fires of varying sizes are actually surprisingly common. The trick is that it's easy for a little (wastebasket) fire to get out of hand if the proper precautions aren't taken. You don't know whether a little fire will grow bigger until it's out, so it's smarter to kick the people in the building outside for 30 mins, so that fewer are still close in the event a fire gets out of hand. Most of the time, if a fire was just a wastebasket issue or a minor cafeteria grease fire, it never hits the news and many people end up assuming it was a drill, or forgetting about it, but in 1 middleschool and 2 of my highschools, and a couple of times in buildings at my university, I was filed out of a building where a wastebasket sized fire actually happened. And was rapidly undercontrol. Basically in a couple cases someone saw the fire, pulled the alarm, and then found a fireextinguisher or found someone who knew how to use one, and the sprinkler systems never even went off.
Because it's a hair more seamless that's why... It's one of the things I missed when I moved to firefox and openoffice... I now always had to download office documents even if I just wanted to view them just like a webpage... just to extract the info I needed.
they route to ground inbetween all communications that they advertise. Depending on how your account is managed, You could be on one side of the world with a sat phone sending a burst packet in your right hand, have it routed across the planet down to their headquarters in Arizona(?) through their router, back up to satellite, and back out to the device you have in your left hand. A whole roundtrip, space-earth-space unneccessary.
Dude, you're talking to a crowd of people who would probably mostly like to have your problem. Some here have trouble getting themselves heard unless they tread the fine line between acting like the smartest person in the room and getting people to respect them for that, and acting like the smartass person in the room and getting people to dismiss them for that. For any person you see regularly it just takes a bit of time where you are yourself: "a nice guy" whereas a good number of the people here have this whole false persona they build up, and they think they have to live it every day. If they act like a nice guy, it's too easy for them to let themselves get dismissed. And transitioning between the two is hard enough that they end up alienating some who would be their friends because they can't drop their persona at the end of the day.
meh. I had much more dreams involving sex when I was dating a girl that had a pretty active libido. Now my dreams are crosses between being a character video game that looks like the movie 300 [god of war 2 just came out... hmmm] and debugging code. Then again I haven't had *wet* dreams that I can remember since at least 7th grade. [so like 9years now]
your scratch is too complicated. Scratch the painted side, the fail. That's the fragile part that actually contains the data. if you lightly scratch that on a radius, you've literally moved a section of bits from many to most of the files straight off the disk and into dust. Not even a massive gash is needed.
haha, I've seen the vision implants (and prosthetics) and I'm getting excited, but from what I read, they lead to brain tissue scarring, so a little more development is still needed...
meh. Do it the way you do current spell checkers. Have it learn individual letters first, and then have it pick up speed. Then have it start to learn words... say a very common, small subset. Finally, people keep their profile on a usb key and wherever they go, they bring it with them. When they reach a word the system doesn't recognize. They can just teach it that word by spelling it out, and then thinking it in some process. Finally, after teaching the system their regularly used words, over time they'll stop spelling anything at all. They can theoretically get the system to start recognizing whole sentences, especially if you can get the system to start guessing at the sentence level.
dammit! I why won't they make those implants then?? I'd have no problem being a test subject for any non-invasive system, but I'm really looking for the things that will arise once they produce good brain implants. At this age, I just need at least 5 years of human testing to even consider, so I don't expect to get one before roughly age 30. If they're still not around and I turn 45 then I'm willing to go for 2 years of testing. But I want implants that don't damage the brain directly, and that don't lose their effectiveness over time. I'd be willing to pay exhorbitant percentages of my salary to get good implants. The more upgradeable as technology improves, the better... So if they could get a system that requires implantation of simple leads that don't lead to brain scarring, and allow for upgrades. I would go for it...
If somebody does, it's not anyone else's job to verify that for you. If you care, then you can enforce the laws. If you don't care that someone does that, as copyright holder, its your right to leave it in the public domain. [or otherwise to pursue your legal remedies]
It's not directly for the school, it's by me for the student project, and all the student labor is volunteer.
Now, that last question is exactly what I'm getting at. Am I required to make publicly accessible sites of a certain size accessible to blind or otherwise visually impaired users? Auto manufacturers don't have to make their cars that way, what if my javascript userinterface only presented things to people who could finish a virtual formula 1 race in first place. In that case I'd be simulating a driving experience... the driving experience is exempt, is my site?
You do pretty much understand me. One example site involves data with a certain set of fields stored in the database. Each set of fields is a package of information, and these packages of information number around 400. There are 20 primary users for the site who are college students. They each update several of these packages, ideally on a daily basis, and leaders of subgroups track which packages have been updated every 3 days or so. These packages are used for the management of a very large student project, scheduling, directions, subtasks, contact points, costs, and progress. Thankfully for me, I can standardize on requiring Firefox, Javascript, and Cookies (for php sessions) because all of the computer labs on campus are equipped with that no matter what OS comes installed, and it's trivial for them to get those on their personal computers (if they do not already have them). My primary role on the project however is not webdeveloper, the site was just a solution to a problem, that I had a certain amount of time to alot to. I definitely don't have the time to maintain a flat html form of the site, and it would be much less functional for the average user's workflow.
Now, given the usercount, I know that site is small peanuts in the real world, but what am I supposed to do? For other projects: At what point am I required to duplicate my efforts so that systems without javascript can functionally access my site? What if I want to provide a view to the world that is only mediated through the javascript interface I have developed. Am I required to make my site accessible without javascript?
So, what do you have to say about websites that have their entire user-interfaces built with content that gets filled by javascript asynchronously from a single html page? Now the only ones I have made or seen that are like that require login's to protect the data they are providing via an active interface; live examples including gmail and others, but I don't think that means that providing the searchable data only via javascript is neccessarily inappropriate.
I'm sorry, I forgot to address your licensing comment, For that we have a large list of software for which the company has a site license, and in the case of some software we don't have site licenses for, we just have to make a case for the software infront of our boss who can then approve some number of licenses. Now in the case of the many freeware and oss software or pirated and improperly licensed computers takes down a computer or makes it fail, that's considered our failing. We are responsible for making sure our computers work, they have a minimal it staff that can help us, but if we lose productivitiy, it's our own fault. Different divisions will provide install images for their employees, but the rest is up to us. However we are developers for the most part, the administrative assistants do so much work that they make friends with the rest of us, so anytime they have trouble they ask us... but for the most part things just work(tm)
What happens with software development for some other OSes is that teams standardize themselves on some level of the bleeding edge to sit at. Subversion for the source code, but one version of the OS and Compiler/IDE per team. The OS is kept up to date with the public OS updates automatically, but the team decides together when to move to the next OS version. Most team members have access to multiple machines and on their non-primary machines they play around with whatever version of the OS they so choose. Most of the time that means the most up to date with the most recent alpha version of the OS that has been released to their circle internally. Other times their other computers run different specific versions with specific loadouts so that the developers can try to replicate bug reports.
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fires of varying sizes are actually surprisingly common. The trick is that it's easy for a little (wastebasket) fire to get out of hand if the proper precautions aren't taken. You don't know whether a little fire will grow bigger until it's out, so it's smarter to kick the people in the building outside for 30 mins, so that fewer are still close in the event a fire gets out of hand. Most of the time, if a fire was just a wastebasket issue or a minor cafeteria grease fire, it never hits the news and many people end up assuming it was a drill, or forgetting about it, but in 1 middleschool and 2 of my highschools, and a couple of times in buildings at my university, I was filed out of a building where a wastebasket sized fire actually happened. And was rapidly undercontrol. Basically in a couple cases someone saw the fire, pulled the alarm, and then found a fireextinguisher or found someone who knew how to use one, and the sprinkler systems never even went off.
Mine wasn't, I forgot to use version control.
wait, why is pdf bad? I thought it was open now?
Because it's a hair more seamless that's why... It's one of the things I missed when I moved to firefox and openoffice... I now always had to download office documents even if I just wanted to view them just like a webpage... just to extract the info I needed.
Less likely if you happen to have a source of homogenous laptops that all reached end of life at the same time...
they route to ground inbetween all communications that they advertise. Depending on how your account is managed, You could be on one side of the world with a sat phone sending a burst packet in your right hand, have it routed across the planet down to their headquarters in Arizona(?) through their router, back up to satellite, and back out to the device you have in your left hand. A whole roundtrip, space-earth-space unneccessary.
you must be an urchin, because I don't get an urchin tracker.
Dude, you're talking to a crowd of people who would probably mostly like to have your problem. Some here have trouble getting themselves heard unless they tread the fine line between acting like the smartest person in the room and getting people to respect them for that, and acting like the smartass person in the room and getting people to dismiss them for that. For any person you see regularly it just takes a bit of time where you are yourself: "a nice guy" whereas a good number of the people here have this whole false persona they build up, and they think they have to live it every day. If they act like a nice guy, it's too easy for them to let themselves get dismissed. And transitioning between the two is hard enough that they end up alienating some who would be their friends because they can't drop their persona at the end of the day.
meh. I had much more dreams involving sex when I was dating a girl that had a pretty active libido. Now my dreams are crosses between being a character video game that looks like the movie 300 [god of war 2 just came out... hmmm] and debugging code. Then again I haven't had *wet* dreams that I can remember since at least 7th grade. [so like 9years now]
wow! goes to show you learn something new everyday. Does that then explain how you can have double sided dvd's without changing the disc's thickness?
your scratch is too complicated. Scratch the painted side, the fail. That's the fragile part that actually contains the data. if you lightly scratch that on a radius, you've literally moved a section of bits from many to most of the files straight off the disk and into dust. Not even a massive gash is needed.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ariane%20explosion
Aren't they the company that built that rocket that blew up?
[;)]
haha, I've seen the vision implants (and prosthetics) and I'm getting excited, but from what I read, they lead to brain tissue scarring, so a little more development is still needed...
meh. Do it the way you do current spell checkers. Have it learn individual letters first, and then have it pick up speed. Then have it start to learn words... say a very common, small subset. Finally, people keep their profile on a usb key and wherever they go, they bring it with them. When they reach a word the system doesn't recognize. They can just teach it that word by spelling it out, and then thinking it in some process. Finally, after teaching the system their regularly used words, over time they'll stop spelling anything at all. They can theoretically get the system to start recognizing whole sentences, especially if you can get the system to start guessing at the sentence level.
dammit! I why won't they make those implants then?? I'd have no problem being a test subject for any non-invasive system, but I'm really looking for the things that will arise once they produce good brain implants. At this age, I just need at least 5 years of human testing to even consider, so I don't expect to get one before roughly age 30. If they're still not around and I turn 45 then I'm willing to go for 2 years of testing. But I want implants that don't damage the brain directly, and that don't lose their effectiveness over time. I'd be willing to pay exhorbitant percentages of my salary to get good implants. The more upgradeable as technology improves, the better... So if they could get a system that requires implantation of simple leads that don't lead to brain scarring, and allow for upgrades. I would go for it...
If somebody does, it's not anyone else's job to verify that for you. If you care, then you can enforce the laws. If you don't care that someone does that, as copyright holder, its your right to leave it in the public domain. [or otherwise to pursue your legal remedies]
IANAL
It's not directly for the school, it's by me for the student project, and all the student labor is volunteer.
Now, that last question is exactly what I'm getting at. Am I required to make publicly accessible sites of a certain size accessible to blind or otherwise visually impaired users? Auto manufacturers don't have to make their cars that way, what if my javascript userinterface only presented things to people who could finish a virtual formula 1 race in first place. In that case I'd be simulating a driving experience... the driving experience is exempt, is my site?
basically what you do is parse the anchor extension:
http://sub.site.dom/file.html#BookMarkableTag
you take that tag and have a function that decides how to react to it... and tahdah! bookmarked!
You do pretty much understand me. One example site involves data with a certain set of fields stored in the database. Each set of fields is a package of information, and these packages of information number around 400. There are 20 primary users for the site who are college students. They each update several of these packages, ideally on a daily basis, and leaders of subgroups track which packages have been updated every 3 days or so. These packages are used for the management of a very large student project, scheduling, directions, subtasks, contact points, costs, and progress. Thankfully for me, I can standardize on requiring Firefox, Javascript, and Cookies (for php sessions) because all of the computer labs on campus are equipped with that no matter what OS comes installed, and it's trivial for them to get those on their personal computers (if they do not already have them). My primary role on the project however is not webdeveloper, the site was just a solution to a problem, that I had a certain amount of time to alot to. I definitely don't have the time to maintain a flat html form of the site, and it would be much less functional for the average user's workflow.
Now, given the usercount, I know that site is small peanuts in the real world, but what am I supposed to do? For other projects: At what point am I required to duplicate my efforts so that systems without javascript can functionally access my site? What if I want to provide a view to the world that is only mediated through the javascript interface I have developed. Am I required to make my site accessible without javascript?
So, what do you have to say about websites that have their entire user-interfaces built with content that gets filled by javascript asynchronously from a single html page? Now the only ones I have made or seen that are like that require login's to protect the data they are providing via an active interface; live examples including gmail and others, but I don't think that means that providing the searchable data only via javascript is neccessarily inappropriate.
(hence, "reality came back" and I realized my dream could never be.)
Wait really!? Does that suddenly make a directory a user can't get out of?
jkjk for a second the beautiful thought of a bottomless directory tree that would trap unwitting users made me happy... Then reality came back.
I'm sorry, I forgot to address your licensing comment, For that we have a large list of software for which the company has a site license, and in the case of some software we don't have site licenses for, we just have to make a case for the software infront of our boss who can then approve some number of licenses. Now in the case of the many freeware and oss software or pirated and improperly licensed computers takes down a computer or makes it fail, that's considered our failing. We are responsible for making sure our computers work, they have a minimal it staff that can help us, but if we lose productivitiy, it's our own fault. Different divisions will provide install images for their employees, but the rest is up to us. However we are developers for the most part, the administrative assistants do so much work that they make friends with the rest of us, so anytime they have trouble they ask us... but for the most part things just work(tm)
What happens with software development for some other OSes is that teams standardize themselves on some level of the bleeding edge to sit at. Subversion for the source code, but one version of the OS and Compiler/IDE per team. The OS is kept up to date with the public OS updates automatically, but the team decides together when to move to the next OS version. Most team members have access to multiple machines and on their non-primary machines they play around with whatever version of the OS they so choose. Most of the time that means the most up to date with the most recent alpha version of the OS that has been released to their circle internally. Other times their other computers run different specific versions with specific loadouts so that the developers can try to replicate bug reports.