You can get thumbprints off many items... you don't need to chop their thumb or finger or whatever off... just get a good print, who cares whose it is... make a catalog, try them out claim you've got a blster if it doesn't work or if insufficient funds just shrug and walk away. As for making the fake print for your thumb... instructions abound.
Maybe the G5 has the cheapest CPU that is interoperable with infiniband and that is why they chose it? Remember that the G5 is a computer not a processor and you have to look at it as an integrated solution not a selection of components. PPC970 would be far less useful in a poorly designed computer.
Only if you're mail security is some sort of copyright protection scheme... DMCA Digitla Millenium Copyright Act, it has to be in regards to copyright.
Like any other collaborative development initiative they will need to implement a Sandbox environment for trying out new things which can allow for official QA.
Especially if they allow code to run... virtual virus anyone? worms which run through avatars via their gear and send off info about their location or status to the creator? and the banal possibility of a server crash though I think that is the least fo their worries as it would be easily loggable and traceable because of it's dramatic impact.
Too bad they are such a large investment just to publish. Applescript allows for doing very complicated workflows using multiple applications. You can even 'compile' it as a droplet for drag and drop functionality.
If I was doing this on my Mac I would create a script to, in order: Save my Word file as Plaintext, Save it as HTML, Print it as PDF (OS X can print to PDF from any and all applications), use the ColorSync Utility to regenerate the PDFs with your desired compression settings, then use an HTML cleaner such as HTML Tidy to eliminate all the crappy MS HTML markup. With Applescript it's a point and click operation to create the script, just hit record and go through the motions described above, hit stop and save as a droplet. You can drag and drop any number of Word docs onto it when ever you need to 'publish'. You could add an FTP action or save to an iDisk as part of the workflow just as easily.
The only thing you have to worry about is some of Word's [table] markup as it seriously blows when you try to convert to normal html.
There are plenty of tools for XML/XSLT transforms that could be scripted as well but it could be overkill... or maybe not.
If you had a Mac it would be easy.
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The Scar is much faster paced than Perdido.. borrow it from the library if you're concerned about getting ripped.
I read Scar first and was moderately disappointed by Perdido.
I also had trouble getting into Perdido and getting through it though I kept reading hoping to see some of Scar come through in his writing and it did but not until 2/3rds of the book was behind me.
Not to mention that SCO is guilty of said behavior. Remember that they too distributed Linux for FREE, ostensibly undercutting themselves...
On the other hand one might argue that what IBM sells is a service, not an OS, seeing as how they don't own Linux and can't "SELL" it. They can on the other hand sell hardware and customer support, which I believe is what all Linux commercial companies are involved in... the support not the hardware.
100W = $79 US x N million cpus = $79,000,000 x N each year... what do you think 79 billion dollars in energy? It's not inconceivable considering business servers in addition to consumer PCs plus mobiles plus embedded....
Yeah I'd say it's worth it if it works.
79 BILLION dollars a year.. we could rebuild a war ravaged nation each year... oh yeah and there are more CPUs made every minute so just keep adding to that number.
It's a little off-topic but why isn't there a way to use all this extra energy to recharge my laptops battery? That would be more analogous to the hybrid car example in any case and much more useful today...
What about elegant design? From reading the summary it sounds like they want to do more than just add more gates to 'reverse' the computations... they want to use new design methods such as oscillators and springs to capture and hold the energy as potential which would then be reused when needed in an alternate process.
The point is not to over-engineer for this but to intelligently engineer. it will take more R and D time but will hopefully gain enough to justify the expense.
Seeing as how WMV9 was only available on Windows and Microsoft is pushing it as a format for many media industries... doesn't this seem like a minimum effort to fend off claims that they are once again using Windows to establish a monopoly, this time on DRM media consumption?
IF they use their market penetration to convince vendors, ie: force vendors, to use WMV9 as their preferred format for streaming and DRMed media then they could be accused of monopolizing that industry through anti-competitive means.
If there is adequate room for a Player to develop as Character then a lack of personality is not a problem... ie: role playing.
Supposedly this is the big difference between interactive media, role playing, and other such as books, movies, etc. where you experience vicariously through the character.
Sorry I got to disagree. College, especially University level education institutions ARE NOT ABOUT EDUCATION.
If you want education, read a book, watch PBS, experiment with a home lab... go to a technical school.
If you want CULTURE and a GOOD FOUNDATION in western philosophy and science go to a University.
Seriously, socialization is the primary purpose of modern Universities, for 90% of the students. The other 10% either go into research or stay in academia.
Music fits into socialization very well. New music good, free music bad... stop stealing, start buying, again.
The question of what are taxes are paying for is still a mystery... look abroad... who's getting the jobs our college graduates should be getting?
Actually I used mlmac via eDonkey to get a QT Pro serial number for free, so I don't get those and never have since 1994, back when I used hotline to get my warez....
yep no worms, no popups ever. I've never experienced a virus. I've never worried about being hacked, never. Now I run a firewall, I mean my mac has a locked down firewall with a check box to turn it on...;-p now I could get crazy and run a nice ipfw with a very extensive conf file and then run some good ol' ipconf for spam control, etc. but instead I have an intelligent mail program and perfectly serviceable firewall withput the need to read a bunch of man pages.... speaking of faggy... man pages, heheheheh
I looked and looked on each of the two pages;-p even looked at the screenshot... didn't see CSS mentioned even one time.
The future is CSS and DOM, not to mention XForms, SVG and XML services. I'm not saying that this NVU will be amateur or a poor editor, just that it won't be a real contender for a long time.
I'll bite. It's a funny thing these days but some people actually get PAID real money to create web media. Hobbyists may have time to hand code everything and don't need anything more than text and a gif or two to communicate but professionals (getting paid $50 - $200 per hour to create) need a little more.
On the other hand pros also know enough to do plugin checks and provide alternative content for those who choose not to use proprietary plugins and can also provide text only versions for alternative browsers, if there is a need. Not all paid developers are pros, unfortunately.
The bigger problem is web developers who use platform specific plugins (anything DirectX essentially) and don't provide alternative content or provide it so poorly that the pages are rendered unusable.
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My thoughts exactly. Not to mention the global economic ramifications of freeing millions to pursue their own dreams, build businesses, etc.
High-speed internet is an incremental improvement for Korea.
True democratic liberty and freedom is a giant leap for Iraq.
You can get thumbprints off many items... you don't need to chop their thumb or finger or whatever off... just get a good print, who cares whose it is... make a catalog, try them out claim you've got a blster if it doesn't work or if insufficient funds just shrug and walk away. As for making the fake print for your thumb... instructions abound.
Maybe the G5 has the cheapest CPU that is interoperable with infiniband and that is why they chose it? Remember that the G5 is a computer not a processor and you have to look at it as an integrated solution not a selection of components. PPC970 would be far less useful in a poorly designed computer.
Only if you're mail security is some sort of copyright protection scheme... DMCA Digitla Millenium Copyright Act, it has to be in regards to copyright.
Like any other collaborative development initiative they will need to implement a Sandbox environment for trying out new things which can allow for official QA.
Especially if they allow code to run... virtual virus anyone? worms which run through avatars via their gear and send off info about their location or status to the creator? and the banal possibility of a server crash though I think that is the least fo their worries as it would be easily loggable and traceable because of it's dramatic impact.
Yeah but how many gave them the info?
Too bad they are such a large investment just to publish. Applescript allows for doing very complicated workflows using multiple applications. You can even 'compile' it as a droplet for drag and drop functionality.
If I was doing this on my Mac I would create a script to, in order: Save my Word file as Plaintext, Save it as HTML, Print it as PDF (OS X can print to PDF from any and all applications), use the ColorSync Utility to regenerate the PDFs with your desired compression settings, then use an HTML cleaner such as HTML Tidy to eliminate all the crappy MS HTML markup. With Applescript it's a point and click operation to create the script, just hit record and go through the motions described above, hit stop and save as a droplet. You can drag and drop any number of Word docs onto it when ever you need to 'publish'. You could add an FTP action or save to an iDisk as part of the workflow just as easily.
The only thing you have to worry about is some of Word's [table] markup as it seriously blows when you try to convert to normal html.
There are plenty of tools for XML/XSLT transforms that could be scripted as well but it could be overkill... or maybe not.
If you had a Mac it would be easy.
The Scar is much faster paced than Perdido.. borrow it from the library if you're concerned about getting ripped.
I read Scar first and was moderately disappointed by Perdido.
I also had trouble getting into Perdido and getting through it though I kept reading hoping to see some of Scar come through in his writing and it did but not until 2/3rds of the book was behind me.
Not to mention that SCO is guilty of said behavior. Remember that they too distributed Linux for FREE, ostensibly undercutting themselves...
On the other hand one might argue that what IBM sells is a service, not an OS, seeing as how they don't own Linux and can't "SELL" it. They can on the other hand sell hardware and customer support, which I believe is what all Linux commercial companies are involved in... the support not the hardware.
100W = $79 US x N million cpus = $79,000,000 x N each year... what do you think 79 billion dollars in energy? It's not inconceivable considering business servers in addition to consumer PCs plus mobiles plus embedded....
Yeah I'd say it's worth it if it works.
79 BILLION dollars a year.. we could rebuild a war ravaged nation each year... oh yeah and there are more CPUs made every minute so just keep adding to that number.
It's a little off-topic but why isn't there a way to use all this extra energy to recharge my laptops battery? That would be more analogous to the hybrid car example in any case and much more useful today...
What about elegant design? From reading the summary it sounds like they want to do more than just add more gates to 'reverse' the computations... they want to use new design methods such as oscillators and springs to capture and hold the energy as potential which would then be reused when needed in an alternate process.
The point is not to over-engineer for this but to intelligently engineer. it will take more R and D time but will hopefully gain enough to justify the expense.
This is true... Windows gives just enough access to really mess things up and not enough access to do anything about it.
Seeing as how WMV9 was only available on Windows and Microsoft is pushing it as a format for many media industries... doesn't this seem like a minimum effort to fend off claims that they are once again using Windows to establish a monopoly, this time on DRM media consumption?
IF they use their market penetration to convince vendors, ie: force vendors, to use WMV9 as their preferred format for streaming and DRMed media then they could be accused of monopolizing that industry through anti-competitive means.
If there is adequate room for a Player to develop as Character then a lack of personality is not a problem... ie: role playing.
Supposedly this is the big difference between interactive media, role playing, and other such as books, movies, etc. where you experience vicariously through the character.
If you're on a Mac... go to:
s x/ 19547
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http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/maco
RadioLover
I'd make it a link but then I might be supporting piracy
Sorry I got to disagree. College, especially University level education institutions ARE NOT ABOUT EDUCATION.
If you want education, read a book, watch PBS, experiment with a home lab... go to a technical school.
If you want CULTURE and a GOOD FOUNDATION in western philosophy and science go to a University.
Seriously, socialization is the primary purpose of modern Universities, for 90% of the students. The other 10% either go into research or stay in academia.
Music fits into socialization very well. New music good, free music bad... stop stealing, start buying, again.
The question of what are taxes are paying for is still a mystery... look abroad... who's getting the jobs our college graduates should be getting?
Actually I used mlmac via eDonkey to get a QT Pro serial number for free, so I don't get those and never have since 1994, back when I used hotline to get my warez....
;-p now I could get crazy and run a nice ipfw with a very extensive conf file and then run some good ol' ipconf for spam control, etc. but instead I have an intelligent mail program and perfectly serviceable firewall withput the need to read a bunch of man pages.... speaking of faggy... man pages, heheheheh
yep no worms, no popups ever. I've never experienced a virus. I've never worried about being hacked, never. Now I run a firewall, I mean my mac has a locked down firewall with a check box to turn it on...
Change it to:
"Now I Have Fleas" dohh! sorry if I gave out your new password....
First Tomacco, now the Evil Bit?
Where will it end? Science, Technology and Philosophy are turning into parodies of themselves... are we transforming into Bizarro world?
They patent sequences of molecules all the time, what's the difference? Dupont has been doing it for decades.
I looked and looked on each of the two pages ;-p even looked at the screenshot... didn't see CSS mentioned even one time.
The future is CSS and DOM, not to mention XForms, SVG and XML services. I'm not saying that this NVU will be amateur or a poor editor, just that it won't be a real contender for a long time.
and bought a Mac... and never looked back, but it's nice to hear that support for these useful tools is coming for the alt-OS X86 crowd.
I'll bite. It's a funny thing these days but some people actually get PAID real money to create web media. Hobbyists may have time to hand code everything and don't need anything more than text and a gif or two to communicate but professionals (getting paid $50 - $200 per hour to create) need a little more.
On the other hand pros also know enough to do plugin checks and provide alternative content for those who choose not to use proprietary plugins and can also provide text only versions for alternative browsers, if there is a need. Not all paid developers are pros, unfortunately.
The bigger problem is web developers who use platform specific plugins (anything DirectX essentially) and don't provide alternative content or provide it so poorly that the pages are rendered unusable.
It doesn't contradict it it "One Ups" it....