I find it odd that a comparison is being drawn between a stateful monthly payment role playing game and a stateless (allegedly subscription-less) real time strategy game.
I find it odd that you're confusing RPGs with MMORPGs, and both of those with persistent worlds, which is an orthogonal concept to (MMO)RPG's and RTS's.
In theory, I too was much in favor of PostgreSQL over MySQL, for many years, until VERY recently, when I actually got around to using it for serious projects. Then I discovered that pgadmin on windows can't even backup a PostgreSQL server unless the versions match EXACTLY (minors as well as majors) across builds and platforms. That's pretty insane. I'm now worried about what other seemingly obvious issues might not have been addressed in pg.
US.mil: "Those terrorists will cower before our hornicopters.. orniopters.. morningchoppers. Goddamit. Private Geek, say that word at the end of my sentences from now on."
Yeah well, the reason I haven't been able to do those things is that I have work to attend to. But I suppose there are a few unemployed slashdotters who might not understand.
Actually, the data is stored on write-once media, so they've decided to just go out every Dec 31 and push the continental shelves back to their Jan 1 position.
Seems the project name for this data is ASTER. Of course, what everyone (like me at least) wants to know is how can we import this stuff into Google Earth or NASA World Wind so we can picture the slopes on that mountain bike trail?
As far as I can tell (from very briefly scanning the Exercises ASTER document earlier), you can do this by downloading some tool that comes from the project itself, and then using it to generate a KML file.
Not too hard, but does anyone know more, or have a simpler way? I'm sure Google Eearth and WW will want to get this data incorporated ASAP, if they haven't already done so.
YouTube, Hulu, and every other video site I can think of are on my side
No, they're on the side of money -- creating media that's difficult to save to your own machine, so they can add adverts and DRM on the site, and make you link your friends to their copy instead of just sending them yours.
You still had to hope that the user had a video plug-in installed for that mimetype
Like you do with flash, and like you have to hope that a browser is HTML5-capable, actually has a screen and isn't being read to a blind user via a screenreader, etc. Nothing on the web is guaranteed; it's intended to be flexible and adapt to the end-user.
the popularity of flash objects used for playing mp4 files shows that there was room to improve on the year 2000.
It shows nothing of the sort. Flash is used all the time, often to create entire sites and display simple text, when HTML can do that much better. To some flash developers, everything is an opportunity to use flash. Not that I'm singling out flash devs or anything; lots of people do it, with DHTML menus etc., almost as much as with flash.
Yes, but they went bankrupt by not doing proper R&D to advance the line, by selling crap packages, and by not properly advertising the products. They had many loyal customers demanding new, updated products, and let the entire line of multimedia machines fall behind to the point were even the lowly PC could do better multimedia. They most definitely destroyed the product they bought.
Well not really. It will be called something else except they probably won't have a cool name.
It's not commercially viable right now, from what they've said about TPB being a non-profit project. If a company bought it, then almost by definition, they are planning to change it.
Its also possible that my opening of a coke can will unsettle the quantum state of the water molecules vaporized in the air consequentially causing a pony to spontaneously appear.
Which is precisely why Coke kill a pony for every can they make;)
I grew up surrounded by "freelancing militants" as you put it. They function on the support of the communities they claim to represent, just like any other group. Pretty much the ONLY thing that can get rid of them is public opinion.
As long as this isn't something that can easily be compromised then I think this is an excellent way of handling the problem.
From the summary:
The standard, called Content Security Policy, will let a website specify what Internet domains are allowed to host the scripts that run on its pages.
As long as this "standard" is the one called HyperText Markup Language, then this makes sense. HTML is intended to say what scripts run on a page. If that's broken, then the HTML should be fixed. Somehow I suspect it's not broken, but that developers' implementations of sites are.
Seriously, the reporter is kidnapped. You know what his captors want? Publicity for their campaign.
Amnesty saves captives' lives by the very principle of spreading information of their capture, and has been doing so for a very long time. I suspect this has little to do with saving the captive's life, and more to do with a newspaper deciding it knows how to control the media, and probably should for their employee/friend's sake, without taking the time to think about whether it's actually the right course of action. Ironic for a newspaper to believe in censoring information.
what was the purpose of censoring the information?
These days, I wouldn't be surprised if it was entirely unintentional. Wikipedia has a very bad habit lately of marking just about anything for deletion, and for making it impossible to contribute without holding exactly the same view of reality as the core (read: constantly unemployed and constantly watching) team.
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pgadmin is the official frontend to pg_dump. Since you've no clue what YOU'RE talking about, I hope you're not a DBA. I'm not, by the way.
I find it odd that you're confusing RPGs with MMORPGs, and both of those with persistent worlds, which is an orthogonal concept to (MMO)RPG's and RTS's.
In theory, I too was much in favor of PostgreSQL over MySQL, for many years, until VERY recently, when I actually got around to using it for serious projects. Then I discovered that pgadmin on windows can't even backup a PostgreSQL server unless the versions match EXACTLY (minors as well as majors) across builds and platforms. That's pretty insane. I'm now worried about what other seemingly obvious issues might not have been addressed in pg.
Exactly. People are afraid of organised government, because even a disorganised government can make your life hell.
US.mil: "Those terrorists will cower before our hornicopters.. orniopters.. morningchoppers. Goddamit. Private Geek, say that word at the end of my sentences from now on."
Nah, won't work.
Yeah well, the reason I haven't been able to do those things is that I have work to attend to. But I suppose there are a few unemployed slashdotters who might not understand.
DRM killed all my friends, you insensitive clod.
Actually, the data is stored on write-once media, so they've decided to just go out every Dec 31 and push the continental shelves back to their Jan 1 position.
Seems the project name for this data is ASTER. Of course, what everyone (like me at least) wants to know is how can we import this stuff into Google Earth or NASA World Wind so we can picture the slopes on that mountain bike trail?
As far as I can tell (from very briefly scanning the Exercises ASTER document earlier), you can do this by downloading some tool that comes from the project itself, and then using it to generate a KML file.
Not too hard, but does anyone know more, or have a simpler way? I'm sure Google Eearth and WW will want to get this data incorporated ASAP, if they haven't already done so.
No, they're on the side of money -- creating media that's difficult to save to your own machine, so they can add adverts and DRM on the site, and make you link your friends to their copy instead of just sending them yours.
Yeah, but having to drive nails through your hands and count the droplets before entering the count as a one time pad gets old after a while.
Like you do with flash, and like you have to hope that a browser is HTML5-capable, actually has a screen and isn't being read to a blind user via a screenreader, etc. Nothing on the web is guaranteed; it's intended to be flexible and adapt to the end-user.
It shows nothing of the sort. Flash is used all the time, often to create entire sites and display simple text, when HTML can do that much better. To some flash developers, everything is an opportunity to use flash. Not that I'm singling out flash devs or anything; lots of people do it, with DHTML menus etc., almost as much as with flash.
Yes, but they went bankrupt by not doing proper R&D to advance the line, by selling crap packages, and by not properly advertising the products. They had many loyal customers demanding new, updated products, and let the entire line of multimedia machines fall behind to the point were even the lowly PC could do better multimedia. They most definitely destroyed the product they bought.
Of course, you could do this back in 2000, with a simple object tag, a mimetype, and a url.
See the sordid, bungling buy-wreck-sell History of the Amiga.
It's not commercially viable right now, from what they've said about TPB being a non-profit project. If a company bought it, then almost by definition, they are planning to change it.
Which is precisely why Coke kill a pony for every can they make ;)
They were incandescent-lightyears, these are the much brighter sunlight-years.
It is :)
I grew up surrounded by "freelancing militants" as you put it. They function on the support of the communities they claim to represent, just like any other group. Pretty much the ONLY thing that can get rid of them is public opinion.
Just as long as you don't nail yourself into ah coughin'.
From the summary:
As long as this "standard" is the one called HyperText Markup Language, then this makes sense. HTML is intended to say what scripts run on a page. If that's broken, then the HTML should be fixed. Somehow I suspect it's not broken, but that developers' implementations of sites are.
Amnesty saves captives' lives by the very principle of spreading information of their capture, and has been doing so for a very long time. I suspect this has little to do with saving the captive's life, and more to do with a newspaper deciding it knows how to control the media, and probably should for their employee/friend's sake, without taking the time to think about whether it's actually the right course of action. Ironic for a newspaper to believe in censoring information.
These days, I wouldn't be surprised if it was entirely unintentional. Wikipedia has a very bad habit lately of marking just about anything for deletion, and for making it impossible to contribute without holding exactly the same view of reality as the core (read: constantly unemployed and constantly watching) team.
OK, just stop right there. Porn and beehives do NOT mix.