As an American citizen I should tell Autralia not to fear us. We won't bomb your asses unless you give us damn good reason to.
The MPAA may be sleeping with congress, but they can't afford the needed bribes to start a war. So long as we keep pirating movies they never will and the world will remain safe!
I hereby confess to reverse engineering magnetic tapes. It was an act of civil disobedience. Come and get me.
I doubt any copywritten work of literature can be as good as 1984.
The problem with the DMCA isn't that copyrights are evil and that we should boycott them. The problem is that it protects works on too many fronts. Traditionally you either protect it technologically (touch my book and die, bitch!) or legally (through copyright). If you use the former, anyone who breaks the lock can copy the book and the latter it must become public domain in given time.
What's happening is that companies have enough influence to get both technological and legal protection that will never go away. Better than that, their technological protection has legal protection of its own.
Those of us that don't want to pay $15-$25 for a crappy CD won't habe $15,000-$25,000 to bribe congress.
I think the complexity of online game protocols is all that keeps us from seriously cheating. You could easily write a simple client for SC that has a single unit kicking everything else's ass until resources are gone and you win.
The only way to circumvent this would be to do all the "work" on the server defeating the purpose of sharing.
but if I was going above 1280x1024, an LCD would have better image quality than my shitty CRT.
If monitors weren't so damn expensive, I'd buy several of them. The same goes for nearly all technology. If 1gb/s ethernet equipment was reasonably priced, I would upgrade my network.
Are tech manufacturers trying to squeeze money out of those that will pay the most before squeezing mass sales from the rest of us or does it really cost more to manufacture for the first two years?
I wasn't saying that winshit coders are incompetent, but rather that most talented winshit programmers have either sold their soul to a company or are developing shareware/freeware. Very few release their source.
While I like cygwin, it is nothing in comparison to the real thing. While I believe in the OS movement, I understand that some people and especially companies and groups can't just release the code.
Is excellent. I am using just wine, without winshit to grab libs from, and have yet to encounter a problem.
Stability in OS X is another issue, RB crashes frequently.
My first "awesome" computer is a 286 lappie w/ 4mb of ram and 20mb of hd space. I started on a comodore vic 20 when I was 8. Then again, all my friends had parents with Winshit 95 at the time......
but it really did help me get started in programming oh so many years ago.
If you really do use BASIC, I recommend RealBASIC for Mac OS X. I could never stand it for serious development, but it's a lot better than VB with features like syntax formatting to make lame code easier to read.
I used it to throw together a custom client for my Fortune page for all the lame OSes in a few minutes. BASIC is still easy to look down upon and all implementations are seriously lacking in vital(at least to me) areas. RB doesn't have UDP support, and VB doesn't have syntax formatting.
Back to the serious topic and away from replying to a joke: Java's SWING toolkit is my favorite multiplatform toolkit. A single binary works for most platforms, and "advanced" features that we don't consider necessary in disagreement with our respective (former:) bosses.
For quickly drafting small projects, PHP and other server-side scripting languages are a great option. I would love to be able "throw togethor" something like this as well as package it into self contained binaries for winshit and OS X.
Most of us just want the encryption features of SSL; most of us don't want it for authentication.
If you are a bank or something, then by all means authenticate your identity. If you just want to keep packet sniffing from being effective, self sign it.
GPG/PGP keys are always self-signed, yet no one complains about authentication of identity. Maybe we should all carry a compact flash card of our SSL keys!
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iThrombosis from Apple.
Also look for gThromb, kThromb, gtkThromb, gnuThromb, and ThrombCurses for Linux and UNIX.
I shake so damn much that blood clots could never form.
/me downs another tin on penguin mints. That's the same as 25 cans of cola for those that are counting.
because it allows the copying of copyrighted material, even if I just use it to make personal backups as I am legally entitled to do.
The DMCA is bs.
We already new that if you ignored Linux on PPC's obvious superiorities a wintel box will sell better.
We already new that if you ignored Linux on PPC's obvious superiorities a wintel box will sell better.
for short command sets. Mac OS X has excellent speech recognition for example. What we are lacking is a way to differentiate a larger vocabulary.
I can see PG's next release now:
Welcome to the audiotape version of.......
will never know the simple joy of monkey knife fight, err non-commercial dvd players.
Doesn't Homer just inspire the best in us? Anyone have a yacht and 13 miles of CAT5?
As an American citizen I should tell Autralia not to fear us. We won't bomb your asses unless you give us damn good reason to.
The MPAA may be sleeping with congress, but they can't afford the needed bribes to start a war. So long as we keep pirating movies they never will and the world will remain safe!
I hereby confess to reverse engineering magnetic tapes. It was an act of civil disobedience. Come and get me.
it isn't returned, and the company is no longer around to sell it?
Is it illegal to reverse engineer magnetic tape?
So ease of collaboration is the primary benefit?
I doubt any copywritten work of literature can be as good as 1984.
The problem with the DMCA isn't that copyrights are evil and that we should boycott them. The problem is that it protects works on too many fronts. Traditionally you either protect it technologically (touch my book and die, bitch!) or legally (through copyright). If you use the former, anyone who breaks the lock can copy the book and the latter it must become public domain in given time.
What's happening is that companies have enough influence to get both technological and legal protection that will never go away. Better than that, their technological protection has legal protection of its own.
Those of us that don't want to pay $15-$25 for a crappy CD won't habe $15,000-$25,000 to bribe congress.
so there is an evil conspiracy to fix prices!
Is it only illegal when a formal agreement exists to fix such prices?
I think the complexity of online game protocols is all that keeps us from seriously cheating. You could easily write a simple client for SC that has a single unit kicking everything else's ass until resources are gone and you win.
The only way to circumvent this would be to do all the "work" on the server defeating the purpose of sharing.
"I hate blizzard; screw WC3!
"Oooh, shiny."
In my defense, I dualboot OS X to play it and not winshit.
Ant Experiment Edition. Online play is planned if, and only if, it becomes a cult phenomenon; $10/month "subscription" still required to play.
Only available in colonies overrun by giant space ants.
but if I was going above 1280x1024, an LCD would have better image quality than my shitty CRT.
If monitors weren't so damn expensive, I'd buy several of them. The same goes for nearly all technology. If 1gb/s ethernet equipment was reasonably priced, I would upgrade my network.
Are tech manufacturers trying to squeeze money out of those that will pay the most before squeezing mass sales from the rest of us or does it really cost more to manufacture for the first two years?
RB has the stability issues; I've only had one segfault in OS X ittself.
HTML will continue to dominate the web for a long time.
For PHP I have mysql, cookies, and php to save data into, and for Java I have serialization through Object streams.
Is there any case in which I, as a Java and PHP devloper, would want XML? Would there be any advantage to using it over my current options.
I wasn't saying that winshit coders are incompetent, but rather that most talented winshit programmers have either sold their soul to a company or are developing shareware/freeware. Very few release their source.
While I like cygwin, it is nothing in comparison to the real thing. While I believe in the OS movement, I understand that some people and especially companies and groups can't just release the code.
Leaving Windows development to their community is a bad idea.
How long before we step in and port the Linux version?
Is excellent. I am using just wine, without winshit to grab libs from, and have yet to encounter a problem.
Stability in OS X is another issue, RB crashes frequently.
My first "awesome" computer is a 286 lappie w/ 4mb of ram and 20mb of hd space. I started on a comodore vic 20 when I was 8. Then again, all my friends had parents with Winshit 95 at the time......
Damn I was ahead of the times!
make xconfig doesn't look very gnome2-like, but I still use it.
Users will judge a product based on how it performs, and (hopefully) not how it looks.
but it really did help me get started in programming oh so many years ago.
:) bosses.
If you really do use BASIC, I recommend RealBASIC for Mac OS X. I could never stand it for serious development, but it's a lot better than VB with features like syntax formatting to make lame code easier to read.
I used it to throw together a custom client for my Fortune page for all the lame OSes in a few minutes. BASIC is still easy to look down upon and all implementations are seriously lacking in vital(at least to me) areas. RB doesn't have UDP support, and VB doesn't have syntax formatting.
Back to the serious topic and away from replying to a joke: Java's SWING toolkit is my favorite multiplatform toolkit. A single binary works for most platforms, and "advanced" features that we don't consider necessary in disagreement with our respective (former
For quickly drafting small projects, PHP and other server-side scripting languages are a great option. I would love to be able "throw togethor" something like this as well as package it into self contained binaries for winshit and OS X.
Most of us just want the encryption features of SSL; most of us don't want it for authentication.
If you are a bank or something, then by all means authenticate your identity. If you just want to keep packet sniffing from being effective, self sign it.
GPG/PGP keys are always self-signed, yet no one complains about authentication of identity. Maybe we should all carry a compact flash card of our SSL keys!
because my blackjack script is much more likely to succeed in the real world. Hell, I'll even explain the theory to you people:
Start with an initial bet of x.
If you win, you make $x, and if you lose just bit 2x then 4x then 8x etc. Eventually you will win and make $x.
and it most certainly isn't scalable.
Yes it could make enough money for me to live on, but not enough for me to be happy on. It takes more than just caffeine.....