You should consider climatology. That's the only field I know of where errors at the 10^54 level is not only acceptable but believed as gospel by the world's governments.
Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house? Brian: It says, "Romans go home. " Centurion: No it doesn't ! What's the latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on ! Brian: Er, "Romanus" ! Centurion: Vocative plural of "Romanus" is? Brian: Er, er, "Romani" ! Centurion: [Writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti] "Eunt"? What is "eunt"? Conjugate the verb, "to go" ! Brian: Er, "Ire". Er, "eo", "is", "it", "imus", "itis", "eunt". Centurion: So, "eunt" is...? Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go". Centurion: But, "Romans, go home" is an order. So you must use...? [He twists Brian's ear] Brian: Aaagh ! The imperative ! Centurion: Which is...? Brian: Aaaagh ! Er, er, "i" ! Centurion: How many Romans? Brian: Aaaaagh ! Plural, plural, er, "ite" ! Centurion: [Writes "ite"] "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home" is motion towards, isn't it? Brian: Dative ! [the Centurion holds a sword to his throat] Brian: Aaagh ! Not the dative, not the dative ! Er, er, accusative, "Domum" ! Centurion: But "Domus" takes the locative, which is...? Brian: Er, "Domum" ! Centurion: [Writes "Domum"] Understand? Now, write it out a hundred times. Brian: Yes sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir. Centurion: Hail Caesar ! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
Not sure which sounds better... anyway, to add my 2 cents...
You fat bastard, you fat bastard, you ate all the pie !
When I first read TFS, I thought somehow the airline had jipped him... now it seems he's complaining because he wanted an earlier flight than the one he had booked, and they couldn't find 2 standby seats next to each other for his rotund frame. He of all people should be aware of this, and did in fact books 2 seats expressly for this purpose on his original flight. So what exactly is he complaining about ? That the airline couldn't magically find an extra seat ? Or perhaps they should have thrown another passenger off the flight so he could have his 2 seats-worth of ass room.
All oversized articles should be in cargo, not hand-carry. Couldn't they just have put him in there with the suitcases and animals ?
On TPB's part, it was massive aiding of copyright infringement.
Which part of "it is legal in Sweden" do you not understand ?
This means the stupid "but.torrent file itself isn't illegal!" doesn't hold much water and you can't just mess around going against laws with such stupid technical excuses
Well, yes, the law is *exactly* about technicalities, otherwise people walking around with gun holsters could be charged with firearms offenses, *regardless* of whether there was a gun in the holster !
A.torrent file is NOT illegal, it depends merely on what information it is POINTING to, and in which countr(ies) that information is considered copyrighted... exactly the same position as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. Except those entities, being a American-based company are bound by American laws, such as DMCA takedown notices.
It still remains a fact that they broke no law as written in Sweden, and the "judge" (I use the word in it's loosest sense), created a new law under which to find them guilty. Thank your lucky stars you live somewhere where this doesn't happen, otherwise maybe next week they create a law against being an uninformed troll, and find you retroactively guilty under it.
newsflash: They were found guilty under a law that DID NOT exist, simply on the basis of the affiliations of the judge. What they did was, and still is LEGAL in Sweden, as no law yet exists regarding the copying of information. Unfortunately, instead of applying the law as it stood, the judge chose to create a new law akin to "aiding and abetting" especially for this case.
You have to realise that the Swedish adjudication system was originally based on throwing axes at people bound to spinning wheels to determine guilt, (or something like that), where the actual decision regarding guilt or innocence had probably already been made by the Chief Viking and his advisors, and the rest of the proceeding was just for show and keeping the lower ranks happy.
Surprisingly, 1500 hundred years after the Vikings, not a lot has changed, except the advisors are a bunch of corrupt RIAA employees:-(
We have 6 billion human-level super computers on the world right now, with another 300,000 arriving daily, and we have no idea what to do with them. What is one more, made of silicon, going to offer us?
An entity that DOESN'T insist on shitting out copies of itself at 9 month intervals, in spite of the fact (and in the face of all logic) that there's fuck all to eat or drink in a drought zone along the equator ?
I'm not sure we have a "the garage is over there gene", or a "aiming key into door while drunk" gene.
The only things the brain has hardwired is stuff like excessive heat hurts, and from that we learn over time that touching a hot stove is not a good idea, and in fact, the very concept of what a stove looks like, and how to differentiate it from say, the fridge or the dog.
The very things we hope artificial learning will accomplish, we already achieve most of it before we're a couple of years old... the trick is going to be hardwiring a "machine" in the same way as the human brain so that it's capable of that learning mechanism, making the right connections etc.
Unfortunately, as has been pointed out ad-nauseum, the underlying codec for the HTML5 <video> tag has NOT been "standardised", it's the same old first come first serve rabble rabble that lead to Flash in the first place (i.e. can be played on just about any platform).
Absolute positioning is sometimes a necessity, especially when it comes to forms.
You want a text box that should hold 40 characters to display 40 characters, not be smeared all over the screen because you specified a 100% width attribute.
Likewise a table of data looks better at a fixed size so that the contents will fit nicely on one line... so that people with 2048px wide displays don't have huge boxes with a little bit of data centered in it and a ton of whitespace, and likewise people with 640px wide display don't have to put up with the contents wrapping over 3 or 4 vertical lines because the table is forced to a percentage constraint (even if it means having to scroll horizontally sometimes).
There comes a point where your page / form / data / whatever DOES need a minimum width to be displayed in, in a clear manner... enforcing a "no absolute positioning rule" simply makes it look like shit for more people, either too wide OR too thin resolutions.
This is the reason why books are printed on paper, and not on rubber sheets.
What ? The VGA monitors of 1987 could already display 640 x 480... I suppose that means every web designer since 1987 has been on completely the wrong track then ?
Kind of ironic seeing as this site alone has a logo that is about 390 pixels wide and then a search bar + button of about 280 pixels.
I suppose it's okay with you that those elements are wrapped over 2 or possibly 3 vertical lines... anything rather than admit your mobile device sucks eh ?
In our McDonalds, you only ever get the fries and the drink right away... the burger will always be "4 minutes, is that okay ?" (after you've already paid of course, with no option to abort the deal).
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It's really really really tiny, but it would hurt like crazy if you touched it.
Simplistic enough for you ?
You should consider climatology. That's the only field I know of where errors at the 10^54 level is not only acceptable but believed as gospel by the world's governments.
FTFY
Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
Brian: It says, "Romans go home. "
Centurion: No it doesn't ! What's the latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on !
Brian: Er, "Romanus" !
Centurion: Vocative plural of "Romanus" is?
Brian: Er, er, "Romani" !
Centurion: [Writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti] "Eunt"? What is "eunt"? Conjugate the verb, "to go" !
Brian: Er, "Ire". Er, "eo", "is", "it", "imus", "itis", "eunt".
Centurion: So, "eunt" is...?
Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion: But, "Romans, go home" is an order. So you must use...?
[He twists Brian's ear]
Brian: Aaagh ! The imperative !
Centurion: Which is...?
Brian: Aaaagh ! Er, er, "i" !
Centurion: How many Romans?
Brian: Aaaaagh ! Plural, plural, er, "ite" !
Centurion: [Writes "ite"] "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home" is motion towards, isn't it?
Brian: Dative !
[the Centurion holds a sword to his throat]
Brian: Aaagh ! Not the dative, not the dative ! Er, er, accusative, "Domum" !
Centurion: But "Domus" takes the locative, which is...?
Brian: Er, "Domum" !
Centurion: [Writes "Domum"] Understand? Now, write it out a hundred times.
Brian: Yes sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
Centurion: Hail Caesar ! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
Overweight fatass ?
Oversized fatass ?
Circumferentially challenged fatass ?
Not sure which sounds better ... anyway, to add my 2 cents ...
You fat bastard, you fat bastard, you ate all the pie !
When I first read TFS, I thought somehow the airline had jipped him ... now it seems he's complaining because he wanted an earlier flight than the one he had booked, and they couldn't find 2 standby seats next to each other for his rotund frame. He of all people should be aware of this, and did in fact books 2 seats expressly for this purpose on his original flight. So what exactly is he complaining about ? That the airline couldn't magically find an extra seat ? Or perhaps they should have thrown another passenger off the flight so he could have his 2 seats-worth of ass room.
All oversized articles should be in cargo, not hand-carry. Couldn't they just have put him in there with the suitcases and animals ?
Airline win, Silent Bob fail
He may have found my public profile (which lists two websites, both business-related), but I certainly didn't give him permission to follow me
I think you fail in comprehending the meaning of the word "public".
On TPB's part, it was massive aiding of copyright infringement.
Which part of "it is legal in Sweden" do you not understand ?
This means the stupid "but .torrent file itself isn't illegal!" doesn't hold much water and you can't just mess around going against laws with such stupid technical excuses
Well, yes, the law is *exactly* about technicalities, otherwise people walking around with gun holsters could be charged with firearms offenses, *regardless* of whether there was a gun in the holster !
A .torrent file is NOT illegal, it depends merely on what information it is POINTING to, and in which countr(ies) that information is considered copyrighted ... exactly the same position as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. Except those entities, being a American-based company are bound by American laws, such as DMCA takedown notices.
It still remains a fact that they broke no law as written in Sweden, and the "judge" (I use the word in it's loosest sense), created a new law under which to find them guilty. Thank your lucky stars you live somewhere where this doesn't happen, otherwise maybe next week they create a law against being an uninformed troll, and find you retroactively guilty under it.
newsflash: They were found guilty under a law that DID NOT exist, simply on the basis of the affiliations of the judge. What they did was, and still is LEGAL in Sweden, as no law yet exists regarding the copying of information. Unfortunately, instead of applying the law as it stood, the judge chose to create a new law akin to "aiding and abetting" especially for this case.
You have to realise that the Swedish adjudication system was originally based on throwing axes at people bound to spinning wheels to determine guilt, (or something like that), where the actual decision regarding guilt or innocence had probably already been made by the Chief Viking and his advisors, and the rest of the proceeding was just for show and keeping the lower ranks happy.
Surprisingly, 1500 hundred years after the Vikings, not a lot has changed, except the advisors are a bunch of corrupt RIAA employees :-(
We have 6 billion human-level super computers on the world right now, with another 300,000 arriving daily, and we have no idea what to do with them. What is one more, made of silicon, going to offer us?
An entity that DOESN'T insist on shitting out copies of itself at 9 month intervals, in spite of the fact (and in the face of all logic) that there's fuck all to eat or drink in a drought zone along the equator ?
Our genes have a model of the real world in them
Really ?
I'm not sure we have a "the garage is over there gene", or a "aiming key into door while drunk" gene.
The only things the brain has hardwired is stuff like excessive heat hurts, and from that we learn over time that touching a hot stove is not a good idea, and in fact, the very concept of what a stove looks like, and how to differentiate it from say, the fridge or the dog.
The very things we hope artificial learning will accomplish, we already achieve most of it before we're a couple of years old ... the trick is going to be hardwiring a "machine" in the same way as the human brain so that it's capable of that learning mechanism, making the right connections etc.
Um what ? The whole point of the DMCA is that it is an American law ! When did parent state his ISP was in US ?
Searching for Superbowl Ads for your iPod ? There's an app for that !
At this point, I'm torn between Cartman's "he he he he he he" and Nelson Muntz's "haw haw".
The plasma IS cool, just like the water IS wet, and the fire IS hot.
Mass Nouns are not plural.
NO ONE wearing red ever returns from an away mission ... fundamental fact of the universe.
I hope chapter 1 contains directives on when and when not to use fixed width fonts.
Unfortunately, as has been pointed out ad-nauseum, the underlying codec for the HTML5 <video> tag has NOT been "standardised", it's the same old first come first serve rabble rabble that lead to Flash in the first place (i.e. can be played on just about any platform).
I'm okay with the idea of Internet Driving Licenses for users, provided they also implement MOT tests for Operating Systems.
(For those of you outside UK, the MOT is the yearly checkup of your car by a qualified mechanic, to make sure it's roadworthy).
That quarry is time locked. It's a fixed point in time and space, it's a fact !
Unless Rassillon has a backup plan involving finding a ring in a quarry ... no, wait ... they already did that one.
Absolute positioning is sometimes a necessity, especially when it comes to forms.
You want a text box that should hold 40 characters to display 40 characters, not be smeared all over the screen because you specified a 100% width attribute.
Likewise a table of data looks better at a fixed size so that the contents will fit nicely on one line ... so that people with 2048px wide displays don't have huge boxes with a little bit of data centered in it and a ton of whitespace, and likewise people with 640px wide display don't have to put up with the contents wrapping over 3 or 4 vertical lines because the table is forced to a percentage constraint (even if it means having to scroll horizontally sometimes).
There comes a point where your page / form / data / whatever DOES need a minimum width to be displayed in, in a clear manner ... enforcing a "no absolute positioning rule" simply makes it look like shit for more people, either too wide OR too thin resolutions.
This is the reason why books are printed on paper, and not on rubber sheets.
What ? The VGA monitors of 1987 could already display 640 x 480 ... I suppose that means every web designer since 1987 has been on completely the wrong track then ?
Kind of ironic seeing as this site alone has a logo that is about 390 pixels wide and then a search bar + button of about 280 pixels.
I suppose it's okay with you that those elements are wrapped over 2 or possibly 3 vertical lines ... anything rather than admit your mobile device sucks eh ?
iTroll still failing.
Or just rotate your monitor / head 180 degrees. Either works, just not at the same time.
Although, considering the OSS crowd is always banging on about standards, surely this MozTransform / WebkitTransform is equivalent to blasphemy ?
Was that intentional ?
PTO = Please Turn Over
In our McDonalds, you only ever get the fries and the drink right away ... the burger will always be "4 minutes, is that okay ?" (after you've already paid of course, with no option to abort the deal).
With their heads jammed so far up their asses?
Well obviously, there's just enough room left in their collective asses to fit the fax machines in there too !
I'd say DRM and Apple are both prior art on that idea.