Ah, the efficient use of government resources trumps justice. Must be a first!
Realistically speaking though, the FTC is understaffed as it is, and what resources they have are stretched. A lawsuit against Google is going to be a very long, costly affair, and it would ultimately come down to a battle of attrition. Even if the FTC won, what would change? They would just appeal the decision, and if they won, there goes however many millions down the drain, along with a huge reputation hit. Google can easily fund any such fight; this part of the government cannot. It's a pretty sad day when a corporation of our society has more wealth than the representation of society itself.
I've had a delightful time explaining to my trainees that *EVERY SERVER SHOULD ONLY BE RUN IN A LANG=C ENVIRONEMNT". Unicode is *bad*, *bad*, *bad* for systems work of any sort.
That works, until your servers have to process any kind of foreign characters whatsoever. This is a fault that only affects OS X, only when using Google Chrome. It's not (to my knowledge) a weakness of Unicode.
But it did make you butthurt enough to respond to me.:-)
Let's be very clear on something here: I honestly don't give one damn about you. The reason why I responded is that I hoped to warn you how stupid you sound when you say that, so that you won't be ridiculed for talking like a first grader. But if that's how you feel about it, if you really think anyone except that other AC gives one flying fuck's worth, go ahead. Make a fool of yourself.
Another day, another security hole in open sores software.
No, I don't use Micro$hit software either.
Are you kidding me? There's holes in open source software, there's holes in closed source software, there's holes in every piece of software. What else is new? There's no need to degenerate to terms like "Micro$hit" or "open sores". It doesn't make you sound witty, it makes you sound like someone 16 years of age, and it's embarrassing to see this on a site that is supposedly for adults. The sooner all this pathetic name calling stops, the sooner we can actually discuss the core issue at hand. Assuming, of course, that you even understand what the hell the article is talking about, and I'm not entirely sure either of you do.
Actually no, they didn't announce a damn thing you completely inaccurate headline and summary. They very well might but that is just one article speculating at what they might announce based on what other companies are doing.
It gets better. At the end, the author mentions, "Here I come, Hyrule!" To me, that implies nostalgic reflection on the many fond hours of gameplay he had playing a Zelda game on his original Virtual Boy. Only one problem: Nintendo never released a Zelda game for the Virtual Boy.
Just know that Germany is extremely protectionist on many fronts. For instance, every household has to pay over 20 euro each month to the VERY WELL OFF TV companies whether you want to or not. Or if you have a painting and auction it off, a portion goes off to the artists and their families for several generations, (often to collection agencies since said artist is dead), regardless of how you bought the painting/artwork and the arrangement at time of purchase. Let's not mention how their RIAA (GEMA) was so greedy, they couldn't make a deal with youtube for videos. You can't even buy common off-the-shelf drugs that would cost $20 for a couple hundred in the US, but rather have to pay a pharmacy like a buck a piece for there.
It's quite hostile to the free market on multiple fronts.
Eh, what? Medicine is free, your health insurance (provided for free, of course, by the government) will pay for pretty much any medicine out there. They also test that stuff way more than they do in the United States, and I've at least found it to work much better. And if you think Germany has a screwed up cable system, I assure you, it's nowhere near as bad as in the United States. They pay for it each month like you do - but they pay 80 dollars, or about 75 Euros, and it's of far worse quality.
... computing is becoming a commodity. PC gaming is growing leaps and bounds as the bottom billions start to enter the global middle class, you have mobile phones, laptops, ipads, etc. Computing is slowly becoming a commodity device that will ultimately be everywhere. This doesn't mean total death for consoles but you don't need three different PC's (which is what consoles are, they use modern PC 3D chips). The console generations will slowly get longer and/or end because we're nearing the limit of transistor shrinkage (aka there won't be much advantage to releasing a new console if there is no new hardware available anyway). Costs and times for shrinking transistors are escalating enormously and it's going to take some radical breakthroughs in computing to move it forward. Things that most likely is going to take decades or or perhaps a century at least.
If valve can somehow get into console land with steam machines you can expect PC gaming to ultimately take over, not that I'm saying it will but if he finds some way to crack the console market it's a possibility.
All the consoles are basically rebadged PC's with some customization, that's all they are at this point.
You're right on the underlying specs being almost exactly the same, but when you sit down to play a game on a console, you don't really want to do anything else. It's like saying that beer drinking in Germany is in jeopardy because wine is becoming more popular. They're both alcoholic drinks, but the taste is completely different.
... they don't just partner with Apple and bring out a console. And yes, it should be called the iConsole.
Apple did once make a console, albeit in partnership with Bandei. It was called the Apple Pippin, and the fact you've never heard of it tells you how much that thing sucked. Besides, Nintendo and Apple both have their claims to fame in controlling hardware, and I don't think either one would be willing to concede control of it. On top of all that, their target audiences are completely different.
I'm an accountant and a Finance Director (CFO in US terminology). I don't code for a living, but I know a little R. That gives me a huge advantage: if I want to understand our sales stats or movements in yields, I can analyse the numbers myself. Normally, I have the luxury of asking someone in the team to do the job, but, sometimes when the question is ill-defined and open-ended, it's much more effective and efficient to go straight to the answer myself. Sometimes, if I'm brought some analysis that's 90% of what I need, it's easier and more efficient to complete it myself.
Don't invent specious analogies about casting iron pots because you lack the imagination to see how tools could be used more widely.
Perhaps I'm ignorant of how exactly accounting works (in which case, feel free to tell me, I do not work in finance for a living), but if you're using R like that, it's essentially a glorified graphical calculator, no? I dispute labeling that as general purpose programming. And even if we assume it is, accounting is something I doubt is anywhere close to the most common job. I'd say something like a janitor or waiter is, and how is knowing how to program going to help there?
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"The average person doesn't have that much time to invest if it isn't their career."
I want to agree with you, I really do. But I see this as the biggest problem with our society today.
Coding skills should be a mandatory part of public education.
We don't complain that people don't know how to average a set of numbers, or determine the unit price at the grocery store, then say 'well average people don't have time to learn that stuff' but we try our absolute best to teach EVERYONE such basic skills.
Programming should NOT be any different.
What on earth is a non programmer going to do with that? You're comparing a highly specialized skill that takes years to learn compared to a basic instinctive skill that takes an hour at most. You shouldn't be comparing it to averaging numbers, you should be comparing it to forging. Everyone should learn how to craft a pan from iron! That's not quite an equal, as it actually would help most, but it's close enough. What should be taught is logic - that would actually help people to think systematically. Programming is just an application of that.
Someone started a single player game and decided to hand over control of his civilization to the adviser?
Nope, what he did was use the game editor to delete his city at the start and place a nuclear sub underneath the Artic. As such, while technically still being part of the game, the human has no (measurable) effect on the outcome. This is a little off topic, but frankly, I really wish more strategy games had spectator mods. It's really useful for observing the AI, and most games don't implement one, which would allow us to avoid ugly hacks like this...
You'd probably know if you read the freakin' FAQ. Also, please don't post "frist psot!" comments, they're considered to be extremely juvenile and bad manners.
FreeBSD is the new Linux. Full of religious fan boys who act like it was written by God. This old tired line of "Linux is immune to security issues" is now more commonly used with FreeBSD (by idiots).
You know who started the original BSD? This guy did. He also created the original vi editor, was the creator of the modern day TCP/IP stack, and had a huge hand in the creation of Java. What, praytell, have you done?
Come on now, that is a huge pain in the ass! I thought we all agreed to that! You couldn't have been bothered to remove it? For that matter, the article itself has a severe spelling and grammar flaw. That reeks of laziness! REEKS, I tell you. How completely and utterly disappointing.
It's called Maths.
Math is exact, solid, reliable and universal.
You can learn someone advanced math without them even knowing a spoken language through simple demonstrations built-up over time.
Something that is often not counted as a second language, actually IS a second language, and the most universal language at that.
Math is not a human language. If you contend it is, try expressing emotions with it.
Now that ZFS is the default operating system for new installs of FreeBSD 10.x, it sounds like this book documents a lot of hard won technical insights that have been made obsolete by ZFS. Why would I configure RAID 10 for UFS when ZFS provides superior data protection? And so on. It's probably useful for people who have parachuted in and now must maintain a legacy FreeBSD system. It doesn't sound particularly useful for someone who is migrating from Linux to FreeBSD right now, since this is all about how people *used* to configure FreeBSD storage.
BarbaraHudson what's this about you ac stalking/harassing/libeling others http://slashdot.org/comments.p... that you ate your words for? Downmod this we see it anyhow (most here browse below -1) so trying to hide it = effete & ineffectual.
DAMN, how many posts of this do you plan to make? Just go away, none of us give a crap's worth.
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Then i await the charges levied against charlie hebdo. But alas, the double standard of ideology cares not for justice.
Then answer me this: if someone shot you with a gun, would you be comfortable putting the gun in prison and letting the person go free?
Ah, the efficient use of government resources trumps justice. Must be a first!
Realistically speaking though, the FTC is understaffed as it is, and what resources they have are stretched. A lawsuit against Google is going to be a very long, costly affair, and it would ultimately come down to a battle of attrition. Even if the FTC won, what would change? They would just appeal the decision, and if they won, there goes however many millions down the drain, along with a huge reputation hit. Google can easily fund any such fight; this part of the government cannot. It's a pretty sad day when a corporation of our society has more wealth than the representation of society itself.
How long do you think it's going to take for said characters to be posted (inadvertently, of course) in a comment on this post?
Since Slashdot doesn't actually support Unicode, they wouldn't come in at all. They'd just disappear. Soviet Russia style.
I've had a delightful time explaining to my trainees that *EVERY SERVER SHOULD ONLY BE RUN IN A LANG=C ENVIRONEMNT". Unicode is *bad*, *bad*, *bad* for systems work of any sort.
And in a related XKCD post:
https://xkcd.com/327/
That works, until your servers have to process any kind of foreign characters whatsoever. This is a fault that only affects OS X, only when using Google Chrome. It's not (to my knowledge) a weakness of Unicode.
But it did make you butthurt enough to respond to me. :-)
Let's be very clear on something here: I honestly don't give one damn about you. The reason why I responded is that I hoped to warn you how stupid you sound when you say that, so that you won't be ridiculed for talking like a first grader. But if that's how you feel about it, if you really think anyone except that other AC gives one flying fuck's worth, go ahead. Make a fool of yourself.
Another day, another security hole in open sores software.
No, I don't use Micro$hit software either.
Are you kidding me? There's holes in open source software, there's holes in closed source software, there's holes in every piece of software. What else is new? There's no need to degenerate to terms like "Micro$hit" or "open sores". It doesn't make you sound witty, it makes you sound like someone 16 years of age, and it's embarrassing to see this on a site that is supposedly for adults. The sooner all this pathetic name calling stops, the sooner we can actually discuss the core issue at hand. Assuming, of course, that you even understand what the hell the article is talking about, and I'm not entirely sure either of you do.
Actually no, they didn't announce a damn thing you completely inaccurate headline and summary. They very well might but that is just one article speculating at what they might announce based on what other companies are doing.
It gets better. At the end, the author mentions, "Here I come, Hyrule!" To me, that implies nostalgic reflection on the many fond hours of gameplay he had playing a Zelda game on his original Virtual Boy. Only one problem: Nintendo never released a Zelda game for the Virtual Boy.
Just know that Germany is extremely protectionist on many fronts. For instance, every household has to pay over 20 euro each month to the VERY WELL OFF TV companies whether you want to or not. Or if you have a painting and auction it off, a portion goes off to the artists and their families for several generations, (often to collection agencies since said artist is dead), regardless of how you bought the painting/artwork and the arrangement at time of purchase. Let's not mention how their RIAA (GEMA) was so greedy, they couldn't make a deal with youtube for videos. You can't even buy common off-the-shelf drugs that would cost $20 for a couple hundred in the US, but rather have to pay a pharmacy like a buck a piece for there.
It's quite hostile to the free market on multiple fronts.
Eh, what? Medicine is free, your health insurance (provided for free, of course, by the government) will pay for pretty much any medicine out there. They also test that stuff way more than they do in the United States, and I've at least found it to work much better. And if you think Germany has a screwed up cable system, I assure you, it's nowhere near as bad as in the United States. They pay for it each month like you do - but they pay 80 dollars, or about 75 Euros, and it's of far worse quality.
... computing is becoming a commodity. PC gaming is growing leaps and bounds as the bottom billions start to enter the global middle class, you have mobile phones, laptops, ipads, etc. Computing is slowly becoming a commodity device that will ultimately be everywhere. This doesn't mean total death for consoles but you don't need three different PC's (which is what consoles are, they use modern PC 3D chips). The console generations will slowly get longer and/or end because we're nearing the limit of transistor shrinkage (aka there won't be much advantage to releasing a new console if there is no new hardware available anyway). Costs and times for shrinking transistors are escalating enormously and it's going to take some radical breakthroughs in computing to move it forward. Things that most likely is going to take decades or or perhaps a century at least.
If valve can somehow get into console land with steam machines you can expect PC gaming to ultimately take over, not that I'm saying it will but if he finds some way to crack the console market it's a possibility.
All the consoles are basically rebadged PC's with some customization, that's all they are at this point.
You're right on the underlying specs being almost exactly the same, but when you sit down to play a game on a console, you don't really want to do anything else. It's like saying that beer drinking in Germany is in jeopardy because wine is becoming more popular. They're both alcoholic drinks, but the taste is completely different.
... they don't just partner with Apple and bring out a console. And yes, it should be called the iConsole.
Apple did once make a console, albeit in partnership with Bandei. It was called the Apple Pippin, and the fact you've never heard of it tells you how much that thing sucked. Besides, Nintendo and Apple both have their claims to fame in controlling hardware, and I don't think either one would be willing to concede control of it. On top of all that, their target audiences are completely different.
Close that parenthesis! I can't take it for much longer, it hurts, please!
A Lisp user, I see :P
Chess is a battle. Go is a war.
I'm all out of mod points, but this is an excellent summary of the difference.
A little programming can be a very useful thing.
I'm an accountant and a Finance Director (CFO in US terminology). I don't code for a living, but I know a little R. That gives me a huge advantage: if I want to understand our sales stats or movements in yields, I can analyse the numbers myself. Normally, I have the luxury of asking someone in the team to do the job, but, sometimes when the question is ill-defined and open-ended, it's much more effective and efficient to go straight to the answer myself. Sometimes, if I'm brought some analysis that's 90% of what I need, it's easier and more efficient to complete it myself.
Don't invent specious analogies about casting iron pots because you lack the imagination to see how tools could be used more widely.
Perhaps I'm ignorant of how exactly accounting works (in which case, feel free to tell me, I do not work in finance for a living), but if you're using R like that, it's essentially a glorified graphical calculator, no? I dispute labeling that as general purpose programming. And even if we assume it is, accounting is something I doubt is anywhere close to the most common job. I'd say something like a janitor or waiter is, and how is knowing how to program going to help there?
"The average person doesn't have that much time to invest if it isn't their career."
I want to agree with you, I really do. But I see this as the biggest problem with our society today.
Coding skills should be a mandatory part of public education.
We don't complain that people don't know how to average a set of numbers, or determine the unit price at the grocery store, then say 'well average people don't have time to learn that stuff' but we try our absolute best to teach EVERYONE such basic skills.
Programming should NOT be any different.
What on earth is a non programmer going to do with that? You're comparing a highly specialized skill that takes years to learn compared to a basic instinctive skill that takes an hour at most. You shouldn't be comparing it to averaging numbers, you should be comparing it to forging. Everyone should learn how to craft a pan from iron! That's not quite an equal, as it actually would help most, but it's close enough. What should be taught is logic - that would actually help people to think systematically. Programming is just an application of that.
Someone started a single player game and decided to hand over control of his civilization to the adviser?
Nope, what he did was use the game editor to delete his city at the start and place a nuclear sub underneath the Artic. As such, while technically still being part of the game, the human has no (measurable) effect on the outcome. This is a little off topic, but frankly, I really wish more strategy games had spectator mods. It's really useful for observing the AI, and most games don't implement one, which would allow us to avoid ugly hacks like this...
How do you get mod points?
You'd probably know if you read the freakin' FAQ. Also, please don't post "frist psot!" comments, they're considered to be extremely juvenile and bad manners.
This article reminds of this guy who did something similar a while back.
FreeBSD is the new Linux. Full of religious fan boys who act like it was written by God. This old tired line of "Linux is immune to security issues" is now more commonly used with FreeBSD (by idiots).
You know who started the original BSD? This guy did. He also created the original vi editor, was the creator of the modern day TCP/IP stack, and had a huge hand in the creation of Java. What, praytell, have you done?
AUTOPLAY? REALLY!?
Come on now, that is a huge pain in the ass! I thought we all agreed to that! You couldn't have been bothered to remove it? For that matter, the article itself has a severe spelling and grammar flaw. That reeks of laziness! REEKS , I tell you. How completely and utterly disappointing.
(Let's see if Mr. Spock gets the joke this time, with a second joke thrown in. ;-)
Well... But... Okay, I can't argue with that. Point taken... 1134 was how I learned it :P
Math is not a human language. If you contend it is, try expressing emotions with it.
May I use factorials?
Whatever you deem as math is fair game. But you won't be able to; math has no way of expressing human emotions.
It's called Maths. Math is exact, solid, reliable and universal.
You can learn someone advanced math without them even knowing a spoken language through simple demonstrations built-up over time. Something that is often not counted as a second language, actually IS a second language, and the most universal language at that.
Math is not a human language. If you contend it is, try expressing emotions with it.
Now that ZFS is the default operating system for new installs of FreeBSD 10.x, it sounds like this book documents a lot of hard won technical insights that have been made obsolete by ZFS. Why would I configure RAID 10 for UFS when ZFS provides superior data protection? And so on. It's probably useful for people who have parachuted in and now must maintain a legacy FreeBSD system. It doesn't sound particularly useful for someone who is migrating from Linux to FreeBSD right now, since this is all about how people *used* to configure FreeBSD storage.
O_o I'm assuming you meant filesystem.
BarbaraHudson what's this about you ac stalking/harassing/libeling others http://slashdot.org/comments.p... that you ate your words for? Downmod this we see it anyhow (most here browse below -1) so trying to hide it = effete & ineffectual.
DAMN, how many posts of this do you plan to make? Just go away, none of us give a crap's worth.
...and the best part is they have Nukes!
"Our words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!" - Ghandi