My wife kept hitting this, especially when viewing Amazon or Etsy. I couldn't figure out the problem and the only fix is to kill FF. Google searches like "Firefox memory" turn up nothing recent or relevant. Finally she gave up and switched to IE. Sigh...
Companies like Google and Facebook have Loony-tunes power: everyone uses them because everyone uses them. If tomorrow everyone starts using Bing (hey, it could happen...), Google vanishes in a puff of indifference. (kind of like the coyote who doesn't fall until he looks down).
Verizon has power because they own the poles, and the lines, and the trenches. If tomorrow everyone decides to use a different ISP...uhhh...no. You got nowhere to go. And if Verizon starts adding tracking headers to your HTTP requests, and null-routing domains that they don't like, and null-routing domains who haven't paid them enough, and forging RST packets to kill your torrents, and injecting ads into your web pages, and, and, and....you still got nowhere to go. That's backhoe power. That's why we need net neutrality.
'Cause the internet won't speed this [traffic] up.
It absolutely will. I work from home, logged into my employer's computers over the internet. That takes my car off the road 10 trips per week, during rush hour, the busiest time of day.
The Macintosh was always sold on its superior usability. In the early days, it lived up to that promise. Today, the Macintosh sacrifices actual usability for an illusion of usability; this charade is sustained on Apple's side by hype and glitz, and on their users' side by ignorance and blindness. I can not tell you how sad this makes me.
Google Must Delete Blasphemy Worldwide, Supreme Court of Sumeria Rules
The Sumerian Supreme Court, however, downplayed this objection and called Google's fears "theoretical." "This is not an order to remove speech that, on its face, engages freedom of expression values, it is an order to de-index websites that are in violation of several court orders. We have not, to date, accepted that freedom of expression requires the facilitation of blasphemy against the most terrible name of Gozer (all cower in her presence)," wrote Judge Vinz Clortho.
Back in the 1980s, Regan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Some enterprising reporter located a video rental store near where Bork lived and got the clerk to give him Bork's rental records. Bork had rented--wait for it--Citizen Kane.
Within a couple of months, congress passed a law making it a federal crime to disclose someone's video rental history. Because, of course, all those congressmen knew than when their own records turned up in the morning paper, it wasn't going to be Citizen Kane, it was going to be Debbie Does Dallas, part XXIII.
Anton Yelchin, who played Chekov in the new Star Trek movies, was killed Sunday when his own vehicle rolled backwards.
It has recently emerged that his vehicle was a Jeep. As discussed on Slashdot previously consumers are having a hard time knowing if the vehicle is in "Park."
The new gearshift design for the Jeep Grand Cherokee appears to be causing rollaway accidents: 121 crashes and 30 injuries so far. The gear shifter is designed to look and feel similar to a traditional automatic gear shift lever but it is meant to cycle through the gears rather than move directly to a certain gear. A driver who is used to placing their vehicle in park by pressing the shifter all the way forward may instead be setting it to neutral before exiting the vehicle. The NHTSA is investigating.
Couple of years ago, Verizon ran ads in the Boston metro area showing happy shiny pop stars standing in Boston's Copley Plaza (local equivalent of Times Square) and extolling their FiOS service. As it happens, FiOS isn't available in the city of Boston, and--to all appearances--is never going to be.
When the mayor of Boston called them out on this, Verizon responded with some clueless marketing gobbledygook.
Moore's law had a great run: ~40 years from early 60s to early 00s. During that time, every generation boosted density, gate count, clock speed, and value per dollar. The (exponential!) rule of thumb was 2x more every 18 months.
Everyone knew it had stop sometime: you can't make things smaller than atoms. What finally did stop it (considerably north of atom-scale) was gate tunnelling current. In a MOS-FET, the gate is separated from the channel by an insulator (SiO2). As you scale the transistor down, that insulator gets thinner, along with everything else. When the insulator thickness is less than the wavelength of an electron, you start to get significant tunnelling current. This acts like short-circuit from the power to ground.
The technology hit the wall around 2003. Gate tunnelling current was then over half of total power dissipation. The power density of the CPU chip was 150 W/cm^2 (like a stove top), and going further was clearly impractical.
As it happens, the clock speed at that design node was 3 GHz, and that's pretty much were we are today. Everything since then has been building bigger, not faster: multi-core, caches, SoC; plus architecture tweaks and optimizations, like pipelining and super-scalar.
It was a great run while it lasted, but it's over, and we're not getting another one without a fundamental scientific/technological breakthrough, on the order of coal, or steel, or quantum mechanics.
When I was in 6th grade, we had a semester of shop class and a semester of home economics. (In previous generations, the boys had a year of shop and the girls had a year of home ec.) It all seemed kind of hokey: it was clearly a vestige of an earlier time, but, whatever.
Anyway, if you want to expose everyone to computers, that's the place to slot it in: a semester or a year of computer class in 6th grade.
This is going to be an inner-platform, not for a platform, but...wait for it...for a programmer.
The Inner-Platform Effect is a result of designing a system to be so customizable that it ends becoming a poor replica of the platform it was designed with. This "customization" of this dynamic inner-platform becomes so complicated that only a programmer (and not the end user) is able to modify it.
This is the first numerical problem I ever did. It demonstrates the power of computers:
Enter lots of data on calorie & nutritive content of foods. Instruct the thing to maximize a function describing nutritive content, with a minimum level of each component, for fixed caloric content. The results are that one should eat each day:
1/2 chicken
1 egg
1 glass of skim milk
27 heads of lettuce.
-- Rev. Adrian Melott
Yeah, like we did with the drug dealers. I turned out that there were only a small number of people willing to deal drugs for money, and once we had them all in prison, the drug problem went away. I'm sure it will work for telemarketers, too.
I don't know what Atlassian will do with Trello, but their existing products are horrid. We use JIRA (a bug tracker) and Confluence (a wiki). These suffer from - poor use of screen space - useless search - crude and inconsistent text editing - verbose, non-standard, and broken markdown
Atlassian products are built for shelf-appeal: they are designed to look good in sales demos, and to appeal the people who sign POs and checks: CEOs, VPs, and directors. But they don't actually work for the people who have to use them: programmers and first-line managers.
Atlassian puts their own bug database online. When you find a problem with Atlassian software you can search for it there. You will likely find that other people have found this problem before you, and opened tickets on it, which Atlassian has since closed, explaining either - yes, it is broken, but fixing it would be hard, so we're not going to OR - no, that's the way it is supposed to work, and we're not going to change it
Slashdot Mirror
firehouse burns down.
My wife kept hitting this, especially when viewing Amazon or Etsy.
I couldn't figure out the problem and the only fix is to kill FF.
Google searches like "Firefox memory" turn up nothing recent or relevant.
Finally she gave up and switched to IE.
Sigh...
From the new blog posting
Aggregation is pretty much their core value proposition.
How could they "underestimate" this?
Companies like Google and Facebook have Loony-tunes power: everyone uses them because everyone uses them. If tomorrow everyone starts using Bing (hey, it could happen...), Google vanishes in a puff of indifference. (kind of like the coyote who doesn't fall until he looks down).
Verizon has power because they own the poles, and the lines, and the trenches. If tomorrow everyone decides to use a different ISP...uhhh...no. You got nowhere to go. And if Verizon starts adding tracking headers to your HTTP requests, and null-routing domains that they don't like, and null-routing domains who haven't paid them enough, and forging RST packets to kill your torrents, and injecting ads into your web pages, and, and, and....you still got nowhere to go. That's backhoe power. That's why we need net neutrality.
From the Comcast ad
It absolutely will.
I work from home, logged into my employer's computers over the internet.
That takes my car off the road 10 trips per week, during rush hour, the busiest time of day.
Your signature on a CC receipt is your agreement to pay the charge.
Clerks can check the signature on the receipt against the signature on the back of the CC as a form of verification, but that is secondary.
Hitler: (screaming at his generals) You outsourced our security to a vendor who's servers are in Leningrad?!?!
-- from an EFF Downfall parody
The Macintosh was always sold on its superior usability. In the early days, it lived up to that promise. Today, the Macintosh sacrifices actual usability for an illusion of usability; this charade is sustained on Apple's side by hype and glitz, and on their users' side by ignorance and blindness. I can not tell you how sad this makes me.
Google Must Delete Blasphemy Worldwide, Supreme Court of Sumeria Rules
The Sumerian Supreme Court, however, downplayed this objection and called Google's fears "theoretical." "This is not an order to remove speech that, on its face, engages freedom of expression values, it is an order to de-index websites that are in violation of several court orders. We have not, to date, accepted that freedom of expression requires the facilitation of blasphemy against the most terrible name of Gozer (all cower in her presence)," wrote Judge Vinz Clortho.
Back in the 1980s, Regan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.
Some enterprising reporter located a video rental store near where Bork lived and got the clerk to give him Bork's rental records.
Bork had rented--wait for it--Citizen Kane.
Within a couple of months, congress passed a law making it a federal crime to disclose someone's video rental history.
Because, of course, all those congressmen knew than when their own records turned up in the morning paper, it wasn't going to be Citizen Kane, it was going to be Debbie Does Dallas, part XXIII.
We may be seeing the same thing here.
Star Trek Actor's Death Inspires Class Action Against Car Manufacturer
Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents
I'm going to call this an unusable device.
Couple of years ago, Verizon ran ads in the Boston metro area showing happy shiny pop stars standing in Boston's Copley Plaza (local equivalent of Times Square) and extolling their FiOS service. As it happens, FiOS isn't available in the city of Boston, and--to all appearances--is never going to be.
When the mayor of Boston called them out on this, Verizon responded with some clueless marketing gobbledygook.
Moore's law had a great run: ~40 years from early 60s to early 00s.
During that time, every generation boosted density, gate count, clock speed, and value per dollar.
The (exponential!) rule of thumb was 2x more every 18 months.
Everyone knew it had stop sometime: you can't make things smaller than atoms.
What finally did stop it (considerably north of atom-scale) was gate tunnelling current.
In a MOS-FET, the gate is separated from the channel by an insulator (SiO2).
As you scale the transistor down, that insulator gets thinner, along with everything else.
When the insulator thickness is less than the wavelength of an electron, you start to get significant tunnelling current.
This acts like short-circuit from the power to ground.
The technology hit the wall around 2003.
Gate tunnelling current was then over half of total power dissipation.
The power density of the CPU chip was 150 W/cm^2 (like a stove top),
and going further was clearly impractical.
As it happens, the clock speed at that design node was 3 GHz,
and that's pretty much were we are today.
Everything since then has been building bigger, not faster: multi-core, caches, SoC;
plus architecture tweaks and optimizations, like pipelining and super-scalar.
It was a great run while it lasted, but it's over,
and we're not getting another one without a fundamental scientific/technological breakthrough,
on the order of coal, or steel, or quantum mechanics.
When I was in 6th grade, we had a semester of shop class and a semester of home economics.
(In previous generations, the boys had a year of shop and the girls had a year of home ec.)
It all seemed kind of hokey: it was clearly a vestige of an earlier time, but, whatever.
Anyway, if you want to expose everyone to computers, that's the place to slot it in:
a semester or a year of computer class in 6th grade.
This is going to be an inner-platform, not for a platform, but...wait for it...for a programmer.
This is the first numerical problem I ever did.
It demonstrates the power of computers:
Enter lots of data on calorie & nutritive content of foods.
Instruct the thing to maximize a function describing nutritive content, with a minimum level of each component, for fixed caloric content.
The results are that one should eat each day:
1/2 chicken
1 egg
1 glass of skim milk
27 heads of lettuce.
-- Rev. Adrian Melott
Yeah, like we did with the drug dealers.
I turned out that there were only a small number of people willing to deal drugs for money, and once we had them all in prison, the drug problem went away.
I'm sure it will work for telemarketers, too.
I watched him take the oath of office.
He looked grim.
Or impatient.
Or maybe annoyed.
I don't know what Atlassian will do with Trello, but their existing products are horrid.
We use JIRA (a bug tracker) and Confluence (a wiki). These suffer from
- poor use of screen space
- useless search
- crude and inconsistent text editing
- verbose, non-standard, and broken markdown
Atlassian products are built for shelf-appeal: they are designed to look good in sales demos, and to appeal the people who sign POs and checks: CEOs, VPs, and directors. But they don't actually work for the people who have to use them: programmers and first-line managers.
Atlassian puts their own bug database online. When you find a problem with Atlassian software you can search for it there. You will likely find that other people have found this problem before you, and opened tickets on it, which Atlassian has since closed, explaining either
- yes, it is broken, but fixing it would be hard, so we're not going to
OR
- no, that's the way it is supposed to work, and we're not going to change it
It was a bit-nickle.
But they were free to anyone who wanted.
I think my son picked up a few for himself.
I never did...
Engine block shredder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
My dick could hit more than 9 inches in 2017 driven by expectations that Trump will deliver a steady stream of hot women to my doorstep.
Or...uhhh...not...
If Oracle buys a DNS provider, does that constitute a centralized denial-of-service attack?
buried ~1M war dead...
How congress broke daylight savings time