Re:Canadian English is now supported, eh ;)
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Gnome 2.14 Released
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The majority of all native speakers of english are in the USA and speak the American dialect. It wouldn't make sense for the default language code to specify a minority dialect.
There is no way that ground-based telescopes are going to become "worthless" by 2050. This is just a false sensationalist claim intended to stir up trouble.
It is possible that cloud cover will increase in some places, and I can believe that jet contrails reduce the visibility of astronomical objects, but unless cloud cover increases to 100% over the entire surface of the earth and/or atmospheric jet travel increases by many orders of magnitudes, there will still be plenty of cloudless night sky on the planet earth in 2050.
Light pollution will probably be a bigger problem for ground based astronomy over the next 50 years.
For his own sake, I do hope he's had no chance yet to discover he's either straight or gay or anything else of the sort.
(Luckily for him, he's probably not Catholic.)
He might well be catholic. There are many catholics in Korea.
Well over 10 million Apple IIs were manufactured and sold. Remember that "Apple II" as a general term includes Apple II, Apple II plus, Apple IIe, Apple IIc, Apple IIc+, and Apple IIgs machines. On top of that there were millions of clones produced all over the world.
I'll believe it when I see Korean websites that are actually usable for people running Linux. In the Korean web, IE6 on Windows is pretty much required to do anything useful at all.
Korean Ebay is IE6 only, Korean banks offer internet banking only to IE6 users, Many Korean government websites don't function properly with anything but IE6, etc. etc.
I've been seeing articles about Korea's "committment to Linux" for a long time, but I've yet to see any evidence that the Korean web is anything other than completely and utterly owned by Microsoft.
When faced with the same situation about 5 years ago, I simply said "I'm not going to sign this".
I then had a talk with our human resources person and explained why I didn't want to sign it. The company then worked with me to come up with a mutually acceptable employee agreement.
Obviously this might not work at every company, but it won't hurt to ask.
It is prohibited by the standard (7.1.4#1) in this case:
Any invocation of a library function that is implemented as a macro shall expand to code that evaluates each of its arguments exactly once, fully protected by parentheses where necessary, so it is generally safe to use arbitrary expressions as arguments.
Any invocation of a library function that is implemented as a macro shall expand to code that evaluates each of its arguments exactly once, fully protected by parentheses where necessary, so it is generally safe to use arbitrary expressions as arguments.156)
And what if the user of the original macro invokes it like this:
Your problem is most likely just that your CPU cooler sucks.
I also have an XP 1800+ and my core temperature has never exceeded 45C (== 113F). A good, properly installed, cooler with a copper plate on the bottom would probably solve your problems. As for the XP 2600+, look at what Tom has to say.
After reading through their press release, I don't think ZeoSync is claiming anything impossible. First off, I don't think the input data is random at all. I think it's normal data.
ZeoSync intentionally randomizes naturally occurring patterns to form entropy-like random sequences
It seems like this is the first step in which the input data is transformed into "random" data which isn't actually random, because each byte (or word) has a difference of one bit with the bytes (or words) before it and after it.
Once randomized, ZeoSync's BinaryAccelerator(TM) encodes these singular-bit-variance strings within complex combinatorial series to result in massively reduced BitPerfect(TM) equivalents
I'm not sure what a "complex combinatorial series" is, but it sounds to me like they might be trying to first convert input data string into single bit variance strings and then look at these strings as values of a function representable by a "combinatorial series", which might be a taylor series, or the frequency domain output of an FFT or something like that. Of course it might be difficult to find a sufficiently compactly representable function whose values are the intermediate single bit variance strings, but presumably that's why they say
Although currently demonstrating its technology on very small bit strings, ZeoSync expects to overcome the existing temporal restraints of its technology
I question whether you have ever used Red Carpet at all. There are not just updates once a month, there are updates several times per week, and this is not a bad thing! During Evolution development I was able to get bugfixes almost every day.
For the whiners who complain that they can get everything for free from Sourceforge, does Sourceforge resolve dependencies for you? Does Sourceforge uninstall stuff for you and delete all the leftover independently installed libraries that are no longer needed afterwards? Does Sourceforge let you see all of the packages you have installed and all of the available packages that you don't have installed?
Red Carpet does all of that and on top of that it's free for gods sake! Don't pay the $9.95 per month if you don't want to. I downloaded the latest Evolution snapshot today on the free "slow" channel. Yes, it took a while, but then again, I was busy doing other stuff anyway so what do I care?
It's pretty absurd to see people who are getting great software for nothing complaining that it takes 30 minutes to download it.
Re:Funny snippet for those with AIX 4.3.3
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The Hype of the Rings
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Let's not forget this one...
Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, payed me a visit.
As we were talking I mentioned having recently installed Windows 95 on my PC and that I am very happy with this operating system. I also showed him the Windows 95 CD, to my surprise he threw it into my microwave oven and turned on the oven.
Instantly I got very upset, because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: "Do not worry, it is unharmed." After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: "Take a close look at it."
To my surprise the CD was quite cold to hold and it seemed to be heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but then on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription; an inscription finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:
"I cannot understand the fiery letters," I said.
"No," he said, "but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says:
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
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I suppose then Austrians don't speak German, Brazilians don't speak Portuguese, Mexicans don't speak Spanish, Quebecois don't speak French, Taiwanese don't speak Chinese, Egyptians don't speak Arabic, etc.
The vast majority of Indians are not native speakers of englishl /5.2.html
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http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/post/india/hohentha
The total number of native speakers of english in Britain and all countries formerly under British colonial rule is less than the number of native speakers of english in the U.S.A.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Geo
Total number of native speakers of english: 320-340 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by
http://sirio.deusto.es/abaitua/konzeptu/nlp/top10
Total number of native speakers of english in the USA: approximately 200 million
http://www.ethnicharvest.org/regions/50languages.
The majority of all native speakers of english are in the USA and speak the American dialect. It wouldn't make sense for the default language code to specify a minority dialect.
There is no way that ground-based telescopes are going to become "worthless" by 2050. This is just a false sensationalist claim intended to stir up trouble.
It is possible that cloud cover will increase in some places, and I can believe that jet contrails reduce the visibility of astronomical objects, but unless cloud cover increases to 100% over the entire surface of the earth and/or atmospheric jet travel increases by many orders of magnitudes, there will still be plenty of cloudless night sky on the planet earth in 2050.
Light pollution will probably be a bigger problem for ground based astronomy over the next 50 years.
For his own sake, I do hope he's had no chance yet to discover he's either straight or gay or anything else of the sort. (Luckily for him, he's probably not Catholic.)
He might well be catholic. There are many catholics in Korea.
We've known about this since when? Oh yeah, since 1996. Yawn...
The entire summary reads like a slightly rewritten press release. I bet the contributing "anonymous reader" is actually a Microsoft marketing rep.
He got it out of his butt.
Well over 10 million Apple IIs were manufactured and sold. Remember that "Apple II" as a general term includes Apple II, Apple II plus, Apple IIe, Apple IIc, Apple IIc+, and Apple IIgs machines. On top of that there were millions of clones produced all over the world.
I'll believe it when I see Korean websites that are actually usable for people running Linux. In the Korean web, IE6 on Windows is pretty much required to do anything useful at all.
Korean Ebay is IE6 only, Korean banks offer internet banking only to IE6 users, Many Korean government websites don't function properly with anything but IE6, etc. etc.
I've been seeing articles about Korea's "committment to Linux" for a long time, but I've yet to see any evidence that the Korean web is anything other than completely and utterly owned by Microsoft.
When faced with the same situation about 5 years ago, I simply said "I'm not going to sign this".
I then had a talk with our human resources person and explained why I didn't want to sign it. The company then worked with me to come up with a mutually acceptable employee agreement.
Obviously this might not work at every company, but it won't hurt to ask.
And what if the user of the original macro invokes it like this:
char * cp;
if (isdigit(cp++))
do_something();
What then, O wise one?
Your problem is most likely just that your CPU cooler sucks.
I also have an XP 1800+ and my core temperature has never exceeded 45C (== 113F). A good, properly installed, cooler with a copper plate on the bottom would probably solve your problems. As for the XP 2600+, look at what Tom has to say.
After reading through their press release, I don't think ZeoSync is claiming anything impossible. First off, I don't think the input data is random at all. I think it's normal data.
ZeoSync intentionally randomizes naturally occurring patterns to form entropy-like random sequences
It seems like this is the first step in which the input data is transformed into "random" data which isn't actually random, because each byte (or word) has a difference of one bit with the bytes (or words) before it and after it.
Once randomized, ZeoSync's BinaryAccelerator(TM) encodes these singular-bit-variance strings within complex combinatorial series to result in massively reduced BitPerfect(TM) equivalents
I'm not sure what a "complex combinatorial series" is, but it sounds to me like they might be trying to first convert input data string into single bit variance strings and then look at these strings as values of a function representable by a "combinatorial series", which might be a taylor series, or the frequency domain output of an FFT or something like that. Of course it might be difficult to find a sufficiently compactly representable function whose values are the intermediate single bit variance strings, but presumably that's why they say
Although currently demonstrating its technology on very small bit strings, ZeoSync expects to overcome the existing temporal restraints of its technology
I question whether you have ever used Red Carpet at all. There are not just updates once a month, there are updates several times per week, and this is not a bad thing! During Evolution development I was able to get bugfixes almost every day.
For the whiners who complain that they can get everything for free from Sourceforge, does Sourceforge resolve dependencies for you? Does Sourceforge uninstall stuff for you and delete all the leftover independently installed libraries that are no longer needed afterwards? Does Sourceforge let you see all of the packages you have installed and all of the available packages that you don't have installed?
Red Carpet does all of that and on top of that it's free for gods sake! Don't pay the $9.95 per month if you don't want to. I downloaded the latest Evolution snapshot today on the free "slow" channel. Yes, it took a while, but then again, I was busy doing other stuff anyway so what do I care? It's pretty absurd to see people who are getting great software for nothing complaining that it takes 30 minutes to download it.
Let's not forget this one...
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Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, payed me a visit.
As we were talking I mentioned having recently installed Windows 95 on my PC and that I am very happy with this operating system. I also showed him the Windows 95 CD, to my surprise he threw it into my microwave oven and turned on the oven.
Instantly I got very upset, because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: "Do not worry, it is unharmed." After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: "Take a close look at it."
To my surprise the CD was quite cold to hold and it seemed to be heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but then on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription; an inscription finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:
4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2C2
"I cannot understand the fiery letters," I said. "No," he said, "but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says: One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them