I agree completely.
While that donation is simply meant to 'monopolize' that college, and thus is wrong. I do believe that CS students (especially) are likely to gain a better and more complete level of understanding while using Open Source software -- if simply because of the fact that they will have lots of working source to look at, change what they dislike etc. ...Now don't you wish you commented that emacs patch better?:)
Does anyone know if any of the above can maintain XSLT transformations of the data as views? Much like you can create SQL views etc? That would be a usefull feature.
Since obviously it was the same for Apple. With Microsoft investing just about the same amount of money in it, to keep a competitor afloat and Office on 'anoter operating system' to pull the rug from under some anti-trust arguments...
How long before Microsoft 'writes off' its Apple investment?...
What I am considering for my album:
1. Distribute freely as 160bps (-r3mix) MP3s over P2P, Web etc.
2. Place "Please tip artists at URL" text in the ID3 tag and set up a tip-jar (ala tipster) on my site; Ask (politely, no DRM) for $2.0 for those enjoying my entire album, 25c per song otherwise - 'Honor-system-wise'.
3. Offer a 'no-middleman' directly-sold CD for $4 - $5. Cost is roughly $1.
4. Profit?...;)
I figure that those who enjoy my music *and* can afford it, will pay / buy the album, like they would in a store. Those who don't/can't -- would not have bought the album anyway. Basically this is Shareware Music...
And this way I get more per-album than through a label *and* I support freedom as I see it. Labels are just over-rated advertising and public-relations agencies... <plug>So why don't you preview an MP3 of my latest track before vocals and before mastering...</plug>
This is not meant as flame-bait -- I've really tried to learn Perl. Even though I'm a 'real' programmer, I am not biased against scripting languages -- in fact, I think that the so-called 'duct-tape' languages are super-useful and important to technology in general.
Having said that, IMHO:
a) Perl, in the quick-and-dirty sense, is too dirty and not quick enough.
b) Have you ever seen C-obfuscation championship code? Now have you seen a Perl program that does anything more than "Hello World"? Notice the similarities?
Now I know that you can write bad code in any language, but bad-code in Perl is what I call 'job-security encryption' as you will never be able to fire the person who wrote the code, no matter how bad it is, because no one else will be able to read it. Either you re-write completely it or you keep that hacker...
On a side note, speed optimization in Perl tend to create spaghetti code with weird symbols for meat-balls. And I love meat-balls.
And most likely sanctioned by the artists.
If so, then this is an original recording made at the permission of the artists, and not in a studio owned by an RIAA member.
Since most artists still keep concert rights in 'standard industry contracts', they are at liberty to sell their individual concert rights without any RIAA member having a say in this.
Just like one of the top requests for enhancement in the Java bug-parade states, covariant return types could have done most of the work of Generics without the additional clumsy syntax. (i.e. sub-classes could override return values of overriden methods to return sub-classes of the original return values instead)
overall, I'd rather have this than nothing...
Not to Israel, to Jordan and other friendlies...
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As one of those who fought for a stop to torture of suspected terrorists by the 'general security agency' here in Israel, and won -- I know that currently the U.S. is using Jordan and other friendly arab countries for its 'investigative' needs, and not Israel (as it used to do previously).
See this for example.
Better graphics, better sound -- no spy-ware... Dynomite rocks...
No I do not work for PopCap games, I'm just addicted to Dynomite -- which means my carpal tunneling syndrome has a carpal tunneling syndrome.
Bosses don't know what you've been doing the whole time is BTO, "Business Technology Optimization".
Bosses love acronyms... Bosses LOVE acronyms with the words "Business", "Technology" and "Optimization" in them. And you get some more cool hardware to play with in cause of 'saving money'...
I hope they don't try to burden this format with built-in DRM, because then it will 'flop' commercially so bad that it would put even Betacam to shame.
I've been waiting for the director's cut for what feels like ages. And it has just the scenes that I felt the lack of most in the original release... Too bad we can't view them in a proper cinema -- maybe in the 25th anniversary re-release, or something... I wish it weren't still missing the whole Tom Bombadil sub-plot... But the 'spirit' of the book is there.
Since it is setup to work as 'root' at all times. Maybe if you tinker with it to run as a user? Because otherwise it is a very nice and easy distribution for end-users.
Which means:
The Zire is not OS upgradeable... No Palm OS updates, nor Linux (not that you'd be currently able to cram Linux into a Palm's Flash ROM -- but that might change in the future). The information about this is not available in the online specs, only if you go to the feature compare chart are you able to learn this (almost at the bottom). Is Palm trying to obscure this information?
But I guess the target audience could care less about upgrading their OS. My guess is that they would care even less about a PDA in general...
Personally I think that the fine fine hackers of the Xbox Linux project have done a great job. Part of their motivation is the $200,000 prize, another part of the motivation is that Micro$oft is losing a bundle on each Xbox sold for which no games are bought -- but -- IMHO the bigger parts of the motivation is the pure hacking challenge and the quest for freedom in using hardware you own.
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It is "Mike's Protocol", as mentioned at the interview linked to from the previous post.
A language that can transform its own code easily, that has to be cool. If even for very limited 'fun' execrises in code obfuscation... :)
Tal
I agree completely.
...Now don't you wish you commented that emacs patch better? :)
While that donation is simply meant to 'monopolize' that college, and thus is wrong. I do believe that CS students (especially) are likely to gain a better and more complete level of understanding while using Open Source software -- if simply because of the fact that they will have lots of working source to look at, change what they dislike etc.
Does anyone know if any of the above can maintain XSLT transformations of the data as views? Much like you can create SQL views etc? That would be a usefull feature.
Instead of the big bang, you insensitive clod!... :)
Since obviously it was the same for Apple. With Microsoft investing just about the same amount of money in it, to keep a competitor afloat and Office on 'anoter operating system' to pull the rug from under some anti-trust arguments...
How long before Microsoft 'writes off' its Apple investment?...
If I'm watching some porn and my girlfriend walks into the room, she asks me to send her the URL.
What I am considering for my album: ;)
1. Distribute freely as 160bps (-r3mix) MP3s over P2P, Web etc.
2. Place "Please tip artists at URL" text in the ID3 tag and set up a tip-jar (ala tipster) on my site; Ask (politely, no DRM) for $2.0 for those enjoying my entire album, 25c per song otherwise - 'Honor-system-wise'.
3. Offer a 'no-middleman' directly-sold CD for $4 - $5. Cost is roughly $1.
4. Profit?...
I figure that those who enjoy my music *and* can afford it, will pay / buy the album, like they would in a store. Those who don't/can't -- would not have bought the album anyway. Basically this is Shareware Music...
And this way I get more per-album than through a label *and* I support freedom as I see it. Labels are just over-rated advertising and public-relations agencies... <plug>So why don't you preview an MP3 of my latest track before vocals and before mastering...</plug>
This is not meant as flame-bait -- I've really tried to learn Perl. Even though I'm a 'real' programmer, I am not biased against scripting languages -- in fact, I think that the so-called 'duct-tape' languages are super-useful and important to technology in general.
Having said that, IMHO:
a) Perl, in the quick-and-dirty sense, is too dirty and not quick enough.
b) Have you ever seen C-obfuscation championship code? Now have you seen a Perl program that does anything more than "Hello World"? Notice the similarities?
Now I know that you can write bad code in any language, but bad-code in Perl is what I call 'job-security encryption' as you will never be able to fire the person who wrote the code, no matter how bad it is, because no one else will be able to read it. Either you re-write completely it or you keep that hacker...
On a side note, speed optimization in Perl tend to create spaghetti code with weird symbols for meat-balls. And I love meat-balls.
And most likely sanctioned by the artists. If so, then this is an original recording made at the permission of the artists, and not in a studio owned by an RIAA member.
Since most artists still keep concert rights in 'standard industry contracts', they are at liberty to sell their individual concert rights without any RIAA member having a say in this.
Just like one of the top requests for enhancement in the Java bug-parade states, covariant return types could have done most of the work of Generics without the additional clumsy syntax. (i.e. sub-classes could override return values of overriden methods to return sub-classes of the original return values instead)
overall, I'd rather have this than nothing...
As one of those who fought for a stop to torture of suspected terrorists by the 'general security agency' here in Israel, and won -- I know that currently the U.S. is using Jordan and other friendly arab countries for its 'investigative' needs, and not Israel (as it used to do previously).
See this for example.
Namely, what are you views on activist use of hacking/cracking to promote political views?
Better graphics, better sound -- no spy-ware... Dynomite rocks...
No I do not work for PopCap games, I'm just addicted to Dynomite -- which means my carpal tunneling syndrome has a carpal tunneling syndrome.
Sorry, couldn't resist. It would look like a giant molecule, though!
Bosses don't know what you've been doing the whole time is BTO, "Business Technology Optimization".
Bosses love acronyms... Bosses LOVE acronyms with the words "Business", "Technology" and "Optimization" in them.
And you get some more cool hardware to play with in cause of 'saving money'...
We have to know, we've been wondering forever.
Any has $0.02 to say otherwise? :)
I hope they don't try to burden this format with built-in DRM, because then it will 'flop' commercially so bad that it would put even Betacam to shame.
I've been waiting for the director's cut for what feels like ages. And it has just the scenes that I felt the lack of most in the original release... Too bad we can't view them in a proper cinema -- maybe in the 25th anniversary re-release, or something...
I wish it weren't still missing the whole Tom Bombadil sub-plot... But the 'spirit' of the book is there.
Steps: 1. Call the MOR(O)AN-1... 2. Dial 69... 3. Done.
Oh wait... *doh*
Since it is setup to work as 'root' at all times. Maybe if you tinker with it to run as a user? Because otherwise it is a very nice and easy distribution for end-users.
Which means: The Zire is not OS upgradeable... No Palm OS updates, nor Linux (not that you'd be currently able to cram Linux into a Palm's Flash ROM -- but that might change in the future). The information about this is not available in the online specs, only if you go to the feature compare chart are you able to learn this (almost at the bottom). Is Palm trying to obscure this information?
But I guess the target audience could care less about upgrading their OS. My guess is that they would care even less about a PDA in general...
Personally I think that the fine fine hackers of the Xbox Linux project have done a great job. Part of their motivation is the $200,000 prize, another part of the motivation is that Micro$oft is losing a bundle on each Xbox sold for which no games are bought -- but -- IMHO the bigger parts of the motivation is the pure hacking challenge and the quest for freedom in using hardware you own.