Seems to me that native Java would be virtually indistinguishable from native C++.
I can't believe how much Java has backed away from its cross-platform emphasis. Oh ok, let's make Jini for when you want to use Jave but need it in this special platform. And why not let you comile to a native binary? Sheesh... not much Java left.
I found the discussion of the OAL pathetic. Mainstream bands? Does this guy have no clue? The people that should release under OAL are electronic musicians or dj's, and it would probably be mostly amateurs. There is particularly a huge opportunity for amateur dj's to make mix cd's of amateur musicians' music. Since they would be allowed to sell them as long as they credit the original artist, rather than being forced to try to license all the music from record companies at ridiculous fees. Or giving away the cd's with 'For Promotional Use Only' written on them, which is actually still not legal. The techno/rave culture's focus on music that's made on computers, can be remixed on a computer, traded over a computer, and with everyone wanting to be a dj or producer or remixer seems a fertile ground for the OAL. The do it yourself attitude mimics that among the open source software community. People want to give music away, or want to take music others make and do something to make it their own. Not allowed with conventional audio licenses. Jimmy Buffet fans don't have much to gain.
What I think should be teemed up with the OAL is the 'source code' of the music. If I make a song and release just the finished.wav file, that's like distributing a binary of a program. Hard/impossible to really modify. If I release not just the song, but also all the individual.wav files that I used as samples, and a file describing how they're laid out (a.acd file for me because I primarily use Sonic Foundry products) then others are legally free AND TECHNICALLY ABLE to remix the song, use some elements, whatever. One of the neatest things that Sonic Foundry does is have remix contests on their Acidplanet.com site where artists like Beck or Madonna or the Beastie Boys make the original tracks (meaning all the component.wav files) available for a remix contest. It's then so easy to remix, cut up the samples, put in your own favorite loops, vocal samples, etc., really make the song your own. Just releasing the music would be like just selling OpenCola without the recipe on it. You need the 'source' for it to be truly open.
The Genesis cartridges were a different shape in Japan than in America. But there was a converter you could buy, so you could buy $10 japanese games instead of $30 american games. The hiragana/kanjii by the way is way more of a hassle than you'd think.
Anyone remember if this was produced by Sega? I'd imagine not, but they certainly didn't go after the company for selling it.
Is there any way these restrictions could be challenged under WTO rules?
You are allowed to resell your physical media if you've uninstalled all previous copies. Is the new owner bound by the license he only sees during the installation process? He cannot take advantage of any 'return for refund' option if he bought it in an estate sale or from a storage unit place auctioning off stuff from college students that didn't pay their summer storage fees. Is it a valid contract if you have no choice but to accept it? Are the companies supposed to allow someone who buys software in an auction to return it for a refund at retail price? Or are we just starting to enter this era and there are no legal guidelines?
If the amount of lead that leached into the water were at least equal to the amount that a kid gets eating paint flakes, then I'd say there's the potential for damage. I have no physical measurements on either of these. But I'd imagine it would take a while for enough oxides to cover the inside of the pipes to prevent most leaching.
If you're trying for karma whoring, post early on in many discussions. If you don't get in early you probably won't get noticed. Moderators tend to reinforce the decisions earlier moderators made. If one mods you up +1 informative at the beginning of a discussion, others are likely to follow. There are a lot of +1 posts, and a lot of +5 posts. Ones ranked in the middle are rarer.
Unfortunately this gets very boring very quickly. And you can never tell what will strike a moderators fancy. I was astounded to get like 8 karma out of a couple posts about the Matrix. I didn't even think anyone would read them.
The most interesting meat in a discussion usually takes some time to evolve and is near the bottom where moderators too often don't see it.
Lost one dude! Maybe you should have mentioned something interesting, like the fact that the country is sinking beneath the ocean and the people have no idea what will happen or where they will go when their islands are gone.
And when the islands and country are gone, should the.tv extension go too?
I assume Microsoft has reserved it. But not registered it. Or maybe they're screening out trademark violations? I don't know. Looking in their WHOIS for microsoft.tv gives you this oh so valuable information "microsoft.tv is not available."
Um, yeah. That's exactly what a WHOIS should tell me. It's not available, but not registered. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the twilight zone.
This is apparently their policy:
"What is WHOIS?
A WHOIS lookup enables you to find the registered owner of a domain in the central Shared Registry System. For.tv names, only your Registrant Information will be displayed in WHOIS lookups. For.com,.net,.org,.info, and.biz, ICANN has established industry-wide guidelines for the WHOIS information that must be displayed which includes the Administrative and Technical contact information. You can visit your Account Manager and click on the 'My Profile' link to update your personal information. "
So they say they're not going to follow ICANN's policy. Neato.
abc.tv is registered (hey it expires in December if anyone wants to see if they forget about renewing it) and has a normal WHOIS. Darn, someone's already registered brianwhite.tv. Hmm, but the registration expired over a month ago:
Record expires on: Dec 8 2001, weird.
"What will happen to my Web address if I do not renew?
If you choose not to renew your Web address, the address will become available for registration after the expiration date. At this time, the Web address will be placed back into our inventory and can be registered on a first-come, first-serve basis.
"
Actually the water level is rising. They will be the first nation wiped off the face of the planet as the result of global warming. They have no idea where all the people will go, but their nation will cease to exist.
When the hell did periods disappear from acronyms? I VERY clearly remember being taught in elementary school that acronyms use the first letter from each word, capitalized, and followed by a period. Like N.A.S.A. or A.I. Was I hallucinating all of fourth grade? Surely I didn't start that young.
When did the nation vote to remove periods? When was this on the nightly news? PDAs CANNOT work by the rules as I know them. Personal Digital Assistants would just be P.D.A. Making it indistinguishable from Personal Digital Assistant, P.D.A. N.A.S.A.s makes no sense. Grammar nazis, what the hell are the rules for capitalizing and pluralizing acronyms?
Anyone ever carefully read the EULA for Java? You aren't allowed to use Java to control pacemakers or nuclear facilities.
I don't know why, but I just found that hilarious.
I know what you mean about pacemakers. They always put those signs on the scanners at libraries that check to see if you're taking a book without checking it out warning that they might interfere with pacemakers. I always wondered how they decided to install them.
"We have this new device that prevents people from stealing our books."
"Great, lets install it."
"There's one catch, it kills old people."
"Oh who the hell cares about that? Install the damn thing. And make sure this old person killing device runs on Java."
I keep hearing people in the other stall in the bathroom using their fucking pda's. Sitting there and 'Beep, beep, tap tap tap'. C'mon, now that's just an inappropriate use of a pda. You don't need to get up to the minute stock quotes or save the galaxy from aliens when you're taking your morning dump.
Drinking lead can cause real health problems, especially among children. That is actually my new favorite theory explaining the decline of the Roman empire, all the aristocracy drank from marvelous plumbing made of, yup, lead pipes.
And besides, I saw on the X-Files how there's a big government conspiracy to cover up the health effects of power lines:)
Is an indirect source of solar power, winds are driven by the energy incoming from the sun. Even hydro-electric power is driven by the evaporation/cooling cycle that occurs because of the sun. There are many ways to tap the power of the sun, but dams built for hydroelectric projects have had negative environmental impacts, and I'm afraid really large scale wind power could too.
Except for nuclear reactions (fission or fusion) all the energy we use has solar as an ultimate origin. Petrochemicals are decayed remnants of plants that grew from the sun and animals that ate those plants.
I guess geothermal is an exception, pure heat energy we can tap that doesn't come from the sun. But I think living off the energy that enters the system (solar) is a good goal for any kind of sustainable growth.
Plants are the main source in the ecosystem where energy enters the system. Energy enters from the sun, stored in sugars by the plant thru photosynthesis. I'm not sure of the breakdown of on a more granular level, the 30% referred to the plant as a system. It might be more efficient than that at storing the energy, but then lose a lot of energy moving the sugars around or redigesting them.
I'm a 27 year old programmer with a B.S. in Architecture. I make good money. I'm not a 12 year old kid. But I have seen half the things that were wild sci-fi when I read them at 12 become reality.
You don't get the idea of a singularity, I won't spend time explaining it to you, look it up. "except for the Internet, and computers" is the understatement of this admittedly rather new millenium. Computers are helping to produce a qualitative change in the rate of change itself. Look at genomics, weather modelling, rapid prototyping, etc. The change just hasn't been what we expected. No jetpacks, no rocket cars. But a global encyclopedia of all human knowledge?
Moore's law will not hit any significant barriers until it hits ultimate physical limits, by which time quantuum computing and bio-computers will be near commercial viability. Doesn't really matter if you believe it, it'll happen anyway.
In interstellar space. In interstellar space it's about all there is. The idea of a ram scoop ship is to extend large magnetic fields which collect hydrogen (which is just out there) and funnel it into the fusion reactors we admittedly don't know how to build yet. So you can collect fuel as you travel. The chemical bonds would be irrelevant to the fusion reactor. That to me is the ultimate dream of hydrogen as a fuel, not for use in a fuel cell but for use in a fusion reactor.
Maybe one order of magnitude, correctly. Plants are about 30% efficient. Solar cells are about 3% efficient. C'mon. I know we can do as well as grass. Ideally we'd do a couple times better.
it's down. so this is the only way you can see the article now. a bit of karma whoring maybe, but if this was standard with each story maybe we wouldn't be DoS'ing all these innocent sites.
Kids don't need to be smacked. Hitting is not good discipline. Training a kid is a lot like training a dog, and I don't hit my dogs, why would I hit my kids? Of course, a lot of s.o.b.'s abuse their dogs.
This said, anyone old enough to launch a DoS attack is not a little kid. Maybe not an adult, but hardly a toddler. As moral agents they need to realize there are consequences for their actions, and the lack of consequences is the biggest reason people are more likely to launch DoS attacks, start flame wars, etc. online rather than in real life. In real life you're always wondering if you're going to get your ass kicked, this is missing right now online. It will eventually evolve though, the tools will get easy enough to use that everyone will have them and your group of online friends will stick together to DoS people that mess with you. Primitive societies. Eventually evolving their own police, 'local' laws, etc.
They're monkeys hurling feces. They will stop if they think a bigger monkey will kick their ass. That's why they're not firebombing people, because if they did that they'd get caught. But the cop monkeys don't understand DoS attacks so there is no fear of reprisal. Look at how monkeys deal with the issue. Do you really think humans have any better a handle on it?
It's monkey nature. Everyone needs to remember we're monkeys at heart. We hurl shit at other monkeys to mark our territory and make us feel good about ourselves.
We only refrain from hurling shit when we're afraid of a bigger monkey. This is the role of law and punishment, to restrain our inherent monkey behavior. The little script monkey who wouldn't do this in real life because the other meat monkeys will see him destroying their property and beat his meat monkey ass is overjoyed to find himself the biggest cyber monkey on the block.
That seems like a pretty snobby attitude to me. First off so you don't get the wrong impression, I'm a programmer by trade and not a script kiddie, cracker, etc. of any kind.
Does a soldier understand an M-16? Not can they do field maintenance on it, but could they design or build it themselves? How about an ICBM? That seems like a good analogy. Online weapons will be much like real world weapons, those who build them won't necessarily be the ones using them, and also won't necessarily be the most skilled in their use. Those who use them will become the most skilled in their use. That's what technology, especially software, is all about - one person figures out how to do it once and grants that ability to everyone else, who then don't need to bother to figure out how it works. And it's a good thing that you don't have to figure it out. I am uninterested in the mathematics and sound theory used to compress.wav files to.mp3 files, I just want to know how to use the codec to make good sounding small files. I couldn't write an mp3 or ogg vorbis codec myself. And I wouldn't try. But I'm glad someone did since I want that functionality. I don't need any DoS tools. But if I did, I wouldn't know how to write them, I would just use something someone else wrote. The bad part would be using those tools. It wouldn't be any worse because they weren't my hand-written tools. It wouldn't be any better if they were my hand-written tools.
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Seems to me that native Java would be virtually indistinguishable from native C++.
I can't believe how much Java has backed away from its cross-platform emphasis. Oh ok, let's make Jini for when you want to use Jave but need it in this special platform. And why not let you comile to a native binary? Sheesh... not much Java left.
I found the discussion of the OAL pathetic. Mainstream bands? Does this guy have no clue? The people that should release under OAL are electronic musicians or dj's, and it would probably be mostly amateurs. There is particularly a huge opportunity for amateur dj's to make mix cd's of amateur musicians' music. Since they would be allowed to sell them as long as they credit the original artist, rather than being forced to try to license all the music from record companies at ridiculous fees. Or giving away the cd's with 'For Promotional Use Only' written on them, which is actually still not legal. The techno/rave culture's focus on music that's made on computers, can be remixed on a computer, traded over a computer, and with everyone wanting to be a dj or producer or remixer seems a fertile ground for the OAL. The do it yourself attitude mimics that among the open source software community. People want to give music away, or want to take music others make and do something to make it their own. Not allowed with conventional audio licenses. Jimmy Buffet fans don't have much to gain.
.wav file, that's like distributing a binary of a program. Hard/impossible to really modify. If I release not just the song, but also all the individual .wav files that I used as samples, and a file describing how they're laid out (a .acd file for me because I primarily use Sonic Foundry products) then others are legally free AND TECHNICALLY ABLE to remix the song, use some elements, whatever. One of the neatest things that Sonic Foundry does is have remix contests on their Acidplanet.com site where artists like Beck or Madonna or the Beastie Boys make the original tracks (meaning all the component .wav files) available for a remix contest. It's then so easy to remix, cut up the samples, put in your own favorite loops, vocal samples, etc., really make the song your own. Just releasing the music would be like just selling OpenCola without the recipe on it. You need the 'source' for it to be truly open.
What I think should be teemed up with the OAL is the 'source code' of the music. If I make a song and release just the finished
The Genesis cartridges were a different shape in Japan than in America. But there was a converter you could buy, so you could buy $10 japanese games instead of $30 american games. The hiragana/kanjii by the way is way more of a hassle than you'd think.
Anyone remember if this was produced by Sega? I'd imagine not, but they certainly didn't go after the company for selling it.
Is there any way these restrictions could be challenged under WTO rules?
You are allowed to resell your physical media if you've uninstalled all previous copies. Is the new owner bound by the license he only sees during the installation process? He cannot take advantage of any 'return for refund' option if he bought it in an estate sale or from a storage unit place auctioning off stuff from college students that didn't pay their summer storage fees. Is it a valid contract if you have no choice but to accept it? Are the companies supposed to allow someone who buys software in an auction to return it for a refund at retail price? Or are we just starting to enter this era and there are no legal guidelines?
Don't waste mod points modding me down. Just mod the parent up, up, up, simply brilliant. AND TOTALLY on topic.
If the amount of lead that leached into the water were at least equal to the amount that a kid gets eating paint flakes, then I'd say there's the potential for damage. I have no physical measurements on either of these. But I'd imagine it would take a while for enough oxides to cover the inside of the pipes to prevent most leaching.
If you're trying for karma whoring, post early on in many discussions. If you don't get in early you probably won't get noticed. Moderators tend to reinforce the decisions earlier moderators made. If one mods you up +1 informative at the beginning of a discussion, others are likely to follow. There are a lot of +1 posts, and a lot of +5 posts. Ones ranked in the middle are rarer.
Unfortunately this gets very boring very quickly. And you can never tell what will strike a moderators fancy. I was astounded to get like 8 karma out of a couple posts about the Matrix. I didn't even think anyone would read them.
The most interesting meat in a discussion usually takes some time to evolve and is near the bottom where moderators too often don't see it.
Lost one dude! Maybe you should have mentioned something interesting, like the fact that the country is sinking beneath the ocean and the people have no idea what will happen or where they will go when their islands are gone.
.tv extension go too?
And when the islands and country are gone, should the
I went to microsoft.tv.
.tv names, only your Registrant Information will be displayed in WHOIS lookups. For .com, .net, .org, .info, and .biz, ICANN has established industry-wide guidelines for the WHOIS information that must be displayed which includes the Administrative and Technical contact information. You can visit your Account Manager and click on the 'My Profile' link to update your personal information. "
I assume Microsoft has reserved it. But not registered it. Or maybe they're screening out trademark violations? I don't know. Looking in their WHOIS for microsoft.tv gives you this oh so valuable information "microsoft.tv is not available."
Um, yeah. That's exactly what a WHOIS should tell me. It's not available, but not registered. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the twilight zone.
This is apparently their policy:
"What is WHOIS?
A WHOIS lookup enables you to find the registered owner of a domain in the central Shared Registry System. For
So they say they're not going to follow ICANN's policy. Neato.
abc.tv is registered (hey it expires in December if anyone wants to see if they forget about renewing it) and has a normal WHOIS. Darn, someone's already registered brianwhite.tv. Hmm, but the registration expired over a month ago:
Record expires on: Dec 8 2001, weird.
"What will happen to my Web address if I do not renew?
If you choose not to renew your Web address, the address will become available for registration after the expiration date. At this time, the Web address will be placed back into our inventory and can be registered on a first-come, first-serve basis.
"
Tuvalu sold the extension a year ago. Done deal, ancient history. THIS story is about the fact that now Verisign bought the company they sold it to.
Tuvalu sold .tv a year ago. Now Verisign bought the company they sold it to. Easy to be confused, but no need to SHOUT about it.
Actually the water level is rising. They will be the first nation wiped off the face of the planet as the result of global warming. They have no idea where all the people will go, but their nation will cease to exist.
When the hell did periods disappear from acronyms? I VERY clearly remember being taught in elementary school that acronyms use the first letter from each word, capitalized, and followed by a period. Like N.A.S.A. or A.I. Was I hallucinating all of fourth grade? Surely I didn't start that young.
When did the nation vote to remove periods? When was this on the nightly news? PDAs CANNOT work by the rules as I know them. Personal Digital Assistants would just be P.D.A. Making it indistinguishable from Personal Digital Assistant, P.D.A. N.A.S.A.s makes no sense. Grammar nazis, what the hell are the rules for capitalizing and pluralizing acronyms?
Anyone ever carefully read the EULA for Java? You aren't allowed to use Java to control pacemakers or nuclear facilities.
I don't know why, but I just found that hilarious.
I know what you mean about pacemakers. They always put those signs on the scanners at libraries that check to see if you're taking a book without checking it out warning that they might interfere with pacemakers. I always wondered how they decided to install them.
"We have this new device that prevents people from stealing our books."
"Great, lets install it."
"There's one catch, it kills old people."
"Oh who the hell cares about that? Install the damn thing. And make sure this old person killing device runs on Java."
I keep hearing people in the other stall in the bathroom using their fucking pda's. Sitting there and 'Beep, beep, tap tap tap'. C'mon, now that's just an inappropriate use of a pda. You don't need to get up to the minute stock quotes or save the galaxy from aliens when you're taking your morning dump.
Drinking lead can cause real health problems, especially among children. That is actually my new favorite theory explaining the decline of the Roman empire, all the aristocracy drank from marvelous plumbing made of, yup, lead pipes.
:)
And besides, I saw on the X-Files how there's a big government conspiracy to cover up the health effects of power lines
Is an indirect source of solar power, winds are driven by the energy incoming from the sun. Even hydro-electric power is driven by the evaporation/cooling cycle that occurs because of the sun. There are many ways to tap the power of the sun, but dams built for hydroelectric projects have had negative environmental impacts, and I'm afraid really large scale wind power could too.
Except for nuclear reactions (fission or fusion) all the energy we use has solar as an ultimate origin. Petrochemicals are decayed remnants of plants that grew from the sun and animals that ate those plants.
I guess geothermal is an exception, pure heat energy we can tap that doesn't come from the sun. But I think living off the energy that enters the system (solar) is a good goal for any kind of sustainable growth.
Plants are the main source in the ecosystem where energy enters the system. Energy enters from the sun, stored in sugars by the plant thru photosynthesis. I'm not sure of the breakdown of on a more granular level, the 30% referred to the plant as a system. It might be more efficient than that at storing the energy, but then lose a lot of energy moving the sugars around or redigesting them.
I'm a 27 year old programmer with a B.S. in Architecture. I make good money. I'm not a 12 year old kid. But I have seen half the things that were wild sci-fi when I read them at 12 become reality.
You don't get the idea of a singularity, I won't spend time explaining it to you, look it up. "except for the Internet, and computers" is the understatement of this admittedly rather new millenium. Computers are helping to produce a qualitative change in the rate of change itself. Look at genomics, weather modelling, rapid prototyping, etc. The change just hasn't been what we expected. No jetpacks, no rocket cars. But a global encyclopedia of all human knowledge?
Moore's law will not hit any significant barriers until it hits ultimate physical limits, by which time quantuum computing and bio-computers will be near commercial viability. Doesn't really matter if you believe it, it'll happen anyway.
In interstellar space. In interstellar space it's about all there is. The idea of a ram scoop ship is to extend large magnetic fields which collect hydrogen (which is just out there) and funnel it into the fusion reactors we admittedly don't know how to build yet. So you can collect fuel as you travel. The chemical bonds would be irrelevant to the fusion reactor. That to me is the ultimate dream of hydrogen as a fuel, not for use in a fuel cell but for use in a fusion reactor.
Maybe one order of magnitude, correctly. Plants are about 30% efficient. Solar cells are about 3% efficient. C'mon. I know we can do as well as grass. Ideally we'd do a couple times better.
it's down. so this is the only way you can see the article now. a bit of karma whoring maybe, but if this was standard with each story maybe we wouldn't be DoS'ing all these innocent sites.
Kids don't need to be smacked. Hitting is not good discipline. Training a kid is a lot like training a dog, and I don't hit my dogs, why would I hit my kids? Of course, a lot of s.o.b.'s abuse their dogs.
This said, anyone old enough to launch a DoS attack is not a little kid. Maybe not an adult, but hardly a toddler. As moral agents they need to realize there are consequences for their actions, and the lack of consequences is the biggest reason people are more likely to launch DoS attacks, start flame wars, etc. online rather than in real life. In real life you're always wondering if you're going to get your ass kicked, this is missing right now online. It will eventually evolve though, the tools will get easy enough to use that everyone will have them and your group of online friends will stick together to DoS people that mess with you. Primitive societies. Eventually evolving their own police, 'local' laws, etc.
They're monkeys hurling feces. They will stop if they think a bigger monkey will kick their ass. That's why they're not firebombing people, because if they did that they'd get caught. But the cop monkeys don't understand DoS attacks so there is no fear of reprisal. Look at how monkeys deal with the issue. Do you really think humans have any better a handle on it?
It's monkey nature. Everyone needs to remember we're monkeys at heart. We hurl shit at other monkeys to mark our territory and make us feel good about ourselves.
We only refrain from hurling shit when we're afraid of a bigger monkey. This is the role of law and punishment, to restrain our inherent monkey behavior. The little script monkey who wouldn't do this in real life because the other meat monkeys will see him destroying their property and beat his meat monkey ass is overjoyed to find himself the biggest cyber monkey on the block.
That seems like a pretty snobby attitude to me. First off so you don't get the wrong impression, I'm a programmer by trade and not a script kiddie, cracker, etc. of any kind.
.wav files to .mp3 files, I just want to know how to use the codec to make good sounding small files. I couldn't write an mp3 or ogg vorbis codec myself. And I wouldn't try. But I'm glad someone did since I want that functionality. I don't need any DoS tools. But if I did, I wouldn't know how to write them, I would just use something someone else wrote. The bad part would be using those tools. It wouldn't be any worse because they weren't my hand-written tools. It wouldn't be any better if they were my hand-written tools.
Does a soldier understand an M-16? Not can they do field maintenance on it, but could they design or build it themselves? How about an ICBM? That seems like a good analogy. Online weapons will be much like real world weapons, those who build them won't necessarily be the ones using them, and also won't necessarily be the most skilled in their use. Those who use them will become the most skilled in their use. That's what technology, especially software, is all about - one person figures out how to do it once and grants that ability to everyone else, who then don't need to bother to figure out how it works. And it's a good thing that you don't have to figure it out. I am uninterested in the mathematics and sound theory used to compress