Some moderators _should_ be on prozac. Your post hardly merits 'troll' when it is little more than insulting.
Read the RFC, or just the one section. 30 seconds of thought should show that it is not a trivial issue. If I say that I am providing data of type bip/bop at URI here.now/bippity-bap/shoom.bop via HTTP, then a browser that renders it as MIDI or QuickTime instead of bip/bop when it knows how to display all three is...improperly configured. If the person accessing my data doesn't know what just happened, they are going to think I am (at best) incompetent or (at worst) trying to wreck their ears. According to the RFC, the browser is allowed to guess at the content type ONLY if I don't specify it.
As a side note, it looks like you're batting.500 with the mods. 5 up, 5 down over last 24.
I'm amazed your post got past 2. What they call it has no bearing on the issue.
As others have pointed out, Internet Explorer does not meet a basic requirement of a browser. (Thank you, epsalon, for the summary.) For the link-impaired, RFC 2616 section 7.2.1 specifies that a browser isn't allowed to override a specified content-type, but IE does so regularly, and it's not exactly a secret. I was taught on day one of my first CGI programming class (which wasn't _that_ long ago, which is why I can remember) that IE does not handle text/plain correctly, so don't expect text resources to appear as intended to the end user.
I routinely get modded "Overrated" for voicing an opposing opinion, because such mods don't get metamodded.
Maybe it's because you're not original? Not all moderators read threaded, oldest first, and few moderators have the attention span of a cranefly you were hoping for. Also, the "moderate" button is at the bottom of the page, you know. Nice try, though, at least you copied a +5 post.
try
$info info
and be treated to an excellent tutorial. All of the problems I have had with info stemmed from NOT reading the first page, which is really short. There seems to be some kind of "...skip over this shit, get me to the good stuff" attitude (which I am often guilty of) that prevents people from seeing introductions as informative. A man page that says 'look at the info page' is infinitely more useful to an inexperienced user than no man page at all, or worse, a link to "no useful man page exists, and yes, this is a bug." As for being shot down in flames, well, that's quite a lot better than being ignored, which is the normal penalty for asking questions in the wrong forum.
Not salient. The solution is not simple, or neat, or wrong. When was the last time you sat down with a pen and paper, wrote a letter to your congresscritter telling him/her why you were dissatisfied with how they voted on an issue, put in in an envelope, and sent it? When was the last time you walked out of a store with inane prices, but asked to see the manager to say why you were leaving? You might be an exception, though, so ask the person on your left these questions, then the person on your right.
Most people couldn't be bothered to blow their own nose.
Pi is
3.14159265358979323846265... not
3.1415926535897932384629...
So no claim of 'roundoff error' accepted. Busted! Put your hands against the wall where we can see them...
Shiva H. Vishnu. Mangling my second favourite number like that.
From the source itself (you may want to verify that the DVD consortium renamed itself to the DVD Forum):
What does DVD mean?
The keyword is "versatile." Digital Versatile discs provide superb video, audio and data storage and access -- all on one disc.
Shiva H. Vishu, people, is it hard to double check things against more than one source on the internet, or ask about the credibility of a source if it's the only one available? </RANT>
This rant brought to you because (a) I was reading Tannenbaum last night writing about the history of computing (kill me now, I'm a geek), (b) recently I was involved in a discussion concerning correct quoting of The Jargon File, which is known to change over time, and (c) the number e asked me to.
waking life was a serious (and fun) mindfuck. nobody i know who has seen it thought it 'a little' anything. maybe i hang out with too many . everyone i saw it with had a _different_ favourite part, which seems a rare thing in filmmaking.
MODS: please mark me -1, Redundant. Just in case you don't follow the other threads at the right threshold at the right time, you are not providing the same information - you are providing more. Do you think it's acceptable for the newspaper to be able to answer authoritatively "Which articles did reallocate look at?" cgenman addressed this earlier.
But to pretend this somehow means that the US is no better than Nazi Germany, Communist China, or Theologist Iran is absurd and disturbing.
There's no way to put this politely:
Integrity means no holes. End of story.
The USA has engaged in aggressive war against Iraq and Afghanistan, and tortured and murdered soldiers who were disarmed. Quick check 1: Any sign of Osama yet? How about the alleged WMDs? Quick check 2: How many troops were sent to Afghanistan? Look it up, you wouldn't believe me. Now look up how many troops are in Iraq. . . .
Now ask, who was alleged to have bombed the World Trade Center? Real mindfuck, hey? If you still want to live in the USA, it will not be because of some "high moral ground." As for your insinuation that muslims have the same rights as jews... it's so incorrect that if it wasn't so hurtful a notion, I'd laugh. The USA has begun using racial profiling at defacto interior borders. Do you get it? Hitler _would_ be proud.
I recently re-read 'The AWK Programming Language' (a predecessor of PERL), and so had strongly in mind that no implementation is infinite. But come on, a line with 20 000 fields? You need to talk to the people generating the data before expanding the language. ;)
The song didn't create or inspire them, though it may have given some a peg to hook their thoughts onto. Incompetent pedants have been with us since, umm, forever? when last I checked. And yes, I'm expecting to have my theory shot down by someone providing a citation to the contrary.
Someone modded this as Offtopic, and someone else marked it as underrated, but I believe it is a troll, in the usual sense: false information designed to fuck up newcomers, having the appearance of credibility.
Which OED did you refer to? I checked with Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the Concise OED, and (god the fucker's heavy!) the Shorter OED for 'vampyre' and none of them had it. While the ODEE is hardly thorough, and the Concise is just that, I can't see the Shorter OED leaving out an accepted alternate spelling of a common word. Really, it has an entry for "Jail, gaol"!. However, the possibility exists that you had the full 20 volume set just next to your computer...
Can you tell me what volume I'll find it in when I go out to the stacks to look at the full set?
I think you are mistaken.
To compare the course of the current administration to past administrations in world history is hardly a knee-jerk activity. The underlying forces at work may differ, but the similarities are incontrovertible. Considering how things turned out in the past, fear is totally appropriate - though you mistakenly label it paranoia. If you are not frightened, I'd say you expect to be inducted into the 'elite few' in the new regime. Being mistaken on that point will lead you to heartbreak later.
Don't kid yourself that the USA will never jail (or execute) someone for making a publicly unkind comment about the government - just five years ago, would you have thought it possible that the FBI could be permitted to seize data about you from a third party without a warrant? Now think five years ahead about what you can't imagine now. . . . .
Done thinking? It could get even worse than that.
I'm so glad I don't live there. Have fun when the revolution comes, hope you're on the right side.
As an aside, that's a painful abuse of the word reactionary.
After reading that through four times slowly, I read it as:
You can use it only if you agree to let us use it however we want for free.
...with one extra comma thrown in between "provided" and "Licensee" for no other purpose than to obfuscate. This looks like a one-way version of the GPL to me. What am I missing here? IANAL, but I have read the GPL more than once, and I understand that MicroSoft rarely allows anything to slip past that does not benefit them in some way.
Secton 3.1:
you agree: (i) except as otherwise noted in Section 2.1 (Sample Code) to distribute the Redistributables only in object code form and in conjunction with and as a part of a software application product developed by you that adds significant and primary functionality to the Redistributables ("Licensee Software"); (ii) that the Redistributables only operate in conjunction with Microsoft Windows platforms;
I would not take it if they paid me, even if there were code samples included Other posts point out that no actual code is included, but that could change at any time. The paranoid part of me says they will, after a bit of early adoption and favourable review (except about the silly part where it says you're allowed to share code they didn't include, those crazy microsoft lawyers) they will then quietly begin including sample code that is library code...
It brings to mind a sig i saw a while ago to the effect of "the biggest hurdle microsoft has had in defending themselves is that they are massively, demonstrably guilty."
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No, not RL servers - Quake servers! (which also have RL's ) I got killed so many times, and they were crowded.
Some moderators _should_ be on prozac. Your post hardly merits 'troll' when it is little more than insulting.
.500 with the mods. 5 up, 5 down over last 24.
Read the RFC, or just the one section. 30 seconds of thought should show that it is not a trivial issue. If I say that I am providing data of type bip/bop at URI here.now/bippity-bap/shoom.bop via HTTP, then a browser that renders it as MIDI or QuickTime instead of bip/bop when it knows how to display all three is...improperly configured. If the person accessing my data doesn't know what just happened, they are going to think I am (at best) incompetent or (at worst) trying to wreck their ears. According to the RFC, the browser is allowed to guess at the content type ONLY if I don't specify it.
As a side note, it looks like you're batting
I'm amazed your post got past 2. What they call it has no bearing on the issue.
As others have pointed out, Internet Explorer does not meet a basic requirement of a browser. (Thank you, epsalon, for the summary.) For the link-impaired, RFC 2616 section 7.2.1 specifies that a browser isn't allowed to override a specified content-type, but IE does so regularly, and it's not exactly a secret. I was taught on day one of my first CGI programming class (which wasn't _that_ long ago, which is why I can remember) that IE does not handle text/plain correctly, so don't expect text resources to appear as intended to the end user.
try
$info info
and be treated to an excellent tutorial. All of the problems I have had with info stemmed from NOT reading the first page, which is really short. There seems to be some kind of "...skip over this shit, get me to the good stuff" attitude (which I am often guilty of) that prevents people from seeing introductions as informative. A man page that says 'look at the info page' is infinitely more useful to an inexperienced user than no man page at all, or worse, a link to "no useful man page exists, and yes, this is a bug." As for being shot down in flames, well, that's quite a lot better than being ignored, which is the normal penalty for asking questions in the wrong forum.
Not salient. The solution is not simple, or neat, or wrong. When was the last time you sat down with a pen and paper, wrote a letter to your congresscritter telling him/her why you were dissatisfied with how they voted on an issue, put in in an envelope, and sent it? When was the last time you walked out of a store with inane prices, but asked to see the manager to say why you were leaving? You might be an exception, though, so ask the person on your left these questions, then the person on your right.
Most people couldn't be bothered to blow their own nose.
Pi is
3.14159265358979323846265...
not
3.1415926535897932384629...
So no claim of 'roundoff error' accepted. Busted! Put your hands against the wall where we can see them...
Shiva H. Vishnu. Mangling my second favourite number like that.
This rant brought to you because (a) I was reading Tannenbaum last night writing about the history of computing (kill me now, I'm a geek), (b) recently I was involved in a discussion concerning correct quoting of The Jargon File, which is known to change over time, and (c) the number e asked me to.
captcha
waking life was a serious (and fun) mindfuck. nobody i know who has seen it thought it 'a little' anything. maybe i hang out with too many . everyone i saw it with had a _different_ favourite part, which seems a rare thing in filmmaking.
MODS: please mark me -1, Redundant.
Just in case you don't follow the other threads at the right threshold at the right time, you are not providing the same information - you are providing more. Do you think it's acceptable for the newspaper to be able to answer authoritatively "Which articles did reallocate look at?" cgenman addressed this earlier.
...is cheap. Is AdTI not able to hire competent secretarial staff? Ken Brown's reply borders on illiterate.
your optimism is refreshing. birdwatching may not be exempt.
Integrity means no holes. End of story.
The USA has engaged in aggressive war against Iraq and Afghanistan, and tortured and murdered soldiers who were disarmed. Quick check 1: Any sign of Osama yet? How about the alleged WMDs? Quick check 2: How many troops were sent to Afghanistan? Look it up, you wouldn't believe me. Now look up how many troops are in Iraq.
Now ask, who was alleged to have bombed the World Trade Center? Real mindfuck, hey? If you still want to live in the USA, it will not be because of some "high moral ground." As for your insinuation that muslims have the same rights as jews... it's so incorrect that if it wasn't so hurtful a notion, I'd laugh. The USA has begun using racial profiling at defacto interior borders. Do you get it? Hitler _would_ be proud.
I recently re-read 'The AWK Programming Language' (a predecessor of PERL), and so had strongly in mind that no implementation is infinite. But come on, a line with 20 000 fields? You need to talk to the people generating the data before expanding the language.
;)
Ummm... isn't that SCO?
Whoops, sorry. I saw your link as 'l***** bastards' on first glance.
The song didn't create or inspire them, though it may have given some a peg to hook their thoughts onto. Incompetent pedants have been with us since, umm, forever? when last I checked. And yes, I'm expecting to have my theory shot down by someone providing a citation to the contrary.
Someone modded this as Offtopic, and someone else marked it as underrated, but I believe it is a troll, in the usual sense: false information designed to fuck up newcomers, having the appearance of credibility.
Which OED did you refer to? I checked with Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the Concise OED, and (god the fucker's heavy!) the Shorter OED for 'vampyre' and none of them had it. While the ODEE is hardly thorough, and the Concise is just that, I can't see the Shorter OED leaving out an accepted alternate spelling of a common word. Really, it has an entry for "Jail, gaol"!. However, the possibility exists that you had the full 20 volume set just next to your computer...
Can you tell me what volume I'll find it in when I go out to the stacks to look at the full set?
I think you are mistaken.
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To compare the course of the current administration to past administrations in world history is hardly a knee-jerk activity. The underlying forces at work may differ, but the similarities are incontrovertible. Considering how things turned out in the past, fear is totally appropriate - though you mistakenly label it paranoia. If you are not frightened, I'd say you expect to be inducted into the 'elite few' in the new regime. Being mistaken on that point will lead you to heartbreak later.
Don't kid yourself that the USA will never jail (or execute) someone for making a publicly unkind comment about the government - just five years ago, would you have thought it possible that the FBI could be permitted to seize data about you from a third party without a warrant? Now think five years ahead about what you can't imagine now.
Done thinking? It could get even worse than that.
I'm so glad I don't live there. Have fun when the revolution comes, hope you're on the right side.
As an aside, that's a painful abuse of the word reactionary.
Secton 3.1:
you agree: (i) except as otherwise noted in Section 2.1 (Sample Code) to distribute the Redistributables only in object code form and in conjunction with and as a part of a software application product developed by you that adds significant and primary functionality to the Redistributables ("Licensee Software"); (ii) that the Redistributables only operate in conjunction with Microsoft Windows platforms;
I would not take it if they paid me, even if there were code samples included Other posts point out that no actual code is included, but that could change at any time. The paranoid part of me says they will, after a bit of early adoption and favourable review (except about the silly part where it says you're allowed to share code they didn't include, those crazy microsoft lawyers) they will then quietly begin including sample code that is library code...
It brings to mind a sig i saw a while ago to the effect of "the biggest hurdle microsoft has had in defending themselves is that they are massively, demonstrably guilty."
Personally, I suspected the OS/2 hackers.
once debian gets a non-crippleware installer, they will. K:}