and for all other effects write your own functions just like always (copy/paste from your personal library and adapt)
Or you just do exactly what digg does and take your own javascript library and include everything you possibly can do "just in case". I'm actually surprised kitchenSink.js isn't included.
This is just an example from the standard front screen of digg without any cookies or logins to concern itself with.
Where will the grey goo get _energy_ from to be such a big threat? Solar energy isn't that great a source of energy.
Supposing someone put up a big satellite with a magnifying glass to amplify the available solar energy? I guess then they would have enough to take over the world faster;)
I tend to take the opposite view to life on Mars (and other planets/moons). I assume there will be "life" in most places. Just look around this great varied Earth of ours. In the furthest reaches, in the darkest depths and the most impossible places we find that it flourishes.
We have barely begun to look around on Mars and we certainly haven't dug far below the surface, give it time and I think we will find it.
Why is this insightful? The guy is making a perfectly valid point.
All the people whining about dupes need to chill out cos you lot will also be the first to complain if you dare to miss the front page for a day or so.
I'm a paying subscriber and you know what I normally do if I notice a story I've seen before?
This is the final update, they have NOT been able to recover the data. If you read you post, they were calling in the recovery speciallists to try and get it back.
They failed, its game over for recovering anything.
Don't they already fire ICBM's into space nowadays? Those are build specifically for the purpose, however wasting all the cargo space on radioactive waste and not using the rocket for anything else would be such a waste.
Its still very expensive per pound of mass to get into space.
More than likely, it will recognise you and put the can of soda through a tortuous journey through the shakers and bangers to make sure you have a nice drink of soda delivered right up your nose when you open it.
Not really, the casual league in the office at the moment is original unreal tournament. This is running in Windows, we play lowest common denominator, as long as it will play smoothly on all machines with no additional hardware then its fair. Just because its not now and vogue doesn't mean its not fun.
In the UK, there are guidelines in place where the burden of proof is on the customer to prove they are of age. The UK age limit for alcohol is 18, however most bars will not serve alcohol to people who look under 21 and who cannot prove it. It may not work all the time, but the size of the fines and as you say the risk against losing your license should make the shopkeepers MUCH more vigilant.
Most places who break the law accidentally are treated a little better than repeat offenders. My missus works in a store where after 1 person was identified as being underage (trading standards send kids in trying to buy stuff) the management called everyone in and re-emphasised the importance of it, ie if this shop closes down you won't have a job...
Movies have ratings and kids cannot enter the theatre to see them, but nobody complains about censorship in that regard, the kid can just wait until he is old enough.
How about fairgrounds, are they censoring the rides because they have a height chart and restrict kids from their freedom to ride on them?
You must not sell, rent or supply a video cassette or DVD unless the British Board of Film Classification has classified it.
You must not supply (including hiring out) a video cassette tape or DVD to a person who is under the age marked on the video cassette tape/DVD.
Most computer games are exempt from classification but if the game is classified then it must not be supplied to a person who is under the age marked on the game.
The age restrictions are 12,15 and 18 .
The maximum fine for selling or renting an age restricted cassette/DVD to a child under the specified age is £5000 and/or up to 6 months imprisonment.
Restricted 18 video cassettes and DVDs can be supplied only in licensed sex shops to persons 18 years of age and older.
There is a great extension for firefox called Nuke Anything which allows you to remove sections from pages. My missus had a great time deleting all the geeky stuff from slashdot.
You should have seen her face drop though when I told her she had actually removed it from the internet.
You aren't the only one, but theres a great many people who haven't got the time to invest. I worked very happily with Internet Explorer for years until one day gmail wouldn't run in it. I did all I could within reason at my end to fix it, but nothing I tried would work. So I went out and downloaded this free browser (some alpha/beta of firefox 1.0) and it worked almost perfectly.
Some of the sites this computer visits don't work properly but that was easily handled (my missus uses MSN groups, she now opens my computer and uses it from there). I had to learn how to do all the old things I did and rework my system installation plans (I keep backups of every installed program/device driver/codec I use) and I found the experience very rewarding. When I have encountered a problem I have been able to solve it either by looking for some support or fixing it myself. Firefox has been a success for me and lots of other people in the same way the Gimp works for you.
The simple answer is that you and I are not ordinary users.
We both know that you wouldn't even hear about the SMP problem from a normal person, they would tell you its not working and follow the brief description with "but it works fine in Windows", and thats the rare percentage that would even install linux.
If you are the sysadmin of a company with linux machines, its your job to make sure its working and you would be the one receiving the phone calls or error mails telling you its not, there is no personal money on your part to lose and you are the end of the line as far as local user support goes.
As for your gaming issues, if you have installed it on a compatible system (ie, not the 64bit version of Windows) then you are entitled to support for a product you have purchased, its your personal choice to decide not to follow it up. If the situation were similar with myself and the half life 2 engine, I would be contacting Valve and attempting to find out whats up with it.
I have found that people who pirate software are usually easy come easy go and the same comes from trying all sorts of legit open/closed source programs, if it doesn't do exactly what you want, you uninstall and move onto the next one.
Lets use your example of Wordpad (commercial closed source but bundled as essentially free software), suppose you notice a bug in it that hasn't been fixed or a workaround hasn't been posted. Would you go to the trouble of informing Microsoft about it and hoping there is a way to do it, or would you just search the web for another editor?
I hazard that most people will just get another editor and infact keep trying a few until they found another one to be their default. Now, suppose one of those editors that you found that was just right was commercial and you paid your £20 or whatever for it. If you then found a different bug in it, the chances are you would notify the creator and attempt to get a fix for it.
If it was open source, sure if you were skilled enough you could attempt to fix it yourself, but most people aren't so they would just move onto another new editor.
My boss falls into the bracket of former developer, he still understands logic and the flow of the code but hasn't got it in him to code it all up now.
As for myself, I like OSS and have invested my own time into fixing bugs (firefox addins mainly) and helping others out.
Sometimes its easier to understand people in foreign callcentres than it is to understand a strong Geordie or Scottish accent that some firms use *cough HSBC* Othertimes, the accent just adds to the conversation and you almost get lost in it (regional accents in England can be lovely to hear).
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and for all other effects write your own functions just like always (copy/paste from your personal library and adapt)
Or you just do exactly what digg does and take your own javascript library and include everything you possibly can do "just in case".
I'm actually surprised kitchenSink.js isn't included.
This is just an example from the standard front screen of digg without any cookies or logins to concern itself with.
<script src="/js/spellChecker.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/utils.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/xmlhttp.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/comments.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/wz_dragdrop.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/hover.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/label.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/dom-drag.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/switcher.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/scriptaculous.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/lightbox.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/aboutdigg.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Where will the grey goo get _energy_ from to be such a big threat? Solar energy isn't that great a source of energy.
;)
Supposing someone put up a big satellite with a magnifying glass to amplify the available solar energy?
I guess then they would have enough to take over the world faster
It seems like a big flaw in their plan.
'Cos it looks like we will all be blinded soon since we could be considered a ecophagic outbreak.
*Not
I tend to take the opposite view to life on Mars (and other planets/moons).
I assume there will be "life" in most places.
Just look around this great varied Earth of ours. In the furthest reaches, in the darkest depths and the most impossible places we find that it flourishes.
We have barely begun to look around on Mars and we certainly haven't dug far below the surface, give it time and I think we will find it.
Why is it so difficult to believe we are alone?
oh look... paint drying...
You look like an ideal candidate.
We are looking for a person to oversee the Pitch Drop experiment.
Why is this insightful?
The guy is making a perfectly valid point.
All the people whining about dupes need to chill out cos you lot will also be the first to complain if you dare to miss the front page for a day or so.
I'm a paying subscriber and you know what I normally do if I notice a story I've seen before?
I move onto the next one.
This is the final update, they have NOT been able to recover the data.
If you read you post, they were calling in the recovery speciallists to try and get it back.
They failed, its game over for recovering anything.
Don't they already fire ICBM's into space nowadays?
Those are build specifically for the purpose, however wasting all the cargo space on radioactive waste and not using the rocket for anything else would be such a waste.
Its still very expensive per pound of mass to get into space.
More than likely, it will recognise you and put the can of soda through a tortuous journey through the shakers and bangers to make sure you have a nice drink of soda delivered right up your nose when you open it.
Goatse? is it really you?
I jest of course, this thread seems like the most interesting to come out of this whole article.
Not really, the casual league in the office at the moment is original unreal tournament.
This is running in Windows, we play lowest common denominator, as long as it will play smoothly on all machines with no additional hardware then its fair.
Just because its not now and vogue doesn't mean its not fun.
In the UK, there are guidelines in place where the burden of proof is on the customer to prove they are of age.
The UK age limit for alcohol is 18, however most bars will not serve alcohol to people who look under 21 and who cannot prove it.
It may not work all the time, but the size of the fines and as you say the risk against losing your license should make the shopkeepers MUCH more vigilant.
Most places who break the law accidentally are treated a little better than repeat offenders. My missus works in a store where after 1 person was identified as being underage (trading standards send kids in trying to buy stuff) the management called everyone in and re-emphasised the importance of it, ie if this shop closes down you won't have a job...
Its not censorship, its common sense.
Movies have ratings and kids cannot enter the theatre to see them, but nobody complains about censorship in that regard, the kid can just wait until he is old enough.
How about fairgrounds, are they censoring the rides because they have a height chart and restrict kids from their freedom to ride on them?
The shops should have their business license removed for selling clearly Mature/Adult only materuial to minors.
Here in the UK shops are fined large amounts, and even risk prison for breaking age based laws.
Here is an overview from the trading standards:
Video cassette tapes/DVDs/computer games
You must not sell, rent or supply a video cassette or DVD unless the British Board of Film Classification has classified it.
You must not supply (including hiring out) a video cassette tape or DVD to a person who is under the age marked on the video cassette tape/DVD.
Most computer games are exempt from classification but if the game is classified then it must not be supplied to a person who is under the age marked on the game.
The age restrictions are 12,15 and 18 .
The maximum fine for selling or renting an age restricted cassette/DVD to a child under the specified age is £5000 and/or up to 6 months imprisonment.
Restricted 18 video cassettes and DVDs can be supplied only in licensed sex shops to persons 18 years of age and older.
If he is expecting a cut and the movie loses money, does he have to give the guys a refund?
Wicked, offtopic and troll.
Considering how Roland is the person everybody seems to hate yet is one of the most active posters on slash I thought it was quite ontopic.
I probably am trolling though, but only gently.
Roland Piquepaille is the Simon Cowell of the internet world?
There is a great extension for firefox called Nuke Anything which allows you to remove sections from pages.
My missus had a great time deleting all the geeky stuff from slashdot.
You should have seen her face drop though when I told her she had actually removed it from the internet.
* Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
Not really.
My motherboard has Dual Bios on it, one copy is the original BIOS, the other is the custom one.
If the custom one breaks or fails, the primary original switches on.
problem solved.
According to my search, there are already graphics cards which have this capability as well, here is an article about a geforce 6600 with it.
You aren't the only one, but theres a great many people who haven't got the time to invest.
I worked very happily with Internet Explorer for years until one day gmail wouldn't run in it.
I did all I could within reason at my end to fix it, but nothing I tried would work.
So I went out and downloaded this free browser (some alpha/beta of firefox 1.0) and it worked almost perfectly.
Some of the sites this computer visits don't work properly but that was easily handled (my missus uses MSN groups, she now opens my computer and uses it from there).
I had to learn how to do all the old things I did and rework my system installation plans (I keep backups of every installed program/device driver/codec I use) and I found the experience very rewarding.
When I have encountered a problem I have been able to solve it either by looking for some support or fixing it myself.
Firefox has been a success for me and lots of other people in the same way the Gimp works for you.
The simple answer is that you and I are not ordinary users.
We both know that you wouldn't even hear about the SMP problem from a normal person, they would tell you its not working and follow the brief description with "but it works fine in Windows", and thats the rare percentage that would even install linux.
If you are the sysadmin of a company with linux machines, its your job to make sure its working and you would be the one receiving the phone calls or error mails telling you its not, there is no personal money on your part to lose and you are the end of the line as far as local user support goes.
As for your gaming issues, if you have installed it on a compatible system (ie, not the 64bit version of Windows) then you are entitled to support for a product you have purchased, its your personal choice to decide not to follow it up.
If the situation were similar with myself and the half life 2 engine, I would be contacting Valve and attempting to find out whats up with it.
I have found that people who pirate software are usually easy come easy go and the same comes from trying all sorts of legit open/closed source programs, if it doesn't do exactly what you want, you uninstall and move onto the next one.
Lets use your example of Wordpad (commercial closed source but bundled as essentially free software), suppose you notice a bug in it that hasn't been fixed or a workaround hasn't been posted.
Would you go to the trouble of informing Microsoft about it and hoping there is a way to do it, or would you just search the web for another editor?
I hazard that most people will just get another editor and infact keep trying a few until they found another one to be their default.
Now, suppose one of those editors that you found that was just right was commercial and you paid your £20 or whatever for it.
If you then found a different bug in it, the chances are you would notify the creator and attempt to get a fix for it.
If it was open source, sure if you were skilled enough you could attempt to fix it yourself, but most people aren't so they would just move onto another new editor.
My boss falls into the bracket of former developer, he still understands logic and the flow of the code but hasn't got it in him to code it all up now.
As for myself, I like OSS and have invested my own time into fixing bugs (firefox addins mainly) and helping others out.
Sometimes its easier to understand people in foreign callcentres than it is to understand a strong Geordie or Scottish accent that some firms use *cough HSBC*
Othertimes, the accent just adds to the conversation and you almost get lost in it (regional accents in England can be lovely to hear).