There's an old saying - "Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll meet them again on your way down."
No OS lives forever. Linux has gone from small to bloatware, the same as many of the projects associated with it. Sometime in the next 10 years we'll get yet another iteration of "Here's a nice small fast OS and toolset that does only a few things but does them really, really well."
Indeed. This comes awfully close to Thought Crime.
What I could understand, though I do struggle with it, is identifying those that appear to approve of terrorism, and keeping an eye on them. But of course that would be abused.
Unfortunately that doesn't work in practice. See the two most recent terrorist attacks in Canada. The RCMP wanted to withhold passports, based on what later turned out to be perfectly valid suspicions, but wasn't able to under the current law.
Also, my point was that for the average home user, leaving the drive in and unmounted is "good enuff." Those 5 gazillion cat pictures are not really worth worrying (and neither are all your torrents or your pr0n collection).
If I have a choice between believing someone who needs to quote Microsoft because they haven't put it to the test, or the results of actual testing, guess which I'm going with:-)
These aren't the articles I found last night, one of which was unequivocal, but you can start here:
The app is currently free, but as the firm explained, when its initial funding comes to an end in September 2015, they may consider subscription model or donations.
There’s no current plans to monetise the app, though one future possibility, should demand outstrip supply, is that power users could pay to top up the amount of help they require.
Get them hooked, then charge them money... the same model both crack dealers and free videogames use. Yes, I'm cynical, especially since not-for-profits can be very profitable for those running them. Sure, offering a service, then charging those who need it the most is a viable business model, but it still sucks.
I believe that they're making it up as they go along.
The ONLY platform that uses cr/lf is Windows - and now even that's optional. Maybe you should get out in the world more. As well, the hd cache algorithms store more than 1 cluster at a time, in anticipation that the next read will probably be from somewhere close by. Hence if your disk isn't too fragmented, it's already in cache, and maybe even in the OS's cache (if you're using a modern OS), so no head movement whatsoever. You really need to get with the times.
It's not changing the dependency at all, but it is diffusing the burden on the volunteer, which is more dignified for everyone.
Really? Really??? When my eyes were so bad that I had to take out a wad of money and ask the cashier to take what was needed while others waited in line because I was slower, the only reason that wasn't humiliating was because the cashiers already knew me. Having to wait for some volunteer to tell me if I got the right change back would have been worse - it would have been an indirect accusation at the cashiers honesty and integrity.
Instead of "diffusing the burden on the volunteer," why not use the technology available to help obviate the need for volunteers instead? Give the phrase "differently enabled" some real meaning instead of being an euphemism for "crippled."
That's just it - most people aren't aware that human activity - specifically the shift to agriculture - may have had enough of an impact even then to avert a mini-ice-age. When things are in flux and can go either way is when you'll see the butterfly effect.
The stripping of citizenship for dual nationals will be popular as all heck, and its popularity has nothing to do with the current round of terrorism. Look how long it tooks to remove the citizenship of former Nazis hiding under new identities.
It's easy to claim that "the other parts are worth reading" but the summary so far gives no indication of any reason why that would be the case, or even any reason why the claimant should be considered any more trustworthy than any other spammy marketeer. I, for one, shall not click those links.
That's because you don't hae your new brain yet.
Once you do, you will welcome your new brain overlords.
And when google discontinues that, you will just be brain-dead - the perfect consumer.
The time taken weeding out trouble-makers is potentially dangerous to the blind person. By the time you find the trouble-maker, the blind person can be literally under the bus.
Text files have added overheads internally in their structure
...
Equal data in text is larger and slower
Absolutely not true. Name one overhead. The only one I can think of is the old DOS cr/lf instead of using either 0xa0 or 0xd0, which is not needed.
Storing a boolean true or false is 1 byte in either text or binary.
Storing strings is the exact same as long as you don't use the old DOS EOL.
You either don't know what you're talking about or you're trolling - and I really don't care which, because it's obvious you've never written a program that tests the limits of what's possible (or maybe not even a program at all). Troll away or go away - I don't care which.
No, if it's plugged in, it's still open to theft along with the computer, power surge taking both out, etc, etc. A backup should be offline and stored separately.
It's open to theft either way. It's not like most people have a fireproof safe in their house.
Bull crap. The data structure is much simpler, as well as way smaller, with ini files, opening any file in binary mode and slurping the data is extremely fast, and if your hd isn't badly fragmented, it's probably sitting on the same track as your app, so no head movement, and you only need 1 ini file per app.
You don't know what you're talking about, troll. The real world is different from what you read somewhere. You will not notice any delay in modern hardware opening up, reading into a buffer, then closing an ini file in binary mode.
I remember those days - they were caused by bad capacitors. Those problems are for the most part history. For today's home user, leaving the usb connected but not mounted is "good enough."
No, I think that picking the atomic age is purely arbitrary, ignores the fact that we still get most of our energy from fossil fuels, which renders their "marks the historic turning point when humans first accessed an enormous new energy source" invalid, because fossil fuels were, and still are, our #1 source of energy.
We already have a different name for when we started using nuclear material - the "nuclear age." This article is stupid.
Even a meg of cache is "good enuff". Also, you're an obvious troll because I've already said many times that you can read all the file in one binary read, and write it with one binary write, and if you maintain it in alphabetical order and fixed-size records (and why wouldn't you), use bsearch(), which is faster than using an index on an identical-sized file.
If "Consolidate Your Debt" was a special subject for them, I wonder, how many proposals of that kind the assholes had to sift through to find messages from real comrades.
A blind or visually-impaired person can get a friend, relative or trusted volunteer to go with them to the store, do the snail mail, write parts of checks, etc. I know because I do a lot of this stuff for my officemate.
For sure, but nobody likes being so dependent on someone else. All this app does is change the dependency, not help get (or preserve) autonomy. And from the article, he envisions turning this into a subscription service since it costs money to run, and will cost more if it scales up.
The reason is because it's easy to identify the precise geologic layer that corresponds with the first nuclear testing, not because that's the exact moment when humans starting screwing everything up.
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Maybe it's time they fixed the phone system so that telemarketing scammers from Pakistan and India can't hide behind a North American phone number.
Maybe it's time they fixed the phone system so that telemarketing scammers in North America have to show their real number.
Maybe it's time to shut down all number spoofing systems.
There's an old saying - "Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll meet them again on your way down."
No OS lives forever. Linux has gone from small to bloatware, the same as many of the projects associated with it. Sometime in the next 10 years we'll get yet another iteration of "Here's a nice small fast OS and toolset that does only a few things but does them really, really well."
Indeed. This comes awfully close to Thought Crime.
What I could understand, though I do struggle with it, is identifying those that appear to approve of terrorism, and keeping an eye on them. But of course that would be abused.
Unfortunately that doesn't work in practice. See the two most recent terrorist attacks in Canada. The RCMP wanted to withhold passports, based on what later turned out to be perfectly valid suspicions, but wasn't able to under the current law.
Also, my point was that for the average home user, leaving the drive in and unmounted is "good enuff." Those 5 gazillion cat pictures are not really worth worrying (and neither are all your torrents or your pr0n collection).
If I have a choice between believing someone who needs to quote Microsoft because they haven't put it to the test, or the results of actual testing, guess which I'm going with :-)
These aren't the articles I found last night, one of which was unequivocal, but you can start here:
The app is currently free, but as the firm explained, when its initial funding comes to an end in September 2015, they may consider subscription model or donations.
and here
There’s no current plans to monetise the app, though one future possibility, should demand outstrip supply, is that power users could pay to top up the amount of help they require.
Get them hooked, then charge them money ... the same model both crack dealers and free videogames use. Yes, I'm cynical, especially since not-for-profits can be very profitable for those running them. Sure, offering a service, then charging those who need it the most is a viable business model, but it still sucks.
I believe that they're making it up as they go along.
The ONLY platform that uses cr/lf is Windows - and now even that's optional. Maybe you should get out in the world more. As well, the hd cache algorithms store more than 1 cluster at a time, in anticipation that the next read will probably be from somewhere close by. Hence if your disk isn't too fragmented, it's already in cache, and maybe even in the OS's cache (if you're using a modern OS), so no head movement whatsoever. You really need to get with the times.
It's not changing the dependency at all, but it is diffusing the burden on the volunteer, which is more dignified for everyone.
Really? Really??? When my eyes were so bad that I had to take out a wad of money and ask the cashier to take what was needed while others waited in line because I was slower, the only reason that wasn't humiliating was because the cashiers already knew me. Having to wait for some volunteer to tell me if I got the right change back would have been worse - it would have been an indirect accusation at the cashiers honesty and integrity.
Instead of "diffusing the burden on the volunteer," why not use the technology available to help obviate the need for volunteers instead? Give the phrase "differently enabled" some real meaning instead of being an euphemism for "crippled."
That's just it - most people aren't aware that human activity - specifically the shift to agriculture - may have had enough of an impact even then to avert a mini-ice-age. When things are in flux and can go either way is when you'll see the butterfly effect.
The stripping of citizenship for dual nationals will be popular as all heck, and its popularity has nothing to do with the current round of terrorism. Look how long it tooks to remove the citizenship of former Nazis hiding under new identities.
It's easy to claim that "the other parts are worth reading" but the summary so far gives no indication of any reason why that would be the case, or even any reason why the claimant should be considered any more trustworthy than any other spammy marketeer. I, for one, shall not click those links.
That's because you don't hae your new brain yet.
Once you do, you will welcome your new brain overlords.
And when google discontinues that, you will just be brain-dead - the perfect consumer.
So, deep learning will result in shallow thinking?
Sure, same a smartphones make their users more stupid. ...
It's Candy Crush all the way down
The time taken weeding out trouble-makers is potentially dangerous to the blind person. By the time you find the trouble-maker, the blind person can be literally under the bus.
Text files have added overheads internally in their structure
Equal data in text is larger and slower
Absolutely not true. Name one overhead. The only one I can think of is the old DOS cr/lf instead of using either 0xa0 or 0xd0, which is not needed.
Storing a boolean true or false is 1 byte in either text or binary.
Storing strings is the exact same as long as you don't use the old DOS EOL.
You either don't know what you're talking about or you're trolling - and I really don't care which, because it's obvious you've never written a program that tests the limits of what's possible (or maybe not even a program at all). Troll away or go away - I don't care which.
No, if it's plugged in, it's still open to theft along with the computer, power surge taking both out, etc, etc. A backup should be offline and stored separately.
It's open to theft either way. It's not like most people have a fireproof safe in their house.
Where do you get this "more complex file structure" lie from, troll?
Bull crap. The data structure is much simpler, as well as way smaller, with ini files, opening any file in binary mode and slurping the data is extremely fast, and if your hd isn't badly fragmented, it's probably sitting on the same track as your app, so no head movement, and you only need 1 ini file per app.
You don't know what you're talking about, troll. The real world is different from what you read somewhere. You will not notice any delay in modern hardware opening up, reading into a buffer, then closing an ini file in binary mode.
I remember those days - they were caused by bad capacitors. Those problems are for the most part history. For today's home user, leaving the usb connected but not mounted is "good enough."
No, I think that picking the atomic age is purely arbitrary, ignores the fact that we still get most of our energy from fossil fuels, which renders their "marks the historic turning point when humans first accessed an enormous new energy source" invalid, because fossil fuels were, and still are, our #1 source of energy.
We already have a different name for when we started using nuclear material - the "nuclear age." This article is stupid.
Even a meg of cache is "good enuff". Also, you're an obvious troll because I've already said many times that you can read all the file in one binary read, and write it with one binary write, and if you maintain it in alphabetical order and fixed-size records (and why wouldn't you), use bsearch(), which is faster than using an index on an identical-sized file.
If "Consolidate Your Debt" was a special subject for them, I wonder, how many proposals of that kind the assholes had to sift through to find messages from real comrades.
The sender address? Or a special forged "from"?
A blind or visually-impaired person can get a friend, relative or trusted volunteer to go with them to the store, do the snail mail, write parts of checks, etc. I know because I do a lot of this stuff for my officemate.
For sure, but nobody likes being so dependent on someone else. All this app does is change the dependency, not help get (or preserve) autonomy. And from the article, he envisions turning this into a subscription service since it costs money to run, and will cost more if it scales up.
Fixed linky Sorry about that.
The reason is because it's easy to identify the precise geologic layer that corresponds with the first nuclear testing, not because that's the exact moment when humans starting screwing everything up.
So we fudge it? Sounds like bad science to me.
If you need a citation, why don't you just google "How many coal plants is China building?"