Why don't you just store everything in a textfile, or in several textfiles? You can simply use "grep" to do searches, and another advantage is that you can define the format yourself. No worries that the file format is not being supported in the future. Ok, you've outgrown notepad, but you can write some very simple scripts to ease the task of data-entry. If you don't know a scripting language already (I would prefer python in this case), then this is a nice motivation to learn one.
Ok, so this is yet another gentoo-inspired distro. What would be really nice, is, if a packaging system came out that would allow non-root users to build stuff in the gentoo style. I mean, with dependency checking/automatic downloading, etc. Just give it a value for the prefix variable, and let it configure and build everything you wish.
Ok, I know that gentoo has tools for doing such things, but they are not so user-friendly, nor do I think that they really fully support this mode of operation.
C is indeed not a good intermediate language for the reasons you mentioned. But C-- may be (http://cminusminus.org/) Perhaps the kernel developers should be coding in *that* language:-)
In my view, the main reason people are writing code and donate it "for the good of mankind" is because they want to make a difference. Just that.
They think that by using GPL, their code will have the deepest possible impact in society.
However, and I think the author has a point here, they forget that by putting a restrictive license on their code, people will eventually move away from it, choosing another project in favor, which has a more permissive license.
Thus, simply put, if you want your code to live forever, become immortal, or how to put it, choose a permissive license (BSD or MIT or Mozilla or whatever)!:-)
It would be nice to have the RAW tracks they used to actually produce the CD, so that you can (re)mix the stuff yourself. (Okay, you'll probably need a dvd, but that would be really cool!)
Hmmm... you can put a watermark into the captcha image (assuming you use images for captcha), and then let all major browsers detect images that don't belong in a certain site. That will get rid of that problem... (or did I miss something else?)
A reasonable solution (imho) is by forcing the every sender of any e-mail message to perform some captcha. The captcha can be posed by the receiving party, or any trusted e-mail routing mechanism along the way. If such a captcha would take say 5 seconds to fulfill, then sending a large amount of e-mail messages would become practically impossible (at least it would consume a large amount of the spammer's time!)
Of course, you still need some whitelist mechanism to be able to subscribe to mailing lists, but this poses no real problem.
And then the only necessary thing is for this type of mechanism to become "common practice". Any ideas how to accomplish that?
Expecting geeks to pony up a few hundred bucks for an open-source video card that has little if any chance of competing with ATI/Nvidia on speed seems pretty unlikely.
Except perhaps when this open-source card is somehow highly programmable. What I'm thinking of is a card containing some amount of memory, an FPGA component, perhaps some ASIC parts for real performance (and for doing cpu-like things), and of course an "output" component, capable of converting digital signals to analog values suitable to send to your monitor.
I think that true geeks would love such a card and that open-source developers would develop all sorts of applications/drivers for it.
Why do you think that anti-patent groups keep lists of patent entries which are clearly ridiculous? The more evidence they have against the patent system the better. (I am not implying that these void patents alone will collapse the system, only that it will help).
By the way, this is not about people hurting themselves, but about people endangering the process of technological innovation.
Think of the difference between the main google websearch page which delivers profit, and the news page. Basically there is little difference.
The way I see it, they could easily implement the news page by having the user type "news" in the search form on the websearch page. The websearch page itself already returns aggregated information, so why would this be legitimate, while for an aggregated news-page it would not?
How about some links/information on making your own cool cases? Is it possible to create your own plastic cases, or do shops exist where you can, say, drop your 3d-studio (or whatever) designs, which will then be fabricated into a nice shiny box? Can this be done cheaply? What kind of materials can be used?
Of course, the electronic stuff inside is what really counts, but I can imagine a nice look and feel is also important to a lot of DIY artists out there.
When are these portable players/recorders going to include a decent (high-quality) microphone input. I mean, as opposed to offering some cheap 'voice-recorder' option. It would be really nice if I could record concerts, and the like, with near-original sound-quality.
Until now, this seems only possible with a Sony MiniDisc.
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Still it blows my mind that people would pirate an iPhone app, let alone a cheap one.
I guess, the reason is, that the pirated copies are full of hidden spy-ware, botnet stuff etc. Pretty good reason for some crackers I suppose ...
to see a flash-mob of cows on your lawn anytime soon...
Does anybody know what kind of architecture-changes the developers have made (since the previous major releases) to achieve this level of performance?
Why don't you just store everything in a textfile, or in several textfiles? You can simply use "grep" to do searches, and another advantage is that you can define the format yourself. No worries that the file format is not being supported in the future. Ok, you've outgrown notepad, but you can write some very simple scripts to ease the task of data-entry. If you don't know a scripting language already (I would prefer python in this case), then this is a nice motivation to learn one.
Ok, so this is yet another gentoo-inspired distro. What would be really nice, is, if a packaging system came out that would allow non-root users to build stuff in the gentoo style. I mean, with dependency checking/automatic downloading, etc. Just give it a value for the prefix variable, and let it configure and build everything you wish. Ok, I know that gentoo has tools for doing such things, but they are not so user-friendly, nor do I think that they really fully support this mode of operation.
Yes, but it won't be long until they come up with a business-solution to the drm-problem ... audiobooks with embedded advertising.
Obviously, her looks are completely unimportant.
or slow-down the speed of the user's brain ... hey, aren't there chemicals for that? hmm, this needs some experimentation ...
C is indeed not a good intermediate language for the reasons you mentioned. :-)
But C-- may be (http://cminusminus.org/)
Perhaps the kernel developers should be coding in *that* language
And repeat after me: "proprietary" is even more evil than suid!
In my view, the main reason people are writing code and donate it "for the good of mankind" is because they want to make a difference. Just that.
:-)
They think that by using GPL, their code will have the deepest possible impact in society.
However, and I think the author has a point here, they forget that by putting a restrictive license on their code, people will eventually move away from it, choosing another project in favor, which has a more permissive license.
Thus, simply put, if you want your code to live forever, become immortal, or how to put it, choose a permissive license (BSD or MIT or Mozilla or whatever)!
Okay, this is it. I've had it with the "don't be evil" crap. I'm moving to an open-source variant of search engines. Can anyone forward me a link?
It would be nice to have the RAW tracks they used to actually produce the CD, so that you can (re)mix the stuff yourself. (Okay, you'll probably need a dvd, but that would be really cool!)
Hmmm ... you can put a watermark into the captcha image (assuming you use images for captcha), and then let all major browsers detect images that don't belong in a certain site. That will get rid of that problem ... (or did I miss something else?)
For legitimate information from non-humans, you use the whitelist approach, of course.
A reasonable solution (imho) is by forcing the every sender of any e-mail message to perform some captcha. The captcha can be posed by the receiving party, or any trusted e-mail routing mechanism along the way. If such a captcha would take say 5 seconds to fulfill, then sending a large amount of e-mail messages would become practically impossible (at least it would consume a large amount of the spammer's time!)
Of course, you still need some whitelist mechanism to be able to subscribe to mailing lists, but this poses no real problem.
And then the only necessary thing is for this type of mechanism to become "common practice". Any ideas how to accomplish that?
Great party! But could you please play that song about the electron transport chain for me?
Expecting geeks to pony up a few hundred bucks for an open-source video card that has little if any chance of competing with ATI/Nvidia on speed seems pretty unlikely.
Except perhaps when this open-source card is somehow highly programmable. What I'm thinking of is a card containing some amount of memory, an FPGA component, perhaps some ASIC parts for real performance (and for doing cpu-like things), and of course an "output" component, capable of converting digital signals to analog values suitable to send to your monitor.
I think that true geeks would love such a card and that open-source developers would develop all sorts of applications/drivers for it.
Why do you think that anti-patent groups keep lists of patent entries which are clearly ridiculous? The more evidence they have against the patent system the better. (I am not implying that these void patents alone will collapse the system, only that it will help).
By the way, this is not about people hurting themselves, but about people endangering the process of technological innovation.
Think of the difference between the main google websearch page which delivers profit, and the news page. Basically there is little difference.
The way I see it, they could easily implement the news page by having the user type "news" in the search form on the websearch page. The websearch page itself already returns aggregated information, so why would this be legitimate, while for an aggregated news-page it would not?
Great idea. But then this will start a discussion of whether an online database like that can withstand a test in court.
The time-stamps in your database may not be considered "strong evidence" by a judge.
I am all in favor of this. The more absurd entries in the patent system, the sooner it is going to collapse.
How about some links/information on making your own cool cases? Is it possible to create your own plastic cases, or do shops exist where you can, say, drop your 3d-studio (or whatever) designs, which will then be fabricated into a nice shiny box? Can this be done cheaply? What kind of materials can be used?
Of course, the electronic stuff inside is what really counts, but I can imagine a nice look and feel is also important to a lot of DIY artists out there.
I take it you don't mean just holding a mic up in the crowd
Well, it depends. If you are one of the performers, then I'm sure you can find a better place for the microphone.
When are these portable players/recorders going to include a decent (high-quality) microphone input. I mean, as opposed to offering some cheap 'voice-recorder' option. It would be really nice if I could record concerts, and the like, with near-original sound-quality. Until now, this seems only possible with a Sony MiniDisc.