255 bytes: First name 1 byte: Middle initial 255 bytes: Surname 1 bit: Boolean true if user checked the 'Member of Terrorist Group' checkbox 7 bits: CIA National Boxcutter Purchase Monitoring flags 16KB: ASCII-art depiction of tubgirl courtesy of frustrated intern 16KB: Excerpts from Book of Revelation 1 byte: Flags for previous visits to Iran / Cuba / North Korea / Syria / Lebanon / Pakistan / Libya / Yavin 30KB: XML representation of above flags
I had thought this was alarmist, that the information would be a set of MD5s or in the case of client-side data, public-key encrypted, but that turns out to not be the case. It's all naked data.
The thing I don't get is why not use CSS? I'd have thought the bandwidth saving alone would be reason enough, let alone cleaning up all the drunken formatting.
Yeah, but remember the last lot of Intel concept PCs that were all curvy and built into footstools and now we're all using computers that are curvy and built into footstools? It'll be just like that.
It's almost as if Wesley Crusher, during an excursion on an unimaginably perfect planet, accidentally stepped on some flowers and was condemned to death.
(As if the threat of Wesley Crusher dying would create dramatic tension).
There is a rumour afoot that the plans were destroyed as part of the contract for the shuttle
The Saturn V plans were destroyed by scribbling on them with a billion-dollar pen that would work in zero-gravity. By contrast, the Russians destroyed the plans for their moon rocket with a simple pencil.
Soyuz supports spacewalks fine. Soyuz 4 featured a spacewalk, as well as the first transfer of cosmonauts between spacecraft, back in 1969. In fact, the original lunar Soyuz design required spacewalks as part of the mission profile, and the orbital module acts as an airlock, so spacewalks are more convenient than for Gemini or Apollo capsules.
Soyuz is also exceptionally reconfigurable. The orbital module can be - and has been - modified and replaced without affecting the other modules.
Soyuz is also an evolved spacecraft, with the current TMA considerably different to the original 7K-OK. Kliper is essentially an extended Soyuz with wings.
Although this question is a little of the "Have you stopped beating your wife" variety, it does broach a serious issue.
MS can argue that PNG transparency is an optional part of the standard, but there is no good reason not to embrace it. MS has been quite happy to come up with all sorts of crazy IE-only CSS extensions to alpha-mask, blur and drop-shadow images, presumably with the intention of owning CSS. So why not implement something that people actually want?
A lot of the performance in games consoles comes down the the quality of the profiler and the compiler optimisations available. Sony were still improving the original PlayStation's performance after the PS2 was available.
I wonder what M$ has to beat back a server processor with essentially hyper threading, running at 4.6 ghz, attached to 8 vector processors, each with a lot of registers and cache, which are using extremely fast memory, that can connect to other, similar processors nearby.
Microsoft has consistently overwhelmed the fastest processors on the market and I am confident that with the right bloatware they will continue to do so.
64 bytes: Cryptic Masonic signature 64 bytes: Reserved for Carnivore 8KB: Macro playground 8KB: Random extracts from King James Bible 64 bytes: Run-length encoded document contents 8KB: Uncompressed copy of above for compatibility
No, given that our environment doesn't change very radically, we will not evolve into small mice.
It doesn't have to change at all. Suppose we become over-crowwded and consequently have smaller areas to live in, with less food and less hygiene. Fortune will favor the smaller. Throw in a few severe winters and the furrier members of our society will be the ones who reproduce.
You can already see this kind of evolution happening here in New York.
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Here's the schema they're using:
255 bytes: First name
1 byte: Middle initial
255 bytes: Surname
1 bit: Boolean true if user checked the 'Member of Terrorist Group' checkbox
7 bits: CIA National Boxcutter Purchase Monitoring flags
16KB: ASCII-art depiction of tubgirl courtesy of frustrated intern
16KB: Excerpts from Book of Revelation
1 byte: Flags for previous visits to Iran / Cuba / North Korea / Syria / Lebanon / Pakistan / Libya / Yavin
30KB: XML representation of above flags
I had thought this was alarmist, that the information would be a set of MD5s or in the case of client-side data, public-key encrypted, but that turns out to not be the case. It's all naked data.
He'll still be pissed off come 2030.
Furthermore, in space there is no air so rockets have nothing to push against.
forth not why? mp3 player use;
$why_php_sucks = "this ?> is why"
So there's a language that doesn't need escapes? Which one?
REMEMBER:
If your code is easy to understand, then you are replaceable.
The thing I don't get is why not use CSS? I'd have thought the bandwidth saving alone would be reason enough, let alone cleaning up all the drunken formatting.
Of course Cocoa still has the old Next-oriented mouse events - NSLeftMouseDown, NSRightMouseDown, etc. (iirc).
And how much extra effort would it take to fix it? 10 or 15 minutes and a quick re-compile?
You've got to think corporate:
Memo from QA, 'Firefox compatibility'.
2 months later: Action Meeting decides to have report done.
2 weeks later: Meeting about report.
16 months later: Issue report request, 'Firefox compatibility'.
15 minutes later: Intern produces report.
6 months later: Meeting to discuss report.
3 weeks later: Meeting to discuss follow-up report.
2 months later: Action plan established.
1 week later: Action plan steering committee appointed.
3 months later: Action plan steering committee asks intern to recompile mouse drivers.
15 minutes later: Drivers ready.
I think those options are equivalent to US entertainment anyway.
It isn't "Von Neumann", it's "von Neuman"
And Windows and Mac OSX are more than kernals.
Otherwise, great post!
this is not innovation!
Yeah, but remember the last lot of Intel concept PCs that were all curvy and built into footstools and now we're all using computers that are curvy and built into footstools? It'll be just like that.
It's almost as if Wesley Crusher, during an excursion on an unimaginably perfect planet, accidentally stepped on some flowers and was condemned to death.
(As if the threat of Wesley Crusher dying would create dramatic tension).
'Earl' is good. If I say "earl" to a client they will say "what?", whereas if I say "URL" they say "what what what?".
There is a rumour afoot that the plans were destroyed as part of the contract for the shuttle
The Saturn V plans were destroyed by scribbling on them with a billion-dollar pen that would work in zero-gravity. By contrast, the Russians destroyed the plans for their moon rocket with a simple pencil.
Soyuz supports spacewalks fine. Soyuz 4 featured a spacewalk, as well as the first transfer of cosmonauts between spacecraft, back in 1969. In fact, the original lunar Soyuz design required spacewalks as part of the mission profile, and the orbital module acts as an airlock, so spacewalks are more convenient than for Gemini or Apollo capsules.
Soyuz is also exceptionally reconfigurable. The orbital module can be - and has been - modified and replaced without affecting the other modules.
Soyuz is also an evolved spacecraft, with the current TMA considerably different to the original 7K-OK. Kliper is essentially an extended Soyuz with wings.
Total long term value of Napster $0
Total long term value of iTunes $360
But in the really long term you're dead and the sun has exploded, so it doesn't really matter anyway.
Although this question is a little of the "Have you stopped beating your wife" variety, it does broach a serious issue.
MS can argue that PNG transparency is an optional part of the standard, but there is no good reason not to embrace it. MS has been quite happy to come up with all sorts of crazy IE-only CSS extensions to alpha-mask, blur and drop-shadow images, presumably with the intention of owning CSS. So why not implement something that people actually want?
A lot of the performance in games consoles comes down the the quality of the profiler and the compiler optimisations available. Sony were still improving the original PlayStation's performance after the PS2 was available.
I wonder what M$ has to beat back a server processor with essentially hyper threading, running at 4.6 ghz, attached to 8 vector processors, each with a lot of registers and cache, which are using extremely fast memory, that can connect to other, similar processors nearby.
Microsoft has consistently overwhelmed the fastest processors on the market and I am confident that with the right bloatware they will continue to do so.
Here's that MS Word native format:
64 bytes: Cryptic Masonic signature
64 bytes: Reserved for Carnivore
8KB: Macro playground
8KB: Random extracts from King James Bible
64 bytes: Run-length encoded document contents
8KB: Uncompressed copy of above for compatibility
No, given that our environment doesn't change very radically, we will not evolve into small mice.
It doesn't have to change at all. Suppose we become over-crowwded and consequently have smaller areas to live in, with less food and less hygiene. Fortune will favor the smaller. Throw in a few severe winters and the furrier members of our society will be the ones who reproduce.
You can already see this kind of evolution happening here in New York.
with everything you need
Assuming you can live with integrated video, no DVD, 128M RAM, Lindows OS, no FireWire, no DVI, no iLife, ugly box, etc.
Come on, you're not really suggesting that that computer would be a good purchase are you?
The 8641D would be great in a PowerBook, but isn't the 8xxx series for embedded applications? Apple has always used the 7xxx chips as its G4s.