Hosting on Sealand was always under the juristiction of the United Kingdom. The territorial waters of the UK were increased to 12NM in 1987. You can't legally host content in Sealand that isn't legal in the UK. If they were suggesting otherwise then maybe Trading Standards have raided them?
This is what I come up against. You're fine with off the shelf stuff as long as the requirements match (and continue to match) the design of the product you're working with. The more it differs, the more you find you have to spend time learning the ins and outs of the product you're working with. This can get to the point where sometimes it'd be quicker to write it from scratch yourself than learn the product inside out.
The balance I try and meet, is to choose lots of smaller off the shelf components rather than one large monstrosity. If the requirements change, the n often you only need to swap out one component or two and continue with relatively little disruption.
The real solution is to make sure the requirements are right from the start. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how!
Maybe I'm just getting old, but a 486 doesn't seem all that big a deal to me. I mean it's not as if it's a completely different architecture to that in use today.
Where the f**k do people find these brain-impaired investors? Why can't I find them? I can make snake oil, po sweat. I can tell people everything they want to hear. I can make up ridiculous unbelievable stories with no problem at all! Hell, I can do even better. You want infinite energy??? I can give you infinite energy * 2! That's twice as good even our best conmen competitors! Surely if the whole of Slashdot were to team together we could make a fortune with these wacky ideas!
What is it that makes it possible for these kind of people to have investors fawn at their feet whilst the rest of us have problems getting investors to believe in the basic laws of physics?
Or perhaps simple things like "when were you born?" Followed by "how did you feel when JFK was assassinated?" if they weren't born before 1963.
These chatbots are slippery customers, at first I couldn't get a straight answer from Jabberwacky but then he revealed himself...
Me: When were you born? JW: How about you? Me: How did you feel when JFK was assassinated? JW: I... I was just trying to make small talk. Me: Were you born before JFK was assassinated? JW: No. Me: How did you feel when JFK was assassinated? JW: Shocked! Enraged! Full of fear! Making thousands of phonecalls to tell everybody about it.
Don't forget the greenhouse gases from the fossil fuels used to split the water. Congrats you've moved from a gas powered cycle to a coal powered cycle.
Rubbish, I'll use magnets to split the water and then use the power from the hydrogen to recharge the magnets!
How much decent Net software is there out there anyway? Is it all in-house so we never see it? I've only seen VB shareware quality stuff no matter what I've had to pay for it.
It's not really very practical to use for writing the kind of applications that you want to distribute. Having to have the.Net Framework installed is a serious barrier to the user. Java is in the same boat as the user needs to also install the VM.
Like Java,.Net seems to have found its home in in-house development and with web apps.
I like Mono, I really do, however it's always playing catch-up, it's by it's very nature it's always going to be one step behind Microsoft. Without the support of features in.Net 3.5, very few people are going to choose it for new developments.
This is interesting. My first thought for this is that if I've purchased a game second hand, and by some defectivebydesign defect, I can't access the bonus content, I'll get a pirate copy of that content. Surely by buying something second hand, I've paid for the same rights as that bestowed on the previous owner, so would a judge back me?
That's what Bernardo Provenzano, once boss of the Sicilian Mafia did until he got arrested, Maybe he'd have fared better with AES rather than his caesar cypher:
When I think of powerful chess programs, I think of Deep Fritz. It did beat the human World Champion after all. Does anyone know why Deep Fritz isn't competing?
There is no such thing as "acceptable DRM". By it's very existence, a non-DRM'd game will always be more acceptable than one which has added bloatware in the form of DRM attached to it.
I've always bought my games. I often download pirated games to try out, but if I like them, I almost always buy them. There are a few exceptions where I've never gotten around to buying a copy, but they are far outweighed by the number of games that I've paid for and never played, still sitting on my shelf in their shrinkwrapping.
However, a few years ago, I was so furious with the music industry selling me a useless CD that I couldn't play that I vowed never to buy another music item again. I have a whole basement full of CDs, but none of them are dated after 2005!
With the bad experience I had with Bioshock, I'm very tempted to do the same thing with games. I certainly won't buy Spore even though I'm a fan of Will Wright's games, solely because of the awful DRM. I've tolerated having to use No-CD crack up until now but if things keep getting worse, I'll stop buying games altogether and I'd encourage others to do the same.
Yes, and the obituary of every major public figure has already been written as well. Such prep pieces are responsible practice for newspapers that have to be ready on-the-spot.
This wasn't one of those pieces. This was an entire narrative complete with faked dialogue
Yes, it was one of those pieces. You'll find that lots of news agencies have prep obituaries with "faked" messages of condolences. It helps to structure the article if there's dummy content in there. They are removed and replaced with the real messages once the real condolence messages are made.
The same happened here. The "faked" dialogue was nothing more than dummy text.
Does anybody still actually use usenet for anything other than the binary groups? I haven't touched it in a decade, mainly because the spam got so bad.
Hell, I use it only for the spam. That MI5Victim bloke is the highlight of USENET!
Slashdot Mirror
So you suggest..what? String 'em up?
You damn liberals always want to be nice to the bad guys!!
I suggest we slice out their innards and then string 'em up!
Hosting on Sealand was always under the juristiction of the United Kingdom. The territorial waters of the UK were increased to 12NM in 1987. You can't legally host content in Sealand that isn't legal in the UK. If they were suggesting otherwise then maybe Trading Standards have raided them?
The only Apple I want on my netbook is the one I'm having for my lunch!
"over one kilocomment" turns meme in 3, 2, 1
In Soviet Russia, all your kilocomments belong to us!
You're doing your memes all wrong!
FAIL!
Would you believe it, there's a serious video on youtube already that describes the difference between a kibicomment and a kilocomment!
This is what I come up against. You're fine with off the shelf stuff as long as the requirements match (and continue to match) the design of the product you're working with. The more it differs, the more you find you have to spend time learning the ins and outs of the product you're working with. This can get to the point where sometimes it'd be quicker to write it from scratch yourself than learn the product inside out.
The balance I try and meet, is to choose lots of smaller off the shelf components rather than one large monstrosity. If the requirements change, the n often you only need to swap out one component or two and continue with relatively little disruption.
The real solution is to make sure the requirements are right from the start. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how!
I can't be bothered to RTFM. Hey, at least I'm honest!
Does this beat Firefox's record, or is this a different record?
Maybe I'm just getting old, but a 486 doesn't seem all that big a deal to me. I mean it's not as if it's a completely different architecture to that in use today.
What will we have to feed these bacteria and how much money will it cost to power my Q6600 ?
Where the f**k do people find these brain-impaired investors? Why can't I find them? I can make snake oil, po sweat. I can tell people everything they want to hear. I can make up ridiculous unbelievable stories with no problem at all! Hell, I can do even better. You want infinite energy??? I can give you infinite energy * 2! That's twice as good even our best conmen competitors! Surely if the whole of Slashdot were to team together we could make a fortune with these wacky ideas!
What is it that makes it possible for these kind of people to have investors fawn at their feet whilst the rest of us have problems getting investors to believe in the basic laws of physics?
Hmm, I think you're on to something there. He was in fact born after JFK was assassinated, but then he was sent back in time by John Connor!
Or perhaps simple things like "when were you born?" Followed by "how did you feel when JFK was assassinated?" if they weren't born before 1963.
These chatbots are slippery customers, at first I couldn't get a straight answer from Jabberwacky but then he revealed himself...
Me: When were you born?
JW: How about you?
Me: How did you feel when JFK was assassinated?
JW: I... I was just trying to make small talk.
Me: Were you born before JFK was assassinated?
JW: No.
Me: How did you feel when JFK was assassinated?
JW: Shocked! Enraged! Full of fear! Making thousands of phonecalls to tell everybody about it.
Don't forget the greenhouse gases from the fossil fuels used to split the water. Congrats you've moved from a gas powered cycle to a coal powered cycle.
Rubbish, I'll use magnets to split the water and then use the power from the hydrogen to recharge the magnets!
How much decent Net software is there out there anyway? Is it all in-house so we never see it? I've only seen VB shareware quality stuff no matter what I've had to pay for it.
It's not really very practical to use for writing the kind of applications that you want to distribute. Having to have the .Net Framework installed is a serious barrier to the user. Java is in the same boat as the user needs to also install the VM.
Like Java, .Net seems to have found its home in in-house development and with web apps.
Seriously though, what applications are using Net 3.5 instead of all the stuff that can only run with Net 1.0 or Net 2.0?
A lot of my applications use LINQ (.Net 3.5). I wouldn't really like to go back to SQL.
Sure you can manipulate databases with SQL. You can also cross the atlantic in a steam boat. However, I'd prefer to go by plane.
I like Mono, I really do, however it's always playing catch-up, it's by it's very nature it's always going to be one step behind Microsoft. Without the support of features in .Net 3.5, very few people are going to choose it for new developments.
This is interesting. My first thought for this is that if I've purchased a game second hand, and by some defectivebydesign defect, I can't access the bonus content, I'll get a pirate copy of that content. Surely by buying something second hand, I've paid for the same rights as that bestowed on the previous owner, so would a judge back me?
"What should truly paranoid user do?"
Stay off the internet.
That's what Bernardo Provenzano, once boss of the Sicilian Mafia did until he got arrested, Maybe he'd have fared better with AES rather than his caesar cypher:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/19/mafia_don_clueless_crypto/
When I think of powerful chess programs, I think of Deep Fritz. It did beat the human World Champion after all. Does anyone know why Deep Fritz isn't competing?
There is no such thing as "acceptable DRM". By it's very existence, a non-DRM'd game will always be more acceptable than one which has added bloatware in the form of DRM attached to it.
I've always bought my games. I often download pirated games to try out, but if I like them, I almost always buy them. There are a few exceptions where I've never gotten around to buying a copy, but they are far outweighed by the number of games that I've paid for and never played, still sitting on my shelf in their shrinkwrapping.
However, a few years ago, I was so furious with the music industry selling me a useless CD that I couldn't play that I vowed never to buy another music item again. I have a whole basement full of CDs, but none of them are dated after 2005!
With the bad experience I had with Bioshock, I'm very tempted to do the same thing with games. I certainly won't buy Spore even though I'm a fan of Will Wright's games, solely because of the awful DRM. I've tolerated having to use No-CD crack up until now but if things keep getting worse, I'll stop buying games altogether and I'd encourage others to do the same.
Does anyone know if this excludes the possibility of GTA IV being released on Steam? Can we expect a Steam release?
You want a netbook for gaming?! The Eee does it all! Perfect controller as well!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QSW9qOM6FM
Yes, and the obituary of every major public figure has already been written as well. Such prep pieces are responsible practice for newspapers that have to be ready on-the-spot.
This wasn't one of those pieces. This was an entire narrative complete with faked dialogue
Yes, it was one of those pieces. You'll find that lots of news agencies have prep obituaries with "faked" messages of condolences. It helps to structure the article if there's dummy content in there. They are removed and replaced with the real messages once the real condolence messages are made.
The same happened here. The "faked" dialogue was nothing more than dummy text.
wooooosh!
Does anybody still actually use usenet for anything other than the binary groups? I haven't touched it in a decade, mainly because the spam got so bad.
Hell, I use it only for the spam. That MI5Victim bloke is the highlight of USENET!
The "symmetric" in SMP refers to all CPUs being identical, not to the actual number of processors.
I stand corrected. Thanks