The main problems are with weird 'features' MS added (outside of the specification), probably as intentional feature bloat to thwart other office suites importing the files. OO/LO is perfect, I believe, with Word 2000 and older.docs, while slightly lacking in some of those newer 'features.'
Word 2004, though, as I have discovered, has a horribly broken implementation of the.doc format. Any OO/LO-saved.doc will lose all of its formatting in 2004. I call this a Word 2004 bug (and it may have been fixed—my teacher may have an old version; I don't know), because it works fine with 2003, 2007, and 2008, and I know OO/LO follows the standard.
Depending on your hub and controllers, it may be an underpowering issue. If your hub isn't externally powered you might want to consider getting one that is (one with a power adapter). If you have multiple ports directly on your computer, you can test this theory by plugging a few controllers in directly and seeing if they work.
It is obviously not just an interface to the paper form. The paper form allows you 150 words. Not 1,000 characters or something similar. If you write in tiny tiny letters, you're still only allowed to use 150 words, even if you could fit 500 in the space allotted.
It is just an interface to the paper form. It's not a very good interface to the paper form. We already know it is buggy:P. And the word counts obviously apply either way; they are nothing to do with paper or online forms.
This problem has existed at least since last year (I applied last year) and presumably ever since the invention of the online Common Application. I find it amazingly hilarious and ironic that the problem is only getting publicity in the year in which the Common Application added warnings about the problem to the website.
The obvious solution is to use a monospaced font and allow exactly the correct characters on the online form. (Note: some sections of the application already are in monospaced fonts. This should be easy.)
It is not explained why an electronic submission must have such strictly enforced limits.
It is because the form is actually just an online interface to a paper form. The warning tells you to look at the preview of the printed application to check for problems.
That Authorized Apple Distributor is a scam, seriously. Take it to just about any other and you'll have it replaced in no time. Maybe even go as far as reporting the place to Apple.
It is badly worded, but I am pretty sure it means that it can hold 32 MWh (megawatt-hours). That is a unit of energy, whereas watts are a unit of power (energy per unit time).
In SI, if unconventional, units, the battery holds 115.2 gigajoules.
My first-ever exposure to programming was in BASIC, using Learn To Program BASIC by Interplay. This was probably 2000 or earlier--I was about 8 or less. Needless to say, I wasn't very good at it. But it definitely taught me to love programming.
I never really learned anything involving more than simple command line style logic (LTPB BASIC had mouse/sprites/sounds as well), but maybe that's a good thing. I had a magic 8 ball, a program for figuring out the week day of a given date (based on a method my dad gave me), and some other "meh" stuff.
Somewhat interestingly, the next thing I did, IIRC, was learn HTML and JavaScript from WebMonkey. During that time period I forgot most of BASIC, and pretty much all I can remember how to use off the top of my head are REM and PRINT.
Nowadays, though I don't (never did) program all that much, I do "real" programs in C++, and I regularly use Python for quick little scripty things (often helpful for homework, and Python 3 works great as a calculator).
If I were helping a clueless computer user, Linux is the first thing I would think of. Why? Safety. Security.
These are the people that are most likely to fall for Trojans, etc. Sure, things like phishing is just as much of a threat on any OS, but why leave more gaping holes than necessary?
Without this, if you want to find out the higher up (leftmost) digits, you have to consider every single binary digit (except the last few) to find out what it's going to be.
With this, you can just say, "what's the digit at byte x?" and you will get to digit. But this is just about the same thing as storing bignums as strings (in decimal, hex, base64, whatever).
I go there occasionally to try things out (like keyboards/mice/monitors) so that I can know what I'm buying online. Though the local mouse selection recently wasn't good enough, and I ended up buying something they didn't have. Actually, that was because I didn't like the ones they had. So I guess they're useful for something?
This is all kind of silly. You could see it as an exaggeration or a gross understatement. You could fit your results to your ulterior motives. If you recorded all of the input to your eyes, ears, touch, pain, temperature, taste, smell, etc in full detail 24 hours per day, that would probably be measured in petabytes. If you're at a real theater instead of a cinema, that doesn't mean that you're not taking in an equal amount of information via your senses.
Except that he explicitly says he was doing no such thing in TFA:
"I really wasn't making any point at all," Nematbakhsh admits, debunking news reports to the contrary. "It was a senior prank, a silly thing."
I'm willing to bet that he did that because he figured it would lighten his sentence (as sibling poster noted). It could very well have worked, too.
If he had really been interested in fixing the flaw, he could have brought it to the administration's attention in a much better way that would have avoided him having to do community service, and not screwed up the election.
No, and no. If he had brought it to the administration's attention they would probably simply try to suppress it because otherwise actual malicious people might figure it out and do something bad. And if the voting system was a simple largest-percentage voting system, adding 800 votes for another candidate would not affect who won the rest of the election, even if less than 800 other people had voted (in which case, of course, they'd have to ignore the obviously fake American Ninja and give the election to the second place winner).
Thankfully, nothing ever came of it, but it does show the tendency of institutions to punish those who are actually trying to help them.
Which just gives a great example of my above mentioned point. Except that getting everyone to re-vote (not that this is necessary) is not as easy as sending a bunch of new cards out.
But then the police would... have to find something useful to do. You mean something like making Dunkin' Donuts and the like richer? *REVELATION* I never knew that government was trying to make big businesses richer! Wow!
You mean HIV, AIDS is a progression of the symptoms. And no, HIV is not passed ingestion. shows how much you know.
"Although a variety of theories exist explaining the transfer of HIV to humans, no single hypothesis is unanimously accepted, and the topic remains controversial. The most widely accepted theory is so called 'Hunter' Theory according to which transference from simian to human most likely occurred when a human was bitten by a primate or was cut while butchering one, and the human became infected."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV
It seems to be possible to get HIV (although, HIV is human immunodeficiency virus), if you are bitten are get cut. Also, I think that it is possible to get it if you get blood in your eye.
It still seems unlikely, however, because monkeys generally get SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) rather than HIV.
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The main problems are with weird 'features' MS added (outside of the specification), probably as intentional feature bloat to thwart other office suites importing the files. OO/LO is perfect, I believe, with Word 2000 and older .docs, while slightly lacking in some of those newer 'features.'
Word 2004, though, as I have discovered, has a horribly broken implementation of the .doc format. Any OO/LO-saved .doc will lose all of its formatting in 2004. I call this a Word 2004 bug (and it may have been fixed—my teacher may have an old version; I don't know), because it works fine with 2003, 2007, and 2008, and I know OO/LO follows the standard.
Aah. Oh well. Worth a shot. :\
Depending on your hub and controllers, it may be an underpowering issue. If your hub isn't externally powered you might want to consider getting one that is (one with a power adapter). If you have multiple ports directly on your computer, you can test this theory by plugging a few controllers in directly and seeing if they work.
It is obviously not just an interface to the paper form. The paper form allows you 150 words. Not 1,000 characters or something similar. If you write in tiny tiny letters, you're still only allowed to use 150 words, even if you could fit 500 in the space allotted.
It is just an interface to the paper form. It's not a very good interface to the paper form. We already know it is buggy :P. And the word counts obviously apply either way; they are nothing to do with paper or online forms.
It is not explained why an electronic submission must have such strictly enforced limits.
It is because the form is actually just an online interface to a paper form. The warning tells you to look at the preview of the printed application to check for problems.
Did you just create a group of lawyers? Is this legal?
FTFY. And yes, that is "legal." *brickdodge*
That Authorized Apple Distributor is a scam, seriously. Take it to just about any other and you'll have it replaced in no time. Maybe even go as far as reporting the place to Apple.
FTFA (don't kill me—I read the article because the picture had no nose or mouth and weird eyes, which had to have a reason):
A male torso from Tactile Mind; the Braille message is informational more than lyrical — he wears a mask, he has a muscular bare chest ...
So, it's not supposed to look or feel like a face.
But it's creepy.
It is badly worded, but I am pretty sure it means that it can hold 32 MWh (megawatt-hours). That is a unit of energy, whereas watts are a unit of power (energy per unit time).
In SI, if unconventional, units, the battery holds 115.2 gigajoules.
My first-ever exposure to programming was in BASIC, using Learn To Program BASIC by Interplay. This was probably 2000 or earlier--I was about 8 or less. Needless to say, I wasn't very good at it. But it definitely taught me to love programming.
I never really learned anything involving more than simple command line style logic (LTPB BASIC had mouse/sprites/sounds as well), but maybe that's a good thing. I had a magic 8 ball, a program for figuring out the week day of a given date (based on a method my dad gave me), and some other "meh" stuff.
Somewhat interestingly, the next thing I did, IIRC, was learn HTML and JavaScript from WebMonkey. During that time period I forgot most of BASIC, and pretty much all I can remember how to use off the top of my head are REM and PRINT.
Nowadays, though I don't (never did) program all that much, I do "real" programs in C++, and I regularly use Python for quick little scripty things (often helpful for homework, and Python 3 works great as a calculator).
You should see how livid one became with which I was interacting?
If I were helping a clueless computer user, Linux is the first thing I would think of. Why? Safety. Security.
These are the people that are most likely to fall for Trojans, etc. Sure, things like phishing is just as much of a threat on any OS, but why leave more gaping holes than necessary?
.... Seriously, what did they use, FrontPage 2007? The top part of the page is almost entirely images of text.
That said, it works perfectly without JavaScript. They did something right.
To the best of my knowledge:
Without this, if you want to find out the higher up (leftmost) digits, you have to consider every single binary digit (except the last few) to find out what it's going to be.
With this, you can just say, "what's the digit at byte x?" and you will get to digit. But this is just about the same thing as storing bignums as strings (in decimal, hex, base64, whatever).
I go there occasionally to try things out (like keyboards/mice/monitors) so that I can know what I'm buying online. Though the local mouse selection recently wasn't good enough, and I ended up buying something they didn't have. Actually, that was because I didn't like the ones they had. So I guess they're useful for something?
This is all kind of silly. You could see it as an exaggeration or a gross understatement. You could fit your results to your ulterior motives. If you recorded all of the input to your eyes, ears, touch, pain, temperature, taste, smell, etc in full detail 24 hours per day, that would probably be measured in petabytes. If you're at a real theater instead of a cinema, that doesn't mean that you're not taking in an equal amount of information via your senses.
I would instead argue that a year is:
long. In other words, one light year.
In order of interestingness:
I just put all those in the toolbar in Firefox and click one and run the mouse over them to look for new ones.
What you need is PaperBack, which prints the bits on paper. And the data can actually be recovered using a decent scanner.
Combine this with PDFs on the Web using IE+Vista+Adobe's plugin and you have a terrible experience for the average person reading PDFs from the Web.
There, fixed it. I mean, XP isn't even relatively all that bad now that Vista's around.
Except that he explicitly says he was doing no such thing in TFA:
"I really wasn't making any point at all," Nematbakhsh admits, debunking news reports to the contrary. "It was a senior prank, a silly thing."I'm willing to bet that he did that because he figured it would lighten his sentence (as sibling poster noted). It could very well have worked, too.
If he had really been interested in fixing the flaw, he could have brought it to the administration's attention in a much better way that would have avoided him having to do community service, and not screwed up the election.
No, and no. If he had brought it to the administration's attention they would probably simply try to suppress it because otherwise actual malicious people might figure it out and do something bad. And if the voting system was a simple largest-percentage voting system, adding 800 votes for another candidate would not affect who won the rest of the election, even if less than 800 other people had voted (in which case, of course, they'd have to ignore the obviously fake American Ninja and give the election to the second place winner).
Thankfully, nothing ever came of it, but it does show the tendency of institutions to punish those who are actually trying to help them.
Which just gives a great example of my above mentioned point. Except that getting everyone to re-vote (not that this is necessary) is not as easy as sending a bunch of new cards out.
Actually, I think that image stabilizers on camcorders are based on an internal gyroscope. I'm not sure, but it's some food for thought.
Seems not to be anymore. I just tried Live search and Google and both came up with the SP2 page first.
/.ers to make their products "better."
Then again, maybe Microsoft is spying on
You mean HIV, AIDS is a progression of the symptoms. And no, HIV is not passed ingestion. shows how much you know.
"Although a variety of theories exist explaining the transfer of HIV to humans, no single hypothesis is unanimously accepted, and the topic remains controversial. The most widely accepted theory is so called 'Hunter' Theory according to which transference from simian to human most likely occurred when a human was bitten by a primate or was cut while butchering one, and the human became infected." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV
It seems to be possible to get HIV (although, HIV is human immunodeficiency virus), if you are bitten are get cut. Also, I think that it is possible to get it if you get blood in your eye.
It still seems unlikely, however, because monkeys generally get SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) rather than HIV.