Yeah, because there were no mp3 players before the iPod. Please. Apple may have sold a gajillion times more units than anyone else but they were far from the first to come up with that idea. As for video players, again, there are already many devices out there which do everything this mythical video iPod will do. I don't think they're exactly setting the retail channel alight, but who knows what Apples marketing machine can conjure up. That's what Apple really do well - marketing.
Well I watch video on my PSP. Given it's screen size and the codecs in use, 200mb/hr is plenty for really good quality video. If you were happy losing a bit of quality you could easily get a regular length (90min) movie on a 256mb stick - although not LOTR of course.
This has nothing to do with GUI programming and everything to do with the cost of creating a process on NT. People began abusing threads because it was so painful to use processes.
Most unix apps don't use threading. This is not for lack of threading or knowledge of how to use threads. It's simply that processes are as cheap as threads and offer more protection.
How is using threads "abusing" them? To counter your point, the problem with threads in Unix is that they are as expensive to create as processes.
Why use threads? Well maybe you don't WANT as much protection - you know having multiple threads of execution through a common memory space is actually really useful sometimes. I personally write apps which often have over 1000 threads running at a time, and it's not because I'm running on Windows (I'm not).
I'm not saying that (for example) X doesn't have an event model similar to Windows - of course it does. But your blatent assumption that threads are for some reason bad while having many processes is magically good is complete balderdash - they are two different things and are good for different situations.
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Sigh. The reason people don't set the timer on their VCRs is not that they are dumb, or unable to deal with technology. It's that the timers are very poorly designed, with arcane interfaces, and most people simply don't care or have time to futz with them. Flip your argument around. If a regular, intelligent adult can't set a clock on a VCR within 5 minutes, the engineer who created the clock should be shot.
This is precisely why we should be giving people DVRs - not just MORE technology but BETTER technology. Technology that is hard to understand and use serves nothing but a few geeks' egos.
If college educated graduates don't even understand the basics of electricity, what does that say about a society that tremendously relies on electricity?
It says that people who do understand electricity will be valued and well paid. Our society depends on lots of things - medication (but we're not all doctors), air travel (but we're not all pilots), oil (but we're not all geologists or petrochemical engineers), etc. Whilst basic skills like changing light bulbs, fuses etc will make people's day to day lives easier and are worth learning, I fail to see how not being able to make a circuit as described will affect most people. My GF is an english teacher, she loves video games, DVDs, all that electronic goodness. She has (despite my attempts to educate) very little idea how any of it really works, just like I have remarkably little knowledge of Shakespeare or Pepys.
But there's still no traffic whatsoever. I mean there's the occassional pickup truck, and every now and then a semi, but you just don't see a traffic jam or a motorcycle gang.
You should play one of the Burnout games. Not only is there lots of traffic, you're going towards it head on.
Either you're wrong, or greylisting is incredibly stupid.
I misread that bit - it doesn't blacklist it just fails again. From the spec:
Check if the sending relay (or network) is whitelisted, and if so, pass the mail. Check if the envelope recipient (or domain) is whitelisted, and if so, pass the mail. Check if we have seen this email triplet before. If we have not seen it, create a record describing it and return a tempfail to the sending MTA. If we have seen it, and the block is not expired, return a tempfail to the sending MTA. If we have seen it, and the block has expired, then pass the email. If the delivery attempt should be passed and the delivery is successful: Increment the passed count on the matching row. Reset the expiration time of the record to be the standard lifetime past the current time. If the delivery attempt has been temporarily failed: Increment the failed count on the matching row. If the sender is the special case of the null sender, do not return a failure after RCPT, instead wait until after the DATA phase.
In the end, it's you that suffers
All I'm suffering from is a lack of herbal v1agra. I've had precisely zero lost legitimate emails in several months. Seems to work just fine.
Of course, one of the really nice things about greylisting is that if you don't want to use it you don't have to, and that doesn't affect how useful it is to me.
When using greylisting, your mail server tells the sender "go away and come back in no less than X minutes". If they attempt to reconnect before X minutes have elapsed they will be blacklisted (hence catching impatient spammers), but there's nothing stopping them actually waiting as long as they like before reconnecting - I'm sure busy mailservers will add the failed message to a resend queue which may take a while to process. In general the delay is only a few minutes (I have "X" set to 5 mins), but some hosts certainly wait longer than they strictly have to. I have seen delays of several hours. Of course, once a mail has got through correctly that sender is whitelisted so no more mail from them is delayed.
My mailhost recently implemented greylisting and it's fantastic. I now get NO real spam (there's still noise from legitimate lists I haven't unsubscribed from of course, but that's my fault). The only downside of greylisting that I can see is that real mail can be delayed a while, up to a few hours. This can mean that conversations between groups of people can arrive out of order, but that's a small price to pay IMHO.
Add in auto-whitelisting (that adds anyone you send mail to into a 1-week whitelist) at the SMTP server and you're set! Down from 50 a day to 0 - nice.
There are plenty of legal (and I don't mean Russian) music download sites which don't use DRM. I am a customer of several. They sell regular mp3s of commercial tunes and make good money doing so. Their catalogue is non-RIAA, but that's fine because none of the decent stuff in the dance music genre is on the major labels. The artists I can download from Beatport, for example, are the equivalents of Green Day or whoever - these are not minor league. If it can work for dance music...why not other forms?
There's a problem with 1a. I don't HAVE to buy CDs anymore, I could download everything I want from p2p. But I don't, primarily because I want the physical disk and want the sound quality. As it turns out I buy probably 10 a month or so. Look even at Cory himself - all his books are available online for free, but guess what? He still sells plenty because people want a big papery thing they can read on the bus.
The key here is to understand that while people might not pay directly for the work in question because they can download it for free, they will pay for a convenient, collectable, tactile container for that work.
But I'm sure there should be more than 3 hits in Manhatten. And as someone else already pointed out, a zipcode like mine (07030) which starts with a zero screws it up.
Err... both of those "errors" (defence and their) are perfectly acceptable and frequently used in England. Which is, interestingly, where English was invented.
It is particularly harsh to force someone who believes that abortion is murder to pay for another's abortion I believe that the invasion of Iraq was tantamount to mass murder, however I don't have any right to prevent my tax money paying for it. Will the LP help me? I believe that the death penalty IS murder, again my tax money pays for the process - where do they stand on that? I'll admit to not knowing a lot about the LP, but I hope they can at least be consistent.
For the record, I'm for the criminalization of wife-beating too. I think you'll find assualt is already illegal.
The people he's referring to are American, and (in his opinion) morons. Therefore, calling them American morons seems quite acceptable. If I see a bunch of cars driving past me at 100mph and say "look at all those fast cars" it doesn't mean I think all cars are fast.
Sounds like the Scientific Atlanta model that many cable co's are using (mine included - CableVision). I'd imagine it requires a digital cable package, though I don't know for sure as I've never had anything else. It's a decent box - has it's annoyances compared to Tivo (which has a much better interface and some nice features) but the HD, surround and multi-tuner stuff more than make up for it. Plus, it's free.
Of course C is used for much embedded software, but most embedded software is not safety critical (e.g., potentially fatal). It has been shown that C (along with many other languages) is inherently unprovable - and many engineers on safety critical systems rely on being able to prove the correctness of a program using something like Z. From what I remember of classes on the subject, there are (very small) subsets of C which can be reasoned about, and those are often used. The kind of things they typically take out are pointers & address arithmetic.
I'm no physicist, but that doesn't seem quite right. The vomit leaving the first person would be travelling at roughly their velocity, which is in a fast circle. Given that the centripetal force at that point is enough to keep the riders in their seats, I'm pretty sure the vomit would travel outwards (e.g. upwards) and end up in the guys lap. It's like swinging a bucket of water over your head - if you spill some it goes outwards, not towards you.
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There are lots:
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beatport.com
audiojelly.com
playittonight.com
etc
Helps if you like dance music though
The iPod cannot play gapless.
Yeah, because there were no mp3 players before the iPod. Please. Apple may have sold a gajillion times more units than anyone else but they were far from the first to come up with that idea. As for video players, again, there are already many devices out there which do everything this mythical video iPod will do. I don't think they're exactly setting the retail channel alight, but who knows what Apples marketing machine can conjure up. That's what Apple really do well - marketing.
Well I watch video on my PSP. Given it's screen size and the codecs in use, 200mb/hr is plenty for really good quality video. If you were happy losing a bit of quality you could easily get a regular length (90min) movie on a 256mb stick - although not LOTR of course.
All three: Java
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Sorry, had to be said
This has nothing to do with GUI programming and everything to do with the cost of creating a process on NT. People began abusing threads because it was so painful to use processes.
Most unix apps don't use threading. This is not for lack of threading or knowledge of how to use threads. It's simply that processes are as cheap as threads and offer more protection.
How is using threads "abusing" them? To counter your point, the problem with threads in Unix is that they are as expensive to create as processes.
Why use threads? Well maybe you don't WANT as much protection - you know having multiple threads of execution through a common memory space is actually really useful sometimes. I personally write apps which often have over 1000 threads running at a time, and it's not because I'm running on Windows (I'm not).
I'm not saying that (for example) X doesn't have an event model similar to Windows - of course it does. But your blatent assumption that threads are for some reason bad while having many processes is magically good is complete balderdash - they are two different things and are good for different situations.
Sigh. The reason people don't set the timer on their VCRs is not that they are dumb, or unable to deal with technology. It's that the timers are very poorly designed, with arcane interfaces, and most people simply don't care or have time to futz with them. Flip your argument around. If a regular, intelligent adult can't set a clock on a VCR within 5 minutes, the engineer who created the clock should be shot.
This is precisely why we should be giving people DVRs - not just MORE technology but BETTER technology. Technology that is hard to understand and use serves nothing but a few geeks' egos.
If college educated graduates don't even understand the basics of electricity, what does that say about a society that tremendously relies on electricity?
It says that people who do understand electricity will be valued and well paid. Our society depends on lots of things - medication (but we're not all doctors), air travel (but we're not all pilots), oil (but we're not all geologists or petrochemical engineers), etc. Whilst basic skills like changing light bulbs, fuses etc will make people's day to day lives easier and are worth learning, I fail to see how not being able to make a circuit as described will affect most people. My GF is an english teacher, she loves video games, DVDs, all that electronic goodness. She has (despite my attempts to educate) very little idea how any of it really works, just like I have remarkably little knowledge of Shakespeare or Pepys.
If two or three months of attacks on a spammer's servers could get him to stop pissing off a million or more people a day, then let the attacks begin!
I see no evidence that it will.
If it makes a Chinese ISP stop writing web hosting contracts for spammers, then let's get going.
Again. How do we know it will work?
If you don't have a viable plan to combat the ever-increasing volume of spam, then get out of the way and let those who do take action.
I see you have a plan, I see no evidence it's viable. I suggest you stand aside...
It's bad form to reply to myself, but you can do firewire networking (giving essentially the same functionality as TDM) in Windows.
More.
I have no idea what target disk mode is, but the other 2 have been common place on PCs for at least a couple of years.
But there's still no traffic whatsoever. I mean there's the occassional pickup truck, and every now and then a semi, but you just don't see a traffic jam or a motorcycle gang.
You should play one of the Burnout games. Not only is there lots of traffic, you're going towards it head on.
I misread that bit - it doesn't blacklist it just fails again. From the spec:
In the end, it's you that suffers
All I'm suffering from is a lack of herbal v1agra. I've had precisely zero lost legitimate emails in several months. Seems to work just fine.
Of course, one of the really nice things about greylisting is that if you don't want to use it you don't have to, and that doesn't affect how useful it is to me.
When using greylisting, your mail server tells the sender "go away and come back in no less than X minutes". If they attempt to reconnect before X minutes have elapsed they will be blacklisted (hence catching impatient spammers), but there's nothing stopping them actually waiting as long as they like before reconnecting - I'm sure busy mailservers will add the failed message to a resend queue which may take a while to process. In general the delay is only a few minutes (I have "X" set to 5 mins), but some hosts certainly wait longer than they strictly have to. I have seen delays of several hours. Of course, once a mail has got through correctly that sender is whitelisted so no more mail from them is delayed.
My mailhost recently implemented greylisting and it's fantastic. I now get NO real spam (there's still noise from legitimate lists I haven't unsubscribed from of course, but that's my fault). The only downside of greylisting that I can see is that real mail can be delayed a while, up to a few hours. This can mean that conversations between groups of people can arrive out of order, but that's a small price to pay IMHO.
Add in auto-whitelisting (that adds anyone you send mail to into a 1-week whitelist) at the SMTP server and you're set! Down from 50 a day to 0 - nice.
There are plenty of legal (and I don't mean Russian) music download sites which don't use DRM. I am a customer of several. They sell regular mp3s of commercial tunes and make good money doing so. Their catalogue is non-RIAA, but that's fine because none of the decent stuff in the dance music genre is on the major labels. The artists I can download from Beatport, for example, are the equivalents of Green Day or whoever - these are not minor league. If it can work for dance music...why not other forms?
Examples: Beatport, AudioJelly.
I've spent $00's on music downloads but don't own a single DRM file. I intend to keep it that way.
There's a problem with 1a. I don't HAVE to buy CDs anymore, I could download everything I want from p2p. But I don't, primarily because I want the physical disk and want the sound quality. As it turns out I buy probably 10 a month or so. Look even at Cory himself - all his books are available online for free, but guess what? He still sells plenty because people want a big papery thing they can read on the bus.
The key here is to understand that while people might not pay directly for the work in question because they can download it for free, they will pay for a convenient, collectable, tactile container for that work.
BTW, surprised no one has attacked you on your comment about gays.
There's really no point arguing with blikered morons, it's a waste of time.
But I'm sure there should be more than 3 hits in Manhatten. And as someone else already pointed out, a zipcode like mine (07030) which starts with a zero screws it up.
I've had mine over a year, never had any problems.
Err... both of those "errors" (defence and their) are perfectly acceptable and frequently used in England. Which is, interestingly, where English was invented.
It is particularly harsh to force someone who believes that abortion is murder to pay for another's abortion
I believe that the invasion of Iraq was tantamount to mass murder, however I don't have any right to prevent my tax money paying for it. Will the LP help me? I believe that the death penalty IS murder, again my tax money pays for the process - where do they stand on that? I'll admit to not knowing a lot about the LP, but I hope they can at least be consistent.
For the record, I'm for the criminalization of wife-beating too.
I think you'll find assualt is already illegal.
The people he's referring to are American, and (in his opinion) morons. Therefore, calling them American morons seems quite acceptable. If I see a bunch of cars driving past me at 100mph and say "look at all those fast cars" it doesn't mean I think all cars are fast.
Sounds like the Scientific Atlanta model that many cable co's are using (mine included - CableVision). I'd imagine it requires a digital cable package, though I don't know for sure as I've never had anything else. It's a decent box - has it's annoyances compared to Tivo (which has a much better interface and some nice features) but the HD, surround and multi-tuner stuff more than make up for it. Plus, it's free.
Of course C is used for much embedded software, but most embedded software is not safety critical (e.g., potentially fatal). It has been shown that C (along with many other languages) is inherently unprovable - and many engineers on safety critical systems rely on being able to prove the correctness of a program using something like Z. From what I remember of classes on the subject, there are (very small) subsets of C which can be reasoned about, and those are often used. The kind of things they typically take out are pointers & address arithmetic.
I'm no physicist, but that doesn't seem quite right. The vomit leaving the first person would be travelling at roughly their velocity, which is in a fast circle. Given that the centripetal force at that point is enough to keep the riders in their seats, I'm pretty sure the vomit would travel outwards (e.g. upwards) and end up in the guys lap. It's like swinging a bucket of water over your head - if you spill some it goes outwards, not towards you.