Your car must be controlled in real-time. It doesn't have the luxury of checking each time you make a potentially hazardous action. It may surprise you to learn that this is not the case for computers.
Even then, you'd have to push the wrong pedal hard and maintain pressure to accidentally drive into something. That's not even close to the same thing as clicking a button.
Hopefully this was all obvious to you and you were simply being facetious. I'd rather the world was populated with assholes than idiots.
Clicking one wrong button lead to 87,000 emails being sent out saying there was a gunman on the campus and you're asking if the system is broken? What would it take for you to be sure the system was broken, if pressing the wrong button actually unleashed a gunman onto the campus?
Apollo 18 - some made up crap about something that never flew (see U-571).
Except U-571 was a real U-boat and the movie wasn't meant to be any kind of fiction, it was completely inaccurate "historical" movie. "Some made up crap" is the definition of of fiction. That's the "fi" part of "sci-fi", in case you weren't aware.
[Moaning about everything else]
"Wahh! Movies aren't books! Sci-fi is for books because books are filled with words for intelligent people like me. By making movies about sci-fi they're implying that sci-fi isn't inherently for smart people and therefore they're treading on the one thing I have to hold on to when I look at my wasted life and my faded dreams. I've never created anything so I'll reflexively dismiss anything in media forms that might by consumed by those idiot masses, that dares to contradict my belief that my chosen genre as the retreat of misunderstood supergeniuses like myself. Wah!!"
All it would take is a day's prep, an extra chip and 10 minutes of work to make it only blow up if, say, the message contains 5 a's. Tie the text out to something to check for the right 1's and 0's. This was shoddy workmanship.
You're talking about rudimentary programming for people who haven't even figured out that they could take the bomb off before detonating it. Gotta walk before you can run.
All the articles I've read about this say that "Injun" is to be replaced with "Indian". I can't see any article supporting summary's claims of "injun" changing to "slave".
While that doesn't really change the issue of censorship it would be nice to have just a little accuracy in reporting. I know, I know; I must be new here, etc.
He's not calling what the hackers did 'goodwill', he's saying they shouldn't allow a situation to come about where the goodwill (or lack thereof) is the difference between an e-mail advising of the vulnerability and... well... this. In other words he's taking responsibility for the vulnerability in their systems instead of trying to say that it's all the evil hackers fault for exploiting it. A refreshing change from the usual response to this kind of thing.
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I just wait a year or so for the Gold/Ultimate/GOTY edition of a game which comes with all addons and DLC built-in for £20 or less. Money saved, disaster averted.
I'm sorry, what? There is no "should" or "shouldn't", there's merely what is. And clearly these people are eating just fine. So anything or anyone that says they shouldn't is plainly wrong. What you fail to grasp is that people are willing to pay something more than they necessarily have to for the knowledge that they are contributing and therefore encouraging future work - both from those particular individuals and others who can see from that example that talent and hard work can be enough to make a living.
In other words, there are plenty of consumers who need only the carrot (the prospect that their payment will be rewarded by production of future works) to pay fairly. Unfortunately most established industries are managed by people who like you who continue to deny what's actually happening with the belief that their philosophy will prove true in the end, and therefore always fall back to the stick method of threatening, DRM-encumbering, and generally treating their (potential) customers like criminals.
If it is an April Fools joke then the joke is ultimately on them. That something like this could be considered absurd would only highlight how incredibly pathetic space programmes have been for the last 30 years.
Did you actually read my comment? It's not a case of "omg change is bad" or not liking the colour scheme, there are very real usability issues with the design as presented in those screenshots. You can't absorb poor layout. Even if you can get used to it, why would anyone choose to? Does Ubuntu want to have the third best GUI out of a sample of three OSes? That doesn't sound like a worthwhile goal, so instead I'm pointing this stuff out now so maybe someone reads it and fixes it.
Or would you prefer we all keep our mouths shut so as not to discourage anyone in the Linux community by pointing out this big step backwards?
I was referring to the fact that a GUI element on the edge (or corner) of a screen has, in effect, infinite size in the given dimension by virtue of the fact that the cursor cannot leave the screen, and thus, any overshot of the cursor in that direction will still leave the cursor over the GUI element.
I believe it's most commonly referenced as an implication of Fitts' Law
Obviously, this is only true when the window is maximised (something I forgot to mention in my original post).
Just a nit-pick: I think the 'infinite-dimension' effect of corners you mention only applies to the corners of the screen, not to the corners of windows.
Yes, sorry, I should've clarified that only applies when the screen is maximised (and when the taskbar is bottom aligned of course).
They've moved the window frame buttons to a place that's counter-intuitive for most people but they've also cocked that up in a way that doesn't even make sense for people used to OSX (the buttons are still laid out in the same order as if right-aligned). So now you've got buttons in places nobody is used to, the X button no longer benefits from the 'infinite-dimension' effect of being in a corner, and plus you've got the window frame buttons directly above the menubar - instantly making 10% of attempts to open the Edit menu into accidental window closes. I guess they never stopped to think why most WMs have them on the right and OSX has them on the left.
If this goes on, will the major labels and studios actually need musicians and actors? In the future, it could be harder to make money playing guitar with all of the competition from dead or retired artists.
That's ridiculous! The studios would never let that happen. I mean after all, the MPAA and RIAA have spent the last few years fighting hard to ensure every artist keeps their God-given right to get make as much money as possible for their work. After all, it's all about the artists, right? The very suggestion that the recording/movie studios would dispense with artists at the drop of a hat if they could keep every single penny for themselves is laughable!
Wow. Would you like a little cheese to go with that RAGING INFERIORITY COMPLEX. The article is far from great but there's nothing wrong with the author giving a little information about himself in a linked bio. Nor anything particularly wrong with that bio. And if you read the article it's clear he doesn't actually hate Android.
So the article kind of sucks - take it out on the writing, don't get personal about someone you've (presumably) never even met. Oh, and maybe consider some kind of therapy.
Sure, but how many crimes did it prevent? I always considered cameras more of a prevention, i.e. only idiots commit crimes in front of cameras.
But this shows that they're clearly not idiots, since cameras only help in 0.1% of crimes. So at the very best cameras are successful security theatre (until said criminals read this report). In the more likely case however they're no good at all in prevention as generally criminals figure out what protection does or doesn't work a hell of faster than government/police panels.
Yes but it's not about the practicality it's about the precedent and the principle. This is a fundamental shift in the attitude towards internet access where previously it was up to the user to decide what he should or shouldn't see and what might get him into trouble with the law for accessing. Now some manager at my ISP or even some unknown person working for/paying off a third party 'dangerous sites' list decides what my delicate little eyes are capable of handling.
To be fair it did take four years to connect those seven telescopes at a cost of £8.1 million. Granted those figures don't really relate to laying fibre for domestic internet but needless to say it isn't a quick or a cheap endeavour.
Oh no, the big bad moneymen are here to they'll rape and pillage our Internet and there's nothing we can do to stop them. The end is near! Boo-hoo. If you don't like the way the wind is blowing, stand up and fight against it you fucking pussy. You're not helpless so stop acting like you are.
That probably sounds like a troll but I'm so sick of hearing the defeatist attitude of people who could actually prevent these things if they stopped whining about them for five minutes and stood up for their supposed beliefs. The entire point of the news post and TFA is that this vote hasn't happened yet, so there's still time to do something about it.
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Your car must be controlled in real-time. It doesn't have the luxury of checking each time you make a potentially hazardous action. It may surprise you to learn that this is not the case for computers.
Even then, you'd have to push the wrong pedal hard and maintain pressure to accidentally drive into something. That's not even close to the same thing as clicking a button.
Hopefully this was all obvious to you and you were simply being facetious. I'd rather the world was populated with assholes than idiots.
Clicking one wrong button lead to 87,000 emails being sent out saying there was a gunman on the campus and you're asking if the system is broken? What would it take for you to be sure the system was broken, if pressing the wrong button actually unleashed a gunman onto the campus?
Yeah. It really goes to show that correspondence writing skills are being sorely neglected throughout the education system.
Apollo 18 - some made up crap about something that never flew (see U-571).
Except U-571 was a real U-boat and the movie wasn't meant to be any kind of fiction, it was completely inaccurate "historical" movie. "Some made up crap" is the definition of of fiction. That's the "fi" part of "sci-fi", in case you weren't aware.
[Moaning about everything else]
"Wahh! Movies aren't books! Sci-fi is for books because books are filled with words for intelligent people like me. By making movies about sci-fi they're implying that sci-fi isn't inherently for smart people and therefore they're treading on the one thing I have to hold on to when I look at my wasted life and my faded dreams. I've never created anything so I'll reflexively dismiss anything in media forms that might by consumed by those idiot masses, that dares to contradict my belief that my chosen genre as the retreat of misunderstood supergeniuses like myself. Wah!!"
Is that about right?
All it would take is a day's prep, an extra chip and 10 minutes of work to make it only blow up if, say, the message contains 5 a's. Tie the text out to something to check for the right 1's and 0's. This was shoddy workmanship.
You're talking about rudimentary programming for people who haven't even figured out that they could take the bomb off before detonating it. Gotta walk before you can run.
It's next generation. It's a generation beyond. It's Jean-Luc Picard to everybody else's James T Kirk. Stop fucking beating us over the head with it.
So an office will be using hi-tech robots to transport... paper folders. Right.
All the articles I've read about this say that "Injun" is to be replaced with "Indian". I can't see any article supporting summary's claims of "injun" changing to "slave".
While that doesn't really change the issue of censorship it would be nice to have just a little accuracy in reporting. I know, I know; I must be new here, etc.
He's not calling what the hackers did 'goodwill', he's saying they shouldn't allow a situation to come about where the goodwill (or lack thereof) is the difference between an e-mail advising of the vulnerability and... well... this. In other words he's taking responsibility for the vulnerability in their systems instead of trying to say that it's all the evil hackers fault for exploiting it. A refreshing change from the usual response to this kind of thing.
I just wait a year or so for the Gold/Ultimate/GOTY edition of a game which comes with all addons and DLC built-in for £20 or less. Money saved, disaster averted.
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Which they shouldn't.
I'm sorry, what? There is no "should" or "shouldn't", there's merely what is. And clearly these people are eating just fine. So anything or anyone that says they shouldn't is plainly wrong. What you fail to grasp is that people are willing to pay something more than they necessarily have to for the knowledge that they are contributing and therefore encouraging future work - both from those particular individuals and others who can see from that example that talent and hard work can be enough to make a living.
In other words, there are plenty of consumers who need only the carrot (the prospect that their payment will be rewarded by production of future works) to pay fairly. Unfortunately most established industries are managed by people who like you who continue to deny what's actually happening with the belief that their philosophy will prove true in the end, and therefore always fall back to the stick method of threatening, DRM-encumbering, and generally treating their (potential) customers like criminals.
I'm reasonably sure this isn't an April Fools. See story from the horse's mouth, dated 31st March.
If it is an April Fools joke then the joke is ultimately on them. That something like this could be considered absurd would only highlight how incredibly pathetic space programmes have been for the last 30 years.
Did you actually read my comment? It's not a case of "omg change is bad" or not liking the colour scheme, there are very real usability issues with the design as presented in those screenshots. You can't absorb poor layout. Even if you can get used to it, why would anyone choose to? Does Ubuntu want to have the third best GUI out of a sample of three OSes? That doesn't sound like a worthwhile goal, so instead I'm pointing this stuff out now so maybe someone reads it and fixes it.
Or would you prefer we all keep our mouths shut so as not to discourage anyone in the Linux community by pointing out this big step backwards?
what is 'infinite-dimension' effect?
I was referring to the fact that a GUI element on the edge (or corner) of a screen has, in effect, infinite size in the given dimension by virtue of the fact that the cursor cannot leave the screen, and thus, any overshot of the cursor in that direction will still leave the cursor over the GUI element.
I believe it's most commonly referenced as an implication of Fitts' Law
Obviously, this is only true when the window is maximised (something I forgot to mention in my original post).
Just a nit-pick: I think the 'infinite-dimension' effect of corners you mention only applies to the corners of the screen, not to the corners of windows.
Yes, sorry, I should've clarified that only applies when the screen is maximised (and when the taskbar is bottom aligned of course).
They've moved the window frame buttons to a place that's counter-intuitive for most people but they've also cocked that up in a way that doesn't even make sense for people used to OSX (the buttons are still laid out in the same order as if right-aligned). So now you've got buttons in places nobody is used to, the X button no longer benefits from the 'infinite-dimension' effect of being in a corner, and plus you've got the window frame buttons directly above the menubar - instantly making 10% of attempts to open the Edit menu into accidental window closes. I guess they never stopped to think why most WMs have them on the right and OSX has them on the left.
Brilliant.
If this goes on, will the major labels and studios actually need musicians and actors? In the future, it could be harder to make money playing guitar with all of the competition from dead or retired artists.
That's ridiculous! The studios would never let that happen. I mean after all, the MPAA and RIAA have spent the last few years fighting hard to ensure every artist keeps their God-given right to get make as much money as possible for their work. After all, it's all about the artists, right? The very suggestion that the recording/movie studios would dispense with artists at the drop of a hat if they could keep every single penny for themselves is laughable!
Wow. Would you like a little cheese to go with that RAGING INFERIORITY COMPLEX. The article is far from great but there's nothing wrong with the author giving a little information about himself in a linked bio. Nor anything particularly wrong with that bio. And if you read the article it's clear he doesn't actually hate Android.
So the article kind of sucks - take it out on the writing, don't get personal about someone you've (presumably) never even met. Oh, and maybe consider some kind of therapy.
Sure, but how many crimes did it prevent? I always considered cameras more of a prevention, i.e. only idiots commit crimes in front of cameras.
But this shows that they're clearly not idiots, since cameras only help in 0.1% of crimes. So at the very best cameras are successful security theatre (until said criminals read this report). In the more likely case however they're no good at all in prevention as generally criminals figure out what protection does or doesn't work a hell of faster than government/police panels.
He said that the end won't happen due to war or something liek a natural disaster. "The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying "It works!"
So apparently the world will end when a scientist invents an incredibly loud megaphone?
Yes but it's not about the practicality it's about the precedent and the principle. This is a fundamental shift in the attitude towards internet access where previously it was up to the user to decide what he should or shouldn't see and what might get him into trouble with the law for accessing. Now some manager at my ISP or even some unknown person working for/paying off a third party 'dangerous sites' list decides what my delicate little eyes are capable of handling.
And they can fuck off right now.
To be fair it did take four years to connect those seven telescopes at a cost of £8.1 million. Granted those figures don't really relate to laying fibre for domestic internet but needless to say it isn't a quick or a cheap endeavour.
Contact information for the MEPs on the ITRE committee (along with their original votes on the first reading of the amendment).
Oh no, the big bad moneymen are here to they'll rape and pillage our Internet and there's nothing we can do to stop them. The end is near! Boo-hoo. If you don't like the way the wind is blowing, stand up and fight against it you fucking pussy. You're not helpless so stop acting like you are.
That probably sounds like a troll but I'm so sick of hearing the defeatist attitude of people who could actually prevent these things if they stopped whining about them for five minutes and stood up for their supposed beliefs. The entire point of the news post and TFA is that this vote hasn't happened yet, so there's still time to do something about it.