Can someone explain to me what "material design" actually is? I've read the linked page (yeah, I know, heresy) and still have no idea what it actually is. Specifically, how would I judge whether my UI is following "material design", whatever that is, or not?
Can someone explain to me what "material design" is? I've read the linked page (yeah, I know, heresy) and still have no idea what it actually is. Specifically, how would I judge whether my UI is following "material design", whatever that is, or not?
In related news, Dutch news is reporting the theft of two wagonloads of tulip bulbs, which could be worth as much as a million rijksdaalder if the right buyers are found for them.
You've also got to understand what "quantum supremacy" means, in effect it means that a quantum computer will outperform a supercomputer emulating a quantum computer solving an artificial problem of no use to anyone that quantum computers are good at but normal computers aren't. Go, quantum computers!
A bit like saying I can beat Mike Tyson any day of the week, provided he's been heavily sedated, clocked with a lead pipe, handcuffed, and tied down. Yeah, look at what a great boxer I am, it's me supremacy now.
I've actually tried to legally use a single frame still from a movie as part of a talk, to illustrate a particular point. In other words, something that's obviously fair use, but for some reason I thought I'd try and do it the right way and actually get official permission.
It was basically impossible. After several hours of effort to try and Do The Right Thing, I had to give up, it was potentially going to take days of effort spread over weeks or even months of time just to get to use one stinking lousy frame of the typically quarter million or so in a movie like that.
And now the MPAA wants to institutionalise this crap. I've tried to play their game, and it's set up to be impossible. No doubt, after everyone just goes ahead and uses the content, they'll go to their pet congresspeople and ask for stricter laws, because look at all this piracy.
It's also pretty stupid. diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 is 2048-bit DH with HMAC-SHA1, neither of which have shown the remotest signs of being breakable, let alone some unspecified "weak" as Github claims. TLS 1.1 is TLS 1.0 with a few minor issues (e.g. explicit IVs) fixed, which is also no more breakable than TLS 1.2.
Still, rearranging the deckchairs and saying you're now more secure has a long tradition in big business and government, so I guess this isn't too far out of line with "business best practice for security".
Not only that, but the entire country had really only been around for about twenty years when it was created, the clock actually predates the University that houses it. That'd be the equivalent of a clock made in the US in 1600.
Wharfedale Diamond 10.6's. I need a "smart" speaker like I need a "smart" TV. A reasonably-priced good-sounding speaker has all the smarts I need already present in it.
And the sound quality is provided by fucking physics, not by trying to fake it with DSP processing.
If they don't get their shit together I'm writing my own spider and starting my own damn search engine to find the things I am looking for on the internet.
Good question, whatever it was that came up as the OSM app on Google Play a few years ago. I assumed it was the official OSM app, or at least it didn't say anything to the contrary.
if ever I've heard the brand name being used, it seems to be in the context of a joke
That's actually true in my case, literally the only time I've heard Bing used is as a joke, "let me bing that for you" (laughter) and then they'll Google it, or DDG it, or whatever. Having your brand exist as a joke means you probably need to fix it.
Talk about FWP: The discontinuation of access to educational material for vast numbers of third-world school students is announced, and the reaction is mostly some wanking around net neutrality.
Just to explain this to people sitting in airconditioned offices sipping their third latte of the day: In large areas of the world your education, if you can get one, consists of sitting under a tree or in a dirt-floored room with, if you're lucky, a handful of worn-out books shared amongst the entire class. Wikipedia Zero was created on the initiative of people working for charities and educational initiatives to try and get a replacement for otherwise nonexistent textbooks into countries like I'm describing above. It's made a huge, massive difference in educational opportunities for children whose learning prospects would otherwise be severely limited, because they have virtually zero access to any resources.
That's what shutting down Wikipedia Zero is going to do, not some theoretical wank about net neutrality.
I think they should make the punishment proportional to that for existing crimes. For example leaking private data for your entire population, including sensitive law-enforcement and military data, was penalised by the offender being docked six months pay. So on that scale copyright infringement should attract a fine of 10 Ãre. That's fair.
I really, really wanted OSM to succeed, I even donated money to them. But the mobile app is such a massive collection of fail and suckage that after using it for a few months I just couldn't bear it any more and moved to others, just anything but OSM. Dear God, they managed to make a maps app so bad that it could be used as a teaching tool for now not to do a maps app. That's why they're in trouble, not because of some hang-wringing over policies and review models and whatnot.
You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna get myself an Alienware gamer laptop
Hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps
And all leather cow interior
And big brown baby seal eyes for head lights (yeah)
And I'm gonna drive in that baby in Ultimate Performance Mode
Gettin' 1 mile per gallon
Sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonald's
In the old fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers
And when I'm done sucking down those greaseball burgers
I'm gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag
And then I'm gonna toss the styrofoam containers right out the side
And there ain't a goddamn thing anybody can do about it
Though, I have no idea why Huawei is targeted. They have no official ties to the China government, and, unlike Cisco, have never put in a backdoor for government control.
Ding ding ding. The NSA wants a back door that they control in every phone.
Precisely. The NSA already has endless backdoors for US vendors like Apple and Google (Android), what they're saying here is "please hold off buying Huawei gear until our TAO division has a catalogue of backdoors for them as well".
It's pretty rich that a set of government entities notorious for illegally backdooring (NSA) and intercepting (FBI via Stingrays) phones is warning people about another country's phone security.
"The HomePod is 100% an audiophile grade speaker,"
Complete nonsense. To be a true audiophile grade speaker it needs to cost a minimum of $50,000, require a crane to install, and be made from something like hand-carved marble pulled from a cave in the Pyrenees.
+1. Qualcomm hasn't bothered investing much more into the 2100 line because it's not worth it. Other vendors haven't taken up the reins for the same reason. There's no Qualcomm-driven sikrit conspiracy, it's a market niche that didn't work out.
Reliability is what we're missing. 99% of IT today is like an incontinent toddler, it needs constant maintenance and mucking out and patching and updating just to keep it running. Not to add new capabilities, but just to keep it running. Compare that to a car, for which the expectation is that you turn the key and it starts up and goes where you want, without first needing to be rebooted and patched and the firmware reflashed and the networking reconfigured every time.
I give him credit for being mostly inactive during this round.
And that's almost certainly how this one came about, Trump had little to no idea what it was he was signing, he just had something put in front of him on his tiny little table and got to scribble on it with his crayon. Don't credit Trump for anything in there, credit everyone else for slipping whatever they wanted in there for Trump to rubberstamp.
Speaking of which, what else did he sign into law without reading it? What booby-traps are hidden in there?
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Can someone explain to me what "material design" actually is? I've read the linked page (yeah, I know, heresy) and still have no idea what it actually is. Specifically, how would I judge whether my UI is following "material design", whatever that is, or not?
Can someone explain to me what "material design" is? I've read the linked page (yeah, I know, heresy) and still have no idea what it actually is. Specifically, how would I judge whether my UI is following "material design", whatever that is, or not?
In related news, Dutch news is reporting the theft of two wagonloads of tulip bulbs, which could be worth as much as a million rijksdaalder if the right buyers are found for them.
You've also got to understand what "quantum supremacy" means, in effect it means that a quantum computer will outperform a supercomputer emulating a quantum computer solving an artificial problem of no use to anyone that quantum computers are good at but normal computers aren't. Go, quantum computers!
A bit like saying I can beat Mike Tyson any day of the week, provided he's been heavily sedated, clocked with a lead pipe, handcuffed, and tied down. Yeah, look at what a great boxer I am, it's me supremacy now.
(If Mike is reading this, I didn't mean that).
Rot bilong kago. Apparently it's now a design principle for Android phones.
I've actually tried to legally use a single frame still from a movie as part of a talk, to illustrate a particular point. In other words, something that's obviously fair use, but for some reason I thought I'd try and do it the right way and actually get official permission.
It was basically impossible. After several hours of effort to try and Do The Right Thing, I had to give up, it was potentially going to take days of effort spread over weeks or even months of time just to get to use one stinking lousy frame of the typically quarter million or so in a movie like that.
And now the MPAA wants to institutionalise this crap. I've tried to play their game, and it's set up to be impossible. No doubt, after everyone just goes ahead and uses the content, they'll go to their pet congresspeople and ask for stricter laws, because look at all this piracy.
The kids have AR-15s, but didn't stand a chance against Predators and guided missile strikes.
And that's the problem, if they stuck to shooting up schools with readily-available AR-15s like they do today they'd be OK.
(Too soon?)
It's also pretty stupid. diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 is 2048-bit DH with HMAC-SHA1, neither of which have shown the remotest signs of being breakable, let alone some unspecified "weak" as Github claims. TLS 1.1 is TLS 1.0 with a few minor issues (e.g. explicit IVs) fixed, which is also no more breakable than TLS 1.2.
Still, rearranging the deckchairs and saying you're now more secure has a long tradition in big business and government, so I guess this isn't too far out of line with "business best practice for security".
Not only that, but the entire country had really only been around for about twenty years when it was created, the clock actually predates the University that houses it. That'd be the equivalent of a clock made in the US in 1600.
Or you could buy a Jaeger-Lecoultre Atmos du Millénaire, which admittedly will only get you to 3000AD but also costs a helluva lot less than $42M. And you can admire it on your mantlepiece.
Wharfedale Diamond 10.6's. I need a "smart" speaker like I need a "smart" TV. A reasonably-priced good-sounding speaker has all the smarts I need already present in it.
And the sound quality is provided by fucking physics, not by trying to fake it with DSP processing.
If they don't get their shit together I'm writing my own spider and starting my own damn search engine to find the things I am looking for on the internet.
Too late, someone's beaten you to it.
Good question, whatever it was that came up as the OSM app on Google Play a few years ago. I assumed it was the official OSM app, or at least it didn't say anything to the contrary.
if ever I've heard the brand name being used, it seems to be in the context of a joke
That's actually true in my case, literally the only time I've heard Bing used is as a joke, "let me bing that for you" (laughter) and then they'll Google it, or DDG it, or whatever. Having your brand exist as a joke means you probably need to fix it.
Talk about FWP: The discontinuation of access to educational material for vast numbers of third-world school students is announced, and the reaction is mostly some wanking around net neutrality.
Just to explain this to people sitting in airconditioned offices sipping their third latte of the day: In large areas of the world your education, if you can get one, consists of sitting under a tree or in a dirt-floored room with, if you're lucky, a handful of worn-out books shared amongst the entire class. Wikipedia Zero was created on the initiative of people working for charities and educational initiatives to try and get a replacement for otherwise nonexistent textbooks into countries like I'm describing above. It's made a huge, massive difference in educational opportunities for children whose learning prospects would otherwise be severely limited, because they have virtually zero access to any resources.
That's what shutting down Wikipedia Zero is going to do, not some theoretical wank about net neutrality.
I think they should make the punishment proportional to that for existing crimes. For example leaking private data for your entire population, including sensitive law-enforcement and military data, was penalised by the offender being docked six months pay. So on that scale copyright infringement should attract a fine of 10 Ãre. That's fair.
True, it's always been awful.
I really, really wanted OSM to succeed, I even donated money to them. But the mobile app is such a massive collection of fail and suckage that after using it for a few months I just couldn't bear it any more and moved to others, just anything but OSM. Dear God, they managed to make a maps app so bad that it could be used as a teaching tool for now not to do a maps app. That's why they're in trouble, not because of some hang-wringing over policies and review models and whatnot.
You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna get myself an Alienware gamer laptop
Hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps
And all leather cow interior
And big brown baby seal eyes for head lights (yeah)
And I'm gonna drive in that baby in Ultimate Performance Mode
Gettin' 1 mile per gallon
Sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonald's
In the old fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers
And when I'm done sucking down those greaseball burgers
I'm gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag
And then I'm gonna toss the styrofoam containers right out the side
And there ain't a goddamn thing anybody can do about it
... the trees: Zhongshan Tandem Plastic Products Co., Ltd, Yuhuan Xushi Plastic Industry Co., Ltd, and Ruian Jinda Plastic Machinery Co., Ltd.
Though, I have no idea why Huawei is targeted. They have no official ties to the China government, and, unlike Cisco, have never put in a backdoor for government control.
Ding ding ding. The NSA wants a back door that they control in every phone.
Precisely. The NSA already has endless backdoors for US vendors like Apple and Google (Android), what they're saying here is "please hold off buying Huawei gear until our TAO division has a catalogue of backdoors for them as well".
It's pretty rich that a set of government entities notorious for illegally backdooring (NSA) and intercepting (FBI via Stingrays) phones is warning people about another country's phone security.
"The HomePod is 100% an audiophile grade speaker,"
Complete nonsense. To be a true audiophile grade speaker it needs to cost a minimum of $50,000, require a crane to install, and be made from something like hand-carved marble pulled from a cave in the Pyrenees.
Like I give a fuck about some shopping list for a dude two thousand years ago
Some 2,000-year old documents can still be informative reading, e.g. the System 7 Unix source code.
+1. Qualcomm hasn't bothered investing much more into the 2100 line because it's not worth it. Other vendors haven't taken up the reins for the same reason. There's no Qualcomm-driven sikrit conspiracy, it's a market niche that didn't work out.
Reliability is what we're missing. 99% of IT today is like an incontinent toddler, it needs constant maintenance and mucking out and patching and updating just to keep it running. Not to add new capabilities, but just to keep it running. Compare that to a car, for which the expectation is that you turn the key and it starts up and goes where you want, without first needing to be rebooted and patched and the firmware reflashed and the networking reconfigured every time.
I give him credit for being mostly inactive during this round.
And that's almost certainly how this one came about, Trump had little to no idea what it was he was signing, he just had something put in front of him on his tiny little table and got to scribble on it with his crayon. Don't credit Trump for anything in there, credit everyone else for slipping whatever they wanted in there for Trump to rubberstamp.
Speaking of which, what else did he sign into law without reading it? What booby-traps are hidden in there?