Are you sure you didn't give your name to your College or anything? I know the instant I got in college my name was on EVERY credit card companies hit list (Particularly GTE, who will not stop hounding you until you remember (at 7:00 Saturday morning!!!) to tell them to take you off of their list). Basically, you can expect to spend your first couple of semesters trying to get off of everybody's calling list.
As far as I can tell, Amazon has never sold my name to anybody, as I never got calls at my co-op apartments or once I got out of college.
Then again, I may just be lucky and missed all of the telemarketers Amazon sent my way...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
One thing I'm wondering is what are they going to do about the Iron Chefs themselves? Find new ones, bring over the old ones, or let Shatner bring his own?
Iron Chef Vulcan is Sabal.
Iron Chef Klingon is Ga'Rath.
Iron Chef Federation is Ken Kenichi.
and Mordal is Iron Chef Ferengi.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Hmm, I thought Crossfire was dead, I never saw anybody else playing it 5 years ago when I tried it out, and now look at this! Did they ever fix the keyboard repeat problem? I remember one of the biggest annoyances with the game was accidentally letting your finger rest on a key while moving in a direction and then getting a 100 moves queued up, which usually involved your running into a wall right next to one of those huge immobile wizards or something. Well that and trying to remember what key was bound to what spell.
Also, are they still sending that huge X11 window over the network for the multiplayer games? I just might have to try it out again now.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
At one point in the series the Tick decided he needed a "battle cry." Well he was a super hero and all, and of course all super heros have battle cries. Unfortunatly he eating soup when this idea accidentally collided with his tick-sized brain. Arthur (his sidekick with the moth outfit) stayed perfectly in character and choose "Not in the face!" as his battle cry. It was a classic moment in the series.
Nobody is prepared for the return of the Ottoman Empire!
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
The article harps on and on about how these quotes were taken out of context, yet isn't it the job of the defendant's lawyer to give context to those quotes (and to explain his clients actions and why these threats were not real?)
I'm by no means a fan of $cientology, but I have the strange feeling I'm only getting 1/2 the story here. Certainly his lawyer should have explained that the usenet posts were a joke and the jury shouldn't have given it a second thought (the post in the google archive isn't terribly threatning IMHO, you'd need see-through thin skin to be affected by it). All in all, something just isn't adding up here.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Wow, looks like a few people forgot turn on their humor detectors this morning. -1 flaimbait and two flames? I guess it's a self fullfilling moderation!
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Perhaps there is a lot of natural gas in that area? Given the size of the river in your picture, that photo was taken from pretty high up and covered a fairly large area (tens of miles in each direction as a rough estimate). There could be a lot of natural gas in that area in the form of smallish pockets (which is actually how it is normally found aparently) and you need a fairly large number of wells and pipes to really exploit an area.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Why don't you think these are pipelines? They look just like the natural gas pipelines out by where I live. The pipelines themselves are buried, but a pipeline access road runs over top of the line. These lines are laid down straight as an arrow through whatever terrain might be in the way. Bicycling on these roads is lots of fun as they generally go over mountains instead of through them, sometimes going over *VERY* steep hills (the kind where you have to get off the bike and more or less just pull it up behind you). If the roads are graveled in, then they would show up bright like that against a relativly dark soil.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Agent Smith apparently never downloaded the Nature Channel. The only thing keeping animals from growing out of control and eating everything in sight is that they just aren't all that good at hunting/reproducing/staying alive, at least as compared to humans. Check out what happens in an area when a local wolf mauls some baby. The wolves are "relocated" elsewhere and the deer population starts exploding until they literally eat everything in sight.
I can guarentee that if some big preadator (like Lions or something) suddenly discovered an easy and effective way to hunt, their population would explode until the prey supply was exausted, then they would starve to death if they don't move on to another area. Humans are the only animals on the planet that actually make a concious effort to not eradicate certain speices some of the time, even when its in our power.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I've got bad news for you. Nothing in the world is perfectly safe. The reason the Nuclear industry starts spouting off numbers like 1 in 10^6 is because that's how they designed the reactors in the first place. Thus far the most convincing arguments against nuclear power that I've seen is the possiblility of a terrorist acquiring weapons grade plutonium from a breeder reactor, but it seems easier for that terrorist just to loudly proclaim that they hate the US and have radical arab extremist groups just hand him all the bombs he'll ever need.
Well, maybe it's not that simple, but I've always liked the idea of dismantling the worlds nuclear missiles for use in breeder reactors, turning the weapons of mass destruction into the power source of the future. It would be just like the early nuclear proponents said it would be!
Plus the handling procedures wouldn't be that much more complicated than the ones currently used to decomssion missiles.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Well, I remember back in '93 or so there was a game by Atari (it was called Space Lords IIRC) that consisted of sevearl consoles networked together. My local arcade had four machines networked and the whole thing set up as a 4 (or 8 since you could have a "gunner" on each console) deathmatch. It was loads of fun, but I never saw it again after moving out of the area in '93. Now early nintys is still a bit recent for nostalga, but at least there was one networked arcade game.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Damn, now I'm a little annoyed that my Latitude wasn't subject to the recall.:)
There's another side to this. Laptop batteries degrade slowly over time. I certainly noticed this. When I first got my laptop I could play a full DVD and half of another one before the battery would start getting low. Now I'm only barely finishing the first one before it's time to swap batteries. Too bad the battery charger puts so much noise on the audio lines (there is a definate warbling hum on the speakers when I plug the laptop into the TV) and I have to run it off of battery power to watch DVDs.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Yep, Dell makes some pretty good laptops, although I have a couple of issues with my Latitude CPxH that really prevent me from recommending them to my friends.
These suckers get hot. If you leave the machine in your lap and do some work, you will be sweating in a half hour or less, even in a cold room. Unfortunatly, this appears to be a feature of all PII and PIII based laptops I've tried so far.
Screen marks. This is the real killer, some of the keys on the keyboard (spacebar especially) sometimes work loose a little and leave perminant marks on the screen (when the lid is closed, the keys rub on the screen). I've seen this on several models of Latitudes now, from the old P166 to the new PIII500s.
Flaky graphics on the newer machines. The ATI Rage mobility is a mediocre card with horrendous Windows drivers. I got tired of reading ATIDRAB.DLL on the BSODs after awhile, and the backing store on the pointer frequently got messed up and effectivly hid the pointer. The TV-out is a nice touch though, I wish more laptops had it.
This isn't the first time there's been problems with batteries from Dell, these Latitudes had the exact same problem (although it was caught before any laptop cought fire last time). Dell needs to ditch this battery manufacturer.
The screws that holds the keyboard flush with the case tend to work their way out after awhile. This is pretty minor except that the arrow keys get really mushy and insensitive if you don't keep on top of it.
Only two buttons on the trackpad. Sony and HP figured it out, why can't you Dell?
The docking station for these guys is flaky. Mine seem to die about every 6 months or so, and I take good care of it. The sound passthrough doesn't work right at all, and serial port traffic is very spotty through the dock (I've put my palm cradle on another machine because the Dell was never able to successfully finish syncing before losing connection).
Dell does ship a fairly nice DVD drive (a Toshiba, much better than the Mitsumis on the HPs), no complaints there
There's only one PS/2 port on the back, which seems commonplace with laptops these days, although I can't figure out why. USB mice and keyboards aren't really available in numbers yet, and if you hook up a keyboard, you are almost certainly going to hook up a mouse. Serial mice are getting pretty hard to find these days as well, and it's not like there isn't enough room on the back to shoehorn another PS/2 port in there.
Well, this is probablly more than anybody wanted to read. If you have the impression that I wouldn't really recommend any laptop on the market right now, you'd probably be right, although I'd love for someone to prove me wrong on that last point.:)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
From the trade show pictures, this looks a lot like some of the existing PocketPCs already available on the market. How is this going to be better (cheaper/faster/etc...) than the existing products? Unfortunatly the architecture page consisted of a logo and a "ready by 9/2000" comment.
My biggest fear is that these people don't realize how complex lots of problems are, like how to provide a good interface for a variety of people. They may (like many computer language designers) try to sweep the complexity under someone elses rug under the guise of keeping it "simple". Will this thing have an programmers interface that requires you to do everything, or maybe hardware requirements that make even jaded manufacturers cringe? Or worse, are they going to force you to reinvent the wheel a lot by not including all of that "complexity".
Apologies to Larry Wall for stealing that metaphor.
Hopefully I'm way off base here and there was a link in there I didn't notice...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Another program that uses a Lisp like language (actually Scheme IIRC) is the Gimp. Maybe you've heard of it?:)
Functional languages have some useful properties that can make some things really easy and fast (recursive list processing algorithms for instance).
Unfortunatly, most functional programming languages are toys that sometimes get used in big projects. Before anyone flames me to a crisp, I'd like to point out how bad the I/O is in Lisp, and how hard it is to properly handle the myriad possible errors a program has to handle gracefully when working with humans. Also, most lisp engines I've seen are interpreted (save for things like the Lisp Machine). Now this doesn't prevent you from doing very powerful very high level things with Lisp, but for the most part you can do them easier and faster with C, also it's nigh impossible to do very low level things with Lisp (At least from with what's available). Lisp is truely the language of the theoretical math major.
Please hold on until I finish donning my asbestos underwear, thank you.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
One thing I noticed about Black and White is that if your input device has very low resolution (say your comptuer is overtaxed and only servicing interrupts every 100ms or so), then the gesture based input can be a real pain, but when I'm on a fast enough machine (with a good precision mouse) the gestures are easy to preform. The problem with slow input is that when you go around a curve, the mouse may only register at two or three points along the curve, and your software will interpolate that into a straight line between those points. If what you are trying to draw is curved, then there is a good chance the recognition software will get it wrong.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Legally no, the band turns over all rights to the music when they sign with a recording company. Most bands aren't even allowed to play their own music without express written consent from their label.
Basically, how this works is the labels passed a seedy law that declares the band's music a "work for hire" which means the record company owns the rights to the music, however they don't actually pay the bands outright (just give them a tiny cut of the sales and an advance that they have to pay back), which is one reason so many bands go broke so quick.
The upshot is, most bands seem to have the legal savvy of a brain dead bacteria, and for some reason they don't hire lawyers to look at the contracts they sign, or perhaps record companies avoid signing people who seem to know how to read.
Come to think of it, this is not the first time this has been mentioned on Slashdot, maybe you should check the archives for a more complete discussion on this topic.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Although it probably won't apply to you, I remember a few years back when I worked for SGI and everyone had an Indycam or an O2cam on their desktop there was a package you could install called "securitylight" that basically functioned as a simple security camera. It wasn't very sophisticated (basically taking a picture every 2 seconds and only storing the deltas between frames, complete with timestamps). The software worked really good, and didn't use up too much disk space and kept really nice pictures.
Rumor has it the software was written originally because an SGI owned warehouse kept getting ripped off overnight even with the security guard on duty. It turns out the security guard was bringing his girlfriend in for sex, and she was swiping supplies on her way out. Of course this anecdote is all fourth or fifth generation information, all accuracy may be coincidental.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Except you can't post with it. I used to use that as well, but it's a compltely one way experiance. And really, what's the fun of using slashdot if you aren't flaming people to a crisp.:)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
It's not a bug, its a feature. Although the handling of less thans is less than ideal (it should just convert them), the adding of spaces to URLs is intentional. Before slashdot did that, there were some jerkoffs who liked to post comments with 10000 character long URLs that would cause most browsers to either choke or make you constantly scroll left and right to read the comments. The breaks in long lines (URLs are very long lines) prevent that from happening, although it does add some annoyance to copy-and-paste URLs (Hint: use the Anchor tag!)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Heh, that reminds me of the days when I could hear network traffic (over the 19200 ROLM data connection). It was great actually, I could hear when a transfer stalled and when someone logged into my machine (bzzzzzt, bzt, bzt, bzt, bzt....) I could hear every keystroke transmitted over the line, and all I needed was poorly shielded cables. and crosstalk on the ISA bus.:)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I think you hit the nail directly on the head with this one. Most companies aren't really all that adverse to working with free software, but if they can't make any money off of the product they can't produce it. The GPL intentionally makes it very difficult to make money off of the software. However the BSD license allows a company to "value add" software and sell those enhancements for a profit. This is why you see FreeBSD hidden in things like routers (Juniper Routers for instance) and firewall. While the concept of profit may be abhorant to some of the more rabid GPL zealots, the simple fact is that profit is the basis for a capitalist economy, which is what keeps America running.
Of course there are advantages to the GPL from a community sofware point of view. In fact for personal projects it is probably the superior license, but if you are a for-profit company the GPL is something of a hinderence.
Flames away...:/
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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Are you sure you didn't give your name to your College or anything? I know the instant I got in college my name was on EVERY credit card companies hit list (Particularly GTE, who will not stop hounding you until you remember (at 7:00 Saturday morning!!!) to tell them to take you off of their list). Basically, you can expect to spend your first couple of semesters trying to get off of everybody's calling list.
As far as I can tell, Amazon has never sold my name to anybody, as I never got calls at my co-op apartments or once I got out of college.
Then again, I may just be lucky and missed all of the telemarketers Amazon sent my way...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
One thing I'm wondering is what are they going to do about the Iron Chefs themselves? Find new ones, bring over the old ones, or let Shatner bring his own?
Iron Chef Vulcan is Sabal.
Iron Chef Klingon is Ga'Rath.
Iron Chef Federation is Ken Kenichi.
and Mordal is Iron Chef Ferengi.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Hmm, I thought Crossfire was dead, I never saw anybody else playing it 5 years ago when I tried it out, and now look at this! Did they ever fix the keyboard repeat problem? I remember one of the biggest annoyances with the game was accidentally letting your finger rest on a key while moving in a direction and then getting a 100 moves queued up, which usually involved your running into a wall right next to one of those huge immobile wizards or something. Well that and trying to remember what key was bound to what spell.
Also, are they still sending that huge X11 window over the network for the multiplayer games? I just might have to try it out again now.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
At one point in the series the Tick decided he needed a "battle cry." Well he was a super hero and all, and of course all super heros have battle cries. Unfortunatly he eating soup when this idea accidentally collided with his tick-sized brain. Arthur (his sidekick with the moth outfit) stayed perfectly in character and choose "Not in the face!" as his battle cry. It was a classic moment in the series.
Nobody is prepared for the return of the Ottoman Empire!
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
The article harps on and on about how these quotes were taken out of context, yet isn't it the job of the defendant's lawyer to give context to those quotes (and to explain his clients actions and why these threats were not real?)
I'm by no means a fan of $cientology, but I have the strange feeling I'm only getting 1/2 the story here. Certainly his lawyer should have explained that the usenet posts were a joke and the jury shouldn't have given it a second thought (the post in the google archive isn't terribly threatning IMHO, you'd need see-through thin skin to be affected by it). All in all, something just isn't adding up here.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Wow, looks like a few people forgot turn on their humor detectors this morning. -1 flaimbait and two flames? I guess it's a self fullfilling moderation!
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
According to NANPA, those code are for Washington and Nevada respectivley.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Perhaps there is a lot of natural gas in that area? Given the size of the river in your picture, that photo was taken from pretty high up and covered a fairly large area (tens of miles in each direction as a rough estimate). There could be a lot of natural gas in that area in the form of smallish pockets (which is actually how it is normally found aparently) and you need a fairly large number of wells and pipes to really exploit an area.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Why don't you think these are pipelines? They look just like the natural gas pipelines out by where I live. The pipelines themselves are buried, but a pipeline access road runs over top of the line. These lines are laid down straight as an arrow through whatever terrain might be in the way. Bicycling on these roads is lots of fun as they generally go over mountains instead of through them, sometimes going over *VERY* steep hills (the kind where you have to get off the bike and more or less just pull it up behind you). If the roads are graveled in, then they would show up bright like that against a relativly dark soil.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Agent Smith apparently never downloaded the Nature Channel. The only thing keeping animals from growing out of control and eating everything in sight is that they just aren't all that good at hunting/reproducing/staying alive, at least as compared to humans. Check out what happens in an area when a local wolf mauls some baby. The wolves are "relocated" elsewhere and the deer population starts exploding until they literally eat everything in sight.
I can guarentee that if some big preadator (like Lions or something) suddenly discovered an easy and effective way to hunt, their population would explode until the prey supply was exausted, then they would starve to death if they don't move on to another area. Humans are the only animals on the planet that actually make a concious effort to not eradicate certain speices some of the time, even when its in our power.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I've got bad news for you. Nothing in the world is perfectly safe. The reason the Nuclear industry starts spouting off numbers like 1 in 10^6 is because that's how they designed the reactors in the first place. Thus far the most convincing arguments against nuclear power that I've seen is the possiblility of a terrorist acquiring weapons grade plutonium from a breeder reactor, but it seems easier for that terrorist just to loudly proclaim that they hate the US and have radical arab extremist groups just hand him all the bombs he'll ever need.
Well, maybe it's not that simple, but I've always liked the idea of dismantling the worlds nuclear missiles for use in breeder reactors, turning the weapons of mass destruction into the power source of the future. It would be just like the early nuclear proponents said it would be!
Plus the handling procedures wouldn't be that much more complicated than the ones currently used to decomssion missiles.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Well, I remember back in '93 or so there was a game by Atari (it was called Space Lords IIRC) that consisted of sevearl consoles networked together. My local arcade had four machines networked and the whole thing set up as a 4 (or 8 since you could have a "gunner" on each console) deathmatch. It was loads of fun, but I never saw it again after moving out of the area in '93. Now early nintys is still a bit recent for nostalga, but at least there was one networked arcade game.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Yes, but you have to be careful and make sure no pop star computers take over control of your aircraft.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Damn, now I'm a little annoyed that my Latitude wasn't subject to the recall. :)
There's another side to this. Laptop batteries degrade slowly over time. I certainly noticed this. When I first got my laptop I could play a full DVD and half of another one before the battery would start getting low. Now I'm only barely finishing the first one before it's time to swap batteries. Too bad the battery charger puts so much noise on the audio lines (there is a definate warbling hum on the speakers when I plug the laptop into the TV) and I have to run it off of battery power to watch DVDs.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
From the trade show pictures, this looks a lot like some of the existing PocketPCs already available on the market. How is this going to be better (cheaper/faster/etc...) than the existing products? Unfortunatly the architecture page consisted of a logo and a "ready by 9/2000" comment.
My biggest fear is that these people don't realize how complex lots of problems are, like how to provide a good interface for a variety of people. They may (like many computer language designers) try to sweep the complexity under someone elses rug under the guise of keeping it "simple". Will this thing have an programmers interface that requires you to do everything, or maybe hardware requirements that make even jaded manufacturers cringe? Or worse, are they going to force you to reinvent the wheel a lot by not including all of that "complexity".
Apologies to Larry Wall for stealing that metaphor.
Hopefully I'm way off base here and there was a link in there I didn't notice...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Another program that uses a Lisp like language (actually Scheme IIRC) is the Gimp. Maybe you've heard of it? :)
Functional languages have some useful properties that can make some things really easy and fast (recursive list processing algorithms for instance).
Unfortunatly, most functional programming languages are toys that sometimes get used in big projects. Before anyone flames me to a crisp, I'd like to point out how bad the I/O is in Lisp, and how hard it is to properly handle the myriad possible errors a program has to handle gracefully when working with humans. Also, most lisp engines I've seen are interpreted (save for things like the Lisp Machine). Now this doesn't prevent you from doing very powerful very high level things with Lisp, but for the most part you can do them easier and faster with C, also it's nigh impossible to do very low level things with Lisp (At least from with what's available). Lisp is truely the language of the theoretical math major.
Please hold on until I finish donning my asbestos underwear, thank you.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
One thing I noticed about Black and White is that if your input device has very low resolution (say your comptuer is overtaxed and only servicing interrupts every 100ms or so), then the gesture based input can be a real pain, but when I'm on a fast enough machine (with a good precision mouse) the gestures are easy to preform. The problem with slow input is that when you go around a curve, the mouse may only register at two or three points along the curve, and your software will interpolate that into a straight line between those points. If what you are trying to draw is curved, then there is a good chance the recognition software will get it wrong.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
+1 Insightful?
I don't even know what he's talking about with the anti-american stuff.
+1 Insightful
Metamod to the rescue!
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Legally no, the band turns over all rights to the music when they sign with a recording company. Most bands aren't even allowed to play their own music without express written consent from their label.
Basically, how this works is the labels passed a seedy law that declares the band's music a "work for hire" which means the record company owns the rights to the music, however they don't actually pay the bands outright (just give them a tiny cut of the sales and an advance that they have to pay back), which is one reason so many bands go broke so quick.
The upshot is, most bands seem to have the legal savvy of a brain dead bacteria, and for some reason they don't hire lawyers to look at the contracts they sign, or perhaps record companies avoid signing people who seem to know how to read.
Come to think of it, this is not the first time this has been mentioned on Slashdot, maybe you should check the archives for a more complete discussion on this topic.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Although it probably won't apply to you, I remember a few years back when I worked for SGI and everyone had an Indycam or an O2cam on their desktop there was a package you could install called "securitylight" that basically functioned as a simple security camera. It wasn't very sophisticated (basically taking a picture every 2 seconds and only storing the deltas between frames, complete with timestamps). The software worked really good, and didn't use up too much disk space and kept really nice pictures.
Rumor has it the software was written originally because an SGI owned warehouse kept getting ripped off overnight even with the security guard on duty. It turns out the security guard was bringing his girlfriend in for sex, and she was swiping supplies on her way out. Of course this anecdote is all fourth or fifth generation information, all accuracy may be coincidental.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Except you can't post with it. I used to use that as well, but it's a compltely one way experiance. And really, what's the fun of using slashdot if you aren't flaming people to a crisp. :)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
It's not a bug, its a feature. Although the handling of less thans is less than ideal (it should just convert them), the adding of spaces to URLs is intentional. Before slashdot did that, there were some jerkoffs who liked to post comments with 10000 character long URLs that would cause most browsers to either choke or make you constantly scroll left and right to read the comments. The breaks in long lines (URLs are very long lines) prevent that from happening, although it does add some annoyance to copy-and-paste URLs (Hint: use the Anchor tag!)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Heh, that reminds me of the days when I could hear network traffic (over the 19200 ROLM data connection). It was great actually, I could hear when a transfer stalled and when someone logged into my machine (bzzzzzt, bzt, bzt, bzt, bzt....) I could hear every keystroke transmitted over the line, and all I needed was poorly shielded cables. and crosstalk on the ISA bus. :)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I think you hit the nail directly on the head with this one. Most companies aren't really all that adverse to working with free software, but if they can't make any money off of the product they can't produce it. The GPL intentionally makes it very difficult to make money off of the software. However the BSD license allows a company to "value add" software and sell those enhancements for a profit. This is why you see FreeBSD hidden in things like routers (Juniper Routers for instance) and firewall. While the concept of profit may be abhorant to some of the more rabid GPL zealots, the simple fact is that profit is the basis for a capitalist economy, which is what keeps America running.
:/
Of course there are advantages to the GPL from a community sofware point of view. In fact for personal projects it is probably the superior license, but if you are a for-profit company the GPL is something of a hinderence.
Flames away...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.