Any cloud app requires a round-trip to the server and back in order to do anything which requires saving what you have right now as an intereim step. Usually that's something like 200ms, which any gamer will tell you is extremely perceptible.
On the flip side, any desktop app with more than about 200ms lag between clicking a button and obviously doing something is frustrating and ought to be supplanted by THE CLOUD.
...is probably a combination of the fact that Linux doesn't have a huge userbase, and the fact that the Mozilla foundation thinks it can just shunt this work over to the F/OSS community. After all, GNU/Linux devs are significantly more likely to work on making something compatible with the OS than Windows or Mac devs.
So basically, the Mozilla foundation is giving GNU/Linux a big "fuck you" because "someone will implement the functionality for free EVENTUALLY".
Yeah that is sad. I always wanted those, but never got them because my family didn't have the dollars to allocate to me getting stuff like that. Video games seemed like a better proposition, time-wise, especially because my elder brother liked the vidyas too. That's why I'm a programmer, not an engineer.
I was using this package to track absolutely everything I ate. Its advice was always to eat absurd amounts of fish flakes because fish flakes had something that it thought I was low in. Iron, maybe? So whenever I would be winding down my day and I would ask it what to eat, it would always be something like a pound of dried herring flakes.
I wonder if that's this book's conclusion. The last page just goes something like this:
Yeah, uh, the issue here is that people who don't do vaccinations are doing a disservice not just to themselves, but to me and mine. I don't want to worry about my kids getting something terrible from a third-world nation just because the kids who went out on a mission trip didn't get vaccinated by their parents.
Haven't seen him in person since high school, honestly. Good ol' Facebook with the Facebook 'friends' and suchlike.
Punching someone with a strong belief in something only strengthens their belief. I'd much prefer to convince them that it doesn't matter as much as they think, and then change their belief through reason once all that pesky emotion is out of the way. One asshole science-person counteracts hundreds of completely fine science-people.
That said, if I had kids, I would give him a fucking piece of my mind, because I don't want their god damn disease-ridden kids getting my kids sick. And aside from that, anti-vaccine people treat autism like it's some sort of death sentence. Like any autistic person is instantly a pariah. It's the more subtle douchery of anti-vaccine people.
...they're just usually not the right ones. For example, the token anti-vaccine person I know rails first about vaccines. Then, if pressed, he will say that the issue is the mercury. Then, if pressed more, he will say some specific compound involving mercury such as thimerosal.
The point is, people can fixate on names all day. It's people's tribalism that's the problem. If one person has a terrible problem with one doctor, that means that he or she will tell all of his or her friends that doctors are bad, and science is bad, and that home birth is the ONLY WAY. And then he or she will go out in search of anecdotes and outlier studies to support his or her claim.
And yes. There will be studies to support any claim. This is why news sources need to slap their sources' confidence intervals right next to any reporting done on studies, ever.
I know that in general, Windows comes subsidized on computers, and you can bet your ass that manufacturers aren't going to put non-media-enabled versions on there. If the DVD drive doesn't work right, the people who sold the computer are going to get the flak, not the guys who made the mysterious "Operating-System".
The people who will pay for this are the companies who do volume licensing, as usual.
Uh, in this case I don't really think it's hyperbole. If Oracle wins this lawsuit, then programmers are universally fucked. Do you know how much stuff Oracle owns? And do you know how many companies Oracle could buy?
The point is that when people are listening to CDs or MP3s, they're not JUST listening to them. They're cleaning, playing video games, exercising, driving, or any one of a multitude of activities which don't require 100% of your ears. Hell, I've listened to music while working at a call center before. 99% of situations in which people would have music are not situations in which live music is applicable.
The article says you just need to enter their skype username - does this mean that it works for even people who are offline? I know that I have at least one or two pseudonyms I've used for voice-chat while playing vidya games. If it does work for offline people, that would mean Skype is keeping logs of most-recent IP addresses.
Service seems to be down right now, so there's no way for me to test it.
Remember, "theorized to have" probably means something more like "we got some motherfuckin' mathematical models which say that this shit got all kindsa properties like".
I am a CS person. I work at a major university doing programming. So, when I'm at home, I rate my time at something like $10 per hour. So, especially since I get Windows for free, I need to value my time at how much I am willing to pay for an education in the Linuxes.
For a long time I had a Debian install. It took me about $100 in time to get wireless working flawlessly on it.
Then I had an Ubuntu install. It worked out-of-the-box with my wireless card, but it still cost about $10 per week in time, switching back and forth between OSes. If we consider the fact that distractions (like switching to a different partition to get at a program I need to do the fun-work I am doing) cost about 15 minutes of time, it jumps up to maybe $50 per week.
After I got World of Warcraft working in Wine, the time-money saved from not playing WoW vanished. I was just costing myself time-money. I decided to take the $20 hit to figure out how to put Windows at the top of GRUB's startup screen and went back to using Windows 7.
If I want to use Linux, I slap it inside of a virtual machine and go from there. And screw Unity. Screw it in its bevel-edged asshole.
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This summer -
Too long have the Chinese taken our good, American jobs. The time has come for Anonymous Coward to go to China...
AND TAKE.
THEM.
BACK.
(Coming to theaters Summer 2012.)
Any cloud app requires a round-trip to the server and back in order to do anything which requires saving what you have right now as an intereim step. Usually that's something like 200ms, which any gamer will tell you is extremely perceptible.
On the flip side, any desktop app with more than about 200ms lag between clicking a button and obviously doing something is frustrating and ought to be supplanted by THE CLOUD.
I mean, why is Valve giving IPv4 so much more steam? Is this a sale thing or something like that?
Well, that site does happen to be 25% of all internet traffic in the US as of a year and a half ago. http://mashable.com/2010/11/19/facebook-traffic-stats/
...is probably a combination of the fact that Linux doesn't have a huge userbase, and the fact that the Mozilla foundation thinks it can just shunt this work over to the F/OSS community. After all, GNU/Linux devs are significantly more likely to work on making something compatible with the OS than Windows or Mac devs.
So basically, the Mozilla foundation is giving GNU/Linux a big "fuck you" because "someone will implement the functionality for free EVENTUALLY".
I'm not gonna lie, I really want to see this get up to (+5, Troll).
Yeah that is sad. I always wanted those, but never got them because my family didn't have the dollars to allocate to me getting stuff like that. Video games seemed like a better proposition, time-wise, especially because my elder brother liked the vidyas too. That's why I'm a programmer, not an engineer.
I guess that it runs on Mana, if Ethernet can restore it to full power.
For serious though, this is pretty cool, although I wonder how this standard holds up when under load.
That was Rand Paul in that article you linked, by the way. They are not the same person.
I was using this package to track absolutely everything I ate. Its advice was always to eat absurd amounts of fish flakes because fish flakes had something that it thought I was low in. Iron, maybe? So whenever I would be winding down my day and I would ask it what to eat, it would always be something like a pound of dried herring flakes.
I wonder if that's this book's conclusion. The last page just goes something like this:
"tl;dr: eat pounds of fish flakes"
'The Israeli law is paternalistic in that it prohibits something because of the effect it might have on others in the longer term.'
Isn't this the reason we have warnings on boxes of cigarettes?
Yeah, uh, the issue here is that people who don't do vaccinations are doing a disservice not just to themselves, but to me and mine. I don't want to worry about my kids getting something terrible from a third-world nation just because the kids who went out on a mission trip didn't get vaccinated by their parents.
Haven't seen him in person since high school, honestly. Good ol' Facebook with the Facebook 'friends' and suchlike.
Punching someone with a strong belief in something only strengthens their belief. I'd much prefer to convince them that it doesn't matter as much as they think, and then change their belief through reason once all that pesky emotion is out of the way. One asshole science-person counteracts hundreds of completely fine science-people.
That said, if I had kids, I would give him a fucking piece of my mind, because I don't want their god damn disease-ridden kids getting my kids sick. And aside from that, anti-vaccine people treat autism like it's some sort of death sentence. Like any autistic person is instantly a pariah. It's the more subtle douchery of anti-vaccine people.
...they're just usually not the right ones. For example, the token anti-vaccine person I know rails first about vaccines. Then, if pressed, he will say that the issue is the mercury. Then, if pressed more, he will say some specific compound involving mercury such as thimerosal.
The point is, people can fixate on names all day. It's people's tribalism that's the problem. If one person has a terrible problem with one doctor, that means that he or she will tell all of his or her friends that doctors are bad, and science is bad, and that home birth is the ONLY WAY. And then he or she will go out in search of anecdotes and outlier studies to support his or her claim.
And yes. There will be studies to support any claim. This is why news sources need to slap their sources' confidence intervals right next to any reporting done on studies, ever.
I think the idea might be to create something which can be inherited, rather than something that has to be implanted.
Granted - this is still a bullshit change. But in implementation it won't end up significantly diffierent from how things currently are.
I know that in general, Windows comes subsidized on computers, and you can bet your ass that manufacturers aren't going to put non-media-enabled versions on there. If the DVD drive doesn't work right, the people who sold the computer are going to get the flak, not the guys who made the mysterious "Operating-System".
The people who will pay for this are the companies who do volume licensing, as usual.
Not streak to iPad. Stream. Streaking to iPad would require cleaning supplies at the point of impact.
..."Why the hell did it take you this long?"
Zuckerburg already allowed my app on his page, so I've already got all the info of him and his friends.
Uh, in this case I don't really think it's hyperbole. If Oracle wins this lawsuit, then programmers are universally fucked. Do you know how much stuff Oracle owns? And do you know how many companies Oracle could buy?
The point is that when people are listening to CDs or MP3s, they're not JUST listening to them. They're cleaning, playing video games, exercising, driving, or any one of a multitude of activities which don't require 100% of your ears. Hell, I've listened to music while working at a call center before. 99% of situations in which people would have music are not situations in which live music is applicable.
tl;dr: You trollin'.
The article says you just need to enter their skype username - does this mean that it works for even people who are offline? I know that I have at least one or two pseudonyms I've used for voice-chat while playing vidya games. If it does work for offline people, that would mean Skype is keeping logs of most-recent IP addresses.
Service seems to be down right now, so there's no way for me to test it.
Remember, "theorized to have" probably means something more like "we got some motherfuckin' mathematical models which say that this shit got all kindsa properties like".
I am a CS person. I work at a major university doing programming. So, when I'm at home, I rate my time at something like $10 per hour. So, especially since I get Windows for free, I need to value my time at how much I am willing to pay for an education in the Linuxes.
For a long time I had a Debian install. It took me about $100 in time to get wireless working flawlessly on it.
Then I had an Ubuntu install. It worked out-of-the-box with my wireless card, but it still cost about $10 per week in time, switching back and forth between OSes. If we consider the fact that distractions (like switching to a different partition to get at a program I need to do the fun-work I am doing) cost about 15 minutes of time, it jumps up to maybe $50 per week.
After I got World of Warcraft working in Wine, the time-money saved from not playing WoW vanished. I was just costing myself time-money. I decided to take the $20 hit to figure out how to put Windows at the top of GRUB's startup screen and went back to using Windows 7.
If I want to use Linux, I slap it inside of a virtual machine and go from there. And screw Unity. Screw it in its bevel-edged asshole.