No, it's to stop Tivoization, repeats of the Novell/Microsoft deal working around the GPL, and bringing clear patent protection to GPL developers. The changes are necessary becuase such deals and such pressures have been chipping away at the GPL, as companies try to have their cake and eat it, too and work around the GPL to proprietize their own projects based on open source code.
I can believe it benefits IBM, who've gotten quite good about genuinely open source development, especially free software iin the GPL sense. And in this case, it's benefitting the rest of us too.
I suspect you think those cripples take all the good parking spaces, too. They've got enough to deal with: let them have a bit of help getting a cheap, grade school suitable machine. You've got access to better hardware in the junk bin of businesses replacing hardware, or your nearest supermarket bulletin board: these people don't.
Please don't complain about how the peasants don't need fancy museums when what the laptop gives them is the electronic equivalent of chalk and a chalkboard to work with.
There is no such limit. An extremely diffuse medium could have particles, not vibratiing, but randomly zipping around at relativistic velocities, even velocities where their individual mass-energy is quite grotesque and comes exceedingly, exceedingly close to C.
There are other, more practical limits, such as when such an energy laden particle fragments into quantum spew too rapidly to be measuered or when the mere existence of a few such particules destroys the solar systems in which the measuring equipment resides.
I agree with your FTP gripes. Given HTTP, and WebDAV over HTTP for uploads, there is simply no excuse to run a modern FTP site. The only things such HTTP sites don't support well are links, either symlinks or hardlinks, and if you need that go to using rsync.
You can do a fair job of filtering by simply watching volumes of traffic. It's like office supplies: most workplaces don't mind if you print out a few things on the work printer, or nab a few paper chips. But if you're sucking up 30% of the company's external network traffic for a week, well, you deserve a talking to and possibly a reprimand, unless it's for something very clearly work based and justifying the load.
Read your user agreement: there's often a big clause now that lets them decide arbitrarily what that fair share is.
Like a sexual harassment policy, it's written in deliberately vague fashion so that the ISP can claim to have a policy, and fall back on it when they wish to, but doesn't actually have a clear definition. This is so that they can avoid actually doing anything about it if they don't want to.
And been cluttered by junk mail. Now, if they could schedule the actual mail for hte first delivery, and the junk mail for the second through fourthh delliveries, then it might come back to being useful that way.
Remember, it's called "c-mail". And obviously they used Leonard of Quirm to make the transmissions "fiendishly" difficult to decode. Now if we could only find some competent "Sammies" to go shut down the fake, inserted ads by Dibbler for the House of Harga ribs, we could read our c-mail in peace.
For those of you who haven't seen it, the book is called "Going Postal", and Terry Pratchett really captures the flavor of we geeks who do our work because we love doing it, and how the rest of the world deals with us.
Quite a lot. I've had to pull apart proprietary formats to extract data from old tapes, and it's a sreious pain that wasted my time, and their time lying about how unique it was. (I'm sorry, but a tar file hidden by 10 blocks of header and chopped into chunks of 1023 blocks is not that hard to re-assemble.)
You don't play live-action computer games much, do you? It is useful there, simply because the latest games and their massive environments often take huge amounts of RAM to cope with. It's also useful for OS virtualization, so that your Linux box can run your Windows programs in a sandpit, and vice versa, and you can run your out of date Win95, NT, or RedHat 6.2 applications in a protected environment.
I'm looking forward to playing the old Marathon games in emulation on a box that can also handle Halo III, and tracing the interesting links and common gameplay among them.
Oh, NAT is more useful in several ways. It provides a single router or entry point that you can monitor for security reasons, it prevents people from running announced services such as HTTP, SMTP, or file sharing from their internal machines, and it draws a useful curtain of obscurity against activities you don't want traced back to their source.
Switching to IPv6 often involves hardware switchovers and the elimination of old services that simply cannot interoperate with it because they weren't designed to, and should have been discarded years ago but haven't been, and the original author has very much moved on.
Maybe they could give it to the poor actor who played Wesley, and he could write himself some dialogue that doesn't make him like a Slashdot poster child?
The W3C's validator is good, if awkward to install in some systems. I'd be happy with that. I'd be happier if the default for posting an article was flat text, though.
I did. I still do: most images add nothing to the content, they merely add dancing bears to the web content, pull more bandwidth, provide client tracking through the tracking of third-party 1-pixel GIF's, and generally slow down my web performance. They also interfere extensively with text->speech synthesis for the visually impaired.
The Web is not for the developers. It's for the people who want and need the data, the clients who in the end actually pay the bills and view the pages. If it's a games site for people to play Flash games, great: othewise, get out of the dancing bears business and let me look up what I need.
Oh, we didn't give up on them. We splintered wildly, and there are dozens, even hundreds of mostly crappy tools over at sourceforge.net. None of them have gathered that much following, but I personally favor Amaya, which produces robust, legible, and clean code, and is incredibly useful for debugging the worst of the debris out Visual Studio burdened content.
You know, it might be useful for Slashdot to simply turn off the HTML capability and use Wiki style entries. The amount of bad HTML here is scary, perhaps a "run weblint on this" sanitizer would be better?
Why don't you make a parser that will translate all the Word document formats into something sane while you're at it? Quite seriously, there's a lot of web materials that violate every sane standard, setting up their own standards that they also violate at whim. It's more work than anyone sane, or any reasonable sane group, can hope to successfully tackle, especially since so much of the debris is aimed at features that no user actually wants but the web publisher seeks to enforce (such as enforced ad content and clickthrough tracking).
I appreciate your thought, but I'm afraid it won't work in the field.
Propaganda need not be positive, and often isn't. And it need not be mass media: it's often through a careful word in a contributor's ear, a lobbyist's nice lunch with a senator, etc.
Propaganda is spreading information, often misinformation, for political reasons. Doing so is reasonable: lying in the process, and by extension concealing the source of the information, makes it quite dangerous.
Or air flow. When the switch is buried under someone's pile of dirty laundry or gets pizza and beer spilled on it, it's going to fail pretty regularly.
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No, it's to stop Tivoization, repeats of the Novell/Microsoft deal working around the GPL, and bringing clear patent protection to GPL developers. The changes are necessary becuase such deals and such pressures have been chipping away at the GPL, as companies try to have their cake and eat it, too and work around the GPL to proprietize their own projects based on open source code.
I can believe it benefits IBM, who've gotten quite good about genuinely open source development, especially free software iin the GPL sense. And in this case, it's benefitting the rest of us too.
I suspect you think those cripples take all the good parking spaces, too. They've got enough to deal with: let them have a bit of help getting a cheap, grade school suitable machine. You've got access to better hardware in the junk bin of businesses replacing hardware, or your nearest supermarket bulletin board: these people don't.
Please don't complain about how the peasants don't need fancy museums when what the laptop gives them is the electronic equivalent of chalk and a chalkboard to work with.
There is no such limit. An extremely diffuse medium could have particles, not vibratiing, but randomly zipping around at relativistic velocities, even velocities where their individual mass-energy is quite grotesque and comes exceedingly, exceedingly close to C.
There are other, more practical limits, such as when such an energy laden particle fragments into quantum spew too rapidly to be measuered or when the mere existence of a few such particules destroys the solar systems in which the measuring equipment resides.
No, no, Pamela Jones! Mysterious, brainy, and probably whipping up a special dungeon visit for Darl McBride right now as a Christmas present.
/. hot babe priorities straight.)
(Forgive the off-topic post, please, but let's keep our
Don't forget those families of cousins in Arkansas, each of which constitutes its own genetically isolated species.
I agree with your FTP gripes. Given HTTP, and WebDAV over HTTP for uploads, there is simply no excuse to run a modern FTP site. The only things such HTTP sites don't support well are links, either symlinks or hardlinks, and if you need that go to using rsync.
You can do a fair job of filtering by simply watching volumes of traffic. It's like office supplies: most workplaces don't mind if you print out a few things on the work printer, or nab a few paper chips. But if you're sucking up 30% of the company's external network traffic for a week, well, you deserve a talking to and possibly a reprimand, unless it's for something very clearly work based and justifying the load.
Read your user agreement: there's often a big clause now that lets them decide arbitrarily what that fair share is.
Like a sexual harassment policy, it's written in deliberately vague fashion so that the ISP can claim to have a policy, and fall back on it when they wish to, but doesn't actually have a clear definition. This is so that they can avoid actually doing anything about it if they don't want to.
Oh, it still is separated. Those realities have just gotten a bit more closely linked. Welcome to quantum physics!
And been cluttered by junk mail. Now, if they could schedule the actual mail for hte first delivery, and the junk mail for the second through fourthh delliveries, then it might come back to being useful that way.
Remember, it's called "c-mail". And obviously they used Leonard of Quirm to make the transmissions "fiendishly" difficult to decode. Now if we could only find some competent "Sammies" to go shut down the fake, inserted ads by Dibbler for the House of Harga ribs, we could read our c-mail in peace.
For those of you who haven't seen it, the book is called "Going Postal", and Terry Pratchett really captures the flavor of we geeks who do our work because we love doing it, and how the rest of the world deals with us.
Quite a lot. I've had to pull apart proprietary formats to extract data from old tapes, and it's a sreious pain that wasted my time, and their time lying about how unique it was. (I'm sorry, but a tar file hidden by 10 blocks of header and chopped into chunks of 1023 blocks is not that hard to re-assemble.)
You don't play live-action computer games much, do you? It is useful there, simply because the latest games and their massive environments often take huge amounts of RAM to cope with. It's also useful for OS virtualization, so that your Linux box can run your Windows programs in a sandpit, and vice versa, and you can run your out of date Win95, NT, or RedHat 6.2 applications in a protected environment.
I'm looking forward to playing the old Marathon games in emulation on a box that can also handle Halo III, and tracing the interesting links and common gameplay among them.
Emacs does! How many unique, completely unusable together mail clients would you like to run today from Emacs?
Oh, NAT is more useful in several ways. It provides a single router or entry point that you can monitor for security reasons, it prevents people from running announced services such as HTTP, SMTP, or file sharing from their internal machines, and it draws a useful curtain of obscurity against activities you don't want traced back to their source.
Switching to IPv6 often involves hardware switchovers and the elimination of old services that simply cannot interoperate with it because they weren't designed to, and should have been discarded years ago but haven't been, and the original author has very much moved on.
Great Ceasar's ghost, he is a Slashdot poster child!
Maybe they could give it to the poor actor who played Wesley, and he could write himself some dialogue that doesn't make him like a Slashdot poster child?
The W3C's validator is good, if awkward to install in some systems. I'd be happy with that. I'd be happier if the default for posting an article was flat text, though.
I did. I still do: most images add nothing to the content, they merely add dancing bears to the web content, pull more bandwidth, provide client tracking through the tracking of third-party 1-pixel GIF's, and generally slow down my web performance. They also interfere extensively with text->speech synthesis for the visually impaired.
The Web is not for the developers. It's for the people who want and need the data, the clients who in the end actually pay the bills and view the pages. If it's a games site for people to play Flash games, great: othewise, get out of the dancing bears business and let me look up what I need.
Oh, we didn't give up on them. We splintered wildly, and there are dozens, even hundreds of mostly crappy tools over at sourceforge.net. None of them have gathered that much following, but I personally favor Amaya, which produces robust, legible, and clean code, and is incredibly useful for debugging the worst of the debris out Visual Studio burdened content.
You know, it might be useful for Slashdot to simply turn off the HTML capability and use Wiki style entries. The amount of bad HTML here is scary, perhaps a "run weblint on this" sanitizer would be better?
Why don't you make a parser that will translate all the Word document formats into something sane while you're at it? Quite seriously, there's a lot of web materials that violate every sane standard, setting up their own standards that they also violate at whim. It's more work than anyone sane, or any reasonable sane group, can hope to successfully tackle, especially since so much of the debris is aimed at features that no user actually wants but the web publisher seeks to enforce (such as enforced ad content and clickthrough tracking).
I appreciate your thought, but I'm afraid it won't work in the field.
Propaganda need not be positive, and often isn't. And it need not be mass media: it's often through a careful word in a contributor's ear, a lobbyist's nice lunch with a senator, etc.
Propaganda is spreading information, often misinformation, for political reasons. Doing so is reasonable: lying in the process, and by extension concealing the source of the information, makes it quite dangerous.
Or air flow. When the switch is buried under someone's pile of dirty laundry or gets pizza and beer spilled on it, it's going to fail pretty regularly.