In my opinion, they used the correct box model: width = content + padding + border. When I specify that I want something to fill the page width, with margins of, say, 10% on the left and 5% on the right, borders of 2px, padding of 2em, I don't want to end up with a page that is 100%+4em+4px of the browser width. Calculating correctly requires using relative values throughout, which can look pretty silly when it comes to things like borders.
I reckon width should mean visible width of the whole element, not content width.
Lots of magazines are published in volumes (often 1 per year) and the pages in each issue of the volume are numberd from where the last left off. At the end of the year, the magazines can be rebound into a single "volume" with hard covers to sit on a shelf. That way, each volume is now sequentially numbered all the way through without having to work out which issue you're in. Many libraries do this to their journals to make it easier to keep track of the thousands of issues hanging around.
Huh? My submission of this story (under the title 'Amiga, Inc. sells the family silver') was rejected about six hours before this one hit the main page! Different editors? Submission history (rocketjam has 17 successful submissions, Swarfega has 0 - and I've only ever submitted two)? I dunno!
Assigns were more than symlinks - you could assign a bunch of directories to the same assign. My FONTS: virtual volume included SYS:Fonts, Work:Fonts and Iain:Fonts and searched all three in that order. Saving to FONTS: would save in the first in the assign string, as I recall.
The US Government can wait until the perpetrators land on their soil and then arrest them.
And here is where I disagree. Let's assume that someone commits a Warez crime in Australia. The server is over there and the crime was committed there. Should this person be extradited to the US to face charges just because the copyright holder is from the US? That's the question that the judge will be answering next week (although I'm not sure of the details of server locations). If not, then this person won't be extradited: the US does not have jurisdiction.
It would then be unlawful imprisonment for the US to arrest said perpetrators if they visit the US (unless, of course, they're on the run from Aussie authorities). You can't just nab someone if they show up if you've got no jurisdiction over the crime in the first place.
However, I seem to recall reading (possibly in the propaganda of the Lunar Embassy) that only about five nations eventually signed up to this treaty, because all the others realised that they would be cutting their own economic throats a hundred years down the line. The article I read claimed that none of the countries that had any kind of interest in space (US, USSR, China, India, UK, Japan, etc.) ratified it.
You'd be thinking of something like METAFONT (see, e.g., http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/metafont.htm l), then. I've seen elsewhere in the thread that it outputs some old formats, but it specifies fonts as families algorithmically. Knuth has even added an enourmous library of glyphs in the Computer Modern family. Perhaps the OSS community should provide a way for the output to be used directly in Linux, etc.?
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You meant to use HTML entity ndash, presumably, to illustrate:
En Dash: – (used to express ranges and connections between hyphenated phrases)
Hyphen: - (used to express connections between words and syllables)
Wikipedia has a predictably good article on the subject.
Strange Slashdot article - a particularly good effort on the part of the editors to disguise this story.
In my opinion, they used the correct box model: width = content + padding + border. When I specify that I want something to fill the page width, with margins of, say, 10% on the left and 5% on the right, borders of 2px, padding of 2em, I don't want to end up with a page that is 100%+4em+4px of the browser width. Calculating correctly requires using relative values throughout, which can look pretty silly when it comes to things like borders.
I reckon width should mean visible width of the whole element, not content width.
Of course, its corollary is perhaps more appropriate for Slashdot readers:
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I'm no European, but I don't see how they would do this since the UK isn't even part of the EU.
r s/uk/index_en.htm
Umm, http://www.eu.int/abc/european_countries/eu_membe
Just how far do you want to go back? Beagle2's namesake predecessor launched in 1825!
(Beagle2 was not the second mission in a series - it was named after a famous other ship that went on a voyage of discovery.)
Lots of magazines are published in volumes (often 1 per year) and the pages in each issue of the volume are numberd from where the last left off. At the end of the year, the magazines can be rebound into a single "volume" with hard covers to sit on a shelf. That way, each volume is now sequentially numbered all the way through without having to work out which issue you're in. Many libraries do this to their journals to make it easier to keep track of the thousands of issues hanging around.
The parent was pointing out the interesting French employed, not making a comment on the article.
Yes - SYS: was usually an assign to the first hard disk, Workbench:, or boot floppy.
Huh? My submission of this story (under the title 'Amiga, Inc. sells the family silver') was rejected about six hours before this one hit the main page! Different editors? Submission history (rocketjam has 17 successful submissions, Swarfega has 0 - and I've only ever submitted two)? I dunno!
Assigns were more than symlinks - you could assign a bunch of directories to the same assign. My FONTS: virtual volume included SYS:Fonts, Work:Fonts and Iain:Fonts and searched all three in that order. Saving to FONTS: would save in the first in the assign string, as I recall.
Actually, "official" means ratified by the International Astronomical Union
Interesting - that implies that the crime may well have been committed in the US, despite his never having set foot there!
And here is where I disagree. Let's assume that someone commits a Warez crime in Australia. The server is over there and the crime was committed there. Should this person be extradited to the US to face charges just because the copyright holder is from the US? That's the question that the judge will be answering next week (although I'm not sure of the details of server locations). If not, then this person won't be extradited: the US does not have jurisdiction.
It would then be unlawful imprisonment for the US to arrest said perpetrators if they visit the US (unless, of course, they're on the run from Aussie authorities). You can't just nab someone if they show up if you've got no jurisdiction over the crime in the first place.
this is Britain, and last I looked they were EU
It might be worth checking again every now and then on that issue, though...
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If I only had mod points... +1 Insightful
Trillian?
However, I seem to recall reading (possibly in the propaganda of the Lunar Embassy) that only about five nations eventually signed up to this treaty, because all the others realised that they would be cutting their own economic throats a hundred years down the line. The article I read claimed that none of the countries that had any kind of interest in space (US, USSR, China, India, UK, Japan, etc.) ratified it.
Well if that's the case, www.lspace.org was doing this in 1996 as well. Probably beforehand.
You'd be thinking of something like METAFONT (see, e.g., http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/metafont.htm l), then. I've seen elsewhere in the thread that it outputs some old formats, but it specifies fonts as families algorithmically. Knuth has even added an enourmous library of glyphs in the Computer Modern family. Perhaps the OSS community should provide a way for the output to be used directly in Linux, etc.?
Curse my lack of mod points!
Maybe a group of people could have time together...
And the review even talks about other countries, too. :-|