Microsoft invented XMLHttpRequest. Not Firefox, not opera, not KHTML. They all copied it from IE.
So it would be Firefox/Opera/KHTML that are doing the "embracing and extending" in this case.
On a side note, I don't see why this is a big deal. They are likely still going to use a COM object underneath. All this is is a coding shortcut, that no one will be able to use anyway because you're still going to have to support IE6 for the next 3 years at least.
Yeah, cause a person walking up to an elementary school during an extremely busy school pickup time would not be noticed carrying a decapitated head or yanked-out eyeballs and pressing them up to the iris scanner.
God is it just me or has the average IQ on this site actually dropped 50 points in the last two years?
If the kid is getting picked up then he isn't walking home, is he?
The whole point of the program is to prevent strangers form picking up your kids. If you let your little kids walk home alone through the inner city then it has nothing to do with you (oh and PS you're a horrible parent).
Not that I necessairily agree with the program but your arguments make no sense.
Just to play devil's advocate, if all the schools in the state implimented the system, then no, he would not "be able to drive another mile to any other grade school and commit his felonies there".
Of course not, thats a bunch of hooey perpetrated by idiots on slashdot.
Think about it for a second, why in God's name would having the word 'beta' stuck in front of it be any kind of legal insulation? The population can still access it, the "damage" if any would still be done.
The truth is that there is nothing wrong with anything Google is doing, all they are doing is grabbing headlines and snippits. It falls under "fair use", and they direct the traffic to your news site anyway, so where's the problem? If you personally don't want your site involved all you have to do is opt-out. It is clear as day.
I like to have all sections and stories on the front page. But I wish I could totally disable anything with the Anime topic, since I have absolutely no interest in it.
..but it is easyt o detect forgerties, because replication results in single-bit errors in the quantum structure of the molecules.
Or something like that.... it's been awhile since I read my TNG technical manual. But that is basicaly how they explain that they can't just replicate a person - the replicators only work at molecular level resolution, whereas the transporters use quantum level resolution, and they can't store the data.
The parent is referring to the Star Trek TNG episode The Neutral Zone, where some people who were cryogenically frozen in the 20th centry are awaken on board the Enterprise. Hilarity ensues when the wealthy stock-broker tycoon discovers that "the economics of the 24th centry are somewhat different" - money is no longer used on Earth and his vast "fortune" is worthless.
And you forgot three important ones - play, purr, and cuddle. No dog is as cute as a playing cat. And my cats would be on anti-depressants if they didn't get to cuddle with someone at least once a day.
Of course it isn't a good trade off, but there are few options.
You can't have school 12 months a year, especially in grades 1-9 (where the majority of the foundation for literacy forms, BTW), kids need time to be kids. otherwise they will grow into social misfits.
And we are already sending kids to school earlier in life - kindergarded is now basically a part of the normal school system. When I went it was an option only, and more like a daycare than a place of learning. Now it is required before grade 1.
If all college is going to teach you is to function as well as someone with an 8th grade education 100 years ago, we have a really *REALLY* bad problem.
I don't think kids were learning how to factor quadratics in 8th grade 100 years ago, or how photosynthesis works, or what atoms and molecules and stochiometry were. Just a few things I remember learning in grade 8/9.
Ever think that maybe in the last 100 years, things have progressed a little, and we have more stuff to cram into "learning time", so some of the more basic stuff gets left out?
Genetics define the chaulk and the chaulkboard. They do not write the story.
Genetics do not pre-determine who is going to grow up to be a serial killer and who is going to be a priest. They can influence the outcome, but they do not write the story. The story is written by the life experience of the person.
a) Because if you run out of memory in a JS interpereter in a graphical app, what are you going to do? You can't display anything, all you can do is exit. In which case an OOM segfault would have been more informative anyway. Sounds like this was posted by someone without much practical experience in GUI apps.
b) For one, KDE never uses STL, because for one when it was wirtten it was not available on all the platforms it needed, and for two Qt's containers are just better and more efficient than STL contains in general anyway.
People are born with a simple set of pre-defined behaviours. Your brain knows how to operate your organs and sensory devices. It knows how to recieve feedback from those devices. But that is all. Everything else is learned via an instintual desire to understand one's own environment.
People are born as a blank slate, a slate that is written upon from the moment of your birth (and even a bit before). This is no different from a highly sophisticaed computer, in which these basic routines and instincts from the "ROM", and the learned behaviours are stored in long-term storage. The software has to write itself based on it's experiences.
Would the average user even notice if Google returned searchs slower than Yahoo? Would the average user notice that Amazon was running slower?
Er.. yes. What do you think, a user only uses the net at his house?
What do you think this user is going to think when he goes over to his buddys house who has Comcast/Speakeasy/Whoever and sees that his GMail and Google searches are 10x faster than his at home, for the same price? He's going to complain or switch carriers, that's what.
Go ahead BS, shoot yourself in the foot, see if I care. If you think BS > Google when it comes to brand loyalty, you've got another think coming.
My grocery store is willing to give me a couple bucks in discounts every couple weeks to track my purchasing habits. At a guess, I'd say it would amount to maybe ~$100/yr if I took them up on it.
It's more valuble than you realize.
Just look at all the loyalty programs, which are all in essence the same thing as this proposal. I know for instance, with my grocery store loyalty program, I earn enough points every year to get two free round-trip airline flights, each of which is worth around 600 bucks.
Yeah but a Sempron 2200+ will stomp all over a 2.2 Celeron. It has way more cache ( 128k/256k in the Sempron vs 8k/128K L2 in the Celeron) and also a generally better pipeline. You can't judge a CPU on MHZ alone.
As far as GTalk goess, Google is going oto great lengths to make their protocol totally open, and are even hiring people to work on it in already existing messengers like Gaim and Kopete.
I agree 100%, why re-invent the wheel when we already have these awesome clients with protocol plugin suppoer? Way to go Google for not shoving another crappy proprietary IM client down my throat.
Just an FYI to the parent and also the poster, you can buy a 3 prong electrical line tester from Home Depot or any hardware store for under 10 bucks, which has 3 or 4 LEDs on it, that will tell you exactly what, if any, wiring is wrong in the outlet.
I found this indespensible when I was shopping around for a house - you never know what you will find in a house that has bad wiring. Always bring a tester, can sometimes save you from wasting money on a home inspection.
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... how tough is the immigration process?
Microsoft invented XMLHttpRequest. Not Firefox, not opera, not KHTML. They all copied it from IE.
So it would be Firefox/Opera/KHTML that are doing the "embracing and extending" in this case.
On a side note, I don't see why this is a big deal. They are likely still going to use a COM object underneath. All this is is a coding shortcut, that no one will be able to use anyway because you're still going to have to support IE6 for the next 3 years at least.
If that is the current state in NJ then this is true squandering of taxpayer dollars.
Why can't the kids' homeroom teacher just supervise the pickup point? Surely they'd recognize the parents after the first two days of pickup?
So they have to take a half hour extra, so what. If they complain then pay them some overtime. It would still cost way less than this iris scanner.
Yeah, cause a person walking up to an elementary school during an extremely busy school pickup time would not be noticed carrying a decapitated head or yanked-out eyeballs and pressing them up to the iris scanner.
God is it just me or has the average IQ on this site actually dropped 50 points in the last two years?
If the kid is getting picked up then he isn't walking home, is he?
The whole point of the program is to prevent strangers form picking up your kids. If you let your little kids walk home alone through the inner city then it has nothing to do with you (oh and PS you're a horrible parent).
Not that I necessairily agree with the program but your arguments make no sense.
Just to play devil's advocate, if all the schools in the state implimented the system, then no, he would not "be able to drive another mile to any other grade school and commit his felonies there".
Of course not, thats a bunch of hooey perpetrated by idiots on slashdot.
Think about it for a second, why in God's name would having the word 'beta' stuck in front of it be any kind of legal insulation? The population can still access it, the "damage" if any would still be done.
The truth is that there is nothing wrong with anything Google is doing, all they are doing is grabbing headlines and snippits. It falls under "fair use", and they direct the traffic to your news site anyway, so where's the problem? If you personally don't want your site involved all you have to do is opt-out. It is clear as day.
I like to have all sections and stories on the front page. But I wish I could totally disable anything with the Anime topic, since I have absolutely no interest in it.
.. when you're going to blow it all on a can of greasy anchovies anyways?
Mmmmm..... anchovies.
..but it is easyt o detect forgerties, because replication results in single-bit errors in the quantum structure of the molecules.
Or something like that.... it's been awhile since I read my TNG technical manual. But that is basicaly how they explain that they can't just replicate a person - the replicators only work at molecular level resolution, whereas the transporters use quantum level resolution, and they can't store the data.
The parent is referring to the Star Trek TNG episode The Neutral Zone, where some people who were cryogenically frozen in the 20th centry are awaken on board the Enterprise. Hilarity ensues when the wealthy stock-broker tycoon discovers that "the economics of the 24th centry are somewhat different" - money is no longer used on Earth and his vast "fortune" is worthless.
I have never seen a fixed cat hump anything.
And you forgot three important ones - play, purr, and cuddle. No dog is as cute as a playing cat. And my cats would be on anti-depressants if they didn't get to cuddle with someone at least once a day.
Of course it isn't a good trade off, but there are few options.
You can't have school 12 months a year, especially in grades 1-9 (where the majority of the foundation for literacy forms, BTW), kids need time to be kids. otherwise they will grow into social misfits.
And we are already sending kids to school earlier in life - kindergarded is now basically a part of the normal school system. When I went it was an option only, and more like a daycare than a place of learning. Now it is required before grade 1.
If all college is going to teach you is to function as well as someone with an 8th grade education 100 years ago, we have a really *REALLY* bad problem.
I don't think kids were learning how to factor quadratics in 8th grade 100 years ago, or how photosynthesis works, or what atoms and molecules and stochiometry were. Just a few things I remember learning in grade 8/9.
Ever think that maybe in the last 100 years, things have progressed a little, and we have more stuff to cram into "learning time", so some of the more basic stuff gets left out?
Genetics define the chaulk and the chaulkboard. They do not write the story. Genetics do not pre-determine who is going to grow up to be a serial killer and who is going to be a priest. They can influence the outcome, but they do not write the story. The story is written by the life experience of the person.
a) Because if you run out of memory in a JS interpereter in a graphical app, what are you going to do? You can't display anything, all you can do is exit. In which case an OOM segfault would have been more informative anyway. Sounds like this was posted by someone without much practical experience in GUI apps.
b) For one, KDE never uses STL, because for one when it was wirtten it was not available on all the platforms it needed, and for two Qt's containers are just better and more efficient than STL contains in general anyway.
Or you could always just re-route life support through the ancillary adjunct backup processor of the brussard collector's hyperdyne relay.
That should give you plenty of time to reach the next starbase.
People are born with a simple set of pre-defined behaviours. Your brain knows how to operate your organs and sensory devices. It knows how to recieve feedback from those devices. But that is all. Everything else is learned via an instintual desire to understand one's own environment.
People are born as a blank slate, a slate that is written upon from the moment of your birth (and even a bit before). This is no different from a highly sophisticaed computer, in which these basic routines and instincts from the "ROM", and the learned behaviours are stored in long-term storage. The software has to write itself based on it's experiences.
Coupons are just a way companies use to sell their products at two price points simultaniously, thus giving them maximum profit margin.
Read this, it's a bit long, but it is very enlightening.
Would the average user even notice if Google returned searchs slower than Yahoo? Would the average user notice that Amazon was running slower?
Er.. yes. What do you think, a user only uses the net at his house?
What do you think this user is going to think when he goes over to his buddys house who has Comcast/Speakeasy/Whoever and sees that his GMail and Google searches are 10x faster than his at home, for the same price? He's going to complain or switch carriers, that's what.
Go ahead BS, shoot yourself in the foot, see if I care. If you think BS > Google when it comes to brand loyalty, you've got another think coming.
My grocery store is willing to give me a couple bucks in discounts every couple weeks to track my purchasing habits. At a guess, I'd say it would amount to maybe ~$100/yr if I took them up on it.
It's more valuble than you realize.
Just look at all the loyalty programs, which are all in essence the same thing as this proposal. I know for instance, with my grocery store loyalty program, I earn enough points every year to get two free round-trip airline flights, each of which is worth around 600 bucks.
Rain on your wedding day is not ironic. It is just bad luck.
Yeah but a Sempron 2200+ will stomp all over a 2.2 Celeron. It has way more cache ( 128k/256k in the Sempron vs 8k/128K L2 in the Celeron) and also a generally better pipeline. You can't judge a CPU on MHZ alone.
As far as GTalk goess, Google is going oto great lengths to make their protocol totally open, and are even hiring people to work on it in already existing messengers like Gaim and Kopete. I agree 100%, why re-invent the wheel when we already have these awesome clients with protocol plugin suppoer? Way to go Google for not shoving another crappy proprietary IM client down my throat.
Just an FYI to the parent and also the poster, you can buy a 3 prong electrical line tester from Home Depot or any hardware store for under 10 bucks, which has 3 or 4 LEDs on it, that will tell you exactly what, if any, wiring is wrong in the outlet.
I found this indespensible when I was shopping around for a house - you never know what you will find in a house that has bad wiring. Always bring a tester, can sometimes save you from wasting money on a home inspection.