I found the C API to be very well documented, and the examples I found on the web were fairly concice and illustrative. Why anyone would want to burden their server with modules written in Perl is beyond me though. ---- Dave All hail Discordia!
You take money out of your account and put it on the card. You no longer earn interest on that money. You don;t spend it for a week, and the bank pockets the cash! Multiply this by the ~20000 students and hey, thats a tidy profit.
True, but do you really worry about the interest you make in your *checking* account? Even in Scotland, if memory serves, the interest on these types of accounts is so negligible that it barely covers account maintennance fees.
As for the new cards, I'd have to say that if implemented correctly, this could take a big chunk out of credit card fraud. Adding even a simple digital signature routine to CC transactions will make fraud and/or forgery that much more difficult to pursue.
Hmm... let's see... cost of purchasing a laptop to act as an mp3 player, plus hard drive big enough to hold a decent amount of mp3's... minimum of what, $2k, or so? Or I could spend the $88 on the broadcast unit and spend the money saved on something useful.
Let's just wait a minute here... some points: Linux is a free operating system. Sun's isn't. Both can be considered "server class" operating systems. Why are people using Linux? Because it doesn't cost an arm and a leg, require costly hardware and service agreements, and so forth and so on. Why do people buy Sun stuff? It's a respected company and blah blah blah. Linux users are smarter than that. And there's no way in hell that Sun could get away charging I believe the figure quoted was $35k per CPU or something insane like that for a web server when a perfectly viable, FREE solution exists for linux, one that'll stand up just as well as Netscape Enterprise server. So they're just going back to targeting the PHB market who live and breathe "You get what you pay for". Makes sense, in a sick sort of way. - Dave
No no you don't understand.... when it's a bunch of 16 year olds producing something like BO2K, it's "bad". But when Microsoft produces something else, it's "productivity software". Of course, I'm sure people will continue to buy SMS... hell, why get something for nothing when you can pay alot of money for the same thing??? - Dave
I find it rather interesting that the article chooses to focus on the fact that OSS also improve the speed and facility with which viruses are developed... and yet failing to mention that the same viruses, and all 'mutations' thereof would quickly cease to be effective against an OSS operating system. Just my $0.02
Since when has MTV had anything to do with music? I thought all they did these days was peddle moronic game-shows, chat-shows, 'real life' shows, commercials, cartoons, and maybe one music video snuck in somewhere in between, at 3 am or something like that. But, ranting about MTV's lameness aside, I have to say that this is a pretty encouraging step for the acceptance of digital music as a legitimate use, instead of just a mass-piracy scene that the RIAA seems to be so concerned about. I don't know enought about SDMI standards/goals to make a judgement about that, but if it makes them happy and makes 'net distributed music less of a boogeyman, I say all for it. And of course, for the naysayers, there will always be mp3, so don't get your panties in a knot... nobody's gonna make you buy MTV's music at gunpoint.
Hackers, crackers, whatever Commercial News Network decides to call them, it's a bloody farce. Those "hackers" sounded to me more like all those goth people who run around saying "I'm a vampire" when Interview w/ a Vampire came out and it was all trendy.. now Hackers (the movie) comes out and a few other flicks and suddenly being a hacker's the in thing:-P Hopefully some new fad comes out soon so they go away, quit giving all us real hackers a bad name.
You know, I seem to remember reading this guys article (linked from here, of course) about the dangers inherent in the OSS model... if I remember right, it was basically someone putting a back door in some open source software. (I didn't bother to re-read it because the guy's whiny tone put me off) If he can't handle a few flames than he's too sensitive or something, this is an open forum, flames happen;-P As I remember, the premise of his argument was laughable anyways and showed a complete lack of understanding in the OSS development process.
Apple obviously wants to jump on the OpenSource bandwagon.. and for what it's worth I say more power to 'em. I've always like Apple GUI's, and OS X isn't an exception. However, for Apple's sake, I hope it listens to the criticisms of the Opensource community. Apple is perfectly within its rights to say "This is our license, like it or don't use it" just like everyone else, however, since Apple seems to be making an honest attempt at an OpenSource OS, let's hope they dont' get discouraged or even frightened off by some hard-line whiners. I guess it boils down to "Will they bend or shatter?"
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I found the C API to be very well documented, and the examples I found on the web were fairly concice and illustrative. Why anyone would want to burden their server with modules written in Perl is beyond me though.
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Dave
All hail Discordia!
You take money out of your account and put it on the card. You no longer earn interest on that money. You don;t spend it for a week, and the bank pockets the cash! Multiply this by the ~20000 students and hey, thats a tidy profit.
True, but do you really worry about the interest you make in your *checking* account? Even in Scotland, if memory serves, the interest on these types of accounts is so negligible that it barely covers account maintennance fees.
As for the new cards, I'd have to say that if implemented correctly, this could take a big chunk out of credit card fraud. Adding even a simple digital signature routine to CC transactions will make fraud and/or forgery that much more difficult to pursue.
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Dave
All hail Discordia!
Et voici la plume de ma tante!
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Dave
All hail Discordia!
No way... every true fan knows it's pronounced "Gatchaman" ;-)
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Dave
All hail Discordia!
Hmm... let's see... cost of purchasing a laptop to act as an mp3 player, plus hard drive big enough to hold a decent amount of mp3's... minimum of what, $2k, or so? Or I could spend the $88 on the broadcast unit and spend the money saved on something useful.
- Dave
"Take what thou hast and give it to the poor."
How about we just send the spammers into space, instead? Please?
- Dave
"Take what thou hast and give it to the poor."
Let's just wait a minute here... some points: Linux is a free operating system. Sun's isn't. Both can be considered "server class" operating systems. Why are people using Linux? Because it doesn't cost an arm and a leg, require costly hardware and service agreements, and so forth and so on. Why do people buy Sun stuff? It's a respected company and blah blah blah. Linux users are smarter than that. And there's no way in hell that Sun could get away charging I believe the figure quoted was $35k per CPU or something insane like that for a web server when a perfectly viable, FREE solution exists for linux, one that'll stand up just as well as Netscape Enterprise server. So they're just going back to targeting the PHB market who live and breathe "You get what you pay for". Makes sense, in a sick sort of way.
- Dave
"Take what thou hast and give it to the poor."
No no you don't understand.... when it's a bunch of 16 year olds producing something like BO2K, it's "bad". But when Microsoft produces something else, it's "productivity software". Of course, I'm sure people will continue to buy SMS... hell, why get something for nothing when you can pay alot of money for the same thing???
- Dave
"Take what thou hast and give it to the poor."
I find it rather interesting that the article chooses to focus on the fact that OSS also improve the speed and facility with which viruses are developed... and yet failing to mention that the same viruses, and all 'mutations' thereof would quickly cease to be effective against an OSS operating system. Just my $0.02
- Dave
"Take what thou hast and give it to the poor."
Since when has MTV had anything to do with music? I thought all they did these days was peddle moronic game-shows, chat-shows, 'real life' shows, commercials, cartoons, and maybe one music video snuck in somewhere in between, at 3 am or something like that. But, ranting about MTV's lameness aside, I have to say that this is a pretty encouraging step for the acceptance of digital music as a legitimate use, instead of just a mass-piracy scene that the RIAA seems to be so concerned about. I don't know enought about SDMI standards/goals to make a judgement about that, but if it makes them happy and makes 'net distributed music less of a boogeyman, I say all for it. And of course, for the naysayers, there will always be mp3, so don't get your panties in a knot... nobody's gonna make you buy MTV's music at gunpoint.
Just my $0.02
- Dave
"Take what thou hast and give it to the poor."
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Hackers, crackers, whatever Commercial News Network decides to call them, it's a bloody farce. Those "hackers" sounded to me more like all those goth people who run around saying "I'm a vampire" when Interview w/ a Vampire came out and it was all trendy.. now Hackers (the movie) comes out and a few other flicks and suddenly being a hacker's the in thing :-P Hopefully some new fad comes out soon so they go away, quit giving all us real hackers a bad name.
You know, I seem to remember reading this guys article (linked from here, of course) about the dangers inherent in the OSS model... if I remember right, it was basically someone putting a back door in some open source software. (I didn't bother to re-read it because the guy's whiny tone put me off) If he can't handle a few flames than he's too sensitive or something, this is an open forum, flames happen ;-P As I remember, the premise of his argument was laughable anyways and showed a complete lack of understanding in the OSS development process.
Apple obviously wants to jump on the OpenSource bandwagon.. and for what it's worth I say more power to 'em. I've always like Apple GUI's, and OS X isn't an exception. However, for Apple's sake, I hope it listens to the criticisms of the Opensource community. Apple is perfectly within its rights to say "This is our license, like it or don't use it" just like everyone else, however, since Apple seems to be making an honest attempt at an OpenSource OS, let's hope they dont' get discouraged or even frightened off by some hard-line whiners. I guess it boils down to "Will they bend or shatter?"