I prefer imperial units because they're human-based. For anything you're doing with your hands it's great. A cup is about the size of your open hand. Inches and feet are (no pun intended) handy measurements, as opposed to cm or meters. The F temp scale groups nicely: 40s and below = pretty cold, 50s = jacket, 60s = long sleeves, 70s = nice, 80s = t-shirt/shorts, 90+ = hot.
Once you get up to construction-sized projects, it starts becoming a pain in the ass. Measure something, then go buy supplies--quick, what's 81.5" in feet and inches? And recipes. I know the cups -> pints -> quarts doublings, but going from cans (ounces) to measuring cups (cups) to pots (quarts) is also a pain.
Great article so far. I'm only a fraction of the way through it but one part really caught my attention.
RIM has all sorts of UI widgets they use in their first party applications -- rounded corners, sliding screen transitions, gradient list fields, etc. -- but they don't release any of that for use by third party developers. The results are apps with wildly inconsistent UIs, created by developers who had to spend considerable effort making them inconsistent.
Say what you will about Apple, they really want developers to create great-looking apps that look at home on the iPhone, and they really do a good job of giving developers almost all the tools that they use themselves. (Same with OS X/XCode itself.) Someday an anthropology student will write a great tome on the different development communities and their relationships with the vendors: BeOS, Palm, Apple, MS...
Among Leet Slashdotter's passions, none burn quite as hot as his lifelong enthusiasm for the Internet.... "The Internet raised me," Mr. Slashdotter said. "I don't believe in colleges and universities and brain implants. I believe in the Internet because most students don't have any implants. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression (2009-2018) and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went online three days a week for 10 years."... Implants? Don't get him started. "Implants are a big distraction," Mr. Slashdotter barked... "Yahooglesoft called me eight weeks ago," he said, voice rising. "They wanted to put a book of mine in an implant! You know what I told them? 'To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with implants. It's distracting. It's meaningless; it's not real. It's in your blood somewhere.' "
Obviously, the firmware needs to be able to detect when data on disk gets obsoleted, and can safely be deleted. The problems with this are that this leads to *very* complicated translation tables - logical disk blocks end up having no relation at all to physical ones, and the SSD needs to track those mappings.
Would it solve the problem (or, I guess I should say, remove the symptoms... for a while, at least) to do a full backup, format the SSD, and restore? I know it's not an ideal solution but rsync or Time Machine would make it pretty painless.
Also, if I had an SSD and was browsing a lot I could see making a ramdisk for things like browser cache files. Too bad Safari and Firefox don't seem to let you specify where you want your cache to be anymore, like old browsers used to. I guess you could make a symlink or something but then you'd HAVE to have that drive mounted.
I'm sure a significant number of people are only using the free apps and using their phone as a phone, rather than as a game console.
Bingo. Some percentage (90%? 50%? 10%? 1%?) of 40M iPhone/iPod customers are play games on their devices, but for the PSP and DS I'm pretty sure the numbers are 100% and 100%, respectively.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it's shaking up the industry, but on the other hand it's clear that it is a substantial market, and a different kind of market. You're no longer bound to make huge games for millions of dollars and hope it's a hit. You can make smaller games (and yes, this certainly favors smaller shops) for less money that sell for smaller amounts but come out more often and still do well.
Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of graphics cards in this country. The GeForce was the card to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-GPU card... Well, fuck it. We're going to five GPUs.
Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don't tell me what to invent--I tell them. And I'm telling them to stick two more GPUs in there. I don't care how. Make the GPUs so thin they're invisible. Put some on the bracket. I don't care if they have to cram the fifth one in perpendicular to the other four, just do it!
I know what you're thinking now: What'll people say? Mew mew mew. Oh, no, what will people say?! Grow the fuck up. When you're on top, people talk. That's the price you pay for being on top. Which NVidia is, always has been, and forever shall be, Amen, five GPUs, sweet Jesus in heaven.
(Hey, Slashcode, why won't you format <i> or <em> inside <blockquote>?)
So you're saying that the submitter linked to a Slashdot story to support his position but, in true Slashdot style, the original submission was inaccurate and, also in true Slashdot style, he didn't actually read the original FA?
Is there something in Slashcode that prevents links to stories from working? I've never clicked one myself, so I can't say for sure. Can someone check and report back?
Small but important distinction: this exploit is for browser history, not cache. That shortcut (or shift-command-delete* on a Mac) will bring up the 'clear private data' dialog which covers browser history (the one this exploit is for), download history, saved form and search history, browser cache, and other items.
* Unlike PCs, which have 'backspace' and '(forward) delete' buttons, Macs have two buttons labeled 'delete' or 'del'--the big one which is backspace, and the small one next to help, home, end, etc., which is forward delete. That's the one you need for this shortcut. I imagine laptop users and people who use those new small keyboards are SOL.
Hypertext is text, displayed on a computer, with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately follow, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Other means of interaction may also be present e.g. a bubble with text may appear when the mouse hovers over a particular area, a video clip may be started and stopped, or a form may be filled out and submitted.
(for those who got freaked out and wondered why they were somewhere else after they clicked your link).
Get all these [Windwows and Mac] users hooked on the convenience of having a single auto-update program instead of several...
Oh, so Novell's offering will manage updates for Windows, OS X, Apple's bundled apps, Adobe apps, MS Office, Firefox, Google apps (God how I hate thee), etc.? No? Oh, so then, instead of what you described, it will in fact be one more auto-update tool to deal with. Out-fucking-standing.
>> A huge reason the iPhone app store has taken off is because it contains only >> all apps that were written for exactly one platform, just like console games.
> You have just described how a Linux repository works.
And you have just totally missed the point of the part of my comment you quoted. "Linux" is not a single platform. Does a repository know if I have a sound card or not, and if so, what model, and how it's being driven? Does it know what my graphics card is capable of? If I'm using x.org or XF86? Kernel options? Does it know what screen resolution and color depth I'm running? FFS, if I'm even running a GUI or not?!?
With Linux-based netbooks from many manufacturers you're talking about HUNDREDS of possible configurations. With the iPhone, it's just a handful of configurations, from one manufacturer, with more similarities than differences.
Slashdot Mirror
All well and good, until you find yourself using a BlackBerry, iPhone, or Dvorak keyboard. Hell, even a netbook. :-)
I prefer imperial units because they're human-based. For anything you're doing with your hands it's great. A cup is about the size of your open hand. Inches and feet are (no pun intended) handy measurements, as opposed to cm or meters. The F temp scale groups nicely: 40s and below = pretty cold, 50s = jacket, 60s = long sleeves, 70s = nice, 80s = t-shirt/shorts, 90+ = hot.
Once you get up to construction-sized projects, it starts becoming a pain in the ass. Measure something, then go buy supplies--quick, what's 81.5" in feet and inches? And recipes. I know the cups -> pints -> quarts doublings, but going from cans (ounces) to measuring cups (cups) to pots (quarts) is also a pain.
It's also an acronym--it stands for mung until no good. :-)
Time to load Slashdot 2.0: [still waiting] [still waiting]
Though there's a 50-50 chance the C64 would render it better.
Life is like Unix and you are the superuser. With that comes the power to 'rm -rf' the system..
Wait, I don't understand. Can someone supply a car analogy please?
Start here. Scroll down to "Pin Assignments", then scroll a bit more to "Composite Video Connector"
Pin Number 1: LUMA COMPOSITE CHROMA
*whew* OK, done for now. More to come...
Great article so far. I'm only a fraction of the way through it but one part really caught my attention.
RIM has all sorts of UI widgets they use in their first party applications -- rounded corners, sliding screen transitions, gradient list fields, etc. -- but they don't release any of that for use by third party developers. The results are apps with wildly inconsistent UIs, created by developers who had to spend considerable effort making them inconsistent.
Say what you will about Apple, they really want developers to create great-looking apps that look at home on the iPhone, and they really do a good job of giving developers almost all the tools that they use themselves. (Same with OS X/XCode itself.) Someday an anthropology student will write a great tome on the different development communities and their relationships with the vendors: BeOS, Palm, Apple, MS...
Among Leet Slashdotter's passions, none burn quite as hot as his lifelong enthusiasm for the Internet. ... "The Internet raised me," Mr. Slashdotter said. "I don't believe in colleges and universities and brain implants. I believe in the Internet because most students don't have any implants. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression (2009-2018) and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went online three days a week for 10 years." ... Implants? Don't get him started. "Implants are a big distraction," Mr. Slashdotter barked... "Yahooglesoft called me eight weeks ago," he said, voice rising. "They wanted to put a book of mine in an implant! You know what I told them? 'To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with implants. It's distracting. It's meaningless; it's not real. It's in your blood somewhere.' "
I'm a couple point versions down, but I don't see that option in FF 3 on OS X or Windows.
It's much safer to stick with homeoerotic cures instead.
I'd love to get me some trim!
Obviously, the firmware needs to be able to detect when data on disk gets obsoleted, and can safely be deleted. The problems with this are that this leads to *very* complicated translation tables - logical disk blocks end up having no relation at all to physical ones, and the SSD needs to track those mappings.
Would it solve the problem (or, I guess I should say, remove the symptoms... for a while, at least) to do a full backup, format the SSD, and restore? I know it's not an ideal solution but rsync or Time Machine would make it pretty painless.
Also, if I had an SSD and was browsing a lot I could see making a ramdisk for things like browser cache files. Too bad Safari and Firefox don't seem to let you specify where you want your cache to be anymore, like old browsers used to. I guess you could make a symlink or something but then you'd HAVE to have that drive mounted.
You mean Short Attention Span Theater.
You know, it really bugs me when people can't... ooh, look! shiny!
I'm sure a significant number of people are only using the free apps and using their phone as a phone, rather than as a game console.
Bingo. Some percentage (90%? 50%? 10%? 1%?) of 40M iPhone/iPod customers are play games on their devices, but for the PSP and DS I'm pretty sure the numbers are 100% and 100%, respectively.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it's shaking up the industry, but on the other hand it's clear that it is a substantial market, and a different kind of market. You're no longer bound to make huge games for millions of dollars and hope it's a hit. You can make smaller games (and yes, this certainly favors smaller shops) for less money that sell for smaller amounts but come out more often and still do well.
Fuck Everything, We're Doing 5 GPUs
(Hey, Slashcode, why won't you format <i> or <em> inside <blockquote>?)
I think he meant "drive", or "deliver signal to", not literally "power" in the sense of "deliver volts to".
I heard that beige was chosen because it is the same color as most dust so beige computers don't look dirty.
So you're saying that the submitter linked to a Slashdot story to support his position but, in true Slashdot style, the original submission was inaccurate and, also in true Slashdot style, he didn't actually read the original FA?
Is there something in Slashcode that prevents links to stories from working? I've never clicked one myself, so I can't say for sure. Can someone check and report back?
Small but important distinction: this exploit is for browser history, not cache. That shortcut (or shift-command-delete* on a Mac) will bring up the 'clear private data' dialog which covers browser history (the one this exploit is for), download history, saved form and search history, browser cache, and other items.
* Unlike PCs, which have 'backspace' and '(forward) delete' buttons, Macs have two buttons labeled 'delete' or 'del'--the big one which is backspace, and the small one next to help, home, end, etc., which is forward delete. That's the one you need for this shortcut. I imagine laptop users and people who use those new small keyboards are SOL.
... and maybe even nefarious, but you've got to admit: it's a neat hack (in the original sense of the word--i.e., clever)
Goatsecxium.
No good? OK, how about happyfunium? Do not taunt happyfunium!
"Alternative" was a great tag until "alternative music" became mainstream.
Hypertext
(for those who got freaked out and wondered why they were somewhere else after they clicked your link).
Get all these [Windwows and Mac] users hooked on the convenience of having a single auto-update program instead of several...
Oh, so Novell's offering will manage updates for Windows, OS X, Apple's bundled apps, Adobe apps, MS Office, Firefox, Google apps (God how I hate thee), etc.? No? Oh, so then, instead of what you described, it will in fact be one more auto-update tool to deal with. Out-fucking-standing.
>> A huge reason the iPhone app store has taken off is because it contains only
>> all apps that were written for exactly one platform, just like console games.
> You have just described how a Linux repository works.
And you have just totally missed the point of the part of my comment you quoted. "Linux" is not a single platform. Does a repository know if I have a sound card or not, and if so, what model, and how it's being driven? Does it know what my graphics card is capable of? If I'm using x.org or XF86? Kernel options? Does it know what screen resolution and color depth I'm running? FFS, if I'm even running a GUI or not?!?
With Linux-based netbooks from many manufacturers you're talking about HUNDREDS of possible configurations. With the iPhone, it's just a handful of configurations, from one manufacturer, with more similarities than differences.