I didn't realize the CREATOR of the show could make Oregon border Ohio, Maine, and Kentucky. I stand corrected.
Well, Kentucky is fictional, too, so I don't see why it's such a big deal. Kentucky IS fictional, right? Yeah, GOTTA be. No way a place like that exists for real.
No, you're using a browser to interact with the Web. Keyboards and displays and mice don't add functionality over time. They also don't get 'fixed' for bugs. Browsers are software, and all software has bugs. The Web you want to use is also evolving, and the software that lets you interact with it must also adapt for you to be able to use those new features. Chome is releasing new versions every six weeks or so, but the functionality for the user is unnoticeable. No new features to make using the web easier, or make backing up your data easier. Browsers should make using the Web more empowering and easier as time goes by; not stagnate. Chrome's interface has been essentially unchanged since it's first version, and it was a pretty bare-bones set of features it first came out with.
There are certainly problems with how Firefox has handled upgrades - from notifications to add-on compatibility issues - the fact is, it's giving more new features for users to USE - at a MUCH faster pace - than any other browser out there.
b) Chrome doesn't fucking break everything every upgrade!
That's because Chrome doesn't seem to add any user-facing features in its upgrades, just javascript speedups. You'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between Chrome v4 and v18 (just came out) even by USING the damn thing.
Yeah, Python can definitely be used for non-web stuff. I just saw a video about a guy who used Python to interface with openCV (computer vision) to make a squirrel-shooting watergun. He used Python and openCV to take images from a webcam, and allow it to know the difference between squirrels and birds, and only shoot the squirrels away from the bird feeder. Pretty fun stuff.
All Google has to do is ban scalping of the tickets. You buy a ticket, YOU get in, not the holder of the ticket.
How would one implement that while maintaining the ability for a business to decouple purchasing a ticket from the decision of which member of a development team gets to go?
So a business can buy a ticket for a to-be-named-later employee, but you gotta prove you're an employee of the company to use the ticket. You can get your money back up to a certain point in time, and that spot goes to the next person on a wait list. It's not that fucking hard to ban ticket scalping for these kinds of events.
So, Mozilla copying Google's version numbering scheme and release schedule made Firefox *worse* than Chrome? Okay, then...
Actually yes. Version upgrades in chrome are transparent to the user. I don't care if chrome updates to version 324...I don't know even know what version of chrome I'm running.
When firefox updates, it make you go through a huge hassle of clicking approve on update boxes, checking to see if your extensions are broken, realizing half your extensions ARE broken, looking for new ones, etc. If they made their upgrades as transparent as chrome does, it wouldn't be a problem. But a rapid release schedule is a terrible idea when upgrading is a hassle.
Many people aren't thrilled with the idea of silent updates, for sure, the hassle of updating past versions was horrible. Fortunately, it's pretty easy now, and I haven't had any add-ons break since v8 or so. v13 will bring silent updates.
What made it worse was Firefox really messed up when they did that crazy version numbers issue just to copy Google chrome as if the Version Number was the key to success. What that did was Show how desperate Firefox is, then their choice to snub their noses at valid complaints from business usage just made it worse.
So, Mozilla copying Google's version numbering scheme and release schedule made Firefox *worse* than Chrome? Okay, then...
Those spinning disks may not be dense enough to ignite into a star, but dense enough to form these plants that wind up "going rogue", is my understanding. I could be wrong. Or maybe the stars were destroyed in a war. You never know.
The ultimate Fermi paradox is why has this not happened yet. We are nearing the technological capability to do this. I think we will have molecular manufacturing within 100 years. Once we find a way to copy the complexity of human brains to far faster solid state circuitry, we will create super-intelligent beings who would have the ability to solve all the engineering problems within a matter of years. If the Singularity happens, then after that event this kind of expansion would be expected to start right away. Worst case scenario, within 1000 years this should start happening.
You're assuming a hyper-intelligent being would have the same motivation to build this that you have, and no better ideas. Also, Dyson Spheres around other starts would likely block signals of their intelligence, even if those signals were detectable by our technology, or recognizable even if they were detectable. Another solution to the Fermi Paradox is found in the Outer Limits episode "Final Exam."
And none of this takes into account that we may all be a giant simulation, anyway.
If the purpose of Mozilla is to provide high-quality, standards-compliant products, then this is the smart move. If the purpose is to advocate for all things open source, then this is a bad move. The project is made up of people from both those camps, so there is going to be much gnashing of teeth over this, and the mandate from on high without discussing it isn't going to make it any more pleasant.
Nevertheless, Google's lack of commitment to removing h.264 from Chrome doesn't help. Maybe Google could buy MPEG-LA and end this nonsense once and for all?
Neal Stephenson had a good quote in Cryptonomicon about the Japanese being nuked into realized they were pacifists. That they deny to this day that things like the Nanking Massacre even happened is pretty telling, plus their denial that they had their own nuclear weapon development program.
When your ISP has to keep changing names because they keep destroying their brand (USWest->Qwest->CenturyLink), that should tell you something right there.
If price of games was the only differentiating favor in a gaming platform, nobody would play anything other than Solitaire and Minesweeper. The platforms don't compete with each other any more than a thirty year-old Datsun competes with a modern Ford Focus or either of those compete with a Ferrari 458.
LOL. The good news is, you've got a joystick. The bad news is, the games cost $40 instead of 99 cents. Couldn't be more "sony" of a product, especially the non-usb usb cable. How sony of them.
I'm seeing PS Vita games for as low as $15. The high point of $40 is far from the only price for a PS Vita game.
Okay, so switching the display by rotating a coffee cup or bottle is nifty, but could get annoying when any movement at a board presentation switches things around. I am much more interested in seeing if the input commands are able to be modified and changed around.
We are going to get shiny metallic space suits next. Robots that flails its arms screaming "Danger Will Robinson Danger !" This is great stuff we are back to ION propulsion which is kind of cool. Remember the spaceships that sail like Solar wind and stuff? That would be cool too. Perhaps next we can actually get someone to care and fund this stuff and some of it will end up actually mattering in the long run.
Of all the things in your posting, the last sentence is by far the least-likely.:(
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About the only things you won't find there these days are decent writing or a sense of pride.
I thought this season was substantially better than the last several. You might want to give it a try if you haven't for a while.
I didn't realize the CREATOR of the show could make Oregon border Ohio, Maine, and Kentucky. I stand corrected.
Well, Kentucky is fictional, too, so I don't see why it's such a big deal. Kentucky IS fictional, right? Yeah, GOTTA be. No way a place like that exists for real.
Any why are Dwarves always Scottish?
Have you ever *heard* a Scottish person talk? C'mon.
Karen Gillan = sexiest dwarf ever!
No, you're using a browser to interact with the Web. Keyboards and displays and mice don't add functionality over time. They also don't get 'fixed' for bugs. Browsers are software, and all software has bugs. The Web you want to use is also evolving, and the software that lets you interact with it must also adapt for you to be able to use those new features. Chome is releasing new versions every six weeks or so, but the functionality for the user is unnoticeable. No new features to make using the web easier, or make backing up your data easier. Browsers should make using the Web more empowering and easier as time goes by; not stagnate. Chrome's interface has been essentially unchanged since it's first version, and it was a pretty bare-bones set of features it first came out with.
There are certainly problems with how Firefox has handled upgrades - from notifications to add-on compatibility issues - the fact is, it's giving more new features for users to USE - at a MUCH faster pace - than any other browser out there.
b) Chrome doesn't fucking break everything every upgrade!
That's because Chrome doesn't seem to add any user-facing features in its upgrades, just javascript speedups. You'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between Chrome v4 and v18 (just came out) even by USING the damn thing.
Yeah, Python can definitely be used for non-web stuff. I just saw a video about a guy who used Python to interface with openCV (computer vision) to make a squirrel-shooting watergun. He used Python and openCV to take images from a webcam, and allow it to know the difference between squirrels and birds, and only shoot the squirrels away from the bird feeder. Pretty fun stuff.
Yeah, I'm waiting for PyPy to be Python 3 compatible, then jumping head-first into it and not looking back.
Go isn't intended to replace web scripting languages. Dart is their language intended to replace JavaScript, and it's going to go exactly nowhere.
I'd suggest Python to replace PHP, and jQuery to abstract away the bulk of the pain of multi-browser JavaScript.
But it depends on if you're talking continuing to do web stuff, or if you want to do something else.
All Google has to do is ban scalping of the tickets. You buy a ticket, YOU get in, not the holder of the ticket.
How would one implement that while maintaining the ability for a business to decouple purchasing a ticket from the decision of which member of a development team gets to go?
So a business can buy a ticket for a to-be-named-later employee, but you gotta prove you're an employee of the company to use the ticket. You can get your money back up to a certain point in time, and that spot goes to the next person on a wait list. It's not that fucking hard to ban ticket scalping for these kinds of events.
All Google has to do is ban scalping of the tickets. You buy a ticket, YOU get in, not the holder of the ticket.
So, Mozilla copying Google's version numbering scheme and release schedule made Firefox *worse* than Chrome? Okay, then...
Actually yes. Version upgrades in chrome are transparent to the user. I don't care if chrome updates to version 324...I don't know even know what version of chrome I'm running.
When firefox updates, it make you go through a huge hassle of clicking approve on update boxes, checking to see if your extensions are broken, realizing half your extensions ARE broken, looking for new ones, etc. If they made their upgrades as transparent as chrome does, it wouldn't be a problem. But a rapid release schedule is a terrible idea when upgrading is a hassle.
Many people aren't thrilled with the idea of silent updates, for sure, the hassle of updating past versions was horrible. Fortunately, it's pretty easy now, and I haven't had any add-ons break since v8 or so. v13 will bring silent updates.
What made it worse was Firefox really messed up when they did that crazy version numbers issue just to copy Google chrome as if the Version Number was the key to success. What that did was Show how desperate Firefox is, then their choice to snub their noses at valid complaints from business usage just made it worse.
So, Mozilla copying Google's version numbering scheme and release schedule made Firefox *worse* than Chrome? Okay, then...
Those spinning disks may not be dense enough to ignite into a star, but dense enough to form these plants that wind up "going rogue", is my understanding. I could be wrong. Or maybe the stars were destroyed in a war. You never know.
The ultimate Fermi paradox is why has this not happened yet. We are nearing the technological capability to do this. I think we will have molecular manufacturing within 100 years. Once we find a way to copy the complexity of human brains to far faster solid state circuitry, we will create super-intelligent beings who would have the ability to solve all the engineering problems within a matter of years. If the Singularity happens, then after that event this kind of expansion would be expected to start right away. Worst case scenario, within 1000 years this should start happening.
You're assuming a hyper-intelligent being would have the same motivation to build this that you have, and no better ideas. Also, Dyson Spheres around other starts would likely block signals of their intelligence, even if those signals were detectable by our technology, or recognizable even if they were detectable. Another solution to the Fermi Paradox is found in the Outer Limits episode "Final Exam."
And none of this takes into account that we may all be a giant simulation, anyway.
Enough has been spent focusing on finding life outside out planet. Let's colonize space already!
We can look for life once we get there.
Worked well enough for the crew of the Nostromo...
If the purpose of Mozilla is to provide high-quality, standards-compliant products, then this is the smart move. If the purpose is to advocate for all things open source, then this is a bad move. The project is made up of people from both those camps, so there is going to be much gnashing of teeth over this, and the mandate from on high without discussing it isn't going to make it any more pleasant.
Nevertheless, Google's lack of commitment to removing h.264 from Chrome doesn't help. Maybe Google could buy MPEG-LA and end this nonsense once and for all?
Neal Stephenson had a good quote in Cryptonomicon about the Japanese being nuked into realized they were pacifists. That they deny to this day that things like the Nanking Massacre even happened is pretty telling, plus their denial that they had their own nuclear weapon development program.
Wow, that's amazing. If Japan wanted to surrender, it wouldn't have taken TWO atom bombs to make them do so.
When your ISP has to keep changing names because they keep destroying their brand (USWest->Qwest->CenturyLink), that should tell you something right there.
Occupy Corporate Police!
If price of games was the only differentiating favor in a gaming platform, nobody would play anything other than Solitaire and Minesweeper. The platforms don't compete with each other any more than a thirty year-old Datsun competes with a modern Ford Focus or either of those compete with a Ferrari 458.
http://www.pricecheater.com/product/playstation-vita-little-deviants?source=googleps
(No association with them, never used them.)
LOL. The good news is, you've got a joystick. The bad news is, the games cost $40 instead of 99 cents. Couldn't be more "sony" of a product, especially the non-usb usb cable. How sony of them.
I'm seeing PS Vita games for as low as $15. The high point of $40 is far from the only price for a PS Vita game.
Okay, so switching the display by rotating a coffee cup or bottle is nifty, but could get annoying when any movement at a board presentation switches things around. I am much more interested in seeing if the input commands are able to be modified and changed around.
Dude, just hold down the shift key. geez.
We are going to get shiny metallic space suits next.
Robots that flails its arms screaming "Danger Will Robinson Danger !"
This is great stuff we are back to ION propulsion which is kind of cool. Remember the spaceships that sail like Solar wind and stuff?
That would be cool too. Perhaps next we can actually get someone to care and fund this stuff and some of it will end up actually mattering in the long run.
Of all the things in your posting, the last sentence is by far the least-likely. :(