1 A better solution -- and a hallmark of the new forms of Open Media evolving all across the Internet -- is to help people keep up with the information most relevant to their interests.
2 This is precisely where traditional -- or Closed -- media have stumbled. Closed Media sites -- Salon, Slate, Inside.com -- struggle with the idea that evolutionary forms of media aren't about delivering opinions, commentary, pre-selected and reported stories involving chosen agendas.
For five points, describe how sentence 2 could have possibly been written by the same author as sentence 1, in the same paragraph, no less.
I haven't used the Linux Opera, but the Windows version does support SSL, JavaScript and Java (through a plug-in). I don't know about DHTML, as i've never tried.
Opera is great. I only use IE for sites that require it...like MS's support site.
no need to worry. if Charlotte is anything like RTP, there are tons and tons of suburbs around to sprawl out into. the growing congestion and over-development here is ugly and annoying, but it's still very livable.
my commute is 35 minutes (22 miles) and i have a decent house in a nice neighborhood on the far side of Raleigh (from RTP). i could have moved closer, if i wanted to spend $50K more in Cary.
How can you justify trading with a Chinese Communist government, still unapologetic about human rights violations (i.e. Tienemen Square), when you won't trade with Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba for the same reason? </i> <p> Just give us some time. Eventually, the politicians will realize that most of the U.S. doesn't give two shits about Cuba one way or another, except as a place to get good cigars and a possible vacation destination. <p> But right now, with the fear of Communism behind them, the people who make our laws are simply afraid to anger the fanatical Casto-haters in south Florida. It's as simple as this: fanatics vote more than other people, so you have to please them instead of doing intelligent things. <p> -c
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The most important thing is knowing how a program should be written and the most effiecient way of writing it while making it maintainable. Some people have the knowledge naturally, but its not a thing that can be taught.
I disagree with the statement that this can't be taught.
Certainly, some people are naturally more endowed with the kinds of skills it takes to organize, plan and implement solutions to whatever problem they're faced with. And it is probably true that some people are no good at these things and never will be. In this sense, CS skills are no different from cooking, carpentry or cat burglary.
But, you can't tell me that you really believe people can't learn good programming techniques by seeing them done correctly. Honestly, can you? If this were true, CS skills would be in a class apart from almost everything else except perfect pitch.
One place to see the correct way is on the job, another is in the bedroom, staring at someone else's code while you should be doing your chemistry homework. But there's no reason this can't be done in an (college) academic setting, too.
We need to listen to a track, then click a button to send 50 cents or a dollar to the artist (or even the record label). Tracks need to be spun off from albums ; I won't pay $20 to buy an album with one or two tracks on it that I want, but I will pay $1 a pop for them.
nonsense.
if people would really pay to listen to a song or two, there would be a huge demand for (and therefore a better selection of) CD singles. but there is no such demand.
Wow, you can go 120 MPH a hundred times an hour from the comfort of your living room? Amazing, or did you not understand what I meant by easy.
it will go 120 as well as it will go 45. so, yes, it's easy from my perspective.
This might be a bit on the philosophical side for you, but I do have a god given right to listen to music. But I have a man-taken one (called copyright or intellectual property) that says I don't.
you're right. i mis-spoke.
to listen, yes. to freely copy and distribute, no, you don't.
if you don't like the law, write a letter to someone who can re-write it. but breaking the law because it's easy to break is still breaking the law.
cool! now i can be watched while i surf the net at work and while i surf the TV at home.
past the age of 18, no person will have to think for himself. as soon as he's hit the minimum number of choices to make the statistics work, all of his smart devices can choose for him. hooray!
or better yet, it could be done by demographics - all 18-24 yr suburban white males will listen to Korn because that's what the sample group listens to.
The endless law suits from america cant stop the internet simply because it belongs to everyone
not true. the internet as a physical object belongs to a handful of very large and powerful telecom companies.
it's true that there may be no traffic left on their backbones if they don't play nice; but strictly speaking, that doesn't prevent them from fucking the whole thing up, if they really want to.
I'd guess that it's so that the MPAA members can release movies in different regions at different times, charging more in one region than the other. This was they can charge those high first-week prices when they release it and they won't have to worry that people have already bought the movie from the neighboring region at the lower fourth-week prices.
Oh, and of course it keeps those nasty foreign movies from infiltrating the US market and ruining America's morals (or Hollywood's profits).
I agree with this 100%. I did the off-site thing for a couple years before I realized that I really missed having a bunch of people to goof around with.
So, I got a normal office job. But, I do kick myself every day the weather's nice.
It was my cousin's sister's broker's dealer's aunt's friend who told me that they knew a guy who happened to have the next ASN up from this girl who once exchanged Email with a cypherpunk who was loosely refered to in Cryptonomicon...
ya know, if you believe the "six-degrees of separation" theory, that statement is not too far from being true.
I received email from NS saying they were processing my changes. I scratched my head and said "what changes?". One minute later, they sent me email saying my changes had been confirmed.
The guy who stole my domain was trying to get money from me in exchange for control of the domain.
I sent an article into/. about this. But apparently, news like this needs to be posted on another site before/. will carry it. Lame.
You are talking about making a car vs. copying a song. You forgot the part where the song is made...
While it's possible to get a decent recording on less than $1000 worth of recording equipment, you'll get much better results with $10,000.
Where does that money come from?
As an independent (unsigned) artist, or small record label, you might have to dump a big chunk of your budget to make that recording. And, you spend it hoping to make it back in sales - yes record (CDs, tapes, 45s) sales.
The cost of distribution may be zero. But, as with software, the cost of production is not zero.
<rant> Giving away MP3s of your stuff is fine for artists like Pearl Jam who have already received enough of a push from traditional media to guarantee that they'll still sell records and concert seats. But denying small artists the right to make money on sales of their recordings, just because it's really easy to pass copies around the web is wrong. Nowhere does it say that a person is entightled to make copies of something, just because it's easy to do.
Whenever I see arguments for doing away with the current copyright laws, the people arguing always sound like spoiled children who just want to have their MP3s and warez without regard to the effort that went into creating the original work.
How would the Open Source community react to this? I think that people would lose faith in that company. There would be a ground swell of opinion against them, people would stop using thier products, sending them code patches, downloading thier version of packages. </i>
You are talking about the "Open Source Community", which does not necessarily include a) people who just want to get shit done with their computers and don't care about the politics of it or b) people who aren't programmers and don't care to have to write their own software.
opinions are free...
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My question: are these books simply trash or could a decent library of Y2K related publications be considered collectible in 10-20 years?
Oh hell yeah. I've started collecting all of the Y2K crap I can find. 30 years from now, 30 year old will be asking "what was it like at the turn of the century, when people thought the world was going to end?" i'll sell them that info...
I've been to all the sites, read all the HOW-TOs (did you read my posting???) They don't help. For example, the PPP HOW-TO does not include info on the "/demand" options, because the HOW-TO is out-of-date.
Don't say diald, because it is no longer available anywhere that I can find. Yes, i've tried looking in other distributions, the big web sites, etc..
Dude, I've done the work. The info I need is just not out there.
I'm glad it was so easy for you. You must be a much better person than all of the rest of us who think Linux is currently a cryptic and arcane mess of poorly documented utilities.
I like to think of myself as "computer literate" (7 yrs as a full-time professional programmer and 5 years before that just for fun).
So, I got RedHat 6.0. I've done *nix programming and run the MKS shell on my Windows boxes because I love the power of a good *nix-style shell.
So, I was absolutely amazed at how difficult Linux is to set up. (Not the install, that was easy. thanks RedHat)
I spent a week fussing with xcongifurator and friends. I did manage to get X up and running, but was totally underwhelmed when Gnome finally appeared - it looks like Windows but runs much slower - whee. So I grabbed the latest Enlightenment release, found every stupid utility library that it wanted and fought with RPM over dependencies. But, I got that running. It's still slow.
I spent another two weeks with pppd (reading all the HOW-TOs, everything ever mentioned about pppd on deja, etc.). I finally managed to get a dial-up connection running. But, the connection drops immediately, half the time and Netscape is total crap. So, I upgraded to NS 4.7. It's still crap.
My initial plan was to use my Linux box as a gateway for the rest of my (Windows) PCs. But, after the nightmare I had just getting the thing to dial, I can't imagine what's in store when I start dicking around with "pppd/demand" , ipchains, ip-masq, etc., etc.. And I know, if I ever managed to get the Linux box working as I want it, it will take all of ten minutes to get my Windows PCs happily onto my little network.
The sad thing is, I really want it to work. I want to have a working Linux box that will be happy as a gateway and will let me screw around with *nix programming again (has anything changed in 8 years?).
But, I'm held back by the lack of adequate documentation, and discouraged by the amount of time it's taken to get as far as I have. The HOW-TOs are mostly out of date. The newsgroups are clogged with people having the same problems I am, and their questions go unanswered.
I want to do it! But I can't find any good, accurate information.
Your sig : Now let us peel back the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment" -- Geoff Miller
... who's Geoff Miller?
I came up with "Roll back the foreskin of boredom and let us apply the wire brush of new experience" all by my little self, way back in 1990. I used it on a flyer for my band. There's no way more than 100 people ever saw those flyers...
Any chance Geoff Miller and I independently came up with that phrase? Or, did one precede the other?
As another poster said, it's easy if you're single and childless (ie. a student).
In addition to a normal job, I have my own corporation. This is a special (small, privately held) corporation, so the taxes for the corporation are actually tied into my personal taxes.
So, I pay monthly employment taxes (for myself: i am the only employee), quarterly income taxes (federal and state), unemployment taxes, etc..
The entire year, I must estimate and adjust the amounts of monthly and quarterly taxes I pay, trying to make sure I don't overpay too much or underpay too much. If I underpay, I could get stuck with a fine. If I overpay, the IRS gets to hold my money until April.
It's an insane amount of work. And in the end, I lose very close to 50% of what I make to the government.
The tax code is outrageous. "You are in a maze of twisty little regulations, all unintelligible."
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2 This is precisely where traditional -- or Closed -- media have stumbled. Closed Media sites -- Salon, Slate, Inside.com -- struggle with the idea that evolutionary forms of media aren't about delivering opinions, commentary, pre-selected and reported stories involving chosen agendas.
For five points, describe how sentence 2 could have possibly been written by the same author as sentence 1, in the same paragraph, no less.
Hint: it may require irrational thought.
See Canvas (www.deneba.com). Also available for linux.
-c
I haven't used the Linux Opera, but the Windows version does support SSL, JavaScript and Java (through a plug-in). I don't know about DHTML, as i've never tried.
Opera is great. I only use IE for sites that require it...like MS's support site.
-c
no need to worry. if Charlotte is anything like RTP, there are tons and tons of suburbs around to sprawl out into. the growing congestion and over-development here is ugly and annoying, but it's still very livable.
my commute is 35 minutes (22 miles) and i have a decent house in a nice neighborhood on the far side of Raleigh (from RTP). i could have moved closer, if i wanted to spend $50K more in Cary.
-c
How can you justify trading with a Chinese Communist government, still unapologetic about human rights violations (i.e. Tienemen Square), when you won't trade with Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba for the same reason?
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Just give us some time. Eventually, the politicians will realize that most of the U.S. doesn't give two shits about Cuba one way or another, except as a place to get good cigars and a possible vacation destination.
<p>
But right now, with the fear of Communism behind them, the people who make our laws are simply afraid to anger the fanatical Casto-haters in south Florida. It's as simple as this: fanatics vote more than other people, so you have to please them instead of doing intelligent things.
<p>
-c
you mean the brown ball thingy from Propaganda?
I disagree with the statement that this can't be taught.
Certainly, some people are naturally more endowed with the kinds of skills it takes to organize, plan and implement solutions to whatever problem they're faced with. And it is probably true that some people are no good at these things and never will be. In this sense, CS skills are no different from cooking, carpentry or cat burglary.
But, you can't tell me that you really believe people can't learn good programming techniques by seeing them done correctly. Honestly, can you? If this were true, CS skills would be in a class apart from almost everything else except perfect pitch.
One place to see the correct way is on the job, another is in the bedroom, staring at someone else's code while you should be doing your chemistry homework. But there's no reason this can't be done in an (college) academic setting, too.
-c
UNIX would not have a problem here..
Windows is not the problem - Outlook is. If SendMail was as wide open as Outlook is, UNIX would have the same problem.
We need to listen to a track, then click a button to send 50 cents or a dollar to the artist (or even the record label). Tracks need to be spun off from albums ; I won't pay $20 to buy an album with one or two tracks on it that I want, but I will pay $1 a pop for them.
nonsense.
if people would really pay to listen to a song or two, there would be a huge demand for (and therefore a better selection of) CD singles. but there is no such demand.
-c
Wow, you can go 120 MPH a hundred times an hour from the comfort of your living room? Amazing, or did you not understand what I meant by easy.
it will go 120 as well as it will go 45. so, yes, it's easy from my perspective.
This might be a bit on the philosophical side for you, but I do have a god given right to listen to music. But I have a man-taken one (called copyright or intellectual property) that says I don't.
you're right. i mis-spoke.
to listen, yes. to freely copy and distribute, no, you don't.
if you don't like the law, write a letter to someone who can re-write it. but breaking the law because it's easy to break is still breaking the law.
-c
Now that it's so easy to break soo many of these laws, don't you think that it's the laws that are the problem?
i have a car that will happily go 120 MPH. does that mean the speed limit laws are "WOEFULLY" unprepared for me?
the laws are fine. that they are easy to break in no way invalidates them. it only means you have to exercise a little self-control.
you act like you have a god-given right to listen to music. you don't. get over yourself.
-c
cool! now i can be watched while i surf the net at work and while i surf the TV at home.
past the age of 18, no person will have to think for himself. as soon as he's hit the minimum number of choices to make the statistics work, all of his smart devices can choose for him. hooray!
or better yet, it could be done by demographics - all 18-24 yr suburban white males will listen to Korn because that's what the sample group listens to.
-c
where the hell are my moderator privs when i need them?
The endless law suits from america cant stop the internet simply because it belongs to everyone
not true. the internet as a physical object belongs to a handful of very large and powerful telecom companies.
it's true that there may be no traffic left on their backbones if they don't play nice; but strictly speaking, that doesn't prevent them from fucking the whole thing up, if they really want to.
I'd guess that it's so that the MPAA members can release movies in different regions at different times, charging more in one region than the other. This was they can charge those high first-week prices when they release it and they won't have to worry that people have already bought the movie from the neighboring region at the lower fourth-week prices.
Oh, and of course it keeps those nasty foreign movies from infiltrating the US market and ruining America's morals (or Hollywood's profits).
I agree with this 100%. I did the off-site thing for a couple years before I realized that I really missed having a bunch of people to goof around with.
So, I got a normal office job. But, I do kick myself every day the weather's nice.
It was my cousin's sister's broker's dealer's aunt's friend who told me that they knew a guy who happened to have the next ASN up from this girl who once exchanged Email with a cypherpunk who was loosely refered to in Cryptonomicon...
ya know, if you believe the "six-degrees of separation" theory, that statement is not too far from being true.
-c
Just like the title says...
/. about this. But apparently, news like this needs to be posted on another site before /. will carry it. Lame.
I received email from NS saying they were processing my changes. I scratched my head and said "what changes?". One minute later, they sent me email saying my changes had been confirmed.
The guy who stole my domain was trying to get money from me in exchange for control of the domain.
I sent an article into
You are talking about making a car vs. copying a song. You forgot the part where the song is made...
While it's possible to get a decent recording on less than $1000 worth of recording equipment, you'll get much better results with $10,000.
Where does that money come from?
As an independent (unsigned) artist, or small record label, you might have to dump a big chunk of your budget to make that recording. And, you spend it hoping to make it back in sales - yes record (CDs, tapes, 45s) sales.
The cost of distribution may be zero. But, as with software, the cost of production is not zero.
<rant>
Giving away MP3s of your stuff is fine for artists like Pearl Jam who have already received enough of a push from traditional media to guarantee that they'll still sell records and concert seats. But denying small artists the right to make money on sales of their recordings, just because it's really easy to pass copies around the web is wrong. Nowhere does it say that a person is entightled to make copies of something, just because it's easy to do.
Whenever I see arguments for doing away with the current copyright laws, the people arguing always sound like spoiled children who just want to have their MP3s and warez without regard to the effort that went into creating the original work.
</rant>
How would the Open Source community react to this? I think that people would lose faith in that company. There would be a ground swell of opinion against them, people would stop using thier products, sending them code patches, downloading thier version of packages.
</i>
You are talking about the "Open Source Community", which does not necessarily include a) people who just want to get shit done with their computers and don't care about the politics of it or b) people who aren't programmers and don't care to have to write their own software.
opinions are free...
My question: are these books simply trash or could a decent library of Y2K related publications be considered collectible in 10-20 years?
Oh hell yeah. I've started collecting all of the Y2K crap I can find. 30 years from now, 30 year old will be asking "what was it like at the turn of the century, when people thought the world was going to end?" i'll sell them that info...
-c
Don't just RTFM, _R_TFM.
Read the title of the article : WFM.
I've been to all the sites, read all the HOW-TOs (did you read my posting???) They don't help. For example, the PPP HOW-TO does not include info on the "/demand" options, because the HOW-TO is out-of-date.
Don't say diald, because it is no longer available anywhere that I can find. Yes, i've tried looking in other distributions, the big web sites, etc..
Dude, I've done the work. The info I need is just not out there.
I'm glad it was so easy for you. You must be a much better person than all of the rest of us who think Linux is currently a cryptic and arcane mess of poorly documented utilities.
I like to think of myself as "computer literate" (7 yrs as a full-time professional programmer and 5 years before that just for fun).
/demand" , ipchains, ip-masq, etc., etc.. And I know, if I ever managed to get the Linux box working as I want it, it will take all of ten minutes to get my Windows PCs happily onto my little network.
So, I got RedHat 6.0. I've done *nix programming and run the MKS shell on my Windows boxes because I love the power of a good *nix-style shell.
So, I was absolutely amazed at how difficult Linux is to set up. (Not the install, that was easy. thanks RedHat)
I spent a week fussing with xcongifurator and friends. I did manage to get X up and running, but was totally underwhelmed when Gnome finally appeared - it looks like Windows but runs much slower - whee. So I grabbed the latest Enlightenment release, found every stupid utility library that it wanted and fought with RPM over dependencies. But, I got that running. It's still slow.
I spent another two weeks with pppd (reading all the HOW-TOs, everything ever mentioned about pppd on deja, etc.). I finally managed to get a dial-up connection running. But, the connection drops immediately, half the time and Netscape is total crap. So, I upgraded to NS 4.7. It's still crap.
My initial plan was to use my Linux box as a gateway for the rest of my (Windows) PCs. But, after the nightmare I had just getting the thing to dial, I can't imagine what's in store when I start dicking around with "pppd
The sad thing is, I really want it to work. I want to have a working Linux box that will be happy as a gateway and will let me screw around with *nix programming again (has anything changed in 8 years?).
But, I'm held back by the lack of adequate documentation, and discouraged by the amount of time it's taken to get as far as I have. The HOW-TOs are mostly out of date. The newsgroups are clogged with people having the same problems I am, and their questions go unanswered.
I want to do it! But I can't find any good, accurate information.
WFM? Indeed.
Your sig : Now let us peel back the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment" -- Geoff Miller
... who's Geoff Miller?
I came up with "Roll back the foreskin of boredom and let us apply the wire brush of new experience" all by my little self, way back in 1990. I used it on a flyer for my band. There's no way more than 100 people ever saw those flyers...
Any chance Geoff Miller and I independently came up with that phrase? Or, did one precede the other?
Hey, it's almost a holiday.
Moderate as you see fit...
As another poster said, it's easy if you're single and childless (ie. a student).
In addition to a normal job, I have my own corporation. This is a special (small, privately held) corporation, so the taxes for the corporation are actually tied into my personal taxes.
So, I pay monthly employment taxes (for myself: i am the only employee), quarterly income taxes (federal and state), unemployment taxes, etc..
The entire year, I must estimate and adjust the amounts of monthly and quarterly taxes I pay, trying to make sure I don't overpay too much or underpay too much. If I underpay, I could get stuck with a fine. If I overpay, the IRS gets to hold my money until April.
It's an insane amount of work. And in the end, I lose very close to 50% of what I make to the government.
The tax code is outrageous. "You are in a maze of twisty little regulations, all unintelligible."