The "lameness" filter may not sound like something anyone [1] wants applied to their post. But if it catches a 370kb post, then it's working. no matter how inapt the name may seem sometimes; besides "Really Long Post Filter" is a clunky handle.
Martinez is out where Jesus lost his shoes, of course the reception is substandard. At least the city IT department knows how to handle a recalcitrant vendor, did anyone get LARTed ?
It's your opinions on who should go second that the rest of us should be worried about.
If it were up to me, the "second people to go" would be the National Socialists. Right after you go aboveground. I'll be wielding the "terrorist" brush against the NA's with great abandon from the first act of organzied violence.
In conclusion, I'd like to say that it's awfully nice of you guys to organize, that makes you easier to find; then there's the whole "root and branch" theory...
A photocopy is valuable as a reading copy. The artistic expression in Captain America #1 is lost if the publisher won't reprint it or allow copies to circulate.
The Constitution (USA) established copyright "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;" and I say that locking up "classic works" (your definition may or may not include Captain America #1) does not promote "progress" in the arts. That doesn't mean that current copyright law in the US is unconstitutional, but it does mean that they're pushing the limits.
Even releasing the game "as is" would create sales and please. Remember, games don't come with any real warranty anyway, so an unsupported release wouldn't be all that different from a new release that hasn't been properly patched yet.
Right now, the game companies policy amounts to "you can't have this because we won't sell it to you at any price." That attitude makes not a whole lot of sense. A fairly minimal effort and investment by a publisher could get old games on the market in fairly short order.
There are several fulfillment houses right now for burning custom CDs and mailing them out. Build a custom CD online, pay, and they burn the disk and sent it out. Beyond that, just spring for hosting for a discussion board and ftp site (a yahoo group would do) so the community support that springs up for so many games doesn't have to pay hosting costs for a support board.
Beyond that, giving third-party developers some Intellectual Property support to fix issues with newer hardware and the like wouldn't shouldn't be too bitter a pill for their lawyers to swallow.
Compaq actually does have their drivers "available", for small values of "available". To find them you need to search the support forums, not the support website. The search on the whole website is less than useless, and answers from emailing customer support will also be wrong (they don't have accurate indices of the recovery disks for one thing). But, I've been able to find everything I've needed through the forum.
That isn't all that's wrong with it either. He takes his notes on the seperation of data and code, and then uses the example of executable content in emails as the example of the problem. Wrong. The problem is data mixed with source code and compiled into the binaries. [1]
He then goes on to be right about the need for a 'sandbox" for untrusted code, which is definitely needed for the mixing of "[executable] code and data [in documents such as email or spreadsheets]." Comments in brackets are mine and intended to make the statement accurate.
[1] In my limited coding experience this makes for difficult revisions when the data has to be changed. In real projects the problem is undoubtedly much more widespread and of greater severity.
I've seen AI pilots in Sturmovik run away from combat. This sucks when its your wingman, but is fun when its the last fighter covering the bombers you're after.
I was at the first showing at the Metreon. Sony scored big with that movie. But I'd say the audience was only 90% Chinese, myself and 5 friends made a dent in that figure all by ourselves.
I still need to get Mom, my copy of CTHD (region free !) and a DVD rig in the same room for 3 hours.
EU (1 & 2) is a terriffic game. It's big twist is that it's an area movement game, not tile-based. It also has a wide range of economic, diplomatic and religious considerations. It can take an awful long time to play a 300-year campaign, but I really enjoy the Fantasy Campaign, where you start with a 1-province kingdom and explore a historical map.
Tt'd be interesting to see how many bounces Yahoo gets every day from dictionary attacks. It has to add up to real money in bandwidth and CPU time.
Either that or they aren't subjected to dictionary attacks, and the email addresses get leaked some other way. An unethical admin could be running reports on active email accounts and selling the data.
If she's using her name with some digits added, then she's vulnerable to a dictionary attack on Yahoo's account list. If a spammer is using someone else's mailserver, they never see the millions of bounce messages.
I first started reading Larry Niven's stories many years ago. But even in the early 80s, it struck me as odd that a teleportation booth would be dialed" for a destination. The visual image of a booth with a rotary dial is still with me.
And if the kernel won't pass traffic it "should", or if you need a configuration option thaty doesn't exist you can write it yourself.
I have a suspicion that Open Source use in large deployments may gain an advantage from exactly this. Instead of spending money on licenses, a business could keep a programmer on staff to do bugfixes and add features to an OS product. Which gets them a product more finely tailored for their needs than anything from Microsoft could ever be.
There are definitely economies of scale involved. But anyone running a major deployment on, say OpenBSD, can have a person on staff who is actively involved in the ongoing development of the OS. With non-free systems you can at best hire a programmer away from the vendor, which leaves them out of the current development loop; or possibly you get access to a kernel developer as part of an expensive support agreement, and then that developer is still someone else's employee.
That's just not as useful as having an in-house developer that follows your business requirements.
And if there's any kind of graphic (like a company logo in the template) then Word files balloon like Rosie O'Donnell in a chocolate factory. I almost think Word's internal graphics format is less efficient than a raw.bmp. And no matter what format the image is in, it gets converted. I've seen a couple of tiny embedded jpegs end up as 3 MB of wasted space in a file.
But I've been lucky, everyone I've had to support in creating huge, complex documents has been using Quark or Framemaker so I haven't seen the ballooning effect of extensive formatting in Word.
I agree. I tried VirusScan Online. They were very helpful in getting IE repaired so it VSO would run - it relies on IE's dll's - it's essentially a Javascript application.
But even after hours in chat with people typing scripts back at me VSO never worked. I demanded, and received a refund. Having received no positive benefit whatsoever from their product, NA has no claim against my conduct whatsoever.
So I'm quite free to say that VSO sucks dirt through straws. It's unstable, won't run if IE isn't working right and they provide (in the final analysis) poor tech support.
The following chat transcript has been edited for anonymity. Note the plethora of boilerplate in the transcipt. Also note that there were lags of a couple of minutes other than the one mentioned in the transcript. Finally, this chat was Just To Get The Download Page to Load so I could download my $24.95 purchase.
Lastly, I'd like to recommend anything from Symmantec for virus protection.
Here is your transcript:
You have been connected to McAfee tech support..
McAfee tech support.: Thank?you?for?contacting?McAfee.com?Clinic?Support ?Center.??My?name?is?Sunetra. What are the exact symptoms you are experiencing?
Me: I just purchased the VirusScan Online product, and the download page will not render in IE 5.5sp2
Me: I get a scripting error on the page:
Me: http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp? cid=2661
McAfee tech support.: I would?be?happy?to?assist?you?with?that.
Me: So how do I download the product ?
McAfee tech support.: Did you try cleaning the cache and adjusting the browser settings?
Me: Settings are at default
Me: and I just cleared the chache
Me: the error is:
Me: Line 304, Char 1, Error: Object Expected, Code 0, URL http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp? cid=2661
Me: does that page work for you ?
McAfee tech support.: Do you mind if I place you on hold for a couple of minutes while I research that for you?
Me: ok. The specific IE version is: 4.40.4807.2300IS
Me: errr, 5.50.4807.2300IS
McAfee tech support.: Thank you for waiting. I'll be with you shortly.
Me: so long as this gets working,the time is well spent
McAfee tech support.: Me, I understand your concern. If at any time there is something you do not understand about the resolution, please feel free to stop me and let me know. I want to ensure we resolve your situation, and that you understand the resolution completely. Does this make sense?
Me: that makes sense, lets proceede
McAfee tech support.: You need to repair the browser, for which I shall mail you the instructions.
Me: okay, send 'em over
Me: user@domain.org
McAfee tech support.: I shall mail you the instructions at the end of the session. Do you have any other questions before we end the session?
Me: then after I fix my browser, the download will work ?
McAfee tech support.: Yes, it will certainly work.
McAfee tech support.: Me,?have?I?resolved?this?issue?to?your?complete?sa tisfaction,?on?this?interaction?
Me: yes
McAfee tech support.: Thank?you?for?visiting McAfee.com Support Center. I have appreciated this opportunity to support you. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please let us know and we will be happy to support you further.
Do keep in mind that the first shot fired against the British at troops attempting to seize a militia armory. That was The Shot Heard Round The World (Flash presentation with narration). The Redcoats we're trying to take the colonists' guns, and the local militia stopped them.
Pinball Wizard sounds (to me) like he was being sarcastic, but he's actually exactly right. They fired first, while attempting to oppress the colonists. We'd have left the Empire peacefully if allowed to do so.
Forward their spam to uce@ftc.gov. A lot of my spam gets copied to spamcop and to the FTC. The FTC just gets MLMs, credit card auth scams and other business-related spam.
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Take another look at MacOS X then.
1. It runs its native games and apps as well as Windows runs its native games and apps. There aren't as many games, but the good one make it over, and there's a good mac-only games community (shareware and otherwise).
2. OS X is definitely more stable than WIndows.
3. No Windows required, but this Mac has VirtualPC and Win98 installed , just in case.
4. Has all the things that makes the BSD family good OS's.
If Windows is necessary, VirtualPC does a fine job of running Win32 apps. WINE should eventually see a PPC port, which will add another alternative.
And it's got a nice, if still immature, Window manager installed (Aqua), good development tools (ProjectBuilder, Applescript, GCC), and it runs XWindows just fine.
Think about OS X for your next machine, especially a laptop.
I do believe that AOL signed the IE contract (to get AOL on millions more desktops) no later than the development period for Netscape 5. I suspect they wanted a stopgap before their in-house browser was done. Notice that Netscape 5 was never finished (a failure comparable to that of Copland at Apple), so they were left with a contract, and no alternative.
My memory is a bit fuzzy, so AOL may have signed the contract before they bought Netscape anyway. In which case, their use of IE (when using Netscape 4 would have killed them) is a non-issue.
Palm may file a similar suit based on their acquisition of Palm. The bootloader issue wasn't explored during the federal antitrust trial, so it's still fresh ground for lawsuits.
WinZip could, and probably would sue if MS starting wording OEM contracts so as to prohibit an OEM version of WinZip from being installed in the factory. This is exactly the same situation in which AOL/TW is suing Microsoft. And I think both cases would be valid and worth fighting in court;.
Actually, WinZip might not sue. Stacker won and where are they now ?
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The "lameness" filter may not sound like something anyone [1] wants applied to their post. But if it catches a 370kb post, then it's working. no matter how inapt the name may seem sometimes; besides "Really Long Post Filter" is a clunky handle.
[1] Anyone making a reasonable post anyway.
Martinez is out where Jesus lost his shoes, of course the reception is substandard. At least the city IT department knows how to handle a recalcitrant vendor, did anyone get LARTed ?
Updating a website will soon again be the top excuse for LA drivers.
If it were up to me, the "second people to go" would be the National Socialists. Right after you go aboveground. I'll be wielding the "terrorist" brush against the NA's with great abandon from the first act of organzied violence.
In conclusion, I'd like to say that it's awfully nice of you guys to organize, that makes you easier to find; then there's the whole "root and branch" theory...
The Constitution (USA) established copyright "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;" and I say that locking up "classic works" (your definition may or may not include Captain America #1) does not promote "progress" in the arts. That doesn't mean that current copyright law in the US is unconstitutional, but it does mean that they're pushing the limits.
Right now, the game companies policy amounts to "you can't have this because we won't sell it to you at any price." That attitude makes not a whole lot of sense. A fairly minimal effort and investment by a publisher could get old games on the market in fairly short order.
There are several fulfillment houses right now for burning custom CDs and mailing them out. Build a custom CD online, pay, and they burn the disk and sent it out. Beyond that, just spring for hosting for a discussion board and ftp site (a yahoo group would do) so the community support that springs up for so many games doesn't have to pay hosting costs for a support board.
Beyond that, giving third-party developers some Intellectual Property support to fix issues with newer hardware and the like wouldn't shouldn't be too bitter a pill for their lawyers to swallow.
Compaq actually does have their drivers "available", for small values of "available". To find them you need to search the support forums, not the support website. The search on the whole website is less than useless, and answers from emailing customer support will also be wrong (they don't have accurate indices of the recovery disks for one thing). But, I've been able to find everything I've needed through the forum.
The next step is to not accept mail from open relays. That should about finish the matter.
That isn't all that's wrong with it either. He takes his notes on the seperation of data and code, and then uses the example of executable content in emails as the example of the problem. Wrong. The problem is data mixed with source code and compiled into the binaries. [1]
He then goes on to be right about the need for a 'sandbox" for untrusted code, which is definitely needed for the mixing of "[executable] code and data [in documents such as email or spreadsheets]." Comments in brackets are mine and intended to make the statement accurate.
[1] In my limited coding experience this makes for difficult revisions when the data has to be changed. In real projects the problem is undoubtedly much more widespread and of greater severity.
I've seen AI pilots in Sturmovik run away from combat. This sucks when its your wingman, but is fun when its the last fighter covering the bombers you're after.
"It took me X hours to complete this game."
or
"I didn't complete this game because..."
Any review that doesn't include one of these statements is of no more value than a press release. Personally, I enjoy reading bad reviews.
I still need to get Mom, my copy of CTHD (region free !) and a DVD rig in the same room for 3 hours.
EU (1 & 2) is a terriffic game. It's big twist is that it's an area movement game, not tile-based. It also has a wide range of economic, diplomatic and religious considerations. It can take an awful long time to play a 300-year campaign, but I really enjoy the Fantasy Campaign, where you start with a 1-province kingdom and explore a historical map.
Either that or they aren't subjected to dictionary attacks, and the email addresses get leaked some other way. An unethical admin could be running reports on active email accounts and selling the data.
If she's using her name with some digits added, then she's vulnerable to a dictionary attack on Yahoo's account list. If a spammer is using someone else's mailserver, they never see the millions of bounce messages.
I first started reading Larry Niven's stories many years ago. But even in the early 80s, it struck me as odd that a teleportation booth would be dialed" for a destination. The visual image of a booth with a rotary dial is still with me.
I have a suspicion that Open Source use in large deployments may gain an advantage from exactly this. Instead of spending money on licenses, a business could keep a programmer on staff to do bugfixes and add features to an OS product. Which gets them a product more finely tailored for their needs than anything from Microsoft could ever be.
There are definitely economies of scale involved. But anyone running a major deployment on, say OpenBSD, can have a person on staff who is actively involved in the ongoing development of the OS. With non-free systems you can at best hire a programmer away from the vendor, which leaves them out of the current development loop; or possibly you get access to a kernel developer as part of an expensive support agreement, and then that developer is still someone else's employee.
That's just not as useful as having an in-house developer that follows your business requirements.
But I've been lucky, everyone I've had to support in creating huge, complex documents has been using Quark or Framemaker so I haven't seen the ballooning effect of extensive formatting in Word.
But even after hours in chat with people typing scripts back at me VSO never worked. I demanded, and received a refund. Having received no positive benefit whatsoever from their product, NA has no claim against my conduct whatsoever.
So I'm quite free to say that VSO sucks dirt through straws. It's unstable, won't run if IE isn't working right and they provide (in the final analysis) poor tech support.
The following chat transcript has been edited for anonymity. Note the plethora of boilerplate in the transcipt. Also note that there were lags of a couple of minutes other than the one mentioned in the transcript. Finally, this chat was Just To Get The Download Page to Load so I could download my $24.95 purchase.
Lastly, I'd like to recommend anything from Symmantec for virus protection.
And it's also a pity that posts only go up to +5.
Pinball Wizard sounds (to me) like he was being sarcastic, but he's actually exactly right. They fired first, while attempting to oppress the colonists. We'd have left the Empire peacefully if allowed to do so.
Forward their spam to uce@ftc.gov. A lot of my spam gets copied to spamcop and to the FTC. The FTC just gets MLMs, credit card auth scams and other business-related spam.
1. It runs its native games and apps as well as Windows runs its native games and apps. There aren't as many games, but the good one make it over, and there's a good mac-only games community (shareware and otherwise).
2. OS X is definitely more stable than WIndows.
3. No Windows required, but this Mac has VirtualPC and Win98 installed , just in case.
4. Has all the things that makes the BSD family good OS's.
If Windows is necessary, VirtualPC does a fine job of running Win32 apps. WINE should eventually see a PPC port, which will add another alternative.
And it's got a nice, if still immature, Window manager installed (Aqua), good development tools (ProjectBuilder, Applescript, GCC), and it runs XWindows just fine.
Think about OS X for your next machine, especially a laptop.
My memory is a bit fuzzy, so AOL may have signed the contract before they bought Netscape anyway. In which case, their use of IE (when using Netscape 4 would have killed them) is a non-issue.
Palm may file a similar suit based on their acquisition of Palm. The bootloader issue wasn't explored during the federal antitrust trial, so it's still fresh ground for lawsuits.
Actually, WinZip might not sue. Stacker won and where are they now ?