Well, the BBC is hideously anti american and anti semite in their reporting bias, so they're out as unbiased sources too.
?!?
You have got to be joking. The bbc is much more
pro-American than the general British population
and
covers the situation in Israel with the same
pro-Israel slant that almost every news org
(aside from the anti-semitic portion of the
far right and the far left) does.
The analogy breaks down soon either way. Phone
networks and IP networks are organized along very
different lines. Actual routing in a telephone
network does not map closely to anything in an IP network, so that can be left entirely out of the
discussion. Telephones do not directly
participate in naming or addressing services
and non-NAT hosts on an IP network do, so I choose
to treat phone numbers as a naming service rather
than an address - but either way of looking at it
is just as valid and useful depending on the
application.
A dns entry is more like a telephone number and that is what
should be used for portability. A phone switch can get a local
routing number for any dialed number. There is not really
any way for a router to do the same for individual addresses in
a reasonably efficient way.
This is a temporary order by the judge and I'm sure once
he has a chance to understand the technical and logistical
issues the correct decision (non-portability of ipv4 addresses)
will be made.
The namespace matching problem in the debugger is common
to all debuggers. Most have the ability to pretty print mangled
names after you dump them, but no ability to match a
namespaced symbol in the first place. This holds true for
every version of gdb 4.0-6.0 and the versions of dbx that come
with Sun Workshop (or Forte or whatever the hell they call it this
week) through version 6.0 update 2.
I'd love to use namespaces as they were intended, but
because of the debugger problem I just use static members of
a struct to emulate a namespace.
VC actually has pretty decent namespace support, they added
(working) support for the 'non-.h' std-c-lib headers existing in
the std namespace before anyone else.
C++ is a big language with lots of runtime requirements, I
don't think any compiler or library
vendor could be said to have the whole thing correct (and
working with all support tools) according to the latest
standard yet.
You are absolutely paranoid. There is a big difference in taking rights from someone, and someone being wrong about having a "right" to begin with anyway.
Fucking Christ. Is there some sort of neo-con mint that presses
out people who say things like this?
I'm not arguing that putting a song up on Kazaa is fair use,
I just think these lawsuits are misleading "customer education"
(PR and propaganda) rather than a legitimate attempt to seek
damages from these particular copyright infringers.
RIAA doublespeak:
"We must stay on the path of education, enforcement, and offering great legal services."
Their educational messages are "share music and get sued" and "use p2p and get sued". They want to make sure that people
view p2p with suspicion and erode legitimate fair use of
purchased music.
I don't support any action that RIAA takes,
because it is
all in aid of keeping themselves in the loop for music sales
(preventing alternative distribution channels from appearing),
getting people to accept crippled products which inhibit fair
use, and getting laws passed that cripple all devices which could
conceivably be used to infringe copyright.
I completely agree that I'd rather see copyright infringement
addressed through legal action against offenders, but RIAA
could get 50 kajillion dollars and the death penalty for each
case and they would continue to seek stricter copyright laws
and tougher legally mandated DRM. RIAA wants to make sure
that they are the only way to distribute music. Sooner or later
there will be other alternatives, the question is how much
damage they will do trying to hang on to their position.
I support this action. Some people are not going to stop infringing copyright until it actually affects their lives in a negative fashion.
I agree with the notion of seeking damages from people
actually illegally distributing copyrighted works. The problem
with these lawsuits is that they are that are an attempt to
demonizes actual fair use. Another problem is that the
ridiculously inflated damages they seek are close to barratry.
Every parent who settles on behalf of their kids use of Kazaa is
another statistical point to scare people away from any use of
copyrighted material that RIAA does not like.
As far as I can tell these lawsuits are nothing more than PR to
get people to stop making backups of their CDs, making mix
tapes for friends, and accept restrictions on all computing
devices as natural and necessary.
The sort of iron guts needed to go into a meeting with his or her superiors and defend us underlings from scapegoating and unreasonable requests.
I don't think the importance of this attribute can be overstated.
Poor morale is endemic to many Engineering and IT departments
because people don't trust their management.
My group was betrayed by a rotten manager and his
superior in middle management a number of years ago. If I had
to estimate the cost I'd say bad morale, permanently damaged
communication, continued backstabing, sabotage and passive
aggressive fighting cost the company at least $500k in the 2
years after the incident.
It is a nightmare of despair wrought by American neoconservative-backed strongarm politics.
You can blame the neo-cons for a lot of things, but a proprietary
air by the US toward all of the Americas goes back to the early
19th century. US backing of thugs and villains in Central and
South America goes back at least to the late 1940s. Reagan may
have stepped up the levels, but the policies and programs were
already in place when the Gipper started funding torture and
repression for freedom.
So a friendly (and seemingly encouraging) US policy toward
repressive governments did not originate with the neo-cons.
Using peoples' fear of child exploitation as a tool to push through draconian copyright measures to help BigCorp Inc. is despicable.
Too bad this statement will not get beyond the/. echo
chamber. Too bad Orrin lives in a filtered world and if he were
exposed to this sentiment would ignore it. Too bad the
system produces politicians who are owned body and soul
by corporate interests.
I'm becoming convinced that professional politicians are an
inefficient way to run a country. The feedback loop of money,
privilege, and backscratching keep slugs like Hatch in power.
Where is George Mckie and the BuSab when you need em?
I managed to score a few at a used bookstore a couple years ago, and I saw a first edition of one of his books (can't remember which now) at a used bookstore in Fredricksburg, VA several years ago, but I'm not enough of a freak to pay $250 for a book, even one as eminently collectible as that, but I have a friend who does...
I'm not the sort of collector who can pay $250 for a book. I
much prefer to find the rare stuff buried in a pile or mouldering
on a shelf for $1.95. It's not really the money so much as the
childish thrill of finding buried treasure:)
Regarding your point about the distribution systems of the
warez kids vs. what the big publishers are willing to put into
place: the online used market runs somewhat like this
(organization from the bottom with an actual useful middleman).
I buy books used from all over the world through bn.com and
powell's used
service because publishers can't bother to release in the
US or make out of print works available (sell me a non-restricted
pdf and I'll print the thing myself). I'd be just as
happy buying from the publisher, but they choose not to make
their older stuff available - now that production cost is not
such an issue you would think book and music companies would
see the light, but it seems they are committed to the old way of
selling their product.
The same goes for Jon Bentleys "Programming Pearls".
This one is beyond a classic, it is still very useful and I re-read
it every couple years. The notes on back of the envelope
calculations (pi seconds is a nanocentury, the rule of '72', etc.)
and the continual admonishment to rethink your data structures
are things I try to always keep in mind during meetings and
implementation.
You'd be surprised how often a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess)
about memory or time requirement can point things in the
right direction early in the process.
Harlan Ellison hasn't written anything significant since Babylon 5, and that was over 10 years ago in 1994
But lots of his old stuff is gold. He may be something of a dick
(although I think the legend may be bigger than reality there),
but the man has wrote some of the best short fiction of the 20th
century.
Also, as a couple people have mentioned already Harlan was a
story consultant (wrote the series bible) and that was about it
for B5.
A friend of mine met him at an American Bookseller's Association meeting years ago and commented that it's a shame you can't find his books easier. Harlan's response? "F--- you."
Wow, I've been an Ellison fan for about 15 years and even I
haven't been able to find all his books (and I've scoured more
than a couple used book and thrift stores in my time). What a
shitty response to give to a fan.
Um. Both memory arenas and customer allocators are likely to make locality worse... the whole point about garbage collectors is that they compress the objects down and hence improve locality.
Standard malloc/new gives you a first fit or best fit chunk of
memory. With a custom allocator you often know the size of
object you are allocating and sometimes the order in which
those objects will be referenced, you can pre-allocate a chunk
of memory of n * 'size' and hand out consecutive 'size' chunks
when memory is needed. So, at least as I've always used them,
arena and custom allocators compress objects down as well
as a garbage collector does.
A couple of the referenced links on java note that GC is
likely to increase memory locality, but I have never seen
non-trivial (greater than 20k lines) C or C++ code that did
not use a memory arena or customer allocators. Even smaller
programs benefit from simple techniques like using std::vector
to emulate a std::map for increased memory locality
I think the fact that new/delete are a huge part of the overhead
of complicated programs is pretty obvious to anyone who has
every profiled their code. Once you throw threads into the mix
you will see another massive hit to time spent in allocation.
Simple - if you want to read someone's content you abide by their rules.
Right, and he made the statement that he would not read their
content as he doesn't like their rules.
The real problem here is that some sites are more professional
about the whole privacy issue than others. Some, like the NYT
seem to be very good. Other sites have been a huge mistake to
sign up for, IT industry rags seem to be the absolute worst - I
never sign up for those anymore with anything other than a
disposable webmail account.
I'd like to see a useful accreditation for a site's privacy policy.
As it stands right now a site with a good policy can change
pretty much at the whim of the owners. Even a site that sincerely
swears on a stack of bibles that they will never sell your info
is subject to being sold to weasels who will bury you in spam.
Yeah, I have some, namely the fact that the supposed supporters of states rights won't let a state decide how to run it's election.
States rights was desirable until globalism became a reality.
The only reason the business interest ever supported states
rights was that corporations could easily play states against
each other (in the form of lower taxes, creating facilities, lower
safety and reduced environmental standards).
Now that those games can be played by corporations involving
nations rather than states I expect that states rights will become
much less important to large business interests. So states rights
will become an even more hollow promise than it is now.
iPhoto is nice and all, but you can't ignore filesystem layout
yet. Too many files in a directory means that opening
iPhoto takes longer and longer, so I know several people that
wound up splitting photos into separate directories.
iTunes is much better about this, I have tons of music and
never worry about where it resides on the filesystem.
Get over it people, corporations are legally required to earn money for their shareholders by any means possible. They do this to universities EVERY DAY.
Bullshit. There is no requirement that corporations engage in
illegal or unethical business to make money. The executive
team is installed by the board to increase the value of
the company, but executives are under no obligation to do so
by any means possible. Despite the legal fiction
that a corporation is an indivual, the excutives make the
decisions that steer the corporation and those executives are
bound by ethics and the law.
We need to have a yearly scoring system of some sort for
corporations, and the scoring history made available to any
potential customers. Were actual case histories with real
migration/install success rates (not salesman numbers)
available then customers would have a better chance of
making an informed decision regarding a vendor's ability to
keep their promises.
The tendency to self-righteous hate in Portland is nothing
compared to Seattle or Boulder. I like both those cities, but
the attitude gets obnoxious sometimes. Portland is (or was
at least 8 years ago) actually one of the more laid back and
sincere places I've lived. The downtown feels like the heart of
an actual city rather than yet another yuppie theme park or
combat zone.
Slashdot Mirror
?!?
You have got to be joking. The bbc is much more pro-American than the general British population and covers the situation in Israel with the same pro-Israel slant that almost every news org (aside from the anti-semitic portion of the far right and the far left) does.
The analogy breaks down soon either way. Phone networks and IP networks are organized along very different lines. Actual routing in a telephone network does not map closely to anything in an IP network, so that can be left entirely out of the discussion. Telephones do not directly participate in naming or addressing services and non-NAT hosts on an IP network do, so I choose to treat phone numbers as a naming service rather than an address - but either way of looking at it is just as valid and useful depending on the application.
More like faith in the lobbying power of the big network providers, but I guess it comes down to the same thing :)
A dns entry is more like a telephone number and that is what should be used for portability. A phone switch can get a local routing number for any dialed number. There is not really any way for a router to do the same for individual addresses in a reasonably efficient way.
This is a temporary order by the judge and I'm sure once he has a chance to understand the technical and logistical issues the correct decision (non-portability of ipv4 addresses) will be made.
I'd love to use namespaces as they were intended, but because of the debugger problem I just use static members of a struct to emulate a namespace.
VC actually has pretty decent namespace support, they added (working) support for the 'non-.h' std-c-lib headers existing in the std namespace before anyone else.
C++ is a big language with lots of runtime requirements, I don't think any compiler or library vendor could be said to have the whole thing correct (and working with all support tools) according to the latest standard yet.
Fucking Christ. Is there some sort of neo-con mint that presses out people who say things like this?
RIAA doublespeak:
Their educational messages are "share music and get sued" and "use p2p and get sued". They want to make sure that people view p2p with suspicion and erode legitimate fair use of purchased music.I don't support any action that RIAA takes, because it is all in aid of keeping themselves in the loop for music sales (preventing alternative distribution channels from appearing), getting people to accept crippled products which inhibit fair use, and getting laws passed that cripple all devices which could conceivably be used to infringe copyright.
I completely agree that I'd rather see copyright infringement addressed through legal action against offenders, but RIAA could get 50 kajillion dollars and the death penalty for each case and they would continue to seek stricter copyright laws and tougher legally mandated DRM. RIAA wants to make sure that they are the only way to distribute music. Sooner or later there will be other alternatives, the question is how much damage they will do trying to hang on to their position.
I agree with the notion of seeking damages from people actually illegally distributing copyrighted works. The problem with these lawsuits is that they are that are an attempt to demonizes actual fair use. Another problem is that the ridiculously inflated damages they seek are close to barratry. Every parent who settles on behalf of their kids use of Kazaa is another statistical point to scare people away from any use of copyrighted material that RIAA does not like.
As far as I can tell these lawsuits are nothing more than PR to get people to stop making backups of their CDs, making mix tapes for friends, and accept restrictions on all computing devices as natural and necessary.
I don't think the importance of this attribute can be overstated. Poor morale is endemic to many Engineering and IT departments because people don't trust their management.
My group was betrayed by a rotten manager and his superior in middle management a number of years ago. If I had to estimate the cost I'd say bad morale, permanently damaged communication, continued backstabing, sabotage and passive aggressive fighting cost the company at least $500k in the 2 years after the incident.
You can blame the neo-cons for a lot of things, but a proprietary air by the US toward all of the Americas goes back to the early 19th century. US backing of thugs and villains in Central and South America goes back at least to the late 1940s. Reagan may have stepped up the levels, but the policies and programs were already in place when the Gipper started funding torture and repression for freedom.
So a friendly (and seemingly encouraging) US policy toward repressive governments did not originate with the neo-cons.
Pretty much.
Fool me once...
I think Halo taught all PC gamers a valuable lesson about FPSs on consoles.
Too bad this statement will not get beyond the /. echo
chamber. Too bad Orrin lives in a filtered world and if he were
exposed to this sentiment would ignore it. Too bad the
system produces politicians who are owned body and soul
by corporate interests.
I'm becoming convinced that professional politicians are an inefficient way to run a country. The feedback loop of money, privilege, and backscratching keep slugs like Hatch in power.
Where is George Mckie and the BuSab when you need em?
I'm not the sort of collector who can pay $250 for a book. I much prefer to find the rare stuff buried in a pile or mouldering on a shelf for $1.95. It's not really the money so much as the childish thrill of finding buried treasure :)
Regarding your point about the distribution systems of the warez kids vs. what the big publishers are willing to put into place: the online used market runs somewhat like this (organization from the bottom with an actual useful middleman). I buy books used from all over the world through bn.com and powell's used service because publishers can't bother to release in the US or make out of print works available (sell me a non-restricted pdf and I'll print the thing myself). I'd be just as happy buying from the publisher, but they choose not to make their older stuff available - now that production cost is not such an issue you would think book and music companies would see the light, but it seems they are committed to the old way of selling their product.
This one is beyond a classic, it is still very useful and I re-read it every couple years. The notes on back of the envelope calculations (pi seconds is a nanocentury, the rule of '72', etc.) and the continual admonishment to rethink your data structures are things I try to always keep in mind during meetings and implementation.
You'd be surprised how often a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess) about memory or time requirement can point things in the right direction early in the process.
But lots of his old stuff is gold. He may be something of a dick (although I think the legend may be bigger than reality there), but the man has wrote some of the best short fiction of the 20th century.
Also, as a couple people have mentioned already Harlan was a story consultant (wrote the series bible) and that was about it for B5.
Wow, I've been an Ellison fan for about 15 years and even I haven't been able to find all his books (and I've scoured more than a couple used book and thrift stores in my time). What a shitty response to give to a fan.
Standard malloc/new gives you a first fit or best fit chunk of memory. With a custom allocator you often know the size of object you are allocating and sometimes the order in which those objects will be referenced, you can pre-allocate a chunk of memory of n * 'size' and hand out consecutive 'size' chunks when memory is needed. So, at least as I've always used them, arena and custom allocators compress objects down as well as a garbage collector does.
I think the fact that new/delete are a huge part of the overhead of complicated programs is pretty obvious to anyone who has every profiled their code. Once you throw threads into the mix you will see another massive hit to time spent in allocation.
Right, and he made the statement that he would not read their content as he doesn't like their rules.
The real problem here is that some sites are more professional about the whole privacy issue than others. Some, like the NYT seem to be very good. Other sites have been a huge mistake to sign up for, IT industry rags seem to be the absolute worst - I never sign up for those anymore with anything other than a disposable webmail account.
I'd like to see a useful accreditation for a site's privacy policy. As it stands right now a site with a good policy can change pretty much at the whim of the owners. Even a site that sincerely swears on a stack of bibles that they will never sell your info is subject to being sold to weasels who will bury you in spam.
States rights was desirable until globalism became a reality. The only reason the business interest ever supported states rights was that corporations could easily play states against each other (in the form of lower taxes, creating facilities, lower safety and reduced environmental standards).
Now that those games can be played by corporations involving nations rather than states I expect that states rights will become much less important to large business interests. So states rights will become an even more hollow promise than it is now.
iPhoto is nice and all, but you can't ignore filesystem layout yet. Too many files in a directory means that opening iPhoto takes longer and longer, so I know several people that wound up splitting photos into separate directories.
iTunes is much better about this, I have tons of music and never worry about where it resides on the filesystem.
Bullshit. There is no requirement that corporations engage in illegal or unethical business to make money. The executive team is installed by the board to increase the value of the company, but executives are under no obligation to do so by any means possible. Despite the legal fiction that a corporation is an indivual, the excutives make the decisions that steer the corporation and those executives are bound by ethics and the law.
We need to have a yearly scoring system of some sort for corporations, and the scoring history made available to any potential customers. Were actual case histories with real migration/install success rates (not salesman numbers) available then customers would have a better chance of making an informed decision regarding a vendor's ability to keep their promises.
The tendency to self-righteous hate in Portland is nothing compared to Seattle or Boulder. I like both those cities, but the attitude gets obnoxious sometimes. Portland is (or was at least 8 years ago) actually one of the more laid back and sincere places I've lived. The downtown feels like the heart of an actual city rather than yet another yuppie theme park or combat zone.
You are a glutton for punishment, aren't you? :)