I absolutely agree. In fact, this new technology I've patented has produced better than HD compression with unparalleled image quality. Contact me if you're interested in licensing.
This may come as a surprise to you, but slashdot has readers that don't live in the United States.
Is this some kind of bizarro version of the ignorance normally attributed to stupid North Americans (USians)? Stereotypically, US citizens are characterized as deeply ignorant of history and current events outside of the US. In this case people outside of the US, on a forum as technologically current as Slashdot, can claim justified ignorance of one of the entities that gave rise to the Internet?
I've been wearing contacts for 25 years. The best way to put them in is to peel your eyelids open using the pinky of one hand for your top eyelid and the ring finger of the other hand on the bottom. The middle finger of the bottom hand has a contact lens.
Only China and India have quickly growing populations. The rest have small or zero population growth. And keep in mind that China’s emissions are largely due to the fact that they make stuff for the fat cat/large polluter countries.
The problem is not overpopulation. The problem is overconsumption by first world countries where the standard of living is high. Increasing economic prosperity as it has traditionally been defined by consumption will bring about catastrophic global climate change even faster!
The solution is to move to low/zero emissions renewable energy.
In practice (aka reality) OS X has never had a virus or worm. All known in-the-wild exploits to this day have required users to install something, many requiring administrative passwords. That is, all in-the-wild exploits have been trojans.
The Windows landscape is full of viruses and worms. Conficker is just one recent and ongoing example. Botnets are not only comprised mostly of Windows machines running IE, but apparently 80% viruses run in Windows 7 just as they did in previous versions of windows.
And you're repeating the idea that Windows of any stripe is more secure than Mac OS X with a straight face?
You have no idea what you're talking about. CTRL-F2 gives keyboard focus to the menubar and you can explore the menubar using the keyboard, targeting specific menu commands by typing the first several letters of the item you're interested in.
This gives one access to the entire menu system via the keyboard, not just the items a programmer decided to provide keyboard shortcuts for.
All this (requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions) does is encourage people to wait.
No if doesn't. This legislation, if passed in its current form, will require all US citizens to have insurance. Period. "Pre-existing condition" will only be meaningful as the uninsured obtain insurance. Once all US citizens carry medical insurance, "pre-existing condition" will only have meaning as people move from one insurer to another.
Whether you acknowledge it or not, in the US many essential services ranging from construction to child care are provided by undocumented/illegal workers. Once upon a time not so long ago, blacks of African descent were legal immigrants and their labor without question built much of what is today the United States
I am not a developer or security expert, but I know quite a bit about Internet services (run my own LAMP server locked as tight as I can afford on a hobbyist's budget) and I do what I can.
Firefox disabled by default ssl2. In 2006, wrote a post telling users how to reenable ssl2 in Firefox. One of my main users (and my fiance) gets lots of Firefox was running into errors. So, I disabled ssl2 in/etc/apache2/httpd.conf.
And now this.
So here is my big giant “fuck off” for the Firefox engineers and managers who collectively disabled ssl2 support to encourage server admins to shut off ssl2 support, even as I suspected all cryptography at the practical level is broken.
Yeah, I know security is a process, not a product, but if this is the case, then “encourging” admins to use one version of a protocol by disabling one is just the engineering version of “I know better than you so follow my lead.”
Disclaimer: I am Apple user and have been since my Apple IIe in 1984. I began using Macs in 1991 and have a lot of experience with them. In other words, I'm not your average user and I'm extra careful with my data and my setup. I create a bootable backup before upgrading, etc.
When I upgrade to Snow Leopard I installed Rosetta because some of the software I depend upon cannot be run without it. While using this piece of amazing and somewhat buggy software my screen went blue and I was "spontaneously logged out." I encounter this problem only in the buggy software but I am not the only one experiencing such problems. Apparently there are scores if not hundreds (thousands?) of users affected by this "spontaneous log out." No amount of backing up is going to completely protect you if your computer goes tits up for no discernible reason at all.
I love me some Apple products but I also recognize some of those products have serious QA issues which are not only unaddressed but Apple has not even acknowledged them. Such bugs are not the fault of "extraordinary" users even if we can understand how a very esoteric and hard-to-replicate bugs may not show up in the testing phase.
They do not need a device to see me; one of the curtains is broken, so theres nothing I can do about it.
Presuming you rent, take it to management. Hopefully they will care enough to keep the apartment in good condition (I know that's a big if). If you own, get off your duff and fix it, just like you would fix your computer if something went wrong.
Something the narrator in the bookscanner video said at the end of his video really resonates with me, which is that
powerful tools invariable have powerful effects. If everyone had a book scanner in their home, it might force the publishing industry to rethink an obviously broken business model.
Lately, I've been posting like crazy about digital print and related topics such as the conversion of paper print to digital audio. Google started their project several years back and publishers are suing to stop the threat to the paper print business model represented by a millions-of-volumes digital book corpus. If these publishers (copyright holders) are successful, it won't be too long before efforts such as the one depicted in the Instructables video are multiplied on a mass scale, what Clay Shirky calls the mass amateurization of a formerly professional field (book publishing).
My best guess is that media incumbents will not adapt, and that what happened to the music industry will happen to all media incumbents. It's not that publishers can't change, but rather something about their culture, their collective belief in entitlement and the "rightness" of legacy media structures prevent them from pioneering the transition.
Your reply seems a little harsh and your points made me think of a valid objection to the "elimination of duplicates," which is what to do about variant editions. In the history of publishing, many texts have been published as a single volume only to be changed at a later time. Sometimes the changes are corrections to the text such as spelling corrections. However, in some cases the revisions are much more substantive. Charles Dickensâ(TM) Great Expecations has two endings. William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying had significant changes from its first publication.
Sometimes "duplicates" are not really "duplicates" and the existence of these various versions can have notable effects on interpretation, reception, and cultural history.
Yes, let's not let facts get in the way of observing that, theoretically, PCs are more secure. Macs are only empirically more secure. Stupid Mac users.
Regarding "the representation of information as landscapes" as "a repeated dead end," I agree it has been done to death and the idea may not have any meaning as such. However, considered as a metaphor, the idea that networked information and the traversal of these domains would/could serve as a replacement for physical/real/actual landscapes is, to my mind, prescient.
Vannevar Bush, Tim Berners-Lee, Marshall McLuhan, Jaron Lanier, Sherry Turkle, and many other theorists and creators of human-machine interfaces have helped produce what we recognize as contemporary information systems and, in my opinion, Gibson's fictional vision to some degree shaped what has been created (e.g. Second Life) and what we imagine possible (e.g. real-time augmented reality). I think you too quickly dismiss Gibson's influence when you claim Gibson's work has no predictive power.
Gibson may not have predicted anything, but his vision indisputably reflects and affects some of the very real technologies that have since come to pass.
This is the man who coined the term "cyberspace"--first in "Johnny Mnemonic" in his 1982 Burning Chrome collection and popularized in Neuromancer--and imagined the representation of information as virtual/geographic landscapes. All of it pounded out using a manual typewriter. This 15-year-old interview may give you some sense of why Gibson's novel will probably matter more than any cultural artifact you or I will ever create.
if you fucking right-click ONE MORE GOD DAMNED TIME WHEN I TELL YOU TO LEFT-CLICK, I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL STRANGLE YOU WITH MOUSE CORD.
Rather than venting your frustration in a double-imagined scenario (yelling, one, and strangling, two), reassign her mouse buttons so that left- and right-click are swapped.
Or get her an operating system that doesn't allow programmers to rely on a distinction between right- and left-click and, yes, I'm talking about OS X.
I'm with you on the WTF about the "tables everywhere" rant. Just because eldavojohn is stuck in 1996 doesn't mean everyone else is. Some of us read and understood Chapter 10, "Floating and Positioning," of Eric Meyer's Cascading Style Sheets, The Definitive Guide.
There has been a slight shift in the adding of ellipses to passages to indicate omission. In a text that has ellipses in the text itself (for example, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow), some scholars use square-bracketed ellipses to indicate omission. In general, the use of bracketed ellipses redundantly and unambiguously signals editorialization.
That is, until some clever writer begins including square-bracketed ellipses in his or her text [. ..].
Louisiana happens to be known the world over for Mardi Gras, weeklong festival that brings tens of thousands to New Orleans every year. Seems baptists don't have as much cultural influence in Louisiana as Catholics do.
You know how Microsoft sometimes releases new hardware or trivial software updates/upgrades to distract people from the announcements of competitors?
This release is no different, except. What Google demonstrates in these "experiments" has rendered IE 8 meaningless. You might think this is an exaggeration, but the leaps and bounds of this small set of demos means Microsoft is going to have a hard row to hoe for having failed to adopt and implement true cross-platform standards.
This story is not about hate for Microsoft. This story is about the beauty of standards with a side plot of Microsoft's continuing and increasing irrelevance.
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Joke is the new troll. Sheesh.
I absolutely agree. In fact, this new technology I've patented has produced better than HD compression with unparalleled image quality. Contact me if you're interested in licensing.
Is this some kind of bizarro version of the ignorance normally attributed to stupid North Americans (USians)? Stereotypically, US citizens are characterized as deeply ignorant of history and current events outside of the US. In this case people outside of the US, on a forum as technologically current as Slashdot, can claim justified ignorance of one of the entities that gave rise to the Internet?
The mind, it has to boggle.
Everyone knows this is the last page.
I've been wearing contacts for 25 years. The best way to put them in is to peel your eyelids open using the pinky of one hand for your top eyelid and the ring finger of the other hand on the bottom. The middle finger of the bottom hand has a contact lens.
Takes about 3 seconds.
I'm responding to you because you are encouraging increasing economic prosperity as a means to reduce overpopulation, which was proposed by GP as a way of controlling climate change. The countries responsible for the main share of greenhouse (carbon dioxide) emissions, in order, are
Only China and India have quickly growing populations. The rest have small or zero population growth. And keep in mind that China’s emissions are largely due to the fact that they make stuff for the fat cat/large polluter countries.
The problem is not overpopulation. The problem is overconsumption by first world countries where the standard of living is high. Increasing economic prosperity as it has traditionally been defined by consumption will bring about catastrophic global climate change even faster!
The solution is to move to low/zero emissions renewable energy.
In practice (aka reality) OS X has never had a virus or worm. All known in-the-wild exploits to this day have required users to install something, many requiring administrative passwords. That is, all in-the-wild exploits have been trojans.
The Windows landscape is full of viruses and worms. Conficker is just one recent and ongoing example. Botnets are not only comprised mostly of Windows machines running IE, but apparently 80% viruses run in Windows 7 just as they did in previous versions of windows.
And you're repeating the idea that Windows of any stripe is more secure than Mac OS X with a straight face?
You have no idea what you're talking about. CTRL-F2 gives keyboard focus to the menubar and you can explore the menubar using the keyboard, targeting specific menu commands by typing the first several letters of the item you're interested in.
This gives one access to the entire menu system via the keyboard, not just the items a programmer decided to provide keyboard shortcuts for.
No if doesn't. This legislation, if passed in its current form, will require all US citizens to have insurance. Period. "Pre-existing condition" will only be meaningful as the uninsured obtain insurance. Once all US citizens carry medical insurance, "pre-existing condition" will only have meaning as people move from one insurer to another.
Whether you acknowledge it or not, in the US many essential services ranging from construction to child care are provided by undocumented/illegal workers. Once upon a time not so long ago, blacks of African descent were legal immigrants and their labor without question built much of what is today the United States
And your point was?
I am not a developer or security expert, but I know quite a bit about Internet services (run my own LAMP server locked as tight as I can afford on a hobbyist's budget) and I do what I can.
Firefox disabled by default ssl2. In 2006, wrote a post telling users how to reenable ssl2 in Firefox. One of my main users (and my fiance) gets lots of Firefox was running into errors. So, I disabled ssl2 in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.
And now this.
So here is my big giant “fuck off” for the Firefox engineers and managers who collectively disabled ssl2 support to encourage server admins to shut off ssl2 support, even as I suspected all cryptography at the practical level is broken.
Yeah, I know security is a process, not a product, but if this is the case, then “encourging” admins to use one version of a protocol by disabling one is just the engineering version of “I know better than you so follow my lead.”
Disclaimer: I am Apple user and have been since my Apple IIe in 1984. I began using Macs in 1991 and have a lot of experience with them. In other words, I'm not your average user and I'm extra careful with my data and my setup. I create a bootable backup before upgrading, etc.
When I upgrade to Snow Leopard I installed Rosetta because some of the software I depend upon cannot be run without it. While using this piece of amazing and somewhat buggy software my screen went blue and I was "spontaneously logged out." I encounter this problem only in the buggy software but I am not the only one experiencing such problems. Apparently there are scores if not hundreds (thousands?) of users affected by this "spontaneous log out." No amount of backing up is going to completely protect you if your computer goes tits up for no discernible reason at all.
I love me some Apple products but I also recognize some of those products have serious QA issues which are not only unaddressed but Apple has not even acknowledged them. Such bugs are not the fault of "extraordinary" users even if we can understand how a very esoteric and hard-to-replicate bugs may not show up in the testing phase.
They do not need a device to see me; one of the curtains is broken, so theres nothing I can do about it.
Presuming you rent, take it to management. Hopefully they will care enough to keep the apartment in good condition (I know that's a big if). If you own, get off your duff and fix it, just like you would fix your computer if something went wrong.
Something the narrator in the bookscanner video said at the end of his video really resonates with me, which is that
Lately, I've been posting like crazy about digital print and related topics such as the conversion of paper print to digital audio. Google started their project several years back and publishers are suing to stop the threat to the paper print business model represented by a millions-of-volumes digital book corpus. If these publishers (copyright holders) are successful, it won't be too long before efforts such as the one depicted in the Instructables video are multiplied on a mass scale, what Clay Shirky calls the mass amateurization of a formerly professional field (book publishing).
My best guess is that media incumbents will not adapt, and that what happened to the music industry will happen to all media incumbents. It's not that publishers can't change, but rather something about their culture, their collective belief in entitlement and the "rightness" of legacy media structures prevent them from pioneering the transition.
You can't say we didn't try.
Your reply seems a little harsh and your points made me think of a valid objection to the "elimination of duplicates," which is what to do about variant editions. In the history of publishing, many texts have been published as a single volume only to be changed at a later time. Sometimes the changes are corrections to the text such as spelling corrections. However, in some cases the revisions are much more substantive. Charles Dickensâ(TM) Great Expecations has two endings. William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying had significant changes from its first publication.
Sometimes "duplicates" are not really "duplicates" and the existence of these various versions can have notable effects on interpretation, reception, and cultural history.
Yes, let's not let facts get in the way of observing that, theoretically, PCs are more secure. Macs are only empirically more secure. Stupid Mac users.
I live equidistant to Omaha, NE and Sioux City, IA.
You have my deepest sympathies.
Excellent points taken.
Regarding "the representation of information as landscapes" as "a repeated dead end," I agree it has been done to death and the idea may not have any meaning as such. However, considered as a metaphor, the idea that networked information and the traversal of these domains would/could serve as a replacement for physical/real/actual landscapes is, to my mind, prescient.
Vannevar Bush, Tim Berners-Lee, Marshall McLuhan, Jaron Lanier, Sherry Turkle, and many other theorists and creators of human-machine interfaces have helped produce what we recognize as contemporary information systems and, in my opinion, Gibson's fictional vision to some degree shaped what has been created (e.g. Second Life) and what we imagine possible (e.g. real-time augmented reality). I think you too quickly dismiss Gibson's influence when you claim Gibson's work has no predictive power.
Gibson may not have predicted anything, but his vision indisputably reflects and affects some of the very real technologies that have since come to pass.
This is the man who coined the term "cyberspace"--first in "Johnny Mnemonic" in his 1982 Burning Chrome collection and popularized in Neuromancer--and imagined the representation of information as virtual/geographic landscapes. All of it pounded out using a manual typewriter. This 15-year-old interview may give you some sense of why Gibson's novel will probably matter more than any cultural artifact you or I will ever create.
Rather than venting your frustration in a double-imagined scenario (yelling, one, and strangling, two), reassign her mouse buttons so that left- and right-click are swapped.
Or get her an operating system that doesn't allow programmers to rely on a distinction between right- and left-click and, yes, I'm talking about OS X.
I'm with you on the WTF about the "tables everywhere" rant. Just because eldavojohn is stuck in 1996 doesn't mean everyone else is. Some of us read and understood Chapter 10, "Floating and Positioning," of Eric Meyer's Cascading Style Sheets, The Definitive Guide .
There has been a slight shift in the adding of ellipses to passages to indicate omission. In a text that has ellipses in the text itself (for example, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow), some scholars use square-bracketed ellipses to indicate omission. In general, the use of bracketed ellipses redundantly and unambiguously signals editorialization.
That is, until some clever writer begins including square-bracketed ellipses in his or her text [. . .].
Louisiana happens to be known the world over for Mardi Gras, weeklong festival that brings tens of thousands to New Orleans every year. Seems baptists don't have as much cultural influence in Louisiana as Catholics do.
You know how Microsoft sometimes releases new hardware or trivial software updates/upgrades to distract people from the announcements of competitors?
This release is no different, except. What Google demonstrates in these "experiments" has rendered IE 8 meaningless. You might think this is an exaggeration, but the leaps and bounds of this small set of demos means Microsoft is going to have a hard row to hoe for having failed to adopt and implement true cross-platform standards.
This story is not about hate for Microsoft. This story is about the beauty of standards with a side plot of Microsoft's continuing and increasing irrelevance.