first off, you mean to tell me that 22 base64 characters (a-Z,0-9,.-) is more difficult than XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX???
second, what would a notation have to do with any sort've hardware implementation? the notation would only be a different way for US (the humans) to look at an ip address.. to the machines its still just a 128 bits.
seriously, that 8 chunks of 16bit hex seperated with:'s is soo ugly.. there is NO chance of memorizing an ip in that format. Even just a base32 lower case letters and numbers seperated by periods then the upper tiers could even be somewhat descriptive. ie: qwest.burbank.cloraj.aksfoa perhaps a better chance of actually being able to memorize an ip
too bad they didn't come up with a better notation. instead of hex 0-F just use 0-9,a-Z and 128bits can be represented in a legible string of characters.
you could even argue the need for a dns system since you wouldn't need any service to associate "google.com" with an ip.. the ip could very well be "google.com"
I think I had subzero.. you had a roombuster and punter and fake account creator?
seriously learned a lot making aol proggies because of all the "necessary" features.
right away you had to learn how to subclass windows from another process, intercept and send windows messages. how many windows programmers got in at such a low level?
designing a car and manufacturing a car shouldn't be the same thing. if manufacturing cars could be reduced to perfect copies that cost next to nothing, why would this lead to no more new cars?
it would lead to cheaper cars for us, and less overhead for the designer to absorb = more money for the original designer/engineer/artist.
the only gotcha is that the copies need to be sold instead of given away. the problem with the music industry is that we want music in digital files one song at a time - the demand for plastic discs that get scratched/skip/melt/cost $20 and have 15 shitty songs on them is lessening as the demand for an.mp3 file is growing.
if I had a choice to buy music on cds clumped in 12-15 songs at $20 each or buy music one song at a time via a download at some appropriate price I would go with the download. but i'm not given that choice so I do what everybody else does and take the illegal copy from some fellow consumer who feels my pain
ok, since your feeble mind can't seem to come up with a situation where the actual burn speed IS the bottleneck of the entire making-a-cd task.
I have a.iso on my desktop that I want to burn.
I want to make more than one copy of a cd.. maybe I want to make 100 copies?
I want to just fill a cd with some files off my computer and I dont feel like waiting.
Have you ever tried copying 650 MB worth of data from one hard drive to another? This itself will probably take a few minutes. we're not all using eide fujitsus
why so content on waiting 3 minutes for a cd to burn? do you use a 486 cpu that takes 3 minutes to start your aol too? is it not cost-effective to upgrade to a faster cpu, you would rather have two 486's each take 3 minutes to load 2 aols?
seriously, sometimes you can split the task into parallel tasks and use multiple units to scale horizontally but in the end it still takes 3 minutes to burn a cd! 3 minutes is a long time when your in a hurry. also, if it takes a scsi tower with 32 burners at 48x to burn 1000 cds in a day theres going to be a cutoff where its more cost effective to use one super expensive fast burner.
making a faster burner is not a bad thing, dont argue for the sake or arguing. how would you feel if intel and amd decided 3ghz is the limit deal with it?
Is a CD burned in 3 minutes not fast enough for you?
hell no its not fast enough.. if I wanted to make a backup of my cd collection at 3 minutes a disc it would take me a week! I dont know about paying 4x as much for 1.4 minutes but let the market decide that one.. don't decide 3 minutes should be fast enough for everybody. If there was a burner that could burn a cd in 5 seconds I'm sure there are plenty of people willing to pay a premium for it
if they bounced the laser off a tiny mirror couldn't you use a stationary laser and just spin the mirror? I know nothing about making cd burners but it seems like instead of trying to think outside the box and workaround the physical limitations of spinning a cd they just all decided to make 48x the standard max and give up!
52x isn't the max its 172x! I don't care if the cd could come out of my burner fly across the room and explode into a billion pieces, I wanna 172x burner!
seriously though, why do they only try to spin the cd faster. why not spin the laser in the opposite direction the cd is spinning in?
why anybody would want to do this I dunno.. but it would make for a great prank. hmm what are some other candidates for the 20000volt mod.. my keyboard and mouse for when I'm afk my car once the alarm is set my zipper for when i'm unconscious
I think the answer is to provide a dummy option on all ballots designed such that people that don't know better would be more likely to pick it.
take the slashdot polls for example: "Whats your favorite breakfeast?" a) cold pizza b) cold cereal c) cowboy neil's underpants
lots of people dont understand what cold pizza or cold cereal even are and would rather vote cowboy neil's underpants as their favorite breakfeast because they think its funny.
when using the results to determine which infact is the most popular breakfeast cowboy neil's underpants is discarded and the stupid-vote eliminated.
its funny nobody seems to realize that the current state of most software is open source. all the assembly instructions you need to fix/modify a windows program are right there in the.exe file. thats why people are able to crack shareware, make keygens etc.
the people arguing that opensource is a security risk seem to be under the impression that compiled source is secure. its not. this is ALL about the $$$$$
then there could be consumer crash course law schools were you earn a credential qualifying you to purchase products with the appropriate degree of eula friendliness.
"sorry sir you cannot purchase this product because you are incapable of comprehending the eula"
why not just seek out venture capital.. you can still use the money to make money, but maybe instead of putting in the bank to grow interest you could grow a company and sell products or services at a profit? just a thought
Slashdot Mirror
computer science college idiom
every day that goes by either..
-aliens invade and destroy all of humanity
-or they dont
50/50 chance, you never know
first off, you mean to tell me that 22 base64 characters (a-Z,0-9,.-) is more difficult than XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX???
:'s is soo ugly.. there is NO chance of memorizing an ip in that format. Even just a base32 lower case letters and numbers seperated by periods then the upper tiers could even be somewhat descriptive. ie: qwest.burbank.cloraj.aksfoa perhaps a better chance of actually being able to memorize an ip
second, what would a notation have to do with any sort've hardware implementation? the notation would only be a different way for US (the humans) to look at an ip address.. to the machines its still just a 128 bits.
seriously, that 8 chunks of 16bit hex seperated with
too bad they didn't come up with a better notation. instead of hex 0-F just use 0-9,a-Z and 128bits can be represented in a legible string of characters.
you could even argue the need for a dns system since you wouldn't need any service to associate "google.com" with an ip.. the ip could very well be "google.com"
somebody explained to bush that ipv6 will implement the evil bit as per rfc spec. next thing you know this happens
I think I had subzero.. you had a roombuster and punter and fake account creator?
seriously learned a lot making aol proggies because of all the "necessary" features.
right away you had to learn how to subclass windows from another process, intercept and send windows messages. how many windows programmers got in at such a low level?
I think its pretty obvious what to do with them.
looks like you're committing suicide!
*sigh*
.. blob of code which you can tell to do something :)
for the record my comment was ment as a joke per his description of oop
I think this is a great analogy.
.mp3 file is growing.
designing a car and manufacturing a car shouldn't be the same thing. if manufacturing cars could be reduced to perfect copies that cost next to nothing, why would this lead to no more new cars?
it would lead to cheaper cars for us, and less overhead for the designer to absorb = more money for the original designer/engineer/artist.
the only gotcha is that the copies need to be sold instead of given away. the problem with the music industry is that we want music in digital files one song at a time - the demand for plastic discs that get scratched/skip/melt/cost $20 and have 15 shitty songs on them is lessening as the demand for an
if I had a choice to buy music on cds clumped in 12-15 songs at $20 each or buy music one song at a time via a download at some appropriate price I would go with the download. but i'm not given that choice so I do what everybody else does and take the illegal copy from some fellow consumer who feels my pain
Apple accurately uses the generic term Unix merely to identify or describe an aspect or feature of Apple's Mac OS X operating system.
what is it suppose to mean if I say I've added unix features to my operating system?
soo..
spam is illegal if we can't track you
but..
its not illegal if you don't get cought
what is hard about understanding that you have a blob of code which you can tell to do something?
you expect that level of abstract thought from a kid?
no problem my scanner does 65,536 dpi interpolated!
ok, since your feeble mind can't seem to come up with a situation where the actual burn speed IS the bottleneck of the entire making-a-cd task.
.iso on my desktop that I want to burn.
I have a
I want to make more than one copy of a cd.. maybe I want to make 100 copies?
I want to just fill a cd with some files off my computer and I dont feel like waiting.
Have you ever tried copying 650 MB worth of data from one hard drive to another? This itself will probably take a few minutes.
we're not all using eide fujitsus
why so content on waiting 3 minutes for a cd to burn? do you use a 486 cpu that takes 3 minutes to start your aol too? is it not cost-effective to upgrade to a faster cpu, you would rather have two 486's each take 3 minutes to load 2 aols?
seriously, sometimes you can split the task into parallel tasks and use multiple units to scale horizontally but in the end it still takes 3 minutes to burn a cd! 3 minutes is a long time when your in a hurry. also, if it takes a scsi tower with 32 burners at 48x to burn 1000 cds in a day theres going to be a cutoff where its more cost effective to use one super expensive fast burner.
making a faster burner is not a bad thing, dont argue for the sake or arguing. how would you feel if intel and amd decided 3ghz is the limit deal with it?
Is a CD burned in 3 minutes not fast enough for you?
hell no its not fast enough.. if I wanted to make a backup of my cd collection at 3 minutes a disc it would take me a week! I dont know about paying 4x as much for 1.4 minutes but let the market decide that one.. don't decide 3 minutes should be fast enough for everybody. If there was a burner that could burn a cd in 5 seconds I'm sure there are plenty of people willing to pay a premium for it
just scan the cd at 3600dpi and write a program to decode the image. I wonder if the bright light from the scanner would ruin a cdr though
if they bounced the laser off a tiny mirror couldn't you use a stationary laser and just spin the mirror? I know nothing about making cd burners but it seems like instead of trying to think outside the box and workaround the physical limitations of spinning a cd they just all decided to make 48x the standard max and give up!
52x isn't the max its 172x!
I don't care if the cd could come out of my burner fly across the room and explode into a billion pieces, I wanna 172x burner!
seriously though, why do they only try to spin the cd faster. why not spin the laser in the opposite direction the cd is spinning in?
why anybody would want to do this I dunno.. but it would make for a great prank. hmm what are some other candidates for the 20000volt mod..
my keyboard and mouse for when I'm afk
my car once the alarm is set
my zipper for when i'm unconscious
word.
I think the answer is to provide a dummy option on all ballots designed such that people that don't know better would be more likely to pick it.
take the slashdot polls for example:
"Whats your favorite breakfeast?"
a) cold pizza
b) cold cereal
c) cowboy neil's underpants
lots of people dont understand what cold pizza or cold cereal even are and would rather vote cowboy neil's underpants as their favorite breakfeast because they think its funny.
when using the results to determine which infact is the most popular breakfeast cowboy neil's underpants is discarded and the stupid-vote eliminated.
its funny nobody seems to realize that the current state of most software is open source. all the assembly instructions you need to fix/modify a windows program are right there in the .exe file. thats why people are able to crack shareware, make keygens etc.
the people arguing that opensource is a security risk seem to be under the impression that compiled source is secure. its not. this is ALL about the $$$$$
then there could be consumer crash course law schools were you earn a credential qualifying you to purchase products with the appropriate degree of eula friendliness.
"sorry sir you cannot purchase this product because you are incapable of comprehending the eula"
why not just seek out venture capital.. you can still use the money to make money, but maybe instead of putting in the bank to grow interest you could grow a company and sell products or services at a profit? just a thought