Just been researching ogg players, and there is indeed a 0Gb player - the NEX ia plus, appears to be compactflash based, so 100quid for the player, then 100quid for a 1Gb microdrive. I already have 2 microdrives + 1 256Mb card for my camera so they are effectivly free for me.
Has radio, Ogg, USB2 and recording abilities too, so it really is an alternative to the iRiver HP120. Oh, and its takes 2xAA batts, so battery life is less important, cos you can carry spares.
Have the dumb requests died down a bit? I used to get a few moronic questions (Rexx/mainframe stuff) but havent had any for a while.
Either Mainframe outsourcers now have skilled staff, or the banking industry have stopped outsourcing. I suspect the former.
Legacy stuff was one of the first things to get outsourced. A couple of years ago IBM-MAIN was abuzz with worries about jobs going abroad (at the time jobs were moving from the US to Europe and Australia). Companies like EDS and Cap Gemini grew fat on the legacy outsourcing business.
Try vegastrike, I've just started playing the 0.4 vanilla version, and its pretty good (but not too much emphasis on the pretty, the HUD needs work, and one or two of the space backdrops are hard on the eyes).
I think theres some B5 ship models available for it.
does it have parrallel and serial ports. All you need is DVI-I , 4+ USB (keyboard, mouse + peripherals), WiFi, ethernet, Speaker ports, and possibly a TV-in (cos you'd want to run mythTV on it, right?).
Also, its a bit light on disk space. It doesnt really need the CF card (although its a cheap enough way to do a bios I suppose).
Hand the domain name over to Linus. That would make things *really* interesting, as they cant sue him without risking their acess to the Linux trademark.
This sounds like a job for a baysian filter. Just point it at a load of good -ham sites, then at a load of linkfarms and blogs -spam.
Eventually the only way to optimise your site for pagerank would be to provide a usefull and relevant directory, just like the way the web was originally set up.
Of course, based on the success of Lord of the Rings we can probably expect a truly God-awful movie adaptation of Dragonlance to roll into production pretty soon.
Or, we can mix LOtR's Legolas with The Matrix's Agent Smith and get a million Drizzt clones running around the screen.
They could just publish a screen grab from a Neverwinter Nights public server with much the same effect.
I suppose I'd be thier perfect #4 customer, I have never downloaded any rips, but I have ripped my own for playing on my home/work PCs.
I also buy about 1 CD a month now, down from 1/week in the mid 90's. Thats mostly cos theres hardly any decent new music coming out these days, and even when a good new band comes along, its so hard to tell whether its a 'White Stripes' or just another 'Busted'.
Along the same lines, now that most of the dot-com era is over, it would be possible to see if there was an inverse correlation between the numebr of MBAs at a firm and its survival.
There is a Lords index here in the UK. The more OBEs, KBEs and Lords on the board, the worse the share performance is. Companies like BT and Marconi were stuffed full of them. Note that Enron had a Lord on board.
The parade of horrors has happened and is happening in the US.
The Unisys GIF patent is one for starters, then theres the Amazon one-click, Rambus, BT's hyperlink, assorted claims on jpeg, assorted claims on doing business on the web, assorted claims on obvious graphics standards.
Then there is xiph.org, why would such an organisation exist if the US patent system was not suppressing innovation and progress?
For more details, click on the 'patent pending' icon above.
Theres a load of odd cases that fail this test but are still seperate/same species. Examples would be parthenogenesis, Horses/asses, or any bloke in a room full of ugly birds.
I think there is some seabird where the North American species can interbreed with the European species, which can interbreed with the Siberian species, but the North American and Siberian species cannot interbreed, so NA = Eur = Sib, but NA != Sib. Theres a similar setup here: http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/irwin.ht ml
hehe you must have scored REALLY bad on the competitions to have this kind of attitude.
I did a 'sort of' competition thing (it was actually a study in how programmers program), and I found that the problem was nothing like what I meet in the real world:
The spec was really watertight, not 'Uh, make it show birthdays, and, uh, see if the users like it'.
There were no OSINTOTs or other gotchas like broken APIs or liscencing issues.
The spec didnt change halfway through the task.
No-one dumped a completely unrelated, but more urgent, task in my lap just as I was about to start coding.
QA didnt suddenly start bitching about a feature thats been in the product for years, but theyve only just noticed, and no-one uses anyway.
The problem was chosen for its elegant recursive solution. Most of my real world problems are solved by a tiny bit of iteration and masses of conditional logic/exception handling dealing with all the dumb things the user/system can get up to.
In general, I suspect these competitions reflect academic computing, producing nice and small programs. The real world is more like Google's pagerank software, a simple idea, but complicated by all sorts of issues like Bloggs and Googlebombers.
You appear to be interpreting this UK based research in terms of your own culture.
Its difficult to explain the difference, but there is no real geek/jock divide in the UK, mostly because there are no real 'jocks' over here.
It seems sport and 'geeky' pursuits over here are more inclusive, so it would not be unusual to have the football (soccer) team discussing computer games. I cetainly used to discuss Elite missions with members of the school team, which rather dates me, doesnt it.
I presented by well meaning but slightly dim parents with any unmarked work, whether it was homework or not.
Then for the actual homework I'd just slap out any old rubbish in the 10 minute break before the class began, or even do in the preceeding lesson.
That freed up a lot of time for doing the messing about on my sisters microcomputer that eventually led me to a job thats just as interesting and well paid as all my ex-classmates, except for the guy who went into journalism and spends his days interviewing hot babes from TV shows like Buffy and Stargate. Bastard.
What make Lisp's parentheses to be unreadable while XML parentheses to be still readable?
I dont program in XML, and neither does anybody else if they know whats good for them.
XMLs role is also completely different from that of a programming language. Users need to be able to spot the difference between the markup (clue: its in backets) and the text.
put word 3 of line 4 of field "foo" into baz when what I *wanted* to say and read was more like:
baz = foo[4][3]
Im definitly with you on that, but you missed the semi-colon, and isnt 'baz = foo(4,3)' even more natural to read, as the '][' is very deceiving to the eye.
For C, I was thinking more of the switch statement (requires curly backets, colons,semi-colons, only tests one variable, has fall through), the horrors of 'for (init;iter;incr)' when 'do i = 1 to 10' is just so much nicer, and I just cant get with the use of curly brackets everywhere.
for (int i=0,j=0;i11;i++,j++){ etc } is quite frankly a mess and shouldnt be allowed.
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Just been researching ogg players, and there is indeed a 0Gb player - the NEX ia plus, appears to be compactflash based, so 100quid for the player, then 100quid for a 1Gb microdrive. I already have 2 microdrives + 1 256Mb card for my camera so they are effectivly free for me.
Has radio, Ogg, USB2 and recording abilities too, so it really is an alternative to the iRiver HP120. Oh, and its takes 2xAA batts, so battery life is less important, cos you can carry spares.
Have the dumb requests died down a bit? I used to get a few moronic questions (Rexx/mainframe stuff) but havent had any for a while.
Either Mainframe outsourcers now have skilled staff, or the banking industry have stopped outsourcing. I suspect the former.
Legacy stuff was one of the first things to get outsourced. A couple of years ago IBM-MAIN was abuzz with worries about jobs going abroad (at the time jobs were moving from the US to Europe and Australia). Companies like EDS and Cap Gemini grew fat on the legacy outsourcing business.
Try vegastrike, I've just started playing the 0.4 vanilla version, and its pretty good (but not too much emphasis on the pretty, the HUD needs work, and one or two of the space backdrops are hard on the eyes).
I think theres some B5 ship models available for it.
You hate openwares so much that you want to damage their retinas?
You are a cruel, cruel person.
How does this account for the fact that movies released 50 years ago are still region encoded and released in one region years before the others?
I can understand staggering the release of LoTR or Finding Nemo, but Cassablanca and Flash Gordons Trip to Mars?
does it have parrallel and serial ports. All you need is DVI-I , 4+ USB (keyboard, mouse + peripherals), WiFi, ethernet, Speaker ports, and possibly a TV-in (cos you'd want to run mythTV on it, right?).
Also, its a bit light on disk space. It doesnt really need the CF card (although its a cheap enough way to do a bios I suppose).
If you slashdot me, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
If someone trashed my crocus/wildflower lawn like that, I'd be seeking compensation.
Youre parser is broken. The first sentence can mean:
'Security is broken and I dont care'
or
'I dont care because security hasnt been broken'
His statement that FreeNet is not what the Japs were using indicates the second meaning is more probable.
Hand the domain name over to Linus. That would make things *really* interesting, as they cant sue him without risking their acess to the Linux trademark.
This sounds like a job for a baysian filter. Just point it at a load of good -ham sites, then at a load of linkfarms and blogs -spam.
Eventually the only way to optimise your site for pagerank would be to provide a usefull and relevant directory, just like the way the web was originally set up.
Or, we can mix LOtR's Legolas with The Matrix's Agent Smith and get a million Drizzt clones running around the screen.
They could just publish a screen grab from a Neverwinter Nights public server with much the same effect.
I suppose I'd be thier perfect #4 customer, I have never downloaded any rips, but I have ripped my own for playing on my home/work PCs.
I also buy about 1 CD a month now, down from 1/week in the mid 90's. Thats mostly cos theres hardly any decent new music coming out these days, and even when a good new band comes along, its so hard to tell whether its a 'White Stripes' or just another 'Busted'.
There is a Lords index here in the UK. The more OBEs, KBEs and Lords on the board, the worse the share performance is. Companies like BT and Marconi were stuffed full of them. Note that Enron had a Lord on board.
Ive got a Ferrari! :-)
and a floppy :-(
The parade of horrors has happened and is happening in the US.
The Unisys GIF patent is one for starters, then theres the Amazon one-click, Rambus, BT's hyperlink, assorted claims on jpeg, assorted claims on doing business on the web, assorted claims on obvious graphics standards.
Then there is xiph.org, why would such an organisation exist if the US patent system was not suppressing innovation and progress?
For more details, click on the 'patent pending' icon above.
Theres a load of odd cases that fail this test but are still seperate/same species. Examples would be parthenogenesis, Horses/asses, or any bloke in a room full of ugly birds.
t ml
I think there is some seabird where the North American species can interbreed with the European species, which can interbreed with the Siberian species, but the North American and Siberian species cannot interbreed, so NA = Eur = Sib, but NA != Sib.
Theres a similar setup here: http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/irwin.h
I did a 'sort of' competition thing (it was actually a study in how programmers program), and I found that the problem was nothing like what I meet in the real world:
In general, I suspect these competitions reflect academic computing, producing nice and small programs. The real world is more like Google's pagerank software, a simple idea, but complicated by all sorts of issues like Bloggs and Googlebombers.
Oh, about the same amount of damage as a lighning strike, which is somewhere between none and very little
You appear to be interpreting this UK based research in terms of your own culture. Its difficult to explain the difference, but there is no real geek/jock divide in the UK, mostly because there are no real 'jocks' over here. It seems sport and 'geeky' pursuits over here are more inclusive, so it would not be unusual to have the football (soccer) team discussing computer games. I cetainly used to discuss Elite missions with members of the school team, which rather dates me, doesnt it.
I presented by well meaning but slightly dim parents with any unmarked work, whether it was homework or not. Then for the actual homework I'd just slap out any old rubbish in the 10 minute break before the class began, or even do in the preceeding lesson. That freed up a lot of time for doing the messing about on my sisters microcomputer that eventually led me to a job thats just as interesting and well paid as all my ex-classmates, except for the guy who went into journalism and spends his days interviewing hot babes from TV shows like Buffy and Stargate. Bastard.
But think of the uses embedded DRM could have. It sure beats those klunky belts I use when Im away on business.
You may have to trim Knoppix down to 650Mb, as older CD readers may not be able to deal with the extended length CDs
What make Lisp's parentheses to be unreadable while XML parentheses to be still readable?
I dont program in XML, and neither does anybody else if they know whats good for them.
XMLs role is also completely different from that of a programming language. Users need to be able to spot the difference between the markup (clue: its in backets) and the text.
put word 3 of line 4 of field "foo" into baz
when what I *wanted* to say and read was more like:
baz = foo[4][3]
Im definitly with you on that, but you missed the semi-colon, and isnt 'baz = foo(4,3)' even more natural to read, as the '][' is very deceiving to the eye.
For C, I was thinking more of the switch statement (requires curly backets, colons,semi-colons, only tests one variable, has fall through), the horrors of 'for (init;iter;incr)' when 'do i = 1 to 10' is just so much nicer, and I just cant get with the use of curly brackets everywhere.
for (int i=0,j=0;i11;i++,j++){ etc }
is quite frankly a mess and shouldnt be allowed.