Do you know what CGI is ? It is not a specific language, so stating that PHP is "more widespread on servers" is bollocks. Common Gateway Interface. PHP is just another language that can be used for a CGI script.
If I owned a small guest house in London, I am banned from advertising that states "Thinking of coming to the LondonOlympics in 2012 ?, come stay with us at our comfortable hotel.
Sorry, you have to buy the rights to use those words !
That makes me a vulture does it ?
Considering that it's largely taxpayers money that's building the fucking event, I think they could relax a bit on the heavy handed copyright.
This is a good simile for software copyrights. Basic building blocks, common to all, arranged in a certain way can now be owned.
This was news a while ago, but there have been more since then, all of which are fixed in the latest update of Firefox (AFAIK). The Reg carried this story yesterday. I don't know if IE7 is fixed yet, but I had an auto update to Firefox (2.0.0.2), 3 days ago.
CSS not withstanding, you can use HTMLDOC to produce PDFs from html pages. If you are creating reports etc dynamically anyway, just create a temporary html file and convert it through HTMLDOC. I use Perl to generate reports and interface with HTMLDOC, but YMMV.
An example of the HTMLDOC specific code used in the conversion:
# Run HTMLDOC to provide the PDF file to the user... system "htmldoc --continuous --browserwidth 800 --landscape --size A4 --header... --left 1in --embedfonts -f $fileref.pdf $filename";
(the command is all on one line)This is running on RHEL 3 through Apache 2 and Perl 5.8.0
Does anyone else remember "way back when" in the mid-90s the internet would start to drag around lunch time and again around dinner time?
It still does. I'm on BT Broadband (UK) with a 6mbit down connection. When the kids are off school, and every evening around 5 to 7pm it takes forever to find sites and get pages. My solution is to use a different DNS server (mine on a colocated box in the US). Immediately, everything loads fine again. So I don't think bandwidth is the issue, just heavy traffic to BTs DNS servers for lookups.
That is a constitutionally protected right found in the Magna Carta, dating back almost eight centuries.
The Magna Carta is not a constitution !
I wish people would stop quoting it as if it amounted to the UK bill of rights. It was created to protect (financially) the nobility of the time from the king. It was not designed for me and you, people in the street. Even your link makes it plain - NO *Freeman* shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor [X1 condemn him,] but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.
A Freeman is a specific state of being, as is a Commoner. A Freeman is a man who does not pay tithes to a landlord or is otherwise in bond to a "higher" rated person. A Commoner has been given the specific right to graze cattle/sheep on common land. Neither term applies to the average person in the street, and there have been no amendments to the "Magna Carta" which change that situation.
As for the rest of your comment - the party in power has many ways to coerce a positive vote. They only need a majority of 1 remember. Also, even if the House of Lords rejects the bill, it can be sent back again. If they reject it 3 times, it can be passed into law. And basically the same applies with the Queen. There have probably been NO instances of the Royal family preventing a bill from being passed into law. What do you think all that stuff with Roundheads and Cavaliers was about ?
As for the government themselves, being as how they only got about 40% of the vote, when the turnout was less than 50%, I don't believe they have a moral mandate to pass any laws whatsoever. 2 thirds of the population of this country DIDN'T vote for them, or for what they are doing to our country.
In reality, DNA modification is no different than selective breeding and cross breeding, it just works a hell of a lot faster.
And just to go all Godwin on your ass - eugenics is no different to natural breeding and cross breeding. It just has a science behind it. How come it's ok to use eugenics on food, but not on people ? (In fact by altering the makeup of our food, primarily for profit, we are altering ourselves in ways we have no way of understanding).
You realise that a computer was originally the name given to a person who worked out the mathematics of a set problem. There used to be rooms full of "computers", scratching away with pencils on paper. So really, any problem solving device is a true computer. And by that definition, an electronic problem solving machine is a true computer. So, what do *you* mean by "true" computer ?
Just the text, saved from the page (copy and paste) is about 80k. The page saved through firefox as html is 204kB. this is on linux (FC4), so I don't know how you got such inflated figures. Maybe you are browsing at -1 ? Here is a list of all the images and sizes (I leave it to you to see if they add up to 600 kB ! )
That tells us two things - that we still have a ways to go where race relations are concerned, and we have a long, long way to go where bigotry towards gays is concerned.
But killing for sport is still acceptable huh ? Slight priority problem here I think.
I posted some thoughts a while back, but my comments festered without either response or modding (in either direction). So, can some one please explain to me how we, the human race, can continue to use energy and *not* raise the global temperature ?
Every device we use, adds a little bit of heat to the global system. We don't have 100% efficient devices, so every machine, engine, and electronic device adds to the system. We also have millions of miles on nice black roads, nice heat absorbing concrete and roof tiles. You could say, for instance, that if a house is not well insulated, then a certain amount of heat is lost to the atmosphere. We regard that as bad, because it is not efficient, or in real terms, we are wasting energy. But that seems to be where the problem is summed up - it's an issue of wasting a precious resource. I have never heard of any calculations that go further and attempt to quantify what effect all that lost heat has on the climate system. And don't say "it's insignificant", because it can't be. It is cumulative because it can't escape (due to CO2) and that old problem of conservation of energy says it can't just disappear.
And not only are we gradually, but inexorably raising the global temperature, we are also adding CO2 which helps to keep it trapped. Even if we got rid of all man made sources of CO2, it still wouldn't be enough, because we still keep adding heat. We would need to go to a much lower level of CO2 in the atmosphere, just to try and break even and stop the climate warming.
I can't accept that this isn't a cause for concern. Nature hasn't stopped all the natural heat producing processes, so the *normal* background heating is still there. All our stuff is over and above that. I am clearly not a scientist, but this issue appears to be the elephant in the room.
So, is it worth calculating the actual calorific value of all the wasted heat that we let escape and have come to regard as acceptable ? I mean a Calorie is a unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure. So we must be able to get some kind of idea what size the problem is. How much heating has occurred over the last 200 years, specifically caused by waste ?
There is a saying, "The brighter it burns, the shorter it lives". That says a lot about western societies, and their lust for energy.
In my last post, I mentioned the sight of the Northern Hemisphere as seen from space at night. The amount of light is incredible. And I know they don't give off a massive amount of heat, but they do give off *some", and this has been going on generation (oops pun) after generation, and the dots are starting to join up into large sheets of light. This is without the *dark* heat produced by every man made energy consuming machine. Mankind seems to be in a desperate race towards using all the energy we can get our grubby little mitts on. We pay lip service by trying to be efficient and not pollute, but we're really just trying to find new and interesting things to burn.
This is not a rant, I genuinely would like to understand this unwillingness to address the real problem. And it's not valid to say "we need these machines, what can you do" because I *need* a cigarette/large whiskey/12 pints . Doesn't mean it's good for me.
BTW, I do practice what I preach. I have no heating in my rooms, other than - a)the cooker which is only on when cooking, b)the water heater, which is manually turned on when I want some hot water and c)my media server, which runs all the time (it's only a sempron running at 1750 Mhz). Oh yeah, I have a couple of fluorescent lights too. If I feel cold, I *do* something. If it's nighttime, I go to bed, still get to watch the tv (on the computer) read a book, whatever. I realise I couldn't expect someone in Winnipeg to adhere to my standards, but there are things we can all do. Reduce seems to be the Cinderella of Reduce, Re-use and Recycle.
Oooh 2 anonymous cowards, bite me ! BTW it's 240v in the Uk. And yes, I do turn it off, unless its really necessary. I don't expect you to understand that, being in the land of limitless free energy....
The poor DO NOT CARE about free-as-in-freedom. OpenOffice does not give them the chance for getting a job, MS Office does. So MS Office wins.
You can start thinking about free-as-in-freedom once your belly is full.
Err, you'd better start thinking about it before Vista gets widely adopted... otherwise there is no way in. When the only workforce available knows nothing but Open Office, where are MS then ? Or are MS going to be providing free copies to allow H1Bs to get up to speed ?
Well some of the world thinks your a crazed bunch of war mongers, but this story, erm, never mind...
I was going to go down that road, you beat me to it.
How about: Is there any excuse you don't need to give your arms contractors some extra work?
Why don't you follow the lead of the rest of the "civilised" world, and just sell your tech. to the most warmongering (but least developed) customer you can find ?
Hell, just give it to China, they own your asses anyway !
AFAIK, there are precisely no online stores or providers (excepting iTunes) selling movies for download that don't require IE and Windows.
Channel 4 (UK), Amazon, Blockbuster, etc. iTunes isn't in the same league, but still requires the use of a seperate app. Even some uploading is restricted, Metacafe (as was mentioned on/. a few weeks ago) uses flash (!) to upload videos and can't handle linux contributors.
There is currently no legal competition for the likes of TPB and Mininova, and thus the movie producers will keep losing out.
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Oh bugger, I'm not mentioned on WP AT ALL ! &7ds9Ddsa9
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Do you know what CGI is ? It is not a specific language, so stating that PHP is "more widespread on servers" is bollocks.
Common Gateway Interface.
PHP is just another language that can be used for a CGI script.
And when I said software copyrights, I did of course mean software patents :p
If I owned a small guest house in London, I am banned from advertising that states "Thinking of coming to the London Olympics in 2012 ?, come stay with us at our comfortable hotel.
Sorry, you have to buy the rights to use those words !
That makes me a vulture does it ?
Considering that it's largely taxpayers money that's building the fucking event, I think they could relax a bit on the heavy handed copyright.
This is a good simile for software copyrights. Basic building blocks, common to all, arranged in a certain way can now be owned.
This was news a while ago, but there have been more since then, all of which are fixed in the latest update of Firefox (AFAIK).
The Reg carried this story yesterday. I don't know if IE7 is fixed yet, but I had an auto update to Firefox (2.0.0.2), 3 days ago.
An example of the HTMLDOC specific code used in the conversion
So I don't think bandwidth is the issue, just heavy traffic to BTs DNS servers for lookups.
I wish people would stop quoting it as if it amounted to the UK bill of rights. It was created to protect (financially) the nobility of the time from the king. It was not designed for me and you, people in the street. Even your link makes it plain - NO *Freeman* shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor [X1 condemn him,] but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.
A Freeman is a specific state of being, as is a Commoner. A Freeman is a man who does not pay tithes to a landlord or is otherwise in bond to a "higher" rated person. A Commoner has been given the specific right to graze cattle/sheep on common land. Neither term applies to the average person in the street, and there have been no amendments to the "Magna Carta" which change that situation.
As for the rest of your comment - the party in power has many ways to coerce a positive vote. They only need a majority of 1 remember. Also, even if the House of Lords rejects the bill, it can be sent back again. If they reject it 3 times, it can be passed into law. And basically the same applies with the Queen. There have probably been NO instances of the Royal family preventing a bill from being passed into law. What do you think all that stuff with Roundheads and Cavaliers was about ?
As for the government themselves, being as how they only got about 40% of the vote, when the turnout was less than 50%, I don't believe they have a moral mandate to pass any laws whatsoever. 2 thirds of the population of this country DIDN'T vote for them, or for what they are doing to our country.
How come it's ok to use eugenics on food, but not on people ? (In fact by altering the makeup of our food, primarily for profit, we are altering ourselves in ways we have no way of understanding).
You realise that a computer was originally the name given to a person who worked out the mathematics of a set problem. There used to be rooms full of "computers", scratching away with pencils on paper. So really, any problem solving device is a true computer. And by that definition, an electronic problem solving machine is a true computer. So, what do *you* mean by "true" computer ?
Yeah, GW Bush was elected !
(For those who don't know what a fascist looks like)
Too much information !
The page saved through firefox as html is 204kB.
this is on linux (FC4), so I don't know how you got such inflated figures. Maybe you are browsing at -1 ?
Here is a list of all the images and sizes (I leave it to you to see if they add up to 600 kB ! )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_Falcon and http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/p/peregrine/di
I posted some thoughts a while back, but my comments festered without either response or modding (in either direction). So, can some one please explain to me how we, the human race, can continue to use energy and *not* raise the global temperature ?
Every device we use, adds a little bit of heat to the global system. We don't have 100% efficient devices, so every machine, engine, and electronic device adds to the system. We also have millions of miles on nice black roads, nice heat absorbing concrete and roof tiles. You could say, for instance, that if a house is not well insulated, then a certain amount of heat is lost to the atmosphere. We regard that as bad, because it is not efficient, or in real terms, we are wasting energy. But that seems to be where the problem is summed up - it's an issue of wasting a precious resource. I have never heard of any calculations that go further and attempt to quantify what effect all that lost heat has on the climate system. And don't say "it's insignificant", because it can't be. It is cumulative because it can't escape (due to CO2) and that old problem of conservation of energy says it can't just disappear.
And not only are we gradually, but inexorably raising the global temperature, we are also adding CO2 which helps to keep it trapped. Even if we got rid of all man made sources of CO2, it still wouldn't be enough, because we still keep adding heat. We would need to go to a much lower level of CO2 in the atmosphere, just to try and break even and stop the climate warming.
I can't accept that this isn't a cause for concern. Nature hasn't stopped all the natural heat producing processes, so the *normal* background heating is still there. All our stuff is over and above that. I am clearly not a scientist, but this issue appears to be the elephant in the room.
So, is it worth calculating the actual calorific value of all the wasted heat that we let escape and have come to regard as acceptable ?
I mean a Calorie is a unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure. So we must be able to get some kind of idea what size the problem is. How much heating has occurred over the last 200 years, specifically caused by waste ?
There is a saying, "The brighter it burns, the shorter it lives". That says a lot about western societies, and their lust for energy.
In my last post, I mentioned the sight of the Northern Hemisphere as seen from space at night. The amount of light is incredible. And I know they don't give off a massive amount of heat, but they do give off *some", and this has been going on generation (oops pun) after generation, and the dots are starting to join up into large sheets of light. This is without the *dark* heat produced by every man made energy consuming machine. Mankind seems to be in a desperate race towards using all the energy we can get our grubby little mitts on. We pay lip service by trying to be efficient and not pollute, but we're really just trying to find new and interesting things to burn.
This is not a rant, I genuinely would like to understand this unwillingness to address the real problem. And it's not valid to say "we need these machines, what can you do" because I *need* a cigarette/large whiskey/12 pints . Doesn't mean it's good for me.
BTW, I do practice what I preach. I have no heating in my rooms, other than - a)the cooker which is only on when cooking, b)the water heater, which is manually turned on when I want some hot water and c)my media server, which runs all the time (it's only a sempron running at 1750 Mhz). Oh yeah, I have a couple of fluorescent lights too. If I feel cold, I *do* something. If it's nighttime, I go to bed, still get to watch the tv (on the computer) read a book, whatever. I realise I couldn't expect someone in Winnipeg to adhere to my standards, but there are things we can all do. Reduce seems to be the Cinderella of Reduce, Re-use and Recycle.
I'm a troll apparently. So which part was not according to regs. (or does Apple stuff not "just work")
Oooh 2 anonymous cowards, bite me ! BTW it's 240v in the Uk. And yes, I do turn it off, unless its really necessary. I don't expect you to understand that, being in the land of limitless free energy ....
which war are we referring to here ? WW2 ?
If there was no war, then the article subject would be about car accidents or similar.
Or are MS going to be providing free copies to allow H1Bs to get up to speed ?
How about :
Is there any excuse you don't need to give your arms contractors some extra work?
Why don't you follow the lead of the rest of the "civilised" world, and just sell your tech. to the most warmongering (but least developed) customer you can find ?
Hell, just give it to China, they own your asses anyway !
Ooops, what happened there then ?
go ahead, mod me troll, I'm getting used to itChannel 4 (UK), Amazon, Blockbuster, etc. iTunes isn't in the same league, but still requires the use of a seperate app. Even some uploading is restricted, Metacafe (as was mentioned on /. a few weeks ago) uses flash (!) to upload videos and can't handle linux contributors.
There is currently no legal competition for the likes of TPB and Mininova, and thus the movie producers will keep losing out.