I still don't get it. How do you know that the person correctly identified the second word? I don't see how a priori decoding the first word means that the second was correct. I would expect that the individual bad data rate from this technique would be substantial.
I do enjoy the fact that Google, a ridiculously profitable company by virtue of its near-monopoly on Internet search advertising, is using the public who pays it via these ad impressions to do its work for free, and using the technique invented and used by spammers to crowd-source solve CAPTCHAs to get into Gmail and the like!
You answered your own question. My prediction : in six months there will be more GCD apps than all the OpenMP apps that have ever and will ever be written.
These debates start to get sillier and sillier over time, or perhaps just more irrelevant. As the browsers' available features and performance exceeds what most people will veer use in practice, the "reviews" become a lot like reading Motor Trend or Car & Driver - which car has the coolest looks? Which car has the most massive supercharged 500 hp engine that will be mostly used driving to the local Starbucks?
Personal preference is of course valid, and perhaps the most valid metric - if you like something and you are happy with it, then there you go. Other than that, what I'm interested in these days is security and quality, and this "review" had jack on these topics. It basically was a typical fanboi-ish survey c. 2004 on which application has the biggest e-peen, and I just don't care anymore.
I'm really perplexed why making an ancient VFD clock is on the first page of/. I mean, cute project, but I could see this in Make or something, not here.
Love the dumb comments on this thread. The army of ninja hackers will not be sneaking into houses tonight to backdoor all of the Apple keyboards in the world. The fact that it requires physical access to the keyboard makes it pretty close to useless except for public access sites and people who are cheating on their S.O. who happens to be a Black Hat hacker. I would suggest in the latter case you are hella screwed anyway.
You know, the credibility of all the handwringing about people using CentOS in mission critical deployments all upset about the maintainer gone missing is kind of undermined by the fact that it's, you know, free stuff that some guys put out there, and that, you know, you don't want to pay for so WHY IS IT ON AN IMPORTANT SERVER??
So maybe this CentOS dust-up is a good thing to make people wake up and realize that perhaps they really should be on Red Hat Enterprise, which has commercial support and is developed by a real company. This whole thing is more or less an ad for Red Hat and completely validates their business model. If I were an CIO, I would also be wandering down into the dungeon to ask the moles down there just how many CentOS/Fedora/etc. servers are running, and just what is on them....
Well, if you want to remove moral structure completely from society, sure, then actions should be conducted to solely benefit individuals. That kind of society is no society at all, it's a bacterial colony. The problem is that bacterial colonies will consume all the resources available as each bacterium attempt to grow and reproduce until there is nothing left and the entire colony dies.
This is actually incorrect of course - even bacteria have evolved mechanisms to prevent overgrowth if there is too high of a population density or resources are limited. Even single-celled organisms implement some concept of "the good of the species" without needing any philosophy of ethics.
I'm waiting for GE to figure out how to build a fridge that lasts more than 3 years. The PFS22 I bought in 2006 has a failing main logic board. Ironically, the house I bought has a 1970s vintage GE fridge that is still running fine.
So based on my experiences with this and other recent GE products, a GE-driven smart-grid will save gigawatts of power within a short time as all of its appliances die and cease operating. We'll all be cutting ice in the winter and back to the original meaning of the "icebox".
General Electric should stick to being the banking operation that it primarily is now, and leave engineering to people that know how to do it.
I'd say, when complaining about FF performance, GTFO. The whining is just brutal ever since 3.0 came out, and I just don't get it. There is no shortage of alternatives. If FF doesn't do improve their performance enough, they will surely fall by the wayside. If you don't have the energy to put a repeatable scenario in Bugzilla, cya, and godspeed.
It's funny, but the New Google, with its penchant for Being Evil(tm) with regards to collecting consumer data in every nook and cranny of your online life, Embracing and Extending in browsers, and now OSes starts to look a lot like Imperial Redmond during the days its legions strong-armed PC manufacturers the world over and crushed competitors like eggs, usually by buying them.
Any single entity with this much market power is bad. That power will be abused for profit, it's how the world works. So I, for one, do not welcome our new Google overlords.
I, too, have considerable amount of extensions, have run all of the betas and RCs for 3.5 and am running the final release on Mac OS X 10.5, and have seen nothing like this. In fact, I'm using Nightly Tester Tool to run about half of my extensions that are still not updated for 3.5.
My guess? One of your considerable amount of extensions is causing your problem. You could find out, but you apparently don't care that much to find out which, but you are sufficiently motivated to post on/. (admittedly much easier). But why? Your data was worthless, and since you posted AC, it doesn't seem like you get any personal satisfaction out of venting your spleen.
AC, I am disappoint. There are standards. There should be a goatse link here, or at least some kind of real platform troll.
So why is it that you don't have your email address in canonical form on your homepage?? One hasn't needed to explain that "nweaver" is an account on a "server" since, um, 1986 or so.
Our five-year old laptops typically run XP with 512MB. They're obsolete, yes, but a lot of smaller companies are like mine, and have to squeeze nickels, and in this economic climate, we're not getting new hardware or even new RAM in the next year. Running IE8 is deadly on these machines.
Bzzt. Wrong. The issue is not the gasoline freezing, duh, it's residual moisture in the fuel lines and tank. Adding alcohol will bind this water and lower the freezing point of the -water- to avoid ice formation in the lines.
As in useful time vs. useless time. I commute here in Chicago, and while time via public transit is slightly longer, I wouldn't drive if I could do it for free. The train is almost always a predictable amount of time each way, with traffic, one never knows from day to day.
>>The scrollball design is really cool and intuitive... until it gets gummed up and stops working in one direction. This WILL happen to you, repeatedly.
No. It does need to be cleaned, like any ball mouse. I roll mine upside down on one of those Lysol cleaning wipes and then a piece of plain paper every two weeks or so. I've had my wireless MM for close to a year now, and have had no trouble with the scrollball, and I use it constantly. If you have one in a n auto garage, well, probably an issue.
I hope they come up with an optical solution, but the scrollball is far superior to the conventional scroll wheel, and I am annoyed when I have to use a mouse without one.
One of my friends works in TW Data. They've done checks and most people (read: over 95%) never break 15gb.
There's a solid, unbiased, and verifiable piece of data for us all. As noted by a number of other posters, this means jack anyway since we are just on the cusp of real on-demand, Internet-delivered video, and usage will only go up in the future.
I'd worry but my work pays for me to have a business line. Those are not being affected by this.
And you don't have the faintest idea what the pain level would be, since you apparently do your personal Internet use on your company's dime. Never ceases to amaze me how people will defend giant corporations engaging in anti-consumer behavior based primarily on the argument that, hey, it doesn't affect me right now.
Here are some facts on Time Warner Cable as of end of 2008, courtesy Yahoo Finance.
Gross profit: $9 billion on revenue of $17 billion, or better than 50% gross margin. They did well enough to pay their CEO $8.82 million dollars last year. And you defend the necessity of these bandwidth penalties on what basis other than the fact that you don't have to pay for your Internet like the poor fools that have TWC? I don't have TWC, either, and I'm outraged by this, because (a) it is part of an industry-wide collusion to do the same thing, and (b) is a perfect example of the unbelievable corporate greed that caused this financial mess the world is in.
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I still don't get it. How do you know that the person correctly identified the second word? I don't see how a priori decoding the first word means that the second was correct. I would expect that the individual bad data rate from this technique would be substantial.
I do enjoy the fact that Google, a ridiculously profitable company by virtue of its near-monopoly on Internet search advertising, is using the public who pays it via these ad impressions to do its work for free, and using the technique invented and used by spammers to crowd-source solve CAPTCHAs to get into Gmail and the like!
> GCD looks much cleaner and simpler
You answered your own question. My prediction : in six months there will be more GCD apps than all the OpenMP apps that have ever and will ever be written.
These debates start to get sillier and sillier over time, or perhaps just more irrelevant. As the browsers' available features and performance exceeds what most people will veer use in practice, the "reviews" become a lot like reading Motor Trend or Car & Driver - which car has the coolest looks? Which car has the most massive supercharged 500 hp engine that will be mostly used driving to the local Starbucks?
Personal preference is of course valid, and perhaps the most valid metric - if you like something and you are happy with it, then there you go. Other than that, what I'm interested in these days is security and quality, and this "review" had jack on these topics. It basically was a typical fanboi-ish survey c. 2004 on which application has the biggest e-peen, and I just don't care anymore.
Trivial on a lot of platforms to MAC spoof, so your ACL won't do anything for you security-wise against anybody that knows what they're doing.
I'm really perplexed why making an ancient VFD clock is on the first page of /. I mean, cute project, but I could see this in Make or something, not here.
Love the dumb comments on this thread. The army of ninja hackers will not be sneaking into houses tonight to backdoor all of the Apple keyboards in the world. The fact that it requires physical access to the keyboard makes it pretty close to useless except for public access sites and people who are cheating on their S.O. who happens to be a Black Hat hacker. I would suggest in the latter case you are hella screwed anyway.
You know, the credibility of all the handwringing about people using CentOS in mission critical deployments all upset about the maintainer gone missing is kind of undermined by the fact that it's, you know, free stuff that some guys put out there, and that, you know, you don't want to pay for so WHY IS IT ON AN IMPORTANT SERVER??
So maybe this CentOS dust-up is a good thing to make people wake up and realize that perhaps they really should be on Red Hat Enterprise, which has commercial support and is developed by a real company. This whole thing is more or less an ad for Red Hat and completely validates their business model. If I were an CIO, I would also be wandering down into the dungeon to ask the moles down there just how many CentOS/Fedora/etc. servers are running, and just what is on them....
Yeah, I'm not seeing a problem here. Seems like all the folks doing the actual work are onboard, it's just this guy controls the domain.
Fork.
Change name.
Register new domain in said name.
Distro-Until-Recently-Known-As-CentOS-But-Now-Under-New-Management-With-New-Name-Announced
If only I had some iocaine powder....
Well, if you want to remove moral structure completely from society, sure, then actions should be conducted to solely benefit individuals. That kind of society is no society at all, it's a bacterial colony. The problem is that bacterial colonies will consume all the resources available as each bacterium attempt to grow and reproduce until there is nothing left and the entire colony dies.
This is actually incorrect of course - even bacteria have evolved mechanisms to prevent overgrowth if there is too high of a population density or resources are limited. Even single-celled organisms implement some concept of "the good of the species" without needing any philosophy of ethics.
Slashdot is a blog.
Of course, this proves your assertion even more.
I'm waiting for GE to figure out how to build a fridge that lasts more than 3 years. The PFS22 I bought in 2006 has a failing main logic board. Ironically, the house I bought has a 1970s vintage GE fridge that is still running fine.
So based on my experiences with this and other recent GE products, a GE-driven smart-grid will save gigawatts of power within a short time as all of its appliances die and cease operating. We'll all be cutting ice in the winter and back to the original meaning of the "icebox".
General Electric should stick to being the banking operation that it primarily is now, and leave engineering to people that know how to do it.
I'd say, when complaining about FF performance, GTFO. The whining is just brutal ever since 3.0 came out, and I just don't get it. There is no shortage of alternatives. If FF doesn't do improve their performance enough, they will surely fall by the wayside. If you don't have the energy to put a repeatable scenario in Bugzilla, cya, and godspeed.
It's funny, but the New Google, with its penchant for Being Evil(tm) with regards to collecting consumer data in every nook and cranny of your online life, Embracing and Extending in browsers, and now OSes starts to look a lot like Imperial Redmond during the days its legions strong-armed PC manufacturers the world over and crushed competitors like eggs, usually by buying them.
Any single entity with this much market power is bad. That power will be abused for profit, it's how the world works. So I, for one, do not welcome our new Google overlords.
"All I see is 'blonde...brunette...redhead...'"
I, too, have considerable amount of extensions, have run all of the betas and RCs for 3.5 and am running the final release on Mac OS X 10.5, and have seen nothing like this. In fact, I'm using Nightly Tester Tool to run about half of my extensions that are still not updated for 3.5.
My guess? One of your considerable amount of extensions is causing your problem. You could find out, but you apparently don't care that much to find out which, but you are sufficiently motivated to post on /. (admittedly much easier). But why? Your data was worthless, and since you posted AC, it doesn't seem like you get any personal satisfaction out of venting your spleen.
AC, I am disappoint. There are standards. There should be a goatse link here, or at least some kind of real platform troll.
Indeed, I -am- the only one still using the Mac-only closed-source browser that invented Web browsing 5 years before iCab....
So why is it that you don't have your email address in canonical form on your homepage?? One hasn't needed to explain that "nweaver" is an account on a "server" since, um, 1986 or so.
Our five-year old laptops typically run XP with 512MB. They're obsolete, yes, but a lot of smaller companies are like mine, and have to squeeze nickels, and in this economic climate, we're not getting new hardware or even new RAM in the next year. Running IE8 is deadly on these machines.
"Fuel line freeze up is a diesel only issue"
Bzzt. Wrong. The issue is not the gasoline freezing, duh, it's residual moisture in the fuel lines and tank. Adding alcohol will bind this water and lower the freezing point of the -water- to avoid ice formation in the lines.
(Never have mod points except when tedious faggotry like the World's Biggest Lego Soup Spoon stories are up....)
As in useful time vs. useless time. I commute here in Chicago, and while time via public transit is slightly longer, I wouldn't drive if I could do it for free. The train is almost always a predictable amount of time each way, with traffic, one never knows from day to day.
>>The scrollball design is really cool and intuitive... until it gets gummed up and stops working in one direction. This WILL happen to you, repeatedly.
No. It does need to be cleaned, like any ball mouse. I roll mine upside down on one of those Lysol cleaning wipes and then a piece of plain paper every two weeks or so. I've had my wireless MM for close to a year now, and have had no trouble with the scrollball, and I use it constantly. If you have one in a n auto garage, well, probably an issue.
I hope they come up with an optical solution, but the scrollball is far superior to the conventional scroll wheel, and I am annoyed when I have to use a mouse without one.
This could become just like the Candlejack meme I've see
One of my friends works in TW Data. They've done checks and most people (read: over 95%) never break 15gb.
There's a solid, unbiased, and verifiable piece of data for us all. As noted by a number of other posters, this means jack anyway since we are just on the cusp of real on-demand, Internet-delivered video, and usage will only go up in the future.
I'd worry but my work pays for me to have a business line. Those are not being affected by this.
And you don't have the faintest idea what the pain level would be, since you apparently do your personal Internet use on your company's dime. Never ceases to amaze me how people will defend giant corporations engaging in anti-consumer behavior based primarily on the argument that, hey, it doesn't affect me right now.
Here are some facts on Time Warner Cable as of end of 2008, courtesy Yahoo Finance.
Gross profit: $9 billion on revenue of $17 billion, or better than 50% gross margin. They did well enough to pay their CEO $8.82 million dollars last year. And you defend the necessity of these bandwidth penalties on what basis other than the fact that you don't have to pay for your Internet like the poor fools that have TWC? I don't have TWC, either, and I'm outraged by this, because (a) it is part of an industry-wide collusion to do the same thing, and (b) is a perfect example of the unbelievable corporate greed that caused this financial mess the world is in.