brin thinks that the mention of "Federation starships" is a dig at Trek. I thinkn he's grasping at straws.
The ships belonged to the Trade Federation. I'm guessing it's called Trade Federation because Alliance was already taken and other synonyms like Union or Guild might have caused different "issues".
The official upgrade to Homesite 5 is Dreamweaver which has an editor bundled with it that is very similar to Homesite. Of course Dreamweaver is a lot more expensive than Homesite alone.
Cheers for the HFNetChk info. What a pain that it needs IE 5 to run. There's no way I want to install that on a production server on a Friday afternoon. Not much choice though...
The whole point of the trash/recycle bin is to make it easy to retrieve files that have been deleted. Emptying the trash means you don't have that option any more.
The only reason people feel the need to empty
their trash/recycle bin is because as soon as you put any file in there it looks like it's full. Since it looks full, the natural instinct is to empty it to make room for new files. This metaphor is completely false.
Mac OS and Windows set an upper limit on the size of the contents of the trash/recycle bin. You can change that limit to however big or small you want it. After that files are deleted to make room for newer deleted files.
Ideally, the trash icon would reflect how much of the space allocated to deleted files is being used.
How about all the back issues and a subscription to Dr Dobbs? There have been hundreds of articles by notable programmers over the years, not to mention Jon Bentleys columns that eventually became the two editions of Programming Pearls
Wired printed a pretty cool version of the rocket car story a while back. man i wish they'd put more articles like that in the mag again, it would be worth buying rather than browsing the web archive occasionally.
When I worked for big blue last year they sent an internal email trumpeting the fact that the AS/400 was the fastest computer you could buy in a box. All their higher up machines came with support contracts, etc. Not sure if that's true today.
I've liked the AS/400 as a backend, but why do shops who use them insist on making me enter my timesheets direct to the green screen?
This is pretty pointless argument since I doubt any of us are qualfied to say which is right or wrong and the issue is over as far as Yahoo and the French courts are concerned.
But what the hell!
French law has jurisdiction only over things IN FRANCE. Yahoo US and the.com site are NOT IN FRANCE,
The servers are not, but the content is. Look at your browser cache.
Just like a printing press for a kidde porn mag may be in kenya but the magazine can be in England. It's the magazine that is offensive to the english law.
French citizens IN FRANCE are under the jurisdiction of French law, and may be prohibited from from accessing the service, but that doesn't give France the right to regulate a US corporation.
Maybe not on those grounds, no. But the court wasn't talking about it's citizens. You ignore that Yahoo is a company providing a service to French people (as well as many others). They have a french branch of their company (yahoo.fr). The French court ruled that when French citizens downloaded html and images from yahoo services, Yahoo was publishing content that sometimes contravened french law. Their ruling had nothing to do with the rights of a citizen to see certain content, but the right of a company to provide certain content to French citizens.
The French court told Yahoo that even though their Nazi memorabilla auctions may not have been intended for French citizens in particular, the auctions nevertheless broke french law when someone in france viewd them.
The french court then asked a panel of experts if this content could be filtered to which the panel replied "yeaaahhh...but-". This was good enough for the court and ruled that yahoo should implement a filter.
Read what you quoted, missy! You told me I was wrong then agreed with what I said. Perhaps if I refrase you might see what I mean.
Yahoo were offering a service to the whole world - which includes France. The French court found that this service *sometimes* contravened French law when French citizens accessed it *in France* The French court ruled that Yahoo should filter the service such that when people *in France* used it, the service did not contravene French law.
I think this is a good thing. It was a French law, and French courts have every right to try and make Yahoo comply when people from France access their service.
To me it seems the only reason Yahoo didn't comply straight away was because it seemed a bit too much like work. It's not like they don't already check where you are accessing their services from already.
A prime example are some of the "pay-for" services that go along with Yahoo Mail. I access a US server from the UK and get a message saying that for billing reasons I can't use that service. Granted, there will be a bit more coding involved, but it's not likely people from outside the jurisdiction of French law are going to be affected by this decision.
The whole "don't show Nazi paraphenalia to the people" idea is not a problem with rights "on-line" but rights "in general" and the rights of French people in particular.
"Rudely interrupted? Hey, we do that with radio, we do that with any serially served medium...It's accepted in other media because they grew up with it"
That's as may be for other media, especially where the technology involved is an on button and a volume control. But we haven't "grown up with it" on the web. In fact, advertising is generally so un-intrusive that it's ignored by most people. There are a number of usability and technical issues to be dealt with before intersitals become popular, let alone the standard method of advertising on the internet.
In the end it will come down to whether that kind of advertising becomes "accepted practice" like banner ads did. Some sites will try it, but unless big traffic sites (and I'm basically talking Yahoo and AOL here) start using them, so-called intersital advertising won't work.
And really, MS is not the only documentation for their bugs. As someone quite rightly pointed out in the previous discussion on this topic, most if not all holes in MS software are posted to BugTraq well before MS publish their advisories.
I must claim my fair share of the blame. When the UK govt passed the email monitoring bill recently, I rolled my eyes and felt confident that the NZ Govt would be too busy destroying the economy than to mess with the privacy of the normal citizens back home. Oops.
I'm not covered by the DCMA, so it wouldn't affect me personally. Then again there is probably some arcane British or New Zealand law that would screw me just as equally.
Whatever happened to the guy who deleted all the homepages on the IHUG server? I don't remember seeing anything about him being prosecuted.
THere is a need for legislation pertaining to "cracking", but I'm not comfortable with the requirements for providing backdoors and the like.
ISPs are usually more than happy to cooperate with law enforcement when it comes to stopping criminal activity, especially if it directly affects the ISP's bottom line. The same probably goes with the likes of Clear and Telecom. It strikes me that legislating "interceptable" phone networks and the like is a but draconian.
You're basically talking about the open-source equivalent of industrial espionage, ripping off opensource code and putting it in a closed source project.
I don't think that would be happening in this case, and I don't think it's fair to ask to see their code on the off chance they are using the same speadsheet algorithms as Gnumeric. After all a lot of opensource code is realtively platform independent and you don't see people asking for the source to MS Works 2000 because of it has some the same features as AbiWord.
I'm not expert but if you are really worried you could try running the likes of strings or a disassembler on their binary and see if they have left anything obvious in plain sight.
About the only place I see this going on in modern program design is the mp3 players and that is a result of the people who do good UI work generaly don't have the skill set to do the MP3 decoding so they link to something like mpg123.
Hmmm, mp3 players with Good UIs? Not all skins are made equal.
I think a lot of web and net based apps show examples of people using different tools as well.
You've got your lightweight database, an XML parser, some sort of servlet runner or http engine. Hook them all together and you can create some pretty choice net based apps.
In a lot of cases you can swap out different tools for more powerful or less weight without affecting the rest of your code.
TEA is a templating system similar to WebMacro. As I understand it, TEA keeps the Java code completely off the HTML unlike JSP which is a mix of HTML, custom tags and Java code.
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I thought I was doing pretty well. Congrats to /. on 10 years.
http://www.nzmusic.com/downloads.cfm
have a nice day
That embarrassment you feel is called the cultural cringe. Have a drink, for god's sake, and loosen up!
brin thinks that the mention of "Federation starships" is a dig at Trek. I thinkn he's grasping at straws.
The ships belonged to the Trade Federation. I'm guessing it's called Trade Federation because Alliance was already taken and other synonyms like Union or Guild might have caused different "issues".
like windows 98 but with shittier fonts. Those screenshots didn't exactly scream "use me!".
macromedia are still offering a standalone version of Homesite (version 5) but they probably won't for long.
The official upgrade to Homesite 5 is Dreamweaver which has an editor bundled with it that is very similar to Homesite. Of course Dreamweaver is a lot more expensive than Homesite alone.
how many ximianers (ites?) are using Evo? Are they being forced to eat their own dogfood or do they still use pine or elm or mutt or whatever?
Cheers for the HFNetChk info. What a pain that it needs IE 5 to run. There's no way I want to install that on a production server on a Friday afternoon. Not much choice though...
The whole point of the trash/recycle bin is to make it easy to retrieve files that have been deleted. Emptying the trash means you don't have that option any more.
The only reason people feel the need to empty
their trash/recycle bin is because as soon as you put any file in there it looks like it's full. Since it looks full, the natural instinct is to empty it to make room for new files. This metaphor is completely false.
Mac OS and Windows set an upper limit on the size of the contents of the trash/recycle bin. You can change that limit to however big or small you want it. After that files are deleted to make room for newer deleted files.
Ideally, the trash icon would reflect how much of the space allocated to deleted files is being used.
How about all the back issues and a subscription to Dr Dobbs? There have been hundreds of articles by notable programmers over the years, not to mention Jon Bentleys columns that eventually became the two editions of Programming Pearls
Wired printed a pretty cool version of the rocket car story a while back. man i wish they'd put more articles like that in the mag again, it would be worth buying rather than browsing the web archive occasionally.
I've liked the AS/400 as a backend, but why do shops who use them insist on making me enter my timesheets direct to the green screen?
The best machine for the job is an AS/400, but your Pentium is probably up to the task. More RAM would help heaps.
But what the hell!
French law has jurisdiction only over things IN FRANCE. Yahoo US and the .com site are NOT IN FRANCE,
The servers are not, but the content is. Look at your browser cache.
Just like a printing press for a kidde porn mag may be in kenya but the magazine can be in England. It's the magazine that is offensive to the english law.
French citizens IN FRANCE are under the jurisdiction of French law, and may be prohibited from from accessing the service, but that doesn't give France the right to regulate a US corporation. Maybe not on those grounds, no. But the court wasn't talking about it's citizens. You ignore that Yahoo is a company providing a service to French people (as well as many others). They have a french branch of their company (yahoo.fr). The French court ruled that when French citizens downloaded html and images from yahoo services, Yahoo was publishing content that sometimes contravened french law. Their ruling had nothing to do with the rights of a citizen to see certain content, but the right of a company to provide certain content to French citizens.
The French court told Yahoo that even though their Nazi memorabilla auctions may not have been intended for French citizens in particular, the auctions nevertheless broke french law when someone in france viewd them.
The french court then asked a panel of experts if this content could be filtered to which the panel replied "yeaaahhh...but-". This was good enough for the court and ruled that yahoo should implement a filter.
Read what you quoted, missy! You told me I was wrong then agreed with what I said. Perhaps if I refrase you might see what I mean.
Yahoo were offering a service to the whole world - which includes France. The French court found that this service *sometimes* contravened French law when French citizens accessed it *in France* The French court ruled that Yahoo should filter the service such that when people *in France* used it, the service did not contravene French law.
Are jurisdictional issues sorted now?
I think this is a good thing. It was a French law, and French courts have every right to try and make Yahoo comply when people from France access their service.
To me it seems the only reason Yahoo didn't comply straight away was because it seemed a bit too much like work. It's not like they don't already check where you are accessing their services from already.
A prime example are some of the "pay-for" services that go along with Yahoo Mail. I access a US server from the UK and get a message saying that for billing reasons I can't use that service. Granted, there will be a bit more coding involved, but it's not likely people from outside the jurisdiction of French law are going to be affected by this decision.
The whole "don't show Nazi paraphenalia to the people" idea is not a problem with rights "on-line" but rights "in general" and the rights of French people in particular.
In the article a Michael Tchong is quoted:
"Rudely interrupted? Hey, we do that with radio, we do that with any serially served medium...It's accepted in other media because they grew up with it"
That's as may be for other media, especially where the technology involved is an on button and a volume control. But we haven't "grown up with it" on the web. In fact, advertising is generally so un-intrusive that it's ignored by most people. There are a number of usability and technical issues to be dealt with before intersitals become popular, let alone the standard method of advertising on the internet.
In the end it will come down to whether that kind of advertising becomes "accepted practice" like banner ads did. Some sites will try it, but unless big traffic sites (and I'm basically talking Yahoo and AOL here) start using them, so-called intersital advertising won't work.
And really, MS is not the only documentation for their bugs. As someone quite rightly pointed out in the previous discussion on this topic, most if not all holes in MS software are posted to BugTraq well before MS publish their advisories.
Haven't Inprise changed their name back to Borland?
I must claim my fair share of the blame. When the UK govt passed the email monitoring bill recently, I rolled my eyes and felt confident that the NZ Govt would be too busy destroying the economy than to mess with the privacy of the normal citizens back home. Oops.
I'm not covered by the DCMA, so it wouldn't affect me personally. Then again there is probably some arcane British or New Zealand law that would screw me just as equally.
Whatever happened to the guy who deleted all the homepages on the IHUG server? I don't remember seeing anything about him being prosecuted.
THere is a need for legislation pertaining to "cracking", but I'm not comfortable with the requirements for providing backdoors and the like.
ISPs are usually more than happy to cooperate with law enforcement when it comes to stopping criminal activity, especially if it directly affects the ISP's bottom line. The same probably goes with the likes of Clear and Telecom. It strikes me that legislating "interceptable" phone networks and the like is a but draconian.
You're basically talking about the open-source equivalent of industrial espionage, ripping off opensource code and putting it in a closed source project. I don't think that would be happening in this case, and I don't think it's fair to ask to see their code on the off chance they are using the same speadsheet algorithms as Gnumeric. After all a lot of opensource code is realtively platform independent and you don't see people asking for the source to MS Works 2000 because of it has some the same features as AbiWord. I'm not expert but if you are really worried you could try running the likes of strings or a disassembler on their binary and see if they have left anything obvious in plain sight.
Hmmm, mp3 players with Good UIs? Not all skins are made equal.
I think a lot of web and net based apps show examples of people using different tools as well.
You've got your lightweight database, an XML parser, some sort of servlet runner or http engine. Hook them all together and you can create some pretty choice net based apps.
In a lot of cases you can swap out different tools for more powerful or less weight without affecting the rest of your code.
Check out this article The Problem with JSP for more reasoning behind it.
BTW, cat-ing your code to a file is for girls. Real programmers use copy con program.exe