A solution is already emerging. Did you notice how people are tagging with !gay? As soon as Taco picks that up and starts using "!tag" to cancel "tag", we're back on track.
An by the way, I think "gay" was due to the pink scheme, but that's just me being a homophobe, I think.
Long answer: You still have to sum lots of terms (around N terms). The idea is to multiply the whole sum by 16^(K-1), where K is the digit you want. Now this digit is in the first decimal place.
To illustrate, these are the first few iterations of the formula: n = 0: 3.222222 n = 1: 3.222222 + 0.021221 = 3.243443 n = 2: 3.243443 + 0.000ACE = 3.243F12 n = 3: 3.243F12 + 0.000055 = 3.243F67 n = 4: 3.243F67 + 0.000003 = 3.243F6A
If you want the 5th digit ("6"), you still need to do the sum, but you multiply by 16^4 and get:
32434.43, 3243F.12, 3243F.67, 3243F.6A
The trick, finally, is that you don't really need the integer part in the calculation, making it much easier to evaluate.
I have been using unison for about a year. It used to have some minor flaws, in particular when synchronizing large trees for the first time, but it never lost or corrupted data. It required several restarts until the trees are identical, then worked fine. It is probably fixed by now.
And I can confirm that it runs on Mac OS X and Solaris. There's even a native GUI for the OS X version, which I never tried.
This code just loads some more script code from fastclick.net
The secret sauce is an SWF file that opens the popup. I saw that coming when StrongBad was able to do it.
The next layer of code is this:
function ffPop(){ var encodedURL=escape(myFFURL); var top=screen.height/2-300/2; var left=screen.width/2-700/2; var width=700; var height=300; document.write('<embed src=http://cdn.fastclick.net/fastclick.net/ffp.swf ?url='+encodedURL+'&width='+width+'&height='+heigh t+'&top='+top+'&left='+left+'" quality="high" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#333333" width="1" height="1" name="popup" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash player"/>'); fcfocus(); }
Try opening in a new window. This worked for me. They reported the vulnerability as a "new window" instead of a "new tab" problem, but they did not word the demo page correctly.
An alternative idea is to introduce a community currency: (this was presented in the Future of Money summit)
Open source needs a system for motivating participants to both stimulate activity initially and to keep people involved for the long term. complementary currencies need a community within which to operate, and an equitable system for exchange. Together they can dovetail nicely.
Just as complementary currencies are not intended to replace national currencies, open source projects are not intended to replace people's regular jobs. However, creating some form of remuneration for their time and effort can allow people who are not working on a "paid gig" to find a new home, making a meaningful contribution, with some nice side benefits.
The currency designed for open source projects would most likely be an hours-based currency monitored by the number of actual hours spent working in some trackable development environment. A separate open source exchange site would enable people to redeem the hours-based currency for good and services posted on the site.
Very true. But I believe this paper underrates the strength of (as Eric Raymond calls it) the gift culture. Essentially, OpenSource developers compete to give the biggest gift to the community. The bigger the gift, the more their standing within the community rises. This has worked pretty well the past 13 years or so.
A gift culture is not orthogonal with a money-based economy. There is an interesting work by Bernard Lietaer (The Future of Money) that deals with the effect of complementary community-based currencies. In summary, if a community creates a local currency with which to back local transactions and reward gift-givers, the tradition can even be strengthened.
The key, for him, is "community-based". He gives some examples in the web site above. These currencies are non-scarce (currency is created when a transaction happens) and backed by the work capacity of people (some of these currencies are traded in work-hour equivalents), not by bank debt or government fiat.
I've been thinking about means to apply this to the open-source community, but I'm not an economist. Basically, you would receive "open source credits" for creating new code, and you could use these credits to pay for the creation of code that interests you. This is basically trading your time with the time of others, and fits well with what Lietaer describes in his book.
Does anybody know of a good PDA application with reliable maps? I don't care much for driving directions, I just want to have a map that I can search by street name and number, put some custom markers and find out where I am. Downloadable driving directions would be a plus.
I am currently using Rand McNally's StreetFinder with a free sample map, but the interface is not ideal. I would like to spend my money on something better, if such thing exists.
It also bothers me that it cannot find my address (which is at a reasonable big street), although it will show the street name in the map.
I am curious about your Microsoft on-site full time support guy. Couldn't he (or any MS support) help with your failing Microsoft proxy? If not, how could any solution be less supported than that?
Can anybody tell me why we can't just run on an alcohol?
Alcohol has been used in Brazil since 1975, when the government launched the Proalcool program as a reaction to an oil crisis. My family had an alcohol-powered car. From what I recall (you can google Proalcool if you are interested), the problems were:
Alcohol was not competitive with gasoline, and needed heavy subsidies;
Even with subsidies, sugar was more profitable for cane farmers, and there were supply problems;
Alcohol cars (before electronic injection) were a pain to cold start, specially early in the morning -- the population learned to dislike them;
After the oil crisis ended, there was simply no incentive to continue the program.
Today, all gas stations still sell alcohol, there are still some cars being built for it and our gasoline has a fixed percentage of ethanol.
We have also a growing percentage of cars powered by methane (sold as 'vehicular gas'). We have had gas-powered buses for a while, and cab drivers are actively converting their cars.
In their paper, they mention that "Further work on culturing and PCR analysis is in progress". PCR is hard to get right, but you would think that after one year they could at least have checked the universal probes for terrestrial microbes.
(PCR selectively amplifies DNA fragments, making it easy to detect them. Google is your friend)
$10 a month, 100 downloads allowed... but most people won't use that much, and they are probably counting on this, like cable providers (what happens if you insist in downloading 100 songs each month is left as an exercise to the reader). $10 a month is more than I spend on CDs, and I am old-fashioned... all the music I hear comes either from the radio or from regular paid-for or gift CDs.
Slashdot Mirror
I haven't posted for (what seems like) decades, and this is probably my last post.
But I still read almost daily, and I hope the site stays true to what it was.
Their test case won't work in Safari 2.0.4, even though Safari fills in U/P fields.
A solution is already emerging. Did you notice how people are tagging with !gay? As soon as Taco picks that up and starts using "!tag" to cancel "tag", we're back on track. An by the way, I think "gay" was due to the pink scheme, but that's just me being a homophobe, I think.
Details here.
Quick answer: it's not.
Long answer: You still have to sum lots of terms (around N terms). The idea is to multiply the whole sum by 16^(K-1), where K is the digit you want. Now this digit is in the first decimal place.
To illustrate, these are the first few iterations of the formula:
n = 0: 3.222222
n = 1: 3.222222 + 0.021221 = 3.243443
n = 2: 3.243443 + 0.000ACE = 3.243F12
n = 3: 3.243F12 + 0.000055 = 3.243F67
n = 4: 3.243F67 + 0.000003 = 3.243F6A
If you want the 5th digit ("6"), you still need to do the sum, but you multiply by 16^4 and get:
32434.43, 3243F.12, 3243F.67, 3243F.6A
The trick, finally, is that you don't really need the integer part in the calculation, making it much easier to evaluate.
The full (?) list, courtesy of strings(1): andrew, bernard, charlene, david, dominic, john, marcus, matt, hector, tom.
This changes the "cloth" to one of the faces in the Contents/Resources subfolder.
I have been using unison for about a year. It used to have some minor flaws, in particular when synchronizing large trees for the first time, but it never lost or corrupted data. It required several restarts until the trees are identical, then worked fine. It is probably fixed by now.
And I can confirm that it runs on Mac OS X and Solaris. There's even a native GUI for the OS X version, which I never tried.
This code just loads some more script code from fastclick.net
The secret sauce is an SWF file that opens the popup. I saw that coming when StrongBad was able to do it.
The next layer of code is this:
Render the tables in TFA correctly, ...
For that we have Links. A bit slower, but at least it works.
This is a previous vulnerability.
And the EE button (to write numbers such as 1.0e+39) is still gone. I haven't seen it since 10.2. In its place, there is a random number generator.
Try opening in a new window. This worked for me. They reported the vulnerability as a "new window" instead of a "new tab" problem, but they did not word the demo page correctly.
You mean the Stata Center, home of the Gates Tower?
An alternative idea is to introduce a community currency: (this was presented in the Future of Money summit)
Well, it seems that the idea was not original: Open Source Currency. This was presented in the Future of Money conference.
A gift culture is not orthogonal with a money-based economy. There is an interesting work by Bernard Lietaer (The Future of Money) that deals with the effect of complementary community-based currencies. In summary, if a community creates a local currency with which to back local transactions and reward gift-givers, the tradition can even be strengthened.
The key, for him, is "community-based". He gives some examples in the web site above. These currencies are non-scarce (currency is created when a transaction happens) and backed by the work capacity of people (some of these currencies are traded in work-hour equivalents), not by bank debt or government fiat.
I've been thinking about means to apply this to the open-source community, but I'm not an economist. Basically, you would receive "open source credits" for creating new code, and you could use these credits to pay for the creation of code that interests you. This is basically trading your time with the time of others, and fits well with what Lietaer describes in his book.
Does anybody know of a good PDA application with reliable maps? I don't care much for driving directions, I just want to have a map that I can search by street name and number, put some custom markers and find out where I am. Downloadable driving directions would be a plus.
I am currently using Rand McNally's StreetFinder with a free sample map, but the interface is not ideal. I would like to spend my money on something better, if such thing exists.
It also bothers me that it cannot find my address (which is at a reasonable big street), although it will show the street name in the map.
I am curious about your Microsoft on-site full time support guy. Couldn't he (or any MS support) help with your failing Microsoft proxy? If not, how could any solution be less supported than that?
Alcohol has been used in Brazil since 1975, when the government launched the Proalcool program as a reaction to an oil crisis. My family had an alcohol-powered car. From what I recall (you can google Proalcool if you are interested), the problems were:
Today, all gas stations still sell alcohol, there are still some cars being built for it and our gasoline has a fixed percentage of ethanol.
We have also a growing percentage of cars powered by methane (sold as 'vehicular gas'). We have had gas-powered buses for a while, and cab drivers are actively converting their cars.
In my Mac these files are readable by everybody.
% pwd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/ Versions/1.3.1/Documentation/api
% ls -l
[...]
drwxr-xr-x 29 root wheel 986 Feb 15 2002 index-files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 751 Feb 15 2002 index.html
[...]
I can't find any indication any of this has been published in a peer reviewed journal.
I can't either. A search for "Narlikar JV" in the web of science returns a couple of papers on cosmology, but nothing on this subject.
(PCR selectively amplifies DNA fragments, making it easy to detect them. Google is your friend)
$10 a month, 100 downloads allowed... but most people won't use that much, and they are probably counting on this, like cable providers (what happens if you insist in downloading 100 songs each month is left as an exercise to the reader). $10 a month is more than I spend on CDs, and I am old-fashioned... all the music I hear comes either from the radio or from regular paid-for or gift CDs.
* 2001-09-13 23:31:02 Linus and Stallman received award (articles) (rejected)
Interesting to see this page hosted at mit.edu...
I stopped using Jed because and only because it was not available in Athena (the MIT network).
Great editor, and I could understand its language (as opposed to Emacs LISP)
This is the link:
http://boston.com/news/daily/12/boston_links.htm