I am not sure why even a server would need 24/7 access to its CD-ROM drives.
Perhaps not CD-ROM drives, but if it's a CD recorder in a backup server, on the other hand, I don't want to give any loser the ability to force the computer to make a coaster just by walking up and pushing eject. I also don't want any loser to step up, press eject, pocket the CD, take it home, load up what did get recorded properly, and read trade secrets.
Generally any important files would be copied to the hdd first.
In the old days, before multigigabyte hard drives became affordable, InfoTrac servers at public libraries had an array of CD-ROM drives.
Why on earth should someone help you with a problem, if the answer is on google or in a man page? These things are easily searchable.
Google is good for searching for something one knows the name of, but "how do i $foo" where the nouns and verbs in $foo have several synonyms may rule out a page because the newbie doesn't know the one synonym that was used in the canonical HOWTO.
How would a newbie go from "how do I get this video card to work on $distro" to a Google query that returns a solution in the first 20 hits? Please document your thought process. And how would a newbie even know how to operate Lynx (often the only installed web browser that will run when X11 won't) in order to get to Google?
More recently they put 32bit processors in the palm of your hand
Ironic that you use "palm". Palm had a 32-bit handheld before Nintendo did, but you correctly point out that GBA outsells any PDA platform unit-for-unit, if only because the GBA plus a game costs less than the magic $100 psychological price point.
It is a fact Nintendo squashes misfires such as as the virtual boy, superscopre, power pad
Power Pad may have been a misfire, but the idea behind it has rebounded tremendously since then. Had Konami developed for the Power Pad, the revolution might have come much sooner, possibly back when DDR was still a country.
If it looks fun, then buy a GameCube, some controllers, and Kart Fighter III. All the Kart Fighter playable characters have returned, and they're all playable except for Toad (which has become one of Peach's attacks) and Nokonoko (which is an enemy in the 1 player adventure mode).
Warning: avoid anything that looks like this. It's a fake.
Tim Berners-Lee invented HTTP in 1989... The W3C was formed in 1994.
Yet Tim BL is a prominent figure in W3C activity. Therefore, an organization for whom "the people that invented the web" work for set this standard. Your point?
Why should I have to replace my font tags and tables, that have worked absolutely well for *years*, with some new fangled technology that does the same thing?
It's less effort for you, the designer. If you change a style in CSS, it shows up across all pages that use that style. Font tags can't do that unless you're generating them server-side, such as with XSLT. CSS and structural markup also let you quickly specify styles for more than one medium.
It can handle tables, but what makes sense visually often doesn't make sense aurally. They're different mediums, and in different mediums, content should be presented differently.
s508 compliance it's only required if you're a federal government agency or contractor
Yet. In the United States at least, these non-discrimination requirements have a way of trickling down from government agencies to contractors to suppliers to any organization with more than n employees and involved in interstate commerce. In addition, it's hard for a business to justify not becoming a government contractor if a government considers making a deal with the business for some high volume of goods and services.
Its called RSS. Its a way of syndicating new items on a website.
I understand the basic principles behind RSS (Rich Site Summary), but in practice, advertising-sponsored sources find it harder to include a message from one's sponsor in highly structured content such as RSS than in semi-structured content such as HTML. RSS sources also eventually notice the problem of aggregators running an "update cycle" too often and running up the source's bandwidth bill. What are some practical solutions to these apparent problems?
you notice that the single space between two paragraphs is too narrow-- you want to widen it to express a logical jump, or a chronological one.
How does this look? Here's the HTML:
<p class="logicaljump">...</p>
and the CSS:
p.logicaljump { margin-top: 3em }
Then, whenever the author needs space for a logical jump before a paragraph, he can call on this class, and the site's accessibility technician can add, for example, an analogous audio gap to the same class's entry in the site's aural stylesheet.
I think you're making a cognitive claim, even there (about the cognitive relationship between structures and styles).
Structural markup involves making content and structure once and then making the presentation for each medium. In fact, the technology lets the designer reuse presentation information across documents. Authoring with presentational markup, on the other hand, would require redoing each document's structure for each medium; compared to structural markup, I find it a gross waste of effort.
If someone authoring HTML by hand wants to skip some whitespace, multiple Ps (or BRs) is an entirely natural and reasonable way to do it.
An even better way: find out why, structurally, the designer wants to add whitespace between elements, and then just put a margin-top: 3em instruction in the style of whatever structural element needs whitespace before it. Then, in the aural stylesheet, set it off with something like margin-top: 3sec (not real code). And if the designer needs to change how much whitespace a particular structure gets, he can change it in one place and have the change show up for all instances of that structure.
How would it be possible to make a line plot of a stock price over time accessible to those who cannot view images? It would be possible to provide the stock price as a table, but spotting trends from a table of textual data read aloud is not especially feasible for the user. Spotting the significant trends on the server is potentially an AI-complete problem.
Similarly, many classic video games are being re-released as web games or cell phone games.
When blocking a fair use defense to distributing abandonware, it's the copyright owner's responsibility to show a preponderance of evidence that the work has a potential market or value. It'd be pretty difficult for the copyright owner to prove this without public documentation of a re-release plan, and any responsible distributor of abandonware would cease and desist upon notification of such a plan.
The difference with Disney is that Disney routinely puts home video titles back in print within ten years, and the "vault" TV commercials that I've seen usually have a disclaimer to such an effect.
There have been occasional suggestions that anything that goes out of production (or support, for computers) for a year becomes public domain.
Not exactly "public domain" per se, but still possibly fair use under 17 USC 107. It wouldn't be completely inconceivable to have a judge rule that if a copyright owner takes a work out of print, that counts as an admission of a lack of "potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." Though copying an out-of-print work without authorization loses on fair use factors 2 and 3, it can still win on 1 and the doubly-important 4.
Toaplan's Zero Wing had the "All your base" cut scene only in the Sega Genesis console port. Either the original coin-op didn't have it, or MAME has some major bugs in its emulation of Toaplan hardware.
OK, I got a little mixed up. I made the mistake of mentioning a game that is a kids' RPG but is still an RPG nonetheless. What exactly are "adult themed" video games, other than games featuring porn and/or gore?
Perhaps make the next gameboy a truly excellent piece of engineering and marketing without such obvious ommissions as a backlight or a headphone jacket?
Where would you have put a headphone jack on the SP case?
Perhaps realize that a fair proportion of gameboy owners are adults and make more adult type games for it?
By "adult type games", do you refer to the types of games endemic of PCs? First-person shooters have been made for the GBA (see Dark Arena, Wolfenstein, Doom, Serious Sam, 007, etc). Real-time tactical sims wouldn't work well because of lack of controller buttons (even the PS2 has the same problem), but Advance Wars and other turn-based war games work well. There are even decent RPGs such as Golden Sun and Pokemon Ruby, but anything massively multiplayer would in theory require a wireless Internet access subscription and a game subscription, and most GBA owners can't afford that. Or by "adult" do you refer to explicit sexual themes?
Extend the battery life by realising adults can hold a heavier device then a 8yr old
Though adults can hold a heavier device, this doesn't mean they want to. Look at mobile phones for adults: they've still gone in the direction of smaller. And if you really want to add weight to add battery life, larger batteries are available for both cellphones and the GBA SP.
Though the PS2 barely outsells the GBA (by 500 units), consider that a considerable number of those 13,000 GameCube systems are in GBA player bundles, and you see that Nintendo's most popular current platform is at least tied with Sony's.
The "use it or lose it" mentality is not nearly as strong with patents under U.S. law as with trademarks under U.S. law, but there does exist the doctrine of laches.
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if the person has phsyical access to the system, then they might as well be root.
I wouldn't always assume this. Is there a "second rule of security" that accounts for the restrictions placed on users of computers in Internet cafes?
Physical access implies authorization.
Try telling that to the administrator of the computer lab at your local public library.
I am not sure why even a server would need 24/7 access to its CD-ROM drives.
Perhaps not CD-ROM drives, but if it's a CD recorder in a backup server, on the other hand, I don't want to give any loser the ability to force the computer to make a coaster just by walking up and pushing eject. I also don't want any loser to step up, press eject, pocket the CD, take it home, load up what did get recorded properly, and read trade secrets.
Generally any important files would be copied to the hdd first.
In the old days, before multigigabyte hard drives became affordable, InfoTrac servers at public libraries had an array of CD-ROM drives.
Why on earth should someone help you with a problem, if the answer is on google or in a man page? These things are easily searchable.
Google is good for searching for something one knows the name of, but "how do i $foo" where the nouns and verbs in $foo have several synonyms may rule out a page because the newbie doesn't know the one synonym that was used in the canonical HOWTO.
How would a newbie go from "how do I get this video card to work on $distro" to a Google query that returns a solution in the first 20 hits? Please document your thought process. And how would a newbie even know how to operate Lynx (often the only installed web browser that will run when X11 won't) in order to get to Google?
More recently they put 32bit processors in the palm of your hand
Ironic that you use "palm". Palm had a 32-bit handheld before Nintendo did, but you correctly point out that GBA outsells any PDA platform unit-for-unit, if only because the GBA plus a game costs less than the magic $100 psychological price point.
It is a fact Nintendo squashes misfires such as as the virtual boy, superscopre, power pad
Power Pad may have been a misfire, but the idea behind it has rebounded tremendously since then. Had Konami developed for the Power Pad, the revolution might have come much sooner, possibly back when DDR was still a country.
If it looks fun, then buy a GameCube, some controllers, and Kart Fighter III . All the Kart Fighter playable characters have returned, and they're all playable except for Toad (which has become one of Peach's attacks) and Nokonoko (which is an enemy in the 1 player adventure mode).
Warning: avoid anything that looks like this. It's a fake.
Tim Berners-Lee invented HTTP in 1989 ... The W3C was formed in 1994.
Yet Tim BL is a prominent figure in W3C activity. Therefore, an organization for whom "the people that invented the web" work for set this standard. Your point?
If the web designer is creating the site using tools that produce inaccessible markup, why is the designer using a broken tool.
Because no suitable, mature tool exists, and web designers typically aren't GUI application programmers.
Don't blame the tool, blame the web designer - he should know better.
Blame the web designer for not spending years learning a whole new environment and set of paradigms (GUI programming instead of web development)?
Why should I have to replace my font tags and tables, that have worked absolutely well for *years*, with some new fangled technology that does the same thing?
It's less effort for you, the designer. If you change a style in CSS, it shows up across all pages that use that style. Font tags can't do that unless you're generating them server-side, such as with XSLT. CSS and structural markup also let you quickly specify styles for more than one medium.
*Why* can't blind reading software handle tables, hmm?
It can handle tables, but what makes sense visually often doesn't make sense aurally. They're different mediums, and in different mediums, content should be presented differently.
s508 compliance it's only required if you're a federal government agency or contractor
Yet. In the United States at least, these non-discrimination requirements have a way of trickling down from government agencies to contractors to suppliers to any organization with more than n employees and involved in interstate commerce. In addition, it's hard for a business to justify not becoming a government contractor if a government considers making a deal with the business for some high volume of goods and services.
Its called RSS. Its a way of syndicating new items on a website.
I understand the basic principles behind RSS (Rich Site Summary), but in practice, advertising-sponsored sources find it harder to include a message from one's sponsor in highly structured content such as RSS than in semi-structured content such as HTML. RSS sources also eventually notice the problem of aggregators running an "update cycle" too often and running up the source's bandwidth bill. What are some practical solutions to these apparent problems?
you notice that the single space between two paragraphs is too narrow-- you want to widen it to express a logical jump, or a chronological one.
How does this look? Here's the HTML:
and the CSS:
Then, whenever the author needs space for a logical jump before a paragraph, he can call on this class, and the site's accessibility technician can add, for example, an analogous audio gap to the same class's entry in the site's aural stylesheet.
I think you're making a cognitive claim, even there (about the cognitive relationship between structures and styles).
Structural markup involves making content and structure once and then making the presentation for each medium. In fact, the technology lets the designer reuse presentation information across documents. Authoring with presentational markup, on the other hand, would require redoing each document's structure for each medium; compared to structural markup, I find it a gross waste of effort.
If someone authoring HTML by hand wants to skip some whitespace, multiple Ps (or BRs) is an entirely natural and reasonable way to do it.
An even better way: find out why, structurally, the designer wants to add whitespace between elements, and then just put a margin-top: 3em instruction in the style of whatever structural element needs whitespace before it. Then, in the aural stylesheet, set it off with something like margin-top: 3sec (not real code). And if the designer needs to change how much whitespace a particular structure gets, he can change it in one place and have the change show up for all instances of that structure.
How would it be possible to make a line plot of a stock price over time accessible to those who cannot view images? It would be possible to provide the stock price as a table, but spotting trends from a table of textual data read aloud is not especially feasible for the user. Spotting the significant trends on the server is potentially an AI-complete problem.
Similarly, many classic video games are being re-released as web games or cell phone games.
When blocking a fair use defense to distributing abandonware, it's the copyright owner's responsibility to show a preponderance of evidence that the work has a potential market or value. It'd be pretty difficult for the copyright owner to prove this without public documentation of a re-release plan, and any responsible distributor of abandonware would cease and desist upon notification of such a plan.
The difference with Disney is that Disney routinely puts home video titles back in print within ten years, and the "vault" TV commercials that I've seen usually have a disclaimer to such an effect.
Nothing you read on Slashdot is legal advice.
There have been occasional suggestions that anything that goes out of production (or support, for computers) for a year becomes public domain.
Not exactly "public domain" per se, but still possibly fair use under 17 USC 107. It wouldn't be completely inconceivable to have a judge rule that if a copyright owner takes a work out of print, that counts as an admission of a lack of "potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." Though copying an out-of-print work without authorization loses on fair use factors 2 and 3, it can still win on 1 and the doubly-important 4.
Toaplan's Zero Wing had the "All your base" cut scene only in the Sega Genesis console port. Either the original coin-op didn't have it, or MAME has some major bugs in its emulation of Toaplan hardware.
OK, I got a little mixed up. I made the mistake of mentioning a game that is a kids' RPG but is still an RPG nonetheless. What exactly are "adult themed" video games, other than games featuring porn and/or gore?
There is probably a little known ordinance against the Son of God selling smutty comics.
I don't think enough End Times events have occurred to confirm Mr. Castillo as the Son of God.
Seriously, the name "Jesus" (hay-SOOS) is roughly Spanish for "Joshua".
to which TWO consenting adults are you referring?
I assume the two adults in this case are the person who sells the magazine and the person who buys a magazine.
A PS2 in a home doesn't preclude a GameCube in the same space.
Correct theoretically, but I grew up in the working class, and having both a PS2 and a GameCube does preclude feeding one's kids for a couple weeks.
Perhaps make the next gameboy a truly excellent piece of engineering and marketing without such obvious ommissions as a backlight or a headphone jacket?
Where would you have put a headphone jack on the SP case?
Perhaps realize that a fair proportion of gameboy owners are adults and make more adult type games for it?
By "adult type games", do you refer to the types of games endemic of PCs? First-person shooters have been made for the GBA (see Dark Arena, Wolfenstein, Doom, Serious Sam, 007, etc). Real-time tactical sims wouldn't work well because of lack of controller buttons (even the PS2 has the same problem), but Advance Wars and other turn-based war games work well. There are even decent RPGs such as Golden Sun and Pokemon Ruby, but anything massively multiplayer would in theory require a wireless Internet access subscription and a game subscription, and most GBA owners can't afford that. Or by "adult" do you refer to explicit sexual themes?
Extend the battery life by realising adults can hold a heavier device then a 8yr old
Though adults can hold a heavier device, this doesn't mean they want to. Look at mobile phones for adults: they've still gone in the direction of smaller. And if you really want to add weight to add battery life, larger batteries are available for both cellphones and the GBA SP.
and can pay more for both hardware and software?
That's called a "laptop."
Though the PS2 barely outsells the GBA (by 500 units), consider that a considerable number of those 13,000 GameCube systems are in GBA player bundles, and you see that Nintendo's most popular current platform is at least tied with Sony's.
It's most likely a typo for "psyched", which the American Heritage dictionary defines as "excite[d] emotionally".
The "use it or lose it" mentality is not nearly as strong with patents under U.S. law as with trademarks under U.S. law, but there does exist the doctrine of laches.