OK, so it isn't working, which is about what I was expecting. But curiously enough for a front page whose developers were confident enough to call it XHTML strict, it has 265 errors.
Then again, if it actually was XHTML strict, using even the correct MIME type, Internet Explorer wouldn't attempt to render it.
In the world of software design, "Null" is commonly used to represent "no value" or "0."
At least in the world of databases, and I thought general software design too, "null" is used to represent an unknown or inapplicable value, whereas "false" or "off" are boolean equivalents of 0.
People keep on dismissing Gates' donations by saying all of the money microsoft makes is from breaking the law, or unethical practices. Correct me if I am wrong, but the only "illegal" activities that have even come close to sticking to microsoft are their actions in relation to IE and windows media player.. both of which are free, and compete against free alternatives.
This sounds like trolling, but I'll reply just in case it isn't.
Here are a few hilights from a random web page, which in turn has links to its sources (just search for something including DOS and sabotage to see similar pages):
Gates gave orders to executives at Microsoft to purposely sabotage DR DOS. "Make sure it [DR DOS] has problems running our software in the future." And where it didn't have problems, programmers were instructed to create bogus error messages saying that it did. The tactic worked and DR DOS was forced out of business, leaving the Microsoft monopoly. Years later, MS paid more than $100 million to settle this case -- long after DR DOS was no longer a threat.
With the MS DOS monopoly as a foundation, Microsoft continued a series of illegal actions designed to extend their monopoly to additional products, including Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. For example, they stifled competition by threatening and extorting computer manufacturers to enter into licenses agreeing to only carry Microsoft products. By the time the Justice Department caught up to them and filed two antitrust cases for a wide range of unfair and anti-competitive actions (1993, 1996), Microsoft had cemented a massive monopoly which gave them hoards of cash to fight any company -- or even the government. Microsoft settled the first case, agreeing to change its illegal marketing practices and was found guilty in the second case.
The charitable giving that Microsoft advertises is usually a business tactic, where they give away software in an attempt to gain traction in a market, such as they do with schools. The software costs them just pennies to reproduce, but they advertise the full retail value for tax and PR reasons. Microsoft rarely gives actual cash.
When was the last time you or any of your friends have been questioned or imprisoned for voicing your opinions. When was the last time the FBI showed up at someone's house simply for running a blog criticizing the US government?
To cite someone's comment in an earlier Slashdot article, how about Mario Savio?
The FBI trailed Mario Savio for more than a decade after he led the 1964 Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, and bureau officials plotted to "neutralize" him politically -- even though there was no evidence he broke any federal law, according to FBI records obtained by The Chronicle.
The concept of driving to the store to buy a plastic disc with data on it and driving back and popping it in the drive will be ridiculous
Isn't that what Larry Ellison, the head of Oracle, said on Triumph of the Nerds?
I hate the PC with a passion. Me going down to the store and buying Windows 95, I've got to get into my car, drive down to a store, buy a cardboard box full of bits, you know, encoded on a piece of plastic CD-ROM and you bring it home and read a manual install this thing - you must be kidding, you know, put the stuff on the net - it's bits, don't put bits in cardboard, cardboard in trucks, trucks to stores, me go to the store, you know, pick the stuff out, it's insane. OK, I love the Internet - I want information, you know, it flows across the wire.
I'm surprised we're not there yet, to be honest. That show's ten years old now.
Anyone know of anything additional about [sexuality being a recent construct]?
I think there's more information about it in Sexing the Body, a non-fiction book. It's mainly about gender constructs though, and it's possible I'm mis-remembering where I heard about sexuality being a recent construct from. But I'm pretty sure that book goes into some detail about how the definitions of sexual practices, sexualities, genders, sexes and the like have been created and shifting over time and between cultures (even what officially constitutes a hermaphrodite has been changing quite a bit recently, so that there are now officially less of them, because the definition's more restrictive).
Tolerant. It was a guild for people who were tolerant of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. No requirement to be a member of one of those three groups. You just had to stop using OMG F4G!!!!11!!one when someone ganked you.
Thank you for the information. In that case, it sounds like a really good idea for a guild! Why would anyone or any company be against a guild whose purpose is to allow people a haven from being laughed at? (This after someone else was upset at the guild for invading their escapism... it sounds like the guild was put up to stop people invading LGBT people's escapism).
(Though the T stands for transgendered, last I heard, before people think your subject title isn't a good play on words:) )
Except nobody is making the requirement that LGBT people must be invisible and silent. They are just forbidden from making a club that intentionally or unintentionally excludes people of certain persuasions (i.e. straight people).
Does anyone know whether or not the guild did exclude straight people, or if they were allowed to join but just saw no point in it? That would seem to make a bit of a difference. Surely it would make more sense for a guild like that to include parents and friends of LGBT people as well, plus anyone interested who wasn't there just to troll.
When Phillips and Sony finalized Red Book in 1979, it was done based off another technology source, Laserdiscs. If someone tried that today, they would be swamped by roughly 30 letters of patent infringment warnings
Except that Laserdiscs were also made by Philips. Someone there asked the technical people if they could use the same technology for plain audio as well as video. See The Compact Disc Story for details.
And thank God..... instead of trying to win a losing battle against privacy loss it would be better if we put our energies into making a completely transparent world. Information wants to be free, deal with it.
That depends on the information. When I submit a post to Usenet or upload a page to a public web server, I realise that anyone is physically able to download, copy, plagiarize, comment on, or do anything else with that information. Fine.
However, when I send someone an e-mail or use my debit card to buy something from a secure web site, I'd rather it was sufficiently encrypted so that no one would be able to take that information and use it for their own purposes.
And when I'm posting something on a public system such as Usenet, there are still some situations where I'd rather do it anonymously, or using a pseudonym that I'd rather wasn't tracable to my regular identity. This would apply to citizens speaking out against oppressive governments, whistleblowers who don't want to get fired, consumers speaking out against lying corporations that constnatly sue over libel, abuse victims offering their empathy to others, and probably lots of other things I can't think of off the top of my head.
Anyone know where I can download an MP3 jukebox for my Vic 20?
No, but there was a program listed in Zzap! 64 once that let you play audio tapes using your Commodore 64. Type in the program, press play on tape, turn your TV's volume up, and listen to something with slightly more signal than noise.
You young whippersnappers...
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...when I was a kid, we used to make music on dot matrix printers.
I hear they are into BDSM over there, so they probably would be quite excited if you did both.
Um, I don't know anyone into BDSM who likes being punched. I think you're thinking of pain in general, rather than a few specific types of pain which can be eroticized.
So, if I understand this right, you need a computer to be able to randomly generate a question and corresponding answer from scratch (pulling it out of a database would presumably just lead to the spammers cataloguing all of the question componenets), but on the other hand, you need a computer to not be able to work out the answer when given just the question.
My best idea is to get it to generate long-winded English sentences along the lines of this:
Please enter any five letters, except that the middle one must be E. Make sure two of the letters are the same.
It would probably be a lot easier to just have a human being read each post and make sure it's not spam before displaying it publicly though, as is the case with moderated newsgroups.
At the rate we're headed, it seems like pretty soon Google will be able to whip up a robot that can beat the Turing test or Voight-Kampff empathy test.
On the other hand, you could say that combinations of keys count for sending signals. This assumes the user can depressed keys instantly but this means that for each key, we've doubled the amount of signals we can send. So, the smallest power of 2 above 146 is 256 or 2^8. And this is fine because we have 10 fingers which is more then enough to hit 8, if required.
This exists: Doug Engelbart's chorded keyboard. Apparently the idea was that you'd use it with one hand, and use a mouse with the other.
Competant developers have been using xhtml and css for 10 almost years
Ignoring for a second how these standards haven't been out that long, hardly anyone is currently supporting XHTML strict properly anyway: using the correct MIME type. In short, if it works in Internet Explorer, it's the wrong MIME type, even if w3.org's validator says it's fine. No company is yet happy with the idea of their web site not working in IE, so they use the incorrect MIME type.
Incidentally, there's a version of XHTML intended specifically to make sites easy for mobile devices and such to swallow: XHTML Basic. From W3's site:
It is designed for Web clients that do not support the full set of XHTML features; for example, Web clients such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop boxes.
I've never felt a need to use regular XHTML for my home projects, as XHTML Basic is more than enough, but I use the latter at work. Oddly enough, the article doesn't even seem to mention XHTML Basic.
This is probably a good time to point out that mouse and GUI were pretty much invented by one person, Doug Engelbart, while driving to work in 1951. A NerdTV interview, in which he talks about his inventions, has recently been released online.
Two rhesus macaques were implanted with brain electrodes in order to record activity during sleep and whilst awake. This is despite the fact that non-invasive imaging techniques yield vast amounts of information about how the human brain functions while people are slumbering or awake.
So, two rhesus macaques were needlessly tortured to extract information about humans (which they're clearly not) that we already know.
Animals are animals, humans are human and don't actually need any justification to hunt, kill, torture, eat or experiment on animals.
If you don't feel the need to justify torture, I'm not entirely sure that I'm the one with the extremist viewpoint.
Yeah sure, lets go and replace all the male game heroes and Hollywood actors with pale, thin geeks instead of bulky, muscular chick magnets, because surely that's sexist too?
I for one would love to see actors getting hired based on their acting ability rather than their physical attributes, and that goes for men as well as women. I find it much easier to identify with someone who doesn't look perfect and much easier to suspend my disbelief with someone who can act.
Besides, not all women find muscular men more attractive than geeks.:)
Why can't women who are intelligent, strong, and powerful in games ALSO be big-breasted?
They can occasionally, just not every single time. It gets tiresome. And don't get me started on the practicalities of engaging in martial arts while wearing high heels...
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OK, so it isn't working, which is about what I was expecting. But curiously enough for a front page whose developers were confident enough to call it XHTML strict, it has 265 errors.
Then again, if it actually was XHTML strict, using even the correct MIME type, Internet Explorer wouldn't attempt to render it.
In the world of software design, "Null" is commonly used to represent "no value" or "0."
At least in the world of databases, and I thought general software design too, "null" is used to represent an unknown or inapplicable value, whereas "false" or "off" are boolean equivalents of 0.
People keep on dismissing Gates' donations by saying all of the money microsoft makes is from breaking the law, or unethical practices. Correct me if I am wrong, but the only "illegal" activities that have even come close to sticking to microsoft are their actions in relation to IE and windows media player.. both of which are free, and compete against free alternatives.
This sounds like trolling, but I'll reply just in case it isn't.
Here are a few hilights from a random web page, which in turn has links to its sources (just search for something including DOS and sabotage to see similar pages):
When was the last time you or any of your friends have been questioned or imprisoned for voicing your opinions. When was the last time the FBI showed up at someone's house simply for running a blog criticizing the US government?
To cite someone's comment in an earlier Slashdot article, how about Mario Savio?
The concept of driving to the store to buy a plastic disc with data on it and driving back and popping it in the drive will be ridiculous
Isn't that what Larry Ellison, the head of Oracle, said on Triumph of the Nerds?
I'm surprised we're not there yet, to be honest. That show's ten years old now.
Anyone know of anything additional about [sexuality being a recent construct]?
I think there's more information about it in Sexing the Body, a non-fiction book. It's mainly about gender constructs though, and it's possible I'm mis-remembering where I heard about sexuality being a recent construct from. But I'm pretty sure that book goes into some detail about how the definitions of sexual practices, sexualities, genders, sexes and the like have been created and shifting over time and between cultures (even what officially constitutes a hermaphrodite has been changing quite a bit recently, so that there are now officially less of them, because the definition's more restrictive).
Tolerant. It was a guild for people who were tolerant of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. No requirement to be a member of one of those three groups. You just had to stop using OMG F4G!!!!11!!one when someone ganked you.
Thank you for the information. In that case, it sounds like a really good idea for a guild! Why would anyone or any company be against a guild whose purpose is to allow people a haven from being laughed at? (This after someone else was upset at the guild for invading their escapism... it sounds like the guild was put up to stop people invading LGBT people's escapism).
(Though the T stands for transgendered, last I heard, before people think your subject title isn't a good play on words :) )
Except nobody is making the requirement that LGBT people must be invisible and silent. They are just forbidden from making a club that intentionally or unintentionally excludes people of certain persuasions (i.e. straight people).
Does anyone know whether or not the guild did exclude straight people, or if they were allowed to join but just saw no point in it? That would seem to make a bit of a difference. Surely it would make more sense for a guild like that to include parents and friends of LGBT people as well, plus anyone interested who wasn't there just to troll.
One of the founders of Google still has links to various publications (in PostScript format) about search engines, if that helps.
MusicBrainz is a free (libre) CCDB-like database of audio CDs.
When Phillips and Sony finalized Red Book in 1979, it was done based off another technology source, Laserdiscs. If someone tried that today, they would be swamped by roughly 30 letters of patent infringment warnings
Except that Laserdiscs were also made by Philips. Someone there asked the technical people if they could use the same technology for plain audio as well as video. See The Compact Disc Story for details.
And thank God..... instead of trying to win a losing battle against privacy loss it would be better if we put our energies into making a completely transparent world. Information wants to be free, deal with it.
That depends on the information. When I submit a post to Usenet or upload a page to a public web server, I realise that anyone is physically able to download, copy, plagiarize, comment on, or do anything else with that information. Fine.
However, when I send someone an e-mail or use my debit card to buy something from a secure web site, I'd rather it was sufficiently encrypted so that no one would be able to take that information and use it for their own purposes.
And when I'm posting something on a public system such as Usenet, there are still some situations where I'd rather do it anonymously, or using a pseudonym that I'd rather wasn't tracable to my regular identity. This would apply to citizens speaking out against oppressive governments, whistleblowers who don't want to get fired, consumers speaking out against lying corporations that constnatly sue over libel, abuse victims offering their empathy to others, and probably lots of other things I can't think of off the top of my head.
I have something to hide, like trading kidding porn
Beautiful woman: I'd really like to make love to you.
Guy: Really?!
Beautiful woman: Nah, just kidding.
Anyone know where I can download an MP3 jukebox for my Vic 20?
No, but there was a program listed in Zzap! 64 once that let you play audio tapes using your Commodore 64. Type in the program, press play on tape, turn your TV's volume up, and listen to something with slightly more signal than noise.
...when I was a kid, we used to make music on dot matrix printers.
Finance program or tax calculator?
Apparently Apple trademarked the word "numbers," so maybe they'll release a spreadsheet with iWork. It would be a bit out of place in iLife.
I hear they are into BDSM over there, so they probably would be quite excited if you did both.
Um, I don't know anyone into BDSM who likes being punched. I think you're thinking of pain in general, rather than a few specific types of pain which can be eroticized.
So, if I understand this right, you need a computer to be able to randomly generate a question and corresponding answer from scratch (pulling it out of a database would presumably just lead to the spammers cataloguing all of the question componenets), but on the other hand, you need a computer to not be able to work out the answer when given just the question.
My best idea is to get it to generate long-winded English sentences along the lines of this:
It would probably be a lot easier to just have a human being read each post and make sure it's not spam before displaying it publicly though, as is the case with moderated newsgroups.
At the rate we're headed, it seems like pretty soon Google will be able to whip up a robot that can beat the Turing test or Voight-Kampff empathy test.
On the other hand, you could say that combinations of keys count for sending signals. This assumes the user can depressed keys instantly but this means that for each key, we've doubled the amount of signals we can send. So, the smallest power of 2 above 146 is 256 or 2^8. And this is fine because we have 10 fingers which is more then enough to hit 8, if required.
This exists: Doug Engelbart's chorded keyboard. Apparently the idea was that you'd use it with one hand, and use a mouse with the other.
Competant developers have been using xhtml and css for 10 almost years
Ignoring for a second how these standards haven't been out that long, hardly anyone is currently supporting XHTML strict properly anyway: using the correct MIME type. In short, if it works in Internet Explorer, it's the wrong MIME type, even if w3.org's validator says it's fine. No company is yet happy with the idea of their web site not working in IE, so they use the incorrect MIME type.
Incidentally, there's a version of XHTML intended specifically to make sites easy for mobile devices and such to swallow: XHTML Basic. From W3's site:
I've never felt a need to use regular XHTML for my home projects, as XHTML Basic is more than enough, but I use the latter at work. Oddly enough, the article doesn't even seem to mention XHTML Basic.
This is probably a good time to point out that mouse and GUI were pretty much invented by one person, Doug Engelbart, while driving to work in 1951. A NerdTV interview, in which he talks about his inventions, has recently been released online.
Apparent to whom, the scientists running the experiments or fundamentalist activists unwilling to see anthing contrary to their extremist viewpoints ?
Well, quoting an example from the article I linked to in my parent post:
So, two rhesus macaques were needlessly tortured to extract information about humans (which they're clearly not) that we already know.
Animals are animals, humans are human and don't actually need any justification to hunt, kill, torture, eat or experiment on animals.
If you don't feel the need to justify torture, I'm not entirely sure that I'm the one with the extremist viewpoint.
Researchers are nevertheless beginning to bump up against what bioethicists call the "yuck factor."
Yeah, because causing brain damage on purpopse, then killing the animal a few weeks later, often for no apparent reason, is usually ethically fine.
Yeah sure, lets go and replace all the male game heroes and Hollywood actors with pale, thin geeks instead of bulky, muscular chick magnets, because surely that's sexist too?
I for one would love to see actors getting hired based on their acting ability rather than their physical attributes, and that goes for men as well as women. I find it much easier to identify with someone who doesn't look perfect and much easier to suspend my disbelief with someone who can act.
Besides, not all women find muscular men more attractive than geeks. :)
Why can't women who are intelligent, strong, and powerful in games ALSO be big-breasted?
They can occasionally, just not every single time. It gets tiresome. And don't get me started on the practicalities of engaging in martial arts while wearing high heels...