This does have problems too. Along comes the prankster who links to the page with http://example.com/123/disregard-us-we-suck-cocks
Or say you have http://example.com/321/service-prices for a company and someone starts to spread a link with http://example.com/321/see-our-overpriced-services.
Everybody with a native language consisting of more than ASCII chars is definetely used to spelling variations.
As a Finn I must totally disagree. I find it extremely annoying when people misspell names or pronounce them completely wrong. It is not so difficult to use the correct spelling and to find out how the name is pronounced.
I find it extremely arrogant and self centered for English speaking people to totally ignore the rest of the world. I think that most of the problems we have nowadays with multiple character sets and other internationalization/localization issues could have been avoided without the "English alphabet is enough for everyone!"-mentality.
The block closing comments are good. But I actually prefer to put the block opener on its own line. The reason? There are cases, when your condition (or function's parameter list or declaration of class and its modifiers) spans two or more lines. I intend the continued lines two levels compared to the if-line (or for, or function or class) and then line the opening bracket up with the if-line. I have found it better to have each block-construct to be similar looking than to save that extra line.
if ( someVery() && LongCondition()) { doSomeStuff(); }
Ok, apparently ECODE doesn't respect written in indentation, so it is kind of useless to have the example here. Anyway, LongCondition() has two level indent, doSomeStuff(); has one level indent.
Is there actually a law, which prohibits this in the States? And does it not conflict with the copyright law?
Here in Finland the copyright law states (at the moment, at least;-) that you can make a copy of any published work for personal use. Making copies of computer programs is explicitly denied, though.
So all this guy would have done was to disobey the sign at the movie theater's door telling that no camcorders are allowed inside.
No. No parent has the right to shove crap down the throaths of their children. The right and the responsibility of a parent is to educate their children. This means telling them all sides of the story. The kid can't do whatever he wants when he's eighteen, if he doesn't know of the options.
If The One True God -story has been pushed to you for whole of your life, you're likely to take that as absolute truth, as is with every other thing.
Just to push the point: You've certainly seen pictures and stories about ten year old kids dressed into TNT-vests, wielding assault rifles and chanting how they are going to kill the infidels?
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Done. I spent 2 years at a former job building a web application. All of the users there used IE. I used Linux+Mozilla to do my job. I wrote standard HTML. The application worked. I got paid.
That's the nice part about standards. If your site's HTML and CSS validates, it's almost quaranteed to work on any browser (well, not some old Netscape's, which crash at the smell of CSS). Granted, not all the nice visual tricks work as supposed, but web should be about content anyway.
Of course, "web should be about content" is wishful thinking. Just look at almost any corporate web site. Either the information just isn't there or you have to dig in their artistic dirt for half an hour to find anything.
And another point: I have never ever seen a web site, which couldn't have been implemented in a standards compliant way instead of the IE-way they were done. Never. Granted, I'm not a web developer, but I think I know enough of the technologies. I'd suppose I know more than some of the actual developers. Just look at the sites and you'll agree.
Additionally, since the train is wrapped around the track and doesnt just sit on it like conventional trains do, its possible to superelevate the track (track rises on one side as it turns).
This is done with regular rails too. At least here in Finland. The rails are not tilted much, but so much as to be visible with naked eye.
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Yes, we do. "Waters" is a perfectly correct and frequently-used word. Googling for "waters" gives over 6 million hits.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't "waters" mean several bodies of water (like seas and lakes), or at least refer to a body of water? So referring to the substance itself with "waters" would be wrong.
What trying to get at, is that using "waters" changes the meaning.
I don't quite get this.. You seem to think that compulsory military service is inherently bad. For some countries, it is the only way to get a credible defense force.
Think about Finland (where I'm from). The land is huge compared to the population (.59 km^2/person, USA 0,32 km^2/person) and the land border is long too (0,5 m/person, USA 0,04 m/person). The only way to defend credibly is conscription. How do you think we fended of the Russians in WWII?
The term is only from a half to a full year, though. Of course, officers or fighter pilots who take a career in the army take longer.
I think you can place the prisoner's dilemma here in two ways. Between two web user's or between the user and the advertiser.
The case between web user's has been discussed here, but I didn't see anything about the other case.
I agree, this is a bit simplified and twists the dilemma, but I think it still works.
The advertiser can make normal nice adds (like normal banners and those in Google) or he can make pop-(up|under|in)s and flash and whatnot. Co-operate and compete, respectively.
The user on the other hand can either load the adds or block them. Co-operate and compete, respectively again.
Both can co-operate, advertisers use sensible adds and user's don't get irritated enough to block them. The may get banner blindness, but at least the adds are there and they have been noticed on some level. No different from any other advertisement, in newspapers and television.
If the user chooses to compete by blocking the adds, the advertiser is left with no choice but to make nasty adds so that the rest of the people would notice them better.
If the advertiser chooses to use annoying adds, the user gets annoyed and starts to seek a solution. So he blocks the adds.
You can co-operate and keep both relatively happy or you can compete and both lose (in the long run).
And as you would expect from business, they opted for the version, which could bring them more money in short term.
And what I do to adds? I don't actively block them. I just surf with Opera and have plug-ins, GIF animation and JavaScript turned off. Also, I only show cached images. Ad-blocking comes as (sometimes not wanted) side-effect for keeping myself sane.
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This does have problems too. Along comes the prankster who links to the page with http://example.com/123/disregard-us-we-suck-cocks
Or say you have http://example.com/321/service-prices for a company and someone starts to spread a link with http://example.com/321/see-our-overpriced-services.
As a Finn I must totally disagree. I find it extremely annoying when people misspell names or pronounce them completely wrong. It is not so difficult to use the correct spelling and to find out how the name is pronounced.
I find it extremely arrogant and self centered for English speaking people to totally ignore the rest of the world. I think that most of the problems we have nowadays with multiple character sets and other internationalization/localization issues could have been avoided without the "English alphabet is enough for everyone!"-mentality.
So his stuff doesn't have a half-life yet?
Is there actually a law, which prohibits this in the States? And does it not conflict with the copyright law?
;-) that you can make a copy of any published work for personal use. Making copies of computer programs is explicitly denied, though.
Here in Finland the copyright law states (at the moment, at least
So all this guy would have done was to disobey the sign at the movie theater's door telling that no camcorders are allowed inside.
Who cares about Linux? I'm waiting for NetBSD/shoe!
No. No parent has the right to shove crap down the throaths of their children. The right and the responsibility of a parent is to educate their children. This means telling them all sides of the story. The kid can't do whatever he wants when he's eighteen, if he doesn't know of the options.
If The One True God -story has been pushed to you for whole of your life, you're likely to take that as absolute truth, as is with every other thing.
Just to push the point: You've certainly seen pictures and stories about ten year old kids dressed into TNT-vests, wielding assault rifles and chanting how they are going to kill the infidels?
That's the nice part about standards. If your site's HTML and CSS validates, it's almost quaranteed to work on any browser (well, not some old Netscape's, which crash at the smell of CSS). Granted, not all the nice visual tricks work as supposed, but web should be about content anyway.
Of course, "web should be about content" is wishful thinking. Just look at almost any corporate web site. Either the information just isn't there or you have to dig in their artistic dirt for half an hour to find anything.
And another point: I have never ever seen a web site, which couldn't have been implemented in a standards compliant way instead of the IE-way they were done. Never. Granted, I'm not a web developer, but I think I know enough of the technologies. I'd suppose I know more than some of the actual developers. Just look at the sites and you'll agree.
This is done with regular rails too. At least here in Finland. The rails are not tilted much, but so much as to be visible with naked eye.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't "waters" mean several bodies of water (like seas and lakes), or at least refer to a body of water? So referring to the substance itself with "waters" would be wrong.
What trying to get at, is that using "waters" changes the meaning.
I don't quite get this.. You seem to think that compulsory military service is inherently bad. For some countries, it is the only way to get a credible defense force.
Think about Finland (where I'm from). The land is huge compared to the population (.59 km^2/person, USA 0,32 km^2/person) and the land border is long too (0,5 m/person, USA 0,04 m/person). The only way to defend credibly is conscription. How do you think we fended of the Russians in WWII?
The term is only from a half to a full year, though. Of course, officers or fighter pilots who take a career in the army take longer.
I think you can place the prisoner's dilemma here in two ways. Between two web user's or between the user and the advertiser.
The case between web user's has been discussed here, but I didn't see anything about the other case.
I agree, this is a bit simplified and twists the dilemma, but I think it still works.
The advertiser can make normal nice adds (like normal banners and those in Google) or he can make pop-(up|under|in)s and flash and whatnot. Co-operate and compete, respectively.
The user on the other hand can either load the adds or block them. Co-operate and compete, respectively again.
Both can co-operate, advertisers use sensible adds and user's don't get irritated enough to block them. The may get banner blindness, but at least the adds are there and they have been noticed on some level. No different from any other advertisement, in newspapers and television.
If the user chooses to compete by blocking the adds, the advertiser is left with no choice but to make nasty adds so that the rest of the people would notice them better.
If the advertiser chooses to use annoying adds, the user gets annoyed and starts to seek a solution. So he blocks the adds.
You can co-operate and keep both relatively happy or you can compete and both lose (in the long run).
And as you would expect from business, they opted for the version, which could bring them more money in short term.
And what I do to adds? I don't actively block them. I just surf with Opera and have plug-ins, GIF animation and JavaScript turned off. Also, I only show cached images. Ad-blocking comes as (sometimes not wanted) side-effect for keeping myself sane.