I remember, back in the days of C64, when many games (yay MicroProse!) came with full-blown keyboard overlays. Ahhh MicroProse. The good old days of a 2 floppy game coming with a 200 page manual to help put you in the mood.
Sid Meier, if on the off chance you're reading this, when you're done with Civ 3, WE WANT COVERT ACTION 2!
The original point of these transliterations was to avoid text-search engines from finding keywords; a scanner might be looking for "porn" but wouldn't care about 'p0rn', which a human could probably figure out. When it was reprogrammed to find 'p0rn' they changed it to 'pr0n.' And so on.
Like so many things, it was then siezed upon by the masses, and used to mock them by the Intelligentsia. Now, of course, that mocking use is siezed upon by the masses, and the Intelligentsia need to find something else to use.
Explain first that what these companies were doing, especially the ROT-13 bit, is exactly like taking a document and printing it in pig latin. Then you can explain the similarities. You'll see the lightbulb go off.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. If a Microsoft License Inspector is auditing your site, and he leaves, but leaves his briefcase behind, then RUN!
- IIRC copyright law states that authors only retain copyright for something like 100 years
Actually, that length of time gets extended every time Mickey Mouse is about to lose copyright. That's been three or four times, so far, the most recent being, I belive, the Sonny Bono Copyright Extention Act.
Yes, but usually the background still maintains a distinctly cartoony look. Not so in the HBND. The dichotomy is too jarring, and breaks you out of the world the film is trying to create.
Yup. I remember when IRIX boxes were used for things like high-load webservers and the like. I remember when AIX was preferred for Oracle. Now it's all Solaris and Linux.
A renderfarm is just a whack of machines which accept work items from a master scheduler. You submit a job to the schedule, and a while later, an image file winds up in a directory somewhere. Doesn't even need to be fanicer than an NFS share called 'input,' an NFS share called 'output' and a script running on each machine that grabs and removes the next item from input, renders it, and saves the result to output.
This is exactly what ruined The Hunchback Of Notre Dame for me; you could tell exactly what was computer generated (everything but the main characters) and what wasn't (the main characters.) Or, at least, everything but the main characters was high res, high detail, well designed, and fairly realistic looking, which the characters were standard 2d 'four color' cel drawings.
That would include, therefore, your teenage daughter when she goes off to college.
Oh, wait, just because she's no longer under your direct control/supervision/whatever, you still have an interest? Ahhhh.
Well, all three questions are answered with 'depends on who you're coloing with, and what you're willing to pay for' but I'll go through all three just the same.
1: Usually by the colo people; at Exodus, they tell us to export whatever we want backed up to an NFS share over a private internal network (requires a second NIC). But, you could always INSTALL A TAPE DRIVE! They'll rotate tapes for you if you want.
2: What happens if some hardware breaks in your server room? You wander over and fix it. This usually means you pick a colo near by.
3: You ARE using server grade hardware, with support for remote consoles, such as Sun, Dell or Compaq, yes? But that having been said, what kind of config changes would you be making to a live, production server that might cause it not to boot?
They are not giving it away for free. The implied default contract is that it is not available for free. Yet you are taking it without giving anything in return.
By your logic, I could go loot your house, because I've never heard you tell me not to, and I certainly never made an agreement with you, or your government for that matter (I'm assuming you're American; I'm Canadian) that I wouldn't.
Then you're defrauding them; they are, in effect, saying 'anybody can have this music in exchange for twenty of these little green pieces of paper.' You are receiving the music, but are not completing the agreement and handing them twenty little green pieces of paper in exchange. This might not be 'theft,' but it is criminal, in that you are taking without giving back, when the agreement WAS NOT that you would recieve with no expectation of recompense.
Two years ago, they started building Windows to use various parts of Internet Explorer.
Now, iexplore.exe is really just an ActiveX container that loads certain parts of Windows in a certain way; the HTML engine, JavaScript engine and what not are well and truly part of the OS, with iexplore.exe just giving you a handy way to use them.
So sure, you can take iexplore.exe out, and Internet Explorer is gone.
For everybody saying that they use VNC to admin Win2k, I ask WHY? Almost everything you need to do you can do through computer management; if you actually need a remote desktop, use Terminal Services (In Server, Adv Server and Datacenter Server) in Remote Control mode; it's much much faster than VNC will ever be. There's even TSAC which runs in a web page (activeX, admittedly).
I remember reading somewhere that Square has already Apologized (in the Japanese meaning of the word) to stockholders, and has promised that Square will never make another movie again.
Characterized, BTW, according to the expanded universe (i.e. books and stuff) as having an extra joint in the pinkie finger, and an interesting circulatory system which would result in hexagonal shaped blotches when doing things like blushing, or flushing in anger.
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I remember, back in the days of C64, when many games (yay MicroProse!) came with full-blown keyboard overlays. Ahhh MicroProse. The good old days of a 2 floppy game coming with a 200 page manual to help put you in the mood. Sid Meier, if on the off chance you're reading this, when you're done with Civ 3, WE WANT COVERT ACTION 2!
Yes, I know, and that's kinda my point. It's not encryption, it's obfuscation.
The original point of these transliterations was to avoid text-search engines from finding keywords; a scanner might be looking for "porn" but wouldn't care about 'p0rn', which a human could probably figure out. When it was reprogrammed to find 'p0rn' they changed it to 'pr0n.' And so on. Like so many things, it was then siezed upon by the masses, and used to mock them by the Intelligentsia. Now, of course, that mocking use is siezed upon by the masses, and the Intelligentsia need to find something else to use.
Explain first that what these companies were doing, especially the ROT-13 bit, is exactly like taking a document and printing it in pig latin. Then you can explain the similarities. You'll see the lightbulb go off.
Probably somebody using frontpage to try to open your site and deface things.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. If a Microsoft License Inspector is auditing your site, and he leaves, but leaves his briefcase behind, then RUN!
Well, you could always rip and reburn the CD.
Yes, but usually the background still maintains a distinctly cartoony look. Not so in the HBND. The dichotomy is too jarring, and breaks you out of the world the film is trying to create.
A renderfarm is just a whack of machines which accept work items from a master scheduler. You submit a job to the schedule, and a while later, an image file winds up in a directory somewhere. Doesn't even need to be fanicer than an NFS share called 'input,' an NFS share called 'output' and a script running on each machine that grabs and removes the next item from input, renders it, and saves the result to output.
This is exactly what ruined The Hunchback Of Notre Dame for me; you could tell exactly what was computer generated (everything but the main characters) and what wasn't (the main characters.) Or, at least, everything but the main characters was high res, high detail, well designed, and fairly realistic looking, which the characters were standard 2d 'four color' cel drawings.
That would include, therefore, your teenage daughter when she goes off to college. Oh, wait, just because she's no longer under your direct control/supervision/whatever, you still have an interest? Ahhhh.
Square has promised the shareholders that they will never FINANCE a movie again. They'll gladly make them if somebody else is signing the cheques. :-)
Well, all three questions are answered with 'depends on who you're coloing with, and what you're willing to pay for' but I'll go through all three just the same. 1: Usually by the colo people; at Exodus, they tell us to export whatever we want backed up to an NFS share over a private internal network (requires a second NIC). But, you could always INSTALL A TAPE DRIVE! They'll rotate tapes for you if you want. 2: What happens if some hardware breaks in your server room? You wander over and fix it. This usually means you pick a colo near by. 3: You ARE using server grade hardware, with support for remote consoles, such as Sun, Dell or Compaq, yes? But that having been said, what kind of config changes would you be making to a live, production server that might cause it not to boot?
They are not giving it away for free. The implied default contract is that it is not available for free. Yet you are taking it without giving anything in return. By your logic, I could go loot your house, because I've never heard you tell me not to, and I certainly never made an agreement with you, or your government for that matter (I'm assuming you're American; I'm Canadian) that I wouldn't.
Then you're defrauding them; they are, in effect, saying 'anybody can have this music in exchange for twenty of these little green pieces of paper.' You are receiving the music, but are not completing the agreement and handing them twenty little green pieces of paper in exchange. This might not be 'theft,' but it is criminal, in that you are taking without giving back, when the agreement WAS NOT that you would recieve with no expectation of recompense.
Two years ago, they started building Windows to use various parts of Internet Explorer. Now, iexplore.exe is really just an ActiveX container that loads certain parts of Windows in a certain way; the HTML engine, JavaScript engine and what not are well and truly part of the OS, with iexplore.exe just giving you a handy way to use them. So sure, you can take iexplore.exe out, and Internet Explorer is gone.
For everybody saying that they use VNC to admin Win2k, I ask WHY? Almost everything you need to do you can do through computer management; if you actually need a remote desktop, use Terminal Services (In Server, Adv Server and Datacenter Server) in Remote Control mode; it's much much faster than VNC will ever be. There's even TSAC which runs in a web page (activeX, admittedly).
Let me explain this even slower: HE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ON EARTH AT ALL.
I remember reading somewhere that Square has already Apologized (in the Japanese meaning of the word) to stockholders, and has promised that Square will never make another movie again.
Characterized, BTW, according to the expanded universe (i.e. books and stuff) as having an extra joint in the pinkie finger, and an interesting circulatory system which would result in hexagonal shaped blotches when doing things like blushing, or flushing in anger.
No no, according to TOS, Cochrane was FROM Alpha Centauri; he was a Centaurian.