Virtually all of the programs listed here are free of charge and for use under Windows..."How about BeOS, *nix, Amiga, QNX, etc?", I am asked. Those who are comfortable using these operating systems need no such guide as this...
I did google up some tiny Linux directories here and here, and of course there's TomsRtBt.
Yes, you're right. It's funny (well, my wife didn't think so) but I was just eating dinner when I abruptly said, "Oh, I bet he meant that the FCC couldn't do that!", and of course I agree with you. Mea culpa, and I especially apologize for my pedantic tone.
Yes, it is the same case you posted above, and you're missing the point. "Fair use" relieves you, the consumer, from legal hassle if you tape a program. It does NOT oblige the broadcaster to co-operate.
Fair use means I can Xerox a page from a magazine to cite in a report. It does not require the publisher to print nice high-contrast pages that copy well.
Fair use also applies to movies, which can be parodied, etc., but does not outlaw Macrovision.
The "chuckwagon effect" depends upon the ratio between frame rate and rotational speed. Watch cars go by for a while and you may find that your eyes do it too, if the rotation speed is such that spokes are close to the same place every 18th of a second or so (doesn't actually have to be the same spoke, but it needs to look like the same spoke), then you may get a frozen look or a forward or backward drift.
It's the way one adjusts the speed of a turntable.
Only if they stayed around. What about the guy who calls to find out what freak is running this thing, hears and recognizes your voice, and hangs up?
Look, don't push the analogy. I was just trying to get away from computers. If you'd prefer, somebody puts an ad in the paper saying, "For free racist literature, write to:" and lists your address. Funny joke, hey? You'll get all kinds of weird people writing to you, and you won't know why. Tee hee! But your name is a criss-cross dirctory away, and suddenly your friends at the NAACP won't talk to you anymore.
Reputations are ruined by rumours and half-truths far more often than by facts.
But this wasn't just a link. If I link something, you know it's link, and you know that it's accuracy is my responsibility, not the target's (so that if I say, here's a link to the newest Linux release, you're not likely to blame Microsoft (well, maybe around here people would), whereas if I bought NewestLinux.com, and set it up so that www.newestlinux.com went to www.microsoft.com, many people would, in fact, blame Microsoft, not me, because most people don't run a whois on every domain.
Yes, but the question isn't "deep and meaningful", the question is "exclusive". If '"maximum r&b" "who"' turns up 2170 links, and '"maximum r&b" -"who"' turns up 270, it's reasonable to view this as evidence of strong linkage between the Who and that phrase. (The quotes are needed because "who" is such a common word that Google normally ignores it.)
Absolutely. Resorting to a lawsuit was foolish at best.
On the other hand, Ford may have thought that they were dealing with a dangerous underground group of subversive haxors, and that technical solutions would simply result in an arms race.
2600 was simply having fun, but I think Ford was right to the extent that they said that the fun was at their expense. Sure, I would have blocked referrals and made a phone call before wasting time and money on a lawsuit (surely Ford's attorneys have better things to do, like sue Firestone or something), but I agreed with their gripe.
The JaguarEnthusiasts deal, however, was just plain stupid, and maybe even evil.
Semi-related. Actually I thought Ford had something of a point with the FuckGeneralMotors.com site -- the fact is that many people would believe that, since the page went to Ford, that Ford had created such a tasteless domain. Sure, anybody with skillz could look up the domain's ownership, but most people wouldn't.
Here's one for you: say I register a business called Racist Joke of the Day, and I forward all calls to your house. Does your reputation suffer the first time somebody calls and you answer? You bet it does -- you are likely forever to be, in cetain circles, the guy who ran that sick racist joke phone line. It's the sort of thing Donald Segretti would have done if he'd thought of it.
That said, Ford should have called and asked 2600 to stop. I believe them when they say that they would have done so if asked. Putting lawyers in the water was heavy-handed at best.
You know what? You're right -- in that last sentence, he does say "microsoft office documents". I stand corrected, and withdraw my indignation and scorn (except towards the KnowledgeBase index -- that still sucks.)
Hmm...I read the post again, and he doesn't actually say in what format the documents are stored. Maybe they're all ASCII text, and he just doesn't know any of those "plenty of other indexing programs available to them". Imagine if you could mention a couple, for his benefit and for the rest of us, and then go off about his employers presumed document storage.
I've always wondered whether M'soft themselves use Index Server. God knows the KnowledgeBase search is awful, and if they do eat their own dog food it's a terrible advertisement.
The function keys aren't Microsoft's fault. IBM put them on the original PC, in a nice little set down the side, and then moved them to the top (and added a couple) to bring them into line with IBM 3270 terminals, so that people could use IBM machines everywhere, from PC's up to mainframes, with minimal changes to their keying habits.
Of course, keyboard layouts were the least of the changes between green-screen terminal applications and PC's, but we're left with the result nonetheless.
Maybe, but I think their intent is the reverse in "cause or intend to cause" -- not "caused without intent", but "intended to cause and were foiled". (Curses!)
Mind you, their transmitter is powered by three D-cells and a tired squirrel, so they peter out pretty quickly when I drive to Hunt Valley, but I can get them pretty well everywhere else I go.
Yes, of course they are both operating systems! I was simply echoing sheriff_p's reasoning in a sarcastic manner. How in God's name he got a +3 informative I'll never know -- given the way he wrote that post it's hard to believe he has three friends, yet it's even harder to believe that three people (people with mod points, at that!) thought they'd learned something reading that post.
Thank you, BTW, for citing your source. It doesn't change sheriff_p's point, since the issue wasn't so much that his definition was wrong -- it wasn't, just not as complete as he apparently thought -- but that he made such a big deal out of it ("and I quote", he says, but doesn't get around to telling us whom he's quoting)
Wow, arrogance and ignorance, all wrapped up into one big ball!
Common Gateway Interface is, yes, "a set of rules that describe...", but note the indefinite article in your definition. There are, young jedi, other sets of rules as well, and PHP and ASP, among others, use those other interfaces. To continue your analogy, "Windows 2000 is a software layer between applications and hardware, and Unix is a layer between applications and hardware, so...Unix is Windows!"
(Oh, and if you're going to quote so plonkingly, would you mind citing the quotation? If you're quoting your bother-in-law the butcher, that's a little different from quoting an RFC.)
Yeah, I remember something about figuring out where to build factories by drilling holes in a map and hanging wieghts on strings dropped through the holes, and the whole thing would settle out with the factory in the optimal location (barring awkwardly placed rivers and whatnot).
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You've been coming here for four years and didn't work it out? Are the new glasses helping?
Yes, you're right. It's funny (well, my wife didn't think so) but I was just eating dinner when I abruptly said, "Oh, I bet he meant that the FCC couldn't do that!", and of course I agree with you. Mea culpa, and I especially apologize for my pedantic tone.
Fair use means I can Xerox a page from a magazine to cite in a report. It does not require the publisher to print nice high-contrast pages that copy well.
Fair use also applies to movies, which can be parodied, etc., but does not outlaw Macrovision.
Oh, you want the answers ahead of time. That's different...
It's the way one adjusts the speed of a turntable.
Look, don't push the analogy. I was just trying to get away from computers. If you'd prefer, somebody puts an ad in the paper saying, "For free racist literature, write to:" and lists your address. Funny joke, hey? You'll get all kinds of weird people writing to you, and you won't know why. Tee hee! But your name is a criss-cross dirctory away, and suddenly your friends at the NAACP won't talk to you anymore.
Reputations are ruined by rumours and half-truths far more often than by facts.
But this wasn't just a link. If I link something, you know it's link, and you know that it's accuracy is my responsibility, not the target's (so that if I say, here's a link to the newest Linux release, you're not likely to blame Microsoft (well, maybe around here people would), whereas if I bought NewestLinux.com, and set it up so that www.newestlinux.com went to www.microsoft.com, many people would, in fact, blame Microsoft, not me, because most people don't run a whois on every domain.
It's also nice for coin sorters, of course, which can sift and separate by size.
Yes, but the question isn't "deep and meaningful", the question is "exclusive". If '"maximum r&b" "who"' turns up 2170 links, and '"maximum r&b" -"who"' turns up 270, it's reasonable to view this as evidence of strong linkage between the Who and that phrase. (The quotes are needed because "who" is such a common word that Google normally ignores it.)
On the other hand, Ford may have thought that they were dealing with a dangerous underground group of subversive haxors, and that technical solutions would simply result in an arms race.
2600 was simply having fun, but I think Ford was right to the extent that they said that the fun was at their expense. Sure, I would have blocked referrals and made a phone call before wasting time and money on a lawsuit (surely Ford's attorneys have better things to do, like sue Firestone or something), but I agreed with their gripe.
The JaguarEnthusiasts deal, however, was just plain stupid, and maybe even evil.
Here's one for you: say I register a business called Racist Joke of the Day, and I forward all calls to your house. Does your reputation suffer the first time somebody calls and you answer? You bet it does -- you are likely forever to be, in cetain circles, the guy who ran that sick racist joke phone line. It's the sort of thing Donald Segretti would have done if he'd thought of it.
That said, Ford should have called and asked 2600 to stop. I believe them when they say that they would have done so if asked. Putting lawyers in the water was heavy-handed at best.
You know what? You're right -- in that last sentence, he does say "microsoft office documents". I stand corrected, and withdraw my indignation and scorn (except towards the KnowledgeBase index -- that still sucks.)
I've always wondered whether M'soft themselves use Index Server. God knows the KnowledgeBase search is awful, and if they do eat their own dog food it's a terrible advertisement.
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Of course, keyboard layouts were the least of the changes between green-screen terminal applications and PC's, but we're left with the result nonetheless.
$22, 000 a year? Every year? Christ, Avalon Hill only paid me 10 grand, after starting me at eight! Of course, nobody bought my game, but still...
Maybe, but I think their intent is the reverse in "cause or intend to cause" -- not "caused without intent", but "intended to cause and were foiled". (Curses!)
Mind you, their transmitter is powered by three D-cells and a tired squirrel, so they peter out pretty quickly when I drive to Hunt Valley, but I can get them pretty well everywhere else I go.
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Where "stupidly huge" is any number greater than 0? (Although I did lke it when that girl unlocked her jaw and ate the guinea pig.)
The one in Towson still has vinyl, although the one by JHU may not. I've never been to the Glen Burnie store.
If you are by the Hop, try Normal's.
Thank you, BTW, for citing your source. It doesn't change sheriff_p's point, since the issue wasn't so much that his definition was wrong -- it wasn't, just not as complete as he apparently thought -- but that he made such a big deal out of it ("and I quote", he says, but doesn't get around to telling us whom he's quoting)
Common Gateway Interface is, yes, "a set of rules that describe...", but note the indefinite article in your definition. There are, young jedi, other sets of rules as well, and PHP and ASP, among others, use those other interfaces. To continue your analogy, "Windows 2000 is a software layer between applications and hardware, and Unix is a layer between applications and hardware, so...Unix is Windows!"
(Oh, and if you're going to quote so plonkingly, would you mind citing the quotation? If you're quoting your bother-in-law the butcher, that's a little different from quoting an RFC.)
Yeah, I remember something about figuring out where to build factories by drilling holes in a map and hanging wieghts on strings dropped through the holes, and the whole thing would settle out with the factory in the optimal location (barring awkwardly placed rivers and whatnot).