Its 2011 and (big surprise) there are still problems with IE's implementation of HTML. This has been going on since IE3 (and probably before). I think we can safely say at this point that the problem is the company and will probably never change. As they say, the day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.
"We just thought nobody cared too much having it Open, since there were no contributions in almost 10 years." --Dragos MANAC
This is exactly one thing that open source licensing is supposed to help the user with. Old programs that have been abandoned by the company or developer are not a closed vault. It is still possible to go back and for instance see how a file format was laid out or fix a long standing bug.
I should note that right now the image processing is turned off because it was just burning CPU and wasn't working well in the winter. I wrote the algorithms based on spring and summer images.;-) During those times, its was probably about 80-90% accurate during the day.
I made that early last year. Doesn't work as well in low light but mostly during the day it works pretty well. The winter has screwed it up because of the lower sun angle.
By theory on why they do it before the end of the year is that doing it at the beginning of the year wouldn't be forward thinking nor as positive so readers wouldn't warm up to it as much. Hence all the new years resolutions. Kinda demonstrates how unscientific thinking the general public is. Those year end wrap ups aren't really meant to be a comprehensive list so much as something to warm your heart.
True, but it looks like in Japan they have targeted specific areas of interest with Street View. For instance, off the path of the normal street view area, there area single pictures of things like shrines, etc. I don't see one in Fukuoka (what a great name for this story), so perhaps they removed it. If they directly took a single shot of her underwear and that was the only picture in that area, I'd say that crosses the line into public humiliation.
I think 2010 has obviously been the break away year for Internet appliances like Bluray players with Youtube/Pandora/SocialFoobar built in. If the Internet is ever going to break, it might happen this holiday season with all the extra streaming.
I can confirm that EMC has the same vulnerability. I nearly shit my pants when I saw a semi-sales type come in to show us some management tool and he connected to our million dollar SAN with his program without us giving him any credentials. When I noticed that he didn't have to use a password, he said it wasn't a big deal because nobody has access to that program. Typical moron. Shame on EMC. Shame on IBM. Shame on HP. You all suck and have monkeys working for you.
Not really. I used to work for an ISP for 7 years that dealt in both DSL and Cable (don't ask how). I know the technologies behind DSL and Cable modems and know that the design of DSL usually wins out in situations where lots of people are online in the same area. Most people don't understand this and only pay attention to the marketing and data rates. For many years I had either direct ethernet, high speed wireless link,DSL and fiber to the home. So I wanted to try cable out to see how it was because all the marketing and clueless people making claims can really confuse the issue. I'm just familiarizing myself with my industry so that I have first hand experience when I give others advice. There is nothing wrong or sadomasochistic about that.
From what I've heard about their infrastructure staff at a few conferences, they seem somewhat competent as they've been into IPv6 and DNSSEC from an early stage (doesn't always mean anything though). It is 10Gbits which is impressive, but I can't believe thats their only link out. They have tens of millions using their internet service right? How can it only be 10Gbits?
For the record, I am a comcast customer now (for only 2 months now) and I do agree it sucks balls compared to the fiber to the house I had before. But I also deliberately chose to go with cable internet for the first time because I wanted my own real experience to back up my suspicions instead of just angry posts by random people on forums.
The company I work for during the day actually uses an archaic system with terminal menus and command line commands that are named in all capital letters. They use the caps lock key excessively. I've seen other systems like this in use for inventory systems at stores and warehouses too. You probably have as well.
As much as I hate the caps lock key (reassigned mine to be an extra Esc), I just submitted a bug on Chrome that it doesn't have a command line --geometry option, which I consider a pseudo standard thing for X apps. I can't help but see that Google is going from the mostly standards compliant company they once were to becoming a Microsoft as far as following standards goes. I'm sure there are other examples people will bring up and maybe a comment along the lines of "They were never standards compliant".
This is sure to shut up all those naysayers who accuse NASA of being a waste of resources...
Apparently they have a invested in a pretty good network though. I was surprised that the video stream didn't cut out at all considering that there could be tens of thousands if not more watching.
leshan, I understand the point of your argument and I've heard others make this case. It certainly sounds logical, but it seems to forget the fact that the governments (all of them) should be to the point of serving their people. Even when we are being diplomatic with other countries, the point is usually to help their people (not their government) or to help our people. The point of view that the government should have secrets that should be kept from everyone seems like you think the government should exist as a separate entity with its own self interests and that really couldn't be any further from the founding doctrines of most of today's democracies.
Obviously governments have major things to hide. Obviously. And obviously what is said to the public can be in complete disagreement with what really happens. But I think its good to unravel all that once in a while so that you can reset the board and we can all really see what is going on. Otherwise its too hard for the citizens to know what is up and what is down.
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Its 2011 and (big surprise) there are still problems with IE's implementation of HTML. This has been going on since IE3 (and probably before). I think we can safely say at this point that the problem is the company and will probably never change. As they say, the day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.
"We just thought nobody cared too much having it Open, since there were no contributions in almost 10 years." --Dragos MANAC
This is exactly one thing that open source licensing is supposed to help the user with. Old programs that have been abandoned by the company or developer are not a closed vault. It is still possible to go back and for instance see how a file format was laid out or fix a long standing bug.
How many cores will Total require? Probably just 1 right?
I should note that right now the image processing is turned off because it was just burning CPU and wasn't working well in the winter. I wrote the algorithms based on spring and summer images. ;-) During those times, its was probably about 80-90% accurate during the day.
Like this?
I made that early last year. Doesn't work as well in low light but mostly during the day it works pretty well. The winter has screwed it up because of the lower sun angle.
Basil?
Oregon = state
Oregano = seasoning
By theory on why they do it before the end of the year is that doing it at the beginning of the year wouldn't be forward thinking nor as positive so readers wouldn't warm up to it as much. Hence all the new years resolutions. Kinda demonstrates how unscientific thinking the general public is. Those year end wrap ups aren't really meant to be a comprehensive list so much as something to warm your heart.
Oregon?
Apparently this article was published too soon. Those year end reviews should include the last few weeks of the year before.
True, but it looks like in Japan they have targeted specific areas of interest with Street View. For instance, off the path of the normal street view area, there area single pictures of things like shrines, etc. I don't see one in Fukuoka (what a great name for this story), so perhaps they removed it. If they directly took a single shot of her underwear and that was the only picture in that area, I'd say that crosses the line into public humiliation.
I know that, but I just wish the general public could see the big iron spikes that are on the side of the golden road of consumerism.
Wouldn't it be ironic if later stores started banning phone use in stores?
I think 2010 has obviously been the break away year for Internet appliances like Bluray players with Youtube/Pandora/SocialFoobar built in. If the Internet is ever going to break, it might happen this holiday season with all the extra streaming.
I can confirm that EMC has the same vulnerability. I nearly shit my pants when I saw a semi-sales type come in to show us some management tool and he connected to our million dollar SAN with his program without us giving him any credentials. When I noticed that he didn't have to use a password, he said it wasn't a big deal because nobody has access to that program. Typical moron. Shame on EMC. Shame on IBM. Shame on HP. You all suck and have monkeys working for you.
SANs are a huge waste of money IMHO.
Not really. I used to work for an ISP for 7 years that dealt in both DSL and Cable (don't ask how). I know the technologies behind DSL and Cable modems and know that the design of DSL usually wins out in situations where lots of people are online in the same area. Most people don't understand this and only pay attention to the marketing and data rates. For many years I had either direct ethernet, high speed wireless link,DSL and fiber to the home. So I wanted to try cable out to see how it was because all the marketing and clueless people making claims can really confuse the issue. I'm just familiarizing myself with my industry so that I have first hand experience when I give others advice. There is nothing wrong or sadomasochistic about that.
From what I've heard about their infrastructure staff at a few conferences, they seem somewhat competent as they've been into IPv6 and DNSSEC from an early stage (doesn't always mean anything though). It is 10Gbits which is impressive, but I can't believe thats their only link out. They have tens of millions using their internet service right? How can it only be 10Gbits?
For the record, I am a comcast customer now (for only 2 months now) and I do agree it sucks balls compared to the fiber to the house I had before. But I also deliberately chose to go with cable internet for the first time because I wanted my own real experience to back up my suspicions instead of just angry posts by random people on forums.
The company I work for during the day actually uses an archaic system with terminal menus and command line commands that are named in all capital letters. They use the caps lock key excessively. I've seen other systems like this in use for inventory systems at stores and warehouses too. You probably have as well.
As much as I hate the caps lock key (reassigned mine to be an extra Esc), I just submitted a bug on Chrome that it doesn't have a command line --geometry option, which I consider a pseudo standard thing for X apps. I can't help but see that Google is going from the mostly standards compliant company they once were to becoming a Microsoft as far as following standards goes. I'm sure there are other examples people will bring up and maybe a comment along the lines of "They were never standards compliant".
Tens of millions. Big deal. There are 4.6 billion cell phone subscriptions worldwide as of 2009 according to Wikipedia. Actually, that's pretty sad.
iPhone users are also a fickle bunch. Maybe Verizon should be grateful that they didn't have to support them.
Me too.
I see you're an AOL user. Didn't know they were still around.
This is sure to shut up all those naysayers who accuse NASA of being a waste of resources...
Apparently they have a invested in a pretty good network though. I was surprised that the video stream didn't cut out at all considering that there could be tens of thousands if not more watching.
What question? I think they were both just talking.
Because major events like this deserve a couple posts? Usually a big event gets covered with pre, post, post post and duplicate posts on Slashdot.
leshan, I understand the point of your argument and I've heard others make this case. It certainly sounds logical, but it seems to forget the fact that the governments (all of them) should be to the point of serving their people. Even when we are being diplomatic with other countries, the point is usually to help their people (not their government) or to help our people. The point of view that the government should have secrets that should be kept from everyone seems like you think the government should exist as a separate entity with its own self interests and that really couldn't be any further from the founding doctrines of most of today's democracies.
Obviously governments have major things to hide. Obviously. And obviously what is said to the public can be in complete disagreement with what really happens. But I think its good to unravel all that once in a while so that you can reset the board and we can all really see what is going on. Otherwise its too hard for the citizens to know what is up and what is down.