I like a challenge so I gave it a try. The only problem with using periods is that sometimes it looks like the number is less than zero when it actually isn't; however, the only fractions are numbers that have a leading zero, so for instance the ".142m" is actually 142m.
I used the <ecode> tag, and no <br> at the end of each line since the ecode tag dumps what's inside as it is formatted (except that it eliminates duplicate spaces).
Body . . . ..Diameter . Distance From Sun Sun (Sol). . . 140 mm Mercury. . . . 0.5 mm. . . . . ..6m Venus. . . . . 1.2 mm. . . . . . 10m Earth. . . . . 1.3 mm. . . . . . 15m
Unfortunately, that's when I had to give up since adding another line triggers the lameness filter with "too many junk characters." It's really too bad we can't share information with each other in an easy-to-read format; I thought that's what communicating was about.
Oh well. At least if your table is on the short side, you'll be able to use the above technique. And I'm almost positive I've seen some nicely-formatted tables on here before, but I can't seem to either create or find them. Hope this helps!
Flash Click to View is nice, but I like my solution. I use Mozilla as my default browser, and never install Flash.
If I want to for instance view Homestarrunner.com, I fire up Internet Explorer. If a site I'm already on has Flash, then I just cut-and-paste the URL into an IE window. I don't use IE for anything else.
I'm sure similar results could be achieved on Linux; have Firefox with Flash and Mozilla without, etc.
I agree with your idea about mirroring; I don't think that a lawsuit is doable (which doesn't mean someone won't try it).
One of the problems with mirroring is the site's administrators won't have the increase in hits (and corresponding ad revenue). Perhaps a mirror template could be set up which understands the biggest advertisers' methods so the hits could still be counted by the original site (and a percentage given to the mirror host, to defray some of the costs of mirroring?).
Once the mirror is closed, statistics should be sent back to the site's administrators. And when the mirror is "closed" the mirror URL should still exist, but be redirected to the original site.
Perhaps the mirror could "hijack" the original URL (with the site's permission of course) so the site would send visitors to the mirror. The site would still get a lot of hits and might crumble under that load, but it wouldn't have to send pages and images, just refer the visitor to a different URL which would be 100 bytes or less, most likely.
I would start this project but it's not an itch I need scratched...
If they're 4 GB drives, and redundant enough (say, 1 spare per 10 drives), then as they start failing they can just be edited out until it gets down to 2 spares, and the "box" sends an administrator alert saying "replace me."
I believe some processor clusters operate like this (I remember reading it several years ago; perhaps it was only a design, not a product).
These are the same stupid people overpopulating the planet, often at government expense, literally spamming the gene pool.
A friend shared the following depressing quote many years ago:
The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant. The population is growing.
Stupid people breed faster -- they don't care to control their growth, they know that there are safety nets put in place for them (or they don't know that, as they just don't think -- read "The Bell Curve"). Smarter people breed less, knowing that if they have too many kids they won't have the resources to send them all to good schools and will therefore end up with poor successors.
There's really no good answer to this -- what she said is true, and there's no way to convince people who don't care to listen, to breed less.
If you read a book and find it racist because there are no poeple of a specific ethnic group in the when the book makes no mention of ehnicity then it's just you who are trying to be insulted too much.
A friend had me read this book... forget the name, something to do with Beowulf, or Grendel, but it was about these weird people in a future post-apocalypse getting along. Anyway, my friend made me promise not to read the author's bio until I had finished the book.
I complied, and enjoyed the book, and turns out the guy who wrote it was a black professor.
I thought that was really cool, because I didn't pick up on that at all through the reading (well, except for the fact that there was a ton of masturbation and... well, I won't make this worse than PG-13).
It was cool the way my friend shared it with me. (The book, that is.;-)
What's the primary requirement of a utility? It has to work. If you turn the water faucet on, you expect to get water; if you plug a lamp into a wall socket, you expect electricity; when you pick up your phone, you expect to hear a dial tone.
They're a combination of "Software" and "Electricity". It's not perfect yet, but they go a long way toward making computing painless by virtualizing the environment, so applications run in their own "sandbox" and have their own Registry and file system -- so there's no more DLL hell, and no conflicting Registry settings.
It's really neat to run application through SoftGrid, on the same machine, which cannot even be installed on the same machine, normally. This saves companies a ton of money in Citrix implementations, because previously they had to have server farms, "silos" with conflicting application on separate servers; using SoftGrid, they can run them all on the same server.
We use their software and it has saved a ton of money in administration and support costs. It's Windows-only, but currently most businesses run Windows (we do, although I'm pushing Linux). The great part is it saves money, so it's fairly simple to get into the budget (it pays for itself in 2-6 months, depending on the size of your organization; ours is already paid for and making us money now in reduced IT costs).
I see it's published under the Open Publication License but it appears I cannot download it and read it on my Palm on the train -- it's a web-only affair. Sure, I could spider the site but I haven't done that yet; I prefer entire books (I use MobiPocket).
C:\>perl -e "$_ ~= s/Canadians/Canadiens/g if $province eq 'Quebec';" syntax error at -e line 1, near "$_ ~" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
It's "=~", not "~=". Get your write-only code straight!;-)
Yep. It's something of a corrolary to the "many eyes == shallow bugs" theory; the more builds you do as a function of submissions, the more easily you can pinpoint where the break was submitted.
Especially if it's not a compile error, but something found during regression testing. The build engine should email (or otherwise notify) the regression test suite machines upon a build's completion, which should then kick off the automated regression tests, emailing results to the team and managers when done.
Yes, I do this for a living.;-) One great free tool is Tinderbox, which you can find at the Mozilla.org site. I'm currently trying to get it to understand ClearCase so if there's anyone out there who has already done so, I'd appreciate a few pointers. (ClearCase was not my decision, I come from a Perforce background, but ClearCase is what my current employer standardized on and they've got it integrated with ClearQuest for bug tracking; changing it involves more political clout than I currently have.)
I'm rapidly becoming a convert to Suprnova.org programming... (Especially now that I have a cable modem, torrents come down at 300 KB/s instead of the 40-50 KB/s they came down through DSL. And it's $8 cheaper! ($27/mo vs. $35/mo))
And IIRC it takes about 45 minutes to convert the 8Mbps mpeg2 data to 1GB/hour divx.
Are you sure you have your figures right? I own a ReplayTV 2020 (very old, it doesn't even record captions!), and it records about 1 GB per hour. The 20 GB drive it came with was good for 20 hours, and I swapped in an 80 GB drive a few years ago and can now record 80 hours (I rarely need more than that, I've watched a lot less TV since about 2 years after owning it, which seems to be a fairly common occurrence).
Anyway, I'm curious: how many GB per hour are the shows prior to being compressed, if it's compressing them using DIVX to the same size that my ReplayTV stores them in MPEG-2? Are you able to choose the compression settings, and you intentionally set it to the least compression possible? My understanding is DIVX can get you to about 2 hours in half a GB at reasonable quality (that quality being similar to ReplayTV's lowest setting, which is what I save it at, perhaps that's the answer to the above?).
I like that it will be able to support dual tuners, though, as that's something that I've wished the ReplayTV had (sometimes I have to go to Suprnova.org to get the other show when 2 are at the same time; it's a real pain, but it's rare these days because there isn't enough on that I care about).
Atomic commits are essential if you plan to automatically build upon every submission.
Otherwise, when a developer changes a data structure, and submits the.C before the.H, the build will break if it decides to build after the.C was submitted.
An old girfriend had a great recipe for rice. Instead of starting out boiling it, you heat up chopped garlic and olive oil in a pot. Mix in the rice, stirring constantly for a couple minutes (don't let it burn, but do let it brown slightly).
Then add water and cook as normal. It tastes amazing.
As far as the bottom of your pot always burning, I don't know what's causing that; it hasn't happened to us. Perhaps you need more water to start with?
You're exactly right. I've been in software companies in which the engineers are "Gods" and they tend to do far, far less business (and therefore reduce the value of the stock options which the developers love to tout) than do the companies which have a more even keel.
Good companies know that "marketing is everything" (no I'm not in marketing, I'm a developer too), because you could have the best product in the world, but if noone's shouting from the rooftops you're going to get buried by your competition who is. VHS vs. Betamax comes to mind, as does BeOS, OS/2, and many other superior, dead products.
In this case the publisher is the marketer. Without the publisher the games don't get sold. If the developer wants to put his name on his own box and try to develop "the channel", more power to him. But if he wants to succeed, he'll swallow his pride and let the marketing people call the shots.
He can still throw in the Easter eggs with his name, after all.
Yeah, exactly. I got -1 Flamebait for it. Suppose I should have split the comment, as I don't think it was the Pulp Fiction reference that someone thought was offensive...
But as I said, I'm not interested, just questioning. Oh well.
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I used the <ecode> tag, and no <br> at the end of each line since the ecode tag dumps what's inside as it is formatted (except that it eliminates duplicate spaces).
Unfortunately, that's when I had to give up since adding another line triggers the lameness filter with "too many junk characters." It's really too bad we can't share information with each other in an easy-to-read format; I thought that's what communicating was about.
Oh well. At least if your table is on the short side, you'll be able to use the above technique. And I'm almost positive I've seen some nicely-formatted tables on here before, but I can't seem to either create or find them. Hope this helps!
If I want to for instance view Homestarrunner.com, I fire up Internet Explorer. If a site I'm already on has Flash, then I just cut-and-paste the URL into an IE window. I don't use IE for anything else.
I'm sure similar results could be achieved on Linux; have Firefox with Flash and Mozilla without, etc.
One of the problems with mirroring is the site's administrators won't have the increase in hits (and corresponding ad revenue). Perhaps a mirror template could be set up which understands the biggest advertisers' methods so the hits could still be counted by the original site (and a percentage given to the mirror host, to defray some of the costs of mirroring?).
Once the mirror is closed, statistics should be sent back to the site's administrators. And when the mirror is "closed" the mirror URL should still exist, but be redirected to the original site.
Perhaps the mirror could "hijack" the original URL (with the site's permission of course) so the site would send visitors to the mirror. The site would still get a lot of hits and might crumble under that load, but it wouldn't have to send pages and images, just refer the visitor to a different URL which would be 100 bytes or less, most likely.
I would start this project but it's not an itch I need scratched...
First: "Water's cold today."
Second: "And deep."
Um, me? First I've heard of teh product.
I believe some processor clusters operate like this (I remember reading it several years ago; perhaps it was only a design, not a product).
This baby seal walks into a club...
However, I couldn't find the book at Amazon (although I found other stuff by him, including a lot of stuff related to gays; fancy that).
(Homer J. thinks of a pistol dipped in whipped cream...) "Mmm, pistol whip!"
A friend shared the following depressing quote many years ago:
Stupid people breed faster -- they don't care to control their growth, they know that there are safety nets put in place for them (or they don't know that, as they just don't think -- read "The Bell Curve"). Smarter people breed less, knowing that if they have too many kids they won't have the resources to send them all to good schools and will therefore end up with poor successors.
There's really no good answer to this -- what she said is true, and there's no way to convince people who don't care to listen, to breed less.
Did you realize that one of the reviews was by "William Smith"?
It was written on May 4, 2001, so it may not be the actor, but still it's pretty neat.
A friend had me read this book ... forget the name, something to do with Beowulf, or Grendel, but it was about these weird people in a future post-apocalypse getting along. Anyway, my friend made me promise not to read the author's bio until I had finished the book.
I complied, and enjoyed the book, and turns out the guy who wrote it was a black professor.
I thought that was really cool, because I didn't pick up on that at all through the reading (well, except for the fact that there was a ton of masturbation and ... well, I won't make this worse than PG-13).
It was cool the way my friend shared it with me. (The book, that is. ;-)
Gatekeeper? I dunno 'bout you, but I'm the keymaster. Gozer, indeed. ZUUUUUUUUL!
Check out Softricity.
They're a combination of "Software" and "Electricity". It's not perfect yet, but they go a long way toward making computing painless by virtualizing the environment, so applications run in their own "sandbox" and have their own Registry and file system -- so there's no more DLL hell, and no conflicting Registry settings.
It's really neat to run application through SoftGrid, on the same machine, which cannot even be installed on the same machine, normally. This saves companies a ton of money in Citrix implementations, because previously they had to have server farms, "silos" with conflicting application on separate servers; using SoftGrid, they can run them all on the same server.
We use their software and it has saved a ton of money in administration and support costs. It's Windows-only, but currently most businesses run Windows (we do, although I'm pushing Linux). The great part is it saves money, so it's fairly simple to get into the budget (it pays for itself in 2-6 months, depending on the size of your organization; ours is already paid for and making us money now in reduced IT costs).
I see it's published under the Open Publication License but it appears I cannot download it and read it on my Palm on the train -- it's a web-only affair. Sure, I could spider the site but I haven't done that yet; I prefer entire books (I use MobiPocket).
At any rate, enjoy the link!
It's "=~", not "~=". Get your write-only code straight! ;-)
Especially if it's not a compile error, but something found during regression testing. The build engine should email (or otherwise notify) the regression test suite machines upon a build's completion, which should then kick off the automated regression tests, emailing results to the team and managers when done.
Yes, I do this for a living. ;-) One great free tool is Tinderbox, which you can find at the Mozilla.org site. I'm currently trying to get it to understand ClearCase so if there's anyone out there who has already done so, I'd appreciate a few pointers. (ClearCase was not my decision, I come from a Perforce background, but ClearCase is what my current employer standardized on and they've got it integrated with ClearQuest for bug tracking; changing it involves more political clout than I currently have.)
I'm rapidly becoming a convert to Suprnova.org programming... (Especially now that I have a cable modem, torrents come down at 300 KB/s instead of the 40-50 KB/s they came down through DSL. And it's $8 cheaper! ($27/mo vs. $35/mo))
The ability to interoperate with all Kerberos implementations?
Are you sure you have your figures right? I own a ReplayTV 2020 (very old, it doesn't even record captions!), and it records about 1 GB per hour. The 20 GB drive it came with was good for 20 hours, and I swapped in an 80 GB drive a few years ago and can now record 80 hours (I rarely need more than that, I've watched a lot less TV since about 2 years after owning it, which seems to be a fairly common occurrence).
Anyway, I'm curious: how many GB per hour are the shows prior to being compressed, if it's compressing them using DIVX to the same size that my ReplayTV stores them in MPEG-2? Are you able to choose the compression settings, and you intentionally set it to the least compression possible? My understanding is DIVX can get you to about 2 hours in half a GB at reasonable quality (that quality being similar to ReplayTV's lowest setting, which is what I save it at, perhaps that's the answer to the above?).
I like that it will be able to support dual tuners, though, as that's something that I've wished the ReplayTV had (sometimes I have to go to Suprnova.org to get the other show when 2 are at the same time; it's a real pain, but it's rare these days because there isn't enough on that I care about).
Otherwise, when a developer changes a data structure, and submits the .C before the .H, the build will break if it decides to build after the .C was submitted.
Then add water and cook as normal. It tastes amazing.
As far as the bottom of your pot always burning, I don't know what's causing that; it hasn't happened to us. Perhaps you need more water to start with?
Good companies know that "marketing is everything" (no I'm not in marketing, I'm a developer too), because you could have the best product in the world, but if noone's shouting from the rooftops you're going to get buried by your competition who is. VHS vs. Betamax comes to mind, as does BeOS, OS/2, and many other superior, dead products.
In this case the publisher is the marketer. Without the publisher the games don't get sold. If the developer wants to put his name on his own box and try to develop "the channel", more power to him. But if he wants to succeed, he'll swallow his pride and let the marketing people call the shots.
He can still throw in the Easter eggs with his name, after all.
But as I said, I'm not interested, just questioning. Oh well.