Ok, so, it looks like the guys at National Console Support are already figuring out how to make the thing play USA/JPN games, Im assuming since thats their business. Cool itll play full sized DVD disks, nice on the AntiPiracy side so what, not every game junkie thief has a DVDR sitting around (or am I wrong ?!!??) Soon yes but not yet, this isnt the same as writing over on a CDR,
How different is the small format , since their written from the inside out couldnt you cut down a DVDR after its burnt , or better yet interface a full size dvd
Ant Piracy will last all of about 6 weeks with this, Its a fact, hell the harder they make it the more of a challenge it is, the more succeptible to hardcore crackers trying to find a way around it.
I am 32 now, I started coding in 1978 on my OSI 1 , a 6502 kit. From there to a Kaypro, and then Kaypro2, along side my first IBM in 81 followed by a victor 9000 in 84 to shit I lost track after that. Point is Ive been coding for a while , Alot in assy some c, most recently a slew of other stuff, I have between 20-40 gigs of raw code on my dev machine that I wrote over the last 10 years....
Then again I had this drinking think for a while maybe youre right and I fried a neuron too many.
You mean to tell me If I showed you a tic tac toe game you wrote 20+ years ago you could tell me DEFINITIVLEY it was yours ?
I agree with the recycle concept of obsolete software, there are a few companies that do this, ID Software as mentioned here last week, and a few others,
Many companies , especially smaller ones have issues releasing their code even after their demise because of Ego issues, yes Ego, they write stuuf and will sell it , and some of it is a lame horrid hack. Even if it isnt people are afraid of rejection of their coding practices,
Dont belive me, ask some people over at sun what it was like when they made their source avaiable, developers panicked, at the thought of open review of their code, I saw so much code bashing BEFORE a single line was released I thought shit, anyone ever get to my code Im in trouble:) People actually feared for not only their status after peer review but their jobs as well.
Granted It may be different when a company dumps into ch11 but not a whole lot, Ive written code I am truly proud of , the stuff that people I think are out of my league have said I dont know how it can work, thats one of the nicest pieces of code Ive ever seen......AND Ive written code I myself looked at 5 years later and yelled who wrote this shit, only to see it was me...
I wouldnt want that code out there....(well some of it is....anyone running Apache on Windows:)
I am a Gnome user, and athough I am NOT a sky is falling person, KDE seems to be making much more usefull strides, I am also concerned about the Ximian fork, (even though I use it) How long till XImian hack up all the libs to work for their effort and how compatible will it be ?
I have thought about switching to KDE for no other reason than they seem to have a much better, much more focused direction.
Does it seem to anyone else latley Gnome is becoming a throw in everything and if the kitchen sink dosent work its OK, or is it just me.
Admittedly Gnome 2 has some nice stuff but how much will be functional by first release ?
Jobs reminds me of one of those late night infomercial guys when it come to hype....
Hey wasnt a lot of the hype behind the scooter thing the segway created by jobs and bezos ?
Kinda reminded me of Geraldo and Capones vault,
I hope for Apple the MacWorld expo isnt another one of Jobs hype jobs like my last foray into apple land, I bought a Lisa..... (Yep I am one of those dumbasses) But it looked cool, it was all hyped up and it was a company dollar.
Although Apple seems to have the wold by the ass on a downhill run when it comes to their products latley, they could probably release an electric can operer add fire wire and sell the hell out of em....
I agree with the article poster on combination issues, sooooooo, what about a drawing addition, it shows you a piece of abstract art and you draw (ala Graffiti style) your interpretation......
Oh wait , thats no good, all the guys will be drawing boobs and all the girls cats......Hmm Ok weve got our combinations down to 2, what not that is reached this level of sophistication and security MS will buy the patent for sure......
Seriouly keep working on it guys it could be cool.
Now, first I am a beliver in adaptive evolution, how far that can go , I am am not sure and I am CERTAIN noone is.
Something that always puzzeled me in the search for milestones of genetic evolution is why the evolutionists look to the living things ? I mean if they evolved why the hell are they still around ??
I can see in macro enviroments, austrailla, the galapagos etc, but comn people.
Ok, so this is "genetic link between primordial pond scum" hmmm we have genes of primordial pond scumm ? cool, tha means Jurrasic Park is a possibility.....ZZZZZZZTTTT
Ok well....
"the closest living relative"......ZZTTTTTTTT
Closest hell, do these people even know how few genes seperate any living animal ?
All conjecture, all of it and not really based on any scientific eveindece of weight....conjecture.
"Missing Link Solves Plant Kingdom Mystery".....back to the title, soles jack and sh*t and jack left town.....Its all conjecture, how does conjecture "SOLVE" anything.......
I am sick of hearing people ramble on this is related to that , yada yada yada, until I can get a spare liver grown in a pile of moss its ueless anyhow.
Id like to see advances made in this arena , but real ones, not guesses and conjecture to be doled out as scientific fact as the title would lead a layperson to belive.
Actually the reason I query is , MPlayer CAN use the DeCSS lib and some other niceties theat the MPAA/RIAA consider violations of the DCMA , Sites have been forced to remove content and links to that same code, here is a program that usess, and links (In more ways than one) to that very code they would like removed from the face of the earth, no you and I both know that is impossible.....hm what to do........Hey I got it target the projects that make use of the code !,
If you think the MPAA/RIAA are ONLY concerned about stopping piracy you are the one who is misinformed, yes it is a concern to them and a main one, its about making MONEY period and the Artists themselves know this. BEYOND piracy are ownership issues that are being fought out even no. The RIAA/MPAA is a party to this as well. CONTROL is another issue the RIAA is driven twoard, the DeCSS, (or POSSIBLE use of that code MUST be unacceptable to them) otherwise why go to the lengths in cutting links and removing code thus far ?
That is why I was curios, if they had any legal flak as of yet or if they are even succeptable , MPlayer being in.hu realm, No need to rant I am aware of EXACTLY what the legal issues involved here are, I was mainly curious about juridiction.
Have you built MPlayer , RECENTLY with ALL the options under 2.96 (All updated) ????
I have TWICE 2 DIFFERENT Machines, Its SCREWY as hell, SCREWEY is a technical term that means just plain act strange, crashed, skitters, all kinds of wierdness, on occasion, sometimes its fine,
I built it with 3... and guess what NO PROBLEMS that I had with the RH 2.96 on the SAME MACHINE.
Work great with one, work schitzy with the one they warn you about.....hmmmm.......
I have to say MPlayer and the folks working on it have done a great job, It is really nice stuff, although I think the project would benifift from a refined build process, building it with all the dependencies can be a bit of fun the first time around, divx, dvd, blah blah blah. I dont know if there is a simpole method of doing this with all the complie options.
I really love the GCC 2.96 RedHat warning, if you havent built it yet, HEED that warning.
Is there no chance the RIAA et al can shut this down being out of hungary? I hope not its becoming a wonderful piece of software.
Thats funny, if a "Rouge" nation had the technology in place to do this Id bet they would in fact be at the forfront on bio-genetic pharmacudicals and in no need of cash, they would be respected and would have an obviously educated populus, poverty and dispair uneducation / along with a few nuts for flavoring is the recipe for terrorism.
I went to an OEM system builder confrerence to get my free copy of XP Pro, (I got 2) And promptly traded them for a really cool digital slot Machine/ Pachinko, but notheless, we were playing with it at the conference and I asked one of the tech about security risk associated with their Mini Terminal server that is built into XP to allow someone to "Guid" you through something or "FIX" whatever ails your XP machine remotley, nice feature as us *nix folks have been doing for years, we started discussing alternative ways of enabling the RC feautures and Guess what....Guess what the MS guys already Knew about this one , although details were a little fuzzy, Was this a BUG, or a planned backdoor they just got caught on ?
I saw the same thing with IBM before, they had a product that was an login access restriction device , kept only keyed users from logging in, powering up or down, or bypassing via CRT port, and a couple of other function a Janitor from IBM cleaning up the booth at COMDEX late showed us how to bypass it in 0 time, unreal...Point is even thought it was new to the public the Guys at IBM had it around for a while and even the Janitor knew a way around it , the top guys at IBM knew it too, soooo some pictures (at the IBM booth and our friendly Janitor) and guess what IBM pulled the product line, good for us because we were selling a competing product to the FBI, CIA, Univerity's and Airlines...:)
could this be the same scenario, its been there and know all along ?
The methodology is bogus, hell how many Linux system hits does slashdot get , then how many does say MS or MSN or MSNBC get ?
I use it and thats all that matters, I am happy, I am also not a frothing at the mouth Linux Preacher, If theyre smart enough to use it great, if not so what, I dont run around telling people what TV to buy or car to drive, let them choose, education is one thing but cmon.
I typically see about 10% *NIX hits on 40 websites I host at about a million users a month total , thats High, But Im also dealing with a lot of companies that do some serious engineering. hence Unix....
Linux is great, it can do everything I need it to well, and better than windows, its free and stable. I use it at home and work, but theyre are clients that I would suggest NEVER use it, they couldnt possibly use it effectivley, and would in fact become less productive. Why am I going to tell my customers to be less productive ? If someone dosent belive you they probably never will, human nature is such that even when a person is proven wrong they still wont change, people are stubborn.
The Judge was acting on behalf of the individuals this orginization purports to SERVE, thats right SERVE, The American Indians were the ones asking for it to be shut down. The Goverment serves the people PERIOD, The fact that they atually dont care about them is a different case entirley. The goverment CANNOT harm or through inaction allow harm to be done to its citizens, if it will not voluntarily do this then the Judicial Branch is a last resort, and guess what , it worked. If Social Security or the IRS computers were WIDE open and the Govt wasnt doing anything about it how long would it be before a Judge ordered that shut down ?
I have very eclectic musical tastes, from Beethoven to Sisters of Mercy, Tenesee Ford, Warren Zevon, Bob Segar yada yada ya...
I had a cd collection once it got stolen, I havent replaced it since, I have a few favorite songs Ive rebought CDs for but in general to build a 100 song collection of stuf I like would cost me a freaking fortune. Id buy into this, its a RENTAL agreement, you rent movies you like enough to see once or twice but dont buy them, same thing here... Songs youre NEVER going to hear on the radio, might like to listen for a fw times then..gone...
Then again Im told I have ADD so I get bored quickly , maybe this idea just fits my midset.
Yes, in a rental agreement they can do just that, If you are no longer renting it you have no fair use rights associated with that item.
Its no different than renting a video, If you rental is expired you return the video, theres obvioulsy no way to make you return an MP3, so it is encrypted and only plays while a member of the service.
I seem to remeber a way (Yes this is from back in the late 80's) to check for an active software keystroke logger using the echo effec, same bytes wrtitten elsewhere, although admittedly this wouldnt work if the software encrypts the output, it probably does. BUT couldnt you use the same principal, nothing else running, one app is catchin bit on every keystroke Voila, theres your logger ? anyone else remeber this , BYTE magazine perhaps.
No seriously, Ive worked at 4 main places the last 8 years, the first a small upstart with a younger owner, it was great, we would all go to the gym and play basketball at lunch, come over each others houses on a regular basis, hang out yeah all the good stuff. It was nice and probably one of the reasons I stayed as long as I did, the pay was mediocre at best, but it was the same for everyone we were small and starting, the company did well and has weathered the IT storm very well, I still keep in contact with all my old cronies and boss on a reqular basis
And the other 3 well not soo much
The last company I worked at withing my dept.We were all kinda close knit, we were sysadmins and developers and we still talk and hang out on occasion.
The one thing I have noticed is youre much more likley to form an out of work bond if none of your duties overlap completley, we never stepped on each others toes, someone could always ask and often did for help or a better way, but no one ever forced their ways on someone else.
Besides
whos else is going to give a rats ass about most of the geed speak us socially malformed geeks spew, our wives , yeah right , our family, depends, the only other people that think this stuff is cool is another geek....
What you've resorted to plagarism of my poorly spelled rant ?
Least you could have done was fix my spelling errors, I suck at spelling. and math, thats why I became a programmer. With the minor sytax changes in C# I should be right on course from my C++ typos....
And to the MODERATORS , I AM THE ORIGINAL AUTOR OF THIS ARTICLE !!!, be kind....
Language wars abound, and I have no interest in propogating another.But truth is Java has become bloated far beyond its original design as a tv box controller. The best comparison I heard was Java was C without the corners, just like basic is fortran without the corners. C# seems more to me like the best of Java and C++ without many of the sharpest corners. I work in a split development world 1/2 *nix and 1/2 Win32 , none of us slashdotter want to acknowlege it but most of the desktop world is on windows, so to write a Win32 app your most viable options have been C, VB or some other monstrosity on a Win32 box like Java, have you ever tried to run a half a million line Desktop Java app on windows. Or to throw a Java app together in a nice pretty IDIOT proof installer so that the person who thinks a CDROM is a coffe cup holder can install it with one of the nice pretty MS installers, Java in those aspects , well...it sucks .... Of all the MSVC programmers I worked with once they all had a good chance to work with C# they said theyll never write another line of C++ again. For the windows platform it may indeed be great stuff, the one thing that piques my interest is its cross plattform future. MS included help files and other pices parts refrence Linux, no whether its MS or someone like Ximian with their mono project. The C# stuff is definatley cool. native speed and you can writer in any of the dot net languages you want VB C# and yes TCL and PERL have ports to the Dot NET runtimes, heres the deal even M$ says it, from a performance standpoint on a Win32 machine they will all run the same the language choice will be a matter of style.
Some slashdotters out ther perpetually bash MS and I do too from time to time, I run Linux at work and home, but the fact is Im in computers to make money PERIOD, If I could make a living out of racing my motorcycles full time Id never touch a computer again other than to surf for parts or events.
To the ends of making money at computers, C# will do great I am sure , the coders I know that have actually worked with it on a daily basis love it, and to all the NAYSAYERS out there that say "Oh just another MS product to have bugs" sure probably but the wholde of the VS 7 IDE and tools are written in C# , Im sure by the time its released it'll be pretty good. And best of all it will make ME MONEY, I write desktop apps , if its quicker and easier.more interoperable, which it is it has full inheretence.Im all for it. The fact that 3rd parties are already vigilantly porting the runtime to *nix systems tells you its not another Bob
MS languages for the most part run superbly on MS systems, they suppert both sides of the enviroment. Guess what C# is another example, in XP there are already kernel optimization routines for the DotNET stuff,
If you HAD to program and app for a MS system in a MS language, which would you preffer, C++, VB, VFP, well..... Or C# that even C++ programmers who use it on a regular basis say , (and from experience it does) rocks as far as MS languages go.
This is all nice, but if we have to go to all the effort to reinvent the wheel , why not go all the way, I mean if we have to come up with all new components and software why no go the Analog route ?
Digital computing gained popularity for many reasons, cost effective to build, easy to program, with the state of current electronics this is no longer neccesarly the case but we there ,
Analog copmuting has many advantages over digital computing, especially in the AI arena, Since there can never be a digital concept of infinity Rockets in the beggining were put into orbit using ANALOG computers, there is a reason, accuracy to the nth factor.
I played around with analog computing in the 70-early 80's cool stuff if more would have been available, fact wsas everyone was happy with their 8 bit pc.
Trinary computing sounds a little like taking something that was settled on in the first place and resettling again I mean come on isnt the goal of computing to have a supercomputer take control of our national defense grid when it becomes sentient ?
Weel, if a spallpox epidemeic does break out we could always vaccinate ourselves, comn the did it first in what 1711 , find someone that has survived it but still has pustules, scratch your skin and rub.....well then again the first guy who tried this
son died a few years later from tuberculosis contracted from the pus donor. and he followed shortly after.....turns out syphilis was spread during a time more through smallpox vaccination than sexual contact....then again forget it Im a lucky bastard 70 % is good odds right ?
But seriously, if an epidemic were to break out why not, after screening of the donor, use the same methods the used nearly 300 years ago, off the shelf vaccine may be in short supply now , but could you imagine if an epidemic did hit ?
God knows all the politicians, doctors, lawyers would get "Priority"
Could you imagine a world where the only healthy individuals are Politicians,Layers, and Cops ?
Slashdot Mirror
Oops I was wrong ...
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THERE ARE ALREADY CONVERTED Q consoles for sale on Ebay....
USA/JP game ready...
STRIKE 6 WEEKS
INSERT 6 MINUTES
So much for anti piracy, since the JP are full sized
Ok, so, it looks like the guys at National Console Support are already figuring out how to make the thing play USA/JPN games, Im assuming since thats their business. Cool itll play full sized DVD disks, nice on the AntiPiracy side so what, not every game junkie thief has a DVDR sitting around (or am I wrong ?!!??) Soon yes but not yet, this isnt the same as writing over on a CDR,
How different is the small format , since their written from the inside out couldnt you cut down a DVDR after its burnt , or better yet interface a full size dvd
Ant Piracy will last all of about 6 weeks with this, Its a fact, hell the harder they make it the more of a challenge it is, the more succeptible to hardcore crackers trying to find a way around it.
I am 32 now, I started coding in 1978 on my OSI 1 , a 6502 kit. From there to a Kaypro, and then Kaypro2, along side my first IBM in 81 followed by a victor 9000 in 84 to shit I lost track after that. Point is Ive been coding for a while , Alot in assy some c, most recently a slew of other stuff, I have between 20-40 gigs of raw code on my dev machine that I wrote over the last 10 years....
Then again I had this drinking think for a while maybe youre right and I fried a neuron too many.
You mean to tell me If I showed you a tic tac toe game you wrote 20+ years ago you could tell me DEFINITIVLEY it was yours ?
I agree with the recycle concept of obsolete software, there are a few companies that do this, ID Software as mentioned here last week, and a few others,
:) People actually feared for not only their status after peer review but their jobs as well.
:)
Many companies , especially smaller ones have issues releasing their code even after their demise because of Ego issues, yes Ego, they write stuuf and will sell it , and some of it is a lame horrid hack. Even if it isnt people are afraid of rejection of their coding practices,
Dont belive me, ask some people over at sun what it was like when they made their source avaiable, developers panicked, at the thought of open review of their code, I saw so much code bashing BEFORE a single line was released I thought shit, anyone ever get to my code Im in trouble
Granted It may be different when a company dumps into ch11 but not a whole lot, Ive written code I am truly proud of , the stuff that people I think are out of my league have said I dont know how it can work, thats one of the nicest pieces of code Ive ever seen......AND Ive written code I myself looked at 5 years later and yelled who wrote this shit, only to see it was me...
I wouldnt want that code out there....(well some of it is....anyone running Apache on Windows
Ego.....makes the world go round.....
I am a Gnome user, and athough I am NOT a sky is falling person, KDE seems to be making much more usefull strides, I am also concerned about the Ximian fork, (even though I use it) How long till XImian hack up all the libs to work for their effort and how compatible will it be ?
I have thought about switching to KDE for no other reason than they seem to have a much better, much more focused direction.
Does it seem to anyone else latley Gnome is becoming a throw in everything and if the kitchen sink dosent work its OK, or is it just me.
Admittedly Gnome 2 has some nice stuff but how much will be functional by first release ?
Jobs reminds me of one of those late night infomercial guys when it come to hype....
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Hey wasnt a lot of the hype behind the scooter thing the segway created by jobs and bezos ?
Kinda reminded me of Geraldo and Capones vault,
I hope for Apple the MacWorld expo isnt another one of Jobs hype jobs like my last foray into apple land, I bought a Lisa..... (Yep I am one of those dumbasses) But it looked cool, it was all hyped up and it was a company dollar.
Although Apple seems to have the wold by the ass on a downhill run when it comes to their products latley, they could probably release an electric can operer add fire wire and sell the hell out of em
I agree with the article poster on combination issues, sooooooo, what about a drawing addition, it shows you a piece of abstract art and you draw (ala Graffiti style) your interpretation......
Oh wait , thats no good, all the guys will be drawing boobs and all the girls cats......Hmm Ok weve got our combinations down to 2, what not that is reached this level of sophistication and security MS will buy the patent for sure......
Seriouly keep working on it guys it could be cool.
Now, first I am a beliver in adaptive evolution, how far that can go , I am am not sure and I am CERTAIN noone is.
.....ZZZZZZZTTTT
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Something that always puzzeled me in the search for milestones of genetic evolution is why the evolutionists look to the living things ? I mean if they evolved why the hell are they still around ??
I can see in macro enviroments, austrailla, the galapagos etc, but comn people.
Ok, so this is "genetic link between primordial pond scum" hmmm we have genes of primordial pond scumm ? cool, tha means Jurrasic Park is a possibility
Ok well....
"the closest living relative"
Closest hell, do these people even know how few genes seperate any living animal ?
All conjecture, all of it and not really based on any scientific eveindece of weight....conjecture.
"Missing Link Solves Plant Kingdom Mystery".....back to the title, soles jack and sh*t and jack left town.....Its all conjecture, how does conjecture "SOLVE" anything.......
I am sick of hearing people ramble on this is related to that , yada yada yada, until I can get a spare liver grown in a pile of moss its ueless anyhow.
Id like to see advances made in this arena , but real ones, not guesses and conjecture to be doled out as scientific fact as the title would lead a layperson to belive.
try the mplayer -vo help for testing try
/root/.mplayer/config (or wherever you put it) file and the video driver section try xv works generally ok.
mplayer -vo xv test.mpg
Or check your
Actually the reason I query is , MPlayer CAN use the DeCSS lib and some other niceties theat the MPAA/RIAA consider violations of the DCMA , Sites have been forced to remove content and links to that same code, here is a program that usess, and links (In more ways than one) to that very code they would like removed from the face of the earth, no you and I both know that is impossible.....hm what to do........Hey I got it target the projects that make use of the code !,
.hu realm, No need to rant I am aware of EXACTLY what the legal issues involved here are, I was mainly curious about juridiction.
If you think the MPAA/RIAA are ONLY concerned about stopping piracy you are the one who is misinformed, yes it is a concern to them and a main one, its about making MONEY period and the Artists themselves know this. BEYOND piracy are ownership issues that are being fought out even no. The RIAA/MPAA is a party to this as well. CONTROL is another issue the RIAA is driven twoard, the DeCSS, (or POSSIBLE use of that code MUST be unacceptable to them) otherwise why go to the lengths in cutting links and removing code thus far ?
That is why I was curios, if they had any legal flak as of yet or if they are even succeptable , MPlayer being in
Have you built MPlayer , RECENTLY with ALL the options under 2.96 (All updated) ????
.....hmmmm.......
I have TWICE 2 DIFFERENT Machines, Its SCREWY as hell, SCREWEY is a technical term that means just plain act strange, crashed, skitters, all kinds of wierdness, on occasion, sometimes its fine,
I built it with 3... and guess what NO PROBLEMS that I had with the RH 2.96 on the SAME MACHINE.
Work great with one, work schitzy with the one they warn you about
Have you even read the MPlayer warning ?
I have to say MPlayer and the folks working on it have done a great job, It is really nice stuff, although I think the project would benifift from a refined build process, building it with all the dependencies can be a bit of fun the first time around, divx, dvd, blah blah blah. I dont know if there is a simpole method of doing this with all the complie options.
I really love the GCC 2.96 RedHat warning, if you havent built it yet, HEED that warning.
Is there no chance the RIAA et al can shut this down being out of hungary? I hope not its becoming a wonderful piece of software.
Congrats to the guys making MPlayer happen !!
RTCW Takes the cake in my book, even though the final SP Linux version hasnt yet shipped , the MP ROCKS.
Thats funny, if a "Rouge" nation had the technology in place to do this Id bet they would in fact be at the forfront on bio-genetic pharmacudicals and in no need of cash, they would be respected and would have an obviously educated populus, poverty and dispair uneducation / along with a few nuts for flavoring is the recipe for terrorism.
I SAW IT , na na na na....
....Guess what the MS guys already Knew about this one , although details were a little fuzzy, Was this a BUG, or a planned backdoor they just got caught on ?
I went to an OEM system builder confrerence to get my free copy of XP Pro, (I got 2) And promptly traded them for a really cool digital slot Machine/ Pachinko, but notheless, we were playing with it at the conference and I asked one of the tech about security risk associated with their Mini Terminal server that is built into XP to allow someone to "Guid" you through something or "FIX" whatever ails your XP machine remotley, nice feature as us *nix folks have been doing for years, we started discussing alternative ways of enabling the RC feautures and Guess what
I saw the same thing with IBM before, they had a product that was an login access restriction device , kept only keyed users from logging in, powering up or down, or bypassing via CRT port, and a couple of other function a Janitor from IBM cleaning up the booth at COMDEX late showed us how to bypass it in 0 time, unreal...Point is even thought it was new to the public the Guys at IBM had it around for a while and even the Janitor knew a way around it , the top guys at IBM knew it too, soooo some pictures (at the IBM booth and our friendly Janitor) and guess what IBM pulled the product line, good for us because we were selling a competing product to the FBI, CIA, Univerity's and Airlines...:)
could this be the same scenario, its been there and know all along ?
The methodology is bogus, hell how many Linux system hits does slashdot get , then how many does say MS or MSN or MSNBC get ?
I use it and thats all that matters, I am happy, I am also not a frothing at the mouth Linux Preacher, If theyre smart enough to use it great, if not so what, I dont run around telling people what TV to buy or car to drive, let them choose, education is one thing but cmon.
I typically see about 10% *NIX hits on 40 websites I host at about a million users a month total , thats High, But Im also dealing with a lot of companies that do some serious engineering. hence Unix....
Linux is great, it can do everything I need it to well, and better than windows, its free and stable. I use it at home and work, but theyre are clients that I would suggest NEVER use it, they couldnt possibly use it effectivley, and would in fact become less productive. Why am I going to tell my customers to be less productive ? If someone dosent belive you they probably never will, human nature is such that even when a person is proven wrong they still wont change, people are stubborn.
The Judge was acting on behalf of the individuals this orginization purports to SERVE, thats right SERVE, The American Indians were the ones asking for it to be shut down. The Goverment serves the people PERIOD, The fact that they atually dont care about them is a different case entirley. The goverment CANNOT harm or through inaction allow harm to be done to its citizens, if it will not voluntarily do this then the Judicial Branch is a last resort, and guess what , it worked. If Social Security or the IRS computers were WIDE open and the Govt wasnt doing anything about it how long would it be before a Judge ordered that shut down ?
I have very eclectic musical tastes, from Beethoven to Sisters of Mercy, Tenesee Ford, Warren Zevon, Bob Segar yada yada ya...
..gone...
I had a cd collection once it got stolen, I havent replaced it since, I have a few favorite songs Ive rebought CDs for but in general to build a 100 song collection of stuf I like would cost me a freaking fortune. Id buy into this, its a RENTAL agreement, you rent movies you like enough to see once or twice but dont buy them, same thing here... Songs youre NEVER going to hear on the radio, might like to listen for a fw times then
Then again Im told I have ADD so I get bored quickly , maybe this idea just fits my midset.
Yes, in a rental agreement they can do just that, If you are no longer renting it you have no fair use rights associated with that item.
Its no different than renting a video, If you rental is expired you return the video, theres obvioulsy no way to make you return an MP3, so it is encrypted and only plays while a member of the service.
I seem to remeber a way (Yes this is from back in the late 80's) to check for an active software keystroke logger using the echo effec, same bytes wrtitten elsewhere, although admittedly this wouldnt work if the software encrypts the output, it probably does. BUT couldnt you use the same principal, nothing else running, one app is catchin bit on every keystroke Voila, theres your logger ? anyone else remeber this , BYTE magazine perhaps.
No seriously, Ive worked at 4 main places the last 8 years, the first a small upstart with a younger owner, it was great, we would all go to the gym and play basketball at lunch, come over each others houses on a regular basis, hang out yeah all the good stuff. It was nice and probably one of the reasons I stayed as long as I did, the pay was mediocre at best, but it was the same for everyone we were small and starting, the company did well and has weathered the IT storm very well, I still keep in contact with all my old cronies and boss on a reqular basis
And the other 3 well not soo much
The last company I worked at withing my dept.We were all kinda close knit, we were sysadmins and developers and we still talk and hang out on occasion.
The one thing I have noticed is youre much more likley to form an out of work bond if none of your duties overlap completley, we never stepped on each others toes, someone could always ask and often did for help or a better way, but no one ever forced their ways on someone else.
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whos else is going to give a rats ass about most of the geed speak us socially malformed geeks spew, our wives , yeah right , our family, depends, the only other people that think this stuff is cool is another geek....
What you've resorted to plagarism of my poorly spelled rant ?
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Least you could have done was fix my spelling errors, I suck at spelling. and math, thats why I became a programmer. With the minor sytax changes in C# I should be right on course from my C++ typos
And to the MODERATORS , I AM THE ORIGINAL AUTOR OF THIS ARTICLE !!!, be kind....
Language wars abound, and I have no interest in propogating another.But truth is Java has become bloated far beyond its original design as a tv box controller. The best comparison I heard was Java was C without the corners, just like basic is fortran without the corners. C# seems more to me like the best of Java and C++ without many of the sharpest corners. I work in a split development world 1/2 *nix and 1/2 Win32 , none of us slashdotter want to acknowlege it but most of the desktop world is on windows, so to write a Win32 app your most viable options have been C, VB or some other monstrosity on a Win32 box like Java, have you ever tried to run a half a million line Desktop Java app on windows. Or to throw a Java app together in a nice pretty IDIOT proof installer so that the person who thinks a CDROM is a coffe cup holder can install it with one of the nice pretty MS installers, Java in those aspects , well...it sucks
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Of all the MSVC programmers I worked with once they all had a good chance to work with C# they said theyll never write another line of C++ again. For the windows platform it may indeed be great stuff, the one thing that piques my interest is its cross plattform future. MS included help files and other pices parts refrence Linux, no whether its MS or someone like Ximian with their mono project. The C# stuff is definatley cool. native speed and you can writer in any of the dot net languages you want VB C# and yes TCL and PERL have ports to the Dot NET runtimes, heres the deal even M$ says it, from a performance standpoint on a Win32 machine they will all run the same the language choice will be a matter of style.
Some slashdotters out ther perpetually bash MS and I do too from time to time, I run Linux at work and home, but the fact is Im in computers to make money PERIOD, If I could make a living out of racing my motorcycles full time Id never touch a computer again other than to surf for parts or events.
To the ends of making money at computers, C# will do great I am sure , the coders I know that have actually worked with it on a daily basis love it, and to all the NAYSAYERS out there that say "Oh just another MS product to have bugs" sure probably but the wholde of the VS 7 IDE and tools are written in C# , Im sure by the time its released it'll be pretty good. And best of all it will make ME MONEY, I write desktop apps , if its quicker and easier.more interoperable, which it is it has full inheretence.Im all for it. The fact that 3rd parties are already vigilantly porting the runtime to *nix systems tells you its not another Bob
MS languages for the most part run superbly on MS systems, they suppert both sides of the enviroment. Guess what C# is another example, in XP there are already kernel optimization routines for the DotNET stuff,
If you HAD to program and app for a MS system in a MS language, which would you preffer, C++, VB, VFP, well..... Or C# that even C++ programmers who use it on a regular basis say , (and from experience it does) rocks as far as MS languages go.
This is all nice, but if we have to go to all the effort to reinvent the wheel , why not go all the way, I mean if we have to come up with all new components and software why no go the Analog route ?
Digital computing gained popularity for many reasons, cost effective to build, easy to program, with the state of current electronics this is no longer neccesarly the case but we there ,
Analog copmuting has many advantages over digital computing, especially in the AI arena, Since there can never be a digital concept of infinity
Rockets in the beggining were put into orbit using ANALOG computers, there is a reason, accuracy to the nth factor.
I played around with analog computing in the 70-early 80's cool stuff if more would have been available, fact wsas everyone was happy with their 8 bit pc.
Trinary computing sounds a little like taking something that was settled on in the first place and resettling again
I mean come on isnt the goal of computing to have a supercomputer take control of our national defense grid when it becomes sentient ?
Weel, if a spallpox epidemeic does break out we could always vaccinate ourselves, comn the did it first in what 1711 , find someone that has survived it but still has pustules, scratch your skin and rub.....well then again the first guy who tried this
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son died a few years later from tuberculosis contracted from the pus donor. and he followed shortly after.....turns out syphilis was spread during a time more through smallpox vaccination than sexual contact....then again forget it Im a lucky bastard 70 % is good odds right ?
But seriously, if an epidemic were to break out why not, after screening of the donor, use the same methods the used nearly 300 years ago, off the shelf vaccine may be in short supply now , but could you imagine if an epidemic did hit ?
God knows all the politicians, doctors, lawyers would get "Priority"
Could you imagine a world where the only healthy individuals are Politicians,Layers, and Cops ?
We could call it the RIAAUS