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Haha! How about a "DeCSS filter" that works like the pootifier and the Malkovich filter? That way your Web site could show up as "DeCSS the DeCSS DeCSS DeCSS in DeCSS DeCSS...." -- I noticed
To my knowledge, the opendvd.org site doesn't have the DVD version of the DeCSS software. They're doing that so that they can cover the issues without fear of litigation. -- I noticed
Down with the PC BIOS! Sheesh. We've been stuck with crappy busses, broken PICs, lame DMAs, and hokey BIOS ROMs for the past twenty years! It's time to posthumously get with the nineties! We want programmable PROMs in FORTH! We want 256 interrupts! We want FAST DMA! At least we have PCI. That at least doesn't suck. -- I noticed
My recommendation is that you get "Internet Programming with Python" and the "Python Essential Reference" by New Riders (another subset of MacMillan). The former is a good tutorial for those-who-program, and the latter is a good reference (it's basically some of the python.org references with a ton of rewriting and embellishments and new example code). -- I noticed
Well, I learned Unix by learning Perl. After a while, I began to see that there were programs and shell tools that corresponded to some of the Perl built-ins and modules. Now I only ever use Perl when bash and gawk haven't enough power. As for application development, I prefer python, partly because not enough people write legible Perl. If I'm working on a project with other people, I want a language that will force the others to write legible code. Perl is just too tempting--you get into stream-of-consciousness programming. I applaud the introduction of the literate programming technique into Perl. I've been doing it with Python's documentation strings for a while now. -- I noticed
Red Hat just re-packages programs that other people write. The real bug fixes are being done by the project maintainers.
The only exception to this is that the Debian project has package maintainers that foster a good relationship with the upstream project maintainer. The Debian project really passes those bugfixes upstream. -- I noticed
Dave Farber's motto was once "Photons have neither morals nor visas." Let's hope that he can work this sentiment into the FCC from the lowest wire-monkey to the upper echelons of the spectrum-allocation cabal! -- I noticed
Rick Moen is by far the most prolific persona on mailing lists I've ever seen. He manages to convey the necessary mindset as well as the answers to the newbies' questions.
For example, when newbies ask why $HARDWARE_MANUFACTURER hasn't put out a driver for Linux, Rick patiently explains that any proprietary driver they'd put out would be useless, what we want is for the Linux community to put out a driver for $HARDWARE based on information given to them by $HARDWARE_MANUFACTURER.
It's amazing how he manages to do this without losing the limited attention span of the average newbie. -- I noticed
Forth is actually a runtime environment. pbForth is more of an OS for the mindstorms than anything else. Forth is a stack-based language that does everything in postfix notation.
FORTH is very extensible and often FORTH programs tend to be smaller than their procedurally-written assembly counterparts.
FORTH uses a dictionary to store the built-in and user-defined functions, and the definitions of words (think functions) can be treated as a stack of definitions as well! So a program can redefine a word several times, and then pop definitions off the dictionary until you get back to the original.
My friend George Perry (who is a member of the Silicon Valley FIG) often tells me that FORTH lets you shoot yourself in the gun. I once accidentally redefined the number 12. I believe it. -- I noticed
The real reason is that BSD is an acronym, while Linux is a bit of a play-on-words. People find acronyms inscrutible. Imagine if RMS had not named it POSIX, and the original "IEEEIX" name was chosen. -- I noticed
"Inprise". Goddammit Borland, you used to have name recognition!
It makes you want to swagger on over and LART the little marketroid that came up with that one. I can just see the focus group now! "Well, like, there are enterprises, and they, like are just entering. We're already in the business, right?" -- I noticed
Actually, modal and (especially) system modal dialogs are the work of the devil and should never be used. I could not name one application that was written natively in X11 that uses them.
Well, actually Netscape uses them. I found that if you hit alt+o (to open the new URL dialog box) you can't even use the scroll bars in your other netscape windows! I use all my apps full-screen, with about a zillion virtual consoles, so I occasionally don't notice that I left a new URL dialog open in another desktop.
Funny how people do that, y'know? They treat the purchase of NT as an investment when in fact it is an expense. They act as though the money they spent will somehow be returned to them if they just keep using NT.
Just remember kids: no matter how much money you spent on the wrong thing, you still have the option of switching to the right thing. -- I noticed
Actually, your CD player typically plays CDs independently of the functioning of the rest of the machine. CD-ROM drives usually have a "play CD" chip or something that just pipes music out to the headphones. -- I noticed
DVDs unfortunately will lose out in the standards war for one basic reason: they're fragile. Everyone knows that if you scratch a CD (and so often we do), it'll skip, rendering part of it unenjoyable. Well, DVDs store information with twelve times the density of a normal CD. Couple that with intense compression, and you end up with two orders of magnitude more damage to a DVD when you scratch it.
The big market for home movies is in rentals. However, my friends and I once rented Tron from Blockbuster to watch on a new DVD player. Something like seven of the twelve acts were garbled beyond viewing ability. The Tron videotape's only problem was that the bastard who rented it prior to us didn't rewind it. The first problem ended up with a wasted evening plan. The latter ended up with merely a waste of ten minutes' rewinding time.
I agree wholeheartedly. Everyone should take a look at Ogg Vorbis for an example of an unencumbered music format. To quote the xiph site:
Ogg Vorbis is a general purpose compressed audio format for high quality (44.1-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at moderate fixed and variable bitrates (40-80 kb/s/channel). This places Vorbis in the same class as audio representations including MPEG-1 audio layer 3, MPEG-4 audio (AAC and TwinVQ), and PAC.
I used to watch the various Treks pretty avidly as a young child. I was in high school when Deep Space Nine came out, and I couldn't help but realize that there are some bizarre racist overtones in Roddenberry's shows. Basically, Earth is portrayed as a cornucopia of cultures and ideas. Humans are almost as diverse in Trek as they are in Real Life. Of course, the language barrier supposedly has been cured, and somehow all of the warring nations ceased to be different enough from one another that they felt the need to fight any more. But I can't help but notice that there is ONE klingon culture, and it's basically a mockery of feudal Japanese society. And the Ferrengi are all alike, with one culture (disturbingly resembling the portrayal of Jews in Nazi propaganda films (don't you dare call Godwin on me for this one--would that I could have left Nazis out of this)). People often come to me and cry "but they have black *and* white klingons!", to which I say "That's genetics, not culture!" So, while Miles O'Brien, the Scottish monkey-wrench, marries Keiko, the Nipponese botanist, all the klingons show up as a homogeneous chorus. I say good riddance. IT's time we got rid of the "diversity is ok for us, but they're all alike!" mentality. -- I noticed
Eric, What do you feel is the role of Crackmonkey in the new gift-culture information economy? Is GAR a resource currently in artificial scarcity? How does Crackmonkey help or hinder participating in the reputation game? What future developments would you recommend for Spock Mountain Research Labs? -- I noticed
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Haha! How about a "DeCSS filter" that works like the pootifier and the Malkovich filter? That way your Web site could show up as "DeCSS the DeCSS DeCSS DeCSS in DeCSS DeCSS...."
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I noticed
To my knowledge, the opendvd.org site doesn't have the DVD version of the DeCSS software. They're doing that so that they can cover the issues without fear of litigation.
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I noticed
Check out The Crackmonkey Warez Page for a mirror of the DeCSS software. The original article is also on Aaron Malone's site
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I noticed
Gosh! You'd think they use real hardware or something! They even have a boot PROM written in FORTH!
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I noticed
Down with the PC BIOS! Sheesh. We've been stuck with crappy busses, broken PICs, lame DMAs, and hokey BIOS ROMs for the past twenty years! It's time to posthumously get with the nineties! We want programmable PROMs in FORTH! We want 256 interrupts! We want FAST DMA!
At least we have PCI. That at least doesn't suck.
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I noticed
You, sir, are a booby.
And you belong in the booby-hatch.
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I noticed
My recommendation is that you get "Internet Programming with Python" and the "Python Essential Reference" by New Riders (another subset of MacMillan).
The former is a good tutorial for those-who-program, and the latter is a good reference (it's basically some of the python.org references with a ton of rewriting and embellishments and new example code).
--
I noticed
Well, I learned Unix by learning Perl. After a while, I began to see that there were programs and shell tools that corresponded to some of the Perl built-ins and modules. Now I only ever use Perl when bash and gawk haven't enough power.
As for application development, I prefer python, partly because not enough people write legible Perl. If I'm working on a project with other people, I want a language that will force the others to write legible code. Perl is just too tempting--you get into stream-of-consciousness programming.
I applaud the introduction of the literate programming technique into Perl. I've been doing it with Python's documentation strings for a while now.
--
I noticed
Red Hat doesn't do the majority of the bug fixes.
Red Hat just re-packages programs that other people write. The real bug fixes are being done by the project maintainers.
The only exception to this is that the Debian project has package maintainers that foster a good relationship with the upstream project maintainer. The Debian project really passes those bugfixes upstream.
--
I noticed
Dave Farber's motto was once "Photons have neither morals nor visas." Let's hope that he can work this sentiment into the FCC from the lowest wire-monkey to the upper echelons of the spectrum-allocation cabal!
--
I noticed
Rick Moen is by far the most prolific persona on mailing lists I've ever seen. He manages to convey the necessary mindset as well as the answers to the newbies' questions.
For example, when newbies ask why $HARDWARE_MANUFACTURER hasn't put out a driver for Linux, Rick patiently explains that any proprietary driver they'd put out would be useless, what we want is for the Linux community to put out a driver for $HARDWARE based on information given to them by $HARDWARE_MANUFACTURER.
It's amazing how he manages to do this without losing the limited attention span of the average newbie.
--
I noticed
Forth is actually a runtime environment. pbForth is more of an OS for the mindstorms than anything else. Forth is a stack-based language that does everything in postfix notation.
FORTH is very extensible and often FORTH programs tend to be smaller than their procedurally-written assembly counterparts.
FORTH uses a dictionary to store the built-in and user-defined functions, and the definitions of words (think functions) can be treated as a stack of definitions as well! So a program can redefine a word several times, and then pop definitions off the dictionary until you get back to the original.
My friend George Perry (who is a member of the Silicon Valley FIG) often tells me that FORTH lets you shoot yourself in the gun. I once accidentally redefined the number 12. I believe it.
--
I noticed
The real reason is that BSD is an acronym, while Linux is a bit of a play-on-words.
People find acronyms inscrutible. Imagine if RMS had not named it POSIX, and the original "IEEEIX" name was chosen.
--
I noticed
It makes you want to swagger on over and LART the little marketroid that came up with that one. I can just see the focus group now! "Well, like, there are enterprises, and they, like are just entering. We're already in the business, right?"
--
I noticed
Well, actually Netscape uses them. I found that if you hit alt+o (to open the new URL dialog box) you can't even use the scroll bars in your other netscape windows! I use all my apps full-screen, with about a zillion virtual consoles, so I occasionally don't notice that I left a new URL dialog open in another desktop.
GAR!
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I noticed
Just remember kids: no matter how much money you spent on the wrong thing, you still have the option of switching to the right thing.
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I noticed
Actually, your CD player typically plays CDs independently of the functioning of the rest of the machine. CD-ROM drives usually have a "play CD" chip or something that just pipes music out to the headphones.
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I noticed
"Linux is free. Clues are not." -- Eric S. Raymond
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I noticed
The requested URL
What a pity.
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I noticed
The big market for home movies is in rentals. However, my friends and I once rented Tron from Blockbuster to watch on a new DVD player. Something like seven of the twelve acts were garbled beyond viewing ability. The Tron videotape's only problem was that the bastard who rented it prior to us didn't rewind it. The first problem ended up with a wasted evening plan. The latter ended up with merely a waste of ten minutes' rewinding time.
--
I noticed
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I noticed
I used to watch the various Treks pretty avidly as a young child. I was in high school when Deep Space Nine came out, and I couldn't help but realize that there are some bizarre racist overtones in Roddenberry's shows.
Basically, Earth is portrayed as a cornucopia of cultures and ideas. Humans are almost as diverse in Trek as they are in Real Life. Of course, the language barrier supposedly has been cured, and somehow all of the warring nations ceased to be different enough from one another that they felt the need to fight any more.
But I can't help but notice that there is ONE klingon culture, and it's basically a mockery of feudal Japanese society. And the Ferrengi are all alike, with one culture (disturbingly resembling the portrayal of Jews in Nazi propaganda films (don't you dare call Godwin on me for this one--would that I could have left Nazis out of this)).
People often come to me and cry "but they have black *and* white klingons!", to which I say "That's genetics, not culture!"
So, while Miles O'Brien, the Scottish monkey-wrench, marries Keiko, the Nipponese botanist, all the klingons show up as a homogeneous chorus.
I say good riddance. IT's time we got rid of the "diversity is ok for us, but they're all alike!" mentality.
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I noticed
I do recall using something like this three years ago. QNX may have updated it, but this is nothing new.
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I noticed
Audin Malmin! How's your fan club doing?
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Eric,
What do you feel is the role of Crackmonkey in the new gift-culture information economy? Is GAR a resource currently in artificial scarcity? How does Crackmonkey help or hinder participating in the reputation game? What future developments would you recommend for Spock Mountain Research Labs?
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I noticed