Jeez, people, learn to read. Can you point to the place where I said there was no security issue with Flash? No you can't. Yet you're the second person to respond to this imaginary statement.
She can't see Russia from her house either. The only place in Alaska where you can see Russia is an island in the Aleutians — and Palin's never been there.
You're right, my anecdotal evidence doesn't "prove" that Flash is not problematic. Then again, Noobixcube's negative experience doesn't prove that it is. I wasn't trying to prove anything, I was just comparing two divergent user experiences and trying to explain why they were different.
And your analogy with the shuttle is off the mark; a Flash user typically runs a lot of different applications, so they're testing a lot of different failure points.
I don't disagree with any of your comments about security, but you seem to have failed to notice that I was defending Flash's reliability, not it's security.
Privacy issues aside, I've never had any trouble with Flash. Quite the contrary: Flash applications always seem to have fewer bugs and hassles than other embedded applications. I'm particularly grateful that the Flash media player is displacing MS Media Player, Real Player, and Quicktime, all of which are obnoxious as hell.
I should mention that I run The Evil OS. Probably the difference in your experience is due to your running Linux. You might find it instructive to try running a few Silverlight apps on Linux. I would predict that your experience won't be any better. Of course, Moonlight, the Linux version of Silverlight, is Open Source. So at least while you're beating your head against the wall, you'll be politically correct!
I guess that will also be the date on which the Canary Islands Tsunami hits, the Al Qaida dirty bomb takes out Washington, and Paris Hilton wins her first Oscar.
2012 is also predicted to be the year Sarah Palin is elected President. Coincidence? I think not!
All the mathematical models claimed that the US Financial credit market and the Housing Bubble wouldn't burst at the same time...
Huh? I know a lot of economists were surprised by the collapse of the financial markets. But you talk as if they collapse of housing prices is a mysterious coincidence. It's not. When it's hard to borrow money, it's impossible to speculate in real-estate.
can to be -> care to be. As I grow older and more feeble, my typos get weirder.
I never said you were infallible. Do you understand the concept of irony? This was an ironical attempt to demonstrate a contradiction between some widely accepted fact and and something somebody else has said. Examples:
"I know how to rack a server. I can rack that Thumper by myself." "The thing weighs 300 pounds. Unless you're stronger than you look, you better ask for help."
"I can finish this game and still do my homework." "Unless you can write a 5-page paper in an hour, you better hit 'save'."
"I never accuse anybody of lying unless I know they intended to lie." "Unless you're psychic, you make that accusation a lot more often than you could possibly know it's true."
I was speaking generally, not just about this specific thread. You claim that all your accusations of lying stem from intentional misuse of the truth. That is simply not true. (I won't call it a "lie" because that's you're game.) Unless you are psychic, you can't possibly be as infallible at detecting intention as you can to be.
It's interesting that the submitter didn't think that the radio show that aired the story was worth mentioning. (Weekend Edition Sunday, which I used to listen to a lot before the podcast glut took over my headphones.) Apparently NPR now has a lot of listeners who only know them through their podcasts.
That's beginning to include me, even though I've been listening to NPR since most of you were still in grade school. I used to be fanatical about their content. They seemed to cater to people with more intelligence and longer attention spans than a lot of competing media. But now, public radio networks in Australia, Canada, and the UK have gotten into podcasting in a big way, and their product actually makes NPR look just a little lame. The Aussies in particular excel at science reporting and serious audio documentaries, two kinds of reporting that NPR doesn't really care for.
Qualification: NPR does have some good science reporters, but they rarely get enough air time to cover anything in depth. And they also have some really bad ones.
I'd probably listen to more NPR podcasts if they had more. They've strongly resisted podcasting complete shows, afraid of antagonizing the member stations who pay the bills. Of the shows I listen to, only Fresh Air offers a complete podcast, and that one is not carefully edited for online consumption, and material is often missing. (Some of this may be for copyright reasons, but I think it's mostly sloppiness.)
What podcasts they do offer are mostly except shows, like the Shuffle Podcast. They do have an interesting new feature that allows you to mix your own keyword-driven podcast.
I agree that our attitude towards public versus private is not terribly rational. But there's no brainwashing involved. It all part of our mythos. We worship individualism and do-it-yourselfism.
Sometimes that attitude works for us — it's an important reason we went from a third-rate agricultural country to the world's leading industrial and military power in just a few decades. Sometimes it doesn't. It's served us really poorly the last quarter century, as our leaders pandered to this myth while basically selling off the government.
Now we've gone and elected a President who's favorite word is "we". Let's hope he means it.
I followed some of the links, and was appalled at the prices. $100 for a simple summary of OS technology? That's a blatant, immoral cashing-in on the fact that students are are a captive audience.
(What's really sad is that $100 for textbook is actually relatively cheap.)
Even $70 for SICP is ridiculous. Fortunately, the authors are kind enough to provide a free online copy.
Right, not as good as its reputation, but still one of the most essential books in CS.
What I don't get is why Knuth still thinks that he can finish writing the series. He's even given up teaching and stopped reading his email to give himself more time to work on it. CS was already too big for a comprehensive intro text when the series first came out, and now it's far more so.
"Long winded" and "single sentence" are not your only choices. You'll notice that submissions are much longer than this one. One-sentence summaries are good, but a little additional explanation is helpful.
If your prose makes people's eyes glaze over, it's probably not the word count as such, but the content-to-word ratio. Try working on that.
I stand corrected. I misunderstood the blurb about 64-under-32. TFA doesn't make it clear, but the 64-under-32 thing only works if you're running a 32-bit OS on 64-bit hardware. My mistake.
OK, so "virtualize" is correct. But that page is still marketese, since it makes it sound like virtualization is better than emulation.
Another thing: the only use case where this feature is at all useful is running 32-bit Windows on x64 hardware. Users of any other OS would likely be running a 64-bit OS. Windows users would too, if MS would get its driver act together.
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Jeez, people, learn to read. Can you point to the place where I said there was no security issue with Flash? No you can't. Yet you're the second person to respond to this imaginary statement.
...do things like explain WTF is Falcon 9.
She can't see Russia from her house either. The only place in Alaska where you can see Russia is an island in the Aleutians — and Palin's never been there.
You're right, my anecdotal evidence doesn't "prove" that Flash is not problematic. Then again, Noobixcube's negative experience doesn't prove that it is. I wasn't trying to prove anything, I was just comparing two divergent user experiences and trying to explain why they were different.
And your analogy with the shuttle is off the mark; a Flash user typically runs a lot of different applications, so they're testing a lot of different failure points.
I don't disagree with any of your comments about security, but you seem to have failed to notice that I was defending Flash's reliability, not it's security.
Privacy issues aside, I've never had any trouble with Flash. Quite the contrary: Flash applications always seem to have fewer bugs and hassles than other embedded applications. I'm particularly grateful that the Flash media player is displacing MS Media Player, Real Player, and Quicktime, all of which are obnoxious as hell.
I should mention that I run The Evil OS. Probably the difference in your experience is due to your running Linux. You might find it instructive to try running a few Silverlight apps on Linux. I would predict that your experience won't be any better. Of course, Moonlight, the Linux version of Silverlight, is Open Source. So at least while you're beating your head against the wall, you'll be politically correct!
Informative? Oh well.
I guess that will also be the date on which the Canary Islands Tsunami hits, the Al Qaida dirty bomb takes out Washington, and Paris Hilton wins her first Oscar.
2012 is also predicted to be the year Sarah Palin is elected President. Coincidence? I think not!
All the mathematical models claimed that the US Financial credit market and the Housing Bubble wouldn't burst at the same time...
Huh? I know a lot of economists were surprised by the collapse of the financial markets. But you talk as if they collapse of housing prices is a mysterious coincidence. It's not. When it's hard to borrow money, it's impossible to speculate in real-estate.
You know, that is a lie. It's ironic that you so glibly throw around accusations of dishonesty when your own rhetoric is so thoroughly dishonest.
I prefer the alternative that doesn't drive me insane with that irritating clicking sound.
can to be -> care to be. As I grow older and more feeble, my typos get weirder.
I never said you were infallible. Do you understand the concept of irony? This was an ironical attempt to demonstrate a contradiction between some widely accepted fact and and something somebody else has said. Examples:
I was speaking generally, not just about this specific thread. You claim that all your accusations of lying stem from intentional misuse of the truth. That is simply not true. (I won't call it a "lie" because that's you're game.) Unless you are psychic, you can't possibly be as infallible at detecting intention as you can to be.
You do it any time somebody is (or you perceive them to be) inconsistent or incorrect.
You're lying. I only do it when they do so intentionally, as you are doing.
Right, because you're psychic, so you know when an untruth is a lie and when it's an honest mistake.
Supposedly annoyingly loud clicky noises are... good? Huh?
Some people type better if they get serious audio feedback. The rest of us just look at the screen.
You're lying again. You said...
You're awfully quick to call people liars. You do it any time somebody is (or you perceive them to be) inconsistent or incorrect.
Which is, ironically enough, a very dishonest style of argument.
It's interesting that the submitter didn't think that the radio show that aired the story was worth mentioning. (Weekend Edition Sunday, which I used to listen to a lot before the podcast glut took over my headphones.) Apparently NPR now has a lot of listeners who only know them through their podcasts.
That's beginning to include me, even though I've been listening to NPR since most of you were still in grade school. I used to be fanatical about their content. They seemed to cater to people with more intelligence and longer attention spans than a lot of competing media. But now, public radio networks in Australia, Canada, and the UK have gotten into podcasting in a big way, and their product actually makes NPR look just a little lame. The Aussies in particular excel at science reporting and serious audio documentaries, two kinds of reporting that NPR doesn't really care for.
Qualification: NPR does have some good science reporters, but they rarely get enough air time to cover anything in depth. And they also have some really bad ones.
I'd probably listen to more NPR podcasts if they had more. They've strongly resisted podcasting complete shows, afraid of antagonizing the member stations who pay the bills. Of the shows I listen to, only Fresh Air offers a complete podcast, and that one is not carefully edited for online consumption, and material is often missing. (Some of this may be for copyright reasons, but I think it's mostly sloppiness.)
What podcasts they do offer are mostly except shows, like the Shuffle Podcast. They do have an interesting new feature that allows you to mix your own keyword-driven podcast.
I agree that our attitude towards public versus private is not terribly rational. But there's no brainwashing involved. It all part of our mythos. We worship individualism and do-it-yourselfism.
Sometimes that attitude works for us — it's an important reason we went from a third-rate agricultural country to the world's leading industrial and military power in just a few decades. Sometimes it doesn't. It's served us really poorly the last quarter century, as our leaders pandered to this myth while basically selling off the government.
Now we've gone and elected a President who's favorite word is "we". Let's hope he means it.
I admit I got my facts wrong. But how does that make me a troll?
FCC rules about close-captioning apply to broadcast TV, period.
Well, I have an acceptance rate of about 20%, and my submissions are probably on the long side.
I followed some of the links, and was appalled at the prices. $100 for a simple summary of OS technology? That's a blatant, immoral cashing-in on the fact that students are are a captive audience.
(What's really sad is that $100 for textbook is actually relatively cheap.)
Even $70 for SICP is ridiculous. Fortunately, the authors are kind enough to provide a free online copy.
Here's a criticism of that book from its own author: it supports the illusion that all you need to secure a system is the right technology.
Right, not as good as its reputation, but still one of the most essential books in CS.
What I don't get is why Knuth still thinks that he can finish writing the series. He's even given up teaching and stopped reading his email to give himself more time to work on it. CS was already too big for a comprehensive intro text when the series first came out, and now it's far more so.
Everything by Stevens rates the word "classic". Pity the dude didn't live long enough to write more.
"Long winded" and "single sentence" are not your only choices. You'll notice that submissions are much longer than this one. One-sentence summaries are good, but a little additional explanation is helpful.
If your prose makes people's eyes glaze over, it's probably not the word count as such, but the content-to-word ratio. Try working on that.
I stand corrected. I misunderstood the blurb about 64-under-32. TFA doesn't make it clear, but the 64-under-32 thing only works if you're running a 32-bit OS on 64-bit hardware. My mistake.
OK, so "virtualize" is correct. But that page is still marketese, since it makes it sound like virtualization is better than emulation.
Another thing: the only use case where this feature is at all useful is running 32-bit Windows on x64 hardware. Users of any other OS would likely be running a 64-bit OS. Windows users would too, if MS would get its driver act together.