I can't imagine that people who pirate movie represent a large portion of the buying public. They don't like paying and they know they don't have to. I don't think you will see a ton of pirates stopping that and purchasing downloads.
Well, studies on music and p2p have found that most people who download music from p2p actually buy more music than the non-downloaders. It's a bit counter-intuative, but it seems to be a consistent trend. Whether it will hold for movies is interesting as you can't "preview" a movie like you might an album; to be honest that's what trailers are for.
There will always be those whom I call "archivers". They download and download without never listening/watching the content. They will never buy it. However, it would seem that they are a very small minority and for the most part p2p users are regular people who just dip in now and again.
+1 informative? More "+1 Apple". Did you read the post? Her problems were with scroll-bars, minimising windows, screen savers and the fact that it "wasn't what everybody else has" as in IE & Outlook.
How the hell would a Mac solve ANY of those issues? Some people are just unable to intuatively use a computer, regardless of the OS. You need to sit and explain it all, in a language they are familiar with. "Screen savers are like the curtains you draw at night"...
It's overdesigned because you need to wrap a DataInputStream in a BufferedInputStream in a FileInputStream in a Riddle in a Mystery in an Enigma to open a file.
As the AC said, programming is hard. Sure, some languages offer nice syntax to let you easilly read/write files. Sweet. Now couple that to any random third-party IO API, for example reading the same data over a PPP serial link. Oh, things get a little harder. By having common base stream classes, Java makes joining the dots up really easy. We don't care on the input/output format, we just deal with the datastream. And if you are programming like you are supposed to be doing (writing reusable generic code), Java is perfect for this. Someone could come along in twenty years time and create an AvianDataStream class and provided it uses the same abstract base classes, it'll work with everything else that's being written today.
Want to output a float or double rounded to 3 decimal places? Easy, just instantiate a DecimalFormat class. Now where does that live? I don't know, I can just look it up.
Look it up? You are using a strongly-typed language; get a decent IDE. Type "DecimalFo" and press ctrl-space in Eclipse. Automatically completes the name and imports the class. Any ambiguity, you get a popup box that also shows you the Javadoc for it. And unlike many other languages, you can browse/debug inside the base classes. "Looking up things" is one of the things I think it's good at.
and a payroll full of geniuses for me to discover how to do in Java what I can do in Python or C with %.3f.
And when those Python hackers leave, you lose the IP and local knowledge on whatever libraries/plugins were currently in vogue. Your current staff have to try and reverse engineer all sorts of clever tricks that they aren't familiar with. With Java, it's all standard. That's the point in the "over design". C on the other hand is really different market (java on the desktop is pretty much a non-event, whereas C dominates). Comparisons between C and Java are pointless; Java belongs with PHP/Python etc in the web-service sector.
These things just piss of novices, but if you know what you are doing, they are extremely useful and most importantly help you write good, maintainable code.
There's hardly any inconsistencies on that page. The only ones that are inconsistencies are simply methods in the JRE that don't follow the string case conventions. Wow. People still type method names (and not code-completion)?;-)
The rest of the things are simply "gotchas" (the title of the page) that might catch you out coming from another language. And most of them are desirable, just confusing if you're a newbie to the language.
And the "over-design" is what makes it very very secure. When was the last time you heard of a buffer-overrun hack in a java app? That's one of the main aims of the JRE.
With nothing more than some knowledge, a spare connector, some wires, a switch and a specifically rated resistor, you could build a plug that would "start" any modern GSXR in about 20 seconds.
The thing is, I did the exact same with an electronic ignition system, must have been around 92/93. My fathers car had a broken keyfob and curious me wanted to know how it worked. Boy was I shocked. It was simply a case of a generic chip, where a "key" was set by cutting traces on the board. There were no more than 12 of these traces to select.
Using a little binary counter, I was able to make an interface to it that cycled through all of the combinations in around five minutes. Piece of piss, needed nothing more than high-school electronics.
Great advice, it's appreciated! Looks like there are some nice jobs available over your way, good point on the fun part tho! I've got friends over there, some doing the campervan thing so I'll likely hook up with them first for "a while".:-)
Someone was refused treatment by a Muslim NHS doctor because he drank (forbidden by Islam)
I'd like to see a reference to that please, specifically stating that it was on religious grounds. People are legitmately refused treatment because of drinking all the time, and your statement sounds like xenophobic claptrap.
The only "non-free" one I can think of was RedHat 7, where you had to fill out a questionaire every now and then to get update access. That was the reason I ditched that distribution.
Simple. This article shows that X11 has vunerabilities. If you aren't running it, you are immune to them. Standard server operating principles dictate that you only run what you are using.
Also, if he really really needs X11, I don't think you need to run the server part on the remote box. Just use the DISPLAY variable to sent the X11 stuff back to a client (running e.g. Cygwin X11 server) whenever he needs a GUI.
You fall into the same false dichotomy trap that all misguided defenders of the NHS (the largest stalinist organisation in the world) fall into.
Please explain to me how the NHS has anything to do with the policies of Stalin. I am genuinely interested in whether a) you have some interesting political insight, or b) are just another person who thinks socialism / stalinism and communinism are essentially the same thing.
Hear Hear! And don't forget food. What good is the right to health care without food?
Isn't that what welfare / the dole are for? Granted, I think we don't have food stamps here, but what you've said essentially exists in both countries.
What would make a difference would be access to healthy food (not even paid for, just access). Right now, in both countries, being poor meaning eating badly. Healthy food is generally more expensive than junk.
Speaking as someone who had to visit A&E just week, I have to say that you are talking out of your arse. In my experience the staff were outstanding and did everything I would have expected of them. They were 100% professional and I honestly considered complementing them at the time. Waiting times were very minimal and the department was spotlessly clean.
I've maybe been through ten various NHS proceedures / departments over the years. In only one case can I fault the treatment and/or level of care, and that was only because the ingrown toenail (full on surgery, was a bad one) which managed to retain some root and grow back. Even the nurses that came to my house to change the dressings were great, considering I was a whining teenager in pain.
Bitching about the NHS just seems to be the thing to do these days. From your experience, it sounds as though you've maybe been in and out hospital way more times than someone might choose to be. Without knowing more detail, I can't say whether or not you genuinely have been treated badly, or are perhaps just a little pissed off with the whole healthcare thing and are transfering those feelings onto the NHS.
Please don't take this as an insult or anything, but how do you treat people yourself? The phrase you used "The incompetence of our NHS, the apathy of their "professionals" and utterly abysmal levels of customer service" suggests to me that you yourself don't treat the staff very well. At the very least, you have no respect for them. What I'm trying to say here (without pissing you off) is that perhaps your own attitude might be part of the problem. I know that if I were a doctor or a nurse and had a patient that used quotations around the word professional when refering to my colleagues, that patient would get the minimum required treatment, while other, more deserving, patients get my help. Stands to reason.
Yeah, but the only reason that medicine is charged that way in America is because it's a for-profit industry. Imagine you have a broken down car, and two garages to choose from. One will do the bare minimum you ask and get you going again. The other one charges slightly more, but the office is very swanky. However, this other one also "finds out" that X, Y and Z is also broken and that you need to get all this extra work done.
This analogy is (IMHO) the #1 reason why healthcare should be public. Doctors should not be on a commission.
The US is the land of opportunity, where if you are educated and reasonably intelligent you can find a good, rewarding job, maybe even do something that you like.
There lies the inherent problem; you won't get "educated" unless you are from a pretty afluent background (or good at sport). Here in the UK, it used to be that anyone could go to University and be paid to do so by the government. We now copy the US system and you now have to take out "loans" just to pay the fees. The only people seeing that as an "land of opportunity" are the creditors.
I don't see the difference you speak of in terms of working life. Public sector in the US has more than it's fair share of deadwood workers that are impossible to get rid off. The entire tax system is so complicated I've heard it argued that it only exists to continue the employment of the IRS workers.;-)
I'm heading over your way in a few months from the UK. Can you get decent tech work on a working holiday visa, or is it just going to be grape picking and so on? I'm a highly skilled software/networking guy, going cheap, but I would rather not be getting minimum wage for backbreaking work when I can get paid more for doing less;-) I also want freedom to move around a little and not be doing a 9-5 for the first six months or so, hense the "working holiday" idea.
Any suggestions/input welcome. Know any good web sites with info on this?
Exactly, this is a non-story. NTFS support in linux is not safe as far as I'm aware. All of the NTFS mounting tools I've tried have recommended mounting read-only unless you really have to.
And the other way? If you know of a Windows ext3 or Raiser driver, then please tell me. Basically, nothing has changed.
FAT32 is the only common ground both OS's have, and that sucks. It handles ungraceful shutdowns badly (chdsk001.dat anyone?) and has no ownership / execute flags whatsoever. As others have suggested, a samba share on another machine is about the best way to go. Saying that, some linux drive enyption tool like EncFS might be useful; apparently it has a windows port.
The efficency thing was my first thought, though the idea of storing cheap night electricity does hold potential. Many power sources aren't easy to power down each day and at night lots of capacity is idle. Storage heaters use this night surplus, but deliver it in a way that IMHO is pretty crap. Storage heaters cannot be turned up and down as you feel like it, and to me that's pretty wasteful. If you are not in all day, why have your house heated? And when the wind picks up, you need to put on a jumper. Gimmie a gas-fired radiator system any day.
One smart way of storing this energy is hydroelectric. At night, they reverse the turbines and turn the surplus grid energy into stored potential energy. However, this approach is limited; I doubt anyone would build a dedicated plant for this purpose, and with hydroelectric most of the best sites have been either constructed or discounted for whatever reason.
A local storage system makes a lot of sense. It could also cut down on coffee-break surges. There are noticable spikes in the usage here in the UK during commercial breaks of many popular shows. Everyone switches on the kettle!! So, a system that could buffer energy at the local level could save on a lot of unnessesary capacity that exists only to power the worst-case scenario.
As you say, the economics of this on a personal level just can't work out. However, scaling this up could be interesting.
Oh, and did your repayment time guestimate consider replacement batteries?:-) We're talking about a daily charge/recharge cycle here, that's going to take it's toll on the batteries, some sort of pre-existing "gel technology" is as far as the article elaborates. Perhaps some sort of hydrogen cell / elecrolysis system would offer more efficency and cheaper maintainence in the future.
Last thing; this also works as a UPS, where as most backup generators don't kick in for a few seconds at least. Computers like that sort of thing...
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127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 webmessenger.msn.com
Either that or grep the DNS logs for the address and kick all users off the network that use it.
Well, studies on music and p2p have found that most people who download music from p2p actually buy more music than the non-downloaders. It's a bit counter-intuative, but it seems to be a consistent trend. Whether it will hold for movies is interesting as you can't "preview" a movie like you might an album; to be honest that's what trailers are for.
There will always be those whom I call "archivers". They download and download without never listening/watching the content. They will never buy it. However, it would seem that they are a very small minority and for the most part p2p users are regular people who just dip in now and again.
Hell, it's your investment on your inheritance, keeping those keyloggers at bay. ;-)
+1 informative? More "+1 Apple". Did you read the post? Her problems were with scroll-bars, minimising windows, screen savers and the fact that it "wasn't what everybody else has" as in IE & Outlook.
How the hell would a Mac solve ANY of those issues? Some people are just unable to intuatively use a computer, regardless of the OS. You need to sit and explain it all, in a language they are familiar with. "Screen savers are like the curtains you draw at night"...
As the AC said, programming is hard. Sure, some languages offer nice syntax to let you easilly read/write files. Sweet. Now couple that to any random third-party IO API, for example reading the same data over a PPP serial link. Oh, things get a little harder. By having common base stream classes, Java makes joining the dots up really easy. We don't care on the input/output format, we just deal with the datastream. And if you are programming like you are supposed to be doing (writing reusable generic code), Java is perfect for this. Someone could come along in twenty years time and create an AvianDataStream class and provided it uses the same abstract base classes, it'll work with everything else that's being written today.
Want to output a float or double rounded to 3 decimal places? Easy, just instantiate a DecimalFormat class. Now where does that live? I don't know, I can just look it up.
Look it up? You are using a strongly-typed language; get a decent IDE. Type "DecimalFo" and press ctrl-space in Eclipse. Automatically completes the name and imports the class. Any ambiguity, you get a popup box that also shows you the Javadoc for it. And unlike many other languages, you can browse/debug inside the base classes. "Looking up things" is one of the things I think it's good at.
and a payroll full of geniuses for me to discover how to do in Java what I can do in Python or C with %.3f.
And when those Python hackers leave, you lose the IP and local knowledge on whatever libraries/plugins were currently in vogue. Your current staff have to try and reverse engineer all sorts of clever tricks that they aren't familiar with. With Java, it's all standard. That's the point in the "over design". C on the other hand is really different market (java on the desktop is pretty much a non-event, whereas C dominates). Comparisons between C and Java are pointless; Java belongs with PHP/Python etc in the web-service sector.
These things just piss of novices, but if you know what you are doing, they are extremely useful and most importantly help you write good, maintainable code.
There's hardly any inconsistencies on that page. The only ones that are inconsistencies are simply methods in the JRE that don't follow the string case conventions. Wow. People still type method names (and not code-completion)? ;-)
The rest of the things are simply "gotchas" (the title of the page) that might catch you out coming from another language. And most of them are desirable, just confusing if you're a newbie to the language.
And the "over-design" is what makes it very very secure. When was the last time you heard of a buffer-overrun hack in a java app? That's one of the main aims of the JRE.
The thing is, I did the exact same with an electronic ignition system, must have been around 92/93. My fathers car had a broken keyfob and curious me wanted to know how it worked. Boy was I shocked. It was simply a case of a generic chip, where a "key" was set by cutting traces on the board. There were no more than 12 of these traces to select.
Using a little binary counter, I was able to make an interface to it that cycled through all of the combinations in around five minutes. Piece of piss, needed nothing more than high-school electronics.
Great advice, it's appreciated! Looks like there are some nice jobs available over your way, good point on the fun part tho! I've got friends over there, some doing the campervan thing so I'll likely hook up with them first for "a while". :-)
I've just spent the last two hours reading it, thanks!! Answered most of the questions that I had.
I'd like to see a reference to that please, specifically stating that it was on religious grounds. People are legitmately refused treatment because of drinking all the time, and your statement sounds like xenophobic claptrap.
The only "non-free" one I can think of was RedHat 7, where you had to fill out a questionaire every now and then to get update access. That was the reason I ditched that distribution.
Simple. This article shows that X11 has vunerabilities. If you aren't running it, you are immune to them. Standard server operating principles dictate that you only run what you are using.
Also, if he really really needs X11, I don't think you need to run the server part on the remote box. Just use the DISPLAY variable to sent the X11 stuff back to a client (running e.g. Cygwin X11 server) whenever he needs a GUI.
Please explain to me how the NHS has anything to do with the policies of Stalin. I am genuinely interested in whether a) you have some interesting political insight, or b) are just another person who thinks socialism / stalinism and communinism are essentially the same thing.
Isn't that what welfare / the dole are for? Granted, I think we don't have food stamps here, but what you've said essentially exists in both countries.
What would make a difference would be access to healthy food (not even paid for, just access). Right now, in both countries, being poor meaning eating badly. Healthy food is generally more expensive than junk.
I've maybe been through ten various NHS proceedures / departments over the years. In only one case can I fault the treatment and/or level of care, and that was only because the ingrown toenail (full on surgery, was a bad one) which managed to retain some root and grow back. Even the nurses that came to my house to change the dressings were great, considering I was a whining teenager in pain.
Bitching about the NHS just seems to be the thing to do these days. From your experience, it sounds as though you've maybe been in and out hospital way more times than someone might choose to be. Without knowing more detail, I can't say whether or not you genuinely have been treated badly, or are perhaps just a little pissed off with the whole healthcare thing and are transfering those feelings onto the NHS.
Please don't take this as an insult or anything, but how do you treat people yourself? The phrase you used "The incompetence of our NHS, the apathy of their "professionals" and utterly abysmal levels of customer service" suggests to me that you yourself don't treat the staff very well. At the very least, you have no respect for them. What I'm trying to say here (without pissing you off) is that perhaps your own attitude might be part of the problem. I know that if I were a doctor or a nurse and had a patient that used quotations around the word professional when refering to my colleagues, that patient would get the minimum required treatment, while other, more deserving, patients get my help. Stands to reason.
This analogy is (IMHO) the #1 reason why healthcare should be public. Doctors should not be on a commission.
There lies the inherent problem; you won't get "educated" unless you are from a pretty afluent background (or good at sport). Here in the UK, it used to be that anyone could go to University and be paid to do so by the government. We now copy the US system and you now have to take out "loans" just to pay the fees. The only people seeing that as an "land of opportunity" are the creditors.
I don't see the difference you speak of in terms of working life. Public sector in the US has more than it's fair share of deadwood workers that are impossible to get rid off. The entire tax system is so complicated I've heard it argued that it only exists to continue the employment of the IRS workers. ;-)
Any suggestions/input welcome. Know any good web sites with info on this?
(Where reasonable means no more than one drink a day. No point in having thousands of drunk, delusional people).
Hang on a minute, I thought what's going in Guantanamo wasn't torture ? Or how about these parents who sued to force feed their daughter?
(Not that I'd ever eat foie gras anyways, it is cruel, but it's not torture nor is it any worse than factory farming especially WRT poultry)
They could be warned me before I signed up
What, before you gave them your email address? Are you mad?
Good post, thank you. I'll be coming back to it for the dual-boot system I'm building next month!
And the other way? If you know of a Windows ext3 or Raiser driver, then please tell me. Basically, nothing has changed.
FAT32 is the only common ground both OS's have, and that sucks. It handles ungraceful shutdowns badly (chdsk001.dat anyone?) and has no ownership / execute flags whatsoever. As others have suggested, a samba share on another machine is about the best way to go. Saying that, some linux drive enyption tool like EncFS might be useful; apparently it has a windows port.
One smart way of storing this energy is hydroelectric. At night, they reverse the turbines and turn the surplus grid energy into stored potential energy. However, this approach is limited; I doubt anyone would build a dedicated plant for this purpose, and with hydroelectric most of the best sites have been either constructed or discounted for whatever reason.
A local storage system makes a lot of sense. It could also cut down on coffee-break surges. There are noticable spikes in the usage here in the UK during commercial breaks of many popular shows. Everyone switches on the kettle!! So, a system that could buffer energy at the local level could save on a lot of unnessesary capacity that exists only to power the worst-case scenario.
As you say, the economics of this on a personal level just can't work out. However, scaling this up could be interesting.
Oh, and did your repayment time guestimate consider replacement batteries? :-) We're talking about a daily charge/recharge cycle here, that's going to take it's toll on the batteries, some sort of pre-existing "gel technology" is as far as the article elaborates. Perhaps some sort of hydrogen cell / elecrolysis system would offer more efficency and cheaper maintainence in the future.
Last thing; this also works as a UPS, where as most backup generators don't kick in for a few seconds at least. Computers like that sort of thing...