dd command with netcat. If you size the destination partition right, you can clone the partition, in it's entirety, file system and all. Or you can just clone the partition (or entire disk) to a file.
An example to you all... A program I wrote (a long time ago) when I was having unreadable-screen problems when debugging VESA-mode DOS apps, on win9x. No bloat here! (Although I daresay the mov al and mov ahs could be coalesced into one instruction (mov ax) ).
If only all software could be this compact...
B400 mov ah,00 B003 mov al,03 CD10 int 10 B44C mov ah,4C B000 mov al,00 CD21 int 21
Libertarianism sounds like "ignore the problem and hope it goes away" to me.
Having lived in Norway, and now living in France, I can say that the parent post is exactly right. A centre-left-a-bit government, which nationalises suitable public services through government controlled public bodies and exercises sensible restrictions, is much more efficient, effective and frugal, than leaving the capitalists to throw small green pieces of paper at each other and shareholders, and eventually come up with a half-baked system designed at profiting them and them alone. (I'm looking at you America). The main problem with France is that it is too bureaucratic, but that's another story. Leaving "market forces" to control public systems is like throwing your money into the sea, it'll end up more spread out and it won't have accomplished much. Privatising British Rail is a perfect example of such a mistake, which was than acerbated by breaking it badly into discontinuous, overlapping pieces, resulting in an extreme dip in productivity and increases in financial wastage. Market forces are often not prepared to make necessary investments for long term gain, but are prepared to execute a multitude of very-short term profitable schemes. Hardly ideal or optimal.
As for geeks, I would guess that over in Europe, etc. they would be inclined towards sensibly run publicly funded services (left). As in the benevolent dictatorship/free and open coding paradigm. As for in the USA, which is depressingly litigious, capitalist and badly run (from the top), I can understand why the more logically inclined would prefer it if their government/hopeless legal system went away and they never saw it again...
* IPv6 * Improved infrastructure between backbone and modem.
Maybes... * Local Squids for static content, to reduce redundant transfers? * Decent and supported multicast protocols, things like RDM, etc?
With the possible exception of multicast, all of these things do not require any fundamental changes, and simply require some new boxes and cables at the fringes.
As for security, annonymity, spam, ads, ID, blah, all that can be dumped quite easily on top of IP and the existing infrastructure without needing to raze the existing perfectly fine system to the ground and build ""The Next Internet"", if it ain't broke, don't fix it...
You could even call it Web 2.0, adding some over-hyped corporate/governmental junk to an over-used buzzword saturated with undiluted meaningless, whose very existence is indicative of managerial ignorance and the persistence of some web designers to "build" broken, crappy websites which overuse and overdo otherwise useful frameworks, in the mistaken belief that this is somehow better than simple, concise, cross-platform websites which actually *work*, and don't slow client machines to a crawl.
Ack, all those LAN and SATA ports, and *one* IDE port. One! So your machine can serve as an ultra-über-mega-server-games-machine being connected to 4 LANs and having 10 SATA hard drives, with two graphics cards (4 screens?), and up to 10 USB ports, but you can only have max 2 PATA IDE devices:? They deemed necessary to sully it's presence with floppy, serial and PS/2 ports, so why not another IDE or two...
No good for me, with one SATA hard drive, one PATA IDE one, and two PATA IDE optical drives...
Until I got a new box a few weeks ago, I had simply turned off WinXP's auto-updates entirely. I don't need some half-baked security patch for some obscure functionality in some forgotten Microsoft API nobody uses...
How many infections did I get: 1, a family member downloaded a bad exe off the net...
Patching Windows does not make it "safer", really, it just plugs another hole. A decent firewall and running a minimal daemon process list (ie. no dcom service, none of this remote RPC junk, etc. ), is infinitely more effective. If your paranoid like me you can check process explorer, rootkit revealer, adaware, tcpmon, autoruns, etc. regularly too. Having Windows accepting TCP connections and listening for UDP packets, from outside, the unguarded internet, for no apparent reason, and without your consent, is a recipe for disaster. My firewall log was full of blocked connections. (Was since I bought a router:-)
As for.NET, hardly anyone except MS uses it, so it is not surprising that many people do not notice the bug in the patch.
Still, producing patched versions worse than the original is poor form, and not a good way to inspire trust in your customers (or in M$'s case, consumers)...
There is another solution for the programmatically minded... Automation scripts, of various types, can be triggered by keyboard, mouse, joystick, etc.
The overlay type system suggested in the article could be easily implemented outside of a program by a relatively simple script.
On my box, common actions (and some not so common:) ) are controlled by ~150K of autohotkey scripts. This has saved me immeasurable amounts of mouse fiddling, and general GUI time-wasting. Why spend half your day navigating through folders to open something in an editor, by repeatedly clicking and dragging, when you can literally (on my box) do something like the following: Win-Alt-X,X,Shift-T,Tab,,Ctrl-C,Win-Alt-E,C,Ctrl-O ,Apps-V,Return
Even something as simple as assigning key-combos to certain folders will save you having to reach for the mouse every five minutes. If you're like me, you might even have a dedicated key combo to open the hotkey configuration file in your favourite editor...:)
A good mouse costs at least 20 (Logitec/Microsoft)... If by good you mean "Brand-Laser" then yes. My 5-button Logitech optical mouse cost me 12, and there were a whole selection of cheaper good ones, and dirt cheap crap ones.
For the average user, the perceived cost of a mouse is low. I'll have to take your word about tablet prices... Although I have a tablet with a built in wireless mouse (which I don't use), and I'm pretty sure it was fairly cheap... I've never used it, so it might be crap though...
Why didn't you return it immediately for a refund? Behaviour like that strikes me as a clue that the design 'ain't right, or it isn't compatible with the PSU you've chosen I got it virtually for free, nearly new, from a friend who was having some other problem with the motherboard, forgot what it was. PSU is high quality and compatible. If I couldn't fix it for cheap, I was just going to buy a new one...
"Quality motherboards" is the tricky bit in your post... I'm using an Asus motherboard (P5ND2-SLI) and the number of problems I've had is unbelievable. Firstly the power supply controller on the motherboard is faulty, so I have to short the power on pin on the ATX connector to ground with a paper clip to get any action at all. Then the Asus drivers totally screwed my Windows XP SP2 installation over, BSODs, freezing, no booting. Reinstall needed... Then I had to upgrade the BIOS to change the CPU fan speed... I couldn't get the onboard LAN to work at all with Slackware 11, but Slackware 12 worked OK (but this is probably my fault not theirs...).
Motherboard manufacturers don't see reliability and stability as major goals, cutting expenses, faster production rates and quick improvements to their products make them more money. Additionally, I daresay that they bank on the fact that most people who buy a computer/motherboard will replace it before various bits start to fail...
The amount of CO2 produced by humans is not actually that much when compared with natural production (respiration, organic decay, volcanoes, sea, etc.) Hence a single volcano going of will have a far more significant impact then human production.
However the real kicker is the relationship between CO2 and temperature. In his movie Al Gore says that there is a correlation between CO2 and temperature. Correct. What he doesn't say is that the temperature changes appear to lead the carbon dioxide level changes by up to 200 years. (The peaks and general shapes of the lines are offset). (I would speculate that this is due to differing ocean soluability levels?).
Furthermore, the Earth has undergone much more intense fluctuations before, without the American drivers, etc. It is known that the current period is one of increased solar activity, and a correlation between solar activity and temperature has been established. (google it). People were worrying about an ice age 30 years ago... Look how the media have switched the fear factor around.
Poverty in Africa, and clean water supplies should be prioritised in favour of "carbon credit" schemes (especially as the money goes to Al Gore's companies).
That isn't to say that environmentalism isn't bad, but CO2 is not the only thing they should be looking at. Mercury in the lakes, sulpher dioxide, dioxins, lead polution, and in general the crud spewed into the air, land and water is more important. Carbon dioxide is a "clean" gas in that the plants will absorb it for you, no problem.
Seperate the user base by requirements. To match a low, medium and high priced product range, when there is no real difference between the actual products other than artificial restrictions. By specifically disbaling certain features from the low versions, power users (the few who will touch Visat with a bargepole), will be forced to empty their bank accounts for the high version (Vista Ultimate/Business), otherwise they may just buy the version which could do everything they required (which would be cheaper). Less revenue for Microsoft.
This is similar to the recent debate over MS Visual Studio Express vs. Professional. The former's EULA disallowing plugins of some variety which actually loaded fine. This forced users to buy the uncrippled version for actual development. More money to MS.
The article quite sensibly predicts that matter will not reduce to a zero volume, with an infinite density (specifically that it require an infinite time). This does not mean that black hole-like objects do not exist, as a mass with 1/Inf volume (or whatever), is still going to look the same from a distance. Commendably, the article does not insist that the existance of black holes in real life has been proven (as it has not been proven). There has merely been a lot of astrophysical speculation (which may be correct, partially correct, or downright wrong, who can tell).
On a personal not I find the entire argument that gravity is the root cause of all cosmological activity, rather odd, as gravity is the weakest force, and the sparse matter in space has been verified to be partially electrically charged (plasma). Gravity does not explain behaviour such as the observed "stringiness" of space, or phenomenon such as spiral galaxies clearly ejecting matter at right angles to the plane of rotation. That doesn't mean that gravity being the cause for many phenomenon is wrong, however it is often used as a The Meaning of Life type explanantion of everything; whereas including other forces/effects may produce a simpler or better answer (Occam's razor), particularly as EM forces are some 10^39 (I think) times stronger, and even a small charge imbalance can override gravity in certain situations.
- Some mysterious key combination - I believe it involves SHIFT or ALT something - causes the keyboard layout to switch instantly from US to whatever else is installed, in my case Canadian French or Canadian Multilingual Standard. For the first month I had the computer I would regularly hit this mysterious key combination by mistake, causing weird accented characters to begin appearing in my code. I finally got frustrated, did a Google and found some instructions on how to disable this key combination. I don't remember how I did it, there were 5 or 6 convoluted steps involved. Pointless and annoying. This happens on XP as well. Left shift and left alt switches my keyboard layout to English US. (I use a Norwegian keyboard). This was trivial to fix when I worked out what it was though. 2-3 steps at most.
Before the end of the year, DX10 will run on XP. By the end of next year it will run (sort of at least) on Wine.
That DX10 definitely won't work on XP is rubbish. The graphics card corps, write the same drivers for Vista and XP (why duplicate work); it has already been shown that DX10 functionality is exposed in XP.
I haven't got a link. Google it.
I myself don't know what the so called improvements in DX10 are (mainly because I haven't checked), but if they are really worth bothering with, people will look more seriously into porting it to other platforms.
The real problem here is, no public official register is in place for MP3s (unlike for cars). You don't need a license to listen to an mp3, you need one to drive a car. Car's must meet safety regulations, mp3s can be as crap as you like. You can't kill some accidentally with an mp3 (people try), you can with a car. You don't lose out if someone "steals" your mp3, not so with a car. You don't need to be a multi-million $/£/ company to build an mp3, you do to build a car. Cars a produced from controlled sources, any excuse for a band can produce mp3s. I dare say that mp3s are produced/copied at a greate rate than cars. The production cost for a mp3 is approx 0, not so for a car. Is this going to be done internationally. mp3s can cross the border easier than cars... This will never happen, even in an Orwellian, corporate controlled, surveillance society.
The MAFIAA is just going to have to put up with piracy.
Teachers should teach the facts to the kids, and leave the religious/moral/etc. interpretation to somebody else. The holocaust did happen, tell the students, let them engage their own excuses for brains, to come to their own conclusion, without being force-fed politically correct/religiously motivated interpretations.
That article reads like a cross between the bible and a badly written lawyer's speech.
Does this fool really think that anybody should be given right to own an idea, a sequence of letters, etc. for eternity... The idea that you can pass on the rights to make profit from the mere existence an idea you thought up to your grandchildren is laughable.
The problem is: Author writes book. Author becomes fabulously rich. Author has child. Author dies. Descendant makes money off of parent's book, by doing zilch and being a drain on society. Rake in cash, reproduce and repeat...
If you haven't made enough money off your IP in 50 years, it can't have been all that good can it.
Furthermore, one should not envy the perpetrators of sensationalist trash, but rather admire them Are you an idiot?
American citizens, get it into your excuses for brains. Money Isn't Everything.
There is more to life than the $dollar$. You can only buy so much, for not doing very much... Society as a whole benefits from a balanced distribution of resources, with mutually beneficial input from all sides.
I installed cygwin and hated it, installer kept screwing up, and it was really slow. A dedicated ReiserFS partition with a Slackware 11.0 disto and installation of coLinux on Windows solved (almost) all my problems. Bypass M$ entirely, the freedom of bash... (The only snag is that cofs isn't finished yet)
As for powershell, I installed it when it was in beta and still called Monad, year or so ago, I was impressed, but it seemed like a lot of COM bloat to me... (FYI, I hate COM/OLE from a programmers perspective)
This makes me glad to be going to a British School in Paris...
This is riduculous, expulsion, even temporary, for such an irrelevant and harmless bit of fun/design, is totally excessive and makes the US system look even more incompetent and extreme than it does already (which is no mean feat)...
In my school there has been exactly one expulsion in all the years I've been there, a sixth former who sold some drugs to minors. I know the guy vaguely and am pretty sure that he was hassled significantly less than this kid who kows how to design a map for CS.
A tip to America, if you don't want people to be able to shoot other people, in schools or elsewhere, don't give them guns. Anybody with more than -5 working brian cells would deem this obvious, but the problem seems to ellude the US "government". If your average Joe can buy a gun and a crate of ammunition for a few dollars and a "sign here", then shootings will continue.
Video games have nothing to do with that at all (except in the rare cases which occurs with any medium, the horror movie enthusiast with the knife-glove debacle in the UK a few months ago comes to mind).
It all boils down to fear... Fear of terrorism, death, shootings, strangers, people from countries with funny names, etc. This is a major social problem in many areas of the globe (particularly the US, which is odd as none of its neighbours have this to the extent they do AFAIK). However the media hype and government slant on negative news merely compounds the problem (to the government's bebefit, but that is another story). It doesn't help that they tried to invade a country, but botched it, creating a civil war (I wouldn't of minded if it really had been a "six day cake walk"), and now many people actually do dislike them...
The people of the US must realise that the root of most of its troubles is internal, not external (and it's not the kids either).
In a world without walls and fences who needs windows and gates? How true...
How many Microsoft programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? None - their manager just declares darkness to be the new standard. The more you think about this one the more relevant it seems...
Selling Ubuntu machines is a very good beginning (I'm still not going to buy one though). This is only really hampered by vendor lock in from MS. The day after WINE is completed to the extent that it will run most DX games for Windows, we can expect a significant increase in the purchases of these sorts of Linux machines. I'm currently running Windows XP (with coLinux Slackware 11), simply because Linux won't run all of my apps properly, and Linux runs fine on Windows...
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dd command with netcat.
If you size the destination partition right, you can clone the partition, in it's entirety, file system and all.
Or you can just clone the partition (or entire disk) to a file.
An example to you all...
A program I wrote (a long time ago) when I was having unreadable-screen problems when debugging VESA-mode DOS apps, on win9x.
No bloat here!
(Although I daresay the mov al and mov ahs could be coalesced into one instruction (mov ax) ).
If only all software could be this compact...
B400 mov ah,00
B003 mov al,03
CD10 int 10
B44C mov ah,4C
B000 mov al,00
CD21 int 21
I didn't think negative IQs were possible?
I suppose it explains some of the media articles I've read...
Libertarianism sounds like "ignore the problem and hope it goes away" to me.
Having lived in Norway, and now living in France, I can say that the parent post is exactly right.
A centre-left-a-bit government, which nationalises suitable public services through government controlled public bodies and exercises sensible restrictions, is much more efficient, effective and frugal, than leaving the capitalists to throw small green pieces of paper at each other and shareholders, and eventually come up with a half-baked system designed at profiting them and them alone.
(I'm looking at you America).
The main problem with France is that it is too bureaucratic, but that's another story.
Leaving "market forces" to control public systems is like throwing your money into the sea, it'll end up more spread out and it won't have accomplished much.
Privatising British Rail is a perfect example of such a mistake, which was than acerbated by breaking it badly into discontinuous, overlapping pieces, resulting in an extreme dip in productivity and increases in financial wastage.
Market forces are often not prepared to make necessary investments for long term gain, but are prepared to execute a multitude of very-short term profitable schemes. Hardly ideal or optimal.
As for geeks, I would guess that over in Europe, etc. they would be inclined towards sensibly run publicly funded services (left). As in the benevolent dictatorship/free and open coding paradigm.
As for in the USA, which is depressingly litigious, capitalist and badly run (from the top), I can understand why the more logically inclined would prefer it if their government/hopeless legal system went away and they never saw it again...
Don't you mean Brown Europe...
What does the internet need?
* IPv6
* Improved infrastructure between backbone and modem.
Maybes...
* Local Squids for static content, to reduce redundant transfers?
* Decent and supported multicast protocols, things like RDM, etc?
With the possible exception of multicast, all of these things do not require any fundamental changes, and simply require some new boxes and cables at the fringes.
As for security, annonymity, spam, ads, ID, blah, all that can be dumped quite easily on top of IP and the existing infrastructure without needing to raze the existing perfectly fine system to the ground and build ""The Next Internet"", if it ain't broke, don't fix it...
You could even call it Web 2.0, adding some over-hyped corporate/governmental junk to an over-used buzzword saturated with undiluted meaningless, whose very existence is indicative of managerial ignorance and the persistence of some web designers to "build" broken, crappy websites which overuse and overdo otherwise useful frameworks, in the mistaken belief that this is somehow better than simple, concise, cross-platform websites which actually *work*, and don't slow client machines to a crawl.
http-über-s://bank.bank anyone?
http://refspoof.mozdev.org/
Ack, all those LAN and SATA ports, and *one* IDE port. :?
One!
So your machine can serve as an ultra-über-mega-server-games-machine being connected to 4 LANs and having 10 SATA hard drives, with two graphics cards (4 screens?), and up to 10 USB ports, but you can only have max 2 PATA IDE devices
They deemed necessary to sully it's presence with floppy, serial and PS/2 ports, so why not another IDE or two...
No good for me, with one SATA hard drive, one PATA IDE one, and two PATA IDE optical drives...
Until I got a new box a few weeks ago, I had simply turned off WinXP's auto-updates entirely.
:-)
.NET, hardly anyone except MS uses it, so it is not surprising that many people do not notice the bug in the patch.
I don't need some half-baked security patch for some obscure functionality in some forgotten Microsoft API nobody uses...
How many infections did I get: 1, a family member downloaded a bad exe off the net...
Patching Windows does not make it "safer", really, it just plugs another hole.
A decent firewall and running a minimal daemon process list (ie. no dcom service, none of this remote RPC junk, etc. ), is infinitely more effective.
If your paranoid like me you can check process explorer, rootkit revealer, adaware, tcpmon, autoruns, etc. regularly too.
Having Windows accepting TCP connections and listening for UDP packets, from outside, the unguarded internet, for no apparent reason, and without your consent, is a recipe for disaster.
My firewall log was full of blocked connections. (Was since I bought a router
As for
Still, producing patched versions worse than the original is poor form, and not a good way to inspire trust in your customers (or in M$'s case, consumers)...
There is another solution for the programmatically minded...
:) ) are controlled by ~150K of autohotkey scripts.O ,Apps-V,Return
:)
Automation scripts, of various types, can be triggered by keyboard, mouse, joystick, etc.
The overlay type system suggested in the article could be easily implemented outside of a program by a relatively simple script.
On my box, common actions (and some not so common
This has saved me immeasurable amounts of mouse fiddling, and general GUI time-wasting.
Why spend half your day navigating through folders to open something in an editor, by repeatedly clicking and dragging, when you can literally (on my box) do something like the following:
Win-Alt-X,X,Shift-T,Tab,,Ctrl-C,Win-Alt-E,C,Ctrl-
Even something as simple as assigning key-combos to certain folders will save you having to reach for the mouse every five minutes.
If you're like me, you might even have a dedicated key combo to open the hotkey configuration file in your favourite editor...
My 5-button Logitech optical mouse cost me 12, and there were a whole selection of cheaper good ones, and dirt cheap crap ones.
For the average user, the perceived cost of a mouse is low.
I'll have to take your word about tablet prices...
Although I have a tablet with a built in wireless mouse (which I don't use), and I'm pretty sure it was fairly cheap...
I've never used it, so it might be crap though...
If I couldn't fix it for cheap, I was just going to buy a new one...
"Quality motherboards" is the tricky bit in your post...
I'm using an Asus motherboard (P5ND2-SLI) and the number of problems I've had is unbelievable.
Firstly the power supply controller on the motherboard is faulty, so I have to short the power on pin on the ATX connector to ground with a paper clip to get any action at all.
Then the Asus drivers totally screwed my Windows XP SP2 installation over, BSODs, freezing, no booting. Reinstall needed...
Then I had to upgrade the BIOS to change the CPU fan speed...
I couldn't get the onboard LAN to work at all with Slackware 11, but Slackware 12 worked OK (but this is probably my fault not theirs...).
Motherboard manufacturers don't see reliability and stability as major goals, cutting expenses, faster production rates and quick improvements to their products make them more money.
Additionally, I daresay that they bank on the fact that most people who buy a computer/motherboard will replace it before various bits start to fail...
The amount of CO2 produced by humans is not actually that much when compared with natural production (respiration, organic decay, volcanoes, sea, etc.)
Hence a single volcano going of will have a far more significant impact then human production.
However the real kicker is the relationship between CO2 and temperature. In his movie Al Gore says that there is a correlation between CO2 and temperature. Correct.
What he doesn't say is that the temperature changes appear to lead the carbon dioxide level changes by up to 200 years. (The peaks and general shapes of the lines are offset).
(I would speculate that this is due to differing ocean soluability levels?).
Furthermore, the Earth has undergone much more intense fluctuations before, without the American drivers, etc.
It is known that the current period is one of increased solar activity, and a correlation between solar activity and temperature has been established. (google it).
People were worrying about an ice age 30 years ago... Look how the media have switched the fear factor around.
Poverty in Africa, and clean water supplies should be prioritised in favour of "carbon credit" schemes (especially as the money goes to Al Gore's companies).
That isn't to say that environmentalism isn't bad, but CO2 is not the only thing they should be looking at.
Mercury in the lakes, sulpher dioxide, dioxins, lead polution, and in general the crud spewed into the air, land and water is more important.
Carbon dioxide is a "clean" gas in that the plants will absorb it for you, no problem.
Artificially introduced market segmentation.
Seperate the user base by requirements. To match a low, medium and high priced product range, when there is no real difference between the actual products other than artificial restrictions.
By specifically disbaling certain features from the low versions, power users (the few who will touch Visat with a bargepole), will be forced to empty their bank accounts for the high version (Vista Ultimate/Business), otherwise they may just buy the version which could do everything they required (which would be cheaper).
Less revenue for Microsoft.
This is similar to the recent debate over MS Visual Studio Express vs. Professional. The former's EULA disallowing plugins of some variety which actually loaded fine. This forced users to buy the uncrippled version for actual development. More money to MS.
The article quite sensibly predicts that matter will not reduce to a zero volume, with an infinite density (specifically that it require an infinite time).
This does not mean that black hole-like objects do not exist, as a mass with 1/Inf volume (or whatever), is still going to look the same from a distance.
Commendably, the article does not insist that the existance of black holes in real life has been proven (as it has not been proven). There has merely been a lot of astrophysical speculation (which may be correct, partially correct, or downright wrong, who can tell).
On a personal not I find the entire argument that gravity is the root cause of all cosmological activity, rather odd, as gravity is the weakest force, and the sparse matter in space has been verified to be partially electrically charged (plasma).
Gravity does not explain behaviour such as the observed "stringiness" of space, or phenomenon such as spiral galaxies clearly ejecting matter at right angles to the plane of rotation.
That doesn't mean that gravity being the cause for many phenomenon is wrong, however it is often used as a The Meaning of Life type explanantion of everything; whereas including other forces/effects may produce a simpler or better answer (Occam's razor), particularly as EM forces are some 10^39 (I think) times stronger, and even a small charge imbalance can override gravity in certain situations.
This was trivial to fix when I worked out what it was though. 2-3 steps at most.
Before the end of the year, DX10 will run on XP.
By the end of next year it will run (sort of at least) on Wine.
That DX10 definitely won't work on XP is rubbish. The graphics card corps, write the same drivers for Vista and XP (why duplicate work); it has already been shown that DX10 functionality is exposed in XP.
I haven't got a link. Google it.
I myself don't know what the so called improvements in DX10 are (mainly because I haven't checked), but if they are really worth bothering with, people will look more seriously into porting it to other platforms.
Car's must meet safety regulations, mp3s can be as crap as you like.
You can't kill some accidentally with an mp3 (people try), you can with a car.
You don't lose out if someone "steals" your mp3, not so with a car.
You don't need to be a multi-million $/£/ company to build an mp3, you do to build a car.
Cars a produced from controlled sources, any excuse for a band can produce mp3s.
I dare say that mp3s are produced/copied at a greate rate than cars.
The production cost for a mp3 is approx 0, not so for a car.
Is this going to be done internationally. mp3s can cross the border easier than cars...
This will never happen, even in an Orwellian, corporate controlled, surveillance society.
The MAFIAA is just going to have to put up with piracy.
Teachers should teach the facts to the kids, and leave the religious/moral/etc. interpretation to somebody else.
The holocaust did happen, tell the students, let them engage their own excuses for brains, to come to their own conclusion, without being force-fed politically correct/religiously motivated interpretations.
Does this fool really think that anybody should be given right to own an idea, a sequence of letters, etc. for eternity... The idea that you can pass on the rights to make profit from the mere existence an idea you thought up to your grandchildren is laughable.
The problem is:
Author writes book.
Author becomes fabulously rich.
Author has child.
Author dies.
Descendant makes money off of parent's book, by doing zilch and being a drain on society.
Rake in cash, reproduce and repeat...
If you haven't made enough money off your IP in 50 years, it can't have been all that good can it. Furthermore, one should not envy the perpetrators of sensationalist trash, but rather admire them Are you an idiot?
American citizens, get it into your excuses for brains.
Money Isn't Everything.
There is more to life than the $dollar$.
You can only buy so much, for not doing very much...
Society as a whole benefits from a balanced distribution of resources, with mutually beneficial input from all sides.
This is an example of a use of GOTO.
//error handler
//Do more stuff
I used something like this in a C program once, but I can't remember which code file...
for(int i=0; i++; i<count)
if(! array2[i]=dosomething(array[i])) {
goto deallocate;
}
Do-dastuff();
for(; i--; i>0) {
somesortoffree(array2[i]);
deallocate:
}
Do excuse me if I made a mistake or two.
Note I usually write in x86 assembly.
I installed cygwin and hated it, installer kept screwing up, and it was really slow.
A dedicated ReiserFS partition with a Slackware 11.0 disto and installation of coLinux on Windows solved (almost) all my problems. Bypass M$ entirely, the freedom of bash...
(The only snag is that cofs isn't finished yet)
As for powershell, I installed it when it was in beta and still called Monad, year or so ago, I was impressed, but it seemed like a lot of COM bloat to me... (FYI, I hate COM/OLE from a programmers perspective)
This makes me glad to be going to a British School in Paris...
This is riduculous, expulsion, even temporary, for such an irrelevant and harmless bit of fun/design, is totally excessive and makes the US system look even more incompetent and extreme than it does already (which is no mean feat)...
In my school there has been exactly one expulsion in all the years I've been there, a sixth former who sold some drugs to minors. I know the guy vaguely and am pretty sure that he was hassled significantly less than this kid who kows how to design a map for CS.
A tip to America, if you don't want people to be able to shoot other people, in schools or elsewhere, don't give them guns. Anybody with more than -5 working brian cells would deem this obvious, but the problem seems to ellude the US "government". If your average Joe can buy a gun and a crate of ammunition for a few dollars and a "sign here", then shootings will continue.
Video games have nothing to do with that at all (except in the rare cases which occurs with any medium, the horror movie enthusiast with the knife-glove debacle in the UK a few months ago comes to mind).
It all boils down to fear... Fear of terrorism, death, shootings, strangers, people from countries with funny names, etc. This is a major social problem in many areas of the globe (particularly the US, which is odd as none of its neighbours have this to the extent they do AFAIK). However the media hype and government slant on negative news merely compounds the problem (to the government's bebefit, but that is another story). It doesn't help that they tried to invade a country, but botched it, creating a civil war (I wouldn't of minded if it really had been a "six day cake walk"), and now many people actually do dislike them...
The people of the US must realise that the root of most of its troubles is internal, not external (and it's not the kids either).
None - their manager just declares darkness to be the new standard. The more you think about this one the more relevant it seems...
Selling Ubuntu machines is a very good beginning (I'm still not going to buy one though).
This is only really hampered by vendor lock in from MS. The day after WINE is completed to the extent that it will run most DX games for Windows, we can expect a significant increase in the purchases of these sorts of Linux machines. I'm currently running Windows XP (with coLinux Slackware 11), simply because Linux won't run all of my apps properly, and Linux runs fine on Windows...