Which pretty much explains why they are going under, doesn't it? If you can't get your point across to those that are interested in what you are doing, you have no hope when it comes to the rest of the world.
Well, I always just assumed they were doing custom builds of linux for the embedded market. It's not that much of an intelectual leap. The fact that CT didn't know what they did may very well have stemmed from the fact that he was a moron... (or not intrested at all)
As a hacker, I felt it entirely natural to begin to attempt to encapsulate, measure, and then control reality with software. (For what I mean by the word "hack," see http://www.tuxedo.org/ ~esr/ jargon/jargon.html#hack:. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. 'Whatcha up to?' 'Oh, just hacking.' " Criminals need to get themselves another word, we had it first.)
Wank, wank, wank.
Well, keep that up and "hacker" will soon mean "a whinny little bitch." I'm so sick of that crap (well, thankfully it's mostly died down of late). It is entirely possible for words to have multiple meanings. The fact that a word you think sounds "cool" does not give you license to go out and try to change the English language. Sheesh.
This means that the second encoding process has to throw away audible frequencies, resulting in audible compression artifacts.
No it dosn't. In theory a good encoder could reproduce, bit for bit (or extremly close) the mp3 file at the first stage, in other words it dosn't have to throw away anything because all of the data would fit into a compressed format.
You only stated that raw->mp3 dosn't lose quality, but you havn't given any information in regards to raw->mp3->raw->mp3 as sounding 'like ass'. Where is the evidence that it would?
No, javascript is a programming language. It isn't designed to do anything other then let you program. It's actualy pretty good. You're talking about the DOM api that comes with web browsers.
Also, Javascript has nothing to do with Java at all. It was origionaly called LiveScript before sun's Java came out and Netscape decided to confuse the fuck out of everyone.
I once saw a online chat application who's client side was an *animated gif* in an image map. yeh, really. It was insaine. And it actualy worked!. and worked well. It was pretty impressive. Of course, I have ethernet access to the 'net
Well, you can get flash for linux, but Most windows/mac users woudln't need to download anything, and while probably less powerfull then JS/DOM it would provide a *stable* development platform for the guy to work with. crossplatform DHTML can really suck, I should know, I'm happy Autopr0n just shows up in netscape4x (they get fed a blank stylesheet, actualy)
Then your client is a moron... That dosn't mean that IE/Moz wouldn't provide a stable platfrom... and did you think of using Flash (I don't know if it would have provided everything you wanted, personaly I hate flash:P).
they could just supply fake values to the GPS curcit, as could anyone for any purpose. This isn't encryption, its a farce.
(and suppose this could be made to work... what would happen if the GPS system whent out of commission for some reason?)
Aside from the monney grubbing whore that is it's current CEO, Disney has always been just a bit evil. I mean I know that's what corporations do, they co-opt, they commercialize. but there's something a bit more then subtly wrong with the commercialization of children's imagination.
People who don't think global warming is possible are the same kinds of people who don't belive in evolution, that is to say people who don't belive the obvious scientific evidence in favor of something that is more in synch with their pre-heald beliefs or ideologies.
Yeh, it's possible that global warming isn't happening or isn't caused by humans, but if you look at all the data rather then a few slashdot posts or propaganda from one side or the other, it's pretty clear that the earth is getting warmer, and has been recently, and that there's a resonable chance that we might be causing it.
The towers were designed to withstand a 747 hitting them, and a 747 would have been larger then then the 767 and 757 that actualy hit. So, it was obviously a failure.
For instance in Java there's no way to pass just a primitive like "5" or 2.6 to a method that takes an object while in C# and Smalltalk you can.
No, but you can do myList.add(new Integer(5)); or myList.add(new Double(2.6)); if you want to. Yeh, the semantics are a bit diffrent, but the effect is exactly the same. Also
Um, on earth? "getObjectAtIndex()" actualy tells you what's going on. Of course, those of us who have been programming for a while see "[]" as meaning the same thing. And anyway, it's not "getObjectAtIndex()" but rather just "get()". Not exactly that much harder to type or whatever (especialy since you don't have to leave the 'qwerty' part of the keyboard.
I'm not sure if that was supposed to be a ironic one-liner or not, but unless you work at a games company almost all your code is going to be VB or Java (or COBOL!)
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Which pretty much explains why they are going under, doesn't it? If you can't get your point across to those that are interested in what you are doing, you have no hope when it comes to the rest of the world.
Well, I always just assumed they were doing custom builds of linux for the embedded market. It's not that much of an intelectual leap. The fact that CT didn't know what they did may very well have stemmed from the fact that he was a moron... (or not intrested at all)
Regular people can do this too, you can get all kinds of chips and stuff for lots of diffrent cars. I don't know if this guy's just out of it or what.
As a hacker, I felt it entirely natural to begin to attempt to encapsulate, measure, and then control reality with software. (For what I mean by the word "hack," see http://www.tuxedo.org/ ~esr/ jargon/jargon.html#hack:. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. 'Whatcha up to?' 'Oh, just hacking.' " Criminals need to get themselves another word, we had it first.)
Wank, wank, wank.
Well, keep that up and "hacker" will soon mean "a whinny little bitch." I'm so sick of that crap (well, thankfully it's mostly died down of late). It is entirely possible for words to have multiple meanings. The fact that a word you think sounds "cool" does not give you license to go out and try to change the English language. Sheesh.
This means that the second encoding process has to throw away audible frequencies, resulting in audible compression artifacts.
No it dosn't. In theory a good encoder could reproduce, bit for bit (or extremly close) the mp3 file at the first stage, in other words it dosn't have to throw away anything because all of the data would fit into a compressed format.
You only stated that raw->mp3 dosn't lose quality, but you havn't given any information in regards to raw->mp3->raw->mp3 as sounding 'like ass'. Where is the evidence that it would?
I've got a couple machines here, and i just network 'em together. No real reason to get a NAS, although personaly I would like one
No, javascript is a programming language. It isn't designed to do anything other then let you program. It's actualy pretty good. You're talking about the DOM api that comes with web browsers.
Also, Javascript has nothing to do with Java at all. It was origionaly called LiveScript before sun's Java came out and Netscape decided to confuse the fuck out of everyone.
Isn't it obvious. Many people lack the ablity to think. it's a sad thing :(
I once saw a online chat application who's client side was an *animated gif* in an image map. yeh, really. It was insaine. And it actualy worked!. and worked well. It was pretty impressive. Of course, I have ethernet access to the 'net
Well, you can get flash for linux, but Most windows/mac users woudln't need to download anything, and while probably less powerfull then JS/DOM it would provide a *stable* development platform for the guy to work with. crossplatform DHTML can really suck, I should know, I'm happy Autopr0n just shows up in netscape4x (they get fed a blank stylesheet, actualy)
Then your client is a moron... That dosn't mean that IE/Moz wouldn't provide a stable platfrom... and did you think of using Flash (I don't know if it would have provided everything you wanted, personaly I hate flash :P).
How is this any diffrent then any other programming language?
Plumbers of the digital world are still plumbers.
Since the server name is sent as plain text with every page served...
It just means you have to buy a black-market fake-GPS signal generator
since when does register.com == verisign?
they could just supply fake values to the GPS curcit, as could anyone for any purpose. This isn't encryption, its a farce. (and suppose this could be made to work... what would happen if the GPS system whent out of commission for some reason?)
Honestly though, I don't think ole walt will have too much of a problem with what's beccome of his company when he gets defrosted :P
That was quite stupid :P Have you really been clicking the "no score +1 bonus" checkbox all this time?
Aside from the monney grubbing whore that is it's current CEO, Disney has always been just a bit evil. I mean I know that's what corporations do, they co-opt, they commercialize. but there's something a bit more then subtly wrong with the commercialization of children's imagination.
I wonder how many "sciantists" you could get to sign a "anti-evolution" petition. A lot, probably.
The number of "sciantists" who sign an online petition isn't proof of anything.
People who don't think global warming is possible are the same kinds of people who don't belive in evolution, that is to say people who don't belive the obvious scientific evidence in favor of something that is more in synch with their pre-heald beliefs or ideologies.
Yeh, it's possible that global warming isn't happening or isn't caused by humans, but if you look at all the data rather then a few slashdot posts or propaganda from one side or the other, it's pretty clear that the earth is getting warmer, and has been recently, and that there's a resonable chance that we might be causing it.
The towers were designed to withstand a 747 hitting them, and a 747 would have been larger then then the 767 and 757 that actualy hit. So, it was obviously a failure.
For instance in Java there's no way to pass just a primitive like "5" or 2.6 to a method that takes an object while in C# and Smalltalk you can.
No, but you can do myList.add(new Integer(5)); or myList.add(new Double(2.6)); if you want to. Yeh, the semantics are a bit diffrent, but the effect is exactly the same. Also
Really? So
Math.Add(myList.getObjectAtIndex(0), myList.getObjectAtIndex(1));
is easier to read than
Math.Add(myList[0], myList[1])
On what planet?
Um, on earth? "getObjectAtIndex()" actualy tells you what's going on. Of course, those of us who have been programming for a while see "[]" as meaning the same thing. And anyway, it's not "getObjectAtIndex()" but rather just "get()". Not exactly that much harder to type or whatever (especialy since you don't have to leave the 'qwerty' part of the keyboard.
I'm not sure if that was supposed to be a ironic one-liner or not, but unless you work at a games company almost all your code is going to be VB or Java (or COBOL!)