Yes! Tetris was especially bad for me; I'd also stare at multi-colored tiles and see which ones are adjacent that I'd be able to "click" on to remove them and get the most points (you know that game that I'm talking about -- you get more points for getting more blocks of the same color together, then the others next to them shift, etc.).
Is it still true that the OS still counts the system time as a 32-bit integer representing the number of milliseconds since the last boot? If so, it would wrap every 49.7 days... I would think that at that time, bad things would happen if you didn't reboot before then.
unless there's a nuance that cannot be conveyed by the word "summary" but can be by "zeitgeist" (which i see none in the context of describing the google article), using a "fancier" word is not really necessary, IMO
Why did you have to use a fancy old French word like "nuance", instead of just "meaning", which would have worked in that context?
What's useful about something that gets larger when it gets hotter? Just because an application can't be thought of today doesn't mean something is useless, it just means we haven't thought of a need for it.
Seriously. "What's so useful about all these stupid electrons, anyway!"
Why is it that very often the first response to an article about some scientific discovery/invention/whatever is "well why would this ever be useful?" Trust me, someone will find a use.
Of course they (the moneymakers) want more money, and are more than happy to see such a clause piggybacked onto copyright law. But I'm wondering how this bill can actually be passed or on the way to being passed. That the people making money have no problem with this whatsoever is perfectly reasonable, but my real problem is with all the legislators who wrote and passed this bill. It's obvious they're slipping some bullshit right into IP law, when this has nothing to do at all with copyrights/patents/trademarks/etc. This is an issue that's only concerned with trade or whatever else, but certainly not IP.
Yeah, this sucks and all, but what we really should be asking is what the hell commercials have to do with copyright infringement. Is it now a violation of the work's author's copyright to skip commercials interpersed with his work? That copyright belongs to someone else. In fact, trying to control rewinding and fast-forwarding through anything doesn't have anything to do with intellectual property, period, or does it?
Let's say I'm watching Law and Order, and there's a commercial. Let's say before that commercial, there was something important I missed, so I rewind back to it. Does that mean I'll have to watch the commercial again? Yeah I know I'm harping on some pretty dumb points, but I don't think they really thought this one through.
God only knows why this DVD region locking can happen to begin with. I'm pretty sure this shouldn't (shouldn't) be illegal to circumvent. As Cory Doctorow (an EFF guy) says in a speech to Microsoft about DRM:
But anticirumvention lets rightsholders invent new and exciting copyrights for themselves -- to write private laws without accountability or deliberation -- that expropriate your interest in your physical property to their favor. Region-coded DVDs are an example of this: there's no copyright here or in anywhere I know of that says that an author should be able to control where you enjoy her creative works, once you've paid for them. I can buy a book and throw it in my bag and take it anywhere from Toronto to Timbuktu, and read it wherever I am: I can even buy books in America and bring them to the UK, where the author may have an exclusive distribution deal with a local publisher who sells them for double the US shelf-price.
Instead of barking "uggh, I told you fuckers never to call again! I demand to know who you're calling on behalf of!", just say something like, "ah yes, knives, I see. That's interesting! Where did you say you're calling from?"
It'll probably help prevent them from just hanging up without saying who they are (so you can't complain about them).
I was just complaining that for the relatively simple applications that I do (i.e. not so much calculation and computation, just straightforward database SELECTing and INSERTing), I'm forced to use Tomcat (and making actual HTTP servlets, not simple throw-some-JSP-in-a-page stuff).
I'm not trying to say "lol java suxx"; it's a great language that's portable, object-oriented, strongly typed -- a language that's good if you want to do intensive stuff. And for the intensive stuff, I use it very frequently.
For my stupid not-so-critical stuff, using something that's weakly typed, doesn't require compiling, worrying about exceptions, etc. is good for just getting the shit done quickly.
My complaint isn't about Java. It's the fact our 'standard' dictates that I'm forced to use Tomcat servlets when there's something easier out there that's good enough for my project, that's all. Jesus jumping Christ, the shit you catch for submitting a poorly-worded post. (not directed at you, Lysol)
Ok thanks. I honestly don't really know that much about setting up Tomcat. I'm not the one in charge of the system itself either; they have set standards about how our setup's done, and we have to do it this way (compile, compile), and with no JSP's.
So I want to get them to change that to a simpler way of doing things; hopefully I can get them to just change over to PHP.
JAVA may be slightly slower than other languages, but it provides for rapid development and portability that are a developer's dream.
Maybe that's important for some people, but in my case, it's not. My organization uses basically all Linux PCs as servers. Therefore, we don't need cross-platform capabilities; I just want to get the little database app that should be done in 2 hours done in 2 hours. Java has lots of type-checking, etc. that's usually unnecessary for my simple reporting/collection of database data. I'm making the push (in a meeting sometime today, actually) for the whole LAMP thing, instead of Tomcat that we're using now.
Plus imho Tomcat is a pain in the ass to configure, and you gotta keep javac'ing, and so on. Just give me a language where I can throw in a little bit of code in the middle of a webpage, in the regular web directory, and be done with it.
For this stuff I'd really prefer PHP/MySQL (replace PHP or LAMP with whatever else you prefer). Your mileage may vary (har, har).
But you might not need TCP/IP to hack an ATM. I managed to defeat the protection on my Windows PocketPC that lets you copy system binaries to another memory card, completely by accident. Yeah I know, "wooooo big deal you copied calc.exe", but if I 'hacked' this mini-Windows totally by accident and totally without screwing with a TCP stack...
Ok, shitty analogy. But bad software is bad software (that with enough time someone will figure out how to exploit).
You can type "yes/default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858%ucbd3" to create a buffer overflow and get instant root access, I have a script that does it automatically if you want it
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Yes! Tetris was especially bad for me; I'd also stare at multi-colored tiles and see which ones are adjacent that I'd be able to "click" on to remove them and get the most points (you know that game that I'm talking about -- you get more points for getting more blocks of the same color together, then the others next to them shift, etc.).
It might happen: "possession of drugs during the commission of a felony", or whatever they call it. Probably can add a few years to your sentence.
Is it still true that the OS still counts the system time as a 32-bit integer representing the number of milliseconds since the last boot? If so, it would wrap every 49.7 days... I would think that at that time, bad things would happen if you didn't reboot before then.
Why did you have to use a fancy old French word like "nuance", instead of just "meaning", which would have worked in that context?
Haven't you heard? "Old Korean people" is the new "In Soviet Russia"! It's all the rage.
Seriously. "What's so useful about all these stupid electrons, anyway!"
Why is it that very often the first response to an article about some scientific discovery/invention/whatever is "well why would this ever be useful?" Trust me, someone will find a use.
Of course they (the moneymakers) want more money, and are more than happy to see such a clause piggybacked onto copyright law. But I'm wondering how this bill can actually be passed or on the way to being passed. That the people making money have no problem with this whatsoever is perfectly reasonable, but my real problem is with all the legislators who wrote and passed this bill. It's obvious they're slipping some bullshit right into IP law, when this has nothing to do at all with copyrights/patents/trademarks/etc. This is an issue that's only concerned with trade or whatever else, but certainly not IP.
Let's say I'm watching Law and Order, and there's a commercial. Let's say before that commercial, there was something important I missed, so I rewind back to it. Does that mean I'll have to watch the commercial again? Yeah I know I'm harping on some pretty dumb points, but I don't think they really thought this one through.
But anticirumvention lets rightsholders invent new and exciting copyrights for themselves -- to write private laws without accountability or deliberation -- that expropriate your interest in your physical property to their favor. Region-coded DVDs are an example of this: there's no copyright here or in anywhere I know of that says that an author should be able to control where you enjoy her creative works, once you've paid for them. I can buy a book and throw it in my bag and take it anywhere from Toronto to Timbuktu, and read it wherever I am: I can even buy books in America and bring them to the UK, where the author may have an exclusive distribution deal with a local publisher who sells them for double the US shelf-price.
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I thought 1.8288 feet = 6 meters...?
You're not talking about the TimeCube, are you?
gah! I knew someone was gonna say that.
It'll probably help prevent them from just hanging up without saying who they are (so you can't complain about them).
Here's a list...there are some other interesting ones on there too, like that weird Fn key on laptops.
Those were amazing. They were about 4 feet tall but could still fit in your pocket!
I'm not trying to say "lol java suxx"; it's a great language that's portable, object-oriented, strongly typed -- a language that's good if you want to do intensive stuff. And for the intensive stuff, I use it very frequently.
For my stupid not-so-critical stuff, using something that's weakly typed, doesn't require compiling, worrying about exceptions, etc. is good for just getting the shit done quickly.
My complaint isn't about Java. It's the fact our 'standard' dictates that I'm forced to use Tomcat servlets when there's something easier out there that's good enough for my project, that's all. Jesus jumping Christ, the shit you catch for submitting a poorly-worded post. (not directed at you, Lysol)
So I want to get them to change that to a simpler way of doing things; hopefully I can get them to just change over to PHP.
Maybe that's important for some people, but in my case, it's not. My organization uses basically all Linux PCs as servers. Therefore, we don't need cross-platform capabilities; I just want to get the little database app that should be done in 2 hours done in 2 hours. Java has lots of type-checking, etc. that's usually unnecessary for my simple reporting/collection of database data. I'm making the push (in a meeting sometime today, actually) for the whole LAMP thing, instead of Tomcat that we're using now.
Plus imho Tomcat is a pain in the ass to configure, and you gotta keep javac'ing, and so on. Just give me a language where I can throw in a little bit of code in the middle of a webpage, in the regular web directory, and be done with it.
For this stuff I'd really prefer PHP/MySQL (replace PHP or LAMP with whatever else you prefer). Your mileage may vary (har, har).
I don't know exactly how I did it. Just click around a whole lot, on menus and things. It'll confuse itself and break.
Ok, shitty analogy. But bad software is bad software (that with enough time someone will figure out how to exploit).
Oh, THAT's original.
Yeah, but we're not dealing with another "old man eloquent" here... though we can only hope about the one term thing
You can type "yes/default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858%ucbd3" to create a buffer overflow and get instant root access, I have a script that does it automatically if you want it
When you're playing with borate ions, you're playing with Hitler!!