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Chewbacca appears to be blogging for the rebels...
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This sounds very similar to Advogato's trust metric, which uses a "seed" of trusted accounts to filter out trolls/spammers. The difference might be that it should be even easier to implement in the case of web pages, because they already have links to each other, avoiding the reliance on users to manually "certify" other user accounts in order to build the graph.
If you have tasted both, though, you'll know they changed it slightly when they introduced it in the states, both in color and in taste. I by far prefer the Norwegian original - but of course that's just because that's the version I got addicted to nine years ago... darn caffeine.
One thing I've never been able to grasp is why Python proponents always mention the fact that whitespace is significant as a good thing. I guess it could be argued that at least it's not a bad thing, in which case it boils down to a matter of personal taste, but everyone seems to be saying it makes reading unfamiliar Python code so much easier.
Well, with any other language, if I get a piece of unfamiliar code and have problems reading it due to weird indentation, I just run it through Emacs' indent-region. Can anyone explain to me why this is not just as viable as mandating the indentation policy by embedding it in the language's syntax?
Do you follow the manual's advice about only using the external battery with the internal one fully charged? I find that trying to charge the internal battery with the external one will drain it extremely fast.
You're missing the expansion pack - they're basically selling the product in two parts. I guess I just assumed he was reviewing the full product, since no one in their right mind would even *consider* balancing a laptop on just the base unit.
It's a pretty simple compatibility guide - the product is compatible with all laptops listed. The different colors are just to differentiate between the different adapter tips you need for the different laptops.
Of course there's not much else I can do - it's hard to argue with a "review" that's basically just a long rant about why the reviewer doesn't like the form factor. It doesn't even make any sense to complain about it; the form factor is just about the easiest thing to find out about *before* you buy the product - even if you bought it online.
Here's a second opinion, for what it's worth: I've owned the N-Charge II for several months now, and I'm extremely happy with it. I can't comment on the differences in battery life, since I never owned the first version, but I get ten hours total of productive time from the internal battery of my Vaio X505 plus both parts of the N-Charge II.
Which brings up what's probably the most important difference in this new version, oddly enough not even mentioned in the "review": The N-Charge II splits in two, letting you carry just half of it around if you only need half the battery life. This is perfect for me, since the total of 6 hours which I get with just one part is enough for most flights I'm on, and the smaller bulk avoids the silly feeling of carrying around a battery that's heavier and bigger than the ultraportable I paid dearly to get so light and tiny.
As for the form factor, I just slip it into the seatback pocket when on a plane, and otherwise I keep it in my bag. I got the extension cord so I can keep the bag on the floor while working on a desk or on my lap. But of course, if you absolutely must keep your external battery directly under your laptop, by all means get one of the competing products. Maybe next time you should read the specifications before ordering something.
Not that the article specifically claims it to be news, but it seems like people are now just realizing the huge differences between America and Europe in this area.
I'm 25. When I was 15, in high school, there were already a significant number of kids in my class with cell phones. Sure, the rest of us were talking behind their backs about how silly they were to spend so much money on something so useless, but that's 10 years ago.
Nowadays I doubt the number of kids in that particular high school (age 13+) without a cell phone even reaches double digits.
Oops, silly me, the "whatever reason" is of course that they cut two screens out of each substrate. This puts the measurements at 1.87m by 1.10m, and each pixel would be pretty much exactly a millimeter to a side.
The largest 16:9 screen they could get from this substrate, incidentally, would be 97" (source). Obviously by cutting in the other direction and wasting quite a bit of the material, though.
The 2.20m by 1.87m measure is of the glass substrate they use in production. This is enough for a 110" screen, but for whatever reason they cut it down to 82" for this one.
So the pixels are probably around a square millimeter each, not too bad.
It does indeed look like that's what the article is saying. Which really makes you wonder - what the hell accounts for the $34.79mil that remains once you subtract the numbers for Windows, Unix, and Linux from the total revenue?
In my experience the best solution is simply to only block those who provide valid referrers, since all you need is to block most remotely referred requests, not all.
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://" remote_ref=1 SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://.*\.yourdomain\.com/" remote_ref=0 <FilesMatch "\.(jpeg)"> Order Deny,Allow Deny from env=remote_ref </FilesMatch>
This will let your page work for people with anonymizer services and firewalls which block the referer field. Of course for those people the remote linking will work as well, but usually they are few enough for the bandwidth impact to be negligible.
Um... even if they did, it wouldn't have anything to do with this technology. This is talking about blurring yourself out of other people's images/footage. If it's your own footage, you simply don't need it.
Reread it again, because I'm pretty sure you misunderstood. The blurb obviously refers to the cameras of witnesses/bystanders, not those of the cops themselves.
To clarify: I'm not saying open formats are bad. But in this case we went from an administration pushing open source products (which incidentally automatically means open formats), to one that's going to stick with Microsoft products. They wanted to change what software they were using, but were deflected into some vacuous statement about "open formats", and in reality no change at all.
XML does not autmoatically mean "open format", at least not in the way you seem to be thinking. Even if everyone in the Massachusetts administration starts using exclusively WordML for their documents (including converting all old documents), any open-source product would still have the problem of relying on a format defined by the very same monopoly they're trying to compete with. WordML is patent-protected specifically to prevent the equivalent of a "fork" of the format, so anyone using it is completely at the mercy of Microsoft's whim on where to take the format in the future.
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Chewbacca appears to be blogging for the rebels...
This sounds very similar to Advogato's trust metric, which uses a "seed" of trusted accounts to filter out trolls/spammers. The difference might be that it should be even easier to implement in the case of web pages, because they already have links to each other, avoiding the reliance on users to manually "certify" other user accounts in order to build the graph.
Yep, and Wikipedia has more details, as always.
If you have tasted both, though, you'll know they changed it slightly when they introduced it in the states, both in color and in taste. I by far prefer the Norwegian original - but of course that's just because that's the version I got addicted to nine years ago... darn caffeine.
Basically you can press a button to make him say his famous line.
One thing I've never been able to grasp is why Python proponents always mention the fact that whitespace is significant as a good thing. I guess it could be argued that at least it's not a bad thing, in which case it boils down to a matter of personal taste, but everyone seems to be saying it makes reading unfamiliar Python code so much easier.
Well, with any other language, if I get a piece of unfamiliar code and have problems reading it due to weird indentation, I just run it through Emacs' indent-region. Can anyone explain to me why this is not just as viable as mandating the indentation policy by embedding it in the language's syntax?
Do you follow the manual's advice about only using the external battery with the internal one fully charged? I find that trying to charge the internal battery with the external one will drain it extremely fast.
You're missing the expansion pack - they're basically selling the product in two parts. I guess I just assumed he was reviewing the full product, since no one in their right mind would even *consider* balancing a laptop on just the base unit.
It's a pretty simple compatibility guide - the product is compatible with all laptops listed. The different colors are just to differentiate between the different adapter tips you need for the different laptops.
Of course there's not much else I can do - it's hard to argue with a "review" that's basically just a long rant about why the reviewer doesn't like the form factor. It doesn't even make any sense to complain about it; the form factor is just about the easiest thing to find out about *before* you buy the product - even if you bought it online.
Here's a second opinion, for what it's worth: I've owned the N-Charge II for several months now, and I'm extremely happy with it. I can't comment on the differences in battery life, since I never owned the first version, but I get ten hours total of productive time from the internal battery of my Vaio X505 plus both parts of the N-Charge II.
Which brings up what's probably the most important difference in this new version, oddly enough not even mentioned in the "review": The N-Charge II splits in two, letting you carry just half of it around if you only need half the battery life. This is perfect for me, since the total of 6 hours which I get with just one part is enough for most flights I'm on, and the smaller bulk avoids the silly feeling of carrying around a battery that's heavier and bigger than the ultraportable I paid dearly to get so light and tiny.
As for the form factor, I just slip it into the seatback pocket when on a plane, and otherwise I keep it in my bag. I got the extension cord so I can keep the bag on the floor while working on a desk or on my lap. But of course, if you absolutely must keep your external battery directly under your laptop, by all means get one of the competing products. Maybe next time you should read the specifications before ordering something.
Not that the article specifically claims it to be news, but it seems like people are now just realizing the huge differences between America and Europe in this area.
I'm 25. When I was 15, in high school, there were already a significant number of kids in my class with cell phones. Sure, the rest of us were talking behind their backs about how silly they were to spend so much money on something so useless, but that's 10 years ago.
Nowadays I doubt the number of kids in that particular high school (age 13+) without a cell phone even reaches double digits.
You are inexplicable.
Nope.. not sure what you're doing wrong since you don't post your calculations, but .75x1.33 is roughly 60" diagonal, not 82:
sqrt(75^2 + 133^2) / 2.54 = 60.11
Oops, silly me, the "whatever reason" is of course that they cut two screens out of each substrate. This puts the measurements at 1.87m by 1.10m, and each pixel would be pretty much exactly a millimeter to a side.
The largest 16:9 screen they could get from this substrate, incidentally, would be 97" (source). Obviously by cutting in the other direction and wasting quite a bit of the material, though.
The 2.20m by 1.87m measure is of the glass substrate they use in production. This is enough for a 110" screen, but for whatever reason they cut it down to 82" for this one.
So the pixels are probably around a square millimeter each, not too bad.
Please count the number of zeroes one more time...
Oops, make that $34.79bil, not mil.
It does indeed look like that's what the article is saying. Which really makes you wonder - what the hell accounts for the $34.79mil that remains once you subtract the numbers for Windows, Unix, and Linux from the total revenue?
You mistyped "Unsurprisingly".
In my experience the best solution is simply to only block those who provide valid referrers, since all you need is to block most remotely referred requests, not all.
Apache recipe in this previous comment.
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://" remote_ref=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://.*\.yourdomain\.com/" remote_ref=0
<FilesMatch "\.(jpeg)">
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=remote_ref
</FilesMatch>
This will let your page work for people with anonymizer services and firewalls which block the referer field. Of course for those people the remote linking will work as well, but usually they are few enough for the bandwidth impact to be negligible.
You don't use programs? What, you put the cat-5 in your mouth and try to *taste* the intruders?
That doesn't need any clearing up, it's given by the GPL, and out of Trolltech's hands.
Um... even if they did, it wouldn't have anything to do with this technology. This is talking about blurring yourself out of other people's images/footage. If it's your own footage, you simply don't need it.
Reread it again, because I'm pretty sure you misunderstood. The blurb obviously refers to the cameras of witnesses/bystanders, not those of the cops themselves.
To clarify: I'm not saying open formats are bad. But in this case we went from an administration pushing open source products (which incidentally automatically means open formats), to one that's going to stick with Microsoft products. They wanted to change what software they were using, but were deflected into some vacuous statement about "open formats", and in reality no change at all.
XML does not autmoatically mean "open format", at least not in the way you seem to be thinking. Even if everyone in the Massachusetts administration starts using exclusively WordML for their documents (including converting all old documents), any open-source product would still have the problem of relying on a format defined by the very same monopoly they're trying to compete with. WordML is patent-protected specifically to prevent the equivalent of a "fork" of the format, so anyone using it is completely at the mercy of Microsoft's whim on where to take the format in the future.