klingons are irracional, fanatic, even dumb, and it's by no way credible that this kind of civilization would ever manage to build any kind of science or engineering.
I don't know. It seems to have worked out alright for the U.S.A.
Yes CSS helps a bit (although it came rather late).
It's not so much that it came late as that it was implemented late (and poorly). CSS1 has been a W3C recommendation since... oh, back in the day (1995?). A Microsoft internal memo that came out during the (first) anti-trust trial revealed a high-level directive to prevent "our pages from looking good in competitors' browsers." Of course, Netscape was far from blameless, as can be attested by anyone who has ever had to wrestle CSS into shape for NS 4.x browsers....
I don't know. Yellow Dog Linux is pretty slow on my Mac. Of course, that's not surprising since it's a Powermac 8500 running at 120MHz that I got on eBay for $60.... It probably wouldn't run OS X.:)
Speaking of Greek, if one were to come up with even simple OCR functionality for printed Ancient Greek, one could produce one hell of a database rather quickly. Christ, I've been waiting for ages for something like that. I've been reduced to entering things by hand because I don't want to shell out the bucks for commercial versions (Perseus Project, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae), which are aimed at libraries and run into the hundreds of dollars. Unlike most people, I actually need to search through all the works of Plato or all the tragedies of Euripides for instances of a given word. Given that Greek is an inflected language, however, this is only feasible with a massive dictionary database. *Sigh*
Come on, if you're going to call a GB quote "obligatory" here, it's gotta be this one:
Egon: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Venkman: What?
Egon: Don't cross the streams.
Venkman: Why?
Egon: It would be bad.
Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good-bad thing. Whattya mean "bad?"
Egon: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Ray: Total protonic reversal....
Venkman: Right, that's bad...OK.. important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
Please stop touting your self-diagnosed mild autism ("I think I have a touch of that; I've never really like to be around most people") as some kind of advantage. If you want to live a lonely life, own up to that choice; quit passing it off on your genes! And quit pretending your isolation makes you somehow "special."
Pretty soon, the global economy will undergo a significant "correction" whereby the specialness of (most) coders (like that of any other specialized trade in history) will be rendered irrelevant by advanced production techniques and cheap, relatively unskilled labor.
Whiz-bang genius coders, hackers, inventors, etc., will still exist, of course, and some of them will be social retards like you (-:...
It's nothing you'd ever need to turn off unless it was causing major problems (ie: crashes).
This is almost never a good argument, especially for a non-essential cruft-like feature like typeahead. It's infuriating to have application developers make decisions for you. Why don't we have a little more "opt-in" mentality? This "you don't need to turn that off" attitude is really infuriating.
There's a $199 Wal-Mart PC for the curious Mac users, where's the $199 Mac for curious PC users?
Funny you should ask that. I just bought an old PowerMac 8500 on eBay ($60), because I've been reading in mac newsgroups about super-cheap G3 and G4 upgrade cards. I'm going to buy a G3/500 Mhz card for $149, 256M RAM for about $50 (the box is expandable to 1G), and install Jaguar. So, for a little over $300 (if I get a discount on OS X), I'm going to have a new Mac that's almost as fast as this summer's iBooks.
Look, the reason there's so many hardware options available for x86-based PCs is because people have been hacking it for so long. It seems that sort of thing's beginning to happen with Apple hardware; give it a few years, and I think you'll see similar pricing.
The reason that PostgreSQL has a smaller share of the DB market than mySQL, despite being a more serious application, is obvious:
It has an ugly, unpronounceable name.
I get a warm, fuzzy feeling inside whenever I initiate a connection to a mySQL server. But when I go to the PostgreSQL site, I encounter a recording on the front page with an example of how to pronounce its name.
If the Feds go to Google and say "Give us all the cookies you've stored on people's computers" Google is going to say "Uh.. see, that's the thing about storing them on other people's computers.. we don't store them here."
Right, but your browser (typically) sends the cookie to Google every time you access one of their search pages.
Foolishly, perhaps, I followed your link to unix.net. I'm in a school computer lab, using IE 5.5. Some very nasty shit followed. Redirected to a page that spawned endless copies of the goatse.cx picture (I'd never seen it; I'm so glad that I was finally exposed to this thing that I've been avoiding all this time) and deposited a "Winbomb" virus in my diskspace.
Then, I tried it over telnet with an HTTP/1.0 GET and got nothing nasty. Used Opera, same shit (even with images, redirects and popups turned off: not well enough off, apparently). So I telneted an HTTP/1.1 GET, identifying the browser as MSIE 5.5, then I got a chain of redirects to the nastiness.
Except that he missed his one chance for a clever line.
When he's all beaten down by the barbarian tough guy in single combat, the barbarian is perplexed that he won't stop fighting and remarks:
You just won't give up will you? What do you believe in?
A bloodied Kevin Costner looks up from the ground into the face of death, and fails to respond:
I believe... in the United States Postal Service.
Instead, he said he believed in the USA. What a lame copout. Kevin Costner could have made one of the few truly existential American films (especially if the postal carriers were defeated; the only reasonable outcome). Instead, he opted for a lame expression of sentimental patriotism. Oh, well.
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A cruel blow! My analogy crumbles at the merest whiff of fact. Oh, well.
I don't know. It seems to have worked out alright for the U.S.A.
This has been Elmer Fudd weporting. We now weturn you to your wegular newscast.
Tchitcherine: `You mean thiophosphate, don't you?' Thinks indicating the presence of sulfur....
Wimpe: `I mean theophosphate, Vaslav,' indicating the Presence of God.
95 Kernel arguments? Yikes!!!
I'm sure you did. How about helping us out with a link or two?
TIA
It's not so much that it came late as that it was implemented late (and poorly). CSS1 has been a W3C recommendation since ... oh, back in the day (1995?). A Microsoft internal memo that came out during the (first) anti-trust trial revealed a high-level directive to prevent "our pages from looking good in competitors' browsers." Of course, Netscape was far from blameless, as can be attested by anyone who has ever had to wrestle CSS into shape for NS 4.x browsers....
I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.
I don't know. Yellow Dog Linux is pretty slow on my Mac. Of course, that's not surprising since it's a Powermac 8500 running at 120MHz that I got on eBay for $60.... It probably wouldn't run OS X. :)
Woohoo! First post (of mine) as a Linux user!
OK, I'm done complaining now.
Leave the fire by the door, and then enter the room. Much safer.
Sure, if by "fully functional" you mean "will not run those MS apps I installed Wine for in the first place."
Egon: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Venkman: What?
Egon: Don't cross the streams.
Venkman: Why?
Egon: It would be bad.
Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good-bad thing. Whattya mean "bad?"
Egon: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Ray: Total protonic reversal....
Venkman: Right, that's bad...OK.. important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
Pretty soon, the global economy will undergo a significant "correction" whereby the specialness of (most) coders (like that of any other specialized trade in history) will be rendered irrelevant by advanced production techniques and cheap, relatively unskilled labor.
Whiz-bang genius coders, hackers, inventors, etc., will still exist, of course, and some of them will be social retards like you (-: ...
...but don't let it go to your head!
This is almost never a good argument, especially for a non-essential cruft-like feature like typeahead. It's infuriating to have application developers make decisions for you. Why don't we have a little more "opt-in" mentality? This "you don't need to turn that off" attitude is really infuriating.
Funny you should ask that. I just bought an old PowerMac 8500 on eBay ($60), because I've been reading in mac newsgroups about super-cheap G3 and G4 upgrade cards. I'm going to buy a G3/500 Mhz card for $149, 256M RAM for about $50 (the box is expandable to 1G), and install Jaguar. So, for a little over $300 (if I get a discount on OS X), I'm going to have a new Mac that's almost as fast as this summer's iBooks.
Look, the reason there's so many hardware options available for x86-based PCs is because people have been hacking it for so long. It seems that sort of thing's beginning to happen with Apple hardware; give it a few years, and I think you'll see similar pricing.
There is a difference.
The reason that PostgreSQL has a smaller share of the DB market than mySQL, despite being a more serious application, is obvious:
It has an ugly, unpronounceable name.
I get a warm, fuzzy feeling inside whenever I initiate a connection to a mySQL server. But when I go to the PostgreSQL site, I encounter a recording on the front page with an example of how to pronounce its name.
Are you saying the food industry is suppressing Atkins because he is threatening there highest profit lines of business? That is baloney.
I had no idea that baloney was so profitable. I'm calling my stockbroker right now to invest in Oscar Meyer.
Right, but your browser (typically) sends the cookie to Google every time you access one of their search pages.
Finally? No:
OK, so it was the fifth or sixth one ... but it's still the finest code in these islands!
Put the fucking mod points in the basket!!!
The Wrath of Farrakhan That is all.
Foolishly, perhaps, I followed your link to unix.net. I'm in a school computer lab, using IE 5.5. Some very nasty shit followed. Redirected to a page that spawned endless copies of the goatse.cx picture (I'd never seen it; I'm so glad that I was finally exposed to this thing that I've been avoiding all this time) and deposited a "Winbomb" virus in my diskspace.
Then, I tried it over telnet with an HTTP/1.0 GET and got nothing nasty. Used Opera, same shit (even with images, redirects and popups turned off: not well enough off, apparently). So I telneted an HTTP/1.1 GET, identifying the browser as MSIE 5.5, then I got a chain of redirects to the nastiness.
Thanks, unix.net, for ruining my lunch.
Except that he missed his one chance for a clever line.
When he's all beaten down by the barbarian tough guy in single combat, the barbarian is perplexed that he won't stop fighting and remarks:
A bloodied Kevin Costner looks up from the ground into the face of death, and fails to respond:
Instead, he said he believed in the USA. What a lame copout. Kevin Costner could have made one of the few truly existential American films (especially if the postal carriers were defeated; the only reasonable outcome). Instead, he opted for a lame expression of sentimental patriotism. Oh, well.
Other advantages:
In short, the Imperial Probe Droid is an excellent tool for uncovering hidden rebel bases.