I had written a quite lengthy response and finally just replaced it with that quick soundbite.
What I was really getting at, was that the post I replied to missed the point.
To me, it sounds like the OP couldn't hire anyone who wanted to do anything but goof off. The post I replied to was defending this by basically saying programmer-types are eccentric. They were talking about two different types of people: children who can't do the work, and 'geeks' that may keep odd hours, odd habits, and odd mannerisms.
Agreed. Humanity has evolved to the point where a tribal mentality does more harm than good. Unfortunately it's ingrained in our genetics and cultures. Maybe someday we can evolve past it before we destroy ourselves.
If it was disbanded, they should give up the domain name, it is the responsible thing to do.
I don't see how some jokester grabbing up the domain to be funny should be taken as any kind of serious sign of incompetence, as the article implies, especially since the people that worked there, you know, don't work there anymore.
Agreed. Everyone here has forgotten how much they hated doubleclick for tracking via cookies on half the sites on the Internet. Google is ten times worse, and everyone is so excited to install their new spyware.
I couldn't find any way to block ads, nor any kind of plugin API or anything that would allow anyone to create an ad-block plugin. There isn't even an option to block cookies from specific sites. To be fair, there is an option to prevent 3rd party cookies from being re-transmitted. Ok...
There is a lot of neat stuff under the hood and the UI is nice, though. I'm sticking with Firefox for now and await an update to firefox with V8, per-process tabs, and improved search bar, while retaining ad-block, flashblock, greasemonkey, etc.
The question is, knowing full well that the user is going to get a nasty warning about your self-signed cert, versus not see anything out of the ordinary if they just didn't use HTTPS at all, why would the proprietor of paypals.com bother with SSL?
This is the same problem with e.g. Bank of America's "sitekey", where they show you an image that you chose beforehand when you log in. If I were to make a BOA phishing site, I would just get rid of the sitekey. I would guess 90% of the people who would have fallen for the phishing without the protection of "sitekey" are still going to fall for it on a no-SSL, no-sitekeyed website that otherwise looks and acts the same.
These "security features" are just annoyances for everyone.
Interestingly if you dive a little lower level, MPEG codec specifies transforms of different parts of the image to facilitate motion. So it wouldn't even be really necessary to analyze the difference between frames -- the MPEG encoding process will have already done this for you.
Those were the days indeed. Now, everyone would leave (and the few students who were actually interested wouldn't have shown up in the first place because they would have already known about what you were going to lecture).
If I had to guess, because it's a search engine which links to everything, and not only that, caches a significant portion of it. This includes most bad web sites.
Oh.. I'm sorry, were you making some sarcastic anti-Microsoft remark? It didn't register at first because people around here don't usually do that sort of thing. Kudos on your gift for innovation and thinking differently.
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What I was really getting at, was that the post I replied to missed the point.
To me, it sounds like the OP couldn't hire anyone who wanted to do anything but goof off. The post I replied to was defending this by basically saying programmer-types are eccentric. They were talking about two different types of people: children who can't do the work, and 'geeks' that may keep odd hours, odd habits, and odd mannerisms.
There's a difference between being eccentric and needing to grow the fuck up.
Windows memory maps executable images, including DLLs.
Point is, I don't see them going to any ACM SIG conferences, for example.
That is a hell of a wall of text. Why don't we see this kind of in-depth coverage for more technical topics?
You can get a state ID which is effectively the same thing (minus the actual license to drive).
Agreed. Humanity has evolved to the point where a tribal mentality does more harm than good. Unfortunately it's ingrained in our genetics and cultures. Maybe someday we can evolve past it before we destroy ourselves.
If you were more passionate you would have realized that "and uninformed retort" begins an HTML comment.
We'll get started on it as soon as we finish the semantic web.
Sorry, what's a "web domain"?
I don't see how some jokester grabbing up the domain to be funny should be taken as any kind of serious sign of incompetence, as the article implies, especially since the people that worked there, you know, don't work there anymore.
It's just slightly ironic.
Agreed. Everyone here has forgotten how much they hated doubleclick for tracking via cookies on half the sites on the Internet. Google is ten times worse, and everyone is so excited to install their new spyware.
There is a lot of neat stuff under the hood and the UI is nice, though. I'm sticking with Firefox for now and await an update to firefox with V8, per-process tabs, and improved search bar, while retaining ad-block, flashblock, greasemonkey, etc.
This is the same problem with e.g. Bank of America's "sitekey", where they show you an image that you chose beforehand when you log in. If I were to make a BOA phishing site, I would just get rid of the sitekey. I would guess 90% of the people who would have fallen for the phishing without the protection of "sitekey" are still going to fall for it on a no-SSL, no-sitekeyed website that otherwise looks and acts the same.
These "security features" are just annoyances for everyone.
I think you mean Dr. Sbaitso.
If you were talking about super-sampling by interpolating moving frames, though, this same mechanism would thwart that strategy.
Interestingly if you dive a little lower level, MPEG codec specifies transforms of different parts of the image to facilitate motion. So it wouldn't even be really necessary to analyze the difference between frames -- the MPEG encoding process will have already done this for you.
Local paper article about this. Includes a picture!
Those were the days indeed. Now, everyone would leave (and the few students who were actually interested wouldn't have shown up in the first place because they would have already known about what you were going to lecture).
Then they will give you a refund.
Thank you for putting this much more succinctly than I would have.
FYI, WD Caviar drives are virtually silent, and if you want them actually silent, there is a utility you can tune them with.
I guess if you don't run any programs, you'll never need to use the page file.
If I had to guess, because it's a search engine which links to everything, and not only that, caches a significant portion of it. This includes most bad web sites. Oh.. I'm sorry, were you making some sarcastic anti-Microsoft remark? It didn't register at first because people around here don't usually do that sort of thing. Kudos on your gift for innovation and thinking differently.
You still use toilet paper even with a bidet. Well, maybe YOU don't.