Many of the stylistic duplicates, for example the half-width and full-width latin forms that you mentioned, are only in Unicode because of backwards compatibility with pre-Unicode character sets. If there hadn't been character sets that had different encodings for half- and full-width forms, Unicode never would have had them either. So you can't use them to argue for more glyph variations in Unicode. The same applies to many of the formatted numbers, such as the Unicode characters "VII" (U+2166), "7." (U+248E), "(7)" (U+247A), and "1/7" (U+2150), and units of measure ("cm^2", U+33A0).
There is already at least one effort to extend Unicode beyond the current maximum of 1.1 million characters: The UCS-X Family of UCS Extensions. It defines UCS-G, which supports over two billion characters, UCS-E with over nine quintillion, and UCS-Infinity with no upper bound. They each support 8-, 16-, and 32-bit variable-byte encodings (e.g. UTF-E-32, UTF-Infinity-8). Itâ(TM)s been a while since I read about them, but I believe they are all compatible with UTF- 8, 16, and 32.
I use WinSplit Revolution, though. It's a free Window app that is similar to Divvy.
What I really wish I had, when I must use Windows, is a Windows version of xmonad. It has excellent support for arranging windows within large screens and on multiple monitors, once you get used to it.
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I purchased Diablo II. The DRM wouldn't let the game run without the CD-ROM in the drive, even though I did a full install so all the files were on my hard drive. The game was intentionally crippled, making it less convenient to play. (What if I had another CD-ROM in my drive? What if I wanted to listen to an audio CD?) I installed a no-CD crack.
A couple years later I reinstalled it. It wouldn't play; it kept failing because the DRM said the disc was not in the drive. It was. I had to crack my purchased copy to play it.
I second this. If you don't know TeX math commands, there are toolbar buttons, menus, and dialog boxes for everything. But once you do learn the commands (and the TeX commands are listed in the menus and appear as tooltips over the buttons), you can just type them. So instead of pressing the subscript button, you press _ and the display switches to subscript mode. Instead of clicking the sine function, you type \sin. Instead of clicking the fraction button, you can type \frac.
Also, text entry is pretty easy. For example, after creating a fraction two empty blue squares appear--the numerator and the denomerator. Focus is in the numerator, and you can press Tab to switch to the denomerator. Pressing the spacebar exits the fraction, putting the cursor just after it.
If you read the Wikipedia article on Maya numerals, linked to above, you will see that it is not like Roman numerals. It is, in fact, a base-twenty positional system that happens to have logical symbols for its digits (zero notwithstanding).
The Guardian Legend NES game had a password system to save your progress. If you entered all Js as your password, you started in a strange location 80% of the way through the game with almost no health. I think the area was reachable in normal gameplay, but you needed a key that you didn't receive when using the password. (Therefore, you were locked in when using the password.) My friends and I spent much time wondering what it all meant.
Recently, zoogelio has reverse-engineered the password system and figured out how to get to off-map areas (he calls it the Lost Frontier, finding all sorts of glitches and weird places.
I think the strange appearance of the hands is due to the hand moving while being scanned. I remember, in high school, moving my hand inside a scanner while it was being scanned, causing all sorts of fun distortions: wavy fingers, extremely long fingers, etc.
The Duluth News Tribune article (the second link in the summary) states that groundbreaking just happened on Friday. The MPR article mentions that work was supposed to start a while ago, but the funding was cut until the stimulus money reinstated it.
Dang. I got an error the first time I tried submitting this article, so I rushed through the second time I wrote it. It must be in the water up here, though, 'cause they misspelled Alec Habig in the article.
He would say that the US has not had a major eruption since Mt. St. Helens in the mid 80's.
I don't know how what constitutes a "major eruption", but Pu'u 'O'o in Hawaii has destroyed "over 100 homes [...] in a nine-month period" and "189 structures".
Michael Spivak is writing Physics for Mathematicians, of which the beginning can be downloaded. Videos of the lectures are supposed to be available, but I couldn't get them to load.
Has anyone heard recent news of this book?
Javscript turn off URL bars, resizing of windows? I don't think so. Leave that to the user.
I forgot to mention that Opera has this, too. The JavaScript preferences dialog has a list of seven actions that can be disabled. Plus, if the address bar is hidden, the top of the window shows the current servername, and clicking on that address causes the address bar to appear.
instead of unfairly penalizing those of the next stage of human evolution who can listen to music and get hit by a vehicle while crossing the street...
in section 3.2, footnote 3 (page 4), it mentions that the sample rate can be higher than 46.875 KHz. if you don't use usb (see footnote 2), it can decode up to 50.78125 KHz.
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Many of the stylistic duplicates, for example the half-width and full-width latin forms that you mentioned, are only in Unicode because of backwards compatibility with pre-Unicode character sets. If there hadn't been character sets that had different encodings for half- and full-width forms, Unicode never would have had them either. So you can't use them to argue for more glyph variations in Unicode. The same applies to many of the formatted numbers, such as the Unicode characters "VII" (U+2166), "7." (U+248E), "(7)" (U+247A), and "1/7" (U+2150), and units of measure ("cm^2", U+33A0).
(Oh, for Unicode support in Slashdot....)
There is already at least one effort to extend Unicode beyond the current maximum of 1.1 million characters: The UCS-X Family of UCS Extensions. It defines UCS-G, which supports over two billion characters, UCS-E with over nine quintillion, and UCS-Infinity with no upper bound. They each support 8-, 16-, and 32-bit variable-byte encodings (e.g. UTF-E-32, UTF-Infinity-8). Itâ(TM)s been a while since I read about them, but I believe they are all compatible with UTF- 8, 16, and 32.
Set HISTCONTROL to ignorespace. Then bash will not save any commands that begin with a space.
There is, in fact, one sharp, because the doodle is in the key of G.
That's G as in Bach's Minuet in G. I can't play the rest of the song properly due to the lack of accidentals and notes below G.
There's a link to the Windows version of Divvy on the Mac Divvy page.
I use WinSplit Revolution, though. It's a free Window app that is similar to Divvy.
What I really wish I had, when I must use Windows, is a Windows version of xmonad. It has excellent support for arranging windows within large screens and on multiple monitors, once you get used to it.
I purchased Diablo II. The DRM wouldn't let the game run without the CD-ROM in the drive, even though I did a full install so all the files were on my hard drive. The game was intentionally crippled, making it less convenient to play. (What if I had another CD-ROM in my drive? What if I wanted to listen to an audio CD?) I installed a no-CD crack.
A couple years later I reinstalled it. It wouldn't play; it kept failing because the DRM said the disc was not in the drive. It was. I had to crack my purchased copy to play it.
I second this. If you don't know TeX math commands, there are toolbar buttons, menus, and dialog boxes for everything. But once you do learn the commands (and the TeX commands are listed in the menus and appear as tooltips over the buttons), you can just type them. So instead of pressing the subscript button, you press _ and the display switches to subscript mode. Instead of clicking the sine function, you type \sin. Instead of clicking the fraction button, you can type \frac.
Also, text entry is pretty easy. For example, after creating a fraction two empty blue squares appear--the numerator and the denomerator. Focus is in the numerator, and you can press Tab to switch to the denomerator. Pressing the spacebar exits the fraction, putting the cursor just after it.
Because their website is copyrighted 2007-2010, and software from the future is awesome!
If you read the Wikipedia article on Maya numerals, linked to above, you will see that it is not like Roman numerals. It is, in fact, a base-twenty positional system that happens to have logical symbols for its digits (zero notwithstanding).
Marathon 2 had a couple of terminals you could only read if you cheated: the second message of the second terminal in What About Bob? and the fourth terminal in Eat It, Vid Boi.
The Guardian Legend NES game had a password system to save your progress. If you entered all Js as your password, you started in a strange location 80% of the way through the game with almost no health. I think the area was reachable in normal gameplay, but you needed a key that you didn't receive when using the password. (Therefore, you were locked in when using the password.) My friends and I spent much time wondering what it all meant.
Recently, zoogelio has reverse-engineered the password system and figured out how to get to off-map areas (he calls it the Lost Frontier, finding all sorts of glitches and weird places.
The Mario minus world is mentioned in another Crispy Gamer article: If these bugs are wrong, I don't want to be right.
Did you know that minus world is much cooler in the Japanese version? Watch the video!
I think the strange appearance of the hands is due to the hand moving while being scanned. I remember, in high school, moving my hand inside a scanner while it was being scanned, causing all sorts of fun distortions: wavy fingers, extremely long fingers, etc.
I thought White House 2.0 would have been the post-1814 White House, but that must have just been an increase in the minor version number.
The Duluth News Tribune article (the second link in the summary) states that groundbreaking just happened on Friday. The MPR article mentions that work was supposed to start a while ago, but the funding was cut until the stimulus money reinstated it.
Dang. I got an error the first time I tried submitting this article, so I rushed through the second time I wrote it. It must be in the water up here, though, 'cause they misspelled Alec Habig in the article.
I don't know how what constitutes a "major eruption", but Pu'u 'O'o in Hawaii has destroyed "over 100 homes [...] in a nine-month period" and "189 structures".
Correction: it's going to be Mechanics for Mathematicians, so it won't help with the heat equation, etc.
Michael Spivak is writing Physics for Mathematicians, of which the beginning can be downloaded. Videos of the lectures are supposed to be available, but I couldn't get them to load. Has anyone heard recent news of this book?
- Open all pop-ups
- Open pop-ups in background
- Block unwanted pop-ups
- Block all pop-ups
- Enable GIF/SVG animation
- Enable sound in webpages
- Enable Java
- Enable plug-ins
- Enable JavaScript
- Enable cookies
- Enable referrer logging
- Enable proxy servers
- Edit site preferences...
It's amazingly simple to enable and disable many irritating features. I keep plugins and animations off at all times, except when I want them.instead of unfairly penalizing those of the next stage of human evolution who can listen to music and get hit by a vehicle while crossing the street...
in section 3.2, footnote 3 (page 4), it mentions that the sample rate can be higher than 46.875 KHz. if you don't use usb (see footnote 2), it can decode up to 50.78125 KHz.
it says in section 7.4.2 of the datasheet (page 17) "The default player application only decodes Ogg Vorbis files".
note that the price list does not list the vs1000.
see iaudio. many of their players support ogg, and they appear as a normal usb drive to the computer.