Everyone is bringing up a good point when they say that the resold overclocked systems are unstable/unreliable yada yada. I have a question slightly off topic:
Why doesn't AMD get some overclockable motherboards, and sell those under a contract? Say something to the effect (and in legaleese) "We understand these can be overclocked, and in fact, expect you too. By signing this, you're saying you will, and thus void the warranty- no more responsibility for us"? And when they sell these, sell ONE PER PERSON AT A TIME- avoids a person buying em up for his company.
doing something like that would allow overclocks to be sold, avoid tarnishing their reputation, and even allows those damn lawyers to be pleased.
I'm sure I begged for some flames in there. Give em to me.
Someone above said that RIAA and MPAA and AA and whatever would TRY to put the kibosh on this: WHY? Even if tried I doubt they could. Consider this: An IP is like a phone number. The web logs on a box are like caller id. So aren't we just developing something that blocks the caller ID info (like *??)? And that certainly hasn't been deemed illegal.
Also, I imagine, SOMEWHERE, there will be a log of our activities- even though we blocked our caller ID, the phone company still has that information of the call. I'm sure there could be found a "packet log" or some such somewhere.
A step in the right direction, I think, but I don't think it's the solution.
Ummm... On WINE's site (linked to in the article), THEY even call it Wine, and wine.. So all three are correct, and frankly, as long as you don't fsck up the spelling, I don't care what capitalization or punctuation you use.
Even though this encryption is easily broken, let us pretend that it works. So what next? The encrypted CDs get released, and we (the music listeners) get pissed and stop buying because of the hassle necessary. We continue to rip MP3s from the radio (lame I know, but hey, it's a method to get music if our other sources are removed) and get MP3s from other people. Because CDs are no longer bought in stores, due to the encryption, the musicians are forced to stop selling CDs and start making their money on concerts alone (like artists did before the day). Ironically, where does that get them? No where. We take recorders to the concerts (I guarentee no matter how many metal detectors, strip searches, and even (gasp) enemas they put us through, recorders will get snuck in) and record music, and then make MP3s. Back to square one, just there's a hell a lotta live mixes out there. In summary, the only way to "encode" the music would be to sing in a foriegn language, which somewhere, isn't foriegn, and thus will be in demand.
Not to beat a dead monkey repeatedly, but I gotta agree.
The special effects that were physically done were GREAT. You could tell when you were seeing them.
The animations, though.. they looked like cartoons. I woulda loved it if they had gotten some Jim Henson stand ins or spent more time on the animation, but they just left it. Sometimes, you could even flat out tell that the animation was placed in, because it almost seemed raised off the screen.
I vaguely recall seeing somewhere that Lucas had recieved this criticism and was listening, and was going to try to balance the special effects (models,etc. vs. digital imaging) more. It will be interesting to see if he does balance. This film has promise, but if he messes this one up, I know a lot of Star Wars fans who have ciggarette lighters and propane torches prepared for their memorabilia...
But solar technology has been advancing a lot recently. Thanks to events like Sunrayce, World Solar Challenge, etc, people have been getting interested in that, and thus companies pumping more money, and then better chips. The difference on our college's solar car was vast between the 1998 panels/arrays and the 2000 panels/arrays. We did great in the rayces we were in, and better with the new equipment. Just consider this: You can be pretty sure the government went for top of the line. If moving from decent to new decent did us well, what would top to new best top of the line do?? As a PR person for our team, I don't know the specs of the improvement, but I do know that it has been considerable.
I know this isn't quite on the topic, but does it appear to anyone else that RIAA is going on another witch hunt, or a red scare if you will? Pointing their fingers at everyone, saying they're evil (when in general, there are no bad intentions even if it is illegal), and trying to glorify their image at the same time?
Too bad McCarthy (I think that was him..) isn't around to see this...
Consider how many "innovations" m$ has released, intending to replace something else. Disreguarding operating systems, that is. How many of those innovations actually made the replacement? And how many have actually strenthened what they were supposed to replace??
First of all, if you want to see all cola sites, search for cola, not coke.
This article isn't saying that it's illegal for people to make comparisons. What it's saying is:
<example> Pepsi and Coke have websites. Coke is losing in the market. So, to draw in customers, in the meta-tags, it places "pepsi". </example>
THIS is supposedly copyright infringement. (I don't know the laws, just I think I understand both sides here) Now, if there was a page that had the results of a taste-test between pepsi and coke, then you could use meta tags with Pepsi and Coke in both.
That's what they're saying. I partially agree.. nothing pisses me off more than pr0n sites loading their ad pages with meta tags for everything in the world unrelated to it. So I want to see that done away with. But if pepsi and coke both use those "illeagal" meta tags, screw it! This is commercialism, not kindergarten. Customers will decide who they want most, and frankly, I don't think a meta tag hurts there.
Oh, well. I'm sure that there were a few of our infinite monkeys out there writing that article..
Being a college student, I sure as hell don't use censorware, so I don't know how much of what I say below about it is correct.
It would seem to me that the censorware is set up to block sites containing certain words, not really concepts. Think of the poor high school student having to do a report on this not-so-tasty roadkill... he'd never get it done. So why haven't the censowares set something up that says block these words, but always trust these domains? For example, block anything containing beaver, but if the site is found on beaver.edu or britannica.com or something like that, go ahead and pass it through the filter?
Also, what poor kid is looking at colleges at such an age that he needs censorware? If he's looking at colleges, I sure as heck hope he's ready to deal with such jokes, cause I guarentee he'll hear them at college!
And finally, does anyone know of a reason to even have the censorware block any.edu sites?? Since most colleges don't allow their students to run pr0n sites, I can't figure out a reason..
Being a current CS Student/idiot, I can tell you that c++ is not the best language to start off with. For someone who starts off with it, though, this book could be a godsend.
Living in the middle of the state of Misery (Missouri), many people don't even know what a computer is. Yes, plenty do, but there are still hardcore farmers and rednecks out here. I make my summer money explaining to these people things about computers. The best way to get through to them is to use similies to common life. A disk is like a library, each file is a book, etc etc (yes, I know, those aren't the greatest..). Suddenly, you see the light come on.
Probably the best approach to teaching computing languages is like most people are saying. Start simple, with the fundmental elements of programming. I think basic is a good language to teach those concepts, although it's not a great programming lanugage to use. You learn basic flow, thought patterns, loops (for, recursion, etc), and get a basic grasp of things (the language name says it all folks..) The earlier versions work well for the line numbers, adding an extra level of looking at order of thoughts.
After you get that down, graduate to the upper languages such as c++. Start to learn of objects, get more control on flow, use streams, etc. It's not an easy transition from basic to c++, but I imagine it will be easier for a person who is JUST learning (I learned C64 Basic from the time I was a tyke until I was like 13, and then started c++ at around 18, with no programming in between.)
Back to the original topic, this book gives a small option, albeit probably a difficult one, to starting with c++. Good idea for the author, I just hope now we don't have to go through endless websites of programmers posting their "Hello, World" code out there as source....
OK.. they can sue the users, at which point American society will rebel against England (again), forcing war, destruction, and a resurgence of hippie movements. They can sue the ISPs, and be shot down because the ISPs don't use the hyperlinks (except maybe on the ISP's homepage, and how many of us go there??), and probably be shot down by the American people (who attack as in #1, even though the courts already told BT NO and sent them home). OR.. finally.. they can sue the browser makers. Netscape and others laugh and ignore them. M$ ends up being the target of a law suit (suprise suprise). That just leaves the question: Which Microsoft??
Obviously, we let them back out of the cage when we opened this topic up. That I have no problem with.
However, for the sake of the moderators that we have here, it seems that many of them have grown hostile since the last time we dropped a football around them. The one with the football is still swinging from the goalposts, the normal monkeys are at the keyboards, but the rest (of the infinite, somehow) are lining up with their rocket launchers, chainsaws, and rail guns to post here.
Please, people, drop the hostility, and use email flames if anything to shut people up. If you need to be an anonymous coward, use a hotmail account. Otherwise <rant mode> SHUT THE HELL UP!</rant mode>.
Thank you. Someone please cage the monkeys again soon, as someone has to clean up their crap...
In AIM, if you click on (either file or edit, it's been too long...) and go into the preferences, under connection (again, I think) you'll find a box that says "load on startup". It's somewhere in there, I promise. You can kill it by unchecking that box.
Something more important? Apparently you've forgotten that they are working on Myst III: Exile. Although, the screen shots I've seen of it just looks like a return to Riven (oh God, the cd nightmare that was).
I look forward to the real-time Myst. For those of you worried about limitations of movement, it wouldn't be that hard (I don't think) to set it up so that you still follow the old paths of myst, you just have a little more leeway in that path. Try to walk into a lake/ocean whatever, and you just don't do it.
Another possibility could be to implement the moving style that 11th Hour did, the linear movement with movie screens as transitions between the points (kinda like those shuttles in Riven...)
I don't think I'm going to rush out and buy these, but I guarentee I'll check both RTMyst and Exile out.
Gee.. someone has no sense of sarcasm.. Better yet, it's an Anon Coward who said it.. Any reason for this anger, unless your name is REALLY bill gates, and you're worried that you're next on my list?
Hey, if they're not liable, I bet we can find a couple of Bill Gates(es??) out there and suddenly our favourite Micro$lob founder is a known felon.. think of the problems that could cause with his court case...
Obviously someone's been spending too much time in his cubicle, a haven for butt piracy. Because of this, the National Association for gay people's rights have been miffed that this person is not coming out of the closet, and thus has ordered that we shut down that cubicle.
Is it me, or is every question asked at the beginning responded to with some form of "I don't know?" I'm no lawyer, but one would think that if I were taking a deposition, I would ask questions that I KNEW there were answers for, and ask the useless stuff later.
Do you know so and so? NO. Did you ever hear of... NO. Do you know what this is? NO.
I gave up after reading the first several pages.. almost looked like they asked my Grandma to testify in Microsoft's case.. and she can't even type.
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Everyone is bringing up a good point when they say that the resold overclocked systems are unstable/unreliable yada yada. I have a question slightly off topic:
Why doesn't AMD get some overclockable motherboards, and sell those under a contract? Say something to the effect (and in legaleese) "We understand these can be overclocked, and in fact, expect you too. By signing this, you're saying you will, and thus void the warranty- no more responsibility for us"? And when they sell these, sell ONE PER PERSON AT A TIME- avoids a person buying em up for his company.
doing something like that would allow overclocks to be sold, avoid tarnishing their reputation, and even allows those damn lawyers to be pleased.
I'm sure I begged for some flames in there. Give em to me.
This isn't really implemented yet.
Someone above said that RIAA and MPAA and AA and whatever would TRY to put the kibosh on this: WHY? Even if tried I doubt they could. Consider this: An IP is like a phone number. The web logs on a box are like caller id. So aren't we just developing something that blocks the caller ID info (like *??)? And that certainly hasn't been deemed illegal.
Also, I imagine, SOMEWHERE, there will be a log of our activities- even though we blocked our caller ID, the phone company still has that information of the call. I'm sure there could be found a "packet log" or some such somewhere.
A step in the right direction, I think, but I don't think it's the solution.
Ummm... On WINE's site (linked to in the article), THEY even call it Wine, and wine.. So all three are correct, and frankly, as long as you don't fsck up the spelling, I don't care what capitalization or punctuation you use.
Even though this encryption is easily broken, let us pretend that it works. So what next? The encrypted CDs get released, and we (the music listeners) get pissed and stop buying because of the hassle necessary. We continue to rip MP3s from the radio (lame I know, but hey, it's a method to get music if our other sources are removed) and get MP3s from other people. Because CDs are no longer bought in stores, due to the encryption, the musicians are forced to stop selling CDs and start making their money on concerts alone (like artists did before the day). Ironically, where does that get them? No where. We take recorders to the concerts (I guarentee no matter how many metal detectors, strip searches, and even (gasp) enemas they put us through, recorders will get snuck in) and record music, and then make MP3s. Back to square one, just there's a hell a lotta live mixes out there. In summary, the only way to "encode" the music would be to sing in a foriegn language, which somewhere, isn't foriegn, and thus will be in demand.
Not to beat a dead monkey repeatedly, but I gotta agree.
The special effects that were physically done were GREAT. You could tell when you were seeing them.
The animations, though.. they looked like cartoons. I woulda loved it if they had gotten some Jim Henson stand ins or spent more time on the animation, but they just left it. Sometimes, you could even flat out tell that the animation was placed in, because it almost seemed raised off the screen.
I vaguely recall seeing somewhere that Lucas had recieved this criticism and was listening, and was going to try to balance the special effects (models,etc. vs. digital imaging) more. It will be interesting to see if he does balance. This film has promise, but if he messes this one up, I know a lot of Star Wars fans who have ciggarette lighters and propane torches prepared for their memorabilia...
and Aussie Leeanna Walsman, who'll take on the physically-demanding role of a new highly-killed bounty hunter.
So, how many times will she get killed?? And does she shoot Jar Jar before she dies (any of the times)??
But solar technology has been advancing a lot recently. Thanks to events like Sunrayce, World Solar Challenge, etc, people have been getting interested in that, and thus companies pumping more money, and then better chips. The difference on our college's solar car was vast between the 1998 panels/arrays and the 2000 panels/arrays. We did great in the rayces we were in, and better with the new equipment. Just consider this: You can be pretty sure the government went for top of the line. If moving from decent to new decent did us well, what would top to new best top of the line do?? As a PR person for our team, I don't know the specs of the improvement, but I do know that it has been considerable.
I know this isn't quite on the topic, but does it appear to anyone else that RIAA is going on another witch hunt, or a red scare if you will? Pointing their fingers at everyone, saying they're evil (when in general, there are no bad intentions even if it is illegal), and trying to glorify their image at the same time?
Too bad McCarthy (I think that was him..) isn't around to see this...
Consider how many "innovations" m$ has released, intending to replace something else. Disreguarding operating systems, that is. How many of those innovations actually made the replacement? And how many have actually strenthened what they were supposed to replace??
'nuff said..
First of all, if you want to see all cola sites, search for cola, not coke.
This article isn't saying that it's illegal for people to make comparisons. What it's saying is:
<example>
Pepsi and Coke have websites.
Coke is losing in the market.
So, to draw in customers, in the meta-tags, it places "pepsi".
</example>
THIS is supposedly copyright infringement. (I don't know the laws, just I think I understand both sides here)
Now, if there was a page that had the results of a taste-test between pepsi and coke, then you could use meta tags with Pepsi and Coke in both.
That's what they're saying. I partially agree.. nothing pisses me off more than pr0n sites loading their ad pages with meta tags for everything in the world unrelated to it. So I want to see that done away with. But if pepsi and coke both use those "illeagal" meta tags, screw it! This is commercialism, not kindergarten. Customers will decide who they want most, and frankly, I don't think a meta tag hurts there.
Oh, well. I'm sure that there were a few of our infinite monkeys out there writing that article..
that by the time you pay off the engine, you'll break even with the gas money you're paying... Unless you live in Chicago.
Offtopic, but THANK YOU SEWILCO!!!! That is the first "First post" that I've ever seen on topic, and not eaten up by AC phirst post goons...
Being a college student, I sure as hell don't use censorware, so I don't know how much of what I say below about it is correct.
.edu sites?? Since most colleges don't allow their students to run pr0n sites, I can't figure out a reason..
It would seem to me that the censorware is set up to block sites containing certain words, not really concepts. Think of the poor high school student having to do a report on this not-so-tasty roadkill... he'd never get it done. So why haven't the censowares set something up that says block these words, but always trust these domains? For example, block anything containing beaver, but if the site is found on beaver.edu or britannica.com or something like that, go ahead and pass it through the filter?
Also, what poor kid is looking at colleges at such an age that he needs censorware? If he's looking at colleges, I sure as heck hope he's ready to deal with such jokes, cause I guarentee he'll hear them at college!
And finally, does anyone know of a reason to even have the censorware block any
My $.02. After taxes, that's $.001. Round down.
Being a current CS Student/idiot, I can tell you that c++ is not the best language to start off with. For someone who starts off with it, though, this book could be a godsend.
Living in the middle of the state of Misery (Missouri), many people don't even know what a computer is. Yes, plenty do, but there are still hardcore farmers and rednecks out here. I make my summer money explaining to these people things about computers. The best way to get through to them is to use similies to common life. A disk is like a library, each file is a book, etc etc (yes, I know, those aren't the greatest..). Suddenly, you see the light come on.
Probably the best approach to teaching computing languages is like most people are saying. Start simple, with the fundmental elements of programming. I think basic is a good language to teach those concepts, although it's not a great programming lanugage to use. You learn basic flow, thought patterns, loops (for, recursion, etc), and get a basic grasp of things (the language name says it all folks..) The earlier versions work well for the line numbers, adding an extra level of looking at order of thoughts.
After you get that down, graduate to the upper languages such as c++. Start to learn of objects, get more control on flow, use streams, etc. It's not an easy transition from basic to c++, but I imagine it will be easier for a person who is JUST learning (I learned C64 Basic from the time I was a tyke until I was like 13, and then started c++ at around 18, with no programming in between.)
Back to the original topic, this book gives a small option, albeit probably a difficult one, to starting with c++. Good idea for the author, I just hope now we don't have to go through endless websites of programmers posting their "Hello, World" code out there as source....
my $.02
OK.. they can sue the users, at which point American society will rebel against England (again), forcing war, destruction, and a resurgence of hippie movements. They can sue the ISPs, and be shot down because the ISPs don't use the hyperlinks (except maybe on the ISP's homepage, and how many of us go there??), and probably be shot down by the American people (who attack as in #1, even though the courts already told BT NO and sent them home). OR.. finally.. they can sue the browser makers. Netscape and others laugh and ignore them. M$ ends up being the target of a law suit (suprise suprise). That just leaves the question: Which Microsoft??
Obviously, we let them back out of the cage when we opened this topic up. That I have no problem with.
However, for the sake of the moderators that we have here, it seems that many of them have grown hostile since the last time we dropped a football around them. The one with the football is still swinging from the goalposts, the normal monkeys are at the keyboards, but the rest (of the infinite, somehow) are lining up with their rocket launchers, chainsaws, and rail guns to post here.
Please, people, drop the hostility, and use email flames if anything to shut people up. If you need to be an anonymous coward, use a hotmail account. Otherwise <rant mode> SHUT THE HELL UP!</rant mode>.
Thank you. Someone please cage the monkeys again soon, as someone has to clean up their crap...
I think the noguas in South America provide it...
In AIM, if you click on (either file or edit, it's been too long...) and go into the preferences, under connection (again, I think) you'll find a box that says "load on startup". It's somewhere in there, I promise. You can kill it by unchecking that box.
Something more important? Apparently you've forgotten that they are working on Myst III: Exile. Although, the screen shots I've seen of it just looks like a return to Riven (oh God, the cd nightmare that was).
I look forward to the real-time Myst. For those of you worried about limitations of movement, it wouldn't be that hard (I don't think) to set it up so that you still follow the old paths of myst, you just have a little more leeway in that path. Try to walk into a lake/ocean whatever, and you just don't do it.
Another possibility could be to implement the moving style that 11th Hour did, the linear movement with movie screens as transitions between the points (kinda like those shuttles in Riven...)
I don't think I'm going to rush out and buy these, but I guarentee I'll check both RTMyst and Exile out.
Gee.. someone has no sense of sarcasm.. Better yet, it's an Anon Coward who said it.. Any reason for this anger, unless your name is REALLY bill gates, and you're worried that you're next on my list?
Hey, if they're not liable, I bet we can find a couple of Bill Gates(es??) out there and suddenly our favourite Micro$lob founder is a known felon.. think of the problems that could cause with his court case...
My $.02
Obviously someone's been spending too much time in his cubicle, a haven for butt piracy. Because of this, the National Association for gay people's rights have been miffed that this person is not coming out of the closet, and thus has ordered that we shut down that cubicle.
This has been a public service announcement
Is it me, or is every question asked at the beginning responded to with some form of "I don't know?" I'm no lawyer, but one would think that if I were taking a deposition, I would ask questions that I KNEW there were answers for, and ask the useless stuff later.
... NO. Do you know what this is? NO.
Do you know so and so? NO. Did you ever hear of
I gave up after reading the first several pages.. almost looked like they asked my Grandma to testify in Microsoft's case.. and she can't even type.
This whole off topic string that is now the topic sounds like something that would show up on a Gallagher special.
To be assinine and provide another, yet wrong, answer:
Let's take the word dorkus (commonly abbreviated DORK). We all know the plural of that is dorks. So, virus in the plural is "virs."
SHOOT THE HOSTAGE!!
If we wanna be anal compulsive about this:
it's means "it is", its is the possesive. Its a shame that you can't use it right. In this case, it also is unclear, but I don't give a damn.
THE GROUP OF COMPUTERS combines into an unclear pronoun. Whatever that is.
And your last sentence is a fragment.
To hell with it though, cause I'm be a hick and I ain't here to speak english, and I'm be a tired of reading along and finding this crap.