Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's usually the number of times that the image has been requested, not a page on which the image is placed. A DoS script is unlikely to waste time requesting images.
I'd actually suspect other things. The blimp may have chosen not to show one direction because the surroundings were visually unappealing. There may be two CNN signs. You may simply have noticed it a couple times and became aware of it, so you noticed the times it did appear while ignoring the times it didn't appear.
I love commercials! Clever and entertaining ways for large, rich corporations to overtly and/or subliminally influence my thought patterns are a great reason to turn on a television that I try to avoid as much as possible. When discussing commercials, I really enjoy pretending that everyone in the world watches in the same country and sees the same commercials and assuming that everyone knows what "the Big Game" is or even what sport I'm referring to. Long live powerful corporations with authoritarian internal structures that make a farce of democratic representation!
...on the definition of a computer in his case. Is a Palm allowed? What about a digital watch? A calculator? WebTV? (With a keyboard and a Java telnet client...)
Most Bungie fans have known about this for a long time now, although there's never been any official confirmation or public announcement. In this case, lack of denial (in response to a direct question) was all the confirmation I needed.
So long as you send your "protected" signal in some sort of raw form to whatever hardware presents it to the user, anyone can pick it up and encode it in whatever format they want. These annoying copy "protection" schemes fool the fools, annoy us, and are a minor nuisance to serious pirates.
(Not that I can imagine anyone wanting to pirate American television. It's not exactly the pinnacle of civilization.)
Why is it that Microsoft never has any trouble with anyone copying their GUI? You'd think with all the innovations they make in Windows Technology, they'd be suing some of the Linux longhairs for violating their intellectual property rights.
Although it's OpenSource(tm), the human genome has a very long compile cycle. You can't just./conceive && make. Would it be feasible to port the genome to Perl? I know it would run more slowly, but it should be sufficient for politicians and the like, and it would allow for true RAD (Rapid Adolescent Development). Humanity would also benefit from regular expressions and DBI (DNA-Based Intelligence).
if ($article =~/completely_pseudocode/) { $ok = 1; } elsif ($article =~/completely_english/) { $ok = 1; } else { This mixing gets annoying and hard to read, doesn't it? The comment is not the code. English doesn't get mixed with pseudocode well. }
The boxed SuSE distro has printed docs, some non-redistributable software (IIRC), and support. None of this comes with the CD you press. If SuSE wants to grant a company the exclusive rights to resell the boxed SuSE distro in a particular country, they have every right (and possibly sense, given the size of the Uruguayan market for commercial Linux distros) to do so.
This company looks quite decent, actually. However, some of the sections look like copied&&translated text rather than original writing. I don't know if it's a word-for-word copy, but the FSF section on their site looks awfully familiar. Of course, much of this is probably due to the Babelfishery (I don't think the site was created by "The equipment of LinuxTECH.", for example:)).
SuSE sells a distribution in a box. Though they don't have the rights to 99% of the software in that box (nor do they claim to), they have spent their money packaging all that software into a distribution. They own that distribution. If they want to make this Uruguayan LinuxTECH company the exclusive distributor of their product, they can. They aren't breaking the GPL: they still distribute source for any GPL'd software in their distro. (Same with other OSS licences.) They don't have an exclusive right to distribution of the non-SuSE software (i.e. I can sell Apache in Uruguay) within the distro, but they do have rights to the boxed distro itself.
Hemos, you could have simply copied the text into the body of your post. (Or did you miss the "DISTRIBUTE AT WILL" part?) There's no reason to slashdot the page.
Actually, you're not far off. One theory wrt agriculture/civilization gaining widespread acceptance is that beer provided the impetus for organized agriculture. Flour can be made with relatively little grain, but fermentation requires significantly more. In addition to the "obvious" benefits of beer, fermentation did much to purify water for drinking. (Remember that sewer systems and water treatment plants are recent inventions.) While these ancient cultures certainly did not understand why beer was allowing them to live longer on average, it certainly provided an important evolutionary advantage to those societies which drank it in favor of water.
If your product has a single digit version and you're running out of integers, switch to hexadecimal. You can say you were using hex all along. Or do what Apple is doing, and move to Roman numerals.
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The nice thing about a .reg file is that it's actually a text file, so you can easily see what it does before you apply it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's usually the number of times that the image has been requested, not a page on which the image is placed. A DoS script is unlikely to waste time requesting images.
I'd actually suspect other things. The blimp may have chosen not to show one direction because the surroundings were visually unappealing. There may be two CNN signs. You may simply have noticed it a couple times and became aware of it, so you noticed the times it did appear while ignoring the times it didn't appear.
Touche :)
I love commercials! Clever and entertaining ways for large, rich corporations to overtly and/or subliminally influence my thought patterns are a great reason to turn on a television that I try to avoid as much as possible. When discussing commercials, I really enjoy pretending that everyone in the world watches in the same country and sees the same commercials and assuming that everyone knows what "the Big Game" is or even what sport I'm referring to. Long live powerful corporations with authoritarian internal structures that make a farce of democratic representation!
Yeah, that was my first thought. Telling people not to attempt to contact him at his old address? I hope emmett checked this story before posting.
...on the definition of a computer in his case. Is a Palm allowed? What about a digital watch? A calculator? WebTV? (With a keyboard and a Java telnet client...)
1. We're rich, we can afford lots of lawyers and we want to be richer.
/* FIXME: finish up the loose ends of the logic */
/* FIXME: this one too */
2. Our licensing of DVD player licenses is very profitable.
3. Legal reverse-engineering defeats said licensing scheme.
4.
5. Said reverse-engineering should be stopped.
6.
7. Anyone offering the results (direct or indirect) of said reverse-engineering, and anyone linking to a site that does, should be stopped.
Most Bungie fans have known about this for a long time now, although there's never been any official confirmation or public announcement. In this case, lack of denial (in response to a direct question) was all the confirmation I needed.
Sorry, just felt like that analogy could be embraced and extended. :)
(Not that I can imagine anyone wanting to pirate American television. It's not exactly the pinnacle of civilization.)
This was discussed in the first discussion about Aqua. The icons are stored at 128x128 and scaled to whatever size the user wants.
Although it's OpenSource(tm), the human genome has a very long compile cycle. You can't just ./conceive && make. Would it be feasible to port the genome to Perl? I know it would run more slowly, but it should be sufficient for politicians and the like, and it would allow for true RAD (Rapid Adolescent Development). Humanity would also benefit from regular expressions and DBI (DNA-Based Intelligence).
if ($article =~ /completely_pseudocode/) { /completely_english/) {
$ok = 1;
} elsif ($article =~
$ok = 1;
} else {
This mixing gets annoying and hard to read, doesn't it? The comment is not the code. English doesn't get mixed with pseudocode well.
}
...but in the US, a newspaper page's worth of information fits in about 1k. :)
The boxed SuSE distro has printed docs, some non-redistributable software (IIRC), and support. None of this comes with the CD you press. If SuSE wants to grant a company the exclusive rights to resell the boxed SuSE distro in a particular country, they have every right (and possibly sense, given the size of the Uruguayan market for commercial Linux distros) to do so.
If you had read the letter, you wouldn't have made that mistake.
This company looks quite decent, actually. However, some of the sections look like copied&&translated text rather than original writing. I don't know if it's a word-for-word copy, but the FSF section on their site looks awfully familiar. Of course, much of this is probably due to the Babelfishery (I don't think the site was created by "The equipment of LinuxTECH.", for example :)).
Try http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate?d oit=done&urltext=http: //www.linux.com.uy/&lp=es_en.
SuSE sells a distribution in a box. Though they don't have the rights to 99% of the software in that box (nor do they claim to), they have spent their money packaging all that software into a distribution. They own that distribution. If they want to make this Uruguayan LinuxTECH company the exclusive distributor of their product, they can. They aren't breaking the GPL: they still distribute source for any GPL'd software in their distro. (Same with other OSS licences.) They don't have an exclusive right to distribution of the non-SuSE software (i.e. I can sell Apache in Uruguay) within the distro, but they do have rights to the boxed distro itself.
Hemos, you could have simply copied the text into the body of your post. (Or did you miss the "DISTRIBUTE AT WILL" part?) There's no reason to slashdot the page.
Actually, you're not far off. One theory wrt agriculture/civilization gaining widespread acceptance is that beer provided the impetus for organized agriculture. Flour can be made with relatively little grain, but fermentation requires significantly more. In addition to the "obvious" benefits of beer, fermentation did much to purify water for drinking. (Remember that sewer systems and water treatment plants are recent inventions.) While these ancient cultures certainly did not understand why beer was allowing them to live longer on average, it certainly provided an important evolutionary advantage to those societies which drank it in favor of water.
BTW, there's more to this message than meets the eye. :)
If your product has a single digit version and you're running out of integers, switch to hexadecimal. You can say you were using hex all along. Or do what Apple is doing, and move to Roman numerals.