On July 27, scientists at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Nevada Test Site said they generated a current equal to about four times all the electrical power on Earth.
Where did they do this experiment--Mars?
Re:didn't i read this 2.5 weeks ago?!?
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Yes. Meta-humor is teh r0xx0r.
Apparently.
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We do these same jokes in every topic.
Yes. You do.
Are you more familiar with the Soviet Russia threads?
More familiar, no.
As familiar, yes.
My familiarity meter is fulled pegged on both.
*sigh*
At least the "naked and petrified" meme died out. Only, what, three more years to go on "soviet russia" (which was funny when I first heard it 15 years ago) and "you must be new here".
Lighten up dude, it's Sunday.;)
You should see me when I'm serious. Deadpad humor is pretty much the only kind that works, anyway, although on Slashdot bedpan humor seems more common.
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you're supposed to throw a royal fit when something like that happens.
are you new around here?;)
I realize you're trying to make a joke (emphasis on trying), but what's funnier is watching some kid with a user id of 650339 ask a guy with a user id of 14388 if he's new...
If I keep a pencil in my pocket I usually get stabbed when I sit down.
I hated this too until I got a Fisher Bullet Pen. At US$18 it's a little pricy, but it's a "normal" sized, hefty quality pen when it's open, and a tiny, rounded, pocket-friendly steel capsule when it's closed.
Actually, the GPL does count as a form of communism: "a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed".
Except that it's not.
Software that is licensed still has an owner: the licensor. For example, the licensor is the only party who can redistribute the software under a _different_ license (a la MySQL and Qt).
But why I ask is the OS allowing one process to overwrite memory of another.
It doesn't--that's not what an overflow attack is.
An overflow attack causes a process to overwrite its _own_ memory, with instructions carefully chosen by the attacker. The attacker's code is executed by the attacked process itself.
Think of it like the old Bart Simpson gag of calling up Moe's and asking for "Mr. Butz, first name Seymour". If you can get Moe (the process under attack) to repeat what you say (the attack payload), he's as good as yours.
Based on previous posts, it's more likely that he is a lawyer (or else a paralegal or law student). What he's posted before jives pretty well with what I've been told by verifiable, non-Slashdot lawyers.
But I'm sure your x-ray vision(tm) can see his official "Not A Lawyer And Don't Play One On TV" membership card right through his DSL connection, his screen, and his wallet. It's certainly more plausible that you have x-ray vision than that a Real Lawyer might have misspoke.
Although the KB article only lists up to VC++ 4.2, this bit me with VC++ 6.0 on Win2k the one and only time I tried decreasing to non-Admin privileges.
I haven't seen it myself, but I've heard that the same is true with EVC 4.2, which is still the only (released) game in town for developing on CE.
A full-powered workstation is *cheaper* than a thin client.
Cheaper in what way? Don't compare the cash you put down for a new low-end Dell with the prices quoted from the Net appliance press releases--compare the per-month lease costs (which is what most large companies do anyway) plus the administration costs (which usually dwarf the hardware costs over the life of the machine).
You're also subscribing to a false dichotomy--the choice is not between "dumb terminals" and fully-loaded workstations. Putting a high-powered CPU with sufficient RAM into a workstation that that boots from the net takes care of both concerns.
If I remember correctly, digital answering machines use "reject" RAM chips that aren't suitable for data storage, because minor dropped bits in a recorded message aren't discernible.
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What part of "excluding those intended as performance art, style portfolio pieces, or pure entertainment" did you not understand?
I particularly enjoy CSS Zen Garden. It wasn't until I saw this site that CSS really clicked for me.
To quote The Princess Bride, "I do not think it means what you think it means."
"State of the art" doesn't mean "best overall implementation". It means that it implements the most recent advances in the field. Perforce is actually quite conventional (being originally based on either RCS or SCCS--I can't recall which). It uses the "single authoritative repository" model of version control.
The "state of the art" in version control is exploring the model of distributed and decentralized repositories. BK, darcs, arch, etc. are implementations of this model.
That being said, I like Perforce--a lot. In fact, just this year I helped successfully push for its adoption at work (beating out StarTeam and ClearCase). Perforce is fast, reliable, and not exceedingly complex for end users.
I'm not yet convinced that the distributed repository model is the best model for all purposes, but it's certainly closer to the usual meaning of "state of the art" than Perforce.
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For most websites (excluding those intended as performance art, style portfolio pieces, or pure entertainment), a site focused on content without any style is still useful; a site focused on style without content is not.
However, reduces the whole argument to a false choice (the fallacy of the excluded middle, for the left-brainers).
I don't think even the original anonymous poster is advocating eliminating style altogether--instead, (s)he rails against style that gets in the way of content. A successful design uses great style to present the content and doesn't get in the way of that content.
Left-brainers like to tout Google as an example of the triumph of content over style, but it's really an example of using style where it counts, without empty gilding.
I'll be more impressed by something Opera says about compatibility when they fix their own issues--particularly their shoddy XMLHTTPRequest implementation.
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Well yeah, where else are they gonna manage to open up the portal to Hell?
Ahh. I missed that bit in the article. I understand now--they did the experiment underground... just below Sunnydale High...
On July 27, scientists at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Nevada Test Site said they generated a current equal to about four times all the electrical power on Earth.
Where did they do this experiment--Mars?
Yes. Meta-humor is teh r0xx0r.
Apparently.
We do these same jokes in every topic.
;)
Yes. You do.
Are you more familiar with the Soviet Russia threads?
More familiar, no.
As familiar, yes.
My familiarity meter is fulled pegged on both.
*sigh*
At least the "naked and petrified" meme died out. Only, what, three more years to go on "soviet russia" (which was funny when I first heard it 15 years ago) and "you must be new here".
Lighten up dude, it's Sunday.
You should see me when I'm serious. Deadpad humor is pretty much the only kind that works, anyway, although on Slashdot bedpan humor seems more common.
you're supposed to throw a royal fit when something like that happens.
;)
are you new around here?
I realize you're trying to make a joke (emphasis on trying), but what's funnier is watching some kid with a user id of 650339 ask a guy with a user id of 14388 if he's new...
One, at least.
The only thing I really miss is football, and there's always the local bar for that.
>>"I'm not saying they should release it out to the general public, but allow developers to read the docs.../I.
What? You guys get ID cards or something? How are you gonna distinguish developers from the "general public"?
Easy: developers know how to close HTML tags.
All known USB digital cameras pretend to be hard disk drives.
Tell that to my Chameleon Mega, which pretends to be a scanner that works fine using TWAIN in Windows, but has no clue using SANE.
If I keep a pencil in my pocket I usually get stabbed when I sit down.
I hated this too until I got a Fisher Bullet Pen. At US$18 it's a little pricy, but it's a "normal" sized, hefty quality pen when it's open, and a tiny, rounded, pocket-friendly steel capsule when it's closed.
Actually, the GPL does count as a form of communism: "a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed".
Except that it's not.
Software that is licensed still has an owner: the licensor. For example, the licensor is the only party who can redistribute the software under a _different_ license (a la MySQL and Qt).
But why I ask is the OS allowing one process to overwrite memory of another.
It doesn't--that's not what an overflow attack is.
An overflow attack causes a process to overwrite its _own_ memory, with instructions carefully chosen by the attacker. The attacker's code is executed by the attacked process itself.
Think of it like the old Bart Simpson gag of calling up Moe's and asking for "Mr. Butz, first name Seymour". If you can get Moe (the process under attack) to repeat what you say (the attack payload), he's as good as yours.
Anyway, you forget, this is slashdot - car analogies get mod points.
Yes, but only cdr analogies get +1, Funny.
Based on previous posts, it's more likely that he is a lawyer (or else a paralegal or law student). What he's posted before jives pretty well with what I've been told by verifiable, non-Slashdot lawyers.
But I'm sure your x-ray vision(tm) can see his official "Not A Lawyer And Don't Play One On TV" membership card right through his DSL connection, his screen, and his wallet. It's certainly more plausible that you have x-ray vision than that a Real Lawyer might have misspoke.
Developers who write software that absolutely requires Administrative rights for common use... are incompetent and should be killed.
Indeed, they should.
Although the KB article only lists up to VC++ 4.2, this bit me with VC++ 6.0 on Win2k the one and only time I tried decreasing to non-Admin privileges.
I haven't seen it myself, but I've heard that the same is true with EVC 4.2, which is still the only (released) game in town for developing on CE.
Except that "6x9" equalling "42" is a crucial joke in the book.
Correct. The trick (as is often the case in software) is to include a human brain in the decision making, and then automate the drudgery.
That's what the current crop of Bayesian classifiers do. That avenue will probably end up being the most fruitful in the long run.
Emacs was the start of the GNU project waaaay back then what non-free program did it copy?
Emacs existed before GNU. It originated as a macro library for the TECO editor.
Gone? From what lofty plain did it start?
A full-powered workstation is *cheaper* than a thin client.
Cheaper in what way? Don't compare the cash you put down for a new low-end Dell with the prices quoted from the Net appliance press releases--compare the per-month lease costs (which is what most large companies do anyway) plus the administration costs (which usually dwarf the hardware costs over the life of the machine).
You're also subscribing to a false dichotomy--the choice is not between "dumb terminals" and fully-loaded workstations. Putting a high-powered CPU with sufficient RAM into a workstation that that boots from the net takes care of both concerns.
If I remember correctly, digital answering machines use "reject" RAM chips that aren't suitable for data storage, because minor dropped bits in a recorded message aren't discernible.
What part of "excluding those intended as performance art, style portfolio pieces, or pure entertainment" did you not understand?
I particularly enjoy CSS Zen Garden. It wasn't until I saw this site that CSS really clicked for me.
To quote The Princess Bride, "I do not think it means what you think it means."
"State of the art" doesn't mean "best overall implementation". It means that it implements the most recent advances in the field. Perforce is actually quite conventional (being originally based on either RCS or SCCS--I can't recall which). It uses the "single authoritative repository" model of version control.
The "state of the art" in version control is exploring the model of distributed and decentralized repositories. BK, darcs, arch, etc. are implementations of this model.
That being said, I like Perforce--a lot. In fact, just this year I helped successfully push for its adoption at work (beating out StarTeam and ClearCase). Perforce is fast, reliable, and not exceedingly complex for end users.
I'm not yet convinced that the distributed repository model is the best model for all purposes, but it's certainly closer to the usual meaning of "state of the art" than Perforce.
For most websites (excluding those intended as performance art, style portfolio pieces, or pure entertainment), a site focused on content without any style is still useful; a site focused on style without content is not.
However, reduces the whole argument to a false choice (the fallacy of the excluded middle, for the left-brainers).
I don't think even the original anonymous poster is advocating eliminating style altogether--instead, (s)he rails against style that gets in the way of content. A successful design uses great style to present the content and doesn't get in the way of that content.
Left-brainers like to tout Google as an example of the triumph of content over style, but it's really an example of using style where it counts, without empty gilding.
It's a preview for a reason. And what higher standard are you holding Opera to?
The reason for the "higher standard" is that I don't recall anyone from the top ranks of the Firefox developers pulling a PR stunt like Opera's.
Don't get me wrong: I like Opera the browser. I even shelled out for it a few years ago. But try to see a spade for a spade.
I'll be more impressed by something Opera says about compatibility when they fix their own issues--particularly their shoddy XMLHTTPRequest implementation.