Actually, the format has died. Sony (only recently) discontinued making the players. Their niche market, I assume, is migrating towards digital recording.
I love the fact that the article you linked to includes one of the Urban Legends in the original article:
Urban performance legend #2: Declaring classes or methods final makes them faster
From your link:
I received a lot of feedback about this article. Here are the typical comments, together with my answers:
"You forgot to mention that all methods in Java are virtual, because nobody is using the final keyword."
The fact that people are not using the final keyword is not a problem with the language, but with the programmers using it. Also, virtual functions calls in general are not problematic because of the call overhead, but because of lost optimization opportunities. But since JITs know how to inline across virtual function boundaries, this is not a big deal.
From the headline, I thought this article was going to be about that shooting at Case Western. The apparent motive was that the victim left a nasty message on the shooter's guest book:
Biswanath Halder vs. Shawn Miller, et al.
How is a penny a post going to eliminate spam. It would still be more than 2000% more expensive to send traditional junk mail, and I still get lots of that too.
Not to mention the fact that all of the mailing lists I subscribe to would shut down.
Maybe there's a good reason they rejected it. Like the first paragraph that says:
Andrew Busigin says: "The best advice I have, is to disregard the article entirely, until a more complete and competent analysis can be properly prepared, reviewed, and published."
or the followup article where they completely retract and apologize for the original.
Or if I know that you simply made the information up to get a subpoenae, then I turn it over to the cops. You've commited a *criminal* offence of perjury, and possibly a civil offense (libel).
Except that you won't even know about the subpoena unless they take you to court (which they won't if they don't find additional evidence). If they find nothing in their fishing expedition, you won't know your privacy was ever violated and won't know to sue them for perjury.
> If the people in question were downloading/uploading kiddy pr0n, i'm sure most slashdotters would be all for Verizon giving up the info.
The question is one of due proccess. The RIAA did not present ANY evidence that this person actually did anything wrong. They weren't even ASKED to present evidence. No judge ever reviewed the merits of their request. They filed a one-page document with a County Clerk.
Would you like it if I forced your ISP to reveal who you were without providing any evidence that I needed to know this? Would it make you feel better if I unilaterally declared that I thought you had kiddie porn?
The "subpoena" issued to Verizon was a single page document filed with a county clerk. No judge was ever asked to review the subpoena and no evidence has ever been presented that any crime ever occurred.
Mythtv has this. Actually, you can configure the skip length. I set the right arrow to 30 second skip and "Page Up" to 2 minutes. Mythtv also has an experimental "skip to blank" commercial skipper.
You can also view recordings or Live TV on any machine on your network (video card/CPU permitting) without additional TV tuners (one Live showing per video card).
Yes, I'm very happy with mythtv. With the 0.8 release, it's split between a front-end and a back-end. You can record all your programs on one machine and watch the recordings (or live TV) from any front-end machine, even if the front-end machine doesn't have a tuner card of its own.
Mythtv also has hooks to execute any command you desire to change the channels. Plus a web front-end (mythweb) for viewing program info and recording a program or deleting old recordings.
It doesn't recommend stuff for you to watch and it won't think you're gay if you tape Will & Grace.
When I joined Speakeasy.net, they offered a full rebate on the DSL modem. I got the money within a reasonable amount of time (within the time frame that they said it would).
I've bought two Epson Stylus Color 740 printers (one for me, one for the in-laws) and got rebates on both. One of the printers died shortly after it's one-year warranty, but that's another complaint. The rebate worked.
For the past two years, I've done my taxes with TaxCut software. You get a $5 rebate for the Federal program and a full ($25) rebate for one State Program. For both years, I've received the rebates before Tax Day.
> If everyone did this, the stores that offered good service would go out of business, leaving just the volume retailers.
If everyone did this, he'd be a fool not to.
It's been said so many times on/.: the customer is not compelled to follow the business plan. If they loose too much on their loss leader, be it a cheap printer or free advice, that's not the customers fault.
Comparing social behavior at a party to consumer behavior in the market is pretty silly. Do you really think that salesman has YOUR best interest in mind? If so, he won't be a salesman for long.
Me too! I was 240 lbs in Feb 2001. By September, I was down to 170 and I've managed to keep it off.
I had to cut out all the middle of the day snacking, switched entirely to diet soda, and ate smaller portions, but still just the food that I liked.
There's some diet program whose slogan is "A shake for breakfast, a shake for lunch, and a sensible dinner". It works just as wekk if you follow: "A sensible breakfast, a sensible lunch, and a sensible dinner".
Frankly, I didn't really do much of the exercise...
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Actually, the format has died. Sony (only recently) discontinued making the players. Their niche market, I assume, is migrating towards digital recording.
But they *knew* the alleged code was in their distribution and they continued to distribute it.
Also remember that the State once considered Martin Luther King, Jr. an "evildoer".
Just look at what MS was claiming. They won't let third parties develop GPL code using MS tools because they claim that will make the MS tools GPL.
Unless MS is somehow claiming that all code developed with MS tools automaticaly belongs to MS, their claim is absurd.
From your link:
They're going to show the stolen code under NDAs. Therefore, the only people that will know what to fix won't be allowed to...
From the headline, I thought this article was going to be about that shooting at Case Western. The apparent motive was that the victim left a nasty message on the shooter's guest book: Biswanath Halder vs. Shawn Miller, et al.
How is a penny a post going to eliminate spam. It would still be more than 2000% more expensive to send traditional junk mail, and I still get lots of that too.
Not to mention the fact that all of the mailing lists I subscribe to would shut down.
I also wonder if the code in question was actually BSD or public domain code that both SCO and Linux adopted.
> If the people in question were downloading/uploading kiddy pr0n, i'm sure most slashdotters would be all for Verizon giving up the info.
The question is one of due proccess. The RIAA did not present ANY evidence that this person actually did anything wrong. They weren't even ASKED to present evidence. No judge ever reviewed the merits of their request. They filed a one-page document with a County Clerk.
Would you like it if I forced your ISP to reveal who you were without providing any evidence that I needed to know this? Would it make you feel better if I unilaterally declared that I thought you had kiddie porn?
The "subpoena" issued to Verizon was a single page document filed with a county clerk. No judge was ever asked to review the subpoena and no evidence has ever been presented that any crime ever occurred.
> When users apt-get install firebird, should they get the browser or the database?
Or the BBS?
> I have 30-sec commercial skip
Mythtv has this. Actually, you can configure the skip length. I set the right arrow to 30 second skip and "Page Up" to 2 minutes. Mythtv also has an experimental "skip to blank" commercial skipper.
You can also view recordings or Live TV on any machine on your network (video card/CPU permitting) without additional TV tuners (one Live showing per video card).
Yes, I'm very happy with mythtv. With the 0.8 release, it's split between a front-end and a back-end. You can record all your programs on one machine and watch the recordings (or live TV) from any front-end machine, even if the front-end machine doesn't have a tuner card of its own.
Mythtv also has hooks to execute any command you desire to change the channels. Plus a web front-end (mythweb) for viewing program info and recording a program or deleting old recordings.
It doesn't recommend stuff for you to watch and it won't think you're gay if you tape Will & Grace.
> Isn't it part of Microsoft licensing that you must run the software under Microsoft's environment?
Wasn't MicroSoft convicted for antitrust violations? Isn't "tying" a violation of antitrust laws?
> I know that Linux and GNU software carries some terms of their own...
The GPL has absolutely no "use" restrictions. If you do not plan to redistribute GPL software, the GPL has absolutely no effect on you.
When I joined Speakeasy.net, they offered a full rebate on the DSL modem. I got the money within a reasonable amount of time (within the time frame that they said it would).
I've bought two Epson Stylus Color 740 printers (one for me, one for the in-laws) and got rebates on both. One of the printers died shortly after it's one-year warranty, but that's another complaint. The rebate worked.
For the past two years, I've done my taxes with TaxCut software. You get a $5 rebate for the Federal program and a full ($25) rebate for one State Program. For both years, I've received the rebates before Tax Day.
Or downloading 7 songs from a single album as "7 lost album sales".
> If everyone did this, the stores that offered good service would go out of business, leaving just the volume retailers.
/.: the customer is not compelled to follow the business plan. If they loose too much on their loss leader, be it a cheap printer or free advice, that's not the customers fault.
If everyone did this, he'd be a fool not to.
It's been said so many times on
Comparing social behavior at a party to consumer behavior in the market is pretty silly. Do you really think that salesman has YOUR best interest in mind? If so, he won't be a salesman for long.
> He doesn't understand why I get so annoyed with him about this.
I don't understand either? Would you rather he (a) paid more than he should, or (b) have less information than what is available to him?
Do you get annoyed at fat people who go to "All You Can Eat" restaraunts and eat all that they can?
Me too! I was 240 lbs in Feb 2001. By September, I was down to 170 and I've managed to keep it off.
I had to cut out all the middle of the day snacking, switched entirely to diet soda, and ate smaller portions, but still just the food that I liked.
There's some diet program whose slogan is "A shake for breakfast, a shake for lunch, and a sensible dinner". It works just as wekk if you follow: "A sensible breakfast, a sensible lunch, and a sensible dinner".
Frankly, I didn't really do much of the exercise...
I'm curious just exactly what you think Linux was incapable of doing without stealing from you?
And I was starting to believe that Bill Gates never said "640K is enough for anyone".
I use logcheck (available as a Debian package). I run it only one one machine and I have all the other machines send their syslogs to that machine.