If Microsoft can no longer ignore Firefox then all those sites that still require IE to function will begin to follow.
Is that really still a problem, though? I'm pretty sure that particular knee-jerk needs to be updated a bit.
I'm sure half a dozen people will jump in here with their favorite examples of IE-only sites, but chances are they will be quite obscure. I spend a fair amount of time online, and it hasn't really entered my mind in the last 2-3 years that I'm using some kind of "fringe" browser.
Now, internal corporate apps are another matter entirely; then again, they only have a 50/50 chance of ever working in their "supported" environment to begin with (ahh fond memories of having to install a VM with some extremely specific, and extremely ancient java version just to sign the company "ethics pledge" or whatever).
Perhaps I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that in an analog signal, the entire picture is refreshed, whereas digital just refreshes the parts of the picture that is changing. If that's the case, wouldn't you use about the same amount of bandwidth regardless of what's on the screen?
Bandwidth here refers to this, you're thinking of this.
The analog signal still carries only a finite amount of information over a given period of time.
Bah, don't worry. I'm sure Keanu will do a fine job as Decker.
At first, your post made me cry on the inside, but come to think of it, he probably would. He's got that whole "is he or isn't he a robot" vibe down - he's been doing it in every movie he's ever been in, it would finally make sense here.
Remember: "States" - and Indian Tribes - in the United States are separate countries. The States just happened to join a federation for dealing with other countries - a federation like Common Europe, NATO, the UN, the League of Nations, etc.
That's a whimsical way of looking at it, but blatantly untrue. The US is, in fact, a federation, which means that its member states are explicitly not sovereign countries; just like Canada, Brazil, and the Russian Federation. Although the US states do make a lot more noise about their self-governance than most other federations'.
Most of the other things you list are alliances between sovereign countries - an entirely different thing. It's true that the EU is moving towards some sort of new "supra-national" thing, but most people still don't consider it a federation (seeing how it's made up of sovereign countries).
We have barely 50,000 humans left, facing a constant threat of extinction by the cylons, and the show depicts humans engaged in what I consider insignificant squabbles.
Then again, do you really think that is not how the last 50,000 humans would behave?
BSG has nothing to do with science fiction. They don't contemplate the benefits or dangers of science.
Right, the show about nuclear war with religious robots has nothing to do with science fiction. I wouldn't call it particularly ground-breaking in that respect, but still.
Space opera isn't necessarily science fiction, but a lot of it can be: Star Trek/Wars, for example, are pure space opera, whereas B5 and BSG are also (sometimes) science fiction.
Also, Douglas Adams wrote science fiction? Maybe those couple of Dr Who episodes, but he's mostly known for social satire (albeit in space).
the sorts of SEO attacks that briefly caused search engines to be befuddled by sites full of interlinked pages full of nonsense text
What do you mean "briefly"? Wikipedia is still the top hit for most Google searches!
I wouldn't really say this affects academic publishing as a whole, though - these "impact scores" are pretty much an academic exercise, nobody really pays attention to them (unless they happen to coincide with pre-conceived opinions).
For some reason article submitters here really like to reference obscure concepts without definition; I think we're supposed to be in awe of their erudition.
"What do you mean, you are not familiar with Long Tail theory? Why, such a possibility never entered my mind, seeing how I know it so well!"
Gets tiresome, since the only result is that we end up clicking through to articles we have zero interest in.
Huh? You do realize that all medical treatment in all more or less developed countries is licensed? Are you just continuously terrified by that in general?
I was also mildly curious how well one would do without BRCA1, seeing how it's an important enough DNA repair gene that mutations in it can greatly increase the likelihood of getting several types of cancer.
Scientific reporting at it's best - why bother differentiating such tiny nitpicky details as "gene" vs "mutation"?
And this story is only important if somebody out there has a burning need to run a 64bit Java app... in a web browser.
Actually, the way I understand it, it's for those who want to use the plugin with a 64-bit browser (I didn't realize that was not possible until now). There's no such thing as a "64-bit Java app", only 64-bit JVM implementations.
Can anybody name a good reason to develop new code in the environment? Yes a lot of legacy stuff was created in the 1990s while Java was the new shiny for people too blind to see (or with a PHB too blind...) the myriad problems but new projects?
You're joking, right? Java Applets are dead and buried - and with good reason, they were a horrible hack from the beginning - but Java itself is one of the most important languages we have.
I know Java-bashing is a popular Slashdot pastime, and certainly it's not the most exciting and sexy language out there, but it's popular for a reason. It's got its share of problems (gasp! something that isn't perfect!) and more that its share of outdated myths (gasp! modern JVMs perform well!), but it strikes a pretty good balance between abstraction, performance, and complexity (much as I hate to use this argument, not every programmer out there is a rock star).
I really want to hear what you would recommend as a wholesale replacement for Java. I'm pretty sure I don't know of anything that's as broadly applicable.
(Plus, with projects like Scala and Clojure it's looking increasingly like the JVM isn't going anywhere any time soon, regardless of Java's fate)
There are some autoimmune deceases that cause accelerated aging. Even 10 year old's look like old men.
Given the relative sizes of the "50-looking 10-year-old" and "people who drink" populations I think we, as a society, can afford to take that chance. In fact, the 10-year-olds that look like old men could probably use a stiff drink every now and then.
3. For goodness sake, just ask ALL three of them for their IDs and be done with it!
Sure, in that situation asking all of them makes perfect sense. But what on earth is the point of asking someone who looks 50 for ID? Just to make sure that that occasional 50ish-looking teenager doesn't slip by?
Yes, the man in his fifties getting carded - just to make really sure that those dang teenagers don't get their hands on the Devil Drink - is clearly the moron in that situation.
Yeah, it's not SA either. I think the problem is that he isn't actually doing any kind of optimization, or anything to avoid local minima (though he doesn't mention how the "DNA" is "mutated" so it's hard to say how much of a problem that is here).
So this is basically what, stochastic hill climbing? Now I'm really curious to see how a real genetic algorithm would perform here.
I think it's only hard to explain "on paper" if you insist on using nonsensical phrases like "will allow users to travel back in time through a website". How hard is it to just say "will show website changes over time"?
... running a confidence scam, successfully robbing banks, the finer points of mugging, or the detailed design of a botnet/phishing/money laundering operation could be similarly defended as "art". B-)
Doesn't need defending - everything you mention is perfectly legal (at least in the US). Why would simply describing some illegal activity be against the law?
Not that I have anything against freedom of speech.
Yes you do. You are suggesting that sharing of information should be restricted if it's conceivable that someone could potentially use that information for some illegal purpose; that's pretty far into the "not for" freedom of speech end of the spectrum.
But I bet this "art work" is in direct violation of a number of laws and is about to get the "artists" into a lot of legal difficulty.
Is it? TFA is pretty light on details, but I'd be very surprised if Amazon's complaint was about anything other than their trademark being used in the name of the plugin. Even if it is possible to sue people for linking to links to torrents in the US (which I'm not sure it is), Amazon are not the copyright holder here.
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If Microsoft can no longer ignore Firefox then all those sites that still require IE to function will begin to follow.
Is that really still a problem, though? I'm pretty sure that particular knee-jerk needs to be updated a bit.
I'm sure half a dozen people will jump in here with their favorite examples of IE-only sites, but chances are they will be quite obscure. I spend a fair amount of time online, and it hasn't really entered my mind in the last 2-3 years that I'm using some kind of "fringe" browser.
Now, internal corporate apps are another matter entirely; then again, they only have a 50/50 chance of ever working in their "supported" environment to begin with (ahh fond memories of having to install a VM with some extremely specific, and extremely ancient java version just to sign the company "ethics pledge" or whatever).
Perhaps I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that in an analog signal, the entire picture is refreshed, whereas digital just refreshes the parts of the picture that is changing. If that's the case, wouldn't you use about the same amount of bandwidth regardless of what's on the screen?
Bandwidth here refers to this, you're thinking of this.
The analog signal still carries only a finite amount of information over a given period of time.
Bah, don't worry. I'm sure Keanu will do a fine job as Decker.
At first, your post made me cry on the inside, but come to think of it, he probably would. He's got that whole "is he or isn't he a robot" vibe down - he's been doing it in every movie he's ever been in, it would finally make sense here.
Also: Deckard
Remember: "States" - and Indian Tribes - in the United States are separate countries. The States just happened to join a federation for dealing with other countries - a federation like Common Europe, NATO, the UN, the League of Nations, etc.
That's a whimsical way of looking at it, but blatantly untrue. The US is, in fact, a federation, which means that its member states are explicitly not sovereign countries; just like Canada, Brazil, and the Russian Federation. Although the US states do make a lot more noise about their self-governance than most other federations'.
Most of the other things you list are alliances between sovereign countries - an entirely different thing. It's true that the EU is moving towards some sort of new "supra-national" thing, but most people still don't consider it a federation (seeing how it's made up of sovereign countries).
We have barely 50,000 humans left, facing a constant threat of extinction by the cylons, and the show depicts humans engaged in what I consider insignificant squabbles.
Then again, do you really think that is not how the last 50,000 humans would behave?
Or for you young kids, Ghost in the shell.
Dude, Ghost in the Shell came out 20 years ago - you really need to update your "young kids" references.
Watching LOST is painful due to the seemingly infinite periods of time between seasons.
Hmm, I found watching Lost to be painful for a completely different reason.
BSG has nothing to do with science fiction. They don't contemplate the benefits or dangers of science.
Right, the show about nuclear war with religious robots has nothing to do with science fiction. I wouldn't call it particularly ground-breaking in that respect, but still.
Space opera isn't necessarily science fiction, but a lot of it can be: Star Trek/Wars, for example, are pure space opera, whereas B5 and BSG are also (sometimes) science fiction.
Also, Douglas Adams wrote science fiction? Maybe those couple of Dr Who episodes, but he's mostly known for social satire (albeit in space).
the sorts of SEO attacks that briefly caused search engines to be befuddled by sites full of interlinked pages full of nonsense text
What do you mean "briefly"? Wikipedia is still the top hit for most Google searches!
I wouldn't really say this affects academic publishing as a whole, though - these "impact scores" are pretty much an academic exercise, nobody really pays attention to them (unless they happen to coincide with pre-conceived opinions).
For some reason article submitters here really like to reference obscure concepts without definition; I think we're supposed to be in awe of their erudition.
"What do you mean, you are not familiar with Long Tail theory? Why, such a possibility never entered my mind, seeing how I know it so well!"
Gets tiresome, since the only result is that we end up clicking through to articles we have zero interest in.
Huh? You do realize that all medical treatment in all more or less developed countries is licensed? Are you just continuously terrified by that in general?
I was also mildly curious how well one would do without BRCA1, seeing how it's an important enough DNA repair gene that mutations in it can greatly increase the likelihood of getting several types of cancer.
Scientific reporting at it's best - why bother differentiating such tiny nitpicky details as "gene" vs "mutation"?
Wasn't the actual limit for 32-bit Java a lot lower, something like 1.4GB, or was that just on Windows?
Anyway, I too have been enjoying being able to allocate 16GB Java heaps (hey, when you have 200GB of XML to parse/index, it helps).
And this story is only important if somebody out there has a burning need to run a 64bit Java app... in a web browser.
Actually, the way I understand it, it's for those who want to use the plugin with a 64-bit browser (I didn't realize that was not possible until now). There's no such thing as a "64-bit Java app", only 64-bit JVM implementations.
Can anybody name a good reason to develop new code in the environment? Yes a lot of legacy stuff was created in the 1990s while Java was the new shiny for people too blind to see (or with a PHB too blind...) the myriad problems but new projects?
You're joking, right? Java Applets are dead and buried - and with good reason, they were a horrible hack from the beginning - but Java itself is one of the most important languages we have.
I know Java-bashing is a popular Slashdot pastime, and certainly it's not the most exciting and sexy language out there, but it's popular for a reason. It's got its share of problems (gasp! something that isn't perfect!) and more that its share of outdated myths (gasp! modern JVMs perform well!), but it strikes a pretty good balance between abstraction, performance, and complexity (much as I hate to use this argument, not every programmer out there is a rock star).
I really want to hear what you would recommend as a wholesale replacement for Java. I'm pretty sure I don't know of anything that's as broadly applicable.
(Plus, with projects like Scala and Clojure it's looking increasingly like the JVM isn't going anywhere any time soon, regardless of Java's fate)
Yeah, I was just as confused, and then just as disinterested.
Seriously, Java plug-ins are still around for some reason?
Hmm, that is confusing... They should rename one of them to make it more specific:
Child Online Protection Act, for Filtering and Elimination of Electronic Lewdness
There are some autoimmune deceases that cause accelerated aging. Even 10 year old's look like old men.
Given the relative sizes of the "50-looking 10-year-old" and "people who drink" populations I think we, as a society, can afford to take that chance. In fact, the 10-year-olds that look like old men could probably use a stiff drink every now and then.
3. For goodness sake, just ask ALL three of them for their IDs and be done with it!
Sure, in that situation asking all of them makes perfect sense. But what on earth is the point of asking someone who looks 50 for ID? Just to make sure that that occasional 50ish-looking teenager doesn't slip by?
Yes, the man in his fifties getting carded - just to make really sure that those dang teenagers don't get their hands on the Devil Drink - is clearly the moron in that situation.
forced many states to change their age of consent from 18 to 21
Huh? There are no states where the age of consent is over 18.
As for the Madison quote, the Constitution LIMITS the power of the government, it does not GRANT power to the government.
Strictly speaking it's the reverse (at least theoretically). Though in practice you may be right.
They don't seem to be convex to me...
Yeah, it's not SA either. I think the problem is that he isn't actually doing any kind of optimization, or anything to avoid local minima (though he doesn't mention how the "DNA" is "mutated" so it's hard to say how much of a problem that is here).
So this is basically what, stochastic hill climbing? Now I'm really curious to see how a real genetic algorithm would perform here.
I think it's only hard to explain "on paper" if you insist on using nonsensical phrases like "will allow users to travel back in time through a website". How hard is it to just say "will show website changes over time"?
Looks pretty cool, though.
... running a confidence scam, successfully robbing banks, the finer points of mugging, or the detailed design of a botnet/phishing/money laundering operation could be similarly defended as "art". B-)
Doesn't need defending - everything you mention is perfectly legal (at least in the US). Why would simply describing some illegal activity be against the law?
Not that I have anything against freedom of speech.
Yes you do. You are suggesting that sharing of information should be restricted if it's conceivable that someone could potentially use that information for some illegal purpose; that's pretty far into the "not for" freedom of speech end of the spectrum.
But I bet this "art work" is in direct violation of a number of laws and is about to get the "artists" into a lot of legal difficulty.
Is it? TFA is pretty light on details, but I'd be very surprised if Amazon's complaint was about anything other than their trademark being used in the name of the plugin. Even if it is possible to sue people for linking to links to torrents in the US (which I'm not sure it is), Amazon are not the copyright holder here.