I don't get it either, but I stopped wondering years ago.. I think it has something to do with most people being fucking stupid. While recently Firefox and Chrome have nice things, Opera also was the "underdog" when *no* other browser had *anything* on it. So, yeah. GG, interwebs:P
And that scene doesn't even make fun of people who "cry wolf" as the poster seems to think.
Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!
Dennis: (interrupting) Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcicial aquatic ceremony!
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: Oh but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Arthur: SHUT UP!
Dennis: Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bink lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Arthur: SHUT UP! WILL YOU SHUT UP! [Grabs Dennis]
Dennis: Ah! Now we see the violence inherent in the system!
Arthur: SHUT UP!
Dennis: Oh, come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Arthur: (muttering) Bloody peasant!
Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressin' me? You saw it, didn't you?
(END OF SCENE)
Looks like King Arthur got owned. But hey, homophobia and not being that bright seem to be clearly related, so I can see how someone might get that jumbled up.
Why? What's your point? You honestly don't see how bullying, up to murder, might come across as oppressive?
Funny you bring up Monty Python though, I think their suggestion would have been to do away with marriage altogether, to just mock it into oblivion. It's almost as if you're not familiar with the body of their work:P
In Firefox, you can see the current memory usage of a page by going to about:memory.
You can see all sorts of confusing and unexplained stuff there, but for the whole of Firefox, not individual web pages... !
And yes, peak is interesting, certainly as webpage author, anything that can help debug is. That is, you'd expect it to be "not interesting" until something is up with it, and then it's highly interesting. Right now there isn't even a way to tell. Oh, and if something on your system used all memory for 0.0001 seconds every 20 seconds, it would kill all your caches.. it just wouldn't be as bad as using it all the time and grinding the machine to a halt, but that's hardly a consolation.
But more important would be what elements *in* a page use how much memory. How much do the DOMs of 200.svg images weigh? What resources are reused, and what are allocated multiple times, when using the same icon a 100 times on one page? I don't know! I don't even know if it matters, but to find that out, we need the tools.
We really should start paying attention to memory footprint.. of web pages! We know wasting bandwidth is bad, we know hogging too much CPU is bad, both of these things are easily noticeable when they become extreme; but we don't even have good tools to watch (peak) memory consumption of individual web pages, and to see what elements in it use how much. That kinda sucks.
-- Run filters occasionally (let's say, delete read "comment moderation" and "someone replied" emails from slashdot after two weeks, that sort of thing). -- See the last time a filter matched something, to make it possible to weed out filters that are no longer required. -- Allow filters that apply to more than one email account, or at least cloning and tweaking filters, instead of having to recreate them from scratch. -- Run filters manually on several folders and/or email accounts at once. Actually, right now it's possible to select multiple folders, it just doesn't do much useful things.
Thunderbird has felt abandoned for years now. Can't the thing be forked by people who actually care?
Ever seen zebras (or other animals, but I like zebras ^^) cross a river in Africa? They pile up, the alligators wait, then some zebras start crossing, at which point all zebras try to cross as quickly as possible, while alligators pick a few off (like eating zebras in a river). End result? A few dead Zebras; instead of all of them dead, because they were stuck on the wrong side of the river. If each zebra did what you consider the smart thing to do, they'd all die.
And guess how even the pitiful rights employees have today were achieved for the most part? By people taking risks for what is right, instead of being part of the pressure against others by not doing so. That's right; because if NOBODY would take shit, employers would have no choice but respect their workers, or they would have none. But as it is now, they can choose from a huge pool of spineless, shortsighted people. (shortsighted because the trouble with selling your soul is that it doesn't end up making anything easier or better)
Surviving is good. Surviving means your alive.
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
-- George Orwell
Often times the only real choice people have is to survive.
"Freedom is what we do with what is done to us."
&
"Whenever a man chooses his purpose and his commitment in all clearness and in all sincerity, whatever that purpose may be, it is impossible for him to prefer another. It is true in the sense that we do not believe in progress. Progress implies amelioration; but man is always the same, facing a situation which is always changing, and choice remains always a choice in the situation. The moral problem has not changed since the time when it was a choice between slavery and anti-slavery."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
Lastly, it simply wouldn't work if every one had their own company.
Yet that, family businesses if you will, is how everything started out. Seemed to work just fine when we though the moon was something to eat, and sacrificed virgins to placate volcanoes and whatnot. I can totally see why it wouldn't work today though! No, wait...
The system is designed broken and creates shortage, so change the system. But don't you fucking dare say the natural order of things is slavery, and that man can only exploit man. Speak for your fucking self.
Yeah... because NASA's budget, all.5% of national budget, is the reason this country's in such bad shape... You hit the nail on the head.
Aaaaand.. another strawman. Nice going, brainiacs.
Pro tip: The post you're foaming at the mouth over isn't bitching over rocket scientists or science budgets, it's bitching about all the dumb fucks who are NOT rocket scientists, yet still use this stuff to distract themselves from the stuff they actually ARE responsible for.
Because that what they say they will return. Regardless if you pass in unchecked arguments.
How can you properly debug code if documented fuctions dont behave in the way documented and acts inconsistantly??
If you're too lazy to wrap intval around, or put (int) in front of, a string which is NEEDED to be a number -- what other horrible abominations might your code contain? In accounting software, no less? *shudders*
The newer internal parameter parsing API has been applied across all the extensions bundled with PHP 5.3.x. This parameter parsing API causes functions to return NULL when passed incompatible parameters. There are some exceptions to this rule, such as the get_class() function, which will continue to return FALSE on error.
So yeah, that link. It's some kind of Barbara Streisand thing, people just don't get how hard it backfires:P Not saying PHP isn't kind of a minefield; but if you don't code accordingly, I'm just gonna point and laugh when you blow up, sorry. And hey, nobody uses PHP because it's so great, but because it runs on just about any webhost, period. See how that works? You're comparing apples with oranges when you bring up any alternative which, well, isn't really one. That's saying "use this car instead, it has much better controls for people who can't drive, and nicer seats for people who are lazy; that it only runs on main roads is surely a minor concern". Which again makes me question the whole logic/brain thing, just like posts getting modded as they are in some kind Pavlovian ballet haha.
I'm aware that the latter [writing Martin Luther King, that is; comparing my petty rant with MLK's fight for equality and against oppression] is still silly and full of shit
seems I'm just making it worse with every post:( I'll stop now.
Holy fuck, I just wrote Martin Luther instead of Martin Luther King. I'm aware that the latter is still silly and full of shit, but Martin Luther?!? I'M SORRY. I didn't mean the Jew hater, I meant the nice one:/
Exactly. Good TV costs money. I'm a fan of stuff like the BBC, at least in theory. Let me pay a price, and give me a service for that. Instead of doing this middlemen-whore-bullshit. Advertising doesn't enable anything. It pays for journalism that isn't worth the name, and entertainment that rots brains and would actually be considered torture for people who realize that. Bill Hicks was exactly right, and suggesting people in advertising should kill themselves is being friendly, it's a bonus for early adopters. It's saying hey, take your time, do it in a place you like etc.... as opposed to, say, the HGttG model, which involves being put up against the wall first thing when the revolution comes.
That's the three options: cancer can kill the host, it can be cut out, and it can die off on its own. But we should stop feeling bad for and giving time to cancer that thinks it's anything but a disease. Of course it would say that, duh. Of course it has children who love daddy. So fucking what -- they'll love hobo daddy who has time to play with them even more. And this isn't a rant either, this is a Martin Luther kind of thing, I do have that dream and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Stock market 9/10/2001: 9,605. Stock market today: 12,602. Seems the smart money is a little more confident than you are.
Situation of the non-1% -- worse and worse, while profits continues to soar.
So, tell me, what is smart money? It's not exactly smart to forfeit your soul and your place in the hearts of those who still have one for some temporary gain which you have to lie about while you have it, and then loose anyway.. it's fucking stupid actually.
Mind you, this is in a world where there's worldwide recession and Europe's economy and political system is in the process of falling apart.
And these things (Wall Street jizzing and the world burning) are connected, you fucking genius. Yet this shit is just a recent rash, nothing more. The rash itself thinks it's a new viable paradigm, but it's just a fucking rash. Got that? Good, you cowardly, stupid piece of useless shit. Now go lick some boots, or whatever it is you water bags do when you're not fucking the corpse of your own mother in the ass.
Heh, I'm not even angry.. I just enjoy saying this because it's fucking true ^^
Wow, this post went from "+4 Insightful" to "0 Troll" in the time it took me to get a glass of milk -- WTFLOL?!
Being unable to argue against it, but modding it down anyways kinda proves the point (of that very poetic and yet concise post I might add).... so that means your post is now at +8. Who knows, it might even reach +9:P
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I don't get it either, but I stopped wondering years ago.. I think it has something to do with most people being fucking stupid. While recently Firefox and Chrome have nice things, Opera also was the "underdog" when *no* other browser had *anything* on it. So, yeah. GG, interwebs :P
And that scene doesn't even make fun of people who "cry wolf" as the poster seems to think.
Looks like King Arthur got owned. But hey, homophobia and not being that bright seem to be clearly related, so I can see how someone might get that jumbled up.
That'd be like saying letters are no longer required because we'll all be using words and sentences from now on.
Why? What's your point? You honestly don't see how bullying, up to murder, might come across as oppressive?
Funny you bring up Monty Python though, I think their suggestion would have been to do away with marriage altogether, to just mock it into oblivion. It's almost as if you're not familiar with the body of their work :P
You can see all sorts of confusing and unexplained stuff there, but for the whole of Firefox, not individual web pages... !
And yes, peak is interesting, certainly as webpage author, anything that can help debug is. That is, you'd expect it to be "not interesting" until something is up with it, and then it's highly interesting. Right now there isn't even a way to tell. Oh, and if something on your system used all memory for 0.0001 seconds every 20 seconds, it would kill all your caches.. it just wouldn't be as bad as using it all the time and grinding the machine to a halt, but that's hardly a consolation.
But more important would be what elements *in* a page use how much memory. How much do the DOMs of 200 .svg images weigh? What resources are reused, and what are allocated multiple times, when using the same icon a 100 times on one page? I don't know! I don't even know if it matters, but to find that out, we need the tools.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/09/22/1448226/microsoft-innovates-tent-data-centers
^^
We need more players, not less.
We really should start paying attention to memory footprint .. of web pages! We know wasting bandwidth is bad, we know hogging too much CPU is bad, both of these things are easily noticeable when they become extreme; but we don't even have good tools to watch (peak) memory consumption of individual web pages, and to see what elements in it use how much. That kinda sucks.
Filters could use lots of improvements...
-- Run filters occasionally (let's say, delete read "comment moderation" and "someone replied" emails from slashdot after two weeks, that sort of thing).
-- See the last time a filter matched something, to make it possible to weed out filters that are no longer required.
-- Allow filters that apply to more than one email account, or at least cloning and tweaking filters, instead of having to recreate them from scratch.
-- Run filters manually on several folders and/or email accounts at once. Actually, right now it's possible to select multiple folders, it just doesn't do much useful things.
Thunderbird has felt abandoned for years now. Can't the thing be forked by people who actually care?
Ever seen zebras (or other animals, but I like zebras ^^) cross a river in Africa? They pile up, the alligators wait, then some zebras start crossing, at which point all zebras try to cross as quickly as possible, while alligators pick a few off (like eating zebras in a river). End result? A few dead Zebras; instead of all of them dead, because they were stuck on the wrong side of the river. If each zebra did what you consider the smart thing to do, they'd all die.
And guess how even the pitiful rights employees have today were achieved for the most part? By people taking risks for what is right, instead of being part of the pressure against others by not doing so. That's right; because if NOBODY would take shit, employers would have no choice but respect their workers, or they would have none. But as it is now, they can choose from a huge pool of spineless, shortsighted people. (shortsighted because the trouble with selling your soul is that it doesn't end up making anything easier or better)
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
-- George Orwell
"Freedom is what we do with what is done to us."
&
"Whenever a man chooses his purpose and his commitment in all clearness and in all sincerity, whatever that purpose may be, it is impossible for him to prefer another. It is true in the sense that we do not believe in progress. Progress implies amelioration; but man is always the same, facing a situation which is always changing, and choice remains always a choice in the situation. The moral problem has not changed since the time when it was a choice between slavery and anti-slavery."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
Yet that, family businesses if you will, is how everything started out. Seemed to work just fine when we though the moon was something to eat, and sacrificed virgins to placate volcanoes and whatnot. I can totally see why it wouldn't work today though! No, wait...
The system is designed broken and creates shortage, so change the system. But don't you fucking dare say the natural order of things is slavery, and that man can only exploit man. Speak for your fucking self.
That made my day :)
Aaaaand.. another strawman. Nice going, brainiacs.
Pro tip: The post you're foaming at the mouth over isn't bitching over rocket scientists or science budgets, it's bitching about all the dumb fucks who are NOT rocket scientists, yet still use this stuff to distract themselves from the stuff they actually ARE responsible for.
Thanks for the demonstration.
Blame yourself for making up weird strawmen.
I'd like to retroactively claim that this is exactly how I meant it :D
uhm, what? did you even read the article you linked to?
If you're too lazy to wrap intval around, or put (int) in front of, a string which is NEEDED to be a number -- what other horrible abominations might your code contain? In accounting software, no less? *shudders*
Also, you're flat out wrong.
http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.incompatible.php
So yeah, that link. It's some kind of Barbara Streisand thing, people just don't get how hard it backfires :P Not saying PHP isn't kind of a minefield; but if you don't code accordingly, I'm just gonna point and laugh when you blow up, sorry. And hey, nobody uses PHP because it's so great, but because it runs on just about any webhost, period. See how that works? You're comparing apples with oranges when you bring up any alternative which, well, isn't really one. That's saying "use this car instead, it has much better controls for people who can't drive, and nicer seats for people who are lazy; that it only runs on main roads is surely a minor concern". Which again makes me question the whole logic/brain thing, just like posts getting modded as they are in some kind Pavlovian ballet haha.
If by "result" you mean "makes you seem bitter and helpless", yeah ^^
Yeah, let's talk sites.
Ruby: Twitter.
PHP: Wikipedia.
Python: I don't even fucking know.
Your turn.
seems I'm just making it worse with every post :( I'll stop now.
Holy fuck, I just wrote Martin Luther instead of Martin Luther King. I'm aware that the latter is still silly and full of shit, but Martin Luther?!? I'M SORRY. I didn't mean the Jew hater, I meant the nice one :/
Exactly. Good TV costs money. I'm a fan of stuff like the BBC, at least in theory. Let me pay a price, and give me a service for that. Instead of doing this middlemen-whore-bullshit. Advertising doesn't enable anything. It pays for journalism that isn't worth the name, and entertainment that rots brains and would actually be considered torture for people who realize that. Bill Hicks was exactly right, and suggesting people in advertising should kill themselves is being friendly, it's a bonus for early adopters. It's saying hey, take your time, do it in a place you like etc.... as opposed to, say, the HGttG model, which involves being put up against the wall first thing when the revolution comes.
That's the three options: cancer can kill the host, it can be cut out, and it can die off on its own. But we should stop feeling bad for and giving time to cancer that thinks it's anything but a disease. Of course it would say that, duh. Of course it has children who love daddy. So fucking what -- they'll love hobo daddy who has time to play with them even more. And this isn't a rant either, this is a Martin Luther kind of thing, I do have that dream and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Situation of the non-1% -- worse and worse, while profits continues to soar.
So, tell me, what is smart money? It's not exactly smart to forfeit your soul and your place in the hearts of those who still have one for some temporary gain which you have to lie about while you have it, and then loose anyway.. it's fucking stupid actually.
And these things (Wall Street jizzing and the world burning) are connected, you fucking genius. Yet this shit is just a recent rash, nothing more. The rash itself thinks it's a new viable paradigm, but it's just a fucking rash. Got that? Good, you cowardly, stupid piece of useless shit. Now go lick some boots, or whatever it is you water bags do when you're not fucking the corpse of your own mother in the ass.
Heh, I'm not even angry.. I just enjoy saying this because it's fucking true ^^
Well whoa :/
Wow, this post went from "+4 Insightful" to "0 Troll" in the time it took me to get a glass of milk -- WTFLOL?!
Being unable to argue against it, but modding it down anyways kinda proves the point (of that very poetic and yet concise post I might add).... so that means your post is now at +8. Who knows, it might even reach +9 :P
oops, sorry.. mod parent redundant, heh :P