I had the same problem, until I logged in. Anyway I think it's an epic UI fail, because since when is it a good idea to alienate new users with this kind of crap?
If you look at bodybuilding, they have two types of competitions. Natural, and well... the other variety. Personally although the supplement companies are all over the hyoooouge IFBB pro's, who without a doubt have gained a reasonable portion of their mass unnaturally, I think the natural competitions are where you really see the nice physiques.
Some here mentioned earlier that allowing doping would just turn everyone into hulks, but that's ridiculous. I agree that watching huge unnatural hulks run around is nothing but a freak show, just as the pro bodybuilding contests have turned into freak shows decades ago. However the fact remains that in most sports pure bulk is not the key to winning, and beyond that most of the sports where pure bulk can prove an advantage, there are weight classes (think olympic judo, boxing, etc..).
For the non-combat sports, being too big usually slows you down, makes you require more oxygen to operate, and in many cases makes it more difficult to execute correct technique, which has been designed around a more natural body.
Personally I think bringing doping out into the open would do exactly what the scientists think: reduce the risk for both athletes and amateurs dabbling with (currently) illegal performance enhancing drugs. Additionally I would like to point out it's quite plausible that the drugs and methods being used for performance enhancement now because they can't be detected yet by drug tests, are more detrimental to the athletes' health than the "tried and true" ones, such as plain testosterone or other "natural" AAS for example?
Finally I would like to add that while doping should quite possibly be allowed, I would guess having a "natural" class where athletes are limited to more natural performance enhancers, would make a lot of sense, as most people have tremendous respect for those who wish to take their body to the limit without the help of drugs. The important remaining question is whether the fact that an "all-out, doping allowed" class existed would eliminate cheating in the natural class. I would hope so, but human nature has stacked the odds against it.
I don't think you're too far off the mark, it has happened in the past that companies reaching a certain size set up practically everything for their employees and their families.
Housing, recreation, shopping (clothes, food), transportation (company cars?), travels, etc.
Because the corporations could purchase everything wholesale, it allowed them to provide more to their employees than by means of salaries, while at the same time being less of an expenditure than the equivalent spending on salaries.
I believe that in the '30s, there were quite a few companies set up like this, and co-owned by all the workers, in a very communistic way.
It's possible that communism works much better on such a small scale.
I can't wait!
Also, I am curious how they will treat the "Drummers" part, for example the way Hackworth "acquired" certain information, he ended up carrying in his body;-)
Ah, thank you for pointing out an interesting solution to this problem -- however, the possibility of the larger company suing the company which owns the shell company still exists. So the only real solution is to develop a patent, and not intend to use it for anything -- ie. not intend to use this wonderful "new technology" to bring more prosperity to the human race (or however the patent system was first envisioned). Personally I think that the patent system as it currently stands needs some sort of overhaul.
A couple of years ago I saw Stallman lecture about the dangers of software patents. A lot of his speech revolved around the busting of the myth of the "patent empowering the little guy", ie. the myth of the lone inventor walking down the street demanding money from the likes of Intel, IBM, Microsoft, because of his mighty patent. Stallman explained that if such a situation would arise, the large companies would simply find ways of countersuing for infringement of some of their numerous patents, thus forcing the smaller entity to give up it's claims, and possibly settle the countercase by giving up it's own patent.
This is something he referred to as a patent plateau -- where the large companies are all so far beyond the reach of smaller entities, be it individuals or companies, that patents in the hands of those not "on the plateau", are practically useless.
They'll keep it tasteful and write the script according to Harrisons age, I'm sure. The only thing I'm curious about is how they'll explain the fact that Indy drank from the holy grail, and thus shouldn't age at all? This should be interesting..
Well, it's solely to blame of course, used sparingly it's just like many other chemicals we ingest, mostly harmless. However it's effect on the insulin production of the body is notable, and that causes your blood sugar to lower faster after eating something containing MSG, thus you get hungry again sooner. I'm not saying it should be outlawed, just saying there should be regulations against putting it into babyfood, etc;-)
To add to your point of "the disease makes companies billions", it's worth a mention that a lot of companies try and perpetuate this disease -- with food additives, the most common being sugar and of course monosodium glutamate (MSG). Most people who suffer from obesity do so due to excessive consumption of calorically dense, but nutritionally poor foods, some even "enhanced" with the insulin response inducing agent MSG, which AFAIK is the only substance currently used to make lab rats overeat and become obese.
However on the original topic of lowered testosteron levels, I personally believe xenoestrogens, plastic and soy derived specifically, are among the top candidates for this reason. Another very possible reason could be the current (hopefully declining) trend of fat avoidance. A good balanced diet should contain a healthy amount of saturated, monounsatured, and polyunsaturated fats, while staying strictly away from trans-saturated fats (such as can be found in abundance in all hydrogenated vegetable oils). A reasonable healthy fat intake is apparently one of the factors involved in keeping a healthy hormone profile. I reccommend reading the following: Xenoestrogens: the naked truth fats lipid hypothesis
I'm sure this isn't news to many here, but the battle for our health, and even our masculanity still rages on -- we need to curb the food industry, and support regulations to reevaluate common ingredients as new research becomes available.
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The quotes are part of the standard for all attribute values.
This includes the value for the "href" attribute of the anchor (a) tag. Without the quotes a lot of attribute values, notably for the "style" attribute, as well as all the event (onxxxxx) attributes would become hellish to parse -- parse until another keyword known to be an attribute name followed by a equal sign?? Come on, the quotes are there for a reason.
"And let's say it is in that framework: you need to understand linked lists anyways if your problem uses lists that needs to be searched, you would know that using the list would be unwise."
I just wanted to say in response to this sentence, that I think the poster to which you replied, did not include the possibility of people applying for software engineering positions without understanding as basic data structures as linked lists.
Also, understanding how a linked list works, and writing the code to reverse it in a matter of minutes isn't really the same thing, I completely agree with the original poster on the argument for using framework functions -- I mean, it's been about 6 years since I had to write linked list functionality by hand, and if it would take me more than a few minutes to write it on the spot today does not mean I don't understand such a basic data structure.
Also the point about googling it is not about copy/pasting random code, it's to find a formal description of the algorithms available to solve your task, and perhaps pseudo-code to base things on -- google will not help you if you don't understand enough to use it correctly.
Heheh, also on the "what data structure would you use to in designing a database application" -- I would not be able to suck it up, I mean, how do you answer that? "Oh depending on the application, I'd probably use an Incompe Tent Asshat Tree.." -- that question is just too stupid;-)
I honestly didn't contemplate the possibility of running two OS's on one machine. It's been about 5 years since I stopped dual booting my PC's between Linux and windows, and the possibility of people wanting to do that just didn't occur to me.
Also personally I just have two machines, I have a 12" powerbook which I like to take on vacation, or along to café's, then I have a 15" PC laptop running Linux which I use for more serious, less mobile work, and using Cedega I can even play some games on that one (nvidia gfx).
This let's them do that? Use windows?
Unlike say, a Dell would?
People aren't being stupid, they're just wondering why someone would buy a mac, and use another OS on it.. Especially if using that OS was easier, and cheaper if they'd bought a regular PC.
Analyzing the connection? How do you propose that happens, I doubt anyone is using a protocol for their online game which is so complicated that it has routing functionality built into it at the application level. Also there would have to be a choice of different servers available, and usually (for MMO's at least) people choose their general area in the world, and I think most game services worth their salt then try and find a server for the client to play on which has relatively low latency. When it comes to "analyzing the connection", I think people just have to rely on the internet to do their routing, and a client machine with one gateway pretty much doesn't have much choice besides their one gateway with regards where to send the packets.
Yeah, I remember checking out that leaked code, it was a mess. Rather funny how Valve managed to blame the delays on the source code theft, since the source code theft actually exposed how far behind schedule they were.
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Parent is right, should get modded up.
The difference lies in the fact that each DOM call results in the whole thing being rendered, whilst the innerHTML method just requires the browser to read a chunk of HTML and render it once.
Perhaps objects should have some sort of render() method, and a possibility of auto-rendering which could be toggled? Thus avoiding rendering of objects being manipulated after each change, etc? Oh well, it's fun to dream..
Yes, I do agree with you, I think Google is becoming a bit creepy. Although I'm a user of many of their services beyond search, such as GMail, adSense, adWords, etc, and I really think they're providing amazing services, it's just the fact that they're very very big, and today it almost seems like Google is the web.
Of course, Google remember how the world looked 7-8 years ago, when AltaVista/Yahoo!/Excite/Lycos, etc were dominating the web, and how they by devising their pagerank system managed to outsmart them. Someone might be able to outsmart Google, in fact today we're seeing lots of generated linksites that are being used to skew pages' pagerank score, and it's possible that someone will eventually really manage to outsmart them in the arena of internet search. I think Google's execs are fully aware of this possibility, so they're keeping on their toes.
That's why we're seeing this aggressive surge into all sorts of markets, they need to do that to secure the company's future while they have this amazing control over the web, in case their hold on that market should begin to slip. And that may also be why they're going to be more willing to do things that annoy users (such as slipping in the toolbar along with other software), in an attempt to secure their position in any way possible.
Google hasn't annoyed me (very much) yet, and I enjoy using their many excellent services, but they're getting just a *tad* creepy, like all large corporations -- "legal entities" governed by greed.
Nothing wrong with healthy competition
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Google is providing good services in most of the areas they've ventured into, PayPal has a rocky history, and most PayPal users have at some point been frustrated by their service. However due to the nature of financial transactions they require a lot of security, and security and service don't always mix well -- at the very least we can say it takes skill to combine the two well. Maybe it's not PayPal's fault that we've been frustrated?
Hopefully Google's foray into this market will bring us some innovations like micropayments, which we've been awaiting for years -- and although we can only speculate on that, we can all be sure their involvement with payment systems will result in better products for us, whether it be from them, or competitors that are forced to enhance their services. I'm excited.
We've still got overall internet usage increasing quite a bit every year, so just like everyone else, more criminals are getting online. There are so many aspects of the internet which have yet to be discovered by organized crime factions that find flaws in social systems to make money all the time, and it would be natural to assume that they will be discovering new criminal ways to make money on the internet over the next 5-6 years at least.
Not until we reach some sort of plateau in internet usage growth can we even start expecting cybercrime figures to start going down, but at the moment it's a growing market, and one which is largely untouched by organized crime and thus probably still rather ripe.
I agree.
IE for mac is buggy, ugly, renders badly, has terrible support for non ascii characters (at least 90% of icelandic webpages that I viewed with it had little diamonds with a question mark inside them, instead of all the icelandic characters).
My dayjob is running iceland's most popular website (mbl.is) and trying to keep support for IE:MAC was just a complete nightmare, whilst we could easily maintain correct rendering for Netscape 5+, IE5+ (for windows), Opera 7+, Mozilla 1.4+ or Firefox 0.8+.
IE:MAC is terrible violation against the internet, and the notion of extending it's life and furthering the pain and misery it brings down on users is just preposterous.
If Microsoft by their own accord want to park this weapon of bad rendering and vileness, please please please lets not give them a game plan to continue!
Someone should smack the proposer of this idea on the top of his head for being a big doofus. People should rather focus on making the already better, already open-source browsers for Mac OS better!
Yes, I believe this is the reason. I think people using the prefork apache2 mpm are mostly safe, and those who would use worker mpm might be in more danger. But I have encountered strangeness with php on my apache2 setup (using prefork mpm).
An example of trouble I got, was that I had a Directory configuration for a certain directory, set up in httpd.conf so that it had a different base include_path than by default in php. At random this setting would get splashed into other directories, so you'd be loading a totally different page, on a different virtualhost on the same Apache2, server, and get some error like "mysql.inc.php not found in include_path, include_path is:..." (Don't remember the error message specifically, but this is pretty much the gist).
I fixed this by putting the settings instead into a.htaccess file in the directory of the project requiring the special settings, that seemed to fix it!
But this hasn't kept me from running php with apache2.. but it's understandable if the PHP guys want to avoid alot of fuzz and mailing list posts about this sort of stuff, when they know they problem lies with them not being thread safe, and they're probably working, slowly, towards being so.
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I had the same problem, until I logged in. Anyway I think it's an epic UI fail, because since when is it a good idea to alienate new users with this kind of crap?
If you look at bodybuilding, they have two types of competitions. Natural, and well... the other variety. Personally although the supplement companies are all over the hyoooouge IFBB pro's, who without a doubt have gained a reasonable portion of their mass unnaturally, I think the natural competitions are where you really see the nice physiques.
Some here mentioned earlier that allowing doping would just turn everyone into hulks, but that's ridiculous. I agree that watching huge unnatural hulks run around is nothing but a freak show, just as the pro bodybuilding contests have turned into freak shows decades ago. However the fact remains that in most sports pure bulk is not the key to winning, and beyond that most of the sports where pure bulk can prove an advantage, there are weight classes (think olympic judo, boxing, etc..).
For the non-combat sports, being too big usually slows you down, makes you require more oxygen to operate, and in many cases makes it more difficult to execute correct technique, which has been designed around a more natural body.
Personally I think bringing doping out into the open would do exactly what the scientists think: reduce the risk for both athletes and amateurs dabbling with (currently) illegal performance enhancing drugs. Additionally I would like to point out it's quite plausible that the drugs and methods being used for performance enhancement now because they can't be detected yet by drug tests, are more detrimental to the athletes' health than the "tried and true" ones, such as plain testosterone or other "natural" AAS for example?
Finally I would like to add that while doping should quite possibly be allowed, I would guess having a "natural" class where athletes are limited to more natural performance enhancers, would make a lot of sense, as most people have tremendous respect for those who wish to take their body to the limit without the help of drugs. The important remaining question is whether the fact that an "all-out, doping allowed" class existed would eliminate cheating in the natural class. I would hope so, but human nature has stacked the odds against it.
I don't think you're too far off the mark, it has happened in the past that companies reaching a certain size set up practically everything for their employees and their families.
Housing, recreation, shopping (clothes, food), transportation (company cars?), travels, etc.
Because the corporations could purchase everything wholesale, it allowed them to provide more to their employees than by means of salaries, while at the same time being less of an expenditure than the equivalent spending on salaries.
I believe that in the '30s, there were quite a few companies set up like this, and co-owned by all the workers, in a very communistic way.
It's possible that communism works much better on such a small scale.
I can't wait! Also, I am curious how they will treat the "Drummers" part, for example the way Hackworth "acquired" certain information, he ended up carrying in his body ;-)
Ah, thank you for pointing out an interesting solution to this problem -- however, the possibility of the larger company suing the company which owns the shell company still exists. So the only real solution is to develop a patent, and not intend to use it for anything -- ie. not intend to use this wonderful "new technology" to bring more prosperity to the human race (or however the patent system was first envisioned). Personally I think that the patent system as it currently stands needs some sort of overhaul.
A couple of years ago I saw Stallman lecture about the dangers of software patents. A lot of his speech revolved around the busting of the myth of the "patent empowering the little guy", ie. the myth of the lone inventor walking down the street demanding money from the likes of Intel, IBM, Microsoft, because of his mighty patent. Stallman explained that if such a situation would arise, the large companies would simply find ways of countersuing for infringement of some of their numerous patents, thus forcing the smaller entity to give up it's claims, and possibly settle the countercase by giving up it's own patent.
This is something he referred to as a patent plateau -- where the large companies are all so far beyond the reach of smaller entities, be it individuals or companies, that patents in the hands of those not "on the plateau", are practically useless.
They'll keep it tasteful and write the script according to Harrisons age, I'm sure. The only thing I'm curious about is how they'll explain the fact that Indy drank from the holy grail, and thus shouldn't age at all? This should be interesting..
Uhm, yeah I was going to say "it's not solely to blame" ... I should use preview more often, doh!
Well, it's solely to blame of course, used sparingly it's just like many other chemicals we ingest, mostly harmless. However it's effect on the insulin production of the body is notable, and that causes your blood sugar to lower faster after eating something containing MSG, thus you get hungry again sooner. I'm not saying it should be outlawed, just saying there should be regulations against putting it into babyfood, etc ;-)
To add to your point of "the disease makes companies billions", it's worth a mention that a lot of companies try and perpetuate this disease -- with food additives, the most common being sugar and of course monosodium glutamate (MSG). Most people who suffer from obesity do so due to excessive consumption of calorically dense, but nutritionally poor foods, some even "enhanced" with the insulin response inducing agent MSG, which AFAIK is the only substance currently used to make lab rats overeat and become obese.
However on the original topic of lowered testosteron levels, I personally believe xenoestrogens, plastic and soy derived specifically, are among the top candidates for this reason. Another very possible reason could be the current (hopefully declining) trend of fat avoidance. A good balanced diet should contain a healthy amount of saturated, monounsatured, and polyunsaturated fats, while staying strictly away from trans-saturated fats (such as can be found in abundance in all hydrogenated vegetable oils). A reasonable healthy fat intake is apparently one of the factors involved in keeping a healthy hormone profile. I reccommend reading the following:
Xenoestrogens: the naked truth
fats lipid hypothesis
I'm sure this isn't news to many here, but the battle for our health, and even our masculanity still rages on -- we need to curb the food industry, and support regulations to reevaluate common ingredients as new research becomes available.
The quotes are part of the standard for all attribute values.
This includes the value for the "href" attribute of the anchor (a) tag. Without the quotes a lot of attribute values, notably for the "style" attribute, as well as all the event (onxxxxx) attributes would become hellish to parse -- parse until another keyword known to be an attribute name followed by a equal sign?? Come on, the quotes are there for a reason.
"And let's say it is in that framework: you need to understand linked lists anyways if your problem uses lists that needs to be searched, you would know that using the list would be unwise."
;-)
I just wanted to say in response to this sentence, that I think the poster to which you replied, did not include the possibility of people applying for software engineering positions without understanding as basic data structures as linked lists.
Also, understanding how a linked list works, and writing the code to reverse it in a matter of minutes isn't really the same thing, I completely agree with the original poster on the argument for using framework functions -- I mean, it's been about 6 years since I had to write linked list functionality by hand, and if it would take me more than a few minutes to write it on the spot today does not mean I don't understand such a basic data structure.
Also the point about googling it is not about copy/pasting random code, it's to find a formal description of the algorithms available to solve your task, and perhaps pseudo-code to base things on -- google will not help you if you don't understand enough to use it correctly.
Heheh, also on the "what data structure would you use to in designing a database application" -- I would not be able to suck it up, I mean, how do you answer that? "Oh depending on the application, I'd probably use an Incompe Tent Asshat Tree.." -- that question is just too stupid
I honestly didn't contemplate the possibility of running two OS's on one machine. It's been about 5 years since I stopped dual booting my PC's between Linux and windows, and the possibility of people wanting to do that just didn't occur to me.
Also personally I just have two machines, I have a 12" powerbook which I like to take on vacation, or along to café's, then I have a 15" PC laptop running Linux which I use for more serious, less mobile work, and using Cedega I can even play some games on that one (nvidia gfx).
This let's them do that? Use windows? Unlike say, a Dell would? People aren't being stupid, they're just wondering why someone would buy a mac, and use another OS on it.. Especially if using that OS was easier, and cheaper if they'd bought a regular PC.
Why would you want to buy a mac to run windows on it?
Besides, last time I checked windows was more of a problem than a solution.
Analyzing the connection? How do you propose that happens, I doubt anyone is using a protocol for their online game which is so complicated that it has routing functionality built into it at the application level. Also there would have to be a choice of different servers available, and usually (for MMO's at least) people choose their general area in the world, and I think most game services worth their salt then try and find a server for the client to play on which has relatively low latency. When it comes to "analyzing the connection", I think people just have to rely on the internet to do their routing, and a client machine with one gateway pretty much doesn't have much choice besides their one gateway with regards where to send the packets.
Yeah, I remember checking out that leaked code, it was a mess. Rather funny how Valve managed to blame the delays on the source code theft, since the source code theft actually exposed how far behind schedule they were.
Parent is right, should get modded up.
The difference lies in the fact that each DOM call results in the whole thing being rendered, whilst the innerHTML method just requires the browser to read a chunk of HTML and render it once.
Perhaps objects should have some sort of render() method, and a possibility of auto-rendering which could be toggled? Thus avoiding rendering of objects being manipulated after each change, etc? Oh well, it's fun to dream..
These are very slick indeed.
:-)
Personally I wear an Axcent Haparanda, but Axcent make many interesting designer watches, and they're inexpensive too
Yes, I do agree with you, I think Google is becoming a bit creepy. Although I'm a user of many of their services beyond search, such as GMail, adSense, adWords, etc, and I really think they're providing amazing services, it's just the fact that they're very very big, and today it almost seems like Google is the web.
Of course, Google remember how the world looked 7-8 years ago, when AltaVista/Yahoo!/Excite/Lycos, etc were dominating the web, and how they by devising their pagerank system managed to outsmart them. Someone might be able to outsmart Google, in fact today we're seeing lots of generated linksites that are being used to skew pages' pagerank score, and it's possible that someone will eventually really manage to outsmart them in the arena of internet search. I think Google's execs are fully aware of this possibility, so they're keeping on their toes.
That's why we're seeing this aggressive surge into all sorts of markets, they need to do that to secure the company's future while they have this amazing control over the web, in case their hold on that market should begin to slip. And that may also be why they're going to be more willing to do things that annoy users (such as slipping in the toolbar along with other software), in an attempt to secure their position in any way possible.
Google hasn't annoyed me (very much) yet, and I enjoy using their many excellent services, but they're getting just a *tad* creepy, like all large corporations -- "legal entities" governed by greed.
Google is providing good services in most of the areas they've ventured into, PayPal has a rocky history, and most PayPal users have at some point been frustrated by their service. However due to the nature of financial transactions they require a lot of security, and security and service don't always mix well -- at the very least we can say it takes skill to combine the two well. Maybe it's not PayPal's fault that we've been frustrated?
Hopefully Google's foray into this market will bring us some innovations like micropayments, which we've been awaiting for years -- and although we can only speculate on that, we can all be sure their involvement with payment systems will result in better products for us, whether it be from them, or competitors that are forced to enhance their services. I'm excited.
We've still got overall internet usage increasing quite a bit every year, so just like everyone else, more criminals are getting online. There are so many aspects of the internet which have yet to be discovered by organized crime factions that find flaws in social systems to make money all the time, and it would be natural to assume that they will be discovering new criminal ways to make money on the internet over the next 5-6 years at least.
Not until we reach some sort of plateau in internet usage growth can we even start expecting cybercrime figures to start going down, but at the moment it's a growing market, and one which is largely untouched by organized crime and thus probably still rather ripe.
I agree. IE for mac is buggy, ugly, renders badly, has terrible support for non ascii characters (at least 90% of icelandic webpages that I viewed with it had little diamonds with a question mark inside them, instead of all the icelandic characters). My dayjob is running iceland's most popular website (mbl.is) and trying to keep support for IE:MAC was just a complete nightmare, whilst we could easily maintain correct rendering for Netscape 5+, IE5+ (for windows), Opera 7+, Mozilla 1.4+ or Firefox 0.8+. IE:MAC is terrible violation against the internet, and the notion of extending it's life and furthering the pain and misery it brings down on users is just preposterous. If Microsoft by their own accord want to park this weapon of bad rendering and vileness, please please please lets not give them a game plan to continue! Someone should smack the proposer of this idea on the top of his head for being a big doofus. People should rather focus on making the already better, already open-source browsers for Mac OS better!
Who cares if he/she sucks?! Natalie Portman is a guy !?
Yes, I believe this is the reason. I think people using the prefork apache2 mpm are mostly safe, and those who would use worker mpm might be in more danger. But I have encountered strangeness with php on my apache2 setup (using prefork mpm).
..." (Don't remember the error message specifically, but this is pretty much the gist).
.htaccess file in the directory of the project requiring the special settings, that seemed to fix it!
An example of trouble I got, was that I had a Directory configuration for a certain directory, set up in httpd.conf so that it had a different base include_path than by default in php. At random this setting would get splashed into other directories, so you'd be loading a totally different page, on a different virtualhost on the same Apache2, server, and get some error like "mysql.inc.php not found in include_path, include_path is:
I fixed this by putting the settings instead into a
But this hasn't kept me from running php with apache2.. but it's understandable if the PHP guys want to avoid alot of fuzz and mailing list posts about this sort of stuff, when they know they problem lies with them not being thread safe, and they're probably working, slowly, towards being so.