Heh. I didn't even realize that. The funny thing is, I have no
idea how to upgrade anyway. They don't have the usual File/Edit/View
menus. There's just a wrench icon, and it doesn't appear to have any
updater under its menu hierarchy.
Googling around (heheh) I found out they left out the F/E/V on purpose.
That might make sense for mobile, but I'm using a nice wide LCD with
more screen real estate than you can shake a stick at. Without F/E/V
I feel like I'm subject to somebody's vision of "clean minimalist design"
where they thought they knew what was best for the user. For cryin' out
loud, if I wanted to use a Mac I'd already be using one. Hey... maybe it'll
automaticly upgrade to 6.0 if I throw it in the recycling bin... no, wait...
AHA! The updater is in the "About Chrome" thingy.
Oh sure, bury the updater in the widget that usually just shows copyright
info. That's, just... wonderful. To be fair though, interfaces to updaters
aren't quite as standard as F/E/V.
Almost all the people I follow are "real people" and not
organizations. There is one Si Valley VC incubator I follow
that's sort of interesting; but I only started following them
recently. I'm not commercial so I don't care. If people who
WANT to get spammed help support Twitter, fine by me. I've
found Twitter to be the "I don't have to deal with Farmville
invites, or drunk pictures"
version of Facebook. If they were to clutter
their UI, that would kill them for me. This won't.
Bingo! You stole my thunder. Mod parent up Insightful.
The solution to the infamous regex problem is to comment
them. Your style guide should even have something like,
"any regex longer than N characters should have a comment
next to it". Developers who live, breathe and eat regex
should be mindful that it might look like line noise to the
rest of us, or that we might be able to parse it in 15 minutes
whereas we can read your comment in 2 seconds.
If you define security as being able to determine
whether or not a program will reach an undesired state
given arbitrary input, isn't that equivalent to the halting problem?
Isn't that NP hard? I know that I generally force programs
to halt when they're behaving badly, if they don't halt on their
own.
So, once again the design wasn't really that bad. It was
the humans running the equipment that screwed it up.
Hearing stuff like this, especially when you bring up rubber seals,
reminds me of the Challenger disaster.
Somebody or some thing (including Windows update) is bound to re-set
your settings at some point, and re-enable autorun. Yes, locking your
door is a good thing. Moving to a nicer neighborhood *and* locking your
door is even better.
After skimming the file-copying code, I agree with the people
who say it's not complicated. I'm not a Python programmer either.
The example functions they gave look like good starting points for
wrappers that would provide the higher level, "get, send, delete"
sort of functionality the poster wants. The only thing that confuses
me is why you have to have "config = boto.config" when the config
variable isn't used in the rest of the code. To me, it looks like
you're only interested in the side effects of retrieving the configuration
and not the result. Couldn't you just "boto.config()" or something at
program startup? Of course
that's probably more of a Python question from somebody who is ony passably familiar
with the language. It's nothing complicated about the API.
So many USB sticks come with pre-loaded crapware/malware.
In the office we would stick them in Linux machines and format
them from there. If you stuck it in a Windows machine without
formatting it, you spent the rest of the day auditing your machine
and puzzling over what might be left on it.
The OPPORTUNITY is for a company to brand itself based on NOT HAVING
CRAP on their sticks. I'm thinking Pure USB would be a nice name
for such a product. I know I'd chose that over anything else if they
were comparably priced. Don't get greedy and charge a premium for that.
Just outsell the competition. I can't believe the kickbacks from crapware
authors are that valuable.
No. They won't do that. IANAL, but they'll probably hold
you civily liable for damaging their goods. You'll pay a settlement
and/or legal fees in cash. You won't get an iPad. You'll just
get a black mark on your record, and maybe even a court order to
never visit the Apple store again. It really depends on how much
hardball they want to play. They certainly won't reward that behavior.
It would bring on copycats if they did.
BTW, ditto for paying your parking fines in pennies. People have
tried, and the courts have sided with parking enforcement.
Tax who? HFTs? Let's see what happens to spreads
when you do that. Why... the spread would equal the tax.
Regulate spreads? Why... HFTs just stop doing business.
No trades until the spread narrows--but if you just delay
trading until the spread narrows, you're really just hiding
the spread behind a time delay.
No matter what happens, you pay more. There's smart regulation,
and there's dumb regulation. Over-regulate, take all the new
tech out of trading, and you bring us back to commissions measured
as a percent of your trade! Examples of markets left in that backwater
are physical commodities and real estate. Why? Because they aren't
as liquid.
The alternative is paying taxes to a government formed by We The People,
to defend the Constitution. Since the current regime refuses to do that,
such a benevolent organization of patent trolls would be the equivalent of
that branch of the government charged with enforcing sound, Constitutional
intellectual property. The agreement and/or whatever relatively modest
means required to fund the organization would be like a tax.
all his D-Drive needs to complete it is, another D-Drive, which would of course need another D-Drive
So what's the problem? All he has to do is implement his
device with an earlier device. He'll have new device implemented
with old device. Then, he can take that one and implement
new device with it. Then he'll have new device implemented
with new device.
Works fine for porting GCC anyway. Just kidding of course.
Would that "porting" mechanical systems in this manner were
as easy as porting compilers.
What's always interesting
about those statistics is how big a difference
recessions make (fewer people rushing to work, fewer
accidents) and how little difference speed limits
make.
Everybody who ever has experienced any of these visual
disturbances should be aware of the
concept of form constants
I think I may actually know the one you are talking about.
It's like leapord spots spiraling inward, and they tend to
be darker than the background. Solution? Drink more water. No kidding.
However, by the time you see them it's usually too late.
The difference is that an individual couldn't really use the schematic to clone the TV
No, you couldn't use the schematic to fab a picture tube or any of the other "black box" components;
but there's always that point where "in order to make a cake from scratch you have to reinvent the universe".
If you really had a craving for the circuit in a particular Zenith set, I bet you could have indeed cloned
it from readily available components. I don't consider buying a picture tube from Zenith cheating.
I wager that Heathkit and other hobby outfits had TV kits you could buy. One of the teachers in our highschool
recounted the story of how his first TV was actually home-built, not storebought. It seemed the picture was there
but all blurry. They had sent him an oscilloscope tube by mistake!
So yes, of course you had to tweak it. Heck, in the late 90s, that's all the Linux guys ever did was install
it and tweak it for a week, then install another distro.
I think the analog and digital worlds compare better than you think.
Not counterintutive for anybody who is, well... a little bit older.
There. Said it. Now that that's out of the way, let us hearken
to the days when TV sets had SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS printed on the inside
of the box. This was so that guys called "repair men" could actually fix
these "valuable devices". Furthermore, while most consumers couldn't tell
heads or tails from the schematics, they could at least unplug the tubes
and take them to the drugstore and test them, to see if it was as simple
as a worn-out tube.
No, I'm not that old. I was a little kid when all this was still going
on, and even then it was fading fast. Still though, I have vivid memories
of it all. It made quite an early impression on my budding geek mind.
If computer hardware gets back to that, it would be a welcome regression
to the mean. Throughout most of history, you could generally understand most
of the components in a device, or at least understand the relationships between
the black boxes well enough to make repairs.
Anyway, the companies that made these "open source" devices throughout
history did just fine. They prospered because most people don't have time to
understand a schematic or source and integrate all the parts themselves. They'd
rather pay somebody else to do that.
I can't help but be reminded of the whole, "we had
lots of valuable meetings" followed by "What was captured
from those meetings?" from a consultant, followed by (blank stare)
from workers the consultant was brought in to help.
Moving stuff onto social networks is actually a leap forward
in this regard. It's a lot easier to parse logs from social networks
than it is to search audio-visual records of meetings, at least with
present technology. Perhaps in the future, you'll be able to enter
a simple text search like, "SQL implementation choice" and get to
a 2 minute snippet of video from the meeting where that was discussed.
But, as we're now in wars where there really aren't front lines and safe zones, where anyone is a potential enemy and you're just one grenade away from death, even at the supply depot, there really isn't a whole lot of difference now.
That does it! I'm writing the Pentagon for my Cold War back pay as
soon as I finish this post. Let's see... 1968 to the fall of the Wall... that's
a good 21 years give or take... Washington DC area most of the time... OK... 5 years
away at school so let's say 16 years of high risk certain annihilation and 5 years of
lower risk Mad Max survival.... I'm working up those figures now. Suuuuwheeet retirement, here I come!
Even when I lived in Washington DC, my primary
reason for having cable was the fast Internet that
came with it.
When I moved, Internet-only cable was incrementally cheaper
so that's what I got. Analog broadcast was fine for me,
and now digital is great when it works. Heavy rain and wind
seem to attenuate the signal enough to cause problems, but
not enough to make me buy cable TV.
Of course, I tend to regard TV as potentially a vice. I don't watch too much,
just as I don't drink too much. I'm certainly not going to purchase
a TiVo or any other device to "enhance" my TV experience, so maybe
I'm just a bit odd in this regard.
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I'm not taking that test. Fuck you. I've got better things to do with my time. How'd I do? D'oh! Points off for asking. Not that it matters.
Tell me it's a collection of flamebait for pendants! (emphasis mine)
Priceless.
Heh. I didn't even realize that. The funny thing is, I have no idea how to upgrade anyway. They don't have the usual File/Edit/View menus. There's just a wrench icon, and it doesn't appear to have any updater under its menu hierarchy.
Googling around (heheh) I found out they left out the F/E/V on purpose. That might make sense for mobile, but I'm using a nice wide LCD with more screen real estate than you can shake a stick at. Without F/E/V I feel like I'm subject to somebody's vision of "clean minimalist design" where they thought they knew what was best for the user. For cryin' out loud, if I wanted to use a Mac I'd already be using one. Hey... maybe it'll automaticly upgrade to 6.0 if I throw it in the recycling bin... no, wait... AHA! The updater is in the "About Chrome" thingy.
Oh sure, bury the updater in the widget that usually just shows copyright info. That's, just... wonderful. To be fair though, interfaces to updaters aren't quite as standard as F/E/V.
Almost all the people I follow are "real people" and not organizations. There is one Si Valley VC incubator I follow that's sort of interesting; but I only started following them recently. I'm not commercial so I don't care. If people who WANT to get spammed help support Twitter, fine by me. I've found Twitter to be the "I don't have to deal with Farmville invites, or drunk pictures" version of Facebook. If they were to clutter their UI, that would kill them for me. This won't.
Bingo! You stole my thunder. Mod parent up Insightful. The solution to the infamous regex problem is to comment them. Your style guide should even have something like, "any regex longer than N characters should have a comment next to it". Developers who live, breathe and eat regex should be mindful that it might look like line noise to the rest of us, or that we might be able to parse it in 15 minutes whereas we can read your comment in 2 seconds.
Does the USAF want a pony too?
If you define security as being able to determine whether or not a program will reach an undesired state given arbitrary input, isn't that equivalent to the halting problem? Isn't that NP hard? I know that I generally force programs to halt when they're behaving badly, if they don't halt on their own.
So, once again the design wasn't really that bad. It was the humans running the equipment that screwed it up. Hearing stuff like this, especially when you bring up rubber seals, reminds me of the Challenger disaster.
Somebody or some thing (including Windows update) is bound to re-set your settings at some point, and re-enable autorun. Yes, locking your door is a good thing. Moving to a nicer neighborhood *and* locking your door is even better.
After skimming the file-copying code, I agree with the people who say it's not complicated. I'm not a Python programmer either. The example functions they gave look like good starting points for wrappers that would provide the higher level, "get, send, delete" sort of functionality the poster wants. The only thing that confuses me is why you have to have "config = boto.config" when the config variable isn't used in the rest of the code. To me, it looks like you're only interested in the side effects of retrieving the configuration and not the result. Couldn't you just "boto.config()" or something at program startup? Of course that's probably more of a Python question from somebody who is ony passably familiar with the language. It's nothing complicated about the API.
So many USB sticks come with pre-loaded crapware/malware. In the office we would stick them in Linux machines and format them from there. If you stuck it in a Windows machine without formatting it, you spent the rest of the day auditing your machine and puzzling over what might be left on it.
The OPPORTUNITY is for a company to brand itself based on NOT HAVING CRAP on their sticks. I'm thinking Pure USB would be a nice name for such a product. I know I'd chose that over anything else if they were comparably priced. Don't get greedy and charge a premium for that. Just outsell the competition. I can't believe the kickbacks from crapware authors are that valuable.
No. They won't do that. IANAL, but they'll probably hold you civily liable for damaging their goods. You'll pay a settlement and/or legal fees in cash. You won't get an iPad. You'll just get a black mark on your record, and maybe even a court order to never visit the Apple store again. It really depends on how much hardball they want to play. They certainly won't reward that behavior. It would bring on copycats if they did.
BTW, ditto for paying your parking fines in pennies. People have tried, and the courts have sided with parking enforcement.
Tax who? HFTs? Let's see what happens to spreads when you do that. Why... the spread would equal the tax. Regulate spreads? Why... HFTs just stop doing business. No trades until the spread narrows--but if you just delay trading until the spread narrows, you're really just hiding the spread behind a time delay.
No matter what happens, you pay more. There's smart regulation, and there's dumb regulation. Over-regulate, take all the new tech out of trading, and you bring us back to commissions measured as a percent of your trade! Examples of markets left in that backwater are physical commodities and real estate. Why? Because they aren't as liquid.
The alternative is paying taxes to a government formed by We The People, to defend the Constitution. Since the current regime refuses to do that, such a benevolent organization of patent trolls would be the equivalent of that branch of the government charged with enforcing sound, Constitutional intellectual property. The agreement and/or whatever relatively modest means required to fund the organization would be like a tax.
all his D-Drive needs to complete it is, another D-Drive, which would of course need another D-Drive
So what's the problem? All he has to do is implement his device with an earlier device. He'll have new device implemented with old device. Then, he can take that one and implement new device with it. Then he'll have new device implemented with new device.
Works fine for porting GCC anyway. Just kidding of course. Would that "porting" mechanical systems in this manner were as easy as porting compilers.
What's always interesting about those statistics is how big a difference recessions make (fewer people rushing to work, fewer accidents) and how little difference speed limits make.
Neither one inspires much confidence, especially if you have to convert
Everybody who ever has experienced any of these visual disturbances should be aware of the concept of form constants
I think I may actually know the one you are talking about. It's like leapord spots spiraling inward, and they tend to be darker than the background. Solution? Drink more water. No kidding. However, by the time you see them it's usually too late.
The difference is that an individual couldn't really use the schematic to clone the TV
No, you couldn't use the schematic to fab a picture tube or any of the other "black box" components; but there's always that point where "in order to make a cake from scratch you have to reinvent the universe".
If you really had a craving for the circuit in a particular Zenith set, I bet you could have indeed cloned it from readily available components. I don't consider buying a picture tube from Zenith cheating.
I wager that Heathkit and other hobby outfits had TV kits you could buy. One of the teachers in our highschool recounted the story of how his first TV was actually home-built, not storebought. It seemed the picture was there but all blurry. They had sent him an oscilloscope tube by mistake!
So yes, of course you had to tweak it. Heck, in the late 90s, that's all the Linux guys ever did was install it and tweak it for a week, then install another distro.
I think the analog and digital worlds compare better than you think.
Not counterintutive for anybody who is, well... a little bit older. There. Said it. Now that that's out of the way, let us hearken to the days when TV sets had SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS printed on the inside of the box. This was so that guys called "repair men" could actually fix these "valuable devices". Furthermore, while most consumers couldn't tell heads or tails from the schematics, they could at least unplug the tubes and take them to the drugstore and test them, to see if it was as simple as a worn-out tube.
No, I'm not that old. I was a little kid when all this was still going on, and even then it was fading fast. Still though, I have vivid memories of it all. It made quite an early impression on my budding geek mind.
If computer hardware gets back to that, it would be a welcome regression to the mean. Throughout most of history, you could generally understand most of the components in a device, or at least understand the relationships between the black boxes well enough to make repairs.
Anyway, the companies that made these "open source" devices throughout history did just fine. They prospered because most people don't have time to understand a schematic or source and integrate all the parts themselves. They'd rather pay somebody else to do that.
I can't help but be reminded of the whole, "we had lots of valuable meetings" followed by "What was captured from those meetings?" from a consultant, followed by (blank stare) from workers the consultant was brought in to help.
Moving stuff onto social networks is actually a leap forward in this regard. It's a lot easier to parse logs from social networks than it is to search audio-visual records of meetings, at least with present technology. Perhaps in the future, you'll be able to enter a simple text search like, "SQL implementation choice" and get to a 2 minute snippet of video from the meeting where that was discussed.
Ahhhh... so that's why we chose Acme Database...
But, as we're now in wars where there really aren't front lines and safe zones, where anyone is a potential enemy and you're just one grenade away from death, even at the supply depot, there really isn't a whole lot of difference now.
That does it! I'm writing the Pentagon for my Cold War back pay as soon as I finish this post. Let's see... 1968 to the fall of the Wall... that's a good 21 years give or take... Washington DC area most of the time... OK... 5 years away at school so let's say 16 years of high risk certain annihilation and 5 years of lower risk Mad Max survival.... I'm working up those figures now. Suuuuwheeet retirement, here I come!
Is there a better commentary on the west's general inability to grok zen than our endless bastardization of the word, zen?
ZEN is not a ticker symbol on the NYSE yet, so I guess not.
It's a specialized Lisp REPL, or something like it.
Even when I lived in Washington DC, my primary reason for having cable was the fast Internet that came with it.
When I moved, Internet-only cable was incrementally cheaper so that's what I got. Analog broadcast was fine for me, and now digital is great when it works. Heavy rain and wind seem to attenuate the signal enough to cause problems, but not enough to make me buy cable TV.
Of course, I tend to regard TV as potentially a vice. I don't watch too much, just as I don't drink too much. I'm certainly not going to purchase a TiVo or any other device to "enhance" my TV experience, so maybe I'm just a bit odd in this regard.