No, they could not put all files in a single archive and retain expected functionality. You betray a complete lack of knowledge about what Scrivener does, and why.
But sure. You know better what the limitations of software you have no idea how it works are. Seriously.
My document application of choice (Scrivener) only needs Internet access to synchronize documents I have decided to share between my various systems. Editing is done completely offline. It works very well, and Scrivener documents are very complex, so relying on the OS to handle syncing is not reliable (yes, it's been tested, and it causes endless problems; Scrivener managing syncing is the only way to get reliable functionality).
And this is the point of having Dropbox. I keep the data synced, offline. I can open my browser to reach the files, but I keep them on disk, offline, on all systems (except iOS systems).
Clicking documents to view them is all well and good when you already know document to look at. Since I keep the documents on disk, I can search them and immediately view my search results. Clicking in an application is such a trivial use case, and very far from what I do with my documents. They contain reference information and data, and I need to be able to do a lot more complex tasks with them.
Dropbox simply scratches a different itch than the other solutions. It is clear from your comments you do not have this itch. Fair enough, don't use Dropbox!
Lombardo really is amazing. The first time I saw Slayer live was when he was out of the band, and I was like "yeah, not bad, but not the best".
Then, the next year, Lombardo was back. And I saw them again.
And you had to wipe me off the floor with a rag.
Seriously, that man is a God among drummers. Listening to Slayer with him on drums was just a different, life altering experience. He really hammers out Slayer's place in the history of metal.
Mustaine is a whole other chapter. There is so much to say there. He is really awesome though. Kill'em All is entirely his beast, and Metallica will never come close to that album again. Ever.
Dropbox integrates very well with several applications. I use it to share my Scrivener documents across platforms, including Linux/Wine, Windows, iOS and MacOS. Support is built into Scrivener to handle this seamlessly and with minimal fuss.
I also have several document viewers for iOS and Android which hook right into Dropbox to view documents of various kinds. Very handy for manuals and reference documents.
That, and the fact that it has excellent selective syncing allowing me to get the files I need onto my mobile devices without having to replicate the whole structure, while I can keep the full content on my file server together with scripts to manage it, makes it a great fit for my travel photography workflow.
I have no use what so ever for sharing or managing bloated office files, or having my photos overcompressed and stripped from metadata when uploaded. And the few times I need to collaboratively edit a document (twice ever so far) I can use the free Google Documents. But generally, if I need to share something, it's some form of text file or image, and then Dropbox will do nicely.
In short, it scratches a lot of itches that no other solution does.
The pundits are correct. They say "people who can't easily or affordably get the content they want". Lack of either will cause piracy.
In your case, when your software had no copy protection, it was easier to simply copy it than to buy it. Once you had minimal protection, buying was easier than copying and cracking.
Affordability was, as you say, never a factor. But the way of paying for the software might be a barrier as well. If it requires hassle, that will cause piracy as well, simply by being a hassle.
Whenever the barrier to getting a legitimate copy is higher than the barrier to getting an unsanctioned copy, either in cost or effort (or both), piracy will be rampant. Reverse the barriers, and see lots less piracy. That's what the pundits say, and that's what you observed.
Heartbleed came about because the incoming string was ptr+length.
There is no security advantage at all in ptr+length. What there is, is a speed advantage. In Delphi it's known as "shortstring", and is an excellent tool for high speed string manipulation where no string will be longer than 255 bytes.
I have the same. Lots of old documents. And mine usually load fine. The few that did not, I opened in LibreOffice and saved in a more reliable format. In the end I did that with all of them, since I don't keep Word on my personal systems any longer.
But I have fixed countless Word documents for clients. Documents saved in the Word version they then tried to open them in, to no avail. It happens frequently enough that people know to contact me for help.
I've encountered it once with an Excel document, but then it seemed like disk corruption. With Word files, it's just Word breaking them on its own, for the most part.
I've had that happen many times. Word's older file formats are really nuts. Among other things they contain raw memory dumps from Word, which are then reloaded and instantiated when the document is opened.
It's a miracle (and a sign of the immense amount of work to fix quirks the developers put in) that it works as well as it does. Word not being able to read Word documents is very common.
WordPerfect is well supported, on the other hand. That file format is well documented and sane. I am not surprised that can be opened in a modern word processor. The issue is with Word, not the age of the documents.
I'm not really disagreeing. The CD often sounds a lot worse than the LP. And surprisingly often, the "high definition" audio releases will sound good again, very close to the LP.
But that is not due to some deficiency in the formats. There are no technical reasons why CD would sound worse than either of the other formats. It is by far more capable in dynamic range than any master of any song I have ever listened to, and none of us can hear above 22kHz.
The problem is the mastering. CD's are usually mastered for mass market - for people using them in the car, in cheap systems, and not caring much about dynamic range and subtle nuances.
LP's, especially from technically sophisticated bands like Yello, Pink Floyd and the like, were mastered with the careful listener in mind. And the new "high definition" audio releases are as well.
That is why they sound better, when you have good equipment.
That is a completely uninteresting question. What is an interesting is:
Which contains more audible information about an analog signal representing music: a 16 bit sample at 44 khz, or a 24 bit sample at 96?
The answer is, they both contain the same amount. No music produced will make use of the extra dynamic range 24 bits provide, and no human ear will be able to hear the frequencies above 22kHz, and in addition, very few speakers will attempt to reproduce it since all it will do is distort the audible sound.
No other area is so full of snake oil and bogus claims.
Linus does not differentiate between bugs and bugs. They are all bugs.
And yes, I did look over open source code.And my employer did, on my recommendation. Some of those applications are now in-house maintained, as they have been abandoned. Others, the patches have been given back to the project.
The point is not that security reviews are performed on open source software. I have not claimed that routinely happens (though companies I have worked for do them all the time). The point is, when I need to use a product or project for a security sensitive implementation, I have the ability to perform a security audit. Since I usually work where we have such expertise in-house, we can perform that, and depending on the state of the project either give back to the project or maintain our own patches.
[quote]The many eyes theory has been proven false over and over again in open source.[/quote]
In fact it has been proven TRUE over and over again in open source. When a project is popular and well used, bugs (which all are security risks; the only difference between them is magnitude) get rooted out very efficiently.
And wifi modules are incredibly popular. If these had been running an open source OS, immense amounts of scrutiny would have been applied.
Sure, unpopular projects and products do not get a lot of attention. There bugs can thrive. But the difference there is, if security is important to me, I can hire someone to look over the open source code - and even a cheap analysis using static tools performed by someone who knows what they're doing will make a huge difference. With closed source, on such products, it will be very hard to perform any kind of security review.
And if I want to replace one of those 40 independent executables with my own, I just do so, right? The documentation clearly describes their input and output, so that they truly ARE independent?
No?
Then how are they independent? They are a big mass with interdependent states.
And there are no discernible pros to binary logs. Something like ripgrep will search very quickly through text logs. And there is no advantage to storing binary data in a database over storing text data in a database. The opposite is true.
So, you find that there is too little porn which actually explores the way real world relationships work, and actually teaches how to have sex in a meaningful way. That is a good observation, and coincides with what I find.
And then you are happy that one of the few sites on the web where alternative approaches to pornography, like the one you lament is missing, are explored.
You're doing anything but OK. Due to not teaching children about sex, you have extremely high rates of unwanted pregnancies, teen STD's, parents denying their children HPV vaccines and other societal ills which countries which teach children about sexuality do not.
You advocate keeping kids "innocent", and in the same breath explains why that is impossible - children know about sex, and that it is nothing bad. They're humans, and humans have survived until now by having sex. It's nothing kids learn about from seeing Tumblr images. It's something humans know how to do on their own.
What humans, and kids, do not know on their own is how to have sex safely, and how to avoid STD's and unwanted pregnancies. Keeping kids "innocent" simply means keeping kids in the dark about how to stay safe, and therefore the "innocent" kids get pregnant and get STD's.
Your standards really need to reverse. Really badly. Kids need to learn more about sex at an earlier age, or they will continue to have "innocent" sex, ending in pregnancies, diseases and shattered families.
Nice bait and switch there. Starting with a number of cases where following the law was the wrong thing to do, then switching "following" to "supporting" to try to make some kind of point.
Following the law is not supporting the law. it is working within the system. FSF, EFF and others are also working to change the law, and spending a lot of money and effort to do so. Until the law is changed, handing money over to lawyers by breaking the law will do nothing except give money to lawyers.
And you know, your examples are non-examples. By riding in the front of the bus, or helping people escape slavery, one is doing the opposite of avoiding legal entanglements. Same as if one decides to try to not use a license. That is ASKING for legal entanglements - which will not lead to any kind of good thing in any way. No slaves will be freed from that.
No, they should not be orthogonal, because then we'd have a mess of transformational constants everywhere when doing simple calculations.
SI is set up to so that you can easily make calculations directly on the units. No need for constants everywhere. This is the entire point of SI; that every unit is normalized against the other make calculations of many things trivial.
Besides, it would not make sense at all to decouple units from each other. What would be gained from that?
That's correct. Trains are very good for working on, and with one hour each direction that's good time to spend catching up on emails, doing code reviews and going over designs and related documents, even if coding can be harder to get done with the normal interruptions of travel.
For a while a few companies rented train carriages and set up commuter offices in them, but as technology has advanced that is no longer required or cost effective.
Your BMR may be more efficient (possibly), but it is still a lot higher than before. It's simple physics (or chemistry, if you like, but same thing); your muscle mass requires a certain amount of energy simply for existing, and as you train and increase muscle mass, your BMR goes up.
BMR has no connection at all to higher or lower activity levels per se; the connection is indirect, through the amount of muscle mass generated by the activity. Your BMR will stabilize to handle your body mass and composition, not your activity level.
This is off the mark. Intel never had a foothold, much less any dominance, in the mobile space, so nobody was pecking away and driving away Intel. Intel grew and rose on the desktop and subsequently corporate server market, and still dominate that utterly and completely.
Intel has, so far, not been driven from any processor market. Home servers have not really been a major market, historically (yes, most/. readers probably had home servers decades ago, but that does not a major market make) and the rise in commodity NAS servers and media servers is very recent, and not replacement of previously Intel based equipment.
That's not to say Intel is not facing difficulties, but characterizing them as having been "pecked" away from markets or being in decline is flat out incorrect. Intel are still dominating business systems and desktop machines (including laptops), and right now that is not under credible threat.
China is a difficult beast in this space. It is quite unlikely Chinese made server racks will find international acceptance, for many reasons, but most of all for the extremely high risk of embedded spyware and back doors - and in all likelihood several layers of them, added by government orders, company orders and enterprising individuals in the organization. China has a track record, and shows no inclination to change.
Again, this does not guarantee Intel a continued dominance, but it will certainly dampen their fall, if it comes. What needs to happen is that Europe needs to find a chip provider that can be accepted by European governments and private actors, and by the EU. This will not be China, and seems less and less likely to be the US, so there is now an opening for enterprising, rising stars.
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No, they could not put all files in a single archive and retain expected functionality. You betray a complete lack of knowledge about what Scrivener does, and why.
But sure. You know better what the limitations of software you have no idea how it works are. Seriously.
It's not "the file". It is "the directory of files, all of which have to be in the correct state at the same time".
But feel free to go to the developers of Scrivener, tell them how wrong they are, and teach them how it's done.
My document application of choice (Scrivener) only needs Internet access to synchronize documents I have decided to share between my various systems. Editing is done completely offline. It works very well, and Scrivener documents are very complex, so relying on the OS to handle syncing is not reliable (yes, it's been tested, and it causes endless problems; Scrivener managing syncing is the only way to get reliable functionality).
And this is the point of having Dropbox. I keep the data synced, offline. I can open my browser to reach the files, but I keep them on disk, offline, on all systems (except iOS systems).
Clicking documents to view them is all well and good when you already know document to look at. Since I keep the documents on disk, I can search them and immediately view my search results. Clicking in an application is such a trivial use case, and very far from what I do with my documents. They contain reference information and data, and I need to be able to do a lot more complex tasks with them.
Dropbox simply scratches a different itch than the other solutions. It is clear from your comments you do not have this itch. Fair enough, don't use Dropbox!
Lombardo really is amazing. The first time I saw Slayer live was when he was out of the band, and I was like "yeah, not bad, but not the best".
Then, the next year, Lombardo was back. And I saw them again.
And you had to wipe me off the floor with a rag.
Seriously, that man is a God among drummers. Listening to Slayer with him on drums was just a different, life altering experience. He really hammers out Slayer's place in the history of metal.
Mustaine is a whole other chapter. There is so much to say there. He is really awesome though. Kill'em All is entirely his beast, and Metallica will never come close to that album again. Ever.
Dropbox integrates very well with several applications. I use it to share my Scrivener documents across platforms, including Linux/Wine, Windows, iOS and MacOS. Support is built into Scrivener to handle this seamlessly and with minimal fuss.
I also have several document viewers for iOS and Android which hook right into Dropbox to view documents of various kinds. Very handy for manuals and reference documents.
That, and the fact that it has excellent selective syncing allowing me to get the files I need onto my mobile devices without having to replicate the whole structure, while I can keep the full content on my file server together with scripts to manage it, makes it a great fit for my travel photography workflow.
I have no use what so ever for sharing or managing bloated office files, or having my photos overcompressed and stripped from metadata when uploaded. And the few times I need to collaboratively edit a document (twice ever so far) I can use the free Google Documents. But generally, if I need to share something, it's some form of text file or image, and then Dropbox will do nicely.
In short, it scratches a lot of itches that no other solution does.
The pundits are correct. They say "people who can't easily or affordably get the content they want". Lack of either will cause piracy.
In your case, when your software had no copy protection, it was easier to simply copy it than to buy it. Once you had minimal protection, buying was easier than copying and cracking.
Affordability was, as you say, never a factor. But the way of paying for the software might be a barrier as well. If it requires hassle, that will cause piracy as well, simply by being a hassle.
Whenever the barrier to getting a legitimate copy is higher than the barrier to getting an unsanctioned copy, either in cost or effort (or both), piracy will be rampant. Reverse the barriers, and see lots less piracy. That's what the pundits say, and that's what you observed.
Heartbleed came about because the incoming string was ptr+length.
There is no security advantage at all in ptr+length. What there is, is a speed advantage. In Delphi it's known as "shortstring", and is an excellent tool for high speed string manipulation where no string will be longer than 255 bytes.
I have the same. Lots of old documents. And mine usually load fine. The few that did not, I opened in LibreOffice and saved in a more reliable format. In the end I did that with all of them, since I don't keep Word on my personal systems any longer.
But I have fixed countless Word documents for clients. Documents saved in the Word version they then tried to open them in, to no avail. It happens frequently enough that people know to contact me for help.
I've encountered it once with an Excel document, but then it seemed like disk corruption. With Word files, it's just Word breaking them on its own, for the most part.
I've had that happen many times. Word's older file formats are really nuts. Among other things they contain raw memory dumps from Word, which are then reloaded and instantiated when the document is opened.
It's a miracle (and a sign of the immense amount of work to fix quirks the developers put in) that it works as well as it does. Word not being able to read Word documents is very common.
WordPerfect is well supported, on the other hand. That file format is well documented and sane. I am not surprised that can be opened in a modern word processor. The issue is with Word, not the age of the documents.
I'm not really disagreeing. The CD often sounds a lot worse than the LP. And surprisingly often, the "high definition" audio releases will sound good again, very close to the LP.
But that is not due to some deficiency in the formats. There are no technical reasons why CD would sound worse than either of the other formats. It is by far more capable in dynamic range than any master of any song I have ever listened to, and none of us can hear above 22kHz.
The problem is the mastering. CD's are usually mastered for mass market - for people using them in the car, in cheap systems, and not caring much about dynamic range and subtle nuances.
LP's, especially from technically sophisticated bands like Yello, Pink Floyd and the like, were mastered with the careful listener in mind. And the new "high definition" audio releases are as well.
That is why they sound better, when you have good equipment.
That is a completely uninteresting question. What is an interesting is:
Which contains more audible information about an analog signal representing music: a 16 bit sample at 44 khz, or a 24 bit sample at 96?
The answer is, they both contain the same amount. No music produced will make use of the extra dynamic range 24 bits provide, and no human ear will be able to hear the frequencies above 22kHz, and in addition, very few speakers will attempt to reproduce it since all it will do is distort the audible sound.
No other area is so full of snake oil and bogus claims.
Linus does not differentiate between bugs and bugs. They are all bugs.
And yes, I did look over open source code.And my employer did, on my recommendation. Some of those applications are now in-house maintained, as they have been abandoned. Others, the patches have been given back to the project.
The point is not that security reviews are performed on open source software. I have not claimed that routinely happens (though companies I have worked for do them all the time). The point is, when I need to use a product or project for a security sensitive implementation, I have the ability to perform a security audit. Since I usually work where we have such expertise in-house, we can perform that, and depending on the state of the project either give back to the project or maintain our own patches.
[quote]The many eyes theory has been proven false over and over again in open source.[/quote]
In fact it has been proven TRUE over and over again in open source. When a project is popular and well used, bugs (which all are security risks; the only difference between them is magnitude) get rooted out very efficiently.
And wifi modules are incredibly popular. If these had been running an open source OS, immense amounts of scrutiny would have been applied.
Sure, unpopular projects and products do not get a lot of attention. There bugs can thrive. But the difference there is, if security is important to me, I can hire someone to look over the open source code - and even a cheap analysis using static tools performed by someone who knows what they're doing will make a huge difference. With closed source, on such products, it will be very hard to perform any kind of security review.
And if I want to replace one of those 40 independent executables with my own, I just do so, right? The documentation clearly describes their input and output, so that they truly ARE independent?
No?
Then how are they independent? They are a big mass with interdependent states.
And there are no discernible pros to binary logs. Something like ripgrep will search very quickly through text logs. And there is no advantage to storing binary data in a database over storing text data in a database. The opposite is true.
So, you find that there is too little porn which actually explores the way real world relationships work, and actually teaches how to have sex in a meaningful way. That is a good observation, and coincides with what I find.
And then you are happy that one of the few sites on the web where alternative approaches to pornography, like the one you lament is missing, are explored.
You're not making any sense what so ever.
You're doing anything but OK. Due to not teaching children about sex, you have extremely high rates of unwanted pregnancies, teen STD's, parents denying their children HPV vaccines and other societal ills which countries which teach children about sexuality do not.
You advocate keeping kids "innocent", and in the same breath explains why that is impossible - children know about sex, and that it is nothing bad. They're humans, and humans have survived until now by having sex. It's nothing kids learn about from seeing Tumblr images. It's something humans know how to do on their own.
What humans, and kids, do not know on their own is how to have sex safely, and how to avoid STD's and unwanted pregnancies. Keeping kids "innocent" simply means keeping kids in the dark about how to stay safe, and therefore the "innocent" kids get pregnant and get STD's.
Your standards really need to reverse. Really badly. Kids need to learn more about sex at an earlier age, or they will continue to have "innocent" sex, ending in pregnancies, diseases and shattered families.
Nice bait and switch there. Starting with a number of cases where following the law was the wrong thing to do, then switching "following" to "supporting" to try to make some kind of point.
Following the law is not supporting the law. it is working within the system. FSF, EFF and others are also working to change the law, and spending a lot of money and effort to do so. Until the law is changed, handing money over to lawyers by breaking the law will do nothing except give money to lawyers.
And you know, your examples are non-examples. By riding in the front of the bus, or helping people escape slavery, one is doing the opposite of avoiding legal entanglements. Same as if one decides to try to not use a license. That is ASKING for legal entanglements - which will not lead to any kind of good thing in any way. No slaves will be freed from that.
No, they should not be orthogonal, because then we'd have a mess of transformational constants everywhere when doing simple calculations.
SI is set up to so that you can easily make calculations directly on the units. No need for constants everywhere. This is the entire point of SI; that every unit is normalized against the other make calculations of many things trivial.
Besides, it would not make sense at all to decouple units from each other. What would be gained from that?
That's correct. Trains are very good for working on, and with one hour each direction that's good time to spend catching up on emails, doing code reviews and going over designs and related documents, even if coding can be harder to get done with the normal interruptions of travel.
For a while a few companies rented train carriages and set up commuter offices in them, but as technology has advanced that is no longer required or cost effective.
Some of the best marathon runners I know are over 70.
You really need to know a few things about how age affects people to recognize lies.
Your BMR may be more efficient (possibly), but it is still a lot higher than before. It's simple physics (or chemistry, if you like, but same thing); your muscle mass requires a certain amount of energy simply for existing, and as you train and increase muscle mass, your BMR goes up.
BMR has no connection at all to higher or lower activity levels per se; the connection is indirect, through the amount of muscle mass generated by the activity. Your BMR will stabilize to handle your body mass and composition, not your activity level.
I thought the same, that Finnish people drink a lot.
Until I drank with Russians.
Finnish people can't drink at all compared to Russians. They're utter amateurs. Your friends didn't have a bottle each even.
[quote]So, what's Microsoft's endgame here?[/quote]
Everyone subscribing to Microsoft's software services and cloud, directly or through phone plan.
Indeed, they will become a great power in Asia, on all levels. And in the emerging economic prosperity of Africa, if it comes.
But Europe and the US are not out for the count just yet.
This is off the mark. Intel never had a foothold, much less any dominance, in the mobile space, so nobody was pecking away and driving away Intel. Intel grew and rose on the desktop and subsequently corporate server market, and still dominate that utterly and completely.
Intel has, so far, not been driven from any processor market. Home servers have not really been a major market, historically (yes, most /. readers probably had home servers decades ago, but that does not a major market make) and the rise in commodity NAS servers and media servers is very recent, and not replacement of previously Intel based equipment.
That's not to say Intel is not facing difficulties, but characterizing them as having been "pecked" away from markets or being in decline is flat out incorrect. Intel are still dominating business systems and desktop machines (including laptops), and right now that is not under credible threat.
China is a difficult beast in this space. It is quite unlikely Chinese made server racks will find international acceptance, for many reasons, but most of all for the extremely high risk of embedded spyware and back doors - and in all likelihood several layers of them, added by government orders, company orders and enterprising individuals in the organization. China has a track record, and shows no inclination to change.
Again, this does not guarantee Intel a continued dominance, but it will certainly dampen their fall, if it comes. What needs to happen is that Europe needs to find a chip provider that can be accepted by European governments and private actors, and by the EU. This will not be China, and seems less and less likely to be the US, so there is now an opening for enterprising, rising stars.