Your worst team meeting, software development project or vacation gone wrong is 1/1,000,000 as complex as what the relief personnel are handling. You may have been thwarted by snow on the road, delayed flights, crashing computers, lost data, wrong cellphone numbers or ill coworkers; these guys are dealing with non-existant roads, riots, gun shots, power loss and starvation. This is spread across 50,000 square miles of cities turned lakes. None of us can possibly fathom the details evacuating 60,000 people must be, tending to their transportation and health through an almost literal warzone.
We may know it's complex, but unless we're intimitely involved we cannot accurately critique the relief efforts. It'd be comparable to Brian Williams analyzing the Linux kernel structure, or attempting to explain fighter tactics. Without first-hand knowledge, opinions on sophisticated matters are worthless. As slashdotters who regularly tear apart the mass media on technical inaccuracies, we all should know this well
It's not that if Google farts, it makes headlines, but this move is a smart one, at least for a tech company which was primarily thought of a search-engine company.
Wow, what a rambling, unnecessary sentence. I take it the story submitter is a Wikipedian? Here, I'll revise it:
For Google, this is a smart move.
The best revision would be to eliminate the sentence entirely. It's an editorial aside that strays far from the actual story. Leave that to your blog please. The editors alone imbue enough bias in the story selection.
Welcome to the real world, where designs that work are more important than "originality." I'm guessing you're one of those people who doesn't like newspapers because of all the consistently black text. "Wouldn't it be nicer if they used different colors?" etc.
Oh, and if you didn't notice, this "standard" is to be used as a recommendation. It's not law. "Letting in originality" isn't an issue when nothing is being forbidden in the first place.
One of the reasons we are offering this new way to sign up for Gmail is to help protect our users and combat abuse. Spam and abuse protection are two things we take very seriously, and our users have been very happy with the small amount of spam they've received in their Gmail accounts. We take many measures to ensure that spammers have a difficult time sending their spam messages, getting these messages delivered, or even obtaining a Gmail account (spammers will often use many different accounts to send spam). Sending invitation codes to mobile phones via SMS is one way to address this, as the number of accounts per phone number can be limited.
So, relying on cellphones and invitations works better than captchas.
For the most part, simplicity and storage abilities are the same for Tbird+IMAP and Gmail. Spam filtering quality is about the same, assuming you've already accrued a significant amount for Tbird's Bayesian spam detection. Thunderbird's a bit faster assuming a decent computer. Configuring filters in Tbird is much faster and more powerful though than in Gmail. Tbird has better mail sorting abilities, letting you group messages by date into collapsable lists (press g), "Today", "Two weeks ago" etc.
Gmail is definitely the best web-based emaill solution. But if you're already on Thunderbird with a decent IMAP service (like that any university provides), I don't see any reason to switch.
I wonder if they'll start taking advantage of Cairo and Glitz. Doing so would let graphics cards accelerate GUI drawing via OpenGL, a la Quartz on OS X. Hardware accelerated GUIs are a hallmark of modern operating systems (OS X, Windows Vista), it'd be nice if Linux could join the party too.
Security cameras are in every supermarket, mall and gas station in the US, and motion sensors are installed in many utility tunnels already (too many urban explorers these days). I guess ScuttleMonkey is trying to say that these cameras and sensors will be actually used to spy on molemen. The US government has never respected the rights of its good, subway-living, citizens.
Heaven forbid they track people's pictures and locations! Who knew that 9-11 could lead to the security-measures of a 7-11?
Lockheed Martin is now the world's largest defense contractor, handling everything from sea/air/land/space vehicle development to "system of systems" integration (which basically could be anything). Had they merged with Northrop (as was planned) in the 90s, they would have had a good chance at stifling Boeing's growth into the defense market.
Given finite R&D resources, improving performance of the power consumer (rather than the power producer) seems to be a more direct way of paving the way for longer-lasting portables. That nips the problem in the bud. It's like the three R's: reduce, reuse, recycle. Before trying to increase (power) supply, one should try to reduce (power) demand.
It depends on the version. WMV files can use different MS codecs, just like how AVI is a "container" format. Earlier WMV files play fine, but WMV9 just crashes MPlayer.
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Like, a million dollars.
...this is completely awesome.
Your worst team meeting, software development project or vacation gone wrong is 1/1,000,000 as complex as what the relief personnel are handling. You may have been thwarted by snow on the road, delayed flights, crashing computers, lost data, wrong cellphone numbers or ill coworkers; these guys are dealing with non-existant roads, riots, gun shots, power loss and starvation. This is spread across 50,000 square miles of cities turned lakes. None of us can possibly fathom the details evacuating 60,000 people must be, tending to their transportation and health through an almost literal warzone.
We may know it's complex, but unless we're intimitely involved we cannot accurately critique the relief efforts. It'd be comparable to Brian Williams analyzing the Linux kernel structure, or attempting to explain fighter tactics. Without first-hand knowledge, opinions on sophisticated matters are worthless. As slashdotters who regularly tear apart the mass media on technical inaccuracies, we all should know this well
It's not that if Google farts, it makes headlines, but this move is a smart one, at least for a tech company which was primarily thought of a search-engine company.
Wow, what a rambling, unnecessary sentence. I take it the story submitter is a Wikipedian? Here, I'll revise it:
For Google, this is a smart move.
The best revision would be to eliminate the sentence entirely. It's an editorial aside that strays far from the actual story. Leave that to your blog please. The editors alone imbue enough bias in the story selection.
Welcome to the real world, where designs that work are more important than "originality." I'm guessing you're one of those people who doesn't like newspapers because of all the consistently black text. "Wouldn't it be nicer if they used different colors?" etc.
Oh, and if you didn't notice, this "standard" is to be used as a recommendation. It's not law. "Letting in originality" isn't an issue when nothing is being forbidden in the first place.
No, Libertarian attitude. This is Slashdot after all.
So Macromedia fucked up their EULA. Yes, it's funny. No, no one's going to get sued. Macromedia will fix it in 3 weeks and life will go on.
No, it's not.
So, how are things?
So, relying on cellphones and invitations works better than captchas.
For the most part, simplicity and storage abilities are the same for Tbird+IMAP and Gmail. Spam filtering quality is about the same, assuming you've already accrued a significant amount for Tbird's Bayesian spam detection. Thunderbird's a bit faster assuming a decent computer. Configuring filters in Tbird is much faster and more powerful though than in Gmail. Tbird has better mail sorting abilities, letting you group messages by date into collapsable lists (press g), "Today", "Two weeks ago" etc.
Gmail is definitely the best web-based emaill solution. But if you're already on Thunderbird with a decent IMAP service (like that any university provides), I don't see any reason to switch.
Apple will still be using GCC.
Why, and how do you know this?
I wonder if they'll start taking advantage of Cairo and Glitz. Doing so would let graphics cards accelerate GUI drawing via OpenGL, a la Quartz on OS X. Hardware accelerated GUIs are a hallmark of modern operating systems (OS X, Windows Vista), it'd be nice if Linux could join the party too.
Did they fix that one really significant bug? You know, where all the games fucking suck? If not, I hope they fix it soon.
Security cameras are in every supermarket, mall and gas station in the US, and motion sensors are installed in many utility tunnels already (too many urban explorers these days). I guess ScuttleMonkey is trying to say that these cameras and sensors will be actually used to spy on molemen. The US government has never respected the rights of its good, subway-living, citizens.
Heaven forbid they track people's pictures and locations! Who knew that 9-11 could lead to the security-measures of a 7-11?
Lockheed Martin is now the world's largest defense contractor, handling everything from sea/air/land/space vehicle development to "system of systems" integration (which basically could be anything). Had they merged with Northrop (as was planned) in the 90s, they would have had a good chance at stifling Boeing's growth into the defense market.
You know what they say: rocks for jocks.
A K5 article modded as a troll, on slashdot. That made my day. Well no, it didn't.
Two computers crunching numbers next to each other, big deal.
Fistfight between executives, I'd watch.
Given finite R&D resources, improving performance of the power consumer (rather than the power producer) seems to be a more direct way of paving the way for longer-lasting portables. That nips the problem in the bud. It's like the three R's: reduce, reuse, recycle. Before trying to increase (power) supply, one should try to reduce (power) demand.
No, sorry.
FIND THEM AND DESTROY THEM!
Would these (or similar) attacks work against sha1 hashes?
Speaking of pie, can anyone recommend some good recipes? I haven't had a decent slice in ages.
It depends on the version. WMV files can use different MS codecs, just like how AVI is a "container" format. Earlier WMV files play fine, but WMV9 just crashes MPlayer.