Presumably the Mac clients send an MD5 checksum of the application ("AOL Instant Messenger (SM)"), after first giving the information about their version.
It's been done. Many times. By many different people.
If you can get everyone you want to talk to to use one of those other clients and protocols, great! Go for it. You no longer have a problem.
For the rest of us, it's an issue. If I stop using AIM, I lose contact with over a hundred people, and suggesting that I should just tell all of them to install some other chat client is absurd.
Why do people HAVE to interoperate with AOL AIM clients/servers ??? Just build your own, and better yet, use some standard and ignore AIM.
If you can get everyone you want to talk to to use your client, great, you do that.
You want to talk to me. I'm already running AIM to keep in contact with around a hundred people - what incentive do I have to install your client on my system, running alongside AIM and consuming system resources? I don't want to talk to you that badly.
After all, it's AOL people, I find it strange that Slashdot geeks want to interact with clueless AOL minions !!!
I have to point out that despite appearances, AIM and AOL are NOT the same thing. The vast majority of AIM users are not AOL users. I frequent Computing Chat on AIM, and many of the "regulars" there are running FreeBSD or Linux - the AOL users almost never go into AIM chats.
Not without hacking the client, which I'm sure AOL doesn't like either.
2) aol agreed to make their im service available to other clients as part of their agreement with the ftc. as a condition of their merger with time warner.
Their service is available. Just use the TOC protocol, like TiK does (and Gaim can).
IIRC, you can't change your password, can't see someone's away message in their profile, and of course no file transfers, IM images, voice chat, etc. Probably no buddy icons. None of this is important to a lot of people, but to some people, it is.
This is AOL's proposal for an open architecture that allows competing IM services to exchange instant messages. If implemented, this would allow AIM users to communicate with users of Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber et al.
On one level, the Mac OS is easy to learn but not easy to use. On another level, the Mac OS is easy to use but not easy to learn - and it's this second level that is often ignored.
Do you know how file and creator types work? What the BNDL (bundle) bit does? What types of things are stored in the desktop file? In the PRAM? What does it mean when a cdev contains an INIT resource? This is just a start - and this is the stuff that is not easy to learn, but makes using and troubleshooting a Mac a more productive experience.
They're about as private as your e-mail, which your ISP can read whenever they want. You waived any rights you may have had when you signed up for the service. Read the user agreement - yeah, the one you clicked "I Agree" on without thinking.
What I don't understand is why more businesses don't just outright ignore courts that have no juristiction over them issuing rulings that are rediculous on their face for anyone with even a cursury knowledge of how the internet is pieced together.
Um, France does have jurisdiction, because Yahoo has an office in France. If Yahoo ignored the French government, the French government could have Yahoo employees in France arrested, their equipment impounded, and other nasty things. So, it's in Yahoo's best interests to comply with the law.
Can anyone seriously claim that the intent of the creation of the lists on napster servers _aren't_ to facilitate trading of popular music?
Sure. The intent is obviously to facilitate trading of music that has been expressly licensed for such distribution. Offspring and Brunching Shuttlecocks have been mentioned on Slashdot; Napster has a list of more.
You forget, Slashdot is (and always has been) CmdrTaco's baby, and if he thinks it's worth posting on his Web site, well then, it gets posted. If you don't like it, stop reading. If you have a better idea, feel free to impliment it - you can even use the same code if you want.
As others have pointed out, if more people used standards-compliant browsers, life would be much better for people with disabilities and people with limited platforms. Sure, JavaScript is bad - with these new browsers, Web designers can use CSS to do what they would have had to use JavaScript for previously.
I've never heard of filtering out JavaScript at a firewall; I have difficulty imagining how that might be possible. Turning off JavaScript by default on everyone's workstations seems far more likely, but I've seen several corporate intranet sites that require JavaScript.
The fear of alienating users is a problem, and that's why the W3C wants to push people to upgrade - so that it will one day be possible to create good clean sites, but only alienate a small percentage of users.
As someone else noted (with relevant examples, even), it is fairly common today to have to reload.
Today, yes. It wasn't common at the time, which was the point.
Not sure if it predates Marathon, but ROTT had dual pistols mode...
Been a long time since I played either, but I think Marathon was first. Might be wrong.
I was playing on 6100s at the time and I thought it was sluggish.
Were you using a PowerPC-native version? If you were playing a 68k version of Marathon on a 6100, it would have been running entirely in emulation, which would have been considerably slower than a 40MHz Quadra.
There were quite a few legitimate subscribers reported effected by their tactics.
So the cards malfunctioned. They'll be replaced as quickly as possible, free of charge. Presumably, these cards are licensed, not sold, and they are supported by DirecTV.
The only way such information can with 100% assurance "NOT EVER be sold to ANY third party, or otherwise be made available to ANYONE" is if you the user never provide the information in the first place.
Or make it illegal, which it certainly should be. If the penalties are severe enough, it shouldn't be much of a problem.
Let me say that I for one am OK with this, as long as the information is not used for anything except:
A) for non-free ISPs, if I don't pay my bill, they should be able to contact me, and if it goes to a collection agency, that agency should also be able to contact me
B) the information can be released to the authorities with a subpoena
It must NOT EVER be sold to ANY third party, or otherwise be made available to ANYONE.
The idea here is that it's easier to track down people who do break the law. If you aren't breaking the law, then only your own ISP has the information, which I don't think is unreasonable at all.
Viewing pornography perhaps doesn't hurt the viewer, but the person who is performing the pornography is often forced into the situation due to lack of money/lack of education about alternatives.
And you would deny them the option they have chosen? If a lack of education is the cause of the problem, isn't better education the obvious solution?
I could not agree more. Telcos should be prohibited from being ISPs. They're granted a monopoly, which I guess is OK because it's regulated, but they're leveraging that monopoly to boost their competetive ISP service, which is not OK.
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Do you have any idea what the costs are in providing DSL service? I'll give you a hint: offering one year of service costs more than the prices most ISPs charge their customers for a year of service. That's a tough market to enter.
For example, a document might be available in several languages under the same URI, and the user might want to point somebody to the Canadian version of this document, which has a different URI.
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If you can get everyone you want to talk to to use one of those other clients and protocols, great! Go for it. You no longer have a problem.
For the rest of us, it's an issue. If I stop using AIM, I lose contact with over a hundred people, and suggesting that I should just tell all of them to install some other chat client is absurd.
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If you can get everyone you want to talk to to use your client, great, you do that.
You want to talk to me. I'm already running AIM to keep in contact with around a hundred people - what incentive do I have to install your client on my system, running alongside AIM and consuming system resources? I don't want to talk to you that badly.
After all, it's AOL people, I find it strange that Slashdot geeks want to interact with clueless AOL minions !!!
I have to point out that despite appearances, AIM and AOL are NOT the same thing. The vast majority of AIM users are not AOL users. I frequent Computing Chat on AIM, and many of the "regulars" there are running FreeBSD or Linux - the AOL users almost never go into AIM chats.
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Not without hacking the client, which I'm sure AOL doesn't like either.
2) aol agreed to make their im service available to other clients as part of their agreement with the ftc. as a condition of their merger with time warner.
Their service is available. Just use the TOC protocol, like TiK does (and Gaim can).
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This is AOL's proposal for an open architecture that allows competing IM services to exchange instant messages. If implemented, this would allow AIM users to communicate with users of Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber et al.
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Do you know how file and creator types work? What the BNDL (bundle) bit does? What types of things are stored in the desktop file? In the PRAM? What does it mean when a cdev contains an INIT resource? This is just a start - and this is the stuff that is not easy to learn, but makes using and troubleshooting a Mac a more productive experience.
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Um, France does have jurisdiction, because Yahoo has an office in France. If Yahoo ignored the French government, the French government could have Yahoo employees in France arrested, their equipment impounded, and other nasty things. So, it's in Yahoo's best interests to comply with the law.
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Sure. The intent is obviously to facilitate trading of music that has been expressly licensed for such distribution. Offspring and Brunching Shuttlecocks have been mentioned on Slashdot; Napster has a list of more.
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Um.. I usually find that checking to see if the user agent contains "Win" or "Mac" or "X11" is a pretty good way to determine OS...
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I've never heard of filtering out JavaScript at a firewall; I have difficulty imagining how that might be possible. Turning off JavaScript by default on everyone's workstations seems far more likely, but I've seen several corporate intranet sites that require JavaScript.
The fear of alienating users is a problem, and that's why the W3C wants to push people to upgrade - so that it will one day be possible to create good clean sites, but only alienate a small percentage of users.
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Today, yes. It wasn't common at the time, which was the point.
Not sure if it predates Marathon, but ROTT had dual pistols mode...
Been a long time since I played either, but I think Marathon was first. Might be wrong.
I was playing on 6100s at the time and I thought it was sluggish.
Were you using a PowerPC-native version? If you were playing a 68k version of Marathon on a 6100, it would have been running entirely in emulation, which would have been considerably slower than a 40MHz Quadra.
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So the cards malfunctioned. They'll be replaced as quickly as possible, free of charge. Presumably, these cards are licensed, not sold, and they are supported by DirecTV.
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Or make it illegal, which it certainly should be. If the penalties are severe enough, it shouldn't be much of a problem.
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A) for non-free ISPs, if I don't pay my bill, they should be able to contact me, and if it goes to a collection agency, that agency should also be able to contact me
B) the information can be released to the authorities with a subpoena
It must NOT EVER be sold to ANY third party, or otherwise be made available to ANYONE.
The idea here is that it's easier to track down people who do break the law. If you aren't breaking the law, then only your own ISP has the information, which I don't think is unreasonable at all.
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And you would deny them the option they have chosen? If a lack of education is the cause of the problem, isn't better education the obvious solution?
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Since when is Canadian a language?
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