people, etc... Good software is very expensive; I work for a company that builds and supports software that we sell for millions of bucks at a time.
And you can run Linux/ARM on it, with XFree86. That plus a 1GB IBM Microdrive is a good thing.
Time.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
All it says is that Congress can't make such a law. Congress didn't; the school can, and did.
Sounds a lot like Peter Suber's Nomic:
Yes, XML makes it easy to allow for positional parameter independance, but if the parameter list for a method changes, such as a name change or an extra required parameter, you will have to modify your code to reflect this. (ie, recompile). To quote you, "This sucks".
SOAP definitely has potential, it just has a different set of features and restrictions than RMI,COM,CORBA,etc.
Bah, who cares about that?Not many.
I certainly don't.
I can now breathe easier, thanks to that crack force of Kent State campus police!
Perhaps, but that's not the point.
Things like GTK and QT help lever programs away from the X server. Change just those and all the layers above will not notice the difference.
Not all X applications use GTK or QT, or even toolkit libraries at all! Any "X-killer" will have to accept connections from X clients. So it will have to know the X Protocol, in addition to any new "gee-whiz" features the "X-killer" has.
One reason people "get" OO after working with Java is that its standard class libraries were designed with polymorphism in mind. For example, many methods depend on an InputStream object as a parameter. But, since InputStream is abstract, you have to pass in a subclass. Where can you get an InputStream? Well, you can create a FileInputStream, call the openStream on a URL object, create a StringBufferInputStream from a String, get one from a Socket, etc. It's also much easier to create your own InputStream type than it is in C++, IMHO...
$ runXClient xlogo
or anything like that...
I really wish they didn't name XML during the hypestorm of HTML. I mean, was XML really designed to be an eXtensible Markup Language? XML is almost never used to markup anything; it seems more of a structured data transfer language. I don't care if the book has a red cover and some dorky looking "guru" on the cover, XML is not just "a better HTML".
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Exactly. And if the Libertarians get their way, you are free to do whatever you want to do with the money you save from not paying income tax, such as donating it to a cause that will help pay for the needs of the less fortunate.
Pray what magic is it that ensures that privately funded space exploration would be more efficient?
Smaller space-oriented enterprises will be forced to innovate and produce something that people want. Manufacturing and entertainment come to mind, as well as the potential for space tourism. Time and time again, it has been shown that projects given a governmental crutch fail misearably, due to corruption or mismanagement (I live in Boston, the Big Dig is a classic example of this.) If space proves to be profitable on any front (not just financially, but also academically), large companies with more resources will take notice, causing competition, and a healty market.
Oh yeh, and do email me if your party ever gets a coherent line on intellectual property and privacy regulation.
Libertarian Party Platform:
Statement of Principles
Protection of Privacy
I don't want to sound like a shill for the LP, but at least their platform is spelled out for all to see, and their politicians are there to facilitate them, as opposed to the "flavor-of-the-week"-style politics of the GOP and Democrats..
Of course, there are more than two candidates in this election. The Libertarian party would like to completely privatize space exploration, as seen at the Libertarian Party Platform: Space Exploration. With the taxes you save from the rest of the LP platform, you can donate as much as you like to any of these private space corporations. A privately funded space exploration corporation (could be a non-profit..) would likely be much more efficient...