And, cynically, I believe that Google is doing this to ensure they can still collect data on you, and the people using their advertising services can continue to do to.
Given that's how Android is profitable for Google why shouldn't they be doing this?
When a person wants to do something such as run Microsoft Word, the computer’s central processor will issue a command to copy the program and a document from the slow disk it had been sitting on and bring it temporarily into the high-speed memory known as DRAM that sits near the computer’s core, helping ensure that Word and the file you’re working on will run fast.
A problem with this architecture, according to computing experts, is that DRAM and the Flash memory used in computers seem unable to keep pace with the increase in data use.
The author gives the problem that to access data the computer goes to the slow disk, and pulls the data in the fast memory so it can be operated against. Then the article goes on to say that memory can't keep up with the demand. That seems backwards to me. Isn't the problem they're trying to solve deals with how spinning disks have not had their data access speed increase at the pace of the rest of computer components, not memory?
I think it's more that we accepted that the motion control gimmick was first Gen, and expected the Wii 2, to have better motion control support. When it didn't, that blew away any reason to get a more expensive Wii.
In the days before iTunes that's what we had. You could browse for different stores in Windows Media Player, and pick from a variety of distributors. You could always go to different websites to find songs and books. But only the really dedicated did this. Then iTunes and the iPod came out with one place to purchase content. The existing market didn't like it because it limited choices, but it spread like wildfire to the majority of the population; finally they didn't need to make decisions on where to get content from, there was only one place to get it from. The same is happening with websites, if an app doesn't exist in Apples app store, then the company doesn't exist to most people. Browsers are feeling too nerdy, and technical for most people, and they prefer their appliance like apps.
So the reasons why authors don't create their own distribution channels is that the majority of the population doesn't think outside of the box.
Ever tried running MS Office apps without a mouse?
Yes. When I'm on the bus, mouse is awful. So when I'm doing computations in Excel on the bus it's all keyboard with the occasional touch of the screen.
Competence, Organization, and privacy policy. Even if Microsoft wanted to break their privacy policy and spy on an end user as much as Google does, they couldn't pull it off because it would require too much coordination among too many different organizations for them to be able to pull it off.
I'm not suggesting so much to have ';' be used to access members, so much as I am advocating the idea that the end of a statement should be the same as what it is when writing spoken language.
Switch the functionality of the '.' and ';' characters in C style languages. For me, it's perfectly fine with what '.' and ';' do and mean, but apparently it's a real struggle for those learning programming. While in University I'd be talking with somebody struggling in their Introduction to Computer Programming class, or somebody who was a CS major, and then dropped out and the number 1 complaint was how they were upset with how the program wouldn't compile because they were missing a ';' at the end of a statement. But if the character which represented the end of a statement was a '.', that would make sense to them because it's same character that represents the end of a statement in written communication. That way if they complained about a program not compiling because they forgot a '.', you could respond with "Well you wouldn't end a sentence with out a '.', would you?"
("Ohhh, Microsoft helped me fix my network problem!" - said No one, ever).
Actually my Dad said nearly exactly that last week. He was having trouble connecting to his network, and after sending me a couple of screen shots from his phone of the issue, he ran the Windows Network Troublshooter and it fixed his issue.
the local mafia can pay a visit and demand you vote for their candidate.
That's just not scalable though. How many people can the mafia personally witness voting and have it affect an election, and keep it under wraps? Measures to prevent those scenarios are non-technical measures.
You may want to look into WW I. Apparently in constant-dollar terms the world has NEVER regained pre-WW I prosperity and all the warring countries were as linked as could be.
I still think that how deeply they were linked prevented smaller skirmishes from breaking out. Unfortunately the different issues climaxed in WWI, but it's quite possible that it got that bad because so many leaders were willing to work at preventing out and out conflict for so long. I never claimed that being trading partners would completely prevent war, I just think that it prevents it most of the time.
This is exactly why comparative advantage is complete BS. When you let another foreign entity control your means of whatever it may be (rocketd, iPhones, car parts, tools, etc etc) you lose that ability to utilize it when the political poo hits the fan.
I disagree. It's quite possible that this decision wasn't made lightly. I'm sure there are some Russian businesses which are being hurt by this. When countries trade with each other, and become dependent upon each other, there's a higher motivation not to go to war with each other or let political poo hit fans. While trade dependency is a strategy that kind of hurts when war breaks out, it decreases the likelihood of that war actually breaking out.
I think that policies should be optimized for day to day living during peacetime, not war.
3) If a vendor hasn't coughed up a fix by now? Stop using the product, and/or learn enough about it to wedge in your own fix until you can replace the product with something whose vendor is more responsive.
Sometimes it takes more than a month to replace an in place product. Also, just because you're running machines that have OpenSSL on them doesn't mean that anyone in the company has any idea about how to compile code. Right now my father's company is dealing with heartbleed. They take equipment from vendors, and rents the equipment out to customers with servicing contracts. Apparently part of the contracts they have with the vendors is that they're not allowed to do software patches at all. Apparently it was industry standard. About four days into emergency heartbleed meetings my father said that that policy has been changed for all future orders.
Many blame anti-nuke and environmental activists for the fact that no nuclear plants have been built in the US since the 1970's but I think most of the reason was that it was just too expensive
It's possible that the activists made building one too expensive. I'm all for doing things safely, but committee meeting, after committee meeting starts to costs real dollars (which is why the activists insist on their being so many).
Not a UI/UX designer so I have to ask, why have designers hidden these basic menus in most browsers these days? Is it because they want their browser to be "cleaner" by default?
It's because they create beautiful websites, and know that the web is beautiful. So anything that interferes with the beauty of a website should be removed. The more websites you see, the more beauty you enjoy.
There's a lot more, but I give up. If I wanted a browser with a lousy UI that can't be changed, I would use Internet Explorer or Chrome.
You hint at something interesting I find among people who consider themselves techies, and the rest of the world. Techies say "give me something that I can spend time customizing", everyone else says "give me something and if I like it out of the box, I'll use it; but if I don't I'll pick something I do like. I'm too busy to care to even know how it could be customizable". Plus, customization requires code to handle customization changes. And do you know what the fastest code is, the code that never executes. So sometimes developers need to make decisions around options and decide that something just won't be customizable for simplicities, or performances sake.
In my own life I think about how I spent time of the first computer that I personally owned. I'd browse around the internet finding desktop themes, and skins for different media players, and it was a big part of my computing experience. Then sometime around when I graduated from college I just stopped caring about those things. Now I greatly prefer default looks compared to how I can customize it, because I'm using the computer to do things beyond making my programs looks a certain way.
"US-CERT recommends that users and administrators review Microsoft Security Advisory 2963983 for mitigation actions and workarounds."
But don't confuse that with recommending not to use the browser.
Tetris doesn't pretend to have a plot. This article sounds like somebody who has made games and story and is frustrated by the feedback that the plot doesn't make sense.
If the story draws me in, I'll enjoy it, and be more inclined to try more titles by the same publisher. If it has plot holes, I'll stop enjoying it, and avoid that publisher. Same thing applies to movies and TV shows.
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And, cynically, I believe that Google is doing this to ensure they can still collect data on you, and the people using their advertising services can continue to do to.
Given that's how Android is profitable for Google why shouldn't they be doing this?
When a person wants to do something such as run Microsoft Word, the computer’s central processor will issue a command to copy the program and a document from the slow disk it had been sitting on and bring it temporarily into the high-speed memory known as DRAM that sits near the computer’s core, helping ensure that Word and the file you’re working on will run fast. A problem with this architecture, according to computing experts, is that DRAM and the Flash memory used in computers seem unable to keep pace with the increase in data use.
The author gives the problem that to access data the computer goes to the slow disk, and pulls the data in the fast memory so it can be operated against. Then the article goes on to say that memory can't keep up with the demand. That seems backwards to me. Isn't the problem they're trying to solve deals with how spinning disks have not had their data access speed increase at the pace of the rest of computer components, not memory?
I think it's more that we accepted that the motion control gimmick was first Gen, and expected the Wii 2, to have better motion control support. When it didn't, that blew away any reason to get a more expensive Wii.
Shouldn't the goal be a world with no tenure?
Failing to employ someone in there 40s because they had a shoplifting conviction when they were 18 is unfair on the silly mistakes of youth.
Which is why there are laws about that, and they even existed before Google.
create their own distribution websites?
In the days before iTunes that's what we had. You could browse for different stores in Windows Media Player, and pick from a variety of distributors. You could always go to different websites to find songs and books. But only the really dedicated did this. Then iTunes and the iPod came out with one place to purchase content. The existing market didn't like it because it limited choices, but it spread like wildfire to the majority of the population; finally they didn't need to make decisions on where to get content from, there was only one place to get it from. The same is happening with websites, if an app doesn't exist in Apples app store, then the company doesn't exist to most people. Browsers are feeling too nerdy, and technical for most people, and they prefer their appliance like apps.
So the reasons why authors don't create their own distribution channels is that the majority of the population doesn't think outside of the box.
Ever tried running MS Office apps without a mouse?
Yes. When I'm on the bus, mouse is awful. So when I'm doing computations in Excel on the bus it's all keyboard with the occasional touch of the screen.
If you built a system that didn't keep track of metadata, it might be hard to reengineer your system, to comply within three weeks.
Competence, Organization, and privacy policy. Even if Microsoft wanted to break their privacy policy and spy on an end user as much as Google does, they couldn't pull it off because it would require too much coordination among too many different organizations for them to be able to pull it off.
I'm not suggesting so much to have ';' be used to access members, so much as I am advocating the idea that the end of a statement should be the same as what it is when writing spoken language.
Switch the functionality of the '.' and ';' characters in C style languages. For me, it's perfectly fine with what '.' and ';' do and mean, but apparently it's a real struggle for those learning programming. While in University I'd be talking with somebody struggling in their Introduction to Computer Programming class, or somebody who was a CS major, and then dropped out and the number 1 complaint was how they were upset with how the program wouldn't compile because they were missing a ';' at the end of a statement. But if the character which represented the end of a statement was a '.', that would make sense to them because it's same character that represents the end of a statement in written communication. That way if they complained about a program not compiling because they forgot a '.', you could respond with "Well you wouldn't end a sentence with out a '.', would you?"
("Ohhh, Microsoft helped me fix my network problem!" - said No one, ever).
Actually my Dad said nearly exactly that last week. He was having trouble connecting to his network, and after sending me a couple of screen shots from his phone of the issue, he ran the Windows Network Troublshooter and it fixed his issue.
Beyond that, why would you bother with a browser-specific technology?
Given that not all browsers are able to implement the same set of features, nearly every feature is browser-specific.
the local mafia can pay a visit and demand you vote for their candidate.
That's just not scalable though. How many people can the mafia personally witness voting and have it affect an election, and keep it under wraps? Measures to prevent those scenarios are non-technical measures.
You may want to look into WW I. Apparently in constant-dollar terms the world has NEVER regained pre-WW I prosperity and all the warring countries were as linked as could be.
I still think that how deeply they were linked prevented smaller skirmishes from breaking out. Unfortunately the different issues climaxed in WWI, but it's quite possible that it got that bad because so many leaders were willing to work at preventing out and out conflict for so long. I never claimed that being trading partners would completely prevent war, I just think that it prevents it most of the time.
This is exactly why comparative advantage is complete BS. When you let another foreign entity control your means of whatever it may be (rocketd, iPhones, car parts, tools, etc etc) you lose that ability to utilize it when the political poo hits the fan.
I disagree. It's quite possible that this decision wasn't made lightly. I'm sure there are some Russian businesses which are being hurt by this. When countries trade with each other, and become dependent upon each other, there's a higher motivation not to go to war with each other or let political poo hit fans. While trade dependency is a strategy that kind of hurts when war breaks out, it decreases the likelihood of that war actually breaking out.
I think that policies should be optimized for day to day living during peacetime, not war.
3) If a vendor hasn't coughed up a fix by now? Stop using the product, and/or learn enough about it to wedge in your own fix until you can replace the product with something whose vendor is more responsive.
Sometimes it takes more than a month to replace an in place product. Also, just because you're running machines that have OpenSSL on them doesn't mean that anyone in the company has any idea about how to compile code. Right now my father's company is dealing with heartbleed. They take equipment from vendors, and rents the equipment out to customers with servicing contracts. Apparently part of the contracts they have with the vendors is that they're not allowed to do software patches at all. Apparently it was industry standard. About four days into emergency heartbleed meetings my father said that that policy has been changed for all future orders.
Having a 20 year piece of equipment that depends on a part that had an end of life of 2011 seems like really bad planning.
Many blame anti-nuke and environmental activists for the fact that no nuclear plants have been built in the US since the 1970's but I think most of the reason was that it was just too expensive
It's possible that the activists made building one too expensive. I'm all for doing things safely, but committee meeting, after committee meeting starts to costs real dollars (which is why the activists insist on their being so many).
The beta site just crashed my browser,
Time for a better browser.
Not a UI/UX designer so I have to ask, why have designers hidden these basic menus in most browsers these days? Is it because they want their browser to be "cleaner" by default?
It's because they create beautiful websites, and know that the web is beautiful. So anything that interferes with the beauty of a website should be removed. The more websites you see, the more beauty you enjoy.
There's a lot more, but I give up. If I wanted a browser with a lousy UI that can't be changed, I would use Internet Explorer or Chrome.
You hint at something interesting I find among people who consider themselves techies, and the rest of the world. Techies say "give me something that I can spend time customizing", everyone else says "give me something and if I like it out of the box, I'll use it; but if I don't I'll pick something I do like. I'm too busy to care to even know how it could be customizable". Plus, customization requires code to handle customization changes. And do you know what the fastest code is, the code that never executes. So sometimes developers need to make decisions around options and decide that something just won't be customizable for simplicities, or performances sake.
In my own life I think about how I spent time of the first computer that I personally owned. I'd browse around the internet finding desktop themes, and skins for different media players, and it was a big part of my computing experience. Then sometime around when I graduated from college I just stopped caring about those things. Now I greatly prefer default looks compared to how I can customize it, because I'm using the computer to do things beyond making my programs looks a certain way.
"US-CERT recommends that users and administrators review Microsoft Security Advisory 2963983 for mitigation actions and workarounds."
But don't confuse that with recommending not to use the browser.
Tetris doesn't pretend to have a plot. This article sounds like somebody who has made games and story and is frustrated by the feedback that the plot doesn't make sense.
If the story draws me in, I'll enjoy it, and be more inclined to try more titles by the same publisher. If it has plot holes, I'll stop enjoying it, and avoid that publisher. Same thing applies to movies and TV shows.