"DAB is good from the point of view that there are a lot more channels."
Unfortunately even thats not true , at least not in the UK. There are actually more stations (if you include surrounding county stations) on FM here in London than there are on DAB.
No i'm not. Postscript is a Forth based language , is very hard to code manually and useless for the beginner. I was thinking of a simple BASIC style page layout language that could be expanded to do more complex things as and when the need required. NOt that hard to understand I wouldn't have thought.
A simple programming language would have been best
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Too late now , but when Berners-Lee first came up with his way of doing hyperlinking (lets not forget , he didn't invent the idea!), he should have (IMO) , defined a simple page format programming language , perhaps like BASIC, perhaps like C/javascript , so that over the years it could be added too, improved upon , made more powerful. This would have probably negated the point of most plugins and add on scripting languages and tools - just one interpreted language which the browser understood which did everything. Eg:
locate 20,1
printtext "heading", bold
locate 30,10
printimage/home/me/myimage.jpg
Or something to that affect. With looping constructs it could have become very useful and avoid the mess of different things a web page relies on now. But then , I guess hindsight is a wondering thing eh?:o)
I'm not trolling , but does anyone really care enough about HDTV to fork out huge wads of cash on a new set? Perhaps its different in the USA with NTSC but here in the UK we have the PAL system which does a nice 625 lines per picture and a good PAL set does an extremely good picture. Sure , HDTV would be better , but $3000 worth better? I'm not convinced and neither is my wallet.
Huh? Since when? An IMG tag simply embeds an image on the page, it doesn't create something above and beyond the page itself. The page can still be manipulated in full by the standard browser systems including the images.
Is it because their IM was tied to windows (tied in what way , networking protocol, hidden lockouts for non windows systems or only ran on windows?) , or because they bundled this and media player with windows?
Either way I can't help wondering if this is a good thing since if Suse or Ubunto or some other linux dist suddenly becomes popular overnight, will they get nailed for bundling 100s of apps with it? Will a judge know (or care) of the difference between open source and MS when it comes to bundling freeware in a distribution?
Not defending windows in any way and perhaps this is just a tangetial question , but why not just stick with the PS/2 keyboard? Is what port a keyboard plugs into really that important to you? They're just keyboards for chrissake.
Oh get over it. Idiots like you are another reason some people avoid open source. Anyone complains and you can guarantee some moron shouts "troll!" then proceeds to dish up the usual "You don't understand" or "you could have easily downloaded XYZ from www.neverheardofit.com" along with fatuous lists of applications , as if this proves progress in some way. Moron.
More like yet another online media store with a few bells and whistles. The marketing types there perhaps should go look up the definition of "operating system". Hardly ground breaking this.
Even on the lowest parts of mars the atmospheric pressure is far too low for liquid water to exist (even in brine form). A lake that size would have boiled away eaons ago. Its either solid ice or something else entirely.
"Award winning"? Which awards exactly?
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The "Best Linux Desktop" award? Boy , thats a real tough competition when you're up against all of one other competitor!
"It slows down when doing many INSERT or UPDATE queries on large tables because the whole table is held in one file, which has to be locked during a write and so slows things down."
Jesus , didn't realise mySQL was *that* primative. If anyone had suggested using that form of implementation for a DBMS 20 years ago they'd probably have been laughed out of the room , never mind in 2005! You'd be lucky to get away with that even in a college DB project!
Am I the only one getting tired of all the hypoe surrounding browsers? "New and cool"? I don't think so. Theres little thats "cool" (unless you've just returned from a 15 year trip to another planet and have just found out about the WWW) about a web browser , which is little more than an HTML renderer with extra bits. Is a new RSS or HTML or Style sheet engine cool? Yaaaaawwwwn. Hardly. A true 3D holographic browser with touch interface , now THAT would be cool , but a few new features and bug fixes on a web browser? Errr , no.
" It is normal for a customer to initiate a project in January and be going live with an IVR application in December. It's a lot of work."
With the hopeless , unhelpful and frustrating mess they end up with you have to wonder why they bother spending the time and money. I've never yet used one of these systems that was even close to being as helpful as speaking to a person.
Sleep is a natural function and is supposed to happen, hypnotism isn't natural and the effects shouldn't happen. And a foot falling asleep? Huh? Thats to do with your nerves , not the brain.
Hypnosis has never worked on me and people have tried. IMO if you can be hypnotised so you can't open your eyes or do all these other crazy things that you see on stage and elsewhere then theres a fault in your brain. Perhaps the wirings screwed or something similar , but a brain that can be put into a state whereby it can't control its own body definately has a bug.
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"DAB is good from the point of view that there are a lot more channels."
Unfortunately even thats not true , at least not in the UK. There are
actually more stations (if you include surrounding county stations)
on FM here in London than there are on DAB.
No i'm not. Postscript is a Forth based language , is very hard to code
manually and useless for the beginner. I was thinking of a simple BASIC
style page layout language that could be expanded to do more complex
things as and when the need required. NOt that hard to understand I wouldn't have thought.
Too late now , but when Berners-Lee first came up with his way of doing hyperlinking (lets not forget , he didn't invent the idea!), he should have (IMO) , defined a simple page format programming language , perhaps like BASIC, perhaps like C/javascript , so that over the years it could be added too, improved upon , made more powerful. This would have probably negated the point of most plugins and add on scripting languages and tools - just one interpreted language which the browser understood which did everything. Eg:
/home/me/myimage.jpg
:o)
locate 20,1
printtext "heading", bold
locate 30,10
printimage
Or something to that affect. With looping constructs it could have become very useful and avoid the mess of different things a web page relies on now. But then , I guess hindsight is a wondering thing eh?
"There's just not enough content out there to warrant dropping the bucks on the bling. "
Not to mention the DRM BS that will soon come as standard.
I'm not trolling , but does anyone really care enough about HDTV to
fork out huge wads of cash on a new set? Perhaps its different in
the USA with NTSC but here in the UK we have the PAL system which does
a nice 625 lines per picture and a good PAL set does an extremely
good picture. Sure , HDTV would be better , but $3000 worth better?
I'm not convinced and neither is my wallet.
Huh? Since when? An IMG tag simply embeds an image on the page,
it doesn't create something above and beyond the page itself.
The page can still be manipulated in full by the standard
browser systems including the images.
OMG! Its infected slashdot already! I always wondered where
the editors got all their stories - looks like gossip on AIM
could be the answer!
Is it because their IM was tied to windows (tied in what way ,
networking protocol, hidden lockouts for non windows systems or
only ran on windows?) , or because they bundled this and media
player with windows?
Either way I can't help wondering if this is a good thing since
if Suse or Ubunto or some other linux dist suddenly becomes popular
overnight, will they get nailed for bundling 100s of apps with it?
Will a judge know (or care) of the difference between open source
and MS when it comes to bundling freeware in a distribution?
So you carry a monitor around with you as well do you? Still don't
see why you have to carry a keyboard around with you but each to
their own.
Thank you for proving my point. Though you're probably too stupid
to realise it.
Umm , why not just have a keyboard for each machine? Who on earth
carries around a keyboard to plug into different machines??
"And there are subtle things that make the basic Macintosh configuration just.... work. "
Yeah , its called standardised hardware. Getting an OS to work
nicely isn't too hard if you dictate what gets plugged into the
motherboard.
Not defending windows in any way and perhaps this is just a
tangetial question , but why not just stick with the PS/2
keyboard? Is what port a keyboard plugs into really that
important to you? They're just keyboards for chrissake.
"No he's not, he's an obvious troll."
Oh get over it. Idiots like you are another reason some people
avoid open source. Anyone complains and you can guarantee
some moron shouts "troll!" then proceeds to dish up the usual
"You don't understand" or "you could have easily downloaded XYZ
from www.neverheardofit.com" along with fatuous lists of
applications , as if this proves progress in some way. Moron.
More like yet another online media store with a few bells
and whistles. The marketing types there perhaps should
go look up the definition of "operating system".
Hardly ground breaking this.
Even on the lowest parts of mars the atmospheric pressure is
far too low for liquid water to exist (even in brine form).
A lake that size would have boiled away eaons ago. Its either
solid ice or something else entirely.
The "Best Linux Desktop" award? Boy , thats a real tough competition when
you're up against all of one other competitor!
"It slows down when doing many INSERT or UPDATE queries on large tables because the whole table is held in one file, which has to be locked during a write and so slows things down."
Jesus , didn't realise mySQL was *that* primative. If anyone had
suggested using that form of implementation for a DBMS 20 years ago
they'd probably have been laughed out of the room , never mind in 2005!
You'd be lucky to get away with that even in a college DB project!
Am I the only one getting tired of all the hypoe surrounding browsers?
"New and cool"? I don't think so. Theres little thats "cool" (unless you've
just returned from a 15 year trip to another planet and have just found out
about the WWW) about a web browser , which is little more than an HTML
renderer with extra bits. Is a new RSS or HTML or Style sheet engine
cool? Yaaaaawwwwn. Hardly. A true 3D holographic browser with touch
interface , now THAT would be cool , but a few new features and bug fixes
on a web browser? Errr , no.
" It is normal for a customer to initiate a project in January and be going live with an IVR application in December. It's a lot of work."
With the hopeless , unhelpful and frustrating mess they end up with you have to wonder why they bother spending the time and money. I've never yet used one of these systems that was even close to being as helpful as speaking to a person.
Sleep is a natural function and is supposed to happen, hypnotism isn't natural and the effects shouldn't happen. And a foot falling asleep? Huh? Thats to do with your nerves , not the brain.
The fact that the hypnotists has managed to influence your
thoughts to that extent then still IMO means theres a fault in your brain.
Subjective reality doesn't exist outside the mind. Its a runtime construct of the human brain.
...who's the babe in the leather gear? I can't find her mentioned
anywhere on the site.
Hypnosis has never worked on me and people have tried. IMO if you can
be hypnotised so you can't open your eyes or do all these other crazy
things that you see on stage and elsewhere then theres a fault in your
brain. Perhaps the wirings screwed or something similar , but a brain
that can be put into a state whereby it can't control its own body
definately has a bug.