See also this screencast for a comparison of Ruby on Rails, Zope (Plone), TurboGears, and Django. Oh, and J2EE which fares... rather poorly in my opinion.
These are some fairly impressive developments. For one, consider that Western science progresses using variations of the Latin alphabet. Whereas in China the spoken languages of Mandarin (and Cantonese and other more localized dialects) use an ideographical alphabet: one character means one word.
As a result, they cannot form acronyms. And as most Western scientists and engineers know almost innately, without acronyms, there cannot be scientific progress.
Look, you type "google adsense" and you click the first link (or I'm Feeling Lucky), and the result (as far as the end user is concerned) is Google's Adsense page. That's not a hijacking. That's an escort service (albeit the far less fun kind).
And what's the new use of the word "bourbon"? I prefer mine in liquid form.
Because the broadcast flag was so technically feeble, it required "robustness rules" to actually enforce it. In other words, equipment manufactures would have to "weld shut" their devices to prevent user tampering. This would've spelt disaster for GNU Radio, which lets you define an ATSC HDTV receiver in software.
As open source, it fails the robustness rules. Heck, as open source, it even encourages "user tampering." With today's victory the project has some hope, and we can see some future innovations exploiting it.
I'm sure it does play video. My current Nokia phone, a model 6600, plays back AVI files that I run through Apple Quicktime Pro on my Mac. Before I take a road trip with my daughter, I load up my phone with some anime videos discovered through Animesuki.
The nice thing is that this is an industry standard file format, 3GPP, supported by multiple vendors, operating systems, and software packages.
I had one of those Star Wars Speeders that fit Luke and Ben Kenobi action figures as a kid. It was all plastic. I accidentally left it on the dashboard of my mom's car during a sunny day.
Vizzini: You only think I guessed wrong - that's what's so funny. I switched glasses when your back was turned. Ha-ha, you fool. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when *death* is on the line.". Hahahahahah.
[Vizzini falls over dead]
for either (1) a new MGM DVD from a list of 325 titles or (2) a cash refund of $7.10.
That list of 325 titles doesn't necessarily include fixed versions of the broken DVDs. Heck, it might be nothing but movies of the calibre of Manos: The Hands of Fate, Mitchell, I Accuse My Parents, and so forth.
Right, they do exactly what they need to do. Some better than others, to be sure (c.f. Olympus's user interface, which is horrid, compared to, say, FujiFilm's).
More than that, they have standard interfaces for getting data in and out: USB, firewire, or a removable memory card. For that reason more than any other the "openness" and "hackability" of the firmware is not an issue.
Eh.. you don't get what a hostile acquisition is...
The word "acquisition" doesn't even appear once in the summary. Thanks for the "for dummies" version; too bad that wasn't what was originally submitted!
... assist the reader by saying what this hostile action is, why it's occurring, where (France?) and so forth. The summary, as it stands, seems written for people who are already in-the-know, which is a foolish assumption in the face a global internet.
Who, what, where, when, why, and how... it's not just for journalists any more!
The nice thing about GnuRadio is that you can build things like an ATSC digital television receiver, all in software. The problem is that, thanks to the heavy weight of the MPAA and other media lobbies, the FCC gave us the broadcast flag, meaning that a programmer can set a bit that says "do not record" such-and-such.
But to make the broadcast flag effective, you also have to mandate that equipment pay attention to it, and be robust against user modification. You've got to make it otherwise illegal to make an ATSC receiver that doesn't obey it. And sure enough, that's what the FCC has done; July 2005, any equipment that doesn't obey the flag is illegal to sell, trade, create, etc.
And with GnuRadio, you write an ATSC receiver that does or doesn't pay attention to it... at your own peril. It makes specific uses of GnuRadio illegal, and even if you wrote your GnuRadio software to pay attention to the flag, a simple programming error would make your product illegal.
Heck, it might even be said that GnuRadio itself will be illegal this year, since it fails the robustness rules.
Now, is this copyright infringement? Refusing to record a pristine ATSC transport stream or recording it for personal use isn't necessarily a distinction the MPAA et al. are likely to make. But it does facilitate the distribution of perfect copies of Desperate Housewives and other quality programming (ahem), and the MPAA have used the copyright infringement/terrorism analogy before.
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The compositions in many of the FF games are really top-notch; there are a few off-beat tunes (think the Chochobo scenes) but for the most part it isn't your dime-a-minute loop-based stuff but moving, uplifting, really cinematic kind of music. Performance by a full orchestra? Oh yeah, I'll even buy that.
As much as I like Java, the more and more I see Flash-based applications for vertical markets, the more I see that as Java's missed opportunity. This was Java's golden path, and it floundered with poor download times, incompatible security policies, and prejudice as "nothing more than animated icons."
Meanwhile, Flash became more than just scaled vector text, taking on greater amounts of application capability. Even my daughter's Leapster, the so-called "learning game pad" that displays Dora and SpongeBob in a variety of educational situations, is based on Flash, not Java.
So much for a language originally intended for embedded applications. Java is strongest now in the server room, tier 2 (Oracle & Sybase hold tier 1). Flash is strongest in tier 3: the user interface.
Just go to System Preferences, click on Speech, choose the Recognition tab, and away you go. How well does it perform? "Naught 2 wheel." Cancel; "Knot 2 veil." Cancel; "Not to L." Cancel; oh forget it, gimme my keyboard!
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Comedian Demetri Martin did a hilarious exposé on MySpace on The Daily Show recently, which tends to reflect some of this backlash.
(Google video had it for awhile, but it's disappeared from there. Thank you, YouTube!)
See also this screencast for a comparison of Ruby on Rails, Zope (Plone), TurboGears, and Django. Oh, and J2EE which fares ... rather poorly in my opinion.
Warning: the screencast is 36 minutes long!
See http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov
These are some fairly impressive developments. For one, consider that Western science progresses using variations of the Latin alphabet. Whereas in China the spoken languages of Mandarin (and Cantonese and other more localized dialects) use an ideographical alphabet: one character means one word.
As a result, they cannot form acronyms. And as most Western scientists and engineers know almost innately, without acronyms, there cannot be scientific progress.
Or so we thought.
... and being ONLY a "theory," won't be taught in Kansas public schools.
Look, you type "google adsense" and you click the first link (or I'm Feeling Lucky), and the result (as far as the end user is concerned) is Google's Adsense page. That's not a hijacking. That's an escort service (albeit the far less fun kind).
And what's the new use of the word "bourbon"? I prefer mine in liquid form.
please support the project if you can by buying CDs and t-shirts, ...
I would love to, except Puffy the logo fish is horribly disfigured.
Linux shirts are out, too: Tux is overweight. No, I can't buy a FreeBSD T-shirt either: I live in Texas.
Because the broadcast flag was so technically feeble, it required "robustness rules" to actually enforce it. In other words, equipment manufactures would have to "weld shut" their devices to prevent user tampering. This would've spelt disaster for GNU Radio, which lets you define an ATSC HDTV receiver in software.
As open source, it fails the robustness rules. Heck, as open source, it even encourages "user tampering." With today's victory the project has some hope, and we can see some future innovations exploiting it.
I'm sure it does play video. My current Nokia phone, a model 6600, plays back AVI files that I run through Apple Quicktime Pro on my Mac. Before I take a road trip with my daughter, I load up my phone with some anime videos discovered through Animesuki.
The nice thing is that this is an industry standard file format, 3GPP, supported by multiple vendors, operating systems, and software packages.
WMV, on the other hand, is not.
I had one of those Star Wars Speeders that fit Luke and Ben Kenobi action figures as a kid. It was all plastic. I accidentally left it on the dashboard of my mom's car during a sunny day.
Sure enough, light changed its shape irrevocably.
Wachowski brothers - The Matrix and other films
Chudnovsky brothers - Supercomputers
I have no brother. Now I know why I'm an utter failure. Oh well, back to Slashdot.
Vizzini: You only think I guessed wrong - that's what's so funny. I switched glasses when your back was turned. Ha-ha, you fool. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when *death* is on the line.". Hahahahahah. [Vizzini falls over dead]
(Yeah, off topic, I don't care.)
I'd be wary of this; from the settlement:
for either (1) a new MGM DVD from a list of 325 titles or (2) a cash refund of $7.10.
That list of 325 titles doesn't necessarily include fixed versions of the broken DVDs. Heck, it might be nothing but movies of the calibre of Manos: The Hands of Fate, Mitchell, I Accuse My Parents, and so forth.
Right, they do exactly what they need to do. Some better than others, to be sure (c.f. Olympus's user interface, which is horrid, compared to, say, FujiFilm's).
More than that, they have standard interfaces for getting data in and out: USB, firewire, or a removable memory card. For that reason more than any other the "openness" and "hackability" of the firmware is not an issue.
Eh.. you don't get what a hostile acquisition is...
The word "acquisition" doesn't even appear once in the summary. Thanks for the "for dummies" version; too bad that wasn't what was originally submitted!
... assist the reader by saying what this hostile action is, why it's occurring, where (France?) and so forth. The summary, as it stands, seems written for people who are already in-the-know, which is a foolish assumption in the face a global internet.
... it's not just for journalists any more!
Who, what, where, when, why, and how
The nice thing about GnuRadio is that you can build things like an ATSC digital television receiver, all in software. The problem is that, thanks to the heavy weight of the MPAA and other media lobbies, the FCC gave us the broadcast flag, meaning that a programmer can set a bit that says "do not record" such-and-such.
... at your own peril. It makes specific uses of GnuRadio illegal, and even if you wrote your GnuRadio software to pay attention to the flag, a simple programming error would make your product illegal.
But to make the broadcast flag effective, you also have to mandate that equipment pay attention to it, and be robust against user modification. You've got to make it otherwise illegal to make an ATSC receiver that doesn't obey it. And sure enough, that's what the FCC has done; July 2005, any equipment that doesn't obey the flag is illegal to sell, trade, create, etc.
And with GnuRadio, you write an ATSC receiver that does or doesn't pay attention to it
Heck, it might even be said that GnuRadio itself will be illegal this year, since it fails the robustness rules.
Now, is this copyright infringement? Refusing to record a pristine ATSC transport stream or recording it for personal use isn't necessarily a distinction the MPAA et al. are likely to make. But it does facilitate the distribution of perfect copies of Desperate Housewives and other quality programming (ahem), and the MPAA have used the copyright infringement/terrorism analogy before.
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Call me, Ishmael, using our new cell phone service, on the web at www.dick.mobi.
The compositions in many of the FF games are really top-notch; there are a few off-beat tunes (think the Chochobo scenes) but for the most part it isn't your dime-a-minute loop-based stuff but moving, uplifting, really cinematic kind of music. Performance by a full orchestra? Oh yeah, I'll even buy that.
As much as I like Java, the more and more I see Flash-based applications for vertical markets, the more I see that as Java's missed opportunity. This was Java's golden path, and it floundered with poor download times, incompatible security policies, and prejudice as "nothing more than animated icons."
Meanwhile, Flash became more than just scaled vector text, taking on greater amounts of application capability. Even my daughter's Leapster, the so-called "learning game pad" that displays Dora and SpongeBob in a variety of educational situations, is based on Flash, not Java.
So much for a language originally intended for embedded applications. Java is strongest now in the server room, tier 2 (Oracle & Sybase hold tier 1). Flash is strongest in tier 3: the user interface.
Just go to System Preferences, click on Speech, choose the Recognition tab, and away you go. How well does it perform? "Naught 2 wheel." Cancel; "Knot 2 veil." Cancel; "Not to L." Cancel; oh forget it, gimme my keyboard!
and I don't mean the codec, but the ill-conceived "pay to watch a disc you also purchase on a player you purchase too" concept that didn't last 9 months. If there's a format war, I'm not exactly sure what the Disney company's clout will buy.
... your fertility isn't so much the issue as getting a date in the first place. Heck, not even Stallman's seen any action since Emacs 18.17!
And yet, that's typically what happens to Slashdot comments: a positive moderation makes it more visible, where it gets more positive moderation.