That's right. You have to run your program to see if it does what you coded (nobody's perfect). To run certain parts you must even write helping code, little programs that you can leave along with the main source code. Those are tests. You should run every critical verification using an external code that you (or everyone else) can run again to see if it keep working when the code changes.
Further, code that has been corrected, modified or had bugs fixed MUST have comments to identify that fact. These comments are at least as valuable as the actual code. Again, experience will teach you this.
Imagine that you change a code many times for different reasons. Would you explain every possible change you did? For frequently modified code, nowadays you have an alternative for this kind of comments (and others): Putting them in the Versioning Control System. It will store not only the comment, but who changed the code and why, what other changes were made at the same time, when it was done and even all the rest of the program at that point. And code will remain clean and coming with only general explanations about it.
NEVER include a URL in a comment. They change over time and cannot be relied upon to still exist in 3 months, let alone the lifetime of a software product. A similar warning should exist for book / magazine references, too.
After including one of them, you should always include a copy of the book or the webpage along with your code, and everything will be OK. Space is cheap, isn't it?
I use the All-In-One Video Bookmarklet under Firefox. In my system I couldn't have the sound from Flash working properly, and last version was not even an option because its poor performance. At least, Youtube is the only site that allows viewing videos using the old version 7 Flash player.
Closed source is, by definition, that one which forbids many things to their users: learning from its code or modifying it, and sharing the program modified or not. When users choose to use closed source, many of them don't realize that such software means less options: They are choosing not to be able to choose in the future. You are free to be slave if you want, anyway, is it really being free?
There're no differences in "What's New" between the release notes for 3.0rc1 and those for 3.0rc2, but I found differences in the "Known Issues" section between these two versions:
New issues for All systems:
The IME input tool used to enter Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters covers the "Add Bookmark" panel. Users can use IME for input in the Library window by selecting "Organize Bookmarks..." from the Bookmarks menu (bug 433340)
Some users who have customized toolbars may need to reset them if they are missing the Back and Forward buttons (bug 426026)
Some Web pages (such as mlb.com) do not properly detect if Silverlight is installed and will not function properly (bug 432371)
New issues for Mac OS X:
Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects (bug 357670)
If you are using IPv6 from a network location that doesn't support IPv6 routing your DNS lookups may be very slow. Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true as a workaround (bug 417689)
New issues for Linux and Unix:
Users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL) may find that Firefox always starts in "Offline" mode. Toggle File > Work Offline as a work around (bug 424626)
Issues removed for Linux and Unix:
If your screen resolution is 800x600 or smaller, you may not be able to see the "Accept" button on the End User License Agreement. Keyboard commands can be used to accept the agreement (bug 433298)
Ubuntu users who download and install Firefox may find that they cannot install add-ons without first deleting their extensions.rdf file (bug 433371)
You tried the hard way, mixing a critic to his political views on guns with a bloody celebration about his dead. Different people will reply to you for both "offenses", and you cannot get nothing useful from that.
Just another example of a company aiming its litigation at the wrong target. A target even worse would be suing its users. They do the only thing they can try to stop the problem. At least, this is much better than staring too many hours in front of the computer, isn't it?
Of course, 25 moves are needed in worst case. Usually, you can solve the cube just in a few moves, say, for example: blue yellow blue blue yellow white red green green yellow red red, and that's it!
Maybe that is the whole point too. A strong captcha may be one that a human fails at half the time. Such captcha will be that one capable of making a robot to fail at that rate too. Perhaps someone should begin to think that someday captchas won't be so cost-effective to discriminate between people and machines.
An application could represent a Combination lock, letting the user to select its personal combination, including letters and numbers. It is the same principle as the passwords, but perhaps it's easier to learn because it can be tied to a real object that you can even show to your children.
That's exactly the point. Every object that you can see is quickly recognized when it moves (i.e. when it changes against a static background) and it's easily missed when it doesn't move. Think about it as an archaic genetic inheritance that we the human share with the most ancient beasts that populated the earth... Just like the T-Rex, yes.
If someone builds an intelligent machine -even one just as intelligent as a non-human animal-, then nothing will stop the replication, reusing and reprogramming of that machine everywhere. Why choosing 20 years to reach such state? This may not be achieved by hard cooperative research, but the result of a fortuitous or accidental discovery having the ability of recognizing every perceived "object" and integrating dinamically those not seen before. Industry, military and government will do the rest.
Less content is easier to maintain. You need to check if things written in Wikipedia are true, so you will need to use the references anyway. Just a mention of all those different proofs will be enough. What about another service to group those? Wikiproof sounds fine...
Wikipedia should be used as an educational resource because this way is easier to explain children that information is always generated by humans, and people is always falible, biased or simply ignorant. Even science and history change dramatically from time to time, when the community accepts it. Trying to give the children the false idea that always exists a trustable source for the information is wrong and prevent them to acquire a better critical sense.
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That's right. You have to run your program to see if it does what you coded (nobody's perfect). To run certain parts you must even write helping code, little programs that you can leave along with the main source code. Those are tests. You should run every critical verification using an external code that you (or everyone else) can run again to see if it keep working when the code changes.
Further, code that has been corrected, modified or had bugs fixed MUST have comments to identify that fact. These comments are at least as valuable as the actual code. Again, experience will teach you this.
Imagine that you change a code many times for different reasons. Would you explain every possible change you did? For frequently modified code, nowadays you have an alternative for this kind of comments (and others): Putting them in the Versioning Control System. It will store not only the comment, but who changed the code and why, what other changes were made at the same time, when it was done and even all the rest of the program at that point. And code will remain clean and coming with only general explanations about it.
NEVER include a URL in a comment. They change over time and cannot be relied upon to still exist in 3 months, let alone the lifetime of a software product. A similar warning should exist for book / magazine references, too.
After including one of them, you should always include a copy of the book or the webpage along with your code, and everything will be OK. Space is cheap, isn't it?
I use the All-In-One Video Bookmarklet under Firefox. In my system I couldn't have the sound from Flash working properly, and last version was not even an option because its poor performance. At least, Youtube is the only site that allows viewing videos using the old version 7 Flash player.
Closed source is, by definition, that one which forbids many things to their users: learning from its code or modifying it, and sharing the program modified or not. When users choose to use closed source, many of them don't realize that such software means less options: They are choosing not to be able to choose in the future. You are free to be slave if you want, anyway, is it really being free?
New issues for All systems:
New issues for Mac OS X:
New issues for Linux and Unix:
Issues removed for Linux and Unix:
Things will never be the same with your girlfriend. Please, don't do this in your home.
Wikipedia is not an authoritative source for medical advice. If you want to commit suicide, please ask first to your doctor for the best way to do it.
Earth is overpopulated. Internet is just the unconscious expression of the human being's desire for survival. Please, consider the option.
After reading it, I first thought that it would be about "how to chat with yourself".
You tried the hard way, mixing a critic to his political views on guns with a bloody celebration about his dead. Different people will reply to you for both "offenses", and you cannot get nothing useful from that.
Yes.
Damn, now he will have to change his fingerprint. Again.
If OOXML is approved you will be rewarded, otherwise... well, chairs flying.
Of course, 25 moves are needed in worst case. Usually, you can solve the cube just in a few moves, say, for example: blue yellow blue blue yellow white red green green yellow red red, and that's it!
...and fly jet fighters Yeah, you must be talking about this one.Should scientist date people who believe astrology, only to make them change their minds?
What certain people should try is choosing their partners on different reasons and stop finding stupid pretexts to reject beautiful relationships.
An application could represent a Combination lock, letting the user to select its personal combination, including letters and numbers. It is the same principle as the passwords, but perhaps it's easier to learn because it can be tied to a real object that you can even show to your children.
That's exactly the point. Every object that you can see is quickly recognized when it moves (i.e. when it changes against a static background) and it's easily missed when it doesn't move. Think about it as an archaic genetic inheritance that we the human share with the most ancient beasts that populated the earth... Just like the T-Rex, yes.
If someone builds an intelligent machine -even one just as intelligent as a non-human animal-, then nothing will stop the replication, reusing and reprogramming of that machine everywhere. Why choosing 20 years to reach such state? This may not be achieved by hard cooperative research, but the result of a fortuitous or accidental discovery having the ability of recognizing every perceived "object" and integrating dinamically those not seen before. Industry, military and government will do the rest.
How could a user download a browser not having one already installed?
Less content is easier to maintain. You need to check if things written in Wikipedia are true, so you will need to use the references anyway. Just a mention of all those different proofs will be enough. What about another service to group those? Wikiproof sounds fine...
Wikipedia should be used as an educational resource because this way is easier to explain children that information is always generated by humans, and people is always falible, biased or simply ignorant. Even science and history change dramatically from time to time, when the community accepts it. Trying to give the children the false idea that always exists a trustable source for the information is wrong and prevent them to acquire a better critical sense.