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FYI a former client of mine with IE 7 and 8 just migrated to Hotmail

And the reason he most likely migrated to Google in the first place was the incredible, for the time, free storage. If you recall up until Google entered the scene space was ridiculously limited looking back.

That my friend is lost revenue regardless if you feel it is a shitty browser.

Both of these companies offer free storage in exchange for displaying ads based on the contents of your mail. To be fair it's more than just what I feel. If its such an awesome browser more people would use it. Competition is a good thing, and the market has surpassed this variant of IE.

If you want to target corporations you have to play by their rules.

Which is why Google is making headway with their collaborative offerings like Google Apps for Business. Not a fit for everyone, but some organizations have made the jump. Beats exchange licensing fees.

After 2020 we can move to HTML 5 when Windows 7 gets EOL with a standards compliant browser like what IE 10 is now (doesn't suck!!!)

How can you be so sure it doesn't suck when it hasn't even been released yet? Developers may make use of HTML5 now, not everything needs local storage and webgl, svg etc. What's neat about the HTML5 doc type is it degrades gracefully. Web development has many faces since the client software varies and taking things like mobile and desktop browser resolutions into consideration is important for good designs. Part of a successful project involves understanding your target audience. Well designed sites/applications can cater to the least common denominators as well as the high end.

As a grammar nazi (who, admittedly, commits apostrophe abuse on a regular basis), I tend to agree.

As a person who understands human nature fairly well, I completely agree - the old adage, 'you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar,' rings true in more ways than one. Insults only serve to cause the one being insulted to close up mentally, thus making it impossible to educate them to their mistakes after that point.

Anyone interested in the most effective ways to encourage certain behavior (without necessarily agitating the subject to the point of non-compliance) would do well to read the book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler.

Good stuff.

there's no docs, it's just "drive" now. BUT, "docs" was/is the textual documents which among spreadsheets and some other shit are all part of "apps".

if that's confusing, well, it damn well should be! but that's the state of the flux. when I go to docs.google.com with my corporate mail/google account(that we have tied to "apps") it takes me to google drive, not docs.

(What it seems like is they're using "Apps" as a trade name to sell the package of gmail for your domain and the other stuff, so they're using that as a name when they're getting companies to sign up for google "Apps", we got the gmail for your own domain mail etc setup and a while ago docs,whatever, switched to be 'drive', like it matters at all but apparently google is paying too much for it's marketingspeak and branding guys since they have damn too many of them to decide this shit)

http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/ (Gmail, Drive and Calender most definitely are what google tells you that you're signing up when you're subbing to "Google Apps" - not ad)

"Because LibreOffice doesn't do everything MS Office does?"

I keep hearing this, but I never see a list of the "10%" that MS Office can do that Libreoffice cannot. Plus, how many items on this 10% list are actually used by 90% of the MS Office users, including Google employees???

Show me the list!

Here are a few examples of financial functions in MS Office that aren't in Google Docs:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/excel-functions-by-category-HP010079186.aspx?CTT=3#BMfinancial_functions
https://support.google.com/drive/bin/static.py?hl=en&topic=25273&page=table.cs&tab=1240288

AMORDEGRC()
AMORLINC()
ISPMT()
OSSFPRICE()
ODDFYIELD()
ODDLPRICE()
ODDLYIELD()
VDB()
YIELDMAT()

I didn't look to see if Google has the same functionality in a different function, nor do I know enough about the functions to know if a trivial formula can recreate the functionality in Google.

I don't know how frequently these are used, but if the finance director can't open the forecasting spreadsheet that he's used for 5 years because one of these functions is missing, he's going to demand MS Office. At least, that's what happened in my last company when we tried to see if we could save money by moving away from MS -- the Finance department couldn't open any of the spreadsheets they used in their day to day work.

...is a corporate domain-based user management system that's web based, with particular attention made in integrating it with GMail.

Is it? I haven't actually used it, but Google's page about it makes it sound like it's a cloud-based office suite: "Google Apps is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps you and your team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device." that includes GMail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

a bit like this

I'm sure it's no surprise to anyone here, but there are plenty of other WordPress plugins that do the same thing. Some backup plugins seem to be particularly good at this, giving you unrestricted access to entire DB backups which you can hack in your own time.

http://twokinds.keenspot.com/ (be sure to read the one for 2012-12-26 - NSFW? - can't link directly right now because of the stupid "archives" way it uses to make links to past pages)
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/
http://www.xkcd.com/
http://www.google.com/ (you can search for more web comics with this thing!)

I'm not sure about that specific module, but I've found using the Google Authenticator pam module to be really useful. It ties in easily with SSH and allows users to use time-varying OTPs generated using the TOTP standard to authenticate to the system.

It's worth pointing out that although the module is developed by Google, it does not rely on nor communicate with their servers in any way: it's just an implementation of the TOTP standard. One can use their Google Authenticator client for iOS/Android or any other compatible client (I have a J2ME client on my non-smartphone, for example) to generate the relevant codes.

They are still mass murders that happened with machetes, but hey, for your sake, since you are google disabled:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/hungary/9190732/Hungarian-man-kills-four-members-of-his-family-with-large-machete-after-row.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiguan_kindergarten_attack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_school_massacre
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/190923522.html?dids=190923522:190923522&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=OCT+22%2C+1921&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=KILLS+11+AND+ENDS+OWN+LIFE&pqatl=google
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-71884392.html
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LME-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=bkwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5902%2C7437434
While these aren't in the US, it would be incredibly stupid to think that mass murders won't happen if guns aren't present. The biggest mass murder in the US was done with a fertilizer bomb FFS.

It would be nice if OpenSSH could query an LDAP server for the sshPublicKey field directly. There's a patch that does it, but as far as I know it's not integrated into the main ssh code base that ships with general Linux distributions. Supporting that and then having people use the SSHFP record with secure DNS would be nice additions to SSH best practices.

You'd better tell Google. They think they publish an API to allow you to do just this.

https://developers.google.com/drive/

It's actually better than that. There are quite a few technologies which will interpolate the "in between" views from several cameras (google "Novel View Synthesis"). Don't forget that lightfield capture technologies like the Lytro Camera also exist.

I've seen projection based glasses free 3D systems that are also quite impressive, such as Holografika.

I really do wish this 3D Hate would end...

Toddler Lock is good when the child doesn't yet understand the meaning of the home or back buttons:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=marcone.toddlerlock

At around 18 months, our toddler figured out an exploit in Ice Cream Sandwich that got him back to the main desktop. Amazingly, on his own, he figured out how to swipe desktops and run his favorite kid apps! (Fortunately, he didn't go shopping for any new ones.) At this point, we switched over to Kid's Place:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiddoware.kidsplace

This is a fully sandboxed kid-friendly desktop environment that offers your child all the apps you deem fit to allow. It enables airplane mode, disables the Google Play market, and so on. Our (now) 23-month-old knows how to navigate in and out of all his favorite apps with no trouble. There's also a separate Kid's Place Video Player app (accessed from inside Kid's Place) that they can use to play their favorite videos.

Disclaimer: I haven't evaluated other toddler desktop environments; this one worked well for us so we stuck with it.

As for all the tablet haters in here, it has been simply incredible how quickly our toddler is improving is cognitive capabilities. There are things that app can teach in a very intuitive way (memory match games, connect the dots, letter/number and counting games with fun rewards, shape puzzles with several dozen variants) that are difficult, impractical, or impossible to teach with physical toys.

And guess what? When he gets bored of his tablet, he puts it down and goes and plays with his other toys. Imagine that.

Toddler Lock is good when the child doesn't yet understand the meaning of the home or back buttons:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=marcone.toddlerlock

At around 18 months, our toddler figured out an exploit in Ice Cream Sandwich that got him back to the main desktop. Amazingly, on his own, he figured out how to swipe desktops and run his favorite kid apps! (Fortunately, he didn't go shopping for any new ones.) At this point, we switched over to Kid's Place:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiddoware.kidsplace

This is a fully sandboxed kid-friendly desktop environment that offers your child all the apps you deem fit to allow. It enables airplane mode, disables the Google Play market, and so on. Our (now) 23-month-old knows how to navigate in and out of all his favorite apps with no trouble. There's also a separate Kid's Place Video Player app (accessed from inside Kid's Place) that they can use to play their favorite videos.

Disclaimer: I haven't evaluated other toddler desktop environments; this one worked well for us so we stuck with it.

As for all the tablet haters in here, it has been simply incredible how quickly our toddler is improving is cognitive capabilities. There are things that app can teach in a very intuitive way (memory match games, connect the dots, letter/number and counting games with fun rewards, shape puzzles with several dozen variants) that are difficult, impractical, or impossible to teach with physical toys.

And guess what? When he gets bored of his tablet, he puts it down and goes and plays with his other toys. Imagine that.

That's awesome. Please compare for us:

1) The percentage of Google's revenues that are from advertising;

with

2) The percentage of Microsoft's revenues that are from advertising;

Here, I did it for you: Microsoft makes about 4% of its revenues from advertising, and that's generous - it falls into the "Online Services" category, and 4% would assume they made no money other than from advertising in that space. Google makes 96% of its revenues from advertising.

Microsoft is an "advertising company" like Google is a "hardware company" - that is to say, not at all.

Right.. Google is NEVER down

Well, considering that Google was partially down for 18 minutes prompting comments like "Does the Earth stop turning on it's axis when Gmail is down?" (from your link), I think it's pretty safe to say that Google's reliability is excellent. Perfect, no. Perfection doesn't exist. But if you can't get to Google, odds are very good (~99.999%, to be precise) it's a problem on your end.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=FB

Not really sure what your point is. In the context of this thread. Microsoft shares have been flat for years...and are down right now. Facebook raised a stack of cash from selling shares, overpriced at launch, nice! that is exactly what a company wants...its shares are up right now. I don't think they paint the picture you want them too. Personally I want facebook to do something interesting with the money its raised.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=FB

Investing in one of THESE is a big help:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22DDos+Appliance%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=KYw7UI-4FsXs6wH3uIDoDw

Because DDoS/DoS CAN be stopped (Microsoft & Amazon are setup PERFECTLY vs. it in fact, read on below on that note). IF you're running Windows, per my subject-line above? Do these registry hacks/settings:

---

Protect Against SYN Attacks

FROM -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648853.aspx

A SYN attack exploits a vulnerability in the TCP/IP connection establishment mechanism. To mount a SYN flood attack, an attacker uses a program to send a flood of TCP SYN requests to fill the pending connection queue on the server. This prevents other users from establishing network connections.

To protect the network against SYN attacks, follow these generalized steps, explained later in this document:

Enable SYN attack protection
Set SYN protection thresholds
Set additional protections
Enable SYN Attack Protection

The named value to enable SYN attack protection is located beneath the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters.

Value name: SynAttackProtect

Recommended value: 2

Valid values: 0, 1, 2

Description: Causes TCP to adjust retransmission of SYN-ACKS. When you configure this value the connection responses timeout more quickly in the event of a SYN attack. A SYN attack is triggered when the values of TcpMaxHalfOpen or TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried are exceeded.
Set SYN Protection Thresholds

The following values determine the thresholds for which SYN protection is triggered. All of the keys and values in this section are under the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters

These keys and values are:

Value name: TcpMaxPortsExhausted

Recommended value: 5

Valid values: 0?65535

Description: Specifies the threshold of TCP connection requests that must be exceeded before SYN flood protection is triggered.

Value name: TcpMaxHalfOpen

Recommended value data: 500

Valid values: 100?65535

Description: When SynAttackProtect is enabled, this value specifies the threshold of TCP connections in the SYN_RCVD state. When SynAttackProtect is exceeded, SYN flood protection is triggered.

Value name: TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried

Recommended value data: 400

Valid values: 80?65535

Description: When SynAttackProtect is enabled, this value specifies the threshold of TCP connections in the SYN_RCVD state for which at least one retransmission has been sent. When SynAttackProtect is exceeded, SYN flood protection is triggered.

Set Additional Protections

All the keys and values in this section are located under the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters. These keys and values are:

Value name: TcpMaxConnectResponseRetransmissions

Recommended value data: 2

Valid values: 0?255

Description: Controls how many times a SYN-ACK is retransmitted before canceling the attempt when responding to a SYN request.

Value name: TcpMaxDataRetransmissions

Recommended value data: 2

Valid values: 0?65535

Description: Specifies the number of times that TCP retransmits an individual data segment (not connection request segments) before aborting the connection.

Value name: EnablePMTUDiscovery

Recommended value data: 0

Valid values: 0, 1

Description: Setting this value to 1 (the default) forces TCP to discover the maximum transmissio

You're really pushing assumptions to absurdity.
The article you mention places a huge emphasis on TVs. Incidentally, I don't own a TV.

I use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idle.babytoy on my smartphone because my boy (now 1 year old) is very interested in my phone when I'm talking or checking my e-mail. I only pull out the phone 3-4 times a day, and this app lets him mash the screen with very slim chances of accidentally exiting the app. Touching the Home button does nothing and he gets bored pretty fast. When he was smaller, he would play on this for 10-15 minutes, now he throws the phone away after maybe 2 minutes. The app is now there just because he needs to hold that thing that daddy uses, and this app helps me keep my phone stuff away from being accidentally messed up.

My child develops normally, he has an equal interest in cats, dogs, toys, people, other kids, mashing laptop and desktop keyboards (doesn't matter if the screen is on). He learned how to turn lights on and off, how to push/pull doors, he likes throwing balls more than anything though. 10 minutes per day of mashing a phone screen doesn't do any harm.

Aside from that, an app could well be totally interractive with the kid. I suggest "cat games". Set kid on lap, fire it up, and help the kid touch the bugs. Interactive and teaches skills:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.catgamesfree&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImFpci5jYXRnYW1lc2ZyZWUiXQ..

Or if squishing bugs is too violent, how about Pew Pew Laser. Just makes a pretty light and "pew" sound:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jcoco.actual.pewpewlasers&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5qY29jby5hY3R1YWwucGV3cGV3bGFzZXJzIl0.

Aside from that, an app could well be totally interractive with the kid. I suggest "cat games". Set kid on lap, fire it up, and help the kid touch the bugs. Interactive and teaches skills:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.catgamesfree&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImFpci5jYXRnYW1lc2ZyZWUiXQ..

Or if squishing bugs is too violent, how about Pew Pew Laser. Just makes a pretty light and "pew" sound:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jcoco.actual.pewpewlasers&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5qY29jby5hY3R1YWwucGV3cGV3bGFzZXJzIl0.

Heh.... I just released this for Android tablets.... now I get to flog it here on Slashdot, LOL.

Seriously, though, it was designed for cats, but the reviews for the webOS version have stated that small children loved it, too. This was more or less confirmed when my 2 year old niece played the new enhanced Android version at a family Christmas party and she was delighted.. there's even an Easter egg in the game to put up a "Scary dog" which jut made her giggle (not my cats, though). She was also much better at it than the adults that tried it.

At any rate, here is the link.

Don't tell me how to raise my kid--I won't tell you how to raise yours. Hate to break it to the fucktards wanting to tell others how to raise your kid--electronics are a large portion of the world for many. Kids will get outside, but why can't they learn and get a fascination with everything?
Anyone actually read the AAP article? The study found children can't cognitively comprehend anything before two--basically there is no educational TV before two. something along the lines that watching SpongeBob makes your kid dumber... Shocker!! My own theory-stimulate that young brain any way you can. The notion kids don't comprehend before two is hogwash--give them the right stimulus and they will do amazing things. Some kids can count, know their letters and shapes by two--others can eat.... A lot depends on the parents.

Simple games do wonders: Here is a simple ABC game as well as one that helps with counting and has the advantage of doing it in several languages.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=russh.toddler.game

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kidgames.connect.dot.dinosaur

Don't tell me how to raise my kid--I won't tell you how to raise yours. Hate to break it to the fucktards wanting to tell others how to raise your kid--electronics are a large portion of the world for many. Kids will get outside, but why can't they learn and get a fascination with everything?
Anyone actually read the AAP article? The study found children can't cognitively comprehend anything before two--basically there is no educational TV before two. something along the lines that watching SpongeBob makes your kid dumber... Shocker!! My own theory-stimulate that young brain any way you can. The notion kids don't comprehend before two is hogwash--give them the right stimulus and they will do amazing things. Some kids can count, know their letters and shapes by two--others can eat.... A lot depends on the parents.

Simple games do wonders: Here is a simple ABC game as well as one that helps with counting and has the advantage of doing it in several languages.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=russh.toddler.game

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kidgames.connect.dot.dinosaur

Android/iOS are hitting 700,000 applications and that trend is set to continue. All the main applications were covered years ago.

"All" is a strong word. Xcode, for example, is not ported to iPad. And do you expect Visual Studio to come to Windows RT any time soon? Even if you consider programming an edge case that a statistically insignificant fraction of users will run into, what pixel art editor do you recommend? I tried spc-m's pixel art editor, and it didn't even appear to let me select pixels and move or copy them. Therefore, it can't replace GIMP for my pixeling needs.

more portable

Even once you start carrying an external keyboard?

HDMI out

Which doesn't help if you come across a monitor that happens not to support HDMI. At this point VGA+audio vs. HDMI looks like a wash except in applications involving surround sound, but I'd appreciate evidence to the contrary.

Toddler Lock works nicely. Cool colours and sounds as they touch the screen. It temporarily replaces the home screen so it locks out phone/internet/other app access until an adult follows the onscreen unlock instructions.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=marcone.toddlerlock

Counting Robot

Basically it is a sort of whack-a-mole with different numbers of moles each time.

Colemak ends up sometimes better, sometimes worse than Dvorak on a 60-40 ratio for Colemak.
Here's a link for you.

But really, there's Workman, based on Colemak to be even more typing friendly. Scroll down to the book listings (starting with Don Quixote) for the various stats on what it would have taken to write each book.

If you want to dispute it, make sure to include links.

Interestingly enough, you can. Information can be converted to energy, at a rate of kTln2 per bit. Energy can of course be converted to mass. Of course, boltzmann's constant is small.

So, one bit at room temperature works out to about 4 × 10-21 joules. That works out to be about 4 x 10-28 kg per bit.

Well, maybe.

Trouble is, they're building ghost cities, they build railroads with subpar concrete (hint, since it's not explicit in the NYT article: to make proper high speed rail concete you basically need a derivative of volcanic ash, and the amount thereof produced per year is lower than the amount needed to fit the needs of China's yearly consumption, which dwarves the consumption by that of all other countries; in other words, their railway infrastructure's lifespan is roughly 10-20 years, vs 50-100 in developed countries), they need to rebalance, and so many other things can go wrong...

It's probably great, until you develop a tolerance (and yes, you can... I did). I was stung SO much & so badly as a boy, so many times (10x in 1 leg once & 100's of times in a few summers):

After awhile, you don't "swell up" as much or as badly... thank the merciful Lord.

See here (tons of it on the web) -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22bee+sting%22+and+%22tolerance%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=RHvYUOWdB8q80AHCjoDACw

* My family's done bees since my grandparents & before that in Poland - for generations (my sis is into it now as a 'side job' afaik too, currently)...

2 things you NEVER do, which I will warn ANYONE on here:

NEVER wear cologne (or any STRONG scents) & never, EVER 'swat' at them first. They interpret that as an attack.

APK

P.S.=> You're OK as long as you "smoke the bees out" 1st, since they won't be able to get scent signals from the queen to "attack", which believe you me: THEY WILL once you mess with their nests!

(My grandpa used to load a 'bellows' with apple leaves & let it smoulder to do this), but IF you do the DUMB MISTAKE I did once (wearing strong cologne & not realizing it)? You're ASKING to get bit...

... apk

They moved to the 'cloud', making it near impossible for authorities to raid the servers the site is hosted on:

http://www.google.com/search?q=tpb+moves+to+the+cloud

I see the opposite on Win7 64-bit, actually Dan East! To wit:

I went to Media Player Classic 64-bit for about a year, prior to lately/now!

(Since I went to 64-bit Windows 7 circa 2009 when it released)

However, lately, on SOME video files? MediaPlayer Classic began to LAG...

Even using its 'optimized' output option.

So, it was time to try VLC 64-bit & since versions before the one I use now in 2.05 just recently released (2.02 - 2.04)? It hauls ass, & doesn't "lag frames" like I've seen Media Player Classic do since version before 1.6.5.6366 (which was the last one I used, also recently updated & re-released).

Coolest part is - the VLC 64-bit build's not even FINAL yet.

* Now, admittedly - I'm NO EXPERT on multimedia (@ least not anymore & NOT that I ever was really since the last work I did programmatically in multimedia filework was this in that regards -> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22APK%22+and+%22Cd-Rom%22+and+%22Alarm%22&btnG=Search&hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&gbv=1 way, Way, WAY back circa 1997-2004 iirc, & that was only for std. sound formats like wav, cd rom music tracks, mp3, etc.).

HOWEVER... it appears to ME @ least, thusfar, that the problem ISN'T possibly in their code, but how the codecs are being implemented that they're using... thoughts?

Now, iirc, also - VLC implements a lot of their OWN code to do the work of external codecs... is this true? Operating on "trivia memory" here.

Thanks!

APK

P.S.=> Lastly - I'll take correction here from folks that are more "expert" in multimedia & CODECS than I am (and, thanks actually on that note: I am all about learning more - it's part of the reason, if not THE biggest reason, I hit forums like this one - nobody "knows it all", this field's TOO big & changes TOO fast)

... apk

There are a lot of proxies:
http://about.piratereverse.info/proxy/list.html

Actually, there are a lot of proxy lists:
https://www.google.com/search?q=tpb+proxies

Really, trying to legal block proxies on the internet is one of the dumbest things ever.

So RMS doesn't like C++ -- this doesn't stop people who can use it properly from writing their projects in it, does it?

Yeah, after they enforce a company-wide ban on multiple inheritance, exceptions, and 95% of the publicly available libraries.

Google doesn't ban multiple inheritance, though in most cases multiple inheritance of anything but pure interfaces is discouraged, and there's rarely any need for Google engineers to use all of the BOOST libraries, given Google's extensive internal libraries.

I do wish that exceptions were allowed, but I understand the rationale for avoiding them (it's spelled out in the style guide), and can't disagree with the decision.

(I write C++ code for Google.)

This isn't to troll, but I am sorry to say, that VLC versions 2.x.x and up were too slow for my liking compared to the 1.x.x seies. Talk of "improving the customer experience!"

Needless to say, I abandoned ship! On Android, I have discovered BSPlayer FREE . This is one player that will not throw errors at the multiple video formats I've thrown at it. VLC on Android isn't even out of beta! On windows, it chokes and sucks big time!

So RMS doesn't like C++ -- this doesn't stop people who can use it properly from writing their projects in it, does it?

Yeah, after they enforce a company-wide ban on multiple inheritance, exceptions, and 95% of the publicly available libraries.

The Google style only applies to code written by Google employees. Those publicly available libraries are not banned (except for Boost, and then only certain parts of it).

So RMS doesn't like C++ -- this doesn't stop people who can use it properly from writing their projects in it, does it?

Yeah, after they enforce a company-wide ban on multiple inheritance, exceptions, and 95% of the publicly available libraries.

Most of the sea life in the ocean will die. The reefs are a critical component of the food chain for fish of all sizes, including plenty that don't directly live on the reef itself.

Amazingly, even though countless millions of species have gone extinct, none of them have been on the long list of critical ones until now.

Let me translate my sarcasm for you: Googling "critical species in the food web" brings up only web pages about endangered species. Apparently none of the non-endangered species are critical. Convenient, that.

"People don't like believing that cops will lie in court and falsely accuse people of stuff and are just bad/evil in general. So they don't believe it."

A book about that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_Were_Made_(But_Not_by_Me)
"Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) is a non-fiction book by social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, first published in 2007. It deals with cognitive dissonance, self-serving bias and other cognitive biases, using these psychological theories to illustrate how the perpetrators of hurtful acts justify and rationalize their behavior. It describes a positive feedback loop of action and self-deception by which slight differences between people's attitudes become polarised."

There is a whole chapter on how good cops go bad one small step at a time.

That said, I'd expect a solid majority of police officers are trying to do the best job they can under difficult circumstances. The police are on the front lines of the fact that the USA is a very broken and disintegrating society in many ways, very much in need of a good dose of self-renewal.

As I comment here about John Gardner's 1971 book "Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society":
http://www.pdfernhout.net/post-scarcity-princeton.html
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From John Gardner's 1971 book:
        "As I was browsing in a university bookstore recently, I heard an apple-cheeked girl say to her companion, "The truth is that our society and everything in it is in a state of decay." I studied her carefully and I must report that she did not seem even slightly decayed. But what of the society as a whole? Decay is hardly the word for what is happening to us. We are witnessing changes so profound and far-reaching that the mind can hardly grasp all the implications. ... Only the blind and complacent could fail to recognize the great tasks of renewal facing us -- in government, in education, ..."
    John Gardner goes on to say that every generation faces the problem of renewing itself to meet new challenges emerging from the very success of the old ways of doing things. And he suggests that social values are not some drying up old reservoir, but rather a reservoir of variable capacity that must be recharged anew in every generation. Democracy -- use it or lose it. Free speech on the internet -- use it or lose it. Social capital -- use it or lose it?
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Some of Gardner's book:
http://books.google.com/books/about/Self_Renewal.html?id=U5hXpnwUmW4C

One hosted using Google Code (last work appears to be have been done in May 2012):

Ada Web Application is a framework to build web application.

• AWA uses Ada Server Faces for the web framework. This framework is using several patterns from the Java world such as Java Server Faces and Java Servlets.
• AWA provides a set of ready to use and extendable modules that are common to many web application. This includes managing the login, authentication, users, permissions.
• AWA uses an Object Relational Mapping that helps in writing Ada applications on top of MySQL or SQLite databases. The ADO framework allows to map database objects into Ada records and access them easily.
• To avoid the blank page syndrome, the Dynamo application generator is provided to quickly create a new project, add a new database model or add a presentation page.

Here's another one from the AdaCore site:

What is AWS ? First of all, AWS stands for Ada Web Server but it is more than just another Web server...

AWS is a complete framework to develop Web based applications. The main part of the framework is the embedded Web server. This small yet powerful Web server can be embedded into your application so your application will be able to talk with a standard Web browser like Microsoft Internet Explorer or Firefox for example. Around this Web server a lot of services have been developed.

Meet https://images.google.com/

Anybody here using Ada, or has used Ada? Not implying anything, but genuinely interested. Isn't Ada one of the most crazy complex algorithm languages ever invented? Just my impression.

It has a fan base, and specialized uses, if this mother of all Internet trolls from 1997 is any indicator:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?fromgroups#!topic/comp.lang.ada/SHMwUTG_TZQ

It's like... Wow, just wow, look at the size of that thread!

Here you go http://maps.google.com/

Quasi-periodic tiling of magnetic spin axii?

"Axii"?

Perhaps you meant "axes" (ahk-sees). See also: Irregular plurals from Latin and Greek.

Sorry, don't mean to be pedantic, but made-up plurals are a pet peeve.

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Amdahl was plug-compatible with IBM because Amdahl licensed IBMs patents (and vice-versa).

Plug-compatible meant that the ISA was the same, and the IO interfaces were the same. It certainly did NOT mean that any components could be exchanged between Amdahl and IBM systems. You could roll in an Amdahl box to replace an IBM box, but what was inside the boxes was not compatible at all. The ability for this to happen was forced on IBM by anti-trust rulings, and had nothing to do with what was or was not patented.

Also, note that anyone who wanted to make plug-compatible IO or processors had to license the patents from IBM. The anti-trust rulings meant that IBM had to license the patents, but not for free. If IBM and the OEM could not come to terms, the court would set the royalty rate.

So, what happened with patent laws or strategies? Nothing. Things now are just like they always have been.

One of the largest threats to global warming (for America at least) is the continued lowering of water levels for the Mississippi River. Historians can correct or amend me here, but empires rise and fall on the strength of their rivers. The US is no different, and should the Mississippi fail then there will be serious strategic and economic threats to the security and health of the nation.

Not good.

Theorists had said QSLs might exist, but one had never been demonstrated before.

I call BS!