Maybe they should adopt an even more restrictive information model to drum up more live interest, like the model of Brockian Ultra-Cricket where not only is there no reporting on the game, you can't even see the game when you attend it!
Take it to the next level: completely seal up the arena so no one can observe the game other than the players and you'll have the Wide World of Schrödinger Sports!
We have a responsibility to coddle the work that sites have already done to work with IE. Fixed it for General Manager Dean Hachamovitch.
Have you not learned from the nightmare of continuing to support buggy legacy programs under Windows, like making sure that old programs that would free memory and then immediately access it still worked? As long as there are sites that require your compatibility mode instead of standards mode, users will have little reason to switch modes, and they'll be out there forever.
Paraphrasing: When that browser goes out it'll support a thousand mutations of the standard! Non-compliant pages will spread everywhere! We'll never be rid of them!
If testing for a bad sector is all the protection the game Zoid has, I could probably crack it in a day. That's all the protection most Apple IIgs games employed. Just a matter of finding the test for the bad sector and reverse the logic of the branch instruction (such as replace BNE with BEQ). Even easier if it only tests at boot-up.
I even still have working hardware.
If it is standardized Br0derbund copy protection, I'd bet that some parms from Copy II Plus would still work on it.
But I'd hate to be responsible for accidentally destroying it. A professional data recovery company should retrieve everything they can first.
I quickly learned that the word "objects" in NetObjects Fusion should be pronounced as a verb, not a noun (objects, not objects). It was (is? I hope not!) a WYSIWYG layout program that used not just tables, but nested tables, to achieve WYSIWYG layout.
I once reduced a page laid out with NOF from 64 KB to 16 KB in HTML markup alone by replacing a bunch of table-positioned GIFs with a single client-side imagemap. (The original HTML markup I was told was closer to 1 MB.) I'd cite it on The Wayback Machine, but only go back to 1998 for that site. I'd like to think the site might still be up today if the owner didn't end up losing his business in a divorce over sleeping with some of his lingerie models. Today it's a link farm.
When I joined the company that did that site, I was the only one there that even knew Javascript, and they still wanted me to work 6 months as an intern before they'd pay me. I convinced them otherwise. The web design arm of the company didn't survive long after my departure either. The magazine side seems to have survived. Makes me wonder if that was due to another divorce (husband head of web design, wife head of magazine).
A bad thing the web design company did was have a server-side imagemap on a site and text links at the bottom for the imagemap. You could forgive the server-side imagemapping because client-side options came later. What was unforgivable was that, since they couldn't control the size and placement of the text links for the imagemap, they took a screen capture of it and turned it into another server-side imagemap, negating the whole purpose of the text alternative links. (And no, they did not add text links for the pseudo-text imagemap.) And still the boss loudly proclaimed he was not an idiot. I should have quit that day.
Worst thing that web design company did was promise SSL to a domain at a price that wasn't available, and then used another client's domain to accept the SSL data (the aforementioned site). The data included both credit card and social security numbers. At most I could do was convince them to retrieve the data via sftp instead of unencrypted e-mail forwarded to an AOL.com address, their standard procedure even if the domain's hosting did include SSL.
The last thing I did for them was give them a frameset that would ensure the website would never have more than 640x480 of real estate to display itself in, with wasted black space on four sides to center it in the browser window. (I believe I'd already given them notice of my quitting at the time.) I later found that they had used it for the web design company's own site! And nearly half of that space they wasted with a Java applet to get a rippling reflective water effect under the company logo (the company name included a reference to water).
I don't know why I'm not naming them. I guess it is that I don't want to be associated with their shoddy work.
I'm not a lawyer, but I know enough about the law to know that destroying corporate records that could be used as evidence is illegal, unless the destruction is in keeping with the company's existing policy on data retention. I'm not a lawyer either, but I understood from early on in this case that it was less a matter of TorrentSpy destroying records than it was them deliberately not creating them in the first place. Their standard retention policy was to retain nothing.
The judge in this case was looking for a way to say the defendant was obligated to keep durable records of his misdeeds, practically to the point of tapping the memory bus.
Effectively passing knowledge on to students in a way that results in them actually learning something is nontrivial. And no one should know that better than programmers. I quote Douglas Adams:
"There really wasn't a lot this machine could do that you couldn't do yourself in half the time with a lot less trouble," said Richard, "but it was, on the other hand, very good at being a slow and dim-witted pupil."
Reg looked at him quizzically.
"I had no idea they were supposed to be in short supply," he said. "I could hit a dozen with a bread roll from where I'm sitting."
"I'm sure. But look at it this way. What really is the point of trying to teach anything to anybody?"
This question seemed to provoke a murmur of sympathetic approval from up and down the table.
Richard continued, "What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've certainly learned something about it yourself. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn't that true?"
"It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy."
The "IR Pollution" is the biggest factor affecting the performance of your wiimote, in addition to distance. It also affects the ability of a TiVo to control an external tuner like a cable box with IR properly. Even if the cable box cannot see the source of the IR pollution, if the TiVo can see it, it cannot send the signal to change channels until that pollution goes away (IR bus busy).
So be careful how you set up your Wii sensor bar with respect to any TiVos that control external tuners with IR signals.
Before the Wii, another source of this problem was wireless IR repeaters that would turn any radio noise they receive into IR signals. Use wired-only solutions for media closets containing TiVos utilizing IR control of external tuners, or faraday-cage your home and do without cell phones.
BTW, this Angola bank robbery shooting story isn't coming up on Google News which should have indexed it if it came through a legitimate news source. It also appears to be too recent to have even a mention on Snopes.
Still, real or not it shouldn't prevent finding my (parent) post Funny, Interesting, or Insightful.
Recently in the news there was some movie crew shooting a bank robbery scene and the real cops showed up and shot five of the actors. I think 3 are dead, one was close to dea and the other should live. Maybe the cops were familiar with the movie Shooting High (1940):
On the day a bank robbery scene is to be filmed at Pritchard's bank, four supposed actors who have joined the troupe turn out to be bank robbers for real.
To be clear, this is a plot summary, not trivia about the movie. The movie has a movie being filmed in it. You have actors pretending to be real bank robbers pretending to be actors pretending to be bank robbers, pretending to actually rob the pretend real bank.
Is that clear? If not, you may qualify to be an Angola police officer.
I pay for cable and if I record a show that's fine, but if I download a show because I forgot to TiVo it then I am breaking the law. Or even if I didn't get a chance to TiVo it because it was preempted by breaking news like a gunman having shot nine people in a mall and the local station isn't scheduling any reairings (Life "Dig a Hole, Fill it Up, Part 2").
The show It's Your Move (1984) got canceled because when Ronald Reagan preempted the episode "The Dregs of Humanity: Part 2" with a speech nationally, the episode was just skipped instead of being rescheduled, breaking the continuity and causing the show to lose a big chunk of its audience. Many locations never saw the episode until after it was canceled and reshown on USA Network. It may never be released on DVD.
I recorded all of last season of 24. Normally I would still buy the DVDs to assuage the guilt of retaining copies for free, but I have them in HD and they only released them as SD DVDs. If I do buy, I may just get them to rip their menus and burn as a 3x DVD set. If only there were not a lack of menu-ripping software that produced suitable assets for a new project (motion-menu assets, overlays, audio tracks, XML for the button associations, any scripts, subtitle assets, etc.).
Instead, all we have are "we promise, we promise!" which doesn't mean much when said by an agency [(CIA)] with a mandate of deception. Fixed it for you.
If you read the article properly you will find that the evidence they destroyed was never collected, they did not destroy it they just didn't save it in the first place... It's like a judge punishing someone for not wearing a wire when tells people where to buy drugs on street corners.
Sure there's a presumption that they would be buying illegal drugs, but sometimes the pharmacy is closed and you just really really need some Excedrin right now.
3.2 billion dollars were lost? No. The 3.2 billion dollars aren't really lost. They know where the money is, still. It's just when you go there, there's this new guy holding it.
It's just like when you lose a job, or a girl, right Mr. Goldthwait?
I'd like an animal with wheels that I can drive to work, with chlorophyll in its skin so I don't have to feed it. Maybe it can sun itself on the roof while I'm at meetings, and ooze a delicious health drink from a special orifice so I can catch dinner on the way home. Stanley Tweedle? Is that you?
GP and I come from an era where a "disk drive" meant a drive that took one of 3.5", 5.25", or 8" removable magnetic disk media, and would rather you young whippersnappers used more specific terminology such as hard drive, optical drive, or coin drive.
Anyway, don't the Wii disks employ counter-clockwise spiral tracks?
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe they should adopt an even more restrictive information model to drum up more live interest, like the model of Brockian Ultra-Cricket where not only is there no reporting on the game, you can't even see the game when you attend it!
Take it to the next level: completely seal up the arena so no one can observe the game other than the players and you'll have the Wide World of Schrödinger Sports!
My problem with being net carbon-negative is that I need carbon from which to make future generations of me.
Have you not learned from the nightmare of continuing to support buggy legacy programs under Windows, like making sure that old programs that would free memory and then immediately access it still worked? As long as there are sites that require your compatibility mode instead of standards mode, users will have little reason to switch modes, and they'll be out there forever.
Paraphrasing: When that browser goes out it'll support a thousand mutations of the standard! Non-compliant pages will spread everywhere! We'll never be rid of them!
If testing for a bad sector is all the protection the game Zoid has, I could probably crack it in a day. That's all the protection most Apple IIgs games employed. Just a matter of finding the test for the bad sector and reverse the logic of the branch instruction (such as replace BNE with BEQ). Even easier if it only tests at boot-up.
I even still have working hardware.
If it is standardized Br0derbund copy protection, I'd bet that some parms from Copy II Plus would still work on it.
But I'd hate to be responsible for accidentally destroying it. A professional data recovery company should retrieve everything they can first.
I quickly learned that the word "objects" in NetObjects Fusion should be pronounced as a verb, not a noun (objects, not objects). It was (is? I hope not!) a WYSIWYG layout program that used not just tables, but nested tables, to achieve WYSIWYG layout.
I once reduced a page laid out with NOF from 64 KB to 16 KB in HTML markup alone by replacing a bunch of table-positioned GIFs with a single client-side imagemap. (The original HTML markup I was told was closer to 1 MB.) I'd cite it on The Wayback Machine, but only go back to 1998 for that site. I'd like to think the site might still be up today if the owner didn't end up losing his business in a divorce over sleeping with some of his lingerie models. Today it's a link farm.
When I joined the company that did that site, I was the only one there that even knew Javascript, and they still wanted me to work 6 months as an intern before they'd pay me. I convinced them otherwise. The web design arm of the company didn't survive long after my departure either. The magazine side seems to have survived. Makes me wonder if that was due to another divorce (husband head of web design, wife head of magazine).
A bad thing the web design company did was have a server-side imagemap on a site and text links at the bottom for the imagemap. You could forgive the server-side imagemapping because client-side options came later. What was unforgivable was that, since they couldn't control the size and placement of the text links for the imagemap, they took a screen capture of it and turned it into another server-side imagemap, negating the whole purpose of the text alternative links. (And no, they did not add text links for the pseudo-text imagemap.) And still the boss loudly proclaimed he was not an idiot. I should have quit that day.
Worst thing that web design company did was promise SSL to a domain at a price that wasn't available, and then used another client's domain to accept the SSL data (the aforementioned site). The data included both credit card and social security numbers. At most I could do was convince them to retrieve the data via sftp instead of unencrypted e-mail forwarded to an AOL.com address, their standard procedure even if the domain's hosting did include SSL.
The last thing I did for them was give them a frameset that would ensure the website would never have more than 640x480 of real estate to display itself in, with wasted black space on four sides to center it in the browser window. (I believe I'd already given them notice of my quitting at the time.) I later found that they had used it for the web design company's own site! And nearly half of that space they wasted with a Java applet to get a rippling reflective water effect under the company logo (the company name included a reference to water).
I don't know why I'm not naming them. I guess it is that I don't want to be associated with their shoddy work.
- TorrentSpy Ordered By Judge to Become MPAA Spy
- Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM
- TorrentSpy Must Preserve Data In RAM For MPAA
The judge in this case was looking for a way to say the defendant was obligated to keep durable records of his misdeeds, practically to the point of tapping the memory bus.Indeed, I had to drop keywords like "bank" and "robbery" and add "Angola" to finally get results out of Google News.
The last time I bought a printer it came with a USB cable.
None of the other printers I've bought before came with a USB cable.
Those other printers predated USB.
I don't print much.
So be careful how you set up your Wii sensor bar with respect to any TiVos that control external tuners with IR signals.
Before the Wii, another source of this problem was wireless IR repeaters that would turn any radio noise they receive into IR signals. Use wired-only solutions for media closets containing TiVos utilizing IR control of external tuners, or faraday-cage your home and do without cell phones.
BTW, this Angola bank robbery shooting story isn't coming up on Google News which should have indexed it if it came through a legitimate news source. It also appears to be too recent to have even a mention on Snopes.
Still, real or not it shouldn't prevent finding my (parent) post Funny, Interesting, or Insightful.
To be clear, this is a plot summary, not trivia about the movie. The movie has a movie being filmed in it. You have actors pretending to be real bank robbers pretending to be actors pretending to be bank robbers, pretending to actually rob the pretend real bank.
Is that clear? If not, you may qualify to be an Angola police officer.
The show It's Your Move (1984) got canceled because when Ronald Reagan preempted the episode "The Dregs of Humanity: Part 2" with a speech nationally, the episode was just skipped instead of being rescheduled, breaking the continuity and causing the show to lose a big chunk of its audience. Many locations never saw the episode until after it was canceled and reshown on USA Network. It may never be released on DVD.
I recorded all of last season of 24. Normally I would still buy the DVDs to assuage the guilt of retaining copies for free, but I have them in HD and they only released them as SD DVDs. If I do buy, I may just get them to rip their menus and burn as a 3x DVD set. If only there were not a lack of menu-ripping software that produced suitable assets for a new project (motion-menu assets, overlays, audio tracks, XML for the button associations, any scripts, subtitle assets, etc.).
When trying a plaintiff's civil case, it doesn't matter what you can prove, it only matters what you can convincingly allege.
Sure there's a presumption that they would be buying illegal drugs, but sometimes the pharmacy is closed and you just really really need some Excedrin right now.
3.2 billion dollars were lost? No. The 3.2 billion dollars aren't really lost. They know where the money is, still. It's just when you go there, there's this new guy holding it.
It's just like when you lose a job, or a girl, right Mr. Goldthwait?
Anyone else having problems with the stylesheets on idle.slashdot.org? I'm getting black text on a dark gray background.
I am getting the new title image. "Idly passing our days. Nothing matters." Peeling "t". I like.
High Density Versatile Disc?
Bad marketing. Not enough repeated letters in the name to be catchy. Replace it with HHDDVVDD BVD. Also, make it play MP48s.
"But it's covered in weapons."
Lintilla.
GP and I come from an era where a "disk drive" meant a drive that took one of 3.5", 5.25", or 8" removable magnetic disk media, and would rather you young whippersnappers used more specific terminology such as hard drive, optical drive, or coin drive.
Anyway, don't the Wii disks employ counter-clockwise spiral tracks?