Hypertext is what ends up on the screen. It's not just a wall of text, it is *hyper* text with links and shit. How it is delivered to the screen doesn't matter.
I agree that it's a stupid idea, but there is almost nothing about text that makes it special. It's just a particular data encoding scheme. If the HTTP/2.0 standard is actually a standard, then it will be pretty easy to make an app or a plugin that translates it.
Unfortunately, the days of computing being simple are over.
Exactly. When things go tits up, simple and unambiguous is the only "design philosophy" that isn't flawed. You can't have an airplane asserting Crew Resource Management rules to a confused crew that doesn't know what direction the plane needs to go. You can't have an airplane that is so unreliable that pilots are conditioned to ignore stall warnings.
That's what they say their problem is, but I suspect they would be militants no matter what the US does. I mean, it's not like middle eastern terrorism was invented in 1990. In the first case, we wouldn't have been able to set up any military bases in Saudi Arabia if the house of Saud didn't allow it. So they should be pissed at their leaders for permitting it. Secondly, the US withdrew from Saudi Arabia 10 years ago. So why is Al Qaeda still causing trouble?
Because they are troublemakers looking for power, and they are using religion as a tool to ensnare more acolytes.
It seems like it actually is a design flaw, in that the overall design is flawed. What you are describing as a design flaw is more correctly an implementation flaw or an engineering mistake. If the system works as designed, then any flaws must be design flaws.
If a pilot is panicking to the point that he is flying wrong, he will be hitting the lockout button because he will think he is right. What happens when both pilots hit the lockout button? Do they just fight back and forth? It is almost by definition a problem of lack of communication when two pilots are making competing inputs to the aircraft. So designing a system that requires communication to solve in that situation is a design flaw.
Man, we think we have trouble getting the right answers out of the internet. Imagine some poor space geek trying to get calculations out of Mainframe Earth, and all he keeps getting is porn, fart jokes and funny hats that start wars.
My guess is that they want them to go to training and get certified. Fucking around in an evaluation copy does some good, but actually learning in a structured, tested way is how professionals learn things.
Which you can still do, apparently. Just download the trial version and use it for the 3-6 months allowed. If you can't figure out whether the software works for you in that amount of time, reinstall a new one or turn back the clock.
$100 million over how many workers and how many years? Or did they play that game where existing employees keep their sweet deal, and new union hires eat all the "cuts"? It's easy to shove out a big number to show sacrifice when you can spread it across a lot of time and people.
The replacement brand (around these parts anyway), Mrs. Freshly's, makes clones of all the Hostess stuff. And they taste better. Twinkies are delicious. Foamy and uncomplicated, sure. But not everything has to be a culinary masterpiece. Sometimes you just want a Taco Supreme.
That's what construction insurance is for. These homeowners kinda got screwed, but the fun thing about buying property is that you buy any undiscovered troubles and benefits with the property. If they found a chest full of pirate gold, they would probably not be complaining so much.
And there were still assholes on the roads. That's why they had to close the subways and tunnels 24 hours in advance. It would take that long to cram it into people's thick skulls.
there's an out-of-band method for heirarchical distribution of messages from local relays to cut in at a moment's notice.
Usually the secondary broadcaster has a box in their broadcast chain that listens to whatever the local 50,000 watt clear channel AM station is. When it hears the tones, it cuts out the program stream and cuts in whatever is being broadcasted on the "master" station. We learned this when the system got activated accidentally and the whole area got to hear Wally Phillips give away some panty hose to the 720th caller. I'm not sure where the local master station gets their feed from, maybe shortwave or some kind of dedicated phone link.
You need the machines to process the SMS messages. And wires to carry them. The last mile of transport might be "free", but the rest of it isn't. And, there ARE employees whose jobs are at least partially dedicated to supporting the SMS infrastructure. If there is any measurable work done by any employee to support SMS messaging, then it's not free.
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Hypertext is what ends up on the screen. It's not just a wall of text, it is *hyper* text with links and shit. How it is delivered to the screen doesn't matter.
What?
I agree that it's a stupid idea, but there is almost nothing about text that makes it special. It's just a particular data encoding scheme. If the HTTP/2.0 standard is actually a standard, then it will be pretty easy to make an app or a plugin that translates it.
Unfortunately, the days of computing being simple are over.
Exactly. When things go tits up, simple and unambiguous is the only "design philosophy" that isn't flawed. You can't have an airplane asserting Crew Resource Management rules to a confused crew that doesn't know what direction the plane needs to go. You can't have an airplane that is so unreliable that pilots are conditioned to ignore stall warnings.
Can you imagine the craphole that the CSA would be right now had they achieved secession? Good god.
That's what they say their problem is, but I suspect they would be militants no matter what the US does. I mean, it's not like middle eastern terrorism was invented in 1990. In the first case, we wouldn't have been able to set up any military bases in Saudi Arabia if the house of Saud didn't allow it. So they should be pissed at their leaders for permitting it. Secondly, the US withdrew from Saudi Arabia 10 years ago. So why is Al Qaeda still causing trouble?
Because they are troublemakers looking for power, and they are using religion as a tool to ensnare more acolytes.
It seems like it actually is a design flaw, in that the overall design is flawed. What you are describing as a design flaw is more correctly an implementation flaw or an engineering mistake. If the system works as designed, then any flaws must be design flaws.
If a pilot is panicking to the point that he is flying wrong, he will be hitting the lockout button because he will think he is right. What happens when both pilots hit the lockout button? Do they just fight back and forth? It is almost by definition a problem of lack of communication when two pilots are making competing inputs to the aircraft. So designing a system that requires communication to solve in that situation is a design flaw.
I'm not. And don't call me Maebe.
Forty two?
Man, we think we have trouble getting the right answers out of the internet. Imagine some poor space geek trying to get calculations out of Mainframe Earth, and all he keeps getting is porn, fart jokes and funny hats that start wars.
My guess is that they want them to go to training and get certified. Fucking around in an evaluation copy does some good, but actually learning in a structured, tested way is how professionals learn things.
Which you can still do, apparently. Just download the trial version and use it for the 3-6 months allowed. If you can't figure out whether the software works for you in that amount of time, reinstall a new one or turn back the clock.
What are you talking about? Plug a keyboard in and it works.
A large percentage of people make stupider decisions when adrenalin and fear are involved.
Another word for equity investor debt load is "owners". The people who put their real actual money on the line to try and save the company.
$100 million over how many workers and how many years? Or did they play that game where existing employees keep their sweet deal, and new union hires eat all the "cuts"? It's easy to shove out a big number to show sacrifice when you can spread it across a lot of time and people.
The replacement brand (around these parts anyway), Mrs. Freshly's, makes clones of all the Hostess stuff. And they taste better. Twinkies are delicious. Foamy and uncomplicated, sure. But not everything has to be a culinary masterpiece. Sometimes you just want a Taco Supreme.
Maybe a little bit, but smart companies think long term and want to make sure they have talent available when the greybeards wander off.
Yeah, but ironically fancier is cheaper. And now we have printers that take two minutes to boot up.
That's what construction insurance is for. These homeowners kinda got screwed, but the fun thing about buying property is that you buy any undiscovered troubles and benefits with the property. If they found a chest full of pirate gold, they would probably not be complaining so much.
There were (apocryphal, I'm sure) stories of people seeing #earthquake trending on twitter before they got hit. Technology is amazing regardless.
And there were still assholes on the roads. That's why they had to close the subways and tunnels 24 hours in advance. It would take that long to cram it into people's thick skulls.
there's an out-of-band method for heirarchical distribution of messages from local relays to cut in at a moment's notice.
Usually the secondary broadcaster has a box in their broadcast chain that listens to whatever the local 50,000 watt clear channel AM station is. When it hears the tones, it cuts out the program stream and cuts in whatever is being broadcasted on the "master" station. We learned this when the system got activated accidentally and the whole area got to hear Wally Phillips give away some panty hose to the 720th caller. I'm not sure where the local master station gets their feed from, maybe shortwave or some kind of dedicated phone link.
Should have bought a better phone. That stuff is customizable on other platforms.
You need the machines to process the SMS messages. And wires to carry them. The last mile of transport might be "free", but the rest of it isn't. And, there ARE employees whose jobs are at least partially dedicated to supporting the SMS infrastructure. If there is any measurable work done by any employee to support SMS messaging, then it's not free.