In retrospect.... I'm in the UK, and the more right-wing the paper, the more knee-jerk to headlines.
I think you're being a touch unfair. Yes, the Daily Heil and the Daily Diana (sorry, Mail and Express), tend to be very knee jerk but we do have more reasoned right wing papers.
And, as a counter-example, is the Mirror (traditionally left) any less knee-jerk than the Sun (traditionally right)?
I'm a lefty Guardian reader, but it still seems to me you've been a bit hasty with your judgment on the right-wing papers.
Yeah, except requiring things to be rendered the same way all the time isn't "harming functionality", it's common sense. In fact, where exactly does one get off saying that you have a "standard" if there's any room for interpretation at all?
A screen reader for the blind has to interpret standards compliant HTML differently to a visual web browser. The point of allowing clients to interpret the standards differently is that they can present the content in the way most suitable to the user, not the designer. We, the users, are more important than you, the designers.
Most (All?) digital cameras allow you to change this setting. On my current one (Panasonic), the setting is called "USB mode" and toggles between PC or PictBridge. I've seen similar settings on Minolta, Nikon, Canon and Olympus cameras; I suggest you try reading the manual or exploring the settings?
Observers aren't looking at everything all at the same time.
True. But, to rig an e-vote, you can affect multiple voting locations (changing 10 votes in a hundred precincts looks less suspicious than changing 1 precinct by a thousand votes) with a single attack. To achieve a similar affect with ballot-stuffing, you'd need to stuff ballots in multiple locations, thereby increasing the chance that an observer will spot you.
Not to mention that ballot stuffing can be detected after the fact: "Why do we have an electoral roll of 5000 people, and 6000 votes?". For an electronic system, you can change, rather than merely add, votes.
Hulu is actually a little smarter than that. Try running it with an ad blocker, and then without. If you run it without the adblocker, each ad runs for between 7 and 15 seconds. With an adblocker, you get a silent, black screen (with a reminder that it's ad-supported, and a "warning" to switch off your adblocker) for 20 seconds wherever an advert would have been. They're cunning enough to give people a reason to watch it with the adverts.
Thanks for the reply; I was completely unaware that Hawkeye was being considered for use in the decision making process. A bad idea, in my opinion, for much the same reasons that you mentioned. When C4 got the cricket, though, Hawkeye was one of the innovations that allowed their coverage to stand head and shoulders above the previous BBC coverage. I, too, won't pay for Sky.
The current plan is to provide the third umpire with clear graphic evidence of lbws within 45 seconds to help him make the correct decision. But it will only happen should both sides agree to a system allowing players to challenge the on-field umpires' decisions.
This is nonsensical; the umpires job is to adjudicate when the two teams disagree (hence why cricketers have to appeal to the umpire, and why football has referees rather than umpires). You cannot then have the players undermining the umpires authority like this. I know way too little about tennis to be able to comment on that, but I suspect the situation is similar to cricket.
One thing you missed from your list: Hawkeye cannot tell if a batsman was offering a shot to a ball that pitched on the offside. Personal bugbear of mine; most umpires seem wiling to give the batsman the benefit of the doubt even if the bate is ten seconds late to the delivery, or completely hidden behind the pad.
The only thing Hawkeye was/is used for is to decide an LBW decision which is a small percentage of 'outs' in a given game, and also to show where balls have been pitched for a given bowler.
I don't think Hawkeye has ever been used by umpires/referee within a game of cricket? It's used a lot by TV companies, and as a consequence, umpires seem far more willing to give front-foot LBW decisions than they used to be. If it's been used during a match to help a decision, I'd love to see a reference. Thanks.
It encourages bad habits, like putting business logic in your UI layer, and generally hacking things together instead of actually thinking about the structure of your software. I don't use VB, but I do a lot of science experiments. Most of my scientific programming needs are solved by hacked together solutions. If a programme is only going to be run half a dozen times, what's the point in spending weeks or months designing it?
My thought process is usually along the lines of 'which bits of this may I want to reuse in the future', and those modules get tidied up, commented, documented etc. The rest? Disposable, throwaway code that is hacked together.
As an aside, most of the time, my language choice is determined by 'what modules do I have, or have access to, that can be hacked together to solve this problem?' Recycling code is the most important lesson in scientific programming, in my opinion. This is where I think most scientific programming courses go wrong: they tend to start from 'how to write your first programme' rather than 'how to understand someone else's programme, and modify it to your needs'. This is also why I think undergrads should be exposed to multiple languages; it increases the breadth of the pre-written modules available to them.
Funny how after Boxing Day 2004 they provided more aid than all the other countries combined but we don't seem to hear that mentioned much. Would you care to provide a reference for that?
A cursory look at wikipedia shows that the US government provided ~$950M in aid; compared with about $600M from the EU (ignoring the separate donations from the governments of the countries comprising the EU, which were substantial), and $500M from the Japanese government. If you have better figures (ie properly sourced figures, rather than wikipedia ones), I'd be happy to be corrected. Otherwise, between just the EU and Japan, you're claim is false.
I think you're being a bit quick to judge, there. There are plenty of good films that started out as comic books. Off the top of my head, there's Batman Begins, History of Violence, Sin City, V for Vendetta... And that's ignoring Japanese cinema (Akira, Ghost in the Shell are both really good films).
...are ya stupid? Because really, if you had done ANY kind of biological research on humans (our teeth aren't sharp for cutting through leaves)
Excuse me? Quick experiment for you (my favourite kind of research): Open your fridge, and find the lettuce. Tear a leaf from the lettuce. Bite it. Did your teeth go through it? If not, I strongly suggest you find a dentist...
I am British (and not the parent poster), and I always thought using "loose" instead of "lose" was an American thing. Similarly, "rediculous" instead of "ridiculous". These aren't correct in American English either then?
Now we just need to persuade you guys to put the "u" in colour, and to pronounce the "h" in "herbs"...
I think that that is what the parent meant; due to the passengers being able to make those phone calls, they knew about the other hijackings and attempted to retake the aircraft, thus disrupting the terrorists' plan.
The JFS bit is unnecessary. If you just put:
set completion-ignore-case on
In your.inputrc, you'll have case insensitive completion in bash and anything else that uses readline (GnuPlot etc). No re-compilation required.
They measure the rotation curves; which is the variation in velocity (measured via redshift, using spectroscopy) with radius of the galaxy. The wikipedia entry for rotation curve is a good summary (you may also be interested in the entries for redshift and spectroscopy).
I'm not sure how to take seriously someone who says in 2008 that you're screwed if you want a non-bestselling book. Actually, you're right there; "screwed" was too strong a term. If you know what book you want, you're right, your choice of sources is now unprecedented. However, if you know what sort of book you're after, but not the particular one, you are in difficulty now (e.g. you want an Indian cookbook, but you've no idea which ones are any good). You can't go to the small bookshop that specialised in that field, and talk to a knowledgeable member of staff. You can't browse through a dozen titles to find the one you like (unless you go to your local library, and hope that it is well-stocked in your area of interest).
Truly screwed was when you went to the cozy little independent bookshop and they didn't have your book. No, that was when you went to the other little bookshops. Even small towns had multiple bookshops ten years ago (I know of two that were in Stornoway at that time); while now large cities like Glasgow only have a handful (two that I can think of; Waterstones and Borders, although the Waterstones does have two shops).
The end result of the dissolution of the Net Book Agreement in the UK has undoubtedly been bad for the high-street book consumer. Whether online suppliers will ever completely fill the void, is yet to be seen (I, at least, have yet to find an on-line bookshop which is enjoyable to browse).
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For what it's worth, I don't think /. had much choice in the matter of removing the comment; lawyers cost serious $$$$.
In retrospect.... I'm in the UK, and the more right-wing the paper, the more knee-jerk to headlines.
I think you're being a touch unfair. Yes, the Daily Heil and the Daily Diana (sorry, Mail and Express), tend to be very knee jerk but we do have more reasoned right wing papers.
And, as a counter-example, is the Mirror (traditionally left) any less knee-jerk than the Sun (traditionally right)?
I'm a lefty Guardian reader, but it still seems to me you've been a bit hasty with your judgment on the right-wing papers.
- abstinence education is the best sex education
There is a difference between optimism and naivete.
Yeah, except requiring things to be rendered the same way all the time isn't "harming functionality", it's common sense. In fact, where exactly does one get off saying that you have a "standard" if there's any room for interpretation at all?
A screen reader for the blind has to interpret standards compliant HTML differently to a visual web browser. The point of allowing clients to interpret the standards differently is that they can present the content in the way most suitable to the user, not the designer. We, the users, are more important than you, the designers.
Most (All?) digital cameras allow you to change this setting. On my current one (Panasonic), the setting is called "USB mode" and toggles between PC or PictBridge. I've seen similar settings on Minolta, Nikon, Canon and Olympus cameras; I suggest you try reading the manual or exploring the settings?
Observers aren't looking at everything all at the same time.
True. But, to rig an e-vote, you can affect multiple voting locations (changing 10 votes in a hundred precincts looks less suspicious than changing 1 precinct by a thousand votes) with a single attack. To achieve a similar affect with ballot-stuffing, you'd need to stuff ballots in multiple locations, thereby increasing the chance that an observer will spot you.
Not to mention that ballot stuffing can be detected after the fact: "Why do we have an electoral roll of 5000 people, and 6000 votes?". For an electronic system, you can change, rather than merely add, votes.
Hulu is actually a little smarter than that. Try running it with an ad blocker, and then without. If you run it without the adblocker, each ad runs for between 7 and 15 seconds. With an adblocker, you get a silent, black screen (with a reminder that it's ad-supported, and a "warning" to switch off your adblocker) for 20 seconds wherever an advert would have been. They're cunning enough to give people a reason to watch it with the adverts.
The current plan is to provide the third umpire with clear graphic evidence of lbws within 45 seconds to help him make the correct decision. But it will only happen should both sides agree to a system allowing players to challenge the on-field umpires' decisions.
This is nonsensical; the umpires job is to adjudicate when the two teams disagree (hence why cricketers have to appeal to the umpire, and why football has referees rather than umpires). You cannot then have the players undermining the umpires authority like this. I know way too little about tennis to be able to comment on that, but I suspect the situation is similar to cricket.
The only thing Hawkeye was/is used for is to decide an LBW decision which is a small percentage of 'outs' in a given game, and also to show where balls have been pitched for a given bowler.
I don't think Hawkeye has ever been used by umpires/referee within a game of cricket? It's used a lot by TV companies, and as a consequence, umpires seem far more willing to give front-foot LBW decisions than they used to be. If it's been used during a match to help a decision, I'd love to see a reference. Thanks.
My thought process is usually along the lines of 'which bits of this may I want to reuse in the future', and those modules get tidied up, commented, documented etc. The rest? Disposable, throwaway code that is hacked together.
As an aside, most of the time, my language choice is determined by 'what modules do I have, or have access to, that can be hacked together to solve this problem?' Recycling code is the most important lesson in scientific programming, in my opinion. This is where I think most scientific programming courses go wrong: they tend to start from 'how to write your first programme' rather than 'how to understand someone else's programme, and modify it to your needs'. This is also why I think undergrads should be exposed to multiple languages; it increases the breadth of the pre-written modules available to them.
Sorry about that...
A cursory look at wikipedia shows that the US government provided ~$950M in aid; compared with about $600M from the EU (ignoring the separate donations from the governments of the countries comprising the EU, which were substantial), and $500M from the Japanese government. If you have better figures (ie properly sourced figures, rather than wikipedia ones), I'd be happy to be corrected. Otherwise, between just the EU and Japan, you're claim is false.
I think you're being a bit quick to judge, there. There are plenty of good films that started out as comic books. Off the top of my head, there's Batman Begins, History of Violence, Sin City, V for Vendetta... And that's ignoring Japanese cinema (Akira, Ghost in the Shell are both really good films).
...are ya stupid? Because really, if you had done ANY kind of biological research on humans (our teeth aren't sharp for cutting through leaves)Excuse me? Quick experiment for you (my favourite kind of research): Open your fridge, and find the lettuce. Tear a leaf from the lettuce. Bite it. Did your teeth go through it? If not, I strongly suggest you find a dentist...
Now we just need to persuade you guys to put the "u" in colour, and to pronounce the "h" in "herbs"...
I think that that is what the parent meant; due to the passengers being able to make those phone calls, they knew about the other hijackings and attempted to retake the aircraft, thus disrupting the terrorists' plan.
Ah, someone else who writes perl...
If you don't find out about those until you read about them in the newspaper, your family qualifies as dysfunctional. Really dysfunctional.
2 weeks notice to 3rd party developers??? It took MS 2 years to update Office to run natively on Intel Macs.
The JFS bit is unnecessary. If you just put:
set completion-ignore-case on
In your
The JFS bit is unnecessary. If you just put: set completion-ignore-case on In your .inputrc, you'll have case insensitive completion in bash and anything else that uses readline (GnuPlot etc). No re-compilation required.
The hypocrisy of someone posting this as AC is just incredible.
Now, I don't know for sure, but it would seem as though that description would fit a VPN connection quite well too?
They measure the rotation curves; which is the variation in velocity (measured via redshift, using spectroscopy) with radius of the galaxy. The wikipedia entry for rotation curve is a good summary (you may also be interested in the entries for redshift and spectroscopy).
Truly screwed was when you went to the cozy little independent bookshop and they didn't have your book. No, that was when you went to the other little bookshops. Even small towns had multiple bookshops ten years ago (I know of two that were in Stornoway at that time); while now large cities like Glasgow only have a handful (two that I can think of; Waterstones and Borders, although the Waterstones does have two shops).The end result of the dissolution of the Net Book Agreement in the UK has undoubtedly been bad for the high-street book consumer. Whether online suppliers will ever completely fill the void, is yet to be seen (I, at least, have yet to find an on-line bookshop which is enjoyable to browse).