Thanks for the info about how eDonkey works...I can hardly keep up with the technology of all the P2P variants.
Does the dependency on passing around the IP of sharing peers mean that I can make a case against
copyright violation [and probably break the P2P operation?] in the following way:
when that computer comes home from the dorm and goes behind my household firewall, I set the firewall to stealth mode, dropping pings and generally only supporting outbound http:get() and maybe vpn ports?
...I can deal with Junior's complaints more
readily than subpoenas.
Ah the good old days. I used to shovel boxes of
cards into an IBM 360 system...it had a motor/generator though instead of steam...musta been a newer model;) It also had some string manipulation instructions for variable length arguments in the assembly language that would make any RISC machine programmer envious.
that/. kicked around last week about "how could
you prosecute BitTorrent since no one person is
holding or moving whole copies of the copied works?"
I have to ask, since the article points out that police are also striking at eDonkey servers, when the cops are going to be knocking on my door. My son and half the kids in his dorm are swapping/swiping movies like crazy with eDonkey. All of a sudden it looks like I have to get
knowledgable about my liability when he brings his
computer home for the Christmas break.
great pics of Hillis' original TT machine...
on
Lego Logic Gates
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· Score: 3, Interesting
here are some nice pictures of Hillis' tinker toy tic tac toe machine...It predates his work on
the Connection Machine and Thinking Machines Inc. Goes to show you how strong the mind can
become with a little exerecise in logic. Other posters are right about how limited the potential
circuits are with lossy elements but all the the
same, kudos to Lego for hoping that at least some
of us consider thinking a form of recreation.
"Patterns in Java" in 2 volumes from JWiley...this is midway between the library and DIY. The library may not exactly meet your need and you will spend some time reading code and hacking or building a layer on top of the library. And DIY, as you know, is always started as a Quick and Dirty project that quickly proves less Q and more D than hoped...it is the most work. And a pattern, assuming you find one that fits your needs, brings experience or understanding of the problem to your project that a library has but hides in its code
Personally, I have always longed for someone to do the work of rewriting the great old "Numerical Recipes in C" [Cambridge press] for the Java crowd. [or has it been done but BookPool just forgot to spam me about it?]
so even ...Certainly, 100 possibilities seems like a lot of choices to have if one is not the current day equivalent of a sultan... is rediculuously remote...try 10 or, like me, 1: just marry your lab partner in physic class if you don't think he/she is an idiot. You can come to that conclusion later:(
When mathematicians studied sex, they called it...
on
Mathematics and Sex
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· Score: 1
"modeling evolutionary mechanisms" which was a pretty good way to make normal folk of the interesting sex keep their distance.
But where I went to school, the girls knew the math of sex very well: it was just three numbers which, much in the way that the right three numbers open a safe, could open a frat boy's wallet. 36-22-34 was
a particularly effective combination.
You may take offense at the reduction of one gender's regard for another to a mere sequence of numbers but that is really the essence of the gap everyone expects between mathematical inclination which is reductionist and sexual inclination which is wholistic when its healthy.
"Welcome to Legacy Reserves, the largest U.S. databank of Legacy Professionals over the age of 35"
I think that is a new low in setting the threshold for being "over the hill". This means I was old
20 years ago...god, somebody see if I still have a pulse!
at old technologies, not that the programmers "vanished".
Apparently labor markets are among the least
efficient: supply and demand seem wildly uncoordinated...its a market even more influenced by psychological factors than the stock market!
I am NOT showing this article to my boss. I have a job turning old Ada programs into
C++ and if I don't puke to death reading the code
first, the difficulty that management percieves in finding less inexpensive college hires who know [or want to learn] this suddenly old language will keep ME employed until I retire.
We went through a lot of the same comments a month or two ago for an Ask Slashdot about best construction toys. the lameness of Lego [and the lameness of their cash flow] when they branched out from providing blocks [and letting us provide the imagination] and tried to "go hollywood" with movie tie-ins was a general theme of the commenting.
For my money [and I have the boxes of "Technics" to prove my checks go where my chat does] they could just stick to blocks and maybe some other robot enabling componentry.
I for one do not welcome our new Star Wares overloads!
The article had no mention of Cypress Semiconductor, one of my poorer performing investments. Cypress has, in the last few years,
made more news as a customer of photovoltaics than as a vendor. Powerlight has been converting/adding PV power to bay area buildings for over 10 years. But
Cypress has a
PV subsidiary..so I am not dumping their stock just yet.
We limped along with IE at home, patching and
patching for two years. Then my son came home
from his first year at college and all but insisted
that we all run Mozilla...and downloaded it for us.
We never even looked back, have removed the "cracked E"
icon from the desk top and the start menu and if
it weren't for some brain-dead activeX requirement
in my employer's HR-self-help applications I could
probably delete the.exe too.
One result: the load of spy ware that I have to comb out of our machines has dropped to a small fraction of the plague that it used to be.
Agreed. APL is practically unheard of now but
it spawned many other languages and no language since has had that densisty of expression [which is of course a good news/bad news achievement].
I was thinking more of infantry jobs than the software. I actually am a dot.com refugee. I holed up in a defense industry SW job because I know my
clearance lets me do work they are never going to
sub out to Bangalore Binary Ltd.
this post and parent definitely describe a solution
that a technologically savvy industry would consider. But in the movie business, you have a mix of big money from tech-illiterate stake holders who have got where they are as much by application of high powered legal staffs, cost control and maybe a little market insight as by any understanding of how their product gets into the hands of paying end-users...that is NOT a tech-literate industry. The only risks they know how to take are the betting on whether director x and mega star y and writer z can put out something that will pay back the 100million being invested. Changing their paradigm for their industry's money flow is not going to happen until its obvious to all that it has been hopelessly broken by technical developments The first technology, fire, was morally neutral having both beneficial and horrific uses. Nothing has changed. Moral questions [like "oh, are we stealing content that cost someone a fortune to produce?"] are orthogonal to technical challenges ["how can I use all the idle bandwidth in the world to get around serialized transfer protocols?"] and don't forget, movie effects noone could dream of making even 20 years ago are now common and drawing huge audiances to theaters because the CG and animation geeks have given the industry such cool tools...techonology giveth and technology taketh away.
So I rtfa. The "feedback" link in the article
has a pretty good list of the omissions. The list
was shown to/. after the 40 choices were winnowed
out by a much smaller [and apparently less well
educated or younger] audiance than/. /. readers have noted that the gods who gave us the
first languages like cobol and fortran and lisp are
not on the list. [Where, for instance, is Aiken whose APL spawned
two dozen derivitive languages?] If you leave the selection up to a group of readers who can stomach wall-to-wall adds and exhortations like "... In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving the final "cut" to you,..." you are going to get pretty a uninformed range of choices. I'd rather start an ASK SLASHDOT for an open ended POLL with the names/. readers have already supplied than be shown the leftovers from some narrower and less informed group.
to hoard things. "pack rat" after all is a name derived from a purely instinctive behaviour of a rodent. The only good that might come of all these mountains of moldy information will be the benefit to those who have invested in companies selling hard drives and flash memories.
Demo's have to be done with least cost so the Army often sees alpha versions of stuff that vendors
hope to sell running on RedHat. But when the
money comes down, its for Solaris or maybe Windows NT or 2000...open source still scares the brass in the pentagon. After open source, the other trend
in software [but one that is a worry for programmers
rather than proprietors] is outsourcing...now that
IS something I would like to see our DOD pursue more
vigorously.
I for one have recently come to have a lot of
respect for math teaching in TN. The kids in
Marion Tn
sure know what 6million really means. Thats not the best site but it shows how involved the kids got in the project...which started as civics lesson that had a practical math problem hidden inside it.
Your response was the model of decorum by/. standards. And besides, you were responding as much to my donning a flamesuit as to the proper content of my orignal post.
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Thanks for the info about how eDonkey works...I can hardly keep up with the technology of all the P2P variants.
Does the dependency on passing around the IP of sharing peers mean that I can make a case against copyright violation [and probably break the P2P operation?] in the following way:
when that computer comes home from the dorm and goes behind my household firewall, I set the firewall to stealth mode, dropping pings and generally only supporting outbound http:get() and maybe vpn ports?
...I can deal with Junior's complaints more readily than subpoenas.
Ah the good old days. I used to shovel boxes of cards into an IBM 360 system...it had a motor/generator though instead of steam...musta been a newer model;) It also had some string manipulation instructions for variable length arguments in the assembly language that would make any RISC machine programmer envious.
Thanks...looks like I don't need a lawyer after all.
that /. kicked around last week about "how could
you prosecute BitTorrent since no one person is
holding or moving whole copies of the copied works?"
I have to ask, since the article points out that police are also striking at eDonkey servers, when the cops are going to be knocking on my door. My son and half the kids in his dorm are swapping/swiping movies like crazy with eDonkey. All of a sudden it looks like I have to get knowledgable about my liability when he brings his computer home for the Christmas break.
here are some nice pictures of Hillis' tinker toy tic tac toe machine...It predates his work on the Connection Machine and Thinking Machines Inc.
Goes to show you how strong the mind can become with a little exerecise in logic. Other posters are right about how limited the potential circuits are with lossy elements but all the the same, kudos to Lego for hoping that at least some of us consider thinking a form of recreation.
"Patterns in Java" in 2 volumes from JWiley...this is midway between the library and DIY. The library may not exactly meet your need and you will spend some time reading code and hacking or building a layer on top of the library. And DIY, as you know, is always started as a Quick and Dirty project that quickly proves less Q and more D than hoped...it is the most work. And a pattern, assuming you find one that fits your needs, brings experience or understanding of the problem to your project that a library has but hides in its code
Personally, I have always longed for someone to do the work of rewriting the great old "Numerical Recipes in C" [Cambridge press] for the Java crowd. [or has it been done but BookPool just forgot to spam me about it?]
so even
...Certainly, 100 possibilities seems like a lot of choices to have if one is not the current day equivalent of a sultan...
is rediculuously remote...try 10 or, like me, 1: just marry your lab partner in physic class if you don't think he/she is an idiot. You can come to that conclusion later:(
"modeling evolutionary mechanisms" which was a pretty good way to make normal folk of the interesting sex keep their distance.
But where I went to school, the girls knew the math of sex very well: it was just three numbers which, much in the way that the right three numbers open a safe, could open a frat boy's wallet. 36-22-34 was a particularly effective combination.
You may take offense at the reduction of one gender's regard for another to a mere sequence of numbers but that is really the essence of the gap everyone expects between mathematical inclination which is reductionist and sexual inclination which is wholistic when its healthy.
That MS will not rest on its laurels in the escalating race to bare your backside to the marauders from the information sewer highway!
found at top of page linked from article:
"Welcome to Legacy Reserves, the largest U.S. databank of Legacy Professionals over the age of 35"
I think that is a new low in setting the threshold for being "over the hill". This means I was old 20 years ago...god, somebody see if I still have a pulse!
at old technologies, not that the programmers "vanished".
Apparently labor markets are among the least efficient: supply and demand seem wildly uncoordinated...its a market even more influenced by psychological factors than the stock market!
I am NOT showing this article to my boss. I have a job turning old Ada programs into C++ and if I don't puke to death reading the code first, the difficulty that management percieves in finding less inexpensive college hires who know [or want to learn] this suddenly old language will keep ME employed until I retire.
We went through a lot of the same comments a month or two ago for an Ask Slashdot about best construction toys. the lameness of Lego [and the lameness of their cash flow] when they branched out from providing blocks [and letting us provide the imagination] and tried to "go hollywood" with movie tie-ins was a general theme of the commenting.
For my money [and I have the boxes of "Technics" to prove my checks go where my chat does] they could just stick to blocks and maybe some other robot enabling componentry.
I for one do not welcome our new Star Wares overloads!
The article had no mention of Cypress Semiconductor, one of my poorer performing investments. Cypress has, in the last few years, made more news as a customer of photovoltaics than as a vendor. Powerlight has been converting/adding PV power to bay area buildings for over 10 years. But Cypress has a PV subsidiary ..so I am not dumping their stock just yet.
We limped along with IE at home, patching and patching for two years. Then my son came home from his first year at college and all but insisted that we all run Mozilla...and downloaded it for us.
.exe too.
We never even looked back, have removed the "cracked E" icon from the desk top and the start menu and if it weren't for some brain-dead activeX requirement in my employer's HR-self-help applications I could probably delete the
One result: the load of spy ware that I have to comb out of our machines has dropped to a small fraction of the plague that it used to be.
that its not what you know but who you know.
Agreed. APL is practically unheard of now but it spawned many other languages and no language since has had that densisty of expression [which is of course a good news/bad news achievement].
I was thinking more of infantry jobs than the software. I actually am a dot.com refugee. I holed up in a defense industry SW job because I know my clearance lets me do work they are never going to sub out to Bangalore Binary Ltd.
this post and parent definitely describe a solution that a technologically savvy industry would consider. But in the movie business, you have a mix of big money from tech-illiterate stake holders who have got where they are as much by application of high powered legal staffs, cost control and maybe a little market insight as by any understanding of how their product gets into the hands of paying end-users...that is NOT a tech-literate industry. The only risks they know how to take are the betting on whether director x and mega star y and writer z can put out something that will pay back the 100million being invested. Changing their paradigm for their industry's money flow is not going to happen until its obvious to all that it has been hopelessly broken by technical developments
The first technology, fire, was morally neutral having both beneficial and horrific uses. Nothing has changed. Moral questions [like "oh, are we stealing content that cost someone a fortune to produce?"] are orthogonal to technical challenges ["how can I use all the idle bandwidth in the world to get around serialized transfer protocols?"]
and don't forget, movie effects noone could dream of making even 20 years ago are now common and drawing huge audiances to theaters because the CG and animation geeks have given the industry such cool tools...techonology giveth and technology taketh away.
So I rtfa. The "feedback" link in the article has a pretty good list of the omissions. The list was shown to /. after the 40 choices were winnowed
out by a much smaller [and apparently less well
educated or younger] audiance than /.
/. readers have noted that the gods who gave us the
first languages like cobol and fortran and lisp are
not on the list. [Where, for instance, is Aiken whose APL spawned
two dozen derivitive languages?] If you leave the selection up to a group of readers who can stomach wall-to-wall adds and exhortations like "... In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving the final "cut" to you,..." you are going to get pretty a uninformed range of choices. I'd rather start an ASK SLASHDOT for an open ended POLL with the names /. readers have already supplied than be shown the leftovers from some narrower and less informed group.
to hoard things. "pack rat" after all is a name derived from a purely instinctive behaviour of a rodent. The only good that might come of all these mountains of moldy information will be the benefit to those who have invested in companies selling hard drives and flash memories.
Demo's have to be done with least cost so the Army often sees alpha versions of stuff that vendors hope to sell running on RedHat. But when the money comes down, its for Solaris or maybe Windows NT or 2000...open source still scares the brass in the pentagon. After open source, the other trend in software [but one that is a worry for programmers rather than proprietors] is outsourcing...now that IS something I would like to see our DOD pursue more vigorously.
A warm planet? buy refrigerated underwear?
I for one have recently come to have a lot of respect for math teaching in TN. The kids in Marion Tn sure know what 6million really means. Thats not the best site but it shows how involved the kids got in the project...which started as civics lesson that had a practical math problem hidden inside it.
give the man a point for funny no, for insight, no..
Your response was the model of decorum by /. standards. And besides, you were responding as much to my donning a flamesuit as to the proper content of my orignal post.