Yeah OK, but I can't count the number of times I've wished CivIII would let me script in some features that the devs missed. Simple things like upgrading every unit of a particular type in all cities can take dozens of clicks. So easy to fix with a little scripting.
Finally we'll be able to mod other drivers properly: -1, Crashbait -1, Tailgater -1, Ugly kid in rear-facing seat on long trip +1, Thanks for actually using that turn signal thingy +1, Hey hottie, can I get your phone number?
You'll get the gist of the committee's intent after the first few minutes. A little longer and you can hear what each player's concerns are. Complete with humorous banter and sexual innuendo.
Although one naturally thinks of this as a RIAA-backed initiative, they're like Darth Vader to the BSA's Emperor IMHO.
Gadzooks, man. I don't have time to read the book you just posted, but I'll tell you one thing DSL shows is how lacking C is in expressing Finite State Machines.
Like 15 years ago IBM had a language called FAPL which was cool at expressing FSMs -- totally useful for describing commmunications protocols or, in this case, scheduling protocols.
But FAPL would probably make you sh*t bricks after your palpitations over DSL.
PS -- I'll bet you're not really precluded by DSL from scheduling a task every 100 bogons to re-prioritize the queue. But don't look into it any further without adjusting your meds first.
Yeah I wonder about that too. The article references a more detailed writeup which has a list of 40-50 URLs. A lot of European, Australian, Hongkong domains. Some Saudi. Not as many US ones, except Citibank. (I'd cut and paste the list, but it's.pdf.)
The initial infection came from a popup ad. It sends the name/password as well as the UUID of the infected machine back to its master. Ugly stuff.
Why on earth would anyone want to use a DOS clone?
That post wasn't flamebait - it's a reasonable question.
Here's one example -- Steve Gibson released a new version of his SpinRite hard disk test/recovery tool. grc.com It uses FreeDOS so you can boot from a floppy and test every sector.
[I haven't tried the product, just noting one relevant modern use of DOS.]
The most potent criticism of the board's draft proposal to expense options when they are granted, came from an unlikely source: Mark Rubinstein, a finance professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, who helped develop the method.
"I was one of the inventors of the (board-proposed) model, and I say: Don't use it. It doesn't work," Rubinstein said. Companies should have to expense only the amount that an employee profits after he exercises the option to buy the stock, Rubinstein said.
That came as a surprise to the FASB board members.
[The FASB board is the federal advisory board that's hashing out what should be done about expensing stock options.]
It fixed a bug I had on 1.5.5 where if you have "Load images if sender is in address book" turned on, some spam would cause the preview pane to freeze.
I also haven't seen the problems with IMAP that I had with 1.4.5 in a long time. Many thanks to Ximian for fixing this.
By way of a late, karma-burning reply-to-self, here is the relevant section in my SBC/Yahoo agreement:
9. MEMBER CONDUCT
You agree that you will NOT use the Service to:
(a) upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content (as defined below) that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
Indeed, my free speech rights on the Internet are already completely at the leisure of my ISP. The only thing protecting me at this point is their interest in my dollar (and the far distant possibility that I could find another provider with less restrictive terms).
I was listening to a BBC radio interview yesterday with a US official (sorry, can't remember name/rank). The topic of discussion was this new treaty on limiting hate speech, and why the US would not likely be a signatory.
The US official made it clear that the First Amendment makes it impossible for America to join such a treaty. However, he said that such things are managed in America by cooperation of the private sector, through ISP Terms of Service agreements.
I wish I had a link for the conversation. I find this notion a tad chilling. On the whole, I agreed with his stance though.
He also said that the US Gov't can only limit hate speech when it clearly incites illegal acts (paraphrasing). And that non-governmental orgs keep track of hate sites, and report offenders.
On the off chance that YOU aren't just a troll, you can listen to Lessig discuss this and related issues in this May 6 radio interview: Lawrence Lessig on KQED Forum (Real Audio)
In the not-just-tech talk category, you might mine the archives of KQED's Forum program (Real audio). Two one-hour shows per week day, on a broad range of topics, including listener call-ins. When shows are about tech, they usually have a policy bent or some macro angle that appeals to non-techies. Lawrence Lessig was a recent guest.
Trivia: the former host of Forum, Kevin Purseglove, left to become ebay's spokesman.
I'm not including a link because it's easy to find, and this way the lazy among us won't/. the site.
Joy seems to emphasize a critical difference in scale in the way science is pursued.
Back when cavemen still said "ooga booga", maybe somebody figured out how to sharpen obsidian into a knife, and the other neanderthals spread the love.
Thousands of years later we had guys like L. Da Vinci and then B. Franklin, renaissance men with who dabbled in science for the joy of their own genius.
Now science is industrial (and so is science education, IMO). Much of it is driven by the search for profit (biotech) or power (Manhattan Project). (And you can easily find examples of valid science with medical benefits which is not done because it can't be protected by patents.)
Every advance comes with unforseen consequences, and so the increasing pace of science comes with increasing danger.
By nature, the profit/power motive won't intentionally slow itself down. Joy seems to say that maybe we should put some checks in place. In his words:
Regulatory agencies are structured to catch shady C.F.O.'s, not reckless private-sector technologists. And markets are ill equipped to play traffic cop. ''Markets are extremely good at go,'' Joy says. ''They're not very good at stop. And I think we need a little bit of stop right now. Or else we're not going to like the outcome.''
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If you weren't maxed already I'd bump you +1.
For fun I do time-lapse of relatively stationary stuff - like plants growing, where the speed-up really brings out patterns that you don't see at normal speed.
Maybe that's why I actually liked the part in this video where he's parked at a gas station and you see some plants blowing in the wind, for a change of pace.
Some issues are different when you're doing a time-lapse over 1 hour versus multiple days. But one thing that I've found useful for slow-changing stuff is if you're taking say 1 frame per hour of a macro subject outdoors that can easily blow in and out of focus, take two frames in rapid succession so you can throw the worst one away.
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In my day, we learned MIC-1 and MAC-1 from Tanenbaum's book "Structured Computer Organization", and we liked it.
Google tells me the kids use java to simulate it now.
Agreed. So long as there is informed consent, why not let users decide whether they are willing to accept it? Google isn't like Microsoft (yet). They've earned some trust, they deserve to be rewarded by consumers for that.
But there is room for lawmaking here. Like requiring notification before scanning mail, and maybe limiting what email providers can do with the information they scan. The restriction on third-party sharing in the California law seems like a good idea, IMHO.
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So in order to do this "in all cities" this would take "dozens of clicks"? RTFP next time.
Yeah OK, but I can't count the number of times I've wished CivIII would let me script in some features that the devs missed. Simple things like upgrading every unit of a particular type in all cities can take dozens of clicks. So easy to fix with a little scripting.
Finally we'll be able to mod other drivers properly:
-1, Crashbait
-1, Tailgater
-1, Ugly kid in rear-facing seat on long trip
+1, Thanks for actually using that turn signal thingy
+1, Hey hottie, can I get your phone number?
Or listen to it here: in ogg format.
You'll get the gist of the committee's intent after the first few minutes. A little longer and you can hear what each player's concerns are. Complete with humorous banter and sexual innuendo.
Although one naturally thinks of this as a RIAA-backed initiative, they're like Darth Vader to the BSA's Emperor IMHO.
from Aquanox?
[Well, over 160 posts and NO aquanox references? I had to.]
Gadzooks, man. I don't have time to read the book you just posted, but I'll tell you one thing DSL shows is how lacking C is in expressing Finite State Machines.
Like 15 years ago IBM had a language called FAPL which was cool at expressing FSMs -- totally useful for describing commmunications protocols or, in this case, scheduling protocols.
But FAPL would probably make you sh*t bricks after your palpitations over DSL.
PS -- I'll bet you're not really precluded by DSL from scheduling a task every 100 bogons to re-prioritize the queue. But don't look into it any further without adjusting your meds first.
If you pick your jaw up off the floor and keep reading through the tears, a bit further down it says:
That probably doesn't qualify for your list of evil-doers, but it almost made me lose my lunch.
So WineX puts some kind of software layer between the application and Linux? I hope game performance dosnt take a hit.
.dll, let's call it msfile.dll.
No that's not quite how it works. Applications contain calls to functions, something like OpenFile("C:\some\filename").
The code that implements OpenFile() would normally be in a Windows
WineX creates a Linux version of the msfile.dll, so the the application runs the Linux code instead of Windows code.
The speed could be faster or slower, depending on how good the WineX code for msfile.dll is versus the Windows code.
[In the example above, msfile.dll and OpenFile() are made-up examples to illustrate the principle of different implementations of the same API.]
Yeah I wonder about that too. The article references a more detailed writeup which has a list of 40-50 URLs. A lot of European, Australian, Hongkong domains. Some Saudi. Not as many US ones, except Citibank. (I'd cut and paste the list, but it's .pdf.)
The initial infection came from a popup ad. It sends the name/password as well as the UUID of the infected machine back to its master. Ugly stuff.
Once on a trip to Florida a manatee decided to demonstrate the use of its blowhole right in my face. That was gnarly enough -- and they're vegans.
Oh the humanatee!
[Somehow I think I should have checked Post Anonymously. Oh well.]
I tried 3 times to visit LocatePlus and Mozilla 1.6 crashed silently each time. What's up with that?
That post wasn't flamebait - it's a reasonable question.
Here's one example -- Steve Gibson released a new version of his SpinRite hard disk test/recovery tool. grc.com It uses FreeDOS so you can boot from a floppy and test every sector.
[I haven't tried the product, just noting one relevant modern use of DOS.]
Excerpting from this recent article about the issue:
[The FASB board is the federal advisory board that's hashing out what should be done about expensing stock options.]
It fixed a bug I had on 1.5.5 where if you have "Load images if sender is in address book" turned on, some spam would cause the preview pane to freeze.
I also haven't seen the problems with IMAP that I had with 1.4.5 in a long time. Many thanks to Ximian for fixing this.
For Fedora Core 2 users, get it via yum from Dave Malcolm's repo.
Indeed, my free speech rights on the Internet are already completely at the leisure of my ISP. The only thing protecting me at this point is their interest in my dollar (and the far distant possibility that I could find another provider with less restrictive terms).
Entire TOS
The US official made it clear that the First Amendment makes it impossible for America to join such a treaty. However, he said that such things are managed in America by cooperation of the private sector, through ISP Terms of Service agreements.
I wish I had a link for the conversation. I find this notion a tad chilling. On the whole, I agreed with his stance though.
He also said that the US Gov't can only limit hate speech when it clearly incites illegal acts (paraphrasing). And that non-governmental orgs keep track of hate sites, and report offenders.
On the off chance that YOU aren't just a troll, you can listen to Lessig discuss this and related issues in this May 6 radio interview: Lawrence Lessig on KQED Forum (Real Audio)
In the not-just-tech talk category, you might mine the archives of KQED's Forum program (Real audio). Two one-hour shows per week day, on a broad range of topics, including listener call-ins. When shows are about tech, they usually have a policy bent or some macro angle that appeals to non-techies. Lawrence Lessig was a recent guest.
Trivia: the former host of Forum, Kevin Purseglove, left to become ebay's spokesman.
I'm not including a link because it's easy to find, and this way the lazy among us won't /. the site.
SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY!!
just doesn't sound right.
Back when cavemen still said "ooga booga", maybe somebody figured out how to sharpen obsidian into a knife, and the other neanderthals spread the love.
Thousands of years later we had guys like L. Da Vinci and then B. Franklin, renaissance men with who dabbled in science for the joy of their own genius.
Now science is industrial (and so is science education, IMO). Much of it is driven by the search for profit (biotech) or power (Manhattan Project). (And you can easily find examples of valid science with medical benefits which is not done because it can't be protected by patents.)
Every advance comes with unforseen consequences, and so the increasing pace of science comes with increasing danger.
By nature, the profit/power motive won't intentionally slow itself down. Joy seems to say that maybe we should put some checks in place. In his words:
For fun I do time-lapse of relatively stationary stuff - like plants growing, where the speed-up really brings out patterns that you don't see at normal speed.
Maybe that's why I actually liked the part in this video where he's parked at a gas station and you see some plants blowing in the wind, for a change of pace.
Some issues are different when you're doing a time-lapse over 1 hour versus multiple days. But one thing that I've found useful for slow-changing stuff is if you're taking say 1 frame per hour of a macro subject outdoors that can easily blow in and out of focus, take two frames in rapid succession so you can throw the worst one away.
Google tells me the kids use java to simulate it now.
Hurrumph. For mods who thought that was -1, Troll, consider this:
Plus, Arnie speaks German.
Ok Ok. Flamebait maybe, but please not Troll.
But there is room for lawmaking here. Like requiring notification before scanning mail, and maybe limiting what email providers can do with the information they scan. The restriction on third-party sharing in the California law seems like a good idea, IMHO.
Kinda like Hitler burning down the Reichstag. Democracy can be so pesky sometimes.