you're thinking perhaps of C? in which case they should really shorten up the name, because "Identrifiers with external links may be more restricted; implementations may make as few as the first six characters significant." (K+R, appendix A2.3)
i have to agree with 0x0d0a. however stylish it might be, which will vary wildly from person to person, mezzoblue.com fails it spectacularly in the accessibility department. example: the idea they seemed to have had at one point was "OK, if the user has a rollover menu already showing from the second row, disable showing a rollover menu from the third row."
so... let's assume i'm running...oh, any common browser. i click on the "File" menu when i actually wanted the "Edit" menu (either because it's close to the "Edit" menu or i am having a brainfart). now i cannot access the "Edit" menu at all, and i'm not being told why. until i figure out that i have to (and how to) close the file menu, i'm sunk in the water. without moving your mouse and experimenting, tell me - how would you (a) display _your_ browser's "File" menu [trivial] and then (b) make that menu not visible again? no fair touching your mouse before answering this to your own satisfaction.[not trivial]
It took me a minute to figure this out, _when i was _forewarned_ that there was bad menu shit happening. given that, and such a choice quote as
See, the way I see it, CSS is about font control. You can manipulate things like your leading, text color, and font face. That's about all it gets you.
i will not be hiring this guy for _any_ website or application design work any time soon. fitts' laws rules ok, dave?
Stunned cow is more like it. i'm running mozilla 1.0.0 on Debian and instead of a download I got
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Setup detected that you are running:Solaris
It is recommended that you download:
Windows Media Player 6.3
Total Size:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01f4'
Variable is undefined: 'L_size12_Text'
/windows/windowsmedia/9Series/d ownload/download.asp, line 574
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I'm not sure I want to download a file so large they need a special font to show me its size in bytes.
So is this an indication of how much thought they are putting out to get developers to switch to MicroSoft Windows?
logically, this would suggest SPI. afterwards, i suspect they will rewrite the vrms package... /shudder /shudder again
ifn i'm right you can cough up kudos, but AFTER you make your donation.
i never thought i would quote linus torvalds, but in this case, you are a weasel.
you're right to say that the GPL does not have the word 'obfuscate' in it.
you're wrong in that code obfuscation is deliberately making something into an unpreferred form, namely, a form where it is not clear what the hell is going on, and hence effective/correct changes are difficult to make. how much more explcit do you want it to be?
as analogy (and normally i hate argument by analogy, it substitutes intuition for proof) no law (where i am, at least) explicitly forbids you from pointing a loaded firearm in my direction, either, but it's not something you're allowed to do (where i am, at least), and something that even morons can figure out you're not supposed to do, which is why they're not locked up.
given the date, i think that tvi has no basis for such a claim. seriously, this was elementary, 30 seconds with google. do they not have internet connections at the ustpo?
Silly me, this is slashdot. Last bastion of Leninist ideology
uhhh, no, really. you must be thinking of these guys. slashdot is the last bastion of... ummm... overloading innocent servers. lennin wouldn't know a 404 from a 503.
sure, it's a serious, non-trivial patent, just of something that appears to have been around for decades.
your dictionary needs to update the entry for 'significant'. if you re-read the article, you'll see
Last year, counterfeiters turned out $44 million in U.S. currency...
that's about USD 0.15 per person last year. yes, cash based businesses are going to be targeted, because that is what is being faked - cash!
after a little digging, i came up with the hypothesis that most small, cash based stores will be more concerned with
shoplifting and its ilk. USD 31 billion / 290,342,554 --> ~ $106 per person per year, which should... ummm... overshadow 15 cents per person per year.
don't confuse significant concern (businesses do, after all, have to justify and/or mitigate all expenses) with significant cost.
hold on, have you used MacsBug? command-power drops you into assembly language level debugging, with symbolics, and audio cds carry on playing. then type 'Scream' to look at individual threads...
because (i) if you take it as a latin word, it's a mass noun (akin to collective nouns in english) and is already plural for all intents and purposes. hint: what is the plural of "air" as in the stuff you breathe and not as in attitude? you have fifteen minutes to answer... and (ii) if you take it as an english word, the correct plural form of a word ending in "s" is normally the same word with an 'es' suffix. the end result is that saying "virii" makes you look like a wannabe pedant.
a little learning is a dangerous thing
drink deep, or taste not the pierian spring
there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain
and drinking largely sobers us again.
(sorry, pope, if i got that wrong)
Does sending little Timmy off to day-care make society a better place? It's made us richer, and unfortunately that seems to be the only metric.
exactly, with money as the only metric, things are, well, guaranteed to go downhill, the exxon valdez tanker fiasco added to your GNP and mine. according to the money viewpoint, it was _fabulous_ for everyone (except maybe exxon and their insurance agent). think about that the next time you're listening to any economist.
At least with Windows Update, the user can be assured that they will get a secure untrojaned binary.
this was modded funny, and it is, but here's a piece of fear for you...(i) do you know WU's IP address off the top of your head? (ii) if you have been compromised, do you trust your hosts file contents? how about the contents of update itself? it wouldn't take a lot, once a box is rooted, to keep it that way and have a dummy process spawn when the owner updates. heck, it would be a great time to download most of their hard drive, they're expecting a lot of bandwidth useage and hard drive activity when they run update, right? and does _your_ hard drive have separate lights for read and for write?
you are so uninformed it's not funny.
sure, red had has decided that there's more money to be made in serving businesses rather than individuals, but the OS itself is still free, and they still offer time limited demo accounts, AND there's always debian if you want free as in beer.
and if i see this "interesting" in metamod, it is going down in flames.
How is fully posting comments made by the citizens freely "Anti-Free speech ?
ok, would you kindly post your name, address, and email in reply?
still feel free?
no script any time soon, for someone's email address included in the body of an email is not a 'field'. (and how, exactly, is it dumb to put your email address in your email, aside from the extra bandwidth?) do _you_ want to write the perl script that takes out all email addresses in all messages, except for all of those ones that are (and should be) publicly known, OR are germane to the message, wherever they may appear in the message? i'm not volunteering for that one. the only way i'd tackle that coding job is if i had an exorbitant government contract ($300/hr for each team member would be about right) because i'm sure the scope creep would be...extensive.
i don't know the answer to this for i do not own a windows box, but from the looks of it there's a _lot_ of people who could answer this question:
how easy is it to change your user-agent header in windows browsers?
on classic macs, it's trivial if you're familiar with ResEdit, but whether ResEdit is trivial or not is another story! in Konquerer, it's a blazing large icon on the lower left when you select "Configure Konquerer".
i don't think i'm unique in having occasion where having a different user-agent header makes life easier, though my willingness to dig into the issue instead of giving in might be rarer.
i had cause to learn this when my school's registration web site decided to tell me that my browser (netscape 4.7 at the time) wasn't able to do their website. what, Netscape 4.7 can't do HTML and forms? sounds like bullshit to me! how _do_ they know what browser i'm using, anyways? and thus began the unwelcome lesson.
yah, they exist - in some ways, it sounds like a heck of a lot of fun to come up with situations for other people to solve. did he have to come up with solutions, too?
my all time favourite in terms of simplicity and effectiveness was liddy's article in OMNI magazine, 1981? 1983? called "The Rules of the Game" where he outlined a strike against electrical infrastructure on an extremely low budget in terms of manpower, hardware, and time. I recall pausing to think of what some of the bad effects of that would be, and coming up with some horrible images. as i read on, liddy showed that what i had thought of as worst-case was more likely a fairy tale ending.
since up until Sept 11th noone thought anyone would *willingly* crash the plane.
jeepers, how young are you?
the secret service has actively planned for such eventualities since the 1970's,. and...oh, anyone remember the Eifel Tower in 1994? anyone? anyone? bueller? hold on, 1994, even better than that from 1994, Frank Corder.
no one thought. riiiight.
the rest of your post was quite nice, though.
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Your sig (People who take sigs seriously need to get a life.) has me baffled.
you're thinking perhaps of C? in which case they should really shorten up the name, because "Identrifiers with external links may be more restricted; implementations may make as few as the first six characters significant." (K+R, appendix A2.3)
so... let's assume i'm running...oh, any common browser. i click on the "File" menu when i actually wanted the "Edit" menu (either because it's close to the "Edit" menu or i am having a brainfart). now i cannot access the "Edit" menu at all, and i'm not being told why. until i figure out that i have to (and how to) close the file menu, i'm sunk in the water. without moving your mouse and experimenting, tell me - how would you (a) display _your_ browser's "File" menu [trivial] and then (b) make that menu not visible again? no fair touching your mouse before answering this to your own satisfaction.[not trivial]
It took me a minute to figure this out, _when i was _forewarned_ that there was bad menu shit happening. given that, and such a choice quote as i will not be hiring this guy for _any_ website or application design work any time soon. fitts' laws rules ok, dave?
Isn't it more traditional to do that from orbit?
--
Setup detected that you are running:Solaris
It is recommended that you download:
Windows Media Player 6.3
Total Size:--
I'm not sure I want to download a file so large they need a special font to show me its size in bytes.
So is this an indication of how much thought they are putting out to get developers to switch to MicroSoft Windows?
pleeeease don't...i hate doing GCS tests on unconscious people, even when i know the mechanism of injury.
logically, this would suggest SPI. afterwards, i suspect they will rewrite the vrms package...
/shudder
/shudder again
ifn i'm right you can cough up kudos, but AFTER you make your donation.
...and me with mod points.
i never thought i would quote linus torvalds, but in this case, you are a weasel.
you're right to say that the GPL does not have the word 'obfuscate' in it.
you're wrong in that code obfuscation is deliberately making something into an unpreferred form, namely, a form where it is not clear what the hell is going on, and hence effective/correct changes are difficult to make. how much more explcit do you want it to be?
as analogy (and normally i hate argument by analogy, it substitutes intuition for proof) no law (where i am, at least) explicitly forbids you from pointing a loaded firearm in my direction, either, but it's not something you're allowed to do (where i am, at least), and something that even morons can figure out you're not supposed to do, which is why they're not locked up.
damn ac's...such a necessary evil...
given the date, i think that tvi has no basis for such a claim.
seriously, this was elementary, 30 seconds with google. do they not have internet connections at the ustpo?
Section 10.5.4 suggests
/* xxx */
would be more appropriate than
**FIXME**
since your sig does actually work.
sure, it's a serious, non-trivial patent, just of something that appears to have been around for decades.
your dictionary needs to update the entry for 'significant'. if you re-read the article, you'll see that's about USD 0.15 per person last year. yes, cash based businesses are going to be targeted, because that is what is being faked - cash!
after a little digging, i came up with the hypothesis that most small, cash based stores will be more concerned with shoplifting and its ilk. USD 31 billion / 290,342,554 --> ~ $106 per person per year, which should... ummm... overshadow 15 cents per person per year.
don't confuse significant concern (businesses do, after all, have to justify and/or mitigate all expenses) with significant cost.
the recipient's ISP is also a recipient, and they usually pay by the gig but cannot normally pass that cost on to the customer...
hold on, have you used MacsBug? command-power drops you into assembly language level debugging, with symbolics, and audio cds carry on playing. then type 'Scream' to look at individual threads...
you are so right. i sit chastised, and edified.
those folk at debian don't move _THAT_ fast...you'll need to dostable won't be till november. *_~
because (i) if you take it as a latin word, it's a mass noun (akin to collective nouns in english) and is already plural for all intents and purposes. hint: what is the plural of "air" as in the stuff you breathe and not as in attitude? you have fifteen minutes to answer... and (ii) if you take it as an english word, the correct plural form of a word ending in "s" is normally the same word with an 'es' suffix. the end result is that saying "virii" makes you look like a wannabe pedant.
a little learning is a dangerous thing
drink deep, or taste not the pierian spring
there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain
and drinking largely sobers us again.
(sorry, pope, if i got that wrong)
i'd like to see debbie murdock's or ian murdock's desktop. they'e made so many available for the rest of the world... .
you are so uninformed it's not funny.
sure, red had has decided that there's more money to be made in serving businesses rather than individuals, but the OS itself is still free, and they still offer time limited demo accounts, AND there's always debian if you want free as in beer.
and if i see this "interesting" in metamod, it is going down in flames.
How is fully posting comments made by the citizens freely "Anti-Free speech ?
ok, would you kindly post your name, address, and email in reply?
still feel free?
no script any time soon, for someone's email address included in the body of an email is not a 'field'. (and how, exactly, is it dumb to put your email address in your email, aside from the extra bandwidth?) do _you_ want to write the perl script that takes out all email addresses in all messages, except for all of those ones that are (and should be) publicly known, OR are germane to the message, wherever they may appear in the message?
i'm not volunteering for that one. the only way i'd tackle that coding job is if i had an exorbitant government contract ($300/hr for each team member would be about right) because i'm sure the scope creep would be...extensive.
i don't know the answer to this for i do not own a windows box, but from the looks of it there's a _lot_ of people who could answer this question:
how easy is it to change your user-agent header in windows browsers?
on classic macs, it's trivial if you're familiar with ResEdit, but whether ResEdit is trivial or not is another story! in Konquerer, it's a blazing large icon on the lower left when you select "Configure Konquerer".
i don't think i'm unique in having occasion where having a different user-agent header makes life easier, though my willingness to dig into the issue instead of giving in might be rarer.
i had cause to learn this when my school's registration web site decided to tell me that my browser (netscape 4.7 at the time) wasn't able to do their website. what, Netscape 4.7 can't do HTML and forms? sounds like bullshit to me! how _do_ they know what browser i'm using, anyways? and thus began the unwelcome lesson.
yah, they exist - in some ways, it sounds like a heck of a lot of fun to come up with situations for other people to solve. did he have to come up with solutions, too?
my all time favourite in terms of simplicity and effectiveness was liddy's article in OMNI magazine, 1981? 1983? called "The Rules of the Game" where he outlined a strike against electrical infrastructure on an extremely low budget in terms of manpower, hardware, and time. I recall pausing to think of what some of the bad effects of that would be, and coming up with some horrible images. as i read on, liddy showed that what i had thought of as worst-case was more likely a fairy tale ending.
jeepers, how young are you?
the secret service has actively planned for such eventualities since the 1970's,. and...oh, anyone remember the Eifel Tower in 1994? anyone? anyone? bueller?
hold on, 1994, even better than that from 1994, Frank Corder.
no one thought. riiiight.
the rest of your post was quite nice, though.