yeah i thought that was kind of interesting too. but if you can burn them on cd you pretty much have the songs secured for life. but then again i guess you're breaching some sort of aggrement, and the reason you use services like napster and itunes is to own music legitimately.
wired ran an article a few weeks ago about how the army was using rugged panasonic laptops for operations. one of their gis guys was having trouble manipulating huge images with them and had the government ship over a titanium powerbook which is apparently holding up fine.
this sounds pretty radical on the face of things, and ideas like an effect for each string are way out there too. myself, i'll stick to my 'normal' les paul, but just remember that it was crazy innovation that brought about some of the biggest changes in music, and it wasn't always accepted at first.
Well, someone had to be first to ship with this compiler. I wouldn't worry. Vendors will catch up.
no way. when i downloaded mandrake 8.0 it came with version 2.95 i believe of gcc, and it made a ton of stuff really hard to install. so much that i went with slackware. i got mandrake becasue even though i'm a little linux saavy, i wanted a trouble-free, easy-to-use solution that would stand up on its own. it's not what i got, and the gcc shipped with 8 got them quite a bit of flak. don't see why they'd do it again.
almost every single day i spend 5-10 minutes reading slashdot.
on the morning of sept 11, it was the only site that was able to deliver news. being at work, it was the only available news source period.
so i'll let the folks that run the site deal with the administrative/technical/editorial issues, and i'll keep reading it as long as it's got decent content.
i had just taken a course last week from david platt, who wrote the microsoft press book on.net.
apparently, it might be microsoft technology, but not just for windows. anything that can be compiled into MSIL (microsoft intermediate language) can be compiled into a.net program, be it a com object, a dll on a separate nt 4 box, a java applet, or even a piece of code called from a linux box on a different network.
platt talked about it being only a matter of time before compilers/linkers that translate code into this common.net-compatible code come out across different platforms.
then again, the box running end software will be a win2k machine, and code coming off other platforms would probably only exist as components if microsoft has their way.
in any event, my take on things is that at least part of a reverse engineer is going to be provided anyway.
I used to work for a small company who also had trouble getting marketed and recognized, and they tried hiring two firms to market them, both unsuccessfully (and yes, they were also a drain of money).
The company i work with now has their own in house department to take care of these things. Because they are company employees and they are pretty familiar with what the company does, it seems to work. So you have these people working for you who have a vested interest in their employers (take that with a grain of salt), instead of people working on multiple contracts for third parties.
I see the point that people are making about someone maybe trying to trick slashdot into 'spamming' for them, but i think the person's question/problem is definitely interesting and merits discussion.
i'm using a 486sx33 with linux at home for routing my dsl to my home lan. it runs perfect, only seeing downtime when my roomates want to rearrange the living room! i'm thrilled with the performance of linux on low end machines (provided you ram them up a little). getting two ethernet interfaces in an old laptop might be a bit of a chore, but why not try! i think the home geek game is partly about maximizing your resources, not necessarily only about biggest/best gear.
cheers,
harry
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i find that although cs at my university is a co-op program, cis focuses on hands-on learning the whole way through. in cs you cover a lot of theory, programming concepts and techniques where learning a particular language is secondary in importance.
and yes the math stuff is a big drag, but it's important to learn. not because the techniques of calculus are particularly useful in the dicipline, but because it forces you to think in a more logical and focused way. it orients you to problem solving in an organized manner, and that's an important thing.
cis is definitely a business hybrid, like cs is to a science degree. and i have seen employers not show preference to cis/cs grads. i've also seen employers post pretty dumb job notices (web developer for a university corporate site; cs degree required).
a degree/diploma (IMHO) is a good thing to have because of the way it makes you think, not just because of the specific stuff you learn (although that's obviously important too). and as we all know, there's lots of people who didn't take that path who have done very well for themselves.
i'm just finishing up a cs degree, but i don't plan on going to grad school or designing chip arcitectures for intel (where i'm pretty sure you need lots of formal training), so sometimes i wonder if i would have been just as well off doing cis? oh well i guess i'll never know:)
this fact was also noted in an old book called 'the hacker crackdown', where fiber optic wire was referred to as 'dark wire', because there was so little data being transmitted through it compared to its capacity.
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yeah i thought that was kind of interesting too. but if you can burn them on cd you pretty much have the songs secured for life. but then again i guess you're breaching some sort of aggrement, and the reason you use services like napster and itunes is to own music legitimately.
wired ran an article a few weeks ago about how the army was using rugged panasonic laptops for operations. one of their gis guys was having trouble manipulating huge images with them and had the government ship over a titanium powerbook which is apparently holding up fine.
this sounds pretty radical on the face of things, and ideas like an effect for each string are way out there too. myself, i'll stick to my 'normal' les paul, but just remember that it was crazy innovation that brought about some of the biggest changes in music, and it wasn't always accepted at first.
because linux vendors tend to do it like this:
potential linux users: buy linux today on cd, or use our convenient, free, legal, company-sponsored anonymous ftp site!
no way. when i downloaded mandrake 8.0 it came with version 2.95 i believe of gcc, and it made a ton of stuff really hard to install. so much that i went with slackware. i got mandrake becasue even though i'm a little linux saavy, i wanted a trouble-free, easy-to-use solution that would stand up on its own. it's not what i got, and the gcc shipped with 8 got them quite a bit of flak. don't see why they'd do it again.
it's interesting to note that email predates unix, celebrating its 30th birthday earlier this year.
on the morning of sept 11, it was the only site that was able to deliver news. being at work, it was the only available news source period.
so i'll let the folks that run the site deal with the administrative/technical/editorial issues, and i'll keep reading it as long as it's got decent content.
pretty simple
apparently, it might be microsoft technology, but not just for windows. anything that can be compiled into MSIL (microsoft intermediate language) can be compiled into a .net program, be it a com object, a dll on a separate nt 4 box, a java applet, or even a piece of code called from a linux box on a different network.
platt talked about it being only a matter of time before compilers/linkers that translate code into this common .net-compatible code come out across different platforms.
then again, the box running end software will be a win2k machine, and code coming off other platforms would probably only exist as components if microsoft has their way.
in any event, my take on things is that at least part of a reverse engineer is going to be provided anyway.
the current language of instruction for intro computer science courses at dalhousie university in canada (www.dalhousie.ca) is java.
hopefully this will take 'nice looking widgets' off the wish list :D
The company i work with now has their own in house department to take care of these things. Because they are company employees and they are pretty familiar with what the company does, it seems to work. So you have these people working for you who have a vested interest in their employers (take that with a grain of salt), instead of people working on multiple contracts for third parties.
I see the point that people are making about someone maybe trying to trick slashdot into 'spamming' for them, but i think the person's question/problem is definitely interesting and merits discussion.
i'm using a 486sx33 with linux at home for routing my dsl to my home lan. it runs perfect, only seeing downtime when my roomates want to rearrange the living room! i'm thrilled with the performance of linux on low end machines (provided you ram them up a little). getting two ethernet interfaces in an old laptop might be a bit of a chore, but why not try! i think the home geek game is partly about maximizing your resources, not necessarily only about biggest/best gear. cheers, harry
and yes the math stuff is a big drag, but it's important to learn. not because the techniques of calculus are particularly useful in the dicipline, but because it forces you to think in a more logical and focused way. it orients you to problem solving in an organized manner, and that's an important thing.
cis is definitely a business hybrid, like cs is to a science degree. and i have seen employers not show preference to cis/cs grads. i've also seen employers post pretty dumb job notices (web developer for a university corporate site; cs degree required).
a degree/diploma (IMHO) is a good thing to have because of the way it makes you think, not just because of the specific stuff you learn (although that's obviously important too). and as we all know, there's lots of people who didn't take that path who have done very well for themselves.
i'm just finishing up a cs degree, but i don't plan on going to grad school or designing chip arcitectures for intel (where i'm pretty sure you need lots of formal training), so sometimes i wonder if i would have been just as well off doing cis? oh well i guess i'll never know :)
this fact was also noted in an old book called 'the hacker crackdown', where fiber optic wire was referred to as 'dark wire', because there was so little data being transmitted through it compared to its capacity.