Your post reminds me of something. You're one of thoes idiots that likes TV so much that you PAY for it. There are a few areas where reception is so bad cable or sat is the only way to go, but that's not most of America. Never mind these other people who talk about voting for representatives, YOU voted with your wallet. You opted to pay for this stuff, and now you're going to pay even more - hey, it's what you stated you wanted to do.
Me? I must confess to recently getting CATV but only because it was a cheap adder over cable net access. I could drop it at any time - most the stuff I watch is actually OTA and with my HD card it'll be better OTA than on cable. I also think OTA would get even better if people would stop paying for television.
Doesn't Python do this already? I was under the impression that some == and != comparisons actually tested the address, not the data. I could be wrong, but I thought I read that.
So why did he participate in a process that he feels is a "bad idea"? I've never heard of employer pressure causing this type of thing. Was it for the bonus? Surely it wasn't to add the patent to his resume, that one might count against him;-)
Imagine living on a planet where you get tax breaks for driving big inefficient vehicles that produce greenhouse gases. It's Bushs' dream. Burning fossil fuels would be a requirement to keep the planet from freezing again. Oh wait - there are no fossil fuels on mars. $h|t.
It would seem important that the PTO person assigned needs to be made aware of the situation. Is there any way to make sure that happens? I doubt new trademarks are open to public comment...
You don't actually buy cigarets, you pay a licensing fee that grants you permission to smoke them. Unlike software, music, and movies, the cigarets are destroyed by usage, so you have no choice but to license more of them. Didn't you ever notice the EULA printed on the inside of the pack? It's smoking services - there should be no sales tax.
It's interesting to look at what things are being eliminated. But there's no way to catalog all the innovation that will not happen in the future because of this. Oh, and listing Napster is just plain stupid IMHO.
The HD3000 is now in the V4L CVS, so it will make it into the main Linux kernel soon. Unfortunately I got an HD2000 which is not fully supported yet. I expect it to work with FC4 out of the box when it's released in a couple months. I almost learned all that driver building stuff, but FC3 didn't come with source and now I'm learning about more stuff I didn't think I wanted to know yet. BTW, the site says more HD3000 cards should be in stock on Feb 20th. So people should be able to order next week.
Normally I read people outside the US saying interesting (negative) things about how our country looks from the outside. I have to say the EU is looking rather bad in this case. Questions that come to mind:
Who is in charge over there?
How is the government supposed to work?
Why do they vote on some things and not others?
Are there multiple mechanisms to pass laws?
Are the "parliament" and the "commission" similar to our "house" and "senate"?? That would explain the back and forth, but it doesn't look like they both need to approve of this thing to make it happen.
Regardless, I've told my european friends and coworkers to watch that their new government doesn't do like ours and take control from the states and later hand it over to large corporations. They all laughed.... even I didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
IMHO, no app should be given information about it's environment. The only reason expose events exist is because back in the day there wasn't enough memory to store a complete image of every window - so the apps had to be asked to update parts of the display when they were exposed. Apps interacting with other apps without user intervention is definitely a no-no and is the source of some Windows security holes. I just how when (even IF) an app gets to screen capture itself they don't show other data through the transparent parts. It needs to be pulled from its private video memory and not off the screen. The user of course should be able to take a screen shot, so either the window manager needs to have special privledge or it needs to be integrated into the server. I think the special privledge is consistent with what exists today.
Let's just say they should use technical means to enforce this policy. I agree that users should be able to request a request to a public web server to get information. I also believe they should not be able to use laws to prohibit publication of "deep links". I also think any site that wants to disallow this should just use a technical means to prevent people from doing this. How? If a joint the size of Orbitz can't figure it out I'd be glad to sell them a solution - um right after I patent it.
Most engineers and engineering professors are "left-brained". I listened to a lecture once from a guy who studied this (he was after a position at our school). He said the few right-brainers (creative people) who went into engineering shifted to a more left-brained way of thinking by graduation. I am a right-brainer and was fortunate enough to have taken a test early on and can confirm this - I went back and took it again. He also said the right-brainers have a tendancy to work as an engineer for a few years, and then give it up entirely and do something completely different. I have often been temped to do exactly that. I'm not convinced the education shifts you from right to left, it may just improve your ability to think in a more structured way without reducing creativity. He didn't address that issue, but I don't think college reduced my creativity too much even though my test score shifted closer to center on the test.
Unfortunately engineering school tends to drive away the creative people.
How do these compare in terms of radioactive waste for a given energy output? I'm not trying to say they are better or worse, I would just like to understand if there is a tradeoff.
The courts had said that you are unauthorized by default. If that's so, you can't even go to a web site and read the terms of service or whatever they claim grants you permission. Hey judge, did you ever read yahoo, groklaw, or used google? Did you obtain authorization before going to the site? Hopefully this judge will overturn that stupidity.
So you think you're less likely to die in a plane crash. That means you're more like 1000 times as likely to die from a global catastrophy rather than 10 times more likely. Did you mean to discredit this guy, or raise the alarm even more?
The "Golden Age" of video games is known to end with the industry crash of 1984. The best Star Wars game ever was of course the first one - with a vector monitor. 1994 brought the ESB version which sucked rocks in comparison. It's been all fair to crap since.
Notice the switch from Basic to machine code (not assembler) along the way. Ya, programming with a hex editor is easy. Plenty of other projects got completed along the way. My resume shows rather good progress in this industry - or rather work on a lot of interesting stuff.
As an embedded programmer, I've got to get many startup diagnostics and initializations done in the shortest time possible (under 1 second usually) - otherwise you'd be waiting for your car to boot every time you turn on the key. Everything in parallel that can be. Dependancies are mapped out and a static start sequence is defined. Linux has a more variable set of things to do, so I'd expect a more flexible implementation. This shocks me that there is NO implementation.
It doesn't matter what MS does, every application wants load at boot time so it will respond quicker later - this just kills my boot time. Yah, a whole tray full of crap starts and I sometimes use one of those things.
"Just tell them they can learn to make computer games."
When I was 8 or 9 years old, I came home to find my father typing away on our computer (a device I thought was for playing games). I said "what's that?". He said "I think I can use this to make games." - 'this' being a version of Basic. I was thrilled to learn normal people could make games - whatever that stuff was, I was going to learn it. My first all-machine-code game was done at 13 (basic was too slow). It's easier today if you select the right tools (I'd agree with the pygame suggestion). Get Blender and see if any of them can make models. Get GIMP for your artists. It's not all about writing code these days. Just say the magic words "make games".
I agree. There isn't quite that much advertising. It was nice in the old days when there were NO commercials, a cartoon (like the Pixar shorts) before the movie, some previews (why they call them trailers I'll never understand) and the movie started at the posted time. Oh, and the popcorn butter didn't give me the worst possible headache for 2 hours after the show. Yes, those were the days....
Joe football fan doesn't want to F*** with downloading a bunch of crap to get his game working. He wants to buy this years version (to get the teams right), drop it in and play. Only if the version is significantly better will he bother - and in that case, EA would just match the improved features or buy the better product.
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Me? I must confess to recently getting CATV but only because it was a cheap adder over cable net access. I could drop it at any time - most the stuff I watch is actually OTA and with my HD card it'll be better OTA than on cable. I also think OTA would get even better if people would stop paying for television.
Doesn't Python do this already? I was under the impression that some == and != comparisons actually tested the address, not the data. I could be wrong, but I thought I read that.
So why did he participate in a process that he feels is a "bad idea"? I've never heard of employer pressure causing this type of thing. Was it for the bonus? Surely it wasn't to add the patent to his resume, that one might count against him ;-)
Imagine living on a planet where you get tax breaks for driving big inefficient vehicles that produce greenhouse gases. It's Bushs' dream. Burning fossil fuels would be a requirement to keep the planet from freezing again. Oh wait - there are no fossil fuels on mars. $h|t.
It would seem important that the PTO person assigned needs to be made aware of the situation. Is there any way to make sure that happens? I doubt new trademarks are open to public comment...
You don't actually buy cigarets, you pay a licensing fee that grants you permission to smoke them. Unlike software, music, and movies, the cigarets are destroyed by usage, so you have no choice but to license more of them. Didn't you ever notice the EULA printed on the inside of the pack? It's smoking services - there should be no sales tax.
It's interesting to look at what things are being eliminated. But there's no way to catalog all the innovation that will not happen in the future because of this. Oh, and listing Napster is just plain stupid IMHO.
You can't make DRM that does what **AA want and not piss people off.
The HD3000 is now in the V4L CVS, so it will make it into the main Linux kernel soon. Unfortunately I got an HD2000 which is not fully supported yet. I expect it to work with FC4 out of the box when it's released in a couple months. I almost learned all that driver building stuff, but FC3 didn't come with source and now I'm learning about more stuff I didn't think I wanted to know yet. BTW, the site says more HD3000 cards should be in stock on Feb 20th. So people should be able to order next week.
Who is in charge over there?
How is the government supposed to work?
Why do they vote on some things and not others?
Are there multiple mechanisms to pass laws?
Are the "parliament" and the "commission" similar to our "house" and "senate"?? That would explain the back and forth, but it doesn't look like they both need to approve of this thing to make it happen.
Regardless, I've told my european friends and coworkers to watch that their new government doesn't do like ours and take control from the states and later hand it over to large corporations. They all laughed.... even I didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
IMHO, no app should be given information about it's environment. The only reason expose events exist is because back in the day there wasn't enough memory to store a complete image of every window - so the apps had to be asked to update parts of the display when they were exposed. Apps interacting with other apps without user intervention is definitely a no-no and is the source of some Windows security holes. I just how when (even IF) an app gets to screen capture itself they don't show other data through the transparent parts. It needs to be pulled from its private video memory and not off the screen. The user of course should be able to take a screen shot, so either the window manager needs to have special privledge or it needs to be integrated into the server. I think the special privledge is consistent with what exists today.
You can... Windows shouldn't have ever been loaded on that thing. Use an alternative, they do in fact work rather nicely.
Let's just say they should use technical means to enforce this policy. I agree that users should be able to request a request to a public web server to get information. I also believe they should not be able to use laws to prohibit publication of "deep links". I also think any site that wants to disallow this should just use a technical means to prevent people from doing this. How? If a joint the size of Orbitz can't figure it out I'd be glad to sell them a solution - um right after I patent it.
Unfortunately engineering school tends to drive away the creative people.
How do these compare in terms of radioactive waste for a given energy output? I'm not trying to say they are better or worse, I would just like to understand if there is a tradeoff.
The courts had said that you are unauthorized by default. If that's so, you can't even go to a web site and read the terms of service or whatever they claim grants you permission. Hey judge, did you ever read yahoo, groklaw, or used google? Did you obtain authorization before going to the site? Hopefully this judge will overturn that stupidity.
So you think you're less likely to die in a plane crash. That means you're more like 1000 times as likely to die from a global catastrophy rather than 10 times more likely. Did you mean to discredit this guy, or raise the alarm even more?
The "Golden Age" of video games is known to end with the industry crash of 1984. The best Star Wars game ever was of course the first one - with a vector monitor. 1994 brought the ESB version which sucked rocks in comparison. It's been all fair to crap since.
That's where the T-shirts with code on them come into play.
The python one is suffering the same thing. He deliberately squashed it down at the expense of clarity.
Notice the switch from Basic to machine code (not assembler) along the way. Ya, programming with a hex editor is easy. Plenty of other projects got completed along the way. My resume shows rather good progress in this industry - or rather work on a lot of interesting stuff.
As an embedded programmer, I've got to get many startup diagnostics and initializations done in the shortest time possible (under 1 second usually) - otherwise you'd be waiting for your car to boot every time you turn on the key. Everything in parallel that can be. Dependancies are mapped out and a static start sequence is defined. Linux has a more variable set of things to do, so I'd expect a more flexible implementation. This shocks me that there is NO implementation.
It doesn't matter what MS does, every application wants load at boot time so it will respond quicker later - this just kills my boot time. Yah, a whole tray full of crap starts and I sometimes use one of those things.
When I was 8 or 9 years old, I came home to find my father typing away on our computer (a device I thought was for playing games). I said "what's that?". He said "I think I can use this to make games." - 'this' being a version of Basic. I was thrilled to learn normal people could make games - whatever that stuff was, I was going to learn it. My first all-machine-code game was done at 13 (basic was too slow). It's easier today if you select the right tools (I'd agree with the pygame suggestion). Get Blender and see if any of them can make models. Get GIMP for your artists. It's not all about writing code these days. Just say the magic words "make games".
I agree. There isn't quite that much advertising. It was nice in the old days when there were NO commercials, a cartoon (like the Pixar shorts) before the movie, some previews (why they call them trailers I'll never understand) and the movie started at the posted time. Oh, and the popcorn butter didn't give me the worst possible headache for 2 hours after the show. Yes, those were the days....
Joe football fan doesn't want to F*** with downloading a bunch of crap to get his game working. He wants to buy this years version (to get the teams right), drop it in and play. Only if the version is significantly better will he bother - and in that case, EA would just match the improved features or buy the better product.