Therefore, if the server isn't checking addresses before it hands them out, it stands to reason that it would mark them as "unavailable" if a client responds that the address is already in use. Unfortunately, the side effect would seem to be that a misbehaving piece of hardware could indeed eat all available addresses.
This is just one more reason you should Never Trust The Client.
Why are video game characters able to come so close to a lava pool and get hurt only on contact? True, some Metroid games have entire hot rooms that will hurt Samus without a suit upgrade, but why aren't all rooms containing lava considered "hot rooms"?
That site is amazing; I think I'm about to lose the next few hours browsing around. Thanks for the link.
The fact is, most people don't seem to care. King George was reelected. You can point to his low approval rating, but congress is even lower, and noone is actually doing anything about it.
I would argue that their low approval rating stems directly from the fact that they haven't done anything to fix the mess Bush has created, which is why we elected them in the first place.
It's only universal among the uncreative minds of most scifi authors. Even on earth the diversity is so great that you wouldn't consider birds/insects/slugs to be "human-like forms" but even they have most of the parts (eye, head, nose, ears) in approximately the same relative locations. The chances of this occurring on another planet seem remote.
But how often do you see bipedal, quadrupedal, or fins-n-flippers? Some body shapes just seem to work well, and that may hold true in other, similar environments as well.
How should the RIAA protect its intellectual property rights?
Well, they have protected their IP righs by purchasing perpetual - and unconstitutional - copyrights from a Congress that is supposed to protect the public good. Ergo, pretty much any sympathy they may have had is gone.
...with people using the lower-priced versions of Vista in virtualization environments they don't understand - on any platform - and then expecting support in such environments.
The only problem with that is people don't call Microsoft for support: they call dell, ow whoever sold them the PC. This is supposed to be one of the more annoying aspects of running a call center.
This is what I wrote on my own FaceBook page when these apps started appearing:
The main reason FaceBook is better than MySpace is that it doesn't let you do a whole lot of things. It doesn't let you change your background to an an animated, pink and green GIF, it doesn't let you add the Hamster Dance as background music, it doesn't let you break the layout... basically, they saw everything that makes MySpace suck like an overpowered Hoover and just said "no."
I'm excited to see that Applications are going to break this trend. In the last couple of days, the newsfeed has been littered with "Sally installed WonderFoo, and wants you to try it to!" Half an hour later, I see "Sally decided WonderFoo is a piece of junk, and uninstalled it."
This means that Sally has the sense to recognize tripe when she sees it, even if she doesn't know what the definition of "tripe" is. Unfortunately, most people are blazingly stupid, and it's just a matter of time before someone releases an "OMG PONIES!!!!11one" app.
It starts out innocently. Let someone know you're BFFs, or what movie you're going to see. But mark my words, sooner or later something loud, flashy, and animated is going to take over your screen, and you're going to realize that with great power comes the knowledge that most people shouldn't be allowed near a development kit.
A new browser - that will target a different userbase to FF & divide the market up a little more, will make the web a better place for everyone.
Absolutly, and I think that's the only market that will really go for Safari. I'm a Mac guy, but I use Camino at home and Firefox at work. Safari doesn't have anything great that will make me switch. But, if it's bundled with itunes, I can see a lot of people who use IE because it's the default making the switch.
ISPs will simply have to upgrade their infrastructure to handle it if they want to survive. If they don't, someone else will.
That is, of course, true, and will, of course, happen, eventually. The problem is that the telcos have been recieving government subsidies for years, for the express purpose of upgrading the infrastructure. To date, they've esentially squandered this money.
No, it's too late already. The GPLv2 explicitly grants the right to redistribute the software under GPLv2 or ANY LATER VERSION. If any coupons have already been handed out, then Microsoft has effectively distributed GPLv3 software and the game is over.
The GPL does not contain this clause. What you're referring to is this (from the GPL HOWTO):
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This is not a part of the license: it is just the text that most people use to apply the GPL to their code. Many people, however, including the distributors of the Linux kernel, do not include the "any later version" clause. The reasons for this are many and varied, but in the end it generally comes down to not wanting any organization, including the FSF, to be able to re-write the license for your code on the fly. If you include the "any later version" clause, and the GPL is changed to read like the BSD license, or the Apache license, you're out of luck. If, however, you leave out that clause, it is at the author's discretion as to whether or not a new version of the GPL should be applied.
You are probably right about that part. That would be metagame thinking (which stats prevent some of):) My main point was (supposed to be) that the game shares more in common with other true role-playing games than any other game/series that exists.
I would agree. There seems to me a much stronger correlation between Zelda and a table-top RPG that, say, Doom or Crackdown. It might be nteresting to figure out where something like GTA fits in the spectrum; does a game need swords and princesses to be an RPG?
Unlike Final Fantasy, Link will never do anything that you don't tell him to (at least nothing that would affect the plot, the bridge scene in the start of Wind Waker for example). With the same philosophy, Link never says anything, with the exception of a shout in the Wind Waker, but even that is triggered by a button press. "Role play", by dictionary definition, is much closer to that then, say, "adventure".
I would argue that this is exactly why Zelda is not a role playing game. In an RPG, you're playing a role; "I'm a thief, and thieves steal, so I'm going to rob this guy blind," "I'm a warrior, and warriors kill people and break things, so me smash," "I'm a good guy, so I'm going to help out this poor, downtrodden village," or "I'm evil, and the guy who is trodding this village down is an amature; I'll show them what real suffering is all about." In an RPG, the question is always, or should be, "what would my character do in this siltation?"
In Zelda, though, you aren't playing a role. Link is, as you said, your link to the world of Hyrule. He's you. The question isn't "what would a Chaotic Good Monk do in this situation," but "I found a sword, and I'm surrounded by Pig-Dog-Men, and there's a hopefully cute girl that needs rescuing... what am I going to do about it?" You aren't playing a role so much as dropping yourself into a situation.
I am not a lawyer, but when a party promotes the infringement of their own patents it might be reasonable to assume that they may be estopped from ever enforcing those patents in the future.
That is true of copyright law, but not patent law. See, for example, the GIF fiasco.
What concerns me is that the JavaFX Mobile platform itself appears to be a proprietary code base. Sun has made a lot of noise about JavaFX Script being available under the GPL, but is says that the JavaFX Mobile platform will be available with an OEM license. If that's true, this isn't really all that better than Flash, License-wise. I'd love to have the Java libraries available in a RIA, but if I have to kow-tow to Sun to get them...
The OpenLazlo TFA mentioned in passing looks kind of interesting, at least enough to check out further. The source for their demos looks pretty clean and straightforward.
You have not experienced pain until you have tried to express a complex UI and set of interactions in XML, with JavaScript embedded in CDATA tags.
I was really excited about Lazlo when I first heard about it; it seemed like it was "Flash for programmers." But the way they went about implementing it... one more victim of the XML Bandwagon of Doom.
So what we as a society are saying is that it's okay for kids to see people shooting, stabbing, kick boxing, or whatever else to each other in a violent rage, but HEAVEN FORBID if any minors see NAKED PEOPLE or, worse, two people engaged in a perfectly normal act that is part of our biological survival process as a species. Hmmm, I wonder which would inhibit the development of a child more...?
I would posit that the media presents an unhealthy view of both violence and sexuality.
In the first case, the message seems to be "all of your problems can be solved with violence" and "the hero uses violence to get his way."
In the later case, the message is more "sleep with as many people as you can, you won't suffer any consequences." It's unusual, for example, for a character on TV to have their life effected - really effected - by an STD or unplanned pregnancy. I have seen characters get STDs - there was a subplot of Grey's Anatomy where many people were infected with siphilis, for example - and characters have gotten pregnant, but it's alway resolved fairly quickly. No one's life is ruined by an infection, no one has to go through with an abortion, or adoption - a lucky miscarriage always saves the day.
Neither of these reflect real life. In real life, if you solve all of your problems with violence, you go to jail or die. In real life, if you sleep with anyone and everyone you can, you will catch a disease, you will become pregnant, and you will have to deal with the consequences.
Most people, however, are not prone to violence. I can watch a thousand violent movies, and still not want to kill the idiot in the cubicle down the hall. Well, at least I'll control my impulses.
But people don't control their sexual impulses. People do sleep with pretty much anyone they can, and the rates of infection, out-of-wedlock birth, abortion, and divorce show the effect of this trend.
Therefore, I also posit that the media's portrayal of sex is at least potentially more dangerous than its portrayal of violence.
It's interesting that a couple of threads above this comment, people rail on Jack Thompson for using this tragedy to push his own personal agenda, and then you come in and do exactly the same thing and get applauded for it.
Jack Thompson is using this tragedy as an excuse to take away people's rights. The grandparent is using this tragedy as an example of why taking away people's rights is a bad thing. They are not the same.
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This is just one more reason you should Never Trust The Client.
That site is amazing; I think I'm about to lose the next few hours browsing around. Thanks for the link.
Modern capitalism.
I would argue that their low approval rating stems directly from the fact that they haven't done anything to fix the mess Bush has created, which is why we elected them in the first place.
You misspelled "40."
But how often do you see bipedal, quadrupedal, or fins-n-flippers? Some body shapes just seem to work well, and that may hold true in other, similar environments as well.
Well, they have protected their IP righs by purchasing perpetual - and unconstitutional - copyrights from a Congress that is supposed to protect the public good. Ergo, pretty much any sympathy they may have had is gone.
The only problem with that is people don't call Microsoft for support: they call dell, ow whoever sold them the PC. This is supposed to be one of the more annoying aspects of running a call center.
This is what I wrote on my own FaceBook page when these apps started appearing:
The main reason FaceBook is better than MySpace is that it doesn't let you do a whole lot of things. It doesn't let you change your background to an an animated, pink and green GIF, it doesn't let you add the Hamster Dance as background music, it doesn't let you break the layout... basically, they saw everything that makes MySpace suck like an overpowered Hoover and just said "no."
I'm excited to see that Applications are going to break this trend. In the last couple of days, the newsfeed has been littered with "Sally installed WonderFoo, and wants you to try it to!" Half an hour later, I see "Sally decided WonderFoo is a piece of junk, and uninstalled it."
This means that Sally has the sense to recognize tripe when she sees it, even if she doesn't know what the definition of "tripe" is. Unfortunately, most people are blazingly stupid, and it's just a matter of time before someone releases an "OMG PONIES!!!!11one" app.
It starts out innocently. Let someone know you're BFFs, or what movie you're going to see. But mark my words, sooner or later something loud, flashy, and animated is going to take over your screen, and you're going to realize that with great power comes the knowledge that most people shouldn't be allowed near a development kit.
Absolutly, and I think that's the only market that will really go for Safari. I'm a Mac guy, but I use Camino at home and Firefox at work. Safari doesn't have anything great that will make me switch. But, if it's bundled with itunes, I can see a lot of people who use IE because it's the default making the switch.
That is, of course, true, and will, of course, happen, eventually. The problem is that the telcos have been recieving government subsidies for years, for the express purpose of upgrading the infrastructure. To date, they've esentially squandered this money.
They claim to know. They claim to test for reasonableness and obviousness. That means it's their problem, not ours. Saying "it's hard" is a cop out.
The GPL does not contain this clause. What you're referring to is this (from the GPL HOWTO):
This is not a part of the license: it is just the text that most people use to apply the GPL to their code. Many people, however, including the distributors of the Linux kernel, do not include the "any later version" clause. The reasons for this are many and varied, but in the end it generally comes down to not wanting any organization, including the FSF, to be able to re-write the license for your code on the fly. If you include the "any later version" clause, and the GPL is changed to read like the BSD license, or the Apache license, you're out of luck. If, however, you leave out that clause, it is at the author's discretion as to whether or not a new version of the GPL should be applied.
I would agree. There seems to me a much stronger correlation between Zelda and a table-top RPG that, say, Doom or Crackdown. It might be nteresting to figure out where something like GTA fits in the spectrum; does a game need swords and princesses to be an RPG?
I would argue that this is exactly why Zelda is not a role playing game. In an RPG, you're playing a role; "I'm a thief, and thieves steal, so I'm going to rob this guy blind," "I'm a warrior, and warriors kill people and break things, so me smash," "I'm a good guy, so I'm going to help out this poor, downtrodden village," or "I'm evil, and the guy who is trodding this village down is an amature; I'll show them what real suffering is all about." In an RPG, the question is always, or should be, "what would my character do in this siltation?"
In Zelda, though, you aren't playing a role. Link is, as you said, your link to the world of Hyrule. He's you. The question isn't "what would a Chaotic Good Monk do in this situation," but "I found a sword, and I'm surrounded by Pig-Dog-Men, and there's a hopefully cute girl that needs rescuing... what am I going to do about it?" You aren't playing a role so much as dropping yourself into a situation.
That is true of copyright law, but not patent law. See, for example, the GIF fiasco.
What concerns me is that the JavaFX Mobile platform itself appears to be a proprietary code base. Sun has made a lot of noise about JavaFX Script being available under the GPL, but is says that the JavaFX Mobile platform will be available with an OEM license. If that's true, this isn't really all that better than Flash, License-wise. I'd love to have the Java libraries available in a RIA, but if I have to kow-tow to Sun to get them...
You have not experienced pain until you have tried to express a complex UI and set of interactions in XML, with JavaScript embedded in CDATA tags.
I was really excited about Lazlo when I first heard about it; it seemed like it was "Flash for programmers." But the way they went about implementing it... one more victim of the XML Bandwagon of Doom.
This is why
I would posit that the media presents an unhealthy view of both violence and sexuality.
In the first case, the message seems to be "all of your problems can be solved with violence" and "the hero uses violence to get his way."
In the later case, the message is more "sleep with as many people as you can, you won't suffer any consequences." It's unusual, for example, for a character on TV to have their life effected - really effected - by an STD or unplanned pregnancy. I have seen characters get STDs - there was a subplot of Grey's Anatomy where many people were infected with siphilis, for example - and characters have gotten pregnant, but it's alway resolved fairly quickly. No one's life is ruined by an infection, no one has to go through with an abortion, or adoption - a lucky miscarriage always saves the day.
Neither of these reflect real life. In real life, if you solve all of your problems with violence, you go to jail or die. In real life, if you sleep with anyone and everyone you can, you will catch a disease, you will become pregnant, and you will have to deal with the consequences.
Most people, however, are not prone to violence. I can watch a thousand violent movies, and still not want to kill the idiot in the cubicle down the hall. Well, at least I'll control my impulses.
But people don't control their sexual impulses. People do sleep with pretty much anyone they can, and the rates of infection, out-of-wedlock birth, abortion, and divorce show the effect of this trend.
Therefore, I also posit that the media's portrayal of sex is at least potentially more dangerous than its portrayal of violence.
It's interesting that a couple of threads above this comment, people rail on Jack Thompson for using this tragedy to push his own personal agenda, and then you come in and do exactly the same thing and get applauded for it.
Jack Thompson is using this tragedy as an excuse to take away people's rights. The grandparent is using this tragedy as an example of why taking away people's rights is a bad thing. They are not the same.
Finally, the prophecy can be fulfilled.
Not one passage, a joke I hear a preaher tell once:
Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Matthew 27:5 (NKJV)
Then Jesus said to him, - Go and do likewise.
Luke 10:37 (NKJV)
Then Jesus said to him, - What you do, do quickly.
John 13:27 (NKJV)
How the hell do you spend 4 billion dollars on software?
A couple of their secretaries upgraded to Vista.
I don't even know if there's a hotkey for cycling through tabs in Safari -- I hope there is, but that I just haven't found it yet.
They're in the "Window" menu:
Select next tab: Apple-}
Select previous tab: Apple-{
Which has got to be about the least-intuitive binding I've found yet.