Thousands of websites use JavaScript and CSS for just one silly reason: To create menubars (with submenus etc.).
So why has the standards committee in all their wisdom never added a MENU tag? It would have been so easy, just allow nested <MENU> tags and voila. On any platform, menus are so common that implementing such a tag is as easy as killing babies.
Rather than giving the website makers what they want (a MENU tag, positioning on font units instead of pixels, proper vector image support) they concentrate on standardizing things no developer ever asked for.
I know why. It would put them out of a job. Try to standardize something like JavaScript and CSS and you're ensured of employment for a lifetime.
Heck, if you want the page to look exactly as you intended, just make a bitmap image of it and send it. It'll probably use less bandwidth than the equivalent in CSS/HTML.
That would mean that after we converted the infants and people on their way to be burried (or whichever form of disposal they prefer), we also got the aliens to use firefox.
# man why did she leave me? Man: Too many arguments
Doesn't work on linux, sorry, used to work on old HPUX or so.
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Now I can type a simple password, and produce a complex password that has the same hash.
I'd type the complex one "32l;lkd49fj32*93f-FR" just once: When I create my account on the web site that demands that I have at least 8 characters, and some of them must be numeric and some must be non-alpha and so on.
After that, I can just type my usual "foo" as password and it'll accept it because the hash fits.
One of my hobby projects is searching the shed and attic for the $5 FM sender (100mW) that I once bought and soldered together to experiment with digital transmission (wanted to hook it up to the serial port) through the radio (cheap...). It would kill any other radio station using the same frequency in my block, and it could be received throughout the street (we did not live in a very long one though). I used half a meter of copper wire as antenna.
I wonder why (1) they are no longer for sale at all in the Netherlands (Velleman kit), and (2) why the alternatives cost over ten times that much, and provide less than a fraction of the output.
That was about what I was thinking. And the way to shift the weight back is to accelerate.
So to brake, the vehicle first hits the gas to shift the rider backwards, then hits the brakes. Fun thing is that the heavier you are, the faster the thing can come to a stop...
Power guy reconnects electricity, but they're on a different transformer and the phase is off. Exploding power meter severely burns power guy, while transformers short out.
Yeah, right.
I tried this at home several times (connected some out-of-phase groups by accident), all it got me were a few nice sparks and some blown fuses. I was using a metal 'Stanley' knive to cut through live 380V (40A fuses) wires (i switched off the wrong group), all it did was blind me for 2 seconds and burn a tiny hole into my knive blade.
Next time you make up a story like this, get your facts right. The 'domestic' cables and fuses can be shocking but just aren't capable of doing serious damage to even unsuspecting humans by means of burns and stuff.
Saving lots of memory: Just run in 'worker' mode, and have only one system wide Python Interpreter. Also makes sharing DB connections and so much easier since you can just keep lots of globals around.
And that's on Solaris, where worker isn't default.
A Dutch judge has already ruled that 'shrink wrap licenses' have no legal value whatsoever. So in The Netherlands we can just happily click the "Agree" button without suffering the consequences.
Thus, breaking the seal of a software package does NOT imply that you agree with the license agreement printed on it. That goes for any product, not just sofware.
Maybe we ought to export these tools to the Netherlands (or China...), unwrap them an re-sell them to the US. They'll be more expensive, but totally license free.
In Holland, we have signs that say 50 because that is how fast you're allowed to go. We have fully automated "cash machines" on 'strategic' places (read: wide straight road) that will take a picture of the license plate of every car that is caught driving 51 or more, and to complement, we have aggressive BMW drivers honking and flashing headlights behind anyone driving less than 50.0
By the way, the Dutch weather is more like UK than like Aussi.
1. My DAE program plainly ignores the copyright bit.
2. My CDR program offers me no means to switch that bit off. But I don't care because of #1...
3. My $7 audio card with SPDIF i/o comes with a handy checkbox in the driver to ignore the copyright bit on incoming data.
So don't worry, let them have their stupid bit. It will be just like all those "reserved" bits in TCP/IP packets which are eating megaherzes of bandwith: Ignored, but taking up space.
When I (accidentally) kick the cable to the keyboard and mouse on the SUN here, the system will either spontaneously reboot, or just hang (not even responding to network echo).
Took me weeks to figure out why this darn Solaris box was so unstable. 1m of adhesive tape wrapped around the cable and case solved the problem.
Probably, if the "space war" ever breaks out, it'll take like 7 seconds to fight it. Bam, lights out. All satelites destroyed.
If the military are working on anything, it should be the ability to fight without sat-aid.
And of course, when all American's TV broadcasts suddenly stop, the US will turn into a postapocalyptic cityscape with dazed citizens wandering the streets not knowing what to do without TV...
(sorry about that last remark, i just couldn't resist)
And it works together excellently with analog tape recorders, 2.5" floppy and my AMD machine and synthesizers.
It can store a whopping 15k of MIDI events. Boot takes less than a second. User interface based on a 5 digit 7 segment LED display, displays "HELLO" when you start it up.
I had to use excessive and unneccesary violence, but I managed to cram it in. It needs an external CDROM since there's not enough room for one (the mainboard is just to f-ing big).
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Thousands of websites use JavaScript and CSS for just one silly reason: To create menubars (with submenus etc.).
So why has the standards committee in all their wisdom never added a MENU tag? It would have been so easy, just allow nested <MENU> tags and voila. On any platform, menus are so common that implementing such a tag is as easy as killing babies.
Rather than giving the website makers what they want (a MENU tag, positioning on font units instead of pixels, proper vector image support) they concentrate on standardizing things no developer ever asked for.
I know why. It would put them out of a job. Try to standardize something like JavaScript and CSS and you're ensured of employment for a lifetime.
Heck, if you want the page to look exactly as you intended, just make a bitmap image of it and send it. It'll probably use less bandwidth than the equivalent in CSS/HTML.
From 5 bilion to 7 bilion I'd say.
That would mean that after we converted the infants and people on their way to be burried (or whichever form of disposal they prefer), we also got the aliens to use firefox.
Yeah, after that it's only fun.
Lemme guess:
You're on a boat
The radio station is on a boat (to avoid the RIAA)
You US folks have NTSF(*) instead of FM radio
(*)Never The Same Frequency
Now I can type a simple password, and produce a complex password that has the same hash.
I'd type the complex one "32l;lkd49fj32*93f-FR" just once: When I create my account on the web site that demands that I have at least 8 characters, and some of them must be numeric and some must be non-alpha and so on.
After that, I can just type my usual "foo" as password and it'll accept it because the hash fits.
Huray.
One of my hobby projects is searching the shed and attic for the $5 FM sender (100mW) that I once bought and soldered together to experiment with digital transmission (wanted to hook it up to the serial port) through the radio (cheap...). It would kill any other radio station using the same frequency in my block, and it could be received throughout the street (we did not live in a very long one though). I used half a meter of copper wire as antenna.
I wonder why (1) they are no longer for sale at all in the Netherlands (Velleman kit), and (2) why the alternatives cost over ten times that much, and provide less than a fraction of the output.
ASML already sold an immersion litho machine half a year ago.
Because if i put out a pot of DRY sand here in the country, at the end of the day I will have a pot of WET sand (and that's when it didn't rain).
In the city, if you put a pot of sand outside, the pot will disappear (the sand will remain, usually).
Probably, the remainder is used to serve up your homepages. I generate most upstream traffic from my homepage, not from my 56k modem...
(Mine generates about 2GB/month in traffic. So far, my dialup provider hetnet.nl hasn't complained, even though they have a 1GB limit on that)
But what if there are millions of these spamholes? That would give em spammers a lot of trouble finding the real holes out there.
No place to hide a diamond like in a pile of glass sherds. Finding the diamond is slow and painful work...
That was about what I was thinking. And the way to shift the weight back is to accelerate.
So to brake, the vehicle first hits the gas to shift the rider backwards, then hits the brakes. Fun thing is that the heavier you are, the faster the thing can come to a stop...
Power guy reconnects electricity, but they're on a different transformer and the phase is off. Exploding power meter severely burns power guy, while transformers short out.
Yeah, right.
I tried this at home several times (connected some out-of-phase groups by accident), all it got me were a few nice sparks and some blown fuses. I was using a metal 'Stanley' knive to cut through live 380V (40A fuses) wires (i switched off the wrong group), all it did was blind me for 2 seconds and burn a tiny hole into my knive blade.
Next time you make up a story like this, get your facts right. The 'domestic' cables and fuses can be shocking but just aren't capable of doing serious damage to even unsuspecting humans by means of burns and stuff.
Instead of investing thousands of euros in a Faraday shielding, I can just turn on the microwave and disrupt annoying cellphone calls!
I think I will make a business of selling this 'incredible mobile phone jamming device' to restaurants and so.
... Delivery Dates and Benchmarks.
Saving lots of memory: Just run in 'worker' mode, and have only one system wide Python Interpreter. Also makes sharing DB connections and so much easier since you can just keep lots of globals around.
And that's on Solaris, where worker isn't default.
Oh, and mod_deflate is nice too.
A Dutch judge has already ruled that 'shrink wrap licenses' have no legal value whatsoever. So in The Netherlands we can just happily click the "Agree" button without suffering the consequences.
Thus, breaking the seal of a software package does NOT imply that you agree with the license agreement printed on it. That goes for any product, not just sofware.
Maybe we ought to export these tools to the Netherlands (or China...), unwrap them an re-sell them to the US. They'll be more expensive, but totally license free.
In Holland, we have signs that say 50 because that is how fast you're allowed to go. We have fully automated "cash machines" on 'strategic' places (read: wide straight road) that will take a picture of the license plate of every car that is caught driving 51 or more, and to complement, we have aggressive BMW drivers honking and flashing headlights behind anyone driving less than 50.0
By the way, the Dutch weather is more like UK than like Aussi.
With the same result:
1. My DAE program plainly ignores the copyright bit.
2. My CDR program offers me no means to switch that bit off. But I don't care because of #1...
3. My $7 audio card with SPDIF i/o comes with a handy checkbox in the driver to ignore the copyright bit on incoming data.
So don't worry, let them have their stupid bit. It will be just like all those "reserved" bits in TCP/IP packets which are eating megaherzes of bandwith: Ignored, but taking up space.
When I (accidentally) kick the cable to the keyboard and mouse on the SUN here, the system will either spontaneously reboot, or just hang (not even responding to network echo).
Took me weeks to figure out why this darn Solaris box was so unstable. 1m of adhesive tape wrapped around the cable and case solved the problem.
Probably, if the "space war" ever breaks out, it'll take like 7 seconds to fight it. Bam, lights out. All satelites destroyed.
If the military are working on anything, it should be the ability to fight without sat-aid.
And of course, when all American's TV broadcasts suddenly stop, the US will turn into a postapocalyptic cityscape with dazed citizens wandering the streets not knowing what to do without TV...
(sorry about that last remark, i just couldn't resist)
And it works together excellently with analog tape recorders, 2.5" floppy and my AMD machine and synthesizers.
It can store a whopping 15k of MIDI events. Boot takes less than a second. User interface based on a 5 digit 7 segment LED display, displays "HELLO" when you start it up.
I had to use excessive and unneccesary violence, but I managed to cram it in. It needs an external CDROM since there's not enough room for one (the mainboard is just to f-ing big).
:-)
Mod me up and I'll post pictures
Incredible!
Those little ants can actually measure the frequency of your microwave, and then calculate where the cold spots will be.
I want an ant colony in my PC to measure its clock frequency.