There is also the little problem that every time we have a tax surplus one party immediately tries to find a way to cut taxes rather than do the responsible thing and pay of some debt.
In the end, the decree went out: Word should implement both formatting paradigms. Even though they're fundamentally incompatible and you can get into a horrible mess by applying simple character formatting to a style-driven document, or vice versa. Word was in fact broken by design, from the outset -- and it only got worse from there.
How is this broken by design? The author seems to think that a hierarchical format that uses a small set of inline codes for paragraph structure and formatting hints is inferior to Wordperfect's completely unstructured stream. With Word's hierarchy you can safely move blocks of data around without the risk of accidentally leaving control codes in the wrong place. Somehow that is supposed to be a bad thing?
Most of his rant centers about retelling history and griping about the file format incompatibilities between different versions and the challenge of creating an independent reader for the binary format. He gives the impression that the world would be a better place if we were all stuck on using Wordstar for sharing documents and Microsoft should never have had the ambition to add features to Word. Yes. Binary Word documents are baroque nightmare to decode. That's what happens when you carry a design forward for 20+ years that wasn't architected for clean forward compatibility. Considering the early versions of Word were implemented in assembly and run on machines with tiny scraps of memory, the design "flaws" were necessities of the day. Yes. DOCX has a lot of undocumented cruft to support translation from the old binary format. Word 2007+ avoids using those dark corners for documents that were not imported from an earlier version. You don't have to use that cruft at all when building XML documents from an external tool which is far better than the old hack of generating RTF to interoperate with Word.
Word has its issues and has to be coddled to avoid breakage in long-standing problems like numbering but at least I don't have to pull my hair out trying to do basic table formatting as happens in Open/LibreOffice. I'll switch when the open source rivals can match the capability and usability of Word 2003.
The catch is that the Israeli military aid is conditional on 70% being exclusively spent on products and services from US defense contractors. It is essentially a backdoor way to provide more money for districts with influential congressmen.
In the late 90's the economic and military aid was roughly split 50/50 at around $1.8B military, $1.2B economic. A plan was instituted to reduce the economic aid to $0 over time (reached in 2008). Theoretically this would have saved the US taxpayers some money but instead they've just shifted all the economic aid over to the military pile.
There are a lot of prima donnas out there operating under the guise of being journalist while acting as a surrogate mouthpiece for whatever powerful entity helps them further their career. They aren't real journalists despite their claim to the contrary. The NYT and WSJ editorial staff are good examples of these shills.
These are the same people that put up a fight claiming that bloggers can't be journalists. Essentially, because independent bloggers aren't part of the bought and paid for scheme the "professionals" have set up, there is a risk that real news may be reported on in an intelligent and insightful way. It is analogous to how lawyers involved in politics have created governmental policies and laws that serve only to benefit their own kind.
This is the Japanese nuclear industry. Somebody higher up the chain of command identified the wrong pipe to remove and the peons that had to do the work are socially conditioned to accept orders without question. This saves said superior from the embarrassment of having underlings point out his mistakes... until the mistakes can't be shoved under the rug where everyone can pretend they didn't happen.
The OBD2 standard has very limited scope. It only defines commands for engine diagnostics with a strong focus on emissions equipment. For instance there isn't even a standard command to read the battery voltage. Manufacturers can supplement the standard commands with their own proprietary ones but then there is the problem of supporting different manufacturers and loss of guaranteed forward compatibility. Also, even with modern CAN equipped vehicles, the data rates are limited to 1Mb/s max (Need 1.4Mb/s for 44KHz 16-bit stereo audio even before framing/packet overhead is added on). All the other protocols supported by OBD2 are slower. It's just not fast enough for media transmission and not very useful as a launchpad for more sophisticated vehicle data systems.
How about lazy developers who can't be bothered to write code that checks and warns about improperly secured installations. Drupal does this. There's no reason a "CMS" like vBulletin can't either.
A much better way to spend taxpayer's money would be to invest $3M the first year to buy their own tablets at a bulk rate for less than $200 apiece with the remainder going to deployment costs. Then every subsequent year spend $2M to pay for internal support (10 IT people with decent benefits) with an additional $1M set aside to fund replacements for broken and outdated devices.
Gorilla glass it not made of adamantium. It will break just as easily when put in the hands of careless students who have no sense of ownership or desire to take care of their new bauble. Even a polymer screen could be wrecked by sufficiently motivated student.
This is the price of idiots who think that deploying technology is all they need to do to "think of the children".
Slime mold senses its environment and reacts accordingly. That is computation in the broader sense used by physicists. It isn't engineered (unless you are of a certain ilk) but it is an organized, coherent system.
"Boston" is often referred to by locals to include the entire metro area outside of the city proper. Those outer suburbs have patchy FiOS coverage. The city core doesn't.
An even bigger travesty is how Verizon cherry picked deployment to the outer suburbs of every city in New York State and ignored the Rochester burbs altogether (ranked third by population) since it is HQ of Frontier.
There is a difference between tormenting invertebrates and something like throwing cats off buildings. The former is unlikely to be of concern if it doesn't progress into more insidious behavior.
The Notes application was a bit clunky but the core architecture was nice in some ways. It's biggest "failing" is that it is really an open-ended collaborative database platform with e-mail and calendaring tacked on. That makes it less friendly to non-technical users who aren't completely isolated from the internal workings of Notes.
Most portable electronics aren't an issue since their unintentional radiation is regulated to reasonably low levels and intentional emitters tend to be in the 2.4GHz band where no critical flight systems should be sensitive. GSM phones, however, have widely been reported to produce notable interference with aircraft radios.
What's your point? Mules can't climb everything a man can either. Maybe the US Gov. should start a program to breed militarized, obedient pack mountain goats to keep you satisfied.
Helicopters aren't easy to hide. That's why they have a habit of getting shot down a lot, particularly when they operate in the daytime. The purpose the Boston Dynamics quadrapeds are being developed for is to provide additional load carrying for troops operating in difficult terrain. Otherwise you'd just use wheeled vehicles (although they also sacrifice stealthiness by kicking up dust).
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Shift-Enter generally works for line breaks when Enter has been hijacked. No need for some mutant offspring of GreaseMonkey to get a usable text box.
There is also the little problem that every time we have a tax surplus one party immediately tries to find a way to cut taxes rather than do the responsible thing and pay of some debt.
In the end, the decree went out: Word should implement both formatting paradigms. Even though they're fundamentally incompatible and you can get into a horrible mess by applying simple character formatting to a style-driven document, or vice versa. Word was in fact broken by design, from the outset -- and it only got worse from there.
How is this broken by design? The author seems to think that a hierarchical format that uses a small set of inline codes for paragraph structure and formatting hints is inferior to Wordperfect's completely unstructured stream. With Word's hierarchy you can safely move blocks of data around without the risk of accidentally leaving control codes in the wrong place. Somehow that is supposed to be a bad thing?
Most of his rant centers about retelling history and griping about the file format incompatibilities between different versions and the challenge of creating an independent reader for the binary format. He gives the impression that the world would be a better place if we were all stuck on using Wordstar for sharing documents and Microsoft should never have had the ambition to add features to Word. Yes. Binary Word documents are baroque nightmare to decode. That's what happens when you carry a design forward for 20+ years that wasn't architected for clean forward compatibility. Considering the early versions of Word were implemented in assembly and run on machines with tiny scraps of memory, the design "flaws" were necessities of the day. Yes. DOCX has a lot of undocumented cruft to support translation from the old binary format. Word 2007+ avoids using those dark corners for documents that were not imported from an earlier version. You don't have to use that cruft at all when building XML documents from an external tool which is far better than the old hack of generating RTF to interoperate with Word.
Word has its issues and has to be coddled to avoid breakage in long-standing problems like numbering but at least I don't have to pull my hair out trying to do basic table formatting as happens in Open/LibreOffice. I'll switch when the open source rivals can match the capability and usability of Word 2003.
4) That would run afoul of anti-trust laws.
The catch is that the Israeli military aid is conditional on 70% being exclusively spent on products and services from US defense contractors. It is essentially a backdoor way to provide more money for districts with influential congressmen.
In the late 90's the economic and military aid was roughly split 50/50 at around $1.8B military, $1.2B economic. A plan was instituted to reduce the economic aid to $0 over time (reached in 2008). Theoretically this would have saved the US taxpayers some money but instead they've just shifted all the economic aid over to the military pile.
Then we'll have an entire market of speculators who define the price for us because they bought it six months ago.
More like 6 microseconds ago.
There are a lot of prima donnas out there operating under the guise of being journalist while acting as a surrogate mouthpiece for whatever powerful entity helps them further their career. They aren't real journalists despite their claim to the contrary. The NYT and WSJ editorial staff are good examples of these shills.
These are the same people that put up a fight claiming that bloggers can't be journalists. Essentially, because independent bloggers aren't part of the bought and paid for scheme the "professionals" have set up, there is a risk that real news may be reported on in an intelligent and insightful way. It is analogous to how lawyers involved in politics have created governmental policies and laws that serve only to benefit their own kind.
This is the Japanese nuclear industry. Somebody higher up the chain of command identified the wrong pipe to remove and the peons that had to do the work are socially conditioned to accept orders without question. This saves said superior from the embarrassment of having underlings point out his mistakes... until the mistakes can't be shoved under the rug where everyone can pretend they didn't happen.
The OBD2 standard has very limited scope. It only defines commands for engine diagnostics with a strong focus on emissions equipment. For instance there isn't even a standard command to read the battery voltage. Manufacturers can supplement the standard commands with their own proprietary ones but then there is the problem of supporting different manufacturers and loss of guaranteed forward compatibility. Also, even with modern CAN equipped vehicles, the data rates are limited to 1Mb/s max (Need 1.4Mb/s for 44KHz 16-bit stereo audio even before framing/packet overhead is added on). All the other protocols supported by OBD2 are slower. It's just not fast enough for media transmission and not very useful as a launchpad for more sophisticated vehicle data systems.
Considering all the extensions to standard make it would be nice if they'd relax the tab requirement so writing makefiles is more convenient.
Only about 10% of that 57% voted when it counted in the primaries because that's when the elections are stacked against the electorate
Most states don't allow party non-members to participate in primaries. It is a convenient way to prevent free thinkers from participating.
How about lazy developers who can't be bothered to write code that checks and warns about improperly secured installations. Drupal does this. There's no reason a "CMS" like vBulletin can't either.
A much better way to spend taxpayer's money would be to invest $3M the first year to buy their own tablets at a bulk rate for less than $200 apiece with the remainder going to deployment costs. Then every subsequent year spend $2M to pay for internal support (10 IT people with decent benefits) with an additional $1M set aside to fund replacements for broken and outdated devices.
Gorilla glass it not made of adamantium. It will break just as easily when put in the hands of careless students who have no sense of ownership or desire to take care of their new bauble. Even a polymer screen could be wrecked by sufficiently motivated student.
This is the price of idiots who think that deploying technology is all they need to do to "think of the children".
Slime mold senses its environment and reacts accordingly. That is computation in the broader sense used by physicists. It isn't engineered (unless you are of a certain ilk) but it is an organized, coherent system.
"Boston" is often referred to by locals to include the entire metro area outside of the city proper. Those outer suburbs have patchy FiOS coverage. The city core doesn't.
An even bigger travesty is how Verizon cherry picked deployment to the outer suburbs of every city in New York State and ignored the Rochester burbs altogether (ranked third by population) since it is HQ of Frontier.
There is a difference between tormenting invertebrates and something like throwing cats off buildings. The former is unlikely to be of concern if it doesn't progress into more insidious behavior.
Of course. Those pesky employees negatively impact profit margins. Without them the shareholders can extract maximum value from their investment.
The Notes application was a bit clunky but the core architecture was nice in some ways. It's biggest "failing" is that it is really an open-ended collaborative database platform with e-mail and calendaring tacked on. That makes it less friendly to non-technical users who aren't completely isolated from the internal workings of Notes.
Most portable electronics aren't an issue since their unintentional radiation is regulated to reasonably low levels and intentional emitters tend to be in the 2.4GHz band where no critical flight systems should be sensitive. GSM phones, however, have widely been reported to produce notable interference with aircraft radios.
What's your point? Mules can't climb everything a man can either. Maybe the US Gov. should start a program to breed militarized, obedient pack mountain goats to keep you satisfied.
It's a *prototype*. The power supply can be rengineered to use something other than an IC engine in the future.
Regardless of what these guys did, nothing justifies walking into another country and taking military action.
So we just sit around waiting for Interpol to pick them up?
Helicopters aren't easy to hide. That's why they have a habit of getting shot down a lot, particularly when they operate in the daytime. The purpose the Boston Dynamics quadrapeds are being developed for is to provide additional load carrying for troops operating in difficult terrain. Otherwise you'd just use wheeled vehicles (although they also sacrifice stealthiness by kicking up dust).
You can't order a horse to carry gear to specified coordinates unattended. Horses don't climb rough terrain particularly well either.