my surname is unique in the world (afaik) and thus so is my wife's. she is in the news quite a bit as a semi-public figure, and so she has a google alert on our last name to keep track of news coming in that mentions her.
of course she gets "news alerts" when i "digg" something. how retarded is that.
Apple wants to maintain their total control over the iPod and what it can play. It's as simple as that.
100% wrong. The iPod supports MP3, AAC, WAV, and AIFF, in -addition- to Fairplay. Any company would not have to pay a single penny to apple to become "compatible" with the iPod if they offered their music in any single one of those formats.
the ipod can use all kinds of music from all kinds of places other than the itunes music store. it just can't play other store's DRM. talk to the other stores and have them release their music as non-DRM mp3 or AAC and the ipod will play it just fine.
my main concern was not simply being arrested, or found guilty.
it would be: "big surprise" -- actually helping to host child porn. actually helping to encourage the molestation of kids. it doesn't matter if you are never prosecuted.
my first use of this is to back up my itunes purchases. 507 songs, say at 4 MB per song, is about 2 GB of data. the upload will cost $0.40 and it will cost $0.30 per month to store the songs there. this is PERFECT.
with truecrypt, your linux partition could be on a USB key (or copied, or on a shared partition, etc) that could be shared with a windows machine. truecrypt is really a nice piece of software, even though i have absolutely no "real" use for it other than storing passwords and the odd bit of personally sensitive backup like tax returns. the danger with all encryption is when people use it for illegal purposes (terrorism, copyright infrigement, child porn, theft, fraud, etc), but it is a powerful tool for privacy and legal communication. in my opinion, criminal abuses of encryption should be punished severely, because it is these abuses which hurt useful private sector encryption (protecting company trade secrets, personal diaries, personal communications, whatever). the problem with the power to strongly encrypt everything is that "bad people" gain a lot through this power, perhaps more than can be accepted for the gains that "non-bad people" receive.
i would recommend either VB or C# to a beginning programmer (but of course i would recommend a score of other languages first, but that's beside the point).
you're trying to teach a beginning programmer (in order of priority):
0. prequisite: general problem solving 1. if they will enjoy being a non-beginning programmer 2. beginning programming
just about any language is sufficient for task 1 (well, maybe not Perl. we aren't sadists...) task 2 can be accomplished with any number of languages.
the problems with teaching VB or C# are: 1. the cost of licenses for the single-source operating system 2. the costs of licensing for the development environment 3. the expense of powerful enough machines to run the above development environments
if you have a lab of reasonably powerful windows machines, by all means, bring out the VB and C#. you can, however, teach beginning programming with a room full of BSD or Linux 386 or 486 machines just fine. in honesty Perl would do nicely to accomplish the principal task of instructing a beginning programmer: demystifying what programming is, so they can decide if they might like to learn more. after that, the language is only a medium for communicating your problem's solution for the computer to compute, and that can be done in any language.
if there were an easy way to obtain and verify identity information, there would be many sites already offering such a community. however at this time it is fairly prohibitive to obtain and verify identity information from someone wanting to make a post on an internet website.
i was in 6th grade science class watching live. before and after, i still wanted to be an astronaut.
i've often wondered how different things would have been had the challenger been the success that was expected. more women in science? expanded exploration instead of a near shutdown of the entire agency?
i do know that an entire generation of school children went from being incredibly curious about space to being afraid of space to being uninterested in space. which is very sad; since the people who died lived their lives towards the opposite cause.
neither of these men have risked their lives for belief in something that violent people around them did not believe. perhaps that is just part of my own definition of hero, but neither of these men had half a chance of even serving a night in jail for being unpopular, or a night in the poor house for failing.
The shoe also falls on the other foot. If Google so egregiously violates human rights that their company is damaged, they would be forced to not do so. All we must do is punish those businesses that trample human rights, and companies who are chasing the bottom line would cease doing so, simply because it would not be profitable. The problem with the twerps like you and me is that we do not punish these companies; we continue to buy millions of dollars of sweat-shop produced clothing and shoes, we buy billions of dollars of oil from countries whose governments openly treat women and religious minorities as chattel.
creationism, ID, and evolution are not even necessarily contradictory.
let's say "God created intelligently, and his creations evolved."
thus picking one of creationism, ID, and evolution would be nonsensical, because if you believed this statement (I do not but that is a digression) then you then "believe" in all 3.
evolution is not a theory that deals with the origins of the universe.
creationism and ID are not beliefs (I did not say theories) that deal with the progression, proliferation, and diversification of life.
how did the universe begin? how did life begin? what was before that?
asimov had a fun story about it called The Last Question that is a nice little read. Arthur C Clarke has a short called The Nine Billion Names of God that isn't terrible reading either.
if apple doesn't have a serial number -> internal model number table, i would be heartily surprised. instead of asking all these questions about mirrored doors and DVI ports, why not just ask for the product serial number (which you'll need anyway to tie into warranty service)? or better yet, since they've already registered the serial number to their account, you just look up their account and see which machine they have. for larger accounts (several machines) asking for the serial number is more than appropriate, it would be necessary.
my problem with the ipod versioning then becomes "the serial number on the thing is too damned hard to read".
even on my thinkpads, yes there are "Thinkpad R-31" but that is hardly enough when needing detailed technical support, that is why there is easily available "real" type information (e.g. 2656-MU5) when you get down to technical support.
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no, wait. the other thing. tedious.
my surname is unique in the world (afaik) and thus so is my wife's. she is in the news quite a bit as a semi-public figure, and so she has a google alert on our last name to keep track of news coming in that mentions her.
of course she gets "news alerts" when i "digg" something. how retarded is that.
Apple wants to maintain their total control over the iPod and what it can play. It's as simple as that.
100% wrong. The iPod supports MP3, AAC, WAV, and AIFF, in -addition- to Fairplay. Any company would not have to pay a single penny to apple to become "compatible" with the iPod if they offered their music in any single one of those formats.
the ipod can use all kinds of music from all kinds of places other than the itunes music store. it just can't play other store's DRM. talk to the other stores and have them release their music as non-DRM mp3 or AAC and the ipod will play it just fine.
my main concern was not simply being arrested, or found guilty.
it would be: "big surprise" -- actually helping to host child porn. actually helping to encourage the molestation of kids. it doesn't matter if you are never prosecuted.
my first use of this is to back up my itunes purchases. 507 songs, say at 4 MB per song, is about 2 GB of data. the upload will cost $0.40 and it will cost $0.30 per month to store the songs there. this is PERFECT.
(until google comes out and is free.)
it would work great, until you are arrested for hosting child porn on your machine.
with truecrypt, your linux partition could be on a USB key (or copied, or on a shared partition, etc) that could be shared with a windows machine. truecrypt is really a nice piece of software, even though i have absolutely no "real" use for it other than storing passwords and the odd bit of personally sensitive backup like tax returns. the danger with all encryption is when people use it for illegal purposes (terrorism, copyright infrigement, child porn, theft, fraud, etc), but it is a powerful tool for privacy and legal communication. in my opinion, criminal abuses of encryption should be punished severely, because it is these abuses which hurt useful private sector encryption (protecting company trade secrets, personal diaries, personal communications, whatever). the problem with the power to strongly encrypt everything is that "bad people" gain a lot through this power, perhaps more than can be accepted for the gains that "non-bad people" receive.
so, $0.15 per GB/month storage, $0.20 per GB transferred.
questions: how do i put a cap on my storage (and more importantly transfer) so a runaway service doesn't screw me?
i would recommend either VB or C# to a beginning programmer (but of course i would recommend a score of other languages first, but that's beside the point).
you're trying to teach a beginning programmer (in order of priority):
0. prequisite: general problem solving
1. if they will enjoy being a non-beginning programmer
2. beginning programming
just about any language is sufficient for task 1 (well, maybe not Perl. we aren't sadists...) task 2 can be accomplished with any number of languages.
the problems with teaching VB or C# are:
1. the cost of licenses for the single-source operating system
2. the costs of licensing for the development environment
3. the expense of powerful enough machines to run the above development environments
if you have a lab of reasonably powerful windows machines, by all means, bring out the VB and C#. you can, however, teach beginning programming with a room full of BSD or Linux 386 or 486 machines just fine. in honesty Perl would do nicely to accomplish the principal task of instructing a beginning programmer: demystifying what programming is, so they can decide if they might like to learn more. after that, the language is only a medium for communicating your problem's solution for the computer to compute, and that can be done in any language.
if there were an easy way to obtain and verify identity information, there would be many sites already offering such a community. however at this time it is fairly prohibitive to obtain and verify identity information from someone wanting to make a post on an internet website.
will they bring fiber to my house!?
just bring me fiber to the home.
http://www.devmaster.net/articles/mmo-scalable-ser ver/e r_in_erlang.html
http://www.erlang-consulting.com/thesis/mmog_serv
does mysql do this:
/ techarticle/dm-0511singh/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library
you might want to expand your horizons a bit. the toronto blue jays won the world series in recent memory, and they are not in the usa.
in latin america, also not the usa, baseball is played quite a bit as well.
i was in 6th grade science class watching live. before and after, i still wanted to be an astronaut.
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i've often wondered how different things would have been had the challenger been the success that was expected. more women in science? expanded exploration instead of a near shutdown of the entire agency?
i do know that an entire generation of school children went from being incredibly curious about space to being afraid of space to being uninterested in space. which is very sad; since the people who died lived their lives towards the opposite cause.
various reading:
http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/NssEthicsAwar
http://onlineethics.org/moral/boisjoly/MTImemo2.h
neither of these men have risked their lives for belief in something that violent people around them did not believe. perhaps that is just part of my own definition of hero, but neither of these men had half a chance of even serving a night in jail for being unpopular, or a night in the poor house for failing.
The shoe also falls on the other foot. If Google so egregiously violates human rights that their company is damaged, they would be forced to not do so. All we must do is punish those businesses that trample human rights, and companies who are chasing the bottom line would cease doing so, simply because it would not be profitable. The problem with the twerps like you and me is that we do not punish these companies; we continue to buy millions of dollars of sweat-shop produced clothing and shoes, we buy billions of dollars of oil from countries whose governments openly treat women and religious minorities as chattel.
get any 40-hour a week job you can get to shore up the short-term while you find a job you like. work starbucks, barnes and noble, etc, whatever.
creationism, ID, and evolution are not even necessarily contradictory.
let's say "God created intelligently, and his creations evolved."
thus picking one of creationism, ID, and evolution would be nonsensical, because if you believed this statement (I do not but that is a digression) then you then "believe" in all 3.
evolution is not a theory that deals with the origins of the universe.
creationism and ID are not beliefs (I did not say theories) that deal with the progression, proliferation, and diversification of life.
how did the universe begin? how did life begin? what was before that?
asimov had a fun story about it called The Last Question that is a nice little read. Arthur C Clarke has a short called The Nine Billion Names of God that isn't terrible reading either.
if this kind of thing interests you, The Abolition of Man might interest you as well, or even Chesterton's Orthodoxy.
if apple doesn't have a serial number -> internal model number table, i would be heartily surprised. instead of asking all these questions about mirrored doors and DVI ports, why not just ask for the product serial number (which you'll need anyway to tie into warranty service)? or better yet, since they've already registered the serial number to their account, you just look up their account and see which machine they have. for larger accounts (several machines) asking for the serial number is more than appropriate, it would be necessary.
my problem with the ipod versioning then becomes "the serial number on the thing is too damned hard to read".
even on my thinkpads, yes there are "Thinkpad R-31" but that is hardly enough when needing detailed technical support, that is why there is easily available "real" type information (e.g. 2656-MU5) when you get down to technical support.
http://www.aflax.org/
poke around in those (excellent) libraries a bit, maybe you'll find more basic socket handling facilities that you are looking for.
maybe "web 3.0" is closer than we think. servers pushing data to web clients.
and my original post was sarcasm!
i've been called a fucking idiot by an AC! my life is complete.