It is sometimes easier to go to an url by typing something into google than using the address bar. As an example off the top of my head, I type "aicn" into the search box, go to the first result, and I end up at "www.aintitcoolnews.com". Four characters, enter, click. Sure it would be shorter if I bookmarked it, but if I bookmarked every site I went to a few times a month, finding the bookmark would take thirty seconds.
And, of course, the awesomebar is painful to look at. Someday I'm going to get banned from slashdot because people will get tired of me bitching about that "feature" on every Firefox story.
the related problem that it only lets one tab be visible at once. I can't, for example, view two tabs side by side or above/below each other.
I agree, that would be a VERY NICE feature. The more I have experience with it, the more I think 3.0 really was a fumble. Many visible UI features were made less convenient or sensible (awesomebar, weird tab scrolling). The engine is better under the hood, but disguised by a lot of cruft.
The problem is that they didn't actually do these things.
If, as the police storyline goes, the groups had been infiltrated, why couldn't the infiltrators arrest the offending protestors at the time they committed the crime? Oh, that's right, because the entire group could be peaceful, and there's the risk that none of the allegations of future crime would ever come to pass.
If they were planning to commit a crime, and there is good evidence they are planning to commit a crime, of COURSE the police should stop them. That's not punishing thought crime, that's being a good cop.
We'll have to see what the evidence was. If there is evidence they were going to commit violence or vandalism, I'm all for jailing the uncivilized bastards. If they were planning a peaceful protest, than they should never have been arrested in the first place, and the police/feds are in the wrong. It'll all come out.
First off, please don't ever utter that nonsensical phrase again.
Who cares if it was worse a century ago, who cares if Mexico is worse. The only reason we're better NOW is because we iterated towards a better society. How exactly is defending this going to make the world a better place? Indifference is the enemy of progress and you're worse. You're a piece of garbage weighted around the ankle of positive change.
Stopping to congratulate ourselves is something I think we should do more. Racism and sexism have been damn near erased. Politics and civil liberties are at one of the cleanest points in history. We can recognize that, while still admitting that there is a lot more work to be done. Yes, we need to stop all instances of feds cracking down on free speech. Yes, this may have been excessive (although maybe not; the ALLEGED crimes of the Republicans tend to get more coverage). Yes, it needs to be scrutinized publicly, and if civil rights are violated, people need to be fined or otherwise punished.
You know what? That WILL HAPPEN. It's already happening.
"The fed" - that is, your federal government - has agencies that are specifically designed to work quickly and effectively and do so.
In Katrina, they worked exactly the way they were supposed to; as a back up that city/state officials could utilize upon request. The foul-ups, delays, and general incompetence began there. By the time the feds moved in, the situation was already screwed, and it was 90% the fault of Mayor Nagin and the governor.
I looked up Sarah Palin on Wikipedia a week ago as I was researching VP potentials. I didn't make an edit, because I didn't see anything in error. But she was a known potential (although a long shot), and it's reasonable to think that traffic would surge as we got closer to McCain's announcement.
And if traffic spikes, edits will naturally spike also.
This is why I don't want him out on the streets. He has a problem with his ego; he thought he was so much smarter than everybody that he could get away with murder. That's a dangerous person. If he was really contrite, I might judge him less harshly; but I have never gotten the impression that he's the least bit sorry.
And remember that both the conviction and the sentence were handed down by people who know far more about the case than any of us. And 'reasonable doubt' is different than 'complete mathematical certainty.'
You are right about a dirty war in recent elections. Obviously Bush was seated due to a fixed election.
It's not obvious, and probably not even true. It's a bit disingenuous to fringe conspiracy theories "obvious". Please check your opinions against facts.
I think a well-designed web page should have the ability to have any common html elements pointed to a different CSS definition, and still render reasonably. That's a feature; if changing a font breaks your page, you are designing web pages that are like a BASIC program full of GOTOs.
The quick answer is, of course. Like any other form of creative endeavor, videogames can and should be used to explore themes and illustrate principles, artistically.
The second point, though, is that I don't like these two games being held up as examples of video-game art. Both the mentioned games seem to me a bit like the crucifix dipped in urine; it's making a crass, simplistic, unsubtle, and probably unintended statement. Artists seem to feel that they are free to make ridiculous and shoddily-executed statements, purely for shock, and that nobody should criticise them for it. It's 'art'.
Play Planescape:Torment to find a game rich with true art, that says something about humanity. The aforementioned two games are art, in the same sense hanging condoms from a Christmas tree painted red is.
I mostly agree. As far as I know, the guy is not a threat to anybody, so jail time should be light; these are economic crimes, and the penalties should probably be mostly economic. But fifteen months is not a huge amount of time. I'm sure at the first hint of jail overcrowding, this is the guy that will get the early release.
What always makes me wonder about these crimes... what did he think was going to happen? I guess this sentence is good if it stops other, completely clueless, individuals from doing this same thing.
Can you? Sure, if the C compiler is unoptimized or ten years old, or you only use optimization flags on the C++ compilation. I thought it was pretty obvious that I wasn't referring to that, since that would make the test meaningless in the first place. When does C++ generate faster code than C?
Not hating on C++; I use it far more often than C. But not because it's faster.
I can't speak to the C# benchmark, but I can't imagine any case where C++ would outperform C in straightforward computation. The fact that you have C++ two seconds faster indicates to me an error margin of at least two seconds in your tests.
Does that also mean it's NOT as fast as native C/C++ code because C# is blatantly not and thus is part of the marketing guff that you were gulliable to believe?
Yes. Javascript will, just like C# or Java, be as fast as C/C++ in theory, and just like C# or Java, slower in practice.
On the bright side... Javascript will be as fast as C# or Java, which is certainly good enough for a lot of things.
Why can't I just have a barBar? What kind of shoddy coding can't manage to make this option...optional?
Earlier versions did have an about:config option to switch. They removed it. I can't think of a legitimate reason for them to do that; feature removal is generally the province of marketing and politics.
Dropping support for them isn't a problem; it's sensible. Microsoft has dropped support already. What isn't sensible is to pester them with recurring popups trying to upgrade them to a newer version that is impossible for them to run without purchasing a new computer or new operating system.
I think you're either displaying sarcasm, or are a firefox developer; those are the only two possibilities I can imagine would lead somebody to praise the awesomebar. But just for anybody who doesn't know, there are addons such as oldbar that do a halfway credible job of fixing it. Not completely, the search mechanism it uses is still wonky, but it changes the menu back to something reasonable.
it's likely Firefox will ask again anyway. Users will most likely be offered a second chance to upgrade after several weeks
This is how an great project starts swerving down the path to hell. I'm ambivalent about Firefox 3.0; it has nice improvements, along with horrible changes (the ridiculous awesomebar, and various little UI "improvements" that really just are annoying). I've upgraded from 2.0, but I'm no longer as evangelical about Firefox.
Really, "offered a second chance to upgrade..." is just terrible marketing speak, trying to make "we've added unstoppable advertising popups" sound like it's a good thing for the user.
Why was it necessary to emphasize gender in the first place?
Because, like it or not, the fact that a manufacturing hack came from a women is one of the unusual and noteworthy elements of the story. We can argue whether the lower interest of women in such fields is due to cultural or genetic influences, but it certainly exists.
(My opinion is that women are probably, by nature, less interested in certain subjects then men, and vice versa; and societies probably grow to reinforce this, pushing sexes into certain roles. For example, perhaps women, by nature, generally tend to be better at nurturing children; then society tries to codify the rules, putting ALL women into a nurturing role, not allowing ANY men to take a nurturing role.)
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It is sometimes easier to go to an url by typing something into google than using the address bar. As an example off the top of my head, I type "aicn" into the search box, go to the first result, and I end up at "www.aintitcoolnews.com". Four characters, enter, click. Sure it would be shorter if I bookmarked it, but if I bookmarked every site I went to a few times a month, finding the bookmark would take thirty seconds.
And, of course, the awesomebar is painful to look at. Someday I'm going to get banned from slashdot because people will get tired of me bitching about that "feature" on every Firefox story.
the related problem that it only lets one tab be visible at once. I can't, for example, view two tabs side by side or above/below each other.
I agree, that would be a VERY NICE feature. The more I have experience with it, the more I think 3.0 really was a fumble. Many visible UI features were made less convenient or sensible (awesomebar, weird tab scrolling). The engine is better under the hood, but disguised by a lot of cruft.
The problem is that they didn't actually do these things. If, as the police storyline goes, the groups had been infiltrated, why couldn't the infiltrators arrest the offending protestors at the time they committed the crime? Oh, that's right, because the entire group could be peaceful, and there's the risk that none of the allegations of future crime would ever come to pass.
If they were planning to commit a crime, and there is good evidence they are planning to commit a crime, of COURSE the police should stop them. That's not punishing thought crime, that's being a good cop.
We'll have to see what the evidence was. If there is evidence they were going to commit violence or vandalism, I'm all for jailing the uncivilized bastards. If they were planning a peaceful protest, than they should never have been arrested in the first place, and the police/feds are in the wrong. It'll all come out.
You're a tool in every sense of the word.
First off, please don't ever utter that nonsensical phrase again.
Who cares if it was worse a century ago, who cares if Mexico is worse. The only reason we're better NOW is because we iterated towards a better society. How exactly is defending this going to make the world a better place? Indifference is the enemy of progress and you're worse. You're a piece of garbage weighted around the ankle of positive change.
Stopping to congratulate ourselves is something I think we should do more. Racism and sexism have been damn near erased. Politics and civil liberties are at one of the cleanest points in history. We can recognize that, while still admitting that there is a lot more work to be done. Yes, we need to stop all instances of feds cracking down on free speech. Yes, this may have been excessive (although maybe not; the ALLEGED crimes of the Republicans tend to get more coverage). Yes, it needs to be scrutinized publicly, and if civil rights are violated, people need to be fined or otherwise punished.
You know what? That WILL HAPPEN. It's already happening.
"The fed" - that is, your federal government - has agencies that are specifically designed to work quickly and effectively and do so.
In Katrina, they worked exactly the way they were supposed to; as a back up that city/state officials could utilize upon request. The foul-ups, delays, and general incompetence began there. By the time the feds moved in, the situation was already screwed, and it was 90% the fault of Mayor Nagin and the governor.
I looked up Sarah Palin on Wikipedia a week ago as I was researching VP potentials. I didn't make an edit, because I didn't see anything in error. But she was a known potential (although a long shot), and it's reasonable to think that traffic would surge as we got closer to McCain's announcement.
And if traffic spikes, edits will naturally spike also.
Oh, she tried to kill him first? Otherwise, her behavior is irrelevant.
This is why I don't want him out on the streets. He has a problem with his ego; he thought he was so much smarter than everybody that he could get away with murder. That's a dangerous person. If he was really contrite, I might judge him less harshly; but I have never gotten the impression that he's the least bit sorry.
Being incarcerated in America, especially California, is usually a death sentence no matter what you were convicted of.
Are you being sarcastic? If not, and you're serious, I should probably mention that that's not true. Not even close.
And remember that both the conviction and the sentence were handed down by people who know far more about the case than any of us. And 'reasonable doubt' is different than 'complete mathematical certainty.'
You are right about a dirty war in recent elections. Obviously Bush was seated due to a fixed election.
It's not obvious, and probably not even true. It's a bit disingenuous to fringe conspiracy theories "obvious". Please check your opinions against facts.
I think a well-designed web page should have the ability to have any common html elements pointed to a different CSS definition, and still render reasonably. That's a feature; if changing a font breaks your page, you are designing web pages that are like a BASIC program full of GOTOs.
The quick answer is, of course. Like any other form of creative endeavor, videogames can and should be used to explore themes and illustrate principles, artistically.
The second point, though, is that I don't like these two games being held up as examples of video-game art. Both the mentioned games seem to me a bit like the crucifix dipped in urine; it's making a crass, simplistic, unsubtle, and probably unintended statement. Artists seem to feel that they are free to make ridiculous and shoddily-executed statements, purely for shock, and that nobody should criticise them for it. It's 'art'.
Play Planescape:Torment to find a game rich with true art, that says something about humanity. The aforementioned two games are art, in the same sense hanging condoms from a Christmas tree painted red is.
I mostly agree. As far as I know, the guy is not a threat to anybody, so jail time should be light; these are economic crimes, and the penalties should probably be mostly economic. But fifteen months is not a huge amount of time. I'm sure at the first hint of jail overcrowding, this is the guy that will get the early release.
What always makes me wonder about these crimes... what did he think was going to happen? I guess this sentence is good if it stops other, completely clueless, individuals from doing this same thing.
That's a reasonable answer, although it doesn't 100% convince me.
Can you? Sure, if the C compiler is unoptimized or ten years old, or you only use optimization flags on the C++ compilation. I thought it was pretty obvious that I wasn't referring to that, since that would make the test meaningless in the first place. When does C++ generate faster code than C?
Not hating on C++; I use it far more often than C. But not because it's faster.
I can't speak to the C# benchmark, but I can't imagine any case where C++ would outperform C in straightforward computation. The fact that you have C++ two seconds faster indicates to me an error margin of at least two seconds in your tests.
The Atari 800's Basic cartridge did something similar, back in '78.
Does that also mean it's NOT as fast as native C/C++ code because C# is blatantly not and thus is part of the marketing guff that you were gulliable to believe?
Yes. Javascript will, just like C# or Java, be as fast as C/C++ in theory, and just like C# or Java, slower in practice.
On the bright side... Javascript will be as fast as C# or Java, which is certainly good enough for a lot of things.
Why can't I just have a barBar? What kind of shoddy coding can't manage to make this option...optional?
Earlier versions did have an about:config option to switch. They removed it. I can't think of a legitimate reason for them to do that; feature removal is generally the province of marketing and politics.
Dropping support for them isn't a problem; it's sensible. Microsoft has dropped support already. What isn't sensible is to pester them with recurring popups trying to upgrade them to a newer version that is impossible for them to run without purchasing a new computer or new operating system.
I think you're either displaying sarcasm, or are a firefox developer; those are the only two possibilities I can imagine would lead somebody to praise the awesomebar. But just for anybody who doesn't know, there are addons such as oldbar that do a halfway credible job of fixing it. Not completely, the search mechanism it uses is still wonky, but it changes the menu back to something reasonable.
it's likely Firefox will ask again anyway. Users will most likely be offered a second chance to upgrade after several weeks
This is how an great project starts swerving down the path to hell. I'm ambivalent about Firefox 3.0; it has nice improvements, along with horrible changes (the ridiculous awesomebar, and various little UI "improvements" that really just are annoying). I've upgraded from 2.0, but I'm no longer as evangelical about Firefox.
Really, "offered a second chance to upgrade..." is just terrible marketing speak, trying to make "we've added unstoppable advertising popups" sound like it's a good thing for the user.
Why was it necessary to emphasize gender in the first place?
Because, like it or not, the fact that a manufacturing hack came from a women is one of the unusual and noteworthy elements of the story. We can argue whether the lower interest of women in such fields is due to cultural or genetic influences, but it certainly exists.
(My opinion is that women are probably, by nature, less interested in certain subjects then men, and vice versa; and societies probably grow to reinforce this, pushing sexes into certain roles. For example, perhaps women, by nature, generally tend to be better at nurturing children; then society tries to codify the rules, putting ALL women into a nurturing role, not allowing ANY men to take a nurturing role.)
Hope is not necessary for success.
But lack of hope is an impediment.