However, it's much more than a CGI accelerator. It provides hooks into all of the stages of an apache transation.
Yeah, I found it extremely appealing for two reasons: First, I hate writing configuration file readers - and with mod_perl, $request->dir_config('whatever'); to read stuff that is set with PerlSetVar in.htaccess or server conf. The second reason: Logging with various debug levels. Easy with Apache::Log.
Seriously, doesn't this make you wonder if satire existed in ancient times? We take everything as truth. What if the ancient egyptians were grand pranksters?
My own guess...
Here, back when the technology for recording TV programs came available in TV studios, they realized they couldn't record everything. So, naturally, they decided only to record stuff that matters. So, the archives now have boring stuff like ballet and other "art" stuff, and no comedies. I suspect the same about ancient manuscripts and writings. They had somewhat limited means of recording anything, so they recorded stuff that "mattered". I'm sure ancient civilizations had their ways of having fun and play with language, too, but they just didn't bother to record all that because either humor was not good according to etiquette (think of it: The Pharaoh was a God on Earth or something, do you think it'd look good in history books if it listed all bad jokes he told to the servants? This thought may have crossed the minds of the ancient scribes... =). or if not, the humor had lower priority.
Of course, I'm not a historian and don't know the history of comedy, but this is just something that seems to be the case with humans in general. Do you keep all "less serious" bits you made when working on something serious?
I'm probably wrong in some of this, but I guess people have always had the idea of fun...
Actually the company is dead, but via some way or other Infogrames got the brand name and decided to use it to promote their good games (I believe Hasbro also has its spoon in the soup one way or other). I have no idea who owns the actual Atari IP and the copyrights to the old games. And I dare not to even ask where Atari's former management went, unless I want to find out which companies to vote for in f*edcompany =)
One of the techniques we use is implementing a close-to-log-out feature.
Never EVER depend on Javascript to implement security. =( The only thing that web stuff should use Javascript in security field is pre-submission verification of data.
There are easier ways to implement the behavior you described - store session ID it in a cookie that expires when browser is closed, or pass session ID in the URL.
Harry Potter is Evil, its the work of the devil. teaches the children the ways of satan
(Begin "Obscure Finnish black-metal-troll mode")
The first movie and book was clearly evil. The movie had a dragon, and on top of that, it came from Norway, the country in which all evil of the world incarnates. On top of that, my sources inform that this particular Norwegian dragon species is the only one to eat fish, which means it will eat in its native environment cods, the Satan's Fishes. The movie was clearly work of Satan!
(There was one guy who went to teenager-inhabited web site to troll like this - always everything turned on to paint very dark picture of Norway. Mostly, I think, because he listened to black metal himself. Of course, later on everyone could read the stuff only as humor and nothing else, and that's what it was intended as =)
If major labels are bothering you all so much, why do you keep supporting them by talking about their bands, trading their music, grudgingly BUYING THEIR CDs??
I discuss about "major labels" and their "bands" all the time on and off Slashdot. But, I don't really trade their music that much, and I definitely don't buy them.
Life as a (supposedly) poor student is simple: 20 for a hour of stereo music, of which maybe one or two songs may be rememberable enough - or 22 for a feature movie with sharp picture, great sound and extras? I'll give you three guesses which I usually pick... I don't buy CDs unless they manage to make an album with 90% of Good Stuff, and that is very rare these days. =)
Right - except that Trillian is more like a solution in style "out of sight, out of mind".
Think of it this way: As a Trillian user, you don't need to care if the IM systems work together or not.
However, I'm sure that the Trillian developers are having severe headaches when trying to get the program as beautifully as it undoubtedly does, especially if the IM companies are hostile toward the "clones" that don't spam the user with annoying advertising.
Actually, no. The graphics are good, but the gameplay is too complicated. Try something like Rogue. Strip 'em a little, add a couple of features you liked. Turn it real-time, make it mouse-driven and add kewl 3D graphics. There we go!
Falcon's Eye and Nethack 3.4.0's new "travel" command with mouse clicks are still not enough to displace Diablo 2 as the GuaGe D00d's Roguelike of Choice, but they're trying very hard. =)
-W4, currently making a silly little NWN module to get hang of that art, and once that's completed, also making a text adventure port of it...
Super Mario Quake - Not that it would make a great game, but blowing up that fat little plumber would set me up for the day:-)
There's already Target Quake (now apparently also for Q3A) and probably more 2d platformer mods...
My sister has Super Smash Bros. on her N64, and when I get a GameCube, I'll get Super Smash Bros Melee as the first game! The Bushiest One (or any other Nintendo character) kicks, punches, shoots, slices, and blows Mario up. Great joy. =) (Mario was not a fun character to begin with, and when they added the speech in Mario64, that was the last drop. =)
Try to convince people not to waste money on fireworks on forth of July, but to give them to charity instead.
Wrong analogy.
People buy computers and donate them to charity. People buy fireworks and don't usually donate them to charity. Donating an old computer makes sense because it's going to be useful later on - same cannot be said of something that inherently only has short-lasting amusement value.
I usually find any technology destruction stunts pretty sad.
(unless, of course, it's Robot Wars. The engineers there show miraculous ability to bring seriously damaged robots back to life =)
In MacOS the menu bar is at the same place all the time, but it is far away - the "aiming" thing isn't an issue for me.
The bad thing is that it's not same. The contents of that menu bar depend on the active application! Activate the application first, then open the menu. Grr.
This also probably means that I can't get SloppyFocus, the God's Chosen Window Focusing Method, for MacOS, and if there is, it makes the menubar use pure hell? (SloppyFocus = focus the window when mouse enters it, but don't blur on exit from window).
I interpreted the original passage the same way. Since the original was written in the middle of the night or something, I meant something like "download every song you want, but since the record companies want to be paid for each song, pay them."
Both of these situations had the same tricky background: The Caesar wanted the taxes and the worship; The record companies want to be paid and you to listen the DRMed files and quit using the file swapping networks. =)
All right, admitted, I don't remember enough history...
Now, someone is saying "What kind of market is there for the MIT Chorallaries, for pete's sake?" Well, all I can say is, when Audiogalaxy was for real, _I_ wanted to hear them and _someone_ out there wanted to share them.
Oh yeah! Let me see what I leeched off the thing: Song parodies ("Oops, I sang this before"), hilarious or beautiful but at the time of performance serious political songs, movie soundtrack bits that no store here sells, game soundtracks (Point me a store here that sells any game soundtracks, preferrably any album that happens to cross my mind, not just endless Final Fantasy remixes? No? Figures...) Russian children's songs... songs from radio that I had heard years and years and years ago (very nostalgic)... some Finnish songs... including one particular famous performance of Säkkijärven Polkka (I needed this for a sort of a weird digital art project... basically an icecast server that streams the same song over and over. If you don't understand, then you don't know the history of that song well enough... extremely geeky thing to do =)
I could effortlessly find any Finnish song I wanted from Audiogalaxy. This really ruled. There's a web shop at emma.fm that sells Finnish music - sanctioned by local record companies and as such they only offer WMA downloads under that DRM shit deal. I could download the song from Audiogalaxy and pay to the record company. This way, I got the unrestricted song and the record company got paid, but I suppose that was fair but not exactly what the record companies in question had in mind! =) I even planned on telling them this story through feedback (they actually read my "hey, could you offer the music in format that doesn't suck?" comment (a lot more polite version was sent, of course) and replied to it!) and told them a thing or two about fair use and stuff if they told anything on contrary...
I had time to do that for precisely ONE song before Audiogalaxy was shut down. So, I decided to take another look at Emma.fm's collections. Guess what? They sure don't have Vili Vesterinen's 1938 performance of Säkkijärven Polkka. And sure not the more recent versions! I guess I need to check out the other filesharing nets that people use these days. I've been told that WinMX works...
...
One more thing regarding AG + Emma.fm. This comment is bordering blasphemy, but as a wisdom-loving individual, I guess, I need to ask the ever-important question, What Would Jesus Do?
"Show me the album you bought from the shop." And they brought him a CD. And he said unto them, "Whose name you see in the backside of the album?" They said to him, "the record company's". then he said to them, "Then give to record companies what is theirs, and to your ears what belongs to them." (Adapted from Matthew 22:19-21)
n'th time: You can eject disks in various different logical ways in Mac! The trashcan thing isn't the only way.
The only real problem I have with Mac is the single menubar. It's always too far away - and I also think one menubar should do one thing, a single menubar that changes depending on active application is just confusing. =/
i just read your comments on kuro5hin. they're a little off-base. first of all, i suspect you've never used protools,
Ah, yeah, admitted. It was not supposed to be an earth-shattering story about a deep-rooted problem in the Software, more like an angry rant in style "I just wanted to get this little job done and I sort of panicked. Dammit, Jim, I'm a visual artist, not a mixing technician." =)
I'll probably look at ProTools documentation in future, depending on whether this job can be done with MoronTools, or is the heavy artillery required afterall...
...and I understand that writing documentation is hard, especially if you have not yet agreed on what the program will have. My apologies for being rude.
its massive, its complex, its very very very hard for a novice to build, its only available from CVS at this time.
Yeah, I noticed, I tried to compile it some time ago. And inspired me to complain loudly about audio program interfaces. I'll never become a musician until a direct brain-to-CD interface is perfected (but I bet THEY wouldn't like such inventions). =)
Anyway, congrats to ardour folks if the 1.0 is coming up. There's just one thing I need to complain about: The documentation. At least with Blender, there was a printed manual and it's sitting right here in my shelf...
Remove the chain in that image awwready. It's 'Free'd.
Well, the source won't actually be available until next month, they say, so until everything is settled, let's see what will happen...
Besides, as in the case of Kevin Mitnick, we all absolutely need to keep the "FREE BLENDER".pngs on the websites for years and years. I mean, just say, "who cares if the source was released last year, it won't truly be free until we Fight?" =)
Yeah, I have heard of the export scripts; However, in my case they were far from complete. The old version I pulled from some site did work for Renderman and POV, but didn't export materials (everything was white); and the modern version (incl. the one that came with Blender's Debian package) just gave an error message. Besides, to use them, they would need to be loaded separately - I was looking for something that'd integrate to the user interface itself (for example, it'd rule if it would just allow me to make the material in Blender, and it'd spew out *.sl, automagically compile it, and feed it to BMRT - without knowing a single bit of SL syntax). Maybe that will be possible in future...
And I also saw a while ago on the NaN site that Blender 2.26 (Publisher only maybe not that it matters any more) was supposed to support renderman rendering directly but the link is broken now (since the NaN site is closed).
no, hang on, i actually learnt to use vi, but i still cant figure out blender!!!! lol
Actually Blender is a bit like vi: there's two major modes, toggled with TAB key, the modes for editing objects at large and another to edit the objects themselves. And, of course, a lot of obscure BUT some say logical key combos. It rules. (Though I'm still more like an XEmacs person. Not in Blender's case though.)
Can you think of any program whose UI isn't confusing the first few times you try it?
Well, there is a text adventure called "Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die"... The user interface is mostly obvious if you bother to read the title of the game. Great fun! Actual winning of the game probably needs some concentration, though.
Besides, blender the product, is ok, but the interface is so darn goofy it takes a hell of a lot of time to get used to it, especially when you compare it to the big boys in 3D world: 3DSMax, lightwave and Maya
And me, been raised in Blender (because I can't afford the "big boys" - sorry, I haven't really done the usual "get the warez if you're a student, buy the program if you do actual work" thing), found the other modellers clumsy, and can't see why people think Blender is "complicated" (yeah, takes a bit to get used to, but after that it's a dream to use). Sort of like when I got raised in GIMP and can't understand a) why people with Photoshop background can't understand GIMP and b) why people regard Photoshop so highly, GIMP sure has better interface (if not that big feature set, though).
So let me repeat: Blender has a wonderful interface once you get the hang of it. Smooth enough for my needs, anyway, and I actually get work done in it. I don't like the renderer, though - I hope the work will start to implement more export formats and/or interfacing with other renderers (Renderman support would be pretty neat).
It's a matter of choice of profession, I suppose. =)
Yeah, any application that doesn't copy text with left mouse button and paste with middle button is probably a broken and hideously ugly freak. Text copying/pasting in X is confusing at first, but obvious afterwards - I don't know why people are complaining =)
As for graphics or sound, well, I have not found too much good use for graphics or sound on clipboard. Sure, the stuff I could do back in the wild Windows days in OLE2 was pretty nifty, but it became a compatibility mess soon. I soon learned to link to embedded images/data through the applications themselves (which does work just fine in X apps too).
Something standardized to deal with formatted text (font data etc) would be neat, as would unicode awareness (automagical conversion) stuff, but hey, these are Not Required That Often, and are often better handled by applications themselves through file import/export...
Too bad they don't seem to have the Finnish C64 ads. They can, fortunately, be found from ntrautanen...
I looked harder and found this ad someone mentioned in a book about microcomputers in Finland... the ad says "This special offer may also include a job for you in the future." This was in 1984. And guess which computer the local Big (And Smaller) Names In The Industry have very fond memories of? =)
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Yeah, I found it extremely appealing for two reasons: First, I hate writing configuration file readers - and with mod_perl, $request->dir_config('whatever'); to read stuff that is set with PerlSetVar in .htaccess or server conf. The second reason: Logging with various debug levels. Easy with Apache::Log.
My own guess...
Here, back when the technology for recording TV programs came available in TV studios, they realized they couldn't record everything. So, naturally, they decided only to record stuff that matters. So, the archives now have boring stuff like ballet and other "art" stuff, and no comedies. I suspect the same about ancient manuscripts and writings. They had somewhat limited means of recording anything, so they recorded stuff that "mattered". I'm sure ancient civilizations had their ways of having fun and play with language, too, but they just didn't bother to record all that because either humor was not good according to etiquette (think of it: The Pharaoh was a God on Earth or something, do you think it'd look good in history books if it listed all bad jokes he told to the servants? This thought may have crossed the minds of the ancient scribes... =). or if not, the humor had lower priority.
Of course, I'm not a historian and don't know the history of comedy, but this is just something that seems to be the case with humans in general. Do you keep all "less serious" bits you made when working on something serious?
I'm probably wrong in some of this, but I guess people have always had the idea of fun...
Actually the company is dead, but via some way or other Infogrames got the brand name and decided to use it to promote their good games (I believe Hasbro also has its spoon in the soup one way or other). I have no idea who owns the actual Atari IP and the copyrights to the old games. And I dare not to even ask where Atari's former management went, unless I want to find out which companies to vote for in f*edcompany =)
Never EVER depend on Javascript to implement security. =( The only thing that web stuff should use Javascript in security field is pre-submission verification of data.
There are easier ways to implement the behavior you described - store session ID it in a cookie that expires when browser is closed, or pass session ID in the URL.
(Begin "Obscure Finnish black-metal-troll mode")
The first movie and book was clearly evil. The movie had a dragon, and on top of that, it came from Norway, the country in which all evil of the world incarnates. On top of that, my sources inform that this particular Norwegian dragon species is the only one to eat fish, which means it will eat in its native environment cods, the Satan's Fishes. The movie was clearly work of Satan!
(There was one guy who went to teenager-inhabited web site to troll like this - always everything turned on to paint very dark picture of Norway. Mostly, I think, because he listened to black metal himself. Of course, later on everyone could read the stuff only as humor and nothing else, and that's what it was intended as =)
I discuss about "major labels" and their "bands" all the time on and off Slashdot. But, I don't really trade their music that much, and I definitely don't buy them.
Life as a (supposedly) poor student is simple: 20 for a hour of stereo music, of which maybe one or two songs may be rememberable enough - or 22 for a feature movie with sharp picture, great sound and extras? I'll give you three guesses which I usually pick... I don't buy CDs unless they manage to make an album with 90% of Good Stuff, and that is very rare these days. =)
Right - except that Trillian is more like a solution in style "out of sight, out of mind".
Think of it this way: As a Trillian user, you don't need to care if the IM systems work together or not.
However, I'm sure that the Trillian developers are having severe headaches when trying to get the program as beautifully as it undoubtedly does, especially if the IM companies are hostile toward the "clones" that don't spam the user with annoying advertising.
[Falcon's Eye]
Actually, no. The graphics are good, but the gameplay is too complicated. Try something like Rogue. Strip 'em a little, add a couple of features you liked. Turn it real-time, make it mouse-driven and add kewl 3D graphics. There we go!
Falcon's Eye and Nethack 3.4.0's new "travel" command with mouse clicks are still not enough to displace Diablo 2 as the GuaGe D00d's Roguelike of Choice, but they're trying very hard. =)
-W4, currently making a silly little NWN module to get hang of that art, and once that's completed, also making a text adventure port of it...
I guess Q3A Nethack might look something like this canine-themed picture.
No, but I saw Breakout on Abuse =)
I don't think Tetris would be too hard to make with Q3A engine, though... too bad I have no idea personally how to make it.
There's already Target Quake (now apparently also for Q3A) and probably more 2d platformer mods...
My sister has Super Smash Bros. on her N64, and when I get a GameCube, I'll get Super Smash Bros Melee as the first game! The Bushiest One (or any other Nintendo character) kicks, punches, shoots, slices, and blows Mario up. Great joy. =) (Mario was not a fun character to begin with, and when they added the speech in Mario64, that was the last drop. =)
Wrong analogy.
People buy computers and donate them to charity. People buy fireworks and don't usually donate them to charity. Donating an old computer makes sense because it's going to be useful later on - same cannot be said of something that inherently only has short-lasting amusement value.
I usually find any technology destruction stunts pretty sad.
(unless, of course, it's Robot Wars. The engineers there show miraculous ability to bring seriously damaged robots back to life =)
In MacOS the menu bar is at the same place all the time, but it is far away - the "aiming" thing isn't an issue for me.
The bad thing is that it's not same. The contents of that menu bar depend on the active application! Activate the application first, then open the menu. Grr.
This also probably means that I can't get SloppyFocus, the God's Chosen Window Focusing Method, for MacOS, and if there is, it makes the menubar use pure hell? (SloppyFocus = focus the window when mouse enters it, but don't blur on exit from window).
I interpreted the original passage the same way. Since the original was written in the middle of the night or something, I meant something like "download every song you want, but since the record companies want to be paid for each song, pay them."
Both of these situations had the same tricky background: The Caesar wanted the taxes and the worship; The record companies want to be paid and you to listen the DRMed files and quit using the file swapping networks. =)
All right, admitted, I don't remember enough history...
Oh yeah! Let me see what I leeched off the thing: Song parodies ("Oops, I sang this before"), hilarious or beautiful but at the time of performance serious political songs, movie soundtrack bits that no store here sells, game soundtracks (Point me a store here that sells any game soundtracks, preferrably any album that happens to cross my mind, not just endless Final Fantasy remixes? No? Figures...) Russian children's songs... songs from radio that I had heard years and years and years ago (very nostalgic)... some Finnish songs... including one particular famous performance of Säkkijärven Polkka (I needed this for a sort of a weird digital art project... basically an icecast server that streams the same song over and over. If you don't understand, then you don't know the history of that song well enough... extremely geeky thing to do =)
I could effortlessly find any Finnish song I wanted from Audiogalaxy. This really ruled. There's a web shop at emma.fm that sells Finnish music - sanctioned by local record companies and as such they only offer WMA downloads under that DRM shit deal. I could download the song from Audiogalaxy and pay to the record company. This way, I got the unrestricted song and the record company got paid, but I suppose that was fair but not exactly what the record companies in question had in mind! =) I even planned on telling them this story through feedback (they actually read my "hey, could you offer the music in format that doesn't suck?" comment (a lot more polite version was sent, of course) and replied to it!) and told them a thing or two about fair use and stuff if they told anything on contrary...
I had time to do that for precisely ONE song before Audiogalaxy was shut down. So, I decided to take another look at Emma.fm's collections. Guess what? They sure don't have Vili Vesterinen's 1938 performance of Säkkijärven Polkka. And sure not the more recent versions! I guess I need to check out the other filesharing nets that people use these days. I've been told that WinMX works...
...
One more thing regarding AG + Emma.fm. This comment is bordering blasphemy, but as a wisdom-loving individual, I guess, I need to ask the ever-important question, What Would Jesus Do?
"Show me the album you bought from the shop." And they brought him a CD. And he said unto them, "Whose name you see in the backside of the album?" They said to him, "the record company's". then he said to them, "Then give to record companies what is theirs, and to your ears what belongs to them." (Adapted from Matthew 22:19-21)
The only real problem I have with Mac is the single menubar. It's always too far away - and I also think one menubar should do one thing, a single menubar that changes depending on active application is just confusing. =/
Ah, yeah, admitted. It was not supposed to be an earth-shattering story about a deep-rooted problem in the Software, more like an angry rant in style "I just wanted to get this little job done and I sort of panicked. Dammit, Jim, I'm a visual artist, not a mixing technician." =)
I'll probably look at ProTools documentation in future, depending on whether this job can be done with MoronTools, or is the heavy artillery required afterall...
...and I understand that writing documentation is hard, especially if you have not yet agreed on what the program will have. My apologies for being rude.
Yeah, I noticed, I tried to compile it some time ago. And inspired me to complain loudly about audio program interfaces. I'll never become a musician until a direct brain-to-CD interface is perfected (but I bet THEY wouldn't like such inventions). =)
Anyway, congrats to ardour folks if the 1.0 is coming up. There's just one thing I need to complain about: The documentation. At least with Blender, there was a printed manual and it's sitting right here in my shelf...
Well, the source won't actually be available until next month, they say, so until everything is settled, let's see what will happen...
Besides, as in the case of Kevin Mitnick, we all absolutely need to keep the "FREE BLENDER" .pngs on the websites for years and years. I mean, just say, "who cares if the source was released last year, it won't truly be free until we Fight?" =)
Yeah, I have heard of the export scripts; However, in my case they were far from complete. The old version I pulled from some site did work for Renderman and POV, but didn't export materials (everything was white); and the modern version (incl. the one that came with Blender's Debian package) just gave an error message. Besides, to use them, they would need to be loaded separately - I was looking for something that'd integrate to the user interface itself (for example, it'd rule if it would just allow me to make the material in Blender, and it'd spew out *.sl, automagically compile it, and feed it to BMRT - without knowing a single bit of SL syntax). Maybe that will be possible in future...
::drools:: Interesting...
Actually Blender is a bit like vi: there's two major modes, toggled with TAB key, the modes for editing objects at large and another to edit the objects themselves. And, of course, a lot of obscure BUT some say logical key combos. It rules. (Though I'm still more like an XEmacs person. Not in Blender's case though.)
Well, there is a text adventure called "Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die"... The user interface is mostly obvious if you bother to read the title of the game. Great fun! Actual winning of the game probably needs some concentration, though.
And me, been raised in Blender (because I can't afford the "big boys" - sorry, I haven't really done the usual "get the warez if you're a student, buy the program if you do actual work" thing), found the other modellers clumsy, and can't see why people think Blender is "complicated" (yeah, takes a bit to get used to, but after that it's a dream to use). Sort of like when I got raised in GIMP and can't understand a) why people with Photoshop background can't understand GIMP and b) why people regard Photoshop so highly, GIMP sure has better interface (if not that big feature set, though).
So let me repeat: Blender has a wonderful interface once you get the hang of it. Smooth enough for my needs, anyway, and I actually get work done in it. I don't like the renderer, though - I hope the work will start to implement more export formats and/or interfacing with other renderers (Renderman support would be pretty neat).
It's a matter of choice of profession, I suppose. =)
Yeah, any application that doesn't copy text with left mouse button and paste with middle button is probably a broken and hideously ugly freak. Text copying/pasting in X is confusing at first, but obvious afterwards - I don't know why people are complaining =)
As for graphics or sound, well, I have not found too much good use for graphics or sound on clipboard. Sure, the stuff I could do back in the wild Windows days in OLE2 was pretty nifty, but it became a compatibility mess soon. I soon learned to link to embedded images/data through the applications themselves (which does work just fine in X apps too).
Something standardized to deal with formatted text (font data etc) would be neat, as would unicode awareness (automagical conversion) stuff, but hey, these are Not Required That Often, and are often better handled by applications themselves through file import/export...
Too bad they don't seem to have the Finnish C64 ads. They can, fortunately, be found from ntrautanen...
I looked harder and found this ad someone mentioned in a book about microcomputers in Finland... the ad says "This special offer may also include a job for you in the future." This was in 1984. And guess which computer the local Big (And Smaller) Names In The Industry have very fond memories of? =)