I read that wrong at first. Although, that's about what it would cost if you got caught burning lots of your games to CD...
Re:End of an era (for me, anyway)
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I'm with on this one. I can't begin to explain how weird it was to just shut down the dnetc processes on all of my machines. So sudden, though I knew that's how it would be. To think, I'd been doing this for nearly 4 damn years...
Perhaps some other career programmers here can relate to this.
I use floppies when I want to bring some of my source code home with me from work, and I don't want to answer the questions posed by the sysadmins about why I'm trying to send certain things through the firewall. My company claims ownership of anything I write, but I'd like to keep portions of it for future reference should I ever change jobs.
They are very strict about such things were I work, so I find it easier to bring things that I've written like useful functions and such home on floppies.
That is more or less the only use I have left for them, but I'm glad they're available for it.
Here's another DYI project that might be of interest to some people. A true 6.0 Litre, tuned exhaust, pimped out Rice Toilet .
Some people really have too much time.
I overheard a couple talking to a salsemsn about Netscape Navigator, and they asked what the difference was between the one in the box and the one you could download. He said, "Yes, there is a version you can download, but it doesn't have as many features and things as the retail one."
To this day I still don't know why I didn't 'step in', but I figured 'Hey, this country operates by people trying to make money off of stupid people, who am I to change things?'
I think that overall MSLN does a good job providing that which was within its scope. The needs of connected sites have changed since 1996, and given the amount of funding, I think MSLN has done a good job in keeping up (for instance, look at the number of sites connected via ATM now, and the recent addition of hundreds of T1 circuits to replace the obsolete 56k-FR circuits).
I'm not sure really what you were inferring by your comment.
Speaking of the wireless internet access...MAN am I glad that I left my job at MSLN last August!! That's a lot of hardware addresses to enter into the DHCP server (and a lot of calls for those which never get their IP).
A phenonema which I see an increase of is cell phones ringing during lectures. That annoys me to no end. Nothing is more lame, disrespectful, and disruptive than someone's phone ringing in the middle of a class and having the person answer it, or get up, make a lot of noise, and leave class to talk to the person calling them. I'd love it if they could ban use of these in lecture halls by any means necessary.
>I mean, the USA has butchered the English anguage (the language of Shakespeare, Milton, and the Bible)
You did know that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, right? It was not written in King James English. Ahh, English, the language the Iliad was written in...
Waco? The Berlin Wall? The Soviet Coup? Oklohoma city? Columbine?
When the Challenger exploded, I was in second grade, and like everywhere else, the launch had drawn much attention. In fact, a 5th grade teacher at one of my town's elementary schools was among the finalists to be the "Teacher in Space."
As it happened, I was at lunch when the launch occured, and was dissapointed in having missed it. However, just a few minutes later, opon re-entering our classroom, we were informed by our teacher, Miss Sara Cox (who ended up being a Jeopardy Tournament of Champions champion about 8 years ago,btw) that the Shuttle had exploded - something I'm sure many of the children didn't or refused to understand the reality of. As for myself, I can tell you exactly where I was sitting - second row from the right, second seat back. Its something I don't think I'll ever forget.
We spent much of the rest of that day in the library watching news coverage, it was a truly sad day.
What's harder about it? How about installing programs, and after they're installed, finding them so you can start them. Joe user isn't going to want to gunzip file.tar.gz |tar -xvf a file. He also doesn't want to rpm -i or -U a file. He also doesn't want to find it on the hard drive and from a command line,./ it. They want to double click on an exe they save to their desktop and have it magically appear on the start menu all by itself. Sorry, but this is true. 99% of programs don't put themselves on the K or Gnome menu, and take effort to find. This is one downside to competing desktops, something which is a big hurdle to a lot of people.
I've seen a lot of Television shows about the possibility that one of the members of the assassinated Russian royal family may have survived, and lived out her life elsewhere. Does anyone know where the person who claimed to be her is burued? Could they dig her up and see if she was really the Czar's daughter?
I wonder if their blocking of that all Latin site had anything to do with the frequent recurrance of the word "cum".
Yes, we know that its a perfectly innocent word in Latin (meaning with, when, as, while, since, and although - depending on context), but if they scan the text of pages for keywords, I'm sure "cum" would set off a flag somewhere.
Just a thought. Not so much a defense, as the author said, if they had paid some bloke $10 to just check the blocked sites, they would do a far better job of convincing people they actually care about the quality of their product, which apparently they don't. They're willing to spend more money covering the fact that they don't care about its quality then they probably will on actually improving it.
Typical...sadly.
Could this actually help the MPAA?
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I can see this becoming a bit of a headache for people searching for the REAL DeCSS. Say for instance, someone types DeCSS.zip into a web or FTP search - they might get a ton of hits for the useless program, and have a really hard time finding the real one. At the same time, making it harder to find might quiet the MPAA a little bit, but at the same time, is this the best solution? In any case, I do think its kinda funny. Just my $0.02.
>>You underesitmate the amount of time it takes to teach someone how to wright. Why waste your time emluating smearing a dye on ground up trees when you could design a truely usefull interface?
You also seem to underestimate the amount of time it takes to teach somone how to spell...
heh - I just went to InterNIC to see if this was taken, but it said the maximum length of a domain name is 26 characters, hence abcd..etc was too long. Odd, considering the alphabet has exactly 26 characters...
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I mean, how many Koreans have that last name? What happened to withholding identity until the family is informed?
I read that wrong at first. Although, that's about what it would cost if you got caught burning lots of your games to CD...
I'm with on this one. I can't begin to explain how weird it was to just shut down the dnetc processes on all of my machines. So sudden, though I knew that's how it would be. To think, I'd been doing this for nearly 4 damn years...
Electric cars sound great, but how is the electricity that they need normally produced? Burning coal?
Umm...I take it you were born after 1985?
Perhaps some other career programmers here can relate to this.
I use floppies when I want to bring some of my source code home with me from work, and I don't want to answer the questions posed by the sysadmins about why I'm trying to send certain things through the firewall. My company claims ownership of anything I write, but I'd like to keep portions of it for future reference should I ever change jobs.
They are very strict about such things were I work, so I find it easier to bring things that I've written like useful functions and such home on floppies.
That is more or less the only use I have left for them, but I'm glad they're available for it.
Here's another DYI project that might be of interest to some people. A true 6.0 Litre, tuned exhaust, pimped out Rice Toilet . Some people really have too much time.
That nearly everything released by the industry was total crap marketed towards middle school kids without jobs.
We have a roller coaster. We have a monorail.
I wanna see someone build thier own Subway, complete with two stops and a building over each one.
I overheard a couple talking to a salsemsn about Netscape Navigator, and they asked what the difference was between the one in the box and the one you could download. He said, "Yes, there is a version you can download, but it doesn't have as many features and things as the retail one."
To this day I still don't know why I didn't 'step in', but I figured 'Hey, this country operates by people trying to make money off of stupid people, who am I to change things?'
I think that overall MSLN does a good job providing that which was within its scope. The needs of connected sites have changed since 1996, and given the amount of funding, I think MSLN has done a good job in keeping up (for instance, look at the number of sites connected via ATM now, and the recent addition of hundreds of T1 circuits to replace the obsolete 56k-FR circuits).
I'm not sure really what you were inferring by your comment.
Speaking of the wireless internet access...MAN am I glad that I left my job at MSLN last August!! That's a lot of hardware addresses to enter into the DHCP server (and a lot of calls for those which never get their IP).
A phenonema which I see an increase of is cell phones ringing during lectures. That annoys me to no end. Nothing is more lame, disrespectful, and disruptive than someone's phone ringing in the middle of a class and having the person answer it, or get up, make a lot of noise, and leave class to talk to the person calling them. I'd love it if they could ban use of these in lecture halls by any means necessary.
>I mean, the USA has butchered the English anguage (the language of Shakespeare, Milton, and the Bible)
You did know that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, right? It was not written in King James English. Ahh, English, the language the Iliad was written in...
Waco? The Berlin Wall? The Soviet Coup? Oklohoma city? Columbine?
When the Challenger exploded, I was in second grade, and like everywhere else, the launch had drawn much attention. In fact, a 5th grade teacher at one of my town's elementary schools was among the finalists to be the "Teacher in Space."
As it happened, I was at lunch when the launch occured, and was dissapointed in having missed it. However, just a few minutes later, opon re-entering our classroom, we were informed by our teacher, Miss Sara Cox (who ended up being a Jeopardy Tournament of Champions champion about 8 years ago,btw) that the Shuttle had exploded - something I'm sure many of the children didn't or refused to understand the reality of. As for myself, I can tell you exactly where I was sitting - second row from the right, second seat back. Its something I don't think I'll ever forget.
We spent much of the rest of that day in the library watching news coverage, it was a truly sad day.
What's harder about it? How about installing programs, and after they're installed, finding them so you can start them. Joe user isn't going to want to gunzip file.tar.gz |tar -xvf a file. He also doesn't want to rpm -i or -U a file. He also doesn't want to find it on the hard drive and from a command line, ./ it. They want to double click on an exe they save to their desktop and have it magically appear on the start menu all by itself. Sorry, but this is true. 99% of programs don't put themselves on the K or Gnome menu, and take effort to find. This is one downside to competing desktops, something which is a big hurdle to a lot of people.
I've seen a lot of Television shows about the possibility that one of the members of the assassinated Russian royal family may have survived, and lived out her life elsewhere. Does anyone know where the person who claimed to be her is burued? Could they dig her up and see if she was really the Czar's daughter?
I wonder if they're going to get sued by a European chocolate hazelnut spread manufacturer over this for copyright infringement (over the name)?
I wonder if their blocking of that all Latin site had anything to do with the frequent recurrance of the word "cum".
Yes, we know that its a perfectly innocent word in Latin (meaning with, when, as, while, since, and although - depending on context), but if they scan the text of pages for keywords, I'm sure "cum" would set off a flag somewhere.
Just a thought. Not so much a defense, as the author said, if they had paid some bloke $10 to just check the blocked sites, they would do a far better job of convincing people they actually care about the quality of their product, which apparently they don't. They're willing to spend more money covering the fact that they don't care about its quality then they probably will on actually improving it.
Typical...sadly.
I can see this becoming a bit of a headache for people searching for the REAL DeCSS. Say for instance, someone types DeCSS.zip into a web or FTP search - they might get a ton of hits for the useless program, and have a really hard time finding the real one. At the same time, making it harder to find might quiet the MPAA a little bit, but at the same time, is this the best solution? In any case, I do think its kinda funny.
Just my $0.02.
...are Y2K compliant. They even say YKK on them. I think they even said that 10 years ago. Finally, an industry with foresight!
>>You underesitmate the amount of time it takes to teach someone how to wright. Why waste your time emluating smearing a dye on ground up trees when
you could design a truely usefull interface?
You also seem to underestimate the amount of time it takes to teach somone how to spell...
heh - I just went to InterNIC to see if this was taken, but it said the maximum length of a domain name is 26 characters, hence abcd..etc was too long. Odd, considering the alphabet has exactly 26 characters...
The ratios, or so I hear from my friend (swett), also make the dating scene interesting at CalTech. Do you guys ever look off campus?
Ham from a cow? Would that be embrace, extend, scrap in the meat industry?