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That's how it currently works for me, though. I'm not sure what you're saying. If I middle-click on a link (with or without clipboard content) it opens that URL in another tab. If I click elsewhere it opens the contents of the clipboard in that current tab. Isn't that doing both?
Yes, that is a fair comment. The good infrastructures tend to split the customisable 'manual' code away from the autogen stuff, but if you have to tweak the autogen result then yes it can get messy.
I have no experience with Ruby or RoR but I am a software engineer like many people here and I would like to stick up for automatic code generation. Modern software is extremely complex and even when excellently designed and implemented by a skilled person or team it is still subject to faults. Automatic code generation, when done properly, is an excellent way to reduce the effort and risk associated with creating certain types of complex systems. A classic example is a parser - hand writing parsers can be done, of course, but they can be notoriously difficult to test and small grammar changes can upset the entire structure of the parser. In this situation, automatic code generation is not only useful, it's also safer and more reliable. If you have to change the grammar, you just reconstruct the parser code.
A compiler is a form of automatic code generation - you don't compile your source by hand, usually, you let the compiler do it. The compiler becomes a cornerstone of your industry and is trusted perhaps far beyond what it really deserves. But the important thing is that it is hopefully consistent and can compile to a lower form much more accurately and faster than you or I or anyone can. You can make large scale higher-level changes without worrying too much about the effects of these at the lower level.
Unfortunately all generalisations fail when you talk about specifics and the implications of this don't need stating, but I think it's unwise to say 'automatic code generation sets off alarm bells' when it is more accurate to think 'writing it manually should set off alarm bells' for many implementations.
The 'advertised' price and the actual price (on the pump) differed by a factor of 10. I would have thought it was plainly obvious something was wrong, and since petrol has NEVER been 14c a litre in NZ you'd have to be either totally inattentive or extremely dim to not realise there was a mistake. To come back to the pump repeatedly and draw petrol over and over at this price is clearly immoral and under NZ law it appears to be illegal too. But I'm not a lawyer either and besides we tend to operate on Common Sense here which works quite well usually. Other countries should try it sometime.
Just wondering, is it legal in most US states to exploit a bug in an ATM (automated transaction machine) and withdraw more funds than are deducted from your account? I think the Police are treating this NZ petrol incident as a similar thing, but I'm not sure I agree with that.
I think the point is, it's painfully obvious a mistake was made and some customers took advantage of that. With recent petrol price increases the pressure has been getting to a lot of people here. I think that's the point. I don't know what the outcome with the Police is - I think we're all still waiting to hear.
Oh, and I wasn't saying it was similar to the iPod story, I was saying it was similar to another petrol-related story posted by someone else. I agree, it's a different thing.
The price was obviously wrong ($0.14 rather than $1.40 or somesuch) and some people had obviously come back several times in the space of a few hours to take advantage of the mistake, which is illegal. I just located the story on www.nzherald.co.nz - unfortunately, to view the story requires a paid subscription:(
Ah, here's the story on a very unlikely site. There was a follow up a few days later outlining Police action but I can't find that archived anywhere.
Wellington - A New Zealand oil company appealed on Thursday to 50 motorists who bought petrol at a give-away price after a worker put a decimal point in the wrong place on a self-service pump to come forward and pay the full amount.
The Challenge service station at Riwaka, near the South Island city of Nelson, sold petrol at 14,9 New Zealand cents (about 70 cents) a litre for two days in October when an employee set the wrong price on an automatic dispenser which took electronic payment cards.
Challenge placed an advertisement in the Nelson Evening Mail on Thursday asking drivers who benefited to come forward and pay the additional NZ$1,34 a litre they should have paid.
"We're upset, really," the station's owner Jeff Roger told the paper.
'We're upset, really' "Some people have got the fuel and just come back several times knowing the machine is wrong."
He said drivers had until Saturday to pay up before their electronic account details were given to the police, who said they could face theft charges because they knew they could not legally fill their tanks for about NZ$7. - Sapa-dpa
This happened recently in New Zealand - a petrol (gas) station attendant accidentally put the decimal place in the wrong position. After a few days, the mistake was discovered but not before some 50 people had taken clear advantage of it. The owner appealed to the local population to own up and offered an amnesty. A few took it up but most did not. The rest were traced through their EFTPOS records or security camera and are facing criminal charges.
The interesting thing is that a price typo is not sufficient to force a sale. The seller is always permitted to decide whom they wish to sell to, and at what price. What is illegal is to intentionally advertise a sale price that you will not meet, which isn't the case in this situation. I'm surprised people don't realise this - price slip-ups do not entitle you to anything.
This expansion to RCT3 apparently has in-game billboards that can show ads (from Massive IIRC). I am not a fan of in-game ads at all, even in concept, so I have refrained from purchasing this expansion. I hear you can block the ads with your firewall but I simply can't be bothered.
It's not just about disappearing dye, it's also about the dye binding correctly with the surfactant so that the bubble appears uniformly coloured. Also, doesn't disappearing ink have to dry first??
How is this going to work for countries like New Zealand where we have our own ratings that are determined after publication? It can't be encoded on the disc for obvious reasons, and games are sometimes re-rated if published in Australia (e.g. they don't have an R18 rating, but NZ does. R18 games in Australia are banned. R18 games in NZ are restricted sale).
New Zealand has a dedicated e-crimes division. They employ some very smart people with experience in all kinds of systems, including *NIX and Mac. They would certainly know what has to be done with an encryption key.
Beware if you come to New Zealand and are arrested over your HDD. The defense of Not Incriminating Yourself no longer applies to electronic encryption and passwords and you will be charged with something like obstructing justice or worse. My understanding is you could end up in prison for twelve months simply by refusing to decrypt your data.
The "90 days" in this context might be singular if he was insisting the words "ninety days" be part of the legislation. However if he is actually asking for ninety days then it's plural.
I have rockbox running on my iRiver H120 - mp3 and gapless Ogg Vorbis playback, FM stereo, recording, lots of other stuff. Rockbox is completely open-source and under active development (it was originally written for some of the Archos players). Compared to the stock iRiver firmware, the Rockbox effort is better in almost every single way. Bravo to the Rockbox developers!
Another great thing is that I can (and have) dive into the source if I want to tweak something, like a default or a level multiplier.
Gorm isn't a desktop environment - it's a development tool like Glade or Hypercard (I think - never used that, but I have used Pythoncard) and is used to design GUIs for the GNUStep environment. The power of this environment is in Objective C and the closely related NEXT libraries, which provide a well-designed framework for developing consistent interfaces and code.
If you want to know what a GNU/NEXTStep environment sort-of looks like, try the 'windowmaker' window manager.
I thought this was more widely known? The answer is meant to be correct (in base 13 arithmetic) but the base hadn't converged to ten at the time the question was 'read' so it was dismissed as useless by Ford.
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That's how it currently works for me, though. I'm not sure what you're saying. If I middle-click on a link (with or without clipboard content) it opens that URL in another tab. If I click elsewhere it opens the contents of the clipboard in that current tab. Isn't that doing both?
I guess it would make a good Firefox reference for those people who do not have Internet access...
Fixed? It's not broken. I *rely* on this feature. It's incredibly useful.
Yes, that is a fair comment. The good infrastructures tend to split the customisable 'manual' code away from the autogen stuff, but if you have to tweak the autogen result then yes it can get messy.
I have no experience with Ruby or RoR but I am a software engineer like many people here and I would like to stick up for automatic code generation. Modern software is extremely complex and even when excellently designed and implemented by a skilled person or team it is still subject to faults. Automatic code generation, when done properly, is an excellent way to reduce the effort and risk associated with creating certain types of complex systems. A classic example is a parser - hand writing parsers can be done, of course, but they can be notoriously difficult to test and small grammar changes can upset the entire structure of the parser. In this situation, automatic code generation is not only useful, it's also safer and more reliable. If you have to change the grammar, you just reconstruct the parser code.
A compiler is a form of automatic code generation - you don't compile your source by hand, usually, you let the compiler do it. The compiler becomes a cornerstone of your industry and is trusted perhaps far beyond what it really deserves. But the important thing is that it is hopefully consistent and can compile to a lower form much more accurately and faster than you or I or anyone can. You can make large scale higher-level changes without worrying too much about the effects of these at the lower level.
Unfortunately all generalisations fail when you talk about specifics and the implications of this don't need stating, but I think it's unwise to say 'automatic code generation sets off alarm bells' when it is more accurate to think 'writing it manually should set off alarm bells' for many implementations.
The 'advertised' price and the actual price (on the pump) differed by a factor of 10. I would have thought it was plainly obvious something was wrong, and since petrol has NEVER been 14c a litre in NZ you'd have to be either totally inattentive or extremely dim to not realise there was a mistake. To come back to the pump repeatedly and draw petrol over and over at this price is clearly immoral and under NZ law it appears to be illegal too. But I'm not a lawyer either and besides we tend to operate on Common Sense here which works quite well usually. Other countries should try it sometime.
Just wondering, is it legal in most US states to exploit a bug in an ATM (automated transaction machine) and withdraw more funds than are deducted from your account? I think the Police are treating this NZ petrol incident as a similar thing, but I'm not sure I agree with that.
I think the point is, it's painfully obvious a mistake was made and some customers took advantage of that. With recent petrol price increases the pressure has been getting to a lot of people here. I think that's the point. I don't know what the outcome with the Police is - I think we're all still waiting to hear.
It was a self-serve station - that's credit cards and EFTPOS only. No cash.
Oh, and I wasn't saying it was similar to the iPod story, I was saying it was similar to another petrol-related story posted by someone else. I agree, it's a different thing.
I don't know how the sign vs. pump consideration applies here. The price was obviously a mistake. Please see my reply to a sibling post.
The price was obviously wrong ($0.14 rather than $1.40 or somesuch) and some people had obviously come back several times in the space of a few hours to take advantage of the mistake, which is illegal. I just located the story on www.nzherald.co.nz - unfortunately, to view the story requires a paid subscription :(
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Ah, here's the story on a very unlikely site. There was a follow up a few days later outlining Police action but I can't find that archived anywhere.
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click
November 03 2005 at 04:22AM
Wellington - A New Zealand oil company appealed on Thursday to 50 motorists who bought petrol at a give-away price after a worker put a decimal point in the wrong place on a self-service pump to come forward and pay the full amount.
The Challenge service station at Riwaka, near the South Island city of Nelson, sold petrol at 14,9 New Zealand cents (about 70 cents) a litre for two days in October when an employee set the wrong price on an automatic dispenser which took electronic payment cards.
Challenge placed an advertisement in the Nelson Evening Mail on Thursday asking drivers who benefited to come forward and pay the additional NZ$1,34 a litre they should have paid.
"We're upset, really," the station's owner Jeff Roger told the paper.
'We're upset, really'
"Some people have got the fuel and just come back several times knowing the machine is wrong."
He said drivers had until Saturday to pay up before their electronic account details were given to the police, who said they could face theft charges because they knew they could not legally fill their tanks for about NZ$7. - Sapa-dpa
This happened recently in New Zealand - a petrol (gas) station attendant accidentally put the decimal place in the wrong position. After a few days, the mistake was discovered but not before some 50 people had taken clear advantage of it. The owner appealed to the local population to own up and offered an amnesty. A few took it up but most did not. The rest were traced through their EFTPOS records or security camera and are facing criminal charges.
The interesting thing is that a price typo is not sufficient to force a sale. The seller is always permitted to decide whom they wish to sell to, and at what price. What is illegal is to intentionally advertise a sale price that you will not meet, which isn't the case in this situation. I'm surprised people don't realise this - price slip-ups do not entitle you to anything.
This expansion to RCT3 apparently has in-game billboards that can show ads (from Massive IIRC). I am not a fan of in-game ads at all, even in concept, so I have refrained from purchasing this expansion. I hear you can block the ads with your firewall but I simply can't be bothered.
It's not just about disappearing dye, it's also about the dye binding correctly with the surfactant so that the bubble appears uniformly coloured. Also, doesn't disappearing ink have to dry first??
Branch? Nintendo have branches?! In that case my 'local' one is a 3 hour jet flight to Sydney I suspect....
How is this going to work for countries like New Zealand where we have our own ratings that are determined after publication? It can't be encoded on the disc for obvious reasons, and games are sometimes re-rated if published in Australia (e.g. they don't have an R18 rating, but NZ does. R18 games in Australia are banned. R18 games in NZ are restricted sale).
New Zealand has a dedicated e-crimes division. They employ some very smart people with experience in all kinds of systems, including *NIX and Mac. They would certainly know what has to be done with an encryption key.
You know, that stopped being clever or funny in the mid 1980's.
Which is exactly what I said two posts up... :)
Beware if you come to New Zealand and are arrested over your HDD. The defense of Not Incriminating Yourself no longer applies to electronic encryption and passwords and you will be charged with something like obstructing justice or worse. My understanding is you could end up in prison for twelve months simply by refusing to decrypt your data.
The "90 days" in this context might be singular if he was insisting the words "ninety days" be part of the legislation. However if he is actually asking for ninety days then it's plural.
I have rockbox running on my iRiver H120 - mp3 and gapless Ogg Vorbis playback, FM stereo, recording, lots of other stuff. Rockbox is completely open-source and under active development (it was originally written for some of the Archos players). Compared to the stock iRiver firmware, the Rockbox effort is better in almost every single way. Bravo to the Rockbox developers!
Another great thing is that I can (and have) dive into the source if I want to tweak something, like a default or a level multiplier.
Gorm isn't a desktop environment - it's a development tool like Glade or Hypercard (I think - never used that, but I have used Pythoncard) and is used to design GUIs for the GNUStep environment. The power of this environment is in Objective C and the closely related NEXT libraries, which provide a well-designed framework for developing consistent interfaces and code.
If you want to know what a GNU/NEXTStep environment sort-of looks like, try the 'windowmaker' window manager.
I thought this was more widely known? The answer is meant to be correct (in base 13 arithmetic) but the base hadn't converged to ten at the time the question was 'read' so it was dismissed as useless by Ford.