Why can the music/movie corporate people figure this out?
Is there any equivalent to an MP3 or DIVX that takes hours to days to download, of questionable quality, and random completeness to what you buy in the store?
No, hell no there isn't.
Who here has "upgraded" their tape/album collection to CD? I have. Who benefited from this? Yes, the music people (doubful the artists did, maybe a little). I personally have bought 3 copies of "Dark Side of the Moon", on LP, the original release of the CD, and the Original Master Recording CD (out of print now). Once I get my surround system hooked up again, I will buy the SACD as well.
My point being, is that people are willing to sacrifice quality for quanity, and they realize this. I'm not much into pirated stuff, but I know it exists. I know where to get MP3s, I don't know where to get CD quality rips of CDs (except for killer live stuff!).
The music/movie people bitch and complain about bootlegging and pirating, yet they simply refuse to change. Currently (and from here on) there will be a supply from the "traded" (0 monitary cost, low quality, large time investment, no liner notes, etc), the used marked (lower monitary cost, harder to get "what you want when you want it"), and the store bought route (you know what goes here).
The thing that really kills me is that Sony is being a pussy with this opportunity. I mean, damn, they own a vast majority of the material, and they manufacture hardware of varying quality from junk to pretty damn good stuff.
What do I know? I'm only a consumer that has spent thousands of dollars (probably about $6k) in electronics and hundreds a year on music and movies.
People will always want music, and the market demands the price. Go to ebay and look for Coventry Phish tickets. They are going for about $400 a pop (I've got 4:). Again, its supply and demand. So keep doing what your doing guys. We really sympathize with your business model.
Umm, hello? Did you bother to read at all? This thing records HD.
Yeah, I read it and HD doesn't interest me. I own an HDTV and it makes DVDs look good, and many TV chanels look bad. There is no content for HDTV (not much more on standard TV either), and when there is the tuners will be commodity products. I was actually commenting more on teh EyeTV 200, which is analogue and costs the same $300 as the 500 model. For $100, I would get the 200 model so I could consolodate all of my media stuff on my back porch. Right now, I have a TV, reciever, speakers, and a CD player. Soon, I will have a computer and speakers. Thats it.
But not until the usability and cost can justify itself.
$300 is too much to pay for a tv tuner and mpeg encoder.
Considering the price of a real TV or a PVR in the same ballpark price that do the similar (or more functions), I don't see the justification for the expense. This is another example of where computers impare normal functioning of human logic.
The RIAA was formed in 1952 to administer the RIAA equalization curve, applied to vinyl records during cutting and playback.
For those of you that don't know. Vinyl records unlike CDs and just about every other music reproduction device have something besides a flat equalization. That is why you need a "phono preamp" on your equipment to hook up to your turntable. The phono preamp takes the signal and applies an equalization to the signal to make it flat again. I don't know if this is an urban legand or not, but I've heard that early pressings of CDs had the vinyl eq on the mix and that the CDs sounded like crap because of this. I have not experienced this directly, but there are many CDs that sound like crap.
Bill's 6 non-secret predictions for 1998 (also here) (four of which were left over from 1997 because they did not become true) incuded that DSL and DVDs will be big, videoconferencing and net meetings will be big, PC TCO will reduce, and "that people will widely recognize that PC technology can take on any computing task." That last one is killer.
Also, earlier this year a more substantial prediction made by bill is that MS will kill spam in 2 years. I might switch to MS products if this becomes true.
FWIW, the RIAA and MPAA are _not_ corporations. They are a lawfirm guised as an industry trade group.
Currently, the RIAA primarily does 2 things. They apply a complex algorithm to award sales of albums:
if (sales > 500,000)
award = "gold" elsif (sales > 1,000,000)
award = "platinum" elsif (sales > 1,000,000 && watever_else == true)
award = "multiplatinum" elsif (sales > 10,000,000,000)
award = "diamond" else
award = NULL endif
Also, the RIAA does the nasty stuff that we are familiar with like suing grandmothers and children. From your nick and domainname, I think you know where the money is with music. Its playing music, not recording it. How many people do you know expect to profit from something you did in your 20s for the rest of your life w/o doing any more work? The record compainies expect to profit (more than the artist) from what someone else did in their 20s. If we continue to ignore the RIAA, they will just go away. They are useless to begin with.
How is it that some multi-passenger vehicles can escape the NTHSA and DOT requirements?
Think about it, you can buy a brand-new vehicle today in the US without airbags, seatbelts, bumpers, or any of that jazz, and they get great gas mileage and driving one makes you cooler.
Put it outside on a table with a hefty pricetag overnight, like a yard sale you didn't clean up.
Every single thing I've put out on the front lawn like that, including a carrion mini-fridge, groaning for burial, has been stolen!
I guess its better to have stuff intentionally stolen vs just stolen. But do you really want to invite thieves to your house? I could see putting it by the curb, but not in my yard.
I agree that you can't too much teach creativity, but I believe that all people with a functional brain are creative. Everyone plays "what if", exagerates things, has dreams, make up new words and word usage, make jokes, etc. (things not done by "animals").
However, although I do use computers creatively (its my job), I don't draw or play music. I don't see computers as anymore of a creative device than a pencil or a drum. Pencils and drums are thousands of years old, so I guess their inventors are rolling in their graves.
Even though I do it too, it kills me how me and many slashdoters love technology, but frown upon those that buy/use it.
By spending $180 on a 13cm piece of metal that saves 50 grams does things. First, if it really does save 50 grams and this part is 180 grams, then the "normal" weight is 230 grams, or 27% lighter. 27% is significant. Think of a road bike that goes from 30 pounds to almost 20.
Also, the pizza eating gearhead is promoting (keeping a job for) some other materials geek, whereas the guy that keeps with the stock stem and quits eating pizza is 1) putting the material's geek job someplace like India and 2) putting the pizza delivery guy in a worse job than he's already got.
Step 1: Think of a problem already solved to do a task trivially and inexpensively
Step 2: Think to oneself "I could be geekier if I spent less money than the inexpensive already solved technology by doing it myself with free/cheap parts while expending much effort"
I can't tell you how many times I've karma whored off of posting comment to ask.slashdot.org where all I did was do a google search and report some of my findings.
I'm not against doing things to figure out how they work. I've built my own computers, audio amplifiers, home repairs, open source hack jobs, etc. But not once did I ask someone else how to do these things. I read a book or searched the web and just did it.
Wouldn't you rather see an article posted saying someone built their own webcam vs someone asking how to do so?
The only "reason" I can think of here is population control. The US is the only industrialized nation that has a growing population.
Boobies and sex = population growth Violence and killing = population control
Why do you think drugs are illegal? Look at when and why the original drug laws came into existance and look at who is in jail/prison for what. Its pretty clear.
Also, violence and killing is not a problem with the wealthy and powerful. Most of the people that kill each other are from the same social class and its towards the lower class. Also, violence and killing for young children helps keep the military full of disposable (read again lower income) people, while promoting an idiology for keeping an insanely high bugdget for "defense".
I've been lied to my whole life about the "boogie man" from those commun^H^H^H^H^H^Hterrorist contries/people out to get us. I'm glad that I can at least reason through the data for myself now instead of having the media spoon feed me select material.
some call the glass half empty, some call it half full. some say that a non-ie browser not working on a website is due to the browser, some say its at the hands of the website developers.
Stop crying and buy a Mac. I mean, your already up to 2 computers with 2 different OSes to "surf the web". Within 10-20 minutes of powering on your mac you can "surf the web" and not have these problems.
Sheesh, do you also use 2 cars in tandem because one is always broken? It never ceases to amaze me how many people's intelligence gets halved when they are behind a computer.
To: Maurizio Parlato, Ferrari North America CEO From: Joe (You know who I am) Re: Expanding the Ferrari market
Dude. You don't sell that many cars........
Here is my "Six Steps to a Bigger Ferrari Market."
1) Price trumps style in the car market
I know this may be hard to admit for a guy as innovative and design-conscious as you. But Ferrari charges too much for its cars. The car market's benchmark price level is sinking quickly below the $21,000 mark -- turf where Ferrari has been loath to tread.....
2) Make 'em cool and cheap
You've been to Target (TGT ), right? You probably seen the terrific product designs such as well-known architect Michael Graves' line of stylish housewares -- offered a budget prices. Heck, Blue Light Specials at Kmart (KMRT ) haven't been the same since Martha Stewart's line of kitchen gear, sheets, and towels hit the aisles several years ago. Dumpster-diving debutantes can't get enough of them. Even sportswear designer Mossimo makes great threads for fiscal lightweights.
We're in the era of cheap chic, Maurizio. And I have no doubt that Ferrari can play that game with the best of them. Give us a really cheap, really cool car, and watch them fly off the lots.
Comment:Yeah, you should be more like Martha Stewart. I'm sure that Michael Graves is also much more successful than you by selling trinkets at Target.
3) Ditch the all-in-one mantra
Your expensive convertable sports cars have never taken off compared to sedans. You should make sedans.
Gilbert: "There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
Homework assignment:
Count the number of "wars" the US has been in since the last time Congress declared war.
No, its not that hard providing you have _a valid reason_ to get the warrant. Its getting to the point where there will be another "terrorist" attack in this country. And like the 2nd most serious terrorist attack that has happened in this country, it will be started by a patriotic American possibly trained by the US military who is opposing the powers of the government against its people.
Americans came to this country to avoid persecution fought for it and won. We have the longest standing constitution in the world even though we are a younger county. I personally would go to war against our government before I would go to another country.
let's think about this another way... you have a plugin you've installed that has a security flaw in it. Is Mozilla (or IE or any other browser) responsible for the security flaw?
Look though my comment history and see what I think of plugins. (hint, they suck)
Yes, this is a mozilla problem. Here is the deal. When you develop an application where anyone in the world has input to that program you check the input for valid data and reject anything that is not valid. Period.
A uri handler called shell:// is stupid. Thats as if your leaving an open rsh or ssh port with no password. Again, this is the first time I've heard of such a handler, and I don't know exactly what it does or is supposed to do but the fact that its called shell tells me that its not something that belongs on an internet application. Name me one more network application that would accept arbitrary commands without a password to be run on a computer. Just one.
Yeah, they "fixed" it timely. But WHY THE HELL IS THERE A shell: SCHEME IN THE BROWSER IN THE FIRST PLACE? I've never heard of it, never needed it, and obviously there are issues with it.
Come on we blast M$ for putting vbscripting and whatnot in IE, but this is just as dumb.
Good theory. But most people don't know what a CPU is nor do they care. They buy a computer. They might upgrade a paripheral, maybe a harddrive, but rarely upgrade CPUs they come with the new computer.
My point being, is that they will not blame Intel for the problems with a grey market overclocked machine that is unstable, they would blame the computer company. Just like when you and I do with a car. If the transmission goes, whe don't track down who manufactured the tranny, we just say that the whole car sucks.
My guess at why they stop overclockers is because they are a pain in the ass. They screw around the the chips, fry them, and then try to return them. Overclockers _do_ know what a CPU is, and know who makes it, and they will just be causing trouble for Intel. Intel can gain nothing from overclockers. I would guess that the chip designers know a little more about their processors than the computer dork that plays around with jumper settings and bios so they can get 10-20% more performance and questionable reliablity.
BTW, I am a reformed overclocker, and I could never really notice a 10 or 20% increase in speed without sitting down and measuring the difference. I have access to so many different computers now, that I often have to cat/proc/cpuinfo to tell how fast the machine is.
First. Wow! An interesting ask.slashdot.org question.
OK, my language of choice is Perl. Some things I like about it:
- while (<>) {... } 99% of my scripts have this. Thise little thingy does _a lot_. It means that I am reading one line from a file or STDIN and stuffing the contents into an anonymous variable $_. Its cool because you can use it on a pipe or with a filename, you don't have to test for which is which, and it automatically does the opening of the file for you
- foreach (@ARRAY) {... } I do this a bunch
- I like that there are basically only 3 data types in perl. A thingy ($var), a bunch of thingys (@STUFF), and a key value pair of thingys (%HASH = ( key => var })
- no allocation or deallocation of memory
- HERE documents really simplify large text field
- the __DATA__ handle
- the __END__ thing so I can use the space below that for scratch space
- regular expressions that kick ass
- I wish there were a cleaner way to do block quotes in C I cheat by doing #if 0 #endif
- I think the dangling if and unless things are nice, but I almost always rewrite them because there is more than one line of stuff...
Oh well, the power just went out, I gotta shut down my computers.....
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Why can the music/movie corporate people figure this out?
:). Again, its supply and demand. So keep doing what your doing guys. We really sympathize with your business model.
Is there any equivalent to an MP3 or DIVX that takes hours to days to download, of questionable quality, and random completeness to what you buy in the store?
No, hell no there isn't.
Who here has "upgraded" their tape/album collection to CD? I have. Who benefited from this? Yes, the music people (doubful the artists did, maybe a little). I personally have bought 3 copies of "Dark Side of the Moon", on LP, the original release of the CD, and the Original Master Recording CD (out of print now). Once I get my surround system hooked up again, I will buy the SACD as well.
My point being, is that people are willing to sacrifice quality for quanity, and they realize this. I'm not much into pirated stuff, but I know it exists. I know where to get MP3s, I don't know where to get CD quality rips of CDs (except for killer live stuff!).
The music/movie people bitch and complain about bootlegging and pirating, yet they simply refuse to change. Currently (and from here on) there will be a supply from the "traded" (0 monitary cost, low quality, large time investment, no liner notes, etc), the used marked (lower monitary cost, harder to get "what you want when you want it"), and the store bought route (you know what goes here).
The thing that really kills me is that Sony is being a pussy with this opportunity. I mean, damn, they own a vast majority of the material, and they manufacture hardware of varying quality from junk to pretty damn good stuff.
What do I know? I'm only a consumer that has spent thousands of dollars (probably about $6k) in electronics and hundreds a year on music and movies.
People will always want music, and the market demands the price. Go to ebay and look for Coventry Phish tickets. They are going for about $400 a pop (I've got 4
Lets summarize:
G5 ~ $2,000 (It does not appear as though any laptop or lower end machine can power this thing)
30" display ~ $3,300
TV card ~ $300
Total = $5,600
Wanna buy a bridge?
Umm, hello? Did you bother to read at all? This thing records HD.
Yeah, I read it and HD doesn't interest me. I own an HDTV and it makes DVDs look good, and many TV chanels look bad. There is no content for HDTV (not much more on standard TV either), and when there is the tuners will be commodity products. I was actually commenting more on teh EyeTV 200, which is analogue and costs the same $300 as the 500 model. For $100, I would get the 200 model so I could consolodate all of my media stuff on my back porch. Right now, I have a TV, reciever, speakers, and a CD player. Soon, I will have a computer and speakers. Thats it.
But not until the usability and cost can justify itself.
$300 is too much to pay for a tv tuner and mpeg encoder.
Considering the price of a real TV or a PVR in the same ballpark price that do the similar (or more functions), I don't see the justification for the expense. This is another example of where computers impare normal functioning of human logic.
From wikipedia:
The RIAA was formed in 1952 to administer the RIAA equalization curve, applied to vinyl records during cutting and playback.
For those of you that don't know. Vinyl records unlike CDs and just about every other music reproduction device have something besides a flat equalization. That is why you need a "phono preamp" on your equipment to hook up to your turntable. The phono preamp takes the signal and applies an equalization to the signal to make it flat again. I don't know if this is an urban legand or not, but I've heard that early pressings of CDs had the vinyl eq on the mix and that the CDs sounded like crap because of this. I have not experienced this directly, but there are many CDs that sound like crap.
Bill's 6 non-secret predictions for 1998 (also here) (four of which were left over from 1997 because they did not become true) incuded that DSL and DVDs will be big, videoconferencing and net meetings will be big, PC TCO will reduce, and "that people will widely recognize that PC technology can take on any computing task." That last one is killer.
Also, earlier this year a more substantial prediction made by bill is that MS will kill spam in 2 years. I might switch to MS products if this becomes true.
Currently, the RIAA primarily does 2 things. They apply a complex algorithm to award sales of albums:Also, the RIAA does the nasty stuff that we are familiar with like suing grandmothers and children. From your nick and domainname, I think you know where the money is with music. Its playing music, not recording it. How many people do you know expect to profit from something you did in your 20s for the rest of your life w/o doing any more work? The record compainies expect to profit (more than the artist) from what someone else did in their 20s. If we continue to ignore the RIAA, they will just go away. They are useless to begin with.
How is it that some multi-passenger vehicles can escape the NTHSA and DOT requirements?
Think about it, you can buy a brand-new vehicle today in the US without airbags, seatbelts, bumpers, or any of that jazz, and they get great gas mileage and driving one makes you cooler.
They are called motorcycles.
Put it outside on a table with a hefty pricetag overnight, like a yard sale you didn't clean up.
Every single thing I've put out on the front lawn like that, including a carrion mini-fridge, groaning for burial, has been stolen!
I guess its better to have stuff intentionally stolen vs just stolen. But do you really want to invite thieves to your house? I could see putting it by the curb, but not in my yard.
Does anyone else understand his vision?
Its 42.
I agree that you can't too much teach creativity, but I believe that all people with a functional brain are creative. Everyone plays "what if", exagerates things, has dreams, make up new words and word usage, make jokes, etc. (things not done by "animals").
However, although I do use computers creatively (its my job), I don't draw or play music. I don't see computers as anymore of a creative device than a pencil or a drum. Pencils and drums are thousands of years old, so I guess their inventors are rolling in their graves.
Even though I do it too, it kills me how me and many slashdoters love technology, but frown upon those that buy/use it.
By spending $180 on a 13cm piece of metal that saves 50 grams does things. First, if it really does save 50 grams and this part is 180 grams, then the "normal" weight is 230 grams, or 27% lighter. 27% is significant. Think of a road bike that goes from 30 pounds to almost 20.
Also, the pizza eating gearhead is promoting (keeping a job for) some other materials geek, whereas the guy that keeps with the stock stem and quits eating pizza is 1) putting the material's geek job someplace like India and 2) putting the pizza delivery guy in a worse job than he's already got.
Freaks like this are good (and I'm one of them).
Ah, but this is ask.slashdot.org...
Step 1: Think of a problem already solved to do a task trivially and inexpensively
Step 2: Think to oneself "I could be geekier if I spent less money than the inexpensive already solved technology by doing it myself with free/cheap parts while expending much effort"
Step 3: Do nothing (noop)
Step 4: Post to ask.slashdot.org
I mean, 99.9% of all ask.slashdot.org posts can be solved by typing a couple keywords into google.
I can't tell you how many times I've karma whored off of posting comment to ask.slashdot.org where all I did was do a google search and report some of my findings.
I'm not against doing things to figure out how they work. I've built my own computers, audio amplifiers, home repairs, open source hack jobs, etc. But not once did I ask someone else how to do these things. I read a book or searched the web and just did it.
Wouldn't you rather see an article posted saying someone built their own webcam vs someone asking how to do so?
The only "reason" I can think of here is population control. The US is the only industrialized nation that has a growing population.
Boobies and sex = population growth
Violence and killing = population control
Why do you think drugs are illegal? Look at when and why the original drug laws came into existance and look at who is in jail/prison for what. Its pretty clear.
Also, violence and killing is not a problem with the wealthy and powerful. Most of the people that kill each other are from the same social class and its towards the lower class. Also, violence and killing for young children helps keep the military full of disposable (read again lower income) people, while promoting an idiology for keeping an insanely high bugdget for "defense".
I've been lied to my whole life about the "boogie man" from those commun^H^H^H^H^H^Hterrorist contries/people out to get us. I'm glad that I can at least reason through the data for myself now instead of having the media spoon feed me select material.
some call the glass half empty, some call it half full. some say that a non-ie browser not working on a website is due to the browser, some say its at the hands of the website developers.
Most of the time you don't need to put in a password if you are an admin. You just drag the app to the Applications folder.
Also, it is not just security througth obscurity. Try portscanning a Windows box and a Mac with a default install.
Stop crying and buy a Mac. I mean, your already up to 2 computers with 2 different OSes to "surf the web". Within 10-20 minutes of powering on your mac you can "surf the web" and not have these problems.
Sheesh, do you also use 2 cars in tandem because one is always broken? It never ceases to amaze me how many people's intelligence gets halved when they are behind a computer.
From: Joe (You know who I am)
Re: Expanding the Ferrari market
Dude. You don't sell that many cars.
Here is my "Six Steps to a Bigger Ferrari Market."
1) Price trumps style in the car market
I know this may be hard to admit for a guy as innovative and design-conscious as you. But Ferrari charges too much for its cars. The car market's benchmark price level is sinking quickly below the $21,000 mark -- turf where Ferrari has been loath to tread.
2) Make 'em cool and cheap
You've been to Target (TGT ), right? You probably seen the terrific product designs such as well-known architect Michael Graves' line of stylish housewares -- offered a budget prices. Heck, Blue Light Specials at Kmart (KMRT ) haven't been the same since Martha Stewart's line of kitchen gear, sheets, and towels hit the aisles several years ago. Dumpster-diving debutantes can't get enough of them. Even sportswear designer Mossimo makes great threads for fiscal lightweights.
We're in the era of cheap chic, Maurizio. And I have no doubt that Ferrari can play that game with the best of them. Give us a really cheap, really cool car, and watch them fly off the lots.
3) Ditch the all-in-one mantra
Your expensive convertable sports cars have never taken off compared to sedans. You should make sedans.
OK, thats enough you get the point.
This guy is a fucking idiot.
As of January of this year, this is the list of recognised uri schemes.
All are very specific, and none of them run arbitrary commands.
Here is the RFC for registering new URL schemes.
and here is the guidelines for creating new schemes.
Gilbert: "There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
Homework assignment:
Count the number of "wars" the US has been in since the last time Congress declared war.
I mean is it really that hard to get a warrant?
Ask yourself that question a couple of times.
No, its not that hard providing you have _a valid reason_ to get the warrant. Its getting to the point where there will be another "terrorist" attack in this country. And like the 2nd most serious terrorist attack that has happened in this country, it will be started by a patriotic American possibly trained by the US military who is opposing the powers of the government against its people.
Americans came to this country to avoid persecution fought for it and won. We have the longest standing constitution in the world even though we are a younger county. I personally would go to war against our government before I would go to another country.
let's think about this another way... you have a plugin you've installed that has a security flaw in it. Is Mozilla (or IE or any other browser) responsible for the security flaw?
Look though my comment history and see what I think of plugins. (hint, they suck)
Yes, this is a mozilla problem. Here is the deal. When you develop an application where anyone in the world has input to that program you check the input for valid data and reject anything that is not valid. Period.
A uri handler called shell:// is stupid. Thats as if your leaving an open rsh or ssh port with no password. Again, this is the first time I've heard of such a handler, and I don't know exactly what it does or is supposed to do but the fact that its called shell tells me that its not something that belongs on an internet application. Name me one more network application that would accept arbitrary commands without a password to be run on a computer. Just one.
Yeah, they "fixed" it timely. But WHY THE HELL IS THERE A shell: SCHEME IN THE BROWSER IN THE FIRST PLACE? I've never heard of it, never needed it, and obviously there are issues with it.
Come on we blast M$ for putting vbscripting and whatnot in IE, but this is just as dumb.
Good theory. But most people don't know what a CPU is nor do they care. They buy a computer. They might upgrade a paripheral, maybe a harddrive, but rarely upgrade CPUs they come with the new computer.
/proc/cpuinfo to tell how fast the machine is.
My point being, is that they will not blame Intel for the problems with a grey market overclocked machine that is unstable, they would blame the computer company. Just like when you and I do with a car. If the transmission goes, whe don't track down who manufactured the tranny, we just say that the whole car sucks.
My guess at why they stop overclockers is because they are a pain in the ass. They screw around the the chips, fry them, and then try to return them. Overclockers _do_ know what a CPU is, and know who makes it, and they will just be causing trouble for Intel. Intel can gain nothing from overclockers. I would guess that the chip designers know a little more about their processors than the computer dork that plays around with jumper settings and bios so they can get 10-20% more performance and questionable reliablity.
BTW, I am a reformed overclocker, and I could never really notice a 10 or 20% increase in speed without sitting down and measuring the difference. I have access to so many different computers now, that I often have to cat
First. Wow! An interesting ask.slashdot.org question.
... } 99% of my scripts have this. Thise little thingy does _a lot_. It means that I am reading one line from a file or STDIN and stuffing the contents into an anonymous variable $_. Its cool because you can use it on a pipe or with a filename, you don't have to test for which is which, and it automatically does the opening of the file for you
... } I do this a bunch
...
OK, my language of choice is Perl. Some things I like about it:
- while (<>) {
- foreach (@ARRAY) {
- I like that there are basically only 3 data types in perl. A thingy ($var), a bunch of thingys (@STUFF), and a key value pair of thingys (%HASH = ( key => var })
- no allocation or deallocation of memory
- HERE documents really simplify large text field
- the __DATA__ handle
- the __END__ thing so I can use the space below that for scratch space
- regular expressions that kick ass
- I wish there were a cleaner way to do block quotes in C I cheat by doing #if 0 #endif
- I think the dangling if and unless things are nice, but I almost always rewrite them because there is more than one line of stuff
Oh well, the power just went out, I gotta shut down my computers.....