Seriously, I have been thinking about this sometimes, and tehre are probably a lot of people thinking something similar.
The whole mail structure (headers, body parts, attachments) could be translated to XML with little overhead (brackets and closing tags) while enforcing at least syntactic correctness with well-tested parsers. I could even imagine some kind of "mail markup" bundled with that, containing just tags for quotes, emphasis and basic text flow (paragraphs and linebreaks).
Add to that standard and mandatory (and possibly signed) "Received" headers so that a mail server can immediately ask a message source "did you just say that?" and drop messages without any known origin. That would take care of faked mail routes outside of untrusted networks.
Really, Origin was pretty much dead when Chris and Richard were gone. It was those two guys that made it great and I don't see the need for excessive mourning now that it's just an empty shell to sell Ultima Online.
Of course they had a lot of talented developers to make their big hits real and we should all write them thank-you letters, but without the real pushing forces behing the Wing Commander (up to part 4) and Ultima (up to 8) series, they wouldn't be any more than unknown names in the scrolling credits.
BTW, that reminds me: does anyone have a copy of the Claw Marks (WC1 manual)? I lost mine long ago and would like to at least read a scanned version once more.
What is the optimal cruising speed to pass an asteroid field?
B: All the electrical plugs in their parents' basement are populated by computer gear.
I am so glad that I have 14 plugs for 220AC, 6x twisted pair and 2 aerials coming from my patents' basement wall so I can bathe in all kinds of EM fields whenever I want.
Debian has 4.3 in experimental and it's working quite well. I wonder why they officially refuse to include 4.4 though, it's not as if it's likely to becone an issue anytime soon.
I've just seen a TV documentary about the rovers. One thing they had was an animation showing the differences between the first rover and the new ones. It was the old rover coming off the lander and then growing, parts being added etc., afterwards documenting how the thing has to fold to fit into the lander again, all on some blue grid surface. Does anyone know if this animation can be seen on the net somewhere?
IMHO, what KDE needs is a better build system. The current one kinda sucks. It's so goddamn hard to compile and install a KDE app from source with all the directory requirements (all KDE apps have to be in the same --prefix if you want any advanced functionality like plugins) that makes it about impossible to build something and stow(8) it to/usr/local. No Gnome or GTK application I tried so far was so picky about it.
When something like this was possible, maybe all that stuff could be unbundled so that one could download kopete without getting the rest of the damn kdenetwork package.
Or perhaps I'm just depressed because Debian won't have 3.2 for a year or so.
Maillists (at least the ones I know) suck for general support and/or sporadic suggestions and feedback. The ones at sourceforge are about unuseable unless you subscribe (I always wanted an eighty-meg mailbox), others get you a bunch of negative answers and a month-long OT-discussion for remarks like "please CC me since I'm not on the list" (debian-user, that's for you!). We live in a time where any bozo can set up a reasonable free forum for the folks who don't really want to get "involved", so use that possibility!
First, it's one 's' and 2 'p', but that's not the point. Making the Rottentomatoes link for Revolutions is something like saying LotR1 was good because Rotten liked it. They are taking their measurement from critics for Petes' sake!
Rotten is much worse than the IMDB in that regard IMO. Why? Because critics are way worse than the most angst-ridden pimpled teen. Now, I don't want to defend Revolutions (it's an extreme matter of personal taste), but Rotten is just bad.
For Antonio MUSSA (I), who spoke on behalf of the UEN group, "computers are the backbone of development in all countries of the world and innovation is predicted through patentability".
Is it just me or is the "innovation/patentability" part not making sense at all? Is this something like "war is predicted through declarability" or more like "rain is predicted through cheese"??
The problem is that bytes are base 2 and not base 10 like most common system.
That doesn't really matter. What matters is that the prefixes kilo, mega, giga, etc. are base 10 and not base 2. There are perfectly good but silly sounding prefixes for base 2 (kibi, mebi, gibi,...). Based on this, I see a pretty good and valid way out for the defendants.
Because that's what I'm gonna do. At the time I tried the original Halflife - in the early days of CounterStrike -, it already felt really old and wasn't so impressive. Unreal was out already so there was a clear winner in the "look and feel" department.
Sure, HL2 seems to have snappy graphics, but apart from that it's gonna be plain ol'. The only thing I want to see is an end to Halflife mods! If I see one more damn 64x64 bitmap explosion and 3-polygon player models, I'm gonna throw up all over the screen it's on.
650 mebibytes. It's quite a lot considering the uni has an official debian mirror. In over one year I only came close once, otherwise I just need 200-300MiByte/month. It's quite a lot as long as there are no Matrix teasers.
Actually, I think that you're ignorant. It's true that you don't really need a computer to teach CS. You don't even need a computer to teach programming (and please notice that there's a difference). Your mental image of CS is probably kiddie-dom - learning how to do 1337 stuff with computers. CS is more; it's about doing 1337 stuff without anyone noticing you. It's also about designing systems that don't crumble to dust at the slightest mention of malicious code. It's even about providing means to keep parts of your privacy when the government is after you.
Computers are necessary to bring those dreams back to reality after they have so thoroughly been destroyed. They make it so much easier to solve the problems they caused in the first place - which is fun sometimes.
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support@microsoft.com, support@ubisoft.com, support@deepsilver.net, support@mcafee.com etc.
BTW, tme more complex things like real-player.sucks@real.com are not yet taken.
Seriously, I have been thinking about this sometimes, and tehre are probably a lot of people thinking something similar.
The whole mail structure (headers, body parts, attachments) could be translated to XML with little overhead (brackets and closing tags) while enforcing at least syntactic correctness with well-tested parsers. I could even imagine some kind of "mail markup" bundled with that, containing just tags for quotes, emphasis and basic text flow (paragraphs and linebreaks).
Add to that standard and mandatory (and possibly signed) "Received" headers so that a mail server can immediately ask a message source "did you just say that?" and drop messages without any known origin. That would take care of faked mail routes outside of untrusted networks.
Really, Origin was pretty much dead when Chris and Richard were gone. It was those two guys that made it great and I don't see the need for excessive mourning now that it's just an empty shell to sell Ultima Online.
Of course they had a lot of talented developers to make their big hits real and we should all write them thank-you letters, but without the real pushing forces behing the Wing Commander (up to part 4) and Ultima (up to 8) series, they wouldn't be any more than unknown names in the scrolling credits.
BTW, that reminds me: does anyone have a copy of the Claw Marks (WC1 manual)? I lost mine long ago and would like to at least read a scanned version once more.
I am so glad that I have 14 plugs for 220AC, 6x twisted pair and 2 aerials coming from my patents' basement wall so I can bathe in all kinds of EM fields whenever I want.
Debian has 4.3 in experimental and it's working quite well. I wonder why they officially refuse to include 4.4 though, it's not as if it's likely to becone an issue anytime soon.
First Phoenix, then Firebird. Now it's Firefox. The next step will be Firelizard and then it's just a small step to take over Mozilla.
Is it bad that my first thought was "Newton or Asimov"?
Thanks, that seems to be it. But sadly, it's restricted to the USA.
I've just seen a TV documentary about the rovers. One thing they had was an animation showing the differences between the first rover and the new ones. It was the old rover coming off the lander and then growing, parts being added etc., afterwards documenting how the thing has to fold to fit into the lander again, all on some blue grid surface. Does anyone know if this animation can be seen on the net somewhere?
IMHO, what KDE needs is a better build system. The current one kinda sucks. It's so goddamn hard to compile and install a KDE app from source with all the directory requirements (all KDE apps have to be in the same --prefix if you want any advanced functionality like plugins) that makes it about impossible to build something and stow(8) it to /usr/local. No Gnome or GTK application I tried so far was so picky about it.
When something like this was possible, maybe all that stuff could be unbundled so that one could download kopete without getting the rest of the damn kdenetwork package.
Or perhaps I'm just depressed because Debian won't have 3.2 for a year or so.
And now, we all know who slammed those drilling probes to neverland ;-)
So I thought until I found something .
'nuff said. Anything that can make ICQ work properly behind a NAT machine must be good.
You mean there's a book?!? Is it any good? I mean does it have all the cool fight scenes from the movie?
Maillists (at least the ones I know) suck for general support and/or sporadic suggestions and feedback. The ones at sourceforge are about unuseable unless you subscribe (I always wanted an eighty-meg mailbox), others get you a bunch of negative answers and a month-long OT-discussion for remarks like "please CC me since I'm not on the list" (debian-user, that's for you!). We live in a time where any bozo can set up a reasonable free forum for the folks who don't really want to get "involved", so use that possibility!
... no, I'm not gonna say it!
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First, it's one 's' and 2 'p', but that's not the point. Making the Rottentomatoes link for Revolutions is something like saying LotR1 was good because Rotten liked it. They are taking their measurement from critics for Petes' sake!
Rotten is much worse than the IMDB in that regard IMO. Why? Because critics are way worse than the most angst-ridden pimpled teen. Now, I don't want to defend Revolutions (it's an extreme matter of personal taste), but Rotten is just bad.
... and now we all know how you're getting the money for the advance payment. :-P
"host Recon"... Does thinking this to be funny make me a nerd?
Is it just me or is the "innovation/patentability" part not making sense at all? Is this something like "war is predicted through declarability" or more like "rain is predicted through cheese"??
That doesn't really matter. What matters is that the prefixes kilo, mega, giga, etc. are base 10 and not base 2. There are perfectly good but silly sounding prefixes for base 2 (kibi, mebi, gibi, ...). Based on this, I see a pretty good and valid way out for the defendants.
Because that's what I'm gonna do. At the time I tried the original Halflife - in the early days of CounterStrike -, it already felt really old and wasn't so impressive. Unreal was out already so there was a clear winner in the "look and feel" department.
Sure, HL2 seems to have snappy graphics, but apart from that it's gonna be plain ol'. The only thing I want to see is an end to Halflife mods! If I see one more damn 64x64 bitmap explosion and 3-polygon player models, I'm gonna throw up all over the screen it's on.
So instead the USAians eradicated the natives and now they all speak some kind of pseudo-English and eat burgers. Yes, I see what you mean.
Just putting it back in perspective. Keep on flaming, old fart.
650 mebibytes. It's quite a lot considering the uni has an official debian mirror. In over one year I only came close once, otherwise I just need 200-300MiByte/month. It's quite a lot as long as there are no Matrix teasers.
Actually, I think that you're ignorant. It's true that you don't really need a computer to teach CS. You don't even need a computer to teach programming (and please notice that there's a difference). Your mental image of CS is probably kiddie-dom - learning how to do 1337 stuff with computers. CS is more; it's about doing 1337 stuff without anyone noticing you. It's also about designing systems that don't crumble to dust at the slightest mention of malicious code. It's even about providing means to keep parts of your privacy when the government is after you.
Computers are necessary to bring those dreams back to reality after they have so thoroughly been destroyed. They make it so much easier to solve the problems they caused in the first place - which is fun sometimes.