for me, it depends on the album. Some are crafted to be more enjoyable in sequence. However, many albums are just collections of individual songs, which lend themselves well to random shuffling.
Many CD players made random shuffles possible, within CD's or if they were multi-CD capable, even across CD's. So this is not a particularly new phenom.
Sigh, I cling to the hope that one day slashdot will recognise pound signs.
I prefer the ISO codes for currencies, since many currencies are not really unique. e.g. Dollars exist in Canada, Australia, and other countries. I don't know about the pound - are there other countries with a currency called a pound?
So I laud you for using GBP, and encourage you to use USD, rather than longing for more special symbols.
The micropayment company then becomes the information source and habits can be tracked during the life of the card. If the micropayment card is linked to a credit card, they have you.
.. but not if you pay for the micropayment card with cash at your local neighborhood convenience store (like long distance phone cards).
P2P is not inherently illegal. It is just a copying technology. If you make P2P illegal, photocopy machines should long have been illegal. And of course, might as well make FTP and NNTP illegal. And while you are at it, since all web browsing is inherently copying, make HTTP illegal.
The first question is, what's the objective of the CEO? Is s/he considering firing the CEO? Or is it a message to your department, that s/he actually cares about you?
The best trick is to turn the situation around. Encourage the CEO to speak about his vision and about his pet peeves. Listen very carefully for items, which have not been mentioned in other public forums or publications. Those are the nuggets!
Encourage your CIO to share their vision, too. If s/he is any good, it will be an opportunity to shine. If not, it will turn out to be the public political suicide, you might like to see.
Ask intelligent followup questions - in business terms!
Give an idea, of what is easy to accomplish, and what is more difficult and mention the barriers to success. Be incredibly tactful, while hinting at the truth. Keep all your language in business terms specific to your company (avoid MBA b.s.), and use your CEO's terminology without overdoing it (it's a fine line!)
Avoid coming across as someone, whom the company owes. Come across as someone, who is enjoying the challenges, and who is prepared to work hard at meeting them.
Always remember - this is a political event. Use it as such. In case of doubt, be a nice person without sucking up.
However, I think IP V6, and XHTML, CSS etc, are entirely different beasts. They are "standards" not "code bases". Quite different in nature, ragardless of which side of the individual case one stands on.
Calling WinXP and 2000 re-writes seems just blatantly wrong. Both of those are basically WinNT - some of the multimedia stuff came from Win98/ME - calling those a re-write is really over the top.
No new insight, factual errors, and unclean separation of issues. Sorry, but I can't recommend this article as worthwhile reading.
p.s. How can anyone from the outside possibly know, if Apache needed a rewrite or not? I will trust the decision of the developers, rather than one from the outside.
I like the FinalScratch approach, too - but it requires a computer. And there are surprisingly many people, who are more comfortable with dedicated hardware, like recording workstations, cd and dvd recorders etc.
So I think both approaches will be around for a while. By the way, I don't think FinalScratch can do video yet - or did I miss that on their site?
I think your observations are correct (at least in my experience). Of course it's a really bad idea to replace libraries in a running program. That's why many of the better installers restart the program in question when upgrading (rather than the whole machine). And of course, if the shared libraries are part of the OS, you are pretty much stuck with a reboot.
Your last sentence,
So if you think that shared non-statically linked libraries are bad, then yes, you won't like the Windows way of doing things.
captures my sentiments. I know, shared libraries create efficiencies, but at least for me, at too high of a price in terms of security. It may very well be a personal bias, but I'd rather spend a bit more on extra disk space and RAM for the extra security of more compartementalized applications.
Don't mean to offend, but in the trade-off of security vs. convenience, in the age of the Internet, I have become much more biased in favor of security.
Because one of the file(s) replaced by the installer is in use by another applicaiton, and the old version can't be removed until it is no longer in use. When most installers run, they schedule a task to run when the computer starts up to remove the old file and replace it with the new one.
sigh... sorry - the question was rethorical - I know the technical reasons; it exactly underlines the point I was trying to make; the MS design is lousy, since it uses files in regular apps, which are in use (or just marked as such) by the OS. This is lousy design, and many other applications (e.g. Mozilla) don't have that problem. And of course on Linux rebooting is an almost unknown occurrence after software upgrades - similarly on the Mac, a reboot usually only required after a major OS upgrade. So it can be done:)
And this overly integrated design is at the source of a lot of my concerns as per my original post (2 levels up).
I'm very hopeful that Mandrake will survive. In addition to being a really nice distro for many years, we need diversity, so I want SuSE (Novell), RH, Mandrake, Debian, the *BSD's, Apple and many more to thrive. At the risk of being modded (is that a word?) to hell, I even want MS to survive long term, since MS's misbehaviours are a big driver for the tons of good work being done in the open source and free software arena, as well as some of the better attitudes in traditional companies like IBM, Sun and Apple.
Only a wide open and long term competition of approaches, value systems and individual people ensures positive progress and yes: freedom!
One of the great breakthroughs in safety design came when ships started to be built with compartments, which would prevent a single hull puncture to sink the whole ship. (Sadly the Titanic's compartments were all aligned in one dimension, so when the puncture was very long, it compromised all compartments).
One of my greatest concerns with MS attitude towards design of their "ships", especially Windows and Office is, that they are integrated way too much. So any security "puncture" spills over way too easily into the rest of the ship. As a very annoying side effect, one ends up re-booting for way too many MS patches. Why should I have to reboot, if I patch my browser or e-mail client?
Of course, MSIE, Outlook and MS Office vulnerabilities have been a lot less worrying for me, since fully switching to Mozilla and OpenOffice over a year ago!
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The fact, that spam is still worthwhile goes to show, that one person's spam is another person's valued information (worth clicking on and spending money on).
Therefore efforts (legal and technical) to define spam at the sender side seem inherently dubious to me.
On the other hand, weeding out spam at the receiving end doesn't do anything to conserve the bandwidth and other computing resources wasted on items, which ended up being identified as spam by the respective recipients.
mmmhh - could this become a trend? I wonder, if they'll just kill off SpamCop, just like Vivendi just killed off mp3.com; after all SpamCop was probably not making that much money, if financial troubles lead to the sale.
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Once you have any data stream over IP, it is pretty difficult to regulate, since it can be disguised on varying port numbers, encryption (which is probably a good idea anyway) and other techniques. Regulation tends to work on the big conglomerates, since they operate so much in public. A homespun underground cottage industry movement is very difficult to control (see P2P). Therefore I find the discussions about regulating VoIP rather irrelevant.
For the betterment fo the whole human eco system, I don't mind at all, if both models exist. I think, they serve to keep each other honest. While duplication of efforts theoretically wastes resources, nature and human history suggest, that only competition and a multitude of differing approaches (differences at high level and/or in detail) create future-proof systems.
Therefore I want many closed source companies to do well, and many open source projects to do well, and many shareware and freeware projects to do well, and whatever other approaches there may be now and in the future.
In nature and in human history, things typically have gone really bad, when there was an absence of choice.
However, I think Open Source fundamentally has more potential for diversity, than closed source, therefore I really hope, that it will thrive.
I loved my Atari 1040ST. Motoralla 68k chip, color GUI, well before the Mac went color. It had builtin MIDI ports, which was the kickstart to the creation of breakthrough software for the production of music (software sequencers). Some of today's biggest names in the computer based musical studio software, including Steinberg (now owned by Pinnacle) and Emagic (now owned by Apple) got their start on the Atari ST with programs (to this day) called Cubase and Logic.
I still have it, although it's sitting idle in a display case in my basement. Too many fond memories to let it go...
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yes, this is a recent marketing phenom/fad:
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for me, it depends on the album. Some are crafted to be more enjoyable in sequence. However, many albums are just collections of individual songs, which lend themselves well to random shuffling.
Many CD players made random shuffles possible, within CD's or if they were multi-CD capable, even across CD's. So this is not a particularly new phenom.
Sigh, I cling to the hope that one day slashdot will recognise pound signs.
I prefer the ISO codes for currencies, since many currencies are not really unique. e.g. Dollars exist in Canada, Australia, and other countries. I don't know about the pound - are there other countries with a currency called a pound?
So I laud you for using GBP, and encourage you to use USD, rather than longing for more special symbols.
The micropayment company then becomes the information source and habits can be tracked during the life of the card. If the micropayment card is linked to a credit card, they have you.
.. but not if you pay for the micropayment card with cash at your local neighborhood convenience store (like long distance phone cards).
P2P is not inherently illegal. It is just a copying technology. If you make P2P illegal, photocopy machines should long have been illegal. And of course, might as well make FTP and NNTP illegal. And while you are at it, since all web browsing is inherently copying, make HTTP illegal.
The first question is, what's the objective of the CEO? Is s/he considering firing the CEO? Or is it a message to your department, that s/he actually cares about you?
The best trick is to turn the situation around. Encourage the CEO to speak about his vision and about his pet peeves. Listen very carefully for items, which have not been mentioned in other public forums or publications. Those are the nuggets!
Encourage your CIO to share their vision, too. If s/he is any good, it will be an opportunity to shine. If not, it will turn out to be the public political suicide, you might like to see.
Ask intelligent followup questions - in business terms!
Give an idea, of what is easy to accomplish, and what is more difficult and mention the barriers to success. Be incredibly tactful, while hinting at the truth. Keep all your language in business terms specific to your company (avoid MBA b.s.), and use your CEO's terminology without overdoing it (it's a fine line!)
Avoid coming across as someone, whom the company owes. Come across as someone, who is enjoying the challenges, and who is prepared to work hard at meeting them.
Always remember - this is a political event. Use it as such. In case of doubt, be a nice person without sucking up.
However, I think IP V6, and XHTML, CSS etc, are entirely different beasts. They are "standards" not "code bases". Quite different in nature, ragardless of which side of the individual case one stands on.
Calling WinXP and 2000 re-writes seems just blatantly wrong. Both of those are basically WinNT - some of the multimedia stuff came from Win98/ME - calling those a re-write is really over the top.
No new insight, factual errors, and unclean separation of issues. Sorry, but I can't recommend this article as worthwhile reading.
p.s. How can anyone from the outside possibly know, if Apache needed a rewrite or not? I will trust the decision of the developers, rather than one from the outside.
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http://www.newscienceparadigms.com/astro/great_wa
We're the US, and we really need a new way to ...
:)
some of us outside of the US care, too
Yeah, because it'd be a lot of fun having to show up at work at different hours each day.
Let's see... today I show up at 10:32, tomorrow it's 43:16
isn't that how programmers show up to work anyway?
Mozilla Firebird 0.7 worked fine for me - so did Mozilla 1.5
This sounds just ridiculous. I think you should complain to the CRTC. Sometimes that wakes those clowns up !
I like the FinalScratch approach, too - but it requires a computer. And there are surprisingly many people, who are more comfortable with dedicated hardware, like recording workstations, cd and dvd recorders etc.
So I think both approaches will be around for a while. By the way, I don't think FinalScratch can do video yet - or did I miss that on their site?
I think your observations are correct (at least in my experience). Of course it's a really bad idea to replace libraries in a running program. That's why many of the better installers restart the program in question when upgrading (rather than the whole machine). And of course, if the shared libraries are part of the OS, you are pretty much stuck with a reboot. Your last sentence,
So if you think that shared non-statically linked libraries are bad, then yes, you won't like the Windows way of doing things.
captures my sentiments. I know, shared libraries create efficiencies, but at least for me, at too high of a price in terms of security. It may very well be a personal bias, but I'd rather spend a bit more on extra disk space and RAM for the extra security of more compartementalized applications.
Don't mean to offend, but in the trade-off of security vs. convenience, in the age of the Internet, I have become much more biased in favor of security.
Because one of the file(s) replaced by the installer is in use by another applicaiton, and the old version can't be removed until it is no longer in use. When most installers run, they schedule a task to run when the computer starts up to remove the old file and replace it with the new one.
:)
sigh... sorry - the question was rethorical - I know the technical reasons; it exactly underlines the point I was trying to make; the MS design is lousy, since it uses files in regular apps, which are in use (or just marked as such) by the OS. This is lousy design, and many other applications (e.g. Mozilla) don't have that problem. And of course on Linux rebooting is an almost unknown occurrence after software upgrades - similarly on the Mac, a reboot usually only required after a major OS upgrade. So it can be done
And this overly integrated design is at the source of a lot of my concerns as per my original post (2 levels up).
I'm very hopeful that Mandrake will survive. In addition to being a really nice distro for many years, we need diversity, so I want SuSE (Novell), RH, Mandrake, Debian, the *BSD's, Apple and many more to thrive. At the risk of being modded (is that a word?) to hell, I even want MS to survive long term, since MS's misbehaviours are a big driver for the tons of good work being done in the open source and free software arena, as well as some of the better attitudes in traditional companies like IBM, Sun and Apple.
Only a wide open and long term competition of approaches, value systems and individual people ensures positive progress and yes: freedom!
One of the great breakthroughs in safety design came when ships started to be built with compartments, which would prevent a single hull puncture to sink the whole ship. (Sadly the Titanic's compartments were all aligned in one dimension, so when the puncture was very long, it compromised all compartments).
One of my greatest concerns with MS attitude towards design of their "ships", especially Windows and Office is, that they are integrated way too much. So any security "puncture" spills over way too easily into the rest of the ship. As a very annoying side effect, one ends up re-booting for way too many MS patches. Why should I have to reboot, if I patch my browser or e-mail client?
Of course, MSIE, Outlook and MS Office vulnerabilities have been a lot less worrying for me, since fully switching to Mozilla and OpenOffice over a year ago!
The fact, that spam is still worthwhile goes to show, that one person's spam is another person's valued information (worth clicking on and spending money on).
Therefore efforts (legal and technical) to define spam at the sender side seem inherently dubious to me.
On the other hand, weeding out spam at the receiving end doesn't do anything to conserve the bandwidth and other computing resources wasted on items, which ended up being identified as spam by the respective recipients.
So this is a fundamentally tough nut to crack.
mmmhh - could this become a trend? I wonder, if they'll just kill off SpamCop, just like Vivendi just killed off mp3.com; after all SpamCop was probably not making that much money, if financial troubles lead to the sale.
Once you have any data stream over IP, it is pretty difficult to regulate, since it can be disguised on varying port numbers, encryption (which is probably a good idea anyway) and other techniques. Regulation tends to work on the big conglomerates, since they operate so much in public. A homespun underground cottage industry movement is very difficult to control (see P2P). Therefore I find the discussions about regulating VoIP rather irrelevant.
For the betterment fo the whole human eco system, I don't mind at all, if both models exist. I think, they serve to keep each other honest. While duplication of efforts theoretically wastes resources, nature and human history suggest, that only competition and a multitude of differing approaches (differences at high level and/or in detail) create future-proof systems.
Therefore I want many closed source companies to do well, and many open source projects to do well, and many shareware and freeware projects to do well, and whatever other approaches there may be now and in the future.
In nature and in human history, things typically have gone really bad, when there was an absence of choice.
However, I think Open Source fundamentally has more potential for diversity, than closed source, therefore I really hope, that it will thrive.
I loved my Atari 1040ST. Motoralla 68k chip, color GUI, well before the Mac went color. It had builtin MIDI ports, which was the kickstart to the creation of breakthrough software for the production of music (software sequencers). Some of today's biggest names in the computer based musical studio software, including Steinberg (now owned by Pinnacle) and Emagic (now owned by Apple) got their start on the Atari ST with programs (to this day) called Cubase and Logic.
...
I still have it, although it's sitting idle in a display case in my basement. Too many fond memories to let it go
counter-attacking won't work, since since it would make it attractive to create apparent spam from good companies or other places.
I don't have to out-sell you, if I can shut you down technically or through negative publicity.
i.e. evil company "Evil Inc." causes spam to be send in the name of "Good Inc.". Counter attacks hit "Good Inc."
"Evil Inc." laughs all the way to the bank.