Just FYI: Mark Evans has previously worked as a business/tech journalist for both The Globe and Mail and The National Post, the two national newspapers in Canada. He covered Nortel extensively for both papers, so it's not like he lacks history or credibility when it comes to the subject area. So what you have is a situation where he obviously had no problem getting press accreditation in either of his print jobs, but now that he's a full-time blogger he's being shut out. That's different from any random self-declared blogger applying for press accreditation - Mark has the professional experience to back up his application.
Now the enemy is Islamic fundamentalists, and none of them are going to compete in a race to Mars.
China announced they were going to put a man in space and on the moon. Suddenly the US announced they were going to the moon and to Mars. It's not hard to connect the dots when there are only two.
All the major Canadian high-speed ISP's are part of vertically-integrated corporations to some degree:
Videotron is owned by Quebecor, who publish newspapers, sell music, run an online 'portal', etc. Videotron also owns the Quebec equivalent of 'American Idol' and thus now has a hand in artist development.
Rogers Cable is part of a huge company that owns magazines, radio stations, video rental stores, a large cellular phone network and the Toronto Blue Jays.
Sympatico is part of Bell, which also owns part of a national newspaper (Globe & Mail), national TV networks (CTV & TSN), a digital satellite dish service, a national cell phone network, etc.
I don't know as much about Shaw, but I do know they also own radio stations and, I believe, a couple of TV cable channels.
So, to put it politely, there's no one in that list that I trust to stand up for their users.
The longer the movie the fewer times you can play it per movie screen, the less money you can make per movie screen. Neither the movie theaters or the studios wants to see a 4 hour movies with an intermission because they could show 2 average length movies in the same period of time and make twice as much money.
You do realize it's all about the money don't you ?
I do Java programming in WSAD (WebSphere Studio Application Developer - based on Eclipse) and if I let the cursor 'hover' over a variable I will get a small pop-up displaying the complete class name ie 'java.util.List' - very handy and definitely easier than Hungarian notation. (which I have used in the past).
Does anyone know if Eclipse has this feature or is it just WSAD ?
Hell, most folks don't have the arms to defeat a police SWAT team, much less the Army/National Guard.
Exactly! Did no one read the details of the battles in Iraq ? Many of the 'militia' attacks consisted of a bunch of Iraqi Baathists with AK-47's packing into SUV's and rushing at American positions.....where they were promptly destroyed, quite often without inflicting any US casualties whatsoever. Now the US forces were definitely surprised at this level of resistance as they had been led to believe there would be none, but in the end it barely slowed the US advance.
The moral of the story ? Anyone who claims the right to be armed keeps the government honest is seriously deluded - any corrupt government supported by a reasonably modern army can control an armed populace if it chooses to use force. For proof again, look at Iraq - since the government fell it seems like a pretty large section of the population was anti-Hussein (if not pro-US) and the number of AK-47's on the street of Baghdad lately would frighten even the NRA....but it never made much difference in terms of who ran the country.
Well, in most of Canada there is a public Catholic school system that draws funding from the same source as the general public school system (property taxes or provincial income taxes, depending on where you are). Meanwhile any other religous school cannot draw upon the same government funding. Why ? Well the Catholic school system was set up before Canada was a country, so it has tradition....and Catholicism is still the largest religion in the country. Why have 'religion' on the census ? At some point (I hope) we're going to sit down and review the numbers and decide if the government should really be financing one religious education program and not others.
As opposed to converting an AAC to MP3 ? In then end all conversions between two different compression standards are uncompress then recompress with a new codec. Unless you're using shorten (or a similar lossless file format) there is no magic that will let the MP3 encoder 'see' the information the AAC encoder decided to discard.
The part that I find the most scary is the fact that people starting calling up the FBI on their neighbors based on them changing their taste in clothing or growing a beard. The garbage collectors are calling in the FBI because someone in the building writes in Arabic ? Why worry about the government when your fellow citizens seem so eager to help create a police state ?
Ever seen the "tree farms" that result when "modern loggin(g) companies" clear cut and replant ? They don't look anything like a natural forest. The clear cut not only kills the large profitable trees, it also kills many smaller flora that are part of the forest ecosystem. Replant small trees and they quickly take over, resulting a new forest with very little diversity but very fast tree growth.
Forest companies at first thought this looked great - the faster tree growth, the sooner we can come back to that piece of land. Unfortunately, and this is supported by studies done by the BC dept. of forestry (which they tried to cover up), the rapid growth of the replanted trees results in much lower density wood than that found in "old-growth" (ie natural) forests. As a result the wood is worth very little to the foresters who planted it and they don't want to log it. Forestry companies continue to push for more "old-growth" forests to be opened up to logging because that's where the best quality wood is, all the replanting that's been done has yet to produce a lumber supply that adequately replaces what has been lost. We may not be as bad as Easter Island, but we're nowhere near sustainability.
The new Celerons are P4-derivatives, so they are absolutely NOT pin compatible with the PIII, cannot be plugged into the same motherboards and probably can't even be run from the same power supplies. You can get chipsets for either the Athlons or P4's that will accept the SDRAM from your old PIII and you can always bring along your old IDE drives, but there's no real difference in the upgrade path.
As an aside, the next time you decide to shout RTFA! at someone, please try to know what you're talking about.:)
As opposed to the Chinese governments underreporting and denial of widespread HIV infection rates in some parts of rural China due to unsafe blood collection ? SARS is currently being tracked at about a 4% fatality rate and that largely correlates to 4% of the people infected being elderly. Many many more people have died and will die in China from HIV/AIDS than SARS and it shows no sign of destabilizing the government there.
For the record, IBM used to have a version of AIX that ran on their PS/2 line of PC's. I remember seeing it running in production back around 1990-1991 but I believe it was discontinued not too long thereafter. Admittedly the PS/2's were a little different than mainstream PC's at the time (most notably the Microchannel bus) but they were most definitely running Intel processors.
So, yes. IBM knew how to do that around 15 years ago.
I'm just wondering if the patent being granted is someone hinged on Interwoven's claim to be the first to do version control for 'web assets' (ie, HTML, images) as opposed to source code.
The fact that there's no technical difference between version control on an HTML file and version control on a 'C' file seems to be the sort of thing that's lost on the patent office.
The big question (to me) is whether Microsoft can put a legal encumbrance on the XML schema they use for a new file format. Could you publish a schema but have it so wrapped in legalese that (for example) open source projects could not be allowed to use it ?
FYI : There was a lot of code rewrite from v2 to v3 for performance and it involved a lot of removing C and replacing it with assembly. Actually, starting at V2.0 every subsequent version seemed to get faster.
Excellent as it was, OS/2 was also hopelessly tied to the i386 architecture
AMEN! I wrote device drivers (in what seems like a previous life) for OS/2, Windows, etc. and if you let your assembly-level debugger* wander through the OS/2 kernel there was absolutely no doubt that this was hand-coded assembly. It was beautiful assembly code, but I remember one day, in the midst of debugging, realizing "They'll never port this to another chip...ever!" The entire kernel was designed around how the 386 was designed....to the point where we kept Intel chip specs in our library. SWe had a good laugh when they announced they were going to port OS/2 to PPC.:)
* Yes, in those days we didn't have fancy, schmancy source-level debuggers, at least not for kernel/driver work. WinICE was like crack when it came out - everyone doing DD work HAD to have it.....and now I write Java and I don't even produce real assembly anymore. Oh, the good old days.:)
A few years back I was backpacking in Europe - happened to check into a hostel with a lot of Canadians in it - not all as a group, just several smaller groups that had randomly all ended up in the same place. So one day we're sitting around have a few beers and someone mentions how it's funny to have this many Canadians in the hostel at one time....when up pipes a good 'ol boy from Louisiana "Yeah, I never thought I'd meet this many people from Canadia in Europe!"
Of course his girlfriend was also from Louisiana and she laughed just as hard as the rest of us.
About 8 years ago I worked with a group that did wireless LAN over IR. If done right you don't have to have the exact line of sight that IrDA requirees. We used 'diffuse' IR which basically meant all transceivers pointed towards the ceiling and IR bounced off the ceiling from one node to another. You were still limited to being in the same room but you didn't have to fiddle with aiming your transceivers exactly at someone else's. We even had LAN access points so with one AP in every room you could have your connection to the wired LAN and roam from room to room without losing it.
It did have the advantage of not leaking through walls, but it wasn't as robust and a large rollout would have required many more access points than an 802.11 rollout.
Then again, I also worked on 802.ll stuff during the original standards proposals stage back in '93.....it's unbelievable how long it took that standard to be created. I think they actually stopped and started from scratch at one point.
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There are ways to deal with this. Joe Walker, author of Direct Web Remoting (DWR), talks about the GMail problem and ways to solve it:
c ks_or_how_to_avoid_exposing_your_gmail_contacts.ht ml
:)
http://getahead.org/blog/joe/2007/01/01/csrf_atta
Of course, DWR 2.0 will have all this goodness built in.
Just FYI: Mark Evans has previously worked as a business/tech journalist for both The Globe and Mail and The National Post, the two national newspapers in Canada. He covered Nortel extensively for both papers, so it's not like he lacks history or credibility when it comes to the subject area. So what you have is a situation where he obviously had no problem getting press accreditation in either of his print jobs, but now that he's a full-time blogger he's being shut out. That's different from any random self-declared blogger applying for press accreditation - Mark has the professional experience to back up his application.
I tried it on WinXP Pro (no SP2) IE 6.0.28 and it went through on the first try without even a warning from IE.
Now the enemy is Islamic fundamentalists, and none of them are going to compete in a race to Mars.
China announced they were going to put a man in space and on the moon. Suddenly the US announced they were going to the moon and to Mars. It's not hard to connect the dots when there are only two.
All the major Canadian high-speed ISP's are part of vertically-integrated corporations to some degree :
Videotron is owned by Quebecor, who publish newspapers, sell music, run an online 'portal', etc. Videotron also owns the Quebec equivalent of 'American Idol' and thus now has a hand in artist development.
Rogers Cable is part of a huge company that owns magazines, radio stations, video rental stores, a large cellular phone network and the Toronto Blue Jays.
Sympatico is part of Bell, which also owns part of a national newspaper (Globe & Mail), national TV networks (CTV & TSN), a digital satellite dish service, a national cell phone network, etc.
I don't know as much about Shaw, but I do know they also own radio stations and, I believe, a couple of TV cable channels.
So, to put it politely, there's no one in that list that I trust to stand up for their users.
The longer the movie the fewer times you can play it per movie screen, the less money you can make per movie screen. Neither the movie theaters or the studios wants to see a 4 hour movies with an intermission because they could show 2 average length movies in the same period of time and make twice as much money.
You do realize it's all about the money don't you ?
I do Java programming in WSAD (WebSphere Studio Application Developer - based on Eclipse) and if I let the cursor 'hover' over a variable I will get a small pop-up displaying the complete class name ie 'java.util.List' - very handy and definitely easier than Hungarian notation. (which I have used in the past).
Does anyone know if Eclipse has this feature or is it just WSAD ?
Hell, most folks don't have the arms to defeat a police SWAT team, much less the Army/National Guard.
Exactly! Did no one read the details of the battles in Iraq ? Many of the 'militia' attacks consisted of a bunch of Iraqi Baathists with AK-47's packing into SUV's and rushing at American positions.....where they were promptly destroyed, quite often without inflicting any US casualties whatsoever. Now the US forces were definitely surprised at this level of resistance as they had been led to believe there would be none, but in the end it barely slowed the US advance.
The moral of the story ? Anyone who claims the right to be armed keeps the government honest is seriously deluded - any corrupt government supported by a reasonably modern army can control an armed populace if it chooses to use force. For proof again, look at Iraq - since the government fell it seems like a pretty large section of the population was anti-Hussein (if not pro-US) and the number of AK-47's on the street of Baghdad lately would frighten even the NRA....but it never made much difference in terms of who ran the country.
I love it when someone can come out with cracks like
...and at the same time accuse other people of being biased. Helloooooo kettle, this is the pot calling!
It has a certain Clintonian ring to it that suggests that the submitter is the guy's campaign manager.
and
I'm sure if Bush came out and made the same speech, he'd be crucified on slashdot in some strange way.
Well, in most of Canada there is a public Catholic school system that draws funding from the same source as the general public school system (property taxes or provincial income taxes, depending on where you are). Meanwhile any other religous school cannot draw upon the same government funding. Why ? Well the Catholic school system was set up before Canada was a country, so it has tradition....and Catholicism is still the largest religion in the country.
Why have 'religion' on the census ? At some point (I hope) we're going to sit down and review the numbers and decide if the government should really be financing one religious education program and not others.
"You're recompressing a compressed-expanded file"
As opposed to converting an AAC to MP3 ? In then end all conversions between two different compression standards are uncompress then recompress with a new codec. Unless you're using shorten (or a similar lossless file format) there is no magic that will let the MP3 encoder 'see' the information the AAC encoder decided to discard.
The part that I find the most scary is the fact that people starting calling up the FBI on their neighbors based on them changing their taste in clothing or growing a beard. The garbage collectors are calling in the FBI because someone in the building writes in Arabic ? Why worry about the government when your fellow citizens seem so eager to help create a police state ?
Ever seen the "tree farms" that result when "modern loggin(g) companies" clear cut and replant ? They don't look anything like a natural forest. The clear cut not only kills the large profitable trees, it also kills many smaller flora that are part of the forest ecosystem. Replant small trees and they quickly take over, resulting a new forest with very little diversity but very fast tree growth.
Forest companies at first thought this looked great - the faster tree growth, the sooner we can come back to that piece of land. Unfortunately, and this is supported by studies done by the BC dept. of forestry (which they tried to cover up), the rapid growth of the replanted trees results in much lower density wood than that found in "old-growth" (ie natural) forests. As a result the wood is worth very little to the foresters who planted it and they don't want to log it. Forestry companies continue to push for more "old-growth" forests to be opened up to logging because that's where the best quality wood is, all the replanting that's been done has yet to produce a lumber supply that adequately replaces what has been lost. We may not be as bad as Easter Island, but we're nowhere near sustainability.
The new Celerons are P4-derivatives, so they are absolutely NOT pin compatible with the PIII, cannot be plugged into the same motherboards and probably can't even be run from the same power supplies. You can get chipsets for either the Athlons or P4's that will accept the SDRAM from your old PIII and you can always bring along your old IDE drives, but there's no real difference in the upgrade path.
:)
As an aside, the next time you decide to shout RTFA! at someone, please try to know what you're talking about.
As opposed to the Chinese governments underreporting and denial of widespread HIV infection rates in some parts of rural China due to unsafe blood collection ? SARS is currently being tracked at about a 4% fatality rate and that largely correlates to 4% of the people infected being elderly. Many many more people have died and will die in China from HIV/AIDS than SARS and it shows no sign of destabilizing the government there.
For the record, IBM used to have a version of AIX that ran on their PS/2 line of PC's. I remember seeing it running in production back around 1990-1991 but I believe it was discontinued not too long thereafter. Admittedly the PS/2's were a little different than mainstream PC's at the time (most notably the Microchannel bus) but they were most definitely running Intel processors.
So, yes. IBM knew how to do that around 15 years ago.
I'm just wondering if the patent being granted is someone hinged on Interwoven's claim to be the first to do version control for 'web assets' (ie, HTML, images) as opposed to source code.
The fact that there's no technical difference between version control on an HTML file and version control on a 'C' file seems to be the sort of thing that's lost on the patent office.
Two words : Office Space
(The sad part is, it's probably the closest to reality I've seen yet)
The big question (to me) is whether Microsoft can put a legal encumbrance on the XML schema they use for a new file format. Could you publish a schema but have it so wrapped in legalese that (for example) open source projects could not be allowed to use it ?
FYI : There was a lot of code rewrite from v2 to v3 for performance and it involved a lot of removing C and replacing it with assembly. Actually, starting at V2.0 every subsequent version seemed to get faster.
using the words Canada and Hotspot in the same sentence that just seems wrong in so many ways...
Unless you add the word 'hockey'!
Excellent as it was, OS/2 was also hopelessly tied to the i386 architecture
:)
:)
AMEN! I wrote device drivers (in what seems like a previous life) for OS/2, Windows, etc. and if you let your assembly-level debugger* wander through the OS/2 kernel there was absolutely no doubt that this was hand-coded assembly. It was beautiful assembly code, but I remember one day, in the midst of debugging, realizing "They'll never port this to another chip...ever!" The entire kernel was designed around how the 386 was designed....to the point where we kept Intel chip specs in our library. SWe had a good laugh when they announced they were going to port OS/2 to PPC.
* Yes, in those days we didn't have fancy, schmancy source-level debuggers, at least not for kernel/driver work. WinICE was like crack when it came out - everyone doing DD work HAD to have it.....and now I write Java and I don't even produce real assembly anymore. Oh, the good old days.
More importantly, who has his lawyer's address ?
What is this "Canadia" you speak of?
A few years back I was backpacking in Europe - happened to check into a hostel with a lot of Canadians in it - not all as a group, just several smaller groups that had randomly all ended up in the same place. So one day we're sitting around have a few beers and someone mentions how it's funny to have this many Canadians in the hostel at one time....when up pipes a good 'ol boy from Louisiana "Yeah, I never thought I'd meet this many people from Canadia in Europe!"
Of course his girlfriend was also from Louisiana and she laughed just as hard as the rest of us.
About 8 years ago I worked with a group that did wireless LAN over IR. If done right you don't have to have the exact line of sight that IrDA requirees. We used 'diffuse' IR which basically meant all transceivers pointed towards the ceiling and IR bounced off the ceiling from one node to another. You were still limited to being in the same room but you didn't have to fiddle with aiming your transceivers exactly at someone else's. We even had LAN access points so with one AP in every room you could have your connection to the wired LAN and roam from room to room without losing it.
It did have the advantage of not leaking through walls, but it wasn't as robust and a large rollout would have required many more access points than an 802.11 rollout.
Then again, I also worked on 802.ll stuff during the original standards proposals stage back in '93.....it's unbelievable how long it took that standard to be created. I think they actually stopped and started from scratch at one point.