Besides, how many times have you heard office workers say "Oh God, IE doesn't support CSS properly or render transparent PNGs?!"
Around my office, a hell of a lot:-)
We do web apps and we like them to look pretty and proper. It's quite incredible to see the first time someone exclaims about how horrid it is that IE doesn't support PNG / a CSS style / etc.
I was taken aback when one of our previously-less-technical people started on about how bad IE was for still not supporting transparent PNG... I always assumed non-technical people had never heard of PNG!
I'm just surprised they're supplying the environment.
It usually takes me a week to get a dev box up to "where I like it". Without an easy way to install my favourite software (*cough*apt-get*cough*Debian*cough*) it'd take longer!
The environment doesn't make the coder, but it helps.
Of course, they don't really let you change the environment in the Real Olympics either, so I guess that's just bad luck!
Oh yeah. I live in Australia, and work in the Adelaide Hills. There isn't a lot of redundancy around here, we reglarly have 2 second "blackouts" (every one or two months).
We also get outages of up to an hour during summer (bloody airconditioners!:). The longest unplanned outage I can remember recently was around four hours.
The upgrade was some pretty major thing from memory.
We had a scheduled power outage a few weeks back at my company... nothing special, the power company were just replacing a local transformer or something, scheduled to take most of the day.
Everyone here got the day off, with pay.
Funny thing was, the power company decided on the day that the maintenance couldn't be done until a couple of weeks later!:-)
However, there is nothing to prohibit someone from filing a Freedom of Information request once the government buys it. This would close that loophole.
That's not a loophole, that's the point.
It's not like they'll say it's only exempt from the FOIA for n-years either, it seems pretty permanent to me...
I once went the full hog on a similar issue back in high school...
Teacher gave us a "BASIC" program (it was half-basic, half-pseudocode... hard to tell where one stopped an the other began;).
It read through an array or something (or DATA maybe?), but he put the "is at end of data" check in the wrong place, so it wouldn't actually have run properly.
I wrote out the error he would have got on attempting to run it, the corrected version of the program, and the corrected output.
My wife and I had an issue last year with the power company.
They refused to believe we lived where we said we did. (We lived at 14/15 Foo Street, they said we lived at 19 Foo Street). We told them quite regularly that they had the wrong address, but they kept saying they had the right one, because "that's what the records say".
The reason it all came up? They posted bills (~$500 worth) to a non-existant address, waited around four-six months, and rang us to complain that we hadn't paid.
We said we wanted a bill before we'd pay it. (Fair enough, no?)
They sent out a bill... to the wrong address.
Months later, they managed to actually get us a bill - at this point, we'd been with another electricity provider for six months, had lower income (my wife was working at a school at that stage, it was school holidays thus no pay for her). We were also preparing to move into our current place at the time.
We did manage to get a scheme in place - $50/fortnight direct-debited. (Which should be finished verrrrry soon!).
But people, people - just remember; your records may be wrong!!!
All this because they refused to believe we lived at our address, and repeatedly sent bills to "our" non-existant address.
The manufacturers are now scampering to get to 16x speed first. After the makers all achieve 16x then we'll get get other differentiating features in the drives, like MR.
I think you meant to say:
The manufacturers are now scampering to get to a speed where if they went any faster, 80% of discs would fracture and explode inside the drive first.;-)
I would argue that your familiarity with the language can change if it's the "best tool" or not.
Lisp may be the best tool for $PROJECT for Alice, but Bob here only knows Python and it's not worth getting him to learn Lisp for this ten-minute project.
Same goes for group engineering - A JSP / Servlet may be the single best way to do something... except everyone else in the company uses only PHP, and your contract runs out at the end of the main development cycle.
CG Networks is also noteworthy because it's part of Ballistic Media, the company that brings you fine digital art like EXPOSÉ, paired up with discreet to do a combined art book called Elemental, and is bringing out d'artiste , a tutorial book on digital painting.
The books are all available at the SIGGRAPH expo - if you can't get there, you'll have to get them ordered ordered on the website and wait a few weeks for shipping:)
And to get it clear, yes, I work for them - but it's a bloody fantastic job. Especially the part where I'm reading Slashdot because my boss is in LA;-)
I believe that there are jurisdictions in which car mods (or some kinds) are illegal. (California comes to mind).
I don't know about California, but in most places it's modding a car in any way you please isn't illegal - just driving it on public roads. Big difference!
At least around here (.au) they have remote temperature sensors... if they notice a huge spike in the temperature without the airconditioner failing (which they can also detect remotely) they'd notice.
Bases generally have 6+ hours of backup battery life, too.
Not to mention, most of the time you're actually in range of multiple towers, so if one goes down you're *probably* still covered.
"Step" sounds good to me. We could call it OpenStep, or GNUStep. Maybe Apple will have something with a compatible API - let's call it NeXTSTEP, they'd probably buy it from somewhere else - and ship it on top of their Unix-like OS!
With such a small download size for some of the Moz-based browsers, it's probably easiest just to pop up a dialog "A new version is available. Upgrade now? [Yes] [No]".
New versions aren't that hard to sell - especially if they are small and include security patches.
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Besides, how many times have you heard office workers say "Oh God, IE doesn't support CSS properly or render transparent PNGs?!"
:-)
Around my office, a hell of a lot
We do web apps and we like them to look pretty and proper. It's quite incredible to see the first time someone exclaims about how horrid it is that IE doesn't support PNG / a CSS style / etc.
I was taken aback when one of our previously-less-technical people started on about how bad IE was for still not supporting transparent PNG... I always assumed non-technical people had never heard of PNG!
If it's so bad, why don't you make your own front end for the RSS feed?
:)
The RSS feed doesn't include the full article summary, it limits the length.
Makes the RSS much less useful IMHO.
Editors - any chance of changing that?
M$: You are my idol.
RIAA: Thankyou
M$: So we're going to screw you over soon, too.
RIAA: Ugh...
I'm just surprised they're supplying the environment.
It usually takes me a week to get a dev box up to "where I like it". Without an easy way to install my favourite software (*cough*apt-get*cough*Debian*cough*) it'd take longer!
The environment doesn't make the coder, but it helps.
Of course, they don't really let you change the environment in the Real Olympics either, so I guess that's just bad luck!
Oh yeah. I live in Australia, and work in the Adelaide Hills. There isn't a lot of redundancy around here, we reglarly have 2 second "blackouts" (every one or two months).
:). The longest unplanned outage I can remember recently was around four hours.
We also get outages of up to an hour during summer (bloody airconditioners!
The upgrade was some pretty major thing from memory.
Whoah that sucks.
:-)
We had a scheduled power outage a few weeks back at my company... nothing special, the power company were just replacing a local transformer or something, scheduled to take most of the day.
Everyone here got the day off, with pay.
Funny thing was, the power company decided on the day that the maintenance couldn't be done until a couple of weeks later!
At least that time it was out of office hours...
However, there is nothing to prohibit someone from filing a Freedom of Information request once the government buys it. This would close that loophole.
That's not a loophole, that's the point.
It's not like they'll say it's only exempt from the FOIA for n-years either, it seems pretty permanent to me...
I once went the full hog on a similar issue back in high school...
;).
;)
Teacher gave us a "BASIC" program (it was half-basic, half-pseudocode... hard to tell where one stopped an the other began
It read through an array or something (or DATA maybe?), but he put the "is at end of data" check in the wrong place, so it wouldn't actually have run properly.
I wrote out the error he would have got on attempting to run it, the corrected version of the program, and the corrected output.
I got 110% for that day of programming
Decrease then increase the font size, it'll re-render.
:)
(Control-mousewheel if you're so lucky to have a mousewheel
You could always get an HTTP proxy to rewrite any pages from it.slashdot.org to have a 302 Redirect to the regular page...
Um...
The researchers have achieved a speed of 8,609 megabits per second
That would be 8 gigabits per second. ie. 1 gigabyte per second. Which would copy a 4.7GB DVD in... 5 seconds.
My wife and I had an issue last year with the power company.
They refused to believe we lived where we said we did. (We lived at 14/15 Foo Street, they said we lived at 19 Foo Street). We told them quite regularly that they had the wrong address, but they kept saying they had the right one, because "that's what the records say".
The reason it all came up? They posted bills (~$500 worth) to a non-existant address, waited around four-six months, and rang us to complain that we hadn't paid.
We said we wanted a bill before we'd pay it. (Fair enough, no?)
They sent out a bill... to the wrong address.
Months later, they managed to actually get us a bill - at this point, we'd been with another electricity provider for six months, had lower income (my wife was working at a school at that stage, it was school holidays thus no pay for her). We were also preparing to move into our current place at the time.
We did manage to get a scheme in place - $50/fortnight direct-debited. (Which should be finished verrrrry soon!).
But people, people - just remember; your records may be wrong!!!
All this because they refused to believe we lived at our address, and repeatedly sent bills to "our" non-existant address.
Even Notepad is preferable to Word when dealing with plain text.
I personally use WordPad quite a bit for plain text files (when I'm not around vim or jEdit).
Why?
Notepad doesn't handle Unix or Mac-style linebreaks. ("\n" or "\r" instead of "\r\n").
Word would often be the right tool for the job. It has a spell checker, for starters...
The manufacturers are now scampering to get to 16x speed first. After the makers all achieve 16x then we'll get get other differentiating features in the drives, like MR.
;-)
I think you meant to say:
The manufacturers are now scampering to get to a speed where if they went any faster, 80% of discs would fracture and explode inside the drive first.
I would argue that your familiarity with the language can change if it's the "best tool" or not.
Lisp may be the best tool for $PROJECT for Alice, but Bob here only knows Python and it's not worth getting him to learn Lisp for this ten-minute project.
Same goes for group engineering - A JSP / Servlet may be the single best way to do something... except everyone else in the company uses only PHP, and your contract runs out at the end of the main development cycle.
> I strongly suspect no routine/application exists which is "best" accomplished in brainfuck.
Nearly all female subroutines appear to be written in it.
Well! Look where it got you!
*ducks*
They're not the only ones doing SIGGRAPH coverage.
:)
;-)
CG Networks has their coverage (day 1, day 2).
CG Networks is also noteworthy because it's part of Ballistic Media, the company that brings you fine digital art like EXPOSÉ, paired up with discreet to do a combined art book called Elemental, and is bringing out d'artiste , a tutorial book on digital painting.
The books are all available at the SIGGRAPH expo - if you can't get there, you'll have to get them ordered ordered on the website and wait a few weeks for shipping
And to get it clear, yes, I work for them - but it's a bloody fantastic job. Especially the part where I'm reading Slashdot because my boss is in LA
I believe that there are jurisdictions in which car mods (or some kinds) are illegal. (California comes to mind).
I don't know about California, but in most places it's modding a car in any way you please isn't illegal - just driving it on public roads. Big difference!
Stupendously unlikely in a base station, IMHO.
At least around here (.au) they have remote temperature sensors... if they notice a huge spike in the temperature without the airconditioner failing (which they can also detect remotely) they'd notice.
Bases generally have 6+ hours of backup battery life, too.
Not to mention, most of the time you're actually in range of multiple towers, so if one goes down you're *probably* still covered.
"Step" sounds good to me. We could call it OpenStep, or GNUStep. Maybe Apple will have something with a compatible API - let's call it NeXTSTEP, they'd probably buy it from somewhere else - and ship it on top of their Unix-like OS!
:)
Brilliant!
wait for H.264
;-)
Or Theora!
Or Tarkin!
If nothing else they can hang your machine... the original exploit contains a DoS example.
;-)
Also, some apps aren't so friendly - wouldn't it be funny if there was a reboot.exe...
With such a small download size for some of the Moz-based browsers, it's probably easiest just to pop up a dialog "A new version is available. Upgrade now? [Yes] [No]".
New versions aren't that hard to sell - especially if they are small and include security patches.
Good whips are still around though, just not those buggy ones. Just ask Indiana Jones.
;-)
(Or this guy I know's girlfriend...
I'd hardly say it works flawlessly if you have to resort to hackery like rewriting JS through a proxy! :-P