It doesn't matter if the data is on the Internet. No matter how well you protect your data there always are rogue agents on the roster who have access to everything and can operate undetected for a long period of time.
I'm not kidding. I have my sources. I watch 24 after all.
There's no good reason to keep this system alive when it either forces you to pay $X per month for it, or pay $.15 per 140 characters when one of your idiot friends 'texts' you.
It's not the problem of SMS, but your broken pricing system in the US.
Here in Europe the caller pays for everything. So if I send an SMS then I pay for it, not the person I send it to.
I've even noticed an interesting phenomenon that, while far from universal, is also not all that rare: programmers who share a common non-English first language using English among themselves to engage in technical discussions. When I pointed out the oddity of that choice, I was told that even if they used their native language (Portuguese, in this case), that the conversation would be peppered with English words anyway
I find this way of thinking very alien. We never use English among each other here in Hungary, not even during technical discussion if everyone present is native.
It's true we use English words for certain things during a conversation, but most of it is still in our native langugage.
It's the language we are most comfortable with, so there is no point in using a second language for communication.
With Ubiquity you have suggestions and instant preview, so if you type "wi donkey punch" you see other possible matches too (the film with the same name, etc.) with previews without having to go to the site.
You joke, but the interface is all that's new here. You can already do what the summary suggests using bookmark keywords
Not exactly. With Ubquity you get instant feedback during typing, so you don't have to wait for the page to load with all the bells and whistles, you see only the relevant part of it.
So it's quicker and more convenient than keyword bookmarks.
I wonder if there is some technical limitation, so they set this 5 second limit.
Storing the pending mail on the client side with Javascript would explain it. The mail can be delayed for 5 seconds safely there before sending. It's not likely anything bad happens in that particular 5 seconds.
If the mail does get to the server side then it is not clear why they used only a 5 second delay which is far too short. It could be a killer feature with a delay of, say, 5 minutes.
So if you do care about free software on the desktop, it's reasonable that you should care about free software in your browser.
Okay, but Javascript is only one part of this problem. What about the code running on the server? I wonder if RMS visits any websites at all besides fsf.org
He can't be sure after all if other sites use only free software on the server side, so he can't visit them to avoid accidentally supporting non-free software.
Look folks. The rest of the world wants to have the same same standard of living that US and Europe enjoys today. You can't stop or prevent its progression.
The problem is everyone cannot have the same standard of living, because Earth cannot support it.
So if lots of people want to live significantly better there it means people here must give up parts of their standard of living.
Are you ready to give up your car keys and your other stuff, so they can live better there? You had your fun, now it's their turn.
The programmers of Fritz [a chess program] hit upon a solution that involved the AI deliberately setting up situations that the human player could exploit (with some thought) that would allow the human to gain a positional or piece advantage. Once the human player gained the advantage, the AI would resume trying to win.
It's so humiliating, isn't it? We can only win if the machines let us. I for one welcome...
Slashdot Mirror
one of the victims saying how awful it was to vomit for hours on end.
Maybe just a strange coincidence, but Twitter itself seems to me like a place where people are vomiting continuously.
The article is a bit long. If anyone feels like doing a synopsis please do: http://synop.it/
It doesn't matter if the data is on the Internet. No matter how well you protect your data there always are rogue agents on the roster who have access to everything and can operate undetected for a long period of time.
I'm not kidding. I have my sources. I watch 24 after all.
OK, well let's see that argument, then. It's not much good saying that one "could" argue something, without seeing the specifics.
Recommended reading: http://mises.org/articles.aspx
Right, because taxation never produces libraries, public roads, schools, an FDA, FCC, or any number of other services.
All taxation does is make a handful of oligarchs rich, right?
The question is how much more roads, schools, libraries, etc. we'd have if the gov didn't take the money from the people and spend it wastefully.
The current system does produce good things, but one can argue it produces more bad than good.
There's no good reason to keep this system alive when it either forces you to pay $X per month for it, or pay $.15 per 140 characters when one of your idiot friends 'texts' you.
It's not the problem of SMS, but your broken pricing system in the US.
Here in Europe the caller pays for everything. So if I send an SMS then I pay for it, not the person I send it to.
Why do you have it backwards? Fix that instead.
Twitter is a glamorized chat. I fail to understand why it's touted as something revolutionary.
The whole world has lost its respect for the US in recent years. Not that the US cares. Bullies usually don't.
No one really cares about features at this point. How exactly is this suppose to move people to update?
With more and more services moving to the web the average user is less motivated to upgrade.
I rely mostly on web services in my every day computer usage, so as long as browsers are updated I don't really care what OS I run.
I've even noticed an interesting phenomenon that, while far from universal, is also not all that rare: programmers who share a common non-English first language using English among themselves to engage in technical discussions. When I pointed out the oddity of that choice, I was told that even if they used their native language (Portuguese, in this case), that the conversation would be peppered with English words anyway
I find this way of thinking very alien. We never use English among each other here in Hungary, not even during technical discussion if everyone present is native.
It's true we use English words for certain things during a conversation, but most of it is still in our native langugage.
It's the language we are most comfortable with, so there is no point in using a second language for communication.
Finns has about as much passion for the still-obligatory Swedish as Hungarians or Romanians did for Russian in the times of Communism.
Ah, those mandatory Russian classes back in communist Hungary. We studied Russian for years, yet I can't even ask for a glass of water.
We hated the language with passion, because it was obligatory for everyone.
They should go on strike until normalcy is restored.
Go to the address bar and type 'amazon-search the great gatsby'
Have you tried Ubiquity at all? It has completion on the commands too.
E.g. for accessing wikipedia I don't have to write "wikipedia". "wi" is enough.
Firefox is gonna be like the Emacs Operating System ... only bigger
Yep, Emacs already has this.
Same with "wikipedia donkey punch". What's new?
With Ubiquity you have suggestions and instant preview, so if you type "wi donkey punch" you see other possible matches too (the film with the same name, etc.) with previews without having to go to the site.
You joke, but the interface is all that's new here. You can already do what the summary suggests using bookmark keywords
Not exactly. With Ubquity you get instant feedback during typing, so you don't have to wait for the page to load with all the bells and whistles, you see only the relevant part of it.
So it's quicker and more convenient than keyword bookmarks.
I wonder if there is some technical limitation, so they set this 5 second limit.
Storing the pending mail on the client side with Javascript would explain it. The mail can be delayed for 5 seconds safely there before sending. It's not likely anything bad happens in that particular 5 seconds.
If the mail does get to the server side then it is not clear why they used only a 5 second delay which is far too short. It could be a killer feature with a delay of, say, 5 minutes.
So if you do care about free software on the desktop, it's reasonable that you should care about free software in your browser.
Okay, but Javascript is only one part of this problem. What about the code running on the server? I wonder if RMS visits any websites at all besides fsf.org
He can't be sure after all if other sites use only free software on the server side, so he can't visit them to avoid accidentally supporting non-free software.
I thought it was the USA who were proponents of freedom and capitalism.
Don't believe everything they say on TV. :)
The USA is a proponent of free trade only as long as it serves its own interests.
Look folks. The rest of the world wants to have the same same standard of living that US and Europe enjoys today. You can't stop or prevent its progression.
The problem is everyone cannot have the same standard of living, because Earth cannot support it.
So if lots of people want to live significantly better there it means people here must give up parts of their standard of living.
Are you ready to give up your car keys and your other stuff, so they can live better there? You had your fun, now it's their turn.
excellent ending
No, it was a mess. Deus ex machina is the easy way out.
Sigh. People have no sense of humor these days...
So how about that fixing your self-confidence issues? ;)
And how about you getting a sense of humor? ;)
The programmers of Fritz [a chess program] hit upon a solution that involved the AI deliberately setting up situations that the human player could exploit (with some thought) that would allow the human to gain a positional or piece advantage. Once the human player gained the advantage, the AI would resume trying to win.
It's so humiliating, isn't it? We can only win if the machines let us. I for one welcome...
Of what? Cut and paste?
Well it's truely useful. And Apple finally invented it!