Ok, here is my question: Congress is considering making hacking punishable by life imprisonment, you are getting time that is equivalent to a rapist (as another poster commented).
Do you believe that this all out attack on the technically knowledgable by the digital illiterati enforcing the bloated bottomline of many of these companies will lead to an eventual electronic revolution or do you see the united states becoming controlled by copyright owners and corporations? And do you see hackers eventually out numbering the number of people in prison on drug related crimes?
Guilty? Define guilty? Did he do what they said he did? Of course he did... we all do. But does he regret it? Probably not. But I'll bet he regrets getting caught.
As I always say, the law only applies to those who get caught. Everyone else gets to do what they want.
If the guy down the hall doing the website didn't know about Mozilla 2 years ago, then he should be f@rking fired! Any web designer/development worth spit knows what Mozilla is, what it is about and how it is going to help us set standards in the web browsing community.
Hell, it's the W3C's hammer of doom coming to knock Bill upside the head, for christs sake.
I agree completely. I definitely would not call it a RDBMS especially considering it isn't ACID compliant and doesn't even support foreign keys. It has a LONG way to go and the only reason it can be as fast as it is is because it lacks almost ALL functionality you would expect to make a RDBMS data's secure!
I mean, I use it but I have major bitches about it. And I would definitely recommend it for the small business that doesn't need an enterprise level database.
I hear alot of people touting Postgres though and though Postgres is better, it is not stable. Postgres has just as far to go in my book. Though it is making more of an effort to implement SQL standards.
Well quite frankly, I have had to do a comparison of the two and though Postgres is far more ACID compliant, MySQL is faster and more stable.
And with a little work, MySQL can be made more ACID compliant. However, my big bitch is that it doesn't support foreign keys.
To be a RDBMS, I expect proper handling of keys. I know I can write the SQL to fudge this but does anyone know of an 'add-on' that might fix this prior to the next release?
Well most fonts can be converted quite easily. I've converted Windows fonts to Mac and to Linux. If anyone wants some help in getting their favorite fonts converted (and possibly hosting a library on their machine), I'd be glad to put in a little work on creating a free font library for Linux; I've got a couple thousand available.
People are we forgetting that JPG is a loss form of compression? Your images begin to go to sh1t the second you compress it. And the more you play around with it, the more corrupt the image gets.
For alot of graphics people, JPG is a bane and is only used when absolutely necessary as a result of this.
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I heard that Neverwinter Nights from Bioware is releasing a Linux version at the same time it releases a Linux version. This is one game that would complete my conversion from Windows to Linux.
I live here in Seattle and have hung out with Donna Barr, Pete Bagg, Roberta Gregory and others and have even met Gary myself and sat down and chatted with him in his office and I can tell you first hand... he is an a numero uno asshole. You can ask just about any one of the artists who has worked with him.
Fantagraphics (Gary's Company) has this self defeating ideal that comics should be art. I however disagree to a certain extent. Art does NOT reach the mainstream; the masses do not understand art. Aside from that, he (like most old school comic creators) fears the next wave where technology and computers meld into one.
I have the utmost respect for Scott with the exception that he gives advice about the internet and the web and how it will effect comics. I helped build the buying department at Amazon.com and went down to the Alternative Press Expo to promote a comic I was working on and see how others were adapting to the web back in 1997. The only thing I saw down there was some moron trying to sell comics on CD. Pathetic! Comics have been underground for the longest time and not a hacker amung them.
Well anyway, I got to talking with quite a few people and I was asked during a session about the web and comics to get up and give a talk about how it would change the face of comics and what would happen.
Needless to say, when Scott's new book came out about the digital medium and comics, I jumped on it and was thoroughly disappointed. He hadn't clue one what the hell he was talking about; it might as well have been a coloring book for kids as that's how useful I found the information... boring old rhetoric.
Scott, do NOT attempt to tell us about the web and the internet and how it will affect us especially when you still use a Mac. And Gary, get a personality transplant because the old one has worn through.
Actually, I've argued with many comic people over this and comic people are generally technophobic; not the readers, the creators. They hate moving from the paper format. I myself create comics and have a bunch online at my site and have told people that distribution is easier, developing a fanbase is easier and production costs are vastly lower (as a print run for 2000 comics in black and white with 4-color cover is around $1600).
That coupled with the fact that most independent comics don't even make there money back should be a fantastic motivator for going online but unfortunately, it just hasn't stuck. Personally, I plan to implement ComicsML as soon as possible...
I started something the other day called Operation Spare Change where I stand in downtown Seattle with a sign around my neck that reads 'WILL DO WEB DESIGN FOR FOOD'... got me on the news and triples my websites hits.
Well we aren't much better. Some kid wrote an article in some college newspaper which was basically an open letter to Jesus asking him to kill George Bush and he got a visit from the secret service. I mean come on... Jesus is fictional, how the hell is he going to kill Bush?
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Do you believe that this all out attack on the technically knowledgable by the digital illiterati enforcing the bloated bottomline of many of these companies will lead to an eventual electronic revolution or do you see the united states becoming controlled by copyright owners and corporations? And do you see hackers eventually out numbering the number of people in prison on drug related crimes?
Guilty? Define guilty? Did he do what they said he did? Of course he did... we all do. But does he regret it? Probably not. But I'll bet he regrets getting caught.
As I always say, the law only applies to those who get caught. Everyone else gets to do what they want.
Hell, it's the W3C's hammer of doom coming to knock Bill upside the head, for christs sake.
I mean, I use it but I have major bitches about it. And I would definitely recommend it for the small business that doesn't need an enterprise level database.
I hear alot of people touting Postgres though and though Postgres is better, it is not stable. Postgres has just as far to go in my book. Though it is making more of an effort to implement SQL standards.
And with a little work, MySQL can be made more ACID compliant. However, my big bitch is that it doesn't support foreign keys.
To be a RDBMS, I expect proper handling of keys. I know I can write the SQL to fudge this but does anyone know of an 'add-on' that might fix this prior to the next release?
Well most fonts can be converted quite easily. I've converted Windows fonts to Mac and to Linux. If anyone wants some help in getting their favorite fonts converted (and possibly hosting a library on their machine), I'd be glad to put in a little work on creating a free font library for Linux; I've got a couple thousand available.
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For alot of graphics people, JPG is a bane and is only used when absolutely necessary as a result of this.
I heard that Neverwinter Nights from Bioware is releasing a Linux version at the same time it releases a Linux version. This is one game that would complete my conversion from Windows to Linux.
The Incredible Machine is a game for kids but even as an adult I love to play this game.
Fantagraphics (Gary's Company) has this self defeating ideal that comics should be art. I however disagree to a certain extent. Art does NOT reach the mainstream; the masses do not understand art. Aside from that, he (like most old school comic creators) fears the next wave where technology and computers meld into one.
I have the utmost respect for Scott with the exception that he gives advice about the internet and the web and how it will effect comics. I helped build the buying department at Amazon.com and went down to the Alternative Press Expo to promote a comic I was working on and see how others were adapting to the web back in 1997. The only thing I saw down there was some moron trying to sell comics on CD. Pathetic! Comics have been underground for the longest time and not a hacker amung them.
Well anyway, I got to talking with quite a few people and I was asked during a session about the web and comics to get up and give a talk about how it would change the face of comics and what would happen.
Needless to say, when Scott's new book came out about the digital medium and comics, I jumped on it and was thoroughly disappointed. He hadn't clue one what the hell he was talking about; it might as well have been a coloring book for kids as that's how useful I found the information... boring old rhetoric.
Scott, do NOT attempt to tell us about the web and the internet and how it will affect us especially when you still use a Mac. And Gary, get a personality transplant because the old one has worn through.
and crackbaby.com still lives on... how's that for justice??
That coupled with the fact that most independent comics don't even make there money back should be a fantastic motivator for going online but unfortunately, it just hasn't stuck. Personally, I plan to implement ComicsML as soon as possible...
I started something the other day called Operation Spare Change where I stand in downtown Seattle with a sign around my neck that reads 'WILL DO WEB DESIGN FOR FOOD'... got me on the news and triples my websites hits.
Well we aren't much better. Some kid wrote an article in some college newspaper which was basically an open letter to Jesus asking him to kill George Bush and he got a visit from the secret service. I mean come on... Jesus is fictional, how the hell is he going to kill Bush?