Working with a big MS Word document with a group of people using the "track changes" feature is a lot more painful than sharing a software project between a bunch of developers.
Perforce tries to fill the niche of version control for files like word files, but doesn't do it overly well. Unfortunately, p4 only discriminates between `text` and `binary` files, and because.docx is considered binary by p4, there is no way to do a diff patch; one can only look at the commit history for that file. GitHub would have a lot of work ahead of them to handle files such as the likes of MS formats. I'd be interested to see their approach.
Sharepoint was starting to get pretty slick with their versioning and approval flows when I used it last (2013); maybe they've improved further.
All that being said, for the non-engineering folks, just seeing when the file has changed seems to be good enough for them; I've yet to see a non-engineering team properly use the collaboration tools built into *Word*, much less use Sharepoint effectively or adopt a full version control tool like p4 or git.
ViaSat-2 is planned to hit some areas of northern South America. (http://www.viasat.com/news/viasat-announces-next-generation-broadband-satellite). Granted, it's not until 2016, but the roadmap is there. Perhaps carrier pigeons will be a viable alternative until then?
The ones local to me are playing ads all the time now. These pumps you refer are also slower, both to pump gas and to swipe your card and enter the needed data. I don't go to Shell stations anymore because of them.
It appears that the smaller quakes are triggered by the water movement, the size of which correlates with the amount of water used:
Now, scientists have known that geothermal power plants cycling water from underground can cause small quakes. But Brodsky's research actually matches the amount of water moved to the frequency of the quakes.
However, they're still not sure what causes the larger quakes. The hypothesis is that the really big ones might be triggered by other unrelated tremors.
So what van der Elst wanted to know was: "What prompts that slip?" Sometimes it's just all that water building up. However, he discovered that in three cases in the past decade — in Oklahoma, in Colorado and in Texas — the trigger was yet another earthquake, a really big one, thousands of miles away. In each case, the large earthquakes set up large seismic waves that traveled around the surface of the earth "kind of like ripples," van der Elst says. "You can even see them on seismometers, going around the world multiple times."
Microsoft will consolidate all its major operating systems, including Windows, Windows Phone and the software that powers the Xbox, under Terry Myerson, who handled engineering for only Windows Phone before.
I wonder if this will lead to any significant rethink of things on the desktop side. Windows 8 has a bit of an identity crisis going on; perhaps Win9 or whatever they decide to call it will solve that problem now that all of the OS design groups are under one tidy grouping.
It was a time haunted by bigness, as Americans stared at the giant corporations that had swelled to dominate the economic landscape and feared that consumers would soon become subject to whatever whims the companies cared to impose on them.
A poignant quote, considering how well corporations and large donors have integrated themselves into the government and its regulatory systems since the Reagan administration. It ended in a crash last time...how will it end this time?
Just in March, Clapper testified to congress that such a program didn't even exist. On March 12th:
[Wyden]"Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
[James Clapper]"No, sir."
[Wyden]"It does not?"
[Clapper:]"Not wittingly. There are cases where they could, inadvertently perhaps, collect -- but not wittingly."
There have been too many lies and half truths for me to believe anything that the NSA, Obama administration, or upper congressional committees have to say on the matter.
It's currently at the top of several news sites at the moment, and is topping my Google news feed. Given the privacy concerns in the news recently involving the IRS and targeted drone killings of US citizens, in addition to the TOP SECRET status of this order, I wouldn't be surprised if the press and opposition party has a field day tomorrow. And rightfully so; this is a gross violation of the fourth amendment. At the very least, one would hope that it leads to the order not being extended by the court come July.
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Amtrak doesn't do horribly in the southern coast region, either. With the upgraded wifi, the only real argument against taking the train is the time required to move anywhere. From LA to San Luis Obispo is around 6 hours, vs 4 at the most via automobile. From SLO to San Diego, the end of the line, can take almost 10 hours at times. I can drive there in a little over half the time.
That said, the seats are comfortable, the cars are relatively quiet, the wifi seems to be improving, and I've had worse free coffee. It beats driving on cost, and beats flying on both cost and convenience in that I don't need to give up my civil rights to get on the train (yet). I yearn for the day that CA and other places have high speed rail.
This. Yelp does the local job just fine. I've yet to go into a venue and not have the overall Yelp opinion be far off from the truth. I don't need all that social capability, I just need to know if anybody got sick from the food at this Chinese takeout place.
Let me clarify: I do think he over-reacted. That said, not fully charging an electric car's battery before doing a range test is somewhat irresponsible of the reviewer, and it's not hard to see why Tesla might not be happy with the results of the test. Perhaps the NYT should fully charge the car over night, then re-run the test.
I hadn't read the review until Musk started talking about it. This alone made more news than the article. In the end I don't think there will be a large effect on sales; those who can afford to buy a Tesla will buy one whether or not it runs a little shorter in the cold. That said, if the logs reflect that the car wasn't fully charged, then Musk does have a valid reason to complain.
I agree with the points you make about video games, their 'effect' on violence and their use as scapegoats. However, the program IS (well, would have been) voluntary and could potentially serve as a resource for parents of younger children who don't, for some reason or another, feel comfortable with their (non teenage) kids playing violent stuff. I'm simply trying to point out the hypocrisy of the NRA calling for a program like this one while lambasting voluntary gun buyback programs. I find it hilarious that they're making the same points about the 'video game scourge' in support of a program like this one, while fighting those exact same arguments made in favor of gun control.
If they are allowed to do this without protest, people will assume that their pseudo-science is actually legitimate.
I hadn't considered that angle...I appreciate the food for thought.
I can't really take issue with the program as they would have implemented it. It's a voluntary program, the person with the game is reimbursed for the game, and the game is destroyed. It's stated up front, everybody knows what the endgame is. At the end of the day, it sounds just like a sponsored gun buyback program. I wouldn't take my games personally, but at the end of the day it's a good potential resource for concerned parents out there. If the NRA is willing to sponsor a program like this one, I fail to see why they'd be protesting a gun buyback program in Tucson (http://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168926749/nra-vows-to-stop-tuscon-from-destroying-guns).
Their testing seems to show flat or slightly better performance on an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1.1 vs iOS 6.0. If there's any code designed to slow the older devices down, Geekbench, Javascript and HTML5 benchmark tests can't find it.
They may be loosely related NOW, but one could predict that there might be a crossing of plot-arcs in HL3. Episode 2 seems to imply that players will soon be visiting the Borealis, which may or may not contain a trip to a testing chamber of some kind. Will we meet GlaDOS? Probably not. But if I had to guess, I'd think that we'll be seeing a lot more than references to Aperture Science in Half Life 3.
You make a good point. Other sources are picking up the story, but they all come back to Gizmodo. Can it be? Did Gawker *gasp* actually get a scoop on something?
Yeah, I'm aware that the metadata sometimes requires a re-write. However, I've never had such long delays when using other tagging software (I experimented with some Share/Payware about a year ago, in my Great Music Organization project; I properly organized and tagged about 120GB worth of music using a few different applications). I know that some time is needed to write to file, and that's a fact of life, but I've seen programs do similar write-outs much faster than in iTunes. It's not a huge issue, as I tend to only have to work with the metadata from the odd song or album these days.
Even on OS X, iTunes was pretty laggy. Apple made major strides in usability when they gave iTunes the 64-bit treatment for the release of OS X 10.7. I'm looking forward to seeing if iTunes 11 improves on this. Metadata changes on even one album's worth of songs are still quite laggy; if they fix the performance lag regarding operations that involve altering metadata, I'll be quite happy.
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Working with a big MS Word document with a group of people using the "track changes" feature is a lot more painful than sharing a software project between a bunch of developers.
Perforce tries to fill the niche of version control for files like word files, but doesn't do it overly well. Unfortunately, p4 only discriminates between `text` and `binary` files, and because .docx is considered binary by p4, there is no way to do a diff patch; one can only look at the commit history for that file. GitHub would have a lot of work ahead of them to handle files such as the likes of MS formats. I'd be interested to see their approach.
Sharepoint was starting to get pretty slick with their versioning and approval flows when I used it last (2013); maybe they've improved further. All that being said, for the non-engineering folks, just seeing when the file has changed seems to be good enough for them; I've yet to see a non-engineering team properly use the collaboration tools built into *Word*, much less use Sharepoint effectively or adopt a full version control tool like p4 or git.
ViaSat-2 is planned to hit some areas of northern South America. (http://www.viasat.com/news/viasat-announces-next-generation-broadband-satellite). Granted, it's not until 2016, but the roadmap is there. Perhaps carrier pigeons will be a viable alternative until then?
The ones local to me are playing ads all the time now. These pumps you refer are also slower, both to pump gas and to swipe your card and enter the needed data. I don't go to Shell stations anymore because of them.
Now, scientists have known that geothermal power plants cycling water from underground can cause small quakes. But Brodsky's research actually matches the amount of water moved to the frequency of the quakes.
However, they're still not sure what causes the larger quakes. The hypothesis is that the really big ones might be triggered by other unrelated tremors.
So what van der Elst wanted to know was: "What prompts that slip?" Sometimes it's just all that water building up. However, he discovered that in three cases in the past decade — in Oklahoma, in Colorado and in Texas — the trigger was yet another earthquake, a really big one, thousands of miles away. In each case, the large earthquakes set up large seismic waves that traveled around the surface of the earth "kind of like ripples," van der Elst says. "You can even see them on seismometers, going around the world multiple times."
Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/07/11/200515289/wastewater-wells-geothermal-power-triggering-earthquakes
Microsoft will consolidate all its major operating systems, including Windows, Windows Phone and the software that powers the Xbox, under Terry Myerson, who handled engineering for only Windows Phone before.
I wonder if this will lead to any significant rethink of things on the desktop side. Windows 8 has a bit of an identity crisis going on; perhaps Win9 or whatever they decide to call it will solve that problem now that all of the OS design groups are under one tidy grouping.
It was a time haunted by bigness, as Americans stared at the giant corporations that had swelled to dominate the economic landscape and feared that consumers would soon become subject to whatever whims the companies cared to impose on them.
A poignant quote, considering how well corporations and large donors have integrated themselves into the government and its regulatory systems since the Reagan administration. It ended in a crash last time...how will it end this time?
[Wyden]"Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
[James Clapper]"No, sir."
[Wyden]"It does not?"
[Clapper:]"Not wittingly. There are cases where they could, inadvertently perhaps, collect -- but not wittingly."
There have been too many lies and half truths for me to believe anything that the NSA, Obama administration, or upper congressional committees have to say on the matter.
It's currently at the top of several news sites at the moment, and is topping my Google news feed. Given the privacy concerns in the news recently involving the IRS and targeted drone killings of US citizens, in addition to the TOP SECRET status of this order, I wouldn't be surprised if the press and opposition party has a field day tomorrow. And rightfully so; this is a gross violation of the fourth amendment. At the very least, one would hope that it leads to the order not being extended by the court come July.
That said, the seats are comfortable, the cars are relatively quiet, the wifi seems to be improving, and I've had worse free coffee. It beats driving on cost, and beats flying on both cost and convenience in that I don't need to give up my civil rights to get on the train (yet). I yearn for the day that CA and other places have high speed rail.
I've yet to go into a venue and not have the overall Yelp opinion be far off from the truth.
Doh! Typo. Scratch the 'not' from that sentence.
This. Yelp does the local job just fine. I've yet to go into a venue and not have the overall Yelp opinion be far off from the truth. I don't need all that social capability, I just need to know if anybody got sick from the food at this Chinese takeout place.
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Let me clarify: I do think he over-reacted. That said, not fully charging an electric car's battery before doing a range test is somewhat irresponsible of the reviewer, and it's not hard to see why Tesla might not be happy with the results of the test. Perhaps the NYT should fully charge the car over night, then re-run the test.
I hadn't read the review until Musk started talking about it. This alone made more news than the article. In the end I don't think there will be a large effect on sales; those who can afford to buy a Tesla will buy one whether or not it runs a little shorter in the cold. That said, if the logs reflect that the car wasn't fully charged, then Musk does have a valid reason to complain.
If they are allowed to do this without protest, people will assume that their pseudo-science is actually legitimate.
I hadn't considered that angle...I appreciate the food for thought.
I can't really take issue with the program as they would have implemented it. It's a voluntary program, the person with the game is reimbursed for the game, and the game is destroyed. It's stated up front, everybody knows what the endgame is. At the end of the day, it sounds just like a sponsored gun buyback program. I wouldn't take my games personally, but at the end of the day it's a good potential resource for concerned parents out there. If the NRA is willing to sponsor a program like this one, I fail to see why they'd be protesting a gun buyback program in Tucson (http://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168926749/nra-vows-to-stop-tuscon-from-destroying-guns).
I decided to do some hunting and found some good testing done by MacWorld. Link: http://www.macworld.com/article/2010286/lab-tests-ios-6-and-ios-5-performance-differences.html
Their testing seems to show flat or slightly better performance on an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1.1 vs iOS 6.0. If there's any code designed to slow the older devices down, Geekbench, Javascript and HTML5 benchmark tests can't find it.
...introduced artificial slowing down of the phone to make you upgrade...
Have a source for that one? It's news to me and I'll hold off on upgrading to iOS 6 on my iPhone 4 if that is indeed the case.
They may be loosely related NOW, but one could predict that there might be a crossing of plot-arcs in HL3. Episode 2 seems to imply that players will soon be visiting the Borealis, which may or may not contain a trip to a testing chamber of some kind. Will we meet GlaDOS? Probably not. But if I had to guess, I'd think that we'll be seeing a lot more than references to Aperture Science in Half Life 3.
Mod parent up, please.
You make a good point. Other sources are picking up the story, but they all come back to Gizmodo. Can it be? Did Gawker *gasp* actually get a scoop on something?
Had to pay for a stamp, and didn't get a sticker.
Other than the possibility of naming the rat Ben and using it to take out their boss, I don't see what could possibly go wrong.
Yeah, I'm aware that the metadata sometimes requires a re-write. However, I've never had such long delays when using other tagging software (I experimented with some Share/Payware about a year ago, in my Great Music Organization project; I properly organized and tagged about 120GB worth of music using a few different applications). I know that some time is needed to write to file, and that's a fact of life, but I've seen programs do similar write-outs much faster than in iTunes. It's not a huge issue, as I tend to only have to work with the metadata from the odd song or album these days.
Even on OS X, iTunes was pretty laggy. Apple made major strides in usability when they gave iTunes the 64-bit treatment for the release of OS X 10.7. I'm looking forward to seeing if iTunes 11 improves on this. Metadata changes on even one album's worth of songs are still quite laggy; if they fix the performance lag regarding operations that involve altering metadata, I'll be quite happy.