I don't know what universe you hail from, but most European countries are unarguably socialist to some degree and are doing pretty well for themselves. Have you confused socialism with Soviet-style communism?
Or perhaps you're just trolling and I've been caught.
> Yes, they do make peripherals. No, they aren't re-branded.
Wrong. When the original MS Natural keyboard came out I found the exact same keyboard with the "LITE-ON" brand at a local electronics supply warehouse. The only difference was the labeling inside and outside. The logic board inside was the exact same layout as an MS Natural I disassembled for parts later. I was going to just cannibalize the keys, but the MS Natural turned out to be identical to my cheap one.
Presumably the keyboards were being made by some Taiwanese factory and distributed to Taiwanese companies. MS just purchased a huge lot from that factory with their own brand on them. I suppose that might not technically be "rebranding", but that's a fairly fine hair to split.
I didn't like the rearrangement of the arrows on their later model. Happily enough, Taiwan was still making the old version and it was available under some other forgettable brand name. I used them until forced to switch to USB keyboards.
Correct. According to a volcanologist friend at the University of Hawa'i, Maui's Haleakala is dormant, and the Big Island volcanoes are either active (Mauna Loa, Kilauea) or dormant (Mauna Kea, Hualalai) except for Kohala which is extinct. None of the other volcanoes in the chain are active or dormant except for Loihi which is an undersea volcano to the south of the Big Island.
If the price is low enough, purchasing it may involve less effort than hunting for a torrent and waiting for it to download. Instant gratification is often worth more than "free".
By analogy (no cars), suppose you have a kitchen full of food at home. But you are halfway across the city from your home, and when home you'd have to cook. Instead you might spend money at a vending machine or coffee shop to satisfy your hunger, despite there being free food for you at home. The instant gratification of purchasing food outweighs the effort required to enjoy your free food.
"It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML Basic, XHTML 1.1, HTTP 1.1, MathML 2.0, many CSS 2 features, and includes SVG support (transformation, transparency, and SMIL animation). You can display and partially edit XML documents. It's an internationalized application."
"Amaya includes a collaborative annotation application based on Resource Description Framework (RDF), XLink, and XPointer."
I.e., Amaya bleeds XML if you cut it. And then the W3C will blow up your car, shoot your dog, kidnap your family, and torch your house.
Just because nobody uses it regularly is not a reason to discount it, considering its role in the standards processes. Feel free to discount other browsers as you like.
I have wondered about a "fairness" system that could be tacked on the Random Number God in Nethack or its congeners. Various events in the game could be given a fairness rating, and this could be cumulative over some number of successive events. Something like hitting a teleport trap and landing on a trap door would be more unfair than hitting a teleport trap and landing on a fountain, for example. Depending on the event, some boundary between fair and unfair could decide whether the RNG should reroll or not. This could be a fairly simplistic simulation of what real DMs do in fudging their rolls.
This would be a great academic project for someone studying game design and implementation. It would be disgusting to diehard nethackers of course, but would perhaps encourage more "casual" players in taking up the game.
PHP is no more like a natural human language than any other programming language. Did you never learn about the Chomsky hierarchy in your computer science classes? All programming languages are formal languages as they are at least regular languages. However it is not known whether human natural languages (or any other conceivably similar natural language) are entirely translatable to any formal language. The two cannot be assumed to be comparable until this can be proven, and as far as linguistics goes we're a long way from being able to even *nonmathematically* describe a single natural language, much less prove compatibility with formal languages. Hell, in linguistics we're not even sure what words even *are*, much less how to completely define the set of them.
As for your other commentary, you're talking complete and unfounded nonsense.
It's nice that you think, but your opinion is merely subjective. Enjoy your subjective correctness. But feel free to come back when you have observable data with replicable analyses.
The kind of CAPTCHAs that I've found remarkably good at avoiding spam were those that required specific background knowledge on the part of humans. Two examples are the one that requires you to know what a certain ASCII character represents in Nethack, and another that requires you to know the articulatory description of an IPA symbol. Spammers don't care enough about such niche areas to learn how to crack them. In these cases, CAPTCHAs work very well and are even appealing to the audience who enjoys them as an acknowledgement of in-group status.
I think his point was that they were equivalent. Americans could be expected to fear Islamic bombings more than Irish bombings, but the average cider-swilling Englishman doesn't care.
Actually, Apple isn't exactly moving from Old FS (HFS+) to New FS (UFS, née FFS) any time soon. HFS+ is basically required for the boot volume, and HFS+ has a number of features that don't exist in UFS (ACLs, file creation dates, extents, journaling, file type and creator codes, archive timestamps, etc.). That said, HFS+ certainly sucks for a number of reasons, but UFS is no replacement candidate. ZFS has a future with the Xserve and other server uses, but whether ZFS will ever be used on the Apple desktop remains to be seen; current suspicion is that it probably won't since ZFS isn't bootable on Sun machines yet.
You must have last checked some time before World War II, then. Most taxpayer money has been spent on the military-industrial complex for the last half century or so, just like Eisenhower warned us would happen.
"... we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
And to bring this back on topic, another quote from his all too forgotten speech:
"Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite." -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
It's "prosumer". Consumers would never pay that kind of money, they'd save it for fixing their car or something. Professionals would just make their own cable from the 500 yard spool used as a footrest under their desk.
Those are only two bits of data there, not four. Your "good/evil" and "lawful/chaotic" are both binary values. But in current D&D the alignments are ternary, not binary. There's "lawful/neutral/chaotic" and "good/neutral/evil". So information-wise they're two trits, and converting down to bits gives you four.
More questionable is why powering on a device proves that it's not a bomb. Any dweeb could hollow out a drive and fill it full of explosives, retaining a functioning power supply and green LED on the way. If people are smart enough to use cell phones as detonators then I don't think making a powerable external hard drive filled with explosives would be very difficult for them.
> What I wonder is how customs would deal with it, presuming they wanted to scan the drive for contraband. Popping on a CD would be a pain.
AFAIK Customs doesn't bother with copying data off your machine if they think you have contraband. They just appropriate the machine and you don't get it back.
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Have you forgotten that Apple did exactly that with Classic on OS X? Arguably with Rosetta as well.
The term for these remotely operated things is "waldo".
I don't know what universe you hail from, but most European countries are unarguably socialist to some degree and are doing pretty well for themselves. Have you confused socialism with Soviet-style communism?
Or perhaps you're just trolling and I've been caught.
> Yes, they do make peripherals. No, they aren't re-branded.
Wrong. When the original MS Natural keyboard came out I found the exact same keyboard with the "LITE-ON" brand at a local electronics supply warehouse. The only difference was the labeling inside and outside. The logic board inside was the exact same layout as an MS Natural I disassembled for parts later. I was going to just cannibalize the keys, but the MS Natural turned out to be identical to my cheap one.
Presumably the keyboards were being made by some Taiwanese factory and distributed to Taiwanese companies. MS just purchased a huge lot from that factory with their own brand on them. I suppose that might not technically be "rebranding", but that's a fairly fine hair to split.
I didn't like the rearrangement of the arrows on their later model. Happily enough, Taiwan was still making the old version and it was available under some other forgettable brand name. I used them until forced to switch to USB keyboards.
Your situation is caused by XP having a limited number of concurrent TCP sockets.
Correct. According to a volcanologist friend at the University of Hawa'i, Maui's Haleakala is dormant, and the Big Island volcanoes are either active (Mauna Loa, Kilauea) or dormant (Mauna Kea, Hualalai) except for Kohala which is extinct. None of the other volcanoes in the chain are active or dormant except for Loihi which is an undersea volcano to the south of the Big Island.
If the price is low enough, purchasing it may involve less effort than hunting for a torrent and waiting for it to download. Instant gratification is often worth more than "free".
By analogy (no cars), suppose you have a kitchen full of food at home. But you are halfway across the city from your home, and when home you'd have to cook. Instead you might spend money at a vending machine or coffee shop to satisfy your hunger, despite there being free food for you at home. The instant gratification of purchasing food outweighs the effort required to enjoy your free food.
You forgot Poland^WAmaya. It has its own engine, and is "html spec complete" by dint of being the browser used as a testbed for standards development.
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
"It supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML Basic, XHTML 1.1, HTTP 1.1, MathML 2.0, many CSS 2 features, and includes SVG support (transformation, transparency, and SMIL animation). You can display and partially edit XML documents. It's an internationalized application."
"Amaya includes a collaborative annotation application based on Resource Description Framework (RDF), XLink, and XPointer."
I.e., Amaya bleeds XML if you cut it. And then the W3C will blow up your car, shoot your dog, kidnap your family, and torch your house.
Just because nobody uses it regularly is not a reason to discount it, considering its role in the standards processes. Feel free to discount other browsers as you like.
I have wondered about a "fairness" system that could be tacked on the Random Number God in Nethack or its congeners. Various events in the game could be given a fairness rating, and this could be cumulative over some number of successive events. Something like hitting a teleport trap and landing on a trap door would be more unfair than hitting a teleport trap and landing on a fountain, for example. Depending on the event, some boundary between fair and unfair could decide whether the RNG should reroll or not. This could be a fairly simplistic simulation of what real DMs do in fudging their rolls.
This would be a great academic project for someone studying game design and implementation. It would be disgusting to diehard nethackers of course, but would perhaps encourage more "casual" players in taking up the game.
You don't actually get cancer from staring at the sun. You just go blind. There's a slight difference between the two.
PHP is no more like a natural human language than any other programming language. Did you never learn about the Chomsky hierarchy in your computer science classes? All programming languages are formal languages as they are at least regular languages. However it is not known whether human natural languages (or any other conceivably similar natural language) are entirely translatable to any formal language. The two cannot be assumed to be comparable until this can be proven, and as far as linguistics goes we're a long way from being able to even *nonmathematically* describe a single natural language, much less prove compatibility with formal languages. Hell, in linguistics we're not even sure what words even *are*, much less how to completely define the set of them.
As for your other commentary, you're talking complete and unfounded nonsense.
It's nice that you think, but your opinion is merely subjective. Enjoy your subjective correctness. But feel free to come back when you have observable data with replicable analyses.
The kind of CAPTCHAs that I've found remarkably good at avoiding spam were those that required specific background knowledge on the part of humans. Two examples are the one that requires you to know what a certain ASCII character represents in Nethack, and another that requires you to know the articulatory description of an IPA symbol. Spammers don't care enough about such niche areas to learn how to crack them. In these cases, CAPTCHAs work very well and are even appealing to the audience who enjoys them as an acknowledgement of in-group status.
The Queen of Canada is just as Canadian as Stephen Harper, although she talks kinda strange for a Canadian.
I think his point was that they were equivalent. Americans could be expected to fear Islamic bombings more than Irish bombings, but the average cider-swilling Englishman doesn't care.
Chev?
Dodg?
Chry?
Linc?
Jeep?
Ah, that's it. You must mean Jeep.
Actually, Apple isn't exactly moving from Old FS (HFS+) to New FS (UFS, née FFS) any time soon. HFS+ is basically required for the boot volume, and HFS+ has a number of features that don't exist in UFS (ACLs, file creation dates, extents, journaling, file type and creator codes, archive timestamps, etc.). That said, HFS+ certainly sucks for a number of reasons, but UFS is no replacement candidate. ZFS has a future with the Xserve and other server uses, but whether ZFS will ever be used on the Apple desktop remains to be seen; current suspicion is that it probably won't since ZFS isn't bootable on Sun machines yet.
You must have last checked some time before World War II, then. Most taxpayer money has been spent on the military-industrial complex for the last half century or so, just like Eisenhower warned us would happen.
"... we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
And to bring this back on topic, another quote from his all too forgotten speech:
"Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite."
-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
It's "prosumer". Consumers would never pay that kind of money, they'd save it for fixing their car or something. Professionals would just make their own cable from the 500 yard spool used as a footrest under their desk.
Those are only two bits of data there, not four. Your "good/evil" and "lawful/chaotic" are both binary values. But in current D&D the alignments are ternary, not binary. There's "lawful/neutral/chaotic" and "good/neutral/evil". So information-wise they're two trits, and converting down to bits gives you four.
Did your VAX run VMS or Unix? What version of VMS? What flavor of Unix?
Whatever. Kermit works everywhere.
More questionable is why powering on a device proves that it's not a bomb. Any dweeb could hollow out a drive and fill it full of explosives, retaining a functioning power supply and green LED on the way. If people are smart enough to use cell phones as detonators then I don't think making a powerable external hard drive filled with explosives would be very difficult for them.
> What I wonder is how customs would deal with it, presuming they wanted to scan the drive for contraband. Popping on a CD would be a pain.
AFAIK Customs doesn't bother with copying data off your machine if they think you have contraband. They just appropriate the machine and you don't get it back.
What?
Oh, okay.