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Jan 21, 2004, 11:20pm

All you're going to figure out is that there is no lexicographical method
that can capture reality.

It sounds like you all might enjoy reading a book called "Godel, Escher,
Bach"
by someone named Douglas R. Hoffstader. He was the puzzle editor of
Scientific American for many years, and a mathematics professor.

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Jan 22, 2004, 4:04am

Welll.. it's not fiction... it's pretty dry.. but very thought provoking.

Find some reviews first.

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Jan 22, 2004, 2:07pm

For a long time after I read it I couldn't help making self referential
statements such as "For a long time after I read it I couldn't help making
self referential statements such as 'For a long time after I read it I
couldn't
help making self referential statements such as `For a long time after I
read it I couldn't help making self referential statements such as ........

** stack overflow

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Jan 25, 2004, 7:14pm

I think it's a good idea.. but getting product onto retail shelves takes
a lot of money.

They do already have a mechanism in the program to retrieve content
from a local CD though. If the CD had the megapath on it that could
install to your harddrive, it would make the browser fly if the content
was stock objects, and AW would save bandwidth too (especially when
you mutliply it by the number of worlds that use stock megapath
objects).

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Jan 27, 2004, 4:02pm

It seems insane rambling is OK.. so....

Red ink drips like blood from my pen as I write the check to the man
with the cable cutters. Don't cut me off.. don't sever the umbilical cable
that ties me to the worlds that exist only as fleeting impulses driven down
a wire by the will of the people who don't exist.

Stay your axe Mister bill collector.. just for another day.. another round
of Hello.. how are you that's nice goodby TTYL and BRB. Don't AFK me
permanently with that handheld guillotine gleaming it's eagerness to chop
off my head.

I promise I will pay.. promise I will pay the toll to bring the bits to my
brain that make it sing in tune to the mad eclectic electric opera.

I promise I will pay to see the dots that dance dirvish patterns on
windows as I drive down streets that are paved with the mind patterns
of others who have come before me.

I promise I will pay.. just wait another day while I figure out a way to
stay the execution....

Why can't you delay while I find a way to pay? I promise a solution
to this dis-electrocution.

Back off Mister bill collector! Your murderous intent for my lack of
paying rent seems so unkind to my mind.. I'm not that far behind.

Here's your money chump.. now go.. and don't be so slow when I
complain about the clogged drain or the leaks when it rains.

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Jan 30, 2004, 10:19pm

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> Being as english is not everyone's first language,
<SNIP>
> b. why would anyone want key mapping.

Maybe because English is not their first language and some of the
keys you take for granted just aren't there?

Or maybe because they have a laptop and can't fly or do some other
vital thing you take for granted because of the weird keys?

Or maybe they are handicapped and have to use special devices to
access their computer that behave like a keyboard, but require that
the programs the people want to use have the ability to remap the
keys?

Jan 30, 2004, 10:01am

Works for me.

Maybe you have to right click to select first, then right click to move.

The cursor stays centered, but the object moves.

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Mar 15, 2004, 10:00am

and
And
Day

It's important to note that this person had to email the avatar to
everyone. Simply giving out the password to Lady M's OP was
not sufficient as it would have been in the past.

Giving out passwords is no longer sufficient to cripple someones
ability to protect their intellectual property. Someone will have
to go into the business of obtaining, hosting and distributing the
illegal files if they want to be taken seriously as a 'threat'

Can you see these kind of people in future emailing everyone
*all* of the files from *all* of the paths? If everyones path
were protected with some level of scripting so that only
hackers have the ability to obtain the files, then the hackers
will have to do a lot more work, spend a lot more bandwidth
actually stealing and distributing the files than they do now by
simply emailing everyone a list of passwords.

With server side security, the game is changed. In the old days,
cowards used to give out passwords, and reasonably honest people
used to go and help themselves, or simply hijack the OP path
completely and use it directly in their own worlds.

Now, even if you know someones password, you still have to
get your hands dirty obtaining the content. You used to be able
to just help yourself to the goodies... now you have to pick the
lock to get at the stuff, and 99% of the people who *might* take
the stuff if it is just sitting there won't have a clue how to do that.

They have proven that "PHP scripts are helpful". They sent out a
list of passwords, and a lot of people are capable of going to those
peoples paths, downloading the files with an ordinary web browser,
and unpacking and using the contents. Since the files from most
OPs can be obtained by simply going there with a normal browser,
it is difficult to enforce any sort of concept of said files not
being intended for public availability.

But they had to actually go and get Lady M's avatar and email it
to everyone because they know that very few people will be capable
of going and getting it themselves. Lady M finds that helpful, and
it's not their place to decide what she finds helpful.

And they should quit pretending that this is somehow between them
and AW. They are not doing any harm to AW, they are harming nice
people who have kids and who struggle to put a little extra bread on the
table now and then. There is no nobility in what they do to these
people. They are no better than street thugs who mug old ladies
for their Bingo money, and at least street thugs have the balls to look
their victims in the eye when they rob them.

But thanks to their publicity, I had three people email me to enquire
about protecting their OP paths.

And Lady M also informs me that she has never had so many people
inquire about purchasing an avatar until this latest blatant attempt
at poisoning commerce within the AW community.

Mar 15, 2004, 7:29pm

Well if you think it is that simple, who am I to argue.

But you have proved my point. Most people don't have a clue
how to write a PHP script to do what you describe.

And you obviously haven't actually done it since it
won't work.

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