Similarly, I used to wonder why people travel to expensive training courses when you can get all the same information from a book - which is usually better organized and from a more authoritative source, anyways.
Usually it has less to do with learning style and more to do with having an expense account plus not having go to work. Let's see: buy a book and read it on your own time and still maybe have your $42 expense denied, or take three days off from work, get the source, and have free meals? Work travel can be the biggest scam.
Wrong in so many ways. Copyright is not a natural right, because you can sell it to someone else, as which happens for vast majority of stuff created for hire. It's simply not yours for the duration of your life in that case.
Compare to a natural right; you cannot sell or purchase the right to free speech. Similarly, the government cannot take it away because it does not grant it.
The Constituion is pretty clear. It grants the Congress the ability to create copyright. Congress grants you that privilege, in exchange for it being public sometime later.
Interesting... you say 1.5 spaces. But what's a space? How big? 1.5 whats?
From what I see, one unstretched "space" in a proportional font is usually the size of a very small letter. It depends on the face, but usually something quite thin like i or t.
So, if in a fixed-pitch font "one space" is so small to deem it necessary to use two, then "one space" in a proportional font is even less! Maybe we should be using three!
you don't need two spaces after a period if you're using a porportionally spaced font.
I've never understood this argument. One space in a proportional font usually takes up less space than a space in a fixed font.
See?__That's two spaces. (Underscores to avoid space compression)
See? That's one space.
Which gap is bigger?
So, if the original need for putting in two spaces is to make it easier to pick out sentences, how does reducing that distance make it easier? That makes no sense.
Answer - it only makes sense when you are right justify the text, which stretches out those spaces to be bigger. But that only usually happens in professionally-prepared print.
Do you think you can cook healthy 99% of the time and then give them hotdogs 1% of the time? You know sort of like how a normal, healthy person might eat? The second they a SINGLE hotdog, they will swear off entire categories of other food.
Our four year old almost never eats dinner because we don't pander to his tastes. Let's say we serve hot dogs once a month. This means, he will eat dinner about once a month. The rest of the time just he will drink his milk and ignore everything else.
We've been putting various vegetables on his plate EVERY SINGLE DAY for his entire life, as soon as he was able to pick up food. I can assure you it it is not lack of exposure.
We don't eat in chain restaurants, can't blame that.
Well, hell, what is it then? I think it's something hard-wired. Fat tastes good. Given the availablity of fat anywhere, and it doesn't have to be in your house, they will naturally graviate towards that. All you can do is try to hold back the tide.
I would suspect that you acquired and set all your eating habits in a time or place where such food was just unavailable. If you had grown up here and how, you would be different.
The downside to this approach is that doesn't accomodate social pressures. Our school divided into those three groups in the beginning of the year and then it would stick for the entire year. In reality the groups self-selected into:
The competitive group was all popular boys, and a few gay girls.
The semi-competitive were the girls who liked sports, and boys who liked sports well enough without really needing to prove anything.
The non-competitive groups were the girls who didn't want to play sports, and a few gay boys.
I might have preferred being in the noncompetitive group, and spend my all time running or weightlifting. But even a social idiot like myself could see that it was utter suicide to go into the girls-only group. Similarly, a competitive girl couldn't realistically be in the competetive group for the same reason.
Any trust in advertisers has repeatedly been broken. Every time I give them a chance and turn off adblocking even for one minute, I am assaulted with animation. Anything that takes my attention off my task at hand is gone.
I used to spend a lot of time maintaining manual blocklists, but with filterset.G I rarely have to do anything. This is pre-Firefox days with Privoxy or, even further back, Junkbuster.
It should be no surprise that the only I will not block and occassionaly actually use: Google text ads. I'm sure if it bugged me I could figure out a way to block it with Greasemonkey or something similar, but why bother?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but nearly all public job postings are bullshit.
They describe an ideal candidate, but you'll never find anyone with all the qualifications. Most jobs are filled internally, recruited, or via employee referrals and are not subject to those restrictions.
Of course, sometimes HR screws up and puts in "10 years of experience with Windows 2000" because they did a search and replace of "Windows NT" with "2000". Those are just dumb typos, and shows even more that you want to avoid HR at all costs.
Further, sometimes employers post jobs with outrageous requirements because they really don't want it filled from that channel. Let's say some PHB wants to hire his golf buddy. But his company requires him to put out a req to HR to do an official search. So he pads it out with stupid and/or impossible things so that he can justify hiring his buddy.
I can see that. I've been using Quicken forever, since the DOS days. They have my address and occasionally send me special offers to upgrade to Quicken 200x for only $10 off the "MSRP" of $40 or $50 or whatever they think it really is. But, it turns out it's just cheaper to go to Whalemart and buy it fresh for $20.
I learned to simply dump all correspondance from them long ago.
The instructions on the box say to put them in the recycle bin when used up.
But how do you know it is recycled? More to the point, how does the box know that your locality knows how to recycle them? I guess it depends on where you live. There was a report on NPR a few weeks ago that said 1) they're likely to break in the recylcing bin, spilling out all the dangerous stuff en route and 2) there are very few places that actually recycle them.
In the report, there was only a single place in the state 90 miles away that accepted them. Who's going to do that? No, they're going to toss it in the trash, whether it's you or the person who picks up your recylcing bin.
I just moved to another town that doesn't have curbside recycling, so I take it the the local recycling plant. Since I don't have a hauler, they are much stricter on what they accept. I used to put plastic lids and occasionally the wrong type in the bin. At the plant, they have people there watching for stuff like that and making sure you don't dump it in. Do it too much and they'll kick you out.
On the upside, the local plant lets you recycle more things: batteries, oil... lots of things haulers won't take.
The point I got off of this is that things that you stick in the bin probably get sorted by someone else, and anything not truly recyclable gets tossed anyway. You may think you're recycling but it might just be just an alternate path to the dump, and that stuff is in YOUR groundwater.
Let's say you own the publishing rights to some crazy popular song like "White Christmas". You're probably not a music industry exec, i.e., someone who's in the biz of pressing CDs. In fact, you don't give a flying fig about making or selling CDs. That would require doing something.
What you care about is collecting royalties from everyone who presses CDs of the tune, performs the tune, uses it in a TV or movie, plays it on radio, webcasts it, arranges it for 32 kazoos plus saxophone, accidentally captures 2.3 seconds of the tune in the background noise of a restaurant when filming a documentary, listens to it, talks about it, or thinks about it.
That is: getting paid for doing nothing.
You think the RIAA is bad? The publishers are the worst.
On a PC, DVI has been a boon, as I don't have to futz about with the fine/coarse lock, and the auto-lock never looked quite right.
But different monitors and videocard combination seem to be different though. My home Samsung 191T took a lot more screwing around over VGA and as above never really looked quite right - I could see bleed-over some pixels no matter what I did. At work, my Viewsonic VX2000 looks perfect through a Radeon 9200, no digital anything necessary. Quality-wise, that's the nicest panel I've seen to date, even nicer than the Dell 24" (but sometimes size matters).
But, for TV, I agree, component looks damn fine to me. Even for HD. I really can't tell the difference between digital and component. I'd have to do a side-by-side of stills to tell, and who really cares?
Now that Java is OpenSource... will we see it on more desktop applications?
I was going to respond to your post with my Java(TM) capable browser. I waited a minute or so for it to start, but the web page was too big and it ran out of memory. So I went and dug out the shortcut and restarted the VM with -Xmx256m of memory. While it was starting up, I fired up Notepad and composed the text into it. Sure enough, this time the page loaded up after a minute or two, so I went to cut and paste it out of Notepad. But that got completely swapped out by Java, so I had to wait for it swap Java out and Notepad back in. Good, I press ^C, and go back to Java, and... well, then I rotated some laundry while it was coming back.
I'd email you but my Java(TM) email client requires Java 1.4.2.1 which is different than the 1.3.2.7 that the web browser requires so I can't run them at the same time, or, at least, I haven't figure out how to get the two installations to coexist just yet. Let me reboot and get back to you.
Two days after owning a new PC with XP installed, I killed that annoying popup with a registry hack. Google it. Even after you disable it, you still hear the stupid cartoony "pwop" sound but at least you don't see anything.
(And is there some reason XP can't position tooltips right? I'm looking at you, Clock. When I hover over it I want you to show me the date. 1/3 of the time nothing shows up, and 1/3 of the tooltip shows up under the freakin' taskbar. Arrrgh! I want Windows 2000 back.)
They are actually quite reasonable. There's only a few GUI developers at our place who regularly write Qt code, but everyone compiles the entire system. They didn't force us to by one license per developer. It is a little weird. I would guess they're trying to stop buying a single license for the entire company. For us, it's Chump Change to pay up in exchange for goodwill and support.
Not that they can do anything about it. You have the source code!
But how can development be totally open? Can I mail a random broken patch to Linus, without doing my homework, and expect him to respond personally and teach me how to do kernel coding? Isn't the openness a function of how stable and large something is? I mean, if RedHat maintains their own kernel fork...
Good points. I'm not the only one, so we do have a group of people. Even though, we really don't have the time to test out every single patch. Maybe if I was working on it full-time, but as a hobby, no way. I do respond to a lot of patches, but most people don't care to rewrite it up to standards.
I just had this last week. Someone sent me a patch that fixed a crash on 64-bit systems, but did it in a manner that simply broke everything else. I mentioned a bunch of times that this doesn't work on so-and-so system, but they just ignored that part of the conversation. But, not ignore me in general, which was the weird part - they would respond to the other parts. In the end, I wrote my own portable solution.
The patch itself did nothing but point me to the bug. That's helpful, but it's not really a patch: it's very good bug report.
I think of it this way: if someone's not willing to checkout a CVS copy and stay recent on updates, then they're really not investing the necessary effort. They just want their pet change upstream without making the effort to understand how it effects the project, and other users. Now that's fine if they don't have the time to do that, who can stay up on all those projects? But, if that's the case their patch better be perfect, and chances are it won't.
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here is a question, what creditationals do you need to report someones death? Easy, you need the credentials of a professitational reporter.
Compare to a natural right; you cannot sell or purchase the right to free speech. Similarly, the government cannot take it away because it does not grant it.
The Constituion is pretty clear. It grants the Congress the ability to create copyright. Congress grants you that privilege, in exchange for it being public sometime later.
From what I see, one unstretched "space" in a proportional font is usually the size of a very small letter. It depends on the face, but usually something quite thin like i or t.
So, if in a fixed-pitch font "one space" is so small to deem it necessary to use two, then "one space" in a proportional font is even less! Maybe we should be using three!
Totally confused.
I've never understood this argument. One space in a proportional font usually takes up less space than a space in a fixed font.
See?__That's two spaces. (Underscores to avoid space compression)
See? That's one space.
Which gap is bigger?
So, if the original need for putting in two spaces is to make it easier to pick out sentences, how does reducing that distance make it easier? That makes no sense.
Answer - it only makes sense when you are right justify the text, which stretches out those spaces to be bigger. But that only usually happens in professionally-prepared print.
Do you think you can cook healthy 99% of the time and then give them hotdogs 1% of the time? You know sort of like how a normal, healthy person might eat? The second they a SINGLE hotdog, they will swear off entire categories of other food. Our four year old almost never eats dinner because we don't pander to his tastes. Let's say we serve hot dogs once a month. This means, he will eat dinner about once a month. The rest of the time just he will drink his milk and ignore everything else.
We've been putting various vegetables on his plate EVERY SINGLE DAY for his entire life, as soon as he was able to pick up food. I can assure you it it is not lack of exposure.
We don't eat in chain restaurants, can't blame that.
Kids don't watch commercials (ReplayTV), can't blame that.
Well, hell, what is it then? I think it's something hard-wired. Fat tastes good. Given the availablity of fat anywhere, and it doesn't have to be in your house, they will naturally graviate towards that. All you can do is try to hold back the tide.
I would suspect that you acquired and set all your eating habits in a time or place where such food was just unavailable. If you had grown up here and how, you would be different.
The competitive group was all popular boys, and a few gay girls.
The semi-competitive were the girls who liked sports, and boys who liked sports well enough without really needing to prove anything.
The non-competitive groups were the girls who didn't want to play sports, and a few gay boys.
I might have preferred being in the noncompetitive group, and spend my all time running or weightlifting. But even a social idiot like myself could see that it was utter suicide to go into the girls-only group. Similarly, a competitive girl couldn't realistically be in the competetive group for the same reason.
100 comments and nobody's asked whether this is a submarine patent yet? Come on, guys! You must be working or something.
I used to spend a lot of time maintaining manual blocklists, but with filterset.G I rarely have to do anything. This is pre-Firefox days with Privoxy or, even further back, Junkbuster.
It should be no surprise that the only I will not block and occassionaly actually use: Google text ads. I'm sure if it bugged me I could figure out a way to block it with Greasemonkey or something similar, but why bother?
They describe an ideal candidate, but you'll never find anyone with all the qualifications. Most jobs are filled internally, recruited, or via employee referrals and are not subject to those restrictions.
Of course, sometimes HR screws up and puts in "10 years of experience with Windows 2000" because they did a search and replace of "Windows NT" with "2000". Those are just dumb typos, and shows even more that you want to avoid HR at all costs.
Further, sometimes employers post jobs with outrageous requirements because they really don't want it filled from that channel. Let's say some PHB wants to hire his golf buddy. But his company requires him to put out a req to HR to do an official search. So he pads it out with stupid and/or impossible things so that he can justify hiring his buddy.
Wait... wasn't this in Revenge of the Nerds? (Do you want to do it on the moon?)
I can see that. I've been using Quicken forever, since the DOS days. They have my address and occasionally send me special offers to upgrade to Quicken 200x for only $10 off the "MSRP" of $40 or $50 or whatever they think it really is. But, it turns out it's just cheaper to go to Whalemart and buy it fresh for $20.
I learned to simply dump all correspondance from them long ago.
In the report, there was only a single place in the state 90 miles away that accepted them. Who's going to do that? No, they're going to toss it in the trash, whether it's you or the person who picks up your recylcing bin.
I just moved to another town that doesn't have curbside recycling, so I take it the the local recycling plant. Since I don't have a hauler, they are much stricter on what they accept. I used to put plastic lids and occasionally the wrong type in the bin. At the plant, they have people there watching for stuff like that and making sure you don't dump it in. Do it too much and they'll kick you out.
On the upside, the local plant lets you recycle more things: batteries, oil... lots of things haulers won't take.
The point I got off of this is that things that you stick in the bin probably get sorted by someone else, and anything not truly recyclable gets tossed anyway. You may think you're recycling but it might just be just an alternate path to the dump, and that stuff is in YOUR groundwater.
What you care about is collecting royalties from everyone who presses CDs of the tune, performs the tune, uses it in a TV or movie, plays it on radio, webcasts it, arranges it for 32 kazoos plus saxophone, accidentally captures 2.3 seconds of the tune in the background noise of a restaurant when filming a documentary, listens to it, talks about it, or thinks about it.
That is: getting paid for doing nothing.
You think the RIAA is bad? The publishers are the worst.
On a PC, DVI has been a boon, as I don't have to futz about with the fine/coarse lock, and the auto-lock never looked quite right.
But different monitors and videocard combination seem to be different though. My home Samsung 191T took a lot more screwing around over VGA and as above never really looked quite right - I could see bleed-over some pixels no matter what I did. At work, my Viewsonic VX2000 looks perfect through a Radeon 9200, no digital anything necessary. Quality-wise, that's the nicest panel I've seen to date, even nicer than the Dell 24" (but sometimes size matters).
But, for TV, I agree, component looks damn fine to me. Even for HD. I really can't tell the difference between digital and component. I'd have to do a side-by-side of stills to tell, and who really cares?
I'd email you but my Java(TM) email client requires Java 1.4.2.1 which is different than the 1.3.2.7 that the web browser requires so I can't run them at the same time, or, at least, I haven't figure out how to get the two installations to coexist just yet. Let me reboot and get back to you.
(Posted from a friend's laptop)
YARGH! Mine eyes and ears are bleeding! This one even stumped adblock with filterset G. Here's the print version: http://web2journal.com/read/331813_p.htm
We need a tag for "loaded up with ads to the point where you can't even RTFA if you wanted to", but I can't think of anything pithy. "adsoup"?
If allofmp3 is a guide, maybe we need rutube.ru. Eh, dot com. Eh, dot whatever.
(And is there some reason XP can't position tooltips right? I'm looking at you, Clock. When I hover over it I want you to show me the date. 1/3 of the time nothing shows up, and 1/3 of the tooltip shows up under the freakin' taskbar. Arrrgh! I want Windows 2000 back.)
Not that they can do anything about it. You have the source code!
They have no GUI so you have to hack it in. I found something like this years ago, and it's pretty obvious how to do it:
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http://gemal.dk/blog/2003/11/18/slow_acrobat_read
Or, just disable the 952 plugins you don't use. Acrobat reader launchs plenty fast without loading them all.
But how can development be totally open? Can I mail a random broken patch to Linus, without doing my homework, and expect him to respond personally and teach me how to do kernel coding? Isn't the openness a function of how stable and large something is? I mean, if RedHat maintains their own kernel fork...
Good points. I'm not the only one, so we do have a group of people. Even though, we really don't have the time to test out every single patch. Maybe if I was working on it full-time, but as a hobby, no way. I do respond to a lot of patches, but most people don't care to rewrite it up to standards.
I just had this last week. Someone sent me a patch that fixed a crash on 64-bit systems, but did it in a manner that simply broke everything else. I mentioned a bunch of times that this doesn't work on so-and-so system, but they just ignored that part of the conversation. But, not ignore me in general, which was the weird part - they would respond to the other parts. In the end, I wrote my own portable solution.
The patch itself did nothing but point me to the bug. That's helpful, but it's not really a patch: it's very good bug report.
I think of it this way: if someone's not willing to checkout a CVS copy and stay recent on updates, then they're really not investing the necessary effort. They just want their pet change upstream without making the effort to understand how it effects the project, and other users. Now that's fine if they don't have the time to do that, who can stay up on all those projects? But, if that's the case their patch better be perfect, and chances are it won't.
Thanks for that link... very informative!