http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2192911.stm There has been some discussion of this before, as this article notes, there are studies to note that better lighting is both cheaper and more reliable a means of reducing crime. Not to mention still permitting public spaces not under the constant eye of Big Brother. I googled on this subject a bit, noted with amusement an Astrononmical Society paper disputing these findings. Presumably out of fear of light polution. Of course, it is possible to better direct street lights, but in general illuminating the night would put crime reduction at odds with the astronomers.
Re: "vapourware" In concept, modifying an existing car to be electric was covered in last month's Make magazine. Explained exactly how to do it and interviewed folks doing it for fun. Heck. For all I know this company read the same article. So while "vapourware" it isn't anything particularly unusual.
It is inconvenient, though, that the range on these conversions as mentioned in the article is rather limited. Getting the weight down helps a lot, of course.
I personally don't think it is the keyboard. It was always in the right hand for me. I switched to using my left hand for the mouse at work, and my right hand at home, and the problems completely went away. Well, unless I do a long session at work or home. Then, I just take a bit of a break or do some wrist exercises. I blame mice, not keyboards. Although, once I had the problems in times past, it did hurt to use the keyboard (or pretty much anything else).
Unlikely. Many many people had moderated that post up, and the general moderation was agreed on. The moderation was repeatedly flattened by slashdot admins. Furthermore, the result was instantaneous, as I discovered as I read the thread. Also, it persisted ever since (over a period now of at least 4 years, don't remember exactly) - despite occasional experiments at being a good meta moderator and of course having excellent karma.
Fact is, slashdot admins bitchslap whoever they want. They have the right to, I guess, on their site, but is poor behaviour none the less.
Actually, it was an attempt to mangle an analogy to your purposes, and you did even that poorly. But you can take it the other way as well if you wish, hardly matters, other folks pointed it out too.
Poorly mangled analogy. One of several issues with it would be that your example is a direct cause n effect. person X uses 15h of internet. person X gains 15kg.
Now if you could work into your analogy the fact that the internet usage causes all people to get fat - but at that point the analogy becomes rather tortured. And the India/China lack of restrictions doesn't work out that well in it at all.
Amusingly, in those search results, a significant number of the Britannica hits are over the current fight. So you'd get the same page if you searched for wikipedia. Also, since you only searched for Britannica, you also get stuff like "Pax Britannica", "Classis Britannica" and http://www.novareinna.com/guard/unicorn.html
Not only that, but after 16 e-mails with a Hotmail tech where I eventually identified that hotmail drops packets (no reject message, no connect to the server over anything) from any range tagged as "dynamic" I've been forced to reject all delivery of e-mail from Hotmail to my domain. You might want to try GMail, Yahoo! or pretty much any other service that uses more intelligent spam blocking methods.
I really don't see what their service has going for them anymore. Your account size just confirms it.
That's true, but it *does* incorporate a sufficiently large number of parameters, that if a browser passes it by "cheating" the cheating will be quickly discovered on pages that try to use the various technology. That'd be a PR nightmare. ACID2 is a quick and effective way to check how a browser supports a broad swathe of web technology. There's a reason Firefox isn't quite there yet (yes, even on the nightly builds). Getting it all to work requires a sufficiently sophisticated model that other web stuff also will work better. We all benefit from that.
For that matter, what component are you in charge of? I don't remember ever seeing you on moznet in the past five years or so. Your decision to speak for "we" (presumably bug drivers or the foundation) is awfully arrogant.
Duh. And anyone who wants to check up on the bug can copy and paste the URL. There is nothing wrong with that. The referer block does exactly what it should. Reduce reflexive clicking/tab opening, and making it a conscious descision by folks who want to look at it.
So folks. Don't listen to oglueck here - perfectly alright to visit the link if you have an interest, and even, yes, post *informative* commentary in the bug (such as regressions, related bugs, progress in recent builds, etc)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=acid2 Track Gecko progress here. Including screenshots. Link as plain text due to/. referers being blocked.
I was merely pointing out what the article said. And since the Opera guy points out the page *isn't* supposed to scroll, I imagine a scrolling bug would indeed qualify as incorrect rendering, so the artifacts in your screenshot would merely support Opera's point.
RTFA and you'll see this. "Opera 9 (get the weekly build) now passes the Acid 2 test, making it the second browser to do so. And yes, I can count. Safari passed first, and Opera is second. Konqueror and iCab almost pass (and claim to pass), but they both fail to apply one of the styles required by the test..."
Agreed. I hear this argument all the time from anti-birth control activists, so it annoys me. Take the actual aproximate land area from my other comment. Knock it down to 150,000,000,000,000 to allow for Antarctica (CIA world fact book + fact that 170 is tad on optimistic side and assumes amount of surface area stays same in next few hundred years [think Florida and Netherlands disappearing in a sea level rise]).
150,000 divided by current 6.6 billion gives us each a nice heft 22,727ish metres if we replaced the earth with nothing but humans and human farms. Or a square 150 metres on a side to support each of us. 100 metres on a side if we double the population. 'course, we could possibly start farming the oceans and kick the population up even higher. Might be easier than trying to make entire Earth's surface arable farmland.
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OpenOffice.org's PDF export can create PDF form fields as well.
Most print variants can't.
I'll believe a partial solution through thermal deploymerization like the
Changing World Technologies folks are doing
, long before I believe Ethanol - which fits perfectly into the system you describe.
Right now is a way to siphon tax dollars into ADM's pockets.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/031128.html
http://zfacts.com/p/35.html
http://zfacts.com/p/60.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2192911.stm
There has been some discussion of this before, as this article notes, there are studies to note that better lighting
is both cheaper and more reliable a means of reducing crime. Not to mention still permitting public spaces not under
the constant eye of Big Brother.
I googled on this subject a bit, noted with amusement an Astrononmical Society paper disputing these findings. Presumably out of fear of light polution.
Of course, it is possible to better direct street lights, but in general illuminating the night would put
crime reduction at odds with the astronomers.
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/zoomcomic.html
That's the plight of the documentary filmmaker in this comic.
Re: "vapourware"
In concept, modifying an existing car to be electric was covered in last month's Make magazine.
Explained exactly how to do it and interviewed folks doing it for fun. Heck. For all I know this company read the same article.
So while "vapourware" it isn't anything particularly unusual.
It is inconvenient, though, that the range on these conversions as mentioned in the article is rather limited.
Getting the weight down helps a lot, of course.
I personally don't think it is the keyboard.
It was always in the right hand for me.
I switched to using my left hand for the mouse at work, and my right hand at home, and the problems completely went away.
Well, unless I do a long session at work or home.
Then, I just take a bit of a break or do some wrist exercises. I blame mice, not keyboards.
Although, once I had the problems in times past, it did hurt to use the keyboard (or pretty much anything else).
Regarding your sig.
"Brevity is the soul of wit"
and the challenge in this case.
I didn't abuse the moderation system.
It was a legitimate critique of slashdot policies. Much like this discussion is of digg's.
My moderation up until that point had been considered and careful.
Again. the admins have right to be dicks. But they can pretend that they are doing it for the good of the users.
Unlikely.
Many many people had moderated that post up, and the general moderation was agreed on. The moderation was repeatedly flattened by slashdot admins.
Furthermore, the result was instantaneous, as I discovered as I read the thread.
Also, it persisted ever since (over a period now of at least 4 years, don't remember exactly) - despite occasional experiments at being a good meta moderator
and of course having excellent karma.
Fact is, slashdot admins bitchslap whoever they want. They have the right to, I guess, on their site, but is poor behaviour none the less.
Aye. My account was banned years ago from moderation for moderating up a post on slashdot critical of slashdot policies.
The same happened to others.
Actually, it was an attempt to mangle an analogy to your purposes, and you did even that poorly.
But you can take it the other way as well if you wish, hardly matters, other folks pointed it out too.
Poorly mangled analogy.
One of several issues with it would be that your example is a direct cause n effect.
person X uses 15h of internet. person X gains 15kg.
Now if you could work into your analogy the fact that the internet usage causes all people to get
fat - but at that point the analogy becomes rather tortured.
And the India/China lack of restrictions doesn't work out that well in it at all.
Amusingly, in those search results, a significant number of the Britannica hits are over the current fight.
So you'd get the same page if you searched for wikipedia.
Also, since you only searched for Britannica, you also get stuff like "Pax Britannica", "Classis Britannica" and
http://www.novareinna.com/guard/unicorn.html
Dunno about hotmail, but I use w3m to access gmail routinely.
Not only that, but after 16 e-mails with a Hotmail tech where I eventually identified that hotmail drops
packets (no reject message, no connect to the server over anything) from any range tagged as "dynamic"
I've been forced to reject all delivery of e-mail from Hotmail to my domain. You might want to try GMail,
Yahoo! or pretty much any other service that uses more intelligent spam blocking methods.
I really don't see what their service has going for them anymore. Your account size just confirms it.
That's true, but it *does* incorporate a sufficiently large number of parameters, that if a browser passes it by "cheating" the cheating will be quickly discovered on pages that try to use the various technology.
That'd be a PR nightmare.
ACID2 is a quick and effective way to check how a browser supports a broad swathe of web technology.
There's a reason Firefox isn't quite there yet (yes, even on the nightly builds). Getting it all to work requires a sufficiently sophisticated model that other web stuff also will work better.
We all benefit from that.
At the time I posted this, and he responded, there had been no other discussion of it...
http://home.c2i.net/greaker/comenius/9899/indiannu merals/india.html
Numbers is a poor example.
Credit where credit is due.
For that matter, what component are you in charge of? I don't remember ever seeing you on moznet in the past five years or so.
Your decision to speak for "we" (presumably bug drivers or the foundation) is awfully arrogant.
Duh.
And anyone who wants to check up on the bug can copy and paste the URL.
There is nothing wrong with that.
The referer block does exactly what it should. Reduce reflexive clicking/tab opening, and making it a conscious descision by folks who want to look at it.
So folks. Don't listen to oglueck here - perfectly alright to visit the link if you have an interest, and even, yes, post *informative* commentary in the bug (such as regressions, related bugs, progress in recent builds, etc)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=acid2 /. referers being blocked.
Track Gecko progress here. Including screenshots.
Link as plain text due to
I was merely pointing out what the article said. And since the Opera guy points out the page *isn't* supposed to scroll, I imagine a scrolling bug would indeed qualify as incorrect rendering, so the artifacts in your screenshot would merely support Opera's point.
RTFA and you'll see this.
"Opera 9 (get the weekly build) now passes the Acid 2 test, making it the second browser to do so. And yes, I can count. Safari passed first, and Opera is second. Konqueror and iCab almost pass (and claim to pass), but they both fail to apply one of the styles required by the test..."
Mozilla's finances are publicly available. I checked their information reported to the IRS for 2004.
Was around 5 million.
Agreed.
I hear this argument all the time from anti-birth control activists, so it annoys me.
Take the actual aproximate land area from my other comment.
Knock it down to 150,000,000,000,000 to allow for Antarctica (CIA world fact book + fact that 170 is tad on optimistic side and assumes amount of surface area stays same in next few hundred years [think Florida and Netherlands disappearing in a sea level rise]).
150,000 divided by current 6.6 billion gives us each a nice heft 22,727ish metres if we replaced the earth with nothing but humans and human farms. Or a square 150 metres on a side to support each of us. 100 metres on a side if we double the population.
'course, we could possibly start farming the oceans and kick the population up even higher. Might be easier than trying to make entire Earth's surface arable farmland.