I think a much better solution on the part of the ISP would have been to contact the user, and basically say, "Hey man, we have no problem with your right to free speech, but the things you are saying and the people you are saying them to are causing problems. Please try and be more mindful of WHO you say certain things to, because those people have a tendency to retaliate against OUR systems, causing problems to all our users."
Then if the user continued to make comments that provoked certain people, after being warned by the ISP, I would think it appropriate for the user's account to be suspended.
If you go up to a drunk black guy in an alley and start spouting racist propaganda, you're going to get your ass kicked. If you tell a 12 year old script kiddie with a hard-on for distributed dos attacks that his kung fu sucks, your connection's gonna get raped. It's that simple. Know who you're talking to and beware of the consequences inherent in telling people with pseudo-power things they don't want to hear.
If the ISP had instilled that warning into the user's mind, he might think twice about what he's been doing. But I do believe he should have been warned first.
But it seems that InfraSearch and Steelbridge's (exact quote:) "Gnutella for search" aka openCOLA sound disturbingly similar.
About the only difference I can glean aside from the soda is that Gnutella calls client/servers servents whereas Steelbridge calls them clervers. I like servents.
And unless you only have one arm, I'm pretty confident the average person can keep a discman in their car and press a button or two while driving.
What do you do, drive one-handed holding it in midair and shifting with your knee, or drape cables over your passenger and have the whole mess hit the floor whenever you stop?
Either you've never owned a car, or you're an idiot. there are many many places in a car that you could mount a device that size. Besides the obvious center console mounted portable CD player holders, many Japanese cars have a second DIN-size compartment in the dash right below the stereo. Many cars have center armrest bins. Some have enough space in the dish below the handbrake handle. Then there's also visor or door pockets, or you could get one of those cupholder trashbag combo dealies that drapes over your center hump or console, and put the discman in the trash bag. If you actually thought about it, you'd find a perfect place in your car to put it where it would be within arm's reach while you're driving. And if you can't, you can just wait until they release the remote control for the unit. Then you can screw it into your big thick skull so you never lose it.
What you're describing is a feature of the filesystem, not the language. For all I know (I don't do windows programming), there's a way to use ActivePerl in WinNT to move the entire contents of a drive to the recycle bin and then move it back. And if *nix supported a trash/recycle-bin style filesystem feature, then you could do the same thing with stanrard file commands.
Metallica is by no means the only band whose music is traded on Napster, and as a fan of a lot of underground and not-so-popular music, I can say that Napster has definately helped me find music that I am interested in that I would never be able to find in stores in my area, or anywhere in this country in some instances.
Do you feel in any way that if you shut down Napster by taking a stand and pretending to speak for other artists, you're actually suffocating smaller bands who depend on piracy and free distribution to help build their listener base and fuel their possible commercial success?
It seems to me like you're all missing the point in your crusade to put Napster out of business. For years, full songs and even full albums have been available in the MP3 format almost anywhere you look online. You can get them in chat rooms on IRC, on web pages run by 12-year-olds, on private FTP sites, and more commonly nowadays, on company intranet file servers.
MP3s are here to stay, as a technology and a means of music dissemination, whether you like it or not. And even though you say you have no problems with MP3, only Napster, you fail to realize (probably because all your information is being fed to you by your management and your record label) that as long as MP3s exist, they will be freely distributed with blatant disregard to ownership or copyright.
Do you at all understand the scope of the technology you're trying to fight? And if so, why are you focusing on eliminating a small part of the "problem" instead of offering alternatives? If you shut down Napster, people will still be pirating your music on the internet, and especially with anonymous (and distributed) technologies like Gnutella, there will be ABSOLUTELY no way for you to stop them.
Hypothetical situation: If an underaged orphan with good coding skills joined the samba team, downloaded the source code, agreeing to the non-legally-binding agreement, and used it to add the functionality (if you can call it that) to samba, would anyone be prosecuted?
Microsoft had a Macintosh-Level GUI when they released Windows 1.0 and blatantly ripped off many Mac concepts. But since then they've improved a hundred-fold on the original design and now have a GUI that is far superior to anything Apple has ever produced. Just look at recent UI trends. Microsoft is expanding into ever more modular and customizable toolbars, menus, sliders, etc... While Apple released the Quicktime 4 GUI, which is completely unusable, and OSX which looks pretty but lacks distinctly different controls for different functions.
I've thought about that too, and I think that if you look at Brazil from one angle (26 degrees I believe), that's true. But one of the wonderful things about Brazil is that there are ten thousand ways of interpreting it. Terry Gilliam managed to create a film that at the same time has infinite detail and no detail at all. It's kind of zen, now that I think of it.
He gives so much detail, and so much information, but then there are pieces of the puzzle that are so open-ended that you can change the entire view of the movie just by changing your assumptions.
There are some people who never understood that Sam was lobotomized at the end. Some people thought he was dreaming, some people thought he was dead.
Every time I watch Brazil (and yes I own the Criterion Edition) I get a different idea about certain plot aspects, and I notice a lot more subtle things. Another great thing Terry Gilliam does is what he calls the Hamster Factor. He'll spend the better part of a day making sure some minute detail or small quirk is present in a shot that may last only three seconds on film.
Every time you watch a Terry Gilliam film you can watch and look for those little background things, and sometimes they're funnier than what's going on in the foreground.
Anyway, I'm rambling. But Brazil is definately one of my favorite movies ever, and Terry Gilliam is one of my idols.
Due to non-disclosure and pretty things like that, I have to be vague, but my company runs a web site with multiple language support. My php's a bit rusty but here's a basic php translation of our logic...
<?php if ($language == "spanish") { include spanish_text.php3; } elsif ($language == "german") { include german_text.php3; } else { include english_text.php3; } ?>
(...HTML setting up your page and whatnot...) <TITLE><?php echo $page_title ?></TABLE> <?php echo $welcome_text; ?>
The file english_text.php3 would contain stuff like:
german_text.php3 would contain the exact same variable declarations only the values would be in german. This technique is messy but flexible. YOU could also apply this to images (i.e. <IMG SRC="<?php echo $submit_button_image ?>">).
Yeah, I've had music related dreams based on what the radio's doing. Like once I dreamed I was at a concert of some band, and then I woke up and realized that was just because a song of theirs was playing on the radio... I seem to also remember an incident years ago when I was 11 or so involving the song "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag"... maybe this means something...
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I wonder if you could get on as the server admin and lower the gravity so they start floating upwards in the middle of the ceremony.
The delay of DVD Audio was triggered by Jon's code release, yes, but as he stated in the interview, there was already software that allowed you to rip DVDs. His program just got more publicity. And you can't blame someone for getting publicity.
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I doubt any linguistics expert would be able to garner anything from a hot grits or petrified portman post, especially after sifting through all the misspellings and h4x0rspeak.
That's bullshit. Just because someone has earning potential doesn't make their suitor(ettes) whores. There's a big difference between being a gold-digger and a ensuring your financial stability.
A woman who chooses a mate that can earn enough money to support himself (and maybe her) is smart. A woman who marries someone who si destined for a life of financial uncertainty is in for a world of frustration and conflict.
I hate to sound like a masoganist, but at the least, she could try and get a job for a gaming magazine. That would at least assauge her fears of no female reviewers. But she better as hell make it interesting, because I know I would stop reading any magazine that started publishing reviews of Girl Talk 3 and Barbie's Dress-Up Day CD-ROM Extravaganza.
Also, she's bitching about:
Sadly, there is not one "safe" computer gaming magazine I could recommend to my friends who play games like Simcity, Re-Volt, or Myst. Not only do these magazines alienate women, but they also alienate entire groups of non-combative and non-violent gamers
I have some news for you, lady. The reason why you're never gonna find magazines that talk about those games is that they're FIVE FUCKING YEARS OLD AND NOBODY PLAYS THEM ANY MORE, AND IF THEY DO, THEY ALREADY BOUGHT THE STRATEGY GUIDE WHEN THE GAME WAS ACTUALLY GETTING PRESS COVERAGE!
If all you're playing is Myst and Sim City, you don't NEED gaming magazines, because you wouldn't be interested in the content anyway, no matter what gender it was catered to or written by. And most women I know who play "computer games" just play pansy shit like that (no offense) and Jeopardy and stuff. They never really get into games that much, either. It's like card games for them. Infrequently, and for short periods of time.
Yes, there are exceptions (KillCreek, etc.) who could probably kick my everyloving ass in Quake, but they're few and far between. The point is that women just don't obsess over games like guys do. You'll never hear a woman talking with her friends and saying "Dude, you'll never guess how many frags I got on that new low ping Arena server today! I whooped ass! Oh, and I tweaked my TNT2 drivers and reinstalled a few windows DLLs to pull an extra 12 fps in 1024x768."
No, you'll hear women saying "I got a high score on tetris. So do you like these new panties I got? I went shopping at Wet Seal today. They had the greatest sale. I got all these (pulls three shirts out of her bag) for just $86."
And as for the phallic joystick remark, give me a break. I've never seen a joystick in my life that isn't phallic, get used to it. Hey, how bout the Slashdot crew get together and write a video game just for women. It will come with a specially designed contour-less ultra-phallic joystick with stroke sensors, and the game will train this woman to give good hand jobs, cause she probably doesn't get any sex considering how frigid and whiny she is about being a female.
Well I guess I failed my goal of not sounding like a masoganist. But who cares? <joke> Not like I'd be given a fair trial by those militant dykes anyway:) </joke>
I doubt that would happen. Remember a year or so ago when Microsoft tried to convert Hotmail's engine over to NT servers, and they bombed heavily? Unless Windows 2000 is super-duper-better I doubt they're gonna have any luck with a Windows server based hotmail install.
I use OneBox (OneBox.com. The service is reliable, and they also give you a free voice mail box. They have local numbers in many metropolitan areas, and the voicemail is linked up with the e-mail system. Get an e-mail, and when you check your voicemail it tells you that you have new mail. Check your e-mail and you can download all your voicemail messages as WAV files. Very neat.
They also have some free offers like 100 free business cards if you sign up, etc... Nice stuff.
I don't see any way you could steer on an x axis with a treadmill.. If you wanted a treadmill type approach, you would have to have some other way of steering, like a hand-operated control, which would completely negate the point of having a perfect walking control system.
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Then if the user continued to make comments that provoked certain people, after being warned by the ISP, I would think it appropriate for the user's account to be suspended.
If you go up to a drunk black guy in an alley and start spouting racist propaganda, you're going to get your ass kicked. If you tell a 12 year old script kiddie with a hard-on for distributed dos attacks that his kung fu sucks, your connection's gonna get raped. It's that simple. Know who you're talking to and beware of the consequences inherent in telling people with pseudo-power things they don't want to hear.
If the ISP had instilled that warning into the user's mind, he might think twice about what he's been doing. But I do believe he should have been warned first.
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About the only difference I can glean aside from the soda is that Gnutella calls client/servers servents whereas Steelbridge calls them clervers. I like servents.
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- And unless you only have one arm, I'm pretty confident the average person can keep a discman in their car and press a button or two while driving.
- What do you do, drive one-handed holding it in midair and shifting with your knee, or drape cables over your passenger and have the whole mess hit the floor whenever you stop?
Either you've never owned a car, or you're an idiot. there are many many places in a car that you could mount a device that size. Besides the obvious center console mounted portable CD player holders, many Japanese cars have a second DIN-size compartment in the dash right below the stereo. Many cars have center armrest bins. Some have enough space in the dish below the handbrake handle. Then there's also visor or door pockets, or you could get one of those cupholder trashbag combo dealies that drapes over your center hump or console, and put the discman in the trash bag. If you actually thought about it, you'd find a perfect place in your car to put it where it would be within arm's reach while you're driving. And if you can't, you can just wait until they release the remote control for the unit. Then you can screw it into your big thick skull so you never lose it.ToiletDuk (58% Slashdot Pure)
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Do you feel in any way that if you shut down Napster by taking a stand and pretending to speak for other artists, you're actually suffocating smaller bands who depend on piracy and free distribution to help build their listener base and fuel their possible commercial success?
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MP3s are here to stay, as a technology and a means of music dissemination, whether you like it or not. And even though you say you have no problems with MP3, only Napster, you fail to realize (probably because all your information is being fed to you by your management and your record label) that as long as MP3s exist, they will be freely distributed with blatant disregard to ownership or copyright.
Do you at all understand the scope of the technology you're trying to fight? And if so, why are you focusing on eliminating a small part of the "problem" instead of offering alternatives? If you shut down Napster, people will still be pirating your music on the internet, and especially with anonymous (and distributed) technologies like Gnutella, there will be ABSOLUTELY no way for you to stop them.
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I've thought about that too, and I think that if you look at Brazil from one angle (26 degrees I believe), that's true. But one of the wonderful things about Brazil is that there are ten thousand ways of interpreting it. Terry Gilliam managed to create a film that at the same time has infinite detail and no detail at all. It's kind of zen, now that I think of it.
He gives so much detail, and so much information, but then there are pieces of the puzzle that are so open-ended that you can change the entire view of the movie just by changing your assumptions.
There are some people who never understood that Sam was lobotomized at the end. Some people thought he was dreaming, some people thought he was dead.
Every time I watch Brazil (and yes I own the Criterion Edition) I get a different idea about certain plot aspects, and I notice a lot more subtle things. Another great thing Terry Gilliam does is what he calls the Hamster Factor. He'll spend the better part of a day making sure some minute detail or small quirk is present in a shot that may last only three seconds on film.
Every time you watch a Terry Gilliam film you can watch and look for those little background things, and sometimes they're funnier than what's going on in the foreground.
Anyway, I'm rambling. But Brazil is definately one of my favorite movies ever, and Terry Gilliam is one of my idols.
OKbye.
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<?php
if ($language == "spanish") {
include spanish_text.php3;
}
elsif ($language == "german") {
include german_text.php3;
}
else {
include english_text.php3;
}
?>
(...HTML setting up your page and whatnot...)
<TITLE><?php echo $page_title ?></TABLE>
<?php echo $welcome_text; ?>
The file english_text.php3 would contain stuff like:
<?php
$page_title = "Superduper Website!";
$welcome_text = "Welcome to Superduper Website";
?>
german_text.php3 would contain the exact same variable declarations only the values would be in german. This technique is messy but flexible. YOU could also apply this to images (i.e. <IMG SRC="<?php echo $submit_button_image ?>">).
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I wonder if you could get on as the server admin and lower the gravity so they start floating upwards in the middle of the ceremony.
The delay of DVD Audio was triggered by Jon's code release, yes, but as he stated in the interview, there was already software that allowed you to rip DVDs. His program just got more publicity. And you can't blame someone for getting publicity.
ToiletDuk
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A woman who chooses a mate that can earn enough money to support himself (and maybe her) is smart. A woman who marries someone who si destined for a life of financial uncertainty is in for a world of frustration and conflict.
Also, she's bitching about:
Sadly, there is not one "safe" computer gaming magazine I could recommend to my friends who play games like Simcity, Re-Volt, or Myst. Not only do these magazines alienate women, but they also alienate entire groups of non-combative and non-violent gamers
I have some news for you, lady. The reason why you're never gonna find magazines that talk about those games is that they're FIVE FUCKING YEARS OLD AND NOBODY PLAYS THEM ANY MORE, AND IF THEY DO, THEY ALREADY BOUGHT THE STRATEGY GUIDE WHEN THE GAME WAS ACTUALLY GETTING PRESS COVERAGE!
If all you're playing is Myst and Sim City, you don't NEED gaming magazines, because you wouldn't be interested in the content anyway, no matter what gender it was catered to or written by. And most women I know who play "computer games" just play pansy shit like that (no offense) and Jeopardy and stuff. They never really get into games that much, either. It's like card games for them. Infrequently, and for short periods of time.
Yes, there are exceptions (KillCreek, etc.) who could probably kick my everyloving ass in Quake, but they're few and far between. The point is that women just don't obsess over games like guys do. You'll never hear a woman talking with her friends and saying "Dude, you'll never guess how many frags I got on that new low ping Arena server today! I whooped ass! Oh, and I tweaked my TNT2 drivers and reinstalled a few windows DLLs to pull an extra 12 fps in 1024x768."
No, you'll hear women saying "I got a high score on tetris. So do you like these new panties I got? I went shopping at Wet Seal today. They had the greatest sale. I got all these (pulls three shirts out of her bag) for just $86."
And as for the phallic joystick remark, give me a break. I've never seen a joystick in my life that isn't phallic, get used to it. Hey, how bout the Slashdot crew get together and write a video game just for women. It will come with a specially designed contour-less ultra-phallic joystick with stroke sensors, and the game will train this woman to give good hand jobs, cause she probably doesn't get any sex considering how frigid and whiny she is about being a female.
Well I guess I failed my goal of not sounding like a masoganist. But who cares? <joke> Not like I'd be given a fair trial by those militant dykes anyway :) </joke>
One word: telepathy.
I doubt that would happen. Remember a year or so ago when Microsoft tried to convert Hotmail's engine over to NT servers, and they bombed heavily? Unless Windows 2000 is super-duper-better I doubt they're gonna have any luck with a Windows server based hotmail install.
They also have some free offers like 100 free business cards if you sign up, etc... Nice stuff.
I don't see any way you could steer on an x axis with a treadmill.. If you wanted a treadmill type approach, you would have to have some other way of steering, like a hand-operated control, which would completely negate the point of having a perfect walking control system.