Deleting pages won't work
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Gator Examined
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"Eagle contends that advertisers are only permitted to target groups of sites, not individual Web sites. But on Tuesday, after being alerted to the existence of the Berkman study, Gator deleted marketing materials from its Web site that suggested otherwise. The deleted Web page, which had existed since at least February 2002, had promised: 'Gator can pop up your advertising or promotional message anywhere--even at a competitor's site.'"
The beauty of the web is that they can delete whatever pages they'd like and archive.org still has them cached and readily available for viewing by the people they tried to keep in the dark.
Yes, but the opensource 3d drivers don't work with glx. Going to ATI's page reveals 2 new drivers for X 4.2.0 that only work on a handful of cards. Trying to install these drivers erases your XF86Config, as does trying to uninstall them, and the drivers themselves do not appear to work. Furthermore, ATI doesn't even have Windows drivers for the Radeon Mobility series.
The problem is that ATI's northbridge is unsupported in kernel 2.4. I hear that the kernel crew is working on support for it in 2.5, so hopefully when 2.6 is released, it will work. Until then, however, I have bought/will buy NVidia graphics cards simply because NVidia works with my system, whereas ATI does not.
I agree. I like to be in control of every aspect of my life that I possibly could as well. It could just arise from a distrust of others ("If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself"), or it could just be a strange sort of envy of others who can do what you can't ("I wish I could do that!").
That question is not whether the skills need to be used or not... it's whether the skills being used are like hacking (in the original sense of the word) in some way. I'd say that they are - it's a bunch of people tinkering with things most people don't really care too much about in order to see how they work and have some fun at the same time.
The degree program itself is forking into multiple degrees as well. Majors such as Software Engineering and Information Technology are starting to pop up, and some of the people who would normally become CompSci majors are undoubtably deciding that they want to go into a more specific degree program instead of becoming "just another CompSci major".
You can't take irresponsible drivers off of the road. That's like saying you could keep irresponsible people off of the Internet. The best you can do is prevent devices that encourage irresponsibility from being introduced.
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I, Spammer
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"Now the individual has lost his right to get any e-mail he wants," Scelson said.
So now I want to receive free viagra from jryaixz@yahoo.com? Quite the contrary; with proposed antispam laws, users are finally gaining the right to get only the email they want.
I just read this on CNET News. It's a response to CNET's coverage of the Microsoft-SCO deal, and while not terribly important taken at face value (It's just a troll whose author has "Dear friends at Microsoft"), it's showing that this is already having an undesirable effect, as this person can't be the only one in an influential position to be affected by this news.
'Free' Linux Movement should end
Actually, the question that this poses is what can the program do to itself? The entire reason for keeping variables private is to prevent a program from setting them to invalid values. If I had a time class with a private hour (signed integer) variable and a public setHour function, I can add a check for values 23 and prevent the hour from being set to an invalid value if the calling program/user/whatever is entering the data makes a mistake. If I were to modify the hour directly, I could set it to -1. It's the program and/or the user using the class that you use private members to protect your program from.
I've read a few of Appleman's books before, and based solely from past experience with the author, I'd recommend this one. I'll certainly be picking it up myself.
Re:This is doing AOL more harm than good...
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AOL vs. Trillian
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Amen to that! If I cannot use Trillian with AIM, I'm just not going to use AIM at all.
I happen to be sick of the corperate world in general. The people have no say. The people have no rights to them, either. People are dollar signs. I feel like going to live in a cave somewhere (Preferrably one with electricity so I can code!)
Slashdot Mirror
"Eagle contends that advertisers are only permitted to target groups of sites, not individual Web sites. But on Tuesday, after being alerted to the existence of the Berkman study, Gator deleted marketing materials from its Web site that suggested otherwise. The deleted Web page, which had existed since at least February 2002, had promised: 'Gator can pop up your advertising or promotional message anywhere--even at a competitor's site.'" The beauty of the web is that they can delete whatever pages they'd like and archive.org still has them cached and readily available for viewing by the people they tried to keep in the dark.
Yes, but the opensource 3d drivers don't work with glx. Going to ATI's page reveals 2 new drivers for X 4.2.0 that only work on a handful of cards. Trying to install these drivers erases your XF86Config, as does trying to uninstall them, and the drivers themselves do not appear to work. Furthermore, ATI doesn't even have Windows drivers for the Radeon Mobility series. The problem is that ATI's northbridge is unsupported in kernel 2.4. I hear that the kernel crew is working on support for it in 2.5, so hopefully when 2.6 is released, it will work. Until then, however, I have bought/will buy NVidia graphics cards simply because NVidia works with my system, whereas ATI does not.
Look at it this way: No matter who loses, everyone else wins!
I agree. I like to be in control of every aspect of my life that I possibly could as well. It could just arise from a distrust of others ("If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself"), or it could just be a strange sort of envy of others who can do what you can't ("I wish I could do that!").
That question is not whether the skills need to be used or not... it's whether the skills being used are like hacking (in the original sense of the word) in some way. I'd say that they are - it's a bunch of people tinkering with things most people don't really care too much about in order to see how they work and have some fun at the same time.
The degree program itself is forking into multiple degrees as well. Majors such as Software Engineering and Information Technology are starting to pop up, and some of the people who would normally become CompSci majors are undoubtably deciding that they want to go into a more specific degree program instead of becoming "just another CompSci major".
You can't take irresponsible drivers off of the road. That's like saying you could keep irresponsible people off of the Internet. The best you can do is prevent devices that encourage irresponsibility from being introduced.
Only after they air a TV show that calls it fake.
"Now the individual has lost his right to get any e-mail he wants," Scelson said. So now I want to receive free viagra from jryaixz@yahoo.com? Quite the contrary; with proposed antispam laws, users are finally gaining the right to get only the email they want.
I just read this on CNET News. It's a response to CNET's coverage of the Microsoft-SCO deal, and while not terribly important taken at face value (It's just a troll whose author has "Dear friends at Microsoft"), it's showing that this is already having an undesirable effect, as this person can't be the only one in an influential position to be affected by this news. 'Free' Linux Movement should end
Actually, the question that this poses is what can the program do to itself? The entire reason for keeping variables private is to prevent a program from setting them to invalid values. If I had a time class with a private hour (signed integer) variable and a public setHour function, I can add a check for values 23 and prevent the hour from being set to an invalid value if the calling program/user/whatever is entering the data makes a mistake. If I were to modify the hour directly, I could set it to -1. It's the program and/or the user using the class that you use private members to protect your program from. I've read a few of Appleman's books before, and based solely from past experience with the author, I'd recommend this one. I'll certainly be picking it up myself.
Amen to that! If I cannot use Trillian with AIM, I'm just not going to use AIM at all.
I happen to be sick of the corperate world in general. The people have no say. The people have no rights to them, either. People are dollar signs. I feel like going to live in a cave somewhere (Preferrably one with electricity so I can code!)