Also, I think the stamp analogy is quite apt. You could make the argument that someone is actively choosing to not collect stamps and, for some people, that might be correct. But for someone in a third world country where stamps do not exist and they have no knowledge of the word, it's hard to say that they're actively making a choice not to collect something they know nothing about. Not really, because as ultranova (717540) said below in (#17536480), very eloquently, the active and vocal atheists are making the case that "I refuse to collect stamps, and everyone who does collect stamps is either mad, stupid, or evil."
I would have gone for the prices announced (and debted myself for a whole semester) but the two-year contract is a big no-no (because I still have to smuggle the phone to my home country, mainly);-)
just go to the nearest "popular" shopping fair -- Shopping Oiapoque in Belo Horizonte or the 25 de Março street in São Paulo...:-) Seriously, my jaw is wide open with this thing also.
separately-compiled in-process string objects _are_, in general, binary-compatible between versions (at least between "contiguous" versions). Or, better putting it, I, in my 15+ years experience with C++, have never found an instance where, for example, a DLL written with SomeCompiler version 8 would not work OK with an executable written with SomeCompiler version 9 WRT std::string or even floats and doubles.
I agree with you that in-process marshalling is (in general, at least) silly.
our content filters detected a rate in excess of 95% of logic and good common sense in your post above. May we ask you what are you doing on/. ?? Anyway, thousands of kudos for you !!!!
4) passing strings (or ANY data, for that matter) between separately-compiled, out-of-process components of your program ONLY via safe IPC marshalling mechanisms (like streams, files, pipes, etc...); keep in mind that the STL already has a mature marshalling-to-ASCII/UNICODE mechanism in
The smarter people oughta be drunk/stoned, so they can overcome the anxieties generated by their knowledge... for instance: I only drive at saturday nights hammered out of reality, to escape the fact that the road is full of drunk drivers...:-)
""" (Jeremiah 10:2) Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them """
If a manager is constantly singling out one person, it may appear that they have some personal grudge. In my 20+ years of working experience, every single time a manager singled one person out, it was because they had a personal grudge. That is why _professional_ managers never single one person out; besides, putting every one to training etc makes the peers exert the pressure over the one bad apple... which is good for morale.
That is, if someone does not work in your team, pressure this one person, not the manager.
I find it interesting when the only way to describe myself is as "hispanic"...
My ethnic profile goes more or less like this: 1/8 south american indigenous (which is asian-like, almond-shaped eyes) 1/4 black 1/8 Spanish european (which has probably an Arab component -- olive skinned people, thick black hair) 1/4 Portuguese european (no surprise here, being Brasilian) 1/4 northern Italian european (clear eyes, light hair, really white skin)
I, myself, am olive-skinned, hazel eyes, thick black hair (going salt-and-pepper in the temples, unfortunately) which qualifies as "hispanic" to most USofAns or (even "arabic"):-)
The only online contact with Hans Reiser I ever had suggested to me that he is a very reasonable person, albeit firm in his convictions, he did not attack me nor tried "ad hominis" or any other fallacies, and he actually changed his mind about the subject of our conversation, adopting the same position I had to start with.
I would prefer to read anonymously stuff on the local library or on the internet, and watching all seasons of all CSI and CSI-like shows. Anyone who has ever _watched_ them would think, for instance, that "it's not viable to properly clean a car that transported a dead/dying person" and arrange for its "theft" and set it on a (full of accelerant) fire. But murdering your ex-wife is never a smart thing to do anyway.
1. con the *AA into giving off loads of money saying that a new fingerprinting thingy will help them find them "arr pirates"; 2. fail miserably, because it's impossible; 3. PROFIT!!!
the "lookin' awesome" part. Stylish TV-type people wake up with their teeth pre-brushed. Don't ask me how it works, I'm more the "stumbling out of bed because the baby woke up" type:-)
Their problem was with CSS -- the half-assed attempt at DRM existing in any commercial DVD these days. To make a DVD player that plays in linux, you'd have to pay royalties for (and be sworn to secrecy of) the codecs _and_ CSS. As Jon and others figured out how to decrypt the discs, they were perseuted by the DVDCCA.
But the EVD contains _no_ attempt at DRM. Just the movie, unencrypted, in VP6 + EAC. So, any _current_ linux system with the codecs could just read the disc and play it. Now, IIRC VP6 is just a cousin of Theora. The spec is out in the open, but maybe _someone_ would have to pay royalties over it. And EAC was developed by the Chinese gov'mnt. So, it's possible that it is on public domain, but I can't guarantee it.
EVD and DVD are physically the same, and logically they share the same UDF file system. The only difference between them is the codec used to encode the movie... MPEG2 in the case of DVD and VP6+EAC in the case of the EVD.
There are different kinds of backward compatible out there
Can you play existing DVDs on an EVD player? (No, they're not paying the royalties for the codec, and maybe other components.)
As you said, no, the EVD players don't have the codecs.
Can an EVD player read the data format for existing DVDs so you can send the data to a computer that has codecs? (Probably not, but maybe?)
Yes, no reason why not... an EVD is physically a DVD, with the same UDF filesystem on it, but with the movie in a different format (DVD = video/audio in MPEG-2 encoding; EVD = video in VP6 encoding, audio in EAC encoding).
Can you install new firmware, either by downloading or plugging in a chip, to add new data or codec functions in the future and stay forward-compatible? (If they're smart, yes, because somebody will leak the codecs and formats to make it DVD-backward-compatible:-)
This is a manufacturing thing. This is possible, even with DVDs players today (I know my Philips does that).
Can you play EVD disks on a DVD player? (Presumably the player won't have the codecs, though some may have royalty-free codecs.)
Yes, my Philips DVD player that has a lot of codecs in it possibly can play EVDs right now.
Can you read EVD disks as data on a DVD player, so your computer can play EVDs using software codecs? (That's the second interesting question - it makes it possible to sell EVDs to a market where people don't have EVD players.)
Yes, no problem.
If most of the EVDs are in Chinese, does it matter that the only players are in China or sold mailorder to overseas Chinese speakers? (Probably not.)
I don't get the point of this question.
If the point of royalty-free formats is to make the players cheaper, will $20 external EVD players be cheap enough that anybody who wants to play EVDs will buy a player along with their first EVD disks?
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Atheism is a religion in exactly the same way that refusing to ever collecting a stamp is a hobby. :-)
A better version of Rockbox and iPodLinux will be ported to this thing 2 months after it hits the public market, complete with hack to install it :-)
I would have gone for the prices announced (and debted myself for a whole semester) but the two-year contract is a big no-no (because I still have to smuggle the phone to my home country, mainly) ;-)
just go to the nearest "popular" shopping fair -- Shopping Oiapoque in Belo Horizonte or the 25 de Março street in São Paulo... :-)
Seriously, my jaw is wide open with this thing also.
separately-compiled in-process string objects _are_, in general, binary-compatible between versions (at least between "contiguous" versions). Or, better putting it, I, in my 15+ years experience with C++, have never found an instance where, for example, a DLL written with SomeCompiler version 8 would not work OK with an executable written with SomeCompiler version 9 WRT std::string or even floats and doubles.
I agree with you that in-process marshalling is (in general, at least) silly.
our content filters detected a rate in excess of 95% of logic and good common sense in your post above. May we ask you what are you doing on /. ??
Anyway, thousands of kudos for you !!!!
4) passing strings (or ANY data, for that matter) between separately-compiled, out-of-process components of your program ONLY via safe IPC marshalling mechanisms (like streams, files, pipes, etc...); keep in mind that the STL already has a mature marshalling-to-ASCII/UNICODE mechanism in
The smarter people oughta be drunk/stoned, so they can overcome the anxieties generated by their knowledge... for instance: I only drive at saturday nights hammered out of reality, to escape the fact that the road is full of drunk drivers... :-)
s/rebuild and replace/binary patch/
come on, after all, it's just ONE (at most FOUR) bytes that will change with this in the whole executable.
where in
""" (Jeremiah 10:2) Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them """
prohibits Christmas Trees???
That is, if someone does not work in your team, pressure this one person, not the manager.
I find it interesting when the only way to describe myself is as "hispanic"...
:-)
My ethnic profile goes more or less like this:
1/8 south american indigenous (which is asian-like, almond-shaped eyes)
1/4 black
1/8 Spanish european (which has probably an Arab component -- olive skinned people, thick black hair)
1/4 Portuguese european (no surprise here, being Brasilian)
1/4 northern Italian european (clear eyes, light hair, really white skin)
I, myself, am olive-skinned, hazel eyes, thick black hair (going salt-and-pepper in the temples, unfortunately) which qualifies as "hispanic" to most USofAns or (even "arabic")
The only online contact with Hans Reiser I ever had suggested to me that he is a very reasonable person, albeit firm in his convictions, he did not attack me nor tried "ad hominis" or any other fallacies, and he actually changed his mind about the subject of our conversation, adopting the same position I had to start with.
I would prefer to read anonymously stuff on the local library or on the internet, and watching all seasons of all CSI and CSI-like shows. Anyone who has ever _watched_ them would think, for instance, that "it's not viable to properly clean a car that transported a dead/dying person" and arrange for its "theft" and set it on a (full of accelerant) fire. But murdering your ex-wife is never a smart thing to do anyway.
OR ... just use JSON instead of XML? But I know, there are a lot of security implications...
Any serious Ajax application.
1. con the *AA into giving off loads of money saying that a new fingerprinting thingy will help them find them "arr pirates";
2. fail miserably, because it's impossible;
3. PROFIT!!!
the "lookin' awesome" part. Stylish TV-type people wake up with their teeth pre-brushed. Don't ask me how it works, I'm more the "stumbling out of bed because the baby woke up" type :-)
Their problem was with CSS -- the half-assed attempt at DRM existing in any commercial DVD these days. To make a DVD player that plays in linux, you'd have to pay royalties for (and be sworn to secrecy of) the codecs _and_ CSS. As Jon and others figured out how to decrypt the discs, they were perseuted by the DVDCCA.
But the EVD contains _no_ attempt at DRM. Just the movie, unencrypted, in VP6 + EAC. So, any _current_ linux system with the codecs could just read the disc and play it. Now, IIRC VP6 is just a cousin of Theora. The spec is out in the open, but maybe _someone_ would have to pay royalties over it. And EAC was developed by the Chinese gov'mnt. So, it's possible that it is on public domain, but I can't guarantee it.
EVD and DVD are physically the same, and logically they share the same UDF file system. The only difference between them is the codec used to encode the movie... MPEG2 in the case of DVD and VP6+EAC in the case of the EVD.
- Can you play existing DVDs on an EVD player? (No, they're not paying the royalties for the codec, and maybe other components.)
As you said, no, the EVD players don't have the codecs.Can an EVD player read the data format for existing DVDs so you can send the data to a computer that has codecs? (Probably not, but maybe?)
Yes, no reason why not... an EVD is physically a DVD, with the same UDF filesystem on it, but with the movie in a different format (DVD = video/audio in MPEG-2 encoding; EVD = video in VP6 encoding, audio in EAC encoding).Can you install new firmware, either by downloading or plugging in a chip, to add new data or codec functions in the future and stay forward-compatible? (If they're smart, yes, because somebody will leak the codecs and formats to make it DVD-backward-compatible :-)
This is a manufacturing thing. This is possible, even with DVDs players today (I know my Philips does that).Can you play EVD disks on a DVD player? (Presumably the player won't have the codecs, though some may have royalty-free codecs.)
Yes, my Philips DVD player that has a lot of codecs in it possibly can play EVDs right now.Can you read EVD disks as data on a DVD player, so your computer can play EVDs using software codecs? (That's the second interesting question - it makes it possible to sell EVDs to a market where people don't have EVD players.)
Yes, no problem.If most of the EVDs are in Chinese, does it matter that the only players are in China or sold mailorder to overseas Chinese speakers? (Probably not.)
I don't get the point of this question.If the point of royalty-free formats is to make the players cheaper, will $20 external EVD players be cheap enough that anybody who wants to play EVDs will buy a player along with their first EVD disks?
Yes, I suspect so.in tight network conditions (no routes for outside, only application-level proxies have connectivity)
in translation :-) /. and there _are_ hordes of 13yos here, isn't it true?
but a smilie would have clarified things -- after all, this is
Wrong. Star Control = 1991; Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus = 1953.