For those of you who don't know, Porco Russo is about a pilot during WWI who survived a big attack and was somehow turned into an anthropomorphic pig. It is very good. Probably my second favorite Ghibli film (best is Whispers of the Heart).
No, you're right. I imagine this is because Apple heavily optimizes their software to react to various uses with similar speed, rather than optimize a specific action. EG, searching is nearly as fast as traversing sequentially (so you're more likely to do it). One of the ways to do this is by storing data in multiple data structures...eg, store links to a heap of data in a multiple lists ordered by all the available sort methods. This reduces the time to resort the massive songlist by a wide margin at the expense of some ram. To see what i mean, fire up iTunes along side PodWorks. Try to sort each one by typing three letters. In iTunes, it's instant, miliseconds. In PodWorks, you'll be waiting about 1 second per 1000 files while it resorts the list.
Acutally, with GPL software it's "we can do it too, if you're willing to wait a while, deal with several months of buggy and poorly documented betas, deal with a complete lack of support from both developers and vendors, deal with confusing user interfaces not so much designed as copied from other applications that don't do the same thing and teams of programmers that feud with each other over mildly different implementations that are equally lax. But when *we* do it, it'll be skinnable and run OGG files. Because really, that's all that matters."
It wasn't good. But since the ratio of indie to mainstream at my college's only record shop -- that would be The Wall -- was 0:1, Naps was INFINITELY better.
But it's not just indies. Artists that aren't on the radio can be mainstream, too...Ministry, Bad Religion, Screaming Trees, and at the time Eminem.
Is this a porn or warez thing? What the fuck are you installing that you have so much "spyware packages, browser hijackers, etc" that you have to reinstall the machine?
I installed Windows 2000 in 2001 when I bought my chip, and have never had to reinstall it. I rarely have a problem with an installer, and when I do, it's usually due to some program I'm working on hijacking GDI.
No, it doesn't feel "dirty." Yes, it boots pretty much as fast as it always did. My registry is 48 meg and I write COM shit. If you HAVE to reinstall twice a year, then you're doing something wrong. But don't feel bad...I know a guy who reinstalls OSX ever month of so, and there's none of the bullshit for OSX.
I dunno. It all depends what you think Napster means.
Does it mean free-as-in-beer music?
or
Does it mean free-as-in-speech music?
It seems like they're trying to make a distinction there. I liked Napster because it awoke me to a bunch of music I never would have heard before. I took pride in buying CDs after hearing about them on Naps. I liked that it was a simple way to check out new music without dropping my hard earned college pay on shitty records. $18? That's 3 hours i had to spend not studying, partying or chilling with my girlfriend.
If the new Napster continues this spirit -- the spirit of promoting left of the dial artists -- then I'm all for it. After all, that's what Apple is doing right. And it's not a bastardization of the cute cat logo on all my tee shirts and stickers. Napster, Still Good.
After all, Napster was far more ideological than any of its progenitors. It was about the music. Nobody really thought about the legality of it. And the modern systems are, generally, about the STEALING of the music. Illegality is paramount -- that's why the parent companies are generally shady overseas groups, and the "free downloads" are hidden in $1 paypal links promising 100% Free Music!
Of course, if the new Napster is a pop-only system designed by friends of the RIAA to squeeze my nipples for 112 kbit WMA files of Brittany Spears snogging Tiffany, then I'll burn said tee shirts and be done with it. Grab asses.
Well, i support that. ISA is crap. Was crap. Maxing out at 15 devices, including the RTC, hard disc controller, both com ports, parallel port, graphics card and math co processor, was so easy I used to have to shut my machine down and turn off the sound card (which took two IRQs) to use the modem. With SWITCHES. The IRQ shuffle was a daily deal, because some software would only support hardware in certain locations where it expected it. Good luck using DMA 2 with IRQ 6, it wasn't going out like that.
I suppose what I really want is a happy medium. When something is Still Good Enough (like USB, CD, etc), you should support it. When it's Slow, Troublesome and Deprecated Twice Over, you should remove it. And anybody still using an ISA device should get punched in the gut.
They did the same for LCD displays, Firewire devices and CD drives. And one could argue that the lack of a floppy drive forced iMac users to go online to move files.
If Microsoft's unofficial motto is "Embrace and Extend," Apple's surely is "Embrace and Market the Shit Out Of." And I'm sure it's to their advantage. Think what MS could do if they could just sit up and say, "You know what? No PCI-33 devices will be supported in the next Windows. It's the latest and fastest or it's nothing. And let's take the resources we save and put them into designing an interface that doesn't make people want to punch CEO Steve Balmer in his fat pink gut."
On second thought, don't. Because MS would embrace and extend that concept too, and drop support for any hardware that "exists currently."
So you'll take an idiot's software that doesn't work over an asshole's software that does? Merely because you can redistribute the other?
I dunno, man. It takes less than five minutes to compile DJBDNS on my P-pro 266. I'll take five minutes of grudging competence over BIND's half hearted tinkering every day of the week.
Well, i can tell the difference between red and white wines. But this isn't the point. Your type of "blind taste test" is kind of dumb, as it ignores how the brain works. The brain's development of a set of criteria for judging an experience, a paradigm (which is still used even though this word carries a lot of bullshit these days), does not lay out based solely on one sensation. And most people can't easily seperate one sensation from the set. So by blindfolding a person, you're essentially retraining them. Of *COURSE* things are going to seem harder to judge...you've essentially lost the ability to discern between the nuances you've already trained.
I guarantee you, a blind wine drinker KNOWS red wine. Even though he's never seen it.
Which is why I always audition audio components with the same cd, with my eyes closed, from the same distance. Most of the audio enthusiasts I know do the same thing. You learn certain passages that can be heard in a truly detailed setup -- imperfections in the sound, the tap of a palm muting against a string, etc -- that you listen for. Granted, if you played for me a song that I've never heard before, it would be hard to tell what I was listening to. That's why we use the same music. Duh.
But it is easy to tell the difference between a 256 kbit mp3 and an aiff, even if you don't know the song. Any listener comparing the two could do so. The cymbals will shill and the sound will be more spread out. You can hear this on your $25 walkman. You can bet it is even more apparent on reference level equipment. Whether or not you can ACCEPT these imperfections is a personal matter. I'd hazard that audiophiles, even ones whose ears aren't any better than an average man, don't want these imperfections because psychologically they feel that they're being cheated by the equipment. I'm fine with 160 kbit AAC in my car, because I know that the stock stereo isn't exactly delivering a perfect sound stage and I wouldn't want it to be. At home, when I'm listening astutely, it's all CDs and LPs.
Are you suggesting that one audiophile make a hypothesis about a certain sound from a certain component, and then find a series of other audiophiles to listen to it, as well as a control group? And that they do this for each review?
I guess they're not the only crazy ones on the planet. You do know that it's a hobby, right? I think my RC car is fast. Should i hire a team of graduate students to study that?
Well, not to let the insanity of some audiophiles off the hook completely (I once read about a guy who noticed his fridge was causing distortion in his system, so he bought a pair of $10,000 generators to isolate it from the rest of the house's power. that's insane), but the reason they don't back things up with numbers is that in audio, numbers lie. A lot. To the point that they have little meaning, except as a comparison to otherwise identical equipment.
A 5W tube system may be louder than a 50W transistor system. A speaker with.002% signal distortion might easily introduce its own distortion due to cheap magnets or poorly engineered cones and not include that, even though the stat says "Total Harmonic Distortion." Even a stat like "Frequency response: 20 Hz - 22 kHz" is useless if the amplification device is not perfectly linear, and no device is. Thus, the auditioning of gear on a "well trained ear" is essential to any audio review.
And this quote is not even that strange; in fact it's just using different language to explain what we want to hear. Dynamics were impressive means that there was a big difference between loud and soft sounds, usually a sign that the device is delivering sound as accurately as possible. imaging was nuanced and detailed, "imaging" is the combination of stereo seperation combined with balanced delivery of all types of sound (eg, bass doesn't linger and treble doesn't disappear), and detailed imaging means you can hear sounds move from left to center to right accurately. Nuanced imaging means there isn't a sudden skip as a sound movees from left to right, or from one note to another. frequency extremes sounded extended and natural means that low bass and high treble signals are transmitted and not cut off because "you won't hear it any way," and that it also isn't needlessly boosted. In short, this unit is going to deliver a clean signal to your headphones or receiver, and that's exactly what you want from an audio device.
This guy, who if he's really an expert has no doubt heard a TON of equipment that cost more than you can BELIEVE, is saying the unit ACTUALLY HAS high frequency response, low harmonic distortion and high sensitivity for a unit of its size and cost. And that information is much more useful than just numbers.
Yes. Let us get rid of the broadband and cable sectors of AOL/TW. You know...the ones that showed more profit than any other division and have consistantly done so for years? It's not connectivity that's AOL's failings but a complete lack of respect for their customers, someting the TW side has never displayed. Hell, when I toured TW's tiny insignificant profitable Troy roadrunner branch five years ago, the guys were talking about having to buy more servers for the local online gamers and space for their Usenet raid. This was when they were charging $40 per month and capping nothing.
At the same time, AOL was still futzing with a proprietary ART format, an ancient proprietary browser, and forcing people to have a seperate "network adapter" for other internet services. See the difference there? One was doing things to help people enjoy the internet. The other was doing things to help DESTROY the internet. Funny which works and which doesn't. Funny which approach drug the future of a great company through the sands of mediocrity.
I think that if AOLTW wanted to offer a internet service whose brand really SCREAMED cheap, they'd name it "AOL STOCK CERTIFICATE."
I mean, think about it. 130,000 registered names. What TINY percentage of ACTUAL LINUX USERS do you suppose that is? 10%? 1%?.1%? I know that I've never registered any of my machines.
What good is a COUNTER that has no bearing on reality? It'd be like performing a census by asking all the people in one small state to phone in -- and then just going with that number. It'd be more accurate to get download logs from ibiblio.org and kernel.org and redhat.com, etc.
So as to why Linus hasn't registered...I'd say because he has better things to do than waste his time on useless geek publicity.
Why, yes, it is. And all those Star Wars cartoons from the 1980s were retroactive clones.
Sheesh. Mixing media isn't anything NEW. Do you remember the fantastic Batman Animated Series which followed the successful Batman movie? Or perhaps the watchable Real Ghostbusters cartoon which followed the movies of the same name?
Animatrix wasn't anything NEW (and for my money, wasn't anything interesting, aside from the quality backstory of "The Second Renaissance"). The only thing it had going for it was that it came out before that horrible Matrix: Reloaded (and thus wasn't tainted by its shittiness) and that it has some quality animation directors working on it.
Anybody who's seen Dexter's Lab, the Powerpuff Girls, or the AMAZING and trippy Samurai Jack cartoons, should be able to infer that Genndy has the goods to make a cartoon that is stylish, fun and original. Which makes me pine for the Ewoks and Droids cartoons of the 1980s...they weren't great cinema (like some episodes of Batman:AS), but they were stylish, fun and original.
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In other news, he recommends the latest Disney film to Disney fans and the latest Danielle Steele to Danielle Steele fans. KISS fans may like the new KISS record, and I hear that cat fanciers often FANCY CATS.
I mean, fuck, slashdot won't post my stories but they post this crap? An unfunny, rambling review of an unfunny, divisive comic strip? Maybe instead of asking intriguing philosophical questions like "What is the proper way to tell my boss that I have failed a task," I should submit my review of the latest Hieroglyphics album, (which you will probably like if you liked the last one).
I'll get right on that. In the meantime, I recommend all User Friendly fans fuck off and die. Maybe if you tried understanding WHY somebody doesn't know how to use the computer rather than making fun of HOW they messed it up, we'd have fewer Nick Burns clones in IT and fewer jobs slipping overseas.
Tips?? Are you insane? You want to run all media like a damn coffee bar? Artists are not WAITSTAFF. They don't want your pity tips, they want a way so they can live securely and create. Appealing to the masses isn't the way to do that. It's a way to dumb things down so the common man likes them better. It's exactly what we have now -- artists selling out for a pay off -- only the payoff is smaller and the art is worse.
Look. If I write some book on some obscure subject of marginal interest, the ONLY way I can possibly make enough money to survive is to charge as much as I can get for it. You could give away the book for free, and STILL people wouldn't want it. Shit, I can read user friendly for free every day, and I don't. Because I don't like it.
Trying to run art on generosity is retarded. Do you even LIVE on this planet? We won't pay for schools, complain about taxes, won't let them build prisons near our homes. We throw bombs at each other because our skins are different colours. Hell, we only tip at restaurants out of fear that we'll get our food spit in. How is a musician or artist supposed to punish us for not taking care of them? Make bad art?
I feel sorry for the programmers over there at SunnComm. You just know this whole system was the brainchild of some idiot product manager/marketeer whose knowledge of cryptography was gained through extensive research on the film Mercury Rising. He probably went to his head programmer, and said "We want the software to install secretly when the user installs the CD."
The head programmer, who is probably making more money with his title as a a "senior cryptographic analyst and engineer" than he ever did as a "visual basic stooge," probably nodded his head and smiled at the other programmers with that knowing look of "we'll do this, but we all know it won't work." If you had a job in the late 1990s, you know the look. In fact, they probably had their fingers on the shift key the whole time this was in development...as did the QA department. Shit, I don't think I've EVER had a CD autoload on me...not since 1996 or so anyway.
The programmers have probably known this would be a failure since #include <stdio>, and have just been hoping they could scrounge a living before the other metakey dropped.
Management no doubt knew about this too and wrote it off, because it is very easy to ignore a deal breaking error that is your own fault and will cost you your job if you admit how poor your judgment was. I always loved that about business management...you can never admit that you did something stupid. I don't think I could handle it, as I am doing stupid things all the time and I would rather correct them than pretend they were good ideas in a bad market. The other day my fly was down until 10 am...should I have left it down all day or closed it and blamed 9/11?
find all the zip files in a directory which have errors and move them some place else? You will be forced to download some "utility" everytime something like that happens.
Forgetting some of the more awesome scripting languages supported in Windows since 1998 (VBScript and JScript natively, but windows scripting host has python, ruby and perl plugins), you can do this quite easily with dos batch functions. Dir the files, loop through the results, do a zip -t and move the files that don't return 0. It's about 5 lines in a batch file, or you can do it at the command line with a few colons. Of course, if you're not savvy enough to write this code using a batch file, you're also not savvy enough to write it as a shell script...the logic is the same, even if the syntax is different. And it's because of this lack of savvy-ness that you'll need to download a tool. If you use Windows, chances are there has been something written to do this. If you use Linux, somebody will probably tell you to write a script. Recursion isn't just for acronyms!
You may not know it, but Microsoft's procedural programming tools are very advanced and have been since 1989...even if there's no camel on the front of the instruction guide. WSH gives you everything you want...regular expressions, an interface to COM objects and the windows API, and some basic GUI tools. I have built entire applications out of WSH. Shit, there have been many critical VIRUSES written in WSH. With all this power available in the majority of windows installations, there is no need for an add-on command shell unless you are really well versed in said shell and couldn't live without it.
I do prefer bash scripting, but i think downloading a seperate environment just for a more comfortable scripting is like buying a new car because you like the color. Besides, diversity is what makes a programmer.
Looks like Dan Bernstein was on to something when he said BIND's design was fundamentally flawed and would result in vulnerability after vulnerability. Just goes to show you that sometimes the most paranoid among us can still be on to something.
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For those of you who don't know, Porco Russo is about a pilot during WWI who survived a big attack and was somehow turned into an anthropomorphic pig. It is very good. Probably my second favorite Ghibli film (best is Whispers of the Heart).
No, you're right. I imagine this is because Apple heavily optimizes their software to react to various uses with similar speed, rather than optimize a specific action. EG, searching is nearly as fast as traversing sequentially (so you're more likely to do it). One of the ways to do this is by storing data in multiple data structures...eg, store links to a heap of data in a multiple lists ordered by all the available sort methods. This reduces the time to resort the massive songlist by a wide margin at the expense of some ram. To see what i mean, fire up iTunes along side PodWorks. Try to sort each one by typing three letters. In iTunes, it's instant, miliseconds. In PodWorks, you'll be waiting about 1 second per 1000 files while it resorts the list.
Acutally, with GPL software it's "we can do it too, if you're willing to wait a while, deal with several months of buggy and poorly documented betas, deal with a complete lack of support from both developers and vendors, deal with confusing user interfaces not so much designed as copied from other applications that don't do the same thing and teams of programmers that feud with each other over mildly different implementations that are equally lax. But when *we* do it, it'll be skinnable and run OGG files. Because really, that's all that matters."
It wasn't good. But since the ratio of indie to mainstream at my college's only record shop -- that would be The Wall -- was 0:1, Naps was INFINITELY better.
But it's not just indies. Artists that aren't on the radio can be mainstream, too...Ministry, Bad Religion, Screaming Trees, and at the time Eminem.
Is this a porn or warez thing? What the fuck are you installing that you have so much "spyware packages, browser hijackers, etc" that you have to reinstall the machine?
I installed Windows 2000 in 2001 when I bought my chip, and have never had to reinstall it. I rarely have a problem with an installer, and when I do, it's usually due to some program I'm working on hijacking GDI.
No, it doesn't feel "dirty." Yes, it boots pretty much as fast as it always did. My registry is 48 meg and I write COM shit. If you HAVE to reinstall twice a year, then you're doing something wrong. But don't feel bad...I know a guy who reinstalls OSX ever month of so, and there's none of the bullshit for OSX.
I dunno. It all depends what you think Napster means.
Does it mean free-as-in-beer music?
or
Does it mean free-as-in-speech music?
It seems like they're trying to make a distinction there. I liked Napster because it awoke me to a bunch of music I never would have heard before. I took pride in buying CDs after hearing about them on Naps. I liked that it was a simple way to check out new music without dropping my hard earned college pay on shitty records. $18? That's 3 hours i had to spend not studying, partying or chilling with my girlfriend.
If the new Napster continues this spirit -- the spirit of promoting left of the dial artists -- then I'm all for it. After all, that's what Apple is doing right. And it's not a bastardization of the cute cat logo on all my tee shirts and stickers. Napster, Still Good.
After all, Napster was far more ideological than any of its progenitors. It was about the music. Nobody really thought about the legality of it. And the modern systems are, generally, about the STEALING of the music. Illegality is paramount -- that's why the parent companies are generally shady overseas groups, and the "free downloads" are hidden in $1 paypal links promising 100% Free Music!
Of course, if the new Napster is a pop-only system designed by friends of the RIAA to squeeze my nipples for 112 kbit WMA files of Brittany Spears snogging Tiffany, then I'll burn said tee shirts and be done with it. Grab asses.
Well, i support that. ISA is crap. Was crap. Maxing out at 15 devices, including the RTC, hard disc controller, both com ports, parallel port, graphics card and math co processor, was so easy I used to have to shut my machine down and turn off the sound card (which took two IRQs) to use the modem. With SWITCHES. The IRQ shuffle was a daily deal, because some software would only support hardware in certain locations where it expected it. Good luck using DMA 2 with IRQ 6, it wasn't going out like that.
I suppose what I really want is a happy medium. When something is Still Good Enough (like USB, CD, etc), you should support it. When it's Slow, Troublesome and Deprecated Twice Over, you should remove it. And anybody still using an ISA device should get punched in the gut.
They did the same for LCD displays, Firewire devices and CD drives. And one could argue that the lack of a floppy drive forced iMac users to go online to move files.
If Microsoft's unofficial motto is "Embrace and Extend," Apple's surely is "Embrace and Market the Shit Out Of." And I'm sure it's to their advantage. Think what MS could do if they could just sit up and say, "You know what? No PCI-33 devices will be supported in the next Windows. It's the latest and fastest or it's nothing. And let's take the resources we save and put them into designing an interface that doesn't make people want to punch CEO Steve Balmer in his fat pink gut."
On second thought, don't. Because MS would embrace and extend that concept too, and drop support for any hardware that "exists currently."
So you'll take an idiot's software that doesn't work over an asshole's software that does? Merely because you can redistribute the other?
I dunno, man. It takes less than five minutes to compile DJBDNS on my P-pro 266. I'll take five minutes of grudging competence over BIND's half hearted tinkering every day of the week.
DJBDNS, anyone?
The Bind authors are known idiots. Much like users of their software. It's buggier, more resource intensive and slower, but at least it costs more!
Well, i can tell the difference between red and white wines. But this isn't the point. Your type of "blind taste test" is kind of dumb, as it ignores how the brain works. The brain's development of a set of criteria for judging an experience, a paradigm (which is still used even though this word carries a lot of bullshit these days), does not lay out based solely on one sensation. And most people can't easily seperate one sensation from the set. So by blindfolding a person, you're essentially retraining them. Of *COURSE* things are going to seem harder to judge...you've essentially lost the ability to discern between the nuances you've already trained.
I guarantee you, a blind wine drinker KNOWS red wine. Even though he's never seen it.
Which is why I always audition audio components with the same cd, with my eyes closed, from the same distance. Most of the audio enthusiasts I know do the same thing. You learn certain passages that can be heard in a truly detailed setup -- imperfections in the sound, the tap of a palm muting against a string, etc -- that you listen for. Granted, if you played for me a song that I've never heard before, it would be hard to tell what I was listening to. That's why we use the same music. Duh.
But it is easy to tell the difference between a 256 kbit mp3 and an aiff, even if you don't know the song. Any listener comparing the two could do so. The cymbals will shill and the sound will be more spread out. You can hear this on your $25 walkman. You can bet it is even more apparent on reference level equipment. Whether or not you can ACCEPT these imperfections is a personal matter. I'd hazard that audiophiles, even ones whose ears aren't any better than an average man, don't want these imperfections because psychologically they feel that they're being cheated by the equipment. I'm fine with 160 kbit AAC in my car, because I know that the stock stereo isn't exactly delivering a perfect sound stage and I wouldn't want it to be. At home, when I'm listening astutely, it's all CDs and LPs.
Are you suggesting that one audiophile make a hypothesis about a certain sound from a certain component, and then find a series of other audiophiles to listen to it, as well as a control group? And that they do this for each review?
I guess they're not the only crazy ones on the planet. You do know that it's a hobby, right? I think my RC car is fast. Should i hire a team of graduate students to study that?
Well, not to let the insanity of some audiophiles off the hook completely (I once read about a guy who noticed his fridge was causing distortion in his system, so he bought a pair of $10,000 generators to isolate it from the rest of the house's power. that's insane), but the reason they don't back things up with numbers is that in audio, numbers lie. A lot. To the point that they have little meaning, except as a comparison to otherwise identical equipment.
.002% signal distortion might easily introduce its own distortion due to cheap magnets or poorly engineered cones and not include that, even though the stat says "Total Harmonic Distortion." Even a stat like "Frequency response: 20 Hz - 22 kHz" is useless if the amplification device is not perfectly linear, and no device is. Thus, the auditioning of gear on a "well trained ear" is essential to any audio review.
A 5W tube system may be louder than a 50W transistor system. A speaker with
And this quote is not even that strange; in fact it's just using different language to explain what we want to hear. Dynamics were impressive means that there was a big difference between loud and soft sounds, usually a sign that the device is delivering sound as accurately as possible. imaging was nuanced and detailed, "imaging" is the combination of stereo seperation combined with balanced delivery of all types of sound (eg, bass doesn't linger and treble doesn't disappear), and detailed imaging means you can hear sounds move from left to center to right accurately. Nuanced imaging means there isn't a sudden skip as a sound movees from left to right, or from one note to another. frequency extremes sounded extended and natural means that low bass and high treble signals are transmitted and not cut off because "you won't hear it any way," and that it also isn't needlessly boosted. In short, this unit is going to deliver a clean signal to your headphones or receiver, and that's exactly what you want from an audio device.
This guy, who if he's really an expert has no doubt heard a TON of equipment that cost more than you can BELIEVE, is saying the unit ACTUALLY HAS high frequency response, low harmonic distortion and high sensitivity for a unit of its size and cost. And that information is much more useful than just numbers.
Yes. Let us get rid of the broadband and cable sectors of AOL/TW. You know...the ones that showed more profit than any other division and have consistantly done so for years? It's not connectivity that's AOL's failings but a complete lack of respect for their customers, someting the TW side has never displayed. Hell, when I toured TW's tiny insignificant profitable Troy roadrunner branch five years ago, the guys were talking about having to buy more servers for the local online gamers and space for their Usenet raid. This was when they were charging $40 per month and capping nothing.
At the same time, AOL was still futzing with a proprietary ART format, an ancient proprietary browser, and forcing people to have a seperate "network adapter" for other internet services. See the difference there? One was doing things to help people enjoy the internet. The other was doing things to help DESTROY the internet. Funny which works and which doesn't. Funny which approach drug the future of a great company through the sands of mediocrity.
I think that if AOLTW wanted to offer a internet service whose brand really SCREAMED cheap, they'd name it "AOL STOCK CERTIFICATE."
Maybe because Linux Counter is dumb and useless?
.1%? I know that I've never registered any of my machines.
I mean, think about it. 130,000 registered names. What TINY percentage of ACTUAL LINUX USERS do you suppose that is? 10%? 1%?
What good is a COUNTER that has no bearing on reality? It'd be like performing a census by asking all the people in one small state to phone in -- and then just going with that number. It'd be more accurate to get download logs from ibiblio.org and kernel.org and redhat.com, etc.
So as to why Linus hasn't registered...I'd say because he has better things to do than waste his time on useless geek publicity.
101 days isn't that much, either. I get that routinely on 2k boxes.
I think my linux record is 158; again, took down due to a kernel recompilation.
I find that saying "Fuck the pigs" is a fairly good way to get off the PBA call list.
It's all in the phrasing.
Why, yes, it is. And all those Star Wars cartoons from the 1980s were retroactive clones.
Sheesh. Mixing media isn't anything NEW. Do you remember the fantastic Batman Animated Series which followed the successful Batman movie? Or perhaps the watchable Real Ghostbusters cartoon which followed the movies of the same name?
Animatrix wasn't anything NEW (and for my money, wasn't anything interesting, aside from the quality backstory of "The Second Renaissance"). The only thing it had going for it was that it came out before that horrible Matrix: Reloaded (and thus wasn't tainted by its shittiness) and that it has some quality animation directors working on it.
Anybody who's seen Dexter's Lab, the Powerpuff Girls, or the AMAZING and trippy Samurai Jack cartoons, should be able to infer that Genndy has the goods to make a cartoon that is stylish, fun and original. Which makes me pine for the Ewoks and Droids cartoons of the 1980s...they weren't great cinema (like some episodes of Batman:AS), but they were stylish, fun and original.
In other news, he recommends the latest Disney film to Disney fans and the latest Danielle Steele to Danielle Steele fans. KISS fans may like the new KISS record, and I hear that cat fanciers often FANCY CATS.
I mean, fuck, slashdot won't post my stories but they post this crap? An unfunny, rambling review of an unfunny, divisive comic strip? Maybe instead of asking intriguing philosophical questions like "What is the proper way to tell my boss that I have failed a task," I should submit my review of the latest Hieroglyphics album, (which you will probably like if you liked the last one).
I'll get right on that. In the meantime, I recommend all User Friendly fans fuck off and die. Maybe if you tried understanding WHY somebody doesn't know how to use the computer rather than making fun of HOW they messed it up, we'd have fewer Nick Burns clones in IT and fewer jobs slipping overseas.
Or maybe it's the ID 10 T virus. Haw haw.
I want you to fuck off, and quickly.
Tips?? Are you insane? You want to run all media like a damn coffee bar? Artists are not WAITSTAFF. They don't want your pity tips, they want a way so they can live securely and create. Appealing to the masses isn't the way to do that. It's a way to dumb things down so the common man likes them better. It's exactly what we have now -- artists selling out for a pay off -- only the payoff is smaller and the art is worse.
Look. If I write some book on some obscure subject of marginal interest, the ONLY way I can possibly make enough money to survive is to charge as much as I can get for it. You could give away the book for free, and STILL people wouldn't want it. Shit, I can read user friendly for free every day, and I don't. Because I don't like it.
Trying to run art on generosity is retarded. Do you even LIVE on this planet? We won't pay for schools, complain about taxes, won't let them build prisons near our homes. We throw bombs at each other because our skins are different colours. Hell, we only tip at restaurants out of fear that we'll get our food spit in. How is a musician or artist supposed to punish us for not taking care of them? Make bad art?
In Soviet Russia, copy protection defeats you!
Oh wait. That's not Soviet Russia, it's the Republic of the United States of America! My bad.
I feel sorry for the programmers over there at SunnComm. You just know this whole system was the brainchild of some idiot product manager/marketeer whose knowledge of cryptography was gained through extensive research on the film Mercury Rising. He probably went to his head programmer, and said "We want the software to install secretly when the user installs the CD."
The head programmer, who is probably making more money with his title as a a "senior cryptographic analyst and engineer" than he ever did as a "visual basic stooge," probably nodded his head and smiled at the other programmers with that knowing look of "we'll do this, but we all know it won't work." If you had a job in the late 1990s, you know the look. In fact, they probably had their fingers on the shift key the whole time this was in development...as did the QA department. Shit, I don't think I've EVER had a CD autoload on me...not since 1996 or so anyway.
The programmers have probably known this would be a failure since #include <stdio>, and have just been hoping they could scrounge a living before the other metakey dropped.
Management no doubt knew about this too and wrote it off, because it is very easy to ignore a deal breaking error that is your own fault and will cost you your job if you admit how poor your judgment was. I always loved that about business management...you can never admit that you did something stupid. I don't think I could handle it, as I am doing stupid things all the time and I would rather correct them than pretend they were good ideas in a bad market. The other day my fly was down until 10 am...should I have left it down all day or closed it and blamed 9/11?
Fucking Linux kids...stop violating the DMCA with your "open source!"
Copying patented material like "windows" and "icons" is evil and illegal...unless you stole them properly from those weenies at Xerox!
find all the zip files in a directory which have errors and move them some place else? You will be forced to download some "utility" everytime something like that happens.
Forgetting some of the more awesome scripting languages supported in Windows since 1998 (VBScript and JScript natively, but windows scripting host has python, ruby and perl plugins), you can do this quite easily with dos batch functions. Dir the files, loop through the results, do a zip -t and move the files that don't return 0. It's about 5 lines in a batch file, or you can do it at the command line with a few colons. Of course, if you're not savvy enough to write this code using a batch file, you're also not savvy enough to write it as a shell script...the logic is the same, even if the syntax is different. And it's because of this lack of savvy-ness that you'll need to download a tool. If you use Windows, chances are there has been something written to do this. If you use Linux, somebody will probably tell you to write a script. Recursion isn't just for acronyms!
You may not know it, but Microsoft's procedural programming tools are very advanced and have been since 1989...even if there's no camel on the front of the instruction guide. WSH gives you everything you want...regular expressions, an interface to COM objects and the windows API, and some basic GUI tools. I have built entire applications out of WSH. Shit, there have been many critical VIRUSES written in WSH. With all this power available in the majority of windows installations, there is no need for an add-on command shell unless you are really well versed in said shell and couldn't live without it.
I do prefer bash scripting, but i think downloading a seperate environment just for a more comfortable scripting is like buying a new car because you like the color. Besides, diversity is what makes a programmer.
Looks like Dan Bernstein was on to something when he said BIND's design was fundamentally flawed and would result in vulnerability after vulnerability. Just goes to show you that sometimes the most paranoid among us can still be on to something.