a method of incorporating at least one data structure from the database into a browser cookie to reduce accesses to the database
Yuck. Never trust the client with this sort of stuff. Just do the damn query and make sure your processing power and storage bandwidth gets upgraded ahead of your load.
I tried to install the sofware (I'm thinking of converting the original Choose Your Own Adventure) but I have to install the.Net Framework (*shudder*) first -- for a Windows program to load a text game onto an Apple music player. How many levels of wrong are in this?
I know many people who download instead of buying, but very few who buy more because of their downloads.
My exposure to stuff leads to my purchasing of stuff, if it's any good. I finished the GBA game LotR:TTT as one of the characters before I bought it. No review I saw, no ad, nothing other than playing it made me want to buy it. Same for the hideously overpriced but still very impressive LotR:RotK GBA game. Play first, buy second. I buy plenty of shareware too -- most recently for my mobile phone.
Want a music example? The singles taken from Evanescene's recent album are good, but not brilliant. Once I heard the whole CD though I bought it. No ads, no video clips, no radio play was enough. Until I could enjoy it on my own terms I didn't know if I would like it enough to justify the purchase.
You can't just look at the volume of stuff downloaded and say that because every track that's downloaded isn't subsequently purchased that there's something immoral going on. I don't download commerical music off the P2P nets, but if they're anything like the rest of the world, there's a hell of a lot of crap out there that isn't worth the time it takes you to workout how crap it is.
If it appears that sales are going up despite or possibly even due to file sharing, why doesn't the industry just let it happen?
The cynical answer is that P2P is never about artist royalties or piracy it's about the fact that one P can be the artist and the other P can be the customer with no sign of ARIA or RIAA anywhere between the two. These big music industries are not fighting for the survival of music and musicians, they're fighting for their own survival at the cost of artists and consumers.
Because, of course, there aren't any greedy, immoral people in Europe.
This information didn't go out in boxes that customs can search, it was sent down a wire at the speed of light. It went off-shore against the law because someone decided to charge local rates then pay for some under-protected borderline-slave labour person to do it at a fraction of the cost.
The companies involved are dead, destroyed by this act of stupidity. Short of jail time (costly to society and not especially approriate when someone isn't a physical risk to the community) things can't get much worse for the parties involved.
For our database at work we have an EmailOK field. If an email bounces or otherwise doesn't get to the recipient as expected, the email address is tagged as suspect and a message is sent using another method of communication indicating that the email we currently have needs to be replaced or re-confirmed. Any process that sends emails is supposed to look at the EmailOK field and only send if it's empty or Y. (Other values are N for not okay and O for over quota, you could add an R or S for reported as spam.)
We have an IT meeting soon where I will be leading a discussion about on-line communications. I will be suggesting that we don't accept all email addresses from Hotmail (so many bounce with user unknown or over quota) and "hanmail" (incoming messages get tagged as spam because of the HTML that the service wraps user messages in), and that we start recording IM accounts as a backup communications option. I'm not saying we refuse emails from Hotmail accounts, I'm just saying that when you tell us your address, we won't accept a Hotmail address.
At home: blank, at work: a funky little corporate homepage I designed for all the staff to give them quick access to the corporate BBS, web portal, webmail, homepage and calendar.
I'm sort of surprised there aren't more FPGA-hackers than there appears to be.
Well, I must say that it was very tempting to learn when I saw Brutus, but I'm heavily invested in PHP/SQL at work and that's more than enough of an outlet for my coding impulses.
Region coding may not be illegal in Australia, but neither is regionfree-afying your equipment. I use DVD Region X on my PS2, my mother's DVD player just needed Pi entered in a specific way to go region free. Because of the ease with which this is achieved, many stores sell stuff from other regions. I bought the Region 1 Firefly box set in a city store last weekend.
As long as the drives are compatible with themselves (ie; as long as a disc can be read reliably in the drive that created it) I'm happy to get one. If it so happens that the discs can be read in a variety of existing drives, then bonus! -- I only have to worry about the lifespan of the media not the "standard". Either way, I'd love to be able to dump my archive onto a dozen of these discs and pack away all my CDr discs.
Since they hold between 9 and 12 CDr discs (the low number is due to my Plexwriter Pro that can put almost a Gig on a normal CDr), they can convert a box of 80 CDs into 7 or 8 DVDs. I can see me helping out a friend in this way. (Anyone know an Australian source of DVD-style cases that can hold 3 discs?)
Or they could just block all HTML email. That would be my preferred solution.
More preferred: filter all HTML emails down to plain text automagically. I've just enabled this on my company's server. I've been running it just for me for a month or so and it works a treat. Given these latest threats and the fact that I simply don't have time to fsck around patching Windows PCs every 15 minutes or cleaning viruses off when the lastest threat beats our patterns to the desktop, not to mention all the support calls of late were Word crashes when trying to reply to a reply of a reply to an HTML email, I have finally made my company an HTMLemail-free zone.
but you would have to swap the video cable and the memory card (which acts as a boot disk) to play a game on it.
This is not the case. You can run Linux in PAL or NTSC mode using a normal (I use S-Video) cable. Also, you don't need to swap the memory card, just put another one in the second slot. Actually, after Linux is installed there's still room on the card for savegames, it's just that they all get erased during the initial install.
I don't play (commericial) games on my PS2 anymore. It's either my DVD player or I boot to Linux. I've got about a dozen games, but I haven't bought a PS2 game for probably as much as a year.
My filter (Proxomitron) sends the current page as the referrer to that page. Works so well that I can still use the original NYTimes random login generator.
I paid full price for the PS2 Linux kit and even though I don't boot to Linux all that often, it's great to have a 40Gig network device I can boot when I want. I've got Mozilla, xmms, moria and a bunch of other stuff on it. It holds my music collection backup (sure, I could re-rip it, but there's a lot of tagging work in my collection) and if I feel so inclined I can use it as a great music player. xmms even has a joystick plug-in and my DVD remote can be used to play/pause, FF, etc.
I haven't got a photoe available, but Ikea bookshelves do a fine job of storing video games. Wall units, media towers, boxes -- what's so big an issue that it needs a/. story?
See if there's any product that lets you use a Bluetooth mobile phone (or PDA) as the key that locks and unlocks your workstation. Then it will secure as you walk away and unlock as you return.
Most mobile phone stores I've been to either for my own stuff or as a helper for a friend that doesn't want to get screwed, will pull a real unit out of a box, put it together and plug it into the wall for power if you want to try it. Often there's a box already opened with a phone that has some juice in the battery. The N-Gage I bought was being demoed to someone when I turned up at the store.
I went for three years without using a Floppy and finally just broke down and bought a USB floppy drive. There is just no easier way to flash a bios and make a backup.
Anyone know how to install Windows XP on a SATA drive without a floppy disk to read the SATA controller's drivers from?
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What happened to all the really big airplanes that were supposed to be on their way?
If Slashdot is posting stories about every Series 60 app released nearly a month ago, see you all in a moonth to discuss the new Helix client.
I tried to install the sofware (I'm thinking of converting the original Choose Your Own Adventure) but I have to install the .Net Framework (*shudder*) first -- for a Windows program to load a text game onto an Apple music player. How many levels of wrong are in this?
Want a music example? The singles taken from Evanescene's recent album are good, but not brilliant. Once I heard the whole CD though I bought it. No ads, no video clips, no radio play was enough. Until I could enjoy it on my own terms I didn't know if I would like it enough to justify the purchase.
You can't just look at the volume of stuff downloaded and say that because every track that's downloaded isn't subsequently purchased that there's something immoral going on. I don't download commerical music off the P2P nets, but if they're anything like the rest of the world, there's a hell of a lot of crap out there that isn't worth the time it takes you to workout how crap it is.
The cynical answer is that P2P is never about artist royalties or piracy it's about the fact that one P can be the artist and the other P can be the customer with no sign of ARIA or RIAA anywhere between the two. These big music industries are not fighting for the survival of music and musicians, they're fighting for their own survival at the cost of artists and consumers.
This information didn't go out in boxes that customs can search, it was sent down a wire at the speed of light. It went off-shore against the law because someone decided to charge local rates then pay for some under-protected borderline-slave labour person to do it at a fraction of the cost.
The companies involved are dead, destroyed by this act of stupidity. Short of jail time (costly to society and not especially approriate when someone isn't a physical risk to the community) things can't get much worse for the parties involved.
I trust the Penny Arcade crew to be honest, unfortunately our tastes differ.
I currently recommend My Real Box by Novell.
We have an IT meeting soon where I will be leading a discussion about on-line communications. I will be suggesting that we don't accept all email addresses from Hotmail (so many bounce with user unknown or over quota) and "hanmail" (incoming messages get tagged as spam because of the HTML that the service wraps user messages in), and that we start recording IM accounts as a backup communications option. I'm not saying we refuse emails from Hotmail accounts, I'm just saying that when you tell us your address, we won't accept a Hotmail address.
At home: blank, at work: a funky little corporate homepage I designed for all the staff to give them quick access to the corporate BBS, web portal, webmail, homepage and calendar.
Region coding may not be illegal in Australia, but neither is regionfree-afying your equipment. I use DVD Region X on my PS2, my mother's DVD player just needed Pi entered in a specific way to go region free. Because of the ease with which this is achieved, many stores sell stuff from other regions. I bought the Region 1 Firefly box set in a city store last weekend.
Just a quick heads up.
Since they hold between 9 and 12 CDr discs (the low number is due to my Plexwriter Pro that can put almost a Gig on a normal CDr), they can convert a box of 80 CDs into 7 or 8 DVDs. I can see me helping out a friend in this way. (Anyone know an Australian source of DVD-style cases that can hold 3 discs?)
I don't play (commericial) games on my PS2 anymore. It's either my DVD player or I boot to Linux. I've got about a dozen games, but I haven't bought a PS2 game for probably as much as a year.
My filter (Proxomitron) sends the current page as the referrer to that page. Works so well that I can still use the original NYTimes random login generator.
I paid full price for the PS2 Linux kit and even though I don't boot to Linux all that often, it's great to have a 40Gig network device I can boot when I want. I've got Mozilla, xmms, moria and a bunch of other stuff on it. It holds my music collection backup (sure, I could re-rip it, but there's a lot of tagging work in my collection) and if I feel so inclined I can use it as a great music player. xmms even has a joystick plug-in and my DVD remote can be used to play/pause, FF, etc.
I haven't got a photoe available, but Ikea bookshelves do a fine job of storing video games. Wall units, media towers, boxes -- what's so big an issue that it needs a /. story?
See if there's any product that lets you use a Bluetooth mobile phone (or PDA) as the key that locks and unlocks your workstation. Then it will secure as you walk away and unlock as you return.
Most mobile phone stores I've been to either for my own stuff or as a helper for a friend that doesn't want to get screwed, will pull a real unit out of a box, put it together and plug it into the wall for power if you want to try it. Often there's a box already opened with a phone that has some juice in the battery. The N-Gage I bought was being demoed to someone when I turned up at the store.