Thankfully, the IRS extended the automatic extension to file till October.
Thus, if you're due a refund from both California and the US Gub Mit, you
can file the 4868 (IRS automatic extension form) with an estimate of how
much they owe you back, do absolutely nothing for California, and send in
all your info sometime before October 15.
Sure would be nice if this page was updated with more recent results, and if somebody ran the fuzz generator regularly as a community project, like Coverity does for free software project code.
Here's a hint -- they use the multiple-angles on a dvd feature, decided the consumer VHS vs. Beta war, and embraced sample/content distribution via the web. I'll let the vast distributed wyzdum(TM) of Slashdot consider the variety of possibilities.
Plucker and adobe reader. If I could take the floorplan of my house in acrobat format, carry it in to the local hardware store, and zoom in to get the measurements of various areas, good enough for me.
India is in 4th place? Ever been to India? A huge percentage of the
population have never used anything as technologically advanced as a
toilet. I mean not even an outhouse - they go right outside.
Ever been to India yourself? A sizable portion of that
rural population goes right back in their home, such as it were, and watches
soap operas on their honest-to-goodness cable TV. From my last visit, I
have photos of coax strung on bamboo poles on the side of the road between
two fields of rice paddy between two villages that I couldn't route you to
with anything better than GPS coordinates.
That having been said, it saddens me to watch the US slipping as supporting
innovation -- consider the credence that junk-to-non science has received
in recent years, taking time, focus, and funding away from scientists who
could be doing innovation in the meantime. Even if the statistics lie,
your instincts are telling you this is really happening, aren't they?
P.S. How much more work do you think it would take to get them all cable
internet?
Having to deal with strange technical rules regarding reality is par for the course at Order of the Stick. There's something here that hits a note with any techie (well, frankly, anyone) if you've ever played D&D.
> Whenever I burn a CD/DVD, I take the few extra minutes and verify it right away.
I once burned a cd containing what turned out to be only half of a friend's home directory. After that, I became extremely paranoid about verifying burned data, and that paranoia has saved me extra work (although not on the order of the original event) since then.
Since k3b has gone 1.0 recently, tell me if my add to bug 77432 is overly paranoid?
The state recognizes that ODF has to be used and because older versions of Office won't work with ODF they purchase Vista and Office 2007 for all state agencies. Huge loss for the citizens of California huge win for Microsoft.
Large win for Microsoft -- they sell Vista and Office 2007 to all state agencies this go-round.
Large loss for Microsoft -- if they want to play in the government agency space, they run the risk of losing the monopoly-format lock on potentially all customers
Small win for businesses -- they now have a choice to use openoffice or some other format to exchange documents with the gub mit?
Small win for citizens -- no need to buy MS Office to view gub mit documents?
Small win for everybody -- first step in releasing the MS stranglehold by hitting them in the MS Office handcuffs?
Unknown -- MS adulter^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hextends the ODF standard to make other implementations incompatible and someone eventually files a lawsuit
Besides, who gots mo money than they know what to do wit? The Gub Mit. (-- In
Living Color). Let them pay to insert the thin end of the wedge into the MS monopoly.
You want to do business with our company, you exchange documents in our desired format. But we're not compelling you to do business with our company. However, our company is the gub mit, so it's probably in your enterprise's best interest to consider us a very large business partner or customer.
Dell will preinstall linux on systems for a large enough order; state governments negotiate discounts with drug companies; is it that difficult to think that a small company will make the effort to load openoffice or some other odt-compatible app for the opportunity to transact business (not a fundamental right of freedom, mind you) with one of the largest customers they have the opportunity to get?
From 'Yes, Minister', 'The Death List' episode -- definitely rent or buy it
if you haven't seen it.
Private Eye - a political magazine - has revealed that Jim Hacker had been under secret surveillance while being in opposition. Furthermore, it has discovered that Jim's department is responsible for all bugging equipment, and this makes him the government's chief bugger.
Ohh, I'm so hoping someone gets this title in the UK tabloids as a result of this:-)
So... how about adding the ability to one-click bookmark a slashdot story or individual comment, and have it show up in our personalbookmark section? Seems like it would be a lot easier than storing the interesting urls in text files in my homedir.
That display is nice (my brother worked at that startup until it was bought by Qualcomm), but its response time is kind of slow. That display, however, takes very little power to display a static image.
Yeah, I've been wondering how is the iPod generation different than the Walkman generation. Its all the same to me, I'd rather have a good stereo than be tied down to earphones stuck in my head.
I'm definitely no longer a young adult. That aside, this sentiment is the polar opposite of my experience:
Listening to music on iPods is the least imaginative thing you could use them for.
Podcasts are my killer app for iPods --
niche, detailed content that I'm curious about
professionally prepared and read to me
interviews with really knowledgeable people in that area -- not some generic pundit
I can listen to it in my car on the way to work
pause, rewind, and review a particularly interesting point with one hand
one-touch refill into my iPod
and they're free!
Why don't they have the earbuds inject heroin into your bloodstream while they're at it!
The podcasts I listen to the most are scientific (Science Friday and Science@NASA)
and to respond to your comment -- if I can't plug it into my car stereo and listen to it on my way to work, I don't have any time to listen to it, so I have an iTrip. It's works just like a remote control for the car radio.
Interactive fiction has lived on, but kept a low profile after its
commercial heyday. As of April 2006, the new authoring
system has (IMHO) vastly increased the possibilities
for creating interactive fiction for the general population.
A good example of what will be easier to write in the next generation of
interactive fiction is Galatea, and some
of the worked examples that come with inform 7 really showcase its power.
I defy you to read through the manual and not come up with an idea for at
least one story to implement.
Interactive fiction has lived on, but kept a low profile after its
commercial heyday. As of April 2006, the new authoring
system has (IMHO) vastly increased the possibilities
for creating interactive fiction for the general population.
A good example of what will be easier to write in the next generation of
interactive fiction is Galatea, and some
of the worked examples that come with inform 7 really showcase its power.
I defy you to read through the manual and not come up with an idea for at
least one story to implement.
And by the way, app bundles are the bomb. Sure, they use a little more
disk space... but disk space is cheap. Think of your applications as a
folder (which they literally are in the UNIX filesystem) that contain all
of the stuff you need to run the app including configs in some apps.
This one mechanism (from NeXT, I think) makes doing 'amateur QA' trivial on
MacOSX and onerous on Linux and Windows. Really, it's a pretty huge gulf
between the two.
Testing a Firefox nightly: First, download the nightly from
ftp.mozilla.org/.../latest-trunk.
Windows/Linux:
Uninstall the old firefox app. Install the nightly. Find an anywhere
from annoying to work-stopping bug. File the bug using another browser (or
the nightly, if you can get that far). Uninstall the nightly. Reinstall your
old copy of firefox. Continue work.
Alternatively: Maintain a completely separate system. Uninstall old
nightly. Install new nightly. Rather, rinse, repeat.
MacOSX:
Mount nightly disk image. Drag nightly app bundle
into/tmp. Type 'open/tmp/minefield.app'. Use minefield.app until you
find a bug. Quit minefield.app if necessary. Type 'open/Applications/Firefox.app'. File bug. Keep working.
Next day, after a reboot, or whenever you feel like it: rm -rf/tmp/minefield.app . Rinse, lather, repeat.
Most importantly: everything prior to 'use minefield.app until you
find a bug' can be done in an entirely automated manner from a single
script. This includes 'installing' extensions into the nightly app bundle!
Another most importantly: you need to make a stock trade using
a stable browser, or don't feel like doing amateur QA today? Quit
minefield.app and open firefox.app. Feeling generous with a whole couple
hours of your time? Quit Firefox.app and open minefield.app.
Another most importantly: nightly corrupted your preferences? Toss
it, pull ~/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist and
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox from backups, and fire up stable
firefox. A modification to the script above could save off these
directories every time a new nightly is fired up.
Slashdot Mirror
Thankfully, the IRS extended the automatic extension to file till October. Thus, if you're due a refund from both California and the US Gub Mit, you can file the 4868 (IRS automatic extension form) with an estimate of how much they owe you back, do absolutely nothing for California, and send in all your info sometime before October 15.
Sure would be nice if this page was updated with more recent results, and if somebody ran the fuzz generator regularly as a community project, like Coverity does for free software project code.
Preventing one otherwise unmonitored avenue of say, money laundering (just as an example).
Well, we've got the reprap -- note what they say about the extruder on the front page. So who's going to be first up against the wall?
Aaaand .... go!
Plucker and adobe reader. If I could take the floorplan of my house in acrobat format, carry it in to the local hardware store, and zoom in to get the measurements of various areas, good enough for me.
Ever been to India yourself? A sizable portion of that rural population goes right back in their home, such as it were, and watches soap operas on their honest-to-goodness cable TV. From my last visit, I have photos of coax strung on bamboo poles on the side of the road between two fields of rice paddy between two villages that I couldn't route you to with anything better than GPS coordinates.
That having been said, it saddens me to watch the US slipping as supporting innovation -- consider the credence that junk-to-non science has received in recent years, taking time, focus, and funding away from scientists who could be doing innovation in the meantime. Even if the statistics lie, your instincts are telling you this is really happening, aren't they?
P.S. How much more work do you think it would take to get them all cable internet?
There's mousetool and kmousetool too. And don't forget hit-a-hint for almost onehanded web browsing (use letters instead of numbers).
Problems with freedom of choice are apparently cross-species, according to these, um, philosophers.
Too bad it's not usable under Free software O/S's.
Having to deal with strange technical rules regarding reality is par for the course at Order of the Stick. There's something here that hits a note with any techie (well, frankly, anyone) if you've ever played D&D.
I once burned a cd containing what turned out to be only half of a friend's home directory. After that, I became extremely paranoid about verifying burned data, and that paranoia has saved me extra work (although not on the order of the original event) since then.
Since k3b has gone 1.0 recently, tell me if my add to bug 77432 is overly paranoid?
Some would disagree -- see item 34.
At least this guy still is, and he moved over to the shiny white side years ago.
Besides, who gots mo money than they know what to do wit? The Gub Mit. (-- In Living Color). Let them pay to insert the thin end of the wedge into the MS monopoly.
Dell will preinstall linux on systems for a large enough order; state governments negotiate discounts with drug companies; is it that difficult to think that a small company will make the effort to load openoffice or some other odt-compatible app for the opportunity to transact business (not a fundamental right of freedom, mind you) with one of the largest customers they have the opportunity to get?
Private Eye - a political magazine - has revealed that Jim Hacker had been under secret surveillance while being in opposition. Furthermore, it has discovered that Jim's department is responsible for all bugging equipment, and this makes him the government's chief bugger.
Ohh, I'm so hoping someone gets this title in the UK tabloids as a result of this :-)
You're asking us about wal-mart and pickles ? In that case, I'd feel zero remorse for anything Wal-Mart manages to misprice.
Muerde mi brilliante metalico trasero!
So ... how about adding the ability to one-click bookmark a slashdot story or individual comment, and have it show up in our personalbookmark section? Seems like it would be a lot easier than storing the interesting urls in text files in my homedir.
That display is nice (my brother worked at that startup until it was bought by Qualcomm), but its response time is kind of slow. That display, however, takes very little power to display a static image.
I'm definitely no longer a young adult. That aside, this sentiment is the polar opposite of my experience:
A good example of what will be easier to write in the next generation of interactive fiction is Galatea, and some of the worked examples that come with inform 7 really showcase its power. I defy you to read through the manual and not come up with an idea for at least one story to implement.
One great article I read that actually made me stop, reread the paragraph, and put down my pilot (I read it in plucker) and think about the implications was in SPAG issue 44. Another couple good articles are in http://brasslantern.org/writers/howto/i7intro.html and
http://brasslantern.org/writers/iftheory/i7observa tions.html . Without
spoiling the latter article, I'll mention that one of the paragraphs under
the 'relations' section blew my mind.
A good example of what will be easier to write in the next generation of interactive fiction is Galatea, and some of the worked examples that come with inform 7 really showcase its power. I defy you to read through the manual and not come up with an idea for at least one story to implement.
One great article I read that actually made me stop, reread the paragraph, and put down my pilot (I read it in plucker) and think about the implications was in SPAG issue 44. Another couple good articles are in http://brasslantern.org/writers/howto/i7intro.html and
http://brasslantern.org/writers/iftheory/i7observa tions.html . Without
spoiling the latter article, I'll mention that one of the paragraphs under
the 'relations' section blew my mind.
This one mechanism (from NeXT, I think) makes doing 'amateur QA' trivial on MacOSX and onerous on Linux and Windows. Really, it's a pretty huge gulf between the two.
Testing a Firefox nightly: First, download the nightly from ftp.mozilla.org/.../latest-trunk.
Windows/Linux:
- Uninstall the old firefox app. Install the nightly. Find an anywhere
from annoying to work-stopping bug. File the bug using another browser (or
the nightly, if you can get that far). Uninstall the nightly. Reinstall your
old copy of firefox. Continue work.
- Alternatively: Maintain a completely separate system. Uninstall old
nightly. Install new nightly. Rather, rinse, repeat.
MacOSX: