Sort of like putting a Saturn V on a pair of inline skates? This device certainly blurs the line between PDA, notebook, and calculator. Although programming wise, linking it to/usr/bin/dc ought to be a no-brainer. Waiting for your caculator to boot-up might get a bit annoying after awhile.
Regarding the SanDisk Cruzer Mini, Ars Technica mentions:
Unfortunately, we were unable to ascertain the type and strength of encryption.
Apparently, even the product packaging neglects to mention it. Neither is it listed on SanDisk's website. It could be as simple as rot-13 or as complex as multiple cascading one-way secure pads with quantum elliptical entanglements. Do you dare probe further to figure out what it's doing? Certainly not; you could well violate the DMCA.
I happened to have snatched a few good screen names on popular web portals (not here on/., sadly). For example, my Yahoo screen name is routinely hacked (once successfully---thanks to the folks at Yahoo for returning it to me) since it's just my last name and not something annoying like name plus numbers or other annoying cruft.
I've included these screen names along with my estate in my last will for my kids. What'll they do with them? Ignore 'em, most likely. But it's possible they'll auction them off on ebay and maybe earn a few extra bucks off me.
But look at it from the other side: universities are itching for funding, endowments are evaporating, and enrollments are down. A new kid shows up who they catch plagiarizing.
But instead of kicking him out, per the university's own policy, they see it as a revenue opportunity. "Let's let him plagiarize for his whole academic career, we'll squeeze all the money we can get out of him, then we'll kick him out!"
What he did was wrong, yes, but if the faculty knew from day one, then what they did is just as reprehensible.
Unless most of the electricity comes from non-polluting sources, recharging electric bikes is going to produce more pollution than exhaling some carbon dioxide and using muscle power.
Depending on what your CS program is like, you probably can get a degree without the math. But I'd wager such a program isn't the classical computer science degree.
The classical degree doesn't just cover programming but also includes algorithms, language and automata theory, computability, operating systems, systems programming, compilers, linkers/loaders, and at least a survey of language approaches (procedural, object-oriented, declarative, evaluatative, etc.); bonus courses in graphics, networking, correctness, and software construction are nice, too.
Can you imagine a networking course with a probability and statistics background? There goes queuing theory.
Can you imagine a graphics course without combinatorics? There goes region-coloring.
Can you imagine a computatibilty course without elements of mathematics? There goes proving what you can and cannot do with computers.
Yes, take the math: take at least prob/stat, combinatorics/counting, and basic elements/proof. And there won't be a software development problem you can't tackle---or prove you can't tackle!
I haven't used a debugger in years; print statements are the only debugging tool I need.
But bear in mind that almost all of my work these days are in environments where the bugs that traditional debuggers help you find are pretty much impossible to make in the first place (Python, Java, etc.). Instead of tracing data structures through bits of memory and navigating stack frames, you just focus on the application itself. It's kind of refreshing.
Ah, nothing like the typical OO FUD that gets moderated up. I assume straight C is the only way to write applications?
I sense bitterness.
Believe me, my goal's not to spread FUD; I do OO for a living, and love it. My producitivty with an object oriented language is more than three times as that with C.
As for backing up my claims, I'll try to find some papers published during the early 90's that describe the effect.
You really don't want hundreds of megabytes of BloatyApp's untouched memory floating about in the machine...
Why not? BloatyApp, if it's that bloaty is probably an object oriented program with template instantiation (or is by Micro$oft); these programs are notoriously huge, but also have notoriously poor locality of reference. The user will get better perceived response if you can keep more of BloatyApp resident.
If there's space in memory, I don't see the point of pre-emptively ejecting as many LRU pages of BloatyApp. (Of course, I haven't RTFA, but this is/. so you're not supposed to!)
SmallTalk was always an intriguing language to me, and mostly because it used some kind of integrated graphic shell, it used glyphs not found in US-ASCII, and there weren't any decent free SmallTalk environments available for the longest time.
We moved into a new house and decided to get satellite TV. Channel line-ups, equipment, service, pricing... they were all pretty much the same. But one thing stood out.
DirecTV sued innocent consumers much more than DishTV had. Made the choice quite easy.
Yes, I miss showing my kid SpongeBob, I miss the "fake news" of the Daily Show, but I'd never give DirecTV a dollar unless I had to.
I'd be more concerned about the picture quality loss from using analog component cables - a DVI connector would solve that, as someone else has pointed out.
I'm currently sending 1080i as analog component video over 60 feet. Such a long length does muck up higher frequency signals, but it has no perceivable effect on HDTV.
(I will admit these are some pretty darn expensive coax... the cables came from Blue Jeans Cables.)
It's hard to imagine one guy on stage singing "doo-dooo-da-da-da-deeeee-dooo-da-da-da-deeeee-doo o..." and reciting "Luke, I am your father," being at all decent.
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software.
Isn't there something that does this already?
No, I'm not trolling, I'm really asking. What's the difference Fedora and RedHat Linux, or Fedora and SuSE Linux, or Fedora and FreeBSD? Why is this necessary?
By the by, the MyHD MDP-100 card will upconvert DVD content from 480p to 1080i and it looks fabulous. Of course, they can only legally do this with de-CSS'd content.
Fortunately, such content isn't hard to come by. (Insert your favorite DeCSS link here.)
And of course there's GNU Radio, a software only system to receiving, processing, and decoding digital television (and other kinds of) broadcasts, which can ignore the broadcast flag.
The only way a broadcast flag will be useful is if the FCC, the MPAA, and our in-the-pocket politicians take the next logical step: make ignoring it illegal.
I was a religious SpamCop user for awhile. You tattle to SpamCop on a spam you receive, it checks its various databases, and then notifies various network authorities of the problem.
Problem being, that several of the network authorities are huge megacorps where the complaints get filed with the rest of 98,000 or are spamhosts themselves.
I gave up in favor of SpamAssassin and Mozilla's spam filtering, which turned out to be far more effective.
Isn't effectiveness the whole reason eight-year-olds tattle in the first place? ("Billy hit me!" Billy gets in trouble. (And Tommy gets beaten up after school.)) Somehow, I don't think enough spammers got in trouble.
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Other obligatory comments:
BondageQueen: Nice place you've got here.
OutlawBiker: Thanks. All the chairs talk dirty when you sit on them, too.
BondageQueen: So clever of you. So, can I get the tour?
OutlawBiker: Not right now; most of the house is on another server that's overloaded.
BondageQueen: I'm outta here.
OutlawBiker: Wait! The laundry room still works! Honest!
Regarding the SanDisk Cruzer Mini, Ars Technica mentions:
Unfortunately, we were unable to ascertain the type and strength of encryption.
Apparently, even the product packaging neglects to mention it. Neither is it listed on SanDisk's website. It could be as simple as rot-13 or as complex as multiple cascading one-way secure pads with quantum elliptical entanglements. Do you dare probe further to figure out what it's doing? Certainly not; you could well violate the DMCA.
I happened to have snatched a few good screen names on popular web portals (not here on /., sadly). For example, my Yahoo screen name is routinely hacked (once successfully---thanks to the folks at Yahoo for returning it to me) since it's just my last name and not something annoying like name plus numbers or other annoying cruft.
I've included these screen names along with my estate in my last will for my kids. What'll they do with them? Ignore 'em, most likely. But it's possible they'll auction them off on ebay and maybe earn a few extra bucks off me.
But look at it from the other side: universities are itching for funding, endowments are evaporating, and enrollments are down. A new kid shows up who they catch plagiarizing.
But instead of kicking him out, per the university's own policy, they see it as a revenue opportunity. "Let's let him plagiarize for his whole academic career, we'll squeeze all the money we can get out of him, then we'll kick him out!"
What he did was wrong, yes, but if the faculty knew from day one, then what they did is just as reprehensible.
Unless most of the electricity comes from non-polluting sources, recharging electric bikes is going to produce more pollution than exhaling some carbon dioxide and using muscle power.
Depending on what your CS program is like, you probably can get a degree without the math. But I'd wager such a program isn't the classical computer science degree.
The classical degree doesn't just cover programming but also includes algorithms, language and automata theory, computability, operating systems, systems programming, compilers, linkers/loaders, and at least a survey of language approaches (procedural, object-oriented, declarative, evaluatative, etc.); bonus courses in graphics, networking, correctness, and software construction are nice, too.
Can you imagine a networking course with a probability and statistics background? There goes queuing theory.
Can you imagine a graphics course without combinatorics? There goes region-coloring.
Can you imagine a computatibilty course without elements of mathematics? There goes proving what you can and cannot do with computers.
Yes, take the math: take at least prob/stat, combinatorics/counting, and basic elements/proof. And there won't be a software development problem you can't tackle---or prove you can't tackle!
... the Web censors the Government! Er ... actually ... um ... oh, never-fsck'n-mind.
I suppose that yes, all voting machine manufacturers are dealing in the management of rights, digitally.
I haven't used a debugger in years; print statements are the only debugging tool I need.
But bear in mind that almost all of my work these days are in environments where the bugs that traditional debuggers help you find are pretty much impossible to make in the first place (Python, Java, etc.). Instead of tracing data structures through bits of memory and navigating stack frames, you just focus on the application itself. It's kind of refreshing.
Ah, nothing like the typical OO FUD that gets moderated up. I assume straight C is the only way to write applications?
I sense bitterness.
Believe me, my goal's not to spread FUD; I do OO for a living, and love it. My producitivty with an object oriented language is more than three times as that with C.
As for backing up my claims, I'll try to find some papers published during the early 90's that describe the effect.
You really don't want hundreds of megabytes of BloatyApp's untouched memory floating about in the machine...
/. so you're not supposed to!)
Why not? BloatyApp, if it's that bloaty is probably an object oriented program with template instantiation (or is by Micro$oft); these programs are notoriously huge, but also have notoriously poor locality of reference. The user will get better perceived response if you can keep more of BloatyApp resident.
If there's space in memory, I don't see the point of pre-emptively ejecting as many LRU pages of BloatyApp. (Of course, I haven't RTFA, but this is
SmallTalk was always an intriguing language to me, and mostly because it used some kind of integrated graphic shell, it used glyphs not found in US-ASCII, and there weren't any decent free SmallTalk environments available for the longest time.
Now with Squeak and this quick tutorial, it might be about time to explore SmallTalk.
Besides, I've always wanted a real OO language where I could send the message "to:do:" to the object "1".
Lawyers for the MPAA are probably preparing 4000 lawsuits right now, one for each Mac G5 participating in the illegal scanning effort.
EFF
PayPal accepted, amongst other methods.
Come on, this is slashdot ... motorcycle riding photo-snapping babe through nuclear wasteland ... show me a geek that isn't drooling by now.
Amen brudda.
... they were all pretty much the same. But one thing stood out.
We moved into a new house and decided to get satellite TV. Channel line-ups, equipment, service, pricing
DirecTV sued innocent consumers much more than DishTV had. Made the choice quite easy.
Yes, I miss showing my kid SpongeBob, I miss the "fake news" of the Daily Show, but I'd never give DirecTV a dollar unless I had to.
I'd be more concerned about the picture quality loss from using analog component cables - a DVI connector would solve that, as someone else has pointed out.
... the cables came from Blue Jeans Cables.)
I'm currently sending 1080i as analog component video over 60 feet. Such a long length does muck up higher frequency signals, but it has no perceivable effect on HDTV.
(I will admit these are some pretty darn expensive coax
Looking at screenshot number 3, I think the fellow's got a few bugs to work out.
Bu-dum-chee!
Thank you! Thank you! I'll be here all week! Try the buffet!
It's hard to imagine one guy on stage singing "doo-dooo-da-da-da-deeeee-dooo-da-da-da-deeeee-doo o..." and reciting "Luke, I am your father," being at all decent.
.torrent to prove me wrong?
This has got to be a joke, right?
Anyone have a
Amen.
But this is typical of most of the news items from software engineers. "Version X of Y was just released; get it at Z."
If you don't know what Y is, you must be a luser.
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software.
Isn't there something that does this already?
No, I'm not trolling, I'm really asking. What's the difference Fedora and RedHat Linux, or Fedora and SuSE Linux, or Fedora and FreeBSD? Why is this necessary?
By the by, the MyHD MDP-100 card will upconvert DVD content from 480p to 1080i and it looks fabulous. Of course, they can only legally do this with de-CSS'd content.
Fortunately, such content isn't hard to come by. (Insert your favorite DeCSS link here.)
A broadcast flag is meaningless given that there are a number of solutions that already ignore it. I happen to have three such systems:
1. Samsung SIR-T150 ATSC receiver, not known to recognize broadcast flag or de-rez component analog outputs.
2. MyHD MDP-100 ATSC receiver card, not known to recognize broadcast flag or de-rez component analog outputs.
3. HD-2000 Linux Only ATSC receiver card, with source code, which does not recognize broadcast flag, and can be reprogrammed to ignore it.
And of course there's GNU Radio, a software only system to receiving, processing, and decoding digital television (and other kinds of) broadcasts, which can ignore the broadcast flag.
The only way a broadcast flag will be useful is if the FCC, the MPAA, and our in-the-pocket politicians take the next logical step: make ignoring it illegal.
I was a religious SpamCop user for awhile. You tattle to SpamCop on a spam you receive, it checks its various databases, and then notifies various network authorities of the problem.
Problem being, that several of the network authorities are huge megacorps where the complaints get filed with the rest of 98,000 or are spamhosts themselves.
I gave up in favor of SpamAssassin and Mozilla's spam filtering, which turned out to be far more effective.
Isn't effectiveness the whole reason eight-year-olds tattle in the first place? ("Billy hit me!" Billy gets in trouble. (And Tommy gets beaten up after school.)) Somehow, I don't think enough spammers got in trouble.