Not necessarily. At the architecture school I attended, foreign students routinely received credentials and adjusted grades for sub-par work. Usually because the culture at the school was to attribute the deficiencies to the "language barrier" instead of individual aptitude or skill. I also routinely saw professors advancing and showing bias towards students because of gender (in both directions).
It's the same thing as people complaining the IE thread earlier today. If your website statistics show no Opera users, it's not necessarily because there are no Opera users, but could be because your site doesn't work for Opera users.
Statistics regarding gender/ethnic/any type of diversity within a field do not in and of themselves negate myths or pre-conceptions regarding gender/ethnic/any type of diversity and ability in that field. This was the point the grandparent was making. Essentially correlation != causation, but with a more directed focus than the generalized meme.
Take for example basketball and American football, sports dominated by African-American players. Are African-Americans genetically more predisposed to athletic ability than whites, latinos, asians, or polynesians? Or is the prevailing African-American socio-economic culture of poverty and poor education provide primarily athletic means of escape and is geared more towards rewarding that route? Arguments can be made in both directions, and certainly both factors play a role, but simply looking at the number of players in those sports does not prove or disprove any speculations or myths regarding innate tendencies, nor does it prove or disprove the existence of bias or bigotry.
Multiple IE is pretty awesome for web development. It is also pretty fun to trounce around the modern web with IE 3.0.
Only if you need IE 6 and backwards. As a web developer, I cut off < IE 6 support about 2-3 years ago, basically around when I stopped noticing any Win2K visitors on any of my client's sites. Now the trick is to run IE 6,7,8 simultaneously. I resorted to a second computer with virtual machines as the 'easiest' solution.
I picked up one as well (I think the sale made a/. article)
I used it extensively when I was in school. Every machine on campus was at least running Win2k or OSX with USB support. Huge (4+ MB) Photoshop files or sets of CAD work just wouldn't fit on floppies and zip discs were notoriously unreliable (when you could find a machine that even had a drive).
Made my life much easier and inspired most of the rest of the students in my department to pick one up as well.
If the police and prosecutors can get away with not following procedures, then they will never follow procedures. If ignoring legal procedures does not jeopardize the chance of conviction, then there is no penalty for not following those procedures, and instead creates incentive to bypass the procedures completely. After all, even if the defendant finds out, they'd still be convicted.
Overturning a conviction because of procedural violations sets an example that procedural violations will not be tolerated.
Our system of justice is built on the premise that it is better to let a guilty person go free than penalize an innocent. The state does not get a free pass to do whatever it wants. It must operate in a legal manner, and that means following established procedures designed to not violate the rights of the potentially innocent. We hold the state to this standard so that everyone has the opportunity for a fair trial.
No, it certainly isn't a good solution in that it doesn't solve the whole problem. However as the original article comes to terms with, there is no magic bullet solution to captcha and spam problems because ultimately if it's a minor inconvenience to legitimate users, it will only be a minor inconvenience to abusers.
It's a problem that has to be solved with a lot of different solutions. Some technical, affecting the process, some cultural, modifying the incentives. Reducing the ability of free accounts to send mass mailings, or adding email escrows to attach monetary value, are cultural solutions meant to reduce the incentives for breaking the filtering techniques.
The author was arguing that one of the primary reasons to do captcha breaking is to get freebee email accounts on GMail/Yahoo to send spam from.
Limit the email the account can send, and you reduce the desire for the account. Reduce the usefullness of the account, and you reduce the desire to crack the captcha on new account signups, or at least the profitability in doing so.
It's one approach that would make a difference, but it's clearly not the only solution.
How long do you think it takes the duplication houses to pump out 10,000 copies of film and the various digital delivery formats and then get them delivered for a coordinated release date?
My guess is about a month.
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Having a marketing team that makes tweets for you is completely different than being a twitter user yourself.
Of the people you listed, how many subscribe to twitter feeds?
An hour ago I was sorting some junk from home for recycling and came across some 5.25" floppy disks with the original SimCity. I offered one to my coworker as a joke about how old the game was. She had never seen that style of disk before.
Common technique to get a poloroid to develop faster was to shake it as if you were fanning something. Exposure to air was part of the chemical process.
There are a lot of small-name apps out there that are absolutely critical to their business sectors, many of which do not offer demos. I could name quite a few from a couple of the markets we are in, but you've never heard of them.
These are the same kinds of apps that tend to keep businesses on Windows, because there is no sufficient alternative.
Firefox 2,3 on WinXP,WinVista * 3 system font smoothing settings Firefox 2,3 on OSX Safari 2,3 on Win2K,WinXP,WinVista,OSX IE 6, FF 2,3, on Win2k IE 6 on WinXP * 3 system font smoothing settings IE 7,8 on WinXP,WinVista * 3 system font smoothing settings
And of course other issues will have larger sets of test cases. I'm able to narrow it down here because Safari has its own font smoothing that is unaffected by which version of Windows it is running on or what the system font smoothing is set to, and Win2k doesn't have any native font smoothing.
There may only be a handful of browsers, but that doesn't mean there are only a handful of test cases. When it comes to javascript, there are quite a few variations that can cause problems beyond just the browser name.
One example that I've been specifically dealing with on MooTools involves bugs relating to font antialiasing on Internet Explorer. The issue presents itself on IE 7 when system font smoothing is enabled, but NOT on IE6 or IE8. Furthermore, in only presents itself if the user utilizes "Cleartype" (recommended for LCDs) but not if they use Standard font smoothing. It took me quite some time to narrow down exactly where the problem was.
This isn't an issue on Firefox 2,3, Safari 2,3 (although other kinds of font issues may arise with FF on OSX, and with Safari on Windows). Counting the variations of system settings, major OS and browser versions, that makes for 51 test cases, not including point versions of the OS or browsers, beta versions, and limiting it to the big 3 of browsers.
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Just like they all support all portions of the previous 4 HTML standards, CSS, XHTML, etc...
Not necessarily. At the architecture school I attended, foreign students routinely received credentials and adjusted grades for sub-par work. Usually because the culture at the school was to attribute the deficiencies to the "language barrier" instead of individual aptitude or skill. I also routinely saw professors advancing and showing bias towards students because of gender (in both directions).
It's the same thing as people complaining the IE thread earlier today. If your website statistics show no Opera users, it's not necessarily because there are no Opera users, but could be because your site doesn't work for Opera users.
Statistics regarding gender/ethnic/any type of diversity within a field do not in and of themselves negate myths or pre-conceptions regarding gender/ethnic/any type of diversity and ability in that field. This was the point the grandparent was making. Essentially correlation != causation, but with a more directed focus than the generalized meme.
Take for example basketball and American football, sports dominated by African-American players. Are African-Americans genetically more predisposed to athletic ability than whites, latinos, asians, or polynesians? Or is the prevailing African-American socio-economic culture of poverty and poor education provide primarily athletic means of escape and is geared more towards rewarding that route? Arguments can be made in both directions, and certainly both factors play a role, but simply looking at the number of players in those sports does not prove or disprove any speculations or myths regarding innate tendencies, nor does it prove or disprove the existence of bias or bigotry.
Only if you need IE 6 and backwards. As a web developer, I cut off < IE 6 support about 2-3 years ago, basically around when I stopped noticing any Win2K visitors on any of my client's sites. Now the trick is to run IE 6,7,8 simultaneously. I resorted to a second computer with virtual machines as the 'easiest' solution.
Pandora in my car once or twice a week...
Congratulations, you will be considered a "power user".
USB was far more universal.
Drive compatibility issues, lack of burning software, and lack of burners in university machines meant that CD/RW was not a reliable option.
Before the thumb drive, I had gotten used to dragging around a USB zip drive, but that of course required drivers that weren't always present.
I picked up one as well (I think the sale made a /. article)
I used it extensively when I was in school. Every machine on campus was at least running Win2k or OSX with USB support. Huge (4+ MB) Photoshop files or sets of CAD work just wouldn't fit on floppies and zip discs were notoriously unreliable (when you could find a machine that even had a drive).
Made my life much easier and inspired most of the rest of the students in my department to pick one up as well.
No.
If the police and prosecutors can get away with not following procedures, then they will never follow procedures. If ignoring legal procedures does not jeopardize the chance of conviction, then there is no penalty for not following those procedures, and instead creates incentive to bypass the procedures completely. After all, even if the defendant finds out, they'd still be convicted.
Overturning a conviction because of procedural violations sets an example that procedural violations will not be tolerated.
Our system of justice is built on the premise that it is better to let a guilty person go free than penalize an innocent. The state does not get a free pass to do whatever it wants. It must operate in a legal manner, and that means following established procedures designed to not violate the rights of the potentially innocent. We hold the state to this standard so that everyone has the opportunity for a fair trial.
There... fixed that for ya.
So in otherwords, don't buy a car? It seems like agreements are always being negotiated.
No, it certainly isn't a good solution in that it doesn't solve the whole problem. However as the original article comes to terms with, there is no magic bullet solution to captcha and spam problems because ultimately if it's a minor inconvenience to legitimate users, it will only be a minor inconvenience to abusers.
It's a problem that has to be solved with a lot of different solutions. Some technical, affecting the process, some cultural, modifying the incentives. Reducing the ability of free accounts to send mass mailings, or adding email escrows to attach monetary value, are cultural solutions meant to reduce the incentives for breaking the filtering techniques.
The author was arguing that one of the primary reasons to do captcha breaking is to get freebee email accounts on GMail/Yahoo to send spam from.
Limit the email the account can send, and you reduce the desire for the account. Reduce the usefullness of the account, and you reduce the desire to crack the captcha on new account signups, or at least the profitability in doing so.
It's one approach that would make a difference, but it's clearly not the only solution.
How long do you think it takes the duplication houses to pump out 10,000 copies of film and the various digital delivery formats and then get them delivered for a coordinated release date?
My guess is about a month.
Having a marketing team that makes tweets for you is completely different than being a twitter user yourself.
Of the people you listed, how many subscribe to twitter feeds?
Because someone checked the YRO box when submitting and the editors didn't remove it.
Because an 80% increase in netbook sales is still tiny compared to 8% of total Windows sales.
That's 1 in 7 people using their service, hardly an "only" that can be ignored.
Hell, I use over 5GB/mo on my friggin iPhone and I'm not even tethering!
Do not read slashdot for the 24-36 hours. Especially if the article has anything to do with your line of work.
And how do they do that? By having a FAT partition that the crapware resides on.
So you're still stuck with using FAT and risking patent problems.
Even worse, it's like complaining about one person's wall-wart in an entire city of homes using air-conditioners.
An hour ago I was sorting some junk from home for recycling and came across some 5.25" floppy disks with the original SimCity. I offered one to my coworker as a joke about how old the game was. She had never seen that style of disk before.
Common technique to get a poloroid to develop faster was to shake it as if you were fanning something. Exposure to air was part of the chemical process.
There are a lot of small-name apps out there that are absolutely critical to their business sectors, many of which do not offer demos. I could name quite a few from a couple of the markets we are in, but you've never heard of them.
These are the same kinds of apps that tend to keep businesses on Windows, because there is no sufficient alternative.
A school official is by no means a "legal authority". If you want a strip search, arrest me or show up with a warrant.
The ONLY authority the school officials have is to escort the student from the premises. This girl was bullied into sacrificing her rights.
Correction, 40 test cases:
Firefox 2,3 on WinXP,WinVista * 3 system font smoothing settings
Firefox 2,3 on OSX
Safari 2,3 on Win2K,WinXP,WinVista,OSX
IE 6, FF 2,3, on Win2k
IE 6 on WinXP * 3 system font smoothing settings
IE 7,8 on WinXP,WinVista * 3 system font smoothing settings
And of course other issues will have larger sets of test cases. I'm able to narrow it down here because Safari has its own font smoothing that is unaffected by which version of Windows it is running on or what the system font smoothing is set to, and Win2k doesn't have any native font smoothing.
There may only be a handful of browsers, but that doesn't mean there are only a handful of test cases. When it comes to javascript, there are quite a few variations that can cause problems beyond just the browser name.
One example that I've been specifically dealing with on MooTools involves bugs relating to font antialiasing on Internet Explorer. The issue presents itself on IE 7 when system font smoothing is enabled, but NOT on IE6 or IE8. Furthermore, in only presents itself if the user utilizes "Cleartype" (recommended for LCDs) but not if they use Standard font smoothing. It took me quite some time to narrow down exactly where the problem was.
This isn't an issue on Firefox 2,3, Safari 2,3 (although other kinds of font issues may arise with FF on OSX, and with Safari on Windows). Counting the variations of system settings, major OS and browser versions, that makes for 51 test cases, not including point versions of the OS or browsers, beta versions, and limiting it to the big 3 of browsers.