For a while there were rumors that this CD would be released as a copy protected CD. Was it? Can you play it in your computer? Please respond, because i'd like to buy it, but if i can't play it on the computer there's no real need to.
I would like something like a text book: 50 java problems. Each chapter a short problem that requires some java hacking to do, and then at the end each problem coded out. So you could hack through it and then read good reference code about a problem with which your are familiar.
I use java as an example, but I really would like it in all languages.
About a year ago the company where I work moved from Sourcesafe to CVS. The main reason was a series of corrupted databases that dragged work to a halt for hours.
For the coder CVS is fantastic. CVSWeb, bonsai, and (my favorite) LXR make viewing code, managing checkins, and searching code easy. If you have a mixed linux/windows shop both groups can use the same tool.
For the non coders it's not as nice. The windows interfaces are decent (especially TortoiseCVS) and let people work fairly well.
However it all breaks down in binaries. CVS Can't diff binaries, cvs tools can't preview them, and all in all they aren't handled cleanly. People will check the same file in twice, overwrite changes, things like that. You can recover without too much hassle (If you're familiar with CVS, but the first few times will be ugly)
Even with the large amount of binaries you had I would still say switch, the auditing tools for CVS make it worth it (The stability isn't bad either). But you will not solve any problems with binary files.
CVS does take some retraining, instead of locking files you have to get used to people merging before they check in. Those problems disapear fairly quickly, but there will be a bump of a few weeks while people get used to that.
We also use HTML::Mason - the best mod_perl add on period.
Do a lot of people use mason? When the subject of embedding code in HTML comes up the only thing people talk about is PHP. I've used mason for personal stuff, but at work it was decided that PHP was the choice. I'd like to hear about anybody using mason in any serious way.
For the curious Mason vs PHP: I havn't been really impressed with PHP. It does what it advertises but I havn't seen anything that it can do that perl can't do. I also havn't seen it do anything better than perl, with the exception of it's treatment of arrays and hash's which is a great way of unifying the two concepts. One PHP negative is that it doesn't have the extensive library support that perl does. It has pear, but it doesn't seem very developed. I guess if you're learning a new language, why waste your time on php when you could learn perl and use mason, and when you were done you'd have transferable perl knowledge?
What does everyone else thing of slashdot's coverage ?
It's amazing how things have changed. When desert storm happened I remember watching it on TV and being amazed at the access. When Columbine happened I watched CNN from work via the web.
But this time the web seemed to have reached a useful critical mass. I could watch skynet news, read cnn, which was great, but I could also read what people wrote who were there. People who lived accross the river posting pictures.
Information access at this level is incredible. The fast moving posts from yesterday, with news, rumors, personal stories, etc was compelling in a way that I'll never be able to completely describe.
I don't want to sound katz but it was an impressive display of what community can do, and the things it makes possible. Seeing it on CNN is one thing, but looking at pictures outside of someones window is incredible. The information flow was beautiful.
Slashdot itself didn't provide any breathtaking information, and katz continues to repulse me, but the thousands of posts were fantastic. The ability in nearly realtime to watch things unfold made things much easier to handle for me. It made them real, which made them less frightning.
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I warezed just about every piece for software i own,
You might want to think that one through a little.....
And this is any different from a technical job how? Oh wait, our meetings usually last 1.5 hours. My bad. The problems with teachers are true with any job out there. You've just got to find the right schools or work place.
Because it was a mandatory meeting, and it had to be 30 minutes. They were done and left early, the principal talked to everybody the next day. So they'd finish their business and sit for 20 minutes. I've been in many long boring meetings, but there was always a pretense of action, and if that action was done, people are gone. But they were forced to sit for the full 30 minutes because that was policy.
My wife graduated from college with a degree in Elementary Education. She taught for 1.5 years and then quit. The money was fine. Between the two of us we were quite comfortable.
She recieved no respect whatsoever. The school treated teachers like children. Forcing them to attend 30 minute weekly meetings where nothing was accomplished. Allowing them very little input into the shape of their curriculum.
The principals she had were the most horrible managers I have ever seen. They undercut teachers authority to students, to parents, and to other teachers. After the first year she switched schools, because the enviornment at the first was retched. The second was no better. There is no support staff for teachers. Want to go on a field trip? Plan it, organize it, lead it, figure out how to pay for it, all yourself. Teachers at her school had 1 xerox machine, they would spend 20-30 minutes a day photocopying. Hours a day grading.
You want to make schools better, give each teacher access to a support staff. One full time, to help guide the kids, grade, photocopy, prepare. A pool of secretaries who can prepare some of those things. Throw out the rule that principals have to have been teachers. Let any good leader come and run a school.
Drum it into our society that teachers have authority. Make the process of overturning a teacher decision difficult. Currently teachers are powerless to fail students. The principal has to approve it. And parents know this.
What people don't realize is that salaries are not the main problem. The problem is the working enviornment. Fix that and people will be drawn to teaching. But a shitty enviornment with not extremely good pay isn't going to produce quality. That there are any good teachers is a minor miracle.
Myth #1 The Net is too International to be Controlled
The Net, the totality of the Internet, is. The Web, the channel that our browsers serve up http and https and suchlike, is affected by our ISPs. We can still use TCP/IP and backchannel, go thru various ports - this part is still wild and wooly. Or we can stay safe inside AOL and MSN and their versions and it's controlled. It's like the Wild West - when you come into Dodge, they take your guns at the city limits. If you stick to the patrolled routes, it's fairly safe; if you wander off into the badlands, it's not.
Given the current enviornment this is true. The point of the article is that this enviornment isn't an absolute. It's pretty easy for an ISP to limit you to port 80 only. Then what do you do? Tunnel? Sure but in order for that tunneling to be useful you'll have to release the specs to the world so you can communicate and then it gets cracked down again.
A good example is cox @home. They just dropped incoming port 80 requests in response to code red. So now no one can get to my web server. I switched to port 81, but trying to propogate that information out is time consuming, and it's possible some people will never get that information. And that's a relativly simple thing to overcome. But my ability to communicate on the net was harmed when they did it. I can route around it, but every route limits the user base that can find that information. Even in the "wild west" it was still relativly easy to keep my info off the web. Each time you introduce difficulty into finding information it reduces the number of people who will find that information. As that number gets smaller you cease to matter.
Myth #2 The Net is to Interconnected to Control
See above. While you can route around censorship and damage, this requires active or passive participation by someone. So long as bastions of freedom exist, so long as encyrpted channels go through, this will continue to exist. But the rest can be partially controlled.
How many large pipes are there out of small_data_haven_1? How do you route around that? The fact is that despite our best wish's there is a single point of failure for many websites. Remember a few weeks ago when the train derailment in maryland caused thousands of people to lose all access?
But, in sum, it all comes down to this:
The Net is the Perception, Not the Reality.
So long as people believe in the above tenets, it will self-perpetuate. If they lose faith, it will change. Just as the founders of America believed in press freedom but favored other restrictions - remember the 50s, that teen gang era, eventually followed by the 80s.
What? If we hold hands and believe then it will be so? Why don't we all believe we can fly and save money on air travel?
Words are failing me... JUST BECAUSE YOU REALLY WANT SOMETHING TO BE A CERTIAN WAY DOESN'T MEAN IT WILL BE THAT WAY
that's the problem, a lot of powerful groups want some control, while the users are dancing around wagging their tounges and insisting that nothing can hurt them and nothing can stop them. Instead of thumbing our nose's at copyright holders desires we should start thinking about how to solve them. Because otherwise the internet will be controlled.
Ideally, I'd want all my webservers, etc. to be just as impregnable at port 80 as on port 8000, so why bother hiding it?
This isn't about making your targets impossible to crack. It's about making harder to crack than the guy next to you.
The slowest animal in the herd principal.
Lets say me and you both run service A, when a remote exploit is discovered. Bob the happy script kiddy gets his scanner and starts looking for said service on it's default port. On your box he finds it fine, and cracks you. On mine he doesn't see it initially. So he skips me and moves on. Say bob _really_ wanted me, he would scan all my ports and find that service, but in the meantime I see a bunch of traffic searching my network in odd places.
The slowest animal in the heard is already down, but in the few seconds I gained I realize some clever escape, and viola, I'm free. Obscurity doesn't make you uncrackable, but it gives you an edge.
On a more serious note, (assuming that pitching machines with `Intel Inside' can actually be serious) wouldn't it be interesting to be able to program this thing to pitch like whatever pitcher you would be facing that day? Batting practice would more interesting. By the time you faced the real pitcher, you'd have already ``virtually'' batted against him instead of some third string reliever. Heck you could bat against pitchers who've long retired (spend the morning batting against Nolan Ryan v1.3.1).
It does beg to be asked thought, what ELSE does it offer? I'd love to hear from people out there about the cool stuff they're doing with it. I concur with the person who posted the article, Python is the prince of languages.
XPCOM is useful because of the application framework it provides. You can export methods to javascript from XPCOM and then use mozilla's XUL layout language for the GUI.
If you look at mozilla it's all javascript/css/xul/xml. The heavy lifting is provided by XPCOM objects which are reachable through javascript calls. You can then build your ui through javascript with all the look and feel defined in CSS.
So I lay out a XUL app in plain text and it's cross platform because XPCOM is cross platform by default. Writing cross platform stuff in mozilla land is really easy. NSPR is crossplatform by default so as long as you use that (including it's threading library and nsReg library for a registry) cross platform development is really simple.
Now you can use python instead of C++ develop those objects, so the barriers to entry are getting smaller.
I personally am writing a gnutella servant XPCOM object that I can embed in mozilla. Since I can modify my chrome I'll have tabs (similiar to editPad classic, if anyone uses that) in my browser that I can switch between pages and downloads. Instant cross platform gnutella client (assuming I can get gnutella protocol working over necko) and custom built browser. Completely skinnable customizable etc.
Don't want to use the browser? Easy to build a new chrome (that's what mozilla calls the UI elements) that only use's the gnutella XPCOM.
In summary: The principal advantage is the ease of interface development and the cross platformness. Since you can now do XPCOM in python it's even easier to build stuff.
You forget that there is a large chunk of that land that's Air force owned (drive during the day and you can sometimes see A10's making loops back to the firing range).
In fact this might well be the best way to make a contribution to the success of Free Software, by ensuring that something of the vision remains once the tangibles become freely available
But what you're also doing is making it so that the only people who can use free software are people who are already using free software. Right now I can download Apache for WIN32, and be really happy with it and show my boss: Isn't this great, this free software thingy kicks ass, maybe we should look into other things we can use it for.
If you force software onto free software only platforms then it's harder to move people onto free software, because you have to do it completly, instead of a piece by piece approach.
Reducing product mobility will decrease your marketshare so long as you're not the majority. If you are the majority then you want to lock people onto your platform. But if you're not then causing barriers to entry is not helpful.
It's stupid. It's counterproductive, and counter to the spirit of free software.
If you write GPL software and release the source people can do whatever the hell they want with it. If they want to port it to MS's OS then that's their perogative. Artifically limiting what people can do with free software is the first step in the slippery slope towards complex restrictive EULA hell.
I wouldn't want free OS's to prosper if the only way it could be done would be to use microsoftian licensing terms.
Free software should prosper because it's a better model, not because people are forced into it so they can use certain programs. I can't stress enough how similair this is to microsoft. Why do you use windows? Because everybody in your office uses Word and you have to as well. you have no choice.
It's our culture. Everything we do is sexualized. How many trade shows have you been to and not seen booth babes? How many ads have you seen use sex to sell things? The argument of the article is basically: There's a lot of gratuitious sex here and it's keeping video games in the "geek ghetto". But that's not true: All products use sex to sell, especially entertainment. Saying that video games are especially sexually charged ignores the legions of sexually charged movies, tv shows, magazines, etc that are already consumed. Video games didn't grow in a vacum.
end rant.
IP based ratios won't work because AOL will fuck you over. I've seen the same users come from different IP's in their proxy space, plus their cacheing means some users will never make it to your page.
Some users have plug ins that request the page from a second IP (NBCI's quick click anyone?) that will skew your numbers. Exact numbers will not happen, and ratios will vary widely based on your clientele.
The STL Cardinals are broadcast by 1120AM, KMOX, one of the most powerful AM stations in the states. Matter of fact, I've listened to a few games in Nashville TN. on KMOX. KMOX's reach is legendary.
But they don't reach phoenix AZ, so 9.95 will be fine for me.
I love baseball, and one of the greatest things the internet has done is let me listen to the cardinals home broadcast's. For $10 a year I'll be happy to pay. 4 years ago I couldn't listen to games at all and had to settle for reloading box scores.
This is a service that is worth it, that I have no other way of getting. Baseball is under no obligation to give away radio broadcasts. If they want to force people to pay for them then so be it.
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For a while there were rumors that this CD would be released as a copy protected CD. Was it? Can you play it in your computer? Please respond, because i'd like to buy it, but if i can't play it on the computer there's no real need to.
Yeah, pay cuts suck, but just be glad you still have a job
I thought our companies approach was more to float around on our stomach in the pool of some seedy motel, having hit absolute rock bottom.
I would like something like a text book: 50 java problems. Each chapter a short problem that requires some java hacking to do, and then at the end each problem coded out. So you could hack through it and then read good reference code about a problem with which your are familiar.
I use java as an example, but I really would like it in all languages.
About a year ago the company where I work moved from Sourcesafe to CVS. The main reason was a series of corrupted databases that dragged work to a halt for hours.
For the coder CVS is fantastic. CVSWeb, bonsai, and (my favorite) LXR make viewing code, managing checkins, and searching code easy. If you have a mixed linux/windows shop both groups can use the same tool.
For the non coders it's not as nice. The windows interfaces are decent (especially TortoiseCVS) and let people work fairly well.
However it all breaks down in binaries. CVS Can't diff binaries, cvs tools can't preview them, and all in all they aren't handled cleanly. People will check the same file in twice, overwrite changes, things like that. You can recover without too much hassle (If you're familiar with CVS, but the first few times will be ugly)
Even with the large amount of binaries you had I would still say switch, the auditing tools for CVS make it worth it (The stability isn't bad either). But you will not solve any problems with binary files.
CVS does take some retraining, instead of locking files you have to get used to people merging before they check in. Those problems disapear fairly quickly, but there will be a bump of a few weeks while people get used to that.
Do a lot of people use mason? When the subject of embedding code in HTML comes up the only thing people talk about is PHP. I've used mason for personal stuff, but at work it was decided that PHP was the choice. I'd like to hear about anybody using mason in any serious way.
For the curious Mason vs PHP: I havn't been really impressed with PHP. It does what it advertises but I havn't seen anything that it can do that perl can't do. I also havn't seen it do anything better than perl, with the exception of it's treatment of arrays and hash's which is a great way of unifying the two concepts. One PHP negative is that it doesn't have the extensive library support that perl does. It has pear, but it doesn't seem very developed. I guess if you're learning a new language, why waste your time on php when you could learn perl and use mason, and when you were done you'd have transferable perl knowledge?
I just have to give some props for the old school reference.
Off to dig through the cd case....
Amen Brother.
I read the bear and the dragon to spite myself, it was in a place beyond terrible where high school wannabe authors live.
It's amazing how things have changed. When desert storm happened I remember watching it on TV and being amazed at the access. When Columbine happened I watched CNN from work via the web.
But this time the web seemed to have reached a useful critical mass. I could watch skynet news, read cnn, which was great, but I could also read what people wrote who were there. People who lived accross the river posting pictures.
Information access at this level is incredible. The fast moving posts from yesterday, with news, rumors, personal stories, etc was compelling in a way that I'll never be able to completely describe.
I don't want to sound katz but it was an impressive display of what community can do, and the things it makes possible. Seeing it on CNN is one thing, but looking at pictures outside of someones window is incredible. The information flow was beautiful.
Slashdot itself didn't provide any breathtaking information, and katz continues to repulse me, but the thousands of posts were fantastic. The ability in nearly realtime to watch things unfold made things much easier to handle for me. It made them real, which made them less frightning.
You might want to think that one through a little.....
Because it was a mandatory meeting, and it had to be 30 minutes. They were done and left early, the principal talked to everybody the next day. So they'd finish their business and sit for 20 minutes. I've been in many long boring meetings, but there was always a pretense of action, and if that action was done, people are gone. But they were forced to sit for the full 30 minutes because that was policy.
She recieved no respect whatsoever. The school treated teachers like children. Forcing them to attend 30 minute weekly meetings where nothing was accomplished. Allowing them very little input into the shape of their curriculum.
The principals she had were the most horrible managers I have ever seen. They undercut teachers authority to students, to parents, and to other teachers. After the first year she switched schools, because the enviornment at the first was retched. The second was no better. There is no support staff for teachers. Want to go on a field trip? Plan it, organize it, lead it, figure out how to pay for it, all yourself. Teachers at her school had 1 xerox machine, they would spend 20-30 minutes a day photocopying. Hours a day grading.
You want to make schools better, give each teacher access to a support staff. One full time, to help guide the kids, grade, photocopy, prepare. A pool of secretaries who can prepare some of those things. Throw out the rule that principals have to have been teachers. Let any good leader come and run a school.
Drum it into our society that teachers have authority. Make the process of overturning a teacher decision difficult. Currently teachers are powerless to fail students. The principal has to approve it. And parents know this.
What people don't realize is that salaries are not the main problem. The problem is the working enviornment. Fix that and people will be drawn to teaching. But a shitty enviornment with not extremely good pay isn't going to produce quality. That there are any good teachers is a minor miracle.
The Net, the totality of the Internet, is. The Web, the channel that our browsers serve up http and https and suchlike, is affected by our ISPs. We can still use TCP/IP and backchannel, go thru various ports - this part is still wild and wooly. Or we can stay safe inside AOL and MSN and their versions and it's controlled. It's like the Wild West - when you come into Dodge, they take your guns at the city limits. If you stick to the patrolled routes, it's fairly safe; if you wander off into the badlands, it's not.
Given the current enviornment this is true. The point of the article is that this enviornment isn't an absolute. It's pretty easy for an ISP to limit you to port 80 only. Then what do you do? Tunnel? Sure but in order for that tunneling to be useful you'll have to release the specs to the world so you can communicate and then it gets cracked down again.
A good example is cox @home. They just dropped incoming port 80 requests in response to code red. So now no one can get to my web server. I switched to port 81, but trying to propogate that information out is time consuming, and it's possible some people will never get that information. And that's a relativly simple thing to overcome. But my ability to communicate on the net was harmed when they did it. I can route around it, but every route limits the user base that can find that information. Even in the "wild west" it was still relativly easy to keep my info off the web. Each time you introduce difficulty into finding information it reduces the number of people who will find that information. As that number gets smaller you cease to matter.
Myth #2 The Net is to Interconnected to Control See above. While you can route around censorship and damage, this requires active or passive participation by someone. So long as bastions of freedom exist, so long as encyrpted channels go through, this will continue to exist. But the rest can be partially controlled.
How many large pipes are there out of small_data_haven_1? How do you route around that? The fact is that despite our best wish's there is a single point of failure for many websites. Remember a few weeks ago when the train derailment in maryland caused thousands of people to lose all access?
But, in sum, it all comes down to this:
The Net is the Perception, Not the Reality.
So long as people believe in the above tenets, it will self-perpetuate. If they lose faith, it will change. Just as the founders of America believed in press freedom but favored other restrictions - remember the 50s, that teen gang era, eventually followed by the 80s.
What? If we hold hands and believe then it will be so? Why don't we all believe we can fly and save money on air travel?
Words are failing me... JUST BECAUSE YOU REALLY WANT SOMETHING TO BE A CERTIAN WAY DOESN'T MEAN IT WILL BE THAT WAY
that's the problem, a lot of powerful groups want some control, while the users are dancing around wagging their tounges and insisting that nothing can hurt them and nothing can stop them. Instead of thumbing our nose's at copyright holders desires we should start thinking about how to solve them. Because otherwise the internet will be controlled.
This isn't about making your targets impossible to crack. It's about making harder to crack than the guy next to you.
The slowest animal in the herd principal.
Lets say me and you both run service A, when a remote exploit is discovered. Bob the happy script kiddy gets his scanner and starts looking for said service on it's default port. On your box he finds it fine, and cracks you. On mine he doesn't see it initially. So he skips me and moves on. Say bob _really_ wanted me, he would scan all my ports and find that service, but in the meantime I see a bunch of traffic searching my network in odd places.
The slowest animal in the heard is already down, but in the few seconds I gained I realize some clever escape, and viola, I'm free. Obscurity doesn't make you uncrackable, but it gives you an edge.
This is really, reallly funny. I am in slackjawed awe, can you imagine where this method of argument could take us?
The possibilities......
It's been done., read the article it's really cool.
XPCOM is useful because of the application framework it provides. You can export methods to javascript from XPCOM and then use mozilla's XUL layout language for the GUI.
If you look at mozilla it's all javascript/css/xul/xml. The heavy lifting is provided by XPCOM objects which are reachable through javascript calls. You can then build your ui through javascript with all the look and feel defined in CSS.
So I lay out a XUL app in plain text and it's cross platform because XPCOM is cross platform by default. Writing cross platform stuff in mozilla land is really easy. NSPR is crossplatform by default so as long as you use that (including it's threading library and nsReg library for a registry) cross platform development is really simple.
Now you can use python instead of C++ develop those objects, so the barriers to entry are getting smaller.
I personally am writing a gnutella servant XPCOM object that I can embed in mozilla. Since I can modify my chrome I'll have tabs (similiar to editPad classic, if anyone uses that) in my browser that I can switch between pages and downloads. Instant cross platform gnutella client (assuming I can get gnutella protocol working over necko) and custom built browser. Completely skinnable customizable etc.
Don't want to use the browser? Easy to build a new chrome (that's what mozilla calls the UI elements) that only use's the gnutella XPCOM.
In summary: The principal advantage is the ease of interface development and the cross platformness. Since you can now do XPCOM in python it's even easier to build stuff.
You forget that there is a large chunk of that land that's Air force owned (drive during the day and you can sometimes see A10's making loops back to the firing range).
But what you're also doing is making it so that the only people who can use free software are people who are already using free software. Right now I can download Apache for WIN32, and be really happy with it and show my boss: Isn't this great, this free software thingy kicks ass, maybe we should look into other things we can use it for.
If you force software onto free software only platforms then it's harder to move people onto free software, because you have to do it completly, instead of a piece by piece approach.
Reducing product mobility will decrease your marketshare so long as you're not the majority. If you are the majority then you want to lock people onto your platform. But if you're not then causing barriers to entry is not helpful.
If you write GPL software and release the source people can do whatever the hell they want with it. If they want to port it to MS's OS then that's their perogative. Artifically limiting what people can do with free software is the first step in the slippery slope towards complex restrictive EULA hell.
I wouldn't want free OS's to prosper if the only way it could be done would be to use microsoftian licensing terms.
Free software should prosper because it's a better model, not because people are forced into it so they can use certain programs. I can't stress enough how similair this is to microsoft. Why do you use windows? Because everybody in your office uses Word and you have to as well. you have no choice.
It's our culture. Everything we do is sexualized. How many trade shows have you been to and not seen booth babes? How many ads have you seen use sex to sell things? The argument of the article is basically: There's a lot of gratuitious sex here and it's keeping video games in the "geek ghetto". But that's not true: All products use sex to sell, especially entertainment. Saying that video games are especially sexually charged ignores the legions of sexually charged movies, tv shows, magazines, etc that are already consumed. Video games didn't grow in a vacum. end rant.
IP based ratios won't work because AOL will fuck you over. I've seen the same users come from different IP's in their proxy space, plus their cacheing means some users will never make it to your page.
Some users have plug ins that request the page from a second IP (NBCI's quick click anyone?) that will skew your numbers. Exact numbers will not happen, and ratios will vary widely based on your clientele.
Set cookies and go on your way.
This is a pretty straightforward thing, I find it hard to believe that no one has thought of it. Somebody here has to have some prior art examples...
But they don't reach phoenix AZ, so 9.95 will be fine for me.
This is a service that is worth it, that I have no other way of getting. Baseball is under no obligation to give away radio broadcasts. If they want to force people to pay for them then so be it.