'If a country is going to fire a missile at someone, it better be sure it has the right target,' said one expert.
Not true, unfortunately. How many wars have started based on false information? Off the top of my head:
* The Spanish-American War: Remember that the Maine sunk by accident
* The Vietnam War: The Gulf of Tonkin
* The Iraq War: No WMDs and no connection to Al Queda.
I recall people finding all sorts of artifacts on Google Maps when it first came out, such as pieces of tape. Perhaps that explains some of the perfectly geometrical shapes that don't adhere to the terrain?
i for one am sick and tired of being told that i have an advantage because i was born white, if anything it seems the government is trying to keep me down instead of bringing them up.
If you are sick and tired, why don't you do something about racism? Because you are naive and sheltered if you thing being a white male doesn't give you enormous advantages.
Try facing the widespread discrimination and racist attitudes that minorities encounter every day; then you'll really understand sick and tired. Try getting followed around the mall by security, or being pulled over for driving in a white neighborhood, or seeing people cross the street when you approach. Try being the only black-skinned in your comp sci class, computer club, country club, neighborhood, or job; and deal with the portion of people who write you off as racist, the portion who see you as the 'black guy', the portion who try to give you special treatment, and the few who treat you like everyone else. Try guessing which person is in which group. Try turning on Fox and seeing Bill O'Reilly claim we are a white Christian nation. Try not being able to live in certain towns because of the physical threat and discrimination make it hopeless.
Then try that tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that, and the day after that, for the rest of your life. Try starting as a child. Then you might be sick and tired.
The U.S. has come a long way, but has a long way to go.
Long rants that cite nothing make me suspect that someone is talking out of his a**. What do you know about it? Have you read any research? Have any personal experience?
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Firefox works great for me. It runs for days with dozens of tabs, no crashes; efficient memory use. You report problems on your computer with,
- 1920x2100 resolution
- crashing every 10 minutes
- Flash causing spontaneous reboots
- Huge memory problems
It's a little hard to believe the problem isn't the rest of your computer. Certainly not every, or even many Firefox users have these incredible problems.
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You do realize that Mozilla hasn't dropped support for 3.6 yet, right?
That wasn't well publicized. I didn't know until recently.
Traveling is wearing. Every little thing -- finding food to eat, a comfortable place to sleep, privacy, people to talk to -- is difficult. Usually you have to compromise and accept things you wouldn't do at home. If you travel a few times per year, it's no big deal; it's even part of the adventure.
If you travel continuously, and you've been doing it for years and that's all you have to look forward to, you might to try to find a way to obtain some reliable comforts of home while on the road and without the extra effort.
enough. if you had been, you could see that the future holds 4 major companies in every aspect of computing from software to internet to distribution to gsm holding major control of everything, and deciding what you can and cannot do. it is what internet should NOT have been from the start, and which is fortunately what internet has not actually been. but jobs, in all his profit-making glory and user friendliness, had set the momentum towards that direction, thanks to apple's phenomenal profit success. and media loves him, naturally, because he basically pushed computing in the way media wanted it from the start - that internet be a glorified cable television clone with minimum freedom on user part.
I agree. My point is that when FOSS leaders behave badly, they hurt their cause, making the problem worse.
What is it about FOSS that inspires such blind arrogance that they shoot themselves in the foot? Stallman is hurting his cause, just as a Mozilla employee recently hurt their cause -- by feeling and expressing contempt for those who don't share their vision, and by lacking respect, decency, maturity, and basic business sense.
Unfortunately it raises doubts about the competency of some FOSS organizations. If they don't have the understanding to respect other points of view, or the sense to do simple things in their own self-interest, who can rely on them?
I strongly support FOSS. It depresses me that so many leaders needlessly damage the cause.
Slashdot works very well. I don't see any problems requiring a major change. Is this a solution (e.g., an editors' ambitions to leave their mark) looking for a problem?
"What happened, for instance, to swell the bureaucracy at the UC over the past two decades? There now are nearly as many senior managers (8,144) as tenured and tenure-track faculty (8,521). As recently as 1993, the ratio between these groups was much different - 2,429 to 6,846.
Put another way, 18 years ago the student-to-upper management ratio was 62-to-1. Now it's all the way down to 2-to-1. The ratio of students to regular faculty, meanwhile, has risen from 22-to-1 in 1993 to 26-to-1."
Different platforms have different needs and capabilities. Why is the UI in my very limited Roku interface (with its very limted controller) the same as the one on my very capable Windows laptop (i.e., on their website)?
Maybe it seems cost-effective (if you don't count user frustration), but the horizontal-scrolling UI works when it's controlled by hardware arrow keys (Roku), but it's much less than optimal on a webpage (Windows). And my Windows laptop can handle much more functionality than a Roku; too bad they removed all/most non-Roku functionality from the website.
In the slideshow, they acknowledge there are differences between platform UI needs, but they seem to try a one-size-fits all approach. Doesn't Netflix have the resources to develop multiple interfaces?
It's important to name names or this situation won't be resolved: It's the Republican fringe, which includes the Tea Partiers, and which controls the Republican party.
We do care about bug reports, and we try and appear we care about bug reports - both by saying that we care, and trying to handle them. But Tyler is suggesting that our failure to handle all of them means that it might appear that our actions speak louder than our words.
If you want to help the two match up, do get involved with Mozilla:-) We could always use more help. Triage is how I got involved, over 10 years ago.
Gerv - I don't doubt your good intentions, but given that you know that most bugs are not carried through to resolution (i.e., a change in released software), you should set that expectation with people who work on bugs. Don't set an expectation based on what you hope to someday be true (but probably won't ever happen). Likely, their bug reporting/triage/patching will not lead to anything useful; as long as you're up front about it with people, there's no problem.
Mozilla's objective should be to release great software, not to close bug reports. In fact, if they can release the software while touching fewer bug reports, that's more efficient.
The problem is that Mozilla continues to be careless about setting their community's expectations (on other issues too). They solicit bug reports from people, who invest time and effort in reporting, testing, following up, and even patching -- but then Mozilla does nothing with the bugs. It's disrespectful to use people's time like that.
Mozilla needs to set expectations clearly from the start: Feel free to report it, triage it, patch it, etc., but realize that most bug reports are never implemented.
But Id like a clarification-- if there were 13,000 bugs 15 months ago, and now there are 6000, doesnt that speak to massive improvement? Why not leave back in spring 2010?
IIRC, most of the decrease was because they automatically closed old, unconfirmed (UNCO) bugs that weren't being worked on. Which sent the same message to the people who took the time to file the reports that Tyler Downer decries: "Thank you for filing a bug report with us. We donâ(TM)t really care about it" or about your time.
The comment system combined with the community you attracted produced, consistently, some of the best content on the web. It's had much more impact on my life than any computer/consumer electronics company in Cupertino.
Funny they are the same propaganda I hear from your political masters.
"Slow down. My daddy/mommy works here" who could have easily been replaced by a sign holding stand. But, instead, these people were making about $25/hr with full benefits that they didn't pitch in for. Their salaries were paid from my state and local income taxes as well as my state and local sales taxes combined with my state and local property taxes.
Do you really know anything about staffing construction crews? I have no idea what the staffing needs are, and I doubt you do either. You can make up whatever you want about benefits, but you'll have to substantiate your accusations (which don't make sense anyway -- benefits are part of compensation; you don't 'pitch in', you negotiate them). And of course our taxes pay for them; those are our roads -- who else should pay for them?
politicians don't get elected by union bosses and CEO's. They are elected by votes, and those come from the people.
There's something you should realize about our political system...
they don't take calls from the private contractor or the small business owner or the common consumer. Those are the people who are screwed over by the unions, not the CEO's.
No, it's the corporations who pay their union employees, and they (or some of them) have conned you into taking their side in their personal fight through some pretty standard and obvious propaganda.
Unions benefit the common consumer, whose compensation, job security, and working conditions are often protected by unions, either directly (i.e., they are union members or unions negotiate on their behalf) or simply because unions share those goals and advocate for them.
Small businesses do lack influence, but that is relative to everyone. Taking away unions and leaving corporations and the wealthy with all the influence may be a goal of some political entities, but it's not a concern for small businesses.
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... to use manikins and Photoshop, which are available to model immediately 24/7 and don't charge and hourly rate, then to use real people.
Now maybe the manikins are unrealistic but so are the human models. Anybody see Victoria's Secret models walking down their street today?
We wrote the question after being told that cloud security was the topic to be covered.
Thanks samszenpus. Just for clarification: Who is the "we" who wrote it, and who chose the topic?
'If a country is going to fire a missile at someone, it better be sure it has the right target,' said one expert.
Not true, unfortunately. How many wars have started based on false information? Off the top of my head:
* The Spanish-American War: Remember that the Maine sunk by accident
* The Vietnam War: The Gulf of Tonkin
* The Iraq War: No WMDs and no connection to Al Queda.
I recall people finding all sorts of artifacts on Google Maps when it first came out, such as pieces of tape. Perhaps that explains some of the perfectly geometrical shapes that don't adhere to the terrain?
i for one am sick and tired of being told that i have an advantage because i was born white, if anything it seems the government is trying to keep me down instead of bringing them up.
If you are sick and tired, why don't you do something about racism? Because you are naive and sheltered if you thing being a white male doesn't give you enormous advantages.
Try facing the widespread discrimination and racist attitudes that minorities encounter every day; then you'll really understand sick and tired. Try getting followed around the mall by security, or being pulled over for driving in a white neighborhood, or seeing people cross the street when you approach. Try being the only black-skinned in your comp sci class, computer club, country club, neighborhood, or job; and deal with the portion of people who write you off as racist, the portion who see you as the 'black guy', the portion who try to give you special treatment, and the few who treat you like everyone else. Try guessing which person is in which group. Try turning on Fox and seeing Bill O'Reilly claim we are a white Christian nation. Try not being able to live in certain towns because of the physical threat and discrimination make it hopeless.
Then try that tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that, and the day after that, for the rest of your life. Try starting as a child. Then you might be sick and tired.
The U.S. has come a long way, but has a long way to go.
Observing an apparent deficiency in demographics is not proof of bias, it is merely an observation of what is.
But in a society with a long history of racism, it certainly raises questions that are worth investigating.
Long rants that cite nothing make me suspect that someone is talking out of his a**. What do you know about it? Have you read any research? Have any personal experience?
Firefox works great for me. It runs for days with dozens of tabs, no crashes; efficient memory use. You report problems on your computer with,
- 1920x2100 resolution
- crashing every 10 minutes
- Flash causing spontaneous reboots
- Huge memory problems
It's a little hard to believe the problem isn't the rest of your computer. Certainly not every, or even many Firefox users have these incredible problems.
You do realize that Mozilla hasn't dropped support for 3.6 yet, right?
That wasn't well publicized. I didn't know until recently.
Traveling is wearing. Every little thing -- finding food to eat, a comfortable place to sleep, privacy, people to talk to -- is difficult. Usually you have to compromise and accept things you wouldn't do at home. If you travel a few times per year, it's no big deal; it's even part of the adventure.
If you travel continuously, and you've been doing it for years and that's all you have to look forward to, you might to try to find a way to obtain some reliable comforts of home while on the road and without the extra effort.
enough. if you had been, you could see that the future holds 4 major companies in every aspect of computing from software to internet to distribution to gsm holding major control of everything, and deciding what you can and cannot do. it is what internet should NOT have been from the start, and which is fortunately what internet has not actually been. but jobs, in all his profit-making glory and user friendliness, had set the momentum towards that direction, thanks to apple's phenomenal profit success. and media loves him, naturally, because he basically pushed computing in the way media wanted it from the start - that internet be a glorified cable television clone with minimum freedom on user part.
I agree. My point is that when FOSS leaders behave badly, they hurt their cause, making the problem worse.
What is it about FOSS that inspires such blind arrogance that they shoot themselves in the foot? Stallman is hurting his cause, just as a Mozilla employee recently hurt their cause -- by feeling and expressing contempt for those who don't share their vision, and by lacking respect, decency, maturity, and basic business sense.
Unfortunately it raises doubts about the competency of some FOSS organizations. If they don't have the understanding to respect other points of view, or the sense to do simple things in their own self-interest, who can rely on them?
I strongly support FOSS. It depresses me that so many leaders needlessly damage the cause.
Slashdot works very well. I don't see any problems requiring a major change. Is this a solution (e.g., an editors' ambitions to leave their mark) looking for a problem?
4. Use this ability to sneak in late at night to prevent people yelling at you! :p
He said he was a middle-aged Dad. He's more likely to use it to detect the sneaker than to be him.
I'm 17
So? Why do people of high school age like to announce their age? I see it in Youtube comments all the time.
We have private companies that will soon be doing LEO launches. Why should we care if NASA does it?
Even Neil went past LEO 40 years ago. LEO is hardly a technological achievement at this point.
"What happened, for instance, to swell the bureaucracy at the UC over the past two decades? There now are nearly as many senior managers (8,144) as tenured and tenure-track faculty (8,521). As recently as 1993, the ratio between these groups was much different - 2,429 to 6,846.
Put another way, 18 years ago the student-to-upper management ratio was 62-to-1. Now it's all the way down to 2-to-1. The ratio of students to regular faculty, meanwhile, has risen from 22-to-1 in 1993 to 26-to-1."
UC only has 16,000 students?
Different platforms have different needs and capabilities. Why is the UI in my very limited Roku interface (with its very limted controller) the same as the one on my very capable Windows laptop (i.e., on their website)?
Maybe it seems cost-effective (if you don't count user frustration), but the horizontal-scrolling UI works when it's controlled by hardware arrow keys (Roku), but it's much less than optimal on a webpage (Windows). And my Windows laptop can handle much more functionality than a Roku; too bad they removed all/most non-Roku functionality from the website.
In the slideshow, they acknowledge there are differences between platform UI needs, but they seem to try a one-size-fits all approach. Doesn't Netflix have the resources to develop multiple interfaces?
It's important to name names or this situation won't be resolved: It's the Republican fringe, which includes the Tea Partiers, and which controls the Republican party.
Here's some data Cliff Mass must have overlooked:
Here's a helpful map with data:
http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/at201109.asp
Here are the National Hurricane Center reports:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2011/refresh/IRENE+shtml/120913.shtml?
* Note the Wind Speed Probability reports
They also provide this:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/085722.shtml?swath
The Wikpedia article is well-footnoted:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hurricane_Irene
We do care about bug reports, and we try and appear we care about bug reports - both by saying that we care, and trying to handle them. But Tyler is suggesting that our failure to handle all of them means that it might appear that our actions speak louder than our words.
If you want to help the two match up, do get involved with Mozilla :-) We could always use more help. Triage is how I got involved, over 10 years ago.
Gerv - I don't doubt your good intentions, but given that you know that most bugs are not carried through to resolution (i.e., a change in released software), you should set that expectation with people who work on bugs. Don't set an expectation based on what you hope to someday be true (but probably won't ever happen). Likely, their bug reporting/triage/patching will not lead to anything useful; as long as you're up front about it with people, there's no problem.
Mozilla's objective should be to release great software, not to close bug reports. In fact, if they can release the software while touching fewer bug reports, that's more efficient.
The problem is that Mozilla continues to be careless about setting their community's expectations (on other issues too). They solicit bug reports from people, who invest time and effort in reporting, testing, following up, and even patching -- but then Mozilla does nothing with the bugs. It's disrespectful to use people's time like that.
Mozilla needs to set expectations clearly from the start: Feel free to report it, triage it, patch it, etc., but realize that most bug reports are never implemented.
But Id like a clarification-- if there were 13,000 bugs 15 months ago, and now there are 6000, doesnt that speak to massive improvement? Why not leave back in spring 2010?
IIRC, most of the decrease was because they automatically closed old, unconfirmed (UNCO) bugs that weren't being worked on. Which sent the same message to the people who took the time to file the reports that Tyler Downer decries: "Thank you for filing a bug report with us. We donâ(TM)t really care about it" or about your time.
Thank you Rob and good luck.
The comment system combined with the community you attracted produced, consistently, some of the best content on the web. It's had much more impact on my life than any computer/consumer electronics company in Cupertino.
Funny they are the same propaganda I hear from your political masters.
"Slow down. My daddy/mommy works here" who could have easily been replaced by a sign holding stand. But, instead, these people were making about $25/hr with full benefits that they didn't pitch in for. Their salaries were paid from my state and local income taxes as well as my state and local sales taxes combined with my state and local property taxes.
Do you really know anything about staffing construction crews? I have no idea what the staffing needs are, and I doubt you do either. You can make up whatever you want about benefits, but you'll have to substantiate your accusations (which don't make sense anyway -- benefits are part of compensation; you don't 'pitch in', you negotiate them). And of course our taxes pay for them; those are our roads -- who else should pay for them?
politicians don't get elected by union bosses and CEO's. They are elected by votes, and those come from the people.
There's something you should realize about our political system ...
they don't take calls from the private contractor or the small business owner or the common consumer. Those are the people who are screwed over by the unions, not the CEO's.
No, it's the corporations who pay their union employees, and they (or some of them) have conned you into taking their side in their personal fight through some pretty standard and obvious propaganda.
Unions benefit the common consumer, whose compensation, job security, and working conditions are often protected by unions, either directly (i.e., they are union members or unions negotiate on their behalf) or simply because unions share those goals and advocate for them.
Small businesses do lack influence, but that is relative to everyone. Taking away unions and leaving corporations and the wealthy with all the influence may be a goal of some political entities, but it's not a concern for small businesses.