Nobody won any suit. To quote the article, "GT Interactive and Varcon Systems, publishers of many of the games named in this lawsuit, have reached an out-of-court settlement rather than battle Hasbro over the matter."
They settled rather then letting the whole thing drag out. Don't have such a knee-jerk reaction.
Just as a short addition, if you consider passwords of length 8, the restrictions allow for 159,655,911,367,680 different passwords which is about 73% of all possible passwords without the restrictions.
So the total number of possible passwords is 4572464, so about 4.5 million. So definitely more than your estimate of 1 million, yet significantly lower than the total number of passwords which is about 15 million.
The bigger point being made, however, is that since most people will use a password of all lower case which has 456976 possibilities, making these restrictions raises the sample space to 4572464 possibilities.
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How would you have taken it if good old Walter had taken a quick minute to tell the country about the wedding of a friend that he attended over the weekend, complete with pictures? Would it have felt out of place? Would you have thought to yourself "What is he doing? He's flipped his lid!"
When you watch, you are pretty much forced to see it. In this case, however, you could have just read the summary and skipped it. It takes no more than 3 seconds just to read and pass over it. He's definitely not forcing you to see it.
Actually, the 'New Coke' was a success in that it lead to a strong support for the 'classic coke.' People heard there was a new coke and instead that they wanted the old coke.
The probably didn't intend for things to happen that way, but that's life.
I would very much agree with this statement. One of the first things I noticed about linux was the slowness of the GUI (I'm on 75Mhz).
The upshot is that the linux console is so quick and powerful that I rarely need to use the GUI. I only use it for complex/picture websites and gAIM. (I wish there was an aim client for the console in debian.)
Dispite all the arguments, it seems that this is such a big issue that it should be heard by the Supreme Court. That is how the system is supposed to work, right?
I agree with your comment here. I started reading slashdot a long time ago but I never bothered to set up an accout (once it was an option). Instead, it was the customizations that lead me to register.
Other than that, everything else in the system looks like a good idea.
There must be many levels of messages. this will help the "10 best comments" on the HOF page. Even the rating will lose, I'd like a better 5-pointer to go before the other 5-pointers.
You have a point but remember that getting a 5 point comment should be very rare. It's not likely that there would be more than just one or two five point comments per article. In order for a comment to rise to the level of 5 points, it must be moderated up at least 4 times.
You also have a point about the negatives. I would like to see the scale go down as far as -2 in order to differentiate between bad and offensive comments.
All the comments appeared normal in netscape4.5 on my windows95 box. On my linux box, however, I have to set it to -1 to see all the comments (I use netscape3 on linux ['cause I need speed rather than feature]).
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Nobody won any suit. To quote the article, "GT Interactive and Varcon Systems, publishers of many of the games named in this lawsuit, have reached an out-of-court settlement rather than battle Hasbro over the matter."
They settled rather then letting the whole thing drag out. Don't have such a knee-jerk reaction.
Just as a short addition, if you consider passwords of length 8, the restrictions allow for 159,655,911,367,680 different passwords which is about 73% of all possible passwords without the restrictions.
Let's use Inclusion-Exclusion (again with passwords of length 4)
U = {all passwords}
A = {passwords with no uppercase}
B = {passwords with no lowercase}
C = {passwords with no numbers}
(If none of this makes sense, review your combinatorics.)
Let a = not A, b = not B, c = not C
N(abc) = N(U) - N(A) - N(B) - N(C) + N(AB) + N(BC) + N(AC) - N(ABC)
N(U) = 62^4
N(A) = N(B) = 36^4
N(C) = 52^4
N(AB) = 10^4
N(AC) = N(BC) = 26^4
N(ABC) = 0
So the total number of possible passwords is 4572464, so about 4.5 million. So definitely more than your estimate of 1 million, yet significantly lower than the total number of passwords which is about 15 million.
The bigger point being made, however, is that since most people will use a password of all lower case which has 456976 possibilities, making these restrictions raises the sample space to 4572464 possibilities.
Yes,
1^3 + 12^3 = 1729 and 9^3 + 10^3 = 1729
but be careful, 1729 is the smallest positive integer that can be represented as the sum of two *positive* cubes in two different ways.
For most real applications, the notation log(x) is used to represent log base e. (Note: High School is not a real application.)
I really got a kick out of that post
How would you have taken it if good old Walter had taken a quick minute to tell the country about the wedding of a friend that he attended over the weekend, complete with pictures? Would it have felt out of place? Would you have thought to yourself "What is he doing? He's flipped his lid!"
When you watch, you are pretty much forced to see it. In this case, however, you could have just read the summary and skipped it. It takes no more than 3 seconds just to read and pass over it. He's definitely not forcing you to see it.
Nevertheless, I see what you're getting at.
According to many slashdoters, this should be exploited for all it's worth. See MSN $400 Rebate in CA and OR Stopped
That's just what I though when I saw this...
Actually, just because pi is irrational does not mean that it can't have a repeating pattern. It only means that it can't be a strict pattern.
.'s are different numbers.
For example, there could be a point in pi that after which the number 7 would never appear again.
Or it might end up looking like 1.1.1.1.1.1.1 where all the
Actually, the 'New Coke' was a success in that it lead to a strong support for the 'classic coke.' People heard there was a new coke and instead that they wanted the old coke.
The probably didn't intend for things to happen that way, but that's life.
Andrew
ah yes, but I was looking more for debian packages. (I haven't had the greatest experience with setting up clients on my own)
I would very much agree with this statement. One of the first things I noticed about linux was the slowness of the GUI (I'm on 75Mhz).
The upshot is that the linux console is so quick and powerful that I rarely need to use the GUI. I only use it for complex/picture websites and gAIM. (I wish there was an aim client for the console in debian.)
Andrew
Just out of curiosity, what advancements were results of the space program?
Andrew Gacek
Dispite all the arguments, it seems that this is such a big issue that it should be heard by the Supreme Court. That is how the system is supposed to work, right?
Andrew
I think the joke was more that he probably made that banner on a linux (or unix based) system.
News.com is running a short story about this too. They mention slashdot and some of the comments that were made. http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,3 4816,00.html
-Emilio
This account is completely right. I tried to install apache today (just for fun).
apt-get install apache
Answer some questions and it was off and running. That easily!
I never really needed it for anything so I just played around for a while and the removed it. No problem. Debian's package management is great!
-Emilio
I agree with your comment here. I started reading slashdot a long time ago but I never bothered to set up an accout (once it was an option). Instead, it was the customizations that lead me to register.
Other than that, everything else in the system looks like a good idea.
-Emilio
How ironic! An Anonymous Coward (who can't customize the slashboxes that appear) requests that there be a custom slashbox just for updates.
I don't know, I just thought that was kind of ironic.
-Emilio
I like hearing about all the new changes so I can go and try them out.
Rob should be proud of his work and be able to talk about it on his website.
-Emilio
I think that they both should give $1 million dollars to charity. It's not like they couldn't afford it.
I doubt MS would say that giving the money to the charity is not good enough.
There must be many levels of messages. this will help the "10 best comments" on the HOF page. Even the rating will lose, I'd like a better 5-pointer to go before the other 5-pointers.
You have a point but remember that getting a 5 point comment should be very rare. It's not likely that there would be more than just one or two five point comments per article. In order for a comment to rise to the level of 5 points, it must be moderated up at least 4 times.
You also have a point about the negatives. I would like to see the scale go down as far as -2 in order to differentiate between bad and offensive comments.
When I look at slashdot.org without logging in, I have to set it to -1. When I look at it after logging in, I see all the posts.
(Sorry for all the repeated posts)
All the comments appeared normal in netscape4.5 on my windows95 box. On my linux box, however, I have to set it to -1 to see all the comments (I use netscape3 on linux ['cause I need speed rather than feature]).