when people try to enforce rules of appearance, it usually is their way of enforcing their power and control. You can see examples of this in the military, in prisons, and prison camps.
There is a web site with interesting insight about this question as it applies to
long hair,
but many of the ideas apply to appearance in general.
If you pry apart one of those big 6-volt lantern batteries, you'll find four F cells inside.
If you cut open a common 9-volt battery, you'll find six small compartments, which are 1.5 volt cells connected in series to produce the 9 volts. See here.
The set of hackers and the set of crackers intersect. A person who breaks into a system is a cracker, but the act of breaking in, especially if it involves figuring out how to break in, is a hack as well as a crack. Hackers have been figuring out how to subvert security mechanisms for a long time, it's an interesting pursuit.
I think of it this way - solving a crossword puzzle is like hacking. Copying someone else's solution to a crossword puzzle is like cracking.
Keeping a standard user interface makes it easier for people to move from computer to computer. There's nothing that irks me more than working on a different computer at the office, and some wiseacre has removed the menus from MSIE.
If a GUI is flexible enough to allow the user to have a Salvador Dali melting widgets look and feel, it should also be able to provide a way to get the standard look and feel back with a simple command.
Tne irony here is that the unit in question isn't the (3D/volume) strand of human hair (which many of the/. comments are discussing), it's the (2D/area) end of a strand of human hair. So dumbing down the units wasn't quite helpful after all.
Yeah, like James Bond did in Goldfinger - he had a couple of tracking devices, I think one that he carried in his shoe, and one that was magnetic that he attached under Goldfinger's car, these could be monitored from the dashboard screen of his Aston Martin. Hey, that was 1964, nothing new under the sun.
why stop at prevention?
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The DRM helmet could do much better than simply fogging up when a user tries to access unlicensed media. Prevention is a start. But how about punishment?
Wouldn't it be cool if scads of folks slashdotted him with get well notes (in the US mail)?
The dude is not feeling too well, and is practically the patron saint of geeks.
I don't know his address, but I assume that some/.er knows how to find it, and could follow up here.
Does the new camera really allow astronomers to take pretty pictures that they couldn't take before, or are they just using pretty pictures as a public relations gimmick? I imagine that it's possible that a camera that was better for scientists wouldn't necessarily make the pictures prettier. "Prettier" could be accomplished with false colorings and other cheap tricks.
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There is a web site with interesting insight about this question as it applies to long hair, but many of the ideas apply to appearance in general.
if spammers can't resort to forging headers, won't this make them easy (easier) to filter?
I lost my pen. Not only did I lose my pen, I lost the information stored in it.
I believe Ballmer is referring to their Unix Code Migration Guide that just came out yesterday.
Cells swabbed from inside your cheek are not always such a good idea.
If you cut open a common 9-volt battery, you'll find six small compartments, which are 1.5 volt cells connected in series to produce the 9 volts. See here.
I think of it this way - solving a crossword puzzle is like hacking. Copying someone else's solution to a crossword puzzle is like cracking.
If a GUI is flexible enough to allow the user to have a Salvador Dali melting widgets look and feel, it should also be able to provide a way to get the standard look and feel back with a simple command.
I think it's terrible that Canadian airports are scanning Irish people. Why don't they scan Scottish people? What? Oh, I'm sorry, never mind.
This article cites (without reference) a working paper by Carlos Osorio of Harvard. I think it's here: A contribution to the understanding of illegal copying of software: empirical and analytical evidence against conventional wisdom (PDF).
Tne irony here is that the unit in question isn't the (3D/volume) strand of human hair (which many of the /. comments are discussing), it's the (2D/area) end of a strand of human hair. So dumbing down the units wasn't quite helpful after all.
I asked my boss why there wasn't a Sysadmin's Day, and he said, "every day is Sysadmin's Day."
Yeah, like James Bond did in Goldfinger - he had a couple of tracking devices, I think one that he carried in his shoe, and one that was magnetic that he attached under Goldfinger's car, these could be monitored from the dashboard screen of his Aston Martin. Hey, that was 1964, nothing new under the sun.
The DRM helmet could do much better than simply fogging up when a user tries to access unlicensed media. Prevention is a start. But how about punishment?
In other words, we want more things made out of meat.
It seems that their server is slashdotted, perhaps it too is built using tube technology.
try here.
There was an amusing press release that accompanied the Signetics WOM.
No, I had it correctly above. An Ozzie dollar is worth about half a US buck.
$1.00 AUD = $.56 USD = €.60 EUR
yeah, and using doubles for constants is even worse! what was I thinking?
Whoa, time to change those #defines to doubles.
Wouldn't it be cool if scads of folks slashdotted him with get well notes (in the US mail)? The dude is not feeling too well, and is practically the patron saint of geeks. I don't know his address, but I assume that some /.er knows how to find it, and could follow up here.
Does the new camera really allow astronomers to take pretty pictures that they couldn't take before, or are they just using pretty pictures as a public relations gimmick? I imagine that it's possible that a camera that was better for scientists wouldn't necessarily make the pictures prettier. "Prettier" could be accomplished with false colorings and other cheap tricks.
Garbage dumps are filled with "vintage" computers, including old macs. Would it also make you sick if people butchered old tvs? Old milk cartons?