Without much more than a speculative sentence in the summary, what is slashdot going to talk about? We're not going to RTFA no matter how hard you try!!
*WE SHALL WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED!!*
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It's not trivial, no. But it requires a language that lets you get to the core of things- not an abstraction on top of an abstraction. You won't get performance out of multiple layers of abstraction.
It really is a very few lines of code, with a very good database backend, and decent caching. RoR is an abstraction to make it easier for beginners (or lazy coders). It doesn't scale because it's an abstraction, and does things in a more convoluted way.
Either way, we're not talking about the technology of the future that keeps millions of airplanes from crashing, or traffic control systems that scale to the whole world. We're talking about a single-threaded (topic, not process), multiuser message board.
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Wow I just realized what an angry old man I must sound like there. I didn't mean to be that harsh. I'm just don't like twitter, and spending time speaking about its technical *wonders* seems to be a waste of time, since I assume it's about 3 lines of code (Or should be), and mimics most highschool coding class students' first projects.
Wow, there I go again. So angry. I just quit caffeine, you must understand!
Yeah, I mean, don't let them get too caught up with features or anything. Maybe some day, they'll add some features, but right now, they're just selling cool.
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Seriously. They've got heavy traffic on a single line comments website! It's pretty much the "hello world" app of web applications (compared to facebook, or, heck, anything google does). Why are we discussing it? It's amateur crap at best, and nobody cares about its performance with its fad language, because it doesn't actually accomplish anything. In fact, it accomplishes in its main goal - what is mostly a side feature of any other site or blog - short comments - rather unspectacularly.
But I'm both a politician and an insurance broker. So.. what now?
I'm not saying I'm the best at analogies, but my point still stands. And no, you don't need some magical time-proof future goggles to see that this process was obviously flawed. They say hindsight is 20/20, but that doesn't mean you should stop looking foward - that would be negligent.
Actually, the take-it-or-leave-it problem is very similar with countries.
I'd be hard pressed to change the country, in the same way I'm hard pressed to make an insurance company give me good benefits. But it seems all insurance companies are equally as scammy, and I'm having a hard time finding a country I want to live in that isn't just as much suck as this one.
So, yes, the government is like insurance. It never pays out, and no matter where you go, you'll get screwed.
I feel you may have just skimmed what I said. I will help you understand what I said:
So shame on those living in France expecting anything different...(Please note, I'm not claiming my country is any better.)
My country isn't better. I'm just not expecting better, I know how screwed up my country is. What I'm saying here is: shame on you for expecting something better out of that system. If you're honest with yourself and don't expect better, then you can poise yourself into a position to either escape the system, or try to change the system. The choice is yours. Please don't litter in the theater.
While my initial thought is "Shame on those people who subverted the democratic process" I can't help but think.. "Shame on the faulty system with such a stupid loophole." Did they subvert the democratic process? Kinda. But did they do things within the boundries of their law? Apparently so.
So shame on those living in France expecting anything different from their dumb system.
It's like having an insurance policy, and when the insurance company decides to be assholes and use their technicalities to avoid paying you, well, shame on you for signing on to such an obviously flawed contract.
(Please note, I'm not claiming my country is any better.)
Unless your filter decides that no one really needs connections that last more than a 30 seconds over HTTPS. That restriction will break almost no HTTPS sites, but will ensure that any SSH connection dies periodically, as does anything running tunnelled over that connection.
This will completely ruin all my bank transfers (which, as we all know consist of a progress bar and a cash counter- which displays and slowly counts down while it takes a few minutes to transfer all the money.)
I have done the same, I dumped cable and watch netflix and hulu through the xbox (check out mediamall's playon software).
That plus the dvds by mail from netflix, I've already got too much to watch, and not enough time.
The bonus? I watch when I want. Not when it's scheduled to run.
I can't speak for your children if they're girls, but as a former 10 (and 8) year old boy, I can assure you they're at least beginning to be sexually aware. Anybody in elementary school who's ridden the bus will hear the children talk. Children say the worst things.
Also- I've been interested in boobs as far as I can remember. Just because I didn't hit puberty yet didn't mean sex didn't interest me. I just didn't fully understand it yet.
Thanks, I was about to comment on this, but you beat me to it.
It's poor reporting, really. Make Chrome look like a hero, when there are other browsers that just weren't tested at all... (and would most likely pass).
1. To alert people of a real danger, in an effort to save lives. 2. To scare people into a panic by pretending there is a real danger when there is not. (for lulz).
I'm having a hard time bending my brain to somehow apply this logic to leaving buildings unblurred.
Either you're trying to alert people of a real school/church/government building - to alert them of a real and present.. building, or you're trying to trick people (into a panic??) that the buildings are really there when they're not. That's the only reason to leave them unblurred? I'm sure I'd panic if I saw buildings on google maps that weren't really there. It might cause me to stop doing drugs. Maybe that's his plan all along??
But then he goes on to show off his USA public education by making the connection for us:
He claims that there is no good reason why anyone would need to clearly see these buildings online, and that it can only be used for bad purposes
Clearly, it all makes sense now! Seeing those buildings can only be used for bad purposes- Just like yelling fire can only be used for bad purposes! EXACTLY! There is not a single good use for shouting "fire!" except terrorism.
Ultimately, the only real WTF about this article is the belief that someone who really wants to kill you won't just drive to your house/school/church and use his eyes to make sure he's bombing/shooting/flying airplanes/melting/flooding the right place.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's hoping for a Patrick Stewart casting. DS9 or Voyager Movies? Eck. A new TV Series with Picard.. and Data!? Amazing!
Two things: 1. Brent Spiner would have to lose some weight 2. They've got to get rid of Data's emotion chip. That's when Data lost his charm, I feel.
I can see this working well for netbooks. One of the main reasons the idea of a netbook has been ruined for me is the boot time.
Here, I've got a small little machine that could be more useful than my phone- only catch, I'd rather txt google with my phone than power up the acer-one, since it's going to take forever to boot.
On my main machines I'll stick with xp and ubuntu. But this might be a great netbook os, finally making a netbook useful..
Although Gamestop already "ruffled features" in the dev and distribution communities, I'd say what really legitimizes the practice of buying and selling used games is the First Sale Doctrine.
That's like saying freedom of speech is only legitimate if everybody agrees with what you say... It's really quite different. It's legalized legitimacy is in the face of the fact that people disagree.
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After reading all the comments on this post, I'm surprised nobody called it what it is:
Guerilla marketing for the new terminator movie.
They did the same thing with skynet a while back too.
Without much more than a speculative sentence in the summary, what is slashdot going to talk about? We're not going to RTFA no matter how hard you try!!
*WE SHALL WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED!!*
It's not trivial, no. But it requires a language that lets you get to the core of things- not an abstraction on top of an abstraction. You won't get performance out of multiple layers of abstraction.
It really is a very few lines of code, with a very good database backend, and decent caching. RoR is an abstraction to make it easier for beginners (or lazy coders). It doesn't scale because it's an abstraction, and does things in a more convoluted way.
Either way, we're not talking about the technology of the future that keeps millions of airplanes from crashing, or traffic control systems that scale to the whole world. We're talking about a single-threaded (topic, not process), multiuser message board.
Wow I just realized what an angry old man I must sound like there. I didn't mean to be that harsh. I'm just don't like twitter, and spending time speaking about its technical *wonders* seems to be a waste of time, since I assume it's about 3 lines of code (Or should be), and mimics most highschool coding class students' first projects.
Wow, there I go again. So angry. I just quit caffeine, you must understand!
Yeah, I mean, don't let them get too caught up with features or anything. Maybe some day, they'll add some features, but right now, they're just selling cool.
Seriously. They've got heavy traffic on a single line comments website! It's pretty much the "hello world" app of web applications (compared to facebook, or, heck, anything google does). Why are we discussing it? It's amateur crap at best, and nobody cares about its performance with its fad language, because it doesn't actually accomplish anything. In fact, it accomplishes in its main goal - what is mostly a side feature of any other site or blog - short comments - rather unspectacularly.
But I'm both a politician and an insurance broker. So.. what now?
I'm not saying I'm the best at analogies, but my point still stands. And no, you don't need some magical time-proof future goggles to see that this process was obviously flawed. They say hindsight is 20/20, but that doesn't mean you should stop looking foward - that would be negligent.
No, I actually disclaim any implications to other countries - specifically the one I live in (not france).
Actually, the take-it-or-leave-it problem is very similar with countries.
I'd be hard pressed to change the country, in the same way I'm hard pressed to make an insurance company give me good benefits. But it seems all insurance companies are equally as scammy, and I'm having a hard time finding a country I want to live in that isn't just as much suck as this one.
So, yes, the government is like insurance. It never pays out, and no matter where you go, you'll get screwed.
I feel you may have just skimmed what I said. I will help you understand what I said:
So shame on those living in France expecting anything different...(Please note, I'm not claiming my country is any better.)
My country isn't better. I'm just not expecting better, I know how screwed up my country is. What I'm saying here is: shame on you for expecting something better out of that system. If you're honest with yourself and don't expect better, then you can poise yourself into a position to either escape the system, or try to change the system. The choice is yours. Please don't litter in the theater.
While my initial thought is "Shame on those people who subverted the democratic process" I can't help but think.. "Shame on the faulty system with such a stupid loophole." Did they subvert the democratic process? Kinda. But did they do things within the boundries of their law? Apparently so.
So shame on those living in France expecting anything different from their dumb system.
It's like having an insurance policy, and when the insurance company decides to be assholes and use their technicalities to avoid paying you, well, shame on you for signing on to such an obviously flawed contract.
(Please note, I'm not claiming my country is any better.)
I'd love to link my pacman to this. I'm on the double strawberries level!
Unless your filter decides that no one really needs connections that last more than a 30 seconds over HTTPS. That restriction will break almost no HTTPS sites, but will ensure that any SSH connection dies periodically, as does anything running tunnelled over that connection.
This will completely ruin all my bank transfers (which, as we all know consist of a progress bar and a cash counter- which displays and slowly counts down while it takes a few minutes to transfer all the money.)
I won't lie. I was partly relieved, but partly dissapointed when I clicked that link.
I have done the same, I dumped cable and watch netflix and hulu through the xbox (check out mediamall's playon software). That plus the dvds by mail from netflix, I've already got too much to watch, and not enough time. The bonus? I watch when I want. Not when it's scheduled to run.
I can't speak for your children if they're girls, but as a former 10 (and 8) year old boy, I can assure you they're at least beginning to be sexually aware. Anybody in elementary school who's ridden the bus will hear the children talk. Children say the worst things.
Also- I've been interested in boobs as far as I can remember. Just because I didn't hit puberty yet didn't mean sex didn't interest me. I just didn't fully understand it yet.
Thanks, I was about to comment on this, but you beat me to it.
It's poor reporting, really. Make Chrome look like a hero, when there are other browsers that just weren't tested at all... (and would most likely pass).
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Youtube2.com, a full mirror of regular Youtube. Just keep making new ones until China gives up.
1. To alert people of a real danger, in an effort to save lives.
2. To scare people into a panic by pretending there is a real danger when there is not. (for lulz).
I'm having a hard time bending my brain to somehow apply this logic to leaving buildings unblurred.
Either you're trying to alert people of a real school/church/government building - to alert them of a real and present.. building, or you're trying to trick people (into a panic??) that the buildings are really there when they're not. That's the only reason to leave them unblurred? I'm sure I'd panic if I saw buildings on google maps that weren't really there. It might cause me to stop doing drugs. Maybe that's his plan all along??
But then he goes on to show off his USA public education by making the connection for us:
He claims that there is no good reason why anyone would need to clearly see these buildings online, and that it can only be used for bad purposes
Clearly, it all makes sense now! Seeing those buildings can only be used for bad purposes- Just like yelling fire can only be used for bad purposes! EXACTLY! There is not a single good use for shouting "fire!" except terrorism.
Ultimately, the only real WTF about this article is the belief that someone who really wants to kill you won't just drive to your house/school/church and use his eyes to make sure he's bombing/shooting/flying airplanes/melting/flooding the right place.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's hoping for a Patrick Stewart casting. DS9 or Voyager Movies? Eck. A new TV Series with Picard.. and Data!? Amazing!
Two things:
1. Brent Spiner would have to lose some weight
2. They've got to get rid of Data's emotion chip. That's when Data lost his charm, I feel.
Otherwise, bring it on.
Hibernating with 1 gb of memory still takes a long time. Sleep still drains battery.
I thought it was handy for those people like myself who never understood that "whoosh" joke.
I can see this working well for netbooks. One of the main reasons the idea of a netbook has been ruined for me is the boot time.
Here, I've got a small little machine that could be more useful than my phone- only catch, I'd rather txt google with my phone than power up the acer-one, since it's going to take forever to boot.
On my main machines I'll stick with xp and ubuntu. But this might be a great netbook os, finally making a netbook useful..
*feathers. You get it.
Although Gamestop already "ruffled features" in the dev and distribution communities, I'd say what really legitimizes the practice of buying and selling used games is the First Sale Doctrine.
That's like saying freedom of speech is only legitimate if everybody agrees with what you say... It's really quite different. It's legalized legitimacy is in the face of the fact that people disagree.