Even a CS degree really isn't a sufficient solution to the problem. Software Engineering is NOT computer science, just as Chemical Engineering is not Chemistry. You need knowledge of the latter to do the former, but there is a different skill set which must be learned. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any school which is teaching it to potential software engineers. When they do, real software development can finally begin.
at the university of waterloo, where i go, there's a software engineering option for a cs degree, which forces you to take three large-program-structuring classes, plus a mix of social, business, and other related classes.
i believe that's along the lines of what you were dreaming about..
i haven't seen the movie, but i wasn't too happy when i woke up the other day to find an email from something@dndblah.com with an embedded flash movie telling me to go watch it.
i mean, i'm not on any movie mailing list, so i'm not sure who's giving them addresses.. but it's plain & simply spam to me.
I think all along, those of us who've been downloading illegal (and they are) mp3s from napster knew what we were doing was illegal. I mean, when you download Photoshop for free, you know what you're doing is illegal.
Well lets say one day some warez group gets sued by Adobe. The warez group has good enough lawyers to possibly make the judge decide that its a right to be able to 'share' programs no matter what the author says. and so on.
what would happen? anyone who's ever downloaded warez would suddenly have so much to say about morals and rights and what should be free, hoping their little comments would contribute towards getting free software always.
its a selfish purpose.
well some bands are saying 'go ahead, download our songs. its fine with us.' that's just like free-as-in-beer software being available. doesn't make Photoshop anymore free just because Gimp is free.
Anyway, I'm rooting for Napster in this just as much as the next guy, but not because of any moral reasons - I just want free music.
I think the space-travel mentality is being rushed a bit here. In the early seventies, they (the US) promised that there would be a man on mars by the year 2000. It's going to take a bit longer than that.
What about the exploration of Venus? then the moons of Saturn. And so on and so on.
I don't think they (NASA) need to be giving excuses why they need to put off traveling to Pluto. That would be like Columbus, before every hitting America, saying "ahh, I'm gonna hold off building that 7-11 for a while first".
this is coming from a country which has surveillance cameras placed everywhere on the streets, something called closed circuit television (or cctv). the police use this to monitor all the streets and respond, something that feels like it's straight out of 1984.
but there is a big distinction between public streets and private homes/internet. well, i suppose that's the whole point, they don't want the internet to be considered private. they're scared.
Microsoft, through 'windows update' releases security fixes reguarly. They attempt to have *everybody* get the fix at once. I doubt this works very well.
Maybe I'm stereotyping here, but right now, I'd say most Linux users read Slashdot/Kuro5hin/Freshmeat or something similar, so when someone discovers that you can destroy a Linux box just by connecting on port 7, everybody finds out right away, and can fix it quickly.
The price is right in the article, and it ain't exactly cheap.
The complete Toonz version 4.4 is expected to ship at the end of July 2000. Toonz version 4.4 for Irix, Linux and Windows NT and Windows 2000 platforms is available for USMSRP $11,995. A video resolution version of the studio license is also available for USMSRP $8,495. Users of Toonz version 4.3, under a maintenance contract, will receive a free upgrade to Toonz version 4.4. Scintillae version 1.0 will be available for USMSRP $2,490. For pricing on add-on packages, maintenance contracts and training, please contact the nearest Avid or Softimage reseller.
I remember reading in a Wizard (comic guide) news article that there would be three new Star Wars movies, one released in 1996, the second 1998, the third 2000. And that the next three would follow 2002, 2004, 2006.
That was in '93, though. So we'll see this game in.. um.. 2010.. when computers are obsolete.
Can you imagine what would happen if lots of companies started using this terrible waste of technology? Right now, I get at least twice as much spam as I do real email. What would happen if all of a sudden people were getting twice as many spam phone calls (hang-ups / answering machine messages) as they were real phone calls?
I don't really see why ABC would be choosing such a low brow way of advertising, anyway. It feels as wrong as Apple advertising a new product through "forward this to everyone on your list" icq messages.
The thing is, with a chapter coming out only once a month, nobody's going to be continuously interested in the book. Well, Steven King is quite the author, so he *might* be able to pull it off, but not most authors. Go read a chapter of some book, and see how urgent it is to read the next chapter a month from now.
This is the biggest flaw with this payment method, the time between installments. I suppose it depends on the medium. Novels, I don't think, fit too well. Music might. I'm a Beck fan, and if Beck were to release one song a month, I'd pay to get the next song to come out, for sure.
And if the artist/author is smart, they'll release it in stores afterwards as well.
Passing on subscriber information has been going on forever. Although, I think there's probably a difference between just a mailing address and online user information (date of birth, credit card information perhaps).
My mom ran a magazine for years and years, but when she decided to stop, she sold the mailing list to another magazine that had a similar theme. The idea behind that was to (hopefully) keep the customers happy by finishing their subscriptions however possible.
Unfortunately, with Toysmart, I get the feeling they're just trying to liquidate, and since user information *could* be sold, it is. This rarely benefits the users.
Nonetheless, selling databases isn't really that new of an idea.
I think that even though there are important pluses, at least for people right up near the stage, artists might still take the path of a digital concert.
For example, if you live in eastern provinces of Canada, it's not too often that big concerts will find their way to your city. If concerts are digitally performed, there'd be many more venues able to have as-close-to-possible of an experience with the pseudo-concert.
I wonder if we're ever going to reach a point where artists just record a concert once and have it broadcast to venues all over the world, instead of actually travelling.
It might be neat to know that you're partying the same time as everyone else, just like that Molson Canadian contest advertises.
Also, it's not like being at a big concert is all that different from watching on a big screen - you don't exactly touch the artist.
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Even a CS degree really isn't a sufficient solution to the problem. Software Engineering is NOT computer science, just as Chemical Engineering is not Chemistry. You need knowledge of the latter to do the former, but there is a different skill set which must be learned. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any school which is teaching it to potential software engineers. When they do, real software development can finally begin.
at the university of waterloo, where i go, there's a software engineering option for a cs degree, which forces you to take three large-program-structuring classes, plus a mix of social, business, and other related classes.
i believe that's along the lines of what you were dreaming about..
maybe you should avoid putting your return address on the envelope, then.
just an idea.
i haven't seen the movie, but i wasn't too happy when i woke up the other day to find an email from something@dndblah.com with an embedded flash movie telling me to go watch it.
i mean, i'm not on any movie mailing list, so i'm not sure who's giving them addresses.. but it's plain & simply spam to me.
Or, if javaScript ever gets in your way from doing anything, you could always disable it.
thank god for 'preferences'.
all the messages are being posted in the previous topic.
1700+ messages as of now.. woah..
Sell this to sony:
10 PRINT "Pick a number: ";
20 INPUT num
30 PRINT "You typed ", num
40 GOTO 10
I can't help but worry.. what if somebody bombs the bottom? That'd be an awful lot of falling to do.
Can you imagine listening to elevator music for a couple hours??
And what if you got stuck up in it during a power failure? =)
I think all along, those of us who've been downloading illegal (and they are) mp3s from napster knew what we were doing was illegal. I mean, when you download Photoshop for free, you know what you're doing is illegal.
Well lets say one day some warez group gets sued by Adobe. The warez group has good enough lawyers to possibly make the judge decide that its a right to be able to 'share' programs no matter what the author says. and so on.
what would happen? anyone who's ever downloaded warez would suddenly have so much to say about morals and rights and what should be free, hoping their little comments would contribute towards getting free software always.
its a selfish purpose.
well some bands are saying 'go ahead, download our songs. its fine with us.' that's just like free-as-in-beer software being available. doesn't make Photoshop anymore free just because Gimp is free.
Anyway, I'm rooting for Napster in this just as much as the next guy, but not because of any moral reasons - I just want free music.
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a couple of stiffeners tends to loosen up the inhibitions that are causing the problem
that reminds me, drinking and coding is the best combination.. especially drinking beer at the computer.
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I think the space-travel mentality is being rushed a bit here. In the early seventies, they (the US) promised that there would be a man on mars by the year 2000. It's going to take a bit longer than that.
What about the exploration of Venus? then the moons of Saturn. And so on and so on.
I don't think they (NASA) need to be giving excuses why they need to put off traveling to Pluto. That would be like Columbus, before every hitting America, saying "ahh, I'm gonna hold off building that 7-11 for a while first".
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If I had a Palm VII, I would be rendered completely useless, since I would be able to do nothing but look at slashdot 24/7.
At least now, power shortages can stop me..
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this can only mean one thing - download full length hollywood films which are only 50 megs instead of 300!
hooray!
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this is coming from a country which has surveillance cameras placed everywhere on the streets, something called closed circuit television (or cctv). the police use this to monitor all the streets and respond, something that feels like it's straight out of 1984.
but there is a big distinction between public streets and private homes/internet. well, i suppose that's the whole point, they don't want the internet to be considered private. they're scared.
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Microsoft, through 'windows update' releases security fixes reguarly. They attempt to have *everybody* get the fix at once. I doubt this works very well.
Maybe I'm stereotyping here, but right now, I'd say most Linux users read Slashdot/Kuro5hin/Freshmeat or something similar, so when someone discovers that you can destroy a Linux box just by connecting on port 7, everybody finds out right away, and can fix it quickly.
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This article reads a lot like the paper on hacker mentality that was just posted, doesn't it?
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The complete Toonz version 4.4 is expected to ship at the end of July 2000. Toonz version 4.4 for Irix, Linux and Windows NT and Windows 2000 platforms is available for USMSRP $11,995. A video resolution version of the studio license is also available for USMSRP $8,495. Users of Toonz version 4.3, under a maintenance contract, will receive a free upgrade to Toonz version 4.4. Scintillae version 1.0 will be available for USMSRP $2,490. For pricing on add-on packages, maintenance contracts and training, please contact the nearest Avid or Softimage reseller.
I remember reading in a Wizard (comic guide) news article that there would be three new Star Wars movies, one released in 1996, the second 1998, the third 2000. And that the next three would follow 2002, 2004, 2006.
That was in '93, though.
So we'll see this game in.. um.. 2010.. when computers are obsolete.
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Sure it was. I own a copy. But I wouldn't have read it a chapter per month, thats for sure.
I tend to lose interest in books quickly, even if I own the thing, let alone a month per chapter.
Can you imagine what would happen if lots of companies started using this terrible waste of technology? Right now, I get at least twice as much spam as I do real email. What would happen if all of a sudden people were getting twice as many spam phone calls (hang-ups / answering machine messages) as they were real phone calls?
I don't really see why ABC would be choosing such a low brow way of advertising, anyway. It feels as wrong as Apple advertising a new product through "forward this to everyone on your list" icq messages.
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The thing is, with a chapter coming out only once a month, nobody's going to be continuously interested in the book. Well, Steven King is quite the author, so he *might* be able to pull it off, but not most authors. Go read a chapter of some book, and see how urgent it is to read the next chapter a month from now.
This is the biggest flaw with this payment method, the time between installments. I suppose it depends on the medium. Novels, I don't think, fit too well. Music might. I'm a Beck fan, and if Beck were to release one song a month, I'd pay to get the next song to come out, for sure.
And if the artist/author is smart, they'll release it in stores afterwards as well.
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Actually, there's an article in this month's Wired about different ways of using distributed computing.. Unfortunately, the article isn't online..
But it does bring up some good points about using shared harddrive space, shared ram.. but nothing about scanning ELFs.. =)
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Passing on subscriber information has been going on forever. Although, I think there's probably a difference between just a mailing address and online user information (date of birth, credit card information perhaps).
My mom ran a magazine for years and years, but when she decided to stop, she sold the mailing list to another magazine that had a similar theme. The idea behind that was to (hopefully) keep the customers happy by finishing their subscriptions however possible.
Unfortunately, with Toysmart, I get the feeling they're just trying to liquidate, and since user information *could* be sold, it is. This rarely benefits the users.
Nonetheless, selling databases isn't really that new of an idea.
Theres a very recent discussion about caffeine here, in the most recent poll.
Them geeks sure like their caffeine.
I think that even though there are important pluses, at least for people right up near the stage, artists might still take the path of a digital concert.
For example, if you live in eastern provinces of Canada, it's not too often that big concerts will find their way to your city. If concerts are digitally performed, there'd be many more venues able to have as-close-to-possible of an experience with the pseudo-concert.
And ticket prices would likely be lower...
I wonder if we're ever going to reach a point where artists just record a concert once and have it broadcast to venues all over the world, instead of actually travelling.
It might be neat to know that you're partying the same time as everyone else, just like that Molson Canadian contest advertises.
Also, it's not like being at a big concert is all that different from watching on a big screen - you don't exactly touch the artist.