Here's a list [wikipedia.org] of used date formats in various countries. Looks like Canada has them all.;)
I wonder if that list is correct. I am a European, and a lot of European countries uses the (much more logical) order of "dd mm yyyy" or "yyyy mm dd", but to my knowledge they use dots or dashes as a separator. So I see a lot of dd.mm.yyyy, dd-mm-yyyy, yyyy.mm.dd and yyyy-mm-dd, while dd/mm/yyyy is quite rare.
Second, the "don't draw Allah or we'll riot" bit is irrelevant. They're doing all their rioting in their country; we can "dis" their religion all we want here and they can't do jack-shit about it!
I agree entirely with the "I would rather die in a terrorist attack than have the government take away everybody's freedom" part.
I also agree with the GP about some islamists trying to take away our freedom of speech. They are using murder, death threaths and violent attacks to reach that goal, and they are succeeding. See examples below.
However, please note that there is no connection between the two, so you can actually fight both at the same time. Western governments use their freedom oppressing powers to look for terrorist attacks against the general public, not for protecting individuals who are in danger after having used their freedom of speech.
Examples of islamists oppressing freedom in our part of the world:
UK, Salman Rushdie:
"He is best known for the violent criticism his book The Satanic Verses (1988) provoked in the Muslim community. After death threats and a fatwa by Ruhollah Khomeini, calling for his assassination, he spent years underground." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
Holland, Theo van Gogh (after using his free speech to critisize Islam):
"Mohammed Bouyeri murdered van Gogh in the early morning of Tuesday November 2, 2004, in Amsterdam in front of the Amsterdam East borough office (stadsdeelkantoor) on the corner of the Linnaeusstraat and Tweede Oosterparkstraat streets. He shot him with eight bullets from a HS2000 (a handgun produced in 2000 in Croatia), and Van Gogh died on the spot. Bouyeri slit van Gogh's throat and then stabbed him in the chest. Two knives were left implanted in his torso, one pinning a five-page note to his body. The note (Text) threatened Western governments, Jews and Hirsi Ali (who went into hiding). The note also contains references to the ideologies of the Egyptian organization Takfir wal-Hijra." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_d irector)
Holland, Hirsi Ali:
"Hirsi Ali has had to maintain a high level of security due to threats against her life for voicing views critical of certain aspects of Islam." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali
Denmark, a lecturer at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute:
"In October 2004, a lecturer at the Niebuhr institute at the University of Copenhagen was assaulted by five assailants who opposed the lecturer's reading of the Qur'an to non-Muslims during a lecture." http://www.ludd.net/retort/msg00556.html
Did I miss a design criteria that states that Linux is designed to meet unix specs? I don't recall seeing one...
Did I miss a design criteria that states that IE is designed to meet W3C standards? I don't recall seeing one...
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If you are looking to see if it has similar power to Photoshop without having to learn a new interface, try GimpShop
After testing the Windows version (2.1.8) found at plasticbugs.com for a few minutes:
In PS, Ctrl-T while clicking on an object will select that object's layer. In GS, this does not work, exactly as in Gimp. But the Gimp method of PgUp/PgDn to select next/previous layer works.
In PS, while moving, both the outer edges and the center of the object will snap to guides. In GS, only outer edges will snap, exactly as in Gimp. I quite often want to make the center snap, so this one is really annoying.
In PS, while scaling, holding down Shift will preserve the aspect ratio, and holding down Alt will scale around center. In GS, none of these works, exactly as in Gimp. Also quite annoying.
I am not saying that the interface of GimpShop is bad, but it is not a PS interface. I would call it a Gimp interface with rearranged menus.
By the way, not related to the UI: Crashing this application is as easy as File | New | Cancel. Instant crash for me everytime. The Gimp (2.2.11) is able to survive that.
How is setting prices based on "competition" different than doing it based off of supply and demand?
I think the GP - perhaps a bit clumsily - was trying to explain that even if a company have no competitors, the number of sold items will usually still depend on the price of the product.
ROFL you think only amatuers can understand that GMT is a globaly accepted time? Obviously if the time isnt stated what zone its in then its safe to assume its in GMT!
No, it is never safe to assume that a time is GMT unless it is stated. Most of the time a lack of timezone info only indicates that the writer did not expect that someone could be living in another timezone than himself. Quite often, that writer lives in a timezone which is 4-6 hours behind GMT.
Schedule Day 3. July 16th 14:50 Start of Broadcast 15:00 The Five vs Pure. 15:20 I R O N vs Dusk and Dawn 15:40 OPUS Alliance vs Veritas Immortalis 16:00 Red Alliance vs Fate Weavers
Nowhere on that page do they tell what timezone the schedule is based on.
Nowhere on that page do they tell what time it is right now in the timezone the schedule is based on.
... in other news scientist are using RFID embedded socks with RFID enabled dryers to solve one of the greatest mysteries of our time. Where do all the missing socks go?
Really. When I first read about web advertising 10 years ago, this was one of the models described. I think it was heavily used by some online bookstores where the website showing the ads would receive a percentage of that customers sale.
It took some time for web designers to come out as a distinct subgroup that can take advantage of the uncertainty.
Don't you mean "It will take some time for web designers..."
It seems to me that they still (or even more than earlier) want to control the exact layout of a web page. I see lots of web pages where the width is artificially limited to 5-700 pixels - which looks quite strange on a 1600x1200, especially with increased text size (which may be necessary if said 1600x1200 is only 15").
Police: "Why not? If you're innocent, you have nothing to hide!""
No one ever includes the last line of this dialogue. Do I have to do everything?
Guy: That's right, I have nothing to hide, so quit wasting my time, your time, my tax dollars and fuck off unless you have a warrant.
Actually, i think this is more appropriate:
Guy: I have lot of things to hide from you and from the rest of the world. All of it quite legal. That is why we have laws protecting us from nosy police without warrants.
I really, really hate the assumption that innocent people have nothing to hide. It is wrong and manipulative.
You are right, they are pure datafiles which arn't executed. They are HTML datafiles through and they are automatically and immediatly rendered via Internet Explorer in the dialog box
Thank you. Sometimes it is quite annoying to see all those descriptions of attacks which does nothing to describe how downloaded content is executed. It seems that a lot of people think that this needs no explanation. Probably because they think that as soon a malicious file is downloaded on the computer, the OS is somehow automagically infected without anything executing the content of said file.
"LCDs become fuzzy when set to a non-native resolution."
Not inherently. By my calculation this screen has a dot pitch of 4.5/sqrt(800^2+600^2)*25 = 0.1125. A dot pitch of 0.11 mm is smaller than any CRT I've seen, so this LCD screen should scale a raster display better, not worse, than a CRT.
On a CRT, you can never hit each dot precisely, so every resolution will appear fuzzy. CRT users are used to that fuzziness.
LCD users running native resolution with a digital video feed are not used to such a thing, so the fuzziness that appears when running non native resolutions can feel quite disturbing, even if the dot pitch is equal to that of a typical CRT.
I don't understand the saliva boiling on the tongue.
The boiling temperature of water is dependent on the pressure. At a temperature of 37 C, the boiling pressure of fresh water will be approx. 0.063 bara which is pretty close to 1 psi.
The salts in the saliva will increase the boiling temperature a little. On the other hand there will also be some athmospheric gases dissolved in the water. When you are close to the boiling point, some degassing will occur, which would probably feel like boiling.
And even if there were, you had lots of easier ways to do it than poison pills. The command module did have a crank for the cabin vent, after all.
Unless "command module" is the technical term for the space suit, this would seem related to the space craft, not to the suit used for space walks. So apparently, Jim Lowell was talking about the absence of suicide pills in the cabin of the space craft, not in the suit.
(Well, I guess the suits were stored in the cabin when not in use, but anyway...)
Windows Media Player helpfully downloads license files for you, and if a malicious media file asks for something that's nastier than a license file, well...
Well... what?
I read your Panda link. It describes how the malicious files get downloaded. It does not describe how they then get executed.
I assume that the real license files are pure data files which do not need to be executed after download (the opposite would be an incredibly stupid design decision). In that case, WMP should not have the functionality to execute a downloaded license file. So what happens?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that UNC resources should not use backslashes, only forward slashes. Thus your link should be file://K:/Some Directory/somefile.iso. In my version of Outlook, at least (2003), this gets auto-linkified when I type it.
Unless I misunderstand the concept of UNC resources, this is not a real UNC resource, since I am using drive letter instead of server and share name. Anyway, if it works, use it.
But replacing all the backslashes with slashes is still extra work which is only necessary when the path has spaces in it.
Why would you want an update to a meeting that you aren't going to?
You are joking, right? Or is it completely unimaginable to you that someone might actually decline a meeting invitiation because of the scheduled time for the meeting?
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Remove administrative priviledges from your everyday account.
Keep your software and OS updated.
Do not run software with a bad security record.
I also agree with the GP about some islamists trying to take away our freedom of speech. They are using murder, death threaths and violent attacks to reach that goal, and they are succeeding. See examples below.
However, please note that there is no connection between the two, so you can actually fight both at the same time. Western governments use their freedom oppressing powers to look for terrorist attacks against the general public, not for protecting individuals who are in danger after having used their freedom of speech. Examples of islamists oppressing freedom in our part of the world:
UK, Salman Rushdie:
"He is best known for the violent criticism his book The Satanic Verses (1988) provoked in the Muslim community. After death threats and a fatwa by Ruhollah Khomeini, calling for his assassination, he spent years underground."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
Holland, Theo van Gogh (after using his free speech to critisize Islam):
"Mohammed Bouyeri murdered van Gogh in the early morning of Tuesday November 2, 2004, in Amsterdam in front of the Amsterdam East borough office (stadsdeelkantoor) on the corner of the Linnaeusstraat and Tweede Oosterparkstraat streets. He shot him with eight bullets from a HS2000 (a handgun produced in 2000 in Croatia), and Van Gogh died on the spot. Bouyeri slit van Gogh's throat and then stabbed him in the chest. Two knives were left implanted in his torso, one pinning a five-page note to his body. The note (Text) threatened Western governments, Jews and Hirsi Ali (who went into hiding). The note also contains references to the ideologies of the Egyptian organization Takfir wal-Hijra."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_
Holland, Hirsi Ali:
"Hirsi Ali has had to maintain a high level of security due to threats against her life for voicing views critical of certain aspects of Islam."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali
Denmark, 12 cartoonists (after depicting Muhammad):
"Several death threats and reward offers for killing those responsible for the cartoons have been made,[47] resulting in the cartoonists going into hiding."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muha
Denmark, a lecturer at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute:
"In October 2004, a lecturer at the Niebuhr institute at the University of Copenhagen was assaulted by five assailants who opposed the lecturer's reading of the Qur'an to non-Muslims during a lecture."
http://www.ludd.net/retort/msg00556.html
In PS, Ctrl-T while clicking on an object will select that object's layer. In GS, this does not work, exactly as in Gimp. But the Gimp method of PgUp/PgDn to select next/previous layer works.
In PS, while moving, both the outer edges and the center of the object will snap to guides. In GS, only outer edges will snap, exactly as in Gimp. I quite often want to make the center snap, so this one is really annoying.
In PS, while scaling, holding down Shift will preserve the aspect ratio, and holding down Alt will scale around center. In GS, none of these works, exactly as in Gimp. Also quite annoying.
I am not saying that the interface of GimpShop is bad, but it is not a PS interface. I would call it a Gimp interface with rearranged menus.
By the way, not related to the UI: Crashing this application is as easy as File | New | Cancel. Instant crash for me everytime. The Gimp (2.2.11) is able to survive that.
Nowhere on that page do they tell what time it is right now in the timezone the schedule is based on.
What is this schedule useful for? Amateurs.
http://groups.google.dk/group/comp.dcom.telecom/b
http://www.ti.com/rfid/docs/products/transponders
Really. When I first read about web advertising 10 years ago, this was one of the models described. I think it was heavily used by some online bookstores where the website showing the ads would receive a percentage of that customers sale.
It seems to me that they still (or even more than earlier) want to control the exact layout of a web page. I see lots of web pages where the width is artificially limited to 5-700 pixels - which looks quite strange on a 1600x1200, especially with increased text size (which may be necessary if said 1600x1200 is only 15").
Guy: I have lot of things to hide from you and from the rest of the world. All of it quite legal. That is why we have laws protecting us from nosy police without warrants.
I really, really hate the assumption that innocent people have nothing to hide. It is wrong and manipulative.
Are you sure you didn't hear any "whoosh" or "swoosh" sounds while you read it?
LCD users running native resolution with a digital video feed are not used to such a thing, so the fuzziness that appears when running non native resolutions can feel quite disturbing, even if the dot pitch is equal to that of a typical CRT.
The salts in the saliva will increase the boiling temperature a little. On the other hand there will also be some athmospheric gases dissolved in the water. When you are close to the boiling point, some degassing will occur, which would probably feel like boiling.
(Well, I guess the suits were stored in the cabin when not in use, but anyway...)
I read your Panda link. It describes how the malicious files get downloaded. It does not describe how they then get executed.
I assume that the real license files are pure data files which do not need to be executed after download (the opposite would be an incredibly stupid design decision). In that case, WMP should not have the functionality to execute a downloaded license file. So what happens?
But replacing all the backslashes with slashes is still extra work which is only necessary when the path has spaces in it.