Most REAL museums don't care, as long as you're not annoying other patrons or using flash photography that can fade or damage artwork.
The "museums" that do have a problem with photography are usually for-profit corporations that think photos will keep people from coming to the museum, and probably not worth your time.
As soon as one browser becomes significantly more popular than the others, sites start targeting that browser, and are less afraid to say "If the site is broken for you, just use Chrome."
We already had this rodeo in the 00s with Internet Explorer, I do *NOT* want to go down that road again. It was utterly maddening to be forced to use a specific browser to use certain sites.
I use Safari on MacOS and iOS, and Firefox on Linux and Windows. I can't bring myself to faf about with Chrome and add to its numbers.
>Nowadays even email, file transfers, chat, and inter-process communication are sent via HTTP
E-mail is very much still sent using the SMTP protocol, not HTTP.
HOWEVER, SMTP has the concept of MX records, which allow the mail server for a domain to be completely independent of whatever domain.com actually resolves to. Maybe we should have had a "WX" record for web servers, complete with priority information and such like we do MX, but it's probably way too late to try to implement something like that.:)
I don't think I've ever seen a company lock down saves this much. It used to be save games were completely open; you could trade them with friends, experiment and so on. Nintendo seems to want to stop that for some reason. Why?
Back in the day, supercomputers used to be about cutting edge system architecture, making CPUs as absolutely fast as possible, and even shortening connecting wires in the system to squeeze every last bit of performance out of a system. Think back to the Cray systems and such.
These days, supercomputers are just about who can spend the most money to build the biggest data center and buy the largest number of generic blade servers. It's just not interesting anymore; whoever can spend the most money will have the fastest system simply because they can buy the most blades.
Streaming video is great, but when it comes to watching news or local sports, having access to the local TV stations is still useful. An OTA antenna can fill in that gap, allowing you to still have access to live TV without an expensive monthly fee
I do wonder how much longer OTA broadcasting is going to be around, though. ATSC is an incredibly inefficient standard (hell, it still uses MPEG-2 video! That's a few codec generations behind) and you just know telcos and others are desperate to get their hands on that spectrum. I'm glad more people are starting to tune in; that means there will be more pressure to preserve it. I just worry that most of these people are getting up there in age, and that this trend will reverse again once we start losing them.
Seriously, I-95 in Miami is something else. It feels like you're driving on a cobblestone road; it's made of rough concrete with billions of expansion joints. Not to mention everyone drives like they're going to war.
Personally I'd modify that first panel to say "I-95 north of Palm Beach". Once you enter Palm Beach county, every point south of that is progressively worsening chaos.
>Further, the GPUs are hardly useless now. They're already starting to appear on the secondhand market, and be snatched up by gamers.
A lot of the GPUs *are* useless to gamers because they don't have video circuitry on them or video outputs. So they're pretty much only good for GPU computing. I suppose they could be sold to the scientific computing market, but I suspect demand for GPUs there isn't as high as gamings, so it's likely folks won't get too much money back.
I wish the GPU card manufacturers hadn't started making these cards without the video circuitry and ports. This is the cheapest part of the card, and at least if they had proper video outputs the cards would be useful second hand to gamers and folks who want to drive really high resolution displays. What a waste.
Whenever I see a smaller company sell out to a massive one, then the founders of the small company bitch about being screwed over and losing control, I ask myself that.
If you sell out, you're being paid for your company, and are no longer going to be in charge.
If you want to stay in charge, don't sell out.
I find it absurd that Match pretty much owns all online dating now. I realize that it can be hard to say no to a lot of money, but if you created something cool and want to stay in control of it, why sell?
Even if you don't consider the subsidies, the problem with the "It's their own infrastructure, they should be able to do what they want" is that in many areas, 1) the local ISP is a monopoly and there's no other options, and 2) Internet access has become fairly essential for modern life.
If Comcast is a monopoly in an area and decides to start up a mapping service to compete with Google Maps, and they start prioritizing their own service over Google Maps, or worse, deliberately degrading Google Maps traffic, the people who live in that area and only have Comcast as an option are fucked.
The Internet has become so essential to modern life that we need to protect it from companies that would otherwise gatekeep access to it. Let the companies charge what they feel is right for data, but ALL sources of that data should be at the same price per GB with no special treatment.
As a fellow techie, I'm really curious as to why do you oppose net neutrality. Do you want providers to start selectively prioritizing traffic that benefits their financial interests? I'm wondering how you think the public benefits from that, because it WILL happen without net neutrality. It's only a matter of time.
All their services are based on Java+Tomcat and the installation process is clunky and annoying. Not to mention the Tomcat containers occasionally die and need to be restarted.
I find it mindblowing that large businesses depend on this stuff during day to day operations.
Yeah, to someone who grew up and loved games like Zork, MU* systems were like MULTI PLAYER ZORK. It blew my mind at the time and I used a whole bunch of them for years.
I'm still on FurryMUCK but not too active there anymore. Just don't want to let go of that last thread I guess.
Pretty much all people have a phone, or are near someone with a phone.
Why is this necessary at all? Right now, Netflix doesn't need to know where you are. A system like this would require them to collect location information, which is a privacy issue.
Concentrate on making phone emergency alerts reliable; that should be enough.
Provide the service, either free or inexpensively for many years until everyone is depending on it, then start billing.
The same thing has happened with Twitter and its API, which is becoming a fuckton more expensive in a month or so. It's important to remember, whenever you use a resource, no matter what it is, that is provided for free or way below what its market value would be, that eventually that will change, and to be ready for that.
The only positive thing about this is that this may push more people towards Openstreetmap.
They don't do ANY tests now. It will be good for people to know what an emergency alert looks and sounds like so that they realize when one is coming in.
The tests should be infrequent, though; at most twice a year, and at a well-known time when people are unlikely to be asleep.
How does someone write: "we have received notice that you are deceased." and not realize something is wrong? Unless the person doesn't know what "deceased" means, which I suppose is possible, but even then you'd expect someone to notice something like this in code review.
Sending a letter to a dead person (that the company knows has died) is ridiculous on its own; the letter should be addressed to next of kin.
Sure thing! Everyone should use what works best for them. I like telling people why I like the things I do, but in no way do I suggest you should use something just because *I* like it. This applies to the constant iOS vs Android debate, too; fanboys really need to chill out and let people use what they like.
I love working in university IT. The atmosphere is more laid back than corporate IT, you can experiment a lot more when finding solutions to problems and you're constantly surrounded by young people who are mostly passionate and constantly coming up with really cool ideas. (Note, *mostly*. There has been an influx of people lately who are definitely just studying IT and CS just for the money, and this is a bit annoying.)
I have a bit of a computer museum in my office too; got a bunch of SBUS cards from Sun machines, a transputer board, an old M68000 evaluation board from the late 70s, an eight inch floppy drive, some IBM punch cards, and a few other things. Every now and then a student will be totally wowed by that stuff, and I love telling stories about it. I'm always happy to see people interested in the history of computing!
There's something cool about having such a vintage keyboard that still works perfectly, and better than most of the contemporary equivalents.
It's true; if you just want a mechanical keyboard there are a lot of modern options out there. But having an actual vintage 30 year old keyboard is nifty. Also, the contrast of having such a 30 year old keyboard plugged into a sleek, modern looking iMac is amusing.:)
I'm confused. How is continuing to use a product not the ultimate form of recycling?
Hell, these keyboard were discarded by other people who didn't want them. They would have ended up in landfills, most likely, but I intercepted them and kept them for my own use.
I am being more environmentally friendly by continuing to use these old relics than I would be by buying new ones. And when they do die, of course I will recycle them properly.
Oh! I forget to mention the day that a new faculty member arrived, and when I went to his office to set up something, I noticed he had a Model M with a few keycaps missing.
I have a SHITLOAD of spare keycaps because I ended up with a whole bunch of Model Ms, some of them not working, a couple decades ago. So I quietly went over there and replaced the missing keycaps when he wasn't there.
Eventually he figured out it was me by asking around (I'm well known as "that Model M guy") and thanked me. It was awesome to help out a fellow Model M fan.
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Most REAL museums don't care, as long as you're not annoying other patrons or using flash photography that can fade or damage artwork.
The "museums" that do have a problem with photography are usually for-profit corporations that think photos will keep people from coming to the museum, and probably not worth your time.
I wish Chrome had not become so absurdly popular.
As soon as one browser becomes significantly more popular than the others, sites start targeting that browser, and are less afraid to say "If the site is broken for you, just use Chrome."
We already had this rodeo in the 00s with Internet Explorer, I do *NOT* want to go down that road again. It was utterly maddening to be forced to use a specific browser to use certain sites.
I use Safari on MacOS and iOS, and Firefox on Linux and Windows. I can't bring myself to faf about with Chrome and add to its numbers.
>Nowadays even email, file transfers, chat, and inter-process communication are sent via HTTP
E-mail is very much still sent using the SMTP protocol, not HTTP.
HOWEVER, SMTP has the concept of MX records, which allow the mail server for a domain to be completely independent of whatever domain.com actually resolves to. Maybe we should have had a "WX" record for web servers, complete with priority information and such like we do MX, but it's probably way too late to try to implement something like that. :)
I don't think I've ever seen a company lock down saves this much. It used to be save games were completely open; you could trade them with friends, experiment and so on. Nintendo seems to want to stop that for some reason. Why?
Back in the day, supercomputers used to be about cutting edge system architecture, making CPUs as absolutely fast as possible, and even shortening connecting wires in the system to squeeze every last bit of performance out of a system. Think back to the Cray systems and such.
These days, supercomputers are just about who can spend the most money to build the biggest data center and buy the largest number of generic blade servers. It's just not interesting anymore; whoever can spend the most money will have the fastest system simply because they can buy the most blades.
Streaming video is great, but when it comes to watching news or local sports, having access to the local TV stations is still useful. An OTA antenna can fill in that gap, allowing you to still have access to live TV without an expensive monthly fee
I do wonder how much longer OTA broadcasting is going to be around, though. ATSC is an incredibly inefficient standard (hell, it still uses MPEG-2 video! That's a few codec generations behind) and you just know telcos and others are desperate to get their hands on that spectrum. I'm glad more people are starting to tune in; that means there will be more pressure to preserve it. I just worry that most of these people are getting up there in age, and that this trend will reverse again once we start losing them.
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Seriously, I-95 in Miami is something else. It feels like you're driving on a cobblestone road; it's made of rough concrete with billions of expansion joints. Not to mention everyone drives like they're going to war.
Personally I'd modify that first panel to say "I-95 north of Palm Beach". Once you enter Palm Beach county, every point south of that is progressively worsening chaos.
>Further, the GPUs are hardly useless now. They're already starting to appear on the secondhand market, and be snatched up by gamers.
A lot of the GPUs *are* useless to gamers because they don't have video circuitry on them or video outputs. So they're pretty much only good for GPU computing. I suppose they could be sold to the scientific computing market, but I suspect demand for GPUs there isn't as high as gamings, so it's likely folks won't get too much money back.
I wish the GPU card manufacturers hadn't started making these cards without the video circuitry and ports. This is the cheapest part of the card, and at least if they had proper video outputs the cards would be useful second hand to gamers and folks who want to drive really high resolution displays. What a waste.
Whenever I see a smaller company sell out to a massive one, then the founders of the small company bitch about being screwed over and losing control, I ask myself that.
If you sell out, you're being paid for your company, and are no longer going to be in charge.
If you want to stay in charge, don't sell out.
I find it absurd that Match pretty much owns all online dating now. I realize that it can be hard to say no to a lot of money, but if you created something cool and want to stay in control of it, why sell?
Even if you don't consider the subsidies, the problem with the "It's their own infrastructure, they should be able to do what they want" is that in many areas, 1) the local ISP is a monopoly and there's no other options, and 2) Internet access has become fairly essential for modern life.
If Comcast is a monopoly in an area and decides to start up a mapping service to compete with Google Maps, and they start prioritizing their own service over Google Maps, or worse, deliberately degrading Google Maps traffic, the people who live in that area and only have Comcast as an option are fucked.
The Internet has become so essential to modern life that we need to protect it from companies that would otherwise gatekeep access to it. Let the companies charge what they feel is right for data, but ALL sources of that data should be at the same price per GB with no special treatment.
As a fellow techie, I'm really curious as to why do you oppose net neutrality. Do you want providers to start selectively prioritizing traffic that benefits their financial interests? I'm wondering how you think the public benefits from that, because it WILL happen without net neutrality. It's only a matter of time.
All their services are based on Java+Tomcat and the installation process is clunky and annoying. Not to mention the Tomcat containers occasionally die and need to be restarted.
I find it mindblowing that large businesses depend on this stuff during day to day operations.
Yeah, to someone who grew up and loved games like Zork, MU* systems were like MULTI PLAYER ZORK. It blew my mind at the time and I used a whole bunch of them for years.
I'm still on FurryMUCK but not too active there anymore. Just don't want to let go of that last thread I guess.
Oh wow, yeah! It's the feeling of the federal government actually doing a good thing. It feels like this hasn't happened in quite some time.
I hope it's the start of a trend, but I have my doubts.
Pretty much all people have a phone, or are near someone with a phone.
Why is this necessary at all? Right now, Netflix doesn't need to know where you are. A system like this would require them to collect location information, which is a privacy issue.
Concentrate on making phone emergency alerts reliable; that should be enough.
Is anyone really surprised?
Provide the service, either free or inexpensively for many years until everyone is depending on it, then start billing.
The same thing has happened with Twitter and its API, which is becoming a fuckton more expensive in a month or so. It's important to remember, whenever you use a resource, no matter what it is, that is provided for free or way below what its market value would be, that eventually that will change, and to be ready for that.
The only positive thing about this is that this may push more people towards Openstreetmap.
They don't do ANY tests now. It will be good for people to know what an emergency alert looks and sounds like so that they realize when one is coming in.
The tests should be infrequent, though; at most twice a year, and at a well-known time when people are unlikely to be asleep.
This is a pretty major human error.
How does someone write: "we have received notice that you are deceased." and not realize something is wrong? Unless the person doesn't know what "deceased" means, which I suppose is possible, but even then you'd expect someone to notice something like this in code review.
Sending a letter to a dead person (that the company knows has died) is ridiculous on its own; the letter should be addressed to next of kin.
Being able to efficiently convert heat into energy is a holy grail. Are these TEGs better than previous tech when you have large differentials?
Sure thing! Everyone should use what works best for them. I like telling people why I like the things I do, but in no way do I suggest you should use something just because *I* like it. This applies to the constant iOS vs Android debate, too; fanboys really need to chill out and let people use what they like.
I love working in university IT. The atmosphere is more laid back than corporate IT, you can experiment a lot more when finding solutions to problems and you're constantly surrounded by young people who are mostly passionate and constantly coming up with really cool ideas. (Note, *mostly*. There has been an influx of people lately who are definitely just studying IT and CS just for the money, and this is a bit annoying.)
I have a bit of a computer museum in my office too; got a bunch of SBUS cards from Sun machines, a transputer board, an old M68000 evaluation board from the late 70s, an eight inch floppy drive, some IBM punch cards, and a few other things. Every now and then a student will be totally wowed by that stuff, and I love telling stories about it. I'm always happy to see people interested in the history of computing!
There's something cool about having such a vintage keyboard that still works perfectly, and better than most of the contemporary equivalents.
It's true; if you just want a mechanical keyboard there are a lot of modern options out there. But having an actual vintage 30 year old keyboard is nifty. Also, the contrast of having such a 30 year old keyboard plugged into a sleek, modern looking iMac is amusing. :)
I'm confused. How is continuing to use a product not the ultimate form of recycling?
Hell, these keyboard were discarded by other people who didn't want them. They would have ended up in landfills, most likely, but I intercepted them and kept them for my own use.
I am being more environmentally friendly by continuing to use these old relics than I would be by buying new ones. And when they do die, of course I will recycle them properly.
Your thinking is absolutely nonsensical.
I make no claims to not being a weirdo. :)
Oh! I forget to mention the day that a new faculty member arrived, and when I went to his office to set up something, I noticed he had a Model M with a few keycaps missing.
I have a SHITLOAD of spare keycaps because I ended up with a whole bunch of Model Ms, some of them not working, a couple decades ago. So I quietly went over there and replaced the missing keycaps when he wasn't there.
Eventually he figured out it was me by asking around (I'm well known as "that Model M guy") and thanked me. It was awesome to help out a fellow Model M fan.