It's called OASIS, but you probably think of it as "OpenOffice". Now here's a tough question: why didn't Microsoft simply adopt OASIS? (-: There are even working implementations available (called OpenOffice and KOffice) to get them started.:-)
...many VBX applications being run out of town on a Rails. It would surprise me if KNoda couldn't script in a variety of languages, and surprise me even more if it remained so for long.
It'll be just another part of the KDE-on-native-MS-Windows port. I look forward with incipient hilarity for Microsoft's first MS-Access-on-native-Linux port.
KNoda doesn't have the same ability to beat an unsuspecting comms link into quivering jelly that MS Access seems to ship with natively.
AFAICT KNoda does all of the subset selection at the server end. You might have to get your app to schedule a bunch of random large queries to obtain comparable response times. And don't forget to constantly broadcast crap to ports 137-139 as you go.
...sitting to my left is a computer that relies on cassette tape storage, at 300 baud and with seek times measured in minutes. You even had to supply your own cassette recorder to utilise this option.
I'm considering ripping some of the tapes into SHorteN files for the fast-approaching day when cassette tapes are no longer available.
IBM: "See that smoking, glowing crater in Utah? The one by the blackened, half-molten, twisted and bent 'DEAD END' sign? In some places the rubble splashed for miles!
IBM: "They did not survive. Not they, nor any of their kinsmen, nor pets, nor anybody who loaned them money, or borrowed from them, or ran their advertising, or wrote articles favourable towards them. Not their lawyers, nor any of the lawyers' kin or pets or houses or BMWs or Rolexes, real or otherwise. Such is the fate of all who would jerk our chain to satisfy their own greed."
Supplicant: "Who were 'they'?"
IBM: "Nobody remembers. It is... unhealthy... to mention their names."
...is wait for it to be finished (chopped, possibly remixed from different audio if needed, possibly direct video from the screen pasted in - a job I don't envy in this case since Mark had OOImpress set for automatic advance and kept going back, rendered into a compressible format) and released. (-:
Let the organisers know that you care. Conf delegates and speakers get a CD/DVD set snailmailed out automagically, you may be able to buy and/or download a DVD (or just the video) later as well.
By way of explanation, click through "Visit our Salt Operations", then "Dampier", then enlarge the map (their webserver runs Domino, so the real URLs rapidly turn to pooh). "PS 0" stands for Pumping Station Zero, which lifts raw seawater into Pond Zero.
PS 0 has some grilles to keep really big fish out of the intakes (Dampier has many, many really big fish). Merely big fish get turned into fish-meal by the pumps, and little fish often get right through... including little baby sharks. The little fish get dumped into an evironment containing lots of fish-meal, and those not promptly consumed by the existing inhabitants survive to grow into bish fish themselves. Including the sharks.
The fish near the shoreline are nearly thick enough to walk on. Literally. In a bucket-sized volume of water, you might find 3 or 4 fish roughly 40-50cm long. The reason for this is that if they stray into deeper water, the fish there have grown large enough that they can't get in close to get the fish-meal before the littler fish eat it all... but they can constantly smell it. Including the sharks.
Put it this way, you might succeed in walking across Pond Zero, but if you did it would be because of being constantly flung into the air by fish - mostly sharks - competing for you. There's a fair few developers I'd like to try this experiment on - if they don't promptly fix a few things about their code - and the list includes many who haven't worked for Microsoft.
The problem is that it's more about accountability that actually doing things right. Now I can't blame the law for that. The law makes lots of sense. But the way companies handle it adds 100 times the overhead and even more technical problems. Entire systems are built so there's a "signiture" of approval and record of every little thing. People are so busy making others accountable (basically flowing both uphill and downhill) and no one takes accountability for their own actions and quality of work goes way down. What happens in the company is whatever intrisic trust there was between coworkers disappears. All the company wants and needs is the paper trail. Cost of the service goes up while quality goes down.
Amen, brother, amen. Hear the man!
I have a bunch of real-life horror tales for ISO 9002 and how hard (and expensive) that made it to get real quality into a product even with willing participants.
Forex, there was the case of the key part made mirror-image (and late). The supplier flat-out refused to RMA or even look at it because their ISO9002 system guaranteed that the part was good. It was ISO9002 vs reality, and reality lost. Shades of the Hubble mirror! In order to make the building work, the company in between had to pay someone else to fabricate another part - in a hurry, not under ISO9002, and at their own expense - in the right shape, and use that. IOW, the ISO9002 paperwork for the building is now as much a lie as the ISO9002 paperwork of the original supplier, even though the replacement part is probably stronger and longer-lasting than the mismade original and the alternative would have been to halt construction of the (already behind schedule because of this) building for another few months and pay literally ruinous contract penalty fees.
In a couple of cases, having any single unwilling participant in the loop would have been crippling, and trying to apply the system to a company full of drudges and yet make it function would have been far more painful than just cutting your losses, firing everyone, declaring bankruptcy and going on the dole the next day.
You know, the "shut down the USB hub because we can, then wonder why we never get a keyboard or mouse interrupt" style of power management? Except that in this case the keyboard is, like, tens of millions of kilometers away and there's nobody around to rip out the power cord for a few seconds when the wheels eventually do come off.
Oh, wait... maybe the aliens can do that for us?
I bet the next major W32 LAN virus author would also be so pleased to know that his software is running a billion-dollar satellite out there, somewhere, although maybe not so pleased at the van-load of scientists who rock up from the nearest earth station shortly thereafter with hot soldering irons in their hands and cold looks in their eyes.
FYI, everything's a module these days. If they forgot an important bit, they'd just rebuild the appropriate module (if necessary), then remove and re-insert it.
Much of their computing equipment has been scrounged - and doesn't appear on any equipment manifests - because there was no budget for it. They have a Pentium-90 driving (pointing) their main 'scope with a backup P-90 literally sitting on the next shelf in case it dies.
The few pieces of gear that they do get grants for are typically extremely fancy. On the rare occasions when ThePowersThatBe say "yes, you can have a computer to process the incoming images," then the cost of that actual computer system and absolutely nothing else is almost immaterial as long as it fits certain criteria.
So... in the room to the left of the one housing the P-90 sits a you-beauty glow-in-the-dark (well, not literally, it would cause backscatter) state-of-the-art box with double overhead ThermalTakes and all the trimmings. Just one. And I bet they crammed memory and disks into that baby's purchasing spec until the chassis groaned under the weight.
When Mark Shuttleworth gave his amazing talk at LCA2005, one of the things he mentioned was that the Yanks didn't want their astronauts (also going up in the Soyuz with Mark) flying to Baikonur in a rattly old Tupelov transport lest it unexpectedly drop out of the sky en route, but rather than come out and say so directly they came over all clever and simply pointed out that NASA regs forbade their astronauts to travel without seatbelts, which they knew the Tupelov wasn't fitted with. This was a mistake. On the day, the astronauts were marched out to the Tupelov, and aboard - and into a minibus in the cargo bay, where they sat and wore the minibus's seatbelts for the duration of the trip.
BTW, when the video DVD from LCA2005 gets published, bend heaven and earth to get yourself a copy. It's well worth-while for Mark's presentation alone ("Welcome to Khazakstan!"), and there are many other excellent presentations on it (Keith Packard explaining the sport of Window Hurling, for example, or E'dale demonstrating how to collapse a penguin's skull).
The point in that story which I wanted to use as an illustration here was that the minibus wasn't put aboard the transport for the astronauts' benefit. There was a budget for flying the Tupelov - pilots, fuel, landing fees and so on - but no budget for getting from the airport to where they were staying. So the van (which fell under the base's budget, so was financially covered) was fuelled up and driven aboard the Tupelov for use as a taxi while the transport 'plane was prepped for the return flight. In terms of working around bizarre regulations, NASA or not, the Americans really were amateurs playing in a professional field. (-:
If I want somebody to try to sell me something, I'll go to church.
Going offtopic, on my mark... now!
You can go to many universities and they'll try to sell you the idea that fresh T Rex organics can be 68 million years old. This actually reinforces your idea of information as property, a concept which is broken by Nikon's patented encryption. Since you regard information as property, and since Nikon won't let you have "quiet enjoyment" of your own information, they are effectively stealing this your property from you by using their property as a blocking agent, and by not clearly warning you that using their camera does this.
I don't know how you'd solve this dilemma, but if I was judge I'd say either that Nikon had just voided any rights to their own "property" by criminally employing it, or that by failing to adequately advertise this requirement they fraudulently misrepresented their product. And I'd let them choose between either committing the "IP" to the public domain and compensating you for your trouble, or compensating every person who ever unknowingly bought one of the crippled cameras.
At least two Troll mods, the first of my posts in about a month to be modded Troll at all. The first day I've been modded down overall for the day (two troll, one flamebait, one interesting, one insightful) in about a year. Hit a nerve?
I guess at least two somebodies care enough about the post to mod it down - even if they don't get beyond "Religious homophobe! Kill!" - so I guess it at least got read.
Atheism is a religion. No robes, no stained glass, no incense, still a religion. Learn to live with that fact, 'coz modding it Troll won't change it.
at no point in my post did I state anything about my religious affiliation
You stated exactly that, here:
I wouldn't dream of telling any religious person, whatever their religion or denomination, what I think of their religion.
If you'd had something you identified as a religion, you would have said "any other religious person". If you simply made a mistake when posting, say so and I'll rephrase my answer.
Kind of like the people who still work 9-5 even after a serious lottery win.
"I need to treat people fairly... let me see... how can we do this so our competitors get no advantage out of it by hiring only straights... I know, we'll get a law passed which forces everyone to hire a quota of bent people, even marriage counselling firms."
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It's called OASIS, but you probably think of it as "OpenOffice". Now here's a tough question: why didn't Microsoft simply adopt OASIS? (-: There are even working implementations available (called OpenOffice and KOffice) to get them started. :-)
...many VBX applications being run out of town on a Rails. It would surprise me if KNoda couldn't script in a variety of languages, and surprise me even more if it remained so for long.
It'll be just another part of the KDE-on-native-MS-Windows port. I look forward with incipient hilarity for Microsoft's first MS-Access-on-native-Linux port.
KNoda doesn't have the same ability to beat an unsuspecting comms link into quivering jelly that MS Access seems to ship with natively.
AFAICT KNoda does all of the subset selection at the server end. You might have to get your app to schedule a bunch of random large queries to obtain comparable response times. And don't forget to constantly broadcast crap to ports 137-139 as you go.
Simply observing ordinary Metallica destroys or disrupts the data in your head. What's so special here?
Wouldn't it be obsolete by then? (-:
...sitting to my left is a computer that relies on cassette tape storage, at 300 baud and with seek times measured in minutes. You even had to supply your own cassette recorder to utilise this option.
I'm considering ripping some of the tapes into SHorteN files for the fast-approaching day when cassette tapes are no longer available.
IBM: "See that smoking, glowing crater in Utah? The one by the blackened, half-molten, twisted and bent 'DEAD END' sign? In some places the rubble splashed for miles!
IBM: "They did not survive. Not they, nor any of their kinsmen, nor pets, nor anybody who loaned them money, or borrowed from them, or ran their advertising, or wrote articles favourable towards them. Not their lawyers, nor any of the lawyers' kin or pets or houses or BMWs or Rolexes, real or otherwise. Such is the fate of all who would jerk our chain to satisfy their own greed."
Supplicant: "Who were 'they'?"
IBM: "Nobody remembers. It is... unhealthy... to mention their names."
In your dreams. Some of them run to several hundred pages per doc.
The jar is useful because it may contain emptinessm, whereas merely mortal jars get a choice of air or something else.
I'm not clear on how they keep zero-point fields out of the hole. Is it simply too small? Or did they kill off Syndrome too soon?
...is also dumb enough to make the watchdog timer a USB device.
...is wait for it to be finished (chopped, possibly remixed from different audio if needed, possibly direct video from the screen pasted in - a job I don't envy in this case since Mark had OOImpress set for automatic advance and kept going back, rendered into a compressible format) and released. (-:
Let the organisers know that you care. Conf delegates and speakers get a CD/DVD set snailmailed out automagically, you may be able to buy and/or download a DVD (or just the video) later as well.
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I wonder if Dampier Salt is using Linux yet?
By way of explanation, click through "Visit our Salt Operations", then "Dampier", then enlarge the map (their webserver runs Domino, so the real URLs rapidly turn to pooh). "PS 0" stands for Pumping Station Zero, which lifts raw seawater into Pond Zero.
PS 0 has some grilles to keep really big fish out of the intakes (Dampier has many, many really big fish). Merely big fish get turned into fish-meal by the pumps, and little fish often get right through... including little baby sharks. The little fish get dumped into an evironment containing lots of fish-meal, and those not promptly consumed by the existing inhabitants survive to grow into bish fish themselves. Including the sharks.
The fish near the shoreline are nearly thick enough to walk on. Literally. In a bucket-sized volume of water, you might find 3 or 4 fish roughly 40-50cm long. The reason for this is that if they stray into deeper water, the fish there have grown large enough that they can't get in close to get the fish-meal before the littler fish eat it all... but they can constantly smell it. Including the sharks.
Put it this way, you might succeed in walking across Pond Zero, but if you did it would be because of being constantly flung into the air by fish - mostly sharks - competing for you. There's a fair few developers I'd like to try this experiment on - if they don't promptly fix a few things about their code - and the list includes many who haven't worked for Microsoft.
I have a bunch of real-life horror tales for ISO 9002 and how hard (and expensive) that made it to get real quality into a product even with willing participants.
Forex, there was the case of the key part made mirror-image (and late). The supplier flat-out refused to RMA or even look at it because their ISO9002 system guaranteed that the part was good. It was ISO9002 vs reality, and reality lost. Shades of the Hubble mirror! In order to make the building work, the company in between had to pay someone else to fabricate another part - in a hurry, not under ISO9002, and at their own expense - in the right shape, and use that. IOW, the ISO9002 paperwork for the building is now as much a lie as the ISO9002 paperwork of the original supplier, even though the replacement part is probably stronger and longer-lasting than the mismade original and the alternative would have been to halt construction of the (already behind schedule because of this) building for another few months and pay literally ruinous contract penalty fees.
In a couple of cases, having any single unwilling participant in the loop would have been crippling, and trying to apply the system to a company full of drudges and yet make it function would have been far more painful than just cutting your losses, firing everyone, declaring bankruptcy and going on the dole the next day.
You know, the "shut down the USB hub because we can, then wonder why we never get a keyboard or mouse interrupt" style of power management? Except that in this case the keyboard is, like, tens of millions of kilometers away and there's nobody around to rip out the power cord for a few seconds when the wheels eventually do come off.
Oh, wait... maybe the aliens can do that for us?
I bet the next major W32 LAN virus author would also be so pleased to know that his software is running a billion-dollar satellite out there, somewhere, although maybe not so pleased at the van-load of scientists who rock up from the nearest earth station shortly thereafter with hot soldering irons in their hands and cold looks in their eyes.
FYI, everything's a module these days. If they forgot an important bit, they'd just rebuild the appropriate module (if necessary), then remove and re-insert it.
Our local observatory (with live night-sky camera) is Gummint-funded. This leads to some interesting effects.
Much of their computing equipment has been scrounged - and doesn't appear on any equipment manifests - because there was no budget for it. They have a Pentium-90 driving (pointing) their main 'scope with a backup P-90 literally sitting on the next shelf in case it dies.
The few pieces of gear that they do get grants for are typically extremely fancy. On the rare occasions when ThePowersThatBe say "yes, you can have a computer to process the incoming images," then the cost of that actual computer system and absolutely nothing else is almost immaterial as long as it fits certain criteria.
So... in the room to the left of the one housing the P-90 sits a you-beauty glow-in-the-dark (well, not literally, it would cause backscatter) state-of-the-art box with double overhead ThermalTakes and all the trimmings. Just one. And I bet they crammed memory and disks into that baby's purchasing spec until the chassis groaned under the weight.
When Mark Shuttleworth gave his amazing talk at LCA2005, one of the things he mentioned was that the Yanks didn't want their astronauts (also going up in the Soyuz with Mark) flying to Baikonur in a rattly old Tupelov transport lest it unexpectedly drop out of the sky en route, but rather than come out and say so directly they came over all clever and simply pointed out that NASA regs forbade their astronauts to travel without seatbelts, which they knew the Tupelov wasn't fitted with. This was a mistake. On the day, the astronauts were marched out to the Tupelov, and aboard - and into a minibus in the cargo bay, where they sat and wore the minibus's seatbelts for the duration of the trip.
BTW, when the video DVD from LCA2005 gets published, bend heaven and earth to get yourself a copy. It's well worth-while for Mark's presentation alone ("Welcome to Khazakstan!"), and there are many other excellent presentations on it (Keith Packard explaining the sport of Window Hurling, for example, or E'dale demonstrating how to collapse a penguin's skull).
The point in that story which I wanted to use as an illustration here was that the minibus wasn't put aboard the transport for the astronauts' benefit. There was a budget for flying the Tupelov - pilots, fuel, landing fees and so on - but no budget for getting from the airport to where they were staying. So the van (which fell under the base's budget, so was financially covered) was fuelled up and driven aboard the Tupelov for use as a taxi while the transport 'plane was prepped for the return flight. In terms of working around bizarre regulations, NASA or not, the Americans really were amateurs playing in a professional field. (-:
You can go to many universities and they'll try to sell you the idea that fresh T Rex organics can be 68 million years old. This actually reinforces your idea of information as property, a concept which is broken by Nikon's patented encryption. Since you regard information as property, and since Nikon won't let you have "quiet enjoyment" of your own information, they are effectively stealing this your property from you by using their property as a blocking agent, and by not clearly warning you that using their camera does this.
I don't know how you'd solve this dilemma, but if I was judge I'd say either that Nikon had just voided any rights to their own "property" by criminally employing it, or that by failing to adequately advertise this requirement they fraudulently misrepresented their product. And I'd let them choose between either committing the "IP" to the public domain and compensating you for your trouble, or compensating every person who ever unknowingly bought one of the crippled cameras.
...we don' need no steenkin' debuggin' tools, 'coz it's too easy to make things work the first time. (-:
At least two Troll mods, the first of my posts in about a month to be modded Troll at all. The first day I've been modded down overall for the day (two troll, one flamebait, one interesting, one insightful) in about a year. Hit a nerve?
I guess at least two somebodies care enough about the post to mod it down - even if they don't get beyond "Religious homophobe! Kill!" - so I guess it at least got read.
Atheism is a religion. No robes, no stained glass, no incense, still a religion. Learn to live with that fact, 'coz modding it Troll won't change it.
with that edit done, I agree
"I see you are writing homophobic material. Would you like me to help you make it more perversion-neutral?"
Yes, yes, I was kidding. Mostly. (-:
Kind of like the people who still work 9-5 even after a serious lottery win.
"I need to treat people fairly... let me see... how can we do this so our competitors get no advantage out of it by hiring only straights... I know, we'll get a law passed which forces everyone to hire a quota of bent people, even marriage counselling firms."