It's more like "yes, you have the right to say whatever you want within certain limits, but you do not have the right to force me to listen to any or all of what you say or to make me interpret it any particular way."
Of course, the flipside is also true: Content providers can change their page layout around randomly every day in order to break your customized layout/parser.
If this gets popular, that's most likely what they're going to do, to the detriment of the Internet at large.
I, for one, do not welcome our content-munging overlords.
Fun fact: The Internet wasn't originally international. It was started in 1983 to tie ARPANet and several other networks together (NSFNet, BitNet, etc...) using a common protocol (TCP/IP).
There was a time before the National Science Foundation charged nothing for domain names. Then they turned things over to InterNIC. Oh, by the way, InterNIC is still around, but they go by Network Solutions these days.
Oh, but there's a flip side to not having copyright: Nothing stops anyone from taking what you've done, obfuscating it, encrypting it, tying it to a platform, and releasing it as if it were their own.
Oh, and they'll throw chairs at you if you try pointing out that they're doing it.
I'm also surprised they would bring DVD's. Why bring several clunky physical media, when the movies could have been pre-copied to the hard drives (ripped, that is). I rip movies from legal DVD's to the hard drive when I go on a mere business trip; one would think when you're going on the damn shuttle you pack even lighter...
...because they're a US government agency and the DMCA makes DVD ripping illegal?
Really? My hardware DVD player has a remote with about 40 buttons on it. Those include: 1 button to turn it on/off. 1 button to eject. 1 button to switch subtitle languages. 1 button to switch audio languages. 1 button to switch angles for DVDs that are recorded with mutiple angles. 5 buttons to navigate menus (4 arrows plus OK) 4 buttons to *open* menus (root, chapter, can't remember the other two; I'm at work right now) 7 navigation buttons: Play, Stop, Pause, FFW, REW, Previous Chapter, Next Chapter 10 number buttons: 0-9. Used to select chapters, I think. and a bunch of other buttons I don't remember.
And no, this isn't a multi-function remote, it only contains controls for the DVD Player.
It's not just MMOs that are addicting. Any online game can be addicting. Heck, even offline games can be addicting.
Currently, Team Fortress 2 for the PC is my addiction. One of the communities I'm part of has their own server and is currently thinking about getting a second one due to its popularity.
It's fun because you play against people you know and, unlike World of Warcraft, it doesn't matter how little or much you play, as your character never really changes.
Of course, Valve continuing to release updates has made it easier to convince some of my friends to play. It helped a lot when Valve had the sale on The Orange Box for $10 a few weeks ago, though...
I'm wondering why you have a problem with the winsxs folder in Vista, but not in XP.
Windows Side by Side support was introduced in Windows XP. It's for loading multiple versions of DLLs. Installing various versions of.NET or Visual Studio tends to bloat this directory up regardless of which OS version you're using.
If you have Visual Studio 2008 installed, you'll even have versions of DLLs for different architectures than you're currently running: x86, x64, and Itanium stuff are all installed as I recall.
It's still not groundbreaking, but it's not quite as trivial as it sounds.
You're right. The usual way to do this, in Windows applications, is to simply not allow the character and to beep. See: MaskedTextBox for the.NET version, which also triggers an event so programmers can add custom logic.
Yes, that is a Windows Forms thing and not a web form thing, but there's nothing stopping you from hooking a text input's onkeypress event.
Oh, but wait! Web forms don't allow you to set colors on specific characters in input or textarea! How exactly does IBM plan on doing this?
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It's pretty sad that your old G4 has more memory than the PC you were testing Windows 7 on.
Of course, the flipside is also true: Content providers can change their page layout around randomly every day in order to break your customized layout/parser.
If this gets popular, that's most likely what they're going to do, to the detriment of the Internet at large.
I, for one, do not welcome our content-munging overlords.
Fun fact: The Internet wasn't originally international. It was started in 1983 to tie ARPANet and several other networks together (NSFNet, BitNet, etc...) using a common protocol (TCP/IP).
It's continued growing ever since.
There was a time before the National Science Foundation charged nothing for domain names. Then they turned things over to InterNIC. Oh, by the way, InterNIC is still around, but they go by Network Solutions these days.
I'm sorry, I'd prefer it if me domain name wasn't under the GPLv3 or later.
Oh, but there's a flip side to not having copyright: Nothing stops anyone from taking what you've done, obfuscating it, encrypting it, tying it to a platform, and releasing it as if it were their own.
Oh, and they'll throw chairs at you if you try pointing out that they're doing it.
The shuttle's hyperdrive was broken and they didn't have any droids around to fix it.
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Really? My hardware DVD player has a remote with about 40 buttons on it. Those include:
1 button to turn it on/off.
1 button to eject.
1 button to switch subtitle languages.
1 button to switch audio languages.
1 button to switch angles for DVDs that are recorded with mutiple angles.
5 buttons to navigate menus (4 arrows plus OK)
4 buttons to *open* menus (root, chapter, can't remember the other two; I'm at work right now)
7 navigation buttons: Play, Stop, Pause, FFW, REW, Previous Chapter, Next Chapter
10 number buttons: 0-9. Used to select chapters, I think.
and a bunch of other buttons I don't remember.
And no, this isn't a multi-function remote, it only contains controls for the DVD Player.
Disclaimer: I have played WoW in the past.
It's not just MMOs that are addicting. Any online game can be addicting. Heck, even offline games can be addicting.
Currently, Team Fortress 2 for the PC is my addiction. One of the communities I'm part of has their own server and is currently thinking about getting a second one due to its popularity.
It's fun because you play against people you know and, unlike World of Warcraft, it doesn't matter how little or much you play, as your character never really changes.
Of course, Valve continuing to release updates has made it easier to convince some of my friends to play. It helped a lot when Valve had the sale on The Orange Box for $10 a few weeks ago, though...
I'm wondering why you have a problem with the winsxs folder in Vista, but not in XP.
Windows Side by Side support was introduced in Windows XP. It's for loading multiple versions of DLLs. Installing various versions of .NET or Visual Studio tends to bloat this directory up regardless of which OS version you're using.
If you have Visual Studio 2008 installed, you'll even have versions of DLLs for different architectures than you're currently running: x86, x64, and Itanium stuff are all installed as I recall.
Microsoft decided to have unified service packs for OSes using the same core.
That is to say, for Vista and Server 2008. This also means that, yes, Windows Server 2008 was SP1 at launch.
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Microsoft decided to have unified service packs for OSes using the same core.
That is to say, for Vista and Server 2008. This also means that, yes, Windows Server 2008 was SP1 at launch.
Er... except that UTC timestamp only specifies the timezone, not how it's actually stored.
It's up to libc to know how it's stored and convert it to unixtime as appropriate.
Been there, done that, also found an off-by-one bug in someone else's code that calculated the number of pages for custom pagination in a webapp.
Granted, this was years ago before the whole "shove all the rows at them then have Javascript turn it into pages" mentality came around...
Remind me again: How are they decoding this signal? I'm pretty sure I saw mention of a CCD.
How about 6 for mole people from underground?
I saw one in XP once in college a few years ago. Go figure it was because of the (ancient) nVidia video drivers they never bothered to update.
You're right. The usual way to do this, in Windows applications, is to simply not allow the character and to beep. See: MaskedTextBox for the .NET version, which also triggers an event so programmers can add custom logic.
Yes, that is a Windows Forms thing and not a web form thing, but there's nothing stopping you from hooking a text input's onkeypress event.
Oh, but wait! Web forms don't allow you to set colors on specific characters in input or textarea! How exactly does IBM plan on doing this?
...I thought Little Caeser was a pizza, not a ruler.
FYI: Debian lenny (the current stable) ditched apache 1.3 and only includes 2.2 now.
Even the previous version of stable (etch) offered Apache 2.2 as an option. The release before that (sarge) had Apache 2.0 as an option.
While it may seem like Microsoft is the source of all evil, and thus older than all of time, that hasn't been proven yet!
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So, wait, you're saying that ISO 32000-1:2008 isn't the complete spec?