Yes, but what did that "first chicken" breed with? If it was with with proto-chickens then the "first chicken" and the proto-chickens are not different species.
Or do you beleive that the proto-chickens laid several chicken eggs within the lifetime of the chicken, all of which were genetically incompatible with the proto-chicken, but compatible with each other? The odds of that aren't likely.
So the proto-chicken and the chicken are likely genetically compatible. That means that the proto-chickens and the chickens are actually the same species. The animal that laid the egg is as much a member of the chicken species as the egg is.
First of all, I think xmlhttprequest can only access stuff on the same server too, it would be a major security hole if it didn't.
You're not thinking like a malicious hacker. Let's say I want to DDOS example.com. I find some popular webserver that's not exactly secure, lets say newestfad.com. Then I make a comment has a little javascript that requests a large file (or does a database intensive search) from example.com. Now everyone that loads up newestfad.com with my attached comment also loads that file from example.com. I could take it a step further and add that comment to every page on newestfad.com. Since newestfad.com doesn't have the sharpest admins, it might be a while before they fix it so that you can't insert javascript into comments. Meanwhile, example.com is being killed just because the developers at newestfad.com don't know what they're doing.
The same could be done with flash, though you'd probably have to make a trendy game that included the DOS code.
You don't think these things happen? Why do you think slashdot's search sometimes uses google, instead of their own native algorithm? It's because someone has jammed some iframes in some comments on a poorly done website that requests slashdot search through its comments. this hammers the database and kills slashdot. So they have to disable searching and use google for searching until the site that's causing the requests gets their act together.
Macromedia is doing the right thing here. And you can easily have your own server just pass along the request to another server. prevents DDOS attacks.
How is that plagiarism? They are citing their sources. One of the sources took down the page.
If they had have plagiarised they would have copy and pasted the entire article, and not attributed the source. You would have gotten all the information and would not have seen the 404 error. Yeah they probably should have all linked to the yahoo article, but that wouldn't change the fact that yahoo took down the page.
You should be saying damn you for not plagiarising, or even better, damn you yahoo for removing the page.
Holy Shit! You did not just say that copyrights cause terrorism, did you? Yeah, copyrights can be a pain in the ass sometimes, but damn... Take a breather and get some perspective dude.
Combined with RFID, you could pick up a product at a store and get product reviews, price comparisons, etc. You could in the direction of a restaurant and see the menu without going in. The Secret Service could look at a crowd of people and see who is a good citizen with an implanted chip, and who is a potential terrorist.
Why the hell was that scene deleted? Its not very long and it ties in perfectly with a bunch of other scenes.
I've always wondered why luke wanted to join the academy. Why would he want to join the imperials? Now I realise that he was really looking to get contacts in the rebellion. It makes a lot more sense.
Also, I always thought of Owen Lars as a Republic soldier who was disillusioned after the clone wars. Biggs saying that he could "hold off a whole colony of sand people with one blaster" kinda confirms that.
All of your quotes have padawan, or youngling, or yoda speak or the name of a character. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't know what movie they were from. Quotes from the original trilogy are great because they are recognisable without any clues and make great comebacks...
"I'm not sure..." "I find your lack of faith disturbing"
"that was lucky" "In my experience there's no such thing as luck"
The "chosen one of prophecy" has a vision that the love of his life will die giving birth to his children. He does what he can to prevent it. At some point, some evil dude offers to bring her back to life. He has a twin son and daughter, both of whom inherit his special abilities. But unfortunately the woman dies.
That describes both Episode III and Dune Messiah.
How about this... The son of the "chosen one" searches out his father. He manages to get his father to understand a better way. His father sacrifices himself helping his son. In the end a tyrant is killed.
That's Return of the Jedi or Children of Dune.
Now lets run down the list:
Dune ~ Tattooine
Lasguns ~ Blasters
Gurney Halek ~ Han Solo
Voice ~ Jedi mind trick
Sardaukar ~ Storm Troopers
Fremen ~ Sand People
Leto II ~ Jabba
Harvester ~ Sand Crawler
Tleilaxu ~ Cloners
Chrysknife ~ Light Saber
Sarlac Pit ~ Sand Worm
Pretty much everything from the Star Wars movies have an equivalent in the Dune books (except for robots, of course). Some things Lucas did make a lot cooler, ie. light sabers are cooler than chrysknives (although a knife made from the tooth of a sandworm is pretty cool too), the Jedi mind trick is cooler than the voice (although that may be because Alec Guiness delivered it so well), and Han Solo is cooler than Gurney Halek (but that may be because Harrison Ford is cooler than Patrick Stewart). But in all the other comparisons Dune wins.
Also note that when they made the original Star Wars, Jabba was supposed to be a human, but was changed to his worm like appearance for RotJ. God Emperor of Dune was published in 1981. Maybe that was a coincidence.
You put a legal torrent on thepiratebay. Isn't mixing creative commons stuff with copyright infringing stuff like mixing matter with antimatter? And given the amount of copyright infringement going on at the pirate bay, this could start a chain reaction big enough to ignite the atmosphere.
Dude, you do realise that even though the page may only be 400 pixels wide, it has infinite width? In gmail I can have 25 attachment text fields, my interface for mailboxes, labels, google talks, quick contacts, and email search. I can browse through 50 messages at a time (which is arbitrary, it could be many more) and I can navigate through various converstations with people.
Gmail has many more features than what you're describing. They utilise vertical space and divide things up among multiple pages where it makes sense. Thats just good UI design.
And yes, I have designed interfaces myself too. I don't use 'px' unless I have a damned good reason to. IF someone is on a 640x480, they are likely using a smaller fonts sizer than someone on 1024x768 or higher. Use floating elements so that if there's not enough horizontal room for something, it just goes to the next line instead of making the dreaded horizontal scrollbar. And only show fields if they're needed, ie. if cell phone model is only required if someone is ordering a cell phone then don't display that field if they're ordering a land line installation.
Yeah, it takes a little more work, but you do things right, you won't have to redo everything when 1024x768 is the new standard.
I don't think that's a valid excuse, really. I've run Linux on some cheap ass hardware with no crashes because the linux drivers will work around various hardware bugs. Why is it volunteers working in their spare time can do this, but MS, with all their billions of dollars can't? Why can't windows update take a look at your drivers, and if its buggy, recommend one that isn't buggy?
Why do people always make excuses for windows? Its always either dumb users or viruses or malware or bad drivers. Never Microsoft. Why is it too much to ask that MS make things secure by default, fix security holes and write drivers theirselves? Especially the drivers part since drivers are really supposed to be a part of the OS. Getting 3rd parties to help write you're OS is just lazy.
I would say its a great example of the tragedy of the commons.
Maybe you'd prefer the government to mandate that people shop at locally-owned shops to stop them going out of business?
No, but it would be nice if they made sure suppliers offered products to all shops for the same price. No special deals for walmart. Then walmart would actually have to compete on the open market (imagine that!) without their market power giving them any special advantage.
Look dude, the 80's are over. Worshiping capitalism as a religion isn't in style anymore. Questioning the wisdom of the free market isn't blasphemy, you know?
Capitalism is like an engine, it can take you very far, but sometimes it needs a little maintenance.
I was under the impression that xmlhttdrequest won't allow you to access any domains other than the one the page was loaded from. So javascript loaded from example.com can't request stuff from foo.org.
When I go to burger king and tell them I wan just a whopper, no fries, no soft drink, they sell it to me. Cars have features that are optional (oddly enough they call them options).
Also Dell seem pretty proud to offer users the ability to customise their PCs. You can choose between a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD burner, combo drive and DVD burner. You can get a bigger hard drive. You can get extra RAM. You can get your system with or without MS office. So why can't they offer it without windows? And you think dell forces corporations that already have a volume licensing deal with MS to buy a new windows license every time they sell them a PC.
Facts are both car companies and Dell allows people to customise their product. Dell sells PCs without OS's to corporate customers. There is not reason (other than a deal with MS) to force people to have an OS preinstalled.
Yeah but a square is both a square and a rectangle at the same time. A rectangle that has its height different from the width is a rectangle and not a square.
If you're allowed to change the length of the sides, then the rectangle can become a square, but the square could stop being a square (but still remain a rectangle). Why should the rectangle be allowed to change the length of its sides, but not the square?
PS: I get what you're saying, just felt like being a little pedantic...
What an age we live in. You are expected to give up your freedoms and privacy "for the war effort" but you can still have your plasma HDTV.
Its like the worst parts of 1984 mixed with the worst parts of Brave New World. Dammit, if you're gonna take away my freedoms, at least give me soma and orgies, not another goddamn war.
... it is still a federation. Each state is indeed its own nation.
And Canada is a confederation and our Head of State is Queen Elizabeth II. There's also no such thing as a Prime Minister according to our constitution.
There's a big difference between official status and what's reality. If states can't secede from a "Union" then they aren't soveriegn nations then are they? You may say they technically are, but the day tot da reality is that right now they aren't.
If France just up and said it wanted out of the EU it would be out of the EU. No problem, France is a nation and the EU is a union of nations. They want out, they're out. France has an army and the EU doesn't. If Oregon said it wanted out of the US, too bad, you can't leave. The US is the Nation and Oregon is a province of that nation. You can call it a state (wink wink, nudge, nudge) but we all know its a province.
Also Germany has "states" too, don't they? I don't think anyone considers them to be nations even though they are called states.
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Or do you beleive that the proto-chickens laid several chicken eggs within the lifetime of the chicken, all of which were genetically incompatible with the proto-chicken, but compatible with each other? The odds of that aren't likely.
So the proto-chicken and the chicken are likely genetically compatible. That means that the proto-chickens and the chickens are actually the same species. The animal that laid the egg is as much a member of the chicken species as the egg is.
You're not thinking like a malicious hacker. Let's say I want to DDOS example.com. I find some popular webserver that's not exactly secure, lets say newestfad.com. Then I make a comment has a little javascript that requests a large file (or does a database intensive search) from example.com. Now everyone that loads up newestfad.com with my attached comment also loads that file from example.com. I could take it a step further and add that comment to every page on newestfad.com. Since newestfad.com doesn't have the sharpest admins, it might be a while before they fix it so that you can't insert javascript into comments. Meanwhile, example.com is being killed just because the developers at newestfad.com don't know what they're doing.
The same could be done with flash, though you'd probably have to make a trendy game that included the DOS code.
You don't think these things happen? Why do you think slashdot's search sometimes uses google, instead of their own native algorithm? It's because someone has jammed some iframes in some comments on a poorly done website that requests slashdot search through its comments. this hammers the database and kills slashdot. So they have to disable searching and use google for searching until the site that's causing the requests gets their act together.
Macromedia is doing the right thing here. And you can easily have your own server just pass along the request to another server. prevents DDOS attacks.
If they had have plagiarised they would have copy and pasted the entire article, and not attributed the source. You would have gotten all the information and would not have seen the 404 error. Yeah they probably should have all linked to the yahoo article, but that wouldn't change the fact that yahoo took down the page.
You should be saying damn you for not plagiarising, or even better, damn you yahoo for removing the page.
The video seems pretty lame to me. The Do the Evolution video they did with Todd McFarlane is the one I'd like to see put into CC.
Holy Shit! You did not just say that copyrights cause terrorism, did you? Yeah, copyrights can be a pain in the ass sometimes, but damn... Take a breather and get some perspective dude.
Combined with RFID, you could pick up a product at a store and get product reviews, price comparisons, etc. You could in the direction of a restaurant and see the menu without going in. The Secret Service could look at a crowd of people and see who is a good citizen with an implanted chip, and who is a potential terrorist.
You never know what the next trend will be. Apple could make a version of these and make it seem cool...
I've always wondered why luke wanted to join the academy. Why would he want to join the imperials? Now I realise that he was really looking to get contacts in the rebellion. It makes a lot more sense.
Also, I always thought of Owen Lars as a Republic soldier who was disillusioned after the clone wars. Biggs saying that he could "hold off a whole colony of sand people with one blaster" kinda confirms that.
Thanks for the link.
"I'm not sure..." "I find your lack of faith disturbing"
"that was lucky" "In my experience there's no such thing as luck"
"the odds are..." "never tell me the odds"
That describes both Episode III and Dune Messiah.
How about this... The son of the "chosen one" searches out his father. He manages to get his father to understand a better way. His father sacrifices himself helping his son. In the end a tyrant is killed.
That's Return of the Jedi or Children of Dune.
Now lets run down the list:
Dune ~ Tattooine
Lasguns ~ Blasters
Gurney Halek ~ Han Solo
Voice ~ Jedi mind trick
Sardaukar ~ Storm Troopers
Fremen ~ Sand People
Leto II ~ Jabba
Harvester ~ Sand Crawler
Tleilaxu ~ Cloners
Chrysknife ~ Light Saber
Sarlac Pit ~ Sand Worm
Pretty much everything from the Star Wars movies have an equivalent in the Dune books (except for robots, of course). Some things Lucas did make a lot cooler, ie. light sabers are cooler than chrysknives (although a knife made from the tooth of a sandworm is pretty cool too), the Jedi mind trick is cooler than the voice (although that may be because Alec Guiness delivered it so well), and Han Solo is cooler than Gurney Halek (but that may be because Harrison Ford is cooler than Patrick Stewart). But in all the other comparisons Dune wins.
Also note that when they made the original Star Wars, Jabba was supposed to be a human, but was changed to his worm like appearance for RotJ. God Emperor of Dune was published in 1981. Maybe that was a coincidence.
Because .NET doesn't scale. That's why they're having so much trouble with Vista.
You put a legal torrent on thepiratebay. Isn't mixing creative commons stuff with copyright infringing stuff like mixing matter with antimatter? And given the amount of copyright infringement going on at the pirate bay, this could start a chain reaction big enough to ignite the atmosphere.
Gmail has many more features than what you're describing. They utilise vertical space and divide things up among multiple pages where it makes sense. Thats just good UI design.
And yes, I have designed interfaces myself too. I don't use 'px' unless I have a damned good reason to. IF someone is on a 640x480, they are likely using a smaller fonts sizer than someone on 1024x768 or higher. Use floating elements so that if there's not enough horizontal room for something, it just goes to the next line instead of making the dreaded horizontal scrollbar. And only show fields if they're needed, ie. if cell phone model is only required if someone is ordering a cell phone then don't display that field if they're ordering a land line installation.
Yeah, it takes a little more work, but you do things right, you won't have to redo everything when 1024x768 is the new standard.
Why do people always make excuses for windows? Its always either dumb users or viruses or malware or bad drivers. Never Microsoft. Why is it too much to ask that MS make things secure by default, fix security holes and write drivers theirselves? Especially the drivers part since drivers are really supposed to be a part of the OS. Getting 3rd parties to help write you're OS is just lazy.
Yeah, tiny little Ottawa with a population of barely ONE MILLION.
I would say its a great example of the tragedy of the commons.
Maybe you'd prefer the government to mandate that people shop at locally-owned shops to stop them going out of business?
No, but it would be nice if they made sure suppliers offered products to all shops for the same price. No special deals for walmart. Then walmart would actually have to compete on the open market (imagine that!) without their market power giving them any special advantage.
Look dude, the 80's are over. Worshiping capitalism as a religion isn't in style anymore. Questioning the wisdom of the free market isn't blasphemy, you know?
Capitalism is like an engine, it can take you very far, but sometimes it needs a little maintenance.
I was under the impression that xmlhttdrequest won't allow you to access any domains other than the one the page was loaded from. So javascript loaded from example.com can't request stuff from foo.org.
When I go to burger king and tell them I wan just a whopper, no fries, no soft drink, they sell it to me. Cars have features that are optional (oddly enough they call them options).
Also Dell seem pretty proud to offer users the ability to customise their PCs. You can choose between a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD burner, combo drive and DVD burner. You can get a bigger hard drive. You can get extra RAM. You can get your system with or without MS office. So why can't they offer it without windows? And you think dell forces corporations that already have a volume licensing deal with MS to buy a new windows license every time they sell them a PC.
Facts are both car companies and Dell allows people to customise their product. Dell sells PCs without OS's to corporate customers. There is not reason (other than a deal with MS) to force people to have an OS preinstalled.
If you're allowed to change the length of the sides, then the rectangle can become a square, but the square could stop being a square (but still remain a rectangle). Why should the rectangle be allowed to change the length of its sides, but not the square?
PS: I get what you're saying, just felt like being a little pedantic...
Its like the worst parts of 1984 mixed with the worst parts of Brave New World. Dammit, if you're gonna take away my freedoms, at least give me soma and orgies, not another goddamn war.
And Canada is a confederation and our Head of State is Queen Elizabeth II. There's also no such thing as a Prime Minister according to our constitution.
There's a big difference between official status and what's reality. If states can't secede from a "Union" then they aren't soveriegn nations then are they? You may say they technically are, but the day tot da reality is that right now they aren't.
If France just up and said it wanted out of the EU it would be out of the EU. No problem, France is a nation and the EU is a union of nations. They want out, they're out. France has an army and the EU doesn't. If Oregon said it wanted out of the US, too bad, you can't leave. The US is the Nation and Oregon is a province of that nation. You can call it a state (wink wink, nudge, nudge) but we all know its a province.
Also Germany has "states" too, don't they? I don't think anyone considers them to be nations even though they are called states.
Handicapped people are so lucky!
It's great for making little apps to automate WoW, but it won't scale up for anything serious.
IT's like Bill Gates said about IBM in Pirates of Silicon Valley: When you get too sucessful you start to believe that you can't fail.
Yeah really. Saying its fonts holding linux back is ludicrous. Everyone knows its the disk mounting that's keeping people from linux.