I would suggest that when you are writing code that is in excess of 80 columns you might be trying to do too much in one line.
Or it's the programming language / API's fault.:-)
I mean, for one line of code, I might get away with something like 40-50 columns, but for the identical code and something like an object-oriented language where I for some reason haven't included the namespace, that can grow a lot, especially if the function and variable names are written to be "self explanatory".;-)
I think have some nasty Microsoft.NET examples here somewhere.:-)
I belive they only host clips there or something (???), but why would they link to that as "Successful campaigns" if it's the FTP... It's just material they leeched of some Usenet place, perhaps to later give their customer (movie company, whatever) a password to their FTP and show "look what we found, we're doing our job!". But a "successful campaign"? Eehh... I think it's also a funny way of maintaining customer relationships too.:-)
Hmm, looking over those numbers again, it rather seems that the Swedish Jolt has 150 mg/l at their approved cap, while it's the *American* Jolt with around 230 mg/l, the example I gave above, which would amount to around 140 per bottle in US...
There's a bit of a story behind the limit in Sweden, because Swedish drinks use to have a limit of max 100 mg caffeine / liter. Åbro, the Swedish producer, has howerver gained permission of using up to 150 mg/l. A US Jolt bottle seem to have 140 mg caffeine, and one in Sweden around 78 mg / 33 cl bottle (or 23 mg/100 ml, about what you say).
Just picked out a few... Report says: - 38.9 for Pepsi, database says 38. - 33.9 for Coke, db says 34. - 42.6 for Dr Pepper, db says 41. - 46.3 for Diet Coke, db says 45. - 55.2 for Diet Mountain Dew, db says 55.
So it looks pretty accurate at least, from a quick glance.
To give some perspective as you're looking at drinks with 40 or 50 mg per 12 oz bottle, note that a regular cup of coffee can have around 60-120 mg per cup, and a Red Bull seem to have around 80 mg per can.
Strangely enough I got there when going to mediadefender.com, then P2P Marketing (LOL), and then "Successful campaigns".:-S
What a weird name for an FTP though. Note this though:
In addition to anti-piracy solutions, MediaDefender also offers a Leak Alert service. Our industry leading Leak Team scours Newsgroups, Usenet, and BitTorrent sites to see what cracked/pirated content has most recently leaked. Upon discovery, MediaDefender will download the leak and either send it or provide a secure ftp login for customers to sample the pirated material.
Maybe it's that FTP? But why would it be linked to like that on their site?
Or their downloader application that was in fact a trojan acting as spyware. Imagine the can of worms THAT would be if disassembled. Seeing servers contacted and what it reported, what user information it might have got from the Windows registry for more than the IP address (must have been a reason they wanted to run it locally), etc. No wonder they started to sweat.
Saaf said that after everything hit the fan, the company decided to take everything on the site down because it was afraid of a hacker attack or "people sending us spam."
Thank god Google doesn't have the balls (or rather lack of them) when running YouTube!
Either MediaDefender is among the most spineless IT organizations I've ever been unfortunate to hear of, or they're big fat liars.
Actually, given the sequence of events, it seems they're both.
I wish I had saved some screenshots of the site while it was up and I could access it. Is there any caches? It was advertised even more heavily than The Pirate Bay. I'll leave it at that.:-p Speaking of which, it would be very interesting if someone have still saved their download client / spyware. Please please let someone have it and be skilled enough to disassemble what it did!
The goal is to prevent disturbed individuals from accessing content online that would trigger violent behavior.
What makes them thing they'll *ever* succeed in that, or that it even helps? Why wouldn't "violent behavior" from a psycho be triggered by a 20 year old woman walking in string on a beach? Or exposing cleavage in an alley in an evening? Seriously, what makes them thing this even increases the risks of psychos going crazy from it? Do they have any research backing them up as they're writing these far reaching proposals? Is it just a "gut feeling" from politicans that it "might" work? How is the proposal weighed when considering freedoms of *consenting* adults? So many questions with things like this.
It's not like I really care for scat or urine sex or whatever "extreme" forms there might be, but I'm just afraid conservative politicians that are likely for this will also have a conservative view on sex and it'll be one more step towards a sheltered society.
Only if the apple store would compete in something like the IT or multimedia business.
A windows cleaner service won't be put in a legal minefield with Microsoft, for example.
Sometimes these lines are blurred, and sometimes companies intentionally try to cross these lines, but I doubt Apple would be able to get a lawsuit of an apple store through.
One example that became a real case in court was the Apple Corps vs Apple one, but in that case it was because both shared a field of business (music entertainment).
Does anyone else find it ridiculous that a company, whether it be Google or someone else, thinks they can basically own the rights to a letter in the alphabet.
In trademarks, they are never trademarking only parts of the name, but the full name. Google is not trademarking "G", but "Gmail". They can't trademark "mail", but again, it's the full sequence of letters that is.
MPAA call it theft because it causes a loss in profit. This is of course assuming people would otherwise purchase/rent the movie, which is far from clear.
That's news that surfaced pretty much at the moment they left, back in 2003. It wasn't exactly shrouded in secrecy, and Roper briefly mentioned their dissatisfaction and lack of direct communication channels with Vivendi it in interviews, sometimes citing that they only received major news as it was announced by Vivendi for public knowledge. I think that's understandably a tough situation to be in as a game developer.
They left mostly to form new game companies: - Flagship Studios - Castaway Entertainment - Hyboreal Games, that later became U.I. Pacific Games Inc.
Note that ArenaNet (behind Guild Wars) was not among those despite also with significant staff from Blizzard Entertainment, because those formed the company before the "exodus" and were not primarly from Blizzard North either, but e.g. their Warcraft III 3D engine developer, Battle.net lead designer, and the World of Warcraft lead programmer. (this must have been turbulent times at Blizzard, and interestingly, we have not had a new product from them since) Of the companies above, it seems like only Flagship Studios has anything more than something suspiciously vapor-ish going on.:-/
wxWidgets is a cross-platform API that is quite unique in that it uses the native UI widgets: http://www.wxwidgets.org/
As a Windows user, I'm also happy that I don't have to use some sort of "platform neutral" UI, that usually only do a compromise for limited UI functionality for all platforms instead. I've seen too much of that happen with Java and GTK apps.:-(
I hope you're not saying that it's wrong to counter propaganda?
I think what's being said is that Google shouldn't take political stances. Propaganda or not. As soon as they support the other camp, it may end up like they're pushing another organization's agenda that is just as much propaganda-rich. You aren't thinking both sides here are neutral, are you? Anyway, of course it's within Google's rights to do this. It's just that some probably think it's "wrong".
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I would suggest that when you are writing code that is in excess of 80 columns you might be trying to do too much in one line.
:-)
;-)
.NET examples here somewhere. :-)
Or it's the programming language / API's fault.
I mean, for one line of code, I might get away with something like 40-50 columns, but for the identical code and something like an object-oriented language where I for some reason haven't included the namespace, that can grow a lot, especially if the function and variable names are written to be "self explanatory".
I think have some nasty Microsoft
No wait, actually my link said "download the leaked material" as you claimed. lol :-D
So it really could be an FTP of warez? Haha.
I belive they only host clips there or something (???), but why would they link to that as "Successful campaigns" if it's the FTP... It's just material they leeched of some Usenet place, perhaps to later give their customer (movie company, whatever) a password to their FTP and show "look what we found, we're doing our job!". But a "successful campaign"? Eehh... I think it's also a funny way of maintaining customer relationships too. :-)
Hmm, looking over those numbers again, it rather seems that the Swedish Jolt has 150 mg/l at their approved cap, while it's the *American* Jolt with around 230 mg/l, the example I gave above, which would amount to around 140 per bottle in US...
Funny you should pick that country of all. :-)
There's a bit of a story behind the limit in Sweden, because Swedish drinks use to have a limit of max 100 mg caffeine / liter. Åbro, the Swedish producer, has howerver gained permission of using up to 150 mg/l. A US Jolt bottle seem to have 140 mg caffeine, and one in Sweden around 78 mg / 33 cl bottle (or 23 mg/100 ml, about what you say).
Just picked out a few... Report says:
- 38.9 for Pepsi, database says 38.
- 33.9 for Coke, db says 34.
- 42.6 for Dr Pepper, db says 41.
- 46.3 for Diet Coke, db says 45.
- 55.2 for Diet Mountain Dew, db says 55.
So it looks pretty accurate at least, from a quick glance.
To give some perspective as you're looking at drinks with 40 or 50 mg per 12 oz bottle, note that a regular cup of coffee can have around 60-120 mg per cup, and a Red Bull seem to have around 80 mg per can.
Wow... Um, never ever sign up for that site, at least not to download stuff! :S
WTF? Hacker challenge!
Strangely enough I got there when going to mediadefender.com, then P2P Marketing (LOL), and then "Successful campaigns".
What a weird name for an FTP though. Note this though:
Maybe it's that FTP? But why would it be linked to like that on their site?
Or their downloader application that was in fact a trojan acting as spyware. Imagine the can of worms THAT would be if disassembled. Seeing servers contacted and what it reported, what user information it might have got from the Windows registry for more than the IP address (must have been a reason they wanted to run it locally), etc. No wonder they started to sweat.
Thank god Google doesn't have the balls (or rather lack of them) when running YouTube!
Either MediaDefender is among the most spineless IT organizations I've ever been unfortunate to hear of, or they're big fat liars.
Actually, given the sequence of events, it seems they're both.
I wish I had saved some screenshots of the site while it was up and I could access it. Is there any caches? It was advertised even more heavily than The Pirate Bay. I'll leave it at that.
Yes, and there's also always a comment like yours when the name is brought up. ;-)
The goal is to prevent disturbed individuals from accessing content online that would trigger violent behavior.
What makes them thing they'll *ever* succeed in that, or that it even helps? Why wouldn't "violent behavior" from a psycho be triggered by a 20 year old woman walking in string on a beach? Or exposing cleavage in an alley in an evening? Seriously, what makes them thing this even increases the risks of psychos going crazy from it? Do they have any research backing them up as they're writing these far reaching proposals? Is it just a "gut feeling" from politicans that it "might" work? How is the proposal weighed when considering freedoms of *consenting* adults? So many questions with things like this.
It's not like I really care for scat or urine sex or whatever "extreme" forms there might be, but I'm just afraid conservative politicians that are likely for this will also have a conservative view on sex and it'll be one more step towards a sheltered society.
it blocks all unencrypted P2P traffic, doesn't differentiate between 'legal' or 'illegal' use.
Wow. Even computer game companies like Blizzard Entertainment should make more noise about that.
Pfft... mp3sparks... That site is old!
Nowadays it's all about mp3sugar!
People need to get with the times, gee...
Only if the apple store would compete in something like the IT or multimedia business.
A windows cleaner service won't be put in a legal minefield with Microsoft, for example.
Sometimes these lines are blurred, and sometimes companies intentionally try to cross these lines, but I doubt Apple would be able to get a lawsuit of an apple store through.
One example that became a real case in court was the Apple Corps vs Apple one, but in that case it was because both shared a field of business (music entertainment).
Does anyone else find it ridiculous that a company, whether it be Google or someone else, thinks they can basically own the rights to a letter in the alphabet.
In trademarks, they are never trademarking only parts of the name, but the full name. Google is not trademarking "G", but "Gmail". They can't trademark "mail", but again, it's the full sequence of letters that is.
MPAA call it theft because it causes a loss in profit. This is of course assuming people would otherwise purchase/rent the movie, which is far from clear.
I agree. This is a honeypot, not entrapment. Entrapment is about actively making you try commit a crime, and even worse.
That's news that surfaced pretty much at the moment they left, back in 2003. It wasn't exactly shrouded in secrecy, and Roper briefly mentioned their dissatisfaction and lack of direct communication channels with Vivendi it in interviews, sometimes citing that they only received major news as it was announced by Vivendi for public knowledge. I think that's understandably a tough situation to be in as a game developer.
:-/
They left mostly to form new game companies:
- Flagship Studios
- Castaway Entertainment
- Hyboreal Games, that later became U.I. Pacific Games Inc.
Note that ArenaNet (behind Guild Wars) was not among those despite also with significant staff from Blizzard Entertainment, because those formed the company before the "exodus" and were not primarly from Blizzard North either, but e.g. their Warcraft III 3D engine developer, Battle.net lead designer, and the World of Warcraft lead programmer. (this must have been turbulent times at Blizzard, and interestingly, we have not had a new product from them since) Of the companies above, it seems like only Flagship Studios has anything more than something suspiciously vapor-ish going on.
wxWidgets is a cross-platform API that is quite unique in that it uses the native UI widgets:
:-(
http://www.wxwidgets.org/
As a Windows user, I'm also happy that I don't have to use some sort of "platform neutral" UI, that usually only do a compromise for limited UI functionality for all platforms instead. I've seen too much of that happen with Java and GTK apps.
Huh? Of course they let the consumers make that choice.
It is the only media player compatible with the Zune Marketplace.
:-p
AND YOU WANT TO PURCHASE MUSIC FROM THE ZUNE MARKETPLACE.
And it comes in brown. So there... Not too hard to understand after all...
What, another one?? So they kill Allofmp3 and then two more -- that clone and mp3sparks pop up. :-s
I think what's being said is that Google shouldn't take political stances. Propaganda or not. As soon as they support the other camp, it may end up like they're pushing another organization's agenda that is just as much propaganda-rich. You aren't thinking both sides here are neutral, are you? Anyway, of course it's within Google's rights to do this. It's just that some probably think it's "wrong".
If you want the phone, why not hang out in line all day to get it earlier?
:-)
Because there's still a risk they'll run out. See also the story.
All there is back at home is TV and the Internet.
Well, for you, maybe. But even in that case, that's more fun than waiting for 10 hours in a line, and not even be guaranteed anything.
No, I probably don't understand this either.
Give it a week or two, and have things much more convenient. You'll have lots of first experience reviews in too as a bonus.