Flash is a plugin, it's what needs to enforce a security model. Also, sites need to step up and stop allowing exploitative ads. If an ad is clearly posing as a windows dialog box, then that ad shouldn't be allowed onto your site.
I hate Cox with all the passion my shriveled heart can muster. I moved cities, bought the same connection for the same price from Cox that I had from Comcast. Cos has easily half the speed or less.
This is definitely off topic, but I was thinking the exact opposite. I have a large DVD and game collection that I hardly ever use. I figure I've gotten maybe 5 hours of enjoyment per DVD (some more, some less) and maybe 10-20 out of an average game. On the flip side, each song that I buy from itunes at $1 each have gotten played at least 20x. That's over $1 / hour of enjoyment for music as opposed to $3-$4 for a dvd and $.50-$6 for a game. If I buy a whole album, it usually gets the same amount or more play than the songs i buy a la carte, which usually leads to a higher value over time.
It's a rare movie or game that gets played more than 2 or 3 times for me, but it's even more rare for me to have a song that doesn't get played at least 10x. From what I've read and seen, this is the case for most people.
So what you're saying is that when the machine correctly identifies 80% of the signals, it recognizes that the other 20% are garbage and ignores them, whereas at 90% it (falsely) recognizes the other 10% as correct as well?
If they can sustain it for more than a week it'll be a sign that sales are up. However, it looks to be more of a spike because of the new, lower price. I doubt they'll beat the wii for this month taken as a whole.
the only way we'll see the stories disappear is if we stop reading and commenting on them (which means/. loses ad revenue and will stop posting them). It costs/. almost nothing to post a story that doesn't get read as long as people still read the other ones. These stories, like music, can be reproduced for an extremely low cost; it's only the initial creation that costs money. Like the music industry, slashdot doesn't actually create content, it just makes money by finding the good content and publishing it to the world.
I was very frustrated about how BitTorrent has been marginalized as "something that only pirates would use" I think that we're seeing torrents going the way that encryption did: where at one time it was just the realm of geeks, criminals and spies, now it's used by everyone. Explicit use is still mostly limited to those three groups, but through ssl, wireless, and most vpns, encryption is a daily event for most people.
Likewise, bittorrent was once seen as the realm of pirates, linux geeks and pornographers. While this might still be the case for explicit use, more and more we're seeing it being used by WoW, music services, and automagic patchers. What kind of uproar would this turn into if we told comcast subscribers that their WoW patches are slow because of comcast blocking it?
The public doesn't want to know any more about net neutrality than they want to know about freedom of speech issues for video games. But if you put it in terms that affect them ("Good Lord, they're going to make it impossible to get Zuma!"), you'll get an uproar and enough pressure for comcast to cave.
Actually, the issue isn't blocking or throttling, it's sending packets telling you to disconnect from the sender, and these packets are constructed by comcast to look like they're coming from the peer you're downloading from. Since it's a fraudulent packet, they could get in trouble for that. I'm sure straight-up throttling would be less of an issue, although in that instance they're not living up to their speed claims on purpose. I guess the real problem is that Comcast promised more bandwidth than they could deliver, and now that customers are trying to use it, Comcast is in a bit of a bind.
I will say this about Comcast, they're a hell of a lot better than Cox.
Not in the areas I've been in. My UID isn't because I forgot to register, it's because I've only been working this industry for a few years. Even still, my salary is well above what someone with a 4 year degree would expect to get when they leave college, and for most of my coworkers it's the same story. It's understood that for purely programming jobs you can get by just fine without a degree, but the move up to management requires one.
You are correct in that you need skill though. I've worked with men with degrees and years of experience who have been fired because they couldn't code, and I've worked with 22 year old guys with no degree who are heading departments because they're the most qualified/talented.
I don't know what your problem is. I've been doing this since I began work on my plugin for Mozilla's sock sorting machine. While sorting socks, my plugin will also check for holes in the heel/toe and report to you the number of socks that need to be repaired or replaced.
You people who insist on an invention being, well, invented before working on derivative software for it are crazy. My patents alone should keep me in the market for years.
How many users will these alienate? A slim minority of elite geeks who actually have a clue what's going on inside their boxes -- you know, the set that contains the sub-set of people technically advanced enough to bother pirating games. In WoW terminology, guild leaders and core players.
You're on the wrong site to be talking about the necessity of a college degree. CmdrTaco made this site huge while he was still in school, and less than half of my coworkers in programming had a degree from a college. We're not exactly blue collar, and we're making a hell of a lot more than the national average.
You can't easily get through four years at a decent private university through the military. Setting your standards a bit high aren't we? If I required a car, I would still count a Kia even if I'd prefer a BMW.
I've had standards compliant javascript code that works in IE and firefox but doesn't work in Safari. I've had things render fine in firefox and safari that don't render in IE. I've had things render in IE 5 that don't in 6, and things that work in IE 6 and 5 that don't work in 7. Saying that we should leave the site broken is well and fine for you and your pedestal, but for sites that charge thousands of dollars an hour, that philosophy is a lot harder to justify. When the best browsers on the market (firefox, opera and safari) don't all render things the same way and parse the same javascript with the same result, how can we expect homogeneity in an even larger market with even more players?
Whether I'm a good webmaster or not doesn't matter; I'm at least as good as the majority of webmasters/coders that I know. The different browsers on the market make html and javascript hell, and more browsers will just make it harder and harder to deal with.
The more browsers the better as it forces webmasters to use more standards and cross test their sites on multiple browsers. You're obviously not a webmaster, and as a webmaster I'd just like to say "fuck you." When you spend the better part of a day getting a site to work in one browser and then find out that another browser doesn't work in it, come back to me and say that more is better.
Because clearing cookies logs you out of those sites that you've saved the password for. Occam's Razor is a really good tool for use with most things, you should try it.
I don't get this whole anti-graphics attitude on slashdot I don't get the false homogenization (I may have just made that up -- (c) moderatorrater 2007) of slashdot users.
Some people (like the reviewer) value pretty graphics , some people value a new gameplay experience through new mechanics (like the gp). When you get right down to it, a game is a set of mechanics with a story thrown around it. The new brand of casual games cut away the story in favor of emphasizing mechanics, as do board games and most non-computer games. For some people, these mechanics are the most important part of the game by far, so they have a problem with a new game which uses the same old mechanics with new visuals. This is especially true in an area where these new visuals cost another $60-$70.
I'm hoping that with DX10 as a dead end and openGL available for everyone while still progressing that we'll see more open work in the future. I also want world peace, true love and a pony.
You seem to be ignoring the outcry of google being evil every time a google employee walks on the grass ("GRASS IS PEOPLE TOO!!!1!!111 ARE THEY EVILZ YET???1111). There was speculation about these very proceeding when google acquired doubleclick, and people did accuse them of being evil. However, the majority were taking a wait and see stance since google's ads are far less intrusive than all of the ads that came before and most of the ads since.
Actually, people still pay for music in droves. Itunes is doing amazingly well and, IIRC, revenue is still going up, just not as fast as the music industry thought they were going to. The backlash isn't only caused by the ability to copy for free, it's because we used to pay for tapes and then, suddenly, they offered cds for almost twice as much. Then tapes were phased out, cds became common place, and the price stayed roughly the same. Artists began putting out crap where half the cd isn't worth listening to and another 1/4 is only tolerable, with one or two tracks worth listening to. Besides, with radio stations the RIAA has been giving music away for a while now.
They've had multiple and free distribution streams with a copyable medium for a while now, so perhaps it's time they look at the industry as a whole and try to work with the market and technology rather than against it.
All right, let me have the entire contents of your hard drive and your life and then we'll see about the government.
If you'd never accept that for yourself (which you shouldn't because it's retarded), then don't use it against others. By using that argument you're validating it.
My guess is that they're giving the award for cutting out 10% of the inaccuracy, ie if they're at 50% and you can get them to 55%. At that point, another 10% would be 4.5% instead of 5%. This is because there's almost no chance of getting to 100% probability, so you're going to the limit of 100% without any chance of getting there.
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Flash is a plugin, it's what needs to enforce a security model. Also, sites need to step up and stop allowing exploitative ads. If an ad is clearly posing as a windows dialog box, then that ad shouldn't be allowed onto your site.
I hate Cox with all the passion my shriveled heart can muster. I moved cities, bought the same connection for the same price from Cox that I had from Comcast. Cos has easily half the speed or less.
Can I be the control?
This is definitely off topic, but I was thinking the exact opposite. I have a large DVD and game collection that I hardly ever use. I figure I've gotten maybe 5 hours of enjoyment per DVD (some more, some less) and maybe 10-20 out of an average game. On the flip side, each song that I buy from itunes at $1 each have gotten played at least 20x. That's over $1 / hour of enjoyment for music as opposed to $3-$4 for a dvd and $.50-$6 for a game. If I buy a whole album, it usually gets the same amount or more play than the songs i buy a la carte, which usually leads to a higher value over time.
It's a rare movie or game that gets played more than 2 or 3 times for me, but it's even more rare for me to have a song that doesn't get played at least 10x. From what I've read and seen, this is the case for most people.
So what you're saying is that when the machine correctly identifies 80% of the signals, it recognizes that the other 20% are garbage and ignores them, whereas at 90% it (falsely) recognizes the other 10% as correct as well?
If they can sustain it for more than a week it'll be a sign that sales are up. However, it looks to be more of a spike because of the new, lower price. I doubt they'll beat the wii for this month taken as a whole.
Likewise, bittorrent was once seen as the realm of pirates, linux geeks and pornographers. While this might still be the case for explicit use, more and more we're seeing it being used by WoW, music services, and automagic patchers. What kind of uproar would this turn into if we told comcast subscribers that their WoW patches are slow because of comcast blocking it?
The public doesn't want to know any more about net neutrality than they want to know about freedom of speech issues for video games. But if you put it in terms that affect them ("Good Lord, they're going to make it impossible to get Zuma!"), you'll get an uproar and enough pressure for comcast to cave.
Actually, the issue isn't blocking or throttling, it's sending packets telling you to disconnect from the sender, and these packets are constructed by comcast to look like they're coming from the peer you're downloading from. Since it's a fraudulent packet, they could get in trouble for that. I'm sure straight-up throttling would be less of an issue, although in that instance they're not living up to their speed claims on purpose. I guess the real problem is that Comcast promised more bandwidth than they could deliver, and now that customers are trying to use it, Comcast is in a bit of a bind.
I will say this about Comcast, they're a hell of a lot better than Cox.
Not in the areas I've been in. My UID isn't because I forgot to register, it's because I've only been working this industry for a few years. Even still, my salary is well above what someone with a 4 year degree would expect to get when they leave college, and for most of my coworkers it's the same story. It's understood that for purely programming jobs you can get by just fine without a degree, but the move up to management requires one.
You are correct in that you need skill though. I've worked with men with degrees and years of experience who have been fired because they couldn't code, and I've worked with 22 year old guys with no degree who are heading departments because they're the most qualified/talented.
I don't know what your problem is. I've been doing this since I began work on my plugin for Mozilla's sock sorting machine. While sorting socks, my plugin will also check for holes in the heel/toe and report to you the number of socks that need to be repaired or replaced.
You people who insist on an invention being, well, invented before working on derivative software for it are crazy. My patents alone should keep me in the market for years.
I've had standards compliant javascript code that works in IE and firefox but doesn't work in Safari. I've had things render fine in firefox and safari that don't render in IE. I've had things render in IE 5 that don't in 6, and things that work in IE 6 and 5 that don't work in 7. Saying that we should leave the site broken is well and fine for you and your pedestal, but for sites that charge thousands of dollars an hour, that philosophy is a lot harder to justify. When the best browsers on the market (firefox, opera and safari) don't all render things the same way and parse the same javascript with the same result, how can we expect homogeneity in an even larger market with even more players?
Whether I'm a good webmaster or not doesn't matter; I'm at least as good as the majority of webmasters/coders that I know. The different browsers on the market make html and javascript hell, and more browsers will just make it harder and harder to deal with.
Because clearing cookies logs you out of those sites that you've saved the password for. Occam's Razor is a really good tool for use with most things, you should try it.
Some people (like the reviewer) value pretty graphics , some people value a new gameplay experience through new mechanics (like the gp). When you get right down to it, a game is a set of mechanics with a story thrown around it. The new brand of casual games cut away the story in favor of emphasizing mechanics, as do board games and most non-computer games. For some people, these mechanics are the most important part of the game by far, so they have a problem with a new game which uses the same old mechanics with new visuals. This is especially true in an area where these new visuals cost another $60-$70.
I'm hoping that with DX10 as a dead end and openGL available for everyone while still progressing that we'll see more open work in the future. I also want world peace, true love and a pony.
You seem to be ignoring the outcry of google being evil every time a google employee walks on the grass ("GRASS IS PEOPLE TOO!!!1!!111 ARE THEY EVILZ YET???1111). There was speculation about these very proceeding when google acquired doubleclick, and people did accuse them of being evil. However, the majority were taking a wait and see stance since google's ads are far less intrusive than all of the ads that came before and most of the ads since.
Actually, people still pay for music in droves. Itunes is doing amazingly well and, IIRC, revenue is still going up, just not as fast as the music industry thought they were going to. The backlash isn't only caused by the ability to copy for free, it's because we used to pay for tapes and then, suddenly, they offered cds for almost twice as much. Then tapes were phased out, cds became common place, and the price stayed roughly the same. Artists began putting out crap where half the cd isn't worth listening to and another 1/4 is only tolerable, with one or two tracks worth listening to. Besides, with radio stations the RIAA has been giving music away for a while now.
They've had multiple and free distribution streams with a copyable medium for a while now, so perhaps it's time they look at the industry as a whole and try to work with the market and technology rather than against it.
You remind me of my dad. His philosophy was that he should let us do well and feel good about ourselves, but that's no reason for him to lose :D
many ACs died to get us this information...
All right, let me have the entire contents of your hard drive and your life and then we'll see about the government.
If you'd never accept that for yourself (which you shouldn't because it's retarded), then don't use it against others. By using that argument you're validating it.
My guess is that they're giving the award for cutting out 10% of the inaccuracy, ie if they're at 50% and you can get them to 55%. At that point, another 10% would be 4.5% instead of 5%. This is because there's almost no chance of getting to 100% probability, so you're going to the limit of 100% without any chance of getting there.