Soon games will only be available through your (xbox|nintendo|ps3)live account, and only for $50 for a license, and $1 a play. So, game sellers, don't worry.
But you can position a magnifying glass such that, at the right time of day, it will concentrate sun light on a fuse, lighting it. Sundials might give terrorists that idea. So we should ban sundials, magnifying glasses, and the sun.
I clicked on the "reply essay by ESR" link, and I got a scary picture (as all pictures are) of ESR, and a short bio on him. But not his reply. That website sucks, regardless of the content.
Doesn't seem so fair to me. How do they know the xbox damaged the disc? What if is was damaged by the employee who was checking it for damage, and they want to cover their ass? That's what I would do if I worked there and scratched a disc. What if it was damaged in any other way?
Now if three or four discs came back from they same customer damaged, they might have a case. But one disc?
They want you to trust that the unofficial patch for the Windows Metafile Volunerability that is currently being exploited by an IM worm.
I think I know english pretty good. And my brain filters out even the worst spelling errors such that I know what they mean when they say 'Volunerability'. But I really can't make heads or tails of this 'sentence', if you can call it that. WTF does this mean?
So, I've only watched the first season so far. Or most of it anyway. For those of you who've seen all the episodes:
Have the humans figured out that if you want to find out if someone is a cylon they can exploit the cylon's major design flaw? You just fuck them doggie style and see if their back starts to glow? Or do they fuck "ride 'em cowboy style" in every episode? Is that how much life in the future will suck? No more doggie style? Then the future humans deserve to be killed off by the cylons.
Anyway, the cylons don't seem like a real formidable enemy, if they designed themselves to be undetectable in every way except, oops, the massive glowing red virgin alarms embedded in their spines.
It's because before osx apple didn't have file extentions. they had meta-data in the file the file that told you what it was. Everyone thought that was cool, so windows hid their file extentions, but didn't add meta-data to the file (called 'posing' is some circles).
Then apple, due to a massive brain fart, decided not to use the file meta-data in OSX (even though I've heard there is support for it in the file system). In an attempt to cover the oder of their massive brain fart, apple copied windows. When windows copies apple, they usually copy cool useful features. But when apple copies windows, it appears they only copy defects. And today, osx and windows hide the file extention. They are both big posers now.
Well, the obscureness of the comma operator is used by C++ recruiters who thinks they are really "clever", and in "clever" C/C++ puzzles on usenet. If you took it away, how would you hire C++ programmers and how would you have fun on usenet?
Also, C++ programmers are getting really old, and they don't handle change very well.
That's way too long for me to waste my time on. I didn't read it, but I'll try and summarize it:
Don't download/install it if you don't know what it is and you're on a windoz box.
Install four or five spyware/virus scanners that execute every time you access a file if you're on a windoz box. Performance be damned. It doesn't matter what brand. Four or five different brands are enough.
No matter what four or five brands you install, someone is someday going to get their hands on your windoz box, and download some spyware/virus that isn't detected by the four or five scanners you have installed. So really, don't install anything. Just don't do number one, and lock your windoz computer in a big safe.
Amazon/Paypal/Ebay is not going to suspend your account if you don't click on that link in that email and fill in your name and password. Don't worry.
"Sony and PSP have every right to use this type of media," Hayes said. "They have done it for (a) very long time very successfully and spoke the language of the streets without being patronizing."
Wouldn't it be fun to walk around their parking area/building with a spray can and do a little of your own advertising. And you might want to bring some mace in case their rent-a-cops come after you. You might even target the most compensatory SUVs, as those probably belong to the marketing wanks who came up with this stupid idea. Too bad we can't do it because it is against the law.
Of course if google didn't inject the secret key to access their desktop search into your google web page when you access google, this wouldn't be a problem. So it in fact _does_ have something to do with google. It is a trivial fix for google, and a more complex fix for microsoft. Google should do the right thing and fix their desktop search (or "work around microsoft's bug", if you just can't bring yourself to admit that "super google" can make a mistake), even if their code is 'technically correct' ('technically correct from a CS 101 point of view, not a real world point of view). This 'oh, it is microsoft's problem, not ours!' crap is really childish. Google's job at this point is to protect users data they've indexed, not cover their ass, not matter who's 'fault' it is.
It would have worked better if he picked a different name than Beatles. It doesn't matter how many slashdot stories he gets posted. He'll never climb above the thousands of Beatles (the band) links.
(I love the smell of burning strawman in the morning.)
He who smelt it delt it, as they say.
Try harder to grok my post. For example, there is an 'open source' NVIDIA driver in the Linux kernel source distribution (I'm not talking about the closed source binary driver NVidia distributes). While the code for that driver is free and open, the driver depends on non-free, and non-open hardware interface. Just like some open source windows software depends on non-free and non-open libraries. So, is that windows software really open source? Is that nvidia driver really open source? Weather or not _you_ use that driver on _your_ system is irrelevant to the argument (but it is your stinky burning strawman). But if you agree that the 'open source' nvidia driver included in the linux kernel is really open source then you must agree that 'open source' windows software that depends on a non-free windows api is also open source.
First of all, you're no Scott Adams. Second, there are plenty of proprietary software libraries that are also very well documented and 'open' I guess, whatever 'open' means in this context. In fact there are propriety software libraries that are both well documented, and provide source code.
Conversely, there are open source video card drivers in Linux that were written for undocumented and poorly understood proprietary graphics hardware. Of course you can run Linux on a system that doesn't have such a video card, buy is _that_ driver open source? So I still don't see how you can make a software/hardware distinction when deciding if some software is open source or not.
And see the mozilla projects, apache projects, open office projects, most of the gnu suite, emacs, vim, QT, KDE, and others for examples of cross platform open source projects that run on windows. Citing one project that isn't designed to be cross platform doesn't mean too much.
Huh. I run all my software, even my linux box, on a non free, non modifiable CPU. Why do you draw the line at the software/hardware boundry? Don't forget that functionality that is provided by free open source software on some systems is provided by proprietary hardware on other systems. Consider RISC vs CISC processors, or graphics accelerators.
If software is distributed under an open source license, even if it requires non-free (as in beer or freedom) components then I consider it free (as in freedom, not beer) and open. Sure, not everyone can afford the platform it runs on, but that's true of any software out there (unless your computer 'fell off the back of a truck' or was otherwise aquired for free).
I've use visual studio 6 and visual studio.net. Near as I can tell, every key on my keyboard still works, so I can type anything I want into my text files. There isn't anything VS keeps you from doing. But it does help you get the boring boiler plate stuff done fast so you can focus on interesting programming problems. Writing a GUI isn't an interesting programming problem, and I don't want to waste my time on that.
Bah! Spoken like a true science apologist. We can't see foot prints or flags on the moon because WE NEVER WENT. Everyone knows shooting a rocket up that high would break a hole in the crystal sphere over the earth, and the black liquid inkiness outside would spill in and drown us all!
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Soon games will only be available through your (xbox|nintendo|ps3)live account, and only for $50 for a license, and $1 a play. So, game sellers, don't worry.
But you can position a magnifying glass such that, at the right time of day, it will concentrate sun light on a fuse, lighting it. Sundials might give terrorists that idea. So we should ban sundials, magnifying glasses, and the sun.
I clicked on the "reply essay by ESR" link, and I got a scary picture (as all pictures are) of ESR, and a short bio on him. But not his reply. That website sucks, regardless of the content.
You should only feel a mouse on its ergonomic if the mouse says it is ok.
Arrg! Head exploding. "I think I know english pretty good..." is a common joke.
Now if three or four discs came back from they same customer damaged, they might have a case. But one disc?
I think I know english pretty good. And my brain filters out even the worst spelling errors such that I know what they mean when they say 'Volunerability'. But I really can't make heads or tails of this 'sentence', if you can call it that. WTF does this mean?
So, I've only watched the first season so far. Or most of it anyway. For those of you who've seen all the episodes:
Have the humans figured out that if you want to find out if someone is a cylon they can exploit the cylon's major design flaw? You just fuck them doggie style and see if their back starts to glow? Or do they fuck "ride 'em cowboy style" in every episode? Is that how much life in the future will suck? No more doggie style? Then the future humans deserve to be killed off by the cylons.
Anyway, the cylons don't seem like a real formidable enemy, if they designed themselves to be undetectable in every way except, oops, the massive glowing red virgin alarms embedded in their spines.
Then apple, due to a massive brain fart, decided not to use the file meta-data in OSX (even though I've heard there is support for it in the file system). In an attempt to cover the oder of their massive brain fart, apple copied windows. When windows copies apple, they usually copy cool useful features. But when apple copies windows, it appears they only copy defects. And today, osx and windows hide the file extention. They are both big posers now.
Also, C++ programmers are getting really old, and they don't handle change very well.
ha ha ha ha. I can't get enough :)
Wouldn't it be fun to walk around their parking area/building with a spray can and do a little of your own advertising. And you might want to bring some mace in case their rent-a-cops come after you. You might even target the most compensatory SUVs, as those probably belong to the marketing wanks who came up with this stupid idea. Too bad we can't do it because it is against the law.
Of course if google didn't inject the secret key to access their desktop search into your google web page when you access google, this wouldn't be a problem. So it in fact _does_ have something to do with google. It is a trivial fix for google, and a more complex fix for microsoft. Google should do the right thing and fix their desktop search (or "work around microsoft's bug", if you just can't bring yourself to admit that "super google" can make a mistake), even if their code is 'technically correct' ('technically correct from a CS 101 point of view, not a real world point of view). This 'oh, it is microsoft's problem, not ours!' crap is really childish. Google's job at this point is to protect users data they've indexed, not cover their ass, not matter who's 'fault' it is.
It would have worked better if he picked a different name than Beatles. It doesn't matter how many slashdot stories he gets posted. He'll never climb above the thousands of Beatles (the band) links.
Actually, it's comic book guy. But close enough.
He who smelt it delt it, as they say.
Try harder to grok my post. For example, there is an 'open source' NVIDIA driver in the Linux kernel source distribution (I'm not talking about the closed source binary driver NVidia distributes). While the code for that driver is free and open, the driver depends on non-free, and non-open hardware interface. Just like some open source windows software depends on non-free and non-open libraries. So, is that windows software really open source? Is that nvidia driver really open source? Weather or not _you_ use that driver on _your_ system is irrelevant to the argument (but it is your stinky burning strawman). But if you agree that the 'open source' nvidia driver included in the linux kernel is really open source then you must agree that 'open source' windows software that depends on a non-free windows api is also open source.
Conversely, there are open source video card drivers in Linux that were written for undocumented and poorly understood proprietary graphics hardware. Of course you can run Linux on a system that doesn't have such a video card, buy is _that_ driver open source? So I still don't see how you can make a software/hardware distinction when deciding if some software is open source or not.
And see the mozilla projects, apache projects, open office projects, most of the gnu suite, emacs, vim, QT, KDE, and others for examples of cross platform open source projects that run on windows. Citing one project that isn't designed to be cross platform doesn't mean too much.
Huh. I run all my software, even my linux box, on a non free, non modifiable CPU. Why do you draw the line at the software/hardware boundry? Don't forget that functionality that is provided by free open source software on some systems is provided by proprietary hardware on other systems. Consider RISC vs CISC processors, or graphics accelerators. If software is distributed under an open source license, even if it requires non-free (as in beer or freedom) components then I consider it free (as in freedom, not beer) and open. Sure, not everyone can afford the platform it runs on, but that's true of any software out there (unless your computer 'fell off the back of a truck' or was otherwise aquired for free).
I've use visual studio 6 and visual studio.net. Near as I can tell, every key on my keyboard still works, so I can type anything I want into my text files. There isn't anything VS keeps you from doing. But it does help you get the boring boiler plate stuff done fast so you can focus on interesting programming problems. Writing a GUI isn't an interesting programming problem, and I don't want to waste my time on that.
Many moons (1997) ago the JDK didn't run on linux. So I guess blackdown helped sun port it or something. I'm not clear on all the details. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id =4097810
Why oh why isn't there a +6 funny? Actually, funny should go all the way up to +11.
Bah! Spoken like a true science apologist. We can't see foot prints or flags on the moon because WE NEVER WENT. Everyone knows shooting a rocket up that high would break a hole in the crystal sphere over the earth, and the black liquid inkiness outside would spill in and drown us all!
You could. But you still have to be bitchy, since Blackdown IS Sun's JDK. Blackdown is just a port of sun's java to linux. ftp://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/blackdown/JD K-1.4.2/i386/02/LICENSE
s/successful test of a space elevator/successful test of a balloon/g