Mozilla's tabbed browsing has completely changed how I research on the internet.
I scroll through the current page, middle clicking on every interesting link, which opens them in background tabs. Then when I've done with the current page, I close its tab to move to the next page.
This ensures that I don't miss anything and I don't have to mess with as many as 50 windows open at once. I just have 50 tabs at once, all preloading so I don't have to wait at all.
To quote the bottom of the article: Kerry had about $4.6 million in his legal fund at the end of August, and Bush had about $6 million, commission reports show
A lot of multiuser POS/Point Of Sale systems store their data on a network file share, in dbase or some other ISAM format. And on top of that, few do any sort of encryption of customer information, like credit card numbers. The result, anyone at a computer that can access the application can steal sensitive customer information and anything else with minimal effort.
I've been reading Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture, and found it very insightful.
Point out all the times that corporations supporting old technologies have lobbied congress against new technologies citing piracy, property rights, and labeling their competitors as criminals. Congress has never given in to illegalizing newer, superior technologies in favor of old technologies controlled by a handful of massive corporations, until recently.
The constitution gave Congress the power to grant copyrights for only a limited term and for the sole purpose of promoting the progress of science and the useful arts. This is still what it says today, and I (and many others) believe that Congress has violated the constitution in over-extending the reach of copyrights and increasing their lifetime indefinitely. The current trend is that copyrights will never expire, and the information is simply lost to the world because they're out of print and copies are discarded when they get too old. This nonesense going in Congress is not only destroying our future but our past as well.
You know what radio stations have to pay recording artists and major labels? Nothing. They pay directly to the composers and song writers a small, fixed amount defined by Congress (back when it understood the purpose of copyright) because letting the recording industry set the price threatened the new distribution technology in favor of old physical media. Now the recording industry is after P2P, seeking to destroy the superior competing technology rather than finding a balance.
The battle fought by the RIAA isn't about copyrights or piracy, it's about control of the media, and how media is created and distributed.
They seized the servers from Rackspace, but the bulk of the property belongs to IndyMedia. Rackspace got a warrant and a gag order. And the FBI gets many of its warrants through a special court which has never denied a request, thus eliminating true judicial review. And IndyMedia, the apparent (uncertain) target of their investigation, received no warrant, and no explanation. This borders on unconstitutional.
It might have something to do with the fact that they have a habit of not pulling illegal material from their site.
There are many many situations where illegal material is illegal illegally (violation of 1st amendment rights, of speech, press, or protest) and is therefore legal if you're willing to battle it out. The US government is way too involved in influencing public opinion, something they ought not to at all.
There are a lot of 4k demos too, most of them quite good. The first I saw closely resembled the game Descent.
I wrote an asteroids clone in javascript that's roughly 500 lines, but I wasn't aiming for small size. It uses hundreds of divs for rendering. Best viewed in IE or a very recent FireFox, as older Mozillas have scalability/performance problems with it.
Much easier said than done. It'll take a constitutional amendment to the electoral system or a majority vote for a third party. The former requires that we already have fixed the problem and the latter requires a billionaire's riches and a face that TV viewers of all ages can fall in love with and trust with their social security.
But for now the vote is consistently down the middle because the parties gradually adjust their platforms to gain support. There's no future in the "first we oust the republicans, then we can start voting green" strategy. Skimming through 200 years, the industry party is now the religious industry party and the pro-slavery party is now the pro-freedom party? Every election we reach down to scrape the bottom of the barrel, and argue over which side. Sure, they differ on many important issues, but the biggest issues, they won't even acknowledge because they're already in agreement, the lobbies make sure.
The bill was never intended (by the democrat who introduced it) to be construed a a republican plot, or to ever go to a vote. It was a "what if" argument intended to make reprentatives consider the consequences to average citizens of voting in favor of unnecessary wars.
I was in the Army, and I never considered myself "poor" before, during, or after my service
The goal of the bill was to ensure that we would never go to war unless it was absolutely, positively a good idea.
And on average, the poor are more likely to join the army, partly out of need, and close friends and relatives of voting members of congress and the wealthy are the least likely to wind up on the front lines during a war.
The bill was introduced by Charles Rangel to prevent wars. His stated intentions: ...to make it clear that if there were a war, there would be more equitable representation of people making sacrifices...
I truly believe that those who make the decision and those who support the United States going into war would feel more readily the pain that's involved, the sacrifice that's involved, if they thought that the fighting force would include the affluent and those who historically have avoided this great responsibility.
His point was that we'd be less likely to go to war if people of all classes, rich and poor, had to fight.
The 49.7 days issue is caused by using a 32 bit integer to store the time in milliseconds. Even Java has this problem in a couple places. Once built into the API, such a problem cannot be patched without breaking backward compatibility. It's very well documented for both that programmers should keep that issue in mind when using those functions.
"we take the attitude that, with software, if we test it well enough, then it will work".
That relates to some good wisdom I heard on how to tell the quality of a programmer. The inexperienced will say "if it works, it's right" as opposed to "if it's right, it'll work." The original quote might have compared CS and CIS majors, but I can't remember.
As a side note, does anyone know of a program that I could get for my phone (Java/J2ME) that would let me view it's GPS data (my location)? For some reason "they" don't want me to know where I am.
J2ME is pretty least common denominator. I haven't checked but I suspect that if you could check your GPS with it you would do it through a vendor-specific extension which means I'll need to know what model of phone you're using to give a definitive answer.
Note that some of #4 came from #1, where I'd buy a CD after hearing the music "illegally" online. That last 5% just wasn't interesting enough or was hard to find.
(and what am I missing?)
There's a program called Station Ripper which will legitimately (untested in court) record songs off of online radio stations, slice the stream between songs (imperfectly at times), and output mp3 files according to the name of each song.
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Mozilla's tabbed browsing has completely changed how I research on the internet.
I scroll through the current page, middle clicking on every interesting link, which opens them in background tabs. Then when I've done with the current page, I close its tab to move to the next page.
This ensures that I don't miss anything and I don't have to mess with as many as 50 windows open at once. I just have 50 tabs at once, all preloading so I don't have to wait at all.
Even php has performance features removed. It keeps Zend in the business of selling products to make php faster.
To quote the bottom of the article:
Kerry had about $4.6 million in his legal fund at the end of August, and Bush had about $6 million, commission reports show
A lot of multiuser POS/Point Of Sale systems store their data on a network file share, in dbase or some other ISAM format. And on top of that, few do any sort of encryption of customer information, like credit card numbers. The result, anyone at a computer that can access the application can steal sensitive customer information and anything else with minimal effort.
I've been reading Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture, and found it very insightful.
Point out all the times that corporations supporting old technologies have lobbied congress against new technologies citing piracy, property rights, and labeling their competitors as criminals. Congress has never given in to illegalizing newer, superior technologies in favor of old technologies controlled by a handful of massive corporations, until recently.
The constitution gave Congress the power to grant copyrights for only a limited term and for the sole purpose of promoting the progress of science and the useful arts. This is still what it says today, and I (and many others) believe that Congress has violated the constitution in over-extending the reach of copyrights and increasing their lifetime indefinitely. The current trend is that copyrights will never expire, and the information is simply lost to the world because they're out of print and copies are discarded when they get too old. This nonesense going in Congress is not only destroying our future but our past as well.
You know what radio stations have to pay recording artists and major labels? Nothing. They pay directly to the composers and song writers a small, fixed amount defined by Congress (back when it understood the purpose of copyright) because letting the recording industry set the price threatened the new distribution technology in favor of old physical media. Now the recording industry is after P2P, seeking to destroy the superior competing technology rather than finding a balance.
The battle fought by the RIAA isn't about copyrights or piracy, it's about control of the media, and how media is created and distributed.
They seized the servers from Rackspace, but the bulk of the property belongs to IndyMedia. Rackspace got a warrant and a gag order. And the FBI gets many of its warrants through a special court which has never denied a request, thus eliminating true judicial review. And IndyMedia, the apparent (uncertain) target of their investigation, received no warrant, and no explanation. This borders on unconstitutional.
He was doing an impression, but I'm sure it's a serious impression.
It might have something to do with the fact that they have a habit of not pulling illegal material from their site.
There are many many situations where illegal material is illegal illegally (violation of 1st amendment rights, of speech, press, or protest) and is therefore legal if you're willing to battle it out. The US government is way too involved in influencing public opinion, something they ought not to at all.
It's a very informative yet unbiased book on how much the RIAA sucks ass and is taking away our freedom, not just fighting piracy.
There are a lot of 4k demos too, most of them quite good. The first I saw closely resembled the game Descent.
I wrote an asteroids clone in javascript that's roughly 500 lines, but I wasn't aiming for small size. It uses hundreds of divs for rendering. Best viewed in IE or a very recent FireFox, as older Mozillas have scalability/performance problems with it.
Much easier said than done. It'll take a constitutional amendment to the electoral system or a majority vote for a third party. The former requires that we already have fixed the problem and the latter requires a billionaire's riches and a face that TV viewers of all ages can fall in love with and trust with their social security.
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But for now the vote is consistently down the middle because the parties gradually adjust their platforms to gain support. There's no future in the "first we oust the republicans, then we can start voting green" strategy. Skimming through 200 years, the industry party is now the religious industry party and the pro-slavery party is now the pro-freedom party? Every election we reach down to scrape the bottom of the barrel, and argue over which side. Sure, they differ on many important issues, but the biggest issues, they won't even acknowledge because they're already in agreement, the lobbies make sure.
http://www.johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhim
The bill was never intended (by the democrat who introduced it) to be construed a a republican plot, or to ever go to a vote. It was a "what if" argument intended to make reprentatives consider the consequences to average citizens of voting in favor of unnecessary wars.
I was in the Army, and I never considered myself "poor" before, during, or after my service
The goal of the bill was to ensure that we would never go to war unless it was absolutely, positively a good idea.
And on average, the poor are more likely to join the army, partly out of need, and close friends and relatives of voting members of congress and the wealthy are the least likely to wind up on the front lines during a war.
The bill was introduced by Charles Rangel to prevent wars. His stated intentions:
...to make it clear that if there were a war, there would be more equitable representation of people making sacrifices...
I truly believe that those who make the decision and those who support the United States going into war would feel more readily the pain that's involved, the sacrifice that's involved, if they thought that the fighting force would include the affluent and those who historically have avoided this great responsibility.
His point was that we'd be less likely to go to war if people of all classes, rich and poor, had to fight.
The 49.7 days issue is caused by using a 32 bit integer to store the time in milliseconds. Even Java has this problem in a couple places. Once built into the API, such a problem cannot be patched without breaking backward compatibility. It's very well documented for both that programmers should keep that issue in mind when using those functions.
"we take the attitude that, with software, if we test it well enough, then it will work".
That relates to some good wisdom I heard on how to tell the quality of a programmer. The inexperienced will say "if it works, it's right" as opposed to "if it's right, it'll work." The original quote might have compared CS and CIS majors, but I can't remember.
And he even managed not to exceed the speed limit.
As a side note, does anyone know of a program that I could get for my phone (Java/J2ME) that would let me view it's GPS data (my location)? For some reason "they" don't want me to know where I am.
J2ME is pretty least common denominator. I haven't checked but I suspect that if you could check your GPS with it you would do it through a vendor-specific extension which means I'll need to know what model of phone you're using to give a definitive answer.
I remember that one.
That was in reference to the Matrix. I forgot about the "other" blue pills out there.
I guess I'm taking the blue pill.
Yes, but not before it mistakingly pushes through one of your already problematic stomach ulcers.
They are not neutral nor are they informative.
Perhaps the average young voter isn't neutral.
Why do I even bother reading the politics.slashdot section any longer?
Only you know the answer to that.
Roughly?
1) 5%
2) 0%
3) 0%
4) 95%
5) 0%
Note that some of #4 came from #1, where I'd buy a CD after hearing the music "illegally" online. That last 5% just wasn't interesting enough or was hard to find.
(and what am I missing?)
There's a program called Station Ripper which will legitimately (untested in court) record songs off of online radio stations, slice the stream between songs (imperfectly at times), and output mp3 files according to the name of each song.
Modern game engine development is an enormous task requiring millions of man hours of programming effort, no argument there.
... you will see an explosion in free games for Linux.
Take the square root of that.
I bet most of the work is really spent on design, graphics, testing, and marketing.
My point is that as soon as one of the big boys releases a high-powered game engine for Linux
Just what I could remember offhand:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
http://www.ogre3d.org/
http://crystal.sourceforge.net/
http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/
http://www.genesis3d.com/