You have a valid point, but wouldn't the CD drive still need a CD burning laser to write to the disc? I don't know about you, but my burner is used for burning CDs. I still use the good old trusty CD-ROM for reading. Albeit, Mac superdrives and laptop combo drives don't offer that sort of option, but still most computers ship with standard CD-ROM drives.
I could see these being used particularly for version control archiving. Like, storing several progressive versions of the same software on a single CD.
But that's a single use. There are probably more. But, for day-to-day burning of things, I'd still use CD-(R|RW)s.
'A rose by any other name would still smell just as sweet.' - Applies for bad(ish) things, too. Like the Xbox. You can dress it up all you want, I still won't go near it.
But that's just me, and my pesky preferences. *hugs his PS2, GameCube, and Game PC*
You are correct, but, if you look at the context of it's placement, it seems to indicate how it would sound in spoken word. The pronunciation. Maybe it's my regional dialect, but, all of the people I know who use #!'s, say 'user-bin-perl' or 'bin-bash' (N/A). Do you spell out 'u-s-r' when talking about #! lines in common conversation? I mean, if you do, that's fine. It's just new to me. *shrug*
Your point is sound, but that's the way our society/industry works. People who make the money aren't the ones who pioneer new technologies - it's the people who innovate the new inventions, and make them better (e.g. putting new ogg (de|en)coding format in an existing player).
From what I've learned through discussions with programming mentors, and analysts, Game Theory is the study of a game's impact on the mental processes of a human mind. It stems from the constant 'Violent games make our kids violent', looking for proof to (dis)prove that statement. It focuses on what-if's like working in this situation under pressure, with x amount of experience (hours in a cockpit), tools available, how long will someone wander around in a maze before freaking out, tendancies (driving a car in Grand Theft Auto 3 into a storefront as opposed to doing so in the real world). Do people take more risks in a simulation than they do in real life? Is it more effective?
We hackers all live in attic apartment, writing supposed malicious programs for raving revolutionary friends, only to arrive late to work, have a phone delivered, bug implanted, and so on. We all also travel through full-duplex phone lines, and walk into large goverment agencies armed to the teeth with fully automatic weapons. Then we all transcend the binary language, and become digitally enhanced! Yay! Yay for hackers!
...as a student, has been that the hard drive is usually the first piece of equipment to fail, with the LCD/TFT or optical drive (if it's a tray) following in a close second. Other concerns are batteries and power supplies, but I digress.
The constant moving, up and down, left and right, jostling, dropping, the occasional beating-by-classmates (consider laptop being hauled around in a backpack - yes, the Targus ones are damned, good, I have one [If you need a laptop bag, GET ONE!], but the padding doesn't stop the heads from skittering across the platters when the laptop is subjected to smacking, pounding, and even spinning around.) Data is lost, the discs spin down, and it's all just one big bloody mess. Solid state drives, if affordable, could definately revolutionize the way I look at laptops, the way my school looks at laptops as a student solution, and the way the laptop community works.
But... will it catch on? Please? I hope so. This is one thing that would suck to see it go the way of vaporware.
Espicially for Perl. Pretty much all of them belong in a good tech library. Programming Perl, and the Perl Cookbook are literally ESSENTIAL. I can not stress that enough. If you have to buy any two perl books, get those. The other OReilly perl books, working with system administration, web administration, writing CGI scripts, and so on and so fourth, are good resources for more specialized applications.
A good non-OReilly alternative for Perl is Holzner's 'Perl Black Book'.
Enough about Perl, though (and more about OReilly): Practical C Programming, Running Linux, and any of their other 'Programming [insert language name here]' books.
Another good thing to have would be (printed) copies of the official Linux/UNIX/all-related-material manuals from their offical sources. The RedHat 8.0 manuals are espicially useful.
Throw in a book or two about python, C++, any of the sea of web-languages, and MAYBE JAVA. Only because (too) many people use it (for too many things).
...of that old Visa commercial, where the slightly shady-looking trenchcoat-wearing (stereotype - damn you Visa) guy walks into a futuristic supermarket, is tailed by the security guard, and walks around stuffing shit into his coat. And then as he's leaving, he's scanned, charged, and the guard reminds him to not forget his receipt.
Sorry, that's just immediately what it made me think of. Huge lines of people just stepping through biometric authenticator portals, being scanned, and shipped off on their way. Why don't they just put the freaking chip in the backs of our heads?
But nonetheless, this idea is sick, twisted, and downright disturbing.
Seems to me that the government entity was the one that fucked up - why do we have to pay for their mistakes? Surely, there are funds SOMEWHERE, (other than Education or Transportation) that could be cut. There have got to be. Politicians who give themselves six-figure raises at the drop of a hat, to supplement their already bulging bank accounts. It's like that one greedy kid in the preschool playroom, hoarding all of the building blocks for himself, bragging about his collection all the while, and never doing anything with them.
But I digress. So, what if this DOES pass? I mean, it's bound to be effective. The most difficult part would be trying to regulate it. Dial-up ISPs change IP address per-user each time it's connected. What about spoofers? Anonymous connections? Public connections? Hell, people with firewalls! Ok, say they don't use IPs to track who is downloading what. Will they require that all sites, all around the world, everywhere, recode their download, mirror, and etailer interfaces to suit the needs of a single state (California) with a login-type interface, that, would, theoretically, slow down the companies productivity (increased server load - having to make connections to the Cali. tracking database.)
Then what? 'Oh! He's downloading.mp3s! She's downloading.mpgs! Put them on the **AA watchlist!' Privacy. Invasion. And people who DO freely participate in WaReZ would be screwed. Royally. While I don't condone that practice, the point remains.
Hypothetically, what if they were able to pull it off? Some, random, unconstitutional, security-compromising, privacy-invading thing that let them do this. What next? Bandwidth tax? I can see it happening.
Monsters. Keep your hands off my shit. You've just got to learn to spend and organize better. Maybe, before officials are elected (or the accountants hired), we should be able to view their collective accounting/money/credit history (based on a numerical ID tag system, to allow canidates to remain 99.95% anonymous.) in order to determine if they can or can not spend money wisely.
I'd rather petition that webmasters can get insurance, or hazard-pay, for having to deal with the Slashdot effect. Bonuses for how many parts burst into flames and how many machines burn down, total. What a multiplier!
As I recall, worming, virusing, anything with malicious code with the intent to harm or collect private data is considered illegal (spyware not inclusive). So, they're illegally transmitting virri. Joe McCarthy isn't advisor to the RIAA chairman, is he?
How can we strike back against a government entity who, in their pursuit of enforcing the 'law' (unjust as that law may be), is willing to break, bend, spindle, mutilate, and otherwise circumvent laws, and our Constitutional rights, all in the name of their ultimate moral righetousness.
Idolize he who gave us Perl. Without perl, there would be no slashdot. o_O Think about THAT one.:p
(Actually, there probably WOULD be a Slashdot-esqe place, if not Slashdot simply done in a different language... BUT STILL!) It are Slashdot. We lubble slashdot. *hugs teh Slashdot*
The developer wanted to use ColdFusion, and not PHP. Don't get me wrong, I know and love PHP (not as much as I love Perl, mind you, but still.), but there are times when... a little diversity is a good thing. Say for instance, you're developing something with a team of people, none of which know PHP, but do know ColdFusion as a common language among them. Are you either going to try and teach them PHP (something they may not want to learn, if they haven't ventured off to do it on their own, yet) or just get the project done with ColdFusion. If it works, it works, and it's good. The first priority is getting the job done, then going over semantics. If the customer or supervisor wants the task re-done in PHP, over ColdFusion, then so be it. Different tools for different jobs, but keep in mind, There's More Than One Way To Do It.:-)
Optical links - perhaps even FireWire optical links - could be used to share computing power.
So we get to share cell-processor units, in the range of a quarter-teraflop each, bundled in units of four (four per PS3), as far and wide as our UNIXen OS can handle? MY GOD, MAN! You could run the U.S.S. Enterprise on something like that! I wonder what the games will be like... o_o *stares off into space*
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Does my middle finger qualify?
That's all I've got to say.
You have a valid point, but wouldn't the CD drive still need a CD burning laser to write to the disc? I don't know about you, but my burner is used for burning CDs. I still use the good old trusty CD-ROM for reading. Albeit, Mac superdrives and laptop combo drives don't offer that sort of option, but still most computers ship with standard CD-ROM drives.
I could see these being used particularly for version control archiving. Like, storing several progressive versions of the same software on a single CD.
But that's a single use. There are probably more. But, for day-to-day burning of things, I'd still use CD-(R|RW)s.
'A rose by any other name would still smell just as sweet.' - Applies for bad(ish) things, too. Like the Xbox. You can dress it up all you want, I still won't go near it.
But that's just me, and my pesky preferences. *hugs his PS2, GameCube, and Game PC*
Fucking hell. Do I need to include [SARCASM] tags?
I wasn't trying to troll anyone or anything, just making a stupid joke. Really. What the hell?
You are correct, but, if you look at the context of it's placement, it seems to indicate how it would sound in spoken word. The pronunciation. Maybe it's my regional dialect, but, all of the people I know who use #!'s, say 'user-bin-perl' or 'bin-bash' (N/A). Do you spell out 'u-s-r' when talking about #! lines in common conversation? I mean, if you do, that's fine. It's just new to me. *shrug*
:-p
On another point, it's my damned sig.
CrazyBrowser - These guys have it, too. It's a decent browser. *shrug* Works well, doesn't crash, fast-ish browsing, little slow though.
Your point is sound, but that's the way our society/industry works. People who make the money aren't the ones who pioneer new technologies - it's the people who innovate the new inventions, and make them better (e.g. putting new ogg (de|en)coding format in an existing player).
From what I've learned through discussions with programming mentors, and analysts, Game Theory is the study of a game's impact on the mental processes of a human mind. It stems from the constant 'Violent games make our kids violent', looking for proof to (dis)prove that statement. It focuses on what-if's like working in this situation under pressure, with x amount of experience (hours in a cockpit), tools available, how long will someone wander around in a maze before freaking out, tendancies (driving a car in Grand Theft Auto 3 into a storefront as opposed to doing so in the real world). Do people take more risks in a simulation than they do in real life? Is it more effective?
Y'know, that sort of thing.
I just got rid of an NT system at workplace and got a Compaq Evo with P4-1.8MHz and XP + 2K dual-boot.
:-)
XP or 2000 [Pro, I hope] at 1.8 megahertz, eh? You must have a LOT of free time.
We hackers all live in attic apartment, writing supposed malicious programs for raving revolutionary friends, only to arrive late to work, have a phone delivered, bug implanted, and so on. We all also travel through full-duplex phone lines, and walk into large goverment agencies armed to the teeth with fully automatic weapons. Then we all transcend the binary language, and become digitally enhanced! Yay! Yay for hackers!
...as a student, has been that the hard drive is usually the first piece of equipment to fail, with the LCD/TFT or optical drive (if it's a tray) following in a close second. Other concerns are batteries and power supplies, but I digress.
The constant moving, up and down, left and right, jostling, dropping, the occasional beating-by-classmates (consider laptop being hauled around in a backpack - yes, the Targus ones are damned, good, I have one [If you need a laptop bag, GET ONE!], but the padding doesn't stop the heads from skittering across the platters when the laptop is subjected to smacking, pounding, and even spinning around.) Data is lost, the discs spin down, and it's all just one big bloody mess. Solid state drives, if affordable, could definately revolutionize the way I look at laptops, the way my school looks at laptops as a student solution, and the way the laptop community works.
But... will it catch on? Please? I hope so. This is one thing that would suck to see it go the way of vaporware.
Espicially for Perl. Pretty much all of them belong in a good tech library. Programming Perl, and the Perl Cookbook are literally ESSENTIAL. I can not stress that enough. If you have to buy any two perl books, get those. The other OReilly perl books, working with system administration, web administration, writing CGI scripts, and so on and so fourth, are good resources for more specialized applications.
A good non-OReilly alternative for Perl is Holzner's 'Perl Black Book'.
Enough about Perl, though (and more about OReilly): Practical C Programming, Running Linux, and any of their other 'Programming [insert language name here]' books.
Another good thing to have would be (printed) copies of the official Linux/UNIX/all-related-material manuals from their offical sources. The RedHat 8.0 manuals are espicially useful.
Throw in a book or two about python, C++, any of the sea of web-languages, and MAYBE JAVA. Only because (too) many people use it (for too many things).
...of that old Visa commercial, where the slightly shady-looking trenchcoat-wearing (stereotype - damn you Visa) guy walks into a futuristic supermarket, is tailed by the security guard, and walks around stuffing shit into his coat. And then as he's leaving, he's scanned, charged, and the guard reminds him to not forget his receipt.
Sorry, that's just immediately what it made me think of. Huge lines of people just stepping through biometric authenticator portals, being scanned, and shipped off on their way. Why don't they just put the freaking chip in the backs of our heads?
But nonetheless, this idea is sick, twisted, and downright disturbing.
.mp3s! She's downloading .mpgs! Put them on the **AA watchlist!' Privacy. Invasion. And people who DO freely participate in WaReZ would be screwed. Royally. While I don't condone that practice, the point remains.
Seems to me that the government entity was the one that fucked up - why do we have to pay for their mistakes? Surely, there are funds SOMEWHERE, (other than Education or Transportation) that could be cut. There have got to be. Politicians who give themselves six-figure raises at the drop of a hat, to supplement their already bulging bank accounts. It's like that one greedy kid in the preschool playroom, hoarding all of the building blocks for himself, bragging about his collection all the while, and never doing anything with them.
But I digress. So, what if this DOES pass? I mean, it's bound to be effective. The most difficult part would be trying to regulate it. Dial-up ISPs change IP address per-user each time it's connected. What about spoofers? Anonymous connections? Public connections? Hell, people with firewalls! Ok, say they don't use IPs to track who is downloading what. Will they require that all sites, all around the world, everywhere, recode their download, mirror, and etailer interfaces to suit the needs of a single state (California) with a login-type interface, that, would, theoretically, slow down the companies productivity (increased server load - having to make connections to the Cali. tracking database.)
Then what? 'Oh! He's downloading
Hypothetically, what if they were able to pull it off? Some, random, unconstitutional, security-compromising, privacy-invading thing that let them do this. What next? Bandwidth tax? I can see it happening.
Monsters. Keep your hands off my shit. You've just got to learn to spend and organize better. Maybe, before officials are elected (or the accountants hired), we should be able to view their collective accounting/money/credit history (based on a numerical ID tag system, to allow canidates to remain 99.95% anonymous.) in order to determine if they can or can not spend money wisely.
Adamantium! Adamantium plated-bone structure. Go ahead, punch me, I dare you. Espicially with the jaw. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
[Whack!] 'Ow!' Damnit.
...of course. How else? :D
Illz need ur @aol.com emailz addrezz. den u get to b3 3l33t. li3k m,.e lolz,,
I'd rather petition that webmasters can get insurance, or hazard-pay, for having to deal with the Slashdot effect. Bonuses for how many parts burst into flames and how many machines burn down, total. What a multiplier!
As I recall, worming, virusing, anything with malicious code with the intent to harm or collect private data is considered illegal (spyware not inclusive). So, they're illegally transmitting virri. Joe McCarthy isn't advisor to the RIAA chairman, is he?
How can we strike back against a government entity who, in their pursuit of enforcing the 'law' (unjust as that law may be), is willing to break, bend, spindle, mutilate, and otherwise circumvent laws, and our Constitutional rights, all in the name of their ultimate moral righetousness.
Begun, this cyberwar has...
Idolize he who gave us Perl. Without perl, there would be no slashdot. o_O Think about THAT one. :p
(Actually, there probably WOULD be a Slashdot-esqe place, if not Slashdot simply done in a different language... BUT STILL!) It are Slashdot. We lubble slashdot. *hugs teh Slashdot*
The developer wanted to use ColdFusion, and not PHP. Don't get me wrong, I know and love PHP (not as much as I love Perl, mind you, but still.), but there are times when... a little diversity is a good thing. Say for instance, you're developing something with a team of people, none of which know PHP, but do know ColdFusion as a common language among them. Are you either going to try and teach them PHP (something they may not want to learn, if they haven't ventured off to do it on their own, yet) or just get the project done with ColdFusion. If it works, it works, and it's good. The first priority is getting the job done, then going over semantics. If the customer or supervisor wants the task re-done in PHP, over ColdFusion, then so be it. Different tools for different jobs, but keep in mind, There's More Than One Way To Do It . :-)
Oh my. I missed this article. *jaw drops*
:-)
Optical links - perhaps even FireWire optical links - could be used to share computing power.
So we get to share cell-processor units, in the range of a quarter-teraflop each, bundled in units of four (four per PS3), as far and wide as our UNIXen OS can handle? MY GOD, MAN! You could run the U.S.S. Enterprise on something like that! I wonder what the games will be like... o_o *stares off into space*
*giggle* I like Geek toys.
That's when I leave for England. Or Scotland. They like me there. I think. I really hope. o_o