To make it easy on DHS and customs, I'll cross the border naked, and I'll spend a week of goatse training first so it'll be easier for them to give me a cavity search. *rolls eyes*
He also worked at Detrick for a while, but got canned after being busted for harassing a co-worker who was from Egypt. Considering he still had access to the bio labs after he stopped working there, he sure had the means and motive to smuggle out some anthrax for later use.
While the original post is kinda nasty about it, I have to agree completely. It'd be better to use the class attribute, or some new type attribute, on the object tag rather than come out with a bunch of new tags for media. It stinks of make-work for the HTML spec authors.
This is why forks were invented. So if the original developers screw off or stop listening to the users, the latter can work on the program themselves and get what they want out of it.
Then why do they even have videos up on their site, then, when any Joe Sixpack can easily get a tool that gets the video for him, and another that'll convert the flv to avi? Or better yet, a simple to install codec pack so he doesn't have to do conversion?
Isn't that how it should be? It's the best of both worlds: the IP owner protects its properties, the developers don't get sued, and the customers get the best product.
Oh wait, now I see what's wrong with it. Nobody gets screwed over.
Likely he tried using front-ends to see if they could reduce the complexity facing him, without adversely affecting the consistency and quality of editing and output.
Lesson learnt: Outside of overly structured and delineated things (XML tables, for example), GUIfying things tend to make them worse.
First thing that popped into my head. Also, when trying to determine how well a search engine works, an uncommon name works wonders, especially if you know you've pasted yourself all over the internet for several years.
I tried the classic "search yourself" trick with it. Searching my last name (Charabaruk), I got 11,429 results (and for the first page, only one of them wasn't to do with me specifically).
Searching the short version of my name, Chris Charabaruk, turned up nothing! Strange, because Twitter knows me by that (well, as my real name, not as my account) and that shows up when searching my surname. I tried again, though, and got 11,997 results. Quoting didn't change a thing.
I searched again for Christopher Charabaruk and got 1,395,435 results. Quoting that got me nothing, and retrying with the quotes on ditto.
It looks nice and shiny, but there's a hell of a lot of work required before I'd try making serious use of it.
And don't forget the arbitration! Getting lawyers to deal with that stage will probably raise the cost by another $100,000 or so, as long as us complainers keep an eye on things.
Same thing that happens every time some liberal idea raises its head in France. Crypto-fascists come along, pass it off propaganda-style, and then proceed to make things even worse for the peasants. It's a pattern dating back to the beginning of the Capetian dynasty, check your French history.
The dumbing down of D&D that started with 3rd edition has gotten to the point where I just can't do it any more. I'm switching back to AD&D 1st edition (since I don't have 2nd ed books).
There's a few good ideas in 4E, such as allowing magic users to actually be magic users more than once or twice a day, but for every good change there's twenty bad.
Hasbro and its money grubbing ways has lost the game as far as I'm concerned. Hell, I might just go straight to GURPS.
I'd add in phoning your MP at his parliamentary office while parliament is still in session, and constituency office otherwise. As I did today. They take phone calls seriously too, especially if they're long distance.
I'd like to see people respond to this spin form letter, refuting as much as possible. This isn't the first time today I've read those exact words, so I have the feeling that anything you send those Con assclowns isn't actually being read; all the same, if you can send them a letter that pummels the crap out of their form letter, as well as post it publicly, we might be able to do some good.
Yeah, but up until the second millennium CE, moving out of sight of land for a whole day often meant you'd never be seen by anyone again. More successful oriental trade was done on land.
Probably because they got sick (from our white man diseases) and tired from getting repeatedly shot to pieces by our guns. The ones that kept fighting are dead.
Not defending what happened, but if you look at a lot of the native cultures that survived, almost all of them were formerly warlike and have simply been beaten into submission.
It played its part, for sure, but just because trade happened faster on the Mediterranean and Black seas doesn't mean that more easterly parts of Eurasia were bereft of trade themselves.
The Mediterranean bias comes from us European types being noisier about the deeds of our ancestors, as compared to central and east Asians. But there was a lot of trade (both commercial and intellectual) throughout much of history, as well.
If you think about it, that's an added bonus! You'll be smart enough not to tamper with the files hiding your secret stash, but the feddies might tamper with the files looking for clues, and therefore erasing what you've hidden on the copy they make.
There are very few documents I keep in MS Office formats, and every one of those is traded frequently with Office users. For most documents, even my resume, I keep as ODF, and when it comes to distributing it I send it out in PDF format if I can and only after a lot of wheedling first will consider sending them a.doc copy. Given that OOo support for Office formats is basic, and that I've lost work trying to save documents in Office formats from OOo, I tend to stick to ODF if I can.
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To make it easy on DHS and customs, I'll cross the border naked, and I'll spend a week of goatse training first so it'll be easier for them to give me a cavity search. *rolls eyes*
He also worked at Detrick for a while, but got canned after being busted for harassing a co-worker who was from Egypt. Considering he still had access to the bio labs after he stopped working there, he sure had the means and motive to smuggle out some anthrax for later use.
Guess I was wrong.
While the original post is kinda nasty about it, I have to agree completely. It'd be better to use the class attribute, or some new type attribute, on the object tag rather than come out with a bunch of new tags for media. It stinks of make-work for the HTML spec authors.
This is why forks were invented. So if the original developers screw off or stop listening to the users, the latter can work on the program themselves and get what they want out of it.
Then why do they even have videos up on their site, then, when any Joe Sixpack can easily get a tool that gets the video for him, and another that'll convert the flv to avi? Or better yet, a simple to install codec pack so he doesn't have to do conversion?
Isn't that how it should be? It's the best of both worlds: the IP owner protects its properties, the developers don't get sued, and the customers get the best product.
Oh wait, now I see what's wrong with it. Nobody gets screwed over.
Likely he tried using front-ends to see if they could reduce the complexity facing him, without adversely affecting the consistency and quality of editing and output.
Lesson learnt: Outside of overly structured and delineated things (XML tables, for example), GUIfying things tend to make them worse.
First thing that popped into my head. Also, when trying to determine how well a search engine works, an uncommon name works wonders, especially if you know you've pasted yourself all over the internet for several years.
I tried the classic "search yourself" trick with it. Searching my last name (Charabaruk), I got 11,429 results (and for the first page, only one of them wasn't to do with me specifically).
Searching the short version of my name, Chris Charabaruk, turned up nothing! Strange, because Twitter knows me by that (well, as my real name, not as my account) and that shows up when searching my surname. I tried again, though, and got 11,997 results. Quoting didn't change a thing.
I searched again for Christopher Charabaruk and got 1,395,435 results. Quoting that got me nothing, and retrying with the quotes on ditto.
It looks nice and shiny, but there's a hell of a lot of work required before I'd try making serious use of it.
And don't forget the arbitration! Getting lawyers to deal with that stage will probably raise the cost by another $100,000 or so, as long as us complainers keep an eye on things.
Not entirely true. Canadian universities can get .edu domains, it's just the colleges that can't. For example, guess what's at www.toronto.edu?
Same thing that happens every time some liberal idea raises its head in France. Crypto-fascists come along, pass it off propaganda-style, and then proceed to make things even worse for the peasants. It's a pattern dating back to the beginning of the Capetian dynasty, check your French history.
Now if only the Canadian government would do the same thing up here.
The dumbing down of D&D that started with 3rd edition has gotten to the point where I just can't do it any more. I'm switching back to AD&D 1st edition (since I don't have 2nd ed books).
There's a few good ideas in 4E, such as allowing magic users to actually be magic users more than once or twice a day, but for every good change there's twenty bad.
Hasbro and its money grubbing ways has lost the game as far as I'm concerned. Hell, I might just go straight to GURPS.
Oh, btw -- first post.
Most recent one I saw, a few days ago on CP24, showed Libs at 44%, Tories at 36%, and assorted small numbers for Bloc, NDP, and Green in that order.
:p
I'm getting to the point where I'd vote Bloc if they ran anyone in the GTA...
That's true; the Canadian HRCs are our modern day Star Chambers.
I'd add in phoning your MP at his parliamentary office while parliament is still in session, and constituency office otherwise. As I did today. They take phone calls seriously too, especially if they're long distance.
I'd like to see people respond to this spin form letter, refuting as much as possible. This isn't the first time today I've read those exact words, so I have the feeling that anything you send those Con assclowns isn't actually being read; all the same, if you can send them a letter that pummels the crap out of their form letter, as well as post it publicly, we might be able to do some good.
Yeah, but up until the second millennium CE, moving out of sight of land for a whole day often meant you'd never be seen by anyone again. More successful oriental trade was done on land.
Probably because they got sick (from our white man diseases) and tired from getting repeatedly shot to pieces by our guns. The ones that kept fighting are dead.
Not defending what happened, but if you look at a lot of the native cultures that survived, almost all of them were formerly warlike and have simply been beaten into submission.
It played its part, for sure, but just because trade happened faster on the Mediterranean and Black seas doesn't mean that more easterly parts of Eurasia were bereft of trade themselves.
The Mediterranean bias comes from us European types being noisier about the deeds of our ancestors, as compared to central and east Asians. But there was a lot of trade (both commercial and intellectual) throughout much of history, as well.
If you think about it, that's an added bonus! You'll be smart enough not to tamper with the files hiding your secret stash, but the feddies might tamper with the files looking for clues, and therefore erasing what you've hidden on the copy they make.
It's fiendishly clever.
Personally, I was thinking about histogram noise. Low-level enough, and you won't see any change in the pictures, and no one will be the wiser.
If they decide to take your HDD image and give it a good working over, odd EXIF tags will probably stick out.
After all, this /is/ about D&D. Everyone loves trolls (either playing or fighting them) in D&D.
There are very few documents I keep in MS Office formats, and every one of those is traded frequently with Office users. For most documents, even my resume, I keep as ODF, and when it comes to distributing it I send it out in PDF format if I can and only after a lot of wheedling first will consider sending them a .doc copy. Given that OOo support for Office formats is basic, and that I've lost work trying to save documents in Office formats from OOo, I tend to stick to ODF if I can.