Not to be a party pooper, but for those who may not have figured out the joke, it's a reference to Robert Asprin's "Myth-adventures of Aahz and Skeeve" series. They're quick and funny books; I recommend them.
I know that the joke was in Dilbert, but would a more lightweuight Faraday Cage work as well? Or am I just mixed up? (There's a good chance that I'm mixed up, but since this is slashdot, someone will probably correct me.)
If you could find a way---perhaps by looking at the number of download sources---to find out how popular a certain artist is on filesharing networks, I'll bet you could make some good money selling this information to promoters who want an accurate picture of popularity. And that way you could help with the touring program... I hope.
I've always favored knife fights. They're melee weapons (which means that the fight may take a little while) and it's likely that the winner of the fight may bleed to death, and we'd be rid of them both.
My money is on somebody winning. As long as somebody wins, I will be happy. And anyway, a little competition is good, too. If the Rutan fellows succeed after, say, Canadian Arrow has already won, that will be pretty cool, too.
Frankly, if I'd been ruling the world, I'd shift technology, research and humanity as a whole into high gear _BEFORE_ salvaging Iraq and removing Saddam's testacles, but hey, that's just me.
It's not just you. It's me, too. Frankly, I don't care about what happens to Saddam Houssein (sp?). He can just rot for the rest of his life, assuming he isn't dead yet, as a washed-up has-been whom everybody hates. If I were ruling the world, I'd scrap the FAA regulations that are one of the biggest obstacles to provate spaceflight. Armadillo, for example, tried to get permission to fly into space from the FAA. The schedule the FAA gave them had them launching after the X-Prize expired!
John Carmack et al. are abandoning the hard-to-get peroxide fuel and going for a mixed monoprop system. They have had some success recently:
We are really psyched about these results. The odds are looking very good that this will be the propulsion system for the X-Prize vehicle. Cheaper, higher performance, and no availability problems. Big wins.
So it looks like they'll be getting propellant soon. And anyway, check out some of the cool pictures!
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and naming something after someone is considered flattery as well. With all that, why can't we just politely refer to things as the Thunderbird [Browser, Rocket, Whatever], and not squabble over who gets the cool names?
The thing about xforms is that I see, lurking underneath the buzzwords and nasty looking XML namespaces (ugh. UGH!), that there is some good technology here. The old HTML forms are okay, but you get the feeling that they are a bit too lightweight. They have no support for input validation, so you either have to do that with server scripting (which is typically a lot of work, and ugly at that), or stick in a bunch of nasty javascript. Xforms looks like a way to give the browser more knowledge about what is supposed to go into the fields, and let it figure out how to get it---what validation to do, and even how to display the forms, which should be very useful on, say, handheld computers. Not all the world uses MSIE 800x600 24 bit monitors, and not all the world can display normal forms that way they're intended to be displayed.
For some good information on how to actually use xforms, go to W3Schools, which also has lots of other stuff. But knock off the buzzwords, people!
I thought the strong tag died because it was more work to type it instead of the b tag. Now that CSS has wide browser support, you'd think that people could just use the strong tag and be content that it would render they way they wanted it to, unless the user really wanted it some other way.
As for the blind person comment: I would think that a decent editor for blind people would be able to annotate the language to make it easier for blind people to deal with. If you've got an editor that reads the screen aloud, it could say "open/close block", or you could have it automatically insert #begin and #end in braille.
Pthon 2.3 was designed with backward compatibility in mind. All your old programs should work with 2.3 if they work with 2.2.2, and you'll get some speed improvement. Of course, if you use 2.3-specific modules like logging (based on log4j) and sets (set operations, using dictionaries internally), those won't be compatible with 2.2.2 unless you copy the files from the standard library, which should work.
In short: don't worry about it. The python developers already have.
Not so! The GNU/Linux name signifies that GNU is running on top of the Linux kernel. But your long thing seems to say that, among other things, GNOME runs on top of KDE. GNOME is actually part of GNU, and I think a better way of referring to my system would be:
(KDE/XFree86 & GNU & BSD/Linux) & (Apache/GNU & BSD/Linux). Note the parentheses and ampersands.
I propose that, rather than changing content, proxies simply add the evil bit to packets from sources that they know to be evil. This can be treated by applications as simply a suggestion, like CSS. Here is how we can set the evil bit---at the proxy level! Mark banner ad transmissions as evil!
I can consistently get A's on pop quizzes over stuff I haven't read just by guessing what kind of answers the teacher wants. It's funny. I'm not bragging, and I'm not joking. This doesn't need to be a joke.:-)
It's a great idea to have programs really be directories. It's also great to have Interface Builder, so you can drag and drop your UI into place and set up connections between objects. Plus, the localization directories are good, too.
But the thing that's creepy about it is how closely it resembles a system from the early 90s: NeXTSTEP. Imagine what it would have been like if NeXTSTEP became the dominant OS around the time Windows did: we'd all have learned Cocoa years early, but we'd have called it the AppKit. We'd have a very clean GUI. We'd have RTF documentation as an important part of the program builder.
There is a fairly standard bundle format: openstep bundles. Unfortunately, there isn't a standard binary format. Still, sourc bundles should be able to compile on MacOSX or GNUstep.
I remember the way the MacOS 9 filesystem did things: it had some metadata somewhere telling what type of file you were dealing with, but it wasn't done very well. It said what program made it, which could be annoying when you open a JPEG file and it says that it couldn't find "Photoshop". Lesson: use MIME types. image/jpeg
Apparently somebody else cares, or else there probably wouldn't be a Bugzilla entry about it. It seems cool, but since it doesn't affect me, I don't care that much. Still, it seems like you should be able to display simple Ruby with tables; perhaps that's how they'll implement the tag.
I agree with you as far as the popup blockers go, but a spam filter really should be seperate from the email program. Of course, the email program should make it painless to work with the spam filter.
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Speaking as someone who tried to make their own napalm (and nearly set fire to my Dad's garage) I totally approved of their adventures!
It's ironic that with all the talk going aroung about Google allegedly censoring the web, you think that not censoring it is going to haunt them.:-)
I think that Google can probably claim that it's too hard for anyone to accurately classify warez sites and such. But remember, you don't have to suffer porn popups!
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Not to be a party pooper, but for those who may not have figured out the joke, it's a reference to Robert Asprin's "Myth-adventures of Aahz and Skeeve" series. They're quick and funny books; I recommend them.
I know that the joke was in Dilbert, but would a more lightweuight Faraday Cage work as well? Or am I just mixed up? (There's a good chance that I'm mixed up, but since this is slashdot, someone will probably correct me.)
How about outsourcing marketing/sales to India? ;-)
If you could find a way---perhaps by looking at the number of download sources---to find out how popular a certain artist is on filesharing networks, I'll bet you could make some good money selling this information to promoters who want an accurate picture of popularity. And that way you could help with the touring program... I hope.
And yes, I think I'm joking.
My money is on somebody winning. As long as somebody wins, I will be happy. And anyway, a little competition is good, too. If the Rutan fellows succeed after, say, Canadian Arrow has already won, that will be pretty cool, too.
It's not just you. It's me, too. Frankly, I don't care about what happens to Saddam Houssein (sp?). He can just rot for the rest of his life, assuming he isn't dead yet, as a washed-up has-been whom everybody hates. If I were ruling the world, I'd scrap the FAA regulations that are one of the biggest obstacles to provate spaceflight. Armadillo, for example, tried to get permission to fly into space from the FAA. The schedule the FAA gave them had them launching after the X-Prize expired!
So it looks like they'll be getting propellant soon. And anyway, check out some of the cool pictures!
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and naming something after someone is considered flattery as well. With all that, why can't we just politely refer to things as the Thunderbird [Browser, Rocket, Whatever], and not squabble over who gets the cool names?
The ugliness I was talking about was the part where you need to interact with the user to get the required field informatrion right. That is ugly.
For some good information on how to actually use xforms, go to W3Schools, which also has lots of other stuff. But knock off the buzzwords, people!
I thought the strong tag died because it was more work to type it instead of the b tag. Now that CSS has wide browser support, you'd think that people could just use the strong tag and be content that it would render they way they wanted it to, unless the user really wanted it some other way.
As for the blind person comment: I would think that a decent editor for blind people would be able to annotate the language to make it easier for blind people to deal with. If you've got an editor that reads the screen aloud, it could say "open/close block", or you could have it automatically insert #begin and #end in braille.
In short: don't worry about it. The python developers already have.
Not so! The GNU/Linux name signifies that GNU is running on top of the Linux kernel. But your long thing seems to say that, among other things, GNOME runs on top of KDE. GNOME is actually part of GNU, and I think a better way of referring to my system would be:
(KDE/XFree86 & GNU & BSD/Linux) & (Apache/GNU & BSD/Linux). Note the parentheses and ampersands.
I propose that, rather than changing content, proxies simply add the evil bit to packets from sources that they know to be evil. This can be treated by applications as simply a suggestion, like CSS. Here is how we can set the evil bit---at the proxy level! Mark banner ad transmissions as evil!
I can consistently get A's on pop quizzes over stuff I haven't read just by guessing what kind of answers the teacher wants. It's funny. I'm not bragging, and I'm not joking. This doesn't need to be a joke. :-)
But the thing that's creepy about it is how closely it resembles a system from the early 90s: NeXTSTEP. Imagine what it would have been like if NeXTSTEP became the dominant OS around the time Windows did: we'd all have learned Cocoa years early, but we'd have called it the AppKit. We'd have a very clean GUI. We'd have RTF documentation as an important part of the program builder.
There is a fairly standard bundle format: openstep bundles. Unfortunately, there isn't a standard binary format. Still, sourc bundles should be able to compile on MacOSX or GNUstep.
I remember the way the MacOS 9 filesystem did things: it had some metadata somewhere telling what type of file you were dealing with, but it wasn't done very well. It said what program made it, which could be annoying when you open a JPEG file and it says that it couldn't find "Photoshop". Lesson: use MIME types. image/jpeg
Apparently somebody else cares, or else there probably wouldn't be a Bugzilla entry about it. It seems cool, but since it doesn't affect me, I don't care that much. Still, it seems like you should be able to display simple Ruby with tables; perhaps that's how they'll implement the tag.
Memory may be as cheap as water, but that still isn't cheap enough. I want nanotube RAM!
I agree with you as far as the popup blockers go, but a spam filter really should be seperate from the email program. Of course, the email program should make it painless to work with the spam filter.
How did it go? ;-)
There is. How about the Creative Commons?
I think that Google can probably claim that it's too hard for anyone to accurately classify warez sites and such. But remember, you don't have to suffer porn popups!