Interesting... And if you're a confused moderator, note that the ending apostrophe is to be part of the URL, but wasn't here due to Slashdot's auto-link generation.
You'll get
ADODB.Recordset.1 error '80004005'
SQLState: 37000 Native Error Code: 8180 SQLState: 37000 Native Error Code: 105 [MERANT][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Unclosed quotation mark before the character string ''. [MERANT][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Statement(s) could not be prepared./apps/news/infocus/sgspeeches/statments_full.asp, line 26
Agreed. Seriously, what's wrong with hackers not even able to type properly? If you saw the thumbnail-sized photo of the defaced site in the article link, you'd know what I'm talking of. It looks like absolute crap. My mom is a better web designer. A 10 year old has better grammar. I don't get it. After going through the work of planning and attacking a site, why are they making sure it looks like an obvious attack? Isn't the point then lost?
Yes, I honestly think id Software rather makes a large chunk of revenue on 1. Brand names -- Doom is still such a brand name that tons would buy a Doom 4 on this engine, despite Doom 3's mediocre gameplay 2. Engine licensing
In May 2006, an investigation led by New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer concluded with a determination that Universal bribed radio stations to play songs from Ashlee Simpson, Brian McKnight, Big Tymers, Lindsay Lohan and other performers working for Universal labels. The company paid $12 million to the state in settlement.
No need for such ridiculous hyperbole. What your parent is saying is just that they're arbitrarily lowering the quality of sold music online, when it was all about FLAC equivalent on CD's. It's not trying to invent reasons to pirate, it's trying to justify purchasing online music in the first place. Why would you willingly pay for online music that sounds worse in a pair of high quality headphones?
It's not even just about piracy, it's about bringing music on par with their current CD offers.
DRM-free CD's are being sold to this day. It's not like CD's were only sold in the early days of baby Internet. They're being sold concurrently with protected music. So let's take the past 3-5 years or so (a few years after iTunes appeared, after Napster, after Kazaa, after BitTorrent) and why not try compare during this time period?
Yeah, I've liked Gmail's filtering too, but was until recently blissfully unaware that it occasionally put legitimate mails in my spam box.:-( Now that I know it, I've seen about 3-4 mails gone that way.
I agree, observant people introduced in Microsoft's business (and Linux fans should be, to know where they are, and what they're facing) should see a quite notable change of pace here just the past three years or so. Just look at the heavily scripting-backed Exchange 2007 for example, that is supported by the Windows PowerShell. Sometimes I wonder if the opposition are being too introverted and rather fling dirt at Microsoft, while Microsoft is actually quite extroverted.
What we're seeing may be generation shifts though. I'm sure it's especially common among people born in the 60's or 70's to prefer command lines, but I wouldn't be so sure about people who've had advanced user interface solutions around them since they were kids. I'm betting you tend to hate GUI's because you were first taught command line administration of web servers -- am I right?
Some would argue that IF you have a faster connection than a 56 kbps modem one, they are more efficient working with a GUI though, because that's what they grew up with, not command lines. Watch the generation shift happen. And also watch modem connections being less of a restriction.
The discovery is not to be belittled, but both the article and the poster somehow forget to mention that the "levitation" which is talked about is on the order of nanometers
True, but if the effect is embiggened through refined technology, I bet even you would believe the results would be quite cromulent!
What I find most stupid about those fucking stupid "NASA money could have been spent better" comments is that NASA has a comparatively miniscule share of the US budget. Now look at the war against a phantom/abstract threat and THAT budget and we're talking about saving lives if spent better. And probably making less enemies too.
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The article somehow reminds me of early 2006.
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So here's a nice and tidy list that summarizes most of it:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2007/01/25
Interesting... And if you're a confused moderator, note that the ending apostrophe is to be part of the URL, but wasn't here due to Slashdot's auto-link generation.
/apps/news/infocus/sgspeeches/statments_full.asp, line 26
You'll get
ADODB.Recordset.1 error '80004005'
SQLState: 37000
Native Error Code: 8180
SQLState: 37000
Native Error Code: 105
[MERANT][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Unclosed quotation mark before the character string ''.
[MERANT][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Statement(s) could not be prepared.
Agreed. Seriously, what's wrong with hackers not even able to type properly? If you saw the thumbnail-sized photo of the defaced site in the article link, you'd know what I'm talking of. It looks like absolute crap. My mom is a better web designer. A 10 year old has better grammar. I don't get it. After going through the work of planning and attacking a site, why are they making sure it looks like an obvious attack? Isn't the point then lost?
Here's the frog they're talking of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Frog_diamagnet
And here's a more boring example with graphite, although maybe more clear:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Diamagnetic_gr
What's the problem with sex among consentual adults?
It's the non-consentual sex they should be worried about.
Does this mean that moving to SP1 makes old hardware unusable ?
Nah..
So will people be able to upgrade to SP1 and still keep their current hardware and games ?
Yep
Yes, I honestly think id Software rather makes a large chunk of revenue on
1. Brand names -- Doom is still such a brand name that tons would buy a Doom 4 on this engine, despite Doom 3's mediocre gameplay
2. Engine licensing
I don't remember, but I know they've bribed radio stations to broadcast crap music.
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/tvstations/artic
Wikipedia also summarize it well:
No need for such ridiculous hyperbole. What your parent is saying is just that they're arbitrarily lowering the quality of sold music online, when it was all about FLAC equivalent on CD's. It's not trying to invent reasons to pirate, it's trying to justify purchasing online music in the first place. Why would you willingly pay for online music that sounds worse in a pair of high quality headphones?
It's not even just about piracy, it's about bringing music on par with their current CD offers.
DRM-free CD's are being sold to this day. It's not like CD's were only sold in the early days of baby Internet. They're being sold concurrently with protected music. So let's take the past 3-5 years or so (a few years after iTunes appeared, after Napster, after Kazaa, after BitTorrent) and why not try compare during this time period?
Stories like these always remind me of the quality in the good old days... :-(1 41224
http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/01/
Yeah. Now they expect people to use a whole new tag set instead of a mostly backwards compatible implementation of HTML in XML.
;-)
That's a much smaller leap.
And I think I forgot to laugh at worn Microsoft jokes. :-p
Sorry.
I mean Micro$oft jokes.
Hm, upon further checking, even IE 6 supports XSLT with the proper namespace as it comes with MSXML 3+.
Which, assuming you want to support IE users, means no.
IE 7, Firefox, Opera, all support XSLT 1.0 properly.
I don't know about XHTML+CSS though -- but that was always labeled unrecommended by W3C anyway.
More bastardization of already bastardized HTML... and even more new ways to fuck things up.
Actually they've been throwing out a lot of bastardized HTML, like FONT tags and other tags that mix up formatting and disposition.
Yeah, I've liked Gmail's filtering too, but was until recently blissfully unaware that it occasionally put legitimate mails in my spam box. :-( Now that I know it, I've seen about 3-4 mails gone that way.
I agree, observant people introduced in Microsoft's business (and Linux fans should be, to know where they are, and what they're facing) should see a quite notable change of pace here just the past three years or so. Just look at the heavily scripting-backed Exchange 2007 for example, that is supported by the Windows PowerShell. Sometimes I wonder if the opposition are being too introverted and rather fling dirt at Microsoft, while Microsoft is actually quite extroverted.
What we're seeing may be generation shifts though. I'm sure it's especially common among people born in the 60's or 70's to prefer command lines, but I wouldn't be so sure about people who've had advanced user interface solutions around them since they were kids. I'm betting you tend to hate GUI's because you were first taught command line administration of web servers -- am I right?
Some would argue that IF you have a faster connection than a 56 kbps modem one, they are more efficient working with a GUI though, because that's what they grew up with, not command lines. Watch the generation shift happen. And also watch modem connections being less of a restriction.
Yeah, one can look at it in two ways, but in reality both seem to be happening.
True, but if the effect is embiggened through refined technology, I bet even you would believe the results would be quite cromulent!
I'm pretty much convinced that intelligent life is extremely improbable, and that we're alone in the galaxy.
I don't understand this... Because they aren't building replicating probes to conquer a galaxy??
Would that even be our humanity's motives if we get their technologically? We don't even want to fund space science well to find out!
What I find most stupid about those fucking stupid "NASA money could have been spent better" comments is that NASA has a comparatively miniscule share of the US budget. Now look at the war against a phantom/abstract threat and THAT budget and we're talking about saving lives if spent better. And probably making less enemies too.
See also: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Bert :)