How about this: the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act has nothing to do with
patriotism; the word patriot is merely dropped into that
silly name (a heavy-handed
acronym, like some kind of killer robot) because
it's a strong word. Keep this in mind and you might have an easier time
of understanding where the Act is coming from.
Of course, we
already have lots of people (including, ahem, Slashdot editors) who call
it The Patriot Act, forgetting that klugey, bias-encumbering
acronym. Also of course, the strongest word is
still the word free.
I can see 50, 75.. Nice round numbers.... But what's so
special about the 65th anniversary?
Well, Slashdot
wasn't around 15 years ago; and given the general progression of the
Web, will probably be a porn squatter's site 10 years from now. So
they're getting their kicks in while they can.
Here in Cowtown
we are indeed serv(ic)ed by Time Warner Cable. But it isn't the
only one in this area, much less in the entire State. We ain't
that small.:)
Quite. There are easily hundreds of Junior
Achievement web sites advertising their programs that teach how
wonderful consumerism is, and they all link to each other to pool
PageRanks. In terms of search engine clogging, they're almost as bad as
Scientology's own educational-program
front groups,
Applied Scholastics and the
Association for Better Living and Education-- and with, as far as I
can tell, no informational clearing house as substantial as Operation Clambake to counteract their
propaganda. Clearly, this is a niche that badly needs to be filled.
They can spout a bunch of canned fluff that's likely intended for consumption
by search engines as much or more than by humans. And we're probably
only helping them in their search-engine-spamming efforts by linking to
them. Oh well, got to live a little.
Yes, the
Windows Media Video family of codecs are rather crocky (although I think
it's more due to the decoders than to the nature of the encoding; the
decoders tend to make everything look blotchy and posterised), but you
can store most any sort of video stream in a WMV (that is, ASF) stream
that you like.
Quick rundown of WMVs I have lying around: MP43,
wmav2 VDOM, mp3 WMV1, wmav2 WMV2, wmav2 WMV3, wmav2
So
while the different flavours of the Windows Media Video codecs are
common, they aren't universal. As for that VDOM codec, I've never been
able to get it to play so I don't know what in the world that one
is.
Web 'designers' who are incapable of imagining modern browsers with a
version less than 4 are likely to also be incapable of imagining any
colour-vision deficiency short of total monochromaticity, don't you
know.
The great adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road has a 'film noir'
(black and white) mode that can be toggled off. Nice gimmick-- but it
quickly becomes useless because, argh!, one of the puzzles requires
discerning colours (for those who've played the game, I'm referring to
the puzzle with the coloured doors and underground magnets). Sure, it
could be solved by trial and error, but there's already an
element of trial-and-error tedium in pretty much having to try every
door in turn.
Of course, one could make quite reasonably and
accurately argue that games are not a requirement for daily living, and
further argue that a more serious problem is unnecessary use of colour
coding in application software. I recall being interviewed for an
industrial job which involved using VNC software with a function menu in
the form of a circle divided into coloured quadrants. Not only was this
needlessly fancy, it probably caused problems for colour-vision-impaired
users. Some sort of legacy interface, probably.
Much as I prefer this solution (although a better one would be
'mplayer -ao pcm -aofile somefilename.wav...', then you can encode the
resultant WAVE audio file using lame or oggenc or faac or whatever your
heart desires), it's not always feasible. A lot of ASF streamers lately
seem to be just sitting there twiddling their thumbs and waiting for me
to go away whenever I try to connect to them with mplayer; that really
sucks.
The U.S. Constitution is full of 200-year-old ideas, and many other
countries have law documents much, much older. So by your reasoning, the
U.S. Constitution is null and void? Oh, wait... many people do
seem to think that, my mistake.
No, but it's the job of the people who brought the packages into the
distribution in the first place to keep up on licensing issues? (And
don't say Nobody can spend that much time-- Debian's admins
can and
do.)
Also, keep in mind that the GPLv2's recommended
boilerplate says in part, This program is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version (emphasis mine). Not everybody code maintainer uses
that exact phrasing, but a great many do, and should GPLv2 be found to
be invalid but the maintainer is uncontactable or uninterested or
unconscious or whatnot, that phrasing gives an automatic out to
packagers for whenever GPLv3 (or GPLv2.1, or whatever) is drafted.
a. I am perfectly aware that my previous post is whiny. See subject
line.:) b. Just as they didn't have to release anything, I don't
have to be impressed by a so-so quasirelease. c. What I also said,
about there being plenty of non-registration/EULA-encumbered game
engines available for the hacking, still stands. So nyaah!
Ah, but the number of useless features customers want is
infinite!
Personally, my pet peeve is the belief that screen resolution
is infinite-- often, programs pop up too many windows, with too much
empty space, and not 'stackable', that is, without consistent window
widths or heights. A particular offender in this regard is xsane,
although some GIMP functions are bad about that too.
Well, here's a reason (excuse by your emotionally-loaded
term): redistribution of the site's music files (stealing--
emotionally loaded again) is allowed under the licence
they use? Your turn, troller.
No, you want a free web designer/maintainer. You need a
web designer/maintainer who has the sense to make a site that's
accessible to as many browsers as possible (i.e., NO FLASH).
Your specifically mentioning Fry's and Good Guys seems to indicate
that you live in the San Francisco Bay area. There's your first problem
to overcome right there.
Slashdot Mirror
How about this: the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act has nothing to do with patriotism; the word patriot is merely dropped into that silly name (a heavy-handed acronym, like some kind of killer robot) because it's a strong word. Keep this in mind and you might have an easier time of understanding where the Act is coming from.
Of course, we already have lots of people (including, ahem, Slashdot editors) who call it The Patriot Act, forgetting that klugey, bias-encumbering acronym. Also of course, the strongest word is still the word free.
But, of course, that's all merely my opinion.
Well, Slashdot wasn't around 15 years ago; and given the general progression of the Web, will probably be a porn squatter's site 10 years from now. So they're getting their kicks in while they can.
Opration Lune AKA Dark Side of the Moon
Here in Cowtown we are indeed serv(ic)ed by Time Warner Cable. But it isn't the only one in this area, much less in the entire State. We ain't that small. :)
$ yes > /dev/mem /dev/mem: Permission denied
-bash:
That's why you don't run everything as root. :)
One step ahead of you. Wave the flag proudly!
Quite. There are easily hundreds of Junior Achievement web sites advertising their programs that teach how wonderful consumerism is, and they all link to each other to pool PageRanks. In terms of search engine clogging, they're almost as bad as Scientology's own educational-program front groups, Applied Scholastics and the Association for Better Living and Education-- and with, as far as I can tell, no informational clearing house as substantial as Operation Clambake to counteract their propaganda. Clearly, this is a niche that badly needs to be filled.
Well, sure-- to keep him away from everyone else. It'd be like giving Jon Katz his own section here.
They can spout a bunch of canned fluff that's likely intended for consumption by search engines as much or more than by humans. And we're probably only helping them in their search-engine-spamming efforts by linking to them. Oh well, got to live a little.
Yes, the Windows Media Video family of codecs are rather crocky (although I think it's more due to the decoders than to the nature of the encoding; the decoders tend to make everything look blotchy and posterised), but you can store most any sort of video stream in a WMV (that is, ASF) stream that you like.
Quick rundown of WMVs I have lying around:
MP43, wmav2
VDOM, mp3
WMV1, wmav2
WMV2, wmav2
WMV3, wmav2
So while the different flavours of the Windows Media Video codecs are common, they aren't universal. As for that VDOM codec, I've never been able to get it to play so I don't know what in the world that one is.
Web 'designers' who are incapable of imagining modern browsers with a version less than 4 are likely to also be incapable of imagining any colour-vision deficiency short of total monochromaticity, don't you know.
The great adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road has a 'film noir' (black and white) mode that can be toggled off. Nice gimmick-- but it quickly becomes useless because, argh!, one of the puzzles requires discerning colours (for those who've played the game, I'm referring to the puzzle with the coloured doors and underground magnets). Sure, it could be solved by trial and error, but there's already an element of trial-and-error tedium in pretty much having to try every door in turn.
Of course, one could make quite reasonably and accurately argue that games are not a requirement for daily living, and further argue that a more serious problem is unnecessary use of colour coding in application software. I recall being interviewed for an industrial job which involved using VNC software with a function menu in the form of a circle divided into coloured quadrants. Not only was this needlessly fancy, it probably caused problems for colour-vision-impaired users. Some sort of legacy interface, probably.
Much as I prefer this solution (although a better one would be 'mplayer -ao pcm -aofile somefilename.wav ...', then you can encode the
resultant WAVE audio file using lame or oggenc or faac or whatever your
heart desires), it's not always feasible. A lot of ASF streamers lately
seem to be just sitting there twiddling their thumbs and waiting for me
to go away whenever I try to connect to them with mplayer; that really
sucks.
Wow, I remember seeing The Bandit all over the place too... hm, should I even be mentioning this? ;) Also common: Eagle Soft, 1103.
You probably are thinking of
10 for i=40960 to 49151:poke i,peek(i):next
20 for i=57344 to 65535:poke i,peek(i):next
30 poke 1,52:poke 64982,52
40 poke 60633,3:poke 60634,1:poke 58677,11:poke 41853,33
which copies BASIC and the Kernal from ROM to RAM, and performs a few minor (but show-offy) tweaks. :)
Better:
10 print chr$(210)chr$(196)chr$(196)chr$(192)chr$(192)chr$( 196)chr$(197);( 210)";:goto
10
20 print chr$(196)chr$(192)chr$(192)chr$(196)chr$(196)chr$
Type 'run' and enjoy the soothing waves.
The U.S. Constitution is full of 200-year-old ideas, and many other countries have law documents much, much older. So by your reasoning, the U.S. Constitution is null and void? Oh, wait... many people do seem to think that, my mistake.
Technology changes, but people don't.
No, but it's the job of the people who brought the packages into the distribution in the first place to keep up on licensing issues? (And don't say Nobody can spend that much time-- Debian's admins can and do.)
Also, keep in mind that the GPLv2's recommended boilerplate says in part, This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version (emphasis mine). Not everybody code maintainer uses that exact phrasing, but a great many do, and should GPLv2 be found to be invalid but the maintainer is uncontactable or uninterested or unconscious or whatnot, that phrasing gives an automatic out to packagers for whenever GPLv3 (or GPLv2.1, or whatever) is drafted.
In Window Maker, 'wxcopy --help' and 'wxpaste --help' for help on using those.
I'm afraid I don't know about the others. Anyone? Anyone?
a. I am perfectly aware that my previous post is whiny. See subject line. :)
b. Just as they didn't have to release anything, I don't have to be impressed by a so-so quasirelease.
c. What I also said, about there being plenty of non-registration/EULA-encumbered game engines available for the hacking, still stands. So nyaah!
Ah, but the number of useless features customers want is infinite!
Personally, my pet peeve is the belief that screen resolution is infinite-- often, programs pop up too many windows, with too much empty space, and not 'stackable', that is, without consistent window widths or heights. A particular offender in this regard is xsane, although some GIMP functions are bad about that too.
Well, here's a reason (excuse by your emotionally-loaded term): redistribution of the site's music files (stealing-- emotionally loaded again) is allowed under the licence they use? Your turn, troller.
No, you want a free web designer/maintainer. You need a web designer/maintainer who has the sense to make a site that's accessible to as many browsers as possible (i.e., NO FLASH).
Your specifically mentioning Fry's and Good Guys seems to indicate that you live in the San Francisco Bay area. There's your first problem to overcome right there.
Hahahahahaha!