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Yeah, I hope they astronauts didn't see that prototype go up (the wrong way) the day before their launch.
TTFN - Kent
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Vortex lasers are named for the way light spirals around their axis of travel, thanks to a property known as orbital angular momentum "Come on twist again, like we did last year"
And here I thought just plain lasers were cool
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When your module becomes bigger you want to divide its functionality into manageable components. C++20 modules offer two approaches: submodules and partitions. Let me discuss both approaches in this post. Nothing funny here, I'm just desperate for news items today
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but apparently one image is worth potentially thousands of headaches for Android users recently. That's...an interesting bug. Did the Boeing developers start working on Android?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did the Boeing developers start working on Android?
I certainly hope they're not still working for Boeing!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You are even more evil... 
But so true 
M.D.V. 
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It's 2020, and numerous browsers still allow drive-by-downloads from what is meant to be secure contexts such as sandboxed iframes. It's not like the browsers get updated that often
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's not like the browsers get updated that often
What...? 
That's not true... Microsoft has re-done the browser 3 times in less than 10 years. 
The right question is... did someone use it that much to notice the differences? 
M.D.V.
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Four major book publishers have filed suit against the Internet Archive for copyright violations relating to the Open Library project, setting the stage for a major legal fight over one of the internet’s longest-running ebook archives. "What made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library"
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I don't know about their library, but taking in consideration the content of other cathegories...
Things that are out of catalogue worldwide and you wouldn't find even in the cache of google.
Damned patent and copyright trolls.  
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Yeah, the regular archive (and stuff like old programs, games and music) seem fine. The problem with the library is that some people have been scanning and posting stuff still in copyright. They do only let it out similar to a library, but I guess the publishers have a problem with them doing that?
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The problem with the library is that some people have been scanning and posting stuff still in copyright.
Youtube b1tch please?
But as the archive probably doesn't have a law-deparment so big as google / youtube / other big ones...
They should then complain and give a list to the "to be deleted content", but not sue them
or sue all others too.
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And most of the copyrighted material through high school is knowledge that hasn't fundamentally changed since before the copyrights were amended way back when. Heck, even a lot of college stuff is, too. Calculus came into being over 300 years ago, for Christ's sake! Relativity is over 100 years old!
Their business model needs to change. With their textbook prices on this 'old knowledge,' it is tempting to say **** ****.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yeah, the regular archive (and stuff like old programs, games and music) seem fine. The problem with the library is that some people have been scanning and posting stuff still in copyright. They do only let it out similar to a library, but I guess the publishers have a problem with them doing that?
The reason they're getting sued now is that they went from only lending as many concurrent copies of copyrighted works as they had physical copies of to lending an unlimited amount.
There's a pretty good chance they've fatally ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ed themselves in the process.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I fear you're right. It strikes me that they say that their unlimited lending was for emergency Covid-related purposes. It would be best if they could shut it down now.
If this site is shut down, it's going to take a lot with it.
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As he gives us version 5.7 with support for Apple power tech and better exFAT Hollering about Hollerith
He ran out of first world problems?
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We had a revision of company coding rules a while ago, and some members of the working group insisted on 80 cols max.
The leader of the project I was on immediately granted an exception to that rule: We also had strict rules for generating #define constants, which caused several symbol names to exceed 80 chars.
I think these naming rules are crazy. But if you insist on lines that can be punched on an 80 column card, remember that cols 73-80 are reserved for sequence number (and is ignored by some card readers), cols 1-5 are reserved for the label, and col 6 is the continuation marker. That leaves 66 cols for program code.
I am fond of end-of-line comments, whether in variable/member declarations or code statements. I start them from col 70, to avoid cluttering up the (max 66 char) code lines. That is in my own code, in private projects and projects not bound by the company coding rules 80 char lines.
... but then: These same guys insisting on 80 char line length give rules for how to structure directories and create subdirectory levels for the tiniest little thing. One thing is that these are command-line-tool affectionados, and commnand.exe is, for legacy reasons, never going to return a path name exceeding 260 chars: Most likely, old CLI applications haven't made a bigger buffer, and would overflow. But in one case where the 260 char line was broken, I counted the same module name occuring in seven different directory levels, exactly the same name. Jeeez... I mean, even if you migrated your system to a modern, long-filename world, it makes no sense to repeat the module name seven times in the path! But so it is.
My reaction, when they complain about the 260 char limit: You asked for it, you got it. The length problem, that is.
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Member 7989122 wrote: You asked for it, you got it. The length problem, that is.
Was he always yelling, mine is longer than yours?   
M.D.V.
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This is Microsoft’s way of ensuring that users know that their systems are currently unsupported probably due to one of the known issues or hardware incompatibility. The new mark of shame and/or joy
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Hopefully it is an HTML 5 recreation of one of those old Flash pages with balloons, confetti, and party streamers falling from the top of your webpage! You've Won!
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Now if only they'd follow up and indicate what the blocker is. Knowing that RandomOldApplication or RandomPieceOfHardware isn't compatible would be useful from both sides of the fence.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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"String or binary data would be truncated"
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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