I don't get this. From my perspective the knowledge of "how" to program supersedes "what" language or toolkit you use. Now each language has its own quirks, and client-server is a different philosophy to client only. Obviously this has its limits, and I def have a personal preference for C-syntax languages but that didn't stop me taking my current job where we code in VB all day. I'd have no bones about saying "sure" to the iPhone question and leaping right in the deep end, with only google to help me.
To counter I remember listening to The Orb Live 93 for the first time. That's 2 hours of mind bending right there. The guy who supplied it was watching and commented how totally stoned I seemed afterwards. Fortunately he didn't then go on to charge me £20 a hit
Slightly OT but in the past few years they were renovating the organ at a nearby medium-to-large church (in UK terms). In the process they unearthed almost an entire WING of the building that you simply couldn't get in when the organ was installed. Suddenly the word "organ" in relation to the building as a whole seems fitting.
but 1201(f) states specifically that you can circumvent for the purposes of reverse engineering in turn for the purpose of allowing a specific other program to run AND that you can share the learned information. If the "other program" is "Linux" then IMHO 1201(f) hits the ball out of the park for the defence.
1201 is the reverse engineering provision, specifically allowing you to circumvent technological measures if you plan to use what you learn to allow other programs to do the mentioned inter-operating on any device. With this in mind it doesn't matter a damn if Sony argue that this "could" be used to run pirate software if the jailbreaking was done in the name of restoring Other OS.
Slightly OT but you reminded me of the Halo games (or the first two at least, not forked over for a 360 yet). I quite like trying to keep my marines alive and tagging along for as long as possible but the games (the second to a lesser extent) are hard wired to dispose of them as fast as possible in that if you get a few past a sticky situation there are points where they simply won't follow you any more, like there are no AI-nodes for them to follow. One example is in Halo 2 in the underground freeway sections, there's a point where you meet a bunch of marines with a warthog, but if you already have a bunch of marines in a warthog they just drive around in circles.
I know I'm technically playing the game "wrong" but seems a bit close-minded of the devs to me.
I'm in my 30's and have always played with that tactic. I consider Counterstrike and everything it spawned a scourge on my gaming experience! Give me Quake 1 Deathmatch any day (and then Valve's DMC!). Fast, furious and a fistfight for the rocket launcher. So long as you take a couple with you in the aftermath it's a net positive:)
"I hope... Average Joes will be attracted to open devices"
I admire your optimism but I'm firmly sceptical. Western civilization has had the motor car for a century now. Are we all driving "open" cars? does everyone tinker? No and No. People want to get in and drive and get out at the other end, they don't even want to have to check the oil level, never mind change it. Yes there are tinkerers and even people who get out the welding kit and make bizzare (and perfectly roadworthy) mashup vehicles but they are not the norm.
I don't believe for a second that computing and software will be any different. Yes there will be hobbyists and people who sprout multi billion industries from - fittingly - their garage but grandparent poster is right - people overwhelmingly want it to JUST WORK and don't give a shit about anything else and no amount of proclaiming "it's easy, look" and waving your arms will change that.
Personally, as I'm getting older I'm getting less inclined to tinker, I'll still happily upload custom linux firmware to my router but if someone else on the planet hasn't already cooked it then I won't bother doing it myself. And generally now I just want to be able to plug things into each other and have them talk without dicking about with drivers, imagine my horror when I finally got a PS3 this xmas and it wouldn't see my SMB LAN shares, let alone play the MP3s on there!
What does that come down to though? Is Ebay a web site or an auction service that happens to have a web site front end? It's all a matter of perception. Over the past 10-15 years tech startups have all being about "making a website that... ". But the landscape is different now. Google Buzz and Latitude are crap from a static web site user's perspective but when you get out and about in the mobile world they start to make sense. Should you be forced to use HTML and javascript to lay out text and images on every toaster in the world that uses the intertubes? No, you shouldn't.
My tag here "cyclomedia" is related to my domain and programming activities but increasingly of late i've just been using a contraction of my real name "richardacre". I am happy to bang on about my political views and don't try to hide them, but I still think twice before retweeting something. I also hardly post any info or photos involving my kids online, even on facebook where I have things mostly locked down to Friends Only.
Trying to control your privacy on the internet is just another way of trying to stop information being free: If you don't want it public don't publish it on the internet.
Me too, I like to describe mine as a pocket computer that happens to allow you to make phone calls. Andriod (for me) only uses 1MB a day idling to sync emails/calendar etc. - I'm only on a 100MB/month plan and haven't used all that in any one month yet even with a little daily 3G surfing because I use WiFi wherever I can get it.
Regarding the syncing I hated it for the first three days, I was so brainwashed to "Go online to check my email" that I tried to stop it. But now I love that it notifies me when I get an email (to one of two seperate mail accounts) and notifies me about twitter messages and the like and I never really need to "go online to check" any more, which still feels a bit wierd.
Wish the guy who made the android amiga emulator would sort out the touch screen though - he coded it to move the mouse via trackball and placing the mouse pointer via touch doesnt work properly, how dumb is that!?
Honestly not trolling here but 6 films * approx 2 hours = 12 hours. How many times do you have to watch them exactly? What percentage of your life? Having seen the originals a zillion times as a kid, the remastered set at the cinema in the 90s, each of the new trilogy once or thrice I'm done. Maybe I'll watch em again at SOME point in the next 20 years (same can be said for Babylon 5 and the X Files), when I'm really bored. Or Ill.
New movies, books and music comes out all the time. Enjoy some of that instead of giving your money to Lucas.
On the other hand they've just given the world 2 years notice to get porting, and they've already spent a decade of pushing the CPU-independent.Net development system on developers so fat binaries will not be needed.
MS's bane (yet arguably a strength) has always been maintaining backwards compatibility right back to ancient DOS apps. They've already made steps to break that with Vista and Win 7 so businesses are already moving towards new builds. At least, that's what MS wants to happen, we all know that tons of businesses are still clinging onto their ancient apps and windows XP...
I remember that, they were planning to publicly reveal previews of the documents but couldn't work out an automatic way to redact - for example - every other word in hundreds of pages of documents (which may be scans and not OCR'd) and gave up.
Which means that amongst all the bright people at wikileaks no one thought "Hey, let's just raster alternating 50pt black diagonal lines on every page" or was it obvious only to me?
25 Years later an we're still waiting for CDs to kill Vynil. Or consider the fact that 100 years after the automobile showed up there are still horses alive. I think the word "Kill" is being overused. How about "sidelined"?
Only just got a PS3 this xmas - an original chunky 60GB - and was horrified that it doesnt even support your basic SMB browsing under Music/Video. Like, WTF!?
Already got an infrastructure in place. Latency isn't that great for online gaming but it's open, unfiltered and uncensored: I'm posting a 120GB Hard Drive full of stuff to a friend this afternoon. Assuming it gets there 16 hours later that's 960Gb / 57600s = 17Mb/s . Not too shabby
It's possibly a good quick acid test: Do you use google web products already? If the answer is yes then an Android phone will "just work" for you out of the box. Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, Picasa, Maps, Buzz all automagically synced. It's what sold it for me after I wiped WiMo 6.1 off mine to put a custom Froyo on it.
If you're not a google fanboi like me then your experience may be mixed. The "Gallery" defaults to picasa but I think it's bundled with Flickr support out of the box, but can't speak for the rest of the system.
My understanding is that if your storage was one big racetrack the "address" of the bits you wanted correlates to the size of the pulse needed to "seek" it by a constant amount (this constant factor being the breakthrough discussd here). so if you want bit number 100 then simply pulse the memory 100*constant and it shows up on your sensor. No "seeking" flipping of transistors required
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I don't get this. From my perspective the knowledge of "how" to program supersedes "what" language or toolkit you use. Now each language has its own quirks, and client-server is a different philosophy to client only. Obviously this has its limits, and I def have a personal preference for C-syntax languages but that didn't stop me taking my current job where we code in VB all day. I'd have no bones about saying "sure" to the iPhone question and leaping right in the deep end, with only google to help me.
To counter I remember listening to The Orb Live 93 for the first time. That's 2 hours of mind bending right there. The guy who supplied it was watching and commented how totally stoned I seemed afterwards. Fortunately he didn't then go on to charge me £20 a hit
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says it all really
Slightly OT but in the past few years they were renovating the organ at a nearby medium-to-large church (in UK terms). In the process they unearthed almost an entire WING of the building that you simply couldn't get in when the organ was installed. Suddenly the word "organ" in relation to the building as a whole seems fitting.
but 1201(f) states specifically that you can circumvent for the purposes of reverse engineering in turn for the purpose of allowing a specific other program to run AND that you can share the learned information. If the "other program" is "Linux" then IMHO 1201(f) hits the ball out of the park for the defence.
Nailed It.
1201 is the reverse engineering provision, specifically allowing you to circumvent technological measures if you plan to use what you learn to allow other programs to do the mentioned inter-operating on any device. With this in mind it doesn't matter a damn if Sony argue that this "could" be used to run pirate software if the jailbreaking was done in the name of restoring Other OS.
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Slightly OT but you reminded me of the Halo games (or the first two at least, not forked over for a 360 yet). I quite like trying to keep my marines alive and tagging along for as long as possible but the games (the second to a lesser extent) are hard wired to dispose of them as fast as possible in that if you get a few past a sticky situation there are points where they simply won't follow you any more, like there are no AI-nodes for them to follow. One example is in Halo 2 in the underground freeway sections, there's a point where you meet a bunch of marines with a warthog, but if you already have a bunch of marines in a warthog they just drive around in circles.
I know I'm technically playing the game "wrong" but seems a bit close-minded of the devs to me.
I'm in my 30's and have always played with that tactic. I consider Counterstrike and everything it spawned a scourge on my gaming experience! Give me Quake 1 Deathmatch any day (and then Valve's DMC!). Fast, furious and a fistfight for the rocket launcher. So long as you take a couple with you in the aftermath it's a net positive :)
Games are supposed to be FUN. Right?
"I hope ... Average Joes will be attracted to open devices"
I admire your optimism but I'm firmly sceptical. Western civilization has had the motor car for a century now. Are we all driving "open" cars? does everyone tinker? No and No. People want to get in and drive and get out at the other end, they don't even want to have to check the oil level, never mind change it. Yes there are tinkerers and even people who get out the welding kit and make bizzare (and perfectly roadworthy) mashup vehicles but they are not the norm.
I don't believe for a second that computing and software will be any different. Yes there will be hobbyists and people who sprout multi billion industries from - fittingly - their garage but grandparent poster is right - people overwhelmingly want it to JUST WORK and don't give a shit about anything else and no amount of proclaiming "it's easy, look" and waving your arms will change that.
Personally, as I'm getting older I'm getting less inclined to tinker, I'll still happily upload custom linux firmware to my router but if someone else on the planet hasn't already cooked it then I won't bother doing it myself. And generally now I just want to be able to plug things into each other and have them talk without dicking about with drivers, imagine my horror when I finally got a PS3 this xmas and it wouldn't see my SMB LAN shares, let alone play the MP3s on there!
"stuff that should really just be a webpage"
What does that come down to though? Is Ebay a web site or an auction service that happens to have a web site front end? It's all a matter of perception. Over the past 10-15 years tech startups have all being about "making a website that ... ". But the landscape is different now. Google Buzz and Latitude are crap from a static web site user's perspective but when you get out and about in the mobile world they start to make sense. Should you be forced to use HTML and javascript to lay out text and images on every toaster in the world that uses the intertubes? No, you shouldn't.
This is exactly what google's move reminds me of. How many years did us web devs spend banging on about Acid2 before IE finally passed it?
My tag here "cyclomedia" is related to my domain and programming activities but increasingly of late i've just been using a contraction of my real name "richardacre". I am happy to bang on about my political views and don't try to hide them, but I still think twice before retweeting something. I also hardly post any info or photos involving my kids online, even on facebook where I have things mostly locked down to Friends Only.
Trying to control your privacy on the internet is just another way of trying to stop information being free: If you don't want it public don't publish it on the internet.
Me too, I like to describe mine as a pocket computer that happens to allow you to make phone calls. Andriod (for me) only uses 1MB a day idling to sync emails/calendar etc. - I'm only on a 100MB/month plan and haven't used all that in any one month yet even with a little daily 3G surfing because I use WiFi wherever I can get it.
Regarding the syncing I hated it for the first three days, I was so brainwashed to "Go online to check my email" that I tried to stop it. But now I love that it notifies me when I get an email (to one of two seperate mail accounts) and notifies me about twitter messages and the like and I never really need to "go online to check" any more, which still feels a bit wierd.
Wish the guy who made the android amiga emulator would sort out the touch screen though - he coded it to move the mouse via trackball and placing the mouse pointer via touch doesnt work properly, how dumb is that!?
Honestly not trolling here but 6 films * approx 2 hours = 12 hours. How many times do you have to watch them exactly? What percentage of your life? Having seen the originals a zillion times as a kid, the remastered set at the cinema in the 90s, each of the new trilogy once or thrice I'm done. Maybe I'll watch em again at SOME point in the next 20 years (same can be said for Babylon 5 and the X Files), when I'm really bored. Or Ill.
New movies, books and music comes out all the time. Enjoy some of that instead of giving your money to Lucas.
On the other hand they've just given the world 2 years notice to get porting, and they've already spent a decade of pushing the CPU-independent .Net development system on developers so fat binaries will not be needed.
MS's bane (yet arguably a strength) has always been maintaining backwards compatibility right back to ancient DOS apps. They've already made steps to break that with Vista and Win 7 so businesses are already moving towards new builds. At least, that's what MS wants to happen, we all know that tons of businesses are still clinging onto their ancient apps and windows XP...
I remember that, they were planning to publicly reveal previews of the documents but couldn't work out an automatic way to redact - for example - every other word in hundreds of pages of documents (which may be scans and not OCR'd) and gave up.
Which means that amongst all the bright people at wikileaks no one thought "Hey, let's just raster alternating 50pt black diagonal lines on every page" or was it obvious only to me?
25 Years later an we're still waiting for CDs to kill Vynil. Or consider the fact that 100 years after the automobile showed up there are still horses alive. I think the word "Kill" is being overused. How about "sidelined"?
Me too, still lookin good, anyone else seen RED?
This is a lot easier to follow http://cyclomedia.co.uk/blog/media/primer_primer_2400.png
Amen!
Only just got a PS3 this xmas - an original chunky 60GB - and was horrified that it doesnt even support your basic SMB browsing under Music/Video. Like, WTF!?
hmmm.... foobies
Already got an infrastructure in place. Latency isn't that great for online gaming but it's open, unfiltered and uncensored: I'm posting a 120GB Hard Drive full of stuff to a friend this afternoon. Assuming it gets there 16 hours later that's 960Gb / 57600s = 17Mb/s . Not too shabby
It's possibly a good quick acid test: Do you use google web products already? If the answer is yes then an Android phone will "just work" for you out of the box. Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, Picasa, Maps, Buzz all automagically synced. It's what sold it for me after I wiped WiMo 6.1 off mine to put a custom Froyo on it.
If you're not a google fanboi like me then your experience may be mixed. The "Gallery" defaults to picasa but I think it's bundled with Flickr support out of the box, but can't speak for the rest of the system.
My understanding is that if your storage was one big racetrack the "address" of the bits you wanted correlates to the size of the pulse needed to "seek" it by a constant amount (this constant factor being the breakthrough discussd here). so if you want bit number 100 then simply pulse the memory 100*constant and it shows up on your sensor. No "seeking" flipping of transistors required