Uh, there's this thing called Residency, which is a big difference compared to IT work...
Yeah, you get treated like children and work 80 hours a week and get little pay when doing residency. IT interns get treated like slaves and workd 100 hours a week and often get no pay.
No where is an inalienable right denied by moving someone elsewhere to watch their material. That this is a tax-funded organization does not change that.
You can't sequester people who do something you don't like without that being a violation of their right to do something you don't like. Just as with all the rules about treating people the same with regards to "protected class" status, you have to treat people the same with regards to speech.
You don't get to decide what is objectionable or not.
There is plenty of precedent and common sense that makes it clear that our first amendment rights have limitations when they infringe on the rights of others.
Inalienable rights are inalienable rights. If you don't like it, don't look.
Search Kayak.com for tickets to Hawaii in a month. Click on a link for the flight you want. Get a popup about allowing their "rate advisor". Allow it. Go back to the Kayak results. Click another result from a competitor airline and allow their "rate advisor". Get a notification from the first airline that you can save $$ on that flight if you book now. Go back to the first airline's website. Get a notification from the second airline that you can save $$ on that flight if you book now. Compare the two actual prices and decide which flight you want. Remove permissions for trip advisors. Reblock notification permissions, ads, javascript, and third party / promiscuous cookies related to their sites.
A pull notification system is more efficient only if there are updates more frequently than polls. If the updates are very infrequent it gets to be more efficient for pushing. And pushing shouldn't require you to keep a connection open to each site, it should just require you to keep one port open where all push notifications would go. The server would open a connection to that port in order to send the push. Unless pushes are frequent then you might maintain an open connection blah blah blah. At least every push system that I've ever worked with works in this way. Usually results in less traffic since there's never a poll that goes "hey ya got anything yet?"
First, you'd have to define efficiency.
As a non-mobile user, I don't give a flying fuck about how much power or system resources my polls cost me, and I don't give a fuck about the server end (because I'm selfish, because it should be able to handle it, etc.). Efficiency is nothing more than the delay between something existing and me getting it. Polling once a minute is more than fine for everything except emergency notifications, and those all (should) have a dedicated, separate communication channel.
I'd much rather poke a server on demand, or have an explicit polling interval set, than have a pipe into my ass that lets the server poke me even after I've closed the page. Whether or not the connection is left open or not is irelevant - the security, privacy, and don't fucking bother me implications are the same as long as they can reestablish the connection.
I already have to allow cookies and javascript from shady fucking servers and browse around 10 different sites for airfare before the site I actually want to use shows me their real rate. I don't want to have to allow a "Rate Advisor" to push notifications to me minutes/hours/days after leaving their site just so I can get the true price ("Wait! Come back and book now to save $$$ on your trip to Shitland!!).
Riiiight. Because it couldn't at all be possible to have a settings page like this:
From which sites do you wish to permit push notifications? slashdot.org news.google.com cnn.com
No, your browser would have to accept (and display!) every single notification ever sent to you. Makes perfect sense.
And for each little notification bubble, why couldn't there be a little button? "Don't allow any more notifications from this service." Done.
It's like saying you just have to deal with spam emails. No, you don't. That's what spam filters, whitelists, etc. are for. This sort of service sounds like it would be whitelist-based to begin with, so anyone who abuses the service can easily be blocked.
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That's pull, no push. Pushing is much more efficient.
A "pull" notification requires the client to poke a server and check for content. This is typically done on a set interval.
A "push" notification requires an open connection to push content through. The client acts as a server.
Pushing is only more efficient if you're the server or you have a device with such a shitty battery. Desktop and laptop users don't give a flying fuck about the battery use required to poke at a server. The only ones who care are people on phones / tablets / nettops / other fad devices. And they all have "apps".
The bottom line is that the client should NOT have to maintain a connection the server can inject into. It's backwards and retarded behavior for a web browser to maintain open connections to remote servers after a page is closed. You might as well just elav the tab open.
It'd actually be awful -- it might filter the oil out but it'd take all of the gases/salt/etc out of the water too.
Pump oil + water onto ship. Run through these filters. Dump H2O back into ocean because who gives a shit whether or not it has salt or gas? It'll mix back in with the ocean which has plenty.
They better come out with this quick. It's amazing how quickly they crashed and burned with the Wii. This is what I call an "I told you so" post.
It seems like only a year ago (and it probably was) when any time you said the Wii was in trouble someone would come and tell you how wrong you are and that the Wii is "totally pwning Xbox and PS3". I think anyone could see the trouble was heading to within 1 year of the Wii coming out, but nooooooo. "Oh, you don't know how much the Wii is dominating Xbox/PS3!".
Well, no - it wasn't. It was selling at a small profit for Nintendo but nobody was buying very many games. It was old technology, it looks like crap. It was a gimmick that flashed brightly for a while because of the innovative controller, then it died almost as quickly.
Nintendo needs the U _now_ and they need it to be ~25% more powerful than current generation gaming consoles. I wish them well, I think 3 major platforms is perfect and want them to stick around but I was a bit annoyed by the blinders people had regarding the Wii.
Nintendo profited from every Wii made. Sony and MS lost lots of money on every PS3 and 360 sold until recently. The global attach rate for the Wii is about 7.7, while it's around 8.5 for the PS3. The 360 has an attach rate of about 9.2 in the US, and less globally (I don't know the number).
The Wii has sold about 100 million units and the PS3 and 360 are sitting at around 60 million units. Nintendo is the developer of most of the top-selling games on the Wii, so they get 100% of the profit. For the PS3 and 360, the bulk of softare sales are for games developed by 3rd parties - MS and Sony only see the royalties from those sales.
On a more serious note: I really hope Nintendo will have some good games this time. Because that dumb Mario five...thousandth edition thing they do with all of their titles, is really sucking. Everything is so childish and dumb. For a grown-up, the thing is utterly useless. Sometimes it feels like the music they listen to in the future in Demolition Man. You know, with every "band" being a childrens' choir.
What seems to be your boggle? Your face is all tense and angry, like you need to go use the three sea shells. Perhaps some music will enhance your calm.
Good things from the garden Garden in the valley Valley of the jolly green giant!
If you're willing to spend money on adding actual electronics a countdown clock would be cool. Preferably counting down to the exact time you're going to kiss the bride. That way you're making sure the ceremony is strictly time limited as well.
Because weddings always go as planned and never have delays.
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This system doesn't push directly to the client; your argument is irrelevant.
It absolutely pushes to the client, and the client must maintain an open port (thus functioning as a server for this function) for this to happen.
Uh, there's this thing called Residency, which is a big difference compared to IT work...
Yeah, you get treated like children and work 80 hours a week and get little pay when doing residency.
IT interns get treated like slaves and workd 100 hours a week and often get no pay.
No where is an inalienable right denied by moving someone elsewhere to watch their material. That this is a tax-funded organization does not change that.
You can't sequester people who do something you don't like without that being a violation of their right to do something you don't like.
Just as with all the rules about treating people the same with regards to "protected class" status, you have to treat people the same with regards to speech.
You don't get to decide what is objectionable or not.
If someone's editorial is right next to the one you're reading, and you don't like it, it's disruptive.
Deal with it.
There is plenty of precedent and common sense that makes it clear that our first amendment rights have limitations when they infringe on the rights of others.
Inalienable rights are inalienable rights. If you don't like it, don't look.
"She and her team wrote a program called aDesigner ... to allow designers to experience a site as blind users do"
She invented turning the monitor off?
Steve Jobs....Steve Appleton....Steve Wozniak.....How many F**** Steve's are there!?!
Did Steve tell you that perchance? Hmmm... Steve.
What it will be used for:
Search Kayak.com for tickets to Hawaii in a month.
Click on a link for the flight you want.
Get a popup about allowing their "rate advisor".
Allow it.
Go back to the Kayak results.
Click another result from a competitor airline and allow their "rate advisor".
Get a notification from the first airline that you can save $$ on that flight if you book now.
Go back to the first airline's website.
Get a notification from the second airline that you can save $$ on that flight if you book now.
Compare the two actual prices and decide which flight you want.
Remove permissions for trip advisors.
Reblock notification permissions, ads, javascript, and third party / promiscuous cookies related to their sites.
A pull notification system is more efficient only if there are updates more frequently than polls. If the updates are very infrequent it gets to be more efficient for pushing. And pushing shouldn't require you to keep a connection open to each site, it should just require you to keep one port open where all push notifications would go. The server would open a connection to that port in order to send the push. Unless pushes are frequent then you might maintain an open connection blah blah blah. At least every push system that I've ever worked with works in this way. Usually results in less traffic since there's never a poll that goes "hey ya got anything yet?"
First, you'd have to define efficiency.
As a non-mobile user, I don't give a flying fuck about how much power or system resources my polls cost me, and I don't give a fuck about the server end (because I'm selfish, because it should be able to handle it, etc.). Efficiency is nothing more than the delay between something existing and me getting it. Polling once a minute is more than fine for everything except emergency notifications, and those all (should) have a dedicated, separate communication channel.
I'd much rather poke a server on demand, or have an explicit polling interval set, than have a pipe into my ass that lets the server poke me even after I've closed the page. Whether or not the connection is left open or not is irelevant - the security, privacy, and don't fucking bother me implications are the same as long as they can reestablish the connection.
I already have to allow cookies and javascript from shady fucking servers and browse around 10 different sites for airfare before the site I actually want to use shows me their real rate. I don't want to have to allow a "Rate Advisor" to push notifications to me minutes/hours/days after leaving their site just so I can get the true price ("Wait! Come back and book now to save $$$ on your trip to Shitland!!).
Riiiight. Because it couldn't at all be possible to have a settings page like this:
From which sites do you wish to permit push notifications?
slashdot.org
news.google.com
cnn.com
No, your browser would have to accept (and display!) every single notification ever sent to you. Makes perfect sense.
And for each little notification bubble, why couldn't there be a little button? "Don't allow any more notifications from this service." Done.
It's like saying you just have to deal with spam emails. No, you don't. That's what spam filters, whitelists, etc. are for. This sort of service sounds like it would be whitelist-based to begin with, so anyone who abuses the service can easily be blocked.
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That's pull, no push. Pushing is much more efficient.
A "pull" notification requires the client to poke a server and check for content. This is typically done on a set interval.
A "push" notification requires an open connection to push content through. The client acts as a server.
Pushing is only more efficient if you're the server or you have a device with such a shitty battery.
Desktop and laptop users don't give a flying fuck about the battery use required to poke at a server. The only ones who care are people on phones / tablets / nettops / other fad devices. And they all have "apps".
The bottom line is that the client should NOT have to maintain a connection the server can inject into.
It's backwards and retarded behavior for a web browser to maintain open connections to remote servers after a page is closed.
You might as well just elav the tab open.
There's a reason why no one uses IE's web slices.
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=28788557
http://slashdot.org/submission/1929193/is-the-earth-gaining-or-losing-mass
Hand egg.
asking vendors to create Target-exclusive products that can't be found online.
This strategy would help Target compete with retailers like Amazon on like-for-like products.
Those seem contradictory.
The products are like-for-like, but the ones you see at Target are "Target-exclusive" and can't be found online because the SKU is slightly different.
It would take the water out and leave the oil and other matter..so... no.
Uh, pump dirty water onto boat, filter, dump clean ater back into ocean, carry oil + shit to processing plant.
It'd actually be awful -- it might filter the oil out but it'd take all of the gases/salt/etc out of the water too.
Pump oil + water onto ship.
Run through these filters.
Dump H2O back into ocean because who gives a shit whether or not it has salt or gas? It'll mix back in with the ocean which has plenty.
The material they used was NOT graphene. It was graphene oxide.
Graphene monoxide or graphene dioxide?
Graphene trioxide. Turbo. Power.
For the closest chave a man can get.
Can we use this for desalination? That would be epic.
Or how about cleaning up oil spills?
They better come out with this quick. It's amazing how quickly they crashed and burned with the Wii. This is what I call an "I told you so" post.
It seems like only a year ago (and it probably was) when any time you said the Wii was in trouble someone would come and tell you how wrong you are and that the Wii is "totally pwning Xbox and PS3". I think anyone could see the trouble was heading to within 1 year of the Wii coming out, but nooooooo. "Oh, you don't know how much the Wii is dominating Xbox/PS3!".
Well, no - it wasn't. It was selling at a small profit for Nintendo but nobody was buying very many games. It was old technology, it looks like crap. It was a gimmick that flashed brightly for a while because of the innovative controller, then it died almost as quickly.
Nintendo needs the U _now_ and they need it to be ~25% more powerful than current generation gaming consoles. I wish them well, I think 3 major platforms is perfect and want them to stick around but I was a bit annoyed by the blinders people had regarding the Wii.
Nintendo profited from every Wii made. Sony and MS lost lots of money on every PS3 and 360 sold until recently.
The global attach rate for the Wii is about 7.7, while it's around 8.5 for the PS3. The 360 has an attach rate of about 9.2 in the US, and less globally (I don't know the number).
The Wii has sold about 100 million units and the PS3 and 360 are sitting at around 60 million units.
Nintendo is the developer of most of the top-selling games on the Wii, so they get 100% of the profit.
For the PS3 and 360, the bulk of softare sales are for games developed by 3rd parties - MS and Sony only see the royalties from those sales.
Here's a chart for you (old, but still reflective of the situation):
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/edit/img/images/blog/5615/profit_chart_consoles.jpg
On a more serious note: I really hope Nintendo will have some good games this time.
Because that dumb Mario five...thousandth edition thing they do with all of their titles, is really sucking.
Everything is so childish and dumb. For a grown-up, the thing is utterly useless.
Sometimes it feels like the music they listen to in the future in Demolition Man. You know, with every "band" being a childrens' choir.
What seems to be your boggle? Your face is all tense and angry, like you need to go use the three sea shells. Perhaps some music will enhance your calm.
Good things from the garden
Garden in the valley
Valley of the jolly green giant!
If you're willing to spend money on adding actual electronics a countdown clock would be cool. Preferably counting down to the exact time you're going to kiss the bride. That way you're making sure the ceremony is strictly time limited as well.
Because weddings always go as planned and never have delays.
So, they watch Big Bang in Germany?
Or are the Big Bang writers secret followers of Hackerdom?
Bazinga!
Project SHOE
Who cares?
This isn't news for nerds, it's fodder for fanboys.
Odd, I have had several insured. you must be completely wrong.
Because you can easily register and insure a salvage title. Buddy did it to his Prius. insurance company was happy to insure it.
I dare you to try to file a vehicle claim on a salvage title, let alone a vehicle claim on a salvage title with a "repurposed" VIN.