For me, green (#00FF00) and yellow (#FFFF00) look pretty much the same on CRT displays, while Magenta and Red do look different enough for a different name, I agree on Cyan and Blue tho
If you keep using YY instead of YYYY, the infamous Y2k problem will repeat at 2100, not at 3000. Sure, you and I may not be around by that year, but I bet our grandsons will hate us for not learning the lesson the first time.
Furthermore, there were a number of buttons protruding from the top and sides of this device to provide functions such as "rewinding" and "fast-forwarding" (remember those?), which added even more bulk.
Emphasis mine.
That part sounded more like a nostalgic review rather than from someone who see the functionality for the first time.
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In (mexican) spanish we use to translate default to "por defecto" (very roughly translated as "by defect") or "por omision" ("by omission") I don't think we have a single word with the exact meaning as default (however, that don't stop many bad translators to use "estandar" ("standard") instead).
Now, here's a pop quiz. If the RIAA and MPAA sued Microsoft and Oracle over breaching the copyright of their DRM, Richard Stallman testified on behalf of the RIAA and Theo de Raadt spoke in favour of Microsoft... Who would you cheer for?
Years ago, a student in Paris, on his way to the university, hopped on the train and found an empty seat next to an elderly man. As the train moved off, the student noticed that the old man was praying the rosary. Watching him for a while out of the corner of his eye, he finally blurted out, "Excuse me, sir, but I couldn't help but notice what you are doing, and I wonder if you are aware how superstitious and old-fashioned it is." "Oh, really?" replied the old man, "Tell me more." "I have to get off at the next stop," replied the student, "but just give me your name and address, and I will send you some books that will explain what I mean." As the train came to a halt, the man wrote his name and address on a scrap of paper and handed it to the student, who stuffed it in his pocket and hurried off. Later in the day, the student remembered the scrap of paper, took it from his pocket, and opened it. Reading the name scribbled on it, he was dumbfounded: "Louis Pasteur." To his dismay, he realized that he had been talking to a famous scientist, known the world over for his achievements in the field of bacteriology.
Then we (it's open source after all!) modify the test to use iframes (ewwww... but useful in this situations) to actually load the full pages, once Conficker gets updated so it allows the pages, we move to actually downloading the patches with a message like "if the file doesn't download, you're probably infected", by the time Conficker gets good enought to actually allow the patches but modifing them on the fly so they are not useful (just random noise with the same size and filename), then we're screwed.
Maybe I shouldn't give them ideas. I bet the author of Confickr reads slashdot.
The reason there are logos there is to test that your browser can actually display images before you start panicking that you don't see the logos from the anti-virus. They are also good to compare download times in case that your Internet connection is just slow at that time.
I copied to source code into an Apache server here, changed the logos on the lower row to point to images on the respective sites (instead of local images) and downloaded the "description" images. Works like a charm, we already found an infected laptop.
[...] Conversely, the used game market is seeing significant growth â" it'll be interesting to see what publishers learn from this.
That DRM is good and they should disallow the selling of used games.
What? they were supposed to learn that their bussiness model can be better? that most new games cost way too much? that is not required to have a great studio spending millions of dollars to make a great game (World of Goo comes to mind, their "studio" was pretty much any coffe shop with free wi-fi)?
Except that you don't need to know English syntax to use English keywords/reserved words, heck, you don't even need to know what the words actually mean, just what they do in a particular programming language.
I'm a mexican programmer, living in México, and I agree that every developer should at least read English, not because the actual programming language, but because of the vast information written in English and also the fact that most translated books are already outdated by the time they got published.
(Cue to jokes saying that you don't need to know english syntax to post in slashdot in 3..2..1..)
Here in Mexico I think we still have (I have no idea if the program still continues, however, a quick search says that is still running) named "Telesecundaria" (would be translated as "tele-junior high school"), it was aimed mostly for schools in rural areas which couldn't get enought profesors for all the children, they basicly put a TV in front of the room with someone who may or may not have actual teaching skills to take care of the kids.
Discovery at the school offered material in spanish as well IIRC, but they are more like a complement than an actual sustitution.
[...] The logistics involved with actually having a non-trivial number of these things up in the air over urban areas without mass casualties are just too difficult.[...]
Well, while not "everyone" but, Sony makes eInk e-readers (and i'm pretty happy with my PRS-500), iRex does as well (and they are way more open, you can ssh into the reader and install anything you want IIRC), wiki contains a list of commercially available readers here.
Why is Kindle 2 winning the eInk reader war? IMHO it was because the free publicity they got from the authors guild.
Riaa & co. are the ones saying that copyright infringement equals theft, under their own logic, Lars was stealing, since he said he had the right to do it, is akin to him saying that he had the right to steal his music.
Sarcasm and wit (and a badly used hyperbole) are pretty difficult to get right with text only, specially when you're typing on your second language.
Is his right also to enter a brick and mortar music store and leave with a phisical copy without paying for it? mind you, most music stores won't mind if it was a famous artist, but what about those pretty oscure artists that most likely the store salemen don't recognize?
This is just the artists having a double standart, "if you do it, it is illegal stealing, if I do it is my right".
Saying "oh, it's just a digital copy, not the actual physical copy" goes both ways.
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I'm colorblind you insensitive clod.
For me, green (#00FF00) and yellow (#FFFF00) look pretty much the same on CRT displays, while Magenta and Red do look different enough for a different name, I agree on Cyan and Blue tho
Greg Egan's "Permutation City" book covers that question in a (kinda hard to follow but amusingly good) way, you should check it out.
we have 91 years until that blunder comes back...
FTFY
If you keep using YY instead of YYYY, the infamous Y2k problem will repeat at 2100, not at 3000. Sure, you and I may not be around by that year, but I bet our grandsons will hate us for not learning the lesson the first time.
My favorite part is:
Furthermore, there were a number of buttons protruding from the top and sides of this device to provide functions such as "rewinding" and "fast-forwarding" (remember those?), which added even more bulk.
Emphasis mine.
That part sounded more like a nostalgic review rather than from someone who see the functionality for the first time.
In (mexican) spanish we use to translate default to "por defecto" (very roughly translated as "by defect") or "por omision" ("by omission") I don't think we have a single word with the exact meaning as default (however, that don't stop many bad translators to use "estandar" ("standard") instead).
Now, here's a pop quiz. If the RIAA and MPAA sued Microsoft and Oracle over breaching the copyright of their DRM, Richard Stallman testified on behalf of the RIAA and Theo de Raadt spoke in favour of Microsoft... Who would you cheer for?
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[...] Louis Pasteur [...]
Years ago, a student in Paris, on his way to the university, hopped on the train and found an empty seat next to an elderly man. As the train moved off, the student noticed that the old man was praying the rosary. Watching him for a while out of the corner of his eye, he finally blurted out, "Excuse me, sir, but I couldn't help but notice what you are doing, and I wonder if you are aware how superstitious and old-fashioned it is." "Oh, really?" replied the old man, "Tell me more." "I have to get off at the next stop," replied the student, "but just give me your name and address, and I will send you some books that will explain what I mean." As the train came to a halt, the man wrote his name and address on a scrap of paper and handed it to the student, who stuffed it in his pocket and hurried off. Later in the day, the student remembered the scrap of paper, took it from his pocket, and opened it. Reading the name scribbled on it, he was dumbfounded: "Louis Pasteur." To his dismay, he realized that he had been talking to a famous scientist, known the world over for his achievements in the field of bacteriology.
Once in an ATM on a mall
And I have my money on that bank, I feel so secure.
I thought that the real trick was to throw yourself to the ground... and miss.
[Ciattion needed]
... well, you haven't seen a tiger around here nonadays, so it works.
Seriusly people, correlation doen not imply causation.
Then we (it's open source after all!) modify the test to use iframes (ewwww... but useful in this situations) to actually load the full pages, once Conficker gets updated so it allows the pages, we move to actually downloading the patches with a message like "if the file doesn't download, you're probably infected", by the time Conficker gets good enought to actually allow the patches but modifing them on the fly so they are not useful (just random noise with the same size and filename), then we're screwed.
Maybe I shouldn't give them ideas. I bet the author of Confickr reads slashdot.
The reason there are logos there is to test that your browser can actually display images before you start panicking that you don't see the logos from the anti-virus. They are also good to compare download times in case that your Internet connection is just slow at that time.
I copied to source code into an Apache server here, changed the logos on the lower row to point to images on the respective sites (instead of local images) and downloaded the "description" images. Works like a charm, we already found an infected laptop.
[...] Conversely, the used game market is seeing significant growth â" it'll be interesting to see what publishers learn from this.
That DRM is good and they should disallow the selling of used games.
What? they were supposed to learn that their bussiness model can be better? that most new games cost way too much? that is not required to have a great studio spending millions of dollars to make a great game (World of Goo comes to mind, their "studio" was pretty much any coffe shop with free wi-fi)?
I may be wrong...
Ditto
Except that you don't need to know English syntax to use English keywords/reserved words, heck, you don't even need to know what the words actually mean, just what they do in a particular programming language.
I'm a mexican programmer, living in México, and I agree that every developer should at least read English, not because the actual programming language, but because of the vast information written in English and also the fact that most translated books are already outdated by the time they got published.
(Cue to jokes saying that you don't need to know english syntax to post in slashdot in 3..2..1..)
Here in Mexico I think we still have (I have no idea if the program still continues, however, a quick search says that is still running) named "Telesecundaria" (would be translated as "tele-junior high school"), it was aimed mostly for schools in rural areas which couldn't get enought profesors for all the children, they basicly put a TV in front of the room with someone who may or may not have actual teaching skills to take care of the kids.
Discovery at the school offered material in spanish as well IIRC, but they are more like a complement than an actual sustitution.
[...] As a rule of thumb, if Nazis would enjoy it, it's illegal, if they'd hate it, it's fine. [...]
oh shit, I hope nazis don't enjoy sugar >.>;;;
[...] The logistics involved with actually having a non-trivial number of these things up in the air over urban areas without mass casualties are just too difficult.[...]
Just like normal cars!
Well, while not "everyone" but, Sony makes eInk e-readers (and i'm pretty happy with my PRS-500), iRex does as well (and they are way more open, you can ssh into the reader and install anything you want IIRC), wiki contains a list of commercially available readers here.
Why is Kindle 2 winning the eInk reader war? IMHO it was because the free publicity they got from the authors guild.
I'm colorblind you insensitive clod.
As Neal Stephenson wrote, the modern GUI is a collection of badly used analogies, let's say you don't know anything about computers and read this:
To open this program's window in the desktop, you have to click on the icon with your mouse
Windows inside a desktop? mice? icons? menus? bugs? pretty much everything is a badly mixed metaphor.
Works on mine as well, but thats because every time I format a machine with windows, or start using a windows account, I do something like:
copy con ls.bat /w %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
%echo off
dir
^Z
on a directory on the PATH, Cygwin is awesome for having a windows native X server + SSH + Xnest.
Well, that was the point I was trying to make.
Riaa & co. are the ones saying that copyright infringement equals theft, under their own logic, Lars was stealing, since he said he had the right to do it, is akin to him saying that he had the right to steal his music.
Sarcasm and wit (and a badly used hyperbole) are pretty difficult to get right with text only, specially when you're typing on your second language.
Is his right also to enter a brick and mortar music store and leave with a phisical copy without paying for it? mind you, most music stores won't mind if it was a famous artist, but what about those pretty oscure artists that most likely the store salemen don't recognize?
This is just the artists having a double standart, "if you do it, it is illegal stealing, if I do it is my right".
Saying "oh, it's just a digital copy, not the actual physical copy" goes both ways.