HOW does it help you shave off time though? Obviously it does, you just introduced it to thousands of people who don't know anything about it.. Please just explain in a little more detail so we can all nod our heads and agree that MS is full of it.
The bootvis page explicitely says that it's a poor choice of a tool by end users for improving boot times. So, um... what do you use it for that makes you impressed with it?
MSIE is just the most obvious example of how a monopoly can slow down innovation in sibling organizations, even when coders are driven by more benevolent impulses than (lagging) competition.
For the spam front, the most obvious way MS is hurting our ability to fight spam is by encouraging a very heterogenous computing environment (namely windows/IE/outlook) that some would argue is more buggy than would otherwise exist, allowing spammer-written worms & viruses easy access to millions of random network connections. It doesn't prevent us from innovating, but it makes our innovations less effective because it gives spammers more flexibility (eg. more IP addresses to evade ip-blocks, free CPU to compute cpu-based postage stamps).
Yyou don't have to be too cheap... Mozilla is also endlessly extensible due to its HUGE reliance and integration with its javascript front-end (besides the whole thing being open-source, of course). If you're a decent programmer, Mozilla/Konq/etc... are really your only choices.
Granted, you do get some spam in your snail-mailbox. But basically, it's seems like a given right now that the amount of spam that an email-box is recieving will double every year or two. There's no reason for spammers to not keep spraying more and more shit onto the internet, since it's free. I have a couple spam emails that are very likely from the same spam author (SpamAssassin hits the same thing in them every time) that get sent to me EVERY SINGLE DAY. If companies had to pay for stamps for online messages, they'd simply decide it wasn't worth it to spend that much money on advertising (or they'd at least choose a more effective / less annoying way to blow their money, eg "sign up for a bank account, get a free shotgun!").
I'd imagine they try to implement as many things in software as possible so they are able to fix the greatest number of bugs after the rover has left for mars (eg. software can be reprogrammed by radio, hardware can not). Even somewhat simple analog circuits have problems from time to time, and NASA only had ONE shot at this, not "6 months in the marketplace for the product to mature" that most engineers have. My friend's $2000 Sony HDTV needed to have a couple resistors changed so the lamp driver didn't keep prematurely killing its expensive lamps, so shit happens.
Aye, our next mars rover should be shaped like a wedge. As for weapons, do we still have that silly "no electricity, no chemicals" restriction? With the amount of money the parties are bringing to the table, surely they can spend a little extra for chemical and electrical defenses? And with the current venue for battle, there's no chance that our spectators could be injured anyway.
Or at least better volume controls!! Good god, there's nothing more annoying than surfing while other people are asleep and having to slam the speaker off, or having MP3s playing and then suddenly interrupted by something twice as loud. Maybe it's just me, but flash animations are almost always too loud.
Heck, forget smaller countries, my department at a Fortune-100 company pays by the MB. We may not pay much, but I imagine this will make bosses even less pleased by their employee's surfing.
Exactly. Commercials are more of a "how much can consumers tolerate?" sort of thing than a "how much money do we need to make?" sort of thing. If consumers were more like sheep, companies would have ads covering every visible surface everywhere, regardless if they needed money or not, and the procedes would go directly to their bottom line.
realise that the US Doctor Who fan club dwarfs it's British, Canadian, Australian, etc counterparts by an order of magnitude?
There far more extreme hard-core US science fiction nerds who watch Doctor Who than British ones. I doubt their watching re-runs, buying books, videos and DVDs to look "cool". Believe me, as sci-fi goes, Doctor Who is as far from "cool" as you can get. Doctor Who's appeal was never "cool", it was a focus on storylines that deviated from the "Captain kisses alien girl, crewmember in red uniform dies" variety.
For someone who claims to be so knowledgeable about americans and storytelling, you seem to have a lot of problems writing in a version of english that americans can understand.
It's news if 1) it's funny,or 2) there's a shred of the plaintiff winning.
Since the sheister ^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hplaintiff put a fair bit of money into the patent application and lawyer fees, they must have thought there was some chance of winning.
So does this make it funny because they were so clearly wrong and are blowing a lot of money in a very public way? Or is there something there that the laymen don't understand? For example, is it just a case of some rich guy playing the lottery (eg. they know there's a very low risk of winning going in, but the payoff would be so big, that it makes it worthwhile calculated risk).
Well, various Java VM's have had problems in the past, does that mean we should just throw them away? Similarly for user-privilege-separation in the linux kernel. The whole reason we write narrow pieces of code that focus on security is that we realize that it's impossible guarantee a piece of code is bug-free. So instead, we do the two things that helps clear out bugs the best: we make the important security-related code as small as possible, and we give it time for people to find bugs and for us to fix them. After a while, you have a simple and mature piece of code that enhances the security of everything else, allowing the code it protects to be fast-changing and complex yet. It really seems like the right way to go to me. Finding and repairing flaws over time is how you gain maturity.
since most of the calories in fast food usually come from fat
Are you TRYING to piss off as many Atkins people as possible? Are you also trying to make our argument easy? (eg. practically the definition of trolling)
Secondly, I'd argue that caloric density of specific components of your food, or even the total caloric value of items of food dosn't really matter a whole lot. What really matters is enjoyment per calorie... if something is 100 calories and you enjoy it a whole lot, and it takes 200 calories of something else for you to be as satisfied/full, then you'd want to eat more of the first thing.
And until we get people to start thinking that way, and generating scientific data to back it up, we're going to have to resort to diets that people have emperically determined to work, even if they are a little bit crazy.
It's not all gone. For instance, you could alter video data in such a way that certain pixels are slightly more green than others, etc... and it might be noticable enough to piss an HDTV owner off, but a normal TV owner might not notice it. Or, you can simply set the compression settings higher so more randomness is encoded in an MPEG. It's not really a binary "*poof* the randomness is gone" sort of thing.
You don't really need to send random noise though... small amounts of randomness (but large enough to hide data in) exist in bits of files that people send around... most notably sound, image, and movie files, which, lucky for us, are just the sort of files that strangers tend to pass around in abundance.
That's true as well, but there's a huge amount of information available through SNMP that may not be available elsewhere. These include: what ports are being blocked, the signal/noise ratio on the cable line, how many and what type of recieving errors the cable modem had, your external IP, your upload/download caps (this is THE value that gets used... so if your ISP forgot to update a webpage or send you an email, this is the only place you'll see the update), etc etc.
(plus it obviously supports Ogg/divx/everything, has winamp and all your favorite players, and has a non-sucky UI including a real file explorer with mouse input, etc...)
If you have a laptop with TV-out already, just buy the 802.11g stuff, and buy this that hacks most current PC DVD software to be region-free, macrovision-free, yadda yadda yadda, and there you go... If you have a modern laptop already, it's 1) probably cheaper than buying a separate DVD player, and 2) just as small and quiet.
If you're a cable modem user, it's very likely that your cable modem supports reporting all sorts of statistics over SNMP. If you can look at these numbers, they're very likely to be the exact same numbers that your ISP is looking at. DocsDiag prints out SNMP cable modem info in a nicer format than usual. But more importantly, it includes a lot of helpful info on hooking up to the cable modem to begin with. In some cases, you may have to google or search dslreports to get the community string for your ISP, but other than that, it's all on that page.
After that, you can go further and use the raw snmp tools to write perl scripts which do pretty graphing or logging or whatever. In my case, with a InsightBB cable modem, these two commands display the total number of bytes in and out:
Hear hear. If people have dual heads and ocassionly use photoshop/gimp/etc..., a very helpful thing to do (that, for some reason, doesn't immediately come to people's minds) is to put all the little floating toolboxes over onto another monitor so the image you're working on can use an unobstructed full screen. Very helpful.
How stable is version 2? (given that it's still only a developer release). Does it have preview on Unsharp Mask yet? Whoever didn't put preview on USM was simply a masochist.
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HOW does it help you shave off time though? Obviously it does, you just introduced it to thousands of people who don't know anything about it.. Please just explain in a little more detail so we can all nod our heads and agree that MS is full of it.
The bootvis page explicitely says that it's a poor choice of a tool by end users for improving boot times. So, um... what do you use it for that makes you impressed with it?
For the spam front, the most obvious way MS is hurting our ability to fight spam is by encouraging a very heterogenous computing environment (namely windows/IE/outlook) that some would argue is more buggy than would otherwise exist, allowing spammer-written worms & viruses easy access to millions of random network connections. It doesn't prevent us from innovating, but it makes our innovations less effective because it gives spammers more flexibility (eg. more IP addresses to evade ip-blocks, free CPU to compute cpu-based postage stamps).
Yyou don't have to be too cheap... Mozilla is also endlessly extensible due to its HUGE reliance and integration with its javascript front-end (besides the whole thing being open-source, of course). If you're a decent programmer, Mozilla/Konq/etc... are really your only choices.
Granted, you do get some spam in your snail-mailbox. But basically, it's seems like a given right now that the amount of spam that an email-box is recieving will double every year or two. There's no reason for spammers to not keep spraying more and more shit onto the internet, since it's free. I have a couple spam emails that are very likely from the same spam author (SpamAssassin hits the same thing in them every time) that get sent to me EVERY SINGLE DAY. If companies had to pay for stamps for online messages, they'd simply decide it wasn't worth it to spend that much money on advertising (or they'd at least choose a more effective / less annoying way to blow their money, eg "sign up for a bank account, get a free shotgun!").
MS has 95% of users hooked on an ancient browser, which means my web-based applications must continue to use old old techniques.
I'd imagine they try to implement as many things in software as possible so they are able to fix the greatest number of bugs after the rover has left for mars (eg. software can be reprogrammed by radio, hardware can not). Even somewhat simple analog circuits have problems from time to time, and NASA only had ONE shot at this, not "6 months in the marketplace for the product to mature" that most engineers have. My friend's $2000 Sony HDTV needed to have a couple resistors changed so the lamp driver didn't keep prematurely killing its expensive lamps, so shit happens.
Aye, our next mars rover should be shaped like a wedge. As for weapons, do we still have that silly "no electricity, no chemicals" restriction? With the amount of money the parties are bringing to the table, surely they can spend a little extra for chemical and electrical defenses? And with the current venue for battle, there's no chance that our spectators could be injured anyway.
Not to mention Mars' WMDRPA!
Or at least better volume controls!! Good god, there's nothing more annoying than surfing while other people are asleep and having to slam the speaker off, or having MP3s playing and then suddenly interrupted by something twice as loud. Maybe it's just me, but flash animations are almost always too loud.
Heck, forget smaller countries, my department at a Fortune-100 company pays by the MB. We may not pay much, but I imagine this will make bosses even less pleased by their employee's surfing.
Exactly. Commercials are more of a "how much can consumers tolerate?" sort of thing than a "how much money do we need to make?" sort of thing. If consumers were more like sheep, companies would have ads covering every visible surface everywhere, regardless if they needed money or not, and the procedes would go directly to their bottom line.
Damn. That's the last time I listen to MS Word. It does't even get the words right. :)
There far more extreme hard-core US science fiction nerds who watch Doctor Who than British ones. I doubt their watching re-runs, buying books, videos and DVDs to look "cool". Believe me, as sci-fi goes, Doctor Who is as far from "cool" as you can get. Doctor Who's appeal was never "cool", it was a focus on storylines that deviated from the "Captain kisses alien girl, crewmember in red uniform dies" variety.
For someone who claims to be so knowledgeable about americans and storytelling, you seem to have a lot of problems writing in a version of english that americans can understand.
Since the sheister ^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hplaintiff put a fair bit of money into the patent application and lawyer fees, they must have thought there was some chance of winning.
So does this make it funny because they were so clearly wrong and are blowing a lot of money in a very public way? Or is there something there that the laymen don't understand? For example, is it just a case of some rich guy playing the lottery (eg. they know there's a very low risk of winning going in, but the payoff would be so big, that it makes it worthwhile calculated risk).
Well, various Java VM's have had problems in the past, does that mean we should just throw them away? Similarly for user-privilege-separation in the linux kernel. The whole reason we write narrow pieces of code that focus on security is that we realize that it's impossible guarantee a piece of code is bug-free. So instead, we do the two things that helps clear out bugs the best: we make the important security-related code as small as possible, and we give it time for people to find bugs and for us to fix them. After a while, you have a simple and mature piece of code that enhances the security of everything else, allowing the code it protects to be fast-changing and complex yet. It really seems like the right way to go to me. Finding and repairing flaws over time is how you gain maturity.
Are you TRYING to piss off as many Atkins people as possible? Are you also trying to make our argument easy? (eg. practically the definition of trolling)
Secondly, I'd argue that caloric density of specific components of your food, or even the total caloric value of items of food dosn't really matter a whole lot. What really matters is enjoyment per calorie... if something is 100 calories and you enjoy it a whole lot, and it takes 200 calories of something else for you to be as satisfied/full, then you'd want to eat more of the first thing.
And until we get people to start thinking that way, and generating scientific data to back it up, we're going to have to resort to diets that people have emperically determined to work, even if they are a little bit crazy.
It's not all gone. For instance, you could alter video data in such a way that certain pixels are slightly more green than others, etc... and it might be noticable enough to piss an HDTV owner off, but a normal TV owner might not notice it. Or, you can simply set the compression settings higher so more randomness is encoded in an MPEG. It's not really a binary "*poof* the randomness is gone" sort of thing.
You don't really need to send random noise though... small amounts of randomness (but large enough to hide data in) exist in bits of files that people send around... most notably sound, image, and movie files, which, lucky for us, are just the sort of files that strangers tend to pass around in abundance.
That's true as well, but there's a huge amount of information available through SNMP that may not be available elsewhere. These include: what ports are being blocked, the signal/noise ratio on the cable line, how many and what type of recieving errors the cable modem had, your external IP, your upload/download caps (this is THE value that gets used... so if your ISP forgot to update a webpage or send you an email, this is the only place you'll see the update), etc etc.
(plus it obviously supports Ogg/divx/everything, has winamp and all your favorite players, and has a non-sucky UI including a real file explorer with mouse input, etc...)
If you have a laptop with TV-out already, just buy the 802.11g stuff, and buy this that hacks most current PC DVD software to be region-free, macrovision-free, yadda yadda yadda, and there you go... If you have a modern laptop already, it's 1) probably cheaper than buying a separate DVD player, and 2) just as small and quiet.
After that, you can go further and use the raw snmp tools to write perl scripts which do pretty graphing or logging or whatever. In my case, with a InsightBB cable modem, these two commands display the total number of bytes in and out:
snmpget 149.112.50.65 ihkstk88 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifOutOctets.4
(where "ihkstk88" is insightbb's community string, 149.112.50.65 is the hard-coded internal IP that my cable modem responds to)
Hear hear. If people have dual heads and ocassionly use photoshop/gimp/etc..., a very helpful thing to do (that, for some reason, doesn't immediately come to people's minds) is to put all the little floating toolboxes over onto another monitor so the image you're working on can use an unobstructed full screen. Very helpful.
How stable is version 2? (given that it's still only a developer release). Does it have preview on Unsharp Mask yet? Whoever didn't put preview on USM was simply a masochist.