You do realize that(while it has its uses, for convenience sake) IETab is just a convenient wrapper for IE components from the underlying Windows system, not some kind of re-implementation of IE for Firefox. It's just more convenient than clicking on the E yourself. Doesn't do a thing on any platform where IE isn't.
It doesn't help you if the antique browser insists on getting grabby; but situations like that usually make me resort to 'encapsulating' the oh-so-necessary-whatever-it-is behind a wrapper script that summons it in the antique browser (with as many features that might induce the user to navigate to another page, navigation bar, etc. as possible hidden or restricted) and hiding every other sign of the older browser's existence.
If that isn't good enough, we keep a stash of assorted antique VMs in the freezer, ready to be fired up (with persistence of any state changes during operation disabled) when needed and then shoved back in cold storage where they belong. Some of those things will probably still be run, from time to time, after I'm dead.
Is there an IE for non-Microsoft phones? Or do they just not buy anything from their phones/tablets?
Even if there were, it probably wouldn't help. 'ActiveX', in practice, is really woven more into Windows(and x86 Windows specifically, especially for the ActiveX controls that are basically just a dangerously easy way of executing native win32 code) than it is into IE, IE is just the transmission vector where you run into it.
IE for Mac never supported it in any meaningful way, and even Windows Phone and WinRT either don't support it at all, or support only the architecture agnostic bits, which precludes most real-world use. (Does the 'metro' mode IE in Win8 even support it, for anything except possibly MS-blessed components?)
My guess is 'lots of shitty apps that are nothing but wrappers to websites, just like in the US, only mandatory because the equivalent of SSL doesn't work on your phone, sucker!'.
I'd be inclined to wonder if the issue isn't the cypher itself; but maldesigned websites that won't talk to anything except IE with the expected ActiveX plugin... Unless it is unbelievably arcane, or proprietary and legally encumbered, hacking out at least a bad implementation shouldn't be a particularly gargantuan task. You wouldn't necessarily want to trust an enthusiastic-novice interpretation of anything crypto related; but if you just want 'implements the protocol, doesn't scream horribly' rather than 'doesn't make any subtle cryptographic mistakes', that's a much lower bar to clear.
The point isn't that all of Silicon Valley is as incompetent as Yahoo; but that the cash is flowing freely enough that even a company whose business model appears to be "Try to be Google, as imagined by an AOL user" can throw a billion dollars at some goofy blogging platform.
Now, I would not be at all sad to see fewer smart people wasting their lives trying to find new ways to get me to click on ads or analyze my behavior to sell me shit, (and there's a disturbing amount of brainpower going down the toilet on just that problem at the moment); but the trouble with a big wave of easy, dumb, money is that, while the crest is a blast, it can easily take down even solid people and ideas when the VCs eventually get spooked.
Just remember how much fun the economy of more or less the entire developed world managed to have, just because some banks were gambling on US real estate. Barely any connection to whether the economy of people who actually do and make things was stupid or brilliant, doing well, or doing ill; but down it came...
Oh, I'm not saying that it doesn't happen for good historical reasons. Just that, unlike agricultural communities on volcanoes (which, with occasional inconveniences and/or mass-death-by-hot-toxic-gasses incidents, actually makes sense overall), cities on volcanoes don't have any compensatory advantages. As you say, you don't really get to choose where cities go (even wacky authoritarian central planners can choose where to build a new city; but they can't keep them from being a ghost town much of the time), so it isn't as though any particular person screwed up in any useful sense.
I'm afraid that I know essentially nothing about what plants crave; but this has 'Table showing concentrations of leachable constituents in ashfall from historic eruptions (all concentrations in mg/kg)'
My assumption would be that, given that ash consists of mineral/glass particles, of varying sizes(but all pretty small), it has excellent surface area, and so provides a fast-enough-to-be-useful (unlike larger rocks and bedrock); but long-lasting-enough that it counts as a soil property (rather than just a sprinkling of Miracle-Gro).
As for which of those components are vital and would otherwise limit plant growth, which are neutral, and which are harmful, I'm afraid you'd need somebody who knows something about plant biology, or gardening.
Obviously, in the short term, the mixture of mechanical suffocation and nontrivial emissions of sulfur compounds that crater the pH, is Not Helpful for crop yields, so you can pretty much write off at least that season, if not longer; but apparently the 'moonscape' appearance wears off pretty quickly.
While you'd get quite the opposite impression (and effect) from the ashfall immediately following an eruption, volcanic soils that have had some time to weather a bit and regain their organic and biological components tend to be pretty rich. Assuming that eruptions don't happen too often, easier farming and occasional disruption beats the alternative.
It's sort of like telling people not to live next to rivers. Sure, they flood on occasion, and that sucks; but the rest of the time that's where the trade, fishing, and relatively steady water supply is.
Now, you would probably be better off not building a city on, or close to, a volcano. You wont' be getting much agriculture done in an urban environment, and those things can be expensive to rebuild.
Why would somebody with the information he had call Congress? The house and senate intelligence committees have been the staunchest in the collective insistence that "Absolutely nothing even slightly wicked happened, simply nothing. And, if it did, we were kept fully apprized of it at all times, and it was For America and 100% legal." Plus, 'called'? that'll throw the NSA off your trail...
That's Exactly what Crystal Well (a.k.a. Iris Pro) is 128 MiBytes of very fast RAM with latency about 1/2 that of DRAM.
In typical 'Intel - because we can.' product differentiation, they've unfortunately gone and made that bit tricky to get: Apparently, only their R-series Haswells, the BGA ones, have the eDRAM on the desktop. On the mobile side, it's reserved for the highest end i7s, I don't know if any of those are LGAs.
I don't doubt that it makes economic sense; but Intel is continuing their annoying policy of deliberately having no ideal low-to-midrange part: If you go for a lower performance CPU, as a price-sensitive buyer would, they simply don't offer a GPU that isn't merely phoning it in. If you buy a screaming expensive model, you get their fastest GPUs, which are OK; but not great (and, with some CPU-heavy exceptions, quite possibly not good enough for the people who buy $500+ i7s.
It probably isn't in their interest; but if they actually were looking to put a nail in the coffin of the low-end discrete GPU market, they'd offer at least one i3 or i5 with full GPU punch.
No need to use the past tense. Even among the obviously gamer/enthusiast slanted systems represented in the Steam Hardware Survey, they place surprisingly well. Among people who don't care, buying a discrete video card went away some time ago, and Intel gets a default win on anything non-AMD.
Not a terribly thrilling market to dominate; but you make it up in volume, I imagine.
I assume that if the 'guys' were 8x8 or 8x16 sprites in 64 vibrant colors, the PC could (and the NES PPU was 5.3MHz). I suspect, though, that people might consider that a step backward from any PC graphics since approximately Doom, possibly earlier...
Since the code needs to be audited anyways, it'd be a great chance for an instructor to introduce code reviews and/or pull requests. And maybe during that process, help enlighten other curious inmates as to how the system and programming works.
Plus, when compared to SAIC or other obligate parasites of the state, a few rapists and murders are probably refreshingly honest and easy to deal with.
Whatever his deeper motive is, it's all too likely to be whitewashed.
Or simply fall into the (really rather common) category of 'Yes, it's a motive; but nothing you say can really convey why it would be so motivating."
Not all affect states can be conveyed verbally, especially to people who haven't experienced them. All you can do is use hollow allusions to them.
Do we all know what words like 'hate', 'jealousy', 'frustration' mean? Sure. Do we know what they mean in the sense used by somebody who would offer one or more of them as an explanation for why he would face nearly certain death or capture in order to shoot up a terminal in LAX? Probably not. Not even clear that we could.
I avoid it like the plague, and your post provides a couple of the reasons why.
While it might occasionally inspire a pithy line, Twitter's artificial limitations turn interaction with, oh, other parts of the internet that you might want to make pithy comments about, into a totally unnecessary clusterfuck, one that isn't even voluntary anymore (for reasons that, no doubt, have everything to do with Twitter's desire to protect users from scammy 3rd party redirect services, rather than their attempt to find a revenue model...)
Sure, once you've already gone down the dumb path, further stupidity will inevitably be required to handle the consequences of your earlier actions; but that's not really a very comforting excuse.
Anybody who uses a link-shortening service especially for the purposes of complying with a totally arbitrary character limit, deserves what they get.
Seriously. What is a 'link shortening service' except a way to add another layer of quasi-DNS (except under the control of, probable analytics surveillance of, and subject to any uptime failures, retention limits, etc. of, a single entity) to the process of accessing something on the internet? Even better, since it isn't real DNS, it lacks all of the relatively mature, implementation-agnostic, tools for dealing with DNS and its issues, its behavior can vary nontrivially between providers (so if you aren't handling the shortened link exclusively with a common web browser, it may not work as expected, unlike DNS resolution), and it's a fantastic way to hide phishing and malware from the casual.
You can't really do without one layer of DNS; because remembering IPs is a pain (and tricks like round-robin load balancing are crazy useful); but what kind of sick masochist voluntarily adds additional layers of crippled-semi-DNS?
to show how commited (or honest) are in the push against chemical weapons, must destroy its own chemical (and biological, and so on) weapons factories and stockpiles. And of course, private owned companies in US should do the same.
The US has a shitload of back-stock, and the operation in charge of incinerating it into safety seems to have outbreaks of competence deficiency from time to time; but if the US is party to ongoing flouting of the ICWC, they sure are quiet about it. Their nukes, of course, will be streamlined a bit for cost reasons; but you'll have to pry the remainder out of their cold, dead, hands. Chemical and biological, though, haven't been major programs in some decades.
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You do realize that(while it has its uses, for convenience sake) IETab is just a convenient wrapper for IE components from the underlying Windows system, not some kind of re-implementation of IE for Firefox. It's just more convenient than clicking on the E yourself. Doesn't do a thing on any platform where IE isn't.
It doesn't help you if the antique browser insists on getting grabby; but situations like that usually make me resort to 'encapsulating' the oh-so-necessary-whatever-it-is behind a wrapper script that summons it in the antique browser (with as many features that might induce the user to navigate to another page, navigation bar, etc. as possible hidden or restricted) and hiding every other sign of the older browser's existence.
If that isn't good enough, we keep a stash of assorted antique VMs in the freezer, ready to be fired up (with persistence of any state changes during operation disabled) when needed and then shoved back in cold storage where they belong. Some of those things will probably still be run, from time to time, after I'm dead.
Is there an IE for non-Microsoft phones? Or do they just not buy anything from their phones/tablets?
Even if there were, it probably wouldn't help. 'ActiveX', in practice, is really woven more into Windows(and x86 Windows specifically, especially for the ActiveX controls that are basically just a dangerously easy way of executing native win32 code) than it is into IE, IE is just the transmission vector where you run into it.
IE for Mac never supported it in any meaningful way, and even Windows Phone and WinRT either don't support it at all, or support only the architecture agnostic bits, which precludes most real-world use. (Does the 'metro' mode IE in Win8 even support it, for anything except possibly MS-blessed components?)
My guess is 'lots of shitty apps that are nothing but wrappers to websites, just like in the US, only mandatory because the equivalent of SSL doesn't work on your phone, sucker!'.
I'd be inclined to wonder if the issue isn't the cypher itself; but maldesigned websites that won't talk to anything except IE with the expected ActiveX plugin... Unless it is unbelievably arcane, or proprietary and legally encumbered, hacking out at least a bad implementation shouldn't be a particularly gargantuan task. You wouldn't necessarily want to trust an enthusiastic-novice interpretation of anything crypto related; but if you just want 'implements the protocol, doesn't scream horribly' rather than 'doesn't make any subtle cryptographic mistakes', that's a much lower bar to clear.
Has anybody here ever had users who were willing to file and capable of filing proper bug reports or trouble tickets?
Awesome now that India has their poverty and corruption issues finally solved.
Just like all the other slightly-spacefaring nations?
The point isn't that all of Silicon Valley is as incompetent as Yahoo; but that the cash is flowing freely enough that even a company whose business model appears to be "Try to be Google, as imagined by an AOL user" can throw a billion dollars at some goofy blogging platform.
Now, I would not be at all sad to see fewer smart people wasting their lives trying to find new ways to get me to click on ads or analyze my behavior to sell me shit, (and there's a disturbing amount of brainpower going down the toilet on just that problem at the moment); but the trouble with a big wave of easy, dumb, money is that, while the crest is a blast, it can easily take down even solid people and ideas when the VCs eventually get spooked.
Just remember how much fun the economy of more or less the entire developed world managed to have, just because some banks were gambling on US real estate. Barely any connection to whether the economy of people who actually do and make things was stupid or brilliant, doing well, or doing ill; but down it came...
"What does it say about the NYPD when they think they can pick and choose which laws are appropriate, or which parts of the law they have to follow?"
That even pigs can be trained to know what they can get away with?
Refusals or demands for clarification qualify as 'answers'. Here, one third just disappear into a void, neither fulfilled nor denied.
Oh, I'm not saying that it doesn't happen for good historical reasons. Just that, unlike agricultural communities on volcanoes (which, with occasional inconveniences and/or mass-death-by-hot-toxic-gasses incidents, actually makes sense overall), cities on volcanoes don't have any compensatory advantages. As you say, you don't really get to choose where cities go (even wacky authoritarian central planners can choose where to build a new city; but they can't keep them from being a ghost town much of the time), so it isn't as though any particular person screwed up in any useful sense.
I'm afraid that I know essentially nothing about what plants crave; but this has 'Table showing concentrations of leachable constituents in ashfall from historic eruptions (all concentrations in mg/kg)'
My assumption would be that, given that ash consists of mineral/glass particles, of varying sizes(but all pretty small), it has excellent surface area, and so provides a fast-enough-to-be-useful (unlike larger rocks and bedrock); but long-lasting-enough that it counts as a soil property (rather than just a sprinkling of Miracle-Gro).
As for which of those components are vital and would otherwise limit plant growth, which are neutral, and which are harmful, I'm afraid you'd need somebody who knows something about plant biology, or gardening.
Obviously, in the short term, the mixture of mechanical suffocation and nontrivial emissions of sulfur compounds that crater the pH, is Not Helpful for crop yields, so you can pretty much write off at least that season, if not longer; but apparently the 'moonscape' appearance wears off pretty quickly.
While you'd get quite the opposite impression (and effect) from the ashfall immediately following an eruption, volcanic soils that have had some time to weather a bit and regain their organic and biological components tend to be pretty rich. Assuming that eruptions don't happen too often, easier farming and occasional disruption beats the alternative.
It's sort of like telling people not to live next to rivers. Sure, they flood on occasion, and that sucks; but the rest of the time that's where the trade, fishing, and relatively steady water supply is.
Now, you would probably be better off not building a city on, or close to, a volcano. You wont' be getting much agriculture done in an urban environment, and those things can be expensive to rebuild.
Why would somebody with the information he had call Congress? The house and senate intelligence committees have been the staunchest in the collective insistence that "Absolutely nothing even slightly wicked happened, simply nothing. And, if it did, we were kept fully apprized of it at all times, and it was For America and 100% legal." Plus, 'called'? that'll throw the NSA off your trail...
That's Exactly what Crystal Well (a.k.a. Iris Pro) is 128 MiBytes of very fast RAM with latency about 1/2 that of DRAM.
In typical 'Intel - because we can.' product differentiation, they've unfortunately gone and made that bit tricky to get: Apparently, only their R-series Haswells, the BGA ones, have the eDRAM on the desktop. On the mobile side, it's reserved for the highest end i7s, I don't know if any of those are LGAs.
I don't doubt that it makes economic sense; but Intel is continuing their annoying policy of deliberately having no ideal low-to-midrange part: If you go for a lower performance CPU, as a price-sensitive buyer would, they simply don't offer a GPU that isn't merely phoning it in. If you buy a screaming expensive model, you get their fastest GPUs, which are OK; but not great (and, with some CPU-heavy exceptions, quite possibly not good enough for the people who buy $500+ i7s.
It probably isn't in their interest; but if they actually were looking to put a nail in the coffin of the low-end discrete GPU market, they'd offer at least one i3 or i5 with full GPU punch.
No need to use the past tense. Even among the obviously gamer/enthusiast slanted systems represented in the Steam Hardware Survey, they place surprisingly well. Among people who don't care, buying a discrete video card went away some time ago, and Intel gets a default win on anything non-AMD.
Not a terribly thrilling market to dominate; but you make it up in volume, I imagine.
And we are valuing freedom at $0 for this exercise?
I assume that if the 'guys' were 8x8 or 8x16 sprites in 64 vibrant colors, the PC could (and the NES PPU was 5.3MHz). I suspect, though, that people might consider that a step backward from any PC graphics since approximately Doom, possibly earlier...
I'm not sure whether to laugh of to start arranging alibis.
What good will your alibi do you when your job is replaced by a $2.30/hour 'work experience' inmate and you are arrested for "vagrancy"?
The postbellum confederacy had this system down to a science; but there is no reason that it wouldn't work elsewhere...
Since the code needs to be audited anyways, it'd be a great chance for an instructor to introduce code reviews and/or pull requests. And maybe during that process, help enlighten other curious inmates as to how the system and programming works.
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Plus, when compared to SAIC or other obligate parasites of the state, a few rapists and murders are probably refreshingly honest and easy to deal with.
This country can't build a web site. How the fuck are we going to build an SR-72?
Hey, be fair, If Obamacare actually had death panels, we probably would have gotten it right...
Eh, less than $120,000/flight hour, pinkie swear!
Whatever his deeper motive is, it's all too likely to be whitewashed.
Or simply fall into the (really rather common) category of 'Yes, it's a motive; but nothing you say can really convey why it would be so motivating."
Not all affect states can be conveyed verbally, especially to people who haven't experienced them. All you can do is use hollow allusions to them.
Do we all know what words like 'hate', 'jealousy', 'frustration' mean? Sure. Do we know what they mean in the sense used by somebody who would offer one or more of them as an explanation for why he would face nearly certain death or capture in order to shoot up a terminal in LAX? Probably not. Not even clear that we could.
I avoid it like the plague, and your post provides a couple of the reasons why.
While it might occasionally inspire a pithy line, Twitter's artificial limitations turn interaction with, oh, other parts of the internet that you might want to make pithy comments about, into a totally unnecessary clusterfuck, one that isn't even voluntary anymore (for reasons that, no doubt, have everything to do with Twitter's desire to protect users from scammy 3rd party redirect services, rather than their attempt to find a revenue model...)
Sure, once you've already gone down the dumb path, further stupidity will inevitably be required to handle the consequences of your earlier actions; but that's not really a very comforting excuse.
Anybody who uses a link-shortening service especially for the purposes of complying with a totally arbitrary character limit, deserves what they get.
Seriously. What is a 'link shortening service' except a way to add another layer of quasi-DNS (except under the control of, probable analytics surveillance of, and subject to any uptime failures, retention limits, etc. of, a single entity) to the process of accessing something on the internet? Even better, since it isn't real DNS, it lacks all of the relatively mature, implementation-agnostic, tools for dealing with DNS and its issues, its behavior can vary nontrivially between providers (so if you aren't handling the shortened link exclusively with a common web browser, it may not work as expected, unlike DNS resolution), and it's a fantastic way to hide phishing and malware from the casual.
You can't really do without one layer of DNS; because remembering IPs is a pain (and tricks like round-robin load balancing are crazy useful); but what kind of sick masochist voluntarily adds additional layers of crippled-semi-DNS?
to show how commited (or honest) are in the push against chemical weapons, must destroy its own chemical (and biological, and so on) weapons factories and stockpiles. And of course, private owned companies in US should do the same.
The US has a shitload of back-stock, and the operation in charge of incinerating it into safety seems to have outbreaks of competence deficiency from time to time; but if the US is party to ongoing flouting of the ICWC, they sure are quiet about it. Their nukes, of course, will be streamlined a bit for cost reasons; but you'll have to pry the remainder out of their cold, dead, hands. Chemical and biological, though, haven't been major programs in some decades.