Yes, the command line c# compiler (csc.exe) is part of the free.Net SDK, as are the VB.Net compiler (vbc.exe) and JScript compiler (jsc.exe). There's actually a lot of cool stuff bundled in there, including a debugger and an IL assembler and disassembler.
I kinda liked HHGttG, but I always wondered how difficult it would be for someone who hadn't read the book first. After all, actions like running out of the house and lying in front of the bulldozer aren't all that easy to figure out if you don't have foreknowledge of the plot.
Absolutely. I'm not above spending some quality time with WinFrotz at work. I've found that it tends to cut into my Slashdot posting time, though.
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It's been my experience that Bookpool almost always has the best prices for technical books (AddAll confirms this is the case for this one). Plus, they offer free shipping on orders over $40.
Thinking about that though, does it matter if they recall the CD's if the DRM rootkits are already out there installed on computers?
Don't worry - I'm sure if it comes to that, Sony will take the opportunity to continue to spin shit into PR gold:
Sony BMG is aware of the growing public perception that certain copyright technology used on a small number of compact discs has been the subject of great controversy over the last several weeks. While we stand by our use of this technology to protect our valuable intellectual property against the growing phenomenon of internet piracy (which cost the recording industry an estimated $12.7 billion in 2004), we recognize that many people continue to hold a deep distrust of this innocuous technology. Therefore, as a gesture of goodwill, we are offering the following replacement program:
Any person who purchased one of the protected compact discs prior to December 31, 2005 may return the product to Sony BMG, with its original packaging and retail receipt, and choose a replacement compact disc from Sony's extensive library of bagpipe and accordian recordings. Any customers desiring to take advantage of this offer should contact customer service through this link [link to form that initiates overly long chain of correspondance eventually resulting in promise to ship "12 Classic Bagpipe Funeral Marches" in 6-8 weeks]
We are aware that a computer virus is circulating that may affect computers with XCP content protection software. The XCP software is included on a limited number of SONY BMG content protected titles. This potential problem has no effect on the use of these discs in conventional, non-computer-based, CD and DVD players.
In response to these events, SONY BMG has swiftly provided a patch to all major anti-virus companies and to the general public that guards against precisely the type of virus now said to exist. The patch fixes the possible software problem, and still allows CDs to be played on personal computers. It can be downloaded at http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/. Starting today, we will also be adding this link to the SONY BMG label and corporate sites. We deeply regret any possible inconvenience this may cause.
We stand by content protection technology as an important tool to protect our intellectual property rights and those of our artists. Nonetheless, as a precautionary measure, SONY BMG is temporarily suspending the manufacture of CDs containing XCP technology. We also intend to re-examine all aspects of our content protection initiative to be sure that it continues to meet our goals of security and ease of consumer use. More information about our content protection initiative can also be found at: http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp.
They're spinning this with all their might. Remember that the patch they so proudly trumpet (look how serious we are about protecting our customers!) doesn't remove the rootkit - it merely disables the cloaking feature. Also note that while they say they are suspending manufacture of these CDs, there is no mention of any effort to remove already manufactured copies from store shelves or the distribution network. Considering that CDs are stamped in large production runs and then kept in inventory, they really haven't committed to anything except to "re-examine all aspects of our content protection initiative to be sure that it continues to meet our goals of security and ease of consumer use." (and note how their goals do not include consumer privacy or control over their own electronic devices).
No, I don't think we forgive them for this for a long time yet.
Hmmm. The main article's authors exhibit similarly poor attention to detail. While they claim that they used Reynolds aluminum foil, the pictures show a box of Chef's Pride foil on the desk. How disappointing. I just don't know whom to trust any more.
Interesting. I'd read one of Dunning's earlier papers (warning: PDF) a while back. I'm glad to see he's still at it.
One thing that bugs me though, is the last section of the article you linked, where it posits that a remedy is better feedback. While this makes sense, I wonder how people in need of such feedback are to judge the quality of the feedback they receive. Too often, a person is perceived as knowledgable and authoritative merely because he exudes confidence when he speaks. How is a neophyte in need of guidance to differentiate between feedback from a true expert and that from a clueless yet confident imposter?
It's perfectly fine for a company to offer for sale as many units of a product as it wants.
WRT oversupply, I believe you're thinking about dumping, which is a situation in which a company will flood the market with product at a price below production cost in order to drive competitors from the market. There are laws and international treaties against this behavior because if the strategy is successful, it leads to a monopolized market, which is bad for everybody except the monopoly supplier.
It is not illegal in most cases to place arbitrary restrictions on supply (exceptions being public services, utilities and such). This is not an anticompetitive practice, as it has no effect on the ability of competitors to set their own supply levels and price points, and in an efficient market the excess demand will either shift to the competition or drive up the price. While you, as a consumer, might not like the higher price, it is really no different (from a market perspective) than if Microsoft had set the "suggested retail price" at the market-driven price point. In other words, Microsoft is free to charge $20,000 per X-Box if they want, and whether they get to that price point by setting it at the outset or by restricting supply is irrelevant.
While you might not like the tactics designed to generate hype over the product, keep in mind that it's not a guaranteed win for them; they are running the risk of pissing off their customers and driving them to wait for a PS3 instead of buying an XBox.
Sure they can, but Cogent has a history of annoying peers due to traffic disparities (as I understand it, Cogent's customers tend heavily toward webhosts, with relatively few end users. This leads to much greater bandwidth utilization for traffic outbound from Cogent's network than for inbound traffic.) This was Level3's reason for depeering Cogent, and is likely to the the cause of any future disagreement between them, unless the composition of Cogent's customer base changes significantly.
Oops - I guess I could have phrased that a little more clearly. The November 9th ultimatum came when Level 3 originally restored peering back on 10/07. Today's agreement supercedes that, so the danger of another depeering (between these two ISPs) has passed unless somebody (read: Cogent) violates the terms of the new agreement.
Why is it that Media Player is on Version 11 and IE is version 7.
Because once Microsoft captured 97% of the browser market with no remaining effective competitive threats, they had no reason to continue development of IE; far better (from a business perspective) to focus their resources on areas in which there was viable competition. As it happens, media players has been just such an area - Real isn't the powerhouse they once were, but MusicMatch and WinAmp, and more recently, iTunes have given Microsoft ample reason to continue to release new versions of Media Player.
The only reason Microsoft is working on IE7 now is because Firefox has proven to be a viable alternative that is successfully taking market share away from IE.
Well, as long as you're changing your address anyway, it's the perfect opportunity to switch providers. Given the reviews of Yahoo Mail, I might take the opportunity to switch myself if Google drops the gmail domain.
If you don't want to bother creating/deleting emails in your own domain (or for those without personal domains), I've found these services to be very useful for this sort of thing:
Even if the reseller doesn't record the serial number, it narrows the search significantly. The manufacturer can tell the authorities where that unit was shipped, and from there they can work down to the individual store (or a group of stores served by the distribution facility in question) and start investigating everybody who purchased that model printer before the document was printed.
Most of those $5000+ printers are bought by relatively large companies. I don't think companies have to keep a full log of what everybody prints.
Maybe not, but identifying the purchaser of the printer significantly narrows the search for the person who used that printer to generate the document in question. If it's owned by a business, they may be able to identify the specific user through print server logs (obtained via subpeona or simply "in connection with an ongoing investigation related to terrorist activity"). Even if no such logs are available, they certainly can identify those individuals with ready access to the printer in question and focus their investigative efforts accordingly.
*obviously*, if *you* bought the printer, then everything that this printer has ever printed was made by *you*
If the printer is owned by an individual, I'd imagine said individual would find himself confronted with the choice of naming names or becoming the prime suspect himself. In either case, the authorities have narrowed their search to a small group of people.
Just because you don't see a benefit to a shift toward computer controllers in household appliances doesn't mean it's not going to happen. In fact, given the trend towards ever-increasing complexity in formerly simple devices, I'd be quite suprised if it didn't happen in the next decade. I'm not making any sort of value judgement about this trend, but if you seriously expect household appliances, especially at the high end, to remain purely mechanical devices, I think you need to open your eyes.
Heh. Check out this "death threat" Jack forwarded to the FBI (about halfway down the page):
"For being a total f***ing ***hole. I think video games or [sic] freaking awesome, and they are my entire life, and for you to insult them, is like telling me my life is totally worthless. For this, sir, I AM GOING TO F***ING KILL YOU!!!" [Expletives masked by asterisks.--ed.]
Seems to me Jack has a little trouble recognizing satire himself...
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That would make sense, but he explicitly said "C# experts".
Yes, the command line c# compiler (csc.exe) is part of the free .Net SDK, as are the VB.Net compiler (vbc.exe) and JScript compiler (jsc.exe). There's actually a lot of cool stuff bundled in there, including a debugger and an IL assembler and disassembler.
C# experts are in slightly more demand and can get higher bill rates, unless you're a J2EE expert
Huh?
The rules are consistent. "foo.jpg.exe" is displayed as "foo.jpg" with extension hiding enabled, and when double-clicked, is treated as an .exe file.
As to why the users don't notice the difference between files labeled "foo" and "foo.jpg", I suspect you already know the answer to that one.
I kinda liked HHGttG, but I always wondered how difficult it would be for someone who hadn't read the book first. After all, actions like running out of the house and lying in front of the bulldozer aren't all that easy to figure out if you don't have foreknowledge of the plot.
Absolutely. I'm not above spending some quality time with WinFrotz at work. I've found that it tends to cut into my Slashdot posting time, though.
It's been my experience that Bookpool almost always has the best prices for technical books (AddAll confirms this is the case for this one). Plus, they offer free shipping on orders over $40.
Don't worry - I'm sure if it comes to that, Sony will take the opportunity to continue to spin shit into PR gold:
They're spinning this with all their might. Remember that the patch they so proudly trumpet (look how serious we are about protecting our customers!) doesn't remove the rootkit - it merely disables the cloaking feature. Also note that while they say they are suspending manufacture of these CDs, there is no mention of any effort to remove already manufactured copies from store shelves or the distribution network. Considering that CDs are stamped in large production runs and then kept in inventory, they really haven't committed to anything except to "re-examine all aspects of our content protection initiative to be sure that it continues to meet our goals of security and ease of consumer use." (and note how their goals do not include consumer privacy or control over their own electronic devices).
No, I don't think we forgive them for this for a long time yet.
Hmmm. The main article's authors exhibit similarly poor attention to detail. While they claim that they used Reynolds aluminum foil, the pictures show a box of Chef's Pride foil on the desk. How disappointing. I just don't know whom to trust any more.
Interesting. I'd read one of Dunning's earlier papers (warning: PDF) a while back. I'm glad to see he's still at it.
One thing that bugs me though, is the last section of the article you linked, where it posits that a remedy is better feedback. While this makes sense, I wonder how people in need of such feedback are to judge the quality of the feedback they receive. Too often, a person is perceived as knowledgable and authoritative merely because he exudes confidence when he speaks. How is a neophyte in need of guidance to differentiate between feedback from a true expert and that from a clueless yet confident imposter?
It's perfectly fine for a company to offer for sale as many units of a product as it wants.
WRT oversupply, I believe you're thinking about dumping, which is a situation in which a company will flood the market with product at a price below production cost in order to drive competitors from the market. There are laws and international treaties against this behavior because if the strategy is successful, it leads to a monopolized market, which is bad for everybody except the monopoly supplier.
It is not illegal in most cases to place arbitrary restrictions on supply (exceptions being public services, utilities and such). This is not an anticompetitive practice, as it has no effect on the ability of competitors to set their own supply levels and price points, and in an efficient market the excess demand will either shift to the competition or drive up the price. While you, as a consumer, might not like the higher price, it is really no different (from a market perspective) than if Microsoft had set the "suggested retail price" at the market-driven price point. In other words, Microsoft is free to charge $20,000 per X-Box if they want, and whether they get to that price point by setting it at the outset or by restricting supply is irrelevant.
While you might not like the tactics designed to generate hype over the product, keep in mind that it's not a guaranteed win for them; they are running the risk of pissing off their customers and driving them to wait for a PS3 instead of buying an XBox.
Sure they can, but Cogent has a history of annoying peers due to traffic disparities (as I understand it, Cogent's customers tend heavily toward webhosts, with relatively few end users. This leads to much greater bandwidth utilization for traffic outbound from Cogent's network than for inbound traffic.) This was Level3's reason for depeering Cogent, and is likely to the the cause of any future disagreement between them, unless the composition of Cogent's customer base changes significantly.
Oops - I guess I could have phrased that a little more clearly. The November 9th ultimatum came when Level 3 originally restored peering back on 10/07. Today's agreement supercedes that, so the danger of another depeering (between these two ISPs) has passed unless somebody (read: Cogent) violates the terms of the new agreement.
Why is it that Media Player is on Version 11 and IE is version 7.
Because once Microsoft captured 97% of the browser market with no remaining effective competitive threats, they had no reason to continue development of IE; far better (from a business perspective) to focus their resources on areas in which there was viable competition. As it happens, media players has been just such an area - Real isn't the powerhouse they once were, but MusicMatch and WinAmp, and more recently, iTunes have given Microsoft ample reason to continue to release new versions of Media Player.
The only reason Microsoft is working on IE7 now is because Firefox has proven to be a viable alternative that is successfully taking market share away from IE.
Well, as long as you're changing your address anyway, it's the perfect opportunity to switch providers. Given the reviews of Yahoo Mail, I might take the opportunity to switch myself if Google drops the gmail domain.
If you don't want to bother creating/deleting emails in your own domain (or for those without personal domains), I've found these services to be very useful for this sort of thing:
http://www.spamgourmet.com/
http://www.sneakemail.com/
http://www.mailinator.com/
Even if the reseller doesn't record the serial number, it narrows the search significantly. The manufacturer can tell the authorities where that unit was shipped, and from there they can work down to the individual store (or a group of stores served by the distribution facility in question) and start investigating everybody who purchased that model printer before the document was printed.
Most of those $5000+ printers are bought by relatively large companies. I don't think companies have to keep a full log of what everybody prints.
Maybe not, but identifying the purchaser of the printer significantly narrows the search for the person who used that printer to generate the document in question. If it's owned by a business, they may be able to identify the specific user through print server logs (obtained via subpeona or simply "in connection with an ongoing investigation related to terrorist activity"). Even if no such logs are available, they certainly can identify those individuals with ready access to the printer in question and focus their investigative efforts accordingly.
*obviously*, if *you* bought the printer, then everything that this printer has ever printed was made by *you*
If the printer is owned by an individual, I'd imagine said individual would find himself confronted with the choice of naming names or becoming the prime suspect himself. In either case, the authorities have narrowed their search to a small group of people.
Just because you don't see a benefit to a shift toward computer controllers in household appliances doesn't mean it's not going to happen. In fact, given the trend towards ever-increasing complexity in formerly simple devices, I'd be quite suprised if it didn't happen in the next decade. I'm not making any sort of value judgement about this trend, but if you seriously expect household appliances, especially at the high end, to remain purely mechanical devices, I think you need to open your eyes.
Heh. Check out this "death threat" Jack forwarded to the FBI (about halfway down the page):
"For being a total f***ing ***hole. I think video games or [sic] freaking awesome, and they are my entire life, and for you to insult them, is like telling me my life is totally worthless. For this, sir, I AM GOING TO F***ING KILL YOU!!!" [Expletives masked by asterisks.--ed.]
Seems to me Jack has a little trouble recognizing satire himself...
Password: admin
Welcome to your Kenmore Refrigerator administration console! Please choose from the following options:
- Refrigerator compartment configuration
- Freezer compartment configuration
- Ice maker configuration
- Fault generator configuration
>4Kenmore Fault Generator (tm) configuration menu. Please choose from the following options:
- Enable random grinding/creaking/moaning noises
- Enable random blowing/dripping noises
- Enable random refrigerator temperature fluctuations
- Enable random freezer temperature fluctuations
- Enable strange odor generator
- Enable random faults from all categories (recommended)
- Disable faults when human detected in proximity to refrigerator (recommended)
>One benefit that comes to mind is the ability to automatically download firmware updates.
Also known as cold stress (3rd and 2nd paragraphs from the bottom).
And before that, ancient texts and good-old-fashioned "who paid the most."
Ob. Futurama:
Bender: That'll be 500 bucks. Zapp Brannigan okay?
Leela: No!
Bender: 600.