I used that the other day for an old machine that couldn't boot from CD. First time I used that was about the same time you did. I got Slack 2.2 or 2.3 (can't remember) off a Linux Unleashed book. I give more credit to that book since it pointed me to the right distro for learning. Turns out it's a great server distro too!
Bill Gates is a current inductee -- as William H. Gates III. Dennis Ritchie is as well. Not sure who you're thinking of, since it's _Brian_ Kernighan (who is not an inductee).
I just figure they'd outsource it to India and have Indians ID the songs. Just have each Indian listen to one genre of music, weighted by popularity and likelyhood to come up. You can probably attach 3 people to each ID session -- pop/rock, country, and hip-hop and if they can't ID it, pass it on to the next tier of IDers. It would probably still be cheaper than audio fingerprinting, considering how distorted the music must be.
That FedEx story is a gross oversimplification. Frederick W. Smith is the founder of FedEx and he himself says that the paper pretty much deserved the grade it got.
I wouldn't call it performance art either. I think of it more as an installation piece. The other posters miss the point; it's not that the piece is entertaining -- reading the source code might be, but listening to synthesized speech reading it sure isn't -- but what questions the piece is putting in front of you.
Source code is art?
Source code is speech?
Source code is free speech?
I'm not going to listen to this for more than a minute, and I'm sure many other will do the same. The fact that no one will consume the entire piece doesn't make it any less meaningful. The point of the piece is that someone actually went out to do it.
Actually, the ones I see in spam messages are the low-quality clones being sold by importers. They are usually not upgradable at all and only useful for parts cannibalizing. The Tomy Bit Char-G cars have both official and aftermarket upgrades in terms of gears, tires, and motors. There are also many modifications possible if you are handy with a soldering iron, as well as hobby modelling tools. Hobbico Microsizers are exactly the same as the Bit Char-G's and the same parts and mods will work. For more information of Micro RC Cars go here.
I can understand your frustration with the spam, but it would be unfortunate to pass this up because of that. Boycott the individual spammers. There are many non-spamming businesses that sell these.
The technology is neither a state secret nor a type of munitions. No law was broken. What is a problem is that the technology was allegedly used to violate human rights. Whether this is right or wrong depends on your fundamental belief of what a corporation's primary goal is: maximizing profits, or benefitting the world.
The other angle is that the technology has legitimate uses (for example, in a corporate setting). If the technology is used for bad purposes, are the creators liable for it? Place the blame where it belongs, squarely on the shoulders of China.
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Well, considering there are many other variables, any conclusions drawn from turnout can't be taken seriously. It's a midterm election, yes, but many races have a lot of interest. Florida, due to the voting debacles, Minnesota, due to Wellstone's untimely death, New Jersey, due to Toricelli dropping out, etc., can cause greater turnout. Also, the fact that a war looms, that many positions hang in the balance, certainly brings more people out. Nevermind the fact that many exit poll results are released after the polls have already closed...
I'm not sure but the gestures available at optimoz might not work with Phoenix. You might need a Pheonix-specific xpi package. What I always do is go to Tools->Preferences->Themes & Extensions->Extensions and choose "Get New Extensions" and install the package listed. HTH.
There is BOCHS, but it emulates every x86 instruction, rather than being optimized for specifically running an OS. The developers (in the FAQ) do not recommended for the purpose you intend. I have not tried it.
Plex86 touts itself as *the* free (as in speech and beer) alternative. I have not tried this either.
Connectix makes Virtual PC, which is not free. I have not tried it.
Something on a blacklist is considered unacceptable, to be boycotted, or censured. A whitelist is the opposite -- something to be accepted. Since Phoenix can be set to block all popups (everything is blacklisted by default), the user then adds sites to the whitelist. A site on the whitelist will be allowed to have its popups show up. This is handy for sites that use popup windows legitimately.
In Phoenix, when a site attempts to launch a popup window, an icon shows up on the bottom. When clicked, the site can be whitelisted.
As the other reply informed me, yes, IE does have cookie control. Phoenix now has cookie control as well, so that makes both of my statements incorrect. I apologize for the oversight.
However, IE does not have the same popup blocking abilities Phoenix does. The suggestion you provide, to disable Active Scripting, does stop popups, but it also stops *all* scripting. That is a lot different than what Phoenix does, which specifically stops popups but allows other scripting to work. This finegrained control is a godsend for me, as some sites with popups require other scripting to work. Now I can use them and not see the popups. Also, the ease of whitelisting a site involves nothing more than two mouseclicks. So I stand by my statement on popups; IE does not compare to Phoenix in this regard.
Thanks for pointing this out. I currently have IE 5.5sp2 installed and can't find this per site privacy dialog. Is the screenshot from a newer version?
In any event, it would be unfair to pit the newest Phoenix against an older IE version, so I concede that point. Also, I would like to add that I just installed Phoenix 0.4 and it does have cookie white/blacklists now. I'm satisfied.
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I tried it on Phoenix 0.2 and it worked. Not sure if it will on the newer versions. I heard there are problems with installing it on certain platforms as well.
DHTML is dependant on two things: (1)browser ECMAScript compatibility and (2)the browser's DOM. ECMAScript Core is implemented 100% correctly as per the spec on most modern (version 5) browsers. The problem is the DOM. The Gecko and IE engines both support the W3C DOM spec but there are still some minor differences. DOM Level 2 is not yet 100% implemented on either browser engine afaik. The other problem is that HTML also depends on event bindings to the DOM. Mozilla implements the W3C DOM-Events model, and IE uses its own event model.
Besides the major two browsers, Opera does in fact implement a great deal of DOM Level 1. I'm not up to date on Konqueror but last I checked it supported a good chunk of DOM Level 1. DHTML on Macs is relegated mostly to IE for Mac, but beware, it acts differently from IE for Win. You need to test them as two separate browsers. I haven't checked iCab lately, but last year it was beyond hope. There's also Chimera, a Gecko port, which should act the same as other Gecko engine browsers. Some people are still using Netscape 4 and you're stuck with a layers DOM there, totally different from any other DOM.
So it really depends on what browsers you are targetting and what kind of things you want to do. DOM Level 1 is about as close a standard as you can get, but you're still going to have some browser-specific code.
I suggest giving the new build a try. After hovering over the pie menu for about a second (I think it's configurable), tooltips will show up telling you what each icon does. After a day of normal usage with this, I memorized the locations of the things I use. It's almost like a gesture in that I bring the menu up and nudge it in the appropriate direction.
However, I use radial menus in conjunction with gestures. I use gestures for the most part, and radial menu usually for links (open in new tab, save as, etc.). Together they have sped things up considerably.
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The Whistleblower Protection Act gives protection only the Federal Employees. Employees of private entities are not afforded protection. However, recent legislation is working towards giving protection to certain sectors, such as airlines, and because of the Enron/Anderson scandal, public corporations under the SEC.
TW2k2 is still very much alive. It now is up-to-date as a TCP/IP gaming server which can be connected to with telnet and custom clients. Several clients exist for your favorite platforms (Win, Linux, Java) and many offer much more robust scripting than was available during BBS days. SWATH (and I believe J-TWAT) uses Java, and TWXProxy (which isn't really a client) uses a proprietary language. Clients also collect information which can then be processed (e.g., mapping the universe, finding deadends, bubbles).
Also, the fact that multiple users can possibly be continuously on the server 24/7 has changed how the game works. A common technique called planet dropping is frequently employed on tollfig killers, which requires the planet dropper to be online so they can transwarp a nice level 6 volcanic planet on top of an enemy. Barricading Stardock can be automated (although that is considered extremely risky), as well as other tasks. In that respect, the game is a bit more realtime than before.
Strategy can be conducted through email and instant messenger clients. Group chat features in IM clients and IRC are more secure than the only "group" option in TW which is to use subspace radio which can be scanned by enemies.
In a sense, it's not the same game, but to me it's a great example of transitioning from the BBS world to the internet.
I hear you. Mozilla is the only one that supports the W3C's DOM Level 2-Events model. Even the newest Internet Explorers still use the proprietary event capturing/bubbling mechanism from IE4 days. So much for cross-browser.
I doubt all these media companies are acting in concert or have some sort of conspiracy to keep the law in the books, just moreso individually knowing the weakness of the approach. So if these companies are waiting for a case they can win to solidify the validity of the law, and if "we" are waiting for a case where "we" can win to overturn it, "we" are at a disadvantage. This is because the companies have the option of which cases to pursue, and how.
In light of this, couldn't "we" contrive some case to test the law? Some developer creates a program that uses some sort of weak encryption (ROT-13 perhaps), another party does something to break/circumvent it, first party sues second party under DMCA, and boom, instant test case. The problems I see with this scenario are: 1) Need money to support both sides of the case 2) cases must be argued such that the ruling can be used in other cases 3) having the case go to a high enough court to make the ruling more definitive. Does something like this even stand a chance of working?
It's interesting to see you bring up this topic, that what is a feature to the majority of people could be nearly a neccessity for others. I find it ironic, however, that current mobile phone accessibility for the deaf and hard of hearing is sorely lacking. While many phones are now SMS-enabled, this is not always sufficient. TTY functionality would be needed for relay calls.
It is certainly nice to see this development, but before this is actually implemented I would like to see TTY functionality on some mobile phones first.
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Jim Sensenbrenner (R) of Wisconsin. It was attached as a rider to a war and tsunami relief appropriations bill in 2005 and passed 100-0.
The tool to write the images to floppy, rawrite?
I used that the other day for an old machine that couldn't boot from CD. First time I used that was about the same time you did. I got Slack 2.2 or 2.3 (can't remember) off a Linux Unleashed book. I give more credit to that book since it pointed me to the right distro for learning. Turns out it's a great server distro too!
Bill Gates is a current inductee -- as William H. Gates III. Dennis Ritchie is as well. Not sure who you're thinking of, since it's _Brian_ Kernighan (who is not an inductee).
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I just figure they'd outsource it to India and have Indians ID the songs. Just have each Indian listen to one genre of music, weighted by popularity and likelyhood to come up. You can probably attach 3 people to each ID session -- pop/rock, country, and hip-hop and if they can't ID it, pass it on to the next tier of IDers. It would probably still be cheaper than audio fingerprinting, considering how distorted the music must be.
That FedEx story is a gross oversimplification. Frederick W. Smith is the founder of FedEx and he himself says that the paper pretty much deserved the grade it got.
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I wouldn't call it performance art either. I think of it more as an installation piece. The other posters miss the point; it's not that the piece is entertaining -- reading the source code might be, but listening to synthesized speech reading it sure isn't -- but what questions the piece is putting in front of you.
Source code is art?
Source code is speech?
Source code is free speech?
I'm not going to listen to this for more than a minute, and I'm sure many other will do the same. The fact that no one will consume the entire piece doesn't make it any less meaningful. The point of the piece is that someone actually went out to do it.
If it helps, think of it in terms of DeCSS.
Actually, the ones I see in spam messages are the low-quality clones being sold by importers. They are usually not upgradable at all and only useful for parts cannibalizing. The Tomy Bit Char-G cars have both official and aftermarket upgrades in terms of gears, tires, and motors. There are also many modifications possible if you are handy with a soldering iron, as well as hobby modelling tools. Hobbico Microsizers are exactly the same as the Bit Char-G's and the same parts and mods will work. For more information of Micro RC Cars go here.
I can understand your frustration with the spam, but it would be unfortunate to pass this up because of that. Boycott the individual spammers. There are many non-spamming businesses that sell these.
The technology is neither a state secret nor a type of munitions. No law was broken. What is a problem is that the technology was allegedly used to violate human rights. Whether this is right or wrong depends on your fundamental belief of what a corporation's primary goal is: maximizing profits, or benefitting the world.
The other angle is that the technology has legitimate uses (for example, in a corporate setting). If the technology is used for bad purposes, are the creators liable for it? Place the blame where it belongs, squarely on the shoulders of China.
Well, considering there are many other variables, any conclusions drawn from turnout can't be taken seriously. It's a midterm election, yes, but many races have a lot of interest. Florida, due to the voting debacles, Minnesota, due to Wellstone's untimely death, New Jersey, due to Toricelli dropping out, etc., can cause greater turnout. Also, the fact that a war looms, that many positions hang in the balance, certainly brings more people out. Nevermind the fact that many exit poll results are released after the polls have already closed...
I'm not sure but the gestures available at optimoz might not work with Phoenix. You might need a Pheonix-specific xpi package. What I always do is go to Tools->Preferences->Themes & Extensions->Extensions and choose "Get New Extensions" and install the package listed. HTH.
There is BOCHS, but it emulates every x86 instruction, rather than being optimized for specifically running an OS. The developers (in the FAQ) do not recommended for the purpose you intend. I have not tried it.
Plex86 touts itself as *the* free (as in speech and beer) alternative. I have not tried this either.
Connectix makes Virtual PC, which is not free. I have not tried it.
Something on a blacklist is considered unacceptable, to be boycotted, or censured. A whitelist is the opposite -- something to be accepted. Since Phoenix can be set to block all popups (everything is blacklisted by default), the user then adds sites to the whitelist. A site on the whitelist will be allowed to have its popups show up. This is handy for sites that use popup windows legitimately.
In Phoenix, when a site attempts to launch a popup window, an icon shows up on the bottom. When clicked, the site can be whitelisted.
As the other reply informed me, yes, IE does have cookie control. Phoenix now has cookie control as well, so that makes both of my statements incorrect. I apologize for the oversight.
However, IE does not have the same popup blocking abilities Phoenix does. The suggestion you provide, to disable Active Scripting, does stop popups, but it also stops *all* scripting. That is a lot different than what Phoenix does, which specifically stops popups but allows other scripting to work. This finegrained control is a godsend for me, as some sites with popups require other scripting to work. Now I can use them and not see the popups. Also, the ease of whitelisting a site involves nothing more than two mouseclicks. So I stand by my statement on popups; IE does not compare to Phoenix in this regard.
Thanks for pointing this out. I currently have IE 5.5sp2 installed and can't find this per site privacy dialog. Is the screenshot from a newer version?
In any event, it would be unfair to pit the newest Phoenix against an older IE version, so I concede that point. Also, I would like to add that I just installed Phoenix 0.4 and it does have cookie white/blacklists now. I'm satisfied.
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I tried it on Phoenix 0.2 and it worked. Not sure if it will on the newer versions. I heard there are problems with installing it on certain platforms as well.
Alright, I'll bite. I switched from a combo of IE/Mozilla to Phoenix exclusively with 0.3 and that's what I'm using right now. The reasons I switched:
1) Fast startup time
2) Tabbed browsing
3) Radial Context menus (Optimoz component)
4) Mouse Gestures (Optimoz component)
5) Popup blocking and *whitelists*
6) Finegrained control over Javascript
7) Sherlock plugins (using Mycroft)
8) Preferences toolbar extension (remove fonts, colors, images, disable javascript, change useragent on the fly, etc.)
9) Extensive toolbar customization
10) Download manager
11) Better security than IE
12) Gecko rendering engine is more DOM-compliant
The only thing missing that I need is cookie blacklists. But IE doesn't have that either.
DHTML is dependant on two things: (1)browser ECMAScript compatibility and (2)the browser's DOM. ECMAScript Core is implemented 100% correctly as per the spec on most modern (version 5) browsers. The problem is the DOM. The Gecko and IE engines both support the W3C DOM spec but there are still some minor differences. DOM Level 2 is not yet 100% implemented on either browser engine afaik. The other problem is that HTML also depends on event bindings to the DOM. Mozilla implements the W3C DOM-Events model, and IE uses its own event model.
Besides the major two browsers, Opera does in fact implement a great deal of DOM Level 1. I'm not up to date on Konqueror but last I checked it supported a good chunk of DOM Level 1. DHTML on Macs is relegated mostly to IE for Mac, but beware, it acts differently from IE for Win. You need to test them as two separate browsers. I haven't checked iCab lately, but last year it was beyond hope. There's also Chimera, a Gecko port, which should act the same as other Gecko engine browsers. Some people are still using Netscape 4 and you're stuck with a layers DOM there, totally different from any other DOM.
So it really depends on what browsers you are targetting and what kind of things you want to do. DOM Level 1 is about as close a standard as you can get, but you're still going to have some browser-specific code.
I suggest giving the new build a try. After hovering over the pie menu for about a second (I think it's configurable), tooltips will show up telling you what each icon does. After a day of normal usage with this, I memorized the locations of the things I use. It's almost like a gesture in that I bring the menu up and nudge it in the appropriate direction.
However, I use radial menus in conjunction with gestures. I use gestures for the most part, and radial menu usually for links (open in new tab, save as, etc.). Together they have sped things up considerably.
The Whistleblower Protection Act gives protection only the Federal Employees. Employees of private entities are not afforded protection. However, recent legislation is working towards giving protection to certain sectors, such as airlines, and because of the Enron/Anderson scandal, public corporations under the SEC.
Mozilla's new friend has a shocking secret that threatens the entire AOL/Time Warner Corporation. Tune in next week for a very special Mozilla!
TW2k2 is still very much alive. It now is up-to-date as a TCP/IP gaming server which can be connected to with telnet and custom clients. Several clients exist for your favorite platforms (Win, Linux, Java) and many offer much more robust scripting than was available during BBS days. SWATH (and I believe J-TWAT) uses Java, and TWXProxy (which isn't really a client) uses a proprietary language. Clients also collect information which can then be processed (e.g., mapping the universe, finding deadends, bubbles).
Also, the fact that multiple users can possibly be continuously on the server 24/7 has changed how the game works. A common technique called planet dropping is frequently employed on tollfig killers, which requires the planet dropper to be online so they can transwarp a nice level 6 volcanic planet on top of an enemy. Barricading Stardock can be automated (although that is considered extremely risky), as well as other tasks. In that respect, the game is a bit more realtime than before.
Strategy can be conducted through email and instant messenger clients. Group chat features in IM clients and IRC are more secure than the only "group" option in TW which is to use subspace radio which can be scanned by enemies.
In a sense, it's not the same game, but to me it's a great example of transitioning from the BBS world to the internet.
I hear you. Mozilla is the only one that supports the W3C's DOM Level 2-Events model. Even the newest Internet Explorers still use the proprietary event capturing/bubbling mechanism from IE4 days. So much for cross-browser.
Considering something like Napster never broke out of beta, this 1.0 is definitely more meaningful.
I doubt all these media companies are acting in concert or have some sort of conspiracy to keep the law in the books, just moreso individually knowing the weakness of the approach. So if these companies are waiting for a case they can win to solidify the validity of the law, and if "we" are waiting for a case where "we" can win to overturn it, "we" are at a disadvantage. This is because the companies have the option of which cases to pursue, and how.
In light of this, couldn't "we" contrive some case to test the law? Some developer creates a program that uses some sort of weak encryption (ROT-13 perhaps), another party does something to break/circumvent it, first party sues second party under DMCA, and boom, instant test case. The problems I see with this scenario are: 1) Need money to support both sides of the case 2) cases must be argued such that the ruling can be used in other cases 3) having the case go to a high enough court to make the ruling more definitive. Does something like this even stand a chance of working?
It's interesting to see you bring up this topic, that what is a feature to the majority of people could be nearly a neccessity for others. I find it ironic, however, that current mobile phone accessibility for the deaf and hard of hearing is sorely lacking. While many phones are now SMS-enabled, this is not always sufficient. TTY functionality would be needed for relay calls.
It is certainly nice to see this development, but before this is actually implemented I would like to see TTY functionality on some mobile phones first.