Using javorscript to generate the data quicker than most hard disks could write it, with no bandwidth usage other than fetching the script itself, so thats not a problem. But yeah, just a single gigabyte would require 200 subdomains so I'm not really seeing the danger here.
As someone who uses a PC at work for heavy development (everything from Windows device drivers to large.NET apps and ASP.NET websites) I have never *once* needed to edit the registry, or known anyone else in the office need to, and I've never once had to suggest editing the registry to fix a problem one of my less computer literate freinds has had. Our Linux boxes, on the other hand, require config file hacking fairly frequently.
Even if you had to edit the registry, whats so difficult about modifying key/value pairs? Seems a hell of a lot simpler then overly verbose XML or some hideous syntax some nerd has just made up.
I agree, its hardly a viewpoint that shows anything we haven't seen before. What I want to see is photographs from *inside* the rings, how hard would it be to send a probe through one part or another? Would it get smashed into billions of pieces by all the dust, ice and rocks? Maybe it could fly through one of the gaps in the rings?
Ubunto Feisty Fawn is not only better than Windows Vista, but is also quite a lot cheaper because it is free, unlike Vista which costs $399, [Allow] or [Deny]?
American football? Rugby with armour on because you might get a black eye otherwise. Ice hockey? A bit like regular hockey, but with armour on because the puck might hit your elbow and it may sting a bit. Pool? Like snooker but made with enormous pockets designed for the physically and mentally handicapped American sportsman.
When I was three I drew the Mandelbrot set in crayons and moments later modelled part of the quaternian Julia set out of plasticine. It wasn't until I was 9 that I understood the maths behind it, which I think proves your point.
Except.NET! It is actually scientifically impossible to write insecure code in.NET. Also, exploits are impossible to write in managed code, and have to sit in their own un-managed blocks. This is because of the generational automatic garbage collector which will instantaneously garbage collect all exploitable or insecure codepaths using FXCop.
I don't think many of the 'Aspergers sufferers' on Slashdot try convince people they've got aspergers as a way out of sorting their lives out, I think its more bragging rights. Just like kids on estates like to show off about their ASBO's and criminal records, geeks (and goths) like to show off about how many psychological issues they have and how 'fucked up' they are; its an attempt to appear 'special'.
Its got a fairly ugly interface, and doesn't look very feature rich, although the fact it uses a free-form object graph for audio rather than the braindead, should-have-been-killed-off-years-ago 'everything has to be like a mixer' metaphor that most modern DAWs use was a pleasant suprise.
Well, I run my own internet. Gay mac users and Linux hippies aren't allowed, there are no caps on bandwidth, there are no logs kept on what sites I have made that I visit, copying copyrighted content is legal and I use P2P to share anything I want (although I am the only person on the network, so I have set up bots to P2P and share music with), and all the porn sites are free.
Anti-trust, eh? Do you actually know what that means? Go and find out, and then explain to me exactly how an anti-trust case is even relevant, let alone have any chance of succesful prosecution.
Yes, that was a bit harsh, but I dislike people who get praise for some thing they have done, and then spout off like they're suddenly an authority on everything.
He's also an idiot because he thinks Apple can suddenly license DRM-free music from a bunch of indie labels and not have the Big Four give them a steel toe-cap beatdown.
If your partner really is freelance, and she's any good, she can afford to drop a couple of contracts to ride out the learning curve. Seriously, how long would it take? A week? The benefits would last for years.
Speaking as someone who has literally hundreds of tracks that have been banished to the Hell of Never Getting Finished, I agree this could be a great excuse to dig them all up and actually finish them.
"Gnome is actually the easiest -- just right click on an iso and choose "burn", or drag a bunch of files to the CD icon and burn those."
Thats exactly how it works in the Finder too. One of the few things it does well.
What is way more far-reaching then this bacteria nonsense is the work conducted by some Dutch scientist last year, who was nominated for the Nobel prize but later disqualified due to some animal rights activists. Basically he found that if you mixed goat semen in with 'live' yoghurt, the goat semen would succesfully fertilize the yoghurt atoms and you would end up with billions of tiny, hybrid yoghurt/goat embryos. What is interesting is that yoghurt atoms contain mostly recessive genes, which means that as these beasts grow, they become almost entirely goat, and by the age of about six, very few yoghurt characteristics remain. Luckily these genes code for the most beneficial traits, such as telepathy and the ability to see in the dark.
Resetting permissions doesn't actually do anything, its just one of those things you do when something is broken and you've tried everything else (a bit like resetting the PRAM).
Can one of the fuckwit Slashdot editors please tell me where exactly in that article Hollywood admits anything? For fucks sake, cant the editors at least RTFA before they conjure up their headlines? Or is it deliberately dishonest?
I'm not disagreeing with the article, btw, its pretty much spot on. But even the shittest of shitty English tabloids wouldn't stoop so low as that headline did.
Its all about agendas...if the agenda is anti-MS, anti-DRM or anti-warez then the story always flies as fact, no matter how sensationalist it is. Its hilarious that the headline says this story is 'fresh' and 'accurate', when the complaints are the same tired arguments we've been hearing for years, and a number of the points mentioned aren't even accurate- for one, the iPod will play music from *every* online store that provides music in DRM free format. That includes AllofMP3, EMusic, and plenty of record label sites like WarpMart.
Its also quite funny how EMusic is held up like its the music nerds nervana simply because it doesn't have DRM. If its so great, why has it only had one 20th of the sales of iTMS? Mostly, because its music selection is, for the most part, utter pish. So how come iTMS has got such a good seletion of both mainstream (and independant) artists? Because they have the support of the major labels and distributors. How did they get support from the major labels? By implementing DRM.
Now, before some elitist nerd points out some obscure band he loves so much that isn't on iTMS, or says that mainstream music is shit and everyone who uses the iTMS is a 'good little consumer', well thats not really a counter argument; maybe you're just not part of the iTMS's market, and everyone is perfectly happy for you to keep shopping at EMusic or wherever it is you go (and stick their music on your iPod too). ie this whole article is a giant non-sequiteur.
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Using javorscript to generate the data quicker than most hard disks could write it, with no bandwidth usage other than fetching the script itself, so thats not a problem. But yeah, just a single gigabyte would require 200 subdomains so I'm not really seeing the danger here.
unsigned long i = someMethodThatReturnsA32BitBitfield();
...
...
switch(i)
{
case 24: DoThis(); break;
case 385: DoThat(); break;
case 4812334: DoSomethingElse(); break;
}
How exactly is that going to be evaluated in constant time?
Why dont they just point another telescope at their main telescope to see further into space so they can see the planets properly?
As someone who uses a PC at work for heavy development (everything from Windows device drivers to large .NET apps and ASP.NET websites) I have never *once* needed to edit the registry, or known anyone else in the office need to, and I've never once had to suggest editing the registry to fix a problem one of my less computer literate freinds has had. Our Linux boxes, on the other hand, require config file hacking fairly frequently.
Even if you had to edit the registry, whats so difficult about modifying key/value pairs? Seems a hell of a lot simpler then overly verbose XML or some hideous syntax some nerd has just made up.
I use a Mac at home, FWIW...no hacking required
I agree, its hardly a viewpoint that shows anything we haven't seen before. What I want to see is photographs from *inside* the rings, how hard would it be to send a probe through one part or another? Would it get smashed into billions of pieces by all the dust, ice and rocks? Maybe it could fly through one of the gaps in the rings?
Even better is iHundredsOfCasualties
Ubunto Feisty Fawn is not only better than Windows Vista, but is also quite a lot cheaper because it is free, unlike Vista which costs $399, [Allow] or [Deny]?
American football? Rugby with armour on because you might get a black eye otherwise. Ice hockey? A bit like regular hockey, but with armour on because the puck might hit your elbow and it may sting a bit. Pool? Like snooker but made with enormous pockets designed for the physically and mentally handicapped American sportsman.
When I was three I drew the Mandelbrot set in crayons and moments later modelled part of the quaternian Julia set out of plasticine. It wasn't until I was 9 that I understood the maths behind it, which I think proves your point.
Except .NET! It is actually scientifically impossible to write insecure code in .NET. Also, exploits are impossible to write in managed code, and have to sit in their own un-managed blocks. This is because of the generational automatic garbage collector which will instantaneously garbage collect all exploitable or insecure codepaths using FXCop.
I don't think many of the 'Aspergers sufferers' on Slashdot try convince people they've got aspergers as a way out of sorting their lives out, I think its more bragging rights. Just like kids on estates like to show off about their ASBO's and criminal records, geeks (and goths) like to show off about how many psychological issues they have and how 'fucked up' they are; its an attempt to appear 'special'.
Its got a fairly ugly interface, and doesn't look very feature rich, although the fact it uses a free-form object graph for audio rather than the braindead, should-have-been-killed-off-years-ago 'everything has to be like a mixer' metaphor that most modern DAWs use was a pleasant suprise.
Well, I run my own internet. Gay mac users and Linux hippies aren't allowed, there are no caps on bandwidth, there are no logs kept on what sites I have made that I visit, copying copyrighted content is legal and I use P2P to share anything I want (although I am the only person on the network, so I have set up bots to P2P and share music with), and all the porn sites are free.
Anti-trust, eh? Do you actually know what that means? Go and find out, and then explain to me exactly how an anti-trust case is even relevant, let alone have any chance of succesful prosecution.
Yes, that was a bit harsh, but I dislike people who get praise for some thing they have done, and then spout off like they're suddenly an authority on everything.
He's also an idiot because he thinks Apple can suddenly license DRM-free music from a bunch of indie labels and not have the Big Four give them a steel toe-cap beatdown.
If your partner really is freelance, and she's any good, she can afford to drop a couple of contracts to ride out the learning curve. Seriously, how long would it take? A week? The benefits would last for years.
Speaking as someone who has literally hundreds of tracks that have been banished to the Hell of Never Getting Finished, I agree this could be a great excuse to dig them all up and actually finish them.
"Gnome is actually the easiest -- just right click on an iso and choose "burn", or drag a bunch of files to the CD icon and burn those."
Thats exactly how it works in the Finder too. One of the few things it does well.
What is way more far-reaching then this bacteria nonsense is the work conducted by some Dutch scientist last year, who was nominated for the Nobel prize but later disqualified due to some animal rights activists. Basically he found that if you mixed goat semen in with 'live' yoghurt, the goat semen would succesfully fertilize the yoghurt atoms and you would end up with billions of tiny, hybrid yoghurt/goat embryos. What is interesting is that yoghurt atoms contain mostly recessive genes, which means that as these beasts grow, they become almost entirely goat, and by the age of about six, very few yoghurt characteristics remain. Luckily these genes code for the most beneficial traits, such as telepathy and the ability to see in the dark.
Resetting permissions doesn't actually do anything, its just one of those things you do when something is broken and you've tried everything else (a bit like resetting the PRAM).
Can one of the fuckwit Slashdot editors please tell me where exactly in that article Hollywood admits anything? For fucks sake, cant the editors at least RTFA before they conjure up their headlines? Or is it deliberately dishonest?
I'm not disagreeing with the article, btw, its pretty much spot on. But even the shittest of shitty English tabloids wouldn't stoop so low as that headline did.
It also requires the entire house is made of concrete and gypsum.
Technically Guinness is undrinkable shitwater not stout.
Its all about agendas...if the agenda is anti-MS, anti-DRM or anti-warez then the story always flies as fact, no matter how sensationalist it is. Its hilarious that the headline says this story is 'fresh' and 'accurate', when the complaints are the same tired arguments we've been hearing for years, and a number of the points mentioned aren't even accurate- for one, the iPod will play music from *every* online store that provides music in DRM free format. That includes AllofMP3, EMusic, and plenty of record label sites like WarpMart.
Its also quite funny how EMusic is held up like its the music nerds nervana simply because it doesn't have DRM. If its so great, why has it only had one 20th of the sales of iTMS? Mostly, because its music selection is, for the most part, utter pish. So how come iTMS has got such a good seletion of both mainstream (and independant) artists? Because they have the support of the major labels and distributors. How did they get support from the major labels? By implementing DRM.
Now, before some elitist nerd points out some obscure band he loves so much that isn't on iTMS, or says that mainstream music is shit and everyone who uses the iTMS is a 'good little consumer', well thats not really a counter argument; maybe you're just not part of the iTMS's market, and everyone is perfectly happy for you to keep shopping at EMusic or wherever it is you go (and stick their music on your iPod too). ie this whole article is a giant non-sequiteur.