Oh, you're one of those, who equate quantity with quality.
Serving a portion size unable to sate a common appetite misses the point of food and eating. Plating skill and preparation are distinguishing features on top of eating, unless one is attending an explicit 'tasting'. Or else it's an underhanded way to upsell dessert.
$10/oz meals that aren't using very expensive ingredients are for the Stockholm diners.
This rarely occurs outside of fine dinning, though. Even then, presentation is not normally at the super artistic level of "I need to photograph this!"
Easy fix - take the zucchini wedge, poke four holes in it with the fork tines. Place a broccoli flower in two holes for eyes, use the ends of parsley for antennae. Place the 'slug' on your entree and photograph with your almost-useless-in-low-light-cmos cameraphone. Uploading to social networking sites with geocoding entirely optional.
Since 1980, the Western world has been destroying markets and free trade by eliminating regulations and fairness
To be precise, the total number of regulations have grown, but this favors large, entrenched interests and disabled competition. That furthers your broader point.
Almost all technology development occurs in small increments that is adequately rewarded by first mover advantage.
To play devil's advocate - in a world without patents, a good business would be a reverse-engineering, manufacturing and sales house. You'd watch the market for interesting new technologies, offered by new small companies, and then go buy one, figure out how it works, improve the manufacturing and get them on the WalMart shelves by Christmas.
Patents are one way to prevent that problem, but bring along alot of collateral damage. Perhaps there are better ideas?
Please someone tell me, why shouldn't these soulless suits be lined up and shot, and the event televised for the education of other similar corporate psychopaths?
The point of a corporation is to protect humans from any wrongdoing they may do. They weren't allowed in the US until about 1870 except for limited times and public benefit projects. Ironically, it was J.D. Rockefeller who bribed Congress to start allowing permanent corporations - for Standard Oil.
Isn't this essentially what Google's image search does? The difference is that if you want the full-sized version, Google sends you to the original web site.
You and I may happen to think Google is doing the right thing, but the elephant in the room is that Google violates copyright all over the place. And that's why it's useful.
This company appears to be doing the same legal violations and being dicks about it. For better or worse, that part is perfectly legal.
Well, the trick is the people by the highways have cable and broadband and nearly everybody else has satellite, so the OTA demand is low Frankly nobody seems to care that there's no local TV news, they have newspapers, and Cable TV has closest-metro-area TV stations, which makes people happy enough.
I looked at running an low-power FM station, and I could swing the equipment costs with some friends, but the FCC fees and regulations made it untenable. There's no spectrum crowding here, but it's one-size-fits-all and incumbent protection.
I've engineered my own home wireless as well, which is fine for me, if a PITA to keep maintained, but lots of folks in town do not do well by the town-granted cable monopoly.
The uproar is because SELinux is a complete pain and tons of work to set up correctly and completely.
Right, but I think this is largely the case because Unix DAC and SELinux MAC are mixed in an unholy matrimony. This causes things to get complicated, and frankly not many people care, so there's not enough work done to do SELinux right. An experimental distro that ripped out Linux DAC would be an interesting project.
The SELinux policy for Fedora is ~10mb compiled
For what, 14,000 packages?
OS that grant permissions for specific objects based on user input, not to processes. If the user selected mydiary.txt from the trusted input dialog then the browser can read it. Otherwise it can't, or it has to ask permission to do so (OS puts up a dialog).
Yes, a trusted object-based architecture is almost certainly part of the solution. Re-usable software components also allow particular code paths to be very well debugged and defended. I think we'll get back to an OpenDoc-type design eventually.
But, then Unix has no built-in functionality for this kind of thing. You'd need a system with the notion of objects, policies, and access vectors to do this right.
That Microsoft is using basically the same thing to secure a corporate accounting system that holds genuinely sensitive data is both terrifying and laughable.
I chalk it up to a guy from WikiLeaks having succesfully penetrated Microsoft's notoriously tortuous security department.
How much? No, seriously, after overhead, how much does MPEG-LA rake in? If everybody in the world were able to chip in a dollar, would that cover all of the patents for the next 10 years?
Try it in Chrom*. The only bugs I found were an occasional non-detection of sprite collision and control hysteresis that was less-forgiving than the proper gameplay.
I hope everyone who chanted "drill baby drill!" during the last election cycle is willing to go down to the gulf coast and help with the cleanup. What a mess!
Isn't the blame more squarely on the shoulders of those who insisted that oil drilling only happen far off-shore, so that they wouldn't have to have the view from their Hummer bays spoiled?
How many folks in the US *really* get the kinds of speeds needed, plus real unlimited capacity, to make this fly? Where's this ultimate connection outside of a few lucrative fiber roll out areas? Sure, *some* do today, but there are vast areas with millions and millions of people where OTA TV signals will still rule.
I live in an area with no local TV and very little broadband penetration. I think the two generally go together. My Census-Area is a quarter million people, but the FCC has sliced up the market so it can't be profitable because there's an imaginary State line going through the region (which has little impact on the economic region, save to bring the businesses to the lower-taxed jurisdiction).
It may be that a secure and convenient system is possible, but it's too expensive for anybody to sit down and write.
Rather, we're slowly and incrementally making improvements. There's quite a bit of momentum to overcome (witness the uproar when somebody suggests replacing Unix DAC with SELinux MAC) in any installed base, but that's where the change needs to come from, since it's too expensive to do otherwise.
If time and money were no object, everything would be different. More efficient allocation of the available time and money is happening as a result of Internet collaboration.
So, 'we're getting there' seems to be as good an answer as any.
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We trusted them with oil rig safety. What could possibly do wrong?
And we should dismantle the Navy because the military recently flew an live, armed nuclear bomb from Georgia to Tennessee, right?
And the veggies ain't done unless you've added the salt pork, old world style.
This is how I learned to love turnip greens. I've convinced myself that I'm better off eating them this way than not at all.
Are they using polaroid cameras?
Oh, so maybe the real problem is these guys are putting out the candles at neighboring tables.
Oh, you're one of those, who equate quantity with quality.
Serving a portion size unable to sate a common appetite misses the point of food and eating. Plating skill and preparation are distinguishing features on top of eating, unless one is attending an explicit 'tasting'. Or else it's an underhanded way to upsell dessert.
$10/oz meals that aren't using very expensive ingredients are for the Stockholm diners.
This rarely occurs outside of fine dinning, though. Even then, presentation is not normally at the super artistic level of "I need to photograph this!"
Easy fix - take the zucchini wedge, poke four holes in it with the fork tines. Place a broccoli flower in two holes for eyes, use the ends of parsley for antennae. Place the 'slug' on your entree and photograph with your almost-useless-in-low-light-cmos cameraphone. Uploading to social networking sites with geocoding entirely optional.
Since 1980, the Western world has been destroying markets and free trade by eliminating regulations and fairness
To be precise, the total number of regulations have grown, but this favors large, entrenched interests and disabled competition. That furthers your broader point.
I bet the "socialist" countries in northern Europe that tax at 80% are probably a lot more "communist" than China.
I read yesterday that China doesn't have food welfare, which contradicts everything I've been lead to assume.
Almost all technology development occurs in small increments that is adequately rewarded by first mover advantage.
To play devil's advocate - in a world without patents, a good business would be a reverse-engineering, manufacturing and sales house. You'd watch the market for interesting new technologies, offered by new small companies, and then go buy one, figure out how it works, improve the manufacturing and get them on the WalMart shelves by Christmas.
Patents are one way to prevent that problem, but bring along alot of collateral damage. Perhaps there are better ideas?
Please someone tell me, why shouldn't these soulless suits be lined up and shot, and the event televised for the education of other similar corporate psychopaths?
The point of a corporation is to protect humans from any wrongdoing they may do. They weren't allowed in the US until about 1870 except for limited times and public benefit projects. Ironically, it was J.D. Rockefeller who bribed Congress to start allowing permanent corporations - for Standard Oil.
It doesn't emulate a platform API. It implements a platform API.
it's stateless?
Isn't this essentially what Google's image search does? The difference is that if you want the full-sized version, Google sends you to the original web site.
You and I may happen to think Google is doing the right thing, but the elephant in the room is that Google violates copyright all over the place. And that's why it's useful.
This company appears to be doing the same legal violations and being dicks about it. For better or worse, that part is perfectly legal.
Most developers work on custom solutions and programs (providing services), and aren't really benefiting at all from copyright protection.
Many of us use open source software, which thrives on copyright.
Do you let users read and write data across their sandbox boundaries? If so, how do you control that?
Well, the trick is the people by the highways have cable and broadband and nearly everybody else has satellite, so the OTA demand is low Frankly nobody seems to care that there's no local TV news, they have newspapers, and Cable TV has closest-metro-area TV stations, which makes people happy enough.
I looked at running an low-power FM station, and I could swing the equipment costs with some friends, but the FCC fees and regulations made it untenable. There's no spectrum crowding here, but it's one-size-fits-all and incumbent protection.
I've engineered my own home wireless as well, which is fine for me, if a PITA to keep maintained, but lots of folks in town do not do well by the town-granted cable monopoly.
I don't seem to have these problems on my Fedora systems. My parents don't seem to have these problems on their Macintosh.
Windows would be a poor example of making any progress.
Wow. Prior art? I'll bet they tried to patent it.
That's silly. They just tossed the prior inventor to the lions.
The uproar is because SELinux is a complete pain and tons of work to set up correctly and completely.
Right, but I think this is largely the case because Unix DAC and SELinux MAC are mixed in an unholy matrimony. This causes things to get complicated, and frankly not many people care, so there's not enough work done to do SELinux right. An experimental distro that ripped out Linux DAC would be an interesting project.
The SELinux policy for Fedora is ~10mb compiled
For what, 14,000 packages?
OS that grant permissions for specific objects based on user input, not to processes. If the user selected mydiary.txt from the trusted input dialog then the browser can read it. Otherwise it can't, or it has to ask permission to do so (OS puts up a dialog).
Yes, a trusted object-based architecture is almost certainly part of the solution. Re-usable software components also allow particular code paths to be very well debugged and defended. I think we'll get back to an OpenDoc-type design eventually.
But, then Unix has no built-in functionality for this kind of thing. You'd need a system with the notion of objects, policies, and access vectors to do this right.
That Microsoft is using basically the same thing to secure a corporate accounting system that holds genuinely sensitive data is both terrifying and laughable.
I chalk it up to a guy from WikiLeaks having succesfully penetrated Microsoft's notoriously tortuous security department.
That'd allow them to rake in the money.
How much? No, seriously, after overhead, how much does MPEG-LA rake in? If everybody in the world were able to chip in a dollar, would that cover all of the patents for the next 10 years?
Try it in Chrom*. The only bugs I found were an occasional non-detection of sprite collision and control hysteresis that was less-forgiving than the proper gameplay.
I hope everyone who chanted "drill baby drill!" during the last election cycle is willing to go down to the gulf coast and help with the cleanup. What a mess!
Isn't the blame more squarely on the shoulders of those who insisted that oil drilling only happen far off-shore, so that they wouldn't have to have the view from their Hummer bays spoiled?
Thanks for this. It saved me from having to leave a "see subject" comment titled "Coal".
How many folks in the US *really* get the kinds of speeds needed, plus real unlimited capacity, to make this fly? Where's this ultimate connection outside of a few lucrative fiber roll out areas? Sure, *some* do today, but there are vast areas with millions and millions of people where OTA TV signals will still rule.
I live in an area with no local TV and very little broadband penetration. I think the two generally go together. My Census-Area is a quarter million people, but the FCC has sliced up the market so it can't be profitable because there's an imaginary State line going through the region (which has little impact on the economic region, save to bring the businesses to the lower-taxed jurisdiction).
It may be that a secure and convenient system is possible, but it's too expensive for anybody to sit down and write.
Rather, we're slowly and incrementally making improvements. There's quite a bit of momentum to overcome (witness the uproar when somebody suggests replacing Unix DAC with SELinux MAC) in any installed base, but that's where the change needs to come from, since it's too expensive to do otherwise.
If time and money were no object, everything would be different. More efficient allocation of the available time and money is happening as a result of Internet collaboration.
So, 'we're getting there' seems to be as good an answer as any.
Agreed - this is Texas, of course, which bans the sale of dildos state-wide
Oh, so it's a misogynistic theocracy then, too. I suppose that's a redundancy in the AD era, though.
I wonder what they'll ban when women come to be in the legislative majority. NASCAR, probably.