All NoScript does is provide a handy icon to change the built-in Javascript preferences.
Implementation is everything. From a theoretical point of view "change the built-in Javascript preferences" could be horrendously slow via a recursive processing of the page or something similarly time or process intensive. I would expect NoScript is better than that, but not all plugins are.
Yes, Youtube is popular, but is it profitable yet? I don't know.
Ok let me let you in on a secret that isn't a secret in any way. Yes it's profitable. No youtube.com itself does not net a profit. The profit is on the analytics of that traffic. Google isn't a fly by night company who fails to monetize traffic. Reach (attaching contextual, demographic, behavioral, etc. information to a unique id of a visitor) is the primary way to increase hits in your ad server (versus a default ad being served because of a "miss" in being able to successfully match a running campaign with a user's profile). While google has a huge reach in search, it's currently got a huge reach in behavioral targeting through properties it owns and the number of campaigns it runs. There is 0 reason to worry about youtube, as it is not competing for the same space as HULU. Yes a lot of people go to properties Google doesn't own. Google has no reason to worry or care about it.
Second, things like spaghetti code and Hungarian notation are not "old", they were just as stupid 20 years ago as they are now.
Huh? Hungarian notation is now called name decoration/mangling. It's not stupid, it's par for most languages and for good reason (namespace is the most popular, but not the only use). Congrats, you're probably not a retard, but definitely a self-aggrandizing ignoramus!
The problem is losers wanting pretend items they couldn't possibly earn in a frickin' game so badly they will pay serious real coin to get them.
Ya. Fuck those pathetic losers who value their freetime and have a job. Are you seriously blaming the players? The "real problem" you describe isn't a problem at all.
I've ran CAT5 through the roof, floor, walls, up/down pipes, for a couple offices. Up to 400m of it. Lots and lots of cable. Still in use. I had no idea how to do it until I was given the tools, shown how to make and test a couple and viola. Took me about a day to get down a rythm. The hardest part of cabling is having quality tools to make the ends and figuring out how to pull it where you want it to go and doing it.
If you can export your data from the Savannah service, download the Savannah source, and run it yourself, then I think that's good enough for RMS.
I can also attempt to climb Kilimanjaro and probably die. Practically I cannot do either of those things. How is this making me more free to have options that I (and the majority of humanity) cannot utilize right now? Does he seriously not recognize that people, in general, are not capable of this at all? How many have a passion or even capability to learn about (and learn what not to learn about) FOSS/Computer Science to exercise this "freedom". It's akin to a lawyer telling everyone to learn the law so that they can be free from ignorance of the law. Well duh and don't count on it and you're obviously insane RMS.
I believe rightscale does this. It can't possibly be the only service to abstract a bunch of cloud services, but it's the only one I've seen to be decent (in theory).
In our opinion cloud computing, as currently described, is not that far off from the sort of thinking that drove the economic downturn. In effect both situations sound the same... we allowed radical experiments to be performed by gigantic, non-redundant entities.
This makes no sense. Even the deduction makes no sense, in context. TSK TSK those idiots who invented the mouse were engaging in risky behavior?! Let's demonstrate insight by mentioning an economic trend that has nothing to do with technical innovation? Why would radical experiments be conducted by redundant entities? I am scared to download the PDF, for fear it's got more insight that will frustrate and elicit vitriol from me.
Most behavioral targeting campaigns (online) are pure BS. You get at BEST an 90% miss rate (meaning you can't determine anything of use) from a behavioral perspective. Other metrics are much more reliable. Contextual (where people have visited), Geo (where their IP resolves near), and frequency of various acts/visits. Lots of companies do this. In particular, in online advertising it's assumed to happen. A lot of companies claim to do "behavioral targeting" but can't prove or even technically describe how they do behavioral targeting (compared to the other types described) making the message mixed because it wasn't "true" to begin with. This depends on how you want to spin it of course. You could accurately say that a company is still growing the ability to perform behavioral analysis (from serve logs), they just can't do it in time or with enough accuracy (*currently*) to matter to advertisers/publishers at time of service. Mixed message isn't always the same as lying, it typically means layered misdirection lies. How accurate you believe it to be, depends on how you want to spin it.
The problem is that Hollywood Execs are not looking to be successful on a scale of 'job well done', and nor should they, from their paradigm.
There's 0 evidence of that. How many Fast n Furious sequels have there been? This is a question of longevity, not success. Watchmen met the success threshold easily, but has 0 longevity (as there's nothing more to be done). But then again, how many D&D movies have there been?
Anytime at home, with the TV on in another room, in bed, with a soda on my nightstand, the fan blowing on me, after a post-workout nap. Morning, noon or night, for an employer or for myself, it's what I like to do. Coding is a very important part of my life.
The amount of money saved in time I (and my coworkers) _DONT_ spend getting my machine back into where I left it the day before, outweighs the power concern. That's without the dangers of coupled systems behaving erratically on startup. Developers depend on a multitude of supporting software, hardware, and networks that are not of the same quality or of the same mindfulness of state.
To start, you net about 700 gold in the level from 70 to 80. If you're careful, much more.
Fundamentally, MMORPGs that use a DIKU archetype system (classes) find an overabundance of damage dealers and few tanks; even fewer healers. It's easy enough to note that leveling up / grinding for money / pvp rank / whatever (DIKU style) you need damage, making the classes capable of tanking/healing even more sparse as they min/max toward the damage specs. This is a nightmare for developers who have to try to balance that system. I'd say dual speccing is useful for just under half the wow population and really makes the non-damage dealing classes much much more attractive as there is now true flexibility, guaranteeing more $$$. From a player perspective, it's a win. From the developer's perspective, it's a win. From the publisher's perspective, it's a win.
The reach the site gives in terms of marking and tracking people's interests is not priceless, but it's in the multi-billion dollar range. Half a billion loss for that, for a net gain, is not even worrisome to google.
The topic has nothing to do with web design. Shows that most people who make crappy websites, don't even understand what they are working with or on (not a surprise).
Theoretically, it also prevents the utterly stupid/tempermental/impatient/rager, etc from gaining access by exploiting their weaknesses. I consider this a win, overall.
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Lots of evidence in court (like say, testimony) are not held to a documented standard. That isn't a very good argument imo.
Er, why would it need or be expected to be? It's a commercial product. I don't think most bank websites are "coded" to any specific standard either.
Implementation is everything. From a theoretical point of view "change the built-in Javascript preferences" could be horrendously slow via a recursive processing of the page or something similarly time or process intensive. I would expect NoScript is better than that, but not all plugins are.
Ok let me let you in on a secret that isn't a secret in any way. Yes it's profitable. No youtube.com itself does not net a profit. The profit is on the analytics of that traffic. Google isn't a fly by night company who fails to monetize traffic. Reach (attaching contextual, demographic, behavioral, etc. information to a unique id of a visitor) is the primary way to increase hits in your ad server (versus a default ad being served because of a "miss" in being able to successfully match a running campaign with a user's profile). While google has a huge reach in search, it's currently got a huge reach in behavioral targeting through properties it owns and the number of campaigns it runs. There is 0 reason to worry about youtube, as it is not competing for the same space as HULU. Yes a lot of people go to properties Google doesn't own. Google has no reason to worry or care about it.
Not for nerds. For the people nerds call nerds maybe. Regardless, it's certainly not stuff that matters.
Data Structures aren't the underpinnings of programming.
Huh? Hungarian notation is now called name decoration/mangling. It's not stupid, it's par for most languages and for good reason (namespace is the most popular, but not the only use). Congrats, you're probably not a retard, but definitely a self-aggrandizing ignoramus!
Ya. Fuck those pathetic losers who value their freetime and have a job. Are you seriously blaming the players? The "real problem" you describe isn't a problem at all.
I agree, but JWS gives you deployment of proper RIAs. Even flash is not enough, that's why there's AIR. JWS is better than AIR in many ways.
I've ran CAT5 through the roof, floor, walls, up/down pipes, for a couple offices. Up to 400m of it. Lots and lots of cable. Still in use. I had no idea how to do it until I was given the tools, shown how to make and test a couple and viola. Took me about a day to get down a rythm. The hardest part of cabling is having quality tools to make the ends and figuring out how to pull it where you want it to go and doing it.
I can also attempt to climb Kilimanjaro and probably die. Practically I cannot do either of those things. How is this making me more free to have options that I (and the majority of humanity) cannot utilize right now? Does he seriously not recognize that people, in general, are not capable of this at all? How many have a passion or even capability to learn about (and learn what not to learn about) FOSS/Computer Science to exercise this "freedom". It's akin to a lawyer telling everyone to learn the law so that they can be free from ignorance of the law. Well duh and don't count on it and you're obviously insane RMS.
I believe rightscale does this. It can't possibly be the only service to abstract a bunch of cloud services, but it's the only one I've seen to be decent (in theory).
This makes no sense. Even the deduction makes no sense, in context. TSK TSK those idiots who invented the mouse were engaging in risky behavior?! Let's demonstrate insight by mentioning an economic trend that has nothing to do with technical innovation? Why would radical experiments be conducted by redundant entities? I am scared to download the PDF, for fear it's got more insight that will frustrate and elicit vitriol from me.
Most behavioral targeting campaigns (online) are pure BS. You get at BEST an 90% miss rate (meaning you can't determine anything of use) from a behavioral perspective. Other metrics are much more reliable. Contextual (where people have visited), Geo (where their IP resolves near), and frequency of various acts/visits. Lots of companies do this. In particular, in online advertising it's assumed to happen. A lot of companies claim to do "behavioral targeting" but can't prove or even technically describe how they do behavioral targeting (compared to the other types described) making the message mixed because it wasn't "true" to begin with. This depends on how you want to spin it of course. You could accurately say that a company is still growing the ability to perform behavioral analysis (from serve logs), they just can't do it in time or with enough accuracy (*currently*) to matter to advertisers/publishers at time of service. Mixed message isn't always the same as lying, it typically means layered misdirection lies. How accurate you believe it to be, depends on how you want to spin it.
There's 0 evidence of that. How many Fast n Furious sequels have there been? This is a question of longevity, not success. Watchmen met the success threshold easily, but has 0 longevity (as there's nothing more to be done). But then again, how many D&D movies have there been?
Anytime at home, with the TV on in another room, in bed, with a soda on my nightstand, the fan blowing on me, after a post-workout nap. Morning, noon or night, for an employer or for myself, it's what I like to do. Coding is a very important part of my life.
As a matter of fact I've heard of these things. To say they cause failures inconsistently AT BEST, is being nice.
The amount of money saved in time I (and my coworkers) _DONT_ spend getting my machine back into where I left it the day before, outweighs the power concern. That's without the dangers of coupled systems behaving erratically on startup. Developers depend on a multitude of supporting software, hardware, and networks that are not of the same quality or of the same mindfulness of state.
To start, you net about 700 gold in the level from 70 to 80. If you're careful, much more.
Fundamentally, MMORPGs that use a DIKU archetype system (classes) find an overabundance of damage dealers and few tanks; even fewer healers. It's easy enough to note that leveling up / grinding for money / pvp rank / whatever (DIKU style) you need damage, making the classes capable of tanking/healing even more sparse as they min/max toward the damage specs. This is a nightmare for developers who have to try to balance that system. I'd say dual speccing is useful for just under half the wow population and really makes the non-damage dealing classes much much more attractive as there is now true flexibility, guaranteeing more $$$. From a player perspective, it's a win. From the developer's perspective, it's a win. From the publisher's perspective, it's a win.
The reach the site gives in terms of marking and tracking people's interests is not priceless, but it's in the multi-billion dollar range. Half a billion loss for that, for a net gain, is not even worrisome to google.
The topic has nothing to do with web design. Shows that most people who make crappy websites, don't even understand what they are working with or on (not a surprise).
Theoretically, it also prevents the utterly stupid/tempermental/impatient/rager, etc from gaining access by exploiting their weaknesses. I consider this a win, overall.
Most captchas I've seen (in the last 2 years) work from a subset of the alphanum that excludes similar characters.
Fits together like puzzle pieces? I think the dames call it "Tessalation"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation
Well done US, saving your draconian measures for political agendas. Your people deserve what they get.