>> 'We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers for the value they provide,' Warner said in a statement."
Hey warner, so your videos get pulled. Good for you, and all the best.
To borrow from the Soup Nazi, if I may: "NO EXPOSURE FOR YOU".
I was just watching a couple of concert videos the other day from an old prog band called Wishbone Ash (they sound like old 70's Rush). I'd never heard of these guys before, but I really liked the sound, and I went right over to Amazon and I bought 2 CD's.
If I hadn't seen the vids on You Tube, I don't think I'd have ever known about this band. So they now have a new fan, and on Christmas eve, I'm going to introduce them to some other guys who like the same type of music.
It's like the modern equivalent of trading records... But hey, if Warner wants to pull the vids, then let them. There's lots of other music out there...
In very broad terms I'd guess that the folks looking for life would be starting with a baseline of what we know today..or at least what can be extrapolated from what we know today.
I'm not a PhD, or a scientist by any means. Just a simple software developer. But having a logical thought process I know that in an investigation, you need to start somewhere. And that somewhere is with us, and how we exist.
Forgetting about the arguments about whether or not the police should have tools like this, I don't think creating such a thing would be all that difficult.
You'd need a USB enabled drive, and a set of scripts to egrep the drives and filesystems on the target machine. Pipe said list of files into some utils that look for evidence....maybe another egrep that looks for keywords like 'porn', 'bomb', or 'slashdot', and maybe some image analysis software or something.
Or maybe an approach would be the same usb drive/script based solution that would simply export all files of a specific type (a copy without updated the updated time stamp) to said USB disk.
>>Using Java avoids most of the nastiness of Linux while preserving a solid code base
And what would that 'nastiness' be exactly?
Myself, I'd rather (and do) dig into the so called 'nastiness' and learn about the structure that all those really smart LINUX developers put together.
And some of us like to program just for the sake of programming. And create applications and solve problems because to do so is interesting and fun, and one gets to work with other smart people.
This may or may not be true. However, for home development purposes, one isn't necessarily concerned about performance. You just want to build a DB and schema and just connect to it.
I've got the developer version of Oracle 9i (yes I know, EOL) running in VMware and I've no trouble with moderate development sized result sets.
If they went for the simpler packaging what would be there to help stop theft in the shipping warehouse, or on the UPS loading dock.
Hell, I just got an order from a retailer (clothing), and the box was clearly opened and retaped... when I opened it and counted the items, it turned out that 2 were missing. So they fell off the truck, one way or another.
Having a relative who works for UPS, I know for sure that this stuff happens all the time. When they load, they punch into random packages, and see what they can pull out.....
SO anyway to get to the the point, I'm all for the more secure packaging.
1 year I wrote about 750,000 lines of code to kick off a new system. (15% comments).
The guy sitting 1 cube over was on a production support project... bug fixes, small enhancements.
We were both making about $80,000 at the time.
A clear difference in productivity. I've been promoted since then & have goten raises. But if I was getting paid by lines of code to make that salary, the other guy would probably be have a salary qualifying him for extreme poverty.
I agree with the parent. However, like everything else, there are exceptions.
Dirty Jobs. Deadliest Catch. American Chopper.
The above types of shows are not in the same league as the pop idol / get married / dance contest / etc crud (IMHO) that I think we're talking about here. Rather, the shows are somewhat educational - at least interesting because they are about people in the real world doing real work.
Prior to the group's leader dying (in the last 10 years or so), there was a more serious website maintained, with documentation on their theories/beliefs, etc.
This guy had the global believers (yeah, global) pretty well organized - he'd collect membership fees, mail out newsletters, set up conferences, the usual for someone runnign a group. After his death, as expected, no one picked up his work, and things started to fall apart.
Don't let the parody site fool you. The Flat Earth people are as entrenched in their belief as normal people are about the world being a globe.
>>What should we have done when the Taliban didn't hand Osama over? The obvious thing -- send in special forces to assassinate him
I don't know. Those guys living up in the mountains are pretty well entrenched - even if we knew exactly where OBL was at any given moment, the terrain alone would provide sufficient protection for him, never mind his loyal to the death militias.
To send a special forces team sent on that particular mission would have been to waste their lives.
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Funny, when I Read The Fracking Headline, i assumed that the story was about devices with more storage capacity.
A touch with 160gb of storage would be quite a cool toy. The current (8gb)? model is kind of skimpy...
>> 'We simply cannot accept terms that fail to appropriately and fairly compensate recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers for the value they provide,' Warner said in a statement."
Hey warner, so your videos get pulled. Good for you, and all the best.
To borrow from the Soup Nazi, if I may: "NO EXPOSURE FOR YOU".
I was just watching a couple of concert videos the other day from an old prog band called Wishbone Ash (they sound like old 70's Rush). I'd never heard of these guys before, but I really liked the sound, and I went right over to Amazon and I bought 2 CD's.
If I hadn't seen the vids on You Tube, I don't think I'd have ever known about this band. So they now have a new fan, and on Christmas eve, I'm going to introduce them to some other guys who like the same type of music.
It's like the modern equivalent of trading records... But hey, if Warner wants to pull the vids, then let them. There's lots of other music out there...
Anything is possible.
In very broad terms I'd guess that the folks looking for life would be starting with a baseline of what we know today..or at least what can be extrapolated from what we know today.
I'm not a PhD, or a scientist by any means. Just a simple software developer. But having a logical thought process I know that in an investigation, you need to start somewhere. And that somewhere is with us, and how we exist.
Forgetting about the arguments about whether or not the police should have tools like this, I don't think creating such a thing would be all that difficult.
You'd need a USB enabled drive, and a set of scripts to egrep the drives and filesystems on the target machine. Pipe said list of files into some utils that look for evidence....maybe another egrep that looks for keywords like 'porn', 'bomb', or 'slashdot', and maybe some image analysis software or something.
Or maybe an approach would be the same usb drive/script based solution that would simply export all files of a specific type (a copy without updated the updated time stamp) to said USB disk.
What so we know of Win 7's lineage? Is it a revamp of the Vista codebase?
I don't see how it'd be possible for Microsoft to have cleaned up all of Vista's problems in less than 2 years.
I may be wrong, but I bet that they built Windows 7 on top of one of the XP service packs. How else could it possibly perform and be as usable as XP?
Seriously, if I were a betting man, I'd wager that they abandoned Vista entirely...
>>Using Java avoids most of the nastiness of Linux while preserving a solid code base
And what would that 'nastiness' be exactly?
Myself, I'd rather (and do) dig into the so called 'nastiness' and learn about the structure that all those really smart LINUX developers put together.
And some of us like to program just for the sake of programming. And create applications and solve problems because to do so is interesting and fun, and one gets to work with other smart people.
Dark Matter sees evidence of YOU.
Forgot to mention that the host machine is a 6 year old pentium 4 with EIDE drives.
>>For example, database servers virtualize poorly
This may or may not be true. However, for home development purposes, one isn't necessarily concerned about performance. You just want to build a DB and schema and just connect to it.
I've got the developer version of Oracle 9i (yes I know, EOL) running in VMware and I've no trouble with moderate development sized result sets.
>>Also, where's that music coming from?!
It's in the FRACKING SHIP!!!
Forget about the LINUX influence on the story for a minute.
What I find more telling in the situation is that they are still shipping XP rather than Vista.
Vista isn't even part of the equation for this OEM because it sucks so badly.
If they went for the simpler packaging what would be there to help stop theft in the shipping warehouse, or on the UPS loading dock.
Hell, I just got an order from a retailer (clothing), and the box was clearly opened and retaped... when I opened it and counted the items, it turned out that 2 were missing. So they fell off the truck, one way or another.
Having a relative who works for UPS, I know for sure that this stuff happens all the time. When they load, they punch into random packages, and see what they can pull out.....
SO anyway to get to the the point, I'm all for the more secure packaging.
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While talking about Sci-Fi, it might be worth noting that this system is the home of Babylon 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_III
There might be something to this though.
1 year I wrote about 750,000 lines of code to kick off a new system. (15% comments).
The guy sitting 1 cube over was on a production support project... bug fixes, small enhancements.
We were both making about $80,000 at the time.
A clear difference in productivity. I've been promoted since then & have goten raises. But if I was getting paid by lines of code to make that salary, the other guy would probably be have a salary qualifying him for extreme poverty.
Just wanted to mention that the Battlestar Wiki is quite good as well.
I agree with the parent. However, like everything else, there are exceptions.
Dirty Jobs.
Deadliest Catch.
American Chopper.
The above types of shows are not in the same league as the pop idol / get married / dance contest / etc crud (IMHO) that I think we're talking about here. Rather, the shows are somewhat educational - at least interesting because they are about people in the real world doing real work.
You know, it's only a matter of time before someone mentions super intelligent sea creatures with lasers on their heads, within this thread...
From the post:
>> We started creating art and maybe even religion
I read that as 'We started creating art and maybe even fiction'.
Agreed, that is a parody site.
Prior to the group's leader dying (in the last 10 years or so), there was a more serious website maintained, with documentation on their theories/beliefs, etc.
This guy had the global believers (yeah, global) pretty well organized - he'd collect membership fees, mail out newsletters, set up conferences, the usual for someone runnign a group. After his death, as expected, no one picked up his work, and things started to fall apart.
Don't let the parody site fool you. The Flat Earth people are as entrenched in their belief as normal people are about the world being a globe.
This is great, we now have the capacity to create bubble wrap, suitable for packing/protecting nanobots.
Awesome stuff folks.
Absolutely.
To me, an easy exit from nested logic seems to be the best possible use of a goto / continue / break type statement.
>>What should we have done when the Taliban didn't hand Osama over? The obvious thing -- send in special forces to assassinate him
I don't know. Those guys living up in the mountains are pretty well entrenched - even if we knew exactly where OBL was at any given moment, the terrain alone would provide sufficient protection for him, never mind his loyal to the death militias.
To send a special forces team sent on that particular mission would have been to waste their lives.
Precisely. So they 'pretend' to be doing something to stop the bastards from getting on the plane in the first place.