... writers use the technology to counter-counter-attack with honeypott'ed 'virtual cells' constructed on infected hosts for double-service as a DDOS distraction...
Ermm... his entire premise is 'how can I get out of paying for a Vendor ID if I want to sell a product'. So, he's not asking to do it right... he's asking to get around the license - and maybe he's hoping someone on slashdot will let him use one of 'their' product ID's...
You don't need a Vendor ID if you're not going to sell product. Vendor ID's are to make it possible to recognize different devices in the marketplace, not in the lab.
... then, make an investment for the 'business' you will make from this, and pay the $1500 to get your own Vendor ID.
Shirking out of paying a vendor ID when you want to sell product based on USB is just stupid. USB requires a unique vendor ID, that database of vendor ID's needs to be maintained and administered, and the cost for that is $1500. Fair enough, welcome to business.
Pay the fee, if you're going to sell kits. It is the only thing that makes sense. You want to use USB, well... there is a door fee, and that door fee is $1500.
If you're not going to sell kits, you don't need your own Vendor ID. Just use nulls for everything, or make one up for your own lab purposes.
Ermm... comparing slashdot to this situation is a little oblique. slashdot members aren't trying to accomodate a public need for open media formats.
What I mean is, code is what counts.
If any of the competing factions had actually gotten working code *done*, and being used by actual humans to solve the media file-format problems, then there probably wouldn't have been this demise to report...
I've had my Rev A tiBook since the day it was released (was that 4 or 3 years ago?) and it has travelled around the world with me twice. I have replaced its outer shell (case) twice, also, as well as the keyboard 3 times (I wore all the previous ones out in my travels). This laptop has just gone on ticking, none-stop, through Australian desert and beach trips (5 months worth), round-the-world-flights (LA-Sydney-Perth-Singapore-Frankfurt-London-LA), and continues to travel with me around Europe.
This is, without question, not only the most durable laptop I've ever used, but also the most user-servicable. I can't imagine where I'd ever have been able to buy an external case for a DELL laptop, and replace it myself... but with the tiBooks, its no problems. The tiBook, of all laptops, is the most tweakable in my opinion...
I'm so impressed with the tiBook that I will buy myself another one, as soon as that time comes... but in the meantime, this one just keeps doing an exceptional job.
Best computer I've ever invested in, and I've invested in quite a few, I can tell you...
... that there is a huge market here, for a *smart* PalmOS-based development tool.
You may not want to write C code (lord, I would default to (void *) for everything!) but I'm sure there are ways to approach PalmOS application-development in a "PalmOS GUI"-like manner...
It seems to me that a good test of a GUI system is how well that GUI system supports continued development of apps for that system... well, s/GUI/user interface/... I mean, for text-mode user interface style interaction, a text-based programming language and development environment is appropriate.
But for a pen/graffiti/limited text entry capabilities/bitmap style interface... what 'language' (should language even be used?) or development environment would work best?
For PalmOS, I'd love to see a drag 'n drop-style editor environment (like Delphi...) with a very smart 'scripting language', the basics of which are described in PalmOS-GUI metaphors... making development *on* PalmOS the priority.
I'd pay for that, if it existed, as a developer, especially if it gave me the ability to do graphics fairly easily...
Perhaps some of the FLASH-based Flash development environments would work? My Clie can play Flash now... I should check into that.
I recently moved to Germany and a good friend of mine invited me to go through the basement of one of her parents houses with her, part of a cleanup project, in case I found anything interesting for my new place.
I found a box of about 200 photo's from her father, collecting dust, from when he was in the Wermacht during WW2.
By trade, he was an architect and a fairly good one, and after the war he primarily worked on re-constructing and building new churches, so you can imagine what his b&w photo's of the areas of Europe in which he traveled during the war are like... and the inclusion of his Nazi war story makes for a very interesting story indeed, perhaps made more poignant by the fact that this is now my neighborhood. This stack of photo's is like a thick novel, in many ways. (I also have 3 of his and his brothes' oil paintings on the walls in my pad, incidentally... my 'other Moogs', heh heh...)
Truly fascinating stuff, and interesting how technology (portable, cheap b&w photography) allowed for a very intimate personal history to have formed, long after the departure of the individual.
Well, its only an observation, don't jump to any harsh conclusions or anything... I'm just saying that the 'net isn't really representative, thats all.
As for the 'girl' thing, I never know whether some females will get offended by being called 'ladies', or 'women', or 'chicks', or what, so I just use what I'm comfortable with and that is 'girl'. I'm 33, but I still like it when my girl calls me her boy...
There is a lot of fun - and I mean a *lot* - to be had in assembly programming those old 8bit boxes.
I still covet, and hack around on my Oric-1, although its easier to get most of the development work done with an emulator.
Does 'vi' and an emulator count for 'still fun', or do you have to actually use the box? Dunno, maybe thats a hardware war I shouldn't get involved in, heh heh... but anyway, if you're a programmer, and you like code for the sake of code, reliving the 8-bit 80's is worth the mental fun factor...
Some great new games out there too, I might add, are still being made for these systems. Very fun games!
If there are any PHB's who want special training or briefing on anything related to computer science, I am able to offer my services for a very reasonable fee.
Personally, I think this is a good story. I'm all for people getting to know more about things which traditionally have been mysterious.
You know, I just love how people jump to conclusions when it comes to assesment of character.
Who is to say this guy didn't have *other* factors involved in his MSblaster infection, such as office politics, or some other bullshit like that?
You have no clue. Yet, you, Anonymous Coward#7200431, seem to infer a great deal of insight into his situation, and willingly form an offensive view of this persons character.
This is always the case with cross-architecture changes, though. It was true in the IBM vs. Wang days, it was true in the IBM vs. Sun days, it will still be true in the X vs. Whatever days.... and you can bet that Billy Boy is counting on this resistance factor.
Remember the "Developers, Developers, Developers!" monkeydance can be danced for IT 'specialists' as well.
In *any* architecture, though, not just this Microsoft scenario.
Slashdot Mirror
Wake me up when Nokia gets into it.
... writers use the technology to counter-counter-attack with honeypott'ed 'virtual cells' constructed on infected hosts for double-service as a DDOS distraction ...
Ermm... his entire premise is 'how can I get out of paying for a Vendor ID if I want to sell a product'. So, he's not asking to do it right ... he's asking to get around the license - and maybe he's hoping someone on slashdot will let him use one of 'their' product ID's...
You don't need a Vendor ID if you're not going to sell product. Vendor ID's are to make it possible to recognize different devices in the marketplace, not in the lab.
In the lab, use whatever you want.
... then, make an investment for the 'business' you will make from this, and pay the $1500 to get your own Vendor ID.
... there is a door fee, and that door fee is $1500.
Shirking out of paying a vendor ID when you want to sell product based on USB is just stupid. USB requires a unique vendor ID, that database of vendor ID's needs to be maintained and administered, and the cost for that is $1500. Fair enough, welcome to business.
Pay the fee, if you're going to sell kits. It is the only thing that makes sense. You want to use USB, well
If you're not going to sell kits, you don't need your own Vendor ID. Just use nulls for everything, or make one up for your own lab purposes.
Like here, for example.
Like
If we had a government which attempted strictly to solve problems *scientifically* instead of 'economically', we'd be in much better shape.
The problem with the existing government is that it is based on economic premises and principles which are, fundamentally, arbitrary.
Science would not have invented the Federal Reserve System.
Ermm... comparing slashdot to this situation is a little oblique. slashdot members aren't trying to accomodate a public need for open media formats.
...
What I mean is, code is what counts.
If any of the competing factions had actually gotten working code *done*, and being used by actual humans to solve the media file-format problems, then there probably wouldn't have been this demise to report
Talking about what code to write never works. The rule is:
He who writes the code, gets to say what to do with that code.
Hydrogenaudio was noble, but misplaced. What is needed, simply, is less talk and more action on the codec front.
If it is published in open format, and there are portions of the population who cannot read it, then it is not open.
Enough.
If the Open Effort ends up presenting the same problems as The Closed, then it will have failed.
I've had my Rev A tiBook since the day it was released (was that 4 or 3 years ago?) and it has travelled around the world with me twice. I have replaced its outer shell (case) twice, also, as well as the keyboard 3 times (I wore all the previous ones out in my travels). This laptop has just gone on ticking, none-stop, through Australian desert and beach trips (5 months worth), round-the-world-flights (LA-Sydney-Perth-Singapore-Frankfurt-London-LA), and continues to travel with me around Europe.
... but with the tiBooks, its no problems. The tiBook, of all laptops, is the most tweakable in my opinion ...
... but in the meantime, this one just keeps doing an exceptional job.
...
This is, without question, not only the most durable laptop I've ever used, but also the most user-servicable. I can't imagine where I'd ever have been able to buy an external case for a DELL laptop, and replace it myself
I'm so impressed with the tiBook that I will buy myself another one, as soon as that time comes
Best computer I've ever invested in, and I've invested in quite a few, I can tell you
... that there is a huge market here, for a *smart* PalmOS-based development tool.
... well, s/GUI/user interface/ ... I mean, for text-mode user interface style interaction, a text-based programming language and development environment is appropriate.
... what 'language' (should language even be used?) or development environment would work best?
... making development *on* PalmOS the priority.
...
... I should check into that.
You may not want to write C code (lord, I would default to (void *) for everything!) but I'm sure there are ways to approach PalmOS application-development in a "PalmOS GUI"-like manner...
It seems to me that a good test of a GUI system is how well that GUI system supports continued development of apps for that system
But for a pen/graffiti/limited text entry capabilities/bitmap style interface
For PalmOS, I'd love to see a drag 'n drop-style editor environment (like Delphi...) with a very smart 'scripting language', the basics of which are described in PalmOS-GUI metaphors
I'd pay for that, if it existed, as a developer, especially if it gave me the ability to do graphics fairly easily
Perhaps some of the FLASH-based Flash development environments would work? My Clie can play Flash now
We don't have to use their root servers.
They don't seem to understand that.
And that, in my opinion, is a good thing.
... with jokes about Chinese space missions ... as soon as you read one, you see another.
I recently moved to Germany and a good friend of mine invited me to go through the basement of one of her parents houses with her, part of a cleanup project, in case I found anything interesting for my new place.
I found a box of about 200 photo's from her father, collecting dust, from when he was in the Wermacht during WW2.
By trade, he was an architect and a fairly good one, and after the war he primarily worked on re-constructing and building new churches, so you can imagine what his b&w photo's of the areas of Europe in which he traveled during the war are like... and the inclusion of his Nazi war story makes for a very interesting story indeed, perhaps made more poignant by the fact that this is now my neighborhood. This stack of photo's is like a thick novel, in many ways. (I also have 3 of his and his brothes' oil paintings on the walls in my pad, incidentally... my 'other Moogs', heh heh...)
Truly fascinating stuff, and interesting how technology (portable, cheap b&w photography) allowed for a very intimate personal history to have formed, long after the departure of the individual.
Well, its only an observation, don't jump to any harsh conclusions or anything ... I'm just saying that the 'net isn't really representative, thats all.
As for the 'girl' thing, I never know whether some females will get offended by being called 'ladies', or 'women', or 'chicks', or what, so I just use what I'm comfortable with and that is 'girl'. I'm 33, but I still like it when my girl calls me her boy...
There is a lot of fun - and I mean a *lot* - to be had in assembly programming those old 8bit boxes.
... but anyway, if you're a programmer, and you like code for the sake of code, reliving the 8-bit 80's is worth the mental fun factor ...
I still covet, and hack around on my Oric-1, although its easier to get most of the development work done with an emulator.
Does 'vi' and an emulator count for 'still fun', or do you have to actually use the box? Dunno, maybe thats a hardware war I shouldn't get involved in, heh heh
Some great new games out there too, I might add, are still being made for these systems. Very fun games!
If there are any PHB's who want special training or briefing on anything related to computer science, I am able to offer my services for a very reasonable fee.
Personally, I think this is a good story. I'm all for people getting to know more about things which traditionally have been mysterious.
I call bullshit ... you don't need that Apple guy.
You know, I just love how people jump to conclusions when it comes to assesment of character.
Who is to say this guy didn't have *other* factors involved in his MSblaster infection, such as office politics, or some other bullshit like that?
You have no clue. Yet, you, Anonymous Coward#7200431, seem to infer a great deal of insight into his situation, and willingly form an offensive view of this persons character.
I can't insult you, but I would if I knew you.
This is always the case with cross-architecture changes, though. It was true in the IBM vs. Wang days, it was true in the IBM vs. Sun days, it will still be true in the X vs. Whatever days.... and you can bet that Billy Boy is counting on this resistance factor.
Remember the "Developers, Developers, Developers!" monkeydance can be danced for IT 'specialists' as well.
In *any* architecture, though, not just this Microsoft scenario.
3 years ago, and have never looked back. Virtual PC is the #1 reason it was so easy, though ...
I freakin' love 'cocktail' hardware. Cheap crack is still crack.
Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto.
{4 months in Tokyo, woohoo!}
Yeah. Sure. You wanna spend 15 cycles on a 7-word instruction, go right ahead. I know you've got a fancy pipeline to play with.
Me, I'm far, far more interested in the vector capabilites of G5, and yes, even more so than the x86, thanks very much.
{It's not just the compiler, its the architecture. And its not just the architecture.}
A website dedicated *exclusively* to the service of converting media from X to X.
I will never. Ever. Use WMA for music.