If she currently has the intellect of a four year old, then I am not too optimistic about her ever living a normal life.
Why that? Here in slashdot we have people with still that intellectual age that definately aged the rest of their bodies, seems to be a common disease in the Cowardon family.
Metric's good for making some calculations by hand, but, any more, the alignment of metric units, like all relations around water to its mass and volume, all don't really hold that accurately any more, and you still need goofy constants
To simplify, lets see lenght. Is better to have one constant (meter) from which all the others derive in a very simple relationship (powers of 10), than have a lot of constant (inch, feet, mile, etc) where you need even more constants to see how each one compares with the other
I remember when the recommendation was that your webpage in total (counting all resources that includes, code, graphics, etc) couldn't weight more than 50k. What is the average total page size today? 500k? 1Mb? And that loading a lot of resouces between main page, style sheets, javascripts and graphics both small and big (and that gets only worse with flash apps/movies),
Technology is advancing (i think i read somewhere there that JS processing is 100x faster in modern browsers) and there are a lot of developers tools that give advices on how to improve responsiveness of your site (yes, most of them linked from that google site), so maybe the good part of the web could improve speed in a near future.
Considering how much machines belong to one or another botnet, encripting it somehow in a web page dont protect your email from a contact that belongs directly or indirectly to one. As soon you start to try to use your email, the risks of getting in some spammers list start to raise. And that includes posting it in a web page under any encryption and get a mail from a visitor (probably the main reason of posting there the email) which machine is already owned.
Unless you are door to door trying to sell software IT is pretty much behind closed doors, in fact, a good percent of it dont require to be physically at the work offices. Now, if you talk about living in those cities (as in the time you are out of work or going to it, no matter doing what) or trying to get a new job (based on numbers of offers in Dice.com) the list worth something... but is not what the title say.
When you realize that a feature is a killer one, one good enough that you can't figure how you lived without it before? Think in simple things, like browser tabs, extensions or things like that. And maybe more important, what is a "killer feature" for you could not be for someone else (i.e. for me could be menussh and nagstamon under gnome, or firebug and some of other extensions that depend on them for firefox, as i said, could depend a lot on what you do).
But maybe more interesting could be thinking how would be things if there was no innovation. following the same reasoning.
... is to not accept the future when it finally reaches us.
What internet gives us today would have been called 40-50 years ago "sci-fi". Is not an utopia, nor almost pure abstraction that could be painted fully black or white as treated by most of the genre, but is the future or at least an important part of it, something that you can point and say that is a game changer from whatever you had in old times.
Knowing that was sci-fi and everything, still amazed me how people (even childs) in his future vision were able to "self repair" themselves, at the point that medics were treated like car repairmen.
The first "netbook" that started all the craze was the XO... everyone wanted one, even paying twice, donating one to schools to get one of those. And run Linux. The first next ones (asus, msi, etc) consolidated the trend, and run linux too. Till last year, most if not all netbooks had Linux as alternate (if not main) OS. And a bunch of distros/interfaces of linux specialised in netbooks started to show up (eeebuntu and similar, ubuntu netbook remix, moblin, android, etc)
Then the campaing started. Microsoft using a chainsaw to manage to show XP in an XO. Then saying that Linux netbook returns were 4 times higher than Windows ones (at least what an msi exec said, an asus one denied that). Some vendors giving lesser options/specs for Linux netbooks than for Windows ones. And linux offers and showings in netbooks starting to fade
The next incoming market for Linux in small pcs are arm based net/smart books. Started with linux in general, then Android, but recently started a push to say that the right OS for that platform is another Microsoft one, Windows CE.
Clearly this is not a smoking gun... the room of Neo's "guns, lots of guns" is tiny compared with the amount of weapons Microsoft is using in all fronts to try to stop the flood. Will it succeed? I only hope that not.
Her lawyers invested all their time preparing the Chewbacca defense, and when at the court they realized that Lucas will sue them for 2M for using it, they picked the cheaper alternative.
1.9M is so suspiciously close to 2M that a potential previous conversation perfectly could well has been "I pay you 2M if you don't defend yourself, and return only 1.9M... you can keep the change". You know, like using a bait trial to set a precedent.
Well... if you put it that way, if you take some "medicines" like steroids to i.e. change your body mass close to an olimpic competition, is called cheating, usually.
Probably the biggest problem wasnt that people took aspirines because they knew they were sick (in a situation where a pandemic is spreading, and you could be carrier, some people could put the criminal negligence label), but what about people that usually takes aspirines because headache or other minor things?
Is pretty hard to get new PC without the US Blue Dam software (so is almost a must), anywhere in the world by now. Seems that too the software (by not so recent revelations) may create exploitable security vulnerabilities, or even (according to some tinfoil hat users) provide the US government with a ready-made botnet to use.
But at least the chinese software name is less boring than "Windows".
It's a botnet writer's dream, but for other reason. Once people get used that useful (?) web pages are un "untrusty" domains (something like in a isp adsl space, or just ip addresses) they wont mistrust so easily "weird" urls. Also will be a punch in the face to isp that want to block access from outside to users ip space, if they try to do that to slow down worm propagations, as with this kind of feature users will ask outside access.
Probably the "right" way to do it could be browser functionality or extensions, but putting the resources in providers on a cloud (i.e. yahoo, google, microsoft all have most if not all of the functionality they want for the fridge)
Microsoft drones doing a "Microsoft product is good" ad campaign, just that using that plain words they said "Even competition thinks that is good".
Of course that if some competitor does a big fanfare move Google should be concerned, and see if what looks as pure vapor have some smoke in there, as if something is being cooked there. Is it just aesthetics? There were some prizes recently for photographical iGoogle themes. But if is something more complex than that, and if not covered by some of the weird Labs testing runnings, a better understanding on that is required.
If well looks very shortsighted, there is another thing we should think around this. If a deployed volcano monitoring system confirms that it will blow in short time, what could be done? Defusing? Will the probably short time before it happens give any advantage in the preparations for it over starting after or starting now, making us more prepared in general for any mid-sized disaster? Of course, could make a difference to people living in a somewhat short range of the explosion.
In the other hand... a supervolcano could not happen in his lifetime, but another election surely will.
Anyone woke you last time an hurricane lvl 5 hit a big city?
Change happens, and some of it is big and abrupt. Will happen tomorrow? next century? Is not for losing the sleep for what could happen that you cant predict nor prevent, but neither is for denying that will happen in some moment of the (maybe far, maybe near) future.
If makes you happy, you can take it as the "news" that Mars will hit Earth like in a billon years, odds are not low that it will no happen in your lifetime (specially if a big tidal wave from Canary Islands sinks Florida in the next few days:)
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If she currently has the intellect of a four year old, then I am not too optimistic about her ever living a normal life.
Why that? Here in slashdot we have people with still that intellectual age that definately aged the rest of their bodies, seems to be a common disease in the Cowardon family.
Is not very surgical, but probably will be the right tool to diagnose this problem.
At least this one is nicer than the brain melting suffered from the ones that read the Dune prequels.
Is not the same a bunch of bricks than a home, even if you arrange them as in a house.
Metric's good for making some calculations by hand, but, any more, the alignment of metric units, like all relations around water to its mass and volume, all don't really hold that accurately any more, and you still need goofy constants
To simplify, lets see lenght. Is better to have one constant (meter) from which all the others derive in a very simple relationship (powers of 10), than have a lot of constant (inch, feet, mile, etc) where you need even more constants to see how each one compares with the other
I remember when the recommendation was that your webpage in total (counting all resources that includes, code, graphics, etc) couldn't weight more than 50k. What is the average total page size today? 500k? 1Mb? And that loading a lot of resouces between main page, style sheets, javascripts and graphics both small and big (and that gets only worse with flash apps/movies),
Technology is advancing (i think i read somewhere there that JS processing is 100x faster in modern browsers) and there are a lot of developers tools that give advices on how to improve responsiveness of your site (yes, most of them linked from that google site), so maybe the good part of the web could improve speed in a near future.
Considering how much machines belong to one or another botnet, encripting it somehow in a web page dont protect your email from a contact that belongs directly or indirectly to one. As soon you start to try to use your email, the risks of getting in some spammers list start to raise. And that includes posting it in a web page under any encryption and get a mail from a visitor (probably the main reason of posting there the email) which machine is already owned.
John Hodgman should be careful... according to the same movies, nerds take revenge.
Unless you are door to door trying to sell software IT is pretty much behind closed doors, in fact, a good percent of it dont require to be physically at the work offices. Now, if you talk about living in those cities (as in the time you are out of work or going to it, no matter doing what) or trying to get a new job (based on numbers of offers in Dice.com) the list worth something... but is not what the title say.
after the government started a new secret weapon program collecting adamantium meteors.
When you realize that a feature is a killer one, one good enough that you can't figure how you lived without it before? Think in simple things, like browser tabs, extensions or things like that. And maybe more important, what is a "killer feature" for you could not be for someone else (i.e. for me could be menussh and nagstamon under gnome, or firebug and some of other extensions that depend on them for firefox, as i said, could depend a lot on what you do).
But maybe more interesting could be thinking how would be things if there was no innovation. following the same reasoning.
... is to not accept the future when it finally reaches us.
What internet gives us today would have been called 40-50 years ago "sci-fi". Is not an utopia, nor almost pure abstraction that could be painted fully black or white as treated by most of the genre, but is the future or at least an important part of it, something that you can point and say that is a game changer from whatever you had in old times.
At how much Farenheit degrees a Kindle burns?
Knowing that was sci-fi and everything, still amazed me how people (even childs) in his future vision were able to "self repair" themselves, at the point that medics were treated like car repairmen.
This DIY Bio looks like going in that direction.
The first "netbook" that started all the craze was the XO... everyone wanted one, even paying twice, donating one to schools to get one of those. And run Linux. The first next ones (asus, msi, etc) consolidated the trend, and run linux too. Till last year, most if not all netbooks had Linux as alternate (if not main) OS. And a bunch of distros/interfaces of linux specialised in netbooks started to show up (eeebuntu and similar, ubuntu netbook remix, moblin, android, etc)
Then the campaing started. Microsoft using a chainsaw to manage to show XP in an XO. Then saying that Linux netbook returns were 4 times higher than Windows ones (at least what an msi exec said, an asus one denied that). Some vendors giving lesser options/specs for Linux netbooks than for Windows ones. And linux offers and showings in netbooks starting to fade
The next incoming market for Linux in small pcs are arm based net/smart books. Started with linux in general, then Android, but recently started a push to say that the right OS for that platform is another Microsoft one, Windows CE.
Clearly this is not a smoking gun... the room of Neo's "guns, lots of guns" is tiny compared with the amount of weapons Microsoft is using in all fronts to try to stop the flood. Will it succeed? I only hope that not.
There are lies, damn lies, statistics, and Microsoft Facts.
Her lawyers invested all their time preparing the Chewbacca defense, and when at the court they realized that Lucas will sue them for 2M for using it, they picked the cheaper alternative.
1.9M is so suspiciously close to 2M that a potential previous conversation perfectly could well has been "I pay you 2M if you don't defend yourself, and return only 1.9M... you can keep the change". You know, like using a bait trial to set a precedent.
Well... if you put it that way, if you take some "medicines" like steroids to i.e. change your body mass close to an olimpic competition, is called cheating, usually.
Probably the biggest problem wasnt that people took aspirines because they knew they were sick (in a situation where a pandemic is spreading, and you could be carrier, some people could put the criminal negligence label), but what about people that usually takes aspirines because headache or other minor things?
Is pretty hard to get new PC without the US Blue Dam software (so is almost a must), anywhere in the world by now. Seems that too the software (by not so recent revelations) may create exploitable security vulnerabilities, or even (according to some tinfoil hat users) provide the US government with a ready-made botnet to use.
But at least the chinese software name is less boring than "Windows".
It's a botnet writer's dream, but for other reason. Once people get used that useful (?) web pages are un "untrusty" domains (something like in a isp adsl space, or just ip addresses) they wont mistrust so easily "weird" urls.
Also will be a punch in the face to isp that want to block access from outside to users ip space, if they try to do that to slow down worm propagations, as with this kind of feature users will ask outside access.
Probably the "right" way to do it could be browser functionality or extensions, but putting the resources in providers on a cloud (i.e. yahoo, google, microsoft all have most if not all of the functionality they want for the fridge)
Microsoft drones doing a "Microsoft product is good" ad campaign, just that using that plain words they said "Even competition thinks that is good".
Of course that if some competitor does a big fanfare move Google should be concerned, and see if what looks as pure vapor have some smoke in there, as if something is being cooked there. Is it just aesthetics? There were some prizes recently for photographical iGoogle themes. But if is something more complex than that, and if not covered by some of the weird Labs testing runnings, a better understanding on that is required.
If what is disrupted are specific sites, and not the whole internet, you can use it to get anonymous/encrypted communication with wherever you want.
In the other hand, tor sounds too much like Thor, and if Iranian government things you are of another religion you could be screwed.
If well looks very shortsighted, there is another thing we should think around this. If a deployed volcano monitoring system confirms that it will blow in short time, what could be done? Defusing? Will the probably short time before it happens give any advantage in the preparations for it over starting after or starting now, making us more prepared in general for any mid-sized disaster? Of course, could make a difference to people living in a somewhat short range of the explosion.
In the other hand... a supervolcano could not happen in his lifetime, but another election surely will.
Anyone woke you last time an hurricane lvl 5 hit a big city?
:)
Change happens, and some of it is big and abrupt. Will happen tomorrow? next century? Is not for losing the sleep for what could happen that you cant predict nor prevent, but neither is for denying that will happen in some moment of the (maybe far, maybe near) future.
If makes you happy, you can take it as the "news" that Mars will hit Earth like in a billon years, odds are not low that it will no happen in your lifetime (specially if a big tidal wave from Canary Islands sinks Florida in the next few days