There's no chance this coupon is going to bring down the price of a computer by $50 to correspond to the loss of features....
Why, did AMD stop making CPUs?
What's to stop AMD from doing the same thing? (though I hope they don't)
There are only two vendors to choose from if you want an x86 or x86-64 CPU. Not much choice for the consumer IMO. They could do almost anything they want and still not lose that many customers.
Plus a new law that states all new laws must have a sunset (five years max) and must be voted into renewal each sunset.
(save for actual amendments)
So how long will it take (in reality) until the sunset law itself expires and isn't renewed? I wouldn't count on it lasting very long.
For each significant change in the system there are people who don't like it and would rather go back to the old way, because they profit from it more. And in this case, the new system (the sunset law) automatically provides an easy way to go back to the old system. The other way around, going back to new system, is not as easy.
Just last week, we learned that once you have a stack of enough semi-transparent layers (combination of PNGs with alpha channels coupled with DIVs with various opacity CSS settings), IE fails to render the top-most layers. This doesn't happen after 20-30 layers. This happens after 5-7 layers.
You're right that this is a bug. However, please also consider that your workaround has an additional bonus: Even when it works, drawing so many layers on top of each other ("overdraw" in computer graphics lingo) is a great performance strain. You might not notice it on your superfast gaming PC, but please also consider slower devices like netbooks, mobile phones and tablets. The iPad would probably render it correctly, but I guess at a single frame per second, maybe even less.
Good point. And the IE devs probably thought something like: 5 layers of (semi-)transparent layers ought to be enough for anyone.
Viewing figures/graphs is a pain, if you add a new figure you have to "compile" the latex, call up the ps viewer, then scroll to the figure to see if it looks right, not to mention figure out where LaTeX decided to place them.
As others have pointed out, you should have tried LyX. It does all the 'compiling' for you at the push of a button.
Many service wouldn't be needed. food service for one. Something breaks, you won't need to get it serviced because you would just get a new one.
What about disposal services? Who is going to get rid of all those discarded (broken) items? Can we simply assume that the invention of a replication device cannot happen without the introduction of a universal recycling device at the exact same time?
In Spain when you buy a media for storage (SD Cards, HDDs, CDRW, etc) you are paying a tax ("El canon digital") and that funds are shared among the authors or people with IP over published and registered works.
Here in Belgium it's a similar system, though I'm not sure about the details.
It makes me wonder if it's fair. Can I just publish and register some worthless IP as cheaply as possible, something that nobody even wants to get, and then start collecting my share of the funds? And why should publishers get payed when a buy a blank CD that I want to use to backup my family pictures?
28 is a perfect number. It is the sum of all of its proper divisors. 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28.
Why does that include 1 but not 28? Each number can be divided by 1 or itself, so why use (only) one of those two? It would be more logical to exclude both.
Simple solution: don't use filenames with spaces in them. They're an incredibly stupid idea.
Another simple solution: stop using spaces as argument delimiters in the commandline. That's outdated.
Seriously, the best way would be to have a character that cannot be used in filenames and that is easily available for use in a commandline (can be typed without compose key).
Does `find . -print0 | xargs -0` really qualify as "serious hack magic"?
IMHO there should have been a bit more restrictions on what characters a Unix filename can contain. It would make (scripting) life a lot easier. For example: why did they allow newline characters?
And there are other problems as well. Check this out:
maybe they figured the Republicans had already done enough damage to mess up the country, and that anything but a Republican would be good, but the only viable choice was a Democrat? Sometimes it's a matter of picking the lesser of two evils.
What if there is no "lesser evil"? Are you sure you can consider 'evilness' to be a linear thing? I would think it consists of many different variables. How could you ever find a minimum for all variables? Especially if you have only two options to choose from.
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There's no chance this coupon is going to bring down the price of a computer by $50 to correspond to the loss of features....
Why, did AMD stop making CPUs?
What's to stop AMD from doing the same thing? (though I hope they don't)
There are only two vendors to choose from if you want an x86 or x86-64 CPU. Not much choice for the consumer IMO. They could do almost anything they want and still not lose that many customers.
Privileges for those who are skilled and responsible.
You can only test people's skill, not their responsability. How would you certify someone objectively as being 'responsible'?
Yeah, they didn't even make 3-D movies.
Plus a new law that states all new laws must have a sunset (five years max) and must be voted into renewal each sunset.
(save for actual amendments)
So how long will it take (in reality) until the sunset law itself expires and isn't renewed? I wouldn't count on it lasting very long.
For each significant change in the system there are people who don't like it and would rather go back to the old way, because they profit from it more. And in this case, the new system (the sunset law) automatically provides an easy way to go back to the old system. The other way around, going back to new system, is not as easy.
Just last week, we learned that once you have a stack of enough semi-transparent layers (combination of PNGs with alpha channels coupled with DIVs with various opacity CSS settings), IE fails to render the top-most layers. This doesn't happen after 20-30 layers. This happens after 5-7 layers.
You're right that this is a bug. However, please also consider that your workaround has an additional bonus: Even when it works, drawing so many layers on top of each other ("overdraw" in computer graphics lingo) is a great performance strain. You might not notice it on your superfast gaming PC, but please also consider slower devices like netbooks, mobile phones and tablets. The iPad would probably render it correctly, but I guess at a single frame per second, maybe even less.
Good point. And the IE devs probably thought something like: 5 layers of (semi-)transparent layers ought to be enough for anyone.
Viewing figures/graphs is a pain, if you add a new figure you have to "compile" the latex, call up the ps viewer, then scroll to the figure to see if it looks right, not to mention figure out where LaTeX decided to place them.
As others have pointed out, you should have tried LyX. It does all the 'compiling' for you at the push of a button.
Many service wouldn't be needed. food service for one. Something breaks, you won't need to get it serviced because you would just get a new one.
What about disposal services? Who is going to get rid of all those discarded (broken) items? Can we simply assume that the invention of a replication device cannot happen without the introduction of a universal recycling device at the exact same time?
This story is the Slashdot equivalent of "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?"
Smart people know that they don't need to be rich in order to be happy or successful.
No, you need to take the total cost of ownership (TCO) into account.
Open source has the advantage that you're not locked in to a single vendor. You can switch easily whenever some other vendor offers lower prices.
If people really do have nothing to hide, then why are they wearing any clothes at times when the weather doesn't require that?
In Spain when you buy a media for storage (SD Cards, HDDs, CDRW, etc) you are paying a tax ("El canon digital") and that funds are shared among the authors or people with IP over published and registered works.
Here in Belgium it's a similar system, though I'm not sure about the details.
It makes me wonder if it's fair. Can I just publish and register some worthless IP as cheaply as possible, something that nobody even wants to get, and then start collecting my share of the funds? And why should publishers get payed when a buy a blank CD that I want to use to backup my family pictures?
XP won't die until Office won't run on it.
Right.
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Just like XP would die if it wouldn't run the latest IE
Sarcasm sign UP!
(right?)
If MPEG-LA goes up against Google/On2 chances are they'll retaliate with patents that MPEG-LA is infringing upon.
Who says they'll sue Google? They can sue small parties who use the codec and don't have the means to fight back in a patent war.
You refer to the prophecy of The One who will bring balance to the Copyright. You believe it's this girl?
No, the girl's purpose is only to balance the equation.
Visual Studio is able to use the same parser code for syntax highlighting and error reporting in the IDE that it uses for compiling
[citation needed]
Can you find a source for that?
Think.
If you defined a perfect number as the sum of all its divisors including itself there wouldn't be very many perfect numbers, would there?
Read it again.
That's why I suggested to exclude both.
28 is a perfect number. It is the sum of all of its proper divisors. 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28.
Why does that include 1 but not 28? Each number can be divided by 1 or itself, so why use (only) one of those two? It would be more logical to exclude both.
line 6: warning: unreachable code detected
THE reason to upgrade to x64
If the developer had used an UNsigned int, the game could have been twice as long.
Sure, and after Z, they can use AA (Aardvaark), but where do they go from there?
AB (Abomination)
A company does not care about the economy. It only cares about its own profits.
Simple solution: don't use filenames with spaces in them. They're an incredibly stupid idea.
Another simple solution: stop using spaces as argument delimiters in the commandline. That's outdated.
Seriously, the best way would be to have a character that cannot be used in filenames and that is easily available for use in a commandline (can be typed without compose key).
Does `find . -print0 | xargs -0` really qualify as "serious hack magic"?
IMHO there should have been a bit more restrictions on what characters a Unix filename can contain. It would make (scripting) life a lot easier. For example: why did they allow newline characters?
And there are other problems as well. Check this out:
Why does the wc utility generate multiple lines with “total”?
maybe they figured the Republicans had already done enough damage to mess up the country, and that anything but a Republican would be good, but the only viable choice was a Democrat? Sometimes it's a matter of picking the lesser of two evils.
What if there is no "lesser evil"? Are you sure you can consider 'evilness' to be a linear thing? I would think it consists of many different variables. How could you ever find a minimum for all variables? Especially if you have only two options to choose from.