Great. I filter out "Ask Slashdot" so I don't have to put up with deliberate flamebait and lazy students asking for help with their homework, and what do I get? Slashdot starts posting stupid reader-response polls in "Developers". Time to filter that out too.
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Software Aesthetics
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s/Extreme Programming/Design Patterns/ or any other modern software practice and it makes just as much sense.
I read my AUP and terms of service before signing up. Then Road Runner demonstrated that they are incapable of keeping mail servers up and running, so I started running postfix. This mail server was a gateway to harder servers; pretty soon, I was all strung out on thttpd. It was crazy, man.
I have always avoided any ISP that prevented me from fully utilizing my connection.
Unfortunately, I don't have as many choices as you. The only legitimate option I have is to pay insane prices for "business" 28.8k dialup service, since I can't get IDSL, ADSL, or SDSL. Road Runner is the only broadband service that will connect me.
Anyway, the AUP/TOS haven't been a problem before, since the local RR admins tend not to care about servers unless they are bandwidth hogs.
Use the ISP's mail services. IMAP/SSL messages down, set the ISP's SMTP host as a smart-host.
Hahahaha, you must be kidding. My ISP's incompetence at running a mail server is the reason I started running my own (using DynDNS Custom DNS, no less). Time-Warner Road Runner (my only available broadband option) managed to fail to deliver e-mail for a period of about a week and a half, this spring.
Oh, and they don't have IMAP or SSL access (unless they added it in the last few months).
Webmail is so annoying as to be completely useless for me, and there's no way I'm going to pay to have yet another company lose my mail when I can run my own server and have the mail delivered correctly.
Umm, no, ORBS, don't come back. I like actually being able to send mail without having it bounce because all of my school's/ISP's servers have been blacklisted because they don't allow external connections...
The movie was lip synced to English, not Japanese. The Japanese version will be either dubbed or subtitled (with original English dialogue), and will not have Japanese lip sync. Also, Japan will have to wait several months to see the movie, since it was released in the US first.
There's a distinct possibility that the work he has done on KIllustrator belongs to his employer in the first place, not him. It depends on what kinds of agreements he signed when he was hired.
Sega Master System vs. e-mail
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SMS vs. E-mail?
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Well, next time you hit "send" on your mail program, think about this: right now, you could be playing Phantasy Star, Thunderblade, or even Shinobi, instead! That's right. Shinobi. Classic side-scrolling shuriken-throwing ninja action. Right there on your Sega Master System. Aww yeah.
Now consider e-mail again. Think of all the spam you get, all the e-mail viruses, the chain letters, the Nigerian bank scams, the oversized attachments that take forever to download. Think of HTML mail. Free web mail services vanishing, your e-mail address with them. What a pain in the ass.
Wow, when I purchased The Bouncer for my PS2, I thought that "satellites converting solar power to microwaves which are beamed down to earth" idea was pure technobabble hokum. Now I see it's not; the people at Squaresoft are clearly good at keeping track of current events. Kudos to Squaresoft for showing what can go wrong with one of these systems.
If there end up being problems with NASDA's system, well, we can just blame Dauragon C. Mikado.
the development shop they went with has them on ASP/NT servers, with security holes up the wazoo (visible source code, passwords, etc) exposing these clients to massive risk
Wow, someone said visible source code is a massive risk on Slashdot. I wonder if the usual gang of trolls here will start promoting IIS because it increases the visibility of your source code (the more eyes the better, you know... right?)
Think about it. If you only communicate with hosts using the criterion you mentioned for the "opt-in" version, you will never end up using ECN. The only time you will use ECN is when talking to hosts that always use ECN. Apply a bit of induction.
Trying every outgoing connection twice (once with, and once without) would work much better, but I don't know how many people would like that sort of behavior.
Not all anime is that expensive. The _Record_of_Lodoss_War_ DVD box set (13 eps split over 2 DVDs) retails for $59.99, and Lodoss _Chronicles_of_the_Heroic_Knight_ (27 eps) retails for $129.99 (right in line with X-Files DVD pricing:)
Also, _Shoujo_Kakumei_Utena_ DVDs have 7 eps apiece and cost $39.99 retail (a little higher, and also closer to normal "4 eps for $25" pricing). Not to mention that these are usually found for less, as the prices I have quoted are retail.
Anyway, why is this story news? Didn't the Eva movies come out in 1997? I guess it's kind of nice ADV is finally releasing them in America (if anyone still cares about Eva anymore, which I don't), but getting them out in a timely manner obviously wasn't a high priority.
Afro 3 writes: "Konami is again showing us their moves in the music game war with a new high-energy product: Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix, designed to operate on the 6-arrow DDR platform. There are a couple of reviews pitting the 4th Mix DDR versus Parappa the Rapper, Umjammer Lammy, and Bust a Move at DDR Freak and at DDR UK." I'm still staying cool with last-year's 3rd Mix -- does anyone harbor any lingering thoughts that that's not their real dance, they can do better?
Wow, that's kind of scary. Just imagine the possibilities.
Forget cell phone triangulation--the cell phone companies could be forced to put a GPS receiver in all of their phones, so that a trace always leads to an exact location (within 20 feet, or whatever the fuzz factor is for GPS).
Cars could be implanted with GPS receivers and two-way radios which authorities could use to track a driver's whereabouts. This could be sold to consumers as an anti-theft device (which it would be, at least until the car theives learn to disable it).
Speaking of implanting, surgical insertion of GPS devices has a whole new set of implications.
Another thought, if the term of copyright was lowered to a term of twenty years (like patents), then there would be an inspiration to create more, better and cheaper movies. huh??
Retroactive changes to the length of a term of copyright are wrong, in my opinion. I would have no problem with Disney lobbying for longer and longer copyright terms if the longer terms only affected new works, not those whose terms were about to expire. If the term length is set by legislation (I am not certain if it is or not), then in what way is this not ex post facto?
Likewise, I think that if the term was shortened as you suggest, the new term should only apply to new works, not existing works.
I wasn't saying that you were spreading false information, but rather that some of the more opinionated remarks in your post gave a bad impression. In particular, I think the credibility of your letter was hurt by "I think this is a horrible company" and "I fear these some of the stupidest people ever put on God's Good Earth." Belittling sounds childish.
Also, the overenthusiastic, juvenile tone of "Nuke the Digital Convergence IPO!" and "I've been doing my part all evening to spam investment boards" colored my impression of your letter. "Nuking" D:C's IPO sounds "trollish" and malevolent, at least compared to "warning potential investors."
Finally, "These threatening letters have incensed the open source community-- a group well-qualified to undermine DC's business model by providing alternate software to drive the CueCat, shutting of DC's revenue" would appear to pit the open source community against D:C in a struggle to drive D:C out of business. This sounds a little bit like a threat itself.
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Great. I filter out "Ask Slashdot" so I don't have to put up with deliberate flamebait and lazy students asking for help with their homework, and what do I get? Slashdot starts posting stupid reader-response polls in "Developers". Time to filter that out too.
s/Extreme Programming/Design Patterns/ or any other modern software practice and it makes just as much sense.
I read my AUP and terms of service before signing up. Then Road Runner demonstrated that they are incapable of keeping mail servers up and running, so I started running postfix. This mail server was a gateway to harder servers; pretty soon, I was all strung out on thttpd. It was crazy, man.
I have always avoided any ISP that prevented me from fully utilizing my connection.
Unfortunately, I don't have as many choices as you. The only legitimate option I have is to pay insane prices for "business" 28.8k dialup service, since I can't get IDSL, ADSL, or SDSL. Road Runner is the only broadband service that will connect me.
Anyway, the AUP/TOS haven't been a problem before, since the local RR admins tend not to care about servers unless they are bandwidth hogs.
Use the ISP's mail services. IMAP/SSL messages down, set the ISP's SMTP host as a smart-host.
Hahahaha, you must be kidding. My ISP's incompetence at running a mail server is the reason I started running my own (using DynDNS Custom DNS, no less). Time-Warner Road Runner (my only available broadband option) managed to fail to deliver e-mail for a period of about a week and a half, this spring.
Oh, and they don't have IMAP or SSL access (unless they added it in the last few months).
Webmail is so annoying as to be completely useless for me, and there's no way I'm going to pay to have yet another company lose my mail when I can run my own server and have the mail delivered correctly.
Umm, no, ORBS, don't come back. I like actually being able to send mail without having it bounce because all of my school's/ISP's servers have been blacklisted because they don't allow external connections...
Good riddance.
The movie was lip synced to English, not Japanese. The Japanese version will be either dubbed or subtitled (with original English dialogue), and will not have Japanese lip sync. Also, Japan will have to wait several months to see the movie, since it was released in the US first.
There's a distinct possibility that the work he has done on KIllustrator belongs to his employer in the first place, not him. It depends on what kinds of agreements he signed when he was hired.
Well, not really (this is the American trademark, not the German one, but it does at least show that Adobe has trademarked the word "illustrator" in the US): http://tess.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=q7 17af.2.11
Well, next time you hit "send" on your mail program, think about this: right now, you could be playing Phantasy Star, Thunderblade, or even Shinobi, instead! That's right. Shinobi. Classic side-scrolling shuriken-throwing ninja action. Right there on your Sega Master System. Aww yeah.
Now consider e-mail again. Think of all the spam you get, all the e-mail viruses, the chain letters, the Nigerian bank scams, the oversized attachments that take forever to download. Think of HTML mail. Free web mail services vanishing, your e-mail address with them. What a pain in the ass.
Clear winner: SMS.
Why can't I map the wheel to a Z axis?
Because you don't play enough Black and White?
Finally, someone is doing something about one of the crappiest, most anachronistic aspects of PCs: their lame partition table scheme.
*BSD tried, but their partitioning scheme never caught on because it didn't have Microsoft's support.
Besides, someone is working on GPT support for ia64 Linux: look at this message to linux-kernel.
Mmm, all-terrain rice...
Also, the tracks would put your car high enough off the ground that you could attach a tailpipe the size of a trashcan.
Wow, when I purchased The Bouncer for my PS2, I thought that "satellites converting solar power to microwaves which are beamed down to earth" idea was pure technobabble hokum. Now I see it's not; the people at Squaresoft are clearly good at keeping track of current events. Kudos to Squaresoft for showing what can go wrong with one of these systems.
If there end up being problems with NASDA's system, well, we can just blame Dauragon C. Mikado.
the development shop they went with has them on ASP/NT servers, with security holes up the wazoo (visible source code, passwords, etc) exposing these clients to massive risk
Wow, someone said visible source code is a massive risk on Slashdot. I wonder if the usual gang of trolls here will start promoting IIS because it increases the visibility of your source code (the more eyes the better, you know... right?)
Think about it. If you only communicate with hosts using the criterion you mentioned for the "opt-in" version, you will never end up using ECN. The only time you will use ECN is when talking to hosts that always use ECN. Apply a bit of induction.
Trying every outgoing connection twice (once with, and once without) would work much better, but I don't know how many people would like that sort of behavior.
Not all anime is that expensive. The _Record_of_Lodoss_War_ DVD box set (13 eps split over 2 DVDs) retails for $59.99, and Lodoss _Chronicles_of_the_Heroic_Knight_ (27 eps) retails for $129.99 (right in line with X-Files DVD pricing :)
Also, _Shoujo_Kakumei_Utena_ DVDs have 7 eps apiece and cost $39.99 retail (a little higher, and also closer to normal "4 eps for $25" pricing). Not to mention that these are usually found for less, as the prices I have quoted are retail.
Anyway, why is this story news? Didn't the Eva movies come out in 1997? I guess it's kind of nice ADV is finally releasing them in America (if anyone still cares about Eva anymore, which I don't), but getting them out in a timely manner obviously wasn't a high priority.
Afro 3 writes: "Konami is again showing us their moves in the music game war with a new high-energy product: Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix, designed to operate on the 6-arrow DDR platform. There are a couple of reviews pitting the 4th Mix DDR versus Parappa the Rapper, Umjammer Lammy, and Bust a Move at DDR Freak and at DDR UK." I'm still staying cool with last-year's 3rd Mix -- does anyone harbor any lingering thoughts that that's not their real dance, they can do better?
I'm a bit confused as to why people think you can't use a one-NIC PC as a router/firewall... I've already done it several times.
Yes, you can, except many cable modem or DSL providers will disconnect customers who do that.
Oh no, I had a feeling that it was a bad idea to mount my license plate flat on the roof, but I didn't know why until now!
What are they smoking? They're creating a .coop but no .intern? I'm shocked.
Another thought, if the term of copyright was lowered to a term of twenty years (like patents), then there would be an inspiration to create more, better and cheaper movies. huh??
Retroactive changes to the length of a term of copyright are wrong, in my opinion. I would have no problem with Disney lobbying for longer and longer copyright terms if the longer terms only affected new works, not those whose terms were about to expire. If the term length is set by legislation (I am not certain if it is or not), then in what way is this not ex post facto?
Likewise, I think that if the term was shortened as you suggest, the new term should only apply to new works, not existing works.
Looks like either Slashdot or your web browser corrupted that post-many of the kanji have been replaced with question marks and other garbage.
http://www.sony.co.jp/sd/ProductsPark/Consumer/PCO M/PCG-C1VJ/hard.html
I wasn't saying that you were spreading false information, but rather that some of the more opinionated remarks in your post gave a bad impression. In particular, I think the credibility of your letter was hurt by "I think this is a horrible company" and "I fear these some of the stupidest people ever put on God's Good Earth." Belittling sounds childish.
Also, the overenthusiastic, juvenile tone of "Nuke the Digital Convergence IPO!" and "I've been doing my part all evening to spam investment boards" colored my impression of your letter. "Nuking" D:C's IPO sounds "trollish" and malevolent, at least compared to "warning potential investors."
Finally, "These threatening letters have incensed the open source community-- a group well-qualified to undermine DC's business model by providing alternate software to drive the CueCat, shutting of DC's revenue" would appear to pit the open source community against D:C in a struggle to drive D:C out of business. This sounds a little bit like a threat itself.