.com and a handful of others won. A few "novelty" country TLDs have cachet in a few places (.cx,.tv,.nu), but otherwise, it's over. No business in its right mind wants to have to educate customers not to type in ".com" but to put in ".(some business)" instead. They don't want to buy another domain either.
I don't see how you can stay anonymous and say anything really interesting about your office. Of course you can say "my office has cubes" and nobody will smell you out, but if you say "I know all about the shape of the new iMac" there are only a few people that could have known that, and they will figure you out. Certainly there are variations within those two extremes, but the more unique and valuable your knowledge, the more likely they are to nail you.
Hmmm... in 1997 I was often heard to remark "my goal is to get through my entire career without learning Java". So I guess now I need to add Python to that. Oh, and I love all these people saying speed doesn't matter. More job security for people like me who can come in and re-implement stuff in C or C++ because management is tired of being told they need a dual processor Xeon to run stuff that runs on a Celeron when it's done right.
...society will collectively struggle to find something to do with the leftover time. Ideally we'd have somem kind of utopia where everybody is free to meet their best potential. Socialism aspires to do this, but human nature causes it to fail. Look on the bright side though--would you rather your tax dollars go to more weapons, or towards people figuring out how to hide games from their bosses? And if the whole tax dollar thing pisses you off, just remembe there is a pretty good chance that you are "earning your money" the same way.
It sounds like people are trying to use math where what they really want is economics. The value of a network is easily measured as what people are willing to pay for it and since this is governed by market forces which are complex and not necessarily "rational" there is no "law" for it.
If, and only if, you assign a mathematical meaning to "value" can you have any hope of coming up with a real answer.
Bah! once again the codec is not on my box. This is the worst thing about video on the web in general. Half the time I don't have the codec, and the file and/or the site doesn't even tell me what I need. Of course, this is with Media Player 10 on XP sp2. Maybe something else is better, but I DON'T CARE. I just want the stuff to work out of the box. You think they would have automated the codecc update process by now, but NooooOO! (end rant).
I never liked that phrase "white paper" anyway. It's a paper for crying out loud. Paper is almost always white and in any other context the color is not noted unless it's something other than white.
To pull back a little bit though, nobody wants to reveal too much about their tech because patent applications may be pending and such. I think that's why these papers have become more marketing and less facts.
Couldn't agree more. I'm not unreasonable either. As a matter of fact I just purchased something from an advertiser who used a static side-banner ad on Yahoo. I have no problem with a site being advertiser supported. If that very same company had employed a pop-up, my browser either wouldn't have displayed it, or I would have immediately assumed they were not worth doing business with. Pop-up, under, spam, etc. sends me one message only: this company is not worth dealing with.
Why are you teaching all the lamers how to defeat the mighty Firefox?
Because it's open source and it should be patched... 5 minutes ago? Personally, I've always thought that allowing sites to send you to a new window when clicking was lame. Add a new setting for "allow sites to open a new window on click" and this problem is solved. Then Firefox has a new feature that makes it that much better.
You can't quantify "emotional impact" or "historical significance" so if it's predicting anything then what might it be predicting?
If electrical activity either from brains or from communication systems has some kind of "uncertainty effect" that extends back and forth through time, then maybe they could correlate this with studies of how people rated their degree of concern about something, or how much extra network bandwidth was consumed during the events.
Or perhaps they could observe local effects. For example, some country in Africa crowns a new king. Almost nobody in the USA even knows about it, but maybe the meters in that country would react. If the country has little or no electronic infrastructure, then it would only be brainwaves doing it.
Silly? No sillier than horseless carriages 200 years ago.
You might have a point, except that the basic design came from Germany (then West Germany) in the 1980s. I know I saw a special about the reactor that used "golfball sized ceramic fuel pellets" on some science show in the 1980s. So far the only reference I can find is this but I'm quite confident that the basic idea came from the Germans, not the Chinese.
If my PC spoke by default, the voice would suffer the same fate as that stupid search dog. Unless you're visually impaired, text-to-speech is not that useful. My cousin is totally sightless and last time I checked was still using a DOS program, yes, that's right, DOS text-to-speech that was incomprehensable to me and other regular people in the room. I wouldn't be surprised if he preferred it that way, since he could work without people necessarily knowing what he is doing.
The industy wants to chew you up, spit you out, and sell your work for as much as it can while paying you as little as possible. If your body is a bloated mass of cholesterol and you can't even wave without your wrist tendons cracking; it's not their problem.
If a program uses XML to store something that is meant to be printed, use that program. For example, I use AbiWord to print AbiWord documents, which are XML. Whatever AbiWord uses to convert the XML so the printer can understand it is not something I care about unless I am an AbiWord developer.
Whatever works best to print XML that represents foo is irrelevant if foo wasn't designed to be printed.
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.com and a handful of others won. A few "novelty" country TLDs have cachet in a few places (.cx, .tv, .nu), but otherwise, it's over. No business in its right mind wants to have to educate customers not to type in ".com" but to put in ".(some business)" instead. They don't want to buy another domain either.
I don't see how you can stay anonymous and say anything really interesting about your office. Of course you can say "my office has cubes" and nobody will smell you out, but if you say "I know all about the shape of the new iMac" there are only a few people that could have known that, and they will figure you out. Certainly there are variations within those two extremes, but the more unique and valuable your knowledge, the more likely they are to nail you.
...evidently there was some misunderstanding about how the astronauts were supposed to get high.
...Heh-heh, it's got a crack in it. Like your mothers ass.
Come on. You're not even trying.
Crack Found in Shuttle Tank
...Pipe Found Under Pilot's Seat
...20 Mexicans found in orbiter wheel wells.
...explains english to metric problem
...and certainly many others. Come on, Slashdotters, where are the +5 funnies for this one?
Flip a penny 128 times. Does the same thing, and nobody will think you're a D&D player.
In 1999 Baby Bootstrap Became Self Aware, ran for president, and won. There are still a lot of bugs to work out. Sorry. It was just too good a setup.
Hmmm... in 1997 I was often heard to remark "my goal is to get through my entire career without learning Java". So I guess now I need to add Python to that. Oh, and I love all these people saying speed doesn't matter. More job security for people like me who can come in and re-implement stuff in C or C++ because management is tired of being told they need a dual processor Xeon to run stuff that runs on a Celeron when it's done right.
Just say that you're working in the other state, and that your job involves the internet. Problem solved.
IANAL, but aren't there issues here involving interstate commerce, and isn't that governed by Federal law? SCOTUS here we come, right?
...society will collectively struggle to find something to do with the leftover time. Ideally we'd have somem kind of utopia where everybody is free to meet their best potential. Socialism aspires to do this, but human nature causes it to fail. Look on the bright side though--would you rather your tax dollars go to more weapons, or towards people figuring out how to hide games from their bosses? And if the whole tax dollar thing pisses you off, just remembe there is a pretty good chance that you are "earning your money" the same way.
It sounds like people are trying to use math where what they really want is economics. The value of a network is easily measured as what people are willing to pay for it and since this is governed by market forces which are complex and not necessarily "rational" there is no "law" for it.
If, and only if, you assign a mathematical meaning to "value" can you have any hope of coming up with a real answer.
Bah! once again the codec is not on my box. This is the worst thing about video on the web in general. Half the time I don't have the codec, and the file and/or the site doesn't even tell me what I need. Of course, this is with Media Player 10 on XP sp2. Maybe something else is better, but I DON'T CARE. I just want the stuff to work out of the box. You think they would have automated the codecc update process by now, but NooooOO! (end rant).
Maybe they should be called brown papers.
I never liked that phrase "white paper" anyway. It's a paper for crying out loud. Paper is almost always white and in any other context the color is not noted unless it's something other than white.
To pull back a little bit though, nobody wants to reveal too much about their tech because patent applications may be pending and such. I think that's why these papers have become more marketing and less facts.
This is the solution.
Couldn't agree more. I'm not unreasonable either. As a matter of fact I just purchased something from an advertiser who used a static side-banner ad on Yahoo. I have no problem with a site being advertiser supported. If that very same company had employed a pop-up, my browser either wouldn't have displayed it, or I would have immediately assumed they were not worth doing business with. Pop-up, under, spam, etc. sends me one message only: this company is not worth dealing with.
Why are you teaching all the lamers how to defeat the mighty Firefox?
Because it's open source and it should be patched... 5 minutes ago? Personally, I've always thought that allowing sites to send you to a new window when clicking was lame. Add a new setting for "allow sites to open a new window on click" and this problem is solved. Then Firefox has a new feature that makes it that much better.
is this full-sized image of the completed project
Pretty cool, but I wouldn't want to be the copilot. :)
As an aside: gawd, I hate their use of "patriot" that way, does anybody know the etymology of the word "patriot" with respect to this legislation?
Policy concerning the naming of controversial bills was set forth in the Fluffy Bunnies and Kittens Act which was passed almost unanimously in 1996.
You can't quantify "emotional impact" or "historical significance" so if it's predicting anything then what might it be predicting?
If electrical activity either from brains or from communication systems has some kind of "uncertainty effect" that extends back and forth through time, then maybe they could correlate this with studies of how people rated their degree of concern about something, or how much extra network bandwidth was consumed during the events.
Or perhaps they could observe local effects. For example, some country in Africa crowns a new king. Almost nobody in the USA even knows about it, but maybe the meters in that country would react. If the country has little or no electronic infrastructure, then it would only be brainwaves doing it.
Silly? No sillier than horseless carriages 200 years ago.
Google should just declare war on France.
You might have a point, except that the basic design came from Germany (then West Germany) in the 1980s. I know I saw a special about the reactor that used "golfball sized ceramic fuel pellets" on some science show in the 1980s. So far the only reference I can find is this but I'm quite confident that the basic idea came from the Germans, not the Chinese.
There is one true coding style, and everybody codes in it.
If my PC spoke by default, the voice would suffer the same fate as that stupid search dog. Unless you're visually impaired, text-to-speech is not that useful. My cousin is totally sightless and last time I checked was still using a DOS program, yes, that's right, DOS text-to-speech that was incomprehensable to me and other regular people in the room. I wouldn't be surprised if he preferred it that way, since he could work without people necessarily knowing what he is doing.
The industy wants to chew you up, spit you out, and sell your work for as much as it can while paying you as little as possible. If your body is a bloated mass of cholesterol and you can't even wave without your wrist tendons cracking; it's not their problem.
Next!
I always assumed it was a contraction of "duhhhh... oh!".
If a program uses XML to store something that is meant to be printed, use that program. For example, I use AbiWord to print AbiWord documents, which are XML. Whatever AbiWord uses to convert the XML so the printer can understand it is not something I care about unless I am an AbiWord developer.
Whatever works best to print XML that represents foo is irrelevant if foo wasn't designed to be printed.