I was thinking this. I have a high level MSDN subscription through work...
My kids could use another tablet, iPad usage can be very contentious at home and I'm moving away from Apple products for Andriod (but I'd take a free Surface RT).
At 3 degrees of separation most of the planet is probably included in the analysis.
And there are certainly more than 700,000 people who would like to harm the US (including mothers of innocents killed via our wars). We just don't know who they are, we can perform surveillance much more effectively at home...
We need an independent Presidential candidate right now. Seriously, right now, spreading the message of vastly reduced domestic tracking (asking for no tracking isn't realistic). The entrenched powers are aligned in the same direction regarding spying on the Citizens of the US.
What does it mean to be a citizen? What benefits does it provide? It should at least adhere to the Constitution, in this case, specifically the 4th Amendment.
I'm not sure that specific organizations being involved is the best approach, especially considering the post by mendax above (how on earth can I link to that specific post???) which specifically mentioned that knowing who you associate with can harm one (metadata) via two Supreme Court cases from the civil rights period.
Given what Snowden has exposed (hero and patriot in my opinion), is it time for We The People v. The United States?
Want metadata, get a warrant. 4th, 1st, 9th (rights not enumerated, but the 4th is the key), and 10th amendments (a state should be able to prevent such monitoring) apply. The Constitution doesn't mention secret courts, with citizens unable to defend against secret actions and data collection.
And the court history that mendax pointed out (Thank you) only further the need to pursue the issue.
Secret spying on citizens, including associations, would seem to be in clear violation of the Constitution. The Oath is a short passage, but its sanctity is critical, and tarnished, if not ignored.
I don't expect much from my government. At a minimum I expect the government to respect and adhere to the Constitution and their Oaths. It appears they have not respected either.
At this size, doubling the thickness to add a slide-out hardware keyboard probably makes sense, it would be pretty easy to type on compared to a Blackberry. Could probably also increase battery life considerably with the extra space.
Of course I'm looking forward to the day when I can use my 15" laptop as a "clamshell" phone... I'm surprised how close we are to that being some sort of reality.
Thanks for the info. I was aware of some caching, but I don't know any specifics (which could vary by browser).
Do you know if the files are cached by file or file/site (where the same library would be downloaded multiple times)? And I'm assuming file name is the key to uniqueness, a header or other info inside the file would require more I/O than a directory read. Given anyone can edit a JS library I imagine the site is included as part of the cache key.
I shall seek out the Google for more information...
It's a logical progression actually, all of the major development approaches have large libraries that are convenient and provide a base level of functionality (C/C++/Java/.Net).
The issue with Javascript is that the libraries have to be loaded onto the client at runtime (rather than being installed).
Do any browsers implement library handlers (I don't have time to check right now)?
This would include: 1. Store all JS libraries. 2. When a script depends on a library, check the version, get new version from script's site, but also keep old version. If the version is already on the client, just load it up. 3. Rinse and repeat. 4. Allow user to clear or remove specific libraries via a GUI.
This would allow the "framework(s)" to be "installed" on the client, and it's not like you end up with GBs of scripts (MBs for sure). A manager could enforce a maximum script pool size and then, when the limit is reached, delete the oldest, least used scripts as needed.
Anyway, I'm a bit naive when it comes to web stuff, I'm mostly server side or Winforms, but I'm very familiar with caching strategies.
The frames of most of today's cars are referred to as unibody. The frame is essentially one piece (including the roof, door mounts, trunk/engine enclosures) that everything is attached to. It provides structural support; and when impacted, crumples, absorbing energy.
The OP mentions trucks specifically, which is a very astute observation. Work trucks use the older body-on-frame construction, which has a solid frame supporting the "body" of the vehicle (the body is essentially a separate frame on top of the "drive-train frame"). Fixing older cars involved "pulling" the frame to straighten it out, if the damage wasn't too bad. Body "frame" parts are replaceable (or the entire body frame, many custom trucks replace the body frame, specifically the bed area - the bed is a third frame on larger trucks).
Anyway, I don't know anything about cars, but my dad was a body specialist and my grandfather worked engines and brakes (and pulling frames)... Modern cars decimated the auto body industry, everything is totaled these days because of any damage to the unibody frame (which makes sense, it is safer for lower vehicles - cars, but anything other than a very minor accident can destroy the car as the frame is bent and warped).
Consider a company that just develops interactive game apps as advertisements. It could actually be fun, with the right design.
Use the phone model, or toilet gaming (that's what I call it, and I practice it...).
The key would be 1-2 minutes of fun playtime, and then a guaranteed coupon (maybe offer a base coupon without the game, but if the person wins they get a better coupon, if they win a more difficult level, maybe another tier of coupon).
Take companies on, help with the design of the game and then implement it, alone with a core coupon service system.
Shoot, add a dedicated app for such advertisements, let the user pick the product they are interested in (or just the game), and away they go.
Regulation is designed to enforce tax collection and nothing more. And I'm not convinced that's a bad thing, but I also feel that ride sharing, even for profit, should be legal (and that profits should be reported and taxes paid accordingly - good luck with that, I feel that the middleman should handle this, with the individual provider having to then report the profit portion, removing fuel and a possible maintenance fee).
To get to the Visual Studio command line and other applications that I don't use enough to pin to the taskbar.
The start menu was fine, but it needed a bit more polished way of organizing things. I always edit it from Windows Explorer, which isn't bad but only shows part of the start menu itself (the current user items or the shared items visible to all users, except that I am the only user). The "native" editing of the menu has always been a pain (slower than Explorer, especially waiting for a subfolder to open when moving items around).
How would one find the Visual Studio command line (by version, I typically run 2008, 2010, and 2012 due to legacy apps that haven't been upgraded to the newer versions)? If that's easy in Windows 8.1, I would be interested.
Having said that, I only worked with Windows 8 on my wife's laptop until she told me she wanted Windows 7 back (a familiar friend).
Referencing the other article about Technet, I have an MSDN Ultimate subscription through work, thus all of the versions of VS. And yes, I do some work at home (sometimes, when the task at hand is particularly exciting, it's nice to be able to setup a TFS server and work on extensions and such).
I watched the movie last week and Snowden was in my mind while doing so (to be fair, Assange was in my mind last time I watched it, earlier this year).
The title bar being centered destroys any concept of muscle memory.
Left justified titles always start in the same location of a window.
Center justified tiles start in various locations based on the name of the application, and even for the same application can vary if the title shows a document name. There can be no muscle memory as each window requires a scan of the title bar to find the beginning of the title.
Terrible. There should at least be an option to left justify window titles. And left justified should be the default, as it has always been.
I used Windows 8 for three weeks on my wife's new laptop, until she asked to be upgraded to Windows 7... I didn't like it either.
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I was thinking this. I have a high level MSDN subscription through work...
My kids could use another tablet, iPad usage can be very contentious at home and I'm moving away from Apple products for Andriod (but I'd take a free Surface RT).
At 3 degrees of separation most of the planet is probably included in the analysis.
And there are certainly more than 700,000 people who would like to harm the US (including mothers of innocents killed via our wars). We just don't know who they are, we can perform surveillance much more effectively at home...
We need an independent Presidential candidate right now. Seriously, right now, spreading the message of vastly reduced domestic tracking (asking for no tracking isn't realistic). The entrenched powers are aligned in the same direction regarding spying on the Citizens of the US.
What does it mean to be a citizen? What benefits does it provide? It should at least adhere to the Constitution, in this case, specifically the 4th Amendment.
Corporate policy could enforce an alternative PDF reader. And everyone would be happy as PDF viewing would be a much nicer, faster, experience.
Replying to myself, regarding the end:
It appears they have not respected either. And the level of adherence to the Constitution or their Oaths is secret.
I'm not sure that specific organizations being involved is the best approach, especially considering the post by mendax above (how on earth can I link to that specific post???) which specifically mentioned that knowing who you associate with can harm one (metadata) via two Supreme Court cases from the civil rights period.
Given what Snowden has exposed (hero and patriot in my opinion), is it time for We The People v. The United States?
Want metadata, get a warrant. 4th, 1st, 9th (rights not enumerated, but the 4th is the key), and 10th amendments (a state should be able to prevent such monitoring) apply. The Constitution doesn't mention secret courts, with citizens unable to defend against secret actions and data collection.
And the court history that mendax pointed out (Thank you) only further the need to pursue the issue.
Secret spying on citizens, including associations, would seem to be in clear violation of the Constitution. The Oath is a short passage, but its sanctity is critical, and tarnished, if not ignored.
I don't expect much from my government. At a minimum I expect the government to respect and adhere to the Constitution and their Oaths. It appears they have not respected either.
This saddens me.
That story was for 2012 (posted in April of 2012), there's no mention of 2013 conditions. Just FYI.
I don't know the current conditions (a great pun actually, hydro power).
At this size, doubling the thickness to add a slide-out hardware keyboard probably makes sense, it would be pretty easy to type on compared to a Blackberry. Could probably also increase battery life considerably with the extra space.
Of course I'm looking forward to the day when I can use my 15" laptop as a "clamshell" phone... I'm surprised how close we are to that being some sort of reality.
Thanks for that site, awesome.
Burst into laughter at "the admin hostile tools that make the MS-DOS command-line look futuristic (sqlplus)".
Oracle without Toad is... Oracle without Toad. It's expensive, but so is time.
My kids are terribly confused about C and K when it comes to spelling. It took their frustration for me to realize how difficult English is...
There are grammatical errors as well, the word "suit" was used when "suite" should have been, my mind tripped over the error.
Sorry for the spam, but I searched and found a good article about HTTP caching (I mostly use TCP). No response necessary.
Thanks again.
Thanks for the info. I was aware of some caching, but I don't know any specifics (which could vary by browser).
Do you know if the files are cached by file or file/site (where the same library would be downloaded multiple times)? And I'm assuming file name is the key to uniqueness, a header or other info inside the file would require more I/O than a directory read. Given anyone can edit a JS library I imagine the site is included as part of the cache key.
I shall seek out the Google for more information...
It's a logical progression actually, all of the major development approaches have large libraries that are convenient and provide a base level of functionality (C/C++/Java/.Net).
The issue with Javascript is that the libraries have to be loaded onto the client at runtime (rather than being installed).
Do any browsers implement library handlers (I don't have time to check right now)?
This would include:
1. Store all JS libraries.
2. When a script depends on a library, check the version, get new version from script's site, but also keep old version. If the version is already on the client, just load it up.
3. Rinse and repeat.
4. Allow user to clear or remove specific libraries via a GUI.
This would allow the "framework(s)" to be "installed" on the client, and it's not like you end up with GBs of scripts (MBs for sure). A manager could enforce a maximum script pool size and then, when the limit is reached, delete the oldest, least used scripts as needed.
Anyway, I'm a bit naive when it comes to web stuff, I'm mostly server side or Winforms, but I'm very familiar with caching strategies.
So it goes...
This.
The frames of most of today's cars are referred to as unibody. The frame is essentially one piece (including the roof, door mounts, trunk/engine enclosures) that everything is attached to. It provides structural support; and when impacted, crumples, absorbing energy.
The OP mentions trucks specifically, which is a very astute observation. Work trucks use the older body-on-frame construction, which has a solid frame supporting the "body" of the vehicle (the body is essentially a separate frame on top of the "drive-train frame"). Fixing older cars involved "pulling" the frame to straighten it out, if the damage wasn't too bad. Body "frame" parts are replaceable (or the entire body frame, many custom trucks replace the body frame, specifically the bed area - the bed is a third frame on larger trucks).
Anyway, I don't know anything about cars, but my dad was a body specialist and my grandfather worked engines and brakes (and pulling frames)... Modern cars decimated the auto body industry, everything is totaled these days because of any damage to the unibody frame (which makes sense, it is safer for lower vehicles - cars, but anything other than a very minor accident can destroy the car as the frame is bent and warped).
Consider a company that just develops interactive game apps as advertisements. It could actually be fun, with the right design.
Use the phone model, or toilet gaming (that's what I call it, and I practice it...).
The key would be 1-2 minutes of fun playtime, and then a guaranteed coupon (maybe offer a base coupon without the game, but if the person wins they get a better coupon, if they win a more difficult level, maybe another tier of coupon).
Take companies on, help with the design of the game and then implement it, alone with a core coupon service system.
Shoot, add a dedicated app for such advertisements, let the user pick the product they are interested in (or just the game), and away they go.
Coupon Gaming. I bet it could work.
Here's the new screen layout:
http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0120a86dd2e5970b-pi
To some degree we are getting there (it's worse on the XBox 360):
http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/r/story/70/00/002993/original/w8rtm-windows-8-start-620x.jpg?hash=MwZ2ZmL2AQ
And Mike Judge is a god in my mind: Idiocracy, Office Space (I wore a suit for a few years early on) and Beavis and Butthead.
Anyway, I have to get back to Aww my Balls. Stop interrupting me. You broke my apartment.
Neil Peart of Rush fame could rock that keyboard set, as long as it could turn around him while he typed...
"Enrich a few taxi drivers"?
The median income of a taxi driver in the US is around $32,000.
http://www1.salary.com/Taxi-Driver-Salary.html
Regulation is designed to enforce tax collection and nothing more. And I'm not convinced that's a bad thing, but I also feel that ride sharing, even for profit, should be legal (and that profits should be reported and taxes paid accordingly - good luck with that, I feel that the middleman should handle this, with the individual provider having to then report the profit portion, removing fuel and a possible maintenance fee).
The Europe has had MRSA since 1994 (first case was internal to the Netherlands):
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/10/16/drug-resistant-staph-infections-in-europe-could-mark-start-of-a-new-epidemic/
Just FYI.
Here's a good article from Rolling Stone specifically about Miami, but it certainly applies (more so) to the Keys:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620
To get to the Visual Studio command line and other applications that I don't use enough to pin to the taskbar.
The start menu was fine, but it needed a bit more polished way of organizing things. I always edit it from Windows Explorer, which isn't bad but only shows part of the start menu itself (the current user items or the shared items visible to all users, except that I am the only user). The "native" editing of the menu has always been a pain (slower than Explorer, especially waiting for a subfolder to open when moving items around).
How would one find the Visual Studio command line (by version, I typically run 2008, 2010, and 2012 due to legacy apps that haven't been upgraded to the newer versions)? If that's easy in Windows 8.1, I would be interested.
Having said that, I only worked with Windows 8 on my wife's laptop until she told me she wanted Windows 7 back (a familiar friend).
Referencing the other article about Technet, I have an MSDN Ultimate subscription through work, thus all of the versions of VS. And yes, I do some work at home (sometimes, when the task at hand is particularly exciting, it's nice to be able to setup a TFS server and work on extensions and such).
NO MORE SECRETS
I watched the movie last week and Snowden was in my mind while doing so (to be fair, Assange was in my mind last time I watched it, earlier this year).
Everyone is a suspect. Or so it seems.
The title bar being centered destroys any concept of muscle memory.
Left justified titles always start in the same location of a window.
Center justified tiles start in various locations based on the name of the application, and even for the same application can vary if the title shows a document name. There can be no muscle memory as each window requires a scan of the title bar to find the beginning of the title.
Terrible. There should at least be an option to left justify window titles. And left justified should be the default, as it has always been.
I used Windows 8 for three weeks on my wife's new laptop, until she asked to be upgraded to Windows 7... I didn't like it either.