Maybe it's a pipe-dream, but some sort of web-based IDE (for Java, or.NET, or even for QT or MFC, or whatever) would be an incredible thing for collaberative development across multiple locations. Imagine the boon to Open Source development to be able to have the whole world look at your project through an IDE, exactly the way all of the core developers see it (of course, there would be multiple layers of security built in). You could easily allow for code submission, which could then be approved by the core team.
These days, it seems that learning the IDE is more tricky than learning the language itself. If a single IDE gained worldwide acceptance based on its Web interface, there would be millions of developers suddenly all able to work together. They could all be instantly collaberating on 100% free software for 100% free platforms! Linux would become so innundated with quality software written by the masses that the shrink-wrap industry would go belly-up!
WEEE, the good, GOD-FEARING citizens of [insert state here] wish to express our extreme displeasure with your choice of legislature. Please remove it IMMEDIATELY. The fact that you are planning to vote yes just goes to prove that you are the leading ASSHOLE in the state.
Or maybe not. (And if you don't get the reference, too bad.)
Three paragraphs per page???
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I understand the need to maximize ad revenue, but this Heatseekerz.net is absurd! Perhaps someone can post a link about Serial ATA where we can read more than six words between page loads.
As far as the name "Serial ATA," it's a smart move. It will create the impression in people's mind that it's an "extention" or "enhancement" of standard ATA, without necessarily being backwards compatible at all. But, hey, once it gains market share, and the SATA drives start filling the shelves at Best Buy, it won't really matter.
Who does or doesn't control DNS names doesn't really affect my life or "my rights online" in general. It's a trivial issue. The Net will continue to work. Life will go on. I would find it just as concerning if some government-sponsored organization claimed that only it was allowed to control brand names of cat food!
I mean, sure, they shouldn't be allowed to do that, but LIFE GOES ON, people! Cat food will continue to be available on the shelves whether it's called "Whiskas" or "Meow Mix!"
I'm not saying ICANN isn't bad, it's just that putting it under "Your Rights Online" along with issues that REALLY DO affect our rights online (DMCA, Privacy, Encryption, etc.) is going a bit overboard. Don't you think?
George Romero didn't take the project?
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How about John Romero? It would have been fun to see flashy trailers, but see the movie, released three years behind schedule, contain no action and and be slow as molasses on the screen.
...first patented by researchers at the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Lab [...] Tom Furness, founder of the UW's Human Interface Technology Lab.
UW is the University of Wisconsin, not Washington. Just because you happen to register uw.edu first, does not make it right.
Why is it that EVERY ICANN story goes under the header "Your Rights Online?" Is ICANN censoring me? Are ICANN operatives busting down my door and confiscating my computer? Is ICANN preventing me from sharing files? If ICANN were dissolved tomorrow, would my life be affected in ANY WAY?
Yeah, ICANN is important to the future of the net, but "your rights online?"
Can you PLEASE add code that inserts line breaks to prevent page width abuse?
Ironically, the trolls are only hurting themselves by doing this. I ordinarily like to browse at -1, and chuckle at some of the inane trolls. When someone screws up the page width, I start reading at 0 so the page isn't all messed up. Thus, the trolls' audience is being depleted by page-width abusers.
Or maybe the page width abusers don't like the other trolls, and don't want people to read them? Troll-on-troll violence? Hmmm.
The overall utility of the Internet doesn't really sink in until I meet people who don't have it. I have a friend who has no computer, and lives 90 minutes from me. The everyday methods of contact that I take for granted just aren't available.
I want to drop her a quick message... but no e-mail to reach her.
Let her know how to get a quick bit of info on something... but no Web.
I have to rack up long distance charges to talk to her: no IM.
Email, the Web, and IM ALONE justify the purchase of a new computer (or even better, a $50 old one) and $20/mo dialup service. I can honestly say that life would be a real pain in the ass without the Net.
What you've just written is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read to it.
It would seem to me that IF Microsoft is going out of its way to develop a new FS, and IF that FS is not going to contain the copy-protection goodies that the entertainment industry is clamoring for, that Microsoft is basically thumbing its nose at the MPAA and RIAA, and siding fully with PC users and hardware manufacturers.
Until idiot instructors start using them as ordinary white boards. Lemmetellya, cleaning dry-erase marks off of a sophisticated piece of electronic equipment is not fun, and one of the many reasons I got out of classroom lab support (well, that, and I graduated from university).
3 K blackbody radiation, I'm guessing, falls into the ELF category. Peak wavelength is most likely in the order of kilometers. But it's STILL a wavelength, damnit!
Well, I guess that would be the distinction between the color of the universe and the color of space. The color of space is whatever wavelength is associated with 3 K. I'm thinking about things from the perspective of a viewer inside the universe, looking at an empty patch, rather than a viewer outside the universe, looking at the whole thing - which is nonsense, really, since there is no "outside the universe."
Use Plank's constant to find out what the peak wavelength at 3 degrees Kelvin (the cosmic bg temp) is. This is the color of the Universe, as it is the color you "see" in all directions (if your eyes could see this wavelength, that is).
I guess this is one of those examples of how C and UNIX kinda blur together. malloc() IS a system call. You are making a system request. It's also part of the standard C library. It's also a stardard part of the UNIX/POSIX specification. When you get down to that level where UNIX specification begins and C specification ends really doesn't matter. The two are one and the same.
...Kind of like saying a rule of thumb for picking a book on baking bread is to put it back if it doesn't mention flour...
malloc() is not *part* of C, merely a POSIX system call. Granted, it's about the most essential of system calls, but if your book is about C, and C alone, you can leave malloc() out. I guess.
It's nice to see Morpheus switch to a completely open source network, but Gnutella? With all its noisiness and scaling problems? If they could have switched its users over to openFT, it would have been the first completely open, decentralized, and scalable P2P network to gain wide usage.
I think you're missing the point. The reason/. is forced to do intrusive ads and subscriptions or close its doors is that there are.33M readers/day. If those.33M readers ALL head somewhere else, then that site will be forced to do intrusive ads and subscriptions or close its doors.
It's like everyone at Brothers all going to Red Shed because Brothers is too crowded and no one can get in. While it is true that the Shed does serve some wicked Long Islands, you're not solving the problem. An actual solution would be for everyone to split up and start hosting smaller house parties.
The ability for millions of Internet users to zap perfect copies of movies around the Net destroys the current business model of the movie industry. And I find very little reason to deny that claim.
That leaves the movie industry with two options (logically). Either prevent millions of Internet users from being able to zap perfect copies of movies around the Net, or change the business model of the industry. Both are fraught with problems.
Let's take on the topic of copy prevention. Essentially, it's not possible, as long as the PC in its current incarnation persists. You can encrypt media to the gills, but somewhere, somehow, in a PC, that media needs to be converted to a cleartext stream in order to be played. And anyone with a bit of technical know-how can capture that cleartext stream. The only way to prevent such copying is to embed copy prevention into the very lowest levels of hardware. Which will render the PC useless for doing anything useful. Besides, it precludes fair-use.
Next option: transmission prevention. Slightly more feasible. And with more of the broadband "biomass" being rounded up by a small number of media companies and telcos, this is probably the first avenue the MPAA is going to take in this battle. In six months to a year, most Morpheus users (for instance) will be forced by their ISPs to shut down their clients or lose their accounts. It's probably happening already. Sure, there will be a few maverick ISPs that don't play by the rules, but P2P filesharing systems become useless without a critical mass of users. Now, the MPAA will win the battle on this front, but at the cost of killing the biggest "killer app" to hit the Net since the browser. And at the cost of depriving Internet users from sharing perfectly legit files: stifling what could prove to be a huge revolution in human communication. Oh, well.
Of course, the other logical option would be for the movie industry to change its business model to something like TV: free and advert-driven. I don't know if this is possible, because I don't know much about business. But, I'll tell you this: destroying the PC or destroying the free exchange of ideas in a new an exciting medium, so that a few companies can keep their bottom line, is wrong.
JV:According to the Boston-based consulting firm Viant, some 350,000-plus films are being downloaded illegally every day. Some are still in theatrical exhibition when they are illegitimately recorded, mostly by those who use state-of-the-art university broadband systems.
State-of-the-art broadband? To what is he referring? Ethernet? T1/T3? Or some other technology that's 15+ years older than 56K modems?
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Maybe it's a pipe-dream, but some sort of web-based IDE (for Java, or .NET, or even for QT or MFC, or whatever) would be an incredible thing for collaberative development across multiple locations. Imagine the boon to Open Source development to be able to have the whole world look at your project through an IDE, exactly the way all of the core developers see it (of course, there would be multiple layers of security built in). You could easily allow for code submission, which could then be approved by the core team.
These days, it seems that learning the IDE is more tricky than learning the language itself. If a single IDE gained worldwide acceptance based on its Web interface, there would be millions of developers suddenly all able to work together. They could all be instantly collaberating on 100% free software for 100% free platforms! Linux would become so innundated with quality software written by the masses that the shrink-wrap industry would go belly-up!
Ok, I'll put down the pipe.
The fact that Blizzard is owned by MPAA member Vivendi/Universal is reason enough to boycott them.
Blizzard is part of Vivendi/Universal. Just want to make sure everyone knows this before handing their money over to a member of the MPAA.
How about this, for a letter:
WEEE, the good, GOD-FEARING citizens of [insert state here] wish to express our extreme displeasure with your choice of legislature. Please remove it IMMEDIATELY. The fact that you are planning to vote yes just goes to prove that you are the leading ASSHOLE in the state.
Or maybe not.
(And if you don't get the reference, too bad.)
As far as the name "Serial ATA," it's a smart move. It will create the impression in people's mind that it's an "extention" or "enhancement" of standard ATA, without necessarily being backwards compatible at all. But, hey, once it gains market share, and the SATA drives start filling the shelves at Best Buy, it won't really matter.
I mean, sure, they shouldn't be allowed to do that, but LIFE GOES ON, people! Cat food will continue to be available on the shelves whether it's called "Whiskas" or "Meow Mix!"
I'm not saying ICANN isn't bad, it's just that putting it under "Your Rights Online" along with issues that REALLY DO affect our rights online (DMCA, Privacy, Encryption, etc.) is going a bit overboard. Don't you think?
That would kick ass.
U. of Wisconsin predates U. of Washington by, what, thirty years? Therefore, we get first dibs on acronyms.
UW is the University of Wisconsin, not Washington. Just because you happen to register uw.edu first, does not make it right.
Yeah, ICANN is important to the future of the net, but "your rights online?"
Ironically, the trolls are only hurting themselves by doing this. I ordinarily like to browse at -1, and chuckle at some of the inane
trolls. When someone screws up the page width, I start reading at 0 so the page isn't all messed up. Thus, the trolls' audience is being
depleted by page-width abusers.
Or maybe the page width abusers don't like the other trolls, and don't want people to read them? Troll-on-troll violence? Hmmm.
I want to drop her a quick message... but no e-mail to reach her.
Let her know how to get a quick bit of info on something... but no Web.
I have to rack up long distance charges to talk to her: no IM.
Email, the Web, and IM ALONE justify the purchase of a new computer (or even better, a $50 old one) and $20/mo dialup service. I can honestly say that life would be a real pain in the ass without the Net.
What you've just written is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read to it.
Rather a good thing to know.
Until idiot instructors start using them as ordinary white boards. Lemmetellya, cleaning dry-erase marks off of a sophisticated piece of electronic equipment is not fun, and one of the many reasons I got out of classroom lab support (well, that, and I graduated from university).
3 K blackbody radiation, I'm guessing, falls into the ELF category. Peak wavelength is most likely in the order of kilometers. But it's STILL a wavelength, damnit!
Well, I guess that would be the distinction between the color of the universe and the color of space. The color of space is whatever wavelength is associated with 3 K. I'm thinking about things from the perspective of a viewer inside the universe, looking at an empty patch, rather than a viewer outside the universe, looking at the whole thing - which is nonsense, really, since there is no "outside the universe."
Use Plank's constant to find out what the peak wavelength at 3 degrees Kelvin (the cosmic bg temp) is. This is the color of the Universe, as it is the color you "see" in all directions (if your eyes could see this wavelength, that is).
I guess this is one of those examples of how C and UNIX kinda blur together. malloc() IS a system call. You are making a system request. It's also part of the standard C library. It's also a stardard part of the UNIX/POSIX specification. When you get down to that level where UNIX specification begins and C specification ends really doesn't matter. The two are one and the same.
malloc() is not *part* of C, merely a POSIX system call. Granted, it's about the most essential of system calls, but if your book is about C, and C alone, you can leave malloc() out. I guess.
A shame, really.
I didn't know Microsoft published a C book.
...or...
Just buy more memory. Memory is cheap.
It's like everyone at Brothers all going to Red Shed because Brothers is too crowded and no one can get in. While it is true that the Shed does serve some wicked Long Islands, you're not solving the problem. An actual solution would be for everyone to split up and start hosting smaller house parties.
The ability for millions of Internet users to zap perfect copies of movies around the Net destroys the current business model of the movie industry. And I find very little reason to deny that claim.
That leaves the movie industry with two options (logically). Either prevent millions of Internet users from being able to zap perfect copies of movies around the Net, or change the business model of the industry. Both are fraught with problems.
Let's take on the topic of copy prevention. Essentially, it's not possible, as long as the PC in its current incarnation persists. You can encrypt media to the gills, but somewhere, somehow, in a PC, that media needs to be converted to a cleartext stream in order to be played. And anyone with a bit of technical know-how can capture that cleartext stream. The only way to prevent such copying is to embed copy prevention into the very lowest levels of hardware. Which will render the PC useless for doing anything useful. Besides, it precludes fair-use.
Next option: transmission prevention. Slightly more feasible. And with more of the broadband "biomass" being rounded up by a small number of media companies and telcos, this is probably the first avenue the MPAA is going to take in this battle. In six months to a year, most Morpheus users (for instance) will be forced by their ISPs to shut down their clients or lose their accounts. It's probably happening already. Sure, there will be a few maverick ISPs that don't play by the rules, but P2P filesharing systems become useless without a critical mass of users. Now, the MPAA will win the battle on this front, but at the cost of killing the biggest "killer app" to hit the Net since the browser. And at the cost of depriving Internet users from sharing perfectly legit files: stifling what could prove to be a huge revolution in human communication. Oh, well.
Of course, the other logical option would be for the movie industry to change its business model to something like TV: free and advert-driven. I don't know if this is possible, because I don't know much about business. But, I'll tell you this: destroying the PC or destroying the free exchange of ideas in a new an exciting medium, so that a few companies can keep their bottom line, is wrong.
State-of-the-art broadband? To what is he referring? Ethernet? T1/T3?
Or some other technology that's 15+ years older than 56K modems?