I remember reading that they took cats they found on the street and trained them. Only thing was they had to figure out what the cat wanted to do instead of teaching them some random trick, because that wouldn't work.
In the computer game Ripper, the player investigates a murder and discovers a link to a bunch of people playing a virtual reality game. So there's already a game about a game which gets people killed. I guess computers at the time were not powerful enough to power the virtual reality game itself, so they had to make a game about the game. Ripper also had that Blue Oyster Cult song as part of the soundtrack and Christopher Walken starred in it, so it had lots of cowbell in addition the pre-rendered graphics.
My employer pays for my broadband at home and have provided me with a cell phone that I can use for personal calls as well as business calls. For this I must pay an extra 2-3000 NOK (3-400 USD) in taxes per year.
I use SAP every day, and I understand why they don't describe it on their web site in plain text. They should consider burning their source code, not opening it up.
I can see why you would want this because of Twitter, but I agree with everyone here who say that site owners should work on shortening the actual URLs as well.
A good CMS should encourage URLs like www.somesite.com/foo/bar/ instead of www.somesite.com/category.pl?id=12345
- It's easier to remember/foo/bar/
But a lot of visits these days come from search engines, which makes the URL less important.
- For those visitors who pay attention to the URL it can aid with navigation.
At least if your site is very well structured and your visitors agree with that structure.
- It's good for SEO
But as someone else wrote in a comment here, a really long URL with lots of keywords can be good for SEO but bad for the user at the same time.
- A meaningful URL will show up when you're typing in the address bar in modern browser
Helpful as long as you're not always using Google to revisit sites.
Lately I've grown fond of URLs like www.somesite.com/foo/bar/article-title-goes-here.html?id=6789 for a specific article. The id=6789 is there to make sure the article can be found even if the title is changed.
Anyway, there is a lot of work that could be done to shorten URLs and make them more readable for humans.
Suggestion for this Slashdot entry: http:///..org/09/04/12/1834205
What are the statistical chances of Nimoy being present when any film, let alone a Star Trek film, let alone on the day before release of a new Star Trek film, bursts into flames in the projector and they happen to have the whole new film ready to go rather than only 10 minutes of it?
I think there was a TNG episode where this happened.
Interesting point, but luckily, NRK does not decide the rules.
Now that the migration to DVB-T is almost complete and the analogue broadcast stops December 1st, people who do not have a DVB-T decoder and no other way of watching TV don't have to pay.
Before the transition, around 1/3 of the population were watching the analogue broadcasts, the rest used cable or satellite. So if you're still watching analogue broadcasts (or nothing at all if it has already been closed were you live) and have no intention of getting a decoder, you'll soon be in the clear.
Sadly, the article has been overwritten by Danish, so it's extremely time-consuming to recover any information from it unless you can read the language already.
Searching might work for you when searching your own e-mail/files, but it's difficult for other people to search your data and get the same results. The end result in my experience is that you end up finding interesting stuff, but not the right stuff.
With Mac OS X Leopard, you can search a network share for filenames/metadata/contents and get the results very quickly. With a huge file archive, it's mostly useful for finding stuff you didn't know you were looking for.
Folders/tagging makes it possible for one person to arrange information and share that information with other people more easily.
For instance, a new employee can get a folder of e-mails and be told that "this is all relevant information related to project yadiyada". I just don't see how that employee would be able to search through thousands of e-mails and get up to speed as quickly as they would compared to just being handed a organized list of e-mails.
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You're right. At least in Soviet Russia it can be done.
I remember reading that they took cats they found on the street and trained them. Only thing was they had to figure out what the cat wanted to do instead of teaching them some random trick, because that wouldn't work.
When I grew up, we didn't even have calculators to teach us programming. One person would say to another:
10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
and then force the other guy to run the code.
In the computer game Ripper, the player investigates a murder and discovers a link to a bunch of people playing a virtual reality game. So there's already a game about a game which gets people killed. I guess computers at the time were not powerful enough to power the virtual reality game itself, so they had to make a game about the game. Ripper also had that Blue Oyster Cult song as part of the soundtrack and Christopher Walken starred in it, so it had lots of cowbell in addition the pre-rendered graphics.
My employer pays for my broadband at home and have provided me with a cell phone that I can use for personal calls as well as business calls. For this I must pay an extra 2-3000 NOK (3-400 USD) in taxes per year.
I use SAP every day, and I understand why they don't describe it on their web site in plain text. They should consider burning their source code, not opening it up.
Quality and creativity cant be replaced with marketing and budget.
I was at AoC's launch party. It had free food, free drinks and dancing women in cages, and I think the game is great!
Actually, you'll want to have some obscure variable name to make it less obvious.
Like isDancer?
I can see why you would want this because of Twitter, but I agree with everyone here who say that site owners should work on shortening the actual URLs as well.
/foo/bar/
A good CMS should encourage URLs like www.somesite.com/foo/bar/ instead of www.somesite.com/category.pl?id=12345
- It's easier to remember
But a lot of visits these days come from search engines, which makes the URL less important.
- For those visitors who pay attention to the URL it can aid with navigation.
At least if your site is very well structured and your visitors agree with that structure.
- It's good for SEO
But as someone else wrote in a comment here, a really long URL with lots of keywords can be good for SEO but bad for the user at the same time.
- A meaningful URL will show up when you're typing in the address bar in modern browser
Helpful as long as you're not always using Google to revisit sites.
Lately I've grown fond of URLs like www.somesite.com/foo/bar/article-title-goes-here.html?id=6789 for a specific article. The id=6789 is there to make sure the article can be found even if the title is changed.
Anyway, there is a lot of work that could be done to shorten URLs and make them more readable for humans.
Suggestion for this Slashdot entry: http:///..org/09/04/12/1834205
What are the statistical chances of Nimoy being present when any film, let alone a Star Trek film, let alone on the day before release of a new Star Trek film, bursts into flames in the projector and they happen to have the whole new film ready to go rather than only 10 minutes of it?
I think there was a TNG episode where this happened.
What future? There is none!
The Simpsons
Interesting point, but luckily, NRK does not decide the rules.
Now that the migration to DVB-T is almost complete and the analogue broadcast stops December 1st, people who do not have a DVB-T decoder and no other way of watching TV don't have to pay.
Before the transition, around 1/3 of the population were watching the analogue broadcasts, the rest used cable or satellite. So if you're still watching analogue broadcasts (or nothing at all if it has already been closed were you live) and have no intention of getting a decoder, you'll soon be in the clear.
Correction--Rich people are rich because they earn a lot more than they spend.
Yes, but only in Soviet Russia.
This is correct - a nuclear missile submarine's whole purpose is to hide.
Then why do we build them? I bet it's a lot easier to hide a nonexistent submarine.
Yes, and it comes bundled with the iPod Touch of Death.
What? No flux capacitor?
Valve support recommended the same some 8 years back when my copy of Half-Life: Opposing Force was missing a digit of the serial number.
I think you forgot something between step #2 and #3, but I'm not sure what...
TFA is slashdotted, but a little googling shows this happened two years ago.
Good news everyone! /. sets a new efficiency record of its own!
OS X will still cache the DNS results even if Safari is running in its private mode. In OS X 10.4 and below, you need to run
lookupd -flushcache
in Terminal to delete those entries.
In 10.5 you need to run
dscacheutil -flushcache
to achieve the same.
Here's an article on recovery of overwritten data. Ibas' "recovery expert" Henrik Andersen states that if the data has been overwritten, it's gone.
Ibas is a Nordic data reconstruction company. They're not a super-secret intelligence agency, but I would assume they know what they're talking about.
http://www.version2.dk/artikel/3521
Sadly, the article has been overwritten by Danish, so it's extremely time-consuming to recover any information from it unless you can read the language already.
Once you hit 20K RPM, the platters stay put while the universe is spinning.
Searching might work for you when searching your own e-mail/files, but it's difficult for other people to search your data and get the same results. The end result in my experience is that you end up finding interesting stuff, but not the right stuff. With Mac OS X Leopard, you can search a network share for filenames/metadata/contents and get the results very quickly. With a huge file archive, it's mostly useful for finding stuff you didn't know you were looking for. Folders/tagging makes it possible for one person to arrange information and share that information with other people more easily. For instance, a new employee can get a folder of e-mails and be told that "this is all relevant information related to project yadiyada". I just don't see how that employee would be able to search through thousands of e-mails and get up to speed as quickly as they would compared to just being handed a organized list of e-mails.
Sarkozy is a filesharer?
If it doesn't happen, will we get an apology for misleading us?
Nope. We'll get a dupe.