Holy crap, aren't we a dumb bunch of talking apes. There's probably some pretty neat stuff out there beyond Earth...
Which is exactly why the aliens haven't contacted us. I'm sure that every interstellar map created has a big warning sticker right next to Earth warning to steer clear.
Do people still wear watches? With all of the devices that surround us every day that give the time and date, I'm surprised that watches are are sold and used any more.
Those vulnerabilities are exploitable. I know because i caught someone exploiting the buffer token error earlier today. We had to shut down our ssh server until we could add double-passback scanning to our firewall.
Activating double-passback scanning doesn't always work to stop the buffer token error exploit. I've found that it's far more secure, although a bit more work, to realign the phase coil compensators to route any TCP connections through a dual-pole quantum isolator. From there you can tune your TCP/IP carburetors to inject the packets manually onto the firewall's stack. OpenBSD's pf is the only firewall to support this at the moment. Be sure that you have enough semaphores available before you try this. It could crash your system if not configured properly.
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I seem to recall applications with names like chat and talk which allowed uses to communicate with anyone logged on at the same time. Do those not count as prior art because the users were all logged onto the same machine, and this patent covers multiple machines networked together?
Logged onto the same machine? What are you talking about? Have you never fingered an account on another machine to see if someone is logged in and then typed talk user@host.somewhere.org ? You should try it sometime. I've been doing it since 1992, at least. Both talk and ICQ easily count as prior art to this.
So what? My comment had nothing to do with removing ads and everything to do with what the slashdot editors see as what they think you should get for your money. Instead of getting a higher quality web site for your money, you get a site with no ads. Big deal. As you pointed out, removing ads in trivial as it is.
Let's see, a guy takes some of his precious time and answers questions for your readers (unpaid I assume), and you show your gratitude with a snide comment such as Whatever. because he took a little extra time to format things the way he wanted to.
I hope people remember that before they subscribe to slashdot. They'll be paying to remove the ads, not to have a higher quality web site.
Like you, I stopped playing music some time ago and recently started to get back into it. I shopped around for products and eventually settled on Reason. If you've played keyboards before, and you've dealt with any hardware such as mixers and rack synths, then you'll be right at home with Reason. It shows you a rack and you just add synths, samplers, mixers, and effects right on screen. Hit TAB and then you see the back of the rack where you can drag patch cables between the equipment. I felt right at home with it.
The price you quoted for Reason sounds rather expensive. I bought my copy for US$270 at my local music store (Guitar Center). I also got a MIDI keyboard and a cheap USB MIDI interface (Midiman Midisport 2x2) and a copy of Sound Forge. You should download the latest demo version of Reason and also listen to the example songs.
Forget using the built in sounds on your SoundBlaster. Reason, or any other software synth, is going to blow away those sounds. Plus they can play back samples as well. The synths are really synths, they're just in software instead of hardware. I personally don't see any reason to buy more hardware synths unless you are going to be performing live. One thing you will want to look at when choosing a sounds card is to make sure it has ASIO drivers. If not then the latency on the sound card will be too high. The bottom line on this is that there will be a delay between the time you press a key on your MIDI keyboard and when you hear the sound from the computer.
Yay! SWT got a footnote! It's a start. Too bad the author is a Java purist who assumes Swing is the only way to build GUIs in Java.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but SWT isn't part of Java; It's an add on from IBM. Bruce Eckel's book is to teach you the Java language as it comes from Sun.
Remember, software licenses aren't grounds for holy wars for most folks.
True, but they are legal documents nonetheless. Before I agree to use software, I want to know under what terms and conditions I'm allowed to use that software. Given that it has no source code, and I've never heard of the company that made the software, how do I know that it doesn't do more than it says it does? What if it's set to somehow damage my PDA after a certain amount of time has elapsed?
What is the license? Where is the source code? This isn't freshmeat.net so I hope there's something more significant than just a free ad for proprietary software.
For "simple" stuff, MySQL is (supposedly) quicker than PostgreSQL but you might want to check the following link for just why MySQL sucks for non-toy apps
I think that you're mischaracterizing that web page. That page describes why that one project chose to not use MySQL. It's not meant as a "MySQL sucks" page. There might be non-toy apps that a user has that don't require the extra features and data integrity support that PostgreSQL offers. That doesn't mean that MySQL isn't useful. In the end, the developer should choose the right tool for the job. For one person MySQL might be the better tool for what they are doing instead of PostgreSQL.
In the article, it says he had a pound of marajuana, and two assault rifles. The article then goes on about drugs, drugs, drugs, more drugs.
Excuse me? The pound of dope was more of a threat (well, more newsworthy) than ASSAULT RIFLES?
I know this will sound like a troll but it's meant as the truth. You see, this happened in America and here in America, guns and violence are okay. Sex and drugs are not. That's why there are so many films with gun fights, people getting killed, people getting hands blown off, screaming, dying, etc. But if there's some drugs involved, then it has to be bad guys. No one just smoking pot on their back porch can be a good guy. No sex either. We can expose "the children" to that. But guns and suffering and people dying horrible painful deaths are okay. So the focus is on the drugs. We're so fixated on the fact that someone had some pot that it goes almost unnoticed that there were deadly weapons in his possession.
It obviously was of value to the moderators - otherwise they would not have modded it up.
The inverse is also true. If your post contained content that people found valuable, then it would have stayed at a high moderation status. It didn't. Whether I "get it" or not is irrelevant, particularly because I didn't do any moderation of your post.
I can't believe that I get modded down just for you saying "his posting sucks"
Then maybe you should think harder. Your post contained no value. It shouldn't have been modded up in the first place. Once people realized that they modded your post based on the value of its content. Read the article next time before just spouting off at the mouth and maybe you'll get modded up based on the value of your contribution to the conversation.
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Stallman has been talking about this for some time. Although he's talking about free software and not open source software, the idea is the same.
Have you looked at the IBM ThinkPads? I'm in a similar situation as you and I bought a ThinkPad A31p.
Do people still wear watches? With all of the devices that surround us every day that give the time and date, I'm surprised that watches are are sold and used any more.
No wonder RMS wasn't chosen. He'd require a plugin to view his details. Can anyone post a non-flash translation?
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So what? My comment had nothing to do with removing ads and everything to do with what the slashdot editors see as what they think you should get for your money. Instead of getting a higher quality web site for your money, you get a site with no ads. Big deal. As you pointed out, removing ads in trivial as it is.
Strong words from a coward.
The price you quoted for Reason sounds rather expensive. I bought my copy for US$270 at my local music store (Guitar Center). I also got a MIDI keyboard and a cheap USB MIDI interface (Midiman Midisport 2x2) and a copy of Sound Forge. You should download the latest demo version of Reason and also listen to the example songs.
Forget using the built in sounds on your SoundBlaster. Reason, or any other software synth, is going to blow away those sounds. Plus they can play back samples as well. The synths are really synths, they're just in software instead of hardware. I personally don't see any reason to buy more hardware synths unless you are going to be performing live. One thing you will want to look at when choosing a sounds card is to make sure it has ASIO drivers. If not then the latency on the sound card will be too high. The bottom line on this is that there will be a delay between the time you press a key on your MIDI keyboard and when you hear the sound from the computer.
I guess you're right. I've never been to South America so I'm not an authority on the matter. :-)
Redundant? Give me a fucking break. This entire story is redundant.
It's a dupe. Please move along.
What is the license? Where is the source code? This isn't freshmeat.net so I hope there's something more significant than just a free ad for proprietary software.
Jesus, this is the FOURTH dupe today alone.