Think you have it the other way around... porn has driven tech industry and consumer electronics for a very long time. No other vendor has the power that PORN does , if porn industry unilaterally decided tomorrow to adopt HTML5.. in very short time, every computer on the planet would have upgraded their browser. period.
Except Apple phones, of course. No porn allowed, or Flash. It doesn't matter if people want these things or not.
How will you get out of jail though? Give them the password? You can't since it is random data. Tell them it was random data? Sure... we believe you! Now give us the password @#&*$! This does show though that proving that something is not random data would be very important before they try waterboarding a password out of you
It depends on what your goal is. If your goal is to hide your secrets to stay out of jail, this may be a bad way to do it, especially if they torture you.
If your goal is, however, to keep your drug lord employer's secrets, otherwise they'll torture and kill your entire family, that's another thing entirely.
If we go back to the days where 'mainframes' filled up rooms and required ridiculous amounts of power, etc., I guarantee you the level of respect for our craft would increase. Plus it would bring about yet another generation of technospeak that noone else knows is bullshit, to use in getting PHBs off our backs.
I wouldn't mind seeing all the pornographic.com domains being allowed (forced?) to exchange their.com domain for the same.xxx domain. Once that's done, don't allow porn on.com domains. The problem is, there would still be a financial impact on those businesses to change all their other stuff to say '.xxx' instead of '.com'. There's a lot more involved than just changing the domain itself.
I saw the first two episodes last night, and they were just okay. *shrug* I'd say the second episode is better than the first, though, especially Amy's reaction to the potential end of the world.
If Apple sees that this increases Android usage, they'll reverse policy on the Flash block, and users everywhere will praise Steve for his insight and timing.
And right after that, Apple fans will complain that Android phones are copying Apple's iPhone.
I'm waiting for two things: an e-ink reader that has nice contrast (actual BLACK on light grey or preferrably on white-ish), and for e-book reader Android apps for Kindle/Nook/etc ebooks for my new htc EVO 4G.
The last time I had to move, my 120+ boxes of books nearly killed me, and I've filled many more boxes with books since then. *sigh*
if we're charging higher taxes, higher labor costs, for essentially the same service why not move elsewhere?
The key there is 'same service'. All too many companies will decide that something IS the same service without taking into account factors which impact the company and the customers, all for the sake of lower taxes. Outsourcing to another country which may have another language, incompatible customs, and different labor practices and, in the case of IT, different development paradigms, may be far more costly in the long run than a lower tax rate. But that would require an understanding of IT, which most business people simply do not have, and aren't interested in learning about.
The writer saw it as promoting intraparty strife (creating more competition between candidates of the same party than with the candidates of the other party)
Yes, because only strife between parties is good! The entire party concept is flawed, and does little except to make it easier for candidates to get money, and causes candidates to represent the PARTY's best interests, instead of that of their constituents. The only way to make the system fair, and get rid of the parties, is to take the money out of the equation, and I don't see that ever happening.
Free as in beer or free as in speech? And what mythical country would this be that you're talking about? I don't think such a thing exists on this planet (assuming you're posting from Earth). Every county has some ridiculously-stupid aspect to it.
Well, it did rain debris all over Australia. So it's really just a question of accuracy.
Pfft, Australia. Like that's a REAL place. Everyone knows that was just a made-up place for those Crocodile Dundee movies. And then the Simpsons did a great take on it. It was a great joke back in the day, but you guys need to let it go already.
All you proved it poorly shot, crappy written movies can be cheap.
So, what that means is that you can duplicate a big budget movie with a small budget.:)
On the other hand, there are examples like El Mariachi:
"The movie was shot in numerous locations in Acuña, Coahuila. Rodriguez had a $7,000 budget, almost half of which he raised by participating in experimental clinical drug testing in Texas."
I'd bet a great deal of that cost was actual _film_, which doesn't apply today. If you've already got, or have access to, the equipment, you're most of the way there these days. The source of that money also explains a great deal about Rodriguez and his later films.
I know that this doesn't really matter to Mozilla per se, but Firefox is coming under some tough times in the near future. I have to say, I do fear for the future of my favourite browser (my favourite by a mile, dispite its flaws).
FF is coasting. What is it coasting on? It's amazing base of extensions. Once that base of extensions is replicated for Chrome, that's pretty much it. For what it's worth, it's still my default browser, and I foresee it being that for quite some time.
I received a raise after that, but my manager told me he had to fight tooth and nail to get me 3%.
This is a pretty common thing for managers to do. Give you the minimum they think you'll accept, and say they went to the mat "for you". Right. It *might* be true, but I seriously doubt it.
Keep in mind the process shink to >45nm is coming later this year; that will get us to these faster speeds as well as improved power consumption. Think Pentium 4 vs later procs for an example of this in action.
I'm wondering if Android and Android apps are ready for dual-core platforms. A 2gHz single core phone may be a better option than a dual 1gHz core, depending on that situation. If not, I'm sure next year's big Android release (2.4?) should be ready for it, since those dual-core Qualcomm SoCs are already shipping. Plenty of time for a big announcement at near year's Google I/O. Or maybe Gingerbread will do this later this year?
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Think you have it the other way around ... porn has driven tech industry and consumer electronics for a very long time. No other vendor has the power that PORN does , if porn industry unilaterally decided tomorrow to adopt HTML5 .. in very short time, every computer on the planet would have upgraded their browser. period.
Except Apple phones, of course. No porn allowed, or Flash. It doesn't matter if people want these things or not.
Is there any metric for which Mississippi is not the worst state?
Canned Possum consumption. Georgia takes it by a country mile.
How will you get out of jail though?
Give them the password? You can't since it is random data.
Tell them it was random data? Sure... we believe you! Now give us the password @#&*$!
This does show though that proving that something is not random data would be very important before they try waterboarding a password out of you
It depends on what your goal is. If your goal is to hide your secrets to stay out of jail, this may be a bad way to do it, especially if they torture you.
If your goal is, however, to keep your drug lord employer's secrets, otherwise they'll torture and kill your entire family, that's another thing entirely.
If we go back to the days where 'mainframes' filled up rooms and required ridiculous amounts of power, etc., I guarantee you the level of respect for our craft would increase. Plus it would bring about yet another generation of technospeak that noone else knows is bullshit, to use in getting PHBs off our backs.
Excellent point. I can't wait for terrible smut like the following to be forced into .xxx and out of .va:
http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/x-Select/10select/10select_02.html
Nah, religion should be moved into the .com TLD, since it's a for-profit thing. Then tax the 'hell' out of it. :)
I wouldn't mind seeing all the pornographic .com domains being allowed (forced?) to exchange their .com domain for the same .xxx domain. Once that's done, don't allow porn on .com domains. The problem is, there would still be a financial impact on those businesses to change all their other stuff to say '.xxx' instead of '.com'. There's a lot more involved than just changing the domain itself.
If google.xxx is what I think it would be, it could perhaps be the best website on the Internet.
I'm pretty sure that will be 'googal.xxx'.
I saw the first two episodes last night, and they were just okay. *shrug* I'd say the second episode is better than the first, though, especially Amy's reaction to the potential end of the world.
> ...psychologically unstable children who routinely make trivially imbecilic decisions for no readily apparent reason.
You've just described the majority of the US electorate and elected.
TEA party! TEA party!
If Apple sees that this increases Android usage, they'll reverse policy on the Flash block, and users everywhere will praise Steve for his insight and timing.
And right after that, Apple fans will complain that Android phones are copying Apple's iPhone.
I'm waiting for two things: an e-ink reader that has nice contrast (actual BLACK on light grey or preferrably on white-ish), and for e-book reader Android apps for Kindle/Nook/etc ebooks for my new htc EVO 4G.
The last time I had to move, my 120+ boxes of books nearly killed me, and I've filled many more boxes with books since then. *sigh*
iPad meh...
Is that Apple's version of Natalie Portman?
if we're charging higher taxes, higher labor costs, for essentially the same service why not move elsewhere?
The key there is 'same service'. All too many companies will decide that something IS the same service without taking into account factors which impact the company and the customers, all for the sake of lower taxes. Outsourcing to another country which may have another language, incompatible customs, and different labor practices and, in the case of IT, different development paradigms, may be far more costly in the long run than a lower tax rate. But that would require an understanding of IT, which most business people simply do not have, and aren't interested in learning about.
The writer saw it as promoting intraparty strife (creating more competition between candidates of the same party than with the candidates of the other party)
Yes, because only strife between parties is good! The entire party concept is flawed, and does little except to make it easier for candidates to get money, and causes candidates to represent the PARTY's best interests, instead of that of their constituents. The only way to make the system fair, and get rid of the parties, is to take the money out of the equation, and I don't see that ever happening.
I suggest moving to a free country!
Free as in beer or free as in speech? And what mythical country would this be that you're talking about? I don't think such a thing exists on this planet (assuming you're posting from Earth). Every county has some ridiculously-stupid aspect to it.
'Astrological'? Uh, no.
Well, it did rain debris all over Australia. So it's really just a question of accuracy.
Pfft, Australia. Like that's a REAL place. Everyone knows that was just a made-up place for those Crocodile Dundee movies. And then the Simpsons did a great take on it. It was a great joke back in the day, but you guys need to let it go already.
All you proved it poorly shot, crappy written movies can be cheap.
So, what that means is that you can duplicate a big budget movie with a small budget. :)
On the other hand, there are examples like El Mariachi:
"The movie was shot in numerous locations in Acuña, Coahuila. Rodriguez had a $7,000 budget, almost half of which he raised by participating in experimental clinical drug testing in Texas."
I'd bet a great deal of that cost was actual _film_, which doesn't apply today. If you've already got, or have access to, the equipment, you're most of the way there these days. The source of that money also explains a great deal about Rodriguez and his later films.
I know that this doesn't really matter to Mozilla per se, but Firefox is coming under some tough times in the near future. I have to say, I do fear for the future of my favourite browser (my favourite by a mile, dispite its flaws).
FF is coasting. What is it coasting on? It's amazing base of extensions. Once that base of extensions is replicated for Chrome, that's pretty much it. For what it's worth, it's still my default browser, and I foresee it being that for quite some time.
why is a patent whose filing date was 1997 finally granted now?
Dude, it took them 13 years to thorougly check for prior art. Oh, wait.
But can we really trust these people? They seem like a bunch of bosons.
Ahh, don't get your Higgs in a bunch; these people are SCIENTISTS! Scientists can do no wrong!
We can all go Sliding to parallel universes, now!
Right?
Make, as already mentioned
Nuts and Volts
That would make a good subscription set. :)
I received a raise after that, but my manager told me he had to fight tooth and nail to get me 3%.
This is a pretty common thing for managers to do. Give you the minimum they think you'll accept, and say they went to the mat "for you". Right. It *might* be true, but I seriously doubt it.
Keep in mind the process shink to >45nm is coming later this year; that will get us to these faster speeds as well as improved power consumption. Think Pentium 4 vs later procs for an example of this in action.
I'm wondering if Android and Android apps are ready for dual-core platforms. A 2gHz single core phone may be a better option than a dual 1gHz core, depending on that situation. If not, I'm sure next year's big Android release (2.4?) should be ready for it, since those dual-core Qualcomm SoCs are already shipping. Plenty of time for a big announcement at near year's Google I/O. Or maybe Gingerbread will do this later this year?
Good times...