of course this is related to the standard API, user level should not use internal kernel API... those can and will break sooner or later. But if a program works and isnt doing something totally stupid in a old kernel, new versions of kernel may not break it. Even if there is a need to a API change, its better to create a new interface so newer programs can use it, but old programs can still use the old API, at least until it's deprecated and later removed (usually taking years to happen)
usually this have a hidden danger, the burning of plastic have to be very well controlled due the high risk of producing dioxins... and dioxins are highly toxic, even very small amounts can cause cancer and can easily enter the food chain contaminating the top of the chain (ie: humans). dioxins behave like heavy metals, they don't leve the organism and so it keeps increasing with time, causing more and more problems.
In a lab is easy to control the burning of a plastic, but in a industrial burner, with trash as supply is hard due the size and mixing of different materials and the size of it. So for the companies it's always easy, they don't really care much about it and just want to be paid by the trash "eliminated" and the electricity they produce. the results is the release of dioxins to the atmosphere and the contamination of the surrounding area (huge areas, hundred of kilometres). In the end, you have to burn the contaminated food and materials on high temperatures, to try to destroy the dioxins contamination.
So burning plastic is a good rapid solution that even produces energy... its good for everyone except for any living beings, the longer they their life span, the worst it is.
and don't forget to cook well all food... it will do little to the toxins, but it can kill most parasites. better yep, also boil all water you drink (call it something fancy if you like, something like Tea). If unable to boil it, at least fill some transparent bottles with water and let then catch direct sun light for some hours. not as efficient as boiling but it still can kill many water parasites and bacteria .
why everyone always think in a kid dying from hunger in africa is the target for this tech help?
Africa (and much of the world actually) have many people that don't have food or diseases problems, they live in cities, towns, farms and houses, with electricity (even if not as stable as ours) but have not enough money or infrastructure for having a computer and internet access. Most of the third world still have old dialup modems at huge rates.
Anything that helps lowering the bar for internet access for people around the globe will help will reduce the gap between the high tech countries and the "no tech" ones and give more opportunities of a better future on poor countries (and people).
but again, that don't means that one starving homeless Etiopia will be given a computer and a 4G modem, more likely one middle class family of 6 living in a house in Maputo, Mozambique getting one cheap smartphone or tablet with WCMDA/UMTS/3G/4G, with opera and smart proxies and filters to lower the bandwidth demand
agree, but the problem is the load increasing slowly... the site starts to get slower and slower, moving the admin minds away from a DoS (that usually is a spike in load) to a internal problem (a bad query to the DB, some internal timeout, locks or cluster problems, etc) or a external high profile link (slashdot effect, some viral marketing/joke/news). The site may even still be working, no need to really to put it offline, just overload it enough so the admins will have to investigate what is happening. When the admin start looking for the incoming requests and internal load and access to investigate the problem, the attacker are diverting the admin attention away from the real attack (on the switch in this case)
what if they are requesting heavy pages? what if they slowly increase the load for several hours/days? you can see a increase, but don't care much, it looks like normal users , a natural increase of traffic... only after it keep increasing or is sustain for a long period you start to be alert. And even that you may point finger to a deploy made a few minutes/hours/days ago that might have change the site load distribution ( you may test for errors before deploying, but load factor is harder to test, specially on complex sites)
sorry my ignorance, but how a eolic energy stations produce carbon? i can only imagine the transportation and the metallurgic cost, but as all other also use steel/aluminium, it should that not do much difference. Spain and Portugal at least have sustain levels of eolic energy, about 50% of the total, so its not a "imaginary" energy
and how about geothermic energy? yes, it releases water and that water can have CO2 dissolved, but that is very low... and again, iceland have a very high level of it (about 66%), so again, its not "imaginary"
how about wave/tide energy? this one is still young and less used, but releases almost no carbon (only when building it). The technology is still defining what is the best solution, specially on long term, but it can and will be used. but ok, i can grant you the "imaginary" energy on this one
i use requestpolocy and noscript and yes, its annoying to have to white list things, but after some time you get most of the important things whitelisted and only remains the junk
I only wish is that request policy also enables the blacklist, so i dont bother with some sites never again (facebook, i'm looking at you!)
IIRC, the last true x86 CISC chip was the pentium (not the pro) and the first x86 RISC chip was the AMD K5.. after that all x86 are internally RISC chips with a CISC compatibility layer
A private conversation creates a rumor about you that can be spread if its interesting (loose interpretation of the interest by each people). After some time you might have your "private" reference known by many people, doesn't matter if true or not. That is why is important to trust people before giving then personal information. After a rumor run lose, its very hard to stop it.
Internet its the same thing. A reference in the net might be true or not, if its "interesting" enough, it will spread and be "stored". If you don't trust your contacts, don't give then personal information, and protest with then if they fail to protect your information.
the top plugins have constant stream of security holes because they are the top ones, every cracker wants to find a hole to silently install malware in millions of desktops, just by opening a inocent (and maybe already hacked) web site
in Afghanistan, the world did nothing when a small group of religious troops start to take over, killing and controlling everything. No one helped...they were just another group... All other forces combined would defeat the talibans, but they all were broken apart with regional battles and war lords and one at time they were being defeated by the talibans. After some time the remaining war lords were too weak to defeat then.. and no one helped...
Internal resistance was getting weaker and weaker until most of the country was under their control and after that, none dare to even think about disagree with the talibans, they controled (almost) everyone... and again, no one helped...
With in "house" almost secure and several generations of people that only know how to fight and make war, they start to export their ideals and fight and a few years later you got the attack to the twin towers, the Madrid bombing, several bomb attacks in africa and asia and many radical Islamic movements all over the world... only then several countries decided to "help", in a war that still didn't end after all this years.
You know, helping in the right time might save a lot of trouble in the future. Not helping can make things even worst, as no one likes to feel abandoned.
In somalia there are external help and the Islamic radicals are losing ground... yet they use this suicide bombings as a way to try to regain power and force external public opinion to abandon the country. It also make everyone insecure and harder for any government to work/prevail , reducing the resistance to their attacks. Then any propaganda about the "good old islamic army", in a God send mission to save then is what local people want to ear and will increase their local support.
Finally, there is no need for local support to make terror attacks, and they can be easily hidden until is too late... just look at the Boston marathon bombing. No external support, 2 person attack, no one did anything until was too late. Take out the cameras and probably no one would know exactly who did that attack, opening the door for more attacks later.
Ellison is a clever man who helped invent the modern RDBMS
wrong, he didnt invented it, he simply build one and marketing it successfull
Henry Ford was a clever man who invented the otherwise useless automobile
also wrong, he just made the production more efficient and lowered the price
Edison was a crafty fellow who invented this light bulb
and again wrong. the light bulb already existed, but last only a few minutes. Edison manage to find the right combination by trial and error, just like many were doing. most of his inventions were improvements of already existent things
For me, i would have switch to mysql^H^H^H^Hmariadb, postgresql, enterprisedb and one or more nosql and similar DBs, depending of required the usage. Oracle DB is good, but not that good to cost that much and with support getting worse and worse each year.
yet, my boss think its safer to pay a huge amount of money... it cost soo much, it must be good
You can choose any colour you want, no need to be beige!! some people even make it incolour, transparent cases. either way, you can replace hardwre, upgrade, add new components with those "monstrosities".
So if you need flexibility and have space, those "monstrosities" are the way to go. If you want mobility, get a laptop, netboot or a tablet if you want to show off and have the money, get a mac
I agree that there are other engines, linux have native games for many years... but as unity is marketed heavily, many companies use it... with linux support, those companies can build for linux with almost no effort.
It the objective is world domination, we need to conqueror one engine at time, getting 2 big engines ( source and unity) in a few months, with another one (CryEngine) on their way, we all win.
Of course i would prefer that FLOSS engines would be preferred and optimized, but its natural that when migrating from windows, people still choose closed source software
I'm grateful because they now support linux and now we have more games. Humble bundle showed that there is a linux market, only a little smaller than the mac one and with steam also supporting linux there is already some pressure to other engines to also support linux (or risk losing some market share on a highly competitive market). Due to this CryEngine is already being ported to linux (sadly still with unknown release date) and several other companies with in house engines are also testing the linux port.
pick on some of the money you would pay in each of that software and invest it in the FOSS companies to build one for you, fixing the things missing on the current software. on short term still use the closed programs until things get better. on short term you pay more, but the long run you will save a lot of money.
each of the software you point, each one cost huge amount of money, even a small part of it would help making FOSS software to get better
Remember, FOSS is software that someone build to solve his problem... if this is your problem, help fixing it. If everyone is waiting for the next guy to do it, none will do it. If you cant program, pay someone to do it.
ok, a good graphics engine is good to start selling, everyone likes eye candy BUT....... after some weeks, all what matters is the game, the history, how everything works... eye candy only last a few weeks (look at crysis games) , a good game last years (WoW have weak graphics for today standard but still a good game) or even never die (look at nethack, plain ASCII interface and its still one of the best game ever, with thousand of players)
keep doing this google... and you will learn the hard way!
google keep axing service and features, they only work by statistics (what 90% of the people use stays, what doesnt reach that level is set to die... unless is related to google+)
If they keep stripping their services and removing things, even if is little used, make their service dull and boring and other service for other entities with shiny features look a lot more attractive.
They are not removing dead or broken features, they are removing things people use and like... even if its just 5% of the people, that is still millions of (soon unhappy) users
google should know this, a service looks better when it have interesting features, even if little used! that is what makes people happy when the "search result is somewhat the same" compares with other services. XMPP talk, google reader, calendar caldav, block sites in search results, even the google cache are disappearing, along with other features... and what we will have in the end? another altavista? plain search, full of spam? a webmail like hotmail? instead of being number one, they are becoming just one more... and not because the others are getting better, google is getting worst.
at least cached version of search results was put back (still very hidden, but better than nothing). google was "forced" to put it back, the due users complains.. probably from internal users, as outside users are just ignored.
finally, with google axing things, people trust less and less in the google "cloud", as a feature/service today might be a lost feature tomorrow and a problem to be solved.
So every time google axes one service or feature, is putting just one more nail in its coffin.
i personally avoid being logged in google services, refuse to join google+ and started to also use other search engines too. If google keep worsening their service, it is easier to migrate to other services this way.
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of course this is related to the standard API, user level should not use internal kernel API... those can and will break sooner or later.
But if a program works and isnt doing something totally stupid in a old kernel, new versions of kernel may not break it. Even if there is a need to a API change, its better to create a new interface so newer programs can use it, but old programs can still use the old API, at least until it's deprecated and later removed (usually taking years to happen)
usually this have a hidden danger, the burning of plastic have to be very well controlled due the high risk of producing dioxins... and dioxins are highly toxic, even very small amounts can cause cancer and can easily enter the food chain contaminating the top of the chain (ie: humans). dioxins behave like heavy metals, they don't leve the organism and so it keeps increasing with time, causing more and more problems.
In a lab is easy to control the burning of a plastic, but in a industrial burner, with trash as supply is hard due the size and mixing of different materials and the size of it. So for the companies it's always easy, they don't really care much about it and just want to be paid by the trash "eliminated" and the electricity they produce. the results is the release of dioxins to the atmosphere and the contamination of the surrounding area (huge areas, hundred of kilometres).
In the end, you have to burn the contaminated food and materials on high temperatures, to try to destroy the dioxins contamination.
So burning plastic is a good rapid solution that even produces energy... its good for everyone except for any living beings, the longer they their life span, the worst it is.
and don't forget to cook well all food... it will do little to the toxins, but it can kill most parasites.
better yep, also boil all water you drink (call it something fancy if you like, something like Tea). If unable to boil it, at least fill some transparent bottles with water and let then catch direct sun light for some hours. not as efficient as boiling but it still can kill many water parasites and bacteria .
still avoid fish with two heads ...
why everyone always think in a kid dying from hunger in africa is the target for this tech help?
Africa (and much of the world actually) have many people that don't have food or diseases problems, they live in cities, towns, farms and houses, with electricity (even if not as stable as ours) but have not enough money or infrastructure for having a computer and internet access. Most of the third world still have old dialup modems at huge rates.
Anything that helps lowering the bar for internet access for people around the globe will help will reduce the gap between the high tech countries and the "no tech" ones and give more opportunities of a better future on poor countries (and people).
but again, that don't means that one starving homeless Etiopia will be given a computer and a 4G modem, more likely one middle class family of 6 living in a house in Maputo, Mozambique getting one cheap smartphone or tablet with WCMDA/UMTS/3G/4G, with opera and smart proxies and filters to lower the bandwidth demand
agree, but the problem is the load increasing slowly... the site starts to get slower and slower, moving the admin minds away from a DoS (that usually is a spike in load) to a internal problem (a bad query to the DB, some internal timeout, locks or cluster problems, etc) or a external high profile link (slashdot effect, some viral marketing/joke/news). The site may even still be working, no need to really to put it offline, just overload it enough so the admins will have to investigate what is happening. When the admin start looking for the incoming requests and internal load and access to investigate the problem, the attacker are diverting the admin attention away from the real attack (on the switch in this case)
what if they are requesting heavy pages? what if they slowly increase the load for several hours/days? you can see a increase, but don't care much, it looks like normal users , a natural increase of traffic ... only after it keep increasing or is sustain for a long period you start to be alert. And even that you may point finger to a deploy made a few minutes/hours/days ago that might have change the site load distribution ( you may test for errors before deploying, but load factor is harder to test, specially on complex sites)
sorry my ignorance, but how a eolic energy stations produce carbon? i can only imagine the transportation and the metallurgic cost, but as all other also use steel/aluminium, it should that not do much difference. Spain and Portugal at least have sustain levels of eolic energy, about 50% of the total, so its not a "imaginary" energy
and how about geothermic energy? yes, it releases water and that water can have CO2 dissolved, but that is very low... and again, iceland have a very high level of it (about 66%), so again, its not "imaginary"
how about wave/tide energy? this one is still young and less used, but releases almost no carbon (only when building it). The technology is still defining what is the best solution, specially on long term, but it can and will be used. but ok, i can grant you the "imaginary" energy on this one
Just install requestpolicy and you are done.
i use requestpolocy and noscript and yes, its annoying to have to white list things, but after some time you get most of the important things whitelisted and only remains the junk
I only wish is that request policy also enables the blacklist, so i dont bother with some sites never again (facebook, i'm looking at you!)
IIRC, the last true x86 CISC chip was the pentium (not the pro) and the first x86 RISC chip was the AMD K5.. after that all x86 are internally RISC chips with a CISC compatibility layer
A private conversation creates a rumor about you that can be spread if its interesting (loose interpretation of the interest by each people).
After some time you might have your "private" reference known by many people, doesn't matter if true or not. That is why is important to trust people before giving then personal information. After a rumor run lose, its very hard to stop it.
Internet its the same thing. A reference in the net might be true or not, if its "interesting" enough, it will spread and be "stored". If you don't trust your contacts, don't give then personal information, and protest with then if they fail to protect your information.
That was during the cold war, after the URSS withdraw, the USA soon forgot about Afghanistan and is where most post start to tell the story.
maybe, but just maybe because no ones use it...
the top plugins have constant stream of security holes because they are the top ones, every cracker wants to find a hole to silently install malware in millions of desktops, just by opening a inocent (and maybe already hacked) web site
in Afghanistan, the world did nothing when a small group of religious troops start to take over, killing and controlling everything.
No one helped...they were just another group...
All other forces combined would defeat the talibans, but they all were broken apart with regional battles and war lords and one at time they were being defeated by the talibans. After some time the remaining war lords were too weak to defeat then.. and no one helped...
Internal resistance was getting weaker and weaker until most of the country was under their control and after that, none dare to even think about disagree with the talibans, they controled (almost) everyone... and again, no one helped...
With in "house" almost secure and several generations of people that only know how to fight and make war, they start to export their ideals and fight and a few years later you got the attack to the twin towers, the Madrid bombing, several bomb attacks in africa and asia and many radical Islamic movements all over the world... only then several countries decided to "help", in a war that still didn't end after all this years.
You know, helping in the right time might save a lot of trouble in the future. Not helping can make things even worst, as no one likes to feel abandoned.
In somalia there are external help and the Islamic radicals are losing ground... yet they use this suicide bombings as a way to try to regain power and force external public opinion to abandon the country. It also make everyone insecure and harder for any government to work/prevail , reducing the resistance to their attacks. Then any propaganda about the "good old islamic army", in a God send mission to save then is what local people want to ear and will increase their local support.
Finally, there is no need for local support to make terror attacks, and they can be easily hidden until is too late... just look at the Boston marathon bombing. No external support, 2 person attack, no one did anything until was too late. Take out the cameras and probably no one would know exactly who did that attack, opening the door for more attacks later.
well, but a island moves soooo sloooooowwww!! :)
Larry is always motivated by money!! ... ALWAYS!!
OK, please take out the word "economically" and add "at that time" in the end and you will see that it still applies to all.
Ellison is a clever man who helped invent the modern RDBMS
wrong, he didnt invented it, he simply build one and marketing it successfull
Henry Ford was a clever man who invented the otherwise useless automobile
also wrong, he just made the production more efficient and lowered the price
Edison was a crafty fellow who invented this light bulb
and again wrong. the light bulb already existed, but last only a few minutes. Edison manage to find the right combination by trial and error, just like many were doing. most of his inventions were improvements of already existent things
It's not me.. it's my boss!
For me, i would have switch to mysql^H^H^H^Hmariadb, postgresql, enterprisedb and one or more nosql and similar DBs, depending of required the usage. Oracle DB is good, but not that good to cost that much and with support getting worse and worse each year.
yet, my boss think its safer to pay a huge amount of money... it cost soo much, it must be good
You can choose any colour you want, no need to be beige!! some people even make it incolour, transparent cases. either way, you can replace hardwre, upgrade, add new components with those "monstrosities".
So if you need flexibility and have space, those "monstrosities" are the way to go.
If you want mobility, get a laptop, netboot or a tablet
if you want to show off and have the money, get a mac
I agree that there are other engines, linux have native games for many years... but as unity is marketed heavily, many companies use it... with linux support, those companies can build for linux with almost no effort.
It the objective is world domination, we need to conqueror one engine at time, getting 2 big engines ( source and unity) in a few months, with another one (CryEngine) on their way, we all win.
Of course i would prefer that FLOSS engines would be preferred and optimized, but its natural that when migrating from windows, people still choose closed source software
I'm grateful because they now support linux and now we have more games. Humble bundle showed that there is a linux market, only a little smaller than the mac one and with steam also supporting linux there is already some pressure to other engines to also support linux (or risk losing some market share on a highly competitive market). Due to this CryEngine is already being ported to linux (sadly still with unknown release date) and several other companies with in house engines are also testing the linux port.
Again, thanks for your support, unity
pick on some of the money you would pay in each of that software and invest it in the FOSS companies to build one for you, fixing the things missing on the current software. on short term still use the closed programs until things get better. on short term you pay more, but the long run you will save a lot of money.
each of the software you point, each one cost huge amount of money, even a small part of it would help making FOSS software to get better
Remember, FOSS is software that someone build to solve his problem... if this is your problem, help fixing it. If everyone is waiting for the next guy to do it, none will do it. If you cant program, pay someone to do it.
ok, a good graphics engine is good to start selling, everyone likes eye candy BUT.... ... after some weeks, all what matters is the game, the history, how everything works... eye candy only last a few weeks (look at crysis games) , a good game last years (WoW have weak graphics for today standard but still a good game) or even never die (look at nethack, plain ASCII interface and its still one of the best game ever, with thousand of players)
If you look to both lists, you don't see many things that people miss or thing its useful! they are just obsolete or dead software/services
with google list, you see several useful things, with still many users... just not enough for google to care (or hard to merged to google+)
keep doing this google... and you will learn the hard way!
google keep axing service and features, they only work by statistics (what 90% of the people use stays, what doesnt reach that level is set to die... unless is related to google+)
If they keep stripping their services and removing things, even if is little used, make their service dull and boring and other service for other entities with shiny features look a lot more attractive.
They are not removing dead or broken features, they are removing things people use and like... even if its just 5% of the people, that is still millions of (soon unhappy) users
google should know this, a service looks better when it have interesting features, even if little used! that is what makes people happy when the "search result is somewhat the same" compares with other services. XMPP talk, google reader, calendar caldav, block sites in search results, even the google cache are disappearing, along with other features... and what we will have in the end? another altavista? plain search, full of spam? a webmail like hotmail? instead of being number one, they are becoming just one more... and not because the others are getting better, google is getting worst.
at least cached version of search results was put back (still very hidden, but better than nothing). google was "forced" to put it back, the due users complains.. probably from internal users, as outside users are just ignored.
finally, with google axing things, people trust less and less in the google "cloud", as a feature/service today might be a lost feature tomorrow and a problem to be solved.
So every time google axes one service or feature, is putting just one more nail in its coffin.
i personally avoid being logged in google services, refuse to join google+ and started to also use other search engines too. If google keep worsening their service, it is easier to migrate to other services this way.