Java is one thing that would be good to have tied closely to the core of the operating system - whatever benefit in speed you can gain from a program language definitely deserves its place.
By hiding Nazi artifacts you act like you would just like to erase that part of history. Sure, I would to, but it happened, and no matter how far you try to run from it you can't change the past.
I'm personally fascinated by the Nazi era. An entire nation was brainwashed to believe that the source of all of their problems lay in the Jewish religion, and they were taught to mercilessly persecute Jews without question. How?.
You or I could have been in the same position - a member of the German military, ordered to instruct a group of Jews to dig a large hole so that we could later execute them and bury them in that which they dug. Thousands of people did this. Why?.
Would you have stopped and realized the absolute immorality of your acts, regardless of your peer's beliefs that these actions were moral?
Are you sure?
Don't try to delete the Nazi era. Don't try to censor it, hide it, or forget it.
Most every merchant supports the option to add a message with your order, such as "I need stepping XXX". If they ignore it, just send the chip back and find another merchant.
Not the ideal solution, but time will straighten out the kinks.
I can understand the administrative hassles in ensuring that your network is free of illegal materials, and for this I hold nothing against Oxford University in originally removing the spoof "decss" software. I would have done exactly the same thing (although I believe I would have taken the time to look at the archive before deleting it).
However, once the fact comes to light that this software is indeed NOT illegal, the site should have been immediately put back into place. Oxford has nothing to gain by extending this mistake.
Finally, Oxford backs up its decision with a terrible reason: "We're in the business of education, not controversy". Baloney! Controversy is education. This particular issue could be discussed for hours in curriculums dealing with journalistic, legal, or computer science and reveal a great deal of information that must be considered when engaged in any profession of these and many other areas.
As for Oxford's legal costs, they would never become an issue if they would stop and prove to litigants like the MPAA that they understand and know these types of cases are frivilous and won't stand up in court. To do anything less puts you in the path of being continually pushed around.
And what of the networks (like ValueClick.com or Eads.com) that base their services on ONLY click thrus? They're STILL profitable for both the host site and the ad network.
Shut up, you don't know what you're talking about.
The technology means that a typical fiber-optic cable with 120 strands would be capable of carrying 192 terabits, or 192 trillion bits, of data per second.
So one strange carries 1.6 terabits of data. Uh wait, I thought they said that they only reached 40 gigabits of data?
The reason is a no-brainer: 3com has every reason not to release the information for those old switches because they want them to die. The sooner they pass out of the market, the sooner they can sell new hardware. You can't blame them for this -- it only makes sense.
Argue the point all you want, but what needs to be done is getting the information for new hardware, as it's released. Only time and added pressure on the hardware manufacturers is going to make this a reality.
How do I handle buttons (i.e. graphics) with text on them?"
Basically, try to avoid them. Not only do they make your site difficult to maintain due to language, they're just an overall pain in the butt. You can do a lot (design-wise) with plain text and CSS, or if you absolutely must have a graphic with text in it, try an alternate trick (such as using the graphic as a table background and then laying text over top of it).
While Perl isn't anally OO, the OO it has makes it just fine for GUI development. I've written little apps using Perl/TK, Win32::GUI, and Perl::GTK and thought that all three implementations were very straightforward and fit in perfectly with Perl's nature.
"Take a look at what I found out: the Motion Picture Association is
encrypting content on DVDs! Not only that, but this is how they do it. Another thing I noticed, they use some sort of code to prevent the play of DVDs purchased in one region from being played in another! This is wrong! Take a look at my source code and see it for yourself!"
The source code is a functional part of your discussion of your beliefs as to the wrongness of the motion picture industry and the methods in which they are attempting to control that industry. It honestly sounds like free speech to me, and nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about reverse-engineering or trade secrets. It should be obvious that free speech is too important to infringe.
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Yeah, I saw that before. They're running RedHat and Apache for the site.
You can't drop out of the game making wild accusations like this. Nobody knows whether you deserve sympathy or if you should be ignored when you don't follow up with more concrete information -- you really do just sound like a whiner. If you actually do have a legitimate complaint, you may as well just stick your head in the toilet and gargle than post something like this.
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Ok, but the bugs don't :)
Get it out of your head - encryption doesn't prevent piracy. I can copy and encrypted file just as easily as I can copy an unencrypted one.
Still doesn't explain how the soldiers themselves were brainwashed into following these orders.
I'm personally fascinated by the Nazi era. An entire nation was brainwashed to believe that the source of all of their problems lay in the Jewish religion, and they were taught to mercilessly persecute Jews without question. How?.
You or I could have been in the same position - a member of the German military, ordered to instruct a group of Jews to dig a large hole so that we could later execute them and bury them in that which they dug. Thousands of people did this. Why?.
Would you have stopped and realized the absolute immorality of your acts, regardless of your peer's beliefs that these actions were moral?
Are you sure?
Don't try to delete the Nazi era. Don't try to censor it, hide it, or forget it.
This is necessary in order to more easily support multiple platforms. Mozilla does exactly the same thing.
Not the ideal solution, but time will straighten out the kinks.
However, once the fact comes to light that this software is indeed NOT illegal, the site should have been immediately put back into place. Oxford has nothing to gain by extending this mistake.
Finally, Oxford backs up its decision with a terrible reason: "We're in the business of education, not controversy". Baloney! Controversy is education. This particular issue could be discussed for hours in curriculums dealing with journalistic, legal, or computer science and reveal a great deal of information that must be considered when engaged in any profession of these and many other areas.
As for Oxford's legal costs, they would never become an issue if they would stop and prove to litigants like the MPAA that they understand and know these types of cases are frivilous and won't stand up in court. To do anything less puts you in the path of being continually pushed around.
What a wonderful precedent, Oxford.
Shut up, you don't know what you're talking about.
So one strange carries 1.6 terabits of data. Uh wait, I thought they said that they only reached 40 gigabits of data?
Very poorly written article.
You've obviously never developed a web site and used banners for revenue. The banner system still works quite well.
One of the better non-statements I've seen here on Slashdot.
Argue the point all you want, but what needs to be done is getting the information for new hardware, as it's released. Only time and added pressure on the hardware manufacturers is going to make this a reality.
"JPL images are available for use by the public free of charge."
(NASA is a governmental agency, of course)
Anyway, looking at its docs would answer your question. It's not the most intuitive interface, perhaps....
Well, something like...
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD background="/image.png" align="right" valign="bottom">Blah</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
Basically, try to avoid them. Not only do they make your site difficult to maintain due to language, they're just an overall pain in the butt. You can do a lot (design-wise) with plain text and CSS, or if you absolutely must have a graphic with text in it, try an alternate trick (such as using the graphic as a table background and then laying text over top of it).
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Anyway, they also forgot about Eddie which is mainly designed for redundancy and load balancing for web servers.
While Perl isn't anally OO, the OO it has makes it just fine for GUI development. I've written little apps using Perl/TK, Win32::GUI, and Perl::GTK and thought that all three implementations were very straightforward and fit in perfectly with Perl's nature.
- "Take a look at what I found out: the Motion Picture Association is
- encrypting content on DVDs! Not only that, but this is how they do it. Another thing I noticed, they use some sort of code to prevent the play of DVDs purchased in one region from being played in another! This is wrong! Take a look at my source code and see it for yourself!"
The source code is a functional part of your discussion of your beliefs as to the wrongness of the motion picture industry and the methods in which they are attempting to control that industry. It honestly sounds like free speech to me, and nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about reverse-engineering or trade secrets. It should be obvious that free speech is too important to infringe.Yeah, I saw that before. They're running RedHat and Apache for the site.
The default Perl formatter thingy with emacs kinda stinks. There's a few good replacements out there if you look.
open (INFILE, "$ARGV[0]");
@file = <INFILE>;
close (INFILE);
foreach $line (@file)
{
push @katz, "$line";
}
I don't see the point in copying @file to @katz with a foreach loop. @katz = @file is enough, but still unnecessary.
You've also broken the ability to read from STDIN, so it should be more like:
unless ($ARGV[0] && open(MYFILE, $ARGV[0])) {
@katz = <STDIN>;
} else {
@katz = <MYFILE>;
}
Also, since I feel like chastizing some more, I hate your indenting/brace placement ;)
You can't drop out of the game making wild accusations like this. Nobody knows whether you deserve sympathy or if you should be ignored when you don't follow up with more concrete information -- you really do just sound like a whiner. If you actually do have a legitimate complaint, you may as well just stick your head in the toilet and gargle than post something like this.
Well ok. I just wanted to make sure you were behaving ;)