Just... Wow. And that's why I will never visit Dubai - not because I'm a drug smuggler or user, but because I might step on a grain of heroine or something while in the airport and lose years of my life to those idiots.
They pretend to be a normal civilized nation, but in the end they are nothing better than the medieval goatfuckers from which they descended.
I have felt for a long time that Wikipedia really needs to be split into two: one dealing with things that are at least nominally real, and one dealing with expressions of culture (which would include all articles that start with "this article is about a fictional
Mind, I'm not saying to just delete all the fictional stuff, I love being able to look up the dimensions and mileage of the Enterprise-E. Just stop mixing it in with the real knowledge.
"surface plasmons"
Really? Plasmons? Are they just making words up now?
Yeah. It's stupid: we already had the perfectly functional phrase "plasmid" to describe those.
Personally I'm holding out for them perfecting the electricity plasmid.
Don't get caught with US dollars on you in Dubai.
That's a damn good point, actually... So why isn't there a constant stream of arrests in that country, given that they are able to detect absolutely minute traces of drugs on a person? There must be plenty of people travelling through there carrying dollar bills.
Microsoft... vs... patent trolls.. who do I hate??
You are perfectly within your rights to hate both. Doing so has the great advantage that you really don't need to aim carefully, should you decide to be sure from orbit...
She needs no other reason, other people can held liable for their own actions.
That principle went out when it was accepted that a single person uploading a file to one other person on the internet is liable for all subsequent damages.
How can that even be called "XML" in the first place? XML has a specific format, described in a standard - and it describes the tags as being in-line with the data. A format that separates them, no matter how useful it might be, is not XML.
What is being stored on disk is not an XML document only in the same sense that foo.xml.gz is not an XML document. Just because you store foo.xml.gz doesn't mean foo.xml stops being XML.
Sorry, but the disk format _does_ matter, since the XML standard specifies what the disk format is supposed to be. Making up your own format and calling that XML because a transformation exists that turns it into XML is disingeneous at best.
If something is XML then it can be used with the large number of XML tools that are out there. Neither the format described here, nor your
It's about a somewhat specific way of storing xml for documents in file systems or streams that has gains some efficiency over the conventional XML format. Specifically you write the documents plain text out as raw plain text without any XML tags. Then in separate location you write our all the xml tags. After each tag you write a pointer to the chearacter position in the plain text where the tag needs to go.
How can that even be called "XML" in the first place? XML has a specific format, described in a standard - and it describes the tags as being in-line with the data. A format that separates them, no matter how useful it might be, is not XML.
Ok, fair enough, I can understand that. But the other poster is right: you treat this as it is almost meaningless, while in reality someone who was blind can now at least read a clock. That's a better level of vision than I have without my glasses, btw.
And hey, who knows, maybe you are curing blindness every day, maybe this will _not_ lead to further enhanced cures, maybe the "real" breakthrough is just around the corner. But for now this seems to be a major step, and once in a while it is good to step back and stare in awe at what mankind has achieved thus far.
Now bring on that Mars-colony already, damnit. I was born after the first man walked on the moon, I don't want to die before the first man walks on Mars...
If you like a particular artist, you have to buy that artist's work from their label. It's not like Walmart and Target where if you don't like the price of Coca-Cola at Walmart then you can just buy it at Target. If your favorite artist's work is locked up with DRM, which you want to avoid, your only choice is to violate the DMCA. Or you can violate copyright and download it for free. What other choice do you have? Download YouTube videos of someone doing a bad cover version of the songs you like? There is no other choice.
How about not buying anything at all? Will your life come to a sudden end if you cannot listen to a handful of tunes? Not buying that music, not listening to that music, is a choice as well. And it has the major advantages that (1) it is legal, and (2) it stops putting money in the pocket of the record companies, giving them less power to corrupt laws on a worldwide scale.
You mention copyright violation by an individual. Well. as soon as it hits a P2P sharing program, it is no longer an individual. It is potentially everone on the planet.
The problem with that approach is that it makes a single crime, "spreading music to everyone on the planet", punishable multiple times. In fact, you could punish everyone on the planet for spreading the music to themselves!
It seems a lot like double dipping to me: either that single person committed the crime and can be punished for all subsequent damages, or he is only responsible for spreading to a handful of people, and punishment is recursively allocated to each of those as well.
Of course, the biggest limiting factor is knowledge. iTunes exists because people do not know how to obtain digital goods for free. The folks that know aren't paying any more, so the system is now supported on the backs of the ignorant.
What an incredibly sad view of humanity. iTunes exists because people really don't mind paying artists for their hard work, and because Apple aren't total asshats about DRM and instead make it convenient to download, pay for, and listen to music.
There's a vapid slut passed out in your bed... And yet, you can't think of anything better to do than post on Slashdot?
Riiiight...
"Show this experiment to your boss the next time you are selecting a programming language for a project at work."J
What would the boss do? Maybe he'd come to the conclusion that Java and C# are for professionals while Python and Ruby are for hobbyists?
The boss would make you work in Java or C# because if it were fun, it wouldn't be work...
Bloody hell man, we have newly seeing adults now! Who cares if their vision is not quite the same as ours!
Oblig movie quote:
Dr. Evil: You know Goldmember, I don't speak freaky-deaky Dutch. Okay, perv boy?
Yeah, I'm sure you've NEVER heard that one before and all, but, you know, it never gets old.
By the way, how do you pronounce "vrij" - is it like "fridge", but with a vee, or what? I'm gonna start using that just to throw people off.
The "ij" sound in Dutch is a vowel, you are not supposed to pronounce the "j" as a separate consonant. I don't think there is an equivalent sound in English, but if you think of it as "i" you are not too far off. It will mark you instantly as an English speaker though
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