My first thought was, 'where should I paint the stripes on my face to confuse such a system?'. My next thought was 'actually, painting stripes on my face might cause worse problems, such as being called 'stripey' by small kids'.
All the same, it would be pretty cool if measures to avoid face recognition became a mark of toughness ('I'm a scary criminal, me, I have to avoid cameras') and then of fashion -- everything that's adopted by genuinely scary people winds up being worn by college kids 5-10 years later, after all. The result could be an interesting arms race between software designers and makeup artists.
Now I'm off to order my David Blunkett latex mask. Heh heh.
Well, _I'll_ defend the PKK (I'm neither a turk nor a kurd, though). The kurds in turkey are facing gradual annihilation -- some of them have attempted to fight back, without much success (they are heavily outnumbered and don't have much money). What on earth does the rest of the world expect them to do? Just die extra-quietly so that nobody is bothered?
The issue of the war on the Kurds is the most important. Followed by the problem of Turks who don't join in the general hate being persecuted or imprisoned. The issue of holding an editor accountable for the links edited, while worrying, is absolutely insignificant by comparison.
That's an extremely interesting point, and it might explain why I don't actually use the Wacom mouse -- I point with the wacom pen, which I think is a technological marvel.
Incidentally, check out the Intuous 3 -- the tablet is the same, but the 'touch strips' and thumb buttons help more than you'd think.
Install your first ever copy of Haskell, and begin to learn the 'theory of patches'...
This is a problem domain that seems to attract elegant, clever solutions that don't pay much attention to usability. Svn has been (partly) an exception to this -- it focuses on delivering simple, obvious functionality in a convenient way (now that that silly BerkelyDB and DAV stuff is fading away). To me, I must say this makes Svn a far more promising project than Darcs or Arch.
I said 'readable', I didn't say 'good'... I'm at work. Anyway:
Amazon japan have updated the mobile phone version of the amazon.co.jp shopping site, which they run. The menu and search screens have been completely redone, and for iMode, there's a service starting whereby you can scan a barcode using your phone and look up or buy an item.
The amazon.co.jp online store mobile verison was opened in 2001 but has been remade in the light of the improved power and functionality of mobile phones. The 'home & kitchen' and 'toy & hobby' stores, included in the PC version of the site, are now in the mobile version, and products not in the PC version's 'marketplace' can be bought too. Recommendations appear too, in the form of search keyword rankings and the CD sales rankings from the US version.
The navigation and search functionality of the menu screens has been enhanced too. In each store, bargain corner products, 'campaign' (ie sales promotion) information, and discounted 'red' prices are visible -- as well as product images. In product search, detailed search features are available depending on the type of product, and a search can be done from any screen.
As a new experiment, the iMode-oriented 'Amazon Scan Search' service has been begun. With this, you download a free specialized application, and using the camera in your mobile you can scan the barcodes on items. After scanning, a request is sent to the mobile version of amazon.co.jp, and if the item is one that can be obtained at that site, you can order it. The same company also suggests you use the feature when ordering consumables, or when you want an item like one that your freind has, or when you want to see what related products are for sale. The 'Vodaphone Live!' version of EZWeb is also considering the iMode trend.
A product launch was held on the 22nd. Amazon's representative director, Jasper Chan, emphasized the convenience of the new service, saying 'With Scan Search, discovering Amazon products has become unbelievably easy!' Concerning the remake of the mobile version of the site, he said 'We see mobiles as strategically vital' and describing the enthusiasm with which the matter will be taken forward, he said 'Whatever functionality is available to the PC version will, more and more, be in the mobile version as well. On the other hand, we will also be building functionality specially to suit mobiles'.
The amazon.co.jp mobile version is accessed via iMode from 'Shopping Ticket', via EZWeb from 'Shopping'/'Books/CDs/DVDs', and via Vodaphone Live! from 'Shopping/Ticket'/'Books/CDs/DVDs/Games'.
Nobody knows _just_ C++. Nobody knows _just_ Ruby or _just_ LISP or (barring a few teens just starting out) _just_ PHP or Perl.
But there is a huge population (I know because I interview them) that knows _just_ Java and often _just_ J2EE. Their entire skillset is invested there. The only response they can reasonably have to other languages / frameworks is 'no, it would be better to use Java'. What else are they going to say?
They aren't going to shop around and maybe pause for a year or two to get a general background in programming, they're going to use Java, plain and simple. It's common sense.
Welcome to the marketplace -- standardization brings some efficiency at the cost of some flexibility.
Disclaimers: there are of course many good programmers who do use Java as one tool among many. However, the vast horde of Java-only people, good and bad, who were trained a few years ago is going to have a big effect for a long time.
He's saying: use a suite of highly-optimized tools (the various LAMP components, most of which are fast and all of which can be replaced with alternatives as necessary) rather than throw more hardware at an inherently slow platform (Java).
It's all pretty much a matter of what you were brought up with. On the other hand, I'm working for a household-name client now that's banned Java across the board because they got sick of the 'buy more chips' solution to performance problems. Acceptable platforms: LAMP and.NET.
The degree of ignorance required to assert that there were no armed citizens until 1776 is absolutely flabbergasting. Seriously, I take my hat off to you.
Hunting is about knowing, deep in your gut, that the animal you hunt will hurt and die. And hunting (for humans) is about honoring that animal, by making its death for your benefit as fast and painless as possible, an easier death than it would suffer from the teeth and claws of some other peredator, from disease, from accident, or from starvation.
Hunting is about understanding your place in nature:
The Zuni's of the American Southwest have recently been shown to most likely have been decendant from Buddist pilgrims from Japan who arrived in New Mexico region about 1000 years ago!
You may wish to open your mind to the possibility that people are trying to sell books to gullible people:)
You probably read 'The Zuni Enigma', which AFAIK is where this legend started. You may wish to read up on actual anthropology too.
The fact that Neal Stephenson, the commentator, and the person who accepted the article were able to write and read so much about the subject without ever noticing all the obvious and commonly used GUI counterparts to wc -- many of which are considerably more interesting, for instance Word does a little morphological analysis to count Japanese words -- says something desperately sad about those people and perhaps about the culture they are from.
But the fact that so many slashdotters stepped up already and cared enough about nitpicking the record straight that they have posted the path to the word count tool in Word at least half a dozen times already, fills me with hope!
I feel as if I have gained wisdom from this simultaneous despair and revival. The feeling is probably false, though.
Incidentally, the finest and most satisfying way to count words (if wc's answer is good enough) is to use wc... from vim.
I am feeding this troll because there are people who really _do_ think like that and I wish I could yell at them to their faces:)
You put content in a place where it is publically accessible. You explicitly and proactively made that content available to everyone, including 'the average surfer' and googlebots. You took no steps to make it available only to the select few of whom you approve.
Now you are all cross and bothered because average surfers / googlebots have read / copied your content, such as it is.
The solution is to drown yourself in a bucket. I have a bucket.
Well, when using a symbol, the symbol comes first, for pounds, dollars, yen, won. When using a word (and that includes the kanji 'en'), the word comes last, again for pounds, dollars, yen and won. So I think the rule is pretty near global.
There was that one murder that was blamed on Manhunt, and I'm sure it (is|will be) a tabloid crusade, but they have these crusades pretty often here in the UK -- it's a bit of a national hobby really. The 'video nasty' one only lasted a year or two.
You also have to bear in mind that the UK has a rather weak concept of personal responsibility, and in the event of violence they blame the local government, the police, the education system, movies, tv, games, Bush, and pretty much anything other than the actual people involved. Getting actually punished for a violent crime here seems to be near impossible.
I gather it involves bolting crap to your car, which I think is a right guaranteed in the constitution somewhere, but is there a more precise meaning than this? Is there some nominal Japanese connection?
'Video nasties' were an 80's panic; the idea was that horror videos would corrupt youth. Please get you witchhunts, panics, and scares in the right order!
Since the video nasty, penny dreadful, sinful rock'n'roll song, three-volume novel (blamed for leading young ladies astray in times past) and comic book scares have all been and gone with amazingly little impact on anything, I think it is reasonable to have a fairly relaxed response to the current computer games scare:)
I clicked on this article specifically to see the Libertarian environment trolls come out and scream about how it's all a left-wing conspiracy and climate change is just fine, and boy, I was not disappointed.
Well, I was disappointed in the human race I guess:)
The correct way to do that in C++, as I suspect you know deep down inside, is:/* Rational person sets a control register in C++ */ *SOMEREG_ptr = BIT_A | BIT_B;
If you accept the code of drooling idiots, you will have code like your second example.
Moral: do not employ drooling idiots (or fresh CS graduates)
Notice how that doesn't have any bearing on what I said -- although it is overall a good thing:)
People make jokes about all kinds of stuff, especially annoying and inescapable stuff. You can't expect them to cut it out in the one case of the president of the USA.
Slashdot Mirror
My first thought was, 'where should I paint the stripes on my face to confuse such a system?'. My next thought was 'actually, painting stripes on my face might cause worse problems, such as being called 'stripey' by small kids'.
All the same, it would be pretty cool if measures to avoid face recognition became a mark of toughness ('I'm a scary criminal, me, I have to avoid cameras') and then of fashion -- everything that's adopted by genuinely scary people winds up being worn by college kids 5-10 years later, after all. The result could be an interesting arms race between software designers and makeup artists.
Now I'm off to order my David Blunkett latex mask. Heh heh.
Well, _I'll_ defend the PKK (I'm neither a turk nor a kurd, though). The kurds in turkey are facing gradual annihilation -- some of them have attempted to fight back, without much success (they are heavily outnumbered and don't have much money). What on earth does the rest of the world expect them to do? Just die extra-quietly so that nobody is bothered?
The issue of the war on the Kurds is the most important. Followed by the problem of Turks who don't join in the general hate being persecuted or imprisoned. The issue of holding an editor accountable for the links edited, while worrying, is absolutely insignificant by comparison.
That's an extremely interesting point, and it might explain why I don't actually use the Wacom mouse -- I point with the wacom pen, which I think is a technological marvel.
Incidentally, check out the Intuous 3 -- the tablet is the same, but the 'touch strips' and thumb buttons help more than you'd think.
...from Wacom! Who, incidentally, are the best hardware company ever.
http://www.wacom.com for your batteryless pointing device needs.
Getting started with subversion:
Create. Import. Update. Commit.
Getting started with Darcs:
Install your first ever copy of Haskell, and begin to learn the 'theory of patches'...
This is a problem domain that seems to attract elegant, clever solutions that don't pay much attention to usability. Svn has been (partly) an exception to this -- it focuses on delivering simple, obvious functionality in a convenient way (now that that silly BerkelyDB and DAV stuff is fading away). To me, I must say this makes Svn a far more promising project than Darcs or Arch.
Notice how you didn't answer his rather reasonable objection?
No?
See, this is why it's bad to drink during pregnancy.
BLAM! BLAM!
haha lol owned j00 j00 nub lol
Saw this in the FT this morning. Had a sweepstake on how long it would be before it appeared on
I pocketed what I'll just describe as a 'large one-digit sum'.
Heh heh heh... now to spend my wealth while industry as a whole suffers...
I said 'readable', I didn't say 'good'... I'm at work. Anyway:
Amazon japan have updated the mobile phone version of the amazon.co.jp shopping site, which they run. The menu and search screens have been completely redone, and for iMode, there's a service starting whereby you can scan a barcode using your phone and look up or buy an item.
The amazon.co.jp online store mobile verison was opened in 2001 but has been remade in the light of the improved power and functionality of mobile phones. The 'home & kitchen' and 'toy & hobby' stores, included in the PC version of the site, are now in the mobile version, and products not in the PC version's 'marketplace' can be bought too. Recommendations appear too, in the form of search keyword rankings and the CD sales rankings from the US version.
The navigation and search functionality of the menu screens has been enhanced too. In each store, bargain corner products, 'campaign' (ie sales promotion) information, and discounted 'red' prices are visible -- as well as product images. In product search, detailed search features are available depending on the type of product, and a search can be done from any screen.
As a new experiment, the iMode-oriented 'Amazon Scan Search' service has been begun. With this, you download a free specialized application, and using the camera in your mobile you can scan the barcodes on items. After scanning, a request is sent to the mobile version of amazon.co.jp, and if the item is one that can be obtained at that site, you can order it. The same company also suggests you use the feature when ordering consumables, or when you want an item like one that your freind has, or when you want to see what related products are for sale. The 'Vodaphone Live!' version of EZWeb is also considering the iMode trend.
A product launch was held on the 22nd. Amazon's representative director, Jasper Chan, emphasized the convenience of the new service, saying 'With Scan Search, discovering Amazon products has become unbelievably easy!' Concerning the remake of the mobile version of the site, he said 'We see mobiles as strategically vital' and describing the enthusiasm with which the matter will be taken forward, he said 'Whatever functionality is available to the PC version will, more and more, be in the mobile version as well. On the other hand, we will also be building functionality specially to suit mobiles'.
The amazon.co.jp mobile version is accessed via iMode from 'Shopping Ticket', via EZWeb from 'Shopping'/'Books/CDs/DVDs', and via Vodaphone Live! from 'Shopping/Ticket'/'Books/CDs/DVDs/Games'.
Nobody knows _just_ C++. Nobody knows _just_ Ruby or _just_ LISP or (barring a few teens just starting out) _just_ PHP or Perl.
But there is a huge population (I know because I interview them) that knows _just_ Java and often _just_ J2EE. Their entire skillset is invested there. The only response they can reasonably have to other languages / frameworks is 'no, it would be better to use Java'. What else are they going to say?
They aren't going to shop around and maybe pause for a year or two to get a general background in programming, they're going to use Java, plain and simple. It's common sense.
Welcome to the marketplace -- standardization brings some efficiency at the cost of some flexibility.
Disclaimers: there are of course many good programmers who do use Java as one tool among many. However, the vast horde of Java-only people, good and bad, who were trained a few years ago is going to have a big effect for a long time.
He's saying: use a suite of highly-optimized tools (the various LAMP components, most of which are fast and all of which can be replaced with alternatives as necessary) rather than throw more hardware at an inherently slow platform (Java).
It's all pretty much a matter of what you were brought up with. On the other hand, I'm working for a household-name client now that's banned Java across the board because they got sick of the 'buy more chips' solution to performance problems. Acceptable platforms: LAMP and
The degree of ignorance required to assert that there were no armed citizens until 1776 is absolutely flabbergasting. Seriously, I take my hat off to you.
Hunting is about knowing, deep in your gut, that the animal you hunt will hurt and die. And hunting (for humans) is about honoring that animal, by making its death for your benefit as fast and painless as possible, an easier death than it would suffer from the teeth and claws of some other peredator, from disease, from accident, or from starvation.
Hunting is about understanding your place in nature:
You are a predator.
You are at the top of the food chain
Time for your medication now, Mr. Smith.
The Zuni's of the American Southwest have recently been shown to most likely have been decendant from Buddist pilgrims from Japan who arrived in New Mexico region about 1000 years ago!
You may wish to open your mind to the possibility that people are trying to sell books to gullible people
You probably read 'The Zuni Enigma', which AFAIK is where this legend started. You may wish to read up on actual anthropology too.
The fact that Neal Stephenson, the commentator, and the person who accepted the article were able to write and read so much about the subject without ever noticing all the obvious and commonly used GUI counterparts to wc -- many of which are considerably more interesting, for instance Word does a little morphological analysis to count Japanese words -- says something desperately sad about those people and perhaps about the culture they are from.
But the fact that so many slashdotters stepped up already and cared enough about nitpicking the record straight that they have posted the path to the word count tool in Word at least half a dozen times already, fills me with hope!
I feel as if I have gained wisdom from this simultaneous despair and revival. The feeling is probably false, though.
Incidentally, the finest and most satisfying way to count words (if wc's answer is good enough) is to use wc... from vim.
No way, man!
www.wacom.com
I am feeding this troll because there are people who really _do_ think like that and I wish I could yell at them to their faces
You put content in a place where it is publically accessible. You explicitly and proactively made that content available to everyone, including 'the average surfer' and googlebots. You took no steps to make it available only to the select few of whom you approve.
Now you are all cross and bothered because average surfers / googlebots have read / copied your content, such as it is.
The solution is to drown yourself in a bucket. I have a bucket.
Well, when using a symbol, the symbol comes first, for pounds, dollars, yen, won. When using a word (and that includes the kanji 'en'), the word comes last, again for pounds, dollars, yen and won. So I think the rule is pretty near global.
Well, I have the misfortune to live in the UK
There was that one murder that was blamed on Manhunt, and I'm sure it (is|will be) a tabloid crusade, but they have these crusades pretty often here in the UK -- it's a bit of a national hobby really. The 'video nasty' one only lasted a year or two.
You also have to bear in mind that the UK has a rather weak concept of personal responsibility, and in the event of violence they blame the local government, the police, the education system, movies, tv, games, Bush, and pretty much anything other than the actual people involved. Getting actually punished for a violent crime here seems to be near impossible.
I gather it involves bolting crap to your car, which I think is a right guaranteed in the constitution somewhere, but is there a more precise meaning than this? Is there some nominal Japanese connection?
Also, wtf is an 'R-type sticker'?
'Video nasties' were an 80's panic; the idea was that horror videos would corrupt youth. Please get you witchhunts, panics, and scares in the right order!
Since the video nasty, penny dreadful, sinful rock'n'roll song, three-volume novel (blamed for leading young ladies astray in times past) and comic book scares have all been and gone with amazingly little impact on anything, I think it is reasonable to have a fairly relaxed response to the current computer games scare
I clicked on this article specifically to see the Libertarian environment trolls come out and scream about how it's all a left-wing conspiracy and climate change is just fine, and boy, I was not disappointed.
Well, I was disappointed in the human race I guess
The correct way to do that in C++, as I suspect you know deep down inside, is:
*SOMEREG_ptr = BIT_A | BIT_B;
If you accept the code of drooling idiots, you will have code like your second example.
Moral: do not employ drooling idiots (or fresh CS graduates)
Notice how that doesn't have any bearing on what I said -- although it is overall a good thing
People make jokes about all kinds of stuff, especially annoying and inescapable stuff. You can't expect them to cut it out in the one case of the president of the USA.