I've on occasion looked up a part and added it to my shopping cart online, then wanted to pass it along to purchasing to have them order the parts, but cannot.
They have to start over and create their own shopping cart on the same site and punch in the product codes I used.
Why can't I just bookmark the cart and send it to them? Because the URI doesn't store the info about what's in my cart. And why not? There are very few cases where this is even remotely a security problem. We're not talking about who I am stored in the URI, we're talking about what I want to buy.
I've sent in bug reports w.r.t. Google News on a few occasions, and Google Desktop as well, each time I've had responses and fixes within the day or so. If being beta means being flexible, I'm all for it.
If you're just "good enough" then some people will care. Those are the people that buycars that last more than two years, and the people who don't want to use shoddy MS software, and the people who spend more than $500 on a new PC.
There's a huge market out there for people smart enough to want the good stuff, and you're just admitting that crap sells too. We already knew that.
Agreed. I play software-decoded HD content on my PC all the time, no problems (Athlon XP 2500+).
I'm not sure what filters people are using that eat so much CPU, but if its worth a few hundred dollars to you, go ahead and buy that shiny new system.
If the teen in question doesn't voluntarily leave and has hearing damage, they can sue the owner of the device, 'duh'.
Here's an idea, why not put spike belts on your front door-step so that people get pain in their feet when they walk up your steps so people stop knocking on your front door? Because injuring people to keep them away is illegal.
I run nightly yum updates with E-mailed notifications of the changes made.
For my business customers, I have them running yum checks against a server we maintain with our own copies of the updated RPMs that we've already tested on our in-house machines.
I don't want to sound rude, but did you even look for an answer?
Google searching and other things aside, Firefox allows for named shortcuts in your bookmarks as well which I use heavily.
Typing in "stocks" brings me to my bank stock investments page, "slash" brings me to slashdot, "news" gives me news.google.ca, etc.
When I bookmark a site I actually plan to use regularly, I add a keyword to the bookmark so I can just type the name of the bookmark and go to that site faster.
I had a Linux box the other day that wouldn't work properly unless rebooted. I felt like a failure as a sysadmin in that moment as everything worked on boot-up. The customer thought this was an obvious step (being primarily Windows users), but I couldn't bring myself to be happy that I needed to reboot to fix my problem.
Actually, using CDB is probably a better idea, and why programs like DJB's tinydns are so fast and reliable. You built a flat file with your data, compile it to a database atomically and depend on the OS' read cache to optimize performance when reading indexed records back.
Light-weight and extremely fast for read-only operations.
You can't do semi-complex queries against it mind you.
All the stories about kiddy-porn surfers sitting in cars with laptops probably don't help.
People don't want to share their bandwidth with others in the first place ("buy your own") and don't want to be blamed for what others do with it if it were shared.
I don't mind sharing my bandwidth with my neighbors, but I'm shaping that traffic so I get priority of course.
Your argument either makes no sense or you can't read.
I said that gravity, as taught in highschool, does in fact work as described for most applications we deal with from day to day because we aren't being that picky about our measurements (but in fewer words).
Please give up on the classical knee-jerk Slashdot reaction. I doubt you personally started it, but with that low of an ID, I'd be suspicious you haven't been part of the solution yet.
Ignoring most of what you said, much of Einstein's theories remained untested for a very long time since tests were either not yet devised or were unfeasible. My point was exactly that -- just because they hadn't been tested yet didn't make them unworthy of consideration. If nobody even bothers coming up with new ideas because the current ones "work well enough" or some such garbage, we wouldn't advance at all.
I'd like to point out that the current pricing of a PS2 is very competitive with the price of an XBox 360 considering what you get.
A PS2 can play thousands of games that are for most people just as good as what is being released on the XBox. Note: most people (who don't have HDTVs anyway and who are wowed by PS2 games because, well, they don't have one yet).
PS2s will sell well this Christmas, that's my opinion at least. PS2 games will sell well for at least the next year, although obviously the marketing money will be put into XBox360 and PS3 games.
Many good scientific theories have begun as "this is too complicated to be explained thusly"
Think relativity.
Gravity, as it is taught in most highschools is complete fiction. That said, the numbers work, more or less, at a certain level of resolution so we use them.
When a grand unified theory of everything that is testable emerges, I'll bite my tongue. Lack of testability doesn't stop the design of new hypotheses in the mean time.
"Evolution doesn't seem complete to me" is a perfectly valid statement. Just because evolution seems correct at a certain resolution doesn't mean its correct, just maybe the most correct we've got so far. Telling nay-sayers to shut up is just silly, since its usually done by those claiming to be critical thinkers.
Aside from the distraction that failing students can cause other students, I agree. Students who want to waste thousands of dollars on failing class are free to do so.
The institution should try to correct their behaviour, just as they would any other self-destructive mindset, but leave them to their own devices and let them fail.
The newer games are being released with incredible graphics on the PS2 that are almost comparable to an XBox. Considering the PS2's older hardware design and lower cost of manufacturing, its holding on well -- which is quite insulting to the XBox.
Sure, the XBox is a bit better, but its a lot more expensive (to build) and not that much better, honest.
Go play God of War on the PS2, or RE4, or Psi Ops or even Burnout 3 or 4... all have beautiful graphics and great 3D sound (I play my games on a ProLogic II compatible home theatre system). The PS2 isn't showing its age at all, each generation of games is taking more advantage of the platform than the previous. Consider that when you look to XBox 360 and PS3 games -- it will take years before those systems are fully understood and used by developers.
If you believe the 1080i broadcast of that 30mm film was actually in 1080i and not just upsampled from the DVD version, you're probably mistaken.
TV broadcasts that are actually 720p or 1080i really are HDTV. DVDs are higher resolution than normal broadcast television but they're not HD. This is the first movie published on disc (not ripped) that is actually in HD as source material.
This is lost on many people -- if you want to collision search a hash of Bob's message to Alice, you'll need to replace Bob's message with something equally meaningful.
If you're my best programmer, but you can't be a team player, you're no use to me in the team.
You'll retire, your code will be unmaintainable, and I'll be unhappy.
I've got a lot of code to maintain that was written by a partner at our company who is no longer here, and his coding style was completely different from everyone else.
Sure, he wrote fast working code, but its been a couple years now and we still find things we don't understand in what he did.
Slashdot Mirror
When possible, state should be bookmarkable too.
I've on occasion looked up a part and added it to my shopping cart online, then wanted to pass it along to purchasing to have them order the parts, but cannot.
They have to start over and create their own shopping cart on the same site and punch in the product codes I used.
Why can't I just bookmark the cart and send it to them? Because the URI doesn't store the info about what's in my cart. And why not? There are very few cases where this is even remotely a security problem. We're not talking about who I am stored in the URI, we're talking about what I want to buy.
I've sent in bug reports w.r.t. Google News on a few occasions, and Google Desktop as well, each time I've had responses and fixes within the day or so. If being beta means being flexible, I'm all for it.
This was the original design in mind when Google was created; to be able to rate the web.
If you're just "good enough" then some people will care. Those are the people that buycars that last more than two years, and the people who don't want to use shoddy MS software, and the people who spend more than $500 on a new PC.
There's a huge market out there for people smart enough to want the good stuff, and you're just admitting that crap sells too. We already knew that.
Agreed. I play software-decoded HD content on my PC all the time, no problems (Athlon XP 2500+).
I'm not sure what filters people are using that eat so much CPU, but if its worth a few hundred dollars to you, go ahead and buy that shiny new system.
Trolling is a poor way to maintain your readership though.
If you do it periodically, maybe. But an intelligent audience will stop even browsing interesting titles after a while.
It is not a good business decision in the long run.
Too much information is not a bad thing.
Its called 'grep'.
Or, if you use a nice editor, tell it to hide comments if you don't want to see them.
If the teen in question doesn't voluntarily leave and has hearing damage, they can sue the owner of the device, 'duh'.
Here's an idea, why not put spike belts on your front door-step so that people get pain in their feet when they walk up your steps so people stop knocking on your front door? Because injuring people to keep them away is illegal.
I run nightly yum updates with E-mailed notifications of the changes made.
For my business customers, I have them running yum checks against a server we maintain with our own copies of the updated RPMs that we've already tested on our in-house machines.
I don't want to sound rude, but did you even look for an answer?
Beats me, but some have already requested to be pulled.
... since I get most of my headlines off Google News now.
Those are the newspapers I don't actually read anymore
Google searching and other things aside, Firefox allows for named shortcuts in your bookmarks as well which I use heavily.
Typing in "stocks" brings me to my bank stock investments page, "slash" brings me to slashdot, "news" gives me news.google.ca, etc.
When I bookmark a site I actually plan to use regularly, I add a keyword to the bookmark so I can just type the name of the bookmark and go to that site faster.
I had a Linux box the other day that wouldn't work properly unless rebooted. I felt like a failure as a sysadmin in that moment as everything worked on boot-up. The customer thought this was an obvious step (being primarily Windows users), but I couldn't bring myself to be happy that I needed to reboot to fix my problem.
Actually, using CDB is probably a better idea, and why programs like DJB's tinydns are so fast and reliable. You built a flat file with your data, compile it to a database atomically and depend on the OS' read cache to optimize performance when reading indexed records back.
Light-weight and extremely fast for read-only operations.
You can't do semi-complex queries against it mind you.
All the stories about kiddy-porn surfers sitting in cars with laptops probably don't help.
People don't want to share their bandwidth with others in the first place ("buy your own") and don't want to be blamed for what others do with it if it were shared.
I don't mind sharing my bandwidth with my neighbors, but I'm shaping that traffic so I get priority of course.
Your argument either makes no sense or you can't read.
I said that gravity, as taught in highschool, does in fact work as described for most applications we deal with from day to day because we aren't being that picky about our measurements (but in fewer words).
Please give up on the classical knee-jerk Slashdot reaction. I doubt you personally started it, but with that low of an ID, I'd be suspicious you haven't been part of the solution yet.
Ignoring most of what you said, much of Einstein's theories remained untested for a very long time since tests were either not yet devised or were unfeasible. My point was exactly that -- just because they hadn't been tested yet didn't make them unworthy of consideration. If nobody even bothers coming up with new ideas because the current ones "work well enough" or some such garbage, we wouldn't advance at all.
Console gaming systems should never crash, period.
That's the whole point -- its a plug&play gaming system. No configuration necessary.
Otherwise, nobody would've complained about the PS2 damaging discs in its first generation.
I'd like to point out that the current pricing of a PS2 is very competitive with the price of an XBox 360 considering what you get.
A PS2 can play thousands of games that are for most people just as good as what is being released on the XBox. Note: most people (who don't have HDTVs anyway and who are wowed by PS2 games because, well, they don't have one yet).
PS2s will sell well this Christmas, that's my opinion at least. PS2 games will sell well for at least the next year, although obviously the marketing money will be put into XBox360 and PS3 games.
Many good scientific theories have begun as "this is too complicated to be explained thusly"
Think relativity.
Gravity, as it is taught in most highschools is complete fiction. That said, the numbers work, more or less, at a certain level of resolution so we use them.
When a grand unified theory of everything that is testable emerges, I'll bite my tongue. Lack of testability doesn't stop the design of new hypotheses in the mean time.
"Evolution doesn't seem complete to me" is a perfectly valid statement. Just because evolution seems correct at a certain resolution doesn't mean its correct, just maybe the most correct we've got so far. Telling nay-sayers to shut up is just silly, since its usually done by those claiming to be critical thinkers.
Aside from the distraction that failing students can cause other students, I agree. Students who want to waste thousands of dollars on failing class are free to do so.
The institution should try to correct their behaviour, just as they would any other self-destructive mindset, but leave them to their own devices and let them fail.
You must not own a PS2.
... all have beautiful graphics and great 3D sound (I play my games on a ProLogic II compatible home theatre system). The PS2 isn't showing its age at all, each generation of games is taking more advantage of the platform than the previous. Consider that when you look to XBox 360 and PS3 games -- it will take years before those systems are fully understood and used by developers.
The newer games are being released with incredible graphics on the PS2 that are almost comparable to an XBox. Considering the PS2's older hardware design and lower cost of manufacturing, its holding on well -- which is quite insulting to the XBox.
Sure, the XBox is a bit better, but its a lot more expensive (to build) and not that much better, honest.
Go play God of War on the PS2, or RE4, or Psi Ops or even Burnout 3 or 4
If you believe the 1080i broadcast of that 30mm film was actually in 1080i and not just upsampled from the DVD version, you're probably mistaken.
TV broadcasts that are actually 720p or 1080i really are HDTV. DVDs are higher resolution than normal broadcast television but they're not HD. This is the first movie published on disc (not ripped) that is actually in HD as source material.
This is lost on many people -- if you want to collision search a hash of Bob's message to Alice, you'll need to replace Bob's message with something equally meaningful.
If you're my best programmer, but you can't be a team player, you're no use to me in the team.
You'll retire, your code will be unmaintainable, and I'll be unhappy.
I've got a lot of code to maintain that was written by a partner at our company who is no longer here, and his coding style was completely different from everyone else.
Sure, he wrote fast working code, but its been a couple years now and we still find things we don't understand in what he did.
Copyright infringement IS theft.
If you have no right to make a copy and yet made one anyway, you stole that copy.
In the case of GPL or LGPL'd code, you have no right to make a copy if you don't follow the terms of the license.