Actually, see, they pasted once, picked up the ringing telephone, and after they ended the conversation, they pasted again, thinking they didn't do it before.
Since it was already 6PM, they never minded checking the text after it was ready, because this Slashback is a lengthy, worksome article that gets little of the usual user input and ended with this unique paragraph-dupe specimen.
See? Occam's Razor! This doesn't require the intricacies of the middle-click-bounces-on-tennis-balls-which-bounces -in-two-separate-walls-boucing-back -into-the-coffee-table-which-in-turn-hits-the-penc il-holder-in-the-desk-that-falls-over-the-middle-b utton-again-trick explanation!
(However, I'm waiting for the day we'll get the dupe-within-dupe story. That day I'll KNOW something is wrong with the Matrix!!!!!)
Well. This is old info, but you can move all the plugins out of the plugins directory (to some other directory not under plugins). Acrobat will open really fast then.
In the other hand, is it really that hard to implement lazy plugin loading? Why does stupid Reader need to load and certify lots of mostly useless plugins that will never be used by a large amount of users?
And what's the point of a spell checking plugin in Reader?! I thought spellchecking was to be done by the producer of the document, not by the viewer!!!
Heh... Maybe the homeland security dept reads the parent and decides it's a good idea to track what every passenger was doing at the minutes preceding the flight...
Since such detailed tracking is already done in your pc, why object tracking you???
1- Someone, somewhere, for some unknown reason might not want people to close the aforementioned gap.
2- If there's no such "secret agenda" as outlined in point #1, then researchers are just focusing on the easiest thing
3- They might not be willing to focus on the easiest thing but, in order to get research funds, they focus on what is harder to explain instead, so they can impress someone
4- Someone concluded that, after some, say, 4 thousand years, people still cannot communicate right and concluded that all these difficulties are here by design than by chance. So they give up trying and we get back to point #1, since this whole idea of hopelessness might have been instilled on us by some secret group.
Conspirational theories aside, point #4 seems more plausible.
This misuse of the definition of "social contract" is just another way to force people into believing that the american consumer must be held responsible for keeping failed business models alive and to make sure that incompetent CEOs keep getting their salaries.
In other news, telcos are trying to stifle muni broadband networks because the publick attack on the private business playground is "anti-American".
See the pattern? It's easy to defend a communist bias (the "social contract" fallacy) and sustain a capitalistic stance when it is needed to protect corporate interests.
"Social Contract" is just a philosophically relativistic construct. It's just a little more than a insightful observation but it is not truth per se, although those post-modernist people working in marketing, advertisement and social sciences believe otherwise.
I heard somewhere that if you lived in, say, Ontario and wanted to move to Quebec, you'd have submit an application form to get proper authorization to move there.
Am I wrong or this is a clear violation of paragraph 6.2?
But corporate decision makers usually do not have the balls to back on their own decisions (in most corporate contexts that's not a smart move, carreerwise.)
In the medium term, things will tend to stay the way they are and I'm pretty confident BitMover won't realize a significant loss until the end of this or the next fiscal year.
Every time one tries to bound it, people start to yell on the streets, appaled at how herectically communist it sounds.
We became used to give up our freedom to satisfy some form of personal greed. So, to answer your rhetorical question, I'm really not surprised with the way things are going.
Due to the way the system is built, rewarding greed at every level (in our relationships, in our carreer, etc), I expect things to get a LOT worse.
And I won't be surprised if something yields to a catastrophical breakage.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the good folks at Macrovision have unveiled a new system that will thwart 97% of existing DVD copying software while maintaining compatibility with existing DVD players.
Ok, where do I start?
I will want to buy one of those softwares that are in the 3% (1-0.97). So will all of other users.
Soon, someone will reverse-engineer that software and release it to the public and that 3% will become 100% and Macrovision will be at the spotlight again.
Not only it's cheaper to store US data -- I guess it's a lot more easier.
International addressing is more complicated, since addressing standards varies wildly around the world.
The worst example I can think of is Korea, where streets do not have a name, except for some high-traffic roads. Locations are determined by the block number and the building number within that block. One could easily create a work around, giving fake names to street, but that's not practical.
By the way, Google could also work some kind of "international from-to" thingie. Just type the origin and destination in different countries and Google would suggest the directions to drive to and from the airports and a number of flights to connect those cities. That's the end of Expedia!
while the benefits of this technology are undeniable, what if a robot, machine or artificial limb gets broken or explodes?
Wouldn't this release a lot of nanostuff into the air or the waterflow?
Couldn't this be extremely poisonous to biological life and be very hard to remove from the environment, since nanostuff would not decay? What if this breakage happens in a industrial facility? Would we get the nasty effects of a chemical contamination (like Union Carbide's Bhopal mess-up) with the transmissible and hard-to-decay characteristics of a, say, mad-cows's prions?
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That web page you metioned renders horrendously in Firefox 1.0.1 (Linux)....
If only I knew how to use Greasemonkey to make that page render correctly...........
Is this proof that the US legal risk is actually putting extra burden on US-based institutions (including corporations and universities)????
Actually, see, they pasted once, picked up the ringing telephone, and after they ended the conversation, they pasted again, thinking they didn't do it before.
Since it was already 6PM, they never minded checking the text after it was ready, because this Slashback is a lengthy, worksome article that gets little of the usual user input and ended with this unique paragraph-dupe specimen.
See? Occam's Razor! This doesn't require the intricacies of the middle-click-bounces-on-tennis-balls-which-bounces -in-two-separate-walls-boucing-back -into-the-coffee-table-which-in-turn-hits-the-penc il-holder-in-the-desk-that-falls-over-the-middle-b utton-again-trick explanation!
(However, I'm waiting for the day we'll get the dupe-within-dupe story. That day I'll KNOW something is wrong with the Matrix!!!!!)
Maybe MS will start selling a nmap-like app?
In the other hand, is it really that hard to implement lazy plugin loading? Why does stupid Reader need to load and certify lots of mostly useless plugins that will never be used by a large amount of users?
And what's the point of a spell checking plugin in Reader?! I thought spellchecking was to be done by the producer of the document, not by the viewer!!!
Since such detailed tracking is already done in your pc, why object tracking you???
1- Someone, somewhere, for some unknown reason might not want people to close the aforementioned gap.
2- If there's no such "secret agenda" as outlined in point #1, then researchers are just focusing on the easiest thing
3- They might not be willing to focus on the easiest thing but, in order to get research funds, they focus on what is harder to explain instead, so they can impress someone
4- Someone concluded that, after some, say, 4 thousand years, people still cannot communicate right and concluded that all these difficulties are here by design than by chance. So they give up trying and we get back to point #1, since this whole idea of hopelessness might have been instilled on us by some secret group.
Conspirational theories aside, point #4 seems more plausible.
It does not prevent webmasters from using those flashy and sparkly thingies in their pages just to impress their bosses and clients...
Sigh....
The point was that the DMCA embodies the concept of "social contract" in a very twisted way. Yes, both concepts are ridiculous.
Somenone please mod parent UP!
Heh. It even seems that you never heard of the DMCA (or DRM, for that purpose)
This misuse of the definition of "social contract" is just another way to force people into believing that the american consumer must be held responsible for keeping failed business models alive and to make sure that incompetent CEOs keep getting their salaries.
In other news, telcos are trying to stifle muni broadband networks because the publick attack on the private business playground is "anti-American".
See the pattern? It's easy to defend a communist bias (the "social contract" fallacy) and sustain a capitalistic stance when it is needed to protect corporate interests.
"Social Contract" is just a philosophically relativistic construct. It's just a little more than a insightful observation but it is not truth per se, although those post-modernist people working in marketing, advertisement and social sciences believe otherwise.
I heard somewhere that if you lived in, say, Ontario and wanted to move to Quebec, you'd have submit an application form to get proper authorization to move there.
Am I wrong or this is a clear violation of paragraph 6.2?
But corporate decision makers usually do not have the balls to back on their own decisions (in most corporate contexts that's not a smart move, carreerwise.)
In the medium term, things will tend to stay the way they are and I'm pretty confident BitMover won't realize a significant loss until the end of this or the next fiscal year.
Every time one tries to bound it, people start to yell on the streets, appaled at how herectically communist it sounds.
We became used to give up our freedom to satisfy some form of personal greed. So, to answer your rhetorical question, I'm really not surprised with the way things are going.
Due to the way the system is built, rewarding greed at every level (in our relationships, in our carreer, etc), I expect things to get a LOT worse.
And I won't be surprised if something yields to a catastrophical breakage.
Dude, this isn't Nature. It's /., remember?
We've engaged a task force to tacke this problem, avoiding further delays.
We won't charge you for those overtime hours, because we care a lot about your business.
signed, your PMO.
Because everyone knows that Microsoft is evil and Google is not.
I will want to buy one of those softwares that are in the 3% (1-0.97). So will all of other users.
Soon, someone will reverse-engineer that software and release it to the public and that 3% will become 100% and Macrovision will be at the spotlight again.
So I guess what you said is already true.
Would you care to explain how the ability to produce nuclear weapons correlate to a lower ability to do "stupid things"?
What is the relationship? Where's the link?
International addressing is more complicated, since addressing standards varies wildly around the world.
The worst example I can think of is Korea, where streets do not have a name, except for some high-traffic roads. Locations are determined by the block number and the building number within that block. One could easily create a work around, giving fake names to street, but that's not practical.
By the way, Google could also work some kind of "international from-to" thingie. Just type the origin and destination in different countries and Google would suggest the directions to drive to and from the airports and a number of flights to connect those cities. That's the end of Expedia!
According to the map, the US of A actually encompasses what was called as "Canada" and "Central America", and it is an island!
Wouldn't this release a lot of nanostuff into the air or the waterflow?
Couldn't this be extremely poisonous to biological life and be very hard to remove from the environment, since nanostuff would not decay? What if this breakage happens in a industrial facility? Would we get the nasty effects of a chemical contamination (like Union Carbide's Bhopal mess-up) with the transmissible and hard-to-decay characteristics of a, say, mad-cows's prions?