If you were suggesting a comparison of the compiled bytes (as opposed to the generated program structure), the above statement is totally untrue. Compiled code looks different when different compilers or compiler options are chosen; these affect code/data alignment, even the actual opcodes used. Compiler optimizations can also change a program's structure in ways that make comparisons near impossible. The huge number of possible generated variations thus renders such a comparison impractible.
google said there is a crc reverse engineering tutorial at http://www1.lunarpages.com/biw/tuts/crctut1.htm (oh look, it's written by the "c00l guy" "by anarchriz "...;). didn't look at it, but it at least should give some insight into general CRC strategies.
Known under various aliases such as Atom Heart, "DOS Tracks;-)", Flanger (with Bernd Friedman), and Senor Coconut, Uwe Schmidt is one of the most well-known and influencious artists of the present. "rather interesting", his own label, features most of his music; some of his albums were also released on majors.
He mainly produces grooving hyperactive sample tracks with rhythmic sub-basses; so intense it makes you grin with joy and you can't stop...;) But his work is very diverse nevertheless, and there are some real pieces of pop among them. He mainly works with sampling and has a great sense of humour. DOS Tracks is an older album that is pretty cool. Atom Heart is one of his most used aliases. The alias "Geeez 'n' Gosh" was recently used for two albums. Musically, all three are variations of this music style.
The one that most people like is "Senor Coconut", mainly for his (second?) album "El baile aleman" (the german dance). This is Uwe Schmidt producing cover versions of Kraftwerk tracks with a hot south american samba/bossa/rumba style, but everything done with samples. And if this sounds like a cheesy idea to you (it sure did to me), be reassured that the music is great and smooth and relaxed and funny. And on the tour (I saw him in Berlin/Germany) he used a real band, with bongos and an accoustic bass and whatnot, and had a young south american singer with a seducing smile making all the ladies hold their breath, and he was standing bheind his two MPCs... cool live experience. Very professional and entertaining and fun pop music.
Other artists you might want to check out are Boards of Canada (relaxed, warm and sometimes a bit melancholic), SND (abstract/sometimes hyperactive sound bits, more techno/house than electronica), Urban Soul Research (hard to get, but worth it, especially the newer tracks),... And Vladislav Delay (dub techno) who 2 years ago became big and pop, and excited the electronic music scene and made it on magazine covers for the music he releases under the name "Luomo". Very modern and groovy athmospheric house music.
Maybe you should buy yorself some music magazines. Dunno 'bout the american market, they had something called "XLR8R" which was into electronica I think (pretty stupid name by the way). And don't forget to take everything they tell you with a grain of salt, not everything they praise is really worth it.
Ah, and the number one rule in electronic music: Americans Don't Get It. They started to imitate us europeans some years ago but everything they do (esp. their parties) is boring rip-off;)
i thought google already builds results also based on from where you (as a search engine user) are located.
when i lived in austria for a while results for common searches (movies, places to go out) frequently used to include sites with austrian content, which doesn't really happen any more now that i'm back in germany.
i thought it was a common practice, also considering that it's not that hard to implement (you could easily base this filtering logic on the TLD of a site and the IP of the requesting machine).
... that movie and tv producers seem to always employ people to check check medical facts when the plot features doctors and medication stuff (excellent example: ER), but there are very few examples for movie producers doing this with technical stuff? do directors accidentally happen to have a lot of friends being doctors, but no techies?
sheesh. slashdotters, stop nitpicking. now. most comments are pretty boring an non-productive up to now.
Do you hold on to an old 286, even though it could easily crash purely because of its old-hardware, just because it works?
erm.. in my definition, "it works" means, amongst other things, "it does not crash".
Do you hold on to a 1982 Toyota Corolla, just because it works? No. For the safety of you data, and for the safty of your family, you go and get new stuff.
you _can't_ compare creating software with buying a car. this is ridiculous. you _can_ compare _buying_ software with buying a car, though.
on your rationale on how to know if you should rewrite your software -- i think joel says just the same, from a different point of view: one bases the decision whether to do a rewrite or not on a logical set of arguments, trying to foresee if it acually will pay off. he does it based on cost, you do it based on a list of intuitive rules gained by "experience". the difference between these two strategies: you risk putting too much work into the chase for a vision of a "good system" than you really needed to, and he risks getting his numbers wrong (happens just as easy).
so it's maybe a rather philosophical question. i don't believe that most of these kind of questions have a "right" or "wrong" answer. and thats why i think that most of the/.'ers postings re: this article are quite uninteresting.
.. because we no longer can trust what we see on the desktop.
you would be able to discard the true identity of a file from the user. like renaming 'evil_virus.exe' to 'naked.gif', giving it the standard icon of a.gif file, but keeping the meta-information ("windows exectuable"). No user will check the meta information before clicking on this file.
Previous case law has held that the following are fair uses of copyrighted materials:
[...]
Format-shifting.
Would that mean that the downloading of MP3s is considered fair use for the purpose of transferring them to your MP3-player? (as long as you possess the original record of yourse.)
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If you were suggesting a comparison of the compiled bytes (as opposed to the generated program structure), the above statement is totally untrue. Compiled code looks different when different compilers or compiler options are chosen; these affect code/data alignment, even the actual opcodes used. Compiler optimizations can also change a program's structure in ways that make comparisons near impossible. The huge number of possible generated variations thus renders such a comparison impractible.
They already made it. Twice.
google said there is a crc reverse engineering tutorial at http://www1.lunarpages.com/biw/tuts/crctut1.htm (oh look, it's written by the "c00l guy" "by anarchriz "... ;). didn't look at it, but it at least should give some insight into general CRC strategies.
His homepage is http://www.atom-heart.com/
He mainly produces grooving hyperactive sample tracks with rhythmic sub-basses; so intense it makes you grin with joy and you can't stop... ;) But his work is very diverse nevertheless, and there are some real pieces of pop among them. He mainly works with sampling and has a great sense of humour. DOS Tracks is an older album that is pretty cool. Atom Heart is one of his most used aliases. The alias "Geeez 'n' Gosh" was recently used for two albums. Musically, all three are variations of this music style.
The one that most people like is "Senor Coconut", mainly for his (second?) album "El baile aleman" (the german dance). This is Uwe Schmidt producing cover versions of Kraftwerk tracks with a hot south american samba/bossa/rumba style, but everything done with samples. And if this sounds like a cheesy idea to you (it sure did to me), be reassured that the music is great and smooth and relaxed and funny. And on the tour (I saw him in Berlin/Germany) he used a real band, with bongos and an accoustic bass and whatnot, and had a young south american singer with a seducing smile making all the ladies hold their breath, and he was standing bheind his two MPCs... cool live experience. Very professional and entertaining and fun pop music.
Other artists you might want to check out are Boards of Canada (relaxed, warm and sometimes a bit melancholic), SND (abstract/sometimes hyperactive sound bits, more techno/house than electronica), Urban Soul Research (hard to get, but worth it, especially the newer tracks), ... And Vladislav Delay (dub techno) who 2 years ago became big and pop, and excited the electronic music scene and made it on magazine covers for the music he releases under the name "Luomo". Very modern and groovy athmospheric house music.
Maybe you should buy yorself some music magazines. Dunno 'bout the american market, they had something called "XLR8R" which was into electronica I think (pretty stupid name by the way). And don't forget to take everything they tell you with a grain of salt, not everything they praise is really worth it.
Ah, and the number one rule in electronic music: Americans Don't Get It. They started to imitate us europeans some years ago but everything they do (esp. their parties) is boring rip-off ;)
when i lived in austria for a while results for common searches (movies, places to go out) frequently used to include sites with austrian content, which doesn't really happen any more now that i'm back in germany.
i thought it was a common practice, also considering that it's not that hard to implement (you could easily base this filtering logic on the TLD of a site and the IP of the requesting machine).
... that movie and tv producers seem to always employ people to check check medical facts when the plot features doctors and medication stuff (excellent example: ER), but there are very few examples for movie producers doing this with technical stuff? do directors accidentally happen to have a lot of friends being doctors, but no techies?
kchhrr.
Do you hold on to an old 286, even though it could easily crash purely because of its old-hardware, just because it works?
erm.. in my definition, "it works" means, amongst other things, "it does not crash".
Do you hold on to a 1982 Toyota Corolla, just because it works? No. For the safety of you data, and for the safty of your family, you go and get new stuff.
you _can't_ compare creating software with buying a car. this is ridiculous. you _can_ compare _buying_ software with buying a car, though.
on your rationale on how to know if you should rewrite your software -- i think joel says just the same, from a different point of view: one bases the decision whether to do a rewrite or not on a logical set of arguments, trying to foresee if it acually will pay off. he does it based on cost, you do it based on a list of intuitive rules gained by "experience". the difference between these two strategies: you risk putting too much work into the chase for a vision of a "good system" than you really needed to, and he risks getting his numbers wrong (happens just as easy).
so it's maybe a rather philosophical question. i don't believe that most of these kind of questions have a "right" or "wrong" answer. and thats why i think that most of the /.'ers postings re: this article are quite uninteresting.
.. because we no longer can trust what we see on the desktop. you would be able to discard the true identity of a file from the user. like renaming 'evil_virus.exe' to 'naked.gif', giving it the standard icon of a .gif file, but keeping the meta-information ("windows exectuable"). No user will check the meta information before clicking on this file.
Previous case law has held that the following are fair uses of copyrighted materials:
[...]
Format-shifting.
Would that mean that the downloading of MP3s is considered fair use for the purpose of transferring them to your MP3-player? (as long as you possess the original record of yourse.)