My older brother played Ultimate Frisbee in college. His team would offer new members the choice of drinking a frisbee full of beer or (I think) 1 liter of beer. All would choose the frisbee which (if memory serves) actually holds about 2 liters.
(This is an official UPA-sized 175gram frisbee, not one of those cheap toys companies give away that don't fly farther than 10 feet before going tits-up.)
Jon Benet Ramsey's body found inside Sony's rootkit code!
Re:Everything since HTML has been too complex
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The Future of HTML
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"It's not just that they havn't updated. They also use a non-standard box model..."
IE5 did use a non-standard box model. IE6 fixed that for html pages using a valid doctype to indicate that the html and css should be considered valid and not tag soup.
The Internet will reach its full potential as a medium and facilitator for global economic expansion and development in an environment free from burdensome intergovernmental oversight and control. The success of the Internet lies in its inherently decentralized nature, with the most significant growth taking place at the outer edges of the network through innovative new applications and services.
So, what Condi is saying is "For the love of all that's holy, don't decentralize the control of the Internet! Because decentralization in general is what makes it great!"
Good for goose, good for the gander? Or are the goose and gander (control versus structure and content) properly different in this case?
Separate from the lack of current availability, why are these not going to be offered for sale to US consumers? I haven't seen any mention of the $100 being a reduced-price-by-subsidies cost. If it's cheap technology, it's cheap technology...why not offer it to everyone? Hell, let have consumers buy it for $125, and use the extra $25 to knock down the price of all the charitable models.
You can't do this for the copyrighted library books - only those books that are out of copyright, or that the publisher explicitly supplied. For library books still in copyright, Google only shows short excerpts surrounding the searched-for-term. See screenshots at: http://print.google.com/googleprint/screenshots.ht ml#excerpt
Re:Open source and alternative browser support?
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Flash, Meet Sparkle
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SVG failed to take off because it didn't offer any functionality you couldn't already achieve with Flash. (Sure, it was free in both senses, and had some cool filters...but it also didn't have any good editors for a long time.)
XAML/Avalon/WTF *does* offer several advantages, I believe. True 3D, hardware-acceleration, all sorts of API calls to the OS that you just can't have with Flash.
I don't think it's a miracle product. I know people inside Microsoft who decry it for how much better it could have been. But it's not SVG.
If you'd RTFA, it explicitly is AGAINST AV type stuff. Further, it deals with this explicitly, saying "Don't let users GET naked_sluts.exe by default." Don't give them attachments in the email. Have an OS that requires the machine admin to explicitly grant permission to run a specific program.
"...an image relating to the game is revealed one pixel a second... and the unofficial award of having way too much time on their hands to sit around waiting for pixels to change."
Are we so ADD these days that once per second is way too slow to wait for something?
"[Ruby on Rails] works great if what you want to do fits into that frame, otherwise you spend your time trying to bend the bars of the cage."
Could you share some examples of cases where you've found the Rails framework (or the Ruby language) to be too restrictive? It sounds like you're speaking from experience, and I'd like to hear about your experiences.
Someday soon, the owners of a site that gets slashdotted are going to sue faster than CmdrTaco can say "tort reform". It's irresponsible to post, unedited, an article suggesting readers download a 60mb movie without first making some effort to mirror/torrent the file and/or site.
"Irresponsible" is not the same as "illegal". Sure, they may sue, but that's no reason to be unreasonably afraid if one is acting legally and has modest resources available.
If you don't already know Python, I suggest (as an alternative) Ruby ( http://www.ruby-lang.org ) and Ruby on Rails ( http://www.rubyonrails.org ).
I personally prefer Ruby as a language over Python. I wanted to learn a new language for server-side web programming, and took a month to do my research on all sorts of dynamically-typed languages. Though currently less popular in the US than Python, Ruby is much better -- in my opinion. (No language flame wars, please.)
I almost chose Python purely because of Zope, but after looking into Zope for a week I didn't "get it", and I went with Ruby.
And then...Ruby on Rails came out. Holy cow, it is AMAZING. It's like programming with butter. (Whatever that means.) All yesterday as I worked with it I repeatedly caught myself grinning because it was so easy, so simply, and so joyous.
b) It's a marvelous tool to increase productivity; I wrote something in ~2 hours which parses ~70 XML documents in ~10 directories and creates 150+ static HTML pages (for a help system shipping with the application) from moderately complex business logic off of 5 template files.
Changed or added an XML document? Run the ruby script. Need an HTML tweak? Change one template file and run the script. 3 seconds to parse the XML documents (and apply Textile markup to certain sections) and 3.5 seconds to create the HTML.
Ruby allowed me to very quickly write a complex tool that now saves me a huge amount of time every time I use it. Even *if* no companies were hiring specifically for Ruby skills, having a tool in your belt that makes you stand out is still a Great Thing.
I'm not sure I can justify writing something in Ruby at this point, seeing as its adoption is far below Python, while its advantages over Python are slim to questionable.
Do you have a reference for that? I was under the impression that while Python adoption was slightly ahead of Ruby in the US, Ruby was more widely-adopted in Japan, and (on the whole) they were roughly on par.
I suppose bluetooth inside with bluetooth keyboard and mouse might suffice, if attractively and conveniently placed; I'll want them there anyhow for complex tasks beyond the dumb automation device.
I'd love to rip off the mount and hang these on the walls of my house as wireless home automatition interface points, full computing points, and gorgeous fluid screensavers drawing from the networked best-photos library when not in use.
If only they had a touch-screen to make most automation control quick.
Hrm...apparently plain-old-text mode dropped the ... </namedrop> wrappers that I put around the snotty-sounding "I'm having dim-sum with him next Sunday" comment.
Oops. That'll teach me not to use the Preview button.
Much as I love Craig (I'm having dim-sum with him next Sunday) I'd have to disagree with the poster's characterization of the interview as 'in-depth'.
It's got more than a few questions, but few of them are terribly interesting, and (by necessity, I'm sure) many of the answers are vague or "I can't really talk about that".
On the other hand, I also find that I have vastly more than 3x the disk space, processor speed, and bandwidth than I had back when jpegs were first coming into wide use. So, all things considered, relatively speaking, pngs aren't really huge at all.
HD space isn't the only issue, however; the larger the picture, the larger the file size. The larger the file size, the longer it takes to read/write from the compact flash.
Are you glibly going to triple (and more...I find your 3x claim overly optimistic) the amount of time it takes to download pictures from your digital camera, and especially triple the amount of time between shots?
Much as I love a good MS Bashing, I'll tell you what I find really lacking (personally) for PostgreSQL and other OSS RDBMSs - a good GUI management tool.
Something that helps you craft medium-complicated joins quickly with a few clicks and drags.
For example, see this screenshot from Visual Interdev working on MSSQL2k, creating a SQL Query for a stored proc. Sure, it's almost trivial to hand-write the SQL code. But it was even easier to just select a few tables, click on the fields I want, right-click on the joins (created automatically from the database structure) to change their type, and be done.
I use PGSQL for all my personal projects now, but I sorely miss the speed that a GUI editor like this allowed me.
When Speakeasy cut my connection for an MSSQL2k infection a few years ago, I called them, they explained the situation, and turned the connection back on and gave me 48 hours' immunity to get it patched before shutting it down again if it was still broken.
It worked well, I was embarrassed and thankful to them. I applaud this sort of effort.
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My older brother played Ultimate Frisbee in college. His team would offer new members the choice of drinking a frisbee full of beer or (I think) 1 liter of beer. All would choose the frisbee which (if memory serves) actually holds about 2 liters.
(This is an official UPA-sized 175gram frisbee, not one of those cheap toys companies give away that don't fly farther than 10 feet before going tits-up.)
Jon Benet Ramsey's body found inside Sony's rootkit code!
IE5 did use a non-standard box model. IE6 fixed that for html pages using a valid doctype to indicate that the html and css should be considered valid and not tag soup.
From paragraph 3, with my emphasis:
So, what Condi is saying is "For the love of all that's holy, don't decentralize the control of the Internet! Because decentralization in general is what makes it great!"
Good for goose, good for the gander? Or are the goose and gander (control versus structure and content) properly different in this case?
Separate from the lack of current availability, why are these not going to be offered for sale to US consumers? I haven't seen any mention of the $100 being a reduced-price-by-subsidies cost. If it's cheap technology, it's cheap technology...why not offer it to everyone? Hell, let have consumers buy it for $125, and use the extra $25 to knock down the price of all the charitable models.
What part of RTFA am I missing here?
You can't do this for the copyrighted library books - only those books that are out of copyright, or that the publisher explicitly supplied. For library books still in copyright, Google only shows short excerpts surrounding the searched-for-term. See screenshots at: http://print.google.com/googleprint/screenshots.ht ml#excerpt
SVG failed to take off because it didn't offer any functionality you couldn't already achieve with Flash. (Sure, it was free in both senses, and had some cool filters...but it also didn't have any good editors for a long time.)
XAML/Avalon/WTF *does* offer several advantages, I believe. True 3D, hardware-acceleration, all sorts of API calls to the OS that you just can't have with Flash.
I don't think it's a miracle product. I know people inside Microsoft who decry it for how much better it could have been. But it's not SVG.
If you'd RTFA, it explicitly is AGAINST AV type stuff. Further, it deals with this explicitly, saying "Don't let users GET naked_sluts.exe by default." Don't give them attachments in the email. Have an OS that requires the machine admin to explicitly grant permission to run a specific program.
"Irresponsible" is not the same as "illegal". Sure, they may sue, but that's no reason to be unreasonably afraid if one is acting legally and has modest resources available.
If you don't already know Python, I suggest (as an alternative) Ruby ( http://www.ruby-lang.org ) and Ruby on Rails ( http://www.rubyonrails.org ). I personally prefer Ruby as a language over Python. I wanted to learn a new language for server-side web programming, and took a month to do my research on all sorts of dynamically-typed languages. Though currently less popular in the US than Python, Ruby is much better -- in my opinion. (No language flame wars, please.) I almost chose Python purely because of Zope, but after looking into Zope for a week I didn't "get it", and I went with Ruby. And then...Ruby on Rails came out. Holy cow, it is AMAZING. It's like programming with butter. (Whatever that means.) All yesterday as I worked with it I repeatedly caught myself grinning because it was so easy, so simply, and so joyous.
As some friends I know online refer to them:
The WTF-WG
a) See http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RealWorldRuby
b) It's a marvelous tool to increase productivity; I wrote something in ~2 hours which parses ~70 XML documents in ~10 directories and creates 150+ static HTML pages (for a help system shipping with the application) from moderately complex business logic off of 5 template files.
Changed or added an XML document? Run the ruby script. Need an HTML tweak? Change one template file and run the script. 3 seconds to parse the XML documents (and apply Textile markup to certain sections) and 3.5 seconds to create the HTML.
Ruby allowed me to very quickly write a complex tool that now saves me a huge amount of time every time I use it. Even *if* no companies were hiring specifically for Ruby skills, having a tool in your belt that makes you stand out is still a Great Thing.
Do you have a reference for that? I was under the impression that while Python adoption was slightly ahead of Ruby in the US, Ruby was more widely-adopted in Japan, and (on the whole) they were roughly on par.
I suppose bluetooth inside with bluetooth keyboard and mouse might suffice, if attractively and conveniently placed; I'll want them there anyhow for complex tasks beyond the dumb automation device.
I'd love to rip off the mount and hang these on the walls of my house as wireless home automatition interface points, full computing points, and gorgeous fluid screensavers drawing from the networked best-photos library when not in use.
If only they had a touch-screen to make most automation control quick.
Hrm...apparently plain-old-text mode dropped the ... </namedrop> wrappers that I put around the snotty-sounding "I'm having dim-sum with him next Sunday" comment.
Oops. That'll teach me not to use the Preview button.
Much as I love Craig (I'm having dim-sum with him next Sunday) I'd have to disagree with the poster's characterization of the interview as 'in-depth'.
It's got more than a few questions, but few of them are terribly interesting, and (by necessity, I'm sure) many of the answers are vague or "I can't really talk about that".
If *you* need SVG support (with creating it) now that your desktop supports it, I highly recommend the fine folks in #svg on the Freenode IRC network.
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that one. But is is $400, and for Windows/Linux only. Not helpful for someone running MacOS X and on a budget :)
Much as I love a good MS Bashing, I'll tell you what I find really lacking (personally) for PostgreSQL and other OSS RDBMSs - a good GUI management tool.
Something that helps you craft medium-complicated joins quickly with a few clicks and drags.
For example, see this screenshot from Visual Interdev working on MSSQL2k, creating a SQL Query for a stored proc. Sure, it's almost trivial to hand-write the SQL code. But it was even easier to just select a few tables, click on the fields I want, right-click on the joins (created automatically from the database structure) to change their type, and be done.
I use PGSQL for all my personal projects now, but I sorely miss the speed that a GUI editor like this allowed me.
When Speakeasy cut my connection for an MSSQL2k infection a few years ago, I called them, they explained the situation, and turned the connection back on and gave me 48 hours' immunity to get it patched before shutting it down again if it was still broken.
It worked well, I was embarrassed and thankful to them. I applaud this sort of effort.