User: Vargol

Re:This will promote piracy.

On: Time Warner To Change DVD Region Coding System?

I heard some argue that they are doing this so they can engage in regional price fixing. But this doesn't make sense. No matter how much lower the price is in another country the shipping cost would probably make it more expensive.

You've never lived in the UK then, where I could have brought the US South Park DVD's for series one seperately for cheaper than the UK box set cost.

There are plenty of region one suppliers than do not charge postage, and the the discs avoid customs they are significantly cheaper, if they don't then they are slightly cheaper.

It's only Polite

On: BeOS Boo-Boo: Violating The GPL -- Updated

I take it Bruce has informed Be of this problem and given them chance to rectify the error before publishing this story..

Re:Common Carriers

On: Links to Defamatory Sites are Defamatory?

Trouble is of course that Demon are a UK ISP and
uk ISP's don't have common carrier status, so they
can be sued.

Re:No game I know of...

On: New York Times profiles John Romero & John Carmack

I take it you're not American...

I seem to remember that Hunting games, where you go around shooting defenceless animals have a tendancy to
top the charts there ...

Perl Example, REBOL equivalent

On: REBOL the "Messaging Language"

taken from http://www.rebol.com/web-read.html


To read a web page:

page: read http://www.rebol.com

To view the HTML source code:

print page


Or, you could just write:


print read http://www.rebol.com


which to me a non-perl/non-rebol user seems a lot easier than the perl example