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XBOX 360 2556
The big difference is about who they represent. ISO is an international organization at diplomatic levels, and is really a standards coordinator and voting area rather than a standards development organization. ANSI...
XBOX 360 2557
Actually, pushing an ISO standard is not so hard if you are well-connected. You need a sponsoring body that actually writes the text. This can be the standards organisation of Iceland or Malta...
XBOX 360 2558
lots of my off repeated comments about ISO requiring that any networking standards work at ISO level (and-or ISO chartered national body) conform to...
XBOX 360 2559
On Sat, 10 Dec 05 13:59:57 GMT If only. Unfortunately it's far messier iso8868 plus 1-1 has glyphs for...
XBOX 360 2560
But there are hundreds of thousands of companies around the world, and each company may have...
XBOX 360 2561
Letter+diacritical mark stored separately isn't ambiguous The trouble is that in large library catalogs all of the different cultures exist side-by-side. Not all online catalogs do...
XBOX 360 2562
Clbuttical (Pre-koine) greek can have a plethora of diacritical marks as well. Some convey grammatical...
XBOX 360 2563
Won't we be creating "alphabets" to preserve languages that has to include pronunciation cues? Let me reask this question. Won't we have to have a computer alphabet that has...
XBOX 360 2564
This reminds me of a rather funny incident. Sometime in late 70's at one of the international trade shows in Moscow I saw a gadget that...
XBOX 360 2565
Sigh! To enforce their brand of socialism, they had to involve government. This becomes a flavor of communism. It's a work...
XBOX 360 2566
More of a pain in the butt than not supporting diacritical marks at all, but supporting diacritical...
XBOX 360 2567
My thinking and writing may be f***ing up, but I certainly don't recall ever suggesting that. My intentions in my hack design...
XBOX 360 2568
Oh, honey. I'm talking about writing a spec. There has to be a word for this kind of sorting such that I can state that fields a,b,c,d,e, and z are to...
XBOX 360 2569
Ypu don't get the critique, do you? Save your rethoric. That need is a real, natural one; and it is served extremely poorly by the various ISO "codepages". The...
XBOX 360 2570
characters I haven't reached this conclusion ...yet that it is wrong to base computer text on glyphs. I started the...
Papertape diagnostics XBOX 360
Actually, the PDP-11 bootstraps (different for different devices) were typically about 5-10 words of 16 bits. And the most used ones were on a bootstrap ROM card plugged into...
XBOX 360 2572
On Thu, 05 Jan 06 12:51:54 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, All PDP-11s I saw came with diagnostics on gray non-oiled paper tape. FEs brought diagnostics in on DECtape or disk packs if the...
Zeroing core. 2573
something similar ... was the MVCL instruction introduced on 370. the source and destination lengths were different and if the source length was less than...
Zeroing core. 2574
Couple of problem with this, if your objective is to clear ALL of memory. If the SP starts of FFFF the first PUSH will write to location FFFD and FFFE, leaving FFFF uninitialized. The...
Zeroing core. 2575
MOV -(PC), -(PC) IIRC It didn't leave zeros behind. I'm not sure what happened at address zero. Which reminds me of the time we...
Zeroing core. 2576
I agree is doesn't matter how it's scrubbed. I'm having problems figuring out how one can verify that the 1000 randomly set bits in the memory page...
Zeroing core. 2577
The tradition is from C, but it's pretty widely used other places as well. Another convention is to end the number with "H...
Zeroing core. 2578
On a Windoze box, you're being F-ed when the power indicator is lit. We can't have that now, could...
Zeroing core. 2579
failed Good grief. If the technique available for this kind of failure is a complex bit pattern, the biz has really gone downhill...
Zeroing core. 2580
It doesn't matter how you represent it. Binary, octal, hex, base 12, decimal whatever. I'm not buttuming a human will examine this, though I...
Zeroing core. 2581
pattern you It wasn't just front panels. Channels, devices, and memory also had them. The eyes can see off, but they can't...
Zeroing core. 2582
KR Williams Any developer who buttumes that, even if memory is known to be set to zero, that it has the...
XBOX 360 2583
then to Could be. I can't remember. Kewl. Isn't there a case where some sounds or some sound combinations are not represented by an alphabet? How...
XBOX 360 2584
KR Williams Ahhh... Good one. Good thing you mentioned it too. I've had it for a long time, courtesy of too...
XBOX 360 2585
You make up a spelling and stick to it. :-) I think the most you can hope for is a set of consistent rules. Given a spelling, you...
XBOX 360 2586
Sorry, I had to snip. This is fine as long as you have an older human teaching a much younger human. (I'm still buttuming that this research that kids learn how to...
XBOX 360 2587
Brian Boutel Back in the late 1970's DECUS Europe was rotating its annual conferences between several countries. I remember how convenient it was for me when they...
XBOX 360 2588
Morten Reistad I meant that the Executive (Comission and Council of Ministers) is in Brusels, the Judiciary (European Court of Justice) is in Luxembourg, and the Legislature (European Parliament) is in Strasbourg...
XBOX 360 2589
There was more to it than carisma. The ailing President, who was well past being mentally competent, signed away the country. It would be...
XBOX 360 2591
Thanks. It depends on the culture. A million adults standing in that square doing nothing was enough for the Four to lose face. There wasn't screaming nor...
XBOX 360 2592
It's quite clear that they didn't realize the full reality of the West until it was thrust upon them. Some businesses continued to be privately owned. They were...
XBOX 360 2593
That is all about marketing. You cannot "just" have a protest, you must capture the imagination of the silent majority; persent good video and sound bites to the media, perks to the politicians...
XBOX 360 2596
Yup. I wanted to find out how people worked. Then who wrote this book? Did he have a ghost...
XBOX 360 2597
Sure. I was talking about magnitude of the mess. It was a lot bigger than what it had been calculated to be. This is...
XBOX 360 2598
I don't think so. That waiting is exactly my point. And if the government-sanctioned publisher chose not to print the material, you had...
XBOX 360 2599
If a business acquires the right to distribute a product in a particular territory, its contract will prevent it from selling that product in other territories. If it does so, e.g. by catalog, it...
XBOX 360 2600
Right. In this case the distribution had already been done to the store in the other country. So why does an alien have to bodily travel to that other...
XBOX 360 2601
Of course we do. But we're not so loudly two-faced about it. So do the rest of us. That's one of the things we're getting tired of. Yes...
XBOX 360 2602
I thought I said it was unless the purchaser bought stuff in person. This becomes f***ing expensive if you need a piece...
XBOX 360 2603
This is how the system worked in all European capitalist countries (except in Belgium) after WW2. The limits were set at how much of the local currency you were allowed to exchange legally...
XBOX 360 2604
I was told by this person it was British laws in this case, not the US. No,no,no. IIRC, even if...
XBOX 360 2605
Sure. Most of my readings define the "decline" as the perceived loss of power, a.k.a. direct political and economic control, in...
XBOX 360 2606
Britain fought WW2 for 6 years, far longer than most other countries, apart from Germany, obviously. This was...
XBOX 360 2607
I didn't have any intention of implying that this is easy, cheap nor quick. However, any farmer knows that you can't get a crop by irrigating the fields one drip at a time. Price controls...
XBOX 360 2608
It was a pervasive thing. It was political, diplomatic, economic and cultutral at the same time. It was a dreary time for Britain. It came...
XBOX 360 2609
Yes, I understand this..well, not understand but am aware of it. That's only a beginning. Ironing out all of...
XBOX 360 2610
I don't think "idiot" is the right word for that - it was SOP for the Germans at that point. They did that in Finnish Lapland too...
XBOX 360 2611
It is my word for it. But then I don't anything about war or tactics or strategies. Why? If something was that bad, didn't people just raze...
XBOX 360 2612
Well, when retreating, it does make sense to deny your opponent any possible resources ... like buildings and such. And if you aren't planning on coming back (and by then, the Germans knew they weren't...
XBOX 360 2613
Yes, I saw the pictures of what Germany did to the Summer Palace in Leningrad which was completely senseless. My first comment was wondering what messes we (the US...
XBOX 360 2614
Well, resource denial is a time-honored tool of strategy, and everyone knows how it works...
XBOX 360 2615
How? Laws? RonnieR kept the Air Traffic Controller's union in check too. He fired 'em...
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