If the person is in a public place, then NOBODY has a right to do anything.
To the contrary, I have the right to call the police. They won't do anything to someone talking on a cell phone, but they just might cite your pot-banging, yelling guy as a public nuisance. Then a court will decide the issue, if it's taken that far.
1996: Simpsons used to be good. It sucks now. These new episodes (George Bush as a neighbor, 22 Short Films about Springfield) suck.
I don't understand. Are you saying you didn't like those episodes? People you know didn't like them? Personally, I liked both of them from the get-go. The idea of George Bush losing his temper and doing doughnuts in the Simpsons' yard was hilarious!
Add to the list that they are too self-referential these days (or at least when I stopped watching). Not an episode goes by where they don't make some dig at themselves, or the Fox network, or something of the sort. I really think it's stupid.
Indeed. I noticed this too. John Williams did an excellent job composing the music for the films, tailoring it to match the action perfectly, and Lucas just chops it all up. One insertion I rather dislike is the shot of Vader's shuttle returning to the command ship from the Cloud City in Empire Stikes Back. It ruins the flow of my favorite "Escape from Cloud City" theme, because they had to insert a generic Imperial March clip to fill the extra time. Grrr.
Fake it?? It's still a real picture! The landscape isn't moving, so it doesn't really matter if the camera captures each color in succession, rather than all at once, as in most cameras. It's a tradeoff; it takes longer to capture all the data, but you get a higher resolution full-color image as a result.
It would be more elegant to fix it at your DNS server, assuming you run one. Most have patches available that effectively null out the bogus replies quite nicely.
Gravity is weak compared to, say, electromagnetic force. The gravitational pull of the entire Earth will help hold a paperclip to your desk, but a little magnet will pick it up. I think this is what they're talking about. IIRC, there's also the strong and weak nuclear forces.
I think it's because many people who use MySQL use it for simple data storage. They are quite thrilled that they don't have to write code to read and parse a bunch of text or data files; they just do a SELECT query from MySQL. They haven't yet moved on to the more advanced aspects of these kinds of databases.
I think this is a good idea, except for the falsification bit. It should be perfectly acceptible to put your registrar's contact information in WHOIS instead of your own. The registrar can pass communications to you if necessary; they know who you are. The requirement to have your own data in WHOIS goes back to the days when only large organizations registered domain names, and doesn't really apply anymore.
They gave away half of their "obscurity" by releasing the concept to the world. If they were really interested in the security aspect of port-knocking, they wouldn't have posted the concept on the WWW. As an unobscure authentication system, I feel its value is quite limited.
Your statement is false. Comcast, for one, is now advertisting its new faster service capped at 3Mb/sec instead of 1.5Mb/sec. Maybe in the past they didn't mention the caps, but they do now.
The thing I hate is calling someone's cell phone with my cell phone. The call is now doubly garbled; it's like placing a call to the moon.
I've noticed that people who use their cell phones more than I do just get used to repeating things a few times. But, I still can't stand it and use a landline whenever possible.
Would you rather have your State Department send out documents to other nations with the old-fashioned-looking Courier font, or, worse yet, no standard font at all? It's nice to appear to be organized, at least. On the other hand, we'll look like a country of blind people sending out 14pt documents to everyone.
BTW, as others have pointed out, this is not a government-wide standard, just a State Department one.
I've heard that, generally, serif fonts are easier to read on paper, and sans-serif fonts are easier to read on screen. This may be less of an issue with today's high-resolution displays and edge-smoothing of fonts (or whatever it's called).
What I was trying to say is that a company can grow to a certain size and "stagnate" or even shrink and still be healthy. Speaking from an investing point of view, you are totally right. You wouldn't want to invest in such companies. But, as a practical matter, no company can grow forever.
So? What's your point? The same can be said of people. Unless you are a teenager, you probably aren't growing much compared to your infancy. Are you worried about this? Should you keep on growing until you are a giant? Do you think you have stagnated?
Just because the word "stagnate" has a bad connotation, doesn't mean that stagnation itself is bad. In fact, a company could even shrink under certain circumstances, and that would be healthy. For example, a few decades ago, typewriter companies were wise to either shrink or move to new business as the PC became popular. The ones that didn't do that went out of business anyway (i.e. an unhealty death rather than a healthy one).
You don't even have to drop the traffic, you can just silently re-route it through your own SMTP servers. I know AOL does this - at least, they did a few years ago when I dialed in at my parents' house.
As others have pointed out, the root servers are very important. DNS is hierarchical. Assume for a moment that your local DNS server was just started, and has nothing cached. If you want to lookup see.the.hamsterdance.com, your local DNS server has to do several lookups, starting with a root server.
Contact a root nameserver for.com (the IP addresses of these few servers are kept in a file somewhere). Find out what the nameserver is for hamsterdance.com.
Contact the nameserver for hamsterdance.com and find out what the nameserver is for the.hamsterdance.com
Contact the nameserver for the.hamsterdance.com and find out the IP address of see.the.hamsterdance.com
It gets more complicated of course, but this is the general idea.
Yeah, but the IE implimentation of FTP is horrible. I hate how it treats your home directory as the root directory. I actually find it easier to use command-line ftp, despite the fact that I can't quite remember all the FTP commands.
This is a case of MS doing the wrong thing for the right reasons.
So? That's his good luck, and Microsoft's bad luck, IMHO. I think it's perfectly reasonable to attach "soft" to your name when naming your own software company.
Personally, I never would have agreed to transfer the domain name to Microsoft. The most I would have agreed to would be to stop using the domain, but I would have kept it registered under my own name. Also, I would have stipulated that Microsoft pay for re-registration for the rest of time.
I disagree. Maybe it's because they're kids movies, but I haven't been too impressed with computer animated films since Toy Story.
I found the storyline in Shrek to be quite lame. It's as if they just wrote down a bunch of stuff one afternoon to give them a reason to do the computer animation. Same thing for Monsters, Inc. Capturing screams for energy? Give me a break.
I think the computer animation aspect of these films still excites people enough that they are forgiving of these flaws. Plus, the characters, individually, are usually funny enough.
I haven't seen any 2D cartoons recently, but I imagine they are not much better or worse, story-wise.
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To the contrary, I have the right to call the police. They won't do anything to someone talking on a cell phone, but they just might cite your pot-banging, yelling guy as a public nuisance. Then a court will decide the issue, if it's taken that far.
Slashdot had a story yesterday, but it's off the front page already. You can't miss it; it has thousands of comments by now.
I don't understand. Are you saying you didn't like those episodes? People you know didn't like them? Personally, I liked both of them from the get-go. The idea of George Bush losing his temper and doing doughnuts in the Simpsons' yard was hilarious!
Add to the list that they are too self-referential these days (or at least when I stopped watching). Not an episode goes by where they don't make some dig at themselves, or the Fox network, or something of the sort. I really think it's stupid.
Indeed. I noticed this too. John Williams did an excellent job composing the music for the films, tailoring it to match the action perfectly, and Lucas just chops it all up. One insertion I rather dislike is the shot of Vader's shuttle returning to the command ship from the Cloud City in Empire Stikes Back. It ruins the flow of my favorite "Escape from Cloud City" theme, because they had to insert a generic Imperial March clip to fill the extra time. Grrr.
Fake it?? It's still a real picture! The landscape isn't moving, so it doesn't really matter if the camera captures each color in succession, rather than all at once, as in most cameras. It's a tradeoff; it takes longer to capture all the data, but you get a higher resolution full-color image as a result.
It would be more elegant to fix it at your DNS server, assuming you run one. Most have patches available that effectively null out the bogus replies quite nicely.
Ah, here's some info.
I think it's because many people who use MySQL use it for simple data storage. They are quite thrilled that they don't have to write code to read and parse a bunch of text or data files; they just do a SELECT query from MySQL. They haven't yet moved on to the more advanced aspects of these kinds of databases.
I think this is a good idea, except for the falsification bit. It should be perfectly acceptible to put your registrar's contact information in WHOIS instead of your own. The registrar can pass communications to you if necessary; they know who you are. The requirement to have your own data in WHOIS goes back to the days when only large organizations registered domain names, and doesn't really apply anymore.
They gave away half of their "obscurity" by releasing the concept to the world. If they were really interested in the security aspect of port-knocking, they wouldn't have posted the concept on the WWW. As an unobscure authentication system, I feel its value is quite limited.
Your statement is false. Comcast, for one, is now advertisting its new faster service capped at 3Mb/sec instead of 1.5Mb/sec. Maybe in the past they didn't mention the caps, but they do now.
I've noticed that people who use their cell phones more than I do just get used to repeating things a few times. But, I still can't stand it and use a landline whenever possible.
BTW, as others have pointed out, this is not a government-wide standard, just a State Department one.
I've heard that, generally, serif fonts are easier to read on paper, and sans-serif fonts are easier to read on screen. This may be less of an issue with today's high-resolution displays and edge-smoothing of fonts (or whatever it's called).
What I was trying to say is that a company can grow to a certain size and "stagnate" or even shrink and still be healthy. Speaking from an investing point of view, you are totally right. You wouldn't want to invest in such companies. But, as a practical matter, no company can grow forever.
So? What's your point? The same can be said of people. Unless you are a teenager, you probably aren't growing much compared to your infancy. Are you worried about this? Should you keep on growing until you are a giant? Do you think you have stagnated?
Just because the word "stagnate" has a bad connotation, doesn't mean that stagnation itself is bad. In fact, a company could even shrink under certain circumstances, and that would be healthy. For example, a few decades ago, typewriter companies were wise to either shrink or move to new business as the PC became popular. The ones that didn't do that went out of business anyway (i.e. an unhealty death rather than a healthy one).
You don't even have to drop the traffic, you can just silently re-route it through your own SMTP servers. I know AOL does this - at least, they did a few years ago when I dialed in at my parents' house.
- Contact a root nameserver for
.com (the IP addresses of these few servers are kept in a file somewhere). Find out what the nameserver is for hamsterdance.com.
- Contact the nameserver for hamsterdance.com and find out what the nameserver is for the.hamsterdance.com
- Contact the nameserver for the.hamsterdance.com and find out the IP address of see.the.hamsterdance.com
It gets more complicated of course, but this is the general idea.This is a case of MS doing the wrong thing for the right reasons.
It's so infuriating to see what lengths they will go to just to keep sending me their junk email.
Personally, I never would have agreed to transfer the domain name to Microsoft. The most I would have agreed to would be to stop using the domain, but I would have kept it registered under my own name. Also, I would have stipulated that Microsoft pay for re-registration for the rest of time.
So what? They could've made those MP3s themselves. Did they have any impartial witnesses on hand?
Are you aware of the 503 Service Unavailable status code? It comes complete with an optional Retry-After header.
I found the storyline in Shrek to be quite lame. It's as if they just wrote down a bunch of stuff one afternoon to give them a reason to do the computer animation. Same thing for Monsters, Inc. Capturing screams for energy? Give me a break.
I think the computer animation aspect of these films still excites people enough that they are forgiving of these flaws. Plus, the characters, individually, are usually funny enough.
I haven't seen any 2D cartoons recently, but I imagine they are not much better or worse, story-wise.