Is going to be here soon. IPFS, ZeroNet, Maidsafe, plus decentralized DNS through Namecoin is going to take hold and these people won't be able to censor anything. Everyone needs to be playing with these technologies right now. They are going to try and silence us and retake control of your information stream.
It's ok. We've run this story through the Ministry of Truth Internet Submission Suite servers. Since every internet post now has to originate from the government servers, we know this is real.
I want you guys to succeed, and I realize that part of that formula is to serve up ads. But currently myself and quite a few others are using adblockers on slashdot because it's pretty crazy how much stuff is going on in the front page without blocking the ads.
I'd be willing to turn off my adblocker for slashdot if there were text ads and they were integrated in a smooth way. Maybe a check box or something that we can flip to get a text-only experience.
Please keep it optional. I work in a place that routes all https through a single server which makes all sites that default to https extremely slow. All non https traffic is speedy.
People are craving real interaction. A couple decades of staring at screens and we all are realizing we don't want to raise our families by passing on the habit. There's value in gaming, the shared goal of competition. The problem is that we lost something during those years. The face-to-face personal interaction gave way to internet connected walls. No more humanity, replaced with avatars and emojis and the simulation of real human connections.
Nothing shows the glaring difference from what we've become than a live game of poker. Where part of the game is to master the art of being human. It's why writers and directors think we'll still be playing the game hundreds of light years from here sitting abort starships across the table from androids and aliens.
Apparently version 3 of the API downloads the hashed list to the client side rather than sending URL's to mother Google:
https://developers.google.com/...
So I think I'm going to leave it enabled on my machines. This is reasonable and actually a fairly decent service if that's true.
Flooding the market with scores of high school kids who are forced to learn computer science is a great way to drop the average wages across the board. There isn't a shortage of coders. There's a shortage of coders who are willing to work for less.
They should really think about naming these planets (at least the Earth-like ones) alongside their Kepler designations. While there is the distinct possibility that we'll find thousands of these things, it would be good PR to have something to call it. The current names are tough to remember and don't do the huge discovery justice.
I'm having a hard time figuring out why I want hundreds of 50lb drones flying over my head just so Bezos can make another quick billion. There's no rushing when it comes to doing things the right way. I can't think of a right way to do it when one of these things fails and falls onto a freeway through someone's windshield, or lands on my neighbor's 2 year old playing outside in his sandbox. Maybe they've found corridors that don't cross over houses or populated areas, but I'm thinking that's unlikely. I'm all ears really, but how?
Other than the fact that it's new and whizbang cool to have drones in the skies, there's going to be failures, and the fail cases for a car engine are far less disastrous than the fail cases for a drone over a certain size. Who knows, it may turn out that decreasing the amount of vehicular traffic actually decreases the number of traffic fatalities enough that drone failures are more pragmatic. But at least I'm able to actively minimize my time I spend exposing myself to the threat posed in traffic. With drones we're left up to whatever corridor path Amazon chooses. Happen to live underneath one of these? Tough luck.
Exactly. And the best pool of potential new hires are from previous employees who realize that the grass wasn't exactly greener on the other side. Previous employees already know your system and processes and can be back up and running within a week or two with minimal training. Why people would ostracize them is beyond me.
Yep, good points all around. The GPL does constrain the amount of people that fork a proprietary version. I've always been torn on the benefits of one or the other. The BSD license proponents would say that proprietary forking is a net benefit if it means more people are on a similar platform. I have noticed that FreeBSD is used quite a bit in proprietary realms, but it doesn't seem to detract from FreeBSD much. However there are great benefits to the share-alike idea the GPL promotes. I suppose if a project is already mature enough then copyleft vs copyright doesn't seem to matter as much.
There's nothing stopping the copyright holders of a GPL'd project from taking it proprietary. It's not much different than if the people running a permissive licensed project (BSD/MIT) decided to take it proprietary. Everything up to that point will still be available barring any patent issues. If one of the copyright holders decides they don't want their code proprietary then the project leaders can just rewrite their portion of the code and still take it closed source.
NoSQL has its use cases. But the fact that NoSQL lacked mature ACID compliance meant that many of the large companies who relied on certifying data integrity (think bank transactions and other large companies for which standard relational databases already provided them with safe transactions out of the box) couldn't switch over to it. "NewSQL" is the latest buzzword that is going around. They're finding that heavily modifying the database to fit into the distributed world is better than dropping SQL and ACID altogether. Maybe it's better to maintain integrity in the database itself rather than forcing developers to do it in the application layer. At least that's what I got out of reading through Google's paper on F1.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. We are back to the embrace mode. Sure, I'd trust Microsoft completely. But why not contribute code to existing open source projects? What's the benefit in writing commodity software? There's got to be something in it for them down the road. To steer the direction of the web in their direction somehow. If Microsoft announced they'd be now contributing to Firefox or any other popular open source project then I'll trust them again. Look at what Google is doing with Chrome. They are beginning to leverage their other services to steer people to Chrome by only developing to Chrome instead of open standards. It's a feedback loop to steer people to their browser, then offer services through the browser that are Google specific. It's all for your data people. They realized long ago that data is a moneymaker and the best way to get it is directly to the source.
Yea, Libre Office is good for everything I use at home. I actually prefer it to the ribbon crap that I last used from Microsoft. However for real business work Excell and Powerpoint are second to none still. But that's ok, because I don't do Excell and Powerpoint stuff at home that needs enough complexity to switch over the Microsoft. I'll give it to them, Microsoft writes good software, but the open source guys are no slouches.
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Is going to be here soon. IPFS, ZeroNet, Maidsafe, plus decentralized DNS through Namecoin is going to take hold and these people won't be able to censor anything. Everyone needs to be playing with these technologies right now. They are going to try and silence us and retake control of your information stream.
It's ok. We've run this story through the Ministry of Truth Internet Submission Suite servers. Since every internet post now has to originate from the government servers, we know this is real.
that he hangs the toilet paper facing in, not out, or something.
Sonofabitch. I knew it! Do you have proof of this?
Nobody's happy. The world won't be happy with an Apple CEO until Steve Jobs resurrects from the dead.
I want you guys to succeed, and I realize that part of that formula is to serve up ads. But currently myself and quite a few others are using adblockers on slashdot because it's pretty crazy how much stuff is going on in the front page without blocking the ads. I'd be willing to turn off my adblocker for slashdot if there were text ads and they were integrated in a smooth way. Maybe a check box or something that we can flip to get a text-only experience.
Please keep it optional. I work in a place that routes all https through a single server which makes all sites that default to https extremely slow. All non https traffic is speedy.
GVim has existed for years.
Trademarks, and Patent law are jobs programs for the legal field. Along the way there are some successes. Same goes for the complex tax law.
People are craving real interaction. A couple decades of staring at screens and we all are realizing we don't want to raise our families by passing on the habit. There's value in gaming, the shared goal of competition. The problem is that we lost something during those years. The face-to-face personal interaction gave way to internet connected walls. No more humanity, replaced with avatars and emojis and the simulation of real human connections. Nothing shows the glaring difference from what we've become than a live game of poker. Where part of the game is to master the art of being human. It's why writers and directors think we'll still be playing the game hundreds of light years from here sitting abort starships across the table from androids and aliens.
Apparently version 3 of the API downloads the hashed list to the client side rather than sending URL's to mother Google: https://developers.google.com/... So I think I'm going to leave it enabled on my machines. This is reasonable and actually a fairly decent service if that's true.
Here's how to disable it. Not sure yet how this is implemented. https://support.mozilla.org/en...
Flooding the market with scores of high school kids who are forced to learn computer science is a great way to drop the average wages across the board. There isn't a shortage of coders. There's a shortage of coders who are willing to work for less.
They should really think about naming these planets (at least the Earth-like ones) alongside their Kepler designations. While there is the distinct possibility that we'll find thousands of these things, it would be good PR to have something to call it. The current names are tough to remember and don't do the huge discovery justice.
Exactly. GMO labeling laws are analogous to labeling table salt as "NOTICE: HAS CHEMICALS!".
a station wagon full of #ifdefs hurtling down the information superhighway.
Should just about do it.
I'm having a hard time figuring out why I want hundreds of 50lb drones flying over my head just so Bezos can make another quick billion. There's no rushing when it comes to doing things the right way. I can't think of a right way to do it when one of these things fails and falls onto a freeway through someone's windshield, or lands on my neighbor's 2 year old playing outside in his sandbox. Maybe they've found corridors that don't cross over houses or populated areas, but I'm thinking that's unlikely. I'm all ears really, but how? Other than the fact that it's new and whizbang cool to have drones in the skies, there's going to be failures, and the fail cases for a car engine are far less disastrous than the fail cases for a drone over a certain size. Who knows, it may turn out that decreasing the amount of vehicular traffic actually decreases the number of traffic fatalities enough that drone failures are more pragmatic. But at least I'm able to actively minimize my time I spend exposing myself to the threat posed in traffic. With drones we're left up to whatever corridor path Amazon chooses. Happen to live underneath one of these? Tough luck.
Exactly. And the best pool of potential new hires are from previous employees who realize that the grass wasn't exactly greener on the other side. Previous employees already know your system and processes and can be back up and running within a week or two with minimal training. Why people would ostracize them is beyond me.
It's entirely within reason to version control their sprocs. Think of the database as a deployment, not the storage mechanism for code.
Yep, good points all around. The GPL does constrain the amount of people that fork a proprietary version. I've always been torn on the benefits of one or the other. The BSD license proponents would say that proprietary forking is a net benefit if it means more people are on a similar platform. I have noticed that FreeBSD is used quite a bit in proprietary realms, but it doesn't seem to detract from FreeBSD much. However there are great benefits to the share-alike idea the GPL promotes. I suppose if a project is already mature enough then copyleft vs copyright doesn't seem to matter as much.
There's nothing stopping the copyright holders of a GPL'd project from taking it proprietary. It's not much different than if the people running a permissive licensed project (BSD/MIT) decided to take it proprietary. Everything up to that point will still be available barring any patent issues. If one of the copyright holders decides they don't want their code proprietary then the project leaders can just rewrite their portion of the code and still take it closed source.
NoSQL has its use cases. But the fact that NoSQL lacked mature ACID compliance meant that many of the large companies who relied on certifying data integrity (think bank transactions and other large companies for which standard relational databases already provided them with safe transactions out of the box) couldn't switch over to it. "NewSQL" is the latest buzzword that is going around. They're finding that heavily modifying the database to fit into the distributed world is better than dropping SQL and ACID altogether. Maybe it's better to maintain integrity in the database itself rather than forcing developers to do it in the application layer. At least that's what I got out of reading through Google's paper on F1.
Perhaps we should wheat until the study results comes in.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. We are back to the embrace mode. Sure, I'd trust Microsoft completely. But why not contribute code to existing open source projects? What's the benefit in writing commodity software? There's got to be something in it for them down the road. To steer the direction of the web in their direction somehow. If Microsoft announced they'd be now contributing to Firefox or any other popular open source project then I'll trust them again. Look at what Google is doing with Chrome. They are beginning to leverage their other services to steer people to Chrome by only developing to Chrome instead of open standards. It's a feedback loop to steer people to their browser, then offer services through the browser that are Google specific. It's all for your data people. They realized long ago that data is a moneymaker and the best way to get it is directly to the source.
Yea, Libre Office is good for everything I use at home. I actually prefer it to the ribbon crap that I last used from Microsoft. However for real business work Excell and Powerpoint are second to none still. But that's ok, because I don't do Excell and Powerpoint stuff at home that needs enough complexity to switch over the Microsoft. I'll give it to them, Microsoft writes good software, but the open source guys are no slouches.