iTunes (for Windows) will rip to MP3 just as well as AAC. iTunes will play MP3s just as well as AACs. The iPod can play MP3s and AACs. Windows Media Player can play Windows Media and MP3s.
Admittedly, if you buy AACs from the iTMS, and want to get them onto your non-iPod device, you need to burn them to CD, and rip them back to MP3.. but it's not impossible by any means.
What are you on about? One of the oft-heard criticisms of Perl 6 is that it's TOO structured. Just read the Apocalypses and Exegesises (correct my latin plurals here, if you like) and you'll see Perl 6 is really hot on structure.
The whole thing is an exercise in pseudo-computer science masturbation
You talk about it as if Perl operates on mysterious brand-new concepts. It's a pragmatic language. None of it is particularly unique to Perl. In fact, if you search Google for 'pragmatic programming' the Google directory link at the top is to Ruby, the language you seem to jerk off to.
All the switching between $, @ and % is really irritating
More irritating than having to jump several pages up your code to see variable declarations as in C/C++/Pascal?
I'd rather know @blah is an array, and $blah is a scalar, than have to jump around code looking for ints, chars, and arrays. Of course, you could argue that we should be using a naming scheme for variables. But if so, that invalidates your point too. The @, $, % symbols are, semantically, the same as having variables called i_myint, a_myarray, etc. How hard is to learn a few symbols, anyway?
Face it, you're anti-Perl, and that's okay, but it doesn't make you the most objective person to say which features are worthwhile or not.
"Cookie" does have its own meaning in Britain, referring to a generally sweet or confectioned, crumbly or "gooey" biscuit.. i.e. "chocolate chip cookies" which would be understood by any Brit. A digestive, rich tea, or otherwise hard biscuit would not be referred to as a "cookie," however.
I'm not unemployed, I just eat as if I am. I'm what is called a "LBYMer." I "Live Below My Means." Admittedly, even in that case, what you say should have held true, but hey:-)
Speaking of things you don't need, what about that tub of buttered popcorn
Popcorn is actually an ideal foodstuff if you're on a very tight budget. It's SO cheap!
I bought myself a popcorn making machine for $20. Basically it's a big "hot air generating machine". You throw your popcorn kernels in, they get heated up and blown around for five minutes, then they all pop and out tumbles the popcorn.
You can buy a bag with two lbs of kernels for about a dollar. Lasts me about 15 gigantic bowls of popcorn. Keeps your regular too. High in fibre.
So you pay about 7 cents a bowl, which is a good stomach filler in the evening, and a cent or two for the electricity needed. Popcorn is a bargain, particularly if you like it plain, or with some salt thrown over it (as I do). Just make it YOURSELF.
From statistics you can learn one thing. That is, whenever anyone claims something is definitely going to happen within a short time frame, it almost certainly won't.
"Duke Nukem Forever will be out in time for Christmas 1999!" - 1999
"Doom 3 will be out sometime next year." - 2002
"By 1999, most homes will have access to broadband."
But I'm not being pessimistic. I think the X Prize WILL be won within "the next decade." The promise is there, but I think the next year will contain a lot of launches, but a lot of mid-air explosions and failures too. It's natural, it happens in every industry.. software and hardware.
Interesting this topic came up, as earlier I stumbled across a 'story' (prediction?) by Marshall Brain, the guy who started 'HowStuffWorks.com', all about a future where robots ruled all. It reads like this stuff actually happened, although it's set about twenty years into the future. You can read it online here. It's called "Manna."
It starts out talking about a computer program called "Manna" that companies start to use to run their processes. Each version gets better and better, and it eventually becomes smart enough to fire idle workers, and outsource. The steps from there to the incarceration of humankind are presented well.
The main character is then offered an 'escape' to a world where robots are slaves, as opposed to humans, and where the concept of money does not exist. Anyway, all great mind stretching stuff, and still a work in progress, as the next "installment" isn't out till October 15th.
You can find upside down fonts in most formats on the Internet. Get one, and replace their system font with it. Convince them the earth's magnetic field has 'reversed polarity', and that they need to turn their monitor upside down.
I've been struggling to find any good 64 bit resources for Linux.
Basically, I want to know about all the 64 bit versions of major apps and systems, like MySQL, Perl, and so on. I know Perl is in 64 bit, because you can compile it to be, but what about stuff like MySQL, Apache, TomCat...
Post your best 'going up to 64 bits on Linux/FreeBSD/elcheapo UNIX' resources here, and attract some karma:-)
I'm actually a little sad this story hasn't made it to the front page yet. Incredibly interesting!
I think emulation (and, on a different plane, virtualization) has a massive part to play in computer science over the next couple of decades, and if emulating old computer games is how we can get people to study the topic, so be it!
After all, writing an emulator is writing a virtual machine.. and there are a few of those around.. the JVM, Parrot, and the.NET CLR.
Is that like the 'evil bit' we spoke about last April 1st?;-) But on the scrambled text issue..
As demonstrated, a simple inversion of the internal characters results in a text which is relatively hard to decipher.
This is what I attempted to argue a few months ago. I studied linguistics at college (although I dropped out) and we did some studies into obscuring language. It was particularly interesting, as I was also studying a module on encryption and ciphers.
What I learned was that recognition of words comes from several variables, and recognition of LETTERS from yet more. For example, if you write a line of text, and cover the top half of every letter with a ruler, it's hard to read the LETTERS. Cover the bottom half, it's easy to read the LETTERS.
WORDS work in a similar way. People can recognize words merely from basic patterns. These patterns do NOT have to correlate with the spoken word. What's more, the use of CONTEXT can mean words can be obscured even further, yet still be recognized.
For example..
I drve my cr t wrk.
People are very good at skimming over vowels, simply because they serve as the 'flow' of our language, and have little content in-and-of themselves. Compare to this:
I dr my ca to wo
Using the prefixes destroys any sense of context. No longer have we 'obscured' the words by removing their vowel glue, we've actually lopped half their bodies off, destroying any attempt at fathoming a reason.
This is only vaguely ontopic, but I found a site which has very up-to-date checked anonymous and open HTTP proxies. Not going to help you download P2P, but is great for testing AdWords campaigns in other countries;-)
Already discussed at /. and with better Perl
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The Perl script was better too, with a far cuter scrambling technique. Jamie can't code for twinkies.
It's a trend that suits almost everyone
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I agree. The trend to produce major applications based on "the Web" (a term I find hard to use when referring to, say, intranets, but will accept) is one that benefits almost everyone.
We're in an age when even the smallest hardware store can buy a highly reliable Linux server and have MySQL and Apache running on it for under $500. All you need then is the software that'll keep your stock inventory, and the equipment to network your existing -- probably low spec -- PCs up, and off you go.
Web apps are beautiful in the way that small ma-and-pa outfits don't necessarily need to upgrade their crusty old 200MHz PCs bought in 1995. All they need is a Web browser (and perhaps some proprietary format to handle checkout scanners, and the like), and with a small investment in a server, they're up and running.
Perhaps I was a little too quick with my praise and enthustiasm. I just took a bunch of sentences and ran similar scrambling processes over them, and some were quite unreadable. I think that, perhaps, the original sentence was carefully constructed to be scrambled, yet easy to read, in order to spread the meme. Perhaps?
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iTunes (for Windows) will rip to MP3 just as well as AAC. iTunes will play MP3s just as well as AACs. The iPod can play MP3s and AACs. Windows Media Player can play Windows Media and MP3s.
Admittedly, if you buy AACs from the iTMS, and want to get them onto your non-iPod device, you need to burn them to CD, and rip them back to MP3.. but it's not impossible by any means.
What are you on about? One of the oft-heard criticisms of Perl 6 is that it's TOO structured. Just read the Apocalypses and Exegesises (correct my latin plurals here, if you like) and you'll see Perl 6 is really hot on structure.
/C++/Pascal?
The whole thing is an exercise in pseudo-computer science masturbation
You talk about it as if Perl operates on mysterious brand-new concepts. It's a pragmatic language. None of it is particularly unique to Perl. In fact, if you search Google for 'pragmatic programming' the Google directory link at the top is to Ruby, the language you seem to jerk off to.
All the switching between $, @ and % is really irritating
More irritating than having to jump several pages up your code to see variable declarations as in C
I'd rather know @blah is an array, and $blah is a scalar, than have to jump around code looking for ints, chars, and arrays. Of course, you could argue that we should be using a naming scheme for variables. But if so, that invalidates your point too. The @, $, % symbols are, semantically, the same as having variables called i_myint, a_myarray, etc. How hard is to learn a few symbols, anyway?
Face it, you're anti-Perl, and that's okay, but it doesn't make you the most objective person to say which features are worthwhile or not.
According to the film A Beautiful Mind, he also worked for the CIA scanning newspapers for secret Communist communiques.
*big wink*
John Nash was extremely eccentric but held down positions at MIT.
That's okay, although I'm American too. It's just my girlfriend is Welsh. Just call me Michael Douglas.
"Cookie" does have its own meaning in Britain, referring to a generally sweet or confectioned, crumbly or "gooey" biscuit.. i.e. "chocolate chip cookies" which would be understood by any Brit. A digestive, rich tea, or otherwise hard biscuit would not be referred to as a "cookie," however.
I'm not unemployed, I just eat as if I am. I'm what is called a "LBYMer." I "Live Below My Means." Admittedly, even in that case, what you say should have held true, but hey :-)
But could you work up a solid shit while on your Ramen diet?
Popcorn is actually an ideal foodstuff if you're on a very tight budget. It's SO cheap!
I bought myself a popcorn making machine for $20. Basically it's a big "hot air generating machine". You throw your popcorn kernels in, they get heated up and blown around for five minutes, then they all pop and out tumbles the popcorn.
You can buy a bag with two lbs of kernels for about a dollar. Lasts me about 15 gigantic bowls of popcorn. Keeps your regular too. High in fibre.
So you pay about 7 cents a bowl, which is a good stomach filler in the evening, and a cent or two for the electricity needed. Popcorn is a bargain, particularly if you like it plain, or with some salt thrown over it (as I do). Just make it YOURSELF.
Well worth the reading time as a small break in a busy day
;)
He has no job, way to rub it in, you inconsiderate clod!
It's worse than you think, Lance Bass has his first solo album and single out soon. The chorus is kinda catchy though:
L*nux sux, and Windows rox.
I eat crotch, I don't sux cox.
Download this song, you got no class.
Cuz the RIAA just sued your ass.
Oh right, yeah, this is probably where I got the link to it in the first place ;) Thanks.
From statistics you can learn one thing. That is, whenever anyone claims something is definitely going to happen within a short time frame, it almost certainly won't.
"Duke Nukem Forever will be out in time for Christmas 1999!" - 1999
"Doom 3 will be out sometime next year." - 2002
"By 1999, most homes will have access to broadband."
But I'm not being pessimistic. I think the X Prize WILL be won within "the next decade." The promise is there, but I think the next year will contain a lot of launches, but a lot of mid-air explosions and failures too. It's natural, it happens in every industry.. software and hardware.
Interesting this topic came up, as earlier I stumbled across a 'story' (prediction?) by Marshall Brain, the guy who started 'HowStuffWorks.com', all about a future where robots ruled all. It reads like this stuff actually happened, although it's set about twenty years into the future. You can read it online here. It's called "Manna."
It starts out talking about a computer program called "Manna" that companies start to use to run their processes. Each version gets better and better, and it eventually becomes smart enough to fire idle workers, and outsource. The steps from there to the incarceration of humankind are presented well.
The main character is then offered an 'escape' to a world where robots are slaves, as opposed to humans, and where the concept of money does not exist. Anyway, all great mind stretching stuff, and still a work in progress, as the next "installment" isn't out till October 15th.
You can find upside down fonts in most formats on the Internet. Get one, and replace their system font with it. Convince them the earth's magnetic field has 'reversed polarity', and that they need to turn their monitor upside down.
I've been struggling to find any good 64 bit resources for Linux.
:-)
Basically, I want to know about all the 64 bit versions of major apps and systems, like MySQL, Perl, and so on. I know Perl is in 64 bit, because you can compile it to be, but what about stuff like MySQL, Apache, TomCat...
Post your best 'going up to 64 bits on Linux/FreeBSD/elcheapo UNIX' resources here, and attract some karma
I'm actually a little sad this story hasn't made it to the front page yet. Incredibly interesting!
.NET CLR.
I think emulation (and, on a different plane, virtualization) has a massive part to play in computer science over the next couple of decades, and if emulating old computer games is how we can get people to study the topic, so be it!
After all, writing an emulator is writing a virtual machine.. and there are a few of those around.. the JVM, Parrot, and the
Is that like the 'evil bit' we spoke about last April 1st? ;-) But on the scrambled text issue..
As demonstrated, a simple inversion of the internal characters results in a text which is relatively hard to decipher.
This is what I attempted to argue a few months ago. I studied linguistics at college (although I dropped out) and we did some studies into obscuring language. It was particularly interesting, as I was also studying a module on encryption and ciphers.
What I learned was that recognition of words comes from several variables, and recognition of LETTERS from yet more. For example, if you write a line of text, and cover the top half of every letter with a ruler, it's hard to read the LETTERS. Cover the bottom half, it's easy to read the LETTERS.
WORDS work in a similar way. People can recognize words merely from basic patterns. These patterns do NOT have to correlate with the spoken word. What's more, the use of CONTEXT can mean words can be obscured even further, yet still be recognized.
For example..
I drve my cr t wrk.
People are very good at skimming over vowels, simply because they serve as the 'flow' of our language, and have little content in-and-of themselves. Compare to this:
I dr my ca to wo
Using the prefixes destroys any sense of context. No longer have we 'obscured' the words by removing their vowel glue, we've actually lopped half their bodies off, destroying any attempt at fathoming a reason.
Believe me, at the time, microcomputers were very useful -- but only to those who needed them.
So you're saying the only people who found them useful were people who had uses for them? Who whudda thunked it!?
This is only vaguely ontopic, but I found a site which has very up-to-date checked anonymous and open HTTP proxies. Not going to help you download P2P, but is great for testing AdWords campaigns in other countries ;-)
This topic was discussed at length just YESTERDAY here at /. :-)
The Perl script was better too, with a far cuter scrambling technique. Jamie can't code for twinkies.
I agree. The trend to produce major applications based on "the Web" (a term I find hard to use when referring to, say, intranets, but will accept) is one that benefits almost everyone.
We're in an age when even the smallest hardware store can buy a highly reliable Linux server and have MySQL and Apache running on it for under $500. All you need then is the software that'll keep your stock inventory, and the equipment to network your existing -- probably low spec -- PCs up, and off you go.
Web apps are beautiful in the way that small ma-and-pa outfits don't necessarily need to upgrade their crusty old 200MHz PCs bought in 1995. All they need is a Web browser (and perhaps some proprietary format to handle checkout scanners, and the like), and with a small investment in a server, they're up and running.
How many drug dealers first got their kicks with Dope Wars? :-)
Perhaps I was a little too quick with my praise and enthustiasm. I just took a bunch of sentences and ran similar scrambling processes over them, and some were quite unreadable. I think that, perhaps, the original sentence was carefully constructed to be scrambled, yet easy to read, in order to spread the meme. Perhaps?