They'll only do something about it when it becomes really widespread and starts actually costing serious green
And that will be a good thing. Which the publishing will help bring about. I don't follow your argument, unless it's that you don't want this published widely so *you* can personally exploit it.
I didn't see the piece, but poll results like that are highly influenced by how the question was phrased. If you ask "do you think child porn should be seen by anyone who opens a web browser?" you'll obviously get near on 100% saying no. That's the problem with the debate on the filter, those who are pushing for it are strongly slanting their reasoning in this manner, and nobody wants to say "but hang on a minute..." because that makes you look like you're all for child porn. The pollies know this so they'll push that angle for all they're worth, and keep their real agenda (which basically boils down to a fear of true free speech and democracy) well hidden.
Last week I was discussing the filter with a friend who is an intelligent and sensible, non-religious person. Unfortunately he had swallowed the whole "think of the children" argument and thought the filter was a good idea. When I put the standard negative arguments to him, he agreed that it wasn't as simple as he'd thought. Problem is, he's probably representative of a large majority of ordinary people with voting rights in Australia. It's imperative that the debate about the filter is kept up and every Australian citizen is brought up to speed, otherwise I fear that we'll end up having it simply because nobody really bothered to give it much thought.
So what's to stop Adobe, or anyone, writing a native Cocoa Touch app that can open and interpret swf? Am I missing something or isn't that the obvious solution to get Flash on the device?
That's because, when faced with two tasks, a part of the brain known as the MFC divides so that half of the region focuses on one task and the other half on the other task.
No wonder the brain is so limited, it's written using MFC. C'mon god, don't you know that Cocoa Touch is this century's class library du jour?
You've still got to get the case halves apart, ideally without breaking the front cover.
They just come apart, there isn't much force required and it's not easy to break anything. I've taken quite a few apart, mainly to make this and also speakers and other Mac-shaped objects: Mac SE/X
I'm trying to find out what exactly Google Earth is actually useful for???
Never mind Google Earth, I'm trying to find out what an "Atlas" is useful for, or what are all those funny map-thingys covered in strange squiggles that you can buy all over the place. I mean, I don't have the imagination to see what they could possibly be useful for, so they just seem like a total waste of paper and printing to me.
...in the fact that Apple has been a big pusher of XML-based formats - it pervades most of their application frameworks and is extensively supported in their APIs.
FTA: To me, the allegation [that Windows copied the Macintosh "look and feel"] was almost insulting. If I wanted to copy the Macintosh, I could have done a much better job.
So by NOT copying the Mac it was the half-assed travesty that it was, instead of something much better that Apple really might have had a case about? I'm not sure he really meant to say that.
a) for a global safety-critical standard for drive-by-wire software.
b) for an open industry standard for interfacing for servicing, fault codes, etc, to end the scam of lock-in to specific manufacturers servicing tools and dealers.
c) to open source it.
FTA: Furthermore, they had taken good care not to big that aspect of the research up to their Nazi masters, for reasons of self-interest
I doubt Heisenberg ever said that, even translated from the German. To big [...] up. Jesus wept, is that OK in journalism now? Not only 21st century lazy slang but a split infinitive as well.
Not necessarily - different edges on the craft will generate additional shock fronts. There are usually two main ones from nose and tail but also from fin tips and even antennae.
The QuickTake was very short-lived and probably fair enough that it was, but I recall that it was the first simple to use point-and-shoot digital camera that just worked and did in fact herald a whole new market segment of consumer device. The competition at the time was no better in terms of resolution and price and was much more awkward to use and interface to a PC or Mac (USB hadn't yet been adopted). I had a borrowed QuickTake 150 when it was brand new and took it to a family wedding. People were astonished at the device. It's easy to dismiss it now that digital cameras are a mature product but at the time it was a glimpse of the future.
You have to ask yourself honestly what you want to gain from starting a large community around a FOSS project. Even very small communities take a huge amount of time and effort to hold together, and it really is a lot of work. Rarely do people simply tell you what a great piece of work you've done; much more likely they will be finding fault and questioning your design decisions. If you are ready for that and genuinely see it as a way to build a better product, then great, go for it. But if your real (possibly subconscious) motivation is kudos and ego-massaging, forget it. If your project is useful to you and serves a need, that may well turn out to be good enough - if a few others also find it useful, that's a bonus. But beyond that, the overhead of support for a larger group will probably take up all your time. Is it worth it?
Something more than the superficial key hole in the middle aisle and the like.
Which is itself a stupid bit of design that I have never seen any good reason for. All it achieves is making the area around the keyhole look scratched and worn as in real life most people have other keys on their car-key ring. It also means there's no steering lock. But worst of all it will catch you out if you're used to a car with more normal placement, and that can mean a major loss of valuable time when you need to get the engine restarted in a hurry - this made worse again by all the safety interlocks built-in. I wrote about our experience here: SAAB 900 design flaw.
I have a SAAB 900NG (post-GM). It's basically a Vauxhall Vectra with a SAAB look-a-like bodyshell and a large number of strange design faults compared with the Vectra. It's really expensive to get parts for it here in Australia despite sharing many of them with some Holden models. Apart from having a very large boot it doesn't really have a lot going for it. Its handling and performance aren't really up to much - I've experience far better in much cheaper cars. Frankly in hindsight I wish I hadn't bought it. While apparently the design improved with the 9-3 and beyond, sales have tanked. Why bother when the real SAAB died at the end of the 80s with the original 900 and almost any other car in its class is cheaper to run.
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They'll only do something about it when it becomes really widespread and starts actually costing serious green
And that will be a good thing. Which the publishing will help bring about. I don't follow your argument, unless it's that you don't want this published widely so *you* can personally exploit it.
I didn't see the piece, but poll results like that are highly influenced by how the question was phrased. If you ask "do you think child porn should be seen by anyone who opens a web browser?" you'll obviously get near on 100% saying no. That's the problem with the debate on the filter, those who are pushing for it are strongly slanting their reasoning in this manner, and nobody wants to say "but hang on a minute..." because that makes you look like you're all for child porn. The pollies know this so they'll push that angle for all they're worth, and keep their real agenda (which basically boils down to a fear of true free speech and democracy) well hidden.
Last week I was discussing the filter with a friend who is an intelligent and sensible, non-religious person. Unfortunately he had swallowed the whole "think of the children" argument and thought the filter was a good idea. When I put the standard negative arguments to him, he agreed that it wasn't as simple as he'd thought. Problem is, he's probably representative of a large majority of ordinary people with voting rights in Australia. It's imperative that the debate about the filter is kept up and every Australian citizen is brought up to speed, otherwise I fear that we'll end up having it simply because nobody really bothered to give it much thought.
And the SWF Specs are available freely:
So what's to stop Adobe, or anyone, writing a native Cocoa Touch app that can open and interpret swf? Am I missing something or isn't that the obvious solution to get Flash on the device?
That's because, when faced with two tasks, a part of the brain known as the MFC divides so that half of the region focuses on one task and the other half on the other task.
No wonder the brain is so limited, it's written using MFC. C'mon god, don't you know that Cocoa Touch is this century's class library du jour?
((1 MW) / ((4 light year)^2)) * (100 (m^2)) = 6.98311557 × 10^-26 watts
But integrated over enough time the level will start to stand out from the noise. They just need to keep the signal going long enough.
You've still got to get the case halves apart, ideally without breaking the front cover.
They just come apart, there isn't much force required and it's not easy to break anything. I've taken quite a few apart, mainly to make this and also speakers and other Mac-shaped objects: Mac SE/X
the case was designed to be impossible to open without special factory jigs to press the right plastic clippy bits.
Not true - you can open the case of an original (and all other 'classic' Macs) with a Torx screwdriver with a long shaft.
I'm trying to find out what exactly Google Earth is actually useful for???
Never mind Google Earth, I'm trying to find out what an "Atlas" is useful for, or what are all those funny map-thingys covered in strange squiggles that you can buy all over the place. I mean, I don't have the imagination to see what they could possibly be useful for, so they just seem like a total waste of paper and printing to me.
...in the fact that Apple has been a big pusher of XML-based formats - it pervades most of their application frameworks and is extensively supported in their APIs.
FTA: To me, the allegation [that Windows copied the Macintosh "look and feel"] was almost insulting. If I wanted to copy the Macintosh, I could have done a much better job.
So by NOT copying the Mac it was the half-assed travesty that it was, instead of something much better that Apple really might have had a case about? I'm not sure he really meant to say that.
Not news, we all know that Ford came from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, and not Guildford after all.
That should read: "There is an UNimportant error in most photography scaling algorithms".
It's time:
a) for a global safety-critical standard for drive-by-wire software.
b) for an open industry standard for interfacing for servicing, fault codes, etc, to end the scam of lock-in to specific manufacturers servicing tools and dealers.
c) to open source it.
The Sydney Morning Herald, a local newspaper? Well, yes, I guess so, in exactly the same way that the New York Times or Washington Post is.
FTA: Furthermore, they had taken good care not to big that aspect of the research up to their Nazi masters, for reasons of self-interest
I doubt Heisenberg ever said that, even translated from the German. To big [...] up. Jesus wept, is that OK in journalism now? Not only 21st century lazy slang but a split infinitive as well.
The rest need to find a specific problem that they can fix
That's a goal, in my book.
Program something for real. Be goal-oriented. No amount of working through exercises teaches you programming for real.
The shockwave is a pressure discontinuity that is always there above Mach 1. When it hits your ears, the discontinuity sounds like a boom.
A sonic boom looks like a single shock wave
Not necessarily - different edges on the craft will generate additional shock fronts. There are usually two main ones from nose and tail but also from fin tips and even antennae.
The QuickTake was very short-lived and probably fair enough that it was, but I recall that it was the first simple to use point-and-shoot digital camera that just worked and did in fact herald a whole new market segment of consumer device. The competition at the time was no better in terms of resolution and price and was much more awkward to use and interface to a PC or Mac (USB hadn't yet been adopted). I had a borrowed QuickTake 150 when it was brand new and took it to a family wedding. People were astonished at the device. It's easy to dismiss it now that digital cameras are a mature product but at the time it was a glimpse of the future.
16 contact points, as in 4 x 4? That's only slightly useful for kiosks, etc, not much for general interactivity.
You have to ask yourself honestly what you want to gain from starting a large community around a FOSS project. Even very small communities take a huge amount of time and effort to hold together, and it really is a lot of work. Rarely do people simply tell you what a great piece of work you've done; much more likely they will be finding fault and questioning your design decisions. If you are ready for that and genuinely see it as a way to build a better product, then great, go for it. But if your real (possibly subconscious) motivation is kudos and ego-massaging, forget it. If your project is useful to you and serves a need, that may well turn out to be good enough - if a few others also find it useful, that's a bonus. But beyond that, the overhead of support for a larger group will probably take up all your time. Is it worth it?
Something more than the superficial key hole in the middle aisle and the like.
Which is itself a stupid bit of design that I have never seen any good reason for. All it achieves is making the area around the keyhole look scratched and worn as in real life most people have other keys on their car-key ring. It also means there's no steering lock. But worst of all it will catch you out if you're used to a car with more normal placement, and that can mean a major loss of valuable time when you need to get the engine restarted in a hurry - this made worse again by all the safety interlocks built-in. I wrote about our experience here: SAAB 900 design flaw.
I have a SAAB 900NG (post-GM). It's basically a Vauxhall Vectra with a SAAB look-a-like bodyshell and a large number of strange design faults compared with the Vectra. It's really expensive to get parts for it here in Australia despite sharing many of them with some Holden models. Apart from having a very large boot it doesn't really have a lot going for it. Its handling and performance aren't really up to much - I've experience far better in much cheaper cars. Frankly in hindsight I wish I hadn't bought it. While apparently the design improved with the 9-3 and beyond, sales have tanked. Why bother when the real SAAB died at the end of the 80s with the original 900 and almost any other car in its class is cheaper to run.