Actually, I did. I have mild Dyslexia and consequentially a very difficult time with interchanging words. I'm often blind to it without rereading something 10 times or more.
Of the 134 words in the summary, 24 were not part of a link. I'd post something constructive, the I could bare to rear more than 10 words of the summary (and we all know the golden rule about reading TFA). Sheesh!
Where's the multi-page version you insensitive clod?
I Kept searching for a multi-page option but I couldn't find one. After years of being conditioned to read articles over 12 pages or so, this layout just freaks me out. I couldn't find the combobox that let me jump to the conclusion. The page seemed way too long and daunting for me to process. And I kept expecting next links that never came!
Take me back to the good old days where you could read a 12 page article and actually feel like you accomplished something.
I'm no engineer, but if horizontally shifting 275 tons with any kind of vivacity is a challenge, vertically shifting it must be a nightmare. Imagine the stress, and then doing the two in parallel...
The last article was completely overblown, and this is even worse.
Once put on notice, failure to address U.S. concerns could result in trade challenges at the World Trade Organization, plus possible sanctions.
Need I even go into the many ways the US has violated our free trade agreement. How are different copyright laws even a violation?
...and tiny microchips that allow video-game users to bypass copyright protections...
Maybe because the copyright protections violate our basic copyright freedoms? There's no DMCA here.
The industry paints a grim picture of Canada as a country where copyright pirates operate with impunity because of lax laws, poor enforcement and a laissez-faire attitude.
In case you haven't noticed, we're lax in all areas of law. How has incarceration helped to reduce US crime rates? Why should copyright violation be a criminal offense? The last article was even so bold to say:
Frith says government bureaucrats try to placate him by saying that under the Copyright Act exhibitors have the ability to charge someone criminally. "But here's the catch. Under the Copyright Act, you have to prove that an individual camcording in the theatre is doing it for distribution purposes. That's almost impossible."
So camcording is a criminal offense, you just have to, shock, prove your case rather than assume guilt. I guess this article is *technically* right when it says:
Unlike in the United States and most other developed countries, videotaping movies in theatres is not illegal in Canada.
What else did they complain about proving?
We don't want to have to prove the economic loss from distribution. We want it to be a Criminal Code activity to be caught camcording. Period.
Is that 15th century thinking I hear? Are they going to blacklist every liberal country?
"Highly organized international-crime groups have rushed into the gap left by Canada's outmoded copyright law and now use the country as a springboard from which to undermine legitimate markets in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and elsewhere," the group said.
Please, the UK and Australia wouldn't even have these type of laws if the US and *AA and friends hadn't strong armed them into it. Are these the only shinning examples they can find?
In the letter, Snyder fumed that his company had discerned that, at one point during 2006, Canadian theatres were the source for nearly 50 per cent of illegal camcords across the globe.
And it even goes on to say:
"The reality is in 2005, 20 per cent of all identified camcordings occurred in Canada," says Frith. "That's a huge number. And it's growing."
20% of a type of piracy != 50% of all piracy. And another thing:
Frith says government bureaucrats try to placate him by saying that under the Copyright Act exhibitors have the ability to charge someone criminally. "But here's the catch. Under the Copyright Act, you have to prove that an individual camcording in the theatre is doing it for distribution purposes. That's almost impossible."
If it's a criminal offence, it holds a higher burden of proof. This shouldn't be so shocking but perfectly reasonable. Maybe it's for personal viewing? But it gets better:
We don't want to have to prove the economic loss from distribution. We want it to be a Criminal Code activity to be caught camcording. Period.
Maybe because it's nowhere near the level you claim?
But in Canada, the theft of intellectual property is basically treated as a "soft crime," says CMPDA president Doug Frith. "Canada has done nothing to remedy its lack of domestic enforcement and complete absence of border enforcement."
It's, for the most part, a civil offence! Maybe it's our liberal way of thinking, but locking someone up for several years for pirating a movie just doesn't make sense. I could go on and on, there are at least a dozen or so additional laughable quotes.
It's hard to take any project seriously (professional or not) when it's web page has such glaring mistakes as random letter b's in its source (clearly visible in the all the browsers I've tried), more white space than anyone can reasonably shake a stick at and poor graphics (I'm looking at the rounded corners of the main content).
As interesting as it sounds, it makes me wonder what could be wrong with the code...
While I generally agree that VC is one of the best development IDEs out there (and I have used several open source alternatives, namely for coding in different languages), it has some glaring bugs that make me want to rip my hair out.
VC 2003 had (and still has) an extremely annoying bug in its shortcut code whereby a compulsive ctrl-c and ctrl-v user like myself (in fact I've never quite determined which shortcut combination triggers it) can result in the end of a source file being duplicated twice. (So, for example, a header that ends in "}" may have another "}" appended. This would be OK if it wasn't for the fact that you couldn't actually see the additional "}" until you restarted VC (or opened the file in another editor). Alas, I've wasted many hours pulling my hair out trying to find errors in my code caused by superfluous braces etcetera that don't exist.
I thought VC 2005 would save the day and solve this issue, which it did at the expense of an even more annoying one. I'm talking about the new intelli-sense in VC 2005 which, in large projects, can spend almost a minute "updating" after the most trivial of changes drawing 100% CPU power and bringing your work to a grinding halt. To make matter worse, using the ctrl-s shortcut to save a file freezes the UI until intelli-sense is done updating, and even then intelli-sense doesn't work half the time or is too slow to be of any use. For example, if I declare an instance of a class then attempt to use it, its methods only appear if I type slow enough for intelli-sense to keep up. In another brilliant move, intelli-sense cannot be disabled without renaming a.dll, and even when you do disable it you'll be surprised to find that other features suddenly stop working (for example, the form designer), which means you have to restart VC every time you want to enable/disable intelli-sense.
This "best" development environment is enough to make me want to throw my computer out of the window sometimes. I wouldn't be the least bit suppressed if this is what's taking Vista so damn long?
The main thing is making people aware of the levy. The more I explain it to people, the more outrage I see from them. Why should someone buying 50 CDs to send pictures of their wedding to friends and family have to pay the music industry? It seems retailers are taking action though, I've noticed some of the big Canadian retailers will offer a pack of, say, 50 CDs for about $9 (with the levy in the fine print) and customers are always outraged when that $9 rings in as ~$20 with the $10.50 levy ($0.21 per CD) and other taxes.
One thing I've always found kind of sad is that the CD manufacturing companies are making less (even after markup) then the music industry doing nothing but sitting on their ass. At least DVDs don't have a levy.
I think the main point is why does essentially taking something that is an integer and converting it to an IEEE float or an obvious implementation of a 16 bit float constitute a non-obvious invention?
Also, be sure to make it quite clear to him how you found this article browsing/. in a pathetic 8.7 seconds, and how you could have found it much faster (say 4.32 seconds) if you had a far bigger monitor.
I'm sure IE7 is a positive step from IE6, but how big of a resource hog is that shinny new interface? When I updated to Windows Messenger Live (yes I'm aware of the alternatives, but 99% of my friends use it) I couldn't believe how much resources the thing ate up. Right now it's sitting at a ridiculous 48 MB of memory usage.
More to the point, how much of IE7 is integrated into the kernel and how much memory does it consume when I'm not even using it? How does it affect boot times? I'm unlikely to use it for anything I don't have to so I think I'll be avoiding it for as long as possible.
Look on the bright side, at least we're getting all this patenting nonsense done with and out of the way all at once. In another 20 years there will be no more software patents because everything patentable, or at least worth wile patenting, (even the stupidest most obvious of ideas and interfaces) will have expired. Then we'll be free to bath and bask on two centuries of wealth wasted on two centuries of greed. Perhaps only then will true innovation begin.
One must understand our network configuration to grasp the genesis of our results. We ran a deployment on the NSA's planetary-scale overlay network to disprove the mutually largescale behavior of exhaustive archetypes. First, we halved the effective optical drive space of our mobile telephones to better understand the median latency of our desktop machines. This step flies in the face of conventional wisdom, but is instrumental to our results. We halved the signal-to-noise ratio of our mobile telephones. We tripled the tape drive speed of DARPA's 1000-node testbed. Further, we tripled the RAM space of our embedded testbed to prove the collectively secure behavior of lazily saturated, topologically noisy modalities. Similarly, we doubled the optical drive speed of our scalable cluster. Lastly, Japanese experts halved the effective hard disk throughput of Intel's mobile telephones.
Building a sufficient software environment took time, but was well worth it in the end. We implemented our scatter/gather I/O server in Simula-67, augmented with oportunistically pipelined extensions. Our experiments soon proved that automating our parallel 5.25" floppy drives was more effective than autogenerating them, as previous work suggested. Similarly, We note that other researchers have tried and failed to enable this functionality.
Lets see:
Access to the "NSA's planetary-scale overlay network". - Check.
Access to "DARPA's 1000-node testbed". - Check.
"Mobile telephones" with "optical drives". - Check.
Use of "Japanese experts". - Check.
"Mobile telephones" with "hard drives" produced by "Intel". - Check.
Use of a horribly outdated programming language ("Simula-67"). - Check.
Use of the phrase "parallel 5.25" floppy drives" in a sentence that makes absolutely no sense. - Check.
How anyone would have thought this paper wasn't a flaming pile of BS is beyond me. I especially like the graph that measures time in teraflops. WTF???
ARTHUR: There! Look! BEDEVERE: What does it say? GALAHAD: What language is this? BEDEVERE: Brother Maynard, you are a scholar. BROTHER MAYNARD: It is Aramaic! GALAHAD: Of course. dg41 of Aramathea! ALL: Of course. ARTHUR: What does it say? BROTHER MAYNARD: It reads... "No way by dg41 (743918) on Wednesday April 12, @02:35PM (#15116780)" *EXCITEMENT* "No way, there can't be anyone making dishonest or cheap mem... PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" ARTHUR: What? BROTHER MAYNARD: "The PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA..." BEDEVERE: What's that? BROTHER MAYNARD: His computer must have crashed while typing it. BEDEVERE: Oh, come on. BROTHER MAYNARD: That's what it says. ARTHUR: But if his computer was crashing, he wouldn't bother to type "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA". It would just crash. BROTHER MAYNARD: It's down there typed on slashdot. GALAHAD: Perhaps he was dictating. ARTHUR: Shut up. Is that all it says? BROTHER MAYNARD: That's all. "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA". ARTHUR: "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA".
I was recently looking for a DVD player/recorder for my parents. They wanted the player for two reasons, one to record shows they like, and two to send some home videos off to my sister in England. When I went to a few stores to check out the models they had, I asked one of the sales staff if the recorders could encode region free DVDs (so my sister could pay them on her TV). He looked at me like I was some kind of crook and actually said: "here in Canada we obey international copyright law".
Sure I could have reencoded the DVDs after they were recorded, but that is beside the point. My parents own the copyright to their home videos and should be able to do whatever they want with them. This is just another case of the industry hurting the consumers.
By embedding a watermark in a.mp3 file and making it available on P2P networks, aren't record companies implicitly giving you permission to download their music?
The parent isn't really flaimbait. I made the mistake of adopting.NET v1.1 using a mixture of managed and unmanaged C++. v1.1 was crippled with several major design flaws that were an absolute nightmare for support. When v2.0 came along an fixed these design flaws I though I was in for a treat (after all Microsoft had emphasized compatibility in the framework) little did I know they would go and change the entire syntax on me. Some friendly changes:
Pointers for managed objects are now ^ not *.
Managed objects are allocated with gcnew and not new.
Any keyword starting with __ no longer does and some have been renamed.
Boxing is now implicit.
Managed arrays are completely different.
Though I welcome many of these changes, upgrading code that is a mixture of managed and unmanaged objects (or even just managed objects) is an absolute nightmare. I've spent hours upon hours updating single classes or forms and what's worse s there isn't really any conversion tool to automate the process. Of course you don't HAVE to upgrade the code, the compiler still supports the old syntax, but using this feature just serves to cripple the entire IDE and many of the things that make it one of the best IDEs out there, you're trapped into upgrading.
After this experience I've become extremely reluctant to recommend.NET to anyone (at least for C++).
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Actually, I did. I have mild Dyslexia and consequentially a very difficult time with interchanging words. I'm often blind to it without rereading something 10 times or more.
Of the 134 words in the summary, 24 were not part of a link. I'd post something constructive, the I could bare to rear more than 10 words of the summary (and we all know the golden rule about reading TFA). Sheesh!
Where's the multi-page version you insensitive clod?
I Kept searching for a multi-page option but I couldn't find one. After years of being conditioned to read articles over 12 pages or so, this layout just freaks me out. I couldn't find the combobox that let me jump to the conclusion. The page seemed way too long and daunting for me to process. And I kept expecting next links that never came!
Take me back to the good old days where you could read a 12 page article and actually feel like you accomplished something.
I'm no engineer, but if horizontally shifting 275 tons with any kind of vivacity is a challenge, vertically shifting it must be a nightmare. Imagine the stress, and then doing the two in parallel...
The last article was completely overblown, and this is even worse.
Once put on notice, failure to address U.S. concerns could result in trade challenges at the World Trade Organization, plus possible sanctions.Need I even go into the many ways the US has violated our free trade agreement. How are different copyright laws even a violation?
...and tiny microchips that allow video-game users to bypass copyright protections...Maybe because the copyright protections violate our basic copyright freedoms? There's no DMCA here.
The industry paints a grim picture of Canada as a country where copyright pirates operate with impunity because of lax laws, poor enforcement and a laissez-faire attitude.In case you haven't noticed, we're lax in all areas of law. How has incarceration helped to reduce US crime rates? Why should copyright violation be a criminal offense? The last article was even so bold to say:
Frith says government bureaucrats try to placate him by saying that under the Copyright Act exhibitors have the ability to charge someone criminally. "But here's the catch. Under the Copyright Act, you have to prove that an individual camcording in the theatre is doing it for distribution purposes. That's almost impossible."So camcording is a criminal offense, you just have to, shock, prove your case rather than assume guilt. I guess this article is *technically* right when it says:
Unlike in the United States and most other developed countries, videotaping movies in theatres is not illegal in Canada.What else did they complain about proving?
We don't want to have to prove the economic loss from distribution. We want it to be a Criminal Code activity to be caught camcording. Period.Is that 15th century thinking I hear? Are they going to blacklist every liberal country?
"Highly organized international-crime groups have rushed into the gap left by Canada's outmoded copyright law and now use the country as a springboard from which to undermine legitimate markets in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and elsewhere," the group said.Please, the UK and Australia wouldn't even have these type of laws if the US and *AA and friends hadn't strong armed them into it. Are these the only shinning examples they can find?
...but is it really a surprise?
And it even goes on to say:
20% of a type of piracy != 50% of all piracy. And another thing:
If it's a criminal offence, it holds a higher burden of proof. This shouldn't be so shocking but perfectly reasonable. Maybe it's for personal viewing? But it gets better:
Maybe because it's nowhere near the level you claim?
It's, for the most part, a civil offence! Maybe it's our liberal way of thinking, but locking someone up for several years for pirating a movie just doesn't make sense. I could go on and on, there are at least a dozen or so additional laughable quotes.
It's hard to take any project seriously (professional or not) when it's web page has such glaring mistakes as random letter b's in its source (clearly visible in the all the browsers I've tried), more white space than anyone can reasonably shake a stick at and poor graphics (I'm looking at the rounded corners of the main content).
As interesting as it sounds, it makes me wonder what could be wrong with the code...
...can it lower /. refresh times?
I feel some first post karma coming my way...
While I generally agree that VC is one of the best development IDEs out there (and I have used several open source alternatives, namely for coding in different languages), it has some glaring bugs that make me want to rip my hair out.
VC 2003 had (and still has) an extremely annoying bug in its shortcut code whereby a compulsive ctrl-c and ctrl-v user like myself (in fact I've never quite determined which shortcut combination triggers it) can result in the end of a source file being duplicated twice. (So, for example, a header that ends in "}" may have another "}" appended. This would be OK if it wasn't for the fact that you couldn't actually see the additional "}" until you restarted VC (or opened the file in another editor). Alas, I've wasted many hours pulling my hair out trying to find errors in my code caused by superfluous braces etcetera that don't exist.
I thought VC 2005 would save the day and solve this issue, which it did at the expense of an even more annoying one. I'm talking about the new intelli-sense in VC 2005 which, in large projects, can spend almost a minute "updating" after the most trivial of changes drawing 100% CPU power and bringing your work to a grinding halt. To make matter worse, using the ctrl-s shortcut to save a file freezes the UI until intelli-sense is done updating, and even then intelli-sense doesn't work half the time or is too slow to be of any use. For example, if I declare an instance of a class then attempt to use it, its methods only appear if I type slow enough for intelli-sense to keep up. In another brilliant move, intelli-sense cannot be disabled without renaming a .dll, and even when you do disable it you'll be surprised to find that other features suddenly stop working (for example, the form designer), which means you have to restart VC every time you want to enable/disable intelli-sense.
This "best" development environment is enough to make me want to throw my computer out of the window sometimes. I wouldn't be the least bit suppressed if this is what's taking Vista so damn long?
View the source, it's Java, not flash....
Slashdot had never posted news before.
The main thing is making people aware of the levy. The more I explain it to people, the more outrage I see from them. Why should someone buying 50 CDs to send pictures of their wedding to friends and family have to pay the music industry? It seems retailers are taking action though, I've noticed some of the big Canadian retailers will offer a pack of, say, 50 CDs for about $9 (with the levy in the fine print) and customers are always outraged when that $9 rings in as ~$20 with the $10.50 levy ($0.21 per CD) and other taxes.
One thing I've always found kind of sad is that the CD manufacturing companies are making less (even after markup) then the music industry doing nothing but sitting on their ass. At least DVDs don't have a levy.
I think the main point is why does essentially taking something that is an integer and converting it to an IEEE float or an obvious implementation of a 16 bit float constitute a non-obvious invention?
Also, be sure to make it quite clear to him how you found this article browsing /. in a pathetic 8.7 seconds, and how you could have found it much faster (say 4.32 seconds) if you had a far bigger monitor.
That's a productivity increase of almost 49%!
I'm sure IE7 is a positive step from IE6, but how big of a resource hog is that shinny new interface? When I updated to Windows Messenger Live (yes I'm aware of the alternatives, but 99% of my friends use it) I couldn't believe how much resources the thing ate up. Right now it's sitting at a ridiculous 48 MB of memory usage.
More to the point, how much of IE7 is integrated into the kernel and how much memory does it consume when I'm not even using it? How does it affect boot times? I'm unlikely to use it for anything I don't have to so I think I'll be avoiding it for as long as possible.
Look on the bright side, at least we're getting all this patenting nonsense done with and out of the way all at once. In another 20 years there will be no more software patents because everything patentable, or at least worth wile patenting, (even the stupidest most obvious of ideas and interfaces) will have expired. Then we'll be free to bath and bask on two centuries of wealth wasted on two centuries of greed. Perhaps only then will true innovation begin.
I'm dreaming again.
What else does one do with a device fixated with a small screen and potentially gigs of storage space?
Monocolor porn!!!
A complete video from launch to orbit (9 minutes) can be found on YouTube.
He's not kidding, take a look at my history.dat file:
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That's one way to kill interoperability.
One must understand our network configuration to grasp the genesis of our results. We ran a deployment on the NSA's planetary-scale overlay network to disprove the mutually largescale behavior of exhaustive archetypes. First, we halved the effective optical drive space of our mobile telephones to better understand the median latency of our desktop machines. This step flies in the face of conventional wisdom, but is instrumental to our results. We halved the signal-to-noise ratio of our mobile telephones. We tripled the tape drive speed of DARPA's 1000-node testbed. Further, we tripled the RAM space of our embedded testbed to prove the collectively secure behavior of lazily saturated, topologically noisy modalities. Similarly, we doubled the optical drive speed of our scalable cluster. Lastly, Japanese experts halved the effective hard disk throughput of Intel's mobile telephones.
Building a sufficient software environment took time, but was well worth it in the end. We implemented our scatter/gather I/O server in Simula-67, augmented with oportunistically pipelined extensions. Our experiments soon proved that automating our parallel 5.25" floppy drives was more effective than autogenerating them, as previous work suggested. Similarly, We note that other researchers have tried and failed to enable this functionality.
Lets see:
How anyone would have thought this paper wasn't a flaming pile of BS is beyond me. I especially like the graph that measures time in teraflops. WTF???
ARTHUR: There! Look! ... "No way by dg41 (743918) on Wednesday April 12, @02:35PM (#15116780)"
BEDEVERE: What does it say?
GALAHAD: What language is this?
BEDEVERE: Brother Maynard, you are a scholar.
BROTHER MAYNARD: It is Aramaic!
GALAHAD: Of course. dg41 of Aramathea!
ALL: Of course.
ARTHUR: What does it say?
BROTHER MAYNARD: It reads
*EXCITEMENT*
"No way, there can't be anyone making dishonest or cheap mem... PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA"
ARTHUR: What?
BROTHER MAYNARD: "The PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA..."
BEDEVERE: What's that?
BROTHER MAYNARD: His computer must have crashed while typing it.
BEDEVERE: Oh, come on.
BROTHER MAYNARD: That's what it says.
ARTHUR: But if his computer was crashing, he wouldn't bother to type "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA". It would just crash.
BROTHER MAYNARD: It's down there typed on slashdot.
GALAHAD: Perhaps he was dictating.
ARTHUR: Shut up. Is that all it says?
BROTHER MAYNARD: That's all. "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA".
ARTHUR: "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA".
I was recently looking for a DVD player/recorder for my parents. They wanted the player for two reasons, one to record shows they like, and two to send some home videos off to my sister in England. When I went to a few stores to check out the models they had, I asked one of the sales staff if the recorders could encode region free DVDs (so my sister could pay them on her TV). He looked at me like I was some kind of crook and actually said: "here in Canada we obey international copyright law".
Sure I could have reencoded the DVDs after they were recorded, but that is beside the point. My parents own the copyright to their home videos and should be able to do whatever they want with them. This is just another case of the industry hurting the consumers.
We didn't buy.
If that isn't a Domain Name Squatter's wet dream I don't know what is...
By embedding a watermark in a .mp3 file and making it available on P2P networks, aren't record companies implicitly giving you permission to download their music?
The parent isn't really flaimbait. I made the mistake of adopting .NET v1.1 using a mixture of managed and unmanaged C++. v1.1 was crippled with several major design flaws that were an absolute nightmare for support. When v2.0 came along an fixed these design flaws I though I was in for a treat (after all Microsoft had emphasized compatibility in the framework) little did I know they would go and change the entire syntax on me. Some friendly changes:
Though I welcome many of these changes, upgrading code that is a mixture of managed and unmanaged objects (or even just managed objects) is an absolute nightmare. I've spent hours upon hours updating single classes or forms and what's worse s there isn't really any conversion tool to automate the process. Of course you don't HAVE to upgrade the code, the compiler still supports the old syntax, but using this feature just serves to cripple the entire IDE and many of the things that make it one of the best IDEs out there, you're trapped into upgrading.
After this experience I've become extremely reluctant to recommend .NET to anyone (at least for C++).