There's a very simple reason why I will never buy a BluRay player. No matter how cheap they get, even if they were free I wouldn't want one. The reason is simple - I've moved past physical media. I don't use CDs. I don't use DVDs. Everything is ripped to a media server and controlled by a HTPC. I love being able to just sit down, bring up the movie directory, and click my way to a movie. The last thing I ever want to do again is fumble around with individual discs. So thanks to the DRM in BluRay, it's difficult or impossible to transfer your legally purchased HD movies to a hard disk. Way back in the day this was the case with DVDs as well, but thankfully free, effective DVD ripping tools are readily available now so it's no longer an issue. Maybe someday that will be the case for BluRays as well, but until then, no BluRay for me!
Seeing that space is a vacuum, missile and laser engagements should be in theory far outside the range of human sight.
This is already the case in modern warfare! Hell, my dad was in the Navy back in the 50s and he tells me about gunnery practice where the targets were routinely so far away they were invisible over the horizon. So it's not hard to imagine that in space-based combat, combatants would be separated by hundreds or even thousands of kilometers.
I definitely agree. It's problematic to try and draw any sort of industry-wide lesson from the experiences of an already enormously popular, wildly successful band like Radiohead. It's like saying U2 benefits from file sharing. Shit, Bono could fart into a harmonica and they'd sell a million copies.
I never know what I might find, on any day I go online. I used to get in quite a huff, while wading through unwanted stuff. But then I changed the man I am, the day I answered all my spam.
Now every time I check my box, I load up on fantastic stocks. I'll gladly say I felt no loss, when, with a smile, I fired my boss. With just one click, the best thing yet, I freed myself of all my debt.
I have, paying a few small fees, ten university degrees. Now that I'm losing all this weight, I'm sure, someday, I'll get a date. Instead of going to a show, I spy on everyone I know. (That's easy, since I have in hand, this nifty wireless video cam.)
I spend my evenings viewing screens, of barely legal horny teens. And with a little credit charge, Whoopee! My penis was enlarged! Meanwhile these shots of Britney Spears should be enough to last for years.
And so I lead this online life, my monitor is now my wife. It has become my greatest dream, to launch my own get-rich-quick scheme. And if you think you might get missed, relax, you're on my e-mail list.
the same way Republicans are obsessed with Homosexuals.
Interesting. Your analogy makes it sounds like child porn is only an imaginary problem to the ideologically befuddled minds of certain card-carrying liberal politicians. But guess what, the difference is that child porn really is a very serious, awful, scourge upon our culture, whereas homosexuality is not. Score another point for Democrats in my book. Their methods may be fatally flawed in this case, but at least they are trying to fight against something which is actually a problem.
IANAA, but IIRC, the answer is no. It's been calculated that dark matter, whatever it is, must be nonbaryonic, so it can't be explained by extra interstellar dust, larger stars, etc.
Alrighty, guess I'm too stuck in a C# frame of mind. But to be fair, the OP's code snippets have the cleanup code being executed in both success and failure cases. Plus you did say "try, catch, finally"...;)
Hold on a second...the programmers at MS get to personally make decisions about product features?
I mean, maybe at some small startup playing it fast and loose with version 1.0 you get that kind of thing, but seriously, at MS? Don't they have squads of "designers" who sit around in meetings all day hashing out the feature set? The programmers just implement whatever spec comes out of the design meetings...right?
I don't actually have any idea how it works at MS...but that's how it works at every software company I've worked for.
I don't think these exist (yet), because the GPS + cellular hardware necessary is still too big and heavy for a typical cat to carry around on its neck.
There is a radio-based cat tracker called the CatLocator, but it won't keep a real time log of where your cat has been. It's only good when you need to find the cat...and then you have to walk around like a dork with big attenna and a box that goes "doot...doot...doot... doot doot doot doot"
Quicksilver is the only Stephenson book I could not finish. I think a lot of Stephenson fans had difficulty with that one. Every single other one was a rip-roaring good read. Cryptomonicon in particular still remains one of my top 10 favorite novels.
And speaking of similes, one of my most favorite lines from Cryptonomicon was where he referred to someone's close-cropped hair as "standing out from his head like a field of normal vectors." It was a great little geeky moment in a book full of great little geeky moments.
...the high energy collisions will open a "bridge" into a parallel universe which will allow a malevolent, hive mind alien species to invade our universe from theirs, and assimilate the Earth, killing everyone.
I read the whole portion of the interview under the "Vista Blows" link in the summary.
Unless I missed something, no where did he even explain why Vista blows, other than a vague reference to DirectX 10 being "bloated". I would have sure appreciated just a little bit more elaboration here.
Absolutely. I'm amazed Mr. Doherty was foolish enough to brag about the strength of BD+. Maybe he had to just to please his shareholders, or maybe it just didn't make any difference anyway (cracking BluRay just being too tempting regardless), but internet security companies learned long ago that bragging about the strength of your security just made you into a hacker magnet.
Years ago EMusic had an unlimited download model. It almost destroyed them.
The problem is that once you make it unlimited, a small but not insignificant percentage of users will immediately attempt to download the entire iTunes library. Hey, disk space is cheap, why not try, if there's no additional charge per track?
The only way this might work is if Apple doesn't have to pay even 1 cent to the record companies per download for people who download tracks under the unlimited plan. At least that way their only cost bandwidth.
Yes of course. Yours is now the 4th post pointing out this mistake, including my own correction.:(
If this isn't evidence that Slashdot needs at least some form of primitive post editing or at least post updating feature where you can append a new line with a correction, I don't know what is. Sigh.
Preview is great and all, but obvious mistakes still slip through sometimes.
I'm a Hamilton fan too, although I'm kinda struggling with his latest, Dreaming The Void. Hopefully it will pick up... his biggest flaw I think is that his novels have too many characters and spend too long setting them all up and laying out all the complicated politics of the time. Only a minor gripe.
I'm not sure if you can go straight from Hamilton to Banks and expect a similar ride. The Banks Culture novels are *very* different. Actually, my favorite Banks space opera is not a Culture novel: The Alchemist. Great save the galaxy stuff, giant fleets of warships travelling at relativistic velocities and blowing each other up, exotic aliens and weaponry...yum.
In the mean time, if you like Hamilton, check out Neal Asher's "Polity" novels, very much in a similar vein and style.
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There's a very simple reason why I will never buy a BluRay player. No matter how cheap they get, even if they were free I wouldn't want one. The reason is simple - I've moved past physical media. I don't use CDs. I don't use DVDs. Everything is ripped to a media server and controlled by a HTPC. I love being able to just sit down, bring up the movie directory, and click my way to a movie. The last thing I ever want to do again is fumble around with individual discs. So thanks to the DRM in BluRay, it's difficult or impossible to transfer your legally purchased HD movies to a hard disk. Way back in the day this was the case with DVDs as well, but thankfully free, effective DVD ripping tools are readily available now so it's no longer an issue. Maybe someday that will be the case for BluRays as well, but until then, no BluRay for me!
...and if I combine your post with a random pad of 1s and 0s, will I get something that has anything to do with TFA?
Seeing that space is a vacuum, missile and laser engagements should be in theory far outside the range of human sight.
This is already the case in modern warfare! Hell, my dad was in the Navy back in the 50s and he tells me about gunnery practice where the targets were routinely so far away they were invisible over the horizon. So it's not hard to imagine that in space-based combat, combatants would be separated by hundreds or even thousands of kilometers.
I definitely agree. It's problematic to try and draw any sort of industry-wide lesson from the experiences of an already enormously popular, wildly successful band like Radiohead. It's like saying U2 benefits from file sharing. Shit, Bono could fart into a harmonica and they'd sell a million copies.
Reminds of this great poem from years ago:
http://www.satirewire.com/features/poetry_spam/01free_winner.shtml
I Answered All My Spam
I never know what I might find,
on any day I go online.
I used to get in quite a huff,
while wading through unwanted stuff.
But then I changed the man I am,
the day I answered all my spam.
Now every time I check my box,
I load up on fantastic stocks.
I'll gladly say I felt no loss,
when, with a smile, I fired my boss.
With just one click, the best thing yet,
I freed myself of all my debt.
I have, paying a few small fees,
ten university degrees.
Now that I'm losing all this weight,
I'm sure, someday, I'll get a date.
Instead of going to a show,
I spy on everyone I know.
(That's easy, since I have in hand,
this nifty wireless video cam.)
I spend my evenings viewing screens,
of barely legal horny teens.
And with a little credit charge,
Whoopee! My penis was enlarged!
Meanwhile these shots of Britney Spears
should be enough to last for years.
And so I lead this online life,
my monitor is now my wife.
It has become my greatest dream,
to launch my own get-rich-quick scheme.
And if you think you might get missed,
relax, you're on my e-mail list.
the same way Republicans are obsessed with Homosexuals.
Interesting. Your analogy makes it sounds like child porn is only an imaginary problem to the ideologically befuddled minds of certain card-carrying liberal politicians. But guess what, the difference is that child porn really is a very serious, awful, scourge upon our culture, whereas homosexuality is not. Score another point for Democrats in my book. Their methods may be fatally flawed in this case, but at least they are trying to fight against something which is actually a problem.
Pfft. I don't see what the big deal is. Just about every app I've ever written does this.
Sorry to nitpick, but doesn't the term "heat death" usually mean death by maximum entropy (i.e. no heat), and not death by heat?
IANAA, but IIRC, the answer is no. It's been calculated that dark matter, whatever it is, must be nonbaryonic, so it can't be explained by extra interstellar dust, larger stars, etc.
I believe a "yottabyte" is 1 billion petabytes, not gigabytes.
Alrighty, guess I'm too stuck in a C# frame of mind. But to be fair, the OP's code snippets have the cleanup code being executed in both success and failure cases. Plus you did say "try, catch, finally"... ;)
I think that's not quite what you meant to do. How about this instead:
foo()
{
try {
library_thingie
library_thingie
library_thingie
do stuff that can fail horribly
do more stuff
} catch {
exception/error handling
} finally {
undo_library_thingie
undo_library_thingie
undo_library_thingie
}
}
I mean, maybe at some small startup playing it fast and loose with version 1.0 you get that kind of thing, but seriously, at MS? Don't they have squads of "designers" who sit around in meetings all day hashing out the feature set? The programmers just implement whatever spec comes out of the design meetings...right?
I don't actually have any idea how it works at MS...but that's how it works at every software company I've worked for.
There is a radio-based cat tracker called the CatLocator, but it won't keep a real time log of where your cat has been. It's only good when you need to find the cat...and then you have to walk around like a dork with big attenna and a box that goes "doot...doot...doot... doot doot doot doot"
And speaking of similes, one of my most favorite lines from Cryptonomicon was where he referred to someone's close-cropped hair as "standing out from his head like a field of normal vectors." It was a great little geeky moment in a book full of great little geeky moments.
Hmmmmm....
Hey, it could happen!
Unless I missed something, no where did he even explain why Vista blows, other than a vague reference to DirectX 10 being "bloated". I would have sure appreciated just a little bit more elaboration here.
Absolutely. I'm amazed Mr. Doherty was foolish enough to brag about the strength of BD+. Maybe he had to just to please his shareholders, or maybe it just didn't make any difference anyway (cracking BluRay just being too tempting regardless), but internet security companies learned long ago that bragging about the strength of your security just made you into a hacker magnet.
what did these people see when they actually clicked the link? Was it a page with a big FBI logo and the message "You just got PWNED perv!"?
The problem is that once you make it unlimited, a small but not insignificant percentage of users will immediately attempt to download the entire iTunes library. Hey, disk space is cheap, why not try, if there's no additional charge per track?
The only way this might work is if Apple doesn't have to pay even 1 cent to the record companies per download for people who download tracks under the unlimited plan. At least that way their only cost bandwidth.
If this isn't evidence that Slashdot needs at least some form of primitive post editing or at least post updating feature where you can append a new line with a correction, I don't know what is. Sigh.
Preview is great and all, but obvious mistakes still slip through sometimes.
Sorry, whoops! Not "The Alchemist", it's "The Algebraist". Getting all my sci-fi novels mixed up.
I'm not sure if you can go straight from Hamilton to Banks and expect a similar ride. The Banks Culture novels are *very* different. Actually, my favorite Banks space opera is not a Culture novel: The Alchemist. Great save the galaxy stuff, giant fleets of warships travelling at relativistic velocities and blowing each other up, exotic aliens and weaponry...yum.
In the mean time, if you like Hamilton, check out Neal Asher's "Polity" novels, very much in a similar vein and style.