They are asking money for a download and do not mention anything about free software. Although it might be legal in that they give the source to paid customers who ask for it, it's still shady. Better install fink and get/build a free version of X11 gimp.
Now people with a library that can not completely fit on the device will lose content they paid for. And people with expensive rocket eBooks in perfect working condition will not be able to buy new content for their device because it will come with its own, incompatible DRM. Now can you see legitimate uses for Dimitry's "advanced e-book processor"?
The only good news is that this particular group of screwed customers is rich. Just maybe they can really get on the case of fair use and make their voices heard by the government.
You are copying a file to free pages, so there is no need to log them. Only meta information needs to be logged. On the other hand, overwritting an existing 100G file with new data would be a problem.
The bigger question is "when does commit happen?". Existing journaled filesystems just commit from time to time, with limited control from the user (sync). They can always commit when you run low on space, so you still get to use most of the drive's capacity. It would be nice to let a process start a transaction and then commit or rollback explicitely, but I don't know if Microsoft will do it.
I use journaling and still get filesystem corruption that is not automatically fixed (like overlapped extent allocation) once in a while. On the other hand, HFS+ seems to already use a B-tree and file search is quite fast.
How can third parties provide bug fixes and enchancements for Microsoft products? As for Microsoft Australia and retail stores, they take NN% of the profit, and NN is probably less than 50. With OSS, it can be 100% local investment - not to mention free work done all of the world.
If the government buys Microsoft software, it will have to pay for software and ALSO have to pay for support only available from a single source and outside the country. If it buys open source software, it only has to pay for support and has a variety of competing companies, including investing tax money back into local economy. A government has a duty to minimize costs and if possible re-invest money into local economy, don't you think?
Now consider a private business or a citizen. If a government produces documents using proprietory software, s\he will probably also have to use the same proprietory software. If OSS is used, multiple commercial vendors will support it and people will be able to access the data using OSS software without spending additional money and on the platform of their choice.
I am not saying all software should be open source. Some projects are so expensive (think realistic 3d games) or unpleasent (think Cobol IDE) to program that the cost can only be recovered with large scale software sales. But if the open source is already available, the government should take advantage of it to save costs for itself and for private entities it interacts with.
The most likely outcome is that you will get even more work and all the unpleasent projects because the manager will assume you are going to leave anyway. Also, you will be on the top of layoff list for the same reason.
If the company can not afford to lose you, just decide what is a reasonable workload for your salary, social life and work enjoyment and stick to it. You are unlikely to get fired just for staying professional.
As for looking for new job, well you should always do it if you think your company is in trouble or you are not satisfied with your current work. It's already implied that you might leave, just like that you might get laid off. There is no need to say it explicitely.
... makes you work 50-60 hour weeks and generally treats you like dirt, you should also gather the best minds and organize a mass expodus. Loyalty is good, undeserved loyalty is stupid. Consider that it doesn't have to be based on self-interest, just appreciation of whatever/whoever you are loyal to and there is no need for exceptions.
When presented with this particular course project. For unawares, the instuction does:
if ((*addr1 - *addr2) < 0) goto addr3;
No opcode is needed, just 3 words. The professor was pretty mad, but the "CPU" did run all the sample programs. Multiplication subroutine is left as an excersize to the reader.
Now the cool thing is that you shouldn't need a factory, FPGA or anything like that to make this CPU, just a soldering iron and some transistors. Anything like that out there?
Like abortion. Although I am not a woman, I imagine it would really suck to give birth against your will, when there is a simple medical solution. More than not being able to copy a CD for example. So for that alone I would never support a republican candidate, unless s\he explicitely disawowed this part of party platform.
Or social programs. We are a wealthy country right? We will not actually let people starve to death or go without medical care. Or let them sleep without a roof. RIGHT???
Or control of parents over children. Surely a 16 year old shouldn't be spanked for dating a person that his/her parents do not approve. Or forced into a religion, a particular profession, a particular dress code and so on.
Or death penalty. Most murderers kill in the heat of passion, yet so called doctors deliver a lethal injection in cold blood, to a person that doesn't present any threat to society in a high-security single cell.
The way I see it, higher taxes is a small price to pay for less harassment in personal life or help if I somehow screw up. Even Democrats kind of suck, but you can only choose the best option from what's available.
Without patents, there would be consortiums
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As it is, inventors rarely make money from patents. They usually have to hand them over to the employer and just get a fixed salary. So individuals won't lose much.
Of course, there would be problems like motivating companies to join the consortium rather than just waiting for others to develop the technology. But the patent system has many problems as well. Who knows which is worse?
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You see a story and then you see again. This happens when THEY make changes to the program.
The authors might not have admin access to the server to configure secure NFS. Or for that matter an installed compiler to install samba and tunnel it over ssh. Just shell access and instructions on using pine. And a sysadmin who will need a shot of brandy after hearing about students/employees running a remote filesystem. He might even be right, considering how NFS lets clients pick a userid to access files or uses inode numbers as handles.
There are a lot of projects like this. Linux used to have term and later a user-level PPP daemon to forward socket calls over a serial line, when the admin could have easily installed the real thing. At one point I had to write a rather complicated tool to forward incoming requests from the internet to a host inside an http-only firewall because that was the only way to test it with a client running on a cell phone.
Now if someone wrote a daemon to run PPP (or PPPOE) over an HTTP proxy, we could all just use it and stop reinventing the wheel.
Sometimes my girlfriend signs my credit card receipts. She just draws a scribble that looks a little like my signature, (which she can't even read since it's in russian!). Never got any calls from the bank. So I don't think they actually check those signatures.
Yes, but what makes you compare it to an iPod?
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It looks like a solid PDA, but not really eye catching compared to Zaurus, CLIE, Tungsten or some CE devices. It probably has less applications ported for it than any of the above. What else can it compete on except price?
By contrast iPOD is unique in many aspects, from exceptionally sturdy design to enough storage to backup your whole hard drive or boot your desktop from the PDA. When there are dozens of devices like this, people will no longer pay $500 to get one.
I hope they have considered the effect of computer DVD drives and DivX/DVD-R copies of the movie that might not self destruct. But if it somehow worked - great idea. Choices are always good. Just imagine Blockbuster where you don't have to return movies.
Well, they sure provided a nice, open interface to the music. I am using a little QuickTime for Java program to decompress the m4p files and then feed the.wav's to LAME and my mp3 player:
QTFile qt = new QTFile("file.m4p"); OpenMovieField om = OpenMovieFile.asRead(qt); Movie m = Movie.fromFile(om); m.convertToFile(new QTFile("file.wav"), StdQTConstants.kQTFileTypeWave, QTUtils.toOSType("TVOD"), IOConstants.smSystemScript);
However the conversion eats up all the tags, like song name and artist. Any programming tips to enhance my mp3 jogging experience? I am thinking about reading the iTunes XML library, but I would rather just get them from the m4p file itself.
Yes, Silent Hill series is the only one that got me into the story rather than just practicing my shooting. You are probably stuck in the room with a lot of insects (programmers nightmare, huh?). Well, you need to put your extra battery into your flashlight. Even though insects will be onto you when you turn on the light, leave it on and have a close look at the combination lock.
Well, the whole purpose of programming in C is to have an unbloated, minimalist language. Otherwise you might as well use the current C++ standard. So I don't think you have to worry about C99. And I am sure people can take the K&R book and release an updated ANSI C version in no time.
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Wow, I hope it's not on one of the extended format floppies, otherwise you will have hard time reading it without the TSR:-) So yes, it was shareware although it didn't have any way to enforce it. I just asked people to send $15 if they liked the program. I only got a few checks, but I did get nice letters from all over the world and some people sent me floppies with their own programs. If I wrote it now, I would make it GPL. But at that time reverse-engineering other people's code was part of the fun. I got started myself by using a disassembler on 800.con.
I don't think DMCA is a problem because this patch to firmware wouldn't bypass any copy protection (unless it also removes DVD region checks). I am sure the drive manufacturer will applaud the effort. It's just 700M is a pleanty of space to backup my personal data (I do write little utilities for other things - check my website for a couple). But people storing uncompressed video might have a different opinion. Too bad there is no standard on CD recorder hardware so such a program will only benefit few people.
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I wrote a similar one (atfmt100) back in '92. The main trick was canceling the double head movement for 360K floppy and writting 80 tracks instead of 40. For all the standard format you could write several more sectors on each track by reducing the gap in between, 10 instead of 9 for DD or 21 instead of 18 for HD. However, then you had to interleave the sectors to give FDC a chance to catch up. This made I/O twice slower though. Finally, you could "overburn" a few tracks more, although some drives would make loud clicks trying to read your floppy! All told, you could put 850K on the old DD floppy.
Oh yes, and you needed to run a small TSR to access these floppies because DOS insisted on standard sizes. This TSR also had to patch a boot sector every time it was written. Basically, point the leading JMP to the end of the sector where your code set the initial values for the BIOS geometry table before jumping back to the original address.
At that time, I was proud of myself because I found out you could use the data rate usually used for 360K floppies (300Khz) for 720K floppies, which usually use 250Khz. Then, you could write 1072K without punching any holes. But then, Linux drivers and a program (2m) for DOS went way further by filling the same track with different sector sizes!
The question is, can CDFORMAT be written, by patching firmware if necessary? I know, for example, that VideoCDs store 800M on a "700M" CD by not using error correction. Shouldn't I be able to do the same thing with my MP3 and DivX CDs that could also tolerate some errors? Also CD "sectors" are awfully small. How much capacity can be gained by growing them? Anyone who beats Plextor and Sanyo in their own game will be our hero!
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They are asking money for a download and do not mention anything about free software. Although it might be legal in that they give the source to paid customers who ask for it, it's still shady. Better install fink and get/build a free version of X11 gimp.
My boss wants me to use ClearCase and a web applications that stores files in a relational database. Wish I could just use CSV and SBM.
Now people with a library that can not completely fit on the device will lose content they paid for. And people with expensive rocket eBooks in perfect working condition will not be able to buy new content for their device because it will come with its own, incompatible DRM. Now can you see legitimate uses for Dimitry's "advanced e-book processor"?
The only good news is that this particular group of screwed customers is rich. Just maybe they can really get on the case of fair use and make their voices heard by the government.
You are copying a file to free pages, so there is no need to log them. Only meta information needs to be logged. On the other hand, overwritting an existing 100G file with new data would be a problem.
The bigger question is "when does commit happen?". Existing journaled filesystems just commit from time to time, with limited control from the user (sync). They can always commit when you run low on space, so you still get to use most of the drive's capacity. It would be nice to let a process start a transaction and then commit or rollback explicitely, but I don't know if Microsoft will do it.
I use journaling and still get filesystem corruption that is not automatically fixed (like overlapped extent allocation) once in a while. On the other hand, HFS+ seems to already use a B-tree and file search is quite fast.
How can third parties provide bug fixes and enchancements for Microsoft products? As for Microsoft Australia and retail stores, they take NN% of the profit, and NN is probably less than 50. With OSS, it can be 100% local investment - not to mention free work done all of the world.
If the government buys Microsoft software, it will have to pay for software and ALSO have to pay for support only available from a single source and outside the country. If it buys open source software, it only has to pay for support and has a variety of competing companies, including investing tax money back into local economy. A government has a duty to minimize costs and if possible re-invest money into local economy, don't you think?
Now consider a private business or a citizen. If a government produces documents using proprietory software, s\he will probably also have to use the same proprietory software. If OSS is used, multiple commercial vendors will support it and people will be able to access the data using OSS software without spending additional money and on the platform of their choice.
I am not saying all software should be open source. Some projects are so expensive (think realistic 3d games) or unpleasent (think Cobol IDE) to program that the cost can only be recovered with large scale software sales. But if the open source is already available, the government should take advantage of it to save costs for itself and for private entities it interacts with.
Why put a label on goto line?
10 ? "QBASIC SUCKS" : goto 10
As for programming languages, which one do you have in mind? C++, Java or Pascal are definitely much harder to get started than Basic.
The most likely outcome is that you will get even more work and all the unpleasent projects because the manager will assume you are going to leave anyway. Also, you will be on the top of layoff list for the same reason.
If the company can not afford to lose you, just decide what is a reasonable workload for your salary, social life and work enjoyment and stick to it. You are unlikely to get fired just for staying professional.
As for looking for new job, well you should always do it if you think your company is in trouble or you are not satisfied with your current work. It's already implied that you might leave, just like that you might get laid off. There is no need to say it explicitely.
... makes you work 50-60 hour weeks and generally treats you like dirt, you should also gather the best minds and organize a mass expodus. Loyalty is good, undeserved loyalty is stupid. Consider that it doesn't have to be based on self-interest, just appreciation of whatever/whoever you are loyal to and there is no need for exceptions.
When presented with this particular course project. For unawares, the instuction does:
if ((*addr1 - *addr2) < 0)
goto addr3;
No opcode is needed, just 3 words. The professor was pretty mad, but the "CPU" did run all the sample programs. Multiplication subroutine is left as an excersize to the reader.
Now the cool thing is that you shouldn't need a factory, FPGA or anything like that to make this CPU, just a soldering iron and some transistors. Anything like that out there?
Like abortion. Although I am not a woman, I imagine it would really suck to give birth against your will, when there is a simple medical solution. More than not being able to copy a CD for example. So for that alone I would never support a republican candidate, unless s\he explicitely disawowed this part of party platform.
Or social programs. We are a wealthy country right? We will not actually let people starve to death or go without medical care. Or let them sleep without a roof. RIGHT???
Or control of parents over children. Surely a 16 year old shouldn't be spanked for dating a person that his/her parents do not approve. Or forced into a religion, a particular profession, a particular dress code and so on.
Or death penalty. Most murderers kill in the heat of passion, yet so called doctors deliver a lethal injection in cold blood, to a person that doesn't present any threat to society in a high-security single cell.
The way I see it, higher taxes is a small price to pay for less harassment in personal life or help if I somehow screw up. Even Democrats kind of suck, but you can only choose the best option from what's available.
of companies that need an improvement in some field. They would hire inventors to come up with the improvement and share the benefits.
As it is, inventors rarely make money from patents. They usually have to hand them over to the employer and just get a fixed salary. So individuals won't lose much.
Of course, there would be problems like motivating companies to join the consortium rather than just waiting for others to develop the technology. But the patent system has many problems as well. Who knows which is worse?
You see a story and then you see again. This happens when THEY make changes to the program.
The authors might not have admin access to the server to configure secure NFS. Or for that matter an installed compiler to install samba and tunnel it over ssh. Just shell access and instructions on using pine. And a sysadmin who will need a shot of brandy after hearing about students/employees running a remote filesystem. He might even be right, considering how NFS lets clients pick a userid to access files or uses inode numbers as handles.
There are a lot of projects like this. Linux used to have term and later a user-level PPP daemon to forward socket calls over a serial line, when the admin could have easily installed the real thing. At one point I had to write a rather complicated tool to forward incoming requests from the internet to a host inside an http-only firewall because that was the only way to test it with a client running on a cell phone.
Now if someone wrote a daemon to run PPP (or PPPOE) over an HTTP proxy, we could all just use it and stop reinventing the wheel.
Sometimes my girlfriend signs my credit card receipts. She just draws a scribble that looks a little like my signature, (which she can't even read since it's in russian!). Never got any calls from the bank. So I don't think they actually check those signatures.
It looks like a solid PDA, but not really eye catching compared to Zaurus, CLIE, Tungsten or some CE devices. It probably has less applications ported for it than any of the above. What else can it compete on except price?
By contrast iPOD is unique in many aspects, from exceptionally sturdy design to enough storage to backup your whole hard drive or boot your desktop from the PDA. When there are dozens of devices like this, people will no longer pay $500 to get one.
I hope they have considered the effect of computer DVD drives and DivX/DVD-R copies of the movie that might not self destruct. But if it somehow worked - great idea. Choices are always good. Just imagine Blockbuster where you don't have to return movies.
switch (numBeerBottles) {
case 0:
goto safeway;
case 1:
this.drink(1);
default:
this.drink(1)+buddy.drink(1);
}
Please kindly present your proper OO design.
Well, they sure provided a nice, open interface to the music. I am using a little QuickTime for Java program to decompress the m4p files and then feed the .wav's to LAME and my mp3 player:
QTFile qt = new QTFile("file.m4p");
OpenMovieField om = OpenMovieFile.asRead(qt);
Movie m = Movie.fromFile(om);
m.convertToFile(new QTFile("file.wav"),
StdQTConstants.kQTFileTypeWave,
QTUtils.toOSType("TVOD"),
IOConstants.smSystemScript);
However the conversion eats up all the tags, like song name and artist. Any programming tips to enhance my mp3 jogging experience? I am thinking about reading the iTunes XML library, but I would rather just get them from the m4p file itself.
Yes, Silent Hill series is the only one that got me into the story rather than just practicing my shooting. You are probably stuck in the room with a lot of insects (programmers nightmare, huh?). Well, you need to put your extra battery into your flashlight. Even though insects will be onto you when you turn on the light, leave it on and have a close look at the combination lock.
Well, the whole purpose of programming in C is to have an unbloated, minimalist language. Otherwise you might as well use the current C++ standard. So I don't think you have to worry about C99. And I am sure people can take the K&R book and release an updated ANSI C version in no time.
Wow, I hope it's not on one of the extended format floppies, otherwise you will have hard time reading it without the TSR :-) So yes, it was shareware although it didn't have any way to enforce it. I just asked people to send $15 if they liked the program. I only got a few checks, but I did get nice letters from all over the world and some people sent me floppies with their own programs. If I wrote it now, I would make it GPL. But at that time reverse-engineering other people's code was part of the fun. I got started myself by using a disassembler on 800.con.
I don't think DMCA is a problem because this patch to firmware wouldn't bypass any copy protection (unless it also removes DVD region checks). I am sure the drive manufacturer will applaud the effort. It's just 700M is a pleanty of space to backup my personal data (I do write little utilities for other things - check my website for a couple). But people storing uncompressed video might have a different opinion. Too bad there is no standard on CD recorder hardware so such a program will only benefit few people.
I wrote a similar one (atfmt100) back in '92. The main trick was canceling the double head movement for 360K floppy and writting 80 tracks instead of 40. For all the standard format you could write several more sectors on each track by reducing the gap in between, 10 instead of 9 for DD or 21 instead of 18 for HD. However, then you had to interleave the sectors to give FDC a chance to catch up. This made I/O twice slower though. Finally, you could "overburn" a few tracks more, although some drives would make loud clicks trying to read your floppy! All told, you could put 850K on the old DD floppy.
Oh yes, and you needed to run a small TSR to access these floppies because DOS insisted on standard sizes. This TSR also had to patch a boot sector every time it was written. Basically, point the leading JMP to the end of the sector where your code set the initial values for the BIOS geometry table before jumping back to the original address.
At that time, I was proud of myself because I found out you could use the data rate usually used for 360K floppies (300Khz) for 720K floppies, which usually use 250Khz. Then, you could write 1072K without punching any holes. But then, Linux drivers and a program (2m) for DOS went way further by filling the same track with different sector sizes!
The question is, can CDFORMAT be written, by patching firmware if necessary? I know, for example, that VideoCDs store 800M on a "700M" CD by not using error correction. Shouldn't I be able to do the same thing with my MP3 and DivX CDs that could also tolerate some errors? Also CD "sectors" are awfully small. How much capacity can be gained by growing them? Anyone who beats Plextor and Sanyo in their own game will be our hero!
Everyone knows sexy people don't have much memory.