I'm not going to give many details, it's not good business. I don't know much about the non-mission critical systems, but I do maintain mission critical ones and I will venture a mention they're not on the internet. The internet and the mission critical stuff are far separated. That's more specific than I probably should have gotten, things that communicate with the station, the shuttle and TDRS are isolated, often from one another.
Granted, I don't code for the web as much as many people, but when I do I tend to stick with "safe" code, meaning code I know to work across the board. My biggest issues have usually been with IE, usually I'll code a page, run it against the W3C validator and tweak it until it passes, then test it. Usually when I do that it looks good on everything BUT certain versions of IE, in which case I have to go tweak the code further to make it look good on that also.
Other than IE being Windows specific the OS the individual browsers are working on is usually a moot point.
Most recently I run everything against a couple of Web Kit browsers and Firefox and call it good, I could give a rats ass about IE anymore, that being said newer versions are getting better.
I know Linux is a kernel, however for just about everyone except for Richard Stallman himself it's acceptable to refer to GNU/Linux as Linux as it tends to confuse the overwhelming majority of people who don't understand the playing field when you actually say the "GNU" part.
The point I was making was that if the page is written properly it DOES NOT HAVE to be tested for any OS rendering about 80% of your argument moot.
Chances are if your page doesn't work with my browser it's you using crap code, not me using crap software.
I site the facts I can use Hulu, Facebook, Slashdot, Google Docs, and yes, even the Yahoo! mail that chastises me about my browser choice every time I log in without a hitch to back me up. The only things I haven't been able to use are corporate websites written in ancient versions of Front Page with massive heaping of Active-X and Microsoft proprietary "HTML". To be fair these websites don't work in newer versions of IE either and are in fact, crap code.
They still haven't answered my somewhat trollish question about why they hate it either. Sorry, the whole "simple oversight" bit doesn't fly, it's been way too many years running the new mail system.
That particular program is incredibly out of date now, but I'm sure you can still get it to work, and the Sling Box has popped up since then, so the content providers can bite me.
BTW:
I don't really watch TV anymore. The Fox cartoons and Southpark now that all my Sci Fi shows are canceled.
Driving East towards Houston in the middle of the night is like driving into the sunrise even if the sun sat behind you not but a couple of hours ago. Considering I grew up on desert side of the state I know what the sky is supposed to look like at night, and I know what it doesn't look like here, it's just a glow. Yeah, this whole region could use some light shading.
I like Icculus, but I don't have time to read mailing list. I barely have time to keep up with what I should (and I really don't play many video games, though I want to). I'm weird like that, I have a pile of games I haven't played yet, a pile of movies I haven't watched yet, and a pile of books I haven't read yet. Someone needs to start just giving me money so I don't have to work so I can catch up on it all.
Mac is almost as desolate as Linux for gaming - yeah, a bit better, but a lot of titles are still missing.
The good news is, if they port it to either Mac or Linux it's automatically a little easier to port to the other since there's so much *NIX in common between them.
I'm having difficulty following your line of reasoning.
You do realize Ubuntu is Linux right? When I say "Linux games" it automatically includes Ubunutu (or my preference Kubuntu)? I was a Debian guy for a long time, but Debian had a bad habit of breaking my stuff with patches in stable then leaving it broken, because it's stable. Ubuntu is based on Debian.
By app store, you mean Apt Repository? I agree, the Apt Repository is awesome. It, in my opinion, makes Debian based distributions (like Ubuntu) easier to use than Windows, and easier to get software for than Mac.
On that note I had a lot of Loki games before the great theft, and I had gotten all those games to work on SuSE. I've since then gotten most of the Unreal games to work on Debian and Ubuntu, I have a paid for copy of World of Goo, all the Quake games and Doom games working. All on Debian plus a few since I moved to Kubuntu.
I can't decide if you're a distro zealot or just plain stupid.
Dude, Epic has been awesome every since the old DOS pinball games they used to have!
Rumor has it pressure from Microsoft put a lid on the Linux version.
"It may be difficult to get a Linux game ported over to XBOX and certified, all the Linux code could make the certification process very difficult." "But it's just GL and SDL code, there is no Linux code exactly".
"Oh, there's Linux code in there alright...."
I still want to kick someone at Epic in the nutts for not following through with the promised Linux port of UT3. (My copy is still sitting there waiting to be played for the first time)
If you use SDL and Open GL you can make it work on everything easier!/rant complete, my version of PC gaming covered, go back to bitching about consoles and Windows Microsoft weenie.
In the 90's my parents still had their old 70's 8-Track/Vinyl stereo. I put the cassette adapter in, then put an 1/8th inch jack to cassette adapter into that so I could plug in my CD player. Sounded as good as that stereo ever sounded.
Pay attention, the more a company is regulated by the government the more it is bed with the government. It benefits companies to be regulated because they can then pay the politicians that regulate them and staff the regulatory agencies through one avenue or another. This is good for the companies because it sets barriers that established companies can afford to overcome but that new companies cannot eliminating competition. Yes, your formula does represent more or less what happens.
Republicrats as I call them. They don't represent the people, they represent groups of companies, and they "steer the flow of money" towards the companies that own the politicians. The left Republicrats are usually owned by different companies than right Republicrats, but there is some overlap. The issues we talk about at election time are just distractions away from the real reason the politicians are there and those issues are only addressed to gather votes.
I don't like the idea of there being a "flow of money" to begin with. Those types of things are outside the scope of a federal government, thank you FDR for exploding the role of the government into areas it doesn't belong, now all the generations after you grew up with that mindset and don't know any better way.
Well, it was parked outside of a school in a area populated with little shits you didn't trust with anything. Not only was it parked directly in the sun, the truck was the dark blue/gray combo of the era and the windows were not cracked in the least. Since it was near a school cafeteria a cracked window would have meant a carton of chocolate milk dumped in your seat. Temps were probably in the 150ish range in the truck. My sisters walkman was physically warped by the heat.
When the temps in my hometown hit 128F back in 94 I was driving an 83 GMC truck. The orange needle that showed which position the automatic transmission was in more or less melted in half and pulled the needle all the way to the left.
Even if the CPU can handle that I'm not sure how everything else involved in the chain would.
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TFA didn't mention if she was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask or not....
but if I had a hybrid/electric car I'm pretty sure I would rather that electricity go to turning the wheels, not keeping my chassis away from them.
I'm not going to give many details, it's not good business. I don't know much about the non-mission critical systems, but I do maintain mission critical ones and I will venture a mention they're not on the internet. The internet and the mission critical stuff are far separated. That's more specific than I probably should have gotten, things that communicate with the station, the shuttle and TDRS are isolated, often from one another.
Granted, I don't code for the web as much as many people, but when I do I tend to stick with "safe" code, meaning code I know to work across the board. My biggest issues have usually been with IE, usually I'll code a page, run it against the W3C validator and tweak it until it passes, then test it. Usually when I do that it looks good on everything BUT certain versions of IE, in which case I have to go tweak the code further to make it look good on that also.
Other than IE being Windows specific the OS the individual browsers are working on is usually a moot point.
Most recently I run everything against a couple of Web Kit browsers and Firefox and call it good, I could give a rats ass about IE anymore, that being said newer versions are getting better.
So does that justify forcefully questioning my choice in OS every single time I chose to log in to their mail service? Isn't once enough?
Said like a true Yahoo! shill.
I know Linux is a kernel, however for just about everyone except for Richard Stallman himself it's acceptable to refer to GNU/Linux as Linux as it tends to confuse the overwhelming majority of people who don't understand the playing field when you actually say the "GNU" part.
The point I was making was that if the page is written properly it DOES NOT HAVE to be tested for any OS rendering about 80% of your argument moot.
Chances are if your page doesn't work with my browser it's you using crap code, not me using crap software.
I site the facts I can use Hulu, Facebook, Slashdot, Google Docs, and yes, even the Yahoo! mail that chastises me about my browser choice every time I log in without a hitch to back me up. The only things I haven't been able to use are corporate websites written in ancient versions of Front Page with massive heaping of Active-X and Microsoft proprietary "HTML". To be fair these websites don't work in newer versions of IE either and are in fact, crap code.
They still haven't answered my somewhat trollish question about why they hate it either. Sorry, the whole "simple oversight" bit doesn't fly, it's been way too many years running the new mail system.
That particular program is incredibly out of date now, but I'm sure you can still get it to work, and the Sling Box has popped up since then, so the content providers can bite me.
BTW:
I don't really watch TV anymore. The Fox cartoons and Southpark now that all my Sci Fi shows are canceled.
at night.
Driving East towards Houston in the middle of the night is like driving into the sunrise even if the sun sat behind you not but a couple of hours ago. Considering I grew up on desert side of the state I know what the sky is supposed to look like at night, and I know what it doesn't look like here, it's just a glow. Yeah, this whole region could use some light shading.
Yeah, like apples are something new that they invented.
Apple, the fruity computer.
Know lots of 20 - 70 somethings with no common sense.
Sure, but a Reversi game doesn't need my call history, my fine location, my phone state, or much else for that matter.
(Install every Reversi game on the market and laugh at the requirements)
Lots of apps wanting lots of info. Instead of "install or not" there needs to be an option to "deny access to this feature but install anyways".
I like Icculus, but I don't have time to read mailing list. I barely have time to keep up with what I should (and I really don't play many video games, though I want to). I'm weird like that, I have a pile of games I haven't played yet, a pile of movies I haven't watched yet, and a pile of books I haven't read yet. Someone needs to start just giving me money so I don't have to work so I can catch up on it all.
What you mean?
Mac is almost as desolate as Linux for gaming - yeah, a bit better, but a lot of titles are still missing.
The good news is, if they port it to either Mac or Linux it's automatically a little easier to port to the other since there's so much *NIX in common between them.
Uhmm
I'm having difficulty following your line of reasoning.
You do realize Ubuntu is Linux right? When I say "Linux games" it automatically includes Ubunutu (or my preference Kubuntu)? I was a Debian guy for a long time, but Debian had a bad habit of breaking my stuff with patches in stable then leaving it broken, because it's stable. Ubuntu is based on Debian.
By app store, you mean Apt Repository? I agree, the Apt Repository is awesome. It, in my opinion, makes Debian based distributions (like Ubuntu) easier to use than Windows, and easier to get software for than Mac.
On that note I had a lot of Loki games before the great theft, and I had gotten all those games to work on SuSE. I've since then gotten most of the Unreal games to work on Debian and Ubuntu, I have a paid for copy of World of Goo, all the Quake games and Doom games working. All on Debian plus a few since I moved to Kubuntu.
I can't decide if you're a distro zealot or just plain stupid.
Dude, Epic has been awesome every since the old DOS pinball games they used to have!
Rumor has it pressure from Microsoft put a lid on the Linux version.
"It may be difficult to get a Linux game ported over to XBOX and certified, all the Linux code could make the certification process very difficult."
"But it's just GL and SDL code, there is no Linux code exactly".
"Oh, there's Linux code in there alright...."
I really, really miss Loki.
I still want to kick someone at Epic in the nutts for not following through with the promised Linux port of UT3. (My copy is still sitting there waiting to be played for the first time)
If you use SDL and Open GL you can make it work on everything easier! /rant complete, my version of PC gaming covered, go back to bitching about consoles and Windows Microsoft weenie.
In the 90's my parents still had their old 70's 8-Track/Vinyl stereo. I put the cassette adapter in, then put an 1/8th inch jack to cassette adapter into that so I could plug in my CD player. Sounded as good as that stereo ever sounded.
Pay attention, the more a company is regulated by the government the more it is bed with the government. It benefits companies to be regulated because they can then pay the politicians that regulate them and staff the regulatory agencies through one avenue or another. This is good for the companies because it sets barriers that established companies can afford to overcome but that new companies cannot eliminating competition. Yes, your formula does represent more or less what happens.
Republicrats as I call them. They don't represent the people, they represent groups of companies, and they "steer the flow of money" towards the companies that own the politicians. The left Republicrats are usually owned by different companies than right Republicrats, but there is some overlap. The issues we talk about at election time are just distractions away from the real reason the politicians are there and those issues are only addressed to gather votes.
I don't like the idea of there being a "flow of money" to begin with. Those types of things are outside the scope of a federal government, thank you FDR for exploding the role of the government into areas it doesn't belong, now all the generations after you grew up with that mindset and don't know any better way.
Well, it was parked outside of a school in a area populated with little shits you didn't trust with anything. Not only was it parked directly in the sun, the truck was the dark blue/gray combo of the era and the windows were not cracked in the least. Since it was near a school cafeteria a cracked window would have meant a carton of chocolate milk dumped in your seat. Temps were probably in the 150ish range in the truck. My sisters walkman was physically warped by the heat.
When the temps in my hometown hit 128F back in 94 I was driving an 83 GMC truck. The orange needle that showed which position the automatic transmission was in more or less melted in half and pulled the needle all the way to the left.
Even if the CPU can handle that I'm not sure how everything else involved in the chain would.
I want them to replicate this experiment in Big Bend National Park in July.
that's a lot to digest