speaking of puzzles, the ICFP Programming Contest this year was full of great programming puzzles. The depth and ingenuity of this year's contest is simply breathtaking, one of the best computer games I've played for years, all in a 2.2MB download.
I believe you can still register on the site, get a key to the codex, and solve away at your leisure...
AFAIK black holes aren't any heavier than the original stars (plus any matter they accrued) and the gravitational attraction (at a distance) isn't any stronger than that of the original star...
FYI: the "GO" command isn't part of the T-SQL language. it's a special pseudo-command used by the tools & APIs to separate batches of T-SQL statements.
The long/short name stuff should have been implemented in a different way
What different way?
Sure, the exact formatting of the generated short-names could be different, but if you think about it for more than a few seconds, the requirement that the short names cannot change over time requires that you save them in the FS. and that implies that the actual names you get depend on the order in which they're created.
the bug is that they made the names almost predictable, so people assumed that "c:\progra~1" mapped to "c:\program files" - an invalid assumption.
the reason these names existed at all was for backwards compatibility with DOS & Win16 (or poorly-ported Win32) apps that couldn't handle long filenames.
why don't all these groups that want to repeal such and such bad law, or change this law, or whatnot, just get together and lobby for campaign finance reform. once that's done they can actually have a snowball's chance in hell of actually getting done what they originally set out to do.
Those elements that do not support the tabindex attribute or support it and assign it a value of "0" are navigated next. These elements are navigated in the order they appear in the character stream.
which opera doesn't seem to support either.
i would say, however, that IE & firefox's non-conformant behaviour is actually more functional than that defined in the spec, since it allows you to change the tab order of those elements that don't support tabindex.
yeah, tabindex is only defined for a few elements, but ie & firefox support it for pretty much everything. it allows you to write custom input fields that handle focus correctly with the keyboard: the stylability of the standard input elements is generally very poor.
I haven't used it, but there's bunch of new stuff in Access 2007 that might be of interest, including an attachment datatype (documents, images, etc...), improved SharePoint integration (access control, workflow, offline lists). of course, you can pass through to a DBMS if Jet become a limiting factor...
Asimov wrote four laws of robotics, the zeroth law was
A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
The problem with the zeroth law, of course, is that, unlike the other laws, it's up to interpretation as to whether or not a particular action/inaction would break it.
I'm pretty sure that if SBC charges web sites more for increased bandwidth then they'll be facing anti-trust suits.
My company (Grouper) is an online video sharing service. If SBC starts charging us more for access to their customers, then won't they be abusing their monopoly position in that market the to the benifit of Yahoo's video service?
vista pretty much makes DropMyRights obsolete. you have reduced privileges by default, even when running as admin, and you can only get those priviliges back via UAC which gives the new app different token. you can't elevate an already-running app, it has to be done on process start.
the part that interests me the most is the reports that they were denied lawyers because there wasn't a possibility of a prison sentance, but that they were forced to provde DNA samples becuase, wait for it... there was possibility of a prison sentance.
Sounds like a law's being broken in Sweden, and it's not copyright...
not any more: a non-elevated application cannot send windows messages to an elevated one.
in fact, i believe that an application running with one security token cannot send messages to another application that's running with a different token.
elevated and non-elevated apps, while running as the same user, have different security tokens (and thus different rights).
good question. i'm not sure. the built-in narrator works while the UAC dialog is up, though, and while it's not as good as some of the 3rd party readers, it should suffice for the UAC dialog navigation.
maybe they should add an option to enable the build-in reader during UAC elevation...
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apt-get install scroll-knobs
guess again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_g enericized_trademarks
err, Windows has had device-independant vector-based rendering (GDI) since version 1.0 (1985)
I can dream, can't I?
Gore may well be a boring old fart, but these images are pretty interesting...
you didn't need to wait for an article about patents to post this...
1) Go to college 2) Ask Slashdot about saving money 3) ...
4) Profit!
I believe you can still register on the site, get a key to the codex, and solve away at your leisure...
AFAIK black holes aren't any heavier than the original stars (plus any matter they accrued) and the gravitational attraction (at a distance) isn't any stronger than that of the original star...
FYI: the "GO" command isn't part of the T-SQL language. it's a special pseudo-command used by the tools & APIs to separate batches of T-SQL statements.
What different way?
Sure, the exact formatting of the generated short-names could be different, but if you think about it for more than a few seconds, the requirement that the short names cannot change over time requires that you save them in the FS. and that implies that the actual names you get depend on the order in which they're created.
the bug is that they made the names almost predictable, so people assumed that "c:\progra~1" mapped to "c:\program files" - an invalid assumption.
the reason these names existed at all was for backwards compatibility with DOS & Win16 (or poorly-ported Win32) apps that couldn't handle long filenames.
no, it's because they want to push WPF as an alterenative to XHTML/CSS and have no interest in improving these competing technologies.
yeah, they'll just patch their proxies to rewrite the 'Referrer:' headers...
why don't all these groups that want to repeal such and such bad law, or change this law, or whatnot, just get together and lobby for campaign finance reform. once that's done they can actually have a snowball's chance in hell of actually getting done what they originally set out to do.
the tabindex spec, however, states:
which opera doesn't seem to support either.i would say, however, that IE & firefox's non-conformant behaviour is actually more functional than that defined in the spec, since it allows you to change the tab order of those elements that don't support tabindex.
yeah, tabindex is only defined for a few elements, but ie & firefox support it for pretty much everything. it allows you to write custom input fields that handle focus correctly with the keyboard: the stylability of the standard input elements is generally very poor.
i know it works for input elements and links, but can you set focus on the div in the following:
<html><body><div tabindex="1" onfocus="alert('yes!');">foo</div></body></html>
this works on IE/firefox, but not on Opera(8) or Safari.
do they allow focus on non-'input' elements via TABINDEX yet?
I haven't used it, but there's bunch of new stuff in Access 2007 that might be of interest, including an attachment datatype (documents, images, etc...), improved SharePoint integration (access control, workflow, offline lists). of course, you can pass through to a DBMS if Jet become a limiting factor...
My company (Grouper) is an online video sharing service. If SBC starts charging us more for access to their customers, then won't they be abusing their monopoly position in that market the to the benifit of Yahoo's video service?
vista pretty much makes DropMyRights obsolete. you have reduced privileges by default, even when running as admin, and you can only get those priviliges back via UAC which gives the new app different token. you can't elevate an already-running app, it has to be done on process start.
Sounds like a law's being broken in Sweden, and it's not copyright...
in fact, i believe that an application running with one security token cannot send messages to another application that's running with a different token.
elevated and non-elevated apps, while running as the same user, have different security tokens (and thus different rights).
maybe they should add an option to enable the build-in reader during UAC elevation...