Most of the time, the answer will be that changing ISPs while keeping the same level of service costs six figures because the user's current ISP holds a geographic monopoly in the area. "Don't like our cable modem service? Tough s***. We're the only broadband provider in town."
what your static IP address is
Sometimes, a static IP costs six figures because the user's current ISP doesn't provide one to any non-corporate customer.
Additionally, this would be a good time to sensibly implement some things that have been kludged onto SMTP (mandate PGP, intelligent attachment capability, html formatting etc)
My problem with PGP: how do I get into the web of trust if I don't know anybody who uses PGP?
(Any address that has sent three non-spams and no spams is added to a whitelist)
Yeah. That scales. Brilliant.
Because Slashdot strips the sarcasm tag, I have to ass-u-me that you're using a sarcastic tone. Fact is that searching an index built as a balanced search tree (such as a red-black tree or B+ tree) is O(log n), which means that to double the time it takes to look up a name in a whitelist, you'd have to square the number of entries in the whitelist. A hash table makes it even faster by letting the program skip the first 10 or so iterations of binary search. A good database such as PostgreSQL should take care of this for you. Could you explain how you think dietz's solution doesn't scale?
Or perhaps you aren't using sarcasm and are just agreeing.
If only a "select few" are available on the web, why are they saying that the rest will be available on the internet?
Your use of verb tense (which I have highlighted) implies that you're willing to accept the hypothesis that the USDOJ is looking for a place to host all the comments. Some comments are already published; others soon will be published on the Web.
You want to know what a game is like? Play a downloadable or cover disk demo, or a friend's copy (local laws allowing, hey ho). Wait until it reaches budget
By "reaches budget" I assume that you refer to a reduction in the price of a genuine copy of a game as demand falls off. How are you sure that a particular game will reach budget within the next few years? It won't if it's recalled and destroyed, sending the price upwards of $200 per genuine copy. This happened with a popular game called Tetyais, an independent Tetris clone for NES by Tengen that supported side-by-side simultaneous play. To learn more about the incident, start at Google. (The letter says 'ya' in Russian.) It also happened with several Super NES role-playing games by Squaresoft, but not because of any lawsuits.
although the load times for single-cartridge hosting are somewhat excessive.
A GBA multiboot image that's less than 64 KB will take less than fifteen seconds to copy over the cable even in slow transfer mode, and a good developer can fit a lot into 64 KB (other than perhaps sampled audio). Heck, the entire Super Mario Bros. 1 was only 40 KB. The fact that Bomberman's multiboot image is so damn big is a flaw in the program design. Period.
When did the strong spirit of these beautiful ideas become so meaningless?
It's not legally binding. Period. And if it's not legally binding, the courts have the power to ignore it. (Heck, they routinely ignore even binding laws such as 17 USC 117 and the DMCA's exemption for some reverse engineering.)
Yeah, there are so few CD playing applications out there... I'm sure they all check for registerd drivers...
CD players maybe not, but future versions of Windows Media Player will. And future CDs will force Windows Media Player because the CD-ROM can't recognize the broken Red Book tracks.
And everyone uses Windows...
What other OS is available pre-installed on x86 based machines available at Best Buy stores?
*Blink* Who are you?
I am Fuck. Fuck of the Mountain. No seriously, I'm Damian Yerrick, a student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Ctrl-Alt-Esc is the way I usually shut down my MS applications for godsake.
You're confusing the Mac OS kill-current-app command (Cmd+Option+Esc) with the Windows task-manager command (Ctrl+Alt+Del). Ctrl+Alt+Esc in Windows ME just opens the Start menu, the same as Ctrl+Esc.
Can this be easily ported to Mac OS X? I have no idea about the technical aspects of that, but I see it will run on BSDs
No. Mac OS X and FreeBSD use completely different GUI architectures. Mac OS X uses Quartz/Aqua, whereas FreeBSD uses X11/KDE. Unless you can get rootless X on top of Aqua and you can make amor md2 run in rootless X, the answer is no.
Reverse engineering is supposedly covered under Fair Use, right?
In fact, the letter of the DMCA (17 USC 1201(f)) makes an exception to its anti-circumvention provisions for acts of reverse engineering "necessary to achieve interoperability." (The reasoning in the 2600 case was flawed, and it's in appeals right now.)
If you use a referrer filter (such as WebWasher), then the links work fine.
Perhaps on GameFAQs, right now, they might, but in the future, they might adopt the behavior I've seen on other sites such that it won't give you the page unless a Referer: header exists and is valid. Don't believe me? Try typing in the URL of a picture on an 8m.com member's web site.
The GBA has a JPEG viewer library. You're free to construct your own slide-show program and either burn it to a flash cartridge or send it over the link cable. See gbadev for more details.
For the uninitiated, the GameBoy Advance lacks the internal backlight present in the older non-advance GameBoys.
The Game Boy didn't have a backlight. The colored-case Game Boys didn't have a backlight. The Game Boy Pocket didn't have a backlight. The Game Boy Color didn't have a backlight. The only backlit Game Boy systems were the Game Boy Light (released only in Japan, not in America or Europe) and the Super Game Boy (which required a Super NES and a TV and did not have a link port unless you got the rev.2 model, which again was sold only in Japan). You're confusing the Game Boy Color with the Sega Game Gear.
Now that the GBA is backlit, and Sonic the Hedgehog is appearing on GBA, does that make it a Game Gear Advance?
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ObTopic: The light improves the Golden Sun experience tremendously.
A wild guess here, but maybe [this article is not in the Developers section] because it is under the Java section?
No, it's under the Java topic, and topics != sections. I would send further discussion (this is already off-topic) to Meta Slashdot Discussion, but according to the hidden sid index, it no longer exists.
.NET will probably be much harder to code by hand than java, or VS.NET would not be so necessary.
It shouldn't be any harder. You don't need an IDE to write in the Java language for the J2SE platform, but Sun still provides a free(beer) IDE that includes a form designer. Likewise, you don't need an IDE to write in the C# language for the.NET platform, but M$ still provides an expensive IDE that includes a form designer. Besides, the languages are so similar that it may even be possible to take simple business logic (not I/O) written in one language and simply recompile it in the other language.
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why you can't change to competent ISP
Most of the time, the answer will be that changing ISPs while keeping the same level of service costs six figures because the user's current ISP holds a geographic monopoly in the area. "Don't like our cable modem service? Tough s***. We're the only broadband provider in town."
what your static IP address is
Sometimes, a static IP costs six figures because the user's current ISP doesn't provide one to any non-corporate customer.
Why not require everyone that sends mail to you to use pgp?
So how do I get my public key into the web of trust if I don't personally know anybody else who uses PGP?
Additionally, this would be a good time to sensibly implement some things that have been kludged onto SMTP (mandate PGP, intelligent attachment capability, html formatting etc)
My problem with PGP: how do I get into the web of trust if I don't know anybody who uses PGP?
[Autoresponding messages that don't use a subject keyword] works, since spam houses never read their incoming mail, so they won't use the backdoor.
Yes they do. Replying to spam confirms that your account exists, which lets spammers think that they can use even more of your bandwidth.
(Any address that has sent three non-spams and no spams is added to a whitelist)
Yeah. That scales. Brilliant.Because Slashdot strips the sarcasm tag, I have to ass-u-me that you're using a sarcastic tone. Fact is that searching an index built as a balanced search tree (such as a red-black tree or B+ tree) is O(log n), which means that to double the time it takes to look up a name in a whitelist, you'd have to square the number of entries in the whitelist. A hash table makes it even faster by letting the program skip the first 10 or so iterations of binary search. A good database such as PostgreSQL should take care of this for you. Could you explain how you think dietz's solution doesn't scale?
Or perhaps you aren't using sarcasm and are just agreeing.
If an ISP doesn't fulfil your specific needs, or has policies you disagree with, then there is nothing preventing you from using a different one.
If your ISP is the only one that serves your geographical area, then switching to a different ISP can cost upwards of six figures.
Yes. For details, see my other comment.
Meat product? I thought we were talking about SPAM?
SPAM® luncheon meat is a meat product. From SPAM Facts:"Pork shoulder meat" has the same characteristics as ham meat.
Your use of verb tense (which I have highlighted) implies that you're willing to accept the hypothesis that the USDOJ is looking for a place to host all the comments. Some comments are already published; others soon will be published on the Web.
You want to know what a game is like? Play a downloadable or cover disk demo, or a friend's copy (local laws allowing, hey ho). Wait until it reaches budget
By "reaches budget" I assume that you refer to a reduction in the price of a genuine copy of a game as demand falls off. How are you sure that a particular game will reach budget within the next few years? It won't if it's recalled and destroyed, sending the price upwards of $200 per genuine copy. This happened with a popular game called Tetyais, an independent Tetris clone for NES by Tengen that supported side-by-side simultaneous play. To learn more about the incident, start at Google. (The letter says 'ya' in Russian.) It also happened with several Super NES role-playing games by Squaresoft, but not because of any lawsuits.
A GBA multiboot image that's less than 64 KB will take less than fifteen seconds to copy over the cable even in slow transfer mode, and a good developer can fit a lot into 64 KB (other than perhaps sampled audio). Heck, the entire Super Mario Bros. 1 was only 40 KB. The fact that Bomberman's multiboot image is so damn big is a flaw in the program design. Period.
It's not legally binding. Period. And if it's not legally binding, the courts have the power to ignore it. (Heck, they routinely ignore even binding laws such as 17 USC 117 and the DMCA's exemption for some reverse engineering.)
Yeah, there are so few CD playing applications out there... I'm sure they all check for registerd drivers...
CD players maybe not, but future versions of Windows Media Player will. And future CDs will force Windows Media Player because the CD-ROM can't recognize the broken Red Book tracks.
And everyone uses Windows...
What other OS is available pre-installed on x86 based machines available at Best Buy stores?
*Blink* Who are you?
I am Fuck. Fuck of the Mountain. No seriously, I'm Damian Yerrick, a student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Ctrl-Alt-Esc is the way I usually shut down my MS applications for godsake.
You're confusing the Mac OS kill-current-app command (Cmd+Option+Esc) with the Windows task-manager command (Ctrl+Alt+Del). Ctrl+Alt+Esc in Windows ME just opens the Start menu, the same as Ctrl+Esc.
Can this be easily ported to Mac OS X? I have no idea about the technical aspects of that, but I see it will run on BSDs
No. Mac OS X and FreeBSD use completely different GUI architectures. Mac OS X uses Quartz/Aqua, whereas FreeBSD uses X11/KDE. Unless you can get rootless X on top of Aqua and you can make amor md2 run in rootless X, the answer is no.
Reverse engineering is supposedly covered under Fair Use, right?
In fact, the letter of the DMCA (17 USC 1201(f)) makes an exception to its anti-circumvention provisions for acts of reverse engineering "necessary to achieve interoperability." (The reasoning in the 2600 case was flawed, and it's in appeals right now.)
So, will it be an "Open" marrage?
No, not "open". GNU is all about the word "free" as in they're "free" to break up at any time :-)
If you use a referrer filter (such as WebWasher), then the links work fine.
Perhaps on GameFAQs, right now, they might, but in the future, they might adopt the behavior I've seen on other sites such that it won't give you the page unless a Referer: header exists and is valid. Don't believe me? Try typing in the URL of a picture on an 8m.com member's web site.
they have gay pr0n for the GBA now?
The GBA has a JPEG viewer library. You're free to construct your own slide-show program and either burn it to a flash cartridge or send it over the link cable. See gbadev for more details.
For the uninitiated, the GameBoy Advance lacks the internal backlight present in the older non-advance GameBoys.
The Game Boy didn't have a backlight. The colored-case Game Boys didn't have a backlight. The Game Boy Pocket didn't have a backlight. The Game Boy Color didn't have a backlight. The only backlit Game Boy systems were the Game Boy Light (released only in Japan, not in America or Europe) and the Super Game Boy (which required a Super NES and a TV and did not have a link port unless you got the rev.2 model, which again was sold only in Japan). You're confusing the Game Boy Color with the Sega Game Gear.
Now that the GBA is backlit, and Sonic the Hedgehog is appearing on GBA, does that make it a Game Gear Advance?
GameFAQs is referer protected. Following a link from another site to a GameFAQs URL that does not end in "/", ".html", or ".asp" produces a server error. Try this link instead.
ObTopic: The light improves the Golden Sun experience tremendously.
A wild guess here, but maybe [this article is not in the Developers section] because it is under the Java section?
No, it's under the Java topic, and topics != sections. I would send further discussion (this is already off-topic) to Meta Slashdot Discussion, but according to the hidden sid index, it no longer exists.
I beg your pardon? Does someone hold the patent to "computer system that uses objects" too?
The title of a patent has no legal force. You must read the claims to understand the patent.
It shouldn't be any harder. You don't need an IDE to write in the Java language for the J2SE platform, but Sun still provides a free(beer) IDE that includes a form designer. Likewise, you don't need an IDE to write in the C# language for the .NET platform, but M$ still provides an expensive IDE that includes a form designer. Besides, the languages are so similar that it may even be possible to take simple business logic (not I/O) written in one language and simply recompile it in the other language.
Why not add a Javascript ticker-tape display to Slashdot so we can just watch the M$ virii/security-holes flash by like so many stock market reports?
Slashdot already exports an RSS feed of its stories. Just point an RSS ticker applet or script at the RSS feed and watch the stories scroll by.