Does it strike anyone else as ironic that Adobe, which began as a Macintosh-dominant company (the versions of PhotoShop always came out for the Mac first), is now becoming Windows-dominant?
No. In fact, it strikes me that there is nothing ironic about your observation at all.
Sorry for being such a pedant; I don't know why this bothered me enough to comment. I must be feeling exceptionally perverse today.
What's so lazy about demanding convenience? After all, your computer's there to serve you, not the other way around.* Sometimes it's the attention to details like this URL shortcut that matters the most.
Yeah, and if we stopped using the Internet altogether, ISPs wouldn't have to deal with any network traffic at all! Then they'd have profit margins of 100%!
Or maybe that's not the way it works. Did you stop to think before you posted?
OK... your wish is my command. See this article, written by a University of Toronto physicist, that explains in simplespeak the concept of relativistic simultaneity. To wit:
More importantly, the relativistic notion of simultaneity makes it clear that no information can travel faster than light without throwing all our concepts of cause and effect into disarray. Relativity teaches us that if two space-time events are separated so that they cannot be connected by any signal travelling at c or less, then different observers will disagree as to which of the two events came first. Since most physicists still believe that cause needs to precede effect, we conclude that no information can be transmitted faster than the speed of light.
The article continues...
Nevertheless, velocities greater than c can be observed. Suppose a lighthouse illuminates a distant shore. The rotating lamp moves quite slowly, but the spot on the opposite shore travels at a far greater velocity. If the shore were far enough away, the spot could even move faster than light. However, this moving spot is not a single "thing". Each point along the coastline receives its own spot of light from the lighthouse, and any information travels from the lighthouse at c, rather than along the path of the moving spot. Such phenomena are described as the "motion of effects", and are not forbidden by relativity.
If someone breaks in, steals it, uses it to build a bomb, and blows up some people, am I responsible? No. No court in the world would convict me. I took reasonable precautions, but the unforseen happened.
That's fine. As long as you take reasonable precautions, obviously you should not be held liable if someone manages to break into your box and uses it to launch a DDoS. On the other hand, if you've got a machine on the Internet that, due to your egregious and repeated neglect, has more holes than a hobo's underpants, and someone uses it in at attack, then there need to be consequences for your irresponsible negligence.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in some (U.S.) states it's illegal to store loaded guns, if you have any, in unlocked toolsheds, and with good reason if you ask me. Mightn't this be a better analogy?
While I'm on vacation, with no Internet access, a hole is discovered in OpenSSH. My system is one of the first to be 0wnz0red, and I can't do anything about it. My system is then used as part of a DDoS attach on openbsd.org. Am I responsible because I decided to go on vacation? I hope not.
Any proposed law would have to be enforced by the courts. The situation you describe is unlucky, I'll agree, but fortunately for you, judges and juries have brains. I believe it's called "discretion."
I rather like it. I was never a fan of brushed metal before -- I still want to gag when I launch QuickTime Player -- but in Safari, it just seems to make sense.
I can't put my finger on it, but maybe it has something to do with the way the brushed metal widgets aren't screaming "LOOK AT ME!!" the same way most Aqua widgets are (like Chimera's, for instance). Safari's interface doesn't distract from the page. As a result, it feels clean and uncluttered, and I love it.
And who's to say web browsing shouldn't be just as much an "appliance" task as organizing your music (iTunes) or photos (iPhoto)?
That said, I'll be using Chimera unless Safari grows tabs someday...
They do have a timetable, and they do publish it. Copies on paper are available in most stations, in fact, if you ask for them.
Of course, these timetables have nothing to do with how long you actually have to wait for your train to show up. This seems to be more a factor of the temperature in the station (sweltering hot or freezing cold: add ten minutes), what time you were _supposed_ to be where you're going (for every five minutes late, add another ten) and whether or not you have to pee (add half an hour to an hour, depending how badly you have to go).
Although, if a train is running too early, sometimes the conductor will hold the train in the station so people on the local/express across the platform can make their connections. As far as I can tell, this only happens to you when you're on the train being held. If you're the guy hoping to make the connection... well, let's just say I hope you did your number one before you left.
In a situation like yours, wouldn't it help if Google gave you a way to respond to the information it caches? For instance, suppose Google let you attach a message to that page. You could "reply" to the page your erroneous resume appeared on, and from then on whenever Google served it up from the cache, it would be prefaced with your response. I imagine something like "Attention: the information contained in this document is a typo, I actually have 10 years of experience" would do the trick.
This is along the lines of what eBay lets you do for negative feedback leveled against you. Credit reporting agencies in the US also allow you to add commentary to your credit report, I believe (this is required by law).
Adding this sort of functionality to Google's cache would not be a cure-all for privacy problems, needless to say, nor would it help if you simply didn't want to be traceable at all. And there's other pretty obvious problems with the idea that I don't feel like getting into right now. But it does illustrate that Google -- like credit bureaus, like eBay -- has options besides keeping or removing pages entirely.
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Nope. I think the parent meant what he said.
No. In fact, it strikes me that there is nothing ironic about your observation at all.
Sorry for being such a pedant; I don't know why this bothered me enough to comment. I must be feeling exceptionally perverse today.
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I'm no expert, but isn't BSD (Mac OS X) reputed to be more stable than Linux? (Not a troll, just curious.)
What's so lazy about demanding convenience? After all, your computer's there to serve you, not the other way around.* Sometimes it's the attention to details like this URL shortcut that matters the most.
* Unless you're in Soviet Russia, I hear.
Yeah, and if we stopped using the Internet altogether, ISPs wouldn't have to deal with any network traffic at all! Then they'd have profit margins of 100%!
Or maybe that's not the way it works. Did you stop to think before you posted?
OK... your wish is my command. See this article, written by a University of Toronto physicist, that explains in simplespeak the concept of relativistic simultaneity. To wit:
The article continues... Pretty interesting, no?That's fine. As long as you take reasonable precautions, obviously you should not be held liable if someone manages to break into your box and uses it to launch a DDoS. On the other hand, if you've got a machine on the Internet that, due to your egregious and repeated neglect, has more holes than a hobo's underpants, and someone uses it in at attack, then there need to be consequences for your irresponsible negligence.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in some (U.S.) states it's illegal to store loaded guns, if you have any, in unlocked toolsheds, and with good reason if you ask me. Mightn't this be a better analogy?
Any proposed law would have to be enforced by the courts. The situation you describe is unlucky, I'll agree, but fortunately for you, judges and juries have brains. I believe it's called "discretion."
Good day.
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I rather like it. I was never a fan of brushed metal before -- I still want to gag when I launch QuickTime Player -- but in Safari, it just seems to make sense.
I can't put my finger on it, but maybe it has something to do with the way the brushed metal widgets aren't screaming "LOOK AT ME!!" the same way most Aqua widgets are (like Chimera's, for instance). Safari's interface doesn't distract from the page. As a result, it feels clean and uncluttered, and I love it.
And who's to say web browsing shouldn't be just as much an "appliance" task as organizing your music (iTunes) or photos (iPhoto)?
That said, I'll be using Chimera unless Safari grows tabs someday...
They do have a timetable, and they do publish it. Copies on paper are available in most stations, in fact, if you ask for them.
Of course, these timetables have nothing to do with how long you actually have to wait for your train to show up. This seems to be more a factor of the temperature in the station (sweltering hot or freezing cold: add ten minutes), what time you were _supposed_ to be where you're going (for every five minutes late, add another ten) and whether or not you have to pee (add half an hour to an hour, depending how badly you have to go).
Although, if a train is running too early, sometimes the conductor will hold the train in the station so people on the local/express across the platform can make their connections. As far as I can tell, this only happens to you when you're on the train being held. If you're the guy hoping to make the connection... well, let's just say I hope you did your number one before you left.
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In a situation like yours, wouldn't it help if Google gave you a way to respond to the information it caches? For instance, suppose Google let you attach a message to that page. You could "reply" to the page your erroneous resume appeared on, and from then on whenever Google served it up from the cache, it would be prefaced with your response. I imagine something like "Attention: the information contained in this document is a typo, I actually have 10 years of experience" would do the trick.
This is along the lines of what eBay lets you do for negative feedback leveled against you. Credit reporting agencies in the US also allow you to add commentary to your credit report, I believe (this is required by law).
Adding this sort of functionality to Google's cache would not be a cure-all for privacy problems, needless to say, nor would it help if you simply didn't want to be traceable at all. And there's other pretty obvious problems with the idea that I don't feel like getting into right now. But it does illustrate that Google -- like credit bureaus, like eBay -- has options besides keeping or removing pages entirely.
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