What will myTextarea.value.substring(myTextarea.selectionStart, myTextarea.selectionEnd); return if you have 2 or more pieces of text selected in one textarea?
I have an AUX input in my car stereo's center console so I could use an mp3-player to listen to music in the car. I still go for MP3's burnt on CD's, because of a couple of reasons. First, I can control the MP3 playback with the steering wheel buttons or the buttons on the stereo. Second, I can see the track info on the car stereo screen.
What would be sweet is an USB-port that I could plug a memory stick into. This would allow the interface to be the car stereo and remove the minor inconvenience of using burnt CD's. Unfortunately in my car that was not an option in the preinstalled players. There are some cars that have this, though.
Not birds, but I'll tell anyway. I saw an interview of a local zookeeper (or whatever) on TV. She was asked what's the smartest animal they have and she replied that their smartest animal is an old female goat. It's pretty tame in normal circumstances, but when someone comes in with a tranquilizer gun, it knows exactly the range of the gun and keeps constantly a few feet outside the range. And the problem becomes worse because she is also teaching this behaviour to the young goats there, so no tranquilizing the goats in that zoo.
When they learn to push each other in front of moving cars to get more roadkills to eat I will be very afraid. It will be a small step from here to start pushing other species (like humans) in front of moving cars to produce nice meat to eat.:)
I remember reading somewhere that they have quite advanced learning mechanisms. It is enough that one of them gets hit by a car and the rest who saw the incident know not to get hit by cars.
We have this in Finland, too, but it is not against the law to call people on the list. Companies that belong to Finnish Direct Marketing Association have agreed to not call people on the list. This brings a new market to companies that don't belong to the association, so the list doesn't really help here.:(
We had a storage room in the basement of an apartment that I used to live in where there was a cage for each apartment. If you put something there, it was pretty certain it would be stolen the next day. I stored a 15" CRT monitor in my locked cage in a cardboard box. A week later the monitor was still there, but the cardboard box had been stolen.
One thing I remember is missing from the iPhone is the ability to transfer files with bluetooth between the phone and more than 1 computer. I use my E51 often to transfer files between computers and physical locations. No wires thank you.
One advantage in Vista over XP in some environments is that with Vista you can at last have two users logged in when the machine is connected to a domain. This is useful for example in a hospital environment where the users outnumber computers and it is not necessary to log another user out to do something.
They don't need to do so. I run Vista on a HP G7061eo laptop that cost EUR599 that has a dual core pentium, 2G memory and it is fast enough that I don't notice it. Actually a lot faster than XP on the pentium with 1G memory on the Lenovo R52 I'm writing this on.
It is in fact difficult already here to get a machine with less than 2G memory preinstalled (desktops without a display start at less than EUR300 incl. 22% VAT) and they run Vista fast enough.
Post SP1 the UAC is also bearable and as a matter of fact I like it compared to XP where I had to "run as" or login as administrator to install things. In normal day-to-day use it doesn't nag about things, only when I want to install or change something.
Many OSS software would benefit a lot on simple heuristic evaluation, which can be very low cost. Don't even need to read hundreds of pages of UI guidelines. Just a few people walking through common tasks and evaluating the UI based on Nielsen's heuristics. And I know there are other heuristics, but I think the Nielsen's heuristics are a good starting point. This won't make things perfect, but can point out fundamental problems.
Of course the problem still is that when the code is done and it works for the coder who pretty much knows what (s)he was thinking when writing it, finding a motivation to do this might be difficult.
Well, you did bring out the browser, too. My reply was mainly to the "There are several ways for a browser to determine the file type, and I don't think the file extension is the primary way." -part.
I think this said vulnerability has to be looked a bit from both perspectives (server and client). If a server sends a jar-file with a correct mime-type that is requested by the client because an img-tag referred to the URL, does the client really run the java-code? I think the client should be programmed to discard anything except image/* -types for img-tags. If the jar-file is sent using image/gif or image/jpg, the client should display a broken image. Of course the situation is different, when the jar-file is not referenced by an img-tag. If the server sends a jar-file with any extension and says it is a jar-file, the client must according to the RFC treat it as a jar-file.
Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body "SHOULD include a Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD treat it as type "application/octet-stream"."
So what the RFC says is basically that if Content-Type is given by the server, the client must not try to guess any different.
I don't know about the situation at the moment, but when I did web work (the last time was about 3 years ago), it was only IE that didn't care about Content-Type headers. Firefox didn't try to guess at least on text/plain and application/octet-stream.
Didn't try to send jar's as gif's, though. Didn't try to rename jar as a gif and see what Apache sent, either.
But the point is that if the browser guesses Content-Type other than is provided by the server, the browser is broken.
What kind of work is it that DRM prevents you from doing? This is actually a serious question, because I haven't stumbled on any DRM-related problems with Vista in either home use or work use.
Our in-house 2nd level support has called MS tech support many times on issues with their software and MS has helped on many issues and even provided patches that are not publicly available.
My name is also out there for many reasons and I tried to search it. The first result was a page that had C64-demos by me from 1988 and 1989. In Google's results the site comes up on page 18 and the first results are things I've been doing recently.
I thank Cuil for the extremely nostalgic experience, but I feel Google's results are more relevant, especially if someone else is trying to find me.
Use firefox -profilemanager and surf your pr0n with a different profile. If only there was a way to start two instances of firefox with different profiles..
I hated the new bar in FF3 at first. I had some patterns using the address bar in FF2, which, at first didn't bring the correct results, but I decided to stick with FF3 anyway. I noticed soon, that at first I had to type 2 or maybe 3 letters for sites that I frequently visit and after choosing the desired URL a couple of times, it starts to appear at the top after just 1 letter. So it learned to behave (for me) like the address bar in FF2.
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Just out of curiosity..
What will myTextarea.value.substring(myTextarea.selectionStart, myTextarea.selectionEnd); return if you have 2 or more pieces of text selected in one textarea?
I have an AUX input in my car stereo's center console so I could use an mp3-player to listen to music in the car. I still go for MP3's burnt on CD's, because of a couple of reasons. First, I can control the MP3 playback with the steering wheel buttons or the buttons on the stereo. Second, I can see the track info on the car stereo screen.
What would be sweet is an USB-port that I could plug a memory stick into. This would allow the interface to be the car stereo and remove the minor inconvenience of using burnt CD's. Unfortunately in my car that was not an option in the preinstalled players. There are some cars that have this, though.
Not birds, but I'll tell anyway. I saw an interview of a local zookeeper (or whatever) on TV. She was asked what's the smartest animal they have and she replied that their smartest animal is an old female goat. It's pretty tame in normal circumstances, but when someone comes in with a tranquilizer gun, it knows exactly the range of the gun and keeps constantly a few feet outside the range. And the problem becomes worse because she is also teaching this behaviour to the young goats there, so no tranquilizing the goats in that zoo.
Or both. The options are not mutually exclusive.
:)
When they learn to push each other in front of moving cars to get more roadkills to eat I will be very afraid. It will be a small step from here to start pushing other species (like humans) in front of moving cars to produce nice meat to eat.
Don't worry. Due to changes in history Skynet won't be implemented until April 19, 2011. But it will start attack on humanity two days after that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(fictional)
I remember reading somewhere that they have quite advanced learning mechanisms. It is enough that one of them gets hit by a car and the rest who saw the incident know not to get hit by cars.
We have this in Finland, too, but it is not against the law to call people on the list. Companies that belong to Finnish Direct Marketing Association have agreed to not call people on the list. This brings a new market to companies that don't belong to the association, so the list doesn't really help here. :(
And if you search his name in Wikipedia you have to read about 2 lines to see what country he is from.
No, not that I know of, but I think it had to be mentioned.
In the jogging game it's in several places around the island.
Wii Fit has Mario in it. :)
Wouldn't say starring, though.
We had a storage room in the basement of an apartment that I used to live in where there was a cage for each apartment. If you put something there, it was pretty certain it would be stolen the next day. I stored a 15" CRT monitor in my locked cage in a cardboard box. A week later the monitor was still there, but the cardboard box had been stolen.
Undo moderation..
One thing I remember is missing from the iPhone is the ability to transfer files with bluetooth between the phone and more than 1 computer. I use my E51 often to transfer files between computers and physical locations. No wires thank you.
One advantage in Vista over XP in some environments is that with Vista you can at last have two users logged in when the machine is connected to a domain. This is useful for example in a hospital environment where the users outnumber computers and it is not necessary to log another user out to do something.
They don't need to do so. I run Vista on a HP G7061eo laptop that cost EUR599 that has a dual core pentium, 2G memory and it is fast enough that I don't notice it. Actually a lot faster than XP on the pentium with 1G memory on the Lenovo R52 I'm writing this on.
It is in fact difficult already here to get a machine with less than 2G memory preinstalled (desktops without a display start at less than EUR300 incl. 22% VAT) and they run Vista fast enough.
Post SP1 the UAC is also bearable and as a matter of fact I like it compared to XP where I had to "run as" or login as administrator to install things. In normal day-to-day use it doesn't nag about things, only when I want to install or change something.
Can you actually get a Wii without Wii Sports?
Where I live the console is only sold as a Wii Sports Pack, which includes Wii Sports (for EUR 249)
And in Finland 'orkku' is a slang word for orgasm, plural of which is 'orkut'. And amazingly we are a Facebook-nation anyway.
I have no facts about Brazil or India, but the above about Finnish is an actual fact.
Many OSS software would benefit a lot on simple heuristic evaluation, which can be very low cost. Don't even need to read hundreds of pages of UI guidelines. Just a few people walking through common tasks and evaluating the UI based on Nielsen's heuristics. And I know there are other heuristics, but I think the Nielsen's heuristics are a good starting point. This won't make things perfect, but can point out fundamental problems.
Of course the problem still is that when the code is done and it works for the coder who pretty much knows what (s)he was thinking when writing it, finding a motivation to do this might be difficult.
Well, you did bring out the browser, too. My reply was mainly to the "There are several ways for a browser to determine the file type, and I don't think the file extension is the primary way." -part.
I think this said vulnerability has to be looked a bit from both perspectives (server and client). If a server sends a jar-file with a correct mime-type that is requested by the client because an img-tag referred to the URL, does the client really run the java-code? I think the client should be programmed to discard anything except image/* -types for img-tags. If the jar-file is sent using image/gif or image/jpg, the client should display a broken image. Of course the situation is different, when the jar-file is not referenced by an img-tag. If the server sends a jar-file with any extension and says it is a jar-file, the client must according to the RFC treat it as a jar-file.
Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body "SHOULD include a Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD treat it as type "application/octet-stream"."
(http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html#sec7.2.1)
So what the RFC says is basically that if Content-Type is given by the server, the client must not try to guess any different.
I don't know about the situation at the moment, but when I did web work (the last time was about 3 years ago), it was only IE that didn't care about Content-Type headers. Firefox didn't try to guess at least on text/plain and application/octet-stream.
Didn't try to send jar's as gif's, though. Didn't try to rename jar as a gif and see what Apache sent, either.
But the point is that if the browser guesses Content-Type other than is provided by the server, the browser is broken.
What kind of work is it that DRM prevents you from doing? This is actually a serious question, because I haven't stumbled on any DRM-related problems with Vista in either home use or work use.
Our in-house 2nd level support has called MS tech support many times on issues with their software and MS has helped on many issues and even provided patches that are not publicly available.
My name is also out there for many reasons and I tried to search it. The first result was a page that had C64-demos by me from 1988 and 1989. In Google's results the site comes up on page 18 and the first results are things I've been doing recently.
I thank Cuil for the extremely nostalgic experience, but I feel Google's results are more relevant, especially if someone else is trying to find me.
Use firefox -profilemanager and surf your pr0n with a different profile. If only there was a way to start two instances of firefox with different profiles..
I hated the new bar in FF3 at first. I had some patterns using the address bar in FF2, which, at first didn't bring the correct results, but I decided to stick with FF3 anyway. I noticed soon, that at first I had to type 2 or maybe 3 letters for sites that I frequently visit and after choosing the desired URL a couple of times, it starts to appear at the top after just 1 letter. So it learned to behave (for me) like the address bar in FF2.
>> #3 - Find a local swimming pool, a strap on, a pair of rollerblades, get a bicycle.
>This is a real ultimate workout. Riding a bike with rollerblades on while at the bottom of the pool. Man you are hardcore to the MAXtreme!
And while wearing a strap on!