ELAINE: He took it out. JERRY: He what? ELAINE: He took... it out. JERRY: He took what out? ELAINE: It. JERRY: He took It... Out? ELAINE: Yessiree Bob. JERRY: He couldn't. ELAINE: He did. JERRY: Well you were involved in some sort of amorous-- ELAINE: Noooo. JERRY: You mean he just-- ELAINE: Yes. JERRY: Are you sure? ELAINE: Oh quite. JERRY: There was no mistaking it? ELAINE: Jerry. JERRY: So you were talking, you're having pleasant conversation, then all of sudden-- ELAINE: Yea. JERRY: It. ELAINE: It. JERRY: Out. ELAINE: Out.
Yeah, I forgot to mention the incompleteness. I started with a night elf, and was waiting for Crown of the Earth to go somewhere, but it never did. They might get their chance if they ever introduce the Emerald Dream (it would make sense to have to go into the Emerald Dream to fix Teldrassil's corruption), but my guess is it'll just be a few instances for Level 80 characters with bosses that wipe your group if you don't execute with millisecond precision.
I should mention, I don't have any problem with using text to tell the story. Planescape Torment is told mostly in text, but actually has mostly complete stories to tell (most characters have incomplete resolutions to their stories, but that's kind of the point. It seems only Dak'kon is able to really move on and come to terms with his failure before the ending).
When you boil it right down, Frodo's quest in The Lord of the Rings was a fedex quest. Grendel was a boss, and Gilgamesh was largely an exploration mission after Enkidu died. Heck, the Iliad even had a stealth mission (not counting the horse).
It's all in the presentation -- and WoW really tends to skimp on it. There's a "main quest" for most of the races, and some of the quest chains like Duskwood have real potential to be interesting, but when it's all told entirely in text popups and a few canned emotes, there's something lacking in the dramatic presentation department.
Reg E Sec 205.6 limits your liability to $50 "with timely notice", which is a measly two days after learning of the transaction. I don't know a single bank that doesn't extend that period, and Visa quite probably applies the same rules as it does to credit cards.
You shouldn't be keeping tons of cash in checking anyway. And at least with a debit card, they're not lined up to screw you forever if you're 0.0001 seconds late when paying.
Capturing all keyboard inputs would require javascript, and if you have that enabled for google, you'd have noticed it already sets the focus to the input box when loaded.
If a Japanese company built their business on the fact that they manufactured the bombs that destroyed Pearl Harbor, you might boycott them even though it happened 67 years ago.
> Who have they paid off to be able to break the law with impunity?
Nobody. They're simply making money and defending the money-making enterprise of another company. And that is worth more than every single freedom, societal benefit, or principle imaginable, at least according to those staunch guardians of our liberty that we elect year after year.
Turn on C-Span, and whenever you see any of them wagging their jowls about what we need to do to "protect the economy", that's almost always them genuflecting to wealth, reflecting a worldview where the only True Blue Americans are American corporations.
Congress is worse than merely venal and corrupt -- they actually believe the things they're saying.
Squeak is image-based. The GPL could be seen as applying to an *entire* squeak system, including everything added on thereafter. The legal theory of that is fairly preposterous, but you can see why they're philosophically a little bit down on the idea.
You're arguing with Tablizer here. Visit the page in his sig and, well, you'll get the idea what he's about. He used to be a lot worse.
Anyway, an OODBMS can express relations just fine; they're just not usually locked in to a fixed schema. What gave Codd fits was that early OODBs didn't even have so much of a formal schema mechanism (and some still don't) so you'd have to query by following a graph and no other way. Really good OODBs have a solid meta-model you can target for queries, and thus implement pretty much the same sort of thing as any RDBMS, just with different syntax.
I don't think crashing is exactly acceptable behavior when a standard isn't met.
I've never seen actual crashes like the GP mentioned, but IE7 would have fixed the bug he mentioned. IE actually uses its own widget set, the same as Firefox does, but until IE7, combo boxes were the exception: it actually took a different rendering path to render the win32 native peers they were implemented with. This is what made them slow and have problems with z-order, and why they tended to stick around longer when the page content changed. IE7 finally got around to implementing an IE combo box widget, and this fixed a whole class of bugs related to them.
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Ummm. China's firewall is not NAT, and is in fact pretty much transparent. In fact it works the same way SandVine does with BitTorrent: it forges RST packets to both ends.
I think you put it better than I could have. I tend to see it from the opposite direction too: those that do, usually don't posture. Most people I know of that have OSS projects that are easily portable to Windows (usually by dint of being in a high-level language) will usually put in at least a little effort to port them. Not a hint of sloganeering among them.
No, if you go by Atlas Shrugged they simply shoot them on sight. Or if there's any scope creep or design differences, they blow up the whole project.
I will admit that a world ruled by that silly book might turn out better in some ways than the way things are with our current silly books. Rand's books of course had the advantage of starting with perfect people for her perfect philosophy, when it turns out the world is not populated with the likes of Dagny Taggart and Hank Reardon, but more like Orren Boyle and Emmanual Goldstein^W^WEllesworth Toohey. And unlike her moustache-twiddling villains, these folks are very good at repeating the right slogans to mold their good-guy captain-of-industry images.
Ah, the good old charge of elitism. My reply goes something like this: "Call me elitist if you want, but I'm pretty sure I'm right when I say the world's older than 6,000 years. Plus, I can actually find our country on a fucking globe."
Looking at my fellow countrymen, yeah I'm pretty damn elitist.
Private entities can only file criminal complaints. Actual charges are brought by DA's/Attorneys General, and those aren't actually official until an indictment.
It's just not going to happen. MD will absolutely get away with it. Keep that in mind next time you go to see a movie: you're writing MediaDefender's paycheck.
Most DDOS activity of any appreciable size is done for extortion purposes (except MediaDefender itself). There's no profit in DDOS'ing MD. They are going to get away with it. Period.
> So... how long until we see MediaDefender's board get perp-walked?
Never. As soon as anything is done to protect anyone's profit motive, anywhere, then what they're doing is simply Good, Right, and American. At worst a little misguided and overzealous, but certainly nothing approaching "wrong".
As long as it doesn't involve drugs or sex or gambling of course.
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ELAINE: He took it out. ... it out. ... Out?
JERRY: He what?
ELAINE: He took
JERRY: He took what out?
ELAINE: It.
JERRY: He took It
ELAINE: Yessiree Bob.
JERRY: He couldn't.
ELAINE: He did.
JERRY: Well you were involved in some sort of amorous--
ELAINE: Noooo.
JERRY: You mean he just--
ELAINE: Yes.
JERRY: Are you sure?
ELAINE: Oh quite.
JERRY: There was no mistaking it?
ELAINE: Jerry.
JERRY: So you were talking, you're having pleasant conversation, then all of sudden--
ELAINE: Yea.
JERRY: It.
ELAINE: It.
JERRY: Out.
ELAINE: Out.
Yeah, I forgot to mention the incompleteness. I started with a night elf, and was waiting for Crown of the Earth to go somewhere, but it never did. They might get their chance if they ever introduce the Emerald Dream (it would make sense to have to go into the Emerald Dream to fix Teldrassil's corruption), but my guess is it'll just be a few instances for Level 80 characters with bosses that wipe your group if you don't execute with millisecond precision.
I should mention, I don't have any problem with using text to tell the story. Planescape Torment is told mostly in text, but actually has mostly complete stories to tell (most characters have incomplete resolutions to their stories, but that's kind of the point. It seems only Dak'kon is able to really move on and come to terms with his failure before the ending).
When you boil it right down, Frodo's quest in The Lord of the Rings was a fedex quest. Grendel was a boss, and Gilgamesh was largely an exploration mission after Enkidu died. Heck, the Iliad even had a stealth mission (not counting the horse).
It's all in the presentation -- and WoW really tends to skimp on it. There's a "main quest" for most of the races, and some of the quest chains like Duskwood have real potential to be interesting, but when it's all told entirely in text popups and a few canned emotes, there's something lacking in the dramatic presentation department.
Reg E Sec 205.6 limits your liability to $50 "with timely notice", which is a measly two days after learning of the transaction. I don't know a single bank that doesn't extend that period, and Visa quite probably applies the same rules as it does to credit cards.
You shouldn't be keeping tons of cash in checking anyway. And at least with a debit card, they're not lined up to screw you forever if you're 0.0001 seconds late when paying.
Capturing all keyboard inputs would require javascript, and if you have that enabled for google, you'd have noticed it already sets the focus to the input box when loaded.
Yeah we need to end Patent Busing. Why should a patent have to go all the way across town to the same type of schools I moved to get away from?
They're the next allofmp3 -- they're getting named by name in international treaty talks.
Battlestar Galactica and Dr Who are proof that even a blind squirrel finds the occasional nut -- and notice how those are both remakes.
The rest of the Sci-Fi channel's productions are just abysmal. They make Uwe Boll look like Martin Scorcese.
It's a soil fungus, it only goes as far as the roots. It kills the whole banana plant -- there's no fruit for you to try, fungus or not.
If a Japanese company built their business on the fact that they manufactured the bombs that destroyed Pearl Harbor, you might boycott them even though it happened 67 years ago.
I take it Mitsubishi is off your list then?
> Who have they paid off to be able to break the law with impunity?
Nobody. They're simply making money and defending the money-making enterprise of another company. And that is worth more than every single freedom, societal benefit, or principle imaginable, at least according to those staunch guardians of our liberty that we elect year after year.
Turn on C-Span, and whenever you see any of them wagging their jowls about what we need to do to "protect the economy", that's almost always them genuflecting to wealth, reflecting a worldview where the only True Blue Americans are American corporations.
Congress is worse than merely venal and corrupt -- they actually believe the things they're saying.
Squeak is image-based. The GPL could be seen as applying to an *entire* squeak system, including everything added on thereafter. The legal theory of that is fairly preposterous, but you can see why they're philosophically a little bit down on the idea.
You're arguing with Tablizer here. Visit the page in his sig and, well, you'll get the idea what he's about. He used to be a lot worse.
Anyway, an OODBMS can express relations just fine; they're just not usually locked in to a fixed schema. What gave Codd fits was that early OODBs didn't even have so much of a formal schema mechanism (and some still don't) so you'd have to query by following a graph and no other way. Really good OODBs have a solid meta-model you can target for queries, and thus implement pretty much the same sort of thing as any RDBMS, just with different syntax.
I don't think crashing is exactly acceptable behavior when a standard isn't met.
I've never seen actual crashes like the GP mentioned, but IE7 would have fixed the bug he mentioned. IE actually uses its own widget set, the same as Firefox does, but until IE7, combo boxes were the exception: it actually took a different rendering path to render the win32 native peers they were implemented with. This is what made them slow and have problems with z-order, and why they tended to stick around longer when the page content changed. IE7 finally got around to implementing an IE combo box widget, and this fixed a whole class of bugs related to them.
Ummm. China's firewall is not NAT, and is in fact pretty much transparent. In fact it works the same way SandVine does with BitTorrent: it forges RST packets to both ends.
(I am the GGP poster)
I think you put it better than I could have. I tend to see it from the opposite direction too: those that do, usually don't posture. Most people I know of that have OSS projects that are easily portable to Windows (usually by dint of being in a high-level language) will usually put in at least a little effort to port them. Not a hint of sloganeering among them.
Or pythong.org
I still shudder.
No, if you go by Atlas Shrugged they simply shoot them on sight. Or if there's any scope creep or design differences, they blow up the whole project.
I will admit that a world ruled by that silly book might turn out better in some ways than the way things are with our current silly books. Rand's books of course had the advantage of starting with perfect people for her perfect philosophy, when it turns out the world is not populated with the likes of Dagny Taggart and Hank Reardon, but more like Orren Boyle and Emmanual Goldstein^W^WEllesworth Toohey. And unlike her moustache-twiddling villains, these folks are very good at repeating the right slogans to mold their good-guy captain-of-industry images.
> In a world ruled by objectivists, universal state surveillance would not be particularly worrisome, except to thieves.
Or non-objectivists. Or hell, people that like Chopin instead of Rachmaninov. Or abstract art of any kind.
The function above is typically known as the "Y Combinator" (basically it's the definition of a recursive anonymous function).
:)
So think the closing lines of the Mickey Mouse club song. I guess you have to be part geek and part geezer
Yes, and most of those people don't actually write a single line of code.
Ah, the good old charge of elitism. My reply goes something like this: "Call me elitist if you want, but I'm pretty sure I'm right when I say the world's older than 6,000 years. Plus, I can actually find our country on a fucking globe."
Looking at my fellow countrymen, yeah I'm pretty damn elitist.
Private entities can only file criminal complaints. Actual charges are brought by DA's/Attorneys General, and those aren't actually official until an indictment.
It's just not going to happen. MD will absolutely get away with it. Keep that in mind next time you go to see a movie: you're writing MediaDefender's paycheck.
Most DDOS activity of any appreciable size is done for extortion purposes (except MediaDefender itself). There's no profit in DDOS'ing MD. They are going to get away with it. Period.
> So... how long until we see MediaDefender's board get perp-walked?
Never. As soon as anything is done to protect anyone's profit motive, anywhere, then what they're doing is simply Good, Right, and American. At worst a little misguided and overzealous, but certainly nothing approaching "wrong".
As long as it doesn't involve drugs or sex or gambling of course.