The.edu TLD is pretty much only for US academic institutions. So in addition to excluding non-adademic experts, it would also exclude non-US ones. Some other countries have similar systems that could possibly be used, but many don't.
The summary says that "the Ministry of Education in Russia has decided that the school boards will no longer be purchasing any commercial software", while the article says: "Schools in the Perm region will soon quit buying software from commercial companies, said the region's Education Minister Nikolay Karpushin." Perm Krai is just one of over 80 federal subjects in the Russian Federation.
However, most EU citizens on short trips to the US don't need visas, they travel on what's called the visa waiver program. That requires you to fill in a short form essentially stating you're a "normal person" and you get a stamp at immigration and in you go.
Nowadays, in addition to the short form they take fingerprints and a photo. This is part of the US-VISIT program.
The short form, I-94W, is a constant source of amusement for travelers to the US. It contains classics such as: "Have you ever been arrested or convicted for an offense or crime involving moral turpitude or [...] ?" and "Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or [...] ?".
The Toshiba Portégé M200 Tablet PC has a similar accelerometer setup. It comes with some simple Windows apps, but no API as far as I can tell, and no Linux support.
Has anyone figured out how to access the accelerometers? Googling doesn't give much (or my Google-fu is weak, consider this a challenge).
As the Arctic article at Wikipedia explains: "The Arctic is the area around the Earth's North Pole. The Arctic includes parts of Russia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Lapland, and Norway (including Svalbard), as well as the Arctic Ocean. The 10C (50F) July isotherm is commonly used to define the border of the Arctic region."
Distributing copyrighted material is not illegal. *Unauthorized* distribution of copyrighted material is illegal. There is a big difference. The Linux kernel, for example, is copyrighted, but you are allowed to distribute it. You can't expect the music and movie industry organizations to care about this distinction, but at least we should.
The winners will be announced at the ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming) itself, not the ICFP Programming Contest. The contest took place in June. The conference is in Snowbird, Utah, September 19-22. See you all there.
I'm Swedish. I live in Sweden. I prefer to use all software in English, because:
It's much harder to google for information about program usage or error messages if they are in Swedish.
It's difficult to tell others how to use the software, or understand what they are doing if their UI or error messages are in a language that you don't understand.
The translations are not always great. A lot of times they are contrived translations of english metaphors. This has nothing to do with it being OSS or not.
I can still create documents in whatever language I want, which is not necessarily Swedish or English.
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Some people are working on programmatic ways to express database queries. Have a look at HaskellDB for example.
You might want to have a look at
HaskellDB
which is a Haskell library for writing statically checked queries using a relational algebra-like syntax. It lets you write things like:
r <- table time_reports u <- table users restrict (r!userid.==. u!uid) project (last_name << u!last_name # activity << r!activity)
"And while government's idea of training open-source developers is admirable, it will not create new jobs but will simply replace thousands of existing jobs for people who now work with proprietary software"
Sure, but the open source jobs will be created in South Africa. I don't think the South African government cares if people in Seattle get fired.
The american embassy in Stockholm was closed earlier today after the terrorist attacks in the USA. The embassy has turned to the swedish police for additional security.
- As any american, as any human being, you are very... when you see the World Trade Center coming down, says Viktor Sidabras, press secrectary of the american embassy.
He won't speculate as to who is responsible for theses acts of terror.
- As president Bush said in his speech we will hunt down and catch those responsible for this, he says.
Viktor Sidabras believes that the US embassy will open again tomorrow, Tuesday.
[end of DN story]
According to swedish TV there are roadblocks around the embassy.
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The .edu TLD is pretty much only for US academic institutions. So in addition to excluding non-adademic experts, it would also exclude non-US ones. Some other countries have similar systems that could possibly be used, but many don't.
The summary says that "the Ministry of Education in Russia has decided that the school boards will no longer be purchasing any commercial software", while the article says: "Schools in the Perm region will soon quit buying software from commercial companies, said the region's Education Minister Nikolay Karpushin." Perm Krai is just one of over 80 federal subjects in the Russian Federation.
We all understand that this is hardly novel, but what is the proper process for telling the USPTO that?
It's already here: Windows Vista Lemon - Lime.
House is an operating system written in Haskell.
However, most EU citizens on short trips to the US don't need visas, they travel on what's called the visa waiver program. That requires you to fill in a short form essentially stating you're a "normal person" and you get a stamp at immigration and in you go.
Nowadays, in addition to the short form they take fingerprints and a photo. This is part of the US-VISIT program.
The short form, I-94W, is a constant source of amusement for travelers to the US. It contains classics such as: "Have you ever been arrested or convicted for an offense or crime involving moral turpitude or [...] ?" and "Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or [...] ?".
The Toshiba Portégé M200 Tablet PC has a similar accelerometer setup. It comes with some simple Windows apps, but no API as far as I can tell, and no Linux support.
Has anyone figured out how to access the accelerometers? Googling doesn't give much (or my Google-fu is weak, consider this a challenge).
Some of the patents seem to be relevant to speech recognition, e.g.:
US6253177 Method and system for automatically determining whether to update a language model based upon user amendments to dictated text
US6185529 Speech recognition aided by lateral profile image
US5671328 Method and apparatus for automatic creation of a voice recognition template entry
US5664061 Interactive computer system recognizing spoken commands
US5640487 Building scalable n-gram language models using maximum likelihood maximum entropy n-gram models
US5615299 Speech recognition using dynamic features
US5615296 Continuous speech recognition and voice response system and method to enable conversational dialogues with microprocessors
US5263117 Method and apparatus for finding the best splits in a decision tree for a language model for a speech recognizer
US5222146 Speech recognition apparatus having a speech coder outputting acoustic prototype ranks
As the Arctic article at Wikipedia explains: "The Arctic is the area around the Earth's North Pole. The Arctic includes parts of Russia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Lapland, and Norway (including Svalbard), as well as the Arctic Ocean. The 10C (50F) July isotherm is commonly used to define the border of the Arctic region."
Distributing copyrighted material is not illegal. *Unauthorized* distribution of copyrighted material is illegal. There is a big difference. The Linux kernel, for example, is copyrighted, but you are allowed to distribute it. You can't expect the music and movie industry organizations to care about this distinction, but at least we should.
The winners will be announced at the ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming) itself, not the ICFP Programming Contest. The contest took place in June. The conference is in Snowbird, Utah, September 19-22. See you all there.
You can use swfextract from swftools to extract the audio track from a flash file.
Wouldn't that be 3 %?
I'm Swedish. I live in Sweden. I prefer to use all software in English, because:
Some people are working on programmatic ways to express database queries. Have a look at HaskellDB for example.
You might want to have a look at HaskellDB which is a Haskell library for writing statically checked queries using a relational algebra-like syntax. It lets you write things like:
I can't really see what the Parsec parser combinator library has to do with OpenGL and Internet game play.
Says "Microsoft's country manager Gordon Frazer":
"And while government's idea of training open-source developers is admirable, it will not create new jobs but will simply replace thousands of existing jobs for people who now work with proprietary software"
Sure, but the open source jobs will be created in South Africa. I don't think the South African government cares if people in Seattle get fired.
That, and the fact that I found it on the Haskell Humor page sort of tipped me off...
Interestingly enough, Simon Peyton Jones does seem to work for Microsoft.
This press release from 1998 talks about Microsoft adopting Haskell (a purely functional language with lazy evaluation).
However unreadable the mess will be, it will still be possible to compile it to the working product.
This means that you cannot stop people from distributing the product) freely.
Sure, nobody can modify you program, but they can still use it without paying you.
[from http://www.dn.se, translated from swedish]
... when you see the World Trade Center coming down, says Viktor Sidabras, press secrectary of the american embassy.
The american embassy in Stockholm was closed earlier today after the terrorist attacks in the USA. The embassy has turned to the swedish police for additional security.
- As any american, as any human being, you are very
He won't speculate as to who is responsible for theses acts of terror.
- As president Bush said in his speech we will hunt down and catch those responsible for this, he says.
Viktor Sidabras believes that the US embassy will open again tomorrow, Tuesday.
[end of DN story]
According to swedish TV there are roadblocks around the embassy.