No, you don't understand. If we hadn't increased the copyright term to 90 years recently, disney would never have been given the incentive to practise his useful arts back in 1920. The only reason he created the cartoon was that he was relying on that congress would later change copyright to make sure his company could still make money from it in 2005.
Of course, it would be stupid to extend copyright any more retroactively, because that would make illegal disney's plundering of recently-out-of-copyright work to make his cartoon, which would make the copyright status of Steamboat Willie start to oscillate.
Like, for example, the Oxford English Dictionary, created by thousands of volunteers in an open-source effort, now available on the web as costly-subscription-only?
A great idea indeed. And if it encourages research into obscure or dying languages/dialects, that's even better.
People are making jokes about their only language being English, but ask a linguist how useful it would be to have a -detailed- map of dialects. Put "type a euphamism for drugs" as one of the questions, and create maps of dialects.
As the rosetta stone idea goes, one place to start would be webpages with a translation in another language. "Report bilingual pages to study@linguistics.org" or adverts to that effect.
Good luck to them all, and keep us posted when they need help testing it.
I tried that, emailing maplin.com to explain why I wasn't planning to revisit their website (popups) so they wrote back and said "sorry, we've found pop-ups to be very sucessfull and have every intention of continuing to use them"
That was back in the days when I used a javascript-enabled browser. Does anyone know how to make a browser read tags if javascript is supported but not turned on?
(b) xenu's page is now more prominently listed than is scientology.org (especially now we've all been there and clicked on the links)
(c) the top link in the search results lists 2 google categories: scientology, and opposition to scientology
(d) The news story about censorship attempts appears on the second line of the search results, far more prominently than even the paid ads, or the top scientology.org link
Does anyone know who's paying for xenu's ad-word listings; I feel a bit bad about using up the page-displays they've paid for...
How do you think they're getting you to buy more toner? Surely not by using up the toner you already have with printing their advertisements?
I'd have to suggest going to the spammers' office and spraypainting your own slogans on peoples' cars. It wouldn't be greatly different from what they're doing to your fax paper.
Okay, what email program would you reccommend for windows? (not a troll question, honest!)
Ignoring for a moment paid software, so we're on a level playing-field with Outlook Express, and remembering that an extra $40/seat or whatever for something as simple as an email client can really bulk the cost of an office-full of machines.
Free email clients which support multiple POP accounts? Not many.
Filter that list for those which support attachments, even fewer.
And those which support PGP (ok I know OutExp doesn't either but it's useful) and filtering rules
Now if only there was something like KMail for Windows, we could all stop using outlook express. But if there is, I can't find it.
A.sex domain would be -far- more convenient for the porn industry than all the "click here if you're such an age, in this list of countries, blah blah" hoops that they currently have to jump through.
It'd make the net safer for people who don't want porn, and easier for those who do. Put simply, the net will become less confusing.
It also protects porn sites from harassement by illiberal states/countries/groups, with the simple retort "well what the hell did you expect at Sitename.sex???"
Yes, there'll still be porn sites in the.com domain, yes whitehouse.com will still be there, yes there'll be cybersquatters on the.sex domain, yes there'll be more spare names on the.com domain, yes people will start to filter the.sex domain.
But overall it does the internet equvalent of separating Las Vegas from New York from Cleveland. Live in one, work in one, party in the other.
I just love their quote that these systems cost £30,000 to install, or whatever.
(a) in business terms, that's the cost of assigning someone to work full-time for 4 months on something. So consider that before you shell-out for the software: could your own people get a free solution running for less cost?
(b) just how much money do they expect businesses to save? You'd have to waste an awful lot of bandwidth before the cost reached £30,000
(c) Did anyone ever analyse the costs/benefits of this? How much work does a perl developer do without access to perl.com? How much work does any developer do if they have to stare at the program unril they leave, rather than being able to do something else while they think about it?
(d) How long are your people going to stay if they have to keep on working every spare moment, without any distractions? It makes you think of the human-farms in The Matrix.
Okay, I'll clean-up the end of this thread, however old it is...
Citroen Xantia, keypad immobiliser, is what I'm talking about.
(1) You unlock the doors with an infrared transmitter on your key; it's very useful to be able to do this before you get to the car.
(2) You unfold the "real" key from the key (it folds into the plastic casing, so the metal key doesn't rip holes in your pocket)
(3) You put the key in the ignition and turn the electrics on. This means you can't "DOS" the car by typing in wrong codes, because you'd need the key to do that.
(4) You type in the code before it'll let you start the engine. This means that someone who breaks into your house (or bag at work, or coat pocket or whatever) and gets your car-keys can't steal your car.
(5) If you type the wrong code, wait 10 seconds. If you type the wrong code twice, wait 5 minutes, after that you get one try per hour or so.
It's probably the best thought-out security system for vehicles that I've yet seen.
Of course, I did know a guy with a (model withheld) car who lost his keys, fancy-immobiliser and all. He called the AA, who arrived in a van, unscrewed his rear numberplate, pushed a biro into the switch behind the numberplate, and all the doors unlocked.
I often find it easier (in long functions) to write the comments first (copying the flowchart down onto pseudo-code, essentially), then check the comments (which makes it lots easier to spot errors) and then write the code after.
That also makes it easy to see how far you've got with coding, because you can see how many comments you've expanded into code, and how many you have left.
Then, you can take the comments-only pseudocode, strip out the comment-delimiters, and voila, you have the basis of a reasonably clear manual.
Like when I was testing my self-documenting system (like manpages but for VB) and pasted the full text of Paradise Lost as a comment to test the system.
I think even people with crap passwords (especially people with crap passwords) will either shield their typing or give you an evil stare until you look away when they're typing it.
That's the other advantage of keeping the same password for years... you can type it in a blur of fingers, and nobody'll ever see it.
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How about word on wine, I hear that works okay
Why is it called ThinkFree when it's not free?
No, you don't understand. If we hadn't increased the copyright term to 90 years recently, disney would never have been given the incentive to practise his useful arts back in 1920. The only reason he created the cartoon was that he was relying on that congress would later change copyright to make sure his company could still make money from it in 2005.
Of course, it would be stupid to extend copyright any more retroactively, because that would make illegal disney's plundering of recently-out-of-copyright work to make his cartoon, which would make the copyright status of Steamboat Willie start to oscillate.
Any idea how to get KMail to delete anything with upper-set ASCII character jibberish in the title?
Like, for example, the Oxford English Dictionary, created by thousands of volunteers in an open-source effort, now available on the web as costly-subscription-only?
Fruit flies like a banana
Time flies like an arrow
A great idea indeed. And if it encourages research into obscure or dying languages/dialects, that's even better.
People are making jokes about their only language being English, but ask a linguist how useful it would be to have a -detailed- map of dialects. Put "type a euphamism for drugs" as one of the questions, and create maps of dialects.
As the rosetta stone idea goes, one place to start would be webpages with a translation in another language. "Report bilingual pages to study@linguistics.org" or adverts to that effect.
Good luck to them all, and keep us posted when they need help testing it.
... and if you use the BSD license, then microsoft will have won another battle against the GPL license.
I tried that, emailing maplin.com to explain why I wasn't planning to revisit their website (popups) so they wrote back and said "sorry, we've found pop-ups to be very sucessfull and have every intention of continuing to use them"
That was back in the days when I used a javascript-enabled browser. Does anyone know how to make a browser read tags if javascript is supported but not turned on?
(Porting Konsole) - They created a terminal emulator for a terminal? Whatever next?
Actually, the comment at the end was that they should replace email with real conversations.
Mind you, that was the author/publisher/artists' division, so I guess they've got different views on email to the AOL guys.
Ironically, they wanted to cut down on licensing costs.
I'm reasonably surprised they're not using free software, given their mozilla and their linux-client projects.
What's even more amusing is that
(a) xenu have taken out 3 paid ad-word listings for scientology
(b) xenu's page is now more prominently listed than is scientology.org (especially now we've all been there and clicked on the links)
(c) the top link in the search results lists 2 google categories: scientology, and opposition to scientology
(d) The news story about censorship attempts appears on the second line of the search results, far more prominently than even the paid ads, or the top scientology.org link
Does anyone know who's paying for xenu's ad-word listings; I feel a bit bad about using up the page-displays they've paid for...
How do you think they're getting you to buy more toner? Surely not by using up the toner you already have with printing their advertisements?
I'd have to suggest going to the spammers' office and spraypainting your own slogans on peoples' cars. It wouldn't be greatly different from what they're doing to your fax paper.
So charge them with theft. Next story, please.
Okay, what email program would you reccommend for windows? (not a troll question, honest!)
Ignoring for a moment paid software, so we're on a level playing-field with Outlook Express, and remembering that an extra $40/seat or whatever for something as simple as an email client can really bulk the cost of an office-full of machines.
Free email clients which support multiple POP accounts? Not many.
Filter that list for those which support attachments, even fewer.
And those which support PGP (ok I know OutExp doesn't either but it's useful) and filtering rules
Now if only there was something like KMail for Windows, we could all stop using outlook express. But if there is, I can't find it.
Any ideas?
A .sex domain would be -far- more convenient for the porn industry than all the "click here if you're such an age, in this list of countries, blah blah" hoops that they currently have to jump through.
.com domain, yes whitehouse.com will still be there, yes there'll be cybersquatters on the .sex domain, yes there'll be more spare names on the .com domain, yes people will start to filter the .sex domain.
It'd make the net safer for people who don't want porn, and easier for those who do. Put simply, the net will become less confusing.
It also protects porn sites from harassement by illiberal states/countries/groups, with the simple retort "well what the hell did you expect at Sitename.sex???"
Yes, there'll still be porn sites in the
But overall it does the internet equvalent of separating Las Vegas from New York from Cleveland. Live in one, work in one, party in the other.
Not wanting to read too cynically into this, but it looks like you -really- need a copy of PGP, preferably on a CD you burned from home.
"Yeah, no sneaky web-based emails from here. If you've got something to say, say it on our email system"
I just love their quote that these systems cost £30,000 to install, or whatever.
(a) in business terms, that's the cost of assigning someone to work full-time for 4 months on something. So consider that before you shell-out for the software: could your own people get a free solution running for less cost?
(b) just how much money do they expect businesses to save? You'd have to waste an awful lot of bandwidth before the cost reached £30,000
(c) Did anyone ever analyse the costs/benefits of this? How much work does a perl developer do without access to perl.com? How much work does any developer do if they have to stare at the program unril they leave, rather than being able to do something else while they think about it?
(d) How long are your people going to stay if they have to keep on working every spare moment, without any distractions? It makes you think of the human-farms in The Matrix.
Okay, I'll clean-up the end of this thread, however old it is...
Citroen Xantia, keypad immobiliser, is what I'm talking about.
(1) You unlock the doors with an infrared transmitter on your key; it's very useful to be able to do this before you get to the car.
(2) You unfold the "real" key from the key (it folds into the plastic casing, so the metal key doesn't rip holes in your pocket)
(3) You put the key in the ignition and turn the electrics on. This means you can't "DOS" the car by typing in wrong codes, because you'd need the key to do that.
(4) You type in the code before it'll let you start the engine. This means that someone who breaks into your house (or bag at work, or coat pocket or whatever) and gets your car-keys can't steal your car.
(5) If you type the wrong code, wait 10 seconds. If you type the wrong code twice, wait 5 minutes, after that you get one try per hour or so.
It's probably the best thought-out security system for vehicles that I've yet seen.
Of course, I did know a guy with a (model withheld) car who lost his keys, fancy-immobiliser and all. He called the AA, who arrived in a van, unscrewed his rear numberplate, pushed a biro into the switch behind the numberplate, and all the doors unlocked.
I often find it easier (in long functions) to write the comments first (copying the flowchart down onto pseudo-code, essentially), then check the comments (which makes it lots easier to spot errors) and then write the code after.
That also makes it easy to see how far you've got with coding, because you can see how many comments you've expanded into code, and how many you have left.
Then, you can take the comments-only pseudocode, strip out the comment-delimiters, and voila, you have the basis of a reasonably clear manual.
Like when I was testing my self-documenting system (like manpages but for VB) and pasted the full text of Paradise Lost as a comment to test the system.
Lines of code written today? 10,638
Hmmm... VB can be used to obfuscate more than that surely?
Liberally mix Colour and Color functions to confuse Americans, and you're nearly there...
But don't call me Shirley
I think even people with crap passwords (especially people with crap passwords) will either shield their typing or give you an evil stare until you look away when they're typing it.
That's the other advantage of keeping the same password for years... you can type it in a blur of fingers, and nobody'll ever see it.
Please type your password:
"your password"