Thta's exactly the point. The first paragraph must be a representation of such an indirect document.
I see a great future for these indirect documents in corporate America, where their synergies can be leveraged to empower a new generation of paradigms! Dilbert would be proud.
I saw something in the Wall Street Journal about using very-high-altitude airships to replace satellites. If the technology were developed some, they'd be a lot easier to replace than a satellite, and you don't need to worry about NASA (and other space agencies') help putting them up all the way in geosynchronous orbit, so there's a lot more potential for neat stuff on the platform. And you can move another one up there, and then take the original down for upgrades. Less risk from micrometeorites, too.
Amen. As a society we cannot rely on our own knowledge to teach ourselves. I reccomend that we rely on an older, more advanced race of aliens to do our education and encyclopedia-writing for us. This is surely the only path to a brighter future! Notify the United Nations immediately!
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Jimbo started by trying paid editors; it was called Nupedia. After three years and... well, tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, I guess, they had a whole 24 articles!
It's not the secret intelligence service, it's the secret intelligence service. They go after people who seem to be stupid, but are in fact hiding the fact that they are geniuses.
Okay, so I had this internship at IBM. One of my fellow interns went to email the lab's administative assistant, who's called "Sam", over some trivial matter.
As it turns out, Lotus Notes knows about everyone at IBM, and so if you want to send an email to Sam, it really does send an email straight to Sam, who also has an 'open inbox' policy.
Fortunately, his personal secretary intercepted the message.:)
I have the view that whenever someone comes out with an article about Wikipedia, someone will post to Slashdot complaining that the evil biased Wikipedia editors and administrators have prevented them from inserting their latest crackpot theory. Oh, but they cry, I'm an expert in my field!!! Such mean evil administrators. You can't trust any of them. Regular cabal.
The unsuspecting PC user doesn't distinguish between the two. This is being touted as a tool for businesses and the like, where they will presumably be limited to company computers. It's not entirely dissimilar to a dedicated software update distribution tool. (This raises the question why they're bothering to spread these things via exploits but that's another matter...)
Stuff image in non-web-accessible directory. Write or find script to serve the image over HTTP from said directory based on parameters in HTTP POST, GET, cookies and/or sessions of some sort. Have script check user's authorization and such credentials, and proceed only if they are valid. Stuff script in script-able directory.
At one of the local grocery stores- I'm not sure if it was Harris Teeter or Lowes, probably the latter- I looked at the sales terminal, with a shiny little LCD display, and I realized that it *had* to be running some sort of X-Windows - you just don't get widgets like that in the top-left of your windows under Windows (even 3.11) or Mac. I don't know if it was running Linux, but it would not surprise me.
Ten light-years? How many stars do you know of that are ten light-years away from us? There aren't too many- this page seems to list 12, and one of those is the Sun. None of these stars is a neutron star, either, or even close to it.
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What do you think of user modifications of your games- patches, hacks, cheats users rebalancing the game and reworking it into something hardly recognizable, and playing the game in ways you never intended it to be? I know that some designers take a rather dim view of this; specifically I recall how in Roller Coaster Tycoon, some later versions had special checks so that if it detected you cheating, then it would not just delibrately crash the game, it would set a special internal flag so that it would keep crashing every time you started the game from then on (until you reinstalled or deleted/tweaked a special data file); what do you think of these sorts of practices?
... in the Age of Empires II (Age of Kings) expansion pack (The Conquerors), I seem to recall there being a Korean civilization. Their primary 'unique unit' of interest was this War Wagon, a siege weapon of some potency. I suppose this is just a beefed-up version.:)
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I see a great future for these indirect documents in corporate America, where their synergies can be leveraged to empower a new generation of paradigms! Dilbert would be proud.
I would think they would be using LambdaMOO database software.
Taxes.
No. Sometimes they just protect the page from changes.
I saw something in the Wall Street Journal about using very-high-altitude airships to replace satellites. If the technology were developed some, they'd be a lot easier to replace than a satellite, and you don't need to worry about NASA (and other space agencies') help putting them up all the way in geosynchronous orbit, so there's a lot more potential for neat stuff on the platform. And you can move another one up there, and then take the original down for upgrades. Less risk from micrometeorites, too.
The issue is when there's a stormcloud between you and the stratosphere. Water is very good at blocking wireless signals.
Amen. As a society we cannot rely on our own knowledge to teach ourselves. I reccomend that we rely on an older, more advanced race of aliens to do our education and encyclopedia-writing for us. This is surely the only path to a brighter future! Notify the United Nations immediately!
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*ahem* We're talking about The Register. Hello; you must be new here! (*cough cough*)
Jimbo started by trying paid editors; it was called Nupedia. After three years and... well, tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, I guess, they had a whole 24 articles!
That's all.
It's not the secret intelligence service, it's the secret intelligence service. They go after people who seem to be stupid, but are in fact hiding the fact that they are geniuses.
My picture is cooler, I think, and not even Photoshopped. And what's up with those artifacts in the picture? You're killing me.
Legacy code which wants to use MySQL client libraries to connect? I'm sure there's plenty.
As it turns out, Lotus Notes knows about everyone at IBM, and so if you want to send an email to Sam, it really does send an email straight to Sam, who also has an 'open inbox' policy.
Fortunately, his personal secretary intercepted the message. :)
I have the view that whenever someone comes out with an article about Wikipedia, someone will post to Slashdot complaining that the evil biased Wikipedia editors and administrators have prevented them from inserting their latest crackpot theory. Oh, but they cry, I'm an expert in my field!!! Such mean evil administrators. You can't trust any of them. Regular cabal.
The unsuspecting PC user doesn't distinguish between the two. This is being touted as a tool for businesses and the like, where they will presumably be limited to company computers. It's not entirely dissimilar to a dedicated software update distribution tool. (This raises the question why they're bothering to spread these things via exploits but that's another matter...)
A half-brain-dead code monkey could do this.
At one of the local grocery stores- I'm not sure if it was Harris Teeter or Lowes, probably the latter- I looked at the sales terminal, with a shiny little LCD display, and I realized that it *had* to be running some sort of X-Windows - you just don't get widgets like that in the top-left of your windows under Windows (even 3.11) or Mac. I don't know if it was running Linux, but it would not surprise me.
Ten light-years? How many stars do you know of that are ten light-years away from us? There aren't too many- this page seems to list 12, and one of those is the Sun. None of these stars is a neutron star, either, or even close to it.
It's called Alpha Centurai; maybe you've heard of it.
What do you think of user modifications of your games- patches, hacks, cheats users rebalancing the game and reworking it into something hardly recognizable, and playing the game in ways you never intended it to be? I know that some designers take a rather dim view of this; specifically I recall how in Roller Coaster Tycoon, some later versions had special checks so that if it detected you cheating, then it would not just delibrately crash the game, it would set a special internal flag so that it would keep crashing every time you started the game from then on (until you reinstalled or deleted/tweaked a special data file); what do you think of these sorts of practices?
Now, how about those turtle boats?
Dang. Now you're tempting me to turn off AdBlock just so I can see that little gem.... :)
Google's cache of the front page should give you an idea of the fun they have going on there.