As of now, I believe after reading this that the states are going to be voting almost exactly as the did in 2000, and it will come down to Florida making the call, yet again!
UltraVNC has a file transfer GUI as well as an embedded chat interface.
Additionally, they have plugins options. I use a plugin to encrypt the connection - a big plus, especially if you are typing in passwords over the connection!
Here's a bit of the language enhancements from D-Tutorial. (Note also, that D-Tutorial is the initial building/learning form of future "D" languages.) I'll admit it does simplify things...
INSERT: A shorthand syntax is available for INSERT. The following:
INSERT INTO r RELATION {TUPLE {x 1, y 3}};
May also be specified as:
INSERT r TUPLE {x 1, y 3};
Or:
r += TUPLE {x 1, y 3};
The lattermost syntax is intended to be vaguely evocative of the "increment by 'n' and assign" operator found in C, C++, Java, and other languages.
DELETE: A shorthand syntax is available for DELETE. The following:
DELETE r;
May also be specified as:
r -= ALL;
The following:
DELETE r WHERE x = 2;
May also be specified as:
r -= WHERE x = 2;
Or:
r -= [ x = 2 ];
The use of "-=" is intended to be vaguely evocative of the "decrement by 'n' and assign" operator found in various popular programming languages.
UPDATE: A shorthand syntax is available for UPDATE. The following:
UPDATE r WHERE x = 2 SET ( y:= 3, z:= 4);
May also be specified as:
r @= WHERE x = 2 SET ( y:= 3, z:= 4 );
Or:
r @= [ x = 2 ] SET ( y:= 3, z:= 4 );
Or, because SET is optional:
r @= [ x = 2 ] ( y:= 3, z:= 4 );
Comments: Comments are specified using conventional C++ and Java syntax. Eg:
A single standard should be agreed on now for these new disks and not give companies the chance to make lots of different standards like the HD-DVD and blu-ray, DVD+R/-R, etc.etc. formats.
Establish a single format and make everybody happy!
If you move your right thumb up and down like you were dialing a number, it can be somewhat natural to move down and to the left at the same time. I think the keypad shape reflects this movement. It might be more natural than expected to dial numbers with the distorted keypad shape.
I guess we all got the same reply. I tried to post this and it came back as somebody posted the exact comment and that I should be more original...:)
Dear Sir
Thanks for your e-mail.
I have noted the points you made - as well as the vigorous debate on Slashdot.org about this article.
Well, Stephen Evan's weekly "stateside" column is not a news story, but an analytical look at major events and business trends in the United States.
It is, of course, debatable whether MyDoom/Novarg/Shimgapi was written just to bring down the SCO website, or whether the installation of spamming tools on numerous computers was an additional - or even the main - motive.
That was not the point of Stephen's article.
In his piece he wanted to draw the attention of BBC News Online's audience - many of whom are unlikely to know the ins and outs of the Open Source debate - to the rapid spread of Linux as a commercial application, SCO's attempts to cash in on this fact, and the deep anger that SCO has caused within the Linux community through its legal actions.
Stephen is not the first to draw the link between MyDoom and SCO's actions over Linux - plenty of others have done that before, including virus experts.
Regards,
Tim Weber Business Editor BBC News Interactive - www.bbc.co.uk/businessnews
The article "Linux cyber-battle turns nasty" by Stephen Evans is poor quality and contains many factual errors. It would either be more appropriate in the editorial section or simply retracted from publication.
This author perhaps has not researched the material thoroughly or is very biased in his views. He does not know the nature of the virus (he claims SCO was attacked by email when it is a DDOS attack), he confuses Open Source and Freeware as the same thing (a program may be free and have it's source not available), and fails to grasp or chooses not to comment that the virus may have been written by SPAMers to create an open relay through which their SPAM may flow and the SCO DDOS attack could have been designed to cover up the virus's true intent.
I would hope the BBC has better standards than the poor quality of this author's article and take necessary actions to either retract the article or move it to the editorial section with more substaniated facts.
The site seemed slow when I viewed it so here is a copy of the article to save some bandwidth...
Sources inform "Globes" that
Steadicopter's pilotless helicopter prototype was stolen on Saturday-Sunday night. Unknown parties broke into Steadicopter's Kfar Maccabi plant, and stole the helicopter, but not its computer software or the money in the office.
Steadicopter is collaborating with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) on the project. Steadicopter claims its pilotless helicopter is the first of its kind in the world.
Steadicopter business development director Amir Rochman told "Globes" that the helicopter was stolen a few days after the completion of its test program and final test flights, during which it flew automatically and reached its targets using the global positioning system (GPS).
Rochman said, "We invested NIS 5 million in the project in the past three years, and today the police came to the factory to investigate and lift fingerprints."
Steadicopter CEO Tuvia Scgl told "Globes" today that he had no doubt that industrial espionage was behind the theft. "We're convinced that the thief was working for our competitors, because he went directly to the helicopter's location, and broke only the guardrails to that room.
"The helicopter is unique. No other company in the world has succeeded in operating such a flying machine, capable of independent flying without remote control. Many companies have tried, but none of their tests worked."
Steadicopter was launched in the TEIC Technion - Israel Institute of Technology incubator in Haifa. The companies owners are TEIC, Rosh Ha'Ayin-based ITES - Imaging Technology Enterprise Systems, Renault importer Yoel Carasso, and businessman Yossi Kabiri.
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on November 10, 2003
I won't hop on board this 'paying for music downloading' until they offer lossless quality (shn or something like that).
Furthermore, I feel with more DVD-burners and more 5.1/6.1/7.1 speaker setups for computers, these companies should also start looking into AC3 audio. Are there any known lossless codecs for compressing AC3 5.1 audio yet?
I believe that the article states that you don't need to have a cell phone. From the article:
"So imagine the outcry when privacy worriers learn that cell-phone systems can be used to locate and track a car, boat, or plane -- even if no one inside is carrying a wireless phone."
And then it says:
"A Celldar prototype built in 1999 consisted of a PC and the insides of two cell phones, and cost just $3,000, says Peter Lloyd, head of Roke Manor's Celldar program. The flip side is, the signal-processing software is complex: It must allow for the varying travel times for signals between two or more cellular base stations and a Celldar receiver, as well as the times from the different base stations to the target."
So as far as I understand, the two cell phones can be located anywhere and their signals are bounced off an object of any type (provided it has a hard enough surface) and then processed to track that object:
"Celldar's implications are exciting -- but also troubling to some. Even though the technology can't be used to identify cell-phone users, since it 'sees' only radio waves echoing off hard surfaces, it and similar approaches are evolving quickly."
I imagine that is why it is called passive...it uses more or less existing waves floating around and calculates the data.
There's an old axiom in fiction writing which says it's okay to ask a reader to believe the impossible but not the improbable. For example, it's okay to say that a maniac has activated an antimatter bomb in the wall safe, but it's not okay to say that someone miraculously guessed the right combination on the first try.
But if you could get your hands on an infinite improbability drive, and set it to the right level of improbability, the combination may be 1,2,3,4,5, which by some strange coincidence, is the same combination as your luggage.
After all, it is reported in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallaxy that after Aurthur hit the infinite improbibility drive, the two missiles that were persuing his ship turned into a giant sperm whale and a bowl of petunias. (While the whale had various thoughts, oddly enough the only thing the bowl of petunias had was 'Oh no, not again'.)
For more information, including how to make an improbability drive, please refer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
I'm sorry, but what I get out of the article is that capitalism sucks. Companies are going to other countries where work is cheaper and therefore more profitable for them. That takes American jobs away.
A quote from the article:
6.1%, the unemployment rate is still well below the 7.4% it averaged in the 1980s and early '90s. The stock market has gained 13% since January, while corporate profits are up 15% from last year's levels. And for all the talk of double dips and deflation, the economy is growing--by 1.9% in the first quarter, according to just-released government numbers.
It makes it sound like the American economy isn't that bad. I think it's simply about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - in so much that those who have Master's degress and Bachelor's degress can fall on the 'poor' side and continue to go poorer.
Documents written by researchers are available online mostly in both PDF and HTML formats. For instance, if you search around medical journals at www.pubmed.com, most full texts that are available are first shown in HTML with a link to download the PDF if you wish.
And I generally get the PDF if it is available - everything is embedded nicely into one file and it looks identical to the printed version.
Thinking about it now, I know some science journals that have the full current journal available on the PDF format. I wonder why more magazines and newspapers don't try and do something like that?! I think I would subscribe to a nice PDF version identical to the printed version of some magazines I get.
Slashdot Mirror
This is the best interactive electorial college map I found on the Internet. Clicking on the button 'Electorial votes' changes the proportions of the states to reflect the electorial college. Lot of stats and fun to play with too.
As of now, I believe after reading this that the states are going to be voting almost exactly as the did in 2000, and it will come down to Florida making the call, yet again!
UltraVNC has a file transfer GUI as well as an embedded chat interface.
Additionally, they have plugins options. I use a plugin to encrypt the connection - a big plus, especially if you are typing in passwords over the connection!
Debate 1 (Xvid-692MB)
Debate 2 (WMV-477MB)
Debate 3 (Xvid-700MB)
VP Debate (169MB)
INSERT: A shorthand syntax is available for INSERT. The following:
May also be specified as:
Or:
The lattermost syntax is intended to be vaguely evocative of the "increment by 'n' and assign" operator found in C, C++, Java, and other languages. DELETE: A shorthand syntax is available for DELETE. The following:
May also be specified as:
The following:
May also be specified as:
Or:
The use of "-=" is intended to be vaguely evocative of the "decrement by 'n' and assign" operator found in various popular programming languages. UPDATE: A shorthand syntax is available for UPDATE. The following:
May also be specified as:
Or:
Or, because SET is optional:
Comments: Comments are specified using conventional C++ and Java syntax. Eg:
More info and examples here.
A single standard should be agreed on now for these new disks and not give companies the chance to make lots of different standards like the HD-DVD and blu-ray, DVD+R/-R, etc.etc. formats.
Establish a single format and make everybody happy!
I wonder how they counted putting Windows into 'hibernation' in the study?
Back in 1988, there was a game called 'Life & Death' where you got to do general surgeries like removing an appendix.
Then in 1990, it was brain surgery in 'Life & Death 2: The Brain'.
Notice, you can download both games from the sites above. I must say, they got pretty high scores back in the day.
I just spent a half an hour trying to find Moe's...
:)
For those interested, it's in between 'Springfild Town Hall' and 'Springfild Junior High School'.
I ran across some HDTV samples today. Check it out!
Not a heatsink... an ice cream!
Nothin' quite like a good brain freeze!
Let me try to explain...
If you move your right thumb up and down like you were dialing a number, it can be somewhat natural to move down and to the left at the same time. I think the keypad shape reflects this movement. It might be more natural than expected to dial numbers with the distorted keypad shape.
Guess I gotta go to a shop and try it out first.
Isn't Slashdot run on MySQL?
I guess we all got the same reply. I tried to post this and it came back as somebody posted the exact comment and that I should be more original... :)
Dear Sir
Thanks for your e-mail.
I have noted the points you made - as well as the vigorous debate on
Slashdot.org about this article.
Well, Stephen Evan's weekly "stateside" column is not a news story, but
an analytical look at major events and business trends in the United
States.
It is, of course, debatable whether MyDoom/Novarg/Shimgapi was written
just to bring down the SCO website, or whether the installation of
spamming tools on numerous computers was an additional - or even the
main - motive.
That was not the point of Stephen's article.
In his piece he wanted to draw the attention of BBC News Online's
audience - many of whom are unlikely to know the ins and outs of the
Open Source debate - to the rapid spread of Linux as a commercial
application, SCO's attempts to cash in on this fact, and the deep anger
that SCO has caused within the Linux community through its legal
actions.
Stephen is not the first to draw the link between MyDoom and SCO's
actions over Linux - plenty of others have done that before, including
virus experts.
Regards,
Tim Weber
Business Editor
BBC News Interactive - www.bbc.co.uk/businessnews
Here's mine...
The article "Linux cyber-battle turns nasty" by Stephen Evans is poor quality and contains many factual errors. It would either be more appropriate in the editorial section or simply retracted from publication.
This author perhaps has not researched the material thoroughly or is very biased in his views. He does not know the nature of the virus (he claims SCO was attacked by email when it is a DDOS attack), he confuses Open Source and Freeware as the same thing (a program may be free and have it's source not available), and fails to grasp or chooses not to comment that the virus may have been written by SPAMers to create an open relay through which their SPAM may flow and the SCO DDOS attack could have been designed to cover up the virus's true intent.
I would hope the BBC has better standards than the poor quality of this author's article and take necessary actions to either retract the article or move it to the editorial section with more substaniated facts.
I had trouble going to the website. So here is the Google cache of mikerowesoft.com.
I heard they are going to make Al Gore in charge of the whole meeting.
;)
After all, he did create the thing, right?
I think the reason the US doesn't have a better train system is...
1. In the past, Ford wanted automobiles to be affordable enough so that every American family could own one.
2. Gasoline is much cheaper in the US than in Europe and other parts of the world.
3. In many parts of the US, it is impossible to get by without a car.
4. Americans generally prefer privatization (own a car) over mass/public services.
I thought your great philosopher said...
The FCC won't let me be
Or let me be me
So let me see
They wanta shut me down on MTV
But it feels so emtpy
Without me
So...
The FCC won't let [VoIP] be
Or let [VoIP] be [VoIP]
So let [VoIP] see
They wanta shut [VoIP] down on [my IP]
But it feels so emtpy
Without [VoIP]
I won't hop on board this 'paying for music downloading' until they offer lossless quality (shn or something like that).
Furthermore, I feel with more DVD-burners and more 5.1/6.1/7.1 speaker setups for computers, these companies should also start looking into AC3 audio. Are there any known lossless codecs for compressing AC3 5.1 audio yet?
don't have a cell phone.
I believe that the article states that you don't need to have a cell phone. From the article:
"So imagine the outcry when privacy worriers learn that cell-phone systems can be used to locate and track a car, boat, or plane -- even if no one inside is carrying a wireless phone."
And then it says:
"A Celldar prototype built in 1999 consisted of a PC and the insides of two cell phones, and cost just $3,000, says Peter Lloyd, head of Roke Manor's Celldar program. The flip side is, the signal-processing software is complex: It must allow for the varying travel times for signals between two or more cellular base stations and a Celldar receiver, as well as the times from the different base stations to the target."
So as far as I understand, the two cell phones can be located anywhere and their signals are bounced off an object of any type (provided it has a hard enough surface) and then processed to track that object:
"Celldar's implications are exciting -- but also troubling to some. Even though the technology can't be used to identify cell-phone users, since it 'sees' only radio waves echoing off hard surfaces, it and similar approaches are evolving quickly."
I imagine that is why it is called passive...it uses more or less existing waves floating around and calculates the data.
There's an old axiom in fiction writing which says it's okay to ask a reader to believe the impossible but not the improbable. For example, it's okay to say that a maniac has activated an antimatter bomb in the wall safe, but it's not okay to say that someone miraculously guessed the right combination on the first try.
But if you could get your hands on an infinite improbability drive, and set it to the right level of improbability, the combination may be 1,2,3,4,5, which by some strange coincidence, is the same combination as your luggage.
After all, it is reported in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallaxy that after Aurthur hit the infinite improbibility drive, the two missiles that were persuing his ship turned into a giant sperm whale and a bowl of petunias. (While the whale had various thoughts, oddly enough the only thing the bowl of petunias had was 'Oh no, not again'.)
For more information, including how to make an improbability drive, please refer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Infinite Improbabity Drive
I'm sorry, but what I get out of the article is that capitalism sucks. Companies are going to other countries where work is cheaper and therefore more profitable for them. That takes American jobs away.
A quote from the article:
6.1%, the unemployment rate is still well below the 7.4% it averaged in the 1980s and early '90s. The stock market has gained 13% since January, while corporate profits are up 15% from last year's levels. And for all the talk of double dips and deflation, the economy is growing--by 1.9% in the first quarter, according to just-released government numbers.
It makes it sound like the American economy isn't that bad. I think it's simply about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - in so much that those who have Master's degress and Bachelor's degress can fall on the 'poor' side and continue to go poorer.
After looking at the sun, Jupiter and some of the other planets, and then looking at Earth, I feel sooo small....
Documents written by researchers are available online mostly in both PDF and HTML formats. For instance, if you search around medical journals at www.pubmed.com, most full texts that are available are first shown in HTML with a link to download the PDF if you wish.
And I generally get the PDF if it is available - everything is embedded nicely into one file and it looks identical to the printed version.
Thinking about it now, I know some science journals that have the full current journal available on the PDF format. I wonder why more magazines and newspapers don't try and do something like that?! I think I would subscribe to a nice PDF version identical to the printed version of some magazines I get.