So if, as an admin, I've learned through doing that some distros make my job easier and some make it harder, I'm callous and juvenile to share that information with others? Cut the "everything is as good as everything else" bullshit. Gentoo? Not so hot for real-world uses. "Complete System Control" is antithetical to convenience. The right answer is "take care of it for me using reasonable defaults, but get the hell out of my way when I ask you to."
So you keep a stat() cache. Index files when they come in, feel free to store shortnames in the database (don't forget, VFAT is still backed by FAT), and record file size and mtime along with the info that you really care about. After a transfer session or on demand ("fix it button"), you do a thorough reindex. This only requires opening every directory and comparing it to the contents of the database. If a file was deleted on disk, nuke it from mthe DB, and if it's new or changed on disk, then you have to actually read the file to index it. So when you copy some files you watch a cute "sorting through your files" animation for 30 seconds at the outside. Is that so bad?
The iPod solution of treating the entire filesystem as a database is one way of doing things, and it's a respectable one for a limited domain like that (see also Palm) but it's not necessarily the best answer. Sticking to a standard file model and doing a little indexing to keep track of things makes a number of things simpler.
SQLite is what you're describing. And just as a side note, there are strong reasons why PostgreSQL should be shortened to "postgres" rather than "postgre", one of which is that it sounds a lot better.
You're not taking a long enough view. Nobody makes a profit on this. For one thing, competition means that vendors would round down as often as up; eventually a normal situation would settle in, just quantized at a slightly higher level. And even that's no harm when you consider how much less the real value of a penny is now than it was years ago. There was a time when you could get a can of Pepsi for ten cents instead of fifty (or 75, really, today). Does that mean that everybody was getting screwed by having to pay for everything in whole pennies instead of increments of 0.2 cents? No, not really.
The other argument is one that applies to almost any economic situation, and it's this: the only thing you can do with money is to spend it. Nobody makes headfirst dives into a "money bin" full of cash, because it would be a stupid thing to do. If you gain more money, you spend more money -- on a new car, to pay your employees, to improve your business, to invest, or whatever. Yes, there's savings, but if you really look at it, saving isn't the long-term phenomenon it seems to be. The money always gets spent, and on the average there's always as much money coming out of savings as going in (with some swings on either side depending on economic conditions).
The point is that money keeps moving. The vendors can't get richer off of the consumers forever, they can only shift a dynamic equilibrium a little bit to one side. Even if other forces don't come in to cancel the effect entirely, it can only make you poorer to the tune of a dollar or two a year.
It's about the computing power in your head, not on the calculator. With RPN, once you're used to it, you actually have to carry less state around, and it's easier to enter things properly and quickly. You just have to get used to thinking in what seems like a very funny way to start with.
The hit isn't that bad if you have dedicated encryption hardware, which clearly exists. And Microsoft aren't the only ones in on this thing. AMD, Intel, Infineon, and IBM are all TCG partners.
Your Target is apparently nowhere near my Target. My target sold their stock of Wiis in 6 minutes after opening on Sunday, and now they're out again until whenever.
Interesting premise, but think about it. For that to be effective you need to tell people that they can't watch the latest movies or whatever on any sort of player that isn't connected to the internet. If you release anything on HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, it's going to hit this "hole", get converted to some unencumbered format, and away it goes. And "Rocky 9, available today on AppleMovieThing" is locking a lot of people out.
That's only three months from now. I can already see it being "almost done" at that time, and of course it's such a good PR doohickey that they'll push back Feisty two months rather than wait for Feisty+1. And then the integration will still be half-assed. Save it for 7.10 and do a killer job, guys.
Then you haven't used anything serious. I work with Catalyst during the days, and the thing about it that's so nice is that you're just writing another app -- except that you have a useful library that does a bunch of things for you. Sure, there's a dispatcher, but a Model is just another class, and so is a View. If I want to use three different models, and select between B and C based on some data I got out of A, it's an "if", same as it would be in any other piece of code. If I want to hand off to a PDF-generating view for this particular hit instead of my ordinary HTML-template view, I can do that. If, for some reason, I want to send a response to the client from controller code and forego the entire view stage, it's simple. If I want to have an action that triggers when the portion of the URL before the first slash is the rot13 of the next segment, and the third segment is a prime number... then I'd be a little nuts, but Catalyst wouldn't mind. It's nothing more or less than doing useful things, with less work.
Well if size of vocabulary and available complexity are the deciding factors, then Perl should be the best at keeping you from going out of your mind:)
No such thing will ever exist. A digital system can't the difference between legal and illegal copying, and it will stay that way until we have AIs that are smarter than Federal judges. (Yes, I know that's a pretty low target, but AI still hasn't reached it). Maybe there would be a point in arguing about such a perfect, unobtrusive DRM system, but it will never exist, so there's no use bothering. Anything that can actually be implemented is going to be annoying and insulting. So yeah. DRM is bad mmmkay?
Naturally this is what happened with the whole DVD +/- R "format war" -- it was solved by dual-format support before there really was a war at all. But with HD-DVD vs. BD you also have to consider the pressed material, studio movies and things like that. Suppose that everyone does get a dual-format player in their living room; if making Blu-Ray discs is as much more expensive as everyone says it is, then studios will release in HD-DVD only. Good for prices, good for sales. And HD-DVD would win anyway. I suppose the point is that for the "dual standard" argument to hold up, they have to be basically equivalent at every point in the process, just not at the end:)
1) KDE doesn't run (well) on OSX yet. 2) OSX is funky and breaks lots of Unix conventions for no good reason (yes, even compared to Linux) 3) IPC is sloooow.
I'm not going to grant the editors a free pass though. Yes, this was clearly not written by a native speaker of English. That doesn't make it any less incoherent than if it were written by a native speaker. They're called "editors". They should edit. And if they're not up for that, they should at least skip posting the garbage. Please. It's ridiculous.
Because the people who are inclined to exploit the hole probably already know about it, while the people who should be upgrading to close the hole aren't even being told so. Is that really so hard?
Actually rotation is exactly what's denoted when you say "axis". It comes from the same root as "axle". Every rotation comes free with an axis and a magnitude. The use of axes as reference points in a coordinate system draws on an analogy with the more concrete axes of rotation or revolution.
That said, there are still only three of them in the case of the PS3 controller, even if it can sense rotation about and motion along those three axes. But nobody would have bought the 6DoF.
A few million more people than had an HDTV in their home last year, it would seem... including myself and a good few people I know. They're finally hitting that point.
Um, no, you can apt-get it off of the CD too. And the official CD set gives you the entire collection of 14 CDs, with every package and source. So yeah, try reducing that by 93%, tell me how it goes.
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So if, as an admin, I've learned through doing that some distros make my job easier and some make it harder, I'm callous and juvenile to share that information with others? Cut the "everything is as good as everything else" bullshit. Gentoo? Not so hot for real-world uses. "Complete System Control" is antithetical to convenience. The right answer is "take care of it for me using reasonable defaults, but get the hell out of my way when I ask you to."
So you keep a stat() cache. Index files when they come in, feel free to store shortnames in the database (don't forget, VFAT is still backed by FAT), and record file size and mtime along with the info that you really care about. After a transfer session or on demand ("fix it button"), you do a thorough reindex. This only requires opening every directory and comparing it to the contents of the database. If a file was deleted on disk, nuke it from mthe DB, and if it's new or changed on disk, then you have to actually read the file to index it. So when you copy some files you watch a cute "sorting through your files" animation for 30 seconds at the outside. Is that so bad?
The iPod solution of treating the entire filesystem as a database is one way of doing things, and it's a respectable one for a limited domain like that (see also Palm) but it's not necessarily the best answer. Sticking to a standard file model and doing a little indexing to keep track of things makes a number of things simpler.
SQLite is what you're describing. And just as a side note, there are strong reasons why PostgreSQL should be shortened to "postgres" rather than "postgre", one of which is that it sounds a lot better.
You're not taking a long enough view. Nobody makes a profit on this. For one thing, competition means that vendors would round down as often as up; eventually a normal situation would settle in, just quantized at a slightly higher level. And even that's no harm when you consider how much less the real value of a penny is now than it was years ago. There was a time when you could get a can of Pepsi for ten cents instead of fifty (or 75, really, today). Does that mean that everybody was getting screwed by having to pay for everything in whole pennies instead of increments of 0.2 cents? No, not really.
The other argument is one that applies to almost any economic situation, and it's this: the only thing you can do with money is to spend it. Nobody makes headfirst dives into a "money bin" full of cash, because it would be a stupid thing to do. If you gain more money, you spend more money -- on a new car, to pay your employees, to improve your business, to invest, or whatever. Yes, there's savings, but if you really look at it, saving isn't the long-term phenomenon it seems to be. The money always gets spent, and on the average there's always as much money coming out of savings as going in (with some swings on either side depending on economic conditions).
The point is that money keeps moving. The vendors can't get richer off of the consumers forever, they can only shift a dynamic equilibrium a little bit to one side. Even if other forces don't come in to cancel the effect entirely, it can only make you poorer to the tune of a dollar or two a year.
"Massive spam attack"... wait, you can use MySpace for something else?
I think you inverted your logic. But hey, thanks for the free pass.
It's about the computing power in your head, not on the calculator. With RPN, once you're used to it, you actually have to carry less state around, and it's easier to enter things properly and quickly. You just have to get used to thinking in what seems like a very funny way to start with.
The hit isn't that bad if you have dedicated encryption hardware, which clearly exists. And Microsoft aren't the only ones in on this thing. AMD, Intel, Infineon, and IBM are all TCG partners.
Your Target is apparently nowhere near my Target. My target sold their stock of Wiis in 6 minutes after opening on Sunday, and now they're out again until whenever.
Interesting premise, but think about it. For that to be effective you need to tell people that they can't watch the latest movies or whatever on any sort of player that isn't connected to the internet. If you release anything on HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, it's going to hit this "hole", get converted to some unencumbered format, and away it goes. And "Rocky 9, available today on AppleMovieThing" is locking a lot of people out.
We were supposed to have those 10GHz Pentium 4s last year. Well, it's a start.
That's only three months from now. I can already see it being "almost done" at that time, and of course it's such a good PR doohickey that they'll push back Feisty two months rather than wait for Feisty+1. And then the integration will still be half-assed. Save it for 7.10 and do a killer job, guys.
Then you haven't used anything serious. I work with Catalyst during the days, and the thing about it that's so nice is that you're just writing another app -- except that you have a useful library that does a bunch of things for you. Sure, there's a dispatcher, but a Model is just another class, and so is a View. If I want to use three different models, and select between B and C based on some data I got out of A, it's an "if", same as it would be in any other piece of code. If I want to hand off to a PDF-generating view for this particular hit instead of my ordinary HTML-template view, I can do that. If, for some reason, I want to send a response to the client from controller code and forego the entire view stage, it's simple. If I want to have an action that triggers when the portion of the URL before the first slash is the rot13 of the next segment, and the third segment is a prime number... then I'd be a little nuts, but Catalyst wouldn't mind. It's nothing more or less than doing useful things, with less work.
Agreed. If done well, an SoA sequel would rock. Or, since they did a fairly good job of setting up history in the original, a prequel.
Well if size of vocabulary and available complexity are the deciding factors, then Perl should be the best at keeping you from going out of your mind :)
No such thing will ever exist. A digital system can't the difference between legal and illegal copying, and it will stay that way until we have AIs that are smarter than Federal judges. (Yes, I know that's a pretty low target, but AI still hasn't reached it). Maybe there would be a point in arguing about such a perfect, unobtrusive DRM system, but it will never exist, so there's no use bothering. Anything that can actually be implemented is going to be annoying and insulting. So yeah. DRM is bad mmmkay?
Naturally this is what happened with the whole DVD +/- R "format war" -- it was solved by dual-format support before there really was a war at all. But with HD-DVD vs. BD you also have to consider the pressed material, studio movies and things like that. Suppose that everyone does get a dual-format player in their living room; if making Blu-Ray discs is as much more expensive as everyone says it is, then studios will release in HD-DVD only. Good for prices, good for sales. And HD-DVD would win anyway. I suppose the point is that for the "dual standard" argument to hold up, they have to be basically equivalent at every point in the process, just not at the end :)
1) KDE doesn't run (well) on OSX yet.
2) OSX is funky and breaks lots of Unix conventions for no good reason (yes, even compared to Linux)
3) IPC is sloooow.
I'm not going to grant the editors a free pass though. Yes, this was clearly not written by a native speaker of English. That doesn't make it any less incoherent than if it were written by a native speaker. They're called "editors". They should edit. And if they're not up for that, they should at least skip posting the garbage. Please. It's ridiculous.
Security Through Fixing It And Not Telling People Why They Should Upgrade is much less effective than Security Through Fixing It.
Because the people who are inclined to exploit the hole probably already know about it, while the people who should be upgrading to close the hole aren't even being told so. Is that really so hard?
OS/2 had technical merit.
Actually rotation is exactly what's denoted when you say "axis". It comes from the same root as "axle". Every rotation comes free with an axis and a magnitude. The use of axes as reference points in a coordinate system draws on an analogy with the more concrete axes of rotation or revolution.
That said, there are still only three of them in the case of the PS3 controller, even if it can sense rotation about and motion along those three axes. But nobody would have bought the 6DoF.
A few million more people than had an HDTV in their home last year, it would seem... including myself and a good few people I know. They're finally hitting that point.
Um, no, you can apt-get it off of the CD too. And the official CD set gives you the entire collection of 14 CDs, with every package and source. So yeah, try reducing that by 93%, tell me how it goes.