Having to click 7 times to view all the comments on this page is very annoying. The link at the bottom of the page says "Get N more comments" where N is the total number of comments on the article. Clicking it only returns 5 at a time. This makes it hard to read discussions when you have to continually scroll to the bottom of the page, click a link, scroll back up, continue reading for a little bit, scroll back down, click a link, repeat.
How about fixing the mobile version of the site? Its been broken for months:
- In Safari on my iPhone, going to slashdot.org fetches the 5 most recent stories. At the bottom of the page is a "Many More" link. Clicking it doesn't actually fetch the _next_ 5 oldest. Instead it fetches stories from earlier in the day SORTED IN THE REVERSE ORDER. This makes it very difficult to use the mobile site to catch up on news missed during the day. It wouldn't be so bad if.....
- The "Fullscreen" link at the bottom of the mobile version would actually work. The text says "Change view: Mobile - Fullscreen", leading one to believe that the fullscreen link should take you to the normal version of the site. But clicking it simply reloads the mobile version of the page with the "ss=0" URL parameter.
For selfish reasons I am sad to see you go. Slashdot has been a part of my life in a major way over the last 12-13 years. Literally thousands of hours spent on the site.
Thanks for all your work and the great place to hang out. Best wishes to you and your family in the next phase of life.
Mod me as troll if you want, but its not surprising that Mossberg rushes to defend an Apple product in the face of a new competitor. He also neglects to point out in his comparison that the 16 GB of storage on the iPhone is typically filled with music, leaving much less than that for applications.
Fiscally responsible? Seriously? He received a raw deal budget wise from Bush, but his own proposed budget for 2010 is $1.178 TRILLION (source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/asset.aspx?AssetId=764). Indeed he's projecting less of a deficit than 2009's budget. Hooray!! But this kind of proposed spending is hardly fiscally responsible.
Am I cynical to think that these businesses will just raise the cost of their goods to cover the additional tax, thus making consumers the ones to pick up this $210 billion tab? I somehow doubt that publicly traded companies are excited to see the earnings hit show up in their quarterly statements.
Back in the day we used to play games on people with audio devices. Using netcat we would pipe from the microphone device on one box to the sound card on the target box. It was great seeing people's reactions to having somebody's voice come out the speakers of the machine they were sitting at in a lab or something.
... just the ABUSE of them. Think of all the niche markets where somebody has a monopoly on it. If there is evidence of Google abusing their "monopoly" in search and advertising to get a stranglehold on other markets, then having the DOJ look into it is a good thing. So they've got 80% of the online advertising market with the deal with Yahoo; good for them. Are they abusing it somehow? Artificially inflating advertising prices? Any examples?
One thing that will have to be worked around will be how susceptible lightweight vehicles are to wind gusts. I used to own a very small, light Honda Civic hatchback. Loved the car, but it was dangerous driving it at interstate speeds in high wind. More than once I was blown into the lane next to me before I could react.
The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.'
sigh. i just get so tired of the same old rhetoric coming from their lousy playbook. i realize i'm preaching to the choir but windows breaks "other things" just by simply applying their recommended, critical, monthly security patches.
heavens, my fiannce works at a bank and tuesday the entire bank was shut down for the better part of the morning while the admins were trying to rebuild a machine that runs the bank's account management software package. the machine broke something fierce while installing the july "critical" security patches.
Hmmm, I'm pretty sure that if that quote came from some executive at a Redmond-based company, the reactions would be outrageous. What ever happened to the concept of looking at your neighbours what they're doing better than you, instead of isolating your own development ?
A little further down he says that he just doesn't have time but if there is something that Solaris/x86 does well, somebody will let him know. I don't see how that's is ANY different from what "some executive at a Redmond-based company" would do. I'd be a bit surprised to find out that Gates or Balmer do investigations of Linux or other products themselves too.
I really don't see fluid gates becoming anywhere near fast enough to compete with electronic ones. I would think that pushing fluid through millions of tiny "pipes" would tend to be loud too (anybody have any info on this?). Who knows though... maybe I'm just not creative enough.:)
While not exactly Windows, here's a flaw in MSN Explorer 8.5 that has been used since "sometime last year" by some clever folks in China to get free access to Premium services. This was just in the news today.
Ironic that the very day MS' security chief says there are essentially no zero day vulnerabilities being exploited until after a patch comes out, one is reported by news.com.com.:)
I am the current maintainer of JACAL at Taylor University and there are several changes we've made to the system since the NT4 days.
- We are using a product called PrismPack from Lanovation instead of SysDiff. It is quite a bit easier and quicker to use and we can also use it to deploy new applications and system changes via login scripts without the user having administrator privileges.
- We are using AutoIt instead of ScriptIt for any GUI scripting for the few applications that don't like to be packaged with PrismPack (some applications do some kind of hardware ID-ing so you can't take a prebuilt package from one machine to another).
It works really well for us even across lots of different hardware configurations.
Sounds like you're on a Windows box, but one of my favorite Unix pranks is playing with stty in a user's shell startup scripts (.tcshrc,.bashrc,.cshrc, etc.). Putting something like:
stty intr ' '
in there will confuse the heck out of people (space becomes control-c).:)
You are prety much right about that, although I do not see the need to actually maintain your table in RAM. Trigrams require a HUGE corpus of training material to get good results, and even then you come up with the need to fudge your data a bit when you come across an unknown trigram. I think its called "and one rounding" or something like that (trying to remember from class).
Fascinating stuff for sure, but hardly new unless they have come up with some new development. I haven't read the article.
I think one thing to keep in mind is what will your tech department look like in 5 years. Shoot, 5 years ago who would have guessed things would be like they are now? Say your staff is halved in 5 years for whatever reason. Will not having official support matter at that time? I'm not trying to advocate buying Advanced Server, but you should at least keep in mind that crazy things can happen over the course of 5 years.
To some, the extra money is well worth the insurance you get.
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Having to click 7 times to view all the comments on this page is very annoying. The link at the bottom of the page says "Get N more comments" where N is the total number of comments on the article. Clicking it only returns 5 at a time. This makes it hard to read discussions when you have to continually scroll to the bottom of the page, click a link, scroll back up, continue reading for a little bit, scroll back down, click a link, repeat.
How about fixing the mobile version of the site? Its been broken for months:
- In Safari on my iPhone, going to slashdot.org fetches the 5 most recent stories. At the bottom of the page is a "Many More" link. Clicking it doesn't actually fetch the _next_ 5 oldest. Instead it fetches stories from earlier in the day SORTED IN THE REVERSE ORDER. This makes it very difficult to use the mobile site to catch up on news missed during the day. It wouldn't be so bad if .....
- The "Fullscreen" link at the bottom of the mobile version would actually work. The text says "Change view: Mobile - Fullscreen", leading one to believe that the fullscreen link should take you to the normal version of the site. But clicking it simply reloads the mobile version of the page with the "ss=0" URL parameter.
Single point of failure for a city. Great. Single system to compromise too; should be an attractive target for Bad Guys(tm).
For selfish reasons I am sad to see you go. Slashdot has been a part of my life in a major way over the last 12-13 years. Literally thousands of hours spent on the site.
Thanks for all your work and the great place to hang out. Best wishes to you and your family in the next phase of life.
Particularly if the research is publicly funded.
Mod me as troll if you want, but its not surprising that Mossberg rushes to defend an Apple product in the face of a new competitor. He also neglects to point out in his comparison that the 16 GB of storage on the iPhone is typically filled with music, leaving much less than that for applications.
Fiscally responsible? Seriously? He received a raw deal budget wise from Bush, but his own proposed budget for 2010 is $1.178 TRILLION (source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/asset.aspx?AssetId=764). Indeed he's projecting less of a deficit than 2009's budget. Hooray!! But this kind of proposed spending is hardly fiscally responsible.
Am I cynical to think that these businesses will just raise the cost of their goods to cover the additional tax, thus making consumers the ones to pick up this $210 billion tab? I somehow doubt that publicly traded companies are excited to see the earnings hit show up in their quarterly statements.
Back in the day we used to play games on people with audio devices. Using netcat we would pipe from the microphone device on one box to the sound card on the target box. It was great seeing people's reactions to having somebody's voice come out the speakers of the machine they were sitting at in a lab or something.
"Hey, stop picking your nose!"
That kind of thing. :)
... just the ABUSE of them. Think of all the niche markets where somebody has a monopoly on it. If there is evidence of Google abusing their "monopoly" in search and advertising to get a stranglehold on other markets, then having the DOJ look into it is a good thing. So they've got 80% of the online advertising market with the deal with Yahoo; good for them. Are they abusing it somehow? Artificially inflating advertising prices? Any examples?
Hey, I have a FANTASTIC idea: lets let the goverment run our healthcare! I'm told it is the land of milk and honey.
One thing that will have to be worked around will be how susceptible lightweight vehicles are to wind gusts. I used to own a very small, light Honda Civic hatchback. Loved the car, but it was dangerous driving it at interstate speeds in high wind. More than once I was blown into the lane next to me before I could react.
The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.'
sigh. i just get so tired of the same old rhetoric coming from their lousy playbook. i realize i'm preaching to the choir but windows breaks "other things" just by simply applying their recommended, critical, monthly security patches.
heavens, my fiannce works at a bank and tuesday the entire bank was shut down for the better part of the morning while the admins were trying to rebuild a machine that runs the bank's account management software package. the machine broke something fierce while installing the july "critical" security patches.
Hmmm, I'm pretty sure that if that quote came from some executive at a Redmond-based company, the reactions would be outrageous. What ever happened to the concept of looking at your neighbours what they're doing better than you, instead of isolating your own development ?
A little further down he says that he just doesn't have time but if there is something that Solaris/x86 does well, somebody will let him know. I don't see how that's is ANY different from what "some executive at a Redmond-based company" would do. I'd be a bit surprised to find out that Gates or Balmer do investigations of Linux or other products themselves too.
I really don't see fluid gates becoming anywhere near fast enough to compete with electronic ones. I would think that pushing fluid through millions of tiny "pipes" would tend to be loud too (anybody have any info on this?). Who knows though ... maybe I'm just not creative enough. :)
Is this another sign that dynamic languages are the future?
Is this guy serious? Where's he been the last 7 years? hehe.
While not exactly Windows, here's a flaw in MSN Explorer 8.5 that has been used since "sometime last year" by some clever folks in China to get free access to Premium services. This was just in the news today.
:)
Ironic that the very day MS' security chief says there are essentially no zero day vulnerabilities being exploited until after a patch comes out, one is reported by news.com.com.
THREE minute call. so it's $0.333333333333333333333333333333334 cents per minute
:)
I think you mean $0.0033333333333 cents per minute.
You mean a governmental "wink and a nod".
/. post several years ago.
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I am the current maintainer of JACAL at Taylor University and there are several changes we've made to the system since the NT4 days.
- We are using a product called PrismPack from Lanovation instead of SysDiff. It is quite a bit easier and quicker to use and we can also use it to deploy new applications and system changes via login scripts without the user having administrator privileges.
- We are using AutoIt instead of ScriptIt for any GUI scripting for the few applications that don't like to be packaged with PrismPack (some applications do some kind of hardware ID-ing so you can't take a prebuilt package from one machine to another).
It works really well for us even across lots of different hardware configurations.
You are prety much right about that, although I do not see the need to actually maintain your table in RAM. Trigrams require a HUGE corpus of training material to get good results, and even then you come up with the need to fudge your data a bit when you come across an unknown trigram. I think its called "and one rounding" or something like that (trying to remember from class).
Fascinating stuff for sure, but hardly new unless they have come up with some new development. I haven't read the article.
John's gospel was written in Greek while he was the bishop in Ephesus, probably before 80 AD.
I think one thing to keep in mind is what will your tech department look like in 5 years. Shoot, 5 years ago who would have guessed things would be like they are now? Say your staff is halved in 5 years for whatever reason. Will not having official support matter at that time? I'm not trying to advocate buying Advanced Server, but you should at least keep in mind that crazy things can happen over the course of 5 years.
To some, the extra money is well worth the insurance you get.