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Slashback: Centrinissimo, Damages, Software
Formalization schmormalization. kaisyain's review today of Software Craftsmanship raised a spirited conversation about the nature of software, software engineering, and related disciplines. cconnell conveniently submits a great companion piece: "I wrote this article a couple years ago but it has continued to get good readership within the software engineering community. Should provoke some interesting discussion..."
The bleeding edge costs money. JeffyVernon writes with an followup to CNET's early review of Centrino laptops: "AnandTech published two articles on Centrino today, an overview of the CPU architecture (including some interesting history behind the chip) and a roundup of four notebooks including the new Dell that wasn't in CNet's roundup. It looks like the 4.9lbs IBM T40p ended up winning the roundup, it lasted over 6 hours on battery!"
What scarcity was this exactly? RadBlock writes "Lawrence Lessig is addressing the issue of radio spectrum on CIO Insight... something that was talked about on Slashdot the other day. Lessig states that the spectrum has been defined too generally as if there can only be one message per frequency, when better equipment will vastly increase the amount of 'spectrum' that is usable."
I like that phrase "general welfare." We've mentioned eGovOS several times before -- now, here's a last-minute announcement that may be of interest: free registration is still open for next week's (March 17-19) eGovOS conference in Washington D.C., "Open Standards/Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU." Perhaps some folks there ought to consider the question eugene ts wong raised the other day, namely, Which North American government offices won't move to Linux? Someone needs to set up a big map with different colored countries and states!
Who's laughing and where is his bank? deelowe writes "From ars. Back in September we reported on a class action suit leveled at a number of Music industry players that accused them of anti-competitive price-fixing. Back in January, we reported that victims of said price fixing could hit this website and sign up (too late now), and eventually receive up to $20 in the settlement, provided of course that you had actually purchased a CD between January 1 1995 and December 22, 2000. 3.5 million Americans made their way to the on-line form, and it appears that victims will receive $12.60 apiece, should a judge approve it."
They still have a while to go ... sp1nl0ck writes CNet News.com.com.com are reporting that The Neo Project guys have restarted the attempt to crack the 2048-bit XBox key following advice from their lawyers. CNet are citing a link to Operation Project X, but it was a bit temperamental in loading earlier. Maybe it's been CNetted..."
I'll still think of it as the GIMP for a few years ;) Agermain writes "CinePaint has just released its first Windows build. From their website: "CinePaint is an open source painting program used by motion picture studios to retouch images in 35mm films. It was formerly called Film Gimp. It has been used in a dozen feature films including Harry Potter, Scooby-Doo, and the Fast & the Furious... This first Windows beta release is mainly intended for developers and testers.""
I fully intend to reinvest that 12.60 back into my music collection =)
Although; thats probably what they want you to do..
That's not even enough to buy some new CD's!
#vapyhqr <fgqvb.u>
vag znva()
{
vag p;
juvyr ((p = trgpune()) != RBS) {
vs (p >= 'n' && p <= 'm')
chgpune('n' + (p-'n'+13)%26);
ryfr vs (p >= 'N' && p <= 'M')
chgpune('N' + (p-'N'+13)%26);
ryfr
chgpune(p);
}
}
Great! I can finally afford to buy a CD now!
Oh wait, I'm still a bit short, aren't I?
Oh boy! Now I can buy socks!
This sig no verb.
Wow.
Did anyone read that as "Centrinissimo damages software."?
I know the crusoe mangles assebly a bit but...
my associative arrays can kick your hash - TCL
Has anyone noticed that the Centrino logo bears a striking resemblance to the Cameltoe logo?
> There's no justice like american justice!
:)
Hey, I'll have you know that America has the best justice money can buy!
and here's a rot-26 decoder in rot-52:
/= 4;
#include
#include
#define BUFSIZE 512
int main (argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
char buf[BUFSIZE];
int r;
while ((r = read (0, buf, BUFSIZE-1)) > 0) {
int i;
for (i = 0; i r; i++) {
int c;
c = (int) buf[i];
c *= 7; c -= buf[i] * 2; c
putc (c, stdout);
}
}
if (r 0) {
fprintf (stderr, "read: %s\n", strerror (errno));
return (r);
}
return (0);
}
Yes, which is cool for ultra light/thin. But if you're going for a desktop replacement, getting 6 hours out of a 14-15 inch screen and the gaming performance of a 2.0 P4, r0x0rz.
But the marketing... Gack. Disgusting. I gotta rant.
"Centrino". A Pentium-M (and 855PM chipset) and an Intel WLAN card.
So lemme get these three CPUs straight...
Pentium-III-M: That icky old Pentium 3, yuk, you don't want a Pentium 3! That's old!
Pentium-4-M: That awesome new Pentium 4, but mobile! That's new!
Pentium-M: We spent millions to train people that "Pentium 4" was the hot new thing... And see, "Pentium III", that must suck, because "3" is less than "4". So what do we call our newest, bestest, fastest mobile chip? You know, the one that so handily beats a P4 on an IPC basis that at 1.6 GHz, it beats a 2.4 GHz Pentium-4-M? The one with the huge-azz 1M cache, and the 5-6 hour battery life? Well, we decided we should call that CPU the "Pentium-M"! You know, so it sounds like the mobile version of the 133 MHz thing you had back in 1995 or so!
All this so that the consumer will ask for a "Centrino" instead of "the laptop with that newer, faster P3 that had the 1M cache, 400 MHz FSB, and P4's branch prediction unit, and insanely low power consumption" -- so that manufacturers, in order to say "Centrino! Comin' right up!" will sell them a laptop with an Intel WLAN card as opposed to any other manufacturer's WLAN card.
(No Intel WLAN card? Sorry, not a cool fast buzzword-compliant Centrino! Icky slow Pentium-M that doesn't even have a "3" or "4" after it!)
I want one of these things, awright, but I want it for the (Banias / Pentium-M) CPU and battery life. I don't give a rat's ass who makes the frickin' WLAN card! So if you also don't give a rat's ass about who makes the WLAN card, remember that "Pentium-M" is just as good as a "Centrino".
In addition to (possibly) saving you a few bucks, there's the added benefit that with a non-Intel WLAN card, your laptop won't be branded with a logo that looks like it came off a box of tampons.
If you feel constrained by something as dumb as anti-leech, we need to work on your geek skillz =)
This is the FBI. You have violated Federal law in bypassing a copy-protection scheme. Please report to your nearest DMCA-violators detention center for sentencing, from whence, thanks to the Patriot Act 2, we can now deport you to Morocco for questioning and Iraq to serve out your sentence.
Have a nice day.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Recursive Code! Let me get this straight: I need to decode this so I can compile it so I can decode the code in order to compile in the first place... my head hurts :P
With your hard-won $12.60 you can buy half an RIAA-sanctioned CD, or fifteen CD-R blanks. I hope you all know the right answer to this conundrum..
Remember, friends, SHARE your music!
for all you free-as-in-beer fanatics, check out Shareaza! The next generation of P2P is at hand!
Let's see, a little math:
2^2048 is about 3.23 x 10^616
They've tried about 17 billion keys, which is approximately none of that.
There are, as a higher estimate, 10^81 atoms in the universe.
If they tried 10 trillion keys a day, it would take them only 8.85 x 10^597 years.
There becomes a point where hope should be considered idiocricy.
BUYAH!