Whats the difference between Current Plans and Future Plans? Surely if you've made them they are Current Plans, and if you haven't made them yet then they don't exist, and even when you start thinking about making them they become 'Current Plans'....
Not in this part of Europe! In the UK, sales of cigs and booze to under-agers is a serious offence. The police have recently been cracking down on this sort of thing with assorted sting operations in pubs and shops.
The right for kids to buy beer stops and my puke-covered pavement.
I'm sure this guy can't be serious. Its probably just a funny joke started over coffee on a slack day at Fermilab, and they thought it was so hilarious they couldn't wait until April 1 to release it. Can anyone at Fermilab hear giggling?
Its equivalent to rooting a system by holding a particular pattern in front of a web cam, causing a buffer overflow in the Jpeg compression....
Water: specific heat capacity is 4.2kJ/ degreeK / kg.
So to heat 1kg 1degreeK takes 4.2kJ
1litre of water is 1kg
To heat 100l (approx bathtub) of water up by 50C takes 50*100*4.2kJ = 21MJ (mega-Joules)
So to heat that up in 21 seconds requires one megawatt.
A 200V supply would have to run at 5kA. That's a heck of a lot more than the supply to my heater, which is probably 30A @ 220V. I dont think the electricity company are going to be putting fat cables in yet. And think of the size of the fuse...
Not sure if my numbers are right... its Friday afternoon, my mind is elsewhere..
Great question. Combination of 'Would you use ad-supported Foo?' and 'Would you use Foo Windows?'. Its not often Ask Slashdot reads like flamebait or trolling!
Perhaps the 90 days isn't the time it takes to crack the encryption, but the length of time it takes to crack the subject into telling you the passphrase....
How come this posting gets moderated up to 5 but my posting on the same subject gets modded as 'Off Topic'? I would make a fuss about this, but, um... my IT outfit has banned whining....
Prosecution: Caspar Schlitz, I put it to you that you were, on February 5th this year, very depressed with malice aforethought, and did moan quietly, contrary to the Cheerful Noises Act.
Schlitz: I did.
Defence: May I just explain, m'lud, that the reason for my client's behaviour was that his wife had just died that morning.
I'd rather the government taxed the rich so that this sort of obscene wealth could be spent in a way that is democratically accountable. If the people want it spent on malaria then it'll get spent on malaria. The poor shouldn't depend on the whims of the ultra-rich for this kind of thing.
His table compares the time it takes OOCalc to load an ODS and SXC document with the time it takes Excel to load an XLS (or XLS-XML) document. Now that's not the same thing.
He should compare the time it takes OOCalc to load an XLS document with the time it takes Excel to load it. Sure, maybe Excel wins here by a few seconds.
Now compare load time of the ODS document in OOCalc, which takes three minutes (it says there) with the time it takes to load it into Excel. I predict that will be at least three years, if ever...
How quick is 100 billion times per second? Well, if my calculation is correct then light, moving at 3*10^8 m/s, will, in 1/(100 billion) = 1/(10^11) seconds, have moved 3mm.
Make sure you buy something shiny, trendy, and thaty absolutely shouts 'I have lots of expensive tech in here, please mug me'. Logos would be good. Apple logos even better.
I just have a standard 25-litre rucksack for carrying my tech. I have one of those tiny Sony Vaio laptops and it lives in a padded jiffy bag. I recently bought a new Pentax Digital SLR and I keep it in my old and dirty camera bag. Does the job and doesn't look like I've got a few hundred pounds/dollars worth of kit hanging off my shoulder.
I've just read that Four Days thing and one thing is glaringly missing. You get to write a TODO management application, but there's no security. Anyone can edit, add, change, delete the TODO items.
So now you want to add security - for simplicity's sake lets suppose you just want you to be able to edit or change anything, and anyone else to be able to view the todo list. How do you add this sort of security framework into a Rails app? I've not seen this done anywhere. Can someone point me to docs that would do this?
In Zope, you get security built into the basic objects, with permissions and roles, so what can be done by users is built into the framework.
If I was a 12 year old girl I'd be too busy downloading the latest ringtones to be whining on slashdot!
That's certainly the market for ringtones in the UK. Get 'em young. Get 'em wanting the latest cool things. Pre-teens. Cartoon adverts. Crazy Frogs. More money spent on ringtones than CDs. Small print on ads shown for such a short time even a speed-reader couldn't catch it. Lock-in systems where you need a code to opt out or you get charged 50p a month. Its an evil business.
At least train operators over here have mobile-free 'quiet' coaches! No annoying ringtones, no tss-tss-tss of the iPod swarm in the next carriage, just peace and quiet where you can read a book or just kick back and gaze out of the window...
Slashdot Mirror
Whats the difference between Current Plans and Future Plans? Surely if you've made them they are Current Plans, and if you haven't made them yet then they don't exist, and even when you start thinking about making them they become 'Current Plans'....
Hey, its a fairly quiet thread!
Not in this part of Europe! In the UK, sales of cigs and booze to under-agers is a serious offence. The police have recently been cracking down on this sort of thing with assorted sting operations in pubs and shops.
The right for kids to buy beer stops and my puke-covered pavement.
Who buys a $2900 camera? Thomas Hawk does. Why? Well, lookie here at his flickr pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035555243@N01/
When you can do that with your $29 or $290 magic picture box, come back.
I'm sure this guy can't be serious. Its probably just a funny joke started over coffee on a slack day at Fermilab, and they thought it was so hilarious they couldn't wait until April 1 to release it. Can anyone at Fermilab hear giggling?
Its equivalent to rooting a system by holding a particular pattern in front of a web cam, causing a buffer overflow in the Jpeg compression....
Baz
Water: specific heat capacity is 4.2kJ/ degreeK / kg.
So to heat 1kg 1degreeK takes 4.2kJ
1litre of water is 1kg
To heat 100l (approx bathtub) of water up by 50C takes 50*100*4.2kJ = 21MJ (mega-Joules)
So to heat that up in 21 seconds requires one megawatt.
A 200V supply would have to run at 5kA. That's a heck of a lot more than the supply to my heater, which is probably 30A @ 220V. I dont think the electricity company are going to be putting fat cables in yet. And think of the size of the fuse...
Not sure if my numbers are right... its Friday afternoon, my mind is elsewhere..
Baz
Great question. Combination of 'Would you use ad-supported Foo?' and 'Would you use Foo Windows?'. Its not often Ask Slashdot reads like flamebait or trolling!
Baz
[1] in some lawyers opinion.... see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAME for info.
Perhaps the 90 days isn't the time it takes to crack the encryption, but the length of time it takes to crack the subject into telling you the passphrase....
How come this posting gets moderated up to 5 but my posting on the same subject gets modded as 'Off Topic'? I would make a fuss about this, but, um... my IT outfit has banned whining....
Happy Valley
Not that Bill hasn't spent millions on, ooh, a big house, fighting Open Source, squashing competitors, art, his kids....
I'd rather the government taxed the rich so that this sort of obscene wealth could be spent in a way that is democratically accountable. If the people want it spent on malaria then it'll get spent on malaria. The poor shouldn't depend on the whims of the ultra-rich for this kind of thing.
His table compares the time it takes OOCalc to load an ODS and SXC document with the time it takes Excel to load an XLS (or XLS-XML) document. Now that's not the same thing.
He should compare the time it takes OOCalc to load an XLS document with the time it takes Excel to load it. Sure, maybe Excel wins here by a few seconds.
Now compare load time of the ODS document in OOCalc, which takes three minutes (it says there) with the time it takes to load it into Excel. I predict that will be at least three years, if ever...
OO Wins!
Baz
How quick is 100 billion times per second? Well, if my calculation is correct then light, moving at 3*10^8 m/s, will, in 1/(100 billion) = 1/(10^11) seconds, have moved 3mm.
At that rate, the universe is almost stationary.
Baz
"Furthur"? You ARE Cowboy Neal!
See here if that was indeed simply a typo!
May I suggest Web 2.0! Ah no, that's taken. Lets skip version 2 and go straight to...
Web 3.0!
Baz
Make sure you buy something shiny, trendy, and thaty absolutely shouts 'I have lots of expensive tech in here, please mug me'. Logos would be good. Apple logos even better.
I just have a standard 25-litre rucksack for carrying my tech. I have one of those tiny Sony Vaio laptops and it lives in a padded jiffy bag. I recently bought a new Pentax Digital SLR and I keep it in my old and dirty camera bag. Does the job and doesn't look like I've got a few hundred pounds/dollars worth of kit hanging off my shoulder.
Baz
The rest of the drive is full of the cow's favourite MP3 files.
You know what the lawyer said after presenting his argument?
iRestMyCase
- or maybe only in UK courts, where lawyers do dress like that...
I just saw Bruce's post - ModelSecurity looks like the way to go, it implements an awful lot of good stuff.
I might just get dragged off of Zope - I didn't fancy having to write tons of security/user-authentication stuff.
I've just read that Four Days thing and one thing is glaringly missing. You get to write a TODO management application, but there's no security. Anyone can edit, add, change, delete the TODO items.
So now you want to add security - for simplicity's sake lets suppose you just want you to be able to edit or change anything, and anyone else to be able to view the todo list. How do you add this sort of security framework into a Rails app? I've not seen this done anywhere. Can someone point me to docs that would do this?
In Zope, you get security built into the basic objects, with permissions and roles, so what can be done by users is built into the framework.
Baz
If I was a 12 year old girl I'd be too busy downloading the latest ringtones to be whining on slashdot!
That's certainly the market for ringtones in the UK. Get 'em young. Get 'em wanting the latest cool things. Pre-teens. Cartoon adverts. Crazy Frogs. More money spent on ringtones than CDs. Small print on ads shown for such a short time even a speed-reader couldn't catch it. Lock-in systems where you need a code to opt out or you get charged 50p a month. Its an evil business.
At least train operators over here have mobile-free 'quiet' coaches! No annoying ringtones, no tss-tss-tss of the iPod swarm in the next carriage, just peace and quiet where you can read a book or just kick back and gaze out of the window...
Will they be banning annoying ringtones? What about the rights of us non-cellphone users!?
Mickey's Monkey Spunk Moped
(uses flash).
...for John Wayne Bobbit.