Before you call me fanboy I point to the mighty and stupid "\" backslash.
Actually, Microsoft chose the backslash because it was the closest thing to slash. Originally, DOS did not support directories, and so the slash was used to signify command-line arguments (similar to the hyphen under Unix) because Microsoft wanted to be compatible with CP/M. When support for directories was added, Microsoft wanted to be compatible with Unix, but they wanted to maintain backwards compatibility with DOS 1.0, so they used the closest thing to the slash. It is still better than Apple using the colon.
IMO, search engines, such as Google, return better results now than Yahoo!, Lycos, or Altavista returned in 1996. I remember one time where I searched for information about Starfox, and one of the returned results was "Fuck Tits Ass Nude". Searching for information on another video game, was where I learned the phrase "popping cherries". In recent years, I have only seen commercial hijacking of search engines if my query related to sexuality.
I've been using Windows for more than 12 years and I've never had this happen to any of my boxes, and after all these years I've never had anyone I know ever be surrepticiously infected by anything that wasn't their fault.
Two words (okay, one acronym and one full word): WMF exploit.
That is not piping; that just redirects the 'output' stream from stdout to the file 'Photoshop.app'. If you want to pipe something to a program, you would have to issue the command: cat file.tiff | Photoshop.app
It would take plenty of time for a machine to, say, analyze a rock and decide whether or not one should further examine it. A human could do this in a few seconds. Don't just take my word for it, though. Here is a passage from Robert A. Braeunig's Rocket and Space Technology page that debunks the Fake Moonlanding Myth:
The moon rocks allegedly collected by Apollo astronauts were actually collected and returned to Earth by robotic spacecraft.
Any mission capable of returning over 800 pounds of rock and soil samples would be a massive, complex and difficult undertaking. If NASA could pull this off, then surely they had the technical know-how to land a manned vehicle. In fact, with an astronaut at the controls, a manned mission would likely have greater odds of success than a robotic mission. Perhaps the greatest case for the Apollo landings exists in the variety of rock samples collected. A robotic mission would be limited to a random collection of samples in the lander's immediate vicinity. However, the Apollo astronauts visited vastly different geological sites and were able to roam about the surface looking for particularly interesting and valuable specimens. For example, it is very unlikely that a robot would have been lucky enough to scoop up the "genesis rock" found by Apollo 15 astronauts. Only trained human explorers could collect the diversity of samples credited to the Apollo astronauts.
NOTE: During the 1970s the USSR successfully completed three lunar sample return missions - Luna 16 (1970), Luna 20 (1972) and Luna 24 (1976) - however these missions returned a grand total of only 301 grams (10.6 ounces) of soil.
IP Adresses can be changed, and MAC addresses can be spoofed. If you are TRULY paranoid, connect to a random Access Point with a spoofed MAC address and talk using an encrypted VOIP connection. Simple, easy, and cheap (you can buy a laptop, microphone, and wifi card for less than the cost of the USRP motherboard.
Any halfway decent Software License would prevent that sort of abuse. If a customer tried to create a competing product from their supplier's codebase, the supplier could sue the pants off of the customer. Hell, look at the SCO trial! SCO did not even have a case, and they gained a lot of attention. Most businesses are afraid of a costly litigation, and potential competitors would develop a competing product entirely in-house instead of courting a lawsuit.
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'Begging the question' is different from 'asking the question.' See Wikipedia for more information.
IMO, search engines, such as Google, return better results now than Yahoo!, Lycos, or Altavista returned in 1996. I remember one time where I searched for information about Starfox, and one of the returned results was "Fuck Tits Ass Nude". Searching for information on another video game, was where I learned the phrase "popping cherries". In recent years, I have only seen commercial hijacking of search engines if my query related to sexuality.
I would prefer a Linux version myself.
You mean 'Leopard', right? What kind of fanboy are you?
cat file.tiff > Photoshop.app
That is not piping; that just redirects the 'output' stream from stdout to the file 'Photoshop.app'. If you want to pipe something to a program, you would have to issue the command: cat file.tiff | Photoshop.app
So it is operating normally?
Are they surrendering?
Here is a simple diagram:
o -- Joke
o -- You
-|-
/ \
There have been 11 other ones.
So is it just the philosophical equivalent of "Not Invented Here"?
I think that more than 3000 people still play it, and it came out in 1999!
What about CentOS?
Here is a simple diagram:
o -- Joke
o -- You
-|-
/ \
Commodore 64
o -- Joke
o -- You
-|-
/ \
Thank you for following Quinn's Law!
Hell, even the development of Duke Nukem: Forever is going faster than this!
IP Adresses can be changed, and MAC addresses can be spoofed. If you are TRULY paranoid, connect to a random Access Point with a spoofed MAC address and talk using an encrypted VOIP connection. Simple, easy, and cheap (you can buy a laptop, microphone, and wifi card for less than the cost of the USRP motherboard.
Any halfway decent Software License would prevent that sort of abuse. If a customer tried to create a competing product from their supplier's codebase, the supplier could sue the pants off of the customer. Hell, look at the SCO trial! SCO did not even have a case, and they gained a lot of attention. Most businesses are afraid of a costly litigation, and potential competitors would develop a competing product entirely in-house instead of courting a lawsuit.
I believe there are some patches to XPDF that will make it 'ignore' the no-copy flag. I love OSS!
What gamer even has a girlfriend, let alone a wife?
Line up a beta-tester job for that kid, pronto!