An iranian friend of mine (who has a much better perspective on America then most americans, including myself:) Told me, "America is about 1 phrase... 'gotta have it.' My friend, if you can make people think they've gotta have something, you'll be a wealthy man"
In a society where business is actively trying to induce desire (for goods) in people is this really so surprising?
It reminds me alot of people obsessed with modifying their cars -- its always "Im gonna get this new window tint..." , "Im gonna have it lowered another 1.5 inches...
In hobbies like this, acquiring the stereo *IS* the hobby. Its easy to get addicted to purchasing gear, (im a hobby musician myself) its called "Gear Lust" and is quite common... Its only really "dangerous" if you debit finance the thing -- because at some point you have to pay off the credit cards and can't get your next "fix" by purchasing something.
The problem with java always has been and always will be - SUN. If you wanna use java you have to play SUNs game because they've got the only halfway useable compilers / interpreters / JIT compilers.
How long do you think java is going to be "free" for? My guess -- another 5 years -- by then it will be everywhere -- and SUN will pull a Unisys and start charging fees for it. (this is just my oponion, not fact)
I think schools shouldn't teach their students langauges that aren't free (as in speach). Theres 100 C/C++ compilers you can buy/download, but just a couple java compilers.
\editorial : For begining students I expect Python would be a good choice -- its simple, very consistent, and is very explicit about variable cohercion, and is still "powerfull".
zdnet makes money not magazines... they're simply moving to a potentially profitable sector...
\editoral : They must be hurting for cash, their magazines suck for the most part because they are all adds and microsoft praise -- and their internet site is... stupid... infact they really haven't been good since, they fired Penn Jillete in like 1995!
prolly yeah, but I'm suspiscious about this for a number of reasons... Siemens is a big military contractor... this information could have been worth hundreds of billions if kept secret and sold say to, the united states.
But since they've chosen to tell everyone about this -- I think its an oveture -- "Ohh all those poor countries building stealth aircrafts that can be detected by our unproven technology"... "let *US* build your stealth aircrafts and we'll make sure this dosen't happen to your military projects!"
Power is consumed in chips *primarily* when gates in digital switches change states (open/closed)...
hlt stops the cpu (*IF* I recall my assembley it stops it until a IRQ comes in) thus there should be (very few) gate switches, thus not much power consumed:)
My question is -- if all this data can be recovered in 3rd or 4th generation wipes... why can't they make a hard drive that exploits this to double its capacity ?
I'm an admin there... we have no campus-wide or even college-wide policy -- and lemme tell ya -- thats a disaster. Every couple months we're ravaged by the latest macro virus.
What I do, is keep norton on all my (windows)machines -- it has a pop3 mail scanner (that always ends up fucking up, but its better then getting a virus).
Second, Perform weekly scans of machines and nightly scans of home directories ( through a smb share ).
Third, Procmail is your friend. I'll admit I haven't done it yet, but (when I get a free moment) I plan to write a procmail script to delete vbs attachments (*.vbs) and rename exes etc to *.e_xe in users mail... theres no reason on earth anyone needs to send anyone a vbs attachment -- and by renaming all executables, people must explictly choose to rename the file to be able to run it.
Lastly, you must educate your users... Tell em, don't open mail from people you don't know, don't run EXE's you didn't compile or I didn't install:) Theres some idiots who think they know stuff who will never follow your directions, but mostly, people will.
These steps will keep you from getting 99.9% of viruses... now you have to figure out how to keep your users from installing that f***ing comet cursor:)
Im second that emotion... a few years ago my cousin came over (was in the 4th grade or something) and he saw my bryce 3d box... hes like "ohh you have bryce... I have that to..." Im like "whatever"... So I was completley frustrated with bryce a few hours later and give up... he sits down at my computer and makes a whole scene, then starts to ANIMATE IT! Anyways, I ended up quite humbled that day getting a lesson on how to use the keyframer from a 4th grader!:)
Your SOOOO wrong... are you a tivo shareholder by any chance?
Tivo made the thing so you had to call in *ON PURPOSE* so they could do just this sort of thing -- remember *TIVO NEEDS PEOPLE TO CALL IN* so they can download the statistical info your tivo is quietly collecting about you.
All you were entitled to when you purchased the box was what came with it
Thats exactly right! And this "upgrade" disabled some features that the equiptment had when they originally purchased it! Thats fraud if I ever heard it.
And the last thing -- even *IF* you were using prescious tivo phone bandwidth/resources by calling in when your not a subscriber -- how again does that entitle tivo to break your hardware in order to get you to pay ?
What really bothers me is my brilliant question wasn't moded up enuf to ask him! (briefly sumarized) I asked if he drew any inspiration from the "Power Bracelet" in NES zelda!!
Try "soul cages"... he wrote it following the death of his mother and his father -- as he tells it -- he and his father had been angry with each other for years and sting "saw himself becoming his father, and began to understand him" and just then while sting was on tour -- he died.
The whole album is his way of dealing with his fathers death -- and it is truely amazing.
Yeah... I've been a hardcore sting fan since high school (early 90's)... and its hard to see one of your idols sell BMW's and make albums with Puff Daddy (a waste of skin in my oponion)...
But the fact is hes still making great albums (althought I personally doubt he wrote most of his new one)... so what do you judge a man by? wether he sold out or still makes great albums?
Its very hard to master the trinity of music - popularity, sales, and integrity -- Each is an independant variable.
You can be popular and sell few albums -- Orbital comes to mind (might not be the best example).
You can sell alot of albums and not be popular -- Bob Marley sells a million albums a year even though hes dead... Steely Dan is huge with album sales, ever seen themon MTV though?
You can have integrity and not be popular or sell many albums -- pat metheny, jan hammer, robert miles etc:).
Those lucky few exist in all 3 dimensions -- Sting, Dave Matthews Band etc:)
As an independant artist myself, I'm fully aware I exist in only one dimenstion integrity
Note to slashdot jerks: if your going to argue with me, please do so substanativley.
While I would like to see microsft dealt a blow, this is the wrong blow... if AT&T is successfull the dominos will fall -- RealNetworks (we can hope anyways!) Fraunhaufer, lame, ogg, mp3.com...
AT&T will charge a fee to use their technology soo high to purposefully make it impossible to use these encoders... we'll all be stuck using unlicensced ("pirate") copies of lame / ogg...
Meanwhile, AT&T just o3ned the entire online music scene because they now control the means of production.
Often, scientific discovery is nudged by ideas in science fiction or popular cultue. This leads to my question: Were you inspired by the "power bracelets" in the classic videogame The Legend of Zelda ? do you claim simultaneous-discovery with Link ?
This is *THE* best post I've ever read on slashdot.
I'd like to mention having been involved in two would-have-been videogame companies -- both times I've tried this it was always *THE ARTISTS* who flaked on me first. (bad) Artists always want to take whatever you need and transform it into their own retarded vision -- they can't ever just do what they're told... and they are SUCKERS for instant gratification, they sketch a monster on an art pad and come in the next day and wonder why its not in the game yet! No appreciation for how much work it takes.
I'm still involved in one of these ventures -- and our artists all quit on us... luckily most of the game we're working on is spaceships -- which I can do in moray no problem:)
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That hardly is a well articulated argument.
In a society where business is actively trying to induce desire (for goods) in people is this really so surprising?
It reminds me alot of people obsessed with modifying their cars -- its always "Im gonna get this new window tint..." , "Im gonna have it lowered another 1.5 inches ...
In hobbies like this, acquiring the stereo *IS* the hobby. Its easy to get addicted to purchasing gear, (im a hobby musician myself) its called "Gear Lust" and is quite common ... Its only really "dangerous" if you debit finance the thing -- because at some point you have to pay off the credit cards and can't get your next "fix" by purchasing something.
I'll admit I wasn't aware of this -- but aren't they licenscing java from SUN? meaning -- they're still at SUNs mercy ?
How long do you think java is going to be "free" for? My guess -- another 5 years -- by then it will be everywhere -- and SUN will pull a Unisys and start charging fees for it. (this is just my oponion, not fact)
I think schools shouldn't teach their students langauges that aren't free (as in speach). Theres 100 C/C++ compilers you can buy/download, but just a couple java compilers.
\editorial : For begining students I expect Python would be a good choice -- its simple, very consistent, and is very explicit about variable cohercion, and is still "powerfull".
\editoral : They must be hurting for cash, their magazines suck for the most part because they are all adds and microsoft praise -- and their internet site is ... stupid ... infact they really haven't been good since, they fired Penn Jillete in like 1995!
But since they've chosen to tell everyone about this -- I think its an oveture -- "Ohh all those poor countries building stealth aircrafts that can be detected by our unproven technology" ... "let *US* build your stealth aircrafts and we'll make sure this dosen't happen to your military projects!"
Umm -- they're sensing the scattering of radio waves by stealth aircraft? ... lots of things would do that Im sure -- birds, clouds, rain etc.
The problem is now what they charge for them, its that they charge different people different ammounts for them ... thats hard to justify
hlt stops the cpu (*IF* I recall my assembley it stops it until a IRQ comes in) thus there should be (very few) gate switches, thus not much power consumed :)
My question is -- if all this data can be recovered in 3rd or 4th generation wipes ... why can't they make a hard drive that exploits this to double its capacity ?
What I do, is keep norton on all my (windows)machines -- it has a pop3 mail scanner (that always ends up fucking up, but its better then getting a virus).
Second, Perform weekly scans of machines and nightly scans of home directories ( through a smb share ).
Third, Procmail is your friend. I'll admit I haven't done it yet, but (when I get a free moment) I plan to write a procmail script to delete vbs attachments (*.vbs) and rename exes etc to *.e_xe in users mail ... theres no reason on earth anyone needs to send anyone a vbs attachment -- and by renaming all executables, people must explictly choose to rename the file to be able to run it.
Lastly, you must educate your users ... Tell em, don't open mail from people you don't know, don't run EXE's you didn't compile or I didn't install :) Theres some idiots who think they know stuff who will never follow your directions, but mostly, people will.
These steps will keep you from getting 99.9% of viruses ... now you have to figure out how to keep your users from installing that f***ing comet cursor :)
Most commonly used to parse (unambiguous computer) languages, but a word file is alot less complicated then a language I can assure you :)
And more then that, smart card readers are really just transcievers ... Transcievers are damn cheap :)
Im second that emotion ... a few years ago my cousin came over (was in the 4th grade or something) and he saw my bryce 3d box ... hes like "ohh you have bryce ... I have that to ..." Im like "whatever" ... So I was completley frustrated with bryce a few hours later and give up ... he sits down at my computer and makes a whole scene, then starts to ANIMATE IT! Anyways, I ended up quite humbled that day getting a lesson on how to use the keyframer from a 4th grader! :)
Tivo made the thing so you had to call in *ON PURPOSE* so they could do just this sort of thing -- remember *TIVO NEEDS PEOPLE TO CALL IN* so they can download the statistical info your tivo is quietly collecting about you.
All you were entitled to when you purchased the box was what came with it
Thats exactly right! And this "upgrade" disabled some features that the equiptment had when they originally purchased it! Thats fraud if I ever heard it.
And the last thing -- even *IF* you were using prescious tivo phone bandwidth/resources by calling in when your not a subscriber -- how again does that entitle tivo to break your hardware in order to get you to pay ?
What really bothers me is my brilliant question wasn't moded up enuf to ask him! (briefly sumarized) I asked if he drew any inspiration from the "Power Bracelet" in NES zelda!!
The whole album is his way of dealing with his fathers death -- and it is truely amazing.
But the fact is hes still making great albums (althought I personally doubt he wrote most of his new one) ... so what do you judge a man by? wether he sold out or still makes great albums?
he might be a prick though I've never met him :)
You can sell alot of albums and not be popular -- Bob Marley sells a million albums a year even though hes dead ... Steely Dan is huge with album sales, ever seen themon MTV though?
You can have integrity and not be popular or sell many albums -- pat metheny, jan hammer, robert miles etc :).
Those lucky few exist in all 3 dimensions -- Sting, Dave Matthews Band etc :)
As an independant artist myself, I'm fully aware I exist in only one dimenstion integrity
Note to slashdot jerks: if your going to argue with me, please do so substanativley.
AT&T will charge a fee to use their technology soo high to purposefully make it impossible to use these encoders... we'll all be stuck using unlicensced ("pirate") copies of lame / ogg ...
Meanwhile, AT&T just o3ned the entire online music scene because they now control the means of production.
lets root for microsoft :)
Opinions other then yours are wrong ...
Often, scientific discovery is nudged by ideas in science fiction or popular cultue. This leads to my question: Were you inspired by the "power bracelets" in the classic videogame The Legend of Zelda ? do you claim simultaneous-discovery with Link ?
I'd like to mention having been involved in two would-have-been videogame companies -- both times I've tried this it was always *THE ARTISTS* who flaked on me first. (bad) Artists always want to take whatever you need and transform it into their own retarded vision -- they can't ever just do what they're told ... and they are SUCKERS for instant gratification, they sketch a monster on an art pad and come in the next day and wonder why its not in the game yet! No appreciation for how much work it takes.
I'm still involved in one of these ventures -- and our artists all quit on us ... luckily most of the game we're working on is spaceships -- which I can do in moray no problem :)
I think the closest thing I got was learning how to address a letter .. and I forget that sometimes!