How long do you think Unix and C have been around? I'd have to say more than 10 years... come to think of it, my first programming class was in C. In 1989. Wrong decade. Now, if we're talking about the 70s...
There is no such place as "Wise County, NC". I live and work in the Research Triangle which is partly in *Wake County* (but mostly in Durham Co). And yes, the amount of coke seized in this area has gone up in the past few years, but the amount of E and other club drugs seized is far outstripping the 'conventional' drugs.
At Dell, for $1669, you can get a PIII-933MHz with a 20GB HD, 128 MB 133MHz SDRAM, 17" M781 monitor, 32 MB NVIDIA TNT2 M64 AGP, 48x CD-ROM, SB 64V, Altec Lansing ACS-340 speaker system, 3C905C ethernet card, Basic Keyboard and Mouse, and a 1 year service policy.
I call that pretty much top of the line. Sure, you don't get all the snazziest peripherals (Jaz/Zip drive, CD burner, DVD, printer... no printer!!! ack), but that's a nice system.
Go someplace else online and select components yourself and put it together, and you could get it for closer to $1000-1200. $1700 indeed... moron.
I don't find $1000 unreasonably low at all!
Eric
PS I'm ranting about information pg 7-8 of his "report"
'Is there anything stopping the average user from installing Netscape...?'
Yes. The average user doesn't KNOW HOW to install Netscape. I know it's just a matter of hopping over to www.netscape.com, finding the package, downloading, and double-clicking on the icon (almost forgot the obligatory reboot). However, that's 5 (or more, if you want to split hairs) steps to get a piece of software that has an almost identical look, feel, and feature set as software they were *so kindly given* by M$ (tongue FIRMLY in cheek).
And to your argument concerning OpenGL and Direct3d, the sad thing is that the consumer doesn't even know what he's missing out on. The programmers are so closely wedded to M$, they basically HAVE to work with the D3D API. You say it yourself... there wasn't much in the way of OpenGL implementation on Windows PC. Have you thought about why? OpenGL isn't M$ and they can't control it.
This isn't even a matter of a comsumer being computer savvy enough to check out the alternatives. There ARE no alternatives.
Using your logic, all users should be able to code up their own web browsers and 3d graphics engines if they are unhappy with the alternatives. Not likely!
After the day-long error of the itolympics.org link, I place a bet of $10 that the IBM->Cisco won't be fixed before noon EST. Another $5 that it won't
be fixed by 5PM!
Pay up. I noticed the change at 1132 AM EDT. Send money order to... dont_mail@me.com!
That's kind of dangerous, isn't it. Accidentally click, and whoops, just bought a G4-multi processor with 21" Cinema flat display. $7,500 downthe tubes.
Near the end of that page lies the text:
Change your mind about an item you've ordered? When you purchase products with 1-Click, you have 90 minutes to edit your order before it's processed for shipping.
#foo is the character/pattern you want to split long string on... typically, comma, colon or spaces (\s+ meaning 1 or more whitespace characters, covers tab-delimited output from spreadsheets:)
@split_strings = split/foo/, $long_string;
Now you can refer to each $split_strings[$i] individually.
Another way is to explicitly set up an 'array' of scalar variables that the long string will be split into:
for example, which will turn a long address with comma-separated segments into 4 scalar variables... If the $full_address has more fields, the rest gets thrown out. If it has less fields, you get null written to the latter variables.
You know, some people use credit cards to purchase items they can't afford at the time (ie. can't put their hands on THEN). When I buy a new stereo, I'll plunk down plastic and charge $1500, then pay it off a few 100 a month for a while.
Credit cards started off as a way to buy now, pay later. These days, we are all using debit cards, which look and feel a lot like credit cards, but are very similar to prepaid calling cards. The difference is that the "payment" you make is depositing your paycheck into your bank account and, just because you have used all of your minutes, er money, the number is only temporarily deactivated, not cancelled.
Wow! I take the unpopular stance, and someone agrees with me... wonders will never cease!
Anyway, I find your suggestion hard to believe. It just doesn't add up. If I read the article correctly, they have to pay ONE of the big-5 the sum of $118M. That (theoretically) adds up to nearly $600M if they had to make that deal with each of the studios individually.
I doubt they had over half a billion dollars to throw around when there was no certainty that their business model would make any money. VCs ain't THAT stupid. They take risks. That's the nature of VC, but this one just seems too big to have the blessing of their financial backers.
They did not have permission to copy and distribute the music in the first place
There is something called FAIR USE
That's right... there IS something called fair use, but it doesn't allow redistribution, which is exactly what mp3.com was doing.
MP3.com may not have had the right to copy this music...
That's not the point. They have that right under fair use. What they don't have the right to do is redistribute the music, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. That is why they were sued and lost.
Radio stations pay good money to broadcast music, regardless of how many people listen to them, and how many of those own, or don't own, their own copy of that music. It's nice that my.mp3.com was trying to cover their butts by insisting that you have the CD in your CD-ROM drive (once... which brings up the whole borrowing a CD for a couple minutes issue), but they were still redistributing the music without consent.
I don't like the implications, but they really blew the pooch by not consulting with a knowledgable copyright/IP lawyer first.
Who is this root-mean-square guy and why should I care;o}
So, am I supposed to be jumping up and down with joy now that RMS says it's ok to like/use KDE? I've been using KDE since version 1.0. I could care less what the license was. I imagine many people who merely use the software care don't care either. These licenses only dictate what you can do to the code. Big deal. I've never even LOOKED at the KDE code... I have more important things to do than GUI programming.
www.mpaa.org -> (via click to enter)
www.mpaa.org/home.htm ->
www.mpaa.org/relatedsites/ ->
www.privacyalliance.org/ -> (via 'Resources' in banner at top)
www.privacyalliance.org/resources -> (via link all the way at the bottom)
www.eff.org/ ->
www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/Video/ ->
eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/ ->
eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/resources.html ->
eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/DeCSS/ ->
www.zpok.demon.co.uk/decss/ ->
www.zpok.demon.co.uk/decss/DeCSS.zip
Even better... gets you a copy of it!!! 11 degress of separation from www.mpaa.org to an actual copy of the DeCSS archive (only 10 to a list of mirrors of the code).
I don't know about that... some of my thesis research involved a 3 dimensional hydromagnetic code that was about 100kloc in FORTRAN 77. Never used a debugger for that... Granted, I didn't WRITE most of that, but I probably altered ~20% of that. 20kloc is larger than anything I've ever done before or since.
That's great, but in my similar experience, I was told that I would most likely fail the 'lab' section of the course if I didn't use CodeWarrior. I found out later that it was all a crock of shit. The only thing it did was make debugging a bit easier.
Some of the exercises had us put break points into pre-written code to determine how the value of a variable would change. This was easier with the IDE, if you could ever get the hang of it, but I'd rather have just put in statements to print the value of the variable at the right time.
I did all of my projects in vi/g++, and when they were done, made sure that they compiled in CW, because you automatically got a 50 point deduction if it didn't compile there.
Oh, and I've never used it since! It doesn't understand Perl too well;)
He IS part of the judicial branch. Didn't you mean that Kaplan had failed in his responsibility to "Check" the legislative branch (the one that passed DMCA in the first place)?
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How long do you think Unix and C have been around? I'd have to say more than 10 years... come to think of it, my first programming class was in C. In 1989. Wrong decade. Now, if we're talking about the 70s...
Eric
There is no such place as "Wise County, NC". I live and work in the Research Triangle which is partly in *Wake County* (but mostly in Durham Co). And yes, the amount of coke seized in this area has gone up in the past few years, but the amount of E and other club drugs seized is far outstripping the 'conventional' drugs.
Eric
Eric
At Dell, for $1669, you can get a PIII-933MHz with a 20GB HD, 128 MB 133MHz SDRAM, 17" M781 monitor, 32 MB NVIDIA TNT2 M64 AGP, 48x CD-ROM, SB 64V, Altec Lansing ACS-340 speaker system, 3C905C ethernet card, Basic Keyboard and Mouse, and a 1 year service policy.
I call that pretty much top of the line. Sure, you don't get all the snazziest peripherals (Jaz/Zip drive, CD burner, DVD, printer... no printer!!! ack), but that's a nice system.
Go someplace else online and select components yourself and put it together, and you could get it for closer to $1000-1200. $1700 indeed... moron.
I don't find $1000 unreasonably low at all!
Eric
PS I'm ranting about information pg 7-8 of his "report"
'Is there anything stopping the average user from installing Netscape...?'
Yes. The average user doesn't KNOW HOW to install Netscape. I know it's just a matter of hopping over to www.netscape.com, finding the package, downloading, and double-clicking on the icon (almost forgot the obligatory reboot). However, that's 5 (or more, if you want to split hairs) steps to get a piece of software that has an almost identical look, feel, and feature set as software they were *so kindly given* by M$ (tongue FIRMLY in cheek).
And to your argument concerning OpenGL and Direct3d, the sad thing is that the consumer doesn't even know what he's missing out on. The programmers are so closely wedded to M$, they basically HAVE to work with the D3D API. You say it yourself... there wasn't much in the way of OpenGL implementation on Windows PC. Have you thought about why? OpenGL isn't M$ and they can't control it.
This isn't even a matter of a comsumer being computer savvy enough to check out the alternatives. There ARE no alternatives.
Using your logic, all users should be able to code up their own web browsers and 3d graphics engines if they are unhappy with the alternatives. Not likely!
Eric
Wow! Google is at Number 15, up from 19 last week. That's pretty impressive. Way to go, Google-guys.
Eric
...but now that you mention it, that shade of blue DOES look awfully familiar!
Eric
Pay up. I noticed the change at 1132 AM EDT. Send money order to ... dont_mail@me.com!
Eric
Possibly because the luser that submitted the story saw ibm in the URL (something like www.patents.ibm.com) and made an ASS out of U and ME.
Eric
Near the end of that page lies the text:
Eric
It *is* you, and it *does* look like 'Uncle Fucker'. That's the first thing that popped into my mind when I read it, too.
Eric
In perl:
:)
/foo/, $long_string;
/,/, $full_address;
#foo is the character/pattern you want to split long string on... typically, comma, colon or spaces (\s+ meaning 1 or more whitespace characters, covers tab-delimited output from spreadsheets
@split_strings = split
Now you can refer to each $split_strings[$i] individually.
Another way is to explicitly set up an 'array' of scalar variables that the long string will be split into:
($street_addr, $city, $state, $zip) = split
for example, which will turn a long address with comma-separated segments into 4 scalar variables... If the $full_address has more fields, the rest gets thrown out. If it has less fields, you get null written to the latter variables.
Of course, TIMTOWTDI, but that's how I do it...
Eric
You know, some people use credit cards to purchase items they can't afford at the time (ie. can't put their hands on THEN). When I buy a new stereo, I'll plunk down plastic and charge $1500, then pay it off a few 100 a month for a while.
Credit cards started off as a way to buy now, pay later. These days, we are all using debit cards, which look and feel a lot like credit cards, but are very similar to prepaid calling cards. The difference is that the "payment" you make is depositing your paycheck into your bank account and, just because you have used all of your minutes, er money, the number is only temporarily deactivated, not cancelled.
Eric
Wow! I take the unpopular stance, and someone agrees with me... wonders will never cease!
Anyway, I find your suggestion hard to believe. It just doesn't add up. If I read the article correctly, they have to pay ONE of the big-5 the sum of $118M. That (theoretically) adds up to nearly $600M if they had to make that deal with each of the studios individually.
I doubt they had over half a billion dollars to throw around when there was no certainty that their business model would make any money. VCs ain't THAT stupid. They take risks. That's the nature of VC, but this one just seems too big to have the blessing of their financial backers.
Just my 00000010 cents worth...
Eric
There is something called FAIR USE
That's right... there IS something called fair use, but it doesn't allow redistribution, which is exactly what mp3.com was doing.
MP3.com may not have had the right to copy this music...
That's not the point. They have that right under fair use. What they don't have the right to do is redistribute the music, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. That is why they were sued and lost.
Radio stations pay good money to broadcast music, regardless of how many people listen to them, and how many of those own, or don't own, their own copy of that music. It's nice that my.mp3.com was trying to cover their butts by insisting that you have the CD in your CD-ROM drive (once... which brings up the whole borrowing a CD for a couple minutes issue), but they were still redistributing the music without consent.
I don't like the implications, but they really blew the pooch by not consulting with a knowledgable copyright/IP lawyer first.
Eric
Who is this root-mean-square guy and why should I care ;o}
So, am I supposed to be jumping up and down with joy now that RMS says it's ok to like/use KDE? I've been using KDE since version 1.0. I could care less what the license was. I imagine many people who merely use the software care don't care either. These licenses only dictate what you can do to the code. Big deal. I've never even LOOKED at the KDE code... I have more important things to do than GUI programming.
Eric
www.mpaa.org -> (via click to enter)
www.mpaa.org/home.htm ->
www.mpaa.org/relatedsites/ ->
www.privacyalliance.org/ -> (via 'Resources' in banner at top)
www.privacyalliance.org/resources -> (via link all the way at the bottom)
www.eff.org/ ->
www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/Video/ ->
eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/ ->
eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/resources.html ->
eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/DeCSS/ ->
www.zpok.demon.co.uk/decss/ ->
www.zpok.demon.co.uk/decss/DeCSS.zip
Even better... gets you a copy of it!!! 11 degress of separation from www.mpaa.org to an actual copy of the DeCSS archive (only 10 to a list of mirrors of the code).
Eric
Pardon me, I've not had nearly enough sleep lately.
Eric
I don't know about that... some of my thesis research involved a 3 dimensional hydromagnetic code that was about 100kloc in FORTRAN 77. Never used a debugger for that... Granted, I didn't WRITE most of that, but I probably altered ~20% of that. 20kloc is larger than anything I've ever done before or since.
Eric
Oh, I was using version 2. Had support for C, C++, and PASCAL. Maybe I just never got the hang of it...
Eric
That's great, but in my similar experience, I was told that I would most likely fail the 'lab' section of the course if I didn't use CodeWarrior. I found out later that it was all a crock of shit. The only thing it did was make debugging a bit easier.
;)
Some of the exercises had us put break points into pre-written code to determine how the value of a variable would change. This was easier with the IDE, if you could ever get the hang of it, but I'd rather have just put in statements to print the value of the variable at the right time.
I did all of my projects in vi/g++, and when they were done, made sure that they compiled in CW, because you automatically got a 50 point deduction if it didn't compile there.
Oh, and I've never used it since! It doesn't understand Perl too well
Eric
I'd gladly turn you in to the MPAA today for a cheeseburger tomorrow. ;)
Eric
After all, I only used it for ~4 years as a grad student. Good call.
Eric
He IS part of the judicial branch. Didn't you mean that Kaplan had failed in his responsibility to "Check" the legislative branch (the one that passed DMCA in the first place)?
Eric