When cars and airplanes are USED CORRECTLY the end result is not (barring freak accidents or accidents from other people not using the product correctly) death.
When cigarettes are used correctly, the end result is quite often death.
Let's play a game: Which one of these three things doesn't belong?
Airplanes? Here's my rationale:
1. The most common cause of vehicle-related deaths is driving under the influence. I can choose not to drive under the influence.
2. I can choose not to smoke.
3. I can fly in an airplane, use it "correctly", and still go plunging to my death due to circumstances out of my control.
Well, I'll have to disagree with you. Of course it is possible to create "dozens of websites" without needing a spacer gif. That's not the point. There are certain graphical layouts that require spacer gifs. Particularly large multi-image graphics where the images must align to the pixel. They are also required when using tables for layout (I know, I know...) and the cells must be fixed to a specific size.
To some people, the look you can achieve is more important than avoiding layout tables and spacer gifs.
There are alternatives, of course, like absolute positioning, netscape's <spacer> tag, etc. But often these solutions are just as hokey and yet less supported by browsers.
Do you have to be Polish to get a.pl domain? You don't have to be from Tongo to get a.to domain, or from Tuvalu to get a.tv domain. Just curious.
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Not only does it seem that you wouldn't be able to press multiple keys at once, but with 2 different devices each capable of 8 different positions it follows that you would have no more than 64 character choices.
You weren't paying attention. You get capital letters by pressing the left dome while making the letter. If both domes are buttons, you'd get four times your result. You could even extend this further by adding pedals.
What I'd like to know is, do they actually have customers? Companies that are filling space with these instead of cubicles? I'd like to hear from someone whose company is springing for these, if such a person exists.
The hackers have set up a back door and they are posting redundant articles. They have also been rumored to be posting trolls, impersonating Bruce Parens, and changing the spelling of random words.
I'll tell ya why. When I use Netscape and click on my/. bookmark, it takes me right there. Same with my Freefall bookmark, my User Friendly bookmark, my news bookmark, and even my play bookmark. Direct. No redirects
By your reasoning, IE doesn't do it either. In IE if you bookmark User Friendly, Freefall, etc, you'll go direct.
But you missed the point. Only the default links that came with the browser have redirects. Same with Netscape.
and if we all do the same, it'll really throw the Microsoft statistics gatherers. "This month we got 34,432 redirections for the Windows page and 485,550 redirections in a category of 'linux'".
I think the point was that while it may have been insightful, a +3 was too much.
Too many moderators are simply thinking, "Do I think this is insightful?" and modding it up, no matter what the current score is. There is no sense of relativity. This is why there are so many 5's and relatively few 4's.
What the moderators should do is say, "I think this is insightful, and is worth about a 2. Is it at least 2?" If not, mod it up. If so, leave it alone.
"Compile" no longer means just to native machine code. With the advent of a middle layer (p-code/bytecode), the term is now used to mean the translation into that middle layer. You heard of the java compiler? Compiles into bytecode, not machine instructions.
So yes, it is possible for compiled code to still require a "virtual machine" or DLL to run.
Open source people seem to feel they can do whatever they please, and screw anyone who gets trampled. Apparently IP holders and their employees are not considered valuable against "I want it, therefor its right" attitude the O-S community has.
Apparently, you have an opinion, and you don't let facts get in your way of posting it. The "O-S Community" generally respects IP. What they do NOT respect is a Lawyer-happy company suing independent developers for developing something the the company *claims* is their IP, just because it exists.
You might want to double-check the definition of IP.
Why are they so upset about this? There's only two reasonable explanations I can think of:
They were planning to make money on the Linux drivers.
They wanted to build in a tracking mechanism or other privacy-threatening features to benefit the advertisers.
If they were going to give it away free and/or open source, why would they be screaming about their IP? Besides, isn't it the case that an independently-written driver uses their IP, but cannot be their IP in itself? Obviously IANAL, but how can software I write become somebody else's IP, even if it works with hardware I purchased (or otherwise legally obtained) from them?
I think it would be interesting if the thickness of each line represented the number of copies in use. This way you see which ones are really the "trunks" (like BSD and AT&T) and which are the twigs.
What now slashdot is doing freshmeats job and announcing new software releases?
Freshmeat has been getting worse and worse in recent months. For every useful tidbit there's 100 entries like this:
My MP3 Player 0.01 Description: This is an MP3 player. I know there are hundreds of others available here on Freshmeat, but this one is mine!!! I'm so 1337. Besides, I don't know enough to be able to contribute to any of the existing open source projects.
So I for one welcome Slashdot announcing the "important" ones.
I really don't think any participant of the obfuscated perl contest or anyone who can make sense of some particular pieces of free software can be afraid of that amount of code or more.
Um... I think you mean obfuscated C contest. I'm pretty sure Solaris was written in C, not Perl.:-)
* Hopefully these are posix or something. I wouldn't know (and posix * isn't telling me - they want $$$ for their f***ing standard).
POSIX wanted money for a standard. That's fascinating. How did they think a standard was going to catch on if they charged people to just *see* it?
I guess it's a telltale sign of the mindset of the Unix community in the early 90's. Charge an arm and a leg for everything. Some of the stragglers are still just breaking free of that mindset (Motif comes to mind).
Check your numbers... 5000 sq ft. for a 4-bedroom house is waaaaaaaaay too much. I just bought a 1500 sq ft house with 4 bedrooms, and it's damn big.
"Big" and "Small" are relative to the area in which you live.
Here in suburban Virginia, 1500 sq ft would be considered tiny. Of course land is cheap and so is the cost of building a house. My custom-built 4br colonial is 3400 sq ft. If I finished the full basement (which I plan to do someday) it would be about 5000 sq. ft. I'm on a densely wooded acre of land. And this is a typical house in my neighborhood. Not to mention probably under the cost of a tiny entry-level fixer-upper in the Valley.
I'm originally from the Valley (most of my family is still there) but I'll never go back!
I have implemented a server-side dynamic HTML thingumy in the past which encoded sessionId stuff into the URL
There is no such thing as server-side DHTML. Unless you're talking about dynamically-generated pages, which is exactly what the person you're replying to had a problem with.
and to allow people to browse off-site and return to the same session we dropped a cookie which also had the sessionId in it
The whole point of this discussion was: in the absence of client-side cookies, how can we maintain state? Your solution: use cookies!?!
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When cigarettes are used correctly, the end result is quite often death.
Let's play a game: Which one of these three things doesn't belong?
Airplanes? Here's my rationale:
1. The most common cause of vehicle-related deaths is driving under the influence. I can choose not to drive under the influence.
2. I can choose not to smoke.
3. I can fly in an airplane, use it "correctly", and still go plunging to my death due to circumstances out of my control.
To some people, the look you can achieve is more important than avoiding layout tables and spacer gifs.
There are alternatives, of course, like absolute positioning, netscape's <spacer> tag, etc. But often these solutions are just as hokey and yet less supported by browsers.
-bp
No kidding! Me too. My roommate lost three years of his life and a girlfriend due to that game.
xtrek was another good one, too. It's the earliest graphical multiplayer-over-the-internet game that I can think of.
Do you have to be Polish to get a .pl domain? You don't have to be from Tongo to get a .to domain, or from Tuvalu to get a .tv domain. Just curious.
You weren't paying attention. You get capital letters by pressing the left dome while making the letter. If both domes are buttons, you'd get four times your result. You could even extend this further by adding pedals.
What I'd like to know is, do they actually have customers? Companies that are filling space with these instead of cubicles? I'd like to hear from someone whose company is springing for these, if such a person exists.
The hackers have set up a back door and they are posting redundant articles. They have also been rumored to be posting trolls, impersonating Bruce Parens, and changing the spelling of random words.
By your reasoning, IE doesn't do it either. In IE if you bookmark User Friendly, Freefall, etc, you'll go direct.
But you missed the point. Only the default links that came with the browser have redirects. Same with Netscape.
h ttp://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=linux
and if we all do the same, it'll really throw the Microsoft statistics gatherers. "This month we got 34,432 redirections for the Windows page and 485,550 redirections in a category of 'linux'".
That is, if you live in Australia. However, here in the Northern Hemisphere, the winter is cold. And cold is good for electronics, not bad.
Too many moderators are simply thinking, "Do I think this is insightful?" and modding it up, no matter what the current score is. There is no sense of relativity. This is why there are so many 5's and relatively few 4's.
What the moderators should do is say, "I think this is insightful, and is worth about a 2. Is it at least 2?" If not, mod it up. If so, leave it alone.
So yes, it is possible for compiled code to still require a "virtual machine" or DLL to run.
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a PCI slot on your ATX videoboard.
Apparently, you have an opinion, and you don't let facts get in your way of posting it. The "O-S Community" generally respects IP. What they do NOT respect is a Lawyer-happy company suing independent developers for developing something the the company *claims* is their IP, just because it exists.
You might want to double-check the definition of IP.
- They were planning to make money on the Linux drivers.
- They wanted to build in a tracking mechanism or other privacy-threatening features to benefit the advertisers.
If they were going to give it away free and/or open source, why would they be screaming about their IP? Besides, isn't it the case that an independently-written driver uses their IP, but cannot be their IP in itself? Obviously IANAL, but how can software I write become somebody else's IP, even if it works with hardware I purchased (or otherwise legally obtained) from them?I think it would be interesting if the thickness of each line represented the number of copies in use. This way you see which ones are really the "trunks" (like BSD and AT&T) and which are the twigs.
Umm. Shouldn't that read... Keeping /. full of spelling errors for 3 years?
consistantly => consistently
sight => site
If you eat the blue beans, you wake up in Armonk. (At least if you eat the big ones :-)
Freshmeat has been getting worse and worse in recent months. For every useful tidbit there's 100 entries like this:
So I for one welcome Slashdot announcing the "important" ones.
Um... I think you mean obfuscated C contest. I'm pretty sure Solaris was written in C, not Perl. :-)
* Hopefully these are posix or something. I wouldn't know (and posix
* isn't telling me - they want $$$ for their f***ing standard).
POSIX wanted money for a standard. That's fascinating. How did they think a standard was going to catch on if they charged people to just *see* it?
I guess it's a telltale sign of the mindset of the Unix community in the early 90's. Charge an arm and a leg for everything. Some of the stragglers are still just breaking free of that mindset (Motif comes to mind).
"Big" and "Small" are relative to the area in which you live.
Here in suburban Virginia, 1500 sq ft would be considered tiny. Of course land is cheap and so is the cost of building a house. My custom-built 4br colonial is 3400 sq ft. If I finished the full basement (which I plan to do someday) it would be about 5000 sq. ft. I'm on a densely wooded acre of land. And this is a typical house in my neighborhood. Not to mention probably under the cost of a tiny entry-level fixer-upper in the Valley.
I'm originally from the Valley (most of my family is still there) but I'll never go back!
There is no such thing as server-side DHTML. Unless you're talking about dynamically-generated pages, which is exactly what the person you're replying to had a problem with.
and to allow people to browse off-site and return to the same session we dropped a cookie which also had the sessionId in it
The whole point of this discussion was: in the absence of client-side cookies, how can we maintain state? Your solution: use cookies!?!
HTH
IDTID (I Don't Think It Did)
-bp
What are they concerned about? That the ruins will get ruined?
Dual head support in X has been around for a while. Read about Xinerama.
-bp