Hate to reply to my own post, but talk about confusing, the paragraph following changes things...
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..could be to get them to install VirtualPC (or presumably VMWare) on your machine(s).
VirtualPC is now reasonably cheap, plus it's now a MS product, so they may be more likely to consider it?
Then you can install Linux / FreeBSD etc. on your virtual machine and get some productive work done without needing any administration access in windows itself.
Given the way you've described things however, I still wouldn't like your chances - sounds like an "it's our way or the highway" type situations.
>2014: The Open Source community, fresh off a
victory against SCO, start building their own
network called "Linet". It goes live with 30
million users connecting to it within the first
24 hours.
>2015: "Linet" achieves self-awareness and launches an attack against the humans... the end.
Isn't outlawing card counting kind of like outlawing a certain thought process? I mean even with kiddie molesters we still wait till they make take some kind of action the actual thinking about it isn't illegal (yet). It's like if someone can count cards they have to play stoopid to do it lawfully, "yeah I know there's lots of tens left, but I'll stand anyway don't want to cheat you guys". Maybe it should be casino policy that u has a sub 90 IQ or submit to a lobotomy before you can enter the casino.
I can see it now. Tom Cruise bursts through the ceiling to eject you for the future 'crime' of 'winning more money from us than the casino want you to'... (a la Minority Report)
mentions it briefly. I think he just wants to get on with the things he's interested in...
Joan, who had the 4.00pm in the office sweep, collected. A mad rush to get down to the courtroom -- I left books, glasses, pens and my phone behind in the lawyers' office, and zoomed.
The jury ruled in our favour. I appreciate their work, and the incredibly hard work of the legal team, enormously. I regret that it needed to happen.
Tomorrow, with any luck, I get my phone back.
(and earlier....)
Lots of requests for interviews about the trial, which I'm saying no to. Win, lose, or win some counts and lose others, I think my position's going to be the same on that. As I explained to one journalist, it's not wrestling.
I think that Postgresql would be rather more popular if there was a Windows version available with an obvious download of a setup.exe or whatever. There are a great number of developers who run Windows on the desktop but who have various Unix or Linux options for deployment, and DBMSs that can run on either are much easier to try out, to develop with, etc. Examples: Oracle, MySQL, Interbase, many others.
Its not that hard though, once you find the information on how to do it. I'm currently running 7.2.0 (as a service) courtesy of the following link which I found very useful : http://www.ejip.net/faq/postgresql-7.1.3.README
In my opinion, this would be way cooler if instead of having compartments for each element that you could only access by removing the wooden lid, you had the elements stored in some transparent way, so it really did look like a table of the elements.
The carvings are cool though, perhaps for the transparent version could have small metal plaques underneath each one or something?
Just wondering if the image changes when you 'press' the shift key, or how it recognises key modifiers like control, alt etc. etc.
Hmmm, might make using emacs a bit difficult?
Does bring up all sorts of amusing possibilities though - Just imagine someone dropping a handful of M&M's onto your desk only to find they've accidentally reset your machine, or dialled Mongolia, or emailed your boss for you...
know I'll get mod'd down for this but I just had to point it out.
The guy who submitted this story included a link to purchase the movie 'Hackers' from Amazon.com (as opposed to the movie's website which would seem more logical) as part of the stories description.
Well you should have been if only its for the fact its a book (and a pretty good one at that - I own it), which has nothing at all to do with the movie...
Can't work out how or why this got modded up!? The link in the post is related to the author of the article, and is something that most people who don't know about it may appreciate. If the poster gets a (very!?) minor kickback then so what?
Mr Levy's actually written a number of cool books (search for them at your preferred online site). I especially liked his one on Artifical Life...
There was another funny quote about them from a couple years back.
>
"If you put a bunch of spiders in togeather, in a few days you are left with one big, fat, happy spider."
IIRC this was when the genetic alterations was being done to the goats, nice to see there's been progress. This has been a Army funded project for years, I remeber reading it in the WSJ back in the mid 80s.
Does this mean we're going to end up with one big, fat, happy goat? After all, goats supposedly eat anything - how do they stop the goat eating all the silk?
Now every can lie in the middle of the Nullabor plain and watch funny looking cars during the day and pretty patterns in the sky at night. (Meteor showers).
Hmmmm, I wonder whether meteor-powered cars are legal?
(Meteor-powered? Oh no, sounds like another slashdot poll on powers again....)
The article fails to mention....
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Mario's Revenge?
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...the impact that piracy had on the consoles?
One of the reasons I think the original Playstation 'appeared' to have continued to do so well is the fact that the games could be pirated a lot more easily than the other consoles. (ie. access to a CD burner). I'm sure a lot of people bought them because they were cheap, and readily had access to a lot of 'free' games, and if a new game came out, you'd just hire it from the local video store for the night, copy it, and own it for a grand total of about AUS $6.
Given the fact that Sony were selling their consoles at a loss means that in a lot of cases they didn't recoup as much as they should have on the games...
Personally I own a rarely used N64... (I normally play PC games, because its a better platform for the games I prefer (ie. RTS, FPS's, RPG's etc.). The N64 is mainly used for social gaming - having a bunch of friends come over and play Mario-Kart or Tetris for a while.
On a completely different note, I remember seeing a segment on some show a while ago, which had this baby ( 2 years old - couldn't speak yet). This baby was addicted to the point the parents had to buy a portable TV (+ accessories) so the toddling could play it in the car on long journeys and holidays, and unless it was allowed to play Doom64 whilst its nappy was being changes it would scream and carry on a ridiculous amount!!!
Now, if Nintendo can have this effect on a larger scale, they will clearly beat the other consoles hands down - One has to wonder what the kid will be like once it grows to be a bit older...?
(In the meantime, I will be conducting my own experiment with Black & White starting very soon....)
I'd read that at one point that they were going to have two versions of the game: a black box and a white box. The white box would be $5 more, which went to charity.
Loved the idea, but I've heard nothing about it since. Anyone able to confirm or deny this plan of action?
One interesting aspect of this which sadly didn't make the final cut was the idea of selling two versions of the game at different prices. "Originally we wanted to do a black box which was two pounds cheaper than the white box, and the white box you paid more but that went directly to charity. It's a really nice story - we'd actually arranged to set up all these webcams in African villages, so that people could watch the money from Black & White building buildings. And there was another plan after that, where either you got a voucher to send off money to charity or a Mexican lottery ticket in the black box. But again, you can understand retail - doing anything special like that is just not fun for them. It is a bit of a hassle to stock two different price points [for the same game]."
So unfortunately not. Pity, I agree it was a marjorly cool idea, but probably would be an administrative nightmare....
....but when are govts. going to realise they cannot censor the Internet...
I don't think there's any easy way to avoid this sort of happening ever, its where democracy fails at its grandest. Even in Australia politicians are... well, politicians. You vote for the one you think is going to do the least damage and all you can do after that is hope.
(ie. One of the annoying potential side effects of voting for people who you agree with on A, B, C, D and E doesn't mean they're going to agree with your opinion on point F, and in fact may do exactly the opposite. (Not that I know anything about SA's state politics)).
IMHO, There should be some sort of common sense check before these inane laws are passed. Like:
Who's going to enforce this legislation?
Can they do it? If not, is it easy to bring them up to speed?
Is it easy enough / clear cut enough to enforce?
Is it cost justified? (Or will attempting to enforce it cost the taxpayers heaps?)
This proposed change (and many others) obviously fail to meet the above criteria (at least according to me), and this is before we even get to the censorship issue!
Considering (common sense != politics) so the only (not particularly good) option is to move to a different state more in alignment with your views, which in turn concentrates people of the same type (eg. Very pro gun vs pro religion states in the US, for all I know they might both be the case in some states).
Vaguely related fact: The capital of South Australia (Adelaide) is known as the 'city of churches' as it has more per capita than any of the other Australian states / territories. (Fortunately in my case I'm from Sydney).
More ironic fact: The most 'liberal' state / territory in Australia in terms of censorship etc. is actually the one the capital (Canberra, not Sydney) is in. - The ACT (or Australian Capital Territory). This is the state that you can order your pr0n from, and has the least restraining drug penalties, least censorship etc. etc. Of course, this is where the majority of the politicians work and hang out a lot of the time. Coincidence? I think not....
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http://www.igf.com/judging.htm, paragraph 4:
High execution scores go to games that run well, don't crash, exhibit bugs and are well thought out from a player's perspective.
If they're asking authors to intentionally exhibit bugs in their programs, sounds like a pretty stupid competition to me anyway....
>And LARP isn't lame in and of itself? ;)
>(thinking of other definitions here)
Like Live Action Ruby Programming?
Yeah - and they can't even spell notch...!
..could be to get them to install VirtualPC (or presumably VMWare) on your machine(s).
VirtualPC is now reasonably cheap, plus it's now a MS product, so they may be more likely to consider it?
Then you can install Linux / FreeBSD etc. on your virtual machine and get some productive work done without needing any administration access in windows itself.
Given the way you've described things however, I still wouldn't like your chances - sounds like an "it's our way or the highway" type situations.
There are stops in between?!?!?
>2014: The Open Source community, fresh off a victory against SCO, start building their own network called "Linet". It goes live with 30 million users connecting to it within the first 24 hours.
>2015: "Linet" achieves self-awareness and launches an attack against the humans... the end.
Err, shouldn't that by Gnu/Linet?
You didn't happen to start a global thermonuclear war did you?!
e.g. colour -> color, aluminium -> aluminum, initialise -> initialize
Then all we'd need to do is get them to correct their date format and....
I can see it now. Tom Cruise bursts through the ceiling to eject you for the future 'crime' of 'winning more money from us than the casino want you to'... (a la Minority Report)
"Green Elf shot the food"....
(followed by curses at whoever happened to be playing the elf at the time)
Don't know any Aragorns or Bilbo's, but I went to school with Arwen. I think both her parents were librarians (and no, they weren't orangutan's).
Joan, who had the 4.00pm in the office sweep, collected. A mad rush to get down to the courtroom -- I left books, glasses, pens and my phone behind in the lawyers' office, and zoomed.
The jury ruled in our favour. I appreciate their work, and the incredibly hard work of the legal team, enormously. I regret that it needed to happen.
Tomorrow, with any luck, I get my phone back.
(and earlier....)
Lots of requests for interviews about the trial, which I'm saying no to. Win, lose, or win some counts and lose others, I think my position's going to be the same on that. As I explained to one journalist, it's not wrestling.
http://www.ejip.net/faq/postgresql-7.1.3.README
All you need to do is follow the instructions.
But I agree, a setup.exe would go a long way for increasing the use of Postgres on Windows.
Its not that hard though, once you find the information on how to do it. I'm currently running 7.2.0 (as a service) courtesy of the following link which I found very useful : http://www.ejip.net/faq/postgresql-7.1.3.README
The carvings are cool though, perhaps for the transparent version could have small metal plaques underneath each one or something?
Hmmm, might make using emacs a bit difficult?
Does bring up all sorts of amusing possibilities though - Just imagine someone dropping a handful of M&M's onto your desk only to find they've accidentally reset your machine, or dialled Mongolia, or emailed your boss for you...
The guy who submitted this story included a link to purchase the movie 'Hackers' from Amazon.com (as opposed to the movie's website which would seem more logical) as part of the stories description.
Well you should have been if only its for the fact its a book (and a pretty good one at that - I own it), which has nothing at all to do with the movie...
Can't work out how or why this got modded up!? The link in the post is related to the author of the article, and is something that most people who don't know about it may appreciate. If the poster gets a (very!?) minor kickback then so what?
Mr Levy's actually written a number of cool books (search for them at your preferred online site). I especially liked his one on Artifical Life...
Quite a lot of people I assume - people are certainly imagining it all the time at least, particularly the Beowulf variant.
For their sake, I hope they all have large bedrooms... - In fact you could take it to the next level:
"Imagine a cluster of bedrooms of clustered Athlon XP's"!!!!! (blah blah blah)
There was another funny quote about them from a couple years back. >
"If you put a bunch of spiders in togeather, in a few days you are left with one big, fat, happy spider."
IIRC this was when the genetic alterations was being done to the goats, nice to see there's been progress. This has been a Army funded project for years, I remeber reading it in the WSJ back in the mid 80s.
Does this mean we're going to end up with one big, fat, happy goat? After all, goats supposedly eat anything - how do they stop the goat eating all the silk?
Refer 3 stories earlier.
Now every can lie in the middle of the Nullabor plain and watch funny looking cars during the day and pretty patterns in the sky at night. (Meteor showers).
Hmmmm, I wonder whether meteor-powered cars are legal?
(Meteor-powered? Oh no, sounds like another slashdot poll on powers again....)
...the impact that piracy had on the consoles?
One of the reasons I think the original Playstation 'appeared' to have continued to do so well is the fact that the games could be pirated a lot more easily than the other consoles. (ie. access to a CD burner). I'm sure a lot of people bought them because they were cheap, and readily had access to a lot of 'free' games, and if a new game came out, you'd just hire it from the local video store for the night, copy it, and own it for a grand total of about AUS $6.
Given the fact that Sony were selling their consoles at a loss means that in a lot of cases they didn't recoup as much as they should have on the games...
Personally I own a rarely used N64... (I normally play PC games, because its a better platform for the games I prefer (ie. RTS, FPS's, RPG's etc.). The N64 is mainly used for social gaming - having a bunch of friends come over and play Mario-Kart or Tetris for a while.
On a completely different note, I remember seeing a segment on some show a while ago, which had this baby ( 2 years old - couldn't speak yet). This baby was addicted to the point the parents had to buy a portable TV (+ accessories) so the toddling could play it in the car on long journeys and holidays, and unless it was allowed to play Doom64 whilst its nappy was being changes it would scream and carry on a ridiculous amount!!!
Now, if Nintendo can have this effect on a larger scale, they will clearly beat the other consoles hands down - One has to wonder what the kid will be like once it grows to be a bit older...?
(In the meantime, I will be conducting my own experiment with Black & White starting very soon....)
I'd read that at one point that they were going to have two versions of the game: a black box and a white box. The white box would be $5 more, which went to charity.
Loved the idea, but I've heard nothing about it since. Anyone able to confirm or deny this plan of action?
Taken from www.eurogamer.net:
One interesting aspect of this which sadly didn't make the final cut was the idea of selling two versions of the game at different prices. "Originally we wanted to do a black box which was two pounds cheaper than the white box, and the white box you paid more but that went directly to charity. It's a really nice story - we'd actually arranged to set up all these webcams in African villages, so that people could watch the money from Black & White building buildings. And there was another plan after that, where either you got a voucher to send off money to charity or a Mexican lottery ticket in the black box. But again, you can understand retail - doing anything special like that is just not fun for them. It is a bit of a hassle to stock two different price points [for the same game]."
So unfortunately not. Pity, I agree it was a marjorly cool idea, but probably would be an administrative nightmare....
I don't think there's any easy way to avoid this sort of happening ever, its where democracy fails at its grandest. Even in Australia politicians are... well, politicians. You vote for the one you think is going to do the least damage and all you can do after that is hope.
(ie. One of the annoying potential side effects of voting for people who you agree with on A, B, C, D and E doesn't mean they're going to agree with your opinion on point F, and in fact may do exactly the opposite. (Not that I know anything about SA's state politics)).
IMHO, There should be some sort of common sense check before these inane laws are passed. Like:
This proposed change (and many others) obviously fail to meet the above criteria (at least according to me), and this is before we even get to the censorship issue!
Considering (common sense != politics) so the only (not particularly good) option is to move to a different state more in alignment with your views, which in turn concentrates people of the same type (eg. Very pro gun vs pro religion states in the US, for all I know they might both be the case in some states).
Vaguely related fact: The capital of South Australia (Adelaide) is known as the 'city of churches' as it has more per capita than any of the other Australian states / territories. (Fortunately in my case I'm from Sydney).
More ironic fact: The most 'liberal' state / territory in Australia in terms of censorship etc. is actually the one the capital (Canberra, not Sydney) is in. - The ACT (or Australian Capital Territory). This is the state that you can order your pr0n from, and has the least restraining drug penalties, least censorship etc. etc. Of course, this is where the majority of the politicians work and hang out a lot of the time. Coincidence? I think not....