It all made sense to me. You did understand the purpose of sync-safe bytes, right? They're not just there to piss people off.
I wrote a class for handling ID3v1/2 tags, and it works fine. I use it nearly every day, and it's processed nearly 5000 songs without fail (various versions of v2 tags, mixed in with the old classic v1), from Apples, *nixes and windows.
The format is so specific you can code for almost any eventuality. It's one of the easier binary formats I've worked with, and I think it's a great place for developers to learn about manipulating/creating binary files.
It's ID3v2, so the tag can be variable length. It's not as easy as just reading, say, 4 bytes at 0x1D to get the length of the header, either - the size is stored in "sync-safe" form, where the MSB is moved to the next byte over, to stop the tag being interpreted as an MP3 frame.
Of course there's a package for handing ID3 tags in perl. Heck, I wrote one in PHP. This is about efficiently reading tags over HTTP, where getting the tags requires multiple requests, and not just downloading the whole file. That's what this is about. Not just downloading a track over HTTP and wondering how to get the tags.
Why on earth does everyone blame everything on microsoft?? I'm all for some ragging if it's even plausible, but the amount of anti-microsoft tripe spewed out on this forum is just ridiculous. You used to be able to surf through it, but now everyone's blaming microsoft for global warming, outsourcing to india, Bush, Kerry, Nader, and the near-extinction of the giant panda.
You admitted it yourself - it's AMD/Intels fault. They make the chips. Blame them. Microsoft are as much to blame as Linus is in this one. No amount of fanboy paranoid fascism is gonna change that:-P
Seeing as most/.ers still say that windows crashes all the time and is rubbish, your point about people speaking out of their asses might go over a few peoples' heads:-P
It could have been an honest mistake, as anyone who works with CSS and various browsers on a daily basis would tell you. It's certainly not uncommon for different CSS files to be sent to different browsers, and it's not uncommon for certain style sheets to break their intended browsers.
I understand why people jump at microsoft every chance they get, but to pull accusations out of thin air is pretty mad:)
Steady on, mate. Seriously. Lots of those things are intrinsic with the software industry. You say microsoft purposely scuppered software because updates to their OS broke them?? How many times has updating a linux kernel stopped allsorts from running - that's clearly not a ploy by linus to topple the world, so why is it with microsoft? Nearly every single one of your points has been blown out of all proportion, or is missing some key points of context. It's propaganda, simple as that.
Please post whatever you want, but when you pass off insanely unobjective rants as some sort of factual representation of the truth, you come off a jerk.
To me, and anyone else objectively looking at what you've said, it looks like you have some serious issues with microsoft. OS Envy, if you will.
Saying Microsoft somehow made nVidia not release source code for linux is just insane. nVidia are doing that because they spent money on the drivers, not because bill has bought them off. If you just think about your claims for more than two seconds, most of them debunk themselves. You have a pop at the whole OS/2 fiasco, but seeing as Microsoft were a major development partner with IBM, they have every right to use whatever code they develop on the project in their own software.
Sabotage of java? Are you insane? Microsoft have had licensing issues with java, but you can blame sun for that just as much as microsoft. Portraying them to be an evil corporation for rathern inane business decisions shows how much you really want to believe in microsoft being bad.
"Microsoft funded the SCO attack" - don't make me laugh! Microsoft have given SCO money in the past, for services. Saying they single-handedly used SCO as a puppet to attack Linux, which you are, shows your true motive.
So, Windows '95 causes some function keys to break? Well, Linux causes my modems to stop working, so LINUX MUST BE TRYING TO DESTROY INTEL!
Sensationalist, emotive rubbish. Anyone can make anything sound bad by cherrypicking information and emotive language. All you've shown is the depths people like you would go to, to cause a fuss.
Next time, cite sources. Use facts, not what you heard someone talking about on IRC or slashdot. Form an argument, as opposed to listing gripes you've formed in your head over the years. Usually I keep quiet when I see people posting this stuff, but you seemed to be really believing what you've written.
BitTorrent is SLOW?? Have you tried allowing inbound connections? It gets a lot faster. I've downloaded stuff at 384KB/s (kiloBYTES/s) on our cable connection. As that's 100% of our line, I'd say it's hard to get it much faster.
I have to step in and say that America has only championed democracy when it suited it. Hitler did some pretty undemocratic things, and the US stood by and watched. If the US was so much about democracy as it says it is, it would have been first into WW2, not last. It also wouldn't have charged its allies for help, but that's another story;) The spin in the US is that the USA is a global champion of democracy, which comes back to my point - the media says the USA is good, so most people thing that to be true. There's a huge trend in the US at giving Pro-US arguments/stances the benefit of the doubt. That fact alone is frightening. Lets not mention the US's invading of many countries and replacing democratically-elected leaders with US-friendly cronies.
I know Americans aren't worthless (heck, I'm married to one), but I know there's a huge, HUGE problem with the American mentality, a problem that has serious repercussions for the entire world.
American insularity has furthered the idea that the US is the champion of democracy, simply because Americans aren't exposed to any history stating otherwise. Americans aren't bought up knowing the truth about the first few presidents of the US, or their rather interesting views on the Indian "problem". They weren't raised knowing about what the founding fathers rebelled against. Their history lessons were rose-tinted, and highly cherry-picked.
I think Greece has more to do with modern democracy than the US. Britain's done more, too. There was a parliament in London long before the first Indians got offed by overzealous pilgrims. Ever since the last US election, the US has given less and less in terms of democratic influence on the world. They ignored the UN, and no-one's even looked into impeaching Bush for a fraudulent election. If the US wasn't as big as it was, it would have been pulled up for these transgressions ages ago.
(ps - i was called a lefty commie pinko by some republicans at a protest in LA - people actually think like that:) scary!)
It's not about politics, but people who need our help NOW. Throwing money at a new spaceship is just a graphic illustration of our love of the idea of progress. We're never going to progress if we just ignore huge parts of our world, who because they can't do anything for us, we shun. It's disgusting to be talking about pissing trillions up the wall when a small proportion of that could pay for running water for most of the world. It's all about priorities, not politics. I don't care if JFK and Jesus came back from their graves and announced it in a joint press conference - I'd still not buy it.
We need to invest so heavily on a gamble, which is exactly what this is. There's no guarantee of return.
Yes, I do have issues with more than mars - I have issues with rich people wanting to get even richer, at the expense of poor people. Call me old fashioned, but that sucks. If you don't have a problem with the rich getting richer and the poor getting deader, fine. I just hope you don't call yourself a christian in the process! (hear that, mr. bush?):-P
Because this is so obviously useless. At least the bogus war had objectives, like "freeing iraq" and "getting rid of tyranny in iraq" etc. Why do we go to mars? "To look around!". Even though the reasons to go to war were rubbish, the reasons to go to space are even worse. There's no immediate gain (we went to war to "stop saddam using WMDs on us, at any second", which at least gives us a REASON, fictitious even though it is), so at best it's a long-term investment. People are dying now, and there's no plausible reason why we need to invest now.
Seriously - it promises NOTHING, yet costs TRILLIONS.
2. Use the newly-created workforce numbering hundreds of millions of people, and make factories/farms/call centres for them to work in, producing goods for sale.
I hear what you're saying, and it is depressing. Especially when Monkeyman Bush says he's a Christian, yet he's not lifting a finger to help those less well off than he, or his nation, is. Hypocrisy springs to mind.
Shouldn't we at least try to do something, as opposed to bending over to accept "the inevitable"?
Take the trillions the space plan will cost, and spend it on people who could actually use that money to NOT DIE in the next few months. It's not exactly brain-melting economics.
Sure - NASA helped invent a bunch of useful stuff. If something costs too much, it doesn't matter how cool it is - it's still too expensive. There's no guaranteed return on investments in space travel/exploration. Things can, and do, blow up. We could use the money HERE and NOW to help people who need it to survive, or we could invest it in NASA, have most of it wasted in red-tape, and a couple of exploded spaceships down the road be left with nothing.
We're human beings. We only got this far by looking after our own. Why have we stopped?
"Patriotism is fine, but when it deliberately ignores facts it becomes more like an ideology."
That's America through and through. Read American history books, and you'll see this is an insitutionalised phenomenon, not a new trend. America has always portrayed itself as the model upstanding, truthful, altruistic, fair nation. It isn't. Lies about how America have been spread ever since its founding. Back in the day, it was probably essential to its surviving ("taxation without representation" nonsense, etc.).
Now, we can see this ideology manifested in some darker contexts - PATRIOT act, etc. Names created to instill feelings of patriotism in all who hear them. With many people, it works. Ever notice how many times Pres. Bush mentions "America" by name? Ever wondered about the pledge of allegience? What about the national anthem at every ball game (and movie, a while back)? What about the ubiquitous US flag fluttering everywhere? It's all part of the same racket - getting everyone hell-bent on being American. The problem is, attach that flag to anything you want, and people instinctively defend it as being "American". That's what we're seeing now, with all these republican loonies running around saying how everything's unAmerican for criticising pres. bush. unAmerican simply because it's doubting the word of the leader. That's hardly sound logic. I've seen it face-to-face, and people who believe that crap are dangerously deluded.
This is something that's so painfully obvious to the rest of the world, yet somehow completely overlooked in mainstream US culture. It's the scariest thing in the US, more scary than Bush. And he's scary!
Those sailors didn't ask for huge amounts of cash for the experience. They didn't take funds away from more beneficial national schemes, which are actually needed right now.
It costs a LOT more for a country (even now) to send a craft into space than it did then to send a ship out to sea. The only similarities between the two is they both involve people going somewhere. There, the similarities end.
Why not now? Because our technology is a joke. Some foam falls off the space shuttle, and it blows up on re-entry. Hardly star trek material, huh? "Number one... What's our shield status?" "We've lost most of the foam from our port side, and the cardboard on our aft is a bit soggy. The krispy kreme box on our bow is holding out OK, captain."
Our technology is terrible. It's too risky to go, and if we do make it, it's so horribly inefficient and expensive, it nullifies any benefits we might get.
I'm all for space travel, but when we have the technology. Right now, we're trying to run before we can even sit up.
The only reason Bush is even entertaining the idea is the fact that the thought of space travel galvanizes the nation, which in turn increases support for him. It's a cheap, no-committment way for him to boost his approval ratings without actually doing anything (like, say, doing what he promised in iraq).
See through the spin, people. Not only are we too technologically retarded to do this practically, the whole suggestion is to help one very troubled man keep his job for another 4 years.
Sorry if I come off as an idiot for saying this. I have the best intentions at heart, you have to understand.
<rant>You don't think, for one second, that there are things more important to do right now than in 20 years go to a planet
which we'll just eventually screw like we have done our own (so far)?
There are billions of people around the world starving, and you're talking about a thirst for knowledge and adventure? How about a thirst for water? Ever known that? Unfortunately, large swathes of Africa know it only too well, and their idea of adventure is getting shot at going to get a drink. Think about that next time you climb into your SUV sippin' a big gulp.
I know it sounds like a hippy tree-hugging perfectionist attitude, but right now the world is SCREWED. I'm not talking about "could be better" screwed, but "if we don't do something soon it's gonna get a whole lot worse, very quickly" screwed. If we spent the money on the space program now, on people who actually need it to survive, we could actually do something good for our planet.
I'm all for space travel, but seeing as our forays into space so far have been rubbish, I think we should let that cake bake for a bit longer before we try again. I want star trek as much as the next person, but our technology is too limited to do anything actually practical in space short of looking at stuff (maybe with a bit of prodding), and communications. Moving stuff physically around our solar system is a really, ridiculously laborious and expensive procedure. It would be like discovering the vacuum tube valves and deciding to make 125 million of them to create a Prescott core. We shouldn't confuse being in space with being able to do important stuff in space. First steps first, people.</rant>
Because Diebold is in the ATM business, so we'd just end up with the same machines, but with "ATM" written on the front, and a "withdrawal unavailable" notice.
Well, if casinos made money when their machines were compromised, we'd see a startling similarity here.
Casinos don't want their machines compromised. Diebold/Gov't does. That's the difference, and why you can't screw with a casino (but you can a general election).
Maybe that's a shortcoming of the US election process? I mean, when they were thinking it up, didn't the problem of "people have to vote for 15 things on the same ballot" come to light? I saw my wife's ballot for the nov. elections, and it was a book! I know democracy is cool, but when the processes of democracy impede on the outcome, something's wrong...
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I wrote a class for handling ID3v1/2 tags, and it works fine. I use it nearly every day, and it's processed nearly 5000 songs without fail (various versions of v2 tags, mixed in with the old classic v1), from Apples, *nixes and windows.
The format is so specific you can code for almost any eventuality. It's one of the easier binary formats I've worked with, and I think it's a great place for developers to learn about manipulating/creating binary files.
Of course there's a package for handing ID3 tags in perl. Heck, I wrote one in PHP. This is about efficiently reading tags over HTTP, where getting the tags requires multiple requests, and not just downloading the whole file. That's what this is about. Not just downloading a track over HTTP and wondering how to get the tags.
You admitted it yourself - it's AMD/Intels fault. They make the chips. Blame them. Microsoft are as much to blame as Linus is in this one. No amount of fanboy paranoid fascism is gonna change that :-P
Seeing as most /.ers still say that windows crashes all the time and is rubbish, your point about people speaking out of their asses might go over a few peoples' heads :-P
I'm sure the same can be said for any version of *nix at some point in the last 3 years... your point?
"Thirty-Something in space". awful.
I beg to differ...
I understand why people jump at microsoft every chance they get, but to pull accusations out of thin air is pretty mad :)
Please post whatever you want, but when you pass off insanely unobjective rants as some sort of factual representation of the truth, you come off a jerk.
To me, and anyone else objectively looking at what you've said, it looks like you have some serious issues with microsoft. OS Envy, if you will.
Saying Microsoft somehow made nVidia not release source code for linux is just insane. nVidia are doing that because they spent money on the drivers, not because bill has bought them off. If you just think about your claims for more than two seconds, most of them debunk themselves. You have a pop at the whole OS/2 fiasco, but seeing as Microsoft were a major development partner with IBM, they have every right to use whatever code they develop on the project in their own software.
Sabotage of java? Are you insane? Microsoft have had licensing issues with java, but you can blame sun for that just as much as microsoft. Portraying them to be an evil corporation for rathern inane business decisions shows how much you really want to believe in microsoft being bad.
"Microsoft funded the SCO attack" - don't make me laugh! Microsoft have given SCO money in the past, for services. Saying they single-handedly used SCO as a puppet to attack Linux, which you are, shows your true motive.
So, Windows '95 causes some function keys to break? Well, Linux causes my modems to stop working, so LINUX MUST BE TRYING TO DESTROY INTEL!
Sensationalist, emotive rubbish. Anyone can make anything sound bad by cherrypicking information and emotive language. All you've shown is the depths people like you would go to, to cause a fuss.
Next time, cite sources. Use facts, not what you heard someone talking about on IRC or slashdot. Form an argument, as opposed to listing gripes you've formed in your head over the years. Usually I keep quiet when I see people posting this stuff, but you seemed to be really believing what you've written.
BitTorrent is SLOW?? Have you tried allowing inbound connections? It gets a lot faster. I've downloaded stuff at 384KB/s (kiloBYTES/s) on our cable connection. As that's 100% of our line, I'd say it's hard to get it much faster.
I have to step in and say that America has only championed democracy when it suited it. Hitler did some pretty undemocratic things, and the US stood by and watched. If the US was so much about democracy as it says it is, it would have been first into WW2, not last. It also wouldn't have charged its allies for help, but that's another story ;) The spin in the US is that the USA is a global champion of democracy, which comes back to my point - the media says the USA is good, so most people thing that to be true. There's a huge trend in the US at giving Pro-US arguments/stances the benefit of the doubt. That fact alone is frightening. Lets not mention the US's invading of many countries and replacing democratically-elected leaders with US-friendly cronies.
I know Americans aren't worthless (heck, I'm married to one), but I know there's a huge, HUGE problem with the American mentality, a problem that has serious repercussions for the entire world.
American insularity has furthered the idea that the US is the champion of democracy, simply because Americans aren't exposed to any history stating otherwise. Americans aren't bought up knowing the truth about the first few presidents of the US, or their rather interesting views on the Indian "problem". They weren't raised knowing about what the founding fathers rebelled against. Their history lessons were rose-tinted, and highly cherry-picked.
I think Greece has more to do with modern democracy than the US. Britain's done more, too. There was a parliament in London long before the first Indians got offed by overzealous pilgrims. Ever since the last US election, the US has given less and less in terms of democratic influence on the world. They ignored the UN, and no-one's even looked into impeaching Bush for a fraudulent election. If the US wasn't as big as it was, it would have been pulled up for these transgressions ages ago.
(ps - i was called a lefty commie pinko by some republicans at a protest in LA - people actually think like that :) scary!)
We need to invest so heavily on a gamble, which is exactly what this is. There's no guarantee of return.
Yes, I do have issues with more than mars - I have issues with rich people wanting to get even richer, at the expense of poor people. Call me old fashioned, but that sucks. If you don't have a problem with the rich getting richer and the poor getting deader, fine. I just hope you don't call yourself a christian in the process! (hear that, mr. bush?) :-P
Seriously - it promises NOTHING, yet costs TRILLIONS.
I hear what you're saying, and it is depressing. Especially when Monkeyman Bush says he's a Christian, yet he's not lifting a finger to help those less well off than he, or his nation, is. Hypocrisy springs to mind.
Shouldn't we at least try to do something, as opposed to bending over to accept "the inevitable"?
Sure - NASA helped invent a bunch of useful stuff. If something costs too much, it doesn't matter how cool it is - it's still too expensive. There's no guaranteed return on investments in space travel/exploration. Things can, and do, blow up. We could use the money HERE and NOW to help people who need it to survive, or we could invest it in NASA, have most of it wasted in red-tape, and a couple of exploded spaceships down the road be left with nothing.
We're human beings. We only got this far by looking after our own. Why have we stopped?
That's America through and through. Read American history books, and you'll see this is an insitutionalised phenomenon, not a new trend. America has always portrayed itself as the model upstanding, truthful, altruistic, fair nation. It isn't. Lies about how America have been spread ever since its founding. Back in the day, it was probably essential to its surviving ("taxation without representation" nonsense, etc.).
Now, we can see this ideology manifested in some darker contexts - PATRIOT act, etc. Names created to instill feelings of patriotism in all who hear them. With many people, it works. Ever notice how many times Pres. Bush mentions "America" by name? Ever wondered about the pledge of allegience? What about the national anthem at every ball game (and movie, a while back)? What about the ubiquitous US flag fluttering everywhere? It's all part of the same racket - getting everyone hell-bent on being American. The problem is, attach that flag to anything you want, and people instinctively defend it as being "American". That's what we're seeing now, with all these republican loonies running around saying how everything's unAmerican for criticising pres. bush. unAmerican simply because it's doubting the word of the leader. That's hardly sound logic. I've seen it face-to-face, and people who believe that crap are dangerously deluded.
This is something that's so painfully obvious to the rest of the world, yet somehow completely overlooked in mainstream US culture. It's the scariest thing in the US, more scary than Bush. And he's scary!
It costs a LOT more for a country (even now) to send a craft into space than it did then to send a ship out to sea. The only similarities between the two is they both involve people going somewhere. There, the similarities end.
Why not now? Because our technology is a joke. Some foam falls off the space shuttle, and it blows up on re-entry. Hardly star trek material, huh? "Number one... What's our shield status?" "We've lost most of the foam from our port side, and the cardboard on our aft is a bit soggy. The krispy kreme box on our bow is holding out OK, captain."
Our technology is terrible. It's too risky to go, and if we do make it, it's so horribly inefficient and expensive, it nullifies any benefits we might get.
I'm all for space travel, but when we have the technology. Right now, we're trying to run before we can even sit up.
The only reason Bush is even entertaining the idea is the fact that the thought of space travel galvanizes the nation, which in turn increases support for him. It's a cheap, no-committment way for him to boost his approval ratings without actually doing anything (like, say, doing what he promised in iraq).
See through the spin, people. Not only are we too technologically retarded to do this practically, the whole suggestion is to help one very troubled man keep his job for another 4 years.
<rant>You don't think, for one second, that there are things more important to do right now than in 20 years go to a planet which we'll just eventually screw like we have done our own (so far)?
There are billions of people around the world starving, and you're talking about a thirst for knowledge and adventure? How about a thirst for water? Ever known that? Unfortunately, large swathes of Africa know it only too well, and their idea of adventure is getting shot at going to get a drink. Think about that next time you climb into your SUV sippin' a big gulp.
I know it sounds like a hippy tree-hugging perfectionist attitude, but right now the world is SCREWED. I'm not talking about "could be better" screwed, but "if we don't do something soon it's gonna get a whole lot worse, very quickly" screwed. If we spent the money on the space program now, on people who actually need it to survive, we could actually do something good for our planet.
I'm all for space travel, but seeing as our forays into space so far have been rubbish, I think we should let that cake bake for a bit longer before we try again. I want star trek as much as the next person, but our technology is too limited to do anything actually practical in space short of looking at stuff (maybe with a bit of prodding), and communications. Moving stuff physically around our solar system is a really, ridiculously laborious and expensive procedure. It would be like discovering the vacuum tube valves and deciding to make 125 million of them to create a Prescott core. We shouldn't confuse being in space with being able to do important stuff in space. First steps first, people.</rant>
phew.
It really wouldn't surprise me if that was their plan :-P
It would be able to see that it's SSH traffic, but it won't be able to tell what's going through the pipe... :)
Because Diebold is in the ATM business, so we'd just end up with the same machines, but with "ATM" written on the front, and a "withdrawal unavailable" notice.
Don't worry - the media has that covered already. We won't hear a thing.
Casinos don't want their machines compromised. Diebold/Gov't does. That's the difference, and why you can't screw with a casino (but you can a general election).
Security is achieved by spending less rather than more.
Maybe that's a shortcoming of the US election process? I mean, when they were thinking it up, didn't the problem of "people have to vote for 15 things on the same ballot" come to light? I saw my wife's ballot for the nov. elections, and it was a book! I know democracy is cool, but when the processes of democracy impede on the outcome, something's wrong...