This may be the funniest thing I've read all week. Bravo, sir. I wish I'd a mod point to give (and if you have no mod points, well then god... bless... you...)
The DVD Logo is a mark that symbolizes the legitimacy and better compliance of the DVD product. When used correctly, it shows that the product was manufactured by a Licensee (legitimacy) and that the product passed the Verification test (better compliance).
Wanna know who these cats are? Again, from their own web site: "[the DVD FLLC] was a mutual effort of the ten companies that originated DVD Format back in 1995... These companies are: Hitachi, Philips, Matsushita, Mitsubishi, JVC, Pioneer, Sony, Thomson, Time Warner and Toshiba." Fascinating, what a thirty-second exercise with Google will get you.
Whether or not they are worthy recipients of your hard-earned money is left as an exercise to the reader.
Netscape 6.1 works with no problem. Mozilla 0.9.something does not.
I would infer from this that this is the result of an overzealous web master trying to limit the number of platforms he has to develop for, rather than a flat-out effort to funnel all traffic to IE - although the selection of links on that "upgrade" page certainly seems to indicate that they don't mind giving MSIE a boost.
That wasn't really a cameo - it was arguably the lead role. And the title, if memory serves, was taken from the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Charge of the Light Brigade. So it was probably "The Light Brigade.":)
I used the net on September 11 for exactly the reason you described. At my office, we had a TV, but no cable or antenna: the television was used strictly for videoconferences. So, we had a colleague at another site pipe us the CNN feed over the video link. (Gotta love fat pipe).
The big story about the net as a source of information was how badly it failed in the few hours after the attacks: every major news site was utterly swamped, with the exception of Slashdot - and that's probably because most people were turning to/. as a last resort. I was much less worried about CNN being hacked than I was about not being able to see it at all.
On the plus side: Blogger, and web logs in general, was priceless to me in keeping track of my friends. The first indication I had that my NYC friends weren't hurt in the attack was seeing them update their personal pages.
What do you mean, "seems to imply?" It states it flat out:
Instead, we have documented a compelling connection between global routing instability and the propagation phase of Microsoft worms such as Code Red and Nimda... what were thought to be purely traffic-based denials of service in fact are seen to generate widespread end-to-end routing instability...
If you're trying to suggest that the story submission is unfair in alleging that Microsoft worms are causing this instability... well, that's exactly what the paper is saying, eh?
Someone else has already mentioned how they work. The weakness of an ion engine is that it's incapable of accelerating very quickly. On the other hand, it's extremely efficient, and capable of eventually producing extremely high speeds. You can read more information on NASA's ion propultion FAQ
Oh - and anyone who's ever played TIE Fighter knows that an Imperial fighter has a hell of a lot more get-up-and-go than Deep Space 1. So ion engines with that kind of punch are still a long way off.;)
The problem isn't the "identifying someone" problem. It's the "having someone looking over your shoulder" problem.
For example: since this card would be used to, say, identify people at airports, it is presumed that the government would be using them to track people's movements. I'm not entirely comfortable with the government snooping over my travel plans.
As the grammar nazi, let me be the first to point out that the English language commonly uses more than 24 characters. Let's see, in this single sentence, I used 22 different characters.
I'm not sure exactly what your point is. The guy is saying that the 24 selections occur with enough freqency so that they comprise 99.5% of the typing you do. I haven't done that bath, but on the face of it, I don't have any trouble accepting the notion that you can sum up 99.5% of all your typed characters in 24 keys: including the spaces, commas, and period, the sentence you picked as an example contained 119 characters, of which fully 32 were lowercase vowels. 22 were spaces. So, 54 of the characters in the sentence (close to half) were one of six characters.
Right. I clearly understand how invisible keys can be assigned for optimum alphabet distribution.
Meaning, the keys aren't labeled, so re-mapping the character set doesn't result in a conflict with the labels.
I'm all for being skeptical of these claims, but be reasonable, too.
I've never seen an Apache server running as root (except for the initial start-up process). Even in my greenest sysadmining days, I never set up Apache to run as root. And believe me, I did some dumb-ass things.
...and then, you can follow each link to find out what new dependencies you'll have to satisfy. And so on, ad nauseaum.
On the Debian system I put together last week (a near-minimal install), I typed "apt-get install mailman" this morning. A second later, it responded by saying would also need to fetch apache, apache-base, and python-base, and did I still want to continue?
Speaking as a former RedHat user (and a guy who has logged many hours poring over rpmfind.net), I have to say that apt-get is really easy to get used to.
if you're out there disparaging Microsoft software and services, and you're USING them, then that's pretty hypocritical, and you should switch to vi/Linux/Apache.
So, I shouldn't write a blog entry that says, "Jesus, I'm stuck here using vi. I hate vi,"?
Or use Frontpage 2000 to write an article critical of Microsoft's OEM licensing practices?
Or - extending the analogy a bit - use MS Word to write a negative review of Asheron's Call?
Come to think of it, I'm already on shaky ground. I'm posting that this policy is bullshit using MSIE!
If I were in their shoes I would fight even if it meant that I would die to free the country.
Spoken like a true Anonymous Coward.
First of all: the revolutionaries of the US weren't starving until the winter of Valley Forge. Most of the people you've read about in your history books - Thomas Paine, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson - were pretty damn well off, and kicked off their revolution primarily because they couldn't compete economically with the state-backed monopolies from England (Like the East India Company).
But hey, let's say for the sake of argument that the Founding Fathers weren't any more advantaged than the average shmuck living in Afghanistan. Tell you what - why don't you fly out there with a bunch of friends and kick the Taliban's asses for us? Shouldn't be too hard. The fact that tens of thousands of people are fleeing the country as we speak, on top of the estimated two million who had already fled the country for Pakistan shouldn't deter you in any way: I'm sure they're all just big pussies.
The point, if you were too wrapped up in confusing Mosaic Law with pacifism to notice it, is that the people of Afghanistan are not the people who did this, any more than those killed in the World Trade Center were responsible for the deaths of the Palestinians and Iraqis that Bin Laden claims to be avenging. As one Afghan expatriate put it, when you think of the people of Afghanistan, "think the Jews in the concentration camps."
Oh, and while you're thinking that over, consider: a massive military strike against Afghanistan is exactly what Bin Laden is hoping for. From the same article:
We're flirting with a world war between Islam and the West. And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants... Read his speeches and statements... It might seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world into Islam and the West, he's got a billion soldiers... He's probably wrong, in the end the west would win, whatever that would mean, but the war would last for years and millions would die, not just theirs but ours. Who has the belly for that? Bin Laden does. Anyone else?
The entire story is based upon a posting by a private individual on Islamway's English language discussion board, in the context of an ongoing dialogue between two individuals. There are over 28,000 postings on the discussion board, with more than 34,000 visitors to the page everyday, and over 4,000 active members. Islamway is in no way responsible for the content of postings by private individuals, anymore than CNN.com or Yahoo! are responsible for the postings found on the discussion boards on their sites...A reporter from an Ottawa television station conveyed to Islamway staff that the Canadian authorities have dismissed the issue as baseless, and B'nai B'rith has refused any further comment.
So first, everyone relax. It wasn't like the owner of this site was actively recruiting.
Second, it sounds like the Canadian government isn't interested in pursuing the issue, which is a relief.
And third, I don't see anyone pulling for net regulation when assholes in our own country start shouting, "Nuke them sand-niggers back into the stone age! I'm gonna get me one tonight!"
Well, I think XML is a generalization of HTML because of the repetition of HTML extension.
That's not precisely correct. XML is an extension of SGML, which means that XML is more like HTML's younger brother, or a cousin, than its descendant. It's probably accurate to say that XML is the more anal of the two, retaining more of the "no, the really is a right and a wrong way to do it" sense of SGML, but managing to avoid the unbelievable complexity
XHTML, on the other hand, is what happens when you marry HTML's docment types to XML's rulebase. This is an exceedingly rare example of how inbreeding isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Way to misread that, Sammy Baby.
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Okay, I know it's terrible, but when I first read this story I thought that the web hosting credit - for Bombora Trading - was supposed to be some kind of bad joke. Like, "Hey, was that a bomb, or a trade center?" Ugh.
It's funny how one's sense of humor desperately tries to reassert itself after something like this.
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This may be the funniest thing I've read all week. Bravo, sir. I wish I'd a mod point to give (and if you have no mod points, well then god... bless... you...)
Fees are collected for the use of that logo, by the "DVD Format Logo Licensing Corporation." According to them,
Wanna know who these cats are? Again, from their own web site: "[the DVD FLLC] was a mutual effort of the ten companies that originated DVD Format back in 1995... These companies are: Hitachi, Philips, Matsushita, Mitsubishi, JVC, Pioneer, Sony, Thomson, Time Warner and Toshiba." Fascinating, what a thirty-second exercise with Google will get you.
Whether or not they are worthy recipients of your hard-earned money is left as an exercise to the reader.
Netscape 6.1 works with no problem. Mozilla 0.9.something does not.
I would infer from this that this is the result of an overzealous web master trying to limit the number of platforms he has to develop for, rather than a flat-out effort to funnel all traffic to IE - although the selection of links on that "upgrade" page certainly seems to indicate that they don't mind giving MSIE a boost.
Thanks, Anton. I'm sure that will be a big help for all those Slashdot visitors who have never heard of Linux before.
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Just to be clear: the Digital Convergence named in the story isn't the same Digital Convergence which gave people a hard time for messing with their "CueCat" foo.
That wasn't really a cameo - it was arguably the lead role. And the title, if memory serves, was taken from the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Charge of the Light Brigade. So it was probably "The Light Brigade." :)
It's Kurt Russell, not Kirk.
Right answer, but wrong justification.
/. as a last resort. I was much less worried about CNN being hacked than I was about not being able to see it at all.
I used the net on September 11 for exactly the reason you described. At my office, we had a TV, but no cable or antenna: the television was used strictly for videoconferences. So, we had a colleague at another site pipe us the CNN feed over the video link. (Gotta love fat pipe).
The big story about the net as a source of information was how badly it failed in the few hours after the attacks: every major news site was utterly swamped, with the exception of Slashdot - and that's probably because most people were turning to
On the plus side: Blogger, and web logs in general, was priceless to me in keeping track of my friends. The first indication I had that my NYC friends weren't hurt in the attack was seeing them update their personal pages.
Dear lord - did they have to call it Mojoworld?
I hope that Mojo Nixon doesn't decide to sue, seeing as how he's already written songs about it, and all.
Doh. I completely misread Baptiste's original post. I should never reply to anything on /. prior to my first daily dose of caffiene. My apologies.
If you're trying to suggest that the story submission is unfair in alleging that Microsoft worms are causing this instability... well, that's exactly what the paper is saying, eh?
Someone else has already mentioned how they work. The weakness of an ion engine is that it's incapable of accelerating very quickly. On the other hand, it's extremely efficient, and capable of eventually producing extremely high speeds. You can read more information on NASA's ion propultion FAQ
;)
Oh - and anyone who's ever played TIE Fighter knows that an Imperial fighter has a hell of a lot more get-up-and-go than Deep Space 1. So ion engines with that kind of punch are still a long way off.
The problem isn't the "identifying someone" problem. It's the "having someone looking over your shoulder" problem.
For example: since this card would be used to, say, identify people at airports, it is presumed that the government would be using them to track people's movements. I'm not entirely comfortable with the government snooping over my travel plans.
Whoops. Haven't done that math. I have a cold.
I'm not sure exactly what your point is. The guy is saying that the 24 selections occur with enough freqency so that they comprise 99.5% of the typing you do. I haven't done that bath, but on the face of it, I don't have any trouble accepting the notion that you can sum up 99.5% of all your typed characters in 24 keys: including the spaces, commas, and period, the sentence you picked as an example contained 119 characters, of which fully 32 were lowercase vowels. 22 were spaces. So, 54 of the characters in the sentence (close to half) were one of six characters.
Meaning, the keys aren't labeled, so re-mapping the character set doesn't result in a conflict with the labels.
I'm all for being skeptical of these claims, but be reasonable, too.
I've never seen an Apache server running as root (except for the initial start-up process). Even in my greenest sysadmining days, I never set up Apache to run as root. And believe me, I did some dumb-ass things.
...and then, you can follow each link to find out what new dependencies you'll have to satisfy. And so on, ad nauseaum.
On the Debian system I put together last week (a near-minimal install), I typed "apt-get install mailman" this morning. A second later, it responded by saying would also need to fetch apache, apache-base, and python-base, and did I still want to continue?
Speaking as a former RedHat user (and a guy who has logged many hours poring over rpmfind.net), I have to say that apt-get is really easy to get used to.
So, I shouldn't write a blog entry that says, "Jesus, I'm stuck here using vi. I hate vi,"?
Or use Frontpage 2000 to write an article critical of Microsoft's OEM licensing practices?
Or - extending the analogy a bit - use MS Word to write a negative review of Asheron's Call?
Come to think of it, I'm already on shaky ground. I'm posting that this policy is bullshit using MSIE!
(Oh, for the record - I dig vi.)
...proving definitively that the Atari 2600 platform is superior to the PS2.
Spoken like a true Anonymous Coward.
First of all: the revolutionaries of the US weren't starving until the winter of Valley Forge. Most of the people you've read about in your history books - Thomas Paine, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson - were pretty damn well off, and kicked off their revolution primarily because they couldn't compete economically with the state-backed monopolies from England (Like the East India Company).
But hey, let's say for the sake of argument that the Founding Fathers weren't any more advantaged than the average shmuck living in Afghanistan. Tell you what - why don't you fly out there with a bunch of friends and kick the Taliban's asses for us? Shouldn't be too hard. The fact that tens of thousands of people are fleeing the country as we speak, on top of the estimated two million who had already fled the country for Pakistan shouldn't deter you in any way: I'm sure they're all just big pussies.
The point, if you were too wrapped up in confusing Mosaic Law with pacifism to notice it, is that the people of Afghanistan are not the people who did this, any more than those killed in the World Trade Center were responsible for the deaths of the Palestinians and Iraqis that Bin Laden claims to be avenging. As one Afghan expatriate put it, when you think of the people of Afghanistan, "think the Jews in the concentration camps."
Oh, and while you're thinking that over, consider: a massive military strike against Afghanistan is exactly what Bin Laden is hoping for. From the same article:
Not me.
So first, everyone relax. It wasn't like the owner of this site was actively recruiting.
Second, it sounds like the Canadian government isn't interested in pursuing the issue, which is a relief.
And third, I don't see anyone pulling for net regulation when assholes in our own country start shouting, "Nuke them sand-niggers back into the stone age! I'm gonna get me one tonight!"
As a brief side note: I'd like to remind everyone that the people of Afghanistan live in terror of the Taliban. Please think of the ways they're suffering before blindly calling for their annihilation.
Pardon, but isn't the name usally written in a different character set? What difference does it make, as long as you pronounce it correctly?
XHTML, on the other hand, is what happens when you marry HTML's docment types to XML's rulebase. This is an exceedingly rare example of how inbreeding isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Okay, I know it's terrible, but when I first read this story I thought that the web hosting credit - for Bombora Trading - was supposed to be some kind of bad joke. Like, "Hey, was that a bomb, or a trade center?" Ugh.
It's funny how one's sense of humor desperately tries to reassert itself after something like this.