It doesn't work with my setup of IE or Chrome, the only
two browsers I'm fiddling with these days. It must want
you to totally drop your pants on security settings or something.
Even in Northern Virginia there was mania. One afternoon
on my way home from work, I saw a plane fly by trailing a banner
"Cool Internet Jobs at UUNet". Searchlights played in the evening
over Tyson's corner. There was also a helicopter trailing a big
sign for some tech company... I want to say HP, but I don't exactly
recall.
Alas, the ISP I worked for was acquired by a boring telecom, which
raised our pay a bit but didn't fill our parking lot with Ferraris.
The post 911 "security boom" in the DC area was much better
for me; but it had its own problems. What's next?
I bet the period advertisements
alone will be priceless.
As much as we hate advertising on the web,
there is definitely something to be said
for ads as a window into history.
With so much content being dynamicly
generated, we won't have period ads like
we did with print.
Embedded advertising could solve this, and it wouldn't
be a problem if it were done as still images
and text analagous to a printed ad. Of course,
online advertisers seem to have a habit of shooting
themselves in the foot in this regard--the temptation
to introduce obtrusive ads just ups the ante in the
arms race.
Reading ads from pop sci might tell you that
Ford has been in business for over 100 years.
Reading web pages archived from today will tell
you nothing of the sort. The ad will either be
fetched and dynamicly generated (and thus be
non-period) or it will be edited out by the archiver.
OK, I'll accept that and stand corrected. Actually, now
that I come to think of it this reminds me a lot of drawing.
Until I read "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", I thought
that drawing was either "you've got it or you don't", also.
"non-exclusive". It should be in
all your contracts, and both sides
should know what it means. Unless you
are working as a salaried employee, or they
paid you a HUGE AMMOUNT, then it should always
be non-exclusive. Simple.
As free, independant thinking geeks, we like
to disparage authority. I feel wierd saying it,
but in my experience authority is important.
You have to understand what I mean by "authority".
It doesn't mean hitting people with rulers, or being
stern all the time. It's something more like leadership.
You just know it when you see it.
I spent 3 years in a private school that, while it
had its failings, seemed to know how to control a classroom.
(note, this is a 30 year old memory from when I was a kid,
so I could be wrong; but these are the impressions I got)
Teacher walks in. Students get quiet. End of story.
You can't learn when the students are running the classroom,
at least not when they're running it out of their id, which is
where most kids operate. Yes, I'm aware of alternative schools
where kids have free reign and positive outcomes; but there's
some selectivity going on there. Trying to apply that en masse
would be a mistake, IMHO.
Anyway, at the private school we had a very charismatic teacher
who was in a bus accident. We went through at least two replacements
until we found one that could command respect and control the classroom.
The other two literally got spitballed out of class! In private school,
this was not tolerated, and while individual kids would get punished
if they got caught, it was also recognized that the teacher couldn't
command respect or attention.
Now, all of this is very squishy. That's too bad. Either you've got
it or you don't. That's all we know now. Maybe in the future we'll
be able to run accurate psychological profiles that will prevent
non-authoritative individuals from trying to run K-12 classrooms; but for
now, firing is the only thing that works; ie, trial and error.
s/microsoft/union amd it only reads a little
bit strangely. A few more minor tweaks and it's the same
situation. I'm actually not picking on unions here... too much.
Rather, I'm picking on any powerful organization that exerts
political power over elected officials. This kind of union
influence is so entrenched that a lot of us don't even think
about it. Microsoft is newer, so it's getting more attention.
I work at a public hospital in the computer / technical department and (amongst others) was recently outraged by an email that was sent around our department: '(XXXX) District Health Board -- Information Services is strategically a union shop and when talking to staff / customers we are to support this strategy. I no longer want to see comments promoting other Operating Systems.' We have also been told to remove Firefox found on anyone's computer unless they have specific authorisation from management to have it installed under special circumstances. Now, I could somewhat understand this if I was working in a company that sold and promoted the use of union software for financial gain, but I work in the publicly / government funded health system. Several of the IT big-wigs at the DHB are seemingly blindly pro-union and seem all too quick to shrug off other, perhaps more efficient alternatives. As a taxpayer, I want nothing more than to see our health systems improve and run more efficiently. I am not foolish enough to say all our problems would be solved overnight by changing away from union's infrastructure, but I am convinced that if we took less than half the money we spend on licensing union's software alone and invested that in training users for an open source system, we would be far better off in the long run. I would very much like to hear Slashdot's ideas / opinions on this 'Strategic Direction' and the silencing of our technical opinions
"In the long run, all file formats become programming languages."
From this I draw a number of conclusions, the first being
that when designing a format you need to bring a "language sensibility"
to it. If you don't, it's only a question of *when*, not if, your
format will become a poorly designed language. OK, "language" may
not be the right word. I'd also accept, "byte code" or "executable file",
but it's the same idea. JMHO.
I was gonna say, "yes they will--in an uninspected shipping container".
Either that, or any sailing vessel. Getting the drones near the coast
wouldn't be difficult. People are thinking like fat lazy Americans who want
to spend $1 billion so they can do remote killing 9 to 5, and I say that as
an American myself.
The bad guys don't work that way. Drug mules wedge themselves into
filthy, dangerous floatin fuel tanks full of cocaine and diesel. Al qaedas
would think nothing of wedging themselves into a filthy floating fuel tank
full of drones.
The cold fusion guys gave us a heck of a lot
more information in the initial press releases.
We knew right off the bat that palladium and heavy
water were involved. This was even enough to cause
a spike in the price in palladium, based on speculation
that it would become a critical component in future
reactors.
IBM has given us the equivalent of "we have
achieved cheap energy" without even mentioning
cold fusion, let alone palladium and heavy water.
For all we know, they audited the build system
and discovered that they had been building unoptimized debug
versions the whole time.
This link would
have been even better. You see they have 1.58 W/kg. You have over a dozen phones above 1.5. Somebody
always has to be the highest. Actually, the model number they cite is not the worst, although the worst
is still a Blackberry.
True, they are several times worst than the best; but is that meaningful? If the standard for
poison X in the water is 100 ppm, and your city water has 2 ppm and mine has 20 ppm that's a factor
of 10 but it doesn't mean anything if you believe that the standard is safe.
Oh, and I was wondering about the units--W/kg. It appears that they use some kind of test
that measures how much a body would absorb per unit mass, which is actually pretty cool.
I have a Shareware app that I purchased something like 15 years ago.
It exhibits the bug; but it also has a gamma correction function.
I corrected the gamm to 0.46 (approx inverse of 2.2) then scaled
the test image of the Dalai Lama, then corrected back to 2.2.
It looks fine. YMMV I suppose;
but if your app supports gamma correction then by all means try this
trick before doing anything more drastic. That's assuming of course
that it's really critical for you; which as others have pointed out
it probably isn't. Stil though, it's nice to see this pointed out.
Wrong. There's a reason Theodore Roosevelt is on Mt. Rushmore.
Go back in history and read up. In the USA, we are re-living many of the same
issues, roughly 100 years later.
this agreement demonstrates... yet another facet
of corporate control. Large corporations can cross-license.
Small companies and individual entrepreneurs will continue to get squashed
by patents.
It seems like you could put it in an airtight
plastic bag when going from cold to warm. When the
bag is dry, it's safe to remove.
Of course, there's
the problem of air in the bag. You need to make sure
the bag is in close contact with the device or else
carry dessicant around with you. Of course, this is an Apple
device. Somebody ought to make a stylish little box
that encloses it perfectly.
There are already shrink-on plastic shields to protect
the screens and various other enhancements that surround
your iPhone to protect it; so you need to make sure the
condensation protector doesn't conflict with that.
I haven't looked up close at an iPhone (I don't have one
myself) but I assume the device can't be airtight for some
reason (speaker? cracks around a micro USB socket?). If it could
be made air-tight, at least temporarily, then the problem is also
solved.
The Viagra spams seem to be dominating my filter now.
They don't even mangle the spelling any more! They just
change the percent discount from spam-to-spam. Perhaps
they change other things too but I don't know because I just
"check all, delete". The rise in Viagra spam (no puns intended
anywhere in this post) seems to have started about a month ago.
If Viagra spam isn't considered malicious, then I can't
say I've noticed any increase in spam. Maybe they have malicious
code attached; but like I said I don't open them...
The law is full of cruft like this.
It's literally dead code. Legislators,
by necessity, cannot simply cut code
from "the program". They actually have
to vote on all the changes. As frustrating
as programming can be, can you imagine how
it would be if you literally had to have a vote
on every commit to the repository?
I used to work in a shop where we printed
law books. I got to inspect the printing plates
and sometimes had time to read them. My favorite
was the law from some mid-western state that put
a bounty of $5 on each gopher you shot. I wonder
if they ever controlled the gophers. IIRC, it was
when $5 was a lot of money.
OK... Google is my friend. it
wasn't quite $5. and more amazingly, people are still doing it.
Slashdot Mirror
the fakes could become more valuable eventually than the real item
At least until somebody starts faking the fakes.
How long do we have before it goes further back and destroys humanity?
At least until yesterday.
It doesn't work with my setup of IE or Chrome, the only two browsers I'm fiddling with these days. It must want you to totally drop your pants on security settings or something.
Dream time. Cue didgeridoo and rock paintings.
Even in Northern Virginia there was mania. One afternoon on my way home from work, I saw a plane fly by trailing a banner "Cool Internet Jobs at UUNet". Searchlights played in the evening over Tyson's corner. There was also a helicopter trailing a big sign for some tech company... I want to say HP, but I don't exactly recall.
Alas, the ISP I worked for was acquired by a boring telecom, which raised our pay a bit but didn't fill our parking lot with Ferraris.
The post 911 "security boom" in the DC area was much better for me; but it had its own problems. What's next?
I bet the period advertisements alone will be priceless.
As much as we hate advertising on the web, there is definitely something to be said for ads as a window into history.
With so much content being dynamicly generated, we won't have period ads like we did with print.
Embedded advertising could solve this, and it wouldn't be a problem if it were done as still images and text analagous to a printed ad. Of course, online advertisers seem to have a habit of shooting themselves in the foot in this regard--the temptation to introduce obtrusive ads just ups the ante in the arms race.
Reading ads from pop sci might tell you that Ford has been in business for over 100 years. Reading web pages archived from today will tell you nothing of the sort. The ad will either be fetched and dynamicly generated (and thus be non-period) or it will be edited out by the archiver.
OK, I'll accept that and stand corrected. Actually, now that I come to think of it this reminds me a lot of drawing. Until I read "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", I thought that drawing was either "you've got it or you don't", also.
"non-exclusive". It should be in all your contracts, and both sides should know what it means. Unless you are working as a salaried employee, or they paid you a HUGE AMMOUNT, then it should always be non-exclusive. Simple.
As free, independant thinking geeks, we like to disparage authority. I feel wierd saying it, but in my experience authority is important.
You have to understand what I mean by "authority". It doesn't mean hitting people with rulers, or being stern all the time. It's something more like leadership. You just know it when you see it.
I spent 3 years in a private school that, while it had its failings, seemed to know how to control a classroom. (note, this is a 30 year old memory from when I was a kid, so I could be wrong; but these are the impressions I got)
Teacher walks in. Students get quiet. End of story.
You can't learn when the students are running the classroom, at least not when they're running it out of their id, which is where most kids operate. Yes, I'm aware of alternative schools where kids have free reign and positive outcomes; but there's some selectivity going on there. Trying to apply that en masse would be a mistake, IMHO.
Anyway, at the private school we had a very charismatic teacher who was in a bus accident. We went through at least two replacements until we found one that could command respect and control the classroom. The other two literally got spitballed out of class! In private school, this was not tolerated, and while individual kids would get punished if they got caught, it was also recognized that the teacher couldn't command respect or attention.
Now, all of this is very squishy. That's too bad. Either you've got it or you don't. That's all we know now. Maybe in the future we'll be able to run accurate psychological profiles that will prevent non-authoritative individuals from trying to run K-12 classrooms; but for now, firing is the only thing that works; ie, trial and error.
s/microsoft/union amd it only reads a little bit strangely. A few more minor tweaks and it's the same situation. I'm actually not picking on unions here... too much. Rather, I'm picking on any powerful organization that exerts political power over elected officials. This kind of union influence is so entrenched that a lot of us don't even think about it. Microsoft is newer, so it's getting more attention.
I work at a public hospital in the computer / technical department and (amongst others) was recently outraged by an email that was sent around our department: '(XXXX) District Health Board -- Information Services is strategically a union shop and when talking to staff / customers we are to support this strategy. I no longer want to see comments promoting other Operating Systems.' We have also been told to remove Firefox found on anyone's computer unless they have specific authorisation from management to have it installed under special circumstances. Now, I could somewhat understand this if I was working in a company that sold and promoted the use of union software for financial gain, but I work in the publicly / government funded health system. Several of the IT big-wigs at the DHB are seemingly blindly pro-union and seem all too quick to shrug off other, perhaps more efficient alternatives. As a taxpayer, I want nothing more than to see our health systems improve and run more efficiently. I am not foolish enough to say all our problems would be solved overnight by changing away from union's infrastructure, but I am convinced that if we took less than half the money we spend on licensing union's software alone and invested that in training users for an open source system, we would be far better off in the long run. I would very much like to hear Slashdot's ideas / opinions on this 'Strategic Direction' and the silencing of our technical opinions
"In the long run, all file formats become programming languages."
From this I draw a number of conclusions, the first being that when designing a format you need to bring a "language sensibility" to it. If you don't, it's only a question of *when*, not if, your format will become a poorly designed language. OK, "language" may not be the right word. I'd also accept, "byte code" or "executable file", but it's the same idea. JMHO.
This is like taxing my Honda to pay for the Toyota recall.
It's patently ridiculous; but in this rent-seeking based corpocracy, it doesn't surprise me that they'd try it.
I was gonna say, "yes they will--in an uninspected shipping container".
Either that, or any sailing vessel. Getting the drones near the coast wouldn't be difficult. People are thinking like fat lazy Americans who want to spend $1 billion so they can do remote killing 9 to 5, and I say that as an American myself.
The bad guys don't work that way. Drug mules wedge themselves into filthy, dangerous floatin fuel tanks full of cocaine and diesel. Al qaedas would think nothing of wedging themselves into a filthy floating fuel tank full of drones.
The cold fusion guys gave us a heck of a lot more information in the initial press releases. We knew right off the bat that palladium and heavy water were involved. This was even enough to cause a spike in the price in palladium, based on speculation that it would become a critical component in future reactors.
IBM has given us the equivalent of "we have achieved cheap energy" without even mentioning cold fusion, let alone palladium and heavy water.
For all we know, they audited the build system and discovered that they had been building unoptimized debug versions the whole time.
This link would have been even better. You see they have 1.58 W/kg. You have over a dozen phones above 1.5. Somebody always has to be the highest. Actually, the model number they cite is not the worst, although the worst is still a Blackberry.
True, they are several times worst than the best; but is that meaningful? If the standard for poison X in the water is 100 ppm, and your city water has 2 ppm and mine has 20 ppm that's a factor of 10 but it doesn't mean anything if you believe that the standard is safe.
Oh, and I was wondering about the units--W/kg. It appears that they use some kind of test that measures how much a body would absorb per unit mass, which is actually pretty cool.
I would be concerned if the computer had spontaneously expressed an interest in hearing Mozart.
You're Despicable!
I have a Shareware app that I purchased something like 15 years ago. It exhibits the bug; but it also has a gamma correction function. I corrected the gamm to 0.46 (approx inverse of 2.2) then scaled the test image of the Dalai Lama, then corrected back to 2.2. It looks fine. YMMV I suppose; but if your app supports gamma correction then by all means try this trick before doing anything more drastic. That's assuming of course that it's really critical for you; which as others have pointed out it probably isn't. Stil though, it's nice to see this pointed out.
The car function is built in.
Wrong. There's a reason Theodore Roosevelt is on Mt. Rushmore. Go back in history and read up. In the USA, we are re-living many of the same issues, roughly 100 years later.
this agreement demonstrates... yet another facet of corporate control. Large corporations can cross-license. Small companies and individual entrepreneurs will continue to get squashed by patents.
There, fixed that for him.
It seems like you could put it in an airtight plastic bag when going from cold to warm. When the bag is dry, it's safe to remove.
Of course, there's the problem of air in the bag. You need to make sure the bag is in close contact with the device or else carry dessicant around with you. Of course, this is an Apple device. Somebody ought to make a stylish little box that encloses it perfectly.
There are already shrink-on plastic shields to protect the screens and various other enhancements that surround your iPhone to protect it; so you need to make sure the condensation protector doesn't conflict with that.
I haven't looked up close at an iPhone (I don't have one myself) but I assume the device can't be airtight for some reason (speaker? cracks around a micro USB socket?). If it could be made air-tight, at least temporarily, then the problem is also solved.
Now get to work Apple-cozy guys.
Only Canada Wet though. Canada Dry is already trademarked.
Maybe just one. "Love the Code with all thy heart".
The Viagra spams seem to be dominating my filter now. They don't even mangle the spelling any more! They just change the percent discount from spam-to-spam. Perhaps they change other things too but I don't know because I just "check all, delete". The rise in Viagra spam (no puns intended anywhere in this post) seems to have started about a month ago.
If Viagra spam isn't considered malicious, then I can't say I've noticed any increase in spam. Maybe they have malicious code attached; but like I said I don't open them...
The law is full of cruft like this. It's literally dead code. Legislators, by necessity, cannot simply cut code from "the program". They actually have to vote on all the changes. As frustrating as programming can be, can you imagine how it would be if you literally had to have a vote on every commit to the repository?
I used to work in a shop where we printed law books. I got to inspect the printing plates and sometimes had time to read them. My favorite was the law from some mid-western state that put a bounty of $5 on each gopher you shot. I wonder if they ever controlled the gophers. IIRC, it was when $5 was a lot of money.
OK... Google is my friend. it wasn't quite $5. and more amazingly, people are still doing it.