Yes, but why? Assuming you could get Apache to run, you networking capabilities are severely limited. Actually, based on the specs, it doesn't look like there is much you could actually do with a ds.
All depends on what you call money. I've heard this over and over again, and from the multi billion dollar perspective, you're correct. But you can make far more money with a decent niche application than you can as a software developer working for someone else.
I know a guy in Texas who is selling his software business because he's retiring. The business makes him personally somewhere in the area of half a million dollars a year. His niche is mainframe accounting and report generating software.
In the grand scheme of things, you could say, yes, the company is solvent, but it's never made billions, and rarely made millions of dollars a year. So what? As a result of starting this company, this guy will never have to worry about anything again.
Me, I work for others and rarely even have health care. If I had the ability to start something myself, even if it didn't make millions or billions, I would.
I can vouch for the fact that programming jobs have been increasing in complexity and scope for several years. These days, in addition to being a coder, you also have to be an analyst and have an understanding of the bigger picture. There are also fewer people standing in your way between you and management, which means it's more likely that you'll get your point across. Yet still, I fail to see how that's a bad thing. Outsourcing isn't the cause (it's simply what keeps projects going forever, which may or may not be a good thing depending on your position in the pecking order). Good business is. sorry Chicken Little, the sky is not falling, you're just going to have to get some people skills, that's all.
Right.
They are concerned about kids, who don't know enough to get past it, but they're also concerned about fair use. I think this is one of the first and only copy protection schemes to come along in a long time that actually makes sense. Good for Sony, I say.
Why is it that nobody complains when they do an article on how light sabres work, but when it comes to the "Batsuit" geeks get up in arms? Doesn't make sense. It's fun, enjoy it.
All of this begs the question:
Assume this hack does work. What sort of software are you going to run on your psp? Do you need a special compiler? What language should apps and games be written in?
Well, it is Indiana. It could easily be a storm cellar. We've lovingly dubbed it "the torture room" because it reminds me of that room in Saw (if you haven't seen it rent it), only smaller.
And if monkeys wore underwear, their children wouldn't like pop tarts. See where I'm going with this? Nowhere, just like the original article.
Although, I've lived in some pretty oddly constructed houses over the years. I lived in a bright green house in San Francisco that was a two bedroom. What I found out later was that the second bedroom was a finished attic, and that the only way to get there was through the bathroom.
The place I moved into last week is two degrees off level, and you can roll a ball across the floor just by putting it down. Actually, it's fun to watch. Weirder yet, everything in the house except for the living room is ever so slightly off center. It's unnerving. For example, the windows. Always eight feet into a 12 foot wall. Weird. In what is otherwise a completely unfinished basement, there is a little white room.
The room contains one light bulb socket and a card table. The lock on the door is on the outside.
And none of the ceiling fans spin straight. The one upstairs is only 6.5 feet off the ground (good thing I'm short), and it shakes to bad that I'm afraid of ending up with ceiling fan blade in the back of my skull. Come to think of it, I don't think you can attribute this particular house to bad software developers, as much as I would like to..
I'll just do like I do with everything else, and blame Cringely. Don't knock it, I feel much better afterwards...:P
The constitution is a framework. Frameworks always evolve and change over time to fit the requirements of the end user (in this case, us). That's just the way things go. I know guys who insist that they have never needed to program anything in any language other than C, just plain old C, or still others that insist that Foxpro can solve any problem. It's very much the same thing. These are people that have trouble with change. Programmers seem especially prone to it, and I can't say I blame them.
But in order for law to work, it cannot remain static. There was once an amendment that entitled every man to a slave. Would you rather that stayed in there? How about all the additional rights that individuals have acquired under the Constitution over the centuries? Would you like those to go away? But this is exactly why the Court system exists, and is recognized as a branch of government, which a lot of conservatives don't seem to understand.
Yes. They may have conservative leanings, but no matter who they are, they are being hired to interpret the constitution. That's their job. They may have certain views on certain subjects, but not even the conservatives know what they stand for these days. No matter what kind of decisions get made, you are always going to have decent. Such is the beauty of our system. The argument is moot.
The old patriot act had a thing for disclaimers. I'm guessing it still does. So before I say anything...
Obligatory disclaimer: Please don't try anything recommended in my posts. Any of them, especially this one. If you do it, I cannot be held responsible. I am not encouraging terrorist activities, and this post was designed to be interesting, insightful, funny, or flamebait. It was not intended to encourage people to commit terrorist acts upon politicians.
Ah, I feel protected now. Thank you Uncle Sam!
There are ways to hold your officials accountable, or at least scare them into behaving themselves. I think it would be funny to send picture post cards to every representative in Washington with a note on the back saying "We know everything about it. tell the media, or we will." I imagine that some of the hyper paranoid would actually take such a thing as a harkening, because it's not a threat. What do you know? What are you going to tell the media? When? You're not implicitly threatening anyone. For all they know you're an expert in gourmet cooking and want to share a recipe with the media.
Hmmm.... Okay, maybe it wouldn't hold anyone accountable, but I think the results could be genuinely funny. I wonder how many guilty consciences there are running around our District of Columbia. Probably more than a few.
Could you imagine the things people would confess to the media? Heh Heh.
Or not, after all, it is just a simple non threatening post card.
It breaks new ground. Thankfully in this country we have checks and balances. If this new patriot act is constitutionally illegal, the parts of it that are not legal will eventually be shot down in court. May take some time though, the supreme court hasn't even finished shooting down the first Patriot Act yet.
Still I think it's ironic that Bush will criticize Putin for doing this sort of thing, and then turn around and do it himself.
We're all hypocrites.
It's just that some of us are more in touch with it than others.
It seems though that Koran 1.0 seem to have several systemic architecture issues that have been known to cause OS problems with the end user after downloading. I believe this problem stems from the fact that it is a much newer code base, and is not as mature as other Bibles. You have to remember, Koran 1.0 has only been out of beta for 1200 years. The necessary hardware support is missing in many cases for peripheral devices as simple as the brain, hands and eyes, etc.
My thought: Koran 1.0 is not ready for the main stream. While it may have many of the features one would expect from a Bible, it does not have the hardware support, maturity, and wide spread usage that other Bibles do. Now I'm not saying that Koran 1.0 won't get there. History has proven that upstart Bibles can gain wide spread acceptance. Christianity 3.7a or Buddhism 6.5 are excellent examples of this.
I fear that in it's current state, Joe Bible Reader just won't understand Koran 1.0.
The market for a hot torah couldn't be all that big. The only people that are interested in having them in the first place are synagogues; which means that you're locked into a very finite number of clients who would be interested in it in the first place. Narrow that down to clients that are interested in something cheap, and would be willing to go through unconventional channels to get it, and that number drops again.
Finger printing sounds good, but it's obviously a lot of work for a problem that cannot be wide spread by it's very definition.
Safer Torahs are freaking heavy. Even if someone did steal one and get something for it online or elsewhere, shipping a hundred lbs of parchment isn't cheap, assuming the thieves are savvy enough, with enough inside knowledge of the Jewish community to know how and where to offload it in the first place.
If you're going to steal something, why not go for something with a wider more goyish appeal. There's always jewelry, cd's, computers, money, identities, etc, something small, light, and voluble?
I hate to sound like an old timer, but I remember when $70 was the norm for all domains (yes, all three of them), and you had no choice of registrars to choose from. It was Network Solutions only, and they would try to stiff you for even more than that.
Before you knew it you were getting billed for all sorts of packages and services that were completely useless, that you didn't order, and there was nothing you could do about it.
Transferring domains could only be done by email, and domain propagation took a week! I remember web hosting from that era too. For an entry level package with 50mb, you would pay $20 a month, and forget about bulk reseller plans.
They didn't exist! So if you had multiple domains, you either had to do some fancy footwork with Free DNS a service like Granite Canyon (good luck) or ZoneEdit, or you had to pay through the nose for a new hosting plan.
Early deregulation days were no picnic either. NetSol didn't want to part with any of their domains, so they made it as difficult as humanly possible to do. It was so bad in fact, that it sparked an FTC probe.
You had 12 registrars to choose from, and half of them were no better than NetSol. Even then, the best you could hope for was $35 a year, which felt like the best thing ever.
So what's $60 bucks?
Do you honestly think pornographers can't afford it? Weather or not they would want it... that's another story.
That was their whole selling point. They will work because the CD's themselves haven't been messed with. The bits simply get jumbled when you try to copy a second generation disk. The easy way around that is by creating an ISO, and copying from there, which it sounds like you can do without problems.
I see this as a win win situation. The music industry gets a copy protection that works well enough to fool teenagers into not copying their stuff. The consumer gets extra features, and the ability to burn and keep a disk image. This is the first DRM scheme I've heard about in a long time that actually sounds reasonable.
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Yes, but why? Assuming you could get Apache to run, you networking capabilities are severely limited. Actually, based on the specs, it doesn't look like there is much you could actually do with a ds.
All depends on what you call money. I've heard this over and over again, and from the multi billion dollar perspective, you're correct. But you can make far more money with a decent niche application than you can as a software developer working for someone else.
I know a guy in Texas who is selling his software business because he's retiring. The business makes him personally somewhere in the area of half a million dollars a year. His niche is mainframe accounting and report generating software.
In the grand scheme of things, you could say, yes, the company is solvent, but it's never made billions, and rarely made millions of dollars a year. So what? As a result of starting this company, this guy will never have to worry about anything again.
Me, I work for others and rarely even have health care. If I had the ability to start something myself, even if it didn't make millions or billions, I would.
I can vouch for the fact that programming jobs have been increasing in complexity and scope for several years. These days, in addition to being a coder, you also have to be an analyst and have an understanding of the bigger picture. There are also fewer people standing in your way between you and management, which means it's more likely that you'll get your point across. Yet still, I fail to see how that's a bad thing. Outsourcing isn't the cause (it's simply what keeps projects going forever, which may or may not be a good thing depending on your position in the pecking order). Good business is. sorry Chicken Little, the sky is not falling, you're just going to have to get some people skills, that's all.
Right. They are concerned about kids, who don't know enough to get past it, but they're also concerned about fair use. I think this is one of the first and only copy protection schemes to come along in a long time that actually makes sense. Good for Sony, I say.
Why is it that nobody complains when they do an article on how light sabres work, but when it comes to the "Batsuit" geeks get up in arms? Doesn't make sense. It's fun, enjoy it.
That and he can turn his head. The article pointed out that previous batmans never could seem to do that.
All of this begs the question: Assume this hack does work. What sort of software are you going to run on your psp? Do you need a special compiler? What language should apps and games be written in?
Well, it is Indiana. It could easily be a storm cellar. We've lovingly dubbed it "the torture room" because it reminds me of that room in Saw (if you haven't seen it rent it), only smaller.
Adobe and Marcomedia are now one and the same. Sad, but true.
And if monkeys wore underwear, their children wouldn't like pop tarts. See where I'm going with this? Nowhere, just like the original article.
.
:P
Although, I've lived in some pretty oddly constructed houses over the years. I lived in a bright green house in San Francisco that was a two bedroom. What I found out later was that the second bedroom was a finished attic, and that the only way to get there was through the bathroom.
The place I moved into last week is two degrees off level, and you can roll a ball across the floor just by putting it down. Actually, it's fun to watch. Weirder yet, everything in the house except for the living room is ever so slightly off center. It's unnerving. For example, the windows. Always eight feet into a 12 foot wall. Weird. In what is otherwise a completely unfinished basement, there is a little white room.
The room contains one light bulb socket and a card table. The lock on the door is on the outside.
And none of the ceiling fans spin straight. The one upstairs is only 6.5 feet off the ground (good thing I'm short), and it shakes to bad that I'm afraid of ending up with ceiling fan blade in the back of my skull. Come to think of it, I don't think you can attribute this particular house to bad software developers, as much as I would like to.
I'll just do like I do with everything else, and blame Cringely.
Don't knock it, I feel much better afterwards...
Exactly.
The constitution is a framework. Frameworks always evolve and change over time to fit the requirements of the end user (in this case, us). That's just the way things go. I know guys who insist that they have never needed to program anything in any language other than C, just plain old C, or still others that insist that Foxpro can solve any problem. It's very much the same thing. These are people that have trouble with change. Programmers seem especially prone to it, and I can't say I blame them.
But in order for law to work, it cannot remain static. There was once an amendment that entitled every man to a slave. Would you rather that stayed in there? How about all the additional rights that individuals have acquired under the Constitution over the centuries? Would you like those to go away? But this is exactly why the Court system exists, and is recognized as a branch of government, which a lot of conservatives don't seem to understand.
Yes. They may have conservative leanings, but no matter who they are, they are being hired to interpret the constitution. That's their job. They may have certain views on certain subjects, but not even the conservatives know what they stand for these days. No matter what kind of decisions get made, you are always going to have decent. Such is the beauty of our system. The argument is moot.
" I'm still not sure how they'll do this with an open source Kernel."
Easy, it's a BSD License. They don't have to redistribute anything if they don't want to. I love Robertson, but he's thinking it's GPL. It's not.
The old patriot act had a thing for disclaimers. I'm guessing it still does. So before I say anything...
Obligatory disclaimer:
Please don't try anything recommended in my posts. Any of them, especially this one. If you do it, I cannot be held responsible. I am not encouraging terrorist activities, and this post was designed to be interesting, insightful, funny, or flamebait. It was not intended to encourage people to commit terrorist acts upon politicians.
Ah,
I feel protected now. Thank you Uncle Sam!
There are ways to hold your officials accountable, or at least scare them into behaving themselves. I think it would be funny to send picture post cards to every representative in Washington with a note on the back saying "We know everything about it. tell the media, or we will." I imagine that some of the hyper paranoid would actually take such a thing as a harkening, because it's not a threat. What do you know? What are you going to tell the media? When? You're not implicitly threatening anyone. For all they know you're an expert in gourmet cooking and want to share a recipe with the media.
Hmmm....
Okay, maybe it wouldn't hold anyone accountable, but I think the results could be genuinely funny. I wonder how many guilty consciences there are running around our District of Columbia. Probably more than a few.
Could you imagine the things people would confess to the media? Heh Heh.
Or not, after all, it is just a simple non threatening post card.
I liked cooks better. Everyone knows all chefs are liberals.
It breaks new ground. Thankfully in this country we have checks and balances. If this new patriot act is constitutionally illegal, the parts of it that are not legal will eventually be shot down in court. May take some time though, the supreme court hasn't even finished shooting down the first Patriot Act yet. Still I think it's ironic that Bush will criticize Putin for doing this sort of thing, and then turn around and do it himself. We're all hypocrites. It's just that some of us are more in touch with it than others.
Bahai could go either way, although recently they've gone more unitarian than anything. Probably right about Druze.
Koran 1.0 has had dozens of forks over the years.
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The current major Koran forks are:
Sunni
Shi'ite
Sufi
Kahrijite
Wahhabi
Ismai
Zaidi
Fatimid
Nizari
Alawis
Druze
Baha'i
It seems though that Koran 1.0 seem to have several systemic architecture issues that have been known to cause OS problems with the end user after downloading. I believe this problem stems from the fact that it is a much newer code base, and is not as mature as other Bibles. You have to remember, Koran 1.0 has only been out of beta for 1200 years. The necessary hardware support is missing in many cases for peripheral devices as simple as the brain, hands and eyes, etc.
My thought: Koran 1.0 is not ready for the main stream. While it may have many of the features one would expect from a Bible, it does not have the hardware support, maturity, and wide spread usage that other Bibles do. Now I'm not saying that Koran 1.0 won't get there. History has proven that upstart Bibles can gain wide spread acceptance. Christianity 3.7a or Buddhism 6.5 are excellent examples of this.
I fear that in it's current state, Joe Bible Reader just won't understand Koran 1.0.
The market for a hot torah couldn't be all that big. The only people that are interested in having them in the first place are synagogues; which means that you're locked into a very finite number of clients who would be interested in it in the first place. Narrow that down to clients that are interested in something cheap, and would be willing to go through unconventional channels to get it, and that number drops again.
Finger printing sounds good, but it's obviously a lot of work for a problem that cannot be wide spread by it's very definition.
Safer Torahs are freaking heavy. Even if someone did steal one and get something for it online or elsewhere, shipping a hundred lbs of parchment isn't cheap, assuming the thieves are savvy enough, with enough inside knowledge of the Jewish community to know how and where to offload it in the first place.
If you're going to steal something, why not go for something with a wider more goyish appeal. There's always jewelry, cd's, computers, money, identities, etc, something small, light, and voluble?
Actually CPT, Jews don't believe in hell.
There's one line with one alegorical reference to it in one of our books. You guys built a whole religion on it.
Moses never even mentioned hell.
I hate to sound like an old timer,
but I remember when $70 was the norm for all domains (yes, all three of them), and you had no choice of registrars to choose from. It was Network Solutions only, and they would try to stiff you for even more than that.
Before you knew it you were getting billed for all sorts of packages and services that were completely useless, that you didn't order, and there was nothing you could do about it.
Transferring domains could only be done by email, and domain propagation took a week! I remember web hosting from that era too. For an entry level package with 50mb, you would pay $20 a month, and forget about bulk reseller plans.
They didn't exist! So if you had multiple domains, you either had to do some fancy footwork with Free DNS a service like Granite Canyon (good luck) or ZoneEdit, or you had to pay through the nose for a new hosting plan.
Early deregulation days were no picnic either. NetSol didn't want to part with any of their domains, so they made it as difficult as humanly possible to do. It was so bad in fact, that it sparked an FTC probe.
You had 12 registrars to choose from, and half of them were no better than NetSol. Even then, the best you could hope for was $35 a year, which felt like the best thing ever.
So what's $60 bucks?
Do you honestly think pornographers can't afford it? Weather or not they would want it... that's another story.
How about .spludgee
In a world where we now have .museum, anything's possible.
That was their whole selling point. They will work because the CD's themselves haven't been messed with. The bits simply get jumbled when you try to copy a second generation disk. The easy way around that is by creating an ISO, and copying from there, which it sounds like you can do without problems.
I see this as a win win situation. The music industry gets a copy protection that works well enough to fool teenagers into not copying their stuff. The consumer gets extra features, and the ability to burn and keep a disk image. This is the first DRM scheme I've heard about in a long time that actually sounds reasonable.