Not only that, but the publishers add about two paragraphs of new information, move all the chapters around, and then coax the professors into requiring their students to get the new addition...
...because they don't make any money off of used textbook sales.
GOD DAMN, that pisses me off!
ok, now to make this post somewhat on topic, instead of just a rant....
I would glady look at ads on every other page of my texts if it meant that i didn't have to choose between buying books/eating mac and cheeze every day, and not having books/being able to afford a six pack to go with my mac and cheeze
btw... people should really proofread so they give the right url, but anyway...
This looks like another good step towards making linux usable as an average joe desktop os. The average non geek who has enough trouble using a mac doesn't even want to think about something like rpm -Uvh package.rpm from the command line. And while there are gui package managers out there, i've found that it's even more confusing to install something i just downloaded using the gui as opposed to the command line.
A package manager/installer system that is highly customizable, from easy as hell for the non geeks, to complicated as your feelings about cheeze for ubergeeks. There are some distros that take a decent step in making the newbie comfortable (like mandrake)... but some things are still missing. being able to find the package easily on the desktop, double click it, and have it install, with icons in the gnome/kde menus and the who kabong would go a long way in helping linux get over the "it's too hard to use" barrier that stops it from being a widely accepted desktop os.
the system used at UND, same as the city library (and i think, the whole state) is called PALS.. which as a command line interface.. it used to be just a bunch of hard to use dumb terminals back in the late 80s when it started (telnet: odin.und.nodak.edu for an example), but this guy i go to school with here has been cgi'ng everying so it hits the web: www.odin.nodak.edu will let you search all the libraries in the state. I don't think it's Free (capital intentional), but it would prolly be free or cheap for a nonprofit or other librabary.
This applies to people as well. I helped organize keggers in college. A small number of us did the organizing/financing/clean up -- everyone else just showed up and partied.
Dang. Around here the party organizer charges a $5 cover, makes a profit, and uses the money to pay his rent
Is this not just an example of the sort of freedom these type of networks allow? Why should anyone be forced to share? There have always been leeches and lurkers, and I don't see any reason why there shouldn't be. For example, I have my max uploads set to zero on my napster client at work (to avoid potention problems). I share at home because it is a different situation. The people who are sharing are doing so because they want to. Just as with the early days of the web, or even back to BBSs -- Why spend the time doing a website, or the money and time it takes to run a BBS when there is nothing in it for you? Apparently there is something in it for those willing to share, even if it isn't tangible. Bottom line: these types of services are about freedom.
Yes, I *know* there is uClinux running on a Palm V somewhere, but when is there finally going to be linux for all palm os devices? That crappy VTech thing (uhoh, here comes -1, Troll) gets linux and my Visor Deluxe doesn't? What gives? Considering the number of geeks that use Palm devices compared to the relatively small adoption of WinCE and other weird propreitary devices, one would think there would be a small, easy to install, and reliable linux for Palm devices.
[Then explain| why Office 98 for the mac is one of the best programs that Microsoft makes!
first off, you're comparing it to other MS products.;)
Also, MS has their own mac team that does stuff... pretty much independant of the rest of MS. Take IE5 for the mac, for example. It's not even a port of the windoze version, it just has the same name. the UI and a lot of the features are significantly different.
As much as I hate to applaud MS for anything, their Mac development team is doing a really good job. It's almost as if they are a seperate company! (ie Bungie is owned by MS now, but they make cool stuff)
So if the linux stuff is not so much a port, and a clone (just like IE is a clone of netscape) that has the same name, similar to the way IE5 for Mac was done, the linux apps should be pretty good. I think people are being waaaay to pessimistic. I see MS trying to make money off of linux as a sign that linux is maturing into a usable desktop OS.
Oh, and one last thing... the IMO Media Player 7 for win sucks balls. Upgrading was the worst thing i ever did.
It's nice to see that the linux community is getting help from a corporation in supporting new hardware. It's a nice change from hardware vendors having to make sure their product is MS compatable, instead of vice versa like it should be
So what is AMD's plan? Is Sledgehammer going to be used in highend servers? If this is the case, I think they are definelty taking the right course in not only helping out linux, but also protecting their interests. It would be hard for other chip manufactures to compete with a more powerful platform that had multiOS support. Linux and (i'm gonna assume here) NT/2000 are a good start. Has there been any news from the BSD camp on a port? I mean, "of course it runs NetBSD", doesn't it?
I have to disclaim this post with the following statement. Please do not take it as a troll
I do not like C or C++
ouch. I can feel people's flames already. But here's why: I started programming in basic on an Apple II when I was about 8 years old. Later moved on to Pascal, and then Ada as my college into CSCI courses (yes, Ada and pascal suck dirty balls). Then i learned java. Java and I have a love affair now. Not only did I have an excellent instructor who made me think of the entire world as a bunch of objects, but the language also fits the way I think. Automatic garbage collection is a godsend, and object references make more sense to me than pointers (although some of the pointer arthimetic stuff in C is really cool). I also like strongly typed languages. Strangely enough, I love perl too, mostly for the reason that there are no data types (per se). In perl it makes sense, because of what i use it for... scripting and CGI. But when I am writing a program that i need to function correctly I like to have somebody watching my back. When I was learning C and C++, and to this day when I program in those languages they always manage to compile my code and do stuff they aren't supposed to.
So C# looks pretty cool. Mostly because it looks like it will protect me like Java, and let me program on windoze (I'm not a big fan of windows, but let's face it... I don't get paid for writing free software). I'm wonding how adoped C# will be. Will it be incorporated into DevStudio with VB and VC++? And being an up and comming language, will there be lucritive jobs for the people who know it? I graduate from the University in a couple of years, but i've been looking at jobs and dice and monster to see what's out there, and it seems like aren't a whole lot of java coders comparted to C/C++ coders, thus they get paid more. Is there going to be a sudden demand for C# coders in a few years? if there is, maybe I should start learning it
i thought we talked enough about anarchy in high school debate that you'd cut organized governerning bodies a little more slack;)
just voicing agreement with you on the decision making for the budget. It seems like a better way of giving the individuals power than letting their elected leaders fight partisan battles over where the money goes. I think it would be fair if we let people decide where a certain amount of their money went. Not all of it though. One of the reasons for a having a government is helping the minority have a chance against the majority.
Such stops are illegal, as the Supreme Court has ruled, so you may have your facts wrong. What may have happened is that the cops put up a roadblock, then some distance away put up a sign saying "Drug Roadblock Ahead". Then they waited in hiding near the sign for the idiots to dump their drugs and arrested them for 'littering' and, oops, it looks like they were littering drugs! No search required since the perp tossed the stuff out himself (the 'Drug Roadblock' doesn't really search cars - it's just a ruse.). This is a tactic that was just recently ruled illegal itself.
Oh, we both know it's illegal, but the cops around here don't seem to know that. This was an honest to god stop everyone roadblock. Happend in northern minnesota. I live on the ND/MN border, and stops like that, especially "sobreity checkpoints" are pretty common in North Dakota. That's why I hope that people who get busted realize that they need to get a lawyer and fight that. I also hope that the innocent who are stopped will raise hell about it.
It seems that when riots occurr or are even expected, such as at the WTO in Seatle, or the RNC in Philly, the police show an even greater disregard for the civil rights of the citezens of the United States than usual. I've head many accounts of the philly police arresting people walking down the streets who weren't even part of any protest
But it goes further than this. Recently in my area, a highway was blocked off and a "drug checkpoint" was set up. This resulted in hundreds of innocent people being stoped, their cars searched without cause. It lead to two possesion of marijuana arrests, and a few open container alcholol violations. I hope those arrested get good laywers, and the courts are willing to listen. Apperently the 4th amendment doesn't mean anything anymore in law enforcement.
And it used to be that law enforcement needed cause and a court order before they could proceed with a wiretap. Now we're going to have carnivore hooked up to the ISPs so the FBI can will have the ability to watch anybody anytime (not legally, but that doesn't seem to have stopped them in past similar situations). This sort of thing needs to stop (btw, you can click here to send a free fax to your congressmen and the president urging them to stop carnivore).
I applaud the gentleman who wrote this article, as he was willing to stand up for his rights even when he was doing nothing wrong. More people ought to refuse to be searched even when they have nothing to hide. If you get stopped for speeding and the cop wants to look around your car, say "plain view, officer". The idea that only the guilty have something to hide is wrong. Everyone has a right to privacy
I'm curious. My understanding is that an injunction was issued to prevent napster from doing any more damage to the record industry prior to the trial. What happens if the RIAA loses in the end? Can napster take legal action agaist the RIAA for revenue that was lost while the injuction was in place? (i know, it's not like napster actually makes any money, but's let's pertend they do)
The biggest profit doesn't even come from the price of admission. It's the $6 tub of popcorn, and the $3 coke.
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the movie theater is the primary data venue for many people,
erm... correction. not data venue, DATE venue. like boy takes girl to chick flick so he can get some sort of date. sorry. data. shit. what was i thinking?
the movie theater is the primary data venue for many people, especially those under 21 who can't go out to the clubs (a major market group, too). Besides, not every one has the bigscreen tv and surround sound system. Imagine how much more disappointing the phantom menace would have been if you'd seen it for the first time on a 25' tv.
Besides, everyone knows that the MPAA is all about controlling how when and where you see movies, and having the new movies released only in theaters (true, those of us with high speed connections *can* watch the blurry telesync version) gives them the upperhand in controling your entertainment.
actually, if you use text_io; then you could go ahead and do:
Put_line("hello, world");
when making a function call, you can either be very clear about what you're doing with the little => (which we started calling a 'chun', after our lab TA), or you can just pass in vars in order.
i just got done with the chat, and the moderation was terrible. none of the hard hitting questions got through (like the ones that came up as comments on this artivle), and the moderators passed though lots and lots of praise for metallica, but didn't pass through the comments that showed that at least some fans no longer want to be fans
could serve your MP3 library to multiple rooms in the house as separate streams
We sort of do this at work already, with a shoutcast server sending streams in office on demand. I'm curious as to how much this device costs, tho. would it really be cost effective to put a unit in every room of those house and have the streams tho? by the same token, you could just setup a low power pentium system with a decent soundcard and a nic and run shoutcast or icecast(if icecast does on demand streams, that is... i haven't checked into that) server on a more powerful system (which it looks like you need for this device anyway). A home built unit could probably be made for a few hundred dollars... and there are a lot of car/home mp3 player software packages that work with mpg123 and the like that could probably be easily modified to work with an on demand streaming server.
He is just the kind of guy who scares my clients away from Open Source. And I don't believe his slashing attacks are representative of most developers I know, who are rather apolitical and quiet. For Linux to get mainstream we must get rid of the radicals and focus on the quality of the results.
i think that is kind of his point, if i read the article correctly. I would agree that just opening the source for software isn't good enough. Now that Open Source software has taken place of Free Software, corporations can take something that was intended to give us freedom, and just use it to make more money. Open source shouldn't be a business model.
One thing that did kind of bother me about stallman's article was what he said about rather using an inferior piece of free software than using something propreitary. What about piracy? I think that piracy would be a good way of using good quality software, and also a form of civil disobedience
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eeewwwww. gross! what kind of sicko are you!
oh, wait. you're talking about the noodles, not my lab TA, huh? well, i like the noodles.
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GOD DAMN, that pisses me off!
ok, now to make this post somewhat on topic, instead of just a rant....
I would glady look at ads on every other page of my texts if it meant that i didn't have to choose between buying books/eating mac and cheeze every day, and not having books/being able to afford a six pack to go with my mac and cheeze
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This looks like another good step towards making linux usable as an average joe desktop os. The average non geek who has enough trouble using a mac doesn't even want to think about something like rpm -Uvh package.rpm from the command line. And while there are gui package managers out there, i've found that it's even more confusing to install something i just downloaded using the gui as opposed to the command line.
A package manager/installer system that is highly customizable, from easy as hell for the non geeks, to complicated as your feelings about cheeze for ubergeeks. There are some distros that take a decent step in making the newbie comfortable (like mandrake)... but some things are still missing. being able to find the package easily on the desktop, double click it, and have it install, with icons in the gnome/kde menus and the who kabong would go a long way in helping linux get over the "it's too hard to use" barrier that stops it from being a widely accepted desktop os.
now if only there was a decent media player....
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Dang. Around here the party organizer charges a $5 cover, makes a profit, and uses the money to pay his rent
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first off, you're comparing it to other MS products. ;)
Also, MS has their own mac team that does stuff... pretty much independant of the rest of MS. Take IE5 for the mac, for example. It's not even a port of the windoze version, it just has the same name. the UI and a lot of the features are significantly different.
As much as I hate to applaud MS for anything, their Mac development team is doing a really good job. It's almost as if they are a seperate company! (ie Bungie is owned by MS now, but they make cool stuff)
So if the linux stuff is not so much a port, and a clone (just like IE is a clone of netscape) that has the same name, similar to the way IE5 for Mac was done, the linux apps should be pretty good. I think people are being waaaay to pessimistic. I see MS trying to make money off of linux as a sign that linux is maturing into a usable desktop OS.
Oh, and one last thing... the IMO Media Player 7 for win sucks balls. Upgrading was the worst thing i ever did.
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So what is AMD's plan? Is Sledgehammer going to be used in highend servers? If this is the case, I think they are definelty taking the right course in not only helping out linux, but also protecting their interests. It would be hard for other chip manufactures to compete with a more powerful platform that had multiOS support. Linux and (i'm gonna assume here) NT/2000 are a good start. Has there been any news from the BSD camp on a port? I mean, "of course it runs NetBSD", doesn't it?
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I would worry the salmon chip trying to swim upstream to spawn. The worst we have to feer from the V-Groove is some funkadelic dancing.
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I do not like C or C++
ouch. I can feel people's flames already. But here's why: I started programming in basic on an Apple II when I was about 8 years old. Later moved on to Pascal, and then Ada as my college into CSCI courses (yes, Ada and pascal suck dirty balls). Then i learned java. Java and I have a love affair now. Not only did I have an excellent instructor who made me think of the entire world as a bunch of objects, but the language also fits the way I think. Automatic garbage collection is a godsend, and object references make more sense to me than pointers (although some of the pointer arthimetic stuff in C is really cool). I also like strongly typed languages. Strangely enough, I love perl too, mostly for the reason that there are no data types (per se). In perl it makes sense, because of what i use it for... scripting and CGI. But when I am writing a program that i need to function correctly I like to have somebody watching my back. When I was learning C and C++, and to this day when I program in those languages they always manage to compile my code and do stuff they aren't supposed to.
So C# looks pretty cool. Mostly because it looks like it will protect me like Java, and let me program on windoze (I'm not a big fan of windows, but let's face it... I don't get paid for writing free software). I'm wonding how adoped C# will be. Will it be incorporated into DevStudio with VB and VC++? And being an up and comming language, will there be lucritive jobs for the people who know it? I graduate from the University in a couple of years, but i've been looking at jobs and dice and monster to see what's out there, and it seems like aren't a whole lot of java coders comparted to C/C++ coders, thus they get paid more. Is there going to be a sudden demand for C# coders in a few years? if there is, maybe I should start learning it
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i thought we talked enough about anarchy in high school debate that you'd cut organized governerning bodies a little more slack ;)
just voicing agreement with you on the decision making for the budget. It seems like a better way of giving the individuals power than letting their elected leaders fight partisan battles over where the money goes. I think it would be fair if we let people decide where a certain amount of their money went. Not all of it though. One of the reasons for a having a government is helping the minority have a chance against the majority.
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Oh, we both know it's illegal, but the cops around here don't seem to know that. This was an honest to god stop everyone roadblock. Happend in northern minnesota. I live on the ND/MN border, and stops like that, especially "sobreity checkpoints" are pretty common in North Dakota. That's why I hope that people who get busted realize that they need to get a lawyer and fight that. I also hope that the innocent who are stopped will raise hell about it.
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But it goes further than this. Recently in my area, a highway was blocked off and a "drug checkpoint" was set up. This resulted in hundreds of innocent people being stoped, their cars searched without cause. It lead to two possesion of marijuana arrests, and a few open container alcholol violations. I hope those arrested get good laywers, and the courts are willing to listen. Apperently the 4th amendment doesn't mean anything anymore in law enforcement.
And it used to be that law enforcement needed cause and a court order before they could proceed with a wiretap. Now we're going to have carnivore hooked up to the ISPs so the FBI can will have the ability to watch anybody anytime (not legally, but that doesn't seem to have stopped them in past similar situations). This sort of thing needs to stop (btw, you can click here to send a free fax to your congressmen and the president urging them to stop carnivore).
I applaud the gentleman who wrote this article, as he was willing to stand up for his rights even when he was doing nothing wrong. More people ought to refuse to be searched even when they have nothing to hide. If you get stopped for speeding and the cop wants to look around your car, say "plain view, officer". The idea that only the guilty have something to hide is wrong. Everyone has a right to privacy
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so you're basically saying that the GPL is great, if you don't want to make any money.
wouldn't it would be better to ask why we can do to convince companies like Sega to GPL thier software in the first place?
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erm... correction. not data venue, DATE venue. like boy takes girl to chick flick so he can get some sort of date. sorry. data. shit. what was i thinking?
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Besides, everyone knows that the MPAA is all about controlling how when and where you see movies, and having the new movies released only in theaters (true, those of us with high speed connections *can* watch the blurry telesync version) gives them the upperhand in controling your entertainment.
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actually, if you use text_io; then you could go ahead and do:
Put_line("hello, world");
when making a function call, you can either be very clear about what you're doing with the little => (which we started calling a 'chun', after our lab TA), or you can just pass in vars in order.
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hmm... good point. from now on i'm gonna have to write my virii in java
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We sort of do this at work already, with a shoutcast server sending streams in office on demand. I'm curious as to how much this device costs, tho. would it really be cost effective to put a unit in every room of those house and have the streams tho? by the same token, you could just setup a low power pentium system with a decent soundcard and a nic and run shoutcast or icecast(if icecast does on demand streams, that is... i haven't checked into that) server on a more powerful system (which it looks like you need for this device anyway). A home built unit could probably be made for a few hundred dollars... and there are a lot of car/home mp3 player software packages that work with mpg123 and the like that could probably be easily modified to work with an on demand streaming server.
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i think that is kind of his point, if i read the article correctly. I would agree that just opening the source for software isn't good enough. Now that Open Source software has taken place of Free Software, corporations can take something that was intended to give us freedom, and just use it to make more money. Open source shouldn't be a business model.
One thing that did kind of bother me about stallman's article was what he said about rather using an inferior piece of free software than using something propreitary. What about piracy? I think that piracy would be a good way of using good quality software, and also a form of civil disobedience
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