There is a problem with this though. Several ISPs, for good and legitimate reasons (spam and virii) don't allow certain types of e-mail attachment. Which means if I sign an e-mail, the fact I've signed it gets filtered by the receiving ISP.
Nothing wrong with the standard itself, just a lack of support and clue by ISPs.
A BIT harsh? Most companies I know would have given at least a warning before doing something like this, especially given some regulations that will soon be coming into effect over here saying that they have to give warnings.
Most disciplinary procedures I've seen mandate offical warnings before they terminate employment. Either this guy's messed up before and was on his last warning or they wanted rid of him, and were looking for an excuse.
Of course, the "They're a bunch of fascist barstewards who'll fire at the slightest hint of deviation from the party line" comment also applies, but we'll ave to wait and see. Personally, unless he'd actually had disciplinary hearings before him before this incident, I'd have been looking at unfair dismissal.
The way I interpret the whole Empire crumbling thing was partly referred to in some of the books, and evenmakes a huge amount of sense in terms of the films (insert obligatory lucas disclaimer about the books not being canon)
A large part of the way the empire operated was opression and fear. Even when they didn't openly be brutal to the populace of a given place, you can bet they had the big brother thing going on, The people may have accetped palpatine and his hordes, but mostly because everyone feaerd him. There's also a hint of a suggestion that a lot of the sheer ruthless energy about the empire was Palpatines own sheer will and dark spirit (sort of like an inverse of the Emperor in Warhammer 40000). Like in LOTR, when Sauron dies, the armies of Mordor quail and run away (books guys, not the movie), when palpatines will is removed from the empire as a whole, the sense of purpose behind its troops started to dissipate. All things are possible when you get the force involved.. damn those midichlorians.
I suppose it depends. From what some of these articles have been saying, the scramjets need a stonkingly high altitude to actually work properly. Then too, at those speeds, if they weren't that high up, air-friction would melt the aircraft. If, by some chance, somebody did hijack a scramjet-equipped plane, they'd first have to get up to speed, which means going high. Then they'd have to come back down again. Chances are, if they didn't want to vapourise the plane, and defeat the object of crashing it into, say, the white house, they'd have to slow down, by which point theyre getting back into the realms where the craft can still be intercepted.
Anybody who knows anything about aircraft want to check that one over for flaws and loopholes?
If this is even half as good as Neverwinter Nights, then 2006 is the new date to watch for.
I suppose the big question is, will Obsidian actually continue the sterling work that Bioware have already done for Linux, by releasing a Linux port of NWN2 at the same time as the Windows/Mac versions? Worst that could happen is that they abandon the Linux side completely.. which would be tragic, as Bioware have done a lot for the image of linux gaming.
POSIX Compliance issues.
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Bash 3.0 Released
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· Score: 5, Informative
There's been an interesting little problem caused for people like Gentoo with the updates in bash 3.0.
If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
I'm no lawyer, but this seems to be saying that if you sue anyone for breach of patent for something in apache, then you lose your patanet license?
Can someone explain this onein plain english, please?
Way back when I was young, lego had two or three big product sub-lines, aside from ordinary lego bricks. There were the space-themed sets, I seem to recall there were medieval-themed sets too, and, the one I remember best of all, Technic Lego, the sets that had all the moving parts, electric motors, pneumatic pumps and stuff. Technic was actually my introduction into the mysteries of how a rack-and-pinion steering system actually worked, how diggers worked, things like that. Oh and you could build neat spaceships and things with it too.
I'm all for advanced stuff like mindstorm, etc, but if they neglected their base ranges and customers, then they were kind of defeating the point.
(hardcore BSD hacker and anti-spam activist) added a simple rule to our spam filters: more than 5 consonants in a row in the From: field and it's tagged as spam
So someone who works for a company with a name that includes something like rhythm is classified as spam? Or are the few words like that coded in as special cases?
The basic problem with trying to filter english like this is that it does have these really strange spellings of things, and short of entirely rewriting the language, you can't really eliminate them entirely. Just have to be able to write the rules in such a way that it minimises the size of your Special Case lists.
As usual, a grab bag of interesting things to be gleaned from declassified documents, although perhaps more interesting for their social context than for their political content, like the stuff with Massey-Ferguson and the ministerial scandal where the first thought was "Is this a security risk" rather than "Lets spin this to make it look good." We notice that resignations occurred. these days, the guilty parties would be given a slapped wrist and told to be more careful next time.
I am sure it costs a hell of a lot more to produce a movie than some canned artist that they have for CDs yet the cost of a DVD isn't much more than a CD.
Not much more than a CD? But when you consider that cd's are vastly overpriced to hell and back, it starts to get into perspective a little better.
"If you have nothing to hide why should you mind constantly being monitored by big brother?"
I wonder what you've been reading. Nobody I know thinks that way, unless they are part of Big Brother, as it were. Our mistrust of this kind of thing is probably about as big as yours. We just dont have as much recourse (no constitution, etc.)
The whole speedcameras debate shows what happens when peopel get up in arms about big brother.
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"I did it all for the wookies."
"The wookies?"
"Yes, the wookies"
...to the prequel series. When I saw them at the cinema...
Episode 1: Applause the moment the words "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far way" appeared.
Episode 2: General "meh"
I wonder what episode 3 will get.
Wonder if we can get it to do proper fuzzy searches of song titles.
"Play that one, you know, the one with the miller..no,not that one, the other one, you know which one I mean, the dulux adverts."
I now inform you that you are too far from Utah!
I can just see the fud-meisters now.
"They aren't going to rewrite the kernel to take out our patented stuff. So it must be in there!"
While not the gist of any of the statements, that viewpoint can be made to fit.
Ah, the power of spin.
My god. It's full of Darls.
last time I heard, that will only touch ext2/ext3, and doesnt like reiser or any of theother "interesting" filesystems.
yes, it's used in real commercial games. Neverwinter Nights' linux port uses SDL instead of DirectX.
Still havent heard of a commercial game using it on windows though.
There is a problem with this though. Several ISPs, for good and legitimate reasons (spam and virii) don't allow certain types of e-mail attachment. Which means if I sign an e-mail, the fact I've signed it gets filtered by the receiving ISP.
Nothing wrong with the standard itself, just a lack of support and clue by ISPs.
No...
That's a zergling, Lester...
A BIT harsh? Most companies I know would have given at least a warning before doing something like this, especially given some regulations that will soon be coming into effect over here saying that they have to give warnings.
Most disciplinary procedures I've seen mandate offical warnings before they terminate employment. Either this guy's messed up before and was on his last warning or they wanted rid of him, and were looking for an excuse.
Of course, the "They're a bunch of fascist barstewards who'll fire at the slightest hint of deviation from the party line" comment also applies, but we'll ave to wait and see. Personally, unless he'd actually had disciplinary hearings before him before this incident, I'd have been looking at unfair dismissal.
The way I interpret the whole Empire crumbling thing was partly referred to in some of the books, and evenmakes a huge amount of sense in terms of the films (insert obligatory lucas disclaimer about the books not being canon)
A large part of the way the empire operated was opression and fear. Even when they didn't openly be brutal to the populace of a given place, you can bet they had the big brother thing going on, The people may have accetped palpatine and his hordes, but mostly because everyone feaerd him.
There's also a hint of a suggestion that a lot of the sheer ruthless energy about the empire was Palpatines own sheer will and dark spirit (sort of like an inverse of the Emperor in Warhammer 40000). Like in LOTR, when Sauron dies, the armies of Mordor quail and run away (books guys, not the movie), when palpatines will is removed from the empire as a whole, the sense of purpose behind its troops started to dissipate. All things are possible when you get the force involved.. damn those midichlorians.
Eats, Shoots and Leaves, anyone?
I suppose it depends. From what some of these articles have been saying, the scramjets need a stonkingly high altitude to actually work properly. Then too, at those speeds, if they weren't that high up, air-friction would melt the aircraft. If, by some chance, somebody did hijack a scramjet-equipped plane, they'd first have to get up to speed, which means going high. Then they'd have to come back down again. Chances are, if they didn't want to vapourise the plane, and defeat the object of crashing it into, say, the white house, they'd have to slow down, by which point theyre getting back into the realms where the craft can still be intercepted.
Anybody who knows anything about aircraft want to check that one over for flaws and loopholes?
The film which has set the example for me and my friends now, of sequels whos existence we deny.
Truly, there was no Highlander II.
If this is even half as good as Neverwinter Nights, then 2006 is the new date to watch for.
I suppose the big question is, will Obsidian actually continue the sterling work that Bioware have already done for Linux, by releasing a Linux port of NWN2 at the same time as the Windows/Mac versions? Worst that could happen is that they abandon the Linux side completely.. which would be tragic, as Bioware have done a lot for the image of linux gaming.
There's been an interesting little problem caused for people like Gentoo with the updates in bash 3.0.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58703
Just a simple move towards compliance breaks most of their scripts, so they've had to patch it out.
Lovely.
PITA.
People for the Irradiation of Tasty Animals
*ducks*
In Soviet Russia, the famous people quote YOU.
If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
I'm no lawyer, but this seems to be saying that if you sue anyone for breach of patent for something in apache, then you lose your patanet license?
Can someone explain this onein plain english, please?
Way back when I was young, lego had two or three big product sub-lines, aside from ordinary lego bricks. There were the space-themed sets, I seem to recall there were medieval-themed sets too, and, the one I remember best of all, Technic Lego, the sets that had all the moving parts, electric motors, pneumatic pumps and stuff. Technic was actually my introduction into the mysteries of how a rack-and-pinion steering system actually worked, how diggers worked, things like that. Oh and you could build neat spaceships and things with it too.
I'm all for advanced stuff like mindstorm, etc, but if they neglected their base ranges and customers, then they were kind of defeating the point.
(hardcore BSD hacker and anti-spam activist) added a simple rule to our spam filters: more than 5 consonants in a row in the From: field and it's tagged as spam
So someone who works for a company with a name that includes something like rhythm is classified as spam? Or are the few words like that coded in as special cases?
The basic problem with trying to filter english like this is that it does have these really strange spellings of things, and short of entirely rewriting the language, you can't really eliminate them entirely. Just have to be able to write the rules in such a way that it minimises the size of your Special Case lists.
As usual, a grab bag of interesting things to be gleaned from declassified documents, although perhaps more interesting for their social context than for their political content, like the stuff with Massey-Ferguson and the ministerial scandal where the first thought was "Is this a security risk" rather than "Lets spin this to make it look good." We notice that resignations occurred. these days, the guilty parties would be given a slapped wrist and told to be more careful next time.
How times change.
I am sure it costs a hell of a lot more to produce a movie than some canned artist that they have for CDs yet the cost of a DVD isn't much more than a CD.
Not much more than a CD? But when you consider that cd's are vastly overpriced to hell and back, it starts to get into perspective a little better.
You sound like the stupid British.
"If you have nothing to hide why should you mind constantly being monitored by big brother?"
I wonder what you've been reading. Nobody I know thinks that way, unless they are part of Big Brother, as it were.
Our mistrust of this kind of thing is probably about as big as yours. We just dont have as much recourse (no constitution, etc.)
The whole speedcameras debate shows what happens when peopel get up in arms about big brother.