I'm not sure what you mean by "proper credibility" for political parties-- AFAIK whether Members belong to a given party is not taken into account in the original design (any more than it is under the US electoral college system), though there areorganisations that keep tabs on what parties are doing.
You might have meant that the people respect political parties in the UK more than they do in the US, and since I haven't lived in the US, it's difficult to say. Anyone know? Do bear in mind that we're still not under a multi-party system, though; even though the centre party have grown in the last few decades, we're still in a first-past the post system, mainly a race between the othertwo.
>I look forward to seeing new games that
>incorporate various aspects of physics
>simulation with cloth simulation...
I'm just trying to think what sort of game would require realistic cloth rendering as an integral part of the game, rather than just as added chrome. Perhaps one of those weird-but-cool games with a parachute? Even better multiplayer:)
the Internic have a fill-in form you can use; all the examples given above can be read this way. However, this only works with gTLDs.
If you want to look up (almost) any domain regardless of its TLD, try using BW Whois, which is clever and asks the correct NIC automatically. It fails on some odd cases like names in.ac.uk, though.
It seems from reading the news articles that the writers don't agree on what's worrying about this. Is it worrying because...
...the crackers could have modified Microsoft source code? No. Look, does anyone believe MS don't use version control and offsite backups?
...the code could be used in other people's products without permission? Perhaps, but not much-- that's what Easter eggs are there to get in the way of.
...everyone will read the code and discover defects? That's a good thing-- after an initial phase of instability, Microsoft will have to bring out patches. It's the opensource idea of the collective benefit of having millions of eyeballs read your source (what ESR calls "Linus's law".
...people might discover that the source is flaky in places, badly designed and so on? That might be more of an embarrassment to MS, but there's little opensource software which doesn't have flaky parts, is there? And better that people know about it than not.
Does anyone really want to consider developing something that has all X's strengths (and there are many) and none of its obvious weaknesses, right from scratch? I don't think so. It would take years.
What about the strengths of the other contenders? Does anyone have experience with things like, say, Berlin? Though, for a start, you certainly can't get that on one floppy:)
But is it the fact of translating the page that they're complaining about? Or the availability of it from a URL not their own?
If the latter, any sort of web cache could run into problems. For example, you can read Bank of America's page out of Google's cache. (Not the best example, because this could be said to translate it in some way since it adds a disclaimer and optionally highlighting.)
Well, unstructured code has always been compared to spaghetti; that must be a complement for a hypertext corpus (since hypertext is, after all, supposed to be unstructured).:)
The study of the web as a graph is not only fascinating in its own right, but also yields valuable insight into web algorithms for crawling, searching and community discovery, and the sociological phenomena which characterize its evolution.
So it has immediate practical use if you're writing spiders, and so on. I'm not sure whether "insight into... the sociological phenomena which characterize [the Web's] evolution" counts as something which does you any good, but you never know where the resulting studies might lead.
(Anyhow, who says research has to do anyone any good?)
There are already mail checking laboratories that people can use if they want (they've stopped non-techie friends of mine forwarding worms accidentally). But enforcing use of this sort of centralised facility would be a deeply Bad Thing, imho-- consider the possibilities for censorship.
Yes-- not that this effect doesn't happen with RL communities too. The leaders going around behaving as though they think they're God is a cause of both emigrations and revolutions.
In my experience of VCs (specifically, talkers), both the places which underdid leadership (so randoms felt free to log in and abuse the residents, who consequently were always watching their backs) and those which overdid it (so the leaders were always coming down like a ton of bricks on the residents, who consequently were always watching their backs) were, well, causes of dissatisfaction among residents. It's an important (and difficult) balance to get right.
(shameless plug: IMO there are communities around which achieve this balance very well:) )
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It's not the people, but the Prime Minister who can dissolve Parliament and thus cause a general election (in fact, it's theoretically the Queen).
I'm not sure what you mean by "proper credibility" for political parties-- AFAIK whether Members belong to a given party is not taken into account in the original design (any more than it is under the US electoral college system), though there are organisations that keep tabs on what parties are doing.
You might have meant that the people respect political parties in the UK more than they do in the US, and since I haven't lived in the US, it's difficult to say. Anyone know? Do bear in mind that we're still not under a multi-party system, though; even though the centre party have grown in the last few decades, we're still in a first-past the post system, mainly a race between the other two.
>incorporate various aspects of physics
>simulation with cloth simulation...
I'm just trying to think what sort of game would require realistic cloth rendering as an integral part of the game, rather than just as added chrome. Perhaps one of those weird-but-cool games with a parachute? Even better multiplayer :)
Well, here's a simple way to remember it to 6 d.p.:
But beware the tactical misspelling at the end. :)
There's much more information about this project on its home page at SFU. The guy behind it also has a page there.
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If all you want is to do whois:
It seems from reading the news articles that the writers don't agree on what's worrying about this. Is it worrying because...
That's 84 Charing Cross Road , by Helene Hanff.
Marnanel-- ironic hyperlinks a speciality
Does anyone really want to consider developing something that has all X's strengths (and there are many) and none of its obvious weaknesses, right from scratch? I don't think so. It would take years.
What about the strengths of the other contenders? Does anyone have experience with things like, say, Berlin? Though, for a start, you certainly can't get that on one floppy :)
Btw, Yo Sushi have a page explaining how it all works, too...
Joe's usually short for Joseph-- I've never heard it used for John.
But is it the fact of translating the page that they're complaining about? Or the availability of it from a URL not their own?
If the latter, any sort of web cache could run into problems. For example, you can read Bank of America's page out of Google's cache. (Not the best example, because this could be said to translate it in some way since it adds a disclaimer and optionally highlighting.)
Well, unstructured code has always been compared to spaghetti; that must be a complement for a hypertext corpus (since hypertext is, after all, supposed to be unstructured). :)
Well, according to the abstract,
So it has immediate practical use if you're writing spiders, and so on. I'm not sure whether "insight into... the sociological phenomena which characterize [the Web's] evolution" counts as something which does you any good, but you never know where the resulting studies might lead.(Anyhow, who says research has to do anyone any good?)
There are already mail checking laboratories that people can use if they want (they've stopped non-techie friends of mine forwarding worms accidentally). But enforcing use of this sort of centralised facility would be a deeply Bad Thing, imho-- consider the possibilities for censorship.
Yes-- not that this effect doesn't happen with RL communities too. The leaders going around behaving as though they think they're God is a cause of both emigrations and revolutions.
In my experience of VCs (specifically, talkers), both the places which underdid leadership (so randoms felt free to log in and abuse the residents, who consequently were always watching their backs) and those which overdid it (so the leaders were always coming down like a ton of bricks on the residents, who consequently were always watching their backs) were, well, causes of dissatisfaction among residents. It's an important (and difficult) balance to get right.
(shameless plug: IMO there are communities around which achieve this balance very well :) )