The stones, sure, but the writing? Entirely susceptible to erosion.
Re:gullible's not in Webster's 2005 dictionary
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Hey, if you don't trust them, you can do the research yourself. Go to the appropriate hall of records and look for Walt Disney's death certificate. Visit Forest Lawn and look for the grave marker.
Of course, those could be faked themselves, so you'd have to look for evidence that he was frozen -- locate the cryo facility perhaps, or find some sort of records. Of course, if it's a really good conspiracy, you won't find anything anyway...
"Six Feet Under" marathon for idle time?
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Or better yet, Dead Like Me?
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Bzzt! He was cremated and has a burial plot at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Does anyone else find this description disturbing?
I have this image of a cemetery filled with Mickey Mouse ears on the tombstones, little Tinkerbell figurines sticking out of the ground on metal rods, and constant background music.
Paper is better for long sessions, but computer screens are fine for checking the daily strips. That said, I've at various times sat and read the entire archives to Sluggy Freelance, User Friendly (when it was still funny), Queen of Wands, and Something Positive. Of course, none of them was more than a year old at the time I read through them -- I can't imagine trying to read eight(?) years of Sluggy online. Hooray for the books!
One comic that's got an interesting hybrid model is Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio. It started out as a regular comic book, but the realities of the small-press world forced it to be (a) quarterly and (b) often months late. They'd been collecting issues as hardcovers and trade paperbacks already (I think 4 comics per book), and in June they shifted their publishing scheme around. They've dropped the individual issues entirely, focusing on the books instead... but they publish a new page online for free, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So you can read it a page every few days, or buy the next book every few months. I was skeptical when they first announced the change, but it seems to be working great so far.
When was the last time a big Windows-based worm went around that didn't already have a patch available? Some of the biggest (say, Blaster) had been patched months before!
What's happened is that the bad guys have gotten faster at exploiting the vulnerabilities once they're disclosed. Meanwhile, the vendors have been trying to convince everyone to update as quickly as possible. That's why it's hard to argue against automatic updates (or at least semi-automatic, as in timing it so that an admin is on hand to fix any problems that pop up).
The story here is that a worm zoomed across the next less than a week after the hole it uses was patched. It's not the extent (which the media overstated) but the speed.
Hilly, but coastal. SF is on a peninsula, so clouds and fog roll right over it and into the bay. The city is known for its gloom. They even have (or had, last time I visited) a radio station with the letters KFOG. And while no one has found evidence that Mark Twain actually said, "The coldest winter I ever spent was one summer in San Francisco," it wouldn't surprise anyone.
In theory, Windows Update and automatic updates via Control Panel don't require validation, but Microsoft Update and manual downloads via the download center do. If things work as advertised, you can get security fixes without validating.
Of course, don't forget the words in bold. I've had to validate my Windows XP box twice without changing any hardware. Fortunately my Linux boxes don't need any stinking validation to update via yum.
The Internet Storm Center's take on this is also interesting. As far as they can tell, the infection at the three news outlets is more-or-less isolated:
Speculating: The fact that CNN, ABC and the NYTimes got it may be as simple as reporters from these organizations visiting the same event and connecting to an infected network. While a firewall may have protected their office network up to now, these infected laptops where able to take out the network from the inside once they connected back to it.
I think people are missing the point that this isn't just about deathmatches and Everquest. He's talking about a shift in distribution much like digital music. Today all the top titles are things you buy in a store. You get a box, a CD or DVD-ROM, a reference card and maybe a manual. But as more and more people have broadband, the need for that physical medium decreases.
The shareware market has had online distribution for years, of course, largely because the barriers to entry are lower, but also because smaller games are easier to download. Something that's starting to hit a lot now is the online applet/flash game with a downloadable (pay) equivalent, a la PopCap. I know this example's a bit old, but Bejeweled was quite popular before they put it in a box.
Back to multiplayer games, if they require a connection to play anyway, there are really only two reasons to sell the base game on CD. The first is size: If it takes 12 hours to download the client, people would rather drive down to Best Buy, plunk down the cash, and be back home in 30 minutes. The second is visibility: You expect to find games at GameStop. Both reasons are becoming less important, though. If your connection is fast enough, there's nothing to discourage you from downloading a 500MB installer. And as you get used to finding games online, you're as likely to look there as you are to look at the local mall.
Mainly, Apple's DRM is a lot less stringent than others have tehnded to be (assuming, of course, you have an iPod). They actually look like they made an effort to compromise between music publishers that don't want you to do anything but play the track on one computer (and maybe a player), and consumers who want to be able to burn mix CDs, play tracks on more than one computer, etc.
If you consider any form of DRM to be oppressive, then there isn't much difference between FairPlay and anything else. If you want choice in players, it won't work for you either. But it's a compromise that works for a lot of people.
Harmony makes it possible for Real to sell tracks online that are compatible with the iPod. It competes with the iTunes Store, but the end result is more music available for the iPod, which increases the iPod's value. Meanwhile, Apple has admitted that they don't make much money off of the iTunes store, but it does help push iPod sales (by making it more useful).
So at least in the short term, this should positively impact Apple's business by improving iPod sales.
Long term, though, it reduces vendor lock-in. If you ultimately have lots of Real tracks on your old iPod, and they're compatible with both iPods and some other player (or at the very least, you can re-download the tracks in the appropriate format without buying them all over again), you're just as likely to buy that other player as a new iPod.
Does anyone else find it funny that the post asking people to mod its parent up has gone up to 4... but the parent post hasn't been moderated up at all?
Given that Apple's porting (so far as we know) has all been focused on the x86 series, one would assume any new architecture designed for Apple would be compatible. Otherwise, Apple would have to throw away all the porting work they've done so far and/or create three-way fat binaries instead of two-way. Unless the benefits are staggering, it doesn't make sense for them to switch to yet another design at this point.
This actually has been patched in Win2k. Microsoft will continue with security patches for Windows 2000 through 2010. Their current policy for business-related software is 5 years "mainstream" support plus 5 more of security fixes. For "home" stuff, it's 5 years and you're done. This has some interesting consequences, such as Windows XP Professional being semi-supported through 2011 but Windows XP Home expiring at the end of 2006.
Depends on the game. Puzzle Pirates keeps adding new puzzles, revising old ones, changing the rules on player interaction, and adding new elements to game play.
Incidentally, they don't fit the kill-the-dragon/rescue-the-village stereotype either.
PDF is most suitable for documents that need to be printed with specific formatting.
For documents that are going to be viewed online, it's infinitely preferable to use a free-form format like HTML (was designed to be) that can adjust to varying monitor and window sizes.
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The stones, sure, but the writing? Entirely susceptible to erosion.
Hey, if you don't trust them, you can do the research yourself. Go to the appropriate hall of records and look for Walt Disney's death certificate. Visit Forest Lawn and look for the grave marker.
Of course, those could be faked themselves, so you'd have to look for evidence that he was frozen -- locate the cryo facility perhaps, or find some sort of records. Of course, if it's a really good conspiracy, you won't find anything anyway...
Or better yet, Dead Like Me?
Bzzt! He was cremated and has a burial plot at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California.
The whole cryo thing is just an urban legend.
Does anyone else find this description disturbing?
I have this image of a cemetery filled with Mickey Mouse ears on the tombstones, little Tinkerbell figurines sticking out of the ground on metal rods, and constant background music.
Paper is better for long sessions, but computer screens are fine for checking the daily strips. That said, I've at various times sat and read the entire archives to Sluggy Freelance, User Friendly (when it was still funny), Queen of Wands, and Something Positive. Of course, none of them was more than a year old at the time I read through them -- I can't imagine trying to read eight(?) years of Sluggy online. Hooray for the books!
One comic that's got an interesting hybrid model is Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio. It started out as a regular comic book, but the realities of the small-press world forced it to be (a) quarterly and (b) often months late. They'd been collecting issues as hardcovers and trade paperbacks already (I think 4 comics per book), and in June they shifted their publishing scheme around. They've dropped the individual issues entirely, focusing on the books instead... but they publish a new page online for free, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So you can read it a page every few days, or buy the next book every few months. I was skeptical when they first announced the change, but it seems to be working great so far.
When was the last time a big Windows-based worm went around that didn't already have a patch available? Some of the biggest (say, Blaster) had been patched months before!
What's happened is that the bad guys have gotten faster at exploiting the vulnerabilities once they're disclosed. Meanwhile, the vendors have been trying to convince everyone to update as quickly as possible. That's why it's hard to argue against automatic updates (or at least semi-automatic, as in timing it so that an admin is on hand to fix any problems that pop up).
The story here is that a worm zoomed across the next less than a week after the hole it uses was patched. It's not the extent (which the media overstated) but the speed.
Hilly, but coastal. SF is on a peninsula, so clouds and fog roll right over it and into the bay. The city is known for its gloom. They even have (or had, last time I visited) a radio station with the letters KFOG. And while no one has found evidence that Mark Twain actually said, "The coldest winter I ever spent was one summer in San Francisco," it wouldn't surprise anyone.
In theory, Windows Update and automatic updates via Control Panel don't require validation, but Microsoft Update and manual downloads via the download center do. If things work as advertised, you can get security fixes without validating.
Of course, don't forget the words in bold. I've had to validate my Windows XP box twice without changing any hardware. Fortunately my Linux boxes don't need any stinking validation to update via yum.
The Internet Storm Center's take on this is also interesting. As far as they can tell, the infection at the three news outlets is more-or-less isolated:
I think people are missing the point that this isn't just about deathmatches and Everquest. He's talking about a shift in distribution much like digital music. Today all the top titles are things you buy in a store. You get a box, a CD or DVD-ROM, a reference card and maybe a manual. But as more and more people have broadband, the need for that physical medium decreases.
The shareware market has had online distribution for years, of course, largely because the barriers to entry are lower, but also because smaller games are easier to download. Something that's starting to hit a lot now is the online applet/flash game with a downloadable (pay) equivalent, a la PopCap. I know this example's a bit old, but Bejeweled was quite popular before they put it in a box.
Back to multiplayer games, if they require a connection to play anyway, there are really only two reasons to sell the base game on CD. The first is size: If it takes 12 hours to download the client, people would rather drive down to Best Buy, plunk down the cash, and be back home in 30 minutes. The second is visibility: You expect to find games at GameStop. Both reasons are becoming less important, though. If your connection is fast enough, there's nothing to discourage you from downloading a 500MB installer. And as you get used to finding games online, you're as likely to look there as you are to look at the local mall.
*sigh* There's always someone who doesn't get the joke.
...may soon have to pay up to $A5000 a year to licence the operating system name (warning: Registration Required) [Emphasis added]
So you have to register to read about how people may have to register...
The Republicans were all for the enormous spending program, and the Democrats were extremely skeptical about whether it was cost-effective.
Which, oddly, seems typical of today's politics as well.
The lines haven't just blurred -- on some issues the parties seem to have traded places.
Mainly, Apple's DRM is a lot less stringent than others have tehnded to be (assuming, of course, you have an iPod). They actually look like they made an effort to compromise between music publishers that don't want you to do anything but play the track on one computer (and maybe a player), and consumers who want to be able to burn mix CDs, play tracks on more than one computer, etc.
If you consider any form of DRM to be oppressive, then there isn't much difference between FairPlay and anything else. If you want choice in players, it won't work for you either. But it's a compromise that works for a lot of people.
Harmony makes it possible for Real to sell tracks online that are compatible with the iPod. It competes with the iTunes Store, but the end result is more music available for the iPod, which increases the iPod's value. Meanwhile, Apple has admitted that they don't make much money off of the iTunes store, but it does help push iPod sales (by making it more useful).
So at least in the short term, this should positively impact Apple's business by improving iPod sales.
Long term, though, it reduces vendor lock-in. If you ultimately have lots of Real tracks on your old iPod, and they're compatible with both iPods and some other player (or at the very least, you can re-download the tracks in the appropriate format without buying them all over again), you're just as likely to buy that other player as a new iPod.
Next up, it's Apple vs. Apple! Who will win? Be sure to tune in for our live coverage, available on iTunes for only 99/session!
It seems like a lot of people are "real worried about Apple lawsuits."
Does anyone else find it funny that the post asking people to mod its parent up has gone up to 4... but the parent post hasn't been moderated up at all?
Given that Apple's porting (so far as we know) has all been focused on the x86 series, one would assume any new architecture designed for Apple would be compatible. Otherwise, Apple would have to throw away all the porting work they've done so far and/or create three-way fat binaries instead of two-way. Unless the benefits are staggering, it doesn't make sense for them to switch to yet another design at this point.
This actually has been patched in Win2k. Microsoft will continue with security patches for Windows 2000 through 2010. Their current policy for business-related software is 5 years "mainstream" support plus 5 more of security fixes. For "home" stuff, it's 5 years and you're done. This has some interesting consequences, such as Windows XP Professional being semi-supported through 2011 but Windows XP Home expiring at the end of 2006.
Source: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/
And, by making sure he gets Slashdotted, they've already succeeded!
Can they justifiably go after him for trademark violations? Absolutely. But copyright? You'd have to be insane.
It's constantly amazing to see the extent to which people will abuse the DMCA to get what they want.
Depends on the game. Puzzle Pirates keeps adding new puzzles, revising old ones, changing the rules on player interaction, and adding new elements to game play.
Incidentally, they don't fit the kill-the-dragon/rescue-the-village stereotype either.
PDF is most suitable for documents that need to be printed with specific formatting.
For documents that are going to be viewed online, it's infinitely preferable to use a free-form format like HTML (was designed to be) that can adjust to varying monitor and window sizes.