One decent app doesn't justify the years and years of hype and proselytizing by the Java fanboys. The thousands of incredibly slow and shitty apps sorta offset it.
It only proves it's possible to make Java not suck.
I don't know how much more open you can get than PDF. The only thing slightly non-open about the license to the spec is the stipulation that everyone who implements PDF also implement the "protection flags", but people who have ignored this have never gotten any threats from Adobe. In addition, it's a very small patch to any open source program to disable heeding of the flags, for the very few that support them.
I'm upgrading all my servers to 64 bit so I can use 64 bit color depth video cards when they come out! Once you see 64 bit color you never go back. The color is "warmer" and more "photorealistic". Of course if you use cheap knobs on your monitor, you risk causing videoresonance effects that will cause your color to be off". I only use these
Broadcasters had to work things out with each other, but that was OK.
You mean the same way nodes on the Internet were expected to work with each other in the early years?
You see where I'm going with this. It doesn't scale, especially once you throw unscrupulous spammer types into the mix.
It's even worse with radio, on the Internet a spammer might tie up one set of end links, with radio they might make an HF frequency unusable world-wide.
You've got it backward. The copyright would protect any annotations, but not the genome itself. Copyright only protects creative works, not mere aggregations of facts.
I guess it depends on what normal is. It takes a few days to move 2TB of data across a network usually. If you were thrashing swap constantly, 100TB could be a month. For desktop use, I'd say it would be at least a few years.
Everyone is forgetting the most relevant, Microsoft TrueImage. TrueType fonts were just one prong of the fork to unseat Adobe, Apple and MS invested in the failed postscript competitor TrueImage.
Yes. I should not have to know a damn thing about driving in order to get behind the wheel.
While I somewhat agree with your sentiment, I thought everyone had learned by now that "insecure by default" is incredibly stupid. Have all the people that were around for the big Linux worms a few years back already left the industry?
There are many options, none of which they want to do.
Off the top of my head: 1. Don't store autocomplete information on SSL sites or 2. Use some heuristic, leaning toward not storing whenever in doubt or 3. Use encryption for form autocomplete data entered on SSL sites.
The rest of the mainstream browsers have addressed this issue.
Since the article concentrated on security, but didn't mention this:
If you leave autocomplete on, Firefox will save your credit card numbers in plaintext on your hard disk.
This bug has been known about for years. They won't fix it.
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If this is a real superconductor, higher voltages might need to be used to keep the current below the saturation threshold where the superconductor stops superconducting.
On the other hand, big high voltage lines only carry a few dozen amps max anyway, so it might be an acceptable drop-in replacement.
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Well energy can come out of a superconducting wire. If it couldn't, then there'd be no way to introduce energy into the superconducting wire either. These things work both ways. Think things like mutual inductance and magnetic effects. These things can cause undesirable losses too.
The key for superconducting is only that *resistive* losses are zero, as you said, for a given current n that is below the superconductor current saturation point.
The article does seem to strongly imply this is a superconductor, since it talks about quantum effects that sound like someone trying to oversimplify superconduction. They could have been more clear though.
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Isn't this more akin to seeding crystal growth? Using the word cloning might confuse the lay person.
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DO have some obnoxious characteristics.
Yeah, like eating through Aluminum. Just don't combine Gallium alloy cooling with Aluminum cases! That's a recipe for disaster.
That's the new version of Windows? What does hating Java have to do with Windows?
I thought MS even quit shipping their broken VM.
Apparently it isn't been ported to OS X yet. Like everything concerning Java, it doesn't live up to the hype.
One decent app doesn't justify the years and years of hype and proselytizing by the Java fanboys. The thousands of incredibly slow and shitty apps sorta offset it.
It only proves it's possible to make Java not suck.
I don't know how much more open you can get than PDF. The only thing slightly non-open about the license to the spec is the stipulation that everyone who implements PDF also implement the "protection flags", but people who have ignored this have never gotten any threats from Adobe. In addition, it's a very small patch to any open source program to disable heeding of the flags, for the very few that support them.
feh, only 32 bits?
I'm upgrading all my servers to 64 bit so I can use 64 bit color depth video cards when they come out! Once you see 64 bit color you never go back. The color is "warmer" and more "photorealistic". Of course if you use cheap knobs on your monitor, you risk causing videoresonance effects that will cause your color to be off". I only use these
Broadcasters had to work things out with each other, but that was OK.
You mean the same way nodes on the Internet were expected to work with each other in the early years?
You see where I'm going with this. It doesn't scale, especially once you throw unscrupulous spammer types into the mix.
It's even worse with radio, on the Internet a spammer might tie up one set of end links, with radio they might make an HF frequency unusable world-wide.
You've got it backward. The copyright would protect any annotations, but not the genome itself. Copyright only protects creative works, not mere aggregations of facts.
Have fun with your 100Mhz wifi. Bet that will get great data rates.
I guess it depends on what normal is. It takes a few days to move 2TB of data across a network usually. If you were thrashing swap constantly, 100TB could be a month. For desktop use, I'd say it would be at least a few years.
Copyright was never about privacy. Until pretty recently, works weren't even covered by copyright unless explicitly declared as such.
You can't copyright facts. There's no creative process involved with recording the length of various things on your body.
Apple could (and should) have done a search before picking that name.
If they did that, they wouldn't be called Apple.
Everyone is forgetting the most relevant, Microsoft TrueImage. TrueType fonts were just one prong of the fork to unseat Adobe, Apple and MS invested in the failed postscript competitor TrueImage.
If you can read Chinese, you can type the URL on your system too. As usual, this story is overblow sensationalism.
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Can't link to mozilla bugzilla from slashdot. You'll have to type in the number.
Yes. I should not have to know a damn thing about driving in order to get behind the wheel.
While I somewhat agree with your sentiment, I thought everyone had learned by now that "insecure by default" is incredibly stupid. Have all the people that were around for the big Linux worms a few years back already left the industry?
There are many options, none of which they want to do.
Off the top of my head:
1. Don't store autocomplete information on SSL sites or
2. Use some heuristic, leaning toward not storing whenever in doubt or
3. Use encryption for form autocomplete data entered on SSL sites.
The rest of the mainstream browsers have addressed this issue.
Since the article concentrated on security, but didn't mention this:
If you leave autocomplete on, Firefox will save your credit card numbers in plaintext on your hard disk.
This bug has been known about for years. They won't fix it.
If this is a real superconductor, higher voltages might need to be used to keep the current below the saturation threshold where the superconductor stops superconducting.
On the other hand, big high voltage lines only carry a few dozen amps max anyway, so it might be an acceptable drop-in replacement.
Well energy can come out of a superconducting wire. If it couldn't, then there'd be no way to introduce energy into the superconducting wire either. These things work both ways. Think things like mutual inductance and magnetic effects. These things can cause undesirable losses too.
The key for superconducting is only that *resistive* losses are zero, as you said, for a given current n that is below the superconductor current saturation point.
The article does seem to strongly imply this is a superconductor, since it talks about quantum effects that sound like someone trying to oversimplify superconduction. They could have been more clear though.
Isn't this more akin to seeding crystal growth? Using the word cloning might confuse the lay person.
Doesn't much matter, snow is a good insulator, once their buildings get buried in, it should be pretty easy to keep warm.
pathetic 4mbps?!?!?
You know a majority of Internet users are on dial-up, and most not by choice.
And that's only if you do the prepress yourself. If you hire a prepress company to produce the print ready files, it's even more.