I remember I couldn't wait for Neverwinter Nights to finally be released for the PC after it came out for the XBox and PS2. I think they counted wrong...near as I can tell, great games are just starting to come out at the same time for BOTH consoles and PC's, whereas there used to be a massive lag between the two in favor of the PC.
Only on/. can there be a problem with Linux admins and people start saying that it must be IIS admin...obviously there can't be any Linux admins that would miss a security patch or two. Please.
For some reason I don't consume as much goods, I'm less prone to inappropriate emotional outbreaks, and my vocabulary has improved. My spalling has remains attrocious as ever...
Actually, there's an international ring of.NET user groups called INETA, which MS helps out a lot. However, having presented at a few INETA meetings, I can assure you that it is not a Gestapo user group ("Take the dissenter and dispose of him")...there are plenty of people who talk about various things they don't like, things they want to change, and I've even been present when someone was presenting on Mono. So these tend to be real UG's...not even MS has the power to oversee every single UG that has anything to do with their technologies.
You have a point with the parrots...simply the ability to make the appropriate souds is not sufficient to effect the creation of culture. However, the ability to make those sounds to communicate is important. What's missing from the formula is sybolic thought. That, coupled with an ability to speak, is what makes complex human communication possible. Without the "spoken word", spreading culture would have been much more difficult.
One of the most impressive things I've seen a Raptor do so far (on Discovery Wings, of course, heh) is fly backwards...
I believe you're referring to the "Cobra Maneuver", which was first demonstrated by the Soviets using their SU-27 back in the early 90's if I'm not mistaken (Paris Airshow?). It does have a use, which is to provide a very nice AOA in the right circumstances.
Um, no, they don't give preferential treatment that I can see (in respect to searches)...I fly over 250K miles a year...I get searched damn near every time I fly - either at the checkpoint or at the gate, and sometimes both.
The problem is that for KE to work, any software that generates the keypairs for you would have to be required to generate the LEAF (Law Enforcement Access Field) - or whatever variation implemented thereof - and send the keys to the appropriate escrow facility. So, assuming the system is setup properly, you wouldn't be able to "legally" use any public key or other crypto unless it conformed to the KE system.
True, these two scenarios are very similar, but the Key Escrow idea (originally concocted by the NSA in the early 90's) is a bit different. Granted, KE still requires a warrant to access the keys, but the fact that the gov't gets to keep a copy of your key creates a fundamental difference between the way the two scenarios above would play out. In the first scenario, the officer would have to produce a warrant and ASK YOU to open the trunk. If you refuse, then the officer can BREAK IN to the trunk to search the car or he can physically confiscate your keys. Now, with KE, the officer must still produce a warrant, but guess what, he doesn't ask you to open your email, he just does it, and could do so without ever notifying you. If you don't hand over the key, the officer doesn't have to break your crypto. The equivalent would be the first scenario with a twist: the DMV gets a copy of your car keys when you get your registration, and they hand it over to the police. Now, tell me that this isn't a system just ripe for abuse.
Not that I'm against law enforcement doing their jobs and trying to protect the innocent, but I think that I should still have the right to refuse to turn over my keys, and face a penalty for doing so if need be. But that should be my perogative. Otherwise, why not drop off a copy of your house-key, combinations to any safes and lockboxes, ATM pin code, telephone numbers, voicemail passwords, slashdot logins/passwords at the police office tomorrow? Its the basic premise of if you give them an inch, they will take a mile, so don't give the inch.
Not likely, as an employee I can tell you that JRUN is one of our most important products - in fact the latest version of ColdFusion has been built on top of an embedded version of JRUN.
Try looking at the language spec for C# before you make comments like this. If you mark your code as unsafe, you can use all the pointers you like...you can create stack-arrays...just about anything you want.
As the authos says, many people seem to have miconceptions about C# and.NET, and part of the above message is one of them. The most common one I hear is that it's still in beta...actually it's been out in full release since late January, and VS.NET was launched in Feb/March.
In terms of SQL retrieval, that requires another app like Generator or JGenerator (open source) which allows you to drop objects into the Flash movie that access a DB using Java. There's also a SQL object written in ActionScript (Flash's Scripting Language), but I haven't had the opportunity to use this.
As for snippets using loadVariables, you can load from a querystring, or from another page altogether. I usually do that, in fact I have a calendar app that loads info from a PHP page that talks to a mySQL database. In that case, you just need a movie clip that can hold the data (I usually use a clip that positioned off of the stage and just name it Data or DataClip). Then, either on your main timeline or on a clipEvent (like load), you do a loadVariables(source, target) where source is the page you wish to load from, and the target is the target movieclip.
It'd also be a HUGE slap to all the assholes who own MS stock and support them, not because they're right, but simply because it's the best thing for their stock portfolio. I'd *LOVE* to remove immunity, for people who knowingly invest in a company involved in illegal actions.
Hell yeah, and let's assess punitive damages against all Open Source developers because their constant development is furthering a culture that consists - not entirely, but just enough - of people who believe its alright to steal software because they disagree with EULA's on principle. They know that members of their community are doing this, but they continue to support their projects, so they should be prosecutable as well.
Let's try to be a little rational here, you can't punish investors for investing in a company, they don't make the decisions, you punish the company and its executives for making those decisions.
True, the article doesn't mention that the suit is against Ashcroft, but the filing does.
From the filing, under the plantiff section (bolding added for emphasis):
Plaintiffs,
vs.
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.; SECURE DIGITAL MUSIC INITIATIVE FOUNDATION; VERANCE CORPORATION; JOHN ASHCROFT, in his official capacity as ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES; DOES 1 through 4, inclusive,
I can't get to the page...get a 404...looks like it's either been removed from the site, or they've got it on some separate server that has fallen to the/.effect.
Let me preface this with the fact that I do currently work for MM.
Actually, you have to go through a few steps to get onto the newsletter:
1. Choose to create a MM ID
2. Fill out ALL of the forms rather than skipping them
3. Check a box that says "Add Me to the Edge Newsletter List" or some crap like that.
I've had a MM id for 4 years and have never received the Edge newsletter.
When I was a professional developer, it was easy to track. Now I work for Macromedia in more of a salesy position (Evangelist) where I do a lot of product demonstrations, training, and consulting, which requires a lot of travel. Sometimes I'm working about 20 hours a week (that's the first two weeks of the year), and then there are times like the past two months, where I was home one day a week - maybe, and racked up over 30,000 miles on a single airline. I'd say during those times I'm working about 60 -70 hours a week.
Since it will be lost in the noise, but as soon as I read the title of this post I knew that the forum would be filled with "No, Windoze sux cause we all know that LINUX is better." Windows 9x sucks...yes, this is true. But even Linus has said that LINUX is not as good as the NT/2000 platform from MS in some categories. Perhaps when 2.4 is out this won't be true anymore, but it does little good to sit here and accuse any site that says LINUX isn't the end-all/be-all solution of spreading lies.
Does this really bother anyone here? I mean, come on...most of the people here have cookies enabled to make browsing more simple and enjoyable. Like the MS guy said, this only becomes an issue for people who want to turn cookies off and be "shielded" from the net. Here we've got a rather tame problem for a few people that the company is going to work to fix. They'll just make the feature optional and add a warning to explain to the users what is happening. There are worse things going on at MS and elsewhere than this.
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I remember I couldn't wait for Neverwinter Nights to finally be released for the PC after it came out for the XBox and PS2. I think they counted wrong...near as I can tell, great games are just starting to come out at the same time for BOTH consoles and PC's, whereas there used to be a massive lag between the two in favor of the PC.
Only on /. can there be a problem with Linux admins and people start saying that it must be IIS admin...obviously there can't be any Linux admins that would miss a security patch or two. Please.
Mod this one up!!! This guy, unlike the gentleman to whom he is replying, has it together.
Your grammar isn't anything special either.
Actually, there's an international ring of .NET user groups called INETA, which MS helps out a lot. However, having presented at a few INETA meetings, I can assure you that it is not a Gestapo user group ("Take the dissenter and dispose of him")...there are plenty of people who talk about various things they don't like, things they want to change, and I've even been present when someone was presenting on Mono. So these tend to be real UG's...not even MS has the power to oversee every single UG that has anything to do with their technologies.
You have a point with the parrots...simply the ability to make the appropriate souds is not sufficient to effect the creation of culture. However, the ability to make those sounds to communicate is important. What's missing from the formula is sybolic thought. That, coupled with an ability to speak, is what makes complex human communication possible. Without the "spoken word", spreading culture would have been much more difficult.
I hope Macromedia will put out a player that can be set by default to not play flash
Send an email to wish-flash@macromedia.com
One of the most impressive things I've seen a Raptor do so far (on Discovery Wings, of course, heh) is fly backwards...
I believe you're referring to the "Cobra Maneuver", which was first demonstrated by the Soviets using their SU-27 back in the early 90's if I'm not mistaken (Paris Airshow?). It does have a use, which is to provide a very nice AOA in the right circumstances.
Um, no, they don't give preferential treatment that I can see (in respect to searches)...I fly over 250K miles a year...I get searched damn near every time I fly - either at the checkpoint or at the gate, and sometimes both.
The problem is that for KE to work, any software that generates the keypairs for you would have to be required to generate the LEAF (Law Enforcement Access Field) - or whatever variation implemented thereof - and send the keys to the appropriate escrow facility. So, assuming the system is setup properly, you wouldn't be able to "legally" use any public key or other crypto unless it conformed to the KE system.
True, these two scenarios are very similar, but the Key Escrow idea (originally concocted by the NSA in the early 90's) is a bit different. Granted, KE still requires a warrant to access the keys, but the fact that the gov't gets to keep a copy of your key creates a fundamental difference between the way the two scenarios above would play out. In the first scenario, the officer would have to produce a warrant and ASK YOU to open the trunk. If you refuse, then the officer can BREAK IN to the trunk to search the car or he can physically confiscate your keys. Now, with KE, the officer must still produce a warrant, but guess what, he doesn't ask you to open your email, he just does it, and could do so without ever notifying you. If you don't hand over the key, the officer doesn't have to break your crypto. The equivalent would be the first scenario with a twist: the DMV gets a copy of your car keys when you get your registration, and they hand it over to the police. Now, tell me that this isn't a system just ripe for abuse.
Not that I'm against law enforcement doing their jobs and trying to protect the innocent, but I think that I should still have the right to refuse to turn over my keys, and face a penalty for doing so if need be. But that should be my perogative. Otherwise, why not drop off a copy of your house-key, combinations to any safes and lockboxes, ATM pin code, telephone numbers, voicemail passwords, slashdot logins/passwords at the police office tomorrow? Its the basic premise of if you give them an inch, they will take a mile, so don't give the inch.
Not likely, as an employee I can tell you that JRUN is one of our most important products - in fact the latest version of ColdFusion has been built on top of an embedded version of JRUN.
Myth #9 - .NET doesn't support pointers
Try looking at the language spec for C# before you make comments like this. If you mark your code as unsafe, you can use all the pointers you like...you can create stack-arrays...just about anything you want.
As the authos says, many people seem to have miconceptions about C# and .NET, and part of the above message is one of them. The most common one I hear is that it's still in beta...actually it's been out in full release since late January, and VS.NET was launched in Feb/March.
Sure thing..
In terms of SQL retrieval, that requires another app like Generator or JGenerator (open source) which allows you to drop objects into the Flash movie that access a DB using Java. There's also a SQL object written in ActionScript (Flash's Scripting Language), but I haven't had the opportunity to use this.
As for snippets using loadVariables, you can load from a querystring, or from another page altogether. I usually do that, in fact I have a calendar app that loads info from a PHP page that talks to a mySQL database. In that case, you just need a movie clip that can hold the data (I usually use a clip that positioned off of the stage and just name it Data or DataClip). Then, either on your main timeline or on a clipEvent (like load), you do a loadVariables(source, target) where source is the page you wish to load from, and the target is the target movieclip.
Hell yeah, and let's assess punitive damages against all Open Source developers because their constant development is furthering a culture that consists - not entirely, but just enough - of people who believe its alright to steal software because they disagree with EULA's on principle. They know that members of their community are doing this, but they continue to support their projects, so they should be prosecutable as well.
Let's try to be a little rational here, you can't punish investors for investing in a company, they don't make the decisions, you punish the company and its executives for making those decisions.
True, the article doesn't mention that the suit is against Ashcroft, but the filing does.
From the filing, under the plantiff section (bolding added for emphasis):
Plaintiffs,
vs.
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.; SECURE DIGITAL MUSIC INITIATIVE FOUNDATION; VERANCE CORPORATION; JOHN ASHCROFT, in his official capacity as ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES; DOES 1 through 4, inclusive,
I can't get to the page...get a 404...looks like it's either been removed from the site, or they've got it on some separate server that has fallen to the /.effect.
Let me preface this with the fact that I do currently work for MM.
Actually, you have to go through a few steps to get onto the newsletter:
1. Choose to create a MM ID
2. Fill out ALL of the forms rather than skipping them
3. Check a box that says "Add Me to the Edge Newsletter List" or some crap like that.
I've had a MM id for 4 years and have never received the Edge newsletter.
Well, as an employee of Macromedia, I don't think this is being blown out of proportion.
There is a file available:
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.xml
When I was a professional developer, it was easy to track. Now I work for Macromedia in more of a salesy position (Evangelist) where I do a lot of product demonstrations, training, and consulting, which requires a lot of travel. Sometimes I'm working about 20 hours a week (that's the first two weeks of the year), and then there are times like the past two months, where I was home one day a week - maybe, and racked up over 30,000 miles on a single airline. I'd say during those times I'm working about 60 -70 hours a week.
Since it will be lost in the noise, but as soon as I read the title of this post I knew that the forum would be filled with "No, Windoze sux cause we all know that LINUX is better." Windows 9x sucks...yes, this is true. But even Linus has said that LINUX is not as good as the NT/2000 platform from MS in some categories. Perhaps when 2.4 is out this won't be true anymore, but it does little good to sit here and accuse any site that says LINUX isn't the end-all/be-all solution of spreading lies.
Looks like someone was at the ASP/VB/C++ Connections conference in Phoenix.
Does this really bother anyone here? I mean, come on...most of the people here have cookies enabled to make browsing more simple and enjoyable. Like the MS guy said, this only becomes an issue for people who want to turn cookies off and be "shielded" from the net. Here we've got a rather tame problem for a few people that the company is going to work to fix. They'll just make the feature optional and add a warning to explain to the users what is happening. There are worse things going on at MS and elsewhere than this.