Piracy will die down because it's not worth the hassle to save $.20.
There is no hassle. People who download GB's of music without paying for it will always have ways to actually find stuff. Why should they start paying? Not that I support that idea, but why should they suddenly change their mind?
There is no way to easily find out where downloads are illegal and where not. As long as that does not change police will not be able to fight piracy. Hence, no hassle.
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Has anyone ever heard what C++ inventor Stroustrup thinks about the latest addition to the C family?! Although we never really had a C *family* until that third language came up;-)
Stroustrup, IIRC, likes his C++ a lot but admits that it is very complex and not suitable for everyone. Maybe he can live with a simplified version for those programmers that are less advanced...
There shouldn't be a coffee maker within a 5 mile radius that doesn't have at least 128 Megs of RAM.
This is a big misunderstanding of the JINI concept. Not every device needs to run a virtual machine of its own, that was of course taken into consideration. You can connect simple things like a light switch (just two states) or a coffee machine to some 'mediator device' which is then connected to the network. Sorry, it's been a while, I don't have any links on this.
I've had a problem with that in our computer science course. Everybody could choose either a game or some library book database, the majority vote would be the project for everyone. I was the only one against the game and one of maybe three persons with advanced programming skills.
The project was a complete disaster -- nobody knew what the heck they were doing or where to start, the teacher couldn't coordinate the thing, I ended writing most of the code with one other guy. I think it's best if the teacher already does the modulization (so classes in Java, units in Pascal) etc. and simply gives away the tasks. Everything else will probably fail due to inexperience in software engineering.
As so often, there is a great algorithm (set of algorithms, actually). The problem is -- make a standard out of it. Create a file format that supports the standard. Create a library that reads and writes those files. Create a browser plugin from that library.
This usually takes several years, not to mention the problems with patents.
1) I don't have a credit card and I'm not going to ship 1-USD-notes from Germany per mail to pay for the book. So, as there is no way for me to make micropayments without a huge overhead, I'm not able to participate, just like many other folks around the world (although I/would/ pay that dollar).
2) This whole 'project' can be blown up by a few l33t script kiddies who repeatedly download the file, as I guess the 75 percent value is related to the number of downloads (which is a flawed concept, IMHO).
Nonetheless, I don't think King is in this for the money. He's got a lot already, and he can keep publishing whatever he wants and make more, so this is an interesting project for him. It's the implementation that is flawed... Well, and the whole thing only works with King and maybe half a dozen other bestseller writers, so it's not exactly the model for the future.
I'd very much like to subscribe to it, but instead of USD 25 per year (as in the US) it would cost me USD 70! Sorry folks, can't afford that. Isn't there a way to find a publisher in Europe / wherever else people want to read that magazine, send the digital version of the issue to them and have the thing printed here without huge airmail costs?
We are constantly bombarded with media images of women who are obsessed with lipstick, clothing, weight, popularity, perfect skin and hair.. and the list goes on and on. Under this constant pressure, and even for reasons completely unrelated to it, many women are indifferent or even contemptuous towards intellectual pursuits.
The media might be responsible for some bad ideas that girls get of what a woman should be like. However, as women make up about 50 percent of the people at universities, that obviously doesn't keep them away from the intellectual challenges of university. They simply seem to study other things, for whatever reason.
A distributed approach is not a bad idea. However, as Gnutella, it would produce huge amounts of traffic. Gnutella needs about 1 KB per connection with another node per second, so it's not exactly suited for your average modem user. And that just for instant messaging, would be overkill. Maybe the traffic could be reduced.
Any new instant messaging system that is not pushed by a major corporation will probably have a hard time being established. OTOH, it would give the opportunity to create a clean protocol from scratch, different from the crappy one ICQ uses (even the developers say so, IIRC, they never thought it would become that huge). With built-in cryptography for privacy, authentication techniques to reduce spam, a good free C library implementing it to have it on all platforms and other goodies.
But especially on the field of data compression, there/are/ tons of people coming up with record-breaking, never-before-seen compression rates. Of course they can't say anything specific because they're trying to get a patent on it... And money. Some of the claims for lossless compression ('infinite compression schemes') even are proven to be false (counting argument) and get on the nerves of comp.compression regulars. The FAQ for that newsgroup sums up some of the cases (see items [9] and [10]).
I didn't understand why they cannot integrate hard links, the author only seems to explain the consequences, not the reason for it. Anyone care to explain?!
Get the free Word Viewer, it does not execute macros and fully supports the file format, coming from MS itself. Never had a problem with it.
If you don't use Windows, try that Perl script that converts.DOC, or StarOffice. There also is some other command line tool whose name I cannot rememember (freshmeat.net, maybe?). So, there are several ways to avoid viruses and read the content. A hex viewer can be used as the last approach.
Of course, once the document starts using extremely Windows-specific embedded stuff, you're lost.
if people share the same DTD, they can easily synchronize their data
if people use different DTD's for the same kind of data (e.g. an address book), it should be easy to convert the data between both DTD's using a simple query language or something like XSL
And I also don't think that speed/should/ be an issue because XML is supposed be used for middle-ware -- there still is a database that gets a query and returns the matching items (you don't really want to put 100 GB of your enterprise's information into a text file;-)). But for interchange, XML beats the rest. One of the reasons Oracle pushes Java and XML, they want to be everywhere, and both 'buzzword technologies' are designed to be cross-platform.
I know slashdot is not objective all the time, but what exactly qualifies timothy to make generalizing statements about Java's portability or its alleged problems with inheritance (no idea what that is about)?! Please! You'd expect better from group who knows about prejudice concerning software. You know, Linux is hard to use, there are no applications, no support for most hardware, you cannot use it for real work etc. Java has not and never will be perfect, but it's steadily improving. And there are JDK's and JRE's from all sorts of organizations, so you can hardly say anything about Java's properties.
I think it's rare that you have to do a project that has to work under both Windows and Unix so that you'll have to make a choice on which of both to develop. If it's a pure Windows or Linux app, there's no reason to do it under the other OS. If complex tools are involved that must be used, again the choice has been made for you.
If cross-platform development is important, use the OS with the best tools available. Personally, I need a shell, a compiler and a good text editor for the stuff I write (not that I'm doing really big projects). They are available for Windows *and* Unix, so I just follow my personal taste and pick the one I like better.
Ada is a language to do/real/ software engineering, and it is used in many projects where human lifes depend on the programs. Usually, relatively many people with much experience work on those projects, producing very few lines of code (per time unit). For people to really learn it, they must spend a lot of time getting into software engineering plus all the other stuff you'll have to learn with any programming language. So, Ada may just not be what you're looking for. Doesn't mean it doesn't work for someone else. CS programs that merely teach PHP and C are a horrible idea to me. Any decent CS student will learn either one easily once they got the concepts behind software development. And hopefully they will have developed the skill to go around the usual traps created by C, assembly and all the other languages that don't offer advanced features.
I'm pretty sure software can't recognize porn, whatever the definition is.
But as an enterprise that forbids their employees to watch porn material, why not move a copy of each image file that comes over the network in a separate directory, also storing which computer requested it at what time.
I think it's sufficient to tell the employees that this is done and the 'image cache' browsed by a person on a regular basis.
With the AVI / DivX codec and a DVD as source (not a TV capture or a crappy version filmed from a movie threater screen) you can make very nice-looking versions that fit on a CD-ROM. Try 'divx' on Gnutella (or IRC or whatever other distribution channel) and you'll come up with Galaxy Quest, The Matrix etc. Actually it's high-enough quality for your average computer monitor plus sound card.
So you can have a good quality movie at a size (600 MB) which people will download. Then again,/I/'d go for the DVD version, too! Way to much effort;-)
Use the Psion 5mx pro in combination with its Java Virtual Machine and mindterm, the GPL'd Java secure shell app. I guess that should work... Mindterm is linked on freshmeat.net and EPOC is one of the platforms the program was tested to run on.
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Piracy will die down because it's not worth the hassle to save $.20.
There is no hassle. People who download GB's of music without paying for it will always have ways to actually find stuff. Why should they start paying? Not that I support that idea, but why should they suddenly change their mind?
There is no way to easily find out where downloads are illegal and where not. As long as that does not change police will not be able to fight piracy. Hence, no hassle.
Some of these links don't work because query results seem to be copied to a temporary directory and are deleted after a while:
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Has anyone ever heard what C++ inventor Stroustrup thinks about the latest addition to the C family?! Although we never really had a C *family* until that third language came up ;-)
Stroustrup, IIRC, likes his C++ a lot but admits that it is very complex and not suitable for everyone. Maybe he can live with a simplified version for those programmers that are less advanced...
There shouldn't be a coffee maker within a 5 mile radius that doesn't have at least 128 Megs of RAM.
This is a big misunderstanding of the JINI concept. Not every device needs to run a virtual machine of its own, that was of course taken into consideration. You can connect simple things like a light switch (just two states) or a coffee machine to some 'mediator device' which is then connected to the network. Sorry, it's been a while, I don't have any links on this.
I've had a problem with that in our computer science course. Everybody could choose either a game or some library book database, the majority vote would be the project for everyone. I was the only one against the game and one of maybe three persons with advanced programming skills.
The project was a complete disaster -- nobody knew what the heck they were doing or where to start, the teacher couldn't coordinate the thing, I ended writing most of the code with one other guy.
I think it's best if the teacher already does the modulization (so classes in Java, units in Pascal) etc. and simply gives away the tasks. Everything else will probably fail due to inexperience in software engineering.
As so often, there is a great algorithm (set of algorithms, actually). The problem is -- make a standard out of it. Create a file format that supports the standard. Create a library that reads and writes those files. Create a browser plugin from that library.
This usually takes several years, not to mention the problems with patents.
1) I don't have a credit card and I'm not going to ship 1-USD-notes from Germany per mail to pay for the book. So, as there is no way for me to make micropayments without a huge overhead, I'm not able to participate, just like many other folks around the world (although I /would/ pay that dollar).
2) This whole 'project' can be blown up by a few l33t script kiddies who repeatedly download the file, as I guess the 75 percent value is related to the number of downloads (which is a flawed concept, IMHO).
Nonetheless, I don't think King is in this for the money. He's got a lot already, and he can keep publishing whatever he wants and make more, so this is an interesting project for him. It's the implementation that is flawed... Well, and the whole thing only works with King and maybe half a dozen other bestseller writers, so it's not exactly the model for the future.
No, I'm surfing from my dorm room for a whoppin' USD 3 per month.
There is GPL'd technology available for text indexing and compression: MG (for Managing Gigabytes).
;-(
No idea on how to get the free web-based Usenet server running, though
I'd very much like to subscribe to it, but instead of USD 25 per year (as in the US) it would cost me USD 70! Sorry folks, can't afford that. Isn't there a way to find a publisher in Europe / wherever else people want to read that magazine, send the digital version of the issue to them and have the thing printed here without huge airmail costs?
It seems that it was released a long time ago:
Release Date: Dec 31, 1900
;-)
The current issue of German news magazine Der Spiegel (27/2000) has an article on Bove on page 166: 'Kaese statt Hamburger'.
We are constantly bombarded with media images of women who are obsessed with lipstick, clothing, weight, popularity, perfect skin and hair.. and the list goes on and on. Under this constant pressure, and even for reasons completely unrelated to it, many women are indifferent or even contemptuous towards intellectual pursuits.
The media might be responsible for some bad ideas that girls get of what a woman should be like.
However, as women make up about 50 percent of the people at universities, that obviously doesn't keep them away from the intellectual challenges of university. They simply seem to study other things, for whatever reason.
There is an interesting article on that, 'Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?'.
A distributed approach is not a bad idea. However, as Gnutella, it would produce huge amounts of traffic. Gnutella needs about 1 KB per connection with another node per second, so it's not exactly suited for your average modem user. And that just for instant messaging, would be overkill. Maybe the traffic could be reduced.
Any new instant messaging system that is not pushed by a major corporation will probably have a hard time being established. OTOH, it would give the opportunity to create a clean protocol from scratch, different from the crappy one ICQ uses (even the developers say so, IIRC, they never thought it would become that huge). With built-in cryptography for privacy, authentication techniques to reduce spam, a good free C library implementing it to have it on all platforms and other goodies.
But especially on the field of data compression, there /are/ tons of people coming up with record-breaking, never-before-seen compression rates. Of course they can't say anything specific because they're trying to get a patent on it... And money. Some of the claims for lossless compression ('infinite compression schemes') even are proven to be false (counting argument) and get on the nerves of comp.compression regulars. The FAQ for that newsgroup sums up some of the cases (see items [9] and [10]).
I didn't understand why they cannot integrate hard links, the author only seems to explain the consequences, not the reason for it. Anyone care to explain?!
Get the free Word Viewer, it does not execute macros and fully supports the file format, coming from MS itself. Never had a problem with it.
.DOC, or StarOffice. There also is some other command line tool whose name I cannot rememember (freshmeat.net, maybe?). So, there are several ways to avoid viruses and read the content. A hex viewer can be used as the last approach.
If you don't use Windows, try that Perl script that converts
Of course, once the document starts using extremely Windows-specific embedded stuff, you're lost.
And I also don't think that speed
I know slashdot is not objective all the time, but what exactly qualifies timothy to make generalizing statements about Java's portability or its alleged problems with inheritance (no idea what that is about)?! Please! You'd expect better from group who knows about prejudice concerning software. You know, Linux is hard to use, there are no applications, no support for most hardware, you cannot use it for real work etc. Java has not and never will be perfect, but it's steadily improving. And there are JDK's and JRE's from all sorts of organizations, so you can hardly say anything about Java's properties.
I think it's rare that you have to do a project that has to work under both Windows and Unix so that you'll have to make a choice on which of both to develop. If it's a pure Windows or Linux app, there's no reason to do it under the other OS. If complex tools are involved that must be used, again the choice has been made for you.
If cross-platform development is important, use the OS with the best tools available. Personally, I need a shell, a compiler and a good text editor for the stuff I write (not that I'm doing really big projects). They are available for Windows *and* Unix, so I just follow my personal taste and pick the one I like better.
Ada is a language to do /real/ software engineering, and it is used in many projects where human lifes depend on the programs. Usually, relatively many people with much experience work on those projects, producing very few lines of code (per time unit). For people to really learn it, they must spend a lot of time getting into software engineering plus all the other stuff you'll have to learn with any programming language. So, Ada may just not be what you're looking for. Doesn't mean it doesn't work for someone else. CS programs that merely teach PHP and C are a horrible idea to me. Any decent CS student will learn either one easily once they got the concepts behind software development. And hopefully they will have developed the skill to go around the usual traps created by C, assembly and all the other languages that don't offer advanced features.
I'm pretty sure software can't recognize porn, whatever the definition is.
But as an enterprise that forbids their employees to watch porn material, why not move a copy of each image file that comes over the network in a separate directory, also storing which computer requested it at what time.
I think it's sufficient to tell the employees that this is done and the 'image cache' browsed by a person on a regular basis.
Will it ever be available?! To everyone, not just some selected beta testers?
With the AVI / DivX codec and a DVD as source (not a TV capture or a crappy version filmed from a movie threater screen) you can make very nice-looking versions that fit on a CD-ROM. Try 'divx' on Gnutella (or IRC or whatever other distribution channel) and you'll come up with Galaxy Quest, The Matrix etc. Actually it's high-enough quality for your average computer monitor plus sound card.
/I/'d go for the DVD version, too! Way to much effort ;-)
So you can have a good quality movie at a size (600 MB) which people will download. Then again,
Use the Psion 5mx pro in combination with its Java Virtual Machine and mindterm, the GPL'd Java secure shell app. I guess that should work... Mindterm is linked on freshmeat.net and EPOC is one of the platforms the program was tested to run on.