>> The idea of writing is to communicate. If a write "There goes a kat" it would be incorrect spelling, however, I still convey my meaning."
...and I guess you could communicate your homosexuality by parting my cheeks and tossing my salad while I sip a Mochachino at the local Starbucks. Such behavior doesn't make public rimming any more acceptable than 5th grade writing by a professional journalist.
"Here's hoping that this show comes close to it's source materials."
Please learn the difference between "it's" and "its". If my 8 year old can do it, so can you. I expect professional journalists to actually give a shit about this kind of stuff. If the logic is too hard for you, try using a grammar checker: Word XP would have underlined the "it's" in your headline.
(and to Mr. Offtopic, go fuck yourself,I'm sick and tired of seeing lazy writing on the/. frontpage.)
Hilary whitters on about morals, IP, innovation (deja-vous?) but she does not address fair use. I might be sympathetic to her position if the RIAA had not turned the screw on both artists and consumers. The fact is the recording industry enjoyed a huge windfall with the advent of the CD as consumers replaced their aging vinyl collections. I can't think of another industry where people pay for the same thing multiple times. In the bad old days of vinyl (yes, I'm *that* old) my favourite records would get scratched to bits and I would go out and buy the same thing again. I've probably purchased Abbey Road more than 5 times in various formats. I would like to ask Bitch Rosen whether she thinks paying for the same thing over and over is part of her "legitimate market". As I understand it fair use would have permitted me to seek Napster delivered digital replacements for my vinyl tracks if there had been such a technology. Of course the record industry of the 1980's would have laughed at you if you asked for a replacement record for the price of the media. Even Microsoft will quite happily mail a new CD if the orginal has a problem. When it comes down to it, downloading music via P2P is not considered illegal/immoral by most people. This is because most of us have been getting reamed by the record industry for years. Remember how they promised the price of a CD would drop dramtically when the technology matured? Well, it's 20 years now and all we have seen is price increases. Up to now the record industry was able to turn the screw on consumers because it had the upper hand, now the playing field has been levelled and like any incumbant, the RIAA et al is shit-scared of falling off the gravy train. I recommend that you all go out and use P2P technology. If you have pruchased the music in the past you have a legal right to download and use that music using any technology. Rosen wants you to purchase a copy of the same music for each device you own. Her Utopia is a world in which all content is locked down, all audio hardware is RIAA approved and the "play" button is replaced with a "pay" button.
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
Mister City Policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
>From standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I'm crying.
Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo.
I had problems with my Thinkpad a21p's NIC. It would randomly seize up and drop me from the network. After returning it twice for repair and then running into more problems I became a hardass and demanded that it be declared a lemmon and switched for a new machine. It wasn't easy, but after much arguing on the phone I was given a Thinkpad a22p with a faster processor and a CDR thrown in for free.
I've played with Dell laptops and they feel cheap. Always buy thinkpad they are built to last and the support is much better. The extra $$$ are worth it.
>However, the best developers and engineers I have ever known are always out working on personal projects. Its a way to get your juices flowing when you have been stumped on a problem for a few days/weeks.
Bravo, an excellent, but seldom made, point. This is a very perceptive insight. In my experience the true test of an engineer is whether he or she can deliver an application single-handed. I have written one fairly successfuly shareware application, I didn't make any money, but that wasn't the point. I had been working on projects with Dilbert style management for years. I chose to write a shareware app in my spare time in order to get control back and prove that I wasn't another one of those blowhards who know it all but never deliver. It was a great experience, indeed, the greatest reward was a letter I received from a man who said my app was the best-designed he had ever used. The registration fee was $10, he enclosed a check for $30! I still have the letter. I can tell you, it's a closer at interviews. So yes, engineers that truly love their job will code for fun and these guys will be the best. The biggest issue I have faced is internal policitcs, specifically, engineers who are not as good as me, but are better at communicating their vision, no matter how flawed. I used to fight long, frustrating battles for the sake of the product, now I just get on with it and try to do the best I can. Arguing with idiots is a waste of time. Wish I'd figured that one out 10 years ago! (young guns- consider this pearl of wisdom a freebee:))
Of course it would be crass to mention that Windows NT/2000 has had a preemptive kernel from day 1. Facts and *nix polictical correctness don't mix too well at/.
I have 2 of these puppies connected to the LAN at my house, I'll probably buy a third soon. For me they are the perfect solution, I have 13G of mp3 on my server and the audiotron allows me to get that music to any room in my house (I have ethernet wall outlets in every room). The unit itself is small and has an optical outlet as well as analog. In the early days the indexing software had its limitations, however, TB has been very reponsive to feedback and is continually improving the firmware. The lastest Beta release actually supports Internet Radio if you have a broadband gateway.
I would have no hisitation in recommending the Audiotron, I use mine every day.
In Bin Laden's case encryption is moot since it appears he has effectively used low/no-tech techniques to distribute information, making him effectively invisible the CIA & NSA which relies almost completely on electronic surveilence.
In any case, if Joe Smith from Buttfuck, Texas has access to PGP source code and a C compiler, how can we put the genie back in the bottle? The reality is the CIA/NSA wants to stop strong encryption becoming ubiquitous, these guys know that it's impossible to take encryption away from the terrorists, but it sure would like to stop every man and his dog using it. And why is that? well, the NSA already intercepts all electronic communication in the U.S., despite the fact that it is illegal to do so. The NSA is shit scared of americans actually enforcing the no-snoop-without-a-court-order-law.
Horse-shite. Another/.er with an elevated opinion of what he actually knows.
1) There are 2 DVD standards
a) DVD for authoring
b) DVD for general use.
2) DVD for authoring DVD-Rs can only be burned on drives that support this standard. Currently the cheapest of these drives is still $5k+
3) DVD for general use does not support encryption or region coding.
4) 99% of standalone DVD players built in the last 18 months support DVD or General Use DVD-Rs.
5) It is completely possible to copy a commercial (DVD authoring std) to a DVD-R for general use, however, it must be decrypted first. It must also fit onto a 4.7G DVD-R disk, 75% of commercial DVDs will not fit. I have verified that it is possible to produce a perfect digital copy of a commercial disk.
6) There is a lot of misinformation floating around re: DVD-RW & DVD+RW. Both standards work well withe existing h/w. There is not much to choose between them.
7) I have the Pioneer A03 IDE DVD-RW drive. It's an excellent piece of h/w and can be purchased for $650. I have used it for burning home movies (boy, is that a long process!) and for data backup.
8) DVD-R media can be had for $8. DVD-RW for $21. Checkout www.meritline.com if you don't believe me.
WHat a fricken moron.
The big deal is DirecTV uses MPEG2 as its broadcast format and the combo receivers store the native MPEG2. The hack enables extraction of the raw DirecTV bitstream. A much more interesting proposition than a crappy NTSC signal encoded by a $200 compressor.
Next time do your homework before you open your pie hole.
Speaking of which, I just downgraded to EZCD 4 from 5. EZCD5 is buggy and has an irratating bolted-on quasi wizard GUI which assumes the user wants his software to look like AOL circa 1995. It's slower and it intermittantly freezes during mp3 burns. More and more companies are catching the MSFT feature-creep disease which consists of adding fluff features while continuing to ignore bugs that have been present for many versions, all to justify another.0 release.
It seems to me that Wintel is seriously fucking itself. No one gives a shit about another.1 mhz increase in CPU speed and no one gives a fuck about Office 2002, neither add ANY value to 99% of us. The only interesting area of innovation is Graphics cards and that is raplidly approaching the point of diminishing returns. How many of your friends have shelled out $400 for a GeForce3?
We should have learned by now that you can't fight technology, it's better just to roll with the punches. This reminds me of the uproar in the online chess rooms when computer chess programs became powerful enough that cyber opponents were suspected of delegating their moves to a machine. The bottom line is people will cheat and cheaters will get found out. If people want to cheat let them, just move to a different game with trusted players.
As a former English major, I must concur. Not only is avoiding doing your own research an act of sloth, but if you are not cognisant enough to PARAPHRASE the purloined material, then you should employ yourself at a fast-food restaurant until you decide you're ready to fill your cup of knowledge at a state university.
There's a difference between well-written and good content. This article contains several grammatical errors in the first section. Is it asking so much to expect these guys to proof-read?
I am currently implementing code to meet the same specs as the poster. There are a lot of canned solutions that rely on a SQL backend, e.g. Crystal Reports makes a web based solution. In my case I decided to use XML and XSL. The basic idea is to generate XML from whatever DB or data source you are using and then transform it to HTML using an XSL tranformation. The actualt transform can be done on the server or client. I prefer server side processing since this reduces the need for an XML compatible browser. The nice thing about this solution is you can totally reformat reports by changing the stylesheet, not a line of program code needs to be changed. Also, you can provide hyperlinks to the raw XML so the user can format the reports using his own XSL, or import the XML to any app that has ASCII import. We use Windows 2000, IIS & SQL Server, which have fantastic facilities for XML processing.
5 - Insightful????
What a fucking crock. This was nothing but bland, unimaginative speculation./. is going down the shitter.
Dvorak is a boring, predictable blowhard troll
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Dvorak does this to generate traffic, pure and simple. The guy is full of shit. He is guaranteed to be the contrarian just for the sake of being different. His reactionary opinions seldom have any logical basis and he is well known for 180 degree changes in direction. I have been in his presence at several industry gatherings and I can honestly say he is one of the most ego-driven self-obsessed pricks in the business. He treats people he has no use for like shit while kissing ass whenever there's something in it for him. He's a truly pathetic individual and a 99 cent per word bitch ho.
>>Microsoft's days are being quickly numbered.
Dumb fuckers like LordAnalrim have been predicting this for years.
BTW Nice strawman. Windows 2000 is such a flop I wonder how I manage to make all mucho $$$ installing Active Directory.
It seems that 99% of the people that come here are bandwagon jumpers with no formal background in C.S. That's fine, however, I am sick and tired of these eejits passing off ill-thought out speculation as fact.
I remember a while ago there was a poll on "your favorite algorithm's complexity o(n^2), o (log n) etc. 90% of the nitwit Slahsdot readers thought that the complexity term was the algorithm itself.
Anyway, to the issue at hand. Yes, of course it is provably possible to create bug free alorithms of great complexity for a subset of problems. For critical systems key components are designed using formal methods. When the behaviour of a system is not formally provable, a useful approach is that of the "clean room" - give the same spec to several isolated groups of programmers and combine the output of the redundant systems using a heuristic, for example, majority voting.
Jeezus Christ, don't you think this 2001 thing is getting a little old already?
Just when you think Taco can't get any more lame, he somehow pushes the envelope once again.
Slashdot Mirror
"If you're a hardware junkie, then you may already know ATA133 is on it's way to becoming the new standard for drive controllers."
/. frontpage.)
ARGGGHHHHHH IT'S "ITS" NOT "IT'S" YOU FUCKING MORON.
(standard disclaimer for Mr. Offtopic: go fuck yourself,I'm sick and tired of seeing lazy writing on the
>> The idea of writing is to communicate. If a write "There goes a kat" it would be incorrect spelling, however, I still convey my meaning."
...and I guess you could communicate your homosexuality by parting my cheeks and tossing my salad while I sip a Mochachino at the local Starbucks. Such behavior doesn't make public rimming any more acceptable than 5th grade writing by a professional journalist.
"Here's hoping that this show comes close to it's source materials."
/. frontpage.)
Please learn the difference between "it's" and "its". If my 8 year old can do it, so can you. I expect professional journalists to actually give a shit about this kind of stuff. If the logic is too hard for you, try using a grammar checker: Word XP would have underlined the "it's" in your headline.
(and to Mr. Offtopic, go fuck yourself,I'm sick and tired of seeing lazy writing on the
Hilary whitters on about morals, IP, innovation (deja-vous?) but she does not address fair use. I might be sympathetic to her position if the RIAA had not turned the screw on both artists and consumers. The fact is the recording industry enjoyed a huge windfall with the advent of the CD as consumers replaced their aging vinyl collections. I can't think of another industry where people pay for the same thing multiple times. In the bad old days of vinyl (yes, I'm *that* old) my favourite records would get scratched to bits and I would go out and buy the same thing again. I've probably purchased Abbey Road more than 5 times in various formats. I would like to ask Bitch Rosen whether she thinks paying for the same thing over and over is part of her "legitimate market". As I understand it fair use would have permitted me to seek Napster delivered digital replacements for my vinyl tracks if there had been such a technology. Of course the record industry of the 1980's would have laughed at you if you asked for a replacement record for the price of the media. Even Microsoft will quite happily mail a new CD if the orginal has a problem. When it comes down to it, downloading music via P2P is not considered illegal/immoral by most people. This is because most of us have been getting reamed by the record industry for years. Remember how they promised the price of a CD would drop dramtically when the technology matured? Well, it's 20 years now and all we have seen is price increases. Up to now the record industry was able to turn the screw on consumers because it had the upper hand, now the playing field has been levelled and like any incumbant, the RIAA et al is shit-scared of falling off the gravy train. I recommend that you all go out and use P2P technology. If you have pruchased the music in the past you have a legal right to download and use that music using any technology. Rosen wants you to purchase a copy of the same music for each device you own. Her Utopia is a world in which all content is locked down, all audio hardware is RIAA approved and the "play" button is replaced with a "pay" button.
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
Mister City Policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
>From standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I'm crying.
Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo.
I had problems with my Thinkpad a21p's NIC. It would randomly seize up and drop me from the network. After returning it twice for repair and then running into more problems I became a hardass and demanded that it be declared a lemmon and switched for a new machine. It wasn't easy, but after much arguing on the phone I was given a Thinkpad a22p with a faster processor and a CDR thrown in for free.
I've played with Dell laptops and they feel cheap. Always buy thinkpad they are built to last and the support is much better. The extra $$$ are worth it.
>However, the best developers and engineers I have ever known are always out working on personal projects. Its a way to get your juices flowing when you have been stumped on a problem for a few days/weeks.
:))
Bravo, an excellent, but seldom made, point. This is a very perceptive insight. In my experience the true test of an engineer is whether he or she can deliver an application single-handed. I have written one fairly successfuly shareware application, I didn't make any money, but that wasn't the point. I had been working on projects with Dilbert style management for years. I chose to write a shareware app in my spare time in order to get control back and prove that I wasn't another one of those blowhards who know it all but never deliver. It was a great experience, indeed, the greatest reward was a letter I received from a man who said my app was the best-designed he had ever used. The registration fee was $10, he enclosed a check for $30! I still have the letter. I can tell you, it's a closer at interviews. So yes, engineers that truly love their job will code for fun and these guys will be the best. The biggest issue I have faced is internal policitcs, specifically, engineers who are not as good as me, but are better at communicating their vision, no matter how flawed. I used to fight long, frustrating battles for the sake of the product, now I just get on with it and try to do the best I can. Arguing with idiots is a waste of time. Wish I'd figured that one out 10 years ago! (young guns- consider this pearl of wisdom a freebee
>> Really? That's the first time I hear about that.
Well consider yourself informed.
And yes, I do know what the hell I'm talking about. Save the tutorial for someone that will be impressed.
Of course it would be crass to mention that Windows NT/2000 has had a preemptive kernel from day 1. Facts and *nix polictical correctness don't mix too well at /.
I have 2 of these puppies connected to the LAN at my house, I'll probably buy a third soon. For me they are the perfect solution, I have 13G of mp3 on my server and the audiotron allows me to get that music to any room in my house (I have ethernet wall outlets in every room). The unit itself is small and has an optical outlet as well as analog. In the early days the indexing software had its limitations, however, TB has been very reponsive to feedback and is continually improving the firmware. The lastest Beta release actually supports Internet Radio if you have a broadband gateway.
I would have no hisitation in recommending the Audiotron, I use mine every day.
In Bin Laden's case encryption is moot since it appears he has effectively used low/no-tech techniques to distribute information, making him effectively invisible the CIA & NSA which relies almost completely on electronic surveilence.
In any case, if Joe Smith from Buttfuck, Texas has access to PGP source code and a C compiler, how can we put the genie back in the bottle? The reality is the CIA/NSA wants to stop strong encryption becoming ubiquitous, these guys know that it's impossible to take encryption away from the terrorists, but it sure would like to stop every man and his dog using it. And why is that? well, the NSA already intercepts all electronic communication in the U.S., despite the fact that it is illegal to do so. The NSA is shit scared of americans actually enforcing the no-snoop-without-a-court-order-law.
Horse-shite. Another /.er with an elevated opinion of what he actually knows.
1) There are 2 DVD standards
a) DVD for authoring
b) DVD for general use.
2) DVD for authoring DVD-Rs can only be burned on drives that support this standard. Currently the cheapest of these drives is still $5k+
3) DVD for general use does not support encryption or region coding.
4) 99% of standalone DVD players built in the last 18 months support DVD or General Use DVD-Rs.
5) It is completely possible to copy a commercial (DVD authoring std) to a DVD-R for general use, however, it must be decrypted first. It must also fit onto a 4.7G DVD-R disk, 75% of commercial DVDs will not fit. I have verified that it is possible to produce a perfect digital copy of a commercial disk.
6) There is a lot of misinformation floating around re: DVD-RW & DVD+RW. Both standards work well withe existing h/w. There is not much to choose between them.
7) I have the Pioneer A03 IDE DVD-RW drive. It's an excellent piece of h/w and can be purchased for $650. I have used it for burning home movies (boy, is that a long process!) and for data backup.
8) DVD-R media can be had for $8. DVD-RW for $21. Checkout www.meritline.com if you don't believe me.
WHat a fricken moron. The big deal is DirecTV uses MPEG2 as its broadcast format and the combo receivers store the native MPEG2. The hack enables extraction of the raw DirecTV bitstream. A much more interesting proposition than a crappy NTSC signal encoded by a $200 compressor. Next time do your homework before you open your pie hole.
Speaking of which, I just downgraded to EZCD 4 from 5. EZCD5 is buggy and has an irratating bolted-on quasi wizard GUI which assumes the user wants his software to look like AOL circa 1995. It's slower and it intermittantly freezes during mp3 burns. More and more companies are catching the MSFT feature-creep disease which consists of adding fluff features while continuing to ignore bugs that have been present for many versions, all to justify another .0 release.
It seems to me that Wintel is seriously fucking itself. No one gives a shit about another .1 mhz increase in CPU speed and no one gives a fuck about Office 2002, neither add ANY value to 99% of us. The only interesting area of innovation is Graphics cards and that is raplidly approaching the point of diminishing returns. How many of your friends have shelled out $400 for a GeForce3?
I completely agree. /. has become a joke.
We should have learned by now that you can't fight technology, it's better just to roll with the punches. This reminds me of the uproar in the online chess rooms when computer chess programs became powerful enough that cyber opponents were suspected of delegating their moves to a machine. The bottom line is people will cheat and cheaters will get found out. If people want to cheat let them, just move to a different game with trusted players.
As a former English major, I must concur. Not only is avoiding doing your own research an act of sloth, but if you are not cognisant enough to PARAPHRASE the purloined material, then you should employ yourself at a fast-food restaurant until you decide you're ready to fill your cup of knowledge at a state university.
There's a difference between well-written and good content. This article contains several grammatical errors in the first section. Is it asking so much to expect these guys to proof-read?
I am currently implementing code to meet the same specs as the poster. There are a lot of canned solutions that rely on a SQL backend, e.g. Crystal Reports makes a web based solution. In my case I decided to use XML and XSL. The basic idea is to generate XML from whatever DB or data source you are using and then transform it to HTML using an XSL tranformation. The actualt transform can be done on the server or client. I prefer server side processing since this reduces the need for an XML compatible browser. The nice thing about this solution is you can totally reformat reports by changing the stylesheet, not a line of program code needs to be changed. Also, you can provide hyperlinks to the raw XML so the user can format the reports using his own XSL, or import the XML to any app that has ASCII import. We use Windows 2000, IIS & SQL Server, which have fantastic facilities for XML processing.
5 - Insightful???? What a fucking crock. This was nothing but bland, unimaginative speculation. /. is going down the shitter.
Dvorak does this to generate traffic, pure and simple. The guy is full of shit. He is guaranteed to be the contrarian just for the sake of being different. His reactionary opinions seldom have any logical basis and he is well known for 180 degree changes in direction. I have been in his presence at several industry gatherings and I can honestly say he is one of the most ego-driven self-obsessed pricks in the business. He treats people he has no use for like shit while kissing ass whenever there's something in it for him. He's a truly pathetic individual and a 99 cent per word bitch ho.
>>Microsoft's days are being quickly numbered. Dumb fuckers like LordAnalrim have been predicting this for years. BTW Nice strawman. Windows 2000 is such a flop I wonder how I manage to make all mucho $$$ installing Active Directory.
Read what I wrote again Nitwit.
It seems that 99% of the people that come here are bandwagon jumpers with no formal background in C.S. That's fine, however, I am sick and tired of these eejits passing off ill-thought out speculation as fact. I remember a while ago there was a poll on "your favorite algorithm's complexity o(n^2), o (log n) etc. 90% of the nitwit Slahsdot readers thought that the complexity term was the algorithm itself. Anyway, to the issue at hand. Yes, of course it is provably possible to create bug free alorithms of great complexity for a subset of problems. For critical systems key components are designed using formal methods. When the behaviour of a system is not formally provable, a useful approach is that of the "clean room" - give the same spec to several isolated groups of programmers and combine the output of the redundant systems using a heuristic, for example, majority voting.
Jeezus Christ, don't you think this 2001 thing is getting a little old already? Just when you think Taco can't get any more lame, he somehow pushes the envelope once again.