Sorry about that, I goofed up on the link the first time.
Since you seem so convinced that you have all these legal rights, perhaps you could show me the law that entitles you to them? Oh wait, I can see it now...
"This copyright law may hereby ignored by anyone who doesn't like it."
I rip them from my own CD's and trade with friends (since we paid for the CD, we can make copies and give them out for free to anyone we want, regardless of what the RIAA says)
No, that's what Federal law says. As much as you might hate it and not wish to believe it, it's true. Copyright does exist, and just saying "well it's only for a few friends" does not excuse you from complying with it. You have NO LEGAL RIGHT to copy those copyrighted CD's unless they say you can.
There are limited exceptions for educational fair use, but those don't exactly apply here.
I rip them from my own CD's and trade with friends (since we paid for the CD, we can make copies and give them out for free to anyone we want, regardless of what the RIAA says)
No, that's what says. As much as you might hate it and not wish to believe it, it's true. Copyright does exist, and just saying "well it's only for a few friends" does not excuse you from complying with it. You have NO LEGAL RIGHT to copy those copyrighted CD's unless they say you can.
There are limited exceptions for educational fair use, but those don't exactly apply here.
Since you obviously didn't read the article, I should inform you that that's exactly what it recommended. The Apache proxy should be set to only handle requests for a specific site under the administrator's control.
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I can't wait until Stirling engines become popular, either for cars or just home electrical power. Basically, they're external combustion engines that run off any heat difference; a furnace, a paraboloidal solar collector, whatever.
It seems like about once a year, I read a report somewhere like PopSci that someone's finally figured out how to make the concept workable for commercial purposes - even though Stirling engines were used very successfully in rural areas in the 1800s!. Yet somehow, every startup just disappears off the face of the earth afterwards for no apparent reason. Coincidence... or conspiracy?
That may work in an office environment when the phones are hooked up to the switch, but what about at home, when your VOIP is over cable or phone line? No power, no dial tone.
That is most certainly not the case. Phone lines and internet access often work during power outages as long as you and the ISP/telco have backup power for your equipment.
Unrelated to Gbrowser, it was a sad day yesterday when one of my coworkers and best friends took a walk outside the Google Lunar Building and forgot to wear his magnetic boots (as Google has laid down metal sidewalks). Consequently, he floated off into space, and we expect him to collide with Mars in a few years.
And anyway, not to be pedantic but there is indeed gravity in orbit. What do you think makes things stay in orbit?
Let's see, for Java to be secure the VM has to have no exploits. My first point.
Granted - but isn't it easier to check the JVM than every single installed application?
The Java VM *does* occupy memory. It does take time to run [as it's not what your program does]. My second point.
The memory footprint is still an issue, true, but all modern implementations contain a just-in-time compiler which makes the speed difference small.
Java is very "type safe" which means many innocent operations make it fail to build [e.g. assigning small ints to byte types...]
Ever heard of casts? You can still do it, just not accidentally. If you know what you're doing you shouldn't have any problems at all.
Also all of your functions must be stored in a class.
So? If you want to write your program using object-oriented methodology, it allows for reusability and encapsulation; if not, it adds two extra lines to your program. No harm done.
Let's not forget that the API is very very large.
Bigger than the Windows GDI, filesystem, Winsock, MS Jet database, cryptography, etc. APIs all rolled into one? Bigger than GTK+, POSIX, and MySQL? I think not.
There seem to be a lot of misunderstandings about Java around here; while not the most efficient language in the world, it makes it far easier to write correct and elegant code.
The late Mike Watts, a moderator at JustLinux.com. He helped literally thousands of people get started in the world of Linux before he finally passed away.
J2ME (the mobile Java standard) already includes a general location API which handles any type of positioning system, be it tower triangulation, GPS, or whatever. All we need is the hardware.
Will this really do any good if your service provider says you can only use content that they provide? I'm not interested in buying 1.5GB of songs twice.
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Sorry about that, I goofed up on the link the first time.
Since you seem so convinced that you have all these legal rights, perhaps you could show me the law that entitles you to them? Oh wait, I can see it now...
"This copyright law may hereby ignored by anyone who doesn't like it."
Somehow, I don't think so.
D'oh... please ignore the previous post.
I rip them from my own CD's and trade with friends (since we paid for the CD, we can make copies and give them out for free to anyone we want, regardless of what the RIAA says)
No, that's what Federal law says. As much as you might hate it and not wish to believe it, it's true. Copyright does exist, and just saying "well it's only for a few friends" does not excuse you from complying with it. You have NO LEGAL RIGHT to copy those copyrighted CD's unless they say you can.
There are limited exceptions for educational fair use, but those don't exactly apply here.
I rip them from my own CD's and trade with friends (since we paid for the CD, we can make copies and give them out for free to anyone we want, regardless of what the RIAA says)
No, that's what says. As much as you might hate it and not wish to believe it, it's true. Copyright does exist, and just saying "well it's only for a few friends" does not excuse you from complying with it. You have NO LEGAL RIGHT to copy those copyrighted CD's unless they say you can.
There are limited exceptions for educational fair use, but those don't exactly apply here.
Since you obviously didn't read the article, I should inform you that that's exactly what it recommended. The Apache proxy should be set to only handle requests for a specific site under the administrator's control.
I can't wait until Stirling engines become popular, either for cars or just home electrical power. Basically, they're external combustion engines that run off any heat difference; a furnace, a paraboloidal solar collector, whatever.
It seems like about once a year, I read a report somewhere like PopSci that someone's finally figured out how to make the concept workable for commercial purposes - even though Stirling engines were used very successfully in rural areas in the 1800s!. Yet somehow, every startup just disappears off the face of the earth afterwards for no apparent reason. Coincidence... or conspiracy?
That may work in an office environment when the phones are hooked up to the switch, but what about at home, when your VOIP is over cable or phone line? No power, no dial tone.
That is most certainly not the case. Phone lines and internet access often work during power outages as long as you and the ISP/telco have backup power for your equipment.
Allow me to quote:
Unrelated to Gbrowser, it was a sad day yesterday when one of my coworkers and best friends took a walk outside the Google Lunar Building and forgot to wear his magnetic boots (as Google has laid down metal sidewalks). Consequently, he floated off into space, and we expect him to collide with Mars in a few years.
And anyway, not to be pedantic but there is indeed gravity in orbit. What do you think makes things stay in orbit?
It's DIE-rac, not dih-RAC.
Remember...
There is no HTML.
There is no PDF.
There is no Flash.
There is only XUL.
forgot to wear his magnetic boots... Consequently, he floated off into space
Um, ever heard of a little thing called gravity?
Well said. I would never have expected to see something this insightful and caring on a site like Slashdot. You've done us all proud.
Ugly? I agree, the Metal look and feel leaves much to be desired, but have you tried Java 1.5 yet? Or the JGoodies theme?
This is beginning to look like a reward system where a success is reflected in the number of mod points you get from your comments.
Gee, you think?
For a minute I thought you were speaking Klingon.
;)
Perl does tend to have that effect on people.
Try this extension - it shows ALT tags as tooltips in Mozilla, just like in IE.
Let's take this one point at a time.
Let's see, for Java to be secure the VM has to have no exploits. My first point.
Granted - but isn't it easier to check the JVM than every single installed application?
The Java VM *does* occupy memory. It does take time to run [as it's not what your program does]. My second point.
The memory footprint is still an issue, true, but all modern implementations contain a just-in-time compiler which makes the speed difference small.
Java is very "type safe" which means many innocent operations make it fail to build [e.g. assigning small ints to byte types...]
Ever heard of casts? You can still do it, just not accidentally. If you know what you're doing you shouldn't have any problems at all.
Also all of your functions must be stored in a class.
So? If you want to write your program using object-oriented methodology, it allows for reusability and encapsulation; if not, it adds two extra lines to your program. No harm done.
Let's not forget that the API is very very large.
Bigger than the Windows GDI, filesystem, Winsock, MS Jet database, cryptography, etc. APIs all rolled into one? Bigger than GTK+, POSIX, and MySQL? I think not.
There seem to be a lot of misunderstandings about Java around here; while not the most efficient language in the world, it makes it far easier to write correct and elegant code.
Probably the latter - remember, you're going to be in the vacuum of space so the effect is negative. ;)
In the finest tradition of Slashdot...
PWN3D!
They already do - haven't you seen the popups? "YOUR COMPUTER MAY BE INFECTED WITH SPYWARE! And it's broadcasting an IP address! Woe is you!"
The late Mike Watts, a moderator at JustLinux.com. He helped literally thousands of people get started in the world of Linux before he finally passed away.
:(
You will be missed mdwatts.
And load Coral down with tens of thousands of extra hits per day, without notifying them? Somehow I doubt that would go over well.
J2ME (the mobile Java standard) already includes a general location API which handles any type of positioning system, be it tower triangulation, GPS, or whatever. All we need is the hardware.
Will this really do any good if your service provider says you can only use content that they provide? I'm not interested in buying 1.5GB of songs twice.
I'd invest in Debian if I were you.
It works fine for me on 0.9.1, but it shouldn't be version-dependent as it's pure Javascript.
And no, it's not a joke. What's the exact problem you're having?