Web applications chug like a sloth on qualudes compared to local applications. They consume more CPU, they take forever to load/store data, and their interfaces are clunky as hell (Google Office apps included.)
Personally I think it's the web developers that keep asking this question every year, hoping to get praise for their shitty efforts over the past year to catch up to 1990's desktop applications.
It's time to hold the players big and small accountable for their oppressive actions. They should be providing a data pipe, period. No "priority" internally hosted services, no "doesn't count towards your cap" services, no throttling of competing services.
Perhaps more importantly, classifying broadband as telecommunications opens up the possibility of monopoly breakups in some of the markets where there is a serious lack of competition.
The "Five Eyes" is just one big circle-jerk. Canadians, GCHQ, etc. spy on Americans and share the intel with the NSA. The NSA spies on Canadians and shares the intel with CSIS. CSIS spies on the brits and shares the info with GCHQ.
Don't fool yourself -- everyone gets spied on in the end. No exceptions.
If you're using a form-based application that pops up a new form for each segment of data entry vs. a tab-based interface that switches panels for each segment of data entry, are you "changing screens"?
The reason I ask is that I've noticed in increase in the number of form-based applications with the advent of the smart phone interface. People don't want to have to tap a tab/button at the top or side of the screen to move to the next segment as had been convenient to do with a mouse. So the "screens" have gotten less complex and increased in number to perform the same task.
Even if you use existing crypto algorithms, such as with Java, verifying that a crypto key has not been tampered with is non-trivial. I've been working on such code over the past few months, and what I found is that you need to deliver a set of approved root certificates with your application so that you can verify the certificate chain. That makes delivering an application an on-going maintenance headache compared to just using the crypto and hoping you don't get hit by a man-in-the-middle attack.
Given how rarely firmware is updated for devices, I can't imagine how you could possibly keep the certificate chain information up to date for such devices, unless you were able to presume that all keys for the devices were always signed by the same CA so you could embed it's chain in your firmware.
Seeing as actual measurements show a steadily increasing temperature, I'd say it's only a question of accuracy of the predictions as to how fast temperatures are rising, not the fact that temperatures are rising.
But the deniers like to play word games and nitpick over whether the models are 100% accurate, implying that they're completely useless just because they aren't perfect. Now THAT is "cognitive dissonance."
They have not shown them to be wrong. They have shown them to be inaccurate. Nobody can predict a system as complex as weather and temperature with 100% accuracy.
No, I'm saying that someone delusional about one thing is likely to be delusional about another. And ALL religion is self-delusion that moldy old texts have ANY relevance to modern life.
Sorry, but when someone is ranting about how Arabic peoples or Islam followers are all terrorists and should be kicked out of the country, there is no other viable label but "bigot." There is NO EXCUSE for such attitudes, and there is NO WAY I'm going to tolerate it from someone I'm willing to call "friend".
The same goes for those who are against the First Nations people, immigrants, or any other sector of society that they're choosing to judge based on their culture, religion, or race.
I purposely have crackbook block the right wing lunatic websites/pages, the bigoted anti-muslim sites/pages, and a host of others.
I see no reason why I should have crap like that shoved in front of my face when I'd never seek it out on my own. And the people who *post* that racist crap get themselves removed from the "friend" list and blocked. I'll have no truck with bigots.
Exactly. I'm tired of articles (including this one) which try to portray Uber's operations as legal and above board, when they've built their entire business on skirting the regulations around liability insurance, driver testing, and a host of other legal requirements that are supposed to ensure the safety of the passengers.
I'd be quite happy to see Uber booted the hell out of every market on the planet if they're not willing to follow the laws for taxis in the regions they serve. Claiming "I'm not a taxi company" while providing exactly the same services as one is disingenuous at best, and outright fraud at worst.
Pre-Haswell Core i7 dual core laptop chips run roughly 4 times as fast as a 3.8GHz P4 single core -- per thread. And that is without overclocking. Haswell cores are even faster, and the desktop chips run at much higher clock rates than the laptop chips, so I've no doubt you could see 5-6 times the performance on a current generation CPU.
Yeah, you're #1 for waste, but how do you do on housing prices? A detached average home in Toronto or Vancouver now runs more than $1,000,000 CDN (which is somewhere around $820,000 USD.)
Have you ever bothered to read the notes on Windows 7 updates? You'd be disgusted to realize how many of them "may require a system restart". Over half. WAY over half.
Same here, and that's on an *ancient* NVidia card (fanless 8600 IIRC) and a P4 3.8GHz with only 800 MHz memory.
Raw Debian had some issues with tearing prior to their latest driver updates from NVidia, but I've no doubt those issues have been addressed with their latest stable release (which has newer drivers.) Most of the tearing was with Flash playback, though -- VLC did a pretty good job with upscaled 720p videos.
Things may have improved, but you still have to reboot for far too many Windows updates for a daily update cycle to be anything other than frustrating as hell for most people. Microsoft used to be hated for that before "Patch Tuesday" was started. I guess they never learned their lesson, and are going to drag the public kicking and screaming back into the daily boot cycle.
What a shame they couldn't have learned their lesson and either started issuing patches that don't require reboots for the most trivial of changes, or stick with "Patch Tuesday" to minimize the pain for the user.
I was lucky enough to learn how to program in Neuron Data's toolkits before the 1.0 release of the GUI components were released to the public. I rode that gravy train for about 15 years before the market imploded, with a peak of $120/hr. in the mid-late '90s.
But I didn't choose that route -- I got lucky that something I knew well turned out to have relatively high demand (at least compared to the number of people who really knew that tool well.) I could just have easily been unlucky enough to learn one of the other two GUI toolkits that Northern Telecom was evaluating at the time.
On the database front, I missed out -- I was tasked with evaluating the first release of Ingres, and have never seen that product again in my entire career. Fortunately I was able to wrangle some Oracle work and training with my Ingres SQL experience, and from there sidestepped to Sybase ASE, DB/2 LUW, and SQL Server. But I had to work at becoming an SQL expert (cross-platform); with the GUI tools, I just got lucky.
On the major downside, most of my GUI experience is now useless because the only place you'll find Neuron Data left in are old legacy/maintenance-mode applications. There is no new work being done with Open Interface Toolkit.
Those who try to classify mere coding as "programming" are the same ones who think you can teach "anybody" to "program." The problem is they have too low-balled a viewpoint on what the art of programming is. Calling a coder a programmer is like calling an apartment painter an artist; the jobs are only vaguely related. Slapping paint on a wall is no more "art" or "talent" than coding is compared to programming.
I'm not talking about understanding the business; I'm talking about translating the chatter of those who do understand the business into algorithms, models, and architecture. I'm talking about having the knowledge to choose from the various platforms and frameworks available.
You can't just walk someone through a course and have them learn that. They have to have the passion to learn about those things on their own, and they have to have the talent to understand those issues and concepts.
You can teach someone to spew the buzzwords; that doesn't mean they know jack shit.
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Web applications chug like a sloth on qualudes compared to local applications. They consume more CPU, they take forever to load/store data, and their interfaces are clunky as hell (Google Office apps included.)
Personally I think it's the web developers that keep asking this question every year, hoping to get praise for their shitty efforts over the past year to catch up to 1990's desktop applications.
It's time to hold the players big and small accountable for their oppressive actions. They should be providing a data pipe, period. No "priority" internally hosted services, no "doesn't count towards your cap" services, no throttling of competing services.
Perhaps more importantly, classifying broadband as telecommunications opens up the possibility of monopoly breakups in some of the markets where there is a serious lack of competition.
Yeah, the NSA just calls the FBI and says "We have a file we think you'd be interested in..."
The millenials are so used to instant gratification that they are completely unreasonable users.
The "Five Eyes" is just one big circle-jerk. Canadians, GCHQ, etc. spy on Americans and share the intel with the NSA. The NSA spies on Canadians and shares the intel with CSIS. CSIS spies on the brits and shares the info with GCHQ.
Don't fool yourself -- everyone gets spied on in the end. No exceptions.
If you're using a form-based application that pops up a new form for each segment of data entry vs. a tab-based interface that switches panels for each segment of data entry, are you "changing screens"?
The reason I ask is that I've noticed in increase in the number of form-based applications with the advent of the smart phone interface. People don't want to have to tap a tab/button at the top or side of the screen to move to the next segment as had been convenient to do with a mouse. So the "screens" have gotten less complex and increased in number to perform the same task.
Even if you use existing crypto algorithms, such as with Java, verifying that a crypto key has not been tampered with is non-trivial. I've been working on such code over the past few months, and what I found is that you need to deliver a set of approved root certificates with your application so that you can verify the certificate chain. That makes delivering an application an on-going maintenance headache compared to just using the crypto and hoping you don't get hit by a man-in-the-middle attack.
Given how rarely firmware is updated for devices, I can't imagine how you could possibly keep the certificate chain information up to date for such devices, unless you were able to presume that all keys for the devices were always signed by the same CA so you could embed it's chain in your firmware.
Seeing as actual measurements show a steadily increasing temperature, I'd say it's only a question of accuracy of the predictions as to how fast temperatures are rising, not the fact that temperatures are rising.
But the deniers like to play word games and nitpick over whether the models are 100% accurate, implying that they're completely useless just because they aren't perfect. Now THAT is "cognitive dissonance."
They have not shown them to be wrong. They have shown them to be inaccurate. Nobody can predict a system as complex as weather and temperature with 100% accuracy.
No, I'm saying that someone delusional about one thing is likely to be delusional about another. And ALL religion is self-delusion that moldy old texts have ANY relevance to modern life.
Deniers will apparently just claim that "95%" of science is bogus if it disagrees with their pre-determined world view, causing cognitive dissonance.
How much you want to bet this lunatic is also a rabid fundamentalist following some ancient texts?
Why would I, as a Canadian, want to read the poisonous bile that right wing American "interest groups" spew on the 'net?
Sorry, but when someone is ranting about how Arabic peoples or Islam followers are all terrorists and should be kicked out of the country, there is no other viable label but "bigot." There is NO EXCUSE for such attitudes, and there is NO WAY I'm going to tolerate it from someone I'm willing to call "friend".
The same goes for those who are against the First Nations people, immigrants, or any other sector of society that they're choosing to judge based on their culture, religion, or race.
I purposely have crackbook block the right wing lunatic websites/pages, the bigoted anti-muslim sites/pages, and a host of others.
I see no reason why I should have crap like that shoved in front of my face when I'd never seek it out on my own. And the people who *post* that racist crap get themselves removed from the "friend" list and blocked. I'll have no truck with bigots.
Personally I'd like to see the environmental nightmare of the Keurig and Tassimo curl up and die.
Arsehole Puckering Up! :P :P :P
Exactly. I'm tired of articles (including this one) which try to portray Uber's operations as legal and above board, when they've built their entire business on skirting the regulations around liability insurance, driver testing, and a host of other legal requirements that are supposed to ensure the safety of the passengers.
I'd be quite happy to see Uber booted the hell out of every market on the planet if they're not willing to follow the laws for taxis in the regions they serve. Claiming "I'm not a taxi company" while providing exactly the same services as one is disingenuous at best, and outright fraud at worst.
Pre-Haswell Core i7 dual core laptop chips run roughly 4 times as fast as a 3.8GHz P4 single core -- per thread. And that is without overclocking. Haswell cores are even faster, and the desktop chips run at much higher clock rates than the laptop chips, so I've no doubt you could see 5-6 times the performance on a current generation CPU.
Yeah, you're #1 for waste, but how do you do on housing prices? A detached average home in Toronto or Vancouver now runs more than $1,000,000 CDN (which is somewhere around $820,000 USD.)
Fanbois downvoting, eh?
Have you ever bothered to read the notes on Windows 7 updates? You'd be disgusted to realize how many of them "may require a system restart". Over half. WAY over half.
Same here, and that's on an *ancient* NVidia card (fanless 8600 IIRC) and a P4 3.8GHz with only 800 MHz memory.
Raw Debian had some issues with tearing prior to their latest driver updates from NVidia, but I've no doubt those issues have been addressed with their latest stable release (which has newer drivers.) Most of the tearing was with Flash playback, though -- VLC did a pretty good job with upscaled 720p videos.
Things may have improved, but you still have to reboot for far too many Windows updates for a daily update cycle to be anything other than frustrating as hell for most people. Microsoft used to be hated for that before "Patch Tuesday" was started. I guess they never learned their lesson, and are going to drag the public kicking and screaming back into the daily boot cycle.
What a shame they couldn't have learned their lesson and either started issuing patches that don't require reboots for the most trivial of changes, or stick with "Patch Tuesday" to minimize the pain for the user.
I was lucky enough to learn how to program in Neuron Data's toolkits before the 1.0 release of the GUI components were released to the public. I rode that gravy train for about 15 years before the market imploded, with a peak of $120/hr. in the mid-late '90s.
But I didn't choose that route -- I got lucky that something I knew well turned out to have relatively high demand (at least compared to the number of people who really knew that tool well.) I could just have easily been unlucky enough to learn one of the other two GUI toolkits that Northern Telecom was evaluating at the time.
On the database front, I missed out -- I was tasked with evaluating the first release of Ingres, and have never seen that product again in my entire career. Fortunately I was able to wrangle some Oracle work and training with my Ingres SQL experience, and from there sidestepped to Sybase ASE, DB/2 LUW, and SQL Server. But I had to work at becoming an SQL expert (cross-platform); with the GUI tools, I just got lucky.
On the major downside, most of my GUI experience is now useless because the only place you'll find Neuron Data left in are old legacy/maintenance-mode applications. There is no new work being done with Open Interface Toolkit.
Those who try to classify mere coding as "programming" are the same ones who think you can teach "anybody" to "program." The problem is they have too low-balled a viewpoint on what the art of programming is. Calling a coder a programmer is like calling an apartment painter an artist; the jobs are only vaguely related. Slapping paint on a wall is no more "art" or "talent" than coding is compared to programming.
I'm not talking about understanding the business; I'm talking about translating the chatter of those who do understand the business into algorithms, models, and architecture. I'm talking about having the knowledge to choose from the various platforms and frameworks available.
You can't just walk someone through a course and have them learn that. They have to have the passion to learn about those things on their own, and they have to have the talent to understand those issues and concepts.
You can teach someone to spew the buzzwords; that doesn't mean they know jack shit.