i'm the opposite, i just cant get my head around the practise of missing out the \n... I find it easier to match code blocks not just by indentation but also by matching the pairs of { and }, so if one is missing i find it hard to read.
well, sure, unless the bloke working in the the dealership is one of your buddies, or open to a little bribery, or can't be bothered because it's friday afternoon/monday morning.
an i expect a decade or two ago people like yourself were saying that it'd be impractical to attempt to build a device that fits comfortably in the palm of your hand that allows you to talk to other similar devices anywhere in the (urbanised) world, play several hours of stored music, take and transmit photographs instantly (without all that waiting a week to get them developed, and in color too, unlike yer average fax machine).
if this technology is combined with the High Dynamic Range technology and storage sizes jump up by a factor or two (which they're doing all the time anyway) i can see the day when digital photos are the same actual output res as they are today but when you take a photo of someone stood inoors by a window with a bright sunshine-lit citiscape outside that both can be in focus and both can be well lit. frickin about time, after all my eyes can do it. or at least, they make my brain think they can
old versions of IE (5.x) and some other browsers will get stuck on the try{}catch{} as it's only in new(er) versions of JS, you need to do something along these lines:
if( window.ActiveXObject )//IE {
req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } else if( window.XMLHttpRequest )//FF,NS and OP {
req = new XMLHttpRequest(); } else {
req = false; }
a lot of electricity is used to power motors... e.g. the motor in your refrigerator.. so how about someone works out a clever way to use a rotating thingy (wind turbine or stirling engine) to wind a clockwork spring (or succession of, that wind each other) so that the mechanical rotational energy can be directly converted into... mechanical rotational evergy !
or how about the fact that you might be using a WIND turbine to power the FAN in your air conditioning unit...
not flamebaiting here but personally i cant stand form storing, password remembering, the history, url autocomplete and all the other "make your life easier" bloat. if i could code properly i wouldnt write an extension to disable all this i'd recompile FF with none of it in, and make it use a default local profile (="no install", handy for when you have FF on D: and you format C:) and never ever pop up alerts like the first-time you submit a form, go to/leave an SSL page, etc etc etc. a few choice cookies (e.g. auto login to slashdot) and a heap of bookmarks is all i need
absolutely, some of us actually LIKE having physical materials, and i'm not just talking about a bunch of lyrics and a few artsy fartsy photos either. they could actually reverse it, sell a book full of stuff from a bands latest tour and bung the cd along with it. *allow* the cd to be copied and distributed freely. also think of all the money that comes in from touring, assuming it's not all spent on fancy sets and lighting, that is.
if you patent something you should license it out-of-the-box or make it clear that you will be collecting license fees in the future. if a patented invention/method has been widely used without the previous conditions attatched or any attempts to collect fees (JPG,filesystem,etc.) then you shouldnt be able to switch on the license fee/lawsuit when you feel like it.
simple explanation: it's like the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, when the ship doors open and the Bloody Hell That's Bright light comes out, only in video games.
hooray, the 1954 x windows background and pointer showed up for a second there, something for me to gripe about... cue: x windows client+server overhead/lag rant
true but getting off the planet doesnt necasarily NEED to be ground breaking. they can probably save money by building something big and reliable and not laced with computers that does the job it's designed for and nothing else. hence the term "big dumb booster".
basically, appollo worked, why reinvent the wheel? er, rocket!
suggesting that a bunch of people attempted to register gmail as a trademark at the same time back in march/april 2004, including google who were a bit slow off the bat. this applies in the US and i assume it's been resolved, anybody?
some of us actually turn computers (and nearly all other electronic devices) off at the socket (outlet) when not using them, you know. saves on the electric bill, and the planet.
charge 1cent for each email sent, and 1cent for each attatchment, but you pay the reciever of the email. so if i email my brother and he replies there's no net charge. if i send a mailout to 10 or so friends saying i've got new baby photos on my website it still only costs me a few pence. if a spammer is sending lots of emails it's costing them cash, if i get 100 spam messages a day then hey, it's making me money!
"smart" meaning that it decides for you what it wants you to want to do and throws up three confirm boxes if you want to do what you actually want to do, finally blue screening after you clicked ok in all three.
i cant speak from much linux eperience so i dont know how standard these things are but on my winbox:
CTRL+X,CTRL+C,CTRL+V = cut,copy,paste on EVERY program ever* but this breaks the CTRL+C (or CTRL+X) = break *nix setup, stuff it! make it ESC from now on...hell people should write extensible interfaces so the user can decide the key combo used and the OS just sends the program a "COPY" or "BREAK" bytecode
* yeah this isnt really true for EVERY app but y'know i'm busy making rash generalisations here
...and still today people (the ones who want web sites making and pay my wages) are amazed and more than a little stumped when i tell them all about the "print screen" button.
heh, that's not where it ended either. the company that had borrowed my services for the day took it away to fix for him, and then their office got broken into and all the gear was stolen, including this blokes PC. so in the end he got a shiney new one for free.
yeah but if you use ccleaner there are options to choose cookies not to delete.
but then again this beeb thingy is aimed at joe public, who deosnt know what ccleaner is, or where to get it, and will be terrified by the "WARNING" popups when you try to run it to delete stuff.
but then again, how many joe publics REALLY delete cookies on a regular basis
or know what cookies are in the first place? or classifies them as one of the nod-and-pretend-you-understand-while-actually-hopi ng-it-goes-away annoying computer buzz word acrylic thingimabobs.
i once went to install a network card in somones pc a couple of years back, the desktop was covered in junk and it was very slow and clunky and didnt like the drivers, it was windows me and when i asked him how long it had been since he last got it serviced he said...
"serviced?"
yup 4 years of hammering winme, and it was probably an upgrade from 95b for all i know, needless to say the system promptly died and refused to boot after that.
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i'm the opposite, i just cant get my head around the practise of missing out the \n... I find it easier to match code blocks not just by indentation but also by matching the pairs of { and }, so if one is missing i find it hard to read.
well, sure, unless the bloke working in the the dealership is one of your buddies, or open to a little bribery, or can't be bothered because it's friday afternoon/monday morning.
an i expect a decade or two ago people like yourself were saying that it'd be impractical to attempt to build a device that fits comfortably in the palm of your hand that allows you to talk to other similar devices anywhere in the (urbanised) world, play several hours of stored music, take and transmit photographs instantly (without all that waiting a week to get them developed, and in color too, unlike yer average fax machine).
if this technology is combined with the High Dynamic Range technology and storage sizes jump up by a factor or two (which they're doing all the time anyway) i can see the day when digital photos are the same actual output res as they are today but when you take a photo of someone stood inoors by a window with a bright sunshine-lit citiscape outside that both can be in focus and both can be well lit. frickin about time, after all my eyes can do it. or at least, they make my brain think they can
"avoid" - software corrupts system settings and does not include a satisfactory uninstall procedure
old versions of IE (5.x) and some other browsers will get stuck on the try{}catch{} as it's only in new(er) versions of JS, you need to do something along these lines:
//IE //FF,NS and OP
if( window.ActiveXObject )
{
req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
else
if( window.XMLHttpRequest )
{
req = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{
req = false;
}
cant belive i didnt think of that, still havent solved it, got it about 20 years ago too. time for a trip to the attic...
a lot of electricity is used to power motors... e.g. the motor in your refrigerator.. so how about someone works out a clever way to use a rotating thingy (wind turbine or stirling engine) to wind a clockwork spring (or succession of, that wind each other) so that the mechanical rotational energy can be directly converted into ... mechanical rotational evergy !
or how about the fact that you might be using a WIND turbine to power the FAN in your air conditioning unit...
cue: lots of ducting, cogs, axles and grease. heh
sod it, i'm just gonna buy an old school windmill http://www.windmillworld.com/mills/forsale.htm
not flamebaiting here but personally i cant stand form storing, password remembering, the history, url autocomplete and all the other "make your life easier" bloat. if i could code properly i wouldnt write an extension to disable all this i'd recompile FF with none of it in, and make it use a default local profile (="no install", handy for when you have FF on D: and you format C:) and never ever pop up alerts like the first-time you submit a form, go to/leave an SSL page, etc etc etc. a few choice cookies (e.g. auto login to slashdot) and a heap of bookmarks is all i need
/rant
bah
wait. does that mean that if it's illegal for my Country to proliferate nuclear weapons that it's ok for me to, as an individual?
absolutely, some of us actually LIKE having physical materials, and i'm not just talking about a bunch of lyrics and a few artsy fartsy photos either. they could actually reverse it, sell a book full of stuff from a bands latest tour and bung the cd along with it. *allow* the cd to be copied and distributed freely. also think of all the money that comes in from touring, assuming it's not all spent on fancy sets and lighting, that is.
i think i've got it!
if you patent something you should license it out-of-the-box or make it clear that you will be collecting license fees in the future. if a patented invention/method has been widely used without the previous conditions attatched or any attempts to collect fees (JPG,filesystem,etc.) then you shouldnt be able to switch on the license fee/lawsuit when you feel like it.
plus:
dark side of force is making your own plot
light side of force is following the plot
simple explanation: it's like the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, when the ship doors open and the Bloody Hell That's Bright light comes out, only in video games.
hooray, the 1954 x windows background and pointer showed up for a second there, something for me to gripe about... cue: x windows client+server overhead/lag rant
true but getting off the planet doesnt necasarily NEED to be ground breaking. they can probably save money by building something big and reliable and not laced with computers that does the job it's designed for and nothing else. hence the term "big dumb booster".
basically, appollo worked, why reinvent the wheel? er, rocket!
quick google search (heh) turned up this:
3 394361
5 97,1568223,00.html?gusrc=rss
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/
suggesting that a bunch of people attempted to register gmail as a trademark at the same time back in march/april 2004, including google who were a bit slow off the bat. this applies in the US and i assume it's been resolved, anybody?
as for the uk this guardian article
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12
suggests that the company registered it waaaay back in 2002, therefore not qualifying for bandwaggoning and actually probably having a legit claim.
some of us actually turn computers (and nearly all other electronic devices) off at the socket (outlet) when not using them, you know. saves on the electric bill, and the planet.
charge 1cent for each email sent, and 1cent for each attatchment, but you pay the reciever of the email. so if i email my brother and he replies there's no net charge. if i send a mailout to 10 or so friends saying i've got new baby photos on my website it still only costs me a few pence. if a spammer is sending lots of emails it's costing them cash, if i get 100 spam messages a day then hey, it's making me money!
"smart" meaning that it decides for you what it wants you to want to do and throws up three confirm boxes if you want to do what you actually want to do, finally blue screening after you clicked ok in all three.
YES
...hell people should write extensible interfaces so the user can decide the key combo used and the OS just sends the program a "COPY" or "BREAK" bytecode
i cant speak from much linux eperience so i dont know how standard these things are but on my winbox:
CTRL+X,CTRL+C,CTRL+V = cut,copy,paste on EVERY program ever*
but this breaks the CTRL+C (or CTRL+X) = break *nix setup, stuff it! make it ESC from now on
* yeah this isnt really true for EVERY app but y'know i'm busy making rash generalisations here
...and still today people (the ones who want web sites making and pay my wages) are amazed and more than a little stumped when i tell them all about the "print screen" button.
my two cents:
do
{
x
}
while(y)
is essentially equivalent to:
label:
{
x
}
if(y)
goto label;
so it doesnt matter where you enter the loop it will always start at the beginning
1000 pieces of malware should be enough for anybody!
heh, that's not where it ended either. the company that had borrowed my services for the day took it away to fix for him, and then their office got broken into and all the gear was stolen, including this blokes PC. so in the end he got a shiney new one for free.
yeah but if you use ccleaner there are options to choose cookies not to delete.
i ng-it-goes-away annoying computer buzz word acrylic thingimabobs.
but then again this beeb thingy is aimed at joe public, who deosnt know what ccleaner is, or where to get it, and will be terrified by the "WARNING" popups when you try to run it to delete stuff.
but then again, how many joe publics REALLY delete cookies on a regular basis
or know what cookies are in the first place? or classifies them as one of the nod-and-pretend-you-understand-while-actually-hop
i once went to install a network card in somones pc a couple of years back, the desktop was covered in junk and it was very slow and clunky and didnt like the drivers, it was windows me and when i asked him how long it had been since he last got it serviced he said...
"serviced?"
yup 4 years of hammering winme, and it was probably an upgrade from 95b for all i know, needless to say the system promptly died and refused to boot after that.