Or to put it another way: if you really don't like bloat, when are you going to trade in your car and start driving to work in a hot wheels?
I think a more accurate comparison might be to ask why you need a Hummer to take your two kids to school when you can do it equally well in a Ford Focus which is half the size and probably 10 times as fuel efficient?
The reality is that people don't optimize software because they generally don't have to outside of embedded programming. Even software for iOS and Android can be horrendously bloated in terms of the resources it uses. Interestingly, it's console hardware limitations that have been leading to better optimized games of late, because the devs are having to work extremely hard to keep the console versions looking even close to the PC; see Crysis 2, pre-DX11-will-melt-your-PC patch of course.
Well Reader X is sandboxed these days, but most malware exploits Flash and Java anyway because everyone has them installed, nobody bothers to update them, they're automatically loaded by almost every browser and, in the case of Flash, are astonishingly poorly written from a security perspective.
Of course, given that there are hundreds of thousands of machines on the internet that are still passing around things like Code Red and Blaster, it's not a problem that's going to be solved any time soon.
Repeat after me: "Evolution does not work that way".
Evolution isn't something that magically allows plants and animals to adapt to a specific set of circumstances, that is an entirely random process. This mutation probably happened decades or centuries ago (or possibly even *due* to the PCBs, which would be ironic but difficult to prove) and has now, as you've said, been brought to prominence because all the fish without it have died off due to the high levels of PCBs in the water.
The fish *have* evolved immunity to the toxic sludge, but it's not a causative statement and hopefully wasn't intended as such.
The Campaign is terrible because it's just a poor MW rip off, but the Multiplayer is great.
Origin is god-awful though and its "integration" with Battlefield 3 is laughable; it's like EA took one look at Steam and said "We're not going to do any of the cool stuff that they have, on principle".
Those that aren't in the "We took 30 cancer patients and asked them if they used cell phones" category have generally not been statistically significant.
Generally, phones causing cancer is much more "interesting" than phones not causing cancer, so the studies that show even the slightest hint that they might garner far more attention from the media than they probably should, whereas those that don't have to be much more significant (like this one) before they get decent coverage.
However they do have exceptions for data that is commercially sensitive, though it's a very narrow definition and not something you can easily use as a blanket "get out" clause. If in doubt, file a complaint with your Information Commissioner's office (or local equivalent) as they will quite quickly be able to rule on whether or not Facebook or justifiably invoking the Trade Secret option.
And as someone with an Apps account I *still* can't use the fucking thing. Frankly by the time Google bother to provide support for it, the service will be dead.
It takes a monumental denial of reality to say something that stupid; anyone with even partial brain function is fully aware that if the underlying technologies of the web had been patented by Sir Tim (or similar) and licensed then we wouldn't be posting on Slashdot right now because nobody outside of large multinationals would even be *using* the web for anything.
Because you can? Because nobody else has done it? Because it's cool? Because it's a challenge?
It depresses me that everyone always responds to these articles with "Why?" and "What's the point?" and "What a waste of time". The whole of human achievement is pretty much the story of people doing things just to see if they can, or because it's interesting to them, or because it's never been done before.
PCI slots cap at 533 MB/s (and a lot are 133 or 266), which is less than a tenth of most PCIe x16 slots, so I can't imagine that you're going to be making the most of the hardware somehow.
They can refuse to provide the information under a couple of circumstances, but none of them are "we don't want to" or "it's hard" (mostly "We've already published this or are about to" or "This would require disclosure of company/government secrets"). They can also charge you a nominal fee if it would take an excessive amount of time and/or effort to fulfil your request.
Mostly because they caught the intrusion (which was at a 3rd party rather than directly part of Comodo) and reported it immediately as well as putting in place measures to try and prevent it from happening again.
DigiNotar didn't notice that they'd been hacked for months and didn't tell anyone for months more and even then they didn't know how badly they'd been hacked or exactly which certs may have been issued to whom.
Figuring out the safety of medical procedures is one thing, and it should be done privately too, by private competing certification agencies. Figuring out the efficacy should be left to the market because the market will do so much quicker and at a very low expense, when compared to the clinical trials that may last for decades and waste hundreds of millions of dollars to run them.
I believe the phrase is "what could possibly go wrong". You're welcome to your "tested by the lowest bidder" drugs, personally I prefer those that have been properly trialled and peer-reviewed; at least then there's a small chance of stopping the drug companies from ignoring patient safety wholesale.
The problem with Convergence is, how does the average user know which notaries to trust? They have no way of establishing who is trustworthy and who isn't, which means that in all likelihood they'll end up with a "default" set of notaries. At that point, you're only marginally better off than you are right now with the CAs, in that several notaries would have to be compromised in order to "fool" everyone instead of just the one.
When people come to you claiming to have a suite of qualifications, it helps if they can answer even basic questions that they would have had to answer in order to obtain those qualifications. It indicates that they actually know the subject as opposed to having TestKing'd their way to the certification.
That said, I'd much rather a candidate said "I don't know, I'd have to Google it" than try and bullshit an answer.
My favourite was ~3 years ago when all the jobs I was applying for were demanding 3+ years experience with Windows Server 2008...
Being an IT graduate sucks unless you either have connections or, like me, got lucky and found a decent contract agency who were willing to put some effort into finding me a suitable job; after a year of on and off short-term contracts arranged by idiots, where I learned nothing, this agency managed to find me a Helpdesk role that quickly migrated to a Server Admin role that put me in a position to get paid a decent amount in my subsequent contracts.
I'm pretty sure that were it not for getting lucky with that, I'd still be mooching from Helpdesk to Helpdesk on £14k, 7 years after graduating.
There are plenty of *other* good universities in the UK, depending on your field; Southampton is good for Engineering, LSE for Law, Edinburgh for Medicine, UCL for English, etc.
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Judge Adams issued a statement asserting that his daughter released the tape to retaliate against him for withdrawing his financial support.
I'm not quite sure that makes what he did OK...
As long as this drivel isn't included in my search results by default, I don't really mind it at all.
Or to put it another way: if you really don't like bloat, when are you going to trade in your car and start driving to work in a hot wheels?
I think a more accurate comparison might be to ask why you need a Hummer to take your two kids to school when you can do it equally well in a Ford Focus which is half the size and probably 10 times as fuel efficient?
The reality is that people don't optimize software because they generally don't have to outside of embedded programming. Even software for iOS and Android can be horrendously bloated in terms of the resources it uses. Interestingly, it's console hardware limitations that have been leading to better optimized games of late, because the devs are having to work extremely hard to keep the console versions looking even close to the PC; see Crysis 2, pre-DX11-will-melt-your-PC patch of course.
Well Reader X is sandboxed these days, but most malware exploits Flash and Java anyway because everyone has them installed, nobody bothers to update them, they're automatically loaded by almost every browser and, in the case of Flash, are astonishingly poorly written from a security perspective.
Of course, given that there are hundreds of thousands of machines on the internet that are still passing around things like Code Red and Blaster, it's not a problem that's going to be solved any time soon.
Repeat after me: "Evolution does not work that way".
Evolution isn't something that magically allows plants and animals to adapt to a specific set of circumstances, that is an entirely random process. This mutation probably happened decades or centuries ago (or possibly even *due* to the PCBs, which would be ironic but difficult to prove) and has now, as you've said, been brought to prominence because all the fish without it have died off due to the high levels of PCBs in the water.
The fish *have* evolved immunity to the toxic sludge, but it's not a causative statement and hopefully wasn't intended as such.
Nobody is forced to pirate anything, if you don't like Origin, don't buy EA games.
The Campaign is terrible because it's just a poor MW rip off, but the Multiplayer is great.
Origin is god-awful though and its "integration" with Battlefield 3 is laughable; it's like EA took one look at Steam and said "We're not going to do any of the cool stuff that they have, on principle".
The workaround has been in place for months now, they had it up and running about 2 weeks after the original verdict came down.
No, if the crime is committed while they're walking across your driveway, then you have to pay the cost of sending the cops out to deal with it.
Those that aren't in the "We took 30 cancer patients and asked them if they used cell phones" category have generally not been statistically significant.
There's a good article about it here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100090300/do-mobile-phones-really-cause-cancer-probably-not-again/ from a little earlier this year.
Generally, phones causing cancer is much more "interesting" than phones not causing cancer, so the studies that show even the slightest hint that they might garner far more attention from the media than they probably should, whereas those that don't have to be much more significant (like this one) before they get decent coverage.
However they do have exceptions for data that is commercially sensitive, though it's a very narrow definition and not something you can easily use as a blanket "get out" clause. If in doubt, file a complaint with your Information Commissioner's office (or local equivalent) as they will quite quickly be able to rule on whether or not Facebook or justifiably invoking the Trade Secret option.
And as someone with an Apps account I *still* can't use the fucking thing. Frankly by the time Google bother to provide support for it, the service will be dead.
It takes a monumental denial of reality to say something that stupid; anyone with even partial brain function is fully aware that if the underlying technologies of the web had been patented by Sir Tim (or similar) and licensed then we wouldn't be posting on Slashdot right now because nobody outside of large multinationals would even be *using* the web for anything.
Because you can? Because nobody else has done it? Because it's cool? Because it's a challenge?
It depresses me that everyone always responds to these articles with "Why?" and "What's the point?" and "What a waste of time". The whole of human achievement is pretty much the story of people doing things just to see if they can, or because it's interesting to them, or because it's never been done before.
PCI slots cap at 533 MB/s (and a lot are 133 or 266), which is less than a tenth of most PCIe x16 slots, so I can't imagine that you're going to be making the most of the hardware somehow.
They can refuse to provide the information under a couple of circumstances, but none of them are "we don't want to" or "it's hard" (mostly "We've already published this or are about to" or "This would require disclosure of company/government secrets"). They can also charge you a nominal fee if it would take an excessive amount of time and/or effort to fulfil your request.
You mean it doesn't? Seamonkey's done that since day one, so I naturally assumed Firefox would too as they run from the same codebase.
Mostly because they caught the intrusion (which was at a 3rd party rather than directly part of Comodo) and reported it immediately as well as putting in place measures to try and prevent it from happening again.
DigiNotar didn't notice that they'd been hacked for months and didn't tell anyone for months more and even then they didn't know how badly they'd been hacked or exactly which certs may have been issued to whom.
Figuring out the safety of medical procedures is one thing, and it should be done privately too, by private competing certification agencies. Figuring out the efficacy should be left to the market because the market will do so much quicker and at a very low expense, when compared to the clinical trials that may last for decades and waste hundreds of millions of dollars to run them.
I believe the phrase is "what could possibly go wrong". You're welcome to your "tested by the lowest bidder" drugs, personally I prefer those that have been properly trialled and peer-reviewed; at least then there's a small chance of stopping the drug companies from ignoring patient safety wholesale.
The problem with Convergence is, how does the average user know which notaries to trust? They have no way of establishing who is trustworthy and who isn't, which means that in all likelihood they'll end up with a "default" set of notaries. At that point, you're only marginally better off than you are right now with the CAs, in that several notaries would have to be compromised in order to "fool" everyone instead of just the one.
Well someone has a high opinion of themselves.
No, but a lot of CS graduates aren't programmers, or rather don't want to do programming and so look to get jobs in other areas of IT.
FWIW, I'm an Elec Eng graduate, not a CS graduate
When people come to you claiming to have a suite of qualifications, it helps if they can answer even basic questions that they would have had to answer in order to obtain those qualifications. It indicates that they actually know the subject as opposed to having TestKing'd their way to the certification.
That said, I'd much rather a candidate said "I don't know, I'd have to Google it" than try and bullshit an answer.
My favourite was ~3 years ago when all the jobs I was applying for were demanding 3+ years experience with Windows Server 2008...
Being an IT graduate sucks unless you either have connections or, like me, got lucky and found a decent contract agency who were willing to put some effort into finding me a suitable job; after a year of on and off short-term contracts arranged by idiots, where I learned nothing, this agency managed to find me a Helpdesk role that quickly migrated to a Server Admin role that put me in a position to get paid a decent amount in my subsequent contracts.
I'm pretty sure that were it not for getting lucky with that, I'd still be mooching from Helpdesk to Helpdesk on £14k, 7 years after graduating.
There are plenty of *other* good universities in the UK, depending on your field; Southampton is good for Engineering, LSE for Law, Edinburgh for Medicine, UCL for English, etc.