It sure would have been nice to have recieved this warning yesterday, before my linux box got rooted:( Fortunately, my unsuported sound card caused a kernel panic before they could do anything besides delete some of my kde themes. Props to the morse-code panic lights!
Do you really think that WorldCom would be filing Ch11 with loses reported? I don't
Retard, do you know what bankruptcy means? It means they don't have the money to pay their bills!
If they cook the books and hide their debt, they can get loans or issue bonds to provide more working capital. If they had been honest, and reported their losses as losses, the only difference would be that they would have filed chapter 11 a fw months earlier.
The average Tom, Dick, and Jane computer user is more likely to have *heard* of WordPerfect, which would make Open Source WordPerfect a better antiWord
Nope, that's trademarks. Patents expire statutorially (after 20 years) or if the patent holder gives them up.
Png is non-lossy compression, and is unsuitable for photographs. JPeg compression is based on the fact that most people can't differentiate subtle color changes, or are willing to trade off file size for file quality, just like with mp3.
Look how well the online world views Unisys, after all.
... he posted, on a website that uses gifs...
Re:Now, if only Google would support regexp search
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that link only considers non-deterministic regexps. If you don't need backreferences, you can do deterministic pattern matching, which is inexpensive once the regexp is compiled into a lookup table.
I think ACM from a couple months ago had an article on some research into deterministic regular expression matching with limited backreference support.
Anyhow, if you read the google white papers and the founders' graduate student research on searching, it's fairly clear they do hierarchial keyword indexing, which is good for fast lookups, but the data isn't well formatted for regular expression processing.
You could write a tool to use the google api to do a preliminary search on constant words in your regexp and then have your client do a regexp search on the results. Hmm, I may have to try that for the next google programming challenge:)
(GNU egrep does something similar by doing an fgrep on static terms before doing the full-blown regexp search)
Seriously! I first read this book about 4 years ago, from the University library. A month ago, I bought my own copy partly cause it's a good book, partly to increase to qualify for a discount at an online store.
An essential book if you ever use perl, php, e?grep, sed, awk, vi, or a number of other programs.
The unceremonious attacks on Microsoft have irked some high-level executives, sources said. As a policy, Microsoft rarely speaks out against partners. Even when bugs in Mac OS X hampered the release of Office v. X, MacBU took the heat for product delays rather than blaming Apple.
Only after the release of Mac OS X 10.1, did MacBU general manager Kevin Browne discuss the 70 fixes Microsoft assisted Apple with.
They agreed to release the patent to OpenGL, so can they sell it to somebody who is going to "un-release" it?
Yes, but you're question is misworded.
Let's say company A, out of the goodness of their heart, announces they will release a patent. Before they do so, however, they sell the rights to company B. Company B has no obligation to honor the promise.
The strength of Robert Charles Wilson's latest book is not in the time travel per se, but rather the response of a group of fully-developed, sympathetic characters to the phenomena they are encountering.
To my delight (and unlike so much literary fiction these days), Wilson's protagonists DO SOMETHING. It may not always be the right course of action, but there is an understandable human motivation when it is the wrong course of action.
Scotty, the protagonist, is strong yet flawed, and his fascination with The Chronoliths is kept in proper perspective. Sue Chopra, the brilliant physicist, is handled gingerly by an accomplished author.
The time travel theme -- the appearance of "artifacts" from the future -- is not new but is integral to the story. And this latter point is crucial to good science fiction. The science (regardless of what you think of time travel dynamics) is consistent and interesting and becomes a de facto character in the tale.
The only area where the novel could've been strengthened was the development of Scotty's relationship with his father, and indeed, development of the father's character in general.
Nevertheless, this is an entertaining and thought-provoking book with a broad scope, engaging characters and a very interesting ending.
It is also an optimistic allegory to the hope and renewel that always follows tragedy, like the euphoria following World War II.
It is well worth the read. Wilson is going to be a major force in speculative fiction in years to come.
XNS Public Trust Organization Board of Directors The XNS Public Trust Organization is governed by a six-member board of directors. Five of the members of the Board have a vote and the sixth member -- President and Managing Director of XNSORG -- is ex officio without a vote. Following are biographical summaries of four of the five voting directors. The fifth voting seat on the Board is currently not filled.
Adam C. Engst
Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS, one of the oldest and largest Internet-based newsletters, distributed every week to hundreds of thousands of readers. He has written and co-authored numerous Internet books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many articles for magazines, including Macworld, where he is currently a contributing editor. He has received numerous awards, including consecutive rankings as one of the most influential figures in the Macintosh industry and inclusion in MacDirectory's list of top ten visionaries. Adam serves as chair of the XNSORG board of directors.
Ross Ortega
Ross Ortega, a founder of Consystant Design Technologies, also serves that company as co-chairman, interim CEO, vice president, and chief technology officer. Dr. Ortega was one of the primary researchers on the Chinook Hardware/Software Cosynthesis Project at the University of Washington. In 1998 and 1999 Dr. Ortega was acting assistant professor at the University of Washington in the Computing and Software Systems Department.
Drummond Reed
Drummond Reed was the developer of the underlying web identity linking technology that led to the creation of the XNS Web identity infrastructure. In 1998 Drummond served on two of the W3C Working Groups for the P3P privacy protocol. He currently serves as a board member for the Internet National Security, Trust, and Privacy Alliance (ISTPA) and is a member of the ISTPA Framework Working Group. He is presently chief technology officer for OneName Corporation.
Geoffrey Strongin
Geoffrey Strongin serves as the platform security architect for Advanced Micro Devices. In this role he contributes to the security and privacy aspects of AMD's future PC Platforms. Prior to joining Advanced Micro Devices, Mr. Strongin served as a design manager and platform architect for various computer manufacturers. An award winning designer and holder of 29 patents, he also serves as a member of the board of International Security, Trust and Privacy Alliance (ISTPA).
There's detailed background information on DrinkOrDie here. It's definitely an interesting story.
my opinion
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I am a professional developer, working mostly with Perl. I work in the field of biology and bioinformatics, but have spent the last 8 years working as a web and database Internet developer. And, I own practically every O'Reilly Perl book ever published (not that I necessarily think they're all worth buying). So, now that you know where I'm coming from...
If you are preparing to do a serious amount of XML development, and you're in the process of determining a) which Perl XML modules on CPAN you want to use, and b) how to use them; and, you don't have a whole lot of time to spend tracking down the sometimes-hard-to-find documentation on these modules; then buying this book is a no-brainer. It covers all the major XML modules, how to use then and really helps you figure out when to use the different modules.
Even if you're not new to XML and Perl, this book would serve as an excellent refresher course on what XML tools are available out there for you... Maybe you haven't looked at your code in awhile, or want to update it to use a newer module from CPAN? Or, maybe you're looking for a better way to do it? Then, this book would definitely help you out.
While a fan of O'Reilly books in general, I'll be the first to admit some of them are more useful than others. I highly recommend this book, though, as it's actually useful, comprehensive and very well presented. I find myself cracking it open all the time, especially as my utilization of XML has grown more complicated. It has definitely earned its place in my Aqua Perl book collection.
In the 1940s, the prevailing opinion among scientists was that humans were 4,000 years old, max (maybe they were only counting Europeans).
Hell, in 1862 Lord Kelvin (absolute zero guy) deducedthe world was only 400 million years old, so evolution couldn't possibly happen [his math was valid, but was based on assumptions that were later discovered to be wrong].
Anyhow, the dawn of humans/humanoids has consistently been pushed back and assumptions proven wrong as more artifacts are discovered.
Slashdot Mirror
the news is posted on "netscape.com.com", is "Special to ZDNet News", and was first reported by "New York Times". Where does CNN report it?
Chapter 11 bankruptcy freezes current debt so you can reorganize. Chapter 7 means it's the end.
Retard, do you know what bankruptcy means? It means they don't have the money to pay their bills!
If they cook the books and hide their debt, they can get loans or issue bonds to provide more working capital. If they had been honest, and reported their losses as losses, the only difference would be that they would have filed chapter 11 a fw months earlier.
Anyhow, you can bet the code in question wasn't under a GPL-happy license, so it couldn't be used anyhow.
The average Tom, Dick, and Jane computer user is more likely to have *heard* of WordPerfect, which would make Open Source WordPerfect a better antiWord
you probably think masturbation is "pretty darn close!" to pussy, too.
honestly, why? Considering the amount of piracy in China, why develop a windows clone when they can just buy a copy for $2?
Quick! Give this book to your favorite gnu/hippy!
Thanks, but no thanks. Will the actress/taste-testers from Iron Chef be making this offer?
how about "piece of shit" then?
that link only considers non-deterministic regexps. If you don't need backreferences, you can do deterministic pattern matching, which is inexpensive once the regexp is compiled into a lookup table. I think ACM from a couple months ago had an article on some research into deterministic regular expression matching with limited backreference support. Anyhow, if you read the google white papers and the founders' graduate student research on searching, it's fairly clear they do hierarchial keyword indexing, which is good for fast lookups, but the data isn't well formatted for regular expression processing. You could write a tool to use the google api to do a preliminary search on constant words in your regexp and then have your client do a regexp search on the results. Hmm, I may have to try that for the next google programming challenge :)
(GNU egrep does something similar by doing an fgrep on static terms before doing the full-blown regexp search)
An essential book if you ever use perl, php, e?grep, sed, awk, vi, or a number of other programs.
Yes, but you're question is misworded.
Let's say company A, out of the goodness of their heart, announces they will release a patent. Before they do so, however, they sell the rights to company B. Company B has no obligation to honor the promise.
The strength of Robert Charles Wilson's latest book is not in the time travel per se, but rather the response of a group of fully-developed, sympathetic characters to the phenomena they are encountering.
To my delight (and unlike so much literary fiction these days), Wilson's protagonists DO SOMETHING. It may not always be the right course of action, but there is an understandable human motivation when it is the wrong course of action.
Scotty, the protagonist, is strong yet flawed, and his fascination with The Chronoliths is kept in proper perspective. Sue Chopra, the brilliant physicist, is handled gingerly by an accomplished author.
The time travel theme -- the appearance of "artifacts" from the future -- is not new but is integral to the story. And this latter point is crucial to good science fiction. The science (regardless of what you think of time travel dynamics) is consistent and interesting and becomes a de facto character in the tale.
The only area where the novel could've been strengthened was the development of Scotty's relationship with his father, and indeed, development of the father's character in general.
Nevertheless, this is an entertaining and thought-provoking book with a broad scope, engaging characters and a very interesting ending.
It is also an optimistic allegory to the hope and renewel that always follows tragedy, like the euphoria following World War II.
It is well worth the read. Wilson is going to be a major force in speculative fiction in years to come.
XNS Public Trust Organization Board of Directors
The XNS Public Trust Organization is governed by a six-member board of directors. Five of the members of the Board have a vote and the sixth member -- President and Managing Director of XNSORG -- is ex officio without a vote. Following are biographical summaries of four of the five voting directors. The fifth voting seat on the Board is currently not filled.
Adam C. Engst
Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS, one of the oldest and largest Internet-based newsletters, distributed every week to hundreds of thousands of readers. He has written and co-authored numerous Internet books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many articles for magazines, including Macworld, where he is currently a contributing editor. He has received numerous awards, including consecutive rankings as one of the most influential figures in the Macintosh industry and inclusion in MacDirectory's list of top ten visionaries. Adam serves as chair of the XNSORG board of directors.
Ross Ortega
Ross Ortega, a founder of Consystant Design Technologies, also serves that company as co-chairman, interim CEO, vice president, and chief technology officer. Dr. Ortega was one of the primary researchers on the Chinook Hardware/Software Cosynthesis Project at the University of Washington. In 1998 and 1999 Dr. Ortega was acting assistant professor at the University of Washington in the Computing and Software Systems Department.
Drummond Reed
Drummond Reed was the developer of the underlying web identity linking technology that led to the creation of the XNS Web identity infrastructure. In 1998 Drummond served on two of the W3C Working Groups for the P3P privacy protocol. He currently serves as a board member for the Internet National Security, Trust, and Privacy Alliance (ISTPA) and is a member of the ISTPA Framework Working Group. He is presently chief technology officer for OneName Corporation.
Geoffrey Strongin
Geoffrey Strongin serves as the platform security architect for Advanced Micro Devices. In this role he contributes to the security and privacy aspects of AMD's future PC Platforms. Prior to joining Advanced Micro Devices, Mr. Strongin served as a design manager and platform architect for various computer manufacturers. An award winning designer and holder of 29 patents, he also serves as a member of the board of International Security, Trust and Privacy Alliance (ISTPA).
There's detailed background information on DrinkOrDie here. It's definitely an interesting story.
I am a professional developer, working mostly with Perl. I work in the field of biology and bioinformatics, but have spent the last 8 years working as a web and database Internet developer. And, I own practically every O'Reilly Perl book ever published (not that I necessarily think they're all worth buying). So, now that you know where I'm coming from...
If you are preparing to do a serious amount of XML development, and you're in the process of determining a) which Perl XML modules on CPAN you want to use, and b) how to use them; and, you don't have a whole lot of time to spend tracking down the sometimes-hard-to-find documentation on these modules; then buying this book is a no-brainer. It covers all the major XML modules, how to use then and really helps you figure out when to use the different modules.
Even if you're not new to XML and Perl, this book would serve as an excellent refresher course on what XML tools are available out there for you... Maybe you haven't looked at your code in awhile, or want to update it to use a newer module from CPAN? Or, maybe you're looking for a better way to do it? Then, this book would definitely help you out.
While a fan of O'Reilly books in general, I'll be the first to admit some of them are more useful than others. I highly recommend this book, though, as it's actually useful, comprehensive and very well presented. I find myself cracking it open all the time, especially as my utilization of XML has grown more complicated. It has definitely earned its place in my Aqua Perl book collection.
devloperWorks has this interview with Marcello from March. Ignore the Java exceptions :)
It includes instructions for getting the sdk working with non-RedHat distros, too.
It's great to see IBM giving back to the community!
Hell, in 1862 Lord Kelvin (absolute zero guy) deducedthe world was only 400 million years old, so evolution couldn't possibly happen [his math was valid, but was based on assumptions that were later discovered to be wrong].
Anyhow, the dawn of humans/humanoids has consistently been pushed back and assumptions proven wrong as more artifacts are discovered.
I think I'd rather not remember the "goold" old days.