You might as well ask, why can't I do the following.
1) buy one copy of the print version.
2) record an actor reading it
3) sell as many copies of the recording as I please and not pay the author a dime.
furthermore to tighten the analogy, instead do this.
4) for every audio-version I sell, I buy one copy of the paper or e-book edition.
that way the author is getting the e-book roylaty rate and I'm pocketing the audio book rate.
Clearly this is unacceptable.
Hang on a moment cowboy - why is this unacceptable? It sounds reasonable to me, perhaps you can expand on why it isn't?
The original author is pocketing the money for their creative input, you are pocketing the money for your added value of an actor reading it. What are you depriving anyone of?
What's wrong with having a second computer and either a second monitor or a KVM switch? Or a laptop? It really doesn't need to be anything fancy just to show a few web pages. You can basically get an entire suitable computer and (crt) monitor from freecycle these days.
What I think would make firefox even better if it a lot of the existing features were turned into extensions... and then those (plus a few others) were in the default firefox package. That way those of us who don't want said features could just disable the extensions, rather than having to find a setting in about:config.
How is it not intrusive? I browse to a website I haven't been to before - something I do several times daily - and it doesn't work right unless I click that little S and allow it permission to run javascript.
That pretty much defines intruding on my experience.
I still use it though because I'm paranoid, but I wouldn't install it on my parents' computer.
It's perfectly possible to use Perl for large projects, providing you have strict style guidelines for enterprise use and a good object model for scalability. If you just let a large bunch of people hack it together in their own style then it will not work, but that doesn't make it unsuitable.
AdBlock downloads the ads? Gah, what a huge waste of bandwidth that is when you're on dialup and paying per minute. Surely this should be configurable?
>>I think you're right, which is a shame. There is music out there, really GOOD music, that will not survive in this business model.
>could you explain why you think this way?
Simple really - there is some music out there that is produced in a way that can't be reproduced live. Or some musicians who simply don't want to tour. Or perhaps styles of music for which the fans aren't the sort of people who want to go to concerts. I still want to listen their music and reward them for making it so that they can make more. The traditional route has been to buy the CD. If the music is now free, where is their revenue stream?
Note that I'm not implying this will result in a decrease in average quality, simply that some stuff that works now won't work in the future.
I think you're right, which is a shame. There is music out there, really GOOD music, that will not survive in this business model. Fortunately people who like this music are probably the same people out there who allow step 4 to work 4: make money by accepting donations from people who like your music.
I've had a computer stolen. There's nothing quite like that feeling of some random criminal being able to look at all your files to spur you to action. In my case my laptop was the only thing stolen and I had backups of important data, so it _was_ the biggest of my problems.
With modern CPUs you almost can't notice the CPU overhead and you certainly don't see a speed difference in day-to-day use. Hell, I've got a pentium 3 800Mhz PC fully encrypted and you don't notice it. All the encumberance you have is the requirement to type a password on bootup.
As for the hardware failure, that's fluff. Stick the hard drive in another PC and install the same software and you'll be able to mount the drive and access the files.
There are negatives to whole disk encryption but they are small compared to the peace of mind.
We bitch like hell in the UK because our petrol (gas) is so much more expensive than everyone else, but it looks like you guys have expensive electricity (or you really just do use a hell of a lot). My bill is usually about £25 per month (about $38).
Great in theory. But now I know you use it. I assume (probably correctly) that you use the same master password for all sites. I find a website I think you use that I can brute force. I brute force your master password through the SuperGenPass algorithm for this site. If I hit, then I have your master password and can log in as you anywhere.
I (and most people I know) have their own in-head algorithm for passwords based on some master password and the website address. SuperGenPass is just an extension of that that allows people to know your algorithm and introduces extra user interaction for the sake of stronger generated passwords. Is it worth it?
If anything Perl is just being relegated to what it's _really_ good at, and that's UNIX automation tasks and quick throw-away scripts, and _sometimes_ smallish applications.
Try playing both Rugby and American football and then comment. They are both physically tough, but in different ways. As for the padding, that is mostly aggressive. It allows you to hit (and be hit) harder. To say one is a wimpy form of the other is, well, flamebait.
Sure, there was a time when storage was a premium, but now it isn't.
I keep hearing this, but it simply isn't true. I have 40+Gb of 128Kbs MP3s. I have a 160Gb hard drive which is near, but not at, capacity. I'm not going to shell out £50+ in the middle of an "economic downturn" to buy another hard drive just so I can stuff it full of almost-indistinguishable-from-MP3 lossless copies of my music.
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You might as well ask, why can't I do the following.
1) buy one copy of the print version. 2) record an actor reading it 3) sell as many copies of the recording as I please and not pay the author a dime.
furthermore to tighten the analogy, instead do this.
4) for every audio-version I sell, I buy one copy of the paper or e-book edition.
that way the author is getting the e-book roylaty rate and I'm pocketing the audio book rate.
Clearly this is unacceptable.
Hang on a moment cowboy - why is this unacceptable? It sounds reasonable to me, perhaps you can expand on why it isn't? The original author is pocketing the money for their creative input, you are pocketing the money for your added value of an actor reading it. What are you depriving anyone of?
ASCII silly question, get a stupid ANSI.
3000kg? What are you driving - a tank?
What's wrong with having a second computer and either a second monitor or a KVM switch? Or a laptop? It really doesn't need to be anything fancy just to show a few web pages. You can basically get an entire suitable computer and (crt) monitor from freecycle these days.
Cambridge is probably the most highly regarded university in the country.
Yeah, and then Bath. Oxford's a shambles.</blackadder>
What I think would make firefox even better if it a lot of the existing features were turned into extensions... and then those (plus a few others) were in the default firefox package. That way those of us who don't want said features could just disable the extensions, rather than having to find a setting in about:config.
Sounds like a standard genie agreement to me: You are allowed 3 wishes. I guess Virtualisation software is like wishing for more wishes.
How is it not intrusive? I browse to a website I haven't been to before - something I do several times daily - and it doesn't work right unless I click that little S and allow it permission to run javascript.
That pretty much defines intruding on my experience.
I still use it though because I'm paranoid, but I wouldn't install it on my parents' computer.
It's perfectly possible to use Perl for large projects, providing you have strict style guidelines for enterprise use and a good object model for scalability. If you just let a large bunch of people hack it together in their own style then it will not work, but that doesn't make it unsuitable.
AdBlock downloads the ads? Gah, what a huge waste of bandwidth that is when you're on dialup and paying per minute. Surely this should be configurable?
>>I think you're right, which is a shame. There is music out there, really GOOD music, that will not survive in this business model.
>could you explain why you think this way?
Simple really - there is some music out there that is produced in a way that can't be reproduced live. Or some musicians who simply don't want to tour. Or perhaps styles of music for which the fans aren't the sort of people who want to go to concerts. I still want to listen their music and reward them for making it so that they can make more. The traditional route has been to buy the CD. If the music is now free, where is their revenue stream?
Note that I'm not implying this will result in a decrease in average quality, simply that some stuff that works now won't work in the future.
I think you're right, which is a shame. There is music out there, really GOOD music, that will not survive in this business model. Fortunately people who like this music are probably the same people out there who allow step 4 to work
4: make money by accepting donations from people who like your music.
I've had a computer stolen. There's nothing quite like that feeling of some random criminal being able to look at all your files to spur you to action. In my case my laptop was the only thing stolen and I had backups of important data, so it _was_ the biggest of my problems. With modern CPUs you almost can't notice the CPU overhead and you certainly don't see a speed difference in day-to-day use. Hell, I've got a pentium 3 800Mhz PC fully encrypted and you don't notice it. All the encumberance you have is the requirement to type a password on bootup. As for the hardware failure, that's fluff. Stick the hard drive in another PC and install the same software and you'll be able to mount the drive and access the files. There are negatives to whole disk encryption but they are small compared to the peace of mind.
Last I looked you can't hibernate safely if you are using on-the-fly whole disk encryption. Which you should be.
That's 14 litres of water.
Not if you're drinking espresso...
We bitch like hell in the UK because our petrol (gas) is so much more expensive than everyone else, but it looks like you guys have expensive electricity (or you really just do use a hell of a lot). My bill is usually about £25 per month (about $38).
Is it American english to use the term "grounding" instead of "earthing"?
Great in theory. But now I know you use it. I assume (probably correctly) that you use the same master password for all sites. I find a website I think you use that I can brute force. I brute force your master password through the SuperGenPass algorithm for this site. If I hit, then I have your master password and can log in as you anywhere.
I (and most people I know) have their own in-head algorithm for passwords based on some master password and the website address. SuperGenPass is just an extension of that that allows people to know your algorithm and introduces extra user interaction for the sake of stronger generated passwords. Is it worth it?
They won't, because there are only two things shoring up their critical desktop OS monopoly in the enterprise at this point: Office and IE.
Thank your lucky stars your enterprise doesn't use sharepoint then.
fewer stupid comments
Maybe he was saying the comments would be less stupid?
In which case he should have used a hyphen: less-stupid comments
If anything Perl is just being relegated to what it's _really_ good at, and that's UNIX automation tasks and quick throw-away scripts, and _sometimes_ smallish applications.
Yes, like this smallish application
Surely they should play Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock?
Try playing both Rugby and American football and then comment. They are both physically tough, but in different ways. As for the padding, that is mostly aggressive. It allows you to hit (and be hit) harder. To say one is a wimpy form of the other is, well, flamebait.
Sure, there was a time when storage was a premium, but now it isn't.
I keep hearing this, but it simply isn't true. I have 40+Gb of 128Kbs MP3s. I have a 160Gb hard drive which is near, but not at, capacity. I'm not going to shell out £50+ in the middle of an "economic downturn" to buy another hard drive just so I can stuff it full of almost-indistinguishable-from-MP3 lossless copies of my music.
unxutils contains win32 versions of these called pclip and gclip. Very very useful...