"I never visit windows update anymore, one too many times of it installing an update that hosed my system"
Then your system is crap. I do tech support for a university lab and do regular updates through Windows Update. Never once has there been a problem. Even with old p233 or slower Dells. I do updates on all my home computers (including a P200 running win2k) as well and never have a problem.
People are so quick to blame software for what's obviously a hardware problem.
What are they going to fight? They pirated music. It blantent highway robbery except people expect their ISP to hide them so they remain anonymous as they hand out "free" files while the RIAA watches them commit the crime.
It's theft in broad daylight in public using OTHER PEOPLE'S RESOURCES. There should be no expectation of privacy. The school is by no means required to hide the identity of those who use their networks.
Why don't you try harboring criminals in your house and see how far you get?
Why doesn't somebody just create a new e-mail protocol using the existing infrastructure. And then pass around free servers and clients with source as PUBLIC DOMAIN so as to make it impossible for anyone to bog it down to prevent wide spread adoption from forced use of one company/organizations client or server. I don't need to go through some licence to write an SMTP server or client. I shouldn't have to for the new protocol either.
Everyone keeps whining about how insecure SMTP is yet can't manage to prototype an alternative. It doesn't take a whole new infrastructure to do. Just do it. It's not like companies needed to redo the internet to make MMOs. Or do you want DRM built in the hardware running the net?
Don't wait til now to do taxes. If you run your own business you should have everything you need to do your taxes without having to wait for anything to be mailed to you.
I've been using TaxCut for the last few years for my personal taxes and this year was the first time I used it for my business. It made it real easy. I just needed to know how much I made (zero) and how much my expenses were (~400). Next year I'll have earnings and expenses to put in.
The rest was handled by the program. Just keep good records of what's comming in and what's going out and you should be fine. I tend to have all my taxes done the day the last W2 comes in.
First we're turning horses into glue and now we're turning animals into oil. PETA already gets pissed off at major food producers like McDonalds et al for raising animals solely to be turned into food.
How many animals does it take to feed McDonald's customers vs powering their vehicals?
Also you have to consider how much land and resources would be required to do this on a large scale. Is the amount of oil used to turn a cow into oil more than the amount of oil gained? How much land would it take up? Currently oil is tucked away underground.
It's a novel idea but how feasible is it really? It may not be being adopted quickly because the cost vs benefits might not be there and the animal rights activists are going to have a field day.
Actually it's quite possibly a "legitimate" language along the lines of "brainfuck" which actually could be modified to use space and tab combinations instead of slashes and whatnot.
If you wanted to get technical it would be very easy to use tab and space as 0s and 1s to do low level coding and then write a simple script to convert it to real hex representing x86 (or whatever) assembly. This language appears to do basically that while reducing the number of commands supported and therefore the number of combinations needed.
I think the real question isn't "is this for real?" but rather "why, God why?"
And the inevitable geek proudly raises his hand and defiantly states "because I CAN!"
I have a number of VHS tapes that I'd like to get into digital format. It'd be nice to beable to cram of few of them onto a single DVD since VHS quality isn't really that great anyway.
This may come as a shock but it is indeed that case that your browser is crappy. Internet Explorer has supported sending X and Y coordinates from clicking on an image map for years now. It's pretty pathetic that Mozilla is just now getting around to it with version 1.3
I don't know about Opera or Netscape. But this is just another reason I don't use Mozilla.
"Those folks, as much as they should be flayed alive, are smart enough to know that their method works."
No, it doesn't. It gets bad publicity. Bad publicity doesn't aid the cause. PETA is a joke. The more stupid stunts it pulls the more irrelavent it becomes. The more stupid stunts the protestors pull the less likely people are to care what they have to say.
If you have to shut down traffic to get your message out, it must be a pretty crappy message. There are far better ways to get people's attention without pissing them off.
Claiming forums don't work is the most ignorant thing I've heard. People change their minds all the time because of things they read. Why do you think books are so successful?
If you can't convince anyone with speech and written word it's because you either have no persuasive talent or what you're talking about is junk and no one is being fooled by it. Throwing yourself in traffic isn't going to make your message any more persuasive.
Try as you might, you're not going to convince me the sun rotates around the earth. You can call me a fascist. You can block rush hour traffic. But you're not going to change my mind.
Fine, exercise your right for free speech. Protest in public areas. However you DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO FORCE ME TO LISTEN TO YOU. Get out of the fucking road and leave other people's property ALONE. It's the same pathetic justification spammers use to justify loading users inboxes with crap that these so called "protestors" are using to cause trouble.
I remember back when the internet was viewed as the new printing press. Anyone can post their views. Now it's just viewed as a big giant corporate ad. And people are too freakin lazy to exert any effort to get their views out. They'd rather sit and bitch that no one is listening to them and then cause trouble. I happen to have worked very hard building up a site that's quite popular. It makes a great forum. Nobody owed me that forum. I built it myself because I wanted it.
I got a survey ( http://www.icarusindie.com/survey ) going to see who people think the US should be attacking if anybody. I have a banter box on the front page and I have an entire section dedicated to the war.
That's my forum. Get your own. Such idiots should be arrested and fined. As of yesterday 2000 "protestors" were arrested. Good riddence.
The more people who refuse to help cover the costs of web-sites passivly by viewing ads, the more sites that are going to force people to pay actively with subscriptions or whatnot.
Speaking from experience, subscriptions work really well, even for a not so major web-site like IcarusIndie.com
Currently I just use banner ads for intersite advertising (my site is huge), to allow other game development sites to get some free exposure and to plug web-sites I'm a fan of. I still have a number of text ads you'd never notice unless you clicked on them to get statistics on how well they work (at least for exposure). I've yet to make a dime on them.
As a result of using subscriptions I have a lot more bandwidth available to offer more free stuff.
Like this Survey on who people think the US should attack and tons of material including video on the war
So, block all you want. It's a very simple thing to go to a subscription model. For sites that are struggling with bandwidth usage and costs, I highly recommend it.
Yes, pre 1.3, Mozilla is a crappy browser that doesn't even support the basic function of sending the X,Y coordinates where you clicked the image map. Something IE has supported since who knows when.
A draft would just result in a lot of untrained individuals mucking up operations out of ignorance or spite for being there. The people who are there are TRAINED to be there.
Imagine having a draft for people to do server maintainance for Fortune 500 companies with only your birthdate as a credential. Or, as a real world example, look how dedicated the Iraqi soldiers are. Surrendering before the war even started.
Yeah, it'd be something like that.
Ben
Survey: Who Do You Think the US Should Strike?
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The anticipated War on Iraq is pissing a lot of people off. There are polls all over the place. Nobody really knows how many people actually support it. Some even question who the US should attack. So I propose a survey ( http://www.icarusindie.com/survey ). All you need to do is enter who we should attack (if anybody) and then click on that country's location on the map to submit your vote. Eventually, a more formal report will be created showing exact percentages for every country submitted. Your IP is logged and only one vote per IP is used to create the map so don't spam please.
No one is gung ho about killing Iraqis and the fact someone wrote a letter pointing it out shows just how out of touch they are. 70%+ of people polled on MSNBC today are for the war to GET SADDAM. GOT IT. WE'RE GUNG HO TO GET SADDAM. NOT IRAQIS. Maybe if people would stop shouting "NANANANANA I'M OPEN MINDED" while covering their ears every time pro-war people speak they'd be less prone to make fools of themselves by writting such ill informed dribble.
Way to succumb to the anti-war BS and miss the boat. I'm proud to be an American. It's great to be a part of a country that takes an active role in taking out leaders who oppress people.
That's apples and oranges. Froogle Google et all like DealTime use scraping (or whatever they do) to SUPPORT the original owners by directing traffic their way. Froogle Google is no different than any other search engine except it specializes in merchant sites.
The people in this case are stealing information solely for their own gain.
Imagine what people would do in retaliation if they gave a valid e-mail address. That guy not too long ago who's info got out was signed up for every spam mailing people could think of.
They'd also be reported to their ISP/mail host and shut down since I don't imagine there are too many ISP's that don't have anti-spam rules in their TOS.
Not that any of it matters. Tracking them down or blocking them isn't impossible. It just takes more time than hitting the "delete" button. If I cared enough I have direct access to the logs when mail comes in to my server. I could easily use a quick whois and start reporting whatever IP made the connection to my server and let it get through.
When you go into a store salespeople tend to have an "it" product they fein excitement about. You go in for a light bulb and walk out with an expensive gadget on a good day for them. A customer's first reaction is typically a variation of "no" but that doesn't necessarily end the sale. The DNC list does. It puts a blanket "no" on all sales with no opporunity for a well tuned saleman to get you to change your mind about something you might have actually wanted.
That's why their business is going to take a huge hit. Not that I care. Just explaining why they said what they said. The people who don't get on the list are about as likely to buy as those who did put themselves on the list. Through the eyes of a salesmen they've lost millions of customers simply because they don't have the opportunity to sell to them.
Or al-Quieda wants us to know the US is "failing" in their mission to kill Bin Laden.
Kind of a taunt. Considering we have no idea who's working for who over there it wouldn't be very hard to "leak" the tape to the US without it being tracable.
How is that any different than how it is now? Poor can't afford basic health care. The rich get anything they want including a better education and therefore better jobs. People are discriminated against for pretty much everything you can think of.
Companies are always looking to hire the best and brightest. But you know, there's a cap on the intelligence needed to do certain jobs. Does the term "overqualified" mean anything to you?
What's going to happen is that the rich few are going to be smarter and get the jobs only the super intelligent few could get anyway (like it is now). Very few people could work at Boeing or Nasa. And only the select few with very very high intelligence get to work on the most cutting edge things.
And the rest are going to work the millions of other job types just like now. The only jobs you'll be disqualified from are the same jobs you'd be disqualified from now. Unless a company is raking in millions and million they aren't going to have the funds to pay the genetically modified people.
Why advocate holding back science just because not everyone can benefit from it? I suppose we should stop AIDS and cancer research as well.
If all else fails, shoot somebody. You get free healthcare in prison thanks to the constitution.
"So effectively you are saying that it is easy to trick carbon dating by burying stuff in caves."
Reading comprehension is fun isn't it? Burying cats in caves "fools" people who date things by their surroundings. It has nothing to do with Carbon dating. It has to do with rock dating and assuming the rock formed around the object instead of the object being injected into the rock by burial of some sort.
People and animals have been burying things since forever.
"again discounting people such as yourself who would intentionally bury things to fool science because it violates your beliefs"
It's just a scenario based on what people and animals have been doing since forever: burying things. These people are fooling themselves. I'm just giving a current example of what has inveriably happened many many many times in the past. Things get thrown in caves and die there. Caves collapse. Thousands of years later, evolutionary "scientists" assume the rock formed around the dead thing.
It's not my fault they use obviously flawed ways to date things.
Evolutionary "scientists" have been fooled by buried things because they can't seem to manage to accept that you can't date things by their surroundings which are made up of things which are millions and millions of years older than the object.
Unless you know exactly HOW that object got there, there's absolutly no way to date it. It's pretty silly to juse a assume it sat there untouched and miraculously survived the elements while being covered in dirt from various sources over a period of millions of years.
I mean seriously, things crawl in holes and die. They don't even have to be buried. They do it themselves.
"No, you're still not getting it - the layers on top of your cat are known to be younger than the cat."
So if I throw a dead cat (that died yesterday) in a well and it caves in you know the rock on top of the cat is younger than the cat. Or if I throw it in a cave and the cave collapses the cat is younger than the rock of the cave? Are you serious?
Thanks for demonstrating my point. "Evolutionists" *don't* know that the rock above something is younger. In fact it's always the case when you bury something that what's buried is SIGNIFICANTLY (on the order of millions of years) younger than the dirt piled on top.
A person buried 6 feet under is less than 100 years old but the dirt is millions upon millions of years old.
So no, you don't get it at all. But in true Slashdot fashion your ignorance is moderated up.
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"I never visit windows update anymore, one too many times of it installing an update that hosed my system"
Then your system is crap. I do tech support for a university lab and do regular updates through Windows Update. Never once has there been a problem. Even with old p233 or slower Dells. I do updates on all my home computers (including a P200 running win2k) as well and never have a problem.
People are so quick to blame software for what's obviously a hardware problem.
Ben
What are they going to fight? They pirated music. It blantent highway robbery except people expect their ISP to hide them so they remain anonymous as they hand out "free" files while the RIAA watches them commit the crime.
It's theft in broad daylight in public using OTHER PEOPLE'S RESOURCES. There should be no expectation of privacy. The school is by no means required to hide the identity of those who use their networks.
Why don't you try harboring criminals in your house and see how far you get?
Ben
Why doesn't somebody just create a new e-mail protocol using the existing infrastructure. And then pass around free servers and clients with source as PUBLIC DOMAIN so as to make it impossible for anyone to bog it down to prevent wide spread adoption from forced use of one company/organizations client or server. I don't need to go through some licence to write an SMTP server or client. I shouldn't have to for the new protocol either.
Everyone keeps whining about how insecure SMTP is yet can't manage to prototype an alternative. It doesn't take a whole new infrastructure to do. Just do it. It's not like companies needed to redo the internet to make MMOs. Or do you want DRM built in the hardware running the net?
Ben
Don't wait til now to do taxes. If you run your own business you should have everything you need to do your taxes without having to wait for anything to be mailed to you.
I've been using TaxCut for the last few years for my personal taxes and this year was the first time I used it for my business. It made it real easy. I just needed to know how much I made (zero) and how much my expenses were (~400). Next year I'll have earnings and expenses to put in.
The rest was handled by the program. Just keep good records of what's comming in and what's going out and you should be fine. I tend to have all my taxes done the day the last W2 comes in.
Ben
First we're turning horses into glue and now we're turning animals into oil. PETA already gets pissed off at major food producers like McDonalds et al for raising animals solely to be turned into food.
How many animals does it take to feed McDonald's customers vs powering their vehicals?
Also you have to consider how much land and resources would be required to do this on a large scale. Is the amount of oil used to turn a cow into oil more than the amount of oil gained? How much land would it take up? Currently oil is tucked away underground.
It's a novel idea but how feasible is it really? It may not be being adopted quickly because the cost vs benefits might not be there and the animal rights activists are going to have a field day.
Ben
Actually it's quite possibly a "legitimate" language along the lines of "brainfuck" which actually could be modified to use space and tab combinations instead of slashes and whatnot.
If you wanted to get technical it would be very easy to use tab and space as 0s and 1s to do low level coding and then write a simple script to convert it to real hex representing x86 (or whatever) assembly. This language appears to do basically that while reducing the number of commands supported and therefore the number of combinations needed.
I think the real question isn't "is this for real?" but rather "why, God why?"
And the inevitable geek proudly raises his hand and defiantly states "because I CAN!"
Ben
I have a number of VHS tapes that I'd like to get into digital format. It'd be nice to beable to cram of few of them onto a single DVD since VHS quality isn't really that great anyway.
Ben
This may come as a shock but it is indeed that case that your browser is crappy. Internet Explorer has supported sending X and Y coordinates from clicking on an image map for years now. It's pretty pathetic that Mozilla is just now getting around to it with version 1.3
I don't know about Opera or Netscape. But this is just another reason I don't use Mozilla.
Ben
"Those folks, as much as they should be flayed alive, are smart enough to know that their method works."
No, it doesn't. It gets bad publicity. Bad publicity doesn't aid the cause. PETA is a joke. The more stupid stunts it pulls the more irrelavent it becomes. The more stupid stunts the protestors pull the less likely people are to care what they have to say.
If you have to shut down traffic to get your message out, it must be a pretty crappy message. There are far better ways to get people's attention without pissing them off.
Claiming forums don't work is the most ignorant thing I've heard. People change their minds all the time because of things they read. Why do you think books are so successful?
If you can't convince anyone with speech and written word it's because you either have no persuasive talent or what you're talking about is junk and no one is being fooled by it. Throwing yourself in traffic isn't going to make your message any more persuasive.
Try as you might, you're not going to convince me the sun rotates around the earth. You can call me a fascist. You can block rush hour traffic. But you're not going to change my mind.
Ben
Fine, exercise your right for free speech. Protest in public areas. However you DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO FORCE ME TO LISTEN TO YOU. Get out of the fucking road and leave other people's property ALONE. It's the same pathetic justification spammers use to justify loading users inboxes with crap that these so called "protestors" are using to cause trouble.
I remember back when the internet was viewed as the new printing press. Anyone can post their views. Now it's just viewed as a big giant corporate ad. And people are too freakin lazy to exert any effort to get their views out. They'd rather sit and bitch that no one is listening to them and then cause trouble. I happen to have worked very hard building up a site that's quite popular. It makes a great forum. Nobody owed me that forum. I built it myself because I wanted it.
I got a survey ( http://www.icarusindie.com/survey ) going to see who people think the US should be attacking if anybody. I have a banter box on the front page and I have an entire section dedicated to the war.
That's my forum. Get your own. Such idiots should be arrested and fined. As of yesterday 2000 "protestors" were arrested. Good riddence.
Ben
The more people who refuse to help cover the costs of web-sites passivly by viewing ads, the more sites that are going to force people to pay actively with subscriptions or whatnot.
Speaking from experience, subscriptions work really well, even for a not so major web-site like IcarusIndie.com
Currently I just use banner ads for intersite advertising (my site is huge), to allow other game development sites to get some free exposure and to plug web-sites I'm a fan of. I still have a number of text ads you'd never notice unless you clicked on them to get statistics on how well they work (at least for exposure). I've yet to make a dime on them.
As a result of using subscriptions I have a lot more bandwidth available to offer more free stuff.
Like this Survey on who people think the US should attack and tons of material including video on the war
So, block all you want. It's a very simple thing to go to a subscription model. For sites that are struggling with bandwidth usage and costs, I highly recommend it.
Ben
Yes, pre 1.3, Mozilla is a crappy browser that doesn't even support the basic function of sending the X,Y coordinates where you clicked the image map. Something IE has supported since who knows when.
Ben
I've mirrored that blog at
http://www.icarusindie.com/waroniraq
in the documents folder. I'll update the mirror every day or so.
If you havn't already, please vote at
http://www.icarusindie.com/survey
You can view the current results of that poll at
http://www.icarusindie.com/survey/results.php
Thanks,
Ben
A draft would just result in a lot of untrained individuals mucking up operations out of ignorance or spite for being there. The people who are there are TRAINED to be there.
Imagine having a draft for people to do server maintainance for Fortune 500 companies with only your birthdate as a credential. Or, as a real world example, look how dedicated the Iraqi soldiers are. Surrendering before the war even started.
Yeah, it'd be something like that.
Ben
The anticipated War on Iraq is pissing a lot of people off. There are polls all over the place. Nobody really knows how many people actually support it. Some even question who the US should attack. So I propose a survey ( http://www.icarusindie.com/survey ). All you need to do is enter who we should attack (if anybody) and then click on that country's location on the map to submit your vote. Eventually, a more formal report will be created showing exact percentages for every country submitted. Your IP is logged and only one vote per IP is used to create the map so don't spam please.
You can see the live results map at
http://www.icarusindie.com/survey/results.php
Thanks for your participation.
Ben
I'll be posting various clips from the news (including Bush's latest speech) at
http://www.icarusindie.com/waroniraq/
No one is gung ho about killing Iraqis and the fact someone wrote a letter pointing it out shows just how out of touch they are. 70%+ of people polled on MSNBC today are for the war to GET SADDAM. GOT IT. WE'RE GUNG HO TO GET SADDAM. NOT IRAQIS. Maybe if people would stop shouting "NANANANANA I'M OPEN MINDED" while covering their ears every time pro-war people speak they'd be less prone to make fools of themselves by writting such ill informed dribble.
Way to succumb to the anti-war BS and miss the boat. I'm proud to be an American. It's great to be a part of a country that takes an active role in taking out leaders who oppress people.
Ben
That's apples and oranges. Froogle Google et all like DealTime use scraping (or whatever they do) to SUPPORT the original owners by directing traffic their way. Froogle Google is no different than any other search engine except it specializes in merchant sites.
The people in this case are stealing information solely for their own gain.
Ben
According to the site it's $100 for the SDK KIT which makes that $30 module useful. The xPort is an all in one solution for $50.
$130 vs $50. SitePlayer is far more expensive and far less attractive as far as the packaging.
Ben
Imagine what people would do in retaliation if they gave a valid e-mail address. That guy not too long ago who's info got out was signed up for every spam mailing people could think of.
They'd also be reported to their ISP/mail host and shut down since I don't imagine there are too many ISP's that don't have anti-spam rules in their TOS.
Not that any of it matters. Tracking them down or blocking them isn't impossible. It just takes more time than hitting the "delete" button. If I cared enough I have direct access to the logs when mail comes in to my server. I could easily use a quick whois and start reporting whatever IP made the connection to my server and let it get through.
Ben
When you go into a store salespeople tend to have an "it" product they fein excitement about. You go in for a light bulb and walk out with an expensive gadget on a good day for them. A customer's first reaction is typically a variation of "no" but that doesn't necessarily end the sale. The DNC list does. It puts a blanket "no" on all sales with no opporunity for a well tuned saleman to get you to change your mind about something you might have actually wanted.
That's why their business is going to take a huge hit. Not that I care. Just explaining why they said what they said. The people who don't get on the list are about as likely to buy as those who did put themselves on the list. Through the eyes of a salesmen they've lost millions of customers simply because they don't have the opportunity to sell to them.
Too bad. Buy an ad.
Ben
Or al-Quieda wants us to know the US is "failing" in their mission to kill Bin Laden.
Kind of a taunt. Considering we have no idea who's working for who over there it wouldn't be very hard to "leak" the tape to the US without it being tracable.
Nice false dillema though.
Ben
How is that any different than how it is now? Poor can't afford basic health care. The rich get anything they want including a better education and therefore better jobs. People are discriminated against for pretty much everything you can think of.
Companies are always looking to hire the best and brightest. But you know, there's a cap on the intelligence needed to do certain jobs. Does the term "overqualified" mean anything to you?
What's going to happen is that the rich few are going to be smarter and get the jobs only the super intelligent few could get anyway (like it is now). Very few people could work at Boeing or Nasa. And only the select few with very very high intelligence get to work on the most cutting edge things.
And the rest are going to work the millions of other job types just like now. The only jobs you'll be disqualified from are the same jobs you'd be disqualified from now. Unless a company is raking in millions and million they aren't going to have the funds to pay the genetically modified people.
Why advocate holding back science just because not everyone can benefit from it? I suppose we should stop AIDS and cancer research as well.
If all else fails, shoot somebody. You get free healthcare in prison thanks to the constitution.
Ben
Scientists messing with genetics is intelligent design.
Ben
"So effectively you are saying that it is easy to trick carbon dating by burying stuff in caves."
Reading comprehension is fun isn't it? Burying cats in caves "fools" people who date things by their surroundings. It has nothing to do with Carbon dating. It has to do with rock dating and assuming the rock formed around the object instead of the object being injected into the rock by burial of some sort.
People and animals have been burying things since forever.
"again discounting people such as yourself who would intentionally bury things to fool science because it violates your beliefs"
It's just a scenario based on what people and animals have been doing since forever: burying things. These people are fooling themselves. I'm just giving a current example of what has inveriably happened many many many times in the past. Things get thrown in caves and die there. Caves collapse. Thousands of years later, evolutionary "scientists" assume the rock formed around the dead thing.
It's not my fault they use obviously flawed ways to date things.
Evolutionary "scientists" have been fooled by buried things because they can't seem to manage to accept that you can't date things by their surroundings which are made up of things which are millions and millions of years older than the object.
Unless you know exactly HOW that object got there, there's absolutly no way to date it. It's pretty silly to juse a assume it sat there untouched and miraculously survived the elements while being covered in dirt from various sources over a period of millions of years.
I mean seriously, things crawl in holes and die. They don't even have to be buried. They do it themselves.
Ben
"No, you're still not getting it - the layers on top of your cat are known to be younger than the cat."
So if I throw a dead cat (that died yesterday) in a well and it caves in you know the rock on top of the cat is younger than the cat. Or if I throw it in a cave and the cave collapses the cat is younger than the rock of the cave? Are you serious?
Thanks for demonstrating my point. "Evolutionists" *don't* know that the rock above something is younger. In fact it's always the case when you bury something that what's buried is SIGNIFICANTLY (on the order of millions of years) younger than the dirt piled on top.
A person buried 6 feet under is less than 100 years old but the dirt is millions upon millions of years old.
So no, you don't get it at all. But in true Slashdot fashion your ignorance is moderated up.
Ben