I don't trust Oracle any more than I trust Microsoft. I'll agree that C# started out more proprietary in flavor, but that doesn't mean it will end up that way.
Are you expecting C# to become less proprietary or Java to become more? And you are quite right to not trust Oracle. The worst thing to happen to Java was giving it to Oracle. Sun wasn't perfect but they meant well.
I gave FB 555-1212 as my phone number. If someone wants to contact me, FB provides lots of ways for people I know to get in touch or request I "friend" them so they can.
Cheers, Dave
I didn't give them any phone number and the email address is only used for facebook.
Still, this is a pretty serious permissions flaw. Users that are not privileged to see information should not be able to search for it either.
Quite true, but it is difficult to distinguish the two prior to maturity. Normal 20 year old's are not perceptively aged either. They are in their prime. No parts of their bodies have noticeably declined. It would be much more instructive to check up this little girl when she is 30 or, better yet, 40.
If people didn't die of old age, I suspect that we'd see far less brutal rulers rising up. Getting shot or assassinated in a political revolution seems like a good gamble when at worst you're throwing away another 30 or 40 years for a chance at ruling. It changes things when you're gambling away hundreds or thousands of years for some shiny trinkets and a nice house.
Far less new brutal rulers, perhaps. But the risk is the same or worse for those who would rise up against existing brutal rulers.
Mostly, though, I think it will mean fewer despots. Despots stay in power partly through brutality but at least as much through controlling information. But no control is perfect and it becomes harder to stay in power when your entire population consists of people old enough to remember cases where you told them lies and they knew better.
There is no such thing as universal efficiency. A device/design is efficient if it uses less of whatever you desire to conserve. A rocket that is more mass efficient or more fuel efficient may not be cost efficient.
The footage was part of the probes' final systems check before they shut down and were sent into a controlled impact to a predetermined location.
Why shut anything down? Granted, they may not be able to see much since the impact was on the night side but I don't see what harm there could be in keeping the camera rolling until it's explosive decommissioning.
Now you go online, select a partner, and you are immediately dating someone who is at least interested in you. Of course online dating is still work, but the emotional labor and risk of failure has been significantly reduced.
Methinks TFA is complaining about a problem that doesn't actually exist. At least from the male perspective, online dating has a great deal of friction.
You can't just select a partner and immediately start dating them. You need to message them. It better be good or they don't respond. Actually, they probably won't respond even if it is good.
You need to do this over and over again until you get a response.
After you get a response, you need to carry about a conversion for a little while until you can arrange a first date. Most will stop replying before you reach that stage.
Only after you've met and your date hasn't stood you up or canceled at the last minute for no reason are you dating. Everything before that is just a headache.
The market has just as much friction as before. It has just moved from the finding to the getting part. It's like shopping online where there are many shops selling but hardly have stock and none will tell you one way or the other until after you've filled out a detailed order form.
Though Apple is exceptionally good at balancing nice and cost.
No, Foxconn is. Sweatshops tend to do that.
Sweatshops are a tool. At Apple's direction, Foxconn builds nice products at manageable prices. For most other vendors, Foxconn builds cheap pieces of shit. I first heard about Foxconn (long before they became well know as Apple's factory) because they were the ones producing really awful motherboards for Dell.
Repeat until you understand: 'There is no such thing as permanent employment.'
True, but there is a world of difference in what you can plan if the interval is 20 years vs 2 years vs 2 months.
At two months, you are always selling, which is a whole job unto itself (often a hated one) on top of the "real" job. At two years, you never forget about the selling but you don't have to deal with it all the time. Makes it hard to make long term commitments though. At 20 years, long term commitments are pretty easy and you can actually forget about selling. This can be a problem when it actually ends.
A year and half in simulated mars mission where you know it is a simulation has to be worse. In a real Mars mission, the crew will be know their activities are important: for the excitement to be first on mars, for the knowledge that a serious screw up could them their lives. On a simulated mission, you're just guinea pigs. Staying motivated must very difficult.
TIOBE programming community index is a measure of popularity of programming languages, calculated from number of search engine results for queries containing the name of the language. [1] The index covers searches in Google, Google Blogs, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube.
So it isn't really about usage then.
Bash gets a lot of hits because it is a popular shell, not because so many people want to program in it.
C gets some lift because of so many C-like languages and C bindings used by people are not necessarily programming in C.
This doesn't seem very enlightening. If small guts are normally selected against and you specifically breed them, providing they also have large brains, it should come as no surprise that your large brained guppies have smaller guts on average. If all the large brained guppies have smaller guts then brain size and gut size are probably controlled by the same genes: in guppies. That's interesting but not very general.
I would be more interested to see if they could genetically engineer guppies with large brains and normal size guts and see if they are competitive with their unenhanced cousins. Alternatively, but less conclusively, they could attempt to breed large brained guppies with normal sized guts. A negative result would suggest that either this combination of traits either can not be encoded or does not survive if encoded. How well understood is the guppy genome?
I run a script that moves all email to . I start the year with a clean mailbox. This allows me to keep nearly two decades of email without drowning in it. I do the same with my apache logs but I don't need a script for that.
but had the keyboard dangling off the screen. They were fairly close to the same size and weight at the end of the day, and the tablets turned out to be quite a bit better for the couch-web.
We don't care about a desolate place that will require sinking great wads of cash into it, unless there's oil, rare earths and minerals, or our IP has been infringed.
"We" didn't care then either. We cared about one-uping the Soviets. Once we had landed on the moon and determined that the Soviets weren't going to try to top it, we lost interest.
Apollo was never about science, exploration, or the opening of a frontier. It was a multi-billion dollar cold war publicity stunt that stole the thunder from the real pioneers that are still to come.
What's inefficient? My house needs both light and heat. 100% efficiency as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, but for *heat*, 100% efficiency from an electrical source is not the end. Any heat not supplied by lighting can be made up for with a heat pump ( > 100% efficiency) or direct heating from fossil fuel ( saves the losses in converting heat to mechanical energy and then to electrical energy). Waste heat from industrial uses can sometimes be used to. It's not hot enough for effective power generation but it is enough to heat a house.
Once you have that 'or equivalent' it doesn't matter. I never did cobble together a degree despite several years of college (changed majors a lot). I've held jobs that 'required' everything from a BS in CS to MIS and/or an MBA. Nobody ever asked questions.
Of course they didn't. Employers seldom interview applicants if they have issues with their credentials. The resume is simply tossed in the round file. Before concluding that it doesn't matter, you need to consider the employers that declined to give your an interview or even to respond to your application.
Because in the USA, at least, you can't patent an interface. You can patent all sorts of other stuff, but interface patents are one of the few things you can't patent? That's why AMD and Compaq were able to waltz in and kick IBM's and Intel's ass when it came to pin-socket compatible PC's.
Exactly! It's so great being able to use AMD processors in Intel motherboards!
Oh, wait... That hasn't be true for about 15 years. 'Ever since Intel started patenting their CPU sockets.
I'm assuming there will be some sort of bulk discount for businesses.
Probably, but there shouldn't be. If you are charging a fee to limit abuse then the last thing you should do is give a discount to the largest abusers. I have the same issue with domain registrars that give bulk discounts.
It's funny that so many people talk about how Apple should allow you to chose a browser or mail client (which would be useful) but then claim it's pointless or unnecessary to have a map where you can chose the best application to give you transit directions. Why should that area be immune from letting third parties do a better job, especially when it's just not possible to do the best job for every city across the globe?
Unlike Apple, Google doesn't block third party apps that compete with its own services and there *are* third party mapping programs on Android.
I do tend to wonder, if Google Maps is so pivotal to the widespread adoption of iOS 6, would we begin to see a lot of people moving toward Android phones if Google removed their maps from the iOS App Store?
We might, but Google is under significant anti-trust scrutiny so I doubt they would actually try it. I also doubt that it would be in Google's interest. Google doesn't make much (if anything) off of Android. Its purpose is to funnel mobile users to Google services like Google Maps.
Dogs can be trained to do a lot of things, and therefore can be very "useful". So people feed them.
Cats almost can't be trained, they sleep or play around the whole day. An yet people feed them as well.
Which is more intelligent, cats or dogs?
Contrary to most current applications, both cats and dogs were domesticated because they were useful. Dogs could be trained to do many useful things and breads were developed for various tasks. Cats were most useful doing what they would normally do anyway: catch and eat rodents. The only training required was to not run away from or be a menace to humans.
Could cats have been bred to be more trainable? Probably, but that wasn't there role then and it certainly isn't now.
For only $550M, why didn't Google buy the patents? That's pocket change for them (even for Sergey personally), and I'm sure Android infringes on one or more of the patents. Google could indemnify all Android manufacturers and software developers.
Probably because it wouldn't be $550M if Google tried to buy them exclusively. It would start a bidding war where, if they won, they would end up paying much more, and if they lost would mean that they would get sued for infringement by the winner. Buying in a group is cheaper and it keeps the patents from being used as weapons, at least between the partners.
It's generally bad practice to have more than one key for a certain domain. That's why you need to revocate the old one. In fact, many security extensions for browsers will WARN YOU if a key suddenly changes for a website you've been to before.
In any case, you should have backups of your private keys so you can't loose them - actually, you can make the backups before you even ask startssl to sign them.
I don't see what the big deal is. They charge you if you need a revocation. 1) All the other trusted candidates charge you for the certificate in first place. 2) Loosing a private key is not something that usually happens.
You would not need a revocation if they had an appropriate recovery mechanism but they don't. A free service invites experimentation but StartSSL service seems designed to trap experimental users so that they have to pay for a service that is advertised as free. Losing a cert is really easy if you are just playing with the service and haven't actually put it into production yet. The trap is that now you can't!
Look at CACert.org. They don't have this problem. They have robust recovery mechanisms. They are totally free and their service has been around longer than StartSSL. Maybe that's why. CACert is a free service. StartSSL is a tease for pay services.
Revocation has a cost because it adds an overhead for everyone. Revocation would also be necesary in case of a very severe security breach, in which case, 25USD will probably be the least of your problems.
Did you really mean "Also" or did you mean "only"? Revocations are needed any time the key has been compromised or simply lost. Unlike CACert, which permits login authentication and means for password recovery, StartSSL only allows a key file. Lose the key file, even at the playing around stage, and you will find that it is now impossible to use StartSSL for your server without paying $25 for a revocation.
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I don't trust Oracle any more than I trust Microsoft. I'll agree that C# started out more proprietary in flavor, but that doesn't mean it will end up that way.
Are you expecting C# to become less proprietary or Java to become more? And you are quite right to not trust Oracle. The worst thing to happen to Java was giving it to Oracle. Sun wasn't perfect but they meant well.
I gave FB 555-1212 as my phone number. If someone wants to contact me, FB provides lots of ways for people I know to get in touch or request I "friend" them so they can.
Cheers,
Dave
I didn't give them any phone number and the email address is only used for facebook.
Still, this is a pretty serious permissions flaw. Users that are not privileged to see information should not be able to search for it either.
!growing != !aging
Quite true, but it is difficult to distinguish the two prior to maturity. Normal 20 year old's are not perceptively aged either. They are in their prime. No parts of their bodies have noticeably declined. It would be much more instructive to check up this little girl when she is 30 or, better yet, 40.
If people didn't die of old age, I suspect that we'd see far less brutal rulers rising up. Getting shot or assassinated in a political revolution seems like a good gamble when at worst you're throwing away another 30 or 40 years for a chance at ruling. It changes things when you're gambling away hundreds or thousands of years for some shiny trinkets and a nice house.
Far less new brutal rulers, perhaps. But the risk is the same or worse for those who would rise up against existing brutal rulers.
Mostly, though, I think it will mean fewer despots. Despots stay in power partly through brutality but at least as much through controlling information. But no control is perfect and it becomes harder to stay in power when your entire population consists of people old enough to remember cases where you told them lies and they knew better.
I'm not an expert on rockets, and don't know if your comment is true or hyperbole. But it seems that the more modern designs costs 2x or more what SpaceX does to get to LEO. How can such a horribly inefficient design cost so much less to fly?
There is no such thing as universal efficiency. A device/design is efficient if it uses less of whatever you desire to conserve. A rocket that is more mass efficient or more fuel efficient may not be cost efficient.
The footage was part of the probes' final systems check before they shut down and were sent into a controlled impact to a predetermined location.
Why shut anything down? Granted, they may not be able to see much since the impact was on the night side but I don't see what harm there could be in keeping the camera rolling until it's explosive decommissioning.
Now you go online, select a partner, and you are immediately dating someone who is at least interested in you. Of course online dating is still work, but the emotional labor and risk of failure has been significantly reduced.
Methinks TFA is complaining about a problem that doesn't actually exist. At least from the male perspective, online dating has a great deal of friction.
You can't just select a partner and immediately start dating them. You need to message them. It better be good or they don't respond. Actually, they probably won't respond even if it is good.
You need to do this over and over again until you get a response.
After you get a response, you need to carry about a conversion for a little while until you can arrange a first date. Most will stop replying before you reach that stage.
Only after you've met and your date hasn't stood you up or canceled at the last minute for no reason are you dating. Everything before that is just a headache.
The market has just as much friction as before. It has just moved from the finding to the getting part. It's like shopping online where there are many shops selling but hardly have stock and none will tell you one way or the other until after you've filled out a detailed order form.
Though Apple is exceptionally good at balancing nice and cost.
No, Foxconn is. Sweatshops tend to do that.
Sweatshops are a tool. At Apple's direction, Foxconn builds nice products at manageable prices. For most other vendors, Foxconn builds cheap pieces of shit. I first heard about Foxconn (long before they became well know as Apple's factory) because they were the ones producing really awful motherboards for Dell.
Repeat until you understand: 'There is no such thing as permanent employment.'
True, but there is a world of difference in what you can plan if the interval is 20 years vs 2 years vs 2 months.
At two months, you are always selling, which is a whole job unto itself (often a hated one) on top of the "real" job.
At two years, you never forget about the selling but you don't have to deal with it all the time. Makes it hard to make long term commitments though.
At 20 years, long term commitments are pretty easy and you can actually forget about selling. This can be a problem when it actually ends.
A year and half in simulated mars mission where you know it is a simulation has to be worse. In a real Mars mission, the crew will be know their activities are important: for the excitement to be first on mars, for the knowledge that a serious screw up could them their lives. On a simulated mission, you're just guinea pigs. Staying motivated must very difficult.
So it isn't really about usage then.
Bash gets a lot of hits because it is a popular shell, not because so many people want to program in it.
C gets some lift because of so many C-like languages and C bindings used by people are not necessarily programming in C.
This doesn't seem very enlightening. If small guts are normally selected against and you specifically breed them, providing they also have large brains, it should come as no surprise that your large brained guppies have smaller guts on average. If all the large brained guppies have smaller guts then brain size and gut size are probably controlled by the same genes: in guppies. That's interesting but not very general.
I would be more interested to see if they could genetically engineer guppies with large brains and normal size guts and see if they are competitive with their unenhanced cousins. Alternatively, but less conclusively, they could attempt to breed large brained guppies with normal sized guts. A negative result would suggest that either this combination of traits either can not be encoded or does not survive if encoded. How well understood is the guppy genome?
I run email on my own server.
I run a script that moves all email to . I start the year with a clean mailbox. This allows me to keep nearly two decades of email without drowning in it.
I do the same with my apache logs but I don't need a script for that.
but had the keyboard dangling off the screen. They were fairly close to the same size and weight at the end of the day, and the tablets turned out to be quite a bit better for the couch-web.
The 7" models, yes but an eepc 900 had a closely matched screen and keyboard. The keyboard was just smaller.
(and harder to type on)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00191PKJK?in=2&is=l&ref_=aw_d_iv_pc
I have an eepc 900 as well as an 1005ha (10.1" screen). The 1005ha is huge compared to the 900. I can hold the 900 in one hand and type with the other. Not happening with the 1005ha.
http://www.slashgear.com/asus-eee-pc-1005ha-m-1005ha-h-announced-1543954/
Priorities.
We don't care about a desolate place that will require sinking great wads of cash into it, unless there's oil, rare earths and minerals, or our IP has been infringed.
"We" didn't care then either. We cared about one-uping the Soviets. Once we had landed on the moon and determined that the Soviets weren't going to try to top it, we lost interest.
Apollo was never about science, exploration, or the opening of a frontier. It was a multi-billion dollar cold war publicity stunt that stole the thunder from the real pioneers that are still to come.
What's inefficient? My house needs both light and heat. 100% efficiency as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, but for *heat*, 100% efficiency from an electrical source is not the end. Any heat not supplied by lighting can be made up for with a heat pump ( > 100% efficiency) or direct heating from fossil fuel ( saves the losses in converting heat to mechanical energy and then to electrical energy). Waste heat from industrial uses can sometimes be used to. It's not hot enough for effective power generation but it is enough to heat a house.
Once you have that 'or equivalent' it doesn't matter. I never did cobble together a degree despite several years of college (changed majors a lot). I've held jobs that 'required' everything from a BS in CS to MIS and/or an MBA. Nobody ever asked questions.
Of course they didn't. Employers seldom interview applicants if they have issues with their credentials. The resume is simply tossed in the round file. Before concluding that it doesn't matter, you need to consider the employers that declined to give your an interview or even to respond to your application.
Because in the USA, at least, you can't patent an interface. You can patent all sorts of other stuff, but interface patents are one of the few things you can't patent? That's why AMD and Compaq were able to waltz in and kick IBM's and Intel's ass when it came to pin-socket compatible PC's.
Exactly! It's so great being able to use AMD processors in Intel motherboards!
Oh, wait... That hasn't be true for about 15 years. 'Ever since Intel started patenting their CPU sockets.
I'm assuming there will be some sort of bulk discount for businesses.
Probably, but there shouldn't be. If you are charging a fee to limit abuse then the last thing you should do is give a discount to the largest abusers. I have the same issue with domain registrars that give bulk discounts.
It's funny that so many people talk about how Apple should allow you to chose a browser or mail client (which would be useful) but then claim it's pointless or unnecessary to have a map where you can chose the best application to give you transit directions. Why should that area be immune from letting third parties do a better job, especially when it's just not possible to do the best job for every city across the globe?
Unlike Apple, Google doesn't block third party apps that compete with its own services and there *are* third party mapping programs on Android.
I do tend to wonder, if Google Maps is so pivotal to the widespread adoption of iOS 6, would we begin to see a lot of people moving toward Android phones if Google removed their maps from the iOS App Store?
We might, but Google is under significant anti-trust scrutiny so I doubt they would actually try it. I also doubt that it would be in Google's interest. Google doesn't make much (if anything) off of Android. Its purpose is to funnel mobile users to Google services like Google Maps.
Let's start with something easy: cats vs. dogs.
Dogs can be trained to do a lot of things, and therefore can be very "useful". So people feed them.
Cats almost can't be trained, they sleep or play around the whole day. An yet people feed them as well.
Which is more intelligent, cats or dogs?
Contrary to most current applications, both cats and dogs were domesticated because they were useful. Dogs could be trained to do many useful things and breads were developed for various tasks. Cats were most useful doing what they would normally do anyway: catch and eat rodents. The only training required was to not run away from or be a menace to humans.
Could cats have been bred to be more trainable? Probably, but that wasn't there role then and it certainly isn't now.
For only $550M, why didn't Google buy the patents? That's pocket change for them (even for Sergey personally), and I'm sure Android infringes on one or more of the patents. Google could indemnify all Android manufacturers and software developers.
Probably because it wouldn't be $550M if Google tried to buy them exclusively. It would start a bidding war where, if they won, they would end up paying much more, and if they lost would mean that they would get sued for infringement by the winner. Buying in a group is cheaper and it keeps the patents from being used as weapons, at least between the partners.
It's generally bad practice to have more than one key for a certain domain. That's why you need to revocate the old one.
In fact, many security extensions for browsers will WARN YOU if a key suddenly changes for a website you've been to before.
In any case, you should have backups of your private keys so you can't loose them - actually, you can make the backups before you even ask startssl to sign them.
I don't see what the big deal is. They charge you if you need a revocation.
1) All the other trusted candidates charge you for the certificate in first place.
2) Loosing a private key is not something that usually happens.
You would not need a revocation if they had an appropriate recovery mechanism but they don't. A free service invites experimentation but StartSSL service seems designed to trap experimental users so that they have to pay for a service that is advertised as free. Losing a cert is really easy if you are just playing with the service and haven't actually put it into production yet. The trap is that now you can't!
Look at CACert.org. They don't have this problem. They have robust recovery mechanisms. They are totally free and their service has been around longer than StartSSL. Maybe that's why. CACert is a free service. StartSSL is a tease for pay services.
Revocation has a cost because it adds an overhead for everyone. Revocation would also be necesary in case of a very severe security breach, in which case, 25USD will probably be the least of your problems.
Did you really mean "Also" or did you mean "only"? Revocations are needed any time the key has been compromised or simply lost. Unlike CACert, which permits login authentication and means for password recovery, StartSSL only allows a key file. Lose the key file, even at the playing around stage, and you will find that it is now impossible to use StartSSL for your server without paying $25 for a revocation.