I've maintained among my friends the Sony wants to make as much as possible from the initial over-demand like the 360 had and is starting with an expensive price to make more profits early on. Once the PS3 can be found rather easily in stores they'll drop the price to something competitive.
I think their smartest move would be to simply launch the PS3 on eBay. That way they can make most money from those rich kids that I envy so much. Too bas this would piss retailers off so much it would have negative long term effects.
There are a lot of "shoulds" in this world. We should end hunger and poverty, should stop global warming, should brush your teeth after every meal, etc. The problem with that is "shoulds" don't always reflect reality. The reality is people do better work when they take pride in what they do and encouraging people to take pride in their work is something we all should do.
vanity is excessive pride. Putting your name on your work is not excessive. By your logic anyone who creates anything and takes credit for it is vain.
Apache seems to have a policy against programmers having their name in a comment for the code they contribute to. For much of the open source world, the code is a major medium that programmers express ideas like a canvas is the medium a painter expresses themselves or the pages of book is for a writer. Admittedly programming is more of an engineering skill than it is an artistic skill but well written code still takes an artistic eye. Discouraging a programmer from identifying their contributions is in effect discouraging them from taking the utmost pride in their craft. Why does Apache remove incentives for people to do their best work?
First, this is a discipline issue. Your language or tools won't make your code rock solid, only you can. Based on the wording of the question I doubt you are experienced enough to achieve your goal with out a lot of self education.
For example you say hiding of the abstractions like Java RMI is desirable. But what Java RMI hides it what makes it unsuitable. The fact is a remote method call could fail for a number of reasons and pretending a remote method call is just like a local method call won't help you write rock solid code. Use a messaging system that doesn't pretend things are simpler than they are.
Don't use cutting edge, buzzword-worthy, technology. A mature technology will be more robust and have fewer bugs.
Humble yourself some. Unless you are a programming god, which you aren't because you're asking slashdot for help, your code will have many more bugs than the mature libraries you use. I love how your decoupling statement is based on errors in "say, the distributed communication module" as opposed to your own code where it's much more likely.
Camsource: http://camsource.sourceforge.net/ has met my needs in the past. It's rather flexible and should work with any Video4Linux cam. (I had a USB webcam) It supports making the cam images available in a variety of formats and can do archiving, motion detection, ftp uploading, multipart streaming and probably more.
The Zelda games never had a strong connection between games. Each only alluded to each other with hints and details to excite the fanboys (of which I am). This article is taking a giant leap of faith to force the connection it tries to make.
I don't have a problem with your webclient keeping all sorts of extra info. My problem is we have over 100K of mailboxes occupying over a terabyte of disk. We use a Cyrus IMAPD Murder setup with mailboxes spread out on a number of servers in a cluster. Users connect to an imap/pop front end and the front end finds their backend so the users don't have to know or care which actual server their mail is on. The performance is great and the stability is solid. We are not giving this setup for anything.
I downloaded and checked the source and your mail store code is very tightly integrated with the configuration your internal mail store. Had there been a decent modular system maybe I could convince my boss to put me on implementing a mail backend interface that met our needs.
My beef with Zimbra is it requires you to use their own mail server. Yes it has IMAP/POP interfaces for clients to connect to, but you cannot simply point it at your existing mail server. It's really only suitable for small or new sites.
I strongly believe nature will take care of itself. I also believe mankind is part of nature as opposed to many others who believe mankind is some kind of new external force that challenges nature. In the interest of self preservation, nature will take care of itself. What needs to happen will happen. Maybe you're right and what you want to happen will happen or something completely different will. Regardless, there is no need to worry or get upset about it. Everything will be all right in the end.
This is another case of science being used to push an agenda. Is the "hole" there, sure, I'll take their word for it. If I really cared I could establish if that fact was true or not. Everything after that fact is opinion and probably biased. Some people may believe it's a problem and will change the earth for the worse forever. Other people may believe it's part of the natural evolution of the earth which may lead to a new great era. Others may believe it's part of Intelligent Design so it must be implicitly good. Who is right? Probably none of the above. My opinion is that the effects will be both bad and good. It's part of life, learn to deal with change.
It would rock if you could simply point your MX records at smtp.google.com and let them do the rest. We get a great webmail, Google gets loyal customers.
First, that figure is what they hope to sell, second if you believe history repeats itself then take note that the Dreamcast came out about the same amount of time ahead of the PlayStation 2.
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Bungie keeps all the stats needed to recalculate your rank. What they should have done is switched to a sliding window where your rank was based on your last 30 days or something. Give enough time people with inflated ranks due to cheating will fall back into line and you don't have the current situation where the newbies get rocked as the genuinely good players climb back up the ranking ladder.
I like Voyager and look forward to the return of Vger as much as the next person. But look at it this way, there are plenty of things to spend research dollars on that are much more local to us. While I'm sure Voyager would pick up lots of new neato data the reality is that I have a much more myopic view when it comes to the relevance of where to spend research dollars.
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I've maintained among my friends the Sony wants to make as much as possible from the initial over-demand like the 360 had and is starting with an expensive price to make more profits early on. Once the PS3 can be found rather easily in stores they'll drop the price to something competitive.
I think their smartest move would be to simply launch the PS3 on eBay. That way they can make most money from those rich kids that I envy so much. Too bas this would piss retailers off so much it would have negative long term effects.
vanity is excessive pride. Putting your name on your work is not excessive. By your logic anyone who creates anything and takes credit for it is vain.
Apache seems to have a policy against programmers having their name in a comment for the code they contribute to. For much of the open source world, the code is a major medium that programmers express ideas like a canvas is the medium a painter expresses themselves or the pages of book is for a writer. Admittedly programming is more of an engineering skill than it is an artistic skill but well written code still takes an artistic eye. Discouraging a programmer from identifying their contributions is in effect discouraging them from taking the utmost pride in their craft. Why does Apache remove incentives for people to do their best work?
How is this better than Tor: http://tor.eff.org/ or just an HTTP Proxy that supports CONNECT for SSL traffic?
First, this is a discipline issue. Your language or tools won't make your code rock solid, only you can. Based on the wording of the question I doubt you are experienced enough to achieve your goal with out a lot of self education.
For example you say hiding of the abstractions like Java RMI is desirable. But what Java RMI hides it what makes it unsuitable. The fact is a remote method call could fail for a number of reasons and pretending a remote method call is just like a local method call won't help you write rock solid code. Use a messaging system that doesn't pretend things are simpler than they are.
Don't use cutting edge, buzzword-worthy, technology. A mature technology will be more robust and have fewer bugs.
Humble yourself some. Unless you are a programming god, which you aren't because you're asking slashdot for help, your code will have many more bugs than the mature libraries you use. I love how your decoupling statement is based on errors in "say, the distributed communication module" as opposed to your own code where it's much more likely.
Camsource: http://camsource.sourceforge.net/ has met my needs in the past. It's rather flexible and should work with any Video4Linux cam. (I had a USB webcam) It supports making the cam images available in a variety of formats and can do archiving, motion detection, ftp uploading, multipart streaming and probably more.
The Zelda games never had a strong connection between games. Each only alluded to each other with hints and details to excite the fanboys (of which I am). This article is taking a giant leap of faith to force the connection it tries to make.
If you use http://www.frappr.com/dsfriendcode you can find people physically near you which is more interesting IMO.
I don't have a problem with your webclient keeping all sorts of extra info. My problem is we have over 100K of mailboxes occupying over a terabyte of disk. We use a Cyrus IMAPD Murder setup with mailboxes spread out on a number of servers in a cluster. Users connect to an imap/pop front end and the front end finds their backend so the users don't have to know or care which actual server their mail is on. The performance is great and the stability is solid. We are not giving this setup for anything.
I downloaded and checked the source and your mail store code is very tightly integrated with the configuration your internal mail store. Had there been a decent modular system maybe I could convince my boss to put me on implementing a mail backend interface that met our needs.
My beef with Zimbra is it requires you to use their own mail server. Yes it has IMAP/POP interfaces for clients to connect to, but you cannot simply point it at your existing mail server. It's really only suitable for small or new sites.
I strongly believe nature will take care of itself. I also believe mankind is part of nature as opposed to many others who believe mankind is some kind of new external force that challenges nature. In the interest of self preservation, nature will take care of itself. What needs to happen will happen. Maybe you're right and what you want to happen will happen or something completely different will. Regardless, there is no need to worry or get upset about it. Everything will be all right in the end.
This is another case of science being used to push an agenda. Is the "hole" there, sure, I'll take their word for it. If I really cared I could establish if that fact was true or not. Everything after that fact is opinion and probably biased. Some people may believe it's a problem and will change the earth for the worse forever. Other people may believe it's part of the natural evolution of the earth which may lead to a new great era. Others may believe it's part of Intelligent Design so it must be implicitly good. Who is right? Probably none of the above. My opinion is that the effects will be both bad and good. It's part of life, learn to deal with change.
It would rock if you could simply point your MX records at smtp.google.com and let them do the rest. We get a great webmail, Google gets loyal customers.
First, that figure is what they hope to sell, second if you believe history repeats itself then take note that the Dreamcast came out about the same amount of time ahead of the PlayStation 2.
I'd start with the supported feature list of Salling Clicker: http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Cli cker/
You don't have to use Salling Clicker, there are alternatives, but I'm not familiar with their web sites.
A complete version:
Viva La Resolution oa.mp3
Here is a Coral CDN link to a partial download the mp3. Viva La Resolution oa - incomplete 4404464 of 9026247 bytes.mp3. I renamed the file so as to be clear that it's not complete. I hope someone else can find the rest. <g>
Bungie keeps all the stats needed to recalculate your rank. What they should have done is switched to a sliding window where your rank was based on your last 30 days or something. Give enough time people with inflated ranks due to cheating will fall back into line and you don't have the current situation where the newbies get rocked as the genuinely good players climb back up the ranking ladder.
For such a geek heavy site as /. you'd think a download link would be to a platform select page and not the windows installer.
Here is a better download link: http://www.opera.com/download/ Unfortunately not all platforms have an Opera 8 download yet.
I like Voyager and look forward to the return of Vger as much as the next person. But look at it this way, there are plenty of things to spend research dollars on that are much more local to us. While I'm sure Voyager would pick up lots of new neato data the reality is that I have a much more myopic view when it comes to the relevance of where to spend research dollars.
IANAL.
Copyright laws says what rights are reserved for the owner, everything else is fair game.
DRM systems state what you are allowed to do, everything else is prohibited.
Let's not use real names or give any credit to some guy.
see: http://www.bottledlight.com/ds/index.php/Hardware/ Passthrough (The link actually goes to a Coral CDN mirror)
Amen.
Anyone ever done a study to determine the mean time between when MS claims their products are secure and when the next exploit is announced?