I don't think this will work for fiction, but the kinds of books that O'Reilly is most famous for, tech. books, it will work fabulously.
I already have this pretty much with a Safari subscription. For the programming titles, electronic copies are so much better than dead tree copies. When doing the exercises or working on the examples, you can just copy and past the code into your text editor. There's no need to copy files from a CD-ROM or download them from a book-related website.
Same for a lot of the other sorts of technical titles, like the Hacks series or system administration "manuals" with lots of example scripts.
I wouldn't and don't use electronic books for fiction or non-technical non-fiction. I'd rather read that sort of thing on paper, though if I later wanted to find a certain passage, I admit that having an electronic copy would make searching for that passage so much easier.
Anyway, I think you'd look even more like a dork if you were reading some title on cross platform programming with wxWidgets and you didn't have your laptop with you....
They were a couple years too late in doing this project if they're going to base it on NWN. From my experience playing NWN online, I'd say that the online population of players for that game hit its peak in 2005 or so.
Many players have moved on to other games, and most of those who remain are fairly dedicated players of the servers where they do play and have been playing. Most won't bother to try out a new server unless it has something more than Castronova's name going for it.
Plus, I think it is kind of a no-brainer to suggest that a game should be fun. Um, why do we play games in the first place?
I just recently (last month) quit playing NWN because 1. my gaming computer is exhibiting signs of having a short, 2. I have other things that I should be doing instead, and 3. it just wasn't that much fun any more.
IANAL, but I thought that things were generally just the opposite on contracts. Unless the contract explicitly says that the resulting product is a work for hire, then the person doing the contract work owns the code and not the other way around. I'm pretty sure it works that way for graphic arts, written copy, etc., so software should not be any different.
If the subtitles in this version of his speech are correct, then what are they worried about? The majority won't vote for him, and the minority won't get him elected.
If he really wants to destroy the government, then maybe they should do what they always do with violent rebels...
Anyway, I don't really understand Japanese, so I can't be sure of the subtitles.
I knew I was getting old when I first realized that these kids today with their modern legos have it too easy, what with all those crazy custom pieces. Why, when I was a kid, we had to use our imagination to build stuff.
Actually, my daughter and I were making houses, cars and furniture with her LEGO bricks last night, and I commented to my wife that it was more fun when I was younger and the pieces were more generic. It feels like you're being coerced into building the specific sets on the box because the custom pieces aren't that good for much else, though you can come up with a really wacky-looking couch for your little lego people to sit on.;)
I can't read the article because it appears to be/.'d, but I have a technique that has foiled a spammer from using my web mail form and it would probably work with discussion forums, too.
In the program run to process form input, I check the HTTP_REFERER header sent by the client. It should exactly match the URL of the form that was being posted, if it doesn't, then you know that someone is accessing the input program illegally, i.e. they aren't using your form. It seems that the spambots out there send a referer that matches my site's main domain, but doesn't include the full URL of the form.
Of course, now that this has been posted, it is only a matter of time before the bots are fixed to send the whole form URL. 'Course, I have a couple of other tricks to separate the bots from the humans.
What does my program do when it detects a bot? It returns a 403 Forbidden error and adds the ip address of the client to.htaccess with a "Deny from" directive.
I'll have to actually RTFA when it becomes available again later.
I find that just checking the HTTP_REFERER header is sufficient. If it doesn't exactly match the expected URL for the form that the program is processing input from, then my server sends a 403 and slaps their IP address into.htaccess with a 'Deny from'.
Since the spammers can't seem to figure out how to send a proper http_referer, it works rather well. They seem to always use the http://host.domain.tld/.
Of course, I'm not doing this on forum posting, but it is a form that can be used to send me an email. The idea could be applied to forum posting.
Chicago has bad karma. I'm not kidding. I always feel nervous when I'm there and I can't say why. Chicago always just feels wrong to me. Some people really like it, but I can't stand it. I always can't wait to get out of town when I'm there.
Several other people I know feel the same way about Chicago, though I have a good friend who moved there a couple years ago and really likes it.
I don't know. I always get the feeling that Chicago is on the wrong side of the lake or something when I'm there.
Just logging IP connections, i.e. a date stamp, the IP address on both ends, the port number, whether or not the packet was blocked, and the firewall rule that finally determined this, on the firewall on my little home LAN of 5 computers, 1 of which acts as a mail and web server, was cranking out roughly 1MB of log every hour at a slow time in the day, i.e. most of my LAN machines were not being used and the traffic was coming from outside.
I wonder who's going to pay for all this data retention? Oh yeah, its digital data. That's free, right?
literate - 1 a : EDUCATED, CULTURED b : able to read and write 2 a : versed in literature or creative writing : LITERARY b : LUCID, POLISHED c : having knowledge or competence
See, that's the definition of literacy that the parent is using. You're just setting the bar lower.;)
Using a monetary approach to forcing the issue is brilliant because many people then assume the libraries have a choice. That simply isn't true. Despite almost universal opposition from the librarians, library users, and library workers I know, every public library I have ever worked in now has filters because of COPA.
Are you sure that they're filtering because of COPA and not for some other reason? I work for a consortium of 35 public libraries and not one filters because of COPA. A few have filter software installed on computers in the children's room, but that's it.
So it's very easy to say, "JUst don't apply for the money." Unfortunately, it isn't that simple for many libraries.
Very true, and don't think that I'm defending the bill in any way.
The consortium that I work for does not filter. Individual libraries choose to filter or not. No library has gone the full step of filtering all machines as the law requires, so none receive USD money. Some, however, have installed filters on individual computers in the children's areas.
I wonder how you handle removing the filters for an adult on a given workstation if you have consortium-wide filtering? Additionally, we were prepared in our consortium to apply for USD grants for any members who chose to filter. It can be done on an individual basis. Doesn't have to be an all or nothing choice unless your consortium's administrators choose to make it one.
And I think most of the legislative support for extensive blocking comes from chest-thumping congressmen who want to campaign about saving children without actually doing anything substantial to save them.
I absolutely agree with this.
My point is that everyone is going on about how it could affect things that it will not. It's also only affecting one gov't funding program, and not all of them. Granted, it is one of the biggest funding programs.
I think maybe I'm railing more at the reporters and/or the Slashbots for deliberately being vague to stir up more controversy than necessary.
Please, mod most of the Insightful posts above as "overrated." The posters simply don't know what they are talking about, though I can't blame them because TFA never mentions this part of it.
If you read the bill, the requirement IS NOT that all schools and libraries block access to the websites, but only those that receive funding under the Universal Service Discount program. If a school or library does not receive that money, and IIRC the majority do not, then they are not required to block access to any sites, nor filter any content that is deemed "harmful to minors."
This isn't a case of rampant government censorship, but of Congress placing conditions on the money that it doles out. If you run an affected institution and don't like the consequences, then don't accept the money.
I don't see how they're justifying general public libraries, though.
It's aimed soley at institutions that receive money from the "Universal Service Discount" program, y'know that "fee" or "tax" that is added onto your phone bill every month. This money is paid out to qualifying schools and libraries that apply for the program.
COPA, the law that "requires" filtering of harmful content at libraries and schools, applies to the same group of institutions.
Essentially, if you're an administrator and you decided that your institution does not wish to or cannot comply with the blocking rules, the answer is simple: Don't apply for USD money.
I think part of the problem with comprehension of what is happening here is that most people, including most scientists, talk as if time were somehow real, as if it were a "dimension" all its own. It is often depicted as a line stretching from point A (the beginning) to point Z (the end). The common conceit is that because we can measure it, it must be "real."
Time is, I believe, a side effect of our limited perception. It's a handy mathematical construct, but not real in the sense of it having a concrete existence.
What I think we're seeing in this experiment and others where things appear at a destination before leaving the origin, or where particles are made to move to arbitrary locations without passing through the intervening space is simple evidence that time does not really exist and is a human construction.
Aristotle said that time exists only in the psyche, and on this one point, at least, I think he may have been correct.
The universe is weirder than we think, and probably weirder than we can think.
Someone needs to just come right out and say it. The telcos and cable providers want it both ways. They want their customers to keep right on paying for service, and they want Internet sites/businesses to reach those customers.
In other words, they want to sell the bandwidth that their customers already pay for twice, once to the customer and one to the sites that the customer visits.
They want to sell you as a "product" to vendors, and they want you to pay for the privilige of being sold.
Some folks have pointed out some other valid mass emailers, but I'll add the one that I work for, a library. We send out notices in email that requested items are ready for pickup, that items are overdue, etc. It is also completely opt-in. The person receiving the email has to sign up for the service before they receive any email notices. Our customers like it because they get notices much more quickly when they come in email than with traditional paper and phone notices, that is when the notices are not filtered out by anti-spam software.
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I don't think this will work for fiction, but the kinds of books that O'Reilly is most famous for, tech. books, it will work fabulously.
I already have this pretty much with a Safari subscription. For the programming titles, electronic copies are so much better than dead tree copies. When doing the exercises or working on the examples, you can just copy and past the code into your text editor. There's no need to copy files from a CD-ROM or download them from a book-related website.
Same for a lot of the other sorts of technical titles, like the Hacks series or system administration "manuals" with lots of example scripts.
I wouldn't and don't use electronic books for fiction or non-technical non-fiction. I'd rather read that sort of thing on paper, though if I later wanted to find a certain passage, I admit that having an electronic copy would make searching for that passage so much easier.
Anyway, I think you'd look even more like a dork if you were reading some title on cross platform programming with wxWidgets and you didn't have your laptop with you....
Hey. Don't I feel silly now?
It's under "More Options" on the Search and Replace dialog.
Ok. Excellent idea. It's one of the features that I miss from Nisus Writer.
I'll file an issue tonight as a feature request. It might not make it into 3.0 at this point, but maybe 3.1.
2.4 is supposed to be the last X11 release for Mac OS X. There have been some QA hold ups on the Mac OS X port. It will likely lag behind the other ports by a day or two in getting out. See http://porting.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=mac&by=thread&from=1981668
3.0 should be Aqua-only for Mac OS X. At least, that is the stated goal.
To heck with this Ron Paul guy. I want Ru Paul for President!
Yep, exactly.
They were a couple years too late in doing this project if they're going to base it on NWN. From my experience playing NWN online, I'd say that the online population of players for that game hit its peak in 2005 or so.
Many players have moved on to other games, and most of those who remain are fairly dedicated players of the servers where they do play and have been playing. Most won't bother to try out a new server unless it has something more than Castronova's name going for it.
Plus, I think it is kind of a no-brainer to suggest that a game should be fun. Um, why do we play games in the first place?
I just recently (last month) quit playing NWN because 1. my gaming computer is exhibiting signs of having a short, 2. I have other things that I should be doing instead, and 3. it just wasn't that much fun any more.
IANAL, but I thought that things were generally just the opposite on contracts. Unless the contract explicitly says that the resulting product is a work for hire, then the person doing the contract work owns the code and not the other way around. I'm pretty sure it works that way for graphic arts, written copy, etc., so software should not be any different.
If the subtitles in this version of his speech are correct, then what are they worried about? The majority won't vote for him, and the minority won't get him elected.
If he really wants to destroy the government, then maybe they should do what they always do with violent rebels...
Anyway, I don't really understand Japanese, so I can't be sure of the subtitles.
You can buy servers from Dell with no pre-installed operating system. I know 'cause I've recently bought two.
Interestingly enough, when you choose the no operating system option, the server suddenly costs $799 less than with Windows 2003 R2 installed.
I don't know how you do math where you are from, but where I'm from $799 isn't free.
Oh, and that's U.S. dollars, just to clarify.
"I'm not a registered sex offender, but I play one on MySpace." :)
I knew I was getting old when I first realized that these kids today with their modern legos have it too easy, what with all those crazy custom pieces. Why, when I was a kid, we had to use our imagination to build stuff.
;)
Actually, my daughter and I were making houses, cars and furniture with her LEGO bricks last night, and I commented to my wife that it was more fun when I was younger and the pieces were more generic. It feels like you're being coerced into building the specific sets on the box because the custom pieces aren't that good for much else, though you can come up with a really wacky-looking couch for your little lego people to sit on.
I can't read the article because it appears to be /.'d, but I have a technique that has foiled a spammer from using my web mail form and it would probably work with discussion forums, too.
.htaccess with a "Deny from" directive.
In the program run to process form input, I check the HTTP_REFERER header sent by the client. It should exactly match the URL of the form that was being posted, if it doesn't, then you know that someone is accessing the input program illegally, i.e. they aren't using your form. It seems that the spambots out there send a referer that matches my site's main domain, but doesn't include the full URL of the form.
Of course, now that this has been posted, it is only a matter of time before the bots are fixed to send the whole form URL. 'Course, I have a couple of other tricks to separate the bots from the humans.
What does my program do when it detects a bot? It returns a 403 Forbidden error and adds the ip address of the client to
I'll have to actually RTFA when it becomes available again later.
I find that just checking the HTTP_REFERER header is sufficient. If it doesn't exactly match the expected URL for the form that the program is processing input from, then my server sends a 403 and slaps their IP address into .htaccess with a 'Deny from'.
Since the spammers can't seem to figure out how to send a proper http_referer, it works rather well. They seem to always use the http://host.domain.tld/.
Of course, I'm not doing this on forum posting, but it is a form that can be used to send me an email. The idea could be applied to forum posting.
Chicago has bad karma. I'm not kidding. I always feel nervous when I'm there and I can't say why. Chicago always just feels wrong to me. Some people really like it, but I can't stand it. I always can't wait to get out of town when I'm there.
Several other people I know feel the same way about Chicago, though I have a good friend who moved there a couple years ago and really likes it.
I don't know. I always get the feeling that Chicago is on the wrong side of the lake or something when I'm there.
Just logging IP connections, i.e. a date stamp, the IP address on both ends, the port number, whether or not the packet was blocked, and the firewall rule that finally determined this, on the firewall on my little home LAN of 5 computers, 1 of which acts as a mail and web server, was cranking out roughly 1MB of log every hour at a slow time in the day, i.e. most of my LAN machines were not being used and the traffic was coming from outside.
I wonder who's going to pay for all this data retention? Oh yeah, its digital data. That's free, right?
I dunno. I like to highlight definition 2:
;)
From Merriam Webster's Dictionary:
literate - 1 a : EDUCATED, CULTURED b : able to read and write 2 a : versed in literature or creative writing : LITERARY b : LUCID, POLISHED c : having knowledge or competence
See, that's the definition of literacy that the parent is using. You're just setting the bar lower.
There is much irony in the quote that appears at the bottom of the page as I read the comments:
It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted. -- Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5
Using a monetary approach to forcing the issue is brilliant because many people then assume the libraries have a choice. That simply isn't true. Despite almost universal opposition from the librarians, library users, and library workers I know, every public library I have ever worked in now has filters because of COPA.
Are you sure that they're filtering because of COPA and not for some other reason? I work for a consortium of 35 public libraries and not one filters because of COPA. A few have filter software installed on computers in the children's room, but that's it.
So it's very easy to say, "JUst don't apply for the money." Unfortunately, it isn't that simple for many libraries.
Very true, and don't think that I'm defending the bill in any way.
The consortium that I work for does not filter. Individual libraries choose to filter or not. No library has gone the full step of filtering all machines as the law requires, so none receive USD money. Some, however, have installed filters on individual computers in the children's areas.
I wonder how you handle removing the filters for an adult on a given workstation if you have consortium-wide filtering? Additionally, we were prepared in our consortium to apply for USD grants for any members who chose to filter. It can be done on an individual basis. Doesn't have to be an all or nothing choice unless your consortium's administrators choose to make it one.
And I think most of the legislative support for extensive blocking comes from chest-thumping congressmen who want to campaign about saving children without actually doing anything substantial to save them.
I absolutely agree with this.
My point is that everyone is going on about how it could affect things that it will not. It's also only affecting one gov't funding program, and not all of them. Granted, it is one of the biggest funding programs.
I think maybe I'm railing more at the reporters and/or the Slashbots for deliberately being vague to stir up more controversy than necessary.
Please, mod most of the Insightful posts above as "overrated." The posters simply don't know what they are talking about, though I can't blame them because TFA never mentions this part of it.
If you read the bill, the requirement IS NOT that all schools and libraries block access to the websites, but only those that receive funding under the Universal Service Discount program. If a school or library does not receive that money, and IIRC the majority do not, then they are not required to block access to any sites, nor filter any content that is deemed "harmful to minors."
This isn't a case of rampant government censorship, but of Congress placing conditions on the money that it doles out. If you run an affected institution and don't like the consequences, then don't accept the money.
I don't see how they're justifying general public libraries, though.
It's aimed soley at institutions that receive money from the "Universal Service Discount" program, y'know that "fee" or "tax" that is added onto your phone bill every month. This money is paid out to qualifying schools and libraries that apply for the program.
COPA, the law that "requires" filtering of harmful content at libraries and schools, applies to the same group of institutions.
Essentially, if you're an administrator and you decided that your institution does not wish to or cannot comply with the blocking rules, the answer is simple: Don't apply for USD money.
I think part of the problem with comprehension of what is happening here is that most people, including most scientists, talk as if time were somehow real, as if it were a "dimension" all its own. It is often depicted as a line stretching from point A (the beginning) to point Z (the end). The common conceit is that because we can measure it, it must be "real."
Time is, I believe, a side effect of our limited perception. It's a handy mathematical construct, but not real in the sense of it having a concrete existence.
What I think we're seeing in this experiment and others where things appear at a destination before leaving the origin, or where particles are made to move to arbitrary locations without passing through the intervening space is simple evidence that time does not really exist and is a human construction.
Aristotle said that time exists only in the psyche, and on this one point, at least, I think he may have been correct.
The universe is weirder than we think, and probably weirder than we can think.
Someone needs to just come right out and say it. The telcos and cable providers want it both ways. They want their customers to keep right on paying for service, and they want Internet sites/businesses to reach those customers.
In other words, they want to sell the bandwidth that their customers already pay for twice, once to the customer and one to the sites that the customer visits.
They want to sell you as a "product" to vendors, and they want you to pay for the privilige of being sold.
Some folks have pointed out some other valid mass emailers, but I'll add the one that I work for, a library. We send out notices in email that requested items are ready for pickup, that items are overdue, etc. It is also completely opt-in. The person receiving the email has to sign up for the service before they receive any email notices. Our customers like it because they get notices much more quickly when they come in email than with traditional paper and phone notices, that is when the notices are not filtered out by anti-spam software.