I'm sorry, but I own the trademark on this particular misspelling of the word "definate". Please refrain from misspelling "definite" in violation of my trademark. Thank you.
DeBeers owns the world's dimaond mines, and controls all distribution of the diamonds extracted. they specifically control the (abundant!) supply to create an image of rarity.
this was all talked about in Wired Magazine a year or so ago - with a great deal of talk about artifical diamonds from various companies - including one group that builds/sheets/ of diamonds for $0.05/kt.
this is well-known fact among many jewelers. where it's documented, i have no idea.
but it's not because it's open-source. don't get me wrong, i used to love opera until Firefox came along. the problem with Opera i have right now is that it will actually *HANG* my X session after using it for a few minutes. otherwise, i love Opera and would use it more often!
i suspect it may have something to do with either QT or the nVidia drivers. but i have no idea.
if you stick to the 4 pages listed on the start page, yeah, it works well - and it's fast!
as soon as you leave those 4 pages, it stops working, latencies fall off the charts (i waited 12 hours for ONE "popular" page to trickle down to my cache), and you're lucky to see anything at all - much less the tiny graphics for a page.
i'd be interested in these if they're available for prescription focal adjustments.
i'm almost blind in my right eye due to near-sightedness, and don't wear glasses, but i'd wear these contacts if i can get them for correcting my own vision.
one example that popped into my head almost immediately is an effect similar to HUDs in many 3D games - a partially translucent float that allows text underneath to partially show through. imagine, if you will, a fixed-position menu employing a translucent background so it doesn't completely obscure the page underneath.
all eye-candy really, but i know i've wanted to do it.
on the Daily Show (the exact date eludes me atm), the Rock says they're "calling it the Bio-Force Gun", but "that's not what it *is*".
i have also only heard it called the "Big F*cking Gun" everywhere. that airing of the Daily Show was the _first_ time i've *EVER* heard it called the "Bio-Force Gun". but FWIW, i have yet to actually play anything more recent than Doom 1.
in the spirit of Korn's "Y'all want a single?" music video, tear down and destroy any retail outlet of music and video. put a complete end to the retail market. stop distributing music, movies, and other content in any form whatsoever.
then, bring a stop to all music and movie production. including pr0n movies. put a stop to all new content.
now, make all such content illegal under international treaties.
there. now there's nothing to pirate. p2p networks will find more legitimate uses. ISPs can't be sued for allowing customers to "infringe." end-users won't be sued for "infringing." the undue load on the court systems worldwide will fall off sharply.
why not? we might as well. they don't seem to want us watching their ever-worsening movies, listneing to their over-played and re-hashed music, or watching overly-repetitive and uninteresting pr0n.
oh? they want us to buy their stuff? that's why they're suing us? fuck them.
don't like my idea? how about this:
how about the IFPA and MPA members start producing content worth the imposed cost? how about some more original, enjoyable music? how about original, enjoyable movies? how about no more bad sequels? how about Berman and Braga are castrated and hung upside down and some *DECENT* writers brought on to handle TV shows?
i heard recently of a case where BitTorrent was declared by a court to NOT be inherently illegal. i don't recall if it was a Canadian or US case, but perhaps you could show them that?
back in Idaho, my dad was illegally arrested for "illegal tresspass" based on false charges. as a test, a lawyer suggested applying for a concealed weapons permit.
what amazes me is that with all of the firearms in his house, he still doesn't keep a handgun in his truck.
anyway, it's nice to know Idaho has laws allowing for that. it's especially nice that the crime rate there was fairly low.
(hearing how excited the DA was about a local pedophile arrest, i was rather disappointed with the state of things. the DA is so bored that she gets EXCITED about pedos.)
RAR has an open decompression library that allows for derivative works that decompress RAR formats. you can link it, modify it, use it, redistribute it modified, whatever, as long as you don't try to reverse-engineer the compression scheme. go download UnRAR and read the damned license.
it could help some if the local TV stations carried UPN. (which, in my hometown they didn't.) or maybe that the cable companies would carry a UPN station. (they didn't.) hell, it would have been nice if satellite were cheaper and more readily available there. (forget it.)
when they stop alienating their audiences with these exclusive airing contracts, maybe they'd actually get viewership.
i published my experimental blog on the internet for everybody. i used several techniques that require CSS2 support.
look at it in WinIE, and get a feel for the whole page.
look at it in *ANY* OTHER GRAPHICAL BROWSER and look again. neat trick, huh? it looks nearly identical except that nifty mouseover effect. and guess what? i tested in WinIE6 last. and i needed to make only one change to make it work.
i never excluded WinIE. WinIE excluded itself by not supporting one little cool feature.
This is exactly why asp web applciations scale poorly.
no, ASP applications scale poorly because ASP itself scales poorly.
You can decided to hold off and do all validation on a final post. But that isn't user friendly. If you validate each input using server controls, every control causes a round trip to a single server that has to access the user's session varables and respond.
i don't see how you come to this conclusion. form data is sent to the server in one big go. all of that data is there, ready for processing. adding some sanity checks for security purposes and a couple of basic processing techniques (such as a regex replace to convert characters to a more usable format) are trivial and don't necessarily cause more load on the server than the processing you're already doing.
Client computers often use about 3% of their CPUs, so anytime you can move the validation to the client, you will make the application more responsive and you will reduce the load on the server.
where did you get this magic 3%? on my computer, my browser uses 7% or more just while i'm typing this post. and besides, what makes you think the client itself is trustworthy? i can throw together a Perl or REBOL script in a matter of minutes that will pass any data i want to your application - bypassing completely your client-side checks. what was your point again?
Client-side validation can be a big win UNLESS you have two users fighting over a single record (e.g. on-line reservation system) or when the amount of data needed to do the validation would be prohibitive
irrelevant. if you're using a database server to drive your backend, you can generally rely on the database to properly handle race conditions - nearly all database servers in common use (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DBi.... or even the filesystem your operating system uses qualifies here.) are designed to handle race conditions gracefully, and transparently to the application using them. some (like a homebrew CSV "database") are notorious for being buggy due to either poor testing, poor design, or both.
additionally, testing a list of zipcodes against a list of municipalities is trivial if you populate your database with this data....unless you're using flat CSVs for a high-traffic application. in which case, you're clearly insane - or at least masochistic.
In my opinion, a good web developer will use server-side validation as a last resort.
remind me not to hire you for any development project.
no, AVG uses the free unrar source code to unrar the archive in memory for the purposes of scanning. a lot of software use that because the license states:
2. The unRAR sources may be used in any software to handle RAR archives without limitations free of charge, but cannot be used to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary. Distribution of modified unRAR sources in separate form or as a part of other software is permitted, provided that it is clearly stated in the documentation and source comments that the code may not be used to develop a RAR (WinRAR) compatible archiver.
a lot of software uses unRAR for this exact reason. if you don't need to compress it, but have a legitimate need to open and decompress it, you're free to do so without limitation.
this is interesting because Bob Lazar makes the rather astonishing claim that UFOs are propelled by directed gravity waves.
he also made the claims that gravity waves are instantaneous (i.e., have no discernable speed), and that such waves are generated by the decay of element 115.
maybe it doesn't take insane amounts of energy to do. maybe there are things physics theories simply can't describe just yet.
it's a much more detestable rock version of the same song now. (as of the 3rd season, IIRC.)
of course, since i don't watch the show on TV (no satellite and no cable and no local UPN syndicates), i can just fast forward my HDTV rips past the opening and somewhat be able to enjoy the 3rd and 4th season storylines.
season 4 introduces the Romulans and brings us closer to the beginning of the Romulan wars (which are due to begin about the 6th season - assuming Enterprise were to continue).
i'm actually really disappointed that they're cancelling it just as the writers are gearing up for a war so pivotal to the development of the Federation.
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wow, they've improved on their choice of chipset!
i am the not-so-proud owner of a Stealth G460. i'm amazed cards like that *SOLD*.
I'm sorry, but I own the trademark on this particular misspelling of the word "definate". Please refrain from misspelling "definite" in violation of my trademark. Thank you.
DeBeers owns the world's dimaond mines, and controls all distribution of the diamonds extracted. they specifically control the (abundant!) supply to create an image of rarity.
/sheets/ of diamonds for $0.05/kt.
this was all talked about in Wired Magazine a year or so ago - with a great deal of talk about artifical diamonds from various companies - including one group that builds
this is well-known fact among many jewelers. where it's documented, i have no idea.
they've been doing this for over a year now, but...
i'd jump on this card if a similar technique could be achieved in linux.
so has it been done?
but it's not because it's open-source. don't get me wrong, i used to love opera until Firefox came along. the problem with Opera i have right now is that it will actually *HANG* my X session after using it for a few minutes. otherwise, i love Opera and would use it more often!
i suspect it may have something to do with either QT or the nVidia drivers. but i have no idea.
if you stick to the 4 pages listed on the start page, yeah, it works well - and it's fast!
as soon as you leave those 4 pages, it stops working, latencies fall off the charts (i waited 12 hours for ONE "popular" page to trickle down to my cache), and you're lucky to see anything at all - much less the tiny graphics for a page.
you can't really compare them. Sheepshaver is more akin to UAE than PearPC. it emulates a motorola 68k core, not a PPC.
i'd be interested in these if they're available for prescription focal adjustments.
i'm almost blind in my right eye due to near-sightedness, and don't wear glasses, but i'd wear these contacts if i can get them for correcting my own vision.
one example that popped into my head almost immediately is an effect similar to HUDs in many 3D games - a partially translucent float that allows text underneath to partially show through. imagine, if you will, a fixed-position menu employing a translucent background so it doesn't completely obscure the page underneath.
all eye-candy really, but i know i've wanted to do it.
on the Daily Show (the exact date eludes me atm), the Rock says they're "calling it the Bio-Force Gun", but "that's not what it *is*".
i have also only heard it called the "Big F*cking Gun" everywhere. that airing of the Daily Show was the _first_ time i've *EVER* heard it called the "Bio-Force Gun". but FWIW, i have yet to actually play anything more recent than Doom 1.
...says he gets to use the B.F.G.
holy shit i want to see that movie.
in the spirit of Korn's "Y'all want a single?" music video, tear down and destroy any retail outlet of music and video. put a complete end to the retail market. stop distributing music, movies, and other content in any form whatsoever.
then, bring a stop to all music and movie production. including pr0n movies. put a stop to all new content.
now, make all such content illegal under international treaties.
there. now there's nothing to pirate. p2p networks will find more legitimate uses. ISPs can't be sued for allowing customers to "infringe." end-users won't be sued for "infringing." the undue load on the court systems worldwide will fall off sharply.
why not? we might as well. they don't seem to want us watching their ever-worsening movies, listneing to their over-played and re-hashed music, or watching overly-repetitive and uninteresting pr0n.
oh? they want us to buy their stuff? that's why they're suing us? fuck them.
don't like my idea? how about this:
how about the IFPA and MPA members start producing content worth the imposed cost? how about some more original, enjoyable music? how about original, enjoyable movies? how about no more bad sequels? how about Berman and Braga are castrated and hung upside down and some *DECENT* writers brought on to handle TV shows?
HOW ABOUT SOME DECENT FUCKING CONTENT?
i don't get you.
why? why does that matter? why should i care whether Alan Turing was gay? why does it matter what religion or faith Larry Wall may or may not follow?
the difference here, though, is that Budweiser *SHOULD* be ordered to stop selling colored water.
i heard recently of a case where BitTorrent was declared by a court to NOT be inherently illegal. i don't recall if it was a Canadian or US case, but perhaps you could show them that?
back in Idaho, my dad was illegally arrested for "illegal tresspass" based on false charges. as a test, a lawyer suggested applying for a concealed weapons permit. what amazes me is that with all of the firearms in his house, he still doesn't keep a handgun in his truck. anyway, it's nice to know Idaho has laws allowing for that. it's especially nice that the crime rate there was fairly low. (hearing how excited the DA was about a local pedophile arrest, i was rather disappointed with the state of things. the DA is so bored that she gets EXCITED about pedos.)
RAR has an open decompression library that allows for derivative works that decompress RAR formats. you can link it, modify it, use it, redistribute it modified, whatever, as long as you don't try to reverse-engineer the compression scheme. go download UnRAR and read the damned license.
it could help some if the local TV stations carried UPN. (which, in my hometown they didn't.) or maybe that the cable companies would carry a UPN station. (they didn't.) hell, it would have been nice if satellite were cheaper and more readily available there. (forget it.)
when they stop alienating their audiences with these exclusive airing contracts, maybe they'd actually get viewership.
i published my experimental blog on the internet for everybody. i used several techniques that require CSS2 support.
look at it in WinIE, and get a feel for the whole page.
look at it in *ANY* OTHER GRAPHICAL BROWSER and look again. neat trick, huh? it looks nearly identical except that nifty mouseover effect. and guess what? i tested in WinIE6 last. and i needed to make only one change to make it work.
i never excluded WinIE. WinIE excluded itself by not supporting one little cool feature.
additionally, testing a list of zipcodes against a list of municipalities is trivial if you populate your database with this data.
incorrect. WinRAR supports NTFS permissions as of RAR 3.3, possibly earlier. i haven't tested it myself, but everything seems to be there.
no, AVG uses the free unrar source code to unrar the archive in memory for the purposes of scanning. a lot of software use that because the license states:
a lot of software uses unRAR for this exact reason. if you don't need to compress it, but have a legitimate need to open and decompress it, you're free to do so without limitation.
this is interesting because Bob Lazar makes the rather astonishing claim that UFOs are propelled by directed gravity waves.
he also made the claims that gravity waves are instantaneous (i.e., have no discernable speed), and that such waves are generated by the decay of element 115.
maybe it doesn't take insane amounts of energy to do. maybe there are things physics theories simply can't describe just yet.
i, for one, am keeping an open mind.
they did change it.
it's a much more detestable rock version of the same song now. (as of the 3rd season, IIRC.)
of course, since i don't watch the show on TV (no satellite and no cable and no local UPN syndicates), i can just fast forward my HDTV rips past the opening and somewhat be able to enjoy the 3rd and 4th season storylines.
you haven't been following lately,have you?
season 4 introduces the Romulans and brings us closer to the beginning of the Romulan wars (which are due to begin about the 6th season - assuming Enterprise were to continue).
i'm actually really disappointed that they're cancelling it just as the writers are gearing up for a war so pivotal to the development of the Federation.