The DVD has been available at most retail stores for a while. I highly recommend it to anyone who would like to see the "History of Religion in one Minute". "The Shoe is the sign" "No The Gourd!"
This is according to the Monty Python Biography _The First 20 Years of Monty Python_ by Kim Howard Johnson.
Both U-Boot and LinuxBIOS have large chunks written in C. I like C myself and am not willing to participate in a C vs. Assembly Language debate. However, You can not miss this in the article: "We realized early on that assembly code could not be the future of LinuxBIOS. OpenBIOS was a lot of assembly code, with a difficult-to-master build structure"
The real point is, even with maximum optimization in the compiled (or assembled) code, you still need to allow "magic" timeout numbers to wait for boot media to spin up. The only way to really optimize boot times is to have Flash ROM/embedded operating systems.
From the Adobe Framemaker FAQ on the article"A. It is our policy to not comment on the size of our user base. However, sales of FrameMaker
licenses have been greater on the Windows and Solaris platforms for a number of years."
They spelled it out and no tinfoil hat conspiracy.
You may never see Framemaker on an open source platform. The primary use for Framemaker is technical documentation for publication. Some of the deadtreeware available for open source project certainly was composed in Framemaker. However, the majority of open source projects are not at the stage (and may never be) where someone makes the effort to publish documentation.
And then remember a large number of Framemaker users work as software technical writers for closed source software companies. So do not hold your breath for the free software version.
Framemaker is one of the few pieces of software, open or closed source, that paid more than lip service to XML. A structured Framemaker document is a pure XML document with a real DTD. So not only is it well formed, but also (*gasp of disbelief*) Valid!
This is not an endorsement of SALT nor the Microsoft Speech Tools for.NET. But you would be doing your company a disservice to ignore them.
Both Voice XML and SALT are backward steps IMHO compared to programming tools available from all the major IVR/ASR vendors. The MS.NET speech tools even look primitive compared to IVR vendor tools that were new in 1998. Certainly, no competitive product will make the user program directly in VXML.
Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley.
But now they're trying to take it all
away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand
we fight for freedom of the press.
In other words,
Smut! (I love it)
Ah, the adventures of a slut.
Oh, I'm a market they can't glut,
I don't know what
Compares with smut.
As of Sept 2003:
-America Online had 24.7 million subscribers and a 25.6% share
-MSN had 8.7 million subscribers and a 9.0% share.
So MSFT could buy the dialup business and hold a significantly larger share of the ISP business. 34.6% does not a monopoly make.
Take the content and Roadrunner and Cable. Combine it with Paul Allen's Comcast and you now have 45% of the ISP market and a significant portion of the cable TV market
Time Warner Roadrunner broadband never offered AOL as an ISP option. So I suspect that they do not think highly of AOL even within the walls. You can even get Earhlink or Max.Inter.Net as an alternative!
Creators don't have a right to copyrights. OK, IANAL., but you will be. And you raise an interesting point to me. If I have an idea, I might go through the effort to make money from it by selling a movie, book, sheet music, or similar item on distributable media. Someone else buys one of that item and then duplicates it and goes into the distribution business, as my new competition. What would my legal recourse be under your proposed law?
Plus, where is the business proposition now? Who is going to make an investment in a movie where there is no return?
...You should pay for it, be it software, music, movies, still pictures, or books.
Only the owner can run a printing press and sell their own copyrighted material. When the owner gives up that right, or the copyright expires, then anyone may duplicate the materials.
Pretty simple, right?
Users easily fall into the trap of "It's so easy to do it for *free*, why should I pay some publishing or record company a duplicating fee?" The answer is that you still owe the author or artist due compensation.
The record, movie, and book companies are going to give way to other forms of distribution that will collect royalties. ASCAP already collects fees from radio stations, it would be easy for them to get into the internet distribution business!
The ease of wiretaps coupled with the ability for any government official to read the results makes the Patriot Act the strongest tool the government has ever had to monitor the population.
What is code bloat? Evidently, it involves kludging, which is mentioned several times. Is this one programmer attacking another's style or is this a non-programmer playing a religion card?
IANA Historian, but the "Defenestration" of Prague is what started the 30 Years War, over religions' control of govenrment. I certainly hope this is not the way the author sees the IT world.
Anyone here ever worked on a project which was perfectly clean and well commented? Show of hands? I thought not.
The terms "Code bloat" and "kludging" has been tossed around quite a bit over the years about Microsoft without anyone producing any source code examples until some were recently lifted and shared.
It would not take me long to look on any project source tree to find some code, which, IMHO, I thought was "kludged"
Just like everyone has his or her own corner of the Internet, is everyone trying to get his or her own little entertainment channel going? And are they expecting to be able to use the cable/dish companies to reach into the consumers' pocketbooks and siphon out money?
The cable and dish companies have monthly price points at which they market their offerings. They know that Grandpa Joe Innercity is just fine with local analog basic service for $11.99. Bob and Mary Suburban are willing to pay $44.99 to get ESPN and the Home and Garden Network in the standard package. Tom and Bridget Twohourcommuters will pay $79.00 to get movies. And of course, there is always a market for pr0n and sp0rts, for which some people will pay extra.
If every channel is demanding $1.00-$2.00 to get into the standard analog package and the provider needs to make money, then consumers are looking at $200 per month, which is an oppressive burden on the median income.
In Minneapolis/St. Paul, Victory Sports is the sole carrier of Minnesota Twins Major League baseball. None of the cable companies have even stepped to the bargaining table, as the $2.30 per month demanded by the channel is too high a price.
Victory Sports and Viacom are both taking the stand that consumers are going to scream for these channels on their service. The cable/dish companies are going to rightly state that it will cost...A LOT. Then we will see where the screaming goes. In the meantime, to watch CSI Miami on CBS, I get 39 minutes of show and 21 minutes of commercials. The credits even get squashed as they roll by during the local news lead-in.
Just like everyone has his or her own corner of the Internet, is everyone trying to get his or her own little entertainment channel going? And are they expecting to be able to use the cable/dish companies to reach into the consumers' pocketbooks and siphon out money?
The cable and dish companies have monthly price points at which they market their offerings. They know that Grandpa Joe Innercity is just fine with local analog basic service for $11.99. Bob and Mary Suburban are willing to pay $44.99 to get ESPN and the Home and Garden Network in the standard package. Tom and Bridget Twohourcommuters will pay $79.00 to get movies. And of course, there is always a market for pr0n and sp0rts, for which some people will pay extra.
If every channel is demanding $1.00-$2.00 to get into the standard analog package and the provider needs to make money, then consumers are looking at $200 per month, which is an oppressive burden on the median income.
In Minneapolis/St. Paul, Victory Sports is the sole carrier of Minnesota Twins Major League baseball. None of the cable companies have even stepped to the bargaining table, as the $2.30 per month demanded by the channel is too high a price.
Victory Sports and Viacom are both taking the stand that consumers are going to scream for these channels on their service. The cable/dish companies are going to rightly state that it will cost...A LOT. Then we will see where the screaming goes. In the meantime, to watch CSI Miami on CBS, I get 39 minutes of show and 21 minutes of commercials. Even the credits roll over with the local news.
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The DVD has been available at most retail stores for a while. I highly recommend it to anyone who would like to see the "History of Religion in one Minute". "The Shoe is the sign" "No The Gourd!"
This is according to the Monty Python Biography _The First 20 Years of Monty Python_ by Kim Howard Johnson.
"You've all got to work it out for yourselves"
Both U-Boot and LinuxBIOS have large chunks written in C. I like C myself and am not willing to participate in a C vs. Assembly Language debate. However, You can not miss this in the article: "We realized early on that assembly code could not be the future of LinuxBIOS. OpenBIOS was a lot of assembly code, with a difficult-to-master build structure"
The real point is, even with maximum optimization in the compiled (or assembled) code, you still need to allow "magic" timeout numbers to wait for boot media to spin up. The only way to really optimize boot times is to have Flash ROM/embedded operating systems.
The general population has been shunning computer scientists and engineers for years!
From the Adobe Framemaker FAQ on the article "A. It is our policy to not comment on the size of our user base. However, sales of FrameMaker licenses have been greater on the Windows and Solaris platforms for a number of years." They spelled it out and no tinfoil hat conspiracy.
You may never see Framemaker on an open source platform. The primary use for Framemaker is technical documentation for publication. Some of the deadtreeware available for open source project certainly was composed in Framemaker. However, the majority of open source projects are not at the stage (and may never be) where someone makes the effort to publish documentation.
And then remember a large number of Framemaker users work as software technical writers for closed source software companies. So do not hold your breath for the free software version.
Framemaker is one of the few pieces of software, open or closed source, that paid more than lip service to XML. A structured Framemaker document is a pure XML document with a real DTD. So not only is it well formed, but also (*gasp of disbelief*) Valid!
I would place all of my bets on VXML.
See who the Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) Forum Members are and judge for yourself.
This is not an endorsement of SALT nor the Microsoft Speech Tools for .NET. But you would be doing your company a disservice to ignore them.
Both Voice XML and SALT are backward steps IMHO compared to programming tools available from all the major IVR/ASR vendors. The MS .NET speech tools even look primitive compared to IVR vendor tools that were new in 1998. Certainly, no competitive product will make the user program directly in VXML.
Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley.
But now they're trying to take it all
away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand
we fight for freedom of the press.
In other words,
Smut! (I love it)
Ah, the adventures of a slut.
Oh, I'm a market they can't glut,
I don't know what
Compares with smut.
As of Sept 2003:
-America Online had 24.7 million subscribers and a 25.6% share
-MSN had 8.7 million subscribers and a 9.0% share.
So MSFT could buy the dialup business and hold a significantly larger share of the ISP business. 34.6% does not a monopoly make.
Take the content and Roadrunner and Cable. Combine it with Paul Allen's Comcast and you now have 45% of the ISP market and a significant portion of the cable TV market
Time Warner Roadrunner broadband never offered AOL as an ISP option. So I suspect that they do not think highly of AOL even within the walls. You can even get Earhlink or Max.Inter.Net as an alternative!
Buddy can you spare a +1 interesting?...
"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it." -William Shenstone
Creators don't have a right to copyrights.
OK, IANAL., but you will be. And you raise an interesting point to me. If I have an idea, I might go through the effort to make money from it by selling a movie, book, sheet music, or similar item on distributable media. Someone else buys one of that item and then duplicates it and goes into the distribution business, as my new competition. What would my legal recourse be under your proposed law?
Plus, where is the business proposition now? Who is going to make an investment in a movie where there is no return?
...You should pay for it, be it software, music, movies, still pictures, or books.
Only the owner can run a printing press and sell their own copyrighted material. When the owner gives up that right, or the copyright expires, then anyone may duplicate the materials.
Pretty simple, right?
Users easily fall into the trap of "It's so easy to do it for *free*, why should I pay some publishing or record company a duplicating fee?" The answer is that you still owe the author or artist due compensation.
The record, movie, and book companies are going to give way to other forms of distribution that will collect royalties. ASCAP already collects fees from radio stations, it would be easy for them to get into the internet distribution business!
The ease of wiretaps coupled with the ability for any government official to read the results makes the Patriot Act the strongest tool the government has ever had to monitor the population.
Check out the EFF Analysis Of The Provisions Of The USA PATRIOT Act for some more detailed information. Blame your Senators and Representatives who rushed this through to the president.
This ship has sailed. And it took away with your freedom, citizens of the U.S.!
The FBI is starting to come forward to claim its spoils...
What is code bloat? Evidently, it involves kludging, which is mentioned several times. Is this one programmer attacking another's style or is this a non-programmer playing a religion card?
IANA Historian, but the "Defenestration" of Prague is what started the 30 Years War, over religions' control of govenrment. I certainly hope this is not the way the author sees the IT world.
Anyone here ever worked on a project which was perfectly clean and well commented? Show of hands? I thought not.
The terms "Code bloat" and "kludging" has been tossed around quite a bit over the years about Microsoft without anyone producing any source code examples until some were recently lifted and shared.
It would not take me long to look on any project source tree to find some code, which, IMHO, I thought was "kludged"
Just like everyone has his or her own corner of the Internet, is everyone trying to get his or her own little entertainment channel going? And are they expecting to be able to use the cable/dish companies to reach into the consumers' pocketbooks and siphon out money?
The cable and dish companies have monthly price points at which they market their offerings. They know that Grandpa Joe Innercity is just fine with local analog basic service for $11.99. Bob and Mary Suburban are willing to pay $44.99 to get ESPN and the Home and Garden Network in the standard package. Tom and Bridget Twohourcommuters will pay $79.00 to get movies. And of course, there is always a market for pr0n and sp0rts, for which some people will pay extra.
If every channel is demanding $1.00-$2.00 to get into the standard analog package and the provider needs to make money, then consumers are looking at $200 per month, which is an oppressive burden on the median income.
In Minneapolis/St. Paul, Victory Sports is the sole carrier of Minnesota Twins Major League baseball. None of the cable companies have even stepped to the bargaining table, as the $2.30 per month demanded by the channel is too high a price.
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Victory Sports and Viacom are both taking the stand that consumers are going to scream for these channels on their service. The cable/dish companies are going to rightly state that it will cost...A LOT. Then we will see where the screaming goes. In the meantime, to watch CSI Miami on CBS, I get 39 minutes of show and 21 minutes of commercials. The credits even get squashed as they roll by during the local news lead-in.
Just like everyone has his or her own corner of the Internet, is everyone trying to get his or her own little entertainment channel going? And are they expecting to be able to use the cable/dish companies to reach into the consumers' pocketbooks and siphon out money?
The cable and dish companies have monthly price points at which they market their offerings. They know that Grandpa Joe Innercity is just fine with local analog basic service for $11.99. Bob and Mary Suburban are willing to pay $44.99 to get ESPN and the Home and Garden Network in the standard package. Tom and Bridget Twohourcommuters will pay $79.00 to get movies. And of course, there is always a market for pr0n and sp0rts, for which some people will pay extra.
If every channel is demanding $1.00-$2.00 to get into the standard analog package and the provider needs to make money, then consumers are looking at $200 per month, which is an oppressive burden on the median income.
In Minneapolis/St. Paul, Victory Sports is the sole carrier of Minnesota Twins Major League baseball. None of the cable companies have even stepped to the bargaining table, as the $2.30 per month demanded by the channel is too high a price.
TV Viewers Beware: Sports Fees Ahead
Victory Sports and Viacom are both taking the stand that consumers are going to scream for these channels on their service. The cable/dish companies are going to rightly state that it will cost...A LOT. Then we will see where the screaming goes. In the meantime, to watch CSI Miami on CBS, I get 39 minutes of show and 21 minutes of commercials. Even the credits roll over with the local news.