Imagine being the owner of screw.us or suck.us and I can think of about a hundred more. Then you could sell a whole variety of pr0n subdomains to the highest bidder, I could imagine getting big bucks for the sub come.suck.us and teens.suck.us....
As a matter of fact the screw.us name would be great for political sites as well. How about government.screw.us?
Imagine a world where trademark didn't exist
A new world that harkens back to the medieval days of
Beowulf. A world with out the Cluster fscks that we find in Washington. New days Of pain for all Those poor souls.
You should not despair for the world of technology.
Said the C coder of the Java coder: "He doesn't even know what a pointer is!"
Said the Assembler coder of the C coder: "He doesn't even know what a register is"
Said the punch card coder of the Assembler coder: "He doesn't even know what the holes are for"
My point is not to disparage understanding of the assembler language. In fact, i think it IS very important for understanding the nuts and bolts of how the processor operates and interacts with other devices.
However, people have to realize that actually DOING anything with assembler is really not a good idea. There's SO many better ways to do things. Why would anyone NOT do it the better way?
I'm going through this same basic struggle in the university. And fortunately, my university, UCF does like to teach both. Our intro classes, well in fact, the classes called CS 1, 2 and 3 have been taught in a variety of languages, but are in Java now. But we still get a healthy dose of C and Assembler in courses such as Systems Software, OSes, and Comp Arch.
The problem I have with your statement is... well, I could care less about assembler code! The fact of the matter is that the only people that should care about it, or need it are the people that are writing the compilers, assemblers, linkers and loaders.
Granted, you can learn a lot about the nuts and bolts of the computer through Assembler language, but it's all about abstraction level. I wouldn't even begin to be able to tell you how to write a binary search tree in Assembler. I could do it blindfolded in Java or C++. The bin search tree is a simple ADT compared to others.
It's like this, if i know there's a function(or a method), and I know the X number of things that I have to pass it, and I know what it returns, do I have to muck with HOW it does it? Hell no! That's the beauty of java and any OO language. In assembler, you're almost guaranteed to have to muck with it. And muck with it for each different type of architecture you build for. The higher level languages let you program without all the tedious details.
Another form of advertising that i've seen recently that is even WORSE than the X10 popups is the adverts they have on MSN Zone! On this site, everytime you transition between major pages, instead of taking you to the target page, you end up at a page that says "This section brought to you by..." and has a half page ad. You have to click on a link to finish going to the target page. It SUCKS!!!!
As a former resident of the DR, I hope I can shed some light on this thread.
First off, the electric situation is terrible in that country. This is not just for the remote undeveloped rural regions. In the major metropolitan areas, even the capital city, Santo Domingo, just about everyone who can afford it has their own gas generator. Why? Because the power outages are frequent and of great duration. In the US, if the power goes out frequently, anywhere, (say like California recently) it makes front page news, people are crying out because "We were out of power for 4 HOURS last night!" In DR there are parts of the city where they measure the time the power is ON like that, not where it is off. It's more like "Woo Hoo, we had a full 6 hours of power today!"
The solution to this problem for many is gas generators. But these are really expensive to purchase, so it's the middle to upper class (who are vastly outnumbered by the lower class) that are able to buy them. These generators are also very expensive to operate, since gas isn't exactly cheap in the third world (like it is here, he says sarcastically) so most people can't have them or even operate them.
I believe the idea of solar panels to be a blessing for the country. Goodness knows that the government is corrupt, and the ruling class doesn't give a shit about the poor. It's a lack of will and cash that is preventing the outskirts from even being wired, and it's corruption that causes the places that ARE wired to remain dark. Solar panels are a way for the people to power themselves, cheaply. This has to be good.
I WAS just trying to be funny. I judge books by their covers ALL the time, as i'm sure just about everyone else does. It has to do with connecting to the book, if you can't connect, the book will be useless to you.
I agree about the sample reading. Some of the things I look for in the computer books that I buy are lots of code samples and good index. Naturally, cover art doesn't matter SO much with computer books as with other books... it would make sense that any coffee table type book damn well BETTER have a good cover.
It's a waste of bandwidth and it's very annoying. Connecting to any IRC network from a windoze box, you have to wait a long ass time for the ident to timeout.
Hell yeah! What's the Linux Photoshop alternative. It's the GIMP. Maybe not the best of names for a software package, but certainly original and thankfully, not GPhotoshop.
Well, here's a chance for everyone who didn't get in on the RedHat IPO and didn't make heaps of money in the first week to try again.:)
Well, not really... anyone who invests these days are taking some pretty decent risks with the market the way it is. OTOH, at the bottom, there's no place for the market to go but up, right??
Hopefully, since i'm down about 2 grand since last year.
Everyone is saying how it's so cool that they could run networking over the power grid. How could you all miss that the article was about IN HOME LAN networking via the wall power outlets.
While it would be cool to run broadband access over the already existing power lines, that's not what the article was about, nor does anyone suggest that's possible.
True, i get a whole slew of magazines completely free. eWeek and other Ziff-davis mags. All you have to do is fill out this survey, that basically convinces them that you are in charge of buying IT gear and they will give you a subscription for free, just so you can be influenced by their advertisements while you are buying new gear.
This is just like the heads up display that Apache (the helicopter, not the webserver) pilots have been using that has a little monocle deal attached to the helmet.
Yeah, i remember a slashdot story a while back that told of a hack to the nomad that would involve taking it's drive out and replacing it with a larger one. The best part of it was that the drive they removed from the nomad was just a standard Seagate IDE drive. All you need to do is get a larger Seagate drive, format it properly, then stick it in. Sure it voids the warranty, but it's still a cool hack.
When i was about in second grade some of the funnest things i remember doing were on their old Apple IIg (or IIgs or something like that). They actually had us, second grade students, doing programming. We used BASIC. Not to be confused with Visual Basic nor MS Qbasic, but the original BASIC... using line numbers and goto statements and all. I still remember that the acronym means 'Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code'. I also remember doing something that would have this little arrowhead thing... called a turtle... run around the screen and draw lines and figures. Our code would tell it to rotate a certain amount walk an amount, drop the pen (whereby it would start to draw a line) then move some (drawing the line) then lift pen. We would have to make little figures... like boxes and stars.
Now, i'm not suggesting that you make these kids do exclusively programming, but i trace my current interest in computers as a 22 year old college graduate back to when i was a second grader and had a chance to be a coder. Have them do at least something cool like that and maybe they'll be hooked for life.
Such a thing might be great, but i think you are forgetting the important precept to your arguement, that artists will get fed up with the labels.
Unfortunately, this won't happen.
The reason it will never happen is that all unsigned artists will do ANYTHING to become signed artists and signed artists will do ANYTHING to stay signed, even if it means working for nothing, being ass-raped by the labels' CEO daily and even selling their souls to satan. It's all about staying famous. Crap, even MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice are still on VH1 pleading for their fame.
The only artists that might matter in a pop-culture setting (like the one we live in, with MTV dominating the culture) are the signed artists. If they would ever choose to leave their label, it would be to follow a better deal from another label. If they don't have a strong corporation behind them, they aren't on MTV, nobody knows who they are and nobody returns their phone calls.
It's unfortunate this is the way things are, but to follow the trend today in using french, c'est la vie.
What you say is ALMOST true, i still very frequently hear on the news and radio people say "the n-word" instead.
Instead of reporting accurately, which no one will argue that news services DON'T really do, they serve a watered down version that no one will disapprove of. It sells more newspapers, and more people watch your TV program.
From the article:
The challenge for companies deploying a dynamic pricing application will be to make sure customers feel they have received a fair price. Customers may feel cheated if they discover that prices were lowered after they placed their orders.
You can rest assurred that if i buy a computer from Dell that the price goes down later THAT SAME DAY that i'm going to be pist and that i'm going to want the difference back. And that's bound to happen to a lot of people since the price is determined by what the in-stock and demand is like. Variables that are both being changed by my having made my purchase. Yes, i realize that both those variables will tend to push the price upwards, but then that's bound to piss someone off who saw a cheaper price earlier and then when he went to buy it was more expensive.
I think this is a pretty retarded idea, and i can't see how anyone like the marketing people at dell, and IBM that have marketing degrees or MBAs, and are supposedly smart people would think this is a good idea.
that on gnutella, MP3 sharing isn't even close to the no.1 type of file being traded. From personal observation (so, no, i don't have any statistics... would be nice if someone had some) pr0n is by far much more actively traded over gnutella. I don't know what percentage of said porn is copyrighted and therefore what percentage is infringing... but in any case, it's something that is not blatently illegal that is having more of a 'HERE LOOKIT WHAT I GOT TAKE IT ALL' factor.
Of course that's just because there isn't (to my knowledge) a Porn Industry Association of America. If they were to make a big deal about it, then maybe it would move from the quasi-legal category to the blatently illegal. Till then it's a valid use. Whether you morally approve of it or not.
OK, i guess i really SHOULD look at the website... on closer inspection (and looking at the mapquest map on the site) it reveals that the place is pretty much within the urban sprawl of Dallas. So that does seem reassuring. I was having images of some quite little hick town suddenly being over-run with tens of thousands of quake-playing geeks. It would be total chaos.
That it may be... but for a place that is expecting the number of gamers that will undoubtedly show up, it would make more sense to do it in some major city. Maybe Houston, or Austin. Hell, maybe even Las Vegas or LA.
The point is, does such a little city have the infrastructure to support something like this? ie Hotel space, restaurants and a convention center that's large enough? Or is Mesquite some sprawling metropolis that I have just never heard of before?
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Imagine being the owner of screw.us or suck.us and I can think of about a hundred more. Then you could sell a whole variety of pr0n subdomains to the highest bidder, I could imagine getting big bucks for the sub come.suck.us and teens.suck.us.... As a matter of fact the screw.us name would be great for political sites as well. How about government.screw.us?
A new world that harkens back to the medieval days of
Beowulf. A world with out the
Cluster fscks that we find in Washington. New days
Of pain for all
Those poor souls.
Bet a dollar they already exst.
Said the C coder of the Java coder: "He doesn't even know what a pointer is!"
Said the Assembler coder of the C coder: "He doesn't even know what a register is"
Said the punch card coder of the Assembler coder: "He doesn't even know what the holes are for"
My point is not to disparage understanding of the assembler language. In fact, i think it IS very important for understanding the nuts and bolts of how the processor operates and interacts with other devices.
However, people have to realize that actually DOING anything with assembler is really not a good idea. There's SO many better ways to do things. Why would anyone NOT do it the better way?
The problem I have with your statement is... well, I could care less about assembler code! The fact of the matter is that the only people that should care about it, or need it are the people that are writing the compilers, assemblers, linkers and loaders.
Granted, you can learn a lot about the nuts and bolts of the computer through Assembler language, but it's all about abstraction level. I wouldn't even begin to be able to tell you how to write a binary search tree in Assembler. I could do it blindfolded in Java or C++. The bin search tree is a simple ADT compared to others.
It's like this, if i know there's a function(or a method), and I know the X number of things that I have to pass it, and I know what it returns, do I have to muck with HOW it does it? Hell no! That's the beauty of java and any OO language. In assembler, you're almost guaranteed to have to muck with it. And muck with it for each different type of architecture you build for. The higher level languages let you program without all the tedious details.
First off, the electric situation is terrible in that country. This is not just for the remote undeveloped rural regions. In the major metropolitan areas, even the capital city, Santo Domingo, just about everyone who can afford it has their own gas generator. Why? Because the power outages are frequent and of great duration. In the US, if the power goes out frequently, anywhere, (say like California recently) it makes front page news, people are crying out because "We were out of power for 4 HOURS last night!" In DR there are parts of the city where they measure the time the power is ON like that, not where it is off. It's more like "Woo Hoo, we had a full 6 hours of power today!" The solution to this problem for many is gas generators. But these are really expensive to purchase, so it's the middle to upper class (who are vastly outnumbered by the lower class) that are able to buy them. These generators are also very expensive to operate, since gas isn't exactly cheap in the third world (like it is here, he says sarcastically) so most people can't have them or even operate them.
I believe the idea of solar panels to be a blessing for the country. Goodness knows that the government is corrupt, and the ruling class doesn't give a shit about the poor. It's a lack of will and cash that is preventing the outskirts from even being wired, and it's corruption that causes the places that ARE wired to remain dark. Solar panels are a way for the people to power themselves, cheaply. This has to be good.
Isn't that just SO like a lawyer, to want to get paid for his work, i mean sheesh, what arrogance.
But seriously, you think Adobe would pitch in the 2k to get the lawyer to shut up and everyone would be happy.
I agree about the sample reading. Some of the things I look for in the computer books that I buy are lots of code samples and good index. Naturally, cover art doesn't matter SO much with computer books as with other books... it would make sense that any coffee table type book damn well BETTER have a good cover.
Does anyone need to bring up the old adage "don't judge a book by it's cover?
It's a waste of time AND bandwidth.
Hell yeah! What's the Linux Photoshop alternative. It's the GIMP. Maybe not the best of names for a software package, but certainly original and thankfully, not GPhotoshop.
Well, not really... anyone who invests these days are taking some pretty decent risks with the market the way it is. OTOH, at the bottom, there's no place for the market to go but up, right??
Hopefully, since i'm down about 2 grand since last year.
While it would be cool to run broadband access over the already existing power lines, that's not what the article was about, nor does anyone suggest that's possible.
True, i get a whole slew of magazines completely free. eWeek and other Ziff-davis mags. All you have to do is fill out this survey, that basically convinces them that you are in charge of buying IT gear and they will give you a subscription for free, just so you can be influenced by their advertisements while you are buying new gear.
Maybe, but you'll have to look at it in 32-bit colours.
Well, i think. Anyone else know?
Yeah, i remember a slashdot story a while back that told of a hack to the nomad that would involve taking it's drive out and replacing it with a larger one. The best part of it was that the drive they removed from the nomad was just a standard Seagate IDE drive. All you need to do is get a larger Seagate drive, format it properly, then stick it in. Sure it voids the warranty, but it's still a cool hack.
Now, i'm not suggesting that you make these kids do exclusively programming, but i trace my current interest in computers as a 22 year old college graduate back to when i was a second grader and had a chance to be a coder. Have them do at least something cool like that and maybe they'll be hooked for life.
Unfortunately, this won't happen.
The reason it will never happen is that all unsigned artists will do ANYTHING to become signed artists and signed artists will do ANYTHING to stay signed, even if it means working for nothing, being ass-raped by the labels' CEO daily and even selling their souls to satan. It's all about staying famous. Crap, even MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice are still on VH1 pleading for their fame.
The only artists that might matter in a pop-culture setting (like the one we live in, with MTV dominating the culture) are the signed artists. If they would ever choose to leave their label, it would be to follow a better deal from another label. If they don't have a strong corporation behind them, they aren't on MTV, nobody knows who they are and nobody returns their phone calls.
It's unfortunate this is the way things are, but to follow the trend today in using french, c'est la vie.
Instead of reporting accurately, which no one will argue that news services DON'T really do, they serve a watered down version that no one will disapprove of. It sells more newspapers, and more people watch your TV program.
You can rest assurred that if i buy a computer from Dell that the price goes down later THAT SAME DAY that i'm going to be pist and that i'm going to want the difference back. And that's bound to happen to a lot of people since the price is determined by what the in-stock and demand is like. Variables that are both being changed by my having made my purchase. Yes, i realize that both those variables will tend to push the price upwards, but then that's bound to piss someone off who saw a cheaper price earlier and then when he went to buy it was more expensive.
I think this is a pretty retarded idea, and i can't see how anyone like the marketing people at dell, and IBM that have marketing degrees or MBAs, and are supposedly smart people would think this is a good idea.
Of course that's just because there isn't (to my knowledge) a Porn Industry Association of America. If they were to make a big deal about it, then maybe it would move from the quasi-legal category to the blatently illegal. Till then it's a valid use. Whether you morally approve of it or not.
OK, i guess i really SHOULD look at the website... on closer inspection (and looking at the mapquest map on the site) it reveals that the place is pretty much within the urban sprawl of Dallas. So that does seem reassuring. I was having images of some quite little hick town suddenly being over-run with tens of thousands of quake-playing geeks. It would be total chaos.
The point is, does such a little city have the infrastructure to support something like this? ie Hotel space, restaurants and a convention center that's large enough? Or is Mesquite some sprawling metropolis that I have just never heard of before?