Unfortunatly, I just suspect its only the US government that does this publicly / gets caught doing it. If the former then I geuss they are at least the most honest. If the latter then simply the least competent. Take your pick
> unauthorized caching amounts to copyright infringement.
No. it doesn't. There was a recent ruling on this wrt google.
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tbh, I'm not sure that that is a recommendation. We have been going over cc in a reading group at work for the better part of a year now (chapter a week takes a while!), and overall, while he does have a lot of worthwhile stuff to say, the book is mostly dross, coupled with misleading stats, poor editing (and occasionally worse writing) lack of direction and bad analogies.
On the other hand, it has proved useful as a talking point in our reading group (a mix of professional programmers ranging from fresh grads to seasoned vets).
As for the C# book, well we could do with a good reference for the language (although a decent c++ book and a little java and.net knowledge will pretty much provide that anyway)
Unconfirmed, mostly,
however there are two things that make it rather likely:
1. It has been confirmed by a few seperate scene members
2. The group making the announcement are a generally well respected group within the scene. You don't go making announcements like that unless you have the goods (well not unless you really want your rep to take a nose dive).
Although I agree, the delay seems a bit odd. Having said that, it could reasonably be considered to have been the case that:
a. they mentioned it as soon as they had done it.
b. they wanted to polish it up/do more testing before release
c. they realised that unless they gave a date, people would be constantly emailing / checking their site for more info (probably generating more traffic, but also up'ing their bandwidth bills)
Whilst i'm not convinced about the 1% value, It is possible that that might work in a correctly, carefully set up network environment where each users accesses & rights is carefully set up, and you have a hardware support contract with someone, but I doubt it
However, irl this is *not* going to happen.
for a start, you are not going to be able to plan and set it up right first time (thats where the experience bit comes in;) ), plus i'll wager that those 30 odd people will mostly be running windows, and will have local admin rights - that really increases the difficulting in managing them, especially if they are connected to the internet in some way.
Basically, your boss is being a cheapskate. You *need* a sysadmin, or at least someone whose job is officially part sysadmin and has experience - ask the boss whether he would want a sysadmin with little no programming experience and 'a book' to be writing the core code for your product? I suspect not. So why does he think the reverse is true?
damn that lack of autoformatting! too much time using phpBB forums I geuss:S. Heres it properly:
Features I would like in an audio player that (afaik) are not currently availiable under linux (or at least, are not availiable together to any degree:
A scripted language based system to for determining how the player outputs/reads:
tags
filenames
on-screen displays / title bars / etc
the actual main player window
support for embedding cue files in id tags (rip album as a single mp3/ogg/whatever, but it appears as a set of tracks in the player)
playing albums from within rar/zip files (another way of doing the above, some benefits/drawbacks by comparision)
all in the same player?
Amarok is getting close (I even heard rumours of someone working on replaygain) - I love the auto generating playlists w/ audioscrobbler support. But I digress:)
hmmm. how about:
* replaygain
* proper gapless
* script language based system for
* tag setting & renaming
* osd / title bar
* main screen
* support for cue files embedded in audio files [ 1 file / album, but appears as a normal set of tracks in the player ]
all in the same player?
(for those who don't know, i'm specifically referring to foobar2000 under windows, the one non-game program that makes me want to keep windows on my system.
Amarok is getting close (I even heard rumours of someone working on replaygain) - I love the auto generating playlists w/ audioscrobbler support. But I digress:)
On the contrary. the need with monitors for having high contrast and dealing with deaf / blind people is part of the reason they can't be perfect.
I probably didn't make myself clear by what I meant. By an immersive system, its probably going to have to be some form of direct brain link, although my point still stands. If a user has specific needs, the interface should be able to adapt to him without the need for reconfiguration. This is admittedly waay in advance of where we are now (the very first sign of this sort of thing can be seen in windows where if you hold a modifier key too long it offers to enable sticky keys, but comparing that to the goal is comparing a (hand) catapult to a cruise missile.
The perfectly usable interface would have no customisation options. Because it wouldn't need to. No, not even setting colours / wallpapers - the goal of a UI is to be totally transparant, and theres only a need for such cosmetic changes if the interface falls short of this goal.
Of course (imho) the current user interface paradigm of monitor + input device (kb/mouse usually) is physically incapable of supporting a perfect UI - to achieve that we will need fully immersive environments. And even then, i'm not totally convinced that a totally transparant UI isn't an impossible goal.
Working to reduce/negate disabilitys == (politically) safe == broader support == better chance of funding.
Transhumanism == (politically) dangerous == much less public support == lower chance of funding.
Of course with the transhuman route you can always go to the military who may well give you pots of cash to research with [like the chaps who have (kinda) got cameras for the blind working]
The thing is, there is nothing to stop you going to france/spain and getting it for the cheaper price, and so its ok. Even if you were to go to France, you couldn't use the French iTunes store, as it won't let you without a french registered bank account. Thats whats infringing.
well, you never know - the two might cancel out!
And even if they don't, I would say that the worse the spelling on a comment in a forum, the less likely I am to want to be able to read it, so it might be a blessing. Hey, lets just go one step further and boot up adblock...
Of course the owvers of X can't sue M. But equally, M can't stop the owners of X continueing to work on the code under the old licence (they just won't be able to use any code added under the new licence).
For a parrellel, consider the licence change to XFree86 - when that changed, people just took the code from the state just before the changed, and carried on in a fork...
no, because it says v2 or any subsequent version. If they did make a hypothetical, evil GPLv99 you could quite happily keep on using your code under v2. You wouldn't have to take it.
As a result of this, you can't make the GPL any less free than it already is.
>Have you ever seen the notes on your anime "Please >delete this stuff when it is officially released in >your area"
Actually yes. iirc it was an animefin release. Can't remember the show though.
Whilst the annoucement in yesterdays/. was a licence that was gpl-incompatible, it was (afaict) within the scope of existing open licences (it didn't read too disimilar to an old-style bsd licence) - I certainly didn't notice any restrictions on writing, and since that is still up on MS's page, i'm guessing that possibly the chap quoted here was speaking unaware of that announcement. either that or MS's site was hacked or maybe I've just misread something.
I agree. Even the old stalwarts have slipped (I picked up a copy of PCFormat a couple of months ago *shudder*). Edge is good, but I tend to prefer the oh-so-similar Game(tm) magazine. But only just.
both debian and gentoo can cope quite happily with install files supplied in rpm format (debian via alien and gentoo via a couple of options in the ebuild).
correction: although he is guilty of many things, this isn't one of them. Apparantly (from a friend who [foolishly?] used to work for them, he always has, and still writes code on a daily basis.
Presumably he doesn't write much any more, but thats still a loong way from never writing anything.
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Unfortunatly, I just suspect its only the US government that does this publicly / gets caught doing it. If the former then I geuss they are at least the most honest. If the latter then simply the least competent. Take your pick
> unauthorized caching amounts to copyright infringement. No. it doesn't. There was a recent ruling on this wrt google.
tbh, I'm not sure that that is a recommendation. We have been going over cc in a reading group at work for the better part of a year now (chapter a week takes a while!), and overall, while he does have a lot of worthwhile stuff to say, the book is mostly dross, coupled with misleading stats, poor editing (and occasionally worse writing) lack of direction and bad analogies. .net knowledge will pretty much provide that anyway)
On the other hand, it has proved useful as a talking point in our reading group (a mix of professional programmers ranging from fresh grads to seasoned vets). As for the C# book, well we could do with a good reference for the language (although a decent c++ book and a little java and
Unfortunatly, in this case I can reveal what the ??? means...
3. try enough people and someone will fall for it.
Sorry to nitpick, but presumably you meant "people who are in a position to drive pseries server purchases - iseries are the intel based boxes...
Unconfirmed, mostly, however there are two things that make it rather likely: 1. It has been confirmed by a few seperate scene members 2. The group making the announcement are a generally well respected group within the scene. You don't go making announcements like that unless you have the goods (well not unless you really want your rep to take a nose dive). Although I agree, the delay seems a bit odd. Having said that, it could reasonably be considered to have been the case that: a. they mentioned it as soon as they had done it. b. they wanted to polish it up /do more testing before release
c. they realised that unless they gave a date, people would be constantly emailing / checking their site for more info (probably generating more traffic, but also up'ing their bandwidth bills)
the main things listed for both the .51 and .52 were "security fixes"
Whilst i'm not convinced about the 1% value, It is possible that that might work in a correctly, carefully set up network environment where each users accesses & rights is carefully set up, and you have a hardware support contract with someone, but I doubt it ;) ), plus i'll wager that those 30 odd people will mostly be running windows, and will have local admin rights - that really increases the difficulting in managing them, especially if they are connected to the internet in some way.
However, irl this is *not* going to happen.
for a start, you are not going to be able to plan and set it up right first time (thats where the experience bit comes in
Basically, your boss is being a cheapskate. You *need* a sysadmin, or at least someone whose job is officially part sysadmin and has experience - ask the boss whether he would want a sysadmin with little no programming experience and 'a book' to be writing the core code for your product? I suspect not. So why does he think the reverse is true?
Features I would like in an audio player that (afaik) are not currently availiable under linux (or at least, are not availiable together to any degree:
- replaygain
- proper gapless playback support
- A scripted language based system to for determining how the player outputs/reads:
- tags
- filenames
- on-screen displays / title bars / etc
- the actual main player window
- support for embedding cue files in id tags (rip album as a single mp3/ogg/whatever, but it appears as a set of tracks in the player)
- playing albums from within rar/zip files (another way of doing the above, some benefits/drawbacks by comparision)
all in the same player?Amarok is getting close (I even heard rumours of someone working on replaygain) - I love the auto generating playlists w/ audioscrobbler support. But I digress
hmmm. how about: * replaygain * proper gapless * script language based system for * tag setting & renaming * osd / title bar * main screen * support for cue files embedded in audio files [ 1 file / album, but appears as a normal set of tracks in the player ] all in the same player? (for those who don't know, i'm specifically referring to foobar2000 under windows, the one non-game program that makes me want to keep windows on my system. Amarok is getting close (I even heard rumours of someone working on replaygain) - I love the auto generating playlists w/ audioscrobbler support. But I digress :)
On the contrary. the need with monitors for having high contrast and dealing with deaf / blind people is part of the reason they can't be perfect. I probably didn't make myself clear by what I meant. By an immersive system, its probably going to have to be some form of direct brain link, although my point still stands. If a user has specific needs, the interface should be able to adapt to him without the need for reconfiguration. This is admittedly waay in advance of where we are now (the very first sign of this sort of thing can be seen in windows where if you hold a modifier key too long it offers to enable sticky keys, but comparing that to the goal is comparing a (hand) catapult to a cruise missile.
The perfectly usable interface would have no customisation options. Because it wouldn't need to. No, not even setting colours / wallpapers - the goal of a UI is to be totally transparant, and theres only a need for such cosmetic changes if the interface falls short of this goal. Of course (imho) the current user interface paradigm of monitor + input device (kb/mouse usually) is physically incapable of supporting a perfect UI - to achieve that we will need fully immersive environments. And even then, i'm not totally convinced that a totally transparant UI isn't an impossible goal.
Working to reduce/negate disabilitys == (politically) safe == broader support == better chance of funding. Transhumanism == (politically) dangerous == much less public support == lower chance of funding. Of course with the transhuman route you can always go to the military who may well give you pots of cash to research with [like the chaps who have (kinda) got cameras for the blind working]
Especially since one of them is not only detached from the monkey, but has Hyper-Super-Robot Strength (tm)!
No. I've seen the FP complaining that it can't access the site
The thing is, there is nothing to stop you going to france/spain and getting it for the cheaper price, and so its ok.
Even if you were to go to France, you couldn't use the French iTunes store, as it won't let you without a french registered bank account. Thats whats infringing.
well, you never know - the two might cancel out! And even if they don't, I would say that the worse the spelling on a comment in a forum, the less likely I am to want to be able to read it, so it might be a blessing. Hey, lets just go one step further and boot up adblock...
it was good. But just a wee bit too much cliff hangerish for my taste (For the record, I hated the ending of farscape seasons as well).
Of course the owvers of X can't sue M. But equally, M can't stop the owners of X continueing to work on the code under the old licence (they just won't be able to use any code added under the new licence). For a parrellel, consider the licence change to XFree86 - when that changed, people just took the code from the state just before the changed, and carried on in a fork...
no, because it says v2 or any subsequent version. If they did make a hypothetical, evil GPLv99 you could quite happily keep on using your code under v2. You wouldn't have to take it. As a result of this, you can't make the GPL any less free than it already is.
>Have you ever seen the notes on your anime "Please >delete this stuff when it is officially released in >your area" Actually yes. iirc it was an animefin release. Can't remember the show though.
Whilst the annoucement in yesterdays /. was a licence that was gpl-incompatible, it was (afaict) within the scope of existing open licences (it didn't read too disimilar to an old-style bsd licence) - I certainly didn't notice any restrictions on writing, and since that is still up on MS's page, i'm guessing that possibly the chap quoted here was speaking unaware of that announcement. either that or MS's site was hacked or maybe I've just misread something.
I agree. Even the old stalwarts have slipped (I picked up a copy of PCFormat a couple of months ago *shudder*). Edge is good, but I tend to prefer the oh-so-similar Game(tm) magazine. But only just.
both debian and gentoo can cope quite happily with install files supplied in rpm format (debian via alien and gentoo via a couple of options in the ebuild).
correction: although he is guilty of many things, this isn't one of them. Apparantly (from a friend who [foolishly?] used to work for them, he always has, and still writes code on a daily basis. Presumably he doesn't write much any more, but thats still a loong way from never writing anything.