Linking to facts may prove difficult, as it was recently on an A&E Special I watched entitled Modern Marvels: The Autobahn.
I did find a link to it here (in VHS format), which tells me that it MIGHT not be as current information as I understood it to be when I watched it, but they definitely made the claim.
For all the copycatting Eisenhower did to establish our highway system, they sure did get a lot of things wrong. Looking at today's Autobahn is a wonderous thing comparatively.
An interesting factor in difference between our highway and Germany's autobahn is the 'curviness' of the road. The Germans wanted their highway to curve with the natural landscape, and be created with a minimal of environmental destruction, which we thought was stupid. As a result, we built straighter roads, blasting through mountains and paving over forests where necessary. The result of course, was highway hypnosis, which contributes to the higher death toll and accident count on U.S. highways.
And conversely, who's going to pay $27 for a 3 hour short trip when you can't even use it during takeoff or landing. It seems like they ought to bundle it into the cost of first class / business class tickets, or adjust its cost by flight duration.
$27 for the 3-4 hour trips I usually take just doesn't seem worthwhile when most of it is wasted "returning my seatback to its upright position."
And if they don't understand the CSS, they'll ignore it, which typically means that (assuming correct CSS), it saves time by not downloading useless crap that their browser can't use anyway.
Perhaps then, you should have specified the word 'own' instead of the word 'use'. You clearly USE the Win2k server that your personal site is hosted on, whether or not you own it.
Don't know about you, but it seems like the sort of thing that could result in disaster.
[Bullshit physics mode]We mine the planet for all its usable/obtainable metals, reducing it by, say, a third of its size. Mass/Density ratios are thrown off, and its orbit is ever so slightly altered, causing an eventual collision course with either its home star or another planet, which we'll call "Planet 2". (Any suitable astral body would do, but we'll assume it crashes into another planet.)
We later determine that Planet 2 contained peaceful, intelligent life, as well as space-faring technology, which they used to travel to other intelligent planets we've yet to discover.
Enter Planet 3, a planet inhabited by an intelligent, but warmongering race of aliens. These aliens used to reside on Planet 2, but seceded from Planet 2 for religious reasons, much aking to the initial settlement of America. Though times are still rocky between planets 2 and 3, things have cooled off considerably between the two as terrorist acts have declined, and travelling restrictions have been lifted between them.
Ack'bertha, an inhabitant of Planet 3, launches her shuttle to Planet 2 to visit her family, which she hasn't seen in many years, only to find Planet 2 completely demolished.
Eventually, it is discovered that some insolent planet, pronounced as Earth in a foriegn tongue, is the root cause of the deaths of Planet 3's many relatives, and an interplanetary Justice League dwarfing the Lantern Corps is called in to mediate, at which time language barriers become all too apparent, and war is declared.[/bullshit physics]
My guess is that it either has to do with reused accounts, or common account names. If I were a spammer, you're damn tooting sure I'd try "JohnSmith@aol.com".
As AOL is the largest ISP, they're more likely to have common names. Heck, I'd be willing to say that most addresses would work if you just stuck an aol.com on the end of it.
It would be an interesting experiment to farm a bunch of legitimate email addresses, stip off the domain and replace them with @aol.com. Then, mail something to the list and see how many delivery failures you get back. I'm betting it'd be a small percentage, depending on the sampling of course.
Actually, he should have the same percentage chance of having the ace in his hand no matter what cards show on the flop, which is approximately 3.2%, assuming a full table was dealt cards.
With 52 cards in the deck, the percentage of a person having any one card is 1/52, unless adjusted by the cards in your hand, or shown on the flop, that does not change. If you're supposing he has the Ace of spades, and the ace of spades flops, then he has a 0/52 chance of holding it, but still a 1/52 chance for any other single card.
If the poisoned pages are only findable from robots.txt, then if they ignore robots.txt, they won't be punished.
If they're findable via links, or whatnot, then you're punishing more than the robots (that means your users). We typically frown on people (**AA) that do that sort of thing, yes?
Yes and no, but officially you're probably right, and I knew that. What I was attempting to say, and got caught up in the saying of it, was that when used for horizontal proportion, your pages scale perfectly no matter what size they're set to.
That's not necessarily something that should be fixed at the browser level. From a coding perspective, I've gotten into the habit of specifying horizontal margins and padding in ems, which is a relative unit of measure (horizontal) based on font size. Because of that, a simple document can scale perfectly regardless of text size.
If I specify a column's boundary at 150px, it isn't the browser's job to correct for it, other than to wrap the text when it gets too big.
Long story short, your complaint is with web designers, not with Firefox.
I'm sure this is little more than a glib remark, but you might have noted that he specifically mentioned the platforms are Windows 2000 and Windows 2003, which, in default install lack grep, as well as manpages.
I too have made the same statement (to my wife no less) before, and also do not read PvP. Perhaps it's not so much a joke as it is... REAL LIFE?!?!? OMG.
And the reason I can see that failing is because I guarantee that one out of every 20 people is paying for the rush ordering process, expedited delivery, etc., just so they can have their new machine as soon as possible.
Perhaps their old one died, and they need a replacement pronto, or perhaps it's a present for someone, or perhaps they're even temporarily staying at a hotel room or business suite... whatever the case, those unannounced delays would undoubtedly cost Apple (or its distributors) lots of money that they just don't need to pay.
I think that the real point is that they actually expect people, in search of computer hardware and software, to go to google and search for "Tiger". WTF? That's the LAST thing I'd expect people to search on.
Jesus Christ. Not only was it mentioned already, but it was mentioned in the fricking summary of the article, in which the requestor specifically stated that it was not for him.
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Linking to facts may prove difficult, as it was recently on an A&E Special I watched entitled Modern Marvels: The Autobahn.
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I did find a link to it here (in VHS format), which tells me that it MIGHT not be as current information as I understood it to be when I watched it, but they definitely made the claim.
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id
For all the copycatting Eisenhower did to establish our highway system, they sure did get a lot of things wrong. Looking at today's Autobahn is a wonderous thing comparatively.
An interesting factor in difference between our highway and Germany's autobahn is the 'curviness' of the road. The Germans wanted their highway to curve with the natural landscape, and be created with a minimal of environmental destruction, which we thought was stupid. As a result, we built straighter roads, blasting through mountains and paving over forests where necessary. The result of course, was highway hypnosis, which contributes to the higher death toll and accident count on U.S. highways.
And conversely, who's going to pay $27 for a 3 hour short trip when you can't even use it during takeoff or landing. It seems like they ought to bundle it into the cost of first class / business class tickets, or adjust its cost by flight duration.
$27 for the 3-4 hour trips I usually take just doesn't seem worthwhile when most of it is wasted "returning my seatback to its upright position."
And if they don't understand the CSS, they'll ignore it, which typically means that (assuming correct CSS), it saves time by not downloading useless crap that their browser can't use anyway.
If you really owned it, would you have to keep paying Gandi each year to make sure that you _still_ own it?
You forgot AJAX and DOM-model manipulation, which can be made, with relative ease, to work in modern browsers across all platforms.
I'm just guessing here, but I think I'd prefer the bottled kind, without dead people, chemicals, and everybody else floating in it.
Perhaps then, you should have specified the word 'own' instead of the word 'use'. You clearly USE the Win2k server that your personal site is hosted on, whether or not you own it.
So you're saying that it did recognize your USB?
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I think you meant "then" instead of "than". Also, you'd do well to include some additional punctuation.
For future reference, you might want to consider your own grammar before correcting that of others.
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Don't know about you, but it seems like the sort of thing that could result in disaster.
[Bullshit physics mode]We mine the planet for all its usable/obtainable metals, reducing it by, say, a third of its size. Mass/Density ratios are thrown off, and its orbit is ever so slightly altered, causing an eventual collision course with either its home star or another planet, which we'll call "Planet 2". (Any suitable astral body would do, but we'll assume it crashes into another planet.)
We later determine that Planet 2 contained peaceful, intelligent life, as well as space-faring technology, which they used to travel to other intelligent planets we've yet to discover.
Enter Planet 3, a planet inhabited by an intelligent, but warmongering race of aliens. These aliens used to reside on Planet 2, but seceded from Planet 2 for religious reasons, much aking to the initial settlement of America. Though times are still rocky between planets 2 and 3, things have cooled off considerably between the two as terrorist acts have declined, and travelling restrictions have been lifted between them.
Ack'bertha, an inhabitant of Planet 3, launches her shuttle to Planet 2 to visit her family, which she hasn't seen in many years, only to find Planet 2 completely demolished.
Eventually, it is discovered that some insolent planet, pronounced as Earth in a foriegn tongue, is the root cause of the deaths of Planet 3's many relatives, and an interplanetary Justice League dwarfing the Lantern Corps is called in to mediate, at which time language barriers become all too apparent, and war is declared.[/bullshit physics]
If it isn't, Ubuntu definitely is.
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You're thinking of either "A Bug's Life", or "Antz", and I'm leaning toward Bug's Life, since I can't remember Antz.
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My guess is that it either has to do with reused accounts, or common account names. If I were a spammer, you're damn tooting sure I'd try "JohnSmith@aol.com".
As AOL is the largest ISP, they're more likely to have common names. Heck, I'd be willing to say that most addresses would work if you just stuck an aol.com on the end of it.
It would be an interesting experiment to farm a bunch of legitimate email addresses, stip off the domain and replace them with @aol.com. Then, mail something to the list and see how many delivery failures you get back. I'm betting it'd be a small percentage, depending on the sampling of course.
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In Andrew Vachss' "Batman: The Ultimate Evil" ( Link), the Batmobile was described very similarly to what is currently being shown on-screen.
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Actually, he should have the same percentage chance of having the ace in his hand no matter what cards show on the flop, which is approximately 3.2%, assuming a full table was dealt cards.
With 52 cards in the deck, the percentage of a person having any one card is 1/52, unless adjusted by the cards in your hand, or shown on the flop, that does not change. If you're supposing he has the Ace of spades, and the ace of spades flops, then he has a 0/52 chance of holding it, but still a 1/52 chance for any other single card.
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I think that you're overlooking the point.
If the poisoned pages are only findable from robots.txt, then if they ignore robots.txt, they won't be punished.
If they're findable via links, or whatnot, then you're punishing more than the robots (that means your users). We typically frown on people (**AA) that do that sort of thing, yes?
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Yes and no, but officially you're probably right, and I knew that. What I was attempting to say, and got caught up in the saying of it, was that when used for horizontal proportion, your pages scale perfectly no matter what size they're set to.
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That's not necessarily something that should be fixed at the browser level. From a coding perspective, I've gotten into the habit of specifying horizontal margins and padding in ems, which is a relative unit of measure (horizontal) based on font size. Because of that, a simple document can scale perfectly regardless of text size.
If I specify a column's boundary at 150px, it isn't the browser's job to correct for it, other than to wrap the text when it gets too big.
Long story short, your complaint is with web designers, not with Firefox.
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I'm sure this is little more than a glib remark, but you might have noted that he specifically mentioned the platforms are Windows 2000 and Windows 2003, which, in default install lack grep, as well as manpages.
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I too have made the same statement (to my wife no less) before, and also do not read PvP. Perhaps it's not so much a joke as it is ... REAL LIFE?!?!? OMG.
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I think most people will "get it", but wonder how it relates to the current thread, or how anyone might consider it funny.
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And the reason I can see that failing is because I guarantee that one out of every 20 people is paying for the rush ordering process, expedited delivery, etc., just so they can have their new machine as soon as possible.
Perhaps their old one died, and they need a replacement pronto, or perhaps it's a present for someone, or perhaps they're even temporarily staying at a hotel room or business suite... whatever the case, those unannounced delays would undoubtedly cost Apple (or its distributors) lots of money that they just don't need to pay.
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I think that the real point is that they actually expect people, in search of computer hardware and software, to go to google and search for "Tiger". WTF? That's the LAST thing I'd expect people to search on.
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Jesus Christ. Not only was it mentioned already, but it was mentioned in the fricking summary of the article, in which the requestor specifically stated that it was not for him.
*sigh*
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