Unfortunately us geeks have to do certain economy-related stuff (like work for the man, and trade stocks) to afford the 19" TFTs and Athlon64s that we use to run free software.
Not just that. One method is also to search for 'powered by movable type', or any one of the many strings that are common amongst 95%+ of Movable Type sites.
but I heard somewhere that emergency services in the UK didn't have ANY priority in traffic!
Mostly correct. They will receive more lenient treatment in the courts, however.
Indeed, mitigating cirumstances can be used by anyone, not just the emergency services. One of our biggest sports team managers in the UK was pulled over for speeding along the hard shoulder in heavy traffic. His excuse was that he had rather explosive diahorrea, and this could have caused disruption if it had happened out on the road, therefore he was racing to the restroom a few miles ahead. Interestingly, this allowed him to get off the charge.
On the flip side, a medical worker was charged with speeding, even though they were transporting a vital transplant organ. They almost lost the case, but then the police dropped the charges at the last minute due to public pressure.
This is the way it should be, I believe.
Everyone should have the right to argue mitigating circumstances. Speeding is a victimless crime 99% of the time. It's only made a crime because in a tiny portion of speeding cases, someone is injured/killed/etc. Therefore, mitigating circumstances are allowed. Whereas.. mitigating circumstances in, say, murder, are not quite so easy to argue;-)
So does the United Kingdom, although I doubt the UK is even in the top 20 of their list (it's not in the article), thanks to having one of the worst deployed broadband systems in Europe.
Countries like Canada, however, fare a lot better than the UK, yet their population density is a mere fraction of that in the UK.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Russ was just a little crabby yesterday when he came up with this idea.
I personally blame my parents, they smoked pot in college, and being older than me, he managed to inhale. Luckily I was raised in a less dirty-hippy fashion.
Hahaha, god bless you. As soon as I saw this thread, I came in and searched for 'wargames', and at least one other person was thinking exactly the same thing as I was.
People are going to mod you (and probably me) down as being flamebait, but I was surprised at the outrage surrounding this lawsuit.
Plugins have made browsers worse, rather than better. Some sites are unusable WITHOUT having Flash. That's not the way we should be going. Accessibility, backwards compatability, and speed, are all important issues. Demanding people use Flash doesn't help with that. Slashdot recently linked to a hardware site that used Flash for its benchmark graphs.. no animation there, just blatantly unnecessary use of Flash.
Plugins encourage people to just throw plugins into their old crappy non-standards compliant browser rather than get a new one. There are people using Netscape 4 with Flash who are still perfectly happy.. they're like the elderly drivers in their 30 year old 'danger on the road' Chevys.
Plugins are like offering 'plugin upgrades' for cars. When your car gets slow, plug in a 'turbo' upgrade.. sure, it makes the car fast again, but your engine was busted up anyway, and you should just get a new one.
Without plugins we can rely on more integral browser support for proper standards like SVG, CSS, and the DOM.
You might argue that Flash is an open standard, but it's not. Macromedia updates it at such a fast pace that new features and methods are thrown in every few months. And, worse, Macromedia's Flash plugins and player take over 99.9% of the Flash playing marketplace.. meaning you're forced to follow their standard.
Let's kill all these plugins, and have support for open standards within the browser. If SVG, DOM, and CSS2 were implemented fully and perfectly, we wouldn't need proprietary formats like Flash at all, and accessibility would be improved.
Tha majority of people I know either do their own oil, or have it done on their regular annual services (so, usually 10k-12k miles). Car handbook recommendation is usually lower (for obvious reasons).
I've gone 15k before, and the oil was still high and rather clear, but since it runs on propane most of the time these days, that's not too surprising.:-)
Correct to have finished. There is more than one animator. Compare with 'Disney has finished', wherein Disney is a collective noun, which, in American English, is treated as a singular. True plurals, however, are not.
When I was in the US I was shocked to learn that many people needed to change their oil every 3000 miles or so. Here in Europe I've never had a car that needed an oil change more regularly than 10000 miles.
Is it something to do with the regular economy fuel in Europe being 95 octane (super is 98), compared to the significantly lower US octanes (regular being 87)? Or is it just down to smaller more economical European engines?
All I know is the neighborhood kids where I'm from wouldn't mow a modest lawn for less than $20.
Only because their psuedo-wealthy parents keep them in the money. If you don't get pocket money, you try and earn what you can. I remember washing cars for $3 when I was a kid. All that probably went on candy, but hey.
This framework is appalling. I'd expect better from IBM, and I don't even have that high an opinion of them!
Standards compliant XHTML and CSS are the way to go with Web based apps. Sure, on old/non-standard browsers the pages might look like ass, but they should work.
Unlike this.. which only seems to work in my IE6, but not my browser of choice.
We wouldn't have access to slashdot without a computer.
Hardly the pinnacle of civilization is it though? Actually.. seeing as we're as advanced as a race as we've ever been.. yeah, perhaps accessing Slashdot IS the pinnacle of civilization.
I could have easily posted a link JUST to the Java one, and told everyone.. hey, it's Java, so you don't NEED anything OS specific. However, most Java stuff works like ASS and looks like shit. I do not use any Java apps under Linux (hell, or even under Windows) for this reason alone (well, other than speed issues).
When I said I could find no version for Linux, I was not lying.
I think he means separated in the sense that they reside in different areas of memory. One area, of which, can be set to be non executable (or, in this case, one can be set to executable, making the other non executable by default).
Other than in highly commercialized areas, most source was 'open' in as much that you could easily see a lot of it, even if you couldn't legally copy it or change it.
Of course, it sounds like Woz was inviting people to take it and change it, although that is not made clear.. making something public back then was not the same as giving everyone a right to change it for commercial purposes (unlike today's GPL world).
Back then, of course, even on mainframes the code for business applications was often interpreted. On the microcomputers that appeared in the late 70's and early 80's, a lot of source was also open to view. Everyone remembers typing in sources from books and computer magazines. And I'm sure a lot of us 'escaped' programs and typed 'LIST' (on those platforms which used BASIC anyway!) and watched the source code fly up the screen.
The code was not 'open' in the GPL/Open Source way, but open as in.. not protected.. somewhat in the same way that nearly all Perl scripts you can buy now are readable source-wise (even if they're obfuscated).
Today everything's only 'protected' because of the commercialization of the IT sector, and a cynicism and 'protectionist' attitude of coders. But back in the fun 'early' days, source was a lot more in your face, even if you couldn't change it and sell it on.
"Sure you can use the ROM's," said Woz in an e-mail that Briel forwarded to Wired News. <snip> and Woz couldn't be reached for comment.
Doesn't it sound like Wired reproduced an e-mail without the creator's permission? This seems to go beyond fair use. Should they really have published this without Wozniak's permission?
I run the three systems above (they all interact) on my server, and just on my personal account I've been filtering out 150 spam messages a day. Hundreds of viruses are being wiped on a daily basis.
Price? Zero. Zip. Nada. Clam Antivirus is free, as are the other two programs. Can't beat it. I can't understand why people spend hundreds of dollars on spam and virus programs when this is so effective. Spread the word:-)
These days a lot of people class themselves as inventors or techies, but they're just interested in money, or the whole patent game.
This story reaffirms Woz as my favorite techie of the last fifty years. His inventions, while not quite on the level of the wheel or the television, have revolutionized numerous areas of technology.
But what sets him apart from the majority is his openness and friendliness. He doesn't appear to get riled at people asking him questions about his inventions or theories, and he doesn't put himself on a pedestal talking in techie-mumbo-jumbo. How many techies are like that these days? He almost seems to have no ego.
We need more people like this in tech. I will even admit that I have an ego, and a tendancy to 'talk down' to non-technical people sometimes. Woz is inspirational in that you don't need to do this to be respected in the tech community.
His Web site is a reminder of what an open minded, friendly, and unjaded character he is. I am sure he would cringe at reading this post, but I hereby dedicate it to the 'nicest techie of modern times', even if he's not the most famous.
I think the BBC have their thumb stuck up their ass. They even report about the 'Google Dance' as if it's something that still exists. It does not. The last such crawl was a few months ago now. Google has moved over to an irregularly 'constantly' updating indexing system.
Slashdot Mirror
Unfortunately us geeks have to do certain economy-related stuff (like work for the man, and trade stocks) to afford the 19" TFTs and Athlon64s that we use to run free software.
While that's an interesting story, it just doesn't sound very likely that a cop would do that to me..?
I'm no Microsoft fan, but the whole concept of using a relational database system for filing system purposes sounds pretty cool to me.
Are there any projects involved in producing a databased filing system for Linux?
Not just that. One method is also to search for 'powered by movable type', or any one of the many strings that are common amongst 95%+ of Movable Type sites.
but I heard somewhere that emergency services in the UK didn't have ANY priority in traffic!
;-)
Mostly correct. They will receive more lenient treatment in the courts, however.
Indeed, mitigating cirumstances can be used by anyone, not just the emergency services. One of our biggest sports team managers in the UK was pulled over for speeding along the hard shoulder in heavy traffic. His excuse was that he had rather explosive diahorrea, and this could have caused disruption if it had happened out on the road, therefore he was racing to the restroom a few miles ahead. Interestingly, this allowed him to get off the charge.
On the flip side, a medical worker was charged with speeding, even though they were transporting a vital transplant organ. They almost lost the case, but then the police dropped the charges at the last minute due to public pressure.
This is the way it should be, I believe.
Everyone should have the right to argue mitigating circumstances. Speeding is a victimless crime 99% of the time. It's only made a crime because in a tiny portion of speeding cases, someone is injured/killed/etc. Therefore, mitigating circumstances are allowed. Whereas.. mitigating circumstances in, say, murder, are not quite so easy to argue
So does the United Kingdom, although I doubt the UK is even in the top 20 of their list (it's not in the article), thanks to having one of the worst deployed broadband systems in Europe.
Countries like Canada, however, fare a lot better than the UK, yet their population density is a mere fraction of that in the UK.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Russ was just a little crabby yesterday when he came up with this idea.
I personally blame my parents, they smoked pot in college, and being older than me, he managed to inhale. Luckily I was raised in a less dirty-hippy fashion.
But, again, my apologies.
Hahaha, god bless you. As soon as I saw this thread, I came in and searched for 'wargames', and at least one other person was thinking exactly the same thing as I was.
I loved that movie.
People are going to mod you (and probably me) down as being flamebait, but I was surprised at the outrage surrounding this lawsuit.
Plugins have made browsers worse, rather than better. Some sites are unusable WITHOUT having Flash. That's not the way we should be going. Accessibility, backwards compatability, and speed, are all important issues. Demanding people use Flash doesn't help with that. Slashdot recently linked to a hardware site that used Flash for its benchmark graphs.. no animation there, just blatantly unnecessary use of Flash.
Plugins encourage people to just throw plugins into their old crappy non-standards compliant browser rather than get a new one. There are people using Netscape 4 with Flash who are still perfectly happy.. they're like the elderly drivers in their 30 year old 'danger on the road' Chevys.
Plugins are like offering 'plugin upgrades' for cars. When your car gets slow, plug in a 'turbo' upgrade.. sure, it makes the car fast again, but your engine was busted up anyway, and you should just get a new one.
Without plugins we can rely on more integral browser support for proper standards like SVG, CSS, and the DOM.
You might argue that Flash is an open standard, but it's not. Macromedia updates it at such a fast pace that new features and methods are thrown in every few months. And, worse, Macromedia's Flash plugins and player take over 99.9% of the Flash playing marketplace.. meaning you're forced to follow their standard.
Let's kill all these plugins, and have support for open standards within the browser. If SVG, DOM, and CSS2 were implemented fully and perfectly, we wouldn't need proprietary formats like Flash at all, and accessibility would be improved.
Tha majority of people I know either do their own oil, or have it done on their regular annual services (so, usually 10k-12k miles). Car handbook recommendation is usually lower (for obvious reasons).
:-)
I've gone 15k before, and the oil was still high and rather clear, but since it runs on propane most of the time these days, that's not too surprising.
Correct to have finished. There is more than one animator. Compare with 'Disney has finished', wherein Disney is a collective noun, which, in American English, is treated as a singular. True plurals, however, are not.
When I was in the US I was shocked to learn that many people needed to change their oil every 3000 miles or so. Here in Europe I've never had a car that needed an oil change more regularly than 10000 miles.
Is it something to do with the regular economy fuel in Europe being 95 octane (super is 98), compared to the significantly lower US octanes (regular being 87)? Or is it just down to smaller more economical European engines?
It's not like H1Bs can just come in and take jobs at pennies on the dollar.
They must legally be paid 90% (or is it 95%?) of the prevailing wage for their profession as defined by the Department of Labor.
Whether this is enforced or not is another thing entirely.
All I know is the neighborhood kids where I'm from wouldn't mow a modest lawn for less than $20.
Only because their psuedo-wealthy parents keep them in the money. If you don't get pocket money, you try and earn what you can. I remember washing cars for $3 when I was a kid. All that probably went on candy, but hey.
This framework is appalling. I'd expect better from IBM, and I don't even have that high an opinion of them!
Standards compliant XHTML and CSS are the way to go with Web based apps. Sure, on old/non-standard browsers the pages might look like ass, but they should work.
Unlike this.. which only seems to work in my IE6, but not my browser of choice.
We wouldn't have access to slashdot without a computer.
Hardly the pinnacle of civilization is it though? Actually.. seeing as we're as advanced as a race as we've ever been.. yeah, perhaps accessing Slashdot IS the pinnacle of civilization.
Ohhh the depression.
You need a good wack with the cluestick, troll.
I could have easily posted a link JUST to the Java one, and told everyone.. hey, it's Java, so you don't NEED anything OS specific. However, most Java stuff works like ASS and looks like shit. I do not use any Java apps under Linux (hell, or even under Windows) for this reason alone (well, other than speed issues).
When I said I could find no version for Linux, I was not lying.
I think he means separated in the sense that they reside in different areas of memory. One area, of which, can be set to be non executable (or, in this case, one can be set to executable, making the other non executable by default).
Other than in highly commercialized areas, most source was 'open' in as much that you could easily see a lot of it, even if you couldn't legally copy it or change it.
Of course, it sounds like Woz was inviting people to take it and change it, although that is not made clear.. making something public back then was not the same as giving everyone a right to change it for commercial purposes (unlike today's GPL world).
Back then, of course, even on mainframes the code for business applications was often interpreted. On the microcomputers that appeared in the late 70's and early 80's, a lot of source was also open to view. Everyone remembers typing in sources from books and computer magazines. And I'm sure a lot of us 'escaped' programs and typed 'LIST' (on those platforms which used BASIC anyway!) and watched the source code fly up the screen.
The code was not 'open' in the GPL/Open Source way, but open as in.. not protected.. somewhat in the same way that nearly all Perl scripts you can buy now are readable source-wise (even if they're obfuscated).
Today everything's only 'protected' because of the commercialization of the IT sector, and a cynicism and 'protectionist' attitude of coders. But back in the fun 'early' days, source was a lot more in your face, even if you couldn't change it and sell it on.
"Sure you can use the ROM's," said Woz in an e-mail that Briel forwarded to Wired News.
<snip>
and Woz couldn't be reached for comment.
Doesn't it sound like Wired reproduced an e-mail without the creator's permission? This seems to go beyond fair use. Should they really have published this without Wozniak's permission?
I run the three systems above (they all interact) on my server, and just on my personal account I've been filtering out 150 spam messages a day. Hundreds of viruses are being wiped on a daily basis.
:-)
Price? Zero. Zip. Nada. Clam Antivirus is free, as are the other two programs. Can't beat it. I can't understand why people spend hundreds of dollars on spam and virus programs when this is so effective. Spread the word
Having the machine would be really cool, but you can emulate the Apple I right now if you like.
:-(
Java Apple I emulator.
Other Apple I emulators for Windows and Macintosh.
I'm just about to give them a try. Can't find anything for Linux or UNIX though
These days a lot of people class themselves as inventors or techies, but they're just interested in money, or the whole patent game.
This story reaffirms Woz as my favorite techie of the last fifty years. His inventions, while not quite on the level of the wheel or the television, have revolutionized numerous areas of technology.
But what sets him apart from the majority is his openness and friendliness. He doesn't appear to get riled at people asking him questions about his inventions or theories, and he doesn't put himself on a pedestal talking in techie-mumbo-jumbo. How many techies are like that these days? He almost seems to have no ego.
We need more people like this in tech. I will even admit that I have an ego, and a tendancy to 'talk down' to non-technical people sometimes. Woz is inspirational in that you don't need to do this to be respected in the tech community.
His Web site is a reminder of what an open minded, friendly, and unjaded character he is. I am sure he would cringe at reading this post, but I hereby dedicate it to the 'nicest techie of modern times', even if he's not the most famous.
I think the BBC have their thumb stuck up their ass. They even report about the 'Google Dance' as if it's something that still exists. It does not. The last such crawl was a few months ago now. Google has moved over to an irregularly 'constantly' updating indexing system.
Very useful information, sir! I shall keep a note of this..