While I love the wayback machine, a little "problem" creped in a couple of years ago that is still there... and it drives me nuts.
At one point, I forgot to renew my domain name and a squatter snatched it up the second it was available. I have since lost the html/java applets/images/etc that I had originally there. I used to show people what it looked like via the wayback machine. But you can't do it anymore. Example: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mindchild.net
Apparently, the current squatter put a robots.txt on that domain, and wayback refuses to show any ARCHIVED pages where the domain CURRENTLY has a robots.txt. I emailed them about it, and after a couple of months, I actually got a reply pretty much saying "That is just the way it is. We are underfunded and have no time to fix it. Sorry".
So if for some reason you don't want to have your site viewable via the wayback machine, just put up a robots.txt. It doesn't even need to contain anything.
because they see the drop-off of their revenue due to piracy
Due... to... piracy? That is a pretty bold claim. Maybe because they are spewing out the same old tired garbage, that no one sees value in it anymore. The percieved value of everything changes. Even the value of your cash. When people don't want your crap, you will sell less. If people can't do something more useful in your new version, you will sell less.
And do you think it is coincidence that even though we are talking about software, this is the exact same issue with the other big industry, music. People are tired of paying for the 13th Pearl Jam album that all sounds like filler from their first, so they sell less. They are tired of paying for a whole album just for a song or two, so they are selling less. Yet they are SURE that their revenues are slipping.... due... to... piracy.
Well, I'll play the other side of the fence (please note this doesn't confirm or deny my opinion of the situation either way).
Eventually, genetic testing will get cheap. You'll start seeing tests done for $20, buy one get one free on friday's. Somewhere a year or so ago (Please don't hate, I can't find the source), "they" had statistics from a study done, finding, at least in the USofA, that up to one in five children are not from the father who thinks they fathered them. Whether this is accurate or not isn't the issue. When everyone can go get themselves and their children tested for paternity for the price of an outing at a movie, our already broken families are going to break even more. The social impact of such a thing is quite frankly unimaginable... especially when it would likely happen at relatively the same time.
It isn't like you still can't get it done. You just need to explain to a professional why you think it is necessary. I think the GOAL is to hinder an unnecessary social breakdown. Look at the riots that came from the Rodney King beating. Now think about the fallout of millions of men finding out their children aren't biologically theirs.
What a load of horseshit. Let us say that life is fair and the world is perfect and everyone who wanted to use some piece of software actually paid for it. Greedy Corp X will still throw DRM at it because now they want you to pay for it for every machine you want to run it on... for every user that has an account on every machine you want to run it on... every three months for eternity.
DRM isn't REALLY about software piracy. I haven't known one person that has said "Hey! It is difficult to pirate this. I may as well just go buy it!". It is about squeezing the most money out of you that they possibly can for the least amount of product.
I hear ya. I read the following line and was completely flabbergasted:
Of that 50% of open source code, 70% was undocumented
When it told you up front that they were doing line counts, "70% was undocumented" tells me that a little under every three lines has a comment. If you ask me, that sounds like an awful lot of documentation.
The "food shortage" is precisely the same as the "gas shortage" that we are supposedly having. "Increased demand and the same supply means higher prices. It is simple math!", they say. There are still farmers that grow whole crops of corn just to get a government check to silo it up. For me to even consider a "shortage" is going on, there needs to be more demand than there is product. But that simply isn't the case with either product.
You know, everyone brings up Grim Fandango, but man... have any of you people actually PLAYED it? The premise of the story was neat, but the actual story was mediocre at best. At parts, you felt better off begging a rectal exam from a ungentle robot than pushing through the game. It just wasn't that fun. Now, Monkey Island 1, 2, and especially 3 were great games with a story that kept you wanting to play it. The Dig was another good one. BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET GRIM FANDANGO R.I.P.
On a side note, my wife and I, to this day, still say "That's not on fire":/
Well, the problem with the power pad was, if you had an IQ past about 40, you realized that the foot spots corresponded with the two buttons on the standard controller... where it was much easier to mash buttons than it was to actually get up and run.
Everyone slams Total Recall because they don't actually comprehend what actually was going on. So they hate the movie because what they think was actually going on was not what was going on at all.
Ill reply to you since you are the last reply that I see, and an obviously someone who enjoys getting mad.
GTA simulates what you would do if you were to steal a car and go on a killing spree. What would make stupid if it was Big Bird going on a killing spree using a blimp.
The Wii bowling simulates actual bowling... just like you would expect. You move your arm in an underhanded throwing motion to knock down the pins as best you can. Stupifying it would be like throwing a banana down the street to knock down homeless guys.
Guitar hero at least has an instrument shaped like what you are simulating, even if the handling is simplified, the concept is still the same.
This drum is NOT a drum set, but a glorified set of bongos, with sticks. Sure, there is nothing wrong with that, but, jesus christ, don't make the ignorants think this is how a rock band drummer plays the drums. It is flat out wrong. What would you say if guitar hero came with a harp controller instead?
Anyone who actually plays the drums can spot this as garbage from planets away. It isn't even set up like a real set... it is set up as a midi instrument like one of these instead of an actual drum set, like one of these.
You need a foot pedal. Your snare should be between your hi-hats (I don't even see any... am I supposed to ride the crash?) and your toms, which are best on a DIFFERENT level than your snare.
You didn't really dispute what I said. Your issue is a driver issue. Maybe a bad driver. Maybe the way that windows update installed it. Either way, you can't blame windows itself for your issue. You can blame the shitty product that updated your Windows install, or you can blame the OEM that wrote the driver.
And to just finish this out, everyone who has replied to my original post, saying I am wrong... they are in the same boat as you... driver issues (or for one guy, bad hardware).
I know it isn't the norm to compliment Windows, but Windows has been solid since 2k (minus Vista). And by solid, the only blue screen I've seen is a driver behaving badly. The only lockups I've seen is almost always trying to read an unreadable disk (hard drive bad sector, huge scratch in a DVD). It isn't the 90's anymore. Windows is no longer synonymous with the 9x line. The digs and pokes at it crashing and locking up just don't stick anymore.
60mb? Shit. My domain controller is an NT4 TS machine, 486dx2@66 with 4 megs of 30 pin memory on a 72 pin simm converter and a 200MB hard drive. It is going on 10 years old. Best. machine. ever.
Hijacked? Talk about sour. The GPL(v2) was about sharing changes. Its nature was NOT about keeping people from making money or keeping them from locking down the hardware that it ran on. What it comes down to is you (general) opted for the shitty men's room style toilet paper and you are bitching your ass hurts from wiping.
In a similar vein, Microsoft file server passwords were originally checked only on the client, a fact which went undiscovered until Samba came along.
It wasn't just Microsoft. NFS at one point in my life was synonymous with "no fucking security". It trusted the UserID that you transmitted with it. UserID 0 was a handy value to use...
People putting loaded handguns in their homes in the case of a wood-be assailant or robber breaking in. This is not only security theater, it increases the risk you are putting yourself and your family in.
Dude. Seriously. If someone is breaking into your house, while you are there, the chances are in the multitudes that the perp isn't alone and they have a weapon between them. And someone desperate enough to break into your house, while your home, with a weapon, is certainly desperate enough to mangle or kill you with it.
There are leagues of reasons to be against guns. This one, however, is so far out there, you MUST be an anti-gun fanatic for some reason or another.
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While I love the wayback machine, a little "problem" creped in a couple of years ago that is still there... and it drives me nuts.
At one point, I forgot to renew my domain name and a squatter snatched it up the second it was available. I have since lost the html/java applets/images/etc that I had originally there. I used to show people what it looked like via the wayback machine. But you can't do it anymore. Example: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mindchild.net
Apparently, the current squatter put a robots.txt on that domain, and wayback refuses to show any ARCHIVED pages where the domain CURRENTLY has a robots.txt. I emailed them about it, and after a couple of months, I actually got a reply pretty much saying "That is just the way it is. We are underfunded and have no time to fix it. Sorry".
So if for some reason you don't want to have your site viewable via the wayback machine, just put up a robots.txt. It doesn't even need to contain anything.
No sir. I will not look at your one hand while the other does something else.
The whole point was to illustrate that losing revenue is blamed on piracy, when it is likely that it is something much more obvious.
Thank you though for trying to completely twist my words to feed your troll. I appreciate it.
because they see the drop-off of their revenue due to piracy
Due... to... piracy? That is a pretty bold claim. Maybe because they are spewing out the same old tired garbage, that no one sees value in it anymore. The percieved value of everything changes. Even the value of your cash. When people don't want your crap, you will sell less. If people can't do something more useful in your new version, you will sell less.
And do you think it is coincidence that even though we are talking about software, this is the exact same issue with the other big industry, music. People are tired of paying for the 13th Pearl Jam album that all sounds like filler from their first, so they sell less. They are tired of paying for a whole album just for a song or two, so they are selling less. Yet they are SURE that their revenues are slipping.... due... to... piracy.
Well, I'll play the other side of the fence (please note this doesn't confirm or deny my opinion of the situation either way).
Eventually, genetic testing will get cheap. You'll start seeing tests done for $20, buy one get one free on friday's. Somewhere a year or so ago (Please don't hate, I can't find the source), "they" had statistics from a study done, finding, at least in the USofA, that up to one in five children are not from the father who thinks they fathered them. Whether this is accurate or not isn't the issue. When everyone can go get themselves and their children tested for paternity for the price of an outing at a movie, our already broken families are going to break even more. The social impact of such a thing is quite frankly unimaginable... especially when it would likely happen at relatively the same time.
It isn't like you still can't get it done. You just need to explain to a professional why you think it is necessary. I think the GOAL is to hinder an unnecessary social breakdown. Look at the riots that came from the Rodney King beating. Now think about the fallout of millions of men finding out their children aren't biologically theirs.
What a load of horseshit. Let us say that life is fair and the world is perfect and everyone who wanted to use some piece of software actually paid for it. Greedy Corp X will still throw DRM at it because now they want you to pay for it for every machine you want to run it on... for every user that has an account on every machine you want to run it on... every three months for eternity.
DRM isn't REALLY about software piracy. I haven't known one person that has said "Hey! It is difficult to pirate this. I may as well just go buy it!". It is about squeezing the most money out of you that they possibly can for the least amount of product.
I hear ya. I read the following line and was completely flabbergasted:
Of that 50% of open source code, 70% was undocumented
When it told you up front that they were doing line counts, "70% was undocumented" tells me that a little under every three lines has a comment. If you ask me, that sounds like an awful lot of documentation.
The point being, someone else can't patent it, then sue the pants off of everyone that used it.
The "food shortage" is precisely the same as the "gas shortage" that we are supposedly having. "Increased demand and the same supply means higher prices. It is simple math!", they say. There are still farmers that grow whole crops of corn just to get a government check to silo it up. For me to even consider a "shortage" is going on, there needs to be more demand than there is product. But that simply isn't the case with either product.
You know, everyone brings up Grim Fandango, but man... have any of you people actually PLAYED it? The premise of the story was neat, but the actual story was mediocre at best. At parts, you felt better off begging a rectal exam from a ungentle robot than pushing through the game. It just wasn't that fun. Now, Monkey Island 1, 2, and especially 3 were great games with a story that kept you wanting to play it. The Dig was another good one. BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET GRIM FANDANGO R.I.P.
:/
On a side note, my wife and I, to this day, still say "That's not on fire"
Does China's All-Seeing Eye work better than Yahoo's? Maybe I can finally find a Quake2 jailbreak server!
Well, the problem with the power pad was, if you had an IQ past about 40, you realized that the foot spots corresponded with the two buttons on the standard controller... where it was much easier to mash buttons than it was to actually get up and run.
Same thing with R.O.B.
Everyone slams Total Recall because they don't actually comprehend what actually was going on. So they hate the movie because what they think was actually going on was not what was going on at all.
I AM a gay 80s track, you INSENSITIVE CLOD!
Only the crazies use chars not in the first 127 of ASCII
Ill reply to you since you are the last reply that I see, and an obviously someone who enjoys getting mad.
GTA simulates what you would do if you were to steal a car and go on a killing spree. What would make stupid if it was Big Bird going on a killing spree using a blimp.
The Wii bowling simulates actual bowling... just like you would expect. You move your arm in an underhanded throwing motion to knock down the pins as best you can. Stupifying it would be like throwing a banana down the street to knock down homeless guys.
Guitar hero at least has an instrument shaped like what you are simulating, even if the handling is simplified, the concept is still the same.
This drum is NOT a drum set, but a glorified set of bongos, with sticks. Sure, there is nothing wrong with that, but, jesus christ, don't make the ignorants think this is how a rock band drummer plays the drums. It is flat out wrong. What would you say if guitar hero came with a harp controller instead?
First link SHOULD have been here
Anyone who actually plays the drums can spot this as garbage from planets away. It isn't even set up like a real set... it is set up as a midi instrument like one of these instead of an actual drum set, like one of these.
You need a foot pedal. Your snare should be between your hi-hats (I don't even see any... am I supposed to ride the crash?) and your toms, which are best on a DIFFERENT level than your snare.
It is a glorified midi drum kit. Not a drum set.
You didn't really dispute what I said. Your issue is a driver issue. Maybe a bad driver. Maybe the way that windows update installed it. Either way, you can't blame windows itself for your issue. You can blame the shitty product that updated your Windows install, or you can blame the OEM that wrote the driver.
And to just finish this out, everyone who has replied to my original post, saying I am wrong... they are in the same boat as you... driver issues (or for one guy, bad hardware).
It shouldn't. I agree. But I couldn't say Windows never locked up... I listed the only things that I knew to do so.
Prioritizing IO context is pretty tricky stuff. Even linux has recently had drama with the scheduler being replaced and augmented to no end.
Also, try/catch is to catch something that is throw()'n. A hardware exception requires SEH, which is expensive.
I know it isn't the norm to compliment Windows, but Windows has been solid since 2k (minus Vista). And by solid, the only blue screen I've seen is a driver behaving badly. The only lockups I've seen is almost always trying to read an unreadable disk (hard drive bad sector, huge scratch in a DVD). It isn't the 90's anymore. Windows is no longer synonymous with the 9x line. The digs and pokes at it crashing and locking up just don't stick anymore.
PITA is a bread?! I thought it was an acronym describing my wife. She sure does love the monkeys
60mb? Shit. My domain controller is an NT4 TS machine, 486dx2@66 with 4 megs of 30 pin memory on a 72 pin simm converter and a 200MB hard drive. It is going on 10 years old. Best. machine. ever.
Hijacked? Talk about sour. The GPL(v2) was about sharing changes. Its nature was NOT about keeping people from making money or keeping them from locking down the hardware that it ran on. What it comes down to is you (general) opted for the shitty men's room style toilet paper and you are bitching your ass hurts from wiping.
In a similar vein, Microsoft file server passwords were originally checked only on the client, a fact which went undiscovered until Samba came along.
It wasn't just Microsoft. NFS at one point in my life was synonymous with "no fucking security". It trusted the UserID that you transmitted with it. UserID 0 was a handy value to use...
People putting loaded handguns in their homes in the case of a wood-be assailant or robber breaking in. This is not only security theater, it increases the risk you are putting yourself and your family in.
Dude. Seriously. If someone is breaking into your house, while you are there, the chances are in the multitudes that the perp isn't alone and they have a weapon between them. And someone desperate enough to break into your house, while your home, with a weapon, is certainly desperate enough to mangle or kill you with it.
There are leagues of reasons to be against guns. This one, however, is so far out there, you MUST be an anti-gun fanatic for some reason or another.