How can the two bugs be unrelated? both articles have the exact same link to the exact same PDF! (Hint: the pdf's filename is xorg-large-memory-attacks.pdf on both).
The identical links are caused by another bug called PEBKAC.
Or it could in fact actually not be him. Stand-ins for scenes like that aren't uncommon in the industry, or even in the Star Wars movies themselves....ask David Prowse.
And James Earl Jones, who should've been behind that mask at the end of ROTJ. That would certainly have been a surprise.
Many people thinking that tiered pricing is what Net Neutrality is meant to fix. This is not correct according to an interview I saw with Lawrence Lessig.
Instead, thinking of companies like Comcast - they have content AND they are part of the Internet backbone. Without Net Neutrality, they can prioritize their OWN content traffic over their portion of the Internet backbone, and/or deprioritize anyone else's. This has nothing to do with tiered pricing.
This is also why the argument described in the original article is b.s. If your traffic is going over Comcasts' lines and not getting through properly, you could still switch to yet another ISP that isn't Comcast and have the same problem.
Who the fuck gave them the right to provide a "legislative framework for consideration by lawmakers."?
Noone gave them the right, and they don't need the right to provide soemthing to lawmakers, just as private citizens don't, either. They're not making law; they're showing lawmakers, "Here's how it could be done." This is not the outrage you're looking for.
Fantastic work there, scientists. Hopefully they'll be able to determine if peanuts are what causes peanut allergies, though I dunno - seems like that would be a pretty big coincidence.
Most users need to know when something has changed so they can associate any potential breakage with the correct event.
Most users are complete dunderheads when it comes to anything resembling logic. They don't associate anything with anything. Giving mental ammunition like information to someone who's mental weapon is a broken slingshot is rather pointless. But giving them something that will automatically protect them in the VAST majority of real world use cases, is a great idea, and far more valuable than the other way around. Automatic updates for things like security patches should be the way of the entire computing industry, as long as they provide a way to turn on more explicit notifications or turn it off if desired, for the rest of us.
It's not the amount of space, it's the difference in the spaces between letters. Proportional typefonts don't need the extra space, because their spaces aren't lost in a sea of equally spaced fonts.
In theory, yes, in practice, not quite. Fonts are kerned very badly these days, and one space is often winding up looking like half a space, and the space between letters (with no 'space' character between them) is often looking like half a space.
When you have monospaced fonts, every character takes up the exact amount of space, including the space bar space. Therefore, a space does not stand out, because it's the same width as everything around it. Making two spaces makes an obvious break in the long string of monospacing.
That's a good theory, but when compared to one space in a proportional font, one space in a monospace font is still much wider than one space in a proportional font. One space in a proportional font usually doesn't look like enough space to me, but most proportional fonts these days are also kerned VERY badly to my eye.
Indeed. For me, the space after the monospaced period is noticeably wider than the one after the proportional period, thus I would put two spaces after a proportional period and one after the monospace, if you wanted them to 'look' equal. I don't bother with that, though - I always just use one space. Depends on what you're trying to do, though. I like one space for ease of typing and for ease of pattern matching.
Two spaces are appropriate for typewriters and similar monospaced fonts (Courier, Monaco, Andale Mono, Consolas, Vera, Deja Vu mono)
One space for proportional fonts (Times, Helvetica, almost everything.)
That seems backwards to me. One space in a proportional font should be much smaller than one in a monospaced font. You'll get a HUGE difference between those two your way. Unless that is your intent, for some unknown reason.
I suppose, technically, we're there to create a democratic government that won't allow the country to be used as a base of operations for terror groups. We're nowhere NEAR that, and not just because of our own military operations there. Afghanistan was bombed into rubble before us by the Russians. It used to be a really beautiful country before that, from the photos I've seen. It will take generations to get it back to that condition, if it's even possible. What is needed there is more closely akin to Terraforming than nation-building.
Not to mention allowing us to create, sell and tax the tens-of-thousands of products that can be made out of Industrial Hemp.
And related to that, when the cotton producers can switch over to hemp, they'll be making more money as hemp is _much_ more efficient to grow than cotton (way less resources needed). Cotton producers should be lobbying Congress _hard_ to allow them to do that.
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How can the two bugs be unrelated? both articles have the exact same link to the exact same PDF! (Hint: the pdf's filename is xorg-large-memory-attacks.pdf on both).
The identical links are caused by another bug called PEBKAC.
I'd totally trade my car for a train. I'm not sure where I'd park it, though.
"rogue IT admins" - I find that phrase humorous for reasons I cannot explain.
That's a typo. This IS San Francisco we're talking about - they almost certainly meant to say "rouge IT admins".
I want them to show R2D2 as the Sith Lord he really is.
An interesting theory - I likes it!
I'd really love to hear R2D2 shriek, "Exterminate! Exterminate!" ... in German.
Or it could in fact actually not be him. Stand-ins for scenes like that aren't uncommon in the industry, or even in the Star Wars movies themselves....ask David Prowse.
And James Earl Jones, who should've been behind that mask at the end of ROTJ. That would certainly have been a surprise.
In the 2015 version, the bartender shoots first.
I want R2D2 to shoot first, right after the bartender says he doesn't serve their kind in there.
There IS new stuff. It's called The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith.
That's a dirty lie!
LALALALALALA I'm not listening!
For the uninitiated, Millennium was the publication that Mikael Blomkvist worked for in the movie "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
And in the book. :)
The perfect Swedish publication for Assange would be Millennium! :)
The REALLY really hardcore don't even bother reading the comment they're responding to
I like pie.
Many people thinking that tiered pricing is what Net Neutrality is meant to fix. This is not correct according to an interview I saw with Lawrence Lessig.
Instead, thinking of companies like Comcast - they have content AND they are part of the Internet backbone. Without Net Neutrality, they can prioritize their OWN content traffic over their portion of the Internet backbone, and/or deprioritize anyone else's. This has nothing to do with tiered pricing.
This is also why the argument described in the original article is b.s. If your traffic is going over Comcasts' lines and not getting through properly, you could still switch to yet another ISP that isn't Comcast and have the same problem.
>> I'd like to see how such a cease-and-desist notice might be worded.
> Fuck you, pipsqueak? ;)
HULK SMASH!
IMHO, they are all just acting crabby.
There's something fishy about your reply...hmm...
1) Looks like they're "discovering" how to piss of their fans
2) This is what you get by obsessing over a show as pointless as "Deadliest Catch". Oh wait, this one is not a joke. This is karma.
Who the fuck gave them the right to provide a "legislative framework for consideration by lawmakers."?
Noone gave them the right, and they don't need the right to provide soemthing to lawmakers, just as private citizens don't, either. They're not making law; they're showing lawmakers, "Here's how it could be done." This is not the outrage you're looking for.
All my money is invested in P = NP!
Time to apply for a bailout!
Fantastic work there, scientists. Hopefully they'll be able to determine if peanuts are what causes peanut allergies, though I dunno - seems like that would be a pretty big coincidence.
Most users need to know when something has changed so they can associate any potential breakage with the correct event.
Most users are complete dunderheads when it comes to anything resembling logic. They don't associate anything with anything. Giving mental ammunition like information to someone who's mental weapon is a broken slingshot is rather pointless. But giving them something that will automatically protect them in the VAST majority of real world use cases, is a great idea, and far more valuable than the other way around. Automatic updates for things like security patches should be the way of the entire computing industry, as long as they provide a way to turn on more explicit notifications or turn it off if desired, for the rest of us.
It's not the amount of space, it's the difference in the spaces between letters. Proportional typefonts don't need the extra space, because their spaces aren't lost in a sea of equally spaced fonts.
In theory, yes, in practice, not quite. Fonts are kerned very badly these days, and one space is often winding up looking like half a space, and the space between letters (with no 'space' character between them) is often looking like half a space.
When you have monospaced fonts, every character takes up the exact amount of space, including the space bar space. Therefore, a space does not stand out, because it's the same width as everything around it. Making two spaces makes an obvious break in the long string of monospacing.
That's a good theory, but when compared to one space in a proportional font, one space in a monospace font is still much wider than one space in a proportional font. One space in a proportional font usually doesn't look like enough space to me, but most proportional fonts these days are also kerned VERY badly to my eye.
I think this demonstrates the issue sufficiently.
Indeed. For me, the space after the monospaced period is noticeably wider than the one after the proportional period, thus I would put two spaces after a proportional period and one after the monospace, if you wanted them to 'look' equal. I don't bother with that, though - I always just use one space. Depends on what you're trying to do, though. I like one space for ease of typing and for ease of pattern matching.
No because a typeface is (should be) designed with spaces in mind.
Yeah, the world should be a better place, but...
I've seen all too many (very popular) proportional fonts that even with two spaces, LOOK like one. And kerning seems to be a lost art these days. Ugh.
Two spaces are appropriate for typewriters and similar monospaced fonts (Courier, Monaco, Andale Mono, Consolas, Vera, Deja Vu mono)
One space for proportional fonts (Times, Helvetica, almost everything.)
That seems backwards to me. One space in a proportional font should be much smaller than one in a monospaced font. You'll get a HUGE difference between those two your way. Unless that is your intent, for some unknown reason.
I suppose, technically, we're there to create a democratic government that won't allow the country to be used as a base of operations for terror groups. We're nowhere NEAR that, and not just because of our own military operations there. Afghanistan was bombed into rubble before us by the Russians. It used to be a really beautiful country before that, from the photos I've seen. It will take generations to get it back to that condition, if it's even possible. What is needed there is more closely akin to Terraforming than nation-building.
Not to mention allowing us to create, sell and tax the tens-of-thousands of products that can be made out of Industrial Hemp.
And related to that, when the cotton producers can switch over to hemp, they'll be making more money as hemp is _much_ more efficient to grow than cotton (way less resources needed). Cotton producers should be lobbying Congress _hard_ to allow them to do that.