It doesn't matter how you slice it, the text book industry wants to get their $150/book/semester out of you. They don't really care how they get their income, as long as they get it. They'll either do it by making you buy a new book, which you can keep, or by charging you the same amount for a book that you can rent for the same amount of money, only now you have to turn it in when you're done, instead of having the option to keep it or sell it again.
Anyone know if the other two related stories are any good (Mono Lisa Overdrive, and Count Zero)?
As an open implementation of.NET Lisa Overdrive, I thought it was a pretty good attempt, although, as usual, it's a slavish imitation of a paradigm invented by others and released in closed-source format long ago. What's especially weird in this case, though, is that the Lisa, which stole shamelessly from XEROX PARC, had to be overclocked in order to be able to run the bloated.NET Framework, which itself, erm, "borrowed" many toolkit widgets that came out of over nearly decades of Macintosh development, which itself obsoleted the original Lisa project --- only to be being re-implemented in the opensource Mono project so that it could be run on a non-Windows OS stack. Talk about chasing your own tail. Especially since OS X has been out for about a decade, and XCode makes everything else pale by comparison.
I heard you like virtual machines and browsers, so I built a virtual machine to run on a virtual machine so you can browse from your virtual machine that's running on a virtual machine in your browser.
And, also, with computer things, there are a lot of things that people commonly assume are obscure, but which, in fact, are not. So be careful what you take to be obscure. It could be that it's a secret to everybody.
I know that i really shouldn't have that many tabs open, but as someone else pointed out it's a convenient bad habit.
Who the fsck is anyone to tell you how you should use your web browser? If you need the browser to support 120 open tabs, then if it doesn't do this well, then it's a tool not well suited to your task. You should expect it to require some system resources to pull this off, but those that the application asks for should be managed properly and freed up if no longer needed. That is not too much to ask for, and you shouldn't apologize if you choose to use the product this way.
It's not at all physically obvious why casette tapes should have "sides". The answer is in the physical property of the media. The speed with which the magnetized tape passes the head determines the strength of a signal. One of the trade offs of the technology is that higher speed and overall tape length. Having two sides to the tape allowed the overall tape length to remain manageable while doubling the capacity of the cartridge.
Or, you could, I don't know, look at the tape, see that it has two sides, and that one says "Side A" and the other says "Side B" and that different songs are listed on each side, and if you play one side, the songs listed on the other side do not appear in the play list for some strange reason.
Lenovo has adware in their updates, but they might sell a laptop without a caps lock key! It's like they're simultaneously the worst and best computer company at the same time.
They're Shroedinger's computer company. You can't tell if they suck or not until you open the box.
Seriously, why they didn't just put the One Ring into a wicker basket, give it to the King of the Eagles, and have him fly directly to Mount Doom and drop the basket into the pit of lava, thereby saving me some 1500 pages of dreary reading about overland travel, I don't understand. There is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to spend time traveling through Middle Earth in order to get anywhere. In conclusion, Lord of the Rings sucked, and was a massive waste of time.
You can run from your problems, but eventually you have to make a stand somewhere. People came to the New World a few centuries ago to escape persecution and live a freer life. They had that for a while, then we had to fight a war to get England off our backs.
Lately, we've been doing it to ourselves, at an alarmingly increasing rate, and eventually it'll come up again. Either we'll emigrate to Mars, and eventually have to have a revolutionary war there after Mars becomes intolerably managed from afar, or else we'll fight another American Revolution here. Personally, I don't think it'll happen until they can't keep electricity and oil flowing, because Americans love to complain, but they love their comfort most.
I don't know how it is in England, having never been there, but if that's at all what it's like, move out to the wilderness, and shoot at anyone who comes within 10 miles of your homestead.
More important than the diverse ethnicity of Noah's sons is the still-unanswered question of how their tri-homosexual mating could have given rise to such a large population in just 6000 years.
Considering the overall cost of care for a liver transplant, I hardly think that the cost of airfare is a barrier to anyone who's desperate for a liver to enter their name into multiple registries. It's what, $50-100k for an operation? How much for a last minute flight reservation to wherever?
Anyway, who said life was fair? I'm glad Jobs was able to get the care he needed, and I'm sorry if anyone can't get the care that they need. But is Jobs's liver match really taking away a liver from someone else who needs it? I thought match compatibility was pretty tricky. If Steve couldn't take it, would it have gone to waste?
Saying that Amazon and Google stifle innovation because they sit as an intermediary between creators and audiences is a bit like saying the Roman Catholic church stifles religion because a priest sits between the Creator and his followers.
Oh please? Actually, that's pretty much what Protestantism was originally about.
No doubt there will now have to be a third trial, and no doubt the unreasonableness of the verdict will lend support to those arguing that the RIAA's statutory damages theory is unconstitutional
I have my doubts. Isn't an accepted definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result?
If I can use a standard protocol (ICMP, ARP, etc.) to determine your IP address, and such tools are available to anyone, then it is not reasonable to expect privacy. If I know your host name, I can get your IP. If you're connecting to my services via TCP or UDP, I have your IP, and kindof need it in order to do anything.
On the other hand, server logs with this info in it should be considered private. Your transactions between you and my server are business between you and me. You should have an reasonable expectation that I will keep that information private. I would not divulge the information unless it were required by due process -- a warrant or subpoena or whatever.
I haven't read the court's decision yet, so I'm not sure what they're really saying, but depending on context the information may be reasonable to consider IP addresses in some sense private.
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Throw yourself at a clock, and miss. What's so hard about that?
Seriously, how do you stop the analog hole? Stop the laws of physics? The Human sensory organs are analog. At some point, you are going to have an analog signal traversing the gap from the output device to the human.
In the early platforming game for the Atari-era consoles, Mountain King, there was a strange region that you could get to from jumping left from the highest mountain. Somehow if you did the jump right, you'd find a ladder hanging in the middle of space. You could climb up, and the platforms and ladders were semi-random and would appear or disappear depending on your position, making for a very treacherous climb. You could get up a fair ways, but eventually you'd reach a place from which there was no way to jump or climb higher. The area was very mysterious, but didn't seem to have any purpose.
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Good work. So far as the people who gave the "wrong" answer are concerned, you've proven that math nerds are also sex perverts.
Based on anecdotal empirical survey, they pretty much are from what I can tell.
Not pedophiles, mind you, but definitely kinkier than the average person. Even kinkier than librarians, which is saying something.
It doesn't matter how you slice it, the text book industry wants to get their $150/book/semester out of you. They don't really care how they get their income, as long as they get it. They'll either do it by making you buy a new book, which you can keep, or by charging you the same amount for a book that you can rent for the same amount of money, only now you have to turn it in when you're done, instead of having the option to keep it or sell it again.
Anyone know if the other two related stories are any good (Mono Lisa Overdrive, and Count Zero)?
As an open implementation of .NET Lisa Overdrive, I thought it was a pretty good attempt, although, as usual, it's a slavish imitation of a paradigm invented by others and released in closed-source format long ago. What's especially weird in this case, though, is that the Lisa, which stole shamelessly from XEROX PARC, had to be overclocked in order to be able to run the bloated .NET Framework, which itself, erm, "borrowed" many toolkit widgets that came out of over nearly decades of Macintosh development, which itself obsoleted the original Lisa project --- only to be being re-implemented in the opensource Mono project so that it could be run on a non-Windows OS stack. Talk about chasing your own tail. Especially since OS X has been out for about a decade, and XCode makes everything else pale by comparison.
I heard you like virtual machines and browsers, so I built a virtual machine to run on a virtual machine so you can browse from your virtual machine that's running on a virtual machine in your browser.
Obscurity IS a level of security
Only for so long as it's actually obscure.
And, also, with computer things, there are a lot of things that people commonly assume are obscure, but which, in fact, are not. So be careful what you take to be obscure. It could be that it's a secret to everybody.
Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I know that i really shouldn't have that many tabs open, but as someone else pointed out it's a convenient bad habit.
Who the fsck is anyone to tell you how you should use your web browser? If you need the browser to support 120 open tabs, then if it doesn't do this well, then it's a tool not well suited to your task. You should expect it to require some system resources to pull this off, but those that the application asks for should be managed properly and freed up if no longer needed. That is not too much to ask for, and you shouldn't apologize if you choose to use the product this way.
It's not at all physically obvious why casette tapes should have "sides". The answer is in the physical property of the media. The speed with which the magnetized tape passes the head determines the strength of a signal. One of the trade offs of the technology is that higher speed and overall tape length. Having two sides to the tape allowed the overall tape length to remain manageable while doubling the capacity of the cartridge.
Or, you could, I don't know, look at the tape, see that it has two sides, and that one says "Side A" and the other says "Side B" and that different songs are listed on each side, and if you play one side, the songs listed on the other side do not appear in the play list for some strange reason.
Lenovo has adware in their updates, but they might sell a laptop without a caps lock key! It's like they're simultaneously the worst and best computer company at the same time.
They're Shroedinger's computer company. You can't tell if they suck or not until you open the box.
Seriously, why they didn't just put the One Ring into a wicker basket, give it to the King of the Eagles, and have him fly directly to Mount Doom and drop the basket into the pit of lava, thereby saving me some 1500 pages of dreary reading about overland travel, I don't understand. There is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to spend time traveling through Middle Earth in order to get anywhere. In conclusion, Lord of the Rings sucked, and was a massive waste of time.
You can run from your problems, but eventually you have to make a stand somewhere. People came to the New World a few centuries ago to escape persecution and live a freer life. They had that for a while, then we had to fight a war to get England off our backs.
Lately, we've been doing it to ourselves, at an alarmingly increasing rate, and eventually it'll come up again. Either we'll emigrate to Mars, and eventually have to have a revolutionary war there after Mars becomes intolerably managed from afar, or else we'll fight another American Revolution here. Personally, I don't think it'll happen until they can't keep electricity and oil flowing, because Americans love to complain, but they love their comfort most.
I don't know how it is in England, having never been there, but if that's at all what it's like, move out to the wilderness, and shoot at anyone who comes within 10 miles of your homestead.
More important than the diverse ethnicity of Noah's sons is the still-unanswered question of how their tri-homosexual mating could have given rise to such a large population in just 6000 years.
Hell, even the spanish inquisition had a default verdict.
Well, I didn't expect the spanish inquisition to come up in this context!
Don't feel bad... no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Considering the overall cost of care for a liver transplant, I hardly think that the cost of airfare is a barrier to anyone who's desperate for a liver to enter their name into multiple registries. It's what, $50-100k for an operation? How much for a last minute flight reservation to wherever?
Anyway, who said life was fair? I'm glad Jobs was able to get the care he needed, and I'm sorry if anyone can't get the care that they need. But is Jobs's liver match really taking away a liver from someone else who needs it? I thought match compatibility was pretty tricky. If Steve couldn't take it, would it have gone to waste?
Saying that Amazon and Google stifle innovation because they sit as an intermediary between creators and audiences is a bit like saying the Roman Catholic church stifles religion because a priest sits between the Creator and his followers.
Oh please? Actually, that's pretty much what Protestantism was originally about.
He only makes $1 a year, though. Can he really afford the best doctors on a salary like that?
Define "Definitive".
From the summary:
No doubt there will now have to be a third trial, and no doubt the unreasonableness of the verdict will lend support to those arguing that the RIAA's statutory damages theory is unconstitutional
I have my doubts. Isn't an accepted definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result?
If I can use a standard protocol (ICMP, ARP, etc.) to determine your IP address, and such tools are available to anyone, then it is not reasonable to expect privacy. If I know your host name, I can get your IP. If you're connecting to my services via TCP or UDP, I have your IP, and kindof need it in order to do anything.
On the other hand, server logs with this info in it should be considered private. Your transactions between you and my server are business between you and me. You should have an reasonable expectation that I will keep that information private. I would not divulge the information unless it were required by due process -- a warrant or subpoena or whatever.
I haven't read the court's decision yet, so I'm not sure what they're really saying, but depending on context the information may be reasonable to consider IP addresses in some sense private.
Throw yourself at a clock, and miss. What's so hard about that?
..but to rip them a new a-hole.
Seriously, how do you stop the analog hole? Stop the laws of physics? The Human sensory organs are analog. At some point, you are going to have an analog signal traversing the gap from the output device to the human.
That one's in the article:)
Let's go back to crystalline spheres and immutable heavens. That was a much safer design model
In the early platforming game for the Atari-era consoles, Mountain King, there was a strange region that you could get to from jumping left from the highest mountain. Somehow if you did the jump right, you'd find a ladder hanging in the middle of space. You could climb up, and the platforms and ladders were semi-random and would appear or disappear depending on your position, making for a very treacherous climb. You could get up a fair ways, but eventually you'd reach a place from which there was no way to jump or climb higher. The area was very mysterious, but didn't seem to have any purpose.
This is less about the vigilantism of the Crowd, and more about the utter stupidity of [some] criminal/deviants.
Stupid criminals shoot video of their crimes. Incredibly fucking stupid criminals put the video on youtube.