I don't see why you think you need an 'app' to fill this page. (Then again, I have no idea why you decided to use a subdomain for everything in the first place, but that's another matter.) Web servers ultimately serve up html, whether they generate it dynamically from a web app or not. So, if you want to make use of port 80 on your domain to drive out the squatters, all you really need is some minimal html.
<html><head></head><body></body></html>
That should fill all your needs, and you don't have to worry about it looking non-professional because it's clearly just a placeholder. If you really can't think of anything more, feel free to copy and paste the above. (Adding a DTD might be a nice touch, especially if you're a professional web developer, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the student.)
He said up front: he doesn't want his domain being used by a third party (his registrar) to sell advertisements. Seems reasonable to me (at the very least, he should get a cut of the pie). It's a little sad that he's so utterly lacking in imagination that he has to ask slashdot how to create a placeholder page, but not wanting to have his name and domain associated with random webspam is perfectly reasonable.
At a bare minimum, I think a simple page saying "hi, this is my domain, which is primarily used for non-web related services" would be perfectly adequate, i.e. enough to keep the spammers away. Beyond that, I agree, if he can't think of anything, maybe he just shouldn't bother to put anything.
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Well, he covers Rogue in the online chapters, and much as I love Nethack myself, I would quickly agree that Rogue was the real trendsetter and innovator here.
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Actually, I think Defender and Robotron:2084 are better known as arcade games, even if they were eventually ported to consoles and/or personal computers. Granted, those are listed in the on-line "Bonus Chapters" section, but even so, it makes gnick's point stronger.
I suppose one could argue that Asteroids wasn't really much of an innovation after Spacewar! (covered) and its years-ahead-of-its-time arcade version Space Wars, but then that same argument could be used to eliminate Diablo in favor of Rogue, yet both of the latter are covered. *shrug*
the overall quality of journalism seems to be declining on a daily basis
Re-he-he-ealy!? So you're suggesting that the quality was higher at some point in the past? I must have missed that day.:)
Of course, the summary appears to have been corrected (assuming it was wrong in the first place, which isn't much of a stretch); that's is actually pretty impressive for this site. Slashdot has links to fascinating things at times, but it's always been an overgrown teenage nerd blog, despite the fact that the founders are no longer technically teenagers. On the few occasions when they've actually been forced to address the quality of the "editing", they've shown a sort of misplaced pride in their incompetence, somehow feeling that the misspelling and misreporting adds more of a geeky feel to the place (something that many geeky people, including me, find highly offensive). So, Slashdot's a mixed bag, makes me grit my teeth and pound my head on occasion, but continues to have enough entertainment value that I keep coming back despite the constant, on-going embarrassing gaffes. BUT! I've been here for mumble years, and I've seen no evidence that it's getting worse, on a daily, weekly or yearly basis. It's always been this bad, dude. Just face it: like me, this is an embarrassing guilty pleasure, and you're never going away.:)
My experience is just about the opposite of yours. We began replacing incandescent with CFLs a little under three years ago, replacing bulbs only as the old ones died, and it took about six months to go all-CFL. Since we started the experiment, to date, we have had one CFL die. The first CFL we installed, nearly three years ago, is still going strong. It's too soon for any hard numbers, but the current data we have says that in our house, CFLs typically last at least six times as long as incandescents.
This is in California, so it's not like the house wiring was originally installed by Ben Franklin himself, but it's hardly brand-new either, and CA is somewhat notorious for its flaky power supply. (Unlike the population, which includes both flakes and nuts.):)
What you said is no different from having a millionaire eating at a charity soup kitchen without donating a cent.
It's HUGELY different! Eating at a charity soup kitchen means that much less food for the truly needy. Using Free/Libre software doesn't affect the amount of available Free/Libre software at all! It just means one more person using Free/Libre software. There's no reason to begrudge anyone, no matter how rich or powerful. And speaking as someone who's been developing Free/Libre software for many years, and has been an active member of the Debian project for a decade, I don't begrudge anyone who uses Free/Libre software I've written or contributed to. I do, however, begrudge misguided idiots who try to guilt people out of using software I've written or contributed to. When I sent it out to be freely copied, I meant it!
Not that I object to helpful bug reports or handy patches that provide nice new functionality. But it's not and never was a condition of my initial distribution of the software.
Your "analogy" about not helping an injured person makes so little sense to me that I'm not even sure how to respond to that one, assuming it really was supposed to be some sort of analogy, and not just the completely irrelevant, off-topic blather that it looks like.
What about other terminals for viewing documentation or file structure?
That's why GNU Screen was invented.:)
GNU Screen provides other terminals. Not physical terminals perhaps, but then xterm isn't exactly a physical terminal either, and the only real difference with screen is that all the terminals are multiplexed though a single (physical or virtual) terminal.
Face it, you don't use an IDE because IDEs are the equivalent of those crappy all-in-one stereos they sell at Wallmart with a crappy radio, crappy CD player, crappy cassette player and crappy speakers all integrated into one craptacular package, so you can't replace any component.:)
(Frameworks with plug-in support are a little better, but most of them seem to be based around a crappy gooey editor that isn't 1/10th as good as vim or emacs! When the only non-replaceable part is the one part I most want to replace, I find it hard to become enthusiastic about the tool.)
Possibly because you're smart enough to reason that if everyone acted that way, we'd all suffer in the long run? Possibly because you're descended from a long line of social apes who derive pleasure from the pleasure of others due to empathic circuitry in your brain which allows you to model the experiences of others who are, to some degree, similar to you, and therefore you can take pleasure in being part of a functioning society? Which circuitry in turn appears to have evolved because cooperation is such a powerful survival trait for a species?
Sorry, but I find those who think morality is all about power and fear to be nearly as clueless and misguided as those who think it's all about Big Daddy In the Sky. What logical reason (from an individual's viewpoint) is there for reproduction? Very little, and yet, for some reason, the desire to reproduce (or at least to engage in activities which are related to reproduction) is extremely powerful in almost all of us. Likewise (although more recently evolved and therefore much less powerful) the urge to cooperate and interact socially, and treat others as you would like to be treated. Although I suppose you could argue that that boils down to the power of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. Still, I think the carrot of the desire for pleasure is quite distinct from the stick of the fear of punishment you cite.
Without some timeless being which created everything, there is no absolute truth, which means that morality is a construct of society, and reflects the values of that society.
Sorry, but 1+1=2 does not require "some timeless being" to accept, and the Golden Rule is simple ethical algebra that doesn't depend on your opinions of the FSM. Space and Time may be relative, but Planck's constant and the speed of light are not. Morality may be a construct of society (note that I'm not accepting this hypothesis, merely working with it for the sake of a thought experiment), but Human society is created by a pack of social apes with a huge degree of common wiring, including mirror neurons, and inevitably reflects that fact. Pure moralistic relativism of the sort that that the religious so loudly and publicly worry about would only be possible in beings of pure thought, which we are decidedly not, and even if we were, basic game theory would militate against certain ethical formulations; cooperation is a first-rate survival trait in Darwinian terms (which may well be why we evolved mirror neurons in the first place).
Some elements of morality are purely subjective and slippery; others derive purely from our hard-wired brain circuitry, which in turn stems from millions of years of evolution; and others still derive from basic mathematical truisms.
You can rollback versions; compare any two versions; pretty much everything you'd expect from a version-control system.
Ok, obviously you've managed to find more features than I have (since I don't have access to a MOSS). On the other hand, the features you've described so far barely scratch the surface of what I'd expect from a 1970's era version control system, let alone a modern one, so unless there's a whole lot more there, I'd still hesitate to call it a version control system.
Say all the bad things you want about Sony (and there's plenty to say), but let's not forget that they're the ones who brought us the terms "time-shifting" and "significant noninfringing uses". They spent good, hard money defending our rights against the movie cartels, and ended up losing the market they were trying to defend (Betamax vs. VHS) anyway.
As for the rootkit debacle, was that evil? Sure. But can you say that anyone who was affected didn't deserve it? They were all running MS Windows, after all.:)
(For the slow-on-the-uptake, that last bit was humor.)
There's bt.etree.org, which shares live concert recordings of taper-friendly bands, and which tracks the shifting of petabytes each year. (It is, IMO, a much more useful site if you click on the "hide Grateful Dead and Phish" button at the bottom of the page, but opinions may vary.) There's also legaltorrents.com which specializes in creative-commons media. Neither one is going to have as much mainstream material as the illegal sites (that should go without saying), but etree, at least, has some fairly big names, e.g. Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Buckethead, JJ Cale, Los Lobos, Primus.
the real role players who knew there was more to role playing than dungeon crawls were mortified.
"Even more reviled than a typical roleplayer is a roleplayer who insists on roleplaying. When the dorks need to feel superior, this is the guy they denounce as a dork. Honestly. The only person worse than him is the DM himself."
-- Shamus Young, The DM of the Rings
"You punks stay in character! I was playing D&D before you got your first nintendo!" -- Gimli
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I don't see why you think you need an 'app' to fill this page. (Then again, I have no idea why you decided to use a subdomain for everything in the first place, but that's another matter.) Web servers ultimately serve up html, whether they generate it dynamically from a web app or not. So, if you want to make use of port 80 on your domain to drive out the squatters, all you really need is some minimal html.
<html><head></head><body></body></html>
That should fill all your needs, and you don't have to worry about it looking non-professional because it's clearly just a placeholder. If you really can't think of anything more, feel free to copy and paste the above. (Adding a DTD might be a nice touch, especially if you're a professional web developer, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the student.)
He said up front: he doesn't want his domain being used by a third party (his registrar) to sell advertisements. Seems reasonable to me (at the very least, he should get a cut of the pie). It's a little sad that he's so utterly lacking in imagination that he has to ask slashdot how to create a placeholder page, but not wanting to have his name and domain associated with random webspam is perfectly reasonable.
At a bare minimum, I think a simple page saying "hi, this is my domain, which is primarily used for non-web related services" would be perfectly adequate, i.e. enough to keep the spammers away. Beyond that, I agree, if he can't think of anything, maybe he just shouldn't bother to put anything.
Well, he covers Rogue in the online chapters, and much as I love Nethack myself, I would quickly agree that Rogue was the real trendsetter and innovator here.
Actually, I think Defender and Robotron:2084 are better known as arcade games, even if they were eventually ported to consoles and/or personal computers. Granted, those are listed in the on-line "Bonus Chapters" section, but even so, it makes gnick's point stronger.
I suppose one could argue that Asteroids wasn't really much of an innovation after Spacewar! (covered) and its years-ahead-of-its-time arcade version Space Wars, but then that same argument could be used to eliminate Diablo in favor of Rogue, yet both of the latter are covered. *shrug*
the overall quality of journalism seems to be declining on a daily basis
Re-he-he-ealy!? So you're suggesting that the quality was higher at some point in the past? I must have missed that day. :)
Of course, the summary appears to have been corrected (assuming it was wrong in the first place, which isn't much of a stretch); that's is actually pretty impressive for this site. Slashdot has links to fascinating things at times, but it's always been an overgrown teenage nerd blog, despite the fact that the founders are no longer technically teenagers. On the few occasions when they've actually been forced to address the quality of the "editing", they've shown a sort of misplaced pride in their incompetence, somehow feeling that the misspelling and misreporting adds more of a geeky feel to the place (something that many geeky people, including me, find highly offensive). So, Slashdot's a mixed bag, makes me grit my teeth and pound my head on occasion, but continues to have enough entertainment value that I keep coming back despite the constant, on-going embarrassing gaffes. BUT! I've been here for mumble years, and I've seen no evidence that it's getting worse, on a daily, weekly or yearly basis. It's always been this bad, dude. Just face it: like me, this is an embarrassing guilty pleasure, and you're never going away. :)
It seems linux use is incompatible with "making a child".
And yet, somehow, we saw the release of Linus 2.0.
Yeah, you beat the kid with the carrot, and feed them with the stick. I thought everyone knew that. :)
Given that vi and emacs both date back to 1976, according to Wikipedia, I'm not sure who is supposed to be on whose lawn here. :)
My experience is just about the opposite of yours. We began replacing incandescent with CFLs a little under three years ago, replacing bulbs only as the old ones died, and it took about six months to go all-CFL. Since we started the experiment, to date, we have had one CFL die. The first CFL we installed, nearly three years ago, is still going strong. It's too soon for any hard numbers, but the current data we have says that in our house, CFLs typically last at least six times as long as incandescents.
This is in California, so it's not like the house wiring was originally installed by Ben Franklin himself, but it's hardly brand-new either, and CA is somewhat notorious for its flaky power supply. (Unlike the population, which includes both flakes and nuts.) :)
TECO, dude, TECO! Oh, and get off my lawn! :)
What you said is no different from having a millionaire eating at a charity soup kitchen without donating a cent.
It's HUGELY different! Eating at a charity soup kitchen means that much less food for the truly needy. Using Free/Libre software doesn't affect the amount of available Free/Libre software at all! It just means one more person using Free/Libre software. There's no reason to begrudge anyone, no matter how rich or powerful. And speaking as someone who's been developing Free/Libre software for many years, and has been an active member of the Debian project for a decade, I don't begrudge anyone who uses Free/Libre software I've written or contributed to. I do, however, begrudge misguided idiots who try to guilt people out of using software I've written or contributed to. When I sent it out to be freely copied , I meant it!
Not that I object to helpful bug reports or handy patches that provide nice new functionality. But it's not and never was a condition of my initial distribution of the software.
Your "analogy" about not helping an injured person makes so little sense to me that I'm not even sure how to respond to that one, assuming it really was supposed to be some sort of analogy, and not just the completely irrelevant, off-topic blather that it looks like.
requiring Microsoft to reverse engineer how Firefox unencrypts
"Reverse engineer"? You mean they have to read the source code? Oh noes! How will they ever manage to do that!?
Obligatory XKCD link (five part story).
IANAL, but Groklaw contains all sorts of useful links to on-line legal references, which is how I found this. HTH. HAND.
What about other terminals for viewing documentation or file structure?
That's why GNU Screen was invented. :)
GNU Screen provides other terminals. Not physical terminals perhaps, but then xterm isn't exactly a physical terminal either, and the only real difference with screen is that all the terminals are multiplexed though a single (physical or virtual) terminal.
Face it, you don't use an IDE because IDEs are the equivalent of those crappy all-in-one stereos they sell at Wallmart with a crappy radio, crappy CD player, crappy cassette player and crappy speakers all integrated into one craptacular package, so you can't replace any component. :)
(Frameworks with plug-in support are a little better, but most of them seem to be based around a crappy gooey editor that isn't 1/10th as good as vim or emacs! When the only non-replaceable part is the one part I most want to replace, I find it hard to become enthusiastic about the tool.)
Possibly because you're smart enough to reason that if everyone acted that way, we'd all suffer in the long run? Possibly because you're descended from a long line of social apes who derive pleasure from the pleasure of others due to empathic circuitry in your brain which allows you to model the experiences of others who are, to some degree, similar to you, and therefore you can take pleasure in being part of a functioning society? Which circuitry in turn appears to have evolved because cooperation is such a powerful survival trait for a species?
Sorry, but I find those who think morality is all about power and fear to be nearly as clueless and misguided as those who think it's all about Big Daddy In the Sky. What logical reason (from an individual's viewpoint) is there for reproduction? Very little, and yet, for some reason, the desire to reproduce (or at least to engage in activities which are related to reproduction) is extremely powerful in almost all of us. Likewise (although more recently evolved and therefore much less powerful) the urge to cooperate and interact socially, and treat others as you would like to be treated. Although I suppose you could argue that that boils down to the power of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. Still, I think the carrot of the desire for pleasure is quite distinct from the stick of the fear of punishment you cite.
Without some timeless being which created everything, there is no absolute truth, which means that morality is a construct of society, and reflects the values of that society.
Sorry, but 1+1=2 does not require "some timeless being" to accept, and the Golden Rule is simple ethical algebra that doesn't depend on your opinions of the FSM. Space and Time may be relative, but Planck's constant and the speed of light are not. Morality may be a construct of society (note that I'm not accepting this hypothesis, merely working with it for the sake of a thought experiment), but Human society is created by a pack of social apes with a huge degree of common wiring, including mirror neurons, and inevitably reflects that fact. Pure moralistic relativism of the sort that that the religious so loudly and publicly worry about would only be possible in beings of pure thought, which we are decidedly not, and even if we were, basic game theory would militate against certain ethical formulations; cooperation is a first-rate survival trait in Darwinian terms (which may well be why we evolved mirror neurons in the first place).
Some elements of morality are purely subjective and slippery; others derive purely from our hard-wired brain circuitry, which in turn stems from millions of years of evolution; and others still derive from basic mathematical truisms.
You can rollback versions; compare any two versions; pretty much everything you'd expect from a version-control system.
Ok, obviously you've managed to find more features than I have (since I don't have access to a MOSS). On the other hand, the features you've described so far barely scratch the surface of what I'd expect from a 1970's era version control system, let alone a modern one, so unless there's a whole lot more there, I'd still hesitate to call it a version control system.
Sorry, I thought it was Wolfram, not Colbert. Guess I'll pay closer attention next time. :)
After an artificial black hole is created, things nearby fall into it very, very slowly.
Yes, everyone knows that gravity increases as the size of its source diminishes. This is an obvious corollary to the fact that Gravity Sucks. :)
Say all the bad things you want about Sony (and there's plenty to say), but let's not forget that they're the ones who brought us the terms "time-shifting" and "significant noninfringing uses". They spent good, hard money defending our rights against the movie cartels, and ended up losing the market they were trying to defend (Betamax vs. VHS) anyway.
As for the rootkit debacle, was that evil? Sure. But can you say that anyone who was affected didn't deserve it? They were all running MS Windows, after all. :)
(For the slow-on-the-uptake, that last bit was humor.)
Word does have version control.
No, it does not. It has some basic change-tracking, but that is a far cry from anything resembling version control.
I agree. The basic price (the requirement to use Windows) is way beyond what I've ever been willing to pay. :)
There's bt.etree.org, which shares live concert recordings of taper-friendly bands, and which tracks the shifting of petabytes each year. (It is, IMO, a much more useful site if you click on the "hide Grateful Dead and Phish" button at the bottom of the page, but opinions may vary.) There's also legaltorrents.com which specializes in creative-commons media. Neither one is going to have as much mainstream material as the illegal sites (that should go without saying), but etree, at least, has some fairly big names, e.g. Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Buckethead, JJ Cale, Los Lobos, Primus.
the real role players who knew there was more to role playing than dungeon crawls were mortified.
"Even more reviled than a typical roleplayer is a roleplayer who insists on roleplaying. When the dorks need to feel superior, this is the guy they denounce as a dork. Honestly. The only person worse than him is the DM himself."
-- Shamus Young, The DM of the Rings
"You punks stay in character! I was playing D&D before you got your first nintendo!" -- Gimli