VGA->DVI won't work with the Apple Cinema Display, which is digital-only and won't support analog signals. VGA->DVI adaptors don't do any conversion, they just bundle the analog signal into the little plus-shaped analog cluster on the side.
1080 is the number of lines in the display format (which is 1920x1080, with rectangular pixels to make it a 16:9 display aspect). HDTVs don't yet have that high of an actual resolution; they downsample.
I think you miss the point. A majority IS a plurality (it's just a specific kind of plurality). And, Clinton won the popular vote both times anyway. Only two presidents have ever won the electoral vote without winning the popular vote, and neither one had a plurality, because the other candidate had a majority.
The popular vote is always won by a plurality, but winning the popular vote has nothing to do with winning the election, since it's the electoral vote (which is always won by a majority) which is important. (I forget which process the electoral college is supposed to use if the winner of the electoral vote only has a plurality and not a majority, but it doesn't really matter since third-party candidates pretty much never win any electoral votes to begin with.)
Mouse/network/etc. activity is pretty close to pure random. You're not going to be able to reproduce that exactly (and since part of the entropy is usually based on the times that the events took place, it has to be EXACT, after setting the computer's RTC EXACTLY, and there's no way to figure out which EXACT moments led to the/dev/random output), and/dev/random et al pool up entropy anyway, so you don't even know how old the random bits are when they're being used.
Usually (i.e. every time I've seen the term unless talking to fundamentalist Christians who truly believe that everything is pre-ordained), PRNG refers to the class of algorithms which rand() et al are based on, since they're a deterministic algorithm based on stored values; reproduce the stored values and you can reproduce the random numbers. You can't do that with entropy-based RNGs like/dev/random unless you have access to information which is way harder to get at than what it'd take to get at the unencrypted information to begin with.
Not quite. He quite clearly stated that Apple was working on the GUI before they visited Xerox, and that their resulting GUI was vastly different to what Xerox had demonstrated, and the concepts which made it from the Xerox GUI to the Apple GUI were both minimal and debatable. I'd classify that as a case of parallel evolution, similar to Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray who both developed the telephone at the same time (but Bell submitted his patent application mere hours before Gray).
"For all intensive purposes" is a common playful pun on the phrase "for all intents and purposes." Which, if you were not aware, is a phrase, and is not the only thing which can be used in any particular situation.
Well, the first time I tried it, I hit the wrong button and the frogs went spinning like on a centrifuge, and I got caught and tossed into the ocean. Game over.
The second time I tried it, I hit the right button and the frogs were freed, and I got caught and tossed into the ocean. Assuming it would be game over, I reloaded my last savegame. And tried maybe a dozen other things, all ending badly.
Then I tried just releasing the frogs ONE MORE TIME, and frustrated, wanted to see Willie drown. And then the goddamn frogs went and SAVED him!!!
Like that one scene in Willy Beamish where you're rescuing the frogs from the kitchen. That was annoying. I only ever got past it because I got sick of trying to figure things out and just wanted to watch Willy die.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is like that too. The whole game is phrased as being a flashback, and so if the main character dies, the narration says, "Wait, that's not what happened! Let me try again."
You must have not looked in a long time, because CSS has supported text-indent and margin since 1.0.
P { text-indent: 3em; margin: 0ex; }
This provides paragraphs with 3-emspace indents and no block formatting. For example.
Also, CSS has always used typesetting units (pt, em, ex, etc.) for font-relative positioning and sizing (which is the best for layout control on the widest range of display devices), and CSS2 adds a bit of typesetting stuff as well (e.g. pagebreak control). CSS3 adds columns, though IMO columns don't work well on vertically-scrolling displays such as webbrowsers (though it'd be great for the printed version, obviously).
IMO, CSS is designed very well for typesetting it's screen display which it's missing a lot of. (Like, there's basically no useful vertical sizing control, and its float mechanism leaves quite a bit to be desired.)
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VGA->DVI won't work with the Apple Cinema Display, which is digital-only and won't support analog signals. VGA->DVI adaptors don't do any conversion, they just bundle the analog signal into the little plus-shaped analog cluster on the side.
maybe they should have gone on strike for the benefit of the animators, who have an exceedingly difficult and thankless job.
Secondly, I reread what I wrote, and I guess it came out wrong. I forget what I was trying to say at the time though. Oh well.
Er wait, I guess those are square pixels afer all. I was thinking of 480p (which is 720x480) which has rectangular pixels for 4:3.
1080 is the number of lines in the display format (which is 1920x1080, with rectangular pixels to make it a 16:9 display aspect). HDTVs don't yet have that high of an actual resolution; they downsample.
The popular vote is always won by a plurality, but winning the popular vote has nothing to do with winning the election, since it's the electoral vote (which is always won by a majority) which is important. (I forget which process the electoral college is supposed to use if the winner of the electoral vote only has a plurality and not a majority, but it doesn't really matter since third-party candidates pretty much never win any electoral votes to begin with.)
Usually (i.e. every time I've seen the term unless talking to fundamentalist Christians who truly believe that everything is pre-ordained), PRNG refers to the class of algorithms which rand() et al are based on, since they're a deterministic algorithm based on stored values; reproduce the stored values and you can reproduce the random numbers. You can't do that with entropy-based RNGs like /dev/random unless you have access to information which is way harder to get at than what it'd take to get at the unencrypted information to begin with.
Someone's missing their sense of history. goat.cx came later (and is likely to be suspended under the same TOS policy which took down goatse.cx).
Name one president who has won by a plurality who hasn't won by a majority.
No, really. This isn't just a ploy to get you to visit it anyway!
Really!
You could always create an account and turn the +1 bonus off.
Not quite. He quite clearly stated that Apple was working on the GUI before they visited Xerox, and that their resulting GUI was vastly different to what Xerox had demonstrated, and the concepts which made it from the Xerox GUI to the Apple GUI were both minimal and debatable. I'd classify that as a case of parallel evolution, similar to Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray who both developed the telephone at the same time (but Bell submitted his patent application mere hours before Gray).
Or he could provide the source so that PowerPC/SPARC/Alpha/etc. users can join in too.
Pardon me, I have to return a parrot...
Bruce Horn disagrees.
Also, while we're at it, you mean "others'."
The second time I tried it, I hit the right button and the frogs were freed, and I got caught and tossed into the ocean. Assuming it would be game over, I reloaded my last savegame. And tried maybe a dozen other things, all ending badly.
Then I tried just releasing the frogs ONE MORE TIME, and frustrated, wanted to see Willie drown. And then the goddamn frogs went and SAVED him!!!
Like that one scene in Willy Beamish where you're rescuing the frogs from the kitchen. That was annoying. I only ever got past it because I got sick of trying to figure things out and just wanted to watch Willy die.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is like that too. The whole game is phrased as being a flashback, and so if the main character dies, the narration says, "Wait, that's not what happened! Let me try again."
Staying resident is pretty easy in UNIX, actually. Perhaps you've heard of the fork() system call?
In text-based browsers, CSS-formatted pages will usually display in the exact order which the elements were put into the page.
Also, CSS has always used typesetting units (pt, em, ex, etc.) for font-relative positioning and sizing (which is the best for layout control on the widest range of display devices), and CSS2 adds a bit of typesetting stuff as well (e.g. pagebreak control). CSS3 adds columns, though IMO columns don't work well on vertically-scrolling displays such as webbrowsers (though it'd be great for the printed version, obviously).
IMO, CSS is designed very well for typesetting it's screen display which it's missing a lot of. (Like, there's basically no useful vertical sizing control, and its float mechanism leaves quite a bit to be desired.)