Well, I doubt all Belgian language entries in Google were removed, especially since the summary said only the French speaking press in Belgium was removed. The question next is how big is the French speaking press in Belgium? I'm not an expert on Belgium, so I can't really say, but if it would like removing the English-speaking press in America, it may actually be a good thing:)
By the way - I'm assuming the submitter meant "Will Google become irrelevent in Belgium" not the entire language, though the average/.er's grasp on geography makes me wonder sometimes.
Ah right. I was using the Sony definition (you know, the whole "The HD era begins with the 1080p PS3 that kinda sorta will support 1080p out of some boxes and only with an added cord"). Damn you Sony!
Which is worse - no information, or bad information? No access on the basis of principle, or some access based on relaxing that principle? If you're going to take a stand, do it. If you're not, don't act you're half standing/half sitting.
HD? Surround sound? Do you friends realize PC gaming has been pushing high res and surround sound for years? Sure, poly counts aren't always enough to make things look like real life, but my two year old machine can still crank out just about anything on my 20" wide monitor (1680 x 1050...so 10 lines short of HD, whatever) and optically connected DTS/Dolby Digital surround sound.
Actually, lowest common denominator is okay. For instance, when adding the fractions 1/6, 2/3, and 4/18, you could convert all the fractions to a denominator of 54, as in 9/54, 27/54, and 12/54. But the correct procedure is to convert them to a denominator of 18, as in 3/18, 9/18, and 4/18 (16/18, or 8/9). And the lowest common denominator is only 1 if the numbers are all integers. You can't express 1/6 as a fraction of integers with a denominator of 1.
You have a point - we're doing all these things to "catch the terrorists," but if we can't catch a bunch of home-grown environmental or animal-rights extremists, how are we going to catch the guys with multi-billion dollar backers and training camps.
We have a God Box (hideously old campus tour picture here) at IIT. It's the only building designed by "less is more" Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for purely religious purposes. It's not really for sale, though if someone would like to pay for the renovation, I'm sure we could work something out.
Uh, uh - you're thinking logically, try to think like a lawyer for a big company.
I guess that's why the second word on my degree is "engineering" not "management" or "law". That's also probably why my income is yet to cross the magical number where I start thinking that the captial gains tax is a bad thing.:)
But yeah, why work hard and do something right, when you can work occasionally, do it wrong, but not have anyone (with power) question your actions? I think instead of wiki-fying the patent registration system, we should wiki-fy the laws... how's that for not thinking logically?
Problem is more with trademark law than apple methinks.
Bingo. This sounds similar to the story about Google telling media organizations to be cautious about using the words "Google" and "google" now that "google" is in the OED. If you don't at least make an effort to defend, your options on even the most blatant cases get much more difficult.
Except that it isn't over 80% any more. The latest stats I saw (July 2006 I think) put IE at 73-75% and falling - still very high, but not nearly as dominant. Certain markets (universities, for instance) have much, much lower rates.
IE7 may change that, as many recent Firefox converts may switch back when it comes through as a security release. The real wildcard though is just how much marketshare Apple is really capturing - IE will never again be available for Mac, and if they (Apple) are to be believed, they had something like 15-20% of the laptop sales marketshare last quarter (or month...too many stats!), and are growing. It may be a case of too little, too late, but with Vista and Leopard we could see a swing in browser marketshare not seen since IE trounced Netscape.
Hmmm...well in that case, someone go edit the Wikipedia entry on "computers" and allow them to store data at the bit level. Also, I heard somewhere where computers in Africa have tripled in the past six months!
Maybe. OS X 10.4 (Tiger) was the first version of OS X to support 64-bit, and some apps use it, but the Intel switch happened too soon for many to start using it (since the first Intel processors were only 32-bit, leaving the iMac G5 and PowerMac G5 the only 64-bit capable Macs before the Mac Pro). Leopard (OS X 10.5) will definitely use more 64-bit stuff, as the new Cocoa/Carbon libraries will be in 64-bit with native 64 and 32-bit support. At a minimum, I'd expect Apple to convert a lot of the pro and iLife apps to 64-bit, as they tend to use their own technologies pretty quickly (for obvious reasons).
So for Windows, 64-bit may not be a big deal, but for OS X, there should be more support very soon.
Isn't everything that allows for a not easily listed number of possible inputs/outputs (like a blog, as opposed to a "yes/no" question) possibly a security risk if you don't clamp down on what is done with those inputs/outputs? I like that people are discussing this sort of thing and hopefully encouraging other to prevent this, but once again the/. title makes it sound like all RSS feeds are a risk - when really, just the unsecured, unvalidated ones are.
No, but I'm not sure I want a constant connection to my bank open either. It's like running a package through a gauntlet - make it through by running fast, but then only run back when it's safe. Stay in the gauntlet and someone's bound to grab you.
Yeah, it just dumps whatever the response was into your holder. I mostly just use it to go get new data from a DB then put it into a or something on the page. I guess you could though chain whatever Javascript you wanted into the onreadystatechange function, but that'd require you to know what to do after the response AND have the code available to write in before the response is gained - something simple like change the color of the box to the backgroundcolor of a returned
could be done if you do it right, but it wouldn't be fun or simple or maybe even get where you want it.
Actually, that does work with XHTML if you have the PHP (or whatever) file properly construct the responseText and throw it into a as the responseHolder. I mean, it doesn't actually know that it is XHTML, but it still works as such (i.e., applies stylesheets, validates, etc.)
The iPod2Car Toyota version works well enough for my 04. Steering wheel controls work, but no video (I like seeing my map all the time anyway). I bought a little Monster dashboard attachment and placed the thing to the left of my steering wheel (little vertical space available on the Prius dashboard). Works great.
Isn't that the point of wrapper libraries? To make repetitive, commonly used tasks like this one more convenient?
Absolutely. I just consider myself still in the learning phase of the AJAX part of my web apps (good with PHP, good with XHTML/CSS, not so great with advanced Javascript), so I like to do some of the common repetitive things so I'm not doing a typical plug and chug job at coding without understanding well what's going on underneath. It's mostly just for my own benefit - I see too many jump into libraries without understanding really what they do, and then throwing their hands up when the library does something they weren't expecting. But it's good to know that Prototype works that well - I'll have to look into it once I'm a bit more comfortable with what I'm doing.
IE5...pfft...compatibility...who needs that?
I failed to mention that I develop mostly internal apps for a very small organization, not for public consumption, so I can get away with demanding that everyone has a particular class of browser.
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Well, I doubt all Belgian language entries in Google were removed, especially since the summary said only the French speaking press in Belgium was removed. The question next is how big is the French speaking press in Belgium? I'm not an expert on Belgium, so I can't really say, but if it would like removing the English-speaking press in America, it may actually be a good thing :)
By the way - I'm assuming the submitter meant "Will Google become irrelevent in Belgium" not the entire language, though the average /.er's grasp on geography makes me wonder sometimes.
Ah right. I was using the Sony definition (you know, the whole "The HD era begins with the 1080p PS3 that kinda sorta will support 1080p out of some boxes and only with an added cord"). Damn you Sony!
Which is worse - no information, or bad information? No access on the basis of principle, or some access based on relaxing that principle? If you're going to take a stand, do it. If you're not, don't act you're half standing/half sitting.
HD? Surround sound? Do you friends realize PC gaming has been pushing high res and surround sound for years? Sure, poly counts aren't always enough to make things look like real life, but my two year old machine can still crank out just about anything on my 20" wide monitor (1680 x 1050...so 10 lines short of HD, whatever) and optically connected DTS/Dolby Digital surround sound.
...a technicality, but yes. Of course, some would say that isn't a fraction of integers, but two fractions of integers, but whatever.
At least you read the post. The mods somehow found it "+5 Funny" to talk fractions.
Actually, lowest common denominator is okay. For instance, when adding the fractions 1/6, 2/3, and 4/18, you could convert all the fractions to a denominator of 54, as in 9/54, 27/54, and 12/54. But the correct procedure is to convert them to a denominator of 18, as in 3/18, 9/18, and 4/18 (16/18, or 8/9). And the lowest common denominator is only 1 if the numbers are all integers. You can't express 1/6 as a fraction of integers with a denominator of 1.
For more, see Wikipedia.
Yeah, but this is /., so of course if a technical definition exists, whether it's really what TFA meant or not, someone is going to quote it.
You have a point - we're doing all these things to "catch the terrorists," but if we can't catch a bunch of home-grown environmental or animal-rights extremists, how are we going to catch the guys with multi-billion dollar backers and training camps.
We have a God Box (hideously old campus tour picture here) at IIT. It's the only building designed by "less is more" Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for purely religious purposes. It's not really for sale, though if someone would like to pay for the renovation, I'm sure we could work something out.
Yeah really, someone call me when it hits a five- or ten-year low. Then we celebrate... er... feel sorry for them.
You know, 'cause it'll make a huge difference if Earth is inside the red giant star or slightly outside of it...
Uh, uh - you're thinking logically, try to think like a lawyer for a big company.
I guess that's why the second word on my degree is "engineering" not "management" or "law". That's also probably why my income is yet to cross the magical number where I start thinking that the captial gains tax is a bad thing. :)
But yeah, why work hard and do something right, when you can work occasionally, do it wrong, but not have anyone (with power) question your actions? I think instead of wiki-fying the patent registration system, we should wiki-fy the laws... how's that for not thinking logically?
Problem is more with trademark law than apple methinks.
Bingo. This sounds similar to the story about Google telling media organizations to be cautious about using the words "Google" and "google" now that "google" is in the OED. If you don't at least make an effort to defend, your options on even the most blatant cases get much more difficult.
Except that it isn't over 80% any more. The latest stats I saw (July 2006 I think) put IE at 73-75% and falling - still very high, but not nearly as dominant. Certain markets (universities, for instance) have much, much lower rates.
IE7 may change that, as many recent Firefox converts may switch back when it comes through as a security release. The real wildcard though is just how much marketshare Apple is really capturing - IE will never again be available for Mac, and if they (Apple) are to be believed, they had something like 15-20% of the laptop sales marketshare last quarter (or month...too many stats!), and are growing. It may be a case of too little, too late, but with Vista and Leopard we could see a swing in browser marketshare not seen since IE trounced Netscape.
Hmmm...well in that case, someone go edit the Wikipedia entry on "computers" and allow them to store data at the bit level. Also, I heard somewhere where computers in Africa have tripled in the past six months!
Maybe. OS X 10.4 (Tiger) was the first version of OS X to support 64-bit, and some apps use it, but the Intel switch happened too soon for many to start using it (since the first Intel processors were only 32-bit, leaving the iMac G5 and PowerMac G5 the only 64-bit capable Macs before the Mac Pro). Leopard (OS X 10.5) will definitely use more 64-bit stuff, as the new Cocoa/Carbon libraries will be in 64-bit with native 64 and 32-bit support. At a minimum, I'd expect Apple to convert a lot of the pro and iLife apps to 64-bit, as they tend to use their own technologies pretty quickly (for obvious reasons).
So for Windows, 64-bit may not be a big deal, but for OS X, there should be more support very soon.
WMP for Mac is dead.
Office for Mac is neutered in the next iteration (no VB).
MS won't be necessary for Mac much longer, especially if iWork '07 has a good spreadsheet.
You know, having Arnold Schwarzenegger as "the governor of In & Out" somehow just seems to work very well.
Isn't everything that allows for a not easily listed number of possible inputs/outputs (like a blog, as opposed to a "yes/no" question) possibly a security risk if you don't clamp down on what is done with those inputs/outputs? I like that people are discussing this sort of thing and hopefully encouraging other to prevent this, but once again the /. title makes it sound like all RSS feeds are a risk - when really, just the unsecured, unvalidated ones are.
No, but I'm not sure I want a constant connection to my bank open either. It's like running a package through a gauntlet - make it through by running fast, but then only run back when it's safe. Stay in the gauntlet and someone's bound to grab you.
Yeah, it just dumps whatever the response was into your holder. I mostly just use it to go get new data from a DB then put it into a or something on the page. I guess you could though chain whatever Javascript you wanted into the onreadystatechange function, but that'd require you to know what to do after the response AND have the code available to write in before the response is gained - something simple like change the color of the box to the backgroundcolor of a returned could be done if you do it right, but it wouldn't be fun or simple or maybe even get where you want it.
Actually, that does work with XHTML if you have the PHP (or whatever) file properly construct the responseText and throw it into a as the responseHolder. I mean, it doesn't actually know that it is XHTML, but it still works as such (i.e., applies stylesheets, validates, etc.)
You have an 05 AND an 06?!
The iPod2Car Toyota version works well enough for my 04. Steering wheel controls work, but no video (I like seeing my map all the time anyway). I bought a little Monster dashboard attachment and placed the thing to the left of my steering wheel (little vertical space available on the Prius dashboard). Works great.
Exactly, it's not hard to remember today, or yesterday, or the day before that. A bit obvious, sure...
Isn't that the point of wrapper libraries? To make repetitive, commonly used tasks like this one more convenient?
Absolutely. I just consider myself still in the learning phase of the AJAX part of my web apps (good with PHP, good with XHTML/CSS, not so great with advanced Javascript), so I like to do some of the common repetitive things so I'm not doing a typical plug and chug job at coding without understanding well what's going on underneath. It's mostly just for my own benefit - I see too many jump into libraries without understanding really what they do, and then throwing their hands up when the library does something they weren't expecting. But it's good to know that Prototype works that well - I'll have to look into it once I'm a bit more comfortable with what I'm doing.
IE5...pfft...compatibility...who needs that?
I failed to mention that I develop mostly internal apps for a very small organization, not for public consumption, so I can get away with demanding that everyone has a particular class of browser.