Most slashdotters appear to recommend to not even try. That it is a bad idea. Or that she is to tired to play. That he should try to match her interest.
What a load of crap!
I think in all intimate relationship, you should do everything to make it work. All relationships need a part of common interest, a part of uncommon interest and a part of I'll-try-to-see-if-I-like-it interest.
There are many women that play. That your wife do not play does not mean that she would not like to play. Maybe she never had a chance to get into it. I think that if he likes playing, he should try to introduce her to games. There are many games that people like to casually play. Singing or musical games are typically fun. Dancing games can be fun. Shoot everything on the screen can be fun (my mom got addicted to "link crossbow training").
Maybe she won't like it. Fine. Then he should stop pushing and make it the thing he likes to do by himself. But maybe she will like it and they'll be able to do that from time to time.
I used to be a french taxpayer (I no longer live in france, so i no longer pay tax there). and i'd be very happy to pay that tax. That effort might end up saving millions of dollars in jounral subscription that will go toward something else (research or not). Maybe they will even lower the tax (Hey! I can dream).
"The other thing that rubbed me the wrong way here was public member variables."
I am puzzled by that as well. I guess his point is that: foo.setBar(foo.getBar()+3); is much more boring than foo.bar += 3; I somewhat understand it and I wish we had automatic calls to get and set in C++ like it exists in C# to make core more beautiful.
"Touch is good for video, music, and games. It is horrible for production or creating of content. "
As it was mentionned earlier, Touch-only interfaces are horrible for production purposes. But having regular inputs plus a touch interface could be of great help. I found myself often drawing figures (I work in academia) and a touch-enhanced interface could be of real use. I was wondering how to use a tablet as a clonse input that relay multi-point touch screen inputs (like vnc but with multi-touch input). Then I realized that none of my software was supporting them anyway.
I believe maybe great things could be done by enhancing actual production interfaces with touch based displays.
There are a lot of comments on the bug report page. Clearly this is not a dalvik bug since dalvik does not use the/dev/random. But the other commentatros are still unsure that there might not be some issue in how randomness is generated in android from user input, which might induce lag. Right now, some folks still investigate.
This machines are most likely goign to be the replacement of the ones we already have. NERSC is presenting the projects that are run on its computing infrastructure on its web site [1]. You can see on the first page the project that are currently running jobs and what they are doing. For instance this project [2] is about designing artifical photosynthetic cells. If you are interested just check the project they are funding.
As I said before, what Opera Mini is doing is the same thing. Though, I am not sure Opera Mini is doing it for https (maybe it does I just don't know). But Opera Mini tells you all the traffic is routed through them. Nokia Xpress Browser does not appear to tell the user (since some users are surprised of the behavior)
Are you saying the device does not have a tcp/ip stack? Because if it does, there is no reason the data MUST be decrypted. The device could (and I would expect it to) talk directly with the remote server.
TFA mentions the user of the phone was able to track the DNS request, so clearly the device can talk TCP/IP.
The piece of software is called "Nokia Xpress Browser". It is not called "Nokia VNC client". I do understand the technology. I implemented (a much simpler version of) such a system in PHP 10 years ago for the purpose of saving bandwidth on my feature phone (a nokia one BTW) and cleaning up the HTML feature that were not supported by the client anyway.
I know this is slashdot and we do not read much what people so that we can rant and seem smart. But come on, it is written in TFS and TFT (the F-ing title). "Nokia admits decrypting user data." From their own admission, they are performing a MITM attack, that is to say, they are putting themself in the middle of an encrypted connexion making each party believe they are directly and securely talking to each other.
Whether they clearly explained it to the user, I do not know, but I am sure they are performing MITM.
I always thought we should separate "money keeping" banks from "money investment" banks. The first kind is the one you really want to keep running. That would significantly reduce the harm whenever a bank crashes.
I also never liked oligopolies. I always felt like company taxes should be like personnal income taxes: the rate rise with the amount of income (notice I say income not profit or capital). That would lead to a de facto limit on companies' size. and would force collaborations across multiple boards.
Actually, that's not true. Some large companies are looking for PhDs. But these are companies that are looking for extremely qualified tech jobs. Google, Intel, IBM are all looking for PhD. Since the question mentionned networking, I'd be surprised if Cisco does not look for some PhDs as well. The best networking technician I ever knew had a PhD in physics. Companies producing Infiniband technology (mellanox) certainly are interested in PhDs.
One of the problem is that the "asker" has the "wrong" PhD. I think that it is not too much of a problem. Many physicist I know are actualy ok-to-good computer scientist, some are actually really good. Make sure you are in the right category.
Also, make sure you apply to a company that will not freak out when seeing a PhD. If you are applying for smaller companies, they most likely will be the first PhD they see, they WILL freak out.
When you have a free "movie ticket for everything" you start going to see stuff you would not have seen otherwise. $20 a month is not a bad deal. I'd totaly take that.
UGC (the AMC theatres in France) used to (maybe still have) memberships that allowed you to see evey movie they show as many times as you want for 15euros. Lots of people were subscribing to it. I am sure they can manage it. Thought the $16 day pass for non subscriber seems over the top. I hope they also have regular $8/10 ticket for one movie. (most people wont see two movies in one day)
I am not saying it is because he demolishes people in public that the project is good. I am saying that it is a publicly managed software whose main line of communication is a public mailing list. So when there is demolition to do, it gets done on a public mailing list. Being public makes the standard clear for everybody. Concerning the yelling and profanity, you need to remember that they are both communication tools. Most of our communication is non verbal, unfortunately text only communicates words. Yelling (caps) and profanities (actually, it is quite mild profanities) is how Linus choose to convey that "this is super important". People remembers Linus profanity, but providing the amount of emails he writes, you'll realize he almost never uses them. And as far as I remember, he always uses them to attract attention on non-technical problems.
3 major graphic chipset vendor with so-many-it-is-ridiculous different anmes for technologies that makes it completely impossible to decide whether a game will run on a given machine without giving it a try. Seriously since they started to include shaders, game compatibility became a nightmare. naming convention of graphic cards/chipset makes no sense whatsoever. and understanding capability equivalence between intel, nvidia, amd radeon and amd mobility is close to impossible.
It is modded funny so I am not sure if it is a joke or not. But in the 90's "multimedia PC" was the most ridiculously used keyword about computers. I did not actually know there was a "specification". Note: I was in France in the 90's, maybe the term wasnot used in the US?
I actually disaggree. This is not a private company where you are trying to spare people's feeling. It is a case of "you screw up, you get yelled at." Because it is a publicly managed project, the yelling happens in public. It also set the standard for every single other developper. The next time a user space bug is introduced. The kernel developer will not try to swipe it under the rug.
about France. One of the main problem of the country is an over concentration of everything in Paris. About 20% of the French population lives in ile-de-france (the region of paris) and about 4% of the french population lives in paris itself.
That completely skews everything. They were planning on building a 3rd airport around Paris. If you look at an infrastructure map of France, it appears fairly clearly that everything go from or to Paris. All the administration (public or private) tends to centralize in Paris which makes the city a huge mess and prevents other parts of the country from developping.
It also leads to the impression that France is Paris and that Paris is France.
I am french you know.:) There are trains from Lyon to Bordeaux, but not high speed trains and because of Massif Central the track is not straight. The same goes between Lyon and Strasbourg you can go there but you have a stupid slow train that stops eveywhere and it might be faster to go through Paris. If you want to go from Lyon to Bordeaux, I believe you have a not-so-fast train to toulouse and then you are on slow tracks to Bordeaux. In practice most people that need to go from Lyon to Bordeaux fly. (Or at least it was like this in 2008)
About walking in America, it really depends on the city. From downtown Columbus to where I live, it is more than 10 miles. There is no direct bus, I am not even sure I can make the trip in a single connection. There is nothing to do downtown Columbus. The only reason to go there would be administrative. (Though, there is an art college close to downtown.)
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Most slashdotters appear to recommend to not even try. That it is a bad idea. Or that she is to tired to play. That he should try to match her interest.
What a load of crap!
I think in all intimate relationship, you should do everything to make it work. All relationships need a part of common interest, a part of uncommon interest and a part of I'll-try-to-see-if-I-like-it interest.
There are many women that play. That your wife do not play does not mean that she would not like to play. Maybe she never had a chance to get into it. I think that if he likes playing, he should try to introduce her to games. There are many games that people like to casually play. Singing or musical games are typically fun. Dancing games can be fun. Shoot everything on the screen can be fun (my mom got addicted to "link crossbow training").
Maybe she won't like it. Fine. Then he should stop pushing and make it the thing he likes to do by himself. But maybe she will like it and they'll be able to do that from time to time.
I used to be a french taxpayer (I no longer live in france, so i no longer pay tax there). and i'd be very happy to pay that tax. That effort might end up saving millions of dollars in jounral subscription that will go toward something else (research or not). Maybe they will even lower the tax (Hey! I can dream).
What? You RTFA? I thought I was browsing Slashdot. Somebody must have hacked my DNS...
"The other thing that rubbed me the wrong way here was public member variables."
I am puzzled by that as well. I guess his point is that: foo.setBar(foo.getBar()+3); is much more boring than foo.bar += 3;
I somewhat understand it and I wish we had automatic calls to get and set in C++ like it exists in C# to make core more beautiful.
"Touch is good for video, music, and games. It is horrible for production or creating of content. "
As it was mentionned earlier, Touch-only interfaces are horrible for production purposes. But having regular inputs plus a touch interface could be of great help. I found myself often drawing figures (I work in academia) and a touch-enhanced interface could be of real use. I was wondering how to use a tablet as a clonse input that relay multi-point touch screen inputs (like vnc but with multi-touch input). Then I realized that none of my software was supporting them anyway.
I believe maybe great things could be done by enhancing actual production interfaces with touch based displays.
There are a lot of comments on the bug report page. Clearly this is not a dalvik bug since dalvik does not use the /dev/random. But the other commentatros are still unsure that there might not be some issue in how randomness is generated in android from user input, which might induce lag.
Right now, some folks still investigate.
This machines are most likely goign to be the replacement of the ones we already have. NERSC is presenting the projects that are run on its computing infrastructure on its web site [1]. You can see on the first page the project that are currently running jobs and what they are doing. For instance this project [2] is about designing artifical photosynthetic cells. If you are interested just check the project they are funding.
[1] https://www.nersc.gov/
[2] https://www.nersc.gov/science/energy-science/artificial-photosynthesis-i-design-principles-for-light-harvesting/
As I said before, what Opera Mini is doing is the same thing. Though, I am not sure Opera Mini is doing it for https (maybe it does I just don't know). But Opera Mini tells you all the traffic is routed through them. Nokia Xpress Browser does not appear to tell the user (since some users are surprised of the behavior)
Are you saying the device does not have a tcp/ip stack? Because if it does, there is no reason the data MUST be decrypted. The device could (and I would expect it to) talk directly with the remote server.
TFA mentions the user of the phone was able to track the DNS request, so clearly the device can talk TCP/IP.
The piece of software is called "Nokia Xpress Browser". It is not called "Nokia VNC client". I do understand the technology. I implemented (a much simpler version of) such a system in PHP 10 years ago for the purpose of saving bandwidth on my feature phone (a nokia one BTW) and cleaning up the HTML feature that were not supported by the client anyway.
I know this is slashdot and we do not read much what people so that we can rant and seem smart. But come on, it is written in TFS and TFT (the F-ing title). "Nokia admits decrypting user data." From their own admission, they are performing a MITM attack, that is to say, they are putting themself in the middle of an encrypted connexion making each party believe they are directly and securely talking to each other.
Whether they clearly explained it to the user, I do not know, but I am sure they are performing MITM.
Amazon Silk and Opera mini clearly states that every single connexion goes through them in clear. I do not think nokia does.
My ISP does not do that. When I negogiate an HTTPS session, my ISP does not intercept it and perform a MITM attack. apparently nokia does.
That's so much not ok.
French do not eat bacon and cheese croissant...
I always thought we should separate "money keeping" banks from "money investment" banks. The first kind is the one you really want to keep running. That would significantly reduce the harm whenever a bank crashes.
I also never liked oligopolies. I always felt like company taxes should be like personnal income taxes: the rate rise with the amount of income (notice I say income not profit or capital). That would lead to a de facto limit on companies' size. and would force collaborations across multiple boards.
In which election can I vote for you? Seriously, that type of crap needs to stop.
in soviet russia, brick phone YOU!
Actually, that's not true. Some large companies are looking for PhDs. But these are companies that are looking for extremely qualified tech jobs. Google, Intel, IBM are all looking for PhD. Since the question mentionned networking, I'd be surprised if Cisco does not look for some PhDs as well. The best networking technician I ever knew had a PhD in physics. Companies producing Infiniband technology (mellanox) certainly are interested in PhDs.
One of the problem is that the "asker" has the "wrong" PhD. I think that it is not too much of a problem. Many physicist I know are actualy ok-to-good computer scientist, some are actually really good. Make sure you are in the right category.
Also, make sure you apply to a company that will not freak out when seeing a PhD. If you are applying for smaller companies, they most likely will be the first PhD they see, they WILL freak out.
When you have a free "movie ticket for everything" you start going to see stuff you would not have seen otherwise. $20 a month is not a bad deal. I'd totaly take that.
beside the penis thing, I do not see much difference with your average phone.
UGC (the AMC theatres in France) used to (maybe still have) memberships that allowed you to see evey movie they show as many times as you want for 15euros. Lots of people were subscribing to it. I am sure they can manage it. Thought the $16 day pass for non subscriber seems over the top. I hope they also have regular $8/10 ticket for one movie. (most people wont see two movies in one day)
I am not saying it is because he demolishes people in public that the project is good. I am saying that it is a publicly managed software whose main line of communication is a public mailing list. So when there is demolition to do, it gets done on a public mailing list. Being public makes the standard clear for everybody. Concerning the yelling and profanity, you need to remember that they are both communication tools. Most of our communication is non verbal, unfortunately text only communicates words. Yelling (caps) and profanities (actually, it is quite mild profanities) is how Linus choose to convey that "this is super important".
People remembers Linus profanity, but providing the amount of emails he writes, you'll realize he almost never uses them. And as far as I remember, he always uses them to attract attention on non-technical problems.
3 major graphic chipset vendor with so-many-it-is-ridiculous different anmes for technologies that makes it completely impossible to decide whether a game will run on a given machine without giving it a try. Seriously since they started to include shaders, game compatibility became a nightmare. naming convention of graphic cards/chipset makes no sense whatsoever. and understanding capability equivalence between intel, nvidia, amd radeon and amd mobility is close to impossible.
It is modded funny so I am not sure if it is a joke or not. But in the 90's "multimedia PC" was the most ridiculously used keyword about computers. I did not actually know there was a "specification". Note: I was in France in the 90's, maybe the term wasnot used in the US?
I actually disaggree. This is not a private company where you are trying to spare people's feeling. It is a case of "you screw up, you get yelled at." Because it is a publicly managed project, the yelling happens in public. It also set the standard for every single other developper. The next time a user space bug is introduced. The kernel developer will not try to swipe it under the rug.
Yep, columbus sucks...
about France. One of the main problem of the country is an over concentration of everything in Paris. About 20% of the French population lives in ile-de-france (the region of paris) and about 4% of the french population lives in paris itself.
That completely skews everything. They were planning on building a 3rd airport around Paris. If you look at an infrastructure map of France, it appears fairly clearly that everything go from or to Paris. All the administration (public or private) tends to centralize in Paris which makes the city a huge mess and prevents other parts of the country from developping.
It also leads to the impression that France is Paris and that Paris is France.
I am french you know. :) There are trains from Lyon to Bordeaux, but not high speed trains and because of Massif Central the track is not straight. The same goes between Lyon and Strasbourg you can go there but you have a stupid slow train that stops eveywhere and it might be faster to go through Paris. If you want to go from Lyon to Bordeaux, I believe you have a not-so-fast train to toulouse and then you are on slow tracks to Bordeaux. In practice most people that need to go from Lyon to Bordeaux fly. (Or at least it was like this in 2008)
About walking in America, it really depends on the city. From downtown Columbus to where I live, it is more than 10 miles. There is no direct bus, I am not even sure I can make the trip in a single connection. There is nothing to do downtown Columbus. The only reason to go there would be administrative. (Though, there is an art college close to downtown.)