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Will it be as successfull as OpenBSD then?

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Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse

posted an epic collection of streaming E3 videos

And someone jealous decided to destroy it all by posting it to slashdot. Bye bye bandwidth!

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Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse

I am sure he could sue for another 30 millions
Sorry, but due to rampant inflation, the rate today is already $32 millions.
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Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse

Sun is new to Open Sourcing its proprietary products. Solaris is a good step and a few glitches here and there are likely to be minor youth problems. The important thing is to know whether Sun will find in this experience enough incentive to open source other stuff (Java anyone?)

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Krazy Kat, George Herriman

There is just about nothing to be done about it. The first ISP that will remove the "UNLIMITED" from its ad campaign will be dead in the water in no time. So they have to put it in. And they can't provide it.

As simple as that.

For a long time now, capitalism has had a firm hold on democracy, and this kind of idiotic behavior is just one side effect of it. The DMCA is another one.

Shouting about it on slashdot isn't gonna change shit.
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Krazy Kat

It now appears that if you go to a resturant and get bad food and bad service and write that in a review of that resturant then the resturant can sue you for giving them a bad "rank"

That has always been true. You can sue anyone for anything.

Now, if they win, on the other hand...

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Krazy Kat

Iraq's problem is totally different. There isn't a 'handful of civilians'. Most of the people causing the trouble down there are trained terrorists, backed by networks, not a handful of civilians...

*sigh*

The civilians are the ones getting stuffed by a war they didn't want between two parties they wouldn't have given a shit about.

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Krazy Kat

Reminds me of that one:

Q: What is the cost of living?
A: 10% more than your income.

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Krazy Kat

There are plenty of kiddos out there in the streets whose parents have decided the street would be the best training for them. Thay are 'would-be' trespassers just awaiting for an opportunity to actually become one. There are kiddos out there just looking for something stupid to be accomplished. There are deranged people. There are people looking for a quick buck but not willing to 'break and enter' but perfectly willing to enter. I've seen some of those.

Granted, these are not the norm. But an open door is just too good of an opportunity.

I've had a friend whose car has been stolen because he left it open. It was a crappy car and the thief just needed transportation to go point to the justice dept in a neighboor town. He was on parole and needed to get there by the end of the day. He stole the car BACAUSE it was open, for no other reason.

Well, enough for today. Good day my friend, and sleep well with your doors unlocked.
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Krazy Kat, by George Herriman

Unipages are superior to PDF in their ability to hold functionality (Javascript), Flash animations and practically anything normally possible in a web page

Superior or different? This looks quite nice, but how can one compare this with PDF? This is just... something different.

PDF is a "portable document format". A way to port a (static) document so that it will be viewed and printed identically everywhere.

HTML is a way of describing documents so that they can be viewed and interacted with on a lot of platforms. It will NOT look the same on all platforms, it will NOT print well on all platforms (as a matter of fact, it will probably print very poorly on most platforms)

Different goals, different products. Why is that everyone wants the "do-it-all" product?
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Krazy Kat Online

As I said, it is all a question of degree. A door wide open is less secure than a door closed, which is in turn less secure than a door locked. There is nothing to debate around this, it is plain and simple.

Is a screen door locked very secure? No, by no means.

Is a screen door locked more or less secure than a screen door not locked? Of course it is more secure, even if by a tiny amount.

THAT is my point, door wide open or unlocked aside. Point still stands.
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Krazy Kat, The Reference

My guess is that you don't understand the difference between a door unlocked and a door wide open.

As for the difficulty, I think that if you want to enter my house while my screen door is locked you will have to break in which might not be very difficult, but is a step you have to go through in your mind. You are effectively breaking the law. So if you are a loner in a search for a phone (just an axample) to call someone (or willing to grab a quick buck lying around), you will not trespass my doorstep if my screendoor is locked. Or you will be less liklely.

That said, I lived some places where my neighboors would come in in the middle of the day to give us back some tool I might have lended her an hour earlier. This was fine with both of us, but the screendoor locked would be enough to let her out.

If you don't want to think about it as security, think about it in terms of privacy. It is really the same thing, in a lower degree.

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Krazy Kat, The Reference

Add a fan, you don't gain anything.

You know, as I have discovered recently, the more fans, the less noise. I bought 3 Noiseblocker S1 and recycled two old Antec 80mm fans (plugged serially, so 6V each) to make my PC cooler and quieter. Effectively, two fans can blox as much air as one making no noise at all where one fan would be very noisy.

Airflow still remains the easiest way to cool a computer. Just double the number of fans you have but make them run twice as slow. Silence you will have, and for a very little price!

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Krazy Kat, The Reference

You lost the right to complain about bad product design, dude, the minute you decided it was a good idea to buy a Microsoft product. Suck it up.

You know, it is perfectly possible to find it a good idea to buy a badly designed product, and yet not being insane. It all depends of what you need. Buying a product does not mean you approve its design.
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Krazy Kat, An American Comic Strip

The problem with Disney, is that they made most of their early money out of public domain stuff. Yet, this stuff would not have been in the public domain if the copyright extensions had been active then.

So on one end they should protect their interests... And on the other, according to their own views of copyright, they stole it all.

Go figure...
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Krazy Kat

I, for one, will not be donating, however

Why not? The poor lad could use new glasses or a new haircut for sure.

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Krazy Kat

When I was ripping my database, I decided to tag "styles" manually for the reason the original poster is exposing. CDDB is just a messy try at an attempt to that. Nothing I could find did match my expectations, by far.

The problem you will soon encounter is that even you will not be able to clearly categorize some of your music. There is always stuff in between styles, and depending on your mood-of-the-day you will categorize some of your music more in one or the other style.

It is a weird subjective problem, and I haven't found a solution as of now. Even tagging manually didn't do it 100% for me.

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Krazy Kat

As far as today is concerned, a robot is executing a program, which means that it will never do anything it has not been programmed to do by a human being. This is inherently different from a real dog, where more or less noone has a clue of what's going on inside.

A dog is the only master of its behavior, not a robot (ie: a program).

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Krazy Kat

The thing is, with all the lines of code in Windows, you don't really think that they looked at all of them ? There are most certainly a bunch of other flaws in Windows. It's just that nobody with the will to share it has found any yet.

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Krazy Kat

After three posts, I got the message and I finally read the article ;)

It is utterly crap. While flashing a page in front of a user for 50ms is enough for the user to make a decision whether it's crap or not, it's not the same as saying that the user made his decision in 50ms. The user made his decision probably well after a long full second had elapsed. Many things could have happened in the meantime, modifying the user's first impression.

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Krazy Kat

On a side note:
It was hard getting the list down to ten, but we did; here's the top ten: *enumerating 12 items*

It was indeed pretty hard, so hard that the editor couldn't resist the temptation to slip 12 in there!

lol
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George Herriman's Krazy Kat

Chinese ones are supposed to be more crap. I know, it's hard to believe, but it is true.

But you raise a good point: If a fake was released that was much better than the original, would they still attack them? It's a legitimate question.

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George Herriman's Krazy Kat

The biggest problem (IMHO) is loss of revenue, for one, and decrease in perceived value from the brand. If I buy a fake SONY DVD player and it is crap, I will think SONY DVD's are crap. This is why they fight these guys as much.

A battery exploding, while problematic, does not really impact the company being faked in a direct fashion. And they hold the stick for repression.

They just use the battery explosions as a banner to say "Hey, we are not evil and fighting for our beloved revenue. We fight for customer protection."
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George Herriman's Krazy Kat

People who are knowledgeful about washing powders balk at nonsence spewed in adverts

What?? Do you mean there is no scrubbing bubbles? I just can't believe you. These tiny little guys looks soooo cute!

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Krazy Kat

Simple. The main part of the page (Where the stories are) overlaps with the left part (Sections, Help, ...). To reproduce, you just go to "http://www.slashdot.org", and you hit refresh until you see the bug. No more than 10 times have ever been necessary for me.

Screenshot

I'm not even mentionning the ads which shows up with scrollbars most of the times. Only in Mozilla/Firefox of course.

I totally agree with that.

I am personally a great fan of Krazy Kat, a comic published in from 1913 to 1936 in the Hearst newspapers and generally considered as one of the greatest comics ever published. Unfortunately, it was not really popular. So it is no wonder that it has never been published since then.

So basically, that means that this comic strip that I love, I have NO WAY of reading it - unless I want to spend all my free time in some museums reading microfilms. And this is really sad.

I have started a project to republish all its content up to 1920 but I cannot go past that date for legal reasons. So what? For of the sake of copyrights these companies have the right to hide and bury very deep some gems of the last century? This should be considered as a crime!