Why do you believe sony would make the blueray device in a PS3 also be a burner? If they have any ability to analyze history they will know that no matter what they do this is going to get hacked and modded.
The only way I'd imagine a blueray-RW drive in the PS3 is if the technology itself is incapable of making read only drives (which seems unlikely)
Maybe I'm missing something though, could you elaborate?
I didn't give it a good look, but on initial inspection your perl script has potential for some odd display bugs because many of you regex's don't use the zero-width ^ match. Like if you got a message (and I have in the past) formatted "<johnq@public.com> John Q. Public", it'll spit out as "johnq@public.com> John Q. Public".
If I'm right it doesn't take much to fix:| just do/^([^<]+)/ or whatever instead. Cool proccess though, I'll probably use it:D
I know that at certain universities have blocked the residential networks from using other outgoing mail servers to attempt to stop exploited machines from spamming the rest of the world.
While this is very thoughtful of them it it impossible to accurately use a non university email address. This could cause issues with verifications such as this one.
You make some very good points. The old saying "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" seems to ring true time and time again. These days it seems that everyone wants to use HTTP for everything and quite frankly it's not equipped to do that.
RSS over SMTP sounds pretty cool. Heck, just sending a list of subscribers an email of RSS and let their mail clients sort it out would be pretty nice.
Heh, my favorite posts are when some one suggested soething that sonuds totally novel and then someone else points our "Yeah! Like $lt;insert old and undeused technology>. It seems to do that damn well." The internet cannot forget its roots!
I love these games. I find it hard to believe that modern RPG while graphically amazing cannot obtain the level of detail that the rouge like games have. Nethack will always be my favorite, but I have to try rouge on DC:D
IRC is pretty much exactly what your talking about, except that it has a host of additional features and already exists. The standard is wide open and available; it's just that no one has made a client (at least one that I've seen) that behaves like AIM
It's not an unreasonable idea, but then again 12 year old AOLers is not what I want to see on IRC.
One of the few things that are totally customizable in OS X is the highlight color. There are 6 or 7 apple made ones and then an option for "other" where you can pick any ugly color you want. Those blue bars are probably taking their color from a user's prefs.
I remember perl poetry contests. They were awesome. I highly doubt, however, that this UML contest will be as good.
The main things that perl had going for it in regards to the contest was the type of people who program perl (many interested in language), the type of language perl is (amorphousa and varied), and finally the perl community (jovial and witty). When I think UML I think of a language that's anything but poetic. It's too structured. In fact that's what makes it useful as a language!
I just can't see the opportunity for a fraction of the creativity as the perl contest in this contest:-/
I loved my SMS I, unfortunately it has basically died of natural causes it's so old. This has lead me to the legal use of some ROMS (which is more than most people say;-) I hope that I'll be able to get my grubby little hands on this device!
I would think that Apple and Opera would be unlikely to support something that would allow unblockable pop-up ads, being that both of their browsers have built-in pop-up blocking.
I mean how stupid would it be to for them to come up with plugins that defeated their own features?
Changing your MAC address on specific cards is strongly cautioned as it weakens the standard (MAC address are supposed to be unique and all).
I'm not sure what the verdict is on destroying the card with the original MAC address on it.
I am all for encryption. In fact I have sent a few letters to my congressmen about the issues surrounding it; However, some things just don't need to be secure. Encryption takes time and to be quite honest If I am downloading, say, the Slackware-10 distribution the last thing I want to have to wait for is each of a bajillion packets to be encoded and then decoded. Especially when I couldn't care less who gets a hold of said packets.
In most cases only specific sensitive pieces of information need to be encrypted.
The freeversion of Qt is under two licenses: the GPL and the QPL. While most people have a rough idea about the GPL most people don't know about the QPL, Like you for example.
There is a lack of proper legislation. The fundamental property of the Do-Not-Call list is that violators will be prosecuted by the FCC and can be held accountable with serious punishments. Quite frankly the current state of things leaves much to be desired in terms of punishment for spammers.
Fist I want to see some good national anti-spam legislation; then I'll ask for a national Do-Not-Spam list.
This kind of testing is exactly what needs to be done. Recently I took several seminars on useability engineering and useability testing, and I was amazed at how much better you can make a product after testing it. I suggest that if you do plan to add your input to the project that you incoiurage the user to think out loud and write down all the things they say. It's really enlightening to hear a user say something like, "I'm looking for a button to do XYZ." when you know that the feature he wants is in a menu right in front of him.
My only concern is that, quite frankly, I find that the first and most difficult hurdle for new users is installing linux. Many people have no clue what's inside of their machine, and more times than not you need to specify some odd bit of hardware during the setup process.
You're idea of taxing companies for shipping jobs overseas has merit. Despite this, however, I am reluctant to go along with it. My concern is that the current state of the IT industry depends to a certain degree on the cheaper labor of programmers, etc. in countries that do not have the labor laws we enjoy here in the US. If the government begins taxing this practice will the impact force companies to hire American workers? Or, perhaps companies will fire more American workers to make up for the taxes. Or the company might just fold and leave all their employees without jobs.
I don't know enough about economics and business to make a conjecture about which of the above would happen, but they all seem like reasonable possibilities. Is there anyone with a MBA out there who can elaborate:D
As a side note I am an EE and, while I'm not one of the jobs most likely to be affected by the shift, it still makes me quite uncomfortable.
What kind of demand is there for Apple I's? The people who I know who have bought one is for nostalgic purposes; will an replica Apple have the same effect? I'm not sure. The fact that he took the time to "unimplement" features to make the computer more realistic is neat though.
That aside, I bet the guy making them is having a really good time. Woz knows that home brewing computers is a lot of fun. It's good to see someone do something like this despite the patent situations that usually arise.
Will having the FCC permission to add video capabilities to their clients really going to effect users for the worse? I personally am of the opinion that it will not matter too much. iChatAV already has the capability in it. If AOL's is similar I think this might be a great thing.
That statement was actually coined by Ben Franklin. I think his words were a little bit different, but both syntactically, intent, and meaning it was the same.
Just letting you know. The only reason I know is cause it was a good quote to use back in my debating days.
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Why do you believe sony would make the blueray device in a PS3 also be a burner? If they have any ability to analyze history they will know that no matter what they do this is going to get hacked and modded.
The only way I'd imagine a blueray-RW drive in the PS3 is if the technology itself is incapable of making read only drives (which seems unlikely)
Maybe I'm missing something though, could you elaborate?
I didn't give it a good look, but on initial inspection your perl script has potential for some odd display bugs because many of you regex's don't use the zero-width ^ match. Like if you got a message (and I have in the past) formatted "<johnq@public.com> John Q. Public", it'll spit out as "johnq@public.com> John Q. Public".
If I'm right it doesn't take much to fix :| just do /^([^<]+)/ or whatever instead. Cool proccess though, I'll probably use it :D
Ruby is one of the most popular scripting languages in Japan, Correct? I'd liken that to Neverwinter Nights using Perl as a scripting language.
That's pretty cool if you ask me
I know that at certain universities have blocked the residential networks from using other outgoing mail servers to attempt to stop exploited machines from spamming the rest of the world.
While this is very thoughtful of them it it impossible to accurately use a non university email address. This could cause issues with verifications such as this one.
I only glanced at the story and thought "SHIP DESTROYING MONSTER! WTF"
I haven't been amused this much all day.
It was Ben Franklin and the direct quote is the following:
You make some very good points. The old saying "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" seems to ring true time and time again. These days it seems that everyone wants to use HTTP for everything and quite frankly it's not equipped to do that.
RSS over SMTP sounds pretty cool. Heck, just sending a list of subscribers an email of RSS and let their mail clients sort it out would be pretty nice.
Heh, my favorite posts are when some one suggested soething that sonuds totally novel and then someone else points our "Yeah! Like $lt;insert old and undeused technology>. It seems to do that damn well." The internet cannot forget its roots!
I love these games. I find it hard to believe that modern RPG while graphically amazing cannot obtain the level of detail that the rouge like games have. Nethack will always be my favorite, but I have to try rouge on DC :D
heh, serves me right for not checking first.
I'm already getting AIM spam. Every night I get home from work to find 5 or 6 messages asking me if I want to Get Better Mortgage Rate.
Of course I block them, but lately I get this pang of fear that I will hit my max number of screen names blocked >_<
IRC is pretty much exactly what your talking about, except that it has a host of additional features and already exists. The standard is wide open and available; it's just that no one has made a client (at least one that I've seen) that behaves like AIM
It's not an unreasonable idea, but then again 12 year old AOLers is not what I want to see on IRC.
One of the few things that are totally customizable in OS X is the highlight color. There are 6 or 7 apple made ones and then an option for "other" where you can pick any ugly color you want. Those blue bars are probably taking their color from a user's prefs.
For me actually playing the games was easier than putting in that code >_ I didn't quite have the dexteriry to get it all right.
I remember perl poetry contests. They were awesome. I highly doubt, however, that this UML contest will be as good.
The main things that perl had going for it in regards to the contest was the type of people who program perl (many interested in language), the type of language perl is (amorphousa and varied), and finally the perl community (jovial and witty). When I think UML I think of a language that's anything but poetic. It's too structured. In fact that's what makes it useful as a language!
I just can't see the opportunity for a fraction of the creativity as the perl contest in this contest :-/
I loved my SMS I, unfortunately it has basically died of natural causes it's so old. This has lead me to the legal use of some ROMS (which is more than most people say ;-) I hope that I'll be able to get my grubby little hands on this device!
I would think that Apple and Opera would be unlikely to support something that would allow unblockable pop-up ads, being that both of their browsers have built-in pop-up blocking.
I mean how stupid would it be to for them to come up with plugins that defeated their own features?
Changing your MAC address on specific cards is strongly cautioned as it weakens the standard (MAC address are supposed to be unique and all). I'm not sure what the verdict is on destroying the card with the original MAC address on it.
I am all for encryption. In fact I have sent a few letters to my congressmen about the issues surrounding it; However, some things just don't need to be secure. Encryption takes time and to be quite honest If I am downloading, say, the Slackware-10 distribution the last thing I want to have to wait for is each of a bajillion packets to be encoded and then decoded. Especially when I couldn't care less who gets a hold of said packets.
In most cases only specific sensitive pieces of information need to be encrypted.
The freeversion of Qt is under two licenses: the GPL and the QPL. While most people have a rough idea about the GPL most people don't know about the QPL, Like you for example.
There is a lack of proper legislation. The fundamental property of the Do-Not-Call list is that violators will be prosecuted by the FCC and can be held accountable with serious punishments. Quite frankly the current state of things leaves much to be desired in terms of punishment for spammers.
Fist I want to see some good national anti-spam legislation; then I'll ask for a national Do-Not-Spam list.
This kind of testing is exactly what needs to be done. Recently I took several seminars on useability engineering and useability testing, and I was amazed at how much better you can make a product after testing it. I suggest that if you do plan to add your input to the project that you incoiurage the user to think out loud and write down all the things they say. It's really enlightening to hear a user say something like, "I'm looking for a button to do XYZ." when you know that the feature he wants is in a menu right in front of him.
My only concern is that, quite frankly, I find that the first and most difficult hurdle for new users is installing linux. Many people have no clue what's inside of their machine, and more times than not you need to specify some odd bit of hardware during the setup process.
Heh, I should try this on my mother.
You're idea of taxing companies for shipping jobs overseas has merit. Despite this, however, I am reluctant to go along with it. My concern is that the current state of the IT industry depends to a certain degree on the cheaper labor of programmers, etc. in countries that do not have the labor laws we enjoy here in the US. If the government begins taxing this practice will the impact force companies to hire American workers? Or, perhaps companies will fire more American workers to make up for the taxes. Or the company might just fold and leave all their employees without jobs.
I don't know enough about economics and business to make a conjecture about which of the above would happen, but they all seem like reasonable possibilities. Is there anyone with a MBA out there who can elaborate :D
As a side note I am an EE and, while I'm not one of the jobs most likely to be affected by the shift, it still makes me quite uncomfortable.
What kind of demand is there for Apple I's? The people who I know who have bought one is for nostalgic purposes; will an replica Apple have the same effect? I'm not sure. The fact that he took the time to "unimplement" features to make the computer more realistic is neat though.
That aside, I bet the guy making them is having a really good time. Woz knows that home brewing computers is a lot of fun. It's good to see someone do something like this despite the patent situations that usually arise.
Will having the FCC permission to add video capabilities to their clients really going to effect users for the worse? I personally am of the opinion that it will not matter too much. iChatAV already has the capability in it. If AOL's is similar I think this might be a great thing.
Excuse grammer/spelling I am in a rush.
That statement was actually coined by Ben Franklin. I think his words were a little bit different, but both syntactically, intent, and meaning it was the same.
Just letting you know. The only reason I know is cause it was a good quote to use back in my debating days.