If it's purely a capital driven practice then that's a poor practice (at least from the consumer standpoint), but can it benefit us in any way. What if mass sales on an item drives the prices down since they overstock on purpose to meet the demand?.. just a thought
At least the whole cd-burner type concept, in the sense that I seem to recall somewhere that for every blank cd manufactured (i dont recall if magnetic tapes are included) a fee must be paid to the RIAA/MPAA (or one of those acronyms people cringe at) seeing that the product essentially could be used for "copying" something that they own?
I think I'm recalling this from a conversation about the difference between blank cd's for "audio only" and regular blank "computer" cds. Granted, I can't recall the outcome of the conversation anymore, but maybe some of you know the answer..
Don't forget the pascal or c (whatever it was) that they sent the virus over in... obviously, (whatever language it was) is the interstellar standard! *smirk*
Wasn't there a film based on Mitnick being made? What ever happened to it, and bringing something like the event of Mitnick to the theatre, what would hollywood show when Kevin allegedly hacks the planet? (sorry, had to) Hollywood just dishes out the goods, it's up to us to either praise or throw away.
On a somewhat related note, you could always write a screenplay.. or ongoing hacker saga and film it yourself.. utilize video and audio input to your computer and wallah... a true to your perspective hacker flick that might just be interesting. Maybe Hemos and CmdrTaco would be interested in being casted?
Practicality is monitor glare, there's nothing more I hate than that. Other reasons, I like the low light due to less strain on the eyes... and low lighted areas brings out the real typist in you, rather than the "hunt and peck with one finger" method that I swear everyone started as:) Personally I like working with only the monitor and the lava lamps in the room as my light source.
Hackers just has an appealing entertainment value if you don't sit there and analyze & nitpick everything. They got down some of the goofy sides of the 31337 crowd, as well as some more stuff that is currently "out there" like dipicting a system being cracked into as a 3d world. Everybody wants to create a metaverse, but no one has yet. It's cool to imagine what everything could look like... wasn't one idea about GGI that you could have a terminal login on every side of a rotating textmapped cube? Not to far off..
There are settings in Pi that are computer related... like the processor that hangs above him in a static-isolated cage, and the primitive appleIIesqe screens of text and dot-matrix printers all brought to you in vivid black and white video! Great movie, go watch it:)
COM is just a concept anyways. Microsoft's implementation has many additions to the base of COM... and if all you need is a base, then there's no need for the other stuff. I read a good COM book that basically taught COM by implementing it in C++.. and believe me, it was more than 10 lines.. but it wasn't any large amount.
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On a somewhat related note, you could always write a screenplay.. or ongoing hacker saga and film it yourself.. utilize video and audio input to your computer and wallah... a true to your perspective hacker flick that might just be interesting. Maybe Hemos and CmdrTaco would be interested in being casted?
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