Yeah, but maybe you just thought you reported the site to Netcraft. Maybe it was that crafty phisher Netrcaft, who, under pretense, posed. You of course, were fooled by the "BDS is dying..." as the first story...
Well then, the KHTML team can let the safari people hang. I personally would hang up the phone right after the "It's $125 per hour, $180 after 5 pm, $250 on weekends. Send me a signed PO."
There's nothing in Open Source that forces the KHTML people to work with the Safari people. Apple wants to play that game but they forget that slighted geeks are the most difficult people in the world to turn back to your side.
As far as the KHTML people: Are you that naive that you expected cooperation beyond the minimum from the minions of a for-profit?
I have, on private sites, and I use xmlrpc rather than xml+xslt, but otherwise the same. I use virtual cowboys js lib for that. on the client, in ASP, i use the lib I worked over from Carter-Todd. In php, i don't, and I use Python's xmlrpclib to test the client-side stuff. I do database updates, retrieve values, settings, and html blocks (escape/unscape is your friend, since xmlrpc can't pass xml docs)
Should also say that it's not easy, but it's doable. Use firefox + webdeveloper toobar by Chris Pederick to get info on the page, and check that javascript console for error messages.
Finally, writing down on old fashioned paper what the beast will look like is invaluable.
Wanna fix it? make monsters that don't have weapons/treasure. kill 800 wolves and get nothing. You won't be hunting wolves. But if the tower is in the middle of the forest and there are 800 wolves in the forest, along with 80,000 deer to "support" them, and you want to get to the tower (for the loot left from an ancient age) then you 're gonna have to kill a few wolves.
Farming? Make real farming a job. And this can be a fine activity for the people who can't play a lot, because you'll need to be "working the land" 1000 hours before you get your pitiful little harvest. Of course, if there's no other way to get food in the game, the adventurers will have to sell their loot to buy the bread. And if there's more loot than bread, the price of bread will go up, so the farmer will get more loot:)
Ok, so property law is the foundation of society then?
In this case, if you see a child drowning in a swimming pool in a PRIVATE PROPERTY, you should let the child drown lest you be seen as violating property law?
Human life and dignity trumps property law every time.
What lawmakers are building is a nation where theft, misappropriation, or improper use of property, real or intellectual, is considered a crime so great that it supercedes human beings' duty to one another as a specie.
I tell you, property rights are always enforced through physical force. Always. The police is backed by the National Guards, backed by the Military. Make no mistake, all property rights in the US only exist because the US military is there. And the reason the US military is there is to protect US citizens.
So the citizens actually do come first. And the citizens have rights according to the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution. And all armed forces personnel great and small have taken an oath to uphold the US Constitution.
Property rights exist because the military exists. The military exists to defend the Constitution. The Constitution exists to provide a foundation for society. Society operates smoothly because the constitution guarantees rights to its citizens, limits the power of the government, and establishes the army to defent it.
Remember that it is the People of the United States that made the Constitution, and that the Military and the Police and so on only have power as derived from the demands of the Constitution upon the government.
When lawmakers abridge the rights of some US citizens in order to financially benefit others, and do so using the military as a backing force, they are perverting the intent of the Constitution and thus are undermining the very foundation of this great country.
Cost of doing business. There are risks. If they don't want risk, they can invest their money in T-bonds.
With the risks come rewards, hopefully. This is not about human rights, decency, or "saving the planet". It's about profits, pure and simple. And you know how? Keep the same reward, reduce the risk.
This is what the law is aimed squarely at: reducing investment risk.
And being about (and only about) money, it's commercial in nature, and therefore, in my eyes, much less important than issues like justice, freedom of speech, and other fundamental rights that American citizens enjoy because our forefathers, fathers, brothers and sisters fought for and in many cases died or are dying defending.
So, no, I have no pity for the corporations. Corporations don't fix bayonets and charge at dawn.
The stupidity is in the way the law was passed, and is going to be used.
I also don't buy crap movie. The last one I bought was First Blood, last summer.
I am looking forward to my friend buying me the ROTK Extended (he promised in Dec.), but after that, nothing worthwhile on the horizon. Not even with Nichole Kidman. My wife wanted to buy "The Others" but I'm not gonna watch it again if she does.
Last album I bought was Bjork's last year. She "gets" it.
I just think the law is there because some congressman needs money for his re-election campain. And that would be called corruption in other countries, but in Unmerica it's called "Free Enterprise".
The piece that most interests me is the "If you don't work at Sun you don't participate in the core stuff", which means what while they open-source the software they don't open-source the design process (public mailing list with public archives, irc) which means they are still in a command and control mode.
This is most likely why they don't have more than 4 active contributors.
On a personal note, I want to thank you for your dedication to this project. I can detect just enough frustration to know it's been hard going at times, so kudos.
Now, I'm gonna bug jonathan schwartz to require sun devs that work on open source to use public mailing lists to discuss things.
What I see is that Adobe wanted to put flash in pdf and MacroM didn't want to license cheap. So Adobe bought MM to get Flash, and now I see the reverse: Acrobat Reader 8.0 implemented in flash with on-demand font-laguage and all that crap. Also, PDF with flash becomes fully animated, media-rich format.
I think that dreamweaver will essentially become a photoshop add-on. This way, very smart graphic designers will make a beautiful graphic, click on the "Dream-Weave-it" button, and presto: A complete web page with rollovers from layers.
As far as the Macromedia people, they had best get ready to wear the Adobe hat or find themselves on the street.
What else. Flash. Yes, back to Flash. If I email you a PDF document, and now it's on your PC, and you open it, and flash is inbedded in it, and you're connected to the net via your ever-present dsl line, flash can actually go to the web and pull content. So Adobe Acrobat Reader has now become a web browser, since a well-designed flash can emulate a website.
Finally, I think Adobe is in decent shape, but they have to be careful, because while they had photoshop and acrobat, they were still essentially in a lucrative niche market. They have become a bigger fish, and they are going to find that they have a lot more competitors. And just perhaps they might find that the best macromedia people will start working elsewhere and competing too.
I'm looking at that, but so far, not seeing all that much. Where are the screenshots? Where is the video? Where is a free demo?
Is Sun offering a SunRay + SunGrid 90 day free trial combo to geeks?
Call me Japanese, but I don't recommend things to my boss/friends/schoolmates on hearsay and slick marketing brochures. I have to go kick the tires and take it around the block, if you gt my meaning.
I use Python. I recommend python. Other people use python on my recommendation. likewise firefox. SunRay? No. Reason? I don't use SunRay. Reason? Can't figure out how to get a free account. Reason? It ain't offered. The ball is in your court, SunFan.
Since it's already a felony and probably has that $250,000, 5 years sentence per infringement, it should be law enough... What? It's not? Ok, let's up the anty to 3 years... What you say? It's less than 5? Ah, at face value, it looks like it... But when you add them together... hehe;)
US: The land of the Free^H^H^H^Hsheep and the home^H^H^H^Hprison of the brave^H^H^H^H^Hstupid.
Rest of the world: Laughing at our sorry asses and yet scared to death of our military and trigger-happy, deceitful, and artistocratic politicians.
As far as that law:
Find out the name of the studio(s) who financed the lobby group that influenced the House Representative that proposed this element in the legislation, and give them a good old-fashioned boycott.
Speaking of: can someone point me to a list of motion picture producers (anywhere in the world) that are not RIAA members? I think I need some changes in my movie collection (all bought thank you very much)
If I make a 2 minute video of my friend lipsynching, and another friend at my house torrents it up, can I call the FBI because I was going to sell (commercial release) the video to my sister-in-law for $5?
I am saying that Ameritech did not perform and continue to perform due diligence in their selection and retention of a thrid-party that could be trusted with the transport of sensitive information.
Why, for example, did they not use a bonded, licensed two armed guards armored truck service like banks do?
Too expensive?
Let's see how expensive this news will be on their future earnings or the lack thereof...
Highway robbery:
When you rob somebody in-game, do you check your paypal account to find that yes, you just got 11 dollars?
Sell food:
I grow food, sell it to you... Can I direct the proceeds to my paypal account and go buy myself real groceries?
Hire mercenaries:
"Junior, get off the computer." She sreamed to the top of her lungs from downstairs.
"But Ma, if I guard the storehouse for two hours more I'll get 15 dollars!"
"All right, but not a minute longer..."
Beg for mercy:
"Good Sire! Please kill me not! I have but a few dollars worth of coins in my pocket... If you spare me, I will give you $20."
"All right. I'll not kill you. You have 10 minutes to paypal me, or you're really gonna get it."
Property disputes:
"Your Honor, Knight AlwaysFaithful here, filing a complaint against Assassin ShadowStabber. Since he moved next door to me, my armory business has fallen on hard times, and I don't think it's fair because I paid good money ($300) for this fine establishment."
Squatters:
Need I say more?
Guests:
"Hey, Mister, won't you let me spend the night on your property tonight... I'll make it worth your while..."
More guests:
"Hey fool, let us spend the night on your property tonight, or we kill you every day for the rest of the year."
Even more guests:
"Hey, lemme store some of my junk here. I'll pay you $1 for storing it."
Two days later: "Hey, give me my stuff back, I paid the money, now give it up!"
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but maybe you just thought you reported the site to Netcraft. Maybe it was that crafty phisher Netrcaft, who, under pretense, posed. You of course, were fooled by the "BDS is dying..." as the first story...
Ok, Bad Joke. Back to work/.
Sounds like somebody at JPL speaking...
Well then, the KHTML team can let the safari people hang. I personally would hang up the phone right after the "It's $125 per hour, $180 after 5 pm, $250 on weekends. Send me a signed PO."
There's nothing in Open Source that forces the KHTML people to work with the Safari people. Apple wants to play that game but they forget that slighted geeks are the most difficult people in the world to turn back to your side.
As far as the KHTML people: Are you that naive that you expected cooperation beyond the minimum from the minions of a for-profit?
I have, on private sites, and I use xmlrpc rather than xml+xslt, but otherwise the same. I use virtual cowboys js lib for that. on the client, in ASP, i use the lib I worked over from Carter-Todd. In php, i don't, and I use Python's xmlrpclib to test the client-side stuff. I do database updates, retrieve values, settings, and html blocks (escape/unscape is your friend, since xmlrpc can't pass xml docs)
Should also say that it's not easy, but it's doable. Use firefox + webdeveloper toobar by Chris Pederick to get info on the page, and check that javascript console for error messages.
Finally, writing down on old fashioned paper what the beast will look like is invaluable.
or mayonnaise.
in his case, that would be "t"
They squid, they farm, but there is one db.
Wikipedia
on the screenshot page, last screen desc: typo: languge.
:|
I would click edit and fix it, but it's not a wiki...
Wanna fix it? make monsters that don't have weapons/treasure. kill 800 wolves and get nothing. You won't be hunting wolves. But if the tower is in the middle of the forest and there are 800 wolves in the forest, along with 80,000 deer to "support" them, and you want to get to the tower (for the loot left from an ancient age) then you 're gonna have to kill a few wolves.
:)
Farming? Make real farming a job. And this can be a fine activity for the people who can't play a lot, because you'll need to be "working the land" 1000 hours before you get your pitiful little harvest. Of course, if there's no other way to get food in the game, the adventurers will have to sell their loot to buy the bread. And if there's more loot than bread, the price of bread will go up, so the farmer will get more loot
Anyway. I'm pretty tired right now, So nite nite.
Ok, so property law is the foundation of society then?
In this case, if you see a child drowning in a swimming pool in a PRIVATE PROPERTY, you should let the child drown lest you be seen as violating property law?
Human life and dignity trumps property law every time.
What lawmakers are building is a nation where theft, misappropriation, or improper use of property, real or intellectual, is considered a crime so great that it supercedes human beings' duty to one another as a specie.
I tell you, property rights are always enforced through physical force. Always. The police is backed by the National Guards, backed by the Military. Make no mistake, all property rights in the US only exist because the US military is there. And the reason the US military is there is to protect US citizens.
So the citizens actually do come first. And the citizens have rights according to the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution. And all armed forces personnel great and small have taken an oath to uphold the US Constitution.
Property rights exist because the military exists. The military exists to defend the Constitution. The Constitution exists to provide a foundation for society. Society operates smoothly because the constitution guarantees rights to its citizens, limits the power of the government, and establishes the army to defent it.
Remember that it is the People of the United States that made the Constitution, and that the Military and the Police and so on only have power as derived from the demands of the Constitution upon the government.
When lawmakers abridge the rights of some US citizens in order to financially benefit others, and do so using the military as a backing force, they are perverting the intent of the Constitution and thus are undermining the very foundation of this great country.
And what for? Money.
Cost of doing business. There are risks. If they don't want risk, they can invest their money in T-bonds.
With the risks come rewards, hopefully. This is not about human rights, decency, or "saving the planet". It's about profits, pure and simple. And you know how? Keep the same reward, reduce the risk.
This is what the law is aimed squarely at: reducing investment risk.
And being about (and only about) money, it's commercial in nature, and therefore, in my eyes, much less important than issues like justice, freedom of speech, and other fundamental rights that American citizens enjoy because our forefathers, fathers, brothers and sisters fought for and in many cases died or are dying defending.
So, no, I have no pity for the corporations. Corporations don't fix bayonets and charge at dawn.
I'll tell you.
The stupidity is in the way the law was passed, and is going to be used.
I also don't buy crap movie. The last one I bought was First Blood, last summer.
I am looking forward to my friend buying me the ROTK Extended (he promised in Dec.), but after that, nothing worthwhile on the horizon. Not even with Nichole Kidman. My wife wanted to buy "The Others" but I'm not gonna watch it again if she does.
Last album I bought was Bjork's last year. She "gets" it.
I just think the law is there because some congressman needs money for his re-election campain. And that would be called corruption in other countries, but in Unmerica it's called "Free Enterprise".
Nice post, informative.
The piece that most interests me is the "If you don't work at Sun you don't participate in the core stuff", which means what while they open-source the software they don't open-source the design process (public mailing list with public archives, irc) which means they are still in a command and control mode.
This is most likely why they don't have more than 4 active contributors.
On a personal note, I want to thank you for your dedication to this project. I can detect just enough frustration to know it's been hard going at times, so kudos.
Now, I'm gonna bug jonathan schwartz to require sun devs that work on open source to use public mailing lists to discuss things.
Speculatory at best.
What I see is that Adobe wanted to put flash in pdf and MacroM didn't want to license cheap. So Adobe bought MM to get Flash, and now I see the reverse: Acrobat Reader 8.0 implemented in flash with on-demand font-laguage and all that crap.
Also, PDF with flash becomes fully animated, media-rich format.
I think that dreamweaver will essentially become a photoshop add-on. This way, very smart graphic designers will make a beautiful graphic, click on the "Dream-Weave-it" button, and presto: A complete web page with rollovers from layers.
As far as the Macromedia people, they had best get ready to wear the Adobe hat or find themselves on the street.
What else. Flash. Yes, back to Flash. If I email you a PDF document, and now it's on your PC, and you open it, and flash is inbedded in it, and you're connected to the net via your ever-present dsl line, flash can actually go to the web and pull content. So Adobe Acrobat Reader has now become a web browser, since a well-designed flash can emulate a website.
Finally, I think Adobe is in decent shape, but they have to be careful, because while they had photoshop and acrobat, they were still essentially in a lucrative niche market. They have become a bigger fish, and they are going to find that they have a lot more competitors. And just perhaps they might find that the best macromedia people will start working elsewhere and competing too.
Was my post speculative enough for you?
I'm looking at that, but so far, not seeing all that much. Where are the screenshots? Where is the video? Where is a free demo?
Is Sun offering a SunRay + SunGrid 90 day free trial combo to geeks?
Call me Japanese, but I don't recommend things to my boss/friends/schoolmates on hearsay and slick marketing brochures. I have to go kick the tires and take it around the block, if you gt my meaning.
I use Python. I recommend python. Other people use python on my recommendation.
likewise firefox. SunRay? No. Reason? I don't use SunRay. Reason? Can't figure out how to get a free account. Reason? It ain't offered. The ball is in your court, SunFan.
Nuff said.
So then why the law to begin with?
;)
Since it's already a felony and probably has that $250,000, 5 years sentence per infringement, it should be law enough... What? It's not? Ok, let's up the anty to 3 years... What you say? It's less than 5? Ah, at face value, it looks like it... But when you add them together... hehe
She would pay me the $5 because she's my sister-in-law. You go get your own sister-in-law.
Besides, now that I think about it, she probably would not pay... Damn. I'm feel the love NOT!
Well, then, why are we all getting our panties in a bunch, since things are going to get lost and stolen no matter what we do or don't do?
I think Ameritech should have seen this one coming and encrypted everything with AES with a 2048 bits key.
What? Too expensive?
US: The land of the Free^H^H^H^Hsheep and the home^H^H^H^Hprison of the brave^H^H^H^H^Hstupid.
Rest of the world: Laughing at our sorry asses and yet scared to death of our military and trigger-happy, deceitful, and artistocratic politicians.
As far as that law:
Find out the name of the studio(s) who financed the lobby group that influenced the House Representative that proposed this element in the legislation, and give them a good old-fashioned boycott.
Speaking of: can someone point me to a list of motion picture producers (anywhere in the world) that are not RIAA members? I think I need some changes in my movie collection (all bought thank you very much)
Define commercially released
If I make a 2 minute video of my friend lipsynching, and another friend at my house torrents it up, can I call the FBI because I was going to sell (commercial release) the video to my sister-in-law for $5?
Of course not, since they did not release the name of said third-party.
Maybe they should, in the interest of public safety.
No, of course not.
I am saying that Ameritech did not perform and continue to perform due diligence in their selection and retention of a thrid-party that could be trusted with the transport of sensitive information.
Why, for example, did they not use a bonded, licensed two armed guards armored truck service like banks do?
Too expensive?
Let's see how expensive this news will be on their future earnings or the lack thereof...
Would be fun:
Highway robbery:
When you rob somebody in-game, do you check your paypal account to find that yes, you just got 11 dollars?
Sell food:
I grow food, sell it to you... Can I direct the proceeds to my paypal account and go buy myself real groceries?
Hire mercenaries:
"Junior, get off the computer." She sreamed to the top of her lungs from downstairs.
"But Ma, if I guard the storehouse for two hours more I'll get 15 dollars!"
"All right, but not a minute longer..."
Beg for mercy:
"Good Sire! Please kill me not! I have but a few dollars worth of coins in my pocket... If you spare me, I will give you $20."
"All right. I'll not kill you. You have 10 minutes to paypal me, or you're really gonna get it."
Property disputes:
"Your Honor, Knight AlwaysFaithful here, filing a complaint against Assassin ShadowStabber. Since he moved next door to me, my armory business has fallen on hard times, and I don't think it's fair because I paid good money ($300) for this fine establishment."
Squatters:
Need I say more?
Guests:
"Hey, Mister, won't you let me spend the night on your property tonight... I'll make it worth your while..."
More guests:
"Hey fool, let us spend the night on your property tonight, or we kill you every day for the rest of the year."
Even more guests:
"Hey, lemme store some of my junk here. I'll pay you $1 for storing it."
Two days later: "Hey, give me my stuff back, I paid the money, now give it up!"
I can tell it's going to be really fun...