Costing them money by running crawlers? How's that? If you mean eBay has to pay for the banner impressions while the spider fetches pages then, as someone who's written a few crawlers, I seriously doubt the crawler would request *any* images off the eBay site. Why would a spider care about images? No use whatsoever!
That doens't make sense... What he's saying is he gets his kids to buy and install the software, thus they have to 'agree' to the EULA when installing it and he will NEVER see it and isn't liable for whatever it's clauses are. His kids are, and since they're minors they can't be held to the EULA's terms and conditions. So, he is (a) using a licenced copy, just he didn't agree to the EULA and (b) he isn't using a copy without permission since he bought the software and has his kids install it on 'thier' computer.:)
Unless they simply re-sell the original Palm units I think they'd qualify as a 'clone'. Plus the Handspring model has added-features to 'compete' with the original Palm product. IMHO, this would definatly qualify the Handspring as a 'clone' of the PalmPilot^H^H^H^H^H Computing Platform. I don't compare the Handspring product to Big Blue's re-badged IMB Workpad Palm's tho...
Well, google's a search engine, Slashdot's a news site. The code for each site was written for different purposes. As to *why* google caches pages... dunno? As to why Slashdot doesn't... see my previous comment. Let's hope that sometime down the road when the Slashdot coding team have time they look into caching. As someone mentions below a Caching Pool of servers would be one (good, IMHO) solution.
Yes, but the Mirroring Pool wouldn't ALL try and mirror the site. I'd imagine a round-robin type of system would work best. One member of the pool mirrors a story and then the next member does the next story... loop when at 'end of members'.
Looks good on paper, let's see if they can/want to implement it.
Notepad for Win9x has a 32k limit on the size of the text box and can't change font or search and replace. Notepad in WinNT, however, has unlimited text size and it can search-n-replace and you can even change the font. Unfortunatly, the WinNT version of Notepad won't run on Win9x (I've tried).
However, I use PICO all the time on my Linux server and love it. Quick, Simple, Fast, Easy.
Oddly, our zero-volume bottles require shipping boxes of positive volume. To fill the empty space, Acme uses "eco-fill" packing peanuts, made from puffed corn. To get rid of 'em, just toss them on your lawn and squirt with a hose. Or put 'em in a sink under running water. Unlike our manifolds, the packing peanuts dissolve in seconds.
Hmm, if the packing peanuts are made from Puffed Corn then couldn't you just eat 'em instead? Make a nice lite snack:)
This was answered once before by the Slashdot team: they do not want to take on any legal responsibility of mirroring other sites content without permission, and getting permission would simply slow down the ability to post articles within a 'reasonable' period of time. Plus the fact that some sites may not be easily mirrorable due to 'hard-links' and other barriers.
My understanding was they had made money but had chosen to re-invest it back into the company, which also happened to piss off quite a few shareholders. There was talk of this on CNNfn, I wasn't paying full attention at the time so I could be wrong. -BK
are you piping the signal thru your vcr to your tv? If you do this with MacroVision on the vcr will screw it up. Connecting the dvd decoder straight to your tv will not cause MacroVision to degrade the picture. I tested The Matrix on my dxr3 with and without MacroVision both direct connect to my tv and thru a vcr. Only when going thru the vcr with MacroVision on did I get a change in picture quality.
On my UK keyboard and doing the one hand 'vulcan pinch' it'd be ALTgr-CONTROL-DELETE... Now if onlyone someone would tell me the use of the 'gr' on the right ALT key?
Slashdot Mirror
Then stop holding the camera sideways ;o)
Costing them money by running crawlers? How's that? If you mean eBay has to pay for the banner impressions while the spider fetches pages then, as someone who's written a few crawlers, I seriously doubt the crawler would request *any* images off the eBay site. Why would a spider care about images? No use whatsoever!
-BK
Let's hope they don't start believing this quite from George Orwell's 1984...
...or we're all in big trouble! How about Open Source History? ;)
He who controls the past controls the future.
I couldn't think of a better acronym for this distribution, nor a more appropriate one! :)
:(
Lets just hope LinuxOne doesn't laugh all the way to the bank
-BK
That doens't make sense... :)
What he's saying is he gets his kids to buy and install the software, thus they have to 'agree' to the EULA when installing it and he will NEVER see it and isn't liable for whatever it's clauses are. His kids are, and since they're minors they can't be held to the EULA's terms and conditions.
So, he is (a) using a licenced copy, just he didn't agree to the EULA and (b) he isn't using a copy without permission since he bought the software and has his kids install it on 'thier' computer.
-BK
Unless they simply re-sell the original Palm units I think they'd qualify as a 'clone'. Plus the Handspring model has added-features to 'compete' with the original Palm product. IMHO, this would definatly qualify the Handspring as a 'clone' of the PalmPilot^H^H^H^H^H Computing Platform. I don't compare the Handspring product to Big Blue's re-badged IMB Workpad Palm's tho...
-BK
Well, google's a search engine, Slashdot's a news site. The code for each site was written for different purposes. As to *why* google caches pages... dunno? As to why Slashdot doesn't... see my previous comment. Let's hope that sometime down the road when the Slashdot coding team have time they look into caching. As someone mentions below a Caching Pool of servers would be one (good, IMHO) solution.
-BK
Yes, but the Mirroring Pool wouldn't ALL try and mirror the site. I'd imagine a round-robin type of system would work best. One member of the pool mirrors a story and then the next member does the next story... loop when at 'end of members'.
Looks good on paper, let's see if they can/want to implement it.
-BK
Notepad for Win9x has a 32k limit on the size of the text box and can't change font or search and replace. Notepad in WinNT, however, has unlimited text size and it can search-n-replace and you can even change the font. Unfortunatly, the WinNT version of Notepad won't run on Win9x (I've tried).
However, I use PICO all the time on my Linux server and love it. Quick, Simple, Fast, Easy.
-BK
Oddly, our zero-volume bottles require shipping boxes of positive volume. To fill the empty space, Acme uses "eco-fill" packing peanuts, made from puffed corn. To get rid of 'em, just toss them on your lawn and squirt with a hose. Or put 'em in a sink under running water. Unlike our manifolds, the packing peanuts dissolve in seconds.
:)
Hmm, if the packing peanuts are made from Puffed Corn then couldn't you just eat 'em instead? Make a nice lite snack
This was answered once before by the Slashdot team: they do not want to take on any legal responsibility of mirroring other sites content without permission, and getting permission would simply slow down the ability to post articles within a 'reasonable' period of time. Plus the fact that some sites may not be easily mirrorable due to 'hard-links' and other barriers.
-BK
Yes, but not out the little pizeoelectirc speaker it doesn't.
You only get the stereo sound with headphones, which I think the original poster meant.
-BK
Well, makes you wonder if 'ol Billy-Boy would even pass an MCP exam ;)
I love the idea and will do it for every movie I currently have and for any new ones I buy, a simple script'll do the trick nicely! -BK
My understanding was they had made money but had chosen to re-invest it back into the company, which also happened to piss off quite a few shareholders. There was talk of this on CNNfn, I wasn't paying full attention at the time so I could be wrong. -BK
To type a £ on a non british keyboard hold the ALT key and type 0163 on the numeric keypad, or just type GBP. HTH.
I don't know what drugs the moderators are smoking, but I wish they'd share them.
Ah well, this is why I read with my threshold at -1
-BK
Me!
But is that even possible? I'm taking it with a grain of salt unless someone can give me a link as proof... but the idea sounds quite interesting!
-BK
Just for your information about why DVD is better than laserdisc in regards to laser rot and superior capacity (== quality) of DVD. HTH.
From the DVD FAQ: Laser Rot and Will DVD Replace Laserdisc?.
-BK
Hmm, wonder when the edited version will be floating around the 'net? ;)
-BK
are you piping the signal thru your vcr to your tv? If you do this with MacroVision on the vcr will screw it up. Connecting the dvd decoder straight to your tv will not cause MacroVision to degrade the picture. I tested The Matrix on my dxr3 with and without MacroVision both direct connect to my tv and thru a vcr. Only when going thru the vcr with MacroVision on did I get a change in picture quality.
HTH.
-BK
And it really should belong to the Humor section more than anything else.
Dont you mean the 'accidental shooting-clubbing-stabbing-firebombing-choking-imp aling-electrocution-lethal-injection death'?
On my UK keyboard and doing the one hand 'vulcan pinch' it'd be ALTgr-CONTROL-DELETE...
Now if onlyone someone would tell me the use of the 'gr' on the right ALT key?
Try looking on U-NET's FTP Server:
/pub/games/quake3/demo
ADDY: ftp.u-net.net
USER: anonymous
PASS: your@email.com
PATH:
I averaged about 225k/s so enjoy it while it's there...