That was in fact a very insightful comment, back in 1995. Today? Yeah that's Emacs. Its still svelte compared to most other IDEs though. For example, its quite possible to websurf from within VisualStudio too. Just bring it up and hit ctrl-alt-r.
The "bloat" you are complaining about is a feature of IDE's in general (the "I" in "IDE" to be specific), not Emacs specifically.
"blamed"? Um, OK. This was posted on the same Russian-backed website by the same Russian hacker group. That's like whining about a political candidate being "blamed" for an ad they ran on TV.
Not that there's anything all that surprising in what the guy said. He doesn't like Hilz, but is going to vote for her anyway, because Trump is a disgrace to the nation. Pretty much the same position anyone who's honestly studied both candidates comes to. Big whoop.
Congradulations. This is the only "5, Insightful" comment posted on a political thread on./ in the last 3 months that was actually insightful. I don't know how you managed that, but you're now my hero.
The summary totally ignores Powell's extremely critical remarks about Hillary, her lies, manipulation, and the public exploitation of his name against his wishes.
And you just totally ignored that he said even worse things about Trump, and implied he'd be voting for her.
A lie of omission is still a lie, and that you choose to ignore these facts makes them all the more critical to examine.
Unlike the previous 5 mass extinction events, which instead hit the biggest animals the hardest.
That's what mass extinctions do. If you are big, you die. If you live on the land, you'll likely die. If you are a specialized animal rather than a generalist, you'll die.
It was actually a rhetorical question. We know for a fact who is doing it, and why. Yes, they are in fact Pro-Trump. They are also anti-US, and in particular anti-NATO. However, they've also hacked the RNC, and even in the DNC hack were particularly interested in their oppo research on Trump. The fact that they haven't publicly released that info they gathered just tells you they plan on using it privately, but don't want to hurt them publicly.
The fact that I can ask a rhetorical question with a well-known answer, and an answer with multiple possibilities listed got modded insightful, tells you everything you need to know about the ignorance of the mods here on/. lately.
Well, drat. I guess we have to stick to image links to jpegs of walls of text.
Yup. That still works, and hyperlinks to webpages still work. If you really want >140 chars, you are still free to do those things, and if people don't want to read that much, they are still free to not RT, like, or follow you.
You can only quote one tweet at a time, and have it show up inline. At least with the standard Twitter apps I use. I suppose you could get around that by using recursion (quote tweets that themselves quote tweets), but that's already happening, and again only the first tweet in the stack gets place inline in the original.
Nobody is going to cite a tweet that is longer than the article.
It doesn't really surprise me any more that some/. users don't even bother to fully read the summary. What is sad is how the preponderance of moderators don't seem to be reading the summaries either.
Obama is deeply conservative. Hell will freeze over before he would pardon Snowden.
It goes deeper than that. Wikileaks has basically become Russia's proxy in backing Trump this election. Trump is of course the candidate of the other party.
Not only does Wikileaks know damn well where their info is coming from, and why, but they seem on board with the agenda. They've been tweeting material from their official twitter account mocking the Democratic candidate, and no such material mocking the Republican one. The Republican of course has been consistently hiding more information this election. No medical records, no financial records,... (Shame there's no anonymous source those could be leaked to and published from, huh?)
So what did Snowden do again? Oh yeah, he gave classified info to this group that is right now collaborating with Russia to weaken America by interfering in our election to elect a pro-Putin anti-NATO candidate. Also, (arguably) helping the other political party too. Where's Snowden been all this time? In Russia.
So a pardon for that guy? Yeah...that's not gonna happen.
Whatever China and Russia are, neither is a dictatorship.... Russia... The President is elected by the people.
Lots of dictatorships have elections. Dictators love having elections. They get huge wins every time. What's not to love about that kind of approval from your people?
The USSR and the rest of their block used to have elections too. That didn't make them actual democratic republics, even if they did slap those words on their Nations' names.
Most people are missing the point. The 140 limit is still there. You will just no longer be penalized for including other content. As a heavy user, currently this was a big bugaboo because you never know how much a picture or link is going to reduce your count. I try to budget about 6, and sometimes it hits that, sometimes it goes clear up into the teens instead for no apparent reason. Its really annoying to have to change your message to make it look like it came from a 1337 D00D just to squeeze 5 characters back out of it, or delete the link.
Not earth-shattering stuff to be sure, but its a big help to users, without touching the foundational idea of 140 characters or less messages.
Better. Patrick Stewart is a world-class actor, but he never seemed much like a Captain to me. That job requires you to come down on people like a ton of bricks when they screw things up, and I think he's just such a nice guy the best he knew how to pull off was about 15lbs of bricks. Mulgrew could do it.
One obvious possibility are standard routing/switching handling messages like ICMP and IGMP. The former is used for all kinds of routing and error reporting purposes, and the latter for helping equipment keep track of which IPs need which multicast messages. ARP is perhaps technically another. That's the protocol network hardware/drivers use to map IP addresses to hardware MACs. But there are all kinds of other messages going around down under the application layer.
These are the kinds of things you'd expect an "intelligent switch" to have built in logic to chew on, so it doesn't surprise me in the least to hear about issues with them. We have expensive smart switches from a competitor to CISCO, and I know of at least one bug/"issue" we tracked down in them where it would occasionally lose packets for about a second (no big deal for most applications, but we're doing real-time UDP, and this brings our whole application down on very well-paying customers).
From talking around here and based on the description, my money would be on mishandled spanning-tree packets. Those go from switch to switch in an attempt to give them all a picture of the best way to route, even in the event of individual switch failures. Mishandling those happened to be part of the problem in the aforementioned issue with our non-CISCO switch.
People have been trying to crack dolphin language for decades under the unspoken assumption that all dolphins speak the same dialect/language. Maybe dolphin language will turn out to be as flexible and culturally varied as humans but this article tells me we still don't have a clue what they are talking about.
Well, the only other good example we have is Human language. There's no good reason to believe their languages are invariant when ours aren't. There's no good reason to believe isolated pods don't have separate languages from each other when isolated human tribes do.
..and no wrongdoing of any kind was ever found. The middle one there consumed 10 days of Congress' time, with 140 hours of sworn testimony. But they were just getting warmed up...
30 years later, I'm done with your partisan made-up Clinton "scandals". Seriously. We have a criminal justice system in this country specifically for this kind of thing. Come to me when she's been convicted of something. Until then, if you say she's a "criminal", I'm going with 30 years of history and saying you're lying. Again.
The basic moral here is not to bet your life on systems you have no capability of fixing, if you can at all avoid it.
The company’s Nexus 3000 switches began to fail after trying to improperly process a routine computer-to-computer command, and because Cisco keeps its code private, Peak Web couldn’t figure out why.
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Finally, late in October, came the 10 hours of darkness. Three people familiar with Peak Web’s operations say the lengthy outage gave the company time to deduce that the troublesome command was reducing the switches’ available memory and causing them to crash. The company alerted Cisco.
So they ended up black-box debugging the vendor's own problem for them. I wish I could say I am unfamiliar with that...
After the reboot, having kirk and spock looking longingly at each other and Uhura emerging as a the true power in the ship just makes me hope that trek passes away.
Trek was very transgressive for its day. It doesn't seem like it now, because a lot of their pie-in-the-sky stuff, like women and minorities completely accepted in the workforce, a commitment to diversity as a positive good, respect for other cultures rather than insisting on transforming them into clones of ours, became standard societal orthodoxy in the last 50 years. But back in the 1960's these were really radical ideas. The same year Trek started, freaking George Wallace won 5 states running on a platform supporting Jim Crow. They only got away with putting this on TV by making it obvious fiction (putting it in space).
If you have big problems with the newest Trek due to it depicting socially transgressive things (homosexual feelings, women with authority), I have to wonder if you would really have been a fan back in 1968 either.
I'm sorry, I forgot where I was for a minute. Let me summarize those links nobody will click on..
Lucile Ball was the first trekkie [blastr.com]. Yes, Lucile Ball, your new geek overlord.
Basic gist here is that it was her production company that initially got it produced and sold, and the one person at that company that was sold on the vision of the show was in fact Lucile Ball herself. At one point her whole board voted to can the show, because they were a small company and already had 3 shows on their plate. There would have been no Trek. She vetoed them.
MLK said he was a Trekkie. Wouldn't let Michelle Nickhols leave the show. [npr.org] MLK, blerd before it was cool.
Ms. NICHOLS: I went in to tell Gene Roddenberry that I was leaving after the first season, and he was very upset about it. And he said, take the weekend and think about what I am trying to achieve here in this show. You're an integral part and very important to it. And so I said, yes, I would. And that - on Saturday night, I went to an NAACP fundraiser, I believe it was, in Beverly Hills. And one of the promoters came over to me and said, Ms. Nichols, there's someone who would like to meet you. He says he is your greatest fan.
And I'm thinking a Trekker, you know. And I turn, and before I could get up, I looked across the way and there was the face of Dr. Martin Luther King smiling at me and walking toward me. And he started laughing. By the time he reached me, he said, yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan. I am that Trekkie.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Ms. NICHOLS: And I was speechless. He complimented me on the manner in which I'd created the character. I thanked him, and I think I said something like, Dr. King, I wish I could be out there marching with you. He said, no, no, no. No, you don't understand. We don't need you on the - to march. You are marching. You are reflecting what we are fighting for. So, I said to him, thank you so much. And I'm going to miss my co-stars.
And his face got very, very serious. And he said, what are you talking about? And I said, well, I told Gene just yesterday that I'm going to leave the show after the first year because I've been offered - and he stopped me and said: You cannot do that. And I was stunned. He said, don't you understand what this man has achieved? For the first time, we are being seen the world over as we should be seen. He says, do you understand that this is the only show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to stay up and watch. I was speechless.
If I'm worried about someone's medical condition, its the guy who's refused to release his records at all, outside of a ridiculously worded one-paragraph statement that the signing doctor says laughs about which reads *exactly* like the language used the said guy's own off-the-cuff speeches. Same vocabulary, same mannerisms. This is so over the top, it's really hard to escape the impression he's trying desperately to hide something.
Trump is 70. That would be the oldest elected POTUS ever (and older than his opponent), and we literally have no real idea about the state of his health. All we can do is eyeball the guy, and frankly he doesn't exactly look like a healthy 70yo. My doctor has me on beta meds and is trying to get me to lose weight, and Trump's got 40 years and easily 20 pounds on me. As someone nearing 50, I can guarantee you that there is just flat out no way a doctor looks over that person at age 70 and isn't at least on his case to drop weight.
If you're a person who honestly thinks nebulous future concerns about a candidate's health are a good voting issue, then you flat out must be more concerned about Trump than Clinton.
They aren't wrong. They're going to get a lot of crap for this, and if they brought it on themselves knowingly but did it anyway, that does indeed take courage.
However, I'd also imagine it takes courage to publicly be a White Supremacist these days. Those public-area preachers who call random passing women "whores" while their husbands/fathers/sons are with them are being pretty courageous too. Just because you are showing "courage" doesn't mean you doing the right thing, or that you aren't also being a total asshole.
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That was in fact a very insightful comment, back in 1995. Today? Yeah that's Emacs. Its still svelte compared to most other IDEs though. For example, its quite possible to websurf from within VisualStudio too. Just bring it up and hit ctrl-alt-r.
The "bloat" you are complaining about is a feature of IDE's in general (the "I" in "IDE" to be specific), not Emacs specifically.
"blamed"? Um, OK. This was posted on the same Russian-backed website by the same Russian hacker group. That's like whining about a political candidate being "blamed" for an ad they ran on TV.
Not that there's anything all that surprising in what the guy said. He doesn't like Hilz, but is going to vote for her anyway, because Trump is a disgrace to the nation. Pretty much the same position anyone who's honestly studied both candidates comes to. Big whoop.
Congradulations. This is the only "5, Insightful" comment posted on a political thread on ./ in the last 3 months that was actually insightful. I don't know how you managed that, but you're now my hero.
The summary totally ignores Powell's extremely critical remarks about Hillary, her lies, manipulation, and the public exploitation of his name against his wishes.
And you just totally ignored that he said even worse things about Trump, and implied he'd be voting for her.
A lie of omission is still a lie, and that you choose to ignore these facts makes them all the more critical to examine.
Ahem.
Unlike the previous 5 mass extinction events, which instead hit the biggest animals the hardest.
That's what mass extinctions do. If you are big, you die. If you live on the land, you'll likely die. If you are a specialized animal rather than a generalist, you'll die.
Go see a cheetah while you can.
It was actually a rhetorical question. We know for a fact who is doing it, and why. Yes, they are in fact Pro-Trump. They are also anti-US, and in particular anti-NATO. However, they've also hacked the RNC, and even in the DNC hack were particularly interested in their oppo research on Trump. The fact that they haven't publicly released that info they gathered just tells you they plan on using it privately, but don't want to hurt them publicly.
The fact that I can ask a rhetorical question with a well-known answer, and an answer with multiple possibilities listed got modded insightful, tells you everything you need to know about the ignorance of the mods here on /. lately.
Now, if a similar trove of documents from the RNC was dumped, you can bet the DOJ would be all over it.
...which leads one to ask why that isn't also happening?
Well, drat. I guess we have to stick to image links to jpegs of walls of text.
Yup. That still works, and hyperlinks to webpages still work. If you really want >140 chars, you are still free to do those things, and if people don't want to read that much, they are still free to not RT, like, or follow you.
You can only quote one tweet at a time, and have it show up inline. At least with the standard Twitter apps I use. I suppose you could get around that by using recursion (quote tweets that themselves quote tweets), but that's already happening, and again only the first tweet in the stack gets place inline in the original.
Nobody is going to cite a tweet that is longer than the article.
It doesn't really surprise me any more that some /. users don't even bother to fully read the summary. What is sad is how the preponderance of moderators don't seem to be reading the summaries either.
Obama is deeply conservative. Hell will freeze over before he would pardon Snowden.
It goes deeper than that. Wikileaks has basically become Russia's proxy in backing Trump this election. Trump is of course the candidate of the other party.
Not only does Wikileaks know damn well where their info is coming from, and why, but they seem on board with the agenda. They've been tweeting material from their official twitter account mocking the Democratic candidate, and no such material mocking the Republican one. The Republican of course has been consistently hiding more information this election. No medical records, no financial records, ... (Shame there's no anonymous source those could be leaked to and published from, huh?)
So what did Snowden do again? Oh yeah, he gave classified info to this group that is right now collaborating with Russia to weaken America by interfering in our election to elect a pro-Putin anti-NATO candidate. Also, (arguably) helping the other political party too. Where's Snowden been all this time? In Russia.
So a pardon for that guy? Yeah...that's not gonna happen.
Whatever China and Russia are, neither is a dictatorship. ... Russia ... The President is elected by the people.
Lots of dictatorships have elections. Dictators love having elections. They get huge wins every time. What's not to love about that kind of approval from your people?
The USSR and the rest of their block used to have elections too. That didn't make them actual democratic republics, even if they did slap those words on their Nations' names.
Most people are missing the point. The 140 limit is still there. You will just no longer be penalized for including other content. As a heavy user, currently this was a big bugaboo because you never know how much a picture or link is going to reduce your count. I try to budget about 6, and sometimes it hits that, sometimes it goes clear up into the teens instead for no apparent reason. Its really annoying to have to change your message to make it look like it came from a 1337 D00D just to squeeze 5 characters back out of it, or delete the link.
Not earth-shattering stuff to be sure, but its a big help to users, without touching the foundational idea of 140 characters or less messages.
Really? Kate Mulgrew an equal to Patrick Stewart?
Better. Patrick Stewart is a world-class actor, but he never seemed much like a Captain to me. That job requires you to come down on people like a ton of bricks when they screw things up, and I think he's just such a nice guy the best he knew how to pull off was about 15lbs of bricks. Mulgrew could do it.
One obvious possibility are standard routing/switching handling messages like ICMP and IGMP. The former is used for all kinds of routing and error reporting purposes, and the latter for helping equipment keep track of which IPs need which multicast messages. ARP is perhaps technically another. That's the protocol network hardware/drivers use to map IP addresses to hardware MACs. But there are all kinds of other messages going around down under the application layer.
These are the kinds of things you'd expect an "intelligent switch" to have built in logic to chew on, so it doesn't surprise me in the least to hear about issues with them. We have expensive smart switches from a competitor to CISCO, and I know of at least one bug/"issue" we tracked down in them where it would occasionally lose packets for about a second (no big deal for most applications, but we're doing real-time UDP, and this brings our whole application down on very well-paying customers).
From talking around here and based on the description, my money would be on mishandled spanning-tree packets. Those go from switch to switch in an attempt to give them all a picture of the best way to route, even in the event of individual switch failures. Mishandling those happened to be part of the problem in the aforementioned issue with our non-CISCO switch.
People have been trying to crack dolphin language for decades under the unspoken assumption that all dolphins speak the same dialect/language. Maybe dolphin language will turn out to be as flexible and culturally varied as humans but this article tells me we still don't have a clue what they are talking about.
Well, the only other good example we have is Human language. There's no good reason to believe their languages are invariant when ours aren't. There's no good reason to believe isolated pods don't have separate languages from each other when isolated human tribes do.
They have to compete with Slashdot. If all the birthers and truthers leave, who would be left here to promote stories and moderate?
30 years later, I'm done with your partisan made-up Clinton "scandals". Seriously. We have a criminal justice system in this country specifically for this kind of thing. Come to me when she's been convicted of something. Until then, if you say she's a "criminal", I'm going with 30 years of history and saying you're lying. Again.
The company’s Nexus 3000 switches began to fail after trying to improperly process a routine computer-to-computer command, and because Cisco keeps its code private, Peak Web couldn’t figure out why.
...
Finally, late in October, came the 10 hours of darkness. Three people familiar with Peak Web’s operations say the lengthy outage gave the company time to deduce that the troublesome command was reducing the switches’ available memory and causing them to crash. The company alerted Cisco.
So they ended up black-box debugging the vendor's own problem for them. I wish I could say I am unfamiliar with that...
After the reboot, having kirk and spock looking longingly at each other and Uhura emerging as a the true power in the ship just makes me hope that trek passes away.
Trek was very transgressive for its day. It doesn't seem like it now, because a lot of their pie-in-the-sky stuff, like women and minorities completely accepted in the workforce, a commitment to diversity as a positive good, respect for other cultures rather than insisting on transforming them into clones of ours, became standard societal orthodoxy in the last 50 years. But back in the 1960's these were really radical ideas. The same year Trek started, freaking George Wallace won 5 states running on a platform supporting Jim Crow. They only got away with putting this on TV by making it obvious fiction (putting it in space).
If you have big problems with the newest Trek due to it depicting socially transgressive things (homosexual feelings, women with authority), I have to wonder if you would really have been a fan back in 1968 either.
Lucile Ball was the first trekkie [blastr.com]. Yes, Lucile Ball, your new geek overlord.
Basic gist here is that it was her production company that initially got it produced and sold, and the one person at that company that was sold on the vision of the show was in fact Lucile Ball herself. At one point her whole board voted to can the show, because they were a small company and already had 3 shows on their plate. There would have been no Trek. She vetoed them.
MLK said he was a Trekkie. Wouldn't let Michelle Nickhols leave the show. [npr.org] MLK, blerd before it was cool.
Ms. NICHOLS: I went in to tell Gene Roddenberry that I was leaving after the first season, and he was very upset about it. And he said, take the weekend and think about what I am trying to achieve here in this show. You're an integral part and very important to it. And so I said, yes, I would. And that - on Saturday night, I went to an NAACP fundraiser, I believe it was, in Beverly Hills. And one of the promoters came over to me and said, Ms. Nichols, there's someone who would like to meet you. He says he is your greatest fan.
And I'm thinking a Trekker, you know. And I turn, and before I could get up, I looked across the way and there was the face of Dr. Martin Luther King smiling at me and walking toward me. And he started laughing. By the time he reached me, he said, yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan. I am that Trekkie.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Ms. NICHOLS: And I was speechless. He complimented me on the manner in which I'd created the character. I thanked him, and I think I said something like, Dr. King, I wish I could be out there marching with you. He said, no, no, no. No, you don't understand. We don't need you on the - to march. You are marching. You are reflecting what we are fighting for. So, I said to him, thank you so much. And I'm going to miss my co-stars.
And his face got very, very serious. And he said, what are you talking about? And I said, well, I told Gene just yesterday that I'm going to leave the show after the first year because I've been offered - and he stopped me and said: You cannot do that. And I was stunned. He said, don't you understand what this man has achieved? For the first time, we are being seen the world over as we should be seen. He says, do you understand that this is the only show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to stay up and watch. I was speechless.
Yes, MLK was a (self-identified!) Trekkie.
There are a lot of stories looking back Trek TOS floating around because of the 50th anniverseray. My favorites are:
Lucile Ball was the first trekkie. Yes, Lucile Ball, your new geek overlord.
MLK said he was a Trekkie. Wouldn't let Michelle Nickhols leave the show. MLK, blerd before it was cool.
If I'm worried about someone's medical condition, its the guy who's refused to release his records at all, outside of a ridiculously worded one-paragraph statement that the signing doctor says laughs about which reads *exactly* like the language used the said guy's own off-the-cuff speeches. Same vocabulary, same mannerisms. This is so over the top, it's really hard to escape the impression he's trying desperately to hide something.
Trump is 70. That would be the oldest elected POTUS ever (and older than his opponent), and we literally have no real idea about the state of his health. All we can do is eyeball the guy, and frankly he doesn't exactly look like a healthy 70yo. My doctor has me on beta meds and is trying to get me to lose weight, and Trump's got 40 years and easily 20 pounds on me. As someone nearing 50, I can guarantee you that there is just flat out no way a doctor looks over that person at age 70 and isn't at least on his case to drop weight.
If you're a person who honestly thinks nebulous future concerns about a candidate's health are a good voting issue, then you flat out must be more concerned about Trump than Clinton.
Shhh, Apple doesn't expect its fans to know anything about competitors. "An uneducated consumer is our best customer", as their motto should say.
That's why their actual address is One Infinite Loop
They aren't wrong. They're going to get a lot of crap for this, and if they brought it on themselves knowingly but did it anyway, that does indeed take courage.
However, I'd also imagine it takes courage to publicly be a White Supremacist these days. Those public-area preachers who call random passing women "whores" while their husbands/fathers/sons are with them are being pretty courageous too. Just because you are showing "courage" doesn't mean you doing the right thing, or that you aren't also being a total asshole.