The plot is obvious. Appropriate "Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. With lyrics like: ---- All: Let's do the time-warp again. Let's do the time-warp again.
Narrator: It's just a jump to the left.
All: And then a step to the right. ---- It's a natural fit!
"He also noted that Americans pay more per unit of broadband speed than our competitors. He called on the government to devote time and resources to making sure Americans have the broadband access they need to stay competitive in the 21st century global economy."
Darn straight! A truly advanced nation needs faster, cheaper porn!
(I can't take anything seriously said by a Murdoch man.)
When Richard Garriot (aka Lord British) ran Origin, you would know "it's going to be great". Now that EA runs it, you can expect that they start development on the next generation Ultima, spend lots of money, get a lot of people excited, then pull the plug. They've already done it twice in the past 3 years (UO2 and Ultima X).
In fairness EA continues to improve and extend Ultima Online. The party line is that the next generation games were "distractions". But from the peanut gallery, it sure looks like management has commitment problems.
One of my Ultima Online pages started receiving numerous hits about two weeks ago. People were suddenly hunting for the words "evil lord british", and my page happened to be near the top of Google's search results. I had no idea what it was about.
Later I found out that a developer at the Halo 2 site mentioned that a new team member was like an "evil Lord British". I'm still not sure what he meant, but at least I, unlike many Halo fans, know who "Lord British" is. He is the just sovereign of Brittania in the Ultima series. More than that, "Lord British" is the alias of Richard Garriot, the originator of the Ultima series.
Perhaps Bungie's "evil Lord British" is a developer who has personalized himself within the Halo 2 game, but as a bad guy.
A lot of "Internet Explorer only" sites are going to break as people download XP Service Pack 2. With ActiveX disabled by default, sites that depend on substandard proprietary techniques might finally die.
One hopes that Microsoft follows through and removes ActiveX and other idiocies from their web-page building tools.
"Deep Grey" (more than 8 bits) is indeed one of the significant benefits of PNG. If medical or NDT film is digitized, there can be anywhere from 10 to 16 bits of precision necessary, depending on the quality of the scanner.
There is a technique to allow 24-bit imagery to encode more than 8 bits of greyscale. It is called pseudogrey, and described at pseudoGrey.html.
Exactly 1,786 grey levels can be uniquely encoded, without degrading the color content. Someone even incorporated the technique into a photoshop plugin.
For several years, volunteer editors have been working on the Kids and Teens tree of the Open Directory Project. If you prefer to get your DMoz via the Google Directory, it is at GD Kids and Teens.
Shameless plug -- they might find my Interactive Color Wheel to be quite fascinating and educational.
IBM had an ad campaign in the summer of '94. The theme was something like "Demand OS/2 on Your Next Computer". I tried. My phone conversation with IBM's own direct sales division went something like this:
.Me: I am interested in buying a ThinkPad.
IBM: It's a good machine. What model would you like? .Me: Which models come with OS/2?
IBM: We don't sell ThinkPads with OS/2. .Me: Wait a minute. You are IBM!
IBM: Yes, but we don't sell ThinkPads with OS/2. .Me: Are you aware of IBM's own "Demand OS/2" campaign?
IBM: Yes; we wish they hadn't done that. .Me: They?
IBM: The Software Division. They have no say on hardware. .Me: So, IBM is telling people to demand OS/2, but refuses .....to install it on their own systems??
IBM: I'm sorry, sir. What model of ThinkPad would you like? .Me: The one with OS/2.
IBM: There isn't one. .Me: I demand to buy a ThinkPad with OS/2!
IBM: It's not possible. .Me: Geez, you guys need to get your act together. Bye. .Me: <Hang Up>
IMO, that attitude (IBM not supporting IBM) is what killed OS/2. The corporate decision not to market OS/2 to consumers, made the week before release of Win95, didn't help either.
JForth was a professional FORTH implementation for the Amiga. It was very fast, and offered advanced features such as structures and GUI support. This FORTH was not traditionally threaded -- the "J" stood for "jump", and used 680x0 jump linkage between words. This gave it a lot of speed, at a tradeoff of making programs a bit larger than a "real" FORTH would.
My first Open Source program was written with JForth. I called it IconJ. Its purpose was to allow the icon associated with a program to store various initialization values, and even scripts. In modern terms, it added a bit of object orientation to the file system. (I didn't think about it that way while writing IconJ, though.:)
We were not disturbed. After all, if we can simultaneously be first and third person, who are we to question another's choice to be third person only?;)
Remember the ISP's which provided a "free" ad-sponsored connection to the web? Heard anything about them lately?
ATT WorldNet tried it halfway. For $5/month you could have unlimited connectivity. A new ad would pop up about every 3 minutes, and they constantly monitored your browsing habits so they could customize the ads. They had a higher priced plan with no ads and no big brother.
WorldNet doesn't offer that plan any more. In the first place, the advertising revenue just isn't there. In the second place, not enough people were willing to give up their privacy and unbothered browsing for them to try the plan at a price advertising revenue would actually support.
If the ads were at the operating system level, yuck. Capitalism is ok, just so long as the capitalists and their logging devices stay OUTSIDE my computer!
Be aware that the poster stated in the title of his thread that the lawyer's comments are from 20 years ago. Since then, intellectual property laws have become more intrusive, illogicial, and insane.
Is anybody really surprised that Microsoft itself proves to be a virus?
Click this button relating to the text you didn't read, and we'll automatically put software on your computer that does stuff you didn't want done. If this proves insufficient, we'll automatically install more software that you don't want.
I not only knew about pngcrush, I used it. (In protection of my PNG-geek honor, you should know I paid the shareware fee on it when Glenn was so asking).
Method 119 was optimal for me also. My version of pngcrush is 1.5.6. Maybe it is time for me to upgrade.:)
PNG beats GIF (again)
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Mapping the Spam
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As a certified PNG geek, I was obligated to convert their original image, "spamdemicmap.gif". Downloading it, I found the size to be 885,452 bytes. The image is 4442x2900 by 48 colors. As a PNG image, the file was losslessy converted to 585,548 bytes. What do you want to bet they would have loved to have this 33.8% bandwidth savings while being slashdotted?
I don't think Google would automatically find the isolated islands of information. That is why they allow us to submit URL's to be considered for indexing.
It is quite unlikely that if I had not submitted the insanely detailed "open" analysis of my whole life insurance policy, it would have been exactly the kind of esoteric island of which you speak. But some of us take advantage of all the free "publicity" we can get. Hmmm, perhaps even here...
Slashdot Mirror
The plot is obvious. Appropriate "Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. With lyrics like:
----
All:
Let's do the time-warp again.
Let's do the time-warp again.
Narrator:
It's just a jump to the left.
All:
And then a step to the right.
----
It's a natural fit!
"He also noted that Americans pay more per unit of broadband speed than our competitors. He called on the government to devote time and resources to making sure Americans have the broadband access they need to stay competitive in the 21st century global economy."
Darn straight! A truly advanced nation needs faster, cheaper porn!
(I can't take anything seriously said by a Murdoch man.)
'... a new Trek feature film that will have "a larger scope and budget" than ever.'
As I undersand it, the third in the series will be called:
* Lord of the Fed: Return of the Kirk
When Richard Garriot (aka Lord British) ran Origin, you would know "it's going to be great". Now that EA runs it, you can expect that they start development on the next generation Ultima, spend lots of money, get a lot of people excited, then pull the plug. They've already done it twice in the past 3 years (UO2 and Ultima X).
In fairness EA continues to improve and extend Ultima Online. The party line is that the next generation games were "distractions". But from the peanut gallery, it sure looks like management has commitment problems.
Later I found out that a developer at the Halo 2 site mentioned that a new team member was like an "evil Lord British". I'm still not sure what he meant, but at least I, unlike many Halo fans, know who "Lord British" is. He is the just sovereign of Brittania in the Ultima series. More than that, "Lord British" is the alias of Richard Garriot, the originator of the Ultima series.
Perhaps Bungie's "evil Lord British" is a developer who has personalized himself within the Halo 2 game, but as a bad guy.
Yeah, but does the Constitution guarantee me the right to open a chat window with the witnesses against me?
A lot of "Internet Explorer only" sites are going to break as people download XP Service Pack 2. With ActiveX disabled by default, sites that depend on substandard proprietary techniques might finally die.
One hopes that Microsoft follows through and removes ActiveX and other idiocies from their web-page building tools.
-- Rich
There is a technique to allow 24-bit imagery to encode more than 8 bits of greyscale. It is called pseudogrey, and described at pseudoGrey.html.
Exactly 1,786 grey levels can be uniquely encoded, without degrading the color content. Someone even incorporated the technique into a photoshop plugin.
-- Rich
Who wants to see a new site --
Bagdad Bob and Redmond Steve
Separated at Birth?
It could be a simple two-column page with quotes from each, um, innovater.
Too bad Bagdad Bob's job is no more. Redmond Steve could give him a real run for his money!
Shameless plug -- they might find my Interactive Color Wheel to be quite fascinating and educational.
Ve haf ways of making you upgrade, ya!?!
IBM: It's a good machine. What model would you like?
IBM: We don't sell ThinkPads with OS/2.
IBM: Yes, but we don't sell ThinkPads with OS/2.
IBM: Yes; we wish they hadn't done that.
IBM: The Software Division. They have no say on hardware.
IBM: I'm sorry, sir. What model of ThinkPad would you like?
IBM: There isn't one.
IBM: It's not possible.
IMO, that attitude (IBM not supporting IBM) is what killed OS/2. The corporate decision not to market OS/2 to consumers, made the week before release of Win95, didn't help either.
-- Rich
JForth was a professional FORTH implementation for the Amiga. It was very fast, and offered advanced features such as structures and GUI support. This FORTH was not traditionally threaded -- the "J" stood for "jump", and used 680x0 jump linkage between words. This gave it a lot of speed, at a tradeoff of making programs a bit larger than a "real" FORTH would.
:)
My first Open Source program was written with JForth. I called it IconJ. Its purpose was to allow the icon associated with a program to store various initialization values, and even scripts. In modern terms, it added a bit of object orientation to the file system. (I didn't think about it that way while writing IconJ, though.
We were not disturbed. After all, if we can simultaneously be first and third person, who are we to question another's choice to be third person only? ;)
What if someone cracks the security on it?
Someone will. Someone always does.
Remember the ISP's which provided a "free" ad-sponsored connection to the web? Heard anything about them lately?
ATT WorldNet tried it halfway. For $5/month you could have unlimited connectivity. A new ad would pop up about every 3 minutes, and they constantly monitored your browsing habits so they could customize the ads. They had a higher priced plan with no ads and no big brother.
WorldNet doesn't offer that plan any more. In the first place, the advertising revenue just isn't there. In the second place, not enough people were willing to give up their privacy and unbothered browsing for them to try the plan at a price advertising revenue would actually support.
If the ads were at the operating system level, yuck. Capitalism is ok, just so long as the capitalists and their logging devices stay OUTSIDE my computer!
Piers,
When you transition from StarOffice 5.2, do you plan to use StarOffice 6.0 or OpenOffice.org 1.0?
Thanks for your many wonderful books.
-- Rich
If it's not there, ignore it.
Be aware that the poster stated in the title of his thread that the lawyer's comments are from 20 years ago. Since then, intellectual property laws have become more intrusive, illogicial, and insane.
Click this button relating to the text you didn't read, and we'll automatically put software on your computer that does stuff you didn't want done. If this proves insufficient, we'll automatically install more software that you don't want.
I not only knew about pngcrush, I used it. (In protection of my PNG-geek honor, you should know I paid the shareware fee on it when Glenn was so asking).
:)
Method 119 was optimal for me also. My version of pngcrush is 1.5.6. Maybe it is time for me to upgrade.
As a certified PNG geek, I was obligated to convert their original image, "spamdemicmap.gif". Downloading it, I found the size to be 885,452 bytes. The image is 4442x2900 by 48 colors. As a PNG image, the file was losslessy converted to 585,548 bytes. What do you want to bet they would have loved to have this 33.8% bandwidth savings while being slashdotted?
I don't think Google would automatically find the isolated islands of information. That is why they allow us to submit URL's to be considered for indexing.
;)
It is quite unlikely that if I had not submitted the insanely detailed "open" analysis of my whole life insurance policy, it would have been exactly the kind of esoteric island of which you speak. But some of us take advantage of all the free "publicity" we can get. Hmmm, perhaps even here...
The Visible Policy