It used to be quite common to surf in this way, or use a similar technique to request a file from an FTP server which would then mail it to you, the rationale being that you were likely to be able to get a faster connection onto your mailserver than onto the hosting server.
That's not an interview I would accept a job offer from anyway - remember I just stormed out because I was sick of being treated like shit, not because I wanted to be someone else's bitch.
Something similar happened to me once. I explained to my next employer that if put in the same position again, I would simply leave again.
What port(s) does this thing try and use to connect to its server? The documentation is useless, and I can't get it through my firewall without knowing what it wants to do...
Check out Vurt by Jeff Noon. It won the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke award, and is a cyberpunk tale that reveals a dark England a few years from now. It rocks.
For non sci-fi I would really check out Sap Rising by another English author, AA Gill. The first line is "If you were a pidgeon, you could f**k forty times a day". Funny and sharp, it has moments of extreme debauchery tempered by glimpses of soaring beauty.
The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula LeGuin is a good pure fantasy read too.
The licensing costs of the production software are a negligible part of overall production cost.
To use ProTools you still need some serious computing hardware (especially disks) not to mention the fact that whatever's going into ProTools WILL still be going through top quality mikes, a desk, and an array of rack mount gear.
On top of that you have the investment requirement to prepare an acoustically worthwhile studio, expensive mastering prices, and a plethora of other money-sapping costs.
In practice, ProTools is mainly used to replace a multitrack tape recorder - so you're replacing the cost of the tape machine and tape with the cost of top-end hardware and disks. I would say the cost was comparable, if not more expensive.
To my mind the best way to protect the future of P2P software is to show that Judge Stephen Wilson was correct in his ruling last Friday:
"It is undisputed that there are substantial noninfringing uses for defendants' software. For instance, StreamCast has adduced evidence that the Morpheus program is regularly used to facilitate and search for public domain materials, government documents, media content for which distribution is authorized, media content as to which the rights owners do not object to distribution, and computer software for which distribution is permitted."
So, in between downloading files they can bitch about, consider using your favourite P2P app any time you want to download a Paint Shop Pro trial or whatever; ie, any file you'd automatically turn to the web to download.
This is a small thing that everyone can do to help, and means that no-one can make the "no legitimate use" case.
While a lot of the time the radical languages (and associated compilers) that the esolang folk write consist of little more than either a Turing machine as a VM (eg Brainf--k) or an attempt at humour (eg Valgol), every so often a radical new programming paradigm presents itself.
This is still electricity from a non-renewable power source unless the power they're beaming is itself generated from a renewable source.
Surely the receiving equipment is going to be just as expensive and real estate-consuming as a solar panel back or windfarm - why not just build one of those at the remote villages and do away with R&D costs and the hazards of things getting in the way?
Oh well, at least it'll make it easier to tap in without paying for it:
1. Obtain frying pan and foodstuffs
2. Hold in front of power receiving dish
3. ???
4. Profit!
Ah, this old chesnut
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Well, the problem with "art" is that it's notoriously difficult to define.
Let's try something else - can we prove that code can be poetry?
Poetry also tends to avoid definition; however, I think the best definition I've heard is that poetry is succinct use of language.
Since, say, C++ affords an enormous economy of expression, and a vast number of ways to accomplish a given task, then performing a given task in an elegant, succint way is surely perfectly valid poetry.
You can also argue the case with dictionary.com's definition of poetry: "a quality that suggests poetry, as in grace, beauty, or harmony: the poetry of the dancer's movements."
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EXCERPT FROM SNOW CRASH:
"They'll catch up," NG says. "On a straightaway, they can run at seven hundred miles per hour."
"Is it true they have nuke stuff inside of them?"
"Radiothermal isotopes."
"What happens if one gets busted open? Everyone gets all mutated?"
"If you ever find yourself in the presence of a destructive force powerful enough to decapsulate those isotopes," Ng says, "radiation sickness will be the least of your worries."
The conversation continues between Y.T. and Ng with Y.T. expressing concern over the manner in which these dogs' biomatter has been munipulated to include mechanical enhancesments and many destructive devices. She finds it cruel. Ng explains to her that these "mechanically assisted organisms" are the result of abandoned dogs taken in and sent to what amounts to as "dog heaven." [They are] "Chasing frisbees through the surf. Forever. Eating steaks that grow on trees. [and] Lying beside the fire in a hunting lodge."
Not that ridiculous at all - when compared with some of the wonderful esoteric languages you can find at Cat's Eye Technologies, home of the Esoteric Languages Mailing List and clearing house for all sorts of code designed to make your head feel funny.
1. Amazon "buy this book" buttons. They could get some decent Amazon affiliate revenue I'd think... easily done & free to set up
2. "This user also enjoyed" cross-referencing! I've found some great stuff with that feature of Amazon.
Oh. Now I think about it, this site is basically Amazon, except without the database or a way to actually buy books. Hmmm.. not really that great now, is it?
More interesting uses of screens can directly improve the bottom line. At Comdex, for instance, Sharp showed off a new version of its Muramasa notebook, which weighs just over two pounds. Earlier this year, the company showed off an LCD panel with an embedded Zilog microprocessor. Sharp envisions a time when complete computers will be embedded into monitors, Nakagawa said.
- Sharp to license Commodore Pet?
Slashdot Mirror
Slyck seems a little slashdotted - mirrored the chart here (it's an Excel spreadsheet)
Is this not just another HTTP over UUCP?
It used to be quite common to surf in this way, or use a similar technique to request a file from an FTP server which would then mail it to you, the rationale being that you were likely to be able to get a faster connection onto your mailserver than onto the hosting server.
That's not an interview I would accept a job offer from anyway - remember I just stormed out because I was sick of being treated like shit, not because I wanted to be someone else's bitch.
Something similar happened to me once. I explained to my next employer that if put in the same position again, I would simply leave again.
They were cool, it was all good.
What port(s) does this thing try and use to connect to its server? The documentation is useless, and I can't get it through my firewall without knowing what it wants to do...
Check out Vurt by Jeff Noon. It won the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke award, and is a cyberpunk tale that reveals a dark England a few years from now. It rocks. For non sci-fi I would really check out Sap Rising by another English author, AA Gill. The first line is "If you were a pidgeon, you could f**k forty times a day". Funny and sharp, it has moments of extreme debauchery tempered by glimpses of soaring beauty. The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula LeGuin is a good pure fantasy read too.
The licensing costs of the production software are a negligible part of overall production cost. To use ProTools you still need some serious computing hardware (especially disks) not to mention the fact that whatever's going into ProTools WILL still be going through top quality mikes, a desk, and an array of rack mount gear.
On top of that you have the investment requirement to prepare an acoustically worthwhile studio, expensive mastering prices, and a plethora of other money-sapping costs.
In practice, ProTools is mainly used to replace a multitrack tape recorder - so you're replacing the cost of the tape machine and tape with the cost of top-end hardware and disks. I would say the cost was comparable, if not more expensive.
So do it. (Although I don't like a lot of the ideas in the article much)
CatsEye technologies (and the associated Esoteric Languages mailing list)
While a lot of the time the radical languages (and associated compilers) that the esolang folk write consist of little more than either a Turing machine as a VM (eg Brainf--k) or an attempt at humour (eg Valgol), every so often a radical new programming paradigm presents itself.
This is still electricity from a non-renewable power source unless the power they're beaming is itself generated from a renewable source.
Surely the receiving equipment is going to be just as expensive and real estate-consuming as a solar panel back or windfarm - why not just build one of those at the remote villages and do away with R&D costs and the hazards of things getting in the way?
Oh well, at least it'll make it easier to tap in without paying for it:
1. Obtain frying pan and foodstuffs
2. Hold in front of power receiving dish
3. ???
4. Profit!
Well, the problem with "art" is that it's notoriously difficult to define.
Let's try something else - can we prove that code can be poetry?
Poetry also tends to avoid definition; however, I think the best definition I've heard is that poetry is succinct use of language.
Since, say, C++ affords an enormous economy of expression, and a vast number of ways to accomplish a given task, then performing a given task in an elegant, succint way is surely perfectly valid poetry.
You can also argue the case with dictionary.com's definition of poetry: "a quality that suggests poetry, as in grace, beauty, or harmony: the poetry of the dancer's movements."
So there y'go
Yeah, but this one is noiseless. Until of course you try to listen to some tunes and it's radio interference takes a crap on your stream.
Um... WinZip is not open source.
Not that ridiculous at all - when compared with some of the wonderful esoteric languages you can find at Cat's Eye Technologies, home of the Esoteric Languages Mailing List and clearing house for all sorts of code designed to make your head feel funny.
The poster suggests to me more of a new paradigm than a new platform...
1. Amazon "buy this book" buttons. They could get some decent Amazon affiliate revenue I'd think... easily done & free to set up 2. "This user also enjoyed" cross-referencing! I've found some great stuff with that feature of Amazon. Oh. Now I think about it, this site is basically Amazon, except without the database or a way to actually buy books. Hmmm.. not really that great now, is it?
More interesting uses of screens can directly improve the bottom line. At Comdex, for instance, Sharp showed off a new version of its Muramasa notebook, which weighs just over two pounds. Earlier this year, the company showed off an LCD panel with an embedded Zilog microprocessor. Sharp envisions a time when complete computers will be embedded into monitors, Nakagawa said. - Sharp to license Commodore Pet?