Elastic tabstops solve the alignment problem. "Do what I mean, not what I say" with whitespace is a good thing, particularly when the width of a character can be totally different for every reader. Elastic tabstops aren't implemented in many editors yet (currently available as an optional feature in gedit and Code Browser), but once it becomes more widespread, many more programmers will be free to try out proportional fonts for coding.
and they are much more likely to be monitoring my traffic then someone with a wireless snooper
Are you sure? It's usually not difficult for law enforcement to find out who the owner of an AP is, because they're fixed in place. It's much more difficult to track down random passersby after the fact, because they're mobile and they're usually anonymous.
If you had the ability to sniff traffic, would you rather do it near your house (where the traffic is lower, and the chance of police finding later you is higher)? Or at your nearest coffeeshop (where the traffic is higher, and the chance of police finding you later is almost zero)?
For a while, Target appeared to be selling marijuana, MDMA, crack, blowjobs, etc. Those have since been removed from Target.com, but Google is apparently still indexing those product searches.
At one point, Target had mirrored Amazon's product pages, which resulted in Target appearing to sell marijuana and an anus constricting book. However, that was FIVE YEARS ago. You'd think that Google would eventually figure out that these products are long-dead, and purge them from their index.
Or does Google keep things around forever? Psychologists have discovered that forgetting old memories is actually useful. Maybe Google should follow suit.
I've used onelook.com for a while, which is another aggregator that (for now) seems to have more links than Google Dictionary does.
But Google Dictionary isn't just an aggregator, they provide their own pronunciations for some words (a really important feature IMHO), and a list of synonyms for some words.
I actually hope that onelook links to Google Dictionary, as strange as an aggregator-linking-to-aggregator might be.
My guess is that Google has been working on computational linguistics for such a long time (stemming has been important for search for a while, and Google lately has started throwing in synonyms to the search results) that it's natural for Google to start exposing some of their internal dataset to the world more directly.
"The Internet is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it generates more heat and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of boiling water, enormous amounts of boiling water."
the counterattack would be controlled by so-called command missiles.... These missiles would launch first and then radio down coded orders to whatever Soviet weapons had survived the first strike. At that point, the machines will have taken over the war.
these rockets in turn would broadcast attack orders to missiles, bombers and, via radio relays, submarines at sea. Contrary to some Western beliefs, Dr. Blair says, many of Russia's nuclear-armed missiles in underground silos and on mobile launchers can be fired automatically."
That is, it's clear that there's a human in the loop who decides whether to launch the command missiles. But it's not clear that there has to be a human in the loop to fire individual weapons, if those weapons systems were to erroneously conclude that a command missile has remotely ordered it to attack. The US never did this — nuclear weapons always require a person on-site to make the final decision whether to fire.
Good handwriting went away a while ago. Modern doctors can't write either. Having very nice handwriting probably makes your purported doctor's note less credible now.
If fast cursive isn't very legible, then it's not worth keeping as an option. Slow script is much more legible than slow cursive — practically no machine-printed documents use cursive. The only time someone really needs to "write fast" is when they're recording real-time spoken words, and that's what shorthand was invented for.
They'll solve the problem of "how do you download a browser without first having a browser installed?" by providing a minimal front-end whose only purpose is to download a browser:
That screen would allow users to choose from a number of competing browsers, which would then be downloaded and installed on the machine.
To allow this, each browser will need to provide a stable, standard URL that will download the latest version of its browser. Hopefully this can be standardized enough that other OS's can use these stable URLs as well.
View the HTML source, the quotes are actually <i> elements — that is, it's a bug in Slashcode's CSS. The problem is that this bug doesn't occur on every Slashdot page, only some pages. So, likely, when the author composed their message, it was on a page that the bug didn't occur on, so they couldn't have known that it would have rendered so differently on another page.
Of course there is no reason this is still not fixed (by being able to disable a:visited style)
If the issue were so simple, why has no major browser implemented a proper fix for this yet, despite the fact that we've known about the issue for nine years?
A:visited is very useful to the user in some circumstances, so it's unacceptable to turn it off for every user in every circumstance. Firefox 3.5 added a hidden preference in case some users want to turn it on sometimes, but that solution doesn't work for 80% of the people out there. Personally, I think applying the "same origin" policy to a:visited is a better solution, but that hasn't been integrated into any mainline either.
What are the alternatives? Carbon-sulfur might be a reasonable option. Silicon-oxygen is a little further out. There are only so many atoms available, and their prevalence is dictated by stars, so that puts a limit on what variations could be possible, and, well, there aren't that many.
They either tend to be dead on arrival or fail at some point many years or months down the line.
The data that Google released from their server farms indicates that the "bathtub curve" isn't shaped anything like what people used to think — infant mortality isn't very significant, and drive failure is more or less random between 2 - 5 years old, during that time, drives don't fail at higher rate the older they get.
The most information I could find is here (the full-size images are pretty large) and here.
It's hard to pick through the information, but is this scientifically viable? Or is this the random musings of an architecture student focusing only on the architecture side, and ignoring the biology side?
This is more like a journalist asking a street bum for information. Sure, you put the blame on the bum for lying, but most people would blame the reporter for asking a bum in the first place, because street bums aren't known for being reliable sources of information.
Also, circular reporting is easier in today's environment. What likely happened is that The Guardian decided to run the story based only on Wikipedia, and after that happened, all the other papers just assumed that The Guardian had done proper fact-checking, and so just copied what The Guardian said. Back then, there were printing press delays, and a newspaper on one side of the globe couldn't just instantly copy-n-paste what a newspaper on the other side of the globe said.
No, the reason that Google Images uses frames is that the designers were faced with three alternatives:
Display only the full-size image. This hotlinking, and is considered worse than framing.
Display only to HTML page. At best, it makes the user play hide-and-go-seek. At worst, the image is hidden, and the user has to figure out how to make some random Javascript happy before the image can be displayed. Either way, the user often ends up being very frustrated.
The problem is that businesses use autorun on burned demos for customers, particularly when they need only a small number of demo discs. There are lots of small businesses that do this, and we even do it at the Fortune 100 company I work at.
What percentage of legit uses of autorun CDRs versus virus autorun CDRs? I'd imagine the legit uses far outweigh the virus ones (though that could change in response to this article's change, I suppose).
The motion of galaxies/superclusters/filaments is pretty steady, why not just record the current positions many of them, and note when each observation was taken? Even if a small number of superclusters collide, most are likely to still be intact after millions of years, and this would require no moving parts.
Slashdot Mirror
Elastic tabstops solve the alignment problem. "Do what I mean, not what I say" with whitespace is a good thing, particularly when the width of a character can be totally different for every reader. Elastic tabstops aren't implemented in many editors yet (currently available as an optional feature in gedit and Code Browser), but once it becomes more widespread, many more programmers will be free to try out proportional fonts for coding.
Are you sure? It's usually not difficult for law enforcement to find out who the owner of an AP is, because they're fixed in place. It's much more difficult to track down random passersby after the fact, because they're mobile and they're usually anonymous.
If you had the ability to sniff traffic, would you rather do it near your house (where the traffic is lower, and the chance of police finding later you is higher)? Or at your nearest coffeeshop (where the traffic is higher, and the chance of police finding you later is almost zero)?
Sure, it's good business sense to get consumer/reviewer reaction before investing all the money required to develop a product. But again, this has been standard practice among corporations and politicians for a while.
"When a guest logs on to Target.com and searches for a particular word, that search includes Amazon.com's millions of books, music and (movie) titles," Target said in its statement. "Target.com is currently working with Amazon.com to suppress certain titles from the Amazon.com catalog from appearing on the Target.com web site."
For a while, Target appeared to be selling marijuana, MDMA, crack, blowjobs, etc. Those have since been removed from Target.com, but Google is apparently still indexing those product searches.
At one point, Target had mirrored Amazon's product pages, which resulted in Target appearing to sell marijuana and an anus constricting book. However, that was FIVE YEARS ago. You'd think that Google would eventually figure out that these products are long-dead, and purge them from their index.
Or does Google keep things around forever? Psychologists have discovered that forgetting old memories is actually useful. Maybe Google should follow suit.
I've used onelook.com for a while, which is another aggregator that (for now) seems to have more links than Google Dictionary does.
But Google Dictionary isn't just an aggregator, they provide their own pronunciations for some words (a really important feature IMHO), and a list of synonyms for some words.
I actually hope that onelook links to Google Dictionary, as strange as an aggregator-linking-to-aggregator might be.
My guess is that Google has been working on computational linguistics for such a long time (stemming has been important for search for a while, and Google lately has started throwing in synonyms to the search results) that it's natural for Google to start exposing some of their internal dataset to the world more directly.
"The Internet is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it generates more heat and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of boiling water, enormous amounts of boiling water."
From Wikipedia:
That is, it's clear that there's a human in the loop who decides whether to launch the command missiles. But it's not clear that there has to be a human in the loop to fire individual weapons, if those weapons systems were to erroneously conclude that a command missile has remotely ordered it to attack. The US never did this — nuclear weapons always require a person on-site to make the final decision whether to fire.
Good handwriting went away a while ago. Modern doctors can't write either. Having very nice handwriting probably makes your purported doctor's note less credible now.
If fast cursive isn't very legible, then it's not worth keeping as an option. Slow script is much more legible than slow cursive — practically no machine-printed documents use cursive. The only time someone really needs to "write fast" is when they're recording real-time spoken words, and that's what shorthand was invented for.
They'll solve the problem of "how do you download a browser without first having a browser installed?" by providing a minimal front-end whose only purpose is to download a browser:
To allow this, each browser will need to provide a stable, standard URL that will download the latest version of its browser. Hopefully this can be standardized enough that other OS's can use these stable URLs as well.
View the HTML source, the quotes are actually <i> elements — that is, it's a bug in Slashcode's CSS. The problem is that this bug doesn't occur on every Slashdot page, only some pages. So, likely, when the author composed their message, it was on a page that the bug didn't occur on, so they couldn't have known that it would have rendered so differently on another page.
The buggy part of the CSS page reads:
If the issue were so simple, why has no major browser implemented a proper fix for this yet, despite the fact that we've known about the issue for nine years ?
A:visited is very useful to the user in some circumstances, so it's unacceptable to turn it off for every user in every circumstance. Firefox 3.5 added a hidden preference in case some users want to turn it on sometimes, but that solution doesn't work for 80% of the people out there. Personally, I think applying the "same origin" policy to a:visited is a better solution, but that hasn't been integrated into any mainline either.
Verbing weirds language.
For extra credit: Why can't you "arrow someone"? Or "missile a building"? Or "garage a car"?
What are the alternatives? Carbon-sulfur might be a reasonable option. Silicon-oxygen is a little further out. There are only so many atoms available, and their prevalence is dictated by stars, so that puts a limit on what variations could be possible, and, well, there aren't that many.
The data that Google released from their server farms indicates that the "bathtub curve" isn't shaped anything like what people used to think — infant mortality isn't very significant, and drive failure is more or less random between 2 - 5 years old, during that time, drives don't fail at higher rate the older they get.
The most information I could find is here (the full-size images are pretty large) and here.
It's hard to pick through the information, but is this scientifically viable? Or is this the random musings of an architecture student focusing only on the architecture side, and ignoring the biology side?
This is more like a journalist asking a street bum for information. Sure, you put the blame on the bum for lying, but most people would blame the reporter for asking a bum in the first place, because street bums aren't known for being reliable sources of information.
Also, circular reporting is easier in today's environment. What likely happened is that The Guardian decided to run the story based only on Wikipedia, and after that happened, all the other papers just assumed that The Guardian had done proper fact-checking, and so just copied what The Guardian said. Back then, there were printing press delays, and a newspaper on one side of the globe couldn't just instantly copy-n-paste what a newspaper on the other side of the globe said.
Framing was the best of three bad alternatives.
The problem is that businesses use autorun on burned demos for customers, particularly when they need only a small number of demo discs. There are lots of small businesses that do this, and we even do it at the Fortune 100 company I work at.
What percentage of legit uses of autorun CDRs versus virus autorun CDRs? I'd imagine the legit uses far outweigh the virus ones (though that could change in response to this article's change, I suppose).
Seriously, when PDF is based on a language that can calculate fractals on the fly and draw a different random maze every time you print it, why are we surprised that PDF is nearly as capable?
How do I opt-out of opt-out lists?
Yup, it was invented in 1958, and was used on the Gemini back-up ejection seat, and is used on the Mk-82 unguided gravity bomb.
The motion of galaxies/superclusters/filaments is pretty steady, why not just record the current positions many of them, and note when each observation was taken? Even if a small number of superclusters collide, most are likely to still be intact after millions of years, and this would require no moving parts.
Keep taking it for a few days, and you'll be fine.