I go even further... We have a shredder, and I empty it once a week into the bag with the used cat litter. If someone wants to spend the effort to reassemble my finacial statements after digging through that mess, well, they've just about earned it.
I'm no expert on PDF functionality, but I'm pretty sure PDF's can't handle nearly the same level of JavaScript functionality as web pages running on modern browsers, I am also unaware of the PDF format currently supporting flash animation. Finally if someone can show that the PDF format can integrate natively with dynamic page generation technologies (e.g. asp, jsp & php etc.) to the extent of HTML then I would be absolutely amazed.
You're right, you are no expert.
PDF Javascript is core Javascript compliant. While there are browser additions that, yes, have more browser specific functionality than PDF, it is still contains a lot of functionality.
Since Acrobat 6.0, (PDF version 1.5) Shockwave/Flash has been one of the allowable embedded application types.
There are java libraries that are available that allow for customization of PDF files that allow for an extraordinary level of control, as well as other tools.
The full capabilities of the PDF are not well known, obviously, but are there.
This is all moot, however, since this product does not offer a number of features that PDF is used for.
A couple years ago, I showed these rules to another developer. We had a good chuckle, particularly about
Misleading names
Make sure that every method does a little bit more (or less) than its name suggests. As a simple example, a method named isValid(x) should as a side effect convert x to binary and store the result in a database.
The next day we had a meeting to examine a legacy application that we were going to be re-writing. Another dev was discussing the DataLoad method. Which loaded a flat CSV file.
And validated the data
And stored the result in a database.
It is very hard to look professional in a meeting when your face is beet red and your eyes are screwed up tight to keep from breaking out it gales of laughter.
The obstacles TFA is referring to are obstacles dealing with gaseous hydrogen.
There is currently not a distribution system for delivery of gaseous fuels direct to consumers at the scale required to power our cars. There are some small-scale delivery systems (propane, for example) but those still require a trained handler and other special steps -- you typically can't pump your own propane, propane needs to be stored outdoors in a ventilated cabinet, etc. And the infrastructure for propane is small: a couple hundred gallons per homeowner per winter up here where it's cold, maybe a few tanks for cooking in the summer, that's it. There aren't nearly enough trucks and tanks required to provide fuel for all vehicles if they were suddenly converted to propane.
Even if the safety issues were handled technologically, neither propane nor natural gas are ready for "the final mile". Most homeowners don't have an existing gas "tap" where they can hook a hose up to their car, so they'd require new plumbing. For that matter, home delivery of natural gas is pretty much restricted to metro areas in northern states: it's not currently available in the far south or in rural areas. To make it available everywhere else would require a huge investment in pipes.
The current gasoline infrastructure doesn't go that last mile either; I don't have a pump in my garage to top off my car, why should I expect the same for a hydrogen powered vehicle?
I'm trying not to be paranoid about this stuff, and I understand the need for companies to make a buck, but this stuff just gives me the willies.
I also have a dream about those "loyalty" cards that are used to track shopping habits, it goes like this:
At the common areas in a public place (office, gym, whatever) there is a fishbowl filled with these loyalty cards. You need to go grocery shopping, so you go over, and pull out one for the store that you need, tossing in the one that is already in your wallet. You shop, and get the "discount" (as opposed to my perspective that I resent having to pay a premium to retain my privacy). Next week, you happen to be somewhere else before you go shopping. Toss in that last card, grab a new one! This would really do a number on their datamining accuracy.
I'm aware that some people use these cards for check validation and suchlike. This would only work for those who have them for the discount.
Subsection B of the ruling relates to "The Fraternization Rule". Subsection C relates to "The No-Solicitation-in-Uniform Rule". These are separate issues ajudicated in one ruling. No where in the ruling does it state that the off-duty fraternization prohibition is related to the uniformed state of the employee.
My issue isn't with the wonders or failings of the.msi format in and of itself.
My issue is with Microsoft's ironic decision, in the name of supporting open standards, to release the schema in a proprietary format that is not in the standard specifications.
I once worked in a restaurant in Colorado that had a huge hole in ceiling that was "patched" with cardboard and duct tape.
One morning I went in to do my prep work, and the kitchen was staggeringly cold. After trying to pour some honey for pizza dough, I got a thermometer... The room was 38 F. I looked at one of the big walk in fridge; 43 F.
A little while later, the manager came in the kitchen to see me still trying to do my job, with all three fridge doors wide open.
"What the hell are you doing!?" he shouted.
"Warming the room." I said.
He stopped, furrowed his brow... furrowed it some more.. "close the doors anyway" he said before he left.
Every day takes me further and further away from my history of food service. Thanks, Time!
Makohund hit the nail on the head here. One more point that I don't think was mentioned.. A lot of books carried by libraries are out of print. Fifteen dollars is nowhere near the replacement cost of many of these books. A possible solution would be to increase the amount of the security deposit based on the replacement value, but that means maintaing an entirely new pricing system, and, more importantly, means pricing large numbers of people from being able to view books.
The more I think about this idea, the more it pisses me off. To a significant number of public library patrons, twenty dollars is a lot of money to be locked away in a card. Privacy is a good thing, but only if you can afford it. I already dislike having to pay a premium at the grocery store to keep my purchase habits from being tracked, I'd hate to have to do this at the library.
You're missing the point of the contest: The web site isn't about content, the web site is about getting content that will get people to hit the site. If Everyone is sending out links to friends saying "look how lame and self-indulgent this is", mission accomplished. Getting on Slashdot is a bit of a coup for them, contest wise.
INAL, etc, but my belief is that if this case actually went to court, then, yes, individual posts would have to be shown to be actionable; but this is merely a threatening letter.
Was supposed to come out in '97. 8 damn years. Bounced all over the dev world. I think a stake has been driven through its heart this time.
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I'm in an almost identical situation to the person you responded too. Almost any game invloving hurtling spheroids is a nightmare. Through school I thought my name what "Whiff".
I always find it fascinating when I get a glimpse of binocular 3-d. There is a painting by Constance Troyon at the Art Institute of Chicago which manages to do it, and I am hypnotized by the painting every time I see it (you can see it here,
it's called the Marsh..)
To be pedantic: The RD-180 motors power the Atlas 3 and 5; Boeing makes the Delta series.
I had an interesting conversation recently with a LockMart Astronautics engineer who told me that it looks like they are going to start to the process to man rate the Atlas and Deltas for a NASA human vehicle.
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I go even further... We have a shredder, and I empty it once a week into the bag with the used cat litter. If someone wants to spend the effort to reassemble my finacial statements after digging through that mess, well, they've just about earned it.
PDF Javascript is core Javascript compliant. While there are browser additions that, yes, have more browser specific functionality than PDF, it is still contains a lot of functionality.
Since Acrobat 6.0, (PDF version 1.5) Shockwave/Flash has been one of the allowable embedded application types.
There are java libraries that are available that allow for customization of PDF files that allow for an extraordinary level of control, as well as other tools.
The full capabilities of the PDF are not well known, obviously, but are there.
This is all moot, however, since this product does not offer a number of features that PDF is used for.
The next day we had a meeting to examine a legacy application that we were going to be re-writing. Another dev was discussing the DataLoad method. Which loaded a flat CSV file.
And validated the data
And stored the result in a database.
It is very hard to look professional in a meeting when your face is beet red and your eyes are screwed up tight to keep from breaking out it gales of laughter.
Are lions and tigers the same species?
Are horses and donkeys the same species?
Are Orca and dolphins the same species?
If they are, what characteristics differentiate them?
I'm trying not to be paranoid about this stuff, and I understand the need for companies to make a buck, but this stuff just gives me the willies.
I also have a dream about those "loyalty" cards that are used to track shopping habits, it goes like this:
At the common areas in a public place (office, gym, whatever) there is a fishbowl filled with these loyalty cards. You need to go grocery shopping, so you go over, and pull out one for the store that you need, tossing in the one that is already in your wallet. You shop, and get the "discount" (as opposed to my perspective that I resent having to pay a premium to retain my privacy). Next week, you happen to be somewhere else before you go shopping. Toss in that last card, grab a new one! This would really do a number on their datamining accuracy.
I'm aware that some people use these cards for check validation and suchlike. This would only work for those who have them for the discount.
Not only that, he calls a hedghog a rodent!!!
!
!!
Flogging is too good. Have to think of something more suitable.
Sorry, Snopes once again comes through with the truth.
Hmm, I seem to be working in a fusilli shop, 'cause I keep getting screwed.
You are, to be blunt, wrong.
Subsection B of the ruling relates to "The Fraternization Rule". Subsection C relates to "The No-Solicitation-in-Uniform Rule".
These are separate issues ajudicated in one ruling. No where in the ruling does it state that the off-duty fraternization prohibition is related to the uniformed state of the employee.
My issue isn't with the wonders or failings of the .msi format in and of itself.
My issue is with Microsoft's ironic decision, in the name of supporting open standards, to release the schema in a proprietary format that is not in the standard specifications.
And the reason for the embargo? Japan's invasion of China. That embargo was not a moral causus belli.
I once worked in a restaurant in Colorado that had a huge hole in ceiling that was "patched" with cardboard and duct tape.
One morning I went in to do my prep work, and the kitchen was staggeringly cold. After trying to pour some honey for pizza dough, I got a thermometer... The room was 38 F. I looked at one of the big walk in fridge; 43 F.
A little while later, the manager came in the kitchen to see me still trying to do my job, with all three fridge doors wide open.
"What the hell are you doing!?" he shouted.
"Warming the room." I said.
He stopped, furrowed his brow... furrowed it some more.. "close the doors anyway" he said before he left.
Every day takes me further and further away from my history of food service. Thanks, Time!
Makohund hit the nail on the head here. One more point that I don't think was mentioned.. A lot of books carried by libraries are out of print. Fifteen dollars is nowhere near the replacement cost of many of these books. A possible solution would be to increase the amount of the security deposit based on the replacement value, but that means maintaing an entirely new pricing system, and, more importantly, means pricing large numbers of people from being able to view books. The more I think about this idea, the more it pisses me off. To a significant number of public library patrons, twenty dollars is a lot of money to be locked away in a card. Privacy is a good thing, but only if you can afford it. I already dislike having to pay a premium at the grocery store to keep my purchase habits from being tracked, I'd hate to have to do this at the library.
You're missing the point of the contest: The web site isn't about content, the web site is about getting content that will get people to hit the site. If Everyone is sending out links to friends saying "look how lame and self-indulgent this is", mission accomplished. Getting on Slashdot is a bit of a coup for them, contest wise.
INAL, etc, but my belief is that if this case actually went to court, then, yes, individual posts would have to be shown to be actionable; but this is merely a threatening letter.
Was supposed to come out in '97. 8 damn years. Bounced all over the dev world. I think a stake has been driven through its heart this time.
I'm in an almost identical situation to the person you responded too. Almost any game invloving hurtling spheroids is a nightmare. Through school I thought my name what "Whiff". I always find it fascinating when I get a glimpse of binocular 3-d. There is a painting by Constance Troyon at the Art Institute of Chicago which manages to do it, and I am hypnotized by the painting every time I see it (you can see it here, it's called the Marsh..)
After Von Braun came out with his autobiography called "I Aim At the Stars" some wag responded "He may have aimed for the stars, but he hit London."
They didn't say what kind of liquid, did they?
Fine, then what if the time to copy is greater than one half that of the lifespan of the medium?
Is she programmed in Ook?
To be pedantic: The RD-180 motors power the Atlas 3 and 5; Boeing makes the Delta series.
I had an interesting conversation recently with a LockMart Astronautics engineer who told me that it looks like they are going to start to the process to man rate the Atlas and Deltas for a NASA human vehicle.
In heaven:
The Italians are the lovers
The Swiss run the hotels
The Germans are the mechanics
The British are the police
The French are the cooks.
In Hell:
The French run the hotels
The British are the cooks
The Italians are the mechanics
The Swiss are the lovers
The Germans are the police.
As Carl Sagan said "They laughed at Galileo. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."