That typeright site... It's very unrealistic I think. They make it sound so clear cut.
fonts may just seem like another file on your hard disk, but they're "intellectual property." Just as you wouldn't steal a real item from a store, you shouldn't steal a font -- it really is the same thing.
OK, fine. But what about when I need to send you a PDF that uses a font that isn't on your system. The PDF must embed that font (and not just a rasterized image of the particular point size/DPI I used) if I want it to render correctly, at various resolutions.
How is that anything like an item in a store? A font is a unique sort of work, it's something that you use to render your own written works, and it becomes part of your work. In effect, their argument makes every document written with a font a "derivative work", which is completely not practical, unless the fonts are all released with BSD type licenses.
I always thought Times New Roman was a font that MS recreated based on the classic "Times" font, to avoid trademark issues with the name.
Font intellectual property is a sticky morass of trademark, patent, and copyright issues, and I sure don't have a good grasp of all of it, so don't take my word for it.
And on the other side of the fence, worms/security is big business closer to home. Red Hat is able to charge $350 per server per year, just to provide basic security updates.
Funny how during the slow economic times, everyone talks about how it'll get better, then when it does get better, everyone talks about how it's going to get worse.
All this talk about a "fake recovery" just seems to confirm it's a real recovery.
Current likes to flow the other way when you have a negative voltage. This is OK sometimes, but a lot of our present logic is based on components that act like diodes, so it's easier to just use positive voltages usually.
What you said is not quite right, in latin "unus" is 1, which you basically got right.
The problem is that "pent" is a greek prefix for 5, not latin. In latin 5 is "quinque", so 1-1-5 should be ununquintuim, if you wanted to stick with latin.
Entering data is easy enough, make up the HTML form, tie it to some data validation and an INSERT.
Reports can be pretty time consuming to build in PHP, however. Offsetting this is the fact that you have a full fledged programming language to write reports with, so you can do very fancy things with your reports. Of course you could always use PHP for the entry and something else for the reports if you wanted too.
I also have experience with the terminal based database systems, unfortunately we still have some legacy stuff that was originally on a s36, that represents a lot of our core functions. It's on an s36 emulator now, and the data from it gets imported into the web app nightly.
The main problem with those old systems was a total lack of data validation, and the inflexibility in adding new fields. Maybe more modern versions had more of those features, but ours sucks bad in that regard.
Because they are slow, and require even the simplest of changes to go through years and years of debate before they finally might get around to adding the 10 lines of code to pop up a warning window?
Is that why?
Mozilla has no problem playing nanny in other places, like whenever I try to go to a web server running on port 1080 on a fresh install of Mozilla, I need to go hack some lines into prefs.js before I can go to an "unsafe" port. I'm glad Mozilla thinks they know better than me about what ports are safe or not.
One thing that would help a lot, and probably not be too hard to companies to swallow, is to just include a special software patent class, that has a DMCA like clause that allows implementations that are for the purpose of interoperating with other computer programs.
Such a clause would immediately help curb abuse of patents by monopolies, and wannabe monopolies.
forced you to get CATV or pay even higher rates (42.95/45.95 with CATV or 60.95 or 63.95 without)
I really don't see how this gets passed antitrust laws. I guess since they are a natural monopoly, that somehow makes them exampt??
Even as a Libertarian, I think local governments should own infrastructure and rent it out on a non-descriminatory basis. That way there can be a real free market for services, which is a very Libertarian thing.
Last I checked a few years ago, there were online solitaire and freecell tournaments.
Maybe you could look one of those up.
The reason I looked is because my mom beat all 32000 or whatever the number was, of the freecell games in the Win 3.1 version of freecell. Except for one. One of the freecell deals is mathematically impossible to beat.
This booble isn't even a search engine, it's just a bunch of Google looking graphics and HTML stuck in front of a fairly normal porn store. Try searching for a few common porn things, like "dildo"... no results.
The only thing that seems to do much of anything is the "DVD and Toys" link, which is some sort of web shop.
If I were feeling cheap, I'd start with a cell phone antenna and then cut it to length for the correct frequency.
If you were going to do that, you could just get a rod from a hobby shop (made of that springy stuff, I think they use it in RC planes), and cut it to length.
For a nice cheap omni, one can construct a 2.4Ghz discone antenna, or buy one from Ramsey electronics (hit google). Discones are really simple to build, I think Ramsey's are made from a cake tin and a conic section of metal (probably also some other kitchen implement).
Interestingly, I remember someone working on making real textures. I seem to recall a particular challenge for him was modeling stuff like hair or fur in a realistic way.
To what end? To get some idiot MCSE admin in trouble because his domain got listed in a bunch of spam databases? It's not his fault the AV company his company bought software from is a bunch of spammers.
The army seems to take unexploded ordinance (UXO) very seriously. They almost have to, they can't risk the tons of bad press, with the insane levels of funding they get.
The new Mission Control requires a pretty good system to run right. I used to have everything on a Pentium 200, with 80something megs of RAM, but the new MC didn't like that one bit.
The dialup thing is pretty easy. The way I do it, for linux at least, is to hook a modem directly up to the linux box, and set the default route to be the modem, with another route to 192.168 or whatever your local net is.
The starband proxy needs to be a different computer somewhere in your local network. In your web browser, set up the proxy setting to the starband proxy, and you can set the environment variables in your shell for http_proxy and ftp_proxy, and wget et al will use them.
If you want to use the modem, just turn off the proxy in your browser, and it'll use the dial up. SSH and everything will use the dial up.
There are several variations on the way you can do this, the main jist is that the default route goes to the dial-up modem, and things you want to use the satellite need to specifically set the proxy server. You could set things up so that your DHCP default route goes to the computer with dial-up, and have that be the default way to the Internet, and everything else needs to specifically use the proxy.
The way I set it up, a computer just plugging in uses the satellite rather than dial-up, the dial-up connected computer doens't even route packets for other computers, but you could turn that on if you needed more than one system to be able to take advantage of the dual setup.
Well, starband is 600ms or so standard ping, with varying amounts of packets hitting 1200 and 1800ms, because it's collision based and some packets need retries.
There's no bandwidth limits with Starband at least. And they provide a full usenet server, with a lot of binary groups even. Once I leeched 4GB from their news server in two days, just to see if they would let me. That was when I first signed up, I don't download huge amounts anymore, just normal stuff like JVMs and Linux updates and etc.
Anyway, they are still issuing their windows-based modem standard, but they have a hardware modem coming out, that they are playing games with, making it available only for business accounts currently. And the modem costs about $600 (even if you are upgrading), in addition to paying twice as much per month.
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That typeright site... It's very unrealistic I think. They make it sound so clear cut.
fonts may just seem like another file on your hard disk, but they're "intellectual property." Just as you wouldn't steal a real item from a store, you shouldn't steal a font -- it really is the same thing.
OK, fine. But what about when I need to send you a PDF that uses a font that isn't on your system. The PDF must embed that font (and not just a rasterized image of the particular point size/DPI I used) if I want it to render correctly, at various resolutions.
How is that anything like an item in a store? A font is a unique sort of work, it's something that you use to render your own written works, and it becomes part of your work. In effect, their argument makes every document written with a font a "derivative work", which is completely not practical, unless the fonts are all released with BSD type licenses.
I always thought Times New Roman was a font that MS recreated based on the classic "Times" font, to avoid trademark issues with the name.
Font intellectual property is a sticky morass of trademark, patent, and copyright issues, and I sure don't have a good grasp of all of it, so don't take my word for it.
And on the other side of the fence, worms/security is big business closer to home. Red Hat is able to charge $350 per server per year, just to provide basic security updates.
It cuts both ways.
Funny how during the slow economic times, everyone talks about how it'll get better, then when it does get better, everyone talks about how it's going to get worse.
All this talk about a "fake recovery" just seems to confirm it's a real recovery.
Current likes to flow the other way when you have a negative voltage. This is OK sometimes, but a lot of our present logic is based on components that act like diodes, so it's easier to just use positive voltages usually.
Time to reveal my true geek.
What you said is not quite right, in latin "unus" is 1, which you basically got right.
The problem is that "pent" is a greek prefix for 5, not latin. In latin 5 is "quinque", so 1-1-5 should be ununquintuim, if you wanted to stick with latin.
I do.
Entering data is easy enough, make up the HTML form, tie it to some data validation and an INSERT.
Reports can be pretty time consuming to build in PHP, however. Offsetting this is the fact that you have a full fledged programming language to write reports with, so you can do very fancy things with your reports. Of course you could always use PHP for the entry and something else for the reports if you wanted too.
I also have experience with the terminal based database systems, unfortunately we still have some legacy stuff that was originally on a s36, that represents a lot of our core functions. It's on an s36 emulator now, and the data from it gets imported into the web app nightly.
The main problem with those old systems was a total lack of data validation, and the inflexibility in adding new fields. Maybe more modern versions had more of those features, but ours sucks bad in that regard.
Because they are slow, and require even the simplest of changes to go through years and years of debate before they finally might get around to adding the 10 lines of code to pop up a warning window?
Is that why?
Mozilla has no problem playing nanny in other places, like whenever I try to go to a web server running on port 1080 on a fresh install of Mozilla, I need to go hack some lines into prefs.js before I can go to an "unsafe" port. I'm glad Mozilla thinks they know better than me about what ports are safe or not.
One thing that would help a lot, and probably not be too hard to companies to swallow, is to just include a special software patent class, that has a DMCA like clause that allows implementations that are for the purpose of interoperating with other computer programs.
Such a clause would immediately help curb abuse of patents by monopolies, and wannabe monopolies.
Holy shit, I made a lot of grammar, diction, and spelling mistakes in that message!
forced you to get CATV or pay even higher rates (42.95/45.95 with CATV or 60.95 or 63.95 without)
I really don't see how this gets passed antitrust laws. I guess since they are a natural monopoly, that somehow makes them exampt??
Even as a Libertarian, I think local governments should own infrastructure and rent it out on a non-descriminatory basis. That way there can be a real free market for services, which is a very Libertarian thing.
She played about 2-3 hours on average (some more, some less) per day, for about 4 years.
After a while, she was up to the point of winning a game every 2-10 minutes, depending on difficulty.
Last I checked a few years ago, there were online solitaire and freecell tournaments.
Maybe you could look one of those up.
The reason I looked is because my mom beat all 32000 or whatever the number was, of the freecell games in the Win 3.1 version of freecell. Except for one. One of the freecell deals is mathematically impossible to beat.
Compete?
This booble isn't even a search engine, it's just a bunch of Google looking graphics and HTML stuck in front of a fairly normal porn store. Try searching for a few common porn things, like "dildo"... no results.
The only thing that seems to do much of anything is the "DVD and Toys" link, which is some sort of web shop.
If I were feeling cheap, I'd start with a cell phone antenna and then cut it to length for the correct frequency.
If you were going to do that, you could just get a rod from a hobby shop (made of that springy stuff, I think they use it in RC planes), and cut it to length.
For a nice cheap omni, one can construct a 2.4Ghz discone antenna, or buy one from Ramsey electronics (hit google). Discones are really simple to build, I think Ramsey's are made from a cake tin and a conic section of metal (probably also some other kitchen implement).
Heh, you are right.
Interestingly, I remember someone working on making real textures. I seem to recall a particular challenge for him was modeling stuff like hair or fur in a realistic way.
Which, as someone else pointed out, is how ebay works anyway.
The only advantage to this is when you aren't doing a real time auction; when you are taking sealed bids, and everyone bids just once.
Corporate trainer eh?
Does she throw them treats when they properly use buzzwords, and sniff the ass of their superiors?
To what end? To get some idiot MCSE admin in trouble because his domain got listed in a bunch of spam databases? It's not his fault the AV company his company bought software from is a bunch of spammers.
Do a search for:
UXO cleanup site:army.mil
The army seems to take unexploded ordinance (UXO) very seriously. They almost have to, they can't risk the tons of bad press, with the insane levels of funding they get.
And yet herbal shops sell kudzu powdered... That always baffled me. It's not like it's difficult to get, I don't see how they'd even be a market.
The new Mission Control requires a pretty good system to run right. I used to have everything on a Pentium 200, with 80something megs of RAM, but the new MC didn't like that one bit.
The dialup thing is pretty easy. The way I do it, for linux at least, is to hook a modem directly up to the linux box, and set the default route to be the modem, with another route to 192.168 or whatever your local net is.
The starband proxy needs to be a different computer somewhere in your local network. In your web browser, set up the proxy setting to the starband proxy, and you can set the environment variables in your shell for http_proxy and ftp_proxy, and wget et al will use them.
If you want to use the modem, just turn off the proxy in your browser, and it'll use the dial up. SSH and everything will use the dial up.
There are several variations on the way you can do this, the main jist is that the default route goes to the dial-up modem, and things you want to use the satellite need to specifically set the proxy server. You could set things up so that your DHCP default route goes to the computer with dial-up, and have that be the default way to the Internet, and everything else needs to specifically use the proxy.
The way I set it up, a computer just plugging in uses the satellite rather than dial-up, the dial-up connected computer doens't even route packets for other computers, but you could turn that on if you needed more than one system to be able to take advantage of the dual setup.
Heh, MS and Philip Morris merger. Talk about conventrating targets of corporate hate into one place.
As long as they solve real world problems in a non-obvious way, they are fair game.
Algebra solves real world problems in non-obvious ways.
Well, starband is 600ms or so standard ping, with varying amounts of packets hitting 1200 and 1800ms, because it's collision based and some packets need retries.
There's no bandwidth limits with Starband at least. And they provide a full usenet server, with a lot of binary groups even. Once I leeched 4GB from their news server in two days, just to see if they would let me. That was when I first signed up, I don't download huge amounts anymore, just normal stuff like JVMs and Linux updates and etc.
Anyway, they are still issuing their windows-based modem standard, but they have a hardware modem coming out, that they are playing games with, making it available only for business accounts currently. And the modem costs about $600 (even if you are upgrading), in addition to paying twice as much per month.