As much as I would love to disagree with that I honestly can't. TeamViewer has a lot of advantages over VNC. Though I'm not sure it would be easier if you had a really restricted network like in a locked down office. I've run VNC over an SSH reverse tunnel disguised as HTTP traffic on a closed network with a proxy server that only allowed HTTP and only outgoing connections. Since the tunnel was already established VNC was trivial to run. But as long as you don't have any super-locked-down proxy setups designed specifically to defeat remote access *cough* TeamViewer is just dead easy and surprisingly reliable.
So for me the answer is no. The whole thing reminds me of doing ARM assembler with thumb code mixed in. If you have a very specific usage for it then yes, it would certianly be useful - but it's going to be up to the people who need it to actually use and improve it. Everyone else has no need to care and the average developer shouldn't *need* to care or even be aware of it.
Oh! There was a miscommunication my dear pastafarian friend! Please accept my appologies.
You are absolutely correct in that the S660 is an MR, and in stylish compact package! I don't actually know of a good resource in English but there is plenty of informatino available in Japanese. Basically it's a re-birth of the Beat with some S series touches. The car itself is a compact, just like the Beat. I haven't seen any info on the actual engine but the "S" series naming hints at something nice. What worries me about it from the concept is the center console: http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dims3/GLOB/resize/600x400/http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/159/441/3/S1594413/slug/l/p1160526-1.jpg This looks dangerously like there may be no real manual option and, even if there is, there isn't much space to shift without feeling up your passenger.
Most forklifts are RR or at least RMR. This way the engine itself works as part of the counterweight. Having a true MR layout on a forklift would probably not be the best engineering idea unless you had something heavier that needed to be part of the machine anyway.
Accel turns are standard and basic manuvers for technical driving. The rev point at which you pop the clutch will be different by car based on balance and weight but if you were to actually blow a dif at 5k RPM just by popping the clutch you must have a really really poorly made diff or a very heavy and unbalanced vehicle.
Clutch discs are disposable items, like break pads and tires. You should be checking these things like you check your oil and coolant. If you're performing manuvers which put a lot of stress on your components and not checking them regularly you're asking for trouble. In a car like a Porsche you'd better be checking them even if you are just using it on a daily commute.
In the case of our dead celebrity friend there were apparent mechanical issues with the car before they went on their joy ride. Let it be a lesson; keep your machine in check and don't ignore warning signs.
The car can't see the road or predict where you want to go or what direction you want to be facing at any point in a turn. Traction control assumes you want to make safe and mild turns and will steal energy from your wheels to stop you doing manuvers you may intentionally be trying to perform.
As a practical example let's say you enter an intersection in the turning lane such that you will cut across traffic (to the left in the US, the right in Japan). If you are in an FR or an MR and you turn the wheel enough that you would make the turn normally, then depress the clutch, rev up to say 5 or 6 thousand RPM, then pop the clutch, one of the following things will happen: A. If you have traction control ON you will make the turn normally. B. If you have traction control OFF the rear wheels will slip and escape to the side and you will perform a "spin turn", wich will result in a very tight U-turn. If you intended to do a spin turn and you left traction control ON you would not end up makign that U-Turn you wanted to and would end up making a normal turn, also looking like a douchebag as your car sloppily jitters through the intersection.
Don't mean to nitpick but Honda makes MidShips including the upcoming S660. Also even though the above quote states "middle of the car" I'm pretty sure it's RR, not MR.
Side note: Our office car is a Toyota MR-S and it is a blast. Mind you it only has 140~ish BHP, but it's really made me love MR layouts and I am definitely checking out the S660.
There's a patch for Chrome/Chromium they've promised to accept if they see more widespread usage. Also may I point out that APNG gracefully degrades to PNG - so APNG will not actually break anything you'll just get the first frame on a browser that does not support APNG. In other words no "this site looks best in" required - just be aware that some browsers will only show the first frame.
It would be great to have a widely accepted standard from the get-go but that is something we do not have. APNG is the closest thing to an accepted standard and until we see wider usage we will not see wider adoption. And without better tools to handle it we most certainly will not see wider usage and thus this project. If you're sick of putting up with GIF or having to use JS/CSS hacks for animation would you not agree that APNG would be nice to have?
For one of our stretch goals we were considering implementing a jQuery plugin to dis-assemble and animate APNG images for browsers that do not support APNG. Since we would prefer having people use APNG and browser developers realize the demand and implement it themselves we decided not to include this. After implementing apngasm in CoffeeScript/JavaScript writing something like this would be trivial - would you like us to re-add this as a stretch goal?
Every time I see Bill Gates blowing his horn about spending a minute fraction of his fortune on malaria I am reminded of the fact Microsoft regularly sues schools for improperly licensed copies of Windows and Office through the BSA. They gag order as many fo them as they can so the numbers we know are just a fraction of the actual number of schools they've sued.
Seriously Bill, thanks for your malaria work. Other than that fuck you.
I'm using two completely different nVidia boards to drive 3 monitors, one of which happens to be a 3D monitor (which is why I have two cards to begin with, needed a newer card for 3D monitor support). It was extremely simple to set up. In fact I can't even remember having to do anything other than plug in the cards an monitor, I don't think I ever opened up the nvidia control panel tool to configure it.
We use SparkleShare because we have our own git server anyway. Not sure how robust the security is compared to something specifically built for security (EG it's not like it has multi factor authentication).
Still as others have pointed out what the fuck are you doing with a cloud based service as a defense contractor. We do open source software and the only stuff we're storing in sparkleshare is scratch work, images, document templates and random crap that anyone could steal and we wouldn't care anyway.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. The change was too big for most people and they stopped accepting that as the "real" GNOME which I very much agree with. GNOME 2 with compiz especially had some incredible functionality and looked fantastic whereas the GNOME Shell at the transition point to GNOME 3 was lackng in functionality, unstable, didn't look that great and above all was missing a decent task bar which if you are used to having a highly functional task bar like in GNOME 2 was a pretty big and damning change.
Personally I'm very much a power user and I have a lot of different things going on on different desktops. It sounds like I am at the opposite end of the spectrum than you, but the simplicity is exactly what makes GNOME Shell more powerful for me. I can hit the super key and accurately change tasks, launch programs and do a variety of other things without moving my hands off the keyboard and as soon as I do whatever I need to do the interface gets out of my way. I still like having a preview of what programs are being run on the current workspace so I am using YAWL: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/674/yawl-yet-another-window-list/ which is very very nice. That's really about it though - the core functionality just works for me, stays out of my way, and lets me work faster/concentrate on my work.
Personally I like it a lot. Like any big change it takes a few weeks to get used to. The GNOME 2 design is just fine and I really liked it but at this point I would not choose to go back.
I think all the people that hate it really haven't given it a chance and probably only tried an earlier release.
Personally I hope GNOME picks up some more steam and more developers accumulate around it. Personally I'd love it if GTK3 were more widely used and supported (EG with Ruby bindings). GTK2 is actually a really nice cross platform GUI toolkit if you know how to properly stylize it.
On Android there are "car home" screens that will limit what's displayed, and if you have a bluetooth stereo you can use and map the buttons to control the screen. The car home automatically comes up when I connect to bluetooth, and my audio is adjusted as well. For navi functionality you still need to touch the screen a few times, but I made it so I can bring up the navi with a swipe gesture and then it's just hitting the voice input button. The hands-free mic built into my stereo picks up my voice so the voice searches work great even with my noisy engine rumbling.
If I need to do anything non-trivial that requires actually interfacing with the phone I'll pull over or wait for a traffic light - but this is exactly what I'd do with a traditional navi anyway.
The audio system I use is a half-height (1U) JVC Kenwood with BlueTooth and the mic built into the unit. It cost me something like ~$150 with adapter and I installed it myself. You'd be amazed how easy it is to install car audio systems.
But you can use a git repo as a central authority just as easily as SVN. In fact that's how most projects are managed. In the case of git however you are not restricted specifically to this. So honestly I can't really think of a situation where the centralized-only architecture of SVN is actually superior.
As someone who kept SVN repos until git came to town I can tell you I've had the centralized SVN repos implode on me before. After the central repos turned into garbage the only real solution was to try and figure out who had the latest code and create new repos from that. That risk alone makes the centralized architecture completely inferior and intolerable to me.
After strugling with SVN and having several repos implode on me before git came around I can honestly say I will not be going back to SVN. Also the fact SVN can't self-host repositories and that you can't just interact between repos on hosts as they are totally shuts it down compared to git.
Also I could care less about speed. If git were taking an hour to deal with repos then maybe - but it doesn't. The biggest bottleneck ever has been bogged down github for a slow connection - git itself doesn't have any real speed issues for me.
*bonus: can SVN handle utf8 properly now? I remember that being a nightmare at one point. git handles it out of box flawlessly and always has.
As someone fluent in two languages I can tell you that in my experience this is absolutely the case. I learned both languages by actually being in the environment where they were spoken. In school however we were taught a different "foreign" language and I never got it because they were trying to base everything on our native language - that layer of abstraction made the language difficult to comprehend and I was never able to pick it up.
The worst part is the only things I remember from it are the stupid mnemonic devices they tried to teach us for conjugation - if you find yourself having to go through some mnemonic device to figure out how to conjugate something you're going to suck at a language forever. It's exactly like you say - it's like using an embedded interpreter to convert hashes from an external language into native structures in your host/native language.
I'm bilingual but having learned both languages natively I find I have difficulty doing real time interpretation. When I speak one language my brain wants to operate in that language and I suffer the effect mentioned in the article of all the sudden not being able to speak the other language well. I also get this degraded accent thing going where my tongue just doesn't want to roll correctly in either language and I sound like a foreigner in both.
It's intensely frustrating to be asked to interpret because of this. And when I am asked to interpret and do I always find myself getting stuck on expressions that are efficient to say in one language but not in the other. Not to mention the fact that having to switch back and fourth between languages as quickly as possible is mentally taxing and I quickly get frustrated.
In comparison I've seen some people do interpretation real-time flawlessly. I find that very impressive.
As nvidia is the worst company regarding linux drivers, per definition AMD can only do better.
Unfortunately they don't. The AMD driver modules are absolutely awful. Just today we had a notebook refuse to show anything (black screen even on VTs). We had to SSH into it, completely remove teh AMD binary drivers, purge the xorg configuration, restart with OSS drivers and then play russian roulett with the binary driver install process. Took us 2 hours of trying drivers, failing, purging, then trying again.
With nvidia we've never had this issue - the OSS and binary drivers both "just work".
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As much as I would love to disagree with that I honestly can't. TeamViewer has a lot of advantages over VNC. Though I'm not sure it would be easier if you had a really restricted network like in a locked down office. I've run VNC over an SSH reverse tunnel disguised as HTTP traffic on a closed network with a proxy server that only allowed HTTP and only outgoing connections. Since the tunnel was already established VNC was trivial to run. But as long as you don't have any super-locked-down proxy setups designed specifically to defeat remote access *cough* TeamViewer is just dead easy and surprisingly reliable.
So for me the answer is no. The whole thing reminds me of doing ARM assembler with thumb code mixed in. If you have a very specific usage for it then yes, it would certianly be useful - but it's going to be up to the people who need it to actually use and improve it. Everyone else has no need to care and the average developer shouldn't *need* to care or even be aware of it.
Oh! There was a miscommunication my dear pastafarian friend! Please accept my appologies.
You are absolutely correct in that the S660 is an MR, and in stylish compact package! I don't actually know of a good resource in English but there is plenty of informatino available in Japanese. Basically it's a re-birth of the Beat with some S series touches. The car itself is a compact, just like the Beat. I haven't seen any info on the actual engine but the "S" series naming hints at something nice. What worries me about it from the concept is the center console:
http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dims3/GLOB/resize/600x400/http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/159/441/3/S1594413/slug/l/p1160526-1.jpg
This looks dangerously like there may be no real manual option and, even if there is, there isn't much space to shift without feeling up your passenger.
For the love of god man learn to use google. The Carrera GT is in fact an RR layout; you know, kind of like how most (every?) Porsche is. I even found a picture using this awesome thing called "image search": http://www.automild.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Porsche-Carrera-GTS-White-Engine-Diagram.jpg
Most forklifts are RR or at least RMR. This way the engine itself works as part of the counterweight. Having a true MR layout on a forklift would probably not be the best engineering idea unless you had something heavier that needed to be part of the machine anyway.
Accel turns are standard and basic manuvers for technical driving. The rev point at which you pop the clutch will be different by car based on balance and weight but if you were to actually blow a dif at 5k RPM just by popping the clutch you must have a really really poorly made diff or a very heavy and unbalanced vehicle.
Clutch discs are disposable items, like break pads and tires. You should be checking these things like you check your oil and coolant. If you're performing manuvers which put a lot of stress on your components and not checking them regularly you're asking for trouble. In a car like a Porsche you'd better be checking them even if you are just using it on a daily commute.
In the case of our dead celebrity friend there were apparent mechanical issues with the car before they went on their joy ride. Let it be a lesson; keep your machine in check and don't ignore warning signs.
Look it up, it is in fact RR. Forklifts are also RR, and I would not call them "itty" :P
The car can't see the road or predict where you want to go or what direction you want to be facing at any point in a turn. Traction control assumes you want to make safe and mild turns and will steal energy from your wheels to stop you doing manuvers you may intentionally be trying to perform.
As a practical example let's say you enter an intersection in the turning lane such that you will cut across traffic (to the left in the US, the right in Japan). If you are in an FR or an MR and you turn the wheel enough that you would make the turn normally, then depress the clutch, rev up to say 5 or 6 thousand RPM, then pop the clutch, one of the following things will happen:
A. If you have traction control ON you will make the turn normally.
B. If you have traction control OFF the rear wheels will slip and escape to the side and you will perform a "spin turn", wich will result in a very tight U-turn.
If you intended to do a spin turn and you left traction control ON you would not end up makign that U-Turn you wanted to and would end up making a normal turn, also looking like a douchebag as your car sloppily jitters through the intersection.
Don't mean to nitpick but Honda makes MidShips including the upcoming S660. Also even though the above quote states "middle of the car" I'm pretty sure it's RR, not MR.
Side note: Our office car is a Toyota MR-S and it is a blast. Mind you it only has 140~ish BHP, but it's really made me love MR layouts and I am definitely checking out the S660.
Actually APNG is explicitly mentioned as a supported format for the image tag in the HTML5 spec.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#the-img-element
Search for "APNG".
There's a patch for Chrome/Chromium they've promised to accept if they see more widespread usage. Also may I point out that APNG gracefully degrades to PNG - so APNG will not actually break anything you'll just get the first frame on a browser that does not support APNG. In other words no "this site looks best in" required - just be aware that some browsers will only show the first frame.
It would be great to have a widely accepted standard from the get-go but that is something we do not have. APNG is the closest thing to an accepted standard and until we see wider usage we will not see wider adoption. And without better tools to handle it we most certainly will not see wider usage and thus this project. If you're sick of putting up with GIF or having to use JS/CSS hacks for animation would you not agree that APNG would be nice to have?
For one of our stretch goals we were considering implementing a jQuery plugin to dis-assemble and animate APNG images for browsers that do not support APNG. Since we would prefer having people use APNG and browser developers realize the demand and implement it themselves we decided not to include this. After implementing apngasm in CoffeeScript/JavaScript writing something like this would be trivial - would you like us to re-add this as a stretch goal?
Every time I see Bill Gates blowing his horn about spending a minute fraction of his fortune on malaria I am reminded of the fact Microsoft regularly sues schools for improperly licensed copies of Windows and Office through the BSA. They gag order as many fo them as they can so the numbers we know are just a fraction of the actual number of schools they've sued.
Seriously Bill, thanks for your malaria work. Other than that fuck you.
Yes and it's unstable and awful. Go fuck yourself AC.
I'm using two completely different nVidia boards to drive 3 monitors, one of which happens to be a 3D monitor (which is why I have two cards to begin with, needed a newer card for 3D monitor support). It was extremely simple to set up. In fact I can't even remember having to do anything other than plug in the cards an monitor, I don't think I ever opened up the nvidia control panel tool to configure it.
ditto but different cards. I didn't even think this was an issue.
We use SparkleShare because we have our own git server anyway. Not sure how robust the security is compared to something specifically built for security (EG it's not like it has multi factor authentication).
Still as others have pointed out what the fuck are you doing with a cloud based service as a defense contractor. We do open source software and the only stuff we're storing in sparkleshare is scratch work, images, document templates and random crap that anyone could steal and we wouldn't care anyway.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. The change was too big for most people and they stopped accepting that as the "real" GNOME which I very much agree with. GNOME 2 with compiz especially had some incredible functionality and looked fantastic whereas the GNOME Shell at the transition point to GNOME 3 was lackng in functionality, unstable, didn't look that great and above all was missing a decent task bar which if you are used to having a highly functional task bar like in GNOME 2 was a pretty big and damning change.
Personally I'm very much a power user and I have a lot of different things going on on different desktops. It sounds like I am at the opposite end of the spectrum than you, but the simplicity is exactly what makes GNOME Shell more powerful for me. I can hit the super key and accurately change tasks, launch programs and do a variety of other things without moving my hands off the keyboard and as soon as I do whatever I need to do the interface gets out of my way. I still like having a preview of what programs are being run on the current workspace so I am using YAWL: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/674/yawl-yet-another-window-list/ which is very very nice. That's really about it though - the core functionality just works for me, stays out of my way, and lets me work faster/concentrate on my work.
Personally I like it a lot. Like any big change it takes a few weeks to get used to. The GNOME 2 design is just fine and I really liked it but at this point I would not choose to go back.
I think all the people that hate it really haven't given it a chance and probably only tried an earlier release.
Personally I hope GNOME picks up some more steam and more developers accumulate around it. Personally I'd love it if GTK3 were more widely used and supported (EG with Ruby bindings). GTK2 is actually a really nice cross platform GUI toolkit if you know how to properly stylize it.
You are absolutely correct but also uninformed.
On Android there are "car home" screens that will limit what's displayed, and if you have a bluetooth stereo you can use and map the buttons to control the screen. The car home automatically comes up when I connect to bluetooth, and my audio is adjusted as well. For navi functionality you still need to touch the screen a few times, but I made it so I can bring up the navi with a swipe gesture and then it's just hitting the voice input button. The hands-free mic built into my stereo picks up my voice so the voice searches work great even with my noisy engine rumbling.
If I need to do anything non-trivial that requires actually interfacing with the phone I'll pull over or wait for a traffic light - but this is exactly what I'd do with a traditional navi anyway.
The audio system I use is a half-height (1U) JVC Kenwood with BlueTooth and the mic built into the unit. It cost me something like ~$150 with adapter and I installed it myself. You'd be amazed how easy it is to install car audio systems.
But you can use a git repo as a central authority just as easily as SVN. In fact that's how most projects are managed. In the case of git however you are not restricted specifically to this. So honestly I can't really think of a situation where the centralized-only architecture of SVN is actually superior.
As someone who kept SVN repos until git came to town I can tell you I've had the centralized SVN repos implode on me before. After the central repos turned into garbage the only real solution was to try and figure out who had the latest code and create new repos from that. That risk alone makes the centralized architecture completely inferior and intolerable to me.
After strugling with SVN and having several repos implode on me before git came around I can honestly say I will not be going back to SVN. Also the fact SVN can't self-host repositories and that you can't just interact between repos on hosts as they are totally shuts it down compared to git.
Also I could care less about speed. If git were taking an hour to deal with repos then maybe - but it doesn't. The biggest bottleneck ever has been bogged down github for a slow connection - git itself doesn't have any real speed issues for me.
*bonus: can SVN handle utf8 properly now? I remember that being a nightmare at one point. git handles it out of box flawlessly and always has.
As someone fluent in two languages I can tell you that in my experience this is absolutely the case. I learned both languages by actually being in the environment where they were spoken. In school however we were taught a different "foreign" language and I never got it because they were trying to base everything on our native language - that layer of abstraction made the language difficult to comprehend and I was never able to pick it up.
The worst part is the only things I remember from it are the stupid mnemonic devices they tried to teach us for conjugation - if you find yourself having to go through some mnemonic device to figure out how to conjugate something you're going to suck at a language forever. It's exactly like you say - it's like using an embedded interpreter to convert hashes from an external language into native structures in your host/native language.
I'm bilingual but having learned both languages natively I find I have difficulty doing real time interpretation. When I speak one language my brain wants to operate in that language and I suffer the effect mentioned in the article of all the sudden not being able to speak the other language well. I also get this degraded accent thing going where my tongue just doesn't want to roll correctly in either language and I sound like a foreigner in both.
It's intensely frustrating to be asked to interpret because of this. And when I am asked to interpret and do I always find myself getting stuck on expressions that are efficient to say in one language but not in the other. Not to mention the fact that having to switch back and fourth between languages as quickly as possible is mentally taxing and I quickly get frustrated.
In comparison I've seen some people do interpretation real-time flawlessly. I find that very impressive.
When I add Japan it is showing it above the US, making the US at least 5th.
As nvidia is the worst company regarding linux drivers, per definition AMD can only do better.
Unfortunately they don't. The AMD driver modules are absolutely awful. Just today we had a notebook refuse to show anything (black screen even on VTs). We had to SSH into it, completely remove teh AMD binary drivers, purge the xorg configuration, restart with OSS drivers and then play russian roulett with the binary driver install process. Took us 2 hours of trying drivers, failing, purging, then trying again.
With nvidia we've never had this issue - the OSS and binary drivers both "just work".
I think you're referring to "JUMP" by Van Halen?