arguably provided the inspiration for Starbucks' Frappuccino
Surely this drink was much more likely inspired by a traditional Italian drink called Caffè Granita, made with coffee and crushed ice.
Here in the UK, we don't have this Slurpee thing at all, but Frappuccino was not a surprise to any of us who had been to Italy when it arrived in our Starbuckses.
(Can we have British English automated-human test images please, you insensitive clods!)
Actually, -izeis the original and most accepted ending for these verbs in Commonwealth English. It seems the -ise form is a lazier (since some words have to end with -ise) French-inspired form which now enjoys equal footing with the -ize form in Commonwealth English, but not in American English.
As part of my work, I spend a lot of time writing software that detects and corrects errors in the way a farm of machines works. This is a rewarding and time-saving thing to do.
However, one cannot just take this idea and extrapolate it straight out to cars. If my software breaks and makes the wrong decision, the absolute worst thing it could do is probably frying the hard disk, which we can replace, format, and restore from backup. If software that prevents car crashes malfunctions and suggests, say, changing lanes into the path of an oncoming truck, it could actually increase the risk of an accident, especially if the driver has trust in it.
One might say to me that commercial passenger aircraft have been flying themselves for years and no one is complaining about that. But then one should ask oneself why said aircraft also carry not one but two pilots, retrained every few weeks, and not one but two sets of controls for each pilot. And even then, there are no traffic lights, lanes and drunk drivers in the air.
Theoretically, this could be the big one for GPL violations, as money has already exchanged hands and the product is 'out there' in the real world.
The VX30 technology has been purchased by (among others) the HFPA, creators of the Golden Globe awards. The technology is being used on their website and has been for a some time. (And here is the press release made by MXS at the time of the sale.)
At the time of the CherryOS debacle, someone on here mentioned that VX30 looked like a GPL ripoff too, but I thought that was just typical/. energy making five from two and two. Now it turns out that their flagship product is probably a GPL violation, it will be very interesting to see how MXS deals with the coming lawsuits.
My mum is on AOL, and half the time I can't respond to her emails because AOL have decided to RBL my ISP's entire subnet because, apparently, someone has been spamming.
Here's the message they send back:
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
foo@aol.com SMTP error from remote mailer after initial connection: host mailin-03.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.249]: 554- (RTR:SC) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rtrsc.htm l 554- AOL does not accept e-mail transactions from IP addresses which 554- generate complaints or transmit unsolicited bulk e-mail. 554 Connecting IP: 62.3.252.235
The URL leads to a page telling me that my IP address was responsible for excess floods. Well it wasn't - it must have been someone else on my subnet. When I chased it up with their "feedback loop form" (whatever that might be) they proceeded to completely ignore me.
I'm so glad they finally got a taste of their own medicine!
[Many] did not believe that bloggers should be allowed to publish home addresses and other personal information about private citizens.
This particular thing has nothing to do with media censorship, freedom of speech, etc. etc. It is about data protection.
In the UK we have had a Data Protection Act for eleven years, and it has done much more for the rights of the private individual than it ever did for the government/spies/corporations.
The gist of it is this. If you give personal information to someone, they may only use it for the purposes you permitted them to, and after those purposes are complete, you must destroy the information. Additionally, if someone is collecting information about you and it is impossible for you to consent, they must warn you about it beforehand, and you may ask them at any time for a copy.
Here are some of the rights the DPA entitles me to:
No one, no matter how much they hate me, can give my address or phone number to the press (and when I say press, I include bloggers, student newspapers, and church magazines), without me explicitly stating they can (which I wouldn't).
If I wanted to enter a "free prize draw" (I don't know, I might) then the company has to give me the option of joining their mailing list or not. If they don't give me the option, then I must not be added to a mailing list.
If the police are using "speed cameras" to check I'm not driving in excess of the speed limit, they must warn me before I enter the zone containing the cameras.
If someone has footage of me on CCTV, I am entitled to ask for a copy. The political comedian Mark Thomas once encouraged all of his viewers to put on a show for a CCTV camera, then ask for a copy and send it in to him.
I believe that this law also applies to the rest of the EU now, but I don't believe there's anything like this in North America yet.
Starting from MySQL 3.23.50, InnoDB allows you to add a new foreign key constraint to a table by using ALTER TABLE [...] Starting from MySQL 4.0.13, InnoDB supports the use of ALTER TABLE to drop foreign keys.
Prior to 4.0.13 the official way to drop a foreign key was to drop the table and recreate it from scratch (!). Of course, you can't actually drop the table without disabling foreign keys, and that feature was first supported in 3.23.52.
It's funny looking back on it, but it wasn't when I lost weeks of my life and most of my hair with 3.23.51.
Here in the UK, the BBC radio made a big deal in 1990 about 12:34:56 7/8/90. Just think of the endless excitement we would have missed out on had we chosen some other arbitrary numbering scheme for time.
As one who deals with UNIX timestamps on a regular basis, I will certainly crack open the best bubbly for this momentous occasion.
54 years ago Alan Turing postulated that if a judge was unable to differentiate between conversational responses given to him by a human and those by a computer program, then that computer program had mastered human-like linguistic skills. This program, of course, will have been assembled by humans, but will provide answers to human-provided input without the supervised direction of another human.
This article suggests that the images generated by TypoGenerator were only art because the humans who had created the program had told it to behave that way, not because the program itself was capable of artistic talent. Surely, the simple concept that the program generated aesthetically-pleasing images, given input by a human being, without the supervised direction of another human means that it has, in fact, passed an "artistic Turing test" and can be classed as an artist in its own right.
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It's my understanding that the word 'background' normally contains the letter R.
Would you trust a product from a company who name one of their pages "Backgound.html" and even label it "BACKGOUND" on the main navigation bar?
Surely this drink was much more likely inspired by a traditional Italian drink called Caffè Granita, made with coffee and crushed ice.
Here in the UK, we don't have this Slurpee thing at all, but Frappuccino was not a surprise to any of us who had been to Italy when it arrived in our Starbuckses.
Actually, -ize is the original and most accepted ending for these verbs in Commonwealth English. It seems the -ise form is a lazier (since some words have to end with -ise) French-inspired form which now enjoys equal footing with the -ize form in Commonwealth English, but not in American English.
</raving_pedant>...as a factual news site!
Following Microsoft's inclusion of a real red screen of death in Longhorn/Vista/Foo, yet another perfectly good piece of satire is rendered pointless by real news.
Maybe BBspot should market itself as a prescient news source rather than a humour site.
As part of my work, I spend a lot of time writing software that detects and corrects errors in the way a farm of machines works. This is a rewarding and time-saving thing to do.
However, one cannot just take this idea and extrapolate it straight out to cars. If my software breaks and makes the wrong decision, the absolute worst thing it could do is probably frying the hard disk, which we can replace, format, and restore from backup. If software that prevents car crashes malfunctions and suggests, say, changing lanes into the path of an oncoming truck, it could actually increase the risk of an accident, especially if the driver has trust in it.
One might say to me that commercial passenger aircraft have been flying themselves for years and no one is complaining about that. But then one should ask oneself why said aircraft also carry not one but two pilots, retrained every few weeks, and not one but two sets of controls for each pilot. And even then, there are no traffic lights, lanes and drunk drivers in the air.
Theoretically, this could be the big one for GPL violations, as money has already exchanged hands and the product is 'out there' in the real world.
The VX30 technology has been purchased by (among others) the HFPA, creators of the Golden Globe awards. The technology is being used on their website and has been for a some time. (And here is the press release made by MXS at the time of the sale.)
At the time of the CherryOS debacle, someone on here mentioned that VX30 looked like a GPL ripoff too, but I thought that was just typical /. energy making five from two and two. Now it turns out that their flagship product is probably a GPL violation, it will be very interesting to see how MXS deals with the coming lawsuits.
My mum is on AOL, and half the time I can't respond to her emails because AOL have decided to RBL my ISP's entire subnet because, apparently, someone has been spamming.
Here's the message they send back:
The URL leads to a page telling me that my IP address was responsible for excess floods. Well it wasn't - it must have been someone else on my subnet. When I chased it up with their "feedback loop form" (whatever that might be) they proceeded to completely ignore me.
I'm so glad they finally got a taste of their own medicine!
This particular thing has nothing to do with media censorship, freedom of speech, etc. etc. It is about data protection.
In the UK we have had a Data Protection Act for eleven years, and it has done much more for the rights of the private individual than it ever did for the government/spies/corporations.
The gist of it is this. If you give personal information to someone, they may only use it for the purposes you permitted them to, and after those purposes are complete, you must destroy the information. Additionally, if someone is collecting information about you and it is impossible for you to consent, they must warn you about it beforehand, and you may ask them at any time for a copy.
Here are some of the rights the DPA entitles me to:
I believe that this law also applies to the rest of the EU now, but I don't believe there's anything like this in North America yet.
I read it as that first too. But I suspect .LA.CA.US means Los Angeles, California, United States.
My favourite quote from the MySQL manual is from the page on foreign key constraints.
Prior to 4.0.13 the official way to drop a foreign key was to drop the table and recreate it from scratch (!). Of course, you can't actually drop the table without disabling foreign keys, and that feature was first supported in 3.23.52.
It's funny looking back on it, but it wasn't when I lost weeks of my life and most of my hair with 3.23.51.
I could of told you that.
It's particularly important to get your spelling right when you're trying to sell your services as a proffesional CV designer.
Here in the UK, the BBC radio made a big deal in 1990 about 12:34:56 7/8/90. Just think of the endless excitement we would have missed out on had we chosen some other arbitrary numbering scheme for time.
As one who deals with UNIX timestamps on a regular basis, I will certainly crack open the best bubbly for this momentous occasion.
54 years ago Alan Turing postulated that if a judge was unable to differentiate between conversational responses given to him by a human and those by a computer program, then that computer program had mastered human-like linguistic skills. This program, of course, will have been assembled by humans, but will provide answers to human-provided input without the supervised direction of another human.
This article suggests that the images generated by TypoGenerator were only art because the humans who had created the program had told it to behave that way, not because the program itself was capable of artistic talent. Surely, the simple concept that the program generated aesthetically-pleasing images, given input by a human being, without the supervised direction of another human means that it has, in fact, passed an "artistic Turing test" and can be classed as an artist in its own right.
...gave this away as the pile of poorly-researched, childish rubbish that it is:
Enough said, as far as I'm concerned.