Actually, that raises a good point. I wonder how many sites there are peddling illegal or borderline goods that don't delivery?
For example, I remember a joke (on a TV show or something) about billing a person for fetish items under "gentlemen's club inc" and then upon receiving complains, refunding them via a cheque from "men's assvibrators inc" or something of the like, on the premise that not everyone would be willing to walk into a bank and cash a cheque from that name.
Now, given the number of spams I've seen that advertise products that aren't only illegal to sell, but often to purchase (illegal pr0n etc), how many would be stupid enough to buy them, but wouldn't exactly be in a position to complain that "Illicit goods X" weren't properly delivered?
Cosmetically, Macs have -for a long time - looked better. They're easily identifiable as a computer, while coming in a bevy of colors all with nice curves and shapes.
Sure, you could get a boxy computer in color-X from some weird vendor, but the Mac is likely oftimes more convenient as "functional" scenery.
Greed is what has killed Vista. It offers little visible benefit to the consumer other than the "ooh shiney" factor. These days, people are starting to recognize a polished turd when the see what. Those that really would have liked it were *not* on the side of the consumer:
a) Media companies (music/movie): Yayyy... new DRM. Oh sorry consumer, no you can't play that media that worked on windows XP
b) CPU/motherboard vendors: yayyyy.... upgrade. Oh, sorry consumer, no you old computer won't run Vista, why not buy this new one?
c) Peripheral vendors: yayyyy... incompatability. Ooops, sorry guy, this hardware won't work in Vista. Why not "upgrade"
Yes, MS has been greedy in that Vista didn't offer enough to many to be worth the cost (somewhat like the Blu-Ray VS DVD issues). However, the greed of third-parties is also a huge factor. Look at the issues with Creative, wherein their drivers for Vista (which were slow to even be released) reduced functionality over XP... and then they went lawyer-crazy over the guy who rewrote the driver to fix bugs and enable the "broken" features. And when I say broken, I mean disabled, because in reality Creative was using the lack of features in Vista to try a forced-upgrade.
Greed has been the bane of Vista. I hardly think a past-prime Comedian is going to help that now. In some cases it may even hurt the situation... as a response may very well be "WTF are you doing paying Jerry-F'ing-Seinfeld instead of fixing my broken printer/soundcard/video/etc"
He's well known, but from what I've seen not particularly well liked. Yes, a lot of people know what Seinfeld is. Quite a lot of people liked the show, and quite a lot of people.... well... hated it. From my experience, the majority might fall into a group of "didn't really follow Seinfeld much, but really liked the Soup Nazi episode." I had some interesting commentary on culture, but in many cases that's what turned a lot of people off (it was a bit dry/irritating in places).
Simpsons did better in this aspect because it appealed to broader audiences (both adults, children, and teens), but I doubt that Homer would make a good advertising sponsor for Vista. Doh!
MS would probably do better if they'd pulled Ross or Joey from Friends, because - social commentary aside - it's more likely to hit the demographics of Vista buyers.
They're hiring a comedian? I mean, c'mon, what is he going to do, tell jokes about Macs or Linux? The best they might do is get some sort of ad campaign that somewhat counters the "I'm a Mac" ads. Seems to me that advertising for MS in this way would be more detrimental to JS's career than it would be helpful to MS's operating system.
One is as-close or as-not-close as the other, however I would say that the way the game industry reacts to piracy is different.
For one thing, while the number of seperate big producers in the industry is shrinking (EA has eaten a bunch of them, for example), there is no overall collusive body for games like there is for music. Moreover, the games industry is a bit more segmented in terms of what they produce for: the RIAA members are still mostly using CD's in terms of public production, while the games industry has PC's and multiple consoles, etc.
Additionally, the game industry is a bit more fluid in terms of copy-protection. Yes, all methods will be cracked (and most methods suck), but you can't product a new method of CD-protection without breaking a lot of existing compatibility, and you can't introduce a new medium without some obvious benefit to the consumer (hence Blu-Ray's main competitor is still DVD in the movie arena), while new consoles (and new protections) come out somewhat more regularly as new graphics capabilities etc make them more appealing.
The last arena of course, is the internet. Games to much extent embrace it, and the music industry has been far from doing so in many cases. Distribution methods such as Steam have both conveniences and pitfalls for game-producers and consumers, but are more-or-less accepted by many at this point. Of course, the golden goose is in Pay-to-play online games such as MMORPG's, which provide a continue source of revenue while providing customers with a somewhat dynamic experience.
My understand as well is that women living or working in close quarters often have the dates of their cycles begin to merge. I'm not sure which is worse, having several wives throughout the month PMS'ing (constant PMS), or having a bunch of them all PMS'ing at the same time (mega-PMS)
Also, has anyone ever heard of any polygamist female sects, or is strictly a male/ego thing?
Really? Last time I checked in most places I could set up a protest, complain about my government (or somebody else's government), or whatever, so long as I'm not obstructing others.
I can hold political rallies, and I can share my opinions.
I can't go on in a public square stating that "Jews are evil" or "blacks are dumb" or "whites are best," but most people in these parts don't find that particular type of "free speech " valuable anyways.
So yeah, maybe there are some things that you can say in other countries such as the US that you can't say here, but at least we don't need a free speech zone to state my political opinions.
I think it's the submitter that's clueless in this case. Basically, it's the case of "government official wants to do something to reduce the amount of online data that could be potentially abused." So there are other ways around this issue, so what? This is along the same lines of people who on an article like "new solar energy source is proven 99% efficient" would bitch "but it still doesn't work at night. Solar is useless and we're wasting time putting so much research into it blah blah blah."
Seriously, get off your f*cking high horses. It sounds like they're making an attempt to fix *some issues* in a way that, really, doesn't seem to have a negative side-effect. That information *does* need to be available in many situations, but at least by giving it semi-anonymity it means that it's not available to casual searchers such as curious co-workers or nosy neighbors.
Why should I have to waste time out of my day to track down all the appropriate information for DebtOnYourAss Inc, type up a letter, and mail it to them, when they shouldn't be calling me in the first place.
If I tell them that Johnny Dontwannapay doesn't exist at my phone number, then they'd better stop calling.
My flash is working on both 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu versions (feisty/hardy), as well as on an older 32-bit Debian machine. Both 2.x (Debian/Ubuntu) and 3.x versions of firefox (Ubuntu).
On the Debian box it seemed to have issues at times. On Ubuntu the only consistent issue I've really had is that sometimes when the browser screws up the "nspluginwrapper" (used to run 32-bit flash on 64-bit firefox) doesn't die when the browser is killed.
CPU consumption doesn't seem bad either. At least on my older P4 laptop I'm still able to run full-screen youtube stuff, with the only lag being due to slow internet. CPU usage is within tolerable limits, with the only times it gets crazy being due to some weird-ass ads likely doing things they shouldn't (to be fair, I've had runaway JavaScripts do the same).
Seems to me that flash support has actually worked a little better recently. My biggest complain would be that Adobe seems to have a serious case of cranial-rectal-inversion in regards to 64-bit support... as the architecture has been around more than long enough to make way to having native 64-bit browser support (sans extra wrappers)
5. Sometimes you're working with things that are very poorly documented, or vendors that are somewhat wary or even hostile about providing full documentation to a FOSS project
Hitler in a giant combat suit, soldiers with guns welded to them in various odd places (original wolfenstein) seems weirdly sci-fi and/or paranormal enough in places to me.
Now with photos this is less of an issue as major colour shifts are unusual
Of course, if you wanted to hide from a tool such as this, you could probably do so by shifting the colors a miniscule amount (say, on an RGB image, adding one point of red, green, and blue), which in most cases would hardly alter the image, but likely make it drop off the radar.
I'd imagine that you could do the same thing by altering even just a few pixels this way as well.
One of the notable different in law-enforcement related legal issues is that in BC, issue with the police are generally investigated by an internal unit. There have been a *lot* of issues and complaints around this lately especially in relation to issues being more-or-less swept under the rug.
In Ontario, from what I've heard any issue of gravity is investigated by a unit that is kept separate from the actual police department, and major investigations are usually carried about by a department of that unit from another area to prevent prejudice.
I seem to remember that being supported back as far as the old DOS days and FAT16.
However, if it were a read-only set with something like "attrib", then one shouldn't be able to edit these files in windows either. Seems to be more an issue with the way the 'vfat' module interprets some FAT32 dirs.
This isn't a "Vista" bug, as I've seen it happen frequently on a dual boot machine that is only XP+Ubuntu (no Vista)
I ran into this not that long ago and was really stuck scratching my head for awhile, as the fstab settings were definitely correct. However, after a little "chmod -R" magic on the entire FAT32 partition, it reset the recalcitrant permissions and everything worked fine.
I've been a KDE3 user for quite awhile. My first impression of KDE4 was "WTF, are they trying to copy Vista?"
As a whole, I'm hoping it will turn out quite well, but the colour scheme and little boxes everywhere really do seem reminiscent of certain Redmond OS's. C'mon guys, I know you can be more creative than that!
I'd say that this at least partly depends on the level of complexity you're trying to program in, and the number of available libraries (and sometimes "make your own" or "buy one" isn't a viable solution).
Some things can be done - or at least much more efficiently - on windows that can't be done on 'nix, because there's already an existing framework in place. Ditto for things that can be done on Linux/Unix.
The API's in some cases may be comparable, but in some cases there is *NO* API for what you want to do on a given OS. Yes, if you're making a simple office app, perhaps even an OpenGL game, then going cross-platform might not be that much more difficult. But how about something that depends on a networking capability that windows doesn't have, or some media library that linux/mac don't really support. As for the hardware being the same, how about a hardware device which doesn't have drivers in a given OS, or drivers that function differently?
Yes, there are a lot of apps out there that wouldn't be difficult to make cross-platform had they been created with that in mind. There are also a lot out there that would be hell to do so with.
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Screw that, why even *have* a database.
Keep a text-file open. Write to it. Download all files at day-end, tally up.
A database is for semi-complicated data-manipulation. Choosing (a), (b), or (c) is pretty much as simple as it gets.
Actually, that raises a good point. I wonder how many sites there are peddling illegal or borderline goods that don't delivery?
For example, I remember a joke (on a TV show or something) about billing a person for fetish items under "gentlemen's club inc" and then upon receiving complains, refunding them via a cheque from "men's assvibrators inc" or something of the like, on the premise that not everyone would be willing to walk into a bank and cash a cheque from that name.
Now, given the number of spams I've seen that advertise products that aren't only illegal to sell, but often to purchase (illegal pr0n etc), how many would be stupid enough to buy them, but wouldn't exactly be in a position to complain that "Illicit goods X" weren't properly delivered?
Cosmetically, Macs have -for a long time - looked better. They're easily identifiable as a computer, while coming in a bevy of colors all with nice curves and shapes.
Sure, you could get a boxy computer in color-X from some weird vendor, but the Mac is likely oftimes more convenient as "functional" scenery.
Greed is what has killed Vista. It offers little visible benefit to the consumer other than the "ooh shiney" factor. These days, people are starting to recognize a polished turd when the see what. Those that really would have liked it were *not* on the side of the consumer:
a) Media companies (music/movie): Yayyy... new DRM. Oh sorry consumer, no you can't play that media that worked on windows XP
b) CPU/motherboard vendors: yayyyy .... upgrade. Oh, sorry consumer, no you old computer won't run Vista, why not buy this new one?
c) Peripheral vendors: yayyyy ... incompatability. Ooops, sorry guy, this hardware won't work in Vista. Why not "upgrade"
Yes, MS has been greedy in that Vista didn't offer enough to many to be worth the cost (somewhat like the Blu-Ray VS DVD issues). However, the greed of third-parties is also a huge factor. Look at the issues with Creative, wherein their drivers for Vista (which were slow to even be released) reduced functionality over XP... and then they went lawyer-crazy over the guy who rewrote the driver to fix bugs and enable the "broken" features. And when I say broken, I mean disabled, because in reality Creative was using the lack of features in Vista to try a forced-upgrade.
Greed has been the bane of Vista. I hardly think a past-prime Comedian is going to help that now. In some cases it may even hurt the situation... as a response may very well be "WTF are you doing paying Jerry-F'ing-Seinfeld instead of fixing my broken printer/soundcard/video/etc"
For me, the name recalls a few yellow animated bee-characters, but - frankly - I had forgotten that Jerry was even in it.
He's well known, but from what I've seen not particularly well liked. Yes, a lot of people know what Seinfeld is. Quite a lot of people liked the show, and quite a lot of people.... well... hated it. From my experience, the majority might fall into a group of "didn't really follow Seinfeld much, but really liked the Soup Nazi episode." I had some interesting commentary on culture, but in many cases that's what turned a lot of people off (it was a bit dry/irritating in places).
Simpsons did better in this aspect because it appealed to broader audiences (both adults, children, and teens), but I doubt that Homer would make a good advertising sponsor for Vista. Doh!
MS would probably do better if they'd pulled Ross or Joey from Friends, because - social commentary aside - it's more likely to hit the demographics of Vista buyers.
They're hiring a comedian? I mean, c'mon, what is he going to do, tell jokes about Macs or Linux? The best they might do is get some sort of ad campaign that somewhat counters the "I'm a Mac" ads. Seems to me that advertising for MS in this way would be more detrimental to JS's career than it would be helpful to MS's operating system.
One is as-close or as-not-close as the other, however I would say that the way the game industry reacts to piracy is different.
For one thing, while the number of seperate big producers in the industry is shrinking (EA has eaten a bunch of them, for example), there is no overall collusive body for games like there is for music. Moreover, the games industry is a bit more segmented in terms of what they produce for: the RIAA members are still mostly using CD's in terms of public production, while the games industry has PC's and multiple consoles, etc.
Additionally, the game industry is a bit more fluid in terms of copy-protection. Yes, all methods will be cracked (and most methods suck), but you can't product a new method of CD-protection without breaking a lot of existing compatibility, and you can't introduce a new medium without some obvious benefit to the consumer (hence Blu-Ray's main competitor is still DVD in the movie arena), while new consoles (and new protections) come out somewhat more regularly as new graphics capabilities etc make them more appealing.
The last arena of course, is the internet. Games to much extent embrace it, and the music industry has been far from doing so in many cases. Distribution methods such as Steam have both conveniences and pitfalls for game-producers and consumers, but are more-or-less accepted by many at this point. Of course, the golden goose is in Pay-to-play online games such as MMORPG's, which provide a continue source of revenue while providing customers with a somewhat dynamic experience.
Haven't heard of those ones, but these are along perhaps a similar meme
My understand as well is that women living or working in close quarters often have the dates of their cycles begin to merge. I'm not sure which is worse, having several wives throughout the month PMS'ing (constant PMS), or having a bunch of them all PMS'ing at the same time (mega-PMS)
Also, has anyone ever heard of any polygamist female sects, or is strictly a male/ego thing?
Really? Last time I checked in most places I could set up a protest, complain about my government (or somebody else's government), or whatever, so long as I'm not obstructing others.
I can hold political rallies, and I can share my opinions.
I can't go on in a public square stating that "Jews are evil" or "blacks are dumb" or "whites are best," but most people in these parts don't find that particular type of "free speech " valuable anyways.
So yeah, maybe there are some things that you can say in other countries such as the US that you can't say here, but at least we don't need a free speech zone to state my political opinions.
I think it's the submitter that's clueless in this case. Basically, it's the case of "government official wants to do something to reduce the amount of online data that could be potentially abused." So there are other ways around this issue, so what? This is along the same lines of people who on an article like "new solar energy source is proven 99% efficient" would bitch "but it still doesn't work at night. Solar is useless and we're wasting time putting so much research into it blah blah blah."
Seriously, get off your f*cking high horses. It sounds like they're making an attempt to fix *some issues* in a way that, really, doesn't seem to have a negative side-effect. That information *does* need to be available in many situations, but at least by giving it semi-anonymity it means that it's not available to casual searchers such as curious co-workers or nosy neighbors.
So what about stories that feature non-men?
In terms of movies: "March of the Penguins" (or pretty much anything on the nature channel).
In terms of games the first one I could think of is SimAnt (Nature Vs Nature), but there may be others.
Why should I have to waste time out of my day to track down all the appropriate information for DebtOnYourAss Inc, type up a letter, and mail it to them, when they shouldn't be calling me in the first place.
If I tell them that Johnny Dontwannapay doesn't exist at my phone number, then they'd better stop calling.
My flash is working on both 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu versions (feisty/hardy), as well as on an older 32-bit Debian machine. Both 2.x (Debian/Ubuntu) and 3.x versions of firefox (Ubuntu).
On the Debian box it seemed to have issues at times. On Ubuntu the only consistent issue I've really had is that sometimes when the browser screws up the "nspluginwrapper" (used to run 32-bit flash on 64-bit firefox) doesn't die when the browser is killed.
CPU consumption doesn't seem bad either. At least on my older P4 laptop I'm still able to run full-screen youtube stuff, with the only lag being due to slow internet. CPU usage is within tolerable limits, with the only times it gets crazy being due to some weird-ass ads likely doing things they shouldn't (to be fair, I've had runaway JavaScripts do the same).
Seems to me that flash support has actually worked a little better recently. My biggest complain would be that Adobe seems to have a serious case of cranial-rectal-inversion in regards to 64-bit support... as the architecture has been around more than long enough to make way to having native 64-bit browser support (sans extra wrappers)
Actually, flash does work in 64-bit Linux, in a sad, hacked, bastardized sort of way.
For those using Ubuntu, check out "nspluginwrapper"
5. Sometimes you're working with things that are very poorly documented, or vendors that are somewhat wary or even hostile about providing full documentation to a FOSS project
Although in some cases I've seen code that's more or less like this
Hitler in a giant combat suit, soldiers with guns welded to them in various odd places (original wolfenstein) seems weirdly sci-fi and/or paranormal enough in places to me.
Now with photos this is less of an issue as major colour shifts are unusual
Of course, if you wanted to hide from a tool such as this, you could probably do so by shifting the colors a miniscule amount (say, on an RGB image, adding one point of red, green, and blue), which in most cases would hardly alter the image, but likely make it drop off the radar.
I'd imagine that you could do the same thing by altering even just a few pixels this way as well.
One of the notable different in law-enforcement related legal issues is that in BC, issue with the police are generally investigated by an internal unit. There have been a *lot* of issues and complaints around this lately especially in relation to issues being more-or-less swept under the rug.
In Ontario, from what I've heard any issue of gravity is investigated by a unit that is kept separate from the actual police department, and major investigations are usually carried about by a department of that unit from another area to prevent prejudice.
I seem to remember that being supported back as far as the old DOS days and FAT16.
However, if it were a read-only set with something like "attrib", then one shouldn't be able to edit these files in windows either. Seems to be more an issue with the way the 'vfat' module interprets some FAT32 dirs.
This isn't a "Vista" bug, as I've seen it happen frequently on a dual boot machine that is only XP+Ubuntu (no Vista)
I ran into this not that long ago and was really stuck scratching my head for awhile, as the fstab settings were definitely correct. However, after a little "chmod -R" magic on the entire FAT32 partition, it reset the recalcitrant permissions and everything worked fine.
I've been a KDE3 user for quite awhile. My first impression of KDE4 was "WTF, are they trying to copy Vista?"
As a whole, I'm hoping it will turn out quite well, but the colour scheme and little boxes everywhere really do seem reminiscent of certain Redmond OS's. C'mon guys, I know you can be more creative than that!
I'd say that this at least partly depends on the level of complexity you're trying to program in, and the number of available libraries (and sometimes "make your own" or "buy one" isn't a viable solution).
Some things can be done - or at least much more efficiently - on windows that can't be done on 'nix, because there's already an existing framework in place. Ditto for things that can be done on Linux/Unix.
The API's in some cases may be comparable, but in some cases there is *NO* API for what you want to do on a given OS. Yes, if you're making a simple office app, perhaps even an OpenGL game, then going cross-platform might not be that much more difficult. But how about something that depends on a networking capability that windows doesn't have, or some media library that linux/mac don't really support. As for the hardware being the same, how about a hardware device which doesn't have drivers in a given OS, or drivers that function differently?
Yes, there are a lot of apps out there that wouldn't be difficult to make cross-platform had they been created with that in mind. There are also a lot out there that would be hell to do so with.