I can't see any advantage of this over "traditional" smart munitions at all (and a lot of disadvantages). It'll be a big hit with this crowd, though, because it's a step toward realizing our SF fantasies. As for me, I'll be impressed when they finally deploy photon torpedoes...
I would like to know how they differentiate between files that are copyrighted and pirated vs. those that are either not copyrighted or are being stored legitimately. Just askin', because I've always suspected that the RIAA has a dual agenda here. The first (publicly acknowledged) one is to thwart piracy of works copyrighted by their members. The second is to stamp out a distribution channel that is legitimate but outside their control. They are a cartel defending their monopoly on distribution, and the latter agenda may actually be the more important one over the long haul.
The petition was filed by the National Association of Broadcaters of which Clear Channel is a member.
I'm absolutely sure it was done over Clear Channel's strident objections, too.
Get real: This kind of anti-competitive crap is almost always done through industry associations. It makes better PR and helps to legitimize it to people who don't know any better.
It's part of a long tradition of geek obfuscation, or the practice of throwing out arcane terms without explanation in order to separate the cognescenti from the unwashed masses and to bewilder the latter. It's "I know something you don't, and I ain't tellin'."
If you're too much of an idiot to know the Nigerian Penal Code by heart, maybe you don't belong here. Or so it goes.
At this point, I have no sympathy for people who fall for this.
It's not just a matter of being stupid or gullible, either; they're appealing directly to greed and the willingness of people to get involved in shady or illegal dealings on the promise of a quick and easy payoff. So no, I don't have any sympathy either...
Practicalities aside - and I don't think they're insurmountable here - libraries are going to have to continue to rethink the services they provide as the world around them changes. That may mean cutting back on some legacy services - such as paper-based books - to free up resources for digital media. If they don't do this, public libraries will increasingly be viewed as irrelevant by the communities they serve, and support from those communities will wane as a result.
Oh, please. Why is anybody who wanders outside of the Microsoft cage a "zealot"? What we really need is a pithy word for people who willingly wallow in the same cesspool year after year, especially when it's so easy now to climb out...
Umm... I believe they said $1 per CPU hour. You'd probably have to send many millions of messages just to get your first buck.
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UML is really great for communication of designs. But if you invest too much into the UML you end up "coding" the proposed design and it becomes too hard to modify.
Couldn't agree more. It's all about communication and coordination. An overly detailed UML design can take as long (or longer) to put together as the code that implements it, and it can be an equally great pain to modify when the need arises. There may be no way around it for large projects involving disparate groups (development, marketing, project management, end users) that must all stay on the same page, but for smaller projects I've always been more comfortable when the design and prototype grow up together.
Back in my student days I had a 100g bottle of pure caffeine powder that I used for all-nighters and such. I'd dissolve it in water at about 10 mg/ml and then take as much of that (usually 10 ml or so) as I needed.
So one day I come home from a class and this guy I know is sitting on the sofa looking wired and jittery as hell. Turns out he had seen the bottle of caffeine, and being into drugs of all sorts he reasoned that if a little caffeine could give you a slight lift, then imaging what a lot of it could do. It was hard to tell for sure, but my guess at the time was that he did around 5-10 grams, and probably some of that through his nose.
He didn't die, but he didn't sleep for quite a while, either...
Hardly IBM, since they seem to be rapidly converting themselves into good guys - this story will probably elevate them to the status of demi-godhood.
Knowing how full the world is of irony, and how the powers that currently defend Linux will someday seek to control it, it'll be interesting to see how we all feel about IBM 5 years from now...
still it takes 75 channels to find worthwhile content.
Why do we need "channels" or networks anyway? That's a concept that will soon become obsolete. At some point we'll be getting our programming a la carte (as discussed in another article the other day) on something resembling a pay-per-view basis. It's happening in music, and it'll happen in video entertainment as well...
Choice is nothing new, it's just that the types of choices we all have are changing.
I think the problem is that even trivial decisions have become more demanding and time-consuming. especially if you're a compulsive optimizer. It's one thing to take your time deciding important issues like career and whether to have children, and quite another if you're just trying to buy laundry detergent...
I think marketers actually inflate the problem on purpose, making it seem that there is more choice than there actually is
At least in grocery stores, they do that to grab as much shelf space as they can. That's why every brand of dish liquid comes in a bazillion (at last count) different colors, fragrances, sizes, etc. You may have three basic choices, but it looks like hundreds and it takes up half of an aisle of shelf.
Every fork, every distro is one more nail in Linux's chances on the desktop. Linux is divinding and conquering itself.
They're all running the same basic kernel. They differ mostly with respect to the applications they include, defaults for window managers, installation programs, etc. It doesn't make a hell of a lot of difference which one you choose, really.
But you sound like someone who'll probably be happier under the Microsoft umbrella, anyway. And if your pockets are deep and you can live happily in that cage, why not?
Sometimes too much intelligence can interfere with success. E.g., I've known people that became successful at least in part because they were too naive to be discouraged by the improbability of their own success. Not that they were stupid -- far from that -- but they might not have perservered as they did had they really known the difficulties ahead.
There are also very intelligent people who are simply uninterested in money as a metric of success and choose not to make the pursuit of it a central goal in their lives. Some of them become successful anyway, and others content themselves with a more "humble" life.
Of course you're assuming that they actually wanted this mail that they "agreed to receive". It could be that many/most of them actually did consider it to be spam. After all, they went to the effort to report it as such...
I can hopefully ignore the C++ nature of it for the most part
For anyone who doesn't want to "ignore the C++ nature of it," I would also recommend looking at gtkmm, a class library built upon GTK+. I've used it in a couple of projects so far and have generally had a pleasant experience.
everyone will be connected with Bush andBin Laden....
It doesn't take "six degrees" to separate W and Bin Laden. The Bin Laden family was a major investor in W's first company, Harkin Energy (of which he was CEO). That doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it does show what a small world we live in...
When will people learn that labelling people "terrorists" and killing them just creates new "terrorists" at an exponential rate?
Call me cynical, but I don't think that the Bushies are too concerned about that. They will say, "Bring 'em on," because what they really need is for the threat and the fear it creates to persist while they pursue the destruction of civil liberties and the feudalization of American society.
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I can't see any advantage of this over "traditional" smart munitions at all (and a lot of disadvantages). It'll be a big hit with this crowd, though, because it's a step toward realizing our SF fantasies. As for me, I'll be impressed when they finally deploy photon torpedoes...
I would like to know how they differentiate between files that are copyrighted and pirated vs. those that are either not copyrighted or are being stored legitimately. Just askin', because I've always suspected that the RIAA has a dual agenda here. The first (publicly acknowledged) one is to thwart piracy of works copyrighted by their members. The second is to stamp out a distribution channel that is legitimate but outside their control. They are a cartel defending their monopoly on distribution, and the latter agenda may actually be the more important one over the long haul.
I'm absolutely sure it was done over Clear Channel's strident objections, too.
Get real: This kind of anti-competitive crap is almost always done through industry associations. It makes better PR and helps to legitimize it to people who don't know any better.
"Lovely?" Is that some kind of sexual reference?
It's part of a long tradition of geek obfuscation, or the practice of throwing out arcane terms without explanation in order to separate the cognescenti from the unwashed masses and to bewilder the latter. It's "I know something you don't, and I ain't tellin'."
If you're too much of an idiot to know the Nigerian Penal Code by heart, maybe you don't belong here. Or so it goes.
It's not just a matter of being stupid or gullible, either; they're appealing directly to greed and the willingness of people to get involved in shady or illegal dealings on the promise of a quick and easy payoff. So no, I don't have any sympathy either...
Well, color me convinced...
Practicalities aside - and I don't think they're insurmountable here - libraries are going to have to continue to rethink the services they provide as the world around them changes. That may mean cutting back on some legacy services - such as paper-based books - to free up resources for digital media. If they don't do this, public libraries will increasingly be viewed as irrelevant by the communities they serve, and support from those communities will wane as a result.
Oh, please. Why is anybody who wanders outside of the Microsoft cage a "zealot"? What we really need is a pithy word for people who willingly wallow in the same cesspool year after year, especially when it's so easy now to climb out...
Of course the spammer is free not to accept your offer, too...
Umm... I believe they said $1 per CPU hour. You'd probably have to send many millions of messages just to get your first buck.
Couldn't agree more. It's all about communication and coordination. An overly detailed UML design can take as long (or longer) to put together as the code that implements it, and it can be an equally great pain to modify when the need arises. There may be no way around it for large projects involving disparate groups (development, marketing, project management, end users) that must all stay on the same page, but for smaller projects I've always been more comfortable when the design and prototype grow up together.
So one day I come home from a class and this guy I know is sitting on the sofa looking wired and jittery as hell. Turns out he had seen the bottle of caffeine, and being into drugs of all sorts he reasoned that if a little caffeine could give you a slight lift, then imaging what a lot of it could do. It was hard to tell for sure, but my guess at the time was that he did around 5-10 grams, and probably some of that through his nose.
He didn't die, but he didn't sleep for quite a while, either...
Knowing how full the world is of irony, and how the powers that currently defend Linux will someday seek to control it, it'll be interesting to see how we all feel about IBM 5 years from now...
Why do we need "channels" or networks anyway? That's a concept that will soon become obsolete. At some point we'll be getting our programming a la carte (as discussed in another article the other day) on something resembling a pay-per-view basis. It's happening in music, and it'll happen in video entertainment as well...
I think the problem is that even trivial decisions have become more demanding and time-consuming. especially if you're a compulsive optimizer. It's one thing to take your time deciding important issues like career and whether to have children, and quite another if you're just trying to buy laundry detergent...
At least in grocery stores, they do that to grab as much shelf space as they can. That's why every brand of dish liquid comes in a bazillion (at last count) different colors, fragrances, sizes, etc. You may have three basic choices, but it looks like hundreds and it takes up half of an aisle of shelf.
They're all running the same basic kernel. They differ mostly with respect to the applications they include, defaults for window managers, installation programs, etc. It doesn't make a hell of a lot of difference which one you choose, really.
But you sound like someone who'll probably be happier under the Microsoft umbrella, anyway. And if your pockets are deep and you can live happily in that cage, why not?
There are also very intelligent people who are simply uninterested in money as a metric of success and choose not to make the pursuit of it a central goal in their lives. Some of them become successful anyway, and others content themselves with a more "humble" life.
New language? We seem to get a new language every time someone completes a course in compiler construction...
It works for me...
Of course you're assuming that they actually wanted this mail that they "agreed to receive". It could be that many/most of them actually did consider it to be spam. After all, they went to the effort to report it as such...
For anyone who doesn't want to "ignore the C++ nature of it," I would also recommend looking at gtkmm , a class library built upon GTK+ . I've used it in a couple of projects so far and have generally had a pleasant experience.
It doesn't take "six degrees" to separate W and Bin Laden. The Bin Laden family was a major investor in W's first company, Harkin Energy (of which he was CEO). That doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it does show what a small world we live in...
Call me cynical, but I don't think that the Bushies are too concerned about that. They will say, "Bring 'em on," because what they really need is for the threat and the fear it creates to persist while they pursue the destruction of civil liberties and the feudalization of American society.