Re:Finally, a use for all these things...
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My favorite NES quick-fix was breathing slowly onto the card connector. I swear just about everyone I showed it to thought I was clinically insane but were dumbfounded after the game worked on the very first try. I assume that condensation from one's own breath is just enough to overcome the accumulation of oxide and crud.
Re:super mario 3 rules... I think
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I think he was actually referring to the Super Mario World / Super Mario All-Stars combo cartridge that shipped with new SNES control decks just before Nintendo put them to rest.
It's possible that your arcade had the Japanese version. The gap has now narrowed significantly, but as recent as a few years ago, Japan always had about a year of lead-time versus the US when it came to console video games.
My friend says that circa-1986 or so, his brother rented what he described as "a new Mario game". It was in Japanese and the cartridge was held together by duct tape (!). Said friend played it for a bit, but at 6 years old decided it was too tough. It wasn't until the mid 90's when Super Mario All-Star came out that he realized that he had been playing the "lost levels" as they became known over here.
It would be nice to see a browser capable of masquerading around as IE or Netscape to decieve these foolish websites into not knowing what they are.
Unless I misread your post, almost every browser in existence has a way to change the user-agent string. Which brings me to a rant.
(rant mode on)
Whenever this topic comes up, I'm always tempted to write a letter to someone at W3C asking them to strongly consider taking the user-agent identification string right out of the HTTP specification. The stated purpose of the World Wide Web proper is accessability to content regardless of presentation. A user-agent string has no other purpose than to allow web designers to discriminate against particular web browsers and needs to be stricken from the recommendations if RFC's and other 'net standards are ever to be taken seriously by the clueless majority of web designers.
And please don't try to argue that the user-agent string is useful in that it provides webmasters with the ability to see which browser is used most often on their site. I'm sure some webmasters find it very useful for that, but rest assured that if they didn't have that information, they'd be forced to grow a bit of a clue and design their sites to work across all browsers rather than just the particular one with the greatest market share.
(rant mode off)
I'm open to suggestions on whether anybody else thinks this is a good idea or not.
Okay, I know what SVGs are. I know their purpose, their utility, etc. But I haven't actually worked with them and don't currently know anyone who does. My question is this: Are you limited to cartoonish-type images using SVG or are they a great deal more flexible than my little mind can comprehend?
Has anyone noticed yet that these are not 5GB hard disks, but by definition classify as floppy disks? This has been too long in coming. Hope they're not prohibitively expensive like ZIP disks are.
Right now, the editor attitude "hu, can't hear ya" is seriously giving the impression that they don't give a flying fuck about it.
Er, because they don't. It's always been like this and it's usually people with high UIDs that seem to think it's not normal. Malda has repeatedly said over and over again that Slashdot goes in the direction that he and rest of the crew in Holland, MI take it. They have the final word. Not the users. The attitude may seem dictatorial, but if popularity is the judge, it's been working for them pretty well it seems.
Anyway, the prez's email address is president@whitehouse.gov
No, that's the email address that the general populace can send email to if they have a comment that they'd like the president to hear about. If he does have an actual email address, it's probably considered classified information and he probably has staff operating the actual account for him. Most likely of all, however, is that the president doesn't even have an email address (you'd have to bring your comment to the staff of one of his cabinet members).
I think Snow Crash made into a movie would have about as much critical success as Sphere did. Great book on both counts, but too much is lost in the transition to the big screen. Plus, directors tend to get special-effect-happy with these kinds of stories.
I agree, but to some degree *every* movie, book, and story borrows from something before it. Scholars and literary critics have noted frequently that there haven't been any original plots developed since Shakespeare's work.
The difference between The Matrix and everything else is that the Wachowski[sp] Brothers pulled their fantastic story together from so many different places. (And admit as such.) Contrast that with almost all of the rest of today's movies and you'll see that they tend to mostly borrow from only one, two, or at most three sources. It's particularly disgusting when the sources are movies already themselves. IMHO, that's basically stealing.
You should have cut and pasted the byline also, since you spelled Yankovic wrong. You also neglected to note that the song is set to the tune of Eye of the Tiger, thus destroying the joke.
With all the debate going on, it really seems too easy an explanation, doesn't it?
MP3's + broadband have fundamentally changed the scale of bootlegging, as well as reduced the incentive to go out and purchase the digital copy.
Is that really a bad thing?
I know that my consumption of plasti-cased CD's has gone down drastically since I discovered eMusic (from ~1/week to ~1/quarter). You're really buying more CD's now than you used to, adjusted for your disposable income?
Companies are the ones who care about things like total annual CD purchases per person, I don't. I would estimate that my personal album buying rate has increased slightly as compared to before the MP3 boom while my overall satisfaction with the music that I purchase has significantly increased.
If you really want to put your (lack of) money where your mouth is, go to MP3.com & download from there. Oh- is it too hard to find stuff you like over there? Can't find artists & producers you love? Then the labels - as evil as they are - are providing you a service (at least A&R, if nothing else).
I'm not sure what you're getting at. If you're implying that I'm justifying being a theif then I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong tree on both the justifying part and the theif part. I buy music like everyone else.
Or better yet, subscribe to eMusic or another MP3 distribution model that rewards artists, labels, and consumers (not the label-based ones, which are anti-consumer). Stop rationalizing your actions, please!
I happen to already have a convenient (from my perspective) method of finding music that I like. What's wrong with me "rationalizing" my downloading of MP3s to acquire and/or sample music if you're going to "rationalize" doing the same thing only via a different method? Have you ever used time-shifting to "rationalize" buying a VCR or PVR? Stop attacking people just for the sake of attacking people. It makes you look foolish.
I don't like used car salesmen. They are greedy, evil, and not to be trusted. I still don't go on the lot and test-drive their cars for months without their knowledge (even if that will make me more likely to buy it in the future). Some might even call that theft! (Even though they deserve it, since they are evil and greedy.) I'm certainly not going to claim that I steal - er, borrow - the car on principle. I borrow it because the truth is that I'm a poor greedy bastard who doesn't choose to live without things I don't want to pay for.
I don't see what cars have to do with MP3s. Any person who goes out and buys a $15-$20 album without having the slightest clue what is on it is potentially wasting their money. I do not waste my money.
But, since it's so much easier to steal music, I guess that makes it ok.
This is a childish cop-out. As stated above, I do not steal music.
As much as I hate MPAA & RIAA (which I do), the "they deserve it" attitude is exactly the thing that will push Congress into draconian regulations that will take years to undo. Because of the fact that there is less structure in place to protect copyrights, the onus is on us to respect them (whether we like them or not). If we don't, that structure will be imposed and convenient little things like fair use will get thrown out with the bathwater.
Got all that off your chest now? Good. I get the feeling that you're trying to reply to a bunch of different posts that you didn't agree with since my post didn't address any of that because it's irrelevant. I'll reiterate: I support the artists who's music I enjoy. I'd rather not have things like watermarking made legally mandatory for all media but ultimately, the MPAA and RIAA's actions have little to nothing to do with how I purchase my music. Neither do they have anything to do with the music I download.
Your "don't upset the sleeping giant" take on retaining liberties is certainly different from most Slashdot opinions, though. I might also add that if you're afraid that Congress will do something that you don't agree with, you might actually try telling them about it. I have and can verify that it works.
Both of you missed the point entirely. People have been sampling and/or listening to music without paying for it for ages (legally or otherwise) and filesharing is just another avenue to enable them to do that. If I hadn't had access to filesharing programs such as Napster, I can think of three artists in particular who would have sold at least 5 CDs less because I wouldn't have even heard of them in the first place.
All of you "starving-artist advocates" need to acknowledge that all of the music industry's problems are caused by the music industry itself, not the fans. We support the artists we love and tend to ignore the artists who constantly complain about not having enough money. (Metallica, et al.)
This is the latest stable release from mozilla.org, and all users of Mozilla 1.0, Mozilla 1.0.1, Mozilla 1.1 or any of the alpha/beta/release candidates are encouraged to upgrade to this release.
Now, I'm not going to challenge asa, but according to the roadmap, the 1.x series doesn't supercede the 1.0.x series. I thought 1.0.x was supposed to be the "stable" series. After having enormous problems with 1.1, I decided to play it safe by sticking with 1.0.x and haven't had any problems yet. Additionally, 1.2 doesn't look to have any must-have features for me.
Mozilla on Mac OS X is somewhat joke. It doesn't feel like a native application.
I Forgot to mention that for OS X, there is a theme called Pinstripe that uses OS X's Appearance Manager to render Mozilla with the native Aqua backgrounds and widgets. According to the web page, the operating system draws most of the theme and there are very few (if any) external pixmaps.
This invalidates your claims that there is no native OS X theme for Mozilla and that themes are useless.
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Also: http://www.airbornelaser.com/
My favorite NES quick-fix was breathing slowly onto the card connector. I swear just about everyone I showed it to thought I was clinically insane but were dumbfounded after the game worked on the very first try. I assume that condensation from one's own breath is just enough to overcome the accumulation of oxide and crud.
I think he was actually referring to the Super Mario World / Super Mario All-Stars combo cartridge that shipped with new SNES control decks just before Nintendo put them to rest.
It's possible that your arcade had the Japanese version. The gap has now narrowed significantly, but as recent as a few years ago, Japan always had about a year of lead-time versus the US when it came to console video games.
My friend says that circa-1986 or so, his brother rented what he described as "a new Mario game". It was in Japanese and the cartridge was held together by duct tape (!). Said friend played it for a bit, but at 6 years old decided it was too tough. It wasn't until the mid 90's when Super Mario All-Star came out that he realized that he had been playing the "lost levels" as they became known over here.
It would be nice to see a browser capable of masquerading around as IE or Netscape to decieve these foolish websites into not knowing what they are.
Unless I misread your post, almost every browser in existence has a way to change the user-agent string. Which brings me to a rant.
(rant mode on)
Whenever this topic comes up, I'm always tempted to write a letter to someone at W3C asking them to strongly consider taking the user-agent identification string right out of the HTTP specification. The stated purpose of the World Wide Web proper is accessability to content regardless of presentation. A user-agent string has no other purpose than to allow web designers to discriminate against particular web browsers and needs to be stricken from the recommendations if RFC's and other 'net standards are ever to be taken seriously by the clueless majority of web designers.
And please don't try to argue that the user-agent string is useful in that it provides webmasters with the ability to see which browser is used most often on their site. I'm sure some webmasters find it very useful for that, but rest assured that if they didn't have that information, they'd be forced to grow a bit of a clue and design their sites to work across all browsers rather than just the particular one with the greatest market share.
(rant mode off)
I'm open to suggestions on whether anybody else thinks this is a good idea or not.
Stay away from Slashnet. Those monkeys will throw their keyboards at you.
Okay, I know what SVGs are. I know their purpose, their utility, etc. But I haven't actually worked with them and don't currently know anyone who does. My question is this: Are you limited to cartoonish-type images using SVG or are they a great deal more flexible than my little mind can comprehend?
Has anyone noticed yet that these are not 5GB hard disks, but by definition classify as floppy disks? This has been too long in coming. Hope they're not prohibitively expensive like ZIP disks are.
On a GNU system, just "shred
On a GNU system, "man shred".
Right now, the editor attitude "hu, can't hear ya" is seriously giving the impression that they don't give a flying fuck about it.
Er, because they don't. It's always been like this and it's usually people with high UIDs that seem to think it's not normal. Malda has repeatedly said over and over again that Slashdot goes in the direction that he and rest of the crew in Holland, MI take it. They have the final word. Not the users. The attitude may seem dictatorial, but if popularity is the judge, it's been working for them pretty well it seems.
I see it going something like this:
TechTV Host: Okay Kevin, here's your computer, you have the controls. You said you were thinking about browsing a few web sites?
Kevin: Yes. I think I'd like to try Yahoo.
Kevin: Ah. Here we go. Hmm. This is odd, it doesn't look like the screenshots I've seen in magazines...
Kevin displays shock and surprise.
Kevin: It looks like a hundred pages of CREDIT CARD NUMBERS! Hey, what's going on!?!
Cops bust through the doors, comedy ensues.
*.mil is American.
Umm, yeah? So?
Anyway, the prez's email address is president@whitehouse.gov
No, that's the email address that the general populace can send email to if they have a comment that they'd like the president to hear about. If he does have an actual email address, it's probably considered classified information and he probably has staff operating the actual account for him. Most likely of all, however, is that the president doesn't even have an email address (you'd have to bring your comment to the staff of one of his cabinet members).
I just want to note, in an overtly bitter tone, that I had this same idea 2 years ago.
But apparently hundreds of thousands of users all over the world
Er, according to a recent news article, AOLs user base clocks in at around 35 million worldwide.
Here is a printable version of the article that contains less spam and is easier to read.
I think Snow Crash made into a movie would have about as much critical success as Sphere did. Great book on both counts, but too much is lost in the transition to the big screen. Plus, directors tend to get special-effect-happy with these kinds of stories.
I agree, but to some degree *every* movie, book, and story borrows from something before it. Scholars and literary critics have noted frequently that there haven't been any original plots developed since Shakespeare's work.
The difference between The Matrix and everything else is that the Wachowski[sp] Brothers pulled their fantastic story together from so many different places. (And admit as such.) Contrast that with almost all of the rest of today's movies and you'll see that they tend to mostly borrow from only one, two, or at most three sources. It's particularly disgusting when the sources are movies already themselves. IMHO, that's basically stealing.
Theme to Rocky XIII, by Weird Al Yankovich
You should have cut and pasted the byline also, since you spelled Yankovic wrong. You also neglected to note that the song is set to the tune of Eye of the Tiger, thus destroying the joke.
Agreed. Brilliant sig, btw.
This is a drastic over-simplification.
With all the debate going on, it really seems too easy an explanation, doesn't it?
MP3's + broadband have fundamentally changed the scale of bootlegging, as well as reduced the incentive to go out and purchase the digital copy.
Is that really a bad thing?
I know that my consumption of plasti-cased CD's has gone down drastically since I discovered eMusic (from ~1/week to ~1/quarter). You're really buying more CD's now than you used to, adjusted for your disposable income?
Companies are the ones who care about things like total annual CD purchases per person, I don't. I would estimate that my personal album buying rate has increased slightly as compared to before the MP3 boom while my overall satisfaction with the music that I purchase has significantly increased.
If you really want to put your (lack of) money where your mouth is, go to MP3.com & download from there. Oh- is it too hard to find stuff you like over there? Can't find artists & producers you love? Then the labels - as evil as they are - are providing you a service (at least A&R, if nothing else).
I'm not sure what you're getting at. If you're implying that I'm justifying being a theif then I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong tree on both the justifying part and the theif part. I buy music like everyone else.
Or better yet, subscribe to eMusic or another MP3 distribution model that rewards artists, labels, and consumers (not the label-based ones, which are anti-consumer). Stop rationalizing your actions, please!
I happen to already have a convenient (from my perspective) method of finding music that I like. What's wrong with me "rationalizing" my downloading of MP3s to acquire and/or sample music if you're going to "rationalize" doing the same thing only via a different method? Have you ever used time-shifting to "rationalize" buying a VCR or PVR? Stop attacking people just for the sake of attacking people. It makes you look foolish.
I don't like used car salesmen. They are greedy, evil, and not to be trusted. I still don't go on the lot and test-drive their cars for months without their knowledge (even if that will make me more likely to buy it in the future). Some might even call that theft! (Even though they deserve it, since they are evil and greedy.) I'm certainly not going to claim that I steal - er, borrow - the car on principle. I borrow it because the truth is that I'm a poor greedy bastard who doesn't choose to live without things I don't want to pay for.
I don't see what cars have to do with MP3s. Any person who goes out and buys a $15-$20 album without having the slightest clue what is on it is potentially wasting their money. I do not waste my money.
But, since it's so much easier to steal music, I guess that makes it ok.
This is a childish cop-out. As stated above, I do not steal music.
As much as I hate MPAA & RIAA (which I do), the "they deserve it" attitude is exactly the thing that will push Congress into draconian regulations that will take years to undo. Because of the fact that there is less structure in place to protect copyrights, the onus is on us to respect them (whether we like them or not). If we don't, that structure will be imposed and convenient little things like fair use will get thrown out with the bathwater.
Got all that off your chest now? Good. I get the feeling that you're trying to reply to a bunch of different posts that you didn't agree with since my post didn't address any of that because it's irrelevant. I'll reiterate: I support the artists who's music I enjoy. I'd rather not have things like watermarking made legally mandatory for all media but ultimately, the MPAA and RIAA's actions have little to nothing to do with how I purchase my music. Neither do they have anything to do with the music I download.
Your "don't upset the sleeping giant" take on retaining liberties is certainly different from most Slashdot opinions, though. I might also add that if you're afraid that Congress will do something that you don't agree with, you might actually try telling them about it. I have and can verify that it works.
Both of you missed the point entirely. People have been sampling and/or listening to music without paying for it for ages (legally or otherwise) and filesharing is just another avenue to enable them to do that. If I hadn't had access to filesharing programs such as Napster, I can think of three artists in particular who would have sold at least 5 CDs less because I wouldn't have even heard of them in the first place.
All of you "starving-artist advocates" need to acknowledge that all of the music industry's problems are caused by the music industry itself, not the fans. We support the artists we love and tend to ignore the artists who constantly complain about not having enough money. (Metallica, et al.)
The nvtv project supposedly allows you to manipulate TV-out on GeForce cards with extreme precision.
And while I'm here, could I ask you what brand and model GeForce you have? And which TV-out decoder it uses?
This is the latest stable release from mozilla.org, and all users of Mozilla 1.0, Mozilla 1.0.1, Mozilla 1.1 or any of the alpha/beta/release candidates are encouraged to upgrade to this release.
Now, I'm not going to challenge asa, but according to the roadmap, the 1.x series doesn't supercede the 1.0.x series. I thought 1.0.x was supposed to be the "stable" series. After having enormous problems with 1.1, I decided to play it safe by sticking with 1.0.x and haven't had any problems yet. Additionally, 1.2 doesn't look to have any must-have features for me.
So what gives?
Mozilla on Mac OS X is somewhat joke. It doesn't feel like a native application.
I Forgot to mention that for OS X, there is a theme called Pinstripe that uses OS X's Appearance Manager to render Mozilla with the native Aqua backgrounds and widgets. According to the web page, the operating system draws most of the theme and there are very few (if any) external pixmaps.
This invalidates your claims that there is no native OS X theme for Mozilla and that themes are useless.