But Windows XP contains something exactly like VNC: remote assistance can be initiated from an instant messenger session or initialized remotely by entering a username and password.
Along with the addition they also they made VNC illegal
on XP systems.
Change has to start somewhere. Nobody could be so naive as to think they are going to convince Microsoft is a single meeting to abandon their well established stance against open source. It's just an opportunity to get the word out, and isn't one to be missed. The least the/. community can do is send him to the meeting well armed.
Lucas is saying he deliberately left blank areas on the screen for these characters since 25 years ago he didn't know who would be cast, but he knew exactly where he wanted to put them. Much like he's known the whole story of the 6 movies all along...
Give me a break... Take about not seeing the forest for the trees. The content is the audio tracks. Whether or not their digital approximation exactly matches is a pointless comparison.
If on the other hand you have a case that the sound produced is different enough that it can be reasonably distinguished from the original that would be different. From my personal mixes, I don't find that's the case.
Just to clarify, this isn't a case of people sampling the record before buying. These are people with pirated physical copies of the entire CD, which are identical in content to what you would buy in the record store. The line between fair use and stealing has clearly been crossed by a whole lot of people. I hate the RIAA like any good/er would. I hate their price fixing. I hate their market manipulations which result in unlistenable radio stations. But I can't support stealing.
I'm torn about AOL. I used to want their complete destruction. But now I want to see them reinstate Netscape in the browser market, and then I want their complete destruction.
"Of all the things I witness during my reporting, the one that most shakes my faith in the Cusan impossibility of fabricating synthetic souls ex nihilo is Hugo, an 18-second short created by the guys at ILM a few years back.
"Hugo is an entirely synthetic creation - a phantasm of light and algorithm. A wrinkled figure with Spockian ears, heightened cheekbones, and a sunken chin, he gazes off to the side of the camera, stammering, "Me? What do you mean I'm not real? Oh, I see. This is a joke, right? You must be talking about the other one." He then gulps nervously and gives a forced smile."
I knew someone who used to be very into rocketry. For hardcore people you have to go to these planned launches where the airspace over the site is reserved. Otherwise they might damage planes flying overhead.
Thanks for the links. I'd mod YOUR post up if I could. As the parent offers no supporting evidence, I might have dismissed it because I have better things to do than trace down the legitmacy of every assertion made by someone on Slashdot.
Of course, this has no effect on MY assertion. I just said I get envious when he speaks: whether or not he has an improper relationship with Microsoft he is still an inspiring speaker. Whenever Bush opens his mouth I cringe with embarassment for my country.
You know whenever I read Tony Blair's speeches for instance or the writings of other foreign politicians such as this
one, I get a little jealous. The holder of the highest political office in this
country, in addition to constantly using phrases like "evil-doers" and
"smoke 'em out of their holes", says things like:
"This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating."
- G.W. Bush as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002
Microsoft has successfully planted and nurtured the seed in people's heads
that just because it isn't supporting Java in Windows XP, Java is dead.
I don't know about you, but the first thing I do after installing any Windows
distribution is go to Windows Update to install whatever updates are available.
After installing XP, I went to Windows Update and near the top of available of
updates was a JVM. Furthermore about one week ago an update to that VM was
released by MS closing a security hole.
Obviously XP does not contain a JVM by default. That said how exactly are
they "not supporting Java in XP," when anyone who updates their machine has
it and it is being maintained.
Google allows a webmaster to opt out of caching. If/. also honored this
system with their cache scheme I'm sure there would be little to no complaints.
How do I request that Google not return cached
material from my site?
Google stores many web pages in its cache to retrieve for users as a back-up
in case the page's server temporarily fails. Users can access the cached
version by choosing the "Cached" link on the search results page.
If you do not want your content to be accessible through Google's cache, you
can use the NOARCHIVE meta-tag. Place this in the <HEAD>
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The busiest roads in Beaverton Oregon must not be very busy if you were never put in danger by a vehicle in a one year period. I would say once or twice a month I am put in fear of my life by motorists. The biggest mistake motorists make is trying to help me out.
The number one rule for avoiding accidents when driving is BE PREDICTABLE. When out in traffic no one can possibly watch everthing at once, so they are constantly relying on predictions of what other drivers/bicyclists are doing. For some reason motorists think they are doing me some favor by dramatically reducing their speed when I'm waiting to cross the street. What this does is decrease the space between cars behind them trapping me right where I am. And it also is confusing to myself and other drivers, because they failed to do what everyone was expecting them to do.
Another thing drivers do is stop on roads w/ lanes >2 in the lane closest me, in effect creating a wall between me and other traffic. One of two bike accidents I have seen was a bicyclist crossing in front of a helpful driver who had stopped in the rightmost lane; unfortunately the bicyclist got creamed by a car in the next lane; both the driver and the bicyclist's view of eachother was blocked by the stopped car.
Another thing drivers do is act like they going to let you go, and then jsut as you start to go, they get impatient and start to go. At this point you get caught in a game of chicken, trying to decide who is going to cross who. I make it a point to never cross a cars direction of travel unless there is an explicit traffic control device giving me the right of way, and even then I'm very cautious.
Ultimately a bicycle is just another vehicle, and no one needs to be more responsible for my safety then me. This is why bicycles must obey the same traffic laws as cars. Cars yielding the right-of-way unexpectedly when they wouldn't for another vehicle screw up everybody.
Something bicyclists do that annoys me when I'm driving is choosing the narrowist roads to bike on.
On the way to the university in my town there is a bike route; it is on a residential street and signs restrict traffic to residents only. The road is extra wide, has it's own traffic signals which detect bicyclists, and is always kept smoothly paved. Two blocks south is a busy but narrow street I drive to/from the univeristy on in my car. Invariably when I am driving home some idiot bicyclist has chosen to risk his life (and everyone else's) on the narrow busy street instead of taking the bicycle route two blocks away.
I guess the point is, there sure are a lot of idiots out there, and I don't think a PDA is going help or hurt that situation.
Chemical Engineering seemed to involve a lot of brilliant people doing very dull things, such as making plastic bottles (the purity of the plastic must meet some standard, volume can't vary by more than say a ml., etc.). These were not things I wanted to fuss over.
CS lets me use both sides of my brain; writing the kinds of programs I write is both creative and mathematical. I'm terrified of graduating and having to debug someone else's code in a basement. My current job (designing online courses and online components for research projects at a university) is not paying so well, but is very satisfying. The majority of what I do is not repetitive and requires creativity.
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VNC illegal on XP systems
But Windows XP contains something exactly like VNC: remote assistance can be initiated from an instant messenger session or initialized remotely by entering a username and password. Along with the addition they also they made VNC illegal on XP systems.
But otherwise I agree with your post.
Change has to start somewhere. Nobody could be so naive as to think they are going to convince Microsoft is a single meeting to abandon their well established stance against open source. It's just an opportunity to get the word out, and isn't one to be missed. The least the /. community can do is send him to the meeting well armed.
Well...they won't have to worry about being beaten by their opposition.
Lucas is saying he deliberately left blank areas on the screen for these characters since 25 years ago he didn't know who would be cast, but he knew exactly where he wanted to put them. Much like he's known the whole story of the 6 movies all along...
Give me a break... Take about not seeing the forest for the trees. The content is the audio tracks. Whether or not their digital approximation exactly matches is a pointless comparison.
If on the other hand you have a case that the sound produced is different enough that it can be reasonably distinguished from the original that would be different. From my personal mixes, I don't find that's the case.
Just to clarify, this isn't a case of people sampling the record before buying. These are people with pirated physical copies of the entire CD, which are identical in content to what you would buy in the record store. The line between fair use and stealing has clearly been crossed by a whole lot of people. I hate the RIAA like any good /er would. I hate their price fixing. I hate their market manipulations which result in unlistenable radio stations. But I can't support stealing.
I'm sure that every one of those with a pirated CD-R copy of the album will be buying a legal CD now that it is available.
Who would have thought it?: Exit Exchange as a consumer advocate.
Thanks Exit Exchange for doing what the Internet Explorer team is unwilling to do.
Of course with Mozilla this issue is moot.
Give me your children until the age of 12 and they will be mine forever.
The damage M$ did was to the Netscape marketshare. I want to see their marketshare reinstated, and then...marshmallows anyone?
BTW I have seen it, and it is completely wonderful.
I'm torn about AOL. I used to want their complete destruction. But now I want to see them reinstate Netscape in the browser market, and then I want their complete destruction.
From the Wired Article:
"Of all the things I witness during my reporting, the one that most shakes my faith in the Cusan impossibility of fabricating synthetic souls ex nihilo is Hugo, an 18-second short created by the guys at ILM a few years back.
"Hugo is an entirely synthetic creation - a phantasm of light and algorithm. A wrinkled figure with Spockian ears, heightened cheekbones, and a sunken chin, he gazes off to the side of the camera, stammering, "Me? What do you mean I'm not real? Oh, I see. This is a joke, right? You must be talking about the other one." He then gulps nervously and gives a forced smile."
I HAVE to see that. We want Hugo ILM!
I knew someone who used to be very into rocketry. For hardcore people you have to go to these planned launches where the airspace over the site is reserved. Otherwise they might damage planes flying overhead.
Very cool if you ask me.
Thanks for the links. I'd mod YOUR post up if I could. As the parent offers no supporting evidence, I might have dismissed it because I have better things to do than trace down the legitmacy of every assertion made by someone on Slashdot. Of course, this has no effect on MY assertion. I just said I get envious when he speaks: whether or not he has an improper relationship with Microsoft he is still an inspiring speaker. Whenever Bush opens his mouth I cringe with embarassment for my country.
You know whenever I read Tony Blair's speeches for instance or the writings of other foreign politicians such as this one, I get a little jealous. The holder of the highest political office in this country, in addition to constantly using phrases like "evil-doers" and "smoke 'em out of their holes", says things like:
"This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating."
- G.W. Bush as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002
See http://www.bushcartoon.com/bushisms.html for more examples.
Microsoft has successfully planted and nurtured the seed in people's heads that just because it isn't supporting Java in Windows XP, Java is dead.
I don't know about you, but the first thing I do after installing any Windows distribution is go to Windows Update to install whatever updates are available. After installing XP, I went to Windows Update and near the top of available of updates was a JVM. Furthermore about one week ago an update to that VM was released by MS closing a security hole.
Obviously XP does not contain a JVM by default. That said how exactly are they "not supporting Java in XP," when anyone who updates their machine has it and it is being maintained.
I never thought those (Katz) stories were true, until...
Of course the impact is more psychological than anything else. Isn't every one running Debian running Woody anyway?
If we're going to employ google's system, why do work twice?
I can think of 2 good reasons:
As someone else pointed out Google does not cache the images, and images are the biggest problem on Slashdot.
Google has not necessarily crawled the site in question. Slashdot could be certain to do so before in advance of posting.
Google allows a webmaster to opt out of caching. If /. also honored this
system with their cache scheme I'm sure there would be little to no complaints.
From http://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html#cached :
How do I request that Google not return cached material from my site?
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE"> <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">"What kind of air does this case move?"
Just the regular kind I imagine.
The busiest roads in Beaverton Oregon must not be very busy if you were never put in danger by a vehicle in a one year period. I would say once or twice a month I am put in fear of my life by motorists. The biggest mistake motorists make is trying to help me out.
The number one rule for avoiding accidents when driving is BE PREDICTABLE. When out in traffic no one can possibly watch everthing at once, so they are constantly relying on predictions of what other drivers/bicyclists are doing. For some reason motorists think they are doing me some favor by dramatically reducing their speed when I'm waiting to cross the street. What this does is decrease the space between cars behind them trapping me right where I am. And it also is confusing to myself and other drivers, because they failed to do what everyone was expecting them to do.
Another thing drivers do is stop on roads w/ lanes >2 in the lane closest me, in effect creating a wall between me and other traffic. One of two bike accidents I have seen was a bicyclist crossing in front of a helpful driver who had stopped in the rightmost lane; unfortunately the bicyclist got creamed by a car in the next lane; both the driver and the bicyclist's view of eachother was blocked by the stopped car.
Another thing drivers do is act like they going to let you go, and then jsut as you start to go, they get impatient and start to go. At this point you get caught in a game of chicken, trying to decide who is going to cross who. I make it a point to never cross a cars direction of travel unless there is an explicit traffic control device giving me the right of way, and even then I'm very cautious.
Ultimately a bicycle is just another vehicle, and no one needs to be more responsible for my safety then me. This is why bicycles must obey the same traffic laws as cars. Cars yielding the right-of-way unexpectedly when they wouldn't for another vehicle screw up everybody.
Something bicyclists do that annoys me when I'm driving is choosing the narrowist roads to bike on.
On the way to the university in my town there is a bike route; it is on a residential street and signs restrict traffic to residents only. The road is extra wide, has it's own traffic signals which detect bicyclists, and is always kept smoothly paved. Two blocks south is a busy but narrow street I drive to/from the univeristy on in my car. Invariably when I am driving home some idiot bicyclist has chosen to risk his life (and everyone else's) on the narrow busy street instead of taking the bicycle route two blocks away.
I guess the point is, there sure are a lot of idiots out there, and I don't think a PDA is going help or hurt that situation.
How To Do Your Job, Pass Your CS Classes, Pay Your Bills, And Keep Your Spouse Happy - All At The Same Time
Chemical Engineering seemed to involve a lot of brilliant people doing very dull things, such as making plastic bottles (the purity of the plastic must meet some standard, volume can't vary by more than say a ml., etc.). These were not things I wanted to fuss over.
CS lets me use both sides of my brain; writing the kinds of programs I write is both creative and mathematical. I'm terrified of graduating and having to debug someone else's code in a basement. My current job (designing online courses and online components for research projects at a university) is not paying so well, but is very satisfying. The majority of what I do is not repetitive and requires creativity.