They've got their own browser which is 100% standards compliant. However it can not be used for normal web browsing as it will make most web pages in existence today look a right dogs dinner as their browser is strict to say the least about how it renders pages, which means all the kludges for IE and every other browser will seriously break their browser.
Sorry, exhaust port is out. I put some chicken mesh over the exhaust port and held it place with blutack and duck tape - nothing will dislodge the combined powers of the dark forces holding the mesh in place.
I've also trained the gunners as to what the rebel ships look like and what the empire ships look like together with electro therapy they now know what to shoot at.
The major commander on the death star will not be on board one of the fighters defending it.
And anyway when the heroes first arrive on the station they will be taken, under armed guard, placed against the nearest wall and shot. Following being shot they will have their heads chopped off while I watch giving no chance for them to stage a stunning escape and disrupt my evil plans. This death will lack drama will be simple, won't go wrong, will make a mess - but hey, I've got an army of evil underlings who can clean up.
They can't refuse returns under the sale of goods act...
Those notices are similar to the 'no liability accepted for any damage however caused' signs - there to discourage people but worthless in law.
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By the way, does anybody else think "the ability to switch to a NONE cipher post authentication" is pretty dodgy?
Not really, for some of the stuff I do via SSH: eg logging into my webhost to untar a patch and apply it the only part of the transaction I want to be secure is my initial password/key-exchange post authentication I really don't give a stuff who sees me type
cd ~/www tar xvfz ~/patch.tar.gz
or any of the other commands I type in. However it should be down to the admin of the system in the first place to decided whether to allow NONE down-grade (Either on system wide or per user/session basis) and then down to me as a user to decide whether to take advantage.
Ah, but he's got the source so he can modify to run 16 bits per pixel - just needs one hell of a CPU and graphics card, and if you do a poor job your sky ends up panicking.
"Also, the concept that observing any property of the internet within the internet can affect that property is interesting. If the choice is between reflecting on that or finishing that bloody piece of code I'm writing, I'll take the former, even if it may ultimately be pointless;)"
Sir,
I must formally give you notice that you are to hand over immediately to the appropriate authorities your geek license and your/. account.
Nothing should ever come between a geek and his code.
(well other than pizza and coffee - but that tends to be more between the geek and the keyboard if they're messy eaters)
He has a point - most browsers around are designed to cope with the non-standard/flawed/broken crap that passes for some websites these days. Use a standards compliant browser which does not make a best guess at working out what was really meant and rejects any errors you'll have problems with alot of sites.
Firefox is a major browser, however the version which passes ACID2 is Firefox 3, I think the first build which passed was around this time last year so either go with the development release (FF3 is currently in Beta).
Hm, before the wave of I hate stockholders.... remember one thing: those of you with pensions or other investments are probably putting money into the corporate stockholders portfolios so before you say shareholders == bad think: no share profits, no dividends and you'll have less return == lower pensions etc.
Sadly these days none of us with realistic pension plans etc are free of the taint of shareholder status.
I don't think Intel's decision is purely down to their product being better but down the arrogance of the OLPC board telling Intel to stop working on any other comparable product.
Intel = VERY big fish
OLPC = small fry
When you're one of the big fish and the little fry turn round and say anything that begins with 'we demand' then it doesn't take a Marvin to figure out the response from the big fish (If you are lucky the response does not being with an F and end in one but is more politely worded;) )
Not really. Its more a case of ask for x get less than x so ask for y (where y = x * ) and get x in the end.
You'll find it is alot more common than you think. Same with time estimates for work - you always work out how much time it will take then add a contingency on top.
And apart from that why would it indicate my firm is in trouble? They're not giving me double the amount I need just the amount I do need... would be alot worse outlook if I was continually having to cut corners due to budget constraints rather than doing the job I intend to do.
Same reason why when I'm asked for a budget for a project I carefully work out the cost then add a nice contingency - usually just about double;) - then when I get half what I asked for (usual in my place) I actually get when I wanted in the first place...
The accountants win as they show a cost saving, I win as I get the funds needed. Everyone is happy, and everyone knows what is really going on:)
1. For recon work you can pack more sensor equipment in, you can configure the UAV to have extremely long loiter times, some can be made a lot smaller and cheeper than a manned craft.
2. For combat craft the really big selling point is that when your fighter gets shot down you haven't lost several million pounds worth of trained crew in addition to several million pounds of aircraft... unmanned uav's can also pull alot higher G force than a traditional craft (ok the airframe can take it but the crew won't appreciate it).
"Basically the majority of all Canadian government projects go badly and go overbudget, not just a wee little bit, but by a lot - incompetence and lack of any accountability are systemic problems in virtually every government project. Corruption too."
Fixed version: Basically the majority of all government projects go badly and go overbudget, not just a wee little bit, but by a lot - incompetence and lack of any accountability are systemic problems in every government project together with corruption and bribes.
Canada is no different to the rest of the world. The majority of projects are run by bean counters who wouldn't no the correct solution if it jumped and bit them on the ass. Providing the project is run the way they like (which usually isn't the way engineers would choose to run the project) and gives them a nice safe comfy job when they retire from the civil service they're happy. None of them care whether the solution they've gone for is the sane one or the insane one providing it gives jobs to the boys at the gold club.
But our management could holo-commute then as well, just take a plant and morph their image on it - only problem is occasionaly the plant will make more sense than the manager...
I suppose one way of looking at his rant is taking the usual abbreviation of kiss.. keep it simple stupid - atleast with his rant he's simplified it...
(Or is it more for their music, 3 chords is about their limit... )
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They've got their own browser which is 100% standards compliant. However it can not be used for normal web browsing as it will make most web pages in existence today look a right dogs dinner as their browser is strict to say the least about how it renders pages, which means all the kludges for IE and every other browser will seriously break their browser.
Argh.... foiled.
Sorry, exhaust port is out. I put some chicken mesh over the exhaust port and held it place with blutack and duck tape - nothing will dislodge the combined powers of the dark forces holding the mesh in place.
I've also trained the gunners as to what the rebel ships look like and what the empire ships look like together with electro therapy they now know what to shoot at.
The major commander on the death star will not be on board one of the fighters defending it.
And anyway when the heroes first arrive on the station they will be taken, under armed guard, placed against the nearest wall and shot. Following being shot they will have their heads chopped off while I watch giving no chance for them to stage a stunning escape and disrupt my evil plans. This death will lack drama will be simple, won't go wrong, will make a mess - but hey, I've got an army of evil underlings who can clean up.
They can't refuse returns under the sale of goods act...
Those notices are similar to the 'no liability accepted for any damage however caused' signs - there to discourage people but worthless in law.
Not really, for some of the stuff I do via SSH: eg logging into my webhost to untar a patch and apply it the only part of the transaction I want to be secure is my initial password/key-exchange post authentication I really don't give a stuff who sees me type or any of the other commands I type in. However it should be down to the admin of the system in the first place to decided whether to allow NONE down-grade (Either on system wide or per user/session basis) and then down to me as a user to decide whether to take advantage.
You forgot the sharks with freekin laser beams on their heads :)
Ah, but he's got the source so he can modify to run 16 bits per pixel - just needs one hell of a CPU and graphics card, and if you do a poor job your sky ends up panicking.
flammable? do you have a petrol powered car or lawnmower?
;)
explosive? see above. Do you use fertiliser? Keep diesel around? then don't mix the two?
toxic? bleach used in the house? any insect/pest control poisons?
corrosive? Most household cleaners...
carcinogenic? do you smoke or ever sit near people who are? sit in traffic jams in your tinbox breathing the exhaust of the truck in front?
Mutagenic? I'm sure if I could be bothered I'd find some household chemicals which when used incorrectly or mixed could tick this box
Teratogenic? Some normal medicines, household chemicals again...
Sadly we're surrounded by this crap all the time
Just looked at my own site's stats:
Firefox - 11%
IE7 - 38%
IE6 - 36%
Sadly in this instance I think its valid...
pity it is about the only bloody occurance where it is but throw enough darts and one is bound to hit the board...
I must formally give you notice that you are to hand over immediately to the appropriate authorities your geek license and your
Nothing should ever come between a geek and his code.
(well other than pizza and coffee - but that tends to be more between the geek and the keyboard if they're messy eaters)
It was a comment on the comment about having your cake and eating it...
It was also posted prior to the regulation morning cup of coffee.
He has a point - most browsers around are designed to cope with the non-standard/flawed/broken crap that passes for some websites these days. Use a standards compliant browser which does not make a best guess at working out what was really meant and rejects any errors you'll have problems with alot of sites.
Firefox is a major browser, however the version which passes ACID2 is Firefox 3, I think the first build which passed was around this time last year so either go with the development release (FF3 is currently in Beta).
If you don't have your cake before you eat it doesn't that mean you're guilty of eating someone else's cake?
Its a good starting point - combine CO with H20 and you should get C02 + H2 - feed this through a reactor and you get fuel...
Hm, before the wave of I hate stockholders.... remember one thing: those of you with pensions or other investments are probably putting money into the corporate stockholders portfolios so before you say shareholders == bad think: no share profits, no dividends and you'll have less return == lower pensions etc.
Sadly these days none of us with realistic pension plans etc are free of the taint of shareholder status.
I don't think Intel's decision is purely down to their product being better but down the arrogance of the OLPC board telling Intel to stop working on any other comparable product.
;) )
Intel = VERY big fish
OLPC = small fry
When you're one of the big fish and the little fry turn round and say anything that begins with 'we demand' then it doesn't take a Marvin to figure out the response from the big fish (If you are lucky the response does not being with an F and end in one but is more politely worded
Not really. Its more a case of ask for x get less than x so ask for y (where y = x * ) and get x in the end.
You'll find it is alot more common than you think. Same with time estimates for work - you always work out how much time it will take then add a contingency on top.
And apart from that why would it indicate my firm is in trouble? They're not giving me double the amount I need just the amount I do need... would be alot worse outlook if I was continually having to cut corners due to budget constraints rather than doing the job I intend to do.
Same reason why when I'm asked for a budget for a project I carefully work out the cost then add a nice contingency - usually just about double ;) - then when I get half what I asked for (usual in my place) I actually get when I wanted in the first place...
:)
The accountants win as they show a cost saving, I win as I get the funds needed. Everyone is happy, and everyone knows what is really going on
ok, I should have put million £'s rather than million pounds ;)
1. For recon work you can pack more sensor equipment in, you can configure the UAV to have extremely long loiter times, some can be made a lot smaller and cheeper than a manned craft.
2. For combat craft the really big selling point is that when your fighter gets shot down you haven't lost several million pounds worth of trained crew in addition to several million pounds of aircraft... unmanned uav's can also pull alot higher G force than a traditional craft (ok the airframe can take it but the crew won't appreciate it).
Fixed version:
Basically the majority of all government projects go badly and go overbudget, not just a wee little bit, but by a lot - incompetence and lack of any accountability are systemic problems in every government project together with corruption and bribes.
Canada is no different to the rest of the world. The majority of projects are run by bean counters who wouldn't no the correct solution if it jumped and bit them on the ass. Providing the project is run the way they like (which usually isn't the way engineers would choose to run the project) and gives them a nice safe comfy job when they retire from the civil service they're happy. None of them care whether the solution they've gone for is the sane one or the insane one providing it gives jobs to the boys at the gold club.
But our management could holo-commute then as well, just take a plant and morph their image on it - only problem is occasionaly the plant will make more sense than the manager...
I suppose one way of looking at his rant is taking the usual abbreviation of kiss.. keep it simple stupid - atleast with his rant he's simplified it...
(Or is it more for their music, 3 chords is about their limit... )