Be Cooling Fan - Transcript - Hour 2, Segment 3

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Tim: Dave I am interested in buying a new computer. Shall I wait till the Longhorn comes out with the 64 bit computer. Gateway and Hewlett-Packard has them all, what's your opinion?

David Lawrence: No I wouldn't wait. I wouldn't wait, machines that you are dealing with now if you get an AMD 64 processor you will be able to take advantage of Longhorn, but Longhorn doesn*t require 64 bit. It*s just capable of passing 64 bits. If it was required that then a whole bunch of software would not work the moment Longhorn was out. So I would say go for it right now and if you need a permission slip simply, send me an E-mail. And enclose in that E-mail a $20 bill and I will send you back permission slips.

Tim: Say how long before Longhorn comes off?

David Lawrence: Don't have a date on that. Not somebody who worries about it.

The Geek Speak phrase is text encoding, text encoding. And we are going to talk about that in just a second.

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Now this hour*s Geek Speak is text encoding, a method of taking a piece of text which you would normally write on a piece of paper and making it possible for a computer to read it. Now you have heard the phrase ASCII, you have heard HTML and RTF and XML. These are all ways of taking plain old text and in coding them in such a way that they make sense to a reader. Whether that reader is a human being, that reader is a computer, that reader is a web browser, that reader is an RSS reader. These are all ways of taking pure text, it*s nothing but text and marking them up. Remember the old days, WordPerfect where if you would Show Codes there would be little dot-be-dots before bold and dot-be-dot afterwards bold and that's marking up. That's encoding the text to make sure they appear a particular way in this case as bold. So with HTML you have tags that encode the text, with ASCII you have different codes assigned to every letter so that a computer can read the text. RTF a natural language, it*s a common file format that not only Microsoft Word can use but other word processors can use. Everything requires a system and a markup language and a reader that reads that markup language. In the case of HTML, the markup language is HTML Hypertext Markup Language. And the reader is a browser Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Safari whatever. But the way that stuff gets from plain old text to text that's all marked up bold and italic, in red and green that's called text encoding. And that is this hour*s Geek Speak.

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