This has nothing to do with preventing anything. This is a direct attack on the internet as a free medium. Think about it, the net is the only medium not yet under "control" by the government, truely free media has been essentially non-existant in the US for decades. Now the net is threatening to change that, and they are fighting back with everything they've got. The fact that this kind of legislation is proposed, despite the obvious negative effect it will have on private business economy, shows that they are really getting desperate.
I had the same problem. Solved it quite easily by using symbolic links. Ie. making the Pictures folder and just putting links to all the other directories in it.
That's because Godwin's Law is a descriptive law, not a normative law.
It describes what happens when a thread goes on long enough, and says that eventually someone will compare the other side to Nazi germany. It never says that anything should happen, that would be a normative law.
You can't invoke Godwins law any more than you can invoke the law of gravity.
FTA: 'This is the PS3 price. Expensive, cheap - we don't want you to think of it in terms of game machines... For instance... Is it not nonsense to compare the charge for dinner at the company cafeteria with dinner at a fine restaurant? It's a question of what you can do with that game machine. If you can have an amazing experience, we believe price is not a problem.'
Well that's all fine and dandy. The question is, do customers want a big and expensive supercomputer or do they want a cheap and simple game machine? History has shown time and time again that when it comes to consumer electronics, most people will pick a cheap and simple product in place of a potentially better but more expensive alternative.
It's because most americans have very strongly ingrained hopes and optimisms regarding their country. A sort of implied attitude is "We survived Vietnam, we survived watergate, we will survive Irak and Bush, nothing REALLY bad is going to happen."
In these kind stories you always see a lot of comments along the line of "oh those crooked politicians" and "Bush is the worst president ever", and similar when discussing the DMCA, Irak, the patriot act, the budged deficits, TIA, gitmo, etc. But I never (or seldom) see any discussion of the long term ramifications of these things (just "they are bad"), and litte (realistic) discussion of the future. Ask yourself, where is America in 20 years?
Perhaps most americans just have no reference point in history to relate these event to. Perhaps it's because most americans have never experienced fascism and oppression in their life time (or their grand parents life time) like most of Europe has. Perhaps they believe that the US economy will always prevail in the end. Or perhaps most americans just think the whole world is in a backslide, while in reality it is for the most part just the USA. And that might actually be a harder pill to swallow. I don't know.
That's actually the most plausable theory I've seen so far. It's so plausable in fact, that the only way you could have known about it is if you've seen Episode Ten and traveled back in time to post this message. Thanks a lot you spoil sport!
I don't know how you can even compare BG/BG2 to NWN. The former series is IMHO far superior, the latter was just boring (the single player campaignes), had no battle tactics, mostly uninteresting spells, extremely linear and boiler-plate plot, conversation and game mechanics, and on top of all it was built with a tile-set world that made every scene look the same.
A friend of mine (a nuclear physicist) worked on a similar project at CERN (IIRC). At the time there were some (mostly unfounded) worries that the produced black holes would be a danger to man kind (they're not, as the article says they evaporate so quickly you hardly get to detect them.) Anyway, he said that if everything goes to hell, he planned to enter the afterlife wearing a t-shirt saying "I DID IT!":-)
To me, D has surfaced to become what I always thought C++ should have been. I hope (and believe) that it will be giving C++ more competition in the comming years. It might not be ready for full production yet (due to lack of big supporters and libraries, mostly), but I have tried it out on several of my own projects, and I love it.
I can just imagine the chair throwing going on at Microsoft when they heard this. I hope you are right, that this means consolidation between IM networks. However, it also means locking MSN out of such a network, since MS isn't likely to make a deal with their greatest enemey, Google, at least not without considering it a huge defeat. I think they will be forced to in the end, though, if the non-MS network grows large enough.
BTW, the email = IM address is already true for both MSN and Google, isn't it?
Similar to your clock puzzle: Imagine having a clock where the hour hand and the minute hand are identical, and there is no way you can see which is which. But you can measure their angles exactly. How many times in 12 hours will it be impossible to see what time it is?
We got this puzzle in a "creative maths" class I took once. Took me surprisingly long to solve it...
No, you would (presumably) fill your car with hydrogen, which had been produced earlier by this bacteria somewhere. However, storage technology for hydrogen still has a long way to go, so don't expect this to have any practical implication on your life in the near future.
Those who have heard of it and looked into it take it seriously - but most haven't. Sure, it was mentioned on/. a while ago, but that was when the compiler was way back in beta-land - and it was announced as something completely new, so you can't blame people for not taking notice.
Now it's closing in on 1.0, and is very usable. Give it a try if you haven't already. I used to be a C++ guy. After using D for six months, just looking at C++ code makes my eyes hurt, nevermind coding in it.
That being said, they are currently working on a law (here in Norway) that will forbid copying a copy-protected cd to mp3, and it will probably be passed. But I don't know whether a DRM-protected iTMS song will be considered equivalent to a protected cd, legally.
In other words, the creation of a Microsoft specific "equals" means that code years down the road will require Microsoft specific tools to edit/change/run this code. I call shenanigans!
"Limited" only in the sense it can't be uploaded for unlimited distribution over the Internet? Something a lot of people don't particularly care about anyway, and wouldn't miss.
Agreed. I find the most effective way of getting large files is to search kazaa/emule/whatever for a torrent, and continue from there. Granted, many torrents you find won't work, but a lot of them do.
I'm not trying to troll here, but when I click that link in Mozilla, the file is treated as a text/html document, not as a PDF. So I assume you could put up an exe posing as a pdf, and Mozilla (on windows) would swallow it as an executable just like IE.
Granted, Mozilla pops up a dialog stating the real file type. But isn't it still too easy to just click 'OK'? Especially when you 'know' you've clicked a PDF?
Slashdot Mirror
This has nothing to do with preventing anything. This is a direct attack on the internet as a free medium. Think about it, the net is the only medium not yet under "control" by the government, truely free media has been essentially non-existant in the US for decades. Now the net is threatening to change that, and they are fighting back with everything they've got. The fact that this kind of legislation is proposed, despite the obvious negative effect it will have on private business economy, shows that they are really getting desperate.
I had the same problem. Solved it quite easily by using symbolic links. Ie. making the Pictures folder and just putting links to all the other directories in it.
See, told you it wouldn't work :-)
That's because Godwin's Law is a descriptive law, not a normative law.
It describes what happens when a thread goes on long enough, and says that eventually someone will compare the other side to Nazi germany. It never says that anything should happen, that would be a normative law.
You can't invoke Godwins law any more than you can invoke the law of gravity.
I get these eruptions from time to time...
FTA: 'This is the PS3 price. Expensive, cheap - we don't want you to think of it in terms of game machines ... For instance ... Is it not nonsense to compare the charge for dinner at the company cafeteria with dinner at a fine restaurant? It's a question of what you can do with that game machine. If you can have an amazing experience, we believe price is not a problem.'
Well that's all fine and dandy. The question is, do customers want a big and expensive supercomputer or do they want a cheap and simple game machine? History has shown time and time again that when it comes to consumer electronics, most people will pick a cheap and simple product in place of a potentially better but more expensive alternative.
I think Nintendo wins this round.
It's because most americans have very strongly ingrained hopes and optimisms regarding their country. A sort of implied attitude is "We survived Vietnam, we survived watergate, we will survive Irak and Bush, nothing REALLY bad is going to happen."
In these kind stories you always see a lot of comments along the line of "oh those crooked politicians" and "Bush is the worst president ever", and similar when discussing the DMCA, Irak, the patriot act, the budged deficits, TIA, gitmo, etc. But I never (or seldom) see any discussion of the long term ramifications of these things (just "they are bad"), and litte (realistic) discussion of the future. Ask yourself, where is America in 20 years?
Perhaps most americans just have no reference point in history to relate these event to. Perhaps it's because most americans have never experienced fascism and oppression in their life time (or their grand parents life time) like most of Europe has. Perhaps they believe that the US economy will always prevail in the end. Or perhaps most americans just think the whole world is in a backslide, while in reality it is for the most part just the USA. And that might actually be a harder pill to swallow. I don't know.
Here's an example of what it sounds like, if you've never heard it:
p ?id=9220
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.ph
That's actually the most plausable theory I've seen so far. It's so plausable in fact, that the only way you could have known about it is if you've seen Episode Ten and traveled back in time to post this message. Thanks a lot you spoil sport!
Yeah, fun, until I though about slashdot.org... Yech, can you say sweaty geek?
I don't know how you can even compare BG/BG2 to NWN. The former series is IMHO far superior, the latter was just boring (the single player campaignes), had no battle tactics, mostly uninteresting spells, extremely linear and boiler-plate plot, conversation and game mechanics, and on top of all it was built with a tile-set world that made every scene look the same.
A friend of mine (a nuclear physicist) worked on a similar project at CERN (IIRC). At the time there were some (mostly unfounded) worries that the produced black holes would be a danger to man kind (they're not, as the article says they evaporate so quickly you hardly get to detect them.) Anyway, he said that if everything goes to hell, he planned to enter the afterlife wearing a t-shirt saying "I DID IT!" :-)
I personally have more hope in this alternative.
To me, D has surfaced to become what I always thought C++ should have been. I hope (and believe) that it will be giving C++ more competition in the comming years. It might not be ready for full production yet (due to lack of big supporters and libraries, mostly), but I have tried it out on several of my own projects, and I love it.
I can just imagine the chair throwing going on at Microsoft when they heard this. I hope you are right, that this means consolidation between IM networks. However, it also means locking MSN out of such a network, since MS isn't likely to make a deal with their greatest enemey, Google, at least not without considering it a huge defeat. I think they will be forced to in the end, though, if the non-MS network grows large enough.
BTW, the email = IM address is already true for both MSN and Google, isn't it?
Similar to your clock puzzle: Imagine having a clock where the hour hand and the minute hand are identical, and there is no way you can see which is which. But you can measure their angles exactly. How many times in 12 hours will it be impossible to see what time it is?
We got this puzzle in a "creative maths" class I took once. Took me surprisingly long to solve it...
No, you would (presumably) fill your car with hydrogen, which had been produced earlier by this bacteria somewhere. However, storage technology for hydrogen still has a long way to go, so don't expect this to have any practical implication on your life in the near future.
Those who have heard of it and looked into it take it seriously - but most haven't. Sure, it was mentioned on /. a while ago, but that was when the compiler was way back in beta-land - and it was announced as something completely new, so you can't blame people for not taking notice.
Now it's closing in on 1.0, and is very usable. Give it a try if you haven't already. I used to be a C++ guy. After using D for six months, just looking at C++ code makes my eyes hurt, nevermind coding in it.
You mean The Source.
That being said, they are currently working on a law (here in Norway) that will forbid copying a copy-protected cd to mp3, and it will probably be passed. But I don't know whether a DRM-protected iTMS song will be considered equivalent to a protected cd, legally.
In other words, the creation of a Microsoft specific "equals" means that code years down the road will require Microsoft specific tools to edit/change/run this code. I call shenanigans!
Well I can't help you. Stop calling me!
"Limited" only in the sense it can't be uploaded for unlimited distribution over the Internet? Something a lot of people don't particularly care about anyway, and wouldn't miss.
Ever heard of MP3-players?
Well, you could send one signal when pressing the button, and another when releasing.
Agreed. I find the most effective way of getting large files is to search kazaa/emule/whatever for a torrent, and continue from there. Granted, many torrents you find won't work, but a lot of them do.
Slashdotted!
I'm not trying to troll here, but when I click that link in Mozilla, the file is treated as a text/html document, not as a PDF. So I assume you could put up an exe posing as a pdf, and Mozilla (on windows) would swallow it as an executable just like IE.
Granted, Mozilla pops up a dialog stating the real file type. But isn't it still too easy to just click 'OK'? Especially when you 'know' you've clicked a PDF?