I think GP meant actual rape, murder, genocide, etc., not just the words referring to them. He was trying to argue that when language is dulled to the point that it’s inadequate, physical violence will be the only remaining way to vent... now personally I don’t think I agree with this slippery slope entirely, but like I said, I think that’s what he was arguing.
The closest I can think of would be the trick that someone else mentioned: remove its folder, create a file with that name, and set its system attribute. That isn’t really the same thing, though, because creating a file in/dev/null will silently do nothing (the application won’t be the wiser unless it tries to read it back) whereas attempting to create a file within another file as though it were a folder will immediately fail less gracefully.
Between RefControl (to tell it I came from Google) and the following AdBlock Plus filters, I can pretty much pretend that ExpertSexChange’s stupid restrictions don’t exist on the rare occasion that I actually would go there.
- Standard HTTP Cookies - Local Shared Objects (Flash Cookies) - Storing cookies in RGB values of auto-generated, force-cached PNGs using HTML5 Canvas tag to read pixels (cookies) back out - Storing cookies in Web History (seriously. see FAQ) - HTML5 Session Storage - HTML5 Local Storage - HTML5 Global Storage - HTML5 Database Storage via SQLite
Of those, I think the only that should survive the private browsing session would be the Flash cookie, and you can get Firefox plugins that clear those.
It was bad enough in the days when there were all sorts of cookies throwing illegal characters (wildcards, normally path-related characters, etc) in the filename to prevent deletion. Particularly when the "cookie" itself didn't actually have data, they just tried to stick every bit of info into the fucking filename.
That would be a bug in Internet Explorer which moronically uses the system filesystem to index cookies instead of storing them in a more sane data structure. If it didn’t sanitize the names properly before creating files, well, that’s just icing on the cake when it comes to stupidity...
Either way works, but parallel viewing typically only works for fairly small images. It is not really crossing your eyes outward; really about the best most anyone can do is to focus to infinity: both eyes pointed in a perfectly parallel direction. At a close enough range, you will of course see double, but there is a pretty small limit on the size of the image that can be viewed by this method. I found cross-eyed to be quite a bit trickier to master, but it allows much larger images to be viewed stereoscopically.
If you can’t see reds, then the left eye receives a field of (apparently) black. If you can’t distinguish reds (from greens, i.e. red/green colorblindness), the left eye receives what could (apparently) be either red or green, but it should at least be able to see it.
I am a pedantic type with an axe to grind, and even I knew that they obviously meant the first thing that would occur to most people’s minds when they thought of a pane of glass.
The part that I considered an atrocious abuse of language was the part where he claimed that there will be four pixels per triad. He could have just said that instead of using triads of pixels (3 pixels per group... red, green, and blue) they will have tetrads: 4 pixels per group; red, green, blue, and an extra 4th pixel that is a simple light sensor.
They aren’t cameras in the sense that you’re thinking. For video-conferencing, you need a real camera: light focused onto many pixels to form a picture. This is unfocused light falling on the pixels themselves, like an insect’s eye... good for detecting motion but capable of determining the shape of objects only if they are very close to the sensor, by the shape of the grouping of pixels which are directly covered by the object.
However, it’s not like an embedded camera is anything spectacular. Lots of laptop computers are sold with a tiny embedded webcam right above the screen. This could just as easily be done in this tablet. However, it would be completely separate from the light sensor pixels in the screen itself, which would not be capable of capturing a focused image.
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Most of them change every time you reload the page. I think the demo is broken.
I think GP meant actual rape, murder, genocide, etc., not just the words referring to them. He was trying to argue that when language is dulled to the point that it’s inadequate, physical violence will be the only remaining way to vent... now personally I don’t think I agree with this slippery slope entirely, but like I said, I think that’s what he was arguing.
I second this... how exactly would you do it?
The closest I can think of would be the trick that someone else mentioned: remove its folder, create a file with that name, and set its system attribute. That isn’t really the same thing, though, because creating a file in /dev/null will silently do nothing (the application won’t be the wiser unless it tries to read it back) whereas attempting to create a file within another file as though it were a folder will immediately fail less gracefully.
Between RefControl (to tell it I came from Google) and the following AdBlock Plus filters, I can pretty much pretend that ExpertSexChange’s stupid restrictions don’t exist on the rare occasion that I actually would go there.
experts-exchange.com##*.relatedSolutions
experts-exchange.com##*.squareSignUp
experts-exchange.com##div.qStats+a
experts-exchange.com#div(blurredAnswer)
experts-exchange.com#div(sectionFour)
experts-exchange.com#div(startFreeTrialEcho)
It says it uses the following methods:
- Standard HTTP Cookies
- Local Shared Objects (Flash Cookies)
- Storing cookies in RGB values of auto-generated, force-cached PNGs using HTML5 Canvas tag to read pixels (cookies) back out
- Storing cookies in Web History (seriously. see FAQ)
- HTML5 Session Storage
- HTML5 Local Storage
- HTML5 Global Storage
- HTML5 Database Storage via SQLite
Of those, I think the only that should survive the private browsing session would be the Flash cookie, and you can get Firefox plugins that clear those.
It was bad enough in the days when there were all sorts of cookies throwing illegal characters (wildcards, normally path-related characters, etc) in the filename to prevent deletion. Particularly when the "cookie" itself didn't actually have data, they just tried to stick every bit of info into the fucking filename.
That would be a bug in Internet Explorer which moronically uses the system filesystem to index cookies instead of storing them in a more sane data structure. If it didn’t sanitize the names properly before creating files, well, that’s just icing on the cake when it comes to stupidity...
No he isn’t. He’s being forced to go to extreme lengths to exercise his fair use.
"then a miracle occurs" is ... a required step that makes perfect sense: that's where you put "marketing"
Yes, that’s usually what they call it...
Either way works, but parallel viewing typically only works for fairly small images. It is not really crossing your eyes outward; really about the best most anyone can do is to focus to infinity: both eyes pointed in a perfectly parallel direction. At a close enough range, you will of course see double, but there is a pretty small limit on the size of the image that can be viewed by this method. I found cross-eyed to be quite a bit trickier to master, but it allows much larger images to be viewed stereoscopically.
Have this man drawn and quartered! It’ll be cross-eyed viewing for me, please!
(Actually, I don’t have a pair of 3D glasses. And we don’t need no steenkin glasses anyway.)
If you can’t see reds, then the left eye receives a field of (apparently) black. If you can’t distinguish reds (from greens, i.e. red/green colorblindness), the left eye receives what could (apparently) be either red or green, but it should at least be able to see it.
I am a pedantic type with an axe to grind, and even I knew that they obviously meant the first thing that would occur to most people’s minds when they thought of a pane of glass.
The part that I considered an atrocious abuse of language was the part where he claimed that there will be four pixels per triad. He could have just said that instead of using triads of pixels (3 pixels per group... red, green, and blue) they will have tetrads: 4 pixels per group; red, green, blue, and an extra 4th pixel that is a simple light sensor.
But no... his triads go to FOUR.
They aren’t cameras in the sense that you’re thinking. For video-conferencing, you need a real camera: light focused onto many pixels to form a picture. This is unfocused light falling on the pixels themselves, like an insect’s eye... good for detecting motion but capable of determining the shape of objects only if they are very close to the sensor, by the shape of the grouping of pixels which are directly covered by the object.
However, it’s not like an embedded camera is anything spectacular. Lots of laptop computers are sold with a tiny embedded webcam right above the screen. This could just as easily be done in this tablet. However, it would be completely separate from the light sensor pixels in the screen itself, which would not be capable of capturing a focused image.
a big LCD where there's a fourth pixel in every triad
That word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
Fuck everything... we’re doing five pixels per triad!
it took me like 30 seconds to figure out what you were trying to say here
Same here – but I actually figured it out as soon as I looked up and read TFHeadline.
He’d still have both shoes if he simply walked around the pond’s perimeter and collected the shoe from the opposite side.
Frozen blood won’t adhere to a frictionless surface.
From TFA:
Of course, we are left wondering what TDP means now, if exceeding it is standard.
Ironically, I was already wondering that. It never told what TDP is, and a Google define: search wasn’t terribly enlightening.
MS Outlook is like IE. Slow, bloated, and crappy. Thunderbird is like Firefox.
And the rest of them are low-hanging fruit.
Exactly. It has only ONE image, the last one.
Not a history of images.
You’re quite sure of that? Even assuming it does purge the old image files when it saves a new one – the old screenshots can’t be undeleted?
There is a option in the account settings to control how many comments are loaded. Mine loads 250 at a time.
VLC for PC includes QuickTime codecs for PCs since Apple’s QuickTime codecs for PCs suck.
FTFY.
And when I say they suck, I mean they are buggy and full of security holes.
Reminds me of the best warning label I think I’ve ever seen:
Caution: Any activity involving motion or height involves the possibility of accidental injury.
It then went on to say something more, but I stopped reading there. Really, that’s classic. They should put that label on EVERYTHING. By law!
Someone with a sense of humour.