Let's hope the signal to noise ratio for downloads stays high.
That's what the HASHES are for! And bittorrent can ban IP's which share corrupted files.
Now the only thing file sharers need is some anonimity/privacy... that's not an easy problem to solve. I recall reading the conflict between anonimity and privacy.
Why do people think of elders as disposable garbage or something? Oh, sonny's busy with his wife, so he can't visit you even once a week. Phone calls? Sorry, too busy. Stop bugging me, you're not useful anymore.
Oh wait, there's a replacement for the love I can't give you. Meet Mr. Robot. Enjoy.
Wherever you choose to study, don't forget to learn java (yes, it's necessary where i live - even the basics), the MVC framework (multitier programming), UML notation, RUP, programming "good practices", etc.
If you can find a college where they have this material, well done! 50% of programming is having a good design. That's what makes the difference between a senior software developer and a... (despective)programmer.
A "programmer" can plug bits and pieces of code, drag some icons and have a visual basic program. A developer knows how to abstract data, ENGINEER applications, frameworks, and make a very good job, saving time and money.
This will give you a huge advantage over your competitors, when you start looking for jobs.
Also, do NOT be conformed with what you learn on school! If there are additional courses at college, say, a new programming language, or a new framework from X or Y company, do NOT - repeat, do _NOT_ ignore them just because they're not required for your grades!
This mistake costed me 2 long years of unemployment (and the subsequent stress and stomach aches) after graduating.
This is an interesting situation. We all know Sharman networks tried to enforce their spyware upon file sharers, and they shut down Kazaa lite for this. They deserve to be punished...
but if they are... then it could become a legal precedent against file sharing networks (and free speech perhaps?)
OK OK flamebait, troll, whatever... but I still don't see the point of having a very small niché language messing around open source projects... i've seen a sourceforge project that have a part written in Ocaml, and their dependance on a very small language which very few people know about, is stalling the project big time.
Maybe Ocaml is the heck of a development language, but I think it's about 5 years late...
Geeks are called "Pro-Am's" because they do not (or did not at a time) charge for their programs.
Take Virtualdub, for example. People use it for video edition, it's good, it's free, and it was done as a HOBBY (incidentally, because the author did it so he could do some stuff on anime - another hobby).
Linus said he just wanted to make "a better Minix than Minix". Sure he has an advanced degree, but he worked on Linux while in school, DOH!
But the important point is: People who write OSS don't have to depend economically on their OSS creations. Some could work for private companies on an anonymous programming job, making a private intranet site, or something.
That's what makes them Pro-Am's. Take a look at sourceforge. It has about 120,000 projects. Think about all the anonymous people who have worked on these projects. What would be of us without them?
One sign that Intel is having trouble dancing to technology's current beat may be the world's most expensive disco ball.
For a company holiday party next month, a handful of engineers assembled a disco ball - with hundreds of small reflective devices - to hang above the dance floor. The mirrors are leftover projection-television chips from Intel's planned effort to enter the digital television market - an effort the company recently abandoned only 10 months after a splashy introduction at the Consumer Electronics Show last January.
The TV effort became yet another in a series of embarrassing stumbles for Intel. The company has publicly canceled a succession of high-profile projects, has replaced managers in money-losing ventures and has fallen behind its keen competitor Advanced Micro Devices in introducing technologies, like a feature that wards off viruses and worms, in markets that Intel has long dominated.
A.M.D. has been so successful in stealing the spotlight from Intel lately that Kevin B. Rollins, the president of one of Intel's biggest customers, Dell Computer, said at a financial conference call this month that Dell was considering adding computers with A.M.D. chips to its product line.
For two decades, Intel has been the most sure-footed of Silicon Valley companies. But lately, it seems to have lost its way. "They have made many wrong decisions and now it's time for soul-searching and structural, not cosmetic, changes," said Ashok Kumar, a financial analyst at Raymond James & Associates.
This all portends an interesting inauguration for Intel's 50-year-old president, Paul S. Otellini, the longtime Intel marketing executive tapped by the board this month to become only the fourth chief executive in the company's history.
Mr. Otellini does not officially take the job until May. But next week in one of his first official acts as the designated chief executive, he plans to present his strategy to Wall Street analysts. He may have a lot to answer for, including the 25 percent decline in Intel's stock price this year.
Mr. Otellini will tell analysts that he plans to focus on four areas for growth: international markets for desktop personal computers, mobile and wireless applications, the digital home, as well as a new initiative aimed at large corporate computing markets that Intel is calling the Digital Office.
The strategy is a significant shift - a "right-hand turn," as Mr. Otellini likes to say - from Intel's long-term obsession with making ever-faster computer chips. Instead, the company is now concentrating on what he calls platforms: complete systems aimed at both computing and consumer electronics markets.
Mr. Otellini insists that the recent missteps, including the premature introduction he himself made of the digital project, are simply a result of over-optimistic marketing.
"What was wrong was that I made the decision to go public on it at the Consumer Electronics Show," he said in a recent interview in Intel's Santa Clara headquarters. "Error of judgment. Mea culpa. I learned a lesson."
The decision to preannounce an unproven technology was an uncharacteristic one for Intel, said G. Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research Inc., and a longtime observer of the company. However, he said, it has been Mr. Otellini's ascendancy at the company that has changed the way it markets technology.
"As he came into power Intel tried to become a more aggressive marketing company," he said. "They never seemingly made mistakes before and that was simply because they didn't preannounce. This is the classic failure of a company where the marketing guys are pushing the manufacturing guys more than what's there."
Intel is still a technology giant, the global leader in semiconductors, with revenue last year of more than $30 billion. The company retains an unrivaled manufacturing capacity, control of a powerful desktop computing standard, and an enviable internat
I remember I played a gnome who was an expert in making inventions. My most famous invention: The "insta-drink potion container. No turns required to drink!"
I prepared my ingredient list and handled it to my DM.
Ingredients: 1 long piece of skin to make the straw (yeah you drink by straw) 1 canteen 1 bottle of extra strong glue 8 heavy-duty nails, size "tiny"
The guys couldn't go on. When the DM finished reading the "heavy-duty" part, they all laughed for about a straight minute.
I just wonder how much heat these cell processors will produce. Will they require heatsinks 10 times larger than we currently have?
"Hey look at my brand new computer." "Man! This thing is gigantic! I thought it used very tiny CPU's" "They are. 90% of the case is for the heatsink." "Oh..."
There have been chinese copyrights over western religious icons. Chinese IP's are used for spamming. Chinese govt's don't care about human rights. They got a lot of pirate copies of Windows. And you think they'll be scared of patent infringment?
One thing i hate about copy protection schemes in the PS2, for example, is that people aren't allowed to program their own games and distribute them. No, you have to get a contract with Sony, so they distribute your games in their uncopiable format, and they get their share. Oh, you haven't got the money? Sorry. "But the game..." NO DEAL!
Sometimes i wonder... have Sony forgotten their roots, when they were trying to sell transistor radios in Germany?
Slashdot Mirror
Let's hope the signal to noise ratio for downloads stays high.
That's what the HASHES are for! And bittorrent can ban IP's which share corrupted files.
Now the only thing file sharers need is some anonimity/privacy... that's not an easy problem to solve. I recall reading the conflict between anonimity and privacy.
Is uploading a torrent of itself!
MUAHAHAHAHA then nobody will be able to shut them down! MUAHAHAHA!
Why do people think of elders as disposable garbage or something? Oh, sonny's busy with his wife, so he can't visit you even once a week. Phone calls? Sorry, too busy. Stop bugging me, you're not useful anymore.
Oh wait, there's a replacement for the love I can't give you. Meet Mr. Robot. Enjoy.
Geez.
I did it to save content. That's what hyperlinks are for, after all :)
Wherever you choose to study, don't forget to learn java (yes, it's necessary where i live - even the basics), the MVC framework (multitier programming), UML notation, RUP, programming "good practices", etc.
If you can find a college where they have this material, well done! 50% of programming is having a good design. That's what makes the difference between a senior software developer and a... (despective)programmer.
A "programmer" can plug bits and pieces of code, drag some icons and have a visual basic program. A developer knows how to abstract data, ENGINEER applications, frameworks, and make a very good job, saving time and money.
This will give you a huge advantage over your competitors, when you start looking for jobs.
Also, do NOT be conformed with what you learn on school! If there are additional courses at college, say, a new programming language, or a new framework from X or Y company, do NOT - repeat, do _NOT_ ignore them just because they're not required for your grades!
This mistake costed me 2 long years of unemployment (and the subsequent stress and stomach aches) after graduating.
Perhaps you should read this thread for an alternative point of view.
This is an interesting situation. We all know Sharman networks tried to enforce their spyware upon file sharers, and they shut down Kazaa lite for this. They deserve to be punished...
but if they are... then it could become a legal precedent against file sharing networks (and free speech perhaps?)
Either way, file sharers lose.
But then again, who still uses Kazaa, anyway?
OK OK flamebait, troll, whatever... but I still don't see the point of having a very small niché language messing around open source projects... i've seen a sourceforge project that have a part written in Ocaml, and their dependance on a very small language which very few people know about, is stalling the project big time.
Maybe Ocaml is the heck of a development language, but I think it's about 5 years late...
my 2 cents.
Geeks are called "Pro-Am's" because they do not (or did not at a time) charge for their programs.
Take Virtualdub, for example. People use it for video edition, it's good, it's free, and it was done as a HOBBY (incidentally, because the author did it so he could do some stuff on anime - another hobby).
Linus said he just wanted to make "a better Minix than Minix". Sure he has an advanced degree, but he worked on Linux while in school, DOH!
But the important point is: People who write OSS don't have to depend economically on their OSS creations. Some could work for private companies on an anonymous programming job, making a private intranet site, or something.
That's what makes them Pro-Am's. Take a look at sourceforge. It has about 120,000 projects. Think about all the anonymous people who have worked on these projects. What would be of us without them?
Perhaps you should see the other side of the coin. Bill gates hasn't MURDERED anyone. Does that stop making him a villain?
The moment you catch a woman you _STOP_ being a geek. :-P
And no, Anime DOESN'T COUNT.
"Invation of the Win Snatchers".
(Courtesy of bugmenot.com ;-) )
One sign that Intel is having trouble dancing to technology's current beat may be the world's most expensive disco ball.
For a company holiday party next month, a handful of engineers assembled a disco ball - with hundreds of small reflective devices - to hang above the dance floor. The mirrors are leftover projection-television chips from Intel's planned effort to enter the digital television market - an effort the company recently abandoned only 10 months after a splashy introduction at the Consumer Electronics Show last January.
The TV effort became yet another in a series of embarrassing stumbles for Intel. The company has publicly canceled a succession of high-profile projects, has replaced managers in money-losing ventures and has fallen behind its keen competitor Advanced Micro Devices in introducing technologies, like a feature that wards off viruses and worms, in markets that Intel has long dominated.
A.M.D. has been so successful in stealing the spotlight from Intel lately that Kevin B. Rollins, the president of one of Intel's biggest customers, Dell Computer, said at a financial conference call this month that Dell was considering adding computers with A.M.D. chips to its product line.
For two decades, Intel has been the most sure-footed of Silicon Valley companies. But lately, it seems to have lost its way. "They have made many wrong decisions and now it's time for soul-searching and structural, not cosmetic, changes," said Ashok Kumar, a financial analyst at Raymond James & Associates.
This all portends an interesting inauguration for Intel's 50-year-old president, Paul S. Otellini, the longtime Intel marketing executive tapped by the board this month to become only the fourth chief executive in the company's history.
Mr. Otellini does not officially take the job until May. But next week in one of his first official acts as the designated chief executive, he plans to present his strategy to Wall Street analysts. He may have a lot to answer for, including the 25 percent decline in Intel's stock price this year.
Mr. Otellini will tell analysts that he plans to focus on four areas for growth: international markets for desktop personal computers, mobile and wireless applications, the digital home, as well as a new initiative aimed at large corporate computing markets that Intel is calling the Digital Office.
The strategy is a significant shift - a "right-hand turn," as Mr. Otellini likes to say - from Intel's long-term obsession with making ever-faster computer chips. Instead, the company is now concentrating on what he calls platforms: complete systems aimed at both computing and consumer electronics markets.
Mr. Otellini insists that the recent missteps, including the premature introduction he himself made of the digital project, are simply a result of over-optimistic marketing.
"What was wrong was that I made the decision to go public on it at the Consumer Electronics Show," he said in a recent interview in Intel's Santa Clara headquarters. "Error of judgment. Mea culpa. I learned a lesson."
The decision to preannounce an unproven technology was an uncharacteristic one for Intel, said G. Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research Inc., and a longtime observer of the company. However, he said, it has been Mr. Otellini's ascendancy at the company that has changed the way it markets technology.
"As he came into power Intel tried to become a more aggressive marketing company," he said. "They never seemingly made mistakes before and that was simply because they didn't preannounce. This is the classic failure of a company where the marketing guys are pushing the manufacturing guys more than what's there."
Intel is still a technology giant, the global leader in semiconductors, with revenue last year of more than $30 billion. The company retains an unrivaled manufacturing capacity, control of a powerful desktop computing standard, and an enviable internat
I remember I played a gnome who was an expert in making inventions. My most famous invention: The "insta-drink potion container. No turns required to drink!"
I prepared my ingredient list and handled it to my DM.
Ingredients:
1 long piece of skin to make the straw (yeah you drink by straw)
1 canteen
1 bottle of extra strong glue
8 heavy-duty nails, size "tiny"
The guys couldn't go on. When the DM finished reading the "heavy-duty" part, they all laughed for about a straight minute.
I just wonder how much heat these cell processors will produce. Will they require heatsinks 10 times larger than we currently have?
"Hey look at my brand new computer."
"Man! This thing is gigantic! I thought it used very tiny CPU's"
"They are. 90% of the case is for the heatsink."
"Oh..."
Aliens, Project Firestart...
:)
ahhh.... the old times...
is a blonde? :P
And then test it for a week to see if there weren't problems?
Gee.
In case you guys didn't notice, this is a Matrix reference.
I wonder. Why can't they automate the subpoenas?
That way they'd have one ready and well-written in case of a hacker emergency.
Oh well.
If they can make an easily-programmable engine that renders good quality cel-shaded characters, what else can we ask? :)
Who knows, we could make offspins of popular anime shows... ah, the fandom dream.
OK, count me in! ^_^
There have been chinese copyrights over western religious icons. Chinese IP's are used for spamming. Chinese govt's don't care about human rights. They got a lot of pirate copies of Windows. And you think they'll be scared of patent infringment?
Puh-lease.
One thing i hate about copy protection schemes in the PS2, for example, is that people aren't allowed to program their own games and distribute them. No, you have to get a contract with Sony, so they distribute your games in their uncopiable format, and they get their share. Oh, you haven't got the money? Sorry. "But the game..." NO DEAL!
Sometimes i wonder... have Sony forgotten their roots, when they were trying to sell transistor radios in Germany?
Wasn't too hard, was it?
Double the performance for twice the price.
After all, it's EA we're talking about, right?