On the contrary. We must be robots, working at 100% efficiency between sleep cycles, Comrade Tellarin!! Play is for the weak. At least until that little pecker gets anywhere near my Team Snipers ranking.
Only until the inevitable "Monopoly Moment" (aka, the Great Scattering) where controllers go flying, the console breaks against the wall, and the unstoppable primal scream of Hulk Smash!! Then who Pwnz who, eh?!? Or so I've heard.
Not to mention that a simple check to see what IP the traffic comes from (what is SiteAdvisor's IP?) can dish up a different site than what the general public will be seeing.
In all cases, care needs to be taken with reviewing software. Because code is openly available for open source, governments must make due diligence in reviewing the code themselves to be sure that it is safe for their purpose, no matter who advocates the software. This is a separate discussion from whether the software feature set supports what they need to do vs what commercial software will do. Commercial software does not allow for this, so F/OSS has an advantage here.
The article is dead on. The RIAA is trying to outlaw ripping from your own CDs (mumble mumble...cold dead hands), which leaves us in the next format after CDs: downloadable DRM music. As long as there is obsolesense built into it, it fits the model that they've worked on over the past few decades. All they have to do is push another format in another 10 years and the cycle repeats.
With Yahoo calling for DRM-less music, we have one player in our corner, but they're no music giant.
That's exactly what I do. I rip from my personal CDs using the old Obsequieum tools on the Linux box which houses the music repository. I run mt-daapd, samba, and Twonkyvision so that the muic is accessible from various client systems in my home.
Once the Linux version does come, I'm sure lots of people will give it a spin, but there had better be UPnP and Rendezvous plugins to take care of exising setups.
So use mine.;-) Seriously, this was written in Rails specifically because of the fast time to production. It was both a learning experience in Rails over a couple of weekends and a useful tool in the end.
Haw hAw HAW!!! Seriously, the book comes with a trial for O'Reilly's Safari. I found that reading the PDF, I finished the book in a weekend, while had I cracked the physical pages it would have taken me longer. I was able to keep the Safari window (no relation to Apple's browser, I'm on a PC =-P) in a Firefox tab and flip back to the book when I had a 5-10 minute break, or even instead of checking my non-work email. Now, what to do with all this spare time...
We're not friggin robots. Even given that we have time to post a tiny blurb on slashdot, people still need time to breathe and relax. Burn yourself out if you like, but don't demand that the rest of us treat this job as if we were trading on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange.
I was hoping for more, but a good part of the book seems to be rehash from the first book. The emphasis on PAA is almost useless to me because I try to do everything through my Treo 600. Still, after having looked at numerous Palm programs, I've found that NOTHING fits. The PAA, of course, being a sheet of paper at its most basic, is ultimately flexible. I'm not a palm programmer, so I can't "just write something for palm" to scratch my own need.
Instead I've done the next best thing, which is to write a Rails app for this, which is, of course, accessible from the Treo and just about any other place. http://www.shokk.com/Todo/
All in all, there are some very good nuggets of info concentrated into the fewer pages of this book from the whole of the previous book, which did not wholly deal with time management and had those ideas spread throughout the book. For an idea of what the book talks about, see the video here.
How about any online services that just don't operate in China? You can't be clean and operate in China at the same time if you are an online service, it seems.
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Ah, but browser speed and performance are nothing if no one wants to use the damn thing. I simply don't see the same level of developer interest in extensions in Opera that Firefox has. There is so much community behind it.
I'm also very impressed by the new patching system when they rolled out FF 1.5.0.1, so they've got security covered very well. The extensions and security offer functionality and I say FF wins there.
My beef with iTunes is the memory footprint. However, because I can do a Rendezvous stream over an SSH pipe, it's the tool for me right now.
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A History of Opera, the Cliffnotes edition:
They made it. A few people bought it for a while. Mozilla and Firefox borrowed some of their ideas. Firefox takes off in a way that Opera could not. Opera makes their browser free and stuff it full of ads. Still not good enough, Opera takes all ads off their browsers. Firefox releases version 1.5. Opera cries "what about me?" as it's broken down on the side of the road while the bullet train that is Firefox advances towards IE.
Sorry, pick up hitchhikers will only slow us down on the way to meeting IE. Thanks for playing.
Security holes aside, there is still the unsolvable problem between chair and keyboard. As long as there is a human at the controls, computers will get Fubar'd. I think once Macs hit 10-15% market share we'll see more of this on their side of the computing world. Until then, they're probably dealing with a higher class of user. Same tends to be true for Linuxes, but look for more "problems" as their popularity rises.
I believe they will be selling a service. Glad to hear that they are not thinking of the customer's safety first. *sigh* So much for Trusted Computing.
Actually it's a playground where I tool around with lots of new tech to build my chops. A few code hacks are the only unique contributions there. Definitely nothing earthshaking to see there. Move along.
It doesn't make my comments any less valid, but thanks for your little porn industry insight.
Am I the last one alive with his own brain after the Body Snatchers came through?
Yes. And you are so cool and unique for it.
Regarding del.icio.us, I get value in seeing what other links Ruby coders are looking into, for one example. Or maybe other people who set up their Harmony 360 remotes. Or other neat uses for an NSLU2. Or maybe hunt down a recipe for dinner tonight.
There's value in communicating with other people - you should try it some time. Not everyone talks to other people to "fill a massive void", but hopefully it makes you at least feel good to be so dismissive of the ones who *do* need to fill a void. Good of you to still live out that old high school popularity contest throughout the rest of your life. Have fun with all that.
I'm guessing he thinks every TLD must produce a competitor to Google or it's not worth having the TLD. Maybe he can scratch his own itch and make the next big hit on.us (maybe he could be dumb.ass.us?) or just live with it.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope, not Canadian, but...
"I'M the future Billy! I'M the future!"
Wow, lots of heated responses. But then I use FF anyway. =)
On the contrary. We must be robots, working at 100% efficiency between sleep cycles, Comrade Tellarin!! Play is for the weak. At least until that little pecker gets anywhere near my Team Snipers ranking.
Only until the inevitable "Monopoly Moment" (aka, the Great Scattering) where controllers go flying, the console breaks against the wall, and the unstoppable primal scream of Hulk Smash!! Then who Pwnz who, eh?!? Or so I've heard.
Not to mention that a simple check to see what IP the traffic comes from (what is SiteAdvisor's IP?) can dish up a different site than what the general public will be seeing.
When IE6 on XPSP2 detects ActiveX it asks if it can launch the ActiveX control. When was the last time you used a Windows system?
In all cases, care needs to be taken with reviewing software. Because code is openly available for open source, governments must make due diligence in reviewing the code themselves to be sure that it is safe for their purpose, no matter who advocates the software. This is a separate discussion from whether the software feature set supports what they need to do vs what commercial software will do. Commercial software does not allow for this, so F/OSS has an advantage here.
The article is dead on. The RIAA is trying to outlaw ripping from your own CDs (mumble mumble...cold dead hands), which leaves us in the next format after CDs: downloadable DRM music. As long as there is obsolesense built into it, it fits the model that they've worked on over the past few decades. All they have to do is push another format in another 10 years and the cycle repeats.
With Yahoo calling for DRM-less music, we have one player in our corner, but they're no music giant.
DAMMIT! Now I have encrypt my files all over again!
Hopefully that Quantum Pretangle Cloning will stay unscannable.
That's exactly what I do. I rip from my personal CDs using the old Obsequieum tools on the Linux box which houses the music repository. I run mt-daapd, samba, and Twonkyvision so that the muic is accessible from various client systems in my home.
Once the Linux version does come, I'm sure lots of people will give it a spin, but there had better be UPnP and Rendezvous plugins to take care of exising setups.
Er... it's been a while since I've seen one of those. =) /me adds Duck Soup to Netflix queue.
Why, in fact we *do* have Oracle Calendar! I just don't like Oracle Calendar. =)
So use mine. ;-)
Seriously, this was written in Rails specifically because of the fast time to production. It was both a learning experience in Rails over a couple of weekends and a useful tool in the end.
Haw hAw HAW!!!
Seriously, the book comes with a trial for O'Reilly's Safari. I found that reading the PDF, I finished the book in a weekend, while had I cracked the physical pages it would have taken me longer. I was able to keep the Safari window (no relation to Apple's browser, I'm on a PC =-P) in a Firefox tab and flip back to the book when I had a 5-10 minute break, or even instead of checking my non-work email. Now, what to do with all this spare time...
We're not friggin robots. Even given that we have time to post a tiny blurb on slashdot, people still need time to breathe and relax. Burn yourself out if you like, but don't demand that the rest of us treat this job as if we were trading on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange.
I was hoping for more, but a good part of the book seems to be rehash from the first book. The emphasis on PAA is almost useless to me because I try to do everything through my Treo 600. Still, after having looked at numerous Palm programs, I've found that NOTHING fits. The PAA, of course, being a sheet of paper at its most basic, is ultimately flexible. I'm not a palm programmer, so I can't "just write something for palm" to scratch my own need.
Instead I've done the next best thing, which is to write a Rails app for this, which is, of course, accessible from the Treo and just about any other place. http://www.shokk.com/Todo/
All in all, there are some very good nuggets of info concentrated into the fewer pages of this book from the whole of the previous book, which did not wholly deal with time management and had those ideas spread throughout the book.
For an idea of what the book talks about, see the video here.
How about any online services that just don't operate in China? You can't be clean and operate in China at the same time if you are an online service, it seems.
Ah, but browser speed and performance are nothing if no one wants to use the damn thing. I simply don't see the same level of developer interest in extensions in Opera that Firefox has. There is so much community behind it.
I'm also very impressed by the new patching system when they rolled out FF 1.5.0.1, so they've got security covered very well. The extensions and security offer functionality and I say FF wins there.
Sorry, Opera.
My beef with iTunes is the memory footprint. However, because I can do a Rendezvous stream over an SSH pipe, it's the tool for me right now.
A History of Opera, the Cliffnotes edition:
They made it.
A few people bought it for a while.
Mozilla and Firefox borrowed some of their ideas.
Firefox takes off in a way that Opera could not.
Opera makes their browser free and stuff it full of ads.
Still not good enough, Opera takes all ads off their browsers.
Firefox releases version 1.5.
Opera cries "what about me?" as it's broken down on the side of the road while the bullet train that is Firefox advances towards IE.
Sorry, pick up hitchhikers will only slow us down on the way to meeting IE. Thanks for playing.
Security holes aside, there is still the unsolvable problem between chair and keyboard. As long as there is a human at the controls, computers will get Fubar'd. I think once Macs hit 10-15% market share we'll see more of this on their side of the computing world. Until then, they're probably dealing with a higher class of user. Same tends to be true for Linuxes, but look for more "problems" as their popularity rises.
I believe they will be selling a service. Glad to hear that they are not thinking of the customer's safety first. *sigh* So much for Trusted Computing.
Actually it's a playground where I tool around with lots of new tech to build my chops. A few code hacks are the only unique contributions there. Definitely nothing earthshaking to see there. Move along.
It doesn't make my comments any less valid, but thanks for your little porn industry insight.
Am I the last one alive with his own brain after the Body Snatchers came through?
Yes. And you are so cool and unique for it.
Regarding del.icio.us, I get value in seeing what other links Ruby coders are looking into, for one example. Or maybe other people who set up their Harmony 360 remotes. Or other neat uses for an NSLU2. Or maybe hunt down a recipe for dinner tonight.
There's value in communicating with other people - you should try it some time. Not everyone talks to other people to "fill a massive void", but hopefully it makes you at least feel good to be so dismissive of the ones who *do* need to fill a void. Good of you to still live out that old high school popularity contest throughout the rest of your life. Have fun with all that.
I'm guessing he thinks every TLD must produce a competitor to Google or it's not worth having the TLD. Maybe he can scratch his own itch and make the next big hit on .us (maybe he could be dumb.ass.us?) or just live with it.