I've been seeing some of those WGA 'niggles' for a while: Intermittent blue screens, the system is way slower than it should be given my hardware (and getting slower all the time), my start button has been replaced with this godawful green colored thing..
Not really related, except that your mention of IP address reminded me of this one - it's kind of a cute story:
I had a cable modem, probably close to 10 years ago when they were very new, and phoned to ask about how I could get a static IP address (I think Rogers cable in Canada may have been offering them for a few $ a month extra or something like that).
Anyway, after a confusing conversation I was told that I was probably best to just go the the nearest Radio Shack and see if I could pick up a static IP address there.
Seriously. 'We wrote a script and here are the results'? This would take an average PERL programmer what -- 30 minutes of work? Has academic research in computing really sunk to this level?
Maybe it's not even worth pointing out how badly flawed (and lazy) the underlying assumption of 'twice the results = twice the index size' probably is, as I'm sure we're going to see a few dozen posts to that effect (unless PageRank really means nothing), but at least I can complain about the slant they put on this, and how strong a conclusion they seem to derive.
I guess the obvious first answer would be to call up the idea of the 'tyranny of the majority' that John Stuart Mill (and de Tocqueville) talked about.
Certainly the technical definition of 'democracy' could imply that whichever group constitutes a majority (or plurality) should have control over the country - but this can have disastrous consequences, even in a system (like the American system) with many checks and balances in place. It has happened - even in your history - that fundamental rights and liberties of minorities were curtailed just because they were minorities.
Remember that the United States sprang first out of the idea of liberty, and democracy came afterwords. It is the concept of individual rights and liberty that made the United States a great country - the democratic system exists to serve that concept. It's easy to get caught up in technical definitions of how pure a democracy the United States really is, while forgetting what its fundamental values were in the first place.
Ok, a pro XP comment in a Linux related discussion is more likely to get modded as a troll, but the parent post raises an interesting point.
Windows has become (a lot) more stable over the last few years, with 2k and XP, to the point that a lot of users won't understand what a 'Blue Screen of Death' refers to. Couldn't the author of this book have chosen a different subtitle for his book? In the minds of a lot of end users - at whom, ostensibly, this book is aimed - the reliability ship has already sailed - Windows is more than adequate for their needs.
Not that I would bet any money on Windows vs. Linux in reliability, but I use XP in my job (software development) and haven't had any problems with it either.
Well, how about justification for these theories as a way to get rid of the conflicts between general relativity and quantum mechanics? If black holes really aren't points, then maybe that points towards another way that the smooth spacetime vs. quantum foam problem could be resolved?
Similar to the ideas of string theory (though I'm no physicist). And no-one would call the equations of string theory (or at least as much of them as are known) simple:)
Is this a case of something being little too close to the truth to be really funny? You can already use COBOL.NET in asp pages (albeit parsed server side). I'm sure there's some way you can get IE to interpret it client side.. Check out this.
Are they basically coroutines? If so, that seems like a useful feature to have built in to a language.. I remember a while ago wishing that C/C++/Java had standard/nice ways of doing this..
Can someone who's more familiar with concurrent programming comment? (I haven't touched this kind of stuff in a while)
but my guess is you are not so lucky, even though ssh with none as cipher addresses your problem precisely - passwords are encrypted, and the rest isn't
I just want to point this out so there are no faulty assumptions about security: If you use password based authentication, your password is only protected by the cipher, so with "none", your password will be sent plaintext. A lot of SSH2 servers will be set up so you can't use password authentication with less secure ciphers anyway.
Public key authentication is probably ok though, even over a non-encrypted connection (and a more secure authentication method in general). So if you have control over both ends of the connection, use no encryption, and public key authentication, and you should be pretty good
The date for the referenced article is 18 Sep 2003, less than two weeks ago.
Yeah, but the fact remains that HTML Tidy has been around for years. Essentially this article is a tutorial on how to use tidy. It's almost like submitting a story about a man page.
1. Bring up Help. 2. Type "turn off automatic spell checking". 3. Read the first item, "Turn on or off automatic spelling and grammar checking" 4. Select the stated menu option and checkbox
Yes, clearly this is an insurmountable task not to be attempted without a trained professional. And you should also wear safety goggles.
You forgot:
5. Repeat for turning off: auto capitalization, autocomplete, automatic help; changing fonts, margins, etc, etc... which really was the whole point of the article.. Sure once you know how you can figure out how to do all these things, but unless you are an expert with Word it'll take a bit of time per feature, which adds up to a lot of time, which you'd probably rather be spending writing, because that's why you have the software in the first place..
Or in other words, good documentation is not a substitute for sensible program design
Most commonly used programming languages are OOP or functional in nature. I haven't used a non object oriented language since I got out of college. Perl, C, C++, Java, Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Python, Cobol, Smalltalk, various shell languages, etc. are all either functional or object oriented languages
Imperative, they're imperative or OOP, not functional. Functional languages are languages exactly like LISP or Scheme. You construct a C program out of a bunch of statements, not a bunch of functions.
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too"
Obviously there were underlying political reasons for the moon landings, but these words are I think as inspiring now as when they were first said.
As an odd footnote, this speech was given on September 12, a date that didn't have the same kind of meaning in 1962 that it does today...
That has yet to be confirmed. Fat is not necessarily bad.
No, and in fact your body needs to intake some amount of fat to live - the 'essential fatty acids' or those that your body can't syntyesize.
Cholesterol, though, is generally considered to be bad (HD vs LD debate notwithstanding) and eating certain types of fats (saturated fats) causes lots of cholesterol in your body. So probably best to avoid saturated fats as much as possible (usually animal fats).
The parent post was implying that your body eats to obtain a certain amount of *calories* before it feels satisfied (not volume). Since fat packs more calories per pound than any other digestible ingredient, you can eat much less fatty food than low-fat food, and yet be just as sated. Furthermore, most fats have a certain chemical component which when broken down in your stomach makes you feel fuller than you really are.
But there's also the immediate feeling of fullness caused just by the volume of food in your stomach, and in that case, this argument is reversed. That is, eating X volume of fat causes you to feel about the same as X volume of carbohydrates or protein, but contains more than twice the calories. True that in the longer term you will probably feel about as satisfied by taking in the same number of calories, but too many people eat until their stomachs are full, and in that case it's better to eat less calorie dense stuff.
And as an aside, I can't believe I just wrote a nutrition-related comment on slashdot..
Silly question, perhaps, but are we all just assuming that Smith is being cast as R. Daneel Olivaw? He could be playing Lije Bailey, who IS the viewpoint character (or "star"), after all.
I don't think he'll be playing either of those characters. You're all thinking of Asimov's robot trilogy. I, Robot is a collection of short stories, which was later worked into a screenplay by Harlan Ellison.
The only sort of central character in most of the stories (I haven't read the screenplay) is Susan Calvin, the robot psychologist (or whatever they call her). They might make this character male.. otherwise, I don't think there's another character that appears in all or most of the stories. Will Smith's might even have a smaller role - just one robot in one segment.
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I've been seeing some of those WGA 'niggles' for a while: Intermittent blue screens, the system is way slower than it should be given my hardware (and getting slower all the time), my start button has been replaced with this godawful green colored thing..
Wait - what?
Not really related, except that your mention of IP address reminded me of this one - it's kind of a cute story:
I had a cable modem, probably close to 10 years ago when they were very new, and phoned to ask about how I could get a static IP address (I think Rogers cable in Canada may have been offering them for a few $ a month extra or something like that).
Anyway, after a confusing conversation I was told that I was probably best to just go the the nearest Radio Shack and see if I could pick up a static IP address there.
Well, really, anyone could have just bought iphone.org and pointed it to apple.com. ..actually that would be a great way to start rumors... hmm..
Seriously. 'We wrote a script and here are the results'? This would take an average PERL programmer what -- 30 minutes of work? Has academic research in computing really sunk to this level?
Maybe it's not even worth pointing out how badly flawed (and lazy) the underlying assumption of 'twice the results = twice the index size' probably is, as I'm sure we're going to see a few dozen posts to that effect (unless PageRank really means nothing), but at least I can complain about the slant they put on this, and how strong a conclusion they seem to derive.
Going a bit far for a publicity stunt for the new Spielberg version of War of the Worlds aren't we?
Or flip the outputs the monitors are sitting on?
Then again, I didn't read the article... I imagine he must have thought of that...
I guess the obvious first answer would be to call up the idea of the 'tyranny of the majority' that John Stuart Mill (and de Tocqueville) talked about.
Certainly the technical definition of 'democracy' could imply that whichever group constitutes a majority (or plurality) should have control over the country - but this can have disastrous consequences, even in a system (like the American system) with many checks and balances in place. It has happened - even in your history - that fundamental rights and liberties of minorities were curtailed just because they were minorities.
Remember that the United States sprang first out of the idea of liberty, and democracy came afterwords. It is the concept of individual rights and liberty that made the United States a great country - the democratic system exists to serve that concept. It's easy to get caught up in technical definitions of how pure a democracy the United States really is, while forgetting what its fundamental values were in the first place.
Ok, a pro XP comment in a Linux related discussion is more likely to get modded as a troll, but the parent post raises an interesting point.
Windows has become (a lot) more stable over the last few years, with 2k and XP, to the point that a lot of users won't understand what a 'Blue Screen of Death' refers to. Couldn't the author of this book have chosen a different subtitle for his book? In the minds of a lot of end users - at whom, ostensibly, this book is aimed - the reliability ship has already sailed - Windows is more than adequate for their needs.
Not that I would bet any money on Windows vs. Linux in reliability, but I use XP in my job (software development) and haven't had any problems with it either.
Well, how about justification for these theories as a way to get rid of the conflicts between general relativity and quantum mechanics? If black holes really aren't points, then maybe that points towards another way that the smooth spacetime vs. quantum foam problem could be resolved?
:)
Similar to the ideas of string theory (though I'm no physicist). And no-one would call the equations of string theory (or at least as much of them as are known) simple
This doesn't bode well for that Lmacosx project I was planning..
Is this a case of something being little too close to the truth to be really funny? You can already use COBOL.NET in asp pages (albeit parsed server side). I'm sure there's some way you can get IE to interpret it client side.. Check out this.
Are they basically coroutines?
If so, that seems like a useful feature to have built in to a language.. I remember a while ago wishing that C/C++/Java had standard/nice ways of doing this..
Can someone who's more familiar with concurrent programming comment? (I haven't touched this kind of stuff in a while)
but my guess is you are not so lucky, even though ssh with none as cipher addresses your problem precisely - passwords are encrypted, and the rest isn't
I just want to point this out so there are no faulty assumptions about security: If you use password based authentication, your password is only protected by the cipher, so with "none", your password will be sent plaintext. A lot of SSH2 servers will be set up so you can't use password authentication with less secure ciphers anyway.
Public key authentication is probably ok though, even over a non-encrypted connection (and a more secure authentication method in general). So if you have control over both ends of the connection, use no encryption, and public key authentication, and you should be pretty good
The date for the referenced article is 18 Sep 2003, less than two weeks ago.
Yeah, but the fact remains that HTML Tidy has been around for years. Essentially this article is a tutorial on how to use tidy. It's almost like submitting a story about a man page.
1. Bring up Help.
2. Type "turn off automatic spell checking".
3. Read the first item, "Turn on or off automatic spelling and grammar checking"
4. Select the stated menu option and checkbox
Yes, clearly this is an insurmountable task not to be attempted without a trained professional. And you should also wear safety goggles.
You forgot:
5. Repeat for turning off: auto capitalization, autocomplete, automatic help; changing fonts, margins, etc, etc... which really was the whole point of the article..
Sure once you know how you can figure out how to do all these things, but unless you are an expert with Word it'll take a bit of time per feature, which adds up to a lot of time, which you'd probably rather be spending writing, because that's why you have the software in the first place..
Or in other words, good documentation is not a substitute for sensible program design
With that attitude, the movie Dune would have been a lot more boring. :(
MORE boring? Did you see the original movie? How could it have been more boring?
I did like the books though, and the SciFi channel miniseries...
Most commonly used programming languages are OOP or functional in nature. I haven't used a non object oriented language since I got out of college. Perl, C, C++, Java, Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Python, Cobol, Smalltalk, various shell languages, etc. are all either functional or object oriented languages
Imperative, they're imperative or OOP, not functional. Functional languages are languages exactly like LISP or Scheme. You construct a C program out of a bunch of statements, not a bunch of functions.
You may have had it for a while now, but I had it first you insensitive clod!
Hmm... tomorrow's headlines?
SCO to IBM: "You're still infringing on our IP, you insensitive clods."
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too"
Obviously there were underlying political reasons for the moon landings, but these words are I think as inspiring now as when they were first said.
As an odd footnote, this speech was given on September 12, a date that didn't have the same kind of meaning in 1962 that it does today...
That has yet to be confirmed. Fat is not necessarily bad.
No, and in fact your body needs to intake some amount of fat to live - the 'essential fatty acids' or those that your body can't syntyesize.
Cholesterol, though, is generally considered to be bad (HD vs LD debate notwithstanding) and eating certain types of fats (saturated fats) causes lots of cholesterol in your body. So probably best to avoid saturated fats as much as possible (usually animal fats).
The parent post was implying that your body eats to obtain a certain amount of *calories* before it feels satisfied (not volume). Since fat packs more calories per pound than any other digestible ingredient, you can eat much less fatty food than low-fat food, and yet be just as sated. Furthermore, most fats have a certain chemical component which when broken down in your stomach makes you feel fuller than you really are.
But there's also the immediate feeling of fullness caused just by the volume of food in your stomach, and in that case, this argument is reversed. That is, eating X volume of fat causes you to feel about the same as X volume of carbohydrates or protein, but contains more than twice the calories. True that in the longer term you will probably feel about as satisfied by taking in the same number of calories, but too many people eat until their stomachs are full, and in that case it's better to eat less calorie dense stuff.
And as an aside, I can't believe I just wrote a nutrition-related comment on slashdot..
morphing: A gradual animated transformation from one image into another, partially accomplished by moving certain points in the first image to corresponding points in the second image, in stages.
Isn't this what whatsbetter?com is for?
And on a related note.. crap, I hope I haven't just /.ed my favorite website
Silly question, perhaps, but are we all just assuming that Smith is being cast as R. Daneel Olivaw? He could be playing Lije Bailey, who IS the viewpoint character (or "star"), after all.
I don't think he'll be playing either of those characters. You're all thinking of Asimov's robot trilogy. I, Robot is a collection of short stories, which was later worked into a screenplay by Harlan Ellison.
The only sort of central character in most of the stories (I haven't read the screenplay) is Susan Calvin, the robot psychologist (or whatever they call her). They might make this character male.. otherwise, I don't think there's another character that appears in all or most of the stories. Will Smith's might even have a smaller role - just one robot in one segment.
No. It's a common error. It should be "raises the question".
Here's a decent explanation or just do a Google search and you'll come up with a bunch of sites.