Website content developers should make their content such that it is accessable to all potential viewers, not just a particular subset of potential viewers. ideally yes they should.
However when the choice is between having a site thats unusable to everyone because of spambots and a site thats unusable to some disabled people because of anti-spam measures which is the sensible choice?
are your (presumablly american) lecturers and libraries really shitty or is it something to do with the nature of computing degrees?
i'm an electronic systems engineering student at a major university in the uk and i haven't bought a single textbook since i started. The lecture slides (which are both handed out and availible on the intranet) provide plenty sufficiant information to cover the course content and if i really need a book for some reason (such as a different perspective) the library is perfectly adequate.
do you americans really have profs that require you to buy a specific book just to get through the course?!
if you have one offer you are less likely to go looking for another one and so if the first offer gets rescinded are likely to have to do without for longer.
delphi 3s compiler doesn't understand lf i don't know about newer versions
worse the IDE does understand LF (and preserves it!!!) and pascal is not all that line ending sensitive so the result is files with unix line endings sometimes work but it breaks in three rather confuting ways.
1:// comments cover everything up to the next dos line break regardless of intervening unix line breaks. 2: there is a line length limit which again depends only on dos line breaks. 3: it can confuse the debugging features.
having written code that i compile with delphi and freepascal i have run into this before after editing stuff on linux and if theres just a few unix line endings there the problems caused can be a huge pain to find.
The guy also doesn't know the difference between a procedure and a function i guess because he has never been exposed to a language that makes that distinction in its syntax.
and functions can have side effects in virtually every language so its no as though they really always represent functions in the mathematical sense just procedurs that happen to return a value.
even if the client is just sent a video stream (which is currently wildly impracticl) an aimbot can still scan for colors/patterns.
games have to put some trust in the client and generally more trust means more performance (for example client side hitscan with the server adjusting the hits if it passes)
Fixing the newlines is pretty easy: change the system and libraries so that "text/binary" is ignored while writing, but still there while reading. and break anything that does its own textfile reading and assumes CRLF.
i guess if your servers in the corner of your officice and you can afford to give it a dedicated keyboard monitor and mouse this makes some sense but its imo wastefull to load a gui on a keyboard/monitor/mouse port that will never have anything plugged in.
the proper way is to seperate the administration tools from the daemons and make the interface between them work over a network if desired. Better still let the admin tool connect to multiple servers at once.
do you really like using remote desktop type protocols? especaily accross slow links?
Or if the system has enough memory the drive may have died years ago but all the data is paged. even if all data the system wan'ts to read is cached wouldn't the drive failure be detected as soon as any write happens.
this is/. not some important document why should i give a fuck about making my spelling/punctuation/grammer here perfect as long as it gets the point accross?
mind you at least you had the guts to make your spelling nazi post under your username rather than as an anonymous coward
1: buy with credit card sell on ebay before card bill comes through. 2: sell on ebay before buying (requires you to know when the stock you plan to divert is coming so you don't hold up your buyers too much).
i could take a binary word document, base64 it add a few tags arround the outside and it would be perfectly valid XML. Can't do anything with it but retrive the original word doc though.
while i doubt ms will go as far as doing that to the whole document i bet there will be embedded objects in there which are just binary data encoded into something that can be used inside xml.
Today, the locomotives of Europe do run on steam, but the steam engines are now stationary, generating electricity.
dunno about the rest of europe but round here (manchester) theres quite a mixture. The london trains run on electricity as do some of the shorter distance locals. but the crosscountry services (to scotland in one direction and birmingham and then various parts of the south coast in the other) and the locals that go further out (buxton blackpool etc) and the transpennine express services (accross to leeds york scarbourough etc) are diesels.
that or when you need a quick reference for a well known fact (say the permativity of free space) sure you may have it in a book or notes somewhere but its much quicker to just check wp.
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Website content developers should make their content such that it is accessable to all potential viewers, not just a particular subset of potential viewers.
ideally yes they should.
However when the choice is between having a site thats unusable to everyone because of spambots and a site thats unusable to some disabled people because of anti-spam measures which is the sensible choice?
they say they are putting fungicide in the water.
i wonder if that would make it unsafe to drink?
are your (presumablly american) lecturers and libraries really shitty or is it something to do with the nature of computing degrees?
i'm an electronic systems engineering student at a major university in the uk and i haven't bought a single textbook since i started. The lecture slides (which are both handed out and availible on the intranet) provide plenty sufficiant information to cover the course content and if i really need a book for some reason (such as a different perspective) the library is perfectly adequate.
do you americans really have profs that require you to buy a specific book just to get through the course?!
if you have one offer you are less likely to go looking for another one and so if the first offer gets rescinded are likely to have to do without for longer.
i'm pretty damn sure that most countries have some form of research exceptions in patent law.
its a coral cache link so caral cache will be taking the strain from serving it to many clients not the original site.
carefull though because coral doesn't cache files over 50 megs instead redirecting back to the original site.
lol
hmm after my experiances with laptop connectors i'd say having something jerking thier cables all the time would be a very very bad thing!
umm 2K3 and XP aren't even competing with each other one is a server product one is a desktop product!!!!!!!!
blatent vandalism is generally quickly reverted and obvious to anyone who sees it in the meantime.
far nastier can be subtule stuff like changing figures arround etc.
Bulk-create your vandal accounts now, and then wait for them to mature into the sort that can attack heavily-vandalized pages.
yes willy is already doing that for his pagemove vandalism and i see no reason why they won't do it to get arround this as well.
delphi 3s compiler doesn't understand lf i don't know about newer versions
// comments cover everything up to the next dos line break regardless of intervening unix line breaks.
worse the IDE does understand LF (and preserves it!!!) and pascal is not all that line ending sensitive so the result is files with unix line endings sometimes work but it breaks in three rather confuting ways.
1:
2: there is a line length limit which again depends only on dos line breaks.
3: it can confuse the debugging features.
having written code that i compile with delphi and freepascal i have run into this before after editing stuff on linux and if theres just a few unix line endings there the problems caused can be a huge pain to find.
The guy also doesn't know the difference between a procedure and a function
i guess because he has never been exposed to a language that makes that distinction in its syntax.
and functions can have side effects in virtually every language so its no as though they really always represent functions in the mathematical sense just procedurs that happen to return a value.
even if the client is just sent a video stream (which is currently wildly impracticl) an aimbot can still scan for colors/patterns.
games have to put some trust in the client and generally more trust means more performance (for example client side hitscan with the server adjusting the hits if it passes)
Fixing the newlines is pretty easy: change the system and libraries so that "text/binary" is ignored while writing, but still there while reading.
and break anything that does its own textfile reading and assumes CRLF.
i guess if your servers in the corner of your officice and you can afford to give it a dedicated keyboard monitor and mouse this makes some sense but its imo wastefull to load a gui on a keyboard/monitor/mouse port that will never have anything plugged in.
the proper way is to seperate the administration tools from the daemons and make the interface between them work over a network if desired. Better still let the admin tool connect to multiple servers at once.
do you really like using remote desktop type protocols? especaily accross slow links?
Or if the system has enough memory the drive may have died years ago but all the data is paged.
even if all data the system wan'ts to read is cached wouldn't the drive failure be detected as soon as any write happens.
this is /. not some important document why should i give a fuck about making my spelling/punctuation/grammer here perfect as long as it gets the point accross?
mind you at least you had the guts to make your spelling nazi post under your username rather than as an anonymous coward
hmm our uni only made firefox availible on the public machines this (academic) year. Previously the choice was IE NS7 or Opera now its IE FF or opera
the version of opera they offer is the addvertising supported one though. I'd guess that will change next academic year.
how about the following options?
1: buy with credit card sell on ebay before card bill comes through.
2: sell on ebay before buying (requires you to know when the stock you plan to divert is coming so you don't hold up your buyers too much).
yeah iirc we used them because you broke free from our empire.
define "kosher XML"
i could take a binary word document, base64 it add a few tags arround the outside and it would be perfectly valid XML. Can't do anything with it but retrive the original word doc though.
while i doubt ms will go as far as doing that to the whole document i bet there will be embedded objects in there which are just binary data encoded into something that can be used inside xml.
Today, the locomotives of Europe do run on steam, but the steam engines are now stationary, generating electricity.
dunno about the rest of europe but round here (manchester) theres quite a mixture. The london trains run on electricity as do some of the shorter distance locals. but the crosscountry services (to scotland in one direction and birmingham and then various parts of the south coast in the other) and the locals that go further out (buxton blackpool etc) and the transpennine express services (accross to leeds york scarbourough etc) are diesels.
that or when you need a quick reference for a well known fact (say the permativity of free space) sure you may have it in a book or notes somewhere but its much quicker to just check wp.
if you are citing an encyclopedia then you are probablly doing something wrong.
if something matters enough that you are citing sources then you REALLY should be citing primary sources from the appropriate field.