Just the other day, the nuremburg website (that had "wanted" posters of certain doctors and put a red X through them if they were killed) was finally shutdown.
Soldier of Fortune magazine was found guilty of wrongful death by publishing a small ad offering hitman services. Read more about publisher liability.
There is a place where free speach fears to tread.
I disagree. Consider the late night infomercial or latest only available on TV product. The only money they see is if someone watches the commercial and makes a purchase. The expected revenue will be more than the cost of the advertising and manufacturing costs (We call it "capitalism").
Where there's a lot of brand loyalty (Pepsi vs Coke), advertising doesn't cahgne people's opinions, and advertisers know it, but it does increase mindshare among the ambivalent and can increase consumption by the faithful.
Ultimately, though, the price of advertising is reflected in the price of the product. $1 of the average box of cereal pays for advertising. Do you think Kelloggs doesn't realize that? Are they going to stop all advertising so they can reduce the price of their cereals by $1? Nope. You can buy generic cereal for less. Some people do. Kelloggs, et alia, believe the advertising is worth it.
yes and no. There's a version compiled for OS X, but the controls are all drawn internally (ie - if you use an aqua theme, they'll look semi-aqua like), so it will look out of place.
Could somone enlighten me on why someone would ever want to use Netscape again?.. What added functionality does it provide over Mozilla 1.0/pr2 (build 2002051206)
Mozilla doesn't put AOL icons all over your dekstop, taskbar, start menu, etc.
I listened to a presentation on C# by a Microsoft developer evangelist last year. One interesting use of.Net he mentioned was basically what you're describing - a provider publishes the data over the web in a defined format so you can get and redisplay it however you want, possibly paying on a per transaction basis.
The example he used was screen scraping a map of yahoo.
That's a valid point. Another issue with real property (realty) is right-of-way. If you don't enforce your property rights, you can be barred from enforcing them. If, for example, everyone in the neighborhood takes a shortcut through your backyard (ithout your explicit permission), after a statutory amount of time (10+ years usually), it becomes a right-of-way, and you can't put up a fence on your own property to keep them out.
If Intel didn't try to assert their rights here, they could be barred sometime in the future from trying to stop spammers, etc. I don't know or care about the beef of Intel & Hamidi, but I believe Intel (and everyone) has the right to make assertions on their property.
All compilers have bugs, quirks, and different optimizing algorithms. If your portable C++ code makes use of advanced template features, and only watcom will compile it or generate proper code, the fullstory may be that other compilers are not up to snuff.
When the compiler competition was fiercer, compilers would recognize certain patterns and generate very aggressively optimized code so they'd look good in the benchmarks. If your code is similar to drystones, and Watcom produces the best drystone code, Watcom might generate the fastest code
Most people develop with one compiler only. If I develop under Watcom, and did my debugging under watcom, it might work best under Watcom because of differences in the libraries, OSes and APIs used would cause problems
GCC uses a 32-bit integer (most of the time). If you're developing for MSDOS, you might want to use 16-bit integers. Or maybe you need support for 64-bit integers or 128-bit integers. The C spec tells the relative sice of the types, not absolute, so different integer sizes, assumptions about packing of fields within a struct, byte alignment, endian issues, etc, may be non-portable, but they're not invalid if you are using a specific compiler and don't want 30 lines of #ifdefs for every possible compiler and architecture.
I've lately noticed a lot of non-offensive, ontopic posts being moderated down as trolls, offtopic, or flamebait lately.
My initial theroy was that it was related to the mother/son conflict manifesting in the moderators.
I recieved a research grant from VA Goatse.cx to study this phenomena, and discovered that it was actually caused by pent-up frustration resulting from the inability to get laid (aka ``blue balls'') causing the poor moderation. Since these moderators can't get any ass, their only satisfaction is in moderating down other posts.
This post also serves as a test case -- watch how fast it gets moderated down!
NPR had a review of it this morning. Bottom line, it's a non-interactive video game, not a movie. They played a clip of Samuel Jackson; "Should we tell them we're losing our Jedi Powers?" Is that the best Lucas could come up with? Sounds like something from a viagra ad.
They don't have the full story on NPR.org, but here's the lowdown:
'Attack of the Clones'
Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has seen the new Star Wars movie, Attack of the Clones, but he wishes he hadn't. He says some things are better the first time around and don't need an encore. Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones opens in select theaters nationwide at midnight. (3:25)
I recieved one of their snail mailings to renew a domain name with them.
I threw it out, but I didn't find it all that offensive. This isn't a sweepstake targetting elderly people ("You won the 10 million dollar jackpot! Subscribe to half a dozen magazines to collect your prize!"), most of the people targetted should know better or shouldn't have a domain name in the first place.
Heck, for that matter, look what happens when people forget to renew their domain name. Given teh choice between paying 4-5 times what they otherwise would and recieving poor customer service or having a pr0n site snag it up, which would you choose?
Really? you didn't hear aboutthe new IE buffer overflow error. It's only exploitable if you send 7-bit source code and then run brainfuck, perl, C, or befunge on the code.
export applies to the object files. In ELF (AFAIK), the default is to export all symobols, and I'm not even sure it's possible to not export a symbol.
Some object file formats support it (PEF, PE), so in windows & mac land, you just __declspec(export) a function or variable to export it (or set a compiler flag to export everything, which may cause link errors).
The gcc 2.x series had errors that were fixed in 3.0. The Linux kernel has some code that depends on the (incorrect) behavior of gcc 2.x. The kernel code has been cleaned up somewhat, but won't be 3.0-happy until Dictator Linus says so.
Slashdot Mirror
"A Method for getting non-employees to do write software that you resell"
Just the other day, the nuremburg website (that had "wanted" posters of certain doctors and put a red X through them if they were killed) was finally shutdown.
Soldier of Fortune magazine was found guilty of wrongful death by publishing a small ad offering hitman services. Read more about publisher liability.
There is a place where free speach fears to tread.
I disagree. Consider the late night infomercial or latest only available on TV product. The only money they see is if someone watches the commercial and makes a purchase. The expected revenue will be more than the cost of the advertising and manufacturing costs (We call it "capitalism").
Where there's a lot of brand loyalty (Pepsi vs Coke), advertising doesn't cahgne people's opinions, and advertisers know it, but it does increase mindshare among the ambivalent and can increase consumption by the faithful.
Ultimately, though, the price of advertising is reflected in the price of the product. $1 of the average box of cereal pays for advertising. Do you think Kelloggs doesn't realize that? Are they going to stop all advertising so they can reduce the price of their cereals by $1? Nope. You can buy generic cereal for less. Some people do. Kelloggs, et alia, believe the advertising is worth it.
yes and no. There's a version compiled for OS X, but the controls are all drawn internally (ie - if you use an aqua theme, they'll look semi-aqua like), so it will look out of place.
Could somone enlighten me on why someone would ever want to use Netscape again? .. What added functionality does it provide over Mozilla 1.0/pr2 (build 2002051206)
Mozilla doesn't put AOL icons all over your dekstop, taskbar, start menu, etc.
Anyone know why is was published as one giant book rather than in a series ala Knuth?
Nope. The difference is that *BSD is a complete distribution - kernel, libraries, posix command line tools. [although gcc and GNU emacs are used]
Linux is a kernel only, and [GNU/]linux systems use GNU libc and GNU posix command line tools.
I listened to a presentation on C# by a Microsoft developer evangelist last year. One interesting use of .Net he mentioned was basically what you're describing - a provider publishes the data over the web in a defined format so you can get and redisplay it however you want, possibly paying on a per transaction basis.
The example he used was screen scraping a map of yahoo.
It's nice to see google embrace this concept.
They probably get some money selling the devkit/Visual C++ for XBox to the companies, though.
If Intel didn't try to assert their rights here, they could be barred sometime in the future from trying to stop spammers, etc. I don't know or care about the beef of Intel & Hamidi, but I believe Intel (and everyone) has the right to make assertions on their property.
I'd be a whole lot richer if my employer didn't share my salary data with the IRS!
Psst - US Gov't: I heard Osoma Bin Laden and Sadaam Hussein are building a space ship so they can colonize mars...
this is great. Maybe the lip-syncing in Britney Spears' videos won't be so obvious.
My initial theroy was that it was related to the mother/son conflict manifesting in the moderators.
I recieved a research grant from VA Goatse.cx to study this phenomena, and discovered that it was actually caused by pent-up frustration resulting from the inability to get laid (aka ``blue balls'') causing the poor moderation. Since these moderators can't get any ass, their only satisfaction is in moderating down other posts.
This post also serves as a test case -- watch how fast it gets moderated down!
Mr Cranky gives honest and accurate reviews.
They don't have the full story on NPR.org, but here's the lowdown:
'Attack of the Clones' Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has seen the new Star Wars movie, Attack of the Clones, but he wishes he hadn't. He says some things are better the first time around and don't need an encore. Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones opens in select theaters nationwide at midnight. (3:25)
With that many sites, They can't all get slashdotted!
I recieved one of their snail mailings to renew a domain name with them.
:)
I threw it out, but I didn't find it all that offensive. This isn't a sweepstake targetting elderly people ("You won the 10 million dollar jackpot! Subscribe to half a dozen magazines to collect your prize!"), most of the people targetted should know better or shouldn't have a domain name in the first place.
Heck, for that matter, look what happens when people forget to renew their domain name. Given teh choice between paying 4-5 times what they otherwise would and recieving poor customer service or having a pr0n site snag it up, which would you choose?
I guess I'll end shilling for now
a little for everybody is a lot for nobody
Really? you didn't hear aboutthe new IE buffer overflow error. It's only exploitable if you send 7-bit source code and then run brainfuck, perl, C, or befunge on the code.
Hi Linus. I didn't know you posted to Slashdot!
Some object file formats support it (PEF, PE), so in windows & mac land, you just __declspec(export) a function or variable to export it (or set a compiler flag to export everything, which may cause link errors).
The gcc 2.x series had errors that were fixed in 3.0. The Linux kernel has some code that depends on the (incorrect) behavior of gcc 2.x. The kernel code has been cleaned up somewhat, but won't be 3.0-happy until Dictator Linus says so.