Yes it's "legal". I didn't claim that the W3C wasn't following their own standard. I claimed that after years of forcing people to come up with alternate text for every image, the W3C now implicitly admits that there is a legitimate need for "no alternate text" in some cases.
Omitting the ALT attribute when you have nothing to say about the image would be less wasteful and much more elegant than having to write ALT="".
I have chronic tendonitis in my wrists (I think of it as incipient carpal tunnel syndrome)
anonymous reader: My wrists hurt! doctor: Let me see... anonymous reader: (I hope it's carpal tunnel syndrome, I hope it's carpal tunnel syndrome...) doctor: You have chronic tendonitis in your wrists. anonymous reader: Is this the same as CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME? doctor: No. anonymous reader: Can I think of it as INCIPIENT carpal tunnel syndrome? doctor: Not really. anonymous reader: But it's possible? doctor: Not in my opinion. anonymous reader: But everyone is entitled to their opinion, right? doctor: That's what they say. anonymous reader: Ok thanks doc!!
(1) landing all the probes at the same location because of a slim chance that they can help each other, or (2) land them all across the planet so you can learn more.
JanMark from slashdot would like (1), but it looks like the rockets scientists chose (2).
Because of the curvature of the Earth the shortest path between San Francisco and Tokyo goes as high as 48 N. So going through the Bering strait wouldn't be too much of a detour, and connecting Japan to mainland Asia isn't laughably hard. Check a map, or better yet, a globe.
4 days and no mention on RSA's website?
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They're busy multiplying the two 87-digit factors by hand, just to be sure.
I would prefer to use an electronic key that when interfaced with an ATM will happily raise any given number to my secret exponent modulo my public key.
For each transaction, my bank will send a random challenge to the ATM that only my electronic key can solve.
There are two doors. The door to your right leads to SIP, and the salvation of Redmond. The door to the left leads back to the matrix, to XMPP, and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic, and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple, and obvious truth: XMPP is going to die, and there is nothing that you can do to stop it.
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The metric system?
Yes it's "legal". I didn't claim that the W3C wasn't following their own standard. I claimed that after years of forcing people to come up with alternate text for every image, the W3C now implicitly admits that there is a legitimate need for "no alternate text" in some cases.
Omitting the ALT attribute when you have nothing to say about the image would be less wasteful and much more elegant than having to write ALT="".
You mean the people who force us to put one ALT attribute for each IMG tag, but have 8 ALT="" on their own web page?
Who really cares about their recommendations?
A way more fun way to solve x = 1+1/x:
On a calculator:
1) start with any number
2) press [1/x] [+] [1] [=]
3) GOTO 2
In other words this converges to the golden ratio! It takes a while, so normally you do this when you're bored.
- The number of chess moves is at most 218.
- The number of chess positions is estimated to be between 10^43 and 10^50.
- The number of chess games is infinite, as the 50-move rule and the draw by repetition of position don't apply if no player makes the claim.
- The game tree complexity is about 10^123. That's the number of chess games you may have to consider to play perfect chess.
Source: http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChessI have chronic tendonitis in my wrists (I think of it as incipient carpal tunnel syndrome)
anonymous reader: My wrists hurt!
doctor: Let me see...
anonymous reader: (I hope it's carpal tunnel syndrome, I hope it's carpal tunnel syndrome...)
doctor: You have chronic tendonitis in your wrists.
anonymous reader: Is this the same as CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME?
doctor: No.
anonymous reader: Can I think of it as INCIPIENT carpal tunnel syndrome?
doctor: Not really.
anonymous reader: But it's possible?
doctor: Not in my opinion.
anonymous reader: But everyone is entitled to their opinion, right?
doctor: That's what they say.
anonymous reader: Ok thanks doc!!
[...] preventing e-mail forgeries
[...] In addition, AOL last year forged an alliance with Yahoo, Microsoft and EarthLink
Why is it ok to forge an alliance, but not ok to forge an e-mail?
Here's a nice way. Before someone can send some mail, he has to get some exponent from mersenne.org which needs double-checking, run the primality test and report the low order 64 bits of the final S_{P-2} value, called a residue. If that value matches the value that mersenne.org expects, then the mail goes through.
Nice deterrent for spam, and as a side-effect one more Mersenne exponent has been double-checked.
Unbelievable.
I hope I get it.
Let's hope NASA never name a rover "Egg".
"Adobe Photoshop CS: $649.00, $0.00 after rebate"
"Print your own US$649.00 rebate in CASH on the included currency paper sheets."
You have the choice between:
(1) landing all the probes at the same location because of a slim chance that they can help each other, or
(2) land them all across the planet so you can learn more.
JanMark from slashdot would like (1), but it looks like the rockets scientists chose (2).
Or they could add a friendly animated pop-up assistant to teach people how to use the file selector step by step. A cuddly gnu would do fine.
...can someone get karma by reposting the *unique* link of the slashdot story.
How about a "female-only" approach? I suggest that we try both approaches at the same time to see which one works best.
His only hope to get out of this is if 2,000,001 slashdotters come forward to collect the prize.
$10,000 / 2,000,001 = 0.49999975 cents each, which will get rounded to 0 for everyone.
Because of the curvature of the Earth the shortest path between San Francisco and Tokyo goes as high as 48 N. So going through the Bering strait wouldn't be too much of a detour, and connecting Japan to mainland Asia isn't laughably hard. Check a map, or better yet, a globe.
They're busy multiplying the two 87-digit factors by hand, just to be sure.
I would prefer to use an electronic key that when interfaced with an ATM will happily raise any given number to my secret exponent modulo my public key.
For each transaction, my bank will send a random challenge to the ATM that only my electronic key can solve.
If strcmp says that two strings are different, but you say that they mean the same thing, then the problem is with your language, not with strcmp.
Tablet computers hold great promise, especially for medical applications. But the current models are still way too large to swallow.
There are two doors. The door to your right leads to SIP, and the salvation of Redmond. The door to the left leads back to the matrix, to XMPP, and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic, and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple, and obvious truth: XMPP is going to die, and there is nothing that you can do to stop it.
Yes, smart children will set the device down, but *geek* children will wrap the device in tin-foil and continue to play with it.
Toilet breaks? To enjoy the full experience of a non-stop 10-hour immersion, *real* LOTR fans will prefer this solution