I know from personal experience.I have a strange name..Aram, Simple but different. . I've had a few people tell me what they were expecting from name someone "with a turban". Or my last name Com jean which some people think as french "you don't speak french???". I'm just a caucasion with some armenian mixed in.
My name I like, but I'm often pre judged on it. I can't imagine what Dweezle Zappa would go through if his father wasn't so famous.
I think this is a neat idea. I like the fact that they could build it fairly quickly using the solid core of OSX (Webkit) which renders HTML easily.
They didn't have to worry about writing an HTML parser, just built an app on top of it.
Its nice not having to get bogged down in the details. I think open source needs a more cohesive approach to things like this (QT is a close as it gets). Ironically the hTML renderer apple uses is open source, but I imagine not installed by default in linux (unless your using KDE)
Ironically the QT/GTK disputes make it more difficult to figure out which if any libraries to use.
This is what makes java such a threat to microsoft, whatever you think of the class libraries they are there for every java program to use.
If parrot gets advanced enough.. Would it be technically feasable to create a java compiler to output parrot byte code instead of java byte code? It would seem an Ideal solution..
I confess my breif look at the Parot leaves me thinking its going to take some work, but it might be worth it. Getting Parrot cross platform (windows) might be a stumbling point. But if parrot is a robust enought VM it might work well.
Re:PHP for Web Perl to replace shell scripts
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I use both perl and php. My motto, choose the tool based on the job you need to do.
PHP in my mind works much much better than perl for web sites. The syntax is neater, its really easy to template a site in php.
That being said the scripts that I run to prep my photo library for the web run perl from the command line. Shell scripting is way too limiting and perl is fairly cross platform and php doesn't really work as a scripting language.
either way lots of comments in code make it better..
I hope you get this.. I don't have a problem at all with it. Steal is a bad word.. As I said in the original post I don't really care because its just a mirror.
If you had changed my name on the html to yours...
Glad you enjoyed them. I found them accidently by searching for my name..
I did nothing... S/He left the pages as is and wasn't trying to sell them or anything.. I was surprised it happened. I was kinda flattered actually. I had forgetten about it till this article
Original http://www.plocp.com/user/Test/wtc/index.htm
In the US its called "Superfund" billions of taxpayer dollars to litigate/clean up sites that companies were too irresponsible to keep un contaminated. Companies don't do extra work that makes them less competetive unless the government mandates it.
I'm pretty sure china/"3rd world" have much less restrictrive environmental rules, so the cost of running a clean business aren't there.
Apple products are great. They're also wickedly expensive for what you (yeah I know you get great software etc..). Look at the margins apple makes on machines.
They need to get macs out there to build some sales momentum. Last I looked the number of machines shipped is decreasing, even with all that OSX goodness.
They need hardware competition similar to the days of the clones. They need to do this in a better way than they did it before which almost destroyed the company.
Especially since they criple the lower end hardware, making it less attrictive to switcher. Example: The ibook you buy can't drive an external monitor at more the 1024x768 when my pc 200 mhz laptop easily can? This has turned off many people I know. The lack of an inexpensive "headless" machine hurts to, because people don't necessarily want to buy the LCD/ Emacs when they have perfectly good monitors to use.
People agonize because they want the best quality / size ratio. for example if aac encodes at 128 Kbps as well as mp3 at 192 Kbps you can fit more tunes on you harddrive in the same space and be happy. This isn't critical on computers with they're large hard drives, but for portables] players it matters. People also don't want to rip all there CDs multiple times.
In someways your right, people should pick a bit rate/format that works for them and not worry about it. but this is slashdot..
Kodak has had bolt on cameras for existing slrs from canon and nikon. The problem was they were marketed at press pros and very very expensive. I think they're at a read disadvantage against their competetors because they don't make the camera themselves.
I've be sort of following this. People aren't thinking. Of course the RIAA is suing pirates, and there is nothing wrong with that.
There seems to be a lot of scapegoating. First it was Napster isn't bad, its the people pirating on napster that are the problem. Now its the boogieman RIAA for defending its members (record companies) from obvious copyright infringement and going after individual pirates on P2P networks instead of the networks.
If the GPL was being violated wouldn't you want the violators to get whats coming to them from the copywrite holders? Hows that different from someone who writes a song and wants to make money at it, but they're not making as much as they could because people are pirating it? (yeah I know people will pirate stuff they wouldn't pay for, but I've seen people stop buying because its available for free) They give the enforcement to the RIAA so the artist don't look bad. Metalica didn't want to give away there music and everyone started screamming.
If you create something shouldn't it be your right on how its used for a time (copyright). If you want to give it away free go nuts, if you want to sell it to a company that charges for it, thats you right too.
Should the RIAA just turn a blind eye to these people republishing "pirating" works they've paid for?
I've seen co-workers doing this.. It works. Although its not as easy to see through the plastic. You kinda have to try looking through the blurry plastic to see.
I work for a company with huge debt (100s of millions$$). We're in the pay it back stage vs the borrow and grow stage. Its not good. It takes a huge chunk of our profits and some of the purchases didn't work out as well as expected. It hasn't helped our valuation...
For what its worth, I've had a panasonic minidv camcorder (18x optical zoom) for a number of years. My shots have started to come out much better when I started to use a tripod.
The "Image stabilization" both cameras have helps, but if you want the shots to look really good use a tripod or brace the camera on something (a tree/wall). Its a royal pain in the butt to lug one around. but they have some very small light ones that do the trick. If you don't you risk making viewer sea-sick or having video that looks like blair witch..
Note that the more you zoom in the harder it becomes to hold the camcorder steady. to that 22X zoom is harder to hold steady zoomed in than a 10x.
My camcorder has a "headlight" that clips on the top. It lights things up. This has been very usefull, because most consumer camcorders will record in low light they tend to use a slow shutter speed and look grainy. (This kills batter life though)
I'll summarize someother points: +MiniDV is great. Almost broadcast quality (NTSC). +get a good lens on the camcorder +3 CCD is better for better color/sharper but may be out of you price range +Image stabilization is good. Optical stabilization is better than digital but both work +Buy the biggest battery you can find and use the one that comes with the camcorder as a spare.
Happy shooting
Most cheap keyboards have midi now
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I was Toys'R'Us checking out the keyboards. FOr about 150$ a yamaha keyboard, touch sensative keys (58 keys I think) and midi out. I think any of these inexpensive keyboards would be a good-alternative as they also work as stand alone players as well.
I've just built a database prototype for a client that uses LAMP (Linux-Apache-Mysql-Php). Oreily calls it the open source web platform and has a webpage about it. Why would you use GTK and limit your platform?
Because its a server application the program doesn't have to be installed on different machines (except the web browser), which makes it easier to install. Programming some stuff in a web interface is tough, but not too too bad.
I actually did the demo on an ibook (ran the database/webserver, client browser on one machine. . used fink to install MySql and a php package from entropy.net. So easy to install I was amazed. although if I deploy I'll compile myself to set the options exactly as I want.
Prior to macOSX apple didn't bother to release newer javas (I think 1.2) because the OS8-9 wouldn't support some of the features it needed. Most modern OSs should easily support what the JVM needs
I have an Ibook purchased in that time frame.. It seems like EVERYONE is having ibook problems.. Yet mine keeps working like a champ and I use it a lot. Its even hit the floor a bunch of times before we got rid of the ethernet cable...
Slashdot Mirror
People judge you on your name.
I know from personal experience.I have a strange name..Aram, Simple but different. . I've had a few people tell me what they were expecting from name someone "with a turban". Or my last name Com jean which some people think as french "you don't speak french???". I'm just a caucasion with some armenian mixed in.
My name I like, but I'm often pre judged on it. I can't imagine what Dweezle Zappa would go through if his father wasn't so famous.
I think this is a neat idea. I like the fact that they could build it fairly quickly using the solid core of OSX (Webkit) which renders HTML easily.
They didn't have to worry about writing an HTML parser, just built an app on top of it.
Its nice not having to get bogged down in the details. I think open source needs a more cohesive approach to things like this (QT is a close as it gets). Ironically the hTML renderer apple uses is open source, but I imagine not installed by default in linux (unless your using KDE)
Ironically the QT/GTK disputes make it more difficult to figure out which if any libraries to use.
This is what makes java such a threat to microsoft, whatever you think of the class libraries they are there for every java program to use.
If parrot gets advanced enough.. Would it be technically feasable to create a java compiler to output parrot byte code instead of java byte code? It would seem an Ideal solution..
I confess my breif look at the Parot leaves me thinking its going to take some work, but it might be worth it. Getting Parrot cross platform (windows) might be a stumbling point. But if parrot is a robust enought VM it might work well.
Just a thought..
With the vectrex video game system
I wonder... could those games be made to run under SVG... with frame buffering....
The Ascap (American society of Composers and Authors) has page about what they do, basicaly they collect royalties and distribute them to there members. Its only composers though and not performers, although often times those are one and the same. One of the reasons a lot of liner notes used to contain the names of the songs writers.
I use both perl and php. My motto, choose the tool based on the job you need to do.
PHP in my mind works much much better than perl for web sites. The syntax is neater, its really easy to template a site in php.
That being said the scripts that I run to prep my photo library for the web run perl from the command line. Shell scripting is way too limiting and perl is fairly cross platform and php doesn't really work as a scripting language.
either way lots of comments in code make it better..
Chris-
I hope you get this.. I don't have a problem at all with it. Steal is a bad word.. As I said in the original post I don't really care because its just a mirror.
If you had changed my name on the html to yours...
Glad you enjoyed them. I found them accidently by searching for my name..
-Aram
I did nothing... S/He left the pages as is and wasn't trying to sell them or anything.. I was surprised it happened. I was kinda flattered actually. I had forgetten about it till this article
Original
http://www.plocp.com/user/Test/wtc/index.htm
Copy..
In the US its called "Superfund" billions of taxpayer dollars to litigate/clean up sites that companies were too irresponsible to keep un contaminated. Companies don't do extra work that makes them less competetive unless the government mandates it.
I'm pretty sure china/"3rd world" have much less restrictrive environmental rules, so the cost of running a clean business aren't there.
Apple products are great. They're also wickedly expensive for what you (yeah I know you get great software etc..). Look at the margins apple makes on machines.
They need to get macs out there to build some sales momentum. Last I looked the number of machines shipped is decreasing, even with all that OSX goodness.
They need hardware competition similar to the days of the clones. They need to do this in a better way than they did it before which almost destroyed the company.
Especially since they criple the lower end hardware, making it less attrictive to switcher. Example: The ibook you buy can't drive an external monitor at more the 1024x768 when my pc 200 mhz laptop easily can? This has turned off many people I know. The lack of an inexpensive "headless" machine hurts to, because people don't necessarily want to buy the LCD/ Emacs when they have perfectly good monitors to use.
Need some computer parts?, perhaps a new headlight, some oil, washer fluid... Neon for you cpu case. Driving gloves for those long coding sessions?
You know where to go now...
People agonize because they want the best quality / size ratio. for example if aac encodes at 128 Kbps as well as mp3 at 192 Kbps you can fit more tunes on you harddrive in the same space and be happy. This isn't critical on computers with they're large hard drives, but for portables] players it matters. People also don't want to rip all there CDs multiple times.
In someways your right, people should pick a bit rate/format that works for them and not worry about it. but this is slashdot..
Kodak has had bolt on cameras for existing slrs from canon and nikon. The problem was they were marketed at press pros and very very expensive. I think they're at a read disadvantage against their competetors because they don't make the camera themselves.
First I could tune a guitar by ear,
then I got a tuner and could no longer tune by ear.
Now I've reached the next level and can no longer tune the guitar with the machine.
-Dave Mathews
I've be sort of following this. People aren't thinking. Of course the RIAA is suing pirates, and there is nothing wrong with that.
There seems to be a lot of scapegoating. First it was Napster isn't bad, its the people pirating on napster that are the problem. Now its the boogieman RIAA for defending its members (record companies) from obvious copyright infringement and going after individual pirates on P2P networks instead of the networks.
If the GPL was being violated wouldn't you want the violators to get whats coming to them from the copywrite holders? Hows that different from someone who writes a song and wants to make money at it, but they're not making as much as they could because people are pirating it? (yeah I know people will pirate stuff they wouldn't pay for, but I've seen people stop buying because its available for free)
They give the enforcement to the RIAA so the artist don't look bad. Metalica didn't want to give away there music and everyone started screamming.
If you create something shouldn't it be your right on how its used for a time (copyright). If you want to give it away free go nuts, if you want to sell it to a company that charges for it, thats you right too.
Should the RIAA just turn a blind eye to these people republishing "pirating" works they've paid for?
Whats right is right.
I've seen co-workers doing this.. It works. Although its not as easy to see through the plastic. You kinda have to try looking through the blurry plastic to see.
Course now they'll fix it...
I work for a company with huge debt (100s of millions$$). We're in the pay it back stage vs the borrow and grow stage. Its not good. It takes a huge chunk of our profits and some of the purchases didn't work out as well as expected. It hasn't helped our valuation...
For what its worth, I've had a panasonic minidv camcorder (18x optical zoom) for a number of years. My shots have started to come out much better when I started to use a tripod.
..
The "Image stabilization" both cameras have helps, but if you want the shots to look really good use a tripod or brace the camera on something (a tree/wall). Its a royal pain in the butt to lug one around. but they have some very small light ones that do the trick. If you don't you risk making viewer sea-sick or having video that looks like blair witch
Note that the more you zoom in the harder it becomes to hold the camcorder steady. to that 22X zoom is harder to hold steady zoomed in than a 10x.
My camcorder has a "headlight" that clips on the top. It lights things up. This has been very usefull, because most consumer camcorders will record in low light they tend to use a slow shutter speed and look grainy. (This kills batter life though)
I'll summarize someother points:
+MiniDV is great. Almost broadcast quality (NTSC).
+get a good lens on the camcorder
+3 CCD is better for better color/sharper but may be out of you price range
+Image stabilization is good. Optical stabilization is better than digital but both work
+Buy the biggest battery you can find and use the one that comes with the camcorder as a spare.
Happy shooting
I was Toys'R'Us checking out the keyboards. FOr about 150$ a yamaha keyboard, touch sensative keys (58 keys I think) and midi out. I think any of these inexpensive keyboards would be a good-alternative as they also work as stand alone players as well.
LAMP (Linux-Apache-Mysql-Php). Oreily calls it the open source web platform and has a webpage about it. Why would you use GTK and limit your platform?
Because its a server application the program doesn't have to be installed on different machines (except the web browser), which makes it easier to install. Programming some stuff in a web interface is tough, but not too too bad.
I actually did the demo on an ibook (ran the database/webserver, client browser on one machine. . used fink to install MySql and a php package from entropy.net. So easy to install I was amazed. although if I deploy I'll compile myself to set the options exactly as I want.
Prior to macOSX apple didn't bother to release newer javas (I think 1.2) because the OS8-9 wouldn't support some of the features it needed. Most modern OSs should easily support what the JVM needs
Coolio cashed the check then said he didn't approve the parody.. If I remember correctly..
I have an Ibook purchased in that time frame.. It seems like EVERYONE is having ibook problems.. Yet mine keeps working like a champ and I use it a lot. Its even hit the floor a bunch of times before we got rid of the ethernet cable...
Apple basically looked into DRM and said it wasn't viable. (ref Rolling Stone interview). They put a light version to apease the record companies.