What I got from the article was not that naked roads should be everywhere, but actually that they absolutely shouldn't be everywhere. They should, however, be considered, as should a great many other possibilities, in the context of the specific environment that a traffic engineer is designing for. Instead we too often see a bias towards signs and signals and too much copy+paste of what has been done elsewhere.
Once upon a time I used some vim plugin--and that one sounds familiar--to allow me to compile from within vim and then jump to that paragraph in the dvi viewer. I think I could also click a paragraph in the dvi viewer and jump to that text in vim.
It seems worth pointing out that you can affect the safety of as many or more people by walking into a skyscraper, stadium, festival, &c., or by walking near train tracks when a train or two is due to come by, a major bridge during rush hour, &c. The searches may be easiest to do for air travel, but the same thing could be done nearly as easily for any tall building.
Unfortunately they have non-transitive equality when used with standard dictionaries. For example, if O and R are ordered dictionaries with the same entries in different orders, and D is a standard dictionary with the same entries, then O == D == R but O != R.
I wonder the same thing about the search box. I personally drag all the navigation buttons and address/awesome bar up into my menu bar and eliminate the other default toolbars. (File|Edit|...|back|forward|reload|stop|awesomebar|adblockplus)
All the odds would look like a full checkerboard, not like these diagonals. The fact that some diagonal lines appear to be favored over other nearby diagonal lines of odd numbers is still interesting.
Walmart: "coming into towns and destroying mom and pop drugstores" = evil
but
Microsoft: "tried to drive their competitors out of business" = not evil
?
Sorry for not making it clear whether I even meant good or bad news. Under CA law they get free parking at meters as well as in (most) restricted-time zones. It seems like that would continue here, and now the city has the goal of upping the rates to always keep spaces open on every block.
There's a lot of things this project could do without replacing Facebook that I'd still consider successful. Four people thinking hard about making social networking better than Facebook for a summer could help "the eventual Facebook replacement" be better than it otherwise would be, even if this project itself doesn't turn into that replacement.
> Do you really think that it's of benefit to society for some people to show up to work every day and take home Wal-Mart wages, instead of having real alternatives?
Given the prevalence of unemployment, yes Walmart jobs are better than at least one real alternative.
GTC (good 'til canceled) are available to me (nobody special--just a margin account at Zecco) as nothing more than an option to change on a normal order. The only difference is that they stay open across the end of the day. (Supposedly they'll be canceled by something after 30-90 days if I don't cancel them and they don't execute.)
> If your using a display that doesn't implement HDCP than you don't see the video, therefore you don't have control of where the stream goes. Netflix determines that for you.
I've used Netflix over composite and VGA cables with no problem. While DRM can be used to protect things in the way you mention, that doesn't appear to be the case with Netflix.
Regarding the second, the article says (regarding the PPA's protections for journalists):
The PPA includes an exception for searches targeting criminal suspects (which Chen may or may not be), but that exception does not apply "if the offense to which the materials relate consists of the receipt, possession, communication, or withholding of such materials or the information contained therein."
I don't see the point in avoiding Netflix's DRM here. It's just on the content stream between Netflix's servers and Netflix's client software. Furthermore, once the stream has arrived at whatever device you're using to play the movie, Netflix then helpfully strips the DRM and decodes the stream to whatever output you want. I can play movies from Netflix on my computer or on my Wii and either will happily use a large variety of unprotected outputs (VGA, S-Video, etc.)
From the PEP:
"Unladen Swallow has focused on improving the performance of single-threaded, pure-Python code. We have not made an effort to remove CPython's global interpreter lock (GIL); we feel this is separate from our work, and due to its sensitivity, is best done in a mainline development branch. We considered making GIL-removal a part of Unladen Swallow, but were concerned by the possibility of introducing subtle bugs when porting our work from CPython 2.6 to 3.x."