DA's contrast between american and english humor was interesting - I've never seen the "failure" take on it before, although it works quite well.
In even the worst american humor (Jim Carey, in my opinion) the protagonist accomplishes something.. There is catharsis, the impression that he has done something.
While not all British humor centers around failure, it is certainly present. If you think about MP's "Holy Grail", the knights of the round table are certainly failures.. Sir Robin, the brave? ".. He bravely ran away...".. And riding pretend horses while banging coconuts.. these guys are complete losers..
I've always found english humor much better than american humor, but then people here have always thought i was strange, too.
This actually scares me a little.. Because if the Supreme Court takes this case, that's it. They set a precedent, and pretty much that's law. The SC rarely goes against precedent..
And this is scarey, because it's not Ma Bell.. They can't divide it up geographically.. The supreme court is going to define "Operating System" and "Application" and "Internet Browser" for all time to come.
Man I hope they know what they're doing. I'd love to see m$ broken up, but could it be too high a price to pay?
All we need is a faulty SC definition of "Internet Browser" mangling our legal system for awhile.
I bet Time/Warner/AOL pays close attention to this.
Umm... not really. At first glance they are quite similar, but there are big syntactic differences. Especially with pointers and arrays and the mixing of the two.. Doesn't fly so well in Java..
And while the syntax is just different enough to frustrate the newbie, throw in other things like new (which behave quite differently in C++ and Java), and the very different behaviors of constructors/destructors, and a host of other things.. The similarity of syntax is almost a hurdle to understanding the two languages.
As far as what to learn on, I don't really know.. My first language was Apple BASIC.. second was Pascal. Third was VAX assembly (talk about useless). Then Java. Then C. Then some x86 asm. Then some Perl (enough to do some CGI for Apache). Now I'm trying to learn C++. Yes, I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from a four year university and have never programmed in C++. I'm not bitter.. no, not at all. But I can program VAX assembly real good!!! Anyone want to hire me??
In college I had a class with a girl who was a nude model for the art department. There was also a guy in there from the art department, and they explained that when you're drawing/painting nudes, you are concentrating so much on painting you don't really think about the fact that there's a naked woman in front of you! ---
I think alot of people are missing the point of the project.. It's not about speed, although that's a neat side effect. It's about being able to pull boot instructions from a network without the limitations of the technologies that already do that. Look far down on the page.. they have a section called "Why we are doing this.." It's not a speed thing..
wish ---
Re:Now if they'll just make them I-opener friendly
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Linux BIOS
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Actually, they are doing this so their cluster nodes can get boot instructions from the network.
For instance,
"Hi. I'm computer #42 - how should I boot?"
"Hello computer #42. Boot diskless, and mount / to blah..blah..blah.."
But you know this since you read the page before posting. ---
There is a difference between MD and MD-Data. MDs cost about a dollar fifty, and store music with a lossy compression scheme (ATRAC) that people may or may not hear a difference with. But that is not the issue. Discussion of MD is irrelevant.
MD-Data, the one a MD-based digital camera would use, still cost $15 if you buy them individually, or about $11.50 if you buy them in bulk.
Yes, they are rewritable. Yes they are cool. They are also expensive. (I use them in my Yamaha MD8).
So if you were only ever going to use one disc at a time, the MD-Data would be a better choice - buy one, never buy another. But if you need to carry 10 discs with you at a time (you take alot of pictures) then it starts to add up. Buying those first 10 MD-Data before your first photo shoot or vacation is a bit pricey (esp. after buying the camera) but 10 CDRs is pretty cheap.. in the long run it may cost more to use the CDRs, but you don't have to spend a bunch of money up front for your media.
I actually got an AOL disk in the mail - back in the day, before they started mailing you coasters - that had a boot sector virus on it.. Straight out of the shrinkwrap!
wish --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
Personally, i enjoy sitting in my reading chair wit a nice, big, hardback book in my hand. I don't even buy paperbacks if there is a hard back available. Its something about the weight of the book, the sturdiness of the binding, seeing all your books, all lined up...
I've tried reading on the computer. I don't like it.
I love my Palm IIIxe to death, but I don't like reading books on it either.
Maybe I'm a purist, maybe I'm backward.. mabye I'm just obsessive-compulsive (you should see the organization in my antique glass-paneled bookshelf). Whatever the reason, I like the printed tree-killing books.
Publish on the internet, publish on the Palm. But don't skip the real thing.
wish --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
I can't get to CNET, so I haven't read the article.
But when have we ever really been anonymous on the internet?
Working in the telecommunications field, I can tell you that hardware/software exists that can, should someone want to, track every call from your house to an ISP, and print it out in a neat little list.
Compare that with the server logs at the ISP and we can associate name with IP.
When you've got a name/IP association, you are no longer anonymous.
Now, i have no idea about any laws governing this kind of thing, but regardless of laws... If it's possible to do, someone is doing it.
It becomes even easier when your ISP is your phone company (SWBell, Spring, AT&T) as most of the new broadband technologies seem to be.
Anonymity is a myth.
I will repeat - if it's possible to do, someone is doing it. And once it's been done, no court of law can undo it.
wish --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
actually, if you took the time to visit the site before posting your smut, you would see that this X server written in Java is running on both Windows 98 and Mac.
If X (do you even know what X is?), Java, and several operating systems are offtopic on slashdot, that eliminates a great deal of content.
Besides, who are you to decide what is on and off topic? You don't even post with your real name! --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
man, i would just like the z-code for all the old infocom games.. those were the best. --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
We must all be very nice to microsoft. They have had to patch many of their backdoors, and they are getting very edgy.. DillDog the Hacker should be careful lest they erupt on him as they did in the Slashdot DDoS attack. --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
Re:The grim, dark history of MP3
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Some corrections:
The RIAA did oppose CD-Rs and recordable tape.. they just lost those battles.
Also, the Grateful Dead encouraged the taping of concerts and the trading of those live tapes for no profit. They were greatly opposed to selling those shows for a profit.
When they found a CD store that carried "imports," rather than sue the place out of business, they just bought it. The imports went away, the employees kept their job, and everyone was happy.
Maybe Metallica should buy napster....
wish --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver Space ships flying In the yellow haze of the sun There were children crying And colors flying All around the chosen ones All in a dream, all in a dream The loading had begun They were flying Mother Nature's Silver seed to a new home in the sun Flying Mother Nature's Silver seed to a new home
-- Neil Young, After The Goldrush --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
I use PROLOG almost exclusively for CGI scripting. When I am not using PROLOG, I use MS-DOS Batch language run in DOSEmu. --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
The internet is a public place. No one ever said your IP address was confidential.
This bait-and-switch tactic has been used by the government for years. Under-cover cop drug dealers spring to mind.. "Sting operations"...
The illusion of freedom offered by the internet is extremely deceptive. You should act on-line how you would act in public. If you would lift up 12 year old girls' skirts in public, then by all means get on with your kid porn trading!
wish --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
Send and receive PGP-encrypted e-mail through the DoE server with your palm pilot. That'll teach 'em! --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
This story can be found in the preface of the Big Green Book, the Big Blue Book, or either of the leatherbound books. (I think the names are the Complete Hitchhiker's Guide and the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, or something along those lines.) I have them all at home.:) --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
In this post "the software" will apply not only to napster, but to gnutella, and other various clones of the same or similar idea.
Let me start off by agreeing with your claim that music piracy is wrong. You are correct, there are no valid excuses for music piracy.
But you fail to make a very important distinction, between the software (and its authors) and the users of the software. The software is not responsible for its use. And furthermore, the authors of the software are not responsible for its use.
If I have my story correctly, the inventor of dynamite (wasn't it Nobel?) made it to blow up buildings and mountains and peaceful stuff, not to be used in war. In fact, he was horrified when he found out it was being used in war.
It's not his fault, or the dynamite's fault, or the company that manufactured the dynamite's fault if someone uses it for bad things - it is that person's fault.
Likewise, it is not the software's fault, or the authors' fault, if someone uses the software for piracy.
You can't sue someone for making something that allows people to commit crimes.
We might as well sue Microsoft, because their operating system allows people to use a computer for commiting crime.
I think most "slashdotters" would agree (and I'm sure they will correct me if they do not:) that the concern is the limiting of freedom to use a piece of software, because some choose to misuse it.
later wish --- $ su who are you? $ whoami whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
Slashdot Mirror
Note: some of the Monty Python troupe are known as leaders of their field
I meant the characters on screen were complete losers. :) I have the utmost respect for Monty Python (regardless or their credentials).
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DA's contrast between american and english humor was interesting - I've never seen the "failure" take on it before, although it works quite well.
In even the worst american humor (Jim Carey, in my opinion) the protagonist accomplishes something.. There is catharsis, the impression that he has done something.
While not all British humor centers around failure, it is certainly present. If you think about MP's "Holy Grail", the knights of the round table are certainly failures.. Sir Robin, the brave? ".. He bravely ran away...".. And riding pretend horses while banging coconuts.. these guys are complete losers..
I've always found english humor much better than american humor, but then people here have always thought i was strange, too.
wish
---
This actually scares me a little.. Because if the Supreme Court takes this case, that's it. They set a precedent, and pretty much that's law. The SC rarely goes against precedent..
And this is scarey, because it's not Ma Bell.. They can't divide it up geographically.. The supreme court is going to define "Operating System" and "Application" and "Internet Browser" for all time to come.
Man I hope they know what they're doing. I'd love to see m$ broken up, but could it be too high a price to pay?
All we need is a faulty SC definition of "Internet Browser" mangling our legal system for awhile.
I bet Time/Warner/AOL pays close attention to this.
wish
---
Umm... Java is pure C/C++ syntax.
Umm... not really. At first glance they are quite similar, but there are big syntactic differences. Especially with pointers and arrays and the mixing of the two.. Doesn't fly so well in Java..
And while the syntax is just different enough to frustrate the newbie, throw in other things like new (which behave quite differently in C++ and Java), and the very different behaviors of constructors/destructors, and a host of other things.. The similarity of syntax is almost a hurdle to understanding the two languages.
As far as what to learn on, I don't really know.. My first language was Apple BASIC.. second was Pascal. Third was VAX assembly (talk about useless). Then Java. Then C. Then some x86 asm. Then some Perl (enough to do some CGI for Apache). Now I'm trying to learn C++. Yes, I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from a four year university and have never programmed in C++. I'm not bitter.. no, not at all. But I can program VAX assembly real good!!! Anyone want to hire me??
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In college I had a class with a girl who was a nude model for the art department. There was also a guy in there from the art department, and they explained that when you're drawing/painting nudes, you are concentrating so much on painting you don't really think about the fact that there's a naked woman in front of you!
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I think alot of people are missing the point of the project.. It's not about speed, although that's a neat side effect. It's about being able to pull boot instructions from a network without the limitations of the technologies that already do that. Look far down on the page.. they have a section called "Why we are doing this.." It's not a speed thing..
wish
---
Actually, they are doing this so their cluster nodes can get boot instructions from the network.
For instance,
"Hi. I'm computer #42 - how should I boot?"
"Hello computer #42. Boot diskless, and mount / to blah..blah..blah.."
But you know this since you read the page before posting.
---
There is a difference between MD and MD-Data. MDs cost about a dollar fifty, and store music with a lossy compression scheme (ATRAC) that people may or may not hear a difference with. But that is not the issue. Discussion of MD is irrelevant.
MD-Data, the one a MD-based digital camera would use, still cost $15 if you buy them individually, or about $11.50 if you buy them in bulk.
Yes, they are rewritable. Yes they are cool. They are also expensive. (I use them in my Yamaha MD8).
So if you were only ever going to use one disc at a time, the MD-Data would be a better choice - buy one, never buy another. But if you need to carry 10 discs with you at a time (you take alot of pictures) then it starts to add up. Buying those first 10 MD-Data before your first photo shoot or vacation is a bit pricey (esp. after buying the camera) but 10 CDRs is pretty cheap.. in the long run it may cost more to use the CDRs, but you don't have to spend a bunch of money up front for your media.
wish
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Well, MD-Data still costs $15 a piece.. that's not really practical..
wish
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I actually got an AOL disk in the mail - back in the day, before they started mailing you coasters - that had a boot sector virus on it.. Straight out of the shrinkwrap!
wish
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
Personally, i enjoy sitting in my reading chair wit a nice, big, hardback book in my hand. I don't even buy paperbacks if there is a hard back available. Its something about the weight of the book, the sturdiness of the binding, seeing all your books, all lined up...
I've tried reading on the computer. I don't like it.
I love my Palm IIIxe to death, but I don't like reading books on it either.
Maybe I'm a purist, maybe I'm backward.. mabye I'm just obsessive-compulsive (you should see the organization in my antique glass-paneled bookshelf). Whatever the reason, I like the printed tree-killing books.
Publish on the internet, publish on the Palm. But don't skip the real thing.
wish
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
I can't get to CNET, so I haven't read the article.
But when have we ever really been anonymous on the internet?
Working in the telecommunications field, I can tell you that hardware/software exists that can, should someone want to, track every call from your house to an ISP, and print it out in a neat little list.
Compare that with the server logs at the ISP and we can associate name with IP.
When you've got a name/IP association, you are no longer anonymous.
Now, i have no idea about any laws governing this kind of thing, but regardless of laws... If it's possible to do, someone is doing it.
It becomes even easier when your ISP is your phone company (SWBell, Spring, AT&T) as most of the new broadband technologies seem to be.
Anonymity is a myth.
I will repeat - if it's possible to do, someone is doing it. And once it's been done, no court of law can undo it.
wish
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
actually, if you took the time to visit the site before posting your smut, you would see that this X server written in Java is running on both Windows 98 and Mac.
If X (do you even know what X is?), Java, and several operating systems are offtopic on slashdot, that eliminates a great deal of content.
Besides, who are you to decide what is on and off topic? You don't even post with your real name!
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
was it me, or were there screenshots on wiredx.net of various window managers running inside of netscape..
sounds like what microsoft failed miserably at with ie4.
putting the entire desktop inside a web page..
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
man, i would just like the z-code for all the old infocom games.. those were the best.
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
We must all be very nice to microsoft. They have had to patch many of their backdoors, and they are getting very edgy.. DillDog the Hacker should be careful lest they erupt on him as they did in the Slashdot DDoS attack.
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
Some corrections:
The RIAA did oppose CD-Rs and recordable tape.. they just lost those battles.
Also, the Grateful Dead encouraged the taping of concerts and the trading of those live tapes for no profit. They were greatly opposed to selling those shows for a profit.
When they found a CD store that carried "imports," rather than sue the place out of business, they just bought it. The imports went away, the employees kept their job, and everyone was happy.
Maybe Metallica should buy napster....
wish
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver Space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun
There were children crying
And colors flying
All around the chosen ones
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
They were flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home in the sun
Flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home
-- Neil Young, After The Goldrush
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
I use PROLOG almost exclusively for CGI scripting. When I am not using PROLOG, I use MS-DOS Batch language run in DOSEmu.
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
The internet is a public place. No one ever said your IP address was confidential.
This bait-and-switch tactic has been used by the government for years. Under-cover cop drug dealers spring to mind.. "Sting operations"...
The illusion of freedom offered by the internet is extremely deceptive. You should act on-line how you would act in public. If you would lift up 12 year old girls' skirts in public, then by all means get on with your kid porn trading!
wish
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
Send and receive PGP-encrypted e-mail through the DoE server with your palm pilot. That'll teach 'em!
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
"I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. "
--Henry David Thoreau
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
I rented the film at blockbuster.
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
This story can be found in the preface of the Big Green Book, the Big Blue Book, or either of the leatherbound books. (I think the names are the Complete Hitchhiker's Guide and the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, or something along those lines.) I have them all at home. :)
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.
Let me start off by agreeing with your claim that music piracy is wrong. You are correct, there are no valid excuses for music piracy.
But you fail to make a very important distinction, between the software (and its authors) and the users of the software. The software is not responsible for its use. And furthermore, the authors of the software are not responsible for its use.
If I have my story correctly, the inventor of dynamite (wasn't it Nobel?) made it to blow up buildings and mountains and peaceful stuff, not to be used in war. In fact, he was horrified when he found out it was being used in war.
It's not his fault, or the dynamite's fault, or the company that manufactured the dynamite's fault if someone uses it for bad things - it is that person's fault.
Likewise, it is not the software's fault, or the authors' fault, if someone uses the software for piracy.
You can't sue someone for making something that allows people to commit crimes.
We might as well sue Microsoft, because their operating system allows people to use a computer for commiting crime.
I think most "slashdotters" would agree (and I'm sure they will correct me if they do not :) that the concern is the limiting of freedom to use a piece of software, because some choose to misuse it.
later
wish
---
$ su
who are you?
$ whoami
whoami: no login associated with uid 1010.