He tells me he was prompted to introduce the bill because his father used salt excessively for many years, developed high blood pressure and had a heart attack.
Because what was bad for his father is obviously bad for everyone. Though I'm sure some people won't mind this bill, particularly the ones who require extremely low sodium diets to cope with various medical conditions.
That's funny, since there's this flag called DISCL_BACKGROUND (which gets passed in via IDirectInputDevice8::SetCooperativeLevel()) that allows you to capture input from a device even when your application doesn't have focus. And yes, it does actually work.
a somewhat dodgy proposition if a telemarketer ever gets hold of your number
That alone is enough to doom this project from the start - telemarketers are relentless, and they will get your phone number even if you haven't given it to anyone. Hell, you could also get trouble from people dialing wrong numbers, or from people miswriting/mistyping their phone number when giving it to somebody else (I get a phone call in Spanish every so often, and at one point they confirmed that they had indeed dialed my number correctly).
If they'd done that we'd already be using IPv6 for everything because applications wouldn't have to know about the details of addresses because they'd just be arbitrary strings like file names already are.
I was under the impression that getaddrinfo() already served to easily provide support for IPv6.
Or, if you like big numbers with lots of commas, 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 (compared to the 4,294,967,296 in IPv4). Of course, a very large number of those (but still an insignificantly small fraction) are reserved for various purposes and cannot be used for normal addresses, but the same is true for IPv4.
Back when I was in high school, refusing to follow the rules usually resulted in Detention (or Suspension if you did something REALLY bad), not calling the police...
The Windows 7 Beta does still have the Windows Classic style (just as Windows XP and Vista do, giving you the plain style titlebars/menus/taskbar/etc.) but it lacks the Classic Start Menu, so there's no way you can bring back the old nested menu structure first introduced in Windows 95 - instead, you're stuck with the Vista-style Start Menu and its scrolling treelist view.
The problem with Web Developer is that using it validate a page requires it to submit it to validator.w3.org over unencrypted HTTP, which may be a breach of security if your page is displaying any sensitive information. The aforementioned HTML Validator add-on has the advantage of running entirely locally and not transmitting any data across the network.
There would definitely be significant time dilation in close proximity to said black holes, but beyond even a fraction of a light year it would become negligible due to the rate at which gravitational force weakens.
Perhaps a better example would be what EA did to The Orange Box when they ported it to the PlayStation 3 - the PC version is great, but the PS3 version is thoroughly awful and ridiculously buggy.
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I'm just baffled by the concept of giving herpes to your opponents...
What exactly do you typically do to your enemies???
One of the main problems is that HTTPS is fundamentally incompatible with virtual hosts - you connect, do the SSL handshake (and get the server's certificate), verify that the common name on the SSL cert matches the hostname you typed in (to make sure the site is who you think it is, otherwise display big warning messages) and that it is trusted (i.e. complain if it's self-signed), and then you send your HTTP request. The only way it could work would be if an SSL certificate could match multiple hostnames (which I don't believe is the case, though I could be wrong).
Interestingly, net-wide HTTPS would probably make IPv6 a bit more important (since a great deal of web hosting services put dozens of sites on the same machine and same IP address, charging significantly more if you want SSL due to the requirement of having a unique IP address).
Actually, it was "alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork", if my newsfeed is to be trusted.
You also forgot one of the older parodies of that - "alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg".
So does this mean that if you are using magic quotes and you upgrade to PHP6, suddenly you will become vulnerable to SQL injection attack?
It would probably be more accurate to say that you will become more vulnerable to SQL injection attacks, since magic_quotes was never 100% foolproof to begin with.
...except water pressure isn't "free" by any stretch of the imagination - you're paying for that water pressure, whether it's coming from your city or straight out of the ground.
In the former case, you're paying for the water pressure (AND the water itself) in your utility bill, so it'd be cheaper to just get the electricity off the grid.
In the latter case, you're pretty much connecting an electric motor (your well pump) to a generator in order to make electricity, all while losing a bunch of energy in the process (in this case, by losing water pressure).
While NTSC technically does render 525 scanlines, only about 486* of them may actually be visible - the rest are used for the vertical blanking interval (which includes stuff like closed captioning), and some of the "visible" ones might get covered up by the frame around an old TV's CRT; thus, the vertical resolution is really only 480. Horizontal resolution, however, is somewhat indeterminate - I've seen numerous values, including 640, 704, and 720.
(* - this is the number Wikipedia quotes, and it mostly agrees with numbers I've seen elsewhere)
The phrase "brick" is so overused as to be meaningless these days. It wasn't "bricked"; the firmware update got fubared on the hacked phones the last time it was updated, rendering the device non-functional. This one overwrites whatever chunk of firmware code that was causing the issue, and poof, it fixes the problem.
Same as if you screwed up a BIOS update on your motherboard. Do it again, correctly and you'll be fine.
That's a rather bad analogy, since if you screw up a BIOS update on a motherboard and then try to reboot, it's very possible that the system will cease to boot altogether, such that the only way to resolve it would be to use an EPROM programmer to reflash it. In such a situation, the term "bricked" is completely appropriate - the traditional definition implies that unbricking requires hardware replacement, and removing the BIOS to reflash it arguably counts as hardware replacement.
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Indeed, this is the same organization that was originally known as "Xerox PARC".
Because what was bad for his father is obviously bad for everyone. Though I'm sure some people won't mind this bill, particularly the ones who require extremely low sodium diets to cope with various medical conditions.
That's funny, since there's this flag called DISCL_BACKGROUND (which gets passed in via IDirectInputDevice8::SetCooperativeLevel()) that allows you to capture input from a device even when your application doesn't have focus. And yes, it does actually work.
Naturally, I realized that immediately after I posted my comment and saw janek78's comment right above my own.
That alone is enough to doom this project from the start - telemarketers are relentless, and they will get your phone number even if you haven't given it to anyone. Hell, you could also get trouble from people dialing wrong numbers, or from people miswriting/mistyping their phone number when giving it to somebody else (I get a phone call in Spanish every so often, and at one point they confirmed that they had indeed dialed my number correctly).
Seems remarkably similar to how JPEG compression works. Not surprisingly, the resulting pictures look a lot like overcompressed JPEGs.
Clearly, it should be spelled "Brazillion".
I was under the impression that getaddrinfo() already served to easily provide support for IPv6.
Perhaps they got the idea from Kingdom of Loathing?
Or, if you like big numbers with lots of commas, 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 (compared to the 4,294,967,296 in IPv4). Of course, a very large number of those (but still an insignificantly small fraction) are reserved for various purposes and cannot be used for normal addresses, but the same is true for IPv4.
Back when I was in high school, refusing to follow the rules usually resulted in Detention (or Suspension if you did something REALLY bad), not calling the police...
The Windows 7 Beta does still have the Windows Classic style (just as Windows XP and Vista do, giving you the plain style titlebars/menus/taskbar/etc.) but it lacks the Classic Start Menu, so there's no way you can bring back the old nested menu structure first introduced in Windows 95 - instead, you're stuck with the Vista-style Start Menu and its scrolling treelist view.
Liquid water cannot exist on Mars at any temperature, since the atmospheric pressure is too low (Google for "triple point" for an explanation).
Wikipedia lists an expansion ratio of 1 to 754 for liquid helium, which would certainly explain the amount of pressure exerted when it leaked.
The problem with Web Developer is that using it validate a page requires it to submit it to validator.w3.org over unencrypted HTTP, which may be a breach of security if your page is displaying any sensitive information. The aforementioned HTML Validator add-on has the advantage of running entirely locally and not transmitting any data across the network.
There would definitely be significant time dilation in close proximity to said black holes, but beyond even a fraction of a light year it would become negligible due to the rate at which gravitational force weakens.
Perhaps a better example would be what EA did to The Orange Box when they ported it to the PlayStation 3 - the PC version is great, but the PS3 version is thoroughly awful and ridiculously buggy.
I'm guessing something similar to this...
One of the main problems is that HTTPS is fundamentally incompatible with virtual hosts - you connect, do the SSL handshake (and get the server's certificate), verify that the common name on the SSL cert matches the hostname you typed in (to make sure the site is who you think it is, otherwise display big warning messages) and that it is trusted (i.e. complain if it's self-signed), and then you send your HTTP request. The only way it could work would be if an SSL certificate could match multiple hostnames (which I don't believe is the case, though I could be wrong).
Interestingly, net-wide HTTPS would probably make IPv6 a bit more important (since a great deal of web hosting services put dozens of sites on the same machine and same IP address, charging significantly more if you want SSL due to the requirement of having a unique IP address).
Actually, it was "alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork", if my newsfeed is to be trusted.
You also forgot one of the older parodies of that - "alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg".
...except water pressure isn't "free" by any stretch of the imagination - you're paying for that water pressure, whether it's coming from your city or straight out of the ground.
In the former case, you're paying for the water pressure (AND the water itself) in your utility bill, so it'd be cheaper to just get the electricity off the grid.
In the latter case, you're pretty much connecting an electric motor (your well pump) to a generator in order to make electricity, all while losing a bunch of energy in the process (in this case, by losing water pressure).
While NTSC technically does render 525 scanlines, only about 486* of them may actually be visible - the rest are used for the vertical blanking interval (which includes stuff like closed captioning), and some of the "visible" ones might get covered up by the frame around an old TV's CRT; thus, the vertical resolution is really only 480. Horizontal resolution, however, is somewhat indeterminate - I've seen numerous values, including 640, 704, and 720.
(* - this is the number Wikipedia quotes, and it mostly agrees with numbers I've seen elsewhere)