Any professional pornographer has a mouse with a middle button so he can middle-click the link to open it in a new tab. Do you realize Control-Click requires both hands?
Neither Windows CE nor the previous OS were imposed by the government. Those were choices made by the bidding companies, based upon the requirements. There were other choices, but CE was considered a good choice since the source code was available to the developers (oh no!) and it could handle the graphic needs with less coding.
I also think your take on Unicamp and USP is too harsh. There are world-class experts in any one of those two and in many more places in Brazil.
The post you are commenting also made another mistake: the TSE does not design the machine, they just write the hardware and software specification.
Nevertheless, the real problem is really the lack of an independent audit. I belive the general public software illiteracy allowed the Court to get away with it. But it is changing, as more Representatives are listening to technical concerns.
The Department of Web Browser Backtracking and Forwarding Studies has no open positions at this time. Leave your resume and phone number at the receptionist desk and we will let you know when an opportunity for re-applying arrises.
Are we now losing energy at every interaction? Are duplicates suffering entropic information loss? I am just asking this because last year this same story was much better.
a) Canada Rising: 500 years from now the Canadians are all that is left from humanity. The English tribe must destroy the French tribe. Both parties have psychological weapons in the form of squads bad female teenager singers capable of destroying the enemy troops morale.
b) Maori Revenge: The secret Maori army, developed for centuries disguised as a rugby team, has taken New Zealand and now are on the way to Australia. As the Maori leader your mission is to free Australia from all white people.
c) Antarctica: The war for clean water reachs its finnal stage: The joint Israeli-Saudi Arabia army face the South American forces for the last untapped water resources.
d) The Fourth World War, Einstein version: armed with sticks and stones, Americans, Chinese and Russians fight for World domination.
Those 4% of normality are on the other side of the Universe, to the left and a bit bellow the oldest quasars. We are deep into the utter nonsense zone. But if you are smart you would have guessed that by now.
I will give you a "structured document browser". Its name was Gopher and it was the structured document browser" before fancy graphics and godammed blinking text took the servers by storm. Will you have a coke with that prior art, sir?
Next time we hope you fare better. The game is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Some quotes from the first few paragraphs: "I confine myself to problems that a programmer is very likely to have to face in her work." "Even if she is perfect, she is surrounded by..."
Considering that the female to male ratio in this business is something close to 1 to 100 and that some of us can still work many years in the field without ever meeting a female programmer, I found that somewhat amusing. But I guess it gets boring pretty quick, reading he talk about a generic "she" no one will ever meet...
Isn't it funny to read the words "You can download it here" in Slashdot's Front Page, when we all know you can count in the fingers of one hand the number of instances of "here" capable of surviving the honor?
Her boss will find it much better that she can't use company time to play "Hoyle Card Games", organise her pictures and manage her finances.
On the other hand, not having to pay for the next Windows and the next Office on your wife's workstation may really call her boss attention.
Nobody is talking about personal machines. Those will follow in some years, with the growing demand by corporate users to have exactly the same tools at home.
Since programming while whirling is very hard to do without felling very seasick, few Dervishes ever manage to become good coders. So, Derviative works worth the trouble are rare and far apart.
Before this gets even more ridiculous, let me propose here that someone develop a generalized shopping cart system. The number of carts is undetermined, the cards may have names, numbers, colours and smells and a cart is filled with a configurable (0-n) number of mouse clicks. Or with a gesture. Or pressing one or more keys. Or whistling in the microphone.
Else in 5 years we will still be seeing "Amazon Seeks '10-Click, three Jumps and a Crtl-F' Shopping Cart Patent" headlines here.
From the so-called review (actually, from the introductory text, the rest of it looks like a marketing text) I guess this is Snow Crash II, the CyberSex Wars.
In the first week after it goes online some kid will manage get a root shell, install Apache and leave a page stating that "IN SOVIET RUSSIA, DEEP SPACE PROBES YOU"...
I still have Wolf3D installed and I play it now and then. The graphics are obviously lousy compared to newer games, but it still feels good. "I am Death Incarnate" using just a gun in any night mission is still a hell of a good game.:)
The premium content is classified into categories: at the bottom the standard 15" monitor crowds get just one or two whole articles a week plus a constant pitch to upgrade the available real-state for adds. Only the people with monitors above 24" get the whole content.
Low-life visitors with 14" monitors get whole-page adds for the right of seeing the "free" content plus the premium headlines in their cheap monitors. And large pop-ups at every page views reminding them that 14" monitor support will be discontinued soon.
Now, it would not be the first time a major discovery is treated as an "experimental error" for years. A function that manages to consistently analise and display a given chunck of data in an illogical order regardless of the data previous ordering would be a major advancement in Artificial Intelligence. I hope someone knowledgeable looks deeper into this matter before it is forgotten...
Observing first your elections then the present state of your government from this far land beneath the trees, I was left with some impressions:
a) Gore is far more educated than Bush, yet far dumber. How little backbone one must have to bow the way he did to conservative media and movers and throw away his last, best chance to win, namely the extremely charming, intelligent and popular president Clinton?
b) From right and left (or Republican and Democrat) does not follow tough and soft. During the last century most American wars were fought by Democrat presidents.
c) Hilary C. looks far tougher than both Bush and Gore. That would kill many rabbits at the same time: a woman, a wife who managed to keep a publicly difficult marriage, someone who could truthfully promisse to keep (or restore) internal freedoms and make war to terrorists. I think this scenario is pretty strong.
d) A sitting president won't lose an election if there is a war abroad. So all Bush has to do, and he has plenty of opportunity, is to produce a major war or crisis (Iraq, Sysria, Iran, Korea etc) near the elections.
Who, short of you, is talking about justice and vigilantism?
The guy is receiving nice, legal, commercial offers someone thought he might be interested in. If he doesn't want them, he may well opt-out. It is a very simple process, all he have to do is write or call the senders to be immediately removed from their lists.
And I might also remember you that there are no laws regulating spam, so we are basically talking about a guy who insist on being un-civilised for the sake of a (millions of) buck. If he can be so unpolite as to send me (and millions of people more) hundreds of unsolicited emails a week, why should everyone be nice and treat him as if he was just a regular Joe working hard to make ends meet?
Well, he is not. He belongs to a class of people you won't be inviting over for dinner nor letting your daughter date. He has no clue about online etiquette, nor he want to have.
Your comparison with the RIAA situation is also out of line. RIAA was asking to be exempt from some very severe and important laws. This guy does nothing illegal. Also, nothing illegal was done to him.
As long as the law is concerned, no one was hurt. This is exactly how it should be: he does nothing to hurt us (by sending spam) and we (the whole body of the Internet) do nothing to hurt him (by sending him nice commercial offers through regular mail).
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Any professional pornographer has a mouse with a middle button so he can middle-click the link to open it in a new tab. Do you realize Control-Click requires both hands?
Neither Windows CE nor the previous OS were imposed by the government. Those were choices made by the bidding companies, based upon the requirements. There were other choices, but CE was considered a good choice since the source code was available to the developers (oh no!) and it could handle the graphic needs with less coding.
I also think your take on Unicamp and USP is too harsh. There are world-class experts in any one of those two and in many more places in Brazil.
The post you are commenting also made another mistake: the TSE does not design the machine, they just write the hardware and software specification.
Nevertheless, the real problem is really the lack of an independent audit. I belive the general public software illiteracy allowed the Court to get away with it. But it is changing, as more Representatives are listening to technical concerns.
The Department of Web Browser Backtracking and Forwarding Studies has no open positions at this time. Leave your resume and phone number at the receptionist desk and we will let you know when an opportunity for re-applying arrises.
You keep hitting back in OpenOffice and end up in vi. You hit back too much in Chatzilla and find yourself in talk.
You backtrack in VisualAge for Java and end up in Simula. Keep going and your code become FORTRAN.
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Are we now losing energy at every interaction? Are duplicates suffering entropic information loss? I am just asking this because last year this same story was much better.
a) Canada Rising: 500 years from now the Canadians are all that is left from humanity. The English tribe must destroy the French tribe. Both parties have psychological weapons in the form of squads bad female teenager singers capable of destroying the enemy troops morale.
b) Maori Revenge: The secret Maori army, developed for centuries disguised as a rugby team, has taken New Zealand and now are on the way to Australia. As the Maori leader your mission is to free Australia from all white people.
c) Antarctica: The war for clean water reachs its finnal stage: The joint Israeli-Saudi Arabia army face the South American forces for the last untapped water resources.
d) The Fourth World War, Einstein version: armed with sticks and stones, Americans, Chinese and Russians fight for World domination.
Those 4% of normality are on the other side of the Universe, to the left and a bit bellow the oldest quasars. We are deep into the utter nonsense zone. But if you are smart you would have guessed that by now.
I will give you a "structured document browser". Its name was Gopher and it was the structured document browser" before fancy graphics and godammed blinking text took the servers by storm. Will you have a coke with that prior art, sir?
Next time we hope you fare better. The game is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Some quotes from the first few paragraphs:
"I confine myself to problems that a programmer is very likely to have to face in her work."
"Even if she is perfect, she is surrounded by..."
Considering that the female to male ratio in this business is something close to 1 to 100 and that some of us can still work many years in the field without ever meeting a female programmer, I found that somewhat amusing. But I guess it gets boring pretty quick, reading he talk about a generic "she" no one will ever meet...
He is being paid for having the original idea of Slashdot years ago.
Isn't it funny to read the words "You can download it here" in Slashdot's Front Page, when we all know you can count in the fingers of one hand the number of instances of "here" capable of surviving the honor?
Her boss will find it much better that she can't use company time to play "Hoyle Card Games", organise her pictures and manage her finances.
On the other hand, not having to pay for the next Windows and the next Office on your wife's workstation may really call her boss attention.
Nobody is talking about personal machines. Those will follow in some years, with the growing demand by corporate users to have exactly the same tools at home.
Since programming while whirling is very hard to do without felling very seasick, few Dervishes ever manage to become good coders. So, Derviative works worth the trouble are rare and far apart.
Before this gets even more ridiculous, let me propose here that someone develop a generalized shopping cart system. The number of carts is undetermined, the cards may have names, numbers, colours and smells and a cart is filled with a configurable (0-n) number of mouse clicks. Or with a gesture. Or pressing one or more keys. Or whistling in the microphone.
Else in 5 years we will still be seeing "Amazon Seeks '10-Click, three Jumps and a Crtl-F' Shopping Cart Patent" headlines here.
From the so-called review (actually, from the introductory text, the rest of it looks like a marketing text) I guess this is Snow Crash II, the CyberSex Wars.
I think I prefer Stephenson.
In the first week after it goes online some kid will manage get a root shell, install Apache and leave a page stating that "IN SOVIET RUSSIA, DEEP SPACE PROBES YOU"...
I still have Wolf3D installed and I play it now and then. The graphics are obviously lousy compared to newer games, but it still feels good. "I am Death Incarnate" using just a gun in any night mission is still a hell of a good game. :)
I guess I am getting old.
The premium content is classified into categories: at the bottom the standard 15" monitor crowds get just one or two whole articles a week plus a constant pitch to upgrade the available real-state for adds. Only the people with monitors above 24" get the whole content.
Low-life visitors with 14" monitors get whole-page adds for the right of seeing the "free" content plus the premium headlines in their cheap monitors. And large pop-ups at every page views reminding them that 14" monitor support will be discontinued soon.
From Phoenix 0.5 Release Notes - Known Issues:
"Folders in the history sidebar are presented in an illogical order."
Now, it would not be the first time a major discovery is treated as an "experimental error" for years. A function that manages to consistently analise and display a given chunck of data in an illogical order regardless of the data previous ordering would be a major advancement in Artificial Intelligence. I hope someone knowledgeable looks deeper into this matter before it is forgotten...
Observing first your elections then the present state of your government from this far land beneath the trees, I was left with some impressions:
a) Gore is far more educated than Bush, yet far dumber. How little backbone one must have to bow the way he did to conservative media and movers and throw away his last, best chance to win, namely the extremely charming, intelligent and popular president Clinton?
b) From right and left (or Republican and Democrat) does not follow tough and soft. During the last century most American wars were fought by Democrat presidents.
c) Hilary C. looks far tougher than both Bush and Gore. That would kill many rabbits at the same time: a woman, a wife who managed to keep a publicly difficult marriage, someone who could truthfully promisse to keep (or restore) internal freedoms and make war to terrorists. I think this scenario is pretty strong.
d) A sitting president won't lose an election if there is a war abroad. So all Bush has to do, and he has plenty of opportunity, is to produce a major war or crisis (Iraq, Sysria, Iran, Korea etc) near the elections.
Who, short of you, is talking about justice and vigilantism?
The guy is receiving nice, legal, commercial offers someone thought he might be interested in. If he doesn't want them, he may well opt-out. It is a very simple process, all he have to do is write or call the senders to be immediately removed from their lists.
And I might also remember you that there are no laws regulating spam, so we are basically talking about a guy who insist on being un-civilised for the sake of a (millions of) buck. If he can be so unpolite as to send me (and millions of people more) hundreds of unsolicited emails a week, why should everyone be nice and treat him as if he was just a regular Joe working hard to make ends meet?
Well, he is not. He belongs to a class of people you won't be inviting over for dinner nor letting your daughter date. He has no clue about online etiquette, nor he want to have.
Your comparison with the RIAA situation is also out of line. RIAA was asking to be exempt from some very severe and important laws. This guy does nothing illegal. Also, nothing illegal was done to him.
As long as the law is concerned, no one was hurt. This is exactly how it should be: he does nothing to hurt us (by sending spam) and we (the whole body of the Internet) do nothing to hurt him (by sending him nice commercial offers through regular mail).
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