Good idea, let's do it like Go:
Put cameras on the 4 corners of the city and all the criminals will gather at the center of the town. We'll just have to catch them with a net (oh my god, best Go pun ever...)
What are you talking about??? Karma is: Excellent (until I get modded down into oblivion). You sure need to read more texts from our messiah St. CowboyNeal.
Seriously, do you really think we're all dumbasses that doesn't know what karma is? it was a joke!
Security through obscurity sucks just because it provides no security at all once everything is cracked. On the other side, security with cryptography/cyphers is mathematically proven to be safe. If Microsoft were to write its own or implement famous algorithms, I would be really happy, and wouldn't spit on them.
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Actually, I have a problem with lists comprehensions:
With Python: [ x ** 2 for x in xrange(100000) if x % 2 == 0 ] (8 seconds)
With Ruby: (1..100_000).select { |x| x % 2 == 0 }.map { |x| x ** 2 } (2 seconds)
but Ruby is supposed to be 10 times slower (not compiled, bigger...) What's happening? (it's not a troll, it's a real question)
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Indentation to create blocks is stupid when you begin to learn Python. And after a day or two you don't think about it anymore. The language is cool, and tabulation is just a detail when you've got OOP, regexpes...
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I hate to troll but Gmailfs what not the most difficult project ever. It is written on top of the libgmail library (which was the hard part to write).
IIRC you can't do everything with a keyboard. There is some kind of hardware problem that prevents you from pushing three keys at the same time (one of these being the Left Arrow).
Example: in Super Mario World, you can't fly to the left with your cape (you have to push left + run + jump at the same time which is impossible).
I read that Vorbis decompression was too CPU intensive for the iPod and would suck its batteries too quickly (something with floating point emulation, I can't remember well).
if you don't care enough to vote, then you shouldn't be complaining about the result.
I hear this argument every five minutes. What do you propose instead? If I vote blank, my vote is useless because no one will care, I will count as someone who has NOT voted. As long as there is not a good candidate to vote for, you're fscked up.
Voter registration is web available in my county...
Where I live, you're automatically registered on your 18th birthday. People just don't care about politics anymore, registered or not...
It really depends on the brand of floppy you use. I have 10 years old floppies I can still read. OTOH I've got a few crappy CDRs that I threw in the bin because my PC couldn't read them anymore!
I'll add something important: can you burn a file on a CDR in less than 2 seconds (on a Intel 286)? With floppies, I can do this on the oldest computer ever...
Have you tried FF6 on SNES? I would love to see a movie with FF6' steampunk ambiance. Sadly, I find that Square moving from fantasy to SF was a bad decision.
I was just thinking of a small hack to detect the simple redirections, not a full-featured parser. I guess I'll have to look at Firefox's source code for that:(
Someone should really change the code of this feature because it doesn't work with javascript links (you get a blank page when you middle-click on this kind of link)
the downloader is able to hear a work they would have otherwise paid for.
I have a little problem with music these days: why would I buy a record that I can't listen to because it is copy-protected?
I understand that Kazaa punks pirate music, but each day, I hear more and more stories of people who bought CDs and return them for a refund because it's not working... Piracy was the problem, now it's the only solution to hear the music you bought.
Chinese (mandarin) is not the most difficult language to understand in a conversation. The difficult part is to speak it. Japanese is easier to speak (from a french background).
Or people will stop buying CDs like I did two years ago. Computer-illiterate people accept a lot of things until something fuck with their own life.
What will happen when they have no more consumers to lock? I hope it happens sooner than I think.
IIRC the copy protection is considered a hidden defect and you can return them all your protected CDs. If they still refuse, demand an explaination with the loudest voice possible, they won't last more than 2 minutes. Remembre that these employees have not a high pay every month and want to keep their jobs, they will do everything you ask as long as you keep quiet.
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and maybe we could install WindowsXP on Linux and it would be fast and reliable!
Good idea, let's do it like Go:
Put cameras on the 4 corners of the city and all the criminals will gather at the center of the town. We'll just have to catch them with a net (oh my god, best Go pun ever...)
What are you talking about??? Karma is: Excellent (until I get modded down into oblivion). You sure need to read more texts from our messiah St. CowboyNeal.
Seriously, do you really think we're all dumbasses that doesn't know what karma is? it was a joke!
I guess you can in France, they even have this nice water that shoots up your arse so you don't have to use paper.
It's in Japan, not in France...
Security through obscurity sucks just because it provides no security at all once everything is cracked. On the other side, security with cryptography/cyphers is mathematically proven to be safe. If Microsoft were to write its own or implement famous algorithms, I would be really happy, and wouldn't spit on them.
Actually, I have a problem with lists comprehensions:
With Python: [ x ** 2 for x in xrange(100000) if x % 2 == 0 ] (8 seconds)
With Ruby: (1..100_000).select { |x| x % 2 == 0 }.map { |x| x ** 2 } (2 seconds)
but Ruby is supposed to be 10 times slower (not compiled, bigger...) What's happening? (it's not a troll, it's a real question)
Indentation to create blocks is stupid when you begin to learn Python. And after a day or two you don't think about it anymore. The language is cool, and tabulation is just a detail when you've got OOP, regexpes...
I hate to troll but Gmailfs what not the most difficult project ever. It is written on top of the libgmail library (which was the hard part to write).
IIRC you can't do everything with a keyboard. There is some kind of hardware problem that prevents you from pushing three keys at the same time (one of these being the Left Arrow).
Example: in Super Mario World, you can't fly to the left with your cape (you have to push left + run + jump at the same time which is impossible).
I think it died a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...
;) now, before the shooting of the 7th episode?
Which leads us to the second question: should we kill Star Wars (or its creator?
I read that Vorbis decompression was too CPU intensive for the iPod and would suck its batteries too quickly (something with floating point emulation, I can't remember well).
if you don't care enough to vote, then you shouldn't be complaining about the result.
I hear this argument every five minutes. What do you propose instead? If I vote blank, my vote is useless because no one will care, I will count as someone who has NOT voted. As long as there is not a good candidate to vote for, you're fscked up.
Voter registration is web available in my county...
Where I live, you're automatically registered on your 18th birthday. People just don't care about politics anymore, registered or not...
It really depends on the brand of floppy you use. I have 10 years old floppies I can still read. OTOH I've got a few crappy CDRs that I threw in the bin because my PC couldn't read them anymore!
I'll add something important: can you burn a file on a CDR in less than 2 seconds (on a Intel 286)? With floppies, I can do this on the oldest computer ever...
Have you tried FF6 on SNES? I would love to see a movie with FF6' steampunk ambiance. Sadly, I find that Square moving from fantasy to SF was a bad decision.
I was just thinking of a small hack to detect the simple redirections, not a full-featured parser. I guess I'll have to look at Firefox's source code for that :(
Middle click to open link in new window/tab
Someone should really change the code of this feature because it doesn't work with javascript links (you get a blank page when you middle-click on this kind of link)
the downloader is able to hear a work they would have otherwise paid for.
I have a little problem with music these days: why would I buy a record that I can't listen to because it is copy-protected?
I understand that Kazaa punks pirate music, but each day, I hear more and more stories of people who bought CDs and return them for a refund because it's not working... Piracy was the problem, now it's the only solution to hear the music you bought.
Chinese (mandarin) is not the most difficult language to understand in a conversation. The difficult part is to speak it. Japanese is easier to speak (from a french background).
I hope you don't live in the USA or you are in serious trouble for copyright infrigement on the "Happy Birthday" song!
It's a good thing we have Google now: 2004 - 1969 = 35
Begin with http://www.legaltorrents.com/ for gigs of legal music. I'm sure Google can help you to fill your iPod.
Maybe this will refresh your memory. It's a nerds' movie, a classic everyone should have seen...
It would need to be a massively coordinated effort to get a huge band's copy protected CD boycotted.
That's exactly what I'm trying to do with Prodigy's last album. Spread the word and explain what's happening.
people will just make an analog copy
Or people will stop buying CDs like I did two years ago. Computer-illiterate people accept a lot of things until something fuck with their own life. What will happen when they have no more consumers to lock? I hope it happens sooner than I think.
IIRC the copy protection is considered a hidden defect and you can return them all your protected CDs. If they still refuse, demand an explaination with the loudest voice possible, they won't last more than 2 minutes. Remembre that these employees have not a high pay every month and want to keep their jobs, they will do everything you ask as long as you keep quiet.