Talk about comparing apples and oranges, but I'll bite.
Well, it all depends. Winning the championship is not a project, it is a temporary goal of your team. The team is the project, not the championship. That's if you want to make a parallel with a development team of course. In a development team, people don't rely on others on the same way.
And of course, if you set yourself statistically almost-unnatainable goals (like winning against 10 other teams, 1/10 chances) of course even a minor change in course can just throw you off competition.
But the GGP was just being too vague, as he didn't specify what the 'single point of failure' was to fail. (ie: The whole project, the next release, etc...)
I was trying to point out that 'point of failure' is just inappropriate whan applied to humans, as it is very rare that it would be unrecoverable at all. When a HDD fails, you've irremediably lost what was on it. When a human dies, things shift and life goes on. This guy doesn't hold vital information that would doom Linux if he was to vanish.
As far as my experience has shown me, there is no 'single point of failure' in any team made of humans. Some things would be lost for sure, but life (of the project) would just go on.
Of course, as everything in life, it is not black and white. He would have to be replaced (or the devel structure shifted) and changes would result from this. But the whole thing would not just stop.
While the method you just described is boring and cumbersome, it is perfectly eligible to be scripted. I guess in a day or two I could get a little robot up that would grab an entire book.
But this is not the problem. These companies don't realize their books already are on eMule and other networks. So downloading them is a trivial task even without Google's help.
Google is just trying to do the 'right thing' _TM_ but there is an obvious flaw in their process.
Let's hope this will be settled amically out of court.
I just didn't want to feed the troll. Anyone reading slashdot knows what 'free as in speech' means. His way of asking the question coupled with his AC post clearly shows that he is a troll indeed.
Now I have mixed feelings about posting that because there's probably a good chance you are a troll too.
Slightly OT, but I thought of your link as a great way to infect thousands of computers at once... Not that I distrust you or anything, but I'll download my version from the regular website. I trust Opera to be able to size their pipes.
What does the fact that the system work with flags have to do with how these flags are placed?
The social worker will have access to all the red flags of the file, beforehand. And don't tell me a social worker will not be influenced when he opens the file and already sees 7 flags raised.
Most current players have a double-purpose jack: Headphones and line-out, which means that their impedance is variable, depending on what is plugged in.
Because the implementation on those systems sucks!?
I disabled flash on all my browsers for a very good reason. I am just bored to see my web browser's process pegged at 100% CPU most of the time. So I removed the plugin.
Implementation sucks, I don't use it. If there was alternative implementations, I would maybe use one that could suit my needs.
Although I am metamoderating this informative, I strongly disagree with you.
Most people I know are just too lazy to clean up their inbox. When using hotmail@2MB, we had to every now and then. This did account for a fairly organised inbox. With gmail, I just don't delete nor sort anything, leading to a big mess and slowly eating up all of my gmail account (although it's not filled up yet). If - as I suspect - many people are like me, a lot of gmail accounts will be filled up in a few years, and then:
1. It's going to be a HUGE pain to cleanup, compared to the relatively easy task it was with hotmail@2MB 2. It's going to eat-up a bunch of hdd space...
I wouldn't worry about #2 though, as hdd is cheaper by the day.
100% on spot. I, too, will log in to have a word at it.
The most deceiving thing right now on slashdot is that most of the stories are worded in a way that just discredits it as a whole. How many times have I clicked the "Read More" button thinking "Is that true?", only to find out it wasn't by reading the two modded up posts on top. Slashdot discussions are not about the story anymore, they are much too often about correcting it. And the fact that people don't RTFA is... a fact. This is how people behave, and you will not change it. So just having a heavily distorted story helps only to get stupid flame wars about nonexistent issues.
You shall serve news instead of people's opinions, at least that's what the "News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters" is leading to. And to serve news, as the parent says, you have to do some editing/checking.
People are confusing the language and its more popular set of libraries.
Javascript is a language
The DHTML DOM (window, document, location, etc...) is merely an API. When you code in another environment, there is another API. For exemple, when ASP uses JScript (and not JavaScript, but it's pretty similar), APIs are such as ADODB, file system access, db access, etc...
Is there any remote chance one might eventually be able to play such content in WMP? Thing is, I own a media center (Win XP MCE) and having subs and menus controllable through my remote would be a great plus.
Saying that something is "the best" does not mean shit. Unless you work with your own definition of 'best', in which case you may very well be right. I am speaking english for myself.
You cannot say 'Carl Lewis was the best'. That has no sense, unless there is a context specified. 'Carl Lewis was the best at running 100m'. This would be more correct. Because most knows about the athletic competition called '100 meters', so the context is precisely inferred.
Of course, you can say 'Carl Lewis is the best' as you can say 'Brsjjf ddkh dkjkhjx qkshh'. You can say whatever. In your own internal language which nobody speaks it might mean something. In english it doesn't. Best is too broad to mean anything out of any context.
That's where you are dead wrong. Innovation is not required at all, because they have the monopoly: They are everywhere!
They'll just need to catch up at a reasonnable pace. Just what they've been doing all along.
Look at all the innovations of these recent years: They just integrated into their OS existing stuff that seemed to catch on, effectively killing the competing product...
Winamp -> WMP7+ DoubleSpace -> Compression of disk/files on the fly PkZip/WinZip -> Integrated into Explorer etc, etc, etc...
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Errr, yup, you are correct... I need to dust off my statistics knowlege ;)
Talk about comparing apples and oranges, but I'll bite.
Well, it all depends. Winning the championship is not a project, it is a temporary goal of your team. The team is the project, not the championship. That's if you want to make a parallel with a development team of course. In a development team, people don't rely on others on the same way.
And of course, if you set yourself statistically almost-unnatainable goals (like winning against 10 other teams, 1/10 chances) of course even a minor change in course can just throw you off competition.
But the GGP was just being too vague, as he didn't specify what the 'single point of failure' was to fail. (ie: The whole project, the next release, etc...)
I was trying to point out that 'point of failure' is just inappropriate whan applied to humans, as it is very rare that it would be unrecoverable at all. When a HDD fails, you've irremediably lost what was on it. When a human dies, things shift and life goes on. This guy doesn't hold vital information that would doom Linux if he was to vanish.
As far as my experience has shown me, there is no 'single point of failure' in any team made of humans. Some things would be lost for sure, but life (of the project) would just go on.
Of course, as everything in life, it is not black and white. He would have to be replaced (or the devel structure shifted) and changes would result from this. But the whole thing would not just stop.
It doesn't seem to make it any easier to take an arbitrary original and just magic up another file which has the same hash.
Yes it does.
While the method you just described is boring and cumbersome, it is perfectly eligible to be scripted. I guess in a day or two I could get a little robot up that would grab an entire book.
But this is not the problem. These companies don't realize their books already are on eMule and other networks. So downloading them is a trivial task even without Google's help.
Google is just trying to do the 'right thing' _TM_ but there is an obvious flaw in their process.
Let's hope this will be settled amically out of court.
Never had any issues beyond the login guy
;-)
There is a guy doing the login? Which century do we live in already ???
I just didn't want to feed the troll. Anyone reading slashdot knows what 'free as in speech' means. His way of asking the question coupled with his AC post clearly shows that he is a troll indeed.
Now I have mixed feelings about posting that because there's probably a good chance you are a troll too.
Oh well. Goodbye karma.
Just missed an opportunity to shut up... My bad.
I'm feeling rather dense this morning, so could you please explain.
That's a typicel AC feeling, just don't pay attention to what you don't understand and resume your life.
Slightly OT, but I thought of your link as a great way to infect thousands of computers at once... Not that I distrust you or anything, but I'll download my version from the regular website. I trust Opera to be able to size their pipes.
What does the fact that the system work with flags have to do with how these flags are placed?
The social worker will have access to all the red flags of the file, beforehand. And don't tell me a social worker will not be influenced when he opens the file and already sees 7 flags raised.
Most current players have a double-purpose jack: Headphones and line-out, which means that their impedance is variable, depending on what is plugged in.
You don't need whois to tell you that. type www.iphone.org in your browser, you'll see the Apple website coming up !
Because the implementation on those systems sucks!?
I disabled flash on all my browsers for a very good reason. I am just bored to see my web browser's process pegged at 100% CPU most of the time. So I removed the plugin.
Implementation sucks, I don't use it. If there was alternative implementations, I would maybe use one that could suit my needs.
Although I am metamoderating this informative, I strongly disagree with you.
Most people I know are just too lazy to clean up their inbox. When using hotmail@2MB, we had to every now and then. This did account for a fairly organised inbox. With gmail, I just don't delete nor sort anything, leading to a big mess and slowly eating up all of my gmail account (although it's not filled up yet). If - as I suspect - many people are like me, a lot of gmail accounts will be filled up in a few years, and then:
1. It's going to be a HUGE pain to cleanup, compared to the relatively easy task it was with hotmail@2MB
2. It's going to eat-up a bunch of hdd space...
I wouldn't worry about #2 though, as hdd is cheaper by the day.
100% on spot. I, too, will log in to have a word at it.
The most deceiving thing right now on slashdot is that most of the stories are worded in a way that just discredits it as a whole. How many times have I clicked the "Read More" button thinking "Is that true?", only to find out it wasn't by reading the two modded up posts on top. Slashdot discussions are not about the story anymore, they are much too often about correcting it. And the fact that people don't RTFA is... a fact. This is how people behave, and you will not change it. So just having a heavily distorted story helps only to get stupid flame wars about nonexistent issues.
You shall serve news instead of people's opinions, at least that's what the "News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters" is leading to. And to serve news, as the parent says, you have to do some editing/checking.
Trolling isn't going to help either.
that can be embedded in server-side solutions
You should read:
that can be embedded in any solutions
People are confusing the language and its more popular set of libraries.
Javascript is a language
The DHTML DOM (window, document, location, etc...) is merely an API. When you code in another environment, there is another API. For exemple, when ASP uses JScript (and not JavaScript, but it's pretty similar), APIs are such as ADODB, file system access, db access, etc...
Is there any remote chance one might eventually be able to play such content in WMP? Thing is, I own a media center (Win XP MCE) and having subs and menus controllable through my remote would be a great plus.
Liberty to write one's thoughts is what makes slashdot what it is today.
Saying that something is "the best" does not mean shit. Unless you work with your own definition of 'best', in which case you may very well be right. I am speaking english for myself.
You cannot say 'Carl Lewis was the best'. That has no sense, unless there is a context specified. 'Carl Lewis was the best at running 100m'. This would be more correct. Because most knows about the athletic competition called '100 meters', so the context is precisely inferred.
Of course, you can say 'Carl Lewis is the best' as you can say 'Brsjjf ddkh dkjkhjx qkshh'. You can say whatever. In your own internal language which nobody speaks it might mean something. In english it doesn't. Best is too broad to mean anything out of any context.
Cheers
That's where you are dead wrong. Innovation is not required at all, because they have the monopoly: They are everywhere!
They'll just need to catch up at a reasonnable pace. Just what they've been doing all along.
Look at all the innovations of these recent years: They just integrated into their OS existing stuff that seemed to catch on, effectively killing the competing product...
Winamp -> WMP7+
DoubleSpace -> Compression of disk/files on the fly
PkZip/WinZip -> Integrated into Explorer
etc, etc, etc...
Is that too much to ask for?
As of today yes. Give it just a little time...
Given that you would only survive a few minutes with a microwave blasting full power through your head, you would barely make a few bucks.