Some other hungry family gets to eat only this time an impressionable and vulnerable child isn't exploited in the process. There is a lot of need in the world, even right here in the United States.
"I personally find that writing debug and informational messages about every 2 to 5 lines works well for debugging an issue"
Learn to use a debugger. What you are doing is backwards. The logger is meant to help out when the application you are working on is being executed remotly and attaching a debugger isnt practical or desirable.
There is no code in the world that I can think of that needs a log line after every two steps in a procedure.
I am guessing that the reason is that the format cannot be replicated in current home theater setups. This is a two fold win for the studios as 1. it gives people an incentive to get off their couches and into the cineplex and 2. it makes it close to impossible for pirates to toss up on torrent sites.
The author is simply trolling for page hits. I mean come on the tile gives it away... it is a purely polemical position. Of COURSE Open Source hasn't jumped the shark... please. This guys argument is that because open standards are universally considered a "good thing" the use of such terms in advertising means it not be. Talk about idiocy.
Never underestimate the power of the couch. People are lazy... if they can click a link to download a movie rather than expending energy tying their shoes to go to the store they will. Why would anyone pay $4 for a gallon of milk at a convenience store? Lazy Americans love convenience.
I was thinking the same thing. The word is PLAYED. If was "hip" in the beginning and gave the person who used it a certain linguistic gravitas but now people make up bullshit just to squeeze the word into their articles, blogs and evening meals. Its like the word plethora or pedantic.
And WHY exactly would you want this code to run faster? Its bottle necked by the fact that it has to wait for iTunes to decrypt the file as it plays. The application is simply grabbing frames from memory using an attached debugger. Tell me why you would want to optimize such a trivial operation? To eek out another 100th of a millisecond?
I love C but there is NOTHING wrong with using interpreted languages in most cases.
I emailed them about their search feature not working. Within 10 minutes I got this reply:
Thanks for writing! Our servers are getting BURIED because of the slashdot
post. Working on getting everything working correctly shortly. Just a HUGE
load. Thanks for your patience.
ALB SUPPORT:: http://www.audiolunchbox.com
Give them a break. They have music... we just cant get to it now because we are killing thier servers!
It is absolutely ridiculous that our rights (to free trade in this instance) in the United States are treated so lightly by our government.
At every opportunity it seems the president is reinforcing "his commitment to spreading freedom throughout the world" yet it takes a foreign power to ultimately prove how hollow that sentiment is.
When compared against Europe and Japan, the United States commitment to protecting its citizenry from overbearing coorperate powers is shown lacking time and again. I for one an tired of the hypocrisy.
Its shameful that I have to look to another country with hope that something will be done to curb the monopolistic amoral appetite of these coorperations.
For now I can only say "go Japan!". I'm embarrased by the entire predicament.
This is nonesense. It has always been RMS contention that the free sharing of source code is the crux of the free software movement. If someone is allowed to take open source code, add useful propriatary enhancements to it and fork it as an entirely closed source product the original authors work could be lost forever as the fork is adopted over the open sourced solution and contines down its own independant development path.
The BSD license and others like it do not protect the software its attched to from being hijacked.
This absolutely floors me. Lamos wasn;t involved in virus writing or propogation; he broke into the NYTimes database and exposed security holes in their system.
PLEASE know what the he(double hockey stick) you are taling about before posting nonsense. It lends nothing to the discussion but FUD.
Do you work for SCO?
This may come as a suprise to many people here but some people LIKE the way linux works. Just because Windows has a lions share of the market doesn't mean it has a superior design... I think a certain company's business practices are more likely the reason why.
I for one beleive that that users would eventually become acclimated to which ever desktop they choose, but that choice shouldn't be stripped away; it part of this communities appeal.
KDE and Gnome act fairly predictably now; I'm not a fan of Redhat's bluecurve at all. Why bother packaging two desktop enviornments at all if both are coded to behave identically?
The company I work for has adopted MSN instant messanger as our "offical client". We have a heterogenous network.
Why you ask? Because its tighly integrated into Excahnge.
What I have a problem with is Microsoft using the bait and switch game they are so famous for. They tighly bundle their products into things you NEED, allow you to become acclimated and then pull the rug out when they know you can't back out.
We've been through this before... I just WISH the government would wake up!
I think Richard Bartle has lost touch with what role playing's origins. If we apply his logic to pen and paper games we see how flawed his argument really is. Afterall how many of us sat around the table throwing dice passing written notes back and forth explaining what our chacters were doing/saying? I think "voice communication" was as acceptable then as it remains now.
I think people are becomming a little TOO immersed in the digital world and forgeting that there are analog analogies to some of these problems.
Think people.
I doubt that most people in these games are concernied about character development anyway... its all about the amount of "stuff" you can gather. Those geeks that are into playing out their bvirtual cahracters arent going to be disuaded by the fact that voice has been introduced into the game. I wasn't when I role played my Theif in 1988...
Yeah... I'm placed in this position (which I'd call on my back) all too often. Marketing departments and people in charge of financial decisions don't know or CARE to know about "proper coding techniques"; all they care about is getting their product or promotion or whatever out the door with a shiney bow on it so they can show it off to their boss.
Knowing that they won't bite if I tell them I can hack together something in x hours I ALWAYS pad my estimates. If the customer pushes I force them to sign-off on the project and I fully disclose all risks associated with the accelerated pace. I tell them that the code won't be as extensible and will probably cost more to maintain... I also make sure they know that I cannot ensure thats its secure. This normally scares them into compliance... their jobs all of a sudden seem more important than the kudos they were expecting for getting the product pushed fater.
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Some other hungry family gets to eat only this time an impressionable and vulnerable child isn't exploited in the process. There is a lot of need in the world, even right here in the United States.
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"I personally find that writing debug and informational messages about every 2 to 5 lines works well for debugging an issue" Learn to use a debugger. What you are doing is backwards. The logger is meant to help out when the application you are working on is being executed remotly and attaching a debugger isnt practical or desirable. There is no code in the world that I can think of that needs a log line after every two steps in a procedure.
I am guessing that the reason is that the format cannot be replicated in current home theater setups. This is a two fold win for the studios as 1. it gives people an incentive to get off their couches and into the cineplex and 2. it makes it close to impossible for pirates to toss up on torrent sites.
The author is simply trolling for page hits. I mean come on the tile gives it away... it is a purely polemical position. Of COURSE Open Source hasn't jumped the shark... please. This guys argument is that because open standards are universally considered a "good thing" the use of such terms in advertising means it not be. Talk about idiocy.
Never underestimate the power of the couch. People are lazy... if they can click a link to download a movie rather than expending energy tying their shoes to go to the store they will. Why would anyone pay $4 for a gallon of milk at a convenience store? Lazy Americans love convenience.
... or gravitas. (before someone beat me to it)
I was thinking the same thing. The word is PLAYED. If was "hip" in the beginning and gave the person who used it a certain linguistic gravitas but now people make up bullshit just to squeeze the word into their articles, blogs and evening meals. Its like the word plethora or pedantic.
And WHY exactly would you want this code to run faster? Its bottle necked by the fact that it has to wait for iTunes to decrypt the file as it plays. The application is simply grabbing frames from memory using an attached debugger. Tell me why you would want to optimize such a trivial operation? To eek out another 100th of a millisecond? I love C but there is NOTHING wrong with using interpreted languages in most cases.
I thought LCD technology was being replaced by DLP? Is this not the case?
Thanks for writing! Our servers are getting BURIED because of the slashdot post. Working on getting everything working correctly shortly. Just a HUGE load. Thanks for your patience.
ALB SUPPORT :: http://www.audiolunchbox.com
Give them a break. They have music... we just cant get to it now because we are killing thier servers!It seems as though this jig may be close to over. Lets hope this isnt just a rumor:
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http://www.newsforge.com/trends/04/03/08/0457259.
Youre arugument is faulty because it compromises one individuals freedom (the stomped upon business) for another (the monopoly).
Following your logic it would be a breech of my rights if the government prevented me from shooting my neighbor or digging up his bushes.
It is important to remember there are TWO parties involded here.
It is absolutely ridiculous that our rights (to free trade in this instance) in the United States are treated so lightly by our government.
At every opportunity it seems the president is reinforcing "his commitment to spreading freedom throughout the world" yet it takes a foreign power to ultimately prove how hollow that sentiment is.
When compared against Europe and Japan, the United States commitment to protecting its citizenry from overbearing coorperate powers is shown lacking time and again. I for one an tired of the hypocrisy.
Its shameful that I have to look to another country with hope that something will be done to curb the monopolistic amoral appetite of these coorperations.
For now I can only say "go Japan!". I'm embarrased by the entire predicament.
This is nonesense. It has always been RMS contention that the free sharing of source code is the crux of the free software movement. If someone is allowed to take open source code, add useful propriatary enhancements to it and fork it as an entirely closed source product the original authors work could be lost forever as the fork is adopted over the open sourced solution and contines down its own independant development path. The BSD license and others like it do not protect the software its attched to from being hijacked.
This absolutely floors me. Lamos wasn;t involved in virus writing or propogation; he broke into the NYTimes database and exposed security holes in their system. PLEASE know what the he(double hockey stick) you are taling about before posting nonsense. It lends nothing to the discussion but FUD. Do you work for SCO?
HyperTextTransferProtocol
This may come as a suprise to many people here but some people LIKE the way linux works. Just because Windows has a lions share of the market doesn't mean it has a superior design... I think a certain company's business practices are more likely the reason why.
I for one beleive that that users would eventually become acclimated to which ever desktop they choose, but that choice shouldn't be stripped away; it part of this communities appeal.
KDE and Gnome act fairly predictably now; I'm not a fan of Redhat's bluecurve at all. Why bother packaging two desktop enviornments at all if both are coded to behave identically?
Except that:
The company I work for has adopted MSN instant messanger as our "offical client". We have a heterogenous network.
Why you ask? Because its tighly integrated into Excahnge.
What I have a problem with is Microsoft using the bait and switch game they are so famous for. They tighly bundle their products into things you NEED, allow you to become acclimated and then pull the rug out when they know you can't back out.
We've been through this before... I just WISH the government would wake up!
I think Richard Bartle has lost touch with what role playing's origins. If we apply his logic to pen and paper games we see how flawed his argument really is. Afterall how many of us sat around the table throwing dice passing written notes back and forth explaining what our chacters were doing/saying? I think "voice communication" was as acceptable then as it remains now. I think people are becomming a little TOO immersed in the digital world and forgeting that there are analog analogies to some of these problems. Think people. I doubt that most people in these games are concernied about character development anyway... its all about the amount of "stuff" you can gather. Those geeks that are into playing out their bvirtual cahracters arent going to be disuaded by the fact that voice has been introduced into the game. I wasn't when I role played my Theif in 1988...
Yeah... I'm placed in this position (which I'd call on my back) all too often. Marketing departments and people in charge of financial decisions don't know or CARE to know about "proper coding techniques"; all they care about is getting their product or promotion or whatever out the door with a shiney bow on it so they can show it off to their boss. Knowing that they won't bite if I tell them I can hack together something in x hours I ALWAYS pad my estimates. If the customer pushes I force them to sign-off on the project and I fully disclose all risks associated with the accelerated pace. I tell them that the code won't be as extensible and will probably cost more to maintain... I also make sure they know that I cannot ensure thats its secure. This normally scares them into compliance... their jobs all of a sudden seem more important than the kudos they were expecting for getting the product pushed fater.
Perhaps you should rethink yourself. How many superheros do you know that have even come down with a cold? Methinks we should disect superman next.