Make sure you have about 2 minutes to spare. You're going to need about that long to read it from beginning to end.
"Let's get rid of HTML features that I believe cause problems."
Looks to me like you only read for one minute;-)
To give the limited amount of credit due, he does go on to some decent sounding suggestions. Nothing in there is actually unreasonable, some things sound like a good idea (UTF-8, browsers stop trying to correct for crap pages if version>=5). I'm still reading the stuff on Modules, or will be when the server responds:(
Perhaps someone else can try to fix the other things you mention.
I looked at this earlier, but it has a different developer and is listed as pre-alpha, so I think it's a different thing. The correct one (linked from TFA) is a japanese language page that I couldn't view, much less read;-)
If knowing your schematics to the air conditioning system at jrandom fort means that the entire base is vulnerable to a gas attack, then the base is built wrong.
That's not to say you're wrong (obfuscation is one more level of protection), but I'd hope it wasn't the only one. Even in Prison Break they still had to do a lot of manual labour and folding of origami birdies.
Lots of geeks here, very few neurosurgeons. So on the whole the informed comment ratio is going to be way, way down on this article. Doesn't mean people don't take limb loss seriously for a nano-second.
Justin. PS Just read your sig. Don't you think that could be offensive? Got the idea yet?
You say that *you* feel bad, and that a solution will be found, but I also work for big corporations and while I, the geek, may well want to spend time on doing something that is right, The Man (in the form of the bean-counters) often overrides me because it's not profit-making to do the right thing.
Maybe a solution will be found without antipathy. Or maybe it'll take a lawsuit to make the MLB bean-counters accept that a solution will be best for the company. Either way I agree that it is going to be found, and maybe the good that comes out of this is that everyone who likes baseball will learn to think twice before buying DRMed media.
Prison is supposed to remove people from society as long as they pose a threat, and it is meant to rehabilitate people so that they can lead peaceful lives. That is the end purpose of the law.
Also deterrent for others, no?
If you call it 'revenge' you make it sound like it serves no other purpose.
I think they will report (on alt-tab for example) as "Google Mail" rather than "Google Mail - Firefox" and thus are a bit more 'applicationy'. But the interesting technologies will be the ones they add later, like local storage.
Emissions provide a long, low exposure, perfect for messing up the brain without killing, while paint provides a sudden high exposure, which is sufficiently toxic to cause hospitalisation/death.
I rather think that is exactly his point. The 'experts' were dead wrong in their initial predictions. Who cares if they have changed them since, it clearly demonstrates that, as yet, there is little expertise in sunspot prediction.
I'd say "please keep your ad hominem attacks to a minimum", but I do them too;-)
Interestingly, the sunspot activity has flattened over the last decade, and latest figures show that the Earth's surface hasn't changed average temperature since 1998.
how can it be possible for a machine with Windows being cheaper than one without it?
Much as I hate to say it, the answer is because 99.9% of machines come with a Windows image, and the cost per unit of tooling up to provide a second line is greater than the licence cost minus the crapware advertising payments. It's the same reason why you buy a machine with XP and it comes with 2000 then you choose which to install. One product line is cheaper to manage.
It's not so much a tax, it's just that sometimes you're saving money by being advertised at.
As this would be in geosynchronous, not low earth orbit, it would be a very decent missile/launch vehicle indeed. This would be way, way above ICBM maximum heights, for example.
our immune system goes looking for something to do
Which, from an evolution/statistics perspective, is exactly what we should expect. It seems counter-intuitive, but in this dog-eat-dog model of life, what are the chances that nothing is attacking us? Pretty close to zero. So... go looking....
Cheers, you've helped crystallise a thought that's been bothering me.
Justin.
Not that I ever saw it, but it needn't be perpetual motion - the water can be allowed to fall (downhill onto peasant's land, perhaps through a tube to reduce friction) till it has kinetic energy, use the kinetic energy to generate electricity, and send the electricity back up to the pump station.
It's not just Germans. Excel sees a date, and attempts to convert it. If it can't do it in US format, it tries in UK (or some variant, locale depending). Might be the other way round.
This has been making my data cleansing a pita for some months now - and no, format as text isn't sufficient to stop it (don't know why, but it's a low priority bug as I have a workaround).
So's everyone with a transitor radio. Or a kettle. Or the other heart monitors. Or the multitude of other hospital kit.
Shield the machines, shield the cabling, and if that isn't enough, then shield the room (that's the expensive bit).
The point is that one can't require that/everything else/ be shielded. There's too much 'everything else'. Plus (back to the aeroplanes argument here) I don't want to trust my life to all the other idiots remembering to follow instructions.
Slashdot Mirror
Insightful? This is fucking insightful?
I love slashdot. The unintentional humour is just as good as (if not better than) the intentional humour.
Justin.
Looks to me like you only read for one minute ;-)
To give the limited amount of credit due, he does go on to some decent sounding suggestions. Nothing in there is actually unreasonable, some things sound like a good idea (UTF-8, browsers stop trying to correct for crap pages if version>=5). I'm still reading the stuff on Modules, or will be when the server responds :(
Perhaps someone else can try to fix the other things you mention.
Justin.
I looked at this earlier, but it has a different developer and is listed as pre-alpha, so I think it's a different thing. The correct one (linked from TFA) is a japanese language page that I couldn't view, much less read ;-)
J.
Every single unofficial windows support person in my peer-group is a gamer.
When most people need PC help, the person they get it from is a gamer.
When the gamers have Linux skills, the 'can my gran install it' question goes away (well, 90%).
They are a huge entry-point in terms of skills in the population.
J.
Heh, someone English has mod points ;-)
If knowing your schematics to the air conditioning system at jrandom fort means that the entire base is vulnerable to a gas attack, then the base is built wrong.
That's not to say you're wrong (obfuscation is one more level of protection), but I'd hope it wasn't the only one. Even in Prison Break they still had to do a lot of manual labour and folding of origami birdies.
Justin.
They're still trying to find an acronym so that Bush doesn't need to remember that long sentence.
Lighten the fuck up.
Lots of geeks here, very few neurosurgeons. So on the whole the informed comment ratio is going to be way, way down on this article. Doesn't mean people don't take limb loss seriously for a nano-second.
Justin.
PS Just read your sig. Don't you think that could be offensive? Got the idea yet?
You say that *you* feel bad, and that a solution will be found, but I also work for big corporations and while I, the geek, may well want to spend time on doing something that is right, The Man (in the form of the bean-counters) often overrides me because it's not profit-making to do the right thing.
Maybe a solution will be found without antipathy. Or maybe it'll take a lawsuit to make the MLB bean-counters accept that a solution will be best for the company. Either way I agree that it is going to be found, and maybe the good that comes out of this is that everyone who likes baseball will learn to think twice before buying DRMed media.
Justin.
Also deterrent for others, no?
If you call it 'revenge' you make it sound like it serves no other purpose.
Justin.
I think they will report (on alt-tab for example) as "Google Mail" rather than "Google Mail - Firefox" and thus are a bit more 'applicationy'. But the interesting technologies will be the ones they add later, like local storage.
Justin.
To misquote the late lamented Mr Hicks...
"You're caring about slashdot comments... you've forgotten how to perceive correctly".
Justin.
Emissions provide a long, low exposure, perfect for messing up the brain without killing, while paint provides a sudden high exposure, which is sufficiently toxic to cause hospitalisation/death.
Justin.
I rather think that is exactly his point. The 'experts' were dead wrong in their initial predictions. Who cares if they have changed them since, it clearly demonstrates that, as yet, there is little expertise in sunspot prediction.
;-)
I'd say "please keep your ad hominem attacks to a minimum", but I do them too
Justin.
Interestingly, the sunspot activity has flattened over the last decade, and latest figures show that the Earth's surface hasn't changed average temperature since 1998.
Go figure..!
J.
Much as I hate to say it, the answer is because 99.9% of machines come with a Windows image, and the cost per unit of tooling up to provide a second line is greater than the licence cost minus the crapware advertising payments. It's the same reason why you buy a machine with XP and it comes with 2000 then you choose which to install. One product line is cheaper to manage.
It's not so much a tax, it's just that sometimes you're saving money by being advertised at.
J.
As this would be in geosynchronous, not low earth orbit, it would be a very decent missile/launch vehicle indeed. This would be way, way above ICBM maximum heights, for example.
Justin.
Which, from an evolution/statistics perspective, is exactly what we should expect. It seems counter-intuitive, but in this dog-eat-dog model of life, what are the chances that nothing is attacking us? Pretty close to zero. So... go looking....
Cheers, you've helped crystallise a thought that's been bothering me.
Justin.
Are you sure? Can you prove that? qv "The Matrix".
NO - exactly the point.
Justin.
Not that I ever saw it, but it needn't be perpetual motion - the water can be allowed to fall (downhill onto peasant's land, perhaps through a tube to reduce friction) till it has kinetic energy, use the kinetic energy to generate electricity, and send the electricity back up to the pump station.
Did I really just comment on a MacGuyver ep?
J.
It's not just Germans. Excel sees a date, and attempts to convert it. If it can't do it in US format, it tries in UK (or some variant, locale depending). Might be the other way round.
This has been making my data cleansing a pita for some months now - and no, format as text isn't sufficient to stop it (don't know why, but it's a low priority bug as I have a workaround).
Justin.
Afaik you take a BA or BSc (actually, Oxbridge call them something else iirc) and then a year later you turn up for a dinner and get a free MA.
It's like a loyalty card scheme for education.
Justin.
Something to do with slowing down the network, I think ;-)
J.
Example:
Your plan involves getting on a plane, telling everyone to turn off their phones, then trusting your life to their obedience.
My plan involves making sure that the plane won't fall out of the sky and kill everyone if someone forgets they have a phone in their bag.
Still think my plan is bad?
I say systems should be robust in themselves, not just trusting that all the other people have followed the spec.
J.
So's everyone with a transitor radio. Or a kettle. Or the other heart monitors. Or the multitude of other hospital kit.
/everything else/ be shielded. There's too much 'everything else'. Plus (back to the aeroplanes argument here) I don't want to trust my life to all the other idiots remembering to follow instructions.
Shield the machines, shield the cabling, and if that isn't enough, then shield the room (that's the expensive bit).
The point is that one can't require that