i think that if we scratch the surface a little deeper here, m$ has been introduced to a fast and inexpensive way to deliver media with DRM to consumers.
think about it: m$ wants to sell you music and movies, but they don't want to invest huge amounts of money in servers all over the place, they want a way to deliver media with DRM, and you want faster downloads. so, enter avalanche. you deliver microsoft's content, and you don't complain because you get can download content very quickly. (you might complain, but not Joe WindowsUser)
i bet you'll see something like this built in behind the scenes in windows media player. maybe it'll integrate with their music store, and maybe they're working on a video store.
i think the fact that you're thinking about this is great, and this is probably the most interesting question i've read on ask slashdot.
i'm 23 now and i was raised in an environment that encouraged both. my dad is a EE and has worked in the industry in one capacity or another his whole life. i do not know what it is like to live without a computer.
our family also has a mountain home where we went every weekend to go hiking, mountain biking, running, skiing, sledding, backpacking....you name it.
what's the result? well, i'm training to run a marathon in October and i'm the VP of development for my own company (see my link). i've played hockey for 15 years, climbed 14ers, and i've been working as a programmer in the industry since i was 18.
i think introducing your child to technology at a young age is a good idea - in moderation. as a result, your children will be able to use technology much more easily as an adult whether they drive busses or write code that monitors nuclear reactors. either way, it's positive.
your introduction may stick with your child, or they may not be interested. if they're not interested, maybe they will be in a couple years.
outdoor activites and interest in technology is not mutually exclusive. i read another post that said your children will be interested in what you're interested in. in a broad sense, i think it's true. if you're interested in exercise/sports, your child will be more likely to enjoy it as well. Same thing with technology.
so technology isn't evil for children, but make sure their exposure to it is for intellectual pursuit versus gaming. i think most video games (not all) are just bad. they steal time and motivation from times when children could be learning or growing.
i think you should expose your children to useful technology at a slow pace and constantly execise with them. even if they don't want to exercise. i hated hiking when i was 12, i love it now. i'm glad i was forced to do it even when i hated it then.
ok. those are my two cents. congratulations on your child!
pauly shore discovered a frozen caveman back about 13 years ago and even dethawed him and brought him back to life! These guys only found cave bear DNA...lame.
Summary: Stoney and Dave find a caveman (Link) trapped in ice, thaw him out, and show him around town. Although Link is slow to catch on to basic concepts of 20th century life, he has no trouble impressing all the girls and helping Stoney and Dave find the coolness they've been searching for.
the compelling (only) reason we've been exposed to is the attributes you get through OO - polymorphism, encapsulation and inheritence, with inheritence being the real payoff to switching.
for example, if you sell widgets and you have three types of customers - individuals, wholesale, and resellers - certain information would be common which would be a "super table" with the others inheriting from it. but it seems like it's just not worth the effort required to do a complete ORDB for that simple example.
i'm sure there are other reasons, but this is what i've been exposed to.
netbeans is definitely a much more focused application than eclipse. i've been using it for years, but i couldn't tell you if it supported plug-ins. i don't think it does. never looked.
like you said, eclipse is so versatile and it doesn't sound like netbeans would work for you anyway. i hope i didn't imply your opinion was invalid because of bias.
your website has two entries that are quite telling about your post:
PHP? Yeah, I like it.
Senior Linux Administrator @ eclipse.org
so you like PHP, you do some work for Eclipse, and you like PHP with Eclipse better than netbeans with eclipse?
i've never done PHP with either and i'm not trolling just interested in how you based your opinion.
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I like using Netbeans much more than Eclipse as well.
Eclipse has this philosophy of "it can do anything since it's just a framework" philosophy, and somehow they pulled off a general, plug-in based application that works really well.
Eclipse doesn't actually exist as a Java IDE itself, the plug-ins make it a Java IDE, and it works. It has some cool features that Netbeans doesn't like compiling as you code, SWT, and a lot more you could name.
The bottom line is that Netbeans does one thing, does it well, and keeps it simple. Eclipse is great for a lot of people, but for me I like the Netbeans approach.
This just goes to show you what a great company microsoft is.
They are really making an effort to provide end users with the best possible experience, and they are just demolishing their competitors with their lower prices, better products, superior customer service and overall they are just nice people.
Oh, one more thing Bill, you misspelled my name on the check. That's an 'a' not an 'o'. Care for a reach around?
"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase....The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."
i typed korean into the search box and it immediately crashed the language bar, explorer, and MSN search.
XP's foreign language support could be improved. my mac handles it much better. don't know about linux...
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In the article, Apple engineer Maciej Stachowiak said,
"One thing you may want to consider eventually is back-porting (WebCore) to work on top of (KDE)... We'd be open to making our tree multi-platform."
I wonder if that means they are looking to port Safari to Windows. It would give Windows users another taste of the Mac, and I for one would use it.
I don't know why this parent post doesn't have a +5 insightful rating. A couple of his comments are a little overboard, but his point of view is valid: welcome to something very hard.
I'm an undergrad and started my software company 4.5 years ago (click the link below my name). I'm 23 years old.
Paul Graham makes a great point, the cost to get to market is smaller these days, but the rules of business haven't changed, and a startup will test you and your will more than you may imagine.
I'm a CS undergrad, and I think some of my collegues are undervalued, but many of them have never even had an internship. Without an internship prior to graduation, you may be overvalued.
Yes, iPod is the cash-cow, like you say. But, I'm not sure Apple should open up Fairplay.
I mean, the system isn't broken, so why fix it by opening up Fairplay? Where is the big gain? Maybe other stores would sell more iPods, but :
I don't think people are calling for other stores to sell music with Fairplay DRM.
Part of what Apple delivers is the "whole experience" which, I think, is a major selling point for them. How can the experience be improved by having walmart.com sell Fairplay DRM based music.
So Apple has a system that collectively sells about 70% of the music-players (maybe more) and 75% of online music. They currently don't have a pressing reason to open up their integration. Consumers aren't calling for it, and if they are, it's probably a minority. The recording industry is who really wants it broken up, they want to charge more per song.
Lastly, iTunes hasn't been a big money-maker previously, but last quarter it was profitable. $200 million I think? Could be different. But it was profitable.
We'll see what they do. The iPod/iTMS business model won't last forever so it should be interesting.
I guess the moderators are valley girls who shriek "Oh my gawd" while skipping together arm-in-arm wearing mini-skirts. Clearly, they find your OMFG comments insightful, but only after 90120 has gone on a commercial break.
"After intensive tests for all morning, the battery of the car was running low!"
However, if a car was left with it's electronic equipment turned on (for a long period of time), it sounds like it could be possible. It's a very interesting idea to DOS a car...
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this looks like a really good book. i'm going to check it out.
thanks for the recommendation!
I agree. Elements of Style is a great book.
On Writing Well is another great book, though it's not exclusively about technical writing. It does, however, briefly cover it.
It's definitely worth a read. Or three, in my case.
i think that if we scratch the surface a little deeper here, m$ has been introduced to a fast and inexpensive way to deliver media with DRM to consumers.
think about it: m$ wants to sell you music and movies, but they don't want to invest huge amounts of money in servers all over the place, they want a way to deliver media with DRM, and you want faster downloads. so, enter avalanche. you deliver microsoft's content, and you don't complain because you get can download content very quickly. (you might complain, but not Joe WindowsUser)
i bet you'll see something like this built in behind the scenes in windows media player. maybe it'll integrate with their music store, and maybe they're working on a video store.
i think the fact that you're thinking about this is great, and this is probably the most interesting question i've read on ask slashdot.
i'm 23 now and i was raised in an environment that encouraged both. my dad is a EE and has worked in the industry in one capacity or another his whole life. i do not know what it is like to live without a computer.
our family also has a mountain home where we went every weekend to go hiking, mountain biking, running, skiing, sledding, backpacking....you name it.
what's the result? well, i'm training to run a marathon in October and i'm the VP of development for my own company (see my link). i've played hockey for 15 years, climbed 14ers, and i've been working as a programmer in the industry since i was 18.
i think introducing your child to technology at a young age is a good idea - in moderation. as a result, your children will be able to use technology much more easily as an adult whether they drive busses or write code that monitors nuclear reactors. either way, it's positive.
your introduction may stick with your child, or they may not be interested. if they're not interested, maybe they will be in a couple years.
outdoor activites and interest in technology is not mutually exclusive. i read another post that said your children will be interested in what you're interested in. in a broad sense, i think it's true. if you're interested in exercise/sports, your child will be more likely to enjoy it as well. Same thing with technology.
so technology isn't evil for children, but make sure their exposure to it is for intellectual pursuit versus gaming. i think most video games (not all) are just bad. they steal time and motivation from times when children could be learning or growing.
i think you should expose your children to useful technology at a slow pace and constantly execise with them. even if they don't want to exercise. i hated hiking when i was 12, i love it now. i'm glad i was forced to do it even when i hated it then.
ok. those are my two cents. congratulations on your child!
pauly shore discovered a frozen caveman back about 13 years ago and even dethawed him and brought him back to life! These guys only found cave bear DNA...lame.
Encino Man
Summary:
Stoney and Dave find a caveman (Link) trapped in ice, thaw him out, and show him around town. Although Link is slow to catch on to basic concepts of 20th century life, he has no trouble impressing all the girls and helping Stoney and Dave find the coolness they've been searching for.
you gotta be kidding. plain AA/AAA batteries are the WORST way to go.
First of all, they aren't rechargable which creates a steady flow of dead batteries polluting our environment.
Second, it ends up costing more money for your mp3 player because you have to constantly purchase more batteries.
you should get an mp3 player with an easily replacable, rechargable battery.
Oh, and about 4 million "morons" bought devices whose batteries cannot be changed, fyi.
those are good points.
the compelling (only) reason we've been exposed to is the attributes you get through OO - polymorphism, encapsulation and inheritence, with inheritence being the real payoff to switching.
for example, if you sell widgets and you have three types of customers - individuals, wholesale, and resellers - certain information would be common which would be a "super table" with the others inheriting from it. but it seems like it's just not worth the effort required to do a complete ORDB for that simple example.
i'm sure there are other reasons, but this is what i've been exposed to.
I'm taking a DB course right now and we've been discussing the future of databases, and the prof seems to think it's Object relation databases.
How wide-spread is OR DB is the industry? I've never used one. What's the story with them?
wow that is really interesting. i've been using netbeans for years and didn't know this. learn something every day...
and here's the link to the modules (plugins).
this is really going to make a difference for me...thanks for the clarification.
netbeans is definitely a much more focused application than eclipse. i've been using it for years, but i couldn't tell you if it supported plug-ins. i don't think it does. never looked.
like you said, eclipse is so versatile and it doesn't sound like netbeans would work for you anyway. i hope i didn't imply your opinion was invalid because of bias.
cheers!
- PHP? Yeah, I like it.
- Senior Linux Administrator @ eclipse.org
so you like PHP, you do some work for Eclipse, and you like PHP with Eclipse better than netbeans with eclipse?i've never done PHP with either and i'm not trolling just interested in how you based your opinion.
I like using Netbeans much more than Eclipse as well.
Eclipse has this philosophy of "it can do anything since it's just a framework" philosophy, and somehow they pulled off a general, plug-in based application that works really well.
Eclipse doesn't actually exist as a Java IDE itself, the plug-ins make it a Java IDE, and it works. It has some cool features that Netbeans doesn't like compiling as you code, SWT, and a lot more you could name.
The bottom line is that Netbeans does one thing, does it well, and keeps it simple. Eclipse is great for a lot of people, but for me I like the Netbeans approach.
downloading 4.1 now....go netbeans!
This just goes to show you what a great company microsoft is.
They are really making an effort to provide end users with the best possible experience, and they are just demolishing their competitors with their lower prices, better products, superior customer service and overall they are just nice people.
Oh, one more thing Bill, you misspelled my name on the check. That's an 'a' not an 'o'. Care for a reach around?
"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."
Frank Herbert
Don't fire Michael and Samir. Especially if they have a friend named Peter - who checks out that chick on channel 9. Whooo!
doesn't she look like anne?
i typed korean into the search box and it immediately crashed the language bar, explorer, and MSN search.
XP's foreign language support could be improved. my mac handles it much better. don't know about linux...
In the article, Apple engineer Maciej Stachowiak said,
"One thing you may want to consider eventually is back-porting (WebCore) to work on top of (KDE)... We'd be open to making our tree multi-platform."
I wonder if that means they are looking to port Safari to Windows. It would give Windows users another taste of the Mac, and I for one would use it.
I don't know why this parent post doesn't have a +5 insightful rating. A couple of his comments are a little overboard, but his point of view is valid: welcome to something very hard.
I'm an undergrad and started my software company 4.5 years ago (click the link below my name). I'm 23 years old.
Paul Graham makes a great point, the cost to get to market is smaller these days, but the rules of business haven't changed, and a startup will test you and your will more than you may imagine.
I'm a CS undergrad, and I think some of my collegues are undervalued, but many of them have never even had an internship. Without an internship prior to graduation, you may be overvalued.
It only costs $12.74 to launch a ship into space.
I'm so sick of people who think that space travel isn't affordable to the average person.
Trinity: what do you need?
Neo: estes rockets. lots of estes rockets. and big rubber bands.
Trinity: nobody has ever tried anything like this before.
Neo: that's why it's going to work.
DAMN MY TYPOS!
90210...Beverly Hills 90210. You know the old show.
*twirling finger in hair while chewing gum loudly*
The moderators can only get work done during the, like, commercials.
i kid, i kid.
I mean, the system isn't broken, so why fix it by opening up Fairplay? Where is the big gain? Maybe other stores would sell more iPods, but :
- I don't think people are calling for other stores to sell music with Fairplay DRM.
- Part of what Apple delivers is the "whole experience" which, I think, is a major selling point for them. How can the experience be improved by having walmart.com sell Fairplay DRM based music.
So Apple has a system that collectively sells about 70% of the music-players (maybe more) and 75% of online music. They currently don't have a pressing reason to open up their integration. Consumers aren't calling for it, and if they are, it's probably a minority. The recording industry is who really wants it broken up, they want to charge more per song.Lastly, iTunes hasn't been a big money-maker previously, but last quarter it was profitable. $200 million I think? Could be different. But it was profitable.
We'll see what they do. The iPod/iTMS business model won't last forever so it should be interesting.
I guess the moderators are valley girls who shriek "Oh my gawd" while skipping together arm-in-arm wearing mini-skirts. Clearly, they find your OMFG comments insightful, but only after 90120 has gone on a commercial break.
that's sophistication, my friend.
It's all about the sophistication of your attack.
Sure, we could have nukes Iraq, but isn't it more fun to drop smart bombs guided by freakin' laser beams!?!?
Probably not, since the article says:
"After intensive tests for all morning, the battery of the car was running low!"
However, if a car was left with it's electronic equipment turned on (for a long period of time), it sounds like it could be possible. It's a very interesting idea to DOS a car...