It would be good to have HTML standard for manuals - and have a standard to embed images and fonts and whatever in ONE SINGLE file (the same.html), then it will replace PDF to some degree.
You mean like MHTML? Based on MIME, standardised. Unfortunately Firefox doesn't support it out of the box, perhaps because it's a Microsoft invention (AFAIK).
Following this news, Mozilla has announced their next javascript engine will be called "unicorn bacon", and apple have bought the rights to use the name "iMegatron". The future is now!
Nah, it'll be a while yet. Apple recently suffered a severe setback, when security concerns forced Jobs to bin the cutting-edge development branch, "Shuriken Luggage".
Disregard that, I misunderstood: You were not saying SMP cache contention is a non-issue, you were saying that some other issue, an OS issue, must have been much larger. Apparently you know which OS the 8-cores at speculatrix' work are running. Or would that be a wild-assed guess on your part? Apparently you know the details of the investigations that led speculatrix to conclude that cache efficiency problems were causing slowdowns, or you wouldn't have said there was no basis for the claims. Or would that be another wild-assed guess on your part?
If you have something to contribute, some insight into what was a more likely cause of slowdowns, you should just say it outright, instead of acting smug and superior and trying to make the person you're replying to feel stupid. Well, maybe you weren't trying to make anyone feel stupid, but you could have fooled me.
So what sort of OS architecture makes SMP cache contention a non-issue? I can imagine mitigating tricks of a minor nature, but not doing away with it all together.
Here's a practical option, you can start using right away without waiting for the whole world to agree on anything: Use apostrophes for the thousands separator. It's just better: It looks good, everyone trivially understands it, and it's unambiguous.
If you configure that in the regional settings of a Microsoft OS, and the decimal separator is set to a comma, then Excel becomes capable of reading CSV files with either decimal separator.
It follows that if the EC were to receive such a letter, they couldn't very well respond by saying "Fine. We'll embargo all your products" for very long - they'd drive the prices for a lot of items up so high that the politicians in member states would have Hell to pay.
In today's interconnected economy, any country that abruptly closed it's borders to trade would plunge into a deep depression. (Any country except North Korea, that is. They cleverly avoided this problem by self-destructing to a point where a deep depression would be an improvement.)
Of course the EC is never going to launch an all-out embargo against the USA - that would be insane. But a toll on Oracle products, perhaps? And then the trick is that the interconnected dependencies work both ways: The USA is not going to risk a trade war to defend Oracle, either.
There is a USian collective consciousness. There is no European collective consciousness.
In your city, as in any city in the USA, lots of people read USA Today, watch Fox news and follow the NFL. Maybe you don't, but you could - your national media cover an agenda that matters to you.
No-one in Poland read Le Monde. No-one in Prague read The Sun. The show Livvagterne just won an Emmy, yet 95% of Europeans have never seen it, and never will. There is no European collective consciousness. And no amount of Brussels legislation or presidencies is going to change that.
IMO this is the one major democratic problem that the EU has. We have excellent democratic institutions, but we lack the common ground to use them right.
Nobody has yet to offer a reason grounded in reality for removing US control over the DNS other than "We don't think they should have it."
Back when the US was planning to relinquish control of DNS, I was completely comfortable with the US keeping control. After all, things had worked well so far.
But then the decision was reversed, for no apparent reason. To the rest of the world that could only mean one thing: That the US government was seriously considering unilaterally forcing through changes of their own design. It was only then that trust broke down. In the context of the "war on terror" and GWB's presidency in general, it didn't seem at all implausible that the US would break with tradition and abuse the US control over the DNS.
And really...'illegal war'? What the hell is a LEGAL war?
One that has been approved by the UN security council in accordance with chapter 7 of the UN charter. For example, the war in Afghanistan is a legal war. The 2003 Iraqi war was not.
Note that's a judicial perspective, not a moral one - it is a defensible position to think that the war was illegal, but justified.
That argument works just as well the other way around: You have nothing to lose by ceding control, because if need be, you can always set up your own local DNS to override the international one.
The fact of the matter is that we already have small-scale local DNS overrides. It's just that most of us would prefer them to stay small-scale - we think it's a very good thing to have a global common reference.
So, all those other bands on RIAA labels, who by their association contribute just as much to the RIAA legal budget as does Metallica, do you boycott them as well? I bet you don't.
You only boycott the outspoken and honest. All the other weasels, who want money for their music as well, but play it strategic and don't say anything that might upset anyone, you're okay with them. They sue their customers just as much, it's just that they leave it to the record companies to do it on their behalf, so they don't get their hands dirty.
By contrast, when some of us in the US suggest that maybe we should switch to "fair trade" that imposes tariffs on goods imported from places that have zero environmental protection laws and pay out slave-labor wages (to even the playing field), we get shouted at about "protectionism."
So, in your fantasy world, tariffs increase the wages in said places? In the real world it's the other way around: your tariffs would be paid for partly by increased prices in your country, and partly by lowered wages in the country you are "helping".
Either you have the power to individually negotiate your contract with the service provider, or you don't.
Or you don't want to waste your time writing contracts, and/or waste your money paying lawyers.
And after that, the joke's on you: all you have achieved is cripple the quality of support you are going to get. And you can't be sure it will stop anyone from taking a peek at your sensitive data anyway.
To provide good support, you need to understand the customer's situation and what the customer is trying to achieve.
To gain that understanding, you need to look at the customer's actual setup and actual data. If you rely only on the customer's own explanations, you are just setting yourself up for inevitable misunderstandings. No amount of careful explanation is a substitute for looking at the actual data. Also keep in mind the good doctor's advice: Everybody lies. To cure the patient, you simply have to run your own tests to find out what's going on.
Your right to privacy is that the supporter must not pass on any information to a 3rd party, no more than that.
While a tree-structure is algorithmically convenient and very enticing... the "tree of life" is not a tree.
Ie it is not a "directed, acyclic graph".
Unfortunately it has 'cycles'. I'll take your word for it that the "tree of life" is not a tree. But it doesn't have cycles. Trust me.
They did this because the old formats are 'less secure', which actually makes some sense,
This doesn't make sense to me. A file format doesn't have buffer overflow vulnerabilities, the program that opens it has them.
Exactly. MS disabled some old security-bug-prone code. They could write some new code to replace it, but chances are they would introduce new bugs in the process.
Realistically, to keep any program secure, you need to keep it small, or at least restrain its growth.
The kid was given detention not for using an unauthorized program, but for not doing the assigned task. Apparently the kid was goofing off with some sort of computer game called "foxfire.exe", when he should have been using a web browser instead.
Writing annoyingly bad titles is an art form onto itself. What'ya think, can my subject line compete with the article title, or should I throw in a ", says industry analyst" for good measure?
Sure, it is possible that some security check doesn't work properly because it compares local time on the computer to local time on some other computer.
But then the same thing would happen with computers that are legitimately in different time zones! Interfacing with the rest of the world in local time is a bug that updating TZ tables is not going to fix.
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It would be good to have HTML standard for manuals - and have a standard to embed images and fonts and whatever in ONE SINGLE file (the same .html), then it will replace PDF to some degree.
You mean like MHTML? Based on MIME, standardised. Unfortunately Firefox doesn't support it out of the box, perhaps because it's a Microsoft invention (AFAIK).
Following this news, Mozilla has announced their next javascript engine will be called "unicorn bacon", and apple have bought the rights to use the name "iMegatron". The future is now!
Nah, it'll be a while yet. Apple recently suffered a severe setback, when security concerns forced Jobs to bin the cutting-edge development branch, "Shuriken Luggage".
Disregard that, I misunderstood: You were not saying SMP cache contention is a non-issue, you were saying that some other issue, an OS issue, must have been much larger. Apparently you know which OS the 8-cores at speculatrix' work are running. Or would that be a wild-assed guess on your part? Apparently you know the details of the investigations that led speculatrix to conclude that cache efficiency problems were causing slowdowns, or you wouldn't have said there was no basis for the claims. Or would that be another wild-assed guess on your part?
If you have something to contribute, some insight into what was a more likely cause of slowdowns, you should just say it outright, instead of acting smug and superior and trying to make the person you're replying to feel stupid. Well, maybe you weren't trying to make anyone feel stupid, but you could have fooled me.
So what sort of OS architecture makes SMP cache contention a non-issue? I can imagine mitigating tricks of a minor nature, but not doing away with it all together.
Here's a practical option, you can start using right away without waiting for the whole world to agree on anything: Use apostrophes for the thousands separator. It's just better: It looks good, everyone trivially understands it, and it's unambiguous.
If you configure that in the regional settings of a Microsoft OS, and the decimal separator is set to a comma, then Excel becomes capable of reading CSV files with either decimal separator.
It follows that if the EC were to receive such a letter, they couldn't very well respond by saying "Fine. We'll embargo all your products" for very long - they'd drive the prices for a lot of items up so high that the politicians in member states would have Hell to pay.
In today's interconnected economy, any country that abruptly closed it's borders to trade would plunge into a deep depression. (Any country except North Korea, that is. They cleverly avoided this problem by self-destructing to a point where a deep depression would be an improvement.)
Of course the EC is never going to launch an all-out embargo against the USA - that would be insane. But a toll on Oracle products, perhaps? And then the trick is that the interconnected dependencies work both ways: The USA is not going to risk a trade war to defend Oracle, either.
There is a USian collective consciousness. There is no European collective consciousness.
In your city, as in any city in the USA, lots of people read USA Today, watch Fox news and follow the NFL. Maybe you don't, but you could - your national media cover an agenda that matters to you.
No-one in Poland read Le Monde. No-one in Prague read The Sun. The show Livvagterne just won an Emmy, yet 95% of Europeans have never seen it, and never will. There is no European collective consciousness. And no amount of Brussels legislation or presidencies is going to change that.
IMO this is the one major democratic problem that the EU has. We have excellent democratic institutions, but we lack the common ground to use them right.
You fail at history. The first Gulf War never officially ended.
I fail at history just because I don't subscribe to your ridiculous newspeak?
I don't really care what the officials at the Ministry of Truth call an Official War. It has no bearing on when the actual war ended.
Nobody has yet to offer a reason grounded in reality for removing US control over the DNS other than "We don't think they should have it."
Back when the US was planning to relinquish control of DNS, I was completely comfortable with the US keeping control. After all, things had worked well so far.
But then the decision was reversed, for no apparent reason. To the rest of the world that could only mean one thing: That the US government was seriously considering unilaterally forcing through changes of their own design. It was only then that trust broke down. In the context of the "war on terror" and GWB's presidency in general, it didn't seem at all implausible that the US would break with tradition and abuse the US control over the DNS.
And really...'illegal war'? What the hell is a LEGAL war?
One that has been approved by the UN security council in accordance with chapter 7 of the UN charter. For example, the war in Afghanistan is a legal war. The 2003 Iraqi war was not.
Note that's a judicial perspective, not a moral one - it is a defensible position to think that the war was illegal, but justified.
That argument works just as well the other way around: You have nothing to lose by ceding control, because if need be, you can always set up your own local DNS to override the international one.
The fact of the matter is that we already have small-scale local DNS overrides. It's just that most of us would prefer them to stay small-scale - we think it's a very good thing to have a global common reference.
on spying on the rest of the world? Does "ECHELON" ring a bell?
So, all those other bands on RIAA labels, who by their association contribute just as much to the RIAA legal budget as does Metallica, do you boycott them as well? I bet you don't.
You only boycott the outspoken and honest. All the other weasels, who want money for their music as well, but play it strategic and don't say anything that might upset anyone, you're okay with them. They sue their customers just as much, it's just that they leave it to the record companies to do it on their behalf, so they don't get their hands dirty.
Lars Ulrich is not the hypocrite here.
By contrast, when some of us in the US suggest that maybe we should switch to "fair trade" that imposes tariffs on goods imported from places that have zero environmental protection laws and pay out slave-labor wages (to even the playing field), we get shouted at about "protectionism."
So, in your fantasy world, tariffs increase the wages in said places? In the real world it's the other way around: your tariffs would be paid for partly by increased prices in your country, and partly by lowered wages in the country you are "helping".
Doesn't work for me either. Maybe because I got tired of accidentally hitting C-x C-c and added this to my .xemacs/init.el:
(defun kill-emacs-did-you-really-mean-that ()
(if (yes-or-no-p "Really really really quit Emacs?")
t
nil))
(setq kill-emacs-query-functions (list 'kill-emacs-did-you-really-mean-that))
I highly recommend The Daily WTF?. Perl does NOT get a disproportionally large representation there.
An incomprehensible Perl program is a "dog bites man" story.
Either you have the power to individually negotiate your contract with the service provider, or you don't.
Or you don't want to waste your time writing contracts, and/or waste your money paying lawyers.
And after that, the joke's on you: all you have achieved is cripple the quality of support you are going to get. And you can't be sure it will stop anyone from taking a peek at your sensitive data anyway.
To provide good support, you need to understand the customer's situation and what the customer is trying to achieve.
To gain that understanding, you need to look at the customer's actual setup and actual data. If you rely only on the customer's own explanations, you are just setting yourself up for inevitable misunderstandings. No amount of careful explanation is a substitute for looking at the actual data. Also keep in mind the good doctor's advice: Everybody lies. To cure the patient, you simply have to run your own tests to find out what's going on.
Your right to privacy is that the supporter must not pass on any information to a 3rd party, no more than that.
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This doesn't make sense to me. A file format doesn't have buffer overflow vulnerabilities, the program that opens it has them.
Exactly. MS disabled some old security-bug-prone code. They could write some new code to replace it, but chances are they would introduce new bugs in the process.
Realistically, to keep any program secure, you need to keep it small, or at least restrain its growth.
Is modded up. Boring.
The kid was given detention not for using an unauthorized program, but for not doing the assigned task. Apparently the kid was goofing off with some sort of computer game called "foxfire.exe", when he should have been using a web browser instead.
I thought that was the whole point of GTA?!
Writing annoyingly bad titles is an art form onto itself. What'ya think, can my subject line compete with the article title, or should I throw in a ", says industry analyst" for good measure?
But then the same thing would happen with computers that are legitimately in different time zones! Interfacing with the rest of the world in local time is a bug that updating TZ tables is not going to fix.