TFA of the linked slashdot article indicates that the cities were shortening the length of the yellow lights. It could still be green, and it may not be obvious that the car(s) in front of you is/are about to stop. It seems that this was where the "unfair" part is coming from.
Do not enter the intersection if you cannot get completely across before the light turns red. If you block the intersection, you can be cited.
This is what has been continually repeated in this thread. But it's a judgement call. And if you make the wrong judgement, then you're screwed, no take-sy back-sies. It's like saying "Too bad you thought that you could make it through before the amber and red lights!" People that live in the town may know that you can't (because of the funk-ed up traffic light patterns), but someone new or passing through would not.
If the light was still green, of course they would think that they could still make it, especially if the car ahead had not yet stopped.
Quite right. Removing the extremists only changes the definition of "extreme". I don't agree with all of RMS' ideals, but I'm damn glad that he's around.
Well, in cases where you can't trust the client, that means you (the server) should not allow any client side code that isn't heavily checked and double-checked. GP is concerned about client side security.
Of course, as it stands now, there is no trivial way to prevent what RMS wants; user-specified client-side code. But if a third party is able to specify code for the user (using phishing techniques, etc;), therein lies the security hole.
The only way to really do this is to do away with javascript altogether, and create some new mechanism that either implements what RMS is talking about, or is able to run as totally black-boxed client-side code. The former would put the client at risk to dropped-in malicious code, whereas the latter is still vulnerable to persistent hacking (meaning again, that server still can't trust the client). I would argue that the former is more secure overall, since the latter seeks security in obscurity.
Personally, I'm all for an easier way to use your custom drop-in replacements for web page code. It would be like Grease Monkey, and people would stop complaining whenever Popular Social Website changes its interface yet again. Plus, it would make sense to use some local cache for Popular Social Website's code (which would be periodically updated, of course).
I don't really know about other high schools, but mine only really had hand-me-down equipment and a bunch of bread-board supplies purchased out my teacher's pocket (granted, he did get some sort of tax thing on it). It was a pretty bare-bones program. If we didn't have the extra large workshop classrooms alongside the woodworking and autobody classes, we probably would not have a computer engineering program at all.
Well, this was a high school course. We did more than just that, we were also playing with bread boards and making primitive digital LED number displays, and oh, the EEPROMs...
There we also learned more basic skills, such as taking a motherboard and processor, and adding hard drives, memory, cd-roms, power supplies, heatsinks/fans, network cards, etc;. Half the battle was trying to dig through the crap and find components that worked, and trying to get a machine that would give you the right beeps at POST, and diagnose when it didn't. We shared the room with the Robotics class, and so we also had some limited involvment in maze-solving robots programmed in assembly.
And that was just Comp Engineering. I also had Comp Sci, which was playing around with Object Oriented Turing, Logo, Java, and then a Java based Battle Bot game I forget the name of. A lot of the time, we'd be done early and just read webcomics, or play Liero.
These were courses offered both in Grade 11 and Grade 12, the Grade 12 course obviously being a bit more advanced (I graduated the year after they removed grade 13 in Ontario). I didn't realize until after graduation what a special school that was. It's apparently not as nice as it used to be, the music and CS programs have suffered. Lots of fond memories, though.
Well, it is ironic, because if it didn't go on the Internet and was strictly cellular, SMS message actually cost nothing, they're carried on the control channel (the one cell phone just listens on). The average SMS message is about the tenth of a kilobyte, so the machine that google was providing this service on must have been seriously DDOS'd by all these people.
Don't just chuck them. Look for a high-school that has a proper computer engineering program, and drop them off there. Whether you give them to the teachers or the students directly, they'll love you for it.
I remember building and disassembling many a computer in my class before I was able to install windows 95 (and subsequently, starcraft) on them.
The Chicago-based music publisher Clayton F. Summy Company, working with Jessica Hill, published and copyrighted "Happy Birthday" in 1935. Under the laws in effect at the time, the Hills' copyright would have expired after one 28-year term and a renewal of similar length, falling into public domain by 1991. However, the Copyright Act of 1976 extended the term of copyright protection to 75 years from date of publication, and the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 added another 20 years, so under current law the copyright protection of "Happy Birthday" will remain intact until at least 2030.
I'm assuming you're running window... would you consider using more than one browser just for the beta?
I'm on Linux. I've just finished downloading firefox for windows, and I'm just waiting in the queue now so I can try it in wine. I don't even consider this a big deal.
well, then that client would probably just act like a browser wrapped around that plugin. There will hypertext links and other browser-y stuff to deal with too.
One of the main ideas behind Quake Live is to give PC gaming something it could actually take advantage of.
The Linux kernel last time I checked was something like 30mb. Admittedly that was years ago
When you build a kernel configured properly for your device/machine, you're not using all of the source code. In fact, you're using very little of the source.
The vmlinuz-generic image that came installed on the Slackware 12.2 setup that I'm typing with now is only 2.2M, although that's not including modprobe drivers. The associated System.map file is just 912K. By comparison, the vmlinuz-huge-smp kernel that also came by default is still just 4.6M. This is all according to what the df command is telling me.
Time limited licenses are already the way of business applications. Companies don't "arbitrarily" lose access to the tools. If they allow the license to expire, they can't use it anymore. It isn't like one day they suddenly have no access anymore.
Contract and license terms can change. If a business becomes dependent on a service that no longer gives them what they want, the changeover can be costly. And the service provider can always mysteriously die. Authentication might not be possible without a working network connection, which makes things a pain when the network or firewall is poorly configured. Timed licenses are easy and quick, but not always as dependable as using in-house software. I'm not saying it's a bad solution, but it has it's drawbacks.
Are you implying that somehow this new version of windows is going to steal your data and give you access only when it wants?
Well, that does tend to be something that comes with DRM. Not always the OS's fault directly, I know, but it comes with the territory.
We will all have digital shopping assistants and, separately, 'crystal balls' to predict our future health. If IBM is right, in five years we'll forget about keyboards and use our voices to surf the Web on solar-powered laptops
When I talk about cause for concern, I don't mean 'aww, look at the poor animals being crushed by the wave', I mean '... there's a fucking wave coming!'.
As we don't know where Evolution plans on taking life, then we're a bit above our selves to think that only XY number of species are "allowed" to become extinct at any such point in time. I'm sure the dinosaurs are strongly arguing for you too.
That's not what I mean at all. When we are rational thinking humans, we should have the ability to recognize when something unhealthy is happening. When this planet becomes unlivable, then everyone's descendants will have to spend much more energy and resources than we do to stay alive. This is a practical issue, not a moral one. I'm not just talking about global warming; I'm talking about poison that is caused by humans as well poison that we're not directly responsible for.
Life keeps cropping up on this planet and has done for.. well a fair while now! The fact that even if there was a nuclear holocaust cockroaches would survive shows that a bit of extra heat/cold isn't going to stop our planet from fulfilling any purpose is has (if any). So even in the far flung chance where all life dies off, then our planet will be just like every other planet in the Universe. "oh but lifes so special we need to.." shut up you self righteous fool.
Based on definition; a planet's 'purpose' is to be a planet. Life's purpose is to be/stay alive and/or continue life. Don't talk about 'purpose' and then call me a self-righteous fool. Fuck you and your moral double-standards when noone is talking about morals, and actually use those critical faculties instead of just automatically go into rage-mode. It would actually make for a much more interesting debate.
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TFA of the linked slashdot article indicates that the cities were shortening the length of the yellow lights. It could still be green, and it may not be obvious that the car(s) in front of you is/are about to stop. It seems that this was where the "unfair" part is coming from.
Do not enter the intersection if you cannot get completely across before the light turns red. If you block the intersection, you can be cited.
This is what has been continually repeated in this thread. But it's a judgement call. And if you make the wrong judgement, then you're screwed, no take-sy back-sies. It's like saying "Too bad you thought that you could make it through before the amber and red lights!" People that live in the town may know that you can't (because of the funk-ed up traffic light patterns), but someone new or passing through would not.
If the light was still green, of course they would think that they could still make it, especially if the car ahead had not yet stopped.
And Warcraft 2 was a clone of Tetris!
Quite right. Removing the extremists only changes the definition of "extreme". I don't agree with all of RMS' ideals, but I'm damn glad that he's around.
Well, in cases where you can't trust the client, that means you (the server) should not allow any client side code that isn't heavily checked and double-checked. GP is concerned about client side security.
Of course, as it stands now, there is no trivial way to prevent what RMS wants; user-specified client-side code. But if a third party is able to specify code for the user (using phishing techniques, etc;), therein lies the security hole.
The only way to really do this is to do away with javascript altogether, and create some new mechanism that either implements what RMS is talking about, or is able to run as totally black-boxed client-side code. The former would put the client at risk to dropped-in malicious code, whereas the latter is still vulnerable to persistent hacking (meaning again, that server still can't trust the client). I would argue that the former is more secure overall, since the latter seeks security in obscurity.
Personally, I'm all for an easier way to use your custom drop-in replacements for web page code. It would be like Grease Monkey, and people would stop complaining whenever Popular Social Website changes its interface yet again. Plus, it would make sense to use some local cache for Popular Social Website's code (which would be periodically updated, of course).
I don't really know about other high schools, but mine only really had hand-me-down equipment and a bunch of bread-board supplies purchased out my teacher's pocket (granted, he did get some sort of tax thing on it). It was a pretty bare-bones program. If we didn't have the extra large workshop classrooms alongside the woodworking and autobody classes, we probably would not have a computer engineering program at all.
Well, this was a high school course. We did more than just that, we were also playing with bread boards and making primitive digital LED number displays, and oh, the EEPROMs...
There we also learned more basic skills, such as taking a motherboard and processor, and adding hard drives, memory, cd-roms, power supplies, heatsinks/fans, network cards, etc;. Half the battle was trying to dig through the crap and find components that worked, and trying to get a machine that would give you the right beeps at POST, and diagnose when it didn't. We shared the room with the Robotics class, and so we also had some limited involvment in maze-solving robots programmed in assembly.
And that was just Comp Engineering. I also had Comp Sci, which was playing around with Object Oriented Turing, Logo, Java, and then a Java based Battle Bot game I forget the name of. A lot of the time, we'd be done early and just read webcomics, or play Liero.
These were courses offered both in Grade 11 and Grade 12, the Grade 12 course obviously being a bit more advanced (I graduated the year after they removed grade 13 in Ontario). I didn't realize until after graduation what a special school that was. It's apparently not as nice as it used to be, the music and CS programs have suffered. Lots of fond memories, though.
Well, it is ironic, because if it didn't go on the Internet and was strictly cellular, SMS message actually cost nothing, they're carried on the control channel (the one cell phone just listens on). The average SMS message is about the tenth of a kilobyte, so the machine that google was providing this service on must have been seriously DDOS'd by all these people.
makes you look childish.
Oh anonymous coward, your criticisms see into our very souls.
Don't just chuck them. Look for a high-school that has a proper computer engineering program, and drop them off there. Whether you give them to the teachers or the students directly, they'll love you for it.
I remember building and disassembling many a computer in my class before I was able to install windows 95 (and subsequently, starcraft) on them.
I would like to point out that teen pregnancy is an unfortunate problem that is difficult to prevent in our society.
*obligatory eye-roll*
almost, unfortunately.
from http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp
The Chicago-based music publisher Clayton F. Summy Company, working with Jessica Hill, published and copyrighted "Happy Birthday" in 1935. Under the laws in effect at the time, the Hills' copyright would have expired after one 28-year term and a renewal of similar length, falling into public domain by 1991. However, the Copyright Act of 1976 extended the term of copyright protection to 75 years from date of publication, and the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 added another 20 years, so under current law the copyright protection of "Happy Birthday" will remain intact until at least 2030.
I'm assuming you're running window... would you consider using more than one browser just for the beta?
I'm on Linux. I've just finished downloading firefox for windows, and I'm just waiting in the queue now so I can try it in wine. I don't even consider this a big deal.
Hey! That's unreal, not quake!
well, then that client would probably just act like a browser wrapped around that plugin. There will hypertext links and other browser-y stuff to deal with too.
One of the main ideas behind Quake Live is to give PC gaming something it could actually take advantage of.
java or flash built in-browser game.
No, THIS would suck. Especially for linux users ;-)
Here's some facts, you can thank me later.
how much later?
The Linux kernel last time I checked was something like 30mb. Admittedly that was years ago
When you build a kernel configured properly for your device/machine, you're not using all of the source code. In fact, you're using very little of the source.
The vmlinuz-generic image that came installed on the Slackware 12.2 setup that I'm typing with now is only 2.2M, although that's not including modprobe drivers. The associated System.map file is just 912K. By comparison, the vmlinuz-huge-smp kernel that also came by default is still just 4.6M. This is all according to what the df command is telling me.
slashdotted after 4 minutes.
Although mind you, slashdot's probably not the only site with member flocking to the KDE forums right now.
Time limited licenses are already the way of business applications. Companies don't "arbitrarily" lose access to the tools. If they allow the license to expire, they can't use it anymore. It isn't like one day they suddenly have no access anymore.
Contract and license terms can change. If a business becomes dependent on a service that no longer gives them what they want, the changeover can be costly. And the service provider can always mysteriously die. Authentication might not be possible without a working network connection, which makes things a pain when the network or firewall is poorly configured. Timed licenses are easy and quick, but not always as dependable as using in-house software. I'm not saying it's a bad solution, but it has it's drawbacks.
Are you implying that somehow this new version of windows is going to steal your data and give you access only when it wants?
Well, that does tend to be something that comes with DRM. Not always the OS's fault directly, I know, but it comes with the territory.
It stopped being cool to point out when something stopped being cool at about...
oh, crap, never mind.
We will all have digital shopping assistants and, separately, 'crystal balls' to predict our future health. If IBM is right, in five years we'll forget about keyboards and use our voices to surf the Web on solar-powered laptops
I keep reading that word, "we". Who is we?
thank you, sir, for giving us a good reason why the web should NOT talk to us.
When I talk about cause for concern, I don't mean 'aww, look at the poor animals being crushed by the wave', I mean '... there's a fucking wave coming!'.
As we don't know where Evolution plans on taking life, then we're a bit above our selves to think that only XY number of species are "allowed" to become extinct at any such point in time. I'm sure the dinosaurs are strongly arguing for you too.
That's not what I mean at all. When we are rational thinking humans, we should have the ability to recognize when something unhealthy is happening. When this planet becomes unlivable, then everyone's descendants will have to spend much more energy and resources than we do to stay alive. This is a practical issue, not a moral one. I'm not just talking about global warming; I'm talking about poison that is caused by humans as well poison that we're not directly responsible for.
Life keeps cropping up on this planet and has done for .. well a fair while now! The fact that even if there was a nuclear holocaust cockroaches would survive shows that a bit of extra heat/cold isn't going to stop our planet from fulfilling any purpose is has (if any). So even in the far flung chance where all life dies off, then our planet will be just like every other planet in the Universe. "oh but lifes so special we need to.." shut up you self righteous fool.
Based on definition; a planet's 'purpose' is to be a planet. Life's purpose is to be/stay alive and/or continue life. Don't talk about 'purpose' and then call me a self-righteous fool. Fuck you and your moral double-standards when noone is talking about morals, and actually use those critical faculties instead of just automatically go into rage-mode. It would actually make for a much more interesting debate.