Yes, I see, but then the story hits my reported speech filter, and
it's to vague to be funny.
'creation date <= system date' is, in some circumstances,
a reasonable invariant -- a sanity check. "Don't miss those cases
created 'in the future'" could be crazy, or it could mean "Don't miss
this invariant." Maybe it's a billing system, for example: it could be
embarrassing to send out a thousand bills from the future because of a
bug.
That's unusual. Oh, you mean you gave this thing to your boyfriend
and your mother? So how long have they been living together? Ok, I can
deal with that -- it's not quite so strange as having your mother
delivered to you at Christmas.
The CNN headline "Documents: Donors promised political access" was adequate. The Slashdot headline is childish, uninformative and search-proof. I nearly skipped the story, assuming it was about games or music.
Michael, are you writing on a news site or in a school exercise book? Hands up who knows what headlines are for.
Everyone so far has said "slashcode". I don't think that's a good idea. I doubt the kind of "peer review features" offered here will help, and I doubt it's easy to extend to what you want. The same goes for PHP-Nuke and others.
Here's a slightly less obvious answer. LWN is doing something a little closer to what you're talking about. They have subscription and delayed release for non-subscribers. They are planning to release their code, which is based on Quixote.
You have given very little information, so perhaps you can expect only answers like "slashcode" and "LWN". It depends on many things including the subject matter of the journal, what sort of mark-up and formatting is involved, and how much special typesetting you want in the printed editions. If it's not-for-profit, how about staying out of dead trees altogether?
I wish journals -- and websites -- would keep it simple.
the origin of "One World, One Web, One Program"
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It's everywhere on the web, alongside "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer". But is it true? Did it really appear in a Microsoft advert?
I know, Slashdot is a place for opinions, not evidence. But it seems relevant to the topic.
If you still think Windows is the solution...
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If you still think Windows is the solution, it's time to stop sniffing the solvent.
That's the way it seems to me too. XML is a revision of SGML. Together they are widely used, and ancient in web terms, in that SGML predates the web.
SGML can also be seen as a big step back from Lisp's s-expressions. I imagine that if sexps had used angle brackets from the start -- instead of parentheses, which clash with the ordinary use of parentheses in plain text, and are also harder to type -- Lisp-like languages would be more widely used for structured text processing.
Perhaps they would have led to an earlier web. Lisp was developed in the late 1950s.
Paypal will resolve a problem with a prominent customer after a big fuss has been made about it. Otherwise, of course, no change.
Epson makes the smallest possible change to a license (not to forbid reverse engineering), so as to use an LGPLed library legally. It looks like Epson tried it on; it didn't work out, but it was worth a try.
Microsoft was almost certain to gain more by the stunt than it would lose in fines. $50 per "decal" would have been cheap, but it wasn't even fined that much.
But seriously, I think Slashdot submitters should make sure the linked information is on the web. Flash doesn't count.
A tip for Mozilla users:
rm/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so
-- or wherever your plugin directory is. It works with other Mozilla-based browsers such as Phoenix and Galeon. It stops the browser asking if you want to get Flash every time you load a page with a flash file on it. You will get just one more annoying pop-up, on which you can tell it to stop bothering you about plugins.
You can use a special separate instance of Mozilla for when you want to use plugins. It's much less trouble than dealing with them all the time when you're just trying to browse the web.
For a few hours the title of the article was "Bactera @41km". I was referring to every slashdotter's preferred spelling of the plural of "virus" -- which is about as silly as "bacterii".
This appears to be about fraudulent invoices, sent by snail mail, in the physical world. Where are "physical world laws" being applied to "cyberspace"?
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Yeah, but it's fa da dyslexics, an' we ah based in New Joisey. R, F, B, D. You gonna ahgue?
iInfringe, since sosume and sosumi have been taken.
Yes, I see, but then the story hits my reported speech filter, and it's to vague to be funny.
'creation date <= system date' is, in some circumstances, a reasonable invariant -- a sanity check. "Don't miss those cases created 'in the future'" could be crazy, or it could mean "Don't miss this invariant." Maybe it's a billing system, for example: it could be embarrassing to send out a thousand bills from the future because of a bug.
"saying that we must remove 'creation date < system date' so that we would not miss..."?
Stories funnier when you the verbs. ;)
Software innovators, right?
Ahead of Ted Nelson? Anyway, that's more information and networks than software.
Of course.
That's five moderated mentions so far of Wall. Here's one of John McCarthy. Quoting Paul Graham:
I think Wall would probably mention McCarthy.
I call that business.
hardware
Jan Lukasiewicz -- the Luka... the Polish room
Thank you! Are they both just for me, or must I share them with other pedants? I would have used the word "pedantry" there, by the way.
I see. I'll wait my turn.
;)
I'm with you so far.
That's unusual. Oh, you mean you gave this thing to your boyfriend and your mother? So how long have they been living together? Ok, I can deal with that -- it's not quite so strange as having your mother delivered to you at Christmas.
The CNN headline "Documents: Donors promised political access" was adequate. The Slashdot headline is childish, uninformative and search-proof. I nearly skipped the story, assuming it was about games or music.
Michael, are you writing on a news site or in a school exercise book? Hands up who knows what headlines are for.
Everyone so far has said "slashcode". I don't think that's a good idea. I doubt the kind of "peer review features" offered here will help, and I doubt it's easy to extend to what you want. The same goes for PHP-Nuke and others.
Here's a slightly less obvious answer. LWN is doing something a little closer to what you're talking about. They have subscription and delayed release for non-subscribers. They are planning to release their code, which is based on Quixote.
You have given very little information, so perhaps you can expect only answers like "slashcode" and "LWN". It depends on many things including the subject matter of the journal, what sort of mark-up and formatting is involved, and how much special typesetting you want in the printed editions. If it's not-for-profit, how about staying out of dead trees altogether?
I wish journals -- and websites -- would keep it simple.
It's everywhere on the web, alongside "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer". But is it true? Did it really appear in a Microsoft advert?
I know, Slashdot is a place for opinions, not evidence. But it seems relevant to the topic.
If you still think Windows is the solution, it's time to stop sniffing the solvent.
That's the way it seems to me too. XML is a revision of SGML. Together they are widely used, and ancient in web terms, in that SGML predates the web.
SGML can also be seen as a big step back from Lisp's s-expressions. I imagine that if sexps had used angle brackets from the start -- instead of parentheses, which clash with the ordinary use of parentheses in plain text, and are also harder to type -- Lisp-like languages would be more widely used for structured text processing.
Perhaps they would have led to an earlier web. Lisp was developed in the late 1950s.
Is a legally blind person allowed to ride a bicycle on the road in the US? Sorry if this a silly question...
So why have you chosen for your name a word that doesn't normally have a 'k', and put a 'k' in it? Or are you the son of a Mr and Mrs Awktagon?
... unsatisfying resolutions.
Paypal will resolve a problem with a prominent customer after a big fuss has been made about it. Otherwise, of course, no change.
Epson makes the smallest possible change to a license (not to forbid reverse engineering), so as to use an LGPLed library legally. It looks like Epson tried it on; it didn't work out, but it was worth a try.
Microsoft was almost certain to gain more by the stunt than it would lose in fines. $50 per "decal" would have been cheap, but it wasn't even fined that much.
But seriously, I think Slashdot submitters should make sure the linked information is on the web. Flash doesn't count.
A tip for Mozilla users:
-- or wherever your plugin directory is. It works with other Mozilla-based browsers such as Phoenix and Galeon. It stops the browser asking if you want to get Flash every time you load a page with a flash file on it. You will get just one more annoying pop-up, on which you can tell it to stop bothering you about plugins.
You can use a special separate instance of Mozilla for when you want to use plugins. It's much less trouble than dealing with them all the time when you're just trying to browse the web.
Thankyou, but I know that.
For a few hours the title of the article was "Bactera @41km". I was referring to every slashdotter's preferred spelling of the plural of "virus" -- which is about as silly as "bacterii".
Dunno about moons. My doctor said they were asteroids... Something like that.
I wish he'd speak up. So young these days, aren't they? Doctors, I mean.
What was I saying? Oh, yes. Titania. In my ears... I think that's what he said. Isn't that a moon? Couldn't hear him over the damn noise.
This appears to be about fraudulent invoices, sent by snail mail, in the physical world. Where are "physical world laws" being applied to "cyberspace"?
Am I missing something?
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Presumably they mean shavers.
I'm confused. Is Saddam breeding orcs now?
Did you mean to say "what about the morals "? To judge from some replies, you appear to have started a thread for Alex Chiu followers.
Surely you mean bacterii?