That has to be one of the worst color schemes I have ever seen on a website. Light grey on white, not so bad. Light grey on blue, again not horrible. But alternating white and blue backgrounds as the image tiles? It physically hurt my eyes to try reading those pages.
Maybe they take incoming spam that would have been bounced and instead reconnect to the SMTP server that tried to send it and direct the email to postmaster@localhost ?
How about making BF1942 run at 30 FPS instead of 2 FPS because of a texturing glitch? Ditto for World of Warcraft. Please see other replies where people havehad crash problems with the WHQL drivers but NOT with the uncertified ones.
Sure, and the next WHQL Certified version will be out in what, a year? When was the last version before this one that was certified? Lets look at when you have WHQL certification...
You just got amazingly lucky that this discussion came up at exactly the right time to point that out. Some of us have to update our video drivers slightly more often than that to resolve bugs and other issues. I have had a WHQL certified driver for a total of about 4 months out of the last 12.
No you do not. Just as two eyes twitch to increase their effective resolution so do each individual eye's distance focusing muscles twitch which provides a significant amount of depth detail when viewing a scene with just one eye. I imagine this behaviour would be increased in a person with just one eye. Normal depth perception is simply the brain doing a little bit of trig on the angles of your two eyes, depth perception for a one eyed person is an even simpler, if less accurate, mapping of lens focus to distance.
One page would be fine. It would just be one very 'busy' page, with hundreds of elements visible on the screen. You would handle it like an image rendering test, comparing a screenshot of the 'reference' implementation to what the browser spits out.
I think youve completely overlooked certain aspects of copyright law. Google's cache is, by the legal definition, an 'archive', with the rights accorded by 17 USC 108 . They are permitted to create single (and triplicate, although I doubt that applies) copies of works for preservation and public viewing under a few restrictions. In perusing this section of the law it seems that Google IS breaking the law, but only in that their cache page header doesnt "includes a legend stating that the work may be protected by copyright if no such notice can be found on the copy". A simple matter to rectify, I am surprised it slipped by their legal department.
To defend the parents' math, in case anyone has a 'that cant be right' knee jerk reaction: There are something on the order of 20000 people in each zip code. Gender cuts that in half, 10000. Assume average age is around 35, that gives us about 1 in every 13000 people with each birthday (more or less for different ages). This works out very close to the stated 87%.
With stiff competition from the early starters like Orkut it will be interesting to see if Yahoo! will succeed.
They want to overcome 'stiff competition' from Orkut? I have a simple solution... Allow people to join the site. This seems pretty obvious, but Orkut apparently hasnt figured it out yet. I am about 10 degrees of seperation from anyone who has ever even heard of Orkut, so they will never get my 'business'.
It is sad that the current horrible state of software design makes you think that 533MHz is "glacial". 533MHz is plenty to multitask a handfull of office and web applications (like, say, firefox browsing a dozen pages, thunderbird, OOo working on 3 documents and 2 spreadsheets, kvirc connected to 10 channels, gaim doing what gaim does...) across multiple pretty desktops. It is plenty to play all but a handful of games as long as you have a suitable video accelerator (id rather play HL2 with 500MHz and an x800 than 2000MHz and a GF2). If you think 533MHz is 'glacial' then you need to stop using such a poorly written OS.
The DMCA outlaws circumventing any measure that restricts access to a work. Infinite lives circumvents a measure (running out of lives) that restricts access to a work (the end-game cut scene).
Different people can percieve different things. Some people have an extra type of receptor in their eyes. Some people can hear the high pitched noise that various components in an average CRT make when they are poorly tuned. Some people cant tell the difference in Hershey and Milka:)
And how do you expect to get window lighting to an office 50 feet from any exterior wall? Unless you think every floor of an office building should have no walls...
It encourages cuthroat competetion, encouraging people with cellphones to not self-delude themselves into thinking that most calls are incoming. (By definition, for every minute of outgoing call, there must be a minute of incoming.) This encourages businesses to keep prices very low.
yes, but the minutes of outgoing do not have to be on cell phones. 90% of the calls I get on my cell are from landlines. if i didnt have to pay to recieve those calls (well, pay for my block of minutes) then cingular would make almost no money from me.
They are satellites of the core of the milky way, if nothing else. So nyah!:-p
As to aimable 75-meter dishes... what about a phased array of a hundred 1-meter dishes? As to needing 3, thats only if you want all the data, im sure 1/3 of it would be plenty informative.
I think the most interesting point here is how Marvel tried to submit 'evidence' involving characters that THEY had made in the game. Duplicates of their characters that no normal user had ever produced.
Some of us cant adjust our W-4. My employer has always deducted from my check as a 'Single 1' and always will. This bothers me only because I have never had deductions before, always having been a nice simple 'Exempt' before.
Very good point, I sit corrected. Assuming you are correct (seems like $1000 is a pretty low limit for underwithholding considering the average tax liability is in the 10s of thousands), let me amend my suggestion by saying that you should withhold only up to $1000 less than your estimated liability. Thus the scenarios become as follows:
1) you over-estimate your liability at $10000 instead of the correct $8000 1A) withhold $10000, $2000 refund check 1B) withhold $9000 and save $1000, $1000 refund check plus $1015 in the bank
2) you estimate your liability perfectly at $10000 2A) withhold $10000 2B) withhold $9000 and save $1000, mail in $1000 and keep the $15
3) you under-estimate your liability at $10000 instead of the correct $12000 1A) withhold $10000, you owe the IRS $2000 that isnt in your budget 1B) withhold $9000, you owe the IRS $1985 that isnt in your budget
of course, if the penalties arent as bad as the $150 you would have saved in my first post then that would still be a superior method. this way you get a couple of free lunches:)
What does it take to recieve the signals from these satellites? Why does the govt have to continue doing the decoding? Crack the scheme, decode the data yourself.
No, the smart way to avoid that is to withhold the minimum and then put the difference in that minimum and what you 'think' you should withhold in savings. Then at the end of the year you do your taxes and take what you owe out of that savings account. Now, you have your 'refund' instantly, whatever is left in the savings account, and you have the interest instead of the IRS. There is no change to your budget here.
3 possible scenarios, two variations of each. In variation A you withhold a lot. In variation B you put your withholdings in a 3% interest savings account (oversimplification, since youd really still have to give the IRS a small amount, the minimum withholding. also note that 3% on the described savings scheme would average out to 1.5% of the total at the end of the year):
1) you over-estimate your liability at $10000 instead of the correct $8000 1A) $2000 refund check 1B) you send $8000 to the IRS, $2150 left in your savings account
2) you estimate your liability perfectly at $10000 2A) no refund 2B) you send $10000 to the IRS, $150 left in your savings account
3) you under-estimate your liability at $10000 instead of the correct $12000 1A) you owe the IRS $2000 that isnt in your budget 1B) you owe the IRS $1850 that isnt in your budget
Please indicate to me which of those B's is worse than the corresponding A? Also note that in the B scenarios you have a significant amount of money on hand for emergencies that you dont have in the A scenarios.
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That has to be one of the worst color schemes I have ever seen on a website. Light grey on white, not so bad. Light grey on blue, again not horrible. But alternating white and blue backgrounds as the image tiles? It physically hurt my eyes to try reading those pages.
Maybe they take incoming spam that would have been bounced and instead reconnect to the SMTP server that tried to send it and direct the email to postmaster@localhost ?
How about making BF1942 run at 30 FPS instead of 2 FPS because of a texturing glitch? Ditto for World of Warcraft. Please see other replies where people havehad crash problems with the WHQL drivers but NOT with the uncertified ones.
Sure, and the next WHQL Certified version will be out in what, a year? When was the last version before this one that was certified? Lets look at when you have WHQL certification...
2005.03.21 : YES
2004.11.09 : YES*
2004.07.27 : NO
2004.04.01 : YES
2004.03.15 : YES*
(*) Not certified for all GPUs
You just got amazingly lucky that this discussion came up at exactly the right time to point that out. Some of us have to update our video drivers slightly more often than that to resolve bugs and other issues. I have had a WHQL certified driver for a total of about 4 months out of the last 12.
No you do not. Just as two eyes twitch to increase their effective resolution so do each individual eye's distance focusing muscles twitch which provides a significant amount of depth detail when viewing a scene with just one eye. I imagine this behaviour would be increased in a person with just one eye. Normal depth perception is simply the brain doing a little bit of trig on the angles of your two eyes, depth perception for a one eyed person is an even simpler, if less accurate, mapping of lens focus to distance.
One page would be fine. It would just be one very 'busy' page, with hundreds of elements visible on the screen. You would handle it like an image rendering test, comparing a screenshot of the 'reference' implementation to what the browser spits out.
Google's cache is available to the public. Anyone can use it, including their competitors. Thus it does not provide a commercial advantage to them.
I think youve completely overlooked certain aspects of copyright law. Google's cache is, by the legal definition, an 'archive', with the rights accorded by 17 USC 108 . They are permitted to create single (and triplicate, although I doubt that applies) copies of works for preservation and public viewing under a few restrictions. In perusing this section of the law it seems that Google IS breaking the law, but only in that their cache page header doesnt "includes a legend stating that the work may be protected by copyright if no such notice can be found on the copy". A simple matter to rectify, I am surprised it slipped by their legal department.
To defend the parents' math, in case anyone has a 'that cant be right' knee jerk reaction:
There are something on the order of 20000 people in each zip code. Gender cuts that in half, 10000. Assume average age is around 35, that gives us about 1 in every 13000 people with each birthday (more or less for different ages). This works out very close to the stated 87%.
They want to overcome 'stiff competition' from Orkut? I have a simple solution... Allow people to join the site. This seems pretty obvious, but Orkut apparently hasnt figured it out yet. I am about 10 degrees of seperation from anyone who has ever even heard of Orkut, so they will never get my 'business'.
It is sad that the current horrible state of software design makes you think that 533MHz is "glacial". 533MHz is plenty to multitask a handfull of office and web applications (like, say, firefox browsing a dozen pages, thunderbird, OOo working on 3 documents and 2 spreadsheets, kvirc connected to 10 channels, gaim doing what gaim does...) across multiple pretty desktops. It is plenty to play all but a handful of games as long as you have a suitable video accelerator (id rather play HL2 with 500MHz and an x800 than 2000MHz and a GF2). If you think 533MHz is 'glacial' then you need to stop using such a poorly written OS.
The DMCA outlaws circumventing any measure that restricts access to a work. Infinite lives circumvents a measure (running out of lives) that restricts access to a work (the end-game cut scene).
Different people can percieve different things. Some people have an extra type of receptor in their eyes. Some people can hear the high pitched noise that various components in an average CRT make when they are poorly tuned. Some people cant tell the difference in Hershey and Milka :)
Sometimes I can see it when it coincides with the frequency of the lighting in the room, or is off by some small amount.
Mod Parent down for replying to the first post instead of to the article just so he could have a higher position on the page.
So, what do YOU use on the desktop? Firefox and Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite, Internet Explorer and Outlook, Opera and Eudora?
you just slashdotted empornium. congratulations.
And how do you expect to get window lighting to an office 50 feet from any exterior wall? Unless you think every floor of an office building should have no walls...
yes, but the minutes of outgoing do not have to be on cell phones. 90% of the calls I get on my cell are from landlines. if i didnt have to pay to recieve those calls (well, pay for my block of minutes) then cingular would make almost no money from me.
They are satellites of the core of the milky way, if nothing else. So nyah! :-p
As to aimable 75-meter dishes... what about a phased array of a hundred 1-meter dishes? As to needing 3, thats only if you want all the data, im sure 1/3 of it would be plenty informative.
I think the most interesting point here is how Marvel tried to submit 'evidence' involving characters that THEY had made in the game. Duplicates of their characters that no normal user had ever produced.
Some of us cant adjust our W-4. My employer has always deducted from my check as a 'Single 1' and always will. This bothers me only because I have never had deductions before, always having been a nice simple 'Exempt' before.
Very good point, I sit corrected. Assuming you are correct (seems like $1000 is a pretty low limit for underwithholding considering the average tax liability is in the 10s of thousands), let me amend my suggestion by saying that you should withhold only up to $1000 less than your estimated liability. Thus the scenarios become as follows:
:)
1) you over-estimate your liability at $10000 instead of the correct $8000
1A) withhold $10000, $2000 refund check
1B) withhold $9000 and save $1000, $1000 refund check plus $1015 in the bank
2) you estimate your liability perfectly at $10000
2A) withhold $10000
2B) withhold $9000 and save $1000, mail in $1000 and keep the $15
3) you under-estimate your liability at $10000 instead of the correct $12000
1A) withhold $10000, you owe the IRS $2000 that isnt in your budget
1B) withhold $9000, you owe the IRS $1985 that isnt in your budget
of course, if the penalties arent as bad as the $150 you would have saved in my first post then that would still be a superior method. this way you get a couple of free lunches
What does it take to recieve the signals from these satellites? Why does the govt have to continue doing the decoding? Crack the scheme, decode the data yourself.
No, the smart way to avoid that is to withhold the minimum and then put the difference in that minimum and what you 'think' you should withhold in savings. Then at the end of the year you do your taxes and take what you owe out of that savings account. Now, you have your 'refund' instantly, whatever is left in the savings account, and you have the interest instead of the IRS. There is no change to your budget here.
3 possible scenarios, two variations of each. In variation A you withhold a lot. In variation B you put your withholdings in a 3% interest savings account (oversimplification, since youd really still have to give the IRS a small amount, the minimum withholding. also note that 3% on the described savings scheme would average out to 1.5% of the total at the end of the year):
1) you over-estimate your liability at $10000 instead of the correct $8000
1A) $2000 refund check
1B) you send $8000 to the IRS, $2150 left in your savings account
2) you estimate your liability perfectly at $10000
2A) no refund
2B) you send $10000 to the IRS, $150 left in your savings account
3) you under-estimate your liability at $10000 instead of the correct $12000
1A) you owe the IRS $2000 that isnt in your budget
1B) you owe the IRS $1850 that isnt in your budget
Please indicate to me which of those B's is worse than the corresponding A? Also note that in the B scenarios you have a significant amount of money on hand for emergencies that you dont have in the A scenarios.