That's exactly why Apple's iTunes took off. It's a hell of a lot easier than:
1) Install P2P software (assuming the user even has a clue about what it is and where to get it.)
2) Read ridiculously bad documentation on how to use it - assuming said documentation even exists.
3) Search for content.
4) Out of a thousand search results, find one that actually currently exists and can be accessed.
5) Get in queue behind 300 other people for the file.
[...]
no, the reason why itunes took off is misinformation, such as yours, nothing more. it is god damn easy (and far more easier than dealing with itunes and credit cards) to download media, no matter wether you're a geek or a regular user. the correct list(adapted for windows users) would be:
1) download utorrent and install
2) visit torrentspy or isohunt
3) search what you want, in case of torrentspy, you may also browse.
4) click on a torrent with some seeds. ...
5) profit
and when downloading games it's even more convenient than to buy them, because the no-cd cracks are almost included, as are walkthroughs. just don't download earth 2160, this is a honeypot.
and in case you are completely clueless what this cool downloading-for-free stuff is all about, just visit wikipedia and teach yourself. begin with "p2p".
we're not in the old morpheus-please-wait-in-queue days anymore.
[...]solving tricky problems such as financial optimization.
Q: Oh, you have quantum computers in your science lab, must be an interesting project you're working on!
A: Actually we're just counting bees in the woods.
Q: And what do you need quantum computers for?
A: Uhm, you know, these boxen are for finding ways to get proper funding.
Q: Ah.
A: Is that all you want to know?
Q: Yes...Oh wait!
A: What else?
Q: Did you just say "boxen"?
It is, I'm using the JDK6 (beta) for development and JRE5 for deployment on the production machine together with JBoss4, meaning that even code compiled with JDK6 runs fine in a JRE5 VM.
...it's that easy. if you use an application like windows media player which downloads codecs on it's own, you get what you deserve. honestly, all this "automagically download stuff if needed" bs should be avoided. i use windows sometimes, and i always use decent players like vlc or mpc. i cannot play a video due to a missing codec? a little google and i know which codec i need and i can decide wether it's trustworthy or not. i think at this point there's a real difference between windows and GNU/ Linux (and i mean GNU linux like debian): apt-get does kinda the same thing, downloading and installing dependencies on demand, just like windows does, but the difference: if apt-get would ever try to install spyware or trojans, the community would cry out loud and debians reputation is a thing of the past. no matter how silly the debian folks sometimes behave (iceweasel ftw), i think i can trust them.
Buy a movie download from a DRMed service, then download that same movie from the Pirate Bay. That way you get the enjoyment only Solaris/SPARC can deliver while still rewarding movie studios for putting out a product that you like.
the problem is, you cannot just "download" via bittorrent. while you download, you become a peer, and the parts of your files already downloaded will be uploaded to other peers. while this is technically a very good solution, from a lawyer's pov you are ALSO UPLOADING. and that is illegal. unlike, for example, downloading a SNES-ROM you own via http, which is perfectly legal.
i've got some tv-series on dvd, and i fetched them all via bittorrent again, because i want them as nicely decoded video files on my hd. i could decrypt and re-encode them, but apart from that beeing ALSO illegal it just takes too much time.
bottom line: when a perfectly legal desire (to convert some digital media i own) makes me a criminal, maybe i just should skip the buying part. damn those media whores sitting in our parliaments.
[...] painful compromises are needed to the way it deals with closed source platforms and formats to avoid losing ground on desktops and new media players.
no matter what one thinks about ERS's mindshift, this is just plain right. so, the decision to make is wether to lose ground or to stand by one's ideology. tough choice;) and notice that he state's the compromises to be "painful". which is also right.
From my POV this might have another, more important use: undeveloped regions of the world. Some friends of mine working for the UNHCR would greatly appreciate such a device. That and the 100$ laptop would be enough to connect a small village to the internet. Of course, having cheap power might have some more benefits;)
I said Linux had games, not that it was suitable for the hardcore gamer.
sorry, but WoW, Oblivion, Half-Life 2 targets the average, casual gamer. one might argue about WoW, but WoW is one of the few mmorpgs accessible to casual gamers. what the parent meant: today's most popular games do not run nativly on linux. sad, but true.
I'm curious though. Besides working with strings, can you give me example of some objects (OO objects, that is) you might have in a normal web page?
session objects for example. used to store things across pages. request objects, used to retrieve properties from the client (ie user agent) and for retrieving parameters. it all boils down to: what is your preferred kind of abstraction? for only dynamic pages, the paradigm does not really matter, but when it comes to real server applications where the html spat out is just a frontend, a kind of view, the oo abstraction is far more useful, at least for me.
btw, the object oriented objects, that is... i like that one...
god, i hate THAT attitude. for some people anything the US is involved in becomes "the US and..."
and please, don't give me figures about how much the us founded of this. if you do so i will give you figures about the us military expense (i could give you much more worse figures, but i'm a social guy).
For those who want to know: wikipedia entry. It was a nice thing, software on tapes, vinyl records and even played in radio shows (yeah, imaging all the non-geeks listenening 1 h of bleepbleepcrnchcrnchbleep;) )
No he won't. If he does, only the hard-core "Christans" will support him for doing it.
last i looked, mr. bush seemed a pretty hardcore christian to me.
The rest of America will INSIST that he does not block FDA approval.
like "the rest of america" did insist in the recent past, yeah. the times that "the rest of america" will insist on anything is pretty much over.
if the world did work the way you described, then answer me some simple questions: why do people still die from hunger while people donate enough money to stop that? why is it prohibited to sell generica (clones of medicaments) for 10 years after the original came out? why does your church (you said you were a christian) prohibit the use of condoms? what do people earn that pick the coffee beans you consume at starbucks? don't get me wrong, but the world is a bad place when it comes to religion and money.
but the technology industry is in agreement: the DVD is dead.
oh boy, yeah, i really do care what the "technology industry" is in agreement about. the dvd is even far from reaching it's zenith. it just became a standard that is not only widely accepted, but also widely deployed. it's convenient, nearly everyone's got a player (here in europe you can get one [without region codes and shit] for 30), every pc can play them, and you can make your own, be it a copy or your selfmade movie. uh, sorry, i lost your point here, but why should the dvd be dead? care for any real reasons?
when it comes to really large scale enterprise projects with (REAL) legacy integration, there is no c#, there is no microsoft. especially in the fields of interest, like banking or insurance companies. is there something easy and reliable like JCA for c#? is there something as mature and stable as jms along with the various queueing systems like ibm's mqseries? no, there is not. i know i sound like an evangelist (and i admit i am one, but for very other reasons), so let me tell you this:
it is not about the language
imho java 5.0 (or 1.5, whatever you prefer) is the better language, but this does not matter at this point. what matters is the whole environment: the java community process (which btw led us to ejb3.0), some kind of openness (no vendor lock-in, take whatever application server and implementation you like), industry acceptance and a community microsoft does not dare to dream of (remarkable because sun is by a lot of geeks *1 considered "a little bit" evil).
so learn whatever language you like, but gain experience in the important frameworks/ specs and learn about abstraction, and learn why things like pattern insantity and metametameta-models are a bad thing.
*1: and in the end of the day, it is geeks that run the whole software development business, tell me what you want;)
yeah, the argument of the mi is failing. look at arctic monkeys. you could download 'i bet that you look good on teh dancefloor' for free (as in beer), and even though they made number one in the uk (just remember what 'beeing #1' means. something about sales, yeah). all this busting in p2p and stuff, it's just another revenue stream for them, nothing more.
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That's exactly why Apple's iTunes took off. It's a hell of a lot easier than:
...
1) Install P2P software (assuming the user even has a clue about what it is and where to get it.)
2) Read ridiculously bad documentation on how to use it - assuming said documentation even exists.
3) Search for content.
4) Out of a thousand search results, find one that actually currently exists and can be accessed.
5) Get in queue behind 300 other people for the file.
[...]
no, the reason why itunes took off is misinformation, such as yours, nothing more. it is god damn easy (and far more easier than dealing with itunes and credit cards) to download media, no matter wether you're a geek or a regular user. the correct list(adapted for windows users) would be:
1) download utorrent and install
2) visit torrentspy or isohunt
3) search what you want, in case of torrentspy, you may also browse.
4) click on a torrent with some seeds.
5) profit
and when downloading games it's even more convenient than to buy them, because the no-cd cracks are almost included, as are walkthroughs. just don't download earth 2160, this is a honeypot.
and in case you are completely clueless what this cool downloading-for-free stuff is all about, just visit wikipedia and teach yourself. begin with "p2p".
we're not in the old morpheus-please-wait-in-queue days anymore.
[...]solving tricky problems such as financial optimization.
Q: Oh, you have quantum computers in your science lab, must be an interesting project you're working on!
A: Actually we're just counting bees in the woods.
Q: And what do you need quantum computers for?
A: Uhm, you know, these boxen are for finding ways to get proper funding.
Q: Ah.
A: Is that all you want to know?
Q: Yes...Oh wait!
A: What else?
Q: Did you just say "boxen"?
yes
It is, I'm using the JDK6 (beta) for development and JRE5 for deployment on the production machine together with JBoss4, meaning that even code compiled with JDK6 runs fine in a JRE5 VM.
[...]released under GNU/FDL[...]
Finally GNU is used by "Teh Evil[tm]". I mean, come on, this is ridiculous.
...it's that easy. if you use an application like windows media player which downloads codecs on it's own, you get what you deserve. honestly, all this "automagically download stuff if needed" bs should be avoided. i use windows sometimes, and i always use decent players like vlc or mpc. i cannot play a video due to a missing codec? a little google and i know which codec i need and i can decide wether it's trustworthy or not. i think at this point there's a real difference between windows and GNU/ Linux (and i mean GNU linux like debian): apt-get does kinda the same thing, downloading and installing dependencies on demand, just like windows does, but the difference: if apt-get would ever try to install spyware or trojans, the community would cry out loud and debians reputation is a thing of the past. no matter how silly the debian folks sometimes behave (iceweasel ftw), i think i can trust them.
...to realise that the us-american court system is flawed by design.
Buy a movie download from a DRMed service, then download that same movie from the Pirate Bay. That way you get the enjoyment only Solaris/SPARC can deliver while still rewarding movie studios for putting out a product that you like.
the problem is, you cannot just "download" via bittorrent. while you download, you become a peer, and the parts of your files already downloaded will be uploaded to other peers. while this is technically a very good solution, from a lawyer's pov you are ALSO UPLOADING. and that is illegal. unlike, for example, downloading a SNES-ROM you own via http, which is perfectly legal.
i've got some tv-series on dvd, and i fetched them all via bittorrent again, because i want them as nicely decoded video files on my hd. i could decrypt and re-encode them, but apart from that beeing ALSO illegal it just takes too much time.
bottom line: when a perfectly legal desire (to convert some digital media i own) makes me a criminal, maybe i just should skip the buying part. damn those media whores sitting in our parliaments.
And why the hell can't the washingtonpost.com link to it?
that's the question. i assume that's because an ahref is no longer just an html tag but also a risk. sad, but true.
Untill they compromise, why should we?
because we're smarter than them.
if dolphins were so smart, why are they caught up in drift gillnets all the time?
eric cartman (renowed scientist).
[...] painful compromises are needed to the way it deals with closed source platforms and formats to avoid losing ground on desktops and new media players.
;) and notice that he state's the compromises to be "painful". which is also right.
no matter what one thinks about ERS's mindshift, this is just plain right. so, the decision to make is wether to lose ground or to stand by one's ideology. tough choice
If it was a parody of Linux, it would be considered fair use. It's not a parody of Linux. Therefore, it's trademark and copyright infringement.
be cool. do not try to behave like a lawyer from sony.
From my POV this might have another, more important use: undeveloped regions of the world. Some friends of mine working for the UNHCR would greatly appreciate such a device. That and the 100$ laptop would be enough to connect a small village to the internet. Of course, having cheap power might have some more benefits ;)
I said Linux had games, not that it was suitable for the hardcore gamer.
sorry, but WoW, Oblivion, Half-Life 2 targets the average, casual gamer. one might argue about WoW, but WoW is one of the few mmorpgs accessible to casual gamers. what the parent meant: today's most popular games do not run nativly on linux. sad, but true.
I'm curious though. Besides working with strings, can you give me example of some objects (OO objects, that is) you might have in a normal web page?
session objects for example. used to store things across pages. request objects, used to retrieve properties from the client (ie user agent) and for retrieving parameters. it all boils down to: what is your preferred kind of abstraction? for only dynamic pages, the paradigm does not really matter, but when it comes to real server applications where the html spat out is just a frontend, a kind of view, the oo abstraction is far more useful, at least for me.
btw, the object oriented objects, that is... i like that one...
the US and its international partners
god, i hate THAT attitude. for some people anything the US is involved in becomes "the US and..."
and please, don't give me figures about how much the us founded of this. if you do so i will give you figures about the us military expense (i could give you much more worse figures, but i'm a social guy).
For those who want to know: wikipedia entry. It was a nice thing, software on tapes, vinyl records and even played in radio shows (yeah, imaging all the non-geeks listenening 1 h of bleepbleepcrnchcrnchbleep ;) )
;)
btw, just in case, greetings to lkcc
No he won't. If he does, only the hard-core "Christans" will support him for doing it.
last i looked, mr. bush seemed a pretty hardcore christian to me.
The rest of America will INSIST that he does not block FDA approval.
like "the rest of america" did insist in the recent past, yeah. the times that "the rest of america" will insist on anything is pretty much over.
if the world did work the way you described, then answer me some simple questions: why do people still die from hunger while people donate enough money to stop that? why is it prohibited to sell generica (clones of medicaments) for 10 years after the original came out? why does your church (you said you were a christian) prohibit the use of condoms? what do people earn that pick the coffee beans you consume at starbucks? don't get me wrong, but the world is a bad place when it comes to religion and money.
for the last time: did you try this link with a chinese IP address? the filter is IP-BASED, damn it.
but the technology industry is in agreement: the DVD is dead.
oh boy, yeah, i really do care what the "technology industry" is in agreement about. the dvd is even far from reaching it's zenith. it just became a standard that is not only widely accepted, but also widely deployed. it's convenient, nearly everyone's got a player (here in europe you can get one [without region codes and shit] for 30), every pc can play them, and you can make your own, be it a copy or your selfmade movie. uh, sorry, i lost your point here, but why should the dvd be dead? care for any real reasons?
when it comes to really large scale enterprise projects with (REAL) legacy integration, there is no c#, there is no microsoft. especially in the fields of interest, like banking or insurance companies. is there something easy and reliable like JCA for c#? is there something as mature and stable as jms along with the various queueing systems like ibm's mqseries? no, there is not. i know i sound like an evangelist (and i admit i am one, but for very other reasons), so let me tell you this:
;)
it is not about the language
imho java 5.0 (or 1.5, whatever you prefer) is the better language, but this does not matter at this point. what matters is the whole environment: the java community process (which btw led us to ejb3.0), some kind of openness (no vendor lock-in, take whatever application server and implementation you like), industry acceptance and a community microsoft does not dare to dream of (remarkable because sun is by a lot of geeks *1 considered "a little bit" evil).
so learn whatever language you like, but gain experience in the important frameworks/ specs and learn about abstraction, and learn why things like pattern insantity and metametameta-models are a bad thing.
*1: and in the end of the day, it is geeks that run the whole software development business, tell me what you want
as the fear of any other console vendor is "homemade" software. this would mean opening the market to everyone and not only to licensed publishers.
i'm a bit sad of this, cause coding for consoles is fun. i did some gba coding, and it is really cool to see your demos appear on the actual hardware.
yeah, the argument of the mi is failing. look at arctic monkeys. you could download 'i bet that you look good on teh dancefloor' for free (as in beer), and even though they made number one in the uk (just remember what 'beeing #1' means. something about sales, yeah). all this busting in p2p and stuff, it's just another revenue stream for them, nothing more.
man, i envy you for your language.