There's no autocorrection on password fields on the iphone (at least standard web fields that obscure the test).
I suppose of the 3rd-party hacked apps might do it, but I haven't seen that either. A particularly devious or retarded web developer might be able to turn it on for HTML password fields by adding some special tag attributes, though....
To put this in the form of a (poor) analogy, the English language doesn't describe history. However, a history book can use English to describe, more or less, past events in a simplified way, e.g. WW2 was started by Nazi Germany. The English language can also be used in a fiction book to convey fictitious events, e.g. Einstein traveled back in time to assassinate Hitler. Wow, I never thought I'd see Godwin's Law invoked during a discussion about advanced maths, but here we are...
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Who the f*** decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?! All this talk of perfectionism forced me to correct your sig on this small point.
The Internet has nothing to do with the absence of two spaces after periods. The current typographic standard dictates that two spaces are only used when the selected font is monospaced, like Courier, Monaco, or the terminal font. When using a proportionally spaced font, the second space is unnecessary.
I'm not sure I agree with your chief argument, WRT latency in RPC calls. The answer to this is to use asyncronous development techniques as part of your IPC.
The increasing amount of network-related latency dealt with in everyday communication generally means that in any reasonable interesting application, there are often large numbers of blocking calls that take a variable amount of time to return. Threads in and of themselves are truly not the answer, except possibly when used sparingly as part of a non-blocking system. (as an aside, I've found that as a Python developer, working with the Twisted Python libraries was invaluable in my understanding of asychronous development techniques.)
With regards to the idea of function calls being an innappropriate abstraction for these mechanisms, I think the issue really depends on the implementation. The reasons I've used an RPC/IPC solution to communicate between processes (either locally or remotely) was because the various processes weren't closely related, and needed to have a common interface between them.
Making assumptions about implementation is an inherently bad programming habit, and has much farther reaching consequences. APIs would be essentially worthless if the developers made assumptions about how the work is done "behind the scenes". If you need intimate knowledge of the memory space of another process, it may be an indication to use process fork()ing to provide the same results.
The operative system may forbid to take screenshots of the windows that has DRM content...like mac os x does with DRm'ed videos I've been told
just for the record, it is only the bundled dvd player that does this...open-source alternatives like VLC allow you to take a screenshot just fine.
perhaps i'm the eternal optimist, but i have a feeling the open-source/free software communities will be able to ultimately prevail in the drm scene...
Generally speaking, most major-label musicians *don't* make money from touring. The reason we tour is to recoup the cost of making the album.
That's right, all that money the record company provides to record the album comes out of the artist's paycheck, *before* they even begin to see revenue from royalty payments...
you would probably have sucess taking iTunes or other favorite ripping application and duplicating the executeable.
then just set each instance to a different drive, and voila!
it may be better to use a less "intelligent" application than iTunes, as there may be locking issues with updating the iTunes database. however, a simpler ripper should work just fine.
Student loans are another way to go - there's nothing wrong with getting one either.
Except the ridiculous interest and the fact that it takes years and years and years to pay it off. Item one in college: DO NOT BORROW EVEN ONE DOLLAR UNLESS IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
While I'll agree that most college students are well-served to stay away from credit cards, and other high-interest rate loans, you can't apply the same logic to college loans.
Specifically, the Stafford (even Unsubsidized) loans have very low interest that you can even pay off monthly if you want to keep that under control. Compared to your average credit card/etc loan, they are very reasonable. (of course, that is presuming you live in the US, i'm not sure about availability elsewhere)
Additionally, there's the fact that Stafford gives you a grace period of six months once you graduate, and then gives you the option to defer payment (for up to 36 months, IIRC) in the event that you become unemployed, or are not yet making enough money to pay them. (i can say this from personal experience)
It looks as if the goal is to implement this without breaking existing implementations. I did RTFA, although I might be missing something, but it seems to be that the translation is done by the client/local nameserver.
i would imagine it probably attempts to query with the unicode first, and upon failure tries the munged address. since both versions are in the whois db, as DNS servers become unicode compliant, this would be naturally phased out.
however, it means that any accent-containing domains would actually have two entries; i wonder, would you have to actually register twice (i.e., pay twice)?
one good thing is that it does look like suficiently undesireable names are the result of the conversion, so i don't think there would be much overlap between existing domains and the converted form of new accent-containing domains...
You should definitely check out Harmony Assistant. It's made by Myriad Software (http://www.myriad-online.com/enindex.htm). It's a little rough around the edges, but it does everything.
I switched to it from Sibelius/Finale when they took too long to come out with a mac os x version (and charged too much when they did). Harmony Assistant is only $65, and they provide a reasonably crippled demo.
They also make a plugin (that comes as a free trial with the software) called Virtual Singer that uses Text-to-Speech to give you an approximation of how a vocal piece will sound (kinda scary, but good for hearing what you're doing before you put it in front of a chorus)...
There's also support for a million different kinds of tablature, all the usual staves and so forth. Like I said, it's a little rough around the edges, but a $65 price tag (compared to $600 for sibelius or finale) makes it all worth it.
Actually, Phish just started doing this. I recently downloaded three shows I saw within 48 hours of seeing them. They were available in MP3 for $9.95 per show, or in Shorten (SHN) format for $12.95. They place no crippling software restrictions on the files, so you're free to make archive copies, burn them to CD, etc.
Plus, offering the lossless Shorten format (along with MD5 checksums) allows hard-core fans to be sure they have a perfect copy of the show.
Phish has always allowed taping at their shows (go ahead, say it, "Just like the Grateful Dead"), but formerly forbidden trading of audience copies of officially released shows, but with the introduction of livephish.com, you can now trade ANY audience copy freely.
Really, this is the way this sort of thing needs to be done. After listening to my first pristine, mastered soundboard copy, I had no problem forking over the $12.95!
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There's no autocorrection on password fields on the iphone (at least standard web fields that obscure the test).
I suppose of the 3rd-party hacked apps might do it, but I haven't seen that either. A particularly devious or retarded web developer might be able to turn it on for HTML password fields by adding some special tag attributes, though....
-phil
Yes, but only if it uses ARM processors...
(sorry, I couldn't resist it either)
Who the f*** decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?! All this talk of perfectionism forced me to correct your sig on this small point.
The Internet has nothing to do with the absence of two spaces after periods. The current typographic standard dictates that two spaces are only used when the selected font is monospaced, like Courier, Monaco, or the terminal font. When using a proportionally spaced font, the second space is unnecessary.
I'm not sure I agree with your chief argument, WRT latency in RPC calls. The answer to this is to use asyncronous development techniques as part of your IPC.
The increasing amount of network-related latency dealt with in everyday communication generally means that in any reasonable interesting application, there are often large numbers of blocking calls that take a variable amount of time to return. Threads in and of themselves are truly not the answer, except possibly when used sparingly as part of a non-blocking system. (as an aside, I've found that as a Python developer, working with the Twisted Python libraries was invaluable in my understanding of asychronous development techniques.)
With regards to the idea of function calls being an innappropriate abstraction for these mechanisms, I think the issue really depends on the implementation. The reasons I've used an RPC/IPC solution to communicate between processes (either locally or remotely) was because the various processes weren't closely related, and needed to have a common interface between them.
Making assumptions about implementation is an inherently bad programming habit, and has much farther reaching consequences. APIs would be essentially worthless if the developers made assumptions about how the work is done "behind the scenes". If you need intimate knowledge of the memory space of another process, it may be an indication to use process fork()ing to provide the same results.
anyways, my 2/100th of a dollar....
-phil
The operative system may forbid to take screenshots of the windows that has DRM content...like mac os x does with DRm'ed videos I've been told
just for the record, it is only the bundled dvd player that does this...open-source alternatives like VLC allow you to take a screenshot just fine.
perhaps i'm the eternal optimist, but i have a feeling the open-source/free software communities will be able to ultimately prevail in the drm scene...
Generally speaking, most major-label musicians *don't* make money from touring. The reason we tour is to recoup the cost of making the album.
That's right, all that money the record company provides to record the album comes out of the artist's paycheck, *before* they even begin to see revenue from royalty payments...
oh right...uh....now i feel silly...;-)
Actually, two 30" flatpanels would still be 4.1 megapixels. That's millions of pixels, per inch....
you would probably have sucess taking iTunes or other favorite ripping application and duplicating the executeable.
then just set each instance to a different drive, and voila!
it may be better to use a less "intelligent" application than iTunes, as there may be locking issues with updating the iTunes database. however, a simpler ripper should work just fine.
Student loans are another way to go - there's nothing wrong with getting one either.
Except the ridiculous interest and the fact that it takes years and years and years to pay it off.
Item one in college: DO NOT BORROW EVEN ONE DOLLAR UNLESS IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
While I'll agree that most college students are well-served to stay away from credit cards, and other high-interest rate loans, you can't apply the same logic to college loans.
Specifically, the Stafford (even Unsubsidized) loans have very low interest that you can even pay off monthly if you want to keep that under control. Compared to your average credit card/etc loan, they are very reasonable. (of course, that is presuming you live in the US, i'm not sure about availability elsewhere)
Additionally, there's the fact that Stafford gives you a grace period of six months once you graduate, and then gives you the option to defer payment (for up to 36 months, IIRC) in the event that you become unemployed, or are not yet making enough money to pay them. (i can say this from personal experience)
It looks as if the goal is to implement this without breaking existing implementations. I did RTFA, although I might be missing something, but it seems to be that the translation is done by the client/local nameserver.
i would imagine it probably attempts to query with the unicode first, and upon failure tries the munged address. since both versions are in the whois db, as DNS servers become unicode compliant, this would be naturally phased out.
however, it means that any accent-containing domains would actually have two entries; i wonder, would you have to actually register twice (i.e., pay twice)?
one good thing is that it does look like suficiently undesireable names are the result of the conversion, so i don't think there would be much overlap between existing domains and the converted form of new accent-containing domains...
Besides inspiration, the site features practical advice, like why not to link to a site without asking them first. ;-)
Sending spam is bad.
That being said, does it seem a little unfair that the indictment charges him with "hacking", when in fact he just spoofed his email address?
"Oh, beautiful for spacious skies...."
gah.
You should definitely check out Harmony Assistant. It's made by Myriad Software (http://www.myriad-online.com/enindex.htm). It's a little rough around the edges, but it does everything.
I switched to it from Sibelius/Finale when they took too long to come out with a mac os x version (and charged too much when they did). Harmony Assistant is only $65, and they provide a reasonably crippled demo.
They also make a plugin (that comes as a free trial with the software) called Virtual Singer that uses Text-to-Speech to give you an approximation of how a vocal piece will sound (kinda scary, but good for hearing what you're doing before you put it in front of a chorus)...
There's also support for a million different kinds of tablature, all the usual staves and so forth. Like I said, it's a little rough around the edges, but a $65 price tag (compared to $600 for sibelius or finale) makes it all worth it.
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Actually, Phish just started doing this. I recently downloaded three shows I saw within 48 hours of seeing them. They were available in MP3 for $9.95 per show, or in Shorten (SHN) format for $12.95. They place no crippling software restrictions on the files, so you're free to make archive copies, burn them to CD, etc.
Plus, offering the lossless Shorten format (along with MD5 checksums) allows hard-core fans to be sure they have a perfect copy of the show.
Phish has always allowed taping at their shows (go ahead, say it, "Just like the Grateful Dead"), but formerly forbidden trading of audience copies of officially released shows, but with the introduction of livephish.com, you can now trade ANY audience copy freely.
Really, this is the way this sort of thing needs to be done. After listening to my first pristine, mastered soundboard copy, I had no problem forking over the $12.95!
-phil