Sorry, but if you are more worried about using a 3 letter keyword, a bracket, or a bit of whitespace in your coding syntax than actually making it readable and testable - I can't imagine any decent engineers that would want to collaborate with you.
Now, on the other hand, if you had complained that Ruby has evolved to pretty much accommodate any syntax you can think of (resulting in complete chaos in coding style in many larger-scale Ruby projects) without actually putting much if any time into actual performance, I might respect the complaint. But block closing syntax.. is that REALLY the best Ruby complaint you can come up with?
My favorite Prius experiment was on Top Gear. They took a Prius 10 laps around their track (as fast as they could do it), with a BMW M3 following right behind it (obviously NOT as fast as it could go).
The Prius got 17 mpg, and the M3 19.5 mpg.
The summary? It's a lot more about HOW you drive than WHAT you drive...
I've always considered Egypt to be on of the more progressive muslim states Apparently I was mistaken.
Progressive muslims, not progressive statesmen. It's a 30 year old dictatorship that happens to have a muslim majority. Actually not too far off from a nearby country the US recently invaded and occupied. The major difference is this dictator is (currently) an "American ally"...
Yeah, really useful until the giant antenna gives them away. And if they manage to make it stealthy, triangulating the signal isn't much more difficult...
The prisoner should have said it doesn't encourage "gangs" - but rather it encourages parties!
While still being clueless on the details and unwilling to understand it any better, the judge would have been forced to conclude that "this game is off the hook, the bomb, and a real rager" and then join the inmates in a round of kamikazees.
Yeah, true - it's not just about the whitespace, but the loss of useful succinct and quickly interpreted data per post (Score being a perfect example).
The basic look is pretty nice - but I'm surprised you didn't think about your users, who are one of the last bastion of Internet folks who still believe in function > form!
Ie. the style seemed to come with a big decrease in density of useful data in the given space. For most random sites that may be a good thing as to keep from overwhelming the users, but on/. it's a big step backwards - these are people who are still using VT emulation and have memorized the most obscure vi or emacs commands to be more efficient, and you are trying to tell them they need 12-14 point fonts and an extra 5 points of whitespace between each line??
Oh well... it's just CSS, you still improve it, right?;)
Well, by that argument there are plenty of people blind in BOTH eyes - does that mean we should just stick to radio?
And the fatal flaw in the article's argument is whether it "works" does not depend on how "real" the 3D is, etc - it depends on whether people want to watch it. Movies themselves are basically just an optical illusion, and aren't "real motion", of course - they are just a series of images intended to trick your eyes and brain into perceiving motion. Some out there don't think 24 fps is nearly enough to do a good job at it, but the movie-watching public just doesn't seem to care.
I thought Avatar was amazing in IMAX 3D, as did a large majority of people I have talked to about it. Very few other 3D movies have had that impact, but just one is proof enough that it's clearly possible (if difficult) to wow people with the technology if executed well.
You are confusing the standards with their implementations.
All of these standards are now frozen, so no one can contribute to them. H.264 was open during its design, and VP8 was closed (and suggestions for improvement were ignored when the spec and reference implementation was made available). Since they are both frozen, I'd say H.264 spec was and is more open *as a standard*.
Now, as far as implementations go, it's a different story (though still not as cut and dried as people claim). VP8/WebM is now open source, great And x264 is a GPL implementation of H.264, so it is just as "open". The difference all comes down to licensing - a number of patents are required to implement the H.264 standard, so anyone who implements it and wants to use it in a country that recognizes those patents has to pay licensing fees or risk being sued.
That last bit definitely makes VP8 more attractive to people who don't want to pay license fees. So, call it "more expensive to use", "patent encumbered", or some other more descriptive term. But just throwing around the vague concept of "open" without the real context doesn't help the discussion...
Not knocking Cassandra, but basically it means that this metric of "2 billion columns", being completely different from the concept of RDBMS columns, really doesn't mean much from a comparative point of view...
It's kinda like saying "that army of ants will conquer all nations, they have 2 billion soldiers!":)
Then you must have a really incompetent IT department. We have been using IP desk in my office phones for years, and the incremental monthly cost is almost zero.
Maybe a bit inflammatory, but I don't really think it was a troll... he has a good point that this has nothing to do with rights online.
They aren't confiscating phones (misleading article title), they are ending a wasteful perk of CA state government-paid phones for many who don't legitimately need them to conduct state business. Those people are still welcome to pay for their own cell phone and do whatever they want with it "online".
X Windows predated Windows 1.0 by at least a year. And previous systems (like "W" - which was the basis for the name of the "X" Window System) were around a couple years before that.
To achieve any *actual* economic growth and improvement in the overall standard of living, we need to find jobs for people building dams, not digging holes and fill them in...
Creating make-work for individuals in a society doesn't improve the aggregate standard of living for the society as a whole - there is no NET gain, only the shift of gain and loss.
Well, that explains your comprehension problems - you just had to tell us upfront you were a math major! Now we know not to expect any understanding of pop culture, social interaction, or fun; nor should we attempt to explain it...
Yeah, that I totally agree with - removing a feature that *was* officially supported doesn't even seem legal. I guess they probably made users accept an indecipherable EULA that covered their ass that let them do it...
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Sorry, but if you are more worried about using a 3 letter keyword, a bracket, or a bit of whitespace in your coding syntax than actually making it readable and testable - I can't imagine any decent engineers that would want to collaborate with you.
Now, on the other hand, if you had complained that Ruby has evolved to pretty much accommodate any syntax you can think of (resulting in complete chaos in coding style in many larger-scale Ruby projects) without actually putting much if any time into actual performance, I might respect the complaint. But block closing syntax.. is that REALLY the best Ruby complaint you can come up with?
Nah, it's gotta be all blocked up with caribou meat by now, I'd stay away.
As long as it was built more than 30 years ago. The new ones are basically like Audis, but even LESS reliable.
My favorite Prius experiment was on Top Gear. They took a Prius 10 laps around their track (as fast as they could do it), with a BMW M3 following right behind it (obviously NOT as fast as it could go).
The Prius got 17 mpg, and the M3 19.5 mpg.
The summary? It's a lot more about HOW you drive than WHAT you drive...
Eventually...
I've always considered Egypt to be on of the more progressive muslim states
Apparently I was mistaken.
Progressive muslims, not progressive statesmen. It's a 30 year old dictatorship that happens to have a muslim majority. Actually not too far off from a nearby country the US recently invaded and occupied. The major difference is this dictator is (currently) an "American ally"...
Yeah, really useful until the giant antenna gives them away. And if they manage to make it stealthy, triangulating the signal isn't much more difficult...
The prisoner should have said it doesn't encourage "gangs" - but rather it encourages parties!
While still being clueless on the details and unwilling to understand it any better, the judge would have been forced to conclude that "this game is off the hook, the bomb, and a real rager" and then join the inmates in a round of kamikazees.
Yeah, true - it's not just about the whitespace, but the loss of useful succinct and quickly interpreted data per post (Score being a perfect example).
I think someone needs to go and reread the classics... The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The basic look is pretty nice - but I'm surprised you didn't think about your users, who are one of the last bastion of Internet folks who still believe in function > form!
Ie. the style seemed to come with a big decrease in density of useful data in the given space. For most random sites that may be a good thing as to keep from overwhelming the users, but on /. it's a big step backwards - these are people who are still using VT emulation and have memorized the most obscure vi or emacs commands to be more efficient, and you are trying to tell them they need 12-14 point fonts and an extra 5 points of whitespace between each line??
Oh well... it's just CSS, you still improve it, right? ;)
Well, by that argument there are plenty of people blind in BOTH eyes - does that mean we should just stick to radio?
And the fatal flaw in the article's argument is whether it "works" does not depend on how "real" the 3D is, etc - it depends on whether people want to watch it. Movies themselves are basically just an optical illusion, and aren't "real motion", of course - they are just a series of images intended to trick your eyes and brain into perceiving motion. Some out there don't think 24 fps is nearly enough to do a good job at it, but the movie-watching public just doesn't seem to care.
I thought Avatar was amazing in IMAX 3D, as did a large majority of people I have talked to about it. Very few other 3D movies have had that impact, but just one is proof enough that it's clearly possible (if difficult) to wow people with the technology if executed well.
At least he only said it once and isn't being an AC dick apparently replying to ALL of those comments with the same snide non-comment...
You are confusing the standards with their implementations.
All of these standards are now frozen, so no one can contribute to them. H.264 was open during its design, and VP8 was closed (and suggestions for improvement were ignored when the spec and reference implementation was made available). Since they are both frozen, I'd say H.264 spec was and is more open *as a standard*.
Now, as far as implementations go, it's a different story (though still not as cut and dried as people claim). VP8/WebM is now open source, great And x264 is a GPL implementation of H.264, so it is just as "open". The difference all comes down to licensing - a number of patents are required to implement the H.264 standard, so anyone who implements it and wants to use it in a country that recognizes those patents has to pay licensing fees or risk being sued.
That last bit definitely makes VP8 more attractive to people who don't want to pay license fees. So, call it "more expensive to use", "patent encumbered", or some other more descriptive term. But just throwing around the vague concept of "open" without the real context doesn't help the discussion...
"Contributing code to H.264" doesn't make sense. H.264 is a standard, not a software product.
But you are welcome to contribute code to x264, a GPL implementation of the H.264 standard.
Not knocking Cassandra, but basically it means that this metric of "2 billion columns", being completely different from the concept of RDBMS columns, really doesn't mean much from a comparative point of view...
It's kinda like saying "that army of ants will conquer all nations, they have 2 billion soldiers!" :)
Then you must have a really incompetent IT department. We have been using IP desk in my office phones for years, and the incremental monthly cost is almost zero.
Maybe a bit inflammatory, but I don't really think it was a troll... he has a good point that this has nothing to do with rights online.
They aren't confiscating phones (misleading article title), they are ending a wasteful perk of CA state government-paid phones for many who don't legitimately need them to conduct state business. Those people are still welcome to pay for their own cell phone and do whatever they want with it "online".
X Windows predated Windows 1.0 by at least a year. And previous systems (like "W" - which was the basis for the name of the "X" Window System) were around a couple years before that.
Exactly!
To achieve any *actual* economic growth and improvement in the overall standard of living, we need to find jobs for people building dams, not digging holes and fill them in...
Creating make-work for individuals in a society doesn't improve the aggregate standard of living for the society as a whole - there is no NET gain, only the shift of gain and loss.
...thinks Horst Wessel's family needs to get their royalty checks.
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Yup... as painful as it may be, it fits.
it's a classic case of greed overcoming caution.
If you read the article you will notice the victim tried to be cautious.
So? It's still greed overcoming caution. He was somewhat cautious, but still much greedier...
Well, that explains your comprehension problems - you just had to tell us upfront you were a math major! Now we know not to expect any understanding of pop culture, social interaction, or fun; nor should we attempt to explain it...
Yeah, that I totally agree with - removing a feature that *was* officially supported doesn't even seem legal. I guess they probably made users accept an indecipherable EULA that covered their ass that let them do it...