Comment Re:And it's all for ads (Score 1, Informative) 88
(Googler here.)
Right, and constantly crawling + re-indexing the entire Web doesn't require CPU nor memory.
Comment Brown Note (Score 4, Funny) 173
We're gonna shit our pants once we hear him reaching the brown note.
Comment Re:Nothing new here (Score 1) 96
Question: what the heck are you going to be "searching" for when offline?
Try imagine what it might be to interact with technology if you're tetraplegic... Voice search will help you a lot.
Comment Re:Doesn't work in the US (Score 1) 368
Europeans and especially Dutch tend to spend time together. Sit at cafes getting high, eat at a restaurant and have some fine wine, and socialize with people. The same is true for Asians and Australians too. And the American people introvert culture isn't a new thing that came with computers - they did this before geeks too. Sitting in front of TV watching mindless shows and eating TV dinners, alone.
pretty much my experience living in San Francisco (I'm European, btw).
Comment Re:Pricing of assistive tools (Score 3) 43
Comment Dupe! Renault Zoom had it first in 1992 (Score 1) 222
Cheeck the pictures https://www.google.com/search?q=renault+zoom&hl=en&safe=off&tbm=isch
Comment Re:This is truly good news (Score 4, Funny) 91
[...] I'm glad to see progress [...]
I see what you did there. Oh wait...
Submission + - The IOCCC Competition is Back! (codebits.eu)
Rui Lopes writes: "After a 5 year hiatus, the IOCCC (International Obfuscated C Code Contest) is back! This marks the 20th edition of the contest. Submissions are open between 12-Nov-2011 11:00 UTC and 12-Jan-2012 12:12 UTC. Don't forget to check this year's rules and guidelines."
Comment Re:accesibility standard: no javascript (Score 1) 287
I'm currently working on a couple of government projects that must adhere to the latest accessibility standards, and they include this little doozy: no javascript.
Completely, and utterly false. WCAG 2.0 (i.e., the latest accessibility standard for Web technologies) does enlist Javascript as a supported technology, and provides several techniques to successfully meet the criteria.
Comment Forks & merges (Score 2) 198
As of now, he's got already 26 forks, so he's been cloned several times.
But what will be impressive is having merges (via pull requests) accepted into the master branch. Crowd-sourced gene therapy (or mutation) anyone?
Comment Re:HTML *was* simple (Score 5, Informative) 298
Remember when it was ok to use a "b" tag, and no one scoffed? How about table layouts? It's funny, the new standards aren't always better.
- 1) Download the NVDA screenreader
- 2) Learn about the problems induced with your comment
- 3) Spread the word!
If you still think it's actually not better, sorry, but you should have 10 blind persons hit you with their canes...
Comment This is just wrong (Score 1) 1260
E.g., if you take basic set theory and the set of real numbers to analyse the problem:
0.99999... is the last element of ]-infinity, 1[
where as 1 is the first element of [1, +infinity[
and ]-infinity, 1[ intersected with [1, +infinity[ is the empty set...
0.99999... is the last element of ]-infinity, 1[
where as 1 is the first element of [1, +infinity[
and ]-infinity, 1[ intersected with [1, +infinity[ is the empty set...
Comment Re:Where is the reference to the words origin? (Score 1) 180
Maybe truthfulness should be used instead.
Comment Linked Data, of course (Score 2, Informative) 235
The present (and the future) of experimental data organisation, repurposing, re-analysing, etc. is being shifted towards Linked Data and supporting graph data stores.
Give it a spin.
Comment Call me dumb, but... (Score 2, Interesting) 216
It also affects the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems.
