You would think that a keyboard specifically designed for Lisp would have dedicated ( ) keys, instead of having to use shift...
It did! You can't quite see it in the picture, but the ( ) { } and [ ] keys were swapped around relative to a PC keyboard, with the ( ) next to the letter P and did not require a shift.
... and the keyboard was a real work of art! You had to stare at it for a while just to notice the QWERTY part floating in the ocean of other keys. The UI was pretty slick too. If only there were something like this for a language I *liked*.
Hyper, Super, Meta, Symbol, Select, Local, Network, and a few others, as well as keys with a circle, triangle, and square. Fun! But no rows of function keys at the top, and no arrow keys (they used emacs style control sequences to move around) and no number pad, so it was really smaller than all modern full-sized keyboards. See: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/graphics/symbolics-keyboard-fullsize.jpg
I used Symbolics when I worked at an AI company, 1996-2000, long after the Symbolics company itself was out of business. Some were big space heaters the size of end tables. The newer ones were like the original Sun pizza boxes. They were practically supercomputers when they were built (and had a comparable price tag) but by the time I was using them they were stuggling to keep up with cheap PCs.
I never drank the Lisp Kool-Aid so I wasn't into lispms...
Lisp is super cool, drink the Kool-Aid. Not so practical for lots of things, but cool.
The cellphone method works great and has never bothered me until I had to enter a 63-character WPA key into an iPhone. This is something you can't do from memory, so you're moving your eyes back and forth between a plaintext copy, and trying to remember just where you left off. Agony.
Basically, in a few situations like this, it would be really handy to turn off masking one-time-only.
I agree. My Mac has a checkbox to unmask the password/key when joining a wireless network. I don't own an iPhone but I am suprised that don't have the same feature. Optional unmasking is a good thing. Maybe you could even write a Firefox plugin to unmask the passwords in Firefox. But the default should always be masked.
Which is odd, because last week I thought we were destroying civil liberties to save them. I do wish the government would make up its mind. Should we be building more private prisons to hold them cheaply, or should we be cherishing them and making sure they don't see Janet Jackson's nipple?
We should throw them in prison to make sure they don't see Janet Jackson's nipple.
Six hundred million years of dinosaur blubber gave us our oil reserves. Lord knows how many years of dead trees went to make our coal.
both the oil and the coal come mostly from plant matter. Any biomass can turn into oil given the right conditions, and there has always been far more plant biomass than animal biomass.
He is an amazing man, and the world will be a poorer place without him, but if I were in his shoes I wouldn't want to pull through at this point, I would want to go. I don't know what his wishes are, but I can't really hope for him to pull through.
I see these in my access logs, although maybe some of these are bots, but I doubt all of them are (and the page counts exceeds Safari or Opera, although I have a very low hit site so it my be just noise)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; SCF - Mean & Nasty; T312461)
You completely miss the point. I am not coming from an "earth is special" viewpoint. I am coming from a "life if a random occurrence of molecules bumping together viewpoint." Therefore the chance of life forming is less than 100%. It could be anywhere from 99.999999999% to 0.00000001%. I am not arguing one way or the other - I am totally agnostic on the issue. I am just pointing put that the quote in TFA (and you) are assuming it is 99.999999999% with absolutely no evidence. Yours is the religious viewpoint.
'I simply say if you have a habitable world... sitting there, with the right temperature with water for a billion years, something is going to come out of it. At least we will have microbes,' said Boss.
This is exactly the thing that nobody knows... how likely is it that life will occur in these conditions? It might be so unlikely that we are the only planet with life despite billions of ideal planets. Until we find at least one other planet with life on it (and sample its genetics to confirm or rule out panspermia) we won't have an answer to this question.
It would cost an enormous amount of money, time, resources, and R&D to clear up a significant orbital debris field. All those resources would(with the exception of any spinoff tech) be squandered, spent just to get us back to where we were before.
Naw, we can just shoot a black hole from the large hadron collider into orbit. Problem solved.
So when a normal user asks me which Windows version to go to, I will tell them to go with XP, which is light and fast and more compatible than Vista. The average person isn't interested in hearing me rant about how I despise the Fisher Price interface and how Win2K was so much better, because they can't get it anyway, and if they did they could run into a compatibility problem sooner or later.
I hate the Fisher Price interface too, but you can switch it back to classic (it's the first thing I do). You can also switch the start menu, control panel, etc., back to Win2K style.
Kinda makes you wonder if government intervention is really necessary.
It may be. Tax breaks we part of what made it happen. And TFA mentioned that the financial crisis was hitting the industry 2 ways: no loans for new projects and low petroleum prices make it harder to compete. The government should be loaning some of that bailout money directly to alternative energy construction rather than banks and our screwed up auto industry.
Wait a second. So these things went extinct just 10 years ago. Wouldn't it have been a lot easier (and cheaper) to, um, keep some of them alive instead of waiting until they died off? So if they do clone them and they live, how are they supposed to survive now when they couldn't survive just a decade ago?
It's pretty expensive to try to keep a breeding population of every endangered species alive in captivity (we kill off a huge number every year), and some animals don't breed well in captivity. If they are in the wild you have much less control (it doesn't sound like they had any of these in captivity, according to wiki). And the last one died 9 years ago but the last potential mate may have died much longer ago than that.
"how are they supposed to survive now" is a good question, but I don't think this effort is really mean to be a practical solution to extinction, but rather a "prove we can" kind of thing.
I just tried this and it is much less useful than I hoped. It let's you change existing shortcuts, but I was hoping to maybe choose from a bigger set or make my own (like a macro). Things like: "delete (or archive) and go to next message" (instead of back to the list page) or "go to next unread message" or "label and archive in a single step". Those are 3 things I would really like to do in GMail.
GMail has keyboard shortcuts (although I wish they were customizable, I'd like to add a few more). But keyboard shortcuts are not a fundamental limitation of web apps.
And while I love CLIs, they aren't part of many fat clients anyway, so that is not necessarily a difference.
Yes, a real life award leads to real life associations. A virtual award (the "you win" screen) leads to virtual associations - it COULD potentially lead to real life associations, BUT there is nothing in this research that indicates that it actually does. And yet the article claims it does. Therefore it is misleading, and bad science.
Even though they were playing a video game they were being given real-life swigs of a drink while they played. So what the subjects were actually doing was building an association between a real-life experience and an image on the screen - which is completely different from building an association from nothing but a video game.
But then you can't offer to email the user her password when she forgets it.
I see you meant that as sarcasm, but in case anyone takes you as serious: never email the user their password, even in this case. There are plenty of secure ways to let them reset the password instead (and see my gripe in the grandparent about them emailing me my password when I signed up).
I am a programmer but by no means a security expert. However, when I store passwords I use an irreversible hash with salt. It's not hard to implement (1 days work). How can any site as big as monster not be doing this?
I also used PreparedStatements (in Java) for executing SQL; again it's not hard and prevents injection attacks. I am baffled every time I hear of a site compromised by that type of attack. How can people not be using something like PreparedStatements?
(I am especially pissed when a site makes me use one of my good passwords (by requiring numbers and symbols and certain length) them email the password back to me in plain text, or does crappy security like Monster)
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You would think that a keyboard specifically designed for Lisp would have dedicated ( ) keys, instead of having to use shift...
It did! You can't quite see it in the picture, but the ( ) { } and [ ] keys were swapped around relative to a PC keyboard,
with the ( ) next to the letter P and did not require a shift.
... and the keyboard was a real work of art! You had to stare at it for a while just to notice the QWERTY part floating in the ocean of other keys. The UI was pretty slick too. If only there were something like this for a language I *liked*.
Hyper, Super, Meta, Symbol, Select, Local, Network, and a few others,
as well as keys with a circle, triangle, and square. Fun! But no rows of function
keys at the top, and no arrow keys (they used emacs style control sequences
to move around) and no number pad, so it was really smaller than all modern
full-sized keyboards. See: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/graphics/symbolics-keyboard-fullsize.jpg
I used Symbolics when I worked at an AI company, 1996-2000, long after the Symbolics company itself was
out of business. Some were big space heaters the size of end tables. The newer ones were like the original
Sun pizza boxes. They were practically supercomputers when they were built (and had a comparable
price tag) but by the time I was using them they were stuggling to keep up with cheap PCs.
I never drank the Lisp Kool-Aid so I wasn't into lispms ...
Lisp is super cool, drink the Kool-Aid. Not so practical for lots of things, but cool.
The cellphone method works great and has never bothered me until I had to enter a 63-character WPA key into an iPhone. This is something you can't do from memory, so you're moving your eyes back and forth between a plaintext copy, and trying to remember just where you left off. Agony.
Basically, in a few situations like this, it would be really handy to turn off masking one-time-only.
I agree. My Mac has a checkbox to unmask the password/key when joining a wireless network. I don't own an iPhone but I am suprised that don't have the same feature. Optional unmasking is a good thing. Maybe you could even write a Firefox plugin to unmask the passwords in Firefox. But the default should always be masked.
Which is odd, because last week I thought we were destroying civil liberties to save them. I do wish the government would make up its mind. Should we be building more private prisons to hold them cheaply, or should we be cherishing them and making sure they don't see Janet Jackson's nipple?
We should throw them in prison to make sure they don't see Janet Jackson's nipple.
He's a politician, that sounds like a genuine work expense.
Six hundred million years of dinosaur blubber gave us our oil reserves. Lord knows how many years of dead trees went to make our coal.
both the oil and the coal come mostly from plant matter. Any biomass can turn into oil given the right conditions, and there has always been far more plant biomass than animal biomass.
I do hope he pulls through, he is an amazing man.
He is an amazing man, and the world will be a poorer place without him, but if I were in his shoes I wouldn't want to pull through at this point, I would want to go. I don't know what his wishes are, but I can't really hope for him to pull through.
I see these in my access logs, although maybe some of these are bots, but I doubt all of them are (and the page counts exceeds Safari or Opera, although I have a very low hit site so it my be just noise)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; SCF - Mean & Nasty; T312461)
You completely miss the point. I am not coming from an "earth is special" viewpoint. I am coming from a "life if a random occurrence of molecules bumping together viewpoint." Therefore the chance of life forming is less than 100%. It could be anywhere from 99.999999999% to 0.00000001%. I am not arguing one way or the other - I am totally agnostic on the issue. I am just pointing put that the quote in TFA (and you) are assuming it is 99.999999999% with absolutely no evidence. Yours is the religious viewpoint.
'I simply say if you have a habitable world ... sitting there, with the right temperature with water for a billion years, something is going to come out of it. At least we will have microbes,' said Boss.
This is exactly the thing that nobody knows ... how likely is it that life will occur in these conditions? It might be so unlikely that we are the only planet with life despite billions of ideal planets. Until we find at least one other planet with life on it (and sample its genetics to confirm or rule out panspermia) we won't have an answer to this question.
It would cost an enormous amount of money, time, resources, and R&D to clear up a significant orbital debris field. All those resources would(with the exception of any spinoff tech) be squandered, spent just to get us back to where we were before.
Naw, we can just shoot a black hole from the large hadron collider into orbit. Problem solved.
So when a normal user asks me which Windows version to go to, I will tell them to go with XP, which is light and fast and more compatible than Vista. The average person isn't interested in hearing me rant about how I despise the Fisher Price interface and how Win2K was so much better, because they can't get it anyway, and if they did they could run into a compatibility problem sooner or later.
I hate the Fisher Price interface too, but you can switch it back to classic (it's the first thing I do). You can also switch the start menu, control panel, etc., back to Win2K style.
Kinda makes you wonder if government intervention is really necessary.
It may be. Tax breaks we part of what made it happen. And TFA mentioned that the financial crisis was hitting the industry 2 ways: no loans for new projects and low petroleum prices make it harder to compete. The government should be loaning some of that bailout money directly to alternative energy construction rather than banks and our screwed up auto industry.
Wait a second. So these things went extinct just 10 years ago. Wouldn't it have been a lot easier (and cheaper) to, um, keep some of them alive instead of waiting until they died off? So if they do clone them and they live, how are they supposed to survive now when they couldn't survive just a decade ago?
It's pretty expensive to try to keep a breeding population of every endangered species alive in captivity (we kill off a huge number every year), and some animals don't breed well in captivity. If they are in the wild you have much less control (it doesn't sound like they had any of these in captivity, according to wiki). And the last one died 9 years ago but the last potential mate may have died much longer ago than that.
"how are they supposed to survive now" is a good question, but I don't think this effort is really mean to be a practical solution to extinction, but rather a "prove we can" kind of thing.
I just tried this and it is much less useful than I hoped. It let's you change existing shortcuts, but I was hoping to maybe choose from a bigger set or make my own (like a macro). Things like: "delete (or archive) and go to next message" (instead of back to the list page) or "go to next unread message" or "label and archive in a single step". Those are 3 things I would really like to do in GMail.
GMail has keyboard shortcuts (although I wish they were customizable, I'd like to add a few more). But keyboard shortcuts are not a fundamental limitation of web apps.
And while I love CLIs, they aren't part of many fat clients anyway, so that is not necessarily a difference.
How many times do we have to tell you people!? TV's hooked up to cable won't be affected!
You think prisons are paying for cable TV for the inmates? I don't think so.
Yes, a real life award leads to real life associations.
A virtual award (the "you win" screen) leads to virtual associations - it COULD potentially lead to real life associations, BUT there is nothing in this research that indicates that it actually does. And yet the article claims it does. Therefore it is misleading, and bad science.
Even though they were playing a video game they were being given real-life swigs of a drink while they played. So what the subjects were actually doing was building an association between a real-life experience and an image on the screen - which is completely different from building an association from nothing but a video game.
But then you can't offer to email the user her password when she forgets it.
I see you meant that as sarcasm, but in case anyone takes you as serious: never email the user their password, even in this case. There are plenty of secure ways to let them reset the password instead (and see my gripe in the grandparent about them emailing me my password when I signed up).
I am a programmer but by no means a security expert. However, when I store passwords I use an irreversible hash with salt. It's not hard to implement (1 days work). How can any site as big as monster not be doing this? I also used PreparedStatements (in Java) for executing SQL; again it's not hard and prevents injection attacks. I am baffled every time I hear of a site compromised by that type of attack. How can people not be using something like PreparedStatements? (I am especially pissed when a site makes me use one of my good passwords (by requiring numbers and symbols and certain length) them email the password back to me in plain text, or does crappy security like Monster)