Hm... checking xpdf source (apt-get source xpdf), it looks
like a patch to completely disable permissions checking is applied by
default unless ENFORCE_PERMISSIONS is defined; no '-ignoreperms' option
or anything like that. Checking for the error messages' common phrase
with grep -s "is not allowed"/usr/bin/*pdf* seems to verify
this. I guess the maintainer(s) decided to go the radical route after
all!
Rather than seek royalties itself, Scientigo has forged a tentative agreement with an intellectual-property licensing firm that will handle contracts with third parties, Bryant said.
Would this "intellectual-property licensing firm" happen to be based in Utah? Or perhaps Pennsylvania?
Snood (as was widely protested the last twotimes it was written up here) is a clone of Puzzle Bobble (AKA Bust-a-Move). Zuma is a clone of Puzz Loop. Apparently the way to succeed in the games industry is to clone arcade games for MS-Windows.
MS-DOS/Windows edit.com doesn't! It converts tabs to spaces on load, and (maybe) converts (some) spaces to tabs on save. Of course, God probably doesn't intend for people to waste their time with edit.com in the first place.
A disturbing study showing that the suicide rates for whites in US metropolitan areas is higher in cities where more country music is played on the radio
A less fiddly way to get the bitmaps is with pdfimages, which comes with xpdf. Yes it's an arcane etc. command-line program; you'll live. And don't get too excited about the legal implications, either, because the bitmaps are very low resolution (maybe 200 ppi).
... finally see production? (KLOV page) I doubt it, considering how stingy Infogra-- I mean Atari, Inc. has traditionally been, but hope springs eternal.
The Lessons of
LucasFilm's Habitat (from the same site) is also a really good read,
both in terms of origins and in terms of users/administration; reselling
dolls and crystal balls is enlightening, as is the bit about DEATH and
THE SHADOW. It's a pity the "screenshots" are faked (as far as I know,
the only real screenshots surviving from Habitat's development are
photos of monitor screens).
The next step, of course, is to endlessly nag them to release the
source code.;)
The thing about Macintoshes is this: being able to buy them from only
one source (Apple Computer, of course) means monopolistic pricing, but
it also means hardware and construction that meets a known standard.
Makers of prefab Wintel systems often cut corners on parts and labour to
effect the lower pricing; having a more capable video card means little
if the mainboard, power supply, cooling, and other such critical items are
failure-prone! In the computer I'm using, the mainboard had to be
replaced twice; and the CPU fan once; and, oops, there were no
inlet/outlet fans in the case, so I had to shell out for those too.
I think a fairer comparison would be between a Macintosh with a
certain feature set and a custom-built computer for which you can
green-light each part that goes in, not just for big numbers but for
quality as well (like, say, turning down the Microsoft tax). Would the
custom-built machine be more expensive than a prefab one? Almost
certainly. Would it be more expensive than a Macintosh? That, of course,
depends.
It's very simple: Mr Stephens is casting as broad a predictive net as
possible, so that, no matter what happens in the near future, he
can still claim to have been correct. It's an old "psychic" con called
cold
reading.
Of course, Mr Stephens probably has some knowledge of the beneficial
effects of vagueness, skills honed when he was an anonymous gossip
columnist. No wonder he's still using the same pseudonym.
Curiouser and curiouser. As of this second, Just site:slashdot.org
reports about 458,000 hits, but site:slashdot.org
-qqqqqqqqqq reports about 564,000. Maybe that "trick" isn't quite as
outdated as it seems.
Speaking as a (l)user with an nVidia Riva128 video card (yes, I know
it's old and it sucks and I should get a new one; you may be seated), I
have experienced frustration in the recent past, when XFree86 4.3.x was
limping toward 4.4.0: XFree86 4.2.x had annoying bugs which
unfortunately I can't now remember; the Riva128 driver in the 4.3.99
prerelease packages was broken, and the only way to get a working one
was to use a CVS snapshot; but getting the CVS snapshots working with
any sort of stability was, to put it politely, a challenge.
From the small amount of correspondence I had on the XFree86 mailing
list, the devs seemed rather frustrated at the way things were dragging
along, and not just with a video driver for a ratty little video card
that three people still use. While I'm still mainly using XFree86 for
the moment, I'm definitely watching Xorg with interest.
I'd like to see a new Commander Keen game, but considering that rights are probably tangled up between those who are still at Id (John Carmack, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud) and those who aren't (Tom Hall, John Romero), it's probably unlikely without a lot of painful compromising.
You're looking for a system on a chip, but you want to use bash?!
Uh... you might want to consider re-weighing your priorities there: bash
is huge, over 460KB on my personal system. You might also want to
try looking into 4DOS.
Yanks. You do realise Ford Prefect was a joke at your
expense with regard to "getting" British culture don't
you?
What the photon are you talking about? The original Ford Prefect was
a model of motorcar. If you're trying to suggest that confusing the
dominant Earthly species somehow makes the character representative of
Americans, you're going to have to find more evidence.
Many Atheists really should be called something else....
A truer definition of the word, "atheist", could then be, "Could care
less if there is or is not a God..."
No, having no particular belief in the existence or nonexistence of
any god or gods is agnosticism.
Specifically believing that no god or gods exist is atheism.
Considering your use of "could care less", which is both hackneyed and
grammatically incorrect, I'm not surprised you mixed them up.
Slashdot Mirror
...that might not be as far off as you think (or hope or wish), since the Travolta movie is based on only the first half of the novel. And then, of course, there's Hubbard's ten-volume series Mission Earth. Thank you for listening...
Hm... checking xpdf source (apt-get source xpdf), it looks like a patch to completely disable permissions checking is applied by default unless ENFORCE_PERMISSIONS is defined; no '-ignoreperms' option or anything like that. Checking for the error messages' common phrase with grep -s "is not allowed" /usr/bin/*pdf* seems to verify
this. I guess the maintainer(s) decided to go the radical route after
all!
You just need to practise interpreting (mumble)script in your head. Here, one-page printable article.
Fixed.
Yes indeed, there're several!
Let's see, I checked the file with 'gzip -l' and... OH MY GOD IT'S AN ENTIRE 8192 BYTES LONG! WAY TOO BIG FOR MY AMIGA TO HANDLE!!
Would this "intellectual-property licensing firm" happen to be based in Utah? Or perhaps Pennsylvania?
Snood (as was widely protested the last two times it was written up here) is a clone of Puzzle Bobble (AKA Bust-a-Move). Zuma is a clone of Puzz Loop. Apparently the way to succeed in the games industry is to clone arcade games for MS-Windows.
MS-DOS/Windows edit.com doesn't! It converts tabs to spaces on load, and (maybe) converts (some) spaces to tabs on save. Of course, God probably doesn't intend for people to waste their time with edit.com in the first place.
(lame joke elided)
Do you not know what the word metropolitan means?
A less fiddly way to get the bitmaps is with pdfimages, which comes with xpdf. Yes it's an arcane etc. command-line program; you'll live. And don't get too excited about the legal implications, either, because the bitmaps are very low resolution (maybe 200 ppi).
... finally see production? (KLOV page) I doubt it, considering how stingy Infogra-- I mean Atari, Inc. has traditionally been, but hope springs eternal.
_s for structs, _t for type(def)s. E.g.:
typedef struct some_structure_s {
blah...
} some_structure_t;
The Lessons of LucasFilm's Habitat (from the same site) is also a really good read, both in terms of origins and in terms of users/administration; reselling dolls and crystal balls is enlightening, as is the bit about DEATH and THE SHADOW. It's a pity the "screenshots" are faked (as far as I know, the only real screenshots surviving from Habitat's development are photos of monitor screens).
The next step, of course, is to endlessly nag them to release the source code. ;)
The thing about Macintoshes is this: being able to buy them from only one source (Apple Computer, of course) means monopolistic pricing, but it also means hardware and construction that meets a known standard. Makers of prefab Wintel systems often cut corners on parts and labour to effect the lower pricing; having a more capable video card means little if the mainboard, power supply, cooling, and other such critical items are failure-prone! In the computer I'm using, the mainboard had to be replaced twice; and the CPU fan once; and, oops, there were no inlet/outlet fans in the case, so I had to shell out for those too.
I think a fairer comparison would be between a Macintosh with a certain feature set and a custom-built computer for which you can green-light each part that goes in, not just for big numbers but for quality as well (like, say, turning down the Microsoft tax). Would the custom-built machine be more expensive than a prefab one? Almost certainly. Would it be more expensive than a Macintosh? That, of course, depends.
It's very simple: Mr Stephens is casting as broad a predictive net as possible, so that, no matter what happens in the near future, he can still claim to have been correct. It's an old "psychic" con called cold reading.
Of course, Mr Stephens probably has some knowledge of the beneficial effects of vagueness, skills honed when he was an anonymous gossip columnist. No wonder he's still using the same pseudonym.
Curiouser and curiouser. As of this second, Just site:slashdot.org reports about 458,000 hits, but site:slashdot.org -qqqqqqqqqq reports about 564,000. Maybe that "trick" isn't quite as outdated as it seems.
Apparently the troller trendsetters have decided that Stalin is hot and H*tl*r is not.
Speaking as a (l)user with an nVidia Riva128 video card (yes, I know it's old and it sucks and I should get a new one; you may be seated), I have experienced frustration in the recent past, when XFree86 4.3.x was limping toward 4.4.0: XFree86 4.2.x had annoying bugs which unfortunately I can't now remember; the Riva128 driver in the 4.3.99 prerelease packages was broken, and the only way to get a working one was to use a CVS snapshot; but getting the CVS snapshots working with any sort of stability was, to put it politely, a challenge.
From the small amount of correspondence I had on the XFree86 mailing list, the devs seemed rather frustrated at the way things were dragging along, and not just with a video driver for a ratty little video card that three people still use. While I'm still mainly using XFree86 for the moment, I'm definitely watching Xorg with interest.
1. Compress ripped CD audio to Ogg Vorbis ...
2. Share on your favourite filesharing system(s)
3.
4. Profit!
I'd like to see a new Commander Keen game, but considering that rights are probably tangled up between those who are still at Id (John Carmack, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud) and those who aren't (Tom Hall, John Romero), it's probably unlikely without a lot of painful compromising.
You're looking for a system on a chip, but you want to use bash?! Uh... you might want to consider re-weighing your priorities there: bash is huge, over 460KB on my personal system. You might also want to try looking into 4DOS.
That's what you use the alternate domain names for.
What the photon are you talking about? The original Ford Prefect was a model of motorcar. If you're trying to suggest that confusing the dominant Earthly species somehow makes the character representative of Americans, you're going to have to find more evidence.
No, having no particular belief in the existence or nonexistence of any god or gods is agnosticism. Specifically believing that no god or gods exist is atheism. Considering your use of "could care less", which is both hackneyed and grammatically incorrect, I'm not surprised you mixed them up.