These new domains seem to split the internet, unless the pages can be read by the English speaking world. Maybe that's the idea, but it seems to move away from the intent of a universal internet.
Right now there are many millions of websites I can't read because I don't speak Chinese, Korean, Russian, etc. etc. etc.... There can be no "universal Internet" unless everyone speaks the same language, which is never going to happen.
I doubt that Jimmy Wales has gotten rich from Wikipedia. And that's part of the problem. Unlike Facebook or Google, there are no billions of dollars in stock options from Wikipedia, so the original founders have all walked away.
More or less he dismissed the premise that there was a problem in the first place, and any issues that are left could be handled with a better editor UI. Now, I do think the Wikimedia editor needs work, but Jimmy is kidding himself. Maybe he'll get a new rush of editors when they release the new UI, but I'm not convinced they'll stay.
And there you have Wikipedia's number one problem. The people who originally created it don't give two shits about it any more.
So now you have management by committee and that committee is made up entirely of asshats.
In my direct experience the majority of hardcore contributors and long-time editors are complete ideologues and giant assholes who are extraordinarily hostile to any outsiders or differing thought.
That is the same experience I have had and I'll bet it's the same experience that many people have had.
The battles on Wikipedia are well documented. Articles deleted, added back, deleted again. Back and forth in a never ending battle of arrogant assholes with giant egos. But the biggest problem is that the few people who have any power to actually do anything about it are completely clueless, as demonstrated out in TFA:
the Wikimedia Foundation, the 187-person nonprofit that pays for the legal and technical infrastructure supporting Wikipedia, is staging a kind of rescue mission. The foundation can’t order the volunteer community to change the way it operates. But by tweaking Wikipedia’s website and software, it hopes to steer the encyclopedia onto a more sustainable path.
. Because re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic will make a big difference.
Developers need to get used to the idea that they can't count on either flash or java being present on the client end. That's just the way it is.
That is correct.
Except for the fact that there are eleventy bazillion websites already in existence which rely on one or more of these programs and they aren't going to change and they aren't going to go away.
Office 2003 is alive kicking and screaming as almost 1/3 of companies and governments still use it
I still use Microsoft Office 2003 and the reasons are simple:
- It works. Creating a document today isn't any different today than it was in 2003 or 1983. You type stuff onto a page. I have yet to encounter a situation where Office 2003 can't do exactly what I need. Newer versions of Office simply add extra bloat.
- Microsoft's god awful "ribbon" which has rendered all newer versions of Office unusable.
- Office 2003 has none of Microsoft's "activation" bullshit.
I thought he was talking about Firefox: - Customize your development environment a lot, don't make it easy for the next programmer to start working on the code - Create an elaborate build and deployment environment and remember to leave out the documentation - Don't bother with a well-understood framework, write everything from scratch instead - Add dependencies to specific versions of libraries and resources
Why can't people simply enjoy a film, without trying to pick apart ever millisecond?
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Why didn't Neil deGrasse Tyson point out some of the other glaring errors in the movie -- like the fact that Julia Roberts isn't really an astronaut and has never been into space. Or the fact that they weren't really in space, they were on the set of a movie studio. And that isn't really a spaceship they are in, it's fake.
If you're going to complain about "mistakes" or "scientific errors" you should cover them all.
Reminds me of Google's data collection on its hard disk failures and hiring good programmers.
They couldn't find any sort of predictive factor. GPA, brain teasers etc had zero correlation. There was no hiring person that had statistically better performance at hiring good programmers.
People still cling to the idea of using the past to predict the future.
Years ago I knew a guy who played the lottery a lot. He kept a list of all the previous winning numbers and spent countless hours studying the numbers looking for patterns that would allow him to predict future winning numbers. It never worked.
All of this data collection is essentially the same thing.
I would be willing to bet that things like this happen frequently at nuclear power plants in the U.S. but they aren't being closely scrutinized so you don't hear about it.
Google, which is involved in several projects to provide Internet access in various parts of the world,
There's a pattern here. They launch dozens of new products and then kill them a short time later. The roll out WiFi to their home town and then neglect it.
Advertising brings in 98% of their revenue. Everything else is just playthings for a company with too much money and no idea what to (usefully) do with it. Maybe instead of worrying about balloons in Africa you should work on the things in your own back yard..
Google is competing with local businesses by providing a multitude of services to its staff. Living in the shadow of the Googleplex is causing job losses and hurting rather than boosting the local economy.
Silicon Valley towns continue to suffer from terrible public schools and broken communities. East Palo Alto is a violent urban ghetto in every sense of the definition. And its smack-dab in the heart of Silicon Valley, right next to Facebook and Google.
Silicon Valley has all these "visionaries" saying they are "changing the world" yet they can't / won't change their own neighborhoods. The local schools should be showcases instead they are basket cases; the local communities should be healthy and thriving, but instead they are suffering from unemployment and all the other problems that communities across the country have to deal with on a daily basis.
What's the point in having these high tech giants in our midst when there is little or no advantage to the communities that surround them? They want special treatment; they want to pay little or no taxes; they would rather be a burden on their neighbors than ease the burden of others.
Why do you assume that AMD did this voluntarily? Much more likely that this is caused by some idiotic DRM requirement for for HDCP 'protected audio path'. Likely reason - a DRM requirement to stop people from plugging in devices that strip HDCP.
Exactly.
You can bet that the RIAA/MPAA cartel had something to do with this
They are NOT interested in Microsoft's long term health, but in having someone at the top to give their 40%+ return in a year and who the fuck cares what happens after that. If the money runners had their way, Apple would have been liquidated in '98.
That's what these people are all about.
They are not techies. They are Wall Street scum bags.
MS is in the "Cash Cow" phase of its life. It will end. What they need is a 'visionary' who is NOT tied to Wall Street (a la Jobs) but never the less, knows the roots and corporate culture of MS - Gates is the ONLY one who can make the next leader taken seriously.
Bill Gates is Microsoft's largest shareholder which gives him considerable power. Unfortunately, he lost interest in Microsoft years ago.. That's why he allowed a close personal friend (Steve Ballmer) to remain CEO for 13 years with no regard for how well he did the job.
Maybe they can enact longer-term business plans that would torpedo the stock price if it were a public company...but isn't the idea of every public company to maximize the long term value of shareholders?
No. The goal of a public company is to maximize SHORT TERM profits. If you lose money or only generate small profits because you are working on a long term plan that will eventually have a big pay off, you will most likely get fired.
few years back RIAA did a research to prove pirates are hurting their bottom lines. The research was finalised and it proved pirates spent more money on music and videos than the non pirate counterparts.
Actually, the RIAA has done several such studies, starting in the 1970's when people were "pirating" music by copying vinyl LPs onto cassettes to share with their friends. And again in the 1908s. And again in the 1990s.
And, funny thing. every study they do ends up saying that the dirty pirates spend more money buying music than the honest non-pirating folks.
Why this makes Hollywood brains explode I'll never know.
Over the past 30 years, the sale and rental of content on video cassettes has generated somewhere in the neighborhood of $150-200 Billion. And yet the MPAA took a lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court trying to outlaw the VCR.
Indeed. This "bug" seems pretty stupid. I mean on the submitter's part. Why would any vendor spend much time solving this problem when it should be simple enough not to write such stupid SQL to begin with. Anyone who spent time working on this probably had nothing much better to do.
I mean really, I get it, but what is the use case for 'if a constant is equal to a different constant'?
That's what I thought when the submitter said:
But when I comment out the 'M002649397' IS NULL OR clause (which has no effect on the result),
Yes, I guess technically this is a bug, but the obvious answer seems to be "Don't write stupid code in the first place". If you can take it out with no effect on the result, then why is it in there in the first place?
Datacenters wanting to emulate Google by encrypting their data beyond the ability of the NSA to crack it
2 years ago, a court ruled that much of the NSA's activities were illegal and unconstitutional. However, because this was a secret ruling, by a secret court, nobody knew about it until just recently and so the NSA was free to go about their business. And they continue to engage in their illegal and unconstituional activities because there is no one in power who is remotely interested in stopping them.
The point is, if you are thinking about encryption or other ways to "hide" from the NSA, you are trying to solve the wrong problem.
If the NSA can't break your encryption or figure out how to get at your data, then they will simply issue a secret order (that you are not allowed to tell anyone about) demanding that you decrypt or turn over your data under the threat of going to prison. A threat which is enforced by a secret court whose rulings are secret and cannot be discussed with anyone.
Until this situation changes, encryption or other schemes are meaningless.
"Albini records to analog tape, not because he's in love with the sound of analog. No, he's concerned that as digital formats continue to evolve, today's digital recordings will be unplayable in the future".
And what about that reel of tape that Albini hands you at the end of your recording session? Where are you going to play that in the future? Reel-to-reel tape machines are disappearing fast because they wear out, break down and no replacements are being manufactured.
But seriously, I use the stock fan/heatsink that comes with the CPU and even with video encoding pushing all 6 cores to almost 100% I have no problems. "High End CPU Cooler" is as much of a scam as "High End Bottled Water".
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These new domains seem to split the internet, unless the pages can be read by the English speaking world. Maybe that's the idea, but it seems to move away from the intent of a universal internet.
Right now there are many millions of websites I can't read because I don't speak Chinese, Korean, Russian, etc. etc. etc.... There can be no "universal Internet" unless everyone speaks the same language, which is never going to happen.
I doubt that Jimmy Wales has gotten rich from Wikipedia. And that's part of the problem. Unlike Facebook or Google, there are no billions of dollars in stock options from Wikipedia, so the original founders have all walked away.
More or less he dismissed the premise that there was a problem in the first place, and any issues that are left could be handled with a better editor UI. Now, I do think the Wikimedia editor needs work, but Jimmy is kidding himself. Maybe he'll get a new rush of editors when they release the new UI, but I'm not convinced they'll stay.
And there you have Wikipedia's number one problem. The people who originally created it don't give two shits about it any more.
So now you have management by committee and that committee is made up entirely of asshats.
In my direct experience the majority of hardcore contributors and long-time editors are complete ideologues and giant assholes who are extraordinarily hostile to any outsiders or differing thought.
That is the same experience I have had and I'll bet it's the same experience that many people have had.
The battles on Wikipedia are well documented. Articles deleted, added back, deleted again. Back and forth in a never ending battle of arrogant assholes with giant egos. But the biggest problem is that the few people who have any power to actually do anything about it are completely clueless, as demonstrated out in TFA:
the Wikimedia Foundation, the 187-person nonprofit that pays for the legal and technical infrastructure supporting Wikipedia, is staging a kind of rescue mission. The foundation can’t order the volunteer community to change the way it operates. But by tweaking Wikipedia’s website and software, it hopes to steer the encyclopedia onto a more sustainable path.
. Because re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic will make a big difference.
Developers need to get used to the idea that they can't count on either flash or java being present on the client end. That's just the way it is.
That is correct.
Except for the fact that there are eleventy bazillion websites already in existence which rely on one or more of these programs and they aren't going to change and they aren't going to go away.
..Office 365 is a good piece of software. Okay, so it's complete shite to use.
It's either good or it's shit. It can't be both.
Quite possibly the stupidest thing ever said on the Internet. Congratulations.
Office 2003 is alive kicking and screaming as almost 1/3 of companies and governments still use it
I still use Microsoft Office 2003 and the reasons are simple:
- It works. Creating a document today isn't any different today than it was in 2003 or 1983. You type stuff onto a page. I have yet to encounter a situation where Office 2003 can't do exactly what I need. Newer versions of Office simply add extra bloat.
- Microsoft's god awful "ribbon" which has rendered all newer versions of Office unusable.
- Office 2003 has none of Microsoft's "activation" bullshit.
uhm... is this about Obamacare IT?
I thought he was talking about Firefox:
- Customize your development environment a lot, don't make it easy for the next programmer to start working on the code
- Create an elaborate build and deployment environment and remember to leave out the documentation
- Don't bother with a well-understood framework, write everything from scratch instead
- Add dependencies to specific versions of libraries and resources
Why can't people simply enjoy a film, without trying to pick apart ever millisecond?
.
Why didn't Neil deGrasse Tyson point out some of the other glaring errors in the movie -- like the fact that Julia Roberts isn't really an astronaut and has never been into space. Or the fact that they weren't really in space, they were on the set of a movie studio. And that isn't really a spaceship they are in, it's fake.
If you're going to complain about "mistakes" or "scientific errors" you should cover them all.
Reminds me of Google's data collection on its hard disk failures and hiring good programmers.
They couldn't find any sort of predictive factor. GPA, brain teasers etc had zero correlation. There was no hiring person that had statistically better performance at hiring good programmers.
People still cling to the idea of using the past to predict the future.
Years ago I knew a guy who played the lottery a lot. He kept a list of all the previous winning numbers and spent countless hours studying the numbers looking for patterns that would allow him to predict future winning numbers. It never worked.
All of this data collection is essentially the same thing.
"Winston Smith . . . . . resorted to hiding the bushes with his lover "
I don't remember any bushes in that story.
I would be willing to bet that things like this happen frequently at nuclear power plants in the U.S. but they aren't being closely scrutinized so you don't hear about it.
Google, which is involved in several projects to provide Internet access in various parts of the world,
There's a pattern here. They launch dozens of new products and then kill them a short time later. The roll out WiFi to their home town and then neglect it.
Advertising brings in 98% of their revenue. Everything else is just playthings for a company with too much money and no idea what to (usefully) do with it. Maybe instead of worrying about balloons in Africa you should work on the things in your own back yard..
Google is competing with local businesses by providing a multitude of services to its staff. Living in the shadow of the Googleplex is causing job losses and hurting rather than boosting the local economy.
Silicon Valley towns continue to suffer from terrible public schools and broken communities. East Palo Alto is a violent urban ghetto in every sense of the definition. And its smack-dab in the heart of Silicon Valley, right next to Facebook and Google.
Silicon Valley has all these "visionaries" saying they are "changing the world" yet they can't / won't change their own neighborhoods. The local schools should be showcases instead they are basket cases; the local communities should be healthy and thriving, but instead they are suffering from unemployment and all the other problems that communities across the country have to deal with on a daily basis.
What's the point in having these high tech giants in our midst when there is little or no advantage to the communities that surround them? They want special treatment; they want to pay little or no taxes; they would rather be a burden on their neighbors than ease the burden of others.
Why do you assume that AMD did this voluntarily? Much more likely that this is caused by some idiotic DRM requirement for for HDCP 'protected audio path'. Likely reason - a DRM requirement to stop people from plugging in devices that strip HDCP.
Exactly.
You can bet that the RIAA/MPAA cartel had something to do with this
All of the top 3 are hedge fund money runners.
They are NOT interested in Microsoft's long term health, but in having someone at the top to give their 40%+ return in a year and who the fuck cares what happens after that. If the money runners had their way, Apple would have been liquidated in '98.
That's what these people are all about.
They are not techies. They are Wall Street scum bags.
MS is in the "Cash Cow" phase of its life. It will end. What they need is a 'visionary' who is NOT tied to Wall Street (a la Jobs) but never the less, knows the roots and corporate culture of MS - Gates is the ONLY one who can make the next leader taken seriously.
Bill Gates is Microsoft's largest shareholder which gives him considerable power. Unfortunately, he lost interest in Microsoft years ago.. That's why he allowed a close personal friend (Steve Ballmer) to remain CEO for 13 years with no regard for how well he did the job.
Maybe they can enact longer-term business plans that would torpedo the stock price if it were a public company...but isn't the idea of every public company to maximize the long term value of shareholders?
No. The goal of a public company is to maximize SHORT TERM profits. If you lose money or only generate small profits because you are working on a long term plan that will eventually have a big pay off, you will most likely get fired.
I just wanted everyone to know that I am enjoying some energetic coitus in front of my living-room window RIGHT NOW.
We already know that.
-- The NSA
few years back RIAA did a research to prove pirates are hurting their bottom lines. The research was finalised and it proved pirates spent more money on music and videos than the non pirate counterparts.
Actually, the RIAA has done several such studies, starting in the 1970's when people were "pirating" music by copying vinyl LPs onto cassettes to share with their friends. And again in the 1908s. And again in the 1990s.
And, funny thing. every study they do ends up saying that the dirty pirates spend more money buying music than the honest non-pirating folks.
Why this makes Hollywood brains explode I'll never know.
Over the past 30 years, the sale and rental of content on video cassettes has generated somewhere in the neighborhood of $150-200 Billion. And yet the MPAA took a lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court trying to outlaw the VCR.
These are the geniuses you're dealing with.
Indeed. This "bug" seems pretty stupid. I mean on the submitter's part. Why would any vendor spend much time solving this problem when it should be simple enough not to write such stupid SQL to begin with. Anyone who spent time working on this probably had nothing much better to do.
I mean really, I get it, but what is the use case for 'if a constant is equal to a different constant'?
That's what I thought when the submitter said:
But when I comment out the 'M002649397' IS NULL OR clause (which has no effect on the result),
Yes, I guess technically this is a bug, but the obvious answer seems to be "Don't write stupid code in the first place". If you can take it out with no effect on the result, then why is it in there in the first place?
Datacenters wanting to emulate Google by encrypting their data beyond the ability of the NSA to crack it
2 years ago, a court ruled that much of the NSA's activities were illegal and unconstitutional. However, because this was a secret ruling, by a secret court, nobody knew about it until just recently and so the NSA was free to go about their business. And they continue to engage in their illegal and unconstituional activities because there is no one in power who is remotely interested in stopping them.
The point is, if you are thinking about encryption or other ways to "hide" from the NSA, you are trying to solve the wrong problem.
If the NSA can't break your encryption or figure out how to get at your data, then they will simply issue a secret order (that you are not allowed to tell anyone about) demanding that you decrypt or turn over your data under the threat of going to prison. A threat which is enforced by a secret court whose rulings are secret and cannot be discussed with anyone.
Until this situation changes, encryption or other schemes are meaningless.
"Albini records to analog tape, not because he's in love with the sound of analog. No, he's concerned that as digital formats continue to evolve, today's digital recordings will be unplayable in the future".
And what about that reel of tape that Albini hands you at the end of your recording session? Where are you going to play that in the future? Reel-to-reel tape machines are disappearing fast because they wear out, break down and no replacements are being manufactured.
If they were really high-end they would be Gold.
But seriously, I use the stock fan/heatsink that comes with the CPU and even with video encoding pushing all 6 cores to almost 100% I have no problems. "High End CPU Cooler" is as much of a scam as "High End Bottled Water".
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Never mind.
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