Mp3 player phones won't need to do anything special to become iPod killers: fewer gadgets to carry around, with the same functionality, is a win. No need to be able to buy songs with the phone, you can't buy them with an iPod either, can you?
Most importantly, books are pretty much perfect - they are very easy to read (typography-wise), don't have batteries, only degrade gradually, instead of breaking catastophically; you can spread several around you, you can open them on the page you want and they'll stay there, you can underline important words or scribble in the margin with a pencil. You can choose between a new, expensive book, or a slightly damaged much cheaper used one. You can get them from libraries. You can read them away from the computer and its infinite distractions; in fact, you can read them on the train, in bed, in bath, etc.
In short, what more could I want? It seems to me that those handheld eBook devices can only aspire to become as good as actual books. And as long as they're not there yet, why switch?
Something like O'Reilly's Safari bookshelf has something that you don't get with paper books: an extreme amount of them for an affordable price. However, you still need to read them at your computer, and to me that means it's only usable for quick lookup stuff - I can't concentrate on a long, hard book for long enough behind a computer.
This is nothing special, half the gaming market is now addicted to World of Warcraft, and has lost contact to the physical world. Analysts expect this effect to become smaller in a few years, though the market will probably never go back to what it was, considering the number of starvation casualties expected.
I must drink coffee. It is the mind filler. It is the little shot that brings total caffeination. I will taste my coffee. I will allow it to pass through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the coffee has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Then I must drink more coffee. It is the mind filler...
It just means that the environment changed, and therefore the definition of who is "weak".
There are still hereditary differences in people that have an effect on the number of offspring they're likely to have (e.g., intelligence is for a large part hereditary, more intelligent people are more likely to be highly educated, and birth rate is low for the highly educated in all rich countries), so evolution continues.
Without business, vaccinations wouldn't have been mass produced, you wouldn't be able to buy a Beethoven CD, and the Internet would have been something for universities and the military, not the general public.
What was this fool trying to prove? He allowed direct SSH access to the machine! Of course someone is going to hack it!
Nothing natural about it. Most remotely accessible stuff (like web servers) runs as a non privileged user. That means that someone who hacks into your web server cannot do anything serious... unless there is also a root exploit! It's the other half of breaking in.
Once upon a time, someone sniffed one of my users' passwords (it was just a student's box on a student network, with some friends that had accounts), when that user was using POP3 to collect his email. He logged in, used an exploit for vixie cron, and had root! Yes, I did learn from that...
Anti-patent, you're probably right, but anti-copyright? That's the basis for the GPL, and many people here author software and like to have rights over it. I think you're confusing anti-RIAA/MPAA with anti-copyright.
Personally I believe there is a difference between "RFID is the mark of the beast, and a sign that the end of time is here" and "RFID is evil", don't you?
Another bug tracking tool to consider is Mantis. We use it in our product to track a large number of small issues that the client is constantly coming up with; we think it works well.
However, it's quite possible that it's also too complicated for your needs. I like the suggestion of a simple email address as a public interface; perhaps just install Mediawiki for yourself so you can store everything in it? I like wikis for keeping track of simple stuff.
That one is a hoax. When you upload a video to Google Video, you get to choose which countries you want to exclude from viewing it (say, for copyright reasons). Whoever uploaded that video of an explosion, supposedly in Iraq, chose to exclude only the US. End of story.
I know that BitTorrent was created to solve a distribution problem, and has plenty of legal uses. The cliche example is Linux CDs. Distributors can cut down on bandwidth use by letting the downloaders share among themselves. It's rather unfair that BT is mostly known for its widespread copyright infringement use nowadays.
However, when I think of a "BT community", I don't think of downloading a Linux CD from Redhat's tracker found on Redhat's website. I think of people swapping torrents to lots of huge files they found, almost all infringing. Face it, if I'm going to download a Linux ISO, I'd go to the distro's site and get the distro's official torrent, I don't download it because I happen to spot a link to it on Torrentspy.
So my main question is - is there really a substantial legit "BT community"?
Yes, that sort of thing.:-) And we couldn't resist trying to cheat...
We were players, we used to also have an "illegal" wizard character, but it got banned. We knew someone else from our uni had one, and hadn't used it for a year... login as Guest, send one mail saying "Hi, I'm Cobra, I want to code again but forgot my password, could you set it to 'sven'?" was all it took... then we went to a meeting in England, and while we were in a taxi with some admins who had picked us up from the station, they asked something like "Do you know if the Cobra who's logged in recently is the real one? Because we've got someone else claiming that _he_ is Cobra and his wizard was stolen..." Managed to bluff our way out. Years later we gave the account to someone else, who didn't know the history, and it happened some months later that the real Cobra was on the computer next to his when he logged in, and went ballistic... Fun times.
Or make an item that you can move into someone's inventory; it did something like 'add_action("", "funcname", 1)', which meant that each and every command that person did (and wasn't handled by the room object) would be passed through funcname() (executing with his permissions), and if that function returned false, the MUD would look at the next item in the inventory to see if that item perhaps implemented the command, so the person would never notice anything odd. So we'd move an item into an admin's inventory that added a line to the serialized savefile of another admin (changing his password), then destructed itself. We didn't login as the admin (too obvious), but we did have ftp access to absolutely everything... we changed the then Law admin (who annoyed a lot of people) into a lvl 16 playerkiller _player_ (attackable by almost everyone) and removed all traces of what we did. Admin died rather quickly after he logged in, utterly confused.
But it does make the code I write today more secure than most people's:-)
... but I've never transferred any skill I've learned in video games to real life.
That was one of the coolest things of MUDs (for youngster, the text-based MMORPGs of days gone by, though some still exist): in most of them, once you reached a high enough level, you could join the programming team and create your own new areas for the game. I learned more practical coding skills from nights of hacking LPC than from my computer science study.
Designing new areas would be quite the cool endgame for WoW lvl 60s. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that it takes too much skill and training these days to create good enough content for games like that.
As I understand it, FOIA requests of this sort usually mean that you'd receive an electronic list in electronic form; or printed out, if needed. But there is an explicite exception for lists of mail addresses; they are also freely available, but need to be copied by hand. That way, advertizers are discouraged from getting a bunch of these lists to send ads to. The city wanted to protect email adresses in the same way, to prevent spam. That sounds very reasonable to me. But the kid won because that wasn't wat the law literally said.
I don't think it says anything at all about whether the mayor is actually guilty of what he's accused of or not.
I was reading about a few things lately, like the coming peak oil and the fact that we do not have enough resource on earth to support the way we live. So I figured, fuck earth. Let's go.
Yes, because outer space is known for its wealth of usable, reachable resources...
Moore's law is about the number of transistors on a chip. It states nothing at all about speed.
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But I don't quite follow. The grandparent poster was skeptical about the value of flexible armor over parts that should never bend. If your shin is bending significantly, your shin's probably broken.
Close your left hand over your right lower arm. Now turn move your hand left and right, up and down, flex the muscles... that thing moves a lot. The shin likewise has muscles and two bones in it. Apparently the sporters like this flexible thing better than rigid protectors, so it seems to help.
Why the poster calls this "body armor" i'm not sure though, according to TFA this is purely about shin and arm protection, the areas that get into contact with the sticks during slalom skiing.
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Well, considering that that was already illegal under current law...
Uhm, you're saying that the reason we don't shoot indians anymore is that there aren't a whole lot left?
Mp3 player phones won't need to do anything special to become iPod killers: fewer gadgets to carry around, with the same functionality, is a win. No need to be able to buy songs with the phone, you can't buy them with an iPod either, can you?
Most importantly, books are pretty much perfect - they are very easy to read (typography-wise), don't have batteries, only degrade gradually, instead of breaking catastophically; you can spread several around you, you can open them on the page you want and they'll stay there, you can underline important words or scribble in the margin with a pencil. You can choose between a new, expensive book, or a slightly damaged much cheaper used one. You can get them from libraries. You can read them away from the computer and its infinite distractions; in fact, you can read them on the train, in bed, in bath, etc.
In short, what more could I want? It seems to me that those handheld eBook devices can only aspire to become as good as actual books. And as long as they're not there yet, why switch?
Something like O'Reilly's Safari bookshelf has something that you don't get with paper books: an extreme amount of them for an affordable price. However, you still need to read them at your computer, and to me that means it's only usable for quick lookup stuff - I can't concentrate on a long, hard book for long enough behind a computer.
This is nothing special, half the gaming market is now addicted to World of Warcraft, and has lost contact to the physical world. Analysts expect this effect to become smaller in a few years, though the market will probably never go back to what it was, considering the number of starvation casualties expected.
I must drink coffee. It is the mind filler. It is the little shot that brings total caffeination. I will taste my coffee. I will allow it to pass through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the coffee has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Then I must drink more coffee. It is the mind filler...
It just means that the environment changed, and therefore the definition of who is "weak".
There are still hereditary differences in people that have an effect on the number of offspring they're likely to have (e.g., intelligence is for a large part hereditary, more intelligent people are more likely to be highly educated, and birth rate is low for the highly educated in all rich countries), so evolution continues.
Without business, vaccinations wouldn't have been mass produced, you wouldn't be able to buy a Beethoven CD, and the Internet would have been something for universities and the military, not the general public.
What was this fool trying to prove? He allowed direct SSH access to the machine! Of course someone is going to hack it!
Nothing natural about it. Most remotely accessible stuff (like web servers) runs as a non privileged user. That means that someone who hacks into your web server cannot do anything serious... unless there is also a root exploit! It's the other half of breaking in.
Once upon a time, someone sniffed one of my users' passwords (it was just a student's box on a student network, with some friends that had accounts), when that user was using POP3 to collect his email. He logged in, used an exploit for vixie cron, and had root! Yes, I did learn from that...
Anti-patent, you're probably right, but anti-copyright? That's the basis for the GPL, and many people here author software and like to have rights over it. I think you're confusing anti-RIAA/MPAA with anti-copyright.
Actually:
Heaven: French cooks, English police, German engineers, Italian lovers, Swiss bankers
Hell: English cooks, German police, French engineers, Swiss lovers, Italian bankers
(yours is of course a strict subset, but I do like the last two :-))
Personally I believe there is a difference between "RFID is the mark of the beast, and a sign that the end of time is here" and "RFID is evil", don't you?
The Pope is the boss of the Roman Catholics. A lot of Christians would be offended if you called him their central authority. Just FYI :-)
Of course you should always check server side. But that doesn't mean that you can't check client side as well to have a nicer user interface.
C) Get far more servers.
Another bug tracking tool to consider is Mantis. We use it in our product to track a large number of small issues that the client is constantly coming up with; we think it works well.
However, it's quite possible that it's also too complicated for your needs. I like the suggestion of a simple email address as a public interface; perhaps just install Mediawiki for yourself so you can store everything in it? I like wikis for keeping track of simple stuff.
That one is a hoax. When you upload a video to Google Video, you get to choose which countries you want to exclude from viewing it (say, for copyright reasons). Whoever uploaded that video of an explosion, supposedly in Iraq, chose to exclude only the US. End of story.
I know that BitTorrent was created to solve a distribution problem, and has plenty of legal uses. The cliche example is Linux CDs. Distributors can cut down on bandwidth use by letting the downloaders share among themselves. It's rather unfair that BT is mostly known for its widespread copyright infringement use nowadays.
However, when I think of a "BT community", I don't think of downloading a Linux CD from Redhat's tracker found on Redhat's website. I think of people swapping torrents to lots of huge files they found, almost all infringing. Face it, if I'm going to download a Linux ISO, I'd go to the distro's site and get the distro's official torrent, I don't download it because I happen to spot a link to it on Torrentspy.
So my main question is - is there really a substantial legit "BT community"?
Yes, that sort of thing. :-) And we couldn't resist trying to cheat...
We were players, we used to also have an "illegal" wizard character, but it got banned. We knew someone else from our uni had one, and hadn't used it for a year... login as Guest, send one mail saying "Hi, I'm Cobra, I want to code again but forgot my password, could you set it to 'sven'?" was all it took... then we went to a meeting in England, and while we were in a taxi with some admins who had picked us up from the station, they asked something like "Do you know if the Cobra who's logged in recently is the real one? Because we've got someone else claiming that _he_ is Cobra and his wizard was stolen..." Managed to bluff our way out. Years later we gave the account to someone else, who didn't know the history, and it happened some months later that the real Cobra was on the computer next to his when he logged in, and went ballistic... Fun times.
Or make an item that you can move into someone's inventory; it did something like 'add_action("", "funcname", 1)', which meant that each and every command that person did (and wasn't handled by the room object) would be passed through funcname() (executing with his permissions), and if that function returned false, the MUD would look at the next item in the inventory to see if that item perhaps implemented the command, so the person would never notice anything odd. So we'd move an item into an admin's inventory that added a line to the serialized savefile of another admin (changing his password), then destructed itself. We didn't login as the admin (too obvious), but we did have ftp access to absolutely everything... we changed the then Law admin (who annoyed a lot of people) into a lvl 16 playerkiller _player_ (attackable by almost everyone) and removed all traces of what we did. Admin died rather quickly after he logged in, utterly confused.
But it does make the code I write today more secure than most people's :-)
That was one of the coolest things of MUDs (for youngster, the text-based MMORPGs of days gone by, though some still exist): in most of them, once you reached a high enough level, you could join the programming team and create your own new areas for the game. I learned more practical coding skills from nights of hacking LPC than from my computer science study.
Designing new areas would be quite the cool endgame for WoW lvl 60s. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that it takes too much skill and training these days to create good enough content for games like that.
That's not my view at all.
As I understand it, FOIA requests of this sort usually mean that you'd receive an electronic list in electronic form; or printed out, if needed. But there is an explicite exception for lists of mail addresses; they are also freely available, but need to be copied by hand. That way, advertizers are discouraged from getting a bunch of these lists to send ads to. The city wanted to protect email adresses in the same way, to prevent spam. That sounds very reasonable to me. But the kid won because that wasn't wat the law literally said.
I don't think it says anything at all about whether the mayor is actually guilty of what he's accused of or not.
I was reading about a few things lately, like the coming peak oil and the fact that we do not have enough resource on earth to support the way we live. So I figured, fuck earth. Let's go.
Yes, because outer space is known for its wealth of usable, reachable resources...
Moore's law is about the number of transistors on a chip. It states nothing at all about speed.
But I don't quite follow. The grandparent poster was skeptical about the value of flexible armor over parts that should never bend. If your shin is bending significantly, your shin's probably broken.
Close your left hand over your right lower arm. Now turn move your hand left and right, up and down, flex the muscles... that thing moves a lot. The shin likewise has muscles and two bones in it. Apparently the sporters like this flexible thing better than rigid protectors, so it seems to help.
Why the poster calls this "body armor" i'm not sure though, according to TFA this is purely about shin and arm protection, the areas that get into contact with the sticks during slalom skiing.
Bingo, exactly what I thought but didn't know how to express succintly.
(No, I didn't sleep on that, I'm just reading this article a day late)