"Except for costing money to suscribe to (I'm not making that one up, right?"
No, you're not. There was some trial functionality, but Microsoft generally expected people to pony up a monthly fee on par with most MMORPGs. Allegiance required a central server with some decent bandwidth at the time, because it supported a relatively large number of players per game session.
As a big fan of Allegiance, I can say I'm just relieved to see the source made available.. Allegiance required a server, hosted by Microsoft, to play, and when MS rolled up the Allegiance servers due to "lack of interest", the community was devastated. Looks like 100-200 active users at any given moment, most paying a subscription fee, was an underwhelming success in their eyes.
There's an interesting discussion of 64-bit immediate values at the following link: 64 bit immediates in Python
If we are already using 64 bits for our pointers, a virtual machine has the potential of exploiting a the pointer's larger footprint for other immediate values. I'm not as crazy about using the MSB of the pointer for indicating an immediate as Ian Bicking appears to be, I'd recommend using the LSB since it's easier to bias any object to an even address than halve the potential addressable space.
Then again, if the potential address space is 2 ** 64, I suppose it's not such a sacrifice.
Beat me too it.. A MOO, or any other social mud server is probably exactly what the doctor ordered, here. Unless, of course, you have 2000 executives who all need to talk at the same time; then, you might have some organizational problems to deal with, first.
Excellent point; the Slashdot demographic is pretty narrowly focussed, compared to the market at large, and, as such, is extremely valuable for a someone targeting that demographic. Unfortunately, as another poster mentioned, they tend to be predispositioned against spam. I'd like to think that more people in the/. community are less likely to fall for the Niagra scam than your average bumpkin.
Then again, when I start making optimistic guesses about/. readers, some silly new fad starts up (Russia, fp's, grits, etc.) , and I wind up reconsidering my position.
Give us 10 lines of perl that will harvest armored email accounts out of a large document, with at least half of the harvested addresses actually usable, and at least half of the potential addresses harvested.
The point is to make the harvesting costly, and reduce the usefulness of spam address harvesting. I maintain three email accounts. One that is used publicly, like here on Slashdot, one that is used for business transactions, like ordering things from Amazon, etc, and one that is a throwaway for registering accounts with various online services.
Of the three, the first one, which is displayed widely, on K5, Slashdot, Groklaw, LiveJournal, and a lot of other heavily trafficed community sites, does not receive any spam of note. The second gets a pretty steady flow.. And the third.. Well.. The third is redirected to/dev/null most days, unless I'm looking for one of those precious "email validation" messages.
Btw, that first email address has been in use for over three years, now.
Nope. Firebird's a little sluggish, but quite stable. Safari, which is packaged in these days, is nimble and does well on standards compliance and compatibility with old IE goofs for bad programmers.
Biggest problem Mac users have these days are websites that try to outguess the client by header-sniffing.
It was okay, but I think I'm not the only one here who can honestly say it got dull after a while.. I think my friends and I spent more time playing Kohan than Quake 3, despite my fetish for Threewave CTF. Guess we're getting old..
Simply because NGE clothes itself in Judeo-Christian symbols doesn't make it a work of religion, nor does it make it terribly deep. It has some trite things to say about mankind, power, and various anime cliches, but I really don't find the series very entertaining past the first half of the cycle. It has as much to say about religion and spirituality as, I dunno, Martian Successor Nadeisco.
Frankly, it was much more fun and intriguing before it started revealing horrendous and predictable Truth. ( Deliberate capitalization used for satire. )
Forth, unlike most other compiled languages, reduces the length of each iteration of the edit, compile, debug cycle by making it possible to edit definitions in an application interactively.
In many Forths, there is most definately a compile step, but it happens so quickly, it is easy to miss.
Io is wonderful, but I have had chronic problems with its garbage collection when writing complicated applications. Frankly, the GC system is incredibly buggy, and the coroutine implementation requires some very ugly manipulation of the C stack. Right now, for sophisticated, long running applications, the interpreter is just not mature enough. Give it a year or two..
I had a very guilty love for REBOL, but it hasn't changed much in the last three years.. Many of the warts on REBOL/View are still there, and it's still not fully documented. They also haven't finished their port to OS X, so it isn't as perfectly cross platform as I would like..
And.. Finally.. How does one embed REBOL in an open source application?
That's great for the tourists, but some of us actually live out in the boonies.. The sack lunch thing can get rather monotonous, fast, and it's not exactly a way to make a living.
(( Warning for those who are unused to sarcasm: SARCASM AHEAD ))
Since you are obviously so concerned about the environment, and just trolling, have you considered that a low power consumption setup would result in less damage to the environment?
Gah. I seem to remember seeing a link to a tarball at some point, my apologies, I'll have to take back some of the vitriol in my previous comment. Since returning to the Apple flock last year, I've used Hydra whenever I found myself wanting a nicely integrated text editor. Some of its more unique features, like block editing, have made it a heavily used part of my toolkit, even when I'm not using its collaboration features.
Hydra's collaborative editing is the reason I bought a second mac for my wife..
SubEthaEdit, which was once called Hydra, has had both of these features for a couple months now. It also offers some pretty intriguing collaborative editing functionality, is written purely in Cocoa, and is both free and open. It integrated quite nicely with InputMethod extensions, like TextExtras, as well.
BBEdit was nice, before OS X and the availability of jEdit, jExt, emacs/carbon, vim and many of the other cross-platform editors. Now, it has fallen a bit behind the times, and is not worth the cost.
SoU worked because the actual logic involved in supporting the new prestige classes and game mechanics was actually included in the latest patch.
The new classes and mechanics for HoU will be in the forthcoming 1.60 patch; I haven't seen any information yet about whether 1.60 will be available for mac os. It's anyone's guess..
I know that some people consider IIS to be the greatest web server around, but I don't think it really compares with the complexity of the ISS (International Space Station)
As soon as we make email taxable, it becomes a potential source of revenue for the government. Eventually, to help make yet another pork filled budget meet, they would raise the tax on the email; entire bureaurcracies would form around the taxation of email, which would also need their own chunk of the budget.. The entire thing would become yet another yoke around our necks.
What a brilliant solution for stopping spammers. Now pull the other leg, please.
A.1 seems to apply quite directly to the problem at hand. The work done does relate to the business of the employer, since it applies to searching of information and Apple does have software that does just that. This loophole is larger enough to drive trucks through.
Read your contract, make revisions; if you sign the first thing they push across the desk, not only are you asking to be screwed over, you are making it easier for them to screw everyone else.
Security consultants have the potential to be travelling nearly constantly, spending one to two weeks in each location. The pay is pretty good, but you'll need to be able to express yourself well to other people since you will often be responsible for explaining your findings to the clients.
We have seen this sort of behavior in certain fields of software development as some traditionally jealous and extremely hostile development cultures try to grasp the tenets of open source development. Most of these people are sharing their source code as a way to further boost their egos by showing how l33t their poorly hacked together code is, not because they want to contribute to a community in building a solid piece of software.
Usually these developers come from the highly competitive demo scene; it's remarkable seeing how many half-baked graphic and audio libraries are out there, semi-open, non portable and brittle; it appears that the warp pipe developers have come from that same jealous, highly volatile culture.
Right. You simply do it by tweaking the database; much more efficient, and harder to trace with the opaque voting process provided by Diebold, MicroVote and others. One must admire progress, even when it simplifies fraud.
I actually didn't know.. The Baldur's Gate series are on my list of favorite games, but they tend to be pretty lengthy, so it was a tempting target. =)
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"Except for costing money to suscribe to (I'm not making that one up, right?"
No, you're not. There was some trial functionality, but Microsoft generally expected people to pony up a monthly fee on par with most MMORPGs. Allegiance required a central server with some decent bandwidth at the time, because it supported a relatively large number of players per game session.
As a big fan of Allegiance, I can say I'm just relieved to see the source made available.. Allegiance required a server, hosted by Microsoft, to play, and when MS rolled up the Allegiance servers due to "lack of interest", the community was devastated. Looks like 100-200 active users at any given moment, most paying a subscription fee, was an underwhelming success in their eyes.
Is that what's been making the plaster on my ceiling fall? The lady upstairs must be a DDR fan.. ;)
There's an interesting discussion of 64-bit immediate values at the following link: 64 bit immediates in Python
If we are already using 64 bits for our pointers, a virtual machine has the potential of exploiting a the pointer's larger footprint for other immediate values. I'm not as crazy about using the MSB of the pointer for indicating an immediate as Ian Bicking appears to be, I'd recommend using the LSB since it's easier to bias any object to an even address than halve the potential addressable space.
Then again, if the potential address space is 2 ** 64, I suppose it's not such a sacrifice.
Beat me too it.. A MOO, or any other social mud server is probably exactly what the doctor ordered, here. Unless, of course, you have 2000 executives who all need to talk at the same time; then, you might have some organizational problems to deal with, first.
Excellent point; the Slashdot demographic is pretty narrowly focussed, compared to the market at large, and, as such, is extremely valuable for a someone targeting that demographic. Unfortunately, as another poster mentioned, they tend to be predispositioned against spam. I'd like to think that more people in the /. community are less likely to fall for the Niagra scam than your average bumpkin.
/. readers, some silly new fad starts up (Russia, fp's, grits, etc.) , and I wind up reconsidering my position.
Then again, when I start making optimistic guesses about
Cool.. So, what ten lines do you recommend?
/dev/null most days, unless I'm looking for one of those precious "email validation" messages.
Give us 10 lines of perl that will harvest armored email accounts out of a large document, with at least half of the harvested addresses actually usable, and at least half of the potential addresses harvested.
The point is to make the harvesting costly, and reduce the usefulness of spam address harvesting. I maintain three email accounts. One that is used publicly, like here on Slashdot, one that is used for business transactions, like ordering things from Amazon, etc, and one that is a throwaway for registering accounts with various online services.
Of the three, the first one, which is displayed widely, on K5, Slashdot, Groklaw, LiveJournal, and a lot of other heavily trafficed community sites, does not receive any spam of note. The second gets a pretty steady flow.. And the third.. Well.. The third is redirected to
Btw, that first email address has been in use for over three years, now.
And anything on the Mac is just a nightmare.
Nope. Firebird's a little sluggish, but quite stable. Safari, which is packaged in these days, is nimble and does well on standards compliance and compatibility with old IE goofs for bad programmers.
Biggest problem Mac users have these days are websites that try to outguess the client by header-sniffing.
It was okay, but I think I'm not the only one here who can honestly say it got dull after a while.. I think my friends and I spent more time playing Kohan than Quake 3, despite my fetish for Threewave CTF. Guess we're getting old..
Simply because NGE clothes itself in Judeo-Christian symbols doesn't make it a work of religion, nor does it make it terribly deep. It has some trite things to say about mankind, power, and various anime cliches, but I really don't find the series very entertaining past the first half of the cycle. It has as much to say about religion and spirituality as, I dunno, Martian Successor Nadeisco.
Frankly, it was much more fun and intriguing before it started revealing horrendous and predictable Truth. ( Deliberate capitalization used for satire. )
Perhaps he meant:
Forth, unlike most other compiled languages, reduces the length of each iteration of the edit, compile, debug cycle by making it possible to edit definitions in an application interactively.
In many Forths, there is most definately a compile step, but it happens so quickly, it is easy to miss.
Io is wonderful, but I have had chronic problems with its garbage collection when writing complicated applications. Frankly, the GC system is incredibly buggy, and the coroutine implementation requires some very ugly manipulation of the C stack. Right now, for sophisticated, long running applications, the interpreter is just not mature enough. Give it a year or two..
I had a very guilty love for REBOL, but it hasn't changed much in the last three years.. Many of the warts on REBOL/View are still there, and it's still not fully documented. They also haven't finished their port to OS X, so it isn't as perfectly cross platform as I would like..
And.. Finally.. How does one embed REBOL in an open source application?
"Which is why I only drink rain water and pure grain alcohol.."
That's great for the tourists, but some of us actually live out in the boonies.. The sack lunch thing can get rather monotonous, fast, and it's not exactly a way to make a living.
(( Warning for those who are unused to sarcasm: SARCASM AHEAD ))
Since you are obviously so concerned about the environment, and just trolling, have you considered that a low power consumption setup would result in less damage to the environment?
Gah. I seem to remember seeing a link to a tarball at some point, my apologies, I'll have to take back some of the vitriol in my previous comment. Since returning to the Apple flock last year, I've used Hydra whenever I found myself wanting a nicely integrated text editor. Some of its more unique features, like block editing, have made it a heavily used part of my toolkit, even when I'm not using its collaboration features.
Hydra's collaborative editing is the reason I bought a second mac for my wife..
SubEthaEdit, which was once called Hydra, has had both of these features for a couple months now. It also offers some pretty intriguing collaborative editing functionality, is written purely in Cocoa, and is both free and open. It integrated quite nicely with InputMethod extensions, like TextExtras, as well.
BBEdit was nice, before OS X and the availability of jEdit, jExt, emacs/carbon, vim and many of the other cross-platform editors. Now, it has fallen a bit behind the times, and is not worth the cost.
SoU worked because the actual logic involved in supporting the new prestige classes and game mechanics was actually included in the latest patch.
The new classes and mechanics for HoU will be in the forthcoming 1.60 patch; I haven't seen any information yet about whether 1.60 will be available for mac os. It's anyone's guess..
I know that some people consider IIS to be the greatest web server around, but I don't think it really compares with the complexity of the ISS (International Space Station)
As soon as we make email taxable, it becomes a potential source of revenue for the government. Eventually, to help make yet another pork filled budget meet, they would raise the tax on the email; entire bureaurcracies would form around the taxation of email, which would also need their own chunk of the budget.. The entire thing would become yet another yoke around our necks.
What a brilliant solution for stopping spammers. Now pull the other leg, please.
A.1 seems to apply quite directly to the problem at hand. The work done does relate to the business of the employer, since it applies to searching of information and Apple does have software that does just that. This loophole is larger enough to drive trucks through.
Read your contract, make revisions; if you sign the first thing they push across the desk, not only are you asking to be screwed over, you are making it easier for them to screw everyone else.
Security consultants have the potential to be travelling nearly constantly, spending one to two weeks in each location. The pay is pretty good, but you'll need to be able to express yourself well to other people since you will often be responsible for explaining your findings to the clients.
We have seen this sort of behavior in certain fields of software development as some traditionally jealous and extremely hostile development cultures try to grasp the tenets of open source development. Most of these people are sharing their source code as a way to further boost their egos by showing how l33t their poorly hacked together code is, not because they want to contribute to a community in building a solid piece of software.
Usually these developers come from the highly competitive demo scene; it's remarkable seeing how many half-baked graphic and audio libraries are out there, semi-open, non portable and brittle; it appears that the warp pipe developers have come from that same jealous, highly volatile culture.
Right. You simply do it by tweaking the database; much more efficient, and harder to trace with the opaque voting process provided by Diebold, MicroVote and others. One must admire progress, even when it simplifies fraud.
I actually didn't know.. The Baldur's Gate series are on my list of favorite games, but they tend to be pretty lengthy, so it was a tempting target. =)