POST is supposed to be idempotent. If refreshing the page causes the server's back-end code to repeat an action, that's a problem with the back-end code, not HTTP.
My understanding is that AdBlock on Chrome doesn't work the same as it does on Firefox. On Firefox it blocks the downloading of black-listed items; on Chrome it just blocks the rendering. So your browser still makes bandwidth-wasting requests to ad-brokers, and sends and receives cookies to them, you just don't see the results. Which is not really the same thing.
The macro versions evaluate their arguments twice which can be a trap for the unwary, e.g: min(foo++, bar) increments foo twice if you are unlucky. Inline functions solve this issue without the overhead of function calls.
It works pretty well most of the time for me. There are several algorithms used for program break detection. The ones that seem to work best are blank frame detection and station logo detection. I find it works well on Discovery, A&E, CBC Newsworld and Speed TV (blank frames), and AMC and other movie channels (logo detection down in the black letterbox bars). It works passably on network TV but tends to get a bit confused when they run the final seconds of the show and the credits in a sidebar next to station promos.
You don't need to charge to enforce time limits. It is perfectly possible to have a "Max stay 1 hour" rule (enforced by ticketing or towing violators) without needing to charge everyone who doesn't overstay their welcome.
Canadian's don't carry cash. Period. At least not Canadians under 30. This is one area in which the US and Canada are vastly different... cash is now hardly used for any transactions in Canada anymore, at all.
I think perhaps you are overstating the case. I rarely have less than a couple of hundred dollars in my wallet, and I see people pay with cash in supermarkets and so on probably around one third of the time.
And if you never pay for anything with cash, how do you accumulate change for parking meters and such?
The logic is quite simple: if you can't live without something, then get a guarantee in writing, and pay the premium for that extra service. In Gmail's case, there is no premium service, so you'd better start looking elsewhere.
Actually there is. Gmail is available as part of Google Apps for Your Domain. Premier Edition costs $50 per user per year and offers a 3-nines uptime guarantee.
It has been used for quite a while in the service industry. Churning means the loss of customers to other service providers.
It also implies the gain of new customers leaving those same competitors. It's a dynamic equilibrium, a zero-sum game, customers flowing back and forth like a churning sea with no net effect except all the associated costs. It's viewed as a Bad Thing.
... only companies that have an IT department [have Exchange]
That's not quite true. Exchange is part of Small Business Server, a bundle that also includes Windows Server 2003, SQL Server, Sharepoint Server and a bunch of configuration tools that make setting the thing up relatively easy even if you don't have an IT department. SBS is significantly less than $1k when you buy it preinstalled on a new machine and it's pretty popular with small businesses.
>>> NOOOOOOO!!!! We NEED these people! The WWW is supported by ads. >> This meme must die. Advertising pays for nothing. > Do you like Slashdot as it exists today? It would not be here in its present form without advertising. Period.
I don't think the GP is arguing against that per se. Rather, he is pointing out that advertising does not "pay" for anything in the sense of magically producing money from thin air; the money that Slashdot gets from advertisers they get in turn from consumers through the increased cost of good and services that are advertised.
Wouldn't it be better if we cut out the middle men, and all the disfigurement of our world that they generate, and just paid directly for those services that are currently ad-supported? The net cost to us would be unchanged (indeed reduced even, since the advertising business takes a cut) and the world would be prettier.
UNC paths (\\computer\share\filepath) have worked for as long as LAN Manager networking has been built into Windows
Not everywhere, which I think was the point of the GP complaint. Universal Naming Convention paths are not actually universal, which means in practice you often have to avoid using them.
C:\>cd \\nickel\sharedocs '\\nickel\sharedocs' CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories.
The circle is off; the bar is on; a broken circle with a bar protruding from it is Standby; and a circle with a bar inside it is to be used on a push switch which toggles between on and off. These latter two are often misapplied.
An easy way to remember them is that 0=off and 1=on, although the standard is a pains to point out that the symbols are circle and bar not the numerals one and zero.
How is USB not a viable alternative [to serial and parallel ports]? It's a fixed form port that can be upgraded in speed while maintaining backwards compatibility.
The USB frame structure imposes a minimum 1ms latency on any end-to-end transaction. Even though USB-serial adapters can support high baud rates, repeated query/response transactions will not go faster than the limit set by the latency. This is a real problem in some situations. For example, dongles for downloading firmware into microcontrollers can run significantly more slowly on a USB serial adapter than when plugged directly in to a real serial port.
After the difficulty NASA had with the Mars Orbiter back in 1999, and their subsequent determination to speed the transition to using SI units exclusively, it is amusing to see the problem described as a "4-5 inch crack", and the chunk that fell off as a "0.00057 pound, 3 inch piece". Wouldn't 0.25 g be clearer than 0.00057 lb? Exactly how long can transition take?
For businesses wanting online storage and sharing of files, an obvious contender not mentioned in the article is Microsoft's Sharepoint, which is available as a hosted service from a number of providers such as Apptix (who have a free 30-day trial).
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I think pd, like LabVIEW, primarily shows the flow of data, not execution. They are data-flow diagrams, not flow charts in the traditional sense.
POST is supposed to be idempotent. If refreshing the page causes the server's back-end code to repeat an action, that's a problem with the back-end code, not HTTP.
AFAIK in the American legal system ...
British Columbia is in Canada, not America.
My understanding is that AdBlock on Chrome doesn't work the same as it does on Firefox. On Firefox it blocks the downloading of black-listed items; on Chrome it just blocks the rendering. So your browser still makes bandwidth-wasting requests to ad-brokers, and sends and receives cookies to them, you just don't see the results. Which is not really the same thing.
The macro versions evaluate their arguments twice which can be a trap for the unwary, e.g: min(foo++, bar) increments foo twice if you are unlucky. Inline functions solve this issue without the overhead of function calls.
In FF 3.6 the Tools|Options|Privacy dialog has a checkbox labeled "Accept third-party cookies". It has been there for a while.
There isn't a single decent client application made in Java.
eclipse?
It works pretty well most of the time for me. There are several algorithms used for program break detection. The ones that seem to work best are blank frame detection and station logo detection. I find it works well on Discovery, A&E, CBC Newsworld and Speed TV (blank frames), and AMC and other movie channels (logo detection down in the black letterbox bars). It works passably on network TV but tends to get a bit confused when they run the final seconds of the show and the credits in a sidebar next to station promos.
You don't need to charge to enforce time limits. It is perfectly possible to have a "Max stay 1 hour" rule (enforced by ticketing or towing violators) without needing to charge everyone who doesn't overstay their welcome.
Ten out of 200 is five percent, not half.
On-street meters in downtown Vancouver still take quarters and loonies.
I think perhaps you are overstating the case. I rarely have less than a couple of hundred dollars in my wallet, and I see people pay with cash in supermarkets and so on probably around one third of the time.
And if you never pay for anything with cash, how do you accumulate change for parking meters and such?
Actually there is. Gmail is available as part of Google Apps for Your Domain. Premier Edition costs $50 per user per year and offers a 3-nines uptime guarantee.
Hello, American 'bad salmonella peanuts'! Corruption and shoddiness exists the world over.
It also implies the gain of new customers leaving those same competitors. It's a dynamic equilibrium, a zero-sum game, customers flowing back and forth like a churning sea with no net effect except all the associated costs. It's viewed as a Bad Thing.
That's not quite true. Exchange is part of Small Business Server, a bundle that also includes Windows Server 2003, SQL Server, Sharepoint Server and a bunch of configuration tools that make setting the thing up relatively easy even if you don't have an IT department. SBS is significantly less than $1k when you buy it preinstalled on a new machine and it's pretty popular with small businesses.
>>> NOOOOOOO!!!! We NEED these people! The WWW is supported by ads.
>> This meme must die. Advertising pays for nothing.
> Do you like Slashdot as it exists today? It would not be here in its present form without advertising. Period.
I don't think the GP is arguing against that per se. Rather, he is pointing out that advertising does not "pay" for anything in the sense of magically producing money from thin air; the money that Slashdot gets from advertisers they get in turn from consumers through the increased cost of good and services that are advertised.
Wouldn't it be better if we cut out the middle men, and all the disfigurement of our world that they generate, and just paid directly for those services that are currently ad-supported? The net cost to us would be unchanged (indeed reduced even, since the advertising business takes a cut) and the world would be prettier.
Not everywhere, which I think was the point of the GP complaint. Universal Naming Convention paths are not actually universal, which means in practice you often have to avoid using them.
C:\>cd \\nickel\sharedocs
'\\nickel\sharedocs'
CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories.
These symbols come from IEC 60417.
The circle is off; the bar is on; a broken circle with a bar protruding from it is Standby; and a circle with a bar inside it is to be used on a push switch which toggles between on and off. These latter two are often misapplied.
An easy way to remember them is that 0=off and 1=on, although the standard is a pains to point out that the symbols are circle and bar not the numerals one and zero.
Shot noise in diodes under reverse breakdown is a typical way to generate noise.
The USB frame structure imposes a minimum 1ms latency on any end-to-end transaction. Even though USB-serial adapters can support high baud rates, repeated query/response transactions will not go faster than the limit set by the latency. This is a real problem in some situations. For example, dongles for downloading firmware into microcontrollers can run significantly more slowly on a USB serial adapter than when plugged directly in to a real serial port.
I can solve one of those problems for you:
MGTEK dopisp iPod plug-in for Windows Media Player
Who can top Osborne's "If you think this model is great, just wait to see what we'll have for you next year!"?
Gerald Ratner and his "it's total crap" speech, perhaps. (Although that was not a high-tech company).
After the difficulty NASA had with the Mars Orbiter back in 1999, and their subsequent determination to speed the transition to using SI units exclusively, it is amusing to see the problem described as a "4-5 inch crack", and the chunk that fell off as a "0.00057 pound, 3 inch piece". Wouldn't 0.25 g be clearer than 0.00057 lb? Exactly how long can transition take?
For businesses wanting online storage and sharing of files, an obvious contender not mentioned in the article is Microsoft's Sharepoint, which is available as a hosted service from a number of providers such as Apptix (who have a free 30-day trial).