The results of a related study:
Doing stupid studies can lead young men to believe it is unacceptable to smoke marijuana and drink alcohol.
Of course, it is no good idea to drink/smoke too much or to do it and drive afterwards, but as long as it happens within acceptable limits, I see no problem.
In Belgium (and maybe also in other European countries), this problem is solved by asking a recycling tax and making vendors responsible for recycling old hardware and household appliances.
When buying something, a customer has to pay a small amount of money (for instance: 0,5 for a mobile phone), but in return, he can return his old devices to the vendor. The vendor then sends it to the manufacturer who recycles it.
Simple security measures like disabling auto-run and limiting executable permissions to a specific set of programs would nip this "vulnerability" in the bud.
That's true, but Sony and the other record companies wouldn't like that, because then their root k, oops, DRM software wouldn't work anymore.
One day I had to supervise an exam which consisted of a written part and an oral part. I was sitting at the back of the room because that was the best place to watch the students.
The girl who was sitting right in front me was waiting for her oral exam, and she got bored. She decided to take out her wallet and start looking at every piece of paper in it. I had a good look on this and could even see what was on each piece of paper.
After she had finished her oral exam, I told her to never do that again, because not all supervisors might be that flexible.
It was an exam where you could use everything you wanted: books, notes, calculators. The only thing that was forbidden was to contact another person. So, I took my trusty HP48G to the exam and I was told that I could use it.
For a large part of the exam you had to invert 3x3 and 4x4 matrices, so this turned out to be really useful.
In Perl 6 we actually give the programmer control over the individual grammar rules and even sub-rules, so that you can replace little bits and pieces of the grammar.
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This one is in color.
Come on!
Everyone knows that Velcro was a Vulcan invention.
Why would you want to debug Microsoft Windows?
Duke Nukem Forever!
Sorry guys, I just couldn't resist.
Well, it works, doesn't it :)
New Patent on Slashdot Forces You to Read Articles Twice (if you're lucky).
The results of a related study:
Doing stupid studies can lead young men to believe it is unacceptable to smoke marijuana and drink alcohol.
Of course, it is no good idea to drink/smoke too much or to do it and drive afterwards, but as long as it happens within acceptable limits, I see no problem.
In Belgium (and maybe also in other European countries), this problem is solved by asking a recycling tax and making vendors responsible for recycling old hardware and household appliances.
When buying something, a customer has to pay a small amount of money (for instance: 0,5 for a mobile phone), but in return, he can return his old devices to the vendor. The vendor then sends it to the manufacturer who recycles it.
Note that the parent didn't ask for MHz, but for mHz instead.
The correct answer is: 50000000000000 - 70000000000000 mHz.
Just display a confirmation page with the goatse.cx picture.
Anyone who can still click on the confirm button is not human.
Simple security measures like disabling auto-run and limiting executable permissions to a specific set of programs would nip this "vulnerability" in the bud.
That's true, but Sony and the other record companies wouldn't like that, because then their root k, oops, DRM software wouldn't work anymore.
How about: PlayStation For Ever.
One day I had to supervise an exam which consisted of a written part and an oral part. I was sitting at the back of the room because that was the best place to watch the students.
The girl who was sitting right in front me was waiting for her oral exam, and she got bored. She decided to take out her wallet and start looking at every piece of paper in it. I had a good look on this and could even see what was on each piece of paper.
After she had finished her oral exam, I told her to never do that again, because not all supervisors might be that flexible.
I have a similar experience.
It was an exam where you could use everything you wanted: books, notes, calculators. The only thing that was forbidden was to contact another person. So, I took my trusty HP48G to the exam and I was told that I could use it.
For a large part of the exam you had to invert 3x3 and 4x4 matrices, so this turned out to be really useful.
In Perl 6 we actually give the programmer control over the individual grammar rules and even sub-rules, so that you can replace little bits and pieces of the grammar.
Cool! Perl 6 code is even less readable.
I understand it, but only because I already know this stuff.
A better article to start with is: Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern, by Martin Fowler. It's older than the one mentioned in the story, but still relevant.
in Firefox?
studies will show that Einstein actually CREATED the universe in some kind of unconcious blunder
Don't tell that to the people who believe in Intelligent Design.
who thought of megacomputers when he read the subject?
Come on: when you read "N Flops", it is about floating point arithmetic, right?
We all know that ISS isn't up there anymore.
A few links for completeness:
It's "rival": phpBB.
A description of forum software on Wikipedia.
or you could just stop playing games and behave like adults :)
Password Safe is an open source application that encrypts all your passwords with a master password, so you only have to remember the master password.
It is only available for Windows.
I just wanted to add my name to the list, but then some timetraveller from 50.000 years in the future appeared and advised me not to do it.