Puzzle Pirates has been gold for nearly 2.5 years.
Not only that, but they've been periodically adding to the game for most of that time. New puzzles, new elements to the in-game economy, changes to re-balance the gameplay, different business models (playing on a doubloon-based ocean is different from playing on a subscription-based ocean, simply by virtue of having to collect/buy doubloons), etc.
In fact, Firefox 1.5 seems to be their reference platform for the initial DHTML version (which is newer than the Flash front-end), though they plan to target Firefox and IE, and are "reasonably confident" about Opera and Safari. I tried their DHTML demo (a photo management app) in Opera 9 beta 1, and while parts of it worked, it wouldn't actually display any of the thumbnails. Eh, beta browser plus beta site.
Anyway, you might want to check your spelling: it's www.openlaszlo.org -- don't forget the s before the z.
Given the volatile nature of the web today, there's an excellent chance that the page you link to today will be gone 6 months from now. If you want your post to have any value in the future, it needs to be more than just "Hey, look here!" (Although except in the case of the shortest source articles, copy+pasting the entire page is bad form.)
Of course, for your post to have any value today, just quoting isn't enough. At that point, it may as well be a link. You have to provide some commentary, maybe your opinion, maybe additional information, or maybe you're just using the quote as a springboard to go off on your own topic.
It comes down to a balance: are the quotes there to support and/or provide context for your own words? Are they there as a summary so that someone wandering by a year from now knows what people are talking about? Or is it little more than an unauthorized mirror?
What we're seeing is a perfect example of the patent equivalent of mutually assured destruction.
In fact, this counter-suit should surprise no one. Since one of the major reasons that companies who actually make stuff (as opposed to the patent trolls who collect patents so they can make money through lawsuits) build up patent portfolios is for deterrent value. Sue me for violating your patent, and I'll sue you for violating my patent.
The only question is, if Apple didn't bring up their own patents in discussion with Creative, why did they sacrifice the deterrent value in favor of surprise retaliation?
However, Canada's political system can require to vote along party lines or receive retribution (i.e. be kicked out of the party, effectivly ending the political career.) I'm not sure if the American system is different, but you get the idea.
Nothing institutionalized -- if you don't toe the party line, they won't throw you out, and politicians do occasionally switch parties -- but a lot of politics runs on the "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" principle. If you don't go along with the party when someone else proposes legislation, you'll find it harder to get support for your own proposals.
That, I think, is one of the main reasons the big two parties dominate politics everywhere but the most local levels, and why so many politicians go along with the latest bandwagon.
In this case, I think it's important to remember that it's a mid-term election year. I don't know what Louisiana's election schedule is, but it wouldn't surprise me to find that a significant portion of their legislature is up for re-election in November. Anyone who voted against the bill could be easily portrayed by their opponent as being soft on violence, obscenity, etc. And anyone who raised constitutional concerns could be counting on the law being struck down, allowing them to avoid giving their opponents ammunition without actually helping put the law into force.
You do have to wonder, though. I picked up a wireless router in summer 2004, and WPA was a standard, off-the-shelf option for security. All the material I read in preparation to set up the network indicated that WPA was a better choice than WEP. The references for this article include one dated December 2004 -- several months after I did my own research. Given that WPA was already known to be more secure than WEP (which they spent quite a bit of time on), and was a standard option in consumer wireless routers, how on Earth did they miss it?
The problem is that while con men target idiots directly like snipers, phishers and spammers pull out a machine gun and mow down everyone on the street.
You might be smart enough not to lose your shirt to a con artist, but if a new one knocks on your door every five minutes, you're going to be pretty damn annoyed.
I don't know about the previous poster, but I have no reason to run Firefox when I'm asleep, or at work. Heck, I have no reason to run my computer when I'm asleep or at work, unless I'm downloading something or want to leave a session open.
Seriously, if I'm only going to use the computer 5 hours a day, why should I waste an extra 19 hours/day of electricity?
Even the article linked there admits that Firefox does have memory leaks. It also has memory-intensive features which probably overshadow the amount of memory lost to those leaks.
It really bugs me when people talk about "the memory leak" in Firefox as if it were one issue. In reality, the high memory usage some people experience is a combination of many different factors: an unknown number of small memory leaks (some of which have been fixed in the updates to the 1.5 series, as note in the release notes), memory-intensive features like the back/forward cache, combinations of extensions, and individual browsing habits.
Does Firefox have memory problems? Yes. Do those problems affect all Firefox users? No. Is it a single issue that can be solved in one place? No. Are people working on fixing the individual problems? Yes.
Reminds me of a monitoring program I found once that would hook up various indicators -- free memory, disk I/O, network access, CPU usage, website hits, etc. -- to different sounds and mix them together. IIRC they were mostly ambient nature sounds. Wind through trees, running water, etc. As each stat increased, the volume of the associated sound would increase, so if your server normally sounded like one of those desktop fountains you could pick up at Sharper Image, a Slashdotting would sound like Niagra Falls.
I think this would be more useful for people who order decaf and want to make sure the waiter/clerk/whoever hasn't been a dipstick and given them regular (or some mix of regular and decaf) instead.
I know someone who has no trouble drinking regular coffee in the morning, but just one cup after dinner means the difference between sleeping well and tossing and turning all night.
In the case of the phone record issue, the 63% cited have weighed the loss of privacy in this case (the government knows who you've called, when, and how many times, but not what you said)
Exactly the distinction lost in the summary. I wonder how different the numbers would have been if we had learned that the government had recordings or transcripts of every phone call made over the last 4.5 years. I certainly recall a lot more controversy over the warrantless wiretapping revelations than there has been over this issue.
Knowledge of whom you called, when, and how long you spoke is an order of magnitude less than knowledge of what you actually said. It's certainly still a privacy issue, but the fact that privacy and security are both matters of degree and not simple binary "yes/no" questions seems to have been lost on a lot of people.
SuSE includes Xen virtualization, which enables you to run guest operating systems on a host operating system. You can run any OS with Xen support as a guest -- even another instance of SuSE.
People with disabilites are more concerned that ODF incorporate handling for text readers and such from the outset...
You mean ODF-capable applications, right? Because ODF is just a format for the data. Handling for text readers, magnifiers, etc. is something you build into an application like Word or OpenOffice, not something you build into the file format itself.
A text reader doesn't care whether you've opened a Word doc, and OpenDocument file, a text file, or an HTML file. It cares that your word processor knows how to feed it text.
The crux of the issue is that OpenOffice, Kword, etc. need (better) support for assistive technologies. That's not the same as redesigning the OpenDocument format itself.
In my eye, if DVDs were shipped at $5/movie they would not be able to keep them on the shelves.
Actually, there are quite a few DVDs available in the $2-10 range. Check at a supermarket or drug store -- you'll find a random collection of low-budget B-movies, old films and cartoons from the 1930s, random TV episodes, slightly more recent box office flops, etc. Often the quality is poor, since they seem to be done by small producers that just barely have enough cash to secure the rights, or big studios using their back stock but not allocating much budget since they know not many people will be interested.
These DVDs are priced so low simply because pop culture memories are short, and most movies and TV shows get forgotten. For every Fantasia or It's a Wonderful Life that people still watch 60 years later, there are hundreds of films that no one knows about (sometimes deservedly). You can't sell those at $20/pop -- you can barely sell than at $5.
Yep. Any time you're interfacing with the OS at that low a level, you have to consider that new versions of the OS might be different under the hood.
I used to run PCAnywhere on a Windows NT 4 server. We had to dance around on one foot while swinging a chicken around our heads, singing voodoo chants backwards to upgrade the OS and PCAnywhere at the same time, all so that we could get PCAnywhere to (a) work and (b) not crash the server on boot once we upgraded it to Windows 2000.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not sure why they want to target people looking for outcasts...
Or Nigerian scams.
My old theory was that they had a blanket deal on two-word combinations, until I found some combos that didn't show an ebay ad.
Now I think they dumped the contents of a spellcheck dictionary, removed the obvious bad ideas, and submitted it as their keyword list.
Puzzle Pirates has been gold for nearly 2.5 years.
Not only that, but they've been periodically adding to the game for most of that time. New puzzles, new elements to the in-game economy, changes to re-balance the gameplay, different business models (playing on a doubloon-based ocean is different from playing on a subscription-based ocean, simply by virtue of having to collect/buy doubloons), etc.
Not only can it render HTML, CSS, XML, SVG, W3C, MCP, MJB, DVD, BVD, and other TLAs, but it can climb walls, too!
I don't see that showing up in IE7! Hah!
Works fine in my Linux-based Firefox.
In fact, Firefox 1.5 seems to be their reference platform for the initial DHTML version (which is newer than the Flash front-end), though they plan to target Firefox and IE, and are "reasonably confident" about Opera and Safari. I tried their DHTML demo (a photo management app) in Opera 9 beta 1, and while parts of it worked, it wouldn't actually display any of the thumbnails. Eh, beta browser plus beta site.
Anyway, you might want to check your spelling: it's www.openlaszlo.org -- don't forget the s before the z.
Given the volatile nature of the web today, there's an excellent chance that the page you link to today will be gone 6 months from now. If you want your post to have any value in the future, it needs to be more than just "Hey, look here!" (Although except in the case of the shortest source articles, copy+pasting the entire page is bad form.)
Of course, for your post to have any value today, just quoting isn't enough. At that point, it may as well be a link. You have to provide some commentary, maybe your opinion, maybe additional information, or maybe you're just using the quote as a springboard to go off on your own topic.
It comes down to a balance: are the quotes there to support and/or provide context for your own words? Are they there as a summary so that someone wandering by a year from now knows what people are talking about? Or is it little more than an unauthorized mirror?
What we're seeing is a perfect example of the patent equivalent of mutually assured destruction.
In fact, this counter-suit should surprise no one. Since one of the major reasons that companies who actually make stuff (as opposed to the patent trolls who collect patents so they can make money through lawsuits) build up patent portfolios is for deterrent value. Sue me for violating your patent, and I'll sue you for violating my patent.
The only question is, if Apple didn't bring up their own patents in discussion with Creative, why did they sacrifice the deterrent value in favor of surprise retaliation?
However, Canada's political system can require to vote along party lines or receive retribution (i.e. be kicked out of the party, effectivly ending the political career.) I'm not sure if the American system is different, but you get the idea.
Nothing institutionalized -- if you don't toe the party line, they won't throw you out, and politicians do occasionally switch parties -- but a lot of politics runs on the "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" principle. If you don't go along with the party when someone else proposes legislation, you'll find it harder to get support for your own proposals.
That, I think, is one of the main reasons the big two parties dominate politics everywhere but the most local levels, and why so many politicians go along with the latest bandwagon.
In this case, I think it's important to remember that it's a mid-term election year. I don't know what Louisiana's election schedule is, but it wouldn't surprise me to find that a significant portion of their legislature is up for re-election in November. Anyone who voted against the bill could be easily portrayed by their opponent as being soft on violence, obscenity, etc. And anyone who raised constitutional concerns could be counting on the law being struck down, allowing them to avoid giving their opponents ammunition without actually helping put the law into force.
You can't put the conspiracy theories to rest. They already believe you're covering something up, so if you release a report that shows...
...the conspiracy theorists will just claim you've fabricated or altered the "new" evidence.
Even better, the invulnerableit version (Nov 2005) and windowsecurity version (May 2006) actually have the tables and diagrams referred to in the text.
You do have to wonder, though. I picked up a wireless router in summer 2004, and WPA was a standard, off-the-shelf option for security. All the material I read in preparation to set up the network indicated that WPA was a better choice than WEP. The references for this article include one dated December 2004 -- several months after I did my own research. Given that WPA was already known to be more secure than WEP (which they spent quite a bit of time on), and was a standard option in consumer wireless routers, how on Earth did they miss it?
Too long. Try this:
yum install ntp
Never put in an e-mail anything you mind being overheard saying in the street.
Or writing at all, for that matter.
Unfortunately, that includes things like paper bank statements.
The problem is that while con men target idiots directly like snipers, phishers and spammers pull out a machine gun and mow down everyone on the street.
You might be smart enough not to lose your shirt to a con artist, but if a new one knocks on your door every five minutes, you're going to be pretty damn annoyed.
Uh, do you still reboot every day, or something?
I don't know about the previous poster, but I have no reason to run Firefox when I'm asleep, or at work. Heck, I have no reason to run my computer when I'm asleep or at work, unless I'm downloading something or want to leave a session open.
Seriously, if I'm only going to use the computer 5 hours a day, why should I waste an extra 19 hours/day of electricity?
Oversimplified much?
Even the article linked there admits that Firefox does have memory leaks. It also has memory-intensive features which probably overshadow the amount of memory lost to those leaks.
It really bugs me when people talk about "the memory leak" in Firefox as if it were one issue. In reality, the high memory usage some people experience is a combination of many different factors: an unknown number of small memory leaks (some of which have been fixed in the updates to the 1.5 series, as note in the release notes), memory-intensive features like the back/forward cache, combinations of extensions, and individual browsing habits.
Does Firefox have memory problems? Yes.
Do those problems affect all Firefox users? No.
Is it a single issue that can be solved in one place? No.
Are people working on fixing the individual problems? Yes.
Reminds me of a monitoring program I found once that would hook up various indicators -- free memory, disk I/O, network access, CPU usage, website hits, etc. -- to different sounds and mix them together. IIRC they were mostly ambient nature sounds. Wind through trees, running water, etc. As each stat increased, the volume of the associated sound would increase, so if your server normally sounded like one of those desktop fountains you could pick up at Sharper Image, a Slashdotting would sound like Niagra Falls.
I think this would be more useful for people who order decaf and want to make sure the waiter/clerk/whoever hasn't been a dipstick and given them regular (or some mix of regular and decaf) instead.
I know someone who has no trouble drinking regular coffee in the morning, but just one cup after dinner means the difference between sleeping well and tossing and turning all night.
In the case of the phone record issue, the 63% cited have weighed the loss of privacy in this case (the government knows who you've called, when, and how many times, but not what you said)
Exactly the distinction lost in the summary. I wonder how different the numbers would have been if we had learned that the government had recordings or transcripts of every phone call made over the last 4.5 years. I certainly recall a lot more controversy over the warrantless wiretapping revelations than there has been over this issue.
Knowledge of whom you called, when, and how long you spoke is an order of magnitude less than knowledge of what you actually said. It's certainly still a privacy issue, but the fact that privacy and security are both matters of degree and not simple binary "yes/no" questions seems to have been lost on a lot of people.
SuSE includes Xen virtualization, which enables you to run guest operating systems on a host operating system. You can run any OS with Xen support as a guest -- even another instance of SuSE.
So yes, SuSE will run Linux!
I mean, it turns out that Tibet even provides a path to the heavens for water vapor!
If there's really a demand for these assistive technologies, then patches will start flowing in from these users soon enough.
Well, from the ones who are also developers, perhaps...
Wait, superiority in one aspect automatically translates to overall superiority?
What happened to nuanced approaches like:
...then assigning weights to various capabilities/purposes depending on individual needs, and determining which one works best for each organization?
Nah, that would make too much sense.
People with disabilites are more concerned that ODF incorporate handling for text readers and such from the outset...
You mean ODF-capable applications, right? Because ODF is just a format for the data. Handling for text readers, magnifiers, etc. is something you build into an application like Word or OpenOffice, not something you build into the file format itself.
A text reader doesn't care whether you've opened a Word doc, and OpenDocument file, a text file, or an HTML file. It cares that your word processor knows how to feed it text.
The crux of the issue is that OpenOffice, Kword, etc. need (better) support for assistive technologies. That's not the same as redesigning the OpenDocument format itself.
In my eye, if DVDs were shipped at $5/movie they would not be able to keep them on the shelves.
Actually, there are quite a few DVDs available in the $2-10 range. Check at a supermarket or drug store -- you'll find a random collection of low-budget B-movies, old films and cartoons from the 1930s, random TV episodes, slightly more recent box office flops, etc. Often the quality is poor, since they seem to be done by small producers that just barely have enough cash to secure the rights, or big studios using their back stock but not allocating much budget since they know not many people will be interested.
These DVDs are priced so low simply because pop culture memories are short, and most movies and TV shows get forgotten. For every Fantasia or It's a Wonderful Life that people still watch 60 years later, there are hundreds of films that no one knows about (sometimes deservedly). You can't sell those at $20/pop -- you can barely sell than at $5.
You guys forgot to mention that Cute Overload won the People's Voice Webby.
Yeah, I couldn't figure out how they managed to miss that. After all, Slashdot introduced the site to a whole new audience!
Yep. Any time you're interfacing with the OS at that low a level, you have to consider that new versions of the OS might be different under the hood.
I used to run PCAnywhere on a Windows NT 4 server. We had to dance around on one foot while swinging a chicken around our heads, singing voodoo chants backwards to upgrade the OS and PCAnywhere at the same time, all so that we could get PCAnywhere to (a) work and (b) not crash the server on boot once we upgraded it to Windows 2000.