And here's something which nobody has mentioned before:
(4) Has anyone ever heard of this "Great Zero Challenge" before?
Everyone claims that "established data recovery businesses won't do it" but that may also be because this is posted on a weird unprofessional website and it hasn't really been made public up until now. So they make a website with a stupid challenge without notifying anyone, they wait until it expires and then publicly brag that the challenge was so "great" that nobody ever dared to try it.
Only on/. it's possible for a post like the parent to be modded funny...
This was one of the things I was thinking of. You should only be allowed to rate at random large intervals (once a day or even less) and only if you've had an _active_ Google account for a certain period of time, they could also improve their CAPTCHA and this way users can mod each other in or out. If you find a website marked as good and you like it, you give it a +. If you don't like it, you give it a -. This way, as someone suggested earlier regarding his "wine" search, it could create networks of users which would keep spammers out (they would be automatically moved to their own network). It doesn't even seem so difficult to implement, it can be done using the current page ranking algorithm for referrals: if I agree with someone, I should get more results from the network they're in and if I disagree, I should get less. Spammers will get their own network and they can buy v1agra from each other, geeks will have their network, etc.
q.e.d. - this is possible, it's not difficult to implement and use (if you have the number of users Google has)
Is there a single species on Earth that's anywhere as violent as homo sapiens?
Yes, but they live in the jungle, far away, where you're safe from them. If they had the weapons we had, they would have probably used them a long time ago. See fire ants, african bees and lions. Many feline males (including lions, tigers and domestic cats) kill their own cubs in order to mate with the female again but I guess that's not violent, it's just pussy love.
This improvement has boosted JavaScript performance by a factor of 20 to 40 in certain contexts
So it's clear, that boost factor is only in certain contexts. If you boos IE's string concatenation you only boost ONE context and you get a JS parser faster than FF's and Opera's. When FF3 came out there was a lot of buzz about how slow IE is compared to everything else but that was only because of string concatenation and the tests were only considering overall performance.
I can't find any of the URLs with the statistics but who doesn't believe this could do a bit of digging before modding this down: removing string concatenation from the tests clearly proves IE7 is faster than FF3 and Opera.
What we're bitching about is "cool" features, as in the example I gave above: marking a piece of text in an input control as selected. Trying to find and set the size of the browser window is also a pain. Forgetting to skip newline characters that really shouldn't be there (because they're not part of the view) gets you in big trouble. These are little details you have to debug, hardly documented features of browsers or things where only a pre-written JS function can help (you die reinventing the wheel if you don't know how to SOFG for some of JS code required to access the DOM).
We have standards for the low/average JavaScript application and, amazingly, they're followed in all popular browsers (IE6+, Safari, Opera, FF2+) but there are still some nice things that are missing and are required for the most powerful applications - see GMail and Google Docs.
JavaScript is OK. I've already posted this and I will do it again. The problem lies within the implementation of the DOM and access to the DOM in web browsers. As a programming language JavaScript is incredibly powerful if you take your head out of your ass for a few minutes, forget about traditional OOP involving classes and look at prototypes.
That's not really the problem. Standard JavaScript is supported on most browsers (all popular browsers) in a more uniform way than anything else is. The real problem is the way access to the DOM was implemented, not the language it's self. People realized there were certain needs for certain features (ie, like selecting text in an input element) so they implemented those features in their own proprietary ways and left them the way they were done.
Some browsers include newlines in the DOM, some don't. If you have something like <ul> followed by a newline followed by a <li> you'll find that IE doesn't consider the newline to be a child of the <ul< but FF does (I find that annoying).
What we really need is a standardization for working the DOM in the browsers, the language it's self is fine.
1) As everyone already said, if you want Mozilla rendering, just install Firefox. It can't make MS look bad (saying it's because open source fixed their close source bugs) because those who CARE about this are already using Mozilla software and they already know this. Those who don't know how bad IE really is will stick with it; if they didn't hear about Firefox they won't hear about this plugin either...
2) They're fixing the rendering of a browser with tons of other bugs and remote exploits. This would only make things worse. Leave IE the way it is, maybe use remote exploits to break it so it wouldn't work and it would just open mozilla.org. That may be trolling but it's a better idea than fixing the packaging of a product that's broken in so many ways. The biggest problem with IE isn't rendering - it's a pain for web developers but we can sometimes work around those bugs - the problem is the incredible amount of remote exploits.
Screw this statistic. What I really want to know is how many accounts have been used by someone else without the owners' approval/knowledge. Those 42% could have been using the same 1% (yes, I'm exaggerating) and I think a more important question is how many accounts have been compromised.
It's not just idea that it's made of pictures of stick figures. It's also the humor. It's that kind of humor presented in that particular style using stick figures which is considered "xkcd".
State Rep. Arlen Siegfried, his Republican opponent, was shocked by Tevis' fundraising.
"There's no way I want to compete with that," Siegfried says.
Siegfried says he expects to raise around $35,000, and despite recent knee surgery, he plans to do most of his campaigning the old-fashioned way â" door to door.
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We need new blood in political office... people who are a little more 'in' with technology, etc.
Someone who's reading XKCD has my vote! It shows that this person has a sense of humor, isn't afraid of technology [knowing how to use it] and knows how to get in touch with people. Hell, if he does something bad we can easily "hint" him with an XKCD comic.
It's not much, but it's clearly a change and it's in my direction. If I were to vote, I'd clearly go for him.
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eBay and Paypal should be split into two separate companies, that would stop this
Then, I guess we should put Microsoft in a blender.
In other words: with the 250GB cap, everyone will now have a "target," which will increase the traffic.
I guess it is a grey area (no pun intended!), but really we shouldn't even need to have that conversation.
But we are having this conversation because someone was convicted in a trial where one piece of evidence was a brain scan.
This must have been a very good lesson if they had to pay $20k for it...
And here's something which nobody has mentioned before:
(4) Has anyone ever heard of this "Great Zero Challenge" before?
Everyone claims that "established data recovery businesses won't do it" but that may also be because this is posted on a weird unprofessional website and it hasn't really been made public up until now. So they make a website with a stupid challenge without notifying anyone, they wait until it expires and then publicly brag that the challenge was so "great" that nobody ever dared to try it.
Considering alternative, ad-based, free online video sites such as Hulu, is Amazon's service too pricey?
Yes.
Cryptography
Only on /. it's possible for a post like the parent to be modded funny...
This was one of the things I was thinking of. You should only be allowed to rate at random large intervals (once a day or even less) and only if you've had an _active_ Google account for a certain period of time, they could also improve their CAPTCHA and this way users can mod each other in or out. If you find a website marked as good and you like it, you give it a +. If you don't like it, you give it a -. This way, as someone suggested earlier regarding his "wine" search, it could create networks of users which would keep spammers out (they would be automatically moved to their own network). It doesn't even seem so difficult to implement, it can be done using the current page ranking algorithm for referrals: if I agree with someone, I should get more results from the network they're in and if I disagree, I should get less. Spammers will get their own network and they can buy v1agra from each other, geeks will have their network, etc.
q.e.d. - this is possible, it's not difficult to implement and use (if you have the number of users Google has)
I constantly ask myself "What is regular sex like?"
You don't need any chargers to ask yourself that...
PS: Don't ask your friends. You've been warned!
Is there a single species on Earth that's anywhere as violent as homo sapiens?
Yes, but they live in the jungle, far away, where you're safe from them. If they had the weapons we had, they would have probably used them a long time ago. See fire ants, african bees and lions. Many feline males (including lions, tigers and domestic cats) kill their own cubs in order to mate with the female again but I guess that's not violent, it's just pussy love.
"keberT xelA"
This improvement has boosted JavaScript performance by a factor of 20 to 40 in certain contexts
So it's clear, that boost factor is only in certain contexts. If you boos IE's string concatenation you only boost ONE context and you get a JS parser faster than FF's and Opera's. When FF3 came out there was a lot of buzz about how slow IE is compared to everything else but that was only because of string concatenation and the tests were only considering overall performance.
I can't find any of the URLs with the statistics but who doesn't believe this could do a bit of digging before modding this down: removing string concatenation from the tests clearly proves IE7 is faster than FF3 and Opera.
I guess the GP was right about the trolls.
Not unless Linux gains 50+% of the end-user market share.
Rewriting (A): They don't care about because they have air conditioners in their homes, in the office and in their cars. /.ers will fit here.
Plenty of
What we're bitching about is "cool" features, as in the example I gave above: marking a piece of text in an input control as selected. Trying to find and set the size of the browser window is also a pain. Forgetting to skip newline characters that really shouldn't be there (because they're not part of the view) gets you in big trouble. These are little details you have to debug, hardly documented features of browsers or things where only a pre-written JS function can help (you die reinventing the wheel if you don't know how to SOFG for some of JS code required to access the DOM).
We have standards for the low/average JavaScript application and, amazingly, they're followed in all popular browsers (IE6+, Safari, Opera, FF2+) but there are still some nice things that are missing and are required for the most powerful applications - see GMail and Google Docs.
JavaScript is OK. I've already posted this and I will do it again. The problem lies within the implementation of the DOM and access to the DOM in web browsers. As a programming language JavaScript is incredibly powerful if you take your head out of your ass for a few minutes, forget about traditional OOP involving classes and look at prototypes.
That's not really the problem. Standard JavaScript is supported on most browsers (all popular browsers) in a more uniform way than anything else is. The real problem is the way access to the DOM was implemented, not the language it's self. People realized there were certain needs for certain features (ie, like selecting text in an input element) so they implemented those features in their own proprietary ways and left them the way they were done.
Some browsers include newlines in the DOM, some don't. If you have something like <ul> followed by a newline followed by a <li> you'll find that IE doesn't consider the newline to be a child of the <ul< but FF does (I find that annoying).
What we really need is a standardization for working the DOM in the browsers, the language it's self is fine.
window.onload = function () { alert('The page is loaded') };
1) As everyone already said, if you want Mozilla rendering, just install Firefox. It can't make MS look bad (saying it's because open source fixed their close source bugs) because those who CARE about this are already using Mozilla software and they already know this. Those who don't know how bad IE really is will stick with it; if they didn't hear about Firefox they won't hear about this plugin either...
2) They're fixing the rendering of a browser with tons of other bugs and remote exploits. This would only make things worse. Leave IE the way it is, maybe use remote exploits to break it so it wouldn't work and it would just open mozilla.org. That may be trolling but it's a better idea than fixing the packaging of a product that's broken in so many ways. The biggest problem with IE isn't rendering - it's a pain for web developers but we can sometimes work around those bugs - the problem is the incredible amount of remote exploits.
Screw this statistic. What I really want to know is how many accounts have been used by someone else without the owners' approval/knowledge. Those 42% could have been using the same 1% (yes, I'm exaggerating) and I think a more important question is how many accounts have been compromised.
Right... We have better chances of seeing Duke Nukem Forever before that game!
It's not just idea that it's made of pictures of stick figures. It's also the humor. It's that kind of humor presented in that particular style using stick figures which is considered "xkcd".
By making sure they're the best, of course!
Better than saying "by removing sex ed class because condoms were invented by the devil"
State Rep. Arlen Siegfried, his Republican opponent, was shocked by Tevis' fundraising.
"There's no way I want to compete with that," Siegfried says.
Siegfried says he expects to raise around $35,000, and despite recent knee surgery, he plans to do most of his campaigning the old-fashioned way â" door to door.
Parent:
We need new blood in political office... people who are a little more 'in' with technology, etc.
Someone who's reading XKCD has my vote! It shows that this person has a sense of humor, isn't afraid of technology [knowing how to use it] and knows how to get in touch with people. Hell, if he does something bad we can easily "hint" him with an XKCD comic.
It's not much, but it's clearly a change and it's in my direction. If I were to vote, I'd clearly go for him.