Uhm, don't you think that being 4x faster than your opponent is skill?
I'd rather fight someone who is fighting "upright, and parr[ying] and feint[ing] like a madman" than a cracked out superball spinning around like a guided battle-axe. Just the opinion of an old tournament fighter, though. What Yoda did, takes more skill. Period. You can spin around all you want, and a lot of amatuer fighters do it. The trick is to be able to do it well and make it hard to defend. If done well, and fast, it throws your opponent off to defend and if they fail to defend, you get more power. Assuming you aren't doing focused strikes.. which is a whole different story.
The front-panel user interface is even worse. You can tell this thing was designed by the programmers. Even though it does what it needs, the designers seemed to choose the least obvious, most cumbersome route to each feature. The insanity of having to press right and left on the navigation disk to scroll up and down through the setup menus is just the beginning.
That's funny.. I really like the interface. I can switch through things quickly without looking at the display. Course.. I am a programmer:)
You make me sick. Equating a profitable gain by extortion (BSA) and the muslim "Holy war" as the same is a disgrace to all who have died protecting the American Way. You know what the soldiers died and killed for? The American Way. You know what those people in the twin towers died for? The American Way. You know what the BSA is doing, and doing well at? Profiting by the American Way. Lawsuits, it's the way it works.
I don't care if you do find it extremely offensive or not, because you need to get a grip on reality. If you think money is as important as fundamentals and life, than I'll give you $5 to kill yourself.
I think we have a new addendum to Godwin's Law now. I mean, come on. Even relating the BSA to a terrorist organization should be enough to nullify your argument, yet you continue on to be more trollish.
Here's an RFC for the addendum: * Relating any organization (NPO or For-profit) or company to a terrorist group. * Relating any of that organizations target or practices to plane crash attacks.
Shameless plugging of your site.. you have one metacity capture that is an offsite link. That's rather bad form, don't you have some VA hatemail to write?
Yes, and thanks for bringing those points up. The few IP attorneys I know are actually very cool, hard working and ethically sound people. IP litigation is bullshit, but I forget what those guys are called, iirc, they have some special name for the attorneys who represent clients in IP related lawsuits, don't they?
I knew a patent attorney a while back, and he was probably one of the biggest critics of the USPTO. After talking with him for 30 minutes, I would trust me running the USPTO just off of his critiques and ideas for improvement... too bad he works for a DNA sequencing company:)
Same thing with data mining. Data mining does not always have to do with someone finding your data. Writing data mining software is a lot of fun, at least from my experience and my opinion. Granted, I've only done it with DNA sequences and server farm metrics. But it really is fun to see what type of equations you can come up with to calculate various metrics.
I know it's oh so trendy to constantly attack the legal profession, but really. Grow up. Do you remember where you are at? This is slashdot.
I am just worried they bought napster in order to patent some of the involved technologies.
IRC is already a standard and has published RFCs though.
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The only real solution, alas, is to ask the credit card company to change your card number, and go out and change that number everywhere else it is billed monthly. Since joining the Internet Age in 1996, I've done this twice to get recurring charges to stop, after the ISPs repeatedly promised but failed to stop the monthly charges (of course, during that same time, I've also changed credit card companies twice more, and changed my credit card number twice more for other reasons, so I've had 6 credit-card numbers in 6 years -- not counting cards that I've acquired and later cancelled without ever charging any online transactions with them).
I did this, with Earthlink also, and it works like a charm. The best part about it was they sent me an email to my alternate email address saying the charge was not authorized. Nothing about disconnecting service, or anything along those lines. I was on my Ricochet at the time (Sweet, Sweet, Ricochet how I miss you) so didn't need a dial-up. I kept logging in to check if I still had access. It kept up for almost 7 months, where I got "free" internet service. I didn't use it, but checked my email quite a few times.
Not once did I get a nasty letter, just the automated "Can't process credit card" info. Since I've gotten Earthlink DSL, they screwed up my order and I've received about $150 in free service so far.:)
I'm just saying that if someone setup a network that cost $1/mo for a valid username/password with one login at a time that allowed people to share songs legally (With whatever validation provided, assuming a perfect world) most people would do this. Without a doubt. And I am saying that they should only charge those who use the service anyway.
The P2P architecture pioneered by Napster is what matters.
Napster didn't do jack shit that was even close to original. On IRC we were doing P2P programs using various scripting languages and what not. The only thing that happened to Napster is Shawn had a nice uncle or grandpa or whoever the fuck he was that gave him the money to try to make it a company so the masses heard of it. There was no original or innovative code that went into Napster. I remember seeing the first Gnapster (sorry Jasta) and thinking it was IRC without the IRC client. Oh, so you have DDC connections with SQL searching while each client registers? Big deal. Back in the days of good IRC pirating everyone just posted a list of files to listen for, and people typed search requests into the channel and if you had it for trade you answered. Sometimes you needed to upload first, sometimes it was free. This worked better than Napster ever did in my experience working with Napster (Although on IRC it was all porn:)) and now Gnutella and Fast Trak have kicked Napster's capabilities all over the net. Napster didn't pioneer any architecture, they just packaged it all up into a pretty end user package and marketed it.
Putting 3dFX and Napster in the same conceptual group is just wrong. 3dfx came up with new and innovative ideas for openGL acceleration and lost because they got lazy in the market. Name one technology Napster actually created, instead of just wrappering around? (I'll give you a hint, the Napster servers was just a hacked IRC server)
No, but what you missed is that I'm saying paying $1 for a P2P network is perfectly cool with me. Apparently you totally missed what I was saying previously. Comment != Article. Comment = new Idea;
The business plan amounts to $2B in revenue: Recording Industry Association of America president Hilary Rosen calls the proposal "the most disingenuous thing I've ever heard. It's ridiculous."
The logical statement: "It would be like me opening a video store, charging 10 times what others were charging and only offering videos in the Beta format," Guerinot says. "In any business, when you have billions of downloads occurring, you don't say we're going to ignore that market and try to create something else. You serve your customers."
Why the hell is Hillary Rosen in charge anyway? Attempting to change an industry that already exists and is going strong into what you want it to be is stupid. This is a great turnabout though, I'm glad to see some heavy hitters start going against the RIAA. I'd gladly pay $1/mo to download music legit. Assuming the majority of that $1 went to the musicians. I'm paying for the network from my own bandwidth and hard drive space, and I'm glad that Guerinot seems to understand that.
It's actually "Pareto's Principle", or the 20-80 Principle, or the 80-20 Rule. Gotta love Italian economists, but I'm sure you knew all about it. And it does have large "discernable relevance" as 20% of the population is responsible for society. Nuff said.
If that's the best that you can do, get up, turn off your computer, and walk away. Never look back. Probably just strikes a personal nerve with you, are you or your parents living on food stamps or something?
In fact, IIRC exit wounds are larger primarily because of fragementation of the bullet and fragments of bones that get carried out with it. Entry wounds of course just reflect the cross-section of the bullet.
I'm sure you have heard the expression "Hollow Point" in regards to ammunition rounds. The way that most ammo works is it mushrooms as it makes contact. Having a hollow point round means it mushrooms larger, and you also have rifling (which causes the bullet to spin) in some cases. This is the primary factor in exit wound sizes. The amount of tissue damage that is done is directly associated with the compression (force of the bullet, hydrostatic shock is what it is called, IIRC) of the bullet moving through, and the current size of the round (remember, after it makes contact it expands.)
Most bullets do not fragment, unless they are designed to do so. I knew someone who had rifle rounds that had tips that were designed to break into eighths after contact with a hollow point center. The reason why I wouldn't worry about a pollen-size object travelling 900Kmph is because it's entrance and exit wounds would be nearly identical, because it's A) Going very fast, B) Very dense and C) theoretical:) I would worry about compression shock though, which would result in having a lot of bones break and lungs collapse and what not. Very mysterious death, I would say.
Damn, inverse for me. The first code I looked at from other people was the obfuscated code.
Just seeing people do some beautiful and crazy twists of logic inspired me on so many levels. I still remember the first piece of obfuscated code I got my hands on was this great Hello World program. Another one was a console animation that displayed an ASCII movie of a McDonalds delivery truck running a cow over then throwing the carcass into the back of the truck and driving off.
Sadly enough, those two programs inspired me to code more than anything to date. More sad, I've never entered an obfuscated code contest. I find myself more intruiged by finding elegant twists of logic that look pretty, and functional:)
My biggest pet peeve of all: int main( int argc, char** argv);
My first CS teacher did that, and I objected and had to pull the reference. I see char** argv all the time, and can never figure out why it bothers me but it does. It's similar to misspelling definately[sic] -- no reason, just irritating.
I see your point, but if you read through the entire explanation he talks about the problems with the embedding of the befunge and brainfuck scripts.
#include can't be used because i is a valid instruction, so you have to use #undef. The reason why this is quadlingual is because you are able to run it through any of the 4 compilers/interpreters and get the same result. I could see the Perl and C working together without much difficulty, but when I read Brainfuck I was completely stumped how he would manage to do that. I think it's a very elegant solution. If by elegance, I mean insane and beautiful in a sick and twisted way. Just because the code gets ignored by the C/Perl interpreter doesn't make it any less bilingual. The code also gets ignored by the aidbf and b98 interpreters as well.
I'll cite the 20/80 principle here. It's just the way life works. It's not fair, but it's the way it is. A company has a responsibility to monitor it's own workers, if they don't and they pay lazy people that's their problem. However, if I were a majority stockholder in that company, I would want to make sure that they keep good workers employed. I'm a stockholder in society, yet I don't get a voice. Being in the top tax bracket gives you no benefits other than the warm fuzzy feeling you get when a homeless person accuses you of ruining society, when the last meal they ate you paid for.
No, not all people on welfare are too lazy to support themselves. The majority are, it's the easy way to live life. That's bullshit. I don't assume that these people are lazy, but I do believe that we need to make it much more difficult to get social assistance. It's not my responsibility to pay for lazy people to eat, yet I do it everyday.
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Uhm, don't you think that being 4x faster than your opponent is skill?
I'd rather fight someone who is fighting "upright, and parr[ying] and feint[ing] like a madman" than a cracked out superball spinning around like a guided battle-axe. Just the opinion of an old tournament fighter, though. What Yoda did, takes more skill. Period. You can spin around all you want, and a lot of amatuer fighters do it. The trick is to be able to do it well and make it hard to defend. If done well, and fast, it throws your opponent off to defend and if they fail to defend, you get more power. Assuming you aren't doing focused strikes.. which is a whole different story.
How can it take you 30 seconds to close a window if you are good enough to make $120/hr?
Oh, right, creative billing. A true contractor.
The front-panel user interface is even worse. You can tell this thing was designed by the programmers. Even though it does what it needs, the designers seemed to choose the least obvious, most cumbersome route to each feature. The insanity of having to press right and left on the navigation disk to scroll up and down through the setup menus is just the beginning.
:)
That's funny.. I really like the interface. I can switch through things quickly without looking at the display. Course.. I am a programmer
You make me sick. Equating a profitable gain by extortion (BSA) and the muslim "Holy war" as the same is a disgrace to all who have died protecting the American Way. You know what the soldiers died and killed for? The American Way. You know what those people in the twin towers died for? The American Way. You know what the BSA is doing, and doing well at? Profiting by the American Way. Lawsuits, it's the way it works.
I don't care if you do find it extremely offensive or not, because you need to get a grip on reality. If you think money is as important as fundamentals and life, than I'll give you $5 to kill yourself.
Damn straight it does, at least in my opinion. But heaven forbid the government actually does anything rational. Patriot Act is proof of that.
I think we have a new addendum to Godwin's Law now. I mean, come on. Even relating the BSA to a terrorist organization should be enough to nullify your argument, yet you continue on to be more trollish.
Here's an RFC for the addendum:
* Relating any organization (NPO or For-profit) or company to a terrorist group.
* Relating any of that organizations target or practices to plane crash attacks.
Shameless plugging of your site.. you have one metacity capture that is an offsite link. That's rather bad form, don't you have some VA hatemail to write?
Yes, and thanks for bringing those points up. The few IP attorneys I know are actually very cool, hard working and ethically sound people. IP litigation is bullshit, but I forget what those guys are called, iirc, they have some special name for the attorneys who represent clients in IP related lawsuits, don't they?
:)
I knew a patent attorney a while back, and he was probably one of the biggest critics of the USPTO. After talking with him for 30 minutes, I would trust me running the USPTO just off of his critiques and ideas for improvement... too bad he works for a DNA sequencing company
I take fun jobs, I'd rather work at some manual laborist position instead of taking a job like that. Personal choices though.
Same thing with data mining. Data mining does not always have to do with someone finding your data. Writing data mining software is a lot of fun, at least from my experience and my opinion. Granted, I've only done it with DNA sequences and server farm metrics. But it really is fun to see what type of equations you can come up with to calculate various metrics.
I know it's oh so trendy to constantly attack the legal profession, but really. Grow up.
Do you remember where you are at? This is slashdot.
I am just worried they bought napster in order to patent some of the involved technologies.
IRC is already a standard and has published RFCs though.
The only real solution, alas, is to ask the credit card company to change your card number, and go out and change that number everywhere else it is billed monthly. Since joining the Internet Age in 1996, I've done this twice to get recurring charges to stop, after the ISPs repeatedly promised but failed to stop the monthly charges (of course, during that same time, I've also changed credit card companies twice more, and changed my credit card number twice more for other reasons, so I've had 6 credit-card numbers in 6 years -- not counting cards that I've acquired and later cancelled without ever charging any online transactions with them).
:)
I did this, with Earthlink also, and it works like a charm. The best part about it was they sent me an email to my alternate email address saying the charge was not authorized. Nothing about disconnecting service, or anything along those lines. I was on my Ricochet at the time (Sweet, Sweet, Ricochet how I miss you) so didn't need a dial-up. I kept logging in to check if I still had access. It kept up for almost 7 months, where I got "free" internet service. I didn't use it, but checked my email quite a few times.
Not once did I get a nasty letter, just the automated "Can't process credit card" info. Since I've gotten Earthlink DSL, they screwed up my order and I've received about $150 in free service so far.
I'm just saying that if someone setup a network that cost $1/mo for a valid username/password with one login at a time that allowed people to share songs legally (With whatever validation provided, assuming a perfect world) most people would do this. Without a doubt. And I am saying that they should only charge those who use the service anyway.
You missed the best one!
"How can I leave this behind"
The P2P architecture pioneered by Napster is what matters.
:)) and now Gnutella and Fast Trak have kicked Napster's capabilities all over the net. Napster didn't pioneer any architecture, they just packaged it all up into a pretty end user package and marketed it.
Napster didn't do jack shit that was even close to original. On IRC we were doing P2P programs using various scripting languages and what not. The only thing that happened to Napster is Shawn had a nice uncle or grandpa or whoever the fuck he was that gave him the money to try to make it a company so the masses heard of it. There was no original or innovative code that went into Napster. I remember seeing the first Gnapster (sorry Jasta) and thinking it was IRC without the IRC client. Oh, so you have DDC connections with SQL searching while each client registers? Big deal. Back in the days of good IRC pirating everyone just posted a list of files to listen for, and people typed search requests into the channel and if you had it for trade you answered. Sometimes you needed to upload first, sometimes it was free. This worked better than Napster ever did in my experience working with Napster (Although on IRC it was all porn
Putting 3dFX and Napster in the same conceptual group is just wrong. 3dfx came up with new and innovative ideas for openGL acceleration and lost because they got lazy in the market. Name one technology Napster actually created, instead of just wrappering around? (I'll give you a hint, the Napster servers was just a hacked IRC server)
No, but what you missed is that I'm saying paying $1 for a P2P network is perfectly cool with me. Apparently you totally missed what I was saying previously. Comment != Article. Comment = new Idea;
Then don't be on the network! Hey, novel concept, an opt in network for $1 a month.
The business plan amounts to $2B in revenue:
Recording Industry Association of America president Hilary Rosen calls the proposal "the most disingenuous thing I've ever heard. It's ridiculous."
The logical statement:
"It would be like me opening a video store, charging 10 times what others were charging and only offering videos in the Beta format," Guerinot says. "In any business, when you have billions of downloads occurring, you don't say we're going to ignore that market and try to create something else. You serve your customers."
Why the hell is Hillary Rosen in charge anyway? Attempting to change an industry that already exists and is going strong into what you want it to be is stupid. This is a great turnabout though, I'm glad to see some heavy hitters start going against the RIAA. I'd gladly pay $1/mo to download music legit. Assuming the majority of that $1 went to the musicians. I'm paying for the network from my own bandwidth and hard drive space, and I'm glad that Guerinot seems to understand that.
It's actually "Pareto's Principle", or the 20-80 Principle, or the 80-20 Rule. Gotta love Italian economists, but I'm sure you knew all about it. And it does have large "discernable relevance" as 20% of the population is responsible for society. Nuff said.
If that's the best that you can do, get up, turn off your computer, and walk away. Never look back. Probably just strikes a personal nerve with you, are you or your parents living on food stamps or something?
In fact, IIRC exit wounds are larger primarily because of fragementation of the bullet and fragments of bones that get carried out with it. Entry wounds of course just reflect the cross-section of the bullet.
:) I would worry about compression shock though, which would result in having a lot of bones break and lungs collapse and what not. Very mysterious death, I would say.
I'm sure you have heard the expression "Hollow Point" in regards to ammunition rounds. The way that most ammo works is it mushrooms as it makes contact. Having a hollow point round means it mushrooms larger, and you also have rifling (which causes the bullet to spin) in some cases. This is the primary factor in exit wound sizes. The amount of tissue damage that is done is directly associated with the compression (force of the bullet, hydrostatic shock is what it is called, IIRC) of the bullet moving through, and the current size of the round (remember, after it makes contact it expands.)
Most bullets do not fragment, unless they are designed to do so. I knew someone who had rifle rounds that had tips that were designed to break into eighths after contact with a hollow point center. The reason why I wouldn't worry about a pollen-size object travelling 900Kmph is because it's entrance and exit wounds would be nearly identical, because it's A) Going very fast, B) Very dense and C) theoretical
Damn, inverse for me. The first code I looked at from other people was the obfuscated code.
:)
Just seeing people do some beautiful and crazy twists of logic inspired me on so many levels. I still remember the first piece of obfuscated code I got my hands on was this great Hello World program. Another one was a console animation that displayed an ASCII movie of a McDonalds delivery truck running a cow over then throwing the carcass into the back of the truck and driving off.
Sadly enough, those two programs inspired me to code more than anything to date. More sad, I've never entered an obfuscated code contest. I find myself more intruiged by finding elegant twists of logic that look pretty, and functional
My biggest pet peeve of all:
int main( int argc, char** argv);
My first CS teacher did that, and I objected and had to pull the reference. I see char** argv all the time, and can never figure out why it bothers me but it does. It's similar to misspelling definately[sic] -- no reason, just irritating.
I see your point, but if you read through the entire explanation he talks about the problems with the embedding of the befunge and brainfuck scripts.
#include can't be used because i is a valid instruction, so you have to use #undef. The reason why this is quadlingual is because you are able to run it through any of the 4 compilers/interpreters and get the same result. I could see the Perl and C working together without much difficulty, but when I read Brainfuck I was completely stumped how he would manage to do that. I think it's a very elegant solution. If by elegance, I mean insane and beautiful in a sick and twisted way. Just because the code gets ignored by the C/Perl interpreter doesn't make it any less bilingual. The code also gets ignored by the aidbf and b98 interpreters as well.
I'll cite the 20/80 principle here. It's just the way life works. It's not fair, but it's the way it is. A company has a responsibility to monitor it's own workers, if they don't and they pay lazy people that's their problem. However, if I were a majority stockholder in that company, I would want to make sure that they keep good workers employed. I'm a stockholder in society, yet I don't get a voice. Being in the top tax bracket gives you no benefits other than the warm fuzzy feeling you get when a homeless person accuses you of ruining society, when the last meal they ate you paid for.
No, not all people on welfare are too lazy to support themselves. The majority are, it's the easy way to live life. That's bullshit. I don't assume that these people are lazy, but I do believe that we need to make it much more difficult to get social assistance. It's not my responsibility to pay for lazy people to eat, yet I do it everyday.