I like DVD's because it allows me to CHOOSE how to digitally store my media at my discretion. Offsite, hot backup, NAS. What's your excuse to keep paying for media?
The content companies have won. The brainwashing in the schools over the past 20 years has succeeded.
We have a 1770 word essay why ownership of media is clunky and why it is ok to keep paying to watch shows for entertainment. Have we really come so far from the concept of sharing and owning media that we now have to subscribe to "physical media" = bad -> We should always just stream?.
Streaming inherently disavows your right to own media and to make it your own. The end is at hand..
Streaming should be an OPTION. DVD's should be an OPTION..
##AA Stooges should not be allowed to post such rubbish. And those that are now brainwashed should submit to de-programming..
Otherwise we are destined to give away our right to creativity
I've set up something similar for my family - love it. I've also set up something simliar for our enterprise. No complaints about the regular feature set. Just some of the enterprise level things could do with a little more work.
I find the most compelling book is omitting the most compelling story of all. Carnivore. All I hear is "the bad guys are doing it worse, we have to do it better to keep them out." And "there is no security, so we have to build it into the network " because if we build the security, we'll own the back door. The internet has security for when you want to use it. The internet has no security when you don't want it. The problem is that the government has gotten used to having all of our lives under scrutiny in the name of security. Privacy as we know is eroding over the amorphous war on terror. The war that was started by those now fighting when they used those exact tactics in Vietnam. The world is simply emulating the US albeit in an earlier stage of evolution. Instead of attempting to undermine their development, developing them as equal partners that didn't have to fear the US might be a goal worth exploring. But human beings are less altruistic than their primate cousins. I'm sure we'd still screw this up if we tried it. I think we'll just have to wait for the pendulum to swing back. Until then, Generation Y and Z are going to be stupid enough to think that the government can protect them when they won't do it for themselves.
I find the most compelling book is omitting the most compelling story of all.
Carnivore.
All I hear is "the bad guys are doing it worse, we have to do it better to keep them out." And "there is no security, so we have to build it into the network " because if we build the security, we'll own the back door.
The internet has security for when you want to use it. The internet has no security when you don't want it.
The problem is that the government has gotten used to having all of our lives under scrutiny in the name of security.
Privacy as we know is eroding over the amorphous war on terror.
The war that was started by those now fighting when they used those exact tactics in Vietnam.
The world is simply emulating the US albeit in an earlier stage of evolution.
Instead of attempting to undermine their development, developing them as equal partners that didn't have to fear the US might be a goal worth exploring.
But human beings are less altruistic than their primate cousins. I'm sure we'd still screw this up if we tried it.
I think we'll just have to wait for the pendulum to swing back.
Until then, Generation Y and Z are going to be stupid enough to think that the government can protect them when they won't do it for themselves.
"I get their essays and I go 'You obviously don't know what a sentence fragment is. You think commas are sort of like parmesan cheese that you sprinkle on your words'," said Budra.
If this is what the educator at the University level is using as "English", is it any wonder that the students are failing?
(for anyone that missed it, we do not "go" some particular set of words, we "say" them.
Did you miss the boat? This is called a loss-leader. It's designed to combat Linux by saturating the market with a "cost-free" variant of Windows, which makes the average user go get it. "It's Windows - it must be good. It's been around for years." Then once they have you hooked, they charge you for the rest because it costs you too much intellectually to use something else.
The built-in expiry means that as of 2010, you have a few million guaranteed sales of people that have gotten addicted to their Windows 7 environment.
This is how Dealers keep their Junkies at their mercy. See post #2. The first one is free. So that you come back and pay for more.
Well, IMHO, IANAL, but I would have done the following:
Go into Internet Explorer. Go to tools|internet options|Termporary Internet Files|Settings. Set the "Amount of disk space to use" to a 10G or so. Go and open every spam email. Clone the hard drive. Send it to the judge. Voila.
You could have defeated any intent to have the case dismissed by the "expert witness" by doing something very simple.
At the risk of sounding like I'm trying to start a flame war, let me be the first to say how stupid it sounds for an intelligent person that has not READ a book to call it TOO basic for something like kernel programming.
Sounds to me like you're looking for a cookbook. Not to learn. Programming is an art and a science. You have to learn how to walk before you run and run before you fly. You cannot become a kernel programmer just by learning only those things you THINK are needed to program a kernel.
That's like saying you can build an airplane by learning to fly one. Get a grip, and do a little light reading.
Having had to teach a Lotus Notes developer how to do a simple sort, I can honestly say there is nothing more basically flawed than a lack of basic understanding.
Computer Science has been around a long time, as has kernel programming. Those things you are dismissing as basic are the very fundamentals of your trade.
Ante up, or move on. Or as Yoda put it, do or do not. There is no try.
So does anyone have any news on what information is being passed back to Google or what security settings to choose so that my privacy stays intact? Or is this one of those situations where you have go "give up a little freedom" for "increased convenience" a la "giving up a little freedom" for "increased safety and security?? Thanks.
I think everyone that's posted to this thread to this point has missed the point here. This XOP optimization has nothing to do with making XML more compact or anything. It has to do with delaying latency for large payload transfers and allowing the client application to decide if it wants the large binary payload.
Seriously, you guys need to re-read the article again.
The problem with XML binary payloads now is that you find out that you have a large chunk of payload too late in the game and can't avoid it if you don't need it.
This method allows you to know everything there is to know about the payload before you get to the payload.
In theory, you should be able to skip all the payload data until such time as you really need it, thereby speeding up large transfers of XML data when only the metadata about the payload is required.
If anyone wants, I have a native PHP based JSON converter package I've implemented that takes JSON formatted text and creates PHP structures from it, and in other direction, takes PHP structures and creates JSON formatted text.
I'm going to try to post it to SourceForge today.
If anyone wants it sooner, feel free to reply to this thread.
I created this about a year ago, but haven't had the impetus to post it yet, because it seemed esoteric at best and I wasn't sure anyone would need it.
Now that JSON is becoming more prevalent, the need seems to be present.
Thanks.
Dude - get me one of those - geek wife that is. If you can't, in the meantime, let me know how you set the WinTV card up. I have a MSI Tv@nywhere Master card (CX8800) that I want to run under Mandrake 10.1 and haven't been able to get it to work yet. Then again, kernel 2.6.8.1-12 fails miserably on my system. Can't seem to find precompiled kernel modules and obviously, the 2.6.3-7 kernel which works, won't compile the latest CX8800 modules.
I dunno - might just need to install a fresh copy of the OS but upgrading should have worked - just don't know if I have something interfering or not.
So anyway - let me know on either score - the geek wife, or the wintv card - or both.
XUL stands for eXtensible User-interface Language, which if I'm not mistaken is an XML dialect (XML of course being eXtensible Markup Language).
It was dreamed up by the Mozilla team to allow GUI interfaces to be designed in a cross-platform manner without referring to the inner-workings of the platform. It has considerable support and allows you to use mozilla as your development platform instead of just a browser. The mozilla engine which itself is cross-platform handles all the nasty stuff under the hood.
Avalon is Microsoft's answer to XUL. It's not as powerful. It's not cross-platform. It doesn't free you from the underpinnings and shortcomings of the underlying OS. It just makes it easier to develop in it. It also allows for using SVG graphics (another XML dialect).
XAML is this company's knock-off product that beats Microsoft to the punch. How well it does it is anyone's guess at this point. I myself don't know.
However, I do know that it's not cross-platform and that's why everyone is talking about promoting XUL instead of XAML.
XAML is this company's ticket into getting acquired, IMHO.
Please send me one invite.
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I disagree that the conclusions are unpalatable. Unpalatable to me would mean vehement disagreement with. I would rather say the conclusions are disturbing but accurate to Slashdotters.
In summary:
Everything that makes the internet free is being eroded in the name of safety, security, and identifiability.
Everything that enhances big business' buy-in by promoting guaranteed consumers instead of free-thinking citizens is being curtailed because it would allow corruption and damage.
Users will be protected from themselves and everyone else in order to promote a safe computer utopia.
One small step at a time. One technology at a time.
Hoping that we will all miss the big picture until it's too late.
You're doing unfiltered transformations - sed or awk is just as good if not better.
Perl is for doing all sorts of fancy things.
Awk is for applying rules (unlimited on what they can do) based on regex matching.
Sed is for linear transformations based on regex matching.
Yours is a linear transformation and can be done in awk or sed which are basically file filters.
sed "s/^D/C/" file | sed "s//\n/" > file.out
Where is and is CR.
Your mileage may vary and you may have to use a different comparator.
Awk syntax is very similar to C in an interpreted environment, and can be done on the command line as well, or alternatively in a file. It's what C might have been like if the C interpreter had ever taken off.
Sed and Awk are very powerful for regular expression matching. Perl to me is better used as a decision making tool than a transformation tool.
Sed and awk also allow for back-references in the regexes if memory serves.
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The walled garden will never allow uncontrolled dissemination. That is the key of the DVD format. It does not phone home.
I like DVD's because it allows me to CHOOSE how to digitally store my media at my discretion. Offsite, hot backup, NAS. What's your excuse to keep paying for media?
The content companies have won. The brainwashing in the schools over the past 20 years has succeeded.
We have a 1770 word essay why ownership of media is clunky and why it is ok to keep paying to watch shows for entertainment. Have we really come so far from the concept of sharing and owning media that we now have to subscribe to "physical media" = bad -> We should always just stream?.
Streaming inherently disavows your right to own media and to make it your own. The end is at hand..
Streaming should be an OPTION. DVD's should be an OPTION..
##AA Stooges should not be allowed to post such rubbish. And those that are now brainwashed should submit to de-programming..
Otherwise we are destined to give away our right to creativity
Owncloud Sync does not require the backup. It's just "done" in their own workspace which they can choose to share with family.
Clients for every platform. Server distributions for every platform. Mobile clients too. Runs on HTTPS.
I've set up something similar for my family - love it. I've also set up something simliar for our enterprise. No complaints about the regular feature set. Just some of the enterprise level things could do with a little more work.
Wrong article. Sorry. Please delete this comment.
I find the most compelling book is omitting the most compelling story of all. Carnivore. All I hear is "the bad guys are doing it worse, we have to do it better to keep them out." And "there is no security, so we have to build it into the network " because if we build the security, we'll own the back door. The internet has security for when you want to use it. The internet has no security when you don't want it. The problem is that the government has gotten used to having all of our lives under scrutiny in the name of security. Privacy as we know is eroding over the amorphous war on terror. The war that was started by those now fighting when they used those exact tactics in Vietnam. The world is simply emulating the US albeit in an earlier stage of evolution. Instead of attempting to undermine their development, developing them as equal partners that didn't have to fear the US might be a goal worth exploring. But human beings are less altruistic than their primate cousins. I'm sure we'd still screw this up if we tried it. I think we'll just have to wait for the pendulum to swing back. Until then, Generation Y and Z are going to be stupid enough to think that the government can protect them when they won't do it for themselves.
I find the most compelling book is omitting the most compelling story of all. Carnivore. All I hear is "the bad guys are doing it worse, we have to do it better to keep them out." And "there is no security, so we have to build it into the network " because if we build the security, we'll own the back door. The internet has security for when you want to use it. The internet has no security when you don't want it. The problem is that the government has gotten used to having all of our lives under scrutiny in the name of security. Privacy as we know is eroding over the amorphous war on terror. The war that was started by those now fighting when they used those exact tactics in Vietnam. The world is simply emulating the US albeit in an earlier stage of evolution. Instead of attempting to undermine their development, developing them as equal partners that didn't have to fear the US might be a goal worth exploring. But human beings are less altruistic than their primate cousins. I'm sure we'd still screw this up if we tried it. I think we'll just have to wait for the pendulum to swing back. Until then, Generation Y and Z are going to be stupid enough to think that the government can protect them when they won't do it for themselves.
One of the teachers said this in the interview:
"I get their essays and I go 'You obviously don't know what a sentence fragment is. You think commas are sort of like parmesan cheese that you sprinkle on your words'," said Budra.
If this is what the educator at the University level is using as "English", is it any wonder that the students are failing?
(for anyone that missed it, we do not "go" some particular set of words, we "say" them.
Did you miss the boat? This is called a loss-leader. It's designed to combat Linux by saturating the market with a "cost-free" variant of Windows, which makes the average user go get it. "It's Windows - it must be good. It's been around for years." Then once they have you hooked, they charge you for the rest because it costs you too much intellectually to use something else. The built-in expiry means that as of 2010, you have a few million guaranteed sales of people that have gotten addicted to their Windows 7 environment. This is how Dealers keep their Junkies at their mercy. See post #2. The first one is free. So that you come back and pay for more.
Well, IMHO, IANAL, but I would have done the following:
Go into Internet Explorer. Go to tools|internet options|Termporary Internet Files|Settings.
Set the "Amount of disk space to use" to a 10G or so.
Go and open every spam email.
Clone the hard drive.
Send it to the judge.
Voila.
You could have defeated any intent to have the case dismissed by the "expert witness" by doing something very simple.
"Let the Cache flow through you"
At the risk of sounding like I'm trying to start a flame war, let me be the first to say how stupid it sounds for an intelligent person that has not READ a book to call it TOO basic for something like kernel programming.
Sounds to me like you're looking for a cookbook. Not to learn. Programming is an art and a science. You have to learn how to walk before you run and run before you fly. You cannot become a kernel programmer just by learning only those things you THINK are needed to program a kernel.
That's like saying you can build an airplane by learning to fly one. Get a grip, and do a little light reading.
Having had to teach a Lotus Notes developer how to do a simple sort, I can honestly say there is nothing more basically flawed than a lack of basic understanding.
Computer Science has been around a long time, as has kernel programming. Those things you are dismissing as basic are the very fundamentals of your trade.
Ante up, or move on. Or as Yoda put it, do or do not. There is no try.
Apparently this story will hit www.tuttletimes.com on Thursday. Look for it.
So does anyone have any news on what information is being passed back to Google or what security settings to choose so that my privacy stays intact? Or is this one of those situations where you have go "give up a little freedom" for "increased convenience" a la "giving up a little freedom" for "increased safety and security?? Thanks.
I think everyone that's posted to this thread to this point has missed the point here. This XOP optimization has nothing to do with making XML more compact or anything. It has to do with delaying latency for large payload transfers and allowing the client application to decide if it wants the large binary payload.
Seriously, you guys need to re-read the article again.
The problem with XML binary payloads now is that you find out that you have a large chunk of payload too late in the game and can't avoid it if you don't need it.
This method allows you to know everything there is to know about the payload before you get to the payload.
In theory, you should be able to skip all the payload data until such time as you really need it, thereby speeding up large transfers of XML data when only the metadata about the payload is required.
Make sense? I think so too.
P.S. Binary XML is entirely different animal.
If anyone wants, I have a native PHP based JSON converter package I've implemented that takes JSON formatted text and creates PHP structures from it, and in other direction, takes PHP structures and creates JSON formatted text. I'm going to try to post it to SourceForge today. If anyone wants it sooner, feel free to reply to this thread. I created this about a year ago, but haven't had the impetus to post it yet, because it seemed esoteric at best and I wasn't sure anyone would need it. Now that JSON is becoming more prevalent, the need seems to be present. Thanks.
Dude - get me one of those - geek wife that is. If you can't, in the meantime, let me know how you set the WinTV card up. I have a MSI Tv@nywhere Master card (CX8800) that I want to run under Mandrake 10.1 and haven't been able to get it to work yet. Then again, kernel 2.6.8.1-12 fails miserably on my system. Can't seem to find precompiled kernel modules and obviously, the 2.6.3-7 kernel which works, won't compile the latest CX8800 modules.
I dunno - might just need to install a fresh copy of the OS but upgrading should have worked - just don't know if I have something interfering or not.
So anyway - let me know on either score - the geek wife, or the wintv card - or both.
Cheers.
Personally, I'll be happy w/ the +3 for the moment. The other post wasn't from me.
I figure that since I didn't have any hyperlinks added ( didn't have them at the time ), I can undestand the +3.
Oh well. Life goes on.
XUL stands for eXtensible User-interface Language, which if I'm not mistaken is an XML dialect (XML of course being eXtensible Markup Language).
It was dreamed up by the Mozilla team to allow GUI interfaces to be designed in a cross-platform manner without referring to the inner-workings of the platform. It has considerable support and allows you to use mozilla as your development platform instead of just a browser. The mozilla engine which itself is cross-platform handles all the nasty stuff under the hood.
Avalon is Microsoft's answer to XUL. It's not as powerful. It's not cross-platform. It doesn't free you from the underpinnings and shortcomings of the underlying OS. It just makes it easier to develop in it. It also allows for using SVG graphics (another XML dialect).
XAML is this company's knock-off product that beats Microsoft to the punch. How well it does it is anyone's guess at this point. I myself don't know.
However, I do know that it's not cross-platform and that's why everyone is talking about promoting XUL instead of XAML.
XAML is this company's ticket into getting acquired, IMHO.
Later.
Dude - it's $19.95/annually and it comes with a bunch of other perks.
Please send me one invite. passionplay at hotmail dot com
I disagree that the conclusions are unpalatable. Unpalatable to me would mean vehement disagreement with. I would rather say the conclusions are disturbing but accurate to Slashdotters.
In summary:
Everything that makes the internet free is being eroded in the name of safety, security, and identifiability.
Everything that enhances big business' buy-in by promoting guaranteed consumers instead of free-thinking citizens is being curtailed because it would allow corruption and damage.
Users will be protected from themselves and everyone else in order to promote a safe computer utopia.
One small step at a time. One technology at a time.
Hoping that we will all miss the big picture until it's too late.
That's the most concise I can be.
You're doing unfiltered transformations - sed or awk is just as good if not better.
Perl is for doing all sorts of fancy things.
Awk is for applying rules (unlimited on what they can do) based on regex matching.
Sed is for linear transformations based on regex matching.
Yours is a linear transformation and can be done in awk or sed which are basically file filters.
sed "s/^D/C/" file | sed "s//\n/" > file.out
Where is and is CR.
Your mileage may vary and you may have to use a different comparator.
Awk syntax is very similar to C in an interpreted environment, and can be done on the command line as well, or alternatively in a file. It's what C might have been like if the C interpreter had ever taken off.
Sed and Awk are very powerful for regular expression matching. Perl to me is better used as a decision making tool than a transformation tool.
Sed and awk also allow for back-references in the regexes if memory serves.
My 2 cents.