A profession that calls any element heavier than Helium a "metal" really isn't one that we should consider absolute authorities on everyday usage of English.
How much does it cost to house someone in maximum security for 60 years?
About $1.5 million. But not many prisoners live until their 80's.
How much does a bullet cost?
The cost of selecting a firing squad, check their mental health afterwards, an appeal, another appeal, psychiatric evaluation, and more expensive accommodation while all this is going on. Even the trial itself typically costs around $500,000 more.
Notepad is a small simple text editor that exists because occasionally you might need to edit some text files (typically for config files or something). These will be in a Windows friendly text format. It doesn't pretend to do anything remotely sophisticated.
If you want to do something more complex then download a non-minimal text editor. There are loads available for free.
maybe this is just in the US, but I thought that "ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law." If he broke a law, let's have him and the law he broke. If not, let him go
Ignorance of the law is no defence. Ignorance of the facts can be. For example, if I buy something and it turns out it's been stolen, I'm not guilty of a crime, but if I know it's been stolen I am.
It comes down to criminal intent, or mens rea (which literally means "guilty mind"). It's always tricky to prove because it's easy enough to show that someone had the goods, or downloaded the materials but we have no guess why they did so.
Pricing tends not to have anything to do with how much it costs to make.
$20 isn't a huge amount to pay, especially for kids who can spend all their money without worrying about bills, and are used to paying several times that for console games.
True. Unicode should be limited to text representation and nothing else. I have no problems with a programming language parser considering any non-ASCII character an error (with the exception of characters within strings and comments). But this does still mean slashdot comments should handle unicode.
Not sure how I feel about the iPhone's behaviour in this case. It's really not a device that people will generally use to type code after all.
I imagine it's because of limited space on the keyboard.
But if an input device has the ability to send characters using a recognised standard, then there's no reason that Slashdot should fuck up when trying to display them. I mean sticking to a character set that doesn't even support the Euro symbol is idiotic. If, as a side effect, it also ends up supporting slightly prettier looking quotes, then all the better.
Which is completely not my point! My point is the difference between quotation marks and "quotation marks" as descriptive terms; not the difference between the characters.
A quotation mark is any form of quotation mark. It could mean any unicode characters that represents any form of quotation mark, including 0022, 201C, 201D, or others. Slashdot is crap if you want to use certain quotation marks because most systems assume unicode; It is a pretty well established standard after all, and Slashdot is meant to be a site that appeals to techies.
If you are referring specifically to unicode character 0022, referred to by unicode simply as "Quotation mark", then I would urge you to actually make it clear that you are referring to this specific character, by using the name in quotes. If you are using the term without quotes then most people would assume you are describing any of the quotation mark characters.
The symbols you used both look like the regular "Quotation mark" character, rather than the left double quotation mark.
Are you the kind of person who argues for the double pipe || as a single glyph?
It is a single glyph. Unicode #2016. Why would I need to argue for it? Is there a proposal to remove it from the spec?
True, but it doesn't handle left double quotation marks or right double quotation marks, which I think can be categorised as types of quotation mark, even if not the unicode "quotation mark" symbol (which I'd expect to be put in quotation marks to prevent ambiguity).
And ultimately, the byte sequence "e2 80 9c" should probably not be rendered as ISO-8859-1.
To be fair, the quotation marks thing is because of Slashdot's bizarre inability to support Unicode despite it being pretty well established for well over a decade, and Japanese websites working perfectly well with slashcode.
Most of the British ex-colonies changed over in the 1970's, with Britain itself being a bit of a holdout. Mostly this was enforced by legislation. US laws currently have all sorts of restrictions on weights and measures in a mish-mash of metric and US customary.
Because GIF only supports up to 256 colours. Although since this is greyscale it doesn't matter. GIF itself doesn't reduce the resolution but users often do because the file size is usually quite large.
In this case, the restrictions are on US companies.
It's no good having an embargo on Iran and North Korea, and then have it so you can sell to an intermediary that sells to Iran and North Korea. ZTE can do what they want, but if they do, US suppliers can't supply them.
Yes, but now add a septuagenarian judge who knows nothing about computers, a court appointed defender who may be well meaning but isn't all that up to speed on the matter, and is pretty damn overworked, and a hysterical manager who really needs to cover his ass, and realises that the easiest way to do that is deflect blame onto some teenager.
I'm old a cynical and I hope justice prevails, but all to often it doesn't.
As far as I'm aware, anything I put on social media is public information. I am surprised other people trusted facebook as much as they did.
Be aware of this and use it in that context. I personally don't mind that the world knows I saw The Disaster Artist last night. There are things that I do care about. I''not share those on social media.
It's up to my employer whether they allow me to take leave without pay. And an Uber driver can refuse to do work for any reason they choose, or even for no reason.
Can you decide to spend a couple of days simply not working though, or refuse specific tasks? I assume the summary in the article is just highlights, and there are other factors such as those I've mentioned.
Cannes is not really a good fit for Netflix. It's very much about showcasing the sort of works that don't get as much mainstream publicity. Netflix is a business interested in mass appeal. Nothing wrong with either, and both aspects will try to incorporate parts of the other, but it's not really the same philosophy.
Netflix are quite capable of showcasing their own works. Amazon and other studios setting up streaming services have a motivation to push streaming generally, in the same way that Cannes pushes cinema generally.
It's not really a loss to Cannes. It has its niche which isn't going anywhere. Streaming services can find their own niches.
We've seen this before. Early home appliances had interchangable motors, because motors were expensive. You'd buy a motor and plug it into different gadgets. And traction engines were used as jack-of-all-trades farm power sources. More recently there was an idea that a single computer would control the home.
What actually happened was motors, motive power and CPUs got cheap enough that the benefits to having several motors, engines or computers outweighed the inconvenience, and in some cases are outsourced (e.g. Alexa).
I imagine the powerwall will become so cheap that it will become viable for power companies to simply have a bank of them for stored power.
The main benefit is we get realistic refractive and reflective effects - which tend to be pretty slow with rasterisation as well. Not sure if we'll be seeing some sort of hybrid technique soon.
It could be Amazon trying to make inroads into the emerging Chinese market. A massive country, with a rapidly increasing quality of life and more money to spend on media.
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A profession that calls any element heavier than Helium a "metal" really isn't one that we should consider absolute authorities on everyday usage of English.
About $1.5 million. But not many prisoners live until their 80's.
The cost of selecting a firing squad, check their mental health afterwards, an appeal, another appeal, psychiatric evaluation, and more expensive accommodation while all this is going on. Even the trial itself typically costs around $500,000 more.
Notepad is a small simple text editor that exists because occasionally you might need to edit some text files (typically for config files or something). These will be in a Windows friendly text format. It doesn't pretend to do anything remotely sophisticated.
If you want to do something more complex then download a non-minimal text editor. There are loads available for free.
Ignorance of the law is no defence. Ignorance of the facts can be. For example, if I buy something and it turns out it's been stolen, I'm not guilty of a crime, but if I know it's been stolen I am.
It comes down to criminal intent, or mens rea (which literally means "guilty mind"). It's always tricky to prove because it's easy enough to show that someone had the goods, or downloaded the materials but we have no guess why they did so.
I have no idea why this has not been challenged under the 6th amendment. It seems like it should be considered the most blatant violation.
Pricing tends not to have anything to do with how much it costs to make.
$20 isn't a huge amount to pay, especially for kids who can spend all their money without worrying about bills, and are used to paying several times that for console games.
Like Barb Wire? Or Howard The Duck?
True. Unicode should be limited to text representation and nothing else. I have no problems with a programming language parser considering any non-ASCII character an error (with the exception of characters within strings and comments). But this does still mean slashdot comments should handle unicode.
Not sure how I feel about the iPhone's behaviour in this case. It's really not a device that people will generally use to type code after all.
I imagine it's because of limited space on the keyboard.
But if an input device has the ability to send characters using a recognised standard, then there's no reason that Slashdot should fuck up when trying to display them. I mean sticking to a character set that doesn't even support the Euro symbol is idiotic. If, as a side effect, it also ends up supporting slightly prettier looking quotes, then all the better.
A quotation mark is any form of quotation mark. It could mean any unicode characters that represents any form of quotation mark, including 0022, 201C, 201D, or others. Slashdot is crap if you want to use certain quotation marks because most systems assume unicode; It is a pretty well established standard after all, and Slashdot is meant to be a site that appeals to techies.
If you are referring specifically to unicode character 0022, referred to by unicode simply as "Quotation mark", then I would urge you to actually make it clear that you are referring to this specific character, by using the name in quotes. If you are using the term without quotes then most people would assume you are describing any of the quotation mark characters.
The symbols you used both look like the regular "Quotation mark" character, rather than the left double quotation mark.
It is a single glyph. Unicode #2016. Why would I need to argue for it? Is there a proposal to remove it from the spec?
True, but it doesn't handle left double quotation marks or right double quotation marks, which I think can be categorised as types of quotation mark, even if not the unicode "quotation mark" symbol (which I'd expect to be put in quotation marks to prevent ambiguity).
And ultimately, the byte sequence "e2 80 9c" should probably not be rendered as ISO-8859-1.
To be fair, the quotation marks thing is because of Slashdot's bizarre inability to support Unicode despite it being pretty well established for well over a decade, and Japanese websites working perfectly well with slashcode.
Most of the British ex-colonies changed over in the 1970's, with Britain itself being a bit of a holdout. Mostly this was enforced by legislation. US laws currently have all sorts of restrictions on weights and measures in a mish-mash of metric and US customary.
Because GIF only supports up to 256 colours. Although since this is greyscale it doesn't matter. GIF itself doesn't reduce the resolution but users often do because the file size is usually quite large.
In this case, the restrictions are on US companies.
It's no good having an embargo on Iran and North Korea, and then have it so you can sell to an intermediary that sells to Iran and North Korea. ZTE can do what they want, but if they do, US suppliers can't supply them.
Yes, but now add a septuagenarian judge who knows nothing about computers, a court appointed defender who may be well meaning but isn't all that up to speed on the matter, and is pretty damn overworked, and a hysterical manager who really needs to cover his ass, and realises that the easiest way to do that is deflect blame onto some teenager.
I'm old a cynical and I hope justice prevails, but all to often it doesn't.
As far as I'm aware, anything I put on social media is public information. I am surprised other people trusted facebook as much as they did.
Be aware of this and use it in that context. I personally don't mind that the world knows I saw The Disaster Artist last night. There are things that I do care about. I''not share those on social media.
It's up to my employer whether they allow me to take leave without pay. And an Uber driver can refuse to do work for any reason they choose, or even for no reason.
Can't spell "Coinsecure" without "insecure". Clearly people read it as "Coin secure" and it should have been "Co insecure".
Can you decide to spend a couple of days simply not working though, or refuse specific tasks? I assume the summary in the article is just highlights, and there are other factors such as those I've mentioned.
It's an oddly inflammatory headline considering Slashdot's general leaning (both users and owners) is very much pro-free speech.
And really, they should.
Cannes is not really a good fit for Netflix. It's very much about showcasing the sort of works that don't get as much mainstream publicity. Netflix is a business interested in mass appeal. Nothing wrong with either, and both aspects will try to incorporate parts of the other, but it's not really the same philosophy.
Netflix are quite capable of showcasing their own works. Amazon and other studios setting up streaming services have a motivation to push streaming generally, in the same way that Cannes pushes cinema generally.
It's not really a loss to Cannes. It has its niche which isn't going anywhere. Streaming services can find their own niches.
We've seen this before. Early home appliances had interchangable motors, because motors were expensive. You'd buy a motor and plug it into different gadgets. And traction engines were used as jack-of-all-trades farm power sources. More recently there was an idea that a single computer would control the home.
What actually happened was motors, motive power and CPUs got cheap enough that the benefits to having several motors, engines or computers outweighed the inconvenience, and in some cases are outsourced (e.g. Alexa).
I imagine the powerwall will become so cheap that it will become viable for power companies to simply have a bank of them for stored power.
The main benefit is we get realistic refractive and reflective effects - which tend to be pretty slow with rasterisation as well. Not sure if we'll be seeing some sort of hybrid technique soon.
It could be Amazon trying to make inroads into the emerging Chinese market. A massive country, with a rapidly increasing quality of life and more money to spend on media.