The idea can be taken to extremes, but how many of todays Perl and PHP website scripting security issues would evaporate if the authors were forced to write in a less flexible language that took a few moments to actually compile before being enabled?
.. and you actually think C is the answer to that?
It was always going to take a disruptive force to get them to recognize data as data and price it as such
Unfortunately not for some of us in Canada. That's right, "tethering" plans will be released by Rogers (on top of 'data' and 'voice' plans!). I've run out of adjectives to describe this.
The way you get pics isn't really a big deal, the interesting part is software that takes them and makes a 3D model out of it.
The way you get the pics _is_ a big deal - it makes the second part (making the 3d model) much harder if you don't have the right information. That is one of the biggest obstacles this project attempts to address according to the paper. As the paper says, this has somewhat been done before in a controlled environment (eg. google earth) with mostly commissioned areal photographs where the camera is calibrated, shots are taken at predefined intervals, time is known, GPS aids location, etc,etc. When you remove all that information by fetching the images from a "uncontrolled" source like flickr, it is a whole other game (although you also gain other valuable aspects like views from inside the building, etc).
I knew it. Many others have been discussing the potentials for this type of eavesdropping for many years. Ha! and they laughed at me when I started protecting my stuff...
I finished my first degree back in 2001. The economy was in the shitter. I managed to get a job and rode the problems until I decided to go back to school. The economy went back to the good times while at school. Now I'm graduating again and the economy is in an even deeper shitter.
Designers? Developers? What are these? I thought websites were made out of magical pixie dust! There couldn't possible be people who really care about factors that affect their day to day job (such as browsers).. they must all be "Internet addicts"!
Over 100 comments and we still don't have a concise list of substantial features Windows 7 offers over Vista? As someone else pointed out, a name and theme change does not really qualify as substantial change. Ok, so WinFS was never promised for this version. What exactly are they offering this time besides a fix to the taskbar? I have yet to see an article that outlines changes outside the UI. Is this an elaborate prank?
Computer Sci. Looking around my liberal classes and business courses, the trend seems to be more or less the same. This is very different from what I saw ~8 years ago.
I recently went back to school after some years of working in the industry. To say that people don't care if the computer does not have Windows on it is a conjuncture that might have had some validity in 2001. Now a days people are not afraid to leave Windows. I look around at most of my classes and 8/10 kids with laptops are actually using Apple! These are the same kids who in a couple of years will be graduating and going into the industry. I predict a major shift away from Windows. It has already started. Microsoft is slowly becoming less relevant.
By "fixing" I meant, you uninstall the flashplugin supported by Ubuntu, add an unsupported depo and install Flash 10 or apt-get for libflashsupport. One of these options usually fixes the problem, I didn't mean that you could patch Adobe's binary but then again, I'm thinking you already knew what I meant..
I'm not sure what system you are using but in Ubuntu, the flash plugin is not included out of the box. Firefox will prompt you the first time you try to play a flash movie. Additionally, there is another fix (installing libflashsupport) that does not require to wait for Adobe. There are fixes, there are work-arounds, however, it seems Ubuntu prefers to leave it broken. I'm sure there is a political/legal reason involved somewhere. My original point is that I wish part of that money was spent in addressing whatever that root cause is.
hmm.. the way they usually fix other things, "automatically" through the distro's updater manager? (ie. having to add an unsupported repo and/or jump on the command line shouldn't be the main way to fix this)
How is it not? They are shipping software core dumps.
Regardless, the point that we don't have access to the source is moot because, as I said in my original post, a fix already exists. Again, it's relatively trivial to fix the issue for you and I as well as most/.ers, however, as soon as you tell a regular user to go and add an unsupported depo or jump on the command line to install the fix, you have already lost half of those users.
It might not be Ubuntu's fault that Flash crashes but it definitely is Ubuntu's fault that it is being released with very common software that crashes, similarly, it is Ubuntu's fault that it isn't trivial for some people to fix the issue.
X? OpenGL? really? Will some of the simpler more annoying stuff that is broken right now be addressed as well? How about we start with some simple stuff like getting Flash with audio not crash Firefox 98% of the time. I don't care that you can fix that by installing Flash 10 beta, or some extra library, the fact is that it does not work out of the box. Not only that, the fix (as explained by the hundreds of other users who had the problem) involves jumping to the command line and apt-get'ing a new version of flash after installing a new unsupported apt source. For me, it's fine, I can deal with it but the general public will not want to jump through those hoops. It is very hard to spread Linux adoption when this is one of the very first things users experience. They will not care that the problem might be on Adobe's end or Mozilla's or some obscure repo. The fact is, the browser shipped with the OS crashes. This makes it all look unpolished, unfinished. A house with squeaky floors. I hope that money is also being used to eliminate these basic problems at whatever the root cause may be... and yes bugs have been filed!
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The idea can be taken to extremes, but how many of todays Perl and PHP website scripting security issues would evaporate if the authors were forced to write in a less flexible language that took a few moments to actually compile before being enabled?
It was always going to take a disruptive force to get them to recognize data as data and price it as such
Unfortunately not for some of us in Canada. That's right, "tethering" plans will be released by Rogers (on top of 'data' and 'voice' plans!). I've run out of adjectives to describe this.
The problems with osCommerce go further (much much further) than just style sheet issues.
Many. These are the countries that currently accept paid apps: http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=143779
I must have the swine flu
Yes, with pigs flying and all .. that shot isn't looking *that* bad now.
The way you get pics isn't really a big deal, the interesting part is software that takes them and makes a 3D model out of it.
The way you get the pics _is_ a big deal - it makes the second part (making the 3d model) much harder if you don't have the right information. That is one of the biggest obstacles this project attempts to address according to the paper. As the paper says, this has somewhat been done before in a controlled environment (eg. google earth) with mostly commissioned areal photographs where the camera is calibrated, shots are taken at predefined intervals, time is known, GPS aids location, etc ,etc. When you remove all that information by fetching the images from a "uncontrolled" source like flickr, it is a whole other game (although you also gain other valuable aspects like views from inside the building, etc).
I hope this isn't a new trend of 7337 |-|@(|0%$ to try to brag of their mad skill by seeing what code can fit in a Tweet.
Oh it is.
I knew it. Many others have been discussing the potentials for this type of eavesdropping for many years. Ha! and they laughed at me when I started protecting my stuff...
I finished my first degree back in 2001. The economy was in the shitter. I managed to get a job and rode the problems until I decided to go back to school. The economy went back to the good times while at school. Now I'm graduating again and the economy is in an even deeper shitter.
Let me guess, I should stay in school?
DRM has gotta be at the top of that list of reasons..
Designers? Developers? What are these? I thought websites were made out of magical pixie dust! There couldn't possible be people who really care about factors that affect their day to day job (such as browsers) .. they must all be "Internet addicts"!
Over 100 comments and we still don't have a concise list of substantial features Windows 7 offers over Vista? As someone else pointed out, a name and theme change does not really qualify as substantial change. Ok, so WinFS was never promised for this version. What exactly are they offering this time besides a fix to the taskbar? I have yet to see an article that outlines changes outside the UI. Is this an elaborate prank?
How does MySQL simplify this?
1. Install from the package.
2. Setup users and DBs.
Since when is CS _just_ about computers? Misinformation is to blame then?
Computer Sci. Looking around my liberal classes and business courses, the trend seems to be more or less the same. This is very different from what I saw ~8 years ago.
I recently went back to school after some years of working in the industry. To say that people don't care if the computer does not have Windows on it is a conjuncture that might have had some validity in 2001. Now a days people are not afraid to leave Windows. I look around at most of my classes and 8/10 kids with laptops are actually using Apple! These are the same kids who in a couple of years will be graduating and going into the industry. I predict a major shift away from Windows. It has already started. Microsoft is slowly becoming less relevant.
By "fixing" I meant, you uninstall the flashplugin supported by Ubuntu, add an unsupported depo and install Flash 10 or apt-get for libflashsupport. One of these options usually fixes the problem, I didn't mean that you could patch Adobe's binary but then again, I'm thinking you already knew what I meant..
I'm not sure what system you are using but in Ubuntu, the flash plugin is not included out of the box. Firefox will prompt you the first time you try to play a flash movie. Additionally, there is another fix (installing libflashsupport) that does not require to wait for Adobe. There are fixes, there are work-arounds, however, it seems Ubuntu prefers to leave it broken. I'm sure there is a political/legal reason involved somewhere. My original point is that I wish part of that money was spent in addressing whatever that root cause is.
hmm.. the way they usually fix other things, "automatically" through the distro's updater manager? (ie. having to add an unsupported repo and/or jump on the command line shouldn't be the main way to fix this)
s/They are shipping software core dumps/Software that core dumps/.
[quote]How is that Ubuntu's fault?[/quote]
How is it not? They are shipping software core dumps.
Regardless, the point that we don't have access to the source is moot because, as I said in my original post, a fix already exists. Again, it's relatively trivial to fix the issue for you and I as well as most /.ers, however, as soon as you tell a regular user to go and add an unsupported depo or jump on the command line to install the fix, you have already lost half of those users.
It is Ubuntu's fault.
It might not be Ubuntu's fault that Flash crashes but it definitely is Ubuntu's fault that it is being released with very common software that crashes, similarly, it is Ubuntu's fault that it isn't trivial for some people to fix the issue.
X? OpenGL? really? Will some of the simpler more annoying stuff that is broken right now be addressed as well? How about we start with some simple stuff like getting Flash with audio not crash Firefox 98% of the time. I don't care that you can fix that by installing Flash 10 beta, or some extra library, the fact is that it does not work out of the box. Not only that, the fix (as explained by the hundreds of other users who had the problem) involves jumping to the command line and apt-get'ing a new version of flash after installing a new unsupported apt source. For me, it's fine, I can deal with it but the general public will not want to jump through those hoops. It is very hard to spread Linux adoption when this is one of the very first things users experience. They will not care that the problem might be on Adobe's end or Mozilla's or some obscure repo. The fact is, the browser shipped with the OS crashes. This makes it all look unpolished, unfinished. A house with squeaky floors. I hope that money is also being used to eliminate these basic problems at whatever the root cause may be. .. and yes bugs have been filed!
OpenType.
Hey Microsoft, "Open", you keep using that word but I don't think it means what you think it means.
Thank you.
Works for VLC as well.