There will still be plenty of web radio stations around. However, they will all be simultaneous broadcasts of over-the-air radio broadcasts. CARP sets royalty fees significantly higher for internet-only broadcasts.
So the basic effect of CARP is that it puts all the internet-only broadcasters out of business, but still allows all those Top-40 stations to continue streaming their generic TRL crapfest to anyone with half a brain. This is just another attempt by the RIAA to turn a market that is new and interesting into a known commodity that they know they can control.
voice recognition software is where i see major strides coming from
Voice recognition has some problems. One of which, as you eluded to, is the difficulty posed by different accents. The other, more unsurmountable obstacle to voice recognition becomming the preferred method for user input is that computers are often used in close proximity to each other. Imagine an office setting where everyone is talking to their computer...having worked in a call center, it wouldn't be fun.
The more promising technology that I see eventually replacing the keyboard is those sensors that monitor your nevous impulses (I remember playing a demo of this bowling game where you put the device on your finger and then just think right or left and the ball goes in that direction). If one of those could be made to send as many different inputs as a keyboard is currently capable of, it would make using a computer much easier.
There's also the competing JXXXAPI which does things a bit differently.
- everything is combined into javax.xxx. Extremely large packages are in keeping with the JXXXAPI philosophy. - In every class, everything is declared to be public (lots of exposed members). This does have an impact on security as it increases the chance of transmitting a virus. - All socket code is multi-threaded. This allows programs to use multiple sockets concurrently. - SNMP integration. All JXXXAPI programs are designed to be monitored closely. - Includes some music support. So far, it's only midi-like music with a few basic voices and a couple of drum loops. This is scheduled to be upgraded when demand warrants.
Let's have a close look at the costs involved when running a Linux system.^M ^M An important factor in Linux' cost is its maintenance. Linux requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the relatively few high-paid Linux administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Linux seems to be needing maintenance continuously, to keep it from breaking down.^M ^M ...
Yeah...back when I was a freshman in high school, I had a very similar discussion with my mom. I successfully proved to her that I knew where everything was...her response:
"Yeah, but you wouldn't want a girlfriend to see this, would you?"
Suffice it to say that my room was much cleaner the next day and remains so to this day.
I have to say I agree with nearly everything you said. However, I also count myself amongst the group that loved the film.
As someone who's read LotR (and re-read many times), I found fault with nearly all of the script decisions that the movie made. However, the movie amazed me visually. Seeing Hobbiton, Rivendell, Moria and Orthanc come to life before my eyes made the movie well worth the price of admission (they did get Lorien wrong in my mind, but no one's perfect;).
And Ian McKellan *is* Gandalf...if he doesn't win an Oscar for one of the movies, I'll be upset.
Because both the sender and receiver must generate the same sequence of keys. If it were random, then receiver wouldn't be able to decrypt the message.
It could be that the "program" that is sent initially that generates the keys is different for each user. This would make it slightly more secure, but if that "program" were intercepted then every single key it generates would be compromised. It would also be vulerable if the program which generates the program which generates the keys was in any way predictable.
The amount of oil we're talking about isn't worth a fraction of the cost of the bombs dropped
Don't be too sure about that. Quoting from this article (you wouldn't have seen it previously since it is published outside of the AOL/TW propaganda network):
(from page 6) "Turkmenistan, which borders the northwest of Afghanistan, holds the world's third largest gas reserves and an estimated six billion barrels of oil reserves. Enough, experts say, to meet American energy needs for the next 30 years..."
Well...Duh...thanks for stating the obvious. Who modded this to "Insightful"...In other news, the best solution to any given problem is the solutions that works the best and the team that scores the most goals is likely to win the game.
A messy desk can be an indicator of productivity if there is a statistical correlation between the two. It is not an assurance of productivity and therefore cannot be used as a measure of productivity.
For example, an "Insightful" comment is a sign of a post with some insight into some subject or other. However, as we have just seen, it is not an assurance of such insight.
You can rest assured that the US won't leave Afganistan until it is absolutely positive that the country won't fall back into turmoil.
See, Unocal has been planning an oil pipeline through Afganistan for some time now. One of the breadbasket republics (I think Turkmenistan) has huge, unexploited oil supplies that Mr. Bush feels are in dire jeopardy of not being exploited to their fullest. The problem with an oil pipeline is that it makes a wonderful terrorist target since it is so hard to guard.
So...there's really no danger of the U.S. abandoning Afganistan the way they have so many other countries so long as there is a financial interest in keeping the country stable.
Yeah...I thought it was a bit odd that she thanked her lawyer and did NOT thank her co-star.
Am I the only one who thinks Billy Bob deserved a shoutout???
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Pending a screening of A Beautiful Mind, I am willing to say that perhaps Denzel deserved the award.
I still need to see "Training Day" again, but I believe that Washington's win is pretty similar to Crowe's win last year. Anyone who's seen "The Hurricane" knows that Washington's performance was a vastly superior performance to Crowe's Maximus. Problem was, the Academy owed Crowe for "The Insider." Luckily, I don't think there was a performance this year that merits a payback next year.
One of the (many) times that I had occasion to contact Iomega's technical support department due to a non-functioning drive, it went something like this:
Me: My drive makes strange noises when I put in a disk. Iomega Rep: Is your Zip drive within 6 feet of your monitor? Me: Why yes, it is? Iomega Rep: Well, that could be the problem. Me: Interesting...well, the cord that came with the drive is only 2 feet long. Should I try stretching it?
Needless to say, I eventually had to send it back. The one good thing I can say about Zip drives...the one year warranty never expires! You get a new one every 6-9 months when the old one dies.
IANAL, but...it's called a non-compete clause. It's pretty common and definitely enforceable. The only legal concern is that non-compete clauses cannot be overly vague.
So Microsoft can't prohibit you from writing software in your spare time or from GPLing it. However they can prevent you from at least writing software with similar functionality to the Microsoft product you work on. At most, they may try to prevent you from writing software that competes with any Microsoft product (depends on how ballsy their lawyers are...judging by the anti-trust case, they probably keep you from competing with a product that may be created in the future).
Thanks for telling me how dead I'd be if it hit here. Couldn't you have talked about it hitting somewhere where I don't live? Like Kabul, or something? Maybe Baghdad?
They were trying to get you to imagine what the devastation might have been like. Thanks to the presidents Bush, one does not need any imagination to envision what Kabul or Baghdad would look like.
CVS is most everything you want from revision control
What about file locking, code promotion, build labels or grouped check-ins? As far as I know, CVS has none of these. These are big issues.
File locking removes the need for constant branching. Granted CVS's automatic merging capabilities are more advanced than most of its competitors, but branching is the enemy. It should be avoided unless it is absolutely necessary. You lose the ability to have two people work on the same file at once but, from my experience, saving yourself the hassle of losing changes is a big plus.
Code promotion (as I understand it, I haven't worked too extensively with it) is nice because it allows developers to continue development while their code moves through the QA process and have their bug fixes easily merged back into the source tree.
Build labels are great because it allows you to group file versions into a logical release (rather than just the current version at a specific date).
Grouped check-ins are probably the feature that is most lacking in CVS. It amazes me how many people won't call MySQL a real database because of its lack of atomic transactions but are still willing to call CVS a version control system. If all application code was contained in one file, this wouldn't be necessary. However, it is often necessary to make a change to one file that requires a change to another file. If these files are checked in individually (as CVS does it), it is possible to get version conflicts with these files. To make matters worse, if the change needs to be rolled back, you have to remember to roll back both files. The situation gets exponentially worse the more mutually-dependant files you check in.
The only real advantages of CVS over most commercial versioning software are a) free...important for open source projects without funding. b) readily available to make your source tree available to people outside your development team...also important for open source projects. and c) the large selection of front ends (gui,text, web and otherwise) that have been written for it.
However none of these features qualify it as being an "advanced" (as the original post called it) version control solution.
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There will still be plenty of web radio stations around. However, they will all be simultaneous broadcasts of over-the-air radio broadcasts. CARP sets royalty fees significantly higher for internet-only broadcasts.
So the basic effect of CARP is that it puts all the internet-only broadcasters out of business, but still allows all those Top-40 stations to continue streaming their generic TRL crapfest to anyone with half a brain. This is just another attempt by the RIAA to turn a market that is new and interesting into a known commodity that they know they can control.
Ummm...the way the sentence is worded, he could mean that the Australian music industry spends $70 million a year illegally copying music.
voice recognition software is where i see major strides coming from
Voice recognition has some problems. One of which, as you eluded to, is the difficulty posed by different accents. The other, more unsurmountable obstacle to voice recognition becomming the preferred method for user input is that computers are often used in close proximity to each other. Imagine an office setting where everyone is talking to their computer...having worked in a call center, it wouldn't be fun.
The more promising technology that I see eventually replacing the keyboard is those sensors that monitor your nevous impulses (I remember playing a demo of this bowling game where you put the device on your finger and then just think right or left and the ball goes in that direction). If one of those could be made to send as many different inputs as a keyboard is currently capable of, it would make using a computer much easier.
There's also the competing JXXXAPI which does things a bit differently.
- everything is combined into javax.xxx. Extremely large packages are in keeping with the JXXXAPI philosophy.
- In every class, everything is declared to be public (lots of exposed members). This does have an impact on security as it increases the chance of transmitting a virus.
- All socket code is multi-threaded. This allows programs to use multiple sockets concurrently.
- SNMP integration. All JXXXAPI programs are designed to be monitored closely.
- Includes some music support. So far, it's only midi-like music with a few basic voices and a couple of drum loops. This is scheduled to be upgraded when demand warrants.
Or maybe...
...
Let's have a close look at the costs involved when running a Linux system.^M
^M
An important factor in Linux' cost is its maintenance. Linux requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the relatively few high-paid Linux administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Linux seems to be needing maintenance continuously, to keep it from breaking down.^M
^M
chicks dig long pointers...nuff said
This is only a small subset of what he's proposing, but it's more than just an idea.
Yeah...back when I was a freshman in high school, I had a very similar discussion with my mom. I successfully proved to her that I knew where everything was...her response:
"Yeah, but you wouldn't want a girlfriend to see this, would you?"
Suffice it to say that my room was much cleaner the next day and remains so to this day.
I have to say I agree with nearly everything you said. However, I also count myself amongst the group that loved the film.
;).
As someone who's read LotR (and re-read many times), I found fault with nearly all of the script decisions that the movie made. However, the movie amazed me visually. Seeing Hobbiton, Rivendell, Moria and Orthanc come to life before my eyes made the movie well worth the price of admission (they did get Lorien wrong in my mind, but no one's perfect
And Ian McKellan *is* Gandalf...if he doesn't win an Oscar for one of the movies, I'll be upset.
Because both the sender and receiver must generate the same sequence of keys. If it were random, then receiver wouldn't be able to decrypt the message.
It could be that the "program" that is sent initially that generates the keys is different for each user. This would make it slightly more secure, but if that "program" were intercepted then every single key it generates would be compromised. It would also be vulerable if the program which generates the program which generates the keys was in any way predictable.
The amount of oil we're talking about isn't worth a fraction of the cost of the bombs dropped
Don't be too sure about that. Quoting from this article (you wouldn't have seen it previously since it is published outside of the AOL/TW propaganda network):
(from page 6)
"Turkmenistan, which borders the northwest of Afghanistan, holds the world's third largest gas reserves and an estimated six billion barrels of oil reserves. Enough, experts say, to meet American energy needs for the next 30 years..."
Well...Duh...thanks for stating the obvious. Who modded this to "Insightful"...In other news, the best solution to any given problem is the solutions that works the best and the team that scores the most goals is likely to win the game.
:^)
A messy desk can be an indicator of productivity if there is a statistical correlation between the two. It is not an assurance of productivity and therefore cannot be used as a measure of productivity.
For example, an "Insightful" comment is a sign of a post with some insight into some subject or other. However, as we have just seen, it is not an assurance of such insight.
...I'm not usually this bitter...
You can rest assured that the US won't leave Afganistan until it is absolutely positive that the country won't fall back into turmoil.
See, Unocal has been planning an oil pipeline through Afganistan for some time now. One of the breadbasket republics (I think Turkmenistan) has huge, unexploited oil supplies that Mr. Bush feels are in dire jeopardy of not being exploited to their fullest. The problem with an oil pipeline is that it makes a wonderful terrorist target since it is so hard to guard.
So...there's really no danger of the U.S. abandoning Afganistan the way they have so many other countries so long as there is a financial interest in keeping the country stable.
Yeah...I thought it was a bit odd that she thanked her lawyer and did NOT thank her co-star.
Am I the only one who thinks Billy Bob deserved a shoutout???
Pending a screening of A Beautiful Mind, I am willing to say that perhaps Denzel deserved the award.
I still need to see "Training Day" again, but I believe that Washington's win is pretty similar to Crowe's win last year. Anyone who's seen "The Hurricane" knows that Washington's performance was a vastly superior performance to Crowe's Maximus. Problem was, the Academy owed Crowe for "The Insider." Luckily, I don't think there was a performance this year that merits a payback next year.
One of the (many) times that I had occasion to contact Iomega's technical support department due to a non-functioning drive, it went something like this:
Me: My drive makes strange noises when I put in a disk.
Iomega Rep: Is your Zip drive within 6 feet of your monitor?
Me: Why yes, it is?
Iomega Rep: Well, that could be the problem.
Me: Interesting...well, the cord that came with the drive is only 2 feet long. Should I try stretching it?
Needless to say, I eventually had to send it back. The one good thing I can say about Zip drives...the one year warranty never expires! You get a new one every 6-9 months when the old one dies.
IANAL, but...it's called a non-compete clause. It's pretty common and definitely enforceable. The only legal concern is that non-compete clauses cannot be overly vague.
So Microsoft can't prohibit you from writing software in your spare time or from GPLing it. However they can prevent you from at least writing software with similar functionality to the Microsoft product you work on. At most, they may try to prevent you from writing software that competes with any Microsoft product (depends on how ballsy their lawyers are...judging by the anti-trust case, they probably keep you from competing with a product that may be created in the future).
"Is that an N1 rocket in your pants or are you just really, really, really, really, really happy to see me?"
2002 EM7 might make a good test for NEA destruction systems.
I had no idea the National Endowment for the Arts had such systems.
It's good to know that when scientists fail to protect our planet, we can always rely on the artists!
Thanks for telling me how dead I'd be if it hit here. Couldn't you have talked about it hitting somewhere where I don't live? Like Kabul, or something? Maybe Baghdad?
They were trying to get you to imagine what the devastation might have been like. Thanks to the presidents Bush, one does not need any imagination to envision what Kabul or Baghdad would look like.
Anyone else worried about having a laser beam blasted at their retina?
Not me...it's far more pleasant than having to wear glasses or contacts!!!
(yeah, yeah...lasic surgery deals with the cornea...bla, bla, bla)
Hey...Microsoft never tortured and killed people because of their religion...yet.
Exactly...this is an *important* feature. It makes backing out changes soooooooo much easier.
CVS is most everything you want from revision control
What about file locking, code promotion, build labels or grouped check-ins? As far as I know, CVS has none of these. These are big issues.
File locking removes the need for constant branching. Granted CVS's automatic merging capabilities are more advanced than most of its competitors, but branching is the enemy. It should be avoided unless it is absolutely necessary. You lose the ability to have two people work on the same file at once but, from my experience, saving yourself the hassle of losing changes is a big plus.
Code promotion (as I understand it, I haven't worked too extensively with it) is nice because it allows developers to continue development while their code moves through the QA process and have their bug fixes easily merged back into the source tree.
Build labels are great because it allows you to group file versions into a logical release (rather than just the current version at a specific date).
Grouped check-ins are probably the feature that is most lacking in CVS. It amazes me how many people won't call MySQL a real database because of its lack of atomic transactions but are still willing to call CVS a version control system. If all application code was contained in one file, this wouldn't be necessary. However, it is often necessary to make a change to one file that requires a change to another file. If these files are checked in individually (as CVS does it), it is possible to get version conflicts with these files. To make matters worse, if the change needs to be rolled back, you have to remember to roll back both files. The situation gets exponentially worse the more mutually-dependant files you check in.
The only real advantages of CVS over most commercial versioning software are
a) free...important for open source projects without funding.
b) readily available to make your source tree available to people outside your development team...also important for open source projects.
and c) the large selection of front ends (gui,text, web and otherwise) that have been written for it.
However none of these features qualify it as being an "advanced" (as the original post called it) version control solution.
it's almost funny if you ignore what's at stake.