Right. Driving the kid to the school by car may be good for safety, but it's one of bigger contributions to obesity.
In my times, we went to school on foot, uphill both ways. And we were slim! And this is only halfway a joke -- elementary school no 27 in Gdynia, which I attended for three years, sits atop a big hill/small mountain.
we were never allowed to leave campus at my schools.
Now, that's pretty nazi. But, in this case, you can just buy your treats on your way from home. Even in a prison, it's easy to get drugs/cell phones/other illegal goods -- so I don't really believe it's possible to stop kids from having their snacks, kids are smart monkeys.
Of course, the parents are supposed to be smart monkeys as well, but considering my lack of social skills and the fact that my main candidate lives on the other side of the pond so I have little chance to get her, I have quite a bit of time to come up with a solution:p
The sales people will just drop in to a shop on their way to work... oh, wait, the kids can do that as well.
If you start restricting the cafeteria, kids will simply go to the shop at the nearest corner. It may be a slight problem in the US -- as you leftpondians have a few big shops per city instead of several ones per every street segment, but this isn't something that's an unbreachable barrier.
You're right. Embrace and extend is wrong anywhere.
It's exactly why the metric system is so much better than the imperial one: instead of land miles, sea miles, survey miles, international miles, furlongs, leagues, feet, etc, you have just a single unit. Even Americans can't stick to a single mile (they have like 3 or 4) -- and this is what makes miles something really repulsive to me. Similarily with web standards: if you need to write everything separately for every possible browser and its version, everything becomes a hell -- no matter if the browsers come from the Bad or the Good side.
Right, nearly all time spent coding in Javascript is spent making sure it works correctly in different browsers. Unfortunately, it will be a cold day in hell when IE has decent support for the standards -- and add an aeon or two until older versions of IE are phased out.
This said, I'm not a web developer myself -- but when I updated our company's website recently, I would have spent around 10% of the time I needed. Coding around all quirks in different browsers is NOT FUN.
This is dangerous, as 1) you can easily lose the file, 2) it's a single point of failure.
What I do, is remembering just an algorithm.
For example, one of sets of passwords I used was generated as follows:
pick an ASCII character
add a '!' to it if its ASCII code is less than 100
add the ASCII code in decimal
add '/-\|'
The last part was static -- this was a bad idea, but it was one of my early password sets.
The benefit is, if you forget the character associated with a host, you need to try at most 256 (-#0..#31, -#127, etc) combinations.
You can use any non-obvious association that you remember. It can be the ASCII code, it can be the initials of Doom2 map names -- a sport spectator can use 1936 game results, and so on.
If you have a non-obvious mapping with some twists in the algorithm, it's pretty hard to guess the rest of the password unless the attacker manages to catch several of them.
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To do this in a Real Operating System, you would do: # mkdir kde # cdebootstrap sarge kde # jstar(vi/emacs for heretics) kde/etc/apt/sources.list # chroot kde # apt-get update # apt-get install <whatever dependencies kde needs> # install the thing itself
For Gentoo/RedHat/Indy's hat/etc and AFAIK BSDs as well, replace apt with the relevant equivalent. It's only Solaris that decided to name good old chroots differently.
No, if the system was designed with any sanity, it will sound an alarm the moment the sensors lose track of the bracelet.
Unfortunately, if I know anything about human behaviour, the guards will disable these alarms instead of investigating them. And this will render this system worthless.
For scientific visualization, the graphic card's memory doesn't matter. It's not about pretty textures -- and if the pretty textures matter, you'll have distortions the graphics card can't, do anyway.
If you insist on buying her a gem, why won't you go for a sapphire or a ruby? Until the recent scam, they were considered a lot more valuable than diamonds.
And when it comes to spending some money on a loved one, you really, really have a lot better options with a far superior effect.
Yes, but Intel and AMD have morals. Well, perhaps not morals but they show some restraint. They buy laws and lobby like crazy, but I have yet to hear about Intel sponsoring an assassination, battery or abduction -- and there is way too much rumours about DeBeers using these techniques to dismiss them as unbased.
Plus, it's Intel and co who are the good guys here. In one corner, you have faster electronics, better tools, stronger starship armour:p and so on. In the other, you have a rich-but-not-too-bright guy having his ego tickled by giving an overpriced rock to a woman. Guess which option I would cheer for.
Also, the price of diamonds is the result of biggest marketing scams of the century. It's pretty much only the last 100-150 years when they were promoted as the #1 gem in jewelry. In ancient/medieval/renaissance times, diamonds weren't held in that much esteem -- coloured gems like rubys were considered more valuable.
Knocking off the price of diamonds is a great thing. I couldn't care less for jewelry, and without the artificially inflated price, we'll be able to use one of the best materials when it comes to hardness, certain conducting properties and so on. Similarily, you can coat connectors with a thin layer of gold to improve them, but it's an expensive thing to do because people tend to hog all gold reserves for monetary purposes.
Do you want to bet how long it will take for a certain criminal, monopolistic, little-african-children abusing cartel to have the research grants revoked, and if that fails, to have an accident happen to the scientists in question?
Beh, and somehow none of my friends drink the $0.50 dollar a 0.75l bottle wine, even those who are programmers.
Granted, the new EU laws forbade vendors to call this fine drink "wine". This gave rise to labels like "wine-like drink" or "wind" written in a script font that made "d" suspiciously similar to "o" ("wino" means "wine" in Polish)...
Exactly, Pascal is a lot, lot better when it comes to writing correct code. It's faster to hack around in C, Perl or Python, but when it comes to debugging, you can't really beat Pascal.
Too bad, the lack of support killed it. The ISO version was absolutely unusable, as described in many essays ("Pascal considered harmful", etc). Turbo Pascal was a powerful tool, but it's lost in the mists of the past now.
GPC can't be considered anything but sabotage (its developers intentionally break things like record types and stick with the broken ISO "standard"), and Delphi went into an insane streak of badly-designed hacks.
Pascal is probably the best language for learning algorithms theory, too. Unfortunately, I would say that it's too late to try to revive it. There is too much C code to make the switch worthwhile to a language that is pretty much an equivalent of C.
Not as funny sounding, but perhaps more impressive: A PC standing in the warehouse of a chipboard manufacturer. The machine had no network connection, and it was before CD-R drives were even invented, so when we wanted to make a major software upgrade for them, it was fastest to just take the hard disk with us. The machine was literally filled inside to 2/3 of its height with packed wooden dust and small pieces of chips. Yet, it worked flawlessly, including its keyboard. I don't remember the exact kind of the keyboard, but I was truly impressed.
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Right. Driving the kid to the school by car may be good for safety, but it's one of bigger contributions to obesity.
In my times, we went to school on foot, uphill both ways. And we were slim!
And this is only halfway a joke -- elementary school no 27 in Gdynia, which I attended for three years, sits atop a big hill/small mountain.
we were never allowed to leave campus at my schools.
:p
Now, that's pretty nazi. But, in this case, you can just buy your treats on your way from home.
Even in a prison, it's easy to get drugs/cell phones/other illegal goods -- so I don't really believe it's possible to stop kids from having their snacks, kids are smart monkeys.
Of course, the parents are supposed to be smart monkeys as well, but considering my lack of social skills and the fact that my main candidate lives on the other side of the pond so I have little chance to get her, I have quite a bit of time to come up with a solution
The sales people will just drop in to a shop on their way to work... oh, wait, the kids can do that as well.
If you start restricting the cafeteria, kids will simply go to the shop at the nearest corner. It may be a slight problem in the US -- as you leftpondians have a few big shops per city instead of several ones per every street segment, but this isn't something that's an unbreachable barrier.
You're right. Embrace and extend is wrong anywhere.
It's exactly why the metric system is so much better than the imperial one: instead of land miles, sea miles, survey miles, international miles, furlongs, leagues, feet, etc, you have just a single unit. Even Americans can't stick to a single mile (they have like 3 or 4) -- and this is what makes miles something really repulsive to me. Similarily with web standards: if you need to write everything separately for every possible browser and its version, everything becomes a hell -- no matter if the browsers come from the Bad or the Good side.
Right, nearly all time spent coding in Javascript is spent making sure it works correctly in different browsers.
Unfortunately, it will be a cold day in hell when IE has decent support for the standards -- and add an aeon or two until older versions of IE are phased out.
This said, I'm not a web developer myself -- but when I updated our company's website recently, I would have spent around 10% of the time I needed. Coding around all quirks in different browsers is NOT FUN.
And, the spammers are certainly interested in knowing which ISPs are the most spam-friendly.
What I do, is remembering just an algorithm. For example, one of sets of passwords I used was generated as follows:
- pick an ASCII character
- add a '!' to it if its ASCII code is less than 100
- add the ASCII code in decimal
- add '/-\|'
The last part was static -- this was a bad idea, but it was one of my early password sets. The benefit is, if you forget the character associated with a host, you need to try at most 256 (-#0..#31, -#127, etc) combinations. You can use any non-obvious association that you remember. It can be the ASCII code, it can be the initials of Doom2 map names -- a sport spectator can use 1936 game results, and so on. If you have a non-obvious mapping with some twists in the algorithm, it's pretty hard to guess the rest of the password unless the attacker manages to catch several of them.To do this in a Real Operating System, you would do:
# mkdir kde
# cdebootstrap sarge kde
# jstar(vi/emacs for heretics) kde/etc/apt/sources.list
# chroot kde
# apt-get update
# apt-get install <whatever dependencies kde needs>
# install the thing itself
For Gentoo/RedHat/Indy's hat/etc and AFAIK BSDs as well, replace apt with the relevant equivalent.
It's only Solaris that decided to name good old chroots differently.
Face it, Microsoft is not really a software company -- software is only a minor part of their business. They are a marketing one.
Er, what? Doh! And I've previewed this message before posting...
I'm an idiot (but you're not authorized to quote this line).
Yeah, but note whom would have to try them for treason... uhm, isn't that the politicians themselves?
Democracy would fix this just fine. Except for the fact that neither communism nor corporationism don't have anything in common with democracy.
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Well... and why exactly should I trust AOL Time Warner?
No, but I've seen too many computer or cell phone users who click "Yes" to a series of damn clear messages just to have an alert go away.
The RFID system will have a moderate amount of false alarms, and guards will do anything to return to browsing Playboy and/or playing cards.
Did the sun rise from the West?
Sort of.
A good idea from the MS guys is a really rare thing.
And as such, it is certainly worth the praise.
No, if the system was designed with any sanity, it will sound an alarm the moment the sensors lose track of the bracelet.
Unfortunately, if I know anything about human behaviour, the guards will disable these alarms instead of investigating them. And this will render this system worthless.
For scientific visualization, the graphic card's memory doesn't matter. It's not about pretty textures -- and if the pretty textures matter, you'll have distortions the graphics card can't, do anyway.
If you insist on buying her a gem, why won't you go for a sapphire or a ruby? Until the recent scam, they were considered a lot more valuable than diamonds.
And when it comes to spending some money on a loved one, you really, really have a lot better options with a far superior effect.
Yes, but Intel and AMD have morals. Well, perhaps not morals but they show some restraint.
:p and so on. In the other, you have a rich-but-not-too-bright guy having his ego tickled by giving an overpriced rock to a woman. Guess which option I would cheer for.
They buy laws and lobby like crazy, but I have yet to hear about Intel sponsoring an assassination, battery or abduction -- and there is way too much rumours about DeBeers using these techniques to dismiss them as unbased.
Plus, it's Intel and co who are the good guys here. In one corner, you have faster electronics, better tools, stronger starship armour
Of course, you can't stop Intel from funding this research -- but you can send Ivan, Luigi or He to have a talk with the scientist in question.
Also, the price of diamonds is the result of biggest marketing scams of the century. It's pretty much only the last 100-150 years when they were promoted as the #1 gem in jewelry. In ancient/medieval/renaissance times, diamonds weren't held in that much esteem -- coloured gems like rubys were considered more valuable.
Knocking off the price of diamonds is a great thing. I couldn't care less for jewelry, and without the artificially inflated price, we'll be able to use one of the best materials when it comes to hardness, certain conducting properties and so on. Similarily, you can coat connectors with a thin layer of gold to improve them, but it's an expensive thing to do because people tend to hog all gold reserves for monetary purposes.
Do you want to bet how long it will take for a certain criminal, monopolistic, little-african-children abusing cartel to have the research grants revoked, and if that fails, to have an accident happen to the scientists in question?
Beh, and somehow none of my friends drink the $0.50 dollar a 0.75l bottle wine, even those who are programmers.
Granted, the new EU laws forbade vendors to call this fine drink "wine". This gave rise to labels like "wine-like drink" or "wind" written in a script font that made "d" suspiciously similar to "o" ("wino" means "wine" in Polish)...
Exactly, Pascal is a lot, lot better when it comes to writing correct code. It's faster to hack around in C, Perl or Python, but when it comes to debugging, you can't really beat Pascal.
Too bad, the lack of support killed it. The ISO version was absolutely unusable, as described in many essays ("Pascal considered harmful", etc). Turbo Pascal was a powerful tool, but it's lost in the mists of the past now.
GPC can't be considered anything but sabotage (its developers intentionally break things like record types and stick with the broken ISO "standard"), and Delphi went into an insane streak of badly-designed hacks.
Pascal is probably the best language for learning algorithms theory, too. Unfortunately, I would say that it's too late to try to revive it. There is too much C code to make the switch worthwhile to a language that is pretty much an equivalent of C.
What essentially Macrovision is saying that it would sabotage a p2p network, thus rendering the network unusable for legal use.
One word: DMCA *cackle*
Not as funny sounding, but perhaps more impressive:
A PC standing in the warehouse of a chipboard manufacturer. The machine had no network connection, and it was before CD-R drives were even invented, so when we wanted to make a major software upgrade for them, it was fastest to just take the hard disk with us.
The machine was literally filled inside to 2/3 of its height with packed wooden dust and small pieces of chips. Yet, it worked flawlessly, including its keyboard. I don't remember the exact kind of the keyboard, but I was truly impressed.