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There is nothing wrong with pointing out that http is an open protocol and showing possible solutions. If the solutions aren't 100% effective, that's too bad, it is an open protocol, and sites have to work within the system as best as they can.
Hmmm, hippie, leeches. Nice words, nice and deragatory. Spew all the names you want, if you're too stupid to protect your photo gallery against deep linking, tough fucking shit. I'm not going to protect it for you. If you make something publically accessible, that's your damn problem, not mine or anyone else's on the web.
No one said a damn thing about you not being allowed to move or rename your files, go ahead, that's perfectly acceptable, and no one has any right to complain about it.
If you don't understand what deep linking is then maybe you should shut the fuck up, and ask a question prior to ranting like an ignorant moron.
Or publishing a book and pursuing legal action when one reader tells another: "the first 50 pages are boring, open right to page 51 and start from there."
No. Flamebait because you're using inflammatory language to belittle those that do want to play these games all the time. I've got news for you, nothing you do is, inherently, any better than someone who takes pleasure in playing games all day. Health has nothing to do with it. Different people enjoy different things. What is a waste to you could be meaningful to others.
Easy reaon why we need another: Each new game pushes the state of the technology a little further. The long term consequences of this process are of likely benefit to everybody, regardless of their interests.
so much for freedom
WTF does freedom have to do with anything, again, you're using emotionally charged words, that have no relevance to try and argue a point.
I believe that all methods of debugging are useful at some point. But I tend to use the print debugging first. Not only does it do the things you said, but it also tells you very quickly if you're assumptions are wrong, giving you a clear idea of the correctness of the program very quickly.
Just as 2001 served as an inspiration for developing communication satellites, Snowcrash's "metaverse" served as the inspiration for the development of VRML
Err nice try but no. VRML served as the inspiration for Snow Crash. The idea was out there in one form or another for a lot longer than Snow Crash has been around. Neuromancer, Shadowrun, the Verner Vinge (sp?) story that I can't remember the name of... all older.
are you trying to tell me that you could not judge a barrel of apples without at least a single rotten one in it? "I don't know if these apples are good or not; there's nothing to compare them to!"
Insightful no, wrong yes. Worng argument, poor logic and bad analogy, no to mention missing the point. If there were no such thing as a rotten apple, you wouldn't be able to judge a barrel of apples as good, there would be no such thing, there would only be apples. The existence of rotten apples defines what a good apple is.
Yes they are two sides of the same coin. It does not follow, as the original poster implies, that there must be balance** (in the sense that the sides are equal). In the apple example only one rotten apple, or at tleast the concept of rotten apple is required to exist in order to validate the concept of a good apple.
The upshot is good DOES NOT exist without evil.
** You can define balance however in other ways, so I should probably leave that bit alone.
I have a feeling that tv networks have the same note on the bottom of their memos;) This is exactly what I was saying though, even WITH a box they don't really know.
It's always been illegal to swap TV shows under conventional copyright law, nothing under fair use covers that. It covers time-shifting, and using small portions in various ways.
Illegal or not, they can bite me;) I'm usually out on friday nights, so I fully expect the right to ask a friend to tape Firefly and borrow the tape later to watch. This wouldn't be an issue if it wasn't so easy to release shows to the masses digitally but it's still pretty much bullshit in my book. Especially in the cases where the show is no longer avilable. For instance if I wanted to watch The Wonder Years I can't without finding someone online who has a capture. Or waiting on the remote possibility that it will be shown... at a reasonable time, on a channel I have, and in a reasonable order. As far as I'm concered, I will never feel guilty downloading and watching something I have no other way of obtaining.
Well, they really have no way of knowing if you watch the commercials now, unless you have a Nielsen box that is.
Though I do agree that the business model must change, it's not as easy for an executive to see that. The status quo is what makes them money, they don't want to change.
That's what I was saying, you can still create views on the fly. It's very easy, and most likely how this project works. I haven't had time to pull the tarball down and check it out, but it is a layer between a HFS and the user, essentially just a shell. So at some level it is still an HFS. In fact I would call this project a file system at all, it's a file system browser.
I certainly have to agree with you. When I first started using Linux it was a move from Windows 3.11 (though 95 may have been out at the time I don't remember) so it was a bigger culture shock for me. Even something as simple as/usr/bin vs./usr/local/bin or/usr/local/anything seemed such a simple but great way of doing things to me. If I needed to back up I could easily isolate what I had put on the machine post installation. Everything else would be built by the distro disk. Contrast this with Windows where everything seems to go wherever; thought it is possible to do the same thing, and I started doing so at the time, Windows has never been as conducive to that sort of habit as *nixes.
Should my porn directory be organized into movies, stills and texts or perhaps perverted, spicy and nice? Whichever atrribute I choose I will have trouble searching on the other.
Errr, symlinks anyone, they fit in any number of categories. In fact it would be simple to create a file saving/organizing app that would automatically set up HFS links based on attributes that you define.
Of course I will try this new filesystem. I'll always try out anything new, but I do have some preliminary reservations. I'm happy with HFS, but I'm a coder. My linux desktop is 99% command line driven, I use ratpoison as my wm, so it may not work for me, but I certainly won't bash something that might work for others.
Use the right tool for the right job... and the right person.
Hmm, maybe your analogy isn't sound. For years techies have screamed bloody murder when RL metaphors are used to decide what laws to apply to computer crimes. So don't fault my logic based on your inability to draw a strong analog. No one is breaking into anything. The internet, email in particular is an open, public medium. If you don't like it don't use it, it's that simple.
That's a consequence of the medium. The openess, lauded one second by techies, is cursed the next. If you don't like the way it works, either change it on your end as you did, or don't use it.
Maybe you SHOULD take the time to read articles. Any. I can understand the arguments against spam for taking up system resources, but there is no way in hell that it is an intrusion on your privacy. It's your responsibility to keep your email address private if you want it that way. It is a public vector of communication, if you make it public you have no right to complain about recieving communication through it. Complain all you want about it being irritating, wasting time, costing money (especially if you're on dialup), but a privacy issue, I think not.
That's ridiculously stupid. I mean besides the fact that it shows you have no touch with reality, everybody knows that those boy bands aren't clones of each other. They're robots.:p
...though I don't necessarily agree with this statement:
As well, the notion that developers write software to scratch their own itches may not translate well into games
Speaking of my case in particular, and I'm sure there are many out there like me, I love writing code in general. It's not so much the "pragmatic utilities" as it is doing something cool with the machine, whether it's a compiler, or a game, or writing stuff to run on the dreamcast.
Nothing, to each his own, but for me the Matrix was a great movie, I hate to see it degenerate (that's obviously MHO) into just an action movie. They're boring as far as I'm concerned.
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There is nothing wrong with pointing out that http is an open protocol and showing possible solutions. If the solutions aren't 100% effective, that's too bad, it is an open protocol, and sites have to work within the system as best as they can.
No one said a damn thing about you not being allowed to move or rename your files, go ahead, that's perfectly acceptable, and no one has any right to complain about it.
If you don't understand what deep linking is then maybe you should shut the fuck up, and ask a question prior to ranting like an ignorant moron.
Or publishing a book and pursuing legal action when one reader tells another: "the first 50 pages are boring, open right to page 51 and start from there."
Easy reaon why we need another: Each new game pushes the state of the technology a little further. The long term consequences of this process are of likely benefit to everybody, regardless of their interests.
so much for freedom
WTF does freedom have to do with anything, again, you're using emotionally charged words, that have no relevance to try and argue a point.
I believe that all methods of debugging are useful at some point. But I tend to use the print debugging first. Not only does it do the things you said, but it also tells you very quickly if you're assumptions are wrong, giving you a clear idea of the correctness of the program very quickly.
AHA! Thanks, I should have looked it up, I know. but I can only give up so much time to posting while at work ;)
Just as 2001 served as an inspiration for developing communication satellites, Snowcrash's "metaverse" served as the inspiration for the development of VRML
Err nice try but no. VRML served as the inspiration for Snow Crash. The idea was out there in one form or another for a lot longer than Snow Crash has been around. Neuromancer, Shadowrun, the Verner Vinge (sp?) story that I can't remember the name of... all older.
are you trying to tell me that you could not judge a barrel of apples without at least a single rotten one in it? "I don't know if these apples are good or not; there's nothing to compare them to!"
Insightful no, wrong yes. Worng argument, poor logic and bad analogy, no to mention missing the point. If there were no such thing as a rotten apple, you wouldn't be able to judge a barrel of apples as good, there would be no such thing, there would only be apples. The existence of rotten apples defines what a good apple is.
Yes they are two sides of the same coin. It does not follow, as the original poster implies, that there must be balance** (in the sense that the sides are equal). In the apple example only one rotten apple, or at tleast the concept of rotten apple is required to exist in order to validate the concept of a good apple.
The upshot is good DOES NOT exist without evil.
** You can define balance however in other ways, so I should probably leave that bit alone.
I have a feeling that tv networks have the same note on the bottom of their memos ;) This is exactly what I was saying though, even WITH a box they don't really know.
It's always been illegal to swap TV shows under conventional copyright law, nothing under fair use covers that. It covers time-shifting, and using small portions in various ways.
Illegal or not, they can bite me
Though I do agree that the business model must change, it's not as easy for an executive to see that. The status quo is what makes them money, they don't want to change.
Fair enough, and that is exactly what I was thinking. More of a thought to explore than anything else.
Though that is still mathematical. In fact, I don't believe you can encrypt without math.
That's what I was saying, you can still create views on the fly. It's very easy, and most likely how this project works. I haven't had time to pull the tarball down and check it out, but it is a layer between a HFS and the user, essentially just a shell. So at some level it is still an HFS. In fact I would call this project a file system at all, it's a file system browser.
I certainly have to agree with you. When I first started using Linux it was a move from Windows 3.11 (though 95 may have been out at the time I don't remember) so it was a bigger culture shock for me. Even something as simple as /usr/bin vs. /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/anything seemed such a simple but great way of doing things to me. If I needed to back up I could easily isolate what I had put on the machine post installation. Everything else would be built by the distro disk. Contrast this with Windows where everything seems to go wherever; thought it is possible to do the same thing, and I started doing so at the time, Windows has never been as conducive to that sort of habit as *nixes.
Should my porn directory be organized into movies, stills and texts or perhaps perverted, spicy and nice? Whichever atrribute I choose I will have trouble searching on the other.
Errr, symlinks anyone, they fit in any number of categories. In fact it would be simple to create a file saving/organizing app that would automatically set up HFS links based on attributes that you define.
Of course I will try this new filesystem. I'll always try out anything new, but I do have some preliminary reservations. I'm happy with HFS, but I'm a coder. My linux desktop is 99% command line driven, I use ratpoison as my wm, so it may not work for me, but I certainly won't bash something that might work for others.
Use the right tool for the right job
Hmm, maybe your analogy isn't sound. For years techies have screamed bloody murder when RL metaphors are used to decide what laws to apply to computer crimes. So don't fault my logic based on your inability to draw a strong analog. No one is breaking into anything. The internet, email in particular is an open, public medium. If you don't like it don't use it, it's that simple.
That's a consequence of the medium. The openess, lauded one second by techies, is cursed the next. If you don't like the way it works, either change it on your end as you did, or don't use it.
Maybe you SHOULD take the time to read articles. Any. I can understand the arguments against spam for taking up system resources, but there is no way in hell that it is an intrusion on your privacy. It's your responsibility to keep your email address private if you want it that way. It is a public vector of communication, if you make it public you have no right to complain about recieving communication through it. Complain all you want about it being irritating, wasting time, costing money (especially if you're on dialup), but a privacy issue, I think not.
Errr, the fact that the site is a troll aside, sow. SOW! ;)
Not necessarily. Depends on your particular philosophy, which is the reason that I said the only TOOL.
That's ridiculously stupid. I mean besides the fact that it shows you have no touch with reality, everybody knows that those boy bands aren't clones of each other. They're robots. :p
Can you even simulate the natural world using only mathematics etc? I think so - look at some of the GIMP filters for instance.
Err, yeah. The natural world IS mathematics. That's the ONLY tool we have to understand and model it.
As well, the notion that developers write software to scratch their own itches may not translate well into games
Speaking of my case in particular, and I'm sure there are many out there like me, I love writing code in general. It's not so much the "pragmatic utilities" as it is doing something cool with the machine, whether it's a compiler, or a game, or writing stuff to run on the dreamcast.
Nothing, to each his own, but for me the Matrix was a great movie, I hate to see it degenerate (that's obviously MHO) into just an action movie. They're boring as far as I'm concerned.