You can actually "prove" 0/0 equals all real integers using a few lines of algebra. I've seen it done, just don't recall the specifics. Not that it's useful in any obvious way.
The coolest thing I've probably built is still the car thing I stuck together years ago out of technic parts, with a moving engine block and weird cantilever suspension. I lost it somewhere:(
Sega's CD drive could do a lot more than play FMV-stuffed games; it was a damn good CD player UI back then, but the best part was the two RCA phono jacks on the back - which you could play all the games through.
It forces you down a design path that leads to insecure code. If you want to plug every hole, you've got to do ten times as much work.
I wish there was some HTML attribute or some simple way of telling the user's browser things like "Don't let any of this part of the DOM tree be scripted from outside", or "this script is only allowed to do AJAX from these domains". Sort of like SELinux for HTML.
Fast governments do things without thinking, ignoring the wisdom of "hey, maybe we ought to stop and think about it before we make abortion illegal", and just go ahead and passes laws that people think they want when they are scared and terrified, instead of thinking long and hard about the long term consequences of it.
OK... so no different than what the current government's done.
...back in the 20th century we had these quaint little things called "power adaptors". Like chargers, but they didn't cost £40 for a replacement and the round plugs they used worked in more than one device.
Exactly.
I only got a PS2 a few weeks ago. I got it for free off someone, because the disk drive was scratching all their discs and they hardly played it anyway. A bit of screwdrivering and it works again.
A lot of them use Windows 2000 for the extra speed over XP. Claiming they're going to upgrade to an even more bloated OS is just flat-out wrong. And preinstallation doesn't count, most gaming PCs are custom built.
You can't just stick those fancy pieces anywhere, you have to think about what you're doing or else the funny shapes obstruct somewhere else you wanted to put something.
(yeah, I've done that a lot. The Technic stuff can be a nightmare to figure out sometimes.)
Tell me, when you buy your computer or your Xbox360/PS3/Wii or your new processor, does carbon neutrality figure into your pricing at all? I'll bet it doesn't.
Actually carbon's a secondary concern there. IBM has a CPU chip fab plant near a river aptly named "Fishkill".
I've avoided email for any sort of authorization at all. I've considered using OpenID but the spec's gibberish to me.
So I've come up with my own registration system. New users get put into a queue and aren't allowed to use their account for a day or so. That alone kills 95% of spambots. After that, they can login and manually activate the account by clicking a button. If they leave it unused, it gets purged after a few days. You might think it sounds like a pain in the ass, but here's the clever bit: it lets already-registered users click the button for them so they can skip the queue. And if someone tries to make a million accounts and activate them himself... that's what cascading deletes are for.
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No need. The Unplug extension and mplayer does the job just as well.
For me, the builtin PDF export function in OO.o is its killer app. It's saved my ass several times now.
"This looks like VGA resolution displayed on a screen so big you can see the individual pixels!"
Not only that, the wiimote's cheaper than my £30 "gaming" mouse. Can't wait for kernel 2.6.20.
You can actually "prove" 0/0 equals all real integers using a few lines of algebra. I've seen it done, just don't recall the specifics. Not that it's useful in any obvious way.
These things would be great on hybrid cars. You'd hardly ever use the combustion engine.
How fast is it against MyISAM? (MySQL's main selling point for a lot of people)
I can't hear the difference between a q5 Ogg and a FLAC even with high-end headphones. And the Ogg takes 1/10th the time to download.
XP is half a decade old. For a fair comparison, try the Vista Ultimate Edition DVD and Ubuntu Edgy Eft CD.
Does "paying attention to the industry" include people that notice 95% of their games are little more than full-priced service packs?
The coolest thing I've probably built is still the car thing I stuck together years ago out of technic parts, with a moving engine block and weird cantilever suspension. I lost it somewhere :(
Sega's CD drive could do a lot more than play FMV-stuffed games; it was a damn good CD player UI back then, but the best part was the two RCA phono jacks on the back - which you could play all the games through.
It still crashed and burned, unfortunately.
It forces you down a design path that leads to insecure code. If you want to plug every hole, you've got to do ten times as much work.
I wish there was some HTML attribute or some simple way of telling the user's browser things like "Don't let any of this part of the DOM tree be scripted from outside", or "this script is only allowed to do AJAX from these domains". Sort of like SELinux for HTML.
You say why. I say, why not?
...back in the 20th century we had these quaint little things called "power adaptors". Like chargers, but they didn't cost £40 for a replacement and the round plugs they used worked in more than one device.
Guess I'm a bit short-sighted... I stand corrected.
Exactly. I only got a PS2 a few weeks ago. I got it for free off someone, because the disk drive was scratching all their discs and they hardly played it anyway. A bit of screwdrivering and it works again.
A lot of them use Windows 2000 for the extra speed over XP. Claiming they're going to upgrade to an even more bloated OS is just flat-out wrong. And preinstallation doesn't count, most gaming PCs are custom built.
The main reason they got bought out by Microsoft is that they were several million pounds in debt.
You can't just stick those fancy pieces anywhere, you have to think about what you're doing or else the funny shapes obstruct somewhere else you wanted to put something.
(yeah, I've done that a lot. The Technic stuff can be a nightmare to figure out sometimes.)
I've avoided email for any sort of authorization at all. I've considered using OpenID but the spec's gibberish to me.
So I've come up with my own registration system. New users get put into a queue and aren't allowed to use their account for a day or so. That alone kills 95% of spambots. After that, they can login and manually activate the account by clicking a button. If they leave it unused, it gets purged after a few days.
You might think it sounds like a pain in the ass, but here's the clever bit: it lets already-registered users click the button for them so they can skip the queue. And if someone tries to make a million accounts and activate them himself... that's what cascading deletes are for.
It can still work, you just need to blacklist the default address as a spamtrap from the start and only give out custom ones.