I posted something similar to this under another thread, but, the same thing happened to me. As a Canadian without a 'dish', I watched the game on cable. Simulcast with crappy local commercials. I did, however, go somewhere else for halftime, and saw a couple good commercials there because they had DirectTV or whatever.
Ah, but it would have to be illegal to learn this 'rare, obscure language' even though learning this language could be used for purposes OTHER than copying/translating the books.
Every year when the super bowl rolls around, I get more and more pissed off. I live in Canada, and while you lucky americans get to see the $2M + $Production commercials, we get to see the ever popular "Cunard Restaurant" (a $99 dollar commercial, including production (-; ) and Taylor Ford (some tool with their Hi8 taking bad product shots of a local car dealership). ABC was simulcast last night onto a channel called Global. This happens for a lot of shows, and it's completely ridiculous. I hate our cheap commercials that the broadcasters here show because it's cheaper or because of the stupid Canadian Content laws.
"c:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\mp3s\Nirvana-Lithium.mp3" [GASP!] Napster SENT the COMPLETE location of the file!!!! Does this mean that there is a way to coax the client to offer up ANY file?
Uhm. Someone should check into this. If a file is not in the user's listed mp3's or their chosen directory, does the napster client still send it?
Also, the article shows that when requesting a file, the client sends the full path name, but no info is given when SENDING a file. I wonder if something like "SEND../../../../../../../../autoexec.bat" would work.
Consider that Allaire is close to release CF for Linux. 8-)
I've been beta testing ColdFusion 4.5 for Linux (beta) on a non-production box, on and off for a few months now, and it works GREAT.
The only snag was that we couldn't keep our small databases in Access(mdb) format (yea.. I know.. I was planning on moving them over to SQL soon anyway).
Should you be allowed to know i have a history of cancer in my family before i buy insurance from you?
OR, should you be allowed to see how many pounds of red meat I buy each year before selling me Life Insurance?
Statistic in insurance should be regulated. I got quoted $4967/year for insurance on my new car. I'm male, under the age of 25. No, I've never been in an accident. Stats prove that I am more likely to get into an accident than females 10 years older than me, so I get shafted. What if stats proved that gays got in more accidents than straights (sorry if straight is considered a slur now... ) or if African Americans (insert politically-correct-term-of-the-week for black people here) got in more accidents than whites?
Sorry. I know it's a little OT, but if corporations like double click can gather info on us the same way, who KNOWS what'll happen.
I can remember when 'cheap' CDR's (the dicss, not the writers) were upwards of $20. Now they're VERY commonly less than $2. Following this trend, DVD-R's will be less than $5 within a few years.
The media being expensive doesn't make the situation any less possible.
I could be completely wrong here, but, I figure large chains (like Blockbuster) make a killing off of late fees.
To rent at Blockbuster, where I live, it's $5.28CDN taxes in. A little steep. BUT, it's also another $5.28 for every night that I forget to take it back. And without doubt, almost every time I go to block buster, I have a late charge.
Now, with blockbuster pulling in double for late charges, and usually with sufficient overstock anyway, why would they want to go with a technology that could end up not making as much money. If you ask me, rental stores will shun this technology. And that's just one reason that it won't ever make mainstream.
I worked for a large (large is a relative term here, I live in New Brunswick) company last year, and the logic behind this is pretty simple.
Say for instance that we have $500,000 in bills to pay on February 1st. We know that our grace period is 15 days. So, in theory, all bills SHOULD be paid by Feb. 16 at the latest. We also know from past experience, that we're a good client, and our unofficial grace period is usually extended another 10 days, making these bills due Feb. 26. The thinking behind this is: I have $1/2 million gaining intrest in my account. If I pay on Feb. 1, that money is no longer gaining intrest for me. If I wait until the last possible moment, and pay on Feb. 26, that 1/2 mil will pay me for an extra 26 days.
Makes sense to me. Although, this doesn't work when the accounting dept. tries to stretch out the grace period past the hard boundary on the other end. We also almost had domains cancelled because of this type of thinking.
I can attest that it IS bloated. I WAS trying to run windows2000 SERVER on my Cel.333/64MB ram. X runs GREAT on this box. Windows2000 swaps every time I type. Apparently, it wasn't designed to work on anything less than 128MB RAM.
This theme, apparently, is supposed to be inspired by the 'look & feel' of aqua.
Didn't Apple lose a case about the 'look & feel' of their GUI before? Isn't that why windows95 is allowed to.. uh.. borrow most of the GUI elements from System7 (MacOS7)?
Wonder why Apple thinks they can win this time around.. Sounds like website bullying to me.
Upon reading about the merger, I didn't think it was a big deal. It wasn't until a few minutes ago that I look at the guy I work with and said "I'm scared of this whole AOL/TimeWarner thing."
Think about it. AOL is one of the most dominant forces on the 'net, and Time Warner is one of the most dominant forces in the rest of our media.
What if this new company wanted to fabricate media content. They'd own Magazines, Radio, Television, Newspaper, a well visited Website, an online News Service. They even have the ability to produce Motion Picture based propoganda, and distribute it heavily.
What if they decided to offer media time/space 'really cheap' to governmental organizations, presidential candidates? The media machine could have the power to pass laws!
Unbiased news sources could become a thing of the past. With a merger worth 350 _B_illion dollars, they can afford to squash/buy pretty much any other news organization who doesn't do their bidding.
Would we ever hear anything bad about AOL's service, CNN's reputableness (is that a word?), or Ted Turner?
I think I'm going to go home and read my copy of 1984 to cheer up.
homonym n : two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings. dictionary.com
Now, IANALS (I am not a linguistics scholar), but isn't virus(the computer term) a homonym for virus(the biology term) in the same way that bark(the tree skin) is a homonym for bark(the sound a dog makes)?
If this is true, Virus(computer) is most likely an English word, and no official linguistic rules have been made for it.
The beauty of the English language is that we are free to modify it to suit our needs. It's adaptable, and if we feel like spelling the plural of virus, virii, viruses or vira, it should be accepted.
The way I see it, in biology, it's unlikely to see one viral cell. Virus seems like it would be plural already. I'm probably totally wrong in this paragraph.
I've read the articles you point to, and understand them. This is definately not meant as a flame, but aren't there more important things to worry about than how we spell the plural of virus?
While I cannot sympathise with you directly (I was one of the privileged at home), I, as do most slashdot readers, I'm sure, agree with you completely on the state of the mass media. For instance, I work a a graphic design firm (and we're doing new media now). In addition to our regular backups last week, we were also informed that we were to make additional backups. Three sets on three different types of media. You see, the owner was paranoid because of what he read in his business magazines, or saw on NBC. Paranoid to the point that I had to go in last Friday to physically UNPLUG from our network pipe. He was afraid that, at midnight, virii would infest our system and eat all our data. I informed him that it was impossible for virii to 'eat' the data that we had on CDRom, but he insisted, and I humoured him. We're a graphic design agency for heaven's sake. It's not like we had sensitive accounting information for Fortune 500 companies. I assured him that our vector art would survive. Nevertheless, we currently have very good backups of our data from last year. Thank you telescreens. Thank you Big Brother. And even though this is redundant, thank you mass media.
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While this is true for the most part, I find it particularly annoying when I have to 'restart my computer' every time I change the smallest little thing. Be it my DNS servers, or my screen resolution (yea.. I know.. they fixed the resolution thing). Uptime also possibly shows how long since a CRASH. I can't count the times that netscape crashes on me at work, and then KEEPS crashing, crashing AFTER it is closed, and an OS that doesn't ALLOW me to open the 'task manager' if there's a critical error, but forces me to 'restart' is really annoying.
I say you shouldn't have to buy insurance on a package in the FIRST place. You don't pay a waiter not to spill your drink on the way to your table! Sure, you tip him, but if he spills it, it gets replaced, without INSURANCE.
"Hi, UPS? How much extra does it cost for you NOT to break my stuff?"
I know this is a little OT, but I'm wondering what the legal technicalities are regarding worm-writing. If a hypothetical person were hypothetically to write a NON-MALICIOUS worm, would that be illegal? I know there are moral rammifications, but is it illegal? Maybe this would be a good 'ask slashdot'.
Slashdot Mirror
I posted something similar to this under another thread, but, the same thing happened to me. As a Canadian without a 'dish', I watched the game on cable. Simulcast with crappy local commercials. I did, however, go somewhere else for halftime, and saw a couple good commercials there because they had DirectTV or whatever.
You Americans get all the good TV. (-;
Ah, but it would have to be illegal to learn this 'rare, obscure language' even though learning this language could be used for purposes OTHER than copying/translating the books.
Wow!
Thank you so very much for this video site!
Every year when the super bowl rolls around, I get more and more pissed off. I live in Canada, and while you lucky americans get to see the $2M + $Production commercials, we get to see the ever popular "Cunard Restaurant" (a $99 dollar commercial, including production (-; ) and Taylor Ford (some tool with their Hi8 taking bad product shots of a local car dealership). ABC was simulcast last night onto a channel called Global. This happens for a lot of shows, and it's completely ridiculous. I hate our cheap commercials that the broadcasters here show because it's cheaper or because of the stupid Canadian Content laws.
I hate the CRTC.
ok, this is WAY off topic, but:
Ever notice that there IS no word for male feminist? Also notice that "sexist" is commonly understood as a male term?
Now, I'm no misogynist, but I'm sure we'd see bra-burners at Wawanesa and State Farm if women were charged more based on stats.
Thanks! That's good to know. OTOH, could c:\msdos.sys just not be shared because it's a hidden, system, read-only, non archive file?
I'm prolly just being paranoid.
From http://david.weekly.org/code/napster.php3 :
"c:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\mp3s\Nirvana-Lithium.mp3"
[GASP!] Napster SENT the COMPLETE location of the file!!!! Does this mean that there is a way to coax the client to offer up ANY file?
Uhm. Someone should check into this. If a file is not in the user's listed mp3's or their chosen directory, does the napster client still send it?
Also, the article shows that when requesting a file, the client sends the full path name, but no info is given when SENDING a file. I wonder if something like "SEND
This could be really bad.
Consider that Allaire is close to release CF for Linux. 8-)
I've been beta testing ColdFusion 4.5 for Linux (beta) on a non-production box, on and off for a few months now, and it works GREAT.
The only snag was that we couldn't keep our small databases in Access(mdb) format (yea.. I know.. I was planning on moving them over to SQL soon anyway).
Should you be allowed to know i have a history of cancer in my family before i buy insurance from you?
OR, should you be allowed to see how many pounds of red meat I buy each year before selling me Life Insurance?
Statistic in insurance should be regulated. I got quoted $4967/year for insurance on my new car. I'm male, under the age of 25. No, I've never been in an accident. Stats prove that I am more likely to get into an accident than females 10 years older than me, so I get shafted. What if stats proved that gays got in more accidents than straights (sorry if straight is considered a slur now... ) or if African Americans (insert politically-correct-term-of-the-week for black people here) got in more accidents than whites?
Sorry. I know it's a little OT, but if corporations like double click can gather info on us the same way, who KNOWS what'll happen.
I can remember when 'cheap' CDR's (the dicss, not the writers) were upwards of $20. Now they're VERY commonly less than $2. Following this trend, DVD-R's will be less than $5 within a few years.
The media being expensive doesn't make the situation any less possible.
Think of the future.
I could be completely wrong here, but, I figure large chains (like Blockbuster) make a killing off of late fees.
To rent at Blockbuster, where I live, it's $5.28CDN taxes in. A little steep. BUT, it's also another $5.28 for every night that I forget to take it back. And without doubt, almost every time I go to block buster, I have a late charge.
Now, with blockbuster pulling in double for late charges, and usually with sufficient overstock anyway, why would they want to go with a technology that could end up not making as much money. If you ask me, rental stores will shun this technology. And that's just one reason that it won't ever make mainstream.
I worked for a large (large is a relative term here, I live in New Brunswick) company last year, and the logic behind this is pretty simple.
Say for instance that we have $500,000 in bills to pay on February 1st. We know that our grace period is 15 days. So, in theory, all bills SHOULD be paid by Feb. 16 at the latest. We also know from past experience, that we're a good client, and our unofficial grace period is usually extended another 10 days, making these bills due Feb. 26. The thinking behind this is: I have $1/2 million gaining intrest in my account. If I pay on Feb. 1, that money is no longer gaining intrest for me. If I wait until the last possible moment, and pay on Feb. 26, that 1/2 mil will pay me for an extra 26 days.
Makes sense to me. Although, this doesn't work when the accounting dept. tries to stretch out the grace period past the hard boundary on the other end. We also almost had domains cancelled because of this type of thinking.
Since the article(s) didn't have a link to ebay, I did a quick search: http://cgi.ebay.co m/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=239850613
I can attest that it IS bloated.
I WAS trying to run windows2000 SERVER on my Cel.333/64MB ram. X runs GREAT on this box. Windows2000 swaps every time I type. Apparently, it wasn't designed to work on anything less than 128MB RAM.
...and Chris DiBona is gonna be there with a richochet on his laptop and hopefully broadcast to IRC what is going down.
Anyone have any clue where he'll be 'broad'casting this? I'd like to set up an 'automated client' (read bot) to fire it off to other networks (EFNet).
This theme, apparently, is supposed to be inspired by the 'look & feel' of aqua.
Didn't Apple lose a case about the 'look & feel' of their GUI before? Isn't that why windows95 is allowed to.. uh.. borrow most of the GUI elements from System7 (MacOS7)?
Wonder why Apple thinks they can win this time around.. Sounds like website bullying to me.
Upon reading about the merger, I didn't think it was a big deal. It wasn't until a few minutes ago that I look at the guy I work with and said "I'm scared of this whole AOL/TimeWarner thing."
Think about it. AOL is one of the most dominant forces on the 'net, and Time Warner is one of the most dominant forces in the rest of our media.
What if this new company wanted to fabricate media content. They'd own Magazines, Radio, Television, Newspaper, a well visited Website, an online News Service. They even have the ability to produce Motion Picture based propoganda, and distribute it heavily.
What if they decided to offer media time/space 'really cheap' to governmental organizations, presidential candidates? The media machine could have the power to pass laws!
Unbiased news sources could become a thing of the past. With a merger worth 350 _B_illion dollars, they can afford to squash/buy pretty much any other news organization who doesn't do their bidding.
Would we ever hear anything bad about AOL's service, CNN's reputableness (is that a word?), or Ted Turner?
I think I'm going to go home and read my copy of 1984 to cheer up.
homonym n : two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings.
dictionary.com
Now, IANALS (I am not a linguistics scholar), but isn't virus(the computer term) a homonym for virus(the biology term) in the same way that bark(the tree skin) is a homonym for bark(the sound a dog makes)?
If this is true, Virus(computer) is most likely an English word, and no official linguistic rules have been made for it.
The beauty of the English language is that we are free to modify it to suit our needs. It's adaptable, and if we feel like spelling the plural of virus, virii, viruses or vira, it should be accepted.
The way I see it, in biology, it's unlikely to see one viral cell. Virus seems like it would be plural already. I'm probably totally wrong in this paragraph.
I've read the articles you point to, and understand them. This is definately not meant as a flame, but aren't there more important things to worry about than how we spell the plural of virus?
For anyone who's into open source Flash stuff, check out http://www.openswf.org.
There's a bunch of good info there.
Dear Joe Computer,
While I cannot sympathise with you directly (I was one of the privileged at home), I, as do most slashdot readers, I'm sure, agree with you completely on the state of the mass media.
For instance, I work a a graphic design firm (and we're doing new media now). In addition to our regular backups last week, we were also informed that we were to make additional backups. Three sets on three different types of media. You see, the owner was paranoid because of what he read in his business magazines, or saw on NBC. Paranoid to the point that I had to go in last Friday to physically UNPLUG from our network pipe. He was afraid that, at midnight, virii would infest our system and eat all our data. I informed him that it was impossible for virii to 'eat' the data that we had on CDRom, but he insisted, and I humoured him.
We're a graphic design agency for heaven's sake. It's not like we had sensitive accounting information for Fortune 500 companies. I assured him that our vector art would survive.
Nevertheless, we currently have very good backups of our data from last year.
Thank you telescreens. Thank you Big Brother. And even though this is redundant, thank you mass media.
While this is true for the most part, I find it particularly annoying when I have to 'restart my computer' every time I change the smallest little thing. Be it my DNS servers, or my screen resolution (yea.. I know.. they fixed the resolution thing). Uptime also possibly shows how long since a CRASH. I can't count the times that netscape crashes on me at work, and then KEEPS crashing, crashing AFTER it is closed, and an OS that doesn't ALLOW me to open the 'task manager' if there's a critical error, but forces me to 'restart' is really annoying.
Someone mentioned that we should all go out and get hard copies of our current banking info, should something go awry.
I say: Take the $900 in my account! I owe 12 grand on my student loans. Fair trade if you ask me! (-;
Those guys over at toywar.com better be careful:
toywarS.com
(-;
I say you shouldn't have to buy insurance on a package in the FIRST place.
You don't pay a waiter not to spill your drink on the way to your table! Sure, you tip him, but if he spills it, it gets replaced, without INSURANCE.
"Hi, UPS? How much extra does it cost for you NOT to break my stuff?"
I know this is a little OT, but I'm wondering what the legal technicalities are regarding worm-writing. If a hypothetical person were hypothetically to write a NON-MALICIOUS worm, would that be illegal?
I know there are moral rammifications, but is it illegal?
Maybe this would be a good 'ask slashdot'.
The linux version is available at:
http://www.gis.net/~nite/
Maybe a little pressure could get the napster guys to OS this.. (-;
Sean