It's unethical. but it's possible to change this. And even if it weren't included in the options, being open source it would be easy enough to change:
`-U AGENT-STRING' `--user-agent=AGENT-STRING'
Identify as AGENT-STRING to the HTTP server.
The HTTP protocol allows the clients to identify themselves using a `User-Agent' header field. This enables distinguishing the WWW software, usually for statistical purposes or for tracing of protocol violations. Wget normally identifies as `Wget/VERSION', VERSION being the current version number of Wget.
However, some sites have been known to impose the policy of tailoring the output according to the `User-Agent'-supplied information. While conceptually this is not such a bad idea, it has been abused by servers denying information to clients other than `Mozilla' or Microsoft `Internet Explorer'. This option allows you to change the `User-Agent' line issued by Wget. Use of this option is discouraged, unless you really know what you are doing.
Seriously, it looks like I'll be buying this when I can find a copy. It looks pretty damn interesting, whether or not the guy's a kook.:) I've just been reading about Wolfram in Steven Levy's Artificial Life... very surfacey magazine style treatment, but good stuff nonetheless.
Only some parts of Sydney, Brisbane and Melborne ever had cable internet.
BTW the only broadband for those aussies not in syd/melb/bris is ADSL.
Some parts of Adelaide have Telstra's cable internet, but Optus never rolled out here -- they stopped their (TV) cable rollout halfway through cabling Adelaide, and economically it didn't make sense for them to sell internet access here.
Sounds fair to whom? I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in Oz, whenever paying for bandwidth gets mentioned, the same figure of $0.15-0.18 per meg gets mentioned (eg, this figure was always mentioned at uni whenever volume billing was suggested to a department).
ISTR reading that the cost to Telstra was about A$0.02 per MB -- possibly in one of the columns in The Australian's IT section.
OTOH, we don't have any law that says you have to stop for pedestrians who step on the road outside of a cross-walk. I've heard that drivers in CA are obliged to come to a full stop even if the ped is jay-walking.
If there is a person jaywalking in front of you, though, what are you going to do? Maintain the same speed and run them over? Darwin might support you but I'm sure the judge probably wouldn't (unless, of course, you would have caused a more gruesome accident by slowing down,because all the other drivers on the road were stupid enough to be driving wuth 2ft gaps between the cars, as sometimes happens here).
Benjamin is written in Borland Delphi and is approximately 216 Kb in size.
Bah, virus writers these days.... in my day that virus would have been written in carefully hand-tooled assembly, it would have been polymorphic and it would have been no larger than 5KB. Uphill both ways, etc. etc..... [mutter grumble grumble]
Finally, the fact that Barbarella even appears anywhere on the list only serves to remove any shred of credibility for the author...
I've banned myself from watching Barbarella any more -- it's a regular at our summer outdoor theater, and every time I saw it, I'd laugh so hard, for pretty much the entire duration of the film, that it was incredibly painful...
Good for a laugh, but not particularly in the way the creators intended.:)
As a side note, the Vice-President has traditionally been the administration's point person for space activity.
Yeah, but this VP has a lot more power than they normally do -- Cheney is Bush Senior's "numbers man", isn't he? In other words, he's definitely one of the powers behind the throne in the current administration.
Not that it makes me any more hopeful of seeing this happen, unless they decide that it's a good way of doling out billions in corporate welfare...
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It doesn't say they invented them, just that they offered Java versions of them.
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It's possible... just spend several years working on paper before you even go near a computer.:)
Before 1977 there were no movies that reached "blockbuster" status.
Cleopatra? Ben Hur? Gone With the Wind? (I'm unsure of the levels of financial success of these three films, but they exemplify the "all things to all people" attitude (while purporting to be within a specific genre) that so sickens me about the Star Wars series.)
I agree that George Lucas is to blame for the 'blockbuster' mentality, and that practically every studio film these days aims for that level of (financial) success, but I don't think that it was that good in the good old days.
Besides, what counts as a studio film these days? Any film that gets even moderately good arthouse distribution these days probably has some studio investment...
Hollywood after the war was compromised by the Hays code and McCarthyism... and I can't imagine that someone like Sam Goldwyn was more concerned with artistic integrity than the money he made.
I've been sort of wondering when we're going to see an online Sports game where all the players on the opposing teams are controlled by real people. This is sort of the holy grail of sports video games... Virtual pick-up games.
Of course, the only way you're going to be able to coordinate strategy -- an important part of these games -- is to be in the same room.
And if you can get that many people together, what's to stop you all going out and doing it all for real? It's more fun, and it helps keep you fit:)
The idea that we should have the ability to change our government, by revolution if need be, is so deeply ingrained into the Western conciousness (and maybe the Eastern as well, though I don't know...)
I don't think so... Confucius (K'ung-fu-tzu) seemed pretty hipped on that whole "respecting authority" trip.:)
There was a time when movies were considered an art form, and studios were run by creative people who wanted to tell a story, or make a statement.
... and make heaps of money.
Seriously, when was this golden age you speak of? The majority of film producers are, and always have been, businessmen more interested in the bottom line than in artisitc integrity.
At least in those days the 'hot product' they were pushing was only expected to sell more movies (e.g. movie idols like Cary Grant). These days it's all cross-merchandised up the wazoo...
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In fact, the only reason I'm on /. right now is because I have to eat dinner.
Man, you have some seriously screwed up eating habits.
No, ethics are an individual thing. Morals are ethics imposed on others. :)
But if people are spending money to provide a resource to me, I feel that it's only ethical to repsect their wishes about how I would access it.
I don't expect all other people to feel that way, but I wanted to flag that I did.
Oddly enough, treckies chances of getting laid at this convention are identical to those of getting laid at a real convention.
But at a real convention, at least you can pay someone to.. ummmm... yes. So I've heard, anyway.
maintainability of the code [1]
Huh? What does the [1] refer to?
Wolfram shifts from Kubrick-style religion
:) I've just been reading about Wolfram in Steven Levy's Artificial Life... very surfacey magazine style treatment, but good stuff nonetheless.
<honoured bow>
Thank you, thank you...
</honoured bow>
Seriously, it looks like I'll be buying this when I can find a copy. It looks pretty damn interesting, whether or not the guy's a kook.
Only some parts of Sydney, Brisbane and Melborne ever had cable internet.
BTW the only broadband for those aussies not in syd/melb/bris is ADSL.
Some parts of Adelaide have Telstra's cable internet, but Optus never rolled out here -- they stopped their (TV) cable rollout halfway through cabling Adelaide, and economically it didn't make sense for them to sell internet access here.
Not unless that typo went out in the original press release -- I saw it in the newspaper here as well.
Sounds fair to whom? I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in Oz, whenever paying for bandwidth gets mentioned, the same figure of $0.15-0.18 per meg gets mentioned (eg, this figure was always mentioned at uni whenever volume billing was suggested to a department).
ISTR reading that the cost to Telstra was about A$0.02 per MB -- possibly in one of the columns in The Australian's IT section.
OTOH, we don't have any law that says you have to stop for pedestrians who step on the road outside of a cross-walk. I've heard that drivers in CA are obliged to come to a full stop even if the ped is jay-walking.
If there is a person jaywalking in front of you, though, what are you going to do? Maintain the same speed and run them over? Darwin might support you but I'm sure the judge probably wouldn't (unless, of course, you would have caused a more gruesome accident by slowing down,because all the other drivers on the road were stupid enough to be driving wuth 2ft gaps between the cars, as sometimes happens here).
Benjamin is written in Borland Delphi and is approximately 216 Kb in size.
Bah, virus writers these days.... in my day that virus would have been written in carefully hand-tooled assembly, it would have been polymorphic and it would have been no larger than 5KB. Uphill both ways, etc. etc..... [mutter grumble grumble]
Finally, the fact that Barbarella even appears anywhere on the list only serves to remove any shred of credibility for the author...
:)
I've banned myself from watching Barbarella any more -- it's a regular at our summer outdoor theater, and every time I saw it, I'd laugh so hard, for pretty much the entire duration of the film, that it was incredibly painful...
Good for a laugh, but not particularly in the way the creators intended.
Want to really take care of the confusion?
I'm confused.
Blizzard wrote Warcraft, Starcraft, etc.
Bioware wrote/are writing Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights.
Blizzard may have an EULA like this, but why criticise them in response to a comment from a Bioware guy?
*Real* programmers don't use \n.
As a side note, the Vice-President has traditionally been the administration's point person for space activity.
Yeah, but this VP has a lot more power than they normally do -- Cheney is Bush Senior's "numbers man", isn't he? In other words, he's definitely one of the powers behind the throne in the current administration.
Not that it makes me any more hopeful of seeing this happen, unless they decide that it's a good way of doling out billions in corporate welfare...
It doesn't say they invented them, just that they offered Java versions of them.
It's possible... just spend several years working on paper before you even go near a computer. :)
Before 1977 there were no movies that reached "blockbuster" status.
Cleopatra? Ben Hur? Gone With the Wind? (I'm unsure of the levels of financial success of these three films, but they exemplify the "all things to all people" attitude (while purporting to be within a specific genre) that so sickens me about the Star Wars series.)
I agree that George Lucas is to blame for the 'blockbuster' mentality, and that practically every studio film these days aims for that level of (financial) success, but I don't think that it was that good in the good old days.
Besides, what counts as a studio film these days? Any film that gets even moderately good arthouse distribution these days probably has some studio investment...
Hollywood after the war was compromised by the Hays code and McCarthyism... and I can't imagine that someone like Sam Goldwyn was more concerned with artistic integrity than the money he made.
I've been sort of wondering when we're going to see an online Sports game where all the players on the opposing teams are controlled by real people. This is sort of the holy grail of sports video games... Virtual pick-up games.
:)
Of course, the only way you're going to be able to coordinate strategy -- an important part of these games -- is to be in the same room.
And if you can get that many people together, what's to stop you all going out and doing it all for real? It's more fun, and it helps keep you fit
(That link will change in a few days when they archive the blog page...)
The idea that we should have the ability to change our government, by revolution if need be, is so deeply ingrained into the Western conciousness (and maybe the Eastern as well, though I don't know...)
:)
I don't think so... Confucius (K'ung-fu-tzu) seemed pretty hipped on that whole "respecting authority" trip.
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But the lameness filter doesn't like that.
There was a time when movies were considered an art form, and studios were run by creative people who wanted to tell a story, or make a statement.
... and make heaps of money.
Seriously, when was this golden age you speak of? The majority of film producers are, and always have been, businessmen more interested in the bottom line than in artisitc integrity.
At least in those days the 'hot product' they were pushing was only expected to sell more movies (e.g. movie idols like Cary Grant). These days it's all cross-merchandised up the wazoo...
Why should I, Joe Average ISP-User who *doesn't* pirate music but does buy CDs, be forced to pay for something I don't use?
What if I'm on a modem? Not much chance that I'm downloading entire albums there, but I imagine that I'd still get stung for the money as well.
Two groups:
Slashdot posters.
Linux kernel developers.
The overlap between these two sets: none.