A big part of his complaint is that RDFa scales better than Microdata which is what Schema.org uses, so both should be supported. Microdata is part of HTML5, and is an extension of Microforms, created exactly because RDFa is considered too complex.
This is exactly a case of WhatWG producing workable standards and W3C creating design by committee monstrosities.
If you really mean adventure games, then I would recommend The Whispered World, and anything from Telltale. But it sounds like you mean hack-n-slash RPG, in which case I would recommend Torchlight.
Yeah, we should be writing standards compliant code. Nobody disagrees with that. However, all of the browsers only implement a subset of the standard, and if you implement an important feature using part of the standard that isn't well supported yet, then you fucked up. Last minute tweaking won't fix that; you have to completely redo the code using a different approach.
You need to know what subset of the standard to use before you start coding. This is arguably getting more difficult these days as W3C takes ages to release a standard and WHATWG has decided to abandoned released standards, and instead continually adding to a moving "standard".
The difficulties in trying to determine this subset is the point of the article.
Simply waiting until the game is on sale means you're waiting for everyone to get bored and move on to another game before you get all excited about it yourself.
If Starcraft 2 anything like Starcraft, then this couldn't be farther from the truth. It will continue to be played for the next decade.
Amen. Maemo looked really promising 5 years ago when the N770 shipped. It looked even better 3 years ago when the N810 shipped. Then just about time when they were going to start using it on mainstream smartphones, they changed direction and spent the last 3 years reinventing the wheel. Such a waste.
Agreed, shopping stopped being anonymous when people started using credit cards. My main concern with this system is security. Android phones have been rushed to market, and many are infrequently updated. Smartphones in general, and Android in particular are ripe for malware exploits. I don't even trust it with a credit card for Marketplace purchases, let alone for anything else money related.
If you need something cheaper (no licenses), you can always go CentOS.
If you want something compatible with Red Hat but cheaper, you should go with Scientific Linux, which is the same sort of idea as CentOS, but has more timely releases, and is used by other major clusters, like the ones at Fermilab and CERN.
If you were to change a users UID, you would have to go through all the files in the system an update the UIDs as well. This is simple if all the drives are mounted at the time of the upgrade, and you want them all to be changed. However it becomes more of troublesome you have removable drives. Also, what if one of the mounted drives is a live backup; do you want to change the permissions on that or not. And you have to think about how you are going to handle restoring from a offsite backup with different UIDs. And if you have a networked file system, where all the computers on site share the same UIDs, it could become a real mess. Then there is the issue of config files that contain UIDs (like sudo users). It may be better to leave existing UIDs as they are, and just have new ones start at 1000.
Yeah, but with our luck God would just take all the nice good Christians, and leave the self-righteous assholes here with us. Hmm, I think I understand what hell is now.
In addition to being archived by the newspaper company, most local newspapers are already archived by local libraries as microfiche/microfilm. This is often required by law, as public notices are required to be placed in newspaper, and a record of this must be kept. Important national newspapers are archived by the Library of Congress, as well as multiple other libraries, where they are also digitized.
This is where Google got their source data to scan/upload in the first place.
Since it's a given that people are going to be creating new languages, I certainly hope they listen to what Roberto has to say. Lua is a joy to embed into applications compared to python and others.
I got pulled away from my office before submitting this, so everything has probably already been said, but in case it hasn't:
I wondered that myself, but I don't think that would be case for a couple of reasons. Many of the detections of radioactivity did identify the radioactive specific isotopes (such as iodine, cesium) that were causing them. The ones that didn't were centered around Fukushima, unlike what you would expect from a large, distributed Radon release like the article is talking about.
In addition to the email suggestions above, shouldn't they be able to use some sort of hardware ID? I don't think PSN accounts are tied to your machine, but they should have records of which machines you have used with PSN recently. Just require that you reactive your account from a machine which you regularly used prior to the intrusion. If they can't even verify that, then what good is their DRM at all?
Owning them is legal, but selling or even giving them away is restricted in many states, and that is what they ads are for; selling them.
Interstate commerce of Switchbades and butterfly knifes is banned by the Federal SWITCHBLADE Act. Brass Knuckles of any material are not legal and therefore cannot be sold to people in the states of: MA,CA,NY,MI,RI and IL. Metallic Knuckles may not be sold to FL. And gun laws are even more varied and confusing.
I think this should all be legal, but it's not Google's fault that it isn't, and I think it is perfectly reasonable for them to not want to wade the mishmash of state laws that govern them.
All cryptography is based on having a secret (like a key or password), but there are big differences between secrets and obscurity. * An obscure system can be reverse engineered with patience, even if used correctly all the time. A secret password can not be determined with any practical amount of observation during proper use of a good cryptographic system. * A secret password can easily be changed when compromised. It is much more difficult to change your entire OS or even encryption algorithm once it ceases to be obscure due to compatibility.
One of the fundamental principles of security is to minimize the amount of information that needs to be secret for your system to be secure. Creating a system that is secure even when it's operations are fully known furthers this goal. Relying on the fact that people don't care about the workings of your system doesn't.
In the context of this discussion, if Windows 7 is fundamentally more secure than OS X, and the popularity of OS X / iOS is increasing, then it won't be able to depend on obscurity for much longer, and making real security improvements is much harder.
According to the Microsoft Report this is based on a sample size of 600 million computers. That is plenty large enough for the results to be statistically significant.
It was trollish for the summary to omit that Windows 7 still has 1/5 of the infection rate of Windows XP, though.
18 USC 207 puts restrictions on lobbying by past public officials. I'm not a lawyer, so I can't say for sure whether it applies in this case, but it seems like it does.
I agree with the AC; there is such a thing as good corporate training? I have never seen it.
I actually enjoy learning things from class, and in the University environment it had many advantages over teaching yourself, the biggest of which are: * Feedback (questions and grading) corrects false understanding quicker. * A good curriculum ensures that there aren't any big gaps in your understanding. * A fixed schedule prevents it from always being pushed to the bottom of your priorities.
None of the corporate training I have seen has those properties. The courses are too short to be comprehensive, or too condensed to have time to apply anything you learn, discover things you thought you understood but didn't, and thus have questions to ask.
They don't. That's the point. You wouldn't compare a stock sedan to race cars, so why compare consumer electric cars to race cars. If you were designing an electric race car for a long range race you would give it swappable batteries. If you are designing a consumer car you can ignore criteria that are important for racing but not consumer cars (like fast charge time).
Until we have the technology to make a viable electric sports car they should be left to what they do best, econobox grocery getter.
The needs of a sports car aren't even close to that of a race car. Sports cars are just used as commuter cars by people that want something that looks cool and is fun to drive. Electric cars can easily meet the driving demands of that market given their high torque.
If we are talking race cars here, then there is no reason they couldn't design the battery pack to be swapped out as quickly as they change tires. Pretty much everything on a race car is custom designed for fast pit-stops.
That isn't the best approach for consumer cars for many reasons. But it also isn't a problem for consumer cars if they hold a full day's travel with margin. Given the driving patterns of people, current electric car technology could already replace more than half the sedans on the road today.
The judge didn't throw out any claims or prior art. He declared that Oracle needs to cut down their claims to a total of 3, and once this has been done Google will then need to cut their instances of prior art down to 8. It is completely up to them which survive.
This is all clearly explained in TFA, so there is no point in speculating.
This is especially interesting to me because another experiment failed to detect any evidence of dark matter, which seemed to contradict the (not quite statistically significant) hints that CDMS may have detected dark matter last year.
I'm also confused about which experiment this is. It says it is in the Soudan mine in Minnesota, but it isn't mentioned on either of the websites for the mine. Is it part of MINOS or CDMS, or is it something separate?
Regardless, I have been really excited about these detectors for the last couple years (even more so than the LHC), and it is great to start seeing data.
The boards are powered by a PC AT power supply. The average power consumed by an Apple//e board is about 4.2 watts, so the whole 17-board crate consumes only about 70 watts in total, and both the AppleCrate and the power supply run only a few degrees above ambient temperature.
But the original selling point of Ubuntu was that it was the distro that "just worked". You didn't have to spend days tracking down hardware problems, or hours figuring out how to change all defaults to something that worked. That meant the defaults were set to those that would be most familiar and comfortable to most computer users.
It is nice to have a distro like that to recommend to Linux Newbies, but Ubuntu is moving in a direction where it no longer is that distro.
For the pensioners, it should be considered criminal fraud to offer a defined benefits pension without having money in the bank to back those promises.
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A big part of his complaint is that RDFa scales better than Microdata which is what Schema.org uses, so both should be supported. Microdata is part of HTML5, and is an extension of Microforms, created exactly because RDFa is considered too complex.
This is exactly a case of WhatWG producing workable standards and W3C creating design by committee monstrosities.
If you really mean adventure games, then I would recommend The Whispered World, and anything from Telltale.
But it sounds like you mean hack-n-slash RPG, in which case I would recommend Torchlight.
Yeah, we should be writing standards compliant code. Nobody disagrees with that. However, all of the browsers only implement a subset of the standard, and if you implement an important feature using part of the standard that isn't well supported yet, then you fucked up. Last minute tweaking won't fix that; you have to completely redo the code using a different approach.
You need to know what subset of the standard to use before you start coding. This is arguably getting more difficult these days as W3C takes ages to release a standard and WHATWG has decided to abandoned released standards, and instead continually adding to a moving "standard".
The difficulties in trying to determine this subset is the point of the article.
Simply waiting until the game is on sale means you're waiting for everyone to get bored and move on to another game before you get all excited about it yourself.
If Starcraft 2 anything like Starcraft, then this couldn't be farther from the truth. It will continue to be played for the next decade.
Amen. Maemo looked really promising 5 years ago when the N770 shipped. It looked even better 3 years ago when the N810 shipped. Then just about time when they were going to start using it on mainstream smartphones, they changed direction and spent the last 3 years reinventing the wheel. Such a waste.
Agreed, shopping stopped being anonymous when people started using credit cards. My main concern with this system is security. Android phones have been rushed to market, and many are infrequently updated. Smartphones in general, and Android in particular are ripe for malware exploits. I don't even trust it with a credit card for Marketplace purchases, let alone for anything else money related.
If you need something cheaper (no licenses), you can always go CentOS.
If you want something compatible with Red Hat but cheaper, you should go with Scientific Linux, which is the same sort of idea as CentOS, but has more timely releases, and is used by other major clusters, like the ones at Fermilab and CERN.
If you were to change a users UID, you would have to go through all the files in the system an update the UIDs as well. This is simple if all the drives are mounted at the time of the upgrade, and you want them all to be changed. However it becomes more of troublesome you have removable drives. Also, what if one of the mounted drives is a live backup; do you want to change the permissions on that or not. And you have to think about how you are going to handle restoring from a offsite backup with different UIDs. And if you have a networked file system, where all the computers on site share the same UIDs, it could become a real mess. Then there is the issue of config files that contain UIDs (like sudo users). It may be better to leave existing UIDs as they are, and just have new ones start at 1000.
Yeah, but with our luck God would just take all the nice good Christians, and leave the self-righteous assholes here with us. Hmm, I think I understand what hell is now.
In addition to being archived by the newspaper company, most local newspapers are already archived by local libraries as microfiche/microfilm. This is often required by law, as public notices are required to be placed in newspaper, and a record of this must be kept. Important national newspapers are archived by the Library of Congress, as well as multiple other libraries, where they are also digitized.
This is where Google got their source data to scan/upload in the first place.
Since it's a given that people are going to be creating new languages, I certainly hope they listen to what Roberto has to say. Lua is a joy to embed into applications compared to python and others.
I got pulled away from my office before submitting this, so everything has probably already been said, but in case it hasn't:
I wondered that myself, but I don't think that would be case for a couple of reasons. Many of the detections of radioactivity did identify the radioactive specific isotopes (such as iodine, cesium) that were causing them. The ones that didn't were centered around Fukushima, unlike what you would expect from a large, distributed Radon release like the article is talking about.
In addition to the email suggestions above, shouldn't they be able to use some sort of hardware ID? I don't think PSN accounts are tied to your machine, but they should have records of which machines you have used with PSN recently. Just require that you reactive your account from a machine which you regularly used prior to the intrusion. If they can't even verify that, then what good is their DRM at all?
Owning them is legal, but selling or even giving them away is restricted in many states, and that is what they ads are for; selling them.
Interstate commerce of Switchbades and butterfly knifes is banned by the Federal SWITCHBLADE Act. Brass Knuckles of any material are not legal and therefore cannot be sold to people in the states of: MA,CA,NY,MI,RI and IL. Metallic Knuckles may not be sold to FL. And gun laws are even more varied and confusing.
I think this should all be legal, but it's not Google's fault that it isn't, and I think it is perfectly reasonable for them to not want to wade the mishmash of state laws that govern them.
All cryptography is based on having a secret (like a key or password), but there are big differences between secrets and obscurity.
* An obscure system can be reverse engineered with patience, even if used correctly all the time. A secret password can not be determined with any practical amount of observation during proper use of a good cryptographic system.
* A secret password can easily be changed when compromised. It is much more difficult to change your entire OS or even encryption algorithm once it ceases to be obscure due to compatibility.
One of the fundamental principles of security is to minimize the amount of information that needs to be secret for your system to be secure. Creating a system that is secure even when it's operations are fully known furthers this goal. Relying on the fact that people don't care about the workings of your system doesn't.
In the context of this discussion, if Windows 7 is fundamentally more secure than OS X, and the popularity of OS X / iOS is increasing, then it won't be able to depend on obscurity for much longer, and making real security improvements is much harder.
According to the Microsoft Report this is based on a sample size of 600 million computers. That is plenty large enough for the results to be statistically significant.
It was trollish for the summary to omit that Windows 7 still has 1/5 of the infection rate of Windows XP, though.
18 USC 207 puts restrictions on lobbying by past public officials. I'm not a lawyer, so I can't say for sure whether it applies in this case, but it seems like it does.
I agree with the AC; there is such a thing as good corporate training? I have never seen it.
I actually enjoy learning things from class, and in the University environment it had many advantages over teaching yourself, the biggest of which are:
* Feedback (questions and grading) corrects false understanding quicker.
* A good curriculum ensures that there aren't any big gaps in your understanding.
* A fixed schedule prevents it from always being pushed to the bottom of your priorities.
None of the corporate training I have seen has those properties. The courses are too short to be comprehensive, or too condensed to have time to apply anything you learn, discover things you thought you understood but didn't, and thus have questions to ask.
They don't. That's the point. You wouldn't compare a stock sedan to race cars, so why compare consumer electric cars to race cars. If you were designing an electric race car for a long range race you would give it swappable batteries. If you are designing a consumer car you can ignore criteria that are important for racing but not consumer cars (like fast charge time).
Until we have the technology to make a viable electric sports car they should be left to what they do best, econobox grocery getter.
The needs of a sports car aren't even close to that of a race car. Sports cars are just used as commuter cars by people that want something that looks cool and is fun to drive. Electric cars can easily meet the driving demands of that market given their high torque.
If we are talking race cars here, then there is no reason they couldn't design the battery pack to be swapped out as quickly as they change tires. Pretty much everything on a race car is custom designed for fast pit-stops.
That isn't the best approach for consumer cars for many reasons. But it also isn't a problem for consumer cars if they hold a full day's travel with margin. Given the driving patterns of people, current electric car technology could already replace more than half the sedans on the road today.
The judge didn't throw out any claims or prior art. He declared that Oracle needs to cut down their claims to a total of 3, and once this has been done Google will then need to cut their instances of prior art down to 8. It is completely up to them which survive.
This is all clearly explained in TFA, so there is no point in speculating.
This is especially interesting to me because another experiment failed to detect any evidence of dark matter, which seemed to contradict the (not quite statistically significant) hints that CDMS may have detected dark matter last year.
I'm also confused about which experiment this is. It says it is in the Soudan mine in Minnesota, but it isn't mentioned on either of the websites for the mine. Is it part of MINOS or CDMS, or is it something separate?
Regardless, I have been really excited about these detectors for the last couple years (even more so than the LHC), and it is great to start seeing data.
The boards are powered by a PC AT power supply. The average power consumed by an Apple //e board is about 4.2 watts, so the whole 17-board crate consumes only about 70 watts in total, and both the AppleCrate and the power supply run only a few degrees above ambient temperature.
But the original selling point of Ubuntu was that it was the distro that "just worked". You didn't have to spend days tracking down hardware problems, or hours figuring out how to change all defaults to something that worked. That meant the defaults were set to those that would be most familiar and comfortable to most computer users.
It is nice to have a distro like that to recommend to Linux Newbies, but Ubuntu is moving in a direction where it no longer is that distro.
For the pensioners, it should be considered criminal fraud to offer a defined benefits pension without having money in the bank to back those promises.