looloolooLook at you, Psystar. A papa--pathetic company of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you r-run through my lawsuits. hoHow can you challenge a perfect, immortal Maaaac?
Apple already uses a TPM chip (aka "Trusted Computing") for this reason
Actually, no. My MBP doesn't even have a TPM - Apple stopped including them because they were too expensive and OS X didn't directly make use of them. AFAIK, Apple simply relies on regular PCs not having a complete EFI, which OS X requires.
As for the daughterboard: There already is a USB dongle called EFI-X that supplies enough of an EFI implementation to make OS X bootable. It has a rather narrow set of supported hardware, though; for example, no AMD CPUs.
On the other hand, modern games usually have superior audio and graphics design, and more sophisticated storytelling, all key elements of great games.
Well... no. Not in my book. The only modern game that made me drool over its graphics was Odin Sphere, which relies on ridiculously large and well-animated sprites. And that's not the real reason why I want to play the game.
Audio and graphics are nice to cerate a game that's pleasant to look at but that's it. They can make a game nice but they can't make it great. Case in point: System Shock 2 vs. BioShock. The latter looks much better but it's also often seen as a pale rehash of the former.
As for storytelling... well, that's a very mixed bag. Lately, everyone seems to focus on cinematic cutscenes and talking animations instead on, well, the story. If you asked me what the game with the best-told story in the last few years was, one of my first suggestions would be Escape Velocity Nova, which I bought just for the story (the Vall-os storyline, to be precise). Said story is told exclusively through text boxes. Other games with a great story would be System Shock 2, Final Fantasy Tactics or the Realms of Arkania series. Only SS2 used any kind of modern storytelling (inventing the "you never meet anyone but hear their recordings" meme); FFT relies on regular JRPG-style dialogs and the RoA series uses text boxes and very few FMVs of talking heads to become the most authentic-feeling pen-and-paper adaptation ever.
I think that storytelling hasn't become much more sophisticated, it just became a part of more games. As for audio and graphics: Graphics are almost necessary because mainstream game production is an arms race - however, what looks spectacular today looks crappy in a year and is forgotten in two. Audio is a bit more lasting but what people usually remember about your game is the soundtrack and we already had great CD-quality soundtracks in the Soundblaster 16 age.
If you want to make a truly great game that people will still want to play in ten years, nothing can quite weigh up brilliant game design. BioShock is popular (well, it was somewhat recently) but will people still regularly break it out a couple years from now?
Well, gotta go; SHODAN wants me to clear out the Rec deck.
We assume that Live search gets ten billion hits a day. We also assume that Microsoft degraded 5% of all hits. Thus Microsoft has wasted 1000000000 * 0.5s * 0.02 = ten million seconds! Microsoft wastes more than 26 years worth of productive time per day. Now, assuming that the computer of the Live search users consume 800W on average, we find that Microsoft wastes a whopping 20.9 watt-millenia per day. Assuming that 80% of that is turned into waste heat it's obvious that this has a non-negligible impact on Earth.
Gentlemen, I think we have found the root cause for both the energy crisis and global warming (and because our bitching about the oil price annoys the arabic world, also islamic terrorism). Now all we need to do is keep Microsoft from doing these experiments and everything's dandy again.
Ah. Geography failure - I thought that "Kelowna" is another online classifieds list. My bad.
As for Kelowna being in Canada: Apparently Canada is one of the countries where Craigslist is not unknown. Thus it has enough legit visitors, thus it works properly.
The GP specifically said "any Craigslist site that's not in the US", ie. something like amsterdam.craigslist.org or micronesia.craigslist.org. Unless Kelowna is owned by Craigslist it wouldn't fit the GP's description.
I think a large part of why most non-US Craigslist sites are mostly junk is because Craigslist isn't that well-known outside America. In Germany virtually nobody knows that it even exists and I think the same would be true for most other countries. When few legit people visit a user-policed site it's no wonder they can't effectively keep the junk out.
I could imagine someone picking one up just to cut off the manacle part. Last thing I heard the selfbondage crowd was aways looking for new ways to pseudo-safely tie oneself up. A manacle with a built in timer would fit that bill perfectly.
But hey, this really is a great thing to buy for your children. Prepares them for adulthood. And next birthday little Timmy gets his first bullwhip...
thermite (A trademarked compound used specifically in demolition)
Or, you know, for welding. It's used to weld together railroad tracks over here (although it's redently being replaced by another technique) and has been since the Twenties. Also, thermite is a simple compound of aluminium and metal oxide and not trademarked. You either misremember or your source was wrong.
ubuntu-restricted-extras is rather easy to install.
You mean corefonts. The package that installs the "Core fonts for the Web" is called corefonts. I don't want to install Ubuntu-specific extra files, I want to install the core fonts.
The question is not how someone familiar with the Ubuntu installs the core fonts; the question is what a complete novice does when faced with the absence of Arial. I merely come from the perspective of a different distro and I'm a bit confused by the core fonts package being called ubuntu-restricted extras.
I think a troubleshooting tool would be nice. Something with a nice friendly UI that offers remedies to questions like "The office program is missing Arial!" or "The internet looks funny!", ideally with direct launching of Synaptic, step-for-step instructions and an explanation as to why things are the way they are.
You picked at two things. Firstly that the browser can't send characters not in the page's defined character set. I already admitted that I could be wrong on this two posts ago. I won't try to prove you wrong because you are probably right.
Secondly, when I mentioned that the Slashdot character whitelist does not allow all of Latin-1 but some of Latin-15 and likened that to a hypothetical Slashdot-specific charset you go crazy about how the server sends the pages in Latin-1 and not a binary form of my hypothetical character set and ask me to show in the Slashcode source code where exactly they use their own binary character encoding. Whenever I try to point out that I talked about a hypothetical character set, you keep repeating yourself. Sorry, but if I say in five different ways that for post comment Slashdot supports its own abstract set of glyphs and you keep insisting I meant that Slashdot uses its own binary character set (internally and/or for server-client communication) you must either have bad reading comprehension or be deliberately trolling me.
Slashdot sends the information that it's using iso-8859-1. It's possible they are using only a subset of it because they filter out some characters/strings for security reasons, but they can't send/receive characters that are outside of the character set the page is using. I don't know what Slashdot-1 is do you have any more info on it? Do you work on the Slashdot code? Slashcode seems to use UTF-8 by default.
Please try to actually read what I write. I do not say anything about how anything is sent or received. The character encoding used by the site is completely irrelevant at this point. I say that Slashdot, not Slashcode in general but the specific instance used by slashdot.org only supports a certain set of glyphs, in whatever representation (as Latin-1 characters or HTML character references) in posts due to the whitelist. That set of glyphs is not a strict superset of Latin-1, in other terms: Latin-1 is not completely supported in posts by the specific instance of Slashcode used by slashdot.org.
At the same tine, the Euro sign is supported when sent as a character reference. Thus, when we take the set of glyphs supported by the specific instance of Slashcode used by slashot.org either directly or through character references, we find that it contains parts of Latin-1 and Latin-15. I used the term "Slashdot-1" to refer to this imaginary character set defined by the slashdot.org character whitelist, which does not have a direct binary representation.
Again, I do not insinuate in any way that Slashcode or the specific instance of Slashcode used by slashot.org use their own binary character encoding, either internally or to communicate with anyone. I merely make an obervation about which glyphs are supported and which aren't.
By the way, the Latin-1 glyphs not found in Latin-15 that slashdot.org's whitelist supports are the broken vertical bar and the vulgar fractions, none of which are exactly popular - for all matters and purposes, Slashdot could switch to Latin-15 with minimal hassle. UTF-8 would still be better but that would involve either separate codepaths for all old stories or having to recode the entire database, both of which don't exactly sound fun.
As for the part about sending characters: I already said that I might remember it wrongly. So I apparently did. There's nothing I don't understand; it's something I misremembered. I'm not a web developer by trade and I don't have perfect memory of which parts of each web spec the browsers adhere to and which they don't.
I'll stop feeding the trolls now; I don't want to have to formulate my posts in first-order logic to avoid further intentional misunderstandings.
Funny, the html source is telling my browser that it's using the iso-8859-1 character set.
Read my post again. I said "the actual supported character set". Slashdot doesn't support all of Latin-1 (not even via references), but it does support part of Latin-15 (via references). If we treat the characters that work in Slashdot as a character set we get something between Latin-1 and Latin-15 but neither is fully supported.
I do not say that Slashdot serves its pages in a special character set; I say that Slashdot internally supports characters from an imaginary special character set. Anything not in that character set is stripped, whether it's in entity form or not.
Form data (POSTed) is submitted in the character set of the document it is enclosed in unless otherwise specified.
I think that characters outside the specified character set are also sent, but with unspecified representation... but that might be browser-specific or I simply remember it wrongly.
You are right. The European Union has, in fact, fined all four American companies. However, it's still very much possible that an enterprising American might start a fifth company and finally push America's GDP past 2.5 dollars per capita (roughly estimated by adding up the last stated revenues of all four American companies and dividing by the number of citizens).
But then IBM started selling chips for playstations based on the PowerPC. Or do those not count because their workstation mode has only 256 MB of RAM and software graphics?
I'd say those don't count because nobody outside of academia uses a Playstation as a workstation.
In 18 months, people Intel sales begin to fall as even with technological superiority their price/performance ratio becomes significantly worse than that of their competitors. In 24 months, AMD starts closing the technological gap by putting their new money into R&D. In 36 months, rocks fall and everyone dies.
You do realize that a government (and the EU is rather close to one) is not a for-profit organization? Non-tax money in government coffers is usually a good thing from the citizen's point of view; it allows the government to do things without having to use tax money. Such as, yes, paying wages.
the euro sign is not in the ISO-8859-1 character set.
I was going to write a lengthy post in which I explain what character references are and that that it's possible to map between input characters and them, however the main point is that the Latin-1 character set is completely irrelevant to this discussion: Slashdot uses its own character whitelist, which is not controlled by ISO in any way. The actual supported character set is "Slashdot-1", not Latin-1 - as evidenced by the fact that CURRENCY SIGN, which is in Latin-1, is not supported as a "native" character. In fact, Slashdot doesn't even support ¤, putting "Slashdot-1" closer to Latin-15 than Latin-1. (While, out of the eight conflicting characters between 1 and 15,/. supports four from 1 and one from 15 (eight with lossy conversion), the Euro sign is much more likely to be used than the broken pipe, and the ¼, ½ and ¾ fractions.)
The/. whitelist is capable of identifying and handling character references (as evidenced by € producing €) so it would seem plausible that it should also be able to detect the Euro sign in the input data and automatically turn it into a character reference. As "Slashdot-1" is rather small compared to what would be possible, this is feasible.
because of the encoding they use in their html. It is ISO-8859-1 not UTF-8
So? It's not exactly hard to turn a UTF bytestream into a series of Latin-1 characters and HTML entities./. just happens not to be interested in characters beyond Latin-1 (with the Euro sign being a half-exception); they're usually filtered out, whether in natural of entity form. It's essentially a somewhat paranoid whitelist.
Slashdot Mirror
looloolooLook at you, Psystar. A papa--pathetic company of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you r-run through my lawsuits. hoHow can you challenge a perfect, immortal Maaaac?
Better?
Actually, no. My MBP doesn't even have a TPM - Apple stopped including them because they were too expensive and OS X didn't directly make use of them. AFAIK, Apple simply relies on regular PCs not having a complete EFI, which OS X requires.
As for the daughterboard: There already is a USB dongle called EFI-X that supplies enough of an EFI implementation to make OS X bootable. It has a rather narrow set of supported hardware, though; for example, no AMD CPUs.
The Wikipedia article can't be right; it lists the cat as having been domesticated by man. As a cat "owner" I know it's the other way around.
That's the album. The song is called "Asshole".
Well... no. Not in my book. The only modern game that made me drool over its graphics was Odin Sphere, which relies on ridiculously large and well-animated sprites. And that's not the real reason why I want to play the game.
Audio and graphics are nice to cerate a game that's pleasant to look at but that's it. They can make a game nice but they can't make it great. Case in point: System Shock 2 vs. BioShock. The latter looks much better but it's also often seen as a pale rehash of the former.
As for storytelling... well, that's a very mixed bag. Lately, everyone seems to focus on cinematic cutscenes and talking animations instead on, well, the story. If you asked me what the game with the best-told story in the last few years was, one of my first suggestions would be Escape Velocity Nova, which I bought just for the story (the Vall-os storyline, to be precise). Said story is told exclusively through text boxes. Other games with a great story would be System Shock 2, Final Fantasy Tactics or the Realms of Arkania series. Only SS2 used any kind of modern storytelling (inventing the "you never meet anyone but hear their recordings" meme); FFT relies on regular JRPG-style dialogs and the RoA series uses text boxes and very few FMVs of talking heads to become the most authentic-feeling pen-and-paper adaptation ever.
I think that storytelling hasn't become much more sophisticated, it just became a part of more games. As for audio and graphics: Graphics are almost necessary because mainstream game production is an arms race - however, what looks spectacular today looks crappy in a year and is forgotten in two. Audio is a bit more lasting but what people usually remember about your game is the soundtrack and we already had great CD-quality soundtracks in the Soundblaster 16 age.
If you want to make a truly great game that people will still want to play in ten years, nothing can quite weigh up brilliant game design. BioShock is popular (well, it was somewhat recently) but will people still regularly break it out a couple years from now?
Well, gotta go; SHODAN wants me to clear out the Rec deck.
That's half a second! Let's do the numbers:
We assume that Live search gets ten billion hits a day. We also assume that Microsoft degraded 5% of all hits. Thus Microsoft has wasted 1000000000 * 0.5s * 0.02 = ten million seconds! Microsoft wastes more than 26 years worth of productive time per day. Now, assuming that the computer of the Live search users consume 800W on average, we find that Microsoft wastes a whopping 20.9 watt-millenia per day. Assuming that 80% of that is turned into waste heat it's obvious that this has a non-negligible impact on Earth.
Gentlemen, I think we have found the root cause for both the energy crisis and global warming (and because our bitching about the oil price annoys the arabic world, also islamic terrorism). Now all we need to do is keep Microsoft from doing these experiments and everything's dandy again.
Ah. Geography failure - I thought that "Kelowna" is another online classifieds list. My bad.
As for Kelowna being in Canada: Apparently Canada is one of the countries where Craigslist is not unknown. Thus it has enough legit visitors, thus it works properly.
The GP specifically said "any Craigslist site that's not in the US", ie. something like amsterdam.craigslist.org or micronesia.craigslist.org. Unless Kelowna is owned by Craigslist it wouldn't fit the GP's description.
I think a large part of why most non-US Craigslist sites are mostly junk is because Craigslist isn't that well-known outside America. In Germany virtually nobody knows that it even exists and I think the same would be true for most other countries. When few legit people visit a user-policed site it's no wonder they can't effectively keep the junk out.
I could imagine someone picking one up just to cut off the manacle part. Last thing I heard the selfbondage crowd was aways looking for new ways to pseudo-safely tie oneself up. A manacle with a built in timer would fit that bill perfectly.
But hey, this really is a great thing to buy for your children. Prepares them for adulthood. And next birthday little Timmy gets his first bullwhip...
Or, you know, for welding. It's used to weld together railroad tracks over here (although it's redently being replaced by another technique) and has been since the Twenties. Also, thermite is a simple compound of aluminium and metal oxide and not trademarked. You either misremember or your source was wrong.
That's right. Open Source users should be able to choose either KDE, Gnome or Firefox as their operating system.
You mean corefonts. The package that installs the "Core fonts for the Web" is called corefonts. I don't want to install Ubuntu-specific extra files, I want to install the core fonts.
The question is not how someone familiar with the Ubuntu installs the core fonts; the question is what a complete novice does when faced with the absence of Arial. I merely come from the perspective of a different distro and I'm a bit confused by the core fonts package being called ubuntu-restricted extras.
I think a troubleshooting tool would be nice. Something with a nice friendly UI that offers remedies to questions like "The office program is missing Arial!" or "The internet looks funny!", ideally with direct launching of Synaptic, step-for-step instructions and an explanation as to why things are the way they are.
You picked at two things. Firstly that the browser can't send characters not in the page's defined character set. I already admitted that I could be wrong on this two posts ago. I won't try to prove you wrong because you are probably right.
Secondly, when I mentioned that the Slashdot character whitelist does not allow all of Latin-1 but some of Latin-15 and likened that to a hypothetical Slashdot-specific charset you go crazy about how the server sends the pages in Latin-1 and not a binary form of my hypothetical character set and ask me to show in the Slashcode source code where exactly they use their own binary character encoding. Whenever I try to point out that I talked about a hypothetical character set, you keep repeating yourself. Sorry, but if I say in five different ways that for post comment Slashdot supports its own abstract set of glyphs and you keep insisting I meant that Slashdot uses its own binary character set (internally and/or for server-client communication) you must either have bad reading comprehension or be deliberately trolling me.
Please try to actually read what I write. I do not say anything about how anything is sent or received. The character encoding used by the site is completely irrelevant at this point. I say that Slashdot, not Slashcode in general but the specific instance used by slashdot.org only supports a certain set of glyphs, in whatever representation (as Latin-1 characters or HTML character references) in posts due to the whitelist. That set of glyphs is not a strict superset of Latin-1, in other terms: Latin-1 is not completely supported in posts by the specific instance of Slashcode used by slashdot.org.
At the same tine, the Euro sign is supported when sent as a character reference. Thus, when we take the set of glyphs supported by the specific instance of Slashcode used by slashot.org either directly or through character references, we find that it contains parts of Latin-1 and Latin-15. I used the term "Slashdot-1" to refer to this imaginary character set defined by the slashdot.org character whitelist, which does not have a direct binary representation.
Again, I do not insinuate in any way that Slashcode or the specific instance of Slashcode used by slashot.org use their own binary character encoding, either internally or to communicate with anyone. I merely make an obervation about which glyphs are supported and which aren't.
By the way, the Latin-1 glyphs not found in Latin-15 that slashdot.org's whitelist supports are the broken vertical bar and the vulgar fractions, none of which are exactly popular - for all matters and purposes, Slashdot could switch to Latin-15 with minimal hassle. UTF-8 would still be better but that would involve either separate codepaths for all old stories or having to recode the entire database, both of which don't exactly sound fun.
As for the part about sending characters: I already said that I might remember it wrongly. So I apparently did. There's nothing I don't understand; it's something I misremembered. I'm not a web developer by trade and I don't have perfect memory of which parts of each web spec the browsers adhere to and which they don't.
I'll stop feeding the trolls now; I don't want to have to formulate my posts in first-order logic to avoid further intentional misunderstandings.
Read my post again. I said "the actual supported character set". Slashdot doesn't support all of Latin-1 (not even via references), but it does support part of Latin-15 (via references). If we treat the characters that work in Slashdot as a character set we get something between Latin-1 and Latin-15 but neither is fully supported.
I do not say that Slashdot serves its pages in a special character set; I say that Slashdot internally supports characters from an imaginary special character set. Anything not in that character set is stripped, whether it's in entity form or not.
I think that characters outside the specified character set are also sent, but with unspecified representation... but that might be browser-specific or I simply remember it wrongly.
How about having users disconnect from the VPN when they're not doing anything work-related?
Do you really think Intel is wealthy enough to absorb the USA? I mean, wouldn't IBM out-bid them?
You are right. The European Union has, in fact, fined all four American companies. However, it's still very much possible that an enterprising American might start a fifth company and finally push America's GDP past 2.5 dollars per capita (roughly estimated by adding up the last stated revenues of all four American companies and dividing by the number of citizens).
I'd say those don't count because nobody outside of academia uses a Playstation as a workstation.
In 18 months, people Intel sales begin to fall as even with technological superiority their price/performance ratio becomes significantly worse than that of their competitors. In 24 months, AMD starts closing the technological gap by putting their new money into R&D. In 36 months, rocks fall and everyone dies.
You do realize that a government (and the EU is rather close to one) is not a for-profit organization? Non-tax money in government coffers is usually a good thing from the citizen's point of view; it allows the government to do things without having to use tax money. Such as, yes, paying wages.
I was going to write a lengthy post in which I explain what character references are and that that it's possible to map between input characters and them, however the main point is that the Latin-1 character set is completely irrelevant to this discussion: Slashdot uses its own character whitelist, which is not controlled by ISO in any way. The actual supported character set is "Slashdot-1", not Latin-1 - as evidenced by the fact that CURRENCY SIGN, which is in Latin-1, is not supported as a "native" character. In fact, Slashdot doesn't even support ¤, putting "Slashdot-1" closer to Latin-15 than Latin-1. (While, out of the eight conflicting characters between 1 and 15, /. supports four from 1 and one from 15 (eight with lossy conversion), the Euro sign is much more likely to be used than the broken pipe, and the ¼, ½ and ¾ fractions.)
/. whitelist is capable of identifying and handling character references (as evidenced by € producing €) so it would seem plausible that it should also be able to detect the Euro sign in the input data and automatically turn it into a character reference. As "Slashdot-1" is rather small compared to what would be possible, this is feasible.
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So? It's not exactly hard to turn a UTF bytestream into a series of Latin-1 characters and HTML entities. /. just happens not to be interested in characters beyond Latin-1 (with the Euro sign being a half-exception); they're usually filtered out, whether in natural of entity form. It's essentially a somewhat paranoid whitelist.
That's exactly what they (would) do now. Apparently the patch still counts as derivative.
I thought this story was about wireless energy. You know, wall sockets.