Pi still contains local repetitions - after about 200,000 trees, you reach a tree that looks like a 3, then a 1, then a 4, then a 1, then a 5 then a 9 (but the next one is a 7.)
Identical repetition isn't that much of a problem compared to everything just looking kind of similar. Same sort of trees, same sort of hills, and so on.
Here are some excerpts from the notes I took when creating accounts for various places. None of them are for Slashdot:
"Registration truncated the password and then emailed it to me."
"The password form said to use 8 to 6 chars, but seems to accept 20."
"Not a valid password (must be 6-12 characters, contain at least one letter, at least one number and no punctuation, symbols or spaces)"
"Passwords can't exceed 16 characters and causes a 'system error' when it contains non-alphanumeric characters. All this shit just for *****. Is it worth it?" UPDATE: It wasn't.
"Kept throwing a strange error. It turns out it wanted to be alphanumeric."
"Please use letters and numbers only."
"Can't exceed 10 characters in password."
"Truncated the password to 13 characters and failed to accept the full password."
I was curious as to whether bi-annual would actually mean every two years. Apparently it can mean either, but semiannual and biennial specify six month and two year periods respectively. Amusingly to sad bastards like myself, this means both the regular and LTS releases are biannual.
Not with OpenID. Instead of friending people you just mutually enable each others OpenIDs and add a link back to their CMS for your convenience. Your own CMS could then aggregate all your friends' feeds. There could even be sites that host your CMS for you as is already done with blogs.
Instead of forcing everybody on to one social network site they'd all be inter-linked, with no need to keep moving every few years to stay on the same network as your friends.
Prison walls were never built from GPS devices in the first place, so how is not using GPS devices in your prison walls an idea? That's like "Building Cars Without Wheels Made of Dynamite".
I think the belief of entitlement is more for an offer that isn't deceptive. Nobody believes suing or other tactics would result in more bandwidth for free, but better regulations on advertising is a pretty realistic expectation.
An excellent rebuttal except for two minor points:
* GP is AC so we don't know who they are. * If we don't know who they are then we can't be sure they're not John Carmack. * John Carmack has developed plenty of stuff in OpenGL, and still favours it.
I know that's technically three points but I haven't achieved much with my life or written any 3D software, so I need the extra point in order for my opinion to count.
If your cat has a nuke, then its past data will also not apply. Also there are a lot more cats out there than terrorists: There are 64 million house cats in the US, which is more than the entire population of humans in Iraq.
We already know that cats look at child pornography. Acquiring the materials to make a nuclear weapon is just the next step.
Access is important. Owning, sharing, borrowing from a library are all means to access.
DRM is about controlling access, which is what we worry about. Will we be able to look something up from this book later on? Can we hear the tune we like again? Will that be possible? Will it drain all our spare money away just to remember things we like?
I did the scripts because I found that I always had one workspace empty - a blank desktop - so I made the script update things automatically so that there was always one empty desktop. However as you suspect I had trouble because previously I relied on the spatial layout of the workspaces. I used Ctrl-Alt-Left/Right to move through them in a horizontal row (because then they're not too small on a small panel).
I think dynamic workspace creation could work provided they remember their position or order. If there was a means of telling what task a workspace was then they could be sorted primarily by task type, and you'd choose the order of task-types somewhere. Ultimately a task type would begin from a set of program launchers and shortcuts to documents and folders.
At the moment I'm using Gnome on Ubuntu 9.04, and I make use of workspaces quite a lot. I like that implementation most out of everything I've tried so far. I tried making a script to automatically create and remove workspaces but it seemed a bit clunky (which I think was mostly down to my implementation - it polled the output of 'wmctrl -l'), so now I just have several by default.
Yeah, plus spaces/workspaces offer the added benefit of being able to see multiple task-relevant windows at once. For example one to read from and the other to type into, or having multiple information displays at once.
What workspaces need though is the ability to create workspaces when you need them and destroy them when they're unneeded as opposed to having a fixed number of them, and possibly more refined or enhanced ways of identifying those spaces at a glance (without any further input needed).
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Not every story is about an imagined divide. Some have an imagined divide whereas others do not.
Let me follow that "let me google that for you" link and post the answer in the thread for you:
DC Universe Online
Pi still contains local repetitions - after about 200,000 trees, you reach a tree that looks like a 3, then a 1, then a 4, then a 1, then a 5 then a 9 (but the next one is a 7.)
Identical repetition isn't that much of a problem compared to everything just looking kind of similar. Same sort of trees, same sort of hills, and so on.
Here are some excerpts from the notes I took when creating accounts for various places. None of them are for Slashdot:
"Registration truncated the password and then emailed it to me."
"The password form said to use 8 to 6 chars, but seems to accept 20."
"Not a valid password (must be 6-12 characters, contain at least one letter, at least one number and no punctuation, symbols or spaces)"
"Passwords can't exceed 16 characters and causes a 'system error' when it contains non-alphanumeric characters. All this shit just for *****. Is it worth it?" UPDATE: It wasn't.
"Kept throwing a strange error. It turns out it wanted to be alphanumeric."
"Please use letters and numbers only."
"Can't exceed 10 characters in password."
"Truncated the password to 13 characters and failed to accept the full password."
I was curious as to whether bi-annual would actually mean every two years. Apparently it can mean either, but semiannual and biennial specify six month and two year periods respectively. Amusingly to sad bastards like myself, this means both the regular and LTS releases are biannual.
Not with OpenID. Instead of friending people you just mutually enable each others OpenIDs and add a link back to their CMS for your convenience. Your own CMS could then aggregate all your friends' feeds. There could even be sites that host your CMS for you as is already done with blogs.
Instead of forcing everybody on to one social network site they'd all be inter-linked, with no need to keep moving every few years to stay on the same network as your friends.
Prison walls were never built from GPS devices in the first place, so how is not using GPS devices in your prison walls an idea? That's like "Building Cars Without Wheels Made of Dynamite".
Also, whoosh in advance.
+5 Actually Good Car Analogy
I think I could work that out - how thick is the 2010 Los Angeles telephone directory in world's longest snakes?
Yes:
A proper haiku :(
Has to mention a season.
Nothing springs to mind
Smokers didn't change - non-smokers changed.
They changed smoking, from not being banned almost everywhere to being banned almost everywhere.
It was a humourous reply to the parent post:
I never knew doubleclicking an icon and clicking "Next" a few times was a complicated and difficult install process.
YOU srsarer stupids and idiot fuckhead shitface stupid dyumb dunbassw,k stupid cuntface.
It's also a good point - there are people who post like that in FPS gaming forums.
I think the belief of entitlement is more for an offer that isn't deceptive. Nobody believes suing or other tactics would result in more bandwidth for free, but better regulations on advertising is a pretty realistic expectation.
I was referring to:
12 million!? I would've thought 640 000 to be enough for anybody.
*ducks*
You don't have to pay for a copy of Firefox, so nobody's worried about an infringing copy phoning home.
(Speaking from experience, from when I was poorer and couldn't afford a couple of licenses.)
An excellent rebuttal except for two minor points:
* GP is AC so we don't know who they are.
* If we don't know who they are then we can't be sure they're not John Carmack.
* John Carmack has developed plenty of stuff in OpenGL, and still favours it.
I know that's technically three points but I haven't achieved much with my life or written any 3D software, so I need the extra point in order for my opinion to count.
People already figured that out. From the post you're replying to:
People are working on providing an alternative to the closed source adobe flash libraries
If you want faster flash right now then the buck stops right where you say it stops. Buy a faster computer.
If your cat has a nuke, then its past data will also not apply. Also there are a lot more cats out there than terrorists: There are 64 million house cats in the US, which is more than the entire population of humans in Iraq.
We already know that cats look at child pornography. Acquiring the materials to make a nuclear weapon is just the next step.
Access is important. Owning, sharing, borrowing from a library are all means to access.
DRM is about controlling access, which is what we worry about. Will we be able to look something up from this book later on? Can we hear the tune we like again? Will that be possible? Will it drain all our spare money away just to remember things we like?
I did the scripts because I found that I always had one workspace empty - a blank desktop - so I made the script update things automatically so that there was always one empty desktop. However as you suspect I had trouble because previously I relied on the spatial layout of the workspaces. I used Ctrl-Alt-Left/Right to move through them in a horizontal row (because then they're not too small on a small panel).
I think dynamic workspace creation could work provided they remember their position or order. If there was a means of telling what task a workspace was then they could be sorted primarily by task type, and you'd choose the order of task-types somewhere. Ultimately a task type would begin from a set of program launchers and shortcuts to documents and folders.
At the moment I'm using Gnome on Ubuntu 9.04, and I make use of workspaces quite a lot. I like that implementation most out of everything I've tried so far. I tried making a script to automatically create and remove workspaces but it seemed a bit clunky (which I think was mostly down to my implementation - it polled the output of 'wmctrl -l'), so now I just have several by default.
Yeah, plus spaces/workspaces offer the added benefit of being able to see multiple task-relevant windows at once. For example one to read from and the other to type into, or having multiple information displays at once.
What workspaces need though is the ability to create workspaces when you need them and destroy them when they're unneeded as opposed to having a fixed number of them, and possibly more refined or enhanced ways of identifying those spaces at a glance (without any further input needed).
THEY do! They're everywhere, clicking the links in the summaries on tech sites.
They could've called it Graham