If you can do with out the graphics, there's still plenty of free MUDs out there.
I gave 'em up years ago, but man, they were fun. And if you managed enough levels, you usually got the chance to learn to code and add your own stuff onto the game. It was quite an enjoyable experience.
If you want to get around this law, move out of New Jersey.
In most cases, we in the state of Pennsylvania will welcome you with open arms. If you really want to _use_ your handgun, I personally suggest you move into war-torn Philadelphia.
Well, I've not thought about this at all for over 2 years, and I really didn't think all that hard on it then... I don't know.
I suppose you probably could put "your" key inside the encrypted packet, so that the receiving machine knows how to get back to you. Yes, I suppose that could work.
There's still the matter of letting the rest of the network know where you are and that you are really you, but hey, it was just a quick brainstorm. I'll leave it to a brighter person than I to work out the details if they like.:)
"The cloud observations are based on views from atop Mauna Kea in late 2001 and earlier this year. Titan, one of 30 moons orbiting Saturday, is a little less than half the size of Earth, and much larger than Earth's moon."
Saturday? Man, somebody needs a better proofreader.
Wow. And to think that Velikovsky was just about run out of the scientific community 50 years ago for putting forth a similar idea, among others -- that planets could form rather quickly, in years or hundreds of years, rather than the millions of years previously thought.
This is also sort of the subject of James P. Hogan's novel, Cradle of Saturn. If you've never read James P. Hogan, you should. Good, good stuff.
Honestly? I think that little factoid is probably a crock of shit. But, being that the truck could only play for about 30 seconds before it drained it's 18 or so batteries, you'd loose your hearing long before your hair if you actually sat *in* the truck when they cranked it, and bro shaves his head anyways, we'll probably never know.:)
I'm on a PC with Photoshop 6.0, so I can't say for certain if this exists on the Mac, but if it's there, you might want to experiment with the "Liquify" tool. On the Windows version, it's located on the Image menu.
You need the handy dandy "Fair Use" conversion algorithm.
The algorithm is open source, and it works like this:
1. Split the entire spam into paragraphs. 2. Display 2 paragraphs. 3. Credit the original author appropriately. 4. Add one sentence of critique, preferably in italics. And call them cocksuckers as many times as you can without becoming tedious. 5. Repeat steps 2 - 5 until you run out of paragraphs.
Chill, man, it's just a joke. Well, half a joke. The point was, they *do* have the talent to generate applications and platforms. Just as half-jokingly, and/or half seriously, I hope that doing so in their own country, for themselves, works better than trying to write it our code for us. Nothing xenophobic or stereotypical about that, I just happen to be familiar with several projects where the code was outsourced to India, and for whatever reason (language barrier, cultural barrier, whatever) the code was a mess, the projects were a disaster.
Hell, look at the Simputer we've read so much about here on Slashdot -- there's even a review on it one article back on the front page here. An entire platform -- one that is getting rave reviews -- One that is inexpensive and innovative -- And one that -- get this -- was created in India! They can do it, and if they knew what's best, they wouldn't let Mr. Gates try to steer them away from that course of action.
See, the guy's article basicially puts a cart before a horse here.
Whitelists are meant to be the exception, not the rule.
Let me plug for a minute a great product my company uses: Ciphertrust's IronMail. It slices, dices, and filters email about 6 ways til Sunday (via blacklists, keywords, heuristics, you name it.), and does a wonderful job. The day after installing it here on site, the volume of email hitting our smtp server dropped 70%.
A little spam gets through, but not much -- no method of spam detection is perfect. I maybe get 1 or 2 a day instead of 15 or more, so I'm happy. Persistent spam, we blacklist.
On rare occasions when something valid does get blocked, we whitelist it to let it through the next time. THAT is the way whitelists should be used. Not the other way around, or you'll be in a situation a lot like handling NT trusts -- it gets big and messy in a hurry.
As far as IM taking over... I doubt it. I don't use it at all. I quit using ICQ mainly because I get too much freaking spam over it, and because, frankly, IMers *expect* a response yesterday, and I, frankly like to respond to something whenever I feel like it. I'm not a good IMer. Hell, I don't answer my phone half the time when it rings. (And mostly for the same reason. What's with all these prerecordeg vacation "offers" lately?! Sheesh!) I'll communicate when I want to, and email gives me that ability.
Email won't be going away, and whitelists can be effective if they're used properly.
It's kind funny. I've had an original parallel port ZIP drive for a very long time, since, oh, I don't know... '94 or '95. Never had a problem with it, still works fine, although it's become more and more useless, what with file sizes so damn huge any more for anything I do.
I think it is possible to find good open-source support, cheaply or freely.
The hardest part, usually, is finding a source that 1) gives quality support, and 2) is not comprised of contributors who like to treat newbies like idiots.
For just about any good OSS project, there are good FAQs, How-to's, Forums, and Mailing lists to help answer your questions. I few I can think of off the top of my head are projects like PHP, Apache, LEAF/LRP.. the list goes on. Usually, the closer you are to the source of the project, the better luck you will have and the nicer people you'll have to deal with. The more removed your source of support (133+ script kiddies! yo!) the more of a chance you are of being belittled by kids who can't even drive yet.
I've also found that dealing with companies who offer commercial solutions built on top of OSS projects -- (Ciphertrust's IronMail, for instance) tend to be very knowledgable and helpful, granted for a price. But, the support is out there. Good support is out there. And for little or no more than you'd pay to Intel, IBM, MicroSatan, or any other vendor...
If AOL would just take AIM out of the netscape install, that'd save a number of companies a bundle, right there.
Kind of disgusting, though: A company forcing the problem into an organization, and then selling the solution for an obscene amount of money. That's extortion. See that, DoJ? SEC? FTC? E-X-T-O-R-T-I-O-N.
"Use" in the sense of "implementing an application that can read and write them with 100% reliability." (Or as close to 100 as you can get with software these days, so, like, 8.3%.) Even OpenOffice.org can't use them completely reliably.
"Use" in the sense of "as a replacement to PDF," too. PDF (and maybe its big brother, PostScript), right now, is *the* standard for document portabilty where layout *and* content are the concern.
Possibly, Microsoft's goal is to create a document specification that handles more than just page layout and content, to include presentation-, spreadsheet-, and database-type content as well. That would be interesting. However, I think I'd like to see MS participate in one of the open XML development/discussion groups on standard, non-proprietary file formats for office-type applications.
Is there a PDF license fee? I don't think so -- It's supposed to be an open format.
And, after diggout out the 500-page PDF1.3 spec (some interesting reading -- PDF is a cool format.), (Pages 15 and 16, too, by the way.) yes, indeed, you can pretty much implement it in anything you want to read or write PDF's, as long as you include an appropriate Adobe-indicating copyright notice.
So, MS could implement PDF if it really wanted to.
Although, now, in the crazy days of XML, and as PDF is sort of, well, old, maybe xDocs is something better.
Mind you, if it's not free and open, nobody will use it.
Heheh. I still remeber a few years back when they tried to do a reunion concert or something. They ended up walking off the stage because someone tossed a bottle at them. Just seems kind of ironic.
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If you can do with out the graphics, there's still plenty of free MUDs out there.
I gave 'em up years ago, but man, they were fun. And if you managed enough levels, you usually got the chance to learn to code and add your own stuff onto the game. It was quite an enjoyable experience.
If you want to get around this law, move out of New Jersey.
In most cases, we in the state of Pennsylvania will welcome you with open arms. If you really want to _use_ your handgun, I personally suggest you move into war-torn Philadelphia.
Well, I've not thought about this at all for over 2 years, and I really didn't think all that hard on it then... I don't know.
:)
I suppose you probably could put "your" key inside the encrypted packet, so that the receiving machine knows how to get back to you. Yes, I suppose that could work.
There's still the matter of letting the rest of the network know where you are and that you are really you, but hey, it was just a quick brainstorm. I'll leave it to a brighter person than I to work out the details if they like.
Ah, freakin' crap, I forgot to HREF it...
http://webpages.charter.net/ezahurak/idea.html
... I'll point everyone again to a slightly unrealistic idea I had over 2 years ago:
http://webpages.charter.net/ezahurak/idea.html
But ya never know, it could work.
*laugh*
;)
Okay, I'll give ya points for this!
"The cloud observations are based on views from atop Mauna Kea in late 2001 and earlier this year. Titan, one of 30 moons orbiting Saturday, is a little less than half the size of Earth, and much larger than Earth's moon."
Saturday? Man, somebody needs a better proofreader.
Woof!
(I know. It's bad. I'm sorry.)
One of these days, you know, someone's gonna come along with evidence that 802.11 causes birds to fly into trees and buildings.
Do you think that'll stop the tree-climbing environauts from using it?
Of course not!
Wow. And to think that Velikovsky was just about run out of the scientific community 50 years ago for putting forth a similar idea, among others -- that planets could form rather quickly, in years or hundreds of years, rather than the millions of years previously thought.
This is also sort of the subject of James P. Hogan's novel, Cradle of Saturn. If you've never read James P. Hogan, you should. Good, good stuff.
Well, see, they HAD to ban the videogames to get all the guerrilla fighters off the couch and back outside in the fresh air.
Honestly? I think that little factoid is probably a crock of shit. But, being that the truck could only play for about 30 seconds before it drained it's 18 or so batteries, you'd loose your hearing long before your hair if you actually sat *in* the truck when they cranked it, and bro shaves his head anyways, we'll probably never know. :)
The sounds pumped through the Penn State fridge reach 173 dB, tens of thousands of times more intense than any rock concert.
Bah! That's nothing! My brother had a Stereo in a Ford Ranger that did 176dB!
His truck *was* pretty cool, though, so who knows? Maybe this could work.
I'm on a PC with Photoshop 6.0, so I can't say for certain if this exists on the Mac, but if it's there, you might want to experiment with the "Liquify" tool. On the Windows version, it's located on the Image menu.
You need the handy dandy "Fair Use" conversion algorithm.
The algorithm is open source, and it works like this:
1. Split the entire spam into paragraphs.
2. Display 2 paragraphs.
3. Credit the original author appropriately.
4. Add one sentence of critique, preferably in italics. And call them cocksuckers as many times as you can without becoming tedious.
5. Repeat steps 2 - 5 until you run out of paragraphs.
Cheers!
Chill, man, it's just a joke. Well, half a joke. The point was, they *do* have the talent to generate applications and platforms. Just as half-jokingly, and/or half seriously, I hope that doing so in their own country, for themselves, works better than trying to write it our code for us. Nothing xenophobic or stereotypical about that, I just happen to be familiar with several projects where the code was outsourced to India, and for whatever reason (language barrier, cultural barrier, whatever) the code was a mess, the projects were a disaster.
Hell, look at the Simputer we've read so much about here on Slashdot -- there's even a review on it one article back on the front page here. An entire platform -- one that is getting rave reviews -- One that is inexpensive and innovative -- And one that -- get this -- was created in India! They can do it, and if they knew what's best, they wouldn't let Mr. Gates try to steer them away from that course of action.
We outsource, like, what? 70% of our programming to 'em?
Granted, it's not *good* programming...
See, the guy's article basicially puts a cart before a horse here.
Whitelists are meant to be the exception, not the rule.
Let me plug for a minute a great product my company uses: Ciphertrust's IronMail. It slices, dices, and filters email about 6 ways til Sunday (via blacklists, keywords, heuristics, you name it.), and does a wonderful job. The day after installing it here on site, the volume of email hitting our smtp server dropped 70%.
A little spam gets through, but not much -- no method of spam detection is perfect. I maybe get 1 or 2 a day instead of 15 or more, so I'm happy. Persistent spam, we blacklist.
On rare occasions when something valid does get blocked, we whitelist it to let it through the next time. THAT is the way whitelists should be used. Not the other way around, or you'll be in a situation a lot like handling NT trusts -- it gets big and messy in a hurry.
As far as IM taking over... I doubt it. I don't use it at all. I quit using ICQ mainly because I get too much freaking spam over it, and because, frankly, IMers *expect* a response yesterday, and I, frankly like to respond to something whenever I feel like it. I'm not a good IMer. Hell, I don't answer my phone half the time when it rings. (And mostly for the same reason. What's with all these prerecordeg vacation "offers" lately?! Sheesh!) I'll communicate when I want to, and email gives me that ability.
Email won't be going away, and whitelists can be effective if they're used properly.
It's kind funny. I've had an original parallel port ZIP drive for a very long time, since, oh, I don't know... '94 or '95. Never had a problem with it, still works fine, although it's become more and more useless, what with file sizes so damn huge any more for anything I do.
Its supposed to be a provision of the 1992 Cable Act, but I can't seem to find the text of that anywhere online.
I think it is possible to find good open-source support, cheaply or freely.
The hardest part, usually, is finding a source that 1) gives quality support, and 2) is not comprised of contributors who like to treat newbies like idiots.
For just about any good OSS project, there are good FAQs, How-to's, Forums, and Mailing lists to help answer your questions. I few I can think of off the top of my head are projects like PHP, Apache, LEAF/LRP.. the list goes on. Usually, the closer you are to the source of the project, the better luck you will have and the nicer people you'll have to deal with. The more removed your source of support (133+ script kiddies! yo!) the more of a chance you are of being belittled by kids who can't even drive yet.
I've also found that dealing with companies who offer commercial solutions built on top of OSS projects -- (Ciphertrust's IronMail, for instance) tend to be very knowledgable and helpful, granted for a price. But, the support is out there. Good support is out there. And for little or no more than you'd pay to Intel, IBM, MicroSatan, or any other vendor...
If AOL would just take AIM out of the netscape install, that'd save a number of companies a bundle, right there.
Kind of disgusting, though: A company forcing the problem into an organization, and then selling the solution for an obscene amount of money. That's extortion. See that, DoJ? SEC? FTC? E-X-T-O-R-T-I-O-N.
"Use" in the sense of "implementing an application that can read and write them with 100% reliability." (Or as close to 100 as you can get with software these days, so, like, 8.3%.) Even OpenOffice.org can't use them completely reliably.
"Use" in the sense of "as a replacement to PDF," too. PDF (and maybe its big brother, PostScript), right now, is *the* standard for document portabilty where layout *and* content are the concern.
Possibly, Microsoft's goal is to create a document specification that handles more than just page layout and content, to include presentation-, spreadsheet-, and database-type content as well. That would be interesting. However, I think I'd like to see MS participate in one of the open XML development/discussion groups on standard, non-proprietary file formats for office-type applications.
Is there a PDF license fee? I don't think so -- It's supposed to be an open format.
And, after diggout out the 500-page PDF1.3 spec (some interesting reading -- PDF is a cool format.), (Pages 15 and 16, too, by the way.) yes, indeed, you can pretty much implement it in anything you want to read or write PDF's, as long as you include an appropriate Adobe-indicating copyright notice.
So, MS could implement PDF if it really wanted to.
Although, now, in the crazy days of XML, and as PDF is sort of, well, old, maybe xDocs is something better.
Mind you, if it's not free and open, nobody will use it.
Heheh. I still remeber a few years back when they tried to do a reunion concert or something. They ended up walking off the stage because someone tossed a bottle at them. Just seems kind of ironic.