Anyone entertaining cloud computing without having some way of doing end-to-end encryption AND having a way to guarantee you have physical control over your backups is putting a huge amount of trust in their provider, regardless of who it is.
You deliberately chose "Tetrada" to sound similar to "Tetris"
Tetris derives its name from the word tetra, the ancient Greek word for four. The Tetris Company should not be allowed to have a trademark on the number four, or the word four, in any language.
I haven't seen the game, so I can't comment as to its originality, but it seems to me that there are potentially many variants of tetris rules which are sufficiently original that they should be allowed to stand on their own.
Agree. This is stupid, because gloves exist and people often wear them while driving.
Also, this eliminates drunk driving how? I find it useful to point out that another word for "elimination" is "shitting". Are they shitting us? They've got to be.
In conclusion, I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines. Thankyouveddymuch.
...such as the difference between a tropical storm or a hurricane.
Sorry, but this isn't so.
Tropical Storm = Distinct rotary circulation, constant wind speed ranges 39-73 miles per hour (34-63 knots).
Hurricane = Pronounced rotary circulation, constant wind speed of 74 miles per hours (64 knots) or more.
I'm guessing you don't live in an area that regularly gets hit by these storms, as I really though this was common knowledge. Nothing arbitrary about it, unless we are using different definitions of arbitrary. Source: NOAA.
Just because the distinction between the two categories is precisely defined doesn't mean that it's not also arbitrary.
I guess the question would be, is 74mph arbitrary? Is there something observably different that happens at 74mph that doesn't at 73?
What's the difference between "distinct" rotary circulation and "pronounced" rotary circulation? How is that difference measured?
This is silly. Computers did not get here by themselves. They arise out of human action. They do or do not do things as a result of human action or inaction. Saying "it wasn't computers, it was human action or inaction" is meaningless, because the two are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, one is dependent upon the other.
Note I am NOT actually advocating that anyone actually generate pirate photoshop keys...
So, then, to safely use that particular tool, just run it in an instance of a VM that has NO useful data stored on it. Generate the photoshop key, write it down, then reset the VM back to its original state.
To be uber safe, do it on a VM running on a honeypot host hypervisor that also has no useful data on it.
To be even safer than that, isolate the system from the internet.
Software piracy tools are dangerous, but it's possible to mitigate the risks.
This is true, but it is offset by the number of people who are descended from Ghengis Khan. That man literally was one of history's biggest motherfuckers.
You know, I think any computer UI is likely to be a new one for many of the children they're targetting. They've got a rare chance to design an interface for people who don't already have expectations of how to use a computer. I know I'd take that opportunity to see if I could work out a better model.
And thereby screw all those children by training them on a UI paradigm that they'll never see anywhere else.
Best case, you'll design a better UI and they'll hate being forced to use inferior, but entrenched, UI paradigms in the real world. Worst case, you'll design a worse UI and they'll still hate having to re-learn the mainstream UI paradigm even if it's nicer.
So what other apps do you think do a better job? I'm about to undertake a site renovation for a drupal installation, and we're currently trying to decide whether to keep drupal or use something else. We've talked about wordpress, mediawiki, and a few others, but really knowing which offers the blend of power, flexibility, and ease of use that we're looking for requires a lot of in depth knowledge about each platform. It's a bit overwhelming, and none of us are particularly deep in our expertise.
From watching King of Kong I learned that it has a killscreen (a level that is impossible to beat). Based on that, I've assumed that there is therefore a theoretical maximum score in Donkey Kong.
There are a lot of variables affecting how many points can be scored on each level (bonus timer, how many of Pauline's trinkets Mario picks up, how many hazards he jumps or hammers, etc.) so this isn't as easy to calculate as the maximum possible score in Pac Man is.
Does anyone know what the highest possible score on DK is, or have a rough estimate for how close this new record is to that score?
I haven't read the article yet, but I have seen web forums be communities of fail. I'm not convinced that this is due to unavoidable faults either in forums or in human nature.
People will complain loudly about your products. They are not always rational or right. This will remain true whether you provide the venue for the forum or not.
Customer feedback is a vital part of any business. You need to have people who are capable of interfacing with customers. The best people for this are people who enjoy communicating with people and want to do it, and who also happen to have a solid working knowledge of the product. These are often other users of the product.
If you host a forum, you need to cultivate it in order for it to thrive. This does not mean censoring complaints about the product. It does mean policing the forums to keep abuse, trolling, griefing, and spam under control. Being a forum admin is probably not the best use of time for high value developers or designers. If you have a staff, the forum admin work should be delegated to an appropriate person or team who is suited to the task and knows how to do it well.
Having a presence on the forums will make a huge difference in how the general userbase perceives your company. If knowledgeable, helpful employees take the time to read and participate in forums, users of the forums will tend to be more appreciative and sympathetic toward the company. If official participation is loose and personable, not overly corporate toe-the-line, your customers will generally feel warmly toward the company. Don't punish low level employees who participate in the forums and openly admit that the product has faults or that the company could be better. It's obvious to everyone that you're not perfect, and punishing people for saying so isn't going to fix the problem.
If your only way of getting good information from your employees is through manually sifting through forum threads, you're doing it wrong. Your forum technology sucks, isn't well integrated with the rest of your business, and is out of date. That is why it fails. You can't just bolt a forum on to a web site and consider the job done. You need a system that rewards people for investing the time in participating positively to the forum, like Stack Overflow does. Forums where people are asking questions, especially where they are having problems, need to have follow-through and resolution. If this isn't provided, then the forum is largely a waste of time for everyone involved, and a frustrating experience.
You also need to integrate your forum into your overall customer relationship strategy, and other areas of the business process, such as product design and marketing. Forum discussions shouldn't dictate your product's design, but certainly customer feedback should be taken into account when considering your priorities, and a well-designed forum that provides useful datamining tools can provide this. A customer relationship management (CRM) suite can provide this integration quite well. Check out a product like Lithium and see what it can do for you. Western Digital uses Lithium CRM in their product support forums, and it's a lot nicer than many forums that I've seen used by other companies.
You'll still want to get to all the cool shit that's still attached to the old internet.
In time, the same forces that conspired to make the old internet will happen again to the new one... unless we do something to fix those factors, which if you can do that, you should have done it to the already-existing internet.
The battle wasn't lost the moment debate began. That's defeatist talk. Fuck that shit.
If I want to purchase services from a provider available to me that prioritizes YouTube and Netflix over Torrent traffic, why the heck shouldn't I be able to?
You can. You probably do. Net Neutrality isn't about QoS, it's about providing preferential access to end nodes who are in bed with the people who own the tubes.
What really makes me excited about that is the smaller chunks of RAIDed disk. Recovery by hot spare has always made me nervous due to the length of time it takes to repair a 1-2 TB hole in your redundancy. As long as the failure rate of the individual drives isn't such that you're incurring multiple failures or encountering them very frequently, this faster return-to-full-health time would be a real boon.
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Anything is easy once you have a solution. What did it take to get to that solution? Add it up, it still looks like a mammoth task if you ask me.
I'd wager he has.
They can certainly trademark Tetris. They can't trademark "tetr*".
Anyone entertaining cloud computing without having some way of doing end-to-end encryption AND having a way to guarantee you have physical control over your backups is putting a huge amount of trust in their provider, regardless of who it is.
Tetris derives its name from the word tetra, the ancient Greek word for four. The Tetris Company should not be allowed to have a trademark on the number four, or the word four, in any language.
I haven't seen the game, so I can't comment as to its originality, but it seems to me that there are potentially many variants of tetris rules which are sufficiently original that they should be allowed to stand on their own.
Hmm, I'm trying to decide what version of LOL to use with this reply.
There's also window washing, wrapping fish guts, lining the bird cage...
Agree. This is stupid, because gloves exist and people often wear them while driving.
Also, this eliminates drunk driving how? I find it useful to point out that another word for "elimination" is "shitting". Are they shitting us? They've got to be.
In conclusion, I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines. Thankyouveddymuch.
...such as the difference between a tropical storm or a hurricane.
Sorry, but this isn't so.
Tropical Storm = Distinct rotary circulation, constant wind speed ranges 39-73 miles per hour (34-63 knots).
Hurricane = Pronounced rotary circulation, constant wind speed of 74 miles per hours (64 knots) or more.
I'm guessing you don't live in an area that regularly gets hit by these storms, as I really though this was common knowledge. Nothing arbitrary about it, unless we are using different definitions of arbitrary. Source: NOAA.
Just because the distinction between the two categories is precisely defined doesn't mean that it's not also arbitrary.
I guess the question would be, is 74mph arbitrary? Is there something observably different that happens at 74mph that doesn't at 73?
What's the difference between "distinct" rotary circulation and "pronounced" rotary circulation? How is that difference measured?
This is silly. Computers did not get here by themselves. They arise out of human action. They do or do not do things as a result of human action or inaction. Saying "it wasn't computers, it was human action or inaction" is meaningless, because the two are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, one is dependent upon the other.
Note I am NOT actually advocating that anyone actually generate pirate photoshop keys...
So, then, to safely use that particular tool, just run it in an instance of a VM that has NO useful data stored on it. Generate the photoshop key, write it down, then reset the VM back to its original state.
To be uber safe, do it on a VM running on a honeypot host hypervisor that also has no useful data on it.
To be even safer than that, isolate the system from the internet.
Software piracy tools are dangerous, but it's possible to mitigate the risks.
...will never be the same.
This is true, but it is offset by the number of people who are descended from Ghengis Khan. That man literally was one of history's biggest motherfuckers.
Biggest pro for Chrome: Chrome isn't in beta; FF4 is.
It'd be better to compare pros/cons for FF3.6.x to Chrome.
You know, I think any computer UI is likely to be a new one for many of the children they're targetting. They've got a rare chance to design an interface for people who don't already have expectations of how to use a computer. I know I'd take that opportunity to see if I could work out a better model.
And thereby screw all those children by training them on a UI paradigm that they'll never see anywhere else.
Best case, you'll design a better UI and they'll hate being forced to use inferior, but entrenched, UI paradigms in the real world. Worst case, you'll design a worse UI and they'll still hate having to re-learn the mainstream UI paradigm even if it's nicer.
So what other apps do you think do a better job? I'm about to undertake a site renovation for a drupal installation, and we're currently trying to decide whether to keep drupal or use something else. We've talked about wordpress, mediawiki, and a few others, but really knowing which offers the blend of power, flexibility, and ease of use that we're looking for requires a lot of in depth knowledge about each platform. It's a bit overwhelming, and none of us are particularly deep in our expertise.
So, OK, I'll buy most of that argument. But how is Google going to control the market using Chrome, which has 10% marketshare?
Why wouldn't h.264-using chrome fans simply install a chrome extension that brings back the h.264?
Why wouldn't the open-source chrome get forked to keep h.264 intact for those who want it?
From watching King of Kong I learned that it has a killscreen (a level that is impossible to beat). Based on that, I've assumed that there is therefore a theoretical maximum score in Donkey Kong.
There are a lot of variables affecting how many points can be scored on each level (bonus timer, how many of Pauline's trinkets Mario picks up, how many hazards he jumps or hammers, etc.) so this isn't as easy to calculate as the maximum possible score in Pac Man is.
Does anyone know what the highest possible score on DK is, or have a rough estimate for how close this new record is to that score?
When loyalty is valued over ethics, all is lost. It's time to start over.
Please don't use that slur. They prefer to be called European Asians.
I haven't read the article yet, but I have seen web forums be communities of fail. I'm not convinced that this is due to unavoidable faults either in forums or in human nature.
People will complain loudly about your products. They are not always rational or right. This will remain true whether you provide the venue for the forum or not.
Customer feedback is a vital part of any business. You need to have people who are capable of interfacing with customers. The best people for this are people who enjoy communicating with people and want to do it, and who also happen to have a solid working knowledge of the product. These are often other users of the product.
If you host a forum, you need to cultivate it in order for it to thrive. This does not mean censoring complaints about the product. It does mean policing the forums to keep abuse, trolling, griefing, and spam under control. Being a forum admin is probably not the best use of time for high value developers or designers. If you have a staff, the forum admin work should be delegated to an appropriate person or team who is suited to the task and knows how to do it well.
Having a presence on the forums will make a huge difference in how the general userbase perceives your company. If knowledgeable, helpful employees take the time to read and participate in forums, users of the forums will tend to be more appreciative and sympathetic toward the company. If official participation is loose and personable, not overly corporate toe-the-line, your customers will generally feel warmly toward the company. Don't punish low level employees who participate in the forums and openly admit that the product has faults or that the company could be better. It's obvious to everyone that you're not perfect, and punishing people for saying so isn't going to fix the problem.
If your only way of getting good information from your employees is through manually sifting through forum threads, you're doing it wrong. Your forum technology sucks, isn't well integrated with the rest of your business, and is out of date. That is why it fails. You can't just bolt a forum on to a web site and consider the job done. You need a system that rewards people for investing the time in participating positively to the forum, like Stack Overflow does. Forums where people are asking questions, especially where they are having problems, need to have follow-through and resolution. If this isn't provided, then the forum is largely a waste of time for everyone involved, and a frustrating experience.
You also need to integrate your forum into your overall customer relationship strategy, and other areas of the business process, such as product design and marketing. Forum discussions shouldn't dictate your product's design, but certainly customer feedback should be taken into account when considering your priorities, and a well-designed forum that provides useful datamining tools can provide this. A customer relationship management (CRM) suite can provide this integration quite well. Check out a product like Lithium and see what it can do for you. Western Digital uses Lithium CRM in their product support forums, and it's a lot nicer than many forums that I've seen used by other companies.
Forking the internet won't work.
If I want to purchase services from a provider available to me that prioritizes YouTube and Netflix over Torrent traffic, why the heck shouldn't I be able to?
You can. You probably do. Net Neutrality isn't about QoS, it's about providing preferential access to end nodes who are in bed with the people who own the tubes.
What really makes me excited about that is the smaller chunks of RAIDed disk. Recovery by hot spare has always made me nervous due to the length of time it takes to repair a 1-2 TB hole in your redundancy. As long as the failure rate of the individual drives isn't such that you're incurring multiple failures or encountering them very frequently, this faster return-to-full-health time would be a real boon.
Even if you do delete your own profile, your friends will eagerly put up enough data about you that it won't matter.