RMS may be a cranky extremist, but he's still right far more often than he's wrong. Web apps are in some ways a huge step backwards in terms of openness. If you're lucky there's a wsdl you can analyze but even then that's really just a client-facing API. What's less free/open than a binary-only distribution? One that's never even distributed in the first place. May I please continue to access this application, sir?
I liked how the end of the new BSG came back around to the opening line of the intro from the old BSG:
"There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans..."
A few years ago, these things became diffraction limited. By that I mean, that at narrow aperatures, say f/11 and tighter, the spacing between sensor photosites is tighter than the smallest circle that the lens can resolve.
Give me a larger sensor with the same or fewer photosites, please. Not only will this avoid the diffraction limit, but noise and diynamic range will improve as well.
Everone should be evaluated in terms of (benefit to the company)-(hassle to deal with+cost of employment+replacement costs). If the result is positive, stay the course. If negative, cut your losses. If borderline, try to work with the person to push towards posative.
Every time I have to sit through a bunch of crappy Flash or out of control javascript, I find myself wishing I could get a decent gopher feed.
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If history show us anything, it's that the Exploiter tribe that usually comes out on top. The Maker tribe is usually too fractured to get together to stand up to the Exploiter tribe, who by their nature form oligarchies and plutocracies. It would take an Atlas Shrugged style walkout by the Makers to stand up to the Exploiters. I find it the height of irony that Rand's polemic has a grass-roots labor action at its heart. All the Libertarians who claim to follow her would do well to remember that.
I will cherish forever the memory of the BSOD during the lighting of the Olympic flame in China last year, especially knowing that Gates was in the stadium at the time. I hope he had a good view.
Your sick kid with measles can flat out kill my two-month-old daughter who is still ten months away from receiving her MMR vaccine. Is that clear enough?
You are absolutely correct. For example, with quite a bit of time and effort someone could insert some sort of obfuscated back door functionality distributed across several differrent kernel modules that looked innocuous when viewing any individual piece of the puzzle, yet would only be discoverable through extremely careful process auditing of the modules respective API/methods.
However, this would be Very Hard to pull off and maintain, essentially the attacker would have to become a mole within the development community for months or years. Not impossible, but most would be attackers have much more attractive targets as far as return on their nefarious man-hours.
While no one person has gone over the millions of lines of code, any given sub-section of the code had been gone over by dozens of people from different businesses and organizations. I'll take peer review over a one-man audit any day.
Not that I think this is a great idea, but I think data passing would be no worse than the current model, perhaps even smoother. Instead of opening app A, choosing exlport, opening app B and choosing import, this model could simply hand the document directly to the other application. You could simply have a document open in a word processor, then switch to the same document open in a page-layout program.
I just updated Picasa and GE today. Then I saw this article. It'd be an improvement IMHO to have this updater able to update Sketchup/Picasa/GE all at once instead.
Certainly, presuming that one were notified about the change and had a choice about what gets updeted and when, if at all.
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True, but sometimes you have a choice and sometimes you don't.
RMS may be a cranky extremist, but he's still right far more often than he's wrong. Web apps are in some ways a huge step backwards in terms of openness. If you're lucky there's a wsdl you can analyze but even then that's really just a client-facing API. What's less free/open than a binary-only distribution? One that's never even distributed in the first place. May I please continue to access this application, sir?
I liked how the end of the new BSG came back around to the opening line of the intro from the old BSG:
"There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans..."
Did you try to shoot them through the walls?
Can you imagine a Klien Bottle made of these?
A few years ago, these things became diffraction limited. By that I mean, that at narrow aperatures, say f/11 and tighter, the spacing between sensor photosites is tighter than the smallest circle that the lens can resolve.
Give me a larger sensor with the same or fewer photosites, please. Not only will this avoid the diffraction limit, but noise and diynamic range will improve as well.
Everone should be evaluated in terms of (benefit to the company)-(hassle to deal with+cost of employment+replacement costs). If the result is positive, stay the course. If negative, cut your losses. If borderline, try to work with the person to push towards posative.
Every time I have to sit through a bunch of crappy Flash or out of control javascript, I find myself wishing I could get a decent gopher feed.
If history show us anything, it's that the Exploiter tribe that usually comes out on top. The Maker tribe is usually too fractured to get together to stand up to the Exploiter tribe, who by their nature form oligarchies and plutocracies. It would take an Atlas Shrugged style walkout by the Makers to stand up to the Exploiters. I find it the height of irony that Rand's polemic has a grass-roots labor action at its heart. All the Libertarians who claim to follow her would do well to remember that.
Not surprised by the latter one. Catholic teaching has leaned hard towards "Science is 'what' and 'how.' God is 'why.'" for a long time now.
winipcfg -release
winipcfg -renew
I will cherish forever the memory of the BSOD during the lighting of the Olympic flame in China last year, especially knowing that Gates was in the stadium at the time. I hope he had a good view.
It will now be called GNU/Sony/BMG.
Imagine a power strip cluster of these.
An egg, no wait a chicken.
I hate this game.
"...the OS allows large software vendors to penetrate your machine."
Sounds kind of hot when you put it that way.
...is don't talk about ERP.
Your sick kid with measles can flat out kill my two-month-old daughter who is still ten months away from receiving her MMR vaccine. Is that clear enough?
You are absolutely correct. For example, with quite a bit of time and effort someone could insert some sort of obfuscated back door functionality distributed across several differrent kernel modules that looked innocuous when viewing any individual piece of the puzzle, yet would only be discoverable through extremely careful process auditing of the modules respective API/methods.
However, this would be Very Hard to pull off and maintain, essentially the attacker would have to become a mole within the development community for months or years. Not impossible, but most would be attackers have much more attractive targets as far as return on their nefarious man-hours.
While no one person has gone over the millions of lines of code, any given sub-section of the code had been gone over by dozens of people from different businesses and organizations. I'll take peer review over a one-man audit any day.
Also, he may have sufficient cred that his projects rise to the level of "news for nerds."
What, they bought Strata too?
Not that I think this is a great idea, but I think data passing would be no worse than the current model, perhaps even smoother. Instead of opening app A, choosing exlport, opening app B and choosing import, this model could simply hand the document directly to the other application. You could simply have a document open in a word processor, then switch to the same document open in a page-layout program.
This is like Plan 9 only backwards.
Certainly, presuming that one were notified about the change and had a choice about what gets updeted and when, if at all.