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You might check out my current MD5hash Challenge. Some people have told me that it is impossible to solve, some have said that mathematically it is solveable.
Not quite related to primes, but close and can certainly create an obsession. Also, look behind the scenes for something simpler to solve.
I think a lot of it is PR. If you take a look at a lot of the advertisements that include the words open source, they use it like a buzzword. It gives me a kinda woozy feeling that I don't like.
4) See #3 and because all/. headlines have to have inflamitory and misleading headlines to attract attention for some reason.
Yes exactly, I think it would have been better and more helpful to have a headline like "Paint.NET, an open source alternative to MS-Paint". I suppose slashdot has fallen into the same pit that all other mainstream media is trapped in where it must scare its audience into submission.
While it might be a holy grail for the major labels, I think the frustration that many consumers will have with the control will lead to a new boom in original freely available music online. Much like in the early 90s on the Amiga with mods and stuff.
You know after reading your post, I'm wondering if this has anything to Zend's business model. At the current place I'm working, we were called by Zend once and were asked a bunch of questions about how we use PHP and Apache in our environment and a lot of questions directed towards one-server non-shared shops. Perhaps (and this is guessing) they think that since most of their income and interest comes from such environments that they should cater to them.
But I really feel your sense of wonder as to why others in the community aren't asking such questions. Sometimes I think I should hang out more often on forums like "Web Hosting Talk" to get more information on what others are doing. But everytime I go there, I feel like I'm in a spammers forum. Eyhe!
Well that's cool, that's the most I've heard of it recently.
I first heard about the possibility of this back at ApacheCon 2000 when 2.0 was released when Mark Bloom was talking about Apache 2.0's ability to make any module run as a user other than Apache. But nothing seemed to ever come of it.
I'm using PHP on Apache 2.0 production servers right now. Honestly, I can say that PHP is more at fault for its own problems. I think that having lots of configurable options for a programming language is a bad idea. It leads to applications working on one installation of PHP, but not another. Administrators who enable things like safe_mode and turn off register_globals on shared servers are made fun of by ignorant programmers who don't understand what safe_mode is for and its usefulness. I have encountered all of this.
The one thing that I wish PHP would take advantage of in Apache 2.0 is the ability to run code as a user other than the web server. Every time I bring this up with the PHP developers, nobody really runs with it. A feature like this would make PHP much better in shared systems and prevent people from having to do weird things to ensure security. I guess PHP is not that great for shared systems right now.
Sigh, I wish people wouldn't make this analogy. I really wish more people would get involved with other parts of the internet like IRC, Usenet, etc. and see that there is a lot more than a web browser and an email client. And I'm not just talking about your grandma who uses AOL. There are many new techies that are unaware that such things exist, I talk to more and more of them all the time. Its a shame.
I think by nature, spam gets more and more like real messages. This means that eventually all spam filtering becomes ineffective. Someone could probably make a research paper out of this.
Didn't Microsoft let their signing certificate get out of their hands a few years back. Yeah, I trust them, just like I trust Wal-Mart to help small businesses grow.
Um, this isn't flaimbait, its ironically funny and it happens. Can't the moderators understand humor, even if its somewhat dark humor. Someone should mod the parent up.
Ahhh, well damnit. I guess we should just forget the inspiring words I said and go sit back down in our depressing little corners and never make a difference.;-)
I think that's what a lot of us here need.... motivation. There are so many smart people with great ideas on this forum and in the community who never take their ideas out into the world. Its a shame. That's really all it takes sometimes to be the next Jeri Ellsworth, Linus Torvalds or Steve Jobs. Those people are simply people who took that extra step, swallowed their doubt/pride and brought their ideas to the attention of others. Take the risk.
I was just telling my wife about this last night. Even when you think that any industry is too hard to break into because there are big companies dominating it, one can still create something that is better or worthwhile to people. Even for the sake that some people want to shop somewhere else, or buy a different brand.
I mean, think about it, for 50 years cars were being made and the corporations that made them became big 800lb gorillas. But then look, here comes Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Geo, Saturn, Lexus, Kia and now Scion.
So there is room, just take a look at the history of open source software.
I just upgraded my server to the latest version 3.0.1 of spamassassin and the difference is amazing. I haven't had one piece of spam get through to my inbox today. And from what I can tell, there are no false positives yet. Unless you think that Darcy really wants me to come over and check out her new webcam.
Yes, but the record player was still in heavy use when they decided to heavily push CDs. I'm sure there were a lot of people back in the 80s who were thinking the same way that you are (ie. if a record company wants to make money, they need to release everything on LP).
I doubt it. Most of what slashdot carries are stories to let the tech-savy population know what is going on in the industry. It has always been that way. And when carrying stories about new technologies, the articles that are more marketing hype tend to slip in there more often than not. So I doubt its a record. There has probably been whole days where/. has been nothing but marketing hype. No offense to slashdot, thats just the way it goes.
It's reassuring to see that manufacturers are not trying to ditch CD formats in any way with the newer formats that come out. I always figured that if any medium uses a simular technique for reading/writing as another medium, then the two mediums should support each other. I was afraid that as time goes on, manufacturers would try to ditch CD mediums to try to get people to upgrade. Maybe that will still happen. Hopefully it won't.
Sheesh, I think slashdot moderators have it in for me or something. Did I do something wrong? Why was this moderated as Offtopic? It was meant to be somewhat funny, and had to do with the article.
Slashdot Mirror
my penguin gave to me...
Bill Gates on the Street.
On the second day of Linux my penguin gave to me two
email clients and Bill Gates on the street.
On the third day of Linux...
Here is another one from a while back
You might check out my current MD5hash Challenge. Some people have told me that it is impossible to solve, some have said that mathematically it is solveable.
Not quite related to primes, but close and can certainly create an obsession. Also, look behind the scenes for something simpler to solve.
I think a lot of it is PR. If you take a look at a lot of the advertisements that include the words open source, they use it like a buzzword. It gives me a kinda woozy feeling that I don't like.
4) See #3 and because all /. headlines have to have inflamitory and misleading headlines to attract attention for some reason.
Yes exactly, I think it would have been better and more helpful to have a headline like "Paint.NET, an open source alternative to MS-Paint". I suppose slashdot has fallen into the same pit that all other mainstream media is trapped in where it must scare its audience into submission.
While it might be a holy grail for the major labels, I think the frustration that many consumers will have with the control will lead to a new boom in original freely available music online. Much like in the early 90s on the Amiga with mods and stuff.
Wasn't Slate the MS owned magazine that was writing bad reviews about IE or something like that?
You know after reading your post, I'm wondering if this has anything to Zend's business model. At the current place I'm working, we were called by Zend once and were asked a bunch of questions about how we use PHP and Apache in our environment and a lot of questions directed towards one-server non-shared shops. Perhaps (and this is guessing) they think that since most of their income and interest comes from such environments that they should cater to them.
But I really feel your sense of wonder as to why others in the community aren't asking such questions. Sometimes I think I should hang out more often on forums like "Web Hosting Talk" to get more information on what others are doing. But everytime I go there, I feel like I'm in a spammers forum. Eyhe!
Well that's cool, that's the most I've heard of it recently.
I first heard about the possibility of this back at ApacheCon 2000 when 2.0 was released when Mark Bloom was talking about Apache 2.0's ability to make any module run as a user other than Apache. But nothing seemed to ever come of it.
I'm using PHP on Apache 2.0 production servers right now. Honestly, I can say that PHP is more at fault for its own problems. I think that having lots of configurable options for a programming language is a bad idea. It leads to applications working on one installation of PHP, but not another. Administrators who enable things like safe_mode and turn off register_globals on shared servers are made fun of by ignorant programmers who don't understand what safe_mode is for and its usefulness. I have encountered all of this.
The one thing that I wish PHP would take advantage of in Apache 2.0 is the ability to run code as a user other than the web server. Every time I bring this up with the PHP developers, nobody really runs with it. A feature like this would make PHP much better in shared systems and prevent people from having to do weird things to ensure security. I guess PHP is not that great for shared systems right now.
Sigh, I wish people wouldn't make this analogy. I really wish more people would get involved with other parts of the internet like IRC, Usenet, etc. and see that there is a lot more than a web browser and an email client. And I'm not just talking about your grandma who uses AOL. There are many new techies that are unaware that such things exist, I talk to more and more of them all the time. Its a shame.
Does anyone remember that movie or TV show where they invented a self-lighting cigerette, but it didn't produce any smoke?
nice to leave behind when you're dead, people will still be able to send you e-mail!
When you die, you stop sending e-mail.
I think by nature, spam gets more and more like real messages. This means that eventually all spam filtering becomes ineffective. Someone could probably make a research paper out of this.
Didn't Microsoft let their signing certificate get out of their hands a few years back. Yeah, I trust them, just like I trust Wal-Mart to help small businesses grow.
Um, this isn't flaimbait, its ironically funny and it happens. Can't the moderators understand humor, even if its somewhat dark humor. Someone should mod the parent up.
Ahhh, well damnit. I guess we should just forget the inspiring words I said and go sit back down in our depressing little corners and never make a difference. ;-)
I think that's what a lot of us here need.... motivation. There are so many smart people with great ideas on this forum and in the community who never take their ideas out into the world. Its a shame. That's really all it takes sometimes to be the next Jeri Ellsworth, Linus Torvalds or Steve Jobs. Those people are simply people who took that extra step, swallowed their doubt/pride and brought their ideas to the attention of others. Take the risk.
I was just telling my wife about this last night.
Even when you think that any industry is too hard to break into because there are big companies dominating it, one can still create something that is better or worthwhile to people. Even for the sake that some people want to shop somewhere else, or buy a different brand.
I mean, think about it, for 50 years cars were being made and the corporations that made them became big 800lb gorillas. But then look, here comes Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Geo, Saturn, Lexus, Kia and now Scion.
So there is room, just take a look at the history of open source software.
Aww man.
Penny Arcade had a strip about this exact kind of thing, I can't find it for the life of me though.
I just upgraded my server to the latest version 3.0.1 of spamassassin and the difference is amazing. I haven't had one piece of spam get through to my inbox today. And from what I can tell, there are no false positives yet. Unless you think that Darcy really wants me to come over and check out her new webcam.
Yes, but the record player was still in heavy use when they decided to heavily push CDs. I'm sure there were a lot of people back in the 80s who were thinking the same way that you are (ie. if a record company wants to make money, they need to release everything on LP).
I doubt it. Most of what slashdot carries are stories to let the tech-savy population know what is going on in the industry. It has always been that way. And when carrying stories about new technologies, the articles that are more marketing hype tend to slip in there more often than not. So I doubt its a record. There has probably been whole days where /. has been nothing but marketing hype.
No offense to slashdot, thats just the way it goes.
It's reassuring to see that manufacturers are not trying to ditch CD formats in any way with the newer formats that come out. I always figured that if any medium uses a simular technique for reading/writing as another medium, then the two mediums should support each other. I was afraid that as time goes on, manufacturers would try to ditch CD mediums to try to get people to upgrade. Maybe that will still happen. Hopefully it won't.
Sheesh, I think slashdot moderators have it in for me or something. Did I do something wrong? Why was this moderated as Offtopic? It was meant to be somewhat funny, and had to do with the article.