I think the NYT has just coined a new phrase. A quick google search for "the Copy Left" finds no instances of it being used as a category for a group of people. There are a few scattered references to the "copy-left movement", usually synonomous with "open source movement". But "the Copy Left" alone is new. I like it. Sign me up.
Personally I've already relegated C to the position that assembly used to hold... I wouldn't really consider using it to write an entire application
You lucky dog. I've currently got the fun job of trying to write a hard realtime application for a DSP chip which does not have a C++ (or high level language except C) compiler. For me, this technique looks pretty interesting.
> The whole time I've had my iPod I've only lost charge twice, once when I hadn't plugged it in for a week and once while up in the mountains hiking
That's exactly why I bought a net-MD. I was planning a 2 week camping trip in Kenya. For half the cost of an iPod, I got a "sports" MD. No worries about battery life, no worries about finding a 120v recharger in the middle of the Mara, no worries about dust and sand.
And the DRM is no problem if your collection is already MP3. Their transfer program doesn't do anything to the source file, I can copy each MP3 to as many disks as I want.
Only drawback is that you can't copy stuff you recorded on the MD back onto the computer. But the iPod doesn't record at all, so that's still a win for MD. With an Ipod I wouldn't have the recording of those Masai tribal songs...
Albany and Bosna, even though they are moslim countries, will eventually join the EU...
I think you might mean Albania. I think Albany, NY is hoping to remain in the U.S.
If only game publishers would release all their titles on the PC, they could experience the freedom of programming to the API instead of the hardware, and we could experience some really innovative gaming.
Nice theory, but all the PC game developers I've worked with end up spending the first part of the project programming to the API and the second part tracking down hardware incompatibilities.
I know more than one game with code filled with stuff like:
I, for one, welcome our new spam-fighting masters.
Why? Gee, I don't really know, but whatever story gets posted here, someone always welcomes our new masters, so I figured it might just as well be me this time.
This is one guy's opinion. There was no survey, no quantative data, nothing.
It sounds like he came up with a list of jobs he thought were overpaid, called a couple HR people to validate his biases, then wrote the article. This is not news.
It was a real filesystem? Wow.
I remember watching that scene and thinking how fake the thing seemed: "Who would navigate their filesystem by moving around big pink cubes?"
It seems like given the choice between real boring yet functional interfaces and futuristic flashy yet unimplementable interfaces, filmmakers always choose the latter. Not that I blame them, but it almost always unsuspends the disbelief for me...
I heard Greene on NPR's Science Friday He says that some recent work on the theory predicts some effects which may be testable in a few years by the newest generation of "atom smashers" currently under construction at CERN and elsewhere. We may get to that "falsifiable" stage relatively soon...
deJagr says > "Any technology which creates abundance poses problems for any process which existed to benefit from scarcity."
and I think "hooray for technology!"
Wouldn't it be nice if fewer people benefited from maintaining scarcity. Manipulating scarcity for profit is a corruption of capitalism. Capitalism ought to be about being rewarded for producing goods and services useful to society. The goal should not be extracting the most profit from scarcity.
So hooray for technology if it can lead to more equitable distribution of scarse resources...
Yeah, I don't see the issue either. From the standpoint of this particular small, independend shareware developer this kind of marketing deal makes perfect sense.
And if any of you fellow engineering geeks do have Nvidia cards, I highly recommend this game, and the rest of the series of bridge building games that ChronicLogic produced. Definitely a neat concept for a puzzle game.
(I am not affiliated with Chronic Logic in any way)
A few months ago, someone suggested in a "wishlist" thread on the Planetside message board that the developers should include options for customizing the HUD colors in order to better accomodate the color-blind.
It was both fascinating and scary how rabidly the author was attacked. Tons of l33t H4x0rs ranted about not screwing up their game with funky colors just to cater to one guy's disability. This despite the fact that the author clearly wanted only the ability to set the colors on his own display, not to change them for everybody.
Given the reaction, I'm not at all suprised that SOE hasn't made color-blind friendly displays a priority. But I sure hope that sampling was not a good reflection of society's overall tolerance for difference.
So my question is: Is mandating that the pledge contains the phrase "One Nation Under God" really an example of "respecting an establishment of religion"?
Or is it merely recognizing that religion exists? And that it is a powerful force in America's history?
I may not believe in God, but I do believe that the belief in God has greatly shaped the development of this nation. Is the government endorsing religion by reflecting that fact in the official pledge?
Seems to me SunnComm is making 2 contradictory claims:
1) "Halderman came to false conclusions concerning the robustness... of MediaMax technology.... these incorrect assumptions... have significantly damaged SunnComm's reputation..."
2) "Halderman has violated the DMCA by disclosing unpublished MediaMax management files... Once the file is found and deleted... the MediaMax copy management system can be bypassed..."
So which is it? Did he 1) damage and defame SunnComm by being incorrect about how simple it was to break the protection, or 2) actually find that the simple act of deleting a file breaks the protection?
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Ah, the XP method...
I think the NYT has just coined a new phrase. A quick google search for "the Copy Left" finds no instances of it being used as a category for a group of people. There are a few scattered references to the "copy-left movement", usually synonomous with "open source movement". But "the Copy Left" alone is new. I like it. Sign me up.
proud new member of the Copy Left!
Is this a satiric comment on the inherent racism in the government's "war on terror"? (Karma = GOOD)
Or is this just plain racism? (Karma = BAD)
If I microwave my clothes, will it destroy the RFID's???
Yes, but it will probably set your clothes on fire too.
Personally I've already relegated C to the position that assembly used to hold ... I wouldn't really consider using it to write an entire application
You lucky dog. I've currently got the fun job of trying to write a hard realtime application for a DSP chip which does not have a C++ (or high level language except C) compiler. For me, this technique looks pretty interesting.
> The whole time I've had my iPod I've only lost charge twice, once when I hadn't plugged it in for a week and once while up in the mountains hiking
That's exactly why I bought a net-MD. I was planning a 2 week camping trip in Kenya. For half the cost of an iPod, I got a "sports" MD. No worries about battery life, no worries about finding a 120v recharger in the middle of the Mara, no worries about dust and sand.
And the DRM is no problem if your collection is already MP3. Their transfer program doesn't do anything to the source file, I can copy each MP3 to as many disks as I want. Only drawback is that you can't copy stuff you recorded on the MD back onto the computer. But the iPod doesn't record at all, so that's still a win for MD. With an Ipod I wouldn't have the recording of those Masai tribal songs...
Albany and Bosna, even though they are moslim countries, will eventually join the EU... I think you might mean Albania. I think Albany, NY is hoping to remain in the U.S.
And on the more serious side - a tunnel allows point-to-point shipping without the costs of transfering to and from a plane or ferry (or fairy)
Let's stop the so-called "War on Terror" and start a "War on Idiots who assume all Muslims are Terrorists"
That would go a lot further in making this a safer world.
If only game publishers would release all their titles on the PC, they could experience the freedom of programming to the API instead of the hardware, and we could experience some really innovative gaming.
Nice theory, but all the PC game developers I've worked with end up spending the first part of the project programming to the API and the second part tracking down hardware incompatibilities. I know more than one game with code filled with stuff like:
#if (NVIDIA)
DoThisGraphicsTrick()
#elif (ATI)
DoThisOtherGraphicsTrick()
#else
DoTheBasicAPIThing()
#endif
It's just impossible to get code that runs well on a majority of todays Win32 PCs by simply "programming to the API."
I, for one, welcome our new spam-fighting masters.
Why? Gee, I don't really know, but whatever story gets posted here, someone always welcomes our new masters, so I figured it might just as well be me this time.
A google search only gives me only a few reasonable candidate for the event that marked this period of civilization:
The Boston Braves beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 4-0 at Ebbets Field.
Or maybe it was Willie Powell pitching a no-hitter for the Chicago American Giants.
Seems civilized to me...
This is one guy's opinion. There was no survey, no quantative data, nothing.
It sounds like he came up with a list of jobs he thought were overpaid, called a couple HR people to validate his biases, then wrote the article. This is not news.
> does using "woot" make me sound old and dated like my parents trying to sound "hip" or does it still have some life left
"Hip" is hip again, "woot" isn't. "Neat-o" might be - that's what all my hip friends are staying these days. Woot!
His collected wisdom...
dead, I tell you!
It was a real filesystem? Wow. I remember watching that scene and thinking how fake the thing seemed: "Who would navigate their filesystem by moving around big pink cubes?"
It seems like given the choice between real boring yet functional interfaces and futuristic flashy yet unimplementable interfaces, filmmakers always choose the latter. Not that I blame them, but it almost always unsuspends the disbelief for me...
I heard Greene on NPR's Science Friday He says that some recent work on the theory predicts some effects which may be testable in a few years by the newest generation of "atom smashers" currently under construction at CERN and elsewhere.
We may get to that "falsifiable" stage relatively soon...
deJagr says
> "Any technology which creates abundance poses problems for any process which existed to benefit from scarcity."
and I think "hooray for technology!"
Wouldn't it be nice if fewer people benefited from maintaining scarcity. Manipulating scarcity for profit is a corruption of capitalism. Capitalism ought to be about being rewarded for producing goods and services useful to society. The goal should not be extracting the most profit from scarcity.
So hooray for technology if it can lead to more equitable distribution of scarse resources...
Yeah, I don't see the issue either. From the standpoint of this particular small, independend shareware developer this kind of marketing deal makes perfect sense.
And if any of you fellow engineering geeks do have Nvidia cards, I highly recommend this game, and the rest of the series of bridge building games that ChronicLogic produced. Definitely a neat concept for a puzzle game.
(I am not affiliated with Chronic Logic in any way)
Who says the images have to be static? Imagine a Dali where the watches keep on melting...
I've never seen a live bluetooth. Maybe they don't fare well in captivity.
A few months ago, someone suggested in a "wishlist" thread on the Planetside message board that the developers should include options for customizing the HUD colors in order to better accomodate the color-blind.
It was both fascinating and scary how rabidly the author was attacked. Tons of l33t H4x0rs ranted about not screwing up their game with funky colors just to cater to one guy's disability. This despite the fact that the author clearly wanted only the ability to set the colors on his own display, not to change them for everybody.
Given the reaction, I'm not at all suprised that SOE hasn't made color-blind friendly displays a priority.
But I sure hope that sampling was not a good reflection of society's overall tolerance for difference.
So my question is: Is mandating that the pledge contains the phrase "One Nation Under God" really an example of "respecting an establishment of religion"?
Or is it merely recognizing that religion exists? And that it is a powerful force in America's history?
I may not believe in God, but I do believe that the belief in God has greatly shaped the development of this nation.
Is the government endorsing religion by reflecting that fact in the official pledge?
I dunno.
Seems to me SunnComm is making 2 contradictory claims:
... of MediaMax technology. ... these incorrect assumptions ... have significantly damaged SunnComm's reputation..."
... Once the file is found and deleted ... the MediaMax copy management system can be bypassed..."
1) "Halderman came to false conclusions concerning the robustness
2) "Halderman has violated the DMCA by disclosing unpublished MediaMax management files
So which is it? Did he 1) damage and defame SunnComm by being incorrect about how simple it was to break the protection, or 2) actually find that the simple act of deleting a file breaks the protection?
I don't think they can have it both ways.