I don't see how this can be right. From what little the article describes, this is a very simple method that anyone can do, and while it does require filing and blank keys, it can be done quietly. Your step 3, on the other hand, requires quite a bit of attention, as you would have to go to a hardware store (in the article, they say that you don't need to buy your own key duplication machine) and say "Could you duplicate this key, except make this notch higher? Oh, and I need 5 of them. Why? Oh, no reason." I don't see any way you could get away with that. I think, therefore, that the article is talking about something slightly different. But you're definitely on the right track.
I've played the said U2 disk on my computer with no problem, since I listen to most of my music first at work on my PC. You need to disable AutoPlay, or hold down the Shift key as you're inserting the disk - it sounds like the PC program that it's trying to launch is crashing your disk instead of any audio track protection.
I commend you for trying to persuade him, but obviously he thinks is right (I mean, he posted over 1000 comments on Slashdot, that must make him right!). Anyone who knows photography knows that Nikon rocks. I don't care enough to investigate, but it's possible that the scanner was even made by another company and was branded by Nikon. Thanks for providing the Natl Geographic link, those are some good tips and photos, most done with Nikon F5.
I don't know what kind of a school you went to, but the practice of no contractions on formal papers has been standard practice to me since late high school, and all through college. Points would definitely be subtracted for using informal speech in a formal essay.
And if you really think that your two sentences mean different things, or have different tone, you should consider asking for a refund for your schooling. You're confusing written word and actual speech, where you may have put more emphasis on the "not". In writing, these sentences are identical, except for the contraction difference.
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This post is funny, because of the great quote, as well as insightful for responding to a relatively stupid comment with great tact and wit. Hope someone notices...
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you need to do some more research on this issue. You don't have to run Microsoft products on remote servers in order to access web services running on local ones. The whole point of this initiative is interoperability, and using XML and SOAP to have a common way of running remote applications. That means that you can invoke and use your web service from any other language that supports these specifications. In that way, it's better than DCOM not just because it works through firewalls, but also because it allows standards other than COM to govern the app communication.
I'm also glad someone else noticed that the article isn't really predicting the end of web services, but rather the fact that it will be a fixed standard a few years from now, and developers won't even be thinking about it when they write their applications to run over the Internet. It's kind of like not having to have HTTP conventions these days, not that I'm aware of those ever happening before:)
You come equipped with lots of cash, which you show me before we begin for verification.
I show you to a workstation equipped with VB6 as well as VB.NET for your convenience. You are not allowed to use any materials you brought with you - this is a "from scratch" project.
You sit down and I then start the timer.
If in 5 minutes you have produced a close approximation of WinZip, including create/update capabilities for all archive types that it supports, Explorer right-click menu integration for easy extraction, ability to span disks, UUEncode support, and ability to view files and zip comments, I will give you $2000. If you've failed, you give me $4000.
Since I know you will fail, I will make it more interesting. Depending on your confidence level at the end of 5 minutes, I will let you extend the timer to 10 minutes. If you win, you get $4000, but fail again, and owe me $8000.
With some begging, I may extend the contest to 11 minutes, but you'd need to agree to tattoo "I will not badmouth quality shareware" somewhere on your body in an at least 12pt font.
Since opening last summer it took 29.3bn yen (£15.5m) at the Japanese box office, beating Titanic's record of 26bn yen (£13m) and Miyazaki's previous film Princess Mononoke, which took 19.3bn yen (£10m).
If? Considering it's being produced here, dubbed, and released by Disney, that little minor media company you may have heard of, I'm pretty sure that MPAA ties are relevant. Not that I care, I'm still going to be seeing it and buying it on DVD, incredibly psyched about this one.
Interesting, but I wish they had more of an explanation on the site about this option. Even off the main page, they link only to this pdf file with cds, which is a very small list for someone who really listens to a lot of music. Clearly this must be either a difficult or more expensive option, or else a lot more people would be taking advantage of it. Have you personally heard any of these cds in this format?
What are you talking about, most people don't read the articles? You have it exactly backwards. Most people I mention Slashdot to read the articles, but never post, or even look at the comments. This explains why the top story on the front page can have "0 of 1 comment" comments and already be Slashdotted - most people are just clicking on the article link.
As anyone from Cincinnati can attest, the local Miami college radio station 97X (remember Dustin Hoffman in Rainman saying "Bam! The future of rock-n-roll!") is better than any other station here in town. The amount of cds in my collection that I bought after hearing it on that station, and that never would've gotten mainstream play is staggering. Unfortunately, due to reception problems and signal obstruction, I have to stream them here at work even in the same town.
Recently, they sent out a poll asking whether listeners would be willing to pay a small monthly amount in order for them to continue broadcasting online. Although they haven't announced the results yet, I'm sure that many people, like me, indicated that they'd be willing to pay to have great music available to them. I said that $5/month sounded reasonable, but I might be willing to go higher.
So if the station in the article is really that important to all those students, and those alum, maybe they can find ways of financing it. Besides monthly subscriptions, you could have a fundraiser with a band, sell tshirts, get more sponsors, whatever. I'm not familiar with the entire situation just from the article, but it doesn't look like the school in question even tried to keep this venture going.
Keep in mind that the article was translated, so before you bash the author, I think you should find someone who speaks Danish and can verify the translation. The more likely explanation of that passage is that Apple picked the company, who would eventually help such companies as Compaq, etc.
I'm not sure why you're bashing the article, as the research that he did seems pretty thorough, and not just slapped together. Many of the shots in it are taken specifically for the article, so this isn't the case of someone doing a Google Image search and putting the results in chronological order.
Of most interest to me was the very original "old-school" India ink logo, with Newton pictured. It makes it very interesting to see that it wasn't until much later that they were able to make a product named after the person who inspired the name. I wonder if they had that same poem anywhere in the Newton documentation, would've been neat.
Oooh, I get to refer to my grade school math education to answer a question, exciting!:) The average may be a value not in the set of data, which happens to be the sum of all the items in the set divided by the count of items in the set. The median is the middle item in the set, unless the item has an even number of items, in which case you'd divide the 2 items in the middle.
So, in a set of let's say 2 3 8 11, the average is 6 (24/4), and the median is 5.5 ((3+8)/2). HTH.
He doesn't state this overtly, as you mention, but I think it's because that's not what he is trying to say. The way the questions were posed, they were asking whether someone actually believed in these particular things, be it UFOs or alternative medicine. That's quite different from believing that they may be scientifically proven in the future, or that there may be some scientific basis in there mixed with superstition. You listed many things that we don't know yet, and those are all valid, but the people surveyed in this article seem to be willing to believe things now that have little or no proof.
Of course we haven't seen the original questions, so it's hard to know exactly how the responses were shaped by them, but the article simply mentions that people are willing to believe many things that are not based on anything rational, and how can you disagree with that? All one has to do is look at all that blindly believe that Elvis is alive, Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA, crop circles are made by aliens, etc. Before you call this guy's article bullshit, maybe you should've evaluated what he was saying a bit more.
I scanned all of the comments, and no one has mentioned the best reason to buy both the editions, which is what I am going to be doing now. I already had the best set on preorder, and swore that I would not get the normal 2 disk edition. However, when I saw how cheap it was at Circuit City (15.99), I went out and got it.
To my surprise, there is a $10 rebate in the set for those who puchase the larger set in November, which means I'm only going to be paying $5.99 for this 2-disk edition. I think that's well worth it to hold me over until that released date, and it's only barely cheaper than the rental suggestion that some people have made.
I definitely see what you mean about money eventually going to the same people, that being the movie studio, but I still have to disagree, as that's only one of the parties making money on DVD sales. The other people involved are the shippers and the local resellers of this stuff, and their costs are not the same as those in USA/Europe.
I don't want to stereotype and make bad assumptions, but I'm relatively sure average income in let's say India is lower than USA in dollars. That means that selling a video there for $15 is not going to fly, and the studio needs to price it lower. Same thing with costs, if the video store owner in India can pay his workers $1/hr, and USA is $6, you're going to have upset USA companies if overseas sellers are making a larger profit on the sale of the same amount.
Anyway, the short point is even if I don't necessarily agree with it, I see at least some logic between region differentiation, in both distribution and pricing. And that's hard to say, as we suffer here in the States too. I mean, UK had Muse's last album a long time ago, but still no distribution here in USA. Same story for the new Primal Scream album that's about to come out - hard to pay those exhorbitant import prices.
As for going cheaper to the movies: you can go to the movies without paying for popcorn/chips/drinks you know. I don't have a problem with that. I drive to the theather, park on the free parking, pay income, watch movie, go back to car, drive home. It's easy, and you had a good time. It's really cheap entertainment if you have the will to resist to the tempations of foods and drinks.
Well said, brother. Unfortunately, I don't see an easy road for myself when I tell my girlfriend that I can't get her Swedish Fish because "Corporate Troll said so";-)
This better not be the case on the Monsters Inc. DVD I've had on preorder for months and months now, or my girlfriend will have a fit (she loved that movie). I guess I better add a bookmark to this Ask Slashdot, as I might be in the market for a player with skip at that point:) Until then, Tarzan? Stuart Little? Yeah, who cares?:)
I don't see how releasing movies at the same time across the world is going to prove that region coding is a "stupid scheme." Although the companies are generating good will by not having the overseas fans wait for LOTR and SW, those disks are still going to be region-coded so that pricing can be region-specific and imports can be prevented (as explained in a previous post).
I did find it interesting though that it's that much cheaper for you to see a movie in theaters than own it on video. Most of the people I know that have invested in good home equipment are exactly the opposite - they wait for stuff to come out on video because it's a lot cheaper. For example, seeing a movie with a date in a theater would typically cost me $17.50 here (plus with the inevitable concession stand purchases, add another $10+) whereas most single-disk DVDs can be had for $15 or so.
Finally, a constructive response to the problem. However, since you still don't have the capability of seeing what the source of the message is, I don't see how you can drop all of those messages with 100% certainty. Those API calls are there and are used legitimately as well, for better or for worse. So although your way coulf fix things, I wouldn't be surprised to see it breaking some applications along with it.
I'm glad I took time out of my day to write the original post and explain to you why you were seeing the behavior that you were seeing (remember? "How messed up is that?"), only to be called a dumbass. Oh well, perhaps it might be useful to someone more polite. Have a nice day.
Yikes, maybe one should do some research before telling someone they are incorrect with 100% certainty. Actually I am correct, ASP.NET uses and generates client-side javascript. For example, take a look in your C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\ASP.NET ClientFiles (depending on what version you have). Those.js files are included as needed in the returned html.
Additionally, let's do a view source on an.aspx file. What's this?!
function __doPostBack(eventTarget, eventArgument) {
var theform = document.ContactSearchForm;
theform.__EVENTTARGET.value = eventTarget;
theform.__EVENTARGUMENT.value = eventArgument;
theform.submit();
}
You are correct about the variety of server-side options, however. As I pointed out in my original post, the fact that most of the code is server-side is makes the development so easy.
As I said, the zip comes with an instruction file, which you should probably read before ranting about it not working in this forum. Notepad.exe, and most other Windows system files, are subject to Windows File Protection. If you do not replace the file as indicated in the steps, Windows will try to restore the file because it assumes it has been maliciously deleted or infected. Try again, good luck.
Not a dumb question if you're unfamiliar with the technology. All of the improvements in.NET for developers are essentially manifested server-side, where ASP.NET intercepts calls for.aspx pages and processes them. The result is javascript that is supposed to be browser-independent, and allows developers to write a heck of a lot less code. So the short answer to your question is that users would see no difference, whereas developers see great improvements.
Of course, there are some browser-specific features, but the code for those is not written to the client if the browser doesn't support it. The best example is something called Smart Navigation, which reduces flicker on pages between trips to the server. If you're not running IE, or older IE, you get the flicker, but it doesn't prevent you from working with the page. HTH.
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I don't see how this can be right. From what little the article describes, this is a very simple method that anyone can do, and while it does require filing and blank keys, it can be done quietly. Your step 3, on the other hand, requires quite a bit of attention, as you would have to go to a hardware store (in the article, they say that you don't need to buy your own key duplication machine) and say "Could you duplicate this key, except make this notch higher? Oh, and I need 5 of them. Why? Oh, no reason." I don't see any way you could get away with that. I think, therefore, that the article is talking about something slightly different. But you're definitely on the right track.
I've played the said U2 disk on my computer with no problem, since I listen to most of my music first at work on my PC. You need to disable AutoPlay, or hold down the Shift key as you're inserting the disk - it sounds like the PC program that it's trying to launch is crashing your disk instead of any audio track protection.
I commend you for trying to persuade him, but obviously he thinks is right (I mean, he posted over 1000 comments on Slashdot, that must make him right!). Anyone who knows photography knows that Nikon rocks. I don't care enough to investigate, but it's possible that the scanner was even made by another company and was branded by Nikon. Thanks for providing the Natl Geographic link, those are some good tips and photos, most done with Nikon F5.
I don't know what kind of a school you went to, but the practice of no contractions on formal papers has been standard practice to me since late high school, and all through college. Points would definitely be subtracted for using informal speech in a formal essay.
And if you really think that your two sentences mean different things, or have different tone, you should consider asking for a refund for your schooling. You're confusing written word and actual speech, where you may have put more emphasis on the "not". In writing, these sentences are identical, except for the contraction difference.
This post is funny, because of the great quote, as well as insightful for responding to a relatively stupid comment with great tact and wit. Hope someone notices ...
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you need to do some more research on this issue. You don't have to run Microsoft products on remote servers in order to access web services running on local ones. The whole point of this initiative is interoperability, and using XML and SOAP to have a common way of running remote applications. That means that you can invoke and use your web service from any other language that supports these specifications. In that way, it's better than DCOM not just because it works through firewalls, but also because it allows standards other than COM to govern the app communication.
:)
I'm also glad someone else noticed that the article isn't really predicting the end of web services, but rather the fact that it will be a fixed standard a few years from now, and developers won't even be thinking about it when they write their applications to run over the Internet. It's kind of like not having to have HTTP conventions these days, not that I'm aware of those ever happening before
- I pay for your flight to my city.
- You come equipped with lots of cash, which you show me before we begin for verification.
- I show you to a workstation equipped with VB6 as well as VB.NET for your convenience. You are not allowed to use any materials you brought with you - this is a "from scratch" project.
- You sit down and I then start the timer.
- If in 5 minutes you have produced a close approximation of WinZip, including create/update capabilities for all archive types that it supports, Explorer right-click menu integration for easy extraction, ability to span disks, UUEncode support, and ability to view files and zip comments, I will give you $2000. If you've failed, you give me $4000.
- Since I know you will fail, I will make it more interesting. Depending on your confidence level at the end of 5 minutes, I will let you extend the timer to 10 minutes. If you win, you get $4000, but fail again, and owe me $8000.
- With some begging, I may extend the contest to 11 minutes, but you'd need to agree to tattoo "I will not badmouth quality shareware" somewhere on your body in an at least 12pt font.
Let me know your thoughts please.Oh, it definitely beat Titanic. From the article:
Since opening last summer it took 29.3bn yen (£15.5m) at the Japanese box office, beating Titanic's record of 26bn yen (£13m) and Miyazaki's previous film Princess Mononoke, which took 19.3bn yen (£10m).
If? Considering it's being produced here, dubbed, and released by Disney, that little minor media company you may have heard of, I'm pretty sure that MPAA ties are relevant. Not that I care, I'm still going to be seeing it and buying it on DVD, incredibly psyched about this one.
Interesting, but I wish they had more of an explanation on the site about this option. Even off the main page, they link only to this pdf file with cds, which is a very small list for someone who really listens to a lot of music. Clearly this must be either a difficult or more expensive option, or else a lot more people would be taking advantage of it. Have you personally heard any of these cds in this format?
What are you talking about, most people don't read the articles? You have it exactly backwards. Most people I mention Slashdot to read the articles, but never post, or even look at the comments. This explains why the top story on the front page can have "0 of 1 comment" comments and already be Slashdotted - most people are just clicking on the article link.
As anyone from Cincinnati can attest, the local Miami college radio station 97X (remember Dustin Hoffman in Rainman saying "Bam! The future of rock-n-roll!") is better than any other station here in town. The amount of cds in my collection that I bought after hearing it on that station, and that never would've gotten mainstream play is staggering. Unfortunately, due to reception problems and signal obstruction, I have to stream them here at work even in the same town.
Recently, they sent out a poll asking whether listeners would be willing to pay a small monthly amount in order for them to continue broadcasting online. Although they haven't announced the results yet, I'm sure that many people, like me, indicated that they'd be willing to pay to have great music available to them. I said that $5/month sounded reasonable, but I might be willing to go higher.
So if the station in the article is really that important to all those students, and those alum, maybe they can find ways of financing it. Besides monthly subscriptions, you could have a fundraiser with a band, sell tshirts, get more sponsors, whatever. I'm not familiar with the entire situation just from the article, but it doesn't look like the school in question even tried to keep this venture going.
Keep in mind that the article was translated, so before you bash the author, I think you should find someone who speaks Danish and can verify the translation. The more likely explanation of that passage is that Apple picked the company, who would eventually help such companies as Compaq, etc.
I'm not sure why you're bashing the article, as the research that he did seems pretty thorough, and not just slapped together. Many of the shots in it are taken specifically for the article, so this isn't the case of someone doing a Google Image search and putting the results in chronological order.
Of most interest to me was the very original "old-school" India ink logo, with Newton pictured. It makes it very interesting to see that it wasn't until much later that they were able to make a product named after the person who inspired the name. I wonder if they had that same poem anywhere in the Newton documentation, would've been neat.
Oooh, I get to refer to my grade school math education to answer a question, exciting! :) The average may be a value not in the set of data, which happens to be the sum of all the items in the set divided by the count of items in the set. The median is the middle item in the set, unless the item has an even number of items, in which case you'd divide the 2 items in the middle.
So, in a set of let's say 2 3 8 11, the average is 6 (24/4), and the median is 5.5 ((3+8)/2). HTH.
He doesn't state this overtly, as you mention, but I think it's because that's not what he is trying to say. The way the questions were posed, they were asking whether someone actually believed in these particular things, be it UFOs or alternative medicine. That's quite different from believing that they may be scientifically proven in the future, or that there may be some scientific basis in there mixed with superstition. You listed many things that we don't know yet, and those are all valid, but the people surveyed in this article seem to be willing to believe things now that have little or no proof.
Of course we haven't seen the original questions, so it's hard to know exactly how the responses were shaped by them, but the article simply mentions that people are willing to believe many things that are not based on anything rational, and how can you disagree with that? All one has to do is look at all that blindly believe that Elvis is alive, Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA, crop circles are made by aliens, etc. Before you call this guy's article bullshit, maybe you should've evaluated what he was saying a bit more.
I scanned all of the comments, and no one has mentioned the best reason to buy both the editions, which is what I am going to be doing now. I already had the best set on preorder, and swore that I would not get the normal 2 disk edition. However, when I saw how cheap it was at Circuit City (15.99), I went out and got it.
To my surprise, there is a $10 rebate in the set for those who puchase the larger set in November, which means I'm only going to be paying $5.99 for this 2-disk edition. I think that's well worth it to hold me over until that released date, and it's only barely cheaper than the rental suggestion that some people have made.
I definitely see what you mean about money eventually going to the same people, that being the movie studio, but I still have to disagree, as that's only one of the parties making money on DVD sales. The other people involved are the shippers and the local resellers of this stuff, and their costs are not the same as those in USA/Europe.
;-)
I don't want to stereotype and make bad assumptions, but I'm relatively sure average income in let's say India is lower than USA in dollars. That means that selling a video there for $15 is not going to fly, and the studio needs to price it lower. Same thing with costs, if the video store owner in India can pay his workers $1/hr, and USA is $6, you're going to have upset USA companies if overseas sellers are making a larger profit on the sale of the same amount.
Anyway, the short point is even if I don't necessarily agree with it, I see at least some logic between region differentiation, in both distribution and pricing. And that's hard to say, as we suffer here in the States too. I mean, UK had Muse's last album a long time ago, but still no distribution here in USA. Same story for the new Primal Scream album that's about to come out - hard to pay those exhorbitant import prices.
As for going cheaper to the movies: you can go to the movies without paying for popcorn/chips/drinks you know. I don't have a problem with that. I drive to the theather, park on the free parking, pay income, watch movie, go back to car, drive home. It's easy, and you had a good time. It's really cheap entertainment if you have the will to resist to the tempations of foods and drinks.
Well said, brother. Unfortunately, I don't see an easy road for myself when I tell my girlfriend that I can't get her Swedish Fish because "Corporate Troll said so"
This better not be the case on the Monsters Inc. DVD I've had on preorder for months and months now, or my girlfriend will have a fit (she loved that movie). I guess I better add a bookmark to this Ask Slashdot, as I might be in the market for a player with skip at that point :) Until then, Tarzan? Stuart Little? Yeah, who cares? :)
This post made me laugh from start to finish. You're +1 Funny in my book, sir.
I don't see how releasing movies at the same time across the world is going to prove that region coding is a "stupid scheme." Although the companies are generating good will by not having the overseas fans wait for LOTR and SW, those disks are still going to be region-coded so that pricing can be region-specific and imports can be prevented (as explained in a previous post).
I did find it interesting though that it's that much cheaper for you to see a movie in theaters than own it on video. Most of the people I know that have invested in good home equipment are exactly the opposite - they wait for stuff to come out on video because it's a lot cheaper. For example, seeing a movie with a date in a theater would typically cost me $17.50 here (plus with the inevitable concession stand purchases, add another $10+) whereas most single-disk DVDs can be had for $15 or so.
Finally, a constructive response to the problem. However, since you still don't have the capability of seeing what the source of the message is, I don't see how you can drop all of those messages with 100% certainty. Those API calls are there and are used legitimately as well, for better or for worse. So although your way coulf fix things, I wouldn't be surprised to see it breaking some applications along with it.
I'm glad I took time out of my day to write the original post and explain to you why you were seeing the behavior that you were seeing (remember? "How messed up is that?"), only to be called a dumbass. Oh well, perhaps it might be useful to someone more polite. Have a nice day.
Yikes, maybe one should do some research before telling someone they are incorrect with 100% certainty. Actually I am correct, ASP.NET uses and generates client-side javascript. For example, take a look in your C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\ASP.NET ClientFiles (depending on what version you have). Those .js files are included as needed in the returned html.
.aspx file. What's this?!
Additionally, let's do a view source on an
function __doPostBack(eventTarget, eventArgument) {
var theform = document.ContactSearchForm;
theform.__EVENTTARGET.value = eventTarget;
theform.__EVENTARGUMENT.value = eventArgument;
theform.submit();
}
You are correct about the variety of server-side options, however. As I pointed out in my original post, the fact that most of the code is server-side is makes the development so easy.
As I said, the zip comes with an instruction file, which you should probably read before ranting about it not working in this forum. Notepad.exe, and most other Windows system files, are subject to Windows File Protection. If you do not replace the file as indicated in the steps, Windows will try to restore the file because it assumes it has been maliciously deleted or infected. Try again, good luck.
Not a dumb question if you're unfamiliar with the technology. All of the improvements in .NET for developers are essentially manifested server-side, where ASP.NET intercepts calls for .aspx pages and processes them. The result is javascript that is supposed to be browser-independent, and allows developers to write a heck of a lot less code. So the short answer to your question is that users would see no difference, whereas developers see great improvements.
Of course, there are some browser-specific features, but the code for those is not written to the client if the browser doesn't support it. The best example is something called Smart Navigation, which reduces flicker on pages between trips to the server. If you're not running IE, or older IE, you get the flicker, but it doesn't prevent you from working with the page. HTH.