CSS parsing -- Acid2 includes a number of illegal CSS statements that should be ignored by a compliant browser.
Re:Mindshare and image bloodbath for BitKeeper
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Linus Drops BitKeeper
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It's possible that BitKeeper wanted to get out of the open-source business for some time, but just waited until OSS folks made a "bad" move, so that at least some potential customers would would see OSS people as the bad guys instead of Bitkeeper.
Telcos are usually a government-granted monopoly. Microsoft has gotten slapped repeatedly for being too close to being a monopoly and tying products together. If other companies elsewhere sell two services separately, but a local monopoly says that they MUST be sold together, and there's no good technical reason for the difference, then that's tying, and it most certainly should be illegal.
Supposedly this is what capitalism is good for... dealing with scarcity and efficient allocation of resources... once oil starts running out (though definitely with some still left), gas prices will start going up rapidly. Some people will stick with gas if it's very difficult for them to change, but for most people, it will become cheaper to switch to other forms of fuel. Once most transportation starts using something else, we should still have enough oil left to devote to plastics (and recycling of plastics will become increasingly economically valuable also).
The reason that environmentalists push the Hydrogen economy is that once our cars such are based on a single easily-renewable fuel source, then we won't need to keep reconfiguring our gas-station infrastructure anymore.
After that, energy is produced via whatever method is most efficient currently (grass, hydro, solar, wind, cow earth, whatever), but we don't have to keep changing gas stations, because all of these are semi-easily converted into hydrogen.
Grass has very obvious upsides as an alternative to oil:
it's a carbon sink
it's quickly renewable... eg. doesn't need millions of years to form
Compared to solar energy, it's somewhat favorable also:
it's a carbon sink
solar is 10-30% efficient... although I can't find any similar statistics for grass, I can't imagine grass is any worse (even after including all the maintenance work)
in terms of land use... humans MUST start devoting some land to renewable energy. The benefit of grass vs. things like windmills/dams/solar-panels is that grass can be grown on land that otherwise couldn't be used for other things. Also, because grass requires very little up-front investment compared to the other energy sources, it allows much more flexible use land... eg. growing grass in a housing development while construction is still going on in the first half of the section, for instance.
In terms of solid economic numbers though, those probably aren't available unless a number of people are already seriously trying this?
grass biofuel pellets are much better for the environment because they emit up to 90 percent less greenhouse gases than oil, coal and natural gas do
Wikipedia mentions that the primary greenhouse gas is water (since water absorbs infrared energy, compared to nitrogen and oxygen which don't)... are these grass pellets dried when they're pelletized?
The wikipedia entry on Hubble mentions that Hubble will naturally de-orbit as soon as 2010 due to atmospheric drag, with as high as a 1/700 chance of a human fatality.
Co-incident with this is the Columbia Investigation Board recommendations which recommended several extensive improvements, and which recommend that until those are finished around 2010, that only two Shuttle flights be allowed.
Given that at least one of those two flights would have to be dedicated to retrieving the Hubble, it doesn't seem worth it, compared to, for instance, keeping the Space Station going or otherwise doing real science.
I transcribed the dialogue directly from the DVD... First Snowball was involved in the conversation, and immediately after, Pyle was called over. This is the scene where Joker is assigned to start trying to reform Pyle one-on-one (and in the end fails with the suicide, as you noted).
1) Don't say "synergize", it makes geeks cringe. 2) Yes, it's possible, by funding a huge amount of unicast bandwidth. However, that seems easier for this project because they're all in a small geographic area (a town of 8000), and the project in general has a lot of funding for professional video equipment and such, so some of those funds are undoubtedly going for bandwidth as well.
It seems obvious that there are very direct analogies to the current text/audio portions of the internet. Yes, anybody can put up a crappy site or post inane babble on their blog. However, if you post good stuff all the time, a lot of people will watch you often. If you post good stuff once in a while, then the top-dog people will link to your best stuff, and people will still be interested in what you do.
Also, while there are professional journalists, who write stuff on websites that have millions invested in them, there are still a decent percentage of urban people who realize that this means there's a much smaller pool of talent to draw from, and it's beholden to advertising interests, and so sometimes people even actually PREFER the grass-roots stuff over professional/mainstream journalism.
Hartman: Private Joker, do you believe in the Virgin Mary?
Joker: Sir, no sir!
Hartman: Well Private Joker! I don't believe I heard you correctly.
Joker: Sir, the private said "No sir!", sir!
Hartman: Well, you little maggot, you make me want to vomit!
...
Hartman: Are you trying to OFFEND me?
Joker: Sir, negative sir! Sir, the private believes that any answer he gives will be wrong, and the senior drill instructor will beat him harder if he reverses himself, sir!
Hartman: Who's your squad leader, scumbag?
Joker: Sir, the private's leader is Private Snowball, sir.
Hartman: Private Snowball!
Snowball: Sir! Private Snowball reporting as ordered, sir!
Hartman: Private Snowball, you're fired! Private Joker is promoted to squad leader.
Snowball: Sir, aye aye sir!
Hartman: Disapear scumbag!
Snowball: Sir, aye aye sir!
Hartman: Private Pyle!
Pyle: Sir, Private Pyle reporting as ordered, sir!
Hartman: Private Pyle, from now on, Private Joker is your new squad leader, and you WILL bunk with him. He'll teach you everything, he'll teach you how to pee!
Pyle: Sir, yes sir!
Hartman: Private Joker is silly and he's he ignorant, but he's got guts, and guts is enough.
SSL Tunnels are widely used for legitimate transactions, including online shopping and banking. SSL tunnels are SO widely used, that even though they are a feature of corporate firewalls that make it veryeasy to break through the firewall and essentially ignore all of its rules, and even though corporations are well aware of this risk, they still include HTTPS-proxying because it's so useful to the average person. Others aren't going to clamp down on HTTPS tunnels any time soon either.
Same for cell phones. You can have a cell phone that has no account... you could be internationally roaming in the U.S. for what it's worth, but the FCC still requires cell tower operators to accept any incoming call for 911 no matter what.
So, really, the suggested solution for VoIP now is to get an inactive cell phone, and keep it around in case you ever need to dial 911.
I don't know if VoIP could ever have this provision... that just the fact that you're able to connect to the public IP network means that you're able to dial 911?
You mean all the sections of the perl regexp manual that say "WARNING: This extended regular expression feature is considered highly experimental, and may be changed or deleted without notice" and then go on to say things that make my head truly ache?
I personally treat this like I do Perl5 threads... as something to be afraid of, and hopeful that things will be much improved in Perl 6.
Yup, regular expressions are not capable of a full-range of computing... they're pretty close (they're the lowest of four in the Chomsky hierarchy), but still have a few limitations that can't be resolved without wrapping some extra code around them.
It still boggles my mind that people knew this in 1956 though.
Rename/. to SoresDot. People on here are a bunch of open-source lunes. *whine*
*gasp* There's a community of people here. And *gasp* they pick whatever they want to be interested in. And *gasp* there's a bunch of other communities all over the internet for like-minded people to small-talk.
Yes, the community's interests might be moving in a different direction from yours. No, this isn't an event worth whining over.
At places I've worked at, Solitare and Minesweeper have never been installed by default. On the other hand, access to Slashdot is still wiiiide open, so there's no need to resort to brooms yet.
Also, don't forget PublicRadioFan.com, which lists a HUGE number of NPR streams available on the internet, searchable by program, time, and stream-type, making it easy to find the perfect stream to rip).
First, note that some of these popups that people are seeing are generated by spyware running on their system, and aren't generated within Firefox itself. So run a spyware checker if you see any of these.
That said, there ARE website-based popups/unders that get past Firefox's blocker:
"Pop-ups are a cat-and-mouse game," said Bart Decrem, a spokesman for the Mozilla Foundation, creator of Firefox. "We are continually improving our pop-up blocker, and content developers are constantly developing a way to get around the pop-up blockers."
One way popups seem to be getting through on Firefox is via the Flash plugin (see those pages for an easy way to prevent this). Though as Bart says, there have been other ways in the past, and if there are any other ways left, the marketers will certainly find a way.
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It's possible that BitKeeper wanted to get out of the open-source business for some time, but just waited until OSS folks made a "bad" move, so that at least some potential customers would would see OSS people as the bad guys instead of Bitkeeper.
Isn't the acronym PHEV already taken by Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle?
Telcos are usually a government-granted monopoly. Microsoft has gotten slapped repeatedly for being too close to being a monopoly and tying products together. If other companies elsewhere sell two services separately, but a local monopoly says that they MUST be sold together, and there's no good technical reason for the difference, then that's tying, and it most certainly should be illegal.
Supposedly this is what capitalism is good for... dealing with scarcity and efficient allocation of resources... once oil starts running out (though definitely with some still left), gas prices will start going up rapidly. Some people will stick with gas if it's very difficult for them to change, but for most people, it will become cheaper to switch to other forms of fuel. Once most transportation starts using something else, we should still have enough oil left to devote to plastics (and recycling of plastics will become increasingly economically valuable also).
After that, energy is produced via whatever method is most efficient currently (grass, hydro, solar, wind, cow earth, whatever), but we don't have to keep changing gas stations, because all of these are semi-easily converted into hydrogen.
Compared to solar energy, it's somewhat favorable also:
- it's a carbon sink
- solar is 10-30% efficient... although I can't find any similar statistics for grass, I can't imagine grass is any worse (even after including all the maintenance work)
- in terms of land use... humans MUST start devoting some land to renewable energy. The benefit of grass vs. things like windmills/dams/solar-panels is that grass can be grown on land that otherwise couldn't be used for other things. Also, because grass requires very little up-front investment compared to the other energy sources, it allows much more flexible use land... eg. growing grass in a housing development while construction is still going on in the first half of the section, for instance.
In terms of solid economic numbers though, those probably aren't available unless a number of people are already seriously trying this?- grass biofuel pellets are much better for the environment because they emit up to 90 percent less greenhouse gases than oil, coal and natural gas do
Wikipedia mentions that the primary greenhouse gas is water (since water absorbs infrared energy, compared to nitrogen and oxygen which don't)... are these grass pellets dried when they're pelletized?Co-incident with this is the Columbia Investigation Board recommendations which recommended several extensive improvements, and which recommend that until those are finished around 2010, that only two Shuttle flights be allowed.
Given that at least one of those two flights would have to be dedicated to retrieving the Hubble, it doesn't seem worth it, compared to, for instance, keeping the Space Station going or otherwise doing real science.
It's 9 hours into April 2nd here... meh. As the Wikipedia page mentions, April Fools actually lasts for 47 hours, if you count all of the time zones around the world. Just don't tell Taco this, or he'll pretend he's Japanese on March 31st and Alaskan on April 2nd.
The film is 18 years old. *shrug*
I rest my case.
I transcribed the dialogue directly from the DVD... First Snowball was involved in the conversation, and immediately after, Pyle was called over. This is the scene where Joker is assigned to start trying to reform Pyle one-on-one (and in the end fails with the suicide, as you noted).
Aon ... has a pay-for-download section that lets people watch what they want when they want to watch it.
1) Don't say "synergize", it makes geeks cringe. 2) Yes, it's possible, by funding a huge amount of unicast bandwidth. However, that seems easier for this project because they're all in a small geographic area (a town of 8000), and the project in general has a lot of funding for professional video equipment and such, so some of those funds are undoubtedly going for bandwidth as well.
It seems obvious that there are very direct analogies to the current text/audio portions of the internet. Yes, anybody can put up a crappy site or post inane babble on their blog. However, if you post good stuff all the time, a lot of people will watch you often. If you post good stuff once in a while, then the top-dog people will link to your best stuff, and people will still be interested in what you do.
Also, while there are professional journalists, who write stuff on websites that have millions invested in them, there are still a decent percentage of urban people who realize that this means there's a much smaller pool of talent to draw from, and it's beholden to advertising interests, and so sometimes people even actually PREFER the grass-roots stuff over professional/mainstream journalism.
Hartman: Private Joker, do you believe in the Virgin Mary?
Joker: Sir, no sir!
Hartman: Well Private Joker! I don't believe I heard you correctly.
Joker: Sir, the private said "No sir!", sir!
Hartman: Well, you little maggot, you make me want to vomit!
...
Hartman: Are you trying to OFFEND me?
Joker: Sir, negative sir! Sir, the private believes that any answer he gives will be wrong, and the senior drill instructor will beat him harder if he reverses himself, sir!
Hartman: Who's your squad leader, scumbag?
Joker: Sir, the private's leader is Private Snowball, sir.
Hartman: Private Snowball!
Snowball: Sir! Private Snowball reporting as ordered, sir!
Hartman: Private Snowball, you're fired! Private Joker is promoted to squad leader.
Snowball: Sir, aye aye sir!
Hartman: Disapear scumbag!
Snowball: Sir, aye aye sir!
Hartman: Private Pyle!
Pyle: Sir, Private Pyle reporting as ordered, sir!
Hartman: Private Pyle, from now on, Private Joker is your new squad leader, and you WILL bunk with him. He'll teach you everything, he'll teach you how to pee!
Pyle: Sir, yes sir!
Hartman: Private Joker is silly and he's he ignorant, but he's got guts, and guts is enough.
SSL Tunnels are widely used for legitimate transactions, including online shopping and banking. SSL tunnels are SO widely used, that even though they are a feature of corporate firewalls that make it very easy to break through the firewall and essentially ignore all of its rules, and even though corporations are well aware of this risk, they still include HTTPS-proxying because it's so useful to the average person. Others aren't going to clamp down on HTTPS tunnels any time soon either.
So, really, the suggested solution for VoIP now is to get an inactive cell phone, and keep it around in case you ever need to dial 911.
I don't know if VoIP could ever have this provision... that just the fact that you're able to connect to the public IP network means that you're able to dial 911?
I personally treat this like I do Perl5 threads... as something to be afraid of, and hopeful that things will be much improved in Perl 6.
It still boggles my mind that people knew this in 1956 though.
*gasp* There's a community of people here. And *gasp* they pick whatever they want to be interested in. And *gasp* there's a bunch of other communities all over the internet for like-minded people to small-talk.
Yes, the community's interests might be moving in a different direction from yours. No, this isn't an event worth whining over.
At places I've worked at, Solitare and Minesweeper have never been installed by default. On the other hand, access to Slashdot is still wiiiide open, so there's no need to resort to brooms yet.
Also, don't forget PublicRadioFan.com, which lists a HUGE number of NPR streams available on the internet, searchable by program, time, and stream-type, making it easy to find the perfect stream to rip).
That said, there ARE website-based popups/unders that get past Firefox's blocker:
October 14, 2004:
One way popups seem to be getting through on Firefox is via the Flash plugin (see those pages for an easy way to prevent this). Though as Bart says, there have been other ways in the past, and if there are any other ways left, the marketers will certainly find a way.
And much later, Pugs the Perl6 emulator, whose version number is supposed to approach 2*Pi (Pugs 6.2, Pugs 6.28, ...).