Mmmmno. Hybrid drives are convenient, I give you that, but they are very limited in what sort of information they have about the data and its uses and if/when a new filesystem format comes around which the drive's firmware doesn't understand the drive falls back to dumb block-based caching. Cache done on OS-side of things have access to things like frequency of use, what sort of situations are the files used, expected ranges of reads and writes in the various aforementioned situations, new, improved filesystems, actual content-type, which user or users are logged on and so on. The hybrid drive, for example, cannot know who is logged in or that the user likes to e.g. listen to certain playlist while doing image-manipulation -- it doesn't know how to predict these situations and preload/cache things accordingly.
A huge bunch of various talks and presentations that are only meaningful to someone who is already familiar with the project? No, that's far from clear and easily-accessible for someone who is not familiar with the stuff, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomBox seems like the most reasonable available explanation for it. And yet, it's totally not enough.
I still don't really get what they do or what they want, and I really have to say that this kind of approach really doesn't endear random people to the project -- people, that might otherwise start contributing to it. It wouldn't take them much more than a day or two to explain it all on their website and make the project and its developers more approachable, but alas, I get the feeling they want to maintain their own, precious little clique instead.
But there aren't many, if any, high visibility PC games that go out of their way to be hostile to KB/M.
Why would games even need to be KB+M - hostile? How does the capability of choosing to use one or the other form of input somehow work against using gamepads for people who like them?
Further more, there's no unified controller to design against.
Tbh, most developers just design against Microsoft's controller.
I'm sort of playing devil's advocate here because I hate pop-up ads, but you could put up a pretty strong argument that people accessing free (advertising supported) sites with adblock are the parasites.
Personally, there are two big reasons for why I block ads: 1) they're way too often enormously annoying, selling all the things I couldn't care less about and they make it hard to actually concentrate on the content I am on the website for in the first place. 2) they're one of the most popular ways of spreading malware on the Internet. Probably the most popular, in fact. I just do not trust ads. The websites I visit are generally more-or-less trustworthy, but the ads may come from anywhere in the world and from any sort of unscrupulous bastards. I just am not willing to compromise my security for a small amount of monetary benefit for the website-owner.
Not in this culture. We need to get back to a culture where you willingly pay what things are worth.
It's not that simple as that. If all websites moved away from advertisement-/user-tracking-based income generation to just blocking everything out until you pay a subscription fee then a lot of all the information on the Internet would instantly be locked away from children, the poor, 3rd-world residents and so on. Free (as in gratis) access to information is enormously beneficial on the global scale and I certainly do not wish for us to move away from that.
To be honest, when I was using anti-depressants the world certainly didn't feel happier or more comfortable or some silly stuff like that. Those drugs didn't make me happy or joyous, they aren't some sort of a magical happy-pill. No, they flatten feelings -- both the bad ones, but also the good ones. Sure, they helped get over the worst times since they flattened out the bad feelings I had, but in the end I stopped taking them because they also flattened out the good things.
Not that my rant really means anything or has much to do with Molyneux. Just felt like sharing what it was like for me.
If the placebo effect actually is effective, then it should be considered a form of medical treatment. Don't underestimate the placebo effect and human psychology.
You are totally misunderstanding what I said. I am not dismissing placebo - effect, I am saying that you can't just list everything that could have such an effect as medicine nor can you claim your faith healing - method or whatnot is effective medicine when the effect isn't actually due to your healing method at all -- it's because of placebo. You'd be attributing to your method something that is actually an effect of something else. So no, you can't just go and do that. If the healing effect is due to placebo - effect then say so, say that it is due to the placebo, not that it's due to your healing method.
I have no idea where you got the idea that I was dismissing the placebo - effect.
Not really. Placebo - effect, indeed, is well-known and it does have tangible effect, but these people are claiming their products or methods actually work, not that they have a working placebo - effect. I mean, it would be entirely different thing if these people just wanted their products and/or methods to be listed under things that are known to have a placebo - effect. Besides, almost anything can have such an effect if you just believe it to have an effect -- should we then allow anything and everything to be listed as medicine?
Most of the information on Wikipedia is "biased, misleading, out of date, or just plain wrong."
Based on.. what? Your comment seems biased and misleading and could possibly be just plain wrong. Is your comment just based on your personal impression? Have you actually gone through and examined most of all the content available on Wikipedia? No? Well, gee.
Even worse, most of it is plagiarized, drawing eyes away from the books, smaller sites and other sources that produced it.
And yet, while doing that it makes it much more easier to find both the sources and relevant information. If Wikipedia didn't exist finding all that information would be a major hassle, especially considering a lot of the sources mentioned are behind various paywalls, only available in physical forms or whatnot.
Do you ever feel that you'd like people to remember you for something else besides just Babylon 5 and if so, what do you yourself feel you'd wish people to remember you for?
Either this is a back door, or they are the worst software engineers ever.
A back-door is something that was placed there with the specific intent of providing access to the system even against the system owner's wish, so that's my point: it doesn't seem like that was the intent. It just sounds like it was there for this service, but they never really fully thought out the scheme and just went with whatever they first came up with. Granted, I'm only guessing here, but for once I'm going to go with the "it's incompetence, not malicious intent" - defense.
When I heard this news earlier today I couldn't help but think that it's not really a back-door. Samsung has had a service on their phones for years that allows you to track your phone and remotely wipe it if someone stole it or you lost it or something. Performing file I/O on the system? Well, that sounds exactly like something you'd need to do if you were to wipe the phone clean!
It's still open in the sense that legally you can do whatever you want with it. It's up to you if you want to make Google happy or not.
Google can deny you from adding Google's apps and services on it, though, and the moment you ship an Android-device without those you're removing a lot of the reason for why an Average Jane or Joe would want an Android-device in the first place.
I wonder, how does it relate to compositing engine? Ain't surfaces already drawn using GPU accelerated function when using GL-based compositing ?
The windows themselves should be drawn via the GPU on a modern compositing engine, sure, but the window - contents themselves have nothing to do with compositing managers; an app, depending on what UI-toolkit it uses, may be drawing its buttons and text-entries and scrollbars and whatnot via software, H/W-accelerated and somewhat outdated 2D-acceleration, or via the 3D-engine. Many drivers these days don't bother even trying to support the whole range of 2D-accelerated methods and some drivers don't bother supporting such at all, so the toolkits that still use these methods basically fall back to software-rendering.
Considering their size, all the heavy-duty supports in them and the fact that they're mostly used in cargo-bays one could assume that they're designed to lift at least a weight of one ton. Remembering the movie they were also surprisingly fast and nimble, but with totally rigid feet -- I can't remember there being anything the sort of toe-like structures or bend in the feet -- so they'd suit poorly for any sort of outdoors/rescue/whatnot missions, but could support heavy loads. It's all just guess-work, though, about a fictional exoskeleton:)
Yes, it does. It leads people to rely on building the application with the IDE instead of issuing standard Makefiles or using build systems like autotools or CMake.
Why do you assume that an IDE wouldn't be able to generate standard Makefiles? I don't know about Visual Studio, but all the IDEs I've tried have certainly been able to use autotools and standard Makefiles.
Eh, I don't think so. IDEs are great and all that and what tools you use doesn't matter in the end; what matters is that your code does what it's supposed to do reasonably-efficiently and without any "misfeatures." These tools usually also allow you to reach your goal faster than if you were to do everything manually, and in many cases time is money -- hobbyist coding being a separate issue. The language, the tools and so on really matter only in cases where you're developing for very limited systems, like e.g. embedded systems.
That said, I never found an IDE I felt at home with and I've always just typed everything away manually in Nano in a Linux-console...
Well, they do have a point. Anyone going to Mars on current technology would be committing suicide.
With that logic you're committing a suicide no matter what you do. You *will* die whether you stay on Earth or move somewhere else, there is currently no way of avoiding that. Also, since almost anything that you do in life is harmful to you you are actively committing a suicide, albeit a slow one.
That's what I was also going to suggest. I've got a Keepass-client on my desktop, laptop, tablet and phone and the database itself is synced through ownCloud, so it always stays in sync on all the devices. Plus, ownCloud automatically makes backups of the database so if it should get corrupted I can just revert to the previous version. I find that combination to be pretty much unbeatable.
I have the opposite experience. I've got a Buffalo WBMR-HP-G300H that shipped with a horribly, horribly broken firmware that never worked right in the first place, was unstable as fuck and, worst of all, its web-based management system only worked with Internet Explorer. Installing DD-WRT on it was the best decision I could've made; the thing is stable as a rock, fast, it provides heaps and bounds more features and functionality than the original firmware and it allows for fancy things like e.g. running a Mumble-server on the router itself, completely negating the need for a separate machine for that.
It sucks that your experience was lackluster, though:/ Have you checked if there's been newer releases of DD-WRT for your D-Link?
DNS-cache doesn't cache the times you access the domain, either, or how often. They only cache the fact that such a domain has been queried. It doesn't even say that it has been you who queried the domain -- it could be your IM-application when someone throws you a link to that domain, it could be your browser that just queries the domains for all the links on a site or something completely different.
That doesn't negate the heinousness of them tracking the websites you visit *just* in case you might cheat.
They aren't tracking websites you visit. They are tracking your DNS-requests. They are not the same thing, DNS-requests only show what domain names your system has queried and doesn't even say if the queries have come from the browser, IM, games or anything else -- there is no way for Valve to deduce the websites you've been visiting from these if there's more than one site behind the domain, like e.g. many blogging platforms and such host thousands of blogs under a single domain-name.
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Mmmmno. Hybrid drives are convenient, I give you that, but they are very limited in what sort of information they have about the data and its uses and if/when a new filesystem format comes around which the drive's firmware doesn't understand the drive falls back to dumb block-based caching. Cache done on OS-side of things have access to things like frequency of use, what sort of situations are the files used, expected ranges of reads and writes in the various aforementioned situations, new, improved filesystems, actual content-type, which user or users are logged on and so on. The hybrid drive, for example, cannot know who is logged in or that the user likes to e.g. listen to certain playlist while doing image-manipulation -- it doesn't know how to predict these situations and preload/cache things accordingly.
Look, its easy. On the https://wiki.debian.org/Freedo... page, theres a link to Learn about Freedombox, which Im sure gives useful information on the project.
A huge bunch of various talks and presentations that are only meaningful to someone who is already familiar with the project? No, that's far from clear and easily-accessible for someone who is not familiar with the stuff, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomBox seems like the most reasonable available explanation for it. And yet, it's totally not enough.
I still don't really get what they do or what they want, and I really have to say that this kind of approach really doesn't endear random people to the project -- people, that might otherwise start contributing to it. It wouldn't take them much more than a day or two to explain it all on their website and make the project and its developers more approachable, but alas, I get the feeling they want to maintain their own, precious little clique instead.
But there aren't many, if any, high visibility PC games that go out of their way to be hostile to KB/M.
Why would games even need to be KB+M - hostile? How does the capability of choosing to use one or the other form of input somehow work against using gamepads for people who like them?
Further more, there's no unified controller to design against.
Tbh, most developers just design against Microsoft's controller.
I'm sort of playing devil's advocate here because I hate pop-up ads, but you could put up a pretty strong argument that people accessing free (advertising supported) sites with adblock are the parasites.
Personally, there are two big reasons for why I block ads: 1) they're way too often enormously annoying, selling all the things I couldn't care less about and they make it hard to actually concentrate on the content I am on the website for in the first place. 2) they're one of the most popular ways of spreading malware on the Internet. Probably the most popular, in fact. I just do not trust ads. The websites I visit are generally more-or-less trustworthy, but the ads may come from anywhere in the world and from any sort of unscrupulous bastards. I just am not willing to compromise my security for a small amount of monetary benefit for the website-owner.
Not in this culture. We need to get back to a culture where you willingly pay what things are worth.
It's not that simple as that. If all websites moved away from advertisement-/user-tracking-based income generation to just blocking everything out until you pay a subscription fee then a lot of all the information on the Internet would instantly be locked away from children, the poor, 3rd-world residents and so on. Free (as in gratis) access to information is enormously beneficial on the global scale and I certainly do not wish for us to move away from that.
To be honest, when I was using anti-depressants the world certainly didn't feel happier or more comfortable or some silly stuff like that. Those drugs didn't make me happy or joyous, they aren't some sort of a magical happy-pill. No, they flatten feelings -- both the bad ones, but also the good ones. Sure, they helped get over the worst times since they flattened out the bad feelings I had, but in the end I stopped taking them because they also flattened out the good things.
Not that my rant really means anything or has much to do with Molyneux. Just felt like sharing what it was like for me.
that paid 3000k
They paid 3 million bucks for it?
If the placebo effect actually is effective, then it should be considered a form of medical treatment. Don't underestimate the placebo effect and human psychology.
You are totally misunderstanding what I said. I am not dismissing placebo - effect, I am saying that you can't just list everything that could have such an effect as medicine nor can you claim your faith healing - method or whatnot is effective medicine when the effect isn't actually due to your healing method at all -- it's because of placebo. You'd be attributing to your method something that is actually an effect of something else. So no, you can't just go and do that. If the healing effect is due to placebo - effect then say so, say that it is due to the placebo, not that it's due to your healing method.
I have no idea where you got the idea that I was dismissing the placebo - effect.
Not really. Placebo - effect, indeed, is well-known and it does have tangible effect, but these people are claiming their products or methods actually work, not that they have a working placebo - effect. I mean, it would be entirely different thing if these people just wanted their products and/or methods to be listed under things that are known to have a placebo - effect. Besides, almost anything can have such an effect if you just believe it to have an effect -- should we then allow anything and everything to be listed as medicine?
Most of the information on Wikipedia is "biased, misleading, out of date, or just plain wrong."
Based on.. what? Your comment seems biased and misleading and could possibly be just plain wrong. Is your comment just based on your personal impression? Have you actually gone through and examined most of all the content available on Wikipedia? No? Well, gee.
Even worse, most of it is plagiarized, drawing eyes away from the books, smaller sites and other sources that produced it.
And yet, while doing that it makes it much more easier to find both the sources and relevant information. If Wikipedia didn't exist finding all that information would be a major hassle, especially considering a lot of the sources mentioned are behind various paywalls, only available in physical forms or whatnot.
Do you ever feel that you'd like people to remember you for something else besides just Babylon 5 and if so, what do you yourself feel you'd wish people to remember you for?
Either this is a back door, or they are the worst software engineers ever.
A back-door is something that was placed there with the specific intent of providing access to the system even against the system owner's wish, so that's my point: it doesn't seem like that was the intent. It just sounds like it was there for this service, but they never really fully thought out the scheme and just went with whatever they first came up with. Granted, I'm only guessing here, but for once I'm going to go with the "it's incompetence, not malicious intent" - defense.
When I heard this news earlier today I couldn't help but think that it's not really a back-door. Samsung has had a service on their phones for years that allows you to track your phone and remotely wipe it if someone stole it or you lost it or something. Performing file I/O on the system? Well, that sounds exactly like something you'd need to do if you were to wipe the phone clean!
It's still open in the sense that legally you can do whatever you want with it.
It's up to you if you want to make Google happy or not.
Google can deny you from adding Google's apps and services on it, though, and the moment you ship an Android-device without those you're removing a lot of the reason for why an Average Jane or Joe would want an Android-device in the first place.
I wonder, how does it relate to compositing engine? Ain't surfaces already drawn using GPU accelerated function when using GL-based compositing ?
The windows themselves should be drawn via the GPU on a modern compositing engine, sure, but the window - contents themselves have nothing to do with compositing managers; an app, depending on what UI-toolkit it uses, may be drawing its buttons and text-entries and scrollbars and whatnot via software, H/W-accelerated and somewhat outdated 2D-acceleration, or via the 3D-engine. Many drivers these days don't bother even trying to support the whole range of 2D-accelerated methods and some drivers don't bother supporting such at all, so the toolkits that still use these methods basically fall back to software-rendering.
Considering their size, all the heavy-duty supports in them and the fact that they're mostly used in cargo-bays one could assume that they're designed to lift at least a weight of one ton. Remembering the movie they were also surprisingly fast and nimble, but with totally rigid feet -- I can't remember there being anything the sort of toe-like structures or bend in the feet -- so they'd suit poorly for any sort of outdoors/rescue/whatnot missions, but could support heavy loads. It's all just guess-work, though, about a fictional exoskeleton :)
Yes, it does. It leads people to rely on building the application with the IDE instead of issuing standard Makefiles or using build systems like autotools or CMake.
Why do you assume that an IDE wouldn't be able to generate standard Makefiles? I don't know about Visual Studio, but all the IDEs I've tried have certainly been able to use autotools and standard Makefiles.
Eh, I don't think so. IDEs are great and all that and what tools you use doesn't matter in the end; what matters is that your code does what it's supposed to do reasonably-efficiently and without any "misfeatures." These tools usually also allow you to reach your goal faster than if you were to do everything manually, and in many cases time is money -- hobbyist coding being a separate issue. The language, the tools and so on really matter only in cases where you're developing for very limited systems, like e.g. embedded systems.
That said, I never found an IDE I felt at home with and I've always just typed everything away manually in Nano in a Linux-console...
Ask them. I'm not the one who's saying that a mission to Mars is suicide.
Well, they do have a point. Anyone going to Mars on current technology would be committing suicide.
With that logic you're committing a suicide no matter what you do. You *will* die whether you stay on Earth or move somewhere else, there is currently no way of avoiding that. Also, since almost anything that you do in life is harmful to you you are actively committing a suicide, albeit a slow one.
That's what I was also going to suggest. I've got a Keepass-client on my desktop, laptop, tablet and phone and the database itself is synced through ownCloud, so it always stays in sync on all the devices. Plus, ownCloud automatically makes backups of the database so if it should get corrupted I can just revert to the previous version. I find that combination to be pretty much unbeatable.
I have the opposite experience. I've got a Buffalo WBMR-HP-G300H that shipped with a horribly, horribly broken firmware that never worked right in the first place, was unstable as fuck and, worst of all, its web-based management system only worked with Internet Explorer. Installing DD-WRT on it was the best decision I could've made; the thing is stable as a rock, fast, it provides heaps and bounds more features and functionality than the original firmware and it allows for fancy things like e.g. running a Mumble-server on the router itself, completely negating the need for a separate machine for that.
It sucks that your experience was lackluster, though :/ Have you checked if there's been newer releases of DD-WRT for your D-Link?
OTOH, if the entry does remain in the cache past the usual TTL (which is known), then that domain was queried at least once in that period.
Fixed that for you.
Re: IM and browser querying domains... you'll have to explain that to other people when someone tries to blackmail you like that.
Eh. I don't. Everyone knows I'm a creep.
DNS-cache doesn't cache the times you access the domain, either, or how often. They only cache the fact that such a domain has been queried. It doesn't even say that it has been you who queried the domain -- it could be your IM-application when someone throws you a link to that domain, it could be your browser that just queries the domains for all the links on a site or something completely different.
That doesn't negate the heinousness of them tracking the websites you visit *just* in case you might cheat.
They aren't tracking websites you visit. They are tracking your DNS-requests. They are not the same thing, DNS-requests only show what domain names your system has queried and doesn't even say if the queries have come from the browser, IM, games or anything else -- there is no way for Valve to deduce the websites you've been visiting from these if there's more than one site behind the domain, like e.g. many blogging platforms and such host thousands of blogs under a single domain-name.