at least for me the deja Vu feeling is also followed by knowing exactely what's to come, like say in a conversation, what the other person is just about to say to you. And no, the wife don't count on that experiment:)
Though I could not get to the article text, WOW! If that's what we can do now with such modest optics, I imagine it won't take much more than a decade or two before we're able to detect the signature of life in some extra-solar planet out there.
(ok, granted this planet was a gas-giant one, but big scopes are not starting to be able find more "earth-like" ones too)
As the good professor would say, "Good news everyone!"
Well, I did used VIA VOICE (the software in question) on a PC before, and it takes a bit of learning. At first you are asked to read a short text to it, so that it can analyse your speech patterns and gather the dynamics of your room and mike.
But after that, is that thing precise! It hardly misses a word, and when it does because it does not know the work (like a domain-specific word), you can add it to its dictionary, so that next time it is recognized. Simply amazing how well it works - and I'm talking about a previous version, not this release.
Finally, the version I use is for parsing Portuguese, which incidentally is a bit more complex in structure than English.
My advice? Check it out before dismissing it, you may end-up liking it:)
I thought the third movie was the weakest of the bunch. However, it's soundtrack was second only to Koyaanisqaatsi itself. I specially liked the tone that Yoyo Ma brought to it.
But all three movies are very personal experiences, so don't take my word for it. The mood your are when you watch it makes up for more than half of the outcome.
You're doing it wrong. It's not the media that's preventing you from fast-forwarding, it's the player.
The media tells the player "you *should* not allow FF here", but it's up to the player to comply or not - thou I haven't seen one that allows you not to comply, I know my current sony won't, and it's a PITA!
To extend your point a bit and maybe clear it up for the grand-parent, a common misconception of assertions it to use 'em to validade user input. This is not their purpose.
Asserts should validade program state. Invalid user input is valid program state. Your linked list code to contain invalid pointers in invalid program state. The first should be dealt with nicely (inform the user), the later should break execution because it came from a coding fault that needs fixing.
While I understand your point, one argument often used is that the government should not mandate all govt-purchased software to be FOSS.
The idea is to follow the "best tool for the job" argument; you favor FOSS because it gives you orders of magnitude more freedom, but if no adequate (and polished) software exists for the task at hand, look at the proprietary options.
In the euphoria of some speeches that concept is sometimes lost and people talk about simply banning proprietary software at all costs. That may by a bit harsh, IMHO.
That is not entirely correct. Brazil does have very strong software companies that build business apps; invoicing, accounts receivable/payable, supply management, tax automation and the whole nine yards. Only that software tend to be targeted at Brazilian companies mostly (Portuguese language, sometimes Spanish as an option) and to small to mid-sized businesses.
We don't have anyone writing operating systems (out of academia, that is) and office applications, so it's natural that FOSS look appealing in those areas.
Other than that, IT is very strong in services, support and custom apps, here, and in that realm FOSS is again a very good fit, as it allows one company to fully customize a package to suit special needs, while not being encumbered by proprietary licenses.
That's what I have been doing in recent years: keep your regular "recent" emails in one profile, and in another all your archive stuff, using the same client and formats.
When you switch mail clients (you allways do in a few years), make sure you import all current *and* archive email in a new set of profiles. Backup from your current app.
Still have to figure gmail in the equation, but with pop3 access should be just a matter of importing it in a app and backing it up - but downloading up to a GB over pop3 may be problematic, not sure what provisions are there to resume downloads.
That's good for the text itself, but screws with the rest of the data (sender, date sent, etc)
And assuming you still have an app to read that: I've got some old netscape (2.x, I think) mail folders that I can read with a text editor, but I no longer have a program that will open it - there may be, ut I haven't looked that much really.
I once had to re-arrange furniture in a *very* small studio apartment that was shaped more like a long rectangle. I had the space divided with a closet so that one part was TV/soho, and the other was bed area.
I used MS VISIO.
When planning for it what I've done is to setup a detailed (to the mm) floor plant and mark all electricity points, doors, windows, etc.
Next, I would draw a top view of all the furniture pieces, again, detailed to the milimiter.
Then, it was just a matter of dragging/rotating them around in the canvas to play with different setups. Sure it was not as prety as a 3D rendering, but it was very accurate and gave me good insight before I started moving the actual pieces in real world.
What's so wrong with using standart window captions, buttons and so on? There's a reason for that: consistency ammong applications.
Leave themes and eye candy for the OS level, and obey it if present; but please, not a single application should implement it's own custom UI controls, that's just wrong.
Hidrogen is not an energy source on itself, it's a storage or transport medium. You still need to get hidrogen from fossil fuels or by breaking H2O molecules ussing electricity - that you get from more fossil fuels right now, as renewables and cold fusion are not quite there yet.
Yes, he hear this argument every single time this subject comes up.
But please keep in mind that the money is not being directed to more up-to-date space telescope or other space and science-related projects. The money is just being cut, not re-located. That's what people complain about.
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at least for me the deja Vu feeling is also followed by knowing exactely what's to come, like say in a conversation, what the other person is just about to say to you. And no, the wife don't count on that experiment :)
Though I could not get to the article text, WOW! If that's what we can do now with such modest optics, I imagine it won't take much more than a decade or two before we're able to detect the signature of life in some extra-solar planet out there.
(ok, granted this planet was a gas-giant one, but big scopes are not starting to be able find more "earth-like" ones too)
As the good professor would say, "Good news everyone!"
Well, I did used VIA VOICE (the software in question) on a PC before, and it takes a bit of learning. At first you are asked to read a short text to it, so that it can analyse your speech patterns and gather the dynamics of your room and mike.
:)
But after that, is that thing precise! It hardly misses a word, and when it does because it does not know the work (like a domain-specific word), you can add it to its dictionary, so that next time it is recognized. Simply amazing how well it works - and I'm talking about a previous version, not this release.
Finally, the version I use is for parsing Portuguese, which incidentally is a bit more complex in structure than English.
My advice? Check it out before dismissing it, you may end-up liking it
I thought the third movie was the weakest of the bunch. However, it's soundtrack was second only to Koyaanisqaatsi itself. I specially liked the tone that Yoyo Ma brought to it.
But all three movies are very personal experiences, so don't take my word for it. The mood your are when you watch it makes up for more than half of the outcome.
Parent is marked as funny, goes to show the level of maturity of the mods here.
I use XP at work, my box is up for about 20 days now, I even installed MSDE (the lite version of SQL Server) withouth having to reboot.
Viruses or spyware? Never had any, but I know when to delete that "cute screensaver", instead of cliking thorough.
People bash MS a bit too much around here, IMHO.
Oh well, karma be dammed.
Alright! More "Howard the Duck" on the plans, I guess :)
> (O.T. What is with /. suddenly deciding to
> replace </li> elements with </li><li> ? It screws
> up making proper HTML lists!)
Too lazy/busy to check now but, IIRC, there is no </li>, so you should not be using it anyway.
*BZZT!* Wrong! Thanks for playing!
Lunar eclipses are in fact more common, happening twice (sometimes three times) a year.
You're doing it wrong. It's not the media that's preventing you from fast-forwarding, it's the player.
The media tells the player "you *should* not allow FF here", but it's up to the player to comply or not - thou I haven't seen one that allows you not to comply, I know my current sony won't, and it's a PITA!
To extend your point a bit and maybe clear it up for the grand-parent, a common misconception of assertions it to use 'em to validade user input. This is not their purpose.
Asserts should validade program state. Invalid user input is valid program state. Your linked list code to contain invalid pointers in invalid program state. The first should be dealt with nicely (inform the user), the later should break execution because it came from a coding fault that needs fixing.
While I understand your point, one argument often used is that the government should not mandate all govt-purchased software to be FOSS.
The idea is to follow the "best tool for the job" argument; you favor FOSS because it gives you orders of magnitude more freedom, but if no adequate (and polished) software exists for the task at hand, look at the proprietary options.
In the euphoria of some speeches that concept is sometimes lost and people talk about simply banning proprietary software at all costs. That may by a bit harsh, IMHO.
That is not entirely correct. Brazil does have very strong software companies that build business apps; invoicing, accounts receivable/payable, supply management, tax automation and the whole nine yards. Only that software tend to be targeted at Brazilian companies mostly (Portuguese language, sometimes Spanish as an option) and to small to mid-sized businesses.
We don't have anyone writing operating systems (out of academia, that is) and office applications, so it's natural that FOSS look appealing in those areas.
Other than that, IT is very strong in services, support and custom apps, here, and in that realm FOSS is again a very good fit, as it allows one company to fully customize a package to suit special needs, while not being encumbered by proprietary licenses.
That's what I have been doing in recent years: keep your regular "recent" emails in one profile, and in another all your archive stuff, using the same client and formats.
...
When you switch mail clients (you allways do in a few years), make sure you import all current *and* archive email in a new set of profiles. Backup from your current app.
Still have to figure gmail in the equation, but with pop3 access should be just a matter of importing it in a app and backing it up - but downloading up to a GB over pop3 may be problematic, not sure what provisions are there to resume downloads.
just an idea
That's good for the text itself, but screws with the rest of the data (sender, date sent, etc)
And assuming you still have an app to read that: I've got some old netscape (2.x, I think) mail folders that I can read with a text editor, but I no longer have a program that will open it - there may be, ut I haven't looked that much really.
I once had to re-arrange furniture in a *very* small studio apartment that was shaped more like a long rectangle. I had the space divided with a closet so that one part was TV/soho, and the other was bed area.
;)
I used MS VISIO.
When planning for it what I've done is to setup a detailed (to the mm) floor plant and mark all electricity points, doors, windows, etc.
Next, I would draw a top view of all the furniture pieces, again, detailed to the milimiter.
Then, it was just a matter of dragging/rotating them around in the canvas to play with different setups. Sure it was not as prety as a 3D rendering, but it was very accurate and gave me good insight before I started moving the actual pieces in real world.
just my 0.02
What's so wrong with using standart window captions, buttons and so on? There's a reason for that: consistency ammong applications.
Leave themes and eye candy for the OS level, and obey it if present; but please, not a single application should implement it's own custom UI controls, that's just wrong.
If you were thinking the same I am, it's Jupiter that needs imploding. And all these base belong to you, except Europa, attempt no landing there :)
Diesel sweeties would do fine. It's been going strong for a few years now, daily comic on your email every morning. Good stuff too.
Silverware; ...
Toilets (ok, not that old)
Navigational sextants (in use till not long ago)
thnx!
Downloading right now, I'll be seeding it for the next seven hours at least.
Hidrogen is not an energy source on itself, it's a storage or transport medium. You still need to get hidrogen from fossil fuels or by breaking H2O molecules ussing electricity - that you get from more fossil fuels right now, as renewables and cold fusion are not quite there yet.
Whatever happened to using something like BT for this. I guess most of the users here already have BT installed, as opposed to Diijer - I know I do.
If you look at the stats, it is *the* number one place where orkut is popular (63% of the members), with USA in a far second (11%)
http://www.orkut.com/MembersAll.aspx
(log-on required to see the stats)
Yes, he hear this argument every single time this subject comes up.
But please keep in mind that the money is not being directed to more up-to-date space telescope or other space and science-related projects. The money is just being cut, not re-located. That's what people complain about.
Why? You already have VLC, it's open source, multi-platform and plays a gazillion file formats