Note to Daniel Dvorkin: Grandparent post may not be "offtopic" but it is definitely Flamebait or, at least, a Troll. There's no meaningful debate to be held from the grandparent post - he just asserts that he wants Bush out of office (fair enough) and then equates him with the Nazis (er, not fair) - so yes, moderators can safely moderate that post down.
While I suspect that the Godwin's Law invocation was intentional, in this case, there's no discussion to continue, and no discussion to start. So - it's just Flamebait or a Troll. (As is your pointless snipe at "right-wingers" being afraid to openly debate, uh, something. I don't know what, because you didn't say, and the grandparent poster really only said that Bush was a Nazi - that he wants him out of office kind of follows from that statement.)
(First off, it'd be a civil matter. The police won't arrest you.)
Secondly, downloading MP3s is still rather blatantly illegal. You have fair use rights to make copies of the CDs you bought, but not to make copies of other people's CDs or MP3s. (Disclaimer: IANAL.)
I don't really agree that this is the way it should be, but this is the way it is, at least at present.
I, personally, disliked Wind Waker, but NOT because of the graphics. I personally rather enjoyed the graphical style. However, Wind Waker eventually devolved into endless sailing and one gigantic fetch quest with really nothing original about it.
Oh yes. The worst moment for me in Wind Waker was right when "The End" displayed at the end of the rather drab and uninteresting finishing movie. I could only think one thing: "That's IT?!"
I didn't really like the graphics style, but it wasn't really all that bad. The gameplay was good too - far superior to the N64 Zeldas. (Mainly due to improved camera control and an improved auto-jump so that Link doesn't randomly jump into pits and burning pools of lava.)
It was the far-too-simple puzzles and lack of a really interesting story line prevented me from ever getting too interested in the story or really ever having any fun.
(Then, of course, there were the far-too-stupid puzzles - hey, we give you clues to find the ghost ship, but you need to find the map that points right at the damned thing if you actually want to go on it! I wound up chasing the ghost ship for about an hour before giving up and looking it up online to discover that you need the map to it to actually go on it. Why do I need the map if I can find it on my own?! You gave me all the information to find it without the map! Too bad they gave no hints as to how to get on the ship - just how to find it. Obviously they expect you to be too stupid to notice these hints and think that everyone's going to go looking for a map instead. It's that type of illogic that makes puzzle games frusterating.)
While this Zelda looks far nicer, it's going to be the gameplay and story that eventually make it win or lose. There was some interesting new stuff in Wind Waker (like the Deku Leaf to allow you to float) - hopefully we'll get some cool new things in the new Zelda to keep things interesting.
Although the one thing I would really like to see in a new Zelda game is something other than the freaking Master Sword be the central component. That thing has been used far too often as the central plot point - make Link go get a new sword for once! It's been the corner stone of three of the last four Zelda releases on the console. (I lost track of the Game Boy releases.) It's time to let it rest - forever - like the text said at the end of Link to the Past.
1) *nix only. That doesn't sell copies, since everyone else is using Windows. This is the #1 way to cut out a gigantic market demographic for software developers these days, especially when we're talking about desktop software.
Actually, if you looked at the very top of the page, you'd notice that Slashdot only linked to the Linux beta page. There's a Windows version, plus a PocketPC version, and a Handheld PC version (whatever "handheld PC" means - I could only pull up the linked page, after that, the site died).
Of course, as to whether or not this will succeed - who knows. There probably is a market for 100% feature-complete Excel clone that runs on multiple platforms. You wouldn't believe how much Excel gets used in the buisness world - I've seen it used as a database before! It gets used a lot as a very powerful and very easy to use data storage and presentation tool. Plus the VBScript macros are very powerful - if a little on the slow side and annoying to write.
I'm currently writing an application in Excel. No, seriously. I'd rather use something else. (Anything else!) But the client wants to add some code to an existing Excel spreadsheet to get some added functionality. VBScript and Windows Forms allows me to do that job with just Excel. Of course, this ties the customer to Excel and Windows - giving them another option in the future that's cheaper than the Microsoft solution could very well gain customers.
Although I tend to agree - I doubt that this will have much effect against Microsoft or any of the other Linux spread sheets.
but patches are distributed not as patches to individual files (e.g. diffs) but as whole file replacements.
You are aware that with a complete copy of the original directories, even with "whole file replacements," you're now just one step away from getting a diff?
Although I still think patches should be released as soon as possible because even if they do help "crackers" (or whatever we're calling them today) find exploits, there are still very intelligent black hats who will eventually find the exploit and start spreading it around. Patching it faster may mean more exploits sooner, but it also means that people can patch against the flaw without waiting for some black hat to make the entire point moot.
Yeah, this is true, and I would have modded you up except that I want to ask a question here:).
Anyway, my question is simple - there's this line on my state taxes that asks me how much I paid in out-of-state goods over the past year so I can fork over sales tax on the items. My answer: I have no idea. Am I supposed to?
I was rather surprised to see this on my tax forms, since I don't recall being told any time that I should be saving receipts from out-of-state purchase. And while someone probably could look up my out-of-state purchases on my credit card, I don't have instant access to those records... Even if I did, I don't know what counts and what wouldn't. For example, some things aren't taxed in Massachusetts, like clothing.
I can't see how this will possibly work. I have no way of looking up this data - is it really my responsibility to keep track of my out-of-state purchases so the state can get their $5 or whatever? I don't make many purchases out of state anyway, and I definately don't bother keeping track of which purchases were made out of state and which were not.
...which is in the US Northeast, remember, my memories of the blackout were vague news reports of a possible terrorist strike (which slowly changed to "Blame Canada"), and the lights staying on for the duration of the "US Northeast Blackout.":P
I also remember that the Daily Show played a lousy clip show that night. I was upset... I had hoped they would have battery-backup or something, and was looking forward to the Hillary Clinton interview (that was done later and turned out to be as boring as everyone else expected).
Er - that's about it, though.
I think some parts of MA were hit, but I live in the north-east section of MA, so the lights stayed on. Still plenty of people managed to panic anyway, thinking that the lights were going to go out "any minute now" but they never did. Apparently we just got lucky, though. Although I'm curious if our town would have lost power, since its public power system has proven to be very reliable and gets power from many sources. It's always fun when a snow-storm knocks out the surrounding towns power and our lights stay on.:)
"Access to the engine compartment may allow access to the copyrighted computer code. It is protected from unauthorized access by use of a sealed compartment. Therefore, attempting to access the engine compartment is an attempt to circumvent an effective copyright protection mechanism, which is illegal under the DMCA."
Disclaimer: IANAL, and I have no idea if that's really valid - but it's what I came up with to rationalize the "DMCA" argument. Who knows?
Except that Mandrake Linux is a rather blatant rip-off of the Mandrake the Magician cartoon.
Look at their current logo. (The topic icon.) Notice the little "magic" star and spark thingy. Notice a theme? Magic, maybe?
Take a look at their old logo. Compare with this image of Mandrake the Magician. Notice any similarities? Other than the penguin, it's basically the same thing - including the cape and wand! Although Mandrake the Magician doesn't have a big ugly star, and the cape is blue and not red.
It seems quite clear that Mandrake Linux intended to rip off Mandrake the Magician's look and name. It seems very clear to me that Mandrake Linux is in the wrong and will need to change their name. It's obvious they knew about Mandrake the Magician - they copied him for their original logo!
As an example of this I can point out my new site that creates a rather neat alpha-effect using a fixed background image. This works with Mozilla but not with IE. There's also a standards complaint Tetris-like game I've coded on the site, it works with Mozilla but not with IE.
And, because they're standards compliant, the alpha effect and the Tetris game both work in Opera too. But not in IE.
Last I checked, Slashcode stores the IP of all posts made. Admin accounts can see the IP of any post made.
I'm not 100% if this is true or only on AC posts, but to the best of my knowledge your IP is permenantly logged when you make a post, even if it is "anonymous."
I downloaded Slashcode and I can guarentee that the database table for the comments does indeed contain a column for storing the IP address of the comment submitter. However I cannot be sure that this information is actually permentantly kept since I don't really have a machine on which I can install Slashcode.
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Yes, in the Revised Democratic History, Al Gore did not claim to invent the Internet.
Unfortunately, in a little place called reality, he did. He said, and this is a direct quote from the page you link to, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Hell, the Snopes page, even though it marks it false, concludes with:
...even though Congressman, Senator, and Vice-President Gore may always have been interested in and well-informed about information technology issues, that's a far cry from having taken an active, vital leadership role in bringing about those technologies. Even if Al Gore had never entered the political arena, we'd probably still be reading web pages via the Internet today.
Despite the fact that it may not quite be "invented" he still took credit for something he didn't really do! I'm a little confused as to why this is marked outright "false" and not the more accurate "sort of" mark that Snopes sometimes uses. Gore took credit for something he really had no part in. Yeah, the exact phrase "invented the Internet" is probably incorrect but even the "correct" phrase is an outright lie.
And in any case, lighten up. It was a joke. Gore isn't in any political arena right now, and it doesn't hurt anyone to make fun of one of the many boneheaded things Gore said that lost him the 2000 election.
Because it's just an advertising gimmick to sell more CDs?
I'd be more impressed if it came with MP3s for your MP3 player or something, copying CDs hasn't been as big an issue for quite a while. (Of course, if I ever get a new CD, I usually burn a copy immediately for my car. I'm not going to subject the original to the temperature changes my car experiences, I'll let the CD-R last as long as it can going from -10 degrees in the winter to 120 degrees in the summer. Except I haven't gotten a new CD in ages, mostly because I don't actually want any of the crap that's widely available. I think the last new CD I bought was an anime soundtrack, and that was a year (or more) ago.)
We are of the opinion that the music buyers are criminalized enough and have been made responsible for the wretched state in the music industry. We are giving them the chance to make 2 legal copies for private use with 'official blanks'.
I was unaware that the music industry had been doing much complaining about people making copies of CDs for personal use. I could have sworn they were much more upset about people either A) giving out mix CDs or B) downloading illegal files.
I don't see how this move will really effect anything. You can give out two copies to a friend, I guess (although that's illegal), and it will have the official CD logo. Or something.
Of course, the CD-R won't last as long as the real CD anyway and nothing would have prevented people from copying the CD anyway. This is just some dumb gimic to grab attention, and it seems to have worked.
If this were a band offering free MP3s for download, that might be interesting. It isn't, it's just a band saying that they don't mind people using fair use rights. (Or whatever they are in Germany and the EU, I don't know.)
I suppose I can also point people over here to some coverage about the rebuilding of Iraq, although I can't find any newer pieces. Not that I really went looking.
According to Netcraft, marketplace.org is running on Linux, too. Nifty. PHP and Apache - all open source. Although the streaming audio uses RealPlayer.
And, no, I don't really have anything useful to add to the discussion of iLug.
And I never intend to try it again. The primary reason for the first one was something along the lines of "...wait a minute. I bought a 12-pack of Diet Vanilla Coke. Where is it? OH NO! I left it in the trunk!"
But based on that experience I highly doubt that a Diet Coke left in a freezer five minutes would explode. In fact, unless the freezer is -40, I doubt anything would really happen in five minutes. Give it a day, though...
Speaking as someone who has left a 12-pack of Diet Vanilla Coke out in his car for a good 6 hours in 15 degree F weather, I can say the following:
It depends.:)
One of the cans had the bottom pop out like several people expect to happen. Most of the cans showed signs of the bottom starting to be pushed out, some were just fine though. Since I could no longer put the can with the bottom inverted down, I had to open and drain it and I can tell you that the pressure is indeed increased - soda spilled everywhere from that one.
The picture of the can lieing on the floor was my AIM buddy icon for a while...
I'm currently working on a project that involves Java servlets, so we're using the Jakarta Tomcat server. It has a feature that can safely be enabled on a development box to allow you to "manage" the server by use of special URLs - ie, bookmarks. So I have a bookmark that reloads our web application, something like "http://admin@admin:localhost:8080/manager/reload? path=/ourapp".
It's quite handy for development use, although not secure enough to enable on the Internet. If we install this "patch," my boss is probably going to suddenly wonder why the URL I gave him to reload the servlet application randomly stopped working on his machine. I doubt he'd appreciate the "bug fix" or the answer "use Mozilla" - especially because the web app doesn't run under Mozilla. (Blame Adobe, it used SVG before Mozilla broke the SVG plugin.)
I was unware Bill Gates had multiple personalities. I wonder what this Nathan side to his personality is - obviously the Nathan personality has masochistic tendencies. I wonder if it's this side of Gates that likes open source software, so Gate's psyche makes it suffer?
That's weird. It works as advertised on my fully patched IE (as in, all Microsoft released patches so far). It worked for me no matter what order I clicked the links. I find it kinda amusing that a patched IE may perform worse than an unpatched IE...
It would be interesting to test this on a full suite of MS operating systems. I may have to abuse my MSDN subscription privileges at work on Monday...
You're doing it wrong. I'm assuming you're just inserting the %01 character into a URL. You actually have to sneak a "^A" character into the URL, either using JavaScript or an HTML entity. It does, in fact, work under IE6. Note that Mozilla (or at least Firebird) reescapes the bad character so it shows you the bad URL.
Anyway, check out my sample page that demonstrates the bug.
The basic and easiest way to reproduce this is something like "<a href="http://slashdot.org@www.msn.com/">...</a >".
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While I suspect that the Godwin's Law invocation was intentional, in this case, there's no discussion to continue, and no discussion to start. So - it's just Flamebait or a Troll. (As is your pointless snipe at "right-wingers" being afraid to openly debate, uh, something. I don't know what, because you didn't say, and the grandparent poster really only said that Bush was a Nazi - that he wants him out of office kind of follows from that statement.)
Secondly, downloading MP3s is still rather blatantly illegal. You have fair use rights to make copies of the CDs you bought, but not to make copies of other people's CDs or MP3s. (Disclaimer: IANAL.)
I don't really agree that this is the way it should be, but this is the way it is, at least at present.
Well? Why not? He's been completely destroyed like three times already.
Oh yes. The worst moment for me in Wind Waker was right when "The End" displayed at the end of the rather drab and uninteresting finishing movie. I could only think one thing: "That's IT?! "
I didn't really like the graphics style, but it wasn't really all that bad. The gameplay was good too - far superior to the N64 Zeldas. (Mainly due to improved camera control and an improved auto-jump so that Link doesn't randomly jump into pits and burning pools of lava.)
It was the far-too-simple puzzles and lack of a really interesting story line prevented me from ever getting too interested in the story or really ever having any fun.
(Then, of course, there were the far-too-stupid puzzles - hey, we give you clues to find the ghost ship, but you need to find the map that points right at the damned thing if you actually want to go on it! I wound up chasing the ghost ship for about an hour before giving up and looking it up online to discover that you need the map to it to actually go on it. Why do I need the map if I can find it on my own?! You gave me all the information to find it without the map! Too bad they gave no hints as to how to get on the ship - just how to find it. Obviously they expect you to be too stupid to notice these hints and think that everyone's going to go looking for a map instead. It's that type of illogic that makes puzzle games frusterating.)
While this Zelda looks far nicer, it's going to be the gameplay and story that eventually make it win or lose. There was some interesting new stuff in Wind Waker (like the Deku Leaf to allow you to float) - hopefully we'll get some cool new things in the new Zelda to keep things interesting.
Although the one thing I would really like to see in a new Zelda game is something other than the freaking Master Sword be the central component. That thing has been used far too often as the central plot point - make Link go get a new sword for once! It's been the corner stone of three of the last four Zelda releases on the console. (I lost track of the Game Boy releases.) It's time to let it rest - forever - like the text said at the end of Link to the Past.
Actually, if you looked at the very top of the page, you'd notice that Slashdot only linked to the Linux beta page. There's a Windows version, plus a PocketPC version, and a Handheld PC version (whatever "handheld PC" means - I could only pull up the linked page, after that, the site died).
Of course, as to whether or not this will succeed - who knows. There probably is a market for 100% feature-complete Excel clone that runs on multiple platforms. You wouldn't believe how much Excel gets used in the buisness world - I've seen it used as a database before! It gets used a lot as a very powerful and very easy to use data storage and presentation tool. Plus the VBScript macros are very powerful - if a little on the slow side and annoying to write.
I'm currently writing an application in Excel. No, seriously. I'd rather use something else. (Anything else!) But the client wants to add some code to an existing Excel spreadsheet to get some added functionality. VBScript and Windows Forms allows me to do that job with just Excel. Of course, this ties the customer to Excel and Windows - giving them another option in the future that's cheaper than the Microsoft solution could very well gain customers.
Although I tend to agree - I doubt that this will have much effect against Microsoft or any of the other Linux spread sheets.
That was my Windows password for years!
I had gotten fed up with reinstalling Win2K at one point so the password was "fuckyou" and then (next reinstall) "fuckoff".
I haven't had to reinstall it in a while so now the password is a fairly secure mixture of letters and numbers. Ooo - is that a chocolate bar? It's
You are aware that with a complete copy of the original directories, even with "whole file replacements," you're now just one step away from getting a diff?
Although I still think patches should be released as soon as possible because even if they do help "crackers" (or whatever we're calling them today) find exploits, there are still very intelligent black hats who will eventually find the exploit and start spreading it around. Patching it faster may mean more exploits sooner, but it also means that people can patch against the flaw without waiting for some black hat to make the entire point moot.
Anyway, my question is simple - there's this line on my state taxes that asks me how much I paid in out-of-state goods over the past year so I can fork over sales tax on the items. My answer: I have no idea. Am I supposed to?
I was rather surprised to see this on my tax forms, since I don't recall being told any time that I should be saving receipts from out-of-state purchase. And while someone probably could look up my out-of-state purchases on my credit card, I don't have instant access to those records... Even if I did, I don't know what counts and what wouldn't. For example, some things aren't taxed in Massachusetts, like clothing.
I can't see how this will possibly work. I have no way of looking up this data - is it really my responsibility to keep track of my out-of-state purchases so the state can get their $5 or whatever? I don't make many purchases out of state anyway, and I definately don't bother keeping track of which purchases were made out of state and which were not.
I also remember that the Daily Show played a lousy clip show that night. I was upset... I had hoped they would have battery-backup or something, and was looking forward to the Hillary Clinton interview (that was done later and turned out to be as boring as everyone else expected).
Er - that's about it, though.
I think some parts of MA were hit, but I live in the north-east section of MA, so the lights stayed on. Still plenty of people managed to panic anyway, thinking that the lights were going to go out "any minute now" but they never did. Apparently we just got lucky, though. Although I'm curious if our town would have lost power, since its public power system has proven to be very reliable and gets power from many sources. It's always fun when a snow-storm knocks out the surrounding towns power and our lights stay on. :)
Disclaimer: IANAL, and I have no idea if that's really valid - but it's what I came up with to rationalize the "DMCA" argument. Who knows?
Look at their current logo. (The topic icon.) Notice the little "magic" star and spark thingy. Notice a theme? Magic, maybe?
Take a look at their old logo. Compare with this image of Mandrake the Magician. Notice any similarities? Other than the penguin, it's basically the same thing - including the cape and wand! Although Mandrake the Magician doesn't have a big ugly star, and the cape is blue and not red.
It seems quite clear that Mandrake Linux intended to rip off Mandrake the Magician's look and name. It seems very clear to me that Mandrake Linux is in the wrong and will need to change their name. It's obvious they knew about Mandrake the Magician - they copied him for their original logo!
Doesn't look that hard to read or that excessively verbose (except for the end tags) to me.
Oh, and you can't have attributes in end tags so your example XML wasn't valid XML anyway.
And, because they're standards compliant, the alpha effect and the Tetris game both work in Opera too. But not in IE.
I'm not 100% if this is true or only on AC posts, but to the best of my knowledge your IP is permenantly logged when you make a post, even if it is "anonymous."
I downloaded Slashcode and I can guarentee that the database table for the comments does indeed contain a column for storing the IP address of the comment submitter. However I cannot be sure that this information is actually permentantly kept since I don't really have a machine on which I can install Slashcode.
For some reason, I feel the need to point out:
Just so you get your grammar checker too.
Unfortunately, in a little place called reality, he did. He said, and this is a direct quote from the page you link to, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Hell, the Snopes page, even though it marks it false, concludes with:
Despite the fact that it may not quite be "invented" he still took credit for something he didn't really do! I'm a little confused as to why this is marked outright "false" and not the more accurate "sort of" mark that Snopes sometimes uses. Gore took credit for something he really had no part in. Yeah, the exact phrase "invented the Internet" is probably incorrect but even the "correct" phrase is an outright lie.And in any case, lighten up. It was a joke. Gore isn't in any political arena right now, and it doesn't hurt anyone to make fun of one of the many boneheaded things Gore said that lost him the 2000 election.
I'd be more impressed if it came with MP3s for your MP3 player or something, copying CDs hasn't been as big an issue for quite a while. (Of course, if I ever get a new CD, I usually burn a copy immediately for my car. I'm not going to subject the original to the temperature changes my car experiences, I'll let the CD-R last as long as it can going from -10 degrees in the winter to 120 degrees in the summer. Except I haven't gotten a new CD in ages, mostly because I don't actually want any of the crap that's widely available. I think the last new CD I bought was an anime soundtrack, and that was a year (or more) ago.)
I was unaware that the music industry had been doing much complaining about people making copies of CDs for personal use. I could have sworn they were much more upset about people either A) giving out mix CDs or B) downloading illegal files.
I don't see how this move will really effect anything. You can give out two copies to a friend, I guess (although that's illegal), and it will have the official CD logo. Or something.
Of course, the CD-R won't last as long as the real CD anyway and nothing would have prevented people from copying the CD anyway. This is just some dumb gimic to grab attention, and it seems to have worked.
If this were a band offering free MP3s for download, that might be interesting. It isn't, it's just a band saying that they don't mind people using fair use rights. (Or whatever they are in Germany and the EU, I don't know.)
I guess I don't see what the big deal is.
That answers my question, "What radio show?"
I suppose I can also point people over here to some coverage about the rebuilding of Iraq, although I can't find any newer pieces. Not that I really went looking.
According to Netcraft, marketplace.org is running on Linux, too. Nifty. PHP and Apache - all open source. Although the streaming audio uses RealPlayer.
And, no, I don't really have anything useful to add to the discussion of iLug.
And I never intend to try it again. The primary reason for the first one was something along the lines of "...wait a minute. I bought a 12-pack of Diet Vanilla Coke. Where is it? OH NO! I left it in the trunk!"
But based on that experience I highly doubt that a Diet Coke left in a freezer five minutes would explode. In fact, unless the freezer is -40, I doubt anything would really happen in five minutes. Give it a day, though...
It depends. :)
One of the cans had the bottom pop out like several people expect to happen. Most of the cans showed signs of the bottom starting to be pushed out, some were just fine though. Since I could no longer put the can with the bottom inverted down, I had to open and drain it and I can tell you that the pressure is indeed increased - soda spilled everywhere from that one.
The picture of the can lieing on the floor was my AIM buddy icon for a while...
I'm currently working on a project that involves Java servlets, so we're using the Jakarta Tomcat server. It has a feature that can safely be enabled on a development box to allow you to "manage" the server by use of special URLs - ie, bookmarks. So I have a bookmark that reloads our web application, something like "http://admin@admin:localhost:8080/manager/reload? path=/ourapp".
It's quite handy for development use, although not secure enough to enable on the Internet. If we install this "patch," my boss is probably going to suddenly wonder why the URL I gave him to reload the servlet application randomly stopped working on his machine. I doubt he'd appreciate the "bug fix" or the answer "use Mozilla" - especially because the web app doesn't run under Mozilla. (Blame Adobe, it used SVG before Mozilla broke the SVG plugin.)
We may never know.
It would be interesting to test this on a full suite of MS operating systems. I may have to abuse my MSDN subscription privileges at work on Monday...
Anyway, check out my sample page that demonstrates the bug.
The basic and easiest way to reproduce this is something like "<a href="http://slashdot.org@www.msn.com/">...</a >".