That's a fast insect to make such a smooth long streak. Assuming an exposure time of 1/60th of a second, and a 30 degree angle of view, the insect flying at a distance of say 15cm from the camera, we can calculate using Pythagoras... ah sod it who cares.
Down side (or upside if you have opposing view) of such weapons is that US will have a lower hurdle to invade rogue nations such as North Korea, which even though in theory is desirable, will cause unpredictable consequences in the long run.
Hate to break it to you, but you can rely on 'unpredictability' regardless of whether you pick inaction or action. That cant be the criterion used to decide what to do. Who could have predicted 1945 back in 1933?
Maybe they should be investing billions in those crystal ball thingies, instead of lasers!
Phew, for a second there, I thought there might exist evil in the world that could not be blamed on The Evil Fascist American Empire.
Thanks for keeping me on-track there, groupthinkwise!
Perhaps we could call it Microsoft ID instead? Why fluff it up with a name, call it as it is. The government gives us social security numbers so they can know who we and track us.. why not let Microsoft have the same power?... um.. because!!
+4 Insightful? I'd have thought this might make 'Funny' by the admittedly lenient comedic standards of this forum, but... insightful!? Oh lordy!
...This is very clear if you have been following this standardization process at all.
But following the standard process would be like R'ingTFA squared. Why become informed when one can just play to the easily predictable prejudices of the majority? (I thought the news article itself was quite interesting - the screeds of the usual lazy, intelligence-insulting nonsense in the comments have been dissappointing).
Re:handling malformed data is a pretty bad idea ..
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IE Shines On Broken Code
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· Score: 4, Insightful
HTML is out there, and millions of malformed pages exist. Most of this is a result of mistakes by authors, but some of it is a result of the moving target that HTML has presented in the past. While your argument is attractive in principal, in practice it's misguided. The horse has bolted. in 2004, no-one would use a browser that didnt work with a huge proportion of the web's content. This is an area where pragmatism is required. And to respond to the ubiquitous MS-bash, let's step back and remind ourselves that this/. story is also about how various browsers, including the saintly Firefox, can be made to *crash* given certain input. Just thought that should get a mention:) (And BTW, I speak as a Firefox user)
look at the S Korean release of The Cult's "Love", and you'll note the song "Revolution" is missing
Shit. No wonder Korean music stores are going out of business if old Cult CDs are their main source of income.
You can't stand on your molehill and demand all the technology be revised to suit your specific demands
At some point in history, people were finding that when they got home, their hi-fi stereo record player was gone. Some guy invented the door-lock and people revised their doors to suit their demands (stop people nicking their stereo). Of course, the burglars were not impressed with this new development, and eventually they learned how to pick the locks. As a result, door locks never caught on. </glib-ill-thought-out-retort>
I distinctly recall readers' comments in a recent/. article (Ballmer on iPod) which proved that no/.ers actually posess any MP3s obtained illegally from peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.
No, really. It was all stuff ripped from their own personal CD collection and such like. Honest.
saying "I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but..." is one of the oldest karma whoring tricks in the book.
Pffff. Trying the old 'appear perceptive by calling somebody out on their karmic reverse psychology attempt' trick, eh? Second oldest trick in the book.
Skydiving's the same as standing on the ground in that regard (gravity + an equal and opposite force). Due to the density of the ground, the terminal velocity is normally zero metres per second.;-)
That should read "Free-Fall Flights for the Rest of Us". Zero Gravity has a very different meaning, and hasn't been an acceptable substitute for "free-fall" in 20+ years.
Bah. This is pedantry. (on slashdot!?)
Astronauts floating in the space shuttle are experiencing 'free fall' rather than 'zero gravity'. But not many people would quibble with using the term 'zero gravity' in that instance. The zero G experienced on this plane is the same zero G experienced by astronauts in orbiting vehicles.
And skydiving isnt very similar at all - you'll reach terminal velocity quickly and will 'feel' the force of gravity thereafter. Not to mention it's a lot windier. Skydiving on the moon on the other hand... just dont come crying to me when your parachute doesnt work.
If you remove "all traces" of IE then presumably you are also removing things like wininet [snip]
From a brief search, it looks like 'wininet' is just a library of internet-protocol-related functions. The API is even documented! If you regard any library used by IE as being a part of IE then of course that makes it nigh on impossible to 'remove IE' without affecting other programs that use the same library. However, I think most sane people would regard that interpretation of what constitutes IE as extreme.
I notice my copy of Firefox has wininet.dll loaded. Does that mean firefox is part of IE, or IE is part of Firefox?;-)
A couple of other wininet clients currently running on my PC: Google's gmail notifier app. Acrobat reader.
Seeing as Avalon probably isnt going to make it to LongHorn, which is due out, oooh, some time 2007!?
I see this is modded 'interesting'.
Interesting, I have to presume, in the way that the statement "spider monkeys built the Great Wall of China" might be regarded as interesting.
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Which are normally a lot smaller than their win32 counterparts, in my experience.
But anyway, admit it, you were just having a whinge (Neville).
Merry Christmas.
i guess it needs that 4mb of memory for the huge .net binary?
RTFA: the CLR that runs on the chip is 132 kilobytes.
[NB: The word 'dumbass' was deleted from this post to increase politeness quotient]
My god, that shit beats Nostradamus hands down.
They got the lamppost and everything.
That's a fast insect to make such a smooth long streak.
Assuming an exposure time of 1/60th of a second, and a 30 degree angle of view, the insect flying at a distance of say 15cm from the camera, we can calculate using Pythagoras... ah sod it who cares.
the image is not digitally enhanced
Read the text, the guy 'insists' it's not digitally enhanced.
I dunno what the fuss is about - it's probably just a tiny little alien spaceplane.
Those of you blocking ads on slashdot better be paying for your subscription.
Why's that, since I never click ads anyway?
(PS: I also fast forward through adverts on the telly - sorry about that)
Down side (or upside if you have opposing view) of such weapons is that US will have a lower hurdle to invade rogue nations such as North Korea, which even though in theory is desirable, will cause unpredictable consequences in the long run.
Hate to break it to you, but you can rely on 'unpredictability' regardless of whether you pick inaction or action. That cant be the criterion used to decide what to do. Who could have predicted 1945 back in 1933?
Maybe they should be investing billions in those crystal ball thingies, instead of lasers!
"--
Donate background CPU time to fight cancer."
Alternatively, switch off your PC to fight global warming.
Phew, for a second there, I thought there might exist evil in the world that could not be blamed on The Evil Fascist American Empire. Thanks for keeping me on-track there, groupthinkwise!
Perhaps we could call it Microsoft ID instead? Why fluff it up with a name, call it as it is. The government gives us social security numbers so they can know who we and track us.. why not let Microsoft have the same power?... um.. because!!
+4 Insightful?
I'd have thought this might make 'Funny' by the admittedly lenient comedic standards of this forum, but... insightful!?
Oh lordy!
Thankyou, for being genuinely informative.
...This is very clear if you have been following this standardization process at all.
But following the standard process would be like R'ingTFA squared.
Why become informed when one can just play to the easily predictable prejudices of the majority?
(I thought the news article itself was quite interesting - the screeds of the usual lazy, intelligence-insulting nonsense in the comments have been dissappointing).
HTML is out there, and millions of malformed pages exist. Most of this is a result of mistakes by authors, but some of it is a result of the moving target that HTML has presented in the past. /. story is also about how various browsers, including the saintly Firefox, can be made to *crash* given certain input. Just thought that should get a mention :)
While your argument is attractive in principal, in practice it's misguided. The horse has bolted. in 2004, no-one would use a browser that didnt work with a huge proportion of the web's content. This is an area where pragmatism is required.
And to respond to the ubiquitous MS-bash, let's step back and remind ourselves that this
(And BTW, I speak as a Firefox user)
Just went to the first 'die, mozilla' link in this guy's gallery of deadly HTML pages, and my browser promptly GPF'd.
o nance-episode>
F**kin useless Microcrap winblows Billy Gate$ piece of shi...
oh...
Hang on...
I'm running Firefox 1.0 PR...
</MS-basher-cognitive-dissonance-episode>
Whuh? How?! It cant be!... KHAAAAAAAANN!!!!!!!!!
</MS-basher-cognitive-diss
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Yahh, uhm... Huh?
I checked with them.
Apparently the planes will simply crash through the cables - diverting idea too much hassle.
look at the S Korean release of The Cult's "Love", and you'll note the song "Revolution" is missing
Shit. No wonder Korean music stores are going out of business if old Cult CDs are their main source of income.
You can't stand on your molehill and demand all the technology be revised to suit your specific demands
At some point in history, people were finding that when they got home, their hi-fi stereo record player was gone. Some guy invented the door-lock and people revised their doors to suit their demands (stop people nicking their stereo). Of course, the burglars were not impressed with this new development, and eventually they learned how to pick the locks. As a result, door locks never caught on. </glib-ill-thought-out-retort>
Meh.
I distinctly recall readers' comments in a recent /. article (Ballmer on iPod) which proved that no /.ers actually posess any MP3s obtained illegally from peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.
No, really. It was all stuff ripped from their own personal CD collection and such like. Honest.
saying "I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but ..." is one of the oldest karma whoring tricks in the book.
Pffff.
Trying the old 'appear perceptive by calling somebody out on their karmic reverse psychology attempt' trick, eh? Second oldest trick in the book.
Skydiving's the same as standing on the ground in that regard (gravity + an equal and opposite force). ;-)
Due to the density of the ground, the terminal velocity is normally zero metres per second.
That should read "Free-Fall Flights for the Rest of Us". Zero Gravity has a very different meaning, and hasn't been an acceptable substitute for "free-fall" in 20+ years.
Bah. This is pedantry. (on slashdot!?)
Astronauts floating in the space shuttle are experiencing 'free fall' rather than 'zero gravity'. But not many people would quibble with using the term 'zero gravity' in that instance.
The zero G experienced on this plane is the same zero G experienced by astronauts in orbiting vehicles.
And skydiving isnt very similar at all - you'll reach terminal velocity quickly and will 'feel' the force of gravity thereafter. Not to mention it's a lot windier. Skydiving on the moon on the other hand... just dont come crying to me when your parachute doesnt work.
Interesting. So all in all a bit of an evolved unrefactored mess.
Thank goodness for System.Net...
If you remove "all traces" of IE then presumably you are also removing things like wininet [snip]
;-)
From a brief search, it looks like 'wininet' is just a library of internet-protocol-related functions. The API is even documented!
If you regard any library used by IE as being a part of IE then of course that makes it nigh on impossible to 'remove IE' without affecting other programs that use the same library.
However, I think most sane people would regard that interpretation of what constitutes IE as extreme.
I notice my copy of Firefox has wininet.dll loaded.
Does that mean firefox is part of IE, or IE is part of Firefox?
A couple of other wininet clients currently running on my PC:
Google's gmail notifier app.
Acrobat reader.
Disclaimer: IANAWininetExpert.
No, he's just a fasci[hh]st.
You are Neil from The Young Ones, AICMFP (of brown rice).
Okay, who modded that interesting? Whoever it was, I chuckled.
Seeing as Avalon probably isnt going to make it to LongHorn, which is due out, oooh, some time 2007!?
I see this is modded 'interesting'.
Interesting, I have to presume, in the way that the statement "spider monkeys built the Great Wall of China" might be regarded as interesting.