Reaching for perfection is a funny thing. By aiming for a high mark of quality, you ensure that your end product is as good as you can possibly make it. The reality is, of course, that perfection is unattainable. Every work of art, be it book, painting, movie, or videogame, is going to be flawed in some way; this is the reality of being human, after all.
Except, of course, for this perfect exposition into the nature of reality and perfection! I copied and pasted your text right into my Master's Thesis, and I got an A++!
I have heard tales of malware that can grab a screen capture in the vicinity of the cursor at any mouse-click. Does anyone know if such a threat actually exists?
If so, the malware must go after specific types of clicks - for example, maybe it looks at the URL and form action to determine whether it's worth capturing the images. Otherwise, a typical day of perusing Digg articles could result in megabytes upon megabytes of captured images. And unlike text data, image data is hard to sieve for gold.
Supposedly, the GPL is some sort of virus which, once touched, makes all proprietary software into open source. Microsoft has good reason to be afraid. Symantec can't innoculate against that type of virus.
In their experiment the scientists used microwaves to try and detect a copper cylinder.
Grammatically speaking, usage should be "try to detect". "try and detect" presumes that you are going to try and you are going to detect. If you know that you're going to detect, you don't need to reference "try".
Amongst the general population, the accepted usage of the term "google" is to denote the process of performing a search via the Google Internet search engine. However, at Google's own corporate campus, the verb form of the word "Google" takes on several different meanings, depending upon context. Following are some examples to illustrate the multi-faceted use of the word "Google":
"He insisted on programming the solution in Perl, but I googled him around a bit and he finally reprogrammed it in PHP." Translation: to bully.
"The manager wanted the TPS reports yesterday, but I told him my email must have been googled and that I would have to resend it." Translation: to get lost in a mess of seemingly incomprehensible data.
"She has nice legs, but I heard that one guy who asked her out got reprimanded by the googles." Translation: overly sensitive PC/PR lawyers who retain power through the threat of incoming litigation.
"I checked my stock balance the other day an my shares had dropped $200! I lost over a million dollars! Then I woke up and realized it was just a google." Translation: nightmare.
"I wanted to buy the new GM hybrid, but after I read the consumer safety warnings about its sneaky legal tactics, that googled me over to Toyota." Translation: to drive away customers via bad corporate reputation.
How do you know you never got hit with a virus, if you don't run anti-virus software? Some viruses are sneaky and steal personal information, avoiding detection at all cost and then package up and send such personal information out through a trusted application such as IE or FireFox.
Not the first good idea to be defeated by irrationalism, and not the last.
This isn't as irrational as you might suppose.
I might bid a maximum of $75 on an old computer that's hard to find, but once I find out that 4 other people are willing to bid higher than that, the perceived value of the old computer has now risen in my eyes, based on the perceived demand. I therefore might be willing to spend more money on that old computer, knowing that the market is large enough so that I could sell it back if I wanted to.
I missed the call for questions, and didn't get to ask the following questions. Somebody please keep these in mind for when the topic resurfaces in the future:
Why doesn't CSS allow web designers to specify styles per user agent? I would kill to stop using the stupid "IE doesn't see direct-descendant selectors so let's use that hack to fix IE's box model problems" in my style sheets. Furthermore, this approach inspires programming techniques that can be considered only as abominable. Instead, I'd like to be able to specify one style for IE 5.5 and another for Firefox 1.0.7, etc. It's pure fantasy hoping that the problem will be solved by insisting there is only one standard, and let's everyone get together and stick to it.
Why didn't the W3C provide a compliance test to allow browser developers to determine if they were implementing CSS properly? Sure, there's now the ACID tests, but the CSS specs have bits of ambiguity in them that can cause browser developers to disagree as to how CSS should be implemented. I'd like to see an officially sanction CSS test provided by the W3C.
Why does CSS order content according to "top-down left-right" page flow? Can't there be a better way of specifying that a DIV on a page should float left to a particular paragraph?
Why is the box model so broken? Wouldn't it be more intuitive to simply realize that when most people specify a width of 100%, they want that box and everything it contains to be 100%, not 100% + margin + padding + border?
Does the W3C consider CSS to be a success, given the number of people that have to resort to browser hacks to use it? Also, does W3C consider CSS to be powerful enough to meet the needs of web designers, with so many designers still using tables for their consistency and logical cohesiveness?
If I recall correctly, Warcraft and Diablo were seminal pieces of work. Not that they broke new genres, but they combined underplayed genres with cutting edge graphics work and sound. Even their website was pretty to look at.
Seems like many of these criteria are subjective. How is "community" defined? Is it fine to sell 50 Cent shoot-em up video games to minors in the ghettos, but not in upscale suburbia? How is "adult population" defined? A majority of 50% or more? To be determined by an independent poll?
There's lots of room for this to go wrong, as usual.
Chickens came from plants. We all know that plants have demonstrated the amazing ability to undergo genetic changes in response to stressful factors within the environment. It's clear to me that one such plant evolved instantaneously into what we now call chicken. So did many other animals; that's why everything tastes like chicken.
Eclipse has shown that the market can indeed rally around Java optimized for Windows. Prior to SWT, remember running Together on cutting edge hardware, and the windows would still take 30 seconds to refresh? No one would tolerate the idea of running Java on Windows for Java's sake, when native apps absolutely destroyed Java apps in UI speed comparisons.
It's time for the theoretical niceties of interoperability to meet the practical demands of customer acceptance within the Windows market.
As long as I have the ability to say no to this, I don't see a problem.
Sorry to flame, but that's one of the most irresponsibly simplified statements I've seen in this thread.
Do you think a company like H&R Block is going to hand you a neon orange sheet of paper with 172 pt. font that says "DO YOU WANT US TO SELL YOUR PERSONAL DATA?"
No. They're going to hide it in one subclause of a 14-page contract agreement, tersely worded so that it doesn't even mention "selling", "personal data", or "yours". It's probably gonna be a single sentence like "Applicant surrenders all rights to proclude the preparer from providing gathered data to third parties." Taxes are stressful enough without having to become a lawyer to avoid being bilked by corporations.
I have been advised that I have an obligation to post the following cliche joke:
I'm gonna patent the act of creating stupid patents.
I understand that the preceding joke was a cliche, posted to every/. story regarding patents. However, the cliche review board noticed that such a joke was lacking on this thread, and hence forced me to post it. Please do not punish my karma for this. Thank you.
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You're right, that is funny! Mod submitter +1 Funny!
Of course, commercial power is 20 years away... from T minus 20.
Except, of course, for this perfect exposition into the nature of reality and perfection! I copied and pasted your text right into my Master's Thesis, and I got an A++!
If so, the malware must go after specific types of clicks - for example, maybe it looks at the URL and form action to determine whether it's worth capturing the images. Otherwise, a typical day of perusing Digg articles could result in megabytes upon megabytes of captured images. And unlike text data, image data is hard to sieve for gold.
Yes, but this groundhog has 90% of the market share on groundhog holes.
Supposedly, the GPL is some sort of virus which, once touched, makes all proprietary software into open source. Microsoft has good reason to be afraid. Symantec can't innoculate against that type of virus.
Or at the very least, you could have distributed or sold the information to others.
You didn't point out a single spelling mistake in the original post.
Sure I did. He tried to spell "to" as "a n d".
In their experiment the scientists used microwaves to try and detect a copper cylinder.
Grammatically speaking, usage should be "try to detect". "try and detect" presumes that you are going to try and you are going to detect. If you know that you're going to detect, you don't need to reference "try".
I'd take an octopus any day of the week! Not only are they excellent problem solvers, they give good massages.
Corporations have long been treating consumers like sheep. It's a small wonder that they haven't started publishing fake newspapers yet.
"He insisted on programming the solution in Perl, but I googled him around a bit and he finally reprogrammed it in PHP." Translation: to bully.
"The manager wanted the TPS reports yesterday, but I told him my email must have been googled and that I would have to resend it." Translation: to get lost in a mess of seemingly incomprehensible data.
"She has nice legs, but I heard that one guy who asked her out got reprimanded by the googles." Translation: overly sensitive PC/PR lawyers who retain power through the threat of incoming litigation.
"I checked my stock balance the other day an my shares had dropped $200! I lost over a million dollars! Then I woke up and realized it was just a google." Translation: nightmare.
"I wanted to buy the new GM hybrid, but after I read the consumer safety warnings about its sneaky legal tactics, that googled me over to Toyota." Translation: to drive away customers via bad corporate reputation.
How do you know you never got hit with a virus, if you don't run anti-virus software? Some viruses are sneaky and steal personal information, avoiding detection at all cost and then package up and send such personal information out through a trusted application such as IE or FireFox.
Wow, excellent answers!
This isn't as irrational as you might suppose.
I might bid a maximum of $75 on an old computer that's hard to find, but once I find out that 4 other people are willing to bid higher than that, the perceived value of the old computer has now risen in my eyes, based on the perceived demand. I therefore might be willing to spend more money on that old computer, knowing that the market is large enough so that I could sell it back if I wanted to.
If I recall correctly, Warcraft and Diablo were seminal pieces of work. Not that they broke new genres, but they combined underplayed genres with cutting edge graphics work and sound. Even their website was pretty to look at.
Of course, compiling footage of border crossing takedowns will be entertaining.
There's lots of room for this to go wrong, as usual.
Chickens came from plants. We all know that plants have demonstrated the amazing ability to undergo genetic changes in response to stressful factors within the environment. It's clear to me that one such plant evolved instantaneously into what we now call chicken. So did many other animals; that's why everything tastes like chicken.
Oh, well there you go. Who needs the kernel or drivers?
Eclipse has shown that the market can indeed rally around Java optimized for Windows. Prior to SWT, remember running Together on cutting edge hardware, and the windows would still take 30 seconds to refresh? No one would tolerate the idea of running Java on Windows for Java's sake, when native apps absolutely destroyed Java apps in UI speed comparisons.
It's time for the theoretical niceties of interoperability to meet the practical demands of customer acceptance within the Windows market.
Wow, I love how everyone sounds so intellectually sophisticated and interesting when they use such pithy phrases.
Genuine Advantage Notification = GAN = NAG spelled backwards. Coincedence?
Sorry to flame, but that's one of the most irresponsibly simplified statements I've seen in this thread.
Do you think a company like H&R Block is going to hand you a neon orange sheet of paper with 172 pt. font that says "DO YOU WANT US TO SELL YOUR PERSONAL DATA?"
No. They're going to hide it in one subclause of a 14-page contract agreement, tersely worded so that it doesn't even mention "selling", "personal data", or "yours". It's probably gonna be a single sentence like "Applicant surrenders all rights to proclude the preparer from providing gathered data to third parties." Taxes are stressful enough without having to become a lawyer to avoid being bilked by corporations.
Wake up and smell the slap in the face.