Right, the only people who need to program in assembly are those who optimise or develop compilers. It's still useful to learn a bit so you know how to keep your project in check before going into bloattown.
Reminds me of that one stunt where different guys (can't find a link for the life of me), on the launch of the PS2, smashed them up for a large audience while thousands of people waited in line outside in the cold.
Well, MS did fix the last Xbox PSU-related problems by offering free surge-protected power cables. Didn't they learn that too much heat and power is a Bad Thing?
Oh yeah, another thing you have to deal with in Canada is Canadian insecurity. Canadians are really into listening to Canadian music and reading Canadian books and going to a Canadian store like Tim Horton's: it's this defensive reaction to the insecurity and identity crisis they feel living next to the States and consuming our culture (or lack thereof). They constantly feel the need to defend themselves as not being an extension of the United States- it's a sort of mix of dislike and envy, sort of like a little brother syndrome.
Sounds sorta like Texas, but they're more about continuing to prove that they ain't no potbellied city boys from the US; they're fucking Texans, and if you mess with them, Texas will fucking kill you. It sounds pretty good (and is for many), but only if you're a bit conservative. Texas always had and always will have that ego where Texas > j00 basically.
iTunes does nothing to prevent you from copying the music onto any form of backup media, be it a CD, DVD, another computer, twenty other computers, an external disk, an FTP server, a tape, or a bunch of floppies. If you're not doing this already for your other valuable data, you've only yourself to blame. iTunes even has CD/DVD (data) burning built-in, so you really don't have much excuse.
Uh, dude, I don't know where you've been, but the entire fucking point of DRM is to artificially limit your copying privilidges so you get inconvenienced in this way. Sure, Apple makes it quite simple to get around the artificial limitation, but the fact remains that this DRM is making it so you can't even legally back it up yourself.
Just being cynical here, but the MPAA sorta pushes to get things like DVD-R's to be more expensive to "discourage piracy", so the notion that we should be able to make all sorts of backups on media that's already being inflated in price to prevent piracy in order to be more responsible is quite over the top.
But according to the DMCA, I don't have the right to circumvent any DRM that may be imposed on it, so how the fuck am I supposed to back it up legally?
I can't even go a few weeks without having to purge my access logs, and I run a pretty low-profile server. If they expect them to keep logs on things for no reason other than to persecute their customers for that long, then they can go fuck themselves.
In all seriousness,/. is one of my homepages. So, whenever I'm in a browser restarting frenzy with regards to extension development or something,/. get's a big load from me...
The GPL only exists in order to circumvent the copyright mess. If there were no such thing, there would be no need for things like the GPL. Read what RMS says instead of assuming everything.
Your argument phails as doing that would be Assault. Sharing copyrighted works is simply copyright infringement. The problem is that copyright infringement is becoming more severe than assault would be, so you might as well rob a store to get your CDs.
I'd hand them a blank CD and tell them to use that. If I can buy hundreds of CDs for less than $10, they better not even think about charging me for a replacement. I'm sure they get CDs for less than $0.001 per CD, so they should be able to replace your occasional scratched CD.
Many web browsers will (by default) submit a domainless word to a search engine like Google unless the domain is covered by your hosts file. How will this work if we don't get direct access to the root DNS' collective hosts files? How will your browser know the difference between typing in "slashdot" to mean the URL "http://slashdot/" or that you want to search for slashdot, thus the URL being "http://www.google.com/search?q=slashdot"?
I did profile it, and the PHP optimisations helped increase performance quite a bit, but MySQL was still the bottleneck. And I only said "transactional databases" because every good database that can scale well is transactional as well. The transactions could've been used for the large amount of user data that would be written constantly. We also would have liked to use stored procedures to take care of a lot of the common tasks and whatnot.
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Watch out for a project by the name of "fxgta" or "gtafx" popping up on SF.net now that you've put the idea out in the open...
Right, the only people who need to program in assembly are those who optimise or develop compilers. It's still useful to learn a bit so you know how to keep your project in check before going into bloattown.
Reminds me of that one stunt where different guys (can't find a link for the life of me), on the launch of the PS2, smashed them up for a large audience while thousands of people waited in line outside in the cold.
You just used `literal' in the canonical sense!
Well, MS did fix the last Xbox PSU-related problems by offering free surge-protected power cables. Didn't they learn that too much heat and power is a Bad Thing?
Oh yeah, another thing you have to deal with in Canada is Canadian insecurity. Canadians are really into listening to Canadian music and reading Canadian books and going to a Canadian store like Tim Horton's: it's this defensive reaction to the insecurity and identity crisis they feel living next to the States and consuming our culture (or lack thereof). They constantly feel the need to defend themselves as not being an extension of the United States- it's a sort of mix of dislike and envy, sort of like a little brother syndrome.
Sounds sorta like Texas, but they're more about continuing to prove that they ain't no potbellied city boys from the US; they're fucking Texans, and if you mess with them, Texas will fucking kill you. It sounds pretty good (and is for many), but only if you're a bit conservative. Texas always had and always will have that ego where Texas > j00 basically.
Dude, this is Slashdot; not being PC will get you modded +5 funny. And so will the post pointing that out...
That said, we haven't exactly done a grand job of keeping anyone out anyway...
What are you talking about? I can tell just by their smile that they belong in the UK!
iTunes does nothing to prevent you from copying the music onto any form of backup media, be it a CD, DVD, another computer, twenty other computers, an external disk, an FTP server, a tape, or a bunch of floppies. If you're not doing this already for your other valuable data, you've only yourself to blame. iTunes even has CD/DVD (data) burning built-in, so you really don't have much excuse.
Uh, dude, I don't know where you've been, but the entire fucking point of DRM is to artificially limit your copying privilidges so you get inconvenienced in this way. Sure, Apple makes it quite simple to get around the artificial limitation, but the fact remains that this DRM is making it so you can't even legally back it up yourself.
Just being cynical here, but the MPAA sorta pushes to get things like DVD-R's to be more expensive to "discourage piracy", so the notion that we should be able to make all sorts of backups on media that's already being inflated in price to prevent piracy in order to be more responsible is quite over the top.
But according to the DMCA, I don't have the right to circumvent any DRM that may be imposed on it, so how the fuck am I supposed to back it up legally?
I can't even go a few weeks without having to purge my access logs, and I run a pretty low-profile server. If they expect them to keep logs on things for no reason other than to persecute their customers for that long, then they can go fuck themselves.
In all seriousness, /. is one of my homepages. So, whenever I'm in a browser restarting frenzy with regards to extension development or something, /. get's a big load from me...
The GPL only exists in order to circumvent the copyright mess. If there were no such thing, there would be no need for things like the GPL. Read what RMS says instead of assuming everything.
Your argument phails as doing that would be Assault. Sharing copyrighted works is simply copyright infringement. The problem is that copyright infringement is becoming more severe than assault would be, so you might as well rob a store to get your CDs.
I can think of one thing they have that is quite narrow...
Hey now, don't start talking about that or you'll put companies like Playboy out of business!
Wow, that site has an assload of free porn! And what great taste!
I'm sure it'll be slashdotted in mere seconds. Of course, there's also CNet's com.com thing they had.
Oh yeah? I typed "/." and got here! Gotta love those customisable keywords.
And in AAC? I hope you don't appreciate dynamic changes in classical music. Same goes for pitch (e.g. a piccolo).
*waves hand*
These are not the CD sales you are looking for.
I'd hand them a blank CD and tell them to use that. If I can buy hundreds of CDs for less than $10, they better not even think about charging me for a replacement. I'm sure they get CDs for less than $0.001 per CD, so they should be able to replace your occasional scratched CD.
Many web browsers will (by default) submit a domainless word to a search engine like Google unless the domain is covered by your hosts file. How will this work if we don't get direct access to the root DNS' collective hosts files? How will your browser know the difference between typing in "slashdot" to mean the URL "http://slashdot/" or that you want to search for slashdot, thus the URL being "http://www.google.com/search?q=slashdot"?
I did profile it, and the PHP optimisations helped increase performance quite a bit, but MySQL was still the bottleneck. And I only said "transactional databases" because every good database that can scale well is transactional as well. The transactions could've been used for the large amount of user data that would be written constantly. We also would have liked to use stored procedures to take care of a lot of the common tasks and whatnot.