The situation was interesting in Britain where, although we have a state religion, there are also a large number of other branches of Christianity, largely as a result of the roundhead victory in the Civil War. With the puritans came a wide range of nonconformist churches: Quakers, congregationalists, anabaptists, eventually methodists and so on. But these grew up in the context of the Reformation and never became significantly extreme. Whereas in America, although the founding fathers were deeply religious types who set out from Britain with the intention of founding a religious community, there was no state religion. The various sects and churches that grew up did so in far more isolation from the technological developments that, up till the 19th century, were largely centred on Europe. When technology did arrive and the USA took the lead in technological development a lot of these small churches had their world views shattered. I think they're going through what the Roman Catholic church in Europe went through with Copernicus and Galileo, and displaying much the same unhealthy response.
But that was presumably written by someone at MIT where, as far as I know, they speak English. Well, American English at any rate, which I suppose is similar to the real thing.
It looks like they picked the wrong person, then: MummaGraphics has already turned its attention to suing spammers and is so far undefeated in court. I suspect a countersuit, if appropriate, is not too far away.
Apple's intolerance aside, that article kind of makes amusing reading these days, insinuating that Apple were going for looks yet delivering poor hardware and software that was worse than Microsoft's. As it turns out their hardware, software and looks were all good... But that whole article reads kind of trollish anyway.
It could still fetch and obey robots.txt but I still don't see why it should have to identify itself as a spider. It may well be in an RFC, but until someone provides a particularly splendid reason why not, I say the RFC is wrong on this one.
Why don't they just make their spider lie about its identity, the same way that mozilla and konqueror can do? I just don't see why a website should need to know that a spider rather than a browser is looking at it, and in fact this type of exploit is kind of obvious (ok, ok, with hindsight). But websites should send spiders exactly the same as they would send to IE or 'zilla, so there is surely no reason for their user-agent strings not to mimic the user-agents provided by IE.
Did they? Please tell me when, exactly, as a European, I specifically voted to have a moderately-dictarorial-but-thankfully-not-too-mali gnant Commission in charge? No? Perhaps you could tell me when I (a Briton) had a realistic choice between two parties, one of which wanted to sign up to Europe or remain within it, and the other of which didn't? The {EEC|EC|EU} happened because it was an inevitability after the war and with regard to the Soviet threat, but the organisations by which it is governed are not all democratic in a meaningful sense. To invoke Godwin's law: you may as well say that the Nazis under Hitler were democratic because they were voted into power in 1933.
I'm not arguing that that's how it is, but it's still really stupid given that you can only get, say, Dolly Parton, through one label. The fact that they in some way compete with other record labels doesn't really help if you only want Dolly Parton records, because you can still only get those from the one source.
You can prove not only that there is an algorithm to find the primes, but there is an algorithm to find any sequence of numbers you care to produce. It's a really ugly formula though (and generates lots of spurious negative answers), and not particularly interesting. See "The Music of the Primes" (search on Amazon or somewhere) for details.
Just like what these guys are offering - a certificate, but not a certified one, according to what the article said. You'll get the same warning dialogue from their certificate as from the OpenSSL one, but you can make an OpenSSL one at home.
I guess this means they want to brand one of their 64-bit chips as the Pentium "five", which "viiv" sounds a bit like if you're a moron. Move along folks, nothing to see here...
It may not be quite ready to replace MS Office, in the sense of a large organisation with lots of Word, Excel etc. files that would need converting (though I can't recall ever having had a problem, even with some fairly macro-heavy documents), but it's certainly ready to take the place of MS Office for a new company without the legacy of old documents. There may be the odd thing that MSO does that OOo doesn't, but you can still probably do it another (better!) way in OOo.
Uhh... if the only copy of their data is a website somewhere, then they're idiots (albeit Real Men). So the feds have confiscated their backups; restore from the originals (or, in the case of web-sourced data, mirrors that they should regularly / continuously take). There's no excuse for relying on a provider for anything more than connectivity; if you need more than that (in terms of security, for example) you ought to be your own provider.
Uhh... isn't it just called choice? You don't *have* to use all those horrid nonconformist applications out there - if you stick to applications beginning with the letter K you should be okay. (Tongue planted only partway into my cheek)
Apples and oranges here. You seem to be comparing postscript with {$SOMETHING_FASTER} on your PC; the parent is comparing postscript on a printer with $FASTEST_OPTION on a PC. The printer was more capable than the PC owing to its specialized hardware.
I have an iPod and generally love it, but those white earbuds are awful. I threw them out nearly straight away; it's much nicer listening to your iPod through a pair of decent Sennheisers.
I like some MS hardware - my current mouse is an optical intellimouse - but this one just looks unusable. Depending on which bits the buttons are, they're either in a totally awkward place round the side, or they run the whole length of the mouse so you can never rest your wrist without accidentally clicking. Give all your users RSI - way to go MS.
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The situation was interesting in Britain where, although we have a state religion, there are also a large number of other branches of Christianity, largely as a result of the roundhead victory in the Civil War. With the puritans came a wide range of nonconformist churches: Quakers, congregationalists, anabaptists, eventually methodists and so on. But these grew up in the context of the Reformation and never became significantly extreme. Whereas in America, although the founding fathers were deeply religious types who set out from Britain with the intention of founding a religious community, there was no state religion. The various sects and churches that grew up did so in far more isolation from the technological developments that, up till the 19th century, were largely centred on Europe. When technology did arrive and the USA took the lead in technological development a lot of these small churches had their world views shattered. I think they're going through what the Roman Catholic church in Europe went through with Copernicus and Galileo, and displaying much the same unhealthy response.
But that was presumably written by someone at MIT where, as far as I know, they speak English. Well, American English at any rate, which I suppose is similar to the real thing.
'Free software is far better on the dimensions of cost, power and quality.'
:-)
But it clearly isn't there yet in terms of grammar checkers
News at 11..........
*yawn*
Slow news day?
It looks like they picked the wrong person, then: MummaGraphics has already turned its attention to suing spammers and is so far undefeated in court. I suspect a countersuit, if appropriate, is not too far away.
Apple's intolerance aside, that article kind of makes amusing reading these days, insinuating that Apple were going for looks yet delivering poor hardware and software that was worse than Microsoft's. As it turns out their hardware, software and looks were all good...
But that whole article reads kind of trollish anyway.
It could still fetch and obey robots.txt but I still don't see why it should have to identify itself as a spider. It may well be in an RFC, but until someone provides a particularly splendid reason why not, I say the RFC is wrong on this one.
Why don't they just make their spider lie about its identity, the same way that mozilla and konqueror can do? I just don't see why a website should need to know that a spider rather than a browser is looking at it, and in fact this type of exploit is kind of obvious (ok, ok, with hindsight). But websites should send spiders exactly the same as they would send to IE or 'zilla, so there is surely no reason for their user-agent strings not to mimic the user-agents provided by IE.
Did they? Please tell me when, exactly, as a European, I specifically voted to have a moderately-dictarorial-but-thankfully-not-too-mali gnant Commission in charge? No? Perhaps you could tell me when I (a Briton) had a realistic choice between two parties, one of which wanted to sign up to Europe or remain within it, and the other of which didn't?
The {EEC|EC|EU} happened because it was an inevitability after the war and with regard to the Soviet threat, but the organisations by which it is governed are not all democratic in a meaningful sense. To invoke Godwin's law: you may as well say that the Nazis under Hitler were democratic because they were voted into power in 1933.
I'm not arguing that that's how it is, but it's still really stupid given that you can only get, say, Dolly Parton, through one label. The fact that they in some way compete with other record labels doesn't really help if you only want Dolly Parton records, because you can still only get those from the one source.
You can prove not only that there is an algorithm to find the primes, but there is an algorithm to find any sequence of numbers you care to produce. It's a really ugly formula though (and generates lots of spurious negative answers), and not particularly interesting. See "The Music of the Primes" (search on Amazon or somewhere) for details.
> Then, one day, I had an epiphany and started writing code that is about 10 times slower than my old code
Did you get a job at Microsoft, then?
Isn't privoxy great? :-)
Just like what these guys are offering - a certificate, but not a certified one, according to what the article said. You'll get the same warning dialogue from their certificate as from the OpenSSL one, but you can make an OpenSSL one at home.
It's the original slashdot route to riches:
...
1) Buy stuff cheap
2) Add value
3) Profit!
I guess this means they want to brand one of their 64-bit chips as the Pentium "five", which "viiv" sounds a bit like if you're a moron. Move along folks, nothing to see here...
It may not be quite ready to replace MS Office, in the sense of a large organisation with lots of Word, Excel etc. files that would need converting (though I can't recall ever having had a problem, even with some fairly macro-heavy documents), but it's certainly ready to take the place of MS Office for a new company without the legacy of old documents. There may be the odd thing that MSO does that OOo doesn't, but you can still probably do it another (better!) way in OOo.
That seems to be a pretty comprehensive recording package. I'm guessing this is more a mixing / editing / adding MIDI type of program?
Uhh... if the only copy of their data is a website somewhere, then they're idiots (albeit Real Men). So the feds have confiscated their backups; restore from the originals (or, in the case of web-sourced data, mirrors that they should regularly / continuously take). There's no excuse for relying on a provider for anything more than connectivity; if you need more than that (in terms of security, for example) you ought to be your own provider.
Uhh... isn't it just called choice? You don't *have* to use all those horrid nonconformist applications out there - if you stick to applications beginning with the letter K you should be okay. (Tongue planted only partway into my cheek)
Apples and oranges here. You seem to be comparing postscript with {$SOMETHING_FASTER} on your PC; the parent is comparing postscript on a printer with $FASTEST_OPTION on a PC. The printer was more capable than the PC owing to its specialized hardware.
I have an iPod and generally love it, but those white earbuds are awful. I threw them out nearly straight away; it's much nicer listening to your iPod through a pair of decent Sennheisers.
It's actually 1994 and the editors are using a brand-spanking-new Intel Pentium (ding-ding ding-DING!) chip to do their math. Oh, wait...
Our five-minute rule works the other way round: if there's a meeting scheduled for 0900 it's unacceptable to arrive later than 0855.
I like some MS hardware - my current mouse is an optical intellimouse - but this one just looks unusable. Depending on which bits the buttons are, they're either in a totally awkward place round the side, or they run the whole length of the mouse so you can never rest your wrist without accidentally clicking. Give all your users RSI - way to go MS.