The sad thing about conspiracy theories and the internet age is that no matter how far out or whackjob the theory may be, you can find a dozen videos documenting "proof" of the theory and entire forums full of people who believe in the lunacy and who circle-jerk each other in a frenzy of panic.
There is a big disconnect here. Using HTML 5 to implement an app interface on a smart phone is not the same thing as implementing a general browser web interface using the same technologies.
Heaven forbid a web interface should ever have data to manipulate anything more than the cookies it needs in my browser. That would be a security hole you could drive a whole fleet of trucks through.
However, I don't believe that web interfaces will ever equal custom client code or custom apps for the simple reason that you get hesitations and delays during page and AJAX refreshes. One of the worst culprits for this is trying to implement drop down choice boxes that adapt their contents to previously selected data, such as country-state interactions. The only way I know of to do that with a web interface is to refresh the whole page, which is obscenely slow compared to the repopulation of the choice box data itself done by a custom interface.
There is also no way to perform performance tuning and UI tricks like dynamically making widgets visible/invisible with a web app, something that is very common to high performance custom interfaces. In part, this is because web apps don't have the necessary layout management interfaces that a custom application does, which allows them to position those hidden widgets appropriately so that they overlay each other to the pixel.
So clearly they roll out their spy system features without seeking FISA court approval.
I guess you can wipe your ass with the Constitution for all it's worth nowadays.:(
Still, over time I've learned that all the NSA monitors are emails entering and leaving the US. That still concerns me because SaskTel leases server space in Florida, which means all my emails are being scanned, even though I'm a Canadian.
I really wouldn't care if they weren't scanning my emails. I'd just snigger and laugh as the poor dumb 'mericans tromp on down the road to a full scale police state.
The sad thing is that is what's happening, and the citizens of the US largely don't give a shit. What a pity they don't even remember what "freedom" means. It's barely been a decade since 9/11 and the majority has been brainwashed into thinking this type of spy system is the way things have always been.
Laid off means you begin your 6 week waiting period before you start qualifying for paid employment insurance benefits in Canada.
Fired with cause means you are not eligible for EI benefits, and rarely happens.
Quitting means you aren't eligible for benefits, either.
But if you're laid off, you get your 2 weeks severance plus a payout of vacation benefits. If you quit, you're legally entitled to your vacation benefits. If you're fired, you're still entitled to two weeks severance plus vacation benefits.
Personally I like it when an employer decides they want you to leave now instead of letting you work the two weeks -- they're required to pay that two weeks in that case, because you haven't quit yet, so it's a layoff situation. Truth is, such layoffs are about the only vacations I've ever had -- normally my vacation time gets consumed as sick time due to my migraines through the course of a year.
Ah, to be employable again. Ah well. C'est la vie. 'tis migraine city for me.
I look on torrents as an online DVR, to be watched when I want and without the annoying commercials stretching a 45 minute show to last an hour.
I haven't paid for TV in ten years -- I can't afford it on disability. I don't even *watch* an hour's worth a week -- I just archive everything in *case* I want to watch it at some point in the future. A bit of a pack rat addiction to downloading.:)
Last time I paid cable, the bill was over $70 a month. I've no doubt it would have increased to $100 a month by now. And that's before HD packaging, a DVR rental, etc. Quite frankly, I'm disgusted that I was ever stupid enough to waste that much money on something that provides me with less than 10 hours of entertainment a month. There is *no* TV show that is worth $10/hour, especially when one considers the force-fed advertising that comes with it.
Were I to be employed again at some point in the future, I'd opt for something like Apple's packaging. $1 an episode is far more palatable than $10 per episode. However, that's rather unlikely as I'm on disability nowadays.
Just to put things in perspective: $100/month would be 25% of my after-rent income, which is supposed to include food, phone, power, heat, clothing, medication, and entertainment. Spending a quarter of my budget on an electronic lobotomy would be foolish. I pay only $85/month for phone and internet, and get the same mind-numbing content at my fingertips if I choose to be numbed.
You memorize biology diagrams and the names of bones and muscles as well as other systems.
You memorize physics formulas.
You memorize mathematical theorums.
True, you need to understand the meaning of what you've memorized and how to apply it, but the memorization is required none the less.
I'd bet you do poorly at memorized material for the most part, which is why you denigrate it so. People always "poo poo" the things they're not good at.
I found that the act of writing itself helps me to memorize material, especially when I'm condensing my notes instead of writing things down verbatim. I used to study by re-writing and re-condensing my course notes in university at the end of the semester a couple or three times, until I had an entire course down to 1-2 sheets of bullet points.
Reading textbooks or just rereading my notes didn't work nearly as well. I think the difference is that when you're condensing material, you're actually thinking about it instead of just browsing/skimming it.
Actually overstatement of the year. On both sides. The protests were not by millions of people on either side. There simply wasn't enough room for that many people in the space occupied by the protestors on either side of the fence.
The problems had been showing up with Ubuntu 12.04.
I've since upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 and haven't retested to see if the problems were fixed or not, because they were only annoyances, not show stoppers.
Overall this latest edition of KDE is much snappier than 12.04's had been.
The real problem is that modern media (not just US) edit their stories to update them, don't flag them as updated, and most certainly don't indicate what has been updated. Hence you get people thinking the story always read the way it does now, and deciding that people who flagged the original bad reporting are "trolls" or liars.
The most problematic is K3B, but to be honest I don't know if it's a problem with the underlying widgets or not.
I browse to a folder, burn off a pile of files, then delete the files that were successfully burned. The file tree on the left goes insanely out of sync with duplicate nodes, blank nodes, and sorting problems. As far as I know KDE uses messaging to synchronize file changes amongst it's widgets, so this should not happen.
As to the speed issue. C'mon, man, it takes like FIVE SECONDS to open moderately large folders. No other OS or desktop I've used on this hardware takes more than 1-2 seconds to do the same thing.
Excellent! It's about time -- not only Dolphin but the file browser widgets used by KDE applications have always been dog slow and tend to have synchronization problems between the file/directory tree and the file list panes.
It's not a good way of capacity planning, but the general assumption is that a commercial link used for hosting will use up all available bandwidth, while a home account will only use some fraction of the capacity of a link.
Thanks for mentioning the SLAs -- I forgot that part.
And what if they had only reported numbers at the annual shareholder's meeting instead of throughout the year?
It's far from uncommon for it to take six months for the numbers to perculate through a company to the point where they can be reported. It's neither misleading nor lying -- it's just the slow movement of behemoth organizations.
People who invest in the stock market are not guaranteed a return on investment of any kind. It's legalized gambling. Always has been, always will be. And as long as there was no insider trading going on, this lawsuit doesn't hold up.
Just another whinging loser from the stock markets, trying to blame someone else for their own stupidity.
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Good to know.
Thanks for the tip.
Life is gonna kill you.
The sad thing about conspiracy theories and the internet age is that no matter how far out or whackjob the theory may be, you can find a dozen videos documenting "proof" of the theory and entire forums full of people who believe in the lunacy and who circle-jerk each other in a frenzy of panic.
There is a big disconnect here. Using HTML 5 to implement an app interface on a smart phone is not the same thing as implementing a general browser web interface using the same technologies.
Heaven forbid a web interface should ever have data to manipulate anything more than the cookies it needs in my browser. That would be a security hole you could drive a whole fleet of trucks through.
However, I don't believe that web interfaces will ever equal custom client code or custom apps for the simple reason that you get hesitations and delays during page and AJAX refreshes. One of the worst culprits for this is trying to implement drop down choice boxes that adapt their contents to previously selected data, such as country-state interactions. The only way I know of to do that with a web interface is to refresh the whole page, which is obscenely slow compared to the repopulation of the choice box data itself done by a custom interface.
There is also no way to perform performance tuning and UI tricks like dynamically making widgets visible/invisible with a web app, something that is very common to high performance custom interfaces. In part, this is because web apps don't have the necessary layout management interfaces that a custom application does, which allows them to position those hidden widgets appropriately so that they overlay each other to the pixel.
So clearly they roll out their spy system features without seeking FISA court approval.
I guess you can wipe your ass with the Constitution for all it's worth nowadays. :(
Still, over time I've learned that all the NSA monitors are emails entering and leaving the US. That still concerns me because SaskTel leases server space in Florida, which means all my emails are being scanned, even though I'm a Canadian.
I really wouldn't care if they weren't scanning my emails. I'd just snigger and laugh as the poor dumb 'mericans tromp on down the road to a full scale police state.
The sad thing is that is what's happening, and the citizens of the US largely don't give a shit. What a pity they don't even remember what "freedom" means. It's barely been a decade since 9/11 and the majority has been brainwashed into thinking this type of spy system is the way things have always been.
If this is the game portal used by Windows 8, then MicroSquishy really hasn't got a clue. That was the one feature of WIndows 8 that my folks liked.
Laid off means you begin your 6 week waiting period before you start qualifying for paid employment insurance benefits in Canada.
Fired with cause means you are not eligible for EI benefits, and rarely happens.
Quitting means you aren't eligible for benefits, either.
But if you're laid off, you get your 2 weeks severance plus a payout of vacation benefits. If you quit, you're legally entitled to your vacation benefits. If you're fired, you're still entitled to two weeks severance plus vacation benefits.
Personally I like it when an employer decides they want you to leave now instead of letting you work the two weeks -- they're required to pay that two weeks in that case, because you haven't quit yet, so it's a layoff situation. Truth is, such layoffs are about the only vacations I've ever had -- normally my vacation time gets consumed as sick time due to my migraines through the course of a year.
Ah, to be employable again. Ah well. C'est la vie. 'tis migraine city for me.
I look on torrents as an online DVR, to be watched when I want and without the annoying commercials stretching a 45 minute show to last an hour.
I haven't paid for TV in ten years -- I can't afford it on disability. I don't even *watch* an hour's worth a week -- I just archive everything in *case* I want to watch it at some point in the future. A bit of a pack rat addiction to downloading. :)
Last time I paid cable, the bill was over $70 a month. I've no doubt it would have increased to $100 a month by now. And that's before HD packaging, a DVR rental, etc. Quite frankly, I'm disgusted that I was ever stupid enough to waste that much money on something that provides me with less than 10 hours of entertainment a month. There is *no* TV show that is worth $10/hour, especially when one considers the force-fed advertising that comes with it.
Were I to be employed again at some point in the future, I'd opt for something like Apple's packaging. $1 an episode is far more palatable than $10 per episode. However, that's rather unlikely as I'm on disability nowadays.
Just to put things in perspective: $100/month would be 25% of my after-rent income, which is supposed to include food, phone, power, heat, clothing, medication, and entertainment. Spending a quarter of my budget on an electronic lobotomy would be foolish. I pay only $85/month for phone and internet, and get the same mind-numbing content at my fingertips if I choose to be numbed.
Memorization has it's place.
You memorize biology diagrams and the names of bones and muscles as well as other systems.
You memorize physics formulas.
You memorize mathematical theorums.
True, you need to understand the meaning of what you've memorized and how to apply it, but the memorization is required none the less.
I'd bet you do poorly at memorized material for the most part, which is why you denigrate it so. People always "poo poo" the things they're not good at.
I found that the act of writing itself helps me to memorize material, especially when I'm condensing my notes instead of writing things down verbatim. I used to study by re-writing and re-condensing my course notes in university at the end of the semester a couple or three times, until I had an entire course down to 1-2 sheets of bullet points.
Reading textbooks or just rereading my notes didn't work nearly as well. I think the difference is that when you're condensing material, you're actually thinking about it instead of just browsing/skimming it.
Worked for me...
Actually overstatement of the year. On both sides. The protests were not by millions of people on either side. There simply wasn't enough room for that many people in the space occupied by the protestors on either side of the fence.
Doubts emerge over Egypt's protester numbers
It's not "News for Technologists", it's "News for Nerds."
i.e. For intelligent people who prefer thoughtful discourse to standard media pap.
And as they live all around the world, that means it doesn't need to be US-centric, either. And thank God it's not.
K3B still exhibits the synchronization problem under Ubuntu 13.04.
As I said, it's an annoyance, not a show stopper. But it's been a rather long-lived annoyance.
The KDE release with Ubuntu 13.04 fixes the problem (which had been opening /usr/share/java that used to take 5 seconds.)
The problems had been showing up with Ubuntu 12.04.
I've since upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 and haven't retested to see if the problems were fixed or not, because they were only annoyances, not show stoppers.
Overall this latest edition of KDE is much snappier than 12.04's had been.
The real problem is that modern media (not just US) edit their stories to update them, don't flag them as updated, and most certainly don't indicate what has been updated. Hence you get people thinking the story always read the way it does now, and deciding that people who flagged the original bad reporting are "trolls" or liars.
Other than the evidence of the low numbers they were reporting.
But I guess that doesn't count. All hail the US media for it's accuracy and fair reporting.
Not!
The most problematic is K3B, but to be honest I don't know if it's a problem with the underlying widgets or not.
I browse to a folder, burn off a pile of files, then delete the files that were successfully burned. The file tree on the left goes insanely out of sync with duplicate nodes, blank nodes, and sorting problems. As far as I know KDE uses messaging to synchronize file changes amongst it's widgets, so this should not happen.
As to the speed issue. C'mon, man, it takes like FIVE SECONDS to open moderately large folders. No other OS or desktop I've used on this hardware takes more than 1-2 seconds to do the same thing.
Excellent! It's about time -- not only Dolphin but the file browser widgets used by KDE applications have always been dog slow and tend to have synchronization problems between the file/directory tree and the file list panes.
And it's no secret that the US is one of the only countries in the world who refuse to call this coup a coup.
Tin foil hat?
For your information the other news sites around the world that I read had their facts straight HOURS before the US media did.
Only a few hours ago NBC was reporting only 15-20. The same with Fox. And NBC and ABC.
At least they seem to be correcting their stories.
If this were even vaguely technically feasible, we would have great automatic language translation tools.
After all, if a computer could convert formats from textual descriptions to actual video footage, it would be trivial to do language conversion.
It's not.
This "patent" should be rejected because it's not been done, isn't being done, and probably won't be feasible for 20+ years.
It's not a good way of capacity planning, but the general assumption is that a commercial link used for hosting will use up all available bandwidth, while a home account will only use some fraction of the capacity of a link.
Thanks for mentioning the SLAs -- I forgot that part.
And what if they had only reported numbers at the annual shareholder's meeting instead of throughout the year?
It's far from uncommon for it to take six months for the numbers to perculate through a company to the point where they can be reported. It's neither misleading nor lying -- it's just the slow movement of behemoth organizations.
People who invest in the stock market are not guaranteed a return on investment of any kind. It's legalized gambling. Always has been, always will be. And as long as there was no insider trading going on, this lawsuit doesn't hold up.
Just another whinging loser from the stock markets, trying to blame someone else for their own stupidity.