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F'rinstance, when I was in high school, I picked up a nice copy of photoshop 4.0. Brand new software. I used it all through high school, and now, I OWN a LEGAL copy of Photoshop 5. Why? Because I learned Photoshop for free, found it worth the money, and shelled out the cash. What Highschool student can afford to shell out for software that lists at $995?
So, I learned, used, and purchased. If I didn't pirate that software (THEN), I most certainly doubt that I'd have a well paying graphic designer/digital media programming job.
Sure, sure.. I can hear some of you now "Educational Versions" Look. $135 isn't much to me now, but it certainly was in high school. I worked 20 extra hours a week (outside of school) and made only slightly more than that per MONTH. I can't see anyone making $48,000 shelling out $2000 for software that they don't know how to use, have never used, don't know much about, and only 'heard' it was good through other people who PURCHASED the software.
Not period, but you are correct in general. The web has provisions for audio.
That's not important, though. What IS important is that you don't see deaf people complaining that they can't listen to CDs. No offence to any 'hearing impaired' (or whatever the politically correct term of the week is for people who can't hear), but this makes me angry. It really does.
No, I'm not some insensitive punk who doesn't care about the less fortunate in our society. I have utmost respect for people with disabilities who at least try to function normally in society, and more so for those who succeed.
What REALLY gets to me is politically correctness. Being a un-gay (I think the word 'straight' is offensive to gay people now) white male, it seems that the whole world is out to get me. It's probably politically incorrect for me to even wake up in the morning. After all, I'm not a minority, and therefore, I MUST be some sort of racist. Actually, I'm probably a founding member of the KKK or something.
Sure, it's not tough for AOL to insert ALT tags in their homepage. But a lawsuit? Come on. They shouldn't be obligated to do so. They should consider it an act of good will to go ahead and pay some highschool student to add "ALT='America Online Logo'" a few times.
What if my thumbs stopped working? Should I file a lawsuit against yahoo, because in order to search for words, I need to separate them by a space, and I'm used to using my thumbs on the spacebar?
I know that's a little.. extreme, but all of this PC crap just ticks me off.
I guess the major auto-makers will soon be in trouble. After all, blind people can't drive, so, it MUST be the fault of the automaker.
I think the main reason we use interpreted languages is portability.
I've done some cgi work where the servers have been Solaris on sparc, and my in-house test machine was Linux x86. It was a darn-lot easier to ftp the script and chmod it than to try and re-compile it every time I fixed a spelling mistake.
The host was also a little paranoid about letting it's users have shell access, which would've been convenient, but I managed with ftp. I can't imagine what a pain it would have been to run some script to compile my CGI rather than just transfering it.
Perl is standard. I can write perl code on a windows box, and have it running on a linux box within minutes (stupid linefeeds stripped, of course), so, I imagine THAT's why the industry leans towards interpretted languages.
If you complain that Netscape is unstable, use Lynx.
Um. Do you use the web on a regular basis? Do you even realize what the web is all about? If Lynx was all we need, then why would we EVER have invented the web? Lynx is a glitzy version of a gopher browser for http. The web is about multimedia. Without graphics and sound, we simply have glorified ftp and gopher. Lynx _IS_ occasionally useful, but is NOT suitable as a dedicated web browser. Anyone who uses Lynx as their only web browser is really missing out on the whole web experience.
AMEN to the metric conversion thing. I find it really hard to believe that with the internet becoming more and more mainstream, and with the whole ideal of a global community, we're still separated by an ancient system of measures. I don't mean to say "Ha! We Canadians are better than you ignorant Americans." (and, yes, I know that not only Canadians use the Metric system) But come on. Get with it. Most of you HAVE to admit that the Metric system is superior.
A couple years back, I bought a IBM Aptiva. One of those all-inclusive puppies. It had an IBM MWAVE modem/soundcard in it. What a pain. It never DID like Linux. It WAS possible to get the sound to work, by loading up the drivers in DOS then using loadlin, but the modem never did work. If the modem in this notebook is MWAVE, they'll prolly end up replacing it. From what I've read, IBM outright refuses to develop linux drivers for this crappy modem/soundcard combo.
Why was that moderated UP? Completely off topic. Who really cares what anyone has sitting at home in the back of their closets? Come on moderators, use a little sense.
tower = hard drive case = hard drive power supply = hard drive motherboard = hard drive
as in "Press the reset button. It's on the front of the hard drive." or "ok, I have my monitor plugged in to the hard drive, what now?" or "I'm getting a CDBurner installed in my hard drive tonight."
programmers shouldn't use libraries that aren't installed by default?
under that doctrine, we should all be writing hordes of Windows software, as this is usually what is installed by default.. and screw the gtk. I don't have it installed on my firewall box, so nothing should be written with the gtk. What exactly _IS_ installed by default? I bet you'd be pretty hard pressed to find 2 linux boxes managed by unaffiliated people that have the exact same configuration.
There's nothing wrong with using libraries, so long as they're readily available. (CPAN, for examples)
While I don't disagree that SMS could be used as a cracking tool, it is less likely a hacking tool. How many causal hackers do you know that have an extra $1000USD to spend on software they could get for free. This, realistically, makes BO2k much more of a hacking tool. My guess is that most people who 'crack' for a living wouldn't be willing to pay $1000 to do so..
br? He owns Bravo, CityTV, Much Music, MusiquePlus, MuchMorMusic, Space, and tons more stations. Znaimer is one of the main dictators of Canadian pop culture. I'm sure ChumCITY would jump at the idea of being part of this.
I saw something about this on CBC last night. Apparently this deal is to create an interactive environment. They're renting a 'Set-top box' (see The Road Ahead - Gates) to enable interactive gameshows etc etc. If this actually works, I'll be REAL happy to not have to wait for the ultraslow Prevue channel. The box is supposed to rent for $10 a month, and comes with a remote instead of a keyboard/mouse.
There are a bunch of these cars in concept form.. Last month's Wired had a feature on futuristic cars, and www.megacar.com has a pretty cool website (flash).
The Secondary domain is registered to an American company. This does not mean that eggshell.mudservices.com is in the US. I also tried this, and found the same results, but decided that it's impossible for ARIN or the Internic to know exactly where each IP or Domain REALLY points... Then again, you are probably right. The server probably IS in the USA..
If the feds were to regulate who has what encryption, I wonder how many new forms of superior encryption would be ignored? RSA wasn't thought up be some high paid FBI thinktank.
Of COURSE Microsoft wants to get its hand on Perl. They're trying to control the web server market, and what good would a webserver be on a platform that has no Perl CGI support? I don't think this would go over well with very many web developpers. Microsoft is trying to make Win32Perl better so that IIS can support CGI better. I know ActiveState was not originally in cohoots with Microsoft, but it only makes sense for Microsoft to get in on the game.
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Note on Beta Testing
Most of our beta testing is done by our in-house quality assurance staff. Occasionally we do hold a public beta test for our products, and we will post news on our web site when we are conducting such a test. Testers are chosen on a per-product basis, and only during specific sign-up periods. Please, do not contact us about being a beta tester.
Dang it. (-;
I agree completely.
F'rinstance, when I was in high school, I picked up a nice copy of photoshop 4.0. Brand new software. I used it all through high school, and now, I OWN a LEGAL copy of Photoshop 5. Why? Because I learned Photoshop for free, found it worth the money, and shelled out the cash. What Highschool student can afford to shell out for software that lists at $995?
So, I learned, used, and purchased. If I didn't pirate that software (THEN), I most certainly doubt that I'd have a well paying graphic designer/digital media programming job.
Sure, sure.. I can hear some of you now "Educational Versions" Look. $135 isn't much to me now, but it certainly was in high school. I worked 20 extra hours a week (outside of school) and made only slightly more than that per MONTH. I can't see anyone making $48,000 shelling out $2000 for software that they don't know how to use, have never used, don't know much about, and only 'heard' it was good through other people who PURCHASED the software.
Oh, he's still allowed to distribute the source. The catch is that it must be hashed against an 8bit key to make it secure.
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The web IS visual media. Period.
Not period, but you are correct in general. The web has provisions for audio.
That's not important, though. What IS important is that you don't see deaf people complaining that they can't listen to CDs. No offence to any 'hearing impaired' (or whatever the politically correct term of the week is for people who can't hear), but this makes me angry. It really does.
No, I'm not some insensitive punk who doesn't care about the less fortunate in our society. I have utmost respect for people with disabilities who at least try to function normally in society, and more so for those who succeed.
What REALLY gets to me is politically correctness. Being a un-gay (I think the word 'straight' is offensive to gay people now) white male, it seems that the whole world is out to get me. It's probably politically incorrect for me to even wake up in the morning. After all, I'm not a minority, and therefore, I MUST be some sort of racist. Actually, I'm probably a founding member of the KKK or something.
Sure, it's not tough for AOL to insert ALT tags in their homepage. But a lawsuit? Come on. They shouldn't be obligated to do so. They should consider it an act of good will to go ahead and pay some highschool student to add "ALT='America Online Logo'" a few times.
What if my thumbs stopped working? Should I file a lawsuit against yahoo, because in order to search for words, I need to separate them by a space, and I'm used to using my thumbs on the spacebar?
I know that's a little.. extreme, but all of this PC crap just ticks me off.
I guess the major auto-makers will soon be in trouble. After all, blind people can't drive, so, it MUST be the fault of the automaker.
I think the main reason we use interpreted languages is portability.
I've done some cgi work where the servers have been Solaris on sparc, and my in-house test machine was Linux x86. It was a darn-lot easier to ftp the script and chmod it than to try and re-compile it every time I fixed a spelling mistake.
The host was also a little paranoid about letting it's users have shell access, which would've been convenient, but I managed with ftp. I can't imagine what a pain it would have been to run some script to compile my CGI rather than just transfering it.
Perl is standard. I can write perl code on a windows box, and have it running on a linux box within minutes (stupid linefeeds stripped, of course), so, I imagine THAT's why the industry leans towards interpretted languages.
If you complain that Netscape is unstable, use Lynx.
Um. Do you use the web on a regular basis? Do you even realize what the web is all about? If Lynx was all we need, then why would we EVER have invented the web? Lynx is a glitzy version of a gopher browser for http.
The web is about multimedia. Without graphics and sound, we simply have glorified ftp and gopher.
Lynx _IS_ occasionally useful, but is NOT suitable as a dedicated web browser. Anyone who uses Lynx as their only web browser is really missing out on the whole web experience.
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Being Canadian, and living near many Acadian communities, I'll have to correct you on this.
Le Dot de Slash (French)
... oh brother...
More like oh Big Brother.
Wow. I can't believe this is happening.
"Good job coloring that man in Jail, little Winston."
AMEN to the metric conversion thing. I find it really hard to believe that with the internet becoming more and more mainstream, and with the whole ideal of a global community, we're still separated by an ancient system of measures. I don't mean to say "Ha! We Canadians are better than you ignorant Americans." (and, yes, I know that not only Canadians use the Metric system) But come on. Get with it. Most of you HAVE to admit that the Metric system is superior.
just my $1/50
A couple years back, I bought a IBM Aptiva. One of those all-inclusive puppies. It had an IBM MWAVE modem/soundcard in it. What a pain. It never DID like Linux. It WAS possible to get the sound to work, by loading up the drivers in DOS then using loadlin, but the modem never did work. If the modem in this notebook is MWAVE, they'll prolly end up replacing it. From what I've read, IBM outright refuses to develop linux drivers for this crappy modem/soundcard combo.
Why was that moderated UP?
Completely off topic. Who really cares what anyone has sitting at home in the back of their closets?
Come on moderators, use a little sense.
Lego Keyboards? They're Mac, but, I'm sure you could adapt:s /index.html
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http://www.applefritter.com/compubrick/accessorie
[Wow,
heh..
the sweet sweet days of Iniquity/Renegade BBS. (-;
(bah. offtopic again.. I gotta stop doing that)
we mustn't forget:
tower = hard drive
case = hard drive
power supply = hard drive
motherboard = hard drive
as in "Press the reset button. It's on the front of the hard drive."
or "ok, I have my monitor plugged in to the hard drive, what now?"
or "I'm getting a CDBurner installed in my hard drive tonight."
what?
programmers shouldn't use libraries that aren't installed by default?
under that doctrine, we should all be writing hordes of Windows software, as this is usually what is installed by default.. and screw the gtk. I don't have it installed on my firewall box, so nothing should be written with the gtk.
What exactly _IS_ installed by default? I bet you'd be pretty hard pressed to find 2 linux boxes managed by unaffiliated people that have the exact same configuration.
There's nothing wrong with using libraries, so long as they're readily available. (CPAN, for examples)
(sorry this is off topic)
While I don't disagree that SMS could be used as a cracking tool, it is less likely a hacking tool. How many causal hackers do you know that have an extra $1000USD to spend on software they could get for free. This, realistically, makes BO2k much more of a hacking tool. My guess is that most people who 'crack' for a living wouldn't be willing to pay $1000 to do so..
Built-in VIDEO.
Not built-in monitor.
You don't _watch_ your video card to see what's going on with your machine, do you?
Moses Znaimer.
Who else?
br?
He owns Bravo, CityTV, Much Music, MusiquePlus, MuchMorMusic, Space, and tons more stations. Znaimer is one of the main dictators of Canadian pop culture. I'm sure ChumCITY would jump at the idea of being part of this.
Our TVGuide channel often used to emit:
"Please insert laser disc and press the spacebar."
© 1998 Amiga Computers Ltd.
or something similar. heh..
I saw something about this on CBC last night. Apparently this deal is to create an interactive environment. They're renting a 'Set-top box' (see The Road Ahead - Gates) to enable interactive gameshows etc etc. If this actually works, I'll be REAL happy to not have to wait for the ultraslow Prevue channel. The box is supposed to rent for $10 a month, and comes with a remote instead of a keyboard/mouse.
There are a bunch of these cars in concept form.. Last month's Wired had a feature on futuristic cars, and www.megacar.com has a pretty cool website (flash).
The Secondary domain is registered to an American company. This does not mean that eggshell.mudservices.com is in the US. I also tried this, and found the same results, but decided that it's impossible for ARIN or the Internic to know exactly where each IP or Domain REALLY points...
Then again, you are probably right. The server probably IS in the USA..
If the feds were to regulate who has what encryption, I wonder how many new forms of superior encryption would be ignored?
RSA wasn't thought up be some high paid FBI thinktank.
Of COURSE Microsoft wants to get its hand on Perl. They're trying to control the web server market, and what good would a webserver be on a platform that has no Perl CGI support? I don't think this would go over well with very many web developpers. Microsoft is trying to make Win32Perl better so that IIS can support CGI better. I know ActiveState was not originally in cohoots with Microsoft, but it only makes sense for Microsoft to get in on the game.
heh.. the 4 gig model is worth than my car.
(-;
Don't mock the '87 K-Car