> Editors will insert spaces for you instead of tabs
Only if they're crappy, and aren't configurable, or if they're misconfigured. If you can get everyone to agree on a 'tab width,' then you can get everyone to agree on using tabs for indentation. Then it's just a matter of using a decent text editor to let you display those tabs however you wish. Getting people to agree on using tabs consistently should be easier than getting people to agree on using a specific 'width.'
If everyone is going to agree on something, then agree on using tabs and not multiple spaces. Then everyone can view at whatever indentation they want and not screw anyone else over.
Tab size has nothing to do with how a line is broken, though. A tab is a character only - how it's displayed is up to the application. How word wrapping is handled is also up to the application. If your application doesn't let you configure both of those things to your liking, then you're using the wrong application.
Mayhem. Nice stuff outfitted with ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 or 9700s. Your choice of Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M, or Athlon64, in order of least-to-most expensive. I'd go with the Pentium M version, based on your budget. The Athlon64 machine is $2100 with only 512Meg of RAM, whereas the Pentium M model is $1900 with 1Gig of RAM. That would also leave you enough money to upgrade to the 7200rpm HD.
Yeah, that would involve a series of search & replaces just to get it to the point of readability. There might be some programs out that that fix formatting problems like that for you; certainly worth looking for.
Okay, Hulk, that's just dumb. You _want_ indentation to be done via tabs - that way everyone can set the tab to _display_ as as many characters as they want. How many 'spaces' (equivalent) a tab displays should be up to your text editor of choice. The original author can display their tab characters as equivalent to 8 or whatever, and you can view it as 4 or whatever. That's the genius of using tabs for indentation.
Yeah, I took a typing test several years ago on a Selectric II, and I type so fast now that it spits out random garbage characters. Ick. When I got out of my high school typing class, I was getting around 30wpm. Then I got my first computer a year later, and that _really_ helped me get crazy fast.
That's not 'pretty damn fast,' that's 'good.' I type around 100-110wpm raw, which goes down to around 90-95 after errors. IBM Model M keyboards rule.:)
I learned on an IBM Selectric (original model), with no letters on the keys. Ugh. Worked, though.
See, I'm gonna guess the military will continue to train their soliders to use the suits as an extra, not as a limb. They're trained to fight without their weapons now, they'll continue to be trained so in the future, I'd hope. Also, intelligent gear could easily be made to only work for its intended wearer, and not work for anyone else, thus not broadcasting any false information to others, or allowing anyone to snoop, either. Trivial problems, I would think.
The Paul Verhoeven (sp?) movie 'Starship Troopers' was based on the Robert Heinlein novel of the same name. The movie is basically a satire of very serious concepts presented in the novel, which mightily offends many of us who are Robert Heinlein fans. It's rather like the only movie version of, say, Moby Dick, being a Ben Stiller farce of the novel. It's very, very offensive, really.
There is an animated TV show (Roughnecks? Something like that) also based on the story, but is (I'm told) a bit more true to the nature of the original novel than the movie was, though still not quite there. I've never seen the show, so I can't give you my own assessment of it.
I think the worst thing about the movie they made is that it'll almost certainly prevent an accurate movie translation of the novel from ever being made, and that's quite sad - there are some powerful messages in the novel. *sigh*
> Yeah, and "West Side Story" was just a singing and dancing retelling > of "Romeo and Juliet", and "Le Morte d'Arthur" was just a novel-form > retelling of the Christian gospels, and "The Wrath of Kahn" was just > a movie-form retelling of "Moby Dick".
Dude...whatever you're smoking, pass it on, it looks pretty sweet from here.
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Season 3, epsidoe 5: "Streams of Consciousness"
Outer Limits was such a great show. The same thing happened to another episode - the same premise got turned into a movie called, "The Truman Show." *yawn*
At least this one is a novel, plus I guess there are only so many storylines available. *shrug*
> In other words: WTF does one thing have to do with the other?
Nothing; I just meant that if someone wants to go around fixing something, how about problems that are already known, and with a known solution, than to simply go around changing HTTP just because one can.
Actually, to further ADA compliance, it should be full video (with captioning), that way not only do the blind get access, but the deaf as well. Yeah, this is sounding good.
No, that didn't fix the problem, it just disabled the buggy feature by making a registry edit. Supposedly this time it'll really be _fixed_. Well, _this_ bug, anyway.
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> Editors will insert spaces for you instead of tabs
Only if they're crappy, and aren't configurable, or if they're misconfigured. If you can get everyone to agree on a 'tab width,' then you can get everyone to agree on using tabs for indentation. Then it's just a matter of using a decent text editor to let you display those tabs however you wish. Getting people to agree on using tabs consistently should be easier than getting people to agree on using a specific 'width.'
If everyone is going to agree on something, then agree on using tabs and not multiple spaces. Then everyone can view at whatever indentation they want and not screw anyone else over.
Tab size has nothing to do with how a line is broken, though. A tab is a character only - how it's displayed is up to the application. How word wrapping is handled is also up to the application. If your application doesn't let you configure both of those things to your liking, then you're using the wrong application.
Mayhem. Nice stuff outfitted with ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 or 9700s. Your choice of Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M, or Athlon64, in order of least-to-most expensive. I'd go with the Pentium M version, based on your budget. The Athlon64 machine is $2100 with only 512Meg of RAM, whereas the Pentium M model is $1900 with 1Gig of RAM. That would also leave you enough money to upgrade to the 7200rpm HD.
Yuck!
Yeah, that would involve a series of search & replaces just to get it to the point of readability. There might be some programs out that that fix formatting problems like that for you; certainly worth looking for.
Okay, Hulk, that's just dumb. You _want_ indentation to be done via tabs - that way everyone can set the tab to _display_ as as many characters as they want. How many 'spaces' (equivalent) a tab displays should be up to your text editor of choice. The original author can display their tab characters as equivalent to 8 or whatever, and you can view it as 4 or whatever. That's the genius of using tabs for indentation.
Don't forget to blink your right eye (only) while doing that. ;)
This will make a nice companion to my anti-wallpaper wi-fi invention. *bzzaap!*
Yes, the greatest battle since Freddy vs Jason! (please see the recent photoshop contest at Fark.com for others)
Phear my mad pinball skills, punks! "It's not tragic, you have Merlin's Magic!"
Of course, I get to play that game every day at the local watering hole, anyway.
Yeah, I took a typing test several years ago on a Selectric II, and I type so fast now that it spits out random garbage characters. Ick. When I got out of my high school typing class, I was getting around 30wpm. Then I got my first computer a year later, and that _really_ helped me get crazy fast.
That's not 'pretty damn fast,' that's 'good.' I type around 100-110wpm raw, which goes down to around 90-95 after errors. IBM Model M keyboards rule. :)
I learned on an IBM Selectric (original model), with no letters on the keys. Ugh. Worked, though.
- get more RAM to minimize virtual memory use
See, I'm gonna guess the military will continue to train their soliders to use the suits as an extra, not as a limb. They're trained to fight without their weapons now, they'll continue to be trained so in the future, I'd hope. Also, intelligent gear could easily be made to only work for its intended wearer, and not work for anyone else, thus not broadcasting any false information to others, or allowing anyone to snoop, either. Trivial problems, I would think.
The Paul Verhoeven (sp?) movie 'Starship Troopers' was based on the Robert Heinlein novel of the same name. The movie is basically a satire of very serious concepts presented in the novel, which mightily offends many of us who are Robert Heinlein fans. It's rather like the only movie version of, say, Moby Dick, being a Ben Stiller farce of the novel. It's very, very offensive, really.
There is an animated TV show (Roughnecks? Something like that) also based on the story, but is (I'm told) a bit more true to the nature of the original novel than the movie was, though still not quite there. I've never seen the show, so I can't give you my own assessment of it.
I think the worst thing about the movie they made is that it'll almost certainly prevent an accurate movie translation of the novel from ever being made, and that's quite sad - there are some powerful messages in the novel. *sigh*
"Rico's Roughnecks, hooaahhh!"
I won't even ask where us Mac OS X people are supposed to stand. :)
Now I can at last have self-sealing stem bolts! Exxxxxxcellent...this will be better than sharks with frickin' laser beams.
> Yeah, and "West Side Story" was just a singing and dancing retelling
> of "Romeo and Juliet", and "Le Morte d'Arthur" was just a novel-form
> retelling of the Christian gospels, and "The Wrath of Kahn" was just
> a movie-form retelling of "Moby Dick".
Dude...whatever you're smoking, pass it on, it looks pretty sweet from here.
Mmm, sweet, sweet domed-city dystopia. Kickin' it 01d 5k001, Logan's Run-style! Awww, yeahhh.
Season 3, epsidoe 5: "Streams of Consciousness"
Outer Limits was such a great show. The same thing happened to another episode - the same premise got turned into a movie called, "The Truman Show." *yawn*
At least this one is a novel, plus I guess there are only so many storylines available. *shrug*
Welcome to a novel form retelling of an Outer Limits episode.
> In other words: WTF does one thing have to do with the other?
Nothing; I just meant that if someone wants to go around fixing something, how about problems that are already known, and with a known solution, than to simply go around changing HTTP just because one can.
Actually, to further ADA compliance, it should be full video (with captioning), that way not only do the blind get access, but the deaf as well. Yeah, this is sounding good.
Time to apply for ISO?
No, that didn't fix the problem, it just disabled the buggy feature by making a registry edit. Supposedly this time it'll really be _fixed_. Well, _this_ bug, anyway.