Does this meant that my blind friends who use JAWS to read websites are breaking the law or infringing copyrights?
Another excuse for a lawsuit or settlement...
Basically, in 1991 I was an Acorn geek and had a good knowledge of ARM assembler. I'd had a A310 (an ARM2 I believe) and I'd just upgraded to a RISCPC (with the ARM3 and the FPU I think) for university, while also learning *nix in the Sun lab.
While browsing comp.sys.os I found a post from some bloke called Linus who was offering a *nix kernel that could be compiled for x86 and we started having an email chat with him about how I'd go about porting it to the ARM hardware. I took it know further when all he asked for was $20 or so as, frankly, I was a student (so had little cash) and I didn't know how to get a bankers cheque in USD.
And that, my son, is why I didn't surf a wave of Linux on ARM...
The mantra in UK TV at the moment is interactivity; "phone this number", "press the red button now", "our website is...". The amusing thing is that, like the interactive web, execs only support it when it brings in business or is "on message".
The public, who know all along that the show is an excuse for a bit of fun, got increasingly annoyed with the show (the judges) taking it all too seriously and just kept voting for him.
That and his dance partner had an amazing rack - it's why I kept voting:)
Hmm... as I'm getting old I thought I remember this concept as HOTOL, and sure enough:
wikipedia Reaction engines was started by one of the HOTOL designers.
Still, it's had probably 30 years of intellectual development and it looks believable to me.
Go Reaction Engines.
Nope, a great many of the CD incidents were unencrypted.
I've just recruited somebody who worked in Parliament IT, and I've worked in most areas of civil service IT, and from what he's told me and what I've experienced, I'm more against a centralized database of citizens (well subjects here in Blighty) details than ever.
Government departments over here tend to pay *huge* fees to the Accenture's and EDS's of this world who staff up the projects with their cheapest graduates and underdeliver a system that fulfills 15% (if lucky) of the business requirements, has no clear architecture, has expensive licensing implications and is a nightmare to support. They are then kicked out and the permanent staff are asked to take over.
They pay their permanent staff very low wages on the whole, and offer fairly poor training - this combined with a rushed handover of undocumented rubbish from the big boys means we end up with a mish mash of systems with poor support, poor security and easily exploitable back doors.
The one military project I worked on was *not* like this which makes me think they should apply the same rigour to everything.
I was once fixing some bugs in some PowerBuilder (remember that) at work and the code went something like://kill memory mapper
kill wf_memmap;//kill dtc connection
kill nvo_dtc_conn;//kill ogd connection
kill nvo_ogd_conn2;//kill your friends
I sat opposite the guy who wrote it - and left soon after
Ha ha. (Actually, in it's latest incarnation it's quite good - am I allowed to say that on Slashdot?)
Magnolia, Liferay and Alfresco are worth checking out in the Java space. Community wise you're going to have to integrate other features though.
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ is the website to get the software, it's very easy to set up and to maintain content. You can also do Form submissions with it, though formtools is another good tool for that. These guys www.parkcorner.com did our design - they're great value (for the UK - hence they charge in Sterling which is probably a problem).
I built our company website (I'm loath to post it here but here goes http://www.sceneric.com/ using CMS Made Simple as it allowed me to use CSS and div for layout etc. which Joomla didn't. Intrigued by Drupal though.
We've just implemented a site using Magnolia which is excellent.
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Banks is indeed a socialist and one of his best friends is Ken McCleod who's Fall Quadruple is a fantastic vision of a near future (in my opinion, and I'm a classic east coast libertarian). I finished The Execution Channel last night which is left wing propoganda at it's worst but a great read and quite amusing in that it shows how people assume malevolence when it's sometimes incompetence.
My first Bank's book was Excession which I read stuck on an island off the US coast on 12th->14th September 2001 when I wasn't going anywhere for obvious reasons. A struggle at first, it's a fantastic mix of cyberpunk and space opera in my opinion and a great introduction to the Culturverse, and with a "WOW" ending and that really puts their power into perspective.
The Algebraist was similar - though not a Culture novel, once the initial shock is over it's a great, great Space Opera. The concept of rHuman and aHuman is played out well across a cruel universe.
Some notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks
Ah whatever mate, I'm English but I almost consider myself a "Westerner" now, i.e. anybody who live geographically west of Warsaw until you hit Seattle.
Tell me it matters anyway as I sup my Vente Skinny Latte from Starbucks, using a Dell PC, after a Subway sandwich...
Stephen Baxter the British Sci-Fi author came up with the concept of re-using shuttle technology to get into space in his manifold series of books (and in Titan...).
Seems like a good idea, but I would hope they could create some parrallel streams of development - side launch for ISS completion with minimum build requirements, full-stack to come on stream a few years later, and then a 3rd project to build a new launch system that can utlise something like the Rutan idea with enough power to get to ISS. ISS could then become a staging post that is resupplied by unmanned boosters.
The resentment is mainly due to the fact that at some point in the near future it might be *my* job, and I have a mortgage and kids of my own to worry about.
Though I guess I could move to India - the climate's better than the UK for a start
So I wrote a program that allowed me to create UDGs (User defined graphics - the speccy didn't have sprites). My mate saw the Space Invader I created with it and spent 30 minutes typing:
Dear Computer, Please make me a game with this graphic:
to pearls of laughter from my 9 year old self. He's contributing to the Linux source now. Be Afraid:)
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Does this meant that my blind friends who use JAWS to read websites are breaking the law or infringing copyrights? Another excuse for a lawsuit or settlement...
Heh, this got me thinking, there was already an ARM Laptop in 1992:
http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Pics/A4A1.jpg
and the post I referred to above was something like this one:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1122971&cid=26803605
but I'm sure it was comp.sys.os...
Basically, in 1991 I was an Acorn geek and had a good knowledge of ARM assembler. I'd had a A310 (an ARM2 I believe) and I'd just upgraded to a RISCPC (with the ARM3 and the FPU I think) for university, while also learning *nix in the Sun lab.
While browsing comp.sys.os I found a post from some bloke called Linus who was offering a *nix kernel that could be compiled for x86 and we started having an email chat with him about how I'd go about porting it to the ARM hardware. I took it know further when all he asked for was $20 or so as, frankly, I was a student (so had little cash) and I didn't know how to get a bankers cheque in USD.
And that, my son, is why I didn't surf a wave of Linux on ARM...
The mantra in UK TV at the moment is interactivity; "phone this number", "press the red button now", "our website is...". The amusing thing is that, like the interactive web, execs only support it when it brings in business or is "on message".
:)
The public, who know all along that the show is an excuse for a bit of fun, got increasingly annoyed with the show (the judges) taking it all too seriously and just kept voting for him.
That and his dance partner had an amazing rack - it's why I kept voting
Agreed. I think the next step from a travel database will be a travel permit. Papers please!
The day after I lose my mod points I read this post! Excellent
Hmm... as I'm getting old I thought I remember this concept as HOTOL, and sure enough: wikipedia Reaction engines was started by one of the HOTOL designers. Still, it's had probably 30 years of intellectual development and it looks believable to me. Go Reaction Engines.
Nope, a great many of the CD incidents were unencrypted.
I've just recruited somebody who worked in Parliament IT, and I've worked in most areas of civil service IT, and from what he's told me and what I've experienced, I'm more against a centralized database of citizens (well subjects here in Blighty) details than ever.
Government departments over here tend to pay *huge* fees to the Accenture's and EDS's of this world who staff up the projects with their cheapest graduates and underdeliver a system that fulfills 15% (if lucky) of the business requirements, has no clear architecture, has expensive licensing implications and is a nightmare to support. They are then kicked out and the permanent staff are asked to take over. They pay their permanent staff very low wages on the whole, and offer fairly poor training - this combined with a rushed handover of undocumented rubbish from the big boys means we end up with a mish mash of systems with poor support, poor security and easily exploitable back doors.
The one military project I worked on was *not* like this which makes me think they should apply the same rigour to everything.
broad brush rant over...
[tightbeam, Mclear, tra. @4.28.891.7352]
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I'm glad my home network is named after culture ships, unless it's the Affront!
xGCU Grey Area
oExcession call-signed "I"
Let's talk shall we
I was once fixing some bugs in some PowerBuilder (remember that) at work and the code went something like: //kill memory mapper
kill wf_memmap; //kill dtc connection
kill nvo_dtc_conn; //kill ogd connection
kill nvo_ogd_conn2; //kill your friends
I sat opposite the guy who wrote it - and left soon after
Ha ha. (Actually, in it's latest incarnation it's quite good - am I allowed to say that on Slashdot?) Magnolia, Liferay and Alfresco are worth checking out in the Java space. Community wise you're going to have to integrate other features though.
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ is the website to get the software, it's very easy to set up and to maintain content. You can also do Form submissions with it, though formtools is another good tool for that. These guys www.parkcorner.com did our design - they're great value (for the UK - hence they charge in Sterling which is probably a problem).
I built our company website (I'm loath to post it here but here goes http://www.sceneric.com/ using CMS Made Simple as it allowed me to use CSS and div for layout etc. which Joomla didn't. Intrigued by Drupal though. We've just implemented a site using Magnolia which is excellent.
Banks is indeed a socialist and one of his best friends is Ken McCleod who's Fall Quadruple is a fantastic vision of a near future (in my opinion, and I'm a classic east coast libertarian). I finished The Execution Channel last night which is left wing propoganda at it's worst but a great read and quite amusing in that it shows how people assume malevolence when it's sometimes incompetence. My first Bank's book was Excession which I read stuck on an island off the US coast on 12th->14th September 2001 when I wasn't going anywhere for obvious reasons. A struggle at first, it's a fantastic mix of cyberpunk and space opera in my opinion and a great introduction to the Culturverse, and with a "WOW" ending and that really puts their power into perspective. The Algebraist was similar - though not a Culture novel, once the initial shock is over it's a great, great Space Opera. The concept of rHuman and aHuman is played out well across a cruel universe. Some notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks
Ah whatever mate, I'm English but I almost consider myself a "Westerner" now, i.e. anybody who live geographically west of Warsaw until you hit Seattle. Tell me it matters anyway as I sup my Vente Skinny Latte from Starbucks, using a Dell PC, after a Subway sandwich...
which makes the high fuel tax, just a tiny bit harder to swallow...
Stephen Baxter the British Sci-Fi author came up with the concept of re-using shuttle technology to get into space in his manifold series of books (and in Titan...). Seems like a good idea, but I would hope they could create some parrallel streams of development - side launch for ISS completion with minimum build requirements, full-stack to come on stream a few years later, and then a 3rd project to build a new launch system that can utlise something like the Rutan idea with enough power to get to ISS. ISS could then become a staging post that is resupplied by unmanned boosters.
Mornington Crescent?
The resentment is mainly due to the fact that at some point in the near future it might be *my* job, and I have a mortgage and kids of my own to worry about.
Though I guess I could move to India - the climate's better than the UK for a start
So I wrote a program that allowed me to create UDGs (User defined graphics - the speccy didn't have sprites). My mate saw the Space Invader I created with it and spent 30 minutes typing: Dear Computer, Please make me a game with this graphic: to pearls of laughter from my 9 year old self. He's contributing to the Linux source now. Be Afraid :)
I actually use Opera or Mozilla at home - I'm at work and have to use IE. Amazing eh!
That this page generated a pop-up ad for Window Washer.