Is that most programs end up in the "beta" stage. There's only enough incentive to get a program working to do whatever you needed it to do, and then move on.
I myself am guilty of this, having written a fairly ingenious program that compresses the N64 rom set by about 60% (compressors likw zip/winrar only seem to get about 15%). After which I never really got it polished enough for the average joe to use.
I'm a liberal by almost every definition and i can't stand the *constant* moralizing on star trek. The problem is, the moralizing isn't *REAL* moralizing its just a *stupid* plot device moralizing. Everytime there's an easy way out of a situation they can't take it because of their morals. Gee guys, you're a military orginzation, make the tough decisions.
I don't live in LA -- but I live a couple counties away and as such am aware of a lot of the issues that go on there. The police department has been agressively seeking new funding. They recently proposed a half cent sales tax increase in LA county to fund new police officers. You can imagine how well that went. The police chief (whose name I cant recall ATM) spread a LOT of FUD about how people were going to die if they didn't pass this measure. I suspect this is actually the doings of a greedy police force.
hyperthreading already executes two threads at once, theoretically these machines (if they have hyperthreading cores) will execute *4* threads simultaneously.
Its really more of a "2 wrongs doesn't make a right situation". The media companies are demonstrably corrupt and monopolistic, have been convicted of such, and yet our government is in league with them. Do you recall a few years ago when the media companies were convicted of price fixing to the tune of something like 5 billion dollars? And their fine was, 150million-ish? Shouldn't the punnishment for a crime exceed the reward?
At *worst* p2p users *AND* media companies are criminals. But another passenger is disembarking the cluetrain -- in a monopoly market, piracy/theft is the *ONLY* price competition. Why do you think they keep those ink cartridges in the little booth at officemax?
In every revolution laws are broken... Face it, theres no great battles to be fought, my generations revolutions are that of refinement:) That being said, what I do is this: I download *tons* of music, and movies. I buy what I like, delete the rest. A lot of it is indy stuff, a lot isn't. I really don't feel thres anything wrong with this. I have maybe 150 cds I *hate* from when I was a kid -- I bought them becuase I liked one song I heard on the radio (and I didnt even listen to "pop" when I was a kid, I listened to jazz and the local jazz station!). Now granted I have 150 cds I do like quite a bit as well bought when I was a kid. But the point is... why are things like that? *ANY* product you buy you can return if it doesn't work as advertised, or if it doesn't work at all, or is fradulent, you can return it. You can even return BOOKS. But somehow cds and movies, you can't return them when they are horrible?
My uncle makes a hobby of finding airplanes which have crashed, so he had some of the first GPS's there were as he literally almost died a few times not being able to find his way out of the desert, or the less serious problem of finding an airplane, then *never* being able to find it again.
If I remember correctly *HIS* first GPS was more the size of a small notebook computer, and cost about that much to. Also in the older models they could only track a small number of satelites, so the lock was much less accurate. I think any modern one can lock up to 12 satelites...
anyways, just wanted to point out that the gameboy sized ones were actually a MASSIVE improvement over the original ones:)
You don't understand the real implications of P2P, hopefully, the mods do. Companies only have a *PASSING* interest in preventing you from downloading their material for free: Good Movies/Music almost always make money. They know all they have to do to make money is make good products.
What they WANT to protect -- is the distribution channel. I've been able to expose myself to musicians from all over the world and new types of music I couldn't even imagine before. None of this music and none of this creativity was avaliable through the media cartels. Once people realize they can get *BETTER* music directly from artists they like, media companies are over. Thats what scares them about P2P.
Right now its music, but in 10 years, It will be film as well.
So are you trying to say that something like setting the max fine for copying a single DVD ($250,000), and Bush wanting a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages, from the worst possible medical malpractice is out of whack? What are you, a commie?
Thats a good pointa actually, I wanna address that. A friend of mine was literally sentenced to death by an HMO. He had cancer -- they knew about the cancer, and said nothing. He has the documents, and X-rays that proved they knew about it years before it made him sick. The maximum malpractice award he was able to win was $100,000. Basically thats what his life is worth. Thats also what a dvd is worth apparently?
I was once interviewed for a sysadmin position by a SECRETARY. It was horrible, I as *very* well qualified for the position but she literally was no more then a word user. The answers to questions like "Can you do websites?" and "Do you have windows experience?" were completely above her.
You're missing the point. We supposedly live in a free society and in a free society people aren't allowed to own and control words.
Louis Vuitton spends a lot of money building a brand name? *FINE*. But that doesn't obligate the couty system to protect all uses of the phrase "louis vuitton". The only legal protection he should have is -- people can't call THEIR products lous vuitton.
We could extended the same argument, since Louis Vuitton spends a fortune advertising his name, why should people be allowed to speak negatively about his products? After all, he "spent a lot of years and a lot of money builing up" his brand name. You, and the french, are ridiculous.
I would expect this from the french, they have a "planned" economy, over 50% of the employees are state employees.
I just was pointing out a few foibles of python/weakly typed variables, pros and cons, as the grandparent seemed mystified how anyone could program without strong typing:) The grandparent is incorrect in his assertion as well that python has no way to declare a variable, one simply does "myvar = None" and that name/scope is created with no value:) I do it quite frequently for documentation, or make sure a variable has the intended locality.
I would seriously do that. I think people want a return to reliable appliances.
I vote for: Toasters, for gods sake make good toasters. The entire time I was growing up my house had *1* toaster. It broke, and now every 6 months I buy a new one because they break that fast. You cannot but a good toaster at target, sears, jc penny, walmart, for any price. I suspect i could get a good toaster from some kind of chef supply, which I shall endeavour to find the next time mine breaks:)
I am a fairly seasoned python programmer, and I agree, however there are two sides to that coin.
Python forces you to be a *better* programmer by forcing you to *know* what types of variables your functions expect. How many times have you seen a crappy programmer trying to figure out what a C++ object wants by slapping &'s and *'s and coercions infront of an object until the compiler didn't complain anymore? Loosely bound typing *rocks*.
What does NOT rock, is undeclared variables. It play HAVOC with namespaces, consider the following scenario:
1 v = 0
2 def myfunc():
3 v = 1
4 for v in range(0, 10)
5 somefunc(v)
The situation is at best ambiguous. How many "v" variables exist? in C there would be 2 v's, the global and loop variable (line 3 would be an assignment). In python resolution is supposed to travel up the name space, so is line 3 an assignment or creation?
What does rock about python though, is multiple return types. I hate creating structs in C everytime I need to return more the one piece of information, ie you can do this:
There's a GREAT SNL skit from the late 80's I want to say with the phil hartman cast... There's a town meeting describing that the towns economy is based on finding "magic fish" that grant wishes. The townspeople are coplainig that the fish are getting harder and harder to find, and the ones that do the quality of them is rotten. If I remember correctly, someone says, "I caught a magic fish the other day, and I asked him for a golden rocketship with diamond windows to take me to the moon! You know what that fish said? He started talking to me about weight ratios and how gold wasn't any good to build a space ship with! SO I bashed his head in on a rock!!"
Anyways, at the end of the thing Phil Hartman stands up at the meeting and says, "I think we need to transition to a non magic fish based economy." It's one of the best SNL skits ever (and Im the first one to admit SNL sucks).
Also, I think the magic fish draws a nice parallel to our currently *debt* financed economy (national debt, CC debt, SS debt, medicare debt, etc). But its mostly just for fun:)
Cairo never existed... it was a scare tactic to get people to skip upgrading to novels new netware product. I believe they have pretty much admitted this?
Yep. There's an infinite ammount of free work out there, as soon as you start charging people stop calling.
I have relatives, friends, neighbors, people ive met once, friends of people ive met once, former co-workers, all clogging up my inbox and cell phone with messages about this and that. However, when you tell them you're going to charge them suddenly they stop calling.
The real problem with taking money is: it formalizes your relationship with that person. People suddenly think when they hand you $75 they own you. Pretty soon everytime their mouse runs out of batteries they'll be calling you.
You're right of course though. But dont you feel that contributes to the huckster atmosphere of the whole place? Every time I find something I want the shipping charge is a joke.
That's the real problem with hyperthreading. Running 2 processes at once (in the sense that it does, anyways) blows up your cache. You really need 2 seperate caches or a muhc much larger one.
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Yea, have you seen the guys who put up a piece of electronics, and then tell you you're bidding on a PHOTO (in small print) of said electronics that would be delivered via e-mail?. I like to make fake accounts and bid astronomical ammounts on these and never pay -- to jack up their final value fees.
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I myself am guilty of this, having written a fairly ingenious program that compresses the N64 rom set by about 60% (compressors likw zip/winrar only seem to get about 15%). After which I never really got it polished enough for the average joe to use.
Facts shmacts. Facts can prove anything thats remotely true.
I'm a liberal by almost every definition and i can't stand the *constant* moralizing on star trek. The problem is, the moralizing isn't *REAL* moralizing its just a *stupid* plot device moralizing. Everytime there's an easy way out of a situation they can't take it because of their morals. Gee guys, you're a military orginzation, make the tough decisions.
I don't live in LA -- but I live a couple counties away and as such am aware of a lot of the issues that go on there. The police department has been agressively seeking new funding. They recently proposed a half cent sales tax increase in LA county to fund new police officers. You can imagine how well that went. The police chief (whose name I cant recall ATM) spread a LOT of FUD about how people were going to die if they didn't pass this measure. I suspect this is actually the doings of a greedy police force.
hyperthreading already executes two threads at once, theoretically these machines (if they have hyperthreading cores) will execute *4* threads simultaneously.
At *worst* p2p users *AND* media companies are criminals. But another passenger is disembarking the cluetrain -- in a monopoly market, piracy/theft is the *ONLY* price competition. Why do you think they keep those ink cartridges in the little booth at officemax?
In every revolution laws are broken... Face it, theres no great battles to be fought, my generations revolutions are that of refinement :) That being said, what I do is this: I download *tons* of music, and movies. I buy what I like, delete the rest. A lot of it is indy stuff, a lot isn't. I really don't feel thres anything wrong with this. I have maybe 150 cds I *hate* from when I was a kid -- I bought them becuase I liked one song I heard on the radio (and I didnt even listen to "pop" when I was a kid, I listened to jazz and the local jazz station!). Now granted I have 150 cds I do like quite a bit as well bought when I was a kid. But the point is ... why are things like that? *ANY* product you buy you can return if it doesn't work as advertised, or if it doesn't work at all, or is fradulent, you can return it. You can even return BOOKS. But somehow cds and movies, you can't return them when they are horrible?
Unfourtanately this was really before the days of the internet. I could try to find out more though if you are interested :)
If I remember correctly *HIS* first GPS was more the size of a small notebook computer, and cost about that much to. Also in the older models they could only track a small number of satelites, so the lock was much less accurate. I think any modern one can lock up to 12 satelites...
anyways, just wanted to point out that the gameboy sized ones were actually a MASSIVE improvement over the original ones :)
You don't understand the real implications of P2P, hopefully, the mods do. Companies only have a *PASSING* interest in preventing you from downloading their material for free: Good Movies/Music almost always make money. They know all they have to do to make money is make good products.
What they WANT to protect -- is the distribution channel. I've been able to expose myself to musicians from all over the world and new types of music I couldn't even imagine before. None of this music and none of this creativity was avaliable through the media cartels. Once people realize they can get *BETTER* music directly from artists they like, media companies are over. Thats what scares them about P2P.
Right now its music, but in 10 years, It will be film as well.
Thats a good pointa actually, I wanna address that. A friend of mine was literally sentenced to death by an HMO. He had cancer -- they knew about the cancer, and said nothing. He has the documents, and X-rays that proved they knew about it years before it made him sick. The maximum malpractice award he was able to win was $100,000. Basically thats what his life is worth. Thats also what a dvd is worth apparently?
I was once interviewed for a sysadmin position by a SECRETARY. It was horrible, I as *very* well qualified for the position but she literally was no more then a word user. The answers to questions like "Can you do websites?" and "Do you have windows experience?" were completely above her.
Shopplifting: not a threat to said corporations.
P2P social revolution: threat.
From that perspective, its quite easy to see WHY the penalties are set up the way they are.
Louis Vuitton spends a lot of money building a brand name? *FINE*. But that doesn't obligate the couty system to protect all uses of the phrase "louis vuitton". The only legal protection he should have is -- people can't call THEIR products lous vuitton.
We could extended the same argument, since Louis Vuitton spends a fortune advertising his name, why should people be allowed to speak negatively about his products? After all, he "spent a lot of years and a lot of money builing up" his brand name. You, and the french, are ridiculous.
I would expect this from the french, they have a "planned" economy, over 50% of the employees are state employees.
Yep, I cant tell you how many interviews ive been to and been asked, "Do you know what a makefile is?"
They grin and say, "you'd be surprised..."
I just was pointing out a few foibles of python/weakly typed variables, pros and cons, as the grandparent seemed mystified how anyone could program without strong typing :) The grandparent is incorrect in his assertion as well that python has no way to declare a variable, one simply does "myvar = None" and that name/scope is created with no value :) I do it quite frequently for documentation, or make sure a variable has the intended locality.
I vote for: Toasters, for gods sake make good toasters. The entire time I was growing up my house had *1* toaster. It broke, and now every 6 months I buy a new one because they break that fast. You cannot but a good toaster at target, sears, jc penny, walmart, for any price. I suspect i could get a good toaster from some kind of chef supply, which I shall endeavour to find the next time mine breaks :)
Python forces you to be a *better* programmer by forcing you to *know* what types of variables your functions expect. How many times have you seen a crappy programmer trying to figure out what a C++ object wants by slapping &'s and *'s and coercions infront of an object until the compiler didn't complain anymore? Loosely bound typing *rocks*.
What does NOT rock, is undeclared variables. It play HAVOC with namespaces, consider the following scenario:
1 v = 0
2 def myfunc():
3 v = 1
4 for v in range(0, 10)
5 somefunc(v)
The situation is at best ambiguous. How many "v" variables exist? in C there would be 2 v's, the global and loop variable (line 3 would be an assignment). In python resolution is supposed to travel up the name space, so is line 3 an assignment or creation?
What does rock about python though, is multiple return types. I hate creating structs in C everytime I need to return more the one piece of information, ie you can do this:
x, y, z = getCords()
Anyways, at the end of the thing Phil Hartman stands up at the meeting and says, "I think we need to transition to a non magic fish based economy." It's one of the best SNL skits ever (and Im the first one to admit SNL sucks).
Also, I think the magic fish draws a nice parallel to our currently *debt* financed economy (national debt, CC debt, SS debt, medicare debt, etc). But its mostly just for fun :)
Cairo never existed... it was a scare tactic to get people to skip upgrading to novels new netware product. I believe they have pretty much admitted this?
I have relatives, friends, neighbors, people ive met once, friends of people ive met once, former co-workers, all clogging up my inbox and cell phone with messages about this and that. However, when you tell them you're going to charge them suddenly they stop calling.
The real problem with taking money is: it formalizes your relationship with that person. People suddenly think when they hand you $75 they own you. Pretty soon everytime their mouse runs out of batteries they'll be calling you.
So youre saying its not that useful then?
OH oh! and we should have a secret word to call scott by so when we need another fan we'll know ... say "Broktune"?
(10 points if you get it)
You're right of course though. But dont you feel that contributes to the huckster atmosphere of the whole place? Every time I find something I want the shipping charge is a joke.
That's the real problem with hyperthreading. Running 2 processes at once (in the sense that it does, anyways) blows up your cache. You really need 2 seperate caches or a muhc much larger one.