Actually it should be pointed out that there is at least one bath on the Enterprise, and one toilet. Right at the bottom of the ship. But that's the TNG Enterprise of course.
And I'm recalling that based on a brief showing of a plan of the ship, on a documentary on Star Trek...
Actually I recall that at some point people did do debugging by 'listening', to the code (I may mistake this, and I could be thinking about hardware) - the idea being that good code sounds distinctly different to bad code.
Actually thinking about it, it would be a rather good method of debugging - if one could find a way to transform code into something melodic, and making the giant assumption that 'bad code', would produce a dischord or something similar...
And elegance is an excellent way to think about programming I find - much like the way there's elegance in much of science and mathematics: E=M(C*C) being the most obvious example.
At a guess, because that's outside the remit of HTML - which is purely there to say what the things one puts on a page are?
I suppose I might as well call it modularisation (and be instantly corrected, no doubt) - it makes more sense to have something else do what is, really an entirely unrelated task - the HTML is not responsible for delivering the content, only for saying what of it, is what.
Although come to think of it - isn't what you describe handled by SSI? Although one still has to download the entire page over - however given the increasing bandwidth, it possibly makes more sense to do that, than to fiddle...
They do in the UK.. My local police don't like me, I always ask for their badge number and call the police station to check they're legit before I'll talk to them...
They also don't like me because I filed a complaint about them crawling me on my own street after I'd gone over to the car and shown them ID, proving I lived there...
To clarify:
That was sarcasm, an extension of the idea to absurdity. Naturally there are many reasons I can think of that any sane person could have for not wishing to be listened in on - not least of which being that they don't want some stranger listening in on them!
For those missing the point here - the sarcasm is a comment on the tendency of those wishing to pry 'for our own good', to assume we must be doing something wrong if we don't want them to pry into it. Any questions?
"Two hundred years ago, all conversations were private."
Interesting. Written communications weren't, so why say nothing about them I wonder? Stenography & cryptography were already in common use back then...
There is nothing wrong with jargon - assumming you wish to communicate with people who do, or should have a good understanding of the jargon.
If not, there is a simple solution, common courtesy you explain briefly what jargon term is when you use it the first time.
Essentially jargon is just shorthand for things that would feel a waste of time to explain every single time we needed them - similiarly, if I write an essay on 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', and wish to save the bother of retyping 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', every single time I refer to the book, by refering to it as 'Alice', it is common courtesy to provide a brief note to say this is what I intend to do.
Same rules apply with jargon - if I began the essay with the knowledge that my readers will certainly know that 'Alice', refers to the book, I have no need nor esponsibility to explain myself.
Taken a poll? Of a reasonable subsection of intended market sector? You know, that market that doesn't consist of geeks? The ones who use windows and like the pretty UI?
Or is it just that you and a couple of other techies you asked, prefer KDE to Gnome?
I'm not trying to be harsh here, and as a disclaimer you can blame my girlfriend pissing me off for any aggressive sarcasm above...
Personally my highspeed skim of that suggested to me that it has the potential to rock.
However since we are naturally in one of the most cynical places in the multiverse here, evrybody is professing to think it'll suck.
Anybody want to take bets on everybody who thinks it'll suck going to see it anyway? Of course they'll all go, and come out saying it sucked. Then reiterate the 'it sucks' comments, when/. announces the 9 disc DVD boxset with 3 discs of extra features, and go and buy the thing anyway.
Lucas has every one of us by the nose, we can bitch all we like.. But we'll still watch it. We even complain that the other three films sucked, and we still love them.
Catch-22: You won't see the film because it sucks, but you can't be certain it sucks till you see the film...
Funny that nobody else has pointed this out - its well known that fingerorint scanners are fairly easily foolable - in fact if one has the finger available, leaf gelatine and a paperclip are all you need.
Shit, you can strip a print off a pint glass and use that to make a copy...
Ben Elton indicated a perfectly feasible way to fool DNA testing in This Other Eden, one would imagine a variation on coloured contact lense could be used to dupe a retina scanner.
Nevermind the obvious issue of chopping off body parts, and sticking pens in eyes, if I can forge a fingerprint right now and it can fool 80% of scanners, for under $5?
To be entirely fair, a sensible biometrics security system would utilise a collection of different characteristics - you don't just check face, you check say, face, retina, and right thumb.
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I must see if we have this boradband in the UK - how does it compare to broadband?
Actually it should be pointed out that there is at least one bath on the Enterprise, and one toilet. Right at the bottom of the ship. But that's the TNG Enterprise of course.
And I'm recalling that based on a brief showing of a plan of the ship, on a documentary on Star Trek...
You've got $121,406,519.36 going spare.. And you post on slashdot.
Mr. Gates, is that you?
And I was right, sorry to reply to my own comment, but here is a link to the new scientist article on debugging by ear.
Actually I recall that at some point people did do debugging by 'listening', to the code (I may mistake this, and I could be thinking about hardware) - the idea being that good code sounds distinctly different to bad code.
Actually thinking about it, it would be a rather good method of debugging - if one could find a way to transform code into something melodic, and making the giant assumption that 'bad code', would produce a dischord or something similar...
And elegance is an excellent way to think about programming I find - much like the way there's elegance in much of science and mathematics: E=M(C*C) being the most obvious example.
At a guess, because that's outside the remit of HTML - which is purely there to say what the things one puts on a page are?
I suppose I might as well call it modularisation (and be instantly corrected, no doubt) - it makes more sense to have something else do what is, really an entirely unrelated task - the HTML is not responsible for delivering the content, only for saying what of it, is what.
Although come to think of it - isn't what you describe handled by SSI? Although one still has to download the entire page over - however given the increasing bandwidth, it possibly makes more sense to do that, than to fiddle...
But I'm only speculating there.
So can we disqualify all those people who already started now?
They do in the UK.. My local police don't like me, I always ask for their badge number and call the police station to check they're legit before I'll talk to them...
They also don't like me because I filed a complaint about them crawling me on my own street after I'd gone over to the car and shown them ID, proving I lived there...
Takes some balls to do that..
;)
Gonna be a hard case to win mind
(That took far too much effort.. Must touch up on my wang referencing skills)
One would hope they've done this defensively, to stop some (other?) evil corporation patenting it first and banjaxing things?
I said hope.
How about shareaza, which is free, has no ads, and connects to G2, G1 AND ed2k, with support for BT as well?
Actually I can see the point in these (don't kill me)..
Location sensitive advertising actually makes a sort of sense.. Like search sensitive advertising with google..
Just a shame the system will be abused..
Didn't you realise? They had you all along...
Better than being a boojum at least. ;)
So... sarcasm is trolling now?
To clarify: That was sarcasm, an extension of the idea to absurdity. Naturally there are many reasons I can think of that any sane person could have for not wishing to be listened in on - not least of which being that they don't want some stranger listening in on them!
For those missing the point here - the sarcasm is a comment on the tendency of those wishing to pry 'for our own good', to assume we must be doing something wrong if we don't want them to pry into it. Any questions?
I should really read the constitution ;)
;)
Beg pardon due to non-Americanness
I dub you unamerican.
;)
How does a free trip to camp X-ray sound?
"Two hundred years ago, all conversations were private."
Interesting. Written communications weren't, so why say nothing about them I wonder? Stenography & cryptography were already in common use back then...
Why?
... guilt... Send the flying monkeys at once!
What is it you're saying you wouldn't want the feds to hear?
I smell
There is nothing wrong with jargon - assumming you wish to communicate with people who do, or should have a good understanding of the jargon.
If not, there is a simple solution, common courtesy you explain briefly what jargon term is when you use it the first time.
Essentially jargon is just shorthand for things that would feel a waste of time to explain every single time we needed them - similiarly, if I write an essay on 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', and wish to save the bother of retyping 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', every single time I refer to the book, by refering to it as 'Alice', it is common courtesy to provide a brief note to say this is what I intend to do.
Same rules apply with jargon - if I began the essay with the knowledge that my readers will certainly know that 'Alice', refers to the book, I have no need nor esponsibility to explain myself.
Sure about that?
Taken a poll? Of a reasonable subsection of intended market sector? You know, that market that doesn't consist of geeks? The ones who use windows and like the pretty UI?
Or is it just that you and a couple of other techies you asked, prefer KDE to Gnome?
I'm not trying to be harsh here, and as a disclaimer you can blame my girlfriend pissing me off for any aggressive sarcasm above...
Personally my highspeed skim of that suggested to me that it has the potential to rock.
/. announces the 9 disc DVD boxset with 3 discs of extra features, and go and buy the thing anyway.
However since we are naturally in one of the most cynical places in the multiverse here, evrybody is professing to think it'll suck.
Anybody want to take bets on everybody who thinks it'll suck going to see it anyway? Of course they'll all go, and come out saying it sucked. Then reiterate the 'it sucks' comments, when
Lucas has every one of us by the nose, we can bitch all we like.. But we'll still watch it. We even complain that the other three films sucked, and we still love them.
Catch-22: You won't see the film because it sucks, but you can't be certain it sucks till you see the film...
(Yes, a crappy Catch-22, I know, I know..)
Funny that nobody else has pointed this out - its well known that fingerorint scanners are fairly easily foolable - in fact if one has the finger available, leaf gelatine and a paperclip are all you need.
Shit, you can strip a print off a pint glass and use that to make a copy...
Ben Elton indicated a perfectly feasible way to fool DNA testing in This Other Eden, one would imagine a variation on coloured contact lense could be used to dupe a retina scanner.
Nevermind the obvious issue of chopping off body parts, and sticking pens in eyes, if I can forge a fingerprint right now and it can fool 80% of scanners, for under $5?
Yeah. Sounds infallible to me.
To be entirely fair, a sensible biometrics security system would utilise a collection of different characteristics - you don't just check face, you check say, face, retina, and right thumb.
Not that I'm saying they will be sensible...
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Boise: Darl, why do I have to be Toto?