Thanks for the tip! I am still an undergrad and have not done any work with xml (hey I have a year or so to go, so i have time), but a friends work in the area has piqued my interest (the shakespeare stuff).
A quote I liked from another fellow student doing something that involved xml stated of xml, " XML: It says everything and nothing at the same time."
If you can save as XML (both word and OO can) then you can use XSL. There is a project at University of Victoria that is doing that with shakespear works (all works are being converted to xml manualy, then then xsl/xslt is used to convert the file for presentation in various formats).
What about those of us who use a CDMA/TDMA only provider?
A $20 GSM phone would mean it would be a lot cheaper for you to switch to a GSM provider:D.
TDMA is on its way out and CDMA is basically North america only. With a 4 band GSM phone you can use your phone in > 180 countries. North america coverage of gsm is 95% of the populated regions (iirc). Most of europe and many other countries have adopted GSM not CDMA. Plus it seems a lot of companies are rolling out 850MHz GSM networks (there are various benefits to it such as better in building reception for large city centers and better outlying reception).
Throwing bodies at a problem generally makes schedules slip even in the design state
excellent point, it's amazing how many managers do not understand that. It's amazing how many people have not heard of The Mythical Man-Month. It should be required reading for anyone dealing with large projects (learn from someone elses mistakes in this case IBM's).
Also not entirely on topic, but more programmers need to read The Design of Everyday things. There are way too many poor user interfaces out there, and DOET has a lot of great information of interfaces (from door knobs, to kettle handles and menu structures) and making them usable.
And as long as I'm ranting read some Ask Tog, especially this if you haven't.
whatever you say you windows running fools
I've got more lyrics than CPAN has modules
even if you hacked my database and learned how to grep
I'd still bust yo *ss like luke vs boba fett
Well not much more than ram. They aren't using sram here which is non-volatile(it'd be waay to expensive, and they don't need that much speed considering the bottleneck of the sata controller). It uses dram (ddr to be specific) which is volatile, so it needs power to keep information on it.
good point. I think the largest they should have done the recipe is as a 50 liter batch for full size kegs. Many home brewers use 19L (5 gal us) kegs, at my work we have some 8gal us kegs. Most canadians (in my experience) use 5 gal imp (23 L) carboys while americans use 5 gal us (19L) carboys. So this batch should really be scaled down. I'd have to use 3 fermentors and 3 carboys.
Also another poster had a good point: this beer contains a fair amount of sugar. Since they aren't going for a belgian triple or the likes it really isn't going to help the recipe (sugar thins a beer out and if more than 30% of the fermentables are dextrose or sucrose you can get a cidery taste).
Of course this is a move in the right direction. There are some amazing beers out there that aren't available to some markets. With open recipes it would allow others to make the great beer.
I should just write this AC off as a troll but many people think this way. Vitamins will no help the fact that all your seratonin is being re-uptaken into the neuron instead of making it to the receptor. Yes St. john's wort and some other vitamins have been helpful to some people, but not for people with severe clinical depression. We are talking about people who have brains that aren't sending signals correctly. Different neurotransmitters just aren't being recieve or recieved in high enough quantities to perform properly.
I am sure people who don't suffer from clinical depression would also get some sort of a "lift" from ssri's and mao inhibitors, but for those who need it it's the differenence between: not being able to concentrate, not be interested in anything, being entirely apathetic, having social anxiety, no sexual appetite, frequent sadness... etc
and acting like a normal person (or 90% of one at least).
Oh And when I list symptoms I don't mean one, i mean all at the same time. Unless you have experienced severe clinical depression you will just write it off as someone that needs to change their outlook in life (and to be fair there are many people who are just that way and don't need medical treatment), however it is not your place to decide what someone does or doesn't need, leave it to the medical proffesionals. Researches may not know much about brain function yet, but they know a lot more than Tom Cruise or anyone else not in the field who will just spout their opinion at will on something they know nothing about.
The mods are on crack, how you got modded up is beyond me.
Part of AMD's claims is outrageous. Why would AMD expect its competitor, Intel, to write software that supports AMD's own products?
Well it supports the x86 architecture. It doesn't have to support special features of AMD, but it should not purposely run different code (than it would on an intel proc) to crash the system. That's pushing the limit on anti-competitive, next thing you know ford is selling fuel that runs great in their cars but can tell if it's in a toyota and decides to spontaneously combust in the tank then.
Oh yeah, on the SPARC note, you need to take a computer arch class if you think that they are poorly designed.. if anything the x86 arch is the biggest hack of all.
On a related note, is there any way by which the authors of the GNU compiler collection (GCC) would limit the range of x86 instructions generated by GCC compilers....
Once again you have obviously never taken any classes regarding the subject. So you want to force all cisc processors to become risc by changing gcc to only support simple instructions? (which are not necessarily faster, just look at the cycles some complex operations take then try to create something in asm that does the same in the same amount of cycles using only simple instructions). Have you forgotten that GCC is not the only compiler in the world? Did you not RTFA?! It's about the intel compiler for goodness sakes! If GCC was crippled as you suggest, no one would use it, end of story.
Oh and less transistors on a chip? Brilliant. I assume you don't want faster computers or something. All the advanced branch prediction, out of order code execution etc that makes todays processors process that much faster than previous ones is thanks to the extra transistors.
If you want to talk about how computer architecture should change, take at least one class in it. It is really interesting (believe it or not) and you would learn a lot about what has been tried and done and why certain choices were made.
Excellent point. Unless prices were raised to the point where only large corperations can afford the TLD's, you are not going to stop spammers from using that particular tld. $50/year is still not enough to deter a spammer from a common mispelling of a popular domain name or other such domains, however it is enough to stop some individuals from registering their name, or johnspics.net or what have you for personal use.
I'd like to see a slight raise in costs of tld's, but some kind of policing or moderation done one domain names to stop the porn/comercial redirects of misspellings etc. Of course any increase will be just for proffit, not to add better services.
I fully agree on at least this point.. today I was discussing with a friend how mandrake 7.1 had a better partition tool (graphical and the autopartition seems semi intelligent) than ubuntu or debian. The mandrake installer is the most friendly IMHO of all installers I've tried (FC included). Choose a begginer install and the installer is as easy if not easier than installing windows XP.
Also the mandrake installer was able to do a proper dual boot setup very easily and would not default to wiping your windows instal. In ubuntu that is not the case, it defaults to delete your windows install, and when you choose to keep it you have to manually edit grub so that you have access to your windows install (for a "noob" that would basically mean windows was gone).
Anyhow to finish my rant: with how long there have been good installers (that are open source) there is no excuse for haing a poor one when you can just use one that is good and works already. Stop re-inventing the installer.
Yes I have bought used cds. But what's the difference in buying a used cd vs downloading mp3's? The complaint on dl'ing is that the original artist and the record company get nothing, but when I buy a used cd they still get nothing and i get the music (albight higher quality). Same deal here. The company will complain about a dl'd rom, but they aren't getting anything from you buying a used one anyhow and there is no way to get a new one. So why bother buying the used rom? If there is no new option why would they force you to buy a used one when they get nothing out of it?
To clarify, the difference with cd's is that there is the option to buy a new cd. The recording company can't complain about the used purchase, but they can call dl'ing mp3's stealing and threaten lawsuits. In the case of many roms, there is no way to buy new, and no way for the company to make money via your options on getting the roms. So why buy a used cart to make it "legal"? If they aren't actively trying to make money off the games what do they care if you actually have a cart at home (not to mention that many carts/aracade roms claim you don't have a right to have ANY copy of the data elsewhere, which is a different discussion on fair use etc).
On the other side of the coin, if I wanted to play Sonic 3 on my PSP (since it's one of my favourite games) I'd be quite happy to pay a few £ on eBay for an original cartridge so I'm then completely legit in downloading a ROM of that cartridge and running it under emulation.
Can anyone explain to me why this would make it ok to copy/download the game? The original creators do not get any of the money you spent on the used cartridge, so why bother buying a used cart? It would make more sense to me to mail a check for $5 to sega and say, "I'm using sonic on my psp, thanks." That way at least the creators (if sega actually made that inhouse, don't know and it doesn't matter for my point, lets just assume that is the case) get some money out of you. Buying a used cart they get none. Sure the original owner can not play the game so you are "transfering" the right to play the game, but come on, you are paying next to nothing for it and not actually using it at all, so why own it? Whether you buy it or not the orignal company has gotten all the money they can out of it, unless they are remarketing it (see further)
I myself have no problem morally with using roms that aren't available for current systems, it's their fault for not capitalizing on it. Look at midway, they've created some great collections for new systems which I have purchased. Some examples herehere and (as you guessed) here. Oh and I shouldn't forget Namco.
Until more companies start doing this people will just download the games, not only is it easier but it makes a lot more sense than tracking down an old cart so you can feel good about downloading the roms. If people want to play old games on the psp the marketing groups of the companies that have all these great legacy games should be taking notice and doing something about it.
What if you want a tv out for running powerpoint presentations, or watching divx movies on an actual tv without ripping to dvd? Pci cards are now difficult to find, and generally more expensive than their agp bretheren.
Does it bother you when someone has a ferrari that they just drive to work
Yes, they should be in a car club minimally, but preferably running autocross/solo2 at the local track on sundays.
or an SUV that they just drive to soccer practice?
That's what minivans are for, either get out camping and off the non-beaten path or buy a minivan. You are obviously a soccer mom, so face the facts and buy the van already (you will never have another adventuresome excursion in your life so stop pretending).
You know, it really bothers me that you have a kitchen and don't bother to cook up gourmet 5 star meals.
You can cook 5 star meals with a microwave, hotplate and one pot?
Not to mention the 2400 series doesn't have an agp slot! Not only do I have two (one a p4 and one a celeron) but this fact can be found easily on google (many people have bought them not realising there is no agp slot).
So if his video isn't shared (which I'm willing to bet it is) then it's onboard with soldered on memory which isn't really much of a step from shared memory (if at all).
Depends if you want to detect pressure or just a depression (that the foot is down).. for ddr all you need to know is that a square is depressed in which case you can just have two contacts that are seperated then contact, therefore completing a circuit (most homemade ddr pads use weather stripping to hold the contacts appart).
This summer I'm making my own dance pad, A little googling on the subject will give you lots of good hits on people who have already done this.
If you want to detect ressure use FSR's, piezo's could also be used to detect velocity of strikes (the harder the strike the brighter the lights would be a neat effect).
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Thanks for the tip! I am still an undergrad and have not done any work with xml (hey I have a year or so to go, so i have time), but a friends work in the area has piqued my interest (the shakespeare stuff).
A quote I liked from another fellow student doing something that involved xml stated of xml, " XML: It says everything and nothing at the same time."
Excellent, this should be modded +5 informative.
If you can save as XML (both word and OO can) then you can use XSL. There is a project at University of Victoria that is doing that with shakespear works (all works are being converted to xml manualy, then then xsl/xslt is used to convert the file for presentation in various formats).
What about those of us who use a CDMA/TDMA only provider?
:D.
A $20 GSM phone would mean it would be a lot cheaper for you to switch to a GSM provider
TDMA is on its way out and CDMA is basically North america only. With a 4 band GSM phone you can use your phone in > 180 countries. North america coverage of gsm is 95% of the populated regions (iirc). Most of europe and many other countries have adopted GSM not CDMA. Plus it seems a lot of companies are rolling out 850MHz GSM networks (there are various benefits to it such as better in building reception for large city centers and better outlying reception).
Throwing bodies at a problem generally makes schedules slip even in the design state
excellent point, it's amazing how many managers do not understand that. It's amazing how many people have not heard of The Mythical Man-Month. It should be required reading for anyone dealing with large projects (learn from someone elses mistakes in this case IBM's).
Also not entirely on topic, but more programmers need to read The Design of Everyday things. There are way too many poor user interfaces out there, and DOET has a lot of great information of interfaces (from door knobs, to kettle handles and menu structures) and making them usable.
And as long as I'm ranting read some Ask Tog, especially this if you haven't.
Let's keep math books out of schools and close the freeways, because only mathematicians and NASCAR drivers have any right to numbers and cars.
So do freeways only have left turns in the US?
whatever you say you windows running fools
I've got more lyrics than CPAN has modules
even if you hacked my database and learned how to grep
I'd still bust yo *ss like luke vs boba fett
No power used when idle
Well not much more than ram. They aren't using sram here which is non-volatile(it'd be waay to expensive, and they don't need that much speed considering the bottleneck of the sata controller). It uses dram (ddr to be specific) which is volatile, so it needs power to keep information on it.
good point. I think the largest they should have done the recipe is as a 50 liter batch for full size kegs. Many home brewers use 19L (5 gal us) kegs, at my work we have some 8gal us kegs. Most canadians (in my experience) use 5 gal imp (23 L) carboys while americans use 5 gal us (19L) carboys. So this batch should really be scaled down. I'd have to use 3 fermentors and 3 carboys.
Also another poster had a good point: this beer contains a fair amount of sugar. Since they aren't going for a belgian triple or the likes it really isn't going to help the recipe (sugar thins a beer out and if more than 30% of the fermentables are dextrose or sucrose you can get a cidery taste).
Of course this is a move in the right direction. There are some amazing beers out there that aren't available to some markets. With open recipes it would allow others to make the great beer.
There is NO SUCH THING as a chemical imbalance
I should just write this AC off as a troll but many people think this way. Vitamins will no help the fact that all your seratonin is being re-uptaken into the neuron instead of making it to the receptor. Yes St. john's wort and some other vitamins have been helpful to some people, but not for people with severe clinical depression. We are talking about people who have brains that aren't sending signals correctly. Different neurotransmitters just aren't being recieve or recieved in high enough quantities to perform properly.
I am sure people who don't suffer from clinical depression would also get some sort of a "lift" from ssri's and mao inhibitors, but for those who need it it's the differenence between: not being able to concentrate, not be interested in anything, being entirely apathetic, having social anxiety, no sexual appetite, frequent sadness... etc
and
acting like a normal person (or 90% of one at least).
Oh And when I list symptoms I don't mean one, i mean all at the same time. Unless you have experienced severe clinical depression you will just write it off as someone that needs to change their outlook in life (and to be fair there are many people who are just that way and don't need medical treatment), however it is not your place to decide what someone does or doesn't need, leave it to the medical proffesionals. Researches may not know much about brain function yet, but they know a lot more than Tom Cruise or anyone else not in the field who will just spout their opinion at will on something they know nothing about.
Hey thanks for the links (the snippets.org one didn't work :P). I found a local retailer that sells Adire and a great amount of other audio components.
I'll be the first to admit the car audio drivers tend to be overpriced and have less bass extension than comparably-sized home audio driver"
Out of curiousity what driver (brand/model) would you have chosen for such a project or what would you recomend?
which makes me glad we only have one moon. I can barely deal with each woman in my life having one cycle a month.
The mods are on crack, how you got modded up is beyond me.
Part of AMD's claims is outrageous. Why would AMD expect its competitor, Intel, to write software that supports AMD's own products?
Well it supports the x86 architecture. It doesn't have to support special features of AMD, but it should not purposely run different code (than it would on an intel proc) to crash the system. That's pushing the limit on anti-competitive, next thing you know ford is selling fuel that runs great in their cars but can tell if it's in a toyota and decides to spontaneously combust in the tank then.
Oh yeah, on the SPARC note, you need to take a computer arch class if you think that they are poorly designed.. if anything the x86 arch is the biggest hack of all.
On a related note, is there any way by which the authors of the GNU compiler collection (GCC) would limit the range of x86 instructions generated by GCC compilers....
Once again you have obviously never taken any classes regarding the subject. So you want to force all cisc processors to become risc by changing gcc to only support simple instructions? (which are not necessarily faster, just look at the cycles some complex operations take then try to create something in asm that does the same in the same amount of cycles using only simple instructions). Have you forgotten that GCC is not the only compiler in the world? Did you not RTFA?! It's about the intel compiler for goodness sakes! If GCC was crippled as you suggest, no one would use it, end of story.
Oh and less transistors on a chip? Brilliant. I assume you don't want faster computers or something. All the advanced branch prediction, out of order code execution etc that makes todays processors process that much faster than previous ones is thanks to the extra transistors.
If you want to talk about how computer architecture should change, take at least one class in it. It is really interesting (believe it or not) and you would learn a lot about what has been tried and done and why certain choices were made.
Excellent point. Unless prices were raised to the point where only large corperations can afford the TLD's, you are not going to stop spammers from using that particular tld. $50/year is still not enough to deter a spammer from a common mispelling of a popular domain name or other such domains, however it is enough to stop some individuals from registering their name, or johnspics.net or what have you for personal use.
I'd like to see a slight raise in costs of tld's, but some kind of policing or moderation done one domain names to stop the porn/comercial redirects of misspellings etc. Of course any increase will be just for proffit, not to add better services.
I fully agree on at least this point.. today I was discussing with a friend how mandrake 7.1 had a better partition tool (graphical and the autopartition seems semi intelligent) than ubuntu or debian. The mandrake installer is the most friendly IMHO of all installers I've tried (FC included). Choose a begginer install and the installer is as easy if not easier than installing windows XP.
Also the mandrake installer was able to do a proper dual boot setup very easily and would not default to wiping your windows instal. In ubuntu that is not the case, it defaults to delete your windows install, and when you choose to keep it you have to manually edit grub so that you have access to your windows install (for a "noob" that would basically mean windows was gone).
Anyhow to finish my rant: with how long there have been good installers (that are open source) there is no excuse for haing a poor one when you can just use one that is good and works already. Stop re-inventing the installer.
I like it. I'm sure George didn't have the forthought for something that deep, but it would make a great movie/series.
Flesh it out a bit more and write a book/screenplay, seriously.
Yes I have bought used cds. But what's the difference in buying a used cd vs downloading mp3's? The complaint on dl'ing is that the original artist and the record company get nothing, but when I buy a used cd they still get nothing and i get the music (albight higher quality). Same deal here. The company will complain about a dl'd rom, but they aren't getting anything from you buying a used one anyhow and there is no way to get a new one. So why bother buying the used rom? If there is no new option why would they force you to buy a used one when they get nothing out of it?
To clarify, the difference with cd's is that there is the option to buy a new cd. The recording company can't complain about the used purchase, but they can call dl'ing mp3's stealing and threaten lawsuits. In the case of many roms, there is no way to buy new, and no way for the company to make money via your options on getting the roms. So why buy a used cart to make it "legal"? If they aren't actively trying to make money off the games what do they care if you actually have a cart at home (not to mention that many carts/aracade roms claim you don't have a right to have ANY copy of the data elsewhere, which is a different discussion on fair use etc).
On the other side of the coin, if I wanted to play Sonic 3 on my PSP (since it's one of my favourite games) I'd be quite happy to pay a few £ on eBay for an original cartridge so I'm then completely legit in downloading a ROM of that cartridge and running it under emulation.
.
Can anyone explain to me why this would make it ok to copy/download the game? The original creators do not get any of the money you spent on the used cartridge, so why bother buying a used cart? It would make more sense to me to mail a check for $5 to sega and say, "I'm using sonic on my psp, thanks." That way at least the creators (if sega actually made that inhouse, don't know and it doesn't matter for my point, lets just assume that is the case) get some money out of you. Buying a used cart they get none. Sure the original owner can not play the game so you are "transfering" the right to play the game, but come on, you are paying next to nothing for it and not actually using it at all, so why own it? Whether you buy it or not the orignal company has gotten all the money they can out of it, unless they are remarketing it (see further)
I myself have no problem morally with using roms that aren't available for current systems, it's their fault for not capitalizing on it. Look at midway, they've created some great collections for new systems which I have purchased. Some examples here here and (as you guessed) here. Oh and I shouldn't forget Namco
Until more companies start doing this people will just download the games, not only is it easier but it makes a lot more sense than tracking down an old cart so you can feel good about downloading the roms. If people want to play old games on the psp the marketing groups of the companies that have all these great legacy games should be taking notice and doing something about it.
and naked = 33,800,000 results
while clothed = 2,160,000 results
So one would assume there are a lot of naked homosexuals that use netbeans out there. Of course the results say otherwise.
What if you want a tv out for running powerpoint presentations, or watching divx movies on an actual tv without ripping to dvd? Pci cards are now difficult to find, and generally more expensive than their agp bretheren.
Does it bother you when someone has a ferrari that they just drive to work
Yes, they should be in a car club minimally, but preferably running autocross/solo2 at the local track on sundays.
or an SUV that they just drive to soccer practice?
That's what minivans are for, either get out camping and off the non-beaten path or buy a minivan. You are obviously a soccer mom, so face the facts and buy the van already (you will never have another adventuresome excursion in your life so stop pretending).
You know, it really bothers me that you have a kitchen and don't bother to cook up gourmet 5 star meals.
You can cook 5 star meals with a microwave, hotplate and one pot?
Not to mention the 2400 series doesn't have an agp slot! Not only do I have two (one a p4 and one a celeron) but this fact can be found easily on google (many people have bought them not realising there is no agp slot).
So if his video isn't shared (which I'm willing to bet it is) then it's onboard with soldered on memory which isn't really much of a step from shared memory (if at all).
"and the rates of pneumonia, TB, and other diseases have skyrocketed in all the border states,"
Those damn canadians bringing their iglo bred pneumonia and tb into the states..
But who can blame them for wanting to move to such balmy states as Montana and North Dakota.
Depends if you want to detect pressure or just a depression (that the foot is down).. for ddr all you need to know is that a square is depressed in which case you can just have two contacts that are seperated then contact, therefore completing a circuit (most homemade ddr pads use weather stripping to hold the contacts appart).
This summer I'm making my own dance pad, A little googling on the subject will give you lots of good hits on people who have already done this.
If you want to detect ressure use FSR's, piezo's could also be used to detect velocity of strikes (the harder the strike the brighter the lights would be a neat effect).
Anyhow, just a few ideas for you.