I don't consider Alexa to be a fair tool for this comparison. Slashdot leans rather heavily to the demographic that would NOT choose to report web usage stats to Alexa, and would likely null-route the data collection server if the notion struck them.
Hi. The Civic VX had a variable valve train that used a combination of oil pressure and an electronic solenoid to switch to a different cam profile under load. Vtec-off it was a 60 HP commuter. With the vtec-on it was a zippy little demon..;) -Ellie
I am a little concerned about those big honking SUV's, but I still switched to 1 lb racing seats, carbon fiber body panels, and aluminum wheels on my lowered civic.
Am I the only one that thinks this article a bit presumptuous? Google has been in the internet business "for a while", and has been "mildly successful". I _think_ they can set their own business plan, and doing support on a desktop multiplatform application is a bit of a stretch from "search".
AC gets the point I was trying to make, I think.. My memory gets fuzzy that far back, but wasn't IBM trying to bundle "that other GUI" (OS/2) on IBM only hardware a la apple? Whereas MS was whoring out DOS and Windows to all?
The original Microsoft idea, a single OS running on hardware from a variety of vendors was a _good idea_ that consolidated IT. That was the "Bill Gates" idea. Unfortunately everything turned evil after that..
Mr. Gates,
You get a lot of flack here on/., but one thing is undeniable. Without Microsoft the IT world would be a vastly different and poorer place.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
-ellie
Kind of a left turn from TFA, but maybe next time we should ask if Netflix can be goaded into releasing an obviously-linux-compatible player application?
Companies have been "doing for themselves" for decades. They come
to realize that something is a critical part of their business and
they take ownership of it. They take on the ability or responsibility
to maintain the system themselves.
Therein lies the fundamental difference between open or paid source vs closed source. We have a number of issues with our > $100,000 accounting system that Microsoft simply refuses to fix. If we could buy the source and fix it ourselves, we would. If we could download the source and release patches, we would. Unfortunately, we bought a Microsoft product and to them the "There is a (painful) workaround, so we aren't going to fix it in this version" answer is good enough for _them_. Our opinion on the matter is quite irrelevant.
They do taste good, to Gobies. And Smallmouth Bass eat the gobies*. You have to love those adaptive ecosystems. In the Great Lakes they have benefited the SCUBA divers somewhat. Because of the explosion in filter feeders, some areas that used to be pea-soup, now have visibility up to 20ft.
*except the gobies eat all manner of crap and killed off a good chunk of the bass population during an e. coli outbreak.
In the US, NOAA has had fairly good resolution data available for most of the coastline. Unfortunately, it is not in the most "user friendly" format. To say that a different way, I was looking for some possible diving spots* and spent an hour trying to make heads or tails of the search data.
Searchability is Google's strong point, so I expect this will be a vast improvement. Some inland data would be nice, but I can't imaging the two man-made lakes near my house would be indexed any time this century.
-ellie
* Hard contacts in less than 200ft/66M not in a major shipping lane.
Sadly this particular "discussion" was in a ticket. Having seen the top-post vs. bottom post discussions, I cannot imagine the email discussion it would have caused.
I support giving the users a choice where the sig goes, on the existing sig control panel. To me, above the reply seems logical. I.e. when we read slashdot, we see.
message..sig
message..sig
message..sig
which makes a lot more sense than
message
message
message..sig..sig..sig
I'm sorry you disagree with me Anon, but given the question, physical access to the box is assumed. I doubt the grieving parents will say "Can you look at Johnny's computer and see if he left any clues?...But, to make it interesting you have to exploit it remotely."
Pidgin isn't the only application guilty of this. Evolution has had a couple of "vigorous" discussions about whether a signature should go above or below reply-quoted text, and with the way the IMAP trash folder works.
IMHO, any feature related decision that results in more than 50 duplicate bugs in Bugzilla is worth reconsidering.
It probably took longer to post the question to/. than to do, and chroot does exactly what he thinks it does.
My brother-in-law passed away unexpectedly in 1995 at the age of 36. We were very close, and he was like a father to me. I helped clean out his office at work and at home. Going through his data wasn't an exercise in morbid voyeurism, it was an attempt to close some of the unfinished questions. A "If you are reading this..." letter would have been a great comfort, but there wasn't one.
I'm going to write one of those letters right now.
Your assertion is correct, the original intent was to have a hierarchy of SSL providers like DNS.
In practice the cost of becoming a dns registrar was relatively inexpensive. As I understand it, the cost of obtaining a key signing certificate from an existing CA is extremely high, if you can get one at all.* This is the reason that companies like GoDaddy find it easier to acquire a defunct SSL provider with a widely accepted Root certificate.
* The cause for this is simple to deduce. It would be illogical for a company (Verisign) to sell the required materials for operation to a primary competitor.
This is not always the case, I personally found the taste of a stressed animals to be distinct and unpleasant. On our farm, we harvested two bulls, but made the mistake of allowing the second to see the first being put down. (With a rifle, no stunner) The second bull was terrified and the meat had a tangy bitter flavor. Perhaps it is adrenalin or some other stress hormone?
Responding to another post, after 3 months as a vegetarian* bacon is all I really miss.
Vegetarian* = The "I'll have a salad kind"", not the "OMFG that french fry contains.0125% beef fat" kind.
I remember reading this idea in a science fiction book from my youth. Single Celled Organic Protein (SCOP). They could process it into meat or scrambled eggs, whatever you like. They grew it in offshore tankers, and if a batch was contaminated they would steam sterilize it to kill the lot. Some of the old ones still held out, and the author wrote about the thriving gray market for "real" eggs.
They won't do that for liability reasons, and windows doesn't do it either. In Ubuntu it is an easy fix.
Applications -> Add/Remove -> All available applications -> Select "Ubuntu Restricted Extras" -> Apply changes.
On Windows you have to install software to be able to play DVDs too. Everyone forgets that because it comes preinstalled on their PCs and on the Restore Disks.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't consider Alexa to be a fair tool for this comparison. Slashdot leans rather heavily to the demographic that would NOT choose to report web usage stats to Alexa, and would likely null-route the data collection server if the notion struck them.
-ellie
Obligatory link to xkcd.com here.
Hi. The Civic VX had a variable valve train that used a combination of oil pressure and an electronic solenoid to switch to a different cam profile under load. Vtec-off it was a 60 HP commuter. With the vtec-on it was a zippy little demon.. ;)
-Ellie
Good Idea, except ... the largest racing organization in the US still uses ..... Carburetors.
-ellie
I am a little concerned about those big honking SUV's, but I still switched to 1 lb racing seats, carbon fiber body panels, and aluminum wheels on my lowered civic.
:D
yeah.. uh... I did it for the "gas mileage".
-Ellie
Hi!
Forgive my ignorance. How do they do that... by expanding or shrinking the money supply or...?
kthxbye
ellie
Am I the only one that thinks this article a bit presumptuous? Google has been in the internet business "for a while", and has been "mildly successful". I _think_ they can set their own business plan, and doing support on a desktop multiplatform application is a bit of a stretch from "search".
-ellie
AC gets the point I was trying to make, I think.. My memory gets fuzzy that far back, but wasn't IBM trying to bundle "that other GUI" (OS/2) on IBM only hardware a la apple? Whereas MS was whoring out DOS and Windows to all?
The original Microsoft idea, a single OS running on hardware from a variety of vendors was a _good idea_ that consolidated IT. That was the "Bill Gates" idea. Unfortunately everything turned evil after that..
-ellie
Mr. Gates, You get a lot of flack here on /., but one thing is undeniable. Without Microsoft the IT world would be a vastly different and poorer place.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
-ellie
Kind of a left turn from TFA, but maybe next time we should ask if Netflix can be goaded into releasing an obviously-linux-compatible player application?
o_O
-ellie
-Ellie
To me, this has the same problem as the biomass -> ethanol projects.
Q: Who is going to grow the biomass?
A: Farmers.
Q: Will they grow it on new farms?
A: No. They will convert existing farms.
Q: So who will grow food then?
A:?
They do taste good, to Gobies. And Smallmouth Bass eat the gobies*. You have to love those adaptive ecosystems. In the Great Lakes they have benefited the SCUBA divers somewhat. Because of the explosion in filter feeders, some areas that used to be pea-soup, now have visibility up to 20ft.
*except the gobies eat all manner of crap and killed off a good chunk of the bass population during an e. coli outbreak.
With the way the economy is going, it might be funnier just to pay it.. 15M us is like what, $100 Euro? o_O
-ellie
(Yes, I realize the exchange rate is actually closer to 1.75:1 but reality isn't always funny without hyperbole.)
In the US, NOAA has had fairly good resolution data available for most of the coastline. Unfortunately, it is not in the most "user friendly" format. To say that a different way, I was looking for some possible diving spots* and spent an hour trying to make heads or tails of the search data.
Searchability is Google's strong point, so I expect this will be a vast improvement. Some inland data would be nice, but I can't imaging the two man-made lakes near my house would be indexed any time this century.
-ellie
* Hard contacts in less than 200ft/66M not in a major shipping lane.
Sadly this particular "discussion" was in a ticket. Having seen the top-post vs. bottom post discussions, I cannot imagine the email discussion it would have caused.
..sig ..sig ..sig
..sig ..sig ..sig
I support giving the users a choice where the sig goes, on the existing sig control panel. To me, above the reply seems logical. I.e. when we read slashdot, we see.
message
message
message
which makes a lot more sense than
message
message
message
-ellie
I'm sorry you disagree with me Anon, but given the question, physical access to the box is assumed. I doubt the grieving parents will say "Can you look at Johnny's computer and see if he left any clues?...But, to make it interesting you have to exploit it remotely."
;)
This looks like fodder for an xkcd.com comic.
-ellie
Pidgin isn't the only application guilty of this. Evolution has had a couple of "vigorous" discussions about whether a signature should go above or below reply-quoted text, and with the way the IMAP trash folder works.
IMHO, any feature related decision that results in more than 50 duplicate bugs in Bugzilla is worth reconsidering.
-Ellie
Finally, someone else that "Gets it." Have you considered signing up for Cryonics?
-Ellie
Full Disclosure: I am an option 2 funded member of the Cryonics Institute.
It probably took longer to post the question to /. than to do, and chroot does exactly what he thinks it does.
My brother-in-law passed away unexpectedly in 1995 at the age of 36. We were very close, and he was like a father to me. I helped clean out his office at work and at home. Going through his data wasn't an exercise in morbid voyeurism, it was an attempt to close some of the unfinished questions. A "If you are reading this..." letter would have been a great comfort, but there wasn't one.
I'm going to write one of those letters right now.
-ellie
No, you are mistaken. The CA signs YOUR public key with THEIR private key, and sends it back to you.
You send the client your public key, and encrypt traffic with your private key for them to decrypt with your public key...
Before decrypting, the client checks your public key against the CA to see if your public key is correct and valid, and for the domain they requested.
Your private key is yours and yours alone, if you give it away, you've given out the keys to the store.
-ellie
Your assertion is correct, the original intent was to have a hierarchy of SSL providers like DNS. In practice the cost of becoming a dns registrar was relatively inexpensive. As I understand it, the cost of obtaining a key signing certificate from an existing CA is extremely high, if you can get one at all.* This is the reason that companies like GoDaddy find it easier to acquire a defunct SSL provider with a widely accepted Root certificate. * The cause for this is simple to deduce. It would be illogical for a company (Verisign) to sell the required materials for operation to a primary competitor.
This is not always the case, I personally found the taste of a stressed animals to be distinct and unpleasant. On our farm, we harvested two bulls, but made the mistake of allowing the second to see the first being put down. (With a rifle, no stunner) The second bull was terrified and the meat had a tangy bitter flavor. Perhaps it is adrenalin or some other stress hormone?
.0125% beef fat" kind.
Responding to another post, after 3 months as a vegetarian* bacon is all I really miss.
Vegetarian* = The "I'll have a salad kind"", not the "OMFG that french fry contains
I remember reading this idea in a science fiction book from my youth. Single Celled Organic Protein (SCOP). They could process it into meat or scrambled eggs, whatever you like. They grew it in offshore tankers, and if a batch was contaminated they would steam sterilize it to kill the lot. Some of the old ones still held out, and the author wrote about the thriving gray market for "real" eggs.
-ellie
They won't do that for liability reasons, and windows doesn't do it either. In Ubuntu it is an easy fix.
Applications -> Add/Remove -> All available applications -> Select "Ubuntu Restricted Extras" -> Apply changes.
On Windows you have to install software to be able to play DVDs too. Everyone forgets that because it comes preinstalled on their PCs and on the Restore Disks.
-ellie