An odd webmaster choice maybe? I wonder if they generate the robots.txt based on a 404 report - something like
Grep the errors log for 404's from search engines.
Parse out the directory paths.
Add those to robots.txt.
Which might explain why at least one of the directories -/infocus/iraq/ - clearly has an index. However, if they moved or renamed a file under that path, it might be generating 404's. From personal experience, I've had bad requests from Googlebot for files that were over 4 years old.
I have to agree that it's more strange than sinister. Besides, I'm not sure that the web site is the official archive for white house statements.
1. Take your basic product name - ie, "Mozilla". 2. Get permission from a celebrity to put their name in front of it. 3. Put next year's number on the end. 4. Add the letter's "X", "XP" or some abbreviation with an "X" in it.
Therefore, Mozilla 2.0 should really be - Madden Mozilla 2004 SSX
Admittedly, the choices in iTunes are limited. Even though they signed several indpendent labels, including Matador and Kill Rock Stars, though don't have the entire catalog of those labels or any rarities. Heck, they don't even have some of the new releases - try looking for Her Majesty the Decemberists.
The advantage of the P2P networks from a selection standpoint was that you had thousands of people adding tracks, not just one or two labels. On the old Napster, I remember finding tracks from B-Sides and compilations albums from the 80's along with ton's of live materials - let alone regular recordings. In that respect, I think the P2P networks will probably stay around for hardcore fans, looking for rare items. However, I don't think the RIAA is worried about people who are downloading the Reiver's cover of "Atlantic City".
If anyone stands to lose from online music stores, it's Rhino and the producers of the "That's What I Call Music" series. For the hit single buyer, the online store is a great bargain. I wonder if you can pick up "Billy Don't Be a Hero" on iTunes yet.
Since at least version 4 (maybe version 3.0) of Lotus Notes, you could prevent copying, printing and forwarding of a message. Under the delivery options when you're composing a new message, there is an option "Prevent Copying".
With notes, you could still grab a screen shot by pressing "Print Scrn", since that's tied into the OS, not the app.
Actually, Apple Records was pretty revolutionary because it was owned by the artists - the Beatles. Apple records gave the Beatles the ability to make music the way they wanted; I can't imagine a record label in 1968 releasing the White Album. It also ushered in an era of musician run labels for a brief while - such as Led Zeppelin's Swan Song and Frank Zappa's Barking Pumpkin.
If I were representing some of the larger fish in the suits, I'd be looking for a way to pay for representation for Brianna and help her beat the suite.
Why? Her case has the best chance of beating the RIAA suit. Her family probably had a dial-up connection, making it unlikely that they could have served up many files. By their own admission, they were only previewing the files. And lastly, the mother is being sued for the actions of her 12 and 9 year old children. Lastly, a New York jury may be pretty sympathetic to a mother in subsidized housing being sued by multi-billion dollar companies.
Remember, McDonald's lost their famous coffee burn case not on the merits of the plaintiff's complaints but because of the jury's disgust at their obvious callousness and disregard of the 81 year old plaintiff. The RIAA may very well be stupid enough to take a single mother to court.
I can only imagine the grief of Aaron Hamel's family. My guess is that some lawyer is taking advantage of the second stage of grief - Anger - and getting them to sue. Unfortunately, by the time the whole thing is resolved in the courts, they will have been at the fifth stage - acceptance - for some time.
I'd rather see retribution for this through the justice system. However, according to the article, the biggest charge so far is reckless homicide. I'm having a hard time understanding how shooting at moving cars is "reckless" - if you're shooting at a moving car, you're shooting at the people inside of it. If you're firing a gun at random strangers, that's still intentional. Is the criminal court actually accepting exposure to a violent video game as a mitigating factor?
Inoperability isn't just in your own office - it's with your business partners as well. Between e-mail and file sharing, Word, Excel and Powerpoint have become standard formats for sending information between companies. If you're e-mailing word docs to your ad agency who is a Mac shop or excel spreadsheets to a supplier who hasn't upgraded his systems, you have to work with old format files.
You're going to see a lot of admins defaulting the save command to office 97 format.
The sucesses of Mozilla and Safari on the Mac show that there's a huge window of opportunity on Windows to start booting out IE. Microsoft won't be upgrading IE until there's a new operating system. However, there are tons of features in browsers like Mozilla that everyday users would love. I've been turning web developers in my company onto Mozilla. I suppose the question is, how do you market something that's free?
The book has a compatibility legend for each recipe; most of the recipes work with IE 4 and NN 4.
DOM support has become widespread enough that you can easily create DHTML features on a page that will work for over 99% of your visitors. The worst thing so far has been some of the positioning properties; however, some of that is due to the surfeit of properties used by IE.
I got the first Dynamic HTML when it came out then bought the second edition and the JS/DHTML cookbook.
The cookbook is great for newcomers to web development. It is based on common tasks, i.e. "Allowing Only Numbers (or Letters) in a Text Box". It then shows how to combine the HTML, CSS and Javascript to get carry out that task. I can't count how many times that a co-worker has asked me a Javascript question and I've shown them the answer straight out of that book. For programmers new to web development, the largest obstacle isn't HTML or Javascript syntax; it's how to put together those elements. I have yet to see a book that does it as clearly as the the JS and DHTML Cookbook. For someone starting out on their first web based projects, I'd strongly recommend DHTML - the Definitive Guide and the JS/DHTML cookbook as the best references for getting started.
There is a considerable amount of up-front costs for developing, testing and packaging a game. Nearly all of the developer's costs occur before the release of the game and a good portion of the publisher's expenses as well. With that in mind, both need a large infusion of cash to cover the costs of the release and to pour funds back into other projects.
It is also interesting that retailers like Best Buy and Walmart don't seem to be using games as lost leaders in the same way that they do for music and movies. My guess is that MAP agreements and hefty amounts of co-op keep the retailers at the initial price.
In university, I was an Enlgish major with a habit of studying other languages - specifically, French, Russian and Old Icelandic. Studying human languages, you quickly realize that there are many ways to express the same abstractions - a realization that has helped me as a programmer.
Yeah, the review could have been better. I would have like to known more about some of the linguistic problems sovled on both books.
He was a tr8der boy RIAA hater boy Downloaded his music off of Kazaa He had "Complicated" Up on his supernode Now he gotta subpoena from Silberberg & Knupp
It was interesting that one of the problems was running Yahoo messenger. While it seems like a lot of trouble to find the right packages, people go through the same thing when they upgrade Windows - some apps require a different client and others require tweaking. The experience that the writer went through with his PC running SUSE would not be repeated in an organization with decent support staff. The staff would go through the discovery process of finding the best client, then distribute that client to all Linux desktops.
In short, software incompatibilities like that are an issue for one or two users, but less of an issue with a larger user base.
By "enterprise application", I take it this is an application with a large number of users (10,00+), but still internal to your company.
I'd agree with the above post for an external website. About the only two plug-ins that you can reasonably count on people having are Flash and Acrobat Reader. And IE 5+ would limit you to about 90% of the browsing public - you don't want to turn away 10% of your potential customer base.
However, if the application is internal to your company, requiring a plug-in is very reasonable. You do need to make sure you have an easy way to distribute the plug-in and that you have your support people ready when you implement your app. In fact, part of your app should be detecting if someone has the plugin then directing them to the correct page to install it. A plug-in based system linke SVG or Flash is a little easier to install than a Java Runtime Environment. However if you plan on creating more web applications, you may find yourself needing a standard JRE eventually.
I wouldn't limit myself to IE - a better standard would be the W3C's recommendations or you could check out the Web Standards Project. If you must use IE, I strongly recommend IE 6. Again, you may need to upgrade some people's browsers; you just need to include that in your implementation.
I'm not sure how modular their controllers are, but a wireless/optical synthesizer could be changed to create all kinds of controllers. For example, if you needed a controller for a security system. All you would need is the interaction table and some of those discs. If you update the system, the software shoul automatically add new options to the display/controls. If you add more cameras, the software should be able to add new control areas - you don't have to buy a whole new console.
Lastly, the system doesn't run on electrical contact between moving parts, so you don't have the same degree of wear and tear.
The cube is one of the most original looking systems. However, the design always struck me as a little impractical. The optical power switch on top was prone to sending the system to sleep unexpectedly. The USB ports, ethernet port and modem connection were on the bottom, keeping the cables in order. However it also meant that you either had to turn the system over or grope around under system to connect peripherals.
You can just as easily get a stylish iMac for the same price.
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- Grep the errors log for 404's from search engines.
- Parse out the directory paths.
- Add those to robots.txt.
Which might explain why at least one of the directories -I have to agree that it's more strange than sinister. Besides, I'm not sure that the web site is the official archive for white house statements.
1. Take your basic product name - ie, "Mozilla".
2. Get permission from a celebrity to put their name in front of it.
3. Put next year's number on the end.
4. Add the letter's "X", "XP" or some abbreviation
with an "X" in it.
Therefore, Mozilla 2.0 should really be -
Madden Mozilla 2004 SSX
Admittedly, the choices in iTunes are limited. Even though they signed several indpendent labels, including Matador and Kill Rock Stars, though don't have the entire catalog of those labels or any rarities. Heck, they don't even have some of the new releases - try looking for Her Majesty the Decemberists.
The advantage of the P2P networks from a selection standpoint was that you had thousands of people adding tracks, not just one or two labels. On the old Napster, I remember finding tracks from B-Sides and compilations albums from the 80's along with ton's of live materials - let alone regular recordings. In that respect, I think the P2P networks will probably stay around for hardcore fans, looking for rare items. However, I don't think the RIAA is worried about people who are downloading the Reiver's cover of "Atlantic City".
If anyone stands to lose from online music stores, it's Rhino and the producers of the "That's What I Call Music" series. For the hit single buyer, the online store is a great bargain. I wonder if you can pick up "Billy Don't Be a Hero" on iTunes yet.
Since at least version 4 (maybe version 3.0) of Lotus Notes, you could prevent copying, printing and forwarding of a message. Under the delivery options when you're composing a new message, there is an option "Prevent Copying".
With notes, you could still grab a screen shot by pressing "Print Scrn", since that's tied into the OS, not the app.
Actually, Apple Records was pretty revolutionary because it was owned by the artists - the Beatles. Apple records gave the Beatles the ability to make music the way they wanted; I can't imagine a record label in 1968 releasing the White Album. It also ushered in an era of musician run labels for a brief while - such as Led Zeppelin's Swan Song and Frank Zappa's Barking Pumpkin.
If I were representing some of the larger fish in the suits, I'd be looking for a way to pay for representation for Brianna and help her beat the suite.
Why? Her case has the best chance of beating the RIAA suit. Her family probably had a dial-up connection, making it unlikely that they could have served up many files. By their own admission, they were only previewing the files. And lastly, the mother is being sued for the actions of her 12 and 9 year old children. Lastly, a New York jury may be pretty sympathetic to a mother in subsidized housing being sued by multi-billion dollar companies.
Remember, McDonald's lost their famous coffee burn case not on the merits of the plaintiff's complaints but because of the jury's disgust at their obvious callousness and disregard of the 81 year old plaintiff. The RIAA may very well be stupid enough to take a single mother to court.
Where do you live? Kenya?
Besides, everyone knows spears are primarily a hunting weapon.
I can only imagine the grief of Aaron Hamel's family. My guess is that some lawyer is taking advantage of the second stage of grief - Anger - and getting them to sue. Unfortunately, by the time the whole thing is resolved in the courts, they will have been at the fifth stage - acceptance - for some time.
I'd rather see retribution for this through the justice system. However, according to the article, the biggest charge so far is reckless homicide. I'm having a hard time understanding how shooting at moving cars is "reckless" - if you're shooting at a moving car, you're shooting at the people inside of it. If you're firing a gun at random strangers, that's still intentional. Is the criminal court actually accepting exposure to a violent video game as a mitigating factor?
Inoperability isn't just in your own office - it's with your business partners as well. Between e-mail and file sharing, Word, Excel and Powerpoint have become standard formats for sending information between companies. If you're e-mailing word docs to your ad agency who is a Mac shop or excel spreadsheets to a supplier who hasn't upgraded his systems, you have to work with old format files.
You're going to see a lot of admins defaulting the save command to office 97 format.
A TCP replacement. Would that be .NetBEUI?
That's a lot of bourbon to drink in 5 minutes.
The sucesses of Mozilla and Safari on the Mac show that there's a huge window of opportunity on Windows to start booting out IE. Microsoft won't be upgrading IE until there's a new operating system. However, there are tons of features in browsers like Mozilla that everyday users would love. I've been turning web developers in my company onto Mozilla. I suppose the question is, how do you market something that's free?
The book has a compatibility legend for each recipe; most of the recipes work with IE 4 and NN 4.
DOM support has become widespread enough that you can easily create DHTML features on a page that will work for over 99% of your visitors. The worst thing so far has been some of the positioning properties; however, some of that is due to the surfeit of properties used by IE.
I got the first Dynamic HTML when it came out then bought the second edition and the JS/DHTML cookbook.
The cookbook is great for newcomers to web development. It is based on common tasks, i.e. "Allowing Only Numbers (or Letters) in a Text Box". It then shows how to combine the HTML, CSS and Javascript to get carry out that task. I can't count how many times that a co-worker has asked me a Javascript question and I've shown them the answer straight out of that book. For programmers new to web development, the largest obstacle isn't HTML or Javascript syntax; it's how to put together those elements. I have yet to see a book that does it as clearly as the the JS and DHTML Cookbook. For someone starting out on their first web based projects, I'd strongly recommend DHTML - the Definitive Guide and the JS/DHTML cookbook as the best references for getting started.
- Eastern Siberia if you enjoy winter sports.
- Cuba if you enjoy summer sports.
- China if you enjoy meeting new people.
- Western Siberia to stay close to friends and family
Isn't it great to have a choice?There is a considerable amount of up-front costs for developing, testing and packaging a game. Nearly all of the developer's costs occur before the release of the game and a good portion of the publisher's expenses as well. With that in mind, both need a large infusion of cash to cover the costs of the release and to pour funds back into other projects.
It is also interesting that retailers like Best Buy and Walmart don't seem to be using games as lost leaders in the same way that they do for music and movies. My guess is that MAP agreements and hefty amounts of co-op keep the retailers at the initial price.
In university, I was an Enlgish major with a habit of studying other languages - specifically, French, Russian and Old Icelandic. Studying human languages, you quickly realize that there are many ways to express the same abstractions - a realization that has helped me as a programmer.
Yeah, the review could have been better. I would have like to known more about some of the linguistic problems sovled on both books.
He was a tr8der boy
RIAA hater boy
Downloaded his music off of Kazaa
He had "Complicated"
Up on his supernode
Now he gotta subpoena from Silberberg & Knupp
That's enough attorneys laid end to end to cover every sidewalk in New York.
It was interesting that one of the problems was running Yahoo messenger. While it seems like a lot of trouble to find the right packages, people go through the same thing when they upgrade Windows - some apps require a different client and others require tweaking. The experience that the writer went through with his PC running SUSE would not be repeated in an organization with decent support staff. The staff would go through the discovery process of finding the best client, then distribute that client to all Linux desktops.
In short, software incompatibilities like that are an issue for one or two users, but less of an issue with a larger user base.
50% of all people posses above average intelligence...
By "enterprise application", I take it this is an application with a large number of users (10,00+), but still internal to your company.
I'd agree with the above post for an external website. About the only two plug-ins that you can reasonably count on people having are Flash and Acrobat Reader. And IE 5+ would limit you to about 90% of the browsing public - you don't want to turn away 10% of your potential customer base.
However, if the application is internal to your company, requiring a plug-in is very reasonable. You do need to make sure you have an easy way to distribute the plug-in and that you have your support people ready when you implement your app. In fact, part of your app should be detecting if someone has the plugin then directing them to the correct page to install it. A plug-in based system linke SVG or Flash is a little easier to install than a Java Runtime Environment. However if you plan on creating more web applications, you may find yourself needing a standard JRE eventually.
I wouldn't limit myself to IE - a better standard would be the W3C's recommendations or you could check out the Web Standards Project. If you must use IE, I strongly recommend IE 6. Again, you may need to upgrade some people's browsers; you just need to include that in your implementation.
I'm not sure how modular their controllers are, but a wireless/optical synthesizer could be changed to create all kinds of controllers. For example, if you needed a controller for a security system. All you would need is the interaction table and some of those discs. If you update the system, the software shoul automatically add new options to the display/controls. If you add more cameras, the software should be able to add new control areas - you don't have to buy a whole new console.
Lastly, the system doesn't run on electrical contact between moving parts, so you don't have the same degree of wear and tear.
The cube is one of the most original looking systems. However, the design always struck me as a little impractical. The optical power switch on top was prone to sending the system to sleep unexpectedly. The USB ports, ethernet port and modem connection were on the bottom, keeping the cables in order. However it also meant that you either had to turn the system over or grope around under system to connect peripherals.
You can just as easily get a stylish iMac for the same price.