Given the overpriced iPod is selling successfully, why not just plug one of these babies into it? Then all the kids who have no concept of value can spend even more of their parents' money.
I'm still using a portable casette player which cost $7. Works fine.
I'm sure the spammers could generate a much more accurate map. They seem to know everyone's address.
I think I'll open up a one-time-use hotmail account accessed thru three anonymous proxies and suggest it to them.
Is any form of nuclear power renewable?
Can we recycle any waste?
No?
Let's skip this one then.
We already have plenty of non-renewable, non-recyclable power generators.
Maybe we should ask the politicians to stop taking bribes from people whose hands are filthy with oil and politely request more effort in the area of renewable energy.
How about not using so much energy in the first place? I remember my last visit to Vegas, seeing a casino front wide open to the outside with a veritable wall of air-conditioning blasting from the ceiling above the opening. Never have I seen such wasteful energy consumption.
Without doubt, nuclear power has a major waste management problem. I don't think the same thing applies to PhotoVoltaics or wind turbines.
If this really is news for nerds about stuff that matters, well this matters and yet I have read far too much from some nerds who are willing to endanger their chilrens-childrens-childrens-childrens... lives to the half-life of stuff that anti-matters.
http://www.homepower.com
Get on the right track.
Can someone please tell me what SCO really stands for? No I don't mean their morals, which may appear to some untrained observers as unprincipled extortion. I mean does anyone have any good expansion of the initials SCO?
I also have a low-rate calling plan to the UK.
It costs 5c/min.
If you are spending $50/mo, at my calling plan rate this means you are talking to the UK for > 16 hours/month.
Maybe you should return home.
Maybe I should mind my own business.
Well, I thought I was the only one with a real bug story, but this posting proves I wasn't the first. Nonetheless......
I have been developing code for 30 years now.
Early on in my career, in the era of large decks of punch cards, I dropped a deck of cards on the floor.
I picked them up and put them back in the right order (an ugly job).
When the job was submitted and the print-out eventually returned (1 day turnaround), the compile failed. I was surprised as the deck was basically unchanged from a previous run.
I checked the output and discovered a syntax error. I then checked the card deck and discovered an insect that had gotten squished into a hole punched in a card, which changed the resultant character and caused the syntax error.
I welcome someone else spending time debugging my code. Sometimes they find benign bugs, sometimes they find real bugs. It's all good. It helps make my product stronger. I assume Apache will shortly have 0 bugs as reported by this automaton.
Don't waste time getting bogged down in what appear to me to be irrelevant statistics about what percentage of bugs per whatever.... Just fix the bugs and move on.
My #2 son is taking a programming course at High School. For some misbegotten reason, the chosen language is QBasic. As I have been programming for 30 years now, he fully expected me to give him some assistance with some of his projects ("A better Pong", "Fruit Machine", "Chutes and Ladders", etc,.). I found this quite difficult as the language totally sucks. I can't believe that this language, which isn't all that old, doesn't have parameters which can be returned from a subroutine (without using globals).
I really, really, really wish the teacher had chosen something viable like Perl. It's free, it's easy to learn, it's versatile, it's in use in industry, etc,.
Why do they teach using QBasic? It's such an obscene language.
Isn't it amusing that we're all on the side of IBM who have had a history of abusing their position as a monopoly within the IT industry.
Nowadays, IBM seems to look like a good guy versus the evil Microsoft.
I wish we didn't have this habit of empowering new evil dictators that are even worse than the previous ones...
Solution: OPEN SOURCE
Wake up you development sheep.
Stop blindly following the herd.
Take control of your destiny and make a difference.
Looking at another news item, I wondered if there was any way the mass RIAA IM could somehow be construed as spam according to the new Virginia anti-spam law.
We can all dream can't we?
I have patented the following:
"50th birthday"
"half-century"
"old fart"
I turned 50 on March 7th, 9 days before RMS, thus he cannot claim prior art.
I insist he cease and desist from being 50 or pay me royalties.
I also forsee problems with "51st birthday" etc which have patents pending.
No seriously, I wish RMS many more.
Great world-changing achievements.
Using coupon 95895C34C7C6 (expires 2/26) at Dell Business can get you an Inspiron 2650C (celeron 1.6, 256MB memory, 20GB HDD) for $594 with free shipping. Then wipe out XP Home and sell the license to someone else (if that's legal, which it probably isn't knowing Mirco$fot), finally load a copy of Linux. Score!
I'm fairly tired of the arguments over how the AMD and Intel marketing departments name their processors with preformance ratings and megahertz respectively.
Anyone who uses the name of a processor as a statement of its performance obviously doesn't care for mundane scientific issues like comparative benchmarks.
We can fight back by burning bogus music CDs and distributing them thru Sam Goody etc,. We can pollute the RIAA's distribution scheme if they pollute ours. If they further retaliate, we can nuke the plants where they mass-produce CDs. Then we can engage in assassination of their business leaders. Wait, I've got an idea, let's have a WAR.
No seriously, there would appear to be a surfeit of conflict at the current time, so I don't view any of the above as even remotely good suggestions, but it's easy to get carried away.
If I were a music industry executive, I would have thought that even now, it's still not too late to look for a solution. Disband your cartel and stop using an obsolete business model. You still have (some of) the recording artists on your side. Use this remaining goodwill to start a new business:
Offer your customers value for money.
Stop paying artists astronomical contract signing bonuses. This will dramatically reduce the risk in your current business model and at the same time increase the variety of music that you can promote - which should cause an increase in sales.
Start paying the artists a decent amount for each CD sold (unlike the present) and be honest about the sales (unlike the present).
Here's a simple compromise:
If you charge a reasonable price for music, your customers will be reasonable about copying it.
I was a contractor for a huge bank for 7 years. I saw people called "permanent staff" come & go. The joke was that newly hired "permanent staff" were given the logon to the financial message switch (huge possibilities for comitting fraud), yet I was not permitted this despite having proven trustworthy for 7 years.
I fully agree with the Aggrazel who sees no difference between a contractor and an employee. It's just a different payment mechanism.
Incidentally, this same bank eventually crumbled on another employee/contractor differentiation issue and gave me a nameplate after 6.9 years... I quit one month after and took the nameplate with me. HR at the bank accused me of theft!
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Too far from CO for a DSL hookup.
With LSD I couldn't tell the difference between line noise and data.
My main man @Home, went busted.
I really need is a speed fix.
Worldcom offered me a hit of T1 for $1000/month.
Looking for a high quality, low cost bandwidth pusher to satisfy my habit.
The other day I was exercising my right to bear arms by wearing a short-sleeved golf shirt in the middle of a snowstorm. My neighbor assumed I was criminally insane and shot and killed me. This proves that someone else will post on this topic after I'm gone.
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Given the overpriced iPod is selling successfully, why not just plug one of these babies into it? Then all the kids who have no concept of value can spend even more of their parents' money. I'm still using a portable casette player which cost $7. Works fine.
I wish /. would stop publishing drivel like this (Darl's latest rant, not my posting ;-) and stick to real news.
I'm sure the spammers could generate a much more accurate map. They seem to know everyone's address. I think I'll open up a one-time-use hotmail account accessed thru three anonymous proxies and suggest it to them.
Is any form of nuclear power renewable? Can we recycle any waste? No? Let's skip this one then. We already have plenty of non-renewable, non-recyclable power generators. Maybe we should ask the politicians to stop taking bribes from people whose hands are filthy with oil and politely request more effort in the area of renewable energy. How about not using so much energy in the first place? I remember my last visit to Vegas, seeing a casino front wide open to the outside with a veritable wall of air-conditioning blasting from the ceiling above the opening. Never have I seen such wasteful energy consumption. Without doubt, nuclear power has a major waste management problem. I don't think the same thing applies to PhotoVoltaics or wind turbines. If this really is news for nerds about stuff that matters, well this matters and yet I have read far too much from some nerds who are willing to endanger their chilrens-childrens-childrens-childrens... lives to the half-life of stuff that anti-matters. http://www.homepower.com Get on the right track.
I hereby grant everyone the right to copy this posting freely.
Not so good so far. I was hoping for something somewhat more imaginitive. Maybe I didn't make that clear enough.
Can someone please tell me what SCO really stands for? No I don't mean their morals, which may appear to some untrained observers as unprincipled extortion. I mean does anyone have any good expansion of the initials SCO?
That's what the restaurant is more popularly known by.
I also have a low-rate calling plan to the UK. It costs 5c/min. If you are spending $50/mo, at my calling plan rate this means you are talking to the UK for > 16 hours/month. Maybe you should return home. Maybe I should mind my own business.
I have been developing code for 30 years now.
Early on in my career, in the era of large decks of punch cards, I dropped a deck of cards on the floor.
I picked them up and put them back in the right order (an ugly job).
When the job was submitted and the print-out eventually returned (1 day turnaround), the compile failed. I was surprised as the deck was basically unchanged from a previous run.
I checked the output and discovered a syntax error. I then checked the card deck and discovered an insect that had gotten squished into a hole punched in a card, which changed the resultant character and caused the syntax error.
Nowadays, my bugs are all my very own.
Back to unit testing ...
UB40 was right.
I welcome someone else spending time debugging my code. Sometimes they find benign bugs, sometimes they find real bugs. It's all good. It helps make my product stronger. I assume Apache will shortly have 0 bugs as reported by this automaton.
Don't waste time getting bogged down in what appear to me to be irrelevant statistics about what percentage of bugs per whatever.... Just fix the bugs and move on.
I really, really, really wish the teacher had chosen something viable like Perl. It's free, it's easy to learn, it's versatile, it's in use in industry, etc,.
Why do they teach using QBasic? It's such an obscene language.
Nowadays, IBM seems to look like a good guy versus the evil Microsoft.
I wish we didn't have this habit of empowering new evil dictators that are even worse than the previous ones
Solution: OPEN SOURCE
Wake up you development sheep.
Stop blindly following the herd.
Take control of your destiny and make a difference.
We can all dream can't we?
Pay for music: attend live concerts.
Further advantages of flash memory:
- Less power required
- No spin-up time
- No head crashes
- Cannot be jarred/jogged
- Less heat generated
- Completely silent
- Less affected by temperature
Disadvantages of flash memory:- Slower access times
- Smaller transfer rates
The key point is whether flash memory is fast enough for the application.Certainly OK for MP3 player, probably not fast enough for video capture.
I have patented the following: "50th birthday" "half-century" "old fart" I turned 50 on March 7th, 9 days before RMS, thus he cannot claim prior art. I insist he cease and desist from being 50 or pay me royalties. I also forsee problems with "51st birthday" etc which have patents pending. No seriously, I wish RMS many more. Great world-changing achievements.
Using coupon 95895C34C7C6 (expires 2/26) at Dell Business can get you an Inspiron 2650C (celeron 1.6, 256MB memory, 20GB HDD) for $594 with free shipping. Then wipe out XP Home and sell the license to someone else (if that's legal, which it probably isn't knowing Mirco$fot), finally load a copy of Linux. Score!
Anyone who uses the name of a processor as a statement of its performance obviously doesn't care for mundane scientific issues like comparative benchmarks.
Newsflash:
Dog pee glaciers seen all over Manhattan streets.
Sign me up for IIS on Linux then (sigh).
Breaking news:
Glaciers of dog pee in Manhattan streets.
Post responses to 66.35.250.150 (I'm sure you can figure this out).
No seriously, there would appear to be a surfeit of conflict at the current time, so I don't view any of the above as even remotely good suggestions, but it's easy to get carried away.
If I were a music industry executive, I would have thought that even now, it's still not too late to look for a solution. Disband your cartel and stop using an obsolete business model. You still have (some of) the recording artists on your side. Use this remaining goodwill to start a new business:
Here's a simple compromise: If you charge a reasonable price for music, your customers will be reasonable about copying it.
I was a contractor for a huge bank for 7 years. I saw people called "permanent staff" come & go. The joke was that newly hired "permanent staff" were given the logon to the financial message switch (huge possibilities for comitting fraud), yet I was not permitted this despite having proven trustworthy for 7 years. I fully agree with the Aggrazel who sees no difference between a contractor and an employee. It's just a different payment mechanism. Incidentally, this same bank eventually crumbled on another employee/contractor differentiation issue and gave me a nameplate after 6.9 years ... I quit one month after and took the nameplate with me. HR at the bank accused me of theft!
Too far from CO for a DSL hookup. With LSD I couldn't tell the difference between line noise and data. My main man @Home, went busted. I really need is a speed fix. Worldcom offered me a hit of T1 for $1000/month. Looking for a high quality, low cost bandwidth pusher to satisfy my habit.
The other day I was exercising my right to bear arms by wearing a short-sleeved golf shirt in the middle of a snowstorm. My neighbor assumed I was criminally insane and shot and killed me. This proves that someone else will post on this topic after I'm gone. Sig: End racism - kill everyone