Shackleton is an impact crater that lies at the south pole of the Moon. The crater is named after Ernest Shackleton, a noted Anglo-Irish explorer of the Antarctic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shackleton_(crater)
> What you're describing sounds a lot like DocBook.
Yes, you want to use XML according to DocBook's schema somewhere in the chain from data entry and modification up to the generation of all presentation forms of the information stored.
And no, you do not want to use DocBook's XML as data entry format for the technical data. (As there are [AFAIK, and please correct me if I'm wrong] no usable open source editors for XML, I doubt that you want any XML for data entry.) You can use DocBook for the narrative part of the documentation, but the source of the technical data should be in a vocabulary that is tailored to your environment, be it XML or otherwise. This technical data you transform to DocBook before transforming it to man page, PDF,...
At least, that is how I would do it, if I had the time.;-|
Our future is not as H. G. Wells described it in The Time Machine. Unfortunately, it will be more as Cyril M. Kornbluth wrote in 1951 in his short story The Marching Morons. From his Wikipedia page: "The Marching Morons" was one of Kornbluth's most famous short stories; it is a satirical look at a far future in which the world's population consists of a few million geniuses and five billion idiots, the precarious minority of the "elite" working desperately to keep things running behind the scenes. Part of its appeal is that readers identify with the beleaguered geniuses (which is entirely compatible with science fiction fans' broadly held opinion of their relationship with the mundane majority).
Funny thing is that searching Google News for 'buckyballs Breaks Pentagon Rules' has the link http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=368 (Slashdotted?) mentioned in the article as its one and only result.
Google Groups Beta rewrites URLs in UseNet posts. For instance: http://faq.luiemotorfiets.net/ becomes http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://faq.luiemo torfiets.net/
If you are paranoid, you can cut the original URL from the rewritten one and use that, for now. [*] But what if Google starts rewriting URLs using a scheme like that used by http://tinyurl.com/ ?
[*] IANAL, but US Americans may be violating the DMCA when doing that.:-)
I'm sorry to have to disagree with you, but.Net will not eliminate vulnerabilities; the result will only be that all your applications and services will share the same vulnerabilities.
You are right in your assumption, that MickeySoft has introduced.Net to rescue their monopoly. They do it in the way that used to work in the past: They see what it successful in the real world, implement it in their own incompatible way, and then use their brute force to make their (wrong) way the only way. Just one example: It starts with a slight non-standard extension to HTML, and (for now) it ends with servers tailoring their output to the browser's user agent setting.
Others already have remarked that if MickeySoft wants to retain the grow rates it has become addicted to, it will have to penetrate the server market in a big way. At least two things are required to make that happen: They must break their ties to the Intel platform, and they must have something to replace JAVA. (MickeySoft's attempts to introduce their own flavour of JAVA fortunately failed.).Net fits that bill quite nicely.
Of course this would be a better world if they had made the leap to re-implement all of their products in JAVA, and worked with the other players in the real world to achieve the improvements in JAVA that are needed for that re-implementation. Instead they followed their reflexes without really thinking, and try to do it their own way. I guess they must be scared.:-)
I just hope that MickeySoft's collapse will not cause too much colateral damage...
Sorry, can't find references, but similar techniques have been used by a team of Italian researchers to determine which real life Dutch author published a book using a pseudonym. Something to do with an award for beginnings authors, or suchlike.
The best form of cryptography is one, where Big Brother does not even know / cannot even see that cryptography is being used or that messages are being exchanged. The Telegraaf, the largest newspaper in the Netherlands, reported recently that the bad guys might as well communicate by manipulating a few of the many bits in an image. The example cited were porn pics posted in a newsgroup. To me it seemed not unlike the techniques used to watermark digital information.
So the next disaster may even be planned by posting tweaked images of the remains of the WTC!
Slashdot Mirror
"massive solar panels the size of a basketball court,"
can we please have proper units for measuring things in space?
And confuse half of the american audience? Basketball courts they know, meters they don't.
Mistakenly modded this as redundant. Posting to undo mod and to say Insightful.
Just trying to remove a wrong moderation.
Given our success in the "War on ...", we should declare war on common sense. We sure need more of it.
Signature modded +1, insightful. :-)
Shackleton is an impact crater that lies at the south pole of the Moon. The crater is named after Ernest Shackleton, a noted Anglo-Irish explorer of the Antarctic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shackleton_(crater)
> What you're describing sounds a lot like DocBook.
Yes, you want to use XML according to DocBook's schema somewhere in the chain from data entry and modification up to the generation of all presentation forms of the information stored.
And no, you do not want to use DocBook's XML as data entry format for the technical data. (As there are [AFAIK, and please correct me if I'm wrong] no usable open source editors for XML, I doubt that you want any XML for data entry.) You can use DocBook for the narrative part of the documentation, but the source of the technical data should be in a vocabulary that is tailored to your environment, be it XML or otherwise. This technical data you transform to DocBook before transforming it to man page, PDF, ...
At least, that is how I would do it, if I had the time. ;-|
Our future is not as H. G. Wells described it in The Time Machine. Unfortunately, it will be more as Cyril M. Kornbluth wrote in 1951 in his short story The Marching Morons. From his Wikipedia page: "The Marching Morons" was one of Kornbluth's most famous short stories; it is a satirical look at a far future in which the world's population consists of a few million geniuses and five billion idiots, the precarious minority of the "elite" working desperately to keep things running behind the scenes. Part of its appeal is that readers identify with the beleaguered geniuses (which is entirely compatible with science fiction fans' broadly held opinion of their relationship with the mundane majority).
http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=48 dated 11-22-00, 10:15 PM. Just Google for 'buckyballs Breaks Pentagon Rules' ... ;-]
Funny thing is that searching Google News for 'buckyballs Breaks Pentagon Rules' has the link http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=368 (Slashdotted?) mentioned in the article as its one and only result.
Google Groups Beta rewrites URLs in UseNet posts. For instance: http://faq.luiemotorfiets.net/ becomes http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://faq.luiemo torfiets.net/
:-)
If you are paranoid, you can cut the original URL from the rewritten one and use that, for now. [*] But what if Google starts rewriting URLs using a scheme like that used by http://tinyurl.com/ ?
[*] IANAL, but US Americans may be violating the DMCA when doing that.
Has Internet improved democracy in the USA, or anywhere else in the civilized world?
I'm sorry to have to disagree with you, but .Net will not eliminate vulnerabilities; the result will only be that all your applications and services will share the same vulnerabilities.
.Net to rescue their monopoly. They do it in the way that used to work in the past: They see what it successful in the real world, implement it in their own incompatible way, and then use their brute force to make their (wrong) way the only way. Just one example: It starts with a slight non-standard extension to HTML, and (for now) it ends with servers tailoring their output to the browser's user agent setting.
.Net fits that bill quite nicely.
:-)
...
You are right in your assumption, that MickeySoft has introduced
Others already have remarked that if MickeySoft wants to retain the grow rates it has become addicted to, it will have to penetrate the server market in a big way. At least two things are required to make that happen: They must break their ties to the Intel platform, and they must have something to replace JAVA. (MickeySoft's attempts to introduce their own flavour of JAVA fortunately failed.)
Of course this would be a better world if they had made the leap to re-implement all of their products in JAVA, and worked with the other players in the real world to achieve the improvements in JAVA that are needed for that re-implementation. Instead they followed their reflexes without really thinking, and try to do it their own way. I guess they must be scared.
I just hope that MickeySoft's collapse will not cause too much colateral damage
Sorry, can't find references, but similar techniques have been used by a team of Italian researchers to determine which real life Dutch author published a book using a pseudonym. Something to do with an award for beginnings authors, or suchlike.
Bahco.
Can anybody tell me what this is supposed to mean?
The best form of cryptography is one, where Big Brother does not even know / cannot even see that cryptography is being used or that messages are being exchanged. The Telegraaf, the largest newspaper in the Netherlands, reported recently that the bad guys might as well communicate by manipulating a few of the many bits in an image. The example cited were porn pics posted in a newsgroup. To me it seemed not unlike the techniques used to watermark digital information.
So the next disaster may even be planned by posting tweaked images of the remains of the WTC!