CDR Sound Review tells us how various brands of CDRs stack up for different types of music: "Maxell 700 MB silver top for more detailed highs, Maxell Music gold for a fatter, more solid mid-to-bottom."
It says that switching to open source can damage a country's indigenous IT industry, because some varieties of open source software place restrictions on copyright and intellectual property. "Imagine if the software industry were tied in to restrictive licenses with unreasonable terms. How could anybody want to function in an environment like that?"
It also says that it is a more reliable partner than smaller, less well-established open source distributors. "Consider IBM, this open-source dot com the German government has decided to do business with. What's their track record? How long have they been around?"
"Any policy that favours one thing over another isn't helpful," a Microsoft Europe spokeswoman told the Journal. "That's why we support our applications on a wide variety of operating systems. We want users to have the choice of where they want to go. That's why we provide software for all version of Windows!"
I bask in the moral superiority of my movies!
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...these kids balked at mega-hype, rediscovered earnestness, simplicity, the love story, some patriotism...
Because they went to see Spiderman? I can't wait to see what they rediscover from MIB 2. Virtue, fortitude, courage, brighter teeth and fresher breath, I suppose. William Bennett, call your office!
Rudy Rucker and John Walker (themselves pretty amazing guys) have released their Cellular Automata lab, originally written as part of Autodesk's science series. You can download it at http://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/
Easy steps to unsubscribe...
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Here's what to do:
Call the customer service, spend a "reasonable" amount of time on the phone.
If you haven't been unsubscribed in a reasonable amount of time, hang up. The definition of "reasonable" varies according to each person. I'm willing to put up with 5-10 minutes.
Call your credit card company. Tell them, "I would like to dispute this bill. I have tried to unsubscribe from the service and have not been successful."
You will be sent a bit of paperwork to fill out. Write "I have tried to unsubscribe to the service but have not been successful in doing so."
The billing dispute will churn through the system for some amount of time. Sometimes the service company will just cancel your subscription and reverse the charge. If not, you will eventually be contacted by somebody, either on the phone or in writing.
When asked why you want to cancel the service, reply, "I no longer use it." If pressed for reasons ("was it the price? were you dissatisfied?"), respond, "I dunno, I just no longer use it."
Credit card companies are used to dealing with business who make it hard to cancel recurring charges. They know what to do, and in this case they are your allies. Good Luck!
Ahh, this explains a lot of things...
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College is not a guarantee of anything. Experience and expertise is.
But lack of a degree will most unfortunately remove you from consideration for many opportunities. Even being able to say, "I'm through with all this, I'm going off to teach computers to elementary schoolkids!"
On this subject, I have to agree with Microsoft. RealNames was just not that great of an idea, and it is one of the ideas being cleaned out in the post-bubble economy.
Google has several search language options
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Go to http://www.google.com/preferences, and you can choose from among dozens of languages to search in, including 16-bit languages.
A pure-numbers list would be a welcome counterbalance to this attitude:
We're missing the boat, calculatedly so, on things like religious books," says Chip McGrath, editor of the New York Times Book Review. "I don't think we have to apologize for that." (emphasis mine)
This story told by an engineering director pretty much sums up the HP way:
"I had just started at HP. At my old company, I had a reserved parking spot near the door. One day I arrived late and was a bit miffed that I had to walk in from the far edge of the parking lot. Until I looked up and saw David Packard walking in from two rows further out."
Many of the good, progressive things we have cherished about the hi-tech world, such as its egalitarianism, informality, and respect for doing the right thing came directly from these two men.
I got this from my old company's lawyer: You won't ever get rid of UPPER CASE in legalese, because
Some legal precedents require parts of your license to be "noticable"
Typing in upper case has been found to be "noticable" in previous court cases
So if you changed from upper case to bold italic lower case, you would very likely face a legal challenge that your notice was not "noticable", and you would have to fight that throught the court hierarchy. However, once somebody did do this, then others could use that as precedent.
In related news, Richard Stallman of the Free Software foundation said in a press release, "I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that KDE and Gnome are OS kernels, and should properly be called GNU/KDE and GNU/Gnome when referred to as fully functioning operating systems."
it is very true that when you cheat the only person you're really hurting is yourself.
Suppose you turn in (original) work which just barely deserves an A. Then suppose that your classmates turn in plagarized work which would deserve a strong A if they were not plagarized.
You then have the case either where everybody gets an A (and your grade is diluted, because your class/school gets a reputation for grade inflation), or you get a B because the other pieces of work are better than yours.
I have been in classes where I suspected other people of cheating, and I did not like it one bit when they got a better grade for it.
I don't mean to sound like a stick in the mud here, but why exactly is this cool? This source code was obviously available before, for people who actually needed it. Why, then, is the simple fact that anyone can get to it now a "cool" thing?
Because you don't have to be blessed by someone who feels you "actually need it". I hope that this is the beginning of a trend for companies to release source code to things which have been sitting around, and which would otherwise cease to exist.
In hindsight, complying with the company's Document Retention Policy (which at Netscape was basically, ``shred anything within 90 days unless you can't get your job done without it'') might have been a good idea.
It has long been discussed that AOL wants to expand to settop boxes. Given RH's expertise in embedded systems (they bought Cygnus, remember?), perhaps AOL would like to use Linux when deploying their settop system.
Speaking of rumors, has anybody heard about AOL investigating 802.11b? There was talk of this at a recent BAWUG (Bay Area Wireless User Group) meeting.
I lived in China for four years, where our company was building the China Internet Backbone. I came back to the States this Fall.
Based on what I saw, Red Flag is not a very popular distro. I saw it at the store for about 900 RMB (about $US 108). It could be the case that they are concentrating on large govt or corporate accounts.
Xteam Linux seemed very popular at the stores, where it sold for 38 RMB (about $US 5). They had a nice-looking poster, which was displayed all over.
You could buy current versions of both Slackware and Red Hat from the CD street vendors for about $US 1 each.
Most of my Chinese colleagues seemed to prefer a localized version of Mandrake. It looked pretty nice... all the screens/menus were presented in Chinese, and it supported an input method for Chinese characters.
I lived in Beijing for four years, and bought a desktop system for my kids while I was there. It was a TCL 718, SiS motherboard, pretty standard box. TCL is one of the large consumer electronics companies in China.
Their support was great... they had a localized copy of Suse. I wanted to install an English distro. They actually sent two guys to my apartment with all the device drivers, etc, as part of their service agreement (this for a $900 computer!). They also have a web site with all the drivers and setup information.
However, chatting with the shop owner where I bought the box, it seems I was one of the very few customers who did not immediately request that Windows be installed over the existing system. It's the shop guy who does this, so it's a lot harder to regulate than if the manufacturer does this.
It contains the excellent advice
"The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing."
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CDR Sound Review tells us how various brands of CDRs stack up for different types of music:
"Maxell 700 MB silver top for more detailed highs, Maxell Music gold for a fatter, more solid mid-to-bottom."
It says that switching to open source can damage a country's indigenous IT industry, because some varieties of open source software place restrictions on copyright and intellectual property. "Imagine if the software industry were tied in to restrictive licenses with unreasonable terms. How could anybody want to function in an environment like that?"
It also says that it is a more reliable partner than smaller, less well-established open source distributors. "Consider IBM, this open-source dot com the German government has decided to do business with. What's their track record? How long have they been around?"
"Any policy that favours one thing over another isn't helpful," a Microsoft Europe spokeswoman told the Journal. "That's why we support our applications on a wide variety of operating systems. We want users to have the choice of where they want to go. That's why we provide software for all version of Windows!"
Because they went to see Spiderman? I can't wait to see what they rediscover from MIB 2. Virtue, fortitude, courage, brighter teeth and fresher breath, I suppose. William Bennett, call your office!
Wolfram's first CA book (the collection of his papers) is out of print but available for download at http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/books/c a-reprint/
Credit card companies are used to dealing with business who make it hard to cancel recurring charges. They know what to do, and in this case they are your allies. Good Luck!
AOL, which I've been on for years,
But lack of a degree will most unfortunately remove you from consideration for many opportunities. Even being able to say, "I'm through with all this, I'm going off to teach computers to elementary schoolkids!"
On this subject, I have to agree with Microsoft.
RealNames was just not that great of an idea, and it is one of the ideas being cleaned out in the post-bubble economy.
Go to http://www.google.com/preferences, and you can choose from among dozens of languages to search in, including 16-bit languages.
That's Mr. Yuk...
Many of the good, progressive things we have cherished about the hi-tech world, such as its egalitarianism, informality, and respect for doing the right thing came directly from these two men.
So if you changed from upper case to bold italic lower case, you would very likely face a legal challenge that your notice was not "noticable", and you would have to fight that throught the court hierarchy. However, once somebody did do this, then others could use that as precedent.
In related news, Richard Stallman of the Free Software foundation said in a press release, "I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that KDE and Gnome are OS kernels, and should properly be called GNU/KDE and GNU/Gnome when referred to as fully functioning operating systems."
That's about 2.8 million double-spaced typed pages.
and we all know how important those "large graphics files" are in everybody's work...
Suppose you turn in (original) work which just barely deserves an A. Then suppose that your classmates turn in plagarized work which would deserve a strong A if they were not plagarized.
You then have the case either where everybody gets an A (and your grade is diluted, because your class/school gets a reputation for grade inflation), or you get a B because the other pieces of work are better than yours.
I have been in classes where I suspected other people of cheating, and I did not like it one bit when they got a better grade for it.
I don't mean to sound like a stick in the mud here, but why exactly is this cool? This source code was obviously available before, for people who actually needed it. Why, then, is the simple fact that anyone can get to it now a "cool" thing?
Because you don't have to be blessed by someone who feels you "actually need it". I hope that this is the beginning of a trend for companies to release source code to things which have been sitting around, and which would otherwise cease to exist.
Full story at http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html
It has long been discussed that AOL wants to expand to settop boxes. Given RH's expertise in embedded systems (they bought Cygnus, remember?), perhaps AOL would like to use Linux when deploying their settop system.
Speaking of rumors, has anybody heard about AOL investigating 802.11b? There was talk of this at a recent BAWUG (Bay Area Wireless User Group) meeting.
I lived in China for four years, where our company was building the China Internet Backbone. I came back to the States this Fall.
Based on what I saw, Red Flag is not a very popular distro. I saw it at the store for about 900 RMB (about $US 108). It could be the case that they are concentrating on large govt or corporate accounts.
Xteam Linux seemed very popular at the stores, where it sold for 38 RMB (about $US 5). They had a nice-looking poster, which was displayed all over.
You could buy current versions of both Slackware and Red Hat from the CD street vendors for about $US 1 each.
Most of my Chinese colleagues seemed to prefer a localized version of Mandrake. It looked pretty nice... all the screens/menus were presented in Chinese, and it supported an input method for Chinese characters.
I lived in Beijing for four years, and bought a desktop system for my kids while I was there. It was a TCL 718, SiS motherboard, pretty standard box. TCL is one of the large consumer electronics companies in China.
Their support was great... they had a localized copy of Suse. I wanted to install an English distro. They actually sent two guys to my apartment with all the device drivers, etc, as part of their service agreement (this for a $900 computer!). They also have a web site with all the drivers and setup information.
However, chatting with the shop owner where I bought the box, it seems I was one of the very few customers who did not immediately request that Windows be installed over the existing system. It's the shop guy who does this, so it's a lot harder to regulate than if the manufacturer does this.
It contains the excellent advice "The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing."
I had good results with a similar problem using:
tbl -> groff -> acrobat distiller
As old as it is, tbl still produces very nice
looking output, and is very easy to generate.