The article said "unemployed people are supposed to be actively looking for work, not spending all of their time answering e-mail, drawing cartoons and getting interviewed on television about being unemployed."
Well, what does Todd say on a page behind a like entitled "Gimme a JOB"? "you'd have to really pay me alot to take me off schedule on producing cartoons for this site."
However, I must question the motives of Abandonware supporters. If indeed these companies were to make software from 10 years ago available today (via a website or mailorder) and a small price according to the cost of doing so, would Abandonware supporters be willing to pay?
While I don't consider myself part of the "Abandonware community" (whatever that means), I was interested in the article because of some games I used to play about 10-15 years ago.
A while ago, I tried to get my hands on Starflight because it was a game I remembered as being fun to play... and yes, I would have paid money for it if it were available. I finally got hold of it via eBay, but copies of this game turn up very infrequently, so that's not really a viable source for the game.
I'd like to think that there are many people out there who'd like to buy the games, out of nostalgia or for whatever reason, and would gladly pay the original company money, but they choose not to sell the game any more. Why can't they, for example, make the game available for download from their website (for a fee) after it's stopped retailing? Have some sort of "software attic" where they keep previous versions.
With the small difference that Microsoft is a company that makes money, and Bill Gates is presumably an employee who already receives salary or benefits or whatever someone at that level gets. The Perl community does not, of itself, make money, and Larry is not employed by the community -- well, until now.
A better comparison might be if the Linux community paid Linus Torvalds. As it is, he works for Transmeta; if he didn't, he probably wouldn't be making any money. Similar with Larry.
Using $@ instead of $* only makes sense if you put double quotes around it (and when you do that, it's better in general since it Does The Right Thing when you have command-line arguments with spaces in them). Replace that line with
Anyhow, the interesting thing about var'aq is that because it runs on Perl, it's pretty ubiquitous meaning that if you really hate your job and feel the need for revenge, just go rewrite the production administration scripts in var'aq and then quit.
You can get a similar effect by translating your scripts to use a source filter such as Lingua::Romana::Perligata or the newer Lingua::Sinica::PerlYuYan. Read Perl in the original Latin or Middle Chinese!
is that it does not use my favorite ASCII character nearly enough "~".
Then you probably aren't doing a lot of pattern matching (or you usually match on $_), since otherwise you're going to use the =~ operator.
Pattern matching is considered one of Perl's strengths (it's built into the language and Perl's pattern matching language is pretty expressive), so that should give you plenty of opportunity to use =~.
Not that any of the links on this page seem to work...
<pointer mode="parrot">They are there if you have javascript.</pointer> The page uses JavaScript to replace URLs in HREFs with URLs that run through the Wayback machine. Alternatively, you can copy the URL to the clipboard and paste it into the Location bar after the Wayback machine URL start. Or use "G" with lynx to modify the current URL and go to the resulting page.
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Is it really so hard to snip the original message? The person probably remembers what they wrote.
I'd like to disagree -- the person probably does *not* remember exactly what they wrote. At least that's the way it is with me, and when someone replies with something like "Yes, I think you were right", I usually don't know what I had originally said.
Trimming too much is bad for comprehension; you should keep enough quoted material to establish context, IMO.
I find that sleeping for 10 hours and then staying awake for 20 hours works best for me.
Sounds like you might be interested in the 28-hourday.
It seemed like an interesting proposition to me, but I never dared try it out, mostly because of the synchronisation problems I imagined this would cause (what you called "getting everyone else to work around your schedule").
Mozilla, Konqueror, Opera, Netscape 4.0+, and IE 5.0+ fully support PNG.
Support, yes. Fully, support, no. For example, AFAIK NS 4.0 and MSIE 5 don't do alpha-channel PNGs correctly, perhaps because they're only used to the binary transparency of GIFs -- either a pixel is transparent, or it isn't, whereas a PNG image pixel could be, say, 16% transparent. (MSIE for the Macintosh is said to be a lot better in this regard, however.)
My question is how Google determines whether someone is the real poster of a message. Can just anyone demand the removal of any message they don't like?
No, you have to forge the email address as well:).
Actually, just read up on it at http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/help.html#9; it says what you have to do when your email address is the same as the one in the post, and what to do when your email address has changed since then.
I think you're looking for the Inline module for Perl.
Kind of, though that's more for inlining C (or other languages) into Perl. But it's also a good way to provide "glue" by writing small functions with Inline::C that you can call from Perl, and those functions call your real code, which is presumably in a library. But the program still starts with Perl.
If you want to start with C (that is, your main() is not Perl's main() but one you write on your own, and embed a Perl interpreter), you've been able to do that for quite a while, but it's not really been all that easy.
That's because AFAIK Win9x WordPad saved in Word for Windows 6.0 format, and Microsoft said that Word won't be able to read formats used by versions more than three (or so) ago. The current version (XP) is actually version 10, if I remember correctly, and so I guess they don't support WfW 6.0 file format any more -- so having WordPad write it doesn't make sense for them.
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what in the hell is a "Ostfriesen"?
Someone from East Frisia, an area in the north-west of Germany (from the Dutch border along to coast up to maybe Bremen or so). There's also West Frisia (in the Netherlands) and North Frisia (up along the western coast of Germany from north of the Elbe river up to Denmark).
couldn't they just block all pages but their index for all browsers who don't send a referer header indicating they came from another page on their site?
They could, but then people using proxies that strip referrer headers would be left out in the cold. (Unless the policy is "don't serve the content if a referrer header does exist but it does not identify another KPMG web page").
On the other hand, given how much large companies usually care about people who dare to surf the web on anything other than MSIE on Windows with JavaScript & ActiveX turned on and a 1024x768x16bpp display, they'll probably just say "use a proper Internet connection" to anyone who falls afoul of their referrer filtering.
By the way, does google have that realtime display of what people are searching for?
Not to my knowledge. When I asked Google whether such a facility exists, they said no -- but they did point me to Google Zeitgeist, which gives "Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google". Usually published once a week and showing e.g. the top 10 gaining and losing queries of that week. So you get some interesting info, but it's not realtime by any description of the word.
AIUI, this isn't based on the contents of the book but because the Bundesland Bavaria holds the copyright to the book and refuses to license it or allow it to be sold. Or at least, that's what I understand the official angle is.
* No FTP apps. Why can't you just telnet to port 21 and download it?
Why not? Because FTP does not only use port 21; that's just the control port. You also need a data port if you want to transfer files -- or even get a directory listing! So to speak FTP over telnet, you need at least two clients if you want to do more than just change directories.
(Compare with HTTP which mixes control messages and data on the same port -- but which doesn't really do sessions, unless you count Keep-Alive.)
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The article said "unemployed people are supposed to be actively looking for work, not spending all of their time answering e-mail, drawing cartoons and getting interviewed on television about being unemployed."
Well, what does Todd say on a page behind a like entitled "Gimme a JOB"? "you'd have to really pay me alot to take me off schedule on producing cartoons for this site."
Sounds to me like they have a case.
Cheers,
Philip
What's a camper?
While I don't consider myself part of the "Abandonware community" (whatever that means), I was interested in the article because of some games I used to play about 10-15 years ago.
A while ago, I tried to get my hands on Starflight because it was a game I remembered as being fun to play... and yes, I would have paid money for it if it were available. I finally got hold of it via eBay, but copies of this game turn up very infrequently, so that's not really a viable source for the game.
I'd like to think that there are many people out there who'd like to buy the games, out of nostalgia or for whatever reason, and would gladly pay the original company money, but they choose not to sell the game any more. Why can't they, for example, make the game available for download from their website (for a fee) after it's stopped retailing? Have some sort of "software attic" where they keep previous versions.
I get a lot of spam from the 127.0.0.0/8 netblock from some weirdo telling me I'm a spammer myself. I keep complaining but it doesn't seem to help.
Well, if you use Server-Side Includes, then you can at least get the IP of the machine itself:
mailto:abuse@[<!--#echo var="REMOTE_ADDR" -->] (not tested)
With the small difference that Microsoft is a company that makes money, and Bill Gates is presumably an employee who already receives salary or benefits or whatever someone at that level gets. The Perl community does not, of itself, make money, and Larry is not employed by the community -- well, until now.
A better comparison might be if the Linux community paid Linus Torvalds. As it is, he works for Transmeta; if he didn't, he probably wouldn't be making any money. Similar with Larry.
Using $@ instead of $* only makes sense if you put double quotes around it (and when you do that, it's better in general since it Does The Right Thing when you have command-line arguments with spaces in them). Replace that line with
You can get a similar effect by translating your scripts to use a source filter such as Lingua::Romana::Perligata or the newer Lingua::Sinica::PerlYuYan. Read Perl in the original Latin or Middle Chinese!
Then you probably aren't doing a lot of pattern matching (or you usually match on $_), since otherwise you're going to use the =~ operator.
Pattern matching is considered one of Perl's strengths (it's built into the language and Perl's pattern matching language is pretty expressive), so that should give you plenty of opportunity to use =~.
<pointer mode="parrot">They are there if you have javascript.</pointer> The page uses JavaScript to replace URLs in HREFs with URLs that run through the Wayback machine. Alternatively, you can copy the URL to the clipboard and paste it into the Location bar after the Wayback machine URL start. Or use "G" with lynx to modify the current URL and go to the resulting page.
I'd like to disagree -- the person probably does *not* remember exactly what they wrote. At least that's the way it is with me, and when someone replies with something like "Yes, I think you were right", I usually don't know what I had originally said.
Trimming too much is bad for comprehension; you should keep enough quoted material to establish context, IMO.
Sounds like you might be interested in the 28-hour day.
It seemed like an interesting proposition to me, but I never dared try it out, mostly because of the synchronisation problems I imagined this would cause (what you called "getting everyone else to work around your schedule").
Support, yes. Fully, support, no. For example, AFAIK NS 4.0 and MSIE 5 don't do alpha-channel PNGs correctly, perhaps because they're only used to the binary transparency of GIFs -- either a pixel is transparent, or it isn't, whereas a PNG image pixel could be, say, 16% transparent. (MSIE for the Macintosh is said to be a lot better in this regard, however.)
No, you have to forge the email address as well :).
Actually, just read up on it at http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/help.html#9; it says what you have to do when your email address is the same as the one in the post, and what to do when your email address has changed since then.
Kind of, though that's more for inlining C (or other languages) into Perl. But it's also a good way to provide "glue" by writing small functions with Inline::C that you can call from Perl, and those functions call your real code, which is presumably in a library. But the program still starts with Perl.
If you want to start with C (that is, your main() is not Perl's main() but one you write on your own, and embed a Perl interpreter), you've been able to do that for quite a while, but it's not really been all that easy.
copy-on-writes, presumably.
That's because AFAIK Win9x WordPad saved in Word for Windows 6.0 format, and Microsoft said that Word won't be able to read formats used by versions more than three (or so) ago. The current version (XP) is actually version 10, if I remember correctly, and so I guess they don't support WfW 6.0 file format any more -- so having WordPad write it doesn't make sense for them.
Someone from East Frisia, an area in the north-west of Germany (from the Dutch border along to coast up to maybe Bremen or so). There's also West Frisia (in the Netherlands) and North Frisia (up along the western coast of Germany from north of the Elbe river up to Denmark).
So do I. When I wanted to have a look at it, the server tried to give me a cookie.
A cookie? For a robots.txt? Isn't that kind of overkill? (Besides, do search engine bots handle cookies anyway?)
They could, but then people using proxies that strip referrer headers would be left out in the cold. (Unless the policy is "don't serve the content if a referrer header does exist but it does not identify another KPMG web page").
On the other hand, given how much large companies usually care about people who dare to surf the web on anything other than MSIE on Windows with JavaScript & ActiveX turned on and a 1024x768x16bpp display, they'll probably just say "use a proper Internet connection" to anyone who falls afoul of their referrer filtering.
Not to my knowledge. When I asked Google whether such a facility exists, they said no -- but they did point me to Google Zeitgeist, which gives "Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google". Usually published once a week and showing e.g. the top 10 gaining and losing queries of that week. So you get some interesting info, but it's not realtime by any description of the word.
AIUI, this isn't based on the contents of the book but because the Bundesland Bavaria holds the copyright to the book and refuses to license it or allow it to be sold. Or at least, that's what I understand the official angle is.
Why not? Because FTP does not only use port 21; that's just the control port. You also need a data port if you want to transfer files -- or even get a directory listing! So to speak FTP over telnet, you need at least two clients if you want to do more than just change directories.
(Compare with HTTP which mixes control messages and data on the same port -- but which doesn't really do sessions, unless you count Keep-Alive.)
Cheers,
Philip.
Phew! For a second I thought it had said "ASCII or EBCDIC text"....
If you want to go the lawsuit route, you should go straight for toys.r.us.