There was a slashdot story several years ago about a web site that hosted pictures of old trains. Int the license agreement it stated that if you clicked on any links you owed $10000 to the company. To get to the license you had to click a link.
Free karma and a happy day to anyone who can get the link.
I'm assuming that is US dollars. For that amount of money I can get an ipac, PCMCIA sleeve and wireless network card. Jump on over to handhelds.org, and grab everything I need.
Back in 2002 I had an ipac system with doom that could be played point to point over wireless with another ipac. My version of doom would run in side view so we would get fullscreen. Left thumb navigated, and right hand used the fire button.
In the harbour tunnel in Sydney traffic reports are broadcast to most frequencies in the FM scale so people listening to the radio will here them.
Mind you it would be cool to have a VoIP broadcaster in the car so you can tell that jerk doing 20 under the speed limit to get the hell out of the overtaking lane.
"What sort of person wouldn't determine the word count *ahead of time*?"
Not only that, but what person who is writing software for touch typing would not know that a "word" used in calculating the wpm is in fact any five characters, including space and punctuations.
Most of the comments here are about what funny things are said in the source code. I think a more interesting piece from the article is "These issues include intellectual property rights". This to me states that either they have licenced parts of the Windows Forms code from third parties, or (for those of you with tin foil hats, put them on now) they have "borrowed" parts of the code from third parties and do not want them to find out about it. Hmmm.
Well I guess you could just wait for the official updates from the company you got the distribution from. Or, if by "you" you mean a company, you can get a support contract (that is actually what the open source companies are selling).
Once, according to my GPS I was doing 500km/h somewhere in the northern hemisphere. I was actually sitting on the top of a big hill. Resetting the GPS unit didn't change anything. I checked with a friend (we were hiking) and his GPS was doing the same thing. Maybe we were recording a de-orbit of one of the satelites.
Is this exactly not what happened in the episode of the Simpsons episode where Lisa creates a doll called "Lisa Lionheart" only to be knocked out at the last minute with the "New" Malabu Stacy, which was the old Malabu Stacy, but with a hat.
I guess Microsoft's sales of Malabu Stacys (Windows) is slowing. I guess it is time for them to release a new version "NOW WITH A HAT"
"(Burns) Hello Smithers, you're quite good at turning me on" - Smithers' computer
"(Gates) Hello Steve, you're quite good at turning *Windows NT GPF*" - Steve Balmer's computer
The "icon" used was in fact the ISO or SI (or whatever) standard glyph for "information". You know the one, the white lower case 'i' on a blue background. It isn't help, it is information. Therefore it isn't a help button.
managed programs have been mentioned in previous posts (ie.NET, python...) and how in the future all "desktop" (ie non system) applications are written in one of these "managed" languages.
My problem with that is what are the virtual machines written in? C, C++, Pascal? Probably a non-managed language.
Q: What happens if there is a vulnerability in a "non-managed" application? A: The "non-managed" application is vulnerable.
Q: What happens if a vulnerability occurs in one of these virtual machines? A: All of my applications are vulnerable.
No, how about we point the street lights toward the ground, you know the thing that we want light on. Think about it this way (if you can):
Street light puts 1/4 of its light emitted energy in the sky (based on a worst case of 45% above horizontal). If they were designed to shine only below horizontal they would produce up to 25%* more light for the same energy consumption.
*Naturally some light energy would be converted to heat energy in heating the reflecting surface.
Do they have to be spammers, can't we just shoot anyone who floods the night sky with any form of light.
For example, Most of the street lights around my area will project light up to 40 degrees ABOVE horizontal. Not only is this a waste of energy but it makes the stars almost impossible to see.
On a better note, last night many parts of Sydney was in blackout because of some storms. Best night to see Saturn and Jupiter and for the first time my daughter found out why the milky way is called "milky".
Tell that to the poor people who live in the newer estates (est 1996) with RIMs in the ground. Telstra, who owns them, refuse to replace them unless enough people that are effected (affected?) by a RIM request to be removed from it. I have been in three houses in the last 4 years, each one I was stuck on a RIM.
The biggest problem is that all these suburbs have some copper so it is impossible to determine before you move in if your phone line will be on a RIM or on copper. Before moving into my current house I checked with Telstra if there was any copper available that could go to my house; There was 4 lines. Three weeks later when I moved in I was put on a RIM. I requested that I be put on copper, but according to Telstra, all the copper was used, but they would gladly put in a second phone line and install ISDN for only $120 per month.
In conclusion. I called my local member, called Telstra again and told them that I have "gone to the press about it" and a day later I get a phone call from Telstra stating that "your phone line has been placed on copper and I should have no problems connecting Telstra broadband". I thanked them for the connection and then went with a MUCH cheaper ISP.
"just contrast FireFox as it is now with Mozilla 1.0 or Netscape 6..."
The quality of the products is not a reflextion of the development process. I had a brief stint at developing Mozilla from M10 to 0.9.8 and to get a patch committed (even if you had commit access to CVS) required a bug to be filed, a reviewer to be nominated, the patch to then be reviewed. After that the patch would be "super reviewed" by another reviewer. After all that, if it was deemed worthy, you could commit it.
I and some others had done the nano-X port of mozilla. At one point it was going to go into the mozilla cvs, but because it was a big patch (~13000 lines) no one would review it so it never got in.
PS. if anyone is interested have a look at nxzilla I think that the last update was to get it to compile with Mozilla 1.0.
Best 6 weeks I had.
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Here is my story:
Fry goes online to napster.com and downloads a Lucy Lu bot, he screws it until it BSOD and kills him.
THE END.
"what are the written rules for passangers?"
Sit down.
Shut up.
Pay for all present and future government related expenses.
There was a slashdot story several years ago about a web site that hosted pictures of old trains. Int the license agreement it stated that if you clicked on any links you owed $10000 to the company. To get to the license you had to click a link.
Free karma and a happy day to anyone who can get the link.
I'm assuming that is US dollars. For that amount of money I can get an ipac, PCMCIA sleeve and wireless network card. Jump on over to handhelds.org, and grab everything I need.
Back in 2002 I had an ipac system with doom that could be played point to point over wireless with another ipac. My version of doom would run in side view so we would get fullscreen. Left thumb navigated, and right hand used the fire button.
Cars have radios.
In the harbour tunnel in Sydney traffic reports are broadcast to most frequencies in the FM scale so people listening to the radio will here them.
Mind you it would be cool to have a VoIP broadcaster in the car so you can tell that jerk doing 20 under the speed limit to get the hell out of the overtaking lane.
Open: An underworld type figure is going through several folders of information. Credit cards are all over a large oak table.
He looks to the camera.
UWF: "ChoicePoint is my point for all your information"
Voiceover: "ChoicePoint, looking after number 1, itself"
Not piracy, STEALING (according to the TV)
Example maths question:
Question: Jenny has a bust size of 28 inches. She gets them enlarged to 47 inches. How much larger are they?
Answer: Who gives a shit!
"What sort of person wouldn't determine the word count *ahead of time*?"
Not only that, but what person who is writing software for touch typing would not know that a "word" used in calculating the wpm is in fact any five characters, including space and punctuations.
Most of the comments here are about what funny things are said in the source code. I think a more interesting piece from the article is "These issues include intellectual property rights". This to me states that either they have licenced parts of the Windows Forms code from third parties, or (for those of you with tin foil hats, put them on now) they have "borrowed" parts of the code from third parties and do not want them to find out about it. Hmmm.
"What about the rest of us?"
Well I guess you could just wait for the official updates from the company you got the distribution from. Or, if by "you" you mean a company, you can get a support contract (that is actually what the open source companies are selling).
Once, according to my GPS I was doing 500km/h somewhere in the northern hemisphere. I was actually sitting on the top of a big hill. Resetting the GPS unit didn't change anything. I checked with a friend (we were hiking) and his GPS was doing the same thing. Maybe we were recording a de-orbit of one of the satelites.
The biggest difference is that with open source I can fix the bugs myself if I want to. With Microsoft software I cannot.
Microsoft are not doing the same as the open source businesses(sp?). Microsoft sell you the product, sell you the support, sell you the fixes.
Is this exactly not what happened in the episode of the Simpsons episode where Lisa creates a doll called "Lisa Lionheart" only to be knocked out at the last minute with the "New" Malabu Stacy, which was the old Malabu Stacy, but with a hat.
I guess Microsoft's sales of Malabu Stacys (Windows) is slowing. I guess it is time for them to release a new version "NOW WITH A HAT"
"(Burns) Hello Smithers, you're quite good at turning me on" - Smithers' computer
"(Gates) Hello Steve, you're quite good at turning *Windows NT GPF*" - Steve Balmer's computer
so we have the inconvenience of a fixed phone with the cost* of a mobile.
Has this guy not heard of a battery charger?
*In Australia off peak calls with mobiles are about $0.50 per minute local calls on land lines are about $0.30 flat rate.
The "icon" used was in fact the ISO or SI (or whatever) standard glyph for "information". You know the one, the white lower case 'i' on a blue background. It isn't help, it is information. Therefore it isn't a help button.
managed programs have been mentioned in previous posts (ie .NET, python...) and how in the future all "desktop" (ie non system) applications are written in one of these "managed" languages.
My problem with that is what are the virtual machines written in? C, C++, Pascal? Probably a non-managed language.
Q: What happens if there is a vulnerability in a "non-managed" application?
A: The "non-managed" application is vulnerable.
Q: What happens if a vulnerability occurs in one of these virtual machines?
A: All of my applications are vulnerable.
I know which one I would prefer.
By the time 2029 comes along we will have the sky full of this http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/0 2/2322252&tid=99.
If it is good for business, the governments will pass it.
Well, the movie came out in 1973. The moderator probably wasn't even born then. Might have been conceved at a drive-in showing it though.
Last year was our first holiday, and it was to Queensland. This year we are going to Uluru (Ayres rock). We should see some good stars there.
No, how about we point the street lights toward the ground, you know the thing that we want light on. Think about it this way (if you can):
Street light puts 1/4 of its light emitted energy in the sky (based on a worst case of 45% above horizontal). If they were designed to shine only below horizontal they would produce up to 25%* more light for the same energy consumption.
*Naturally some light energy would be converted to heat energy in heating the reflecting surface.
"3) Shoot the fuckers"
Do they have to be spammers, can't we just shoot anyone who floods the night sky with any form of light.
For example, Most of the street lights around my area will project light up to 40 degrees ABOVE horizontal. Not only is this a waste of energy but it makes the stars almost impossible to see.
On a better note, last night many parts of Sydney was in blackout because of some storms. Best night to see Saturn and Jupiter and for the first time my daughter found out why the milky way is called "milky".
Tell that to the poor people who live in the newer estates (est 1996) with RIMs in the ground. Telstra, who owns them, refuse to replace them unless enough people that are effected (affected?) by a RIM request to be removed from it. I have been in three houses in the last 4 years, each one I was stuck on a RIM.
The biggest problem is that all these suburbs have some copper so it is impossible to determine before you move in if your phone line will be on a RIM or on copper. Before moving into my current house I checked with Telstra if there was any copper available that could go to my house; There was 4 lines. Three weeks later when I moved in I was put on a RIM. I requested that I be put on copper, but according to Telstra, all the copper was used, but they would gladly put in a second phone line and install ISDN for only $120 per month.
In conclusion. I called my local member, called Telstra again and told them that I have "gone to the press about it" and a day later I get a phone call from Telstra stating that "your phone line has been placed on copper and I should have no problems connecting Telstra broadband". I thanked them for the connection and then went with a MUCH cheaper ISP.
http://nxzilla.sourceforge.net/
The quality of the products is not a reflextion of the development process. I had a brief stint at developing Mozilla from M10 to 0.9.8 and to get a patch committed (even if you had commit access to CVS) required a bug to be filed, a reviewer to be nominated, the patch to then be reviewed. After that the patch would be "super reviewed" by another reviewer. After all that, if it was deemed worthy, you could commit it.
I and some others had done the nano-X port of mozilla. At one point it was going to go into the mozilla cvs, but because it was a big patch (~13000 lines) no one would review it so it never got in.
PS. if anyone is interested have a look at nxzilla I think that the last update was to get it to compile with Mozilla 1.0.
Best 6 weeks I had.