Also note, you should make sure the firewall outside your pidgeon coop can see color, as you don't want any of those evil bit containing pidgeons through the door or you may be forced to restart the data transfer as your data packets are scrambled and pooped out in little piles.
Nore, typically the evil bit comes in the form of a red tail, talons, and a hooked beak. Occasionally it comes on all fours, with a red furry coat, fluffy tail and black tips on it's ears.
Hey, come on... put a large number of talented people in a large economy with a culture valuing education and industriousness and you need to expect them to excel at stuff like this.
Though I am a little confused as to why they would focus on cryogenic engines rather than the other way... ignoring a valuable natural resource and all. They should have made a curry engine instead, which has way more lifting power than a LOX and H engine could ever have if what it does to my gut is any idication...
My understanding of the 7 +/- rule always has been is the number is the same as what people can naturally hold in _short_term_memory_. (At least that's what phsychology books were saying when I went to college.) It has nothing to do with how many links are actually on the page, or how much they can read or memorize or whatever.
It simply means, "do not group more than ~7 items in any chunk" because more than that forces people to use the mental strategy of "read every item" (which is hard for some people to do) as oppose to "load into short term memory" to find something.
If you have ~7 items, you can load them into "buffer", choose the correct path to where you think you are in the site all before the mouse has moved to the menu.
The rule says NOTHING about how many links are on the page, just that GROUPS of links (or other information) need to be short.
Look at the Slashdot menu to the left, lots of links but under each easily identifiable grouping; place an eye on the center of each group and -bang- loaded in short term memory.
From there it is easy to "pick and click".
In my opinion the "debunking" of the rules is a pointless straw man because the people writing the refutations don't understand the rules in the first place.
Well Google is not (yet) smart enough to parse images. So it makes a lot of sense that the thing with the highest plain-text indexing score for goatse.cx is their stats page that mentions the URL a bunch of times. Many inexperinced webmasters make similar mistakes in their assumptions about what their ranking should be... remove the spash page and they get better rankings... duh! Google can't read shockwave and JPG.
A long time ago I was going to make a small web site selling my very own obnoxious bumper stickers of my own design. Various women in my life have since quashed the idea, but you made me recall one simply worded one;
"How you spell the wyrd, won't change my attitude about your cynt."
Of course, nobody else but me thought that type of stuff was funny. So the idea never got off the ground (or out of the gutter for that matter).
Primary/secondary are designators already used in reguards to the first (0) and second (1) IDE channels on standard motherboards.
So the addition of other terms designating a heirarchy makes sense because you could well be already talking about primary/secondary in the same sentence.
I think changing the terminology is stupid, right along with many other posters. Though I am interested in human language (as practiced, not as idealized) as a hobby and therefore have no academic weight whatsoever;
Verbal communication must above all be functional for it's context. Things that cause misunderstandings (not PC-isms, but actual loss of signal) get weeded out and people's language changes to suit.
For example; I worked in a pea cannery clean up crew a couple summers and found my speech patterns changed dramatically. "This" became "Dis" and "That" became "Dat", "there" became "Dere". Aside from the mix of slight non-US accents spoken at the plant, the "TH" sound is simply _too_quiet_ to be heard while noisy machinery is nearby. The so-called "lowbrow" language was a perfectly natural and essential way to speak when you can't hear so well due to noise and have a hardhat and rubber rain gear on all the time.
"Master/slave" should not go away until there is a good substitute, but also one that better suits the complex language needed to talk about them intelligently.
The people that want to change the terms probably think the "hard drive" is the thing that the monitor and keyboard plug into (i.e. the case). They should go back to trying to figure out why their cup-holder keeps closing when they reboot.
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Well, yeah... but rather it will be small subset of the Slashdot readership as the vast majority don't bother to read the linked article anyway...
He may have written it on his own time but I bet you he wrote it using knowledge and tools he wouldn't have had if he wasn't an employee of apple.
Are you seriously claiming they own his KNOWLEDGE?
(It remains to be seen if tools owned by Apple were used or not.)
Even IF he was some homeless uneducated slob before he got the job and they taught him how to comb and wash his hair and how to program they do not OWN diddly. He might take on training and agree to stay X months afterwards or something, but owning someone like that is _slavery_.
Facists like you give Apple wannabee fans a bad name. No wonder I hate them so much.
Let's say instead of a shareware app (which sounds pretty useful to me) the guy wrote a destructive email worm that only works on Mac platorms. He writes this on his own time on his own equipment in another country, then releases it to tear up a bunch of marketing companies (who have a high saturation of Mac platforms).
He "owns" that code (and maybe some computers too).
Did he commit the crime? Or did Apple Corp. commit the crime? After all, they own his ass and everything he does or creates, they have the right to financially exploit his artwork, code, writings or anything else. That means he should not get in trouble and Apple Corp. should.
Sorry, but no company owns anything not directly related to the job without prior written contractual agreement (and additional financial compenstation). Anything less is slavery, and as my example above should prove it's also obsurd.
Apple is a big company, so I suppose they have their fair share of clueless lawyers and PHBs so moronic attempts to trample on people's individual rights can be expected.
That doesn't mean they are any less a bunch of assholes for the attempt though. The assholes.
Many of the items us humans eat and enjoy are actually designed by the plant to deter or kill insects. Caffeine, THC, opium, nicotene, chilli (hot peppers), black pepper, garlic, onions, etc. all make those chemicals to keep bugs and other stuff from eating them.
Caffeine is used as a topical insecticide spray and will murder many types of bugs in minutes.
So in a sense, they are all posions.
Nicotine (I believe) is actually a carcinogen, but less so than a lot of the other stuff that comes with smoking tobacco. I still wouldnt want it in a food anyway, I have enough additions as it is already. I don't need that one.
Remember that F-117 shot down over Bosnia? Remember how they mentioned something about "cell phone towers" but really didn't explain?
Look carefully at a description of how the shape of stealth aircraft works, they always show the radar beams bouncing off and going up or to the side. Aside from the absobtion qualities of the materials they use, the energy STILL GOES SOMEWHERE.
Stealth only works because the SOMEWHERE part is usually back at the sender.
Now, stick a receiver on an aircraft or in space or on some tower in various other locations, connect it all up with another data pipe to a central location and hey... stealth doesnt work anymore. Calculate it all out with a computer and pretty soon you are getting targeting information on stealth aircraft.
If you know enough about the signal going out from the towers and you know enough about the state of the bounced scattering you get at some other location, you can probably build a pretty good idea of what is out there, find cars moving on the freeway, etc. just using cell phone tower and TV tower signals and analyzing the scattering and dopplar shift on them.
The coolest part about this technology (in my opinion) is it's just thinking about the problem in a different way to do something new.
[Note, why the hell wouldn't they just stick a cop with a radar gun where they want to catch speeders?]
I'd like to point out a reason why someone might put a 1x1 pixel gif in a web
page.
Not all versions of IE and Netscape (especially the versions earlier than 4 and
5 of both) render table cells correctly unless there is an object in the
cell. Sometimes the cell border is not drawn, or the size specification of
the cell is ignored by the browser (which then in turn messes up the layout). So
a single-pixel, transparent gif or a non-breaking space character can be put in
the cell to make it behave. As a occasional HTML and web page designer, a single
pixel gif is a good tool to have around.
In this particular case, it is easy to assume that something illicit is
intended, but the presence of the <noscript> tag makes me think that it is
an attempt to track what the ratio of JavaScript vs. non-JavaScript enabled
browsers visit the page. This web page has had many more visitors and
induced many people that may not have the latest and greatest stuff, whomever
designed it is probably just trying to figure out what fancy whiz bang tools
they can get away with.
Depending on their server set up they may be simply dumping the logs, or have
several of the things in the site to generate specific information. (50
million numbers, times 1.2 for revisits, times the number of objects on the
page, is one hell of a lot of bits in a log file.) They could have used
different hostnames for images to host them on different physical machines, or
whatever to break that up.
Note, that it is trivial to set up a virtual folder to point to a separate
machine to do the same thing, without using a different hostname. So if it
is a tool to link up phone numbers with IP addresses and email addresses (really
that's all it would do) then they didn't put much effort into hiding it.
Has anybody thought of ASKING THEM why the thing is there?
I prefer Occam's razor, the simplest explanation is also the most likely one to
be true.
What is a telephone? ('IS' in the reality AND philosophical sense)
Answer that, and the answer will be pretty obvious. Rather than all this dicussion about is VoIP phone service, someone should decide what a frickin telephone is first.
Otherwise, this whole issue is just the 'sound of one hand clapping'. Ok for normal references, but when there are laws about it, that's not good enough anymore.
- P-Pro150 (overclocked to 180 woo!) RedHat 7.2 install. Died in a week due to dead hard drive.
- RH 8 on a P3 800 (work) that had a bad BIOs, Windows crashed when using the IDE channels. It worked as a spam filter for a while before a faster machine was needed. (I just installed, didn't do the software setup.)
- Knoppix CDs burned and passed out to tech pals, used for diagnosis and getting critical files off dead OS on NTFS. Plus sorta fun to play with. Got stumped by network drivers on my primary machine, or would have put it on the hard drive too.
- Smoothwall 1 (makes a PC into a Linux firewall appliance) installed and mostly configured. Made this out of curiosity, wanting to read logs of my cable modem, why are the lights blinking all the time, even when my router is _off_. Also it waits around for when someone needs a firewall in a hurry as a stop-gap measure (for work).
This device seems like a great toy for me, and it also seems like it would be a good large, wired family thing.. or a small business (two or three employees) tool.
And a quote directly from Peter Lutus (or is it Phil?):
We used to think that a million monkeys in front of a million typewriters would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true.
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Sure it isnt in Empire Strikes back when the guy falls in the sand pit? (One of Jabba's bad guys.)
Teach her a few things while you are at it will you? The tire swing / gorilla suit thing is getting old.
:)
I'll buy you drinks later.
Also note, you should make sure the firewall outside your pidgeon coop can see color, as you don't want any of those evil bit containing pidgeons through the door or you may be forced to restart the data transfer as your data packets are scrambled and pooped out in little piles.
Nore, typically the evil bit comes in the form of a red tail, talons, and a hooked beak. Occasionally it comes on all fours, with a red furry coat, fluffy tail and black tips on it's ears.
Hey, come on... put a large number of talented people in a large economy with a culture valuing education and industriousness and you need to expect them to excel at stuff like this.
Though I am a little confused as to why they would focus on cryogenic engines rather than the other way... ignoring a valuable natural resource and all. They should have made a curry engine instead, which has way more lifting power than a LOX and H engine could ever have if what it does to my gut is any idication...
My understanding of the 7 +/- rule always has been is the number is the same as what people can naturally hold in _short_term_memory_. (At least that's what phsychology books were saying when I went to college.) It has nothing to do with how many links are actually on the page, or how much they can read or memorize or whatever.
It simply means, "do not group more than ~7 items in any chunk" because more than that forces people to use the mental strategy of "read every item" (which is hard for some people to do) as oppose to "load into short term memory" to find something.
If you have ~7 items, you can load them into "buffer", choose the correct path to where you think you are in the site all before the mouse has moved to the menu.
The rule says NOTHING about how many links are on the page, just that GROUPS of links (or other information) need to be short.
Look at the Slashdot menu to the left, lots of links but under each easily identifiable grouping; place an eye on the center of each group and -bang- loaded in short term memory.
From there it is easy to "pick and click".
In my opinion the "debunking" of the rules is a pointless straw man because the people writing the refutations don't understand the rules in the first place.
Well Google is not (yet) smart enough to parse images. So it makes a lot of sense that the thing with the highest plain-text indexing score for goatse.cx is their stats page that mentions the URL a bunch of times. Many inexperinced webmasters make similar mistakes in their assumptions about what their ranking should be... remove the spash page and they get better rankings... duh! Google can't read shockwave and JPG.
You make me dream good dreams again.
A long time ago I was going to make a small web site selling my very own obnoxious bumper stickers of my own design. Various women in my life have since quashed the idea, but you made me recall one simply worded one;
"How you spell the wyrd, won't change my attitude about your cynt."
Of course, nobody else but me thought that type of stuff was funny. So the idea never got off the ground (or out of the gutter for that matter).
And for the police stations in the bad part of town;
"Pimp/Ho"
Primary/secondary are designators already used in reguards to the first (0) and second (1) IDE channels on standard motherboards.
So the addition of other terms designating a heirarchy makes sense because you could well be already talking about primary/secondary in the same sentence.
I think changing the terminology is stupid, right along with many other posters. Though I am interested in human language (as practiced, not as idealized) as a hobby and therefore have no academic weight whatsoever;
Verbal communication must above all be functional for it's context. Things that cause misunderstandings (not PC-isms, but actual loss of signal) get weeded out and people's language changes to suit.
For example; I worked in a pea cannery clean up crew a couple summers and found my speech patterns changed dramatically. "This" became "Dis" and "That" became "Dat", "there" became "Dere". Aside from the mix of slight non-US accents spoken at the plant, the "TH" sound is simply _too_quiet_ to be heard while noisy machinery is nearby. The so-called "lowbrow" language was a perfectly natural and essential way to speak when you can't hear so well due to noise and have a hardhat and rubber rain gear on all the time.
"Master/slave" should not go away until there is a good substitute, but also one that better suits the complex language needed to talk about them intelligently.
The people that want to change the terms probably think the "hard drive" is the thing that the monitor and keyboard plug into (i.e. the case). They should go back to trying to figure out why their cup-holder keeps closing when they reboot.
Well, yeah... but rather it will be small subset of the Slashdot readership as the vast majority don't bother to read the linked article anyway...
Or you could just turn off the preview pane. View, Preview Pane, (click on it to toggle).
Not that you shouldn't move away from Outlook, it's just that your reasoning is lame and contrived.
Dude, you watch too much Star Trek.
He may have written it on his own time but I bet you he wrote it using knowledge and tools he wouldn't have had if he wasn't an employee of apple.
Are you seriously claiming they own his KNOWLEDGE ?
(It remains to be seen if tools owned by Apple were used or not.)
Even IF he was some homeless uneducated slob before he got the job and they taught him how to comb and wash his hair and how to program they do not OWN diddly. He might take on training and agree to stay X months afterwards or something, but owning someone like that is _slavery_.
Facists like you give Apple wannabee fans a bad name. No wonder I hate them so much.
Let's say instead of a shareware app (which sounds pretty useful to me) the guy wrote a destructive email worm that only works on Mac platorms. He writes this on his own time on his own equipment in another country, then releases it to tear up a bunch of marketing companies (who have a high saturation of Mac platforms).
He "owns" that code (and maybe some computers too).
Did he commit the crime? Or did Apple Corp. commit the crime? After all, they own his ass and everything he does or creates, they have the right to financially exploit his artwork, code, writings or anything else. That means he should not get in trouble and Apple Corp. should.
Sorry, but no company owns anything not directly related to the job without prior written contractual agreement (and additional financial compenstation). Anything less is slavery, and as my example above should prove it's also obsurd.
Apple is a big company, so I suppose they have their fair share of clueless lawyers and PHBs so moronic attempts to trample on people's individual rights can be expected.
That doesn't mean they are any less a bunch of assholes for the attempt though. The assholes.
I for one welcome our new Reproducing Artificial Virus Overlords!
I think you are remembering fortune cookies, which were invented in San Francisco by a restraunteer as a gimick.
Chopsticks have been around for ages, and certainly were around earlier than 1800s.
Well... what she looks like anyway. You never know if it's a real girl or not... there are some good fakes out there.
Many of the items us humans eat and enjoy are actually designed by the plant to deter or kill insects. Caffeine, THC, opium, nicotene, chilli (hot peppers), black pepper, garlic, onions, etc. all make those chemicals to keep bugs and other stuff from eating them.
Caffeine is used as a topical insecticide spray and will murder many types of bugs in minutes.
So in a sense, they are all posions.
Nicotine (I believe) is actually a carcinogen, but less so than a lot of the other stuff that comes with smoking tobacco. I still wouldnt want it in a food anyway, I have enough additions as it is already. I don't need that one.
Kill your fish? A 7-barrel 30mm cannon is a little overkill for some tropical fish don't you think?
They would not even be able to re-use the tank afterward.
A half a cup of bleach would do the job just fine.
I can I be the first person to say;
[netscape]
Me TOoo!!!!1
[/netscape]
Remember that F-117 shot down over Bosnia? Remember how they mentioned something about "cell phone towers" but really didn't explain?
Look carefully at a description of how the shape of stealth aircraft works, they always show the radar beams bouncing off and going up or to the side. Aside from the absobtion qualities of the materials they use, the energy STILL GOES SOMEWHERE.
Stealth only works because the SOMEWHERE part is usually back at the sender.
Now, stick a receiver on an aircraft or in space or on some tower in various other locations, connect it all up with another data pipe to a central location and hey... stealth doesnt work anymore. Calculate it all out with a computer and pretty soon you are getting targeting information on stealth aircraft.
If you know enough about the signal going out from the towers and you know enough about the state of the bounced scattering you get at some other location, you can probably build a pretty good idea of what is out there, find cars moving on the freeway, etc. just using cell phone tower and TV tower signals and analyzing the scattering and dopplar shift on them.
The coolest part about this technology (in my opinion) is it's just thinking about the problem in a different way to do something new.
[Note, why the hell wouldn't they just stick a cop with a radar gun where they want to catch speeders?]
I'd like to point out a reason why someone might put a 1x1 pixel gif in a web page.
Not all versions of IE and Netscape (especially the versions earlier than 4 and 5 of both) render table cells correctly unless there is an object in the cell. Sometimes the cell border is not drawn, or the size specification of the cell is ignored by the browser (which then in turn messes up the layout). So a single-pixel, transparent gif or a non-breaking space character can be put in the cell to make it behave. As a occasional HTML and web page designer, a single pixel gif is a good tool to have around.
In this particular case, it is easy to assume that something illicit is intended, but the presence of the <noscript> tag makes me think that it is an attempt to track what the ratio of JavaScript vs. non-JavaScript enabled browsers visit the page. This web page has had many more visitors and induced many people that may not have the latest and greatest stuff, whomever designed it is probably just trying to figure out what fancy whiz bang tools they can get away with.
Depending on their server set up they may be simply dumping the logs, or have several of the things in the site to generate specific information. (50 million numbers, times 1.2 for revisits, times the number of objects on the page, is one hell of a lot of bits in a log file.) They could have used different hostnames for images to host them on different physical machines, or whatever to break that up.
Note, that it is trivial to set up a virtual folder to point to a separate machine to do the same thing, without using a different hostname. So if it is a tool to link up phone numbers with IP addresses and email addresses (really that's all it would do) then they didn't put much effort into hiding it.
Has anybody thought of ASKING THEM why the thing is there?
I prefer Occam's razor, the simplest explanation is also the most likely one to be true.
Well.
What is a telephone? ('IS' in the reality AND philosophical sense)
Answer that, and the answer will be pretty obvious. Rather than all this dicussion about is VoIP phone service, someone should decide what a frickin telephone is first.
Otherwise, this whole issue is just the 'sound of one hand clapping'. Ok for normal references, but when there are laws about it, that's not good enough anymore.
Example A:
My exploits so far:
- P-Pro150 (overclocked to 180 woo!) RedHat 7.2 install. Died in a week due to dead hard drive.
- RH 8 on a P3 800 (work) that had a bad BIOs, Windows crashed when using the IDE channels. It worked as a spam filter for a while before a faster machine was needed. (I just installed, didn't do the software setup.)
- Knoppix CDs burned and passed out to tech pals, used for diagnosis and getting critical files off dead OS on NTFS. Plus sorta fun to play with. Got stumped by network drivers on my primary machine, or would have put it on the hard drive too.
- Smoothwall 1 (makes a PC into a Linux firewall appliance) installed and mostly configured. Made this out of curiosity, wanting to read logs of my cable modem, why are the lights blinking all the time, even when my router is _off_. Also it waits around for when someone needs a firewall in a hurry as a stop-gap measure (for work).
This device seems like a great toy for me, and it also seems like it would be a good large, wired family thing.. or a small business (two or three employees) tool.
And a quote directly from Peter Lutus (or is it Phil?):
We used to think that a million monkeys in front of a million typewriters would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true.