in the Netherlands there's a major ruckus over placing paddos (the halucination-inducting mushrooms) on the opium list and thus making it illegal to sell.
pa-the-stool-an is phonetic for paddestoelen, the Dutch word for mushroom.
The good thing is that is easy to work with and works really good.
Last time I had to reconstruct a particular email's flow through various MTAs including Qmail ended at the Qmail MTA since it the log files it uses offer little to system administrators to do proper troubleshooting.
That alone is one major reason to never ever consider it for production use.
The URL to wikinews says that this editor 'Dragonfriend' lists as notable webcomics Penny Arcade and three others I have never even heard of. My gf who uses the Internet much has never even heard of Penny Arcade. So, who's idea of notable? Some comics are very particular to a specific domain and unheard of outside that domain.
If you want a notable comic, use something from www.comics.com, at least these get syndicated in newspapers in multiple countries and different languages.
The user interface is just horrendous. Every time I keep trying to use it and it just shows that despite all the best of intentions the coders on the project just have no clue whatsoever what constitutes a useful user interface.
Of course, that is my opinion. Your own may differ...
From what I remember reading in some research is that a light grey text on a black background actually produces one of the best readable displays for your eyes.
Yes they do, one of the things you have to do if you supply patches to GCC and the likes requires you to sign papers that hand over copyright to the FSF. One of the reasons I never bothered to. As a fervent BSD and MIT license user I have no problems contributing to (L)GPL projects, but when it comes to legally write over anything to, say, the FSF, that's where I draw the line.
Any bundled GCC, like in FreeBSD and OpenBSD, will then be screwed since they add format protection changes. Heck, they need to change the way the gcc -v outputs it versioning to show it is not the stock GCC: gcc version 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 (6.2-STABLE box).
It has validity, the argument that more is better does not necessarily hold true. If you look at the uptake numbers you will see large clusters around projects like: Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, Red Flag and SuSE (and perhaps 1 or 2 others I forget now). The rest of the distributions leads a marginal existence unless they satisfy a very local need (Red Flag or one of those Indic-supporting ones).
So what else do those distributions serve except egocentrical purposes, especially since the majority consists from taking a large well-known distribution and only tweaking it slightly and, tada, Monkey Nutsack Linux is born.
Seriously, for most consumers, assuming Linux is still going after Windows and the desktop, more choice is not necessarily better, especially not when it numbers in the hundreds.
or does reading about this kind of subject seem a total waste of time?
I mean, respect for the people who can put up with the repetitious nature of most MMORPGs (I didn't last longer than 2-3 months in WoW or similar games), but to read about a guild and what they have done seems like punishment I would not want to inflict upon anyone, no matter how much they like this genre.
Oh please. Lay off the bash fanboyism already. I personally get sick and tired of scripts that assume bash to have been installed under/bin. At least use a more portable hash-bang sequence like #!/usr/bin/env bash to make them semi-portable. Make the default shell a normal bourne again shell and allow users to switch to their own preferred one.
Also if the bash manual page says this:
BUGS
It's too big and too slow.
Then you just know it is a bad choice beyond even other considerations.
The Japanese standard for QR Codes, JIS X 0510, was released in January of 1999, and a corresponding ISO International Standard, ISO/IEC 18004, was approved in June of 2000.
"QR Code is open in the sense that the specification of QR Code is disclosed and that the patent right owned by Denso Wave is not exercised."--from the Denso-Wave website
Years ago this was already set in motion through the Berlin Declaration (http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclarat ion.html).
Currently in the Netherlands almost all major universities have repositories for their papers, theses, et cetera. Typically runs software like DSpace (www.dspace.org) or others (Chesire3, et cetera).
What else would I use to edit, crop and save screen shots when I'm writing documentation?
Then I would sincerely doubt you are a professional technical writer.
Most technical writers I know have switched long again to Techsmith's SnagIt (http://www.techsmith.com/) or similar products.
Both you guys keep calling it Paintbrush, which may have been the name of it once in history, but nowadays it known as Paint, just to be overly pedantic.
Take for example how strict some mathematicians reacted when some English person tried to solve Fermat's theorem. He was met with incredible scepsis bordering hostility and bullying. In the end he proved them all wrong.
So even the specialists are keen to make mistakes based on emotional foundations.
As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance. -- Hui-Neng
And Eastern Europe is very active right now revamping a lot of their telecommunication systems so that will mean that in the coming time their broadband penetration will soar as well.
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I find it funny people complain about this sort of thing and they do not even refer to the fact Blizzard uses case insensitive passwords? Curious.
For those who miss the joke of this:
in the Netherlands there's a major ruckus over placing paddos (the halucination-inducting mushrooms) on the opium list and thus making it illegal to sell.
pa-the-stool-an is phonetic for paddestoelen, the Dutch word for mushroom.
The good thing is that is easy to work with and works really good.
Last time I had to reconstruct a particular email's flow through various MTAs including Qmail ended at the Qmail MTA since it the log files it uses offer little to system administrators to do proper troubleshooting.
That alone is one major reason to never ever consider it for production use.
I just this whole notability thing simplistic.
The URL to wikinews says that this editor 'Dragonfriend' lists as notable webcomics Penny Arcade and three others I have never even heard of. My gf who uses the Internet much has never even heard of Penny Arcade. So, who's idea of notable? Some comics are very particular to a specific domain and unheard of outside that domain.
If you want a notable comic, use something from www.comics.com, at least these get syndicated in newspapers in multiple countries and different languages.
The user interface is just horrendous. Every time I keep trying to use it and it just shows that despite all the best of intentions the coders on the project just have no clue whatsoever what constitutes a useful user interface.
Of course, that is my opinion. Your own may differ...
From what I remember reading in some research is that a light grey text on a black background actually produces one of the best readable displays for your eyes.
Anyway, interesting read: http://www.writer2001.com/colwebcontrast.htm
With all due respect to the people hacking GCC, this is a grey area you do not want to worry about when compiling your code. Period.
And no one noticed yet that binutils already went to GPLv3?
Yes they do, one of the things you have to do if you supply patches to GCC and the likes requires you to sign papers that hand over copyright to the FSF. One of the reasons I never bothered to. As a fervent BSD and MIT license user I have no problems contributing to (L)GPL projects, but when it comes to legally write over anything to, say, the FSF, that's where I draw the line.
I am pretty sure that in a little while people will seriously consider alternatives to GCC.
Any bundled GCC, like in FreeBSD and OpenBSD, will then be screwed since they add format protection changes. Heck, they need to change the way the gcc -v outputs it versioning to show it is not the stock GCC: gcc version 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 (6.2-STABLE box).
It has validity, the argument that more is better does not necessarily hold true. If you look at the uptake numbers you will see large clusters around projects like: Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, Red Flag and SuSE (and perhaps 1 or 2 others I forget now). The rest of the distributions leads a marginal existence unless they satisfy a very local need (Red Flag or one of those Indic-supporting ones).
So what else do those distributions serve except egocentrical purposes, especially since the majority consists from taking a large well-known distribution and only tweaking it slightly and, tada, Monkey Nutsack Linux is born.
Seriously, for most consumers, assuming Linux is still going after Windows and the desktop, more choice is not necessarily better, especially not when it numbers in the hundreds.
Sorry, but Creeper beat that Apple II virus by about 10 years.
c hapter=153310937
c hapter=153310910 states that such ideas and programs already started in the 40s and 50s.
http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruses/encyclopedia?
Furthermore http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruses/encyclopedia?
or does reading about this kind of subject seem a total waste of time?
I mean, respect for the people who can put up with the repetitious nature of most MMORPGs (I didn't last longer than 2-3 months in WoW or similar games), but to read about a guild and what they have done seems like punishment I would not want to inflict upon anyone, no matter how much they like this genre.
The reviewer must be a brave man indeed...
Oh please. Lay off the bash fanboyism already. I personally get sick and tired of scripts that assume bash to have been installed under /bin. At least use a more portable hash-bang sequence like #!/usr/bin/env bash to make them semi-portable. Make the default shell a normal bourne again shell and allow users to switch to their own preferred one.
Also if the bash manual page says this:
BUGS
It's too big and too slow.
Then you just know it is a bad choice beyond even other considerations.
I think this says enough:
The Japanese standard for QR Codes, JIS X 0510, was released in January of 1999, and a corresponding ISO International Standard, ISO/IEC 18004, was approved in June of 2000.
"QR Code is open in the sense that the specification of QR Code is disclosed and that the patent right owned by Denso Wave is not exercised."--from the Denso-Wave website
Years ago this was already set in motion through the Berlin Declaration (http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclarat ion.html).
Currently in the Netherlands almost all major universities have repositories for their papers, theses, et cetera. Typically runs software like DSpace (www.dspace.org) or others (Chesire3, et cetera).
See http://www.opendoar.org/ for open access repositories.
Maniac Mansion allowed you to die a lot. :)
You get the idea, but pretend I make this list TEN TIMES longer.
And it would still be way shorter than the entire text of the GPL.
Then I would sincerely doubt you are a professional technical writer. Most technical writers I know have switched long again to Techsmith's SnagIt (http://www.techsmith.com/) or similar products.
Both you guys keep calling it Paintbrush, which may have been the name of it once in history, but nowadays it known as Paint, just to be overly pedantic.
And quite right Dogen-roshi was.
Take for example how strict some mathematicians reacted when some English person tried to solve Fermat's theorem. He was met with incredible scepsis bordering hostility and bullying. In the end he proved them all wrong.
So even the specialists are keen to make mistakes based on emotional foundations.
As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance. -- Hui-Neng
I still cannot understand how people dare call Diablo an RPG. Pre-made characters, no control over your environment save hacking 'n slashing.
And for this reason I also don't call World of Warcraft an RPG. Both these games have RPG elements, but by far they're just hack 'n slashers.
Guess the people playing these games almost never did paper RPGs or play older Bard's Tales, Eye of the Beholder, et cetera.
Even Nethack gives you more RPG satisfaction!
Because that's what Google has proclaimed from its inception?
I think you are a bit mistaken about broadband penetration outside the US.
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*Especially* outside the US broadband is more the norm than the exception since the late 1990's.
Some facts (based on Q3 2005 numbers):
80% of the South-Koreans have broadband, 75% of Hong Kong, 60% of Israel, 60% of Taiwan, ~57% of Singapore, 55% of The Netherlands, 53% of Monaco, 53% of Canada, 51% of Switzerland, and 50% of Denmark. (source: http://www.marketingfacts.nl/images/uploads/20060
The following is also interesting to see: http://www.marketingfacts.nl/images/uploads/per-c
Growth broadband in percentage first half year of 2005: http://www.marketingfacts.nl/images/uploads/europ
And Eastern Europe is very active right now revamping a lot of their telecommunication systems so that will mean that in the coming time their broadband penetration will soar as well.
And since when does 'no Internet' mean it is equal 'no network'?
Ever heard of IPX/SPX? How about companies that do not offer Internet access, but have a IP-enabled LAN?