do we want to live in a society where money is what motivates art?
I want to live in a society where the artist decides whether he/she is motivated to make art. I also want to live in a society where there are many different ways in which to motivate artists, since that results in more art. If the only art that's left is art motivated by non-financial reasons, there will be less art. And since great art != non-financially-motivated art, in the end less art is less good.
And all that happened per the (I assume) copyright holder's wishes. All you can do is inform the producer and maybe next time he'll decide to let you distribute a couple of copies. For now, just because it may have been in the producer's best interest doesn't give anyone the right to make that decision for him.
Kudos to you for educating your son and kudos to him for not going behind your back.
Try getting a good adventure game like the old Lucasarts point-and-click adventures.
As you or others may not be aware, Tales of Monkey Island is thoroughly enjoyable. Telltale Games is doing a good job on this "long-dead" game formula with other games like the Sam & Max franchise as well.
Nothing in the linked page says that they're going to lock out "unsupported" browsers.
If you are using a browser that we don't support, you may not be able to access our site or you may not have the same level of performance as if you were using a supported browser.
Essentially they're saying that the site may not perform per specification in browsers that they do not test with because they're only used by less than 5% of their users. This is nothing other than a "we didn't test, so don't expect it to work" disclaimer. Nobody is getting locked out and nobody is discriminated against. The site's developers are simply cutting some corners to save costs. Business as usual.
I hate it when people use my name when we're having a direct conversation because it invokes a "pay attention" response that is jarring and often unnecessary. But from now on I'll tell myself that it's just their way of memorizing my name. Thank you.
Given that it's just an infinitely-looping video, I'm guessing that the VIDEO element in HTML 5 would actually make this a pretty trivial website to make.
Something more interactive (and equally "wtf?") like Boohbah Zone would be less easy to make.
They remade The Italian Job? WTF? That's a classic, man! Is there nothing sacred in this world anymore? I'm so tired of good movies being remade to squeeze out a little extra cash without needing to make up an original plot.
Whatever. I wonder who they got to play Mark Wahlberg's part...
Awesome. From now on, let's just post 1 story on Slashdot per day with all of the good stuff in it, so that we may discuss everything in it in one big unrelated clusterfsck of comments.
You're right. There's a big difference between running a program that already exists on the User's computer after getting approval to do so, and running arbitrary code embedded in the PDF after showing the user an arbitrary message.
If you're really a nerd, you'll want to scroll through the PDF Reference section 8.5 ("Actions"). Be careful though, as it may hurt a little.
Instead of simply jumping to a destination in the document, an annotation or outline item can specify an action (PDF 1.1) for the viewer application to perform, such as launching an application, playing a sound, or changing an annotation's appearance state. [...] In addition, the optional OpenAction entry in a document's catalog (Section 3.6.1, "Document Catalog") may specify an action to be performed when the document is opened.
It's actually very well-defined, and creating a document that implements this part of the specification should be trivial.
Multiple versions of IE can be done courtesy of here or here
AFAIK, the only safe and MS-supported way to run multiple versions of IE is to use MS Virtual PC. They even provide free images to run IE6-8 on XP and IE7-8 on Vista.
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do we want to live in a society where money is what motivates art?
I want to live in a society where the artist decides whether he/she is motivated to make art. I also want to live in a society where there are many different ways in which to motivate artists, since that results in more art. If the only art that's left is art motivated by non-financial reasons, there will be less art. And since great art != non-financially-motivated art, in the end less art is less good.
And all that happened per the (I assume) copyright holder's wishes. All you can do is inform the producer and maybe next time he'll decide to let you distribute a couple of copies. For now, just because it may have been in the producer's best interest doesn't give anyone the right to make that decision for him.
Kudos to you for educating your son and kudos to him for not going behind your back.
Try getting a good adventure game like the old Lucasarts point-and-click adventures.
As you or others may not be aware, Tales of Monkey Island is thoroughly enjoyable. Telltale Games is doing a good job on this "long-dead" game formula with other games like the Sam & Max franchise as well.
Nothing in the linked page says that they're going to lock out "unsupported" browsers.
If you are using a browser that we don't support, you may not be able to access our site or you may not have the same level of performance as if you were using a supported browser.
Essentially they're saying that the site may not perform per specification in browsers that they do not test with because they're only used by less than 5% of their users. This is nothing other than a "we didn't test, so don't expect it to work" disclaimer. Nobody is getting locked out and nobody is discriminated against. The site's developers are simply cutting some corners to save costs. Business as usual.
Y'all are posting in a troll thread.
Because that's almost completely ridiculous.
I hate it when people use my name when we're having a direct conversation because it invokes a "pay attention" response that is jarring and often unnecessary. But from now on I'll tell myself that it's just their way of memorizing my name. Thank you.
Just put them back in the dryer. They'll make their way back.
Hooker caviar with chimp eggs spread on the backs of dodos by beluga butlers?
Given that it's just an infinitely-looping video, I'm guessing that the VIDEO element in HTML 5 would actually make this a pretty trivial website to make.
Something more interactive (and equally "wtf?") like Boohbah Zone would be less easy to make.
They remade The Italian Job? WTF? That's a classic, man! Is there nothing sacred in this world anymore? I'm so tired of good movies being remade to squeeze out a little extra cash without needing to make up an original plot.
Whatever. I wonder who they got to play Mark Wahlberg's part...
I think it depends on what type of movie is playing.
I think the link you referenced may say more about British people than it does about speeding cameras.
There are other sources citing studies that claim things like "A well-placed speed camera saves one life a week."
Actually, the official page does mention it, under "Unofficial implementations":
Vim (crossplatform) - Sparkup, Zen Coding for Vim
I know a group of cannibals that would trade you a nice banana picker for one of these!
Awesome. From now on, let's just post 1 story on Slashdot per day with all of the good stuff in it, so that we may discuss everything in it in one big unrelated clusterfsck of comments.
The Konami code is anything but obscure my good man...
And it is also awsome.
You're right. There's a big difference between running a program that already exists on the User's computer after getting approval to do so, and running arbitrary code embedded in the PDF after showing the user an arbitrary message.
the "/launch" command is supposed to be to a PDF file or be handled as a URI action
The PDF spec I'm reading in Table 8.48 (Action types) says:
Action Type: Launch
Description: Launch an application, usually to open a file.
And there are other instances where it clearly states that "A launch action launches an application or opens or prints a document."
If you're really a nerd, you'll want to scroll through the PDF Reference section 8.5 ("Actions"). Be careful though, as it may hurt a little.
Instead of simply jumping to a destination in the document, an annotation or outline item can specify an action (PDF 1.1) for the viewer application to perform, such as launching an application, playing a sound, or changing an annotation's appearance state. [...] In addition, the optional OpenAction entry in a document's catalog (Section 3.6.1, "Document Catalog") may specify an action to be performed when the document is opened.
It's actually very well-defined, and creating a document that implements this part of the specification should be trivial.
Get on with it!
I'll throw this one on the pile too. Looks sweet. Too sweet. Smells like vaporware.
There have been others promising the same thing, but so far nobody has delivered anything close to how awesome this could be.
Multiple versions of IE can be done courtesy of here or here
AFAIK, the only safe and MS-supported way to run multiple versions of IE is to use MS Virtual PC. They even provide free images to run IE6-8 on XP and IE7-8 on Vista.
Here's to hoping that they'll take anyone to court who tries to infringe on their patent!
(10^7) (cubic micrometers) = 0.01 cubic millimeters