Or just a woman who reads slashdot with "collapse sections" on, no need to be specifically reading the games section.:)
Anyway, being a woman, I'm quite sure parent's parent's parent meant "A PS2 doesn't leave the toilet seat down", I suppose it was just a mispelling of sorts.
I believe that with most big OOS projects you can have a contract with the supplier (e.g. "professional" versions of Linux distros), for a price usually competitive with closed source alternatives.
Sorry to give bad news, but this will help only partially: I've been practicing calligraphy since I was 10, and now (mid-20) I can write perfectly readable gothic characters (well, if you're used to read it) celtic characters (as in Book of Kells) and even calligraphic cursive (it is slighty different from what you would use with a ballpoint pen, but there is one and it is more or less what you would find on most handwritten stuff of the last few centuries), but when it comes to writing quickly with a "modern" pen I can be even worse than the average doctor.
As for writing on your PDA, learning calligraphic cursive may help a lot, but then it will still be Slow, so you may as well consider trying one of those keyboard emulation modes it there is one available, and see what ends to be faster.
Anyway I can confirm the part about calligraphy helping with women, so you could still try:)
As lots of people have said, dont' code for specific browsers, code for standards. HTML is meant to be rendered in different ways on different medias, so try to take advantage from this, not to go against it (and lose).
When you code try to code html (and php, of course) first, and have it look "readable" in the plain old ugly(?) way, so that everybody will be able to get the informations you're giving. Of course you'll have to think about the future css presentation, by adding classes, etc. but don't add anything visual at this stage. Do not use tables for layout, as they can give a good result on most visual browser, but only do damage when using anything else, or a visual browser in a small window, etc.
Then you can choose to develop css for a good standard compliant browser such as mozilla or safari, and then fix minor quirks for the most used browser (aka explorer), or if you are tight on time you can try to develop standard css for explorer and test it on standard compliant browser only to check that you're not bringing havoc on them.
When I'm using a browser that is not mainstream I don't care if something that should take all of my window width only takes 98%, or if there are minimal quirks in the layout, maybe small empty spaces (an em or two) where there shouldn't be any, or similar stuff, as long as I can clearly see the contents; I know it is an issue of browser compatibility and I accept it, people who don't know about it usually use explorer anyway, so it less of an issue.
As one should expect from any program still marked beta, development, unstable and the like. (NN6 does not count as "stable" because of the high number, as it was called so by marketing, not developers)
exactly, except for the fact that you don't really need DMCA to send such a letter: plain old copyright laws already allowed this. (no, you didn't find a good use of DMCA, sorry:) )
Last time I've had an awful 3 weeks internet downtime, and since it seems I've survived I feel right to share my experience with other people who may face the same danger.
At first, when I saw that the connection went down and didn't return in a couple of minutes, I've panicked, then called tech assistance and waited for the presumed end of the (known and probably caused by ill weater) problems.
When, a couple days later, they told me that all problems had been solved and my connection still didn't work I've spend the remaining time doing the following things:
panicking
calling "tech" assistance, following their suggestions such as "download the new firmware for your modem" (without connection???) or "buy a new modem, that one is gone" (I did, it was a chance to buy a better one, but later tests showed that they were wrong...)
panicking
but most of the time: building a full chess set out of cernit, featuring penguins and other free software mascottes against windrones (and folders, and clippy)
When I had almost finished the last thing the connection did return, but with an amazing feat of will I did manage to complete the set, and even playing a match or two:)
The "securing" part may also lie in "not allowing someone to get the same patent and sue us", and this is something IBM has done for a while.
Not the worse practical approach to the problem in a place and time where such patents are allowed; the problem is that it isn't easy for us to trust $BIG_CORP not to change approach some day.
Who needs ports 25 and 110 open? the "bottom end user" does not, since he's not running any server on his computer anyway.
IIRC quake, aim, filesharing apps etc work on ports beyond 1024, so you can safely block everything below that, plus a few known (frequently updated) ports used by worms etc.
Of course this should be either easily opted-out (with no additional cost) by users who know what they're doing or even better opted-in (as a "security enhanced internet access", maybe together with spam filtering and the like), for an additional price.
Not only I did back it up: since the x86 box came for free I just configured two or three of them in the same way, so that when one fails I can replace it in no time.
Or at least this is what i'd do if I had a small network for something serious, and enough space.
I remember that when I was at elementary school (late 80s) having a chance to play a while with logo did impress me, and I had quite some fun.
I don't know if it could be the same nowdays, though, since there are lost of programs out there that allows to draw with (too) little mind effort (and more "special effects"). If not impressing, I still hope it can be fun and surely it is easy enough to begin with, as a programming language.
On my italian keyboard [ and ] are right next to the P, but you need to use Alt-Gr to get them, as they plain keys are used for [e`] and +. I guess that either keyboards have handy brackets (and ", and #, @ etc.), like the US and UK ones, or accented letters and other diacritycals, like [n~] and the like (oh, and btw, ~ itself isn't anywhere on my keyboard, just like { and }, it is either alt+code on win or remembering the positions on linux).
I believe that the actual key layout instead is the same between UK and IT: QWERTY, an additional key between Z and shift, even if it has instead of \, and one near enter (with [u`]).
I wonder what features are actually needed by the poster: euro sign only? wouldn't switch to UK layout via software be enought, since most characters are on the same key? or accented letters etc.? if this is the case UK woulnd't probably be enough.
Unless specified by your university the final year dissertation is your own, or at most it can be your and your advisor's, or similar things. You're required to give a (certain number of) copy(es) to your university library, and they will let the public see it, but that's not public domain.
Of course different universities have different policies, so you may end up with stricter conditions, here the rule is to ask local competent people (if reading the official rules doesn't help).
If they are text template and not layout template it wouldn't be copyright infringment as long as you respect their license. Being a template it would probably be quite permissive, but this does not mean that you will be able to do everything.
Hehe. "I wrote my novel using MS Word. Now that I'm selling it, couldn't MS come after me for copyright infringement, since I used their pagination tools?"
This is slighty a different matter: copyright law does not cover what you do with other's tools, while it does surely cover the pieces of other's code that you put in your software when using VS wizards. In the first case you would have the right to do whatever you want with your work, unless forbidden by some contract or license; in the second case you wouldn't have the right to use those code parts, unless allowed by a proper license.
Of course they could put some "wicked" clausole in MS Word, but until now they seem to have brain enough not to do so. Maybe they would if they had really all of the wp market, right now it would be suicide.
As for the license part you're right: the right place to get an answer is the VS license, but that could change and one could be put in such conditions where it's only choices could be to change the license of his software, rewrite it from scratch with some other tool, removing all VB wizard parts or stop updating it. This should be considered before choosing a tool for development, I believe.
How does downloading the pics support the person who created them unless you paid money for the pics?
If you download from an ad filled website you're supporting them, but that's not the case with freenet, of course.
Some pic (even found on freenet, this time) may have some sort of informations on where to find other more, this time either with ads or a pay for view.
I don't believe either that the flow of data should be restricted, either by legal or technical means, I believe that they should work on the two ends of the flow: those who voluntary download such pics in ways that support such market and expecially those who produce them.
And as for freenet, if you want to have lesser chances to get porn in you node you just have to add and request "good" and useful content: if enough people do so "bad" content will be but a minority.
Pedophiles do have the right to speak, they don't hurt anybody by speaking (well, unless they speak to young vulnerable people, but that's another matter). What they do not have the right to do is to take those pics, when by taking the pic they abuse a children.
Strictly speaking, by downloading those pics you don't infringe the rights of anyone, only you support those who make the pics, so I agree that the act of downloading and watching those pics should be restricted, but if someone pushes that pic on your computer you're not doing anything "evil" or "supporting some evil activity".
Also, the casual pic downloader doesn't do that much harm, while real pedophiles either act also, or look for pictures through other channels and they can be found that way, regardless of the existange of freenet.
are there really people in poorer countries who are using less than a 14.4
Connection through an handphone is still around 9 kbps or somethink like that, at least in some cases.
Anyway I don't think that the big problem in third world connections is the fact that it is really slow (i.e. under 14.4), probably it is more a matter of unreliable connection, condivided by quite some people.
What I don't understand is why the program sends compressed pages via e-mail, when in this way their size grows (comparing with compressed pages via http 1.1), and you can't resume if the download fails.
Wouldn't it be better to make use of google, maybe the google cache, and a proxy-like thing that simply receives the request, in the night searches google, downloads the required pages - compressed - and allows people to see them on the next morning?
Curfew can be good, if enforced by parents, not by government. If parents aren't able to monitor their children and check for actual signs of game abuse they can always enforce a time limit policy (such as "no computer except between 4 and 10 pm"), and that doesn't take that much time and effort, unless the children is very motivated (you must do this before actual addiction developes).
If, on the other side, the policy is enforced by the government, you can't discriminate between children, who would benefit from a curfew, and a stricter one than the one of the article (6 am? way too early to begin playing!), and other adult or young adult gamers, who should be considered old enough to choose when they want to play and how much.
As for linux of MacOS, they do have games, and most of them are of the really addictive kind, even without fancy 3d graphics.
I don't know... shopping would probably be pretty low on the list.I'm trying to think of what my non geek friends do as hobbies. I think its shopping, drinking, and well, a lot of them don't have hobbies,[...]
I believe you're wrong: I don't think that most geeks don't do what "common people" do, it's more a matter of either having more hobbies or being more devoted to them.
After all, when I'm not doing something with some computer, listening to music, reading, taking photographies (sorry, gone totally digital after my old film camera broke), building worlds (uhm... that something I do both with a computer and with pen and paper, does it apply?), sewing (guess this applies:) ), roleplay, painting, or whatever else I sometimes do, I also enjoy shopping, as long as it's for something related to one of my hobbies, or drinking and eating with (somehow geeky) friends.
I tend to take about 100-200 photos per week when travelling/backpacking. 10,000 in a year is alot (1 photo every 30 minutes of being awake)
With a digital camera they're not that much: when I bought one i noticed that I took about twice as many pics as before, if not more. Usually when I'm on a short trip (1/2 days - no storage problems) I take about 50-100 pics per day, if I'm in a good place.
Of course most of them are duplicates and when i'm home I select slight more than half of them for keeping, and maybe 3 or 4 for "public view", but I've found that the camera display is just too small to allow me to decide whether a shot is worth keeping or not.
If you're traveling in first or second world countries, I would say go digital.
Theft: is an issue both with digital and non digital, if you have an mid/high-level one, it is less if you have a low-level point and shot camera, but the only thing that probably won't be stolen is a one-use camera, and I won't suggest to use that.
Repairs: go for a commonly available model, of a widespread brand, and you'll have good chances to find service for it in most mid sized towns.
Quality: if all you want to do is show your pics to friends when you're back home, and have a couple shots printed (not in poster size) most digital cameras will suffice, if you want to sell your pics to magazines a point'n'click film camera won't do anyway
Storage: to store 10000 pics at 1MB each (2Mpixel, hi-quality lossy compression) you only need 20 512MB CF, and they can be stored in a couple of those specific wallets, about 20x10x1cm big, in films they're about 415 ones, and they become quite bulky.
Of course third world is a different matter, unless you're only traveling in big towns.
We didn't have theoretical reasons on the impossibility of certain things like atomic bombs or computers in every home or whatever else, only technical doubts whether it would have been feasible (or pratical enought) or not.
To say that strictly speaking FTL travel is possible would mean to throw away most things we consider true about life, the universe and everything. I'm not saying that this is impossible, only that it is not easy, not that likely in the next couple of centuries of so and extremely unpleasant for our scientists:)
Of course intergalactic space travel may still be possibile, be it through time-backward FDL travel, teleport, countless eons travel by a self-sufficient ship or whatever else the extreme and still unclear border of our current theory will allow.
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High tech, complex invertions that don't obviously benefit "The Industry" can pretty predictably be expected to languish in circumstances like ours.
How many american inventors have died poor, because they were ahead of their times, while their creations are still important today?
Not to speak of scientific research, whose results ofter start to be profitable decades or even centuries after the developement of a theory.
Or just a woman who reads slashdot with "collapse sections" on, no need to be specifically reading the games section. :)
Anyway, being a woman, I'm quite sure parent's parent's parent meant "A PS2 doesn't leave the toilet seat down", I suppose it was just a mispelling of sorts.
I believe that with most big OOS projects you can have a contract with the supplier (e.g. "professional" versions of Linux distros), for a price usually competitive with closed source alternatives.
Sorry to give bad news, but this will help only partially: I've been practicing calligraphy since I was 10, and now (mid-20) I can write perfectly readable gothic characters (well, if you're used to read it) celtic characters (as in Book of Kells) and even calligraphic cursive (it is slighty different from what you would use with a ballpoint pen, but there is one and it is more or less what you would find on most handwritten stuff of the last few centuries), but when it comes to writing quickly with a "modern" pen I can be even worse than the average doctor.
As for writing on your PDA, learning calligraphic cursive may help a lot, but then it will still be Slow, so you may as well consider trying one of those keyboard emulation modes it there is one available, and see what ends to be faster.
Anyway I can confirm the part about calligraphy helping with women, so you could still try :)
As lots of people have said, dont' code for specific browsers, code for standards. HTML is meant to be rendered in different ways on different medias, so try to take advantage from this, not to go against it (and lose).
When you code try to code html (and php, of course) first, and have it look "readable" in the plain old ugly(?) way, so that everybody will be able to get the informations you're giving. Of course you'll have to think about the future css presentation, by adding classes, etc. but don't add anything visual at this stage. Do not use tables for layout, as they can give a good result on most visual browser, but only do damage when using anything else, or a visual browser in a small window, etc.
Then you can choose to develop css for a good standard compliant browser such as mozilla or safari, and then fix minor quirks for the most used browser (aka explorer), or if you are tight on time you can try to develop standard css for explorer and test it on standard compliant browser only to check that you're not bringing havoc on them.
When I'm using a browser that is not mainstream I don't care if something that should take all of my window width only takes 98%, or if there are minimal quirks in the layout, maybe small empty spaces (an em or two) where there shouldn't be any, or similar stuff, as long as I can clearly see the contents; I know it is an issue of browser compatibility and I accept it, people who don't know about it usually use explorer anyway, so it less of an issue.
As one should expect from any program still marked beta, development, unstable and the like. (NN6 does not count as "stable" because of the high number, as it was called so by marketing, not developers)
exactly, except for the fact that you don't really need DMCA to send such a letter: plain old copyright laws already allowed this. (no, you didn't find a good use of DMCA, sorry :) )
I guess that an even more compact way to store it would be the binary representation of 2099601, since we know how to calculate the number.
Of course, it would be waaaay less impressive :)
Last time I've had an awful 3 weeks internet downtime, and since it seems I've survived I feel right to share my experience with other people who may face the same danger.
At first, when I saw that the connection went down and didn't return in a couple of minutes, I've panicked, then called tech assistance and waited for the presumed end of the (known and probably caused by ill weater) problems.
When, a couple days later, they told me that all problems had been solved and my connection still didn't work I've spend the remaining time doing the following things:
When I had almost finished the last thing the connection did return, but with an amazing feat of will I did manage to complete the set, and even playing a match or two :)
The "securing" part may also lie in "not allowing someone to get the same patent and sue us", and this is something IBM has done for a while.
Not the worse practical approach to the problem in a place and time where such patents are allowed; the problem is that it isn't easy for us to trust $BIG_CORP not to change approach some day.
Who needs ports 25 and 110 open? the "bottom end user" does not, since he's not running any server on his computer anyway.
IIRC quake, aim, filesharing apps etc work on ports beyond 1024, so you can safely block everything below that, plus a few known (frequently updated) ports used by worms etc.
Of course this should be either easily opted-out (with no additional cost) by users who know what they're doing or even better opted-in (as a "security enhanced internet access", maybe together with spam filtering and the like), for an additional price.
Not only I did back it up: since the x86 box came for free I just configured two or three of them in the same way, so that when one fails I can replace it in no time.
Or at least this is what i'd do if I had a small network for something serious, and enough space.
I remember that when I was at elementary school (late 80s) having a chance to play a while with logo did impress me, and I had quite some fun.
I don't know if it could be the same nowdays, though, since there are lost of programs out there that allows to draw with (too) little mind effort (and more "special effects"). If not impressing, I still hope it can be fun and surely it is easy enough to begin with, as a programming language.
On my italian keyboard [ and ] are right next to the P, but you need to use Alt-Gr to get them, as they plain keys are used for [e`] and +. I guess that either keyboards have handy brackets (and ", and #, @ etc.), like the US and UK ones, or accented letters and other diacritycals, like [n~] and the like (oh, and btw, ~ itself isn't anywhere on my keyboard, just like { and }, it is either alt+code on win or remembering the positions on linux).
I believe that the actual key layout instead is the same between UK and IT: QWERTY, an additional key between Z and shift, even if it has instead of \, and one near enter (with [u`]).
I wonder what features are actually needed by the poster: euro sign only? wouldn't switch to UK layout via software be enought, since most characters are on the same key? or accented letters etc.? if this is the case UK woulnd't probably be enough.
Unless specified by your university the final year dissertation is your own, or at most it can be your and your advisor's, or similar things. You're required to give a (certain number of) copy(es) to your university library, and they will let the public see it, but that's not public domain.
Of course different universities have different policies, so you may end up with stricter conditions, here the rule is to ask local competent people (if reading the official rules doesn't help).
The binary is right, for the wrong spelling.
Oh, and for the reading, no, I can't read it my heart, but I know how to get man ascii
If they are text template and not layout template it wouldn't be copyright infringment as long as you respect their license. Being a template it would probably be quite permissive, but this does not mean that you will be able to do everything.
This is slighty a different matter: copyright law does not cover what you do with other's tools, while it does surely cover the pieces of other's code that you put in your software when using VS wizards. In the first case you would have the right to do whatever you want with your work, unless forbidden by some contract or license; in the second case you wouldn't have the right to use those code parts, unless allowed by a proper license.
Of course they could put some "wicked" clausole in MS Word, but until now they seem to have brain enough not to do so. Maybe they would if they had really all of the wp market, right now it would be suicide.
As for the license part you're right: the right place to get an answer is the VS license, but that could change and one could be put in such conditions where it's only choices could be to change the license of his software, rewrite it from scratch with some other tool, removing all VB wizard parts or stop updating it. This should be considered before choosing a tool for development, I believe.
If you download from an ad filled website you're supporting them, but that's not the case with freenet, of course.
Some pic (even found on freenet, this time) may have some sort of informations on where to find other more, this time either with ads or a pay for view.
I don't believe either that the flow of data should be restricted, either by legal or technical means, I believe that they should work on the two ends of the flow: those who voluntary download such pics in ways that support such market and expecially those who produce them.
And as for freenet, if you want to have lesser chances to get porn in you node you just have to add and request "good" and useful content: if enough people do so "bad" content will be but a minority.
Pedophiles do have the right to speak, they don't hurt anybody by speaking (well, unless they speak to young vulnerable people, but that's another matter). What they do not have the right to do is to take those pics, when by taking the pic they abuse a children.
Strictly speaking, by downloading those pics you don't infringe the rights of anyone, only you support those who make the pics, so I agree that the act of downloading and watching those pics should be restricted, but if someone pushes that pic on your computer you're not doing anything "evil" or "supporting some evil activity".
Also, the casual pic downloader doesn't do that much harm, while real pedophiles either act also, or look for pictures through other channels and they can be found that way, regardless of the existange of freenet.
Connection through an handphone is still around 9 kbps or somethink like that, at least in some cases.
Anyway I don't think that the big problem in third world connections is the fact that it is really slow (i.e. under 14.4), probably it is more a matter of unreliable connection, condivided by quite some people.
What I don't understand is why the program sends compressed pages via e-mail, when in this way their size grows (comparing with compressed pages via http 1.1), and you can't resume if the download fails.
Wouldn't it be better to make use of google, maybe the google cache, and a proxy-like thing that simply receives the request, in the night searches google, downloads the required pages - compressed - and allows people to see them on the next morning?
Curfew can be good, if enforced by parents, not by government. If parents aren't able to monitor their children and check for actual signs of game abuse they can always enforce a time limit policy (such as "no computer except between 4 and 10 pm"), and that doesn't take that much time and effort, unless the children is very motivated (you must do this before actual addiction developes).
If, on the other side, the policy is enforced by the government, you can't discriminate between children, who would benefit from a curfew, and a stricter one than the one of the article (6 am? way too early to begin playing!), and other adult or young adult gamers, who should be considered old enough to choose when they want to play and how much.
As for linux of MacOS, they do have games, and most of them are of the really addictive kind, even without fancy 3d graphics.
I believe you're wrong: I don't think that most geeks don't do what "common people" do, it's more a matter of either having more hobbies or being more devoted to them.
After all, when I'm not doing something with some computer, listening to music, reading, taking photographies (sorry, gone totally digital after my old film camera broke), building worlds (uhm... that something I do both with a computer and with pen and paper, does it apply?), sewing (guess this applies :) ), roleplay, painting, or whatever else I sometimes do, I also enjoy shopping, as long as it's for something related to one of my hobbies, or drinking and eating with (somehow geeky) friends.
With a digital camera they're not that much: when I bought one i noticed that I took about twice as many pics as before, if not more. Usually when I'm on a short trip (1/2 days - no storage problems) I take about 50-100 pics per day, if I'm in a good place.
Of course most of them are duplicates and when i'm home I select slight more than half of them for keeping, and maybe 3 or 4 for "public view", but I've found that the camera display is just too small to allow me to decide whether a shot is worth keeping or not.
If you're traveling in first or second world countries, I would say go digital.
Of course third world is a different matter, unless you're only traveling in big towns.
We didn't have theoretical reasons on the impossibility of certain things like atomic bombs or computers in every home or whatever else, only technical doubts whether it would have been feasible (or pratical enought) or not.
To say that strictly speaking FTL travel is possible would mean to throw away most things we consider true about life, the universe and everything. I'm not saying that this is impossible, only that it is not easy, not that likely in the next couple of centuries of so and extremely unpleasant for our scientists :)
Of course intergalactic space travel may still be possibile, be it through time-backward FDL travel, teleport, countless eons travel by a self-sufficient ship or whatever else the extreme and still unclear border of our current theory will allow.