Agreed - the last paragraph of that sfgate piece really sez it all:
"While Microsoft's goal is to turn the PC into a superhub that does everything -- plays music, works as a cell phone, stores your photos -- they're running up against the fact that most people buy discreet components that do particular things."
Personally, I kinda like having seams of one sort or another. They are boundries around systems that restrict their awareness and let me take control of them again when I need to.
2038? If we live through 2029I'll totally just pay a tech to come over to my cave and fix my counting stones with the skins I earned cornering the market on wooly mammoth hides.
I'd go, but not for a whole week the first time because I need to know what it smells like in there before I make any sort of committment. That's the neat thing about naturally-occurring islands: you get adequate ventilation for free.
Though technically, it's a company and not just one dude, The Reduced Shakespeare Company is pretty good at this sort of thing, too. By all means, if you get a chance to see them, do so. All 37 plays in 97 minutes, not bad!
As a maintainer for a file system, I try to treat people as "customers". Sure, unless they're paying, they don't have any legal rights, but there is still some moral obligation to serve.
According to *my* EULAs, I don't have any legal rights even when I *am* paying.;)
They're gonna try this because they are stupid and need to be dragged kicking and screaming into every new market that opens for them, but ultimately the power is in *our* hands because we have the money they want. When we stop buying DVDs that are overpriced and burdensome, they'll dump the DRM.
DRM isn't nearly as valuable to them as... say... having a market for them in the first place. When the returns start coming back to retailers from people like my mother-in-law, they'll relent.
I don't recommend anything - at that level, you should be reading books.
No software out there can replicate or replace the skills and discipline you need to do math.
Reducing the workload by leaning on a crutch will only hurt you in the end. [The exception, of course, is Gnuplot: if you can figger out Gnuplot, you probably understand things well enough to treat it as the tool it is and not a crutch.]
I watched ten minutes of an episode of CSI before I had to switch the channel because I started to get a craving for pork rinds. I HATE PORK RINDS! Seriously, if you want to see forensics investigators at work, CourtTV, The Science Channel, Discovery and TLC have a number of shows that can tickle your itch and won't treat you like a complete doofus.
Network TV - you can always count on us..... TO SCREW IT UP!
...when they lose their ability to write amazing stories, and not a moment before. As long as they continue to focus on doing good honest work, they can animate their pictures using tape, pipe-cleaners and cardboard cutouts and I'll atill pay 10 bucks to watch.
Disney is a joke because they have completely forgotten that simple inventive storytelling are more important than the visual imagery, the happy meal tie-ins, and the franschise rights all put together.
I really hope this backfires if they decide to go through with it.
The "twistyfellas" won't likely disappear any time soon because case designers may want to place the LEDs in different areas of the case, but at least they all find their way to a single connector now.
Well, ok, but that's a case design issue, or, uh, rather a BAD case design issue.
What the case designers *should* do is put a block on the inside of the case just to receive the unified connector. From there they can run the wires to put the LEDs wherever they want them.
I think that's the most insightful thing I've ever read on/.
Definite hall-of-fame post and a *clear* argument for a +10 insightful moderation option. Kudos for clearly stating what nobody else had the perspective to verbalize, and you did it in under 120 words.
The scientist's job is to discover truth about the natural world, and the journalist's is to report the world's events accurately.
Indiana Jones said it best:
"Archaeology is the search for 'fact.' Not 'truth.' If it's 'truth' you're interested in, Doctor Tyree's Philosophy class is right down the hall." - Professor Henry Jones, Jr.
The scientist's job is to discover *FACTS* about the natural world, not truth. There's a difference. Interpreting those facts may give you some insight into an underlying truth, but that requires a human insight, something beyond the application of the scientific method to an investigation.
In short, the way I see it there are six questions you can ask about stuff that happens: Who, what, where, when, how and why. The first five are the domain of science. The last is not, because it requires that there are alternative possibilities, and as we all know, nature doesn't cheat.
Now I'm wondering what I just downloaded and how it could be used against me.
I'm also wondering why XAML is such a big revolutionary idea if can already do tricks like this, but I'm probably just ignorant because I'm not a developer.
What with all the problems that surfaced with the Windows shell:// handler this summer, shouldn't we have a healthy amount of skepticism about the security implications of protocol handlers that do more than simply display data?
Ya know, the site you mention never gave me any such problems until just over a year ago (?) when they switched the server to one on the West Coast (?) somewhere. Since then, I have to reload pages occasionally to clean up garbagey layout problems just like you describe. It's almost like a style sheet isn't loading completely.
I had assumed it was a network problem because it doesn't happen consistently or predictably enough to be anything more than an annoyance.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah.... "Come with me if you want... V1@gRA at below Canaidan wholesale priX0rZ!!!!!!
Agreed - the last paragraph of that sfgate piece really sez it all:
"While Microsoft's goal is to turn the PC into a superhub that does everything -- plays music, works as a cell phone, stores your photos -- they're running up against the fact that most people buy discreet components that do particular things."
Personally, I kinda like having seams of one sort or another. They are boundries around systems that restrict their awareness and let me take control of them again when I need to.
2038? If we live through 2029I'll totally just pay a tech to come over to my cave and fix my counting stones with the skins I earned cornering the market on wooly mammoth hides.
I'd go, but not for a whole week the first time because I need to know what it smells like in there before I make any sort of committment. That's the neat thing about naturally-occurring islands: you get adequate ventilation for free.
Though technically, it's a company and not just one dude, The Reduced Shakespeare Company is pretty good at this sort of thing, too. By all means, if you get a chance to see them, do so. All 37 plays in 97 minutes, not bad!
As a maintainer for a file system, I try to treat people as "customers". Sure, unless they're paying, they don't have any legal rights, but there is still some moral obligation to serve.
According to *my* EULAs, I don't have any legal rights even when I *am* paying.
They're gonna try this because they are stupid and need to be dragged kicking and screaming into every new market that opens for them, but ultimately the power is in *our* hands because we have the money they want. When we stop buying DVDs that are overpriced and burdensome, they'll dump the DRM.
DRM isn't nearly as valuable to them as... say... having a market for them in the first place. When the returns start coming back to retailers from people like my mother-in-law, they'll relent.
Trust me.
She's very persuasive.
I don't know anything about Finnish law, but it's a criminal matter if Finnish law says it is.
In the US, you are exposing yourself to civil *and* criminal penalties depending on the infringement.
Look, mommy, I can Google! Here's a page at the US DOJ about it.
The funny part is the "+1 Insightful" mod.
Ok, I'll bite.
I don't recommend anything - at that level, you should be reading books.
No software out there can replicate or replace the skills and discipline you need to do math.
Reducing the workload by leaning on a crutch will only hurt you in the end. [The exception, of course, is Gnuplot: if you can figger out Gnuplot, you probably understand things well enough to treat it as the tool it is and not a crutch.]
The linked notice sez the bug is patched in 1.4.2_06, but the web site and java auto-update both say the 1.4.2_05 I have now is the latest.
Does anyone out there have _06 yet or is this another case of premature press-releasination?
Not the least of which should be better reliabilty, longer life and lower repair costs.
I watched ten minutes of an episode of CSI before I had to switch the channel because I started to get a craving for pork rinds. I HATE PORK RINDS! Seriously, if you want to see forensics investigators at work, CourtTV, The Science Channel, Discovery and TLC have a number of shows that can tickle your itch and won't treat you like a complete doofus.
Network TV - you can always count on us..... TO SCREW IT UP!
...when they lose their ability to write amazing stories, and not a moment before. As long as they continue to focus on doing good honest work, they can animate their pictures using tape, pipe-cleaners and cardboard cutouts and I'll atill pay 10 bucks to watch.
Disney is a joke because they have completely forgotten that simple inventive storytelling are more important than the visual imagery, the happy meal tie-ins, and the franschise rights all put together.
I really hope this backfires if they decide to go through with it.
The "twistyfellas" won't likely disappear any time soon because case designers may want to place the LEDs in different areas of the case, but at least they all find their way to a single connector now.
Well, ok, but that's a case design issue, or, uh, rather a BAD case design issue.
What the case designers *should* do is put a block on the inside of the case just to receive the unified connector. From there they can run the wires to put the LEDs wherever they want them.
Holy crap!
I think that's the most insightful thing I've ever read on
Definite hall-of-fame post and a *clear* argument for a +10 insightful moderation option. Kudos for clearly stating what nobody else had the perspective to verbalize, and you did it in under 120 words.
Well done.
The scientist's job is to discover truth about the natural world, and the journalist's is to report the world's events accurately.
Indiana Jones said it best:
The scientist's job is to discover *FACTS* about the natural world, not truth. There's a difference. Interpreting those facts may give you some insight into an underlying truth, but that requires a human insight, something beyond the application of the scientific method to an investigation.
In short, the way I see it there are six questions you can ask about stuff that happens: Who, what, where, when, how and why. The first five are the domain of science. The last is not, because it requires that there are alternative possibilities, and as we all know, nature doesn't cheat.
Thats' eerie, because it *looks* a lot like I'd expect XAML apps to look.
That is really, REALLY disturbing.
Cool, but disturbing.
Now I'm wondering what I just downloaded and how it could be used against me.
I'm also wondering why XAML is such a big revolutionary idea if can already do tricks like this, but I'm probably just ignorant because I'm not a developer.
BT isn't a P2P protocol, it's a file distribution protocol. Geez I hate when the mainstream press tries to report on tech.
Morans!
Whoever modded this "interesting" I want you in my office NOW!
What with all the problems that surfaced with the Windows shell:// handler this summer, shouldn't we have a healthy amount of skepticism about the security implications of protocol handlers that do more than simply display data?
That's what I figgered.
Michigan to Ohio California to Ohio
Ya know, the site you mention never gave me any such problems until just over a year ago (?) when they switched the server to one on the West Coast (?) somewhere. Since then, I have to reload pages occasionally to clean up garbagey layout problems just like you describe. It's almost like a style sheet isn't loading completely.
I had assumed it was a network problem because it doesn't happen consistently or predictably enough to be anything more than an annoyance.
+5 Bonus points for placing the power strip right next to - and not in - the bucket of water.