What a HORRIBLE description this is to compare with BT!! *shrug* The technologies have different end users in mind, but both are interesting to the same kind of geeks.
Most researchers are probably not interested in BitTorrent since their transfer rates will not be imporved by BitTorrent's model (There's likely only one or two downloads going simultaneously for research data, since the audience isn't large)
The LoRS tools give you read/write.... [full text truncated]
You highlighted a few phrases from the above, and seemed to make a big deal about them. But, basically, this project is like every other Grid project.
Resource owners define the conditions of use, such as when and how the resource can be used (in this case: how much space and for how long). Users can search and see if resources are available that meet their requirements. If a match is made, great. If not, oh well, you can always pay for service to ensure you have what you need.
Also, a Director for this stuff hints at it being a fee-based in the future
The software is under the revised BSD license. When they refer to "free (for now)" they're likely refering to the actual storage service.
This is no different than developers of ftp software releasing the client and server for free, but restricting access to their ftp site.
I can certainly see a pay-per terrabyte service. If a researcher needs professional grade quality of service, massive data storage and high bandwidth, they will have the grant money to afford it.
For those that want something cheap, roll your own service, with your own terms.
Right. I use LyX a lot. It's very nice. But one thing to remember, LyX currently is really only good at generating LaTeX code.
You can use LyX without ever knowing anything about latex, but for conversion, you've got to deal with a few issues.
PDF output is nice. Postscript/PDF format is what latex is all about. But, HTML output via latex2html isn't very great. It's functional (for the most part), but is a pain to customize, and in my opinion, not professional enough.
LyX does have some nice features, and I certainly recommend it, but it's not an ideal solution (still the best I've found though)
Right. With a scanner, OCRs are great. I was talking about with digital photos with a camera. Not only that, I'm talking about Quickly taking lots of images without damaging the book. Without proofreading, and with graphics and diagrams intact. I'm talking about technical books (and cookbooks), not novels.
The images produced are good enough for reading as jpegs, for long periods of time, at least on my monitor. They are not good enough for OCR software that I've used.
I use a power cable with my camera, so battery life is not a problem. I use a Sony DSC-P5 3 Megapixel camera, with 1600x1200 image size, Fine picture quality, high detail, low flash (depending on the environment). With a tripod, images are always clear and I can take 10 pages per minute (so a 1000 page book in less than two hours).
Adobe Acrobat (Full version, you know where to find it) has a highlighting feature. It works really well, and has the added bonus of being searchable and archivable.
If you're stuck with jpeg images (if you don't have acrobat, you can dump the PDF to images), you can a simple image editing program to highlight (use transparency or 'darken-only' features of the program)
That only works with full computers, however. With a palm, the tools aren't really there yet.
1. Buy a Digital Camera (3 megapixels is fine, less may be ok) 2. Buy the Book. 3. Take digital photos of the book (you can do a full 1000 page text book in an hour or two) 4. Return the book.
You'll make the money back on the camera in one term. For best quality, use a tripod and take the pictures outside in natural sunlight (but you can get buy in a quiet corner of a library or bookstore)
After some processing, images are about 100k each in jpeg format. They can be viewed on a PDA (not for long viewing sessions, though) or over the internet with a reasonably fast connection. I haven't had much luck with OCR software, or conversion to PDF.
Seriously, can anyone name ONE SINGLE advantage that C (or even C++) has over Python for this type of app?
Sure, at the time it started, more developers were doing C, GUI's were written in C, and so were many of the libraries they wanted to use. Another advantage is that the primary gnucash developers were familiar with it.
And by the way, they use Scheme for *a lot* of the programming via guile. You can google for a little article by Prof. Novig comparing Python and Lisp (short version: Python gives you lots of lisp's features in an easy-to-use syntax).
You have to know how to hack scheme to create reports. Something seriously needs to be done about that.
Don't get me wrong, scheme is great, but with the hundreds of (gnc:foo-bar-quux) functions that aren't documented well enough for the casual programmer.
It is simply too hard to extract useful information out of gnucash, and too hard to use gnucash to do anything with the information it maintains.
At the last Global Grid Forum, you'd be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't) at how many keynote speakers (Folks from IBM, Microsoft and HP were the big names) had "Stop the Hype" in their presentations. Of course, the hype machine himself, Ian Foster, didn't even show up.
Here's a one sentence description of Globus: It let's you execute programs on systems in different (virtual) organizations. The interaction between virtual organizations is where globus becomes useful. If you are only staying within your organization (or group) then Globus isn't really worth the effort.
For your type of group, you may be better off playing with Condor. Less hype, and a lot more useful if you are only going to be working on computers that are under your control.
You may also want to check out IBP if you are into distributed filesystem stuff.
Many of the people I know don't use their tattoos as a means of self expression. Instead, it some how seems that the tatoo uses the person as a means for self expression.
In other words, everything in their life revolves around their tattoos or piercings. It's all about how society doesn't understand me because I've got "body art". Or I didn't get that job, or get a date with that girl/guy, or, oh my god my life is complete shit but at least I'm expressing myself because I've got body art!
Anyways. I also know quite a few people who do have simple tattoos or piercings that dont get in the way of a normal social life (yes, i'm making an assumption about the definition of normal). You don't have to have "FUCK YOU" tattooed across your forehead.
If the tattoo you are wanting makes you concerned that you won't get a job at IBM or Sun (much less SCO), then you may very well regret it later in life.
You could do that right now, if the browser supported it. BitTorrent can already automatically ship around a.zip file and unpack it.
I absolutely hate it when people do this. BitTorrent works fine on directories without any help. Don't zip media files! Zip's compression does little for the filesize and, more importantly, you the downloader is unfortunate to only get part of the file, the Zip file remains corrupt. If you use Tar, at least, you can recover the portion of the files that you have downloaded.
Torrense.cx gets flattened all the time.
I don't think it would greatly useful for torrents of entire sites. First, you couldn't use dynamic content. Second, people would have to download your entire site every time they wanted to get a refreshed version.
But it could be useful in a variety of situations. Particularly, any site that is suitable given the technical constraints of freenet would be fine under the constraints of bittorrent. Mainly, this is static documentation and sites that release information in editions (like magazines..). It would also be quite useful for distributed code, programs and media for opensource projects.
Blogs would totally be out of the question, as forums and other collaboration-oriented sites. Unless some concept of revision was built in, so you could update your local copy with a newer remote copy.
Supposedly, through user donations, they are moving Torrentse.cx to another server. The current server reached its bandwidth limit and Hello.jpg decided to just leave the site down until the new server is in place.
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What a HORRIBLE description this is to compare with BT!!
*shrug* The technologies have different end users in mind, but both are interesting to the same kind of geeks.
Most researchers are probably not interested in BitTorrent since their transfer rates will not be imporved by BitTorrent's model (There's likely only one or two downloads going simultaneously for research data, since the audience isn't large)
The LoRS tools give you read/write.... [full text truncated]
You highlighted a few phrases from the above, and seemed to make a big deal about them. But, basically, this project is like every other Grid project.
Resource owners define the conditions of use, such as when and how the resource can be used (in this case: how much space and for how long). Users can search and see if resources are available that meet their requirements. If a match is made, great. If not, oh well, you can always pay for service to ensure you have what you need.
Also, a Director for this stuff hints at it being a fee-based in the future
LoRS source code is available, see freshmeat.
The software is under the revised BSD license. When they refer to "free (for now)" they're likely refering to the actual storage service.
This is no different than developers of ftp software releasing the client and server for free, but restricting access to their ftp site.
I can certainly see a pay-per terrabyte service. If a researcher needs professional grade quality of service, massive data storage and high bandwidth, they will have the grant money to afford it.
For those that want something cheap, roll your own service, with your own terms.
I'm disappointed. This is a KDE application. Why isn't it K-RAD?
Right. I use LyX a lot. It's very nice. But one thing to remember, LyX currently is really only good at generating LaTeX code.
You can use LyX without ever knowing anything about latex, but for conversion, you've got to deal with a few issues.
PDF output is nice. Postscript/PDF format is what latex is all about. But, HTML output via latex2html isn't very great. It's functional (for the most part), but is a pain to customize, and in my opinion, not professional enough.
LyX does have some nice features, and I certainly recommend it, but it's not an ideal solution (still the best I've found though)
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If you do a google search, google says the article was posted 20 hours ago, despite slashdot just showing it a few minutes ago.
Is this a bug in google or do they have access to the articles before the general public?
Right. With a scanner, OCRs are great. I was talking about with digital photos with a camera. Not only that, I'm talking about Quickly taking lots of images without damaging the book. Without proofreading, and with graphics and diagrams intact. I'm talking about technical books (and cookbooks), not novels.
The images produced are good enough for reading as jpegs, for long periods of time, at least on my monitor. They are not good enough for OCR software that I've used.
I use a power cable with my camera, so battery life is not a problem. I use a Sony DSC-P5 3 Megapixel camera, with 1600x1200 image size, Fine picture quality, high detail, low flash (depending on the environment). With a tripod, images are always clear and I can take 10 pages per minute (so a 1000 page book in less than two hours).
Adobe Acrobat (Full version, you know where to find it) has a highlighting feature. It works really well, and has the added bonus of being searchable and archivable.
If you're stuck with jpeg images (if you don't have acrobat, you can dump the PDF to images), you can a simple image editing program to highlight (use transparency or 'darken-only' features of the program)
That only works with full computers, however. With a palm, the tools aren't really there yet.
1. Buy a Digital Camera (3 megapixels is fine, less may be ok)
2. Buy the Book.
3. Take digital photos of the book (you can do a full 1000 page text book in an hour or two)
4. Return the book.
You'll make the money back on the camera in one term. For best quality, use a tripod and take the pictures outside in natural sunlight (but you can get buy in a quiet corner of a library or bookstore)
After some processing, images are about 100k each in jpeg format. They can be viewed on a PDA (not for long viewing sessions, though) or over the internet with a reasonably fast connection. I haven't had much luck with OCR software, or conversion to PDF.
That's it, I'm leaving slashing permanently! I can't believe this post made it here.
/etc/hosts and never coming back.
I'm adding "127.0.0.1 slashdot.org" to my
Seriously, can anyone name ONE SINGLE advantage that C (or even C++) has over Python for this type of app?
Sure, at the time it started, more developers were doing C, GUI's were written in C, and so were many of the libraries they wanted to use. Another advantage is that the primary gnucash developers were familiar with it.
And by the way, they use Scheme for *a lot* of the programming via guile. You can google for a little article by Prof. Novig comparing Python and Lisp (short version: Python gives you lots of lisp's features in an easy-to-use syntax).
You have to know how to hack scheme to create reports. Something seriously needs to be done about that.
Don't get me wrong, scheme is great, but with the hundreds of (gnc:foo-bar-quux) functions that aren't documented well enough for the casual programmer.
It is simply too hard to extract useful information out of gnucash, and too hard to use gnucash to do anything with the information it maintains.
Just give me Lisp with some syntactic sugar, a nicely standardized interpreter and library, and a wxWindows port.
Step One is always:
1. Be Given Birth to By a Woman that is on the Board of Directors for IBM
Integrated Autoconf-like support for finding #include files, libraries, functions and typedefs.
Is SCons viewed as a replacement for Autoconf and Automake, or just a replacement for Make?
Built in support for...
What does this mean? Will SCons somehow only work with languages that SCons has built in support for?
How does SCons compare to Apache's Ant?
At the last Global Grid Forum, you'd be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't) at how many keynote speakers (Folks from IBM, Microsoft and HP were the big names) had "Stop the Hype" in their presentations. Of course, the hype machine himself, Ian Foster, didn't even show up.
Here's a one sentence description of Globus: It let's you execute programs on systems in different (virtual) organizations. The interaction between virtual organizations is where globus becomes useful. If you are only staying within your organization (or group) then Globus isn't really worth the effort.
For your type of group, you may be better off playing with Condor. Less hype, and a lot more useful if you are only going to be working on computers that are under your control.
You may also want to check out IBP if you are into distributed filesystem stuff.
OpenSSH has also been modified to support the Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI) used by Globus.
Many of the people I know don't use their tattoos as a means of self expression. Instead, it some how seems that the tatoo uses the person as a means for self expression.
In other words, everything in their life revolves around their tattoos or piercings. It's all about how society doesn't understand me because I've got "body art". Or I didn't get that job, or get a date with that girl/guy, or, oh my god my life is complete shit but at least I'm expressing myself because I've got body art!
Anyways. I also know quite a few people who do have simple tattoos or piercings that dont get in the way of a normal social life (yes, i'm making an assumption about the definition of normal). You don't have to have "FUCK YOU" tattooed across your forehead.
If the tattoo you are wanting makes you concerned that you won't get a job at IBM or Sun (much less SCO), then you may very well regret it later in life.
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Just what I wanted! The size of a CRT and the quality of a LCD!
You could at least use partner=SLASHDOT
I hate to ruin it for everyone, but the second link has the same content as the first, only in PDF format.
Yeah, that is why you use BitTorrent to create a .torrent for an entire directory of files.
You could do that right now, if the browser supported it. BitTorrent can already automatically ship around a .zip file and unpack it.
I absolutely hate it when people do this. BitTorrent works fine on directories without any help. Don't zip media files! Zip's compression does little for the filesize and, more importantly, you the downloader is unfortunate to only get part of the file, the Zip file remains corrupt. If you use Tar, at least, you can recover the portion of the files that you have downloaded.
Torrense.cx gets flattened all the time. I don't think it would greatly useful for torrents of entire sites. First, you couldn't use dynamic content. Second, people would have to download your entire site every time they wanted to get a refreshed version. But it could be useful in a variety of situations. Particularly, any site that is suitable given the technical constraints of freenet would be fine under the constraints of bittorrent. Mainly, this is static documentation and sites that release information in editions (like magazines..). It would also be quite useful for distributed code, programs and media for opensource projects. Blogs would totally be out of the question, as forums and other collaboration-oriented sites. Unless some concept of revision was built in, so you could update your local copy with a newer remote copy.
Supposedly, through user donations, they are moving Torrentse.cx to another server. The current server reached its bandwidth limit and Hello.jpg decided to just leave the site down until the new server is in place.