There's a famous experiment where a frog eye was removed and reattached inverted 180 degrees, and the frog never compensated
Wasn't there an experiment involving humans wearing inverting glasses where they did compensate? Of course, even if there is, that could just prove that humans ain't frogs.
One form of profit is in having a better piece of software to use. Another potential profit is in intellectual fame and glory.
Another form of profit is cooked fruit inside a pastry case, but only if I define profit as being an apple pie, just as you've redefined it to mean other things that aren't (to any sane person with a rudimentary command of the English language) profit.
I agree XML is overhyped, and too verbose, and just plain ugly, but how do you describe a hierarchical data structure in CSV?
You use n different record types, one for the header/parent, one for the item/child,... one for yada yada, with an indicator to say which it is. The recieving application then makes use of a very advanced new technique called an IF or even a CASE statement.
equivalent to a comma delimited flat file, which also works just fine.
Actually they don't: you get some article description like "bolt, steel, 28mm" and things end up in the wrong places. What's more, I'm told that if you save a CSV from French excel, it uses semicolons as delimiters.
s/comma/tab/ and I'd agree though. Or you can just used fixed width feilds, even if it is a bit C080Lish for most/.ers' tastes.
But what about the scenario where Company A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M,N, and O all use one standard and company P uses a proprietary standard.
Your automotive analogy is fundamentally flawed - we aren't talking about parts, we're talking about business to business communication. In your scenario, unless P's produuct really rocks, they won't get any orders, because nobody is going to take the effort to create a translator.
In practice, there are several different standards, and off the shelf translators are available, so if you can handle just one of them you're generally OK.
where market forces are creating an open standard.
Are creating? As in, present continuous tense? Such things have been around for years. Do a google search on EDIFACT or SMMT, for example.
If anything we should be supporting legislation to Ban the Penny [pennies.org], not divide it even further!
Bizarre. Even if you did what the link says - "... rounding purchases to the nickel. " you'd still get 19.95 becoming 20.13 (or whatever) after the sales tax is added.
Is anyone getting bizarre behaviour reading this thread?
The text isn't autowrapping at the edge of the browser so I'm having to scroll horizontally, as if some 'tard has coded a table width in pixels or something.
Other threads seem OK though, so I doubt it's a browser problem.
The whole reason behind the rebooting problem is the registry
Now that was a smart idea. Put all the important information in one file so if it gets broken, the system's hosed, and put in a binary format so you haven't even got a hope in hell of fixing it if (oops, when) it does go pear shaped.
I would expect that this kind of information is in the contract somewhere though. I wish I was a top corporate lawyer like you, specialising in the fucking obvious.
Amazon should have exercised due diligence and made sure that Toysrus was going to be able to stock goods and Toysrus' purchasing department knew what to stock before accepting the deal.
I'm guessing here, but contracts usually include something called a service level agreement that includes stuff like that.
A deal is a deal
Oh purleeease! Grow up already. If you knew anything, you'd have written "a contract is a contract" and you'd also know that if one party doesn't uphold their end, the other party has grounds to withdraw from it too (subject to various whys and wherefores).
No it isn't. Stickybacked plastic comes in sheets and is used for covering things. Sellotape/sticky tape comes on rolls and is used for attaching things. Unless you live in Australia where blu-tack is called condoms or something.
Furthermore, it irritates me that nobody can mention airships without harking back to the Hindenberg. It's as if every news story about a large oceangoing ship was compelled to recap the Titanic disaster.
It could be worse. Just imagine what it would be like if all articles about Alan Turing were required to mention that he was gay, and how ironic that is since the nazis used to kill gays. I'll get me coat.
I like to believe Civil Engineering is a field that tries its best to bridge the gap between RL and science.
What's Rugby League got to do with science and Civil Engineering?
When designing a reinforced concrete structure, as you would expect, there are some saffety coefficients involved, to make sure the structure doesn't collapse [...] Please forgive my english and any errors that I might have made
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Check your browser; it seems that when you type "publicity seeking charlatan" it transforms it into "cyborg guy from University of Reading".
s/comma/tab/ and I'd agree though. Or you can just used fixed width feilds, even if it is a bit C080Lish for most
I'm sure if slashdot had existed at the time they would have covered it. Several times.
P.S. And it was Newton. [ducks for cover]
In practice, there are several different standards, and off the shelf translators are available, so if you can handle just one of them you're generally OK.
Are creating? As in, present continuous tense? Such things have been around for years. Do a google search on EDIFACT or SMMT, for example.I thought we smelled of sour milk to them, as Asians don't eat generally eat dairy products beyond childhood?
It isn't for sweetness of taste - some very sweet substances are very disimilar at the molecular level to sugars, IIRC.
Is anyone getting bizarre behaviour reading this thread?
The text isn't autowrapping at the edge of the browser so I'm having to scroll horizontally, as if some 'tard has coded a table width in pixels or something.
Other threads seem OK though, so I doubt it's a browser problem.
P.S. PHP rocks and java is teh 5ux0r!
I would expect that this kind of information is in the contract somewhere though.
I wish I was a top corporate lawyer like you, specialising in the fucking obvious.
Oh purleeease! Grow up already. If you knew anything, you'd have written "a contract is a contract" and you'd also know that if one party doesn't uphold their end, the other party has grounds to withdraw from it too (subject to various whys and wherefores).
Would that be "special" as in "special olympics"?
No. On the contrary, it is whack.
"and what's the url?"
www.slashdot.org
I'll get me coat.
Do you design French airports, by any chance?