I just opened a window in each and sent a friend a message copied and pasted from a Spanish website. The messages went through just fine with accented characters and all.
Try it with, say, Hindi or Hebrew or Thai - a language with completely different characters, not just accents.
The problem is lack of standardization. Windows clients assume (I'm guessing, based on my experience) an 8-bit character set; some values in the higher 128 just happen to be mapped to different characters in different locales, so if the locales match there's no problem but if it doesn't you get garbage.
Ideally, every text would either be unicode or declare the encoding, but of course that's not going to happen. So we want an IM client that knows about different encodings and can be told that a certain person sends and receives messages in a particular encoding (and probably a way to specify a relation between encodings, keyboard bindings, and fonts - or is that the responsibility of the operating system or window manager or KDE or whatever the architecture is).
I would break group 1 into two sub-groups: * Can't afford it * Doesn't want to pay for it
Well, this basically amounts to the same thing - you can't get it for the price it's worth to you. Which probably means you either don't value your time (save 25%+ of every hour spent watching TV!) or don't watch enough TV to justify the purchase (in which case, congratulations - but that's another story)
People who don't have a TiVo belong to at least one of these 3 groups: * Can't afford it * Don't know what it is * Don't watch TV.
I believe the second group is by far the largest. To support TiVo, educate everybody you know about it. Hey, it's Linux based, it's really cool, and they actually perform - GASP, SHOCK! - usability testing.
Stories that belong to special sections (YRO, ask slashdot, Apache, etc) tend to have way fewer responses, because of the way these stories are semi-hidden from most users by default (they don't seem to appear in the main page, just in the section boxes). C'mon slashdot, don't turn the special sections into a secret.
Back on topic, this kind of reminds me of China vs Falun Gong - can anybody fill us in on the details? Specifically, what they believe in (not just what the web site says ; there's sometimes a big difference, see KKK) and why they have been illegalized?
Even more opportunity for trojans to get into Debian!
What opportunity? A popular P2P download is typically downloaded from two or more sources. If one of them is malicious, the checksum/signature (which may still not be fully P2P) is corrupt. It's actually more difficult for an attacker to forge a download in P2P (assuming multiple sources) since he doesn't know what part of the file is downloaded from him, and so cannot create a file with the same checksum or try to sign the file with the same signature.
The risk is actually smaller than the chance of one mirror out of the mirror list being compromised.
A project like this may be nice for all-linux companies, but it's ultimately meaningless in the big picture unless it implements standard protocols (or, in case there aren't any, microsoft protocols).
What is preventing someone from putting out a console capable of running games from all the classic system? Let's say I want to do NES, Sega, SNES, and maybe one or two of the 'lesser console'
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If this functionality really doesn't exist in Python/Perl/whatever, I wish "they"'d start working on it instead of inventing a completely new language to learn, which is probably not as good as what's already out there.
If it does - I'm sure somebody will point out how to do this with their pet language.
Here's one disadvantage to ogg (or any lossy format) - converting to and from it is lossy. Specifically, converting all the MP3 files you currently have to ogg would lose considerable quality. (probably moreso with VBR?) Anyway, point is that unless you still have, ahem, all your original CDs (you know, the ones you ripped to MP3 since they were so fragile and your Archos jukebox doesn't play oggs) you're in trouble.
I wish there was some kind of P2P network to only offer legal content, so that I'd be able to stay away from the crud promoted by the RIAA and its partners. Imagine being able to download gigabytes of completely legal music, which is already available out there but not so easy to find - or tell apart from the mainstream music. If you have a thousand hours of music, are you still really compelled to buy Britney's latest?
Given region codes, macrovision, and the MPAA's attitude to customers (should we go over the HDTV fiasco again?) would you like slashdot to keep covering mainstream (MPAA) DVD releases?
Let's see: the world is divided into two groups: those who have my credit card details and can help themselves to as much of my money as they want, and those who don't.
This, of course, is completely ridiculous. I should be able to authorize a transaction without implicitly trust the other party until the credit card expires.
It seems that right now the system works "well enough" that the credit card companies are quite content to sit on their laurels and deal with fraud when it occurs, rather than trying to prevent it.
And why can't I specify something like "when I'm billed by a certain service provider, mail me the amount and authorize the payment automatically unless less than 28 days have passed since the last one or the amount is over $75"? Let's turn the rainforests into billions of paper bills and envelopes.
A game is just a game. A time killer for enjoying the present moment, not some quest to find your long lost father.
Well, it could be a quest to find your long lost father. Or avenge him. Just because it's entertainment doesn't mean I should put up with a shoddy product. If we start down that path we'll end up with people putting up with a shoddy operating system jusy because it's not mission critical.
someone just hacked my game of gta3, i lost my saved game. oh damn.
Yeah right, try shrugging it off when somebody deletes your Phantasy Star Online characters after 50 hours of gameplay (this actually happened to many many people playing Sega's first online RPG).
Up until a month or two ago they claimed ALL EMULATION WAS ILLEGAL since emulators only had one illegal use.
After a back-and-forth between their legal department and myself, detailing legal uses of emulation (like playing Elite, a freely available NES game, or new game development) the offensive comment disappeared from their website.
Look at Opera, it IS competing well. It would have done better if they weren't so late at implementing a decent DHTML rendering engine. But now that they have, you should check your weblogs - I was surprised.
Opera is doing better than your browser logs will tell you. Many Opera users tell their browser to lie and claim it's explorer in the user-agent: header when they come across one site that doesn't work because it refuses to serve not-IE agents. Then they never change it back. Hence, many people you see as IE users are running Opera - or something else.
It's easy to maintain interest if the end result is something fun that you can actually show people.
Now let's see - what's easy to write? Maybe a card game(solitaire?) or a tetris-type thing or other puzzly-thingy, or very simple 2D action games (hey, they fit in 4KB back in the day).
Every public library in the USA continues to stock numerous copies of the bible, a book with numerous graphic depictions of sex, rape, incest, murder, infanticide, torture, and just about anything else that human beings consider offensive.
No carjackings! The bible is obviously less offensive than GTA3.
Enlightenment, son, sometimes may be found outside of words. Why is a mantra needed? Why can becoming one with the universe not be reached by following a recipe? Why did Tolkien feel the need to create a language for the elves?
Remember the zen mu, or your own discipline's foo.
Really, some people have no idea about semantic or phonetic fields.
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I just opened a window in each and sent a friend a message copied and pasted from a Spanish website. The messages went through just fine with accented characters and all.
Try it with, say, Hindi or Hebrew or Thai - a language with completely different characters, not just accents.
The problem is lack of standardization. Windows clients assume (I'm guessing, based on my experience) an 8-bit character set; some values in the higher 128 just happen to be mapped to different characters in different locales, so if the locales match there's no problem but if it doesn't you get garbage.
Ideally, every text would either be unicode or declare the encoding, but of course that's not going to happen. So we want an IM client that knows about different encodings and can be told that a certain person sends and receives messages in a particular encoding (and probably a way to specify a relation between encodings, keyboard bindings, and fonts - or is that the responsibility of the operating system or window manager or KDE or whatever the architecture is).
As far as I know, no such client exists.
I would break group 1 into two sub-groups:
* Can't afford it
* Doesn't want to pay for it
Well, this basically amounts to the same thing - you can't get it for the price it's worth to you. Which probably means you either don't value your time (save 25%+ of every hour spent watching TV!) or don't watch enough TV to justify the purchase (in which case, congratulations - but that's another story)
People who don't have a TiVo belong to at least one of these 3 groups:
* Can't afford it
* Don't know what it is
* Don't watch TV.
I believe the second group is by far the largest. To support TiVo, educate everybody you know about it. Hey, it's Linux based, it's really cool, and they actually perform - GASP, SHOCK! - usability testing.
Ashcroft sucks!
Stories that belong to special sections (YRO, ask slashdot, Apache, etc) tend to have way fewer responses, because of the way these stories are semi-hidden from most users by default (they don't seem to appear in the main page, just in the section boxes). C'mon slashdot, don't turn the special sections into a secret.
Back on topic, this kind of reminds me of China vs Falun Gong - can anybody fill us in on the details? Specifically, what they believe in (not just what the web site says ; there's sometimes a big difference, see KKK) and why they have been illegalized?
Jack Valenti.
Even more opportunity for trojans to get into Debian!
What opportunity? A popular P2P download is typically downloaded from two or more sources. If one of them is malicious, the checksum/signature (which may still not be fully P2P) is corrupt. It's actually more difficult for an attacker to forge a download in P2P (assuming multiple sources) since he doesn't know what part of the file is downloaded from him, and so cannot create a file with the same checksum or try to sign the file with the same signature.
The risk is actually smaller than the chance of one mirror out of the mirror list being compromised.
A project like this may be nice for all-linux companies, but it's ultimately meaningless in the big picture unless it implements standard protocols (or, in case there aren't any, microsoft protocols).
What is preventing someone from putting out a console capable of running games from all the classic system? Let's say I want to do NES, Sega, SNES, and maybe one or two of the 'lesser console'
You mean the Dreamcast?
If this functionality really doesn't exist in Python/Perl/whatever, I wish "they"'d start working on it instead of inventing a completely new language to learn, which is probably not as good as what's already out there.
If it does - I'm sure somebody will point out how to do this with their pet language.
Mod parent up!
This is, of course, exactly right.
Some people once said that Awari was more complex (= offered more possibilities) than Chess...
You're thinking of Go.
Here's one disadvantage to ogg (or any lossy format) - converting to and from it is lossy. Specifically, converting all the MP3 files you currently have to ogg would lose considerable quality. (probably moreso with VBR?) Anyway, point is that unless you still have, ahem, all your original CDs (you know, the ones you ripped to MP3 since they were so fragile and your Archos jukebox doesn't play oggs) you're in trouble.
I wish there was some kind of P2P network to only offer legal content, so that I'd be able to stay away from the crud promoted by the RIAA and its partners. Imagine being able to download gigabytes of completely legal music, which is already available out there but not so easy to find - or tell apart from the mainstream music. If you have a thousand hours of music, are you still really compelled to buy Britney's latest?
Given region codes, macrovision, and the MPAA's attitude to customers (should we go over the HDTV fiasco again?) would you like slashdot to keep covering mainstream (MPAA) DVD releases?
Let's see: the world is divided into two groups: those who have my credit card details and can help themselves to as much of my money as they want, and those who don't.
This, of course, is completely ridiculous. I should be able to authorize a transaction without implicitly trust the other party until the credit card expires.
It seems that right now the system works "well enough" that the credit card companies are quite content to sit on their laurels and deal with fraud when it occurs, rather than trying to prevent it.
And why can't I specify something like "when I'm billed by a certain service provider, mail me the amount and authorize the payment automatically unless less than 28 days have passed since the last one or the amount is over $75"? Let's turn the rainforests into billions of paper bills and envelopes.
Well, it could be a quest to find your long lost father. Or avenge him.
Just because it's entertainment doesn't mean I should put up with a shoddy product. If we start down that path we'll end up with people putting up with a shoddy operating system jusy because it's not mission critical.
Dude, its still just a fucking game.
Dude,
Your character may be virtual, but the time and effort you invest in the game are real.
Yeah right, try shrugging it off when somebody deletes your Phantasy Star Online characters after 50 hours of gameplay (this actually happened to many many people playing Sega's first online RPG).
They were anti-emulation.
Up until a month or two ago they claimed ALL EMULATION WAS ILLEGAL since emulators only had one illegal use.
After a back-and-forth between their legal department and myself, detailing legal uses of emulation (like playing Elite, a freely available NES game, or new game development) the offensive comment disappeared from their website.
Check the internet archive for different versions of their legal FAQ.
P.S. A hero is me!
Opera is doing better than your browser logs will tell you. Many Opera users tell their browser to lie and claim it's explorer in the user-agent: header when they come across one site that doesn't work because it refuses to serve not-IE agents. Then they never change it back. Hence, many people you see as IE users are running Opera - or something else.
It's easy to maintain interest if the end result is something fun that you can actually show people.
Now let's see - what's easy to write? Maybe a card game(solitaire?) or a tetris-type thing or other puzzly-thingy, or very simple 2D action games (hey, they fit in 4KB back in the day).
No carjackings! The bible is obviously less offensive than GTA3.
Remember the zen mu, or your own discipline's foo.
Really, some people have no idea about semantic or phonetic fields.