Why yes, I HAVE been on the phone with Barack Obama recently, and YES I REALLY DID receive a phone call from the prime minister, only 15 minutes ago. So why don't you uncuff me and let me go before they call back?
XBox 360 and Playstation 3 use absolutely horrifying amounts of electricity compared to devices like AppleTV
XBox 360: 121 watts to watch a DVD, up to 170 watts while gaming
New PS3: 70 watts to watch a DVD, up to 80 watts while gaming
Apple TV: maximum rated 6 watts
And then throw in the added energy required by an air conditioner to remove all that heat from your house.
Granted AppleTV has less horsepower than either game system, but their power consumption is WAY out of line, given what can be done with modern hardware.
Deciding what is secret and what is not is just a matter of content. Deciding that you need to keep the secrets secret affects the fundamental policies of how you do things.
What kind of security policy is this, giving trust to outsiders, hoping that they will do the right thing? You may have the contract on your side, but litigation will not put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Really it's just shoddy security practices by Wikileaks. They could have managed this in a way where they did not have to trust the reporter to do the right thing.
Absolutely. Tripping over a bug and submitting a good bug report is quite valuable. If you can include the necessary information to reproduce the bug then you have gone way more than halfway towards fixing the bug.
With modern linux distributions you don't need to be a technical expert to file a bug. The system will catch the crash automatically and hold your hand as you prepare the bug report, and then it will submit the report for you. It's not hard at all, and will pay off directly for you, if the developers fix the bug and you don't encounter it any more.
"What evidence would you have of my reality, beyond that of your senses?"
"I don't know," said Scrooge.
"Why do you doubt your senses?"
"Because," said Scrooge, "a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
The chickens do not care about a few minutes here and there. We use local time because it is useful. I can call my neighbor in the next town and say "let's meet at 4" and we do not need to get into a long winded discussion about what that means
The displayed time is adjusted to local time for the benefit of us humans
We can say "the best time to feed the animals is at 4 PM" and that applies to everyone on the planet. With your scheme we would have to give a much longer-winded explanation.
Oh really? The subject is "python web frameworks" and you assert that a ruby implementation will score well in this competition? I gotta ask, what version of python does "ruby on rails" support?
Airplanes are private property. If you don't like what they do, don't set foot on their property.
The airlines are not suing the government to stop the TSA, so by implication they are happy with the arrangement.
You don't HAVE to fly. There are other means of transportation.
When you board an airplane, you trade your constitutional rights away in exchange for the convenience.
You do the same thing when you drive a car, you trade away many constitutional rights when you climb behind the wheel and go out on the public roadway. Again we do it out of convenience, the loss of rights has much lower value than the utility of transportation. For example, the police can ask you to get out of your car and take a sobriety test. There is no way that the police could do this to you if your were in your own home.
What happens when your vendor decides to move on, just like they have done many times before? Your application is now a ticking time bomb, set to explode at the support cutoff date.
Hello did you learn the lesson from the mainframe era? Don't code to vendor specific APIs. Stay platform-neutral and you give yourself a much wider range of platforms for your application. It gives you much more leverage in your hardware purchasing, if you are free to choose any platform.
The folks in the trucking industry figured this stuff out a long time ago. It is shocking to me to see people, today, intentionally choosing vendor lock-in.
Can you bundle your app into a single file, and run it by double-clicking it, on any one of a dozen platforms?
Are your runtime requirements available on ALL of the commonly available platforms, so people don't have to change their platform to run your code?
So you have the audacity to tell someone that they need to buy a new computer to run your code? Really I have to go out and spend hundreds of dollars to even try out your program, just because your taste in platforms is different from mine?
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe you should try DNS sometime
Call it a "feature", raise the price, and it's all good
Building 57(!) is an old Heinz factory
MIT is no stranger to ketchup
Can they verify the extracted information?
Why yes, I HAVE been on the phone with Barack Obama recently, and YES I REALLY DID receive a phone call from the prime minister, only 15 minutes ago. So why don't you uncuff me and let me go before they call back?
XBox 360 and Playstation 3 use absolutely horrifying amounts of electricity compared to devices like AppleTV
XBox 360: 121 watts to watch a DVD, up to 170 watts while gaming
New PS3: 70 watts to watch a DVD, up to 80 watts while gaming
Apple TV: maximum rated 6 watts
And then throw in the added energy required by an air conditioner to remove all that heat from your house.
Granted AppleTV has less horsepower than either game system, but their power consumption is WAY out of line, given what can be done with modern hardware.
Simple!
Use Time Machine with netatalk, then backup the files on the netatalk server.
I don't understand your logic.
Deciding what is secret and what is not is just a matter of content. Deciding that you need to keep the secrets secret affects the fundamental policies of how you do things.
And if you don't keep the secrets secret, the entire exercise is pointless!
It has often been said in security that the first law of security is being clear about what is a secret and what is not.
I think perhaps the first law of security is that you actually have to keep the secrets secret.
Why is wikileaks in the right?
What kind of security policy is this, giving trust to outsiders, hoping that they will do the right thing? You may have the contract on your side, but litigation will not put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Really it's just shoddy security practices by Wikileaks. They could have managed this in a way where they did not have to trust the reporter to do the right thing.
Absolutely. Tripping over a bug and submitting a good bug report is quite valuable. If you can include the necessary information to reproduce the bug then you have gone way more than halfway towards fixing the bug.
With modern linux distributions you don't need to be a technical expert to file a bug. The system will catch the crash automatically and hold your hand as you prepare the bug report, and then it will submit the report for you. It's not hard at all, and will pay off directly for you, if the developers fix the bug and you don't encounter it any more.
"You don't believe in me," observed the Ghost.
"I don't." said Scrooge.
"What evidence would you have of my reality, beyond that of your senses?"
"I don't know," said Scrooge.
"Why do you doubt your senses?"
"Because," said Scrooge, "a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
"The best time to feed the chickens is +4h from mid-day."
When I say "4 PM local time", I am saying the same thing in a much less obscure manner.
The chickens do not care about a few minutes here and there. We use local time because it is useful. I can call my neighbor in the next town and say "let's meet at 4" and we do not need to get into a long winded discussion about what that means
Our computer clocks are all using UTC already
The displayed time is adjusted to local time for the benefit of us humans
We can say "the best time to feed the animals is at 4 PM" and that applies to everyone on the planet. With your scheme we would have to give a much longer-winded explanation.
If you are willing to assume the support responsibility for your video card, then the mesa developers will not remove it from the source tree.
"I'm not talking about $200 t00b amps from guitar center, but amps like the universal audio 610 or 6176 or some of the Manley stuff."
Are we not talking about the mass market here? What do specialty high end guitar amps have to do with the habits of the everyday consumer?
Oh really? The subject is "python web frameworks" and you assert that a ruby implementation will score well in this competition? I gotta ask, what version of python does "ruby on rails" support?
Step 1: Remove positive battery cable
Apparently there is no step 2
Airplanes are private property. If you don't like what they do, don't set foot on their property.
The airlines are not suing the government to stop the TSA, so by implication they are happy with the arrangement.
You don't HAVE to fly. There are other means of transportation.
When you board an airplane, you trade your constitutional rights away in exchange for the convenience.
You do the same thing when you drive a car, you trade away many constitutional rights when you climb behind the wheel and go out on the public roadway. Again we do it out of convenience, the loss of rights has much lower value than the utility of transportation. For example, the police can ask you to get out of your car and take a sobriety test. There is no way that the police could do this to you if your were in your own home.
Scala scheme python etc all run in the JVM
If you don't like Oracle's JVM, use the IBM one or the Apache one instead
Oracle is NOT going to destroy java, IBM and Apache will not allow it.
15 years? More like 25.
What happens when your vendor decides to move on, just like they have done many times before? Your application is now a ticking time bomb, set to explode at the support cutoff date.
Hello did you learn the lesson from the mainframe era? Don't code to vendor specific APIs. Stay platform-neutral and you give yourself a much wider range of platforms for your application. It gives you much more leverage in your hardware purchasing, if you are free to choose any platform.
The folks in the trucking industry figured this stuff out a long time ago. It is shocking to me to see people, today, intentionally choosing vendor lock-in.
And I suppose you were really really careful and you made sure your code actually runs on all of them.
Can you bundle your app into a single file, and run it by double-clicking it, on any one of a dozen platforms?
Are your runtime requirements available on ALL of the commonly available platforms, so people don't have to change their platform to run your code?
So you have the audacity to tell someone that they need to buy a new computer to run your code? Really I have to go out and spend hundreds of dollars to even try out your program, just because your taste in platforms is different from mine?