I dislike adobe for a few reasons, but Microsoft constantly proves their willingness to ignore security flaws and patch out good features and patch in bad things. They almost always do it in such a way as to leave the core product usable, but I don't like it.
Given what I know now, I'll take Flash in a choice purely between the two.
Seriously, is there anyone on slashdot that wasn't well aware of this? I think its even safe to say 99% of people GLOABALLY don't get speeds as advertised. In fact I had a connection that I know for a fact could never, ever possibly hit the advertised speed as advertised was 5mbps and the modem was throttled to 4 mbps max in the firmware. Not that I even had to worry about that as 3mbps at 2 am on a good day was like greased lightning compared to normal rates. It was the "Premium" service however. My packets would get prioritized over others, basically guaranteeing me a 10-20 ms ping drop from being prioritized locally and I was playing a lot of MMO's at the time, so a 1mbps connection with a lower ping was worthwhile.
I don't think anyone could survive the 1 shot per bug found at an MS shop.
On the other hand I don't know why the OP finds it difficult... one of the most rewarding and fun things to do for me is to write code, get it to behave exactly as I want it to, write it as robustly and as well as I can, and then find some absolute garbage to throw at it. I love breaking my own code. At first its a challenge to get all the bugs out, and then afterwards comes the more fun challenge of finding something that WILL break it. Then fix that, run through the old crap again to make sure it all still doesn't break whatever you're working on, and find something even more dastardly to throw at it.
Like the "Will it Blend?" guys. I just keep going until it breaks, and I have almost as much fun breaking my code and making it much more robust as those guys do with the blenders.
The result is usually that even my units are somewhat useful on their own. Sure maybe its a bit of over engineering sometimes but I have so much fun doing it that I tend to get things done in the same sort of time frame as anyone else anyways, and the results are almost invariably better.
Also I have a habit of over engineering everything, I'm typing this from a desk that has a 2" thick oak top on it and 2x4 legs/cross braces etc because I thought I might want to use it as a workshop desk at some point and wanted it to be durable. Its not likely to see that sort of use any time soon, but who knows? It might.
Am I too jaded or did anyone else have the reaction to the parents comment that it should read more along the lines of:
"They're finally realizing that they can't let corporations that aren't paying them off for it have their way with the internet?"
That(to me) is the most likely reason for them not submitting their own plan. Whoever is paying the bills at their getaway condo in the bahamas is asking them for a stop gap while they come up with their own plan.
Oh, will you look at that... theres a tin foil hat on my head... maybe I'm just paranoid.
This is the reaction I get from everyone I've talked to that does a stint overseas. There was one that I know that might have a few issues, but even then he wouldn't complain about them or stop anyone from playing a game(except maybe directly around him) and just avoid the stuff himself.
I have a number of family members in the military and multiple family members that have done a stint in Afghanistan, the only consistent response I get from them and others I know through them is "We don't know why the fuck we're there. The majority of the people don't want us there and it would be easier to evacuate those civilians that want to leave than change the mind set of the majority."
The sad part is several media outlets have attempted to report on this and have quickly been bombarded by public(read:political) outcry against it, and its quickly squashed. Interviews with soldiers that actually make it to being widespread throughout are generally of the sort where it is very easy to pick up that the soldier is basically reading from a script except for maybe a few heart wrenching moments where they recall actual experiences. Almost nothing I've seen in the media coincides with what I've heard from the people on the ground.
What are those? I only recall A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi... as far as I was aware those were the only three that were made.
It really is about time they made some new star wars movies though, I mean, 30 years is a bit of a wait, don't you think? Then again maybe they'd just screw it up...
OH theres definitely a ways to go and new configurations and methods to discover but the size of the transistors themselves, which is what I'm referring to, will be down to the 1-10 atom range pretty soon. The speed can continue to increase after they hit that wall, but the transistors won't be getting any smaller.
Also, the human brain weighs around 2kg, so you would actually need those 100 processors to make up the same weight since most of them, even the dual cores, are around 15-20 grams.
and they made my decision on which smartphone to get when my Blackberry Storm kicks the bucket a whole lot easier. One of the reasons I went with them was because of their relative integrity when it comes to my information. If that practice is going out the window then my business just went out the window for them as well, and I'm certain I'm not alone.
My only problem with the Cig tax is all the complaints that its way too high, but then theres all the evidence that shows that it isn't even high enough to cover the health problems created by it.
Granted, I'm from Canada, and its more of a problem here since the taxes on cigs more directly pay the health care bills of the folks sucking them back, but still, our cig tax is higher, and still not high enough. They have gotten it a lot closer to enough in recent years though. I think the last time I saw them do a study on it, the total was sitting around 70% of the estimated health care costs(purely related to cigs) were taken care of by the cig taxes.
It has gotten so bad that they're close to letting doctors here in a lot of provinces refuse to treat you if you smoke, purely on the basis that you smoke. Its actually a fair policy. You're doing something thats very very bad for you, willfully, that is going to increase work load to treat you in any way. Certain anesthetics will outright kill you because of reactions to cig chemicals, the ones that will work without killing you have a much higher chance of killing you. Your BP and other stats are going to be messed up and harder to use as indicators of anything... theres just so many problems related to it.
I'm not saying ban it, I'm just saying make the taxes on certain products reflective of their real costs.
Legalizing and controlling a few things would dry up these sources of income for those drug cartels a lot faster, how about you ask your government to make a few decisions in relation to drugs that make sense? Legalizing marijuana in other countries has nearly eliminated it as a gateway drug to using other things and has seen a reduction in the use of those things.
People seriously just want an option or two. If they have a choice they have an illusion of control and of the rules making sense. When you blanket ban a whole truckload of things including things that don't make sense to ban, people pay less attention to laws in that realm period, its human nature.
Most people by this point know that marijuana is largely banned for religious reasons, and that theres really zero evidence for it being a dangerous drug(have to smoke your body weight to OD on the stuff! Alcohol if you chug a 40 ouncer for most people thats enough to put you 10 toes up!) So what are they going to think about what the government spouts about all of the other drugs? They're banning and very blatantly lying about one, so the others probably aren't that bad either right? Of course this is wrong, but its what goes through a lot of peoples heads when they go to get some weed from their local dealer and he offers to sell them some coke or something instead. A few tries and bam, hooked on one of the hardcore drugs... separate the source and kill the bullshit and more people would never get addicted. Your own police officers have told you repeatedly that legalizing a whole slew of things is a GOOD IDEA(http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php?name=News&topic=2). (http://copssaylegalize.blogspot.com/2010/05/press-release-deas-senate-testimony.html)
So, stop asking your fellow man for something thats not going to change as people have been doing recreational drugs for a very very long time, and start asking your government for the changes that are needed to minimize its harmful impact on society everywhere.
Congrats, since you're using an apple product I get to assume you're actually a hipster virgin nerd and believe you are rebelling against the "less cool" virgin nerd side of yourself in favor of the hipster.
At least thats the explanation my brain came up with first. It was followed by a more plausible explanation that you're like many who have bought apple products and are unsatisfied with your purchase but you paid so much more for it than an alternative product that you feel you must defend it at every turn for it to have value.
Both are equally valid in that they could be true and could not be true. I like forming random opinions about people over the internet, don't you?
Ahh, I assumed it would be a licensing model for intel to incorporate the tech into their manufacturing processes more completely but I guess buying the machine works just as well for them. Most of their R&D costs would go into making things like that super expensive fancy camera produce something that does what they want it to(and the design of the thing it produces etc of course)
I have to admit I'm a little surprised to see Canon on that list though. I've heard so little about Canon lately they were sort of pushed into the back of my head towards the list of "tech companies circling the drain", though as I've heard so little this probably isn't even close to being the case
Quarks we can't really manipulate at all yet and while theres some string and quantum theory for how none of it is even approaching the realm of solid like the atomic stuff has been for many years now. We can barely detect quarks and theres god only knows how many potential different kinds of quarks and particles theorized about that we can't even **detect** yet.
My point is we're running out of the remotely testable area into the "Well, maybe if this was like this and that was like that then this thing here would do this and the whole thing would go *pzzt*" realm of science.
It may not be the smallest we can eventually go, but the next level is going to required a bare minimum of decades just to build the test facilities to get the direction we need to go in. The LHC is just a starting point. Which means that most of that stuff is practically impossible to most anyone alive today and theoretically impossible for the most part as any theories on the subject currently really only have enough evidence with them to be hypothetical rather than theoretical. Unless there are some fantastic medical advances, likely no one living today will be alive by the time we can make use of it, and none but the very young will even be alive to see the hypothetical solidify into more useful theories.
Someone mod this guy up, this is quite interesting.
I have to say, I wasn't aware of someone succeeding where intel failed. I assumed that intel would have simply licensed the tech from anyone that had by now. Then again, just last year means that the licensing talks could easily still be going on. I'm going to keep an eye on this from now on. Thanks!
I'm from Canada, the poverty line is actually something to the tune of 15-30% higher here most of the time I believe.
Sadly it wasn't THAT long ago, on the other hand I don't miss it, but I wouldn't have considered myself poor at the time either... maybe I'm just better with my money than most.
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I dislike adobe for a few reasons, but Microsoft constantly proves their willingness to ignore security flaws and patch out good features and patch in bad things. They almost always do it in such a way as to leave the core product usable, but I don't like it.
Given what I know now, I'll take Flash in a choice purely between the two.
In other news, water is wet.
Seriously, is there anyone on slashdot that wasn't well aware of this? I think its even safe to say 99% of people GLOABALLY don't get speeds as advertised. In fact I had a connection that I know for a fact could never, ever possibly hit the advertised speed as advertised was 5mbps and the modem was throttled to 4 mbps max in the firmware. Not that I even had to worry about that as 3mbps at 2 am on a good day was like greased lightning compared to normal rates. It was the "Premium" service however. My packets would get prioritized over others, basically guaranteeing me a 10-20 ms ping drop from being prioritized locally and I was playing a lot of MMO's at the time, so a 1mbps connection with a lower ping was worthwhile.
I'm beginning to subscribe more and more to a friends theory that all that is wrong in first world nations can be blamed on an MBA.
I roll my own.
Kevlar helmet coated all the way around in copper(you never know with those army surplus items...) then electroplate on the tin.
Its at least 6 different kinds of paranoid all in one hat!
I don't think anyone could survive the 1 shot per bug found at an MS shop.
On the other hand I don't know why the OP finds it difficult... one of the most rewarding and fun things to do for me is to write code, get it to behave exactly as I want it to, write it as robustly and as well as I can, and then find some absolute garbage to throw at it. I love breaking my own code. At first its a challenge to get all the bugs out, and then afterwards comes the more fun challenge of finding something that WILL break it. Then fix that, run through the old crap again to make sure it all still doesn't break whatever you're working on, and find something even more dastardly to throw at it.
Like the "Will it Blend?" guys. I just keep going until it breaks, and I have almost as much fun breaking my code and making it much more robust as those guys do with the blenders.
The result is usually that even my units are somewhat useful on their own. Sure maybe its a bit of over engineering sometimes but I have so much fun doing it that I tend to get things done in the same sort of time frame as anyone else anyways, and the results are almost invariably better.
Also I have a habit of over engineering everything, I'm typing this from a desk that has a 2" thick oak top on it and 2x4 legs/cross braces etc because I thought I might want to use it as a workshop desk at some point and wanted it to be durable. Its not likely to see that sort of use any time soon, but who knows? It might.
Am I too jaded or did anyone else have the reaction to the parents comment that it should read more along the lines of:
"They're finally realizing that they can't let corporations that aren't paying them off for it have their way with the internet?"
That(to me) is the most likely reason for them not submitting their own plan. Whoever is paying the bills at their getaway condo in the bahamas is asking them for a stop gap while they come up with their own plan.
Oh, will you look at that... theres a tin foil hat on my head... maybe I'm just paranoid.
Oh, the woman complaining is fine, its the censorship that could come afterwards because of it that I have a problem with.
Thats at least 8 more pessimists in uniform, just from what I know personally.
I forgot to add: YMMV, this is anecdotal evidence from a sample group of approximately 8 people.
This is the reaction I get from everyone I've talked to that does a stint overseas. There was one that I know that might have a few issues, but even then he wouldn't complain about them or stop anyone from playing a game(except maybe directly around him) and just avoid the stuff himself.
I have a number of family members in the military and multiple family members that have done a stint in Afghanistan, the only consistent response I get from them and others I know through them is "We don't know why the fuck we're there. The majority of the people don't want us there and it would be easier to evacuate those civilians that want to leave than change the mind set of the majority."
The sad part is several media outlets have attempted to report on this and have quickly been bombarded by public(read:political) outcry against it, and its quickly squashed. Interviews with soldiers that actually make it to being widespread throughout are generally of the sort where it is very easy to pick up that the soldier is basically reading from a script except for maybe a few heart wrenching moments where they recall actual experiences. Almost nothing I've seen in the media coincides with what I've heard from the people on the ground.
...preserve a way of life, a way which includes freedom of expression.
The US is not alone in this, but freedom of expression is pretty much a myth these days.
What are those? I only recall A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi... as far as I was aware those were the only three that were made.
It really is about time they made some new star wars movies though, I mean, 30 years is a bit of a wait, don't you think? Then again maybe they'd just screw it up...
You do not yet understand the true power of the nerd rage young padawan.
Thats not innovative or game changing, thanks dirty dealing. Locking up a tech so no one else can use it.
Some sort of Android based phone. Then I can encrypt it myself.
Oh, I could do the same with a BB, but its a bit harder and some things are difficult to remap from the default BB utils.
Ah, alcohol is taxed at a proportionate rate to cigs here, thats probably why I never had any problems in that area.
OH theres definitely a ways to go and new configurations and methods to discover but the size of the transistors themselves, which is what I'm referring to, will be down to the 1-10 atom range pretty soon. The speed can continue to increase after they hit that wall, but the transistors won't be getting any smaller.
Also, the human brain weighs around 2kg, so you would actually need those 100 processors to make up the same weight since most of them, even the dual cores, are around 15-20 grams.
and they made my decision on which smartphone to get when my Blackberry Storm kicks the bucket a whole lot easier. One of the reasons I went with them was because of their relative integrity when it comes to my information. If that practice is going out the window then my business just went out the window for them as well, and I'm certain I'm not alone.
My only problem with the Cig tax is all the complaints that its way too high, but then theres all the evidence that shows that it isn't even high enough to cover the health problems created by it.
Granted, I'm from Canada, and its more of a problem here since the taxes on cigs more directly pay the health care bills of the folks sucking them back, but still, our cig tax is higher, and still not high enough. They have gotten it a lot closer to enough in recent years though. I think the last time I saw them do a study on it, the total was sitting around 70% of the estimated health care costs(purely related to cigs) were taken care of by the cig taxes.
It has gotten so bad that they're close to letting doctors here in a lot of provinces refuse to treat you if you smoke, purely on the basis that you smoke. Its actually a fair policy. You're doing something thats very very bad for you, willfully, that is going to increase work load to treat you in any way. Certain anesthetics will outright kill you because of reactions to cig chemicals, the ones that will work without killing you have a much higher chance of killing you. Your BP and other stats are going to be messed up and harder to use as indicators of anything... theres just so many problems related to it.
I'm not saying ban it, I'm just saying make the taxes on certain products reflective of their real costs.
Legalizing and controlling a few things would dry up these sources of income for those drug cartels a lot faster, how about you ask your government to make a few decisions in relation to drugs that make sense? Legalizing marijuana in other countries has nearly eliminated it as a gateway drug to using other things and has seen a reduction in the use of those things.
People seriously just want an option or two. If they have a choice they have an illusion of control and of the rules making sense. When you blanket ban a whole truckload of things including things that don't make sense to ban, people pay less attention to laws in that realm period, its human nature.
Most people by this point know that marijuana is largely banned for religious reasons, and that theres really zero evidence for it being a dangerous drug(have to smoke your body weight to OD on the stuff! Alcohol if you chug a 40 ouncer for most people thats enough to put you 10 toes up!) So what are they going to think about what the government spouts about all of the other drugs? They're banning and very blatantly lying about one, so the others probably aren't that bad either right? Of course this is wrong, but its what goes through a lot of peoples heads when they go to get some weed from their local dealer and he offers to sell them some coke or something instead. A few tries and bam, hooked on one of the hardcore drugs... separate the source and kill the bullshit and more people would never get addicted. Your own police officers have told you repeatedly that legalizing a whole slew of things is a GOOD IDEA(http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php?name=News&topic=2). (http://copssaylegalize.blogspot.com/2010/05/press-release-deas-senate-testimony.html)
So, stop asking your fellow man for something thats not going to change as people have been doing recreational drugs for a very very long time, and start asking your government for the changes that are needed to minimize its harmful impact on society everywhere.
Congrats, since you're using an apple product I get to assume you're actually a hipster virgin nerd and believe you are rebelling against the "less cool" virgin nerd side of yourself in favor of the hipster.
At least thats the explanation my brain came up with first. It was followed by a more plausible explanation that you're like many who have bought apple products and are unsatisfied with your purchase but you paid so much more for it than an alternative product that you feel you must defend it at every turn for it to have value.
Both are equally valid in that they could be true and could not be true. I like forming random opinions about people over the internet, don't you?
Ahh, I assumed it would be a licensing model for intel to incorporate the tech into their manufacturing processes more completely but I guess buying the machine works just as well for them. Most of their R&D costs would go into making things like that super expensive fancy camera produce something that does what they want it to(and the design of the thing it produces etc of course)
I have to admit I'm a little surprised to see Canon on that list though. I've heard so little about Canon lately they were sort of pushed into the back of my head towards the list of "tech companies circling the drain", though as I've heard so little this probably isn't even close to being the case
Quarks we can't really manipulate at all yet and while theres some string and quantum theory for how none of it is even approaching the realm of solid like the atomic stuff has been for many years now. We can barely detect quarks and theres god only knows how many potential different kinds of quarks and particles theorized about that we can't even **detect** yet.
My point is we're running out of the remotely testable area into the "Well, maybe if this was like this and that was like that then this thing here would do this and the whole thing would go *pzzt*" realm of science.
It may not be the smallest we can eventually go, but the next level is going to required a bare minimum of decades just to build the test facilities to get the direction we need to go in. The LHC is just a starting point. Which means that most of that stuff is practically impossible to most anyone alive today and theoretically impossible for the most part as any theories on the subject currently really only have enough evidence with them to be hypothetical rather than theoretical. Unless there are some fantastic medical advances, likely no one living today will be alive by the time we can make use of it, and none but the very young will even be alive to see the hypothetical solidify into more useful theories.
Someone mod this guy up, this is quite interesting.
I have to say, I wasn't aware of someone succeeding where intel failed. I assumed that intel would have simply licensed the tech from anyone that had by now. Then again, just last year means that the licensing talks could easily still be going on. I'm going to keep an eye on this from now on. Thanks!
I'm from Canada, the poverty line is actually something to the tune of 15-30% higher here most of the time I believe.
Sadly it wasn't THAT long ago, on the other hand I don't miss it, but I wouldn't have considered myself poor at the time either... maybe I'm just better with my money than most.