Cinematogrophers vote for best Cinematography, [...]
IIRC, everyone votes for cinematography (or any other category). It's just the nominations that get defined only by the people who work in that category. So the cinematographers came up with the nominations, and every AMPAS member - no matter how little clue (s)he has - can vote and decide who will get the statuette.
There is a very nice German made for TV movie called Ende der Unschuld (= end of innocence). It deals with the German attempt of creating a nuclear bomb and the scientists at Farm Hall.
It seems that Google Groups can become an interesting resource (or one that can haunt you from the past) for more than your own postings, see this article on John Walker's postings.
Maybe the OSS community should look into something like this... a moron-safe, web-based file sharing project for the masses that ignores anonymization and encryption in order to gain a more critical mass.
I'd be interested to know first how, in general, how one can create any type of p2p tool without having to fear legal problems because what users share might be copyrighted in some countries. Has the MPAA / RIAA ever said anything on that topic? The most popular stuff will probably be copyrighted music and videos. How do I, as a developer, avoid that my tool gets used for that type of content? Why do I have to provide solutions for that 'problem' in the first place? Why don't they go after Joe X. who shares movies on IP w.x.y.z? Whenever I create something easy to use, I must fear to get punished for it. Where are Hillary Rosen's suggestions, she was the one to ask p2p developers to work together with content right owners. This isn't some technical detail, it's the very core problem.
In this article there is an overview of integrated development environments for Java. As Java virtual machines and computers have become faster, the speed issue is less problematic (but not entirely gone).
Rosen talks about problems the p2p community has to fix (quote brough to you by pdftotext):
Increasing security concerns and even national security concerns at this
delicate time. Peer-to-peer will get attention because of the soldier risk in denial
of service attacks, the spread of viruses that endanger national computer
network infrastructure and other things of current concern.
The fact that it is also used as a transmitter of child pornography has not
gone unnoticed by many federal and law enforcement authorities.
Unless the legitimate peer-to-peer community addresses these problems,
proactively, the fundamental benefits of peer-to-peer will always be limited.
I think that this is ridiculous - how is that a problem of p2p or specific to it? Child pornography is delivered with good old snail mail all the time, the #1 source of virii is email, but nobody asks responsible parties for these two useful services to fix the problems to make mail and email less limited.
The problems are inherent to the services. Information is delivered, and that information may be "flawed" (child pornography, virii).
Even if you write lousy code like that, a good compiler notices the many +=s with no side effects and creates one large String from it at compile time. The StringBuffer approach you mention is just needed if you create a large String dynamically.
You bastards! We won't get it for at least six months in the UK, so I'll just have to moan and bitch about how it's not as good as The Original Series without even having the opportunity to refuse to watch it!
That's nothing. Here, the shows are dubbed and suck big time. We never get to hear the English original version. In countries like the Netherlands there are just subtitles, so you can still hear the original. Stupid tv stations...
There is this long list of languages for the JVM. It seems like it's not too hard to adjust to the JVM - wouldn't that be preferable to creating a completely new thing, especially given that modern JVMs are pretty mature? Or are the JVMs too much adjusted to the Java programming language and don't work well (= fast) for other languages?
True geotargeting requires a large database (which some compnaies sell) that maps subnet address to city/country, and then you're talking about hitting another database in realtime for every page loaded and I don't want to do that Slashdot.
Wouldn't that be a nice open content project for the open source software community? Everybody contributes, many can profit from this, everybody's happy (except for the guys selling this).
If you're using geocities.com as a free service, your traffic per hour is restricted, so it's no good for providing pictures etc. IIRC, you have 3 GB / month, but your actual traffic is checked on an hourly basis and access is removed as soon as you go over a certain limit.
Right now, your page looks like that:
Access to this site will be restored within an hour.
I'm still waiting for decent support for my HP PhotoSmart S20 scanner. Even the Windows scanner program isn't good, although the driver itself works. Linux drivers? I don't think so...;-(
c't magazine is one of the largest computer magazines in Germany (or maybe the largest? whatever!) and I don't think they are influenced by the advertisements. So it's possible.
OTOH, I do know that it's difficult. We have a heap of badly-done magazines here as well that are heavily biased towards MS. It makes me appreciate c't only more...
Is anybody working on a JRE for AtheOS? Although Java has hardly taken over the desktop (*cough*), there are quite a few useful apps.
Kaffe seems to have been ported to a huge number of platforms, so it may not be too hard to do an AtheOS port as well. The Kaffe homepage has some instructions for people who want to do a new port.
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Cinematogrophers vote for best Cinematography, [...]
IIRC, everyone votes for cinematography (or any other category). It's just the nominations that get defined only by the people who work in that category. So the cinematographers came up with the nominations, and every AMPAS member - no matter how little clue (s)he has - can vote and decide who will get the statuette.
They are not even trying to be somewhat neutral: All editing was done by GNU Emacs 21 - the greatest text editing tool [...] (toc.pdf)
Thanks for the link.
Actually, the A-Team had the exact same episode over and over again! :)
There is a very nice German made for TV movie called Ende der Unschuld (= end of innocence). It deals with the German attempt of creating a nuclear bomb and the scientists at Farm Hall.
NNTP access has been in the FAQ forever. Unfortunately, no money can be made with the NNTP version, and I understand that this is an important issue.
Actually, the original show was also called Big Brother and was developed and first produced in the Netherlands.
It seems that Google Groups can become an interesting resource (or one that can haunt you from the past) for more than your own postings, see this article on John Walker's postings.
The page seems to be gone, or at least the content removed.
Maybe the OSS community should look into something like this... a moron-safe, web-based file sharing project for the masses that ignores anonymization and encryption in order to gain a more critical mass.
I'd be interested to know first how, in general, how one can create any type of p2p tool without having to fear legal problems because what users share might be copyrighted in some countries. Has the MPAA / RIAA ever said anything on that topic? The most popular stuff will probably be copyrighted music and videos. How do I, as a developer, avoid that my tool gets used for that type of content? Why do I have to provide solutions for that 'problem' in the first place? Why don't they go after Joe X. who shares movies on IP w.x.y.z? Whenever I create something easy to use, I must fear to get punished for it. Where are Hillary Rosen's suggestions, she was the one to ask p2p developers to work together with content right owners. This isn't some technical detail, it's the very core problem.
In this article there is an overview of integrated development environments for Java. As Java virtual machines and computers have become faster, the speed issue is less problematic (but not entirely gone).
Rosen talks about problems the p2p community has to fix (quote brough to you by pdftotext):
Increasing security concerns and even national security concerns at this
delicate time. Peer-to-peer will get attention because of the soldier risk in denial
of service attacks, the spread of viruses that endanger national computer
network infrastructure and other things of current concern.
The fact that it is also used as a transmitter of child pornography has not
gone unnoticed by many federal and law enforcement authorities.
Unless the legitimate peer-to-peer community addresses these problems,
proactively, the fundamental benefits of peer-to-peer will always be limited.
I think that this is ridiculous - how is that a problem of p2p or specific to it? Child pornography is delivered with good old snail mail all the time, the #1 source of virii is email, but nobody asks responsible parties for these two useful services to fix the problems to make mail and email less limited.
The problems are inherent to the services. Information is delivered, and that information may be "flawed" (child pornography, virii).
Even if you write lousy code like that, a good compiler notices the many +=s with no side effects and creates one large String from it at compile time. The StringBuffer approach you mention is just needed if you create a large String dynamically.
Where's "here"?
:-(
Germany. Where everybody learns English in school but everything gets translated anyway.
You bastards! We won't get it for at least six months in the UK, so I'll just have to moan and bitch about how it's not as good as The Original Series without even having the opportunity to refuse to watch it!
That's nothing. Here, the shows are dubbed and suck big time. We never get to hear the English original version. In countries like the Netherlands there are just subtitles, so you can still hear the original. Stupid tv stations...
There is this long list of languages for the JVM. It seems like it's not too hard to adjust to the JVM - wouldn't that be preferable to creating a completely new thing, especially given that modern JVMs are pretty mature? Or are the JVMs too much adjusted to the Java programming language and don't work well (= fast) for other languages?
Yeah, whatever happened to the planned NNTP access to /. comments? Read-only would be great, as a start.
True geotargeting requires a large database (which some compnaies sell) that maps subnet address to city/country, and then you're talking about hitting another database in realtime for every page loaded and I don't want to do that Slashdot.
Wouldn't that be a nice open content project for the open source software community? Everybody contributes, many can profit from this, everybody's happy (except for the guys selling this).
Any comments on how one could set this up?
You might know her from writing that book about Hillary and various CNN panel discussions.
If you're using geocities.com as a free service, your traffic per hour is restricted, so it's no good for providing pictures etc. IIRC, you have 3 GB / month, but your actual traffic is checked on an hourly basis and access is removed as soon as you go over a certain limit.
Right now, your page looks like that:
Access to this site will be restored within an hour.
...both sell UNIX, and both support GNU/Linux.
;-(
I'm still waiting for decent support for my HP PhotoSmart S20 scanner. Even the Windows scanner program isn't good, although the driver itself works. Linux drivers? I don't think so...
c't magazine is one of the largest computer magazines in Germany (or maybe the largest? whatever!) and I don't think they are influenced by the advertisements. So it's possible.
OTOH, I do know that it's difficult. We have a heap of badly-done magazines here as well that are heavily biased towards MS. It makes me appreciate c't only more...
Is anybody working on a JRE for AtheOS? Although Java has hardly taken over the desktop (*cough*), there are quite a few useful apps.
Kaffe seems to have been ported to a huge number of platforms, so it may not be too hard to do an AtheOS port as well. The Kaffe homepage has some instructions for people who want to do a new port.
Still, the ampersand must be escaped.
There are quite a few firms creating products based on those standards.