Having said that, there are some additional reasons why this happens with AGW. For example, science has pretty much come to a consensus a decade ago, so it's somewhat fair to assume that many of the people who hold out either suffer from cognitive dissonance (e.g. they drive an inefficient car and don't want to be feel bad for it, so they don't believe in AGW), or have monetary motives (e.g. they sell oil). Not all of them, obviously, but as a generalization, it doesn't seem overly unfair.
I don't own a gun. My driving is limited enough that I only need to fill my gas tank three times a year. While I am fiscally conservative, I'm nowhere near the right-wing. Socially, I'm far left on the political spectrum. I'm 40 y/o. I work as a glorified code-monkey (with a MS), and I've been to half a dozen countries in Asia, most of Western Europe, the USA, and Canada.
IOW, I'm neither gun-toting, a cognitive dissonance suffering SUV-driver, right-wing-nut, young/naive, un-educated, myopic, nor selling oil.
What scares me most about the AGW debate is the religious fervor, with which its proponents attack their opponents. You say that "science" has come to a consensus a decade ago, but that glosses over mountains of politicking. What it boils down to for me is this: when there is a conflict between policies aimed at reversing AGW and policies aimed at eliminating e.g. malaria and food shortages; which policy should be prioritized? The answer, at least for me, is that malaria is far more deserving of mind-share than AGW.
but while I was programming an important app, I accidently hit the space bar just before tabbing. Since this error wasn't visible on printouts or screen views, [...]
What, the glaring "IndentationError" exception that gets thrown as soon as you import the file didn't tip you off?
The situation you describe can never happen silently. I call bull$!7. Theoretically, it is possible to construct a situation where you would get a silent inconsistency, but this isn't it. I've programmed extensively in Python since '97 and never experienced problems due to indentation. In real life, this just isn't a problem.
But you can't blame them, I mean what sort of idiot language has whitespace signify blocks of code?
Well.... all of them do. How else would you find the blocks in a program? I know that many languages also use special tokens like { and } or "begin" and "end", but programmers still use the indentation to identify blocks even when it contradicts the tokens. The canonical example is something like:
if (some_test()) ....i = foo(); ....bar(i);
baz();
Perfectly valid code, so no compiler errors etc., but most programmers will read it as a an if-statement with a true-block containing two statements... (I had to use dots to get indentation since pre-tags do not seem to be understood...?!)
> Then there is fonts. Heck there are web browsers that run on text terminals.
> Fonts are likely to be substituted depening on the platform and the
> particular install which will also affect the sizing of stuff.
Font sizes are also sometimes much larger than the 2pt that Web designers adore because some of us have less than perfect eyesight.
The designer we used almost cried when I changed his proposed 9px Arial to 13px Verdana;-)
I used the MUM test... if my mum had to put on reading glasses, the font was too small...
You are obviously confused and living in the US. Ascii and utf-8 are only similar if you limit yourself to 7-bits, which isn't true except for the small minority of people living in only English speaking countries (with users from the same area).
URLs are most definitely user facing and it is very important that they can handle local data. Just imagine if you couldn't use e.g. the letter "c" in urls. You could hack together work-arounds like mikrosoft.kom and see-nn.kom, which is what the entire world was/is doing. Much better to not have such artificial limitations, so you can use (/. is an excellent example of why this is/should be important for USians also) http://www.datakortet.no/kandidater/kjøp-tester/ and http://b/åtførerregisteret.no/
The angle would have to be big enough that anything you placed on it would fall off... On my desk, right now (in addition to two 24" and one 26" monitor, keyboard, two mice, a mouse-charger, usb hub and a microphone), I've got scratch paper, a stapler, recently paid bills, fluoride tablets, mosquito-repellent, an open package of AA batteries, the pen-holder for a tablet, a ruler, a screwdriver, my wallet, two usb sticks, a box of doggie treats, a box of shelled walnuts (empty), the remote for the tv, my cell phone, a pitcher of lemonade, two bottle caps, a roll of sports tape, and that's just what I can see without lifting anything...)
The millions of office workers out there really do not want to sit for eight hours a day holding their arms in front of them like mummies.
The obvious solution would be to put the touch-screen flat on the desk (and split the keyboard out to either side). Add eye-tracking to switch context/windows, multi-touch on-screen interaction, and built-in windex for a potentially workable solution..?
also in Norway, you can be put in solitary confinement so long that the "Council of Europe: Committee for the Prevention of Torture" complained! (http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,COECPT,,NOR,,0.html)
by ensuring that derative products are also open source , you ensure that a product will stay open source.
However , i doesn't favor developers or companies ( who are forced to share their work for free ).
I'm not a GPL fan at all, but it is a straight-forward non-gratis license. The cost is providing your own source-code. It is up to you to decide if you want to "pay" that "price" -- but you have to pay to play, or else don't play (tertium non datur!). There is nothing different, in this respect, to any commercial license: if I wrote a software library, made it available on my website for download and licensed it for $649, you couldn't legally download it and use it to create your own product without paying me (no pay: no play).
Where I live you can't get fired when you're sick (how barbaric would that be?). The employer pays for the first 14 days of sick-leave and then the state takes over.
At the very least it will get them on a current version of IE. IE8 is actually pretty good. MS finally started improving their browser once they had some serious competition, and that's good for everyone regardless of what you use. Outdated IE users are bad for the whole internet.
I don't mean to offend, really; but speaking as someone who does "web stuff" for a living - the only people that really believe "IE8 is actually pretty good" are people who don't know very much about what's possible even in the currently-defined HTML and CSS standards, or those that have never used anything except Internet Explorer.
When I say IE8 is pretty good (or even "great") it's simply compared to previous versions of IE. I recently had a mini-nerdgasm when I fixed an IE7 bug in our dashboard application by inserting a browser check followed by a redirect to the IE8 download page;-)
What has American 'nationalism' got to do with equality under the law? If the point is that Operating System vendors should supply their users with a choice of browsers during installation, why would Apple get a free pass?
What has your opinion of what is or is not 'crap' got to do with what is right? Personally, I couldn't care less if Microsoft has to offer other browsers, I only use IE8 at work, I use Mozilla at home, but what's good for the Goose should be good for the Gander, yes/no?
Yes, everyone should be prevented from unfairly using an (OS) monopoly against competitors in other markets. Apple doesn't have an OS monopoly, so is neither goose nor gander (perhaps a spring-chicken?)
I have a hard time fathoming why Microsoft would have to do this but not Apple...
*sigh* because, according to courts both in the US and EU, Microsoft should not be able to unfairly use its Windows monopoly against competitors in the browser (and media-player etc.) markets. Apple doesn't have an OS monopoly. It is not the bundling that is the problem, it's the bundling as a strategy to crush competitors when having a platform monopoly. The EU also raised antitrust issues with Apple regarding the iTunes store, where they found Apple did have a monopoly.
what about live streaming your home videos to your work PC
wow, i didn't realise microsoft have started bundling vlc in their core build these days... nice.
Score 5, Insightful... really? Perhaps it's time to meta-moderate some more... *sigh*.
The included MS Media Player is the best one yet, and works flawlessly and plays most formats. It doesn't play.mkv files though, so I can also report that vlc v.1 runs beautifully! The improvements are especially visible if you have multiple monitors.
Internally, we plan to upgrade all Vista laptops to Win7 as soon as we get an official version (all of our users hate Vista, but we haven't had the stomach to downgrade them to winxp). Windows XP machines will be phased out as users require new machines (or upgraded to Win7 if the specs can run Vista).
Normally we would wait until SP1 on any MS product, however Win7 seems unusually stable for a first release and WinXP is hopelessly outdated -- especially noticeable when you try to install it on modern hardware.
I took a cobol course my first year at University and I ended up walking out of the class during the third lecture. It just wasn't for me.
Now I'm making six-figures as a web-monkey doing all kinds of exciting projects. My day-to-day tools include html, css, javascript, python, bash, and sql (tsql and whatever the MySql variant is called). Less frequently used tools include c++, c#, vb.net, emacs lisp, and java. That's ~10 languages (depending on your definition of language).
In my previous life I was a back-end c++/database software architect, but that wasn't nearly as much fun:-)
And what hat did you pull that number out of? I think the copyright term will have to be an arbitrary number but just curious how did you come up with that and not 25 or 50 etc.At least the lifetime of the creator of the work (but not his/her children) would make slightly more sense to me than just picking a number.
I believe the copyright terms should only be long enough to cover the period when a work is considered "new". After the creator has had a chance to profit from his new creation it should become part of the general zeitgeist, and as such available for anyone else to create other works. Plagiarism should be illegal (if it isn't already). The period of "newness" should, imho, be between 12 and 18 months.
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Oddly both chrome and safari came up as "Safari version 534.10" in the benchmark.
Funnily, so did IE9 Beta (9.0.7930.16406). On my machine Chrome (same version as yours) got 13545 and IE9b got 13439.
Having said that, there are some additional reasons why this happens with AGW. For example, science has pretty much come to a consensus a decade ago, so it's somewhat fair to assume that many of the people who hold out either suffer from cognitive dissonance (e.g. they drive an inefficient car and don't want to be feel bad for it, so they don't believe in AGW), or have monetary motives (e.g. they sell oil). Not all of them, obviously, but as a generalization, it doesn't seem overly unfair.
I don't own a gun. My driving is limited enough that I only need to fill my gas tank three times a year. While I am fiscally conservative, I'm nowhere near the right-wing. Socially, I'm far left on the political spectrum. I'm 40 y/o. I work as a glorified code-monkey (with a MS), and I've been to half a dozen countries in Asia, most of Western Europe, the USA, and Canada.
IOW, I'm neither gun-toting, a cognitive dissonance suffering SUV-driver, right-wing-nut, young/naive, un-educated, myopic, nor selling oil.
What scares me most about the AGW debate is the religious fervor, with which its proponents attack their opponents. You say that "science" has come to a consensus a decade ago, but that glosses over mountains of politicking. What it boils down to for me is this: when there is a conflict between policies aimed at reversing AGW and policies aimed at eliminating e.g. malaria and food shortages; which policy should be prioritized? The answer, at least for me, is that malaria is far more deserving of mind-share than AGW.
but while I was programming an important app, I accidently hit the space bar just before tabbing. Since this error wasn't visible on printouts or screen views, [...]
What, the glaring "IndentationError" exception that gets thrown as soon as you import the file didn't tip you off?
The situation you describe can never happen silently. I call bull$!7. Theoretically, it is possible to construct a situation where you would get a silent inconsistency, but this isn't it. I've programmed extensively in Python since '97 and never experienced problems due to indentation. In real life, this just isn't a problem.
But you can't blame them, I mean what sort of idiot language has whitespace signify blocks of code?
Well.... all of them do. How else would you find the blocks in a program? I know that many languages also use special tokens like { and } or "begin" and "end", but programmers still use the indentation to identify blocks even when it contradicts the tokens. The canonical example is something like:
if (some_test())
....i = foo();
....bar(i);
baz();
Perfectly valid code, so no compiler errors etc., but most programmers will read it as a an if-statement with a true-block containing two statements... (I had to use dots to get indentation since pre-tags do not seem to be understood...?!)
Oh, come on. It was funny! (The username should be a "clue"...)
> Then there is fonts. Heck there are web browsers that run on text terminals. > Fonts are likely to be substituted depening on the platform and the > particular install which will also affect the sizing of stuff.
Font sizes are also sometimes much larger than the 2pt that Web designers adore because some of us have less than perfect eyesight.
The designer we used almost cried when I changed his proposed 9px Arial to 13px Verdana ;-)
I used the MUM test... if my mum had to put on reading glasses, the font was too small...
URLs are most definitely user facing and it is very important that they can handle local data. Just imagine if you couldn't use e.g. the letter "c" in urls. You could hack together work-arounds like mikrosoft.kom and see-nn.kom, which is what the entire world was/is doing. Much better to not have such artificial limitations, so you can use (/. is an excellent example of why this is/should be important for USians also) http://www.datakortet.no/kandidater/kjøp-tester/ and http://b/åtførerregisteret.no/
parent is informative.
Homo Erectus.
The angle would have to be big enough that anything you placed on it would fall off... On my desk, right now (in addition to two 24" and one 26" monitor, keyboard, two mice, a mouse-charger, usb hub and a microphone), I've got scratch paper, a stapler, recently paid bills, fluoride tablets, mosquito-repellent, an open package of AA batteries, the pen-holder for a tablet, a ruler, a screwdriver, my wallet, two usb sticks, a box of doggie treats, a box of shelled walnuts (empty), the remote for the tv, my cell phone, a pitcher of lemonade, two bottle caps, a roll of sports tape, and that's just what I can see without lifting anything...)
The millions of office workers out there really do not want to sit for eight hours a day holding their arms in front of them like mummies.
The obvious solution would be to put the touch-screen flat on the desk (and split the keyboard out to either side). Add eye-tracking to switch context/windows, multi-touch on-screen interaction, and built-in windex for a potentially workable solution..?
It's called apoptosis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptosis even has a cute picture for the foot-fetishists out there ;-).
I got my C64 in 1982, so that seems very late... ps: sys 647382
Try Ctrl-F5 to reload css/images/javascript as well as the html.
also in Norway, you can be put in solitary confinement so long that the "Council of Europe: Committee for the Prevention of Torture" complained! (http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,COECPT,,NOR,,0.html)
...Simply put : GPL favors mainly the end users :
by ensuring that derative products are also open source , you ensure that a product will stay open source.
However , i doesn't favor developers or companies ( who are forced to share their work for free ) .
I'm not a GPL fan at all, but it is a straight-forward non-gratis license. The cost is providing your own source-code. It is up to you to decide if you want to "pay" that "price" -- but you have to pay to play, or else don't play (tertium non datur!). There is nothing different, in this respect, to any commercial license: if I wrote a software library, made it available on my website for download and licensed it for $649, you couldn't legally download it and use it to create your own product without paying me (no pay: no play).
Where I live you can't get fired when you're sick (how barbaric would that be?). The employer pays for the first 14 days of sick-leave and then the state takes over.
I thought that was what the -1 Disagree mod was for...?
At the very least it will get them on a current version of IE. IE8 is actually pretty good. MS finally started improving their browser once they had some serious competition, and that's good for everyone regardless of what you use. Outdated IE users are bad for the whole internet.
I don't mean to offend, really; but speaking as someone who does "web stuff" for a living - the only people that really believe "IE8 is actually pretty good" are people who don't know very much about what's possible even in the currently-defined HTML and CSS standards, or those that have never used anything except Internet Explorer.
When I say IE8 is pretty good (or even "great") it's simply compared to previous versions of IE. I recently had a mini-nerdgasm when I fixed an IE7 bug in our dashboard application by inserting a browser check followed by a redirect to the IE8 download page ;-)
What has American 'nationalism' got to do with equality under the law? If the point is that Operating System vendors should supply their users with a choice of browsers during installation, why would Apple get a free pass?
What has your opinion of what is or is not 'crap' got to do with what is right? Personally, I couldn't care less if Microsoft has to offer other browsers, I only use IE8 at work, I use Mozilla at home, but what's good for the Goose should be good for the Gander, yes/no?
Yes, everyone should be prevented from unfairly using an (OS) monopoly against competitors in other markets. Apple doesn't have an OS monopoly, so is neither goose nor gander (perhaps a spring-chicken?)
I have a hard time fathoming why Microsoft would have to do this but not Apple...
*sigh* because, according to courts both in the US and EU, Microsoft should not be able to unfairly use its Windows monopoly against competitors in the browser (and media-player etc.) markets. Apple doesn't have an OS monopoly. It is not the bundling that is the problem, it's the bundling as a strategy to crush competitors when having a platform monopoly. The EU also raised antitrust issues with Apple regarding the iTunes store, where they found Apple did have a monopoly.
what about live streaming your home videos to your work PC
wow, i didn't realise microsoft have started bundling vlc in their core build these days... nice.
Score 5, Insightful... really? Perhaps it's time to meta-moderate some more... *sigh*.
The included MS Media Player is the best one yet, and works flawlessly and plays most formats. It doesn't play .mkv files though, so I can also report that vlc v.1 runs beautifully! The improvements are especially visible if you have multiple monitors.
Internally, we plan to upgrade all Vista laptops to Win7 as soon as we get an official version (all of our users hate Vista, but we haven't had the stomach to downgrade them to winxp). Windows XP machines will be phased out as users require new machines (or upgraded to Win7 if the specs can run Vista).
Normally we would wait until SP1 on any MS product, however Win7 seems unusually stable for a first release and WinXP is hopelessly outdated -- especially noticeable when you try to install it on modern hardware.
I took a cobol course my first year at University and I ended up walking out of the class during the third lecture. It just wasn't for me.
:-)
Now I'm making six-figures as a web-monkey doing all kinds of exciting projects. My day-to-day tools include html, css, javascript, python, bash, and sql (tsql and whatever the MySql variant is called). Less frequently used tools include c++, c#, vb.net, emacs lisp, and java. That's ~10 languages (depending on your definition of language).
In my previous life I was a back-end c++/database software architect, but that wasn't nearly as much fun
That's right! 18 years..max!
And what hat did you pull that number out of? I think the copyright term will have to be an arbitrary number but just curious how did you come up with that and not 25 or 50 etc.At least the lifetime of the creator of the work (but not his/her children) would make slightly more sense to me than just picking a number.
I believe the copyright terms should only be long enough to cover the period when a work is considered "new". After the creator has had a chance to profit from his new creation it should become part of the general zeitgeist, and as such available for anyone else to create other works. Plagiarism should be illegal (if it isn't already). The period of "newness" should, imho, be between 12 and 18 months.
Perhaps a big "I" for Idiot.
hmm... an uppercase "I" (for idiot) could be confused with a lowercase "l" (for loser)... so I guess it works :-)
bah, moderation system sucks. posting to cancel, sorry.