Err.. who launches Internet Explorer from an explorer window?
explorer.exe != Explorer (file manager) window. explorer.exe is the name of the former Windows shell, which (as you said, up until Window 8) had been the default shell for the underlying NT kernel - meaning that it is also the generic name for the entire Windows 95+ UI. AC was talking about the change in default UX rather then some sort of archaic way of launching programs from a file manager. Please do some research before flaming next time.
a strong signal transmitted from the north disrupted GPS in the area surrounding the position of the RC-7B aircraft.
Source? It doesn't say anything about what kind of aircraft it was in TFA. And why isn't the US rebuttal in the summary? From an anonymous DOD employee:
"We have no indication that any aircraft at the time of, or in the vicinity of, this alleged incident was forced to land on an emergency basis," the defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
these guys were so outclassed on hardware it's not even funny, so I don't think it's a meaningful comparison.
The army is the hardware. It may not be a relevant comparison when we're talking about countries like North Korea or China, but it is meaningful nonetheless.
Days is a bit of an exaggeration. Doing a fresh Gentoo install on commodity hardware (including configuration time) shouldn't take more than 4-5 hours to get from stage3 tarball to running Xorg. And that's assuming that you don't automate the process to make it faster for yourself. On older hardware - and particularly laptops - it will take a lot longer, but most Linux users I know have a neat binary distro on the lappies like Arch.
I think OP was talking about people who buy domains with the closest Hamming distance to the name of a Fortune 500 company and *intend* to park them (or use them for brand damaging material) until the company in question coughs up with a few grand to buy the domain off the parkers.
These modern newfangled computer type things come with a built in spell checker.
Unfortunately a lot of browser implementers deem spell checkers unnecessary. Imagine how many thousands (millions?) of man-hours could have been saved over the past 15 years if IE had inbuilt spell checking.
Which would *theoretically* make this no worse for Linux than the Sony incident (the system was compromised, but the OS itself wasn't to blame directly).
Still, kernel.org maintainers should know better;)
In other words, it is the belief of the New York Times that Wikileaks no longer gives a s*** about protecting peoples' identity as long as they can get some media attention, and probably never have. The inference made was that as soon as Wikileaks stopped being front-page news, they increased the volume of the leaks and stopped editing them. One could draw the conclusion that headlines, after all, are far more important than people's heads. But oh, to live in your simple world...
There, I fixed it for you.
The New York Times (being a media organisation) is definitely interested in generating hype. Take everything you hear with a grain of salt and you'll eventually get the truth or, at the very least, you won't have an out-and-out lie.
I'm definitely not a radio engineer, but that doesn't make much sense to me. More telephones will require more processing power, and more messages to be broadcast/received, but the power -> telephone relationship is not linear. Wireless signal strength is not diminished by the number of clients connected. I'd imagine the only wall they run into is processing power and available bandwidth on the backhaul.
Obviously, increasing coverage area will increase power consumption unless you get a more efficient antenna, but that's a bit of a no-brainer.
Increased attack surface is the reason sane people don't run Adobe's PDF browser plugin. And "microsoft python" does exist - it's called "Iron Python" (i.e. Python for.NET).
I think the inference is that it doesn't use much power, and probably has a UPS to deal with flaky electricity supplies (which is important in the developing world).
I'm more scared of libraries that try and force class-based OO into Javascript, but the mere existence of such libraries does show that people have a LOT of trouble efficiently getting around OO problems in Javascript. I don't mind Coffescript, etc because they make Javascript what it should have/could have been. There are so many neat little things that could make Javascript less tiresome, but almost none of them have been pushed out into the real world yet. Think array comprehensions, getElementsBySelector (if we had this a decade ago it could have saved insane amounts of money and bandwidth), default arguments (Javascript arguments are HORRIBLE), a less braindead DOM model, etc.
Opa OTOH is a different kettle of fish. In 98% of cases tying your frontend to your backend is a Bad Thing (tm). There is a very real difference between the client and the server, and I'm not sure what transparent environments are trying to achieve by ignoring it.
In Australia, teachers aren't allowed (and this is a rule rather than a law) to contact you electronically using any means other than your school-supplied mailbox. From a teacher's point of view it works out quite well, because they can often be harassed by students (anonymously, of course) and sometimes visa-versa. I do admit that it would be hard for relatives who are teachers/students in the same state, but I think that is a bit of a corner case and unlikely to be pursued by the government. This bill seems to be simply to protect one party in the case online relationships between students and teachers become abusive/a threat to privacy.
1) Genetically modify corn to produce THC 2) Anti-GM campaigners find out about your GM corn 3) Said campaigners burn a field full of samples in protest 4) ??? 5) Profit!
And haven't all the Linux distros had an "app store" for at least a decade now?
Nope. Unless s/app/package/ and s/store/manager/, in which case YES, they have had such a thing for well over a decade. And remember that "package manager" and "app store" are two very different things, the primary difference being that you can remove package managers or control which repository they pull from.
Erm, isn't C a subset of C++ (which would logically make the C standard library a part of C++)? Do you actually have any evidence that 1) C is actually used heavily for application development on Winbloze and 2) that M$ are (somehow) removing C support (and thereby deprecating huge chunks of their own code)?
Give Apple some credit, I'd say that if their lawyers doctored evidence then they would have at least put some effort into making it look genuine. The Galaxy S II has a display ratio of 3:5, while the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 have a ratio of 2:3. Apple's evidence certainly doesn't seem to back up the real data.
+1 for a Haiku mention. I haven't played around with it much as of yet, but it looks like it could really blow the competition out of the water on the desktop. Pervasive multithreading? No need for third party widget toolkits? Free and open source? Yes please!
The U2 only goes to 70, 000 ft. A lot of cold war aircraft (case in point: SR-71) get undeserved cult followings because people tend to overstate their flight envelopes. Most of those planes do one thing and one thing only, and that is go very, *VERY* fast.
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary was today renamed to "T3h ub3r5h0r+ gr@mm4r h4ck3r5 ch34+ 5h34+". Co-author of the dictionary, Edmund Weiner (alias "w3iner69"), said the move was made "for teh lulz" and that "411 ur wrdz r b3lng 2 us". Leaked copies of the latest edition are in fact ROT13d, and editors appear to have adopted Unicode in order to create crude textual illustrations.
Putting the device in its non-default portrait mode and rearranging the icons was mostly the camera man's fault, and the obscuring of the Samsung logo was just poor lighting conditions.
Really? I mean, come on. No, I don't think I'm better than anyone else because they do not share my views (and I'm unsure how you came to that conclusion). What I said was merely my observation (that of another consumer/slashdot user/human, just like yourself), and personal opinion. When the iPad came out, I don't remember ANYBODY but Apple themselves saying "Hey, this is going to be big". The reaction I saw was quite the opposite, with the iPad more or less panned as a waste of time/money. But then Apple called it "magical" and "wonderful", and now it's got so much positive media coverage that it isn't funny. The number of tablet owners *before* the iPad was tiny, and the number of tablet owners *after* the iPad has increased dramatically. I'm terribly biased and admittedly rather anti-Apple, but my opinion is still that Apple products are, for the most part, 90% style and 10% substance. Does that make people who buy or like their products stupid or superficial? No. Does it make them "sheeple" or something equally ridiculous? No. Is it evidence that marketing can make the difference between a wildly successful product and a commercial failure? I say yes, and this is the reason I'm scared of products like the iPad.
If it was tl;dr: TFA is a poorly structured rant which is trying to say something, but I'm not sure what. In response to Lewis' "factors contributing to the iPad's success":
1) As anybody who uses an SSD or suspend-to-disk will testify, almost all computers have the capability to boot in 30 seconds (not counting DHCP or NTP - they're both rather slow). 2) The iPad is no smaller than a netbook. I've seen people attempting to use iPads on public transport, and they look rather awkward and out of place. 3) Yes, it's very, VERY shiny. To their credit, Apple also has an excellent focus on PR and advertising. 4) The iPad DOES have a filesystem. It's called HFS. 5) All the software on *my* computer is monetarily zero-cost, and source code is available for everything on my system BUT the graphics card drivers (which are still "free as in beer"). I'm still as productive (if not more productive) than the equivalent Windows "power user". 6) How is "native apps" a selling point? Most PC OSes can do this, Android can do this, WP7 can do this. What's Bob's point?
IMO the only valid factor is 3). Apple tells consumers what they want, and consumers buy it. There's no "user innovation", just aggressive marketing.
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Err.. who launches Internet Explorer from an explorer window?
explorer.exe != Explorer (file manager) window. explorer.exe is the name of the former Windows shell, which (as you said, up until Window 8) had been the default shell for the underlying NT kernel - meaning that it is also the generic name for the entire Windows 95+ UI. AC was talking about the change in default UX rather then some sort of archaic way of launching programs from a file manager. Please do some research before flaming next time.
a strong signal transmitted from the north disrupted GPS in the area surrounding the position of the RC-7B aircraft.
Source? It doesn't say anything about what kind of aircraft it was in TFA. And why isn't the US rebuttal in the summary? From an anonymous DOD employee:
"We have no indication that any aircraft at the time of, or in the vicinity of, this alleged incident was forced to land on an emergency basis," the defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
these guys were so outclassed on hardware it's not even funny, so I don't think it's a meaningful comparison.
The army is the hardware. It may not be a relevant comparison when we're talking about countries like North Korea or China, but it is meaningful nonetheless.
Days is a bit of an exaggeration. Doing a fresh Gentoo install on commodity hardware (including configuration time) shouldn't take more than 4-5 hours to get from stage3 tarball to running Xorg. And that's assuming that you don't automate the process to make it faster for yourself. On older hardware - and particularly laptops - it will take a lot longer, but most Linux users I know have a neat binary distro on the lappies like Arch.
I think OP was talking about people who buy domains with the closest Hamming distance to the name of a Fortune 500 company and *intend* to park them (or use them for brand damaging material) until the company in question coughs up with a few grand to buy the domain off the parkers.
These modern newfangled computer type things come with a built in spell checker.
Unfortunately a lot of browser implementers deem spell checkers unnecessary. Imagine how many thousands (millions?) of man-hours could have been saved over the past 15 years if IE had inbuilt spell checking.
Which would *theoretically* make this no worse for Linux than the Sony incident (the system was compromised, but the OS itself wasn't to blame directly).
;)
Still, kernel.org maintainers should know better
In other words, it is the belief of the New York Times that Wikileaks no longer gives a s*** about protecting peoples' identity as long as they can get some media attention, and probably never have. The inference made was that as soon as Wikileaks stopped being front-page news, they increased the volume of the leaks and stopped editing them. One could draw the conclusion that headlines, after all, are far more important than people's heads. But oh, to live in your simple world...
There, I fixed it for you.
The New York Times (being a media organisation) is definitely interested in generating hype. Take everything you hear with a grain of salt and you'll eventually get the truth or, at the very least, you won't have an out-and-out lie.
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I'm definitely not a radio engineer, but that doesn't make much sense to me. More telephones will require more processing power, and more messages to be broadcast/received, but the power -> telephone relationship is not linear. Wireless signal strength is not diminished by the number of clients connected. I'd imagine the only wall they run into is processing power and available bandwidth on the backhaul.
Obviously, increasing coverage area will increase power consumption unless you get a more efficient antenna, but that's a bit of a no-brainer.
Increased attack surface is the reason sane people don't run Adobe's PDF browser plugin. And "microsoft python" does exist - it's called "Iron Python" (i.e. Python for .NET).
I think the inference is that it doesn't use much power, and probably has a UPS to deal with flaky electricity supplies (which is important in the developing world).
I'm more scared of libraries that try and force class-based OO into Javascript, but the mere existence of such libraries does show that people have a LOT of trouble efficiently getting around OO problems in Javascript. I don't mind Coffescript, etc because they make Javascript what it should have/could have been. There are so many neat little things that could make Javascript less tiresome, but almost none of them have been pushed out into the real world yet. Think array comprehensions, getElementsBySelector (if we had this a decade ago it could have saved insane amounts of money and bandwidth), default arguments (Javascript arguments are HORRIBLE), a less braindead DOM model, etc.
Opa OTOH is a different kettle of fish. In 98% of cases tying your frontend to your backend is a Bad Thing (tm). There is a very real difference between the client and the server, and I'm not sure what transparent environments are trying to achieve by ignoring it.
We haven't finished inventing it yet, but when we do, it'll be awesome.
In Australia, teachers aren't allowed (and this is a rule rather than a law) to contact you electronically using any means other than your school-supplied mailbox. From a teacher's point of view it works out quite well, because they can often be harassed by students (anonymously, of course) and sometimes visa-versa. I do admit that it would be hard for relatives who are teachers/students in the same state, but I think that is a bit of a corner case and unlikely to be pursued by the government. This bill seems to be simply to protect one party in the case online relationships between students and teachers become abusive/a threat to privacy.
1) Genetically modify corn to produce THC
2) Anti-GM campaigners find out about your GM corn
3) Said campaigners burn a field full of samples in protest
4) ???
5) Profit!
And haven't all the Linux distros had an "app store" for at least a decade now?
Nope. Unless s/app/package/ and s/store/manager/, in which case YES, they have had such a thing for well over a decade. And remember that "package manager" and "app store" are two very different things, the primary difference being that you can remove package managers or control which repository they pull from.
Erm, isn't C a subset of C++ (which would logically make the C standard library a part of C++)? Do you actually have any evidence that 1) C is actually used heavily for application development on Winbloze and 2) that M$ are (somehow) removing C support (and thereby deprecating huge chunks of their own code)?
Give Apple some credit, I'd say that if their lawyers doctored evidence then they would have at least put some effort into making it look genuine. The Galaxy S II has a display ratio of 3:5, while the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 have a ratio of 2:3. Apple's evidence certainly doesn't seem to back up the real data.
+1 for a Haiku mention. I haven't played around with it much as of yet, but it looks like it could really blow the competition out of the water on the desktop. Pervasive multithreading? No need for third party widget toolkits? Free and open source? Yes please!
The U2 only goes to 70, 000 ft. A lot of cold war aircraft (case in point: SR-71) get undeserved cult followings because people tend to overstate their flight envelopes. Most of those planes do one thing and one thing only, and that is go very, *VERY* fast.
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary was today renamed to "T3h ub3r5h0r+ gr@mm4r h4ck3r5 ch34+ 5h34+". Co-author of the dictionary, Edmund Weiner (alias "w3iner69"), said the move was made "for teh lulz" and that "411 ur wrdz r b3lng 2 us". Leaked copies of the latest edition are in fact ROT13d, and editors appear to have adopted Unicode in order to create crude textual illustrations.
Putting the device in its non-default portrait mode and rearranging the icons was mostly the camera man's fault, and the obscuring of the Samsung logo was just poor lighting conditions.
Really? I mean, come on. No, I don't think I'm better than anyone else because they do not share my views (and I'm unsure how you came to that conclusion). What I said was merely my observation (that of another consumer/slashdot user/human, just like yourself), and personal opinion. When the iPad came out, I don't remember ANYBODY but Apple themselves saying "Hey, this is going to be big". The reaction I saw was quite the opposite, with the iPad more or less panned as a waste of time/money. But then Apple called it "magical" and "wonderful", and now it's got so much positive media coverage that it isn't funny. The number of tablet owners *before* the iPad was tiny, and the number of tablet owners *after* the iPad has increased dramatically. I'm terribly biased and admittedly rather anti-Apple, but my opinion is still that Apple products are, for the most part, 90% style and 10% substance. Does that make people who buy or like their products stupid or superficial? No. Does it make them "sheeple" or something equally ridiculous? No. Is it evidence that marketing can make the difference between a wildly successful product and a commercial failure? I say yes, and this is the reason I'm scared of products like the iPad.
If it was tl;dr: TFA is a poorly structured rant which is trying to say something, but I'm not sure what. In response to Lewis' "factors contributing to the iPad's success":
1) As anybody who uses an SSD or suspend-to-disk will testify, almost all computers have the capability to boot in 30 seconds (not counting DHCP or NTP - they're both rather slow).
2) The iPad is no smaller than a netbook. I've seen people attempting to use iPads on public transport, and they look rather awkward and out of place.
3) Yes, it's very, VERY shiny. To their credit, Apple also has an excellent focus on PR and advertising.
4) The iPad DOES have a filesystem. It's called HFS.
5) All the software on *my* computer is monetarily zero-cost, and source code is available for everything on my system BUT the graphics card drivers (which are still "free as in beer"). I'm still as productive (if not more productive) than the equivalent Windows "power user".
6) How is "native apps" a selling point? Most PC OSes can do this, Android can do this, WP7 can do this. What's Bob's point?
IMO the only valid factor is 3). Apple tells consumers what they want, and consumers buy it. There's no "user innovation", just aggressive marketing.