Wrong. You could easily get IGS to support you running Debian and Apache, whatever. But you absolutely could not get them to support, say, IBM WebSphere or DB2 on Debian -- it is simply not a supported platform, period.
In general, you're buying IBM software because you can call them up, tell them "it don't work, nosirree" and your contract says they get to send out some engineer(s) and make it work.
If they support your environment.
The gains you might think you'll get by using Debian are absolutely not worth losing your service contract, which you've likely already paid for. There's nothing horribly wrong with SuSE or Redhat, both generally supported IBM environments. If you succeed in getting your boss to install Debian, you're on the process of going up a river without the proverbial paddle.
The Quintessential Player can open an MS DRM file and save it as MP3 (or other format) -- but of course this is decoding and recoding (lossy process), not the nice "remove decryption layer" we get with hymn.
The MSN Music Store has a help page up saying that they are having problems interoperating with the iPod. Could you send their engineering department links to the MP3 or MP4 specifications so that they can fix their service? There is nothing wrong with the iPod, apparently they have never heard of the widely-supported MP3 and MP4 formats? I find it hard to believe, since their music player software plays music in the MP3 format, but apparently some of their divisions are not talking to each other!
The iPod plays regular, open AAC songs as well. So MS has the additional option of providing a way to export their WMA crap to either AAC or MP3 now. But instead they go on this whiny pathetic rant about how you have to burn a CD and re-import into iTunes. Bull sh*t. Windows Media Player could offer an "export this song as MP3" or "export this song as AAC" option and have instant interoperability with the iPod.
Their "iPod Help" page blathers about how "Apple doesn't let us interoperate with their proprietary format". Boo f*cking hoo. The iPod also plays MP3, so wake up Microsoft and sell your music in MP3 format. Oh that's right, you have your own proprietary music format only playable in Windows Media Player.
It's sometimes funny how much some people want to have their cake, and eat it, too. To talk about being locked out of a proprietary data format... coming from Microsoft... man that makes me just laugh and laugh.
Now I just need to find a device that'll give me more time to play video games.
The device category you're looking for is called "public transit". An example of such a device is called the "bus". Take it. Sure, it'll likely mean a four-fold or more increase in commute time, but hey, that's an hour you can use to play games, while waking up on the way to work, or cooling down after work!
Why is it that everyone outside the FOSS community thinks that PHP is only for web-apps? You can write GTK-PHP apps, it's actually almost the frigging holy grail.
I'm not saying they're right, by any means. I think a line is crossed when you have to decrypt a signal to get the content...
I disagree. If they want to shower me with radiation, and then tell me what I can and can't do with the radiation they are causing to pass through my body, they can come tell that to me personally. They'll get to meet the katana I keep in the closet fairly personally as well.
the RIAA quotes in the article were blathering about how people were turning "performances" into "recordings". are they playing voodoo grammar whack-a-mole here? or haven't we been taping the radio and TV broadcasts for YEARS?
First of all, it doesn't compile in the specified language (Java) because it uses the nasty trick of using integers where booleans are reguired by the grammar, but let's step through it, shall we?
Written more sensibly (some spaces because HTML and code often mix poorly!), this becomes:
day = ( year & 0x3 )
? 034
: 0x1d-(year%0x190&&1)^ ( year% 0144&&1) ;
This parses generally into:
day = ( if ? then : else )
The if part, year&0x3, is expounded upon in another post in this tree. But basically you do a "bitwise and" of the year with the integer "0x3", which in binary has the same effect as getting the remainder when dividing by 4. In most programming languages, specifying an integer using the "0x" prefix means it is a hexadecimal number.
So, if there is a remainder when dividing by 4, then the answer is 034 -- this is a good time perhaps to mention that placing a leading "0" to an integer declares that it shall be given in octal. So 4 times 8 to the power of 0 (4) plus 3 times 8 to the power of 1 (24) gives us the decimal integer 28.
The else part is littered with more of this kind of tom-foolery -- hexadecimal mixed with octal, all the while using the "int as boolean" tricks which are allowed in languages such as C and Perl, but not in all languages (Java does not allow performing a logical and with an integer of course, as logical operators should operate on boolean parameters!). So the answer will be given by 0x1d (again this is hex - in decimal this is 29) minus the "bitwise xor" of two values. Obviously, this "bitwise xor" will evaluate to either 0 or 1 (since there are 29-0 or 29-1 days in February). The LHS of this "bitwise xor" is the "logical and" of 1 (true) and the remainder given when you divide the year by "0x190" -- given again in hex here, this evaluates to 9 times 16 plus 1 times 256 -- 400! The RHS of the "bitwise xor" is the "logical and" of 1 (true) and the remainder given when you divide the year by "0144" -- octal for the decimal 100. If you are familiar with how the "xor" works (when one, and only one, of the expressions has 1 in a binary digit, the result has a 1 in that digit. Otherwise, the result has a 0 in that digit. By using the "logical and" prior to the "xor", the AC ensured that there will be either a "1" (true) or "0" (false) on either side of the "xor". Since the special case of the leap year's existence is determined by being divisible by 100 (and also NOT divisible by 400!) the AC has provided an interestingly-obfuscated look at what boils down to:
day = ( year % 4 )
? 28
: 29 - (year%400&&1)^ ( year% 100&&1) ;
I'm not going to bother myself with the performance of this method vs. the performance of any other method. Suffice it to say it is readable to some people, and not so readable to others. The vast majority of people, and even most "coders" would find it hard to read, even as presented here at the end without the layer of octal- and hexadecimal- notation.
This is what is supposedly known as, in layman's terms, "job security".
Your implementation of the leap year calculation mistakenly identifies the year 2100 as a leap year (it is not). However I do applaud the appropriate use of the bitwise and operator.
It was calculating leap-years. I actually stared at it in shock, imagining how much time and energy this kid spent figuring out the worlds most assinine way to figure out if it's leapyear. I would have just wrote "if (year%4 == 0) { days_in_feb=29; }" or something of the sort.
determining a leap year is more than just having it be divisible evenly by 4: The Gregorian calendar adds an extra day to February, making it 29 days long, in years divisible by 4, excepting years divisible by 100, but including years divisible by 400. So 1996, 2000, and 2400 are leap years but 1899, 1900 and 2100 are not.
So following the literal description, in Java one might write:
Hot DAMN I loved that movie (Miller's Crossing). The dialogue is for the most part flawless, the acting superb, some well directed scenes... but I don't think it's overly complex from a plot point of view. Several one-paragraph summaries over at IMDB.
Basically there's an Irish and an Italian gang in this 1930's setting. A crooked bookie is cheating the Italians, and they want to kill him. The Irish gang leader refuses, because he is in love with the bookie's sister. Gang war ensues. The lack of plot complexity is more than made up for in the character complexity of Tom (Gabriel Byrne) -- does he love The Irish boss's girl? Is he still loyal to the Irish boss, even after he's thrown out of the gang for fooling around with the boss's girl? Why doesn't he kill Bernie? The Whys and Hows (not plot) far overwhelm the Whats and Whens (the plot) in this film.
Do you know how much money they could have gotten if they that set up a pay-site and charged $19.99 per month (first 7 days free)?!?!?!
Do you know how much prison time any adults involved would face? Or how being involved in child pornography might look on their records as they apply for college?
Well, I guess it depends on the college. UC Berkeley, here they come!
one piece in the article details how an 8th grade girl's masturbation video gets circulated on the internet after she sent it to a boy she had a crush on.
8th graders are what, 14 years old?
guess what -- that's kiddie porn, folks, and the people doing both the circulation and the viewing are committing crimes with pretty harsh punishments. and according to the article, using school computers to do it.
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there's some irony in linking to one man's website to rebut the statements on another man's website.
Wrong. You could easily get IGS to support you running Debian and Apache, whatever. But you absolutely could not get them to support, say, IBM WebSphere or DB2 on Debian -- it is simply not a supported platform, period.
In general, you're buying IBM software because you can call them up, tell them "it don't work, nosirree" and your contract says they get to send out some engineer(s) and make it work.
If they support your environment.
The gains you might think you'll get by using Debian are absolutely not worth losing your service contract, which you've likely already paid for. There's nothing horribly wrong with SuSE or Redhat, both generally supported IBM environments. If you succeed in getting your boss to install Debian, you're on the process of going up a river without the proverbial paddle.
all those people who learned Klingon will have somethind to do.
WorfSonOfMog: Hey guys, can I join your group?
Ghertlak: Ark Moog, Nak Flag, Khi-Tohk!!!
(roughly translated: we only speak Klingon you n00b)
maybe whomever gets the NBA Jam license will actually release it on the gamecube.
yeah, and pigs might fly, right?
The Quintessential Player can open an MS DRM file and save it as MP3 (or other format) -- but of course this is decoding and recoding (lossy process), not the nice "remove decryption layer" we get with hymn.
The MSN Music Store has a help page up saying that they are having problems interoperating with the iPod. Could you send their engineering department links to the MP3 or MP4 specifications so that they can fix their service? There is nothing wrong with the iPod, apparently they have never heard of the widely-supported MP3 and MP4 formats? I find it hard to believe, since their music player software plays music in the MP3 format, but apparently some of their divisions are not talking to each other!
The iPod plays regular, open AAC songs as well. So MS has the additional option of providing a way to export their WMA crap to either AAC or MP3 now. But instead they go on this whiny pathetic rant about how you have to burn a CD and re-import into iTunes. Bull sh*t. Windows Media Player could offer an "export this song as MP3" or "export this song as AAC" option and have instant interoperability with the iPod.
What a crock of crap MS is spewing out.
Their "iPod Help" page blathers about how "Apple doesn't let us interoperate with their proprietary format". Boo f*cking hoo. The iPod also plays MP3, so wake up Microsoft and sell your music in MP3 format. Oh that's right, you have your own proprietary music format only playable in Windows Media Player.
It's sometimes funny how much some people want to have their cake, and eat it, too. To talk about being locked out of a proprietary data format... coming from Microsoft... man that makes me just laugh and laugh.
that, sir or madame, is one of the funniest comments of the day. bravo indeed.
Now I just need to find a device that'll give me more time to play video games.
The device category you're looking for is called "public transit". An example of such a device is called the "bus". Take it. Sure, it'll likely mean a four-fold or more increase in commute time, but hey, that's an hour you can use to play games, while waking up on the way to work, or cooling down after work!
Why is it that everyone outside the FOSS community thinks that PHP is only for web-apps? You can write GTK-PHP apps, it's actually almost the frigging holy grail.
I'm not saying they're right, by any means. I think a line is crossed when you have to decrypt a signal to get the content...
I disagree. If they want to shower me with radiation, and then tell me what I can and can't do with the radiation they are causing to pass through my body, they can come tell that to me personally. They'll get to meet the katana I keep in the closet fairly personally as well.
the RIAA quotes in the article were blathering about how people were turning "performances" into "recordings". are they playing voodoo grammar whack-a-mole here? or haven't we been taping the radio and TV broadcasts for YEARS?
Uh... first reaction to this new Rio device is that it is FUGLY.
Your AC parent wrote:Written more sensibly (some spaces because HTML and code often mix poorly!), this becomes:This parses generally into:The if part, year&0x3, is expounded upon in another post in this tree. But basically you do a "bitwise and" of the year with the integer "0x3", which in binary has the same effect as getting the remainder when dividing by 4. In most programming languages, specifying an integer using the "0x" prefix means it is a hexadecimal number.
So, if there is a remainder when dividing by 4, then the answer is 034 -- this is a good time perhaps to mention that placing a leading "0" to an integer declares that it shall be given in octal. So 4 times 8 to the power of 0 (4) plus 3 times 8 to the power of 1 (24) gives us the decimal integer 28.
The else part is littered with more of this kind of tom-foolery -- hexadecimal mixed with octal, all the while using the "int as boolean" tricks which are allowed in languages such as C and Perl, but not in all languages (Java does not allow performing a logical and with an integer of course, as logical operators should operate on boolean parameters!). So the answer will be given by 0x1d (again this is hex - in decimal this is 29) minus the "bitwise xor" of two values. Obviously, this "bitwise xor" will evaluate to either 0 or 1 (since there are 29-0 or 29-1 days in February). The LHS of this "bitwise xor" is the "logical and" of 1 (true) and the remainder given when you divide the year by "0x190" -- given again in hex here, this evaluates to 9 times 16 plus 1 times 256 -- 400! The RHS of the "bitwise xor" is the "logical and" of 1 (true) and the remainder given when you divide the year by "0144" -- octal for the decimal 100. If you are familiar with how the "xor" works (when one, and only one, of the expressions has 1 in a binary digit, the result has a 1 in that digit. Otherwise, the result has a 0 in that digit. By using the "logical and" prior to the "xor", the AC ensured that there will be either a "1" (true) or "0" (false) on either side of the "xor". Since the special case of the leap year's existence is determined by being divisible by 100 (and also NOT divisible by 400!) the AC has provided an interestingly-obfuscated look at what boils down to:I'm not going to bother myself with the performance of this method vs. the performance of any other method. Suffice it to say it is readable to some people, and not so readable to others. The vast majority of people, and even most "coders" would find it hard to read, even as presented here at the end without the layer of octal- and hexadecimal- notation.
This is what is supposedly known as, in layman's terms, "job security".
your implemetation begs the question: is it better to perform 3 division and 3 addition operations, or simply 3 division and 3 comparison operations?
;]
on my PC it turned out that it takes twice as long to go the route of strange addition
Your implementation of the leap year calculation mistakenly identifies the year 2100 as a leap year (it is not). However I do applaud the appropriate use of the bitwise and operator.
determining a leap year is more than just having it be divisible evenly by 4: The Gregorian calendar adds an extra day to February, making it 29 days long, in years divisible by 4, excepting years divisible by 100, but including years divisible by 400. So 1996, 2000, and 2400 are leap years but 1899, 1900 and 2100 are not.
So following the literal description, in Java one might write:Probably there are better and more optimized paths than this... but hey, at least I checked to make sure it compiled and worked
Hot DAMN I loved that movie (Miller's Crossing). The dialogue is for the most part flawless, the acting superb, some well directed scenes... but I don't think it's overly complex from a plot point of view. Several one-paragraph summaries over at IMDB.
Basically there's an Irish and an Italian gang in this 1930's setting. A crooked bookie is cheating the Italians, and they want to kill him. The Irish gang leader refuses, because he is in love with the bookie's sister. Gang war ensues. The lack of plot complexity is more than made up for in the character complexity of Tom (Gabriel Byrne) -- does he love The Irish boss's girl? Is he still loyal to the Irish boss, even after he's thrown out of the gang for fooling around with the boss's girl? Why doesn't he kill Bernie? The Whys and Hows (not plot) far overwhelm the Whats and Whens (the plot) in this film.
and it was a joke response.
Do you know how much money they could have gotten if they that set up a pay-site and charged $19.99 per month (first 7 days free)?!?!?!
Do you know how much prison time any adults involved would face? Or how being involved in child pornography might look on their records as they apply for college?
Well, I guess it depends on the college. UC Berkeley, here they come!
one piece in the article details how an 8th grade girl's masturbation video gets circulated on the internet after she sent it to a boy she had a crush on.
8th graders are what, 14 years old?
guess what -- that's kiddie porn, folks, and the people doing both the circulation and the viewing are committing crimes with pretty harsh punishments. and according to the article, using school computers to do it.
It's now my desktop background image, but also: it shows plenty of nice "empty" space just up the Pacific coast from Vancouver...
well it was on at 2 AM I think, not 8 PM "evening going out time" :)