It was an overly veiled reference to a flap from a couple years ago. Bad example, I guess, since military uniforms are one of the seemingly few remaining goods manufactured here in the US.
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Sorry, I meant to say that to me, it's true that.NET only runs on MS, until the average.net application could be run on something other than Microsoft.
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To me, ".Net works on Microsot" would imply that the average.net application could be run on something other than Microsoft. Until that is true, the rest is just lip service.
Microsoft said MFC was cross-platform compatible. They said DCOM was cross-platform compatible. I suppose some weak argument could be made in either case, but let's face it, no software from MS will ever be portable in a useful way. They don't want it to be.
Interesting. Causes me to contemplate what would really happen here in the US if the stream of goods from China were ever stemmed. I think half the stuff in my office is Chinese! For that matter who would manufacture our soldiers' uniforms?
It seems that China's mushrooming economy is also cementing their national security, I wish we could say that!
They're neat little robots. The RoboCup robotic soccer championships have a leage for Aibos (I think it's officially dubbed the "4-legged" league but the current rules mandate aibos).
You can imagine how hard it is to make a team of aibos play soccer autonomously!
Poor battery life and poor outside visibility are simply explained: people want color. Personally, I'm not at all convinced. I preferred the screen on my palm V to the one on my m515 - it was sharper, thinner, and the battery lasted forever. But people want color screens for whatever reason.
he larger and more formidable of the two setbacks involved the company's tape and hard-drive backups. It was clear from the beginning that most of the company's paper-based customer records had fallen victim to Mother Nature, but four days after the tornado, Hart and Warren discovered that the electronic tape and hard-drive backups had failed as well. Hart finally uncovered the tape and hard drives May 8. When he pulled the tape from the rubble, it was so badly damaged that he hardly recognized it. Hart passed the hard drives on to a number of local data recovery specialists to see if they could retrieve anything. One by one, each came up empty.
Finally, as a last resort, Hart plucked the hard drives from four different nonfunctioning computers and turned them over to Kroll OnTrack, a data recovery company in Minneapolis. Miraculously, the vendor discovered a recent copy of the customer records database on all four computers and was able to recover all of the customer data and return it to Aeneas, delaying printing of its May bills only minimally.
In other words, they almost lost the business by violating the first rule of disaster recovery. This is a priceless piece of advertising for Kroll OnTrack.
Code generation is definitely something programmers of large/complex projects should look into. There's a lot of different forms of it, and I'd be surprised if people haven't used on form or another already.
If I understand "code generation" in this context, the IDL compilers for CORBA implementations are a perfect example of code generation. They write "stubs" and "skeletons," the client and server-side adaptors that implement lots of CORBA ugliness.
Object oriented database I've used also have code generators, to make persistent versions of C++ classes.
Who cares what the EULA says? If Ford decides to disallow reselling cars to prop up new car sales, would anybody obey them? Just because the seller desires something doesn't make it so.
I jog with a Sony CD MP3 player. I haven't heard it skip, though I do hold it in my hand (there's no other good place to put it!) Keep in mind that a 40 second anti-skip buffer for CD audio translates to some ridiculous amount of anti-skip for mp3s, about 10x depending on encoding bitrate.
I think the CD based players are great! Only about $70, runs incredibly long on 2 AAs (roughly 70 hrs), stores more on one disc than you can take in a single sitting (~ 10 hrs for 128kbps). Instant loading of 600 MB disks which are practically free. The ability to play uncompressed audio from an old-fashioned audio CD might appeal to some:) Weight is right in line with disk-based players (judging by a friend's 2nd-gen ipod), unfortunately size is bigger, but still fits in a coat pocket. Are the hard-drive based players better? Yes, but to me it seems like a little extra functionality for a lot more money. YMMV. (I wonder who'll make the first DVD walkman for mp3 playback?)
I still want a solid state player for jogging, something light enough to wear without notice on an arm-band. This new Yepp looks very cool, but USB 1 is a big drawback. Personally I'd also prefer to save money on a unit with less memory, since I only need a tiny player for very active settings 1 hr of playback would do.
That sounds pretty positive to me, as I'm on TD Waterhouse right now buying shares in Vivendi.
I'll bite... why? It's not that easy to sue people into buying your products, and the amount collected from kids will be negligible.
When Vivendi announces a new website where you can download any track in mp3 format for $0.50, that would be a good time to start buying stock, because there is a lot of demand.
What risk are you referring to? Normal batteries have lots of nasty chemicals inside, who cares? Ten hours from a capsule the size of a cigarette lighter? I WANT ONE!
Has there ever been a business case (ie profit) for ANY manned spacecraft at all? If NASA has failed to create one even with billions in taxpayer money, it follows that a huge leap would be required to fly one for profit. So I don't find the article too surprising.
(Open source and free software is basically two different groups' descriptions for the same thing.)
No, the distinction between them is pivotal to Wine. Under an "open source" license, transgaming can base their product on Wine, enhance it, and sell the modified version without sharing their improvements. Under a "free software" license, transgaming would have to open their enhancements back to Wine.
So which is better? Ultimately, whichever one is consistent with the Wine developers' desires. But I think the emergence of Linux over BSD may be an indication that enforcing reciprocation helps a project, at least sometimes. (The GPL does turn people away sometimes, but those turned away wouldn't have been contributors anyways).
It's fixed rate, not auction, so you can purchase right away. Shipping prices are set by half.com, so no surprises there.
I did purchase one book on half.com, listed under the ISBN of the normal hardback textbook edition, and got a paperback "international edition" of the same book. But the seller was cooperative in returning it.
Perhaps an array of sensors along the heat shield could report about the integrity of the vessel. Even external cameras are a possibility. A solution as simple as these could keep the aging shuttles flying safely for several more years while a more advanced space solution is developed.
Well, this "space jeep" isn't more advanced, it's less advanced. From the article:
The key to the project, Smith said, is to keep the spacecraft simple and use technology that already has been developed. That also makes its cheap.
So it's not about new technology, and doesn't replace the shuttle, leaving the way open for your suggestions to help keep the Shuttle program on life support forever and ever.
But one wonders, if this program isn't about technological advance, why do it at NASA?
I doubt countries such as China would be interested in something so open as Linux.
I can't imagine they'd start from scratch when there's code lying around to build upon. But that doesn't mean their modified version will be open source. Somehow I don't think the GPL will stand in their way.
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It was an overly veiled reference to a flap from a couple years ago. Bad example, I guess, since military uniforms are one of the seemingly few remaining goods manufactured here in the US.
Shoulda used the preview button!
Microsoft said MFC was cross-platform compatible. They said DCOM was cross-platform compatible. I suppose some weak argument could be made in either case, but let's face it, no software from MS will ever be portable in a useful way. They don't want it to be.
It seems that China's mushrooming economy is also cementing their national security, I wish we could say that!
You can imagine how hard it is to make a team of aibos play soccer autonomously!
Poor battery life and poor outside visibility are simply explained: people want color. Personally, I'm not at all convinced. I preferred the screen on my palm V to the one on my m515 - it was sharper, thinner, and the battery lasted forever. But people want color screens for whatever reason.
Awesome, thanks! I'd seen Yamaha "Music" CDRs in the store and wondered what that was all about.
Object oriented database I've used also have code generators, to make persistent versions of C++ classes.
Who cares what the EULA says? If Ford decides to disallow reselling cars to prop up new car sales, would anybody obey them? Just because the seller desires something doesn't make it so.
I think the CD based players are great! Only about $70, runs incredibly long on 2 AAs (roughly 70 hrs), stores more on one disc than you can take in a single sitting (~ 10 hrs for 128kbps). Instant loading of 600 MB disks which are practically free. The ability to play uncompressed audio from an old-fashioned audio CD might appeal to some :) Weight is right in line with disk-based players (judging by a friend's 2nd-gen ipod), unfortunately size is bigger, but still fits in a coat pocket. Are the hard-drive based players better? Yes, but to me it seems like a little extra functionality for a lot more money. YMMV. (I wonder who'll make the first DVD walkman for mp3 playback?)
I still want a solid state player for jogging, something light enough to wear without notice on an arm-band. This new Yepp looks very cool, but USB 1 is a big drawback. Personally I'd also prefer to save money on a unit with less memory, since I only need a tiny player for very active settings 1 hr of playback would do.
When Vivendi announces a new website where you can download any track in mp3 format for $0.50, that would be a good time to start buying stock, because there is a lot of demand.
What risk are you referring to? Normal batteries have lots of nasty chemicals inside, who cares? Ten hours from a capsule the size of a cigarette lighter? I WANT ONE!
Has there ever been a business case (ie profit) for ANY manned spacecraft at all? If NASA has failed to create one even with billions in taxpayer money, it follows that a huge leap would be required to fly one for profit. So I don't find the article too surprising.
Or is this similar to the availability of encryption in WinZip - it's there, it's optional, nobody uses it?
I agree your links demonstrate your point. I think the word I was looking for was not "free software" but "copyleft."
Why don't you read this and get back to me.
Any naiive notion of a "mechanical bird" is an ornithopter. The big breakthrough in flight was not ornithopters, but thinking beyond them!
Check here for a shot that shows the scale and here for a small action shot and a bunch of other ornithopters.
So which is better? Ultimately, whichever one is consistent with the Wine developers' desires. But I think the emergence of Linux over BSD may be an indication that enforcing reciprocation helps a project, at least sometimes. (The GPL does turn people away sometimes, but those turned away wouldn't have been contributors anyways).
It's fixed rate, not auction, so you can purchase right away. Shipping prices are set by half.com, so no surprises there.
I did purchase one book on half.com, listed under the ISBN of the normal hardback textbook edition, and got a paperback "international edition" of the same book. But the seller was cooperative in returning it.
But one wonders, if this program isn't about technological advance, why do it at NASA?