but then I started to really pay attention to the content and actively mine the past articles. they have some really good and thought-provoking stuff. it really is unlike a lot of the more traditional news sources like new york times and washington post. there are articles on the left and right equally. as an independent, I found it refreshing enough to subscribe. and now I spend a lot more time reading material that I don't seem to find anywhere else.
Ms. Betterly says she refuses to send e-mails about adult fare, because it "disgraces society."
porn is purely opt-in. spam is not. the minute I start projecting images of a 70-year old whore getting anal treatment from a 3-legged husky through her dining room window during dinnre is the day she has the right to send unsolicited shit to my inbox.
then make your own damn tivo rip-off and don't deny tivo it's source of revenue. this is the one area that tivo (the company) has deemed sacrosanct. hack all other areas of the tivo, but leave the programming data alone. they don't make money off of the boxes.
...a couple of years back when plasma displays were not viable. the caveats on plasma are the burn-in and contrast. the caveats on LCD projectors is pixel burn in and contrast. if you get a DLP projector, you will get better contrast but you can still get stuck pixels. a decent projector + screen will cost more than a plasma display and last a little longer. if you're looking at a 2:1 cost ratio, though, then buying plasma might make sense because you can get another one cheaper in 3 years anyway.
yes. but tivo and replaytv have the all-important patents. the fact that PVR features are being rolled into cable and sattelite services only means more royalties are headed their way. in the worst-case scenario, they will become IP companies instead of hardware suppliers. but I'll bet they stay in the software side of the business. as it stands, directtv and others are using tivo under the hood.
if what you say is true (and we of the sheep have no reason to doubt), then the EU ranks right up there with the rest of those wrongdoing terrorist organizations and we should exercise our god given right to pre-emptively smite then into oblivion! fetche le hellfire!
Is it still possible to use the Jeode VM that comes with the ROM under the new system? I think the blackdown VM is way too big for the available memory. Plus, the Jeode VM is optimized for this CPU and minimal resources. A blackdown port would take a long time and lack a jitter for a lot longer.
but one reason I'm very interested in the Zaurus is the combination of Linux + Java + small. does the use of OpenZaurus instead of the stock system in any way prevent the use of Java that ships with the unit?
first, this is about the Java Community Process. that means specifications for extensions to the platform, not necessarily the core (though some extensions may become part of future cores).
second, it was always possible to create GPL JVM implementations and even GPL Java Core Libraries. See the classpath project as an example. Nothing new there.
no way an open source product will support the format... and not because they don't want to. think about it.
if they're enforcing a 24 hour playable window from time of download, this can only be enforced via software control. you can't throw in some downloadable atoms that will explode after a day. so that means if an open source program can play it, it can also be recompiled to disable the 24 hour restriction.
right? tell me that's a joke. pooling 'resources' for creditor evasion? ficticious compensation? sounds more like a scam. no wonder these places are dying. they hired people like you.
that was the whole purpose of all that nice abstraction. if you write your own engine then you're basically hard-coding against known assets. bye bye abstraction. the whole idea was to eliminate ugly vendor-specific hooks. but that turned out to be unrealistic for anything beyond the proverbial "hello world" any everyone was back to writing their own engines. so the new spec dispenses with some of the fiction and adds it's own stripped down sql queries. now you get the look of sql, but few of the benefits. and as an added bonus you dispense with the nice object model.
In the end, the whole exercise gets you no closer to a solution with a whole lot of baggage.
but you misunderstood. JDBC isn't the special case. J2EE promotes a special case of JDBC. That special case is one which prevents most of the more interesting uses and locks you into scenarios that are almost guaranteed to have crappy performace characteristics. That's why it's not real world. If you've done any real database work and any real J2EE work, you'd know this.
J2EE is vendor slop. Not only is it overly large, but simultaneously incomplete. The abstractions are useles in the real world because they were designed for the very special case of JDBC databases. And when XML or any other du-jour technology came floating by, they were thrown in, too. Not because it necessarily made sense, but because one or more committee members had a vested interest.
The things that J2EE aims to accomplish can be (and have been) done with far less in a more architecturally palatable (read sensible) and scalable way. Please, please. I hope J2EE dies.
In January, the mayor of Rio threatened to sue a weather forecaster who predicted, wrongly, that there would be storms on New Year's Eve. The weather forecast kept crowds away from one of the biggest festivals of the year.
Do we have a trial-lawyers exchange program with them?
personally, I find the default KDE look and behavior irritating. if Redhat is going to skin it up and make it purty, then more power to 'em.
(for the KDE lovers out there, I find Gnome just about as annoying and "more unintegrated"... it just has a little better graphics). from what I've seen in the pre-release, RH80 has a much more polished and professional UI than anything else out there.
that's an extremely optimistic interpretation of the title given the history of the usage of the words 'then' and 'than' on slashdot. if I have one pet peeve with this crowd, it's the inability of an otherwise bright bunch to grasp the basic usage of these two vastly different words.
are you kidding? it's imminently mockworthy. just like every usage of 'then' instead of 'than' (a word whose demise will be at the hands of slashdot 'authors').
Slashdot Mirror
but then I started to really pay attention to the content and actively mine the past articles. they have some really good and thought-provoking stuff. it really is unlike a lot of the more traditional news sources like new york times and washington post. there are articles on the left and right equally. as an independent, I found it refreshing enough to subscribe. and now I spend a lot more time reading material that I don't seem to find anywhere else.
you're thinking 'median', not average.
Ms. Betterly says she refuses to send e-mails about adult fare, because it "disgraces society."
porn is purely opt-in. spam is not. the minute I start projecting images of a 70-year old whore getting anal treatment from a 3-legged husky through her dining room window during dinnre is the day she has the right to send unsolicited shit to my inbox.
then make your own damn tivo rip-off and don't deny tivo it's source of revenue. this is the one area that tivo (the company) has deemed sacrosanct. hack all other areas of the tivo, but leave the programming data alone. they don't make money off of the boxes.
...a couple of years back when plasma displays were not viable. the caveats on plasma are the burn-in and contrast. the caveats on LCD projectors is pixel burn in and contrast. if you get a DLP projector, you will get better contrast but you can still get stuck pixels. a decent projector + screen will cost more than a plasma display and last a little longer. if you're looking at a 2:1 cost ratio, though, then buying plasma might make sense because you can get another one cheaper in 3 years anyway.
they'll just use the auto-update feature to fix this obvious "bug".
now I can breathe a big sigh of relief. p2p here I come!
yes. but tivo and replaytv have the all-important patents. the fact that PVR features are being rolled into cable and sattelite services only means more royalties are headed their way. in the worst-case scenario, they will become IP companies instead of hardware suppliers. but I'll bet they stay in the software side of the business. as it stands, directtv and others are using tivo under the hood.
But then you`d have literally every other country on the planet against you!
what is this you say? you mean that's not the intent of our current foreign policy? must rethink slavish lemming-like devotion to the party.
if what you say is true (and we of the sheep have no reason to doubt), then the EU ranks right up there with the rest of those wrongdoing terrorist organizations and we should exercise our god given right to pre-emptively smite then into oblivion! fetche le hellfire!
Is it still possible to use the Jeode VM that comes with the ROM under the new system? I think the blackdown VM is way too big for the available memory. Plus, the Jeode VM is optimized for this CPU and minimal resources. A blackdown port would take a long time and lack a jitter for a lot longer.
but one reason I'm very interested in the Zaurus is the combination of Linux + Java + small. does the use of OpenZaurus instead of the stock system in any way prevent the use of Java that ships with the unit?
first, this is about the Java Community Process. that means specifications for extensions to the platform, not necessarily the core (though some extensions may become part of future cores).
second, it was always possible to create GPL JVM implementations and even GPL Java Core Libraries. See the classpath project as an example. Nothing new there.
third, note this quote:
"Sun still has veto power," Driver said.
nuff said.
no way an open source product will support the format... and not because they don't want to. think about it.
if they're enforcing a 24 hour playable window from time of download, this can only be enforced via software control. you can't throw in some downloadable atoms that will explode after a day. so that means if an open source program can play it, it can also be recompiled to disable the 24 hour restriction.
fact: your butt, nose and ears will last a lot longer if you stop picking them.
right? tell me that's a joke. pooling 'resources' for creditor evasion? ficticious compensation? sounds more like a scam. no wonder these places are dying. they hired people like you.
that was the whole purpose of all that nice abstraction. if you write your own engine then you're basically hard-coding against known assets. bye bye abstraction. the whole idea was to eliminate ugly vendor-specific hooks. but that turned out to be unrealistic for anything beyond the proverbial "hello world" any everyone was back to writing their own engines. so the new spec dispenses with some of the fiction and adds it's own stripped down sql queries. now you get the look of sql, but few of the benefits. and as an added bonus you dispense with the nice object model.
In the end, the whole exercise gets you no closer to a solution with a whole lot of baggage.
but you misunderstood. JDBC isn't the special case. J2EE promotes a special case of JDBC. That special case is one which prevents most of the more interesting uses and locks you into scenarios that are almost guaranteed to have crappy performace characteristics. That's why it's not real world. If you've done any real database work and any real J2EE work, you'd know this.
J2EE is vendor slop. Not only is it overly large, but simultaneously incomplete. The abstractions are useles in the real world because they were designed for the very special case of JDBC databases. And when XML or any other du-jour technology came floating by, they were thrown in, too. Not because it necessarily made sense, but because one or more committee members had a vested interest.
The things that J2EE aims to accomplish can be (and have been) done with far less in a more architecturally palatable (read sensible) and scalable way. Please, please. I hope J2EE dies.
In January, the mayor of Rio threatened to sue a weather forecaster who predicted, wrongly, that there would be storms on New Year's Eve. The weather forecast kept crowds away from one of the biggest festivals of the year.
Do we have a trial-lawyers exchange program with them?
clearly you are not up-to-speed on the criminal justice system in singapore.
personally, I find the default KDE look and behavior irritating. if Redhat is going to skin it up and make it purty, then more power to 'em.
... it just has a little better graphics). from what I've seen in the pre-release, RH80 has a much more polished and professional UI than anything else out there.
(for the KDE lovers out there, I find Gnome just about as annoying and "more unintegrated"
that's an extremely optimistic interpretation of the title given the history of the usage of the words 'then' and 'than' on slashdot. if I have one pet peeve with this crowd, it's the inability of an otherwise bright bunch to grasp the basic usage of these two vastly different words.
FYI, I just bought a new dual-1Ghz machine.
sh*t, so did I. I'm screwed.
In any case, it's hardly mockworthy.
are you kidding? it's imminently mockworthy. just like every usage of 'then' instead of 'than' (a word whose demise will be at the hands of slashdot 'authors').