It's a little bit more of a setup, but you can do most of this with downloaded / ripped shows as well. There are some clients (such as Plex - http://www.plexapp.com/) which allow you to most of the same functionality. You can pause shows and resume them on a different machine, or with the option of restarting.
It does not have the nice feature of moving from one TV show to the next like Netflix does, but it does separate into categories (TV Shows and Movies) and can be searched for by genres, etc.
The biggest advantage Netflix has over any sort of home media is the amount of media it has which can easily surpass the amount stored at home in HD and secondly, the redundancy of the servers so that you have minimal amount of outages.
Actually, I wouldn't even create a temporary compatibility layer since everything that is temporary in our code tends to stay in the base entirely too long. We had a similar issue when our project requirements could not be sustained by LLBLGen, the original accessor to our data persistent layer. As we phased out the LLBLGen, we created a service layer and abstract factory class which represented our DAL and was primarily developed with dependency injection and testing in mind. It has actually worked out really well since we are having to modify our data access layer again to compensate for data retrieval on the bus. It is a little extra work but allows for more flexibility in the future.
You're absolutely correct. My father was paid more when he was deployed to Iraq. I also know a civilian network engineer who made a tremendous amount of money b/c he was paid hazard pay while he was working in Bagdad.
The cost of the war is more than just the pay for people to be over there. You also have to worry about shipping, both food and supplies; fuel for vehicles for transports, jets, etc; the supplies themselves (such as ammunition and foodstuff); and other issues of which I am probably completely unaware.
IMHO, the problem with pulling the troops out now is the threat of creating the situation we supposedly went over to "fix." If we pull out before the Iraqis have a sustainable infrastructure, it will be left as a hotbed for training terrorists in a nation that is embittered towards the US, either from the "collateral damage" we have caused or from leaving their country in total disarray after invading it years ago. It is not an easy situation and I feel for whichever president that is elected and has to deal with that mess.
Speaking as a developer in a team which is split into both US and Indian resources, I don't think it's the accent that is troublesome. It is the barrier of actual understanding that is an issue. Sometimes, they just don't get it no matter how many times you explain it to them.
And as for actually fixing the problem, have you ever had to maintain anything fixed by Indians? I have nightmares about it. It is at times atrocious. And this isn't b/c they're not talented developers; most of the time it's because they don't understand the concepts we are trying to use and why we are using them. All in all, when I go back to fix another defect that is introduced into a section where an Indian resource has been working, it will take me twice as long.
I can't speak for the other components of MS Office such as Outlook, Microsoft does provide a compatibility pack for word, excel and powerpoint formats which allow someone with an older version of office (XP) view the newer documents.
There is no other provision in the Copyright Act that specifically authorizes the making of backup copies of works other than computer programs even if those works are distributed as digital copies.
Actually it does if you read it correctly. According to the one line quoted above, the Copyright Act only pertains to computer programs only and anything else is not covered under it, including CDs and DVDs distributed on digital media. So you can backup your disc of MS Office 2003 but not your copy of George Clinton and the P-Funk Allstars
Yeah that's certainly true as the length of the discussion approaches an indefinate amount of time. The point of interest is at the frequency of occurance for a discussion to degrade to accusations that one or the either is a Nazi. Not too often you hear a discussion degrading to the parties calling each other a cannibal or a nerf-herder;)
Which is why you need to vote for a minor party. I can guarantee to you that they'll get to changing things. I agree but I want to slightly elaborate on you point.
Even if you don't get the minor party official elected, if they get enough votes, either a Republican or Democrat could pick up the driving issue and pursue it to their own means. It may not ideal, certainly, but it can be effective to get us what we want. So when the major two parties notice, the vote is not wasted.
Not really sure that transplanting our brains into machines could really be considered "evolution." Evolution, any way you slice it, is a gradual change. Becoming a Cyberman sounds pretty sudden
Hasn't living in the digital age taught you anything? If it can be created, it can be copied. All we lack is the underlying mechanism on how to create it. I believe that we will in fact copy it. It might not be as effective as the natural brain but one day, we'll be able to create something as effective as our brains.
The question isn't "will we?", the question in reality be: "should we?" Do we have the right to dissect the creations of god and dupllicate them? Sure, I see no reason not to. There are certainly hazards (as most of famous sci-fi movies absolutely love to point out) but there are hazards to driving in the morning. Sure, one day we may be responsible for annihilation of all man-kind but hey, we had a good run;)
But I think there are some good aspects to trying to replicate the brain. The best reason of all is for understanding of how we work. To duplicate something, you need to know how it works first (or at least know how in general). If we understand the brain, that could help us
hopefully understand ourselves
Build computers that have faster and simutaneous memory searches.
Oh and one last thing. Have you ever programmed an email program? They made be fun to design, if you're a hard-core coder but they're not easy.
Definately true and even truer for the moon. However, with a dispersal of the population, it would take multiple catastrophes (at least one on each colonized planet/moon) to wipe us out. Not to mention that if we have learned how to survive harsher habitats than the one we are made for, then it would stand to reason that the human species would be able to survive a drastic change in our environment here on earth, which would hopefully reduce our chances of being extinct in the same fashions as the dinosaurs
Well a mission to the Moon and Mars, bent on colonizing planets outside of our native planet, would be extremely beneficial and would pay off tremendously if Earth was ever faced with a crisis that we could not prevent. It would at least save our species from extinction!
I've not talked with many people who are happy with pay-as-you-go. This seems mostly because pay-as-you-go is usually more synonymous with "commit-to-a-locked-in-contract" for time frames longer than the current technology obsolesence cycles.
The payment plan is primarily intended for large companies who are already locked into M$ products and I believe it is supposed to allow them to upgrade to the newest products w/o making another large purchase order. These are the companies that are less likely to change over to new products b/c they have established a comfort with using a product with the same general feel and operation (or lack thereof;) In fact, I used to work for a department of the city I lived in who is actually excited about the idea
Also, and I didn't see it in the article, but from what I understand, the process does not lock you into a contract for that single version of the software but allows for upgrades. However, I don't recall them mentioning a charge for upgrading or an increase in "software rent" but I imagine something of the sort would definately ensue.
You know, I've been thinking along the same lines lately. I've always been a big believer in the greenhouse theory and have made changes in my lifestyle to reflect it (i.e., I ride a bicycle to local fruit stands instead of driving to the grocery store, etc). But the more I watch and learn about the theories concerning our planet, the more I wonder if we could be mistaken. One of the things I keep wondering about is that the earth's magnetic poles are in continous movement. This movement seems to cause a fluctuation in the earth's electromagnetic field, decreasing it as much as %10 since the 19th century. Since this protects us from global winds, could this not be a part of the problem or is this already considered in teh current calculations for global warming?
Another point that I have been pondering is that even if global warming is caused by man, it is pretty arrogant of us to believe that we will kill the earth (or all of the life found on it). It seems very likely that we could kill ourselves and most of the organisms that are adapted to the world as we know it, but life will still live on. This has already occurred during the Great Dying. So in a sense, we are really trying to save ourselves from ourselves
Are you sure? I personally would never want to play a SW or RPG type game on the Wii. Don't mistake me, I wanted a Wii as bad as the next geek b/c it looked like a novel way to play a game. Then I realized what sort of games I play and the duration of how long I play (when I get a chance to). I just don't think that waving my arm around like a sword for an hour would be very fun. I would love to play the bowling game or Madden on it but not for long.
But then again, I could just be one of the lazy gamers out there;) I'd rather use a traditional remote and be in a more stationary position. Plus, I think the Wii remote would interfere with my love life with Rosie;)
I know this is posted by an AC but I still have to respond
This story has been on MSNBC for days. I see the same thing increasingly with/. Like some of the members must read nothing else but/. and are totally unaware of mainstream news.
Sure it is. Just b/c it's not first with the news doesn't mean it's not relevant.
/. is a discussion forum and even if the news is a little bit older, you still get new points of views, new links to more information, and counter arguments to the article. Hell, for me, most of the time the real "news" comes from the member postings. So quit hatin.;)
I simply do not understand why this issue is always brought up. The "theory of Intelligent Design" has a place where it is taught, and that is in church (or synagogue or temple). This, to me, is as inane as myself taking my priest to court because he talks about Adam and Even which "offends" my right to believe in evolution. Yes I know that a school is a public institution (and a church a private institution) but there is absolutely no credence behind "Intelligent Design" and really has no place in any institution that inspires learning and developing ideas. Creationsim is just too much of a dead-end theory to be in school.
"God created the world as it is today. Pay no attention to the fossils behind the curtain"
Leave creationsim in church. At least that way you are presented with two opposing alternatives and you can use your brain to choose between the two.
Another thing I wonder about: why does evolution disprove God(s) existence? How do we know he didn't design life to be this way, to adapt and spread? I never could understand why religion doesn't take hold of the theory and run with it."Look! God is so awesome he designed life to create the most complex creatures from the most basic of matter!" I guess it just goes against the flattering of the human ego to think that perhaps we are not created in the image of some diety.
This statement strikes me as funny for two reasons: One it assumes that the student is going to be using the same OS for the duration of his career from say middle school to graduating from college, which is ridiculous. I had my first computer experience on a Commodore 64, then moved to Windows shortly thereafter, but it was an assortment of different flavors from Win95 to XP and several different flavors of Linux in between. IMHO, the main differences between OSes lies in how they operate underneath the UI interface, which most kids will not get into in middle school, and the applications which can be installed. Most of the apps used in school systems can easily be replaced with the equivalent apps that are found in most Linux distros and have similiar sequences of actions to activate an event. I don't think that switching from OpenOffice.Org to M$ Word will be all that traumatizing to a kid.
Secondly, it's assuming that the kids will only be interacting with computers at school, which for the general population is not the case. And for the general population. the OS of choice at home tends to be a flavor of the Windows OS.
In short, it seems like it would be a great idea to introduce Linux in the school system. If nothing else, it will show kids to not be afraid of switching to a different OS b/c they don't know where the button to do such-and-such is at (seriously, that is the only reason why I my roommate doesn't like Linux and makes me boot into Windows when he wants to surf the internet)
Interesting post. I wish I could mod you up on it. I'm especially curious on the issues you brought up concerning the performance issue and the type explosions in regards to use of generics. Does this not occur with Java's implementation of generics as well? Do you have anything I can read up on concerning these subjects?
Of course I meant it as in my opinion, and maybe I should have expressed that better by making the word "I" bold rather than italicized. But I have worked on several different IDEs including Net Beans, Eclipse, and KDevelop and even liked the latter two tremendously but to me, VS 2005 seems intrinsically intuitive and extremely simple to use while allowing me to be as productive as I can be for the moment. However, that does not mean I use it and only it. I still like to try anything new (and even plan on checking out a few you mentioned) b/c I know that I do not know everything nor tried everything that has been offered.
I'll concede on the third allegation which I interpreted as the denial of access to the source code. This is one of the reasons that I have Linux running on my home box since I like to know how things tick on the inside. But I develop with M$ at work and I wanted to point a few things:
"Microsoft has the best virtual machine with.NET,"
Nope.
"the best development tool with Visual Studio"
Nope.
Bar none, VS is the best development tool that I have used. M$ V$ 2005 alone is amazing and while it oversimplifies things, I like it b/c it makes me tremendously more productive which is great b/c now I have more time to read Slashdot at work!
Just b/c it's made by M$ doesn't mean that it is a horrible product. The company itself makes some really shady ethical decisions but there are a lot of developers working for M$ just like us who want to release a great product.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a little bit more of a setup, but you can do most of this with downloaded / ripped shows as well. There are some clients (such as Plex - http://www.plexapp.com/) which allow you to most of the same functionality. You can pause shows and resume them on a different machine, or with the option of restarting. It does not have the nice feature of moving from one TV show to the next like Netflix does, but it does separate into categories (TV Shows and Movies) and can be searched for by genres, etc. The biggest advantage Netflix has over any sort of home media is the amount of media it has which can easily surpass the amount stored at home in HD and secondly, the redundancy of the servers so that you have minimal amount of outages.
Actually, I wouldn't even create a temporary compatibility layer since everything that is temporary in our code tends to stay in the base entirely too long. We had a similar issue when our project requirements could not be sustained by LLBLGen, the original accessor to our data persistent layer. As we phased out the LLBLGen, we created a service layer and abstract factory class which represented our DAL and was primarily developed with dependency injection and testing in mind. It has actually worked out really well since we are having to modify our data access layer again to compensate for data retrieval on the bus. It is a little extra work but allows for more flexibility in the future.
You're absolutely correct. My father was paid more when he was deployed to Iraq. I also know a civilian network engineer who made a tremendous amount of money b/c he was paid hazard pay while he was working in Bagdad.
The cost of the war is more than just the pay for people to be over there. You also have to worry about shipping, both food and supplies; fuel for vehicles for transports, jets, etc; the supplies themselves (such as ammunition and foodstuff); and other issues of which I am probably completely unaware.
IMHO, the problem with pulling the troops out now is the threat of creating the situation we supposedly went over to "fix." If we pull out before the Iraqis have a sustainable infrastructure, it will be left as a hotbed for training terrorists in a nation that is embittered towards the US, either from the "collateral damage" we have caused or from leaving their country in total disarray after invading it years ago. It is not an easy situation and I feel for whichever president that is elected and has to deal with that mess.
Speaking as a developer in a team which is split into both US and Indian resources, I don't think it's the accent that is troublesome. It is the barrier of actual understanding that is an issue. Sometimes, they just don't get it no matter how many times you explain it to them.
And as for actually fixing the problem, have you ever had to maintain anything fixed by Indians? I have nightmares about it. It is at times atrocious. And this isn't b/c they're not talented developers; most of the time it's because they don't understand the concepts we are trying to use and why we are using them. All in all, when I go back to fix another defect that is introduced into a section where an Indian resource has been working, it will take me twice as long.
I can't speak for the other components of MS Office such as Outlook, Microsoft does provide a compatibility pack for word, excel and powerpoint formats which allow someone with an older version of office (XP) view the newer documents.
Actually it does if you read it correctly. According to the one line quoted above, the Copyright Act only pertains to computer programs only and anything else is not covered under it, including CDs and DVDs distributed on digital media. So you can backup your disc of MS Office 2003 but not your copy of George Clinton and the P-Funk Allstars
Yeah that's certainly true as the length of the discussion approaches an indefinate amount of time. The point of interest is at the frequency of occurance for a discussion to degrade to accusations that one or the either is a Nazi. Not too often you hear a discussion degrading to the parties calling each other a cannibal or a nerf-herder ;)
Godwin's law does not specifically say that, but it is traditionally accepted that the one that brings the Nazi's into the argument has lost.
Even if you don't get the minor party official elected, if they get enough votes, either a Republican or Democrat could pick up the driving issue and pursue it to their own means. It may not ideal, certainly, but it can be effective to get us what we want. So when the major two parties notice, the vote is not wasted.
The question isn't "will we?", the question in reality be: "should we?" Do we have the right to dissect the creations of god and dupllicate them? Sure, I see no reason not to. There are certainly hazards (as most of famous sci-fi movies absolutely love to point out) but there are hazards to driving in the morning. Sure, one day we may be responsible for annihilation of all man-kind but hey, we had a good run ;)
But I think there are some good aspects to trying to replicate the brain. The best reason of all is for understanding of how we work. To duplicate something, you need to know how it works first (or at least know how in general). If we understand the brain, that could help us
Oh and one last thing. Have you ever programmed an email program? They made be fun to design, if you're a hard-core coder but they're not easy.
Are you kidding me? I absolutely love his keyboard layouts! I use it anytime I find a co-worker that has left his station unlocked! http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp /keyboardlayout.aspx ;)
Definately true and even truer for the moon. However, with a dispersal of the population, it would take multiple catastrophes (at least one on each colonized planet/moon) to wipe us out. Not to mention that if we have learned how to survive harsher habitats than the one we are made for, then it would stand to reason that the human species would be able to survive a drastic change in our environment here on earth, which would hopefully reduce our chances of being extinct in the same fashions as the dinosaurs
Well a mission to the Moon and Mars, bent on colonizing planets outside of our native planet, would be extremely beneficial and would pay off tremendously if Earth was ever faced with a crisis that we could not prevent. It would at least save our species from extinction!
The payment plan is primarily intended for large companies who are already locked into M$ products and I believe it is supposed to allow them to upgrade to the newest products w/o making another large purchase order. These are the companies that are less likely to change over to new products b/c they have established a comfort with using a product with the same general feel and operation (or lack thereof ;) In fact, I used to work for a department of the city I lived in who is actually excited about the idea
Also, and I didn't see it in the article, but from what I understand, the process does not lock you into a contract for that single version of the software but allows for upgrades. However, I don't recall them mentioning a charge for upgrading or an increase in "software rent" but I imagine something of the sort would definately ensue.
You know, I've been thinking along the same lines lately. I've always been a big believer in the greenhouse theory and have made changes in my lifestyle to reflect it (i.e., I ride a bicycle to local fruit stands instead of driving to the grocery store, etc). But the more I watch and learn about the theories concerning our planet, the more I wonder if we could be mistaken. One of the things I keep wondering about is that the earth's magnetic poles are in continous movement. This movement seems to cause a fluctuation in the earth's electromagnetic field, decreasing it as much as %10 since the 19th century. Since this protects us from global winds, could this not be a part of the problem or is this already considered in teh current calculations for global warming?
Another point that I have been pondering is that even if global warming is caused by man, it is pretty arrogant of us to believe that we will kill the earth (or all of the life found on it). It seems very likely that we could kill ourselves and most of the organisms that are adapted to the world as we know it, but life will still live on. This has already occurred during the Great Dying. So in a sense, we are really trying to save ourselves from ourselves
Are you sure? I personally would never want to play a SW or RPG type game on the Wii. Don't mistake me, I wanted a Wii as bad as the next geek b/c it looked like a novel way to play a game. Then I realized what sort of games I play and the duration of how long I play (when I get a chance to). I just don't think that waving my arm around like a sword for an hour would be very fun. I would love to play the bowling game or Madden on it but not for long.
But then again, I could just be one of the lazy gamers out there ;) I'd rather use a traditional remote and be in a more stationary position. Plus, I think the Wii remote would interfere with my love life with Rosie ;)
Sure it is. Just b/c it's not first with the news doesn't mean it's not relevant.
I simply do not understand why this issue is always brought up. The "theory of Intelligent Design" has a place where it is taught, and that is in church (or synagogue or temple). This, to me, is as inane as myself taking my priest to court because he talks about Adam and Even which "offends" my right to believe in evolution. Yes I know that a school is a public institution (and a church a private institution) but there is absolutely no credence behind "Intelligent Design" and really has no place in any institution that inspires learning and developing ideas. Creationsim is just too much of a dead-end theory to be in school.
"God created the world as it is today. Pay no attention to the fossils behind the curtain"Leave creationsim in church. At least that way you are presented with two opposing alternatives and you can use your brain to choose between the two.
Another thing I wonder about: why does evolution disprove God(s) existence? How do we know he didn't design life to be this way, to adapt and spread? I never could understand why religion doesn't take hold of the theory and run with it."Look! God is so awesome he designed life to create the most complex creatures from the most basic of matter!" I guess it just goes against the flattering of the human ego to think that perhaps we are not created in the image of some diety.Not sure how this post is related to the topic but for here's a link to explain this comment: http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/104727.aspx
This statement strikes me as funny for two reasons: One it assumes that the student is going to be using the same OS for the duration of his career from say middle school to graduating from college, which is ridiculous. I had my first computer experience on a Commodore 64, then moved to Windows shortly thereafter, but it was an assortment of different flavors from Win95 to XP and several different flavors of Linux in between. IMHO, the main differences between OSes lies in how they operate underneath the UI interface, which most kids will not get into in middle school, and the applications which can be installed. Most of the apps used in school systems can easily be replaced with the equivalent apps that are found in most Linux distros and have similiar sequences of actions to activate an event. I don't think that switching from OpenOffice.Org to M$ Word will be all that traumatizing to a kid.
Secondly, it's assuming that the kids will only be interacting with computers at school, which for the general population is not the case. And for the general population. the OS of choice at home tends to be a flavor of the Windows OS.
In short, it seems like it would be a great idea to introduce Linux in the school system. If nothing else, it will show kids to not be afraid of switching to a different OS b/c they don't know where the button to do such-and-such is at (seriously, that is the only reason why I my roommate doesn't like Linux and makes me boot into Windows when he wants to surf the internet)Interesting post. I wish I could mod you up on it. I'm especially curious on the issues you brought up concerning the performance issue and the type explosions in regards to use of generics. Does this not occur with Java's implementation of generics as well? Do you have anything I can read up on concerning these subjects?
Of course I meant it as in my opinion, and maybe I should have expressed that better by making the word "I" bold rather than italicized. But I have worked on several different IDEs including Net Beans, Eclipse, and KDevelop and even liked the latter two tremendously but to me, VS 2005 seems intrinsically intuitive and extremely simple to use while allowing me to be as productive as I can be for the moment. However, that does not mean I use it and only it. I still like to try anything new (and even plan on checking out a few you mentioned) b/c I know that I do not know everything nor tried everything that has been offered.
I'll concede on the third allegation which I interpreted as the denial of access to the source code. This is one of the reasons that I have Linux running on my home box since I like to know how things tick on the inside. But I develop with M$ at work and I wanted to point a few things:
Actually, I don't know if I could say that it is the best ever but it is a damn good virtual machine! It can run as well or even better of its equivalent JVM http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/compare/Benchmark_rJust b/c it's made by M$ doesn't mean that it is a horrible product. The company itself makes some really shady ethical decisions but there are a lot of developers working for M$ just like us who want to release a great product.
It's called a snowball