it is easy to identify a writer based on the statistical properties of their writing
The email frequency-analysis software has been delayed until 2007, as an optional install to the already-delayed WinFS. In desperation, MS has sent a purchase order to Apple to license Mail.app's junk mail filtering algorithm.
I must say that this seems to be a big step forward. The separation between code and GUI-design/layout is a great step forward.
I must say MVC is a big step forward. In 1978.
This developer/designer split allows me as a programmer to focus on writing the actual logic code. The designer can then change the GUI-layout at will, without having to involve me in the process at all.
How the hell have you people been programming for the past decade?:( I've only been doing this for a couple years, Cocoa, RoR, php, some C command-line Unix stuff, but I know what to expect from a GUI development platform.
Now, we can return to our scheduled programming of bashing at the Redmond Beast with all the might we care to summon.
Hmmm. Only say it if you mean it. I don't mean to be snarky, but this is the fourth post I've seen commending XAML and Avalon and Vista, and each time the poster doesn't seem to realize that other GUI developers have had these features for decades in some cases. It is good for MS that MS gets its house in order, but these innovations, despite the hundreds of millions they have poured into them, get Windows to where other platforms were in 2000.
"For those who love Apple's products, this is all just so typical. This company has made an art of innovation -- [snip] only to invariably surrender the high sales ground to the boring knock-off artists [snip]" - Steve Maich, Macleans.ca, 2005/05/09
He seems a bit sharp, but Apple has yet to make Mr. Maich a liar. We shall see...
If it's based on XML, it had better specify a compression standard. Declarative prgramming a graphical object can make for some absolutely huge files.
On OS X, there was this program floating around on Versiontracker that would convert any picture into an html document by converting each pixel into a table-cell that was styled 1px by 1px and colored. This prevened easy downloading of the image, but caused what might have been a 100k image to take up 4 megs in an html file.
Of course, XAML is vector-based, but knowing the kinds of schemas MS likes to promulgate, the possiblity of bandwidth-chewing "rich web content" is quite real.
For something this small, I would hope they would've run it through a washing machine and dryer to see if it still survived-- it seems like the sort of thing I would forget in my pocket.
Mod me funny if you wish, but my 512MB cruzer USB key has been through the washer/dryer twice now-I promise I'll be more careful in the future-and it still works, is readable and writeable, and didn't get erased in the process.
Don't ridicule his misery, AC, unless you're willing to post your name. Someday, once you graduate from high school, you will encounter this situation and you'll wish you weren't so critical.
FTA:
After browser war, it was useless the NSplugin for internet banking, so most of bank support only Active-x plugin. So some Mac and Linux users are troubled on using internet banking.
Though they were troubled, they were likely not as troubled as the "Active-x" users.
For movie edting, I know it is used on the frontends of Euphonix System 5 mixing consoles -- the console itself, I mean, the surface with the faders, displays, buttons and knobs, runs VxWorks. The surface ties into a main DSP frame which runs Windows 2000.
Silly question, but why was the RIAA picking on you for sharing a television show? The RIAA represents recording labels, the MPAA represents movies, but they make few waves about pirating TV shows...
verification (as is a verified complaint)-
n. the declaration under oath or upon penalty of perjury that a statement or pleading is true, located at the end of a document. A typical verification reads: "I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California, that I have read the above complaint and I know it is true of my own knowledge, except as to those things stated upon information and belief, and as to those I believe it to be true. Executed January 3, 1995, at Monrovia, California. (signed) Georgia Garner, declarant." If a complaint is verified then the answer to the complaint must be verified.
If you look at the original complaint, you'll see at the bottom no one was willing to swear under penalty of perjury that it was true. The stuff you learn following links on slashdot!
In contrast, any copy of OS X sold to someone who would otherwise have used Linux or Windows is 100% profit (well, minus the negligible cost of the DVD, box and manual).
Minus, as well, the cost of paying all of those people to write it, which I suppose might be more than the cost of the DVD.
A very effective marketing strategy for a company looking beyond the next quarter.
It seems to have worked fantastically for Apple, but that might not be a fair comparison.
On the other hand, the earlier we start teaching kids about what the Lesser GPL is, why they need libxml2 instead of libxml1, and why all of their productivity apps are at version 0.99.91, the more comfortable they will be with these otherwise-daunting concepts.
I seem to recall hearing this story before, except that "a guy" was actually General Electric, and the "mechanic" was Charles Steinmetz, and it was a thousand dollars.
You were that kid who plugged a cassette deck into the io port on his TI-85 to archive Z-shell, aren't you?
But seriously, you could recover the analogue signal, but without knowing the specifics about any of this stuff (I'm more of an AIT person), I can see some potential problems:
You have to get a head that matches the format. Playback head gaps have to be very precisely defined, given the tape's speed when reproducing and the upper frequency limit of the material recorded. You also have to know the width of the bands on the tape, the spaces inbetween, and then somehow obtain a head to fit the physical medium. I assume that 9-track/7-track was some kind of "standard" in the sense that people in the 70s understood the word (one company sold it for a long time, and didn't fight reverse-engineering).
You also need a transport mechanism that can effectively move the tape at the designated speed (which we know, right?), while giving the right performance for wow & flutter, tape tension, weave, warp, etc. On high-frequency material this is very important. (I am assuming in all of this that this tape format uses a stationary head and records longitudinally on the medium, not horizontally or helically.)
The playback amp electronics must be able to linearly reproduce from the tape, which means knowing the tape's reference fluxivity. As well, the PB amp must take off any preemphasis that was put on the tape at recording. Analog audio often uses preemphasis, did 9 track use preemphasis?
I suspect the signal is modulated onto the tape in some way to keep DC at a minimum, using either eight-to-ten modulation (like DATs), some other magic table-lookup byte-encoding system that was never documented openly, or some bytes + checksums + "extra" bytes to pull each byte of data as close to 0 average volts as possible. It may be biphase-mark encoded, and might use square waves or not. One of the bands might be a control track for synchronization-- the presence of 9 tracks (8+1) suggests this, but do we know?Mysterys abound.
If you successfully demod the signal, you then must decode any error-correction that the machine recording it (hopefully) put on the tape. Reed-Solomon codes for burst errors, Huffman codes for compression maybe?
If you have succeeded in the preceding, or you just broke down and bought the machine, you now have Uint8 *tapeData[]. Now make that into records.
I might know what I'm talking about, I might be talking out my ass. This is slashdot, you be the judge 8^)
Note that the article reports the source as "Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research". Isn't Pittsburg where George Romero shoots all his films?
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The email frequency-analysis software has been delayed until 2007, as an optional install to the already-delayed WinFS. In desperation, MS has sent a purchase order to Apple to license Mail.app's junk mail filtering algorithm.
I must say MVC is a big step forward. In 1978.
This developer/designer split allows me as a programmer to focus on writing the actual logic code. The designer can then change the GUI-layout at will, without having to involve me in the process at all.How the hell have you people been programming for the past decade? :( I've only been doing this for a couple years, Cocoa, RoR, php, some C command-line Unix stuff, but I know what to expect from a GUI development platform.
Now, we can return to our scheduled programming of bashing at the Redmond Beast with all the might we care to summon.Hmmm. Only say it if you mean it. I don't mean to be snarky, but this is the fourth post I've seen commending XAML and Avalon and Vista, and each time the poster doesn't seem to realize that other GUI developers have had these features for decades in some cases. It is good for MS that MS gets its house in order, but these innovations, despite the hundreds of millions they have poured into them, get Windows to where other platforms were in 2000.
Before this thread goes in farther, I call no "It would be like Coke doing %s with Pepsi" analogies!
He seems a bit sharp, but Apple has yet to make Mr. Maich a liar. We shall see...
If it's based on XML, it had better specify a compression standard. Declarative prgramming a graphical object can make for some absolutely huge files.
On OS X, there was this program floating around on Versiontracker that would convert any picture into an html document by converting each pixel into a table-cell that was styled 1px by 1px and colored. This prevened easy downloading of the image, but caused what might have been a 100k image to take up 4 megs in an html file.
Of course, XAML is vector-based, but knowing the kinds of schemas MS likes to promulgate, the possiblity of bandwidth-chewing "rich web content" is quite real.
For something this small, I would hope they would've run it through a washing machine and dryer to see if it still survived-- it seems like the sort of thing I would forget in my pocket.
Mod me funny if you wish, but my 512MB cruzer USB key has been through the washer/dryer twice now-I promise I'll be more careful in the future-and it still works, is readable and writeable, and didn't get erased in the process.
Good stuff.
Dinosaurs were big.
Where can I get a plushy Cthulu? I haven't seen those on ThinkGeek recently!
Make that smug left-handed, red-headed midgets.
A Simpson's episode which applies to your post:
Marge: I've made space-lemonade!
Nerd: What exactly about the lemonade makes it "space-lemonade"?
Marge: Look, I don't want to start a whole thing out of this.
Here we are at the apocalypse, and we still never got to play Duke Nukem Forever.
Yeah, I went there.
Don't ridicule his misery, AC, unless you're willing to post your name. Someday, once you graduate from high school, you will encounter this situation and you'll wish you weren't so critical.
Though they were troubled, they were likely not as troubled as the "Active-x" users.
For movie edting, I know it is used on the frontends of Euphonix System 5 mixing consoles -- the console itself, I mean, the surface with the faders, displays, buttons and knobs, runs VxWorks. The surface ties into a main DSP frame which runs Windows 2000.
It should, and TFA indicates that it is the Mars Global Surveyor (for those of you to lazy to click over).
Silly question, but why was the RIAA picking on you for sharing a television show? The RIAA represents recording labels, the MPAA represents movies, but they make few waves about pirating TV shows...
IANAL, but, from dictionary.law.com:
If you look at the original complaint, you'll see at the bottom no one was willing to swear under penalty of perjury that it was true. The stuff you learn following links on slashdot!
Absolutely right. If nothing were up, it would be in his interest to simply not comment, since it would feed interest in his company.
He called the whole story 'rumors'.Read this as "He's doing the best he can to hold down his stock price so he can buy back as much of it as possible before the deal's announced."
I often call my family on Mars, you insensitive clod!
Minus, as well, the cost of paying all of those people to write it, which I suppose might be more than the cost of the DVD.
It seems to have worked fantastically for Apple, but that might not be a fair comparison.
On the other hand, the earlier we start teaching kids about what the Lesser GPL is, why they need libxml2 instead of libxml1, and why all of their productivity apps are at version 0.99.91, the more comfortable they will be with these otherwise-daunting concepts.
Kidding, but only half so.
I seem to recall hearing this story before, except that "a guy" was actually General Electric, and the "mechanic" was Charles Steinmetz, and it was a thousand dollars.
You were that kid who plugged a cassette deck into the io port on his TI-85 to archive Z-shell, aren't you?
But seriously, you could recover the analogue signal, but without knowing the specifics about any of this stuff (I'm more of an AIT person), I can see some potential problems:
I might know what I'm talking about, I might be talking out my ass. This is slashdot, you be the judge 8^)
They're "working on" a Mac OS X version, but that's all they mention, so far.
Note that the article reports the source as "Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research". Isn't Pittsburg where George Romero shoots all his films?
This article is a prank.