Ack, need to read that closer before posting. It SHOULD have said "strong lighting affect," as there is already a lighting effect in Luna, but it isn't that noticable on green.
As for ripping off, I think the similarity between Aero's back and forward buttons and the KDE Crystal icon set's is rather striking. Microsoft's version does look a tiny bit better, though.
Aero's back and forward buttons also look a lot like Luna's back and forward buttons, but with the color changed to blue, and lighting affect applied to the upper-left corner.
I cannot understand why Apple is sodding around with Motorola on this. They should have partnered with Nokia.
I imagine that Apple did that because they used to have a business relationship with Motorola. Prior to the introduction of the PowerPC architecture, Macintoshes used Motorola's 68k line of processors.
Because they are the government. Asking the government not to be nosey is like asking a dog not to pee on the rug. Even after so many times saying 'no', when your back is turned **look!** they've gone and done it again! Bad dog!
Repeat. Ad nausem.
Yes, but eventually, dogs become house trained. The government, on the other hand, never learns.
Yes, because we all know that OS components will be forcefully removed (by a government) 13-14 years after they were introduced.
Media Player isn't like IE. Media Player and its infrastructure were introduced when Multimedia components were first added to Windows, way back when Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions was released in 1991.
Which, incidently, makes Media Player as old, or older than, Linux.
Using a slashdot user's rule of thumb to identify appropriate grammar is like using Michael Jackson to watch your kids after school. In short, don't be absurd. As the Chicago Manual of Style, Strunk and White and Fowler's Modern English all clearly agree, the past tense of the verb "to copyright" is "copywritten."
This makes sense, since right and write have different meanings. Even though copyrights were originally put into place for written materials, it is still a right, not a write.
I hope the hamsters in that MIDI device live longer than the ones that power my MIDI archive's web server. I had to buy new ones on Friday evening, because my old ones died.
Maybe I should have several shifts of hamsters, like the 24/7 convenience stores do with their employees...
Have you taken this into account when claiming your domain name as a trademark?
On another note, having read over the differences between Trademarks and Servicemarks, I would think that a website would have a Servicemark rather than a Trademark, because of this piece of text: A servicemark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product.
For example, Microsoft is a Servicemark, Windows is a Trademark. Google is likely both.
For some reason, we can't get PHP's developers to bundle MySQL or PostgreSQL with PHP.
For any other programming language, you still need to configure and install SQLite and install a module for SQLite.
...or use your OS's handy ports/package system to install it. That IS what it's there for, after all.
MySQL also has a nice perl interface to set permissions, aptly named mysql_setpermission.
Note: Ignore my previous comment. I accidently clicked submit instead of preview. All in favor of making a post required to be previewed once before Submitting, raise your mouse!
For some reason, we can't get PHP's developers to bundle MySQL or PostgreSQL with PHP.
For any other programming language, you still need to configure and install SQLite and install a module for SQLite....or use your OS's handy ports system to install it.
MySQL also has a nice perl interface to set permissions, aptly named mysql_setpermission.
As far as I know, anyone can install programs on Windows 2k/XP... just not to the Program Files directory or if it requires writing file to the Windows directory structure.
In theory, no userland programs should need write access to the Windows directory structure.
Actually, there is a difference between/bin (or/usr/bin) and/sbin./sbin stands for stand alone binaries. (As opposed to/bin, which is just binaries) In sbin, you will find statically linked executables that you just may want to use if your system is hosed (ie the slice with the dynamic libraries goes down and you want to fsck it). They dont absolutely need to be in separate directories, but there is definitely a difference.
While it's a good idea to have things in sbin statically compiled, sbin actually stands for "system binaries," according to the File Hierarchy Standard. "System binaries" is the FHS way of saying programs that only root should have permissions to execute.
It's only split into separate directories for convenience, as sbin does not appear in the normal users path.
Well, that's after you pay $50 for the game + box + first month free trail subscription.
Hrm, "free"... Gee, Blizzard marketing department, thanks for offering us a free month of game play in exchange for buying a $50 game that is useless without that subscription.
Yes, that's how marketing works for an MMORPG. The thing you pay for in the box is the work that went into developing the game itself, reimbursing the company for the server hardware, reimbursing the company for the optical line installation (or co-location setup costs), and knowing Blizzard's heavy Microsoft strategy: OS licenses and database server licenses. The amount you pay per month is goes to the employees needed to maintain the server and the money needed to pay for the optical lines (or co-location monthly fees).
The free first month is really deceptive marketing: the first month's fee has already been figured into the product price.
Ugh. Between creepy marketing like that and everyone else jumping over to a Half-Life 2, both publiched by a company that still sells Counter-Strike for $30 when they've disabled the ability to play it at all (without installing a DRM platform under a different license, of course).... I'm really just getting ticked off. I'm probably alone in saving my money and avoiding both of those games, though.
For now, I think I'll stick to working on games that are free for everyone and occasionally play UT2004 and a few budget titles without these restrictive licenses.
I don't agree with the way Valve (yes, I'm blaming Valve here, not Vivendi) is handling Half-Life 2 registrations. However, they are correct in that piracy is rampant. I still don't play on getting HL2, though.
As for game development, it's a fact of life that 3D games take more time and money to create than 2D games. It's a fact of life that the bigger the game, the more resources it takes to develop. The first M in MMORPG stands for Massive for a reason: the game world is extremely large. Given these, it really isn't surprising that MMORPGs are expensive when they first come out.
On the flip side, most computer games cost the same amount up front as WoW does, so you're either paying less for WoW itself, or the first month really is free...
1) If the expansion allows you to move around in space, what the hell were people doing before this? Was the original game restricted to one planet?
You were restricted to buying shuttle tickets to move between the game's 10 planets: Corellia, Naboo, Tatooine, Rori, Talus, Dantooine, Lok, Yavin IV, (the forest moon of) Endor, and Dathomir. Transitions were handled by annoying load screens. Of course, transitions to space are handled by annoying load screens too...
2) If you bought the first, do you have to buy the upgrade? If you don't have the upgrade can you still play?
You can still play, but you can't access the space areas or create Ithorian and Sulustan characters. Which is dumb, since the models for those character types are downloaded to your system anyway.
I believe that IE has lots more security holes than other web browsers... due to the following:
Internet Explorer seems to have the equivalent of Unix's setuid root on it. It can do anything on your system. ANYTHING. Even if the user running it doesn't have privileges to do it.
ActiveX is one giant security hole, due to the above.
Microsoft seems to care less about real security than it does looking like something is secure. An example is XP SP2's firewall, which seems to alert you about outgoing connections, but doesn't.
Windows ships with a bunch of unneccesary services turned on, such as Windows Networking. And yes, it's still turned on by default in XP SP2.
However, those 3 Firefox holes were fixed faster than the 1 IE hole. Mozilla releases patches as soon as they've fixed the problem. Microsoft? They wait until Wednesday night. If a problem is fixed on a Thursday, and it's something already exploited, then most people affected (the clueless windows users) are basically screwed.
Keeping in mind that today is 2004/08/04...
Critical Bugs fixed in Mozilla 1.7.2/Firefox 0.9.3/Thunderbird 0.7.3
Bugzilla Bug 249004: Importing false CA certificate leading to error -8182 (perm DoS), especially exploitable by email
Patch v7, adjusted for OS/2: patch, 2004-07-27 16:44 PDT
Bugzilla Bug 250906: null (%00) in filename fakes extension (ftp, file)
Prevent creation of ftp: URI's with nulls in them: patch, 2004-07-29 11:19 PDT
Bugzilla Bug 253121: lock icon and certificates spoofable with onunload document.write
Final patch for checkin (trunk): patch, 2004-07-27 17:25 PDT
Major Bug
Bugzilla Bug 251381: new libpng buffer overflow vulnerabilities
combined set of fixes: patch, 2004-08-03 14:09 PDT
Now, read those dates again for the critical bugs. Then note the day of the week. 3 Critical bugs were fixed on Friday, but not rolled out until... here's the real kicker... the next Wednesday.
...and before you say it, I've used Mozilla since 0.8, and finally moved over to Firefox and Thunderbird earlier today.
FYI, Stored Procedures (AKA SQL-invoked routines) are also covered in ANSI/ISO/IEC 9075:1999 (aka SQL 99) Part 2 (PDF), Section 4.23. Triggers are in the same document in section 4.35.
In a perfect world, database vendors would be using the SQL 99 standard rather than sticking with SQL 92...
> Yep, I do. People like YOU are posers. CSS is hardly 'bleeding edge.' People like YOU are what's holding back 4-year-old standards from becoming requirements. The point you're making is that you're a shortsighted idiot with little real comprehension of the impact of the things you do.
I could have sworn it was Microsoft and their 80%+ browser share that were holding back 4-year-old web standards from becoming requirements.
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Ack, need to read that closer before posting. It SHOULD have said "strong lighting affect," as there is already a lighting effect in Luna, but it isn't that noticable on green.
Aero's back and forward buttons also look a lot like Luna's back and forward buttons, but with the color changed to blue, and lighting affect applied to the upper-left corner.
I imagine that Apple did that because they used to have a business relationship with Motorola. Prior to the introduction of the PowerPC architecture, Macintoshes used Motorola's 68k line of processors.
Repeat. Ad nausem.
Yes, but eventually, dogs become house trained. The government, on the other hand, never learns.
Media Player isn't like IE. Media Player and its infrastructure were introduced when Multimedia components were first added to Windows, way back when Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions was released in 1991.
Which, incidently, makes Media Player as old, or older than, Linux.
On the other hand, Merriam-Webster , American Heritage Dictionary, and, heck, even Dictionary.com , which aggregates entries from entirely too many useless sources, say that "copywritten" isn't a word.
This makes sense, since right and write have different meanings. Even though copyrights were originally put into place for written materials, it is still a right, not a write.
Maybe I should have several shifts of hamsters, like the 24/7 convenience stores do with their employees...
On another note, having read over the differences between Trademarks and Servicemarks, I would think that a website would have a Servicemark rather than a Trademark, because of this piece of text: A servicemark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product.
For example, Microsoft is a Servicemark, Windows is a Trademark. Google is likely both.
For any other programming language, you still need to configure and install SQLite and install a module for SQLite.
MySQL also has a nice perl interface to set permissions, aptly named mysql_setpermission.
Note: Ignore my previous comment. I accidently clicked submit instead of preview. All in favor of making a post required to be previewed once before Submitting, raise your mouse!
For some reason, we can't get PHP's developers to bundle MySQL or PostgreSQL with PHP. For any other programming language, you still need to configure and install SQLite and install a module for SQLite. ...or use your OS's handy ports system to install it.
MySQL also has a nice perl interface to set permissions, aptly named mysql_setpermission.
On a related note, blizzard.com lists job openings for Oracle Database Administrators, among other positions.
In theory, no userland programs should need write access to the Windows directory structure.
While it's a good idea to have things in sbin statically compiled, sbin actually stands for "system binaries," according to the File Hierarchy Standard. "System binaries" is the FHS way of saying programs that only root should have permissions to execute.
It's only split into separate directories for convenience, as sbin does not appear in the normal users path.
It's also a 1 DVD install if you buy the Special Edition. The PS2 also uses DVDs, ergo...
Hrm, "free"... Gee, Blizzard marketing department, thanks for offering us a free month of game play in exchange for buying a $50 game that is useless without that subscription.
Yes, that's how marketing works for an MMORPG. The thing you pay for in the box is the work that went into developing the game itself, reimbursing the company for the server hardware, reimbursing the company for the optical line installation (or co-location setup costs), and knowing Blizzard's heavy Microsoft strategy: OS licenses and database server licenses. The amount you pay per month is goes to the employees needed to maintain the server and the money needed to pay for the optical lines (or co-location monthly fees).
The free first month is really deceptive marketing: the first month's fee has already been figured into the product price.
Ugh. Between creepy marketing like that and everyone else jumping over to a Half-Life 2, both publiched by a company that still sells Counter-Strike for $30 when they've disabled the ability to play it at all (without installing a DRM platform under a different license, of course).... I'm really just getting ticked off. I'm probably alone in saving my money and avoiding both of those games, though.
For now, I think I'll stick to working on games that are free for everyone and occasionally play UT2004 and a few budget titles without these restrictive licenses.
I don't agree with the way Valve (yes, I'm blaming Valve here, not Vivendi) is handling Half-Life 2 registrations. However, they are correct in that piracy is rampant. I still don't play on getting HL2, though.
As for game development, it's a fact of life that 3D games take more time and money to create than 2D games. It's a fact of life that the bigger the game, the more resources it takes to develop. The first M in MMORPG stands for Massive for a reason: the game world is extremely large. Given these, it really isn't surprising that MMORPGs are expensive when they first come out.
On the flip side, most computer games cost the same amount up front as WoW does, so you're either paying less for WoW itself, or the first month really is free...
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that Vivendi-Universal owns Blizzard, and as such, is publishing WoW as well.
Hell find me one that's fully ANSI-92 compatible :)
Have you tried PostgreSQL?
Oh, and if you think that's bad, there's an SQL2003 now, too!
Of course, OFFSET wasn't standardized until SQL99...
You were restricted to buying shuttle tickets to move between the game's 10 planets: Corellia, Naboo, Tatooine, Rori, Talus, Dantooine, Lok, Yavin IV, (the forest moon of) Endor, and Dathomir. Transitions were handled by annoying load screens. Of course, transitions to space are handled by annoying load screens too...
2) If you bought the first, do you have to buy the upgrade? If you don't have the upgrade can you still play?
You can still play, but you can't access the space areas or create Ithorian and Sulustan characters. Which is dumb, since the models for those character types are downloaded to your system anyway.
The Mozilla 1.7.2 Release Page has a link to the bugs it fixes.
Keeping in mind that today is 2004/08/04...
Critical Bugs fixed in Mozilla 1.7.2/Firefox 0.9.3/Thunderbird 0.7.3
Bugzilla Bug 249004: Importing false CA certificate leading to error -8182 (perm DoS), especially exploitable by email
Patch v7, adjusted for OS/2: patch, 2004-07-27 16:44 PDT
Bugzilla Bug 250906: null (%00) in filename fakes extension (ftp, file)
Prevent creation of ftp: URI's with nulls in them: patch, 2004-07-29 11:19 PDT
Bugzilla Bug 253121: lock icon and certificates spoofable with onunload document.write
Final patch for checkin (trunk): patch, 2004-07-27 17:25 PDT
Major Bug Bugzilla Bug 251381: new libpng buffer overflow vulnerabilities
combined set of fixes: patch, 2004-08-03 14:09 PDT
Now, read those dates again for the critical bugs. Then note the day of the week. 3 Critical bugs were fixed on Friday, but not rolled out until... here's the real kicker... the next Wednesday.
In a perfect world, database vendors would be using the SQL 99 standard rather than sticking with SQL 92...
> And now he has his GD GIF support. It's about time.
Err... you were aware that GD has had GIF support in the past, right?
I could have sworn it was Microsoft and their 80%+ browser share that were holding back 4-year-old web standards from becoming requirements.