Do the anti-circumvention clauses of the DCMA come into play when the AIMster people TLD everyone what the encryption was? I mean the RIAA doesn't actually have to "crack" the encryption, they just need to write an english to pig latin converter b/c they already know it is pig latin.
For web sites with small or medium complexity I realyl like using SQL Server. I'll probably get ripped apart, but things like stored procedures really made me like it a lot. Also, for beginners or for people who aren't DBA's full time the GUI tools for creating datagbase and tables really help a lot.
I remember seeing that when I was like 12, and was pretty shocked when they just blew away all those high ranking Start Fleet admirals. As an adult now, I would probably find the story much better.
- They cannot handle long-term story arcs. The Trek way is to start a war in one ep and forget about it for oh......8 episodes or so, with a few infrequent cut and paste mentions here and there. Even then, you can forsee the outcome 3 seasons in advance. Their "surprises" are incredibly weak and convoluted. God forbid they start a conflict in an ep that isn't the season finale!
You know, dropping important events like that has always been my biggest problem with the X-files. Though it has never been more evident than this season (well, except maybe the season after the movie, when Mulder found a huge fucking UFO at the south pole, but then it sorta got dropped until they needed to boost ratings).
So the $NAME stuff is for shell variables? I always thought it was a reference to the Civilization resource files that had things like $GOLD or $LEADER etc...
I think some one should set up a web site that had a javascript that translated a band name/song name into a standard misspelling. Then everyone could still post what they wanted just misspelled in a standard way. Of ourse Napster would eventually catch on but you could keep changing the misspeilling algorithm. Maybe just do a ceaser cypher and rotate the key every week.
The figure is from Zubrin's book "The Case for Mars". In it he makes a very convincing argument for a plan to get to Mars much cheaper than NASA's best plan. What you have to realize is that NASA plans manned missions like Microsoft writes software, tons of bloat. I thinkthey esitmated a mars trip at $200 billion, and that was only with a 2 week stay. This guys plan was like the Linux of space missions, simple, stripped down, using as much off the shelf equipment as possible.
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If I have enough food to feed twenty people for twenty days, and I give it to twenty people who have none, what have I really done other than create in these twenty people a dependency on my food?
Not that I agree witht he first guy but...if those 20 couldn't get food any other way and they would starve without someones charity then by giving them food you have helped them, and thats it. This attitude of "I shouldn't help people they should help themselves" breaks down in many extreme cases. Sometimes people can't helps themselves and are dependant on others for help. The ideal would be to help those people become self sufficient as quickly as possible, not turn our backs on them.
The university I attended placed a heavy emphasis on C and C++ (even though half the faculty were barely proficient at C++ and just coded in it like it was C) and were uninterested in teaching multi-threaded or event-driven programming. It was UNIX CLI all the way.
Its mission is to educate its members of the latest scams
You mean like the scam where you charge $99 for access to a site full of information that should be free and is probably partially compiled by its users anyway.
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We have already despoiled our own planet so utterly; we should keep space in its pristine purity.
You do realize space is awash with radiation from various sources right?
You can still get vacuum tubes fairly easily for under $10 (check out alt.guitar.amps). The article didn't seem to say what kind of tube you needed, so I assume most would work, I could be very wrong.
Actually, I think that fair use DOES mean it should be easy for legitimate users to make a copy. I'm not asking someone else to make copies for me, I ully expect to have to make the effort myself. Plus it is actually LESS trouble on the part of the RIAA to make bakcup copies easier. After all, look at the hundreds of millions they spend on these new technologies only to have them fall apart. They have been doing this since the 60's, look at all that wasted money.
Banner ads are dead. My site has seen our banner ad revenue drop to 1/100th of what it was a few months ago. Not because clicks dropped, but because the payout from banner companies has fallen so much. They are all going to crumble soon.
The end of wasteland wasnt the best, but the game play getting to that point was excellent. I actually have a copy on th eInterplay 10 year anthology that I install from time to time to play. Fallout was very good, but I still like wasteland better.
The only problem is that 90% of the audience of a commerical site isn't like you. If the site looks like crap, then the business looks shady and they will click away to someone who's site looks good. Plus its hard to take pride in your own web site if you think i looks bad to most people.
What is needed is a reference browser to view pages in. Its great that my page validated 100% but too bad it looks like shit in every browser in existance. The W3C should make this reference availible to all, even if it is slow and a pain to use, as long as it works.
Actually to them it IS an art. It is a graphical art and they want to create exactly what they see in their head and be able to recreate that on as many types of browsers as possible. But due to all the broken implementations in every browser they have to include all sorts of hacks to make it all work and they build a house of cards. They know it and it keeps them up at night but thats what they have to do.
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Thats why whenever I get one of those textarea agreements, I delete the entire thing. Then I can honestly say I never agreed to any terms.
Do the anti-circumvention clauses of the DCMA come into play when the AIMster people TLD everyone what the encryption was? I mean the RIAA doesn't actually have to "crack" the encryption, they just need to write an english to pig latin converter b/c they already know it is pig latin.
For web sites with small or medium complexity I realyl like using SQL Server. I'll probably get ripped apart, but things like stored procedures really made me like it a lot. Also, for beginners or for people who aren't DBA's full time the GUI tools for creating datagbase and tables really help a lot.
I remember seeing that when I was like 12, and was pretty shocked when they just blew away all those high ranking Start Fleet admirals. As an adult now, I would probably find the story much better.
- They cannot handle long-term story arcs. The Trek way is to start a war in one ep and forget about it for oh......8 episodes or so, with a few infrequent cut and paste mentions here and there. Even then, you can forsee the outcome 3 seasons in advance. Their "surprises" are incredibly weak and convoluted. God forbid they start a conflict in an ep that isn't the season finale!
You know, dropping important events like that has always been my biggest problem with the X-files. Though it has never been more evident than this season (well, except maybe the season after the movie, when Mulder found a huge fucking UFO at the south pole, but then it sorta got dropped until they needed to boost ratings).
Dude, its time to go "Stan" on his ass.
So the $NAME stuff is for shell variables? I always thought it was a reference to the Civilization resource files that had things like $GOLD or $LEADER etc...
I think some one should set up a web site that had a javascript that translated a band name/song name into a standard misspelling. Then everyone could still post what they wanted just misspelled in a standard way. Of ourse Napster would eventually catch on but you could keep changing the misspeilling algorithm. Maybe just do a ceaser cypher and rotate the key every week.
The figure is from Zubrin's book "The Case for Mars". In it he makes a very convincing argument for a plan to get to Mars much cheaper than NASA's best plan. What you have to realize is that NASA plans manned missions like Microsoft writes software, tons of bloat. I thinkthey esitmated a mars trip at $200 billion, and that was only with a 2 week stay. This guys plan was like the Linux of space missions, simple, stripped down, using as much off the shelf equipment as possible.
If I have enough food to feed twenty people for twenty days, and I give it to twenty people who have none, what have I really done other than create in these twenty people a dependency on my food?
Not that I agree witht he first guy but...if those 20 couldn't get food any other way and they would starve without someones charity then by giving them food you have helped them, and thats it. This attitude of "I shouldn't help people they should help themselves" breaks down in many extreme cases. Sometimes people can't helps themselves and are dependant on others for help. The ideal would be to help those people become self sufficient as quickly as possible, not turn our backs on them.
The university I attended placed a heavy emphasis on C and C++ (even though half the faculty were barely proficient at C++ and just coded in it like it was C) and were uninterested in teaching multi-threaded or event-driven programming. It was UNIX CLI all the way.
Its mission is to educate its members of the latest scams
You mean like the scam where you charge $99 for access to a site full of information that should be free and is probably partially compiled by its users anyway.
We have already despoiled our own planet so utterly; we should keep space in its pristine purity.
You do realize space is awash with radiation from various sources right?
You can still get vacuum tubes fairly easily for under $10 (check out alt.guitar.amps). The article didn't seem to say what kind of tube you needed, so I assume most would work, I could be very wrong.
But that only works when both sides have the same level of resources to make those arguments, i.e. both have equal amounts of money.
Actually, I think that fair use DOES mean it should be easy for legitimate users to make a copy. I'm not asking someone else to make copies for me, I ully expect to have to make the effort myself. Plus it is actually LESS trouble on the part of the RIAA to make bakcup copies easier. After all, look at the hundreds of millions they spend on these new technologies only to have them fall apart. They have been doing this since the 60's, look at all that wasted money.
Banner ads are dead. My site has seen our banner ad revenue drop to 1/100th of what it was a few months ago. Not because clicks dropped, but because the payout from banner companies has fallen so much. They are all going to crumble soon.
It seems like a good amount for an elementary school science project. Maybe its not the best science in the world, but she's only 8 right?
And look at how Palm kicked MS's ass b/c of that mindset.
The end of wasteland wasnt the best, but the game play getting to that point was excellent. I actually have a copy on th eInterplay 10 year anthology that I install from time to time to play. Fallout was very good, but I still like wasteland better.
The only problem is that 90% of the audience of a commerical site isn't like you. If the site looks like crap, then the business looks shady and they will click away to someone who's site looks good. Plus its hard to take pride in your own web site if you think i looks bad to most people.
What is needed is a reference browser to view pages in. Its great that my page validated 100% but too bad it looks like shit in every browser in existance. The W3C should make this reference availible to all, even if it is slow and a pain to use, as long as it works.
Actually to them it IS an art. It is a graphical art and they want to create exactly what they see in their head and be able to recreate that on as many types of browsers as possible. But due to all the broken implementations in every browser they have to include all sorts of hacks to make it all work and they build a house of cards. They know it and it keeps them up at night but thats what they have to do.
Actually, I would say fighting an injustice in the system is a good sign of maturity. It takes an adult to work themselves to change things.
My favorite line from O'Reilly:
Joy: I'm more concerned, as I said, with the book industry.
O'Reilly: Yeah, well I'm a publisher and I'm not concerned about that one.