Yeah, I feel kind of bad for putting another computer game in that list now. I just wanted an example of something that was hyped to the moon and was ultimately disappointing when it came out.
Er, people already do that all of the time. Many blogs include big (bigger than the tiny amount fair use allows) sections from linked articles that are technically copyright violations.
The point is, if you're trying to do something on the internet that goes against internet conventions, you'd better do your homework and set it up correctly. If you're putting up a site that will be like 99% of all other sites online, then you don't have to do anything special. Finally, the google cache (and archive.org for that matter) are invaluable resources when attempting to look up information that is more than a year old (the average lifetime for information on the internet is only a few months). There is clearly public good being done by these caching services so discarding them wholesale is a step backward for the internet.
Man, when Spore comes out and turns out to have boring sucky gameplay (see: Black and White), all of this hype is going to be embarrassing.
Ok, I have no idea if the gameplay is going to be good or not, but certainly it can't be as good as all of the hype it has been getting. I was as excited as anyone at the demo he gave at E3, but until we have something resembling a beta to play around with I'm going to file this under "pre-release over hyping" and get on with my life. It will have a nice cozy location between Daikatana and the Segway.
So the answer is obvious: Just delist these guys from Google entirely and configure the webcrawler to ignore them. Problem solved and you won't have to worry about them coming back later and claiming that your locally stored copy is also a copyright violation too.
Which is not only completely impractical (very few sites would set the "cacheme" flag because almost nobody would know about it), but counter to the way the internet works. By default you have to assume that anything you post on the internet will be tracked by search engines, blogged about, cached, etc... That happens to _everything_ on the internet, it's the nature of the beast. That's also why the internet works so well. If you want to make your page behave differently than all of the other pages on the internet, then you need to look into setting some very easy to use flags (robots.txt and the meta tags listed above) to change the behavior. You can't assume that just because it's yours that it will be treated specially. If you're really worried about it then don't post on the internet, plain and simple.
I don't know about their laws, but around here convictions for any child pornography charges of any kind will get you put on those lists. There is no judicial discretion in the matter. Since they are minors it might be possible to have their names erased at 18 like with other crimes, but since I've never heard of minors getting prosecuted for child pornography (they're usually the victim!) I'm not entirely sure. As usual, the internet is not your best source for legal advice. Take everything with a grain of salt.
You're lucky to have DSL service on that landline. A lot of people live outside of DSL range and are stuck with Cable for the most part. There are various wireless solutions, but they almost invariably suck for one reason or another (a big one being that the spectrum is just plain limited). There are lots of people that are lucky to have a single broadband option where they live, so they'd better hope that the guys are dicks (Whoops, non-dicky behavior and local monopolies don't go together at all).
At least with DSL you DO have some choice. The phone companies don't want to tell you this, but they're required to share the lines with competitors because it was your tax money that put up a lot of those lines to start with. If your DSL company is jerking you around, you can often switch to Covad or Speakeasy or some other provider and tell your phone company where they can stick it. Beware that most third party DSL providers are more expensive than the phone company, but they generally have much better service and TOS to make up for it.
That is pretty much the reason the.xxx domain failed initiative failed. Even though it was going to be voluntary there were people who were worried that it would create a "red light district on the web". I'm still not sure why that is such a bad thing, but I suspect that similar pressures will derail this bill.
The articles are rather light on details, but I'm wondering if some of these people are using their laptops on a couch and sliding a bit when they sit down? I've had an Inspiron 6000 for a bit over a year now and I've learned in the winter to be careful to set it aside when I'm getting on or off of the couch, lest the static electricity give me a nice zap.
The fact that he's measuring AC (which is very surprising since the laptops don't have any ready access to AC outside of the power brick AFAIK) make it less likely though.
I have to admit, I seriously considered my cable company's DVR when we changed last time, but then I went into the office to try it out and it was nowhere near as useful as the Tivo. FF and Rewind were flaky, there was no 30 second skip, no home media like options, they made it clear they could lock out certain shows from being recorded, etc... The only advantages it had over my Tivo were that it could record HD and it wouldn't require me to set up an IR blaster to change channels (the cable tuner has a serial port, but they disabled it because they're evil).
Plus there is the added expense. I have a lifetime subscription on my Series 2 Tivo, so I'm not rushing to add a $12 a month charge to my bill.
There was also a hack that allowed you to get up to 4 people in a deathmatch over the serial ports (and maybe a modem), by daisy chaining the computers together with null modem cables. It required that two of the computers have two serial ports (not a given in those days), but it worked quite well.
Of course there was always the jerk who wanted to join the game with his 486SX25 and kill everybody's frame rates.:(
I don't know, back when I was in school taking the bus every day, I found I actually preferred reading books on my Palm Pilot (Palm IIIe at the time). It was plenty easy to read and far more portable than regular books (fits comfortably in the pocket). I could even flip on the backlight and read at night unlike a regular book (although this was kind of hard on the eyes). Plus, I could carry around 2 or 3 books on even the puny memory of the Palm.
I think a lot of people are basing their "it's hard to read stuff on screens" perceptions on those old 60Hz fuzzy CRTs they first tried it on, plus the fact that you have to bit sitting in your computer chair instead of a reading chair might have something to do with it.
The only big downside is that I switched away from the Palm when my phone got sophisticated enough to do my daily organizing, so it's no longer nearly as convenient as it used to be, and because my phone is unreadable without the backlight on it's defiantly harder on the eyes.
Is it just me, or does it sound like this was written by someone who was previously making a living off of increasing people's pagerank and is now miffed that his job is harder?
Yeah, when a unit on low terrain fired on an elevated unit, sometimes you'll see the bullets "splash" off of the terrain in front of them. I forget if it's a total miss or if it just reduces the damage taken however.
I tried TA for awhile, but from what I remember the AI was dumber than a sack of rocks and there were a ton of units that did almost the same job. It also ran rather slow on my machine (A P100 at the time), so my perceptions might be skewed.
I think the only way to get some people to switch is to sneak in their house and replace a bulb with a CFL. Then come back a week later and ask them if they've noticed anything. Chances are they won't, because a lot of the "fluorescents suck" is a holdover from the days when they would noticeably flicker and put out cold light. I've actually surprised a few of my friends and family by pointing out that the lamp they've been using is fluorescent.
I picked up some chandelier style CFLs awhile back. Admittedly I had a fixture that tended to overheat incandescent bulbs (they rarely lasted more than a couple of months) and the bulb cost was pretty high ($3/each IIRC), but they work like a charm and don't look bad at all. The bulb is in the shape of a normal chandelier style bulb, the top 3/4 of it is frosted white glass, the bottom 1/4 is white plastic. It has the small style screw on the bottom, but it came with an adapter to let you screw it into a full sized light fixture if you want.
Allergic to the light? That's surprising because CFLs put out a narrower band of light (with more gaps) than an incandescent bulb. Are you sure it wasn't leaking or something?
I have a couple of CFLs designed for outdoor use that work quite well at 20F. I havn't had any -16F nights around here to test it with yet though. For reference, the bulbs were manufactured by Philips and I bought them 3 years ago. They are the old "slow start" variety of CFL, but temperature doesn't seem to bother them much.
The problem is that the further back you go in history the harder it is to determine what is objectively fact, especially with the ancient world where lots of the information is lost or destroyed and much of what is left has obvious biases in it.
One of the most frustrating things in history is to pick up two "authoritative" books and read wildly differing accounts of the same event. Spin is not a new concept.
Why do I have mental images of the fleet in question being full of older gas guzzlers that waste millions of liters of fuel just by being old and obsolete, and the airline of course deciding that in order to save gas they're going to remove the seats and just tape everyone down to the floor, which saves hundreds of liters in the end?
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Yeah, I feel kind of bad for putting another computer game in that list now. I just wanted an example of something that was hyped to the moon and was ultimately disappointing when it came out.
Er, people already do that all of the time. Many blogs include big (bigger than the tiny amount fair use allows) sections from linked articles that are technically copyright violations.
The point is, if you're trying to do something on the internet that goes against internet conventions, you'd better do your homework and set it up correctly. If you're putting up a site that will be like 99% of all other sites online, then you don't have to do anything special. Finally, the google cache (and archive.org for that matter) are invaluable resources when attempting to look up information that is more than a year old (the average lifetime for information on the internet is only a few months). There is clearly public good being done by these caching services so discarding them wholesale is a step backward for the internet.
If it was that simple the sites could have set up a robots.txt a long time ago. Clearly they need a more complete solution.
Man, when Spore comes out and turns out to have boring sucky gameplay (see: Black and White), all of this hype is going to be embarrassing.
Ok, I have no idea if the gameplay is going to be good or not, but certainly it can't be as good as all of the hype it has been getting. I was as excited as anyone at the demo he gave at E3, but until we have something resembling a beta to play around with I'm going to file this under "pre-release over hyping" and get on with my life. It will have a nice cozy location between Daikatana and the Segway.
So the answer is obvious: Just delist these guys from Google entirely and configure the webcrawler to ignore them. Problem solved and you won't have to worry about them coming back later and claiming that your locally stored copy is also a copyright violation too.
Which is not only completely impractical (very few sites would set the "cacheme" flag because almost nobody would know about it), but counter to the way the internet works. By default you have to assume that anything you post on the internet will be tracked by search engines, blogged about, cached, etc... That happens to _everything_ on the internet, it's the nature of the beast. That's also why the internet works so well. If you want to make your page behave differently than all of the other pages on the internet, then you need to look into setting some very easy to use flags (robots.txt and the meta tags listed above) to change the behavior. You can't assume that just because it's yours that it will be treated specially. If you're really worried about it then don't post on the internet, plain and simple.
I don't know about their laws, but around here convictions for any child pornography charges of any kind will get you put on those lists. There is no judicial discretion in the matter. Since they are minors it might be possible to have their names erased at 18 like with other crimes, but since I've never heard of minors getting prosecuted for child pornography (they're usually the victim!) I'm not entirely sure. As usual, the internet is not your best source for legal advice. Take everything with a grain of salt.
Damn, the only thing left to hold them together is the sodomy then.
You're lucky to have DSL service on that landline. A lot of people live outside of DSL range and are stuck with Cable for the most part. There are various wireless solutions, but they almost invariably suck for one reason or another (a big one being that the spectrum is just plain limited). There are lots of people that are lucky to have a single broadband option where they live, so they'd better hope that the guys are dicks (Whoops, non-dicky behavior and local monopolies don't go together at all).
At least with DSL you DO have some choice. The phone companies don't want to tell you this, but they're required to share the lines with competitors because it was your tax money that put up a lot of those lines to start with. If your DSL company is jerking you around, you can often switch to Covad or Speakeasy or some other provider and tell your phone company where they can stick it. Beware that most third party DSL providers are more expensive than the phone company, but they generally have much better service and TOS to make up for it.
That is pretty much the reason the .xxx domain failed initiative failed. Even though it was going to be voluntary there were people who were worried that it would create a "red light district on the web". I'm still not sure why that is such a bad thing, but I suspect that similar pressures will derail this bill.
The articles are rather light on details, but I'm wondering if some of these people are using their laptops on a couch and sliding a bit when they sit down? I've had an Inspiron 6000 for a bit over a year now and I've learned in the winter to be careful to set it aside when I'm getting on or off of the couch, lest the static electricity give me a nice zap.
The fact that he's measuring AC (which is very surprising since the laptops don't have any ready access to AC outside of the power brick AFAIK) make it less likely though.
I have to admit, I seriously considered my cable company's DVR when we changed last time, but then I went into the office to try it out and it was nowhere near as useful as the Tivo. FF and Rewind were flaky, there was no 30 second skip, no home media like options, they made it clear they could lock out certain shows from being recorded, etc... The only advantages it had over my Tivo were that it could record HD and it wouldn't require me to set up an IR blaster to change channels (the cable tuner has a serial port, but they disabled it because they're evil).
Plus there is the added expense. I have a lifetime subscription on my Series 2 Tivo, so I'm not rushing to add a $12 a month charge to my bill.
There was also a hack that allowed you to get up to 4 people in a deathmatch over the serial ports (and maybe a modem), by daisy chaining the computers together with null modem cables. It required that two of the computers have two serial ports (not a given in those days), but it worked quite well.
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Of course there was always the jerk who wanted to join the game with his 486SX25 and kill everybody's frame rates.
I don't know, back when I was in school taking the bus every day, I found I actually preferred reading books on my Palm Pilot (Palm IIIe at the time). It was plenty easy to read and far more portable than regular books (fits comfortably in the pocket). I could even flip on the backlight and read at night unlike a regular book (although this was kind of hard on the eyes). Plus, I could carry around 2 or 3 books on even the puny memory of the Palm.
I think a lot of people are basing their "it's hard to read stuff on screens" perceptions on those old 60Hz fuzzy CRTs they first tried it on, plus the fact that you have to bit sitting in your computer chair instead of a reading chair might have something to do with it.
The only big downside is that I switched away from the Palm when my phone got sophisticated enough to do my daily organizing, so it's no longer nearly as convenient as it used to be, and because my phone is unreadable without the backlight on it's defiantly harder on the eyes.
Have you seen Zoomr? It's obvious that he's spending a lot of time on Flickr just copying every single design element from them.
Is it just me, or does it sound like this was written by someone who was previously making a living off of increasing people's pagerank and is now miffed that his job is harder?
Yeah, when a unit on low terrain fired on an elevated unit, sometimes you'll see the bullets "splash" off of the terrain in front of them. I forget if it's a total miss or if it just reduces the damage taken however.
I tried TA for awhile, but from what I remember the AI was dumber than a sack of rocks and there were a ton of units that did almost the same job. It also ran rather slow on my machine (A P100 at the time), so my perceptions might be skewed.
A "relatively mild" winter for Canada is still a winter. You should really upgrade your heat at some point. It would save a lot on your electric bill.
I think the only way to get some people to switch is to sneak in their house and replace a bulb with a CFL. Then come back a week later and ask them if they've noticed anything. Chances are they won't, because a lot of the "fluorescents suck" is a holdover from the days when they would noticeably flicker and put out cold light. I've actually surprised a few of my friends and family by pointing out that the lamp they've been using is fluorescent.
I picked up some chandelier style CFLs awhile back. Admittedly I had a fixture that tended to overheat incandescent bulbs (they rarely lasted more than a couple of months) and the bulb cost was pretty high ($3/each IIRC), but they work like a charm and don't look bad at all. The bulb is in the shape of a normal chandelier style bulb, the top 3/4 of it is frosted white glass, the bottom 1/4 is white plastic. It has the small style screw on the bottom, but it came with an adapter to let you screw it into a full sized light fixture if you want.
Allergic to the light? That's surprising because CFLs put out a narrower band of light (with more gaps) than an incandescent bulb. Are you sure it wasn't leaking or something?
I have a couple of CFLs designed for outdoor use that work quite well at 20F. I havn't had any -16F nights around here to test it with yet though. For reference, the bulbs were manufactured by Philips and I bought them 3 years ago. They are the old "slow start" variety of CFL, but temperature doesn't seem to bother them much.
You fail at 4th grade math class, you know, the one where you learned how the greater than and less than symbols work?
The problem is that the further back you go in history the harder it is to determine what is objectively fact, especially with the ancient world where lots of the information is lost or destroyed and much of what is left has obvious biases in it.
One of the most frustrating things in history is to pick up two "authoritative" books and read wildly differing accounts of the same event. Spin is not a new concept.
Why do I have mental images of the fleet in question being full of older gas guzzlers that waste millions of liters of fuel just by being old and obsolete, and the airline of course deciding that in order to save gas they're going to remove the seats and just tape everyone down to the floor, which saves hundreds of liters in the end?