You tell me the best way to learn to work with computers: a) closed APIs, thousand dollar development tools, total lack of system documentation, indifferent support; b) open system, open code-base, reams of documentation at every level, avid user support world-wide.
I would just like to point out that VBA comes free with MS Office apps. It includes a state-of-the-art IDE, comprehensive documentation and can be incorporated with many other Windows programs. Moreover, it allows a complete novice to work their way up from simple Macros to Scripting (VBS), web programming (VBS/ASP), and full scale Windows programming (VB). VB learning edition, btw, was only $100 last time I looked, not the thousands that you claim.
Hardly. There are already tools (SubSeven comes to mind) that can do this and far more.
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We are put on earth to serve a purpose, the purpose is to seek God and sort Him out from the evil.
How is this purpose served when thousands are allowed to die as a consequence of another persons choice? If it were about each person choosing God over evil, God would allow each person the opportunity to make that choice, would he not? He would not allow one person to take thousands of lives, because that would mean thousands of people entering heaven (or whatever) without indicating what their choice might be.
You talk about all of this freedom, choice and opportunity that God gives us. Yet, clearly, not all people are allowed to excercise their will. Do some people take precedent over others?
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God knows what's in your heart.
So, if God kows what is in our heart, why does he allow thousands to die and thousands of others to suffer so that he can determine what choices one person will make?
If God created us, knows the choices we can make, and knows (based on what is in our heart) what choices we will make, why is he wasting our time with these false decisions and mind games?
I would assume that the prefernce would be based on whatever language you used before migrating to whatever#. Seems like their ultimate goal might be to create a single standard development language (controlled by M$, of course).
She states that lesser selling but still popular artists have a hard time finding their fans in efficient ways, and fans have needed more direct access to their favorite artists and easy access to ever part of their creative output.
As far as I can tell, the RIAA is the primary obstacle to both of these goals.
yes, but simple text and Chinese... that's like comparing apples to oranges, no?
Not in this case, since the chip translates text in to written phonemes. This just means that the Chinese language text would have to be written phonetically, in simple text. How it handles the tonal aspect of Mandarin is another story, but I suspect that there is some phonetic writing scheme that accounts for this.
Metallica identified actual users of the Napster service who were pirating material and demanded that Napster take steps to assist enforcement of the law by blocking those users.
I think that even this case goes too far. Metallica should only have been allowed to force Napster to block users from pirating thier own material. Why should Metallica have the right to block someone from using Napster to trade public domain material?
It's only wrong if it's commercial stuff and I don't own the copyright. If I want to give my own copyrighted stuff away, that's my perogative. If someone else copyrights stuff and wishes to distribute it free of charge, copyright intact, that's up to them too. What's wrong with that?
It is wrong because it gives consumers what they want in a way that is hard to profit from. As such, it provides a product that is more convenient and better priced than the products offered by the RIAA/MPAA. Obviously, thier argument has nothing to do with law or priciple. It is about maintaing their content cartel, and squeezing out competition. This industry was weaned on a monopolistic control of content distribution. They simply do not know how to survive in a market place where content is not carefully controlled and vastly overpriced. They will fight large scale distribution of free/cheap content to the(ir) death.
So - if fair use is giving a free copy of something to a friend
That is not fair use. But let's pretend it is for the time being. . .
I'd have to ask: is every stranger you meet on the internet a friend?
No. What's your point? Even if this were fair use, the law wouldn't stipulate that you can only share with someone that you trust enough to share your credit card.
The fact is that I would share credit card data with very few people, but share music with many. "Scale" can't be central to the argument if it only applies in a limited number of situations.
It seems like the ability to post something and then go back and edit it into something completely different would invite confusion and abuse.
Perhaps a better solution would be an option to append comments to a post, after it has been submitted. This would be an improvement to posting my sheepish corrections in a reply to my own comment.
But the result of deploying these (say, matching for "%20" in a URI) as intrusion detection system rules would be a high false positive rate.
From the article:
""%20" Requests
This is the hex value of a blank space. While this doesn't mean youre being exploited, it is
something you may want to look for in your logs. Some web applications you run may use these
characters in valid requests, so check your logs carefully. On the other hand, this request
is occasionally used to help execute commands."
Until you've got to delete a few thousand, when DEL *.OBJ starts to look pretty sweet.
I don't know. After all these years, I am still mesmerized by that animated file flying from the Folder to the Recycle Bin. It's well worth the several minutes it takes to appear if you have seveal thousand files to discard. It is also quite helpful to to see the file names flash by at about 100 per second. All in all, well worth the extra time and memory required to process.
Moral: Windows can trash your filesystem so hard and so deep not even DOS can save you. Before windows, CHKDSK/F did just dandy
The only time I have had to re-install Win98 was when Scandisk found a problem and then offered to "fix" it.
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roughly: beneath heaven, nothing above.
You tell me the best way to learn to work with computers: a) closed APIs, thousand dollar development tools, total lack of system documentation, indifferent support; b) open system, open code-base, reams of documentation at every level, avid user support world-wide.
I would just like to point out that VBA comes free with MS Office apps. It includes a state-of-the-art IDE, comprehensive documentation and can be incorporated with many other Windows programs. Moreover, it allows a complete novice to work their way up from simple Macros to Scripting (VBS), web programming (VBS/ASP), and full scale Windows programming (VB). VB learning edition, btw, was only $100 last time I looked, not the thousands that you claim.
Hardly. There are already tools (SubSeven comes to mind) that can do this and far more.
We are put on earth to serve a purpose, the purpose is to seek God and sort Him out from the evil.
How is this purpose served when thousands are allowed to die as a consequence of another persons choice? If it were about each person choosing God over evil, God would allow each person the opportunity to make that choice, would he not? He would not allow one person to take thousands of lives, because that would mean thousands of people entering heaven (or whatever) without indicating what their choice might be.
You talk about all of this freedom, choice and opportunity that God gives us. Yet, clearly, not all people are allowed to excercise their will. Do some people take precedent over others?
God knows what's in your heart.
So, if God kows what is in our heart, why does he allow thousands to die and thousands of others to suffer so that he can determine what choices one person will make?
If God created us, knows the choices we can make, and knows (based on what is in our heart) what choices we will make, why is he wasting our time with these false decisions and mind games?
I would assume that the prefernce would be based on whatever language you used before migrating to whatever#. Seems like their ultimate goal might be to create a single standard development language (controlled by M$, of course).
Maybe it will force you to write phonetically. Kind of like "speech recognition" that forces you to adopt an awkward method of speech.
Hell, as far as english goes, that might not be a bad thing over the long run.
She states that lesser selling but still popular artists have a hard time finding their fans in efficient ways, and fans have needed more direct access to their favorite artists and easy access to ever part of their creative output.
As far as I can tell, the RIAA is the primary obstacle to both of these goals.
It is more politically correct to simply request your pork fried rice with extra spit.
I would assume that it could recognize and handle a dash appropriately.
You're right though: rough, bough, cough, laughter, slaughter etc. might give it trouble (they certainly gave Ricky Ricardo a headache).
It would have to do a lot more than simply translate the text to phonemes to be effective with English.
Nooope, watch my lil PDA Do it for me!
Now hang on a second while I enter the text I want translated at 10 words per minute. . .
yes, but simple text and Chinese ... that's like comparing apples to oranges, no?
Not in this case, since the chip translates text in to written phonemes. This just means that the Chinese language text would have to be written phonetically, in simple text. How it handles the tonal aspect of Mandarin is another story, but I suspect that there is some phonetic writing scheme that accounts for this.
Metallica identified actual users of the Napster service who were pirating material and demanded that Napster take steps to assist enforcement of the law by blocking those users.
I think that even this case goes too far. Metallica should only have been allowed to force Napster to block users from pirating thier own material. Why should Metallica have the right to block someone from using Napster to trade public domain material?
It's only wrong if it's commercial stuff and I don't own the copyright. If I want to give my own copyrighted stuff away, that's my perogative. If someone else copyrights stuff and wishes to distribute it free of charge, copyright intact, that's up to them too. What's wrong with that?
It is wrong because it gives consumers what they want in a way that is hard to profit from. As such, it provides a product that is more convenient and better priced than the products offered by the RIAA/MPAA. Obviously, thier argument has nothing to do with law or priciple. It is about maintaing their content cartel, and squeezing out competition. This industry was weaned on a monopolistic control of content distribution. They simply do not know how to survive in a market place where content is not carefully controlled and vastly overpriced. They will fight large scale distribution of free/cheap content to the(ir) death.
The differences aren't huge, but they are there and worth nothing. [emphasis added]
Freudian slip?
So - if fair use is giving a free copy of something to a friend
That is not fair use. But let's pretend it is for the time being. . .
I'd have to ask: is every stranger you meet on the internet a friend?
No. What's your point? Even if this were fair use, the law wouldn't stipulate that you can only share with someone that you trust enough to share your credit card.
The fact is that I would share credit card data with very few people, but share music with many. "Scale" can't be central to the argument if it only applies in a limited number of situations.
You could also re-take the SAT. But, why should you have to go through that hassle because of a loophole in the scoring system?
It seems like the ability to post something and then go back and edit it into something completely different would invite confusion and abuse.
Perhaps a better solution would be an option to append comments to a post, after it has been submitted. This would be an improvement to posting my sheepish corrections in a reply to my own comment.
I never use spaces in file names either. However, file names are not the only strings that will appear in your logs if you run web applications.
That article doesn't cover too many port 80 exploits.
Nor does yours.
This discussion is about fingerprinting exploits. The article you reference discusses fingerprinting servers. Big difference.
But the result of deploying these (say, matching for "%20" in a URI) as intrusion detection system rules would be a high false positive rate.
From the article:
""%20" Requests
This is the hex value of a blank space. While this doesn't mean youre being exploited, it is
something you may want to look for in your logs. Some web applications you run may use these
characters in valid requests, so check your logs carefully. On the other hand, this request
is occasionally used to help execute commands."
What's your beef?
Or better yet, shut it off.
There's a constructive attitude. Don't like something? Don't try to change it. Don't make your voice of dissent heard. QUIT!
3DO, being a now defunct console that was relying on a similar licensing scheme, is far more apropo.
At any rate, we certainly know what is happening to the PC manufacturers.
This is definatly something unique in the Console gaming market.
The only reason that this is "unique" in the (current) market is that 3DO tried it years ago and failed miserably.
Until you've got to delete a few thousand, when DEL *.OBJ starts to look pretty sweet.
I don't know. After all these years, I am still mesmerized by that animated file flying from the Folder to the Recycle Bin. It's well worth the several minutes it takes to appear if you have seveal thousand files to discard. It is also quite helpful to to see the file names flash by at about 100 per second. All in all, well worth the extra time and memory required to process.
Moral: Windows can trash your filesystem so hard and so deep not even DOS can save you. Before windows, CHKDSK/F did just dandy
The only time I have had to re-install Win98 was when Scandisk found a problem and then offered to "fix" it.